Gah!
I ate too much and stayed up too late.
That worst of it?
I’m bored to death!
Night all!
Not a chance…
She is going to be pretty!
I need to work on my Montego Bay project… it’s about halfway done, and if I finish that then I can start on my Year of Lace kit, which I just picked up. Sooo pretty, but I dunno if any knitters doing it too are here or not so I’ll keep mum.
Love the puppy pic Aleq! Dogs are so cute… I keep longing for one, a smallish one (I really want a mix… I’ve seen the cutest bichon/shitzu/yorkie mixes…) but we can’t have pets where we are. So when I was at the pet store with my Dad and saw the venus fly traps I joked that was all the pet I needed (it’s about all the pet I could have where I am now…).
Tomorrow night I am having that dinner date, eep! What to wear? Can’t be too nice cuz I do have to go to work first. Oy…
Callie looks like she just did something she shouldn’t have and knows it - that’s a real S.E.grin if ever I saw one. Widget is trying to keep from cracking up over whatever it is Callie did.
and yes, they’re both very cute puppies.
Hoo boy, the SDMB is busy tonight.
I need to shut up and go to bed. I did some ridiculously strenuous exercise this afternoon and am afraid I’m going to regret it tomorrow morning. I am probably a masochist at heart though - I relish the feel of over-stretched muscles.
Re: Misspent
I was still some years away in ‘74.
There was some boozin’ starting probably soph year of HS. I was fairly involved in the active Chicago rave scene in the mid to late 90’s and had plenty of exposure to drugs and drug users. At the time, there was a nice overlap of subcultures: hippies, ravers, punks, skaters, goths. Each brought their pharmaceuticals to the blowout parties in warehouses. Unlike some of my former friends, I never got into the heavy stuff. Sadly, some still have habits and others are dead. Still, most of us had a fantastic time and got out with great stories, educations and careers.
Sometimes getting high (smoking pot, that is) is just what I need and I can’t often get to Amsterdam. The current legal situation does stink but the black market here is live. Er, prolly.
I couldn’t fall asleep last night. I know I looked at the clock at 4:30… Blah, what am I still doing up now?!
Hope the proceedings remain agreeable, rigs.
Rosie, that’s pretty much those two in a nutshell, all the time–Callie’s always just done/about to do something at least vaguely naughty and Widget spends most of his time going "aw, naw she di-n’t! :eek: " They’re silly puppies!
Flutter, I feel your pain–I went over twelve years straight without a dog because I lived in situations that weren’t stable enough for me to be sure I could take on the responsibility–now I’m making up for lost time and if the SO didn’t stop me I’d probably have like six dogs and ten cats!
Rigs, I’m sorry to hear that–it’s always sad when things don’t work out. Hope it stays civil.
Haze, I read your contributions to the trainwreck du jour and I think you’re making good points that are doomed to fall on deaf ears, and by “deaf” I mean “LALALALALA I AM NOT LISTENING TO ANYBODY BECAUSE I KNOW A PREVERT WHEN I SEE ONE AND NOTHING WILL CHANGE MY MIND LALALALALA!!!” There are a few people in there who just will NOT see any sense no matter what. If you were here I’d give you a nice neck rub and head squash to fix your headache.
Gawrsh I’m sleepy, why in hell am I not in bed yet? Because I r dum, that y!
Aw fuck.
VCO3 finally did it.
Did what? 
ETA: Never mind, got it… Well, it was just a matter of time, wouldn’t you say?
It was, but like a fine wine, I enjoy a truly wonderful troll.
He goes in my top three, in having actually trolled me before.
VCO3, SBSO, (remains undecided) …
I’m weird like that.
Ah, no more posts from turducken.
Today’s been fairly sucky. Just for being that time of year, the pollen counts are off the scale, and my head feels like a bowling ball’s been shoved up each nostril and my eyes itch. Of course, I can’t leave well enough alone, and I just had to give myself a corneal abrasion with a paper towel. So now, one eye itches and the other eye burns.
Add to that one fingernail bent backward while picking up a 2x8 and one toenail bent backward and broken off from walking into a comparatively un-movable workbench.
Yesterday was a day of mystery. After a neighbor said that she counted 74 bats flying out of the chimney, we decided it was time to evict the bats. I pried the top of the chimney off, and - no bats. Piles of stinky guano, though. Hmmm… Maybe they’re in the bottom half of the chimney, I thought. DH took a hammer and smashed a hole in the bottom half of the chimney - not much structure - it’s just stucco on chicken wire, with 2x4 framing on the edges. Again - guano, but no bats.
Oh well, the allergies are driving me batty enough right now.
{{{Cutie}}} – you sounded in bad shape last night. What happened? You OK now?
{{{Rigs}}} – Sounds to me like this is probably for the best, in the long run. Hugs for now, though – I’m sure the process (and breaking it to the kids) will be nerve-wracking. Good luck, and my wishes for a happier you afterwards!
**Haze **-- if you keep doing something that you know is wrong, it means that you’re enjoying it far too much – which means that at least you’re probably doing it right… 
Going waaay back… **Tigs **-- yeah, what you said (it’s the lying that loses you clearance) does make sense. That’s two distinct militaries applying logic to a situation… what is the world coming to? :eek:
**Spaz **-- I’d dance on **Rosie’**s lawn with you, but seeing as I’m so much younger (:p) than her she’ll probably kick me off, too… Oh well, want to go dancing someplace else?
