Yeah, I already did. I had it crash on me just yesterday, but I've had an occasional crash before too (I have a tendency to open up more and more tabs and windows to the point of overload), so I'm not seeing anything too bad.

My vet sent me the medicine for Jet's tapeworm problem, and wrote on the package "Give all 5 capsules to eliminate tapeworms". That is all they wrote for instructions. Not "5 all at once", not "1 a day for 5 days" or anything in between. Frankly I thought there was no chance in **** that they meant for me to give them all to her at once, so I gave her one and figured I would look the medicine up online to see what the dosage schedule is (I won't be able to ask the vet's office until Monday). So I was going to look it up, when she puked all over the place, most likely throwing up the capsule before it had a chance to absorb. Anyway I finally have figured that, indeed, they probably do mean for me to give them all to her at once, but I could swear that 5 of these is too much for her weight. In any case I have 4 left and if she is done throwing up, I guess I'll give them to her and hope for the best. Sometimes I just run on dumb luck.

What is that thing over on the right in the ads? It says it's an S2 Walkman, but it looks like a spark plug with earphones...

Kiwi

P.S. You burn 1 to 2 calories a minute thinking. I wonder how many you burn scrubbing carpets.

Schatzi, I've been having issues with Firefox for a while now. I can't see specific books on Amazon.com, which is quite annoying, because I can see their UK and Australia counterparts.

A lot of people have been having trouble with something nasty in a Microsoft update. I've already said if I get that, I'm buying a Mac. I don't like Macs, but if you can't trust official upgrades from Microsoft, what can you trust? Don't answer that!

I ain't made no fish. I do have a polka dotted blue purchased sock that can become a puppet. Needs eyes and stuff.

I have learned some of the past of some of the kids and am humbled. Some have parents in prison, violence at home etc. I had to help out with some 3-yos and found myself focusing on the two worst-behaving ones. I dragged them off to timeout, made them clean up what they messed up and when lunch came, they both had to sit by me. Both held my hand as we went back to class. Isn't that just too much?

I have that post nasal drip thing and it makes me cough so much my muscles hurt. I saw a rememdy advertised and looked at it at the supermarket. Way expensive, especially if you don't know it'll work.

I have pushed all the reset buttons but my bathroom plugs won't work now. I'm waiting for Kiwi to send her DS down but until then, can anyone tell me what to do? Yesterday, I woulda asked you what the combination to my locker was but I figured it out at the end of the day. So just think about the plugs.

I'm gonna ask the woman who trains me at work but what do you all think about crafts for 3 and 4-yos? Either you let me do it all themselves and they cut it to pieces and paint it 100 percent OR you do parts of it and how does that benefit them? "Discuss" as the cow previously known as Lush would say.

Awww, that really tugs at the heartstrings. Makes you wonder if the bad behavior is just a whole lot of need, for time with a grown up.

Hope your drip clears up, that sounds painful.

DH went down to his parents' house instead of hopping a freighter for points South. Sorry, maybe I should ask DD'sbf instead. He will do anything for her. I'll bet he would go to FL and fix your bathroom if she asked him to. Right now he's driving her back to college because she needs to be there by 7 PM. It is 200 miles out of his way.

Here's an amusing story from the college scene. When we were visiting for Parents' Weekend, DD's message board on her door had a message (trés mushy) in French from the BF. It also had another message that said "you sound awesome" from "Nick". I assumed it was a friend who had been listening to her practice. Turns out she doesn't know who it is. Later, BF crossed out "sound" and wrote "look" and signed his name to it. Then this Nick person crossed out "look" and wrote "are" and signed his name again. When BF came to pick her up on Thursday, he wrote a note to this person, then thought better of it and erased the whole board. Then he wrote another love note. The saga continues.

This is what passes for something interesting in my life.

re: crafts for 3 and 4 year olds: I think that mostly you make something, they paint it or color it or glue macaroni to it. Tada.

Kiwi

Ohhh this is good. It's like a Gilmore Girls episode.

DS is supposed to come home next weekend for his Eagle Court of Honor. His mom is not highly interested and assumed he wasn't either but this other woman told him I'd said he wasn't interested and he OF COURSE said, "I never said that," so we're having it and I no idea what I'm supposed to do or even when/where it is. I think it's Saturday.

