i only have three sheets - one fitted, one fitted valance and one with paint stains 
I do have nice towels though. I recently spent £100 on six towels. Big and fluffy and snuggly and mmmmmm. meh - it was a treat.
Yarrr me farties! Shiver me bucket! Haul me keel!
The wench and me be havin’ 4 sets o’ sheets.
Two sets be linen and two sets be flannel.
O’ course there be sheets for the crews quarters too.
Now splice that parrot, ye lubber!
I don’t really have all that much to say, I just wanted to talk like a (movie) pirate afore the day was done.
I have two sets of sheets. I just changed my bed last night, and before I put the comforter back on, one of my cats decided to leave me a nice little present of the vomitous kind on the end of my bed. I was very rude and did not thank her.
I did just re-fill my gas tank today. At $2.799 a gallon, I was not the happiest camper in the world.
Remember when I freaked out swampy by telling y’all how I ran out of tissues, paper towels, napkins, and toilet paper all the same weekend? And it happened to be the weekend I had my cousins visiting? Well, the same cousins are coming to visit this weekend, and I know I have napkins, paper towels, and toilet paper - but I will check on the tissue situation.
The reason they are coming to visit is 'cause we’re going to see the Red Sox against Baltimore. It’s my first Red Sox game - even though I lived in Boston for 4 years (college). Tells you how much of a sports fan I am. How I worked for a sports web company for 4 1/2 years I’ll never know.
Susan
Insteaf of jeans and a regular t-shirt, I wore my sort-of 18th century shirt and long full black skirt, and tied a purple scarf in my hair. I couldn’t bring myself to do much more than say ‘Arr!’ a couple of times, but I looked kind of piratey. And I made sure that everyone at work knew it was Pirate Day. They didn’t know before. They looked mildly concerned about me.
We got a resume a little while ago from a woman who listed, under Interests: Pirates. She didn’t get hired. It went something like
Knitting
Reading
Jogging
Pirates
What do I want for dinner?
A moment of silence for my old computer. He ain’t pinin’ he’s dead dead dead. Thursday he crashed a bazillion times and then refused to restart past the blue screen with all sorts of computerese on it. I called the head IT guy and he said he’d have the tech guy who’s afraid of students come take a look at it. Today the scaredy cat IT guy sent his IT gal, who performed last rights and hauled the carcass away.
A couple of periods later, in comes the principal who wants to see my grades and lesson plans. They were in the computer, I say, look-- a giant hole where my tower used to be! Look Sparky, look! Yay for me, I have some of my grades on paper and the lesson plans on the board, phew! Yeah right; a couple of hours later I get a letter telling me how evil I was for not having lesson plans and grades available. I knew I shouldn’t have offered him a boost so he could see over my desk.
You know, when I first started teaching, I would read Dilbert and not get any of it. These days, Dilbert can make me laugh until I puke. It’s funny 'cause it’s so very true.
Swampy, I don’t think it’s a gay thing, because I have mebbee eight sets of sheets. Three of different shades of white because sometimes you need winter white, sometimes you need summer white, and sometimes the bedding situation calls for white that’s neeeeearly cream, but not. Donkey is also very correct to have bedding for different seasons. We’re not barbarians after all.
Somehow I’ve managed to lose one set of the queen size pillow cases, so hand 'em over picunurse, I now realise they traveled the washing machine highway over to your house. Does anyone except me have unexplained clothing? I had an entire tuxedo materialize once. I’ve never been to a tuxedo type event and neither have any of the guys I know, and it’s not my size (tight through the chest, oddly enough).
Gas around here is still over three dollars a gallon. That’s only fair though, since our corner of california is so very much farther from the middle east than any other part of america. A couple of months ago I got really lost in San Diego (which is not surprising, because if it’s not a mall or a museum I dunno where anything is) and I figured out it cost me almost ten bucks. I can’t afford to get lost! I may never leave my home again.
Dammit, dammit, I missed talk like a pirate day. This is what happens when my computer dies-- I am unapprised of important cultural events and my students suffer terribly. Arrrr!
Yay for scout! It may have been a weensy bit hilly, but the view was great, I’m betting <snerk> Marines are so pretty in the fall.
Which reminds me, swampy. This weekend I saw the perfect yard art for you; a bear what peeks out from the bushes! He was a very handsome bear and only thirty bucks!
I thought chaoticdonkey was already peeking through swampy’s shrubbery…?
GT
gt, I’m really sad. Blueberry season is officially over. Blueberry Hill has no more blueberries, so I guess now it’s Blueberry-less Hill. Snif. I’m going through withdrawal–no big tub o’ blueberries in the fridge. Now it’s $3 for a tiny little thing of berries at the grocery store. And they’re probably tasteless plastic berries, anyway. I’ll have to wait until next year to make blueberry buckle. But that’s okay, there’s lots more good stuff to bake. I have a big pile of chocolate, just waiting to be baked into something tasty. Blueberry season is over–now it’s chocolate season! Oh, wait, it’s always chocolate season.
Lissla, I’m really disappointed that you didn’t hire the pirate lady. I bet she would have been good for some really funny stories. But if she didn’t talk like a pirate, she was just a poser. I wonder if she knitted little pirate eyepatches and Jolly Roger flags.
