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There, how's that?

I'm going to go finish tuning my piano.

Kiwi

I will start. .. yikes ... when I typed that my bad cat hit me with his claw.

Anyway, cars break down. My broke down at work and got jump started. My boss (who was told how to jump start it by a female employee) said I needed a new battery. Simple. Next morning, it wouldn't start so was towed to the garage where it needed a starter. I couldn't get to work. Now it's fixed. This makes no sense. I am just stove up with all this.

DS's car "broke down" in Tallyhassy on his way to the U. It wouldn't go over 55 and he called AAA. The woman who came told him it was the transmission but he could go ahead and drive it. It started going fast again and he got there. Turns out it was the catalytic converter. The garage said they'd fix it for $450 and he said ok then called me. I called my mechanic then called DS back to tell him to stop this work. He was to take it to a muffler shop and get it fixed for far less. Here they do it for $175, my mechanic said.

That's my gripe for right now.

Well, let's face it, if your boss had to have someone else tell him how to jump start your car, he was not qualified to tell you you need a new battery. Auto mechanics are a minefield. If you don't know enough to fix your own car, they have you over a barrel. It's great to have one you can trust, but even then, nobody's got the answers to everything. I hate dealing with car repair, it drives me bats. And you know how I feel about bats.

How are DS's classes going? Is he enthusiastic about them? I forgot what he decided to major in.

DD'sbf is going to visit her again this weekend (he was there Monday); they have a big dance on campus to go to.

We are going sailing this weekend. At least we hope to sail. I want to go to Frenchboro and have lobster.

Later chillins

Kiwi

This is something worthwhile that I learned on the internet.....

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-...t-in-2-seconds

What worthwhile thing have you learned?

Peachy, sorry your cars haven't been co operating with you. Aren't you just supposed to turn the key and have them go???

CAn you really do that Wabbo? I can't even follow it.

DS is in math. He likes his classes. He eats lunch at the Hare Krishna place which pleases me as they serve wholesome veggie food. His roomy plays music while DS tries to study and DS plans to buy him a gift of earphones. He's taking 2 maths, 2 languages (spanish and korean) and 1 physics. I have not adjusted to katie couric in the evening. I keep expecting her to talk about fashion or recipes.

I am depressed. Please send chocolate.

Yup. It only works on short sleeved t-shirts, though. Slower instructions on their website - http://fold-your-shirt.com/ Click on the step by step instructions.

I'm going to go home and wash t-shirts tonight. It doesn't take me much to get excited, huh?

I want to go to Frenchboro too, Kiwi. What a cool place.

That was innnnerresting... now if only I can learn how to fold fitted sheets...

Sorry Peachella, I ate all the chocolate..
Frenchboro.. so quaint, I can't believe there are still places like that...13 students?

DH has another cut over this weekend which means no fun and games.. I may just take my kyack out by myself..I'm beginning to go stir crazy in my little world.

I learned how to do that on David Letterman. He had an audience member demonstrating it on Audience Show and Tell. Then a few months later Martha demonstrated it on her show. She made it sound like it was her idea, of course. I know how to fold fitted sheets:

• Stick your fists into 2 adjacent corners
• Place the corner on your right hand OVER the corner on your left hand
• Smooth those 2 layers over your left hand so their edges line up, then transfer the double layer corner back to your right hand
• Shake the sheet good while holding onto that double layer corner
• With your left hand, use your fist to pick up the 2 remaining corners so that you now have double layered corners in each hand
• Place the corners on your right hand over the corners on your left hand, smooth them and even the edges
• With your right hand, straighten out the folds and shake things into place if needed
• Now you can fold down the sides leading off the corner (so that the contour part lays down flat) if you want to be super neat--you might have to lay it down on a surface to do this right
• OR let go of the contour corner stack and grab the opposite (folded) end, fold in half lengthwise once or twice
• Smooth it down and fold it in half or quarters depending on how big you want it.

That is just ******ed, isn't it? I wonder if anyone can actually fold a sheet following those directions, or whether they will get tangled up and never be heard from again? Unlike the t-shirt thing. Which is simply magic. The girl on Letterman said she learned it at the Gap.

I wish I had some chocolate. There's some graduation cake in the freezer. Maybe I'll eat that. I'd send it to you, Peaches, but the icing makes your tongue blue.

Kiwi

maybe you can fold a sheet like that but you can't do it in two seconds. DS actually called tonight for laundry help. I sent him that link so he could impress girls in the laundry room. This is the first time he's done laundry and he's been there since Aug. 19. Honestly, I thought he just took a couple of weeks worth of clothes. Maybe he picked up more on Labor Day but he didn't bring dirty ones home.

