Cows in Heat
 

It's bloody 101 here with a humidex "real feel" (that somehow doesn't sound right..ewwww) of 114 :yikes: :hot: :flame:

I must have been projecting a face of distrust as I swiped my debit card to pay fer groceries today.. I usually shield the machine whilst I plug in my secret PIN ... Aherd of teenagers behind me were overheard to say somethin like: oh look, black kids, better hide my number..she think we're gonna steal it!"
I retorted: I wouldn't care if you were the Pope " and you should protect yer numbers too...

I was hoping to sweat away the pounds...

We've been lookin fer land... I have many a tale to tell... however, I must go now... I promise I will take pics if we pass some of these "landmarks" that I will be describing to you... Oy!

Must Clean Crack house

"Cows in heat"? No bull? ROFLOLPIMP!

When I saw "cows in heat" on the main page, I was like WTH? But then when I clicked it and saw you...I just started LMAO :D

I've had that same experience with the debit card as well. But the best one was where there were some LARGE ladies crowding me at the machine and I finally had to ask them to step back. The leader made some comments about "what, afraid we'll steal your number" and my grandma (who was shopping with me) stepped in and said "she's not worried about her number. She's asking you all to step back because someone obviously didn't put their deoterant on today."

The looks on their faces were priceless and there was some discreet sniffing going on as we left the building. :lol:

I am just posting to make the thread easier to find.

Now, I'm going to watch Gilmore Girls.

Humidex is really a gross word.

Har har, Schatz---- sorry you're melting away --- too bad it's only figuratively, huh? Seems like putting up with all that heat should earn you a couple pounds off. It's blessedly perfect weather here - low 80's and sunny. It's what I put up with the rain for.

I've been at the accountants. I hate going to the accountants as much as going to the dentist. Which, by the way I did on monday b/c one of my molars broke. Can you believe it? I need a $1000 crown. Durn. Anyway, I always feel soooo dense when they pull up the balance sheet and start asking questions. The problem is, I find bookkeeping extremely boring. Extremely. You have to be a special person to enjoy accounting.

We're thinking of taking a road/ferry trip to Friday Harbor. I wish Sugar would come here and tell me how close that is to her folks place.

I think Sugar should come the yellow brick road and meet Wabby. I met Lush and see how well that turned out?

I have a headache, stomacheache, runny nose, tension. A cold in other words. I watched Gilmore Girls and turns out the episodes I rented were about Rory going to Yale and Loralei standing all alone in her house. This is not a good thing to be showing me. Can I just make him not go? He can work in a supermarket all his life.

I think "humidex" sounds smart. I have a new Humidex 4500XL. It operates on .4 liters of fuel and has an automatic on/off switch adjusted to sense phases of the moon and differentiate cat movements from falling piles of mail.

Bookkeeping is horrible. It gets in your brain and twists around and doesn't come out straight. I hate it.

It's 10:00 and I intend to post every hour today until I'm done. I have called in sick. I am just stressed out and a cold has turned to a cough and I don't think cashiers in food stores should cough.

This morning, I have washed a load of colored clothes and sheets are in the washer now. This is not as good as Luch's lists but I ain't no Luch.

Did I tell you about the Englishman who showed me a Canadian penny and said, "Ths is a penny. Yes?" I keep thinking about his dream that American had slipped the queen's picture on some of our coins.

Ok. Bye.

No. It's your job to push him out of the nest, Peach. Sorry. :hug:

3 of my last 4 mornings have been spent cleaning up doggie diarhea.---- I thought a long time about how I could state that more delicately and I just couldn't come up with anything. --- I couldn't be mad at them b/c they were sick, but lordy, that isn't a good way to start a day. For the next week they're just going to have to sleep out in their kennel, just to make sure they're all better. I think they must have gotten into the neighbor's compost pile, which they put everything in, not just veggie scraps. For some reason I just had to share this with you all.

I've never heard of humidex. I'm so sheltered.

i am back. I have slept and accomplished nothing.

