That part of the world because she is learning Arabic and majoring in Middle Eastern Studies :shrug: I can't really argue with her reasoning. Personally I think study abroad should be an excuse to see pretty things, like Copenhagen. But clearly I am not a serious person...

Does chewing gum help the headache? It seems a strange time of day to chew gum, don't you think? Wouldn't 3 PM be more conventional?

Yesterday I had time to do some stuff and I couldn't figure out what to do. I think my brain went off to college or to the moon and forgot to take me with it.

Kiwi

I a so perplexed. This musical, dancing, delightful child is majoring in ... What are her plans?

I had a bad experience yesterday. Coming home from work, I have to go down a busy four-lane road with a little bike path on the side. Police car comes, flashes blue lights, zooms past me and pulls someone over. The other car tried to get into the bike path but the policeman stayed partly into my lane and partly in bike path. He was right in front of me and my choices seemed to be 1) stop and risk having drivers behind me plow into me or 2) pass him. I didn't have time to change lanes. So I passed. He left the person he had and came after me!!! I pulled into the bike path, he asked for license, etc. and I asked if I had done something. Had I ever heard of the "Move Over Law?" I meekly said no and I haven't if it involves getting around policemen in the road. I think it means you pull over if they want to pass you. So he checked me out, told me I had endangered his life by passing him as he would have to open his car door and I would hit him, told me law was widely advertised and let me go. Would have been a $150 moving violation, he said. I'm just glad to have gotten through it.

I can't remember lots of things like people's name, the Move Over Law, and when to chew gum. I have become so tired of customers. Bagzie do you feel this? They can say anything they want. I hate that. I am mean now. I was so sleepy and tired the other day at the end of shift that I could hardly keep eyes open. This man had to tell me over and over and over that I looked beat. I told him he was rude. He said he wasn't. I told him someone should have taught him better. I hated him. Yesterday, this couple came through buying a lot of organic crap. I pulled out a brochure with a bunch of coupons in it that woulda saved them at least $2. Then the woman said she didn't want one of the cans of beans she had hauled to the register and I put the brochure back. Mean mean mean.

I think study abroad should be to relax and mingle with attractive young people of countries similar to those your ancestors came from. Ones with good food and tulips and safety. Speaking of safety, NPR is exposing Homeland Security this week. Out of 38 government agencies, it is last in job satisfaction. This is what DS is looking at for an internship.

Did the stupid officer explain to you what the move over law actually said? I still don't see what you were supposed to do if he was blocking traffic. What a jerk. No wonder you feel mean. So do I.

I did not know about that Homeland Sec. rating; that's not good. DD is also applying to a summer internship that might land her there too. Wouldn't that be a riot if they spent the summer working down the hall from each other? We could go visit them at the same time!!! What is DS hoping to do there?

I know what you mean about her choice of major. If it was something less serious, I would have to wonder about her motives, considering her many talents that don't seem to be at all related to it. But she is genuinely interested in the Arabic language and cultures, the various issues of religion and politics involved and so on, so I can't really tell her I think she should be doing something else. And if it makes you feel any better, she is taking "Arabic Music Ensemble" this semester. :belly: And she has been taking at least one music class every semester.

My elbow is hurting again. And I haven't eaten anything today; never a good thing. I've got to clean up this dump. And furthermore it is snowing to beat the band outside my window (the part that's not blocked by computer equipment) right now.

Okay I'm done whining. tata

Aw, Cowie-- Too bad about the fright with the police officer. They've made a big deal of a similar law in Texas. (But I was well aware of at least 5 officers who'd been killed by passers by when they'd pulled people over. We're supposed to slow down by 20 mph AND give them a clear lane if at all possible. Glad you explained your way out of it:hug:

Kiwi-- we deserve to eat well! No more starvation or deprivation. I'm sorry your elbow hurts. I got delayed on refilling my bone-pain meds. They aren't even going to mail it until Thursday. Aleve, here I come!

Urghhhhhhhh
 

Just checking for new fodder. The Malaise has got me big time. And the cramps are here again. I am cranky. But whatever.

Before Christmas the display on our expensive fancy fridge started beeping and showing different temperatures for the fridge part. It was like a ghostly finger was pushing the temperature selection button which is supposed to stay at the temp you set it at. If we put it on "lock" it stayed put. Obviously. But if we wanted to get ice cubes we had to unlock it and it beeped. So we left it on lock for ages and called the repair service yesterday. They're supposed to call and make an appointment. Last night we unlocked it for good and it hasn't beeped since and I don't know what to tell the repair man. Is it fixed? Is it broken but just playing nice for now? What should I tell them? Am I going to totally embarass myself? I got problems, I tell yas.:D

Sing along with me: I left my braiiiiinnnnnn in San Francisco!

Sometimes I have no idea where my brain is either. Can't even think of a word or need to read something 5 times to understand it. Must be the mentalpause.

Oh man, I have no idea what the law is on that here. I know you have to make way if they want to get through, but I never thought about what to do if you need to pass. Sheesh. He could have been nicer about it, though.

Customers are awful. I hated working in retail and being treated like dirt by people with more money than sense.

Well, considering that's more than I've lost in the past ten years it's wonderful. Congratulations! Cheese is my downfall too. I find that if I cut it out completely, I looose weight. But that would be foolish, right? Cheese is one of the four major food groups.

Hi Bagzieee! Hope you sell lots of stuff.

The holiday hamster is depressing me, but I'm too lazy to deep six him just yet.

