Support Groups - mooooooo moooooooo i am tired of page five

WHAT has happened??? we used to HATE page two and now we put up with PAGE FIVE?????????????? if i weren't so busy with my displays,I would have something interesting to say---BUT as soon as i have several assembled,I will be sure to take photos and send them about ----- Lush even sends me PERSONAL insults {like at hallowe'en}----GUESS WHAT ,MY SISTER WAS AT TARGET AND SHE GOT ME SOME MINT M AND M'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU PEOPLE MUST HAVE TARGETS AROUND THERE SOMEWHERE????????====IF I KEEP EATING THEM,I WILL BE A VERY EASY TARGET,THAT'S FER SHURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PEACH----CAN YOU EMAIL US FROM THE SHIP????[ your new NO friends are insane,and kleptos for certain}

Just a Wal-Mart that isn't even a real Wal-Mart. Being German, the managers just don't get the concept. Parking lot is too small, no greeters at the door, and they sell Nike and Adidas running shoes for full price. Wal-Mart is supposed to be cheeeeeeep, right? Mostly they just have groceries and not much else. We never go there.

Got a new answering machine. As soon as dh plugged it into our mysterious phone plug in thingy (where you can have three phone lines at the same time) on of the phones wouldn't work. I asked him if it could be the answering machine and he said "Nah, this other thing is broken. We still have a guarantee. You just call this hotline tomorrow and they'll deliver a new thingy." And I said, "No, YOU call the hotline. I don't even know what's wrong with the thingy." So today he calls and the lady (who actually knew something, sort of) said to fax a copy of our receipt and they'd get things rolling. Then I said to dh, "Are you SURE it's not the answering machine? This problem started *as soon as* you plugged it in. Did you read the instruction manual first?" Guess what the answer was? Not only did he not read the instruction manual, he didn't even used the cable that came with the machine! Duh!! Everything working fine now thanks to my superior brain. I swear, men would be lost without us girls. Next thing you know I'll be fixing the toaster.

What a yawn my life is. My DD has mangled her knee at football and I must take her little self to the dr today. This would be an ideal day to catch up on my house, but frankly, who cares? Not you, I'm sure, and not me either. I promise to post a list at the bottom of this message. No scrolling to see how interesting it is, you'll have to read this dreck I'm writing to get to it.
I broke down and bought my boys Playstation 2 for Christmas. They want bikes, but I can't buy bikes, my taste is too Walmarty for them. Maybe if I lived in Germany, they would be willing to have Walmart stuff. Nike? At Walmart? Our Walmart has nothing of the sort.
I could go to Target, but why? I can get delicious crack laced mint lentils at my local mall. I need some crack right about now, so it is perfect.
I feel bad but I can't post that list I promised right now. Stop bellyaching. I'm sure I'll have one to post for you later. I have to take DD to dr. bye
P.S. We are promised snow. This will make my Christmas displays perfect.

"Dreck" means dirt (ok, filth, actually, if you want to be picky about it) in German. Are your Pennsylvania Dutch roots showing, Lushy?

Last night they had a report about messies (can't remember how to strike!) on TV. On the one hand, it made me realize that I'm not *that* bad, because these people really were living in squalor, but it made me realize that if we don't do something soon, it could happen to us. We've been shoveling out the computer room and I must have thrown away the cr*p of a thousand years, at least. Where does it all come from???

Christmas displays are at a standstill until my next decorating vision.

Sugar, men would not be able to manage life without us. This is the way my DH's mind works - I stayed home this am because I had a headache. I was going to go into the office at noon, but being the thoughtful DW that I am, I called first to see if anyone would like me to pick up lunch on the way in. DH said, why, are you hungry? I said yes, but he said don't worry about it, we'll pick up something later. So I said, ok, I'll be right in. When I got to the office, he said, gee, the guys just left to get sandwiches, you didn't want anything did you???? Now did I just tell him I was hungry? Yes! Was I thoughtful enough to offer to get him something to eat? Yes! Was he thoughtful enough to bother to order me a sandwich? No! His excuse was that he just has a hundred things on his mind, he can't think of everything. He is such a man.

Peaches, from what I read about gall stones they can be caused by lots of very restrictive dieting. Hmmm. Have I ever done that in my life? The good news is that I didn't need that gall bladder anyway. :) Kinda like tonsils.

DS has a Playstation 2, Lush. Also lots of gory games. I personally hate it, but as he is over 18, and supposedly not a young impressionable child, I put up with it. What ever happened to Pac-Man?

I've got to get off this computer and take care of some Dreck.

DS has a Playstation 2 that he bought himself. When the d****d things came out they were $300 now they're $200. He paid $200 but it's still mean of them to do that. We use it to play DVDs too.

I may be able to email from the ship but we'll see what they charge for it.

And this MUST BE NOTED. A woman from work went to Australia. She sent a POSTCARD from TASMANIA and it arrived ONE WEEK AFTER THE DATE OF THE POSTMARK. What do you Canadianas have to say about that????

Gallstones don't sound like much fun. :( Isn't there some miracle drug? Gallbegone? Stoneaway?

