There is no way to make Grandpa Jim to take it easy. He has an appointment w/ a thorasic surgeon tomorrow, but all he's worried about is getting another car. See you babes tomorrow.

You gotta love Grandpa Jim. I know he drives you nuts, Wabby, but from 3000+miles away...he's a hoot.
Poor kitty. I'm glad he now has happy feet.
I'm cooking today. I'm making my month's worth. It's a drag.
I'm reading the Bob Dylan book. I like it.
I've been neglecting my friendship with Leslie...but tonight I will reacquaint myself. I like the Beckwith &Co. name. I want a catalog.
Must go chop. L

what else is in that trunk?

I am frustrated with my ds. I guess this is normal. Anyone have knowledge of the Telluride Summer Program? He has been invited to apply, is interested but is TOO D**N Teenagery and stubborn to put forth any effort.

Grrrrrrrrr

darling!!!--tell the ds that he will have to work at {name some crappy southern state job} all summer long if he doesn't get off his BEE-hind and get busy with the application!!!---there must be some undesirable job that you can think of!!!!

Peach, you reminded me - I need to clip my doggies toenails. They hate it and so do I. Let's see---- what would be an undesireable job for a teenager??? Maybe you could tell him you need an assistant for the summer - what could be worse than being bossed by your mom all summer vacation?

Lushie, do you really do a months worth??? I've got to figure out something - it's been soup and sandwiches, chinese food and pizza this week. Leslie and I went on a 4 mile trek yesterday, but nothing today. Guess I'll have to do a 4 miler tomorrow to make up. I'm trying to do at least 10 miles a week. Trying to make up for eating stuff I shouldn't. I was cleaning out files yesterday and I came across all my old Weight Watcher member books. Some dated back into my 20's. A distinct pattern emerged - 20 lbs up, 20 lbs down,20 lbs up again. Maybe it's a good thing I haven't gone back to WW's and I've decided to try to do this on my own.

DD's roommate moved out and I was bracing myself for the worst - a "mom can I move back in?", but yahoo, she found herself a new roommate and things are good. Now, DS needs a boot in the behind soon. He's gotten pretty comfortable since the gf breakup and moving back in. It's not my home cooking that keeps him around.

Kiwi, who sent that to you? don't take it personally, we know you're still a young'n.

In the last week we've gotten one phone call from a developer wanting our property and a letter from one who said he wanted it. It's so nice to be wanted. I can't even think about how much work this is going to be to get moved. DH is looking at land. I'm looking at houses. We have different priorities. Who do you think will win?

I know you will win and you'l move closer to me. Florida is nice this time of year.

Dremel bits
 

Can you grind a cat's claws? I'd like to learn how to keep kitty's claws short enough to spare the furniture. But listening to her skitter on the wood floors is pretty amusing, too.

sorry I've been so absent. i've been a poopy head. DD broke up with girlfriend and I don't know whether to be thrilled or not. (BAD MOMMY...) and clients all decided to stop seeing me, so money's in the tank/dinghy/etc.

Well, not ALL clients, but about 40%.

Yes, I'm still mad at Shrub. Am trying to be mature. Difficult.
Happy weekend, y'all.

Whoa, I don't think I'd try grinding a cat's claws! They'd never sit still for it. I use nail clippers on my cats when their claws get too long. Although I agree it is pretty amusing -- one of mine has a tendency to stick to the carpet when her claws are really long and sharp. Sounds like velcro.

Ah, another useless Saturday. I can't remember what I used to do on Saturdays. Can't believe I've always done nothing. Oh well. Nothing isn't so bad.

Kiwi

Below: cat reaction to dremel

My reaction to cat reacting to dremel.
 

Kiwi --How on EARTH did you have enough hands to hold cat, hold dremel, and click camera? What an image it all brings to mind. I bet you can juggle chickens, chain saws and lawn chairs at the same time!! In awe, am I.

Kiwi. yes it's all paid for. The Harvard one extends into the next school year for us. DS is right now camping in Tennesee. Single digit temps. I bought him a fortune in warm clothes and he took SOME OF THEm!