I'm going to fly faaaarrrrrr away tomorrow morning. To the land of the sun. Wouldn't ya know it, I came down with a stomach ailment and have been barfing and the other problem all day. I know. TMI - I hope I'm ok by tomorrow morning. It won't be fun to be standing in a long security line and be sick. I will try to be in a better mood. I can't promise anything, but I'll try. I just hope my parents aren't all perky and jolly. They do that and will never talk about Rick. It makes me feel like they'd just like to pretend he never was and that absolutely kills me, because even though it's been over a year, he is all I think of, and it helps to be able to talk about him.

The herds assignment whilst I am gone is to snap outta these doldrums. Or not. What ever you'd like.

I like these pick-your-own assignments. I choose to redefine doldrum. Doldrum: a drum that is on welfare.

DS went to a Dr. Kavorkian lecture today. I did nothing like that.

You?

i have been awol since last saturday morning---there was a horrible van and tractor trailer crash in new brunswick and SEVEN beautiful basketball players from an NB highschool were killed along with their coach's wife---the poor coach who was driving lived,although his daughter was injured as were two other members of the basketball team---the funeral is broadcast on CBC right now and i am unfortunately watching it. Even the pope sent a message of condolence to the Bishop of NB----it is horrible.http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswi...al-begins.html

Bagz, how awful. What a heart wrenching tragedy.

True enough. Sometimes it just seems like too much trouble to decide on something healthy to eat, prepare it and eat it. But I'm trying, really I am. I have done well with the cholesterol thing, and even on calories, incredibly. Hopefully when I get my cholesterol checked next month some time, it will be impressively lower and at least it will be one less thing to stress over.
Here is my total guess about your fridge: the humidity changed and the fridge freaked out trying to compensate for it. Maybe? My very low tech fridge has a thing in it about humidity; you're supposed to adjust the fridge temp compared to the freezer temp or some such. Now and then I remember to fool with it. If I were youse, I'd tell the repair people never mind.
Ah, cheese is one of my favorite things too. I have found that if you follow the (insane) dietitian's advice and buy low fat cheese, you will no longer be that enamored with it :no:. Yuk, I've tried Cabot lo fat (chewy), Kraft 2% (better, but still not satisfying), and yesterday Laughing cow low fat. She did tell me that softer cheeses had less cholesterol so I am occasionally eating provolone. mmm

God I hate being one of those people who "eats healthy". What a sacrifice. :lol:

My little sweetie finally got to school yesterday (got snowed in on Monday -- spent 3+ days with BF :rolleyes: ) and promptly started throwing up :eek:. She's okay today, but I wish I knew what it was. Hope it wasn't a visceral reaction to going back to school.

Wabbit I missed you to say goodbye to!!! Good grief, I hope you're feeling okay. And I hope you can get online while you're gone, otherwise I'm talking to thin air, aren't I?

Gotta go finish making dindin. ta

That must be so hard for you, Wabby. :hug: I guess in their own way they're trying to protect you and make everything all right again, not realizing that it WON'T make things all right.

Hope the barfiness is gone!

Dr. Kavorkian said he would never come here. It's too boring. I cleaned out my fridge. We're having mahi mahi filets for dinner.


I know. It was in our news too. How utterly tragic for everyone concerned. :(:(

I dunno. I was thinking along those lines, but dh insists that it's something to do with the electronics in the display panel itself. Could just be a loose wire, I guess and we've still got time on the guarantee. It's just weird that we had it for about a year and half before it started this. Luckily it was beeping its head off yesterday so I do have something to tell Refrigerator Repair Man who will be stopping by tomorrow between 11 and 2.

And yes, low fat cheese really sucks. That's why I look this way. :devil:

Bagzie, I heard that on the Canadian NPR show. They broadcast a girl's eulogy for one of the boys. Yes, very sad.

I have nothing else to say right now. Yawn.

I am leaving town for a whole day. We are going to stay in a grownup hotel and maybe even eat in a restaurant with cloth napkins. (or order in pizza while drinking too much, who can tell how mature we will be?) Tomorrow we will have breakfast at lunchtime with our darling daughter and her darling beau who is now not a teenager. At least there will be one adult there.

See you on the flippy floppy side.

Kiwette. (Taking my bathing suit)

PS Sugar, I hope the mahimahi wasn't too far in the back. Or maybe that was why the fridge was beeping -- it has smellovision. :D

What is a grownup hotel?

I am noticing that no matter how extreme Britney Spear's problems are, she is always beautiful. I think that's why they keep plastering her on every magazine. She is just lovely and I am glad she got four paparazzi arrested. All the ones who photograph her kids are going to ****. You know that I believe that I personally know everyone who is going to ****. I have my own list. Hitler and those guys are on it, too, but I have the B-list.

I can't believe how little I got done today.
It was actually pretty divine. As was yesterday.
Painting class, grocery shopping, nap, reading, a little cooking.
Might actually have to do some scheduled things tomorrow... like get tires I ordered (on line) installed at "our" garage, go to WW weigh in (eeek), and get car inspected.

Hope you are all well.

WELL WELL WELL!!!!!!!!!!!!! kiwonkers is in beantown,wabby is headed for the sun,painty and peach already live in temperate climes,shatzi could be in the Emerald Isle---i guess that leaves sugar and i in out in the cold----i am starting a new wishful thinking question-----IF MONEY WERE NOT A CONCERN---HAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA-------------where would you like to spend the next little while?????? okay,i will go first----i think i would like to start off at a five star hotel in Paris,in the marble whirlpool tub and plan my trip to the south of France-----i know it's not hot there right now,but it's in the fifties alot of the time---i can go for walks and breath the fresh air ----