I've just seen the first House Martin of the year. A week later than last year but at least I've seen one. What will probably happen now is that there won't be anymore for weeks. I shall try to dismiss that pessimistic thought from my mind and look forward to the return of the Swallows and those real masters of the air, Swifts. :)

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

Oh that's just fucking bizarre. I was playing with Pilau bout fifteen minutes ago and when he found the toy I'd hidden, I shouted "Callooh! Callay!"

It's not somethng I would normally say...

I read that as "first House Martian." :p:

My brain is slowly coming back online.

yay.

Hurrah!

No, they're not in the least bit unusual around here. In fact, I would go so far as to say that most of the local populace come from the outer reaches of the galaxy. Well, let's put it this way, few seem to be of 'this world'.:eyebrow:

My people, then. ;)

Ah, you see, those waves of genius must have hurtled down the M1 when I needed inspiration.:thumb:

Yay!

The new perfume I got, "Gluttony":

from Black Phoenix Alchemy lab (outlets in Gomorrah, Port Royale, Tombstone, Arkham, Vieux Carre, Brooklyn and LA)

http://www.blackphoenixalchemylab.com/welcome.html

HLJ I am glad to hear you guys were able to fix the CO problem. Sorry you can't work from home, anymore, though. Husband lost his job, so he is constantly "working from home."

This is what is making me happy today. We have to find a cheaper place to live, now that our income is significantly less. This is what we have found:

Hey, that looks pretty cool. I'd LOVE to have a barn. And look at all that space for the kids to run around. When the leaves come in, it will look downright gorgeous.

You could certainly plant a garden.

Wonderful! Looks so peaceful there.

Awesome barn! I like!

Was able to sing a 19 note range today during my voice lesson. Hit the upper notes w/o the teacher kicking me in the nuts this time.

I would so shoot that, it could feed your family for 6 months.

I most certainly will!

mee may ma mo mooooo!

Careful or that bitch, MTP, will fire your ass.:p:

Probably longer than that - I'd be eating it by myself. Elk cows weigh about 500 lb.

That's a cool house Case. I wonder if it's haunted?

I'm sorry to hear about the income loss.

lol

and congrats on the new job

Nice! I hope you get it.

I don't see the connect at all.

I wish I could fire people, the fucking idiot is still here. Getting the same pay I do, only doing 1% of the amount of work, and doing it wrong. I'm more than frustrated. I am usually a really nice person, but if being a bitch is what is needed, than I will be.

Really lucky the repair man found the CO leak HLJ, that's scary! Good luck at the new job.

Just think how long it would last if you were a vegetarian.

Sorry about your having to deal with a goldbricking a-hole. I connected the dots in bold. I think my humor has a lot to do with words and intentional mis-reading of them. I suspect it is due to some Irish blood.

I had a brilliant scheme for getting a cow-orker fired but it was so devious and potentially ruinous to the person I couldn't bring myself to do it.

Oh, sorry I took it wrongly. Just easily riled today I guess.:o

As I said in another thread, if you are what you eat then I am a vegetarian.


And thanks, MTP.

At least an herbivore...

Got mah Jeep back!

http://is7.itookthisonmyphone.com/m/..._568x426r0.jpg

Yay!

Thanks! I'm so happy.... it's been so long (I put 3k miles on the Extortion) it's like getting it new all over again!
Of course it's all rainy and shitty out so I can't just hang out and fawn all over it... any more....

looking at it....something is different.

took me a second, but it's the antenna! the fuckers put a stock antenna on it!

time to install the new mini i got jinx for xmas!

Woo Hoo - Great to hear! Take that baby out and go muddin'!

Har! The Jinxmobile is back in business!

Yay! Can you go and knock down some trees with it, or run over a few baby seals? You've got months of eco-vandalism to catch up on ;) .

Yay for you jinx! It looks like you got some real nice tires and wheels too. Well they look nice to me anyway. Meaty

Nice, have seen the before. Please be nice to the squirrels. i really like them for the diseased little beggers they are...At least the city ones.

We're expecting snow tomorrow - somewhere between 6 and 15 inches.

Tell you wife to spray the shovel with PAM, it'll make it easier for her. :haha:

Even better: I'll just spray the driveway with Teflon.

Did you get your pavement already?

Oww, that sounds like fuuuuuuuun. :D

It might be...the older part was built in 1907 (for you Brits out there, that's like something being built in the 1700s in Brit years. We just don't have old houses like you guys do.) The inside has been completely remodeled and it is huge. Bigger than where we live now, and cheaper! What a deal.

No worries about the income...we are minimizing expenses and working hard on our cleaning business.

Or just make the whole driveway out of black box material. No matter how inebriated you are you will always find It.

Yes, they came in last Friday and did the whole thing in about four hours, including excavation. They used 94 tons of asphalt.

I'm interested to see if the snow melts better than when we just had dirt.

Holy Shit.:eek:

94 tons???

Indeed, holy shit.

That explains the smell.

We have a pirate theme in school at the moment.
I spent the afternoon helping to make (and sometimes sneakily making) pirate cutlasses.

I only took over when a child was getting upset. The rest of the time I was just lending a hand. Gutted that this didn't leave me enough time to make my own though!

Making weapons? IN SCHOOL!? :eek:

beest is outside right now teaching kids to make rockets :eek: :lol:

Hey SG, I guess I've been gone a while. I didn't know you were back in school.

Rockets are cool. :thumb:

I volunteer two days a week at a local school. I'm in Year 2, which is 6-7 year olds. I'm motivated because being a Teaching Assistant is something I was interested in anyway and I wanted to try it out, but mostly because they have all this cool stuff!

We have FOUR live chicks in the classroom right now.
So cute.

Me and the chicks I mean.

This arvo I am mostly making my own cutlass (if it's any good I will take a picture for you) and I'm planning on putting in an extra day this week. I'll go in tomorrow to make up for the day I missed before Easter. And to show off my cutlass.

Bruce - if'n it's made of card and foil it's acceptable even in this country. I think. I'm a white female, I reckon I'll get away with it....

a white female who is at least partially responsible for an earthquake though ...

Deep joy! Walking through the park with my cousin's great-grand daughter aged two, talking duck (quackery) and squirrel and plucking tiny fistfulls of blossom from the cherry and almond trees. And the sun has shone and shone and - yes - shone.

Life is so good on days like these.:biggrin:

dig that, cz.


my daughter just called me up and played me the riff from 'glycerine' (that my son taught her) over the speaker phone. Nice.

One really sweet strawberry.

To counteract what is really pissing me off today, I made an appointment for a one hour massage using the gift card I got last November for my birthday.

They better have a slobber bucket!

Only 2 chicks now.
The lady who supplied the eggs (a parent of a child in the class) only had one hatchling.
So we "donated" the two yellow chicks back - they need to socialise in order to be happy and healthy.

These are our two remaining.
They seem to get cuter the older they get!