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Please don’t.
Am up at 0500-cannot sleep due to worries re self-absorbed, entitled, selfish, slacker children. Feel bettter already saying that. Won’t bore you all with it, but Things Are Changing Here and Now.
Off to start on the basement, read an article, write a paper, grocery shop and switch to fall clothes (for #2 son). Then will collaspe.
Who stole our pronouns?
<AHEM> CLEARING THROAT <AHEM>
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HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!!
HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!!
HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY DEEEAAARRR PPPUUUGGGYYY!!!
HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TUPUG!!!
Time to make breakfast and to get ready for dance class. Because of wrecking my knee and a weird work schedule, I now have 14 classes to get through before the 28th. That’s a lot of dance class.
I guess Li-Li’s a dancin’ fool. 
Today I have to get my phone taken care of. Idunno if I mentioned this before, but my cell phone broke. It’s a flip phone, and the plastic housing near the hinge cracked and fell off. The only thing still holding it on is the data cable on the other side of the hinge. So I had to have them order a new one of the same phone for a price of $53.50 (upgrading would have cost $150), and now I have to take both in so they can switch the programming and data, etc. Verizon phones don’t use SIM cards (which I don’t understand) so they have to go through some other procedure to transfer my stuff between the phones.
After that, I’m going to finish packing and GO. Which means I won’t be posting here between 4 pm today (EDT) and Monday morning. We’re going to Amherst, MA tonight and moving my sister in there the next morning. Then we go to Hanover, NH that night and move me in the following morning. I’m excited. 
And off I go! Wheeee!
Good morning everyone!
School clothes shopping is complete, EXCEPT I have to drive to Tacoma to pick up a jacket they put on hold for my daughter. They didn’t have it in her size at the mall here, and there wasn’t an acceptable substitute in the ENTIRE mall. Sigh…
Additionally, I still have to buy the SUPPLIES, but at least the clothes are done. I was at the mall for six hours yesterday. Good grief!
Then I have to stop at the grocery store, pick up the fixin’s for a salad I’m taking to our friend’s house, and then come home and make it. After that we leave for our friend’s house.
HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY PUGGY!
I’m hoping that tomorrow calls for some relaxation. I’m TAHRED.
The sun is out and it is warm here.
I, too, have been wondering about Draelin. I’m hoping that she’s so busy and having so much fun that she hasn’t found the time to post.
I need to go get me some go juice now.
Good Labor Day Weekend! I, of course will be laboring all weekend. It’s cool and damp today, it almost feels like hockey season.
MBG, here is your MMP Cliff Notes: Rain! Traffic! Sex vs. Chocolate! Fried fair food on a stick! Grits n’ okra( : puke : )! Fireman Vbob :eek: !
LiLi, I can’t dance, my 6th grade band teacher said I should get a day job, and I have been asked to not sing(but Mom is in the church choir :dubious: ).
MamaT, they are hairy spoiled children, and have domesticated us. Why else would I go for a walk in the sleet at 5:00 a.m., just because someone has to go right now.
rigs, my dad always told me suffering builds character. Maybe you spawn needs just a little bit of suffering?
Tel, I, she, it, we, that.
Spats, that why I don’t have a flip phone. My case is cracked, but duct tape does wonders.
Just running through. Man, you guys are chatty! I miss you guys! No DSL at home yet…although we do have phone. I’m actually at the office. I figured no one’s here, I can use it to check my e-mail quick and let everyone know I’m alive. I don’t know when the DSL is going to be back up, hopefully today or tomorrow.
The house is chaotic but slowly we are putting things together. It’s about the same square feet as the old apartment but shaped radically differently so we’re learning to re-organize.
Also, do you know how damn hard it is to find a decent 13 gallon garbage can for a reasonable price??? Next to impossible. We’ve been to a dozen stores. I don’t want to pay $40+ for a garbage can!
I will definitely be able to access the Internet on Tuesday from work but until then I may be incommunicado. But I’ll see you then!
Love ya guys!
is it that I only have weird dreams when I nap in the afternoon - or those are the only ones I remember?
