Oh my Gooo -- a homemade pinata -- ĦArriba! Nothing like a room full of wet paper and glue. Do you have pets? Better lock them up. Hmm DO you have pets? Didn't you have a dog? Perhaps a pet weiner schnitzel? Doesn't that sound like it should be a dog breed?

Speaking of weiner schnitzel, I started making country fried steak, which I've made tons of times before because it is the most palatable way to eat moose steaks. But I didn't really have enough to time to put the pot in the oven for an hour and a half (all those important internet activities, y'know), so I figured I'd just braise it on the stove. It usually comes out so tender I didn't think it would hurt it any. Well, I let it simmer for 20 minutes or so and when I went to take it out of the pan, it was black on the bottom and stuck like glue. Plus not so tender. Actually it didn't taste too bad, but good grief.

Don'tcha wish I'd get a real life friend so I wouldn't have to tell you guys every single idiotic detail of my boring as **** life?

Who wants a nice project?

Hey I've been offline all weekend and no one else has posted! Our internet is down completely, possibly due to the ice and rain and snow and all that carp. We have a yard full of twigs that have snapped off trees.

I'm sitting in the car in front of a restaurant that has a wifi hotspot, listening to, I think it was called The Annoying Music Show on public radio. It is sort of annoying, especially the static. I wonder if that's part of the show?

It's pretty funny watching all the cars zoom up Main Street, as we call it (not its real name) and fly around the corner. I swear I keep seeing the same trucks over and over. There goes the one with Dallas Cowboys lettered across the back end.

Sign project in full swing. Once I finish playing on the internet, I'm going home and make big posters.

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I'm here to post, Kiwi. I was in an ugly mood all weekend so you wouldn't have been able to understand me between the blubbering and hickups. I didn't even go to my usual Friday nite movie. I stayed in bed and felt sorry for myself. I do not like myself when I get like this. but..... I think I may be a little better today. I don't want to get too confident....

Sugar, I have a bad case of geezer eyes too. Sometimes I think I should start reading braille, just to have a jump on it. Lucas could be my gude dog. He guides me to taking naps already.

Big news about my laundry appliances --- I bought a nearly new washer dryer set on Craig's list. It's all hooked up and purring along wonderfully. They cost me all of $100. I didn't want to go drop a big bunch of money right now, so it worked out perfectly..... and they're really pretty too. I think these ppl waxed their appliances.

Once again, I'm disheartened to see that in this big old wide country these are the only 3 choices we have for President. I like Obama, but I would have like him to hang around the Senate for a few years before heading up to the big house. Hillary is ok, but Billy boy would be such a distraction. McCain, hmmmm .... too old. Sorry, but reality is what it is. What to do? what to do? Oh, I forgot, it doesn't even matter out here because our primary is so late in the game it doesn't even count. And b/c were on the left coast, the poll are al.most closed back east and it's already decided before we vote.

I'll tell you an internet miracle --- I was going thru Gpa Jims photo and came across an old school board campain flyer. It featured Gpa Jim's younger brother, George. Jim had lost touch with his family over 25 years ago.... and since Jim had changed his name from Disderio to Ellis I wasn't even sure how to spell the old name. Anyway, I did a search on the internet, and there was Uncle George, 83 years old, living at the same address as it said on the campain flyer. To make a long story short, I sent him a letter, then he emailed me and called me. He's sending me a bunch of family pictures. I just can't wait. I soooo wish I'd done this when Rick and Jim were here.

Kiwi, I can imagine you're freaked out about DD being so far away in such a volatile part of the world. Then you watch the news about the 2 young girls in the south being murdered, and school shootings and you realize that it's a dangerous world every where. Even if she stayed home in Frozen Tootsies, there are dangers. Hard as it is we just have to let them go and pray that they are being watched over.......... and think of the life she's living! how exciting!

Painty, take time off for good behavior. You do not need to accomplish things. Pretend you're on vacation and do only fun stuff. Like naps.

Yes, I do know that I spelled campaign incorrectly..... and you thought I was perfect.

i think you are perfect anyway wabby!!! i just love that picture of you---you are such an adorable baby girl---speaking of ----i would LOVE to see some pics of your grandbabies---can you send us some down't the email??? you must have some of them together too !!!! how adorable----i am working again today---i must say this working thing is quite annoying---i mean ---who the **** is buying gifts from a shop like mine on monday in march???? my pants are tight---i am trying to eat good food---not really dieting-----can't do that---i think ten years here has proved that fact-----i sent ONE package out last week--i wonder who will get it-----here is a clue---THE SQUEAKY WHEEL GETS THE GREASE { or in some cases the chicken bones----never the crack laced lentils-------------} has anyone watched the series---"Breaking Bad"?-----the father from Malcolm in the Middle is in it----strange but well done

I am not posting because DS is home for spring break. So sorry. He's asleep now and we're both working a lot.

My 2 cents on the election today is that we have the chance to discriminate or not discriminate against someone because of gender, race or age. I wouldn't vote for a republican. I went to his web page to see how old he is and was upset by it. Republicans do not see things the way I do.

