Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. YAWN I so sleeeeeeepy!!!
Nuttin’ else to say. Just wanted to be present and accounted for.
Gotta go forage some brekkie and purtify for irk. ICK!
Happy Firday Y’all!
Argh SO MUCH WORK today. Thank god I’m a half hour away from getting out of here.
I’ve been asked to teach a weekend class next Saturday morning. Boo. I really don’t want to do it, but other teachers had to do it a few weeks ago so I can’t say no with a clear conscience (or else they’d have to do it again). Stupid conscience.
morning all, up and caffeinating and …
Thank Og It’s Firday!!!
I have been back to lurking … it’s been a long week; the leave restriction seems endless (wah, cry for me! LOL) but I have been able to make a bit of credit time. Just a bit, mind you, but it’ll feel better I guess when I have a day’s worth.
At any rate, Rosie’s sig to all who need it or even just want it. I’ve been reading, as I said, just not posting very much.
Happy Friday all, and a Happy Easter to those who celebrate!
Morning, all. Happy Firday! I have trouble remembering it’s actually Firday as I’ve only worked three days this week, and now I’m on holiday until 12th April. Lots of Firdays and Caturdays in my future!
We watched a strange kinda vampire-ish film last night, called “Thirst”. It was an interesting twist on the traditional vampire plot and had some very amusing moments in it. Whilst watching the film, we drank wine. Lots of wine. Too much wine, possibly. That would account for today’s fuzzy head, right?
Anyways, I have very little planned for today. We need to do grocery shopping so if 'im indoors hauls himself out of his pit at an appropriate time, I might suggest that we go to the bigger supermarket and get some lunch in their café and then do groceries. Seems like a civilised idea to me. Other than that, I am not sure what else I will do. Probably nothing, lay on the sofa with a book or something. And fuss the cats.
Up, caffeinated, off to irk.
I’m suffering from an attack of The Shoppings. The problem is, my attacks of The Shoppings can not limit themselves to, say, half a rack’s worth of blouses or two complete ensembles, oh no!
Been looking at gaming computer webpages all morning… 
They changed our titles? I wonder what was mine? See–ANOTHER thing I can blame work for–it upset me so much, I forgot about it being April Fool’s Day.
Off to work in the library. Where life is nice and the men are good looking.
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It’s gonna be a looooooooong Firday. I worked a one car wreck with a fatality at 1 AM, and got home about an hour before my regularly scheduled wake up time.
Fun part was the deputies got a kick out of seeing the arm I had hanging out of my trunk for April Fool’s Day.
:smack:
ruble, funny pics. I LOL’d. 
Here!
Roof fixers coming today to caulk (Sounds like a bird call: Caulk! Caulk! Caulk!) around chimbley cause the caulk they originally used was “defective.”
New fridge replacement due to old “defective” fridge coming this afternoon. (Do I detect a pattern here???)
Must be catchy, nava. I feel The Shoppings coming on myself…especially since I couldn’t give in to it whilst unemployed.
Everybody ready for the bunny?
Tupug
Taters, they are now saying I could get between two to eight inches of snow tonight and tomorrow. waves fist angrily but pointlessly at the sky
It’d be one thing if it hadn’t started warming up so nicely. Of course it pulls this kind of crap every year. Why am I surprised?
I didn’t notice any changed titles, but I wasn’t looking.
Huh. It’s supposed to be 25C and sunny here today. So far it’s cloudy and cool. I hope it warms up a little- nice kids playing outside weather the last couple of days.
Got almost close to sort of enough sleep last night.
Break time. We rose early and went to breakfast and Lowe’s. I got 3 planters, some 'mater and pepper plants, some manure, half a dozen pavers, and the railing set. FCD put in the pavers and I planted my plantsin my planters! Once I relax a bit and maybe have lunch, I’m going to make a garden at the foot of the stairs.
