Nelly K. Beagle has turned up at a rescue group. Hopefully I can pick her up this weekend(Yeah, lady I do want my dog back.:rolleyes: : putz : ) My arthritis is acting up again. I bought Gordie a jersey for the playoffs.
gt, hope you feel better soon.
Moonie, hope the tooth gets better. sounds like when I had my wisdom teeth out.
mamaTigs, enjoy the games. I hope the meds work out.
Hang ten, rosie!
I hope the surgery goes well, gotti.
Happy birthday, Noor!
So do we call him moonie cos of his username, or cos he moans? Wouldn’t that be moanie?
My family is crazy. Both the bios and the in-laws. That’s not news, but I keep being surprised with how crazy they manage to be. On the good news, the Grandma from Hell seems to be going down fast, so hopefully (what?) she’ll die before 2020; on the bad news, that might mean that the Gramps from Hell will survive her; on the horrible news, SIL’s Mom and Grandma (who’s had Alzheimer’s for over 30 years, forgot how to talk decades ago, doesn’t recognize anybody but still loves babies, is kept tied down at all times except when they take her to the bathroom and imnsho should be in an old folks’ home where she’d be treated better) are going to be moving in “temporarily” with SIL and Bro… at SIL’s request. Because, you see, she needs to study, so her Mom will be taking out the Kidlette for a couple hours every day while the Kidlet is already in school, so SIL can study. And Grandma, say I? Oh, Grandma doesn’t get up until noon. But that’s after she’s been fed breakfast and put back to bed in a house that’s completely dark and silent, not in a house where a baby (see previous parenthesis) has been making noise since 6am, everybody’s had breakfast, five people (including a baby and toddler) have gotten dressed and four have left and there is someone moving about, say I. “Uh?” says SIL, whose Grandma I hope doesn’t just start singing, but belt out the whole freaking repertoire of the Aragon Gospel Society, membership one (Grandma doesn’t remember how to talk, but she sings - loudly - mostly lullabies, kiddie play songs, church hymns and Christmas carols).
Family. Where does one divorce them?
Great news, canineservant, when Nelly comes home you’ll really be living up to your name!
I am tired, had a late night and didn’t sleep very well so I’m looking forward to tonight because today is my Firday and I don’t have to get up for work tomorrow. In fact, I don’t have to get up for work until a week on Monday 'cos I’m taking all of next week off to potter about and do a bit of house-cleaning. I have a few other plans and the builder’s coming on Thursday afternoon to measure up and give us a definite quote for the work he’s planning to do. Them’s going to be big scary numbers.
I’m still helping Gill clear her house and garden this weekend, and I have a party to go to on Friday night so by Monday I’ll be looking forward to a bit of time to relax.
Nava, if you find out how to divorce your family, please let me know because 'im indoors might well want to divorce his! There’s all sorts of stuff going on there at the moment: his mother has just returned home after a long stay in a Spanish hospital after surgery, his father is in respite care (he has Parkinson’s and we think he also has the onset of dementia) and kicking up all sorts of bother there, and now the family are looking at the prospect of having to put him into some kind of home because his wife can’t look after him. It’s all going to get pretty messy before it’s sorted out.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’ here. It’s my Firday and I have a three day weekend ahead. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!
gotti glad ya got the surgery scheduled. I’ll be keepin’ ya in my thoughts and prayers.
Moonie hope the tooth feels better today.
Nava and BooFae unfortunately, you can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but not your friend’s noses, however, you cannot pick your family.
Yay on the karma points BBBobbio!
Puggy I will be lookin’ into those books.
Yays, boos, hugs, noogies, trouts and chitlins (hee!) as needed for everybody else.
Ok, need more caffiene then work purtification. Gonna go meet ol’ y’all know who for brekkies at Waffle House. Y’all know how we like those high class eatin’ places. 
Blurf. No skirmishes yet with TVCTPMO, but the day’s still young.
DogBut, praises for the rescue group that has Nellie, and prompted the reunion. Give her 10 hugs for every noogie for disappearing.
Off to grumble.
Yay Nelly’s back!
Yay/Boo other stuff happened!
Yay I’m heading up to the mountains today until Sunday! Hopefully I won’t wake up listening to bagpipes and thinking it’s Bob Dylan on Easter like I did a couple of years ago!
Ugh. I woke up this morning at about 3:30 with a brutal headache, and finally gave up and got up at 4 a.m. Took some ibuprophen and drank some coffee and then dozed until Mr. Anachi left for work. the headache is gone but it left it’s tractor trailer. 
Oh, listen to this! When I got home from work last night around six, Mr. Anachi came running out of the house and told me to look up in the pine trees in our neighbor’s back yard. Perched in the top branches were two mature Bald Eagles. Wow! They sat for a bit and then flew off. Ospreys love it around here and we see lots of them but we are pretty densely suburban so the eagles were a surprise.
