Somebody Has To Do It... The MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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{{{Swampy and Ron’s family}}}
That is so sad. It scares us, too, doesn’t it? I’m sorry.

Good luck on the interview, VBob!

I’m glad your Dad is doing better, Herbs. There is a guy here at work who is trying to get his BP down for the same surgery. Good luck to you!

LOL on the refund, Annie!

Mom - it’s unbelievable that some people never grow up. I’m glad she dumped the loser.

mmmmms - yay for sleeping with your husband! I’m all for that kind of thing. :slight_smile:

It’s gonna be a slow day here. I don’t have any real work, and I’m trying to get motivated to do some training-related stuff. Blech.

But tomorrow beckons! C’mon Firday!

Laterzzzzz…

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I just arranged for the plumber to come this afternoon. Our outside pipe is backing up again. :frowning: We have a free snaking coming from the plumber, so I might as well use it! I’ll be leaving at lunchtime.

w00t!

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Howdy, everybody! Good news: I’m off tomorrow! Great news: I get to be with my hubby! Meh news: tomorrow’s his first chemo. We can take food, snacks and the laptop: they have a comfy set-up, they said. They have a bed for him and a nice chair for me. The chemo will take about 5 hours. Despite the circumstances, I plan on enjoying my time with him tomorrow.

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VWife has been going to an oncologist for treatment of pernicious anemia. All I have to say is they have about the biggest and comfy-est Lazy Boys in the world for the patients to set up camp in while being infused.

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I am being held captive by an unreasonable boss, eBay and shelves of crap. Please send cake with file and turbo-lister inside.

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So Rebo thinks sleepin’ with MMMMMM’s husband would ge a good thing. :stuck_out_tongue:

Also, I need some readin’ comprehension lessons I think. I read Rebo’s post about a free snaking (which sounds dirty!) from the plumber as a free snarking from the plumber. I thought, hmmm, why would anybody take an afternoon off to be snarked at by the plumber.

I bought a turkey. Turkey is 18.58 pounds. I am feedin’ eight people on Thanksgiving. I foresee turkey tetrazini (or however it’s spelled) in my future. Or not. I’ve been known to scarf down copious poundage of leftover turkey cause I do lurve it so!

I’m waitin’ on details of Ron’s funeralization and have some chicken boobs on to boil as I post. Ima make two chicken pies. They’re easy to make and I figure if they don’t need both, one could be frozen for later cause chicken pie freezes well and I’m usin’ disposable pans cause they’re easier to deal with. I took the chicken boobs out of the freezer last night. One of my first thoughts was, “what can I fix to take to the family.” My mama would be so proud! :smiley:

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Isn’t that expensive, even by Brit standards? :stuck_out_tongue:

Phonecon interview this afternoon has been postponed. :grumble: Yeah, I gots 6 weeks before unemployment, but I wanna new paying gig NOW.

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Oh, that’s sweet! I’m kind of excited to see the set up they’ll have down there.

Maybe tomorrow, I can go deposit that 80¢ check. Whoo. :rolleyes: :smiley:

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And a free snaking. Don’t forget the free snaking. :smiley:

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You guys have such dirty, dirty minds.

That’s why I love you so much! :slight_smile:

Swampy - go on the Food Network Website and look up Melissa D’Arabian’s recipe for leftover turkey - turkey taquitos!!! They look yummy.

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The visitation will be tomorrow evenin’ from five to seven and the funeral and burial will be at two p.m. on Saturday. I’m takin’ the chicken pies over to Sharon’s mom’s and dad’s place as that’s where the family is gatherin’. I know them well so that’s all jake.

Dindin will be baked poke chops, succotash and steamed broccoli. Good stuff for a chilly day.

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Swampy, I’m so sorry about your loss. Sending good thoughts to you and Ron’s family.