SIL and I were going to attack the front yard, but we discovered the 2 rear tires on the van were in serious need of replacement, so he took it to get fixed. Maybe we can get the front yard this afternoon. I’ve also got laundry to do. The weather is so loverly, I’m really enjoying being outside…
So youse guys are on your own while I go back to playing in dirt. 
dirt is no fun unless it’s mud.
A Goyishe friend just sent me this compilation of quotes, by famous Goys, that he received from one of his Goyishe friends. I’ll put it in a spoiler box since it is long, but I believe it is worth sharing - feel free to pass it along after reading.
[spoiler]Perceptions of Jews by Renowned Gentiles (from the UK):
#1
"Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world."
– Winston Churchill
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-#2
"The Jew is that sacred being who has brought down from heaven the everlasting fire, and has illumined with it the entire world. He is the religious source, spring, and fountain out of which all the rest of the peoples have drawn their beliefs and their religions."
– Leo Tolstoy
-#3 "It was in vain that we locked them up for several hundred years behind the walls of the Ghetto. No sooner were their prison gates unbarred than they easily caught up with us, even on those paths which we opened up without their aid." – A. A. Leroy Beaulieu, French publicist, 1842
-#4 "The Jew gave us the Outside and the Inside - our outlook and our inner life. We can hardly get up in the morning or cross the street without being Jewish. We dream Jewish dreams and hope Jewish hopes. Most of our best words, in fact - new, adventure, surprise, unique, individual, person, vocation, time, history, future, freedom, progress, spirit, faith, hope, justice - are the gifts of the Jews." – Thomas Cahill, Irish Author
-#5 "One of the gifts of the Jewish culture to Christianity is that it has taught Christian s to think like Jews, and any modern man who has not learned to think as though he were a Jew can hardly be said to have learned to think at all." – William Rees-Mogg, former Editor-in-Chief for The Times of London and a member of the House of Lords
-#6 "It is certain that in certain parts of the world we can see a peculiar people, separated from the other peoples of the world and this is called the Jewish people… This people is not only of remarkable antiquity but has also lasted for a singular long time… For whereas the people of Greece and Italy, of Sparta, Athens and Rome and others who came so much later have perished so long ago, these still exist, despite the efforts of so many powerful kings who have tried a hundred times to wipe them out, as their historians testify, and as can easily be judged by the natural order of things ove r such a long spell of years. They have always been preserved,however, and their preservation was foretold… My encounter with this people amazes me…" – Blaise Pascal, French Mathematician
-#7 "The Jewish vision became the prototype for many similar grand designs for humanity, both divine and man made The Jews, therefore, stand at the center of the perennial attempt to give human life the dignity of a purpose." –Paul Johnson, American Historian
-#8 "As long as the world lasts, all who want to make progress inrighteousness will come to Israel for inspiration as to the people who had the sense for righteousness most glowing and strongest." –Matthew Arnold, British poet and critic
-#9
"Indeed it is difficult for all other nations of the world to live in the presence of the Jews. It is irritating and most uncomfortable. The Jews embarrass the world as they have done things which are beyond the imaginable. They have become moral strangers since the day their forefather, Abraham, introduced the world to high ethical standards and to the fear of Heaven. They brought the world the Ten Commandments, which many nations prefer to defy.
They violated the rules of history by staying alive, totally at odds with common sense and historical evidence. They outlived all their former enemies, including vast empires such as the Romans and the Greeks. They angered the world with their return to their homeland after 2000 years of exile and after the murder of six million of their brothers and sisters.
They aggravated mankind by building, in the wink of an eye, a democratic State which other s were not able to create in even hundreds of years.
They built living monuments such as the duty to be holy and the privilege to serve one’s fellow men.
They had their hands in every human progressive endeavor, whether in science, medicine, psychology or any other discipline, while totally out of proportion to their actual numbers. They gave the world the Bible and even their "savior."
Jews taught the world not to accept the world as it is, but to transform it, yet only a few nations wanted to listen. Moreover, the Jews introduced the world to one God, yet only a minority wanted to draw the moral consequences. So the nations of the world realize that they would have been lost without the Jews. And while their subconscious tries to remind them of how much of Western civilization is framed in terms of concepts first articulated by the Jews, they do anything to suppress it.
They deny that Jews remind them of a higher purpose of life and the need to be honorable, and do anything to escape its consequences. It is simply too much to handle for them, too embarrassing to admit, and above all, too difficult to live by.
So the nations of the world decided once again to go out of their way in order to find a stick to hit the Jews. The goal: to prove that Jews are as immoral and guilty of massacre and genocide as some of they themselves are.
All this in order to hide and justify their own failure to even protest when six million Jews were brought to the slaughterhouses of Auschwitz and Dachau; so as to wipe out the moral conscience of which the Jews remind them, and they found a stick.
Nothing could be more gratifying for them than to find the Jews ina struggle with another people (who are completely terrorized by their own leaders) against whom the Jews, against their best wishes, have to defend themselves in order to survive. With great satisfaction, the world allows and initiates the rewriting of history so as to fuel therage of yet another people against the Jews. This in spite of the fact that the nations understand very well that peace between the parties could have come a long time ago, if only the Jews would have had a fair chance. Instead, they happily jumped on the wagon of hate so as to justify their jealousy of the Jews and their incompetence to deal with their own moralissues.
When Jews look at the bizarre play taking place in The Hague, they can only smile as this artificial game once more proves how the world paradoxically admits the Jews uniqueness. It is in their need to undermine the Jews that they actually raise them.
The study of history of Europe during the past centuries teaches us one uniform lesson: That the nations which received andin any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered; and that the nations that have tortured and oppressed them have written out their own curse."
–Olive Schreiner, South African novelist and social activist
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-#10
"If there is any honor in all the world that I should like, it would be to be an honorary Jewish citizen."
–A.L Rowse, authority on Shakespeare[/spoiler]
I forgot to add: LOL.
XXXhausted!!! That means I’m triple exhausted, in case you couldn’t figger it out. I made a new flower bed, transplanted an azalea, several hosta, a chrysanthemum, some columbines, and the catnip. Tomorrow, we’re going back to Lowe’s and I’m getting some marigolds, and maybe some coleus. And we’ll put in the lattice to keep crap from blowing under the porch. We’re also going to get two big hooks so when I close up my clothesline, I can hang it under the deck, mostly out of sight.
Sketties for supper because I’m too tired to cook. And ibuprofen for dessert. Or for an appetizer. My back aches…
Howdy Y’all! Four down and one to go! WOOHOO!!!
It is absolutely gawgeous outside. Except for the *&%^#$! pine pollen that is. I am ready for that to just go away! Dindin tonight was nuked leftovers. Some pot roast, chicken and rice, peas, and green beans. Not too shabby and kitchen refrigidaireator is now leftoverless.
Since today is Good Friday, I get to go churchify again. It’s a Solemn EvenSong service whatever that means. I’m guessin’ prayers and Good Friday dirgey (is too a word!) type hymns.
That’s all I got for now.
I killed the thread! You can see its corpse next those of the Tucan, Cap’n Crunch, and Tony T. Tiger. I’m a cereal killer!
Whew! I survived the entire work week! My baby sister arrived in town last night and she’s on her way over. We’re going to go and have a girls night out at another friend’s house.
We had C-RRRRRR-AAAAAAZY weather today. Snow over on the Kitsap Penninsula, high winds, pelting rain and hail, and they even closed the pass on I-90 for awhile.
The winds have calmed down, but I sure wish we could get some of the nice weather some of you are talking about.
Hubby is sick with a bad cold. I’m fighting the cold. He was going to go out and have a guys night out, but he just feels too crappy. I feel bad about leaving him here, but on the other hand, I rarely get to see my sister because she lives clear the hell over in Ft Jackson, S.C.
My son just found out he has to work Easter. That kind of gums up plans to go to MiL’s. I guess we’ll just have him drive over after work.
As usual, there isn’t much else going on here. I should brush my toofeses and freshen my make-up before my sister gets here.
Time to knit. Catch ya tomorrow.
MWAH!!