With me, it’s because I stay upto watch The Venture Brothers on Cartoon Network. I’m never in bed before 1 a.m. Sunday.
Scariest thing I think my parents ever did was spend 5 months dragging the four of us kids around Canada and the States, with a pop-up camper trailer for accommodation! My oldest sister was 12, my brother 10, my next sister 8 and I was 7! THAT must have been a nightmare!!! Particularly when my sister and I ended up with gastro while we were in New York in November (admittedly we stayed in a hotel while we were there). :: pukey smiley::
::yawns:: ::swallows a big mouthful of coffee::
Mornin’, all y’all.
Theoretically, I have to wait up to 30 days for the state to send me my test results. However, I also have the secret-squirrel phone number (AND the decoder ring to use it) for the state EMS office certification hotline. This is the number The Local Powers That Be use to check up on EMS people, like if I show up at an accident in Betsytown and start doing my thing, when no one there knows me. I’m cooling my heels until tomorrow before I call.
Sean, I don’t know if I’ll be home when you pass by the VunderLair on the way to QFiL’s funeral, but at least honk and wave…
I’m done with HP7, and here’s how it ends:
With a .
I will admit that I was dead on on some predictions, and way off the mark on others. Molly Weasly was a pleasant surprise.
This is the best resource I’ve found so far for pictures of Israel, including both touristy and some everyday stuff.
Enjoy!
Special1 and Dotty, if you have some hesitancy about posting about your daily lives, I understand, but I’m sure I speak for more than myself when I say I’d love to hear about your lives there! We have a misconception that the Middle East is a horrible dangerous place because the only news we get is when there is something violent happening; ergo, we think it’s fraught with daily violence. Never mind that often wider angle shots are published of “riots” which are about 10 people crowding a camera yelling hateful things about America.
But anyway, life Elsewhere is always fascinating and I for one welcome hearing about it! If you consider life in Kentucky to be exotic, please do ask and I’ll regale you with tales of the Derby, or perhaps Abraham Lincoln. We’re busy here at work on a major documentary about him, in anticipation of the bicentennial of his birth.
gotti, I am following your window-tinting with interest; we have a two-story family room with six enormous windows facing squarely West. Inexplicably, the thermostat is in this room. So we have Problems. Right now there are heavy blinds which insulate and keep out a lot of the sun, but I HATE them because they totally block the view! And, well, keep out the sunlight. So, I’ve been thinking tinting is the answer, but it sounds like a fairly big job. And – three of the windows are 19 feet in the air, inaccessibly by anything but a ladder and/or scaffolding.
Oh and dotty, I’m so glad Noor is getting better. What a scary time you’ve had with her!
** waving to everyone **
You think that’s bad? One of the women here brought the last book in on book-on-tape, and is playing it back in Receiving while she’s working. I have lodged a complaint with one of the owners, but he just laughed and called me a geek.
Well, I am posting about my daily life, all the time, just like all the rest of the Mumpers.
It’s just that my daily life looks essentially no different from that of your Joe Urban Average. So, like the rest of us here, I post more about the little personal things happening to me, not about the “big special” things happening around me – because they (mostly) aren’t.
Good for you. Life’s too short to have to deal with morons.
Thanks for all the warm wishes everyone. I didn’t really know the man (his health problems for years and a second wife (GF’s stepmom) who didn’t like us coming around even when he was well has really complicated things this week.
It’s icky out. There’s no rain, nor any immediate signs of it, but it’s overcast and cool and it’ll probably rain later on. And I forgot my umbrella. Both cow-orkers are back (one from vacation, the other from a funeral) so things ought to settle down a bit around here, which I am thankful for. Of course he’s got another vacation coming up in about 3 weeks, so we get to do it all over again. (He takes his 3 weeks during the summer. I like to spread mine out.)
LiLi/Hank - Yeah, I live in Brampton, which is part of the Greater Toronto Area. Oddly enough (for me, since I don’t make it into the city very often at all) I actually will be in the city on Simcoe Day (the 6th) because it’s a holiday for most of Ontario. Unfortunately it’ll be because MindWife and I will be at a friend’s place in North York for a previously planned dinner 'n movie night, partly to celebrate the eviction of his Tenants from Hell in the upper portion of the house. (He lives in the basement and rents out the upstairs, as it helps pay off the mortgage easier than if he took the more expensive upstairs.) The rest of the week is work work work. And since I don’t drive (which is why I don’t get into the city very often) it makes it a little tough. 