Heres's a quote from the current Time Magazine:

"People have tsk-tsked over last month's study in which women reported being happier having sex or watching TV than playing with their kids. But why shouldn't they? This how the market defines happines. Happiness is feeling good. Kids, those who exist outside ads, make you feel bad -- exhausted, frustrated, bored and poor. Then they move away and break your heart."

I'm heavily relating to that.

I got so sick of not having a decent hair dresser that I whacked it off myself a few minutes ago and it's much better. I can't do the back but th front is improved. I want GREY STREAKS. I can't find that there is such a thing. I had this mop dyed brown and now the roots and metallic and shinny and I want to blend to thema nd let them grow out.

p.s. DD musta done really good Kiwi. From what I read online it's the top one percent of the PSAt who get the invites.

Okay, I guess I must reveal my super-secret magic trick:http://www.baquit.blogger.com.br/cat.JPG :lol: Yeah, that's right, I searched online and found that picture. I should be so ashamed.... :coffee:

Wow, there must be something wrong with me. My kid doesn't make me feel bad (this year). I think it's a cyclical thing. Next year, your DS will be the golden son and my DD will put me in an insane asylum.

Kiwi

kleewee will u please be on line when I look for on Aim?

ah'm on now, hunnachile.

A monte Christo isn't on anybody';s diet. I "only" ate half. I haven't had anything else today. why does gooey fatty stuff taste sooooo good to me. but I do like water, too.
I wish excell had a merge and check function that was automatic. I am now printing out one copy of a file to compare against the back up because xmas got me all mixed up.
Grrrr. And it isn't EVEN monday yet. I think I'll go see what dh is doing and/or knit. NO FOOD for me. I WANT TO BE THIN. Preferably tomorrow... but I WANT IT I WANT IT.
thank you all for putting up with me. I usually have my snits privately. this one is semi-private. (the only good think I have going for me IS my hair).... Hope yours settles in, Cowgirl.

Tomorrow, tomorrow... surely things won't be so frassing annoying tomorrow.

Hey, we here at Cows R Us enjoy a good public snit. Carry on.

Gotta go make dinner. So I'm not here anymore, Cowp.

Kiwi, you are a liar. I looked online in between those posts and you were not on.

I do like snits though.

When I was a kid, were were taught not to say **** as it was a bad word. We were to say The Other Place. You are going to The Other Place is perfectly clear. Two nights ago, DS's cell phone wouldn't work so I called customer service and got a foreign nation. The people were quite nice but difficult to understand. Those spoke English just fine but concepts were not coming across and, finally, when the problem was unearthed (Ds's payment had been applied to my phone) I was dismissed and transferred to the billing department. This time, the woman spoke English like a Yankee and I told her it was so nice to hear her voice. She said, "Oh, they sent you to The Other Place." Have I been so bad?

I am trying to be more positive so here are some things I don't like:

1. Ads that say "if can't beat their price, we'll give it to you free." Idiots.

2. A book I picked up but didn't read because it was written in third person with a first person title. "How I ...."

3. Ads that say "less hormones." I want them to say "fewer hormones" whether it's correct or not.

4. The cancellation of that horrid show "The Will" without telling me who won the house.

5. Teenage stubbornhood that leads to cutting off one's nose to spite one's mom.

That's not very nice.
Yes. You called your friend a liar who signed onto AIM at your request and waited for you. You're going to India.

I'm in favor of more lists of things you don't like, in the interests of taking a positive attitude. I'm annoyed by all those things too. Well, except for The Will. That looked like a piece of :censored:

Kiwi, "Fewer Filling, Tastes Great"

I'm thawing out from a freezing rainstorm we had here on Saturday. I was so housebound that I actually almost cleaned out the spare room. And that was my weekend. Except roads were clear enough by Sunday evening for DH to take me out for some Mexican food. Leslie and I walked 4 miles Sunday am and 4 more miles today. Lotta walkin', not getting anywhere fast.

I come back here to find Peaches squabbling w/ Kiwi. I do like the idea of listing things that you don't like. Tell me more.

These are some things that annoy me:

When you ask someone (DS) to take out the trash, etc. and they say "ok" very cheerily and then don't do it.

Books that aren't good enough to finish, and yet not bad enough to put down.

