I'm not at work because of Dennis. Not that I couldn't go but I don't know for sure that the power would be on and most every other business is closed, too. Walmart reopened.
Hi ya Wabby.. yes indeed I'm a list maker... but sigh, I procrastinate....
I am a DAME... but I went through menopause at the ripe old age of 29... YES DAHLINK you read wite you scweey wabbit.. Mind Gone, Fat abounds, Sweat is my natural habitat.
speaking of ditching things in my quest to moooove... I found a pair of THONGS! WHO THE **** INVENTED THESE THINGS! I tried them on out of sheer desperation to humor myself and I LOOK LIKE A GAD DAMNED Sumo wrestler...
Thongs??!!! Are you sure your name isn't Cookie? She was our thong wearing cow, but she's disappeared on us again.
A barrista is a coffee maker person at Starbucks. They call them that so they won't mind being paid minimum wage. At least they have a cool job name. Did I tell you my future DIL is a barrista at Starbucks? She hates it but the health insurance is outta this world. The cheap place DS works only pays for health insurance for the employee - they have to pay for their family if they want insurance for the wife and chillun. Oh. I forgot. DS works for me.. And yes, employees have to pay for their dependants if they need health insurance - can't play favorites w/ blood relations.
I need to make a list so that I organize DH's birfday bbq, coming up next Saturday that I have not done a thing to get ready for. OK. Gotta go.
Oh...Bleah, I don't wish movin on my worst enemy... We "sold" our house by our selves... BUT lawyer MahTee, as we pronounce it here in Joisey...is not happy.. 2 much legal mumbojumbo.. but he says don't put away the 4 sale signs just yet..seems the young whippersnappers who bought this joint want to finance 100 PLUS percent ! and he is NOT diggin it.. no risk for them...GRrrr....and we must appraise at 6 grand more for them to get their mortgage...
Ah well at least I pack to The Band...................gettin my groove on............and it aint pretty............... but I jive on...............
LOL your lawyer's name is Marty? I love it. How Joisey. You didn't tell me what area of NC you're moving to. I used to live in Charlotte, my parents and sister live north of there, my bro lives in the mountains, and to cover the whole state, I am going to the NC coast to the beach next week!
I just got home from the boat. We had a storm move in on the coast suddenly this afternoon, it was freaky. We had just finished getting all the necessary work done to get the boat ready for the season (attaching sails and various other chores) and the weather was just gorgeous, so we decided to go for a sail. We headed out of the harbor and DH turned on the marine weather radio. Just as we hit a section of high wind, we heard on the radio about an emergency alert storm warning for boaters -- a thunderstorm with high winds (not hurricane force, of course) and "nickel sized hail" was bearing down on the area from the north at about 30 miles an hour! Well, we turned right around headed back to our mooring in the harbor, and watched this black sky approach, and the wind whip up, and thunder and lightning and the whole bit and it blew right through and was gone! We never did get any hail, and not much rain, but boy were we glad we listened to the radio!
Anyway, I didn't help blow Dennis away with any wimpy little cup of tea. DH and I went whole hog and guzzled gin and tonics yesterday just for the occasion. Obviously it worked.
Yes, Bagz, you have been insane every summer with your full to the brim house! I wouldn't want to say "more insane" because well, hmm, I've only met you once and, you know, you had to contend with us at the time.
Heh, here's a blast-o from the past-o: I got a notice informing me that a message needed approval on the System Goddess mailing list. That thing has been completely inactive for months. But I'm still a moderator, because Lush lost her password and can't delete the group or anything, how silly is that? I wouldn't mind if there was actually activity on it, but all there ever is is an occasional new member posting a message, and someone who still gets the messages replies to it and maybe there will be 2 or 3 posts and then it goes dead again.
Cowper... I am so glad you are OK and sustained minimal (or less) damage. I hope the next one that comes around aims in a different direction. DS probably doesn't have a CLUE about storms, the G8 summit, whether Planck's constant is still meaningful or anything else. He WILL be able to tell you if there were thunderstorms/straight-line winds and mosquitoes in Minnesota. And he can probably tell you in Japanese, besides.
Kiwi--- SO glad you got to safe harbor, um, safely. I had a close call on an iddy biddy lake where we actually took down the sails AND the mast and I still was sure we were ALL gonna die. Obviously we didn't.
