I am thankful I won’t have to see my dentist again for a while.
Apparently, dentists also use the phrase “you’ll feel some minor discomfort” to describe toe-curling, body-spasming, OMG-fiery-bolts-of-agony levels of pain.
I have no idea how I could simultaneously be so numb that I can’t feel anything below my right cheekbone, and yet I’m still feeling something in my teeth that you could probably call “discomfort” at this point. And it’s been an hour since the [del]sadist[/del] dentist sent me on my merry way. Ow ow ow ow ow.
On the bright side, I now have a full complement of teeth again and you can’t even tell which ones aren’t really mine. Yay!
Glad you survived the holiday more or less unscathed, rigs. Sounds like there are more reasons to be glad that you’ll be split up. BIL sounds like a gem. :rolleyes:
I’ve had that happen with teeth, too, Muppet; but it’s been a long time.
You’re not the only one who eats freakishly late, Lucky. We didn’t eat until 8:30.
We had a lovely, relaxed evening. Sat around and were amused by the baby (she’s 15 months old and a total hoot) and ate 1/2 a cheeseball (baby ate crackers). Eventually we sat down to dinner, which turned out yum, of course. Then we sat around some more and then had a bit of pumpkin pie, with freshly whipped cream (yes, I’m a whipped cream snob). There’s really nothing nicer than getting to have a comfortable, relaxed Thanksgiving with people you love, is there?
So now I’m all mellowed out, but not quite ready for bed. And I have to be at work at 8. Boo.
By now I think of it as “getting even older” day… And it really did start out as a sentence about Special Teen turning 16 and sort of took on a life of its own…
I would, if I had anything to report – I’ve been lucky so far. And going into the thread just to say “well, not me, but a woman I heard of went into MickeyD’s once, just for a cup of coffee to go…” seemed against the spirit of the thread.
And publicly asking for cites is just tacky. Well, maybe not had I got there early enough to be the first (or seventh) to request them… But, I didn’t.
Privately asking, on the other hand…
I’ve said so many wonderfully smart (:rolleyes: :dubious: :o :D) things lately, how do I know which one you mean…?
Afternoon all. :: waves in a vague westerly direction at Nooner ::
I am tired, and I don’t even have a belly full of turkey to blame it on! I guess a toddler will do that to you! Nothing else to report - glad to hear that T-Day was what most people expected and/or wanted! I think I’ma go lay down now!
I’m up because I cannot sleep. I turned out my light at about 9pm or so and fell right to sleep-strange, since I had not woken up until 10 am… Anyway, rather than just lay there, I got up. I have to go to work in about 45 minutes, anyway. I have to be there at 0530 for ONE patient whose procedure is not even in our department (but we do the intake and the “recovery”). God knows it’s easy money, but does it have to be at 0530?
I’ll lay money the doctor doesn’t even show up until 0700. It’s a thoracentesis and occurs in radiology. :rolleyes: GT-I am also a whipped cream snob and won’t eat that [del]shit[/del] stuff out the aerosol cans. Even CoolWhip is meh to me.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’ here. I have a feelin’ work will be a zoo today. AT&T is offerin’ several deals on phones starting today and no activation fees for the next four days. I foresee an all hands on deck answering calls kinda day.
I need to go purtify soon. We’re goin’ out for some brekkies and then ol’ y’all know who is headin’ off to west Alabammy and I’ll head to the workplace a little early.
Also up early, even tho this is my day off. I no longer fight it - if my eyes pop open, I pull on sweats and leave my sweetie to his snores. Scruffy is still in bed, but Bernie has gone out and had her cookie. I’m breakfasting on a hunk of cherry cobbler with a side of Diet Coke.
Daughter and her grandmother are going to the mall today. I think they’re nuts, but there you go. **FCD **is taking his dad to his work. Dunno what SIL intends to do. I intend to do laundry and pre-cook some stuff for tomorrow. My dishwasher has run 3 times in the last 2 days. When it was just 2 of us, I’d run it maybe twice a week. Such is the effect of a houseful of folks.
