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Where's The Herd????
Hey you beautiful bovines, come out come out from where ever you are!!
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Hi Cowsies!
Well, since we last posted, I had an uneventful Thanksgiving, a lovely Christmas at home and the in-laws and a Happy New Year! How about you ;) ?
It seems very sad that they lost all these posts and forum data. But really, it's just a bunch of conversations. Well, and all those pictures I posted... And our witty remarks--now that's a real loss. :dizzy: I do feel awfully bad for Suzanne etal -- apparently they lost all the changes they put into forum. Hope everybody remembered their password! Kiwi |
What worries me most is losing the post about not putting piles of laundry on top of your dryer. What if someone out there is innocently putting towels on top of the dryer then going to bed????Ach
I've missed you guys terribly. It has been awful. Now that we're back, let's looose weight. L |
Mooooooooooove over. I'm here!
I lost NO sleep over the clothes-on-the-dryer dilemma. But I do wish that the photos were still around. Hmmm. Do you think I can get away with posting newer, better ones and pretending the old fat self was only a nightmare? ;)
It didn't get past 40 degrees here today.... pretty cold for us.... but the country club where I attend business meetings had the ground crew out with an ELECTRIC bulb-hole digger.... The bulbs will be wonderful in aboaut 6 weeks. Spring will come. Woo hoo! Y'all be cheery. NO MAD COWS. |
Oh well!
We were witty once, we can be witty again.:dizzy:
Three cheers for those darling 3FCs for getting things up and running again!!! :cp: :cp: :cp: Just being my boring old self today. Any of you cows know Cantones or Mandarin? I was maybe thinking of *trying* to learn one or the other but I think my brain may not be up to it at my advanced age.:?: Everyone still fat? Are we all going to exercise tomorrow? I have to go downtown tomorrow and lovingly convince our travel agent that we really don't need to spend our life savings on four plane tickets for this summer. And then we're having guests for dinner. Guess I should maybe start cleaning tonight, huh? :o |
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yeeees--it is nice to be back in our pen----let me see,it's thirty in florida,forty in texas and minus thirty-six celcius with the windchill factor----LET'S SEE---WHO IS THE COLDESTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT?????? same with kiwi---she can do the farenheit conversion----I speak Cantonese.yeah.
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Yay! We're back! I feel bad for the 3FCs. I lost a database once. That was awful.
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Actually, Bagz, it looks like about the same in F. when it gets that cold. It's -15F here last time I looked, and very windy, so wind chill is at least 36 below, probably lower. I am having trouble typing. Not that our house is real cold, it's just having trouble getting up to a workable temp in all the rooms. I had to drive DD to lessons in OtherTown and man, what a cold drive that was!
Gotta go watch Friends, my hands aren't working anyway. Kiwi |
I would be willing to put my post thought the Chinese translator again, but it would only end in disappointment. Can you believe it won't cut and paste into 3FC????? When Sugar takes Chinese she will tell us what a Chinese keyboard looks like.
I have to go teach children again today. What could have posessed me to become a teacher? It is tedious. Why don't people teach their kids how to blow their noses properly so that they don't sniff all day long? I feel bad for the FCs too. I wonder how they pay for this place. Ads,I guess. I have to go get ready. bye |
DS is learning Japanese.
I got the dryer problem solved. After towels had been in there almost three hours and were still damp, I called the builder. He took a grid off the end of the vent ... this is outside ... and it was thick with damp lint gunk. This house was new in August. Would you have guessed that???? He said the grid was to keep animals out but they couldn't get in there anyway because of a flap and he left it off. The thing is plastic and the holes are less than 1/2 inch square while the bars are more than 1/8 inch. Lots of area to catch lint. Why didn't anyone tell me 3FC was back? If I weren't so bored, I wouldn't have checked for myself. |
NOW THAT IS THE MOST COMMON CAUSE OF DRYER FIRES-----------LINT THAT BUILDS UP==========DUMB DUMB BUILDERS!!!---WE HAD BIRDS BUILDING A NEST IN OUR DRYER VENT,SO WE HAD TO GET NEW CONTRAPTION TO KEEP THEM OUT----YOU COULD HEAR THEM FLAPPING IN THE LAUNDRY ROOM------YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOOO---- to lush-----------i do not like teaching either and i just arrived at this realization twenty three years after receiving my Bachelor of Education----i don't even like THINKING about being trapped in a room with all of THEM!!!!
