Somebody Has To Do It... The MMP

I clicked on an ad while at another website. It was to snorgtees.com and now I want to buy a couple dozen t-shirts. I don’t need any more t-shirts, I need to thin out the t-shirts I already own. Hey! Then I could get more t-shirts!

I like the one that says “I like Big Bots and I cannot lie”.

Me, three. Last year was the first time in a long time I didn’t get depressed around the holidays. I’m afraid I may be reverting. It’s not been a great few months for Clan Havoc. Hugs to all…

She looks kind of zombiefied. I don’t think a sandwich will do her much good, now. :frowning: :smiley:

How about a nice brain sandwich?

Braaaaaaaiiiiiiiinnnnnnnssssssss…

Or a BLT, Brains, Lung and Toes? When the brains are lean and the toes are perky. I love that!

It’s so nice being back on my normal schedule. I got to work early, got back early, then ran by the credit union to deposit a check and to the security office to get stickers for FCD’s truck. I’ve got a poke roast in the rotisserie waiting to be rotissed for supper. We’ll also have cabbage, onions-n-shrooms and either rice or N.O.T. - still thinking about that.

It’s overcast and rain is supposed to start tonight or tomorrow. My new plantings will like that. Tomorrow will be a little late - stoopit boss called a meeting that’ll run past my quit time. On the other hand, maybe I’ll learn something about what’s I’ll be doing next.

After my 4-day weekend, I need a few days to recover…

Snorgtees is awesome, Coyote. I’m having way too much fun there.

Wow, brain sandwiches before the second page. This bodes an interesting week. Myself, no brains left. I would be a disappointment to a zombie, although my son tells me that they munch on the rest of our flesh as well.

Seriously, I think I have hit a wall with regard to packing, daughter #3 put me to bed at 8:00 pm and I passed out. I slept all night too, and would probably still be sleeping if it wasn’t for morning slapping me out of bed at 8:00 am. Good thing I got all that good rest, or I would be one grumpy mama today! As it is, the Son and his friend went on a coffee run, so I am sipping a N.O.H. latte and planning my day. Packing is proving dismal, as my intent was to cull my bookshelves of both some books and my pretties. I have packed far more than I discarded. Ah well, I have to leave my house plants (and my outdoor perennials) and that is a huge amount of space that will be freed up. I am taking starts from the indoor plants that can be rooted though, I have had my spider plant for nigh onto 22 years, it was a housewarming gift from one of the teachers when I first moved to the village.

This move has me frothing slightly at the month, but once we get there things won’t be so stressful…HA! Everybody, my family, my old friends from Washington/Oregon, everyone has decided that to help rejoice in the return of the wanderer (that’s what the name Wendy means) by celebrating Christmas At. My. House. I take possession of the house at 9:30 pm on the 3rd, and I don’t plan on sending anyone down until the 6th so that beds can be purchased and delivered, and I have a zoo to send down. 10 animals I need to get down there, two kids and myself. Will I be unpacked, have the house decorated and ready for company by the 25th? That is asking a lot. Not that I am unwilling mind you, it’s just a huge amount of things to do. However, for the first time I have a real fireplace and a mantle to hang stockings from…It could happen! :stuck_out_tongue:

Okay, I am going to hit the shower and get busy, you all have a wonderful day/afternoon/evening/night!

Not that you asked my advice, but don’t sweat the decorating. Get settled in first. You can always fling some tinsel about randomly if necessary. :smiley: Or ask all your guests to dress in something sparkly - then you’ll have living decorations! You’re welcome!

Poke is rotissing. I’ve decided to take the last of the baked N.O.T.s, scrape out their innards, and smash and bake them with cheese, served with sour cream. Quick and easy, no? I also need to hack up the cabbage and get it cooking. Guess I should adjourn to the kitchen.

I need a wife to do all this cooking crap for me.

It hasn’t been a stellar day for me.

Hubby was a grumpy ass this morning, then called me at work, and was nasty to me again. Our dumb dogs got into the neighbor’s yard again; neighbor called hubby, hubby told him again what needs to be fixed, but neighbor thinks the dog broke it.

Um, the fucking stringer rotted because it was on the ground and the fence has been up for eight years!! Eight years of rain and snow kind of does that to wood!

Anyway, hubby is pissed and wants to call someone to fix it and fix our dumb gate because, and I quote, “I’m NOT a fucking carpenter”. :rolleyes::mad: I’m not either, but neither of these repairs are difficult.

