I admit it. I’m jealous. I love all snow storms, but a blizzard is the best (as long as no one gets hurt etc). Enjoy the wild weather!
Morning!
Glad Mr. Inappropriate has escaped. Hope he gets his stuff together quickly.
150 miles on a bike sounds exhausting, SandyHook! But fun, I’ll bet.
I love Whole Foods as well, beebs. Our Wild Oats is in the midst of becoming Whole Foods, so I’ll soon have one much closer than before. (The ginormous one is about 20 minutes away; Wild Oats is about a 5-minute drive from here.) Have fun in Vermont! As for your being weird in re: storms. I’m not shocked. 
Hi kai! Hope the storm clears out soon.
[annoying work stuff] Nava, could you come to my workplace? My team is currently doing user-acceptance testing on a new system. The development cycle seems to have completely skipped over QA (why bother?). They’re supposed to implement in about a week. I’m told the user interface is still extremely buggy and we’ve just been through a week of excuses for interface files that are filled with errors. “We were debugging. It won’t look like that in production.” “Oh, we fixed that, don’t worry. It won’t look like that in production.” Ad nauseam. We haven’t had a single process cycle look like it could be production. And we won’t sign off until we’ve seen two reasonable-volume cycles that look like production. I’m not hopeful.[/aws]
It appears that I actually slept through the night. Yay! And got a reasonable amount of sleep. Double yay!
Breakfast and valentines and mailing stuff and cleaning kitchen and…I have lots to do today.
Happy Saturday everyone!
GT
Pssst, Nava, y’know, he hasn’t answered me, yet, either.
Busy day - work til 2, lunch with friend, work on taxes, work on SDMB valentines, play Risk on line, sleep (if I have time) (then Sunday) more valentines, more taxes, get hair done, go to dinner and comedy club with friends, come home, play more Risk, sleep, then Monday start the week all over again. whew I’m tired already. 
Back from breakfast. McKay’s was having its once-in-a-while seafood festival, so we stopped and got some snow crab legs and king crab legs. To the tune of $46, because we’re worth it, dammit! All I need to do is come up with some side dishes, and supper is planned. Yum.
I’ve got the heat vent opened in my studio, and I’m going to head down in a little bit to start sculpting. First load is in the washer, maybe 5 more to go today. **FCD ** is already in the design mode, so he’ll be working for hours. All in all, a quiet day planned here. Unnamed kitteh has been wandering about at his ease. Life is good.
It’s grey and cold and overall-icky outside. Winter has returned after our 2 or 3 above-normal temps earlier this week. How much longer till spring??
too long
btw - Moooom’s new nickname is **FCbM ** - as per the Valentines Thread
We just watched our whacko feline open the cabinet under the sink and try to get into the garbage can. He’s a persistent little bugger! And I fear we may have to get child-proof latches. Goofy cat!
Wow, that cat sounds crazy, FCM.
Mr Inappropriate ended up crashing at New England Gentleman’s place - he meant to go over there to begin with, but NE Gentleman and his roommate were at some party. But I fed him pasta - poor guy hadn’t eaten anything since lunch - and listened sympathetically as he vented. Apparently Ice Queen begged him to stay. I’m sure she’ll realize that getting someone to stay through begging wouldn’t have ended well anyway, but I still felt for her - I’ve definitely been there.
All right. Coffee, breakfast, and then shopping for food to feed the hungry masses.
Found out something this morning.
I can no longer sleep on wet hair and have it look “ok” in the morning. :eek: I looked like an ugly Harpo Marx!
Off to the library today. My car is in the shop d/t it starting to shimmer and shudder over 60mph. Cross your fingers that it’s only a tire, kay? <watches her money just drain through her fingers>
Stay warm, folks–cold weather is a-comin’.
Happy Saturday, everyone.
Oof. Baby had Great Unhappiness from ten to twenlve-thirty last night. I’m sort of on the brink of thinkming about reducing dairy things in my diet to see if that might help, and I practically live on dairy.
I’m sitting here with him right now. Nat, this is the Straight Dope, and these are your aunts and uncles. They’ll introduce you to cyber-flirting and bad jokes.