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I do think being TRAPPED in a room with all of THEM would be awful awfyl awful. BUTTT worse would be not being able to go to the bathroom when you wanted.
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Well, I'm glad the mystery of the dryer has been solved, Peaches. You'd think that after building 6 billion houses, builders would catch on to these little problems, wouldn't you? Our vent hose cleverly just dangles into the basement, thereby contributing to the decor of the whole place. Nobody ever planned this house, for sure. We thought about trying to change it, but it turned out you couldn't actually get outside the house from the dryer without going up, and, well, lint doesn't like to go up, especially when you have to make bends in the hose 2 or 3 places. Oh well, I don't care: the lint helps absorb the water leaking into the basement... :tired: I got a call this afternoon from my friend who moved out to Oregon -- sounds like the NW is really icy mess. Maybe Wabbit is stuck at home? Kiwi |
HEY!! GET IN HERE AND POST!
I didn't come here to talk to myself. One of my favorite doggie friends sent me her picture today. The cold is getting to my brain. Can you tell? Kiwi |
Strange and beautiful?
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no just strange---------i had tWO margies tongith---i mean tonight
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I watched part of a video of that show I got stuck on. It was scary and didn't make me happy. My eyes kept blinking and .. and .... never mind. I was no Sugar Plum, that's fer sure.
Bagz, you ready for ye old twelfe steppe programe? |
What show? What video? Are you watching Queer Eye?
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Who are those guys, Kiwi?
Dryer lint situation is all normal here... but I didn find two comforters and 3 sets of sheets in DS's closet... We found 3 boxes of stuff for Good will and 4 bags of trash. We're not losing a graduate (in May), we're gaining a closet!
Was an extremely virtuous mother... made cookies for him to take back to university, and didn't have any. But I must go to sleep, or they will seduce me! |
YES,what video made you blink like that???Kiwi,i would say Queer Eye has nothing on Queer as Folk!!!! let's hope our peachers has avoided that fer shure!!!!My browser opens to the Netscape Page {BECAUSE when it opened on Explorer PORNO POP UPS KEPT SHOWING UP--- my poor ds9 was screaming 'NAKED LADIES MOM'---GET RID OF THE NAKED LADIES'} Anyway,on Netscape they have all these "titles" of stories about sexual adventures ---dorm room stripping,mexican threesome etc----DON'T YOU THINK THAT IS TACKY FOR A "NEWS" TYPE PAGE THAT SHOULD BE INNOCUOUS??????? MAKES ME MMMMMMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDD AS A CANADIAN COW.
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If Kiwi and Bagz are expecting passing grades in this class, they had better pay attention in class.
[list=1][*]Peaches was sent to a press conference[*]The press conference was live on cable TV[*]Peaches was put on a panel for the hour[*]Peaches saw a video of the show and [*]SHE WAS BLINKINGGGGGG[/list=1] It's my opinion, Bagzorama, that porno popups only show up on a computer that has been used to search out porno. They get a cookie in or something. I know of someone who went to the playboy website to see about submitting a story to them, and she says she's now getting that stuff. Anyhow, I think it' s something you did. |
Aw, Peachie, you think we have an attention span longer than 3 minutes! You honor us! Did you blink the whole time? Were there a lot of bright lights on you? That would make me blink.
Painter, I didn't know it was humanly possible to make cookies without eating them, although my personal target is usually the dough. Those weird guys are actually natives in Papua, New Guinea wearing some traditional garb that includes helmets cast in mud or something. Looks like the set of a bad sci fi TV show, but they're real! Some twerp called an hour ago for a bankcard company and I can't sleep any more. I really wanted to. So now you'll have to entertain me. That's very disturbing about the home-pages, Bagz, but Peaches is right about the cookies. You can wipe out cookies and temporary internet files if you want and start fresh, it might help. Or you could change the home page to something much less questionable. You know, like us, for instance :no: Kiwi |
Yeah... the pop-ups come if you leave your name most anywhere... though spammers are getting cagier about just "inventing" names and seeing if they work. My son did something via google and Norton that seems to have cut down on ALL spam and definitely the porno ones.... I wish (that like fiction) there were romance/erotica that catered to straight women.... :sssh: I could go for that... but the graphic porn ads with larger-than-is-credible body parts just look like textbooks for ER nurses -- or circus performers.
Actually, I have larger than credible body parts... but it's hips, thighs and chin(s). :yes: |
I are her to entertain you Kiwinie but you is not online.