I hate Wabby's neighbor's compost pile. It is full of germs and will attract rats and bats.

Here is something I learned yesterday in school district orientation. True story: kids are allowed cell phones in the school as long as the phones are turned off. During class, phone rings and teacher asks boy to give her the phone. He does. Later, teacher opens phone, sees seminude picture of his gf, also a student, flips through all the pictures, takes it to the principal who calls the kids' families or something. GF's mom is an attorney and she brings all her buddies down to the school and sues them for invasion of privacy. Turns out, teacher had no right to look at the phone.

DS and I have identical phones and can not tell them apart without opening them. Open him and you see lcp. Open mine and you see him.

So I ask what if phone got misplaced or someone needed to see whose it was and opened it. This instructor guy kind of yelled at me, "I AIN"T BUYING THAT." What you're supposed to do is label the phone with the kid's name and NEVER OPEN IT>

Does that seem crazy or what? Like there's not enough to worry about in school and teachers must carefully label cell phones and put them in a safe place so one will look at them. Anyway, he yells good so he must be right.

I never heard of a humidex either. Bet I could lift one though

Originally Posted by Schatzi:
I retorted: I wouldn't care if you were the Pope " and you should protect yer numbers too...

Good for you. Way to go getting all "teachery" on them too. I love doing that now and then. One of the benefits of being middle aged.

Originally Posted by Cowpernia:
I know a family with 4 girls and 1 boy. The boy is number 2 and the only kid the grandmother who lives across the street acknowledges.

My cousins put up with that. There were 5 in the family and the grandmother (not mine, the other one) who was very wealthy and lived in a big mansion, would only allow the oldest boy to visit her. Occasionally the rest of the kids were allowed to be brought over by my aunt to go swimming in the pool, as long as they didn't set foot in the house. And then she died and the whole family spend scads of time in the house while my aunt and uncle sorted out the estate. My brother and I went there too. haha on her.

Gotta go, I have a dr appt.

Nice title, by the way. Still beastly hot here too. Supposedly over 100 yesterday with the heat index thingy. Thank goodness we spent the whole day in the a/c car and the a/c mall. Otherwise I would have been here complaining.

I'll come back later and read the rest of the posts and tell you all about the latest digit-reducing accident. Can hardly wait, eh? It's not about accounting.

Kiwi

I'm back and feeling better. Less stressed. Among other things, I have been upset over lcp's state of health and what that means to ds. She has cirrosis of the liver which is often caused by hepatitis-b which is very contagious. However, I just talked to a nurse who told me that 7th graders are required to take hep-b vaccines (yes) and a blocked gallbladder will cause scarring of the liver. So I'm better. A weight is lifted. Now I'm hungry.

Wabbo, whacha doing about the compost? It needs fencing. I worked with a woman whose husband shot their dog because neighbors moved in and the dog wouldn't stay out of the neighbor's unfenced yard. So he shot the dog. The sweet little dog. Men are so ... so ....

But DS is acting very sweet. This is either:
1) his own anxiety about leaving me
2) the influence of lcp.

Either way, it's nice.

And guess what? A man showed up and cut my grass. He asked if I wanted it cut and I asked him price and he lowered the price when I said no and he did a greatttt job and I paid him extra.

Someone else talk now.

Yep, my inlaws make up for my mom-- they only really like DS17, out of all of their four grandkids.

Peachy, that's an interesting story about the cellphone. Here, when someone leaves behind anything electronic, we try to get their identity from it however we have to. I'm not going to just hand over an expensive piece of equipment to someone without verifying that it's the right person. (That's better than NY, though, where some districts are banning cell phones altogether because they's just a convenience to the parent and they help kids cheat. Argh!)

Still doing WW, still being good, eating mostly grains and legumes. Fruits and veggies have been nasty lately. Too hot? Too humidex?

