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Well, if my mother provides the address, I’ll send the card. The problem is that I’m not sure my cousin speaks English. He’s about two or three years younger than me.

I could try to write a note in German, but I’m sure I’d jack it up. I’ll look up a German/English dictionary and try to do it that way.

Thanks for your advice.

Ugh, I just wanna go home, for goodness sake! I don’t know why…I have to go home to try and finish rearranging the garage. I think that speaks volumes about how little I want to be here this week.

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Work’s been so boring today (after Monday being filled with AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH EMERGENCY!!!) that I’m really tired now. Why is it more tiring to not do work than it is to do work??

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Wow, thanks for all the kitty compliments. If it weren’t for the fact that, as cats, their heads are already as swelled as they can get, they’d be puffing up.

dogbutler, I got the fountain so the water wouldn’t get stale standing. They seem to like it, and I rather enjoy the splashing sound it makes.

To those who think Shiva might be a Bengal, I’m pretty sure he isn’t. Bengals run to the large side, he’s only 10 pounds. Also, Bengal fur has a shimmer to it that his totally lacks. He is a mighty pretty boy, though, and the fact that he chose me makes him pretty special in my eyes.

FairyChatMom, which of my kitties did you clone?

Current annoyance: I can’t log into LiveJournal. Every time I enter user name and password and click Login, it simply redisplays the login page, with my info entered. I am not happy. Since it’s happening in both IE and Firefox, I’ll have to assume it’s a problem with the site, but I’m still unhappy about it.

Also a current annoyance: I seem to have misplaced my Palm Pilot. It’s not in my purse, it isn’t at my computer desk, in either of my bathrooms, in my bedroom… I have to have put it down somewhere! Luckily I backup regularly, and the confidential information on it is well protected, but I am still not happy that it’s missing.

Hmmmm. Two things I’m unhappy about. Can I find something for a trifecta, or should I just go pet the kitties and get over the annoyance?

[thinks]

[thinks]

[thinks]

I think I’ll go molest the kitties. :smiley: That way everyone here can be annoyed about something!

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So I’m the only one who wouldn’t send a card. Guess I am Mr. Meanie Pants after all. :smiley:

Supper was teh num! I do good chicken 'n dumplin’s if I do say so myself. Dessert was ice cold watermelon. YUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMY!!!

That’s all the news from da cave right now.

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Morgyn, the clone would be Taz, the idiot who torments my poor, long-suffering puppies. His coat isn’t a good example of a Bengal according to the woman who runs the rescue, but his love of climbing is definitely characteristic.

**FCD ** brought home a brownie cheesecake. Yummmmmmmm!

Dishes washed, third load of laundry in the dryer. Life is good!

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Parents are doing better, though my dad is still depressed. He’s convinced he’s going to have to stay at the rehab/nursing home for good. He really won’t. My mom just needs to get stronger, as does he. But his thinking is very childlike right now- he’s scared and not responding to reason very well…

My husband’s plane lands back home tonight-- it was lonely in the tower last night! But I’m grateful he hasn’t had to travel so much lately… :slight_smile: Oh, and his user name is officially** Moment Slayer** now.

We need to send Nooner Bon Voyage wishes tomorrow as he leaves soon for his vacation! It’s a good time to give room 304 a thorough cleaning- :smiley:

That’s all the news fit to print!
ETA: Swampy– you’re too darn cute to be a meanie!

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Just a drive by…

I think it’s more a personality thing than a marriage thing, taxi. I know quite a few very happy couples and they each handle couplehood differently. Some of them can’t imagine spending much time apart; others need that time and space and find ways to give it to each other. I’m from the “needs time and space” group and have lived alone long enough that I know togetherness would require some work.

I’m tired (didn’t sleep enough AGAIN), but should get some stuff organized so that I can continue painting.

Hugs to all.

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Hullo All. Happy Hump day!

Happy [SIZE=1]belated B-day Swampy!! [/SIZE]

McUne I tried your promotion code, but all I got was $5 off of my entire order. So, apparently you got a lucky glitch!

Cute Kitties and Kiddies!!

Laterz all!

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FairyChatMom, very cute. Shiva certainly liked to climb, although that seems to be something he’s mostly outgrown unless it’s a new area.

And I am now having a similar problem to LJ with the Straight Dope Board. The cookies don’t seem to be sticking, and it also doesn’t seem to matter which browser I’m using. Both of these are issues I’ve had in the past that were “fixed” by turning off my ZoneAlarm firewall. Since it is still off, I am at a loss to explain what is happening now.

Is anyone else having issues staying logged in to the site? :confused:

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I can’t seem to get off this site… so, um, no. :smiley:

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I’ve had LJ lose my cookies regularly, lately. (That doesn’t sound pretty, now, does it?) But that’s the only site I’ve had the issue with.

GT

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I’m not having the issue on my laptop, so I guess it’s an issue with my computer itself. It affects both browsers I have, too. I’m trying a defrag first. May try deinstalling my virus software and using a different one. And I may hie me over to GQ and seeing if one of our computer experts has any thoughts.

