I forgot to mention - it’s 70 degrees F here - my house is (sorta) open. Some January, huh?
Yes…I went out to run errands and didn’t need a jacket. Very weird.
Getting back to work. Really.
GT
I haven’t found the shower cleaning thingies at the store here in this town, so if it ever decides to stop snowing I’ll check in Hailey (the next town south). And if they don’t have them there (I’d think the Albertsons would, even though I prefer the local three-store chain) then at the rate the snow’s falling it may have to wait quite a while until I can go 80 miles to Twin Falls!
I’m going to show off MT’s knitting skills! And color matching skills as well! See the newest two pics here.
Hi Manx! 
Always nice to see new faces (hey, I was a new face here not too long ago)
ems, I feel your pain – I know what it’s like to have to lay people off 
That’s part of why I am no longer a manager.
Rigs, are you sure you want Hugh Laurie diagnosing you? You’ll end up having the World’s Rarest Condition, almost dying, and being saved by an unorthodox, painful and scary action, all in 45 minutes :dubious:
I’m sure I could supply you with sympathy and liquor just as well. 
Also, dang, but you had big babies! :eek:
**bbs2k **-- I think it should be MsPurrrrrrr. Sounds a little like “whisper”. MsPurr, do you have any cats, to make the name really apt?
Well, I liked Miss bbs2k… but I feel that she might object to that one unfortunately. So I’m overruled.
Who would have thought that Northern Wisconsin could have thunderstorms and pounding rain in early January? It’s just not right. Didn’t seem to stop the ice fishing though.
Never cared for Monopoly, takes too long. Although, my Mom and I had a game of Uno that lasted for over 4 years on and off. I think because we could just put it away and pick it up later, which is hard to do with Monopoly. I prefer card games to board games, love cribbage and poker.
MamaT - have you checked your email lately?
Now you’re just a mangler, right?
Living up to your name, are you?
Just wanted to say that I am starving! But I’m too tired and sore to get up off of the couch. Wahhhh. Ok, that’s all. Still don’t remember what I wanted to say before.
Happy Monday, Mumpers!
Great OP, Rosie! I love Monopoly, Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit, all kinds of board games. Often, our vacation “cottage” didn’t come with a tv (LOL), so we played a lot of card and board games on vacation. And once, in Michigan, we didn’t have tv reception (no antenna on the roof - it was Feb. when we moved!) from Feb. until May, so we played a lot of games then too (as well as listened to a lot of music). I’m the oldest, with 4 younger brothers (although the two youngest are 9 and 10 years younger than I); the two older boys and I played gobs and gobs and board games growing up; we played the Free Parking rules too, btw.
I’m really dating myself here, but my grandmother had an Uncle Wiggley game that I used to like to play when I was very young. My grandmother also liked to play War with us … my brothers were always trying to cheat, and of course Grandmom was letting us win most of the time!
Unfortunately, I have not played a board game in ages! One of my brothers sent the kids a Star Wars version of Monopoly–that’s a neat set, btw. I think Scrabble is probably my favorite game, although I’m not that good at it, strategy-wise.
This is definitely going to be a long week at work! Hah, today several staffers came to me and asked if I could order them any 2008 calendar stuff! This is after I asked them not once, but twice, months ago, to let me know what they needed; I even reminded them before I placed the orders. One actually asked me if I had ordered any “extras” - it boggles the mind, I tell you (heh, the funny thing is, I actually -did- order a few extras of some of the items, but they’re all gone now LOL). I’m going to try to order the stuff they want, but they might be out of stock already, believe it or not. Oh well!
I’m a mean admin, aren’t I? No really … I’m not mean, seriously. Just irked. I do promise to try to get the supplies tomorrow (even if they did wait until 10 minutes before I leave for the day to ask for the calendars …).
And how was -your- day?
Thanks everyone. Tomorrow is going to suck royally and who knows my boss may even be laying me off which I won’t know until I have completed my horrendous task tomorrow.
I have chocolate pudding right now and I have vodka in the freezer for tomorrow night
LiLi, I hope you’re not in to yoga. You are aware that once tinyninjachef downloads, you won’t be able to participate any longer.
Cite (Mildly NSFW)
I would just put the vodka IN the chocolate pudding and be done.