Hit a new low in my kgs- 86.6. Woo! Down one tenth of a kilo! And I haven't been able to run because of the heat. Did you know sleep deprivation can make you more susceptible to heat stroke? Only a couple more weeks of sleep deprivation, though. I sadly had to give notice at my job that I've had for six years. :-( Just couldn't take the lack of sleep any more. And they'll be wanting a lot more of my time in the doc program.

Peachy, are you feeling better?

Hi to everyone!

Kiwi, wait. Digit reducing?

Originally Posted by :
One of the benefits of being middle aged.

--- I know, Kiwi, I can hardly wait until I'm officially a geezer, then we can act horrendous and blame it on old age.

I hope you're not going to the Dr. b/c you've reduced one of your digits, Ms. Kiwonk.

Peach, you're sick. You're not supposed to accomplish anything. Has it been so long since you had any leisure time that you've forgotten how to rest???? Rest. Get better. --- that story about the cell phones is ridiculous. There should be a school policy that any cell phone or bag, etc. brought onto school property is subject to search and seizure. These are kids, not full grown adults. They don't get the same privacy levels as adults have. They need help growing up into decent ppl. That's our job to help them with.

Hi Cherry! we must have posted at the same time. This grandchild favoritism thing just makes me crazy. I mean not every kid is the same, but I think it's up to the grandparent to make the effort to find something in each kid to develop a bond with. After all, supposedly the grandparent is the adult. Grandpa Jim is famous for his favoritism. He has one grandson who is his golden child - the thing is, it was always hard for the favored kid b/c all the other grandchildren hated him for it and it wasn't even his (the grandson's) doing. ---- way to go on eating well and also for knowing when too much is too much and quitting the job.

i am sooooooooo tired -----summer is seeming too long this year----and shock of shocks---it's actually been nice weather here---why it was even really hot yesterday`!!! today we had a nice ocean breeze but it was still warm and the market is ungodly hot--they don't have air conditioning and those machines humming all day are deadly {pop machines,pizza ovens etc} my shop is between two restaurants and their big ovens back onto my walls!!!gross!!! the tourist season has been decent,much better than spring that's for sure!!---dh finished up his vacation and is all bummed out about getting back to work--the CBC is cutting back--like everyone and he is the only reporter in our end of the province most of the time. i have been freaking out at these teen/young adults who are living in my home this summer---for the mess they still leave and the hours they keep and their insistance on driving around in the middle of the night coming home on the damn moose highways. Last night THREE teenage boys were killed in a car crash----they think they were avoiding an effin moose. that's what the radio report said--------how horrifying is that. sometimes i think i should have been a nun or at least celibate. here is my question for the day-----last month my plague was early---this month it is late----AM I GETTING THE MENTAL PAUSE???? I HOPE SO CAUSE I AM SICK OF GETTING THE PLAGUE EVERY 28 DAYS-----------------lush hated such talk but she ain't here so help me out hotcows-----------------maybe we are in heat cause we are having flashes???? fill me in ,tanks!!

Are you saying that for the past 57 years, your plague has come always on time, every 28 days? That is too weird. It's supposed to change. You're supposed to adjust to other women around you so maybe it's the battallion of teen girls you keep in your attic.

I have knitted today. I finished a sock and it is adorable.

Weather Forecast fer NC Today: 99 with a "realfeel" of 116. :faint:

ewwww hot flashes in 100 degree weather.. How to know if it's really a hot flash...Discuss.

hmmm: Bagz is going Mental... This should make fer interesting posts in the coming years.. Pre-mentapause, peri-mentalpause, mentalpause, and postmental pause... to many phases to this .. I would say you are entering the preperimentalpause state.

so after looking at over 20 properties we hit on 2 possibly 3 that look like candidates.. We shall revisit them on Saturday... We also have a BBQ /Pig roast to go to ..hopefully a "real one" --apparently what I call a Pig roast, is called a Pig Pickin in these parts..who knew :shrug: Dh may decide against this pig pick due to the unbearably hot weather... such a wieny..