I've been wondering the same thing about DD, although she's only been there 2 weeks. She's been doing her own laundry for years so I'm not worried about her knowing how; I just wonder if she's actually done any. All their laundry machines are hooked up to a website and they can check on free washers and even whether their own wash loads are done. Cool, huh? Sort of silly, but still cool. I wonder what enterprising soul sold that service to the college...

I'm off to the coast for the weekend. Well, I have to pack first. Better get going.

Kiwi

I'm glad to hear that Kiwiette can do laundry. One of Ds's questions was how many loads of wash he could put in the dryer. I asked him if the dryers were bigger than ours and he siad, "Maybe a little." My advice was to step outside, find a girl passing by and ask her.

:wave: g'byeee Sailor Kiwi, Bon Voyage,,,, have fun!

errrr... I fell asleep after the shaking the sheet out part.. I may have to print it out and amuse myself . My gfren does it so well, and folds the flat and pillow cases in it so that when she changes the sheets she has a whole set...

Its crappy out here... I think I'll curl up with a good book.

Tah tah my leetle mooettes

Schatz, tell your friend to come here and give me a lesson.

I'm back here talking to myself.

DH is going fishing tonight so I'm going shopping. I really do have to buy me some cowgirl jeans. yee-haw. Can you feel the excitement? Tomorrow is bunco night. Now that I can get excited about. I can wear my fat pants.

Did you know it's only one month until Thanksgiving for Bagzie? Then they have Labour Day after that. Those cwazy mixed up Canadians.

We have less than 2 months until election day when I find out if our place is going to be annexed to the city and we can get on with our lives. I just wanna know one way or the other. Limbo land is not a fun place to be..... and you all have to hear about it for a couple more months. Sorry.

Hope your weekend is absolutely moooo valous, cows. See you Monday.

hey guys ---have been awol all weekend ---went to visit the university kids--they are all happy and well partied out after the first week of classes and return to routine---------we are TIRED after driving for six hours {one college is way off the beaten path!!!!} all this sept 11 programming is depressing me--it's all over the radio {CBC} and television--so sad and miserable for all those families.

Well, I haven't folded any clothes (or washed any either) for quite some time. No clients tomorrow, so I foolishly promised DH I'd do some picking up around here. Jeez, he might expect a cooked dinner, too.

But in the am, (late) I have therapist appointment, then lunch with a colleague... so how can I possibly get anything done... especially being up SO late. (I wallked this evening and once I recovered, I got ALL awake!)

Should walk in the morning before therapy. My colleague group talked about shame and guilt this morning. Yipes. Shame & Guilt R Us. Eating is definitely a defense for me against feeling both. You'd think for how long I'd been in the mental health business, I'd have my own shame issues tackled. (But then for how much Terrell Owens is making with the Dallas Cowboys, you'd think he could be polite, too.)

DS survived his first 2 days teaching: physics and Algebra II. He said the kids weren't very interest (no real big surprised) AND that some of them didn't have paper on Friday. WHO GOES TO SCHOOL WITHOUT PAPER?

Hope you get through the 9/11 anniversary well enough. Watching the kids on 60 minutes who lost parents made me very upset. (But I didn't eat.)

It doesn't seem possible that 9/11 was 5 years ago. I remember exactly where I was when I heard. Seems like the world did a little shift on it's axis that day.

Bagzie, so nice that kidlets are settled and happy at university. Is DS enjoying being an only child now that the older ones are out in the world?

DH is off to play cowboys and indians again. I'll be joining him on Friday. I bought some fat cowgirl clothes. I feel and look hideous in them. I threatened to just buy some sweats and put some fringe & conchos on them. My gf and I were joking about coming out with a line of clothes for "the over 50 cowgirl", completely made of spandex. I don't know if I'm dreading starched jeans (yes! can you believe that??? starched!!) or tight boots the most.

Painty, shame and guilt R women. I don't know if that's why I eat, but it sounds like as good an excuse as anything. That, and everything tastes so darn good and I have no control.

:dunno:

Originally Posted by :
I threatened to just buy some sweats and put some fringe & conchos on them. My gf and I were joking about coming out with a line of clothes for "the over 50 cowgirl", completely made of spandex. I don't know if I'm dreading starched jeans (yes! can you believe that??? starched!!) or tight boots the most.

I am d.y.i.n.g. :rofl:

You are hysterical Wabby! I wish I could photoshop a picture of red sweat pants with side fringe... UGH sausaging ones self into starched jeans and putting my pig hooves into tight boots spells S and M to me!
I would rather a snug unforgiving pair of pants rather than anything with spandex... I even hate those jeans with spandex in them..I am so lumpy flabby that I'd rather those starched jeans ...although :chin: when you take those kinda pants off it looks like yer still wearing them.. what with all the zipper, waist, side stitching marks left upon my flabbosity.