My DH is exactly the same, Sugar. Don't ask him what the problem is; he didn't read the manual and he doesn't plan to. He "knows" it's this. And if that doesn't fix it, buy a new one. We've had a non-working CD-ROM in one of our computers for months and he sort of looked at it a while ago and didn't know what the problem was. Since the other computer has a working CD-ROM, it wasn't urgent. Then last weekend when he took DD shopping, he was threatening to buy a NEW COMPUTER! Just because they were "cheap" and this would "solve" the problem with the non-working CD-ROM. :yikes: Excuse me? Well, I like that old computer; it runs some programs you can't put on an XP (and I guess everything is XP now, at least cheap machines). Plus I didn't want to be W.C. (without computer) for who knows how long, so I suggested that he take a look at the CD drive itself. Guess what he did? He bought a new CD drive! He said it was so cheap that it was easier to just install it rather than try to test the old one. Hey, no problem, at least it now works and I get to keep my computer. Yay. Men. Oy.

No Targets around here, Bagz. I guess I will just have to suffer without mint M&Ms. Perhaps I can go mint M&M shopping when I'm in N.C.

You have very odd friends, Peachie. I would think they just might have a little problem getting that security tag off. Well, unless they have a real receipt. :lol:

Dreck seems like a common enough word to me. Or maybe I'm showing my German roots! Did anyone see NYPD Blue last night? They had a crazy lady who answered the door to the cops naked with powder all over her. When they opened the door, you could see stacks of newspapers all over the place and a really horrible mess. She was really sick crazy; she had an unhealthy relationship with her teenaged son, but all I could think of was "you don't have to be crazy to live in a pigsty!" If it weren't for DH throwing away newspapers around here, I'm sure I'd have stacks of them myself. And here I sit on the computer instead of doing something useful. :rolleyes: I did get rid of several large bags of clothes at Goodwill the other day. That's always a good feeling. Still, this place ain't going to clean itself.

Do you roll your 'r' when saying dreck? I do :yes:

Kiwi

P.S. I'm glad we started a new thread. 5 pages was getting to be disturbing suspenseful. (When should we start a new one? Will we get to 6? News at 11)

I have a migrain. I am bit*** and I hurt. I want to sleep all dang day and eat junk food.
Has anyone tried the new Mint Kisses? AS for mont M7Ms they sy sell them all over the place! I prefer Mint Godivas personally. Well in my dreams I do. I also like other expensive mints. But I can make do with cheap crap too. I am off to take a nap.
Daphne

This is how bored I am. I'm posting for the 2nd time today. It's rainy and gray and I have to go work out after work. I'm waiting to start looking forward to exercise. Will this ever happen? Does anyone actually enjoy exercise? I only enjoy it after it's all over with.

I wish I could post a list of things I will accomplish, like Lush, but I don't even have enough gumption to make out a list. I like that word, gumption. I'm lacking gumption. My house if filled with dreck and I have no gumption.

Kiwi, have you ever noticed how men will buy tons of computer or mechanical stuff, but if you suggest some new furniture, they give you that "what we have is perfectly good" look.

Daphne, try Zocor for your migraines. Good stuff.

Here's how blind I am. I thought you wrote "It's raining gravy". Yeah, we "need" things that he wants, what I want is quite unreasonable. Like last year: Why did I need a new vacuum? We had a perfectly good (16 year old) one. Well, let's see, I thought the fact that I burned my fingers on the plug every time I unplugged it was good enough reason, but........ But a new computer every year? Well, that's only reasonable. After all, the price is going down all the time.

All Dreck, No Gumption. That's me too!

Kiwi

I am full of Dreck and that is my gumptions.
Brattie

This'll put hair on your chest! :D

Glühwein (http://beverage.allrecipes.com/AZ/Glhwin.asp):o

Daphne, don't use Zocor for your migraines! I just realized that's cholesterol medicine. Whatever it is I take for migraines starts with a Z, but it's not zocor.

Well, I'm in a better mood today. It's sunny today and that makes all the difference. :cool:

Maybe I am starting to like working out. I like how it makes me feel afterward, anyway.

I wish I had something interesting to add to the conversation, but I'm fresh outta interesting. Anyone going to any exciting Christmas parties? Our company dinner is saturday night. I have a short black glitzy dress to wear. :queen: Whattaya think? Is the tiara too much?

Sugar, have your tried this glow-wine? is it yummy?

I'm sharing the office with a big Rhode Island Red rooster today. One of the guys who works here said it was being mean to his hens (these hens live in a country club chicken coop) and he's giving it away to one of the other guys who lives out on a farm. Actually he's out in the shop, but when he crows he sounds like he's in my office. :chicken: :chicken: :chicken:

my cleaning lady and i are laughing about Wabby's Rooster!!!! lotta gumption that rooster has goosin' them there henny pennys.[ i thought i would mention my cleaning lady that dear mil pays for---that used to make yas all MAD---madder than Wet hen's being chased by Wabby's Cock-a-Doo-Hickey!!!

I love roosters - they're so beautiful. My mother had one called Mr. Hangover when she was a kid in Arizona. He used to meet her at the garden gate every day after school and ride around on her shoulder.

Speaking of hangovers - if you drink too much Glühwein you'll get a doozy. NOT recommended for migraine sufferers. I only drink the stuff about once a year and immediately fall into a stupor.