Apparently yard adornments are big down here. We looked at a property where the neighbor had decorated the front lawn with old rocking horses and bowling balls. Another was adorned with what looked like old doll heads placed on top of garden gnomes...and Dan's Appliance Store is out doors... apparently all unwanted broken dryers, fridges,washers and stoves circa 1970 - 2000 end up scattered about the property. Another property had promise..it sat between 2 roads. It was oddly shaped on one side, like it went straight and then curved in and then out again.... Road 1... nice...folks are already clearing land fer their homes... Road 2 where the loopy cut out was... we ran into an old boat, purple jacuzzi, rusty trucks and cars, and a band of gypsy/squatters in pop up trailers. We pulled up and watched a guy pump the contents of his trailer septic thingy out into the woods... he grinned.. and pointed to A big sign posted on a boat: NO TRASPASSING. YOU WILL BE SHOT.

Shotsy, don't move there. Keep looking. You will get hepatitis from the sewage if nothing else. I am sick thinking about it. Oh, I'm sick anyway but this makes it worse.

Kiwi, when does your dd leave ????? I'm down to Two Weeks and I am a wreck. Bagz needs to chime in on how easy it gets.

Peachez, didn't you read Bagz's post???? She's telling you how hard it is when they come back!!!! You'll get used to having your home to yourself and when they come back the chaos (although you love them to bits) will drive you nutz.

I'm puppysitting DD's weiner dog this weekend. She is not trained at all. She barks incessantly, she runs away from you when you call her, she pees in the floor when she gets excited. I can hardly wait.

Schatzy, don't get in a hurry. Find the perfect property.

Bagz, it sounds like the mentalpause to me. I'm in the same mode. Just when you think you might be all done with it, you wear white pants and blam! Aunt Flo stops by for a visit.

OKAY!!! WABBY IS CORRECT!!! AT FIRST IT'S TERRIBLE WHEN THEY TAKE LEAVE!!! IT'S SAD AND YOU CRY AND THEIR ROOMS LOOK SO SAD-----HOWEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-----when they return they are different people---they are not used to being "MONITORED" {as i was loudly reminded this week} and they do whatever the blazes they want and come in and out as they please and never clean up {never did anyway,what's new here} and they are still adorable ,interesting people BUT YOU GET USED TO YOUR OWN SPACE AND IT'S NOT SO BAD AT ALL!!!!!---- this summer i notice it even more----dd20 definitely wants her own space and i think i bug her more than she bugs me. As for the steppers--they are not babies at all {they are 20,18 and 16} two of them will be in university this fall bringing the total to FOUR dd's at college--------------did i mention we are broke!!!!!!!!-----

They are not working their ways through college by flipping hamburgers? Or Timmy-burgers? Well, you have made me feel better and I love you and have been surveying my sock yarn thinking what you would like. I am on Sugar's second sock because now that school is over I have time for this sort of thing.

DS is making dinner. It's his idea and involves potatoes and leeks. I am ordering in bbq just in case the potatoes and leeks don't fill up my ample gut. Do you think Lusch is still made because of the turkey carcass remark?

My DS had to get a new tire. They just the other 3 were fine but the one had a lump. So then he says it pulls to the left and I made him go back. They adjusted it and now it pulls to the right. He doesn' tmuch want to bother them. So I called and they have some confusing stuff to say about a belt being crooked in "one" of the tires (perhaps the new one?) and they'll have to put it on the back until it works that out. I think the new one was put on the front. I will have to take care of this? I don't want to. This is one of those guy things ...

Speaking (loosely) of guys, I may have said that I saw Herbie and the woman he dumped me for at a play. Herbie looked like he'd lost weight and didn't look good. The woman I only saw from the back but she was wider than before and has this evil hair cut (closecut short wavy) that the mistress of an orphanage in an impoverished cousntry would have. She had one of her dd's with her. Adorable, of course, but with a very long torso and very short legs and an attitude of being fed up with the whole scene.

