We’re all a bit meshuganah around here!
Yay Wiki!! ::Takes advantage of the situation and puts in a big hug and a smooch ;)::
**Bobbio **-- congrats on the new job to you, too! I’m just offering you a hug and a slap on the back, though – no kissing :eek: 
That is awesome! 
Groaaaaan!!!
Y’all are from Michigan? 
:eek: 
Good morning! My day started off with spilling half a cup of coffee down the front of my shirt. It could have been worse, it could have been all of it! It didn’t even stain my blouse. I would have been pissed off, since I’m kinda dressed up for our big presentation this afternoon. This is our huge assignment I’ve been bitching about for months. Wish me luck!
Congrats on the house! Congrats on the job! Congrats on the surgery! Congrats on the interview, and crossing appendages that you get the job!
Happy Hannakuh!
Happy Thursday!
I think I ran out of exclamation points…
I plum fergot about one happening that should have been in the list. VWife told the Old Women Without Lives, regularly know as Friends Of the Suffolk Library to go fuck themselves and quit on the spot. This happened in the time between my leaving The Lair and passing through Suffolk on the way to Merrylande. She was in tears, about 50/50 frustration vs. relief.
Come to think of it, if you pronounced FOSL as ‘fossil’, it’s pretty damned accurate.
Don’t know when we’re moving, yet. There’s a lot of paperwork to be done to formalize everything, and I’m on the hook for the old gig until New Year’s anyway. I expect I’ll have a short term flop before moving.
Now I have to figure out what to do about a mortgage that’s about $30K under water… 
I killed the thread! w00t!!!
:smack:
I ain’t but I do know how to make a Michigan left turn; and I am quite proud of me for that!
BRAAIIIIIIINSSSSS
In this economy? Celebrate that you’re only 30k out. When we left California a year ago, we were $330k out. The only good thing was that CA is a “non-recourse” state, which means the bank can’t chase us down for that shortfall or hit us with a 1099 for $330,000 of unearned income.
A bit? Try a whole byte.
Strange times at Target last night - DH and I are both what are commonly called “bears” - kinda big, kinda burly and bearded. Another bear was following us through the store. I was looking at ornaments, and he’d pop around the corner, look at something and scoot off. When we were selecting some games to donate to Toys For Tots, he showed up again, and so on around the store… Definitely the most overt “cruise” I’ve experienced here so far.
I had a weird dream last night… I was in Iraq and running through the streets at night trying to keep from getting shot. I looked like the main demolition expert in The Hurt Locker, only I was dressed in skivvies and my name was Palin. Go figure.
ETA: Wait, skivvies are underwear. I meant civvies, civilian clothes as opposed to a uniform. Running through Iraq in skivvies would have been really weird.
I have read, but not retained. (Gettin old sucks!)
Happy Birthday, to them as has earned it!!!
Yay for new job Bobbio, sorry about the back. I feel your pain, except right now, I only feel about 1/20th of your pain.
Swampy, you hafta wear the good underwear to a job interview? What kinda interview is this?
Yays and boos as appropriate to everyone else.
Gotti, I had a couple of scruffy looking fellows follow me around WalMart one time, until i went in the back to sporting goods and bought several boxes of ammunition. They lost interest after that.
Is a Michigan left turn the same as a Detroit left turn? 'Cause Detroit is one of the weirdest places to drive I’ve ever been. To turn left at some intersections, you hafta go through the intersection, then turn left into the oncoming stream of traffic, :eek: merge right, :eek: and then make a right turn. :eek::eek::eek: I think that’s in case your car doesn’t fall apart fast enough on it’s own.
Morning! Nothing going on here really. I do like working from home however.
Bobbio we are currently about 130K upside down on the house so I feel your pain. Company may be making me move early next year as well. At that point we will have to become unwilling landlords and rent it out. We want out of Cali desperately but can’t unload the house.
14 more sleeps til vacation!
Quoted to save typing. 
Good luck with your presentation, rebo.
My doctor’s appt (with the PA) went well. I think I may have found a PA who actually listens and isn’t condescending and doesn’t question decisions I make with other doctors (specialists). Yay!
I’ve run out of Important Work at work so now I’m stuck helping a coworker with data entry. Yippee.
Good luck, **swampy **- it’s about time you got your lazy ass back to work!!
**BBBobbio **- just hope your impending move doesn’t coincide with another storm of the century - that would well and truly sucketh. Oh, and when you start looking for a place to live around here, if you would give me your preferences, I can try to steer you to or away from areas as applicable. Alas, there’s nothing available in my neighborhood at the moment, so you’ll have to live a bit farther away from my awesomeness. 
**lieu **Palin? That’s the stuff of nightmares!! With or without skivvies… :eek:
Daughter is babysitting a friend’s son tonight so she won’t be in for dinner. I’m trying to decide whether to make a quiche for my sweetie and me or hold off and do that tomorrow. I’m really not all that hungry, having inhaled leftover soup for lunch. We’ll see what FCD wants when he gets home.
And speaking of him, **BBBobbio **didn’t mention that my sweetie asked if he was interested in interviewing for another job with the company where **FCD **works. I was about to protest - I want to go to work there, dagnabbit. Just because I’m not an electrical engineer… sheesh…
Glad tomorrow’s Firday. I’s tahred. Idiot cats kept me up on and off all night. Guess I need to lock them out. Yeah, right, lock out Taz the door-opener…
I fell asleep in my chair last night. No dreams erotic or otherwise.
