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Kiwonkers!!!--never Have I Had Such A Stressful Year As The Last Year Of Highschool With Both Of My Girls!!!!----dd20 Was The School Pres Which Was A Giant Headache And Dd18 Was Studying Her Arse Off---------they Were Always Sniffling!!!!---which Can Lead To You Having To Sniffle Too!!!! I Feel Your Pain!!!!---how Is The Lushette Doing In Grade 12----i Know Kiwietta Is Not In "senior" Year Yet.....................wonder How Poor Hurricane Peach Is Doing..............................
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Still sleepin' single in a double bed - remember that song? hee. :lol: I'm starting to get attached to DH's side of the bed, though. It's closer to the bathroom, and the door. I think I may like his lamp better too. It's the same lamp as on my side of the bed, but for some reason I like it better. He may have to forfeit his side.
Has anyone seen the reality show, Trading Spouses? I watched it last night and it was fascinating in a sad way. The husband in one family was a real jock type person. His oldest son was obviously (to any outsider) gay, or if not gay, pretty effeminite. He was a really sweet boy and his inability to relate to his dad was heartbreaking. The husband in the other family was a ne'er-do-well immature but lovable type. Both wives thought their real spouses were wonderful and absolutely couldn't see their faults. I think it's my favorite new reality show. Watch it. It's like a train wreck, once you start watching you just can't look away. As you can tell, I'm still in an eating-tv watching marathon. |
I think I was posting when our entire house went black. And just as quickly, the electricity came back on. Very odd -- no weather to explain it. I don't think DD and I were overloading the circuits or anything, we only had 2 computers, a printer, a scanner, a stereo, half a dozen lights, 2 TVs and a satellite system on. Big deal.
I say I think I was posting because I can't remember a word I had typed before, but I know I intended to respond to Wabbit's TV marathon. I haven't watched Trading Spouses, but I am totally enthralled by the Amazing Race, now in its next to last week I believe. Tomorrow the new season of Survivor begins and I suppose I will also be enthralled with that. Does anyone know what to do with leftover broiled chicken breasts that are not quite as juicy and tender as one had hoped? I mean they definitely are going to have to be dismembered and added to something; I'm just not sure whether it would be better to shred or dice them, and what to add them to. They really were, um, chewy. :rolleyes: Maybe I should grind them... Keeping Dogpatch in my thoughts. Good grief I was watching the Weather Channel and they had people at the beach right near Peachietown talking about how the waves could be as high as 20 feet there in a matter of hours. :yikes: Kiwi |
How about cube them in small pieces, add to a cream sauce made of milk and chicken broth (and a flour and butter rue) add a package of frozen veggies, heat through and top w/ a storebought pie crust or bisquick dough. Bake and you have a chicken pot pie. :hun:
Keeping my fingers crossed for Peach. Hope she's doing fine. We have old farm house wiring, Kiwi. We can't run the air conditioner (window kind, not enough electricity for central air) and the dishwasher or microwave at the same time. At least we had the plumbing and water line replaced so we can take a shower and flush the toilet at the same time. :cb: |
Oo Yummmm Chicken Pot Pie. Good idea.
I remember many years back, DH put in an extra electrical box in the basement (Mr. Elec. Engineer); I'm not sure whether that allowed us to have more stuff going at once or whether it was just to have more breakers, but we don't usually have a problem. We do have the ancient "old farm house" wiring coming into the house -- one time in a storm the line came down and we had to have the electric company look at it. They said it was the original line from the 1930s or something and there wasn't much they could do about it. They had to replace the section that actually came into the house, but there's still 1930s wiring out there in other sections. It's amazing that we don't lose power more often. Now don't get me started on plumbing... Hope Peaches still has a roof. We should have sent her some hip-waders, looks like. kiwi |
We only have a 100 amp service coming into the house. It would cost a couple thousand to update it, and I'm just too cheap to do it. I'd rather buy new furniture.
It looks like Ivan may have missed our Peachy's area. Anyway that is according to AOL weather, not that it's accurate. I just went to lunch w/ my mom. Had pasta. Yummmmmm. |
I hope that Peachy is high and dry and appropriately electrified AND flushing.... Ladies, doesn't it seem odd to you that we can IM and e-mail and transmit pictures, but we still can't count on the sockets having "juice."
I was happy to hear on the news today that GWB and JFK are neck and neck. NOW, if only some of the really SMART people (who probably aren't running for office) will help us voters figure out the real issues and the best answers so that THEN we can decide who to vote for. Too bad that Pinochio's growing nose trick doesn't work in the 21st centure. Of course probably no politician would be able to wear a turtleneck ever again.:nose::nose::nose::dizzy: |
Good morning cowsies. I have nothing to say, just good morning. :coffee:
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:flow2: Good morning! :flow2:
I have nothing to say either. At the moment I'm trying to research my Dish Network tV system. I have unfortunately discovered that the problems I'm having with the thing are bugs in the equipment and so common that it doesn't even seem worthwhile to complain about them. Blah. One of these tropical storms seems to arrived here -- without the storm part! It's just tropical today! I should go swimming! Kiwi |
We got the storm without the tropical. It's cold and rainy.
