Little does he know how close he came to a gruesome fate involving lobster traps. 
I love hearing about puppies. How many dogs do you currently have, kai? I didn’t know you bred dogs. Squee!
thanks for the healing thoughts, all. It wouldn’t be so bad if I didn’t have to, you know, get up from a seated position, or into and out of the car, or go up and down stairs. Just thos little things… :rolleys: (again)
on the happier side - we got seven new prospective members tonight (annual membership drive) - and they are spread across all four parts - so, yay!
Those are SO COOL!!!
I just watched Secretary, and it’s gotten me all hot and bothered now. I’ll be in my bunk.
Woo hoo, it’s finally Firday!
{{{{{{{{{kai}}}}}}}}}} - I’m thinking of you; please don’t injure Skiffman because I don’t think they’d let you post to SDMB from jail! Hope that Tara (the dog :)) births her puppies okay too. 
My son is home!!! He has a tattoo!!!:eek: He also joined a frat this spring … my baby!!! laughs Well, he was the baby. He’ll be 21 in September! :eek: It’s good to have him home, but he’s got to get a job.
Caffeinated, I"m heading in to work early today. Hopefully it won’t be too bad, although I think my boss has some terrible work waiting for me. Heh.
Edited to add: I can’t believe everyone left Haze alone in her bunk all night! LOL!!
Hi all. Sorry I am late for night shift, but we have had a busy morning cleaning the house - bathrooms got the once-over, plus vacuumed and mopped the lounge/dining and did a spring-clean/clear-out of the wardrobes and shoe closet.
Lunchtime now - fish and chips! Nom nom nom!!!
Before I forget, {{{kai}}} Men - can’t live with 'em, can’t kill 'em! 
kai glad to know all is forgiven. As to stuffin’ skiffman in a crab pot… bad idea. Don’t they rise to the surface after a while?
Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’ though I have no idea why. I’m not workin’ today and could still be snoozin’ but here I am up and postin’. Maybe I’ll go lie down again in a bit. The AC is officially on for the season. It is really, really, really, muggy outside as in oughta storm muggy. I wish it would.
Tummy is rumbly so I guess it wants to be fed. A foragin’ I go!
Later Y’all!
Morning all, while it’s still morning but just barely! I’m at work, bored as usual but at least the entire team is out today so I have the place to myself. Well, apart from the research team who have the other half of the office. Still, a TK-free day is not to be sniffed at.
Tonight I’m meeting a friend after work, she has a desire to go to Pizza Slut, so that’s where we’ll go. I am not enamoured of said eatery, but I’ll go along with what she fancies for a change. After that, I’m off home for an early night. I generally sleep very poorly but the last couple of nights have been worse than usual so I’m even more tired than normal for a Firday.
Tomorrow it’s my friend Mel’s hen party thing. We’ve booked ourselves a pamper day at a local heath spa - they have a gym, sauna, steam rooms, swimming pools (indoor and outdoor), golf course, tennis courts, massage therapists and all that stuff. I am really looking forward to it.
(((((Kai))))) - you know what it’s like with men. Can’t live with 'em, can’t sell 'em on eBay.
Heh. None of it anymore, actually. But it’s pretty psychedelic seeing multi-colored shampoo suds.
Glad to hear that things got better, kai.
I’m just about ready for work. After delivering lunch I’ll be heading back to the shop so that I can explain to my grandpa what’s wrong with my lower oven. One of the doors is out of adjustment and so it’s tough to get it lighted with too much air coming in. We’ve gotten better at knowing with chants and rituals to perform, but still it would be nice if it would just come on when you turned the knob. I could call the ‘official’ repair guy, but I know that the service call wouldn’t be cheap. And besides, I just finished making payments on the last $500 repair to this very same oven. I’m not ready to start again.
After the oven dance, we’ll finally be loading up a 4 drawer filing cabinet so that I can take it to TVLand. It’s probably been at least 6 months ago that my dad said that TVMan could have it. However, it was buried amongst the liquidation rubble in the back rooms of the building where my shop is located.
Anyways, so, yes, I will be headed to TVLand for the weekend. And I think it will be a good one. Perhaps, except, for when I try to talk TVMan into going to church with me to surprise my grandma for mother’s day. :eek: We shall see.
Also, can’t forget to mention… Hi Sherm!!!
And {{{beebs}}} {{{Noonie}}}
CutiePie I have a vision of TVMan and you goin’ to church Sunday, hidin’ behind a door and when grandma comes in, the two of you jump out and yell “Surprise!” It amuses me greatly. I’ll be churchifyin’ with Mom on Sunday. Who knows, maybe I’ll even talk sis (the heathen) into goin’. It’s the church I grew up goin’ to so it’s always old home time when I go there which is kinda fun.
I should go back to bed for a while. We shall see…
They’re already working on making me crazy. Cleo and Taz barely have a detente. They hiss at each other constantly when they’re within proximity. Thankfully, there have been no fights - Cleo is declawed (yeah, I know, the kid did it without talking to me, doggone her…) I’m sure they’ll be fine once they decide on a pecking order. Meanwhile, it’s kinda funny to watch them.
But I fear my menagerie is going to be shrinking sooner than later. Poor old Bernie has been stumbling and falling a lot lately. Just this morning as we were going thru the kitchen to the back door, she fell. She’s also got a number of tumors that we can feel under her coat - the vet said they’re probably just fatty deposits, and they don’t seem to cause her pain, since we can touch her freely. Still, she’s 13, and I’ve had 2 vets tell me her lifespan would be 12-14 years… Honesly, I’ll be surprised if she lives out the year.
