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Hi darlings!
ds11 has gone off on a 4-day class trip so I only have ONE kid to worry about. And dh, of course. But he can make his own dinner if he absolutely has to. We haven't been cursed with fund raising crap yet. Shouldn't the people get the crap right when they pay? Or not pay until they get it? I have no idea how these things work. What do they do, eat the stuff themselves? I'm very worried about Peachy's stomach taking over the world. As if mine wasn't doing a good enough job already. It's horrendous. We will never be svelte. Bagziee!! Not taking over the shop until February will allow us to develop a foolproof marketing strategy for you so you'll be all ready for the Easter (free Peeps with every $5 purchase!) madness. Painty, you sound like you're in a pretty big funk right now. I hear you, believe me. It's all just so depressing, isn't it? We need a couple of good jokes. Did I say that Bozo the Bookworm's birthday is in February? I meant November, actually, and that's why I have to go to another hideous meeting on Wednesday and find out who's doing what and who cares anyway. But before that I have to cut out about 5 million construction paper flames for the %&*# candles. Must go do Pilates or yoga or something. |
I think we may be in an all time cow-slump low. Except Lush. She hasn't been around to whine much lately.
I'm going to WW on wednesday at 5 pm. I told DH to make me go. I've got to get a grip on myself. If I head into the holiday season in my present see it - eat it mentality I'll be 50 lbs. heavier by springtime. I've gotten into a TV couch potato mode. I don't know how to get out of it. I don't even sit upright to watch. I go into my room, flop on my bed, shut the door and veg. Kiwi, you get extra points for going to a football game by yourself. I was a fishing widow on Sunday. I had lots of energy in the morning (since DH woke me at 4:30 am) so I thought I'd paint my bedroom. I moved the furniture out from the wall, vacuumed the dust bunnies and went to the paint store to buy the one very special color I'd picked out. The paint store was closed. Then I went to Home Depot to buy tulips (no, I couldn't buy paint there - they didn't have the one special color) then I went home and planted tulips and worked in my yard. Before I knew it I was wiped out and I spent the rest of the day - you guessed it - watching tv. Did I really care what the 100 best moments of Saturday Night Live were? The only good part of being a fishing widow is that when the fisherman comes home, he feels guilty enough to take me out to dinner. I'm out of the fund raising loop. Except for my hairdresser who collects soda cans for her daughter's softball team. I like that fund raiser. |
Ahnold Says No!
Schwartzenegger is vetoing over a quarter of the bills sent to him. Sounds like a plot for his next movie.
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Funny, I did almost the same thing on Saturday that you did on Sunday, Wabbit. I didn't paint either... Seriously, pulled the furniture out and cleaned everything, except I only did one end of the room -- the reason being we are getting bugs in there and I wanted to spray for them while DH was gone. Did all the bedding and everything. All nice and fresh and clean. I'm tempted to pull down the boring paneling that's been up there since we bought the house -- I see that there is nice beadboard under it. Very camp. I don't think I've ever paid for something that I didn't get from fundraising kids, but I'll tell you I was some disappointed when I ordered a tub of chocolate chip cookie dough (not prepaid) and it never showed up. I think with most of the fundraising around here, you pay when you get the order. Don't they have to give a receipt if you pay beforehand? If the kids are stiffing their customers, they ought to be held accountable. Otherwise what is that teaching them -- how to cheat people for profit. Yikes! Not to mention the sad thought that someone else is eating your cookies.... :cry: Long couple of days -- yesterday we headed out early and drove down to the coast, meeting up with DH halfway. We went to a concert in a pub in Rockland at 2 in the afternoon. Strange time for a concert, eh? But perfect for us because we could get back early. The concert was by a Yugoslavian blues/rock guitarist/singer named Ana Popovic. She had a small band with her (just drums and bass). We had seen her at the blues festival in the same town last summer. Great concert -- they played for almost 3 hours. At one point she came off stage and sat in a chair right in front of the audience and played her guitar, then she asked if anyone would come up and play a bit. Nobody would come up until we persuaded DD to go up!! It was great--Popovic gave her her guitar and DD played a little bluesy improvisation with the band backing her up. It was so cool -- she did really well. Some other guy came up after she came back to her seat (he was twice her age) and played a couple of chords feebly. hmph. Then the poor kid slept all the way home -- I think she has the flu. I'm probably next. Kiwi |
I dig Yugoslavian blues
Feeling kind of flu-ish myself this morning. Hope you don't get anything after all that running around, Kiwi!
