Afternoon, everyone. Sorry the Tigs are still sick-ish.
It’s Dad’s birthday today. He’s 77. I’m having trouble with that number because I’m still 29. Well, until October. Mr. Lissar’s grandparents are younger than that.
I was informed by both Mr. Lissar and QD that Crunchie bars are disgusting and evil, and I should have bought a giant box of peanut butter cups instead. Look, guys, if you don’t like them, that means I get to eat them. Win-win for me! And what kind of sick, twisted person hates sponge toffee? :waits for inevitable chorus of ‘I hate sponge toffee!’:
Right. The MMP hath spoken. Next time I see QD I will beat her with a Clue Stick.
Stasia, what do you usually charge for your soaps? I used to sometimes get things from Bumbazine, but since he’s gone, I have no Friendly Internet Soap Purveyor.
Email fall down, go boom, doesn’t get back up. IT is having a very, very, very bad week. The pro-Outlook people are having a field day, as if Outlook never goes down.
We are having trouble getting any work done without email. I think our phone bill will be triple this month. The one good thing is that my desk will be clean when I leave tonight.
So, now everybody is batting their eyelashes at me?
OK, who will be the first intrepid soul to do something that will really get me to pay attention to them?
Taters, I’m doing pretty well, actually. Even better now you’ve noticed I’ve noticed!
Swampy, I think you just started a hurricane in China with that furious fluttering! Speaking of whom, where is** Flutter**…?
**Spaz **-- sorry about your troubles with the Uni. Hopefully you’ll get your aid straightened out, and have a somewhat unexpected windfall.
Muppet, if you wait your turn patiently, I promise to flirt with you too If you try jumping the queue and tackling me, however, then I don’t think what will happen will be describable as “flirting”…
**Ivory **-- you know you don’t have to bat your eyes for me to notice you
Rebo! Quit flashin’ Special1 and get back to scorin’ that feud so we can have a new one, young lady! Those feuds don’t just score and put themselves up by themselves you know! That’s your job.
In case y’all haven’t figured it out, I took a break to see if there was another feud up.
Happy Birthday LiLiDad! Sponge toffee? Is toffee supposed to be spongy? Wouldn’t sponginess indicate that toffee had gone bad? I am all over this.
I need to get my sleep cycle adjusted. I am not happy about waking up at 3:30 every doggone morning. It was a true struggle staying awake at work today. But now I’m home, so yay.
SIL put away the clean dishes without being told directly - I just left a note that the dishes were clean - mostly so he wouldn’t put dirties in there. So yay for empty dishwasher!
I was going to put another coat of paint on the basement doorway, but it’s raining, so that ain’t gonna happen. I’ve got other chores to do to occupy my time. Like that’ll happen…hehehe
**FCD ** is still in Phila. SIL is working till 9. It’s just me and my critters. And I’m thinking I’ll have an early bedtime tonight. I may also take off early tomorrow and play with clay.
[Cathy]Ack! Ack! I have “Boogie Wonderland” on a loop in my brain! Ack![/Cathy] I tried playing a different song a few times in a row to override it, but it came back.
Ye gods, I watched 3 minutes of that, expecting a joke of some kind. Now my brain has melted…
Dotty–I used to LOVE that time in the evening, home alone, when the little ones had gone down easily. Relax–you deserve it. And congrats on the new job!
I’m done moving day lillies for now. There is one more I need to move (ok, 2) but I’m fully cooked. Time to take the iced tea out to the porch and read on the swing.
Gosh, my life is soooo hard… Lisslar: what is Crunchies? What is sponge toffee (it sounds nasty). Crunch here is either Cap’n Crunch (horrid cereal) or Nestle Crunch–cheapo candy bar that makes an awesome melted topping for angel food cake.
swampus, sponge toffee isn’t soft at all - it’s caramelized sugar that is foamed just as it is hardening, which means it’s the perfect cross between crunchy and melty. Good stuff. (wiki link)
I guess it’s one of those things that’s much more common here in Canadia due to our starchy Britishified history, and explains why y’all don’t get Crunchie bars south of the border.
Your loss. That’s what you get for tossing the tea in the harbour, ya bunch of barbarians.
Hope your dad has a good birthday, LiLi. I’m still having trouble coping with the fact that both of my folks will soon qualify for senior’s pricing on stuff (well, for the places that start it at 60, anyway).
Shadow, what kind of email are you guys using? I have a hate-on for Lotus Notes… hopefully that ain’t it. (says the happy user of Outlook, who has had very few crashes in the last five years)
tackles Lunch, gives him a quick tickle and then scampers off
It’s raining and thundering and Bernie isn’t happy. Nor am I - it appears the downspout on the garage is clogged because the gutter is overflowing. Bummer.
**FCD ** just called - he’s on his way home - YAY!!
Now, young lady! We cannot abide indecent exposure in public, here!! You will repair forthwith to room 304 to continue practicing your indecent exposure in the comfortable confines of (near) privacy!!
**Muppet **-- no flirting for you today :mad: I’m not willing to be just a push-over! I fully expect to be submitted to further physical [del]ab[/del]use after being pushed over like that!!
Oh, and it’s Firday here already Not to mention that since we have Firday off, I have finished my arduous one-work-day week already. So there! (Yeah, I know I’ll pay for this on Sunday…)
Is anyone else suddenly getting lots of emails from CNN Alerts and MSNBC new updates or something like that? They’re all getting caught in my spam filter, and I’ve just been deleting them, but I’m wondering why I’m suddenly getting 3-5 of them a day.
Muppet, you got it in one. I have worked at two other large companies when they switched from LN to Outlook. It was ugly, and they were only using LN strictly as an email client. I don’t even want to think about having to go through that transition here.
I lurve honeycomb (sponge toffee)! When I was little, my mom would buy me a piece at Sears if I was good. We only went to Sears to pick up catalog orders, but there was always a line at the catalog counter and I was a fidgety little kid. K-mart had popcorn and Icees and Thrifty had the ice cream counter and we weren’t supposed to have any of it. But if I was really good and promised not to tell Daddy, I could have a treat. So I would have been about 3. I wonder how well the “don’t tell Daddy” bit worked on a 3 year old?
IT is having a very, very, very bad week. The pro-Outlook people are having a field day, as if Outlook never goes down.
If you try jumping the queue and tackling me, however, then I don’t think what will happen will be describable as “flirting”… 
over this.