Liquid poo is not good Dotty ick. Hope HRH is feeling better
I am listening to the rain and the thunderstorn that is going on outside…I love the sound of rain.
I just ordered some naughty lacy things for the hubby and mines weekend away - they were on sale so it won’t matter if they get ripped 
Did I mention it is 22 days til I see him?
{{Dotty}} Kids sure know how to make things interesting, don’t they? I’m glad the rest of the vacation was so enjoyable, though… you certainly deserved a little break after all those long workdays.
I’m a happy camper today. I discovered that my company has started up a weekly farmer’s market right next to the main building, so I popped over after lunch… and it’s absolutely lovely! I bought a basket of yellow plums, and a bag of freshly shelled sweet peas (which, for a change, are actually sweet… so far, I’d found this year’s crop of peas surprisingly starchy and un-sweet).
I restrained myself from buying any baked goods, but the fig and feta scones looked really really tempting. I may give in next week and buy one, just to try.
No fair! I want!!
**Dotty **and **rigs **and LiLi, you’re all reminding me of some of the (very very many) reasons why we’re not having kids! Ugh.
I had to work very hard to restrain myself this morning. WEBS is having a sale on Misti alpaca - sport-weight skeins for $4.29! I’d love to buy more, but I have to use up what I have first.
We went to Ruby Tuesday’s for dinner last night and ordered some of their fancy flavored iced tea. They come in really tall skinny glasses. Which apparently consist of a heavy glass base and thin glass sides with a join that gets weakened by the hot water in the dishwasher. KT’s glass pulled apart right at that join, and the tea, the ice, and the raspberries in the flavoring went all over the table, the bench seat, and KT’s pants. :eek: They were really nice and actually comped KT’s dinner as well as his drink. So that was cool. But still… maybe you want glasses that aren’t prone to fall apart in a customer’s lap! :smack:
I made this black forest cake (involving Cool Whip and canned cherries) for a coworkers’ birthday. Apparently, it’s really popular around here: two coworkers have told me that their mothers used to make it for their birthdays. It’s super easy, but the layers want to slide apart so now that it’s half eaten, it doesn’t look so pretty.
The projectile body fluids is a bit horrible. Of course, when you have kids, you become a member of the Hallmark Suck Club, and can natter on about how smiles and cuddles and stuff make cleaning up all the time worth it.
That cake looks yummy, taxi. I’d use cream, though, not Cool Whip. We bought 20lbs of pitted sour cherries last week, and some of them will be made into black forest cake. We’ve even got kirsch!
You’re supposed to enjoy traveling with kids? Really? I kind of like it, but it’s usually damn stressful.
WANT!!!
Yeah, this is an Only For Coworkers cake. I’m not willing to take the time to make a from-scratch Black Forest Cake (in large part 'cause I don’t like cooked fruit of any kind, including cherries), and we aren’t willing to eat a Cool Whip + canned cherries cake. So no Black Forest Cake for us. But the coworkers are gobbling it up. They don’t share KT’s disdain for cool whip and my disdain for cooked/canned fruit.
I mentioned to one coworker that I’d made a note on this recipe that said “Coworkers like this cake” and she said I should add a “still” to that.
Peas and plums and farmer’s market are mine. ALL MINE.
Nyah!
LiLi, where in the heck did you get sour cherries? I’ve been desperately trying to find some, mostly because I’ve finally used up the last of my never-ending monster batch of sour cherry jam from two years ago, and would like to replenish my supply.
Back from another day’s adventure at Bahston Light. I’m glad to be headed back to the VunderLair tomorrow.
Loblaws and Valu-Mart both carry ten-pound buckets. Call your nearest one and ask if they’ve got them.
Enjoy is a relative term, of course. I have found as a parent that one mostly gets moments, but not solid weeks’ worth of enjoyment or whatever. Traveling is stressful, period. Add small kids to the mix and it’s either sublime or hell. There seems to be little middle ground.
The diarrhea is/was not small child’s fault. It’s just life as it happens. I remember another explosive shit incident at Disney world (all of my kids had one shit explosion whilst traveling experience. Luckily, it was only one). This time it was #1 son and he also had run through his extra clothes due to an unfortunate liquid/semi-solid treat occurrence. I usually dressed the kids in Target or less (in terms of cost–why pay for things they outgrow, sometimes in a week?). #1 son ended up in a $40 Donald Duck outfit because there was no way we were going off site back to the condo to get him more clothes… He was 3. #2 son was about 2 when he exploded. It’s the nature of the um, beast. 
And (for your reading pleasure) Daughter exploded after a gorging of milk* (and this must be where she started her milk aversion) at about age 18 months, up in a lodge in Wisconsin. She squirted her way through the diaper, her overall rompers. her coat, the corridor carpet, the hotel room carpet and the bathtub.
