I live to give people a reason to indulge. 
Morning all!
Yesterday I had so many pancakes I nearly died. 
I was on such a sugar high all day - which turned out to be a good thing, I guess, since I had a presentation I’d barely prepared for in the afternoon. I think everyone mistook my jittery energy for enthusiasm on the subject on which I was presenting.
On an unrelated note, has anyone ever been in a messed-up relationship that you know is bad for you but that you can’t give up? I feel like I’m too old for this, but I can’t stop myself either. Wallowing in angst is probably what I should be giving up for Lent.
I have a loooooooooooot of work to do today if I’m going to participate in our weekly drunken Thursday tomorrow. Have a good one, y’all.
taxi, I’m so sorry about the kitty.
Being as I’m not a practicing anything when it comes to religion, I don’t do the whole Lent thing.
I was baptized Cat’lic, but never made it to First Communion because my folks were going through a rather nasty divorce.
At any rate, growing up, we did the whole fish on Fridays and stuff deal, but that’s about it.
Now, as an adult, I’m not sure what I believe in. I guess I believe in trying to be as good a person as I can and trying to live by the Golden Rule.
My son did stay home today. I told him to call me by 10:00 and let me know how he’s feeling. His back is all messed up. I found some Motrin for him, but I couldn’t convince him to take more than one 100 milligram pill. He’s sort of stubborn like his ol’ mom in that regard, I guess. If his back isn’t doing any better when I talk to him, I’m going to make an appointment with the doctor just to cover our bases. It’s rather odd for a 14 year old, who’s fit, to have back problems.
I should work, I guess.
I have no problem with anyone wanting to do that stuff voluntarily and of their own volition. My problem is with people doing the Lenten stuff because Sister Mary Elephant declared ‘Thou Shalt’, because it’s tradition based on dogma.
As for me, I decided to give up stalking romantic rivals while wearing Depends. 
Man, I’m on the hairy edge of being totally serious in an MMP…
Do tell…we’re all agog. Seriously, we’ve all been serious at one time or another, so have at it.
taters, I think I’d be suspecting a kidney infection or something kidney related. That could hurt like hell and he’d probably call it a back ache.
Agog, at what? In the past, I’ve given up for Lent:
- religion
- atheism
- armed robbery
- intravenous drug use
- speaking Swahili
- dressing in drag
- participating in orgiastic sex
- cornrows in my hair
- eating anything that contains mushrooms
Naturally, I set the privation bar where it’s a real ordeal for me to give something up. :rolleyes:
I’ll second a kidney infection, and also suggest a stone. Get him to a doctor in an urgent but not emergency manner.
Nope, it’s not that. It’s right between the shoulder blades. I immediately thought of kidney infection until he told me where his back was hurting.
Okay, Bobbio, I’m a little slow this morning, so you whooshed me. I may have to start drinking five shots, instead of my quad shot Americano in the mornings.
Just saw Bobbio’s suggestion too. Really, I do think he just moved too quickly in the wrong way. However, when I talk to him this morning, I’ll see how he’s doing and probably end up calling the doctor.
Okay, FCM, your op prompted me to reregister with Classmates (which I’d dropped off of when it went pay) – still only a freebie account, natch – and 24 hours later, i.e. this morning, heard back from my old classmate who organizes the mailing list of folks from our class. He was a nice guy back in high school, but man, I can barely even remember his face, you know? Anyway, he’s going to be in this area in June, so I guess it’s time to get together and catch up a bit. It’ll be interesting. Our lives have sure taken different directions, so there may be less than nothing we have in common any more, but you never know till you try, right?
But he just made me feel very, VERY old. Our high school always celebrates reunions over the 4th of July since the town always has a street fair then and it gives you something to do. This last summer? Was our class’s 35th reunion.
Pass me the Geritol, somebody!
I have a thirty-five year h.s. class reunion comin’ up this year. Yeah, yeah, yeah, git off’n muh lawn ya whippersnappers! Dunno if I’ll go though. Just don’t care anymore and like I said earlier, I see the folks I’m most interested in seein’ a couple times a year.
Rosie I got one of them smudge marks on my forehead. It kinda looks like I forgot to wash my face. Maybe I should go somewhere in public and see if I get strange looks. Or maybe not cause it’s tryin’ to be rainy and if I don’t have to be out in rain and such, I try hard not to. It’s warmish and rainyish (it’s a word!) here today.
