Okay, just for you, sean, and anybody else who feels whooshed…The first letters of each sentence in the OP spell “ubiquitous” making THAT word in there sommers. (Do I smell a high altitude souffle???)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BUMBA! YOU LOOK MAHVELOUS!
lightingtool, you and your bride are both purty…and look ever so happy!
swampy, that was sung faaabulously, as always!
Welcome, nico, please send fairychatmom a prepaid express shipping box big enough for her to send you your new lovely chandelier…oh, and some chocolate, too, cause she’s so nice.
gt, start with the easiest thing on your list and work forward to the hardest. Then, if you don’t have enough time, put it on next week’s lists and fogeddaboudit!
Another SNAFU day here. I hate days when I come in and can’t sit and eat my cereal and read the MMP first thing. Durn coworkers! They don’t pay me enough for that…well, yes they do, as of yesterday when I had my stunning performance review and respectable salary increase. Guess I’m sticking for a bit longer. Hard to beat four weeks vacation and fully vested 401K.
Well, not all. I have to remember to pick Soupo up from school and hour early today and tomorrow. (Tomorrow is his last day this year.) It would be sad if he had to sit in the schoolyard for an hour. He might get bored.
I barely caught the puppy before he pooped down the kitchen register today. I think that says all it needs to, right there.
Thanks to everyone for the very kind and warm welcome! The OP is a bit of genius. I like that! And the MMP… very clever also.
I will be sure to keep up from here on in.
Again, many thanks to all. Upbeat and pleasant conversation would be a very welcome relief from threads I’ve endured as of late.
And, I’ve never seen Andy Warhol in my life. Really!
I’ve got the goat, but you can’t have him; he’s still losing hair in chunks from the last time. Whose idea was it to try to get the gum out with peanut butter? Use a sheep or something.
I’m really only de-lurking long enough to say Hi. Not only is it a short week, I’m covering someone else’s (very busy) desk as well as my own AND taking tomorrow (Friday) off to go to Philadelphia. Whee! So you’ll just have to imagine I’ve posted all my usual witty comments and anecdotes. I know, it’s just not the same, but I’ll try to poke my head in over the weekend.
One of my favourite words is in another language. It’s quaewae. That means, ‘spear fishing at night with lanterns by women’. Only two syllables! In Ojibway (Anishnaubaek!) Yay!
Happy birthday to the Soapy Bear!
I should get offline because I am waiting for Driving Husband to call to say we can go to Ikea before work. Also I should wash all the dishes I have created since this morning. Someone else can explain my husbands to Nico
Remember that moron from the railroad club I belong to that was threatening to sue me for allegedly porn spamming him a couple of weeks ago? Tonight is the monthly club business meeting, and I go with the intent of having the bum kicked out of the club.
Revenge is a dish best served cold, and all that. We’re expecting an update after the meeting (and it better involve goats! And copious quantities of ice-cold revenge!)
I am collecting jars for our annual jam-making day. It’s very exciting. Quasi-Daughter, Driving Husband and I make tons of strawberry jam every year. This year we’re going to also make cherry and blueberry jam, and Attacks Husband wants to help. Mr. Lissar lurks in the background trying not to get sticky.
We may have multiple jam days, because I’m not sure that strawberry, blueberry, and cherry days will coincide. Actually I buy the cherries already pitted. Every year a big grocery store near me sells ten pounds of pitted cherries for I think $25, which is a pretty good price.
Yay, almost jam season! Boo, it’s hot, and I hate summer!
Happy birthday Bumba! And to **KeithT **today too!
Anyone have any suggestions for coming up with two pages of BS to say “nothing’s changed in the last 6 months”? It’s much easier when there’s a dramatic change that needs to be explained away! Even if it’s a bad change, it gives you something to talk about. I’m spinning my wheels and watching the deadline (tomorrow afternoon) loom larger and larger. Ugh.
But it’s gorgeous and sunny out and I’m going rollerblading now! Woo!
But it’s so darn hard to hold a sheep in one hand and a goat in the other and rub them together.
Thanks for all the Hoppy Birthday wishs everybody.
Lissla, I’m all for strawberry, blueberry, and cherry jams, but I’m not so sure about octopus.
Lightingtool, I loved the pics. Your bride is quite the babe too.
Go get’em Bobbio!
Rue, the puppy was gonna poop down the register? That just shows he was thinking. :rolleyes:
I didn’t get much in the way of presents. A couple of USB thumb drives and a 128 MB XD card for my new digital camera. Of course, the day’s not over yet.
Happy B-Day to one of my faaaaaave MMPers, Bumba!!! All kinds of virtual hugs and friendly smooches are coming your way!
My sweetie got stuck in the neck tonight - by a doctor. It’s supposed to help the pain in his neck. So he’s crashed.
I hooked up the trailer to my van - tomorrow, I’m getting a captain’s bed, dresser, and shelf set from a coworker who’s moving. $150 for the lot. Yay! I’ll need to get a mattress, but that’s no biggie. So we’ll have a bed for the second spare bedroom, plus space to store stuff.
And, my baby is coming tomorrow to visit for 10 whole days! YAY!! So it’ll be a nice few days.
Welcome, Nico! You’re now officially one of the cool kids.
And happy b-day to Keith T! When you become one of my favorites, you’ll get a fancy colorful greeting, too!
