I don’t have a car. I might be able to train the cats to pull a little cart.
Happy birthday! Have some chocolate!
Me too. Can I be 'scused too?
First, Happy Birthday WileE!!
Second, I’ve been trying to come up with a good word since I started reading this post, but I’ve got nuttin. The long weekend seems to have drained my intellectual reserve.
Third, I had a good weekend. Visited the parents on Saturday/Sunday. Had GOOD food. Went rollerblading yesterday and got a little sunburned on my shoulders and the back of my neck. It’s so good to finally see the sun!!
And I spent lots of time talking to KeithT. 
He’s coming back the weekend after next. Yay!! I’m already counting down the days: 9 days to go!
Oh and my car is Galapagos (sp?) Green.
That’s all I’ve got.
That sounds like something my mom would do. She had a little cat circus once–she trained one cat to jump through a hoop, one to roll over, and another one to jump up on a wagon and go for a ride. All she needed was a little tent, and she could have charged admission.
I’m going home soon! YAY! It’s been a loooooong day! I even got stuff done. Tuppy I ain’t sick or nuttin’ just didn’t want to be here. I didn’t sleep well last night and ended up getting out of bed at 4 AM cause I was tired of just lying (laying?) there. Poor ACBG won’t be finished with work til after eight tonight so we’re not gonna see each other. That’s ok though cause he’s coming to spend the night tomorrow. Plus, maybe tonight I need to take a sleepy pill and just go to bed real early. YAWN
Rue we need puppy pictures, now! Cute puppy pictures make me feel better.
As far as I’m concerned you can, scout That will make two of us.
And Happy Birthday, WileE. Sorry I forgot it earlier.
Saturday I got to have the bestest sammich in the world, a Primanti Brother’s Cheese Steak, sitting at the counter of the original restaurant when I was home. Yippee for me!!
Happy B-day, Wile E!!!
<flinging confetti with wild and reckless abandon>
We mowed the lawn this afternoon. I made an appointment to take my critters to the vet this Friday. It’s gonna be expensive. I miss the low-cost Humane Society Clinic that I used in Orange Park. Oh well…
Nothing more exciting to share. My workday was dull. But a coworker gave me a coupla tomato plants and some squash plants, so there’s that.
Happy puppy, Rue!
Oh oh oh…I actually made it in here on Wile E’s birthday to wish her an appropriately festive (not to mention colorful):
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Hi, Rue! Happy Heat Pump Replacement Day!
Taters, I was just noticing that there seemed to be a lot of green cars here when you asked: “Did’ja all notice that a lot of MMPer’s seem to have green vehicles?” So: yes, I did.
I hope green isn’t a requirement, because car color is a complete coincidence in my case. My criteria are very sophisticated when I buy cars: must have 4 wheels, be in reasonable shape, be able to get me from point A to point B reliably, and be in my cash or close-to-cash price range. (What? This isn’t the “things you’re irrationally cheap about” thread?)
chaoticdonkey, have you noticed that everyone else seems to be ignoring the fact that the OP is a puzzle? Your spoiler was spot on, by the way.
So…I haven’t actually had dinner. Hmmm…maybe a rerun of the tortelloni, tomatoes and herbs from last night? It was good and easy and all the ingredients are on hand.
Rest of the week promises to be crazy - extra work tomorrow and Thursday to make up for missing Friday and Monday. The story of my year so far is: I want to have my cake and eat it too. So I’m traveling to Local Best Friend’s wedding (which, sadly, is not local) AND dealing with everything that’s due this week for the Project From Heck.
I think things slow down next week. Maybe. Just a little? Prolly not.
GT
Thanks for the greetings everyone!
I had a lovely day. :rolleyes: I always remember on my birthday that I need to renew my motor vehicle registration and this year my driver’s license was also due, you know what that means, right? dun dun DUN that’s right, the DMV. Well, I looked at my DL renewal and it said I could do it online! Yay! And I can renew my car registraion too! Yay! So I enter all the pertinent info and it said my car reg was over 8 months expired! :eek:
What the … ?! How can that be? I’m certain I renewed it last year I even have vague memories of doing so. If I didn’t I’d been driving around for over a year with an expired tag. Holy carp!How did I manage that? Well, I finished up the DL renewal online and called the tax collectors office (where you go for motor vehicle renewals). They said I did indeed not renew it last year, all I needed to do was go in to the office with my DL, tag number and proof of insurance and I would have to pay last year’s and this year’s tag fees plus a $10 late fee. My heart was racing the whole way there but I made it without being pulled over by a cop. I went in at the lunch hour but it only took around 20 minutes.
I think I managed to convince myself I had renewed the tag last year because when I have lots of things to do I picture myself doing each one to help me remember it, I must have had something come up so I didn’t get it done but later “remembered” doing it. At least that’s over for this year.
I came home and made myself a huge dinner, roasted cornish hen, tater tots, peas and rolls. Then I baked some red velvet cupcakes but I made a mistake in measuring. I took my chances and baked it anyway, they’re edible but not as light and fluffy as I hoped. At least the cream cheese frosting came out perfect - that’s the best part. I have ice cream too, so it’s not a total loss.
