CrankyCows.Crab
 

Your wish = My Command

I would be thrilled to work on your pic. Just ask Peaches...:s: Seriously, if you want, send it to me and I'll shrink it, or I can tell you how to shrink it yourself.

I love denying things -- where are these allegations??? I demand the right to deny them!!:drill:

I'm sure I should be insulted

They don't. Silly.

See, here is the key. Herbie is a cement-head. DAMes and cement-heads are not compatible. Does he still give you advice because he can't bring himself to leave you alone, or are you asking him? For someone who doesn't want a "relationship" with you, he sure seems to hang around a lot. Have you ever asked him why he thinks he should be able to override your decisions about DS, considering you probably don't manage his kids' lives in any way?

Recently I had it out with DH on a similar topic -- that every time I talk to DD (I don't mean idle conversation, I mean something about what she can and cannot do, etc), he gets in the middle of it and interrupts me. I tried doing the same thing one time to him and he totally flew off the handle. I called him on this, and wouldn't let him off the hook until he clearly understood that if I couldn't interrupt him when he was telling her something, he couldn't do that to me either. Things have actually been better around here since then. Incredibly.

Do you actually wash shirts every day? When I do a load of shirts, I go to the bedroom and gather up all the empty hangers and take them to the laundry room. I have enough extras that there are usually a few hanging in the laundryroom already. I wash a LOT of shirts, but only about once every 2 weeks.

DH and I actually played guitars together last night. Picture that.

Kiwi

Let's just say I bite my tongue a lot and maintain a civility with Herbie because, for one thing, I am still driving his car. He called a while ago to tell me to go to a certain lot and look at a certain car. I'll go in a few days. He also has the potential to fulfill his guilt feelings and buy a fridge for my house. He may or may not. No one knows. His birthday is this week and I offered to take him to see Rent. He said to put it on his credit card (which is still in my wallet despite an attempt to return it) and so I did.

Emotionally, I'm pretty over the cement-head but not in the postiion to express myself satisfactorially to him.

Excellent post, Kiwi.
 

I was just thinking about the motherhood thing today and marveling at the fact that *I*, personally, (well, ok, dh too) have actually managed to keep these two children clothed, fed and *alive* for such a long time when most of the time I have no idea what I'm doing. It's scary.

My friend had her baby at 9:16 a.m. this morning!. It's a boy!! Popped him out in a couple of hours with no medication, tough girl that she is. First comment to me "I thought I was going to die!" I can relate to that. They are both perfectly healthy, though. Baby is called Rupert. It's a Victorian name and also the name of my boyfriend in kindergarten so I like it. Going to visit the little family tomorrow.

Do you have any idea how late it is? Send me to bed!

I leave the coat hangers in the closet, wash the shirt and then bring the hangers out when I'm ironing the little beggars. Works for me. I also have extras in the laundry room.

well,on the topic of who does everything around here----EVERY time i come home from ANYwhere there is a big mess in the kitchen and/or the tv room---i have tried leaving everything to see if they will notice that it is a DISASTER and NO one ,not even,or "especially" dh notices or cares---so if i am the only one who cares,i should do all the work????I GUESS THAT MUST BE THE ANSWER!!!! when dd was sick in the hospital with salmonellla and i slept there for a week,i came home and the house actually STANK!!!! there was catcrap all over the rug,as no one saw that the litter was cleaned and THEY DIDN'T NOTICE THE CRAP OR THE SMELL!!! i thought the sewer had backed up or something!!!!!!!!!!! when the step dd's are here,i almost go into a depression because of the mess---they are ALL messy---mine,his the whole lot----as lush has said---if " I " am the "cleanie" we are all in trouble!!!----end of RANT!!!! now i must go and clean up the mess my dd left after making guacomole---and take the dirty bowl and two packages of taco chips off the computer desk!!!!BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa

I am humbled. Sugar iron tee shirts? As for the rest of you, you are SUPERCOWS!!!!!!! But Bagz is too funny. Five dds and all messie???? LOL!!!!!!! I remember whenyou were tactfully having to make them hide their bra straps under their shirts. Now, there's cat crap on the rug!!!!!! I am laughing at the computer!!!!!!

