Up, caffeinated, off to irk. TVCTPMO has scheduled a meeting for today during truck time, and I get new registers, which means I will be spending most of the next 36 hours at work. On the bright side, if I survive, I have the weekend off, and a lunch date on Saturday.
I like the outfit, rosie.
Safe travel, mmmm!
FCM, or maybe they use the rack?
Twuck has had its oil changed and is happy. Ok, who knows if twuck is happy or not but I am. It’s rainy out and I wish it would stay so all day to wash away some of this stoopid pollen.
I need to get busy on some irkstuff but at present am unmotivated. However it must be done so get done it shall.
Not only is it not raining here, but from the looks of weather radar, it won’t - everything is passing north and west of us. Rats. 
OK, yogurt break is over. Back to the grind…
TVCTPMO has a Charlotte branch office.
Woke up to find a huge pile :eek: of dog barf on the floor. And we loaned the carpet cleaner to some friends. So that gets cleaned up by hand. Ick!
After that’s done, DH was in the pantry, foraging for lunch. I heard clumsy sounds, a whack and some cursing. One pound of corn meal is now on the floor. At least we have several vacuum cleaners and none of them were out on loan.
Not five minutes after he drives off to work, the traffic report on TV says one of the freeways that he takes is closed due to a wreck involving a semi and spilled fuel. I pick up the phone to re-route him around the mayhem. ring-ring… ring-ring… ring-ring… Why is the kitchen table ringing? :rolleyes: So much for calling him.
The day can only get better from here.
You tempt fate.
Is it too early for a snack? I ate breakfast less than two hours ago, but I’m already hungry. Writing papers burns lots of calories. 
I just got to page three. I think I was being a bit verbose on page 2, though, because I was worried I wouldn’t have enough to say. So, that’s good. I can speak a little less and maybe get through the next couple of pages more quickly. Here’s hoping, anyways…
Hope your day gets better quickly, gotti!
StickyBuns have a quick snack then get busy again. You don’t want me to have to lecture you now do you? :dubious:
gotti TVCTPMO is everywhere. If DH is the one stuck in traffic without a cellphone it’s really him TVCTPMO is after if that makes you feel any better.
TVCTPMO is sorta kinda after me. I say sorta kinda because the PMO part is comin’ from a couple of program participants who apparently did not get their timesheets in on time so they did not get paid last Friday which was (duh!) payday. Then I get calls from whiny people who think I can do sump’n about it but I cant. Since they got their timesheets in late, they will not get processed until Wednesday which is the day stuff like that happens and the money will be in their bank or on their cashcard (hate those things!) Friday. You, the adult, did not get your timesheet in on time. Tough.
People like that make my usual fluffy puppies and kitties, rainbows and unicorns self all grrrrr…
I sliced my thumb on a broken beer glass Friday night.
That’s my news today.
If you lick a toad upon waking up for the day, nothing worse will happen to you.
Ouch! Double-ouch if it STILL hurts!
Rosie, congrats and have fun! That outfit is cute 
Took MrTao to work today, and drove past newly mown green fields with the birds in them. Yes, those birds, that I still haven’t got a picture of but tell me summer’s OVER, so YAY!!! It’ll still be 105 and thereabouts for another month, I’m thinking, but at least mornings are a little cooler. I am happy.
Ok, off to drop off resume/app stuff for a job list that probably isn’t hiring and wouldn’t hire ME anyway, since I’m not on welfare, and those recipients get first crack at it, but it gets me out there.
Happy Tuesday!
Wait…Tuesdays suck <cue ominous music>
I’d always heard that it was “Eat a live toad first thing in the morning…”
Eat a raw fart blossom first thing in the mornin’ and you’re day can’t go anyway but up. Especially after you puke everything you’ve eaten in the past three months afterwards.
I shoulda been a philosopher!
I can’t believe it, but I turned 60 today! LOL Celebratory dinner tonight shall include lobster tail, if I only eat it once a year, tonight is the night.
Welcome back Sticky, yes you’ve been missed! And have a safe trip back home, BooFae, I hope you enjoyed your vacay to the Left Coast.
Have a great day everyone - and especially gotti, I hope your day gets better, not worse.
Happy tarra day!!!
Lobster is an excellent choice - I should make that my b-day tradition!
Two people are going to look at our boat tomorrow - dang, it’d be great if we could sell it that fast…
And now this…
<ahem> clearing throat <ahem>
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HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!!
HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!!
HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY DEEEAAARRR HHHEEERRRBBBSSS!!!
HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!!
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Happy birthday,** herbs**!!!
Ok, I have reached page 4 and that’s about all that I think I will manage for today since I’ve got to get ready for school soon. I’ll be so glad when this paper is finished. After that I have a 10 page paper to write and then the class from hell will be over.
Somewhere in the middle of the day I managed to start marking spoons to make spoon rings, too. I suppose I’ll start chopping them up tomorrow or maybe tonight.
Ok, off to school I go…
Mrs. Plant v.3.0 and I played Trivial Pursuit last night.
The original that we played while I courted her in 1982, not the newer ones.
She had all six pieces and I a mere three.
I asked her sports questions at the center and delayed her while I won the rest of mine, and when she asked me the sports question at the center, something about who broke someone’s jaw boxing, I guess Muhammad Ali and lucked out.
I did a fist pump and she said, “All this means is that you don’t want to have a sexual experience tonight.”
Sigh.
That’ll learn ya flytrap! 
I have sweet N.O.T. bakin’ away in a cast iron skillet. Da cave is smellin’ good! They shall go with grilled poke tenderloin, succotash and bizkits for dindin. YUM!
We’re finally getting some nice rain. When we came home, **FCD **took a nap and I spent some time in my studio - I threw 6 pots and worked on reconstituting the clay from some pots that kinda crashed… Tomorrow, I’ll roll that clay out and make some penguin spoon rests and maybe some hand turkeys!
Mac-n-cheese for supper because it’s quick and easy and my sweetie has tummy ick. I’ll probably cook up some vegetable matter, too.
Off to the kitchen with me.
I have no idea what ankylosing spondylitis is but every time I type it, it just seems like a funnier and funnier disease. Spondylolithesis, however, is clearly the product of an asshole with a scrabble set.