Because CM is changing their albums and pages to a true 12 x 12 format, I needed to order a bunch of the old size pages and page protectors ~ I still have 7 unused old size albums, and I want to make sure I have enough of those sizes.
I told Jim I was going to order some now and some a bit later (before the beginning of summer, which is when they might start running out) to spread the cost out...
The dear man told me to go ahead and order everything I needed now so there was no danger of being left high & dry, and that he would pay for them all!!! :-O
Thanks, sweetheart!!!
Turn your volume up... Seamus playing his favorite game of 'chase the windsock'!
I was wondering if you have heard about the latest Denny's breakfast?
It's called Octomom. It has one egg, fourteen yolks, no sausage... and the people in the booth next to you are stuck with the bill.
(stolen from Knoxy on another board.)
~ I think they ought to call it the OctoOmelette ~ same ingredients, wildly scrambled!
Q ~ How many animals can you fit into a pair of pantyhose?
A ~ 10 little piggies, 2 calves, one donkey, hundreds of hare, and a beaver
Personally, I hate the damn things and haven't worn them for over 15 years ~
I found this today... and besides LMBO, I was also blushing, because one of my secret nicknames is "The REALLY, REALLY Impatient Traveler".
Seriously. Here is a typical traveling dialogue I have with myself...
"OK ~ I'm at the airport, let's board the plane. Aww, man! The security gate isn't even open yet?!?!" Grumble, grumble, grumble... (this is a direct result of my absolute horror of being late for anything)
"OK, we're through security, let's board the plane. What do you mean it's not even here yet?!?!" Grumble, grumble, grumble...
"OK, we're boarding, let's get our stuff stashed and take off. C'mon, you slowpokes! Move your damn butts! " This is invariably followed by wondering why they don't board the plane by rows from back to front, or if the plane is big enough, by letting people board from the front AND the back. "Idiots".
"OK, we're FINALLY taxiing; can't this thing move any faster??? I mean it can fly at 500 mph, fer gawd's sake ~ let's GO, already!"
And so on & so forth... no wonder I'm always exhausted when I fly!! Won't EVEN go into my whole routine when landing... :-O
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In other news... how 'bout some creativity...
Kathy had this picture of the pups taken 4 days before Seamus came to live with us ~ think it needs anything else? I will be putting some copper highlights on the bookplate.
These are some of the pix Kathy sent of Seamus' first day or so...
I took the 43 Things Personality Quiz and
found out I'm a
Reinventing Extroverted Believer
So my old home town of Merced gets to shine tomorrow, as the starting place for the 4th leg of the Tour of California... whooooda thunk it! See here for map...
Boy, does that bring back a lot of memories, both good and bad. The circle around downtown, the charge up M St., right next to Applegate and Mercy Hosp., then all along Bear Creek... If I still lived in our last house there, I could easily walk to the race course!
Then up to Mariposa ~ too bad the Merced River won't be in full flood ~ and back down to the valley... I wonder if Fres-burg was pissed that Clovis was picked, rather than them!
You can bet I'll be watching the coverage tomorrow...
Hi to Heidi, Mareeeeeeee, Jerry and all the old farts from Muck-Muck! ~
Just as I'm starting to feel a little bit better, Jim catches sick! Poor baby... so far he's just snuffledy and coughing a bit ~ hopefully it won't get as bad for him as it did for me...
As for me, I still have a sore throat/ears and a bit of a snotty nose, but no more of the gawd-awful cough. And I don't sound quite so much like a dying bull-frog...
Lets talk, for a moment, about the TV digital conversion brouhaha (better late than never)... The powers that be decided to put it off because some poor folk couldn't afford the conversion box. Mmmmmm...
In the world I live in, being poor means (among other things) doing without life's little luxuries, cable TV being one of them. So I just do NOT understand why the conversion had to be pushed back just because some people were going to miss out on their weekly dose of WWF (or other such garbage).Hello????????????????????????
Ich nicht verstehen das!!!
I think the 2 peanut butter executives who took the 5th today should be forced to eat their product until they become sick... If they pull through, then send their butts to jail; if they don't ~ oh, well. And failing that, I think they should be charged with first degree murder, as they KNOWINGLY shipped out contaminated product. Scuz-buckets.
More on the psychotic octuplet woman... $50K in debt, and she has the balls to put up a website asking for donations. Please, someone get all 14 kids away from this bitch, and put her in some long term pysch facility ~AFTER sterilizing her!!!
And then there's A.H. (asshole) Limbaugh (the new leader of the Republican party) ~ who said today that the entire economic meltdown was actually precipitated by a conspiracy between George Soros and a cabal of billionaire liberals who deliberately sought to sabotage the world economy in order to get Barack Obama elected.