I asked for that weekend and the following weekends off because I have to take a weekend class for my real job. My supermarket boss threw if tiny fit as the weekend before Tgiving is the second busiest time in the store and He Couldn't Believe They'd Schedule a Class then and I Need To Tell Them I Can't Go and then he threw the paper I'd written the request on. He's getting married and just set the date. Personally .... I don't know if he's mature enough. I know the girl though and neither is she.

No one is mature enough to get married.

I suppose attending the Eagle thingie is the price of having the kid home. With DD, the price of having her home is that she spends most of the time either with her friends, sleeping, or studying. We get her for the occasional meal. Last night I made her favorite Chicken Soup and Popovers, and she invited her adorable friend M over. BF was obligated at home, so he missed out.

It's 5:34 PM and I am thawing a couple bricks of salmon. I've decided to make something from the remaining half head of cabbage languishing in the fridge. DH doesn't really like cabbage, but I get so tired of the same ol same ol that I have been buying some different things lately. It's much easier to cook for just the 2 of us than for 3, just because of the pickiness of all of us. I'm allergic to a bunch of things, DD doesn't like meatloaf or casseroles or tunafish or 60 million other things, and DH can be picky in his own way. Just 2 picky people instead of 3 makes it much more likely I can cook something a little different. Besides, DH is less likely to complain about food; he is happy to be fed. DD seems to assume she'll be fed. Imagine the nerve!

Here is a math problem for Cowpeach DS: Describe using permutations and combinations why it is easier to cook for 2 picky people than for 3.

So anyway I was looking for a recipe for coleslaw that doesn't taste like coleslaw and I happened across Yahoo Answers again. I'd forgotten I had gone there. I am very excited to see that I have 104 points there. I'm not sure what good points are, but I love to accumulate points. I think I'll ask a question and see if I get more points.

Kiwi

I love it when I come here Monday morning and there are lots of posts. Then I read them all and I feel a little sad b/c I've read them all and you all are busy on Monday morning and I know I'll be talking to myself for awhile.

It's all warm rain and bluster here. We're supposed to be getting 2-3 inches of rain in the next 24 hrs.

Kiwi, I've been doing the double meal cooking lately, even though it's only DH and I. He said he's tired of chicken, so I make him soup and san or a fried hamburger patty w/ mushroom soup gravy. He considers that stuff food. He passes on the fresh veggies. He should be eating healthy too, but I can't force him. If you want cole slaw that doesn't taste like cole slaw you could make some asian slaw. I have a recipe that's yummy, but it's at home..... can't wait for the next episode from Kiwiette's message board...

Peach, at least you get your boy home for a weekend.... I see my boy every day at work, but I still miss him on the weekends sometimes. Have you tried to shut off your circuit breaker for that outlet and then turn it back on? I still have nightmares that I'm in school and can't remember my locker combination. Apparently that was a traumatic experience for me.... along with just about everything else in highschool.

DD called me yesterday evening and asked if I felt an earthquake.... "no, I didn't." ... are you sure?.... "yes, there was no earthquake". I told DH--- he said "sometimes she can be so dizzy"..... then this morning on the radio they reported a 2.5 level earthquake centered in Portland that occurred yesterday evening.. ..... guess DH and I are the dizzy ones.

Schatzi, I have no idea what PMI stuff is, but it sounds like yer gettin' really smart. Why is Firefox more fun than IE?

Cherry, keep on keeping on. Run, Cherry, Run.

Hi dolls! When am I ever going to catch up with all these posts? I've been reading them and want to comment, but then real life always gets in the way.

I walked for an hour Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Outside, even. Whoo! Nasty wind but it was kind of nice to get some fresh air instead of being cooped up in the guest room with Leslie. We have no hudda lake here, just fields and fields of cabbages. Saw some very handsome black and white cows yesterday, though.

Did I mention that finally, after 16 years I'm getting a new kitchen? Already ordered but won't be delivered until February. New and shiny and clean! I can't wait. The woman who's coming to measure stuff is going to have a FIT when she she's the old kitchen. It's just appalling, even for my standards.

Love you all. *smooch*

You know, that's exactly what I did! I still used cabbage and carrots, but I added chopped onion and used a wonderful dressing that I found online at Sunset Publications called Creamy Soy Dressing. It was heavenly. I ate all the leftovers for lunch today.
I think it's more fun because of the "tabs" feature -- instead of opening extra windows when you want to look at something else, you can open tabs within the same window and flip them through at will. I suppose there are other reasons, but I'm easy to please. Firefox is also supposed to less vulnerable to virus attacks and other such things than I.E.
You've been blowing us off for real life??? Gee whiz.