Congrats, Wiki!!
Yay new job. VBob!
Boo underwater mortgage.
Hugs n’ trout to the rest of you lot.
Wait, lemme see if’n I got this right. lieu had a dream about runnin’ through the streets of Iraq in Sarah Palin’s skivvies? :eek:
Bumba of course one wear’s one’s good drawers. What if you pass out durin’ the interview and the paramedics are called and there’s a need for the paramedics to pull your pants off in front of everybody. Would you want everybody to see your ratty drawers? See, it’s all for a purpose.
Ima see this thing through. It will involve helpin’ senior citizens understand their medicaid stuff, choose plans, explan the various and sundry plans, counsel concerning how to choose plans and providers, decipher hospital bills and such. I’ll be working three local counties, so that ain’t so bad. See Jawja has many counties so counties tend to not be too big so I could travel thirty miles and see folks in two counties literally. Seriously, Jawja has 159 counties and could easily do with half that many. So, here I go with this employment thang again, pretty much startin’ right away, as in Monday. Part-time to begin with but will be full-time once I get all the trainin’ stuff in. Go Me!
gotti, y’all got cruised/stalked in Tarjay? 
LOL! you folks make me laugh, thanks! Today was the first day back at work and it went pretty well, although I didn’t have a chance to check in on SDMB.
BBBBBobbio, congrats on the job and I’m hoping that’s what you want to hear. Wage freeze for two years here, but guess I should be grateful that I have a job (if only I could retire from it!!!)
Gotti, a stalker at Target?! You and DH be careful now! Stalkers can be … unbalanced. Sending good thoughts your way.
At least tomorrow is Firday, right? 
My friend gave me a pair of her drug store reading glasses, and they seem to be working just fine for me to be able to read with!! I can even read my book in bed; the only downfall there is that the glasses are still on me when I’m in bed and I usually will fall asleep in that position. LOL Carefully now, I guess!
Thanks again to everyone who has been so encouraging to me, it means a great deal to me!
Why does this always happen? I struggle to find a job, and finally something happens. The NEXT day, I have 3 new, hard feelers from other companies that are now past the “let’s talk on the phone to see if he’s a dork” phase.
Hell, one of them is with that mega-employer in Cedar Rapids I talked to at Halloween that told me to get stuffed; another one is a nerdy-sexy instrumentation and control job that would be an in-state move, and the third is the civil service position to replace one of the Coastie guys I worked for who retired about the same time he ran out of stuff for me to do.
Mrs. Fred is not doing so well. They found increased intracranial pressure, and she’s starting to have petit mal seizures. They did a lumbar puncture on her for culture purposes, and if that comes back negative, they’ll send her to Pirateville to the Really Big White Building With Patients to have a cranial shunt put in.
There’s no stress in my life right now.
Go** Bobbio**!!! Congrats on the new job…even when there are other opportunities all over the place again. And yay for your new job, too, swampy! Sounds like something you’d be really good at. And would enjoy, too.
Sorry Mrs. Fred isn’t doing so well.
No, I’m pretty sure lieu said he was dancing through the streets of Iraq. Perhaps with Bristol?
Glad the reading glasses are working, tarra! How exciting!
I’m definitely from Michigan, SO. And possibly meshuganah as well.
Decorated at the park this morning, then came home and ran errands and started to put my bedroom back together again. Also did some laundry. Then Local Best Friend called to see if I wanted to go to the zoo to see the pretty lights. So, we went with her daughter and walked all over the place. It was very cool. You walk and walk and walk and the lights feel like they’re going on forever.
Now I’m finishing off some laundry and going to sleep, I hope.
Hugs all.
GT
Morning all, up and caffeinating here, and getting ready to head off to work. More later!
Sorry about Mrs. Fred. Hope the docs are able to help here.
Good luck, BBBBobbio! You’ll end up doing what is the right thing for you, I know.
Thanks, GT; wish I could come and see your decorations in the park, btw.
And lastly, HAPPY FIRDAY!!!
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. ‘Tis cold again outside. 31 Amurrkin. Makes for a nice brisk walk to the mailbox to get the mornin’ paper.
BBBobbio what can I say, you’re a much wanted man. I take it the civil service gig would not require a move? Hey, it’s nice to have choices. Sorry about Mrs. Fred. I’ll keep her in my thoughts and prayers.
Herbs glad the readin’ glasses are workin’ and that everything else seems to be fine.
gt one of the Christmasy things I lurve to do is to go see the purty lights at the local zoo/park. It’s only a couple of miles from da cave even. We like to ride around to see all the purty lights and entertain ourselves by lookin’ at ‘em through 3D glasses. Usually we go with JDD and Partner and everybody takes a turn drivin’ so everybody gets to look at purty lights in 3D. One cannot drive and use 3D glasses. 3D glasses also make street lights look funky. I gets my amusements where I can find 'em!
So, in a bit Ima go purtify and then go do paperwork for the new gig. I’m wantin’ to jump in and get goin’ Monday mornin’. That’s the plan.
OK, time for some brekkies and purtification.
Happy Firday Y’all!
A Happy St FrankieX to any Xaviers here
I’m off now, and all of next week, and the following week I’ll be traveling to the other end of the country, so if y’all wonder why there seem to be less posts, it’s my fault. Y’all don’t get into any messes unless they happen to be fun ones.