Ahem... still lovin' those drugs, eh Rushie???
One more thing... Tussinex cough syrup is GOLD!!!
This is the first page I've scrapped in about 3 weeks! It feels good to be back in it!
I feel like shit... sinus infection and 'walking' pneumonia! Plus he's worried that it could be turning into whooping cough... WTF???
So, mega-ABX and some super-strength cough syrup...
Bleah ~
...won Album of the Year!!! :-)))))))))))))))))))))))
This bug is REALLY kicking butt! Yesterday was horrible ~ coughing up lung bits and blood. And my ribs are SO sore! However, I DO feel ever-so-marginally better today, so I'm assuming I'll live. I talked with boss Julie today ~ the crud is making the rounds at work, too. Good thing we have docs on vacation this week & next...
Now lets talk about the twerp/twit/idiot that just had the octuplets... Lets see ~ she already has 6 kids, because she felt unloved (or some such BS) as a child. She manages to find a quack fertility doc who is stupid and greedy enough to implant her again, instead of recommending counseling for her obvious pysch problems.
And now she is assuring us that once she finishes school, she'll be able to provide for all 14.
Uh huh ~ yeah, right.
Can you say stupid, clueless, arrogant, thoughtless, and selfish??? Can I get an amen on that nursing diagnosis??? Thank euuuuuuuuuuuuuuuw!
There is just SO much wrong with this whole story; it reeks like a medieval whore. Shudder...
On a more positive note... in addition to the great paper I found for my inauguration pages at her LSS, my DD Betz RAKed me a TON of PP from her stash while I was there! Thank you, dear daughter! (Or should I say "Thank you, Charlie"?!?!) ;-)))))
Got home on schedule last night ~ yay!! And not a moment too soon ~ this bug I've gotten has moved into my chest ~ ribs ache like hell from all the dry, hacky coughing (from PND???), and I don't have much of a voice!
Despite not feeling 100%, the rest of the trip was great... We didn't do margaritas, just wine for the Super Bowl, and we had fun ribbing each other! Now THAT was a game!! One for the other thumb!! Betz had all kinds of food for us ~ rotisserie chicken, salads, chips, cake and ice cream... and the kids were pretty good :-)))
Monday AM Betz had homework to do, so I just hung out and took it easy... Carole and I went to dinner at a little hole-in-the-wall Japanese place that was fantastic!!
Oh ~ don't want to forget ~ when Carole came to pick me up, she brought me some fresh squeezed OJ from the oranges she had picked when I was there on Friday ~ YUM!!!!!!!!
I really want to go back to the Phoenix area (just not in the summer!!!) ~ so much to do there! I'd like to see the rest of the Bot. Garden, visit the zoo, check out Scottsdale and downtown Phoenix, and tour Taliesin West (Mecca for this FLW lover!)
Happy Trails ~
Despite Betsie's opinion, I think the Phoenix area is lovely! Silly daughter...
Thursday night we went to dinner at PF Chang's ~ I could pretty much live on their lemongrass shrimp with garlic noodles! ~ we sat outside and were entertained by a live-wire waiter who did awesome impressions!
Friday we went to her wonderful LSS ~ I managed to get out with under $65 worth! We went to lunch, then she dropped me off at Carole's. It was wonderful seeing her again! She took me for a ride around her little area in Sun City in her golf cart (fun), and I got some great pix of cacti. Back to her place, where we killed a bottle of wine sitting on her patio, watching the sun go down, and being entertained by the quail and cottontails. We did lots of talking about our old adventures in nursing and friends from MCMC.
Yesterday, Betz and I took the kids to the Phoenix Botanical Gardens, and MAN did we get lucky! The glass artist Dale Chihuly has an exhibition going, and it was exquisite! The juxtaposition between the smooth glass and the cacti was awesome ~ I must have taken over 60 pix (I'll post some after I get home) We didn't get to see quite all of it, tho... It was quite warm (78), and the kids were getting a bit cranky, so we took them home ~ neither of us wanted to deal with a public meltdown!
Another way we got lucky ~ you were supposed to have reserved tickets to get in, and there were only going to be a limited # of tix available for walk-ins But we were able to waltz right in!! Thank heavens we didn't know about that before hand, as we might not even have tried to go!!
Unfortunately, I seem to have picked up some kind of bug (probably on the plane) ~ was sneezing and snotty all last night; woke up this morning with a sore throat and ears... but I shall soldier on ~ I'm sure I'll feel much better after a couple of margaritas this afternoon!!
Cottleston Pie is the Taoist philosophy dealing with our Inner Nature (as explained by Winnie-the-Pooh)
To get the full scoop, read "The Tao of Pooh" by Benjamin Hoff.
The full poem is at the very bottom here...