Don't give me that, it's too late to be sucking up to me now. I know you've been spreading nasty rumors about me in email [size=large]without even sending me a copy!![/size]

I have an off-color joke to include. Normally I would put it in the joke forum, but since it's a little on the :tape: side...here it is:

A young woman was pulled over for speeding. As the motorcycle
officer walked to her car window, flipping open his ticket book, she
said, "I bet you are going to sell me a ticket to the Highway
Patrolmen's Ball."

He replied, "Highway patrolmen don't have balls."

There was a moment of silence while she smiled, and he realized what
he'd just said. He then closed his book, got back on his motorcycle
and left.

She was laughing too hard to start her car for several minutes


Kiwi

I like it Kiweenie. I have a joke too:

A young woman (probably from the eastern coast of Canada) went through a big hail storm and ended up with several small dents in her car. She took it to the dealer where a sociopathic customer service agent told her to take the car home, blow in the tailpipe and the dents would pop out. So she did. She kept trying. She had a guest (from Maine) who stared at her and asked her what in the heck she thought she was doing. The Canadian explained the situation only to get the response "Well, DUHHHHH, don't you think you should roll up the windows first?

POLL:Last night I took DS to a Gilbert and Sullivan performance ... songs from different operas. The whole audience was greyhaired. Anyone younger than ds left at or before intermission. Ds was fine with it though. I bought the tickets over the phone. They were $20 each. After I got them at the Will Call, I saw a sign that people under age 19 only had to pay $10. No one told me that on the phone. I asked for the $10 back and got a cold stare and a "Sorry, no refunds." A woman who has worked there a long time and who may be in charge (she has her own office) is a friend.[list=a][*]Should I call her and complain?[*]Not call her and complain as she may be able to help me in some way in the future[*]go into therapy[*]Just be glad ds stayed all the way through and didn't mind[/list=a]

I don't even like Gilbert and Sullivan, but I would just forget it. They got you. You could make them give you the $10.00 back but it would cost you $20.00 in effort. You should have put it on Herbie's credit card. Then we would be glad you were overcharged. When are you going to see Rent with Herbie?
I'm annoyed. I keep a phone list by the computer. Every phone number I need is on that list. Naturally a KID lost it. It is gone. I would like to make a phone call, but I can't. I am irritated. I am tired of being the house slave. You should see the laundry room. Everyone just throws their stuff into the room with no concern as to where it goes. There is a recepticle for dirty wash, but it is EMPTY while the floor is covered. Arghhhhh
I'm going to get busy around here. I have assigned chores to kids. That covers all public areas....so I'm going to do wash and my room. Naturally, my room is the WORST in the house because I do the kids' rooms first so they can have company. Unlike Kiwi, I never have company. Just good old DH and me, so it ends up to be the last room to be considered. What does that say about Feng shei....or however the he** you spell it?
So, I'm off to do my day.
BTW...did you NOTICE that Kiwi IGNORED my email??? I have resent it because she will not avoid the shame of her current liason. He didn't even dp a GOOD job on her roof.

Well, I hate to say this, but I think you kind of are stuck with the price you paid for tickets. That's my experience, anyway. Although I suppose it wouldn't hurt to ask your friend; the drawback to that may be that she'd give you the $10 just because you are a friend and it would come out of her own pocket. Think of it this way, he acted more like an adult than anyone else there, so it was worth it.

Okay, I'll bite. How about sending the email to my actual email address and I'll take a whack at it? Come to think of it I'll bet you don't even have my email address; the only emails I've gotten from you have been replies to other people's messages. Come on, put your money where your mouth is.

