the person who uses a title and a smiley for every post they make. Not everything is important enough to require its own title. and the smilies ...gngh

What? It's Monday morning and I'm 39, I'm allowed to be crotchety. Get off my Interwebz.

hmmm... maybe a drivers test would be in order to allow use of the cellar exit... if you're talking about the 127 airhead.

actually I wasn't...but she soon made the other one less irritating :lol: see -everything happens for a reason.....

Haggis - I was gonna post that in the "whats making you happy" thread and then I forgot.

OK . . . this is a notch above mildly irritating, but not quite upsetting. I am living in utter CHAOS. The only thing that kept me from totally freaking out this evening was a nicely timed TV spot featuring hurricane damaged homes - mine is not quite that bad, it just feels that bad.

We are having hardwood flooring installed in our kitchen, dining room, living room, hallway, and stairway.

It's going to be beautiful, but DAMN what a mess it is in the meantime. It's going slower than anticipated too, because we hired a "friend" and you know how that goes. Good thing is that we're getting the labor in exchange for our old 1977 camper. Bad thing is . . . well, this guy and his helper are really getting on my nerves. If nothing else, I'm getting awfully tired of fat guy butt crack.

And they ordered the wrong size edging for the stairs, so that's gonna take a while, ugh, ugh, ugh. They promised me it would be done by Thanksgiving. Damn near waited till the last minute for that, didn't they? Well, if it's all done but the stairs it won't be the end of the world.

But now just think of all the work I have to do to get this place in shape for turkey day, when my FIL is coming, my SIL and her kids and her new boyfriend we haven't met yet . . . and I haven't even bought a thing for the meal yet because where the hell would I put it? I can't even get to my friggin' cabinets, hardly.

So in the meantime I'm trying to clean up the lower level, which has been piled up with mucho crap since we had to clear out my mom's condo (and there's still stuff at the condo, in the garage, double ugh) so bad that we could hardly even use that area.

And we continue to clean up cat pee. Can't bring ourselves to put Ms. Ancient Kitty at rest. She's decided she prefers shallow trays, OK. But then she hangs her ass over the edge. And she pees next to every other box throughout the house, she can't use the one we've provided just for her. Today she pissed on the floor installer's knee pads; they squished when he put them on. They are now in my dryer.

Someday I'll look back on this and laugh, right?

Is this prefinished flooring?

I read that as peefinished.

Haggis. Oh, just haggis!

Ha ha, yes, prefinished maple. Which will, I'm sure, become peefinished in no time.

She went on a decorating spree last night, but fortunately only got the cardboard boxes spread out to protect them mid-install.

Then one of the cats (C.C. the kitchen cat, I assume) knocked over a half-full (half-empty?) cup of ice cream drink all over the floor, adorning not one type of surface but three: finished floor in progress, black tarpaper underlayment, and bare subfloor. Yum!

I have to go in a few minutes and fetch the stair trim from two different flooring warehouses - one has three, one has four . . . and we need 12, but at least this is progress.

Bit of a stuffy nose, actually. I hate it when one side is all stuffy and the other side is all runny....arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!

I keep wandering up blind alleys with my research. Starting to feel the pressure somewhat. Spent about 4 hours at the local archives today and found not very much.

I personally prefer to lift the lady's dress straight up from behind. YMMV.

Juniper, we're doing the floor thing in our new addition too! laminate in our case, done by me, with help from my dad (now back in NC) so far. The family room is done.. now I just have to do the bedroom. I wish there was a place upstairs I could do the sawing, but I don't want to deal with all the sawdust. However, that means I'll spend as much time running up and down the stairs to and from the saw as I will putting the flooring down.

get the kids to do it ;)
oh and pics or it never happened!

Working on Thanksgiving Day (healthcare is 24/7), save some turkey for me.

My Dad is playing the Susan Boyle album. AGAIN.
She sounds far better on the album than she ever did live. She actually has a good voice, so I eat words previously spoken (unless it's all studio trickery) and a great range.

