{{{{haze}}}} A former co-worker passed from ALS. Very sad. Terrible disease.
{{{{dotty}}}} Any chance of a UTI looming for HRH? Might be a reason for the general crankiness.
Congrats to the “bubble,” soapy. My little girl just turned 29.
And as the resident crone of the MMP, you are all just lil chilluns to me. 
Mmmmmmmmmmm, eye-talian bread!!
Rainy here today and the weathermen are on air right now due to possible tornados.
That’s all I got.
Tupug
A brief moment to brag…
I rocked my student evals from last semester. I don’t teach to the evals, but I felt last semester’s classes went really well, and the one place they dinged me (getting stuff back on time) was absolutely legit. I wasn’t so great about it due to some serious tendinitis in my elbow.
{{{Haze}}}
Thanks for the links, gt! I will have to try that out. I don’t like foccacia so don’t look too hard for that recipe on my account. I’ll let everyone know how the experiment goes so if anyone else wants to try, you can benefit from my attempts.
The frosting was a bit weird, sticks. Especially, I think, since I only used 1 cup of sugar instead of the 2 they said. So it was kind of thin. But I liked how, after a day or so, it got kind of crystallized and made a neat contrast to the chewy brownies. The color was a bit weird too from the Bailey’s so instead of a nice white frosting, it’s a bit of a dull brown. And it pulled the top of the brownies up so then it had little flecks of brownie in it. Basically, it would have been a disaster except they tasted so good that no one cared! There was supposed to be a chocolate glaze drizzled over the top of the frosting, and I think it would have covered many of those issues, but I couldn’t be bothered to make a glaze. Everyone liked them anyway so whatever.
We’re going out for burgers for lunch! Yum!
{{{{{{{{Haze}}}}}}}}} When it rains, it pours, huh? So sorry this is all happening at the same time.
Congrats on getting great feedback, Soapy. I’m sure it’s all very well-deserved… does it bear any weight with the tenure committee when they make their decision? I do hope so.
I’m the same age as LiLi. I know it’s not particularly old, but it kind of feels like it lately. Of course, it doesn’t help that a couple of weeks ago her mother remarked that I haven’t changed a bit since the last time she saw me (which, if memory serves, was about 12 years ago)… except for a few wrinkles. Sigh.
In other news, I finally got a winning cup at Tim Hortons today… which is good, because we’re two weeks into Roll Up The Rim and I was really starting to think the contest is rigged. It’s just a free coffee, but I’m not going to look a gift horse (or beverage) in the mouth.
I’m also the same age as LiLi and Muppet.
Had burger. Don’t feel like doing work.
Howdy Y’all! Three down and two to go!
Soapy I’m up early cause I go to work at six am. What’s your excuse? 
Oh and Happy Birthday to SoapGirl.
I don’t have any chilluns so I say that makes me younger than all of ya! 
Or as young as everybody else who doesn’t have any chilluns. Ok, maybe that’s more disposable income. It gets so confusin’ at times.
Ima go put the veggie lasagna in the oven. I stopped at le Pubic Sto’ and got some Eyetalian bread to go with it. MMMMMMMMMM…
Later Y’all!
We’re having pork shoulder roast cooked with rosemary and red wine, and roast veggies for dinner.
Also, I just ate a package of sponge toffee, and my tongue feels sandpapered.
I’m kind of bored, but in a short while Gnat and Mr. Lissar and MiL will all be home, and it will be insane until bedtime, so I should enjoy the boredom.
I’m on leave restriction at work. 
I am in the negative in both annual and sick leave, unfortunately - it’s been a rough year for me; the snows this winter only made things worse. I know, it’s shameful that I have no leave whatsoever, but that’s how it is. So now, if I take off, it will have to be leave without pay, which I can not afford to do. I don’t know how I’m going to make it, but I will do it. And yes, I was very aware this would likely come out the way it did.
In the mean time, TG tomorrow’s FIRDAY!!!
Yay for veggie lasagna, Swampy; sounds great to me. 
Ha! My mom has kids and she’s younger than I am!