Hugh Laurie can do ANYTHING to me. Anything. Yum… Hugh Laurie. (I know someone like him in real life, but without House’s gift of diagnosis. This man was just in my house–he is tutoring Daughter for AP Econ and I had him as a teacher in HS. Dick doesn’t do him justice. He does know Econ, though. But I wouldn’t want House, understand, I want Hugh Laurie. Big difference!)
And just FYI: WE HAVE A TORNADO WARNING HERE UNTIL 9PM. With something they are calling “embedded thunderstorms”. No idea what that is. freaky freaky freaky!
VB–that is hysterical!
I took our cat to the vet on Friday too. Just for her annual shots, but she still wasn’t thrilled about the whole thing. Poor kitty. And then KeithT had to do her weekly ear cleaning on Saturday so she didn’t really have a good weekend.
I made truffles and other assorted chocolates yesterday and brought them in to work today. Always good to feed coworkers chocolate.
What would “java application” mean to you? A task that should have taken 1/2 an hour this morning got dragged out all day because an coworker in the IT dept, a vendor and I were on different pages over such a simple phrase. The vendor and I both meant “a file that runs in Java and opens a little java program.” The IT person thought it meant “the files that install Java.” So we went back and forth for-frickin-ever about whether or not I had Java on my computer (because I said I needed the Java app from Vendor and IT thought that meant I needed Java installed) and whether Vendor had sent us something other than the Java install. (Yes, they had. Why the heck would they send us the Java install files??) Is it really that difficult to understand that Java application means an executable file that you run in Java? Ugh.
Sorry about having to lay people off mmmmmms. That really sucks. And it really really super sucks that you could be laid off after doing all that. I think you should tell your boss that you’re not going to do the dirty work if you’re not going to be employed at the end of the day.
Off to get dinner. Ta ta!
Never liked Monopoly as a child - too complicated - but go figure, my 7 year old son loves it! Today, we have 4 or 5 versions of it; one day I’d like to set them all up in a ring, and play them such that when you get to GO, you jump to the next board. It would be mind boggling (for me anyway) to juggle 5 sets of cards simultaneously. Not sure what I’d do if I went bust in one board - maybe the player who causes you to go bust gets all your remaining properties in all boards.
That said, when I was younger, my neighbor had a Parker Bros. game called Careers. I loved that game to death. My success formula was always pure $$, occasionally I’d add some love. I finally got my own copy of the game only to find they had modernized some of the offered careers. I ought to google to see if the game still exists.
Also liked Life, Stratego, Risk, and a little known gem called Masterpiece, where the players were all art dealers and you bid on/traded/sold famous works of art (some were forgeries).
Supper was super easy - **FCD ** had a bowl of cereal and I had the last of the N.O.T. soup with swiss cheese melted in it. Goooooooooood!
I’m starting to have second thoughts about this new doctor I picked. She doesn’t appear to have rights at our county hospital, plus she’s got 3 other offices, all pretty far from here, so I expect she’ll only be available 1 day a week. I don’t know if I like that.
The practice we had been going to is about 25 miles away in the next county, but their office is literally connected directly to the hospital. The hospital has a very good reputation. Our Dr left the practice and his remaining associates are OK, but I was hoping to find someone closer to home.
Unfortunately, few doctors around here are taking new patients, and I can’t find any who have rights at our hospital. Plus this local hospital seems to have an iffy reputation, at least on the local message board. Some who post claim the local very large Indian practice has a monopoly there - and none of those doctors are on my insurance. I dunno. I hate shopping for a doctor. <sigh>
Wonderful OP rosieposie! I played a lot of games as a kid, as sitting in front of the tv wasn’t done way back then! Monopoly, Clue, Parcheesi, Sorry, Operation, and lots of others. When my brother and I were in our teens and we had an evil stepfather and no tv we loved to play Sorry and send him back as frequently as possible, saying “Sorry” with great big fake smiles, and he couldn’t do anything about it! As an adult with four kids, if I never play Candyland again it will be too soon. Chess, checkers, tic tac toe and connect the dots are fun with the kids, and skiffman and I play a lot of cribbage, which is a popular past time in the village, as is pinochle. I play Spider Solitaire on the computer to pass time, and I had Collapse on my computer, but I have to reload it, the last computer doctor visit removed it.