My new waste o' time is this kind of community channel I found on when dh installed our new satellite receiver thingies all over the house. I got an itty bitty colour tv in my kitchen and this show is called "Future a la Carte" It's almost non-stop people phoning in and having their tarot cards. RIGHT up my alley, as you know. I'm mesmerized. Most of the time they get it right, too. Spooky. You can imagine how much work I've been getting done. NOT. Oh well. Kids have 17 days holidays starting Friday so I'll be able to sleep in!! Or watch tv. :p Wabby, how's the ash situation down there? I'm worried about your bronchial passages. I've been watching the VolcanoCam but I can't see anything. Probably because whenever I look, it's dark outside. :lol: I heard there was even some ash on the cars in Vancouver, so if it really blows it should be pretty scary. Must start making displays for Canadian Thanksgiving. This year I have the cutest little ceramic pumpkins you have EVER seen. Orange and green and yellow and just adorable. |
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I WANT TO SEE THE CERAMIC PUMPKINS!!!!!!!!!!!!-------------I WOULD LIKE TO STOP AND CHAT BUT TODAY MY CANADIAN IDOL'S FIRST SINGLE COMES OUT ON CD AND I HAVE TO GET TO THE RECORD STORE BEFORE ALL THE TEENY BOPPERS BUY THEM ALL-------------------I WISH I COULD DIET AS LONG AS I CAN OBSESS ABOUT AN "ALMOST 19 YEAR OLD" HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA----I'VE BEEN POSTING ON HIS "BOOMERS AND HENS" BOARD AT THE BMG SITE---------------WHAT A LOSER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :dizzy: :dizzy: :dizzy: :smug: :smug:
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I have a cure for your flu. Eat a durian. Seriously, have you eaten durian? Would you like to? DS has prepackaged durian pudding that I'm sure not gonna eat.
copied this from a website on durian: The love/hate relationship with the durian bears telling. The odor of this fruit has been described as a mixture of onions, old cheese, and turpentine or, more picturesquely, as a "custard passed through a sewer." So penetrating is the odor that the fruits are forbidden from being eaten aboard airlines, the result, perhaps, of an interchange between a pilot and an air-control tower: "We request emergency landing. We have a durian on board." My son is an adventurous eater. I ate probably 1/8 esp of the pudding and never never NEVER want more. Panicsville if you spill it. |
No ash here. Just beautiful sunny skies this morning. The volcano has just been burbing steam clouds. The geologists seem to think we're in for a big blow, though. Hopefully we'll be far enough away that we won't have too much of a problem w/ ash. Even in 1980 we just had a dusting of it. DH happened to be working on the entrance doors of the US Geology something or other the day the volcano started coming to life. He said there were more news cameras than geologists.
Does anyone else love Bruce Hornsby's new single "Changes made"? Kiwi, how cool for DD to be able to get up and hold her own with that band. I bet you were pumped. :smug: I'll pass on the durian. |
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that was so exciting about your sweet dd there Kiwi!!!! i would have been so thrilled if i were you!!!-----thank God we can live through our children's glories---cause ours seem to be sputtering....................wabby-0--i LOVE bruce hornsby---must check out his new song---one of my favourite songs in the whole world is "mandolin rain"---------------BRUCE IS A BIT OLD FOR ME NOW THAT I AM A COUGAR!!!!!
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I can just see you lined up on the sidewalk in your sleeping bag to be first in line for the CD, Bagz. Quote:
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I have come to the certain conclusion that the only way I'm going to straighten my life out is to start going to bed at 11:00. So that's out. :rofl: Kiwi |
OK, everybody. Go to Amazon.com website. Search popular music for Halcyon Days (Bruce H's new cd) then click on the sample of Changes Made. Be sure your sound is turned on your puter. Wouldn't it be something to play a piano like that?
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Just as soon as I get that chicken soup made...
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Okay, I listened to it. Wasn't enough of a clip to really hear it, but it sounded cool. Maybe I'll hear it on the rahdio. Gotta go take the kiddie to rehearsal.
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Au contraire! I don't have to take her to rehearsal. She is taking herself! How easily I forget. And what a simply strange concept. I mean, I've been driving her around for 16 and a half years--very hard to remember not to!! :fr:
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i know how you feel kiwonkers!!! one of my chillens has actually BOUGHT a car!!!! they can drive mEEEEEEEEEEEE around=====didn't need my sleeping bag but i got the last two copies of the cd at walmart-----------at nine am!!!!-----somebody will be mad they slept in!!!!!
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by the way---i lOVEEEEEEEEEEEE that we all have these autumnal halloweeeenie avatars-----we shall have to get christmas ones as well!!!!!!!!!!!!did i really say the C word????
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