I don’t mind aerosol can “whipped cream” and sometimes I actually enjoy cool whip. Not that anyone has ever accused me of being a gourmand.
Happy Firday, all! Shoppers, be safe! Everyone else, have a luverly day!
Morning all! Up and caffeinating here too, the coffee kind, that is. Thanksgiving went off smoothly and I even heard from my son, down in Little Rock. He helped serve dinner to homeless folks there, with his fraternity.
Heading in to work, which thankfully will -not- be a zoo, unlike for some folks . . . And OMG, it’s Firday!! Happy Friday all.
Oh, I need to do that before writing these. I don’t have the knowledge to provide programs, tables and pseudocode in every case, but when I can I do. If we sent a requirement for every thing the customers ask for, we would be asking for over 300 new reports (ya rite), not 5 new reports and modifications to 20 existing ones.
I’m considering murder (ok, not really). I informed Sheboss MONTHS ago that I take December 3rd off. It’s a holiday in Navarra, officially Navarra Day, formerly St Francis Xavier Day, aka Shop At The Neighboring Regions Day. Sort of like New Jersey having a general holiday and everybody hopping over to shop in NYC or Philly. Every time this has come up she’s pouted. Yesterday she pouted some more. This morning she’s interrupted a meeting to “ask me to think about it” and been a general whiny-agressive pest until I’ve told her I’ll come, then she’s pestered me some more until I had to leave the room. If she’d come and touched me (she looked like she was about to hug me next, when I left) we might have ended in the newspaper… :mad:
Mind you, all she had to do (since she’s never signed the authorisation) is SAY “I’m not authorising it,” it would have been faster. But ah no, that would require a spine.
The previous time she used those tactics, the week that I’d asked for ended up being a whole week I didn’t have any work (I’m good dangit, if she stops interrupting me I actually work fast).
I’m mad at me, partly. But I don’t want to slug me and I definitely want to slug her. Right now, I hope the whiny bitch never finds an idiot to impregnate her. Or better yet, that she does find an idiot to marry and impregnate her and her firstborn turns out to be male and gay, while the second is female and an anarchist. Serve her right :mad:
I’m up, had my traditional day-after-Thanksgiving pumpkin pie with whipped cream breakfast, packed my traditional lunch, and am about ready to head off to work where I’ll be one of very few people there. I’m hoping to have my traditional quietest day of the year - I’ve got lots I need to do.
I’ll be eagerly awaiting reports from everyone who’s been shopping.
FairyChatMom, I wish I had a dishwasher. I seem to be a Pigpen in the kitchen. I leave a wake of dishes more suitable to a meal for 6 than for 2.
I am pouty and jealous right now because there will be no turkey/dressing/cranberry sauce sandwich today for this Canuckian. I know. I hear my mom saying I’m going trip over that bottom lip…
Today is looking like a laundry, vacuuming, and bathroom scrub day. Well, morning anyway.
I might dash over to the new dollar store that’s opened in our old library. I’d like some mini loaf pans to make banana walnut bread to share with my neighbor. She has a sweet tooth, but not for chocolate. And I love to bake when the weather turns colder. There are apples in the fridge that need to be used up, too. And a half recipe of a savory pastry crust that won’t be good past today. I have some ground beef in the freezer, and some frozen mixed veggies. (Ugh. My husband has a fondness for Ichiban and f.m.v.) I can get some beef broth and make meat pies to freeze for Mr. J.
Hmm. Maybe I should leave the vacuuming and bathroom til tomorrow. Pigpen’s headed for the kitchen!
Can I tell you a secret? You can make turkey/dressing/cranberry sauce even if it’s not Thanksgiving… I’m not a fan of dressing, but I make turkey often because I really like it.
First load of laundry is in the washer. I’m showered and sorta dressed (old sweatpants and T-shirt, fuzzy slippers) and the house is almost empty. Except for 3 dogs, 2 cats, and 1 SIL. I’m noshing on some broccoli-rice casserole and thinking about popping a DVD into the player. There’s a 5# bag of shrimp thawing in the sink - I’ll steam them later. I also need to make the swedish meatballs today.