Started with I was just waking up and my nephew brings me some lunch (not sure why he was here but) then the door rings and I ask him to let the Peapod guy in (I am getting a delivery today) which he does, and I remind him not to let the cat out - or the kitten, who has magically appeared of nowhere when he jumped up into the door of the refrigerator I was just about to close (the dream kitten looked a lot like Smokey, only with a whiter face and paws) When the Peapod guy left I asked my nephew to bring me up a box that was sitting by the door (which is full of mail I need to go thru and is too heavy for me to manage) He did and we opened the box and in it were all sorts of things for his son, my grandnephew . . . more later (if it doesnt fade) I hear the Peapod guy outside
I tried to be good. I tried to resist.
Labor Day weekend marks the annual Altrusa book sale. I don’t need any more books.
There is a crisp 20 dollar bill sitting in front of me. I am going to buy books. I managed to resist for less than 24 hours after the sale opened.
I have no willpower.
(dream continues) . . while we were going thru the box, people, including my cousin, were in my living room. we were all “oooing and aahin” over the stuff. Then, one of the people was Desi Arnez, Sr, but he looked an awful lot like Jason Robards. I know it was Desi because all he talked about wsa Lucy. My dad was there, too, and I mentioned to him it seemed like old times with the whole family and all the neighbors just hanging out. After a while we said our goodnights and went to our bedrooms (magically, my house had developed several addtional BRs) on the way, my other nephew asked me to come check something out on his computer, a notbook style one, something I had to sign in for but couldn’t because the keys were too small and I kept typing the wrong thing.
While dealing with this I mentioned I have to watch for a truck, coming to pick up some used furnature - but realized I could see my house from the bedroom window (yes, apparently now we were all in someone else’s house down the street) I saw the truck pull up so I went to go talk to the guys. When I got to my front yard, I saw them with a ladder and I asked “why did you need a ladder?” no answer. I yelled as I ran to my front door “why the ladder?” I got inside, nothing seemed to be missing, I turned to see them taking old rug remnants and other owrthless things to the truck and their driver was now pointing a double barrelled shot gun at me and sudenly I was holding two broom handles (or maybe they were mop handles) to keep him at bay. I asked “Are you thieves?” “No, just opportunists” Now my dream went split screen, and the other view was of my cousin, in her room, listening to this exchange, and picking up the phone. Dream-me saw this as thought “good” at the same moment as now I was holding the shotgun and the other guy was holding the mop handles. I took aim with the gun, and to my left I was being threatened with a floor sander so I pointed the gun at that guy and told them all to just leave with what they’ve already taken and go. which they did. I folowed them out the door and cocked the gun handle (<snerk> she said cock <snerk>) and for some unknown reason I decided to blow a hole in the side of their truck. This pissed them off and they all came running back to the house. My cousin came out of her room and I asked “did you call 911?” “no, I called my brother” “GO CALL911!” she doesn’t. But at this moment, everyone from the other house “comes home” I see my nephew and yell “Call 911 and take a picture of that truck!” (I knew he had a camera phone) No sooner does he do that then the cops show up and all is well - and then I woke up)
My sis, niece and BIL are here! They rode down on motorcycles. Sis has an automatic cycle with training wheels. She’s ridden short distances with the training wheels off but decided to put 'em on for the 135 mile ride from their house to here. We had lunch at Hooters, where I was “Man Of The Hour.” The Hooter’s Girls sang You Are My Sunshine to me. I felt so special! Then we went to the Harley Davidson store because my BIL must visit any and all Harley stores. They left there going to the Yamaha store (sis’s bike is a Yamaha) so I came on home. They’ll be out here in a bit to hang out at the pool for a while and then we’re all going to dinner. They’re staying the night at a Holiday Inn and planning on leaving early in the morning while it’s still kinda cool to go back home. This was just a last minute wildhair trip for 'em and I’m glad, cause I don’t get to see 'em as often as I’d like.
I’m working. Sigh. Glad everyone else is having fun. Sigh.
(Where’s a self-pity emoticon when we need one?)
I’m doing chores. Does that make you feel better?
Dance class was good. It’s almost time for church. After mass, I think we’re going to Lazy Husband’s to watch bad movies and for me to watch them play WoW. :rolleyes: Envy me.
I haven’t gone to a book store yet this weekend!
Ok, technically that was a lie. I went to Barnse&Noble this morning… but I didn’t buy any books!