Just a drive-by - I’m back at work and already I’m busy!
I haven’t had a chance to get caught up yet. Spread appropriate aws! ohs! and oohs! amongst yourselves.
MWAH!
This year would be our 35th reunion, and if D and J follow thru, we may have a 35th renuion crab feast, which would be super-cool.
I had training today which pretty much sucked, even moreso after lunch. See, on my way back to the training room, my non-branch-head boss caught me in the hall and said next week I’d be starting my new assignment. So why should I waste my time training with a team that I’ll be leaving?? I got my back up especially after my current team leader told me the training was “mandatory” - he’s NOT the boss of me, dammit! Plus my new assignment is completely different from what I’ve been doing the last almost 3 years and I don’t know of the training will apply. So I’ll ask the boss-guy tomorrow.
Temps in the 50s here, which is nice. I really should rinse my car off, but it rained yesterday, so I parked it outside overnight and it rinsed off most of the salt mess. I just don’t feel like washing it right now.
I said it before and I’ll say it again: Is it Friday yet?? * <sigh>*
It looks like Mardi Gras was a success in San Jose - a mere 40 arrests, and they only broke glass from 9th to 28th Street. :rolleyes: Apparently, Mardi Gras is a French phrase meaning smash all the glass you can find and set cars on fire. I always hated going in to work on Ash Wednesday, because downtown always looked like it’d been looted. It was especially bad in 2001, when they vandalized St. Joseph’s Cathedral, and our office was next door at the time. I’ve never understood the mind set that you have to destroy things to have a good time.
The sock is complete and I confess that I fell under the spell of some pretty patterned sock yarn that is 40% bamboo. We’ll see how that goes. I think I might try a different pattern for it, though. I’m using size 1 1/2 needles, 2.5 mm. They look like bamboo skewers, only smaller. They got this book in recently, which is, well, interesting, I suppose. I think knitting books have jumped the shark.
Ooh, 40% bamboo sock yarn, Jah? Who makes that? How does the bamboo feel? Does it make the yarn softer, or what?
We ran around this afternoon running errands. I got some pretty new undies for when I’m in the hospital – hey, gotta look good, right? – and I was a really bad girl and bought some malted milk eggs, my annual Easter candy weakness. And then I went to the bookstore, my excuse being I need something to read while in the hospital. Mind you, I already have a huge thick book Palebunny loaned me, so it was totally an excuse. But hey, whatever works, right? And then I got my prescription for the medication I need to swab my nose out with twice a day. Starting tomorrow. My life is just SO thrilling.
Back to work now, I guess. I’ve done a good job of avoiding it all day, but there are times when I really shouldn’t any more. This being one of them.
Um, I know I’ve missed a few days (frakin’ crazy-go-nuts at my desk this past week) but I was. I didn’t win any awards, but in a class of 700+, there were very few people my friends and I couldn’t hang with for whatever was going on. Of course, with me personally, that didn’t apply to dating. Never had much luck until after high school. I’m sure most of that was cause by me (a combination of shyness and impratical expectations about the HS dating scene), so I ain’t too broken up about it.
It’s Regia Bamboo, in color 1072 (the one at the bottom of the page) and it’s 45% bamboo, 40% superwash wool and 15% nylon. The bamboo makes it very soft, plus it’s machine washable and dryable. It looks like they’ll make nice light weight socks for spring. I’m going to try another pattern this time, in garter rib.
I also got a miscellaneous shipment of Noro today, including a skein of Yoroi , which was half off. It will make a great hat.
Hot dogs for supper tonight. Ok, chili dogs. That’s the nice thing about havin’ freezers. See, I already have homemade chili, so I took some out to thaw. I chopped up an onion and shredded some cheese so it’ll be chili/cheese/onion dawgs. YUM! It’s rainy and a little cool cause of the rain so it just sounds like the perfect thing.
Still no major bloodshed from the nonsmoking thing. Just thought I’d report.
I’m getting The Sick I think.
Stopping at the grocery store to load up on The Sick drugs, and some black tea with which to pour some Jameson’s into later tonight. Funny - Jameson’s I have, tea I have to go buy.
I was feeling like I might be getting The Sick, too. My throat was raggedy, and my nose was dripping, and I kept nodding off in my stupid training class. I just feel drained, but that could be due to getting home from class late last night.
I should go to bed early, ya think?