Painty, shame and guilt R women. - Period. I think it's just a general female marker. Whether we eat tooo much, tooo little, it's a symptom of what issue lies beneath for each of us. I sometimes wonder if searing ones tastes buds for a while is a viable means of self control.. as I just love the taste of all foods.

Baggeroo: glad all the kidlets are tucked safely in the dorms... I turned off the TV and put on XM commercial talk free radio... remembering those that died and whose lives are altered in my own way.. While we shouldn't forget this I wish it served us better as a wake up call to secure our borders, and put our resources to use getting New Orleans back instead it was used as a ploy to engage in Bushs war in Iraq.. and further weakening our home defenses, "wasting" american and allied and Iraqi peoples lives. Spreading our military so thin in Iraq and afganistan, running up a biggest deficient in history. ... I just feel anger...

Peach cheeks : where art thou?

Originally Posted by Cowpernia:
My advice was to step outside, find a girl passing by and ask her.

Excellent advice; what girl could resist that?

Originally Posted by PainterWoman:
DS survived his first 2 days teaching: physics and Algebra II.

Cool. I hope he finds that some of his students can be motivated and interested. By the way, at DD's high school, most of the teachers passed out materials. I thought it was ridiculous not to demand that kids bring their own -- especially since I understand it is the teachers who have to buy these supplies. It seems to me that it would be a simple matter to sell school supplies in the cafeteria so that those who couldn't afford them could get them for free like they do lunches, but of course that would be too simple, wouldn't it?

Originally Posted by Schatzi:
. I just feel anger...

I'm afraid that's about all I feel too. I am sad though, too. As much because I believe those deaths should have meant something and that meaning has been squandered by our government, as by the memory of the events themselves.

I watched a few minutes of the morning show coverage today and I just felt disgust. There were people in the crowd, listening to these sappy musical tributes, who were all smiles and wearing patriotic face paint and crap. What a bunch of bull****. Sorry. I should just leave it alone.

HEY!! My previous paragraph was censored!!! Not that I care, but I didn't put in those ****! Wow. I had no idea you couldn't swear here anymore. Damn. :lol:

I love this story. How refreshing for a city to see subversive activity/art as something worthwhile! Granted it's probably more because it is funny, but still...

Our weekend was good fun. I don't think I will find that I lost any weight...:lol: We had a couple of friends on the boat with us, and acted like, well, adults with no parental responsibilities. We ate good food (oh yeah, really good food) and drank with abandon (well, one night anyway), went sailing. Didn't go to Frenchboro because the lobster place was closed for the season. Went to Cranberry Island instead. Had a lovely walk, visited an art gallery, then spent the night on the mooring there. That night, Saturday, we had a whopper of a thunder and lightning storm with a soaking rain. Sunday was a bit rough on the ocean, so after we got back to our home mooring, we decided to unload to land and go play minigolf. Seriously. And it was great fun.

Kiwi

You cows are too funny.

The first thing I ever, ever learned on the internet was how to fold a fitted sheet. It ain't purdy, but it works all right. Still can't do the t-shirt origami thing though.

Starched jeans???? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Well, hmmpf that is ****ty..



testing testing censor testing

AAACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! **** on that, I mean what the ****, can I say *******? or um, *******...


testing

I am DYING :rofl:

Where's George Carlin when you need him?

Maybe I can say Go to **** *******?

testing ...

I am laughing myself silly here! :rofl: (note to self: must remove moderator from avatar thingy)


I like the word...............testing................gives you carte blanche....

It's like that phrase "just saying" .... gets ya off the hook... :devil:

Schatzi!!! What in the WORLD are you doing? :D

Schatzi, you bad. :devil:

**** off

yup,it works allright!!

Originally Posted by SugP:
The first thing I ever, ever learned on the internet was how to fold a fitted sheet.

The first thing I learned how to do on the internet was remove a tick.

Originally Posted by Schatzi:
AAACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! **** on that, I mean what the ****, can I say *******? or um, *******...
testing

Schatzi, you're killing me :rofl: Leave it to us to respond to the knowledge that they're bleeping swear words by swearing with abandon!!! I think they should replace the **** with :censored:, it's more fun. More ****ing fun, that is.

Originally Posted by SugP:
Schatzi!!! What in the WORLD are you doing? :D

Making me spit coffee on my keyboard, that's what she's doing! :lol3:

I have been such a good girl -- I called up my doggy friend and made a walking date this morning. We took all 6 of the dogs for an hour and a half walk on a trail near here. Good heavens it was beautiful, sunny, a bit cool, not a cloud in the sky. I should have taken some pictures; the lake and mountains in the distance were gorgeous.