I saw that new movie today with jack nicholson and diane keaton. Anyone else seen it? I thought it was a little story drawn way way out long. And also made no sense. She gave up Keanu Reeves, a doctor, young, ethical, faithful for Jack Nicholson who had never been faithful and never been with a woman over 30. Nope. |
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I took a nap. Now I'm back. Kiwi |
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I saw on TV that Jack 'n' Diane were in luuuuuuuuuuuuv. Isn't that sappy? Like they never noticed each other before in the 100 years they've been making movies. Pfffffft!
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See? She's dopey. He's just getting what he can, she's dopey.
Last night it was -22F degrees around here--that's before you add in the windchill. This had better not keep up much longer or our oil bill is going to kill us. I wish they'd put back the new features here in 3FC; I liked them. You could start a Quick Reply and switch to Advanced without losing your message. Kiwi |
And DK looked ghastly on Leno before Christmas. Who told her that 40's retro, in GRAY - no less, would look good on late night TV?
It is possible to bake cookies without eating them. It is not possible to store them (even out of sight) without nibbling. Grr. Please imagine our weather... 60 degrees and sunny... I need to go cut back the now-frozen perennials. Toasty cozy wishes to all of you. My DH is having to re-install windows because his treat-to-himself game ate up the directory. Poor baby. I'm nervous about going to console him. I'd be royally PO'd. |
I'm all thawed out now. We had a nasty ice storm. It wasn't as cold here as at Bagzie's house, but everything had a 2 inch coating of ice on it. We had to close the business for 3 days. No one could get to work. Even the Portland airport closed for 2 days. We were trapped in our house with 2 grown children. Oh the horror.
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Sounds like a Hitchcock classic. I can hear the scary music now, see the sidelong glances. Who will snap first? If the food runs out, who's the first to go? Apparently I've been watching too many movies. I did watch a cool one this morning, instead of doing anything productive :cp: -- Mirage with Gregory Peck. It would have been better if it had been made by Hitchcock, but it was fun to watch. Peck loses his memory and someone's trying to kill him. Black and white. Things are much classier in black and white, you know. Diane Keaton should stick to black and white. Gotta go pick up my gigantic order of Barnes and Noble books at the post office. I ordered 8 books for about $50, only one of them at regular price (I'm giving DD a college guide for her birthday; is that mean?) And unpack my new set of glasses, which just came today. Hooray the American Consumer... :cb: Kiwi |
Grown children are mysterious even if not suffering "cabin fever"
I kept giving my kids college guides and they didn't act appreciative... But just last week my daughter was kicking herself because she hadn't realized how pretty Oregon was when I took her to Lewis and Clark, Reed and U. of Washington. Granted, she ended up at Mt. Holyoke which was just as pretty, but she finally understands what we West-Coasters loved about it.
Likewise, son doesn't admit to wanting much help... but he looked over at me a week or so ago and said, "Bet you're disappointed that I'm such a slacker." Didn't know what to say really.... Slacker... yeah, kinda... but disappointed in my kids just isn't part of the picture anymore. They are who they are and THEY get to live with the consequences.... (He's not "slacking" so much now... astrophysics AND working two pt jobs. Dryer top is clear, but closet/clothes hamper is FULL of dirty clothes.... And there are scummy dishes waiting for me when I get home from work. I am a domestic non-goddess... or better, a non-domestic Goddess. :devil: |
You should see my kitchen :rolleyes: -- I'm avoiding mass quantities of cleanup. I managed to make a nice mess with dinner, plus I want to wash about 18 of the new glasses so I can put them in the cupboard. Think I'll just stay online instead. Can't see the mess from here.
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I need to unload. OK? You know my mom, the paranoid schizophrenic who told me, when I was a child, that she didn't want me? The one who, when I went to college and called home, said "What do you want? This is costing money?" Etc. That one? Now, she's in a convalescent center and has been calling me. She wants me to come get her and take her shopping. My cousin, the saint, has been doing this, apparently, as I am such a bad daughter.