Shatz-- I like the idea of somehow selling everything you have and then starting over completely new and fresh when you get to your new locale. It would allow you to just LISTEN to The Band, rather than have to pack, too.
Wabby -- you got it right about "barrista." I were one at Borders... (in spite of 15 years as a librarian, they wouldn't let me near the books... what do you suppose THAT was about? Starbucks almost rivals Ben and Jerry's I think as far as having a "career ladder" and decent benefits... but they do have LOTS and LOTS of paperwork and benchmarks to meet. (I had a friend from whom I heard every drop of complaint!
Update: I finally made up my pea-brain little mind. Chemo starts Friday. I'm getting my hair cut pretty short Thursday so that I have a head start (hahahaha) on Rapunzelesque changes. I'm also gonna dye it red. Or at least reddish. Maybe I'll have my own hair (or at least a little) by Christmas...
In the mean time: Prepare for Bastille Day! Let them eat cake.
(Hey, Shatz, you can mail me a Hershey's with almonds, too!!)
Hey! My brother's name is Marty! And so is Bagzie's! That's probably the most excitement I'm going to have all day.
I'm as dark and menopausal as the rest of them. Lately I've been having wicked hot flashes (flushes? must learn menopause vocabulary) and after being as regular as clockwork since I went off the pill a couple of years ago, my period was a whole week late this month and I am CRANKY.
Nothing even remotely new here. ds9 has been out of school for a week now. As of yesterday he still had a bit of a fever so I'm not risking anything. I waddled down to the school yesterday to talk to his teacher (she was outside spraying hot pink paper mache pigs with clear varnish) and she said a few other kids had also been sick. Tomorrow is the last day of school so I'll probably send him for that since it's only a couple of hours.
Oh Painty, you brave soul - how long will you have to do the chemo for?
Moving to Holly Springs ...pretty much smack dab in the middle of NC. I can't wait, I'll feel like a tourist for the first year...Nature abounds, lakes everywhere...we'll be close to Lake Jordan where I can put my kayak in on a whim...
So glad you made it in before the storm Kiwi....How lovely to know how to sail...We had a 19ft cuddycabin at one time..but it just seemed that we were always fixing the bloody thing. My job was to hang on to the buoy.
Painty.....I think you will look loverly with strawberry shortcake hair..pixieish
Sug, hope DS feels better soon.... and Why was the teacher varnishing pink pigs praytell?
Schatzi, my daughter's name is Holly! The coincidences just keep coming..... And my dentist's name when I was a kid was Marty!!!! and, and, and.... well I guess that's it.
Painty, at least your current hair will be going out in a blaze of glory. Hair is entirely overrated. DH does just fine without it, and think of how much time you'll save "doing" your hair everyday. I'd be like you... give me the chemo - blast away any sneaky cells there may be. We'll be here to hold your cyber hand during the ordeal.
Kiwi, so happy to hear you made it back to dry land OK. I'm so happy my DH only goes boating in lakes and rivers. He gets deathly seasick so the ocean is out for him, and since I'm a coward it's out for me. I don't mind a nice cruise ship, tho.
Have you noticed that when you put on weight you spend lots of time tugging at your clothes? Things seem to be a little snug lately.
Sugar, I saw an apron the other day that would fit the situation. It said "I'm still a hot babe, it just comes in flashes".
Ho-hum. Time to do something constructive around here. Hey, I need your opinions - re: DH's birthday bbq - Should I do bbq'd salmon, w/ hot dogs for any non fish eaters, or hamburgers and hotdogs, or spend about $800 to have it catered w/ ribs and salads & garlic bread. All I'd have to do is buy the drinks. I'm a cheap person, so I think I may be going w/ hotdogs and burgers. I'd set up DS and his best friend and tell them it's their job to cook the meat.
Sugar, why on earth do they make the poor kids go to school in July? It just seems evil. I'm cranky too. I have so much to do in 3 days before I head out to the beach, but I'm too cranky to tackle it.
I should just go swimming. I've got a lake, I've got a swimsuit, what's stopping me?