But the album is so bloody mournful!
She covers Daydream Believer, which always used to bring back memories of the taste of cider and fumbled encounters at teenage parties. Now it sounds like it's being sung in church at the funeral of a cheerleader.

Gah!
Put on La Cage Aux Folles and get out your feather boa I say!

It's warm enough to put a 20" fan in the window and set the saw next to it. That'll take care of 94.57% of the dust. ;)

Bleh. Too lazy to do anything about it. I have a headache. Maybe 25% of the room is done now, but it's a hard 25%, including the linen closet and the bathroom door. I should be able to cruise to the other end of the room and then finish off the closets tomorrow.

Dang. I wish my husband had had the same sense as you. He did all his cutting inside when he drywalled the basement a few years back. I was cleaning up dust for months.

I feel guilty for not volunteering somewhere today to serve meals. Then I am irritated at the notion that I think I have to. Just a minor irritation...I do this to myself...

I have a new next door neighbor. She has a little yappy dog which she left at home for Thanksgiving, which barked and cried the whole fucking day.

grrr.

Cough due to cold.

*cough*

Small people. I am re-affirming my commitment to remain childless.

Black Friday, and the insistent pull from both media and real-life people telling me that we HAVE TO go shopping today and buy a whole bunch of crap we don't need because it's ON SALE!

Yes, I need to get a few Christmas gifts, but what's on sale is rarely what I want anyway.

So I was shopping on Amazon last night, found some decent deals, but then my ISP cut out. Probably too many people using the pipeline or something (doesn't cable do that sometimes? I'm so dumb about that stuff). And I was too tired to mess with it so I went to bed, and after re-setting the modem, I found that everything is about $5 higher now. Figures.

Also: kids who are too old for toys but too young for expensive electronics and don't know what they want in-between.

Also: having to come up with a list of my own. Usually if I want something, I just go buy it myself. Christmas means that if I see something I want, I have to WAIT for it. Damn, I'm spoiled.

I'm watching UP and it's really cute! but for some reason, there's no menu, and no captions. I'm addicted to captioning, so it's pissing me off.

Sickly email from Mum.
Part of a chain, but I am only showing the verse.
Despite the fact they should be named and shamed.
Here is my response.
Battled with my conscience and only sent the reply to my Mum. Sharing it here with you instead. Please note the terrible rhyming is quite deliberate!

That last line made me laugh out loud, Sundae. :)

That's awesome, Sundae. Really awesome.

I'm tempted to do the same whenever I get those bits of fluff forwarded, too.

Holy crap, Steve. Someone in Disney marketing is going to get demoted over that one...

No wonder I fail at college *sigh*
I thought registration begins Dec 4th. Turns out I can register on Wed, Dec 2 instead. I can't keep all this shit straight.

Most people can't remember all the things they need to remember, mtp. Get a paper or electronic calendar and to-do list. Use them faithfully and they will serve you well all of your days.

OMG - If I didn't have a list ... nothing would get done and my cats would starve.

My rule is that if I go to a store & need more than 2 things I MUST have a list with me.

That's the thing Dar. I did look it up a month ago and put it in my calendar. I just found the wrong info, Dec 4th is the registration start date for freshmen I guess. I didn't even know they had different registration dates according to your cumulative hours. I have 44hrs so that means I can start on Dec 2. I just didn't find that information anywhere until my friend showed it to me.

I can't find a picture of the Archduke of Canterbury playing dice with Charles Darwin

Yesterday afternoon I got a call from a mate whose other mate wants to sell a very good mountain bike (Specialized Enduro) quickly for holiday cash. I got in touch and arranged to go see it today. He was asking $500 and internet research reveals that new, this kind of bike goes for around $5,000. Absolute bargain. I was going to buy it.

The bloke called me this morning to tell me he has sold it to someone else.
Now, I am in exactly the same position as I was yesterday - no bike, but have $500. So why am I less happy about it now?