Besides, it’s not like the anyone can fix the neighbor’s fence today, so we need to do it today.

I’ll probably have to go home, measure the distance between posts, run to the fucking hardware store, and just do it myself. Really, how hard is it to toenail a stringer between two fence posts? :mad:

HA! :smiley:

And to add to the unasked for advice, you could always leave the decorating to be done as your guests arrive. Set out boxes and have everyone pitch in. (That’s how we do it at the park where I volunteer and it’s fun.)

But how exciting (unnerving, I know, too) to be that close to moving. How are the kids coping?

Thanks for getting us started, swampy…although I’m crushed that you did not pick from our topic list. :stuck_out_tongue: :smiley:

Sorry for the crappy day, Taters. Hugs.

Hope the doctor visit went well, tarra.

Home from a big interfaith meeting (500+ people from close to 50 congregations); it’s always interesting because it’s a true melting pot; you hear from people from all kinds of faith traditions (mostly Christian, but also Jewish and Moslem) and all kinds of educational and economic backgrounds. It was the meeting where we decide the group’s annual focus and the choices were 1) jobs, 2) education, or 3) crime and violence. (Yes, they are all tied together anyway…) I had expected that there would be some type of voting trend by demographics, but the congregations went in all different directions and we wound up with a very close vote.

Now I am, of course, quite awake and not ready to fall asleep yet.

Hugs all.

GT

I get that at Xmas, too. Mainly because 6 out of the last 8 years I’ve been shorthanded at work.

Wiki, if they want Christmas, they can decorate. And cook.

{{{{Taters}}}}

I’ve been reading “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” so I guess I have too many zombies on the brain.
Pun intended.

There is a boss encounter in World of Warcraft where a character gets turned into a zombie. He says
[zombie] “… … … …”
and
[zombie] “braaaaaains”
Short version: Irk is irky.
Long version:
Why is it so difficult to understand that when you’re working with a database you’re working with one database? It’s not “twenty little databases”, it’s one huge database, any piece of data that’s been entered can be extracted. Promise. Serious. It’s not even particularly difficult, 99% of the reports people ask for already exist. So why do my coworkers get all twisted over stuff like “I want to be able to see which costs are linked to which machine, and which are from maintenance and which from production”? It’s not even a special report, it’s premade and you can get a single report where each item says ‘this much money, in this factory, spent on these concepts, for these machines, production/maintenance/purchasing’, it’s got everything in neat little colored columns. You’d think these people have never spoken with a Controller before!
Part of The Plan if I can manage to go to Mom’s for one weekend between here and Christmas (we may not get Christmas vacation at all) is to grab my Daylight Lamp, which is there all looking forlorn and I need it here. Yes, this is another shameless plug for Daylight Lamps as an antidote against the Winter Blues. It works! I had heard of it but hadn’t given it any thought, bought the lamp for hobby reasons and hey, it turns out it does perk me right up. So those of you with Winter Blues, see if you can get one of those.

Up, caffeinated, off to irk.

Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’ on a rainy Jawja morn. We need the rain so no complaints here. Looks like it rained most of the night.

We had a big crowd at men’s night last night. Lots o’ fun and the usual bs and carryin’s on. Besides steaks (or poke chops or salmon as a couple of folks brought) we had baked N.O.T., steamed aspergrass and bizkits. NUM!

gt I woulda picked from the topics but that woulda meant like goin’ back and findin’ 'em and I’m lazy. So There! :stuck_out_tongue:

Wiki put up your Hallowe’en decorations and tell ‘em those were the only ones you could find while unpackin’. They’ll either love it or never want to have Christmas at your place again. I see either one as a win. :smiley:

All you folks feelin’ blue, hope you get feelin’ better soon.

The zombie stuff made me all giggly.

Later Y’all!

When Mom was here, she pointed out that some of the stuff I had on a plate for decoration is actually Christmas stuff, specifically tree decorations. I told her I was just decorating “Costa Rica style”.

Christmas ornaments are a surprisingly big industry in CR (“you mean it isn’t all Made in China?”); derivatives such as “strings of lights forming any word you want” have also appeared. This is one of the reasons why we got so many winter- and Nativity-related questions: people have to paint things such as snow and lambs which they’ve never seen in real life.
In many towns, rather than put the lights up and take them down, what they’ve done is come up with non-specific “Have a Happy Day!” and suchlike light signs, which they keep strung up all year and light up whenever they want to, be it Christmas or Independence Day.

Blurf. That is all.