I bought a few DVDs instead… DVDs of movies based on books. Gettysburg (base on The Killer Angels) and Sense&Sensibility (based on… well I suppose that ones obvious). But I haven’t gone back to buy the rest of that Goethe set, that has to say something.
Not really. Because if I wasn’t working, I’d be…doing chores.
I really, really need to work on upping my life excitement quotient. :rolleyes:
Well, I’m sitting at home reading the SDMB right now, but if I were working I would be sitting in my office reading the SDMB. And my office has much better A/C, so I think I am actually behind at the moment.
Maybe I should invest in some of that excitment stuff myself…
And speaking of dreams I had a wierd one last night. I watched the movie Road House and the Mike Nelson RiffTrax[sup]tm[/sup] with my roommates last night. It was hilarious, but I found that it was even funnier as I consumed more of my rasberry vodka / hard lemonade concoction. After the movie I went upstairs to my room, a mite bit tipsy, checked the SDMB and then fall asleep. I ended up dreaming that everyone thought I was posting to the boards drunk, but I wasn’t! I would type out a post, copy it into OpenOffice to make sure that the spelling was correct, copy it back and then post. But every time the actual post that got on the board ended up being garbled and drunk looking! People began to chastize me and would dismiss my natually eloquent points on the basis of my obvious inebriation. I kept posting that I wasn’t drunk, but every time I posted it came out looking worse. Finally the mods contacted me and told me that I would be banned if I didn’t stop. I was in the middle of emailing them back to try and explain when I woke up, but I imagine that the email would have ended up garbled and I would have been banned in the end.
I think my brain may be trying to tell me something, either to stop drinking or to stop spending so much time on the SDMB. Stupid brain, not like I ever listned to it before.
Mr All Star Oversized Violin - there’s no reason to completely stop doing either thing - just employ some moderation in both cases (says the girl who checks the boards at work while reports are running in the bacground)
btw - is a McCello an instrument played only at concerts sponsored by a leading fast food chain?
thunder and lightening very close - gonna sign off for a while
Oh right, Happy Birthday Tupug!
A gentleman may wait for the right day, but it takes a special kind of gentleman to consciously wait for the right day and then still almost forget about it… even though the thread is filled with massively sized reminders.
Thats just the thing, I don’t over indulge in either activety, well perhaps the argument could be made for the SDMB (says the guy who almost always has the boards loaded in the background while at work for checking while queries run or code compiles). I just think my brain might be insane.
Happy Birthday, Puggalina, dahlink!!!
Home from a day of running around doing stuff. We lost power again during the night for a couple hours or so, and the cable was still out when we got up. *Someone * needs to hook up the generator we bought 2 years ago!!
We went to check on the boat - apparently the water at Solomons Island got so high, the docks at our marina started floating. We arrived to find sandbags and cinderblocks holding planks down! The good people at the marina had adjusted our docklines to allow for the higher water, and we readjusted them this morning. We also bought a replacement alternator and some belts, went to a very soggy, small craft fair (mine next week will be better! 
) We were going to get an AM/FM/CD player for the boat, too, but Best Buy was closed - no power. But they were giving out 5% off coupons good for tomorrow, and by later this afternoon, the power was restored to that shopping block, so we’ll go tomorrow and get our radio. Plus I’m going to help **FCD ** make up some wiring harnesses.
Tonight, I’ve got to make a pedestal cover. For you non-boaters, the pedestal is the assembly where the steering wheel is mounted. Our pedestal also has the compass, the knot log, depth sounder, and wind indicator, plus the new GPS chartplotter will go there, too. I’m going to make a plain, boring canvas sack to drop over the whole shebang and protect it from the weather. Then when we decide what color we want for the sail cover, dodger, and canopy, I’ll make a new, better fitting cover for the pedestal and the winches.
The sun is out, but it’s still under 70, and I’m loving it!! The dampness is lessening, and tonight should be good sleepin’! Oh, in addition to the pedestal cover, I’m going to build a peach french toast casserole for breakfast tomorrow. Yummmmmmmmmy!
Our yard is a disaster - leaves and branches everywhere. We also had 2 dead trees come down in the back yard, by way far from the house, so no biggie there. We’re going to pick up the big sticks on the grass, then mow over the leaves to mulch them up. No need to rake. And we’ll need a chainsaw weekend to take care of all the big branches. We’re almost out of firewood.
That’s all for now. Life is good!