Bagzie - what did you make your darling cleaning lady for lunch?

A couple of Wednesdays ago I was in the parking lot of the supermarket chucking groceries into my car, when the woman beside me, who was also chucking groceries into her car, turned and said , "Man, we housewives sure have our work cut out for us, don't we? I wonder how much time we spend loading and unloading groceries every week? And the men think that all we do is hang around the house watching tv. Of course *my* husband isn't like that. He respects me. But some of them, I tell you!" If I had been brave I would have said, "Hey, lady! How do you know I'm a housewife? Maybe I'm a brain surgeon on my day off!" but all I did was nod my head and smile wanly.

See yous all later.:smug:

I think SugP is to funny. Now why didn't you say that you were a brain surgeon? You have great sarcasm here and why not out there? You need to branch your humor out a bit!
I have had a shower, I am shaved, and my head is encased in rollers. My DH is coming home tonight so I am happy. My bedroom is nice and clean and calling me for a nap. I love taking naps. I just hate to wake up from them. DH will refuse to wake me from a nap cause I get so mean.
I finally got a hold of a person about my fake tree. I was able to order a pole for it for $15 including shipping. I am very happy about that even if it will be here in 7-10 days. I may not be here for it but I will have a tree next year! So I will have a 7 foot Douglas pre lite tree for $30. I am so happy I can just S***. Sorry my old raunchy teenage side came out.
I want to play in the snow outside. There is just one problem. I do not have any snow outside. :lol::lol::lol: I want to start baking for Christmas. I wont even be here and i want to make cookies and all of that junk.
Can I take DD to the hospital for her blood test with rollers in my hair? Would that be to white trashy? Hmmmm I want the curls for tonight I think I just might go this way. :lol: WOnder if I will get in sooner that way?
What is glow wine? I myself no longer drink but am still curious about different drinks. Has anyone tried that wine with the worms in it?
Baggiepoopoo I want a cleaning lady here too! I would have to clean first so I guess I don't really need one then.
WabbyCat I had immirtek (sp) and wouldn't take it. The side affects scared me more than a migrain. I chose to suffer and whine about it. I have a friend that had heart trouble after taking it so I really wont take it now.
Kinky kiwi! How is the weather there? I want snow can ya send me some?
OK I gotta go make food to eat.
Brattie

The correct migraine med is called Zomig. This stuff works for me. I've tried Immitrex, but I didn't like the way it made me feel, and it only worked sometimes. I get the kind that dissolves on your tongue for fast relief.

The rooster has gone to his new home.

Sugar, so what's wrong with being a housewife? Since when did that get such negative connotations? I get downright nostalgic for my housewife days, when I had little 'uns at home. It was one of the happiest times of my life, I just didn't realize it at the time. Besides, if you wanted to be a brain surgeon, you would. I would prefer you to be a plastic surgeon, though, so you could give all your friends a big discount. :lol:

My bedroom is nice and clean

Now, I forgot what I was gonna say. I am so upset by that bedroom quote. Did you know that Montgomery Ward's invented Rudolph? It was a trivia question today. I thought Gene Autry did.

Sugar, a well-mannered plastic surgeon would have reacted just like you did. We civil folk do not thrust our superiority into the faces of others. We let them believe what they will. I am boring myself to sleep. If only I had a nice clean bedroom ...

i think my name is baggiepoopoo because i like to talk about hudda---but brattie doesn't know about hudda yet[??]--i was thinking of sending out my cards this weekend----does everyone have the same address????if so i think i have them all! brattie----if you want to get a card from me,write me at marimess@yahoo.com!!!!! the "mess" is a reference to peaches' bedroom.where is cherry,does she want a christmas card???

What is hudda? I have a headful of curls. I look funny kinda like a crack head. :lol: I will see what DH thinks. I hacve straight hair and the curlers really made me curly. Big old wild funny curls. I am getting better just not very good yet at rolling my hair. My hair still smells clean. Ilove the smell of clean. I really love candles in a clean bedroom. :lol: I did toss my jeans and bra and top into a pile onmy wicker chair in my bedroom...... I want to go put them up though. :lol:
I have to finish putting away paperwork in the office. I have literally 2" to file. Geesh I am so lazy and sloppy.
Daphne

Originally posted by SugP
This'll put hair on your chest! :D

Glühwein (http://beverage.allrecipes.com/AZ/Glhwin.asp):o

Oowee, Sugar, Migraine in a Pot! Thanks for the suggestion! :lol: Yes, I'm one of those wimps who can't drink red wine. Can't drink more than a glass or two of white wine. Can't drink dark beer or in fact any beer with any taste. Forget ale. Now good old pure likker I can handle. And champagne. At least there I am my daddy's girl... :dizzy:

I do like the name though. Gluewine. Drink this and you'll get a headache just like sniffing glue.

My DD is at this moment slicing up her 2 year old Christmas dress to make a skirt. She will do the sewing by hand instead of my doing it on my machine because it takes too long for me to clear off the kitchen table to make room for the thing. Good thing I'm such a lazy slob, or she'd never learn to do anything for herself. Right?

Gee, for a second there Brattie, I thought you had shaved your head. I need to wear my reading glasses for the computer, don't I?

