I’ve been watching my cousin’s wife older baby, who is 13 months old, while she goes upstairs to sleep and recover from having her second baby three weeks ago. It’s only for 11 - 2p and her son is a very good little boy. Since my son and theirs are cousins, and the only boy that my son knows, they don’t play together, not at this stage, they just take each others toys and bottles ( but oh so nicely) and go off to another corner to investigate it in private.
It is easier than I thought and I make myself actually take them for long walks so I can break a sweat and go home pooped. I’m getting paid very nicely too. Hell, I could do this full time if it weren’t for the driving.
In other mundania: I found what I have been looking for at Sam’s Club. <brace yourselves> The Ultimate Diaper Bag. It’s really a soft covered brief case with all the compartments and dividers that I have been looking for and a place to stow my wallet and mommy stuff. AND after the diaper phase ends, I can use it for other stuff. All of $14.99.
I’ve been looking for a job for a month now. I already applies at 2 places (a sub sandwich restaurant, and a office supply store) and, figuring that I haven’t heard from them in 2 weeks, I went to look elsewhere. Then, while reading the newspaper, I saw a help wanted ad for the pizza place I go to all the time. Immediately, I went over to the place to get an application, and now, this coming Sunday, I waiting for my first day of my first job.
Hee Hee…oh, Mike, I don’t know how I missed your post the last time I checked this thread, but that was damn funny! No, I have not started a second business to supplement my income, and if I did, it wouldn’t be porn! I don’t think anyone would pay me to see that! I do enjoy your posts quite a bit, however…
Louie, congratulations on the new job! Is the pizza on you now? ::hollers:: “Louie’s giving away free pizza!!” Also, thank you for that primer in HTML you posted on a different board (“About this Board”?). I haven’t used it yet, but will soon.
Just got my pic on the Teeming Millions board. It’s not the greatest pic in the world, but it’s me, and it’s my first appearance on the internet, so I guess I’m kinda-sorta famous now. Thanks, Opal! You’re swell!
Gonna work the entire weekend, then report for jury duty Monday. This is the third time I’ve been summoned, and I’m wishing you only had to go a certain number of times in your life.
I’ve decided to wean my son off the bottle and onto a sippy cup.
In a couple of weeks we want to move a twin mattress into his room and tuck in his teddy every night before we get him into a big boys bed.
I’ve got more furniture than I know what to do with. All my rooms are crowded.
Xmas shopping is nearly done ( only buying for the kids and they are getting blocks, books and College Money) and if I can find it, a Dapper Dan Dress up Doll.
Hubby is getting a raise effective either this paycheck or next, but is not sure how much. He is also being promoted to a Manager, but won’t take the offical job until his boss ( a man very hard to nail down) tells him and the other managers at the company exactly what his job duties are. He’s been there 13 years and knows everyone/thing/aspect of the job and in a sense is the manager of the job he’s being given, but this time its official.
My sinuses are causing me to breath like darth vader. ARGHHHHH
I got a scam in my e-mail, but I didn’t fall for it. The email was offering me free AOL for one month, and the link led to a very convincing webpage, except that it asked for my password. I forwarded it to TOSEmail1.
I was hanging out with friends last night, as usual. The adults were playing Trivial Pursuit (my team came within a heartbeat of winning) while the daughters watched the Miss Conformity Pageant. Our game ended just before the winners were announced. It got down to between two: Miss Pennsylvania, very dark, and Miss Kentucky, high yellow. I wanted Miss PA to win, since I’m from there, but I knew the high yellow was going to win, and she did. Still, my friend and I admitted that it takes a lot of guts to stand on that stage and smile when you’ve already been cut, and that goes octuple for the first runner up, to hug the winner and smile even though you know she wants to kill her repeatedly. And to do all this with the whole country watching. Amazing.
I have a bird’s nest on the left side of my hair. I’m going to have to wear a ponytail if I’m going to drive on the highway with my window open.
Remember, I’m pulling for you; we’re all in this together.
—Red Green
Hmm, never posted in this thread before, but here goes. I got my engagement ring on Friday! I am so incredible happy; I’m sure none of my friends can stand it. I didn’t have a ring before, because I asked Carl (not vice-versa), but this weekend he gave me his mother’s ring. He still won’t let me buy him one. Oh, well. I’ve been showing it off to everybody I see (including two dogs and five cats – the animal part of Carl’s household). Also my friends at Rocky Horror announced our engagement in the newsletter and during the pre-show. Yay!
Well I had a great time today <strike>at my first day at work</strike> finding out that I wasn’t hired and to expect a phone call this week. Oh well, more time to goof around.
thank god for this thread. It validates my life in a pathetic mundane way. Actually it keeps me from rambling like an idiot to the people I know in reality, but must bore some one you kind intelligent patient folks here to big fat tears.
Enough of the apologies: My dog decided to be thorough and stain the last piece of unstained carpet in our house and puked not once, but twice in our hallway. Thank god for surgical gloves and paper towels. The gloves enabled me to look through the piles to see if I could detect what was the culprit in the puke. Couldn’t find it, so my dog must have decided, " I’m bored, I think I’ll stain the hallway, then I’m done with that project."
My dipshit neighbor wants me to do a ceramics class with her at night. Now this would be very amusing. I’m not artistic at all, but for $4 a class, I could make a truck load of ill shaped ash trays for everyone for christmas and give them a pack of Marlboros. I haven’t given her a definate on it yet.
My son, aka, the weasel boy, decided to wake up at 230am and stay awake until 6am this morning. After changing the diaper and giving him a sippy cup of warm water, he refused to settle down ( after falling asleep in my arms) and stands up to protest his cruel incarceration for 30 minutes while mommy falls in and out of sleep. Mommy decides that maybe he is really hungry and feeds him real food down stairs in the kitchen. He eats like a horse, take a sippy cup of milk and falls asleep again in my arms. I sneak out and he wails like a prisoner for the next two or so hours. Nothing deters him from railing against his bars. Mommy (and the rest of the household) sleeps through this melodramatic situation until hubby’s alarm clock goes off at 6am. Weasel Boy is still going strong.Never fell asleep or sputtereddown a bit. Hubby changes him, finds a regular bottle and brings him to Mommy’s bed where he promptly falls asleep in about 2 minutes. Everyone is happy until 845am, then he his happy boy until his lack of sleep catches up with him, making him " I’m cranky boy and want comfort and why won’t you hold me on your lap and let me type for you while you are in the SDMB?" ( It would probably be less rambling and more content) After a filling lunch, book time. Mean Mommy chucked him in his crib for a nap. He sputtered about 2 minutes then passed out.
I fully anticipate the dog to start up now wanting attention.
Just got done eating lunch with my wife. Left over spaghetti with garlic bread. Yum. I got a terrible fit of hiccups in the middle, which were somewhat humorous.
I bought a new shotgun this weekend it’s a Browning Gold Hunter. My old shotgun is a Browning BPS with a fix improved cylinder choke. Watch out traps, here I come.
My son’s in his second week of martial arts (he’s five). I asked him to show me what he had learned. He said “kie-yah” and kicked me in the nuts. It hurt, but goddamn it was funny.
Going “hunting” this weekend. Guys, you know why I put the word “hunting” in quotes. The Texas Outdoor Annual is a hoot to read. I’m actually going out to harvest wildlife resources.
I also found out that it’s legal to hunt squirrels year round here in Dallas county (10 a day bag limit). I’ll have to do some additional checking, but maybe Boots (my dawg) and I might do some backyard hunting. Specifically, I need to re-read the varmit clause: I don’t eat squirrel.
Oh, and this is my 4th month of telecommuting. It’s great!
