**MamaTigs **- the kids will be home tonight, which means Cleo ceases to be my problem. Anyway, it was just one of those things, and she’s such a fat baby, it’s not like she starved to death, altho she did pee on some bubblewrap.
I’ve beat more of the back corner of the basement into submission. I’ll go down again in a little while and do some more. I can only take so much before I have to quit. But I’m getting closer to done. There’s one table that needs to be cleared and wiped down so I can stack stuff on it - electrical, painting, and boat stuff, to be specific. And once that’s done, I can set about organizing and setting up my studio.
Busy day today - I have walked miles. I went to the new apartment and measured for curtains etc. The only issue I am having is that it STINKS of smoke I had windows open for an hour and that helped a little
There is nothing I can do - can’t paint etc - so I just have to live with it
I am cleaning tomorrow so hopefully that and having the wondows open all day will help.
How long do you have to live in France, ems? It obviously sucks being away from your husband, but wow, what a cool place to have to live for work.
My son is such a smart-ass. The phone rang and he answered it by saying, “Justice League, how may I help you?”. Thank goodness it was a good friend of ours on the other end.
I’m waiting for Mr. Taters to hurry up and get cleaned up so we can head out to the stores for my daughter’s birthday presents. Additionally, we need to pick up a bottle of bubbly for our friend’s birthday tonight. She luuuurves champagne.
What to do for dindin… hmmmm… I say grab a burger on the way to the partay. Sounds like a winnah to me!
It’s warmish here. Too warmish for a jacket. I am considerin’ a shortsleeve pullover shirt for this evenin’. Maybe my green St. Pat’s shirt. It’s green with the church logo on it. It’s really warm enough to wear it even. Such is the drama of my life… what to wear to a partay!
Got some movies on sale at B&N (Persuasion, To Catch a Thief and Audrey Hepburn’s version of Funny Face), got all the wrong hardware at Lowe’s (need shorter wood screws, for one). Bought out TJ’s. Didn’t get tortillas at the Mexican grocery because they were out of them and the delivery was late (I went back a second time and still no tortillas). Boo. Got buttons and other assorted stuff on sale at Joann’s. Yay!
Now it’s back out to get the correct hardware.
Back shortly. I think I’ll have a movie marathon and button-sewing party tonight.
Fun, no?
Bad Chinese for supper. We were going to get a headlight for FCD’s car and pick up his prescription. Well, we forgot to write down what headlight he needed, and the pharmacy closed at 6 (we got there at 6:20) Oh well, we can go back tomorrow.
The kids ran into stop-n-go traffic in North Carolina - they should be in Virginia by now, and if all goes well, they’ll be home by 9. I hope. So I need to go down to their bedroom and drape wrapping paper over the bed. We found out they got a pillow-top topper from his mother - that’s kinda unnecessary with the new bed - I hope they can return it.
Chill mode till they get here. Ice cream in a little while. Can’t believe I have to go back to work on Monday…
Back from Home Depot and have successfully repaired chairs. Yay! I still have to glue 2 of them, but that’s not going to happen today.
Also found a nice chest to go in the living room and hold albums with DVDs. There’s extra room, so I think I’m going to hide a little tool chest in there. I hate having to go downstairs to find tools. Eventually there will be a little cabinet there instead, but I keep looking for something that will fit in that spot and go with everything else and have been unsuccessful. The chest will be used for games and puzzles and such, I think, long term. Maybe even short term…
Now I’m considering whether to start sewing buttons. Sounds quite exciting doesn’t it?
I knocked off work early :eek:, and went to Mass and got deheathenated :dubious:. I’m broiling a chipolte Tabasco marinated poke chop, with southwestern hash browns and corn, black beans and peppers. Hulu tonight.
They’re back in Merrylande - they should get to the house in the next 20 minutes or so. 13.5 hours for what should have been 11. Guess traffic really did sucketh.
Glad their trek is about done. I worry when they’re on the road.