Now, if y’all were meeting up, say, the week of September 17th, I’d be on vacation! 
Heff&Roo - Are you saying a widescreen, touchscreen iPod with a possibly more iPhone-esque interface and larger hard drive doesn’t make you all tingly in your special places? Well, it makes me tingly. But I’m nerdy that way. I like toys. As for HP Sauce vs. A1 – if I have to be honest, I’d say that A1 and HP are very similar, but I find that HP has a bit more of a nibbly[sup]*[/sup] tang without having to step up to a “Bold” variation. I grew up with steak & HP, so it’s an inseparable pair to me, but I will take A1 if HP is not available. The best steak? Thick-cut (~1-2") top sirloin, marinated in Worcestershire, crusted with fresh chopped mint leaves and cracked peppercorns, then seared on both sides, cooked medium to medium-rare, and served with HP on the side, along with mashed N.O.T. and either buttered sweet corn or string/wax beans. That there’s a proper meal.
[sub]* Nibbly, because it’s not quite a bite, but it isn’t toothless, either.[/sub]
Howdy Y’all! All caffienated up here. I need to do some stuff around da cave but I don’t think that’s gonna happen cause I don’t wanna. Besides I have to be at work at two p.m. for a meeting. Ick.
kai sometimes ya just gotta cut ties for your own sake. This sounds like one of those times. Good for you for doin’ it. I’ve done that with a few people over the years. It sucks but in the long run it was the best thing.
Dotty I’m glad Noor is doin’ better.
QueenB, doggio, etal trust me workin’ in a brewery is no different from any other kind of work. I smell and see beer every day. The big worry is makin’ sure those little cans and bottles get filled up, sealed, pasteurized, sent to packing and palletizing and get shipped out. For me, all I see are 12 and 16 ounce cans of product that need to get outta there and get consumed so we can make more. It’s just the stuff we make at work to me.
Everyone else, yay, boo, aww, etc. I have read everything but my brain ain’t rememberin’ it all. Just know I’m not ignorin’ anybody.
Ok, need to move on here I guess.
Later Y’all!
MOrning, everyone. Good the Noor is improving.
Mamatigs, my sewing machine does that eating fabric/sulking/needle breaking thing too. I hate it. If I could stretch stitch by hand I might throw out the damn machine. Maybe I’ll ask for a functional one for my birthday.
Mom just phoned to say we’ll die if we go to the States, on big bighways with truck that might roll over and kill us, so they’re not going to let us use the car. So we’ll try to plan a couple of days down there in maybe October. Sigh. Although I don’t see that two months makes trucks less likely to roll over and kill us.
We have permission to take the car to go to Napanee and visit my MIL. :rolleyes: It’s closer, and I’d of course way rather go spend time with my nice-but-stressfully-nutty MIL and her Unknown Fiance (and her parents who Hate Religion and hate that we’ve become Catholic) than visit friends with whom we could relax. Oh fucking hell, that would mean we’ll see my SIL! The one I despise! And without my BIL, who is the person who makes her bearable (sort of). He’s working in Ottawa.
Which we’re not allowed to visit, because it’s too far.
Maybe we need to buy a car.
Sorry to rant, I’m just very frustrated.
Today I scrub out the kitchen and move the big freezer so I can scrub the floor under it. Fun. Ugh.
ME, **rigs **and whoever else was asking or curious, I made the brownies without peanuts as well 'cause I didn’t have any and (more importantly) I don’t really like nuts in my brownies. (I think there’s a snerk in there somewhere, but I’ll leave it up to someone else to do the snerking.)
Oh and I also meant to add on that recipe that I made it in an 8x8 pan since I don’t have a 10x6 or whatever the recipe called for, and 8x8 is awfully close in area to 10x6.
I’m starting off with no motivation this morning. I was here till 6 (an hour late) last night. So yesterday I had good motivation and got stuff done, but today… not so much.
Wile E, I had a one-eyed kitty for a while, and he was just the best kitty ever. I still miss him lots. (He died of FIP almost 2 years ago.)
Lissla could you and your husband rent a car to come to the U.S.? I have no idea how much that would cost, but it might be an option.
I’m working today, nothing new, boring. I wish I were at home.
thanks - I’ll check it out at home (I may get lost in it here)
eta: **LiLi ** - heck yeah it’s time to buy a car - shop now while you can still get around without your back acting up and your ankles getting all swollen. plus now a lot of dealers want to get the '07’s off their lot to make room for the '08’s - so you could get a nice deal. Then you can drive whereever you want. As for trucks rolling over onto you - what, they don’t have highways and 18 wheelers in Canada?
