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And how could I have forgotten this - I dreamed about the **bear ** last night! It’s all kind of hazy now, but it involved some sort of gathering at his place with a lot of people I didn’t know, and maybe my brother. I vaguely recall one part involved sitting on a cliff with our legs dangling over the edge - you know, them cliffs of Georgia.

I do remember in the dream trying to figure out who was gay and who wasn’t, although I’m not sure why - I don’t think I was personally on the prowl. And no, I wasn’t drinking last night.

My sweetie is awake, and stretched out on the couch with a kitty trying to make herself comfy. She cracks me up.

The hospital just called back as a follow-up. Anyone in the Baltimore area - if you need to be hospitalized, I can highly recommend Good Samaritan. This was our second experience there and the staff there is amazing! We’ve been sure to say nice things to anyone who should hear it, and when we get the survey in the mail, more nice things will be said.

I need a shower. Back later.

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What’s wrong with us and our boots?

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Wish I could wear boots - at least boots with heels. Well, I can wear them, I just can’t walk in them or live comfortably the next day.

I’ve had a couple of “WTF” phone calls about the stupid one, so I feel better. It’s almost hockey season!

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Personally, I think that the only thing wrong about us and our boots is that, having tiny feet I can’t wear stilettos (you just can’t put a real stiletto on a shoe my size); having weak ankles, I can’t wear narrow heels at all.

There’s some shoes I love looking at but would never be able to find in my size or, if I got them in my size, to wear without breaking my neck.

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Caffeine is doing its thing, and I managed to get enough sleep last night that the urge to seek out brains is pretty tame this morning.

Mika - Your PM box is full, so I will just say thank you here. I’m not old though. I just have additional experience in the art of being young. We’ll see how that fares when I break 40. :smiley:

LiLi - LWC needs to be given a very big, very stressful, but mind-numbingly tedious job to do. Only then will he have something legitimate to whine about – then maybe the rest of his mundane existence won’t seem quite so tiring.

Or you could cover his windshield in long strips of duct tape, then take an Xacto knife and slice it widthwise in thin strips so he can’t peel it off in one long strip. Y’know, whatever works for you. :smiley:

VBob - Awesome license plate. People will have to respect you on the road now – not just because of the machine guns anymore.

Nava - Jeez, I’ve seen Paella with all kinda stuff in it. Clams and/or mussels (still in the shell), sausage, shrimp, chicken, beef, scallops, and yes, peas. Not necessarily all at the same time, but any of these seem quite acceptable paella ingredients to me. Of course, I haven’t a drop of Spanish blood in me, so this is very much a North American paella anecdote. I’ll eat it all anyway.

Heff&Roo - The whole Steve, Don’t Eat It! archive is hilarious. It’s also a good way pare down my “things I should try at least once” list without ever having to actually try them. I mean, not that I’m ever likely to deliberately try a can of silkworm pupas, but y’know… the more you know.

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Yah, that’s why my coworker could make such a fuss… about the only thing resembling a variant of paella which you’re highly likely to not see peas on is black rice (rice with pieces of squid, in a squid ink sauce) - and I’ve seen that one with peas, too. He just loved making a fuss about it. I have no idea which version of paella is older nor whether liking “sea and mountain” will be the one sin that brings me to Hell.

20 minutes until I hand in my company laptop and leave :smiley: An hour ago my boss came by to ask what I think about the new guy (he’ll do fine, methinks) and say goodbye, he got all sentimental and stuff, even!

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I almost forgot, VBOB, you don’t have a twin here in MN do you? I swear I seen a guy almost identical to you last night at Green Mill. He didn’t have a VBOB license plate on his car though, so I knew he wasn’t you. But he made me do a double take.

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::ummm:: Maybe a patient who didn’t make it…?.. You know, friends help friends. Real friends help you hide the bodies.

MCOUNE, I haven’t been to Minisoda since Gorbachev visited Mininoplace…

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FCM, sometimes it really does pay to have somebody wash your pooch for you. We have much better equipment and experience at getting at all the nooks and crannies. If you want to wash your own, though, I recommend getting those superabsorbant towels, the sort some people use on their cars. They can suck an amazing amount of water off a dog! Even dogs like Newfies.

That is one of the coolest plates I’ve ever seen, VBob.

yawn Caffeinating, have to go to work in a bit. Yay, it’s Friday! I have to stop at the store on my way home and grab a few things – no, I’m not panicking about snow, but I really do need a few things and I might as well get them today so that I don’t have to get them tomorrow. I like to get stuff I need done done before weekends arrive, if at all possible, so that I can do exactly what I want and nothing else on the weekend itself. Though I do need to do some cleaning around here since I’ll be going out of town next week and my so-far-invisible roommate might come back from Europe anytime and I don’t want him to see a mess! Bleah. I hate bathroom cleaning.

YAY! IT’S FRIDAY!!! AND I GET PAID MONDAY!!!

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Morning, all. Man, you guys were busy last night and this morning, I’ve just now managed to catch up! In between important things like caffeinating, feeding dogs, etc.

