Woo! I’m so excited! I flushed out Rue! Too bad there were no gross animal stories, but the post was ruther purty, with all the emboldening and red cherries and whatnot. He’s right; when I first signed up to the Dope, I was just “Ellen” but since that’s a tad boring, I added the “Cherry” at some point. Gripping information, I know.
And I do indeed have brown eyes. ::: rustling around Photobucket for a picture ::: Ah yes, here’s one where you can see them. Rue knows, 'cause, you know, we’ve met!
It’s rainy here too, Sean. Almost all the snow is melted.
So, I see my three-hour Vigil Mass isn’t all that impressive! And here I’ve been thinking it was such a big deal all these years! Remind me to look for an Express Mass if ever I’m in Spain, Nava! (Also, it’s interesting to see how loaded we are with Catholics here in the MMP!)
But of course we’re an ecumenical MMP, with all welcomed and embraced!
Abuelita was up in Lourdes once with The Gang* (that’s in La France de París); there had been very long lines to visit the Cove and they had to take the bus back. They went into the church and a priest was setting up the altar (they knew it was a priest because he already was half-covered). Abuelita, who spoke very good French, went up to him and told him, in her usual imperious tones that would have gotten Queen Vicky riled up: “how long are you going to take? Our bus leaves in fifteen minutes and we want to have Mass before we go.”
The priest said “oh, so you want a little Mass to go?” une petite Mise en train
Widowed cousin, never-married cousin, another never-married cousin, widowed Abuelita, never-married Abuelito’s sister. They were a tour bus all by themselves, boldly going where no proper 60sh year olds had gone before without the company of an adequate gentleman.
-17°C (~1°F) out there. Wind chill of -25°C (-13°F).
And I’m positive my body is also trying to fight off … something. I know not what exactly. It seems like a wee cold of some sort as my nose gets a wee bit stuffy and there’s a fair bit of sinus pressure involved. It’s not really bad enough to require medication, but it’s just this side of annoying enough to make me want something. So I popped a couple Advil for the sinus pain. This has been going on for the last few days, but it’s a bit worse today. Whatever it is must be giving me brain fog, 'cos yesterday I forgot to take my morning break, now this morning I forgot my iPod at home. I never forget my iPod. Mind you, I was concerning myself with bundling up for the weather, so music wasn’t exactly on my list of priorities at that moment. I wish I’d kept a spare set of headphones in my backpack, though. Then I could have at least broke out the PDA and watched the last episode of Night Court S1 on the trip to work. I’m going senile! This is not a good thing! I … wait, what was I talking about?
Oh, yeah! This pomegranate smoothie. Could someone explain to me why the base-to-cap plastic label has a perforation around the neck for easy removal, but doesn’t have a vertical perforation from there up to the top of the label to make it easy to start the removal? Dumb label design.
LiLi - You can have all of our snow. I’ll blow it all east into the GTA for you, k? Promise not to get any on your Timbits.
Bus Guy - I’m jealous. Must be nice when kids getting a snow day means you get it off, too. Not that we’ve had enough snow here to qualify or anything…
Heff - Wait … that’s talent? I thought I was going to have to take a prescription for it. Now I know why Hollywood’s so screwed up. How, if I could find a way to get paid for it, well … I can be an endless fount of strange, so I could make a considerable buck. Now, if I can only find someone who wants to pay good money for the deranged ramblings of a decidedly unusual Canuck, I’ll have my Step Two!
Okay, I need to bug our would-be IT Guy/Accounting Manager (yes) to fix the damn PSU running a part of our phone system 'cos our fax and one of our other lines is out which makes my job that much harder, dammit.
LiLi silly question! Of course you want to pick up donut holes. I can’t imagine why there would be any question there.
Believe it or not we Whiskypalians also have Vigils. The Vigil of Easter lasts about two hours. That’s the longest I’ve ever been to one, though The Christmas Eve service (Feast of The Nativity) can last two hours, depending on how many show up, cause that’s how one determines how long Communion is going to take. That’s also true of the regular ol’ Sunday Eucharist. Church lasts from one to one and a half hours depending on how many show up. Two hours does seem to be the limit a Whiskypalian will deal though.
Good morning. Tis blustery and snowy here, but nothing like MBG’s side of the state–we have school; roads are clear.
I have to go do shelf serfing today, then forage for food. I dislike foraging for food when the weather is like this, but unlike most people, I don’t blame the weather–I blame the people for eating the food! They ate yesterday–why do they need to eat again so soon?
In good news, I got into my old Levi’s. Not my old, OLD, Levi’s, (which I may never get into again), but my old Levi’s…this is good. And they are loose! Yippee–time for chocolate…(see why I’ll never get into my old, old ones?)
Good luck with Awful Coworkers, all–I ahve them too. Some of the women who work in the library are so tightly wound, their springs are gonna bust!
Good morning, and a lovely one it is, too! While alla you nawth easters are awaiting your white crystal tonnage, we are expecting more possible tornadic activity. Guess I need to slap together some “No Tornados” signs.
