still tired…
morning all, up and caffeinating here. Hump Day and the 4th of July holiday is coming up on Friday. 
I have just been wiped out the past few days; can’t be the heat and humidity, though, because it hasn’t been that hot & humid! I did get to the farmer’s market yesterday afternoon and got some fresh squash, red potatoes, blueberries and even some vine-ripened tomatoes (and made a fresh BLT sammich this morning whooo!). We are stocked up on burgers and dogs for the 4th, so all’s good.
Hugs and good wishes to all who need them; will hopefully get it together to post again today. LOL
Good Mornin’ Y’all! I am on vacation yet I’m up. Go figure. Ok, actually it has to do with some appreciation about an hour ago that got me wide awake. 
Ol’ y’all know who is snoozin’ away however. Poor thing. I guess I’m just too much for him. 
Anywho, I’m caffienatin’ and think I might even roust him up from sleepyland in a bit by fryin’ bacon. I am clothed in a tshirt and shorts so all you preverts just quit picturin’ me fryin’ bacon nekkid. 
Three smilies in one paragraph. Should I think that’s :eek:? Should I think that’s :o? Should I think that’s 
?
Maybe I should just get more caffiene.
Haze what did the doc say?
doggio let us know what the doc finds out about the dizziness, ok?
Caffiene. Caffiene. Caffiene.
Ah, the sound of singing babies in the morning…much better than crying. Can’t imagine that 1/2 teaspoon of cereal would make that big a difference, would it?
I’m up. Need to be out of here in 20 minutes. I can do it!!! (Really…despite not being completely awake.)
GT
rigs- if the cycle is baroque, you’d better get it fixed!
don’t you wave that trout at me!
eta
I got talked into Facebook by a younger alumnus of my college theatre department. Any of you mumpers there?
Afternoon, Mumpers!
Rosie, I don’t bother with farcebook. Why do I need it when I’ve got all these lovely Mumpers for company?
I’m having a nice quiet day over here, Tin Knickers has been round to make sure I’ve got stuff to do, in fact she asked if I was “batting on” with jobs. I’ll bat on with a wet trout round her head soon, I swear.
Actually today I’m busy trying to get my leaving date sorted out because everyone has to agree on it before I can tell the new people when I can start with them. It’s all too much for me, I think I need a cup of tea.
Yup- I’m there-- don’t use it much at all, just every now and again.
It’s nice to be able to post and get messages and stuff again. I was hurting yesterday…
ETA: Congrats Gotti- you and DH look very happy together!
And I’m back …
Rosie, I’m on facebook - tarragon918, naturally. laughs I don’t go there often, though–it’s mostly just so that I could “friend” my son. And after I did that, I was kinda sorry that I did - he puts way too much information out there on himself :eek: But what can ya do? He’ll be 21 in September! And omg, he did not come home until 4 am today! Blast it, he’s had several rings of keys (I can’t tell you all how many …!!!), but he never has them with him, apparently. So what does he do to get in? Oh naturally he -calls- us on his cell phone. Yes, I was awakened around 4 am by the phone ringing - it was my son, wanting to get in! 
I’m not saying that he has a curfew but he really ought to use his keys to get in.
Meow! And how is your day going so far? LiLi, I hope baby Nat is feeling better today; if not, please go to the ped. And Haze, how’d the doctor’s appointment go? I hope I didn’t miss that.
Flutter (do we have a nickname for you yet?) I love those things! Another way to do it is to make steak poppers. Take cubed steak and cut it into strips and marinade over night (covered in the fridge, duh!) in whatever you want. I like Dell’s Marinade personally but a marinade of soy, whazzihere, a little salt and pepper and some garlic powder is good too. Then, cut jalapeno’s into rounds or buy a jar of jalapenos already done that way. Smear a little cream cheese into the center of the pepper, place on the steak strip, roll up and secure with a toothpick. Grill. Eat. Fight over the last one. MMMMMMMMM… I’ve also had 'em done with strips of duck breast. MMMMMMMMMM… Oh, deseed the peppers of course.
I made scrambled aigs, bacon, cheese grits and toast for brekkies. Ol’ y’all know who woke up for that and is now in the process of gettin’ purtified. In a while we’re goin’ to the pool and lounge around just cause we can. Envy Us!
I’m on Facebook-I use it to play Scrabulous, mostly. But it’s nice to be able to see my grad school friends etc. Come on in, the water’s fine!
Off to work soon.
Why does Smartie hate mulch and rhizomes?
LiLi–the rice shouldn’t have caused all that and it’s rare for BF babies to get constipated. No idea–go perplex the doctor.
Yup. Tomorrow afternoon. I don’t get it at all. Aside from the occasional discomfort he seems his usual sunny, cheerful self.
