That's so scary. I'm glad you're okay.

wow glatt

I am glad you are alright.

I feel your pain, glatt, and I'm so glad you're alright. I won't get into my disdain for the "training" and "talent" of truckers who put our lives in jeopardy every day. They even ramped (ha, pun) up coverage on the interstate by the Highway Patrol just because every freaking accident in the winter (well not every but most) was caused by semi-driver error. They way up in da sky. We're just little ants down here waiting to be killed by behemoths with very bad driving skills. OH, so I guess I will get into my disdain. ;)

OK, my ho posts: I was at my mom and dad's on Saturday and had gone outside to get something out of my car. I heard a jet, and looked up just in time to see an F-16 flying over...so close I almost felt like I could touch it (which of course it wasn't really that close.) It was banking in to a turn. By the time my dad got out of the shop it was long gone. I stood in my parent's driveway, hands in the hair, yelling "WOOOHOOOOOOO." My family has always been into stuff like that. Puts tears in my eyes. And reminds me that my nephew is in Quantico learning to be a pilot. Amazing stuff.

Second ho post: Leaving there, I saw a car pulling one of those little trailers commonly used by entertainers to get stuff back and forth. It read "Aim High Puppet Minstries." I so wanted to paint out the "A" and put an apostrophe between I and m, to make it I'm High Puppet Ministry. Because seriously, puppets are creepy and people need to be high to appreciate them.

Oh, guess I should 'splain the Dayton INternational Air Show was at the airport. It's a big deal. We used to watch parts of it from the lake/land my dad owned, before he sold it. For one to be clear near my 'rents house is unusual. Wow wow wow.

Disdain? I thought you drove an ennui.

Nope, I drive a Beetle. ;)

Doesn't that bug you?

Sometimes. When it does I think fondly of my Fahrvergnügen. ;)

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." - Harry S Truman

I find myself looking for the "like" button while reading some cellar posts lately.
Perhaps I'm spending too much time on facebook.

Wow. Today would have been my 20th wedding anniversary. Times fun when you're having flies. :(

wow.. how long ago did you divorce?

About 9 years ago?

We're still friends. He called to wish me a happy Un-iversary.

Just amazing that all this time has passed. I'm getting so old.

I went thru that in 2008. Made me feel sad/sick but you know what? I knew the marriage would be a bust the very day I married him.

We were both young. But, still, it was a sad day.

We started out as friends. We did OK with marriage...for a while. It became clear that things were getting very bad. We decided we were very good at being friends but really bad at being married.

I was 26 when I got married, he was 36. It didn't seem so young at the time, but it sure does now.

nice to hear you're still friends. our 20 yr mark <strike>is</strike> would have been in a couple weeks, for the second tour of duty that is. I had a six year stint before. slow learner. fortunately, I haven't learned everything. :)

I'm a one-time loser in the arena of marriage.

Seriously though, everything we go through makes us who we are. This can help explain why I'm about half-insane, and it can help explain why I can't handle conflict very well, and it can explain why I never believed about being put on the proverbial pedestal (why I, in fact, will run screaming from that.)

I got a lot done today! Set up auto bill pay for all of my medical bills, added them to my budget, scheduled needed appointments. Its crazy, I'm never this productive. I am taking off of work next tues through friday because I have to be off of my thyroid meds and I'm already usually on the lethargic side. Friday I have my radioactive iodine treatment, my doc says this is the only one I'll need. He has the advanced copy of guidelines, so the old tells you to be "isolated" for like 13 days, he says that is totally unnecessary, 1 is all that is needed before the iodine is out, so I get to go back to work on Sat and all will be well. Since I do have a whole 4 days off, despite the fact I'll be lethargic as hell, I decided to get some routine maintenance that has been forgotten with all the other appointments I've had to have this year. So Tues I'm off to the dentist for teeth cleaning, Wed I have an orthodontist appointment in the morning and Della has a vet appointment in the afternoon, Thurs I'm getting my hoo-ha health certified, and of course on Friday I'm getting my radioactive iodine which will hopefully give me mutant superpowers like Mystique.

@Infi: seems like you're feeling somewhat better, I hope you are!

Thanks mtp, I am.

I've had three different appts with the freaking pooky doctor. One time I rescheduled. Then she rescheduled (and I got confused with the day of the week and the date due to the previous reschedule and took off work early last friday to go to the appt that wasn't really until Monday and the office was locked up) and then I got a message on Monday that she had to reschedule again.

Like, it takes about all my courage to go through with this kind of crap anyway, you know? Who do I have to have sex with to get a pap smear around here? ARGHHH. ;)

I've just given myself a black eye.
Well, nowhere near a proper one, just a little bruise below the eye.
But it hurt like buggery!

My eye was was itchy, I rubbed it, then I felt the skin GIVE and a sharp pain.

Oh the grimness!
I knew it was wrong.
And yet I wasn't doing anything unusual.
I guess the tissue under my eye is extra fragile because I do rub my eyes too much this time of year.
I have allergy eye-drops but I always come out of the shower with severe red-eye for example. They just suffer, and the surrounding skin suffers equally.

