The I do not want to go to work MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Happy Thorsday!

Happy Birthday BooFae!

It’s been a morning

I was a little bit late getting out the door
The sidewalk was icy in spots due to meltage and refreezing
The gate was frozen shut
My truck door was frozen shut
Now I am running late
The lab parking lot was crowded
I couldn’t get the damn door open - another woman said they are the damn heaviest doors
Lots of people waiting
I get in line at the kiosk to check in and I couldn’t get my driver’s license out of my phone case, and in trying to pull it out, I pushed it in further
Then I put it in the wrong way and had to enter all my info, and I couldn’t find the numbers on the keypad
Cancelled and started over
Then when I sat down to wait I saw I could have just checked in with my phone :smack:

The place was crowded and so I had to wait, and wait, and wait some more.
In the meantime I didn’t pee before I left because I knew they would want a sample

Then a smoker walked in and sat down near me, and you know how smoke clings to people when it’s cold outside, so my eyes started watering and my nose started running and I had no tissues on me

Finally I get called back. they take my paper irk, give me my receipts with a cup and directions to the bathroom
Walk in and there is no place to set anything down, so I set the papers on the side of the sink, only they fell in the sink, activated the sensor, and turned the water on

Finally they took my blood and I could get out of there

As I’m heading for the doors I see an elderly man coming in and I thought oh he is probably going to need help with the door

Nope, he pushed it open and walked right in, and even held it for me.

Who knew you are supposed to* push*, not pull???!!!
Well, I do… now

I barely made it home in time for irk.

I hope the sun melts the ice out there by the time we have to go get groceries.

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Happy birthday, BooFae!

6 and a half hours until I’m off for a long weekend. I need it so badly. I’m getting my work wrapped up on a huge project. There will probably be more when I get back, but at least I can relax when I’m off knowing I’m caught up. It’s been a big, expensive project with a brand new client who is rather demanding (not in a pain-in-the-ass way, but in a they’re-covering-their-own-ass way), so we’re doing our best to give them what they want and need.

I mentioned to Juliet Jr. that there’s a huge library near where we’re going to stop for lunch and shopping tomorrow… so we’re going to hang out at the library, too. She’s fascinated by libraries, and we don’t go very often because her brother is such a noisy little dude. We’re going to find a few children’s books and read for a half hour or so. She’s pretty pumped.

I’m thinking of getting manicures again on Saturday while my sister’s working. She got off of work for the days she’ll have my daughter after I leave, but she couldn’t get the weekend off. So while we’re killing time, I think we’ll go to the Peoria children’s museum, Steak and Shake, and get manicures. I barely get one or two a year normally… and I’m going to get 2 within a month. It’s part of the fun… part of the splurge of being on “vacation.”

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Birfday girl hasn’t been around in two months. If a birfday wish is given & not heard does the forest still have one less tree? :confused:

With comments like that you won’t be around much longer, either. :eek:
Got some way cool photos (finally - this was the x[sup]th[/sup] time I’ve gone out for this shot. A couple of times I’ve tweaked my settings to get it just right & a couple of times Momma Nature didn’t quite cooperate).

I was light painting & last night was the last night to do it until the weather gets cold again because of changing tick-tocks on Sat (or Sun).

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Wow – a day off from having a triplet AND a sister! :smiley:

Work yesterday was great. Our bosses have a new boss and she was visiting for the day. Like when your rich grandmother comes around everyone was on their best manners, everything was cleaned up and properly working, and the bosses actually did a very limited amount of physical work and did what passes as smiling for them.

By tonight the underwear will be back on the floor, dishes in the sink, and everyone will be sniping and trying to stab each other in the back.

God forgive me but I actually love standing there, doing my peasant thing, and watching it all. :smiley:

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Happy Boo-Fae Day!!!

I refuse to ‘spring forward’ until I see some evidence of an actual Spring.
Who am I kidding? I’ll hate daylight savings time no matter when it comes around.
Stupid damn idea, anyway. Harumph!

Went to pick up grandson to take him to school today. He was running late 'cause the dogs had opened the refrigerator door and made a mess. :eek:
Life is just full of these little surprises.

Went to ‘German Beer Hall’ night at a local restaurant and pigged out. In fact we’ve got some lovely stuffed cabbage rolls, spaetzel, and pickled red cabbage leftovers in the fridge for dinner tonight. I’m glad our two pups aren’t big enough to open our refrigerator doors. :stuck_out_tongue:

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well, it made it to 50F today, so I guess we can call that Spring…

ruble, funny how the big brass showing up makes the small-fry brass all nervous and such…Of course, since the Big Brass never sits down and, you know, talks to any of the proles, nothing much comes of it…

spidey, when/where can we see these ‘way cool’ photos?

Juliet, a love of libraries (and the books therein) is one of the best things you can do for your child (IMHO, but I am right about this). Good on you!

Sari, reading your post I wasn’t sure if it was a complaint or a 3 Stooges script… Hope the rest of the day has gone better.

About an hour and I’ll need to start getting dressed/gathering stuff for the youth soccer afternoon…and after that need to attend the monthly Board meeting until 8pm. Oh joy.

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happy bday to everyone that has one ….same crap different day here ,we are getting a break in the monsoon that my desert corner was in the middle of yesterday ……maybe it will blow over like it does 9 1/2 years outta ten ……

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Whew! I thought my credit card had been compromised. Turns out my daughter charged a couple of Amazon purchases with my card by accident. No, really. She’s got Prime, and I gave her my card number to order some stuff for me. For some reason, her account set it as the default and she didn’t notice. But she’s removed my number and all is good. So Whew!