I have a great big whine that is worse than kids leaving for school, or coming back from school for the summer --- DD lost her job 2 1/2 months ago. At first DH said help her out ---- we wouldn't want her to move back in! --- now he's saying exactly how much is this costing??? I'm stressed b/c I don't know how much to help and how much to let her handle her own problems. I do know that this month after month of paying all her bills is really straining my budget. I want her to get back into school and do something other than bartending --- she says she'd like to, but can't afford it -- but since I'm paying her bills anyway, I don't know why not. I think she should get a part time bartending job, get a student loan for her education, and DH & I could help her out with the rest of her bills. When I try to talk to her she gets all emotional and disolves into tears and we never get anything settled. I'm not really asking for advice, just a hug. :(

By the way, Bagz, here's a hug for you :hug: 4 DD's in college??? argh!!!!

I will hug you Wabbo. :hug:

And I was thinking ... if the five dd's all get married and have little bagzettes, how broke will Big Bagz be at Christmas time then? Will this put a dent into the Christmas Display fund?

I have been home all day and want go to on the Bob Barker Show and win a car.

:grouphug: for everyone!

That cellphone thing has me thinking: what do you suppose the parents of the half-naked girlfriend thought of the whole episode? Maybe they were durn happy the teacher ratted the kid out! I know our local schools have a policy that any kid's backpack or locker, or even car parked on school grounds can be searched. The schools make it crystal clear, so the kids shouldn't think they can get away with anything.

The digit that got reduced belong to DDbf's little brother. He works with his carpenter dad every day and last week he had an accident with the table saw. He had a piece of wood kick back on the saw and drag his thumb through it -- cut off the end of it. They were not able to sew it back on, but they hope to save the use of the thumb (just shorter). Poor kid has been in a lot of pain. Fortunately it's not his writing hand. And he doesn't play the piano like BF :eek:

We've been sailing this weekend with the various visiting people. The Oregonians went back home today. We had a gorgeous weekend and actually got out there and sailed for a change! Beautiful. DD went camping with all her friends, including BF. 10 kids, 2 tents. She says they slept under the stars last night.

Bagz, you've got a ways to go before you get rid of the plague altogether. Might be the beginning of it though. Takes months or years.

DD leaves on the 24th. Her BF wants to drive her to school. We are thinking of letting him. Hard to believe, eh? Actually the first week is an optional orientation program she signed up for where she will be in a community service group and not at the campus for most of the time. She won't be able to get in her room until the 30th. That's when we'll drive down with all her stuff and meet her. She will have to be all packed before the 24th though -- all we're going to do is load it into the car. So I say now. I anticipate several phone calls of more things to find and pack for her during that week...

So anyway, less than 3 weeks. I'm in denial.

Dd's roommate (and her family) is moving from Penn. to N.C. a week and a half before she starts college. Sounds like really bad timing, doesn't it?

Heehee nice Herbie sighting, Peachie.

Bummer about DD's difficulties, Wabbit. Of course you want her to be independent, but how can you not try to help too?

Kiwi

Kiwi ... we need to start a support group for mommies whose kids have forgotten what good care we took of them and who now are going off to make new friends without grey hair.

It was the mommy of the halfnekked girl who sued the school for invasion of privacy.

You also need a support group for friends of yours who have digit-mishaps. This is strange.

Tomorrow I take a middle school comprehensive test. If I can do the math as ds has taught me, I will pass. Everybody say good luck and yay.

That's just twisted. About the stupid halfnakedgirl's parents. Instead of blaming the teacher, the school ought to be threatening to expell the girl and her boyfriend for indecency if they insist on suing. :p It's odd, actually, that the teacher supposedly had no right to look at the phone, because in our schools the kids are told that their lockers, backpacks, everything they bring onto school property could be searched, even their cars I think.

Good luck on the middle school test. I feel sure you can do middle school math :luck2you: (Mouse over that smiley for a message!)

I think it's something about living in this area that makes people risk injury while working. We need more desk jobs for the fainter of heart among us. Personally I don't want to run either a snowblower or a table saw.