And disposable income? What the hell is that?
I’m having a bad day - just stress and homework and money and did I mention stress? But ~the sun will come out tomorrow~ Or at least in a couple of months once I’m out of school.
Oh and the construction next to my building is very active today. It’s been shaking the building so bad that a couple of times I was afraid the lamp would break. On the other hand it felt great on my back. Mmmm… massage.
Yuck, that really sucks, tarra. I guess they can’t make any special accomodations for folks who have legitimate health issues? I mean, it’s one thing to crack down on sick leave for folks who think it’s perfectly okay to take a “mental health day” once a month, but it’s not fair to penalize people who genuinely can’t come in that day.
I have no idea what I’m making for dinner today. I do know I’m having cake for dessert, though, because I still have one-and-a-half cakes left in the fridge.
Can you get in on some leave sharing? Get enough to bring you back to 0?
Wheeeeeee!!!
StickyBuns poo flinging monkeys are restricted from the living room, kitchen and, unless it’s a holiday, Apartment 304.
Veggie lasagna has been scarfed down. NUM!
That sucks Herbs! However, as you say, you will get through it.
That’s all I got for now.
BBBobbio, knock it off with the spitting! 
**swampy **- you’re a geezer, kids or not. In fact, if I wasn’t so frugal, you’d have a custom title saying “Geezer” 
{{{Haze}}} Hang in there sweetie!
**LiLi **- make with the baby already! Sheesh!!!
I want brownies. Someone should bring me some - NOW!!
I stayed at work late today because there was a presentation/meeting about our reorg. The whole point of doing yet another reorg was to get rid of so doggone many supervisors. So what happened - they created even MORE supervisory positions. And none of the highest-paid mucky-mucks got reorg’ed - big surprise. :rolleyes: **FCD **told me I should retire and come to work for him. I’m thinking about it… Oh, and thisis my work life.
Brownies would help me feel better…
I’m safely OVER 22 (twice) and am single - so no jeopardy here
you may not have any biological offspring, but don’t you take very good care of OYKW?
do we want to know?
Mooooooom, are you me? Because that’s how my job feels at the moment too.
Decided to be somewhat productive today and re-potted a bunch of my houseplants that had outgrown their current pots. I also ended up bringing home a new plant, while I was at it, because I’ve been wanting a nice variegated schefflera for a while and the store had a wee one for $3. At that price, I won’t feel guilty if it dies, and apparently they grow quite quickly so it won’t stay baby-sized for long.
After all that productivity, I’m feeling kinda meh… I think I’m going to resort to ramen noodles with egg for dinner tonight.
Eh, I was just running amok through the thread. And, of course, dodging the poo.
I’ve been working on forks this evening. Actually, I’m still working on forks, but I needed a bit of break.
I lost it on my son today.
two weeks, almost straight, of single parenting and I broke. I reacted way too intense and made him really sad.
I apologized soon after, and so did he (my frustration was legit, my reaction was too much). We said “spleep” at each other (don’t ask), laughed and made up.
He’s such a good kid with a painfully gentle soul wrapped in an “I don’t give a crap” shell that pushesmy buttons sometimes.
I feel like such a jerk.
I think most, if not all parents have those moments, Soapy. It happens to the best of us. The point is, you recognized it, apologized, and now you and your son can move on.
Loooong day at work. I got stuck going to a 4+ hour meeting this morning. Even worse, it wasn’t even on my installation. I had to drive over to the AFB to attend it.
Anyway, it jacked up the time I had blocked out to finish my access to care project, and I ended up having to stay a little over an hour late. But, the project is done, and now it’s just maintenance and a few tweeks here and there.
I’m surprised, Herbs, that given your chronic health issues, you couldn’t get in on the leave donation program. I had to use it once, early in my career when I got pregnant with my daughter.
I had previous health issues which sucked up all of my leave. I was able to borrow leave, and then paid it back.
Well, I suppose I should see about dinner. It’s late, for dinner anyway.
New forks are up over on fb!
I think I’ll head to bed pretty soon.