Yeah, I've never had a problem with being "just a housewife" either Wabbit, although I have a hard time writing housewife for occupation on forms and things. Sounds like I actually work at that :lol:. It would make more sense to me to write in mother. The only drawback with being a SAH mom is that people think you are "one of them" and around here that means fundamentalist Christian women who actually believe it is there place to stay home. I actually had a woman say to me "Oh you're one of us" the other day at my in-laws. I hope she wasn't insulted by the stricken look in my eyes.

Haha, you're so funny, brat. 2" of paperwork to file makes you lazy and sloppy. You really know how to make me laugh.

Gotta go. Send me Christmas cards. I have the same address. I just got mine today, so Brattie, you need to PM me your address and I will send you mine if you want it.

Kiwi

I have literally 2" to file. Geesh I am so lazy and sloppy.

Brattie! watch it! you're talking to ppl who met on the messies message board - this could be grounds for a lynching.:judge:

TGIF! I couldn't have taken another day in this place they call my office, but I really know is my cell.

We are getting our tree on Sunday, anybody else have their's up yet?

Kiwi, sometimes wine gives me a headache, but I get amnesia every once in a while about that, and drink it anyway. I always pay, but sometimes it's worth it. I also always have had a hard time writing housewife down as occupation. Just goes to show you how ignorant our society is. Now when ppl come into the office and ask for the boss, I tell them "he's not here, but the boss's boss is." Which actually is pretty true, the man couldn't even write a check out of the business account without me. Which he doesn't need to do anyway - he has plastic.

Wish me luck at the Christmas party - hopefully everyone will drink in moderation and not break the bank. Last year the bill was $700, which wasn't bad, considering pre dinner drinks, fancy dinner, dessert & coffee all around and post dinner drinks. It's also worth it because it's the one time of year I get to see all these guys all spiffed up.

:lucky:

2" of parerwork isn't bad? Geesh that and an inch of dust and the toys, books etc? I wasn't able to use my computer desk top. It wouldn't be so bad but DH has his own business and it was his paperwork that I was suppose to file. IRS gets mad if you don't have all the paperwork ya know?
OK I took a nap from noon till 3 today. Even DH took a nap and didn't mess around! I got to cuddle him and crawl all over him and the bed to get comfy! :lol: We did have my cat between us though. I had about 4 pillows, cat and DH to lay on. I didn't want to wake up! Dang kids and the busses though.
Will post more laters!!
Daphne

My goodness, I think brattie's been getting into the gluhwein :eek:

How come when I try the chat nobody's ever there?

DH and I and some inlaws went to see the Nutcracker Ballet this afternoon. It was fabulous. It was in the Maine Center for the Arts (at U of Maine) and the Bangor Symphony played. One of DD's friends was in it. She was very good, and the whole ballet was just really well done. Gorgeous costumes. DD is going to see it tomorrow with some friends. I hope they don't start the cat-calls that usually ensue at the high school auditorium when a friend is onstage... :no:

Later lovelies.
Kiwi

hey kiwonkers!! i was in your state yesterday at the walfart----got TWO quilts {the ones made by poor factory workers in locked up factories!!!!---I HATE THAT!!!BUT WHAT CAN I DO}they were 34 dollars for a king size and 24 for a queen and i need christmas gifts!!!!!!!!! my shopping is not even ONE QUARTER done--and i am almost out of cash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!christmas is HARD for us SAHM'SSSS----hey Kiwonkers---try HOMESCHOOLING and staying at home and they wonder why your hair is so short!!! i went to a conferance and felt like a HEATHEN {even though i go to mass every week like Lushbag}------

Especially in Maine, most homeschoolers do it to keep their kids out of the dreaded "secular" schools, where they might catch something from us heathens. You know, like a clue, maybe. Better to keep those little blank slates out of the hands of the evil teaching profession, y'know. I used to think about homeschooling, thinking the idea would be for DD to actually learn more than in public school, but I now realize my error. All those "you're one of us"-ers want me to homeschool to keep my darling from learning about evolution and reproduction and things like that. I guess the fact that my hair is so many inches long is what throws them.

Gotta get offline. Later

Kiwi

P.O. Ook barf walfart :lol:

I know you were all just holding your breath over this, but our Christmas party turned out loverly. The restaurant was beautiful, down on the waterfront of the Willamette River, where boats all decorated for Christmas floated by occasionally, the food was yummy, the wine flowed like, er, wine and we all had a fun time. And nobody tried to show my DH her mouse tatoo! (remember that one?)

We put up our Christmas tree - I think we should all have to post photos of our trees. We went out to the tree farm with DS, & GF. DD didn't want to get out of bed for the occasion (she worked until 3 am). It was crisp and sunny, not the usual gray, wet and stormy.

I homeschooled DS the last 4 mos. of his 8th grade year, and not because I wanted to. The little darling got booted out of school - one too many practical jokes that the administration didn't think was funny. I was a good homeschooler when it involved english, history & science, but a horrible math teacher. It was torture for both of us.

Anybody got any good Christmas cookie recipes??? I've got to get busy and make my famous Pear-Ginger butter for my extended family gifts. We have such a huge family that I can't afford to actually buy individual gifts. So I'm making the Pear butter a Joy-tradition gift. Kinda like a fruitcake.