When you buy fast food and they forget to put in the special sauce for whatever. french fries/ketchup - chicken nuggets/sweet and sour sauce, salad/dressing. You never discover it until you've driven at least a mile away.

Waiters that interupt your conversation constantly to ask you "how is your meal?".

Waiters that never come around once they drop off your food.

When you're giving instructions to someone on the phone and after a five minute recitation of how to get to your place of business, they say "just a minute, let me grab a pen", then you have to start all over.

When ppl (DH) calls for messages and when you start to give them to him he says in an irritated voice "just a minute, I don't have anything to write with and I'm in traffic". Duh. Why did you ask for messages????

I'm sure I have more. Let me think. :chin:

Did anyone else ever read "A Fine Balance"? I really do think India might be That Other Place.

Painty, snit away, dear. It's what we're here for. If you can't have a snit here, where else?

How about when the basketball coach is one of those nicey,nicey types who is still cute at 45(but short...he never played b-ball) and who everyone thinks is WONDERFUL. BUT your kid is a better b-ball player than the coach's kid....so the coach refuses to put your kid into the game. THEN when your kid does get in and is cooking and everyone is cheering for him, the coach pulls him out after three minutes. THEN your kid says, "what the h*ll" for everyone in the place to hear completely taking the wind out of any argument that could be made on his behalf. aargh.

I posted today but it disappeared. I could put that on the list, too.

OH, one more thing. This nice/nasty coach has a baby from Korea. Any criticism against him is met with the remark, "but he's such a nice guy, he adopted a baby from Korea." The kids saw him shaking that baby the other day. No adults saw, just kids. Isn't that typical of that type. All nice when people are looking but shaking a baby when he thinks he can get away with it.

DD has gotten into all colleges but she hasn't heard from her first choice, yet. Everyone we know who has heard from them didn't get in, good. Rankings just came out and they got another tippy-top one, bad. They should get those AFTER she's accepted. One of the refused kids had better SAT's than DD(if the mother is telling the truth), but dd wrote a whale of an essay. Otherwise, the girl's grades were the same and she had the same number of AP credits. This is very anxiety producing.

Kiwi, she was never willing to go to any summer programs. Before her knee, she was too busy and after her knee, she wanted to enjoy what summer she had. Regardless, she's gotten into some very tough schools.

I'm going to bed.

Everybody from New Jersey gets into tough schools. Look at the test scores. The cutoff for NJ on the PSAT is the highest in the nation.

I want to hear about the essay.

Things I don't like:

*tbd

Wabbitoes, do you use Word? How can I insert a graphic into a cell of a table? It's driving the further nuts.

More things I don't like:

* People who don't say thank you or write thank you notes.

* Teenagers who take me for granted.

* That TV show where they keep performing autopsies.

* Celebrity-marriage-breakup news stories.

* Hearing that the PRESIDENT intends to invade Iran.

The Florida scouts went to Tennessee to camp and returned in agreement that snow is overrated. Froze their toesies and fingersies. Personally I know one whose mom bought him tons of warm clothes but he chose to leave some home.

Pshaw.
 

He'll need those when you send him to Siberia. Which sounds like it will be any day now at the rate he's going. :lol: My kids aren't bugging me that much at all lately. No idea why. Ds11 will be 12 in Feb. so I suppose I should start getting ready for the hormonal eye-rolling storm any day now. And ds8 keeps asking me where his spleen is and what's it for. What am I? A walking encyclopedia?

FINALLY over my digestive unmentionables. Now I just have cramps of the female kind and really bad attitude. I'm looking forward to moving right on into spring feeling like cr*p.

If I told Jennifer Aniston once I told her a thousand times: "Honey, never marry a man who's prettier than you are." But did she listen? Silly tart.

Yep, he's prettier and Siberia is a good idea. Our good cat is Siberian. That's my cat though. Strangely, when DS was younger he made up poems with the word spleen in them. Spleen rhymes with a quite a large number of words.

Why are we all on the ZERO lost portion of our tickers?????

except Wabs. Wabs has lost.