On to less morose news - I’m home today - duh! Last night, I turned off the alarm and crashed before 10. Except for one potty break, I slept all the way till 6, which was wonderful. However, my throat is really sore, my nose is all snuffly, and I still feel weak and spent. My boss is at an off-site meeting this morning, but I’ll still call and leave a message. I expected this would happen, so yesterday, I did my time card with today as a sick day. I hate taking Fridays sick - it looks suspicious - but I do not want to share my germs with my coworkers - this is very unpleasant.
I told my sibs that I wouldn’t be coming to Balto to do something for Mother’s Day after all. Even if I’m feeling better, I don’t need to spend 4+ hours in the car going to Mom’s and back. And 2 of my sisters won’t be there either - one is on a cruise and the other has to work. So I’ll just call Mom, and see her later.
Speaking of which, any Mumpers wanna come to a second reception for the newlyweds at my place on May 31?? It’ll be a small fambly and friends thing, and an excuse to have a party. PM or email me. I should note that it’s kinda tentative - I didn’t check on the date with the kids yet. But it’s my house, dammit, I can have a party if I want! so there!
That’s all for now. I should probably shower - standing in steamy water would probably help me feel better. It’s raining, occasionally thunderbooming - yay for free yard watering!! And Yay for the trailer already being in the garage! Maybe I’ll unload the van today - I’ve got time to take it slow.
Germ-free Hugs to all!
I agree, I’ve really been delinquent lately 
Happy Firday all 
ETA: Thanks for all the hugs and good thoughts. Much appreciated!
Yeah, well, I thought it’s improper, too, because youze guyz ain’t 60 until Wednesday the 14th. Happy Birthday, Israel, whatever the hell day it’s official.
My theme song for the weekend:
It’s 40 below, and I
don’t give a fck,
I hop in my truck,
and it’s off to the rodeo…*
Yup. The Cottonfield County Rodeo is this weekend, where there will be tens of people in the audience and a sure fire chance for rain both nights.
Tomorrow I’ll surprise VWife with a trip to the nursery to get her Momiversary (MD and 21 years of [del]hell[/del]wedded bliss) present. I’m planting the front flower bed for her, to get it off the honeydo list once and for all.
Blurf. More caffeine!
Blergh. Off to work.
:mad: That is awful, horrifying, and disgusting! :mad: I know, since it’s in the pit, I could just post a big fat FU to the OP, but I am not going to feed that troll.
Smokey was extra frisky this morning. I have little paw shaped bruises all over my arms and chest rfom her running across me to the window, back to the hall, back to the window, etc etc several times long before my alarm went off.
off to work with me - maybe I’ll see you later, maybe not til tonight.
Oh, lord. Need to vent.
This is why I haven’t signed up for facebook.
A childhood friend of mine (who was extremely messed up) (who vanished in a cloud of melodrama ten years ago, saying she hated me and all my friends) has just contacted Driving Husband and Mr. Lissar, and has been frantically messaging both of them and asking for my email and home addresses. She’s being all, “Oh, I really, really miss Lissla! I love her so much! Does she talk about me? We’re still friends, right?”
I have a terrible feeling of lowering doom. She’s an emotional leech who was abused, sought out terrible boyfriends, bounced from one friends’ house to another fighting with their parents. And the way she’s writing makes me think she hasn’t changed at all. She’s pregnant, giving the kid up for adoption, and says she’s ‘working on trying to be self-sufficient’. She’s been living with people or on her own since she was nineteen. Good lord, girl, surely you should be able to do it by now?
And she ‘really misses me’!
She doesn’t know me!It’s been ten years! I was twenty! Since she’s been gone I’ve dated and married, gone to college, and had a baby!
I want to go hide somewhere. I do not have time or energy for amazing amounts of emotional support for anyone else.
Thanks.
Um, I am left wondering if ANY criticism of Israel has to be met with the cry of anti-Semitism. I think the guy’s a jerk for posting that, and he (she?) may well be anti-Semitic. It cannot be denied, though, that Israel is not only a victim in the conflict. It can and is a bully at times (not that America is any standard to judge by, I know).
For a nickel, I’d lock them (all the mideastern countries) in a room and whoever came out gets the land. :rolleyes:
Yes, someone pissed in my cornflakes today. Off to yet another busy day in SDS. I am incredibly stressed (as in not sleeping and my face has broken out) re this graduation thing. I just don’t want to go and be tired and run around and such. My parents want directions and schedules and plans and for me to take charge and I’m just not there yet. I will do all that tonight. Elderly people are like children–they can’t wait. And then there’s Daughter, who, since I told her that perhaps her dad should go with her to the orientation to BU instead of me, since I’ve toured the campus and he hasn’t, is now convinced I am not interested in her college aspirations. And she refuses to get her prom dress hemmed, and refuses to wear her nice black strappy sandals which go nicely–no, she must have silver. OK, she is buying the silver ones.
And finally, a moron left a note in a bathroom at the HS, complete with bullet, saying he was going to strike on Friday–today. They got the guy and school’s in session. Just one more thing to make life interesting these days. I feel sorry for this kid, who is most likely just a mass of walking rage (for whatever reason). Him going to prison isn’t going to solve anything. He needs help and some strong discipline.
Lisslar–that is creepy. Just put her on ignore. Afterall, are you really concerned about hurting her feelings? She is not your friend. Think of the ignore as the butler saying Madam is not At Home.
Paging McUne…
SLICED cheese? :eek: In BURRITOS? :eek: :eek:
gets a posse of Mexicans to teach these people about real queso
Sliced cheese. In-DEED!
Feeling a wee bit better - we went to get some breakfast, and Linda’s Cafe sounded like an emphysema ward with all the coughing. I’m going to pass the day designing the apartment for the kids - I just took some measurements, so I can get a pretty accurate layout.
I still may take a nap somewhere along the line. My arms feel leaden - as if I’ve been lifting and carrying heavy loads. Sick sucks.