I cannot access the SDMB from my work 'puter (under my own codes). Damn :(:(:(
I’m using a generic 'puter now - I’ll try that tomorrow and see what happens
I’ll catch up when I get home tonight.
No word from friend’s brother yet.
Why on Earth would you do such a thing… sleaze, we need more sleaze!
Oh sweetums, you’re gonna fit right in here! 
While I will admit that you were a pleasant dinner companion, you ain’t on a par with Godivas or Lindt truffles… Sorry. 
(Sweetums for ultra short) works for me, and apparently most everyone else here.
why, of course. who wouldn’t be? 
no need to look it up, I’m a Turtle
Drae - cool beans! I don’t care how bad it is, nothing could be worse than Blood and Cookies (maybe I’ll enter that in next year’s contest - I will ask my co-authors if they mind) It lacks continuity and some basic believability but I think I could novelize it
and WoofWaiter, I, too, am a zaftig redhead. take your pick
Muppets.
It’s so nice to see you back, kai! Yay!
I was going to call dibs on Attacks Husband after LiLi mentioned his weekend kitchen cleaning. Guess I’m too late. Yes, he’s far younger than the men I’d usually be interested in, but clearly he’s older than his years AND possesses valuable skills. But hey, any of the husbands who is even mildly motivated would do. Of course, maybe rosie’s and MBG’s luck will rub off on me. (Oh, and rosie don’t worry too much if friend’s brother doesn’t call right away; boys are slow. Wasn’t there someone here who finally had to call the boy herself?)
Welcome, Sweetums2K! (That nick is too long…maybe S2K with the understanding that S = Sweetums?) Glad you jumped in. Make sure you come back or else I will scold you. Ask Sean. Or that McCello guy. Also, you should expect nicknames that - on the surface - bear no resemblance to the user name they go with. Also, some people have multiple, sometimes completely unrelated, nicknames. It would be practical to have a directory, but it would also be far less fun. (Where is donkeybear, by the way?)
Yay Drae!
Does this mean we’ll be seeing Meeks again soon as well? (She was NaNoing too, no?)
Sorry about the work computer situation, rosie. Clearly, they don’t have their priorities straight.
I should make a Christmas list. Really, I should. (Oh, and I saw you wink too, Bumba.)
I’m on the third load of miscellaneous laundry. I think I have one more and then I’m done. I’m going to pull all the sheets and towels out of the closets and re-organize them. Cuz I really know how to have fun.
Oooooh almost forgot two important announcements:
I got a raise! It was my second raise this year and I only noticed it because they actually gave it to me later than apparently scheduled so they paid me for 6 weeks worth of raise all at once. Didn’t even notice the first one, but when I went back and looked: there it was. In April. Turns out HR has been looking at a bunch of managers and adjusting salaries so that we’re making what we’re supposed to. It wasn’t enormous (3% in April and then another 3% starting in October) but when you put them both together they’re rather nice. Plus I’ve been working my rear end off all year (not that I ever don’t; just there’s been more to do than usual), so it’s nice to feel like someone’s semi-recognizing that.
I had a dream that I remembered. My conference room at work had turned into a bedroom. Only it looked more like I imagine a bedroom in a convent or monastery. Very plain and undecorated, with a rosary hanging over the post on the headboard just like there used to be on my grandma’s. The guy who has the office next to the conference room (who is a horrible prude - nice guy in general, but very odd standards for offensiveness of dress etc.) wandered in and talked to me about work stuff just like it was normal. The thought made me <snerk> when I woke up. Also, there were MMPers in the background. I suspect swampy.
Off to be disgustingly productive or something.
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You bet your sweet ass I am too. I haven’t come across a fellow Turtle in several years…
Sweetums, are you dude or fem? If you’re fem, then we finally have someone here to call Sugartits…
Ok Rosie, if you truly are a Turtle, answer this riddle: What des a man do standing up that a woman does sitting down that a dog does on 3 legs?
He’s a boy, Bobbio. See, here’s a thread. With pictures even. It involves tinfoil.
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why pee of course
What, on a man’s body, sticks far enough out of his pajamas he could put a hat on it? (lousy grammar I know, but screw it)
and while we’re at it - What does a cow have four of that a wonan only has two?
I spent the afternoon cramming 10 hours of training into 4. Does that make me a bad person? See, we have this contest where each hour of training equals a point, and if you have 30 points as of tomorrow, you get a $100 gift certificate. Each quarter, the dollar amount gets higher. If I accumulate 120 points by June, I get a $500 gift certificate. If I were to be obnoxious, and try for the most points (last year’s high was 180), I wonder how high I could go? That’s worth another $500 if I have the most points. We have hundreds of online training programs and a lot of them allow you to challenge them, and if you pass the final test, you don’t have to take the entire course. I could accumulate a lot of points that way. Is that wrong? Nah.
I got my book on exploded lace today. It travelled far and wide to get to me. It left New Jersey on Monday, arrived in San Jose 12 hours and 5 minutes later and then, inexplicably, it went to Oakland, where it spent the day yesterday. So, theoretically, I could have gotten it yesterday, if it hadn’t jauntered off to Oakland.
Oh, and rosie:
his head; legs
Ummm, I may have overstated the extent of Wifey’s procrastination. [sub]I think she’s been reading this thread. :smack: [/sub] She called me about an hour after I posted that post to tell me what she’d bought for various relatives for Xmas, and we agreed to go shopping together this Friday and Saturday. :eek:
We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread, already in progress.
Well, no call from the guy today. If he wants to see me this weekend, he’d better call soon, or I may just “have plans” (I probably won’t, but I’m not going to let him think I waited for him to call…)
I have sketched out a rough plan for The Paper and I have compiled my bibliography (which always takes me longer than the paper!), so it’s going.
That’s right, tug the line softly and reel him in slow.
Vunderbob, sorry to disappoint. We’ll just have to keep patiently waiting for that day to come.
Happy Thursday, folks! Well, technically it’s Friday for me as I’m off tomorrow for a long weekend. That’ll be four days without me…how will you cope?
Congrats on the award, Drae, that’s way more dedication than I’ve ever had to writing. I can just about manage 5,000 words for an assignment, any more than that is just asking too much.
LiLi - any chance of a description of the Husbands? Otherwise how will I know which one I really want? And if I ship them over here, will you take 'im indoors in exchange?
Sean - be very worried if the roofers come back with an Irish bloke called James who will offer to tarmac your drive for a pittance. He’ll make a lovely job of it, so he will…
What am I doing today? Who knows! I’m out of here early today to take Ophelia to the cattery for her little holiday, she’ll be there until Tuesday afternoon because we get home too late on Monday to collect her. After that, it’s back home for a very quick dinner and then out to the Wulfrun Hall to see the Oysterband for a bit of singing and bouncing.
Then we have to be up early in the morning to get packed and ready to head off to the land of Stella Artois, fab chocolate and CET!
Try not to miss me too much…
Oh Rosie, that’s the wrong answer. A true Turtle would know the answer is shake hands.
Good morning everyone. Hope you have a great weekend, BooFae. You’re leaving Ophie with strict pedaling instructions, right? Cuz I’m pretty sure several MMPers still need them.
Off to empty the dishwasher…
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