Hi all,
I have no recipes, Wabby. I make basic cookies that can be found on the ingredient bags. I don't think I'd do very well as a home schooler. I can barely discipline myself to do anything. My kids would grow up dumb as stumps.
Most of the homeschool moms around here are not of the long haired variety. They are the type who are trying to break their darlings into show biz. Weird.

I have a list...don't read, it is boring, but this is always my only hope of getting anythingdone. As always, if I complete it, I'll delete it.
1. Get book on tape/ drink more coffee
2. shift wash
3. go through house, put all wash that is cluttering bedrooms into laundry shoot
4. trash out
5. go through house with trash bag and do one of those 27 things.
6.put dinner together(chicken alfredo)
7. 5 min lr
8. 5 min fr
9. shift wash again
10. clean out car

DS 10 is sick, this is my third trip to the doctor in a week, they are going to think I have Munchausen by proxy. He coughed every thirty seconds for 24 hours. Poor darling.
Gotta go,
XXOO,
L

Ever since george drowned my poor dd has been getting her period every two weeks---she was on the island with us and was VERY upset and still has a hard time with it----i have read that stress can cause this problem----my sister and i both got the damn period almost immediately after the tragedy {even though they were not due} -----anyone ever hear of this??? i am taking dd to the clinic regardless, but she does not want the birth control pill {neither do i want her to have it} and i think that is the only thing they ever do----help!!!!!

Bagzie, it probably is stress, but it hasn't been that long since he drowned, so I'd probably just give it some time for your DD to get over it before I'd start giving her birth control pills. (Which is probably what the Dr. will suggest) Have you considered her going for grief counseling? Maybe that would help her more than anything.

OK I need address for most of you if you want a card from me! I have Bagzz and Kiwonks. I would love to send all of you a card and I am doing thm tonight. I am such a procrastanator. I am leaving in 3 or 4 days for cali. and havn't done a darn thing. I will do it all Wednesday night I am sure. Well if DH doesn't get a check we will not be going to Cali. this year. He is waiting to be paid a big check and we need it to buy gas and more gifts for family.
My e-mail address is:Tearsinmyheart@cs.com or PM me with addresses.
Hope to post later tonight, hugs, Brattie

So sorry to hear about Bagz' DD's and Lush's DS unwellness.

Personally I am suffering from wicked allergies and we don't even have a tree in the house. Probably it's from the exposed mildewing kitchen ceiling.

Night
Kiwi

Kiwi, how are the plans for the new house going? We can't have you living in a mildewy house. Have you decided between cream or oatmeal carpeting?

It is so rainy and gray here today that my Christmas lights came on at 7 am this morning. They are on a light sensitive timer that comes on at dusk. Apparently it can't tell the difference between night and day here either.:rain:

That is, it being so dark the Christmas lights come on! Although, that would make a good alarm clock. A little lighted tree on your nightstand with Christmas music and blinking lights. Wow, I think I just invented something!

Wellllll, Wabbit, we did have a septic guy (well, he wasn't actually septic himself, I don't think, :dizzy: ) come out and determine where we could put in a septic system and leach field. And we got the contour maps of the lot. That's it. We have some friends who are planning to build a log camp next summer, so that will provide a little friendly competition/motivation, I'm hoping. We need to spend some time picking out a houseplan and getting actual drawings and hire a contractor. Then I think it will have some momentum of its own. I suspect I will be living with the mildew for another year. I just hope it's not any longer than that. In a new house by Christmas, that would be nice.

I got a bunch more shopping done this afternoon after dropping DD off at her guitar lesson. Went to the Christmas tree shop where I bought my wreath and one for my parents last week, and bought several handmade adorable tree ornaments to send to my half-sisters and brothers. Then found a maple syrup store (who knew there was such a thing?:hyper: ) and got a few more gifts. Wow, I'm so impressed with myself.

Where's Miss Peachpie? And Sugar Plum -- I saw her in the Nutracker so I realize she's busy this time of year :dance: :lol:

Kiwi

Kiwipie what is a leach field? Please tell me it isn't a special place for leaches? Gross if it is and why?
I took a nap again today. I love my naps and with kids and DH gone and the house quiet? I have to do a bunch a stuff tonight when kids go to bed so here is my list.
1. Uunoad dishwasher/ Done
2. Load Dishwasher/ Done
3. Vacumn/
4. Sweep Kitchen/Will have DS do in morning as punishment
5. Sweep My Bathroom/
6. Wipe Down Counters/
7. Clean My Bathroom/
8. Pick Up Livingroom/Done
9. Finish Laundry/
10. Get Garbage Together/Done
11. Have a Coffee Drink/
12. Wrap a Few Gifts/
13. Make a More Organized List/ Will never be organized
14. Visit 3FC/ Done
15. Finish Cards/ Done

Hello! I am frantically working on Christmas presents. I'm making them because I am an idiot. I hope to get cards out this coming weekend (and I hope to get cards in any time!) I'm still at the same Missouri address.

I have a headache. We had Tiger Cubs tonight and perhaps those are connected. Now I have more work to do.

Also I am fat.

I will start checking in more often.