Should be start an Empty Nest Mommy Group? DDbf's mom is enlisting me for impromptu drives south to visit the kids. She will have 3 in school, 1 at home (with a big bandage on his hand...). I'm sure DD will be thrilled to see us.

Kiwi

Peachie!!! Mooooocho luck to you on yer test ... I will mind meld you all my knowledge of algebraicness compound fractions and other stuff I hardly remember.

Kiwi: yer weekend sounded puuurrrfectly deeeelightful! I hope DDBFB keeps the nudgieknucklette on his thumb.. they do miracles these days... I remember in the days of yore when I volunteered in the ER the amount of kids that would come in the summer with slashed up fingers from those old metal blade fans :fr: I saw a doc clean up the top of a thumb and do a flap procedure over it using the left over skin and a smidget taken from the web.. The next few weeks will be hairy and emotional fer you I'm sure.

Wabby: ah the properties we liked are nixed.. One was already taken and the other while beautiful required a spray irrigation septic system. I'm new to this stuff, but it seems like about 10 grand to install, and then the poop and whatnot gets watered down and sprayed acrossed the land... not into the poop spray-- you rural chicks tell me if you know anything about all these septic systems ?? I thought the only method was into a tank, chemicals and pump it out once a year or so...What is with this poop spray method? ....
Now we are having 2nd thoughts... I'm having a devil of a time getting a job in my profession..so I may opted for a lesser intense job as a office manager or receptionist in a medical or dental office... Thought about going back to school, but I have not even a bachelors so at this age... I dunno...
Weiner dogs are notorious yappers...

Cherry hows that woggin goin????
Bagzilla, 4 kids in college and 1DS at home... I say you need a margie!!!

Today's my day to tawk to myself... hmmm...letsee, it's raining here and a clammy 97 degrees... Thunder in the distance and poor darby is only happy if she is laying on my feet ... so I had to stop mopping, and sit at the puter..how sad fer me :lol:

Got a call from a "placement specialist" who says my resume is tooo specific...that I should replace dental and HMO stuff with "healthcare" :?:

Traisping about in the woods looking at land yielded 3 immediately found ticks... and 2 more found blood sucking me 2 days later.. I hope they are not deer ticks.. I was sitting here and felt a sting under my bra clasp in the back last night and asked DH to look and Sho nuff.. TICK... Totally skeeved I headed for the shower to scrub and low and behold another one under a fat roll..I have been hivey for the last few days..I wonder if this is the cause?

I forgot to say that there is another piece of land I think 6 acreas in this area where there will be about 10 more homes nested, it abuts up against a river where I can just put in my kayak... and its 10 mins from Jordan Lake that has a beach and trails... I'm keen on it...DH not so much.. he thinks its too pricey.

Thunder and lighning is moving closer... Darby is now whining... must go ...

Go for the pricey but perfect land, Schatzi. DH is making me crazy as now he says he just wants to find an already built house b/c building would be too stressful. This is my one and only house. I want eggsactly what I want. Did you know that we have no ticks here, west of the Cascade mountains? If you go to eastern Oregon they do, but not very many. No poisonous snakes either. It's a garden of eden.

Never heard of such a septic system as the poop sprayer, Schatz. Here it's either standard or sand filter.

My friend and I took her grandkids to a parade in the next burg south. It was Homer Davenport Days there. If you didn't know, Homer imported the first Arabian horses to the United States. Anyway, it's a really cute little town called Silverton. The whole town turns out for the parade and the Davenport races the next day. At the parade I sat next to a seemingly nice woman. She was nice until she started talking to her kids and then she turned into an evil, horrible lady who berated and shamed her kids the entire time. It was all I could do not to tell her to knock it off. She had her little 4? yr old crying b/c she didn't get out and grab candy aggressively enough. Ppl should have to have mental evaluations before they're allowed to breed.

Belated good luck on your test, Peach!!!!