We have a satellite system too, Kiwi. I hate it. I really hate it. As soon as our one year contract is up, I'm switching back to cable. When you have cable tv, you turn it on and watch it. I don't remember needing to call customer service once in the 10 years we had it. I'm constantly calling Dish network for problems. We lose signal, we get the signal but can't change the channel, we bump the remote the wrong way and the whole thing goes haywire. Did I mention that I hate it? DD and I are going to see Vanity Fair tonight w/ Reese Witherspoon. It's not supposed to be all that good, but I'm a sucker for the beautiful costumes. Had lunch w/ my sis today. I can't figure it out, but with all the eating I've been doing, the scales were down 3 pounds this morning. It's a mystery. Have a loverly weekend. |
Wabbs... congrats on being 3# down. I understand that cutting out sugar allows the metabolism to de-tox very well. Unfortunately, iI snarfed down a whole (but not huge) bag of Reisen's last night. I can feel my waddle returning. But I'm drinking tons o water and skipping sugar and refined stuff at least til Monday... so the chocolate bloat will go away before it decides to take up permanent residence.
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crappy day-----------rained ALL day-------------wonder how poor peach pie is doing---looks awful down there in her neck of the woods...............blahhhhhhhhhh
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Ach, I'm exhausted. I've been a librarian all week. Remember how I thought I'd like spending my day in a library...being bookish etc. Well, I was wrong. It was very boring and very clerical. Lots of checking in and out and alphabetizing. PLUS....it's a drag having to tell people to be quiet all the time. So, librarian is off my "what I want to do when I grow up" list.
I hope Peachez is ok. There is lots of flooding around here. I’m holding my breath…we’re wetlands..which is a nice way of saying that I live in a swamp. I keep thinking that during one of these rainstorms, it will rise up and claim the house. As they build more and more of those hideous boxy mcmansions around here, the water has no where to go. For the first time in an age, I off sugar. I feel so much better. My hot flashes were beyond endurance, I thought it may help and it does…luckily. I’m also avoiding coffee with less success. WTG on 3lbs..wabby. My hometown,which is so republican that there are no local elections outside of the primaries, is going for Kerry. That means that if Bush does win, it’s because he cheats…which is why he won before….but it will be official this time. Bagzie, Lushette of grade 12 is one busy girl. She kept her job…checker in supermarket…but only works Wednesdays and weekends. I remember taking idiot courses as a senior, but they don’t’ do that anymore,do they? They do their freshman year of college, so she’s busy. Her illness last year really changed her. She is so mature. She’s too old for high school, which sort of makes me sad. She’s not into all the senior stuff. Lots of kids skip their senior year and go right to college to take real college courses rather than AP courses. She was ready to start college this year, but she couldn’t have lived in a dorm. She says that isn’t important to her; but, I think it’s important. I hope she’ll go away and live in a dorm next year, but I’m not sure. She isn’t into partying(whose daughter is she?) and doesn’t think communal living looks all that attractive. Because she has her own car, she’s very independent. She runs her life better than I run mine. My boys are packing up the trailer to go dirtbiking. I should get myself in gear…Have a great week. L |
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We have colds out here in Podunkland. I feel icky. Just in time for DH to come home so he can take care of us. :lol: :rofl: :lol3: Okay, just in time for DH to come home so he can catch it too and be helpless. I've got to call my brother. He lives in the southwest corner of NC where they've had massive flooding. Fortunately he lives at the top of a mountain, so I don't think he will have washed away... Kiwi |
hey y'all.
First, Bagz, I have your email address in my address books. I don't have any others but have only yours. Who knows why. I sent you a text-message from my cell phone but there's no way to put a subject so I know it looked like spam. Second, I send Lushbat a card telling her how bored I am because this coulda lasted longer and you'd all wonder what I was doing. It was scary. DS and I slept in the big closet in my bedroom and there were wind noises but not too much. The part I remember most about the storm is a Panama City radio station that stayed on through the use of multiple generators and kept us undated (The eye is partially on land) but the radio guy became franticccc when a trailer park in Alabama was blown away and rescue units went out. His radar showed another tornado inthe same area and he was pleading, demanding that the rescue units get out of that area before they were hurt as well. Occasionally, he'd say, "Folks, I know this is Florida station and you want to hear what's going on in our state but we're trying to save lives here." He was not quite calm and the drama of it all was terrible. The next day, broadcasters on that station said they believed lives had been saved because of that effort. Most stations were out so if you wanted to hear anything, you ended up with a group of stations that were putting out the same thing. We only had one tiny rotten tree blow over. Power was out for a couple of days, water stayed on, telephone came and went. Even with power and phone lines we couldn't get online though. State officials (forestry guys) were giving out ice and we went to get some as the fridge was about warmed up.They threw a box of MREs in the car, too. That was fun. The power was on when we got home but the MREs are just fascinating. Mine had a mint-chocolate chip coffee, two Tootsie Rolls, hot chocoalte powder, coffee power, cream power, sugar, gum, weird bread and jalapeno cheese stuff to put on it and the main dish of chili/macaroni. I kind of liked it. DS wants the rest for camping. Schools still aren't open here and won't tomorrow. They're still assessing buildings for damage. I have the best-stocked pantry in the whole cow kingdom. |
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