Ooooh! Oooh! I vote for the alien story!
Why not invite the alien over to help with the home improvement?
ooh–I like aliens. Aliens AND home improvement would be great! Hope you like the “cake”.
I have cut out the black felt for the cape. My youngest wants to be a vampire for Halloween); I need to cut out the red “silk” lining.
I am sad–my sister used to help me with the kids’ costumes every year. I can barely sew a straight seam; she could tailor.
Over the years, we have made witch, princess, Ewok, crayon, Laura Ingalls Wilder, knight, Lego, Pokemon and jaguar costumes–oh, and Harry Potter, and a rook in chess, and Gandalf, too.
Leigh, I miss you.
(sorry, guys–didn’t mean to deflate the thread).
Another vote for aliens. I have enough home improvement drama of my own.
I hear ya, Ex. Owning a home is fun. Getting it to look like you want is rewarding. Putting up with everything to get there is neither.
Okay, alien it is.
I was thinking about aliens who beamed down to help with a home improvement project, drank up all the beer and then stiffed the pizza delivery guy. Too much to hope for, huh Sean?
Well, maybe on a subconscious level, but it really has more to do with the fact that older men (I’m not talking 70’s here, but rather 25 and up) don’t usually have the same attitude and arrogance of the average college-aged male. That, and they’re more prone to be nice and clean-cut, and slightly balding and/or slightly graying, which I find sexy as all get out.
Here I was hoping you collected fossils. I’d send you that old coot from the beach who keeps trying to get in my pants.
That sounds like a cross between an episode of Home Improvement and a porno flick. Definitely has potential.
Called, of course, simply Tool Time. 
Me too. One of the more likely people to have taken my picture took over 1100 shots during our 6-week run, so he’s still sorting them into giant virtual piles along the lines of Faire Lads, Faire Lasses, the Queen and her court, joust, etc.
It’s 4:50. My boss just left. There’s no one else left in the office. Will anyone care if I leave??
If a tree falls in a forest and noone hears it, does it make a sound?
Go home, silly person!
My entire department is sitting around with their feet up on their desks, waiting for quittin’ time. Go home, taxi. 
I still have two hour and twenty minutes to before I can go home. This, of course, being dependent on whether or not there any last minute projects/emergencies/fires to deal with. There probably won’t be though. I am feeling particularly burned out today and seem to run out of “get up and go”.
We’re going out for Mexican food tonight. My sister-in-law is in town, so she wants to go out to dinner with us, her son, and her grandaughter. She hails, interestingly enough, from Green Acres.
I’m not overwhelmingly thrilled with the choice of mexican restaurant, but it’s where my nephew and his daughter want to go, so I’ll deal with it.
Well, even though I don’t feel like it, I better go back to actually working.
I’m a woodworker!! Go me! I downloaded some plans for a jewelry box the other day, and today, I came home from work early to start working on it.
We were going to make it with the hunk of maple we have, but there wasn’t quite enough of it, so it’s going to be black walnut. We planed and jointed and resawed and cut up all the pieces to rough sizes. Three panels are glued up and drying - I got to use the biscuit cutter on one of them. By we I mean my sweetie was teaching me how to use the assorted power tools that I’ve not used yet.
On the way back from my ceramics class tomorrow, I need to stop and get a piece of velvet or velour or felt to line the box. Then I’ll cut all the parts to size and assemble it. Oh yeah, and I need a couple of small butt hinges. <insert pause for swampy snerks> So in theory by this time tomorrow, I may have a new, made-by-myself jewelry box. Except it won’t be waxed or oiled or whatever for a couple of days. I suppose I need to decide how to finish it pretty soon, huh?
Yeah, I’ll post pics when it’s done. No, I won’t make you one.
You big meanie! First you tease us with your pottery and now you’re teasing us with jewelry boxes. You’re gonna have to share sometime , you know!
…and looking back on my previous post I noticed some typos. Please ignore them. It’s Friday and I was too lazy to preview.
I have shared my pottery - just ask Anaamika!! And I may share some more from this session, maybe, perhaps, if I feel like it.
However, for now, the woodworking will consist of furniture for our house. Once that’s done, well, who knows…??
<snerk> butt hinges <snerk>
I think I saw some of those in an adult novelty store once.
Bobbio I’ve been wonderin’ if your [del]stalker[/del] admirer was still around.
Apologies in advance to Puggy and Ellen and anyone else who is trying to downsize.
If you think dark chocolate Hershey’s Kisses are bad, try: Loacker Mini Chocolat - Dark. They’re very much like these, basically wafers with chocolate filling covered in dark chocolate. Just stopped into World Market to replenish my stock of Ritter Sport candy bars and stopped to get the chocolate filled wafers I usually buy. Saw a little bag of these and thought I’d try them. Pretty much heaven. Fortunately, they’re expensive ($4 for 12 individually wrapped squares, maybe 1 1/2" x 2" x 1/4"). I’ve eaten 3 of them and I’m not sure I can stop.
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Help.
GT