I bought a $2 raffle ticket at the Homer Days so I expect to win a red Mustang convertible. I won't be needing to talk to Bob Barker about a car.

I have a brand new temporary crown and a numb tongue. :p

I took and passed the test. Still no job though .. not that a job follows the test. Kitty still sick. Boy still going to UF. Kiwi, what are you purchasing? You know how when you have a baby, some pamphlet tells you it costs $200 billion to raise one ???? Well, part of that is buying a trash can, shower bucket and dishes for the dorm room. I found nice cheap microwavable ones to Target. If he doesn't like them, I will. Girls need more though, right? I don't know what but I'm told they do. What blanket thingie is she taking? I really want to know.

well, miss peachpot,dd took WAY too much stuff and was giving us stuff to take back with us the next time we dropped by!! she took a duvet,several pillows,a feather mattress {dorm mattress was too hard} her BIG tv,camera,computer,dvd player,a hotpot,microwave, dishes,utensils,glasses,bar fridge,laundry baskets,laundry deterget, {a phone card!!!} a cell phone, mp3 player,enough clothing for ten people plus winter clothes,boots ,tons of shoes,books,cosmetics,photo albums,posters,blender,lamps,a FAN since it was hotter than **** with no airconditioning plus plus plus---we FILLED the van to the rafters and it's an eight seater {you were in it,remember how big it was} .This time will be worse cause she is living off campus with friends in an apartment and needs to bring her bed and dresser and all the other crap. INsane i tell you!!!!====now,does that prove to you that boys need less stuff !!!!!==== i gotta go,i smell my soup burning

We had some rain and I didn't see the posts by Shotsy and Wabbsy. Too much rain, I guess, orrrrr I forgot to turn the page. Anyhow, I writed this

p.s. I was wearing my adorable PUFFIN earrings yesterday when one of the Russian girls said, "I know what that is." "You Do NOt," I answered in my ugly American way. "It's a penguin," she said. "No, it's not," I replied. "Oh," she said as she flipped one with her finger, "it's (phonetic spelling) papa-guy." Isn't that adorable. Bagz, when you get Russian tourtists, remember papaguy.

I never knew there were so many kinds of people in the world. They are fascinating. The Russians said they were from the Europe part of Russia and I thought it was just that they didn't know to tell us where their town is THEN this precious little Asian girl shows up from the Asian part of Russia. Same language. We also have a guy from Malvo who was quite impressed that I knew it was formerly part of the USSR. (I had just asked a guy from Bulgaria where in the heck Malvo is.)

and saved it to the puter because I could never spell all those words twice.

Bagzy, DS can rent a fridge with a microwave in his room and not have to move it. I'm for that. How big was this room? She pretty much took what Ds will take .. not that he's interested but I am. It's nurturing you know. But next week I'll be all alone and will romp nekked thru the house and eat entire cakes and watch The Sopranos which I will not watch with him in the house.

I love Bob Barker. Wouldn't you rather have a jar of Rolaids from him than a Mustang from Homer?

Mustang from Homer. Bob Barker got in hot water for sexually harassing the women on his show. Not the contestants, the models.

I have a headache, but I take my posting duties very seriously so I am here.

DH & I visited Miss Adorable aka Kayden yesterday. DH had already seen her yesterday but he wanted to go back for a 2nd helping of baby smooches. I'm so glad they live 5 minutes away from our house.

Moving kiddos to college sounds exhausting. Physically and emotionally.

You think Homer's Beautifies haven't been harrassed? Actually, I think Bob was forcing one of them to do certain things. At least, I think that was her claim.

I need a hug. I have to put down my kitty. I am so sad. To do the medical thing would be hundreds of dollars .. not a few hundreds, a bunch ... and he's maybe 10 years old. He is so sweet and the other cat is not sweet but we don't get to choose. But this ON TOP OF ds leaving and job situation is too much.

Originally Posted by Schatzi:
you rural chicks tell me if you know anything about all these septic systems ?? I thought the only method was into a tank, chemicals and pump it out once a year or so...What is with this poop spray method? ...