It's a small patch - I'll take a pic tomorrow. Could be a dot from a marker pen.
Teeny-tiny to anyone else.
But not happy about it.

Shaw, you're lucky to be in contact with your ex.
I still dream about mine - I left him and the guilt is still obviously there, buried.
Then again, my dreams kick up all sorts of really peculiar scenarios, some now involving children at my school, but cast in very different roles. I'm not sure if the mind is a wonder or just a badly evolved piece of meat...

Oh, just to add another topic to the comprehensive coverage of my life; we're have quinoa tomorrow. Yay! Talked Mum into it.
Tonight we had chicken in Thai marinade with salad.
She told me a couple of times how much she enjoyed it, and said she'd never have thought of cutting the chicken into bite-sized pieces (being a traditional meat & two veg cook) to make a warm salad.

Which really pleased me.
I love it when I do things she appreciates.

We're here at the beach for a full week, courtesy of my mom.

It was less than 24 hours before the first child asked when it would be time to go home. Sigh.

Bloody Mary is the girl I love

now you can go fuck yourselves

Take heart. I remember asking my Mum whether it was bedtime on holiday and getting a furious reaction.
Genuinely, all I wanted to get was an idea of timeframe.

Children have a warped sense of time - as proved when children in my class ask if it's lunchtime directly after break, or if it's hometime when they haven't even had lunch.
And asked what they did earlier that day will often come up with what they did the day before.

Much smacking of heads in dismay.

You can have her too. I'm intoxicated by her older, sweeter, and slyer sister from Spain, Sangria. Whooo baby!

That's not really warped time sense as much as an indicator that they are bored and mean to say "I want to go home now" or "I want whatever is happening not to be happening and something different and hopefully better to be happening instead."

At least that's what I mean when I ask those types of questions.

Glad to hear about the headsmacking, thugh. Gotta keep the little rats in line. :D

I'm movin' on up
 

I get a parking lot upgrade! As people die off (OK, mostly they leave or retire), people move to better and better parking lots. This is my first move, to a parking lot across the street. It's not really much closer to my building, but still. :p:

See what a person can accomplish in 2 3/4 years? :rolleyes:

it's so your cow orkers can see when you're coming to better be ready to stab you in the back :D

Now that you mention it..."Man Who Pissed Me Off But We Talked About It And It's OK Now" is moving up too. Heyyyyyy...

Piers Morgan. I've never watched his show. I've never heard him speak. But everytime I see a picture of him I want to smack him right in the face, with his nose in the air and that superior smirk about him.

He may be a great guy. Having no other experience than picture/advertisements on news websites, I would say he's a pompous little pissbag.

;)

you nailed it

On my daily walk today I saw four Muslim women cleaning the front of their houses/ their doors.

I wondered if it was something to do with Ramadan, although the Muslims I knew in Leicester always had a very thorough house-clean before it started. This seemed to be all about the entrance.

It might just be coincidence, but it's a grey and rainy day, and they were on completely different parts of the estate. I'd still have thought it an odd occurence if they were caucasian.

Have tried looking on the internet, but it's a vague thing to look up.
I'll just have to file it away under Perplexing But Not Really Important.

Night before last, we're watching Jeff Bridges as a special musical guest on the Colbert Report... and I turn and say to Mr. Clod, "Holy shit. I think that's Carrie Rodriguez." And yes, the internet confirmed that the first chair violin player at my high school is now playing in Mr. Bridges' touring band.

And then yesterday was the first day of Microbiology for the Fall semester... and it turns out the professor is the father of another good friend of mine from high school.

"You know too many people," says Mr. Clod.

Yabbut I guarantee you Carrie Rodriguez has no fucking clue who I am. :)

She'll weep if we tell her that...

I would really like a cigarette right now.
This is very very unsual.

I might smoke amongst smokers (less than once a year) but never think about it otherwise.

I've been visited by the nicotine fairy!
(hope she tells the weightloss fairy to come by).

I've popped in again, definitely need to work on my post count

yer workin the right thread then...

I've been feeling very unmotivated and blah these days, and I don't like it. I lurk here but don't respond. I've made a mental promise to call someone but can't seem to pick up the phone. I want to check up on some friends but I don't. Blah....

when r u due?

Do I sound pregnant? Never really been around pregnant women before. Anyways, I AM NOT PREGNANT!! :3_eyes: :D

no, you sound premenstrual, but I thought I'd enjoy the response from the ambiguity ;)

"hey lady in the grocery store RIGHT next to me grabbing the same apples,
your close proximity doesn't bother me nearly as much as your gum smacking in my ear!"

I lol'd.

OMFG some people are so lame and needy and so predictably so it's not even funny any more.

To some it hasn't been fun for far too long.