Casa Perro is mancleaned. I went to morning Mass, got picked to do the readings. I went to Wally*World to buy some dog food and a bathing suit. None of the suits were in my size, apparently I’m not fat enough to go swimming. 
LiLi, did your mom learn about American driving from Hollywood and 1956 Driver’s Ed films?
BBBobbio, everybody knows that HP7 end with Harry finding out he is Voldemort’s grandfather.
What she’s actually worried about is the highway in between Toronto and the border in Sarnia. We’re forbidden to drive west because west is more dangerous than east. For some reason.
Argh.
It’s their car, they can do what they want, but I am annoyed at losing a trip to see friends, and ending up with a trip to see my MIL.
I’m sitting here thinking how hungry I am, and realized that the last time I ate anything was just about 6 something last night.
Holy crap! You’re not for real, are you? since when didtime travel enter into things?
dots and spec1, I live just miles from Cinderella’s Castle. You’d think things around here would be relatively safe. Not so. Seems a day doesn’t go by without an assortment of murders and mayhem. I still like living here. I don’t think there’s anywhere in the world these days where one doesn’t have to be watchful.
li-li, tell Mom you and Mr. Lisslar are going to rent some motorcycles to make the trip if you can’t borrow the car. Bet she relents then. 
So the tree was down when I got home last night. It really opens up that part of the yard. The roots are supposed to be done today. The permit has been issued and the pool company says they might commence digging on Thursday. We are on our way to pooldom!
sean, my condolences. Unfortunately, a death in the family doesn’t mean improved behavior on the part of family members.
I’m off to Olive Garden to meet a friend.
Tupug
I’m just glad I have Lapin Blanc still here, who finished HP this morning, to tell me that those spoilers are just pure silliness! Not to worry, anyone else who’s not spoiled, you won’t be spoiled by BBBobbio or Canine Servant. You may find yourself wanting to reach through your computer and giving 'em a :smack: upside the head, but that’s about it.
I could not get to sleep last night, nor could Papa Tigs; he ended up trying to sleep out in the recliner – missing therapy Friday meant that even though he went again yesterday, they couldn’t get him back to where he’d been before he missed Friday’s session – and I gather he went in to work quite late (for him) this morning. I finally got to sleep about 3:30 so stayed in bed a bit late this morning.
And I know why I’m having trouble sleeping – with our current insurance, we’ve had to go to a mail order pharmacy to avoid spending an insane amount on copays for prescriptions, and my Lidoderm, a lidocaine patch that I use on my foot with the messed-up nerves, is one that the local copays are just insane for. Every other time we’ve ordered medicine from the mail order people, Caremark, they’ve gotten it here in like 24-48 hours. This one, since I discovered when I only had a few days’ supply left since I’d erroneously been thinking I had one more refill left on it but had to get a new scrip for? They’re sending by UPS ground from Arizona. :dubious: That’s right, a heat-sensitive medication is traveling via non-air-conditioned truck from Phoenix in the middle of July. 
:rolleyes: :smack: Plus while they received the scrip last Monday (that’s a week ago yesterday), it’s not scheduled to arrive until Thursday. If it arrives in useless condition, I will be SO pissed off! Plus nobody has any samples, and it costs waaaaay too much to just buy a box over-the-counter, like $165 per box. :eek:
But what it all ends up meaning is that my foot is feeling worse and worse all the time, just burning and hypersensitive and all messed up. And while I have another medication (Neurontin) that helps quiet the nerves, it only helps somewhat; it takes the Lidoderm to really cool and quiet it down. So I am a Very Unhappy Tiger right now. Lapin Blanc gave me some benzocaine cream she uses for nasty bug bites, but even that doesn’t get it settled down below somewhat annoying vs. iinsanely annoying. Grrr!
And to top it all off, I discovered that I’m having to do one extra pattern repeat of my knitting – the stupid thing starts with multiples of 6 stitches, then moves to multiples of 12, then 24, and although I thought I had ended the 6-stitch section at the right point to make the 24 come out perfectly, I was one 12-stitch repeat off. So that’s an extra dozen Very, Very Long Rows Indeed that I have to knit before I get to the big pattern section.
This is definitely starting out to be one of my less favorite days.