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TSP = TriSodium Phosphate, a heavy duty cleaner. I have since learned that Wifey was talking to Daughter-in-law yesterday. For those of you that haven’t been following the minute details of my life; #1 Granddaughter is moving to our town to attend University here, and will be staying with our daughter and her family, 'cause, well, we don’t have air conditioning, and they do. Anyway, she (#1GD) and her mother are coming up to clean and paint the walls in #1GD’s room. We’re supposed to go over and offer support and encouragement and possibly help at some point in this process. Something I don’t mind doing for #1GD. I just sometimes get a little vexed with Wifey for offering our help to all and sundry all the time. We can’t be everybody’s parents, fercryinoutloud.

Rue, a coworker had one of those cranky radios at work for a while. he had to crank it about every 45 minutes. It was pretty cool, but he left it home after a few days.

In other news; the golf tournament starts in 2 1/2 hours, so I’d better get going. Have a good weekend, everybody.

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[groveling mode] would someone wanna send me chocolate?[/groveling mode]

I have a hellish weekend planned, including spending copious amounts of money. And going to a funeral. Then spending more money.

I’m gonna be too broke to buy my own chocolate.

Tomorrow morning will be off to Kohl’s, cuz they have a huge sale and I’ve managed to coerce LilMiss into buying the on sale Vans tennierunners rather than the not on sale Vans tennierunners. The $20.00 or so that I’ll save there will be put into use at Hot Topic, I’m sure. She stated she would DIE if she didn’t get a new Happy Bunny shirt. I said the funeral may be cheaper than the school clothes shopping. She didn’t think that was funny. I did. Then I put an ice pack on my shin where she kicked me.

Husband of co-worker died, so we’re going to the visitation. Pretty sad. Guy was only 53. Bad doctor left open cancer which spread like wildfire. LilMiss asked if we could go- she met him a few times. Co-worker and her husband have a little girl that LilMiss played with- she wants to give her a hug. I am so proud of LilMiss.

Then the rest of school shopping and getting-ready-for-camp shopping. LilMiss will be gone for a WHOLE week! What shall I do with myself?

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I love Happy Bunny. I’ve gone into Spencer’s Gifts twice because of Happy Bunny, and that’s saying a lot! I have three magnets of Happy Bunny here at work, and several on my refrigerator at home. My favorites are:
it’s all about me. deal with it.;
it’s cute how stupid you are.; and
i’m cute, but psycho. it all works out in the end.
It’s like someone took my personality and turned it into a cute little bunny! I seriously thought about buying a purse, ovbviously designed for a seventh grader, simply because it had the right Happy Bunny saying on it. Ahhh, to be young again.

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I also like Happy Bunny. My work lanyard says “You suck and must be punished”. Considering one part of my job is to refer cases to court for possible jail time…
(surprisingly, my boss also likes my lanyard!)
I have an eeny-meeny-hiney-moe T-shirt, numerous stickers, a “You suck and that’s sad” window decal on my car, and HB jammies.

LilMiss has the “It’s all about me. Deal with it” blanket, “Cute but psycho” hoodie, jammies, three T-shirts/jerseys, two pairs of socks, and a lip gloss. And a bunch of stickers, also.

Ebay has been my HB friend. Ditto Claire’s and Hot Topic. Love the stuff. Snarky cute-sy.

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I have a bunny magnet on my refrigerator that says “School prepares you for life, which also sucks”.

Says it all really.
And I just read that Julia Child died.
I plan on being melancholy all weekend. :frowning:

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Hi, all! I’m back from Denver - did you miss me?

And for those who know that my baby lives in Orlando, she and her roomie (and the dog and the cat and the gerbils) have evacuated to roomie’s parents’ house up near Jax, so they’ll have adult supervision and assistance when Charley arrives.

Ex, I thought I’d sent you my address - I sent the Florida one to everyone else, I thought, although very few have my new address here. If you looked at my ugly house pics, you’d know that the number is 26206, and I’ll tell you my mailing address is in Mechanicsville, MD, but for more info than that, ya gotta beg, and even then, I may not put out… the info, that is. :smiley:

So anyway, the weather in Golden was lovely - actually almost chilly a couple of mornings. I discovered that walking up steep slopes at an altitude of 5800’ will kick my butt in short order. I was panting and wheezing so hard, I had to sit down before I could climb the rest of the way. The instructor of the class said it usually takes us sea level folks a month or more to get used to the higher altitude. But I’m back at sea level, so life is good.

And before anyone asks, no I didn’t bring you anything. This was a business trip, not a vacation. I don’t have time for that frippery when Uncle Sam is footing the bill, dammit! :stuck_out_tongue:

So, didja miss me??

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Ex, I know her new adress, and I can be bought…

Yes Mom, we missed you.

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Of course we missed you, FCM! Glad you enjoyed your gummint sponsored trip to Denver. Uh, when exactly did you find time to work between all the walking and wheezing? :wink:

My flippin spreadsheet EXPLODED. All my damn formulas were somehow wiped out and I’m supposed to go “live” with this thing on Monday morning! Grrrrrrrrrrr! I tried fixing it, but somehow it’s not liking a link somewhere.

I don’t have any funny bunny magnets or t-shirts. My daughter is a huge fan of Hot Topic. I am not…it is too expensive. Fortunately, we sometimes find stuff on sale. Don’t know if the daughter would like bunny sayings; for awhile, she was a huge fan of Invader Zim and absolutely insisted she have an Invader Zim shirt. :rolleyes:

Today was really Friday the 13th. The day started off bad when I overslept. Traffic absolutely sucked getting into work and I was 30 minutes late. No biggie, but that kinda thing always messes my day up. Once I got in, I thought I’d check into the pay system and see what my paycheck would look like next week. So, I type in my password, etc and bring up my Leave and Earnings Statement. What to my perturbed eyes did appear? My OLD pay rate. I should have been receiving my first check at my promoted grade! So, I call civilian payroll to try and find out what the major malfunction is. I spoke to the tech who told me she thought something was odd when she processed my timecard. Next, she told me that maybe somehow the “paperwork” hasn’t flowed through the system. Balderdash says I. The personnel system is showing me at my newly promoted grade and series effective 25 July. The tech said she couldn’t get into the system until Monday. The payroll guy here at the hospital is off and won’t return until Monday. Bottom line, I have to wait for the retroactive amount to show on the paycheck after next week’s (I’m paid bi-weekly), which means that MORE taxes will be taken out and it’s a net loss. Cheeeee-rist, how annoying.

Then we I had the flippin spreadsheet explode.

Then traffic sucked going home because of construction.

Aagh! I’m glad to be home.

Enough whining, let’s talk about something fun.

Hubby has decided that tomorrow would absolutely suck at the water park because of the crowds. He is going to try and talk the nephew into going someplace less crowded and expensive. If this occurs, I’ll go with them.

Finally, I hope all our Floridian folks are doing okay. It’s looks nasty down there.

Off to drink a beer or three or four now…

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