I am going to have to Buddha my way out of this.

Observe, grasshopper, how the attachment to desire is the cause of suffering. And remember, while having a bike is a reality, not having a bike is just a concept.

My daughter's laptop is on the fritz. It's either the system board or the power connector--I'm suspecting both. So the laptop is currently disemboweled on a card table while we wait for new parts to arrive. Bleh.

zen, email him and tell him you were ready to pay $4,000 for it.

I can't find my signet ring, I wore the think out and its gone now. I don't remember where I took it off or if it just fell. This is what I get for wearing it at all .

PRECIOUS!!!!!!!!!!

The King of Denmark will assume your missives are counterfeit!

Hope you find it Tora.

The never ending pity party. :violin:

Photobucket has locked me out of my account and trying to force me to pay in order to gain access.It says I have exceeded bandwith and if I want more space I have to pay. I've been trying to find linked photos from photobucket and delete them. It doesn't seem to be working. Damn pirates!


edit
Went to the FAQ section.

I guess it will reset ,,,if people stop looking at them. ?
and at the anniversary day of my original registration.


Why didn't my bandwidth decrease when I removed images from my album?
Bandwidth is not a measure of how many images and videos are in your album. Rather, it is a measure of how many times the media in your album is being viewed from locations on the Internet where you have posted links to your media.
Bandwidth is cumulative over time and does not go down until it is reset. Your bandwidth usage resets to 0 each month on the anniversary of the day that you originally registered.



I think I'll be looking for a different photo sharing site. Any suggestions?

Maybe UT can offer it as a cellar fundraiser?

Sorry, can't help with free sites. Does your provider not allow you some storage space? Lots of People use Flickr -is that a paid service?

laughed out loud.

is it me or is the Toad being especially funny lately?

and if yes, why?

what? no

:bonk:myself



yes but I have had photobucket for years. There are some other sites.Webshots too. I don't want to use my provider space. I don't know of any others and I don't care for flicker so much.

I have to wait until it resets then close it up again and not link to my photos.

:bonk:

Books with subtitles. It seems every frickin book has one.

Global Warming

Why it's happening, why we're all to blame, what we should do about it, why we can't do it, what we should do instead, where should we go for dinner tonight, are you feeling randy, baby?

Ok, I made that one up.

I'd read that.

I spent the afternoon on the firing range and I've developed an interesting blister on my trigger finger.

Right on dude. You can never shoot enough.

:fumette:

Maybe I should give in and try it.

I've ordered almost $10,000 in floor wax for this facility so far this year - my requisition for a Blackberry swivel-holster ($19.95 + shipping) has just been declined. :eyebrow:

I can figure out the cats starving because they jump on me, pat my shoulder and do other annoying things to get my attention. Sometimes they will be good and sit by their dish and look solemn.

I need a list but mostly I never stick to them or rather I get more than what is on my list and that is very annoying to my pocketbook.

70 hours in the office every fricken week. :yeldead:

Ugh, I've worked jobs like that, Qice. That sucks! I just hope for your sake it pays enough to justify the hours...

This is really dumb, but I'm finding myself just a little offended right now.

MB's work just called with his schedule for the week. My phone's not working, so he'd left his with me while he went grocery shopping. I haven't met the person who called, but I told her who I was, wrote down the schedule, and made sure it was right by repeating it back.

After she confirmed, she asked me to have MB give her a call to make sure he got the message. Not that she didn't trust me or anything, but she would feel better hearing it from him. I said OK will do, but thought, excuse me? :rolleyes:

I do the same thing, when I call... its too easy for the person to say " I didn't get the message" even when they did. This is the only way you can make sure to cover the callers ass. :) I also photocopy the schedule for each employee, and then have them initial the master copy that sits at work. There is no way they can say they didn't know about a shift.

I would say don't take offense, I am sure the caller has been burned before and got in trouble for it.

Folgers coffee. Is there anything that sucks worse.

No coffee at all sucks worse! :)