**FCD **and I are going out for supper tonight - not sure where, but since I don’t have to cook, it’s good.

:smiley:

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Mooooom, I did that with my dad’s credit card a couple of years ago. He had asked me to order something for him online (he’s not online) and Amazon set that as my default. I sent him a check for what I ordered on his dime. :smiley:

The antibiotics are kicking in and I’m beginning to feel a little better, but now it’s getting gross. :stuck_out_tongue: I’ve napped and binge watched the Timeline series with a warm pupper in my lap. :slight_smile:

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I recently bought some stuff for the house and it charged my hubby’s card that I had stored in there. He now has his own account so I deleted all his cards.

Blurfage. I made it through another day. We had breakfast for supper and I am not long for the wake world. I have been tired and sleepy all day so early bedtime it is for me.

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Did anyone have a chance to look at that thread?

It explains a lot of things which were really screwed up in my childhood.

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Evening all. Had 22 girls out for soccer today, first had to get them to unlock the field, then had to move some of the resident geese to the other part of the field (nothing violent, just started putting stuff down near them and they took the hint and moved on). Kids were fine and may have recruited a couple more coaches. Meeting was boring as always. Decided after all that labor to treat myself to Mickey D’s cooking, for which I’ll pay by eating at home the next two days. Rain is due about 3am and will stick around through late Saturday. Bah.

I don’t have somebody living with me, but I have on occasion tried to buy something with a credit card that has been replaced/expired since the old one was still shown as the default.

TB, just read the thread…amazing that you seem to have adjusted to the world as well as you have after that upbringing. My hat’s off to you.

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No. Not adjusted well at times. It’s absolutely insane trying to be a loving supporting parent and not letting all the shit from the past interfere with that. I pretend to be a reasonable, well-adjusted parent while going crazy on my own time.

There were generations and generations of craziness and cycles of abuse and neglect. Most of my cousins have worked on stopping that cycle, and I think my sister did a damn good job.

My kids seem to be doing well. Pretty normal kids and not showing the same signs of major problems. My therapist says I’m doing OK.

It still doesn’t help me sleep at night, though.

I just can’t describe how fucked up the childhood was. It was just so fucking crazy. Running across this story just brought up that stuff from the past and how I couldn’t question it at the time. My therapist is away for a while so I didn’t have a good outlet.

Sorry for all that. It just gets so much at times and I need to unload before going back to pretending to be normal.

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Worked, came home. Early bedtime, since it’s another long day(including hockey)

I’m sorry TB. But vent as needed.

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today was moms birth day…I miss her …….

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 50 Amurrkin out and cloudy (dark, actually) with a predicted high of 75 and mostly N.O.S. for the day. No biggie plans for the day other than putterin’ around da cave. Sup shall be grilled salmon, peas ‘n carrots, and rolls. I did not post durin’ the day yestiddy and I really don’t know why. I was busyin’ around da cave and such and just didn’t. Thought about goin’ over to the church house to take care of some stuff, but part of the stuff will be to adjust the timers for outside lights and the church sign bein’ as DST cranks up again on Sunday, so perhaps that would be best done tomorrow.

red glad you’re feelin’ better.

Juliet have a great time!

Sari hope today is better.

Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day. Rah.

Happy Firday Y’all!

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**FCD **was fighting ninjas in his sleep, so I had a broken night. At least he didn’t punch me, but he did a job on my pillow! :eek: And this morning he doesn’t remember anything - even tho I woke him and spoke to him. Luckily, I fell back to sleep and didn’t get up till nearly 7.

The guys are here to finish the building foundation. They just called **FCD **out there - hope there’s no problem… I’ll have a RoxStar day, tho when she goes down for her nap, I’ll go pick up my new specs, then run to the grocery. With luck, I’ll get it all done before the rain hits.

But first, time to surf a bit. Happy Firday!

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Hello, mumpers! Thank you for the buffday wishes, they came with a message from mooooom that I had been very neglectful of the MMP recently. And it’s true, things have been crazy at work since before Christmas as my boss has been off with a long-term health problem so I have been covering a lot of her work. To be honest, once I get out of the office after all the extra hours I’ve been working, I don’t really want to go home and sit in front of another computer!

The other thing that’s been going on is that my 84 year-old mum has been diagnosed with lung cancer after her most recent hospital stay as a result of bronchitis and pneumonia. So all in all, it’s not been a very happy time in Fae Towers.

But it’s nearly spring, the clocks go forward at the end of the month and the evenings are getting lighter. Time to stop feeling sorry for myself and let you lot do that for me :slight_smile:

rosie’s .sig to everyone!

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Boofae sorry about your mom. I hope she has an easy time of it.
I am at irk but Thanks God tis Firday!
I am thinking I shall procure pizza or Five guys for lunch. I need good food today. I have a couple more phone interviews to do and one in person interview on Moanday and can finally, hopefully get someone hired next week.

We are off to the horspistol on Thursday for the Ablation finally. Hubs has not been feeling well at all. I am not happy we had a three week wait but I guess the Dr. is that busy. I am going to let my clerk keep Lucky Louie as he knows her and they kept him before. That way he won’t be all alone for 48 hours. They have a small dog too so he will have a friend.
Rosie’s sig for sure.

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Happy Firday!

It’s snowing again, although I think it’s won’t amount to much.

Have a good weekend Juliet

Good to see you back BooFae, I’m sorry about your mom.

I fell asleep while irking this am, fortunately I didn’t miss any calls.

I have lots to do today, so no time to be sleeping.