Holly Springs sounds delightful. Just be sure you have a/c for when it's not so delightful. I love to kayak too. I have a friend's sea kayak in my barn (they are away on a sailing expedition which has turned into a lifestyle, so I'm looking after it for them). I haven't used it this year yet. It's so durn heavy to lug down to the lake by myself. Our sailboat is the "vacation home on the water" variety. 30' with 2 sleeping cabins and a main cabin, galley, head, the whole bit. It's not as fancy as that makes it sound, but it definitely works as a place to hole up in or sail off in the sunset with. We used to have one that was more spartan and I was just miserable during long trips.
Wabbit, I forgot your daughter's name is Holly. I love that name, what made you pick it? Was she a Christmas baby?
Not every Marty is totally Joisey, y'know, only lawyers named Marty. Other Martys are friendly, brotherly types.
So saith the Kiwi.
Tell me about tugging: the shorts, oh the shorts!! I finally found 3, yes 3, pairs of shorts that are pretty comfortable and don't do that chubby-leg crumple thing where you have to yank at them to keep them from sticking in the wrong places. So this summer is going to be better than previous. I just have to remember NOT to wear the shorter, tighter pairs that are such a pain!
Hmm, I'd love the salmon, but I can certainly see the advantage of cheaper and/or someone else doing the cooking! How many folks are you inviting? If it's a big congenial party, nobody will much care what they're eating anyway, right?
Is hurricane Elaine gonna miss everybody? It's clouding over here... maybe Dennis remnants, but I don't think it's got the oomph to even rain.
I want a varnished papier mache pig!
Don't read the following if your tired of it:
I'll have 4 chemo infusions, 3 weeks apart... So that'll take me to my October birthday, I think. (Math/calenders and multiplications are a little hazy!!) Then 5 weeks of radiation. Then I may not be on such an intimate basis with my MD's accounts receivables clerk.
The weather just made a liar out of me. IT'S RAINING. I can smell that wonderful water-on hot-stuff smell even inside... (That probably means the house is leaking AC... but at least I won't get Radon poisoning or anything.. )
Gotta go get the laundry out. Best to all.
Shatz... you haven't asked where to mail the Hershey bars yet....
Ohhhh, Painty, stay close to us and keep us informed. Not getting tired of it at all. Elaine is following Dennis. They all do. They all go the same way. Such conformists.
I thought the same thing about the Hershey bars.
I love my new Southern Baptistism. I feel like I'm climbing up a steep hill and each foot up is so different and new and wonderful but I keep sliding down. I've been reading in this book they gave me for a new Sunday School class that will start next week. I'm going along, filling in the blanks, looking up the verses and I come to a questions about have I noticed that Christians are more caring that non-Christians. Well, ****. I slid back down a bit. I am looking forward to that class so I can climb back up. Surely, they will set me straight on this. Don't you think?
Here's sorta what I think Peach - I think you can't ask someone else to tell you. This is the problem I always have w/ organized religion - they want ppl to believe that they have the corner on "caring". I've actually noticed that some ppl who call themselves Christians have started wars and such. Not to say that there aren't lots of good, well meaning church goers. I just don't think whether you have perfect church attendance or not has much to do with how "good" a person you are. It just means you don't mind getting up early on Sundays. You must realize, of course, that this is just my opinion, you've got to come to your own conclusions. Now if you're going to church for the fellowship, companionship, opportunity to get together w/ like minded ppl who would like to do charitable projects in the community and the world, then you. go. girl. (not to mention I think it's a good place to meet men with your interests). Oh. and it's also a good place to study Christianity, but I think you still need to use your own mind for interpretation. Of course, I'm not an expert on this since I'm a heathen and wasn't raised in the church, and am a non attender now, so when it comes to my opinion on this, you can take it or leave it.
The deadline for the caterer has come and gone, so that option is now out. I'm going to go to Costco tonight to check out salmon supply and price.
We're having our septic tank pumped thursday so DH will have to dig out and open the top of the tank on his 50th birthday, Wednesday. Appropriate, no?
Wabbo, I was being "ironic." Of course I believe non-Christians have moral standards as high as Christians if you take them one-by-one. (I'm not putting that redneck idiot who threw the recliner in the road across from my house against the people I see in church) But .. I won't argue religion with you .. just that you miss the point of being involved with a church. Anyone can socialize and do charitable acts. There are, for me, higher purposes here. I was raised in church and have always been very grateful for it. There's God and there's church. They're different things but if you believe in the first, the second will help you develop that belief into something worthwhile. Amen.
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