Speaking of feeding dogs, last night we had baked chicken quarters from the Amish market for dinner, and since Rusty the Idiot thinks chicken is the bestest food EVAH, I always save scraps of skin and such for him. So Papa Tigs takes his plate into the kitchen first, followed by an Idiot dancing with excitement – and walks right past him to the trash, dumps everything from his plate in, and returns to the other room. Poor Rusty was standing in the doorway looking positively stricken – I don’t think I’ve ever seen that expression on a dog’s face before! You could see the brain cell firing up and going, “But…but…but…” trying to figure out what had just happened that caused him not to get any chicken scraps. We laughed our asses off! Fortunately, after that Papa Tigs carried MY plate in and proceeded to serve the scraps, and all was forgiven. But I sure wish I’d had a camera. Watching Rusty try to fire up that brain cell is HILARIOUS!

I slept better last night, thank heaven. And Papa Tigs did, too – we got him a wedge pillow to elevate his whole head and shoulders, and he’s used it for the past two nights and both nights slept quite well. So hopefully, with the end of allergy season near, he’ll get more rest. Which he needs! Poor guy’s head clogs up every time he lays down all summer.

Great license plate, BBBobbio! All you need is a rubber chicken to complete the image. :slight_smile:

I guess I should go do something constructive. Like whap Lili’s LWC or SCL’s Greedy Momzilla upside the head. They both need it!

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Hat and scarf, my dear – I don’t knit gloves! (Although I do knit mittens so if later this winter you ask me real nice…)

ETA: Okay, what happened? I tried to edit my post, it all came through as a quote, and when I went back and re-edited to remote the quote tags, it created a new post! Bad hamsters!

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How does one cook a four foor diameter pan though? That’s wider than most kitchen countertops are deep.

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AMEN to that! Plus I don’t have to scrub the bathroom afterwards! The only reason I chose to clean them today was Bernie’s roll in something dead and/or disgusting. I need to take them both in for a good grooming/nail trim/ear cleaning, and Scruffy needs to have her face and tail shaved a bit. Gotta add it to the To-Do list.

And now the household humans are clean also. I redid FCD’s dressing - slight drainage, which is probably perfectly normal. I’m about to clip my fingernails then head down to my studio. Today I’m going to try out the clay stain I bought, then I’ll throw something colorful - maybe 2 or 3 colors - we shall see! :smiley:

Carry on - I shall return, eventually.

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I’ve always wanted one of those. It’d look great sitting next to my collection of snakes in a can… :stuck_out_tongue:

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Yes, I woke up early, logged on to my Royal Bank account, and indulged in an orgy of bill-paying! It’s payday! :slight_smile:

Morning, everyone!

Ih, I don’t know. I quite like them. On women in my vicinity, that is. :slight_smile:

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Happy Friday everyone!

I’m about to go take a shower and get cleaned up.

Today is my sister’s wedding, so we’ll be heading off to Portland around two, I hope.

I need to get my son in to get his hair cut before we leave today too. My husband wanted to take my son to the barbershop with him yesterday, but my son wants to go where I go to get my hair cut.

He’s trying to let it grow out, but the bang situation is out of hand. I swear, my son is going to break his neck doing that little head toss he does to clear the hair from his eyes.

The plan is to generally trim the hair up, even it out and trim up the bangs so he can look decent again.

I should get going, I have lots to do before departing today.

Smooches to all.

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You know, those are closer to what my boots look like. The black ones, anyway. Heh.

LiLi, I think my friend and your Whiny Co-worker would be perfect for each other. Except he’d have to be rich. :rolleyes: She’s grown up wanting not - her maternal grandfather owns a hospital or a vineyard or something - maybe both - and she’s always buying designer bags and shoes without blinking an eye.

To be fair, she’s a very loyal friend in times of need (which is why I put up with her the rest of the time!). It’s just that the world she inhabits is not mine. I have a few friends like that. Actually, yesterday my best friend B and I were talking about a mutual acquaintance of ours, who put a picture up on her blog of me, B, and another close friend of ours. “My friend B from Yale, and my friend Haze from Chicago” reads the caption. This is hilarious because a) she hasn’t talked to B in years, so the term “friend” is a bit much here, b) the fact that she mentions B by school and me by geographical location, and c) she doesn’t even mention our other close friend, who’s right there in the picture with us! Argh. Some people are so shallow.

Congrats to your sister, Taters!!

Okay, I swear I’m going to be productive today. Clean my room, clean my bathroom, sweep the living room, do the laundry, do some class prep, and send out my resume to a few places. (Hm. If I accomplish only half of that I’ll be lucky.)

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I hope this link works:

http://uchicago.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2046591&l=50ae5&id=2911875

Cloud Maiden’s new cat, in all its shaven glory.

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Alas, the link doesn’t work. “No Access To Site, due to excessive bandwidth usage.”

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I didn’t have any problem accessing the link.

However, I can now understand why the cat is hissing. It’s obvious the cat is embarrassed by it’s shaven look. In fact, in that shaved picture, the poor cat looks downright pissed off.

My shower has been taken and I’m giving my hair just a bit of time to air dry before I torture it with the hair dryer. I’m not really sure we’re going to have time to get my son’s hair cut. Dammit.

I don’t understand why my husband couldn’t have just taken him in the last couple of days. Grrrrr

In other news, well, I guess there isn’t any.

I need to call the salon.