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Evening all. To be honest, I’m glad that tomorrow is the last day of July. It’s been a very odd month indeed. Two co-workers, one a very good friend and the other who works directly in my office, were both hospitalized earlier this month. The man in my office went in for a stress test and the doctors didn’t like what they saw, so kept him in the hospital overnight – in cardiac care! The released him the next evening, but he was off the rest of the week, then had to wear a halter cardiac monitor the next weekend. Turns out that he had an arrythmia that he’d been taking meds for for a while; before the stress test the docs took him off the meds… which is why the arrythmia showed up and made them freak out. So the verdict was for him to continue to take the original meds.

My female co-worker and good friend, on the very next Monday, was taken out of work via ambulance to an area hospital that specializes in early stroke intervention, because they thought she might have had a stroke! She’s younger than I am, btw. She had apparently gotten numbness in her tongue, and lost the ability to speak. They kept her in the hospital for 2 days–she was released on Wednesday evening, and she stayed off the rest of the week. According to her, all the tests didn’t show anything; they couldn’t find out what had happened, but she’s on blood pressure meds now (her personal doctor switched her to a different bp med than what the hospital docs had her on). I am not a doctor, but think she may have had the TIA (transient ischemic attacks) which are also sometimes called mini-strokes.

Then, just this past week, two other co-workers passed away. One of them had a stroke several weeks ago - a lady, younger than 50; she also had lupus, but had seemed to be doing okay. She had the stroke, and went into a coma from which she never emerged. :frowning: She passed away on Sunday. Another co-worker passed away last night; he’d been ill for some years and in fact had been hospitalized for the past few weeks for surgery. I think the doctors released him from the hospital so that he could spend a bit of time with his family before passing away. It’s so awful; like I said, he’d been ill for a number of years and had in fact gotten so thin that he was practically just skin and bones–he couldn’t even walk and had been using one of those scooters to get around, but he was still working up until about a month or so ago. He was about my age (mid-50s), and I’d known him for nearly 30 years.

So July 2008 … I am ready to bid you farewell.

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{{{Herbs}}} Here’s to a not sucky rest of the year. I’m so sorry about your friend.

Thanks for the bday wishes Mousie.

I have a hankerin’ for a peanut butter sammich and a glass of milk. I’m tryin’ to fight it off because I need to go beddy bye and don’t need to eat anything else tonight.

Still… peanut butter sammich… mmmmmmm…

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Extra hugs for you, tarra. My work has been filled with icky stuff this month, too. Several hospitalizations/serious injuries/surgeries (of SOs as well as co-workers), two deaths in the family, a couple of car accidents (no one hurt in those, at least). We should probably have a party on Friday to celebrate getting through the month.

Here…have some almonds, swampy.

Off to beddie bye…

GT

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Another long day over! My gastro dude says I must be fine, so he doesn’t need to see me anymore. I have a case of HellifIkno. Everything is back to normal, I’m negative for Hepatitis everything, including auto-immune hep, and apparently the ultrasound didn’t show any fat in the liver after all, but they’re going with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, as a biopsy would be overkill, since I seem to be doing fine. I’ve come to the conclusion that my body is weird and I should stay away from doctors unless I’m spurting blood or a bone is sticking out or something, since I seem to be way off the curve for normal. Maybe I’m an alien! :smiley:

Work was a little weird today. It felt like high school, not necessarily in a bad way. I wonder what tomorrow will be like? What should I wear?

I am considering taking up square dancing again, even though it’s on Wednesday nights, which are difficult. I’ll have to think about it. The introductory classes start next Wednesday.

I hope August is better for everyone.

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I haven’t square danced in forever! It’s kinda fun and good exercise what with all that runnin’ around swingin’ each other and all. :smiley:

I et a peanut butter sammich. It wasn’t my fault. I walked by the pantry and the peanut butter jar dared me. I had a glass of milk too. Gotta wash it down!

Anywho, I did it. Now Ima go beddy bye.

Nitey Nite Y’all!

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I forgot, VCA is a vet clinic chain, and they seem determined to buy up every independent vet clinic in the state.

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Huh. My IP address was banned, and now it’s not. :confused:

I ended up staying out last night and getting rather drunk - so drunk that I ended up spending the night at Cute Co-worker’s place. Nothing happened, though - we shared a bed quite chastely. (Sorry to disapoint y’all. :p)

I feel rather hungover, though. I had to force myself to get up this morning so I could come home, feed the cat, and get ready for work. Blech. It’s going to be a loooong day.

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G’morning all - happy Thursday, and thank Og it’s the end of July! Thanks for the hugs and prayers, too. It’s just been a rather strange month, like lightning strikes all over the place.

I’m up and caffeinating, will hopefully get into work early today. Haze! You are back to your old self, I see. How is Olive doing, btw? I hope she’s adjusting okay to the move.

Have a good day, all. :slight_smile: