I’m here posting from my show. I’ve made my table fee and a bit more. So, now I’m just here to watch the bands, I guess. No one else seems to be selling much either.
OK you can all stop fretting. I’m here, I’m fine, no problems, no alien abductions, so quit imagining the worst.
We were lazy - slept in just because it was warm and snuggly in bed. Then we forced ourselves to get up, showered, dressed, and out. Breakfast, 2 quick stops, then home for carpet cleaning fun!!! 
I cleaned out the firebox, then vacuumed and spot cleaned all the assorted animal pee and hork stains in 3 rooms. Now those 3 rooms are full of clean spots, but I expect the adjacent crud will expand to blur the lines.
I also took a look at FCD’s phone usage - when my part of our phone contract expires in January, I’m getting rid of my cell and he’s going to change his plan, and possibly his carrier. We’re with AT&T, but his IT guys at work say Verizon is better around here. I figured it’s stupid for me to be paying for a phone that I don’t use. Except for gt’s recent visit, I’ve not put even 10 minutes a month on my phone. Is there such a thing as a pay-as-you-go that doesn’t have expiring minutes? I’d only want a cell phone for emergencies or rare use on the road…
I’m not going back to look, but to answer the question, no I didn’t take a picture of the brain hat, but it is my daughter’s, so I can get one. Heck, she may have taken one already. I will share.
{{{kai}}} - hey, my bro’s newly single… no, I can’t do that to you - I like you too much. I like you even if you don’t send me chocolate love offerings!
**BBBobbio **- I don’t have an infection, but the other night I couldn’t fall asleep for the congestion in my sinuses. I think it was cat allergy, tho, but still unpleasant.
I’m sure there was more that I wanted to comment on, but I can’t remember. Maybe later.
Smoochies all around!
Happy Saturday!!
Heh, Ashes, somewhere I have a joke about making turkey that would fit right into that cookbook. Also, isn’t margarita mix just fancy limeade, kinda?
Hope everyone is feelingg better in the meantime. Really sounds more like food poisoning or an allergy, I think, shortdrum. Might be time to disinfect the MMP again…
Am at BW3 watching football with brother (who is currently dropping nephwew back off at home during halftime).
Back later with more updates.
Sorry for typos…
Hugs.
GT
My new job is going well, but I’ve encountered something I’m not sure how to deal with: my new boss is really appreciative of my skills, and seems to think I’m brilliant because I’m picking things up fast. I’m not used to getting much praise at work, so it feels a little funny. My mother rolls her eyes and tells me that it’s a clear sign that I was undervalued at my other job (she worked there years ago, too, so she’s not just talking off the cuff) and I should be happier now. But what if I screw something up, or my boss’s expectations get disappointed? How do you transition from being taken completely for granted to valued employee?
If (when) you screw up, you’ll do what you have to do to fix it. And you’ll learn from the experience and life will go on. Just like the rest of us do or have done. A good boss realizes that stuff can happen and perfection doesn’t exist. So don’t worry about one hypothetical event totally destroying your reputation and credibility.
It’s the ones who consistently screw up then blame everyone else that should be worried… And if your boss does expect perfection, you probably won’t want to keep working there anyway.
My son made it home around 10:30 last night. It was damn good to see him walk through the door. The dogs were just frantic with joy. He was hungry (of course), so he ate and while he ate, we chatted with him.
My husband ended up going to bed and then my son went to visit with some friends that had also just made it back to town. He was back home by 1:00 am and headed off to bed.
I was still wide awake and watching movies until around 3:30 this morning. I must have finally drifted off to sleep, but woke up around 5:30, still in my chair. I drifted off, but finally woke up for good and made coffee around 6:00 this morning.
Today I’ll have to face the madness at the grocery store. I am not looking forward to that at all, but I need to buy the turkey and all the other stuff I need for Thanksgiving. I also need to buy more food than I’m accustomed to since my son is home.
That was beautiful. Utterly beautiful. Bravo.
Until I finally fell back asleep around 8am, I spent my morning alternating between 15 minutes on the couch reading my history book and 15 minutes in the bathroom reading about hematology. Then I slept from about 8 til noon.
My stomach hurts but my lower digestive system seems to be giving it a rest. I’m totally dehydrated and am trying to drink lots of water but it’s making me queasy. I’m not ready for ginger ale yet though. Too soon. I’m tempted to try some dry toast but now that I think about it, we have no bread. Hmm. Oh yeah, we have french bread. I might have some french bread then. If that works, I might progress to peanut butter crackers.
Since I woke up, I have taken almost 200 pictures of ugly jewelry. It’s uploading to photobucket as I type. I realize now that not all of it is fugly. Some of it is just stuff I have too damn much of already and some of it is stuff I didn’t want to deal with breaking apart (another attack of the lazies). rosie gets first dibs since she asked first.
I wouldn’t know. :rolleyes: Although at my last job my boss would occasionally tell me how valuable I was, when she wasn’t treating me like dirt.
So anyway, my angiogram; my plumbing is great, which is good. They have no idea why my heart is only pumping at about 20% of what it should, which is bad. 
Interesting fact: they had me in the cath lab, on the table, about to give me drugs, when the E.R. called. I got bumped for some guy having a heart attack. So they wheeled me back to my room and gave me the towels and a couple of hemostats and some scissors they were gonna use, 'cause they don’t sterilize them and use them over. They just throw them away these days. Who’d a thunk it. I coulda used a scalpel too, but they wouldn’t give me that. :eek: They’re made in Pakistan, at least the ones they gave me, and they were not nearly the quality of the old ones I’ve had for years. The nurses told me they rust real fast too.
Have I ever told y’all how much I enjoy and appreciate nurses? They’ve seen it all and have wonderful senses of humor (usually) I think it’s a requirement.
All you sickies get well, stat!
Laters.
That is, indeed, beautiful. Same thing happened to my older brother and me one Christmas. We’d both been having sinus trouble - could not get the junk cleared out - and he sat down and played his sinusophone for a good ten minutes. Got one out of each nostril.
I went upstairs and locked myself in the bathroom before doing my own performance. Mine was green and bouncy.
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Got the dog taken to the park and let her run around for a bit (close to an hour and a half). She’s still hyper. Got home and found Dad making his Saturday morning calls. He was going on about how the homosexuals keep pushing their sexuality on us. I wanted to yell “who’s this ‘we’, white man?!”, but I’m trying really hard not to pick fights with him.
Did get the puppy a sweatshirt, which she’s really enjoying.
Feeling very tired and beginning to suspect there’s an alien in my left boob. Trying not to get all weird about it.
Yup GT, I looked up recipes and most are just lemon and lime juice with some adding liquor of some sort. I don’t feel like squeezing that much juice and at the current prices… I’ma be lazy.
No worries about your job elfkin, like a new car, there’s always that first ding. It’s what you do after getting the dent that decides how things will continue. It might not be necessary, like in my job, but write everything down so you remember details if anything comes up, or so you can troubleshoot next time.
My pleasure congo and phouka, I’m right proud of my booger story. I know what you mean about fiddling with that jewelry congo. My great aunt left a bucket full of stuff and it became mine. There were some definite needles in the haystack, though.
Bumba, have they checked to see if your heart is two sizes too small? Tis the season, y’know.
Off to Malmart. On a saturday. Pray for me.
Congo, I can only suggest what I told my older bro when his stomach was really upset, but he couldn’t bring himself to puke:
Warm salt water.
Doesn’t even take that much. Why it works when any of us could eat a bag of salty chips and drink a liter of water, I don’t know, but it does.
If that doesn’t, then a teaspoon of diluted hydrogen peroxide.
Thanks. I’ll keep those in mind for next time. I’m only a bit queasy now and that’s just not enough for me to induce puking. I’m sure it’ll happen again. I was wondering about the Hydrogen Peroxide. I give it to my dogs to induce vomiting but I didn’t know how much would be needed for a human.
Target was lets just say really really expensive but we now have a Christmas tree, door wreath, gifts bags, wrapping paper, kitty litter, stocking stuffers, god-chillins Christmas presents and much more
Now I am headed to Teners and Sports Academy then the grocery store. Supper tonight is chicken enchiladas.
I’ve slept twice today, just shy of 2 hours both times. My facial headache is now just behind my right eye, which is an improvement.
**Ashes[sup]2[/sup], **that was a maaaaahvelous piece of literature.
Good morning - I just woke up a half hou ago.
So either **rosie **is a lazy slug, or she’s moved to Australia…
Off to Bert’s for a burger!
That’s the problem: I’m more used to a decade’s worth of that! (a decade being 5/6ths of my post-college working lifetime, mind you.) I know that they thought I did a good job before and what my new boss said about my references reflects that, but it was completely expected that I’d handle whatever they gave me to do without complaining about it or screwing up, no matter what came up over the course of all sorts of new projects with diverse tasks attached to them. To have people act like it’s surprising and impressive that someone has the skill set I do, rather than simply expecting me to fix x,y & z magically, is throwing me some. I’ve never been treated like what I’m capable of is special or unusual before.
'ow’d ya guess, mate?
eta - it just shows you what a perfect autumn breeze and a purring kitteh will do for an already overtired individual
Back from Bert’s. We opted for the beef stew since it sounded really good. Here’s a question - who the heck uses sliced roast beef in beef stew? Bert’s, that’s who! Very weird. Plus they floated mini biscuits on top. It didn’t taste bad, but I’ll never order it again.
Evening’s plans involve knitting in front of the TV till I can’t keep my eyes open. Tomorrow is supposed to be a pretty day, so I plan to attack the leaves. But for now, you’re on your own! Have a good evening all (or g’day to rosie)
Howdy Y’all! Today has been a cross between busy and slug. After N.O.L. I bought the collards. I came home and washed one bunch then took a nap. Then I washed the second bunch. Washn’ includes tearin’ and baggin’ btw with which I had help. Then we got friskie. Then dindn, which was hotdawgs and chips. Now it’s chillin’ and starin’ at teevee.
Bumba hope they figure out what’s goin’ on with your heart soon.
Get well all you sickies!
Laterz