Schatzi, I'm afraid if you go back to work you won't hang out and make me laugh. I'm not afraid that Peaches wouldn't post because she's proven that even when she was working she understood her obligation here.

Like I mentioned yesterday, DD brought her bf over for dinner w/ the parents. Does that make it something serious? I don't know I can't get it out of DD. He's nice, however he's broken her heart once before so he's on probation w/ me.

After work today I need to:
1. Go to dry cleaners.
2. Buy dog food at the dog food store
3. Pick up DH's prescription, but only because he called me and asked if I'd puh-leez pick it up.
4. Pick up cd at the library and drop off book (Bee Season - it was really good.)
5. I should go to the bank, but I think it will wait 'til tomorrow.
6. Figure out what's for dinner.
7. Shift wash to dryer and throw a load in the washer.
8. Mop the pergo area of the house (so I don't have to do it on the weekend - this is my most dreaded chore.)
9. Watch the rest of Boston Legal that I recorded, but fell asleep in middle of yesterday.

Isn't this list a bit Lush-esque?

WHAT THE Effin H*LLL------AND WHERES MY EFFIN==========Margarita!!!i Keep yer Effin LISTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!--- I just took a friggin break from these Effin tourists!! gawd i love their moneyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!but I have to UN-DECcccccORATttE from VETERANS DAYyyyy!! !!!!! DAMN THEM ALLlll====!!!!! I NEED TIME TO M O vvvvvVE ALL MY XMAS TREEEEES OUT for display!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!====---------AND GOTTA PUT In extra CIRCUIt BREAKERS for ALLLL MY LIGHHtttsssss!!!!!!!!!!!!----

heh heh, I needed a Bagz fix...like youse guys need a lushie list...

I use Paint Shop Pro, which is a purchased program. Windows usually loads with MSPaint, but I don't think that will do what you want. I don't know about other free programs -- is Photoshop what came with your camera? My camera came with its own software for loading photos and editing them and all that.

Surely you have some moldering box in the attic with all your college crap, right? Of course you could just request transcripts from both of them, and one of them will tell you weren't a student there.

That was a lovely Lush-like list, Labbit, I mean Wabbit. Isn't Boston Legal a scream? I loved the halloween costumes a couple of weeks ago.

Wow, I'm impressed with your ability to do a Bagzie impression, Schatzi. Also I'm impressed with the fact that you have a freakin :gift2:Christmas tree up, Bagzerino!! I refuse to even think about :thanks1: yet, although DH keeps saying "We need to talk about Thanksgiving." Why bother -- I know I'm bring a veggie tray and dip and green bean casserol. It's not like I'm suddenly going to invite everyone over to this he**hole! :lol:

Kiwi

Kiwi .. I've been assigned the VEGGIE TRAY too. Let me see yours.

:lol3: :rofl: I had to take a second look - I thought the 3fchicks had mixed up Schatzi and Bagz!!!

Hey - just so youz knows I didn't do half that stuff on the list---it would take somebody like Lushy to do all that.

I luuuuuv Boston Legal, Kiwi. William Shatner is a hoot. I'm becoming befuddled just like him. Befuddled. I like that word..... Kiwi, somehow I've become the person in charge of most of Thanksgiving dinner...... and ppl want stuff like a brined turkey that takes forever, the special corn bread stuffing that requires baking a pan of cornbread before you even start, etc, etc, and I'm already tired. How do you get away w/ veggies and bean casserole? and then there's all that extended family angst - DH and my kids don't want any family from my whacky side invited, so I'll feel all guilty about that, and DH's family is getting together the saturday after Thanksgiving, so they won't be here on TG day, so it will be my family, Grandpa Jim and another couple. .... and speaking of Grandpa Jim ---- he drives me nutz. He has always lived beyond his means, which is how he ended up living out his golden years in an old mobile home next to our house. So now at the ripe old age of 92 (or is it 93) he has claimed bankruptcy last year and he's busy accumulating new debt ever since. He went out yesterday and bought a used pick up truck (he already has a nice car) w/ a loan at 17% interest for over 5 yrs. I'm so mad at him I can't even talk to him right now. The man lives on $600 a month social security and whatever we buy for him. None of his other kids (out of 9) pay for anything. He's my child who will never grow up and move out. AAAArrrrrrghhhhhhh!!!!! :stress: :bomb:

Thanks for the vent. I'll be less self absorbed next time.

I am thinking about whether to feel guilty.
We are going out for Thankgsiving Dinner. DD gets in mid afternoon and while we COULD cook and do "all that" DH didn't want to. (and he even LIKES my cooking). DD only said she wanted mashed potatoes... so we'll hit Black Eyed Pea which actually sounds perfectly good to me. As a kid we went to some friends' of my parents... lots of food and wine and "grown up" comraderie. It was never a time for relatives. I don't know if THEY were all that "nutz" or whether my parents were the culprits and just didn't know how to get along with relatives.

All those years when I was single, I knew the kidz would have traditional thanksgiving at Dad and Step-mom's house (because they TRIED to look like Norman Rockwell's America) and didn't think they needed to spend time with their mother-who'd-gone-bonkers because she fixed a whole Thanksgiving dinner in a kitchen smaller than a tenement bathroom.

I like left overs, but usually it's only the two of us... and who actually NEEDS stuffing... especially if you are reading on 3fatchicks?!!

Off to the yard... It is sunny and perfect for it today. time for the dying perennials to be laid to rest.

Painty, no. Do not feel guilty. Your Thanksgiving plans sound dee-lightful. I hope your visit w/ DD is wonderful.

