My work here is done. 
Sean I’m afraid I’ve been acting like one of those people you’re talking about. At least somewhat. I get all weird everytime General Convention (the every three year Whiskypalian national todo) meets. Next time I think I’ll go far away to somewhere where I can see or hear no news or access any websites.
This conference call is soooooooooo boring. On the other hand, I’ve won four free cell games in a row.
The conference call from h-e-double hockeysticks is over! I’m outta here! I foresee a beer in my immediate (within the next half hour) future! WHEEEEEE!!!
yes, but how are you at Sudoku?
I started at 999999 and have worked my way down. Now I’m at #997112. I don’t move on to the next one until I’ve solved the current one. I figure I’ll be finished sometime around May 9, 2020.
welby, i thought you weren’t impressed with bellydancing?
That is a cool present. Enjoy it.
Back from Costco, and I don’t feel like doing much. It’s hot outside but cool in here. It might be time for more lounging. I just bought pizza pockets (ugh) and Jamaican patties (ugh) for Mr. Lissar. I have four packages of sesame buns that I’m going to have to do something with.
I also went to the awesome tea place and came home with $50 worth of tea. Only one kind, too- early harvest jasmine sencha (I think). It’s enough tea to last until winter, but i’m still hyperventilating.
Can we cancel summer? It’s hot and there are bugs.
Well, this Thursday is almost over! I like Thursdays – all the excitement of a week almost over, none of the pressure of waiting out Friday, the must-have-fun-or-you’re-wasting-it of Satuday, and the uh-oh-it’s-almost-over of Sunday. A highly optimistic day.
As soon as I check out of work, I have to take my not-so-little Girl shopping. She wants to get a going-away gift for a friend who’s moving. Any ideas? Shopping will not be fun – Girl is currently on crutches, and, like any card-carrying teenage, whining and complaining with Olympian skill. I can’t wait.
Welby, enjoy your “gift” while you can! I’m guessing you’ll never get another one like it! Especially if you have any photographic evidence! (Sorry, Sean!)
Lissa - have you read any of Ruth Reichl books? You might enjoy the way she weaves her story and her cooking. Tender At The Bone was pretty good. Of course, I have to confess that the older I get, the more I like to read easy stuff. I couldn’t get through Kite Runner or Reading Lolita in Tehran. Not because they weren’t excellent books, but because I just can’t seem to handle heavier content anymore. I guess as I get older, I want my entertainment to be highly escapist rather than thought-provoking.
for me Thursdays are only good for one thing - Chorus rehearsal. Other than that it’s just one more day keeping me from the weekend.
lightingtool you have my sincere sympathies. Losing my parents is one of the top things I am dreading, and none of them (I have two step-parents as well as the bio-parents) are in particularly great health. I have only one grandparent still living, and that is purely by the grace of God (my belief system hopefully offends no one).
rigs if I hadn’t found this place almost two years ago, I surely would have left my husband, the state, and began a new life under an assumed name in the Florida Keys. It’s the breif respite from the daily bull droppings which keeps me going. Please don’t go away, I am just beginning to get to know you!
To all the kind people who commented on my poms, thanks. They are another respite from my daily crap which keeps me going. I have rehomed and plain out rescued several since I began in poms, and will continue to do so. My breedings are few and far between; although I do have show aspirations I have realized that I can’t focus on that until I get these last two teenagers all growed up. I have the beginnings of my rainbow of poms, from black, chocolate, red, orange, parti and sable. There are still some colors missing, but I have hopes… Yeah, I do a lot of grooming and training, but being a gimpy middleaged woman whose husband is gone most of the time, two kids grown and moved to another city, two teens who are busy with their lives, my poms make super companions. When I get a new digital camera, I will send more photos.
To all the office workers, I am sympathetic to the pain of coworkers. I left office work behind many years ago and I don’t miss it a bit. I have taken on some crazy jobs since then, but for the most part they have involved the outdoors and physical labor which appeals to me.
Well, we have passed both the First Day of Summer and The Longest Day of The Year, which I was reminded of when I got up to pee at 5:00 am and it was bright morning outside.
Nothing but routine chores schedualed for today, it’s just after noon, and we have accomplished about half of the list. I need to shampoo the carpet still, and I want to get outside and weed before the downpour begins again. We have had just under 8 inches of rain this month, with it having been spread out over every single day, I think I am beginning to sprout moss.
I don’t know if anyone recalls this, but we lost two of our three kitties in March, within three days of each other. There has been a lot of sadness, especially with #3 daughter, but #2 daughter has a stray which had kittens in her garage in Anchorage, and so we are getting two of them, probably the first week of July, after the 4th of July. I’ll find someone with a digital camera and send photos when we get them.
Whew, what a boring day for me. I had planned on making breakfast for dinner, but I think instead I will fry some chicken and make some tater (N.O.T.) salad instead.
heh, I used both a nickname and N.O.T. today, I am feeling more at home with y’all! Thanks!
This is from the girl who didn’t like the big drifts of snow on her front doorstep.
Tonight it looks like I’ma having some drinks after work. Not sure if this place has Yuengling or not, but I bet I can still find something worth drinking.
Lissa, you can cancel summer over my cold dead body. 
I love summer.
I do, and it still makes me sad…
But good on you, more kitties are always called for!!!
Today, not an hour ago, my HR coordinator calls and says she needs 125, signed letters to all my drivers thanking them for the year and welcoming them back for next year. Something about unemployment claims…
Off in a bit (once I sign these…) then off to home and long, sweaty ride on the bike.
Bah! I’m suddenly overwhelmed at work. How’d it go from boring to overwhelming so quickly??
Exactly! I totally agree with that, and that’s why I never enjoy Sundays as much as I should for a weekend day. They always mean that the workweek is coming soon and it’s just too late to do anything fun. So yeah, Thursdays are really the best day. Well, Friday after work is over is pretty good too.
My condolences, lightningtool. Losing a parent is never easy at any age.
I 457th the vote that you stick with us, rigs. I’m an irregularly posting Cool Kid™ myself, but I always get warm fuzzies when I read all the stuff here. This is just such a nice bunch of people. So much for the impersonal internet, eh?
taxi78cab, it’s the feast-or-famine syndrome, of which I am intimately familiar in my line of work. Either I have more to get done than time available to do it in, or I have nothing to do and more thumb-twiddling time than I’m comfortable with. And of course when I catch a bug, like I did today (one that Papa T. had a couple days ago – short-lived but making me achy and grumpy nevertheness), it always happens on a too-much-to-do workday. It’s a constant conundrum: How come things never, ever happen in moderation?
Cripes! Y’all got away from me!
It has been one of those days. I’m not going to get into it; suffice it to say that I’m irritated. It’s not big on the grand scale of things, but it’s just enough to irritate the piss out of me. I’ll get over it.
Also, I’m going to run out of room on this ‘puter. I keep telling them I need two, but NOBODY is freakin’ listening! Every other data analyst has two computers; what’s so friggin’ hard about getting another one for me?! Gah!
What’s so friggin’ hard about being friggin’ CONSISTANT when one enters data? God, some of these people are doing some of this shit very half-assed and it is royally pissing me off, because I find out AFTER the friggin’ fact and I have to effin’ start all over.
Gah! I’m going on strike!
Okay, not really, but dammit I feel like it!
I’m sorry, I just had to piss and moan a little. Just a week and a day and I’m on vacation for a week. I can hang on; I really can.
ok, spats -you be Benjamin; just don’t forget the plastics!
Thank you rebo and anyroad --I mean rose for the nice words. Oops, forgot kawik --thank you, too.
I have become mentally instable and am now painting the basement stairs. I hypothesize that the constant exposure to paint fumes that has filled my past month has done some permanent damage to my cerebral cortex…
Belly dancers? Beer? Time alone?
Shocking behavior. (jealous, jealous, jealous)
I’d skip the belly dancers and the beer, but I’d take even ONE day to myself…
It is absolutely gorgeous here today–it started all muggy and gross and rainy this morning and now it is low humidity and about 84 out. I turned off the AC. (I’m cheap, too).
#2 son started math tutoring today. So far, so good.
Back to the paint–I’ve done the risers, time for the steps themselves. Do I know how to have fun or what?
I’m afraid it’s going to be this way in the new job. I like feeling like I’m contributing, and my boss is happy with my work, but that means that when things start piling up on him, he piles them up on me! It’s forecasting season here right now so everyone’s going crazy and I’m getting caught up in it even though I have no clue about what we’re doing. But I’m enjoying the fact that the days like this go quickly because once they’re over and I’m back to watching the clock tick ever so slowly by, I’ll look back fondly on the busyness. ::sigh::
I’m outta here. G’night everyone!
It’s hot today. Really hot. When I walked out the door at work to go to the bus stop, I was suddenly hit by a combined wave of hot air and nostalgia. It reminded me of home, where it’s been this hot for the past two months already.
I also realized that I am a Bus Weirdo. Those of you who have taken public transportation probably know what I mean. You can have Bus Weirdos, Train Weirdos, Metro Weirdos, that kind of thing. Anyway, as I was riding the bus home, headphones on, singing along loudly to “Carrot Juice Constitutes Murder,” I realized that I had achieved the status of Bus Weirdo. Not for listening to music or even singing along–those are common enough. No, the way I achieved weirdodom is by singing loudly and clearly enough that people could understand what song I was singing. :o
On the plus side, I’m lounging around now, having taken off my work clothes and put on a t-shirt and short shorts. I might go grocery shopping later. I love grocery shopping, even though I have to walk to the store.
“I’ve heard the screams of the vegetables
Watching their skins being peeled
(Having their insides revealed)…”
“I wanna enforce the law,
I wanna wear normal clothes
I don’t wanna have to smile for diplomats’ home videos
I good at working real hard, I should have joined the coast guard
Oh no, the RCMP
Is not the life for me!”
Sean, what are you talking about? There wasn’t any snow this winter! I love winter! It’s cold and all the skater punks stay at home and you can drink hot chocolate and make snow forts.
Twinkie, I love Ruth Reichl. Have you read Jeffrey Steingarten and John Thorne? They’re all together in my personal Food God(dess) Pantheon- Jeffrey Steingarten, John Thorne, Nigel Slater, Nigella Lawson, Laurie Colwin. Awesome, awesome people.
Time to make dinner!
Hello everyone! it’s been one of those days. I had to babysit another store, since the manager was on vacation. Of course the cashiers doesn’t show up till 11:30. He overslept. Who sleeps till 11? :dubious:
rigs,spats get a room!
bob I feel your ear pain. I know that dogs and owners sometime resemble each other but I draw the line at fuzzy ears!
LiLi, I agree. Summer is nice bit it is too darn hot.
Tel We like short shorts!