I say to heck with diets, it’s my birfday!
I made it through the cake batter and adding the red food coloring without spilling any red dye or getting it on me. Then I accidentally mistook the food coloring bottle for the vanilla extract when I made the icing. I noticed when I poured it into the measuring spoon, so then I ended up with red fingers on both hands. 
Oh, and a Discworld book I ordered arrived in my mailbox today so now I have something to read while I digest my huge dinner.
Good morning or afternoon or evening depending on where ya are! I had a real good night’s sleep, so I’m all chipper this morning. Without the help of too much caffiene even! Puggy’s right that word is everywhere in the MMP. How that word of that word!
Today I am reading up on CPR cause tomorrow I’m challenging the test for my CPR renewal. That means I have to demonstrate rescue breathing, chest compressions, Heimlech maneuver and take the test. If I pass, which I know I shall, I don’t have to take the class on Friday. This is good cause I also have to sit through a hour and a half web-based in-service training class from 3-4:30 PM Friday afternoon. YAWN I plan on doing that from home. The fun part of that is, for all they know, I have the training opened in one window and can be surfing porn in another window at the same time. Not that I surf porn. Not me. I’m much to nice to ever even think of doing something like that. Nope. No porn surfin’ for me. Don’t do it. Shameful to even think of doin’ it. Never. Nope. Not ever ever never ever! You shouldn’t either. Be like me.
Now I shall go harrass staff about monthly reports and such.
-swampbear (I’ll bet they’re all trying to hide from me)
I’m tired! Mr. Anachi and I were woken up at 3:00 AM this morning to major funder and lightnin’ what seemed to be right over our house. We were actually surprised we didn’t get a hit. Seemed to just sit there for the longest time.
Mama and Papa mockingbird were feeding baby last night before it got dark. I didn’t get a chance to check to make sure the funder and lightnin’ hadn’t skeered it outta the tree it was in.
And, of course, after bein’ off for four days work is SNAFU. :rolleyes:
For the record…I have never owned a green car.
Tupug
Hello and Happy Wednesday to y’all. I’m trying to decide what to have for lunch.
I’m not going back to this unnamed restaurant though. Let me tell ya what happened:
Two weeks ago, we took some friends out to a new restaurant, and noticed that the waiter who took our order carried a spoon in his shirt pocket. It seemed a little strange.
When the busboy brought our water and utensils, I noticed he also had a spoon in his shirt pocket. Then I looked around saw that all the staff had spoons in their pockets.
So’s when the waiter came back to serve our soup, I asked, “Why the spoon?”
“Well,” he explained, “the restaurant’s home office hired an efficiency consulting firm to evaluate all our processes. After several months of analysis, they concluded that the spoon was the most frequently dropped utensil. It represents a drop frequency of approximately 3 spoons per table per hour. If our personnel are better prepared, we can reduce the number of trips back to the kitchen and save 15 man-hours per shift.”
As luck would have it, I dropped my spoon and he was able to replace it with his spare. “I’ll get another spoon next time I go to the kitchen instead of making an extra trip to get it right now” he told me.
I was impressed. That’s when I noticed that there was a string hanging out of the waiter’s fly. Looking around, I noticed that all the waiters had the same string hanging from the same place (not on little pull-thingy (A zipper aglet? I don’t know the technical term), but stuffed inside the pants through the zipper.) So before he walked off, I asked the waiter, “Excuse me, but can you tell me why you have that string right there?”
“Oh, certainly!” Then he lowered his voice. “Not everyone is so observant. That same consulting firm I mentioned also found out that we can save time in the restroom. By tying this string to the tip of you-know-what, we can pull it out without touching it and eliminate the need to wash our hands, shortening the time spent in the restroom by 76.39 percent.”
“After you get it out, how do you put it back?” I asked. A natural enough question.
“Well,” he whispered, "I don’t know about the others, but I use the spoon.
“I’ll tell you what,” I said. “I’ll just keep the spoon I dropped and you can have this one (pointing at spoon on the table) back. Okay?”
<snerk> That was funny Sean. <snerk>
Tuppy I’m glad the baby mockingbird is doing ok. I had a similar experience with a bluejay three years ago. He turned out ok too. We should help our baby birdie friends whenever we can.
I’m still waiting on cute puppy pictures Rue. We need to see cute puppy pictures. We demand you take and post cute puppy pictures. Oh, right, you don’t have a digital cam. Borrow one. Maybe Skippy has one. How does Lucy like the new doggie? How do Soupo and Katcha like the new doggie? How’s the new heat pump? What’s for dinner? We need a Rue post.
I think we’re going to Margarita night at the real good Mexican restaurant tonight. Maybe I’ll have me some beef and chicken fajitas. That’d be good. It’s raining here. A lot. I’m thinking about turning off my sprinkler system so it won’t go on in the morning but I might not cause it’s supposed to have this rain sensor thingy that’s supposed to sense when it’s either raining or has rained a half inch or more in a twenty-four hour peiod. If it’s raining or has rained a half inch or more it’s supposed to not come on. I’m kinda curious to see if it’ll work cause it has definitely rained at least half an inch and is supposed to keep raining through the day and night. I’ve never tried to see if it worked before. I have an inquiring mind.