We are having an easter egg hunt at work today. Yes, you heard right. There will be prizes I am told. Oh, and it’s for the ADULTS. :rolleyes:
gotti, I will be sending out the good vibes on Weds. Here’s hoping you walk out of the surgery whistling and skipping.
doggio, well I’ll be darned! Think the two will get on?
rosie, your group’s outfits are much nicer than the one’s the other ladies were wearing. You look maaaavelous!
I am so glad to be off tomorrow.
Tupug
Yeah, of course right after I asked about LiLi, I went and read her blog and saw she was planning some internet-free time. You’d think I’d learn to look before asking. :smack:
The cheesecake was excellent. I used a pecan crust from a different recipe so it’s a maple pecan cheesecake. YUM! I’m going to bring half of it to work, though, 'cause we really can’t eat a whole big cheesecake just between two of us. It was 4 blocks of cream cheese (so 24 oz) and 4 eggs and a cup of maple syrup! That’s dense. But good.
My chicken curry was pretty good and quite healthy last night, but I forgot to pick up some apple to throw in at the very end, and I really do prefer a little sweetness in a yellow curry. So it was good but not quite how I like it. Oh well.
Pugs, we’re having an Easter egg hunt at work tomorrow too. I think I’m going to find a deadline that I just must meet so oh well, so sorry, I can’t participate. Our department now has a “fun” committee that comes up with ideas like this. :rolleyes:
I’m in the post-vacation unmotivated phase. Someone want to come do some work for me??
TVCTPMO strikes again. My Virginia tax return was returned. I apparently didn’t include the required copy of my FedGov return. Funny how that wasn’t mentioned in the filing instructions…
Gimme my refund, dammit. :mad:
**Doggio **- YAY!!
**Bobbio **- Va sux…
**swampy **- 3 days off in a row? On Easter weekend? Suddenly I have a mental image of you dressing in a fluffy rabbit costume, hopping thither and yon, giving goodies to kiddies. Because, of course, what parent would yank their child away from the crazy old man in the rabbit suit…
Today was mostly meh. Glad tomorrow’s Firday. Holy cow - and we’re still on page 2?? This may be a record short MMP!
Speaking of which - **gt **- put me down for Monday unless someone else wanted it. I gots an idea that couldn’t possibly sustain a thread anywhere else.
Class tonight, and my coral reef should come out of the kiln from its first firing. I need to finish my 3 planters - gotta do *something *to pretty them up. And I need to find out if she’s going to cancel the 4th project. I don’t really want to do it.
Steak for supper. I wish I’d pulled it out of the freezer this morning. But I can broil the ice crystals outta it!
I can haz weekend??
Oh yeah. I forgot to say Yay Doggio! How’s Gordon going to take the addition of Nelly?
Yup, I’m unmotivated today. It’s not getting any better. I have a meeting at 3:30, and then I’m guessing I’m not going to get anything done after that. Blah.
The maple cheesecake was very well received at work. I’m happy with how it turned out. And now half of it’s gone so we only have to eat half at home. That’s only 2 blocks of cream cheese, 2 eggs, and 1/2 c of maple syrup. Plus the crust.
I’ve got salmon for dinner, but I’m not sure what I’m going to do with it. We don’t always have the freshest salmon around here, which has led to me not liking it so much. So I kind of need to disguise it a bit. I’m not sure how I’m going to do that yet. But I think there’ll be crash potatoes on the side.
Which reminds me that I never answered the original question - I’ve made the crash hot potatoes (but 'cause I saw them on PW’s blog, not here), and the lesbian chocolate gingerbread, which is great and if you haven’t made it, you should! I think that’s it.
Hi, all!
Yay, Doggio!!!
We got the new 'puter hooked up and I’ve been restoring pictures and music and stuff all day. Vista seems to be ok. I’ve installed the new Office 2007 and it looks different, but I haven’t used it yet.
I’ve been playing with the bells and whistles. Messenger works again! We have new, easy-t-use virus protection called Kaspersky. And now we’re wireless. Cool beans!
We went to an Astros baseball game last night, and we’d barely gotten to our seats when we were down 4-0! Second inning, 8-0! Arggh! Final score was 10-6, so we did have some exciting moments. The guy sitting next to us slept through the whole first 5 or 6 innings! He was asleep when we sat down. Wonder why he even went to the game?
In the 6th we moved down from the 4th to the first level by the dugout. I almost caught a foul ball! It nicked my fingertip… 
I’m amking a beef and broccoli stir-fry for dinner tonight, and some fried rice.
I’ve mostly skimmed, so yays, boos, hugs and wet chitlins doled out as required…
Have a good evening, everyone!
:(:(:(
He died this afternoon. It seems to have been peacefully. I got the call on my way home from work and beelined it over there. From the looks of it he just went to sleep.
