Hooray! Hooray!
Apparently I was a total idiot and actually sent my landlord an extra rent check one month last year. She just sent one back to me so I don’t have to come up with the money this month. I’m so glad since I’m already so far behind. Hooray for my financial stupidity!
And in other news, I’ve got the TV on right now and there’s absolutely nothing worth watching. So, I’m watching Harum Scarum, an Elvis movie. Boy, talk about lame. :rolleyes:
Hey, MamaTigs, sorry I forgot to mention several times how cool the stuff is that you knitted for snowbunny. And, if you ever feel inclined to make me some socks, purple IS my favorite color.
5,000 yards? You can knit a dress with only 5,000 yards? I seriously would have thought a LOT more than that, especially of lace weight. And you’re close enough to drive over? Okay, I am dying here. To be able to go see and fondle all their yummy yarns? I think one of these days I’ll break down and order one of their sample cards just to further torment myself. Like I need more yarn. :rolleyes:
Okay, I guess I’m feeling well enough that I’m off to the gym. How come I can’t be like a nice, self-respecting snake, who does absolutely nothing but lie around 99.9999% of the time, and only moves when it’s time to STRIKE! at food, and yet has perfect muscle tone and is never fat???
Oh man I feel awful that I just ruined someone life. I know it is business and I know that there is more than enough work out there but it doesn’t stop me feeling bad about it.
And Sean I know that him cursing at me wasn’t personal it was cursing at the company of which I am the public face right here and now.
If I stay in management andif I ever have to do this again I hope it doesn’t get easier for me to do. I hope it still causes me this much heartache and grief if it becomes routine and easy to do it means I have stopped caring.
Broken glass in your shoes? Is your cat actually a medieval torturer? As much as I love tiger cats, I think I’ll pass on the free cat! Mine does that with Q-tips, balled up candy wrappers, and his toys. All perfectly harmless to find with your feet, thankfully.
Mama Tiger, the Butterfly dress, which is a similar stitch pattern, only takes about 1200 yards for the largest size. Hopefully 5,000 yards of lace weight is enough; she’s planning to have extra.
You need some chocolate NOW, and then that vodka once you get home. Gah-what a horrible day for you (and them).
I am up from a very odd nap. Still no call canceling my night shift, so I guess various prayers, offers of body parts and small animal sacrifices don’t work.
In a weird way, I want to go in tonight. It’ll make a change, anyway, and it’s good money. Then again, tomorrow will be hell…
I have nothing to add, except to say that 2 quiches are in the oven. I’m hungry, dammit!
Yep, so that walk thing didn’t happen. It’s looking like it’s going to rain anytime now. But I have been doing something productive. I’ve been roaming around snapping pictures of things to put on eBay. Speaking of… apparently I’m an eBay spammer. :rolleyes: One of my dress listings was removed because I used the words ‘Like New’ in my title. Oops. I didn’t know. But I guess what irks me is that I won’t be refunded the listing fee. Oh well.
MMP = Monday Morning Post, so you get a fresh, new thread every week. And of course you’re supposed to be posting here! It’s just a thread to keep all miscellany and minutiae contained rather than having a gazillion threads cluttering MPSIMS. So welcome. The only rule is that you must send me a love offering of fine chocolates. If you don’t, I’ll hunt you down and give you The Look[sup]TM[/sup] and I know you don’t want that.
Welcome also to Pix, the game fiend! I don’t want you to feel ignored. Ya just gotta jump in. Kinda like wandering into the middle of an unstructured gathering of folks noshing and chattering. Don’t fret. We’re nice, dammit!
I’m waiting for a couple to come over and pick up the 6 lauan doors we removed from out bedrooms/bathrooms/linen closet. Glad to be rid of them without hauling them to the landfill. I’m going to try to palm off a mirrored closet door, too!
Jury duty tomorrow. Nothing else of import in my day. I had a splinter in my finger, but I yonked it out. * <yawn>*
I stopped by KMart for a couple odds and ends, and then went to the gym. And after only 5 minutes on the elliptical this time (instead of 10 last time), my leg muscles and my bionic knee stopped fussing at me and decided they were stuck so they might as well relax and enjoy it. Well, maybe I shouldn’t go quite that far, but at least for a fat, out of shape old person, I’m not a total disgrace on the elliptical. I can even do 2 minutes backwards without misery!
Ah, so that dress is very open lace, Miss Purl. That makes sense. Is there a photo online somewhere of what it is your friend is working on? That sounds really fun to do someday when I’m totally insane. (And I can hear the chorus from the MMP: “Like you’re not already?”)
But yes, you can knit dresses and skirts and even suits, Ellen. I knew a woman about 20 years my senior who, years ago, knitted herself classic Chanel-like suits using teensy needles – they were just gorgeous. Looked like she’d paid a couple thousand for them each. I’d never do that, but it’s very impressive nevertheless!
Time to go jump in the shower now that I’m cooled down.
I refuse to jump up and down. No way. Or do heavy scrubbing.
The cat is totally lacking brain cells. She thinks broken glass is neat, and likes to drop small things in other larger things… there’s a progression. It’s really bad for your heart to come home and realise the floor looks bumpy because it’s covered with pieces of broken glass, and the cat is trotting around happily chewing on it.
She’s really stupid.
The other one is dumb and neurotic. Neither are bright, but Aerin (the tabby) sets new lows for feline stupidity.
<incoherent scream> I went to the dealership where my car was being worked on only to find out a) they only do trade-ins and b) my car’s been moved. So I go to their other dealership only to find out my car never arrived. I get the number of the tow truck company and find out that it’s sitting on their lot and has been there for the past three weeks. Then I find out that WOWCrack Roommate knew about it and didn’t tell me. I’m not confronting him right now because bad things would happen. Now I’m going to be hit with storage fees on top of the money I owe the original dealership for the failed repair attempt. And then I have to get the damn thing to the nearest junkyard and sell it there–if the goddamn car even runs anymore. I think it does, but I haven’t driven it in months. And I need to get the plates turned in so I can get it off of my insurance so I can put my Outback on there and get all of my stuff out of the Altima.
This is the last time I let a friend take my car to a dealership and work out a deal with the service department because he works there. THE LAST TIME.
Ellen, lauan doors are the standard flat, boring interior doors that go in most homes. They’re hollow and faced with a veneer of lauan mahogany. We decided we wanted 6-panel doors, so we replaced all the oldies, and I put an ad on a local site offering the old ones for free. A nice couple just came and got them. Yay! I hated to throw them away, but I had no use for them.
It’s still warm outside, so the house is still open, but I’ll be closing soon, as it’s nearly sunset. It’ll start getting rainy and cold tomorrow, but it sure was nice to have 2 days of spring in January.
