[QUOTE=IvoryTowerDenizen]
Hi! I think we;re back!!!
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Well, the two of us are…
:Looks around: Seems we’re alone for now…? Hmmm… 
ETA: Nope… 
Some other time, Ivory… 
[QUOTE=Noone Special]
Well, the two of us are…
:Looks around: Seems we’re alone for now…? Hmmm…
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psst.. look up.
ETA: Caught me on edit… and we were thiiiis close…
YAY! I can finally get my fix. I was starting to get the shakes from SDMB withdrawal, and it wasn’t a pretty sight. 
Busy weekend though - we rented a car on Saturday to run errands (and ended up with a ginormous Jeep SUV instead, since they were out of cars). Over the course of the day, we went to Costco for groceries, Petsmart for supplies, Canadian Tire for replacement BBQ parts and the garden centre for some rocks (the grass at the base of our 100+ yr old maple is looking unhappy… so I’m replacing it with a rock garden).
On Sunday I weeded the garden, trimmed the edges on the lawn after The Boy was done mowing, netted up the 'maters to keep hungry birdies/squirrels away, and got a head start on some of the reports I needed to run for work today.
I also attempted to fix the BBQ, but it looks to be a hopeless cause since the bolts holding the broken burner are completely corroded and won’t come off, even with a liberal spraying of WD40… so I’m stuck with a dead BBQ plus a useless $45 replacement burner that I can’t install. Sniff. I’m open to suggestions if any of you handy types have bright ideas to loosen them up, since the alternative is spending the rest of the summer BBQ-less.
Congrats on the swank new car, Taters. Now make with the pix!
Now where’s the new MMP, huh huh huh? Someone’s slacking!
Yay! I was seriously getting withdrawals…
I think I read all the posts on the whole Dope!
ETA: Yay for new car!
I totally missed the outage. The advantage of being a work-week-only Doper!
[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn]
Yay! I was seriously getting withdrawals…
I think I read all the posts on the whole Dope!
ETA: Yay for new car!
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I did the same thing- even old pit theads!
It’s back! Yay! ::Snoopy Dance::
Back! Yay!
And we’re home, and we missed the whole JazzFest, yay, and Nat’s telling me I’m terrible pay attention NOW! Bye!
Are we getting a new MMP this week?
According to GT’s sig, **MamaTigs **is up this week – maybe someone should PM her? (I feel I don’t know her well enough, or I’d do it)
[QUOTE=eleanorigby]
It’s hotter 'n blazes out there. Blech–going to the movies soon. I cleaned the kitchen whilst listening to a bizarre This American Life story about two women who were switched at birth, grew up in the same small town etc. The town mostly knew about it, as did one mother, but the other mother (and the girls) were clueless. All was revealed when they were adults and the show dealt with the fallout. I must say it raised some strong feelings in me–anger for how badly the mom in the know (well, strong suspicion) told the girl she’d raised (most would call her a daughter still, no? The way this woman talks about her is weird-- a long term house guest. Not in those words, but the tone and attitude!); sadness for the women whose lives would have been so different; sympathy for the sibs who can now see, in sharp relief, just how their lives would have been different with the spotlight fixed on the major differences between the two families. It makes everyone question everything. Riveting radio, though.
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I heard that too and thought the weirdest part was that the mother who knew didn’t say anything at the hospital when the babies were born because her husband “didn’t want to embarrass the doctor.” :eek: WTF? If you realized that the hospital switched your baby with someone else’s, who cares who would be embarrassed?? I’d be raising hell!
I spent the outtage chatting with dopers on IRC - it was amusing. I missed y’all though. I am in a grumpy mood because (TMI unless you’re a girl)
I’ve started my period, which I haven’t had since last December. To make up for lost time, I am cramping like hell and bleeding so heavily that even the DivaCup can’t hold up for more than a few hours at a time. And the blood is so thickly clotted I’m tempted to reach up and check to see if my uterus is still there.
MamaTigs had a very busy weekend and has had no time to do an MMP. This morning she didn’t sound likely to do one this week, either. Anybody who wants to go ahead and start one, I think it’s okay to do it.