Life has been busy, just the same old same old, but we rearranged the living room so that my desk isn’t next to the door, which has played a large part in my not being online. No matter how well we weatherstrip the door I get so cold over there that I just don’t want to be near it. Now I am close to the heater…much nicer! It’s colder than…well you get the idea. Yesterday I sent skiffman to pick up The Son from his guitar class when I realized that the windchill was 1 degree F. We have snow, and it’s nothing but snow in the forecast. Not huge amounts, just a lot of flakes swirling around. And very cold temps. Right now it’s 16F, with a windchill of -1F. It may climb as high tomorrow as…hold your breath…17F. My parents keep telling me how cold it is in Marysville Wa. but I saw on the weather channel that it was 40 some degrees. That’s summer weather round these parts! Taters I’ve been thinking about you, Mom says there has been some awful flooding down your way, stay safe!
We had a tragedy which you can read about here. It was just a miracle that the Andrews Airways plane was there, the pilot was taking the plane back to it’s moorage after some repairs had been finished, and he saw the plane as it went down and he scooted to pick up the four men who came up. If they had to spend much time in the water they probably wouldn’t have survived. The rest were removed from the plane by divers. I know the guy who owns Servant/Paklook Air, and the pilot was well known around Kodiak. It’s so sad, particularly as the Russian Christmas season is just beginning.
Finally, li-li is gonna pop! Yay!!! I had some good sized babies too, and while I cannot remember all of their weights without dragging out the baby books, (the girls were all 8+ lbs, and the son was just under 8 lbs) I do remember daughter #2, as I was over due (as I was with all of them) I was induced with a pitocin drip and no pain meds, she came down face up (back labor hurts!) until she began to crown, when she flipped herself (really weird feeling!) and I was forced to deliver her in the delivery room instead of the birthing room as I did with the other three, as the doctor was thinking he was going to have to pull her out! He didn’t, I shoved her out, and she weighed 9 lb 8 oz and was 21 inches long. She is not a big girl now, 5’ 5" and slender, but she looked like a 3 month old when she was new! Thank God I didn’t break my tailbone (poor rigs!) but I never had an episiotomy, and there was tearing and stitching with all four…ow!
Oh, Merry Russian Christmas everyone! Also my son turns 15 tomorrow. What am I gonna do when they are all finally grown and gone? I kinda obsess over that, I have been raising kids for 25 years, I really don’t know what I will do with my time.
Other than that, not much is new. Skiffman isn’t opie fishing this year after all, he will be doing tanner crab with his regular skipper. It’s a short fishery, but every little bit helps this time of year, I can’t wait for halibut to open, both for the bucks and because it will be spring!
I went to Curves today! :: pats self on back::
Sorry to read that sad news,** kawik.**
It is a-stormin’ and a-wailin’ out there! The rain is now lashing the windows, the thunder is LOUD. No tornados, though (not so far).
Weird, weird, weird.
Dinner was potatoes au gratin and Polish sausage. What? I like that combo, a lot.
#2 kid has a ton of homework, which is good.
#1 son has just informed me that he wants an electric guitar for his birthday. He has said he is happy with a cheapy one (is there such a thing) and he doesn’t want lessons. Why bother with lessons? Actually, I kind of agree with him. It’s like my knitting. I don’t want to make a big production out of it–I just want to dabble. So, now I need to find an electric guitar for cheap…
We had a scary day here yesterday - we thought we lost the new kitty. I had the garage door from the laundry room open for about 30 seconds. Hours later we realized we hadn’t seen him. We tore the house apart, and nothing. Went to bed very sad and depressed, I was convinced I had let him out.
Two AM, Wife gets up just to look downstairs in case he came ‘out of hiding’.
He did. We still have no idea where he was, but he’s safe and sound. None of the other kids are afraid of him anymore. Any minute now Cuervo and him will quit facing each other off and start to rassle or something.
Dinner, as soon as I get off my tail, will be breakfast. Bacon, eggs - possibly in a burrito with cheese and salsa, and big chilled glass of milk.
Mr. Lissar is currently at the dojo, catching hell from everyone for being there. “Your wife is due tomorrow? And you’re here? You uncaring bastard!”
In spite of the fact that he’s checking his cell phone every hour, it’s only eight blocks away, and I have the dojo phone number right here. Guys, it’s okay. Chill.
Speaking of which, it’s too hot here for January. Mork must be loving this. Where is Mork? Did he post and I missed him?