Yay for the younguns bein’ home MOOOOOOM! Ummm… I don’t remember… just why is their bed bein’ giftwrapped? I mean, that’s strange, even for you.
Ok, we epiphany partayed. A good time was had by all. Much numminest in the hors d’oeuvres dept. One especially good one… red and white seedless grapes that were rolled in a mixture of bleu and cream cheese (melt 4 oz of bleu and cream cheese together and allow to cool for about ten minutes as I was told) and then rolled in crushed pecans. They were…
TEH YUM!!!
One other thing was a crab mousse. To which I said…
“Hmmmm… interestin’ cause I always thought moose tasted like chocolate.”
Hey, it got a laugh. That’s all I ask.
Played slug all day. I think the donwannas are setting in, what with just one day left of vacation before I have to drag my ass back into work and still no sugar daddy on the horizon. Sigh.
We used up the last of the NYE champagne to make shrimp pasta, and then had ourselves a nice little Dexter mini-marathon. Tomorrow I shall do a thorough housecleaning and perhaps some laundry, since it’s my last chance to get some real productive stuff done around the house before work starts up again. In fact, if I feel really really inspired, I might also make some muffins to bring to work, because I’ve decided to cut back on my danishes-for-breakfast addiction… we shall see how long that lasts.
Glad the kiddoes made it home in one piece, FCM. Hope daughter is pleased with her ladybug washcloth!
swampus, I’m totally going to have to try out that grape appetizer next time I’m hosting a dinner. It sounds delicious and easy (my two favourite things in a foodstuff).
I’m using Sherwood Forest. I couldn’t resist its siren song, so I cast on today. I quickly decided that I was not doing endless rows of seed stitch, so I’m just using garter for the border. I never used Misti Alpaca, in fact, this is my first project with laceweight. I think the Misti has more of a halo. So far, I can say that the yarn is nicely plied and isn’t splitty at all. It’s very easy to work with. I’m less pleased with the KP Harmony 3 circ I’m using, because it’s snagging the yarn at the join. It’s not harming the yarn, just slowing me down. The only downside to using alpaca is that Skunk loves alpaca and must be in my lap when I am knitting with it. If it’s silk alpaca, he’ll lay on the yarn itself and drool.
I organized my needle drawer and entered all my needles into Ravelry. I have an amazing number of needles. I don’t know why I have 3 sets of 35s, though. The 50s really blow my mind, though. I used to knit with those! I knit and sold tons of scarves on the 50s and 35s. I also have a lot of DPNs, which is surprising, because I’d much rather use 2 circs or Magic Loop instead.
The voicemail saga, part II: We received another voicemail, a mea culpa for the first one. The MP intended to “send the message out next week with the same level of transparency” as the original message. Bwahahaha! Right. She went over in detail what the plan is, which just highlighted what a politicized clusterfuck it will be. Oh, did I forget to mention that the layoff only affects admin assistants and IT? It’s generally a bad idea to piss off either group en masse, but both at the same time? Woo boy. I expect most will remain professional, but with a 20-25% RIF, I expect someone will lose it. The reason I’m probably SOL is that my position is classed as an assistant and was a special exemption on the whim of the MP who retired on Friday. (Yes, our new MP screwed up *before *her first day, this coming Monday.)
**swampster **- I thought I’d mentioned it earlier - we bought the kids a real mattress. They were sleeping on the bed that the previous owners had left behind and which we’d used as a guest bed for the last 4 years. They’d expressed threats of stealing the new replacement guest bed we bought, so to protect it… Anyway, they were much pleased.
Muppet, not only did she like the dishcloth, she wants to learn how to make some herself, so we can have some quality mother/daughter time with yarn and needles. I foresee a lot of pattern printing. In fact, getting a binder or folder would probably be a good idea.
I forced myself to get up at 5:30, since I have to drag myself out at 5 tomorrow. The rest of the household is asleep, despite daughter’s vow to be up by 6 herself. Yeah. Right. heck, even Bernie hasn’t budged. It’s cold out, and chilly in, even tho I bumped the heat up to 65.