I loved the crack laced lentils. Tired. Must go.

Sorry to hear that. Yay about the new appliances, though!! Man, I could use a new washer/dryer -- we bought ours with the house 22 years ago i.e. they were ?? years old to start with. What type did you get?

That's amazing about the great uncle! I'm not sure which is more unlikely -- finding a long lost relative like that, or an 83 year old who knows how to the use the internet well enough to reply to you Anyway, that's really nice. I'll bet he is delighted with the contact.
When is yours? Funny, I thought you'd already had it You never know, though, if Hillary stays in, neither will have topped the # of delegates, so every primary will matter.
I love that show. DH and I have been watching it. It's sort of perverse, but you can't help but want him to succeed. It reminds me a little of American Beauty, in the way that there's this normal guy who just kind of dumps his normality one day, and even though you can't approve of what he's doing, you can't help but be on his side. Just my take, of course: DH hated Am. Beauty, so YMMV.

I love it! Shall we be ageist, racist, or sexist? Or, as I keep telling DH, I'm not against anyone as much as I'm for one of them. Well, I will admit to being a little against them, but nowhere near as much as I was against Shrub both times he ran, or for that matter, against his father, and Reagan, and George Wallace, and Nixon and and and. Do you think I might be a dyed in the wool Democrat? I vote for Republicans here in Maine. But they're women. And moderates.

Glad to hear DS is home. Hope he has some fun while he's home? DD is not going to get home until next Tuesday or Wednesday apparently. She has 3 girlfriends coming to visit her all weekend, then she wants to spend a few days with the bf, then she's going skiing with another friend. I am trying not to be upset. It's her vacation and at least she's not spending a fortune getting drunk in Ft. Lauderdale or Cancun or something. When I was in college, a lot of my friends used to go to the Bahamas during spring break. I went home. Once I walked off the plane (back when you had to walk down the stairs to the tarmac and into the terminal, and people could greet you before you got inside--god I'm old) in Charlotte without a bra on. My mom was a little shocked. It wasn't a political statement though, I had just run out of clean laundry

Well, I've been painting out in the garage today. Making 2 plywood signs for the jazz fest this weekend. Busy busy busy. I really like the painted poster ones I did; I'll have to take some pics. It turns out I am absolutely anal about this, Peachie. I drew pencil lines and used rulers and everything. I'm putting 2 coats of paint on the plywood before I letter it. On the plus side, I saved everything salvageable from last year's festival and I can reuse about half of it. Yay me.

Later gators, I have to address an envelope to a faraway place where shall I send it....

Kiwi

You know how Oprah talks about those "aha moments?" I had one. Bad one. The dh of a woman I worked with passed away. She's a sweetheart one hundred percent and I learned about this on my answering machine from my friend who hasn't spoken to me since I asked for borrow her car. So I went to the church and arrived with someone else I had worked with at that place. She was with someone who might've been her sister. I dunno. We walked in together. I got to the guest book first, signed and tried to decide where we could sit. There were 2 chairs by the front door and a lot of space in middle of pews but things were on the pews and I didn't know what that meant. Pillows. Tissues. I could see all the people I knew squashed together in one pew up front. So I went into the pew like a man told me to do, waited, looked around and my former co-worker and her friend/sis were sitting happily by the door. I almost broke into tears. I just left. My AHA is that I have a phobia of being alone in a church. I barely know this woman, don't care a thing about her but couldn't get along without her sitting with me. So now I know. I don't do church alone. Too many bad memories.

I'd like to see Breaking Bad. Will wait for it on Netflix.

what a beeotch for not waiting and sitting with you---i am mad at her and i would have left too-----you signed the book so they will all think you stayed anyway---what an arsepain and a half--------------kiwonk---don't despair!!! when the dd's come home on breaks,they almost always are all booked up with things they have to do-----that is the way of the young people--they are destined to have fun ALL the time===not just once in a while {like us if we are lucky!!}----------my kitchen is a mess,i am tired and i have to clean up before bed-----ARSEEEEEEEEEEE PAIN INDEED!!!

Wow, that woman ought to be ashamed of herself for leaving you in the lurch. In church. Sorry, couldn't help it...

There are situations I'd rather walk out of than bluster my through alone too. And I'm the sort of person who will happily go to the movies alone, drive for 2 or 3 days alone, sit alone in a restaurant reading a book. But some things just don't feel good alone. Parties, for instance. I hate going to a party and finding out I only know the hostess and no one else, because she is always too busy to hang out with. Church is exactly the same thing.

Figure that one out.

I still have work to do. Stop distracting me.

Kiwi

Hi Cowsies! I'm going out in the subfreezing temperatures to deface the town. See ya later.

Hi Cowsies -- I had a McD cheeseburger today for the first time in at least 3 months. If my dietitian appointment keeps being changed, I will have probably increased my cholesterol by the time I see her again. So much for good eating habits...

Hi Cowsies -- my ears were so cute today. I chopped the hair off myself (just a little) so the whole ear showed and it was out of my eyes and I dangled cows from them.