*only this one time did she drink milk like a fish–seriously, the kid would eat nothing else for a whole day–and then it all came out. Weirdest thing, ever.
And that wraps up Auntie Eleanor’s story hour for today, kids.
Well, I’m sure glad I came in here after dinner… ick!
Day 3 of training was interesting. I did the close-out briefing and towards the end, my throat got really dry and I started coughing. Luckily, I was due to pass it off to the next briefer, so it wasn’t too horrid.
One more day of training tomorrow, then a stoopit meeting on Friday morning, after which I’m coming home early. **FCD **and I are going to Annapolis to look for boat stuff for daughter’s sailboat.
But for now, I just want to sleep… hugs and gropes - take one and pass them on! And I’ll have the chocolate pie - duh!! 
::jumps up and down excitedly, waving::
eventually, but they’ll flare up again. Part of what I am dealing with, going on 14 years, is something akin to lupus, but not full blown. The important organs (heart, liver, kidney) have not yet been affected. Although with the increasing regularity of wonkiness in my GI tract, I shall have the doctor keep a closer eye on things.
In other news, my new toy has a built in webcam. Check this out.
(I hate humid weather. Have I mentioned that lately?)
I got a new Garmin yesterday and after a bit of a blown fuse adventure I used it to navigate down to my dad’s house to pick up a few things I needed and visit. I love my new Garmin.
Home, tired.
As far as the pooping, :eek: {{{**Dotty[/b}}}
Hey, beebs!
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. YAWN
I worked until five pm yesterday which is a looooooooong day for someone who starts work at six am. I met ol’ y’all know who at that most exclusive place of fine dining known as Three Squares Diner for dindin and then came home, got stuff ready for today and crashed. I fear today shall be more of the same. Too many people working on too much stuff is basically what this is all about. I will do this Tuesday through Friday for as long as needed, but not on Saturday and I will do everything possible not to go in on Mondays. Let’s see how long that lasts.
Yay poop stories! We haven’t had an good ones in a long time.
Hugs, boos, yays, icks, trouts, chitlins, noogies, how you doin’s. Distribute as needed.
Up and caffeinating here, with a toasted english muffin too. yum!
Did I miss a Beebs drive-thru?! Hugs to ya, Beebs! Poor Dotty! Hope that HRH has recovered by now. At least it was on the way home that it happened, eh? Welcome to Piemom - hey, I’ll take a piece of that chocolate silk pie too! As long as it’s just virtual, it doesn’t have calories, right?
One more day after today …!
Welcome n00bz! Chocolate silk pie sounds like a very nice way to start the day, even if it is nearly lunchtime here.
Dotty, reading about HRH’s affliction makes me so glad I don’t have kids. I recommend cats, they’re so much less trouble. Hope she makes a speedy recovery though, it couldn’t have been any fun for you. What news on the job situation? I seem to recall you had a job offer to consider or have I just been dreaming?
We went out for beerverages last night, had a nice couple of beers, both from Burton Bridge Brewery. One of them was their award winning Stairway to Heaven and the other was their flagship beer, Burton Bridge Bitter.
Today 'im indoors is heading up to the motherland as it’s his sister’s birthday party this weekend. He’s going a day early to visit his parents and spend a bit of time catching up with friends before I arrive tomorrow night to spoil his fun. I’m only staying until Sunday as I have to be back at work on Monday but at least I can get a cheap upgrade on my train ticket and travel first class on the way home. For all their faults, sometimes I do like Virgin Trains (also known around here as “Virgin Trains Apologise” after the number of times they cancel or delay thing).
I dunno. Our cats have ruined a feather mattress, a karate uniform, about fifteen loads of laundry and four backpacks.
And they freak out every day at fve a.m.
And they’ll never grow out of it.
Not sure they’re that much less obnoxious than kids. I guess I’m allowed to get rid of my cats or eat them or something, and that sort of thing is frowned on if you do it to humans.
My cats are obvioulsy much better behaved than yours! They’ve not really ruined anything although Ophie has a habit of attacking the wallpaper and shredding bits of it but that’s ok 'cos I wanted that bit redecorated anyway.
I do like the idea that if the cats become pregnant, you can sell the babies. I understand that’s frowned upon if you do it with humans too. Of course, we took the sensible option and had the cats neutered, another thing you’re not supposed to do with kids.
On the subject, congrats on your good news. Sticky thoughts heading your way!
Up, caffeinated, off to work.
LiLi, I just tell my zoo that they’ll be hogtied, and left behind the local Chinese restaurant.
BooFae, those sound like good beerverages.