I’ve got a loaf of french bread so we can have french toast for breakfast. I’d originally intended to make the french toast casserole, but I just didn’t feel like it. Plus it’s difficult to plan it when you have a household of slugs who refuse to get out of bed. So I decided to make it easy on myself.
No idea what today will hold. Daughter said she needs to get some groceries - I’m guessing she means for her lunches. And I need to get the headlight and the meds, so maybe she and I will go together. I’m hoping against hope that **FCD **will take a break, since he’s apparently strained his back and is in pain. Of course, he’s been in pain for 3 days… men!! :rolleyes:
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’ here. Had a few of those grape thingys as a prebrekkie snack. MMMMMMMMM… Yes I did bring some home. They were forced, forced I say, upon me.
It’s gloomy out. I think it may be rainy and warmish all day today.
OK, more caffienation must happen. Plus sump’n brekkie like and purtification for churchification.
those grape thingys sound sort of good, but I’d like to find a viable sub for the bleu - can’t stand the stuff.
Peapod’s coming this morning - Yay! Fresh veggies and soup! (I ran out Thursday)
Boniva is annoying, lemme tell you. You have to take it when you first get up. No coffee for an HOUR! No nothing, just water! And you can’t go back to bed for an hour, because you have to be VERTICAL. Seven more minutes for me. I’m cranky with no coffee. :mad:
Grocery shopping and the rest of the laundry for me today. And clean the mirror and counter in my bathroom.
Mr Rebo has already left the house to gather stuff. He’s building a new slab for our new air conditioning unit we’re getting this month. He already built the frame and laid the rebar - he has to go get a bigger wheelbarrow and some concrete to mix up.
We had a record high temperature yesterday. 83°! Cold front coming in tonight or tomorrow, and back into the 40’s and 50’s.
I’m sorry, I just can’t do it, Mumpers. My head is vaguely swimmy from weaning off medication and my concentration is off, to say the least. I’m just not able to honor the spirit of Mumpership and keep up with all y’alls just now.
If anyone’s remembered my last post, Christmas at the resort was extremely windy, cold (Arctic outflow, anyone?) and snowy. We measured 15" of snow on the deck behind the staff kitchen. Mr. J spent a large part of the week shovelling snow between a retaining wall and the tent pavilion covering the tennis court to prevent the panels from blowing out.
By the time I got my camera out, aimed and was ready for a shot, the lens was plastered with bigass snowflakes. All of the gorgeous, extensive landscaping was under snow.
We did get in a soak in the mineral spa, and we played some simulator golf. I did have fun in the big kitchen and rooting around in the pantries. The dogs were adorable, sweet and fun to be around.
New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day were a blast with our friends, lots of food, games and cocktails–a happy, welcome start to 2009.
(Swimmy head, for sure. This post took more than 20 minutes to compose!)
Don’t worry about keeping up, cj (I’m forgetting your nickname right now; you have one, right?). We all vary in degrees of being able to keep up. Sorry your vacation was so snowy. Seems like that was par for the course for people who don’t usually expect snow during the holidays.
Glad the kids liked the mattress, FCM.
I stayed up fairly late, but slept in till almost 8:30. Am still deciding what time to go to church.
But I’ve been industrious. I’m stuck on my dinosaur computer again while my laptop is being fixed and was frustrated by being stuck on IE. Decided to try reinstalling Firefox (it had stopped loading). Wasn’t able to load 3.0.whateverthey’reup to, but the last version of 2 works and is much faster than IE on this machine. So far, at least. It’s much less frustrating.
Now I’m going to get a grocery list together and do some laundry. Quite exciting, no?
Friend called just now, with a dinner invitation. So: church, go feed fish and bring in yesterday’s mail at local best friend’s, go grocery shopping, do some clean up. If time permits, start laundry.
Anyway, it was just one of those things, and she’s such a fat baby, it’s not like she starved to death, altho she did pee on some bubblewrap.
I had windows open for an hour and that helped a little
