Have two!
I don’t know, but for me the hardest part of what you go through would be doing it all so far from the people you want to be around, like your mom.
You have us here if that helps, and don’t think of it as dumping another load of anything on us, that’s what this place is for.
I heard from Leslie - they did find a blockage, which they opened with a stint (stent? I dunno) and he should be home tomorrow. I also found out my librarian friend’s doctors want her to have a cardiac cath, too.
Kai - you and your mom will be in my thoughts. I hope your daughter has nothing worse than overdoing it wrong with her. Maybe she needs to learn some meditation so she can learn to listen to her body. Tell her Aunt SCL said damage she does now will return to haunt her years down the road. And please don’t hesitate to “whine” - just think of us as a very understanding extended family. We’re here to listen and offer prayers and support, at the very least. Heck, I was just in here earlier whining because a cop almost drew his gun on me!
And I have come in here to whine because I NEED to go PEE but my STUPID ROOMMATE is taking her own sweet time in the shower. I CAN’T CONCENTRATE with a full bladder!!!
Back from work, where I removed stickers for six hours. Oh, the joy and mental stimulation.
Adding your whole family to the prayer list, kai, and continuing to pray for all the Anachis and Tatersfamily. Y’all keep us updated, okay?
Apologies for the flippant post above - I was waiting for my roommate to get the hell out of the bathroom and didn’t read the other posts very carefully. I’ll be praying for your families as well, kai, **Tupug, ** and Taters. I miss my own family so much (especially now that it’s the holidays).
A requirement for anywhere I live is one bathroom per person. Of course, it doesn’t always work out that way, but I do try. There is nothing worse than trying to survive with your back teeth floating!
Sorry about your mom, kai – please keep us posted. And prayers going out her way.
Good news on the treatment going well, Rebo!
Our temp is plummeting, too, FCM. This afternoon it was close to 50°; right now it’s 28° and still dropping. Tomorrow we’re heading out west, however, where to my complete and utter shock, my mother called me to tell me that the forecast is for showers! In Seattle! Be still my beating heart!
I’ve got a peeve tonight – certainly nothing like the adrenalin overdoses you guys have been experiencing, or even really worthy of complaining about, except that it’s bugging the crap out of me. You know how when the year changed from 1999, everyone started calling the new years “two thousand,” “two thousand one,” etc.? Well, this stupid, stupid lawyer insists on calling it “twenty oh two,” “twenty oh three,” and I have to stop and think about it every single stupid time. Why do people have to fight convention like that? Don’t they know it makes everyone around them crazy?
And on that note of massive importance, I’m off to finish up and go to bed. I probably won’t be around next week till Friday at the earliest, so you all be good now! No fighting, and you mind FCM and Swampy like good little MMPers!
wow - you guys talked about a lot of stuff today
I’ve seen bits and pieces of the Fifth Element, perhaps the whole thing but not all at once (ah, cable)
I enjoy Hudson Hawk (Drink your cappucino!) and watch it every chance I get
I LOOOOOVE African Queen - it’s the movie that introduced me to Humphrey Bogart (I do remember, at age 8 or so, asking my dad why a German naval officer spoke such excellent English) I had a major crush on HB for years, and on a guy in college who did a respectable Bogart inpersonation.
I know I missed some other topics of discussion - appropriate noises all around.
Oh, and Spats? Get thee to a punnery!
Tonight we sang our holiday program for a senior residence (it always breaks my heart seeing those people - I’d rather die in my 70s than be old and infirm - one woman told us she was 94 - she was so small) then we had our annual holiday dinner. I dressed for the occasion. We had a delicious dinner, exchanged gifts, sang, and laughed. Oh, and I had a Toasted Almond 
It was Yummy! Now I am tired and wish to sleep forever (I have tomorrow off - I’m no dummy) but I have delivery guys coming at around 11, so I can only sleep to 20 minutes of forever. 
See y’all in the morning
I love that pic, rose! So festive! I want those antlers!
Thank you, I believe I will!
Bingo! What makes it so exquisitely poignant is that my mom was batshit crazy and we were like oil and vinegar for years. We have been able to repair our relationship during the last 11 years, and now I wish I was living next door to her and my (step) dad. Her liver failure is a sle complication…I hate lupus so much.
Thanks hun, I have been weepy about my mom, but this thing with my kid put me in a panic. When I have a situation like that I turn off and concentrate on getting through it and making sure every one else gets through it too. But, please notice, as soon as the panic was over, I came running back to the MMP!
SCL thanks for the kind words. I will pass on your message to #3, she should be walking in the door any minute now. (The high school concert choir had a recital, and her best friend is in the choir and after the good news she deserved a break from the school night routine.) If it had been just whining I actually would have been doing it; I was in panic mode. Ya know? And what were you doing to have a cop almost draw on you? I must spend the morning catching up on the MMP!
And HazelNutCoffee, (make it a double shot hazelnut breve and you have one of my favorite special treats!) no worries, at least on my part. I am partial to using off the cuff humor to deal with stress, and it was kinda funny, actually. My best friend and I call ourselves The Incontinent Sisters, as we have reached the age when the body turns traitor on you, and my kids and husband know that if I need to pee they need to accommodate that need!
li-li and MamaTigs the prayers are appreciated very much, thank you.