DD called last night to tell us how her first Monday had gone -- she has classes from 9:30 am till 9:00 pm. Not continuously of course, but she has to squeeze meals in at odd times. Now she's adding some shifts of work study in the library to her schedule, 2 hours of it right at lunchtime on Monday. I've a feeling that eventually she will have to drop some of that. She's had to substitute Computer Science for her Peace and Justice Studies class because of a scheduling conflict, and it sounds like computer is going to be a challenge. They are learning right off to program in C++ (computer language). Then she said the Arabic professor talks to the class in Arabic right from the start. And the Islamic Law professor barely speaks English, so it is very difficult to understand her. Don't you just love it? I am tickled to death that she is being challenged, finally.

Here's what I am doing that I haven't done in 18 years: practicing the piano.:encore:

Here's what I am getting today that I am very excited about: a new computer monitor!!! :comp: I'm such a geek. DH is getting himself a new computer because we decided that what he needed to upgrade his computer and what I needed (a screen I could read) would be nicely satisfied by a new HP for less than buying the parts. Plus the new puter will have double layer cd/dvd burner with a dandy feature called LightScribethat will lasar on a label to the top of the disk. Cool huh?

Kiwi

Oh my goodness I can see! I had no idea what those smilies actually looked like!

Do you like the dancing carrot any better?

Well, truthfully, it does have more personality now. And yet, somehow I don't like it any better....

I also had to clean up my computer desk to swap out the monitors and now my puter tower is on my desk instead of under it where it can collect dust and dog hair. That's a good thing, although I now have 2 piles of junk to go through. Blah.

How's trix, Wab?

I'm contemplating applying for a seasonal call center job with LLBean. Any of you ever do call center crap? It would only be incoming calls, but still..

Kiwi

Originally Posted by :
How's trix, Wab?

Everybody knows trix are for kids, Kiwi, and I'm not a kid anymore.

Hmmmm. what is new? hmmmm..... nuttin' I guess. Wish I could tell you otherwise. With DH gone I feel like I should do something exciting or different. Yesterday I cleaned out the fridge. That was different.... can't really say it was exciting.

That's what I've had on my list for several days: cleaning out the refrigerator. It's too boring to do. It is so gorgeous outside today I feel like I should go kayaking or something (but that would require hauling out the kayak...sounds like work). What I'm really doing is sitting in front of the puter backing up my hard drives and photos. How exciting.

Kiwi

Tomorrow is rodeo day. I'm eating now b/c it will probably be too uncomfortable to wear those d*mn jeans and eat any food. I'm really not looking forward to this. I'm driving up w/ 2 guys that work for us, their wives and our friend who lost her DH earlier this year. It will be very emotional and I just don't know what to do for her. It just breaks my heart. She tries so hard to keep it together, but isn't doing too well at all. She doesn't work outside the home so she has way too many long hours.

It's been gorgeous here, too, Kiwi, but the clouds moved in yesterday and it looks like rain now. Perfect weather to match my mood. I think the call center job sounds like a good idea.... and the good thing about it is that it's seasonal. It's going to be a long winter, toots. The dark gets long and the daylight gets short. bleeeh.

Schatzi, get back here. We need cheering up.

My advice: undo the top button :D
 

Hope it's more fun than you're anticipating!

I'll bet your friend will enjoy the time out with you all. A little socializing can work wonders when you spend too much time alone (not speaking from experience, or anything ;) ).

Our weather changed too. Gorgeous yesterday, raining today. And I cleverly spent the whole day inside in front of the computer. Except for the time I spent shampooing the dog pee smell out of the back of the Explorer. That was fun. Seriously, that was fun.

Kiwi

Wabby, forget how you think you look, and just have a GREAT TIME!!!!Never been to a rodeo, but men in tight jeans with big belt buckles and hats can't be bad atall! ;)

It's been raining here for the last two days... I just finished making the "girls" dinners for when we go away... one night stew meat, chicken and hotdogs... I bought some dog food that's suppose to look like hamburger and cheese... Darby sniffed it :snooty: and then Rolled on top of it... LOL! I guess she told me what she thinks bout that! and Casey sniffed, pinned her ears back and stared at me :dz: He heeeeeeeeeh! ah well, they be my childrens!
Would you believe I spent about 5 minutes this morning trying to get out of porno sites??? All those bloody pop ups and stuff, I honestly don't know how I got tangled up in them!

Kiwi, I have become a recluse since moving here... It's a good thing I'm a bit of a nester and like myself :lol: but I am really looking forward to seeing Asheville, and the train ride.. Will take pics ... be back on Monday....

Must go clean the crack house, and iron my mu mus...;) ;)

Where is Sug??? And Peachy??? and Painty???? And Cherry????? And Bagzz???? And Frappe?????

Cows gone Missin!--not to be confused with Cows Gone Wild... hmmm, a potential thread name for the future eh?

P.S. Congrats on the new monitor Kiwi! And I still hate the :carrot: Wanna just smash it ...Where's a shotgun smilie when you need one? :s: