This day in History - MMP

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Afternoon all. Sorry if I have been conspicuous in my absence, but between work and Teh Sick there just hasn’t been much time. Yesterday, I managed to cram 15 hours of work into 10, just so I could get out of the office by 7pm. If I hadn’t had those stupid documents to draft, I wouldn’t have gone into work at all. As it was, I decided that out of all the things I had to do yesterday, getting properly dressed for work wasn’t going to be one of them, so I went to work in tracksuit pants and a sweatshirt, complete with sport shoes (sneakers, whatever the hell they’re called) - a great look for a lawyer, huh? My boss didn’t turn up until 1pm anyway, and when he did, he just said, “Wow, you look like crap. No wonder you didn’t bother getting dressed. I bet you feel even worse!” Thank you very much!

Haze, I don’t care who made that bathrobe. It’s nylon and nobody under the age of 60 should be caught dead in it!

rigs, nice do! My hairstylist deliberately doesn’t make my hair all fancy-schmancy at the salon, because she wants me to see how it will be normally, so I don’t suffer buyer’s remorse the next time I wash it!

{{{Cutie}}}

Okay, now that my morning off work has been filled with making exciting dinners for HRH for the week (pureed carrot, sweet potato, leek, potato and squash with minced lamb and cubed carrots and potatoes) followed by making cheesy meatballs with a lemon sour cream-mayonnaise dip, I think a soak in the bathtub is in order! Maybe this evening, I will make sausage and capsicum (aka red pepper) quiche. YUM!

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So Happy It’s Thursday

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No and No and No on that robe. Try Target or Sears (seriously)–they have lots of cute sleep stuff. I no like VS, but that’s on principle. Ever since they had those stupid “angels” on the runway commercial, I decided this was a company too ridiculous to get my business…
Am up and off to work soon. Look, MORE snow last night! But I’m not shoveling, anymore. Gah.

Sorry for the sickies. BooFae–perhaps you could staple the diary to her head?

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Well at least I have just enouch sense to ask the advice of the MMP and let y’all save me from myself. :stuck_out_tongue:

Happy Lunar New Year, everyone!

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haze, that robe is even to granny for ME! Plus you smoke. One ash on that sucker and you’d be toast! You are much more like this. Myself, if I wanted warm and snuggly, I’d go for this one.

rigs, great new do. Very flattering. I agree with nooney, though, and think you should have a little bit of wave.

boofae, I have one of those TKs myself. Thinks your her personal assistant and talk about patronizing! :stuck_out_tongue: A good trout slap is in order.

We have weather coming in so the shuttle launch may be scrapped. Couldn’t see it today anyway with all the cloud cover. Bummer.

Tupug

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Morning, all. It’s lovely and sunny here but much, much cooler than yesterday, alas. I was awakened by the Idiots barking furiously at some workers next door. Stoopid dogs. And stoopid workers, out there banging things around and talking in extra-loud outdoor voices far too early in the morning. :rolleyes:

Love the new haircut, rigs! But I’m totally and completely jealous of your curly hair, so I like it better when it’s not straightened. I’d pay good money for that kind of curl if I could get it. My son has it, too. Why did I get left out? :frowning:

Isn’t dealing with Luddites fun, BooFae? At least the last time I had to, it was at the law firm where everyone had to use their electronic calendars, even if they never touched a computer; that just meant that their assistant did it for them, which worked better in any case. Paper calendars were only allowed to be backups to the electronic ones, not vice versa. TK really is a piece of work, though; I agree with your plan to do everyone else’s work, just to remind her of her [del]lack of[/del] importance in the scheme of things.

Okay, since we’ve all been so critical of Haze’s taste in robes, what do you guys have to say about this one? Because Papa Tigs got me that one for Christmas. It fit all my requirements: I wanted something that zipped with no slits in the hem to keep me warm, something longer than average, and something in a pretty color. I really love the smocking on the top. And I don’t think it looks as old lady as most such styles. Plus I can wear it out to the mailbox and not feel like an idiot. Honest opinions only, please – but remember, even if you think it looks old lady, I’m about the same age as Aunt Bea was on The Andy Griffith Show, so I’m not exactly a spring chicken any more! :eek: :dubious: :smiley:

I guess I should get back to work. The congressional [del]drivel[/del] work starts again today. O frabjous day. In the meantime, I’ve got to finish up Snooty Old Lady. If I can take another day of her name-dropping. Mind you, she was friends with everybody who was anybody in the modern art world (Pollack, Chagall, Peggy Guggenheim, etc.), but even so it gets to be a bit much listening to her blather on and on. Living in the past, that one was. (I say “was” because she’s been dead for 25 years, since a couple years after this recording was made, but she certainly sounds alive in my headphones!)

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I cannot see, mamatigs. :frowning:

ETA Okay, I tweaked the site a bit and now I see it. Love the color, Bea :wink: Eh, not as granny as the haze one.

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Hi all!

Busy busy - as usual. Love the hair. Hate the first robe. Linkie no work for second robe.

Back to work - grumble grumble…

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Pugs, both of those robes look really nice. (Also cheaper than VS… hmmm.) Thanks for the links!

MamaTigs, linky no worky.

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Mornin’ all. ::looks at clock:: yes, it’s still morning. ::grumble grumble::

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Let’s see if this linky workys.

Okay, it works for me.

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Is it quittin’ time yet?

I am taking off early today - quick stop to the gym, then I’m off to be a judge for a spelling bee later.

So there, that’s the excitement I have planned today.

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Your link must hate me, because I still can’t see it.

yawn It’s snowing. I guess I’ll stay in today, at least until they clear the driveway.

They had bunches of cut daffodils at the store yesterday! They’re my favorite flowers, but I haven’t wanted to get any in pots because I tend to kill plants. I killed a cactus once, seriously. But these were already doomed, so I got some. They weren’t open when I got home, but this morning, I have daffies! I love the winter, but it’s nice to have a bit of spring around, especially since I’m quite sure daffies don’t grow up here.

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aaauurghhhhh!

that is all.

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Rosie, you’re mad when you’re cute.

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Type “Woman Within Smocked velour robe” into the search box.

I kinda like it. I would get it for my mom. :slight_smile: Except for the zipper part. I have an aversion to robes with zippers, for some reason.

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MamaT, linky worked fine for me! I likey! Lovely red robe, which I am sure is nice and warm! And it’s nowhere near as “Grandma” as that thing Haze found on etsy! :wink:

I am now going to sit down in front of the TV and watch House! I have no idea what season it is (House just had the Ketamine treatment at the end of the last season/beginning of this season), but I haven’t seen it and I will enjoy! And the new Survivor starts tomorrow night (Micronesia)! w00t!!! Now I just have to get my husband and my daughter to fit in with my TV viewing schedule!!! :smiley:

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Heh. Never mind.

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:confused: so, I’m, uh, mad all the time? :smiley:

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Just zippin’ by for a quick howdy.

HOWDY!