DH cleaned up the computer today (well, his half of it :doh: ), so now I can use the shredder. I love the shredder. And also he got all his giant boxes of papers out of the living room. Of course he can't throw away his own trash in the rest of the house, but it's something.

Ta
Kiwi

this is my THIRD attempt to post!!! i keep LOSING IT [in more ways than one] I was trying to tell you that in my quest for peacefulness, and FENG SHUI,i have decided to have almost everything in our bedroom WHITE---- so far,i have white sheers,blinds, and curtains,a WHITE quilt,white bedside tables and i am about to paint the oak dresser WHITE---- i want to paint the walls white and dh says the room will look like an asylum-----that word sounds lovely to me-----my own personal asylum---what could be better----i should take a picture and show you what i have so far...................ummmmmmmmmmmm---eternal resssssssssssssssssssst!!!!!!!!!!!!

I tried the white bedroom thing. I also tried the white kitchen thing. It didn't look any cleaner. Just better contrast.
I'm mad at Kiwi. She has spoken harshly to me.

I sort of forgive Kiwi because she sent me a nice song. It was about male dogs and I have a female, but since I have male cats who mark my snow, it's ok.
My SIL, the one I like, is coming to dinner. Isn't that nice? We're going to watch [i] About a Boy[/] It will be more fun than talking because I'm so boring in real life.
Gotta go cook an amazing dinner.
bye

What are we having for dinner, anyway? We have to watch the SuperBowl, at least the commercials, so it has to be living room food. And of course it has be pretty quick.

I took ds and left Dogpatch this afternoon. We went in the WinnDixie in a better neighborhood and guess what !?!??!!!! MEN were wildly RUNNING THROUGH THE STORE buying BEER and MUSTARD and CHIPS!! The whole CHIP AISLE was depleted. DS and I had to get broken chips. Each man got one item to take home to learn that something else was lacking so he could frantically run back and knock people down in the aisles to get that mustard. We don't have tv. We are spared. Rent is Wednesday. Herbie says he going to negotiate this care for me. I think that means he's trading in mine and paying the difference. He wants his care, which I have, washed. I told him it's TOOO COLLDD to go out and wash a car. Well, he doesn't want to have to spend a day (a day is what he said) getting it washed. Cement headedness is genetic. I know it is. It's just so inciting.

car not care. Of course.

i was wondering if you were having some sippy's there Peachpot!!!!--glad lush and kiwi are not fighting any more---what happend to Brattie??? she must be friends with Dusty.DID YOU OR DID YOU NOT LIKE THE WHITE BEDROOM LUSHBONG AND WHAT COLOUR IS YOUR bEDrOOm NOW????OAT[EXPLETIVE] MEAL?????

I would have been happy to keep fighting with Kiwi, but she is so mellow that it is completely impossible to disagree with her. It must be all this "guitar playing" she's doing.

listen miss borefestival, i want to know the colour of your boudoir!!! fess up---also we all know that you must be eating crack laced lentils to play guitar effectively{or drinking margies}.

ok, ok
 

It isn't like I haven't bored you all with my decorating schemes in the past.
My bedroom is very neutral, except it has an ugly blue rug which I always plan to do something about but never do. Right now it has a wine and gold striped comforter and the curtains are goldish(not metallic but not beige, either) with wine scarves draped over them. It isn't bad looking. My summer look is a mostly white bedspread that my mother embroidered and quilted with her very own hands. I used to do all white with that, but now I do a seersucker, it is cheerier and shows less contrast when there is clutter, which is always. It looks like summer, it is light.
You know, Peaches, I can't believe I liked Herbie when I met him, because now I think he is a cement-head, too. I hope you like Rent. I loved it. I liked The Lovely Bones, but having a daughter it was sad to me. It was good but I don't understand why it is such a best seller.
I didn't make it through the whole superbowl. June says I should get at least 8 hours sleep, so I did. I really enjoy getting advice from her. Why aren't any of you perfect?
I get to go back to Curves today. I'm so excited. Isn't Wabby rude not to post on the weekend? She should go to work just to be able to talk to us.
Gotta go....bye