But according to him, I’m not a bear. ::sniffle::
Ow ow ow. My right arm is all trembly on account of Attacks Husband came over to say there was an ugly set of shelves out on someone’s lawn at the end of his street and would I like to go look at them? So we did, and they’re $70 Ikea shelves painted horrible institution blue, and we carried them back, did preliminary cleaning outside, and brought them in.
Mr. Lissar or I will paint them in the next couple days. We still have half a can of red paint left, which is good, cause they’re ugly, and I can’t live with the colour. But they were free! And I have more shelves!
I made roast potato caesar for dinner, and I’ve got lots. I’m gonna have a second helping when Mr. Lissar gets home in an hour.
Oww. My arms.
Sean, yeah, our paper is more dangerous than the dangeroustest Dangerous Animal. Real badass paper we have here.
gardentraveler, thanks, dangergene’s posts look real cool.
(Note to self: Add dangergene to Must Read Without Mouth Full list)
MagicEyes, is it any comfort that the $3+ blueberries have been available here for quite some time? I look at them longingly and then decide that there are other fruits and I will be tided over in the blueberry department until next season by dried blueberries. And maybe some frozen ones if I decide to bake something. Of course, now I would like blueberries on my Cheerios and I’m out of them. Maybe the bananas will do instead…
Melli, yes , I guess I should have warned you about making sure you’d swallowed before reading gene’s post. (But that’s part of the charm…?)
I suppose I should do something constructive before heading off to work…
GT
Have you ever checked Ovrstock.com? Sheets are about 1/2 price, usually.
Is it just me, or does this thread smell funny?
You are a cub. A bear in training. Enjoy your youth. Peaking out of bushes is good training.
Ashes[sup]2[/sup] I got me a bear that peaks out from under the sheets at me. That’s even better.
Sorry Ex, I’ll put my shoes back on.
<Joe Pesci voice>
Funny ha ha, or funny, ya know…funny? Huh?
<Joe Pesci voice>
Mmmm…dried blueberries. Dipped in chocolate. Frozen blueberries are okay (not quite the same on cereal, though). We’ll muddle through, until next year when blueberries start growing on trees again.
Lissla, free shelves are cool! I think you should paint them purple. Purple is always good.
I’m bored today. Our computer software is not working so i can’t do any work. And my actual computer isn’t working (really has the IT gal foxed) so i had to commandeer someone else’s desk so i could get my email, and play soulxchange and surf and work. Except now i can’t work cos of the software problems, no one is emailing me and i’ve done sXc already. So i’m really bored now.
I did go over to another of our offices to sign up for French classes. It might not go ahead unless they get enough students so I said I’d to Italian instead. But i hope I get to do French. I already know some words like ‘shut up shitface’ and ‘i’m going to spank your arse’ so you can see why I’d want to continue with the language I have started on
I’ve finished lunch so I might go and check out gene now…
Sorry, Ashes, Ashes, but they are all regular size. If you really want some, send me an e-mail, of course, I could say you have to take a full dozen, but if I did that, I might never get rid of them!
And what about this tuxedo? How could a tuxedo sneak into your house? Was it there when you moved in? I once heard about a bugler that would break into houses to bathe, take clothes if they fit him and leave his dirty ones, but no tuxedos. I just checked the hall closet where hubby’s tux lives, its there, so its not his.
As I said in this thread, someone stole a tank of gas from us yesterday. Hubby had just filled up so, it was about $60.00 worth.
Everyone, think hard about the thief’s pants falling down while crossing the street, at lunch time, in downtown Seattle, tripping him up so his gun falls out of his pocket, along with his drug stash and his kiddy porn, so he stops traffic, has the swat team rolled out, and ends up on the evening news, on his way to jail. So, if this happens to someone, I’ll know he’s the gas thief!
How do you carry 20 gallons of fuel? That’s about 160 lbs! and what do you put it in? How did I not hear them? I was up until after 2:00am
We have a chainsawed cedar bear in the yard, he was standing right next to the truck. He shoulda stopped the thief! Dumb bear. He could at least have scared them. :rolleyes:
I just got gas for $2.859 this morning. But I heard on the radio that oil prices went up a lot yesterday so I’m guessing that by this afternoon the gas price will be a heck of a lot more than $2.859.
I have a dilemma and need some sage Doper advice. I inherited a bunch of rings from some not-terribly-close family. In other words, there’s no sentimental value attached. Now a couple of them are kinda pretty, but that’s about it. So… if I get them appraised, and they’re actually worth something, should I sell sorta pretty rings so that I can get money and buy something useful like kitchen appliances (or more sheets!) or should I keep them because I might occasionally wear one of them once or twice?
I’ll settle this!!! swampy you are very very normal and really really gay. So there! 
It is I who is abnormal. I currently only have one set of sheets in use on the master bed. See, I bought this set of bed stuff what includes all matching sheets, pillowcases, shams, comforter, pillows and bedskirt. I actually purchased a set of sateen sheets at the same time to alternate with the matching ones but they got all pilly after a couple of washings and aren’t comfy anymore. I want to trash the whole bidness before too long anyhoo cause I get too hot under the comforter. I want to get a regular old bedspread that goes allaway to the floor and dispense with alla the froo froo stuff.
Tupug