Congrats on the new kitchen!

We are actually supposed to get our roofed fixed this week, maybe starting tomorrow. I'll believe it when I see it -- we had snow last night so I'm not sure what to expect for weather this week-- but when it is done, I will be doing something or other about the kitchen ceiling and maybe floor. I'm not putting up with this (see below) for the rest of my natural life, regardless of how much DH enjoys the squalor look. Horrifying, isn't it? Yes, that really is our kitchen ceiling.

Kiwi

Kiwi, maybe you should keep DH there and make him fix something for you. I can wait. Send him next month after he's fixed your ceiling.

My house is so so so messy. How do we clean up? I missed that lesson completely. Does it involve builiding on extra rooms for storage? Is that what Sugar's doing? Building on extra kitchens? Such a good idea. I once lived in a house that had been owned and occupied by two unmarried sisters. The house was ranch style and long and they had kitchens at each end.

Kiwi, in defense of your DH, most men don't notice the kitchen ceiling as long as there's food on the kitchen table. Like they don't notice dust on the tv as long as they have the clicker in their sweaty hand.

Sugar, there's nothing quite as intoxicating as a new kitchen --- I still am in love w/ my kitchen remodel even after all these years. Just wish I could train it to stay clean. Waytago on the outside walking. Much more refreshing than a stroll w/ Leslie. It's dark by the time I get off work, so I can't walk outside, not that I've been visiting Leslie either.

I know every body has their shorts in a bundle about the big war between the democrats and republicans, but can you take some time out on election day to send some good election vibes my way? Tomorrow I find out if we are getting annexed and if my life can move forward. Otherwise, we stay put for awhile longer......... besides, then you can quit having to hear about it all the time.

Peach, is that the house you lived in w/ Lush in your swinging bachelorette days????

I'm sending you good vibrations. It's giving me excitations. Good good good good vibrations. Ooo ooo.

My employer requires my "degree." They mean diploma thing. They have and not impressed by the transcript. The UA sends out degree verifications by 1) email or 2) FAX. Only. Period. Love it or leave it. Take it or lump it. Another of life's frustations imposed on sweet little Peaches by unthinking beaurocrats.

Lush and I never lived together after I left home. She was a tramp and I was almost a nun. I coulda been MOther Superior in Charge of Gluttony Forgiveness.

Oooo. oooo. oo. good vibrations I knew that carrot would come in handy eventually.

It rained soooo hard here yesterday that it blew in under the entrance door to the office and now every thing feels a little damp in here. sticky and damp. ick.

Did you get your plugs to work, Peach? This is how I'd fix the problem - get yerself a really long extension cord and plug it into the outlet in your bedroom. String it into your bathroom. Plug in your stuff. That's how I fixed the outlet in my bedroom that quit working. I just added an extension cord to the first available working outlet. Fixed. No man required........... durn bureaucrats....... except what's wrong w/ sending an email? emails are good.

Sugar, I walked w/ Leslie for 2 miles yesterday. This is big news, since I haven't dragged me lazy arse off the couch for a month or more. I did it b/c I watched the show about YOU on a Diet w/ Dr. Oz and that other leetle Dr. Apparently I'm shortening my life by being a couch potato.

Wabbo

Ohmmmmm Ohmmmmm sssseending goooood vibrations! GOOD GOOD GOOD good Vibrations ooohewwwwooooooo! (thats suppose to be the beachboys duncha know)

Peachetta: if it ain't the breaker and you can't reset the leetle red button, you might need a new "GFI" I call it a "Jif" which is about 2 bucks at home depot... and then you gotta replace the box...

I miss so much being a new cow in the herd... Lush and peach are related???? I didnot know dis!!!

Kiwi...Time to pull a TAWANDA!!! on that ceiling! You with a hatchet... DH far away..

Sugar a new kitchen!!! How FANTABULOUS!!!!!!! I can't wait to see the demolition picks! Sugarfamily roasting food outside on the hibatchi!!! in snowsuits!!! And Pics of the new kitchen!!! Just think how delish you cook now! You will be making 5 star gourmet meals!!!!

skinnymadcowbagazaurus: LOOOK I've gained 200 pounds sigh, I lost my battle with halloween candy "snicker bars 4 Schatzi 0"

Okay, it's rainning here but must venture out to cast my vote!!!!!!!!!