Hello, Nat! :: waves frantically at monitor ::
I’m up … not appropriately caffeinated, though, which I’ll soon rectify with a cuppa Irish Breakfast tea (can’t explain why I like it; I usually drink coffee, but this tea is good).
Not much on the agenda this weekend; a bit of shopping here and there (a little grocery and maybe a trip to the local Tarjay). I got an email from one of my brothers yesterday - our Dad is starting to make preparations to move into a sr. citizens community (Cathedral Village in the Phila. area). He’s been in his home for 26 years (it’s a three BR rowhouse in Mt. Airy) and will be going into an efficiency apt., so he’s got a lot of stuff to get rid of and/or sell. He also finally retired for good - he’d actually retired back in 96, but has been working part-time ever since. And then last year he had a corneal transplant that didn’t go well and he ended up losing the sight in that eye (he won’t let them do the other eye now). I called him last night, and he just sounded so overwhelmed and depressed to me. And then he kept saying things like he didn’t want to live any more! He’s taken antidepressants for years, but apparently all these life-changing events have swept over him like a tidal wave and his meds just aren’t working for him as well as they used to. So please keep my Dad in your thoughts and prayers - he needs them. I wish there was something I could do for him, but there really isn’t. I think he’s making the right decision to move to the senior citizens community, but my gosh he’s going to have to get rid of so much of his stuff, most of it what he’s accumulated over his nearly 79 years. My brothers who live in the area are going to help him, of course; I called one of them last night and told him about the depression, so hopefully he’ll keep a close watch on things. Gah–it’s only been nearly 5 years since my Mom died; I’m really afraid for my Dad now.
Well, sorry for being so depressing on the weekend. FCM, I think Tornado or Vortex would be very appropriate names for that kitteh! He does sound like a sweetheart even if he’s making trouble. And he put the kibosh on Scruffy?! LOL
I’ve got turkey chili in the crock pot, and I’m going to cook a pot roast in the oven too, so I’ll be busy cooking today. Happy weekend, all.
Hi Nat! Who’s a big boy? Whozzahbigboi? You are! Yes you are!
(how’d I do?)
I had my first work dream about the library last night. The last time I had a work dream was when I was working at Tarzhay four years ago. Those sucked because I hated that job. Last night’s dream made me lonely because my schedule is the polar opposite of my friends’ and I don’t get to see them that much anymore.
This semester is going to wear me flat out. Tuesdays I work fourteen hours, Wednesday I’m up from 6:30 to midnight, Thursdays I’m flat out evil, and I start observing next week on Monday and Wednesday.
…Good lord, they really have to retire the shuttles. I’m listening to the radio and they’re talking about NASA noticing another piece of debris breaking off during liftoff. It makes me want to snarl political things.
Hi Nat! Look, a shiny thing! Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiny.
Good morning everyone. I’m up and waiting for the coffee to finish brewing.
We don’t have any plans that I’m aware of, so I’m hoping it’ll be a nice quiet weekend. I need to go grocery shopping and I have to pick up a gift card for someone, but that’s about it. Well, there’s laundry and tidying up to do, but you all know what I mean in regards to a nice quiet weekend.
I didn’t sleep well last night at all. I basically cat napped all night long. I’m feeling tired, but I’m hoping that will pass in the next hour or so.
Hello Nat!
Awwww babies! Hi Nat :waves:
One of my best friends just found out she is pregnant. I am a little jealous. But really happy for her.
Up barely and depressed after looking at my bank acocunt balance. All my bills are paid I just don’t have any fun money this month. The weekend will be spent in the house doing nothing.
{{herbs dad }}
For some reason, this strikes me as ominous.
I was bored and skimmed back through a few past MMPs. Lots of people come and go, eh?
Libby the crazy kitty is sitting in the window ledge in the dining room watching the birds in the back yard. Hours of free entertainment.
I better get in the shower and run a couple of errands - need kitty litter and kitty food!
Still all quiet here on the homefront. My daughter has left to go hang out with friends and neither my son nor husband have managed to get out of bed yet.
Herbs, I’m glad your Dad has your brothers nearby to help him. I’ll keep all of you in my thoughts.
Guilty on both charges
Hi Nat! Yes, your mama is talking about uncle **SO **there! 