I have heard of that, but I thought it was mainly an industrial method of using processed waste. Hard to believe that spraying poop on your own land would be sanitary even after processing. Anyway, ick. I take it this is because the ground can't absorb the waste in the normal manner. Ours is an old cesspool system. I don't really know much about it, but it only has to be pumped out about every 4 or 5 years and you don't have to add anything. But then again, it's in the woods and was installed in the dark ages. If we rebuild (haha) we would be putting in a typical septic system with a leach field.

Originally Posted by Schatzi:
Got a call from a "placement specialist" who says my resume is tooo specific...that I should replace dental and HMO stuff with "healthcare" :?:

Do they mean you are being too specific in your desired job areas, or when describing your experience?

Argggh Ticks! arggh! Never had one attached to me, but have pulled many off dogs and cats. Yecccch I hate them!

I'm very excited to know about Homer Davenport! What a name, eh? That poor little kid. For a second I thought you said "She had her little 47 yr old crying" which was strange. I have old eyes. And a crappy monitor. I need a new monitor and I don't want a new computer unless I get a laptop.

Peachie, you ask a lot of questions. Let's see. DD is taking all her usual bedding to college apparently. She is something of a bedding fanatic or maybe I should say she is bedding-eccentric. She sleeps on a featherbed, which has a cover, and regular fitted sheet over it. She refuses to use a top sheet; she uses a down comforter which usually has a cover on it, plus she also has several fleece blankets (especially the giant red one the bf gave her for Christmas) and numerous beautiful quilts that her aunt has made for her. And somewhere between 2 and 4 pillows. I had to buy extra long sheets for her dorm room and an x-long mattress cover (cheap one because she is taking the featherbed). She likes jersey knit or flannel sheets, but of course only the bottom sheet. Sounds nuts, doesn't it? I guess she will have the down comfy, a fleece and a quilt for warmth. She also has been given a lot of things for her room -- a foldup "butterfly" style chair, a laundry basket, hangers, a few tools and school supplies. She also has a fan, a phone, her computer, a desk light, a trash can, a stereo. I don't know about dishes and stuff yet, she hasn't said if she wants any (she is required to have the full meal plan). Her roommate is bringing a dorm fridge. They will probably look for a rug together. DD will also have 2 guitars, probably an amp, her ipod and recording device, a cellphone if we ever figure which one to get her. Oy. I'm going up in the attic one of these days (there are bats living there and I'm not looking forward to it) to find her a trunk which she'll be able to keep under her bed to lock things in and store out of season clothes I guess. Fortunately her room is 20 x 9 or 9.5 feet I think. But unfortunately her roommate will be set up in there a week early because of the particular orientation program she is signed up for. DD said she is kind of shy sounding though, so maybe she won't be the type to dominate the room. She is a biology major with designs on med school so she will probably be a serious student. yay. DD's not taking a TV, a printer, a hair dryer, a microwave (although she would like one--apparently they are not allowed unless you rent the micro/fridge model from the school), or any other appliances. Who knows what else she'll need that we haven't thought of :shrug: It's a good thing we are within driving distance.

I would rather have a Mustang from Homer. Bob Barker is sweet old f**t, but really woman where are your priorities? I need me some 'stang.

My high school mascot was the Mustang. My brother had a dark green Mustang. And I had a very sexy white Mustang with a black landau roof. Unfortunately it was a FixOrRepairDaily and I dumped it when I moved to Maine.

It was hot though. :cool:

Do you have anymore questions? I'm debating whether DD needs to take her winter clothes with her. Definitely the warm clothing, but I'm not sure about coats, hats, boots, etc. This is not a problem Peachboy will have. Probably he will have to decide whether to bring a bathing suit or not.

Oh yeah, she has an umbrella too. Or as she used to call it, an umbrelala. I'm going to be a wreck in a few weeks, aren't I?

Kiwi