It makes sense to me, Nava, sounds like another good thing to try. I’ll have to phone the veg man and tell him I need more sweet potatoes next week though otherwise I won’t be able to try all of them!
The pub last night was fun, no Hobgoblin though so I had to make do with a couple of pints of Exmoor Gold…what a hardship! Conversation was, as usual, strange and varied. Had a chat with a friend about a hen weekend we’re organising for January, talked to a couple of other people about the quince vodka several of us are making - I’m looking forward to the New Year tasting party! Most of the crowd are going on a new year break to a county estate in Wales, of course we’ll be taking the various quince vodkas with us and having a blind tasting session. Mine’s a bit of a giveaway though, I put lots of spice in it and it’s gone a rather unappealing shade of brown.
Got home late, got to bed late, got woken up by Ophelia in the early hours when she decided she either wanted fuss or play but couldn’t decide which - either option seemed to involve climbing on my head. I very nearly turfed her out of the bedroom and sent her downstairs to join 'im indoors on the sofa!
Tigs prayers and good vibes head out to sis from south Jawja. You’re a good sister!
FCM we won’t be ordering more of the ornaments. They are “limited edition” ornaments. Each is numbered and comes with a certificate of authenticity. Dang! That sounds like I work for Franklin Mint.
I have a feeling ima get very little done today. I just ain’t into it. Sigh
:tap tap tap: is this thing on? can anyone hear me? I posted six separate times yesterday, including some pics, and sweetater recipes, and no ones talking to me. Did I type something wrong and y’all are ignoring me?
rosie, I left on post 174 yesterday afternoon and by the time I got back to work today, you lot had romped all the way to 220 posts. That’s a lot of reading for a l’il faerie, especially when everyone seems to think I’ve got time for all their petty little jobs on top of all the other things they tell me are urgent.
Sometimes I think this place would fall apart if I weren’t here. But the sweet pot/pecan pie recipe is going home with me today!
I’m an idiot. I left my cell phone at work last night. Not a huge deal since I don’t get a whole lotta calls on it, but still. I also it use it as my primary alarm clock (because my PocketPC is hopeless at maintaining reliable alarms, stoopit Windows) so when I got to work this morning the screen was on reminding me to get up for work. Half my battery was drained. Good thing I keep a spare charger at work. (I’m still able to get up in the morning; my PPC is reliable for at least one alarm, it just that “snooze” apparently tells it to snooze – indefinitely. My wife also sets her cell phone to go off as a tertiary backup, so I’m well-guarded against oversleeping.)
Clock radios? Nah. My way I get to wake up to my choice of MP3s.
Rosie - We’re here, but it seems like it’s been a bit of a busy week for a lot of people, myself included. It’s dark and rainy today so maybe things in my office will slow down enough to catch up properly. Of course, there’s also the possibility that royalty intimidates some people.
Maybe I missed it, but what’s the deal with your spazzy neighbor? She have a history of this kind of thing? Has she not refilled her haloperidol scrip?
When VWife and I were at the Mayberry VFD on Halloween [del]rotting kiddie’s teeth[/del] handing out candy, some Dad showed up with his kids, and he was dressed like a pirate, but he had a steering wheel mounted on his crotch.
I said to him, “You know you have a steering wheel on your crotch…?..”
Aww rosie you know we love ya! I did mean to comment on the pics in my earlier post but I forgot. Remember I have the attention span of a gnat on thorazine on a good day. I particularly liked the royal wave. I do so love a good royal wave and yours was perfect. I see you understand the cardinal rule of the royal wave, never above the tiara.
I’m not ignoring you, rosie; I’m sorry I didn’t comment on your pictures last night. I looked at them, but then I was so tired I turned my computer off and crawled in bed at 9:00. I like the Royal Wave photo, you look so…royal! And hey, I feel very ignored myself sometimes but then I have to remind myself that I probably don’t occupy as much space in other peoples’ heads as I do my own. Strange how that works.
It’s a grey, gloomy morning here and only going to get greyer and gloomier, with a nasty front with thunderstorms and winds and all passing through a bit later. I look forward to having a freaked-out golden retriever. It’s so much fun trying to work with a dog lying on my feet. Especially since I have to run a foot pedal with my transcriber. Somehow, that extra 75 lbs makes it a bit difficult.
Back to drinking coffee. Oh, I watch Jericho, too. Every week I ask myself why, but then I remember that it’s so awful it crosses the line to hilarious. There’s nothing like a good laugh at a post-apocalyptic vision of America, is tehre?
Excellent royal wave, rosie - have you been practising? Are you planning to come over here and take over from Lilybet and Phil the Greek when they retire? All you need is a silver frock, you could have done her speech to parliament the other day!
I’m just paranoid. I know there was a lot going on yesterday, but I thought maybe there might be some sympathy for what they considered a reward for 25 years.
also I was playing around in Photoshop last evening - what do you think of this? The center pic is the original.
rosie, I’m not ignoring you. You were first on my list for responses: a) You look too young in your pics to have worked somewhere 25 years, and b) the bottom left picture in your Photoshop exercise looks like an impressionist painting. You should blow it up and frame.
fcm, fcd does indeed need punishing. I recommend a good trout slap…preferrably a frozen one.
Hi to all the drive-bys. You know who you are.
Looks like we have a number of Jerico watchers in the group. I’m thinking they need to rename it “Guiding Radiation” or “The Young and the Glowing .”
I think BarbeeDoll[sup]TM[/sup] is going to take Grampy to the ER by non emergency ambulance today. He is so weak that he cannot get up or down so she can’t even get him to his regular doc for an evaluation. We are afraid he might be getting dehydrated or worse. Can you folks what are praying and sending good vibes add him to your list?
(I’m still able to get up in the morning; my PPC is reliable for at least one alarm, it just that “snooze” apparently tells it to snooze – indefinitely. My wife also sets her cell phone to go off as a tertiary backup, so I’m well-guarded against oversleeping.)