We dug a hole, wrapped him in his blankie and buried him. I went to the Home Depot and bought a gardenia bush to plant where he’s buried. It’s a nice sunny spot for a gardenia bush. I think it’s appropriate. A beautiful bush for a beautiful dog.
Sorry about :(:(:(JoeDawg:(:( swampy.
Yay for Nelly being back!
I spent the entire day convinced it was Firday (cuz, well, it’s mine). Down to the tuna sandwich for lunch.
Didn’t realize how firmly I’d convinced myself of this until I was leaving work.
Now it’s off to church. I toyed with skipping, since I don’t feel very well, but it’s my absolutely favorite Mass of the year (best music), so I’ll go at least for a while.
Back later.
GT
{{{{{{swampy}}}}}}
Awwww…bye bye, Joedawg. Have fun playing with Rusty!
Yay for Nelly coming home, canineservant!
Good luck with the surgery, gotti. I hope it goes even better than hoped for!
I didn’t go to the hockey games, canineservant – for what they were charging, it didn’t make sense for me to go. Unfortunately, the team he was rooting for lost. So I don’t know if he’ll want to go to the finals or not. I guess he’s stayed to watch the second game; he was supposed to call me, but I haven’t heard from him, so who knows.
At least I’ve found out why this medication is making me a total zombie. As it turns out, the doc meant to write a scrip for 60 pills of 15 mg each. Except she somehow failed to put the 15 into the appropriate block on the computer (all computerized scrips, so you can’t blame handwriting), and instead of calling her and asking what strength she meant to order, the pharmacy filled the scrip for 60 pills – of 60 mg each! :eek: :eek: :eek: So I’ve been getting four times the pain meds I’m supposed to. :eek: At least I had the sense not to take any of my short-acting ones so that I wouldn’t like die from my breathing being suppressed. :rolleyes: Not to mention I wouldn’t be able to stay conscious even if I tried!
So the doc was very, very happy I called her today to ask how long I should expect to be woozy. When I told her the pills were 60 mg, she about fainted. Needless to say, she has rewritten the scrip for the proper strength, and was going to walk it over to the pharmacy before she left this afternoon (it’s in the same building) and ask just what the hell they were thinking, filling the scrip with no strength indicated – and just picking a number out of thin air!! And even more needless to say, I’m not going to take any more of the 60s; I’ve been sitting here at my desk for the last hour, nodding off every few minutes, and it’s been ten hours since I last took one of those pills! :eek: I’ll wait till Papa Tigs can stop by the pharmacy tomorrow and pick me up the new lower strength pills. For some strange reason.
Too bad I’m too ethical to go sell this stuff – I could make a fortune!
The good news in all of this is that I may have been over-medicated, but I have felt GREAT today. I’ve had less pain than I’ve had in years, and so I’ve been getting all kinds of stuff done. It’s been the most productive day I’ve had in ages!
Off to zombify for the rest of the evening.
It’s Thursday evening and we’re barely finished with page two!?!?!? 
:eek:
Where is everyone?
Aww, RIP JoeDawg, although glad to hear that he went peacefully. Many sympathetic hugs to his Daddy and partner and to Swampy, spoiler extraordinaire.
Ooh yes, yay for returning Nelly, Doggio; although I too am wondering how she and Gordie will hit it off.
I am soooo glad tomorrow is FIRDAY! Today was the funeral for the mother of my friend and co-worker. I think she felt heartened that there was such a goodly number of co-workers who attended. I’ve been thinking of her, yet also been a bit upside down today. So yes, I am indeed glad tomorrow is Friday, and Good Friday at that.
I’m so sorry about JoeDawgie, **Swampy. **
I’m glad Nellie and **Canineservant **have been reunited.
I’ve had an absolutely craptastic day. More requirements at work, no end in sight and I’m just sick of it all. I really need several days off, but that ain’t happenin’ any time soon.
Quitting smoking during all this isn’t helping my attitude any, either. I haven’t had a smoke, but crap, I really, really, really want one.
Something freakin’ died in my laundry room, so I had to try and figure out what the hell that was. I still don’t know. I asked my kids to take care of it before I got home, and it wasn’t.
I’m getting sick of that shit too. I’m really, really sick of it, matter of fact. I think there’s going to be a “come to Jesus” conversation tonight. Right now, I’m just trying to calm down.
If it was just the laundry room thing, I wouldn’t be so pissed, but it’s been a myriad of stuff with the kids lately, and I’ve just had it. I’m so pissed I want to tell them they’re on their own; I won’t be cooking for them, cleaning for them, carting them to and fro, nothing.
I ask for very little. When I ask that something be done, I want it done and I don’t want any fucking attitude or excuses.
Bah! I’m getting even more pissed as I type this.
I’m sorry. Between work and all the crap I have to take care of at home; I’m just plain burned out.
I think I’ll just slink away now…
RIP JoeDawg.