I don't have to be on crack
 

to play guitar. I have innate ability. :lol: Well, at least I know how to read music. DH doesn't know how to read music at all, but knows most of the chords on the guitar. So I am teaching him how to play melody lines and stuff. Meanwhile DD knows everything about the guitar, but is keeping it to herself. I think DH has this fantasy about being the Trapp Family Guitar Ensemble or something. We could wear leiderhosen and dirndls.

My bedroom is flannel in winter and quilt in summer. Oh, those aren't colors? Okay I guess it's colored cathair and dust. I don't know what's under that.

Kiwi

it has been snowing alllllllllll day----kiwi---how about you??? in newfoundland they had three storms in one week-- and they got 45 cm in one of the storms------we have stayed in all day and the steps and driveway are covered with snow---i am a bore, and that is that.

I would have been here sooner, but 3fc's has been giving me a bad time. Cement headedness is gender specific, Peaches. I told you that in my first post, but it was lost in cyberspace.

I went to the wedding reception. The bride looked radiant. I'm too tired now to tell you the long version of this. Don't you hate it when you compose a long and amusing post and it gets lost????

We have not had even one snowflake here this winter, Bagzie. Is it pretty?

Sugar, tell your friend congrats on her baby. Tell her your friend who is a figment of your imagination said so. Do ppl look concerned when you talk about your computer friends?

Yes, Wabby, that is very vexing when good posts go to the 4 winds. I imagine a cyber-dead-letter office where all the most interesting, witty things we had to say are just sitting around waiting for a miracle. Glad to see you back. We had a good bit of snow today. Nothing to write home about, a few inches. It does improve the look of everything, though. I wish it would warm up. It went up to around 15 deg F early today, then by dark it was back to -8! It's just too much. I haven't done anything outdoors all winter except clean snow off my car.

It's never vexing when my messages get lost, because I never have anything to say. I'm a bore.
I could clean today, but instead I'll go to the hairdresser and do something about my roots. I think I'll also knock a few more things off my "to do" list. I don't plan to clean. I just don't want to.

I don't think I'll nap, but that could change.

I have a conference with DS10's teacher. It is going to be awful. I think I'll take my other two kids in as evidence that I don't raise 100% brats. His grades are good but he is so fresh to this teacher. He's one of those Alpha boys.....dominant in every way. He's tall and a good athlete and he just lords over that group of boys. Because I also have the other type of boy, I know how horrible these Type A boys are to the more passive kids in the class. I always thought there was something the parents weren't doing that made those boys so difficult, but he was just born this way. I have a hint, though. He's the cleanie in my family. Do you think that has something to do with it?
It's a shame that no one outside of our family sees how nice and sweet he can be because he is always "on." He never lets his guard down when he is out of the house.

Wish me luck. His teacher is another battle ax...though all his teacher have been battle axes and I wonder if he just brings this out in people.

I'm off to get ready for the hairdresser. Have a good one, everyone. bye.

OK, I'll just pretend that my witty post got sucke into the circular cyberspace file and that this is a cheap facsimile.

Really crabby, need to go look at my ten downloads of Peachy's kitty to feel better. I think I'll use him as a screen saver. Still have to think of a tasteful knick knack for the future Peach residence.

I don't have an alpha kid, Lush, I have a class clown who likes to repeat what people say *while* they're talking or burp in class. Half-term report cards are on Friday. Then the kids get 4 days off to recover.