In fact, I think I need to make a list of stuff that needs to be prepared for tomorrow. Lists are good. Lists are my friends.
Hey y’all! Is this your first MMP, Pigpen? Nice to see you in here!
Happy Firday! Today is sit on my ass day. I have declared it, so shall it be! We had a wonderful meal yesterday. The kids barely left any turkey for leftovers! It was only 13 lbs, though. It was moist and delicious! I swear by Alton Brown’s brining method.
We won all the football games that Dad was betting on. Go Horns! Yay!
Mr Rebo has gone off to do Black Friday. Not my thing at all! I did my shopping before the crowds. I bought a pair of brown loafers, and a new shower curtain. I’m glad I could do my part to help the economy.
FairyChatMom, I think next year I’m going to plan on buying a turkey breast and make stuffing for American TDay, even if Mr. J is away working that week. It’s all the MB chat about menus and meals lately! Also, we had ham for our TDay this year–Mr. J’s favourite.
Yep, I’m new around these parts, Rebo. Have I inadvertently Too Much Information-ed my way into a new moniker?
For some reason, I thought MMP was sports-related, or I probably would have popped in before now. Please don’t anyone point out that the MMP thread is in MPSIMS.
Good morning everyone. I didn’t get a chance to pop in and wish everyone a happy turkey day. I see that most of you had a nice one and that one was graded a “C”.
The turkey day at my sister’s house was nice. We actually made good time getting there. Her turkey turned out very moist and was good. So was her gravy. She made little stuffing cups. Um, I wasn’t a fan of those. Everything else was good though.
I’m posting from my hubby’s computer because my new computer, with the new power supply that we had installed in Aug/Sep died. Yep, the power supply died. That’s second time. I’m not HAPPY. This is the worst time for it to have died, too. Dammit.
Hubby is braving the hell that Best Buy is sure to be today so purchase a new power supply.
I’m not a fan of cool whip, will eat Redi-Whip, but prefer my own whipped cream as well.
Other than doing a ten percent water change in the fish tank and installing my new power supply, I don’t have any big plans for today.
Hmm, I need more coffee. Hugs and smooches to all.
Happy post-T-day, everybody. We had a lovely dinner yesterday, did not make pigs of ourselves for a welcome change, and took a drive to look at the birds (we saw a flock of a couple thousand ducks at one point) and the deer out in the country. There were whole herds out, even though the sun was bright. I guess it was just a good day for everyone to sightsee. And even the vultures were having a Thanksgiving feast; we counted three deer that had had unfortunate meetings with vehicles. The vultures were feasting on one, obviously saving the others for post-T-day leftovers. Hey, vultures gotta eat, too!
In more exciting news, my son is no longer #1 on my List as he finally called me last night. Of course, he’s got a ways to go to get completely off the List, i.e. he has to call me once a month. I’m tired of always being the one to call him, darn it! I call my mother every week, he can call his once a month! Yeah, I’m an old meanie. I like it that way.
I’d better stop yakking and get some work done. I refused to do any yesterday, but alas, it didn’t magically get itself done while I was ignoring it. Clearly, I need to work on teaching the magical elves that live in my computer to take care of such matters for me.
What?
How about I got to work at 0522, called the pt at 0545 to learn he wasn’t coming! How’s that?! And then I couldn’t get hold of the doctor, despite trying all 4 numbers we have for him.
I left around 11 am. I got some charts together for Monday and called some pts and took their health histories etc. At least I made it worth my time.
I’m kinda loopy now, though. Been up since 0330. I need to make cookies (I refrigerated the dough 2 days ago), but have no ambition.
For all of you Black Friday shoppers, I hope you get some good deals, but I still think you’re all crazy! My Mother, a dedicated member of this club, left at 2:30 this morning to wait in line somewhere. I don’t know where. She’s nuts.
Pigpen the MMP is about anything and everything!! We’re darn nice and go with the flow. We specialize in support when things go wrong and congratulations when they go right. We also like nicknames, so if you can’t tell who is being referenced, just ask!
But, I didn’t.
And OMG, it’s Firday!! Happy Friday all.