**Beebs **-- I think you knocked Alphbet Soup off yourself. After all, he was just one more … competitor for the role of SDMB Chief Troublemaker, was he not?
Did you use the services of Ivory’s hit-person, BTW? Seems like she found a real pro! (or are you the hit-person? :eek: )
Sleep tight, y’all! I’ll be off-line when you get up in the morning (going to Jerusalem with wife and daughter #2, including visiting SpecialTeen, all afternoon), so I’ll see you all later, gators!
Morning folks, up and caffeinating here! LOL My SO just tried to take my coffee cup away, to the sink, can you beat that?! He did ask if I was finished. 
{{{{{{{{Rigs}}}}}}}}
Not much more to say … we’re here for you though, Rigs.
Have a good Tuesday, all.
Or, Mental Illness Undiagnosed Can Make You Do Lots of Funny Things.
(With apologies to those who have heard all or part of this story before.)
I was raised fairly conservatively, so drugs and alcohol have never been a factor. Thinking about it now, it’s probably a good thing as I may not have survived to this point otherwise.
[ul]Started college in the Fall of 1992[/ul]
[ul]Somewhere in that school year told my parents that I felt like there was something wrong with me, they (ignorant of MI at the time) told me to suck it up and stop pining over the (much too old for me) guy that I was interested in at the time.[/ul]
[ul]Sometime thereafter I skipped classes one day and attempted suicide in my dorm room by (sounds funny now when I think about it) hitting myself repeatedly and slamming myself into things about my room.[/ul]
[ul]Got kicked out of the Honors College due to extremely poor grades.[/ul]
[ul]Transferred to another college where I was much happier and moved back home where the world seemed a little safer.[/ul]
[ul]Incidentally somewhere in here between the incident in my dorm room and moving out in 2000 my mom was diagnosed with depression and my parents’ attitudes towards MI changed. [/ul]
[ul]There is a family gap in here which I cannot (due to privacy) relate.[/ul]
[ul]Bought house in 2000[/ul]
[ul]Refinanced house in 2001[/ul]
[ul]Sold house on land contract (eek) in 2002[/ul]
[ul]Got myself in shape in order to join the Peace Corps in 2003
(this was the reason that I sold my house)[/ul]
[ul]Quit my job of 11 years[/ul]
[ul]Left on a plane for orientation May 2003[/ul]
[ul]Chickened out while on the plane [/ul]
[ul]Turned around and flew back home[/ul]
[ul]Immediately ran away to my long-term ex-boyfriend’s house in Michigan[/ul]
[ul]He didn’t want me, came back home[/ul]
[ul]Got my old job back[/ul]
[ul]Met a guy[/ul]
[ul]Went on 2 dates[/ul]
[ul]Became engaged
(this is the one who decided he’d rather be a monk or somesuch nonsense)[/ul]
[ul]Broke engagement[/ul]
[ul]Started out on a cross-country trip but got way too depressed and decided that I MUST go back and see my ex so I drove most of the way back home from Nebraska in one evening.[/ul]
[ul]Fell in to deep, dark ugliest depression of my life.[/ul]
[ul]Gained 150 lbs[/ul]
[ul]Finally, after 10 years of craziness sought treatment for mental illness. (Of course I was misdiagnosed for another 5 or so years but that’s a whole other story which you already know.)[/ul]
Everytime I tell this story I try to figure out how to represent just how crazy my decisions were. All of the ‘big’ things that happened weren’t things that I researched and planned. They were literally split second decisions that would have a tremendous effect on the rest of my life. Things that, I MUST DO NOW OR ELSE. And whenever I start to feel down or extremely up, it scares me to death because I never want to go back to being that person again.
Ok, enough of that… I need to get ready for work. The one day that I could possibly sleep in I was awakened by my aching back about two hours early. 
That trainwreck thread is my main source of cheap entertainment right now. Of course, I joined in on page 6 (and I have the site set to 100 posts per page).
{{{rigs}}}
I need to do some exercise. Today is 14-hour day and it’s too cold to eat outside. I may wander around downtown during lunch.
I’m taking next Tuesday morning off.
Whoever is responsible for me gettin’ this cold must suffer dire consequences. Sump’n really awful like perpetual nasty paper cuts or some strange disease that causes that person to be able to wear nuttin’ but polyester.
I’m all stuffed up, achy, feverish and all that there cold type stuff.
{{{rigs}}} here’s hopin’ things work out for the best.
Everybody else, boo, yay, hugs, congrats, awww… as needed.
y’know - if you guys are gonna keep talking about that trainwreck thread, the least you can do is post a link! And beebs - if you want us to see specific examples of what your “enemies” are saying, you’re gonna have to link to them also! I mean, come on! there are no more search features!
up and off to work. Hockey tonight, maybe.
{{{rigs}}}
ex-VCO3, good riddance.
Caffeinating and brekkie-ing. Blurf.
When it rains, it pours. My fire chief’s FiL died yesterday (I didn’t know him, either), and I’m gonna go broke buying flowers for the funerals…
Umm, rosie! Look up there ^^^^ Search is back! But only once every 5 minutes!
{{{rigs}}}
Okay, back to work!
ETA: for beebs!