# The Important Birthday MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [November 28, 2016, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-important-birthday-mmp/773271 "2016-11-28T10:11:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-important-birthday-mmp/773271/81 "2016-11-30T11:08:11Z")
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Today is my Firday.šŸ™‚ {{{\*\*Butters{/b]}}} hope you can get some sleep tonight. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-important-birthday-mmp/773271/82 "2016-11-30T11:53:37Z")
\*\*Sunny \*\*- why are you de-purple-ing? Bored with it? My youngest sis is the queen of hair colors. Sheā€™s had hot pink, lime green, golden-arches yellow, bright red, plus literally a rainbow on her head and occasional 2-tone treatments. Her current look is silver with purple touches. I never had the nerve to try unconventional colors. Dunno if I would have when I was younger, but in my old age, Iā€™m content with what Iā€™ve got. [brag] 62 and nary a gray hair yet! [/brag] šŸ˜ƒ Itā€™s a drizzly morning and weā€™re promised rain thru the day. Itā€™s supposed to creep up to the low 70s, then plummet with the approaching front - I think tomorrowā€™s high will be low 50s. Such goofy weather! Happy Last Day of November!! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-important-birthday-mmp/773271/83 "2016-11-30T12:57:01Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **Butters** sic 'em! Sic 'em like a rabid chee-hoo-ah-hoo-ah! šŸ˜ƒ With all those extra aitches, now Iā€™m picturing a chihuahua wearing a coat covered in mother-of-pearl buttons. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-important-birthday-mmp/773271/84 "2016-11-30T13:03:04Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Sitting here with dye remover in my hair, waiting to see if the purple comes out. Good times. I wish you luck. Most dye removers just kind of ā€œtrickā€ your hair into thinking itā€™s the color under the color. I donā€™t know how they work, but Iā€™ve never seen one work for long. I loved having the crazy bright colors in my hair, but for some reason, my hair doesnā€™t want to _keep_ them, so after about two weeks Iā€™m left with an indeterminate color of ā€œmehā€ and frazzled, bleached ends. ā˜¹ Iā€™m dyeing it back to a ā€œnaturalā€ color regularly now, as the ends fade and turn pink because I had to have all the blue stripped out a few months ago and my hair doesnā€™t understand what color I want it to be anymore. Iā€™m thinking of chopping it all off short short short again and letting it grow in just to see what color it might be. Iā€™m thinking a dark auburn with a _lot_ of silver. I never noticed all the gray until I had to pay attention to my roots. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-important-birthday-mmp/773271/85 "2016-11-30T13:09:40Z")
Good Morninā€™ Yā€™all! Up and caffeinatinā€™. _YAWN_ 'Tis 68 Amurrkin out and cloudy with a predicted high of 80 and rain for the day. It has yet to rain. I will believe it when/if it happens. I look at TWPTB with suspicion. :dubious: Other than some laundry no big plans for the day. We shall dine upon leftover enchiladas tonight. OLƈ! **{{{CupCakes}}}** I understand what you said. I miss my own father and younger brother still. Happy belated birthday to **CupCakesMom**! **Nava** for all we know **Butters** has just such a coat for King Louie. šŸ˜ƒ OK, I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy demands sustenance. Then I suppose I should purtify a bit and get busy with laundry. Such is the excitatinā€™ life of the retired. Happy Hump Day Yā€™all! ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-important-birthday-mmp/773271/86 "2016-11-30T13:44:05Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > I wish you luck. Most dye removers just kind of ā€œtrickā€ your hair into thinking itā€™s the color under the color. I donā€™t know how they work, but Iā€™ve never seen one work for long. I loved having the crazy bright colors in my hair, but for some reason, my hair doesnā€™t want to _keep_ them, so after about two weeks Iā€™m left with an indeterminate color of ā€œmehā€ and frazzled, bleached ends. ā˜¹ Iā€™m dyeing it back to a ā€œnaturalā€ color regularly now, as the ends fade and turn pink because I had to have all the blue stripped out a few months ago and my hair doesnā€™t understand what color I want it to be anymore. Iā€™m thinking of chopping it all off short short short again and letting it grow in just to see what color it might be. Iā€™m thinking a dark auburn with a _lot_ of silver. I never noticed all the gray until I had to pay attention to my roots. If thereā€™s enough of 'em, you could dye it dark & then let the grey roots grow out. Iffn you go that route, I know the perfect _French_ [lover](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP7k4LXM1rE&t=40s) to set you up with. šŸ˜› ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-important-birthday-mmp/773271/87 "2016-11-30T14:05:49Z")