Wow, Brattie, what a show-off. Oh, wait, I see that you only marked six out of the 15 as done and one of those was to visit 3fcs. Ah, ha!
Cherry, you aren't assuming that checking in here will improve your weight loss outlook, are you? I think after all these years, we've proven that this doesn't work. Look at poor Brattie, she used to be neat now she's hanging around with us.
Kiwi, it makes me tired just to think of all you have to do to build a house. It will be worth it. Maybe your cute roofer could contract it for you? That would be entertaining for the rest of us.
Wabby, it is pretty dark and dank around here, too. My carpet is oatmeal, as you all know. Kiwi will have to make a no shoes rule to make it work. Flylady will not approve.
I am going to go do some more online Christmas shopping. Bye
PS.
here is my boring list:
1. unload dw
2.load dw
3.shift wash
4. trash out
5. do something about dinner
6. bathroom
7. 10 min my room
8. vac public areas
9. dust house
10. check in at 3fc's(hey, if the new girl can get away with it, why can't I???) xxx

:lol::lol: I was never neat! I love having stuff all over the place too. My ex was a neat nick. I had to sweep every day, Mop after dinner, dust house on Fridays, laundry everyday,* couldn't have dirty clothing in the laundry room could I?*, bedroom kept spotless, bathrooms cleaned each day, house vacumned each day,etc... I was working full time and doing PTC stuff, was the treasures for a year with that even, all the food cooking, and the grocery shopping. Gee and he wonders why I left his lazy butt?
I need food. My stomach is grumbling......FOOD!!!!!
Daphne

I thought the fact that DH is a slob in the house (never his shop) was a problem. Now I see that it would be much worse if he were a neatnik. Mop and sweep daily??? No wonder you left him!

Cherry, I'm making presents because I'm cheap. And ignore that comment from Lush about this place not helping in our weight loss efforts. We'd all weigh 300 pounds if it weren't for 3FC.

The sky is one shade lighter today. I'm trying to convince myself that it's cozy here in my office when it's stormy outside. :halffull:And it really would be cozy if I was home baking Christmas cookies, but it's a little harder to convince myself when I'm here doing bookkeeping (OK, here hanging out on the computer).

I just finished a book called The Saving Graces by Patricia Gaffney. It was delightfully schmaltzy. About 4 middle aged girlfriends. So Lushy, what book on tape are you listening to?

Survival of the Fittest Jonathon Kellerman

are so entertaining.

No, Daph, a leach field differs from a leech field in that it leaches the contaminants out of water that has gone through your septic system, whereas a leech field is where you exercise your pet leeches ;) .

Good to see you Cherry, wait'll you see my fat :censored: on our Christmas card :lol: Don't work too hard, kiddo.

Here's what I did today (it's more amusing than what I ought to be doing, so that's what you're getting):


1:30 am Get ready for bed; swear I'm only going to spend 20 minutes on the computer before actually going to bed
2:45 am - Give up looking for somewhere to order my favorite bra to replace the one whose wire broke and started poking me in the boob on the way to the Nutcracker
3:00 am - Place bids on 2 bras on eBay. Pray they don't have sweat stains
3:15 - go to bed
4:00 am - give up trying to sleep due to runny nose, get up, take decongestant
4:15 - Make DD's lunch so I can sleep in
4:20 - Decide chips and salsa would be a good food for congestion, watch TV
5:00 - Go to bed
7:00 am - Get up, complain loudly, go back to bed
7:05 - 2:00 - Sleep the sleep of the damned


That would be just my luck, Lush, to have that roofer show up again and ruin the roof on the new house. Nope, cute or not, he's on my ****list.

Daph, good move getting away from the tyrant :drill: . My sis has a DH who has to have everything absolutely spotless, but through some accident of nature and nurture, he learned how to do it himself. Bless him. :cp: I don't think I could live with his obsessive nature, but at least he's only torturing himself with it.

Later, babes, I need soup.

Kiwi

Kiwi, I will be checking SO REGULARLY to find out more about the bras you order on EBAY?????? Are YOU NUTS??? DON"T YOU HAVE A MALL???? Go get a sleep apnea test. Herbie did. He woke up over 400 times during the night of the test. They said he would stop breathing for 45 seconds and wake up to start breathing again. Isn't that interesting?

and Lush thank you for being contrite.

herb sounds in bad shape---stop over some night,change the will and tinker with the time between breaths

No I don't have a mall. I live 75 miles from the nearest place where you can buy underwear. Okay????? And I'm not real keen on driving there right now because I don't have sleep apnea, I have a cold. I live in a total loser town where the latest casualty was the Ames Dept. Store, which went bankrupt, and closed and nobody wants to come in and take its place. You can't buy underwear, books, CDs, or shoes here, but if you should need a snowmobile or a decorative angel made out of deer snot, we are the place.

Kiwi

...and couldn't post. The thougt of me in a tutu should keep you entertained for a few hours, at least.

Internet underwear. Cool.

I was downtown today buying overpriced toys for the kids and dh. Well, actually, all dh want is a new pillow and the Spiderman DVD. And one of those milk frother things for cappuccino, except he never drinks coffee.

I believe Herbie's sleep apnea could account for his irritability during the day.