Today I: put away laundry, cleaned bathrooms, loaded dishwasher twice, (need to hand wash the rest - where does it all come from?) baked bread with my *new automatic bread machine* (what a strange looking loaf - details later, made pizza dough, made kids toss a bunch of old toys and games, hung on the computer much too long, got crabby.

all my kiddies are home toooo!!!ds is "sick"[recovering from cold} dd16 is on "turnover" days after exams,and dd18 has no classes at university on Tuesdays!! it is FREEZING out {-30 windchill and it's very windy} i have been in the house for days and i could care less!!!! i was just looking at my garden pictures and ordered an 8x10 of one from the local print shop [to cheer me up---my SUN flowers in full bloom -siiiiiiiiiiigh}i think i will log onto flynag and get some inspiration for cleaning!!!!!! i need my hair dyed too lushbong-------wabby----NO SNOW!!!! i may have to come visit you next month---I KNOW YOU ARE GOING TO THE SEATTLE GARDEN SHOW AND I AM GOING TO MEET YOU AND YOUR SISTER THERE!!!!!!!!

I'm not going to the garden show this year, Bagzie! My sis can't get away, my friend who usually goes is still undergoing chemo, and my other friend who usually goes is the little mother who we just had the baby shower for. She's too close to her due date to travel. Sooooo, if you would like to come and join me for the garden show, I'd be ecstatic. At least you'd get a little touch of spring fever from it. When you walk in the door at the convention center, its smells like hyacinths-springtime!!!!

I have a bread machine too, Sugar. I like to use the dough cycle and then make cinnamon rolls out of it. Of course I'd never think of eating them.

Lush, my sympathies, dear. My DS is a sweet, lovable boy, but he was like Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde at school. Sometimes I wish I could go back and do those school years over again, but I have a feeling it would be the same experience. I'd like to see how things would have turned out if I'd put him on Ridalin like the Dr. advised we do. DH was so totally against putting any drugs in the kid that we didn't put him on it, even though he was diagnosed ADD. Woulda shoulda coulda. I wish some of his teachers could see him now. He isn't a brain surgeon or rocket scientist, but he is a serious, conscientous worker, who actually is a contributing member of society. He pays his bills on time, he doesn't drink or smoke, and he actually has goals. Amazing. Did I tell you he's moving out on Feb. 1? I think I'm getting into the melancholy mode.

There's a rainbow on my monitor case. The sun is shining through the clear plastic blank CD tower and reflecting on the CDs and casting a very funky rainbow on the monitor. Makes it seem like it could be warmer than the 8°F I know it is outside. I'm having the last bowl of homemade beef barley soup (ymmmmm!) for a late lunch. I haven't done anything but one load of laundry today. I am so useless it's pitiful.

My condolences on the school conference, Lush. Why not put your own spin on this? He's a very active, exuberant boy and he needs more challenges in school. Then it's their fault. They used to call my DH "active" when he was a kid. He was the bane of many a teacher's existence too.

I have a bread machine too, Sugar. Actually we gave it to DH's mother years ago, and she finally decided she wasn't going to use it. We don't either. I never really get that good a loaf of bread out of it. The shape is definitely too weird to make sandwiches. When I make sandwiches, they have to fit in square plastic boxes for DD's lunch.

I haven't exercised since Friday. That really sucks. I've GOT to get back into it today OR ELSE! :drill: Somebody yell at me.

Kiwi

KIWI!!! GET YER ARSE OFF THE COMPUTER {RAINBOW OR NOT} AND MARCH IN PLACE WHILE YOU WAIT FOR YOUR DVD TO WARM UP!!!!! I JUST WENT TWENTY ON THE TREADMILL BUT HAD TO STOP TO BABYSIT THREE EIGHT YEAR OLDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!GET TO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

I needed a little change in my life, so I have a new avatar. Whattya think?

Kiwi, are you having a flashback from the sixties??? Rainbows on your computer?

Bagz is right. March in place. Now. How is that for being bossy?

I really don't have a thing to say, I just wanted to try out my avatar.

Thanks, Bagz. It worked -- I did my workout, took my shower, marinated the beef tips for dinner and I'm back!

Aw, Wabby, you're a bossy kissy cow!! :goodvibes:

Kiwi

wake up an post. Sugar I know you are up. Entertain me. go ahead. I'm waiting.

I love the new avatars!!! Kissy cow and cat-cow!!!

Now my list:
[list=a][*]Get ds to school by 7:40[*]Go to my office to look for the gift I actually bought cement-head[*]Go to cement-head's office and pick up my new car[*]Go take a picture of big government giving money to little government at a place that's very inconvenient for little government to go to[*]Go to Cement's house and rest (I have been out for several nights in a row and am exhausted)[*]Go to dinner and play with Cement[*]Go back to Dogpatch to pick up ds at my office-mate's house where he will have had a sushi dinner[*]Collapse[/list=a]

I don't have a rainbow. Kiwi get your butt up. You can make Lush's avatar after you do 20 on the treadmill.

Peaches, you and cement head are the most happily separated couple I know.

I don't have to be into the office until 1 pm today. I am at loose ends as to what to do with my day. What are your suggestions? I don't want to clean.

I suggest you rent a movie and watch it. I just watched "About a Boy" I thought it was good. I thought it was even better that I was sitting all snug watching a movie while it was snowing outside. It was nice.
But, enough of that. Now I'm going to do stuff. I"m going to start by returning said movie by noon so as not to attract late charges. Then I will get a cup of coffee and return to make a list. Here I go, bye.
Wabby, are you all better from your surgery?
L

OK, I bagged returning the movie. It is worth 6bucks to get some momentum going before the kids get home. I have to work tomorrow so I have to get moving.
1. get book on tape, drink coffeeThe coffee is mine, not great but OK...what do they do at coffee places that makes their coffee better than mine? My book on tape is still the stinko Belva Plain. I need to make a trip to the library
2. shift wash What is the problem with my family and the laundry room. It is always a mess...no one can tell the difference between clean clothes which do not belong on the floor, and dirty clothes which also do not belong on the floor. somehow they all end up on the floor, in one big dirty mess...and then they end up all having to be washed...again....because I have nothing better to do.
3. unload dw done
4. clear counter I dont' feel like it...1/2 hour later...I did it, and I cleaned the coffee pot
5. pack lunches for rest of week done for the next week and a half
6. clear table I don't feel like this one, either....... 1/2 hour later.....ok, ok I did it.
7. wipe floor I guess I don't feel like anythning...I'll take a break.
8. 10 min fr Ok...I'm taking another break....I don't feel like vacing the fr
9. vac fr Ok, I'm going......done
10. clear toys that are really trash out of DS10's room. Sneak it to back street so that boy will never know I threw away his stuff.
I'm going to go spend the next 40 minutes until DS12 gets home doing his room......the other two have stuff after school, he's the only one coming home on the bus.
BTW....DS10's teacher was kind to me. I can tell she wants to kill him, but she was funny rather than mad. She, at least, appreciates his talent. He's quite an artist. She does not appreciate him drawing on EVERYTHING...but she'll get over it.
Wabby, I don't think it is smart to medicate kids. DS 10 is a definite candidate for medication, but no. What kind of message does it send a kid to tell him that there is something so fundamentally wrong with him that he has to be medicated for anyone to put up with him. Also, medication wears off, and once it does, the kids are left with no coping skills and no means of controlling their behavior. I have to admit that we put three times as much time into this kid than we do the other two put together. But, what can we do? This is how he is and it will be how he will be all his life. He should learn now that it is no excuse for poor performance. His grades are good, but he is often up until 11 with me standing over him making him do the rest of his work. He always has TV and video games taken from him. He lives in a constant state of sensory deprivation because if he is allowed to touch a video game, he's gone. Nothing will get done.
Funny, but he can take an engine apart and put it back together, too..just like your DS. I think it is just a different way of wiring the brain.
OK, I have work to do.

bye

Ok, you guys... post I'll be back in 40 min....

My coffee is great.