Blurf. No, really. Blurf. I started back at irk today, but because the manager I was supposed to be reporting to wasnā€™t here for the past two days, he had no idea I was coming back. Fun fun. I have no computer access, no cubicle, and no badge yet. I regret taking that promotion and I really want to go home. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-important-birthday-mmp/773271/88 "2016-11-30T14:40:31Z")
Rain with occasional thunder all night here in North Ali-bama, but it is moving north and east and should be drying out (more rain is forecast for the weekend). The December grocery shopping run is on the schedule for today, I put together the shopping list yesterday, so only decision is Wal-Mart, Kroger, or Publix (all about the same distance from my house). Had a guy come out from the internet service to hook in a new box, suppossedly my internet speed is now 2-3 times faster. I guess weā€™ll see. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-important-birthday-mmp/773271/89 "2016-11-30T15:18:59Z")
Happy Hump Day! We have rain and itā€™s supposed to go up to 63, then the temps drop again. Nothing special planned for today, should be boring, just the way I like it. Meatball sandwiches are planned for dinner, quick and easy when you use frozen meatballs and a jar of spaghetti sauce. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-important-birthday-mmp/773271/90 "2016-11-30T15:21:43Z")
Just finished editing one monster drawing and about to start another. The hits just keep on coming! šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-important-birthday-mmp/773271/91 "2016-11-30T16:20:13Z")
**blurf** At irk of course. Tis the end of the month. I have a lot of changes to make to the database but have to do it after business today and before sales tomorrow so I may be here very late. We continue with very warm weather for this time of the year but one bright spot is today is the end of hurricane season. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-important-birthday-mmp/773271/92 "2016-11-30T16:36:22Z")
Lunch break! I think I have enough on my desk to keep me busy for the rest of today, but dunno about the rest of the week. We shall see. I kinda cajoled my sweetie into going to the company holiday party on Dec 10. He really doesnā€™t want to but I kinda want to see what itā€™s like. Plus free food and drink! And if we hate it, weā€™ve got car keys and we can leave. So Ho Ho Ho!! šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-important-birthday-mmp/773271/93 "2016-11-30T17:37:16Z")
Still no rain but am told itā€™s cominā€™. :dubious: We actually are in a tornado watch fwiw. Laundry is all done so thereā€™s that. Go Me! **Butters** better you than me with the EOM stuff. šŸ˜ƒ Have I mentioned lately how much I like beinā€™ retired? ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-important-birthday-mmp/773271/94 "2016-11-30T18:58:06Z")
Ariel, my red headed mare, stepped on my foot November 12. It still hurt like a bear Monday night so yestiddy I went to the ortho clinic for x-rays. Surprise, my toe is fractured! Thank you Miss A. Amazing how an owie little toe can make your whole body feel bad. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-important-birthday-mmp/773271/95 "2016-11-30T19:26:05Z")
> [@Sahirrnee](#): > > No, CAT, who thinks every time he pats my shoulder I am supposed to pet him, and every time I go into the kitchen I am supposed to feed him, and every time I eat I am supposed to share with him > and that the world revolves around him > > **Sunny** - how did you know? Sounds like Puddy Tat has you trained. šŸ˜ƒ **Moooom** , I donā€™t have gray hair at 53 either by very careful calculation. šŸ˜› **drae** , lotsa luck with letting the gray come in naturally. From experience, we redheads donā€™t do it well (speaking as someone who tried it a few years back). Mine got to the color of an apricot poodle when I decided that blonde was the next step until it was all white. **metal mouse** , we got a good rain too. That and teams of firefighters are the reason that Dollywood didnā€™t go up in flames in the eastern part of the state. **wet one** , it surprises me that you donā€™t have more than one fracture. A good sized nanny goat fractured two of the bones in my foot once. The fan was clean by lunchtime, so I bugged out. Iā€™m getting ready to pay bills then go to Murfreesboro to pick up a block printing press that I found on CL. One of the things that Iā€™m branching out to in the studio is lino block printing. It looks like fun and Iā€™m hoping to get good enough to do some of my own graphics in linoprints. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-important-birthday-mmp/773271/96 "2016-11-30T19:54:29Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > I wish you luck. Most dye removers just kind of ā€œtrickā€ your hair into thinking itā€™s the color under the color. I donā€™t know how they work, but Iā€™ve never seen one work for long. I loved having the crazy bright colors in my hair, but for some reason, my hair doesnā€™t want to _keep_ them, so after about two weeks Iā€™m left with an indeterminate color of ā€œmehā€ and frazzled, bleached ends. ā˜¹ Iā€™m dyeing it back to a ā€œnaturalā€ color regularly now, as the ends fade and turn pink because I had to have all the blue stripped out a few months ago and my hair doesnā€™t understand what color I want it to be anymore. Iā€™m thinking of chopping it all off short short short again and letting it grow in just to see what color it might be. Iā€™m thinking a dark auburn with a _lot_ of silver. I never noticed all the gray until I had to pay attention to my roots. Well, I used a peroxide based one, not one of the trickers. Now Iā€™ve got strips of almost normal, a thin line of purple at the scalp, a few strips of green where the purple didnā€™t come out and a little pink in places. See, the stylist used a bunch of different colors all over my head, which is the mane (ha, ha - get it) reason I canā€™t stand it. It just looked like someone sneezed dye on my head. What I wanted was a nice dark indigo with a few streaks of lighter purple near the front. Tonight Iā€™ll try it again. If that doesnā€™t work, at least enough to live with (and itā€™s pretty close now, compared to what it was, particularly if I pony it up all the time), then I will walk into a salon and force someone to FIX IT. The last place refused because they didnā€™t want to use bleach. I wanted them to use bleach. What they recommended instead just made things worse. Arg. > [@MsRobyn](#): > > Blurf. No, really. Blurf. > > I started back at irk today, but because the manager I was supposed to be reporting to wasnā€™t here for the past two days, he had no idea I was coming back. Fun fun. I have no computer access, no cubicle, and no badge yet. I regret taking that promotion and I really want to go home. But, hey, youā€™re back at work. Theyā€™re paying you. Itā€™s annoying, but just focus on the money, money, money (ABBA going in your head yet?). Yesterday was a VERY long day. 'Beamer went to school and proceeded to do what he does so well. A characteristic of autism is low awareness of oneā€™s own body (they also seek stimulation and sensation). Another is very high pain tolerance (or maybe since they donā€™t understand it, they ignore it). He proceeded to spend the day carelessly banging his arm into things. By the end of the day, when he got home, he was in agony. He had ripped up work in multiple classes, and basically regressed almost 2 years behavior-wise. The school called me. Thankfully, they were just concerned about him, not ready to suspend him. Orthopedics canā€™t see him until tomorrow. Basically, no one will prescribe pain meds for kids. (I could scream.) Long story short, too late, heā€™s staying home today. Weā€™ll try and get a little schoolwork done, but I donā€™t know what will happen. He is now convinced heā€™ll be suspended and the world will end because he is missing school and having trouble with work because of his arm. Then 'Beamette pulled the classic ā€œI have a projectā€, which I knew and have been pushing her on for a while. She finished at 1 am. She asked if she could stay home today. I said ā€œNoā€ in my firm, not kidding around voice. Finally, to wrap up my long rant today. Itā€™s my birthday. As predicted, no one has remembered it. **Happy Birthday Me!** ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-important-birthday-mmp/773271/97 "2016-11-30T19:57:13Z")
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUNNY\*\*\*\* All of you women without gray hairs should be thankful. I have a patch of gray right in the front. I am naturally very dark brown so it sticks out like a sore thumb. I get it covered about every 6 weeks. My hairstylist tells me there is none in the back at all. I am just not ready to let it go yet. The day continues to drag on by slowly. I have been chipping away at the pile. My **Lucky Louie** is lying here sound asleep and snoring, Bless his heart. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-important-birthday-mmp/773271/98 "2016-11-30T20:12:24Z")
And now thisā€¦ \ CLEARINā€™ THROAT \ \*\* HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!! HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!! HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY DEEEAAARRR RRRRRREEEDDD!!! HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!! \*\* ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-important-birthday-mmp/773271/99 "2016-11-30T20:17:12Z")
_ **HAPPY SUNNY DAY!!!** _ You werenā€™t forgotten, we were just saving it. No, really. Right, gang?? šŸ˜ƒ Just finished everything on my desk and quitting time is about 10 minutes away. So Iā€™ll deliver everything to Tim and hope heā€™ll have stuff for me to do tomorrow. Supper will be fish of some sort and maybe au gratin N.O.T. and some sort of veggie matter. Cā€™mon Firday!! ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-important-birthday-mmp/773271/100 "2016-11-30T20:21:00Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > And now thisā€¦ > \ CLEARINā€™ THROAT \ > > \*\* > HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY DEEEAAARRR RRRRRREEEDDD!!! > \*\* OK, are you just messing with me or is it also **Redā€™s** birthday? Iā€™m ok with shared celebrations. I just want to know whether to glare at you or not. šŸ˜ƒ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-important-birthday-mmp/773271.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-important-birthday-mmp/773271.md?page=6)