Oh, and I love your balls rosieposie, especially their color!
See y’all tomorrow!
Lilbro has three semibros, guys who were born in the same apartment building (well, actually all mothers did the actual deliveries at the local hospital, bein’ organized ladies an’ all) in the same year. I remember getting gifts of baby clothes, opening them, saying appropiate thankyous and then delivering them to the house of whichever baby was the right size at that time. Since my brother was the youngest, eventually all came back (later they were re-handed down to the siblings of some of the others).
One day Lilbro and the oldest Semibro were with their 12th grade Lit teacher; they were telling him that the problem with class reading lists is that they’re usually not targeted to their audience at all. For example, they made us read “5 hours with Mario” when we were 15: how many 15yo can relate to a widow who’s alone with her husband’s coffin between the wake and the funeral? The same author has books which a teenager can relate to just fine. When Semibro and Lilbro mentioned The Hobbit as something that would be good for early teens, Teach said he’d never read it. Or LotR. Or… well, basically, anything from the Fantasy section.
Semibro looked at Lilbro. Lilbro looked at Semibro. Stone paper scissors decided that it was Lilbro who would loan LotR to Teach.
The Hobbit was added to next year’s Reading List for the Lit 1 students and Mario taken out, Haaaaallellujah Praise The Lord!
That’s called Lateral Reproduction. I’m in the process too; one of my best friends has a PhD in AgriEng, too much money spent on nerdy stuff, a sister who makes doorposts look like Einstein’s brighter brother, a shotgun BiL who is even dumber than the sister and the nephew who caused the shotguns to come out; the 5yo nephew likes puzzles, photography and doesn’t want any comic books or computer games that don’t have Spiderman in them.
We believe it’s God’s way to make sure that the genes of bright but shy people and of Ursus Swampus don’t get lost.
I got them at Walgreen’s
One of the gals said I had some kahones! 
There will be more pics tomorrow (later today) when I go thru and edit them - I’ll post the link when I’m done.
One of our traditions is “the game” Several words from “A Visit From Saint Nick” are written on individual pieces of paper - we each draw one. Then the poem is read. When our word comes up, we get to take a wrapped gift off the table. When those gifts are gone, we get to steal a gift from someone else. Whoever has a gift or gifts at the end of the reading gets to keep it. I didn’t get to keep anything this year, but in the past I’ve won chocolate and a scarf. We also had our own Secret Snowflake (a non-denominational appelation) exchange. My Snowflake got me a very nice wrought iron multi votive holder. and I have some scented votives I will place in it. I think cinnamon and vanilla will work together nicely.
Good morning. It’s a cool and crisp 25F outside. Today is another supersize truck, Happy! Happy! Joy! Joy!
rosie, nice antlers.
kai, my prayers go out to your mom and #3. My mom started having hot flashes the same time her dog had dandruff. Dad started referring to them as “Flash and Flake”.
A dynamic duo if I’ve ever heard one.
I’m guessing your sense of humor is inherited, doggio?
Sorry to hear about your Mom, kai. Prayers and good thoughts going out for you and your family.
Cute pic, rosie.
I know a bunch of librarians. None of them are youth librarians, but all of them have read HP.
Why do I have to go to work today? Don’t wanna! ::stomps feet loudly::
But off I dutifully go. ::le sigh::
At least it’s Friday.
GT
Good morning Y’all!
kai prayers and good thoughts headed out to your mom and the rest of the family.
Today we are interviewing people for that position I desperately need to fill. There are three pretty good candidates. Mind you nobody’s resume’ especially wowed me but hopefully we can find a good person out of these three. Although, I think one of 'em would drive me up a wall based on her numerous phone calls about the interview. The good thing about that is, I didn’t have to talk to her but our HR person has told me about the numerous calls and questions.
MBG I am enjoying a particularly good buttery bacony greasey bacon, egg and cheese croissant as I post. Just thought I’d let you know. 
So that’s what woke me up this early. 
I keed, I keed. I’m up this early to supervise my little brother as he gets ready for school, since my mom is off at the gym. After he’s gone, I’ll be making some last minute preparations and then driving to upstate New York to visit some friends at RPI today, and Mika tomorrow. Should be loads of fun! Here’s a pun!
As a result of my visit, naturally, I won’t be around until Saturday night. But hey, at least I’m telling you in advance this time.
kai, I’m glad your daughter is healthy, and I’m sending good thoughts for your mother.
I was going to ask this in GW< but I might as well ask it here. Back home in WNY, on Sundays, several readio stations went to an all-Polka format for part of the day. In Cleveland, the Sunday polka shows also seem popular. Why is Sunday the equivalent of Polka Day on broadcast radio in so many places?
Spats, tell Mika we said hello. I haven’t seen here around here much. But then again, I haven’t been as verbose as I have in the past.
kaiwik you and yours are in my thoughts.
Welsome, elmer. I’m not from Cleveland, but from a little bit east and south of there. There were a lot of people of Polish extraction that settled in Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. And they demanded their polka on the radio. But it didn’t bring in the high-powered sponsors, so it was relagated to Sunday mornings. Nothing like a good polka before heading off to St. Stosh’s for Mass!
Since we have Haze, is Floyd far behind?