Admittedly, I haven’t been posting a heck of a lot. I’ve been busy, and I’ve been down in the dumps. I can’t seem to shake it, but I plod on every day. It’s pretty much work bullshit, but I have to keep going until something better comes along. So, I buck up and get on with it, but I just don’t feel like conversing a lot, and don’t want to be a Debbie Downer here.

Annie, I had to laugh; eighty cents! Hell, it was half that to mail the damn check to you.

Bobbio, I’m keeping my fingers crossed for you.

Tomorrow, I need to go down to the credit union with my daughter. Seems an authorized charge was made to her checking account. She called them to stop it, but they told her to call the company the money was paid to (Encyclopedia Britannica) and if she didn’t have any luck getting the money back, THEN the CU would step in. In the meantime, her account is frozen and she has no money.

Um, bull-fucking shit. I’m taking her down tomorrow to fill out the requisite paperwork and they’re going to give her back her money. She shouldn’t have to chase it down like that. Hell, when my husband’s card was stolen (different bank), we reported it, disputed the charges (several hundred dollars), walked in, got a replacement card, and of course filled out the forms.

I’m thinking that because my daughter is young, and because her account wasn’t big, they’re giving her the run around. She’s had the account for well over a year, so she’s “established”. They shouldn’t be giving her shit. I’m pretty upset and disgusted with them. They’re my credit union, and it was at my suggestion she opened the account there. I feel badly. They used to give her shit about her paychecks too, seeking management approval. These checks were from SAFEWAY for God’s sake! I don’t think they’re going to bounce!

Well, I’ve got shit tons to do here at work. Once again, I’m cover bitch and I’m stuck doing it for two weeks. Next month, I get the joy of doing it for nearly three weeks. In the meantime, I’ve got my own shit to do as well. I’ve got two large projects sitting on me as well, but noooo, I must continue to cover. No one covered my shit when I was out for two freakin’ days two last week. Not a fucking thing. The stuff that should have been covered in my absence is required on a weekly basis. The people that need that info were not happy…at all. You can be sure I’ll be bringing this shit up again. Either I quit covering, or people start covering my shit too. Can you understand why I’m unhappy here?

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{{{swampy}}} - it really hits hard when they’re close to your age, doesn’t it? FCD’s former business partner died suddenly in his mid-40s - he was slightly younger than **FCD **at the time. Really hit us both hard.

**BBBobbio **- I can hook you up with a good realtor! Just say the word!

Scruffy is being a brat wanting to be fed, so I need to pause here. Try to behave while I’m away…

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::throws a water balloon at Taters::

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Late day here. **FCD **had to work late and daughter had a faculty meeting. So I’m still home alone. No adult supervision. With 4 assorted containers of ice cream in the freezer…

:smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

Taters, c’mon over. You can have first pick of ice cream! Then we’ll plot the demise of your idiot coworkers!

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{{{{everyone}}}}}

The third thing has gone wrong with the kitchen: now the oven doesn’t work. It took an hour at 500 degrees to cook two pot pies the other night. We’re pretty much limited to what we can nuke or cook in a pot. The maintenance people have come by and said we need a new stove, which I figured since the appliances in there are all about 35 years old. The fact that they’ve lasted that long is great, I think, but they’re all breaking now.

Hopefully the new stove will come in soon because I want to get my dad up here for Thanksgiving. We’ll need to get a kitchen table, too.

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So sorry for your loss, swampy. Good thoughts and prayers for Ron’s family and friends.

I’ve been really busy getting stuff taken care of so that my brother and I aren’t cooped up in too small of a space because of the oversupply of stuff. We’re slowly finding room in the basement for stuff and getting rooms rearranged so that we can move about comfortably. So my web time has been pretty limited.

Hugs, ice cream and chocolate for everyone who’s down…

GT

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Up, caffeinated, off to irk.

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Up and caffeinating, ready to head to work.

And thank goodness today is FIRDAY!

Other than that, blurfness for me, and {{{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}}} all around.

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Harry Potter tonight! Yay!