Remember that doc who ruined our computer? Well, that's not all he ruined. His wife, my best friend here in no-man's-land and a lovely Englishwoman, is 8 months pregnant and he want no part of it. His response when she told him was "Well, you'd better get rid of it. I'm not ready for that responsibility.I'll print you out some information from the internet". He's 40 and they've been married for 5 years. How much readier do you need to get?? I swear I am going to poison him. I told her she could come live with us. She's handling it very well and is thrilled about the baby but not thrilled that she's going to be dealing with things alone. Men are such boneheads, don't you think?

Oh, it's freakin' MINUS 8°C (which is about 17°F for the metrically challenged) during the day here. If I knew what chillblains were, I'd probably have them. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

I'm bothered by the fact that ppl living in Germany watch the same goofy movies that we do. Spiderman? I mean we have an excuse for it. We're Americans and you know how they are. Walmart and McDonalds on every corner. I just thought Europeans would be so much classier than we are. Next you're going to tell me that Parisians actually like Disneyworld.

I bought some candy for the office, it being the season and all, but it was a big mistake. It is the yummiest almond toffee and I just can't stop eating it.

Sugar, not all men are boneheads, just the majority, and definitely your friend's idiot husband. Hope she makes it through this pregancy and is able to not hate him, because in all likelihood he'll probably change his mind. But by then it may be too late. What a fool.

I'm going to go do my Curves workout after work. I've been very good about going 3x's a week, but I missed yesterday due to the nasty gallbladder pain. I'm trying to hold out for surgery in January, so that my out of pocket for the year will be met, then I can have the boobie bob for no $$'s. If they approve me for it. I'm still waiting to hear back from my insurance co.

I got a sweet Christmas card from Brattie today. And still haven't sent mine out. Should I panic yet about Christmas? I've only bought 2 small gifts for DD, nothing for DS, and DH's gift is bought. That only leaves my parents, DH's Dad, DH's extended family, my extended family, various friends, and the wrapping of said gifts. Nope. not gonna panic yet.

I believe that if we all adopt a mantra of "Kiwi's Christmas displays are made of deer snot" we will all lose 10 lbs the first week.

Men are boneheads. Wabby is too kind. Ds's mentor has "discovered" that he can take classes at the community college while in high school. He told him to "talk to Mom about transporation." Very helpful.

Hello, I am madly crocheting away because I am making afghans for three people this Christmas and I'm only a third of the way through. I did get a run in yesterday, though.

Wabby, you're doing Curves? You must be a skinny lil thing now! Our cute little IS girl went from a size 4 to a size 2 doing Curves. That bodes well, right? (She's such a nice person that it's hard to resent her because she's beautiful. I truly believe she has no idea how pretty she is.) Good luck with getting the boobie bob approved!

Lushie, I don't think I'll get skinny from posting here (remember when I was 142? Sigh...) but at least I'll be a happy fat cow.

Sugar P, that is such a sad, sad story. I feel so bad for that poor woman. I wish for her an easy delivery and a perfect baby because if anyone deserves it, it's her. (Lurkers, please don't assume I mean that if you had a bad labor you're a bad person. If that were so, I would have to think I was the most evil person in the world.)

Hi to Kiwi, Baggzzieee, Peaches (I never said thanks for the nice things you said about me on Thanksgiving. Thanks!), Brattie, & everyone else I didn't specifically mention!

I'm still fat.

Peaches, you have to be careful with that bonehead generalization. Our sons will grow up to be men, and they definitely won't be boneheads.

Cherry, I've been doing the curves thing for almost a month now. My big weigh and measure day is on monday. I've decided that I won't lose weight by starving. My plan is slow and steady, with exercise and eating more of what I should eat more of the focus, instead of cutting calories down to nothing, then yo-yoing back up. At least I feel better.

Lush, I want to see your list.

Kiwi, I whatever happened to the good ol' JC Penney catalogue? Remember when the Christmas one would come in the mail when you were a kid? I spent hours drooling over it.

I've shopped till I dropped. And then I shopped some more. Got a ton of nice sweaters and tops for cheap at the If You Have More Time Than Money store (lots of pawing through junk for good stuff). I even got myself a couple of things -- a black cashmere sweater and a stretchy cotton dress. Hope I don't hate them later. Well, how can you hate cashmere? Especially for $25!! :high: Then I went to a really nice craft/gift shop and got practically all the rest of my shopping done. The only things I'm missing are the dreaded Men Presents. I am so clueless for them. DH I usually have scoped out okay, but my stepfather, my father-in-law, my brother. oy. Any ideas?

Cherry, you are a crazy woman, but I'm cheering you on. Go girl! Crochet like mad!

I ordered a set of exercise tapes, and I'm going to put you all to shame. :barbell: Just wait. :crossed: By March you won't recognize me. Wanna know why? I got the notice that my 30th high school reunion is next August :yikes: and I really want to go. But not like this--:ink:.

Sugar, that man is simply despicable. My DH has a cousin who had the same thing happen to her. They were a lot younger, around 30 I think. And I don't think he really stated he couldn't handle a baby, he just left while she was pregnant. After the baby born, I don't remember how long, but months anyway, he came back. They are still married -- with 4 kids, believe it or not. Ya never know. But he sounds like a :censored: anyway.