Ha! You're teasing me...:p:

I'm feeling more hot than usual, so I think you're right. Maybe I am pmsing. :rolleyes: No good cuz I'm gonna start feeling :mad: and :sniff: I'm a mental case whenever I have pms. :neutral:

I don't know if I'm bored or sleepy.

As with Lola, I have no interest in anything, and all I want to do is curl up and go to sleep.
I actually did that yesterday from 12.00-14.00.
But then Mum had smashed a plate and was in a seriously pissy mood, so I retreated and put in my earplugs.
And then couldn't get to sleep last night. It was gone 02.00 at least.

Lovely Diz woke me up at 07.30 doing his patented Tour du Lit, paying special attention to the part where he walks over my pillow on my hair, pulling it quite painfully.

So I probably am bored and tired.
But dreading going to bed too early if there's an equally bored cat in the room.

I have Peach Melba hair.
Tried to bleach the pink out.
Mostly succeeded. But not completely.

So my hair is a mixture of blonde, pink and peach.
Will see if I can get away with it at school - training day on Monday.
If not, deep dark red to cover the lot.

I have little radios playing in my ears.

There was a commercial for a restaurant that specializes in 'hand-breaded tenderloins.'

Huh? I really really want to go there, order a tenderloin, take a bite, jump up spitting it out and choking and trying to drink water and accusing loudly "THAT MUDDERPLUCKIN' TENDERLOIN WAS BREADED BY A MACHINE! I JUST KNOW IT. I CAN TELL HAND-BREADING WHEN I TASTE IT AND THAT AIN'T HAND-BREADING."

I mean. Really.

Sent back a pizza.
Third time.

Okay, over about a six month period, but always for the same complaint. NOT ENOUGH SAUCE. By which I really mean - no sauce at all.

I ordered online with a voucher code.
It was a payday treat.
I minus-ed the Dominos sauce and plus-ed the sundried tomato and garlic sauce.
I got a pizza with NO sauce which was as dry as old whatsits.

So once again I called, and a replacement is coming.
What did the Manager say?
"I'm so sorry. Many of our staff can't read English"

!!!!!!

I hate to say it but I bet your replacement pizzas are COVERED in "special sauce."

;)

It was pretty much okay.
Special Sauce just means more protein :)

Feel a bit sick-ish now actually.
Serves me right.

Quick update on me, just for fun:
Just spent $400 on my car because of an overheating issue. Coolant flush + radiator replacement. That is fixed but now its making an odd noise, kinda like a grinding when I'm in low gear and its still getting "warmed up."
My ex moved to Austin (oh yeah, I broke up with my boyfriend), he is coming back to town next weekend and wants to go to dinner. He owes me money so I have to see him to get paid back but I honestly don't want to go to dinner.
I'm dating a guy I met through OKCupid (don't make fun of me please) he's nice, has a good job (much better than my last disaster), big geek, awful kisser. Really not sure if I like him a whole lot, although he has most of the qualities I generally seek (not the bad kissing bit) so I want to like him, but so far its just not there.
Della is doing good, my BIL is genuinely starting to like her. She did eat a bunch of his cookies last night when he went out with my sis and left them on the coffee table. I was in my bedroom so I didn't hear her misbehaving at first.
Braces should come off soon, hopefully 2 more appointments.
Mom is pissed at me because I told her off for sending me preachy email about work ethics because I stayed home from work for a migraine.
Mom is pissed at my sister and vice verse cuz she and dad are getting conned into yet another pyramid scheme and she won't read any of the data my sister has sent her trying to dissuade her.
My brother lost his job and has been conned into pyramid scheme he is now trying to get mom and dad into.
See my endocrinologist in Oct for a followup, I'm now just on synthroid (that is a good thing) but still feeling pretty depressed/cranky. Maybe thats just how I'm gonna be from now on. Maybe life is just more shitty lately.

MTP, that's a lot of information!
Amd I will respond to it a little later.

I just stopped by to say I am nervous.
I actually have butterflies, as if I am going on a date or something.
Approx 15 minutes until Tennant and Tiger and Mums arrive.

Ridiculous!

Although one of my fears has been assuaged.
Had they been going to cancel, surely I'd have heard by now...?

Is a small tattoo an inkling?

So, MTP.
Ditched the bf - good times.
But it won't work with the new one.
Sorry. It's not me being a doom-mongerer, or the fact that he's a bad kisser (although that doesn't help) it's just that I was there. I saw that, did that, bought the break-up t-shirt. Not with him of course.

If you don't feel it now you never will.
Come over to England and be gay with me instead.

Yay for braces coming off. Your amile will be even more adorable (see above).

And Della eating biscuits that were left out?
Yup, he deserved that.
Tell him it's practice for having kids.
(just don't let him get confused which type of practice!)

Your Mum wasn't to be pissy.
I recognise the symptoms.
Try not to swallow it down or accept blame.
I'm not a good example as I do both, but do what I say not what I do.

Sorry your family are slowly going off their collective rockers.
You've got us though. We went fruitloop a long time back so at least we're a known quantity.

I'm a post(who)er!

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