I also still want to see cute puppy pictures. HINT! HINT!
Unlikely as it may seem, I, too, missed the trick of the OP. But I went back and found it. I’m impressed, Puggy! Quite a feat! Unfortunately, I think you overrated your audience. I mean, at least you overrated me! Tupug Tutricky. On the other hand, Rue’s OPs are often too clever in an entirely different way. Units of humor measurement may not be interchangeable, you know. Swampy does not equal FCM, who does not equal the absent Dangergene, but we love them all!
Hello, everyone. Been lurking more than usual this week. Busty at work, and busy at home unpacking. Our cable is still screwy, so the home wireless network isn’t functional yet.
I had my pre-op consult today, and I get my gastric bypass first thing Monday morning. Supposedly, the TVs in the hospital are WebTV sets, so I can probably get in on the next MMP from my bed. The surgeon asked about my surgical history, and I told him that I had a 4-way wisdom tooth extraction at 19, a tonsillectomy at 3, but by far the most traumatic surgery was my circumcision. I didn’t walk for close to a year afterwards…
Oh, and I’ve had blue, black, tan, red, and brown cars in my life so far.
OK, I know I’m gonna catch all kinds of hell for that typo. :smack:
<snerk> That’s okay, as long as you-know-what doesn’t ensue.
Yep, that’s one of the best typos I’ve ever seen!
I didn’t know V-Bob’s a stripper!
Good luck with the surgery! We’ll be thinking about you on Monday!
<<snerk, snerk, snerk>> Ya know, maybe you could talk your doc into takin’ care of that problem on Monday, too. Seriously, I’ll be sendin’ as many puggy vibes as I can that all goes well and your recovery is swift.
merry, great job!
swampy, you’re making me jealous…or maybe hungry…I’m not sure which.
Tupug
Am I too late for Wile E’s birthday?
Happy Birthday Wile E!!!
Pssst. Tomorrow is my birthday.
Cars? Let’s see:
'60 Corvair - white.
'56 Chevy Belair - green over white
'57 Triumph TR3 - green
'64 MGB - white
??? Kawasaki Mach III - red
'53 DeSoto - black
?? VW bug - green
'64 Triumph TR4A - white
'53 Chevy 1/2 ton pickup - baby blue
'56 Triumph TR2 - orange
??? Ford Big-Assed Stationwagon (yes, I’m sure that was the model) - red
??? VW bug - blue
'77? Toyota Corolla - white
'64 Ford Ranchero P/U - red
??? Datsun Honeybee - blue
'72 VW Thing - yellow
'74 Ford 3/4 ton P/U - green
??? Datsun P/U - baby blue
'90 Mazda P/U - black
'88 Ford Ranger XLT - black
I also have a Mazda 626 - kinda goldish/tan but Wifey drives that.
There’s prolly a few I missed along in there.
Do you have any idea what some of those cars are worth today? :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack:
Oh, and one more thing: Bob has man-boobs! <points and runs away> <snerk>
So far, the cats have been unwilling to pull a cart. They keep falling asleep when I explain the concept of ‘working for your living, you lazy little sods’. I just spent $40 on cat food, and I’m feeling bitter.
Got part of the grocery shopping done. The Costco part. I’m not sure how we go through all this food. There’s only two of us. And Driving Husband. And Attacks Things Husband. And Quasi-Daughter.
Hmm.
I was going to make shepherd’s pie today but it’s hot. I will do chili instead, and the pie tomorrow or Friday. I got tons of ground beef at Costco. And another 412,421,389,730 lbs of granola bars for Mr. Lissar.
My GST rebate just came in yesterday, so I’m $100 richer. Us impoverished Ontarians get a rebate on our sales tax four times a year. Ontario has 15% sales tax on a lot of things. It’s delightful.
Mr. Lissar’s toenail fell off last night.
Now I must do the dishes, clean the kitchen, clean and organize the fridge and the pantry, and go to the drugstore for gauze and surgical tape. Envy me my glamourous existence.
OK, who locked up Rue?? We all know full well that he wouldn’t let us down by not posting, so I figure some nefarious character has him duct-taped to a closet or something. Poor, poor Rue! Not even his puppy can find him…
Oh, wait… puppy… There’s that whole housebreaking thing, and cleaning up the accidents. Never mind - I think we all know where he is.
As for me, another nothing day. I did some on-line training (yawn) and not much else today. My sweetie has physical therapy this afternoon, so we’ll be having dinner late. Which means I don’t have to start cooking till late. I supposed I could do some laundry. But that’s as exciting as it gets here.
Sean - you’re a sick one, you are! I like that in a man.
V-Bob - it’s too easy. So I’ll just say good luck with your impending surgicals. Will I even recognize you when I see you again?