Today, I called and asked for her nurse. She sounds gruff. Then, she finds out who I am, and she sounds sweeeeet. She says my mother misses me. She says she talks about me all the time. I say I don't want to take her shopping because she'll run away or tell me she's coming to live with me. The lying b**** says, "No, she's changed. I've been her nurse for five years." I say, "I was told within the year that she assaulted another patient there." She says, "That's not true." Well, IT IS! A man called me twice about it. They took her to have her scrapes and abrasions treated from this affray and then changed her medication. I am sick of being the bad daughter in everyone's eyes. I am sick of her calling me. At what point is it ok to distance oneself from ones parent? And why must the entire world be unable to see another side to this crap? |
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there is no way you should have to give in to this if you are not interested Peachers!!! NO WAY!!!! don't let those bats guilt you into anything that will disturb your own peace of mind-------------it is unfortunate for mother but she has lived like this all her life and i am sure she will carry on just fine without your shopping trip-----it's too bad they are not taking your side of the story into consideration but TOO BAD FOR THEM-------------they are the least of your concern----your concern is YOU and your son and YOUR mental health and NO ONE should disturb this--------------i repeat YOU and YOUR SON are the important players at this time ---------------if you feel like devoting some time to mother at another time,fine,but go with your gut right now-------------------------THAT IS MY LARGE OPINION AND I STAND BY IT---------------------- now i will let the other cows hold forth
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Dearest darlingest Peaches - this is my advice to you. Take care of you and the one person you are responsible for at this point in your life, DS. Read a few books about the narcisistic personality and throw in a few on schizophrenia and I think you will be able to throw off the guilt and realize that you have no obligation to your mother at this point. Of course, this is advice from a person who has not spoken to her dear Daddy since last Mother's day. Occasionally I feel guilt, but not enough to make me want to talk to him. My parents sent me a check at Christmas for $300 in a Christmas card. No note. Then yesterday I got an envelope in the mail with a check for $700 and note that said "Wabby, enclosed is balance of X-mas gift. Dad" What????!!!! It made me feel like I was a bill they have to pay. I haven't cashed them, or sent them back or even called to say thank you. I'm trying to decide what to do about them. I would rather my Dad would call me and say he was sorry. I'd trade the money for that.
Sorry about the tirade about my parental problems. Anyhoo, Peach, in my opinion, for what it's worth, you're all paid up on your daughterly obligations. |
Perzactly, Peachie, what they said. Trust your instincts. You know what's going on, the nurse seems to have her own agenda. If you ever decide to take her out, bring a leash.
Funny, I've been mulling ex-family responsibilities today too. My late dad's second family who I never see (but stupidly continue to send Christmas presents to) may have to be dealt with again this week. DH talked to his friend, my BIL, and he told DH about a cocktail party in honor of his father's 70th, who is someone we like very much (this would be my half-sister's father-in-law). Not sure if this was an invitation, or where the shindig is being held, but if it's at my sister's house, I really don't want to waste my psychic energy going to another family event there, only to have everyone be all buddy-buddy and we-should-get-together and then have them snub us again for another year or two. I'm sure we wouldn't have heard about this if DH hadn't called BIL, so why should we feel really invited anyway? On the other hand if it's at the FIL's house, I would happily show up -- it's 10 miles away, and we'd be "on our own turf" as opposed to driving 3 hours each way for the priviledge of being set up for future disappointment again. I'm such a sucker, I just know I would end up inviting them to a birthday party for DH (next week) or DD (next month), and getting all upset because they promise to be there and don't show up. Or whatever. It always happens. Wow. No wonder we are all fat. The thing that really rankles is that all these half-siblings have kids around DD's age -- I know they would like to spend time together and they should, but there is just zero relationship to build on with my half-sibs. Wabbit, keep the money. It's his guilt talking; it may be all he has to offer. If I were you I would write a formal little note of thanks ending with hope to hear from you soon, but then you can see what a loser I am with family relationships, so don't listen to me. Kiwi |
Kiwi, you are not a loser with family relationships - look how everyone in this family of cows loves you. :goodvibesDH has a half sister that we sporadically see. I'm talking we can go for 5 years without seeing her, and I know she probably feels left out of the family, but the truth is that the rest of the siblings are not really all that close. DH has a brother who lives in Utah that we haven't seen since DH's mother's funeral which was 20 years ago. He has a brother that lives within 3 miles of our house, which we only see once a year at Christmas. I see my sisters at least 2 or 3 times a month. It's so strange why some relationships are strong and others don't seem to take. I'm closer to my ex sister in law than my present sister in law. I don't know why, I just am. Probably because we are a mutual fan club. I'm going to think on this family relationship thing. Hmmm. :chin:
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Where are the normal cows?
I relate Kiwi. My cousin, Eeyore, was so glad when I moved here. "I don't have many friends," she said. "You and me can do stuff together." Something like that. So, I asked her to come to town and have lunch with me about five times and she said "no" because she had to do something with someone else. So I gave up. Now, he hauls my mom around and doesn't speak to me. I, too, am snubbed. |
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