Ah yes, when Christmas came in an inch-thick book. Or 2 inches if you were more of a Sears person. DH was a big fan of the Wishbook. I think of the internet as my own personal giant wishbook. All I have to do is think of something and there it is. It is a computer geek's dream come true. The other day I ordered a gift certif. from Home Depot for my sister-in-law, and had a conversation with a guy at Campmor.com in a little chat window to find out if snowboard pants came in DD's size. (She doesn't snowboard, but she likes them double reinforced knees :dizzy: )

However, I have to admit, I should leave the house more.

Kiwi

okay----last night was margie night {a good thing} and my shopping in NOT in the least done----so i must madly rush aroung with no ideas and spend money but i can't madly rush because-----THE ROIDS ARE BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM CRAWLING EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT ---i did manage to take some pictures of my christmas displays { i still have MORE to assemble} and will be emailing them to you----AS USUAL,EVERYONE WILL BE NICE EXCEPT LUSH!!!! SHE WILL RAG ME OUT!!!!-=-----cherry,i need your address----both email and snail mail----i sent peachbat's card to the WRONG address,and now i am up Hudda Creek----KIWI----i am so jealous of your shopping in my fave Maine town----is this store you speak of NEW to the town????-----wabby----we just got curves here,,,and now two NUBODY's----do you recommend curves---it kind of looked chintzy here----low budgety---we probably got the crap one here in hicksville.SUGAR PLUM FAIRY----WELCOME BACKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!

Hope you feel better. I wasn't in your favorite Maine town, I don't think. I went to the slightly closer Lincoln, to Marden's. Of course there is one in Bgr too.

Today it is pouring snow! :rain: That ought to be a nice mess on the roads.

I have to start wrapping stuff. And send out the rest of my cards. Tomorrow we are having Christmas dinner with my in-laws (because we will be away for 2 weeks), so those presents have to be ready. The ones I have to take in my suitcase to NC, I don't think I'll wrap, although I hate to wait until I get there to do it. Apparently at the airport they can make you open wrapped presents even in your checked baggage. With my luck, if I wrap everything, they will pick me. Guaranteed they won't pick me if I don't wrap anything, though, dontcha think?

Speaking of flying, I got a copy of the federal regulations about what you can take and what you can't, and most of those rumors are false. Acc. to the gov't, nail clippers are perfectly okay. However I did take the jackknife out of my purse.

Oh, Brattie, thanks for the card!! Too cute!

Kiwi

Not yet, anyway. But I will. On Monday. For sure.

Up to my ears in Christmas cookies. The smell is nauseating, but it doesn't stop me from eating them. It's just an automatic reaction. We made cinnamon stars and spritz cookies with a piece of cherry in the middle. My cookie press is my friend.

Do your 'roids always get worse in winter, Bagzie? Maybe it's stress? How's the dd? Poor thing.

My kitchen is a tip. Did you know that Rachel is a successful businees woman now and has a new boyfriend? And her cutie-patootie is 4 or something?? Where does the time go?

I crocheted and afghan for Stevie once. I wonder if he still has it? I'm sure it became one with the earth a looooong time ago!:D

For Christmas the in-laws are getting a reading lamp and an extremely large bottle of Cointreau which dh seems to think his mother desperately needs. Have to come up with a couple of other tidbits. Have not mailed presents to nieces and nephews yet, but they get so snowed under by gifts that they won't even notice.

Oh yeah, this is funny. My youngest brother is a customs official and had to go to Quebec for 6 weeks for some training program. They are all staying in an old monastery which seems to be very nice *except* for one thing. They have a well and the cafeteria ladies use that water to cook with and it has some very strange effects on the people eating the food. The place is called Rigault or something, and after the first week, *everyone* knows about the "Rigault 10 Minute Warning". Seems like if you feel a certain rumble in your tummy about 10 minutes after a meal, you better run, and run fast, or there'll be trouble. Some poor souls need to "go" up to 10 times a day!

We had about 1/8 th of an inch of snow last night. I had to wear leotards under my jeans today when I went out. That's how cold it is. I think the last time I wore leotards was in 3rd grade.

Christmas #1 is behind us. We have shared ham and presents with the in-laws. Now we must get ready for the other Christmases :tired: . This will be even more challenging than usual because:

A) DH crashed my SUV last night -- turned it over on its side in a ditch. Yes, he is fine, but my car is not. Its whole right side (thank goodness no one was in the car with him!) is smashed in and dented.

B) DD has a bad cold, coughing and sneezing like crazy. She has to perform in the school concert tomorrow night, singing in the chorus and playing in the band. Poor baby. I know I will be tempted to keep her home, but how can I make her skip the Christmas concert?

C) I haven't heard from my family (in NC) in a week. The last thing was that there was a whole controversy involving my brother and his lack of any money or a job. I'm not all that eager to call them and hear the latest.

Isn't life a kick?

oh, and
D) I can't find my bathing suit. I'm going to Florida after Christmas y'know. But my in-laws gave me a check today which ought to cover a new one if I can find one (too bad I didn't order one from Wabbit's friend--or 2 or 3)

E) There is no dog hair in the Scotch tape this year. Bummer.

Wow, I remember Rachel. She was such a busy little bee. She sure must have changed -- I remember her as kind of a meek little church-mouse. Good for her.

Ta
Kiwi