We’re off to Costco in fifteen minutes- can I get anyone anything? I should really eat before I leave, so as to avoid coming home with a monster cheesecake.
Did I miss posting a recipe on the blog?
Thanks again for all the compliments on the doll. I am planning on taking pictures once she is out of surgery! Since she is going to be traveling they are making her a bit sturdier I guess. Ma really wanted to see what I was working on and didn’t want to wait, so I posted the pictures!
Drive-by… ::waves::
When we were in Coctcovia last Sunday they had this humongous sampling bar of Italian specialties–
sausages, olives, cheeses, breads OMG. I’m not one to sample much, but it was amazing.
Good luck!
(Plus, up the road from our Costco is an important hot dog stand-- they make this incredible spicy relish and cook their hot dogs in boiling oil.
We always stop for one on the way home. )
What liquid did you mix the cereal with li-li?
I am not on Facebook.
boofae, you mean they tell YOU when you can leave??? :eek:
flyby, appies sound teh yum!
bobbio, sounds like ex-FDIL isn’t so much ex.
I have once again been enlisted to move crap around and box shite up. Right then. A lot more of it is going in the dumpy thing than might have otherwise. :dubious:
There is a BBQ for staff here at noon today. Trying to decide whether I want to squander the calories or not.
More later.
Tupug
Last day of work before a 4-day weekend. Yay!
Except that I really don’t feel like doing any work. Bleh. It makes the day really long when you’re not busy. But who wants to go ask the manager for more work right before a long weekend?
Our tomato plant now has >20 little green grape tomatoes on it. I’m still waiting for the first one to start turning red. I wish it’d hurry up and ripen already!
The in-laws are coming for the weekend. Should be good. I think we’re going to go to the zoo 'cause they like it as much as we do and they want to see the new grizzly exhibit. Then I’m not sure what else we’re going to do. We’ll see what they want to do. Hopefully we’ll run into the itty bitty Shelty that lives in our neighborhood that I saw yesterday. The in-laws have 2 shelties and love them so I’m sure they’d love seeing the little 12-week-old pup that lives near us. It’s sooooooo cuuuuuuute! And so tiny!
We had kabobs last night with bulgar. I’ve never made bulgar before but it cooks up just like rice, but faster. And the kabobs were really really good!
Not exactly! My contract says that my notice period is four weeks, which is effectively four weeks from the day I hand in my notice. That makes it 25th July as I gave notice on 30th June and that is the Friday of the fourth week. With me so far?
Now it gets complicated - our director’s secretary had calculated things from 1st July when she got my leaver’s form which would put my four weeks at 29th July. Then she started working out my holiday entitlement which would be 20 days in total, of which I’ve taken 14. So now I have potentially six days of holiday to use unless I come to an arrangement with my new ‘employer’ that they will just carry over what holiday I’ve got left.
I’ve already told director’s secretary that my notice period runs from 30th June to 25th July which she’s happy with, but I have to run it past HR, then get the Med School to agree to holiday carry-over, then I can have them all agreeing to my start date of 28th July.
See? It wasn’t that difficult, was it?
Good morning one and all. I’ve had my quad shot Americano; completed a series of reports, and am now getting ready to start something new.
I’m also awaiting feedback from the Chief of one our divisions so I can tweak a report for him.
I guess this is pretty much a drive by: I just wanted to pop in and say hello…so
HELLO!!!Howdy, all. I stayed up waaay too late last night working, but I just hit the zone and didn’t want to quit while I was ahead. Which means I hopefully only have a couple hours left on this really, really obnoxious deposition.
Actually, a trial teaspoon of rice cereal might have upset Nat, in my experience – Young Tiger had a really sensitive digestive system, and got really upset when he first tried cereal. But it shouldn’t have lasted this long, so I hope your ped can find out what’s going on, LiLi. I’m glad he’s happy otherwise, though. At least he’s living up to his end of the bargain – you know,the one that says God made babies cute so we wouldn’t kill 'em!
I’m not at all confused, BooFae. I just let everything you wrote go whoosh! over my head, and accept that you’ll start the new job whenever. See, that was easy!
Our humidity must be way down; I opened just a couple windows last night, but it’s nearly noon and the house is still nice and cool even though it’s 79F/26C out. Why can this house manage to stay cool but not warm? :dubious: Anyway, I’ll enjoy the fresh air as long as I can. It’s not supposed to get a lot warmer today, but I’ll probably have to turn the AC on for a bit at some point.
Off to finish the whiner’s depo and then on to something else thrilling and exciting. :rolleyes: They sent me a pile of stuff to do over the long weekend, enough that I doubt I can actually get it all done, especially since I’m going to insist on taking one day off to work on the house some more. Oh well, all I can do is all I can do, right?
Waving as I drive by…