MYYYYYYYY GOODNESS!!!!---THERE are so many things i dislike,i could hardly mention them all........let me think about this---i hated it the other night when i sliced off a piece of my index finger with my new {soon to be given away} carving knife.I hated the look of that knife from the beginning and i was afraid of it-----my finger bled for at least an hour,and there was nothing to "sew up" as i actually CARVED off a piece.Was that descriptive enough for you all??? HERE IS ANOTHER REASON I LOVE ALL OF YOU!!!--- i am sure i forced all of you to send out addresses so we could send Christmas Cards----------DID I SEND ANY OUT??? NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WELL,TODAY WAS THE LUCKY DAY!!!! I SENT OUT CARDS AND A LITTLE NEW YEAR TOKEN TO ALL OF MY LOVELY SWEET COWS!!! I DIDN'T EVEN WAIT UNTIL MID-YEAR AS I WAS INTENDING!!!!! don't get too excited,but i really loved getting all my cards and it's fun to point them out to my friends { i have FRIENDS from all over NOrth America and Europe!!!!}-----------it's freezing here---we had a blizzard yesterday---did you get that one kiwonk????

it's into the 20s here at night (probably 16 or 17 to you) so SHUT UP! I am hungry. I am grumpy. I have no life. My DS became my life and now he's off to Siberia. I need a life and I WANT YOURSSS... ALL OF YOURS < DO YOU HEAR?? I'll start with Bagzes though. Maybe Wab's as sh'es farthert from here.... no. That's Sugar. But IF GERGEE W BUSH INVADES IRAn and if her MAKES A DRAFT, DS is going to live with Bagz on his way to Siberia. If I have anything to say about it. I'm hungry. I want a Quizno's sandwich. Grrr.

*Moe's .. do you have this restaurant? I don't like it.

First, create a table. Then click in the cell that you want to put the graphic. Then click on insert. Click on graphic, then select your graphic and click on insert. There you be.

It has gone from fffffreezing cold last weekend w/ the nasty ice storm to balmy 64 degrees and very humid today.

What's with the new style of wearing jeans w/ pointy toed shoes???? Cruel shoes as DH would call them. That's something else that annoys me.

1. Peach, if I've ever forgotten to tell you thank you for something, I'm sorry. 2. Teenagers always take us for granted. Thats life, but they will tell you thank you later in life. 3. I like that tv show in which the lady medical examiner does autopsies. I think its so interesting. 4. Agree w/ you on this. 5. That's so reassuring that he's invading this time instead of sending all those young boys. All of this refers to Peaches post from a page back. You cows are too fast for me and by the time I got this posted, you all had moved on to other subjects.

It is reassuring Wabs. It will take away part of the sting of seeing him on TV at the Kennedy Center watching George Harrison be honored while Fallujah was being destroyed.

I did read A Fine Balance. Most Depressing book of 2004. And according to their reincarnational belief system you can get sent to The Other Place over and over and over.
I'm glad I'm not on anybody's Snit List.
A man (granted, older, but a man just the same... ) said to me this morning: I guess you don't have to go to NY or Paris to see a beautiful (!) woman drinking coffee.
Yay me. G*d only knows what he'd say if I'd already lost 100#.

I don't like bad/agressive/pre-occupied drivers.
I don't like filing. Of anything. Anywhere.
I don't like other people's rules.

Baggz-- hope your finger is better.
LowCow-- Best wishes enduring DD's wait to hear from colleges. I talked wiith a college placement coach.... she says that admissions people really look at the makeup of the WHOLE class... so even if your kid had a 1600 on the SAT, if he/she's the 4th oboe player and they only need 1, too bad... on the other hand if he/she's the ONLY oboe player and they need one... maybe a rotten essay and horrible scores are still good enough. I do believe that my DD's hotso totsy Seven Sister's school NEEDED a cowgirl from Texas. And she thrived being the representative of all that is Wild in the West... (but not SO weird as California!!! :lol:

okay,it's freezing again---it's minus 33 celcius {what's that in farenheit??} AND there is another blizzard warning for tomorrow----------I believe I live in the next best thing to Siberia!!!SOOOOOOOOOO----Peachers,send the boy up here and Lohani ---you too--if you want to keep those baby boys from invading Iran,I volunteer to be the new Draft Dodger Hotel----we still have draft dodgers living here {most of them came up in the sixties to avoid Viet Nam and are potters and back to the landers} Their kids are all Canadians now.We are too passive to fight----we are also to cold and stiff jointed to get our fingers around a trigger---can you imagine what we would do over in the hot countries----------we are so used to freezing that we would perish at 80 farenheit.---CAN'T ANYONE STOP THE SHRUB??? did anyone see Dr.Rice get blasted from a lady senator yesterday===it was great-----John Stewart was all over it!!!{ hey--no fair that i know all this stuff about you yanks-------let's talk Canada's latest news!!!!!!!-----------I WATCHED AMERICAN IDOL LAST NIGHT.ANYONE ELSE???? BYE.{OH I FORGOT=====lohani!!!!!--we have ALOT of american students at the Nova Scotia Universities----my daughter hangs with a girl from Florida and one from Maine.----what's up with that???}

I heard the bashing on the rahdio. Was wonderful. What's her name Kiwi? Box?

Do Nova Scotia universities give financial aid to brightish Americans? This is a big factor. If he comes up there, you'll have to homeschool him for his bachelor's degree.

Poor Bagzie! Come to the frontier immediately. We're having record breaking warm temps here. Today it's supposed to be 65 farenheit - what's that translate to in the rest of the world? The only drawback is that you have to look at a lot of flabby white skin exposed. Ppl seem to think it's August.

Painty, Cowpers DD is a DS, and he's brilliant, so we have great expectations for him. Did I ever mention that all the herd's children are exceptional and good looking too??? Kind of reminds me of Lake Wobegon. ------- Painty isn't it wonderful what a man's compliment can do for your day? I don't care if they're older or younger or inbetween. Gives you a boost.

Leslie and I trudged thru 2 miles this morning.

I scored a good book at the dollar store today - Cane River, an Oprah's book club selection, hardbound, for only a buck!!!! I love the dollar store.

I just can't watch American Idol - it's too painful to watch ppl get trashed. Reminds me of 7th grade try outs for the special girls choral group I didn't get into. Sob.

I just checked - we're 51 degrees celcius difference between here and Bagzieland. 92 degrees difference farenheit. -33 celcius translates to -27 farenheit, 65 farenheit translates to 18 degrees cecius. I think. or I could be wrong - ask Cowper's DS. I have a headache.

Send him to Germany!
 

No university tuition! Pretty girls! Lots of pork!

Bagzieeee! Did I fail to send you a giant smoooooch for your poor, poor finger? I haven't cut myself often or seriously, but I HATE it when I get even a little cut. Did you get the doctor to take a look at it?

Painty! What a nice compliment that man paid you. I snuck a peek at the picture on your website and he's right. Lovely.

Now that I'm healthy again, I'm planning to re-invent myself. Do you know what two weeks of eating tea and toast does to your hair and skin? I look like a hag. And I lost 3 lbs which is probably only water and will be back on any second now. Must consume vast amounts of nutritious food and do yoga every day to unleash my inner goddess. Leslie has been whining for me to put her into the VCR but I don't think I can do perky at the moment. Maybe tomorrow.

Off to tidy up this tip.

Poor Sugar, I forgot to send you get well wishes. And poor Bagzie, I forgot to send you sympathy for your injured finger. Sorry, both of yas.

Wabby is so sweet!
 

Thanks, Wabby! I'm feeling much more chipper today. Still haven't got the tip in order though. It just never ends, does it? That's why I'm sitting here wasting time on the computer. :coffee: :coffee: :coffee:

HI all, DD never took the PSAT's. What do you mean by cut-off? How are they scored? What is their purpose? Why didn't your kids just take the SAT? What does the P stand for? DS is entering hs next year. He has to work harder than DD. Because there is so much agony that goes with each grade, it easy not to notice how good his grades are . He will have a different ride than DD did because he is not as forceful(dare we say self-promoting?). Should I have him take the PSAT's? What year?
We have too many kids, that's why our cut-offs are high. Our population density is ridiculous. That is why I need to move to the the sunny south. It is too cold here. Why do you upper-northern types put up with this?
Must go take brats to school. bye