When I was a kid we went to a huge family dinner that was usually held in some kind of church basement or hall. My Grandma had 11 children, who all had a half dozen or so kids, so we had a huge family. The adults all brought food, the kids ran around playing until we were hot and sweaty, then we all ate too much off paper plates and plastic cutlery, then we piled into the station wagon and slept all the way home.

Let me just begin with I I I I. Just a warning...
 

Eek, your turkey day sounds like a pain in the arse, Wab. I like the sound of Painty's much more. But I never get a choice around here -- it's the in-laws and that's that. But at least I don't usually have a big role in the thing, unless I have some kind of spasm in the weeks before and volunteer to do the turkey by mistake or something. I have lobbied to go work at a soup kitchen or community turkey dinner instead, but have been shot down and gave up on that. See, my family does Thanksgiving in a big way -- that's when we always got out the fine china and silver, nice tablecloths and all the family who could, got together for all afternoon and evening. Everybody dressed up and it was a big occasion. With my in-laws, you want to watch out you're not 15 minutes late or they will have sat down and eaten without you. The meal is no different than any other family get-together, eaten on the kitchen table, quickly cleaned up and done with. Not that it's not enjoyable to go to these family dinners, but it is not anything special except maybe there are more dishes than usual and an assortment of desserts. I miss special. We get to do it every other year at Christmas with my family in NC.

I feel so violated. I had to call up and cancel DD's spring French trip to Europe -- not because she can't go, but because enough of the other kids cancelled that they don't have enough people going to hold the tour. That pi**ed me off enough when I found out quite a while ago, but I learned today we are only getting back about half of what we have paid. We will have paid $245 for the priviledge of not sending her to Europe.

Then I called up some state women's health thing that I was supposed to sign up for and they told me we have too much income for me to have a reduced/free cost mammo. All the income of course was in the first 6 months of the year and now we are living on unemployment and savings, but they don't care. Nice.

I just feel screwed. And yet, I don't remember having any fun.

I'd laugh if it weren't for the fact that I pulled a muscle yesterday and I think even an energetic grimace would hurt.

On a brighter note, I am thinking of buying a new set of dishes -- I got some money for my birthday and I'd rather spend it on something I like than have it sit around and get frittered away. We got everyday Lenox stoneware when we got married called "Glories on Gray" that I really liked at the time, but every plate and bowl just about is chipped and they did very badly in the dishwasher and faded the pattern right off. In other words, they look like crap. I am shopping.

Kiwi

Kiwi-- bummer about the income/mammo thing. No doubt the Congress will eliminate ANY federal support to fight cancer. (Let's, um, fight scientifically trained thoughtful people, unstead. :mad:

And too too bad about Europe tour deal... is there anychance she could go with some OTHER group and apply the '"down payment"? DD went on that Winjammer yarn cruise with mostly retired women, and actually had a blast. I'd certainly rather go to Europe with a bunch of high school students than old farts with walkers. (No offense to any farters with walkers... just my preference.)

I need to go pull weeds.

And there is, thank goodness, hockey on TV tonight. So I'll get to knit.

Oh, and Painter (the program, not the Self) lost the same painting 2 times. I can take the hint.

You've got me beat on the Utter State of Pisstivity, Kiwi. I have this to say about that -
1. Yup, my Thanksgiving is kind of a pain in the arse, but I get most of the leftovers.
2. That would p*ss me off enough that DD didn't get her trip, but I'd be blowing a gasket if they kept my money.
3. This country's health care system is so screwy. If we didn't have uninsured ppl going to emergency rooms for a cold, we could probably afford mammos for everybody.
4. Shopping always makes me feel better. Go for it. I've just got cheap, white stoneware from Pier One, but now that I'm almost 50 I think I should start collecting something expensive. Maybe dishes or crystal. Something I can buy without trying on.

Vitamins 'R' Us
 

We had friends over for dinner tonight (sometimes I let people in!) and I made three kinds of soup: leek and potato, curried carrot a cream of tomato. We were really full.

That really sucks about the mammo, Kiwi! I think EVERY woman should be entitled to a free one or at least at a reasonable cost. I guess I'll be due for one some time soon but it's only covered if they already suspect something. Duh. There is SO much money spent here for treatment of stuff that could have been prevented in the first place if only insurance would cover some of the tests.

I'm kind of happy that my Thanksgiving is over and I'm not having to deal with veggie trays and green bean casseroles. Hope you cows all survive.

Schatzi - I got half way through your 'alias Bagz' post before I realized it wasn't her. You're a woman of many talents!

It's supposed to snow tomorrow. I'll believe it when I see it.

Almost forgot...

Let's all be thankful that we (hopefully) won't be eating these any time soon:

SPAM™ Cupcakes

I'm mad too. Here to Floridia, a truck comes around and parks in various places and give cheap mammograms to all. Also, charging you for something that's not your fault is the kind of thing that never makes sense which is worse than losing the money sometimes.

Last night after I'd gone to bed, DS came into my room and hung around for a few minutes. Then he said defiantly, "There's a dance or something tomorrow night and I'm going!"

He just left.

I can't look at the Spam cupcake right now. Today in Dogpatch, I went to lunch with a friend at a place we rarely get to. They have a different lunch special choice everyday and today it was Beef Fingers, Chicken Fingers or Pork Chop. You also get 3 veggies off a list. I didn't like the finger idea and chose a chop which came with a butter knife. The knife would not budge the chop so I asked for a steak knife which THEY DON'T HAVE. I asked what most people do? Just hammer away at the chop? No ... they pick it up and eat it with their fingers.

I took it home and threw it away. Was pretty tough.

I am starting a new thread y'all.