This weekend I learned a very important lesson about thinking things through carefully. As I mentioned last week Meli and I joined a friend of ours at a house she was taking care of for the weekend on Friday night, one of the main reasons being the hot tub. Now few things feel better than being in a hot tub while the temperature is near 0[sup]o[/sup] Amerkin, but the trip between the hot water and the warm embrace of the house promised to be very unpleasant, albeit short. So to offset the unpleasantness we came up with a cunning plan, bring the towels out with us so that we can wrap in a warm towel on the way back into the house. Brilliant! But you know what happens to warm towels that sit out in 0[sup]o[/sup] weather? They get cold. :smack:
When we got out of the hot tub the towels were so cold that, though they had not gotten wet, they were frozen stiff… and they were the only towels in the house. Fast forward a few minutes and you have the towels in the dryer and Meli, our friend, and I huddling together for warmth in the shower (and to pre-empt the dirty minds of the average MMPer I will point out that we were all wearing our suits. Sheesh, some people just can’t get their minds out of the gutter ) after trying to wash the chlorine out of our hair with freezing water (the water heater was not exactly impressive). It made for an interesting night.
Life without caffeine is hard. I decided to severely cut down on my intake as of late in an attempt to increase the amount of energy I have. Other than a mountain dew I had on Sunday night I have not had any caffeine since last Wednesday, and I am really feeling the effects of it. I keep telling myself that I just need to wait for my body to adjust, but my body doesn’t want any of my back talk, it just wants coffee.
Oh, and Meli won’t be posting for a while since her trial account ran up on Friday. I offered to pay for her subscription, but she gave me that look, the same one I get whenever I offer to pay for something for her without some sort of equivalent return on her part.
Morning, all. We have a little white stuff fallin’ outta the sky, but it looks like we’re going to get off pretty easy in the upcoming ice storm – we’re just far enough east and south that we should get little if any ice. ::knocks frantically on wood, makes any other necessary propitiation to keep the ice away:: I’m not going anywhere today, though, because Papa Tigs took the SUV and left me the little car that doesn’t weigh much so it slides around a lot – which is probably one reason why it gets such good gas mileage – and there’s nothing out there I want to do enough to risk messing up his pretty nearly new car for.
So I guess I’m stuck staying home and working. Or knitting. Or something. I woke up with a nasty weather headache – at least I hope it’s a weather headache; the last thing I need to be doing is coming down with The Sick right now, I don’t want to end up having to postpone my knee surgery! So all of you sick people, please watch what you send through the CD drive, okay? Tell your computer to wash its hands regularly!
Good luck on the job interview Drae. I have another on Friday. That’s two job interviews this week. Feels kinda good, even if they don’t work out. I have leads on a couple others as well. Taters I filled out the online resume thingy at USAJobs. Next I shall commence some job searchin’ around there. I’ve made application to a couple state jobs, as well.
It’s gonna rain here. I know cause my left leg hurts. The one I broke as a cub. It always hurts when rainy/damp weather is afoot (heh! leg. afoot. get it?). Puggy I hope the “No Tornado” signs work. That was :eek: when it happened last time down there.
Good luck to you as well, Swampy. I hope something turns up that you both like and pays what you feel you’re worth. It’ll be interesting to see if something turns up via USAJOBs.
Work is sucking. Another big, short fuse project going on. Of course, I don’t have the info required to complete my portion of it. I shouldn’t even have to ask the individual as she is on the friggin’ e-mail as well. Grrrrrrr. This is what happens when you miss a day.
Well, this bites. It’s raining, and tonight is the Tip-a-Snake dinner. So no beautifully curled hair for SCL - my hair won’t take a curl when there is the least bit of humidity in the air.
I gave blood yesterday and was a grouch all day because I can’t have caffine before I donate. It makes my veins get really small and hide - and they are small anyway. So the guy got me on the first stick and I pumped out my pint in almost record time. The tech remembered my from last year when I almost passed out and made me stay there for a while, so no dizziness. I just looked at my arm and don’t even have a bruise - that guy is good!
So I now have nine Cottonmouths blood drive t-shirts. It’s amazing how faded the first ones are…
Darn rain. I don’t want to dress up and go out in the rain!
It is SERIOUSLY SNOWING right now. I went out to go get my boots mended and my dress altered - it only took me 15 minutes, but by the time I got back to my apartment the snow had already covered all trace of my footprints. Universities should have snow days too - if ever there was a day for them to have one, today would be it.
Bah. We’re getting nothing but weak-ass pansy snow. Mixed with wimpy little ice paticles. All I’m saying is that the weather better get its rump in gear so I can have a day off tomorrow, or its gonna get a good talking to.
I wonder if I can get welbywife to huff at the snow?
Pictures welbywife huffin’ at snow… sees snow cringe… welbyland blanketed in six feet of snow…
Snakes your rain is headed this way. The sky is all dark and ominouus. Ima go make me a sammich and possibly have a nap cause it’s gonna be rainy and naps and stormy weather go so good together.
I’ve got a potroast simmerin’ away in the crockpot for supper. I’ll add some carrots and N.O.T. in a bit. MMMMM… potroast…
How, if I could find a way to get paid for it, well … I can be an endless fount of strange, so I could make a considerable buck. Now, if I can only find someone who wants to pay good money for the deranged ramblings of a decidedly unusual Canuck, I’ll have my Step Two!
It’s so hard to find boots that fit just right. Not to mention they are expensive!
While alla you nawth easters are awaiting your white crystal tonnage, we are expecting more possible tornadic activity. Guess I need to slap together some “No Tornados” signs.
) after trying to wash the chlorine out of our hair with freezing water (the water heater was not exactly impressive). It made for an interesting night.