So true!
The best part of waking up is having something in your cup.;)

Two Girls One Cup beg to differ [retch]

That's the Folgers motto modified.

Now what's this about one cup two girls?

You don't still use piss pots there do you?

I went out for a walk with Pilau, in the thick snow. We went through village, up the lane, past the farms and stables and up onto the bluff where the view of the valley opens out like some magnificent landscape painting: all white and beautiful, breathtakingly so.

Took my camera out to take pics, turned it on and pointed it at a particularly lovely view of the paddock with horses (in their coats) tugging on a bundle of hay that had been slung from the fence post and ...

'battery low' *whirr click* camera shut down without a single pic taken

Doh!

I want to say,"aww shoot" but maybe a "damn the damn camera" would read more supportive -like. :(

Damm. With a lead up like that I was getting the pic in my head hoping for the pay off with a real one. Now charge up those batteries and get back out there before the snow is all trampled on!:D

Alas, by the time I got home (through the blizzard we were caught in - see White Christmas thread) it was late afternoon, so by the time the camera was charged it was dark out :(

One of my staff members went down with a medical emergency AND a possible nervous breakdown. So here we are the busiest time of the year in a liquor store... and we are down a full time staff member. She will be out for at least 2 weeks if not longer :(

My other girl went in early, but she can only stay until 7pm.. so 7-11 is not covered..... on the up side its horrible weather, and we will not really miss much in sales (hopefully) The 2 part time/on call people are not answering their phones of course.

Tomorrow is Yule AND my anniversary so my husband is insisting I do not cover any shifts tomorrow. I am only the manager in everyone's eyes... I am just the supervisor. Even tho I am expected to do all the paperwork, schedules, cover shifts, deal with reps etc without the title and the pay. I called the manager and of course got his voice mail at home.

Oh, and my hubby hurt his back at work Fri night and will be off for 2ish weeks... not good financially or errand wise, as he can not even move without pain.

I *WILL* have a good Yule and Christmas dammit!!! lol

God's teeth, Jay, what a bloody nightmare! Keep focussed on that determination to have a good yule and Christmas anyway though. Hope it gets better and really hope Mr Jaydaan gets better soon. Bad backs are such a bugger. They affect everything you try and do.

*passes Jaydaan a very large Christmas sherry, a mince pie and a bumper pack of analgesics for Mr J* here y'go m'dear.

Thanks DanaC! all those things sound great!

Well its only 1pm, and I already cracked a bottle of J. Lohr Cab/Sauv.. this way when my boss calls me to try to convince me to go in tonight, I can legitimately say, " sorry, I have been drinking, and legally can not work" :)

Hubby is in the shower (barely on) using the heat to hopefully un-seize his back as I type.

I put a list of all things needed to be done on my fridge... and filled the freezer section!!! Not all going to get done I'm afraid. So cleaning the living room/kitchen is my goal today, and decorating.

My best friend said she would take our son out to get my gift, and do my husbands shopping for him, so he does not have to worry about that. I will go out to get my father in law's gift (hubby usually does that himself) as soon as hubby surfs the web and finds what he wants me to purchase.

In the meantime, I am having that drink, lunch and relaxing a bit before we sink into chaos. ROFL

Um Jaaydan, have you checked the mail for a SS delivery recently? that might cheer you up.....

No mail on the weekends....

Well.. it looks like the night of the 23rd is not covered, and the nights of the 26 and 27th.. all others are covered. All others were covered... and we have one not so reliable girl that may cover them.. otherwise its 11-8pm instead of 9am-11pm opening.

My issues are not so bad, really. A bit of maybe not the cleanest house as wished, not any extra money after Jan rent is payed... but really.. there is HUNDREDS of dollars under the tree. My family is healthy (in pain... but healthy) The stress is all self inflicted.

My girl at work had had such a rough year... hubby left her, she had to move, father almost died (was in ICU for 3 wks) Grandfather died, Grandmother died, ex decided to sue her for custody (good luck on that one BTW, she is a great mother, and he is an idiot) and now she found out 2 days ago she was pregnant... SURPRISE!!!!!!.. and now a tubal pregnancy and is in hospital. BAH
More worried about her really..... her sanity is not stable, and looking back at her year, mine would not be either!

Sorry to hear all that Jaydaan.
My grumpiness feel totally unjustifed now.
But I'll tell you about it anyway!

Bloody post.

I ordered two badges from eBay on the 12th.
Still haven't come, only two more days of post before they're worthless. 49p each, so they don't break the bank, but as they're Christmas specific I'd have to wait a whole 'nother year to give them.

Abigail's snow-globe hasn't arrived either, or Samuel's MK Dons tshirt. The latter is the only one which will have to be replaced as it was a half of his Christmas present - I'll have to go into town on Weds and get him something else instead.

And no Secret Santa either :mecry:

There are ants crawling all over my desk.

No secret Santa in the mail today for me either, Sundae.

The neighborhood cats are shitting around my front door. Especially aggravating, since I keep MY cats inside.

Is there anything I can do to make them go elsewhere?

In parking lots, I hate it when people sit and wait for people to pull out; blocking everyone else. What if those people they're waiting for aren't ready to leave?

Don't be lazy--find another parking spot, and MOVE YOUR ASS!

Oh where is your patience. :0)

(totally agrees with Cloud)

Just tap politely on their window and say, "You've got 5 seconds to move or I'll buttfuck you in the mouth".

reading through 101 pages of things that are bothering people... that is bothering me

Well, read the other 45 pages, maybe that will help.

Hiya Morgan, try the "What's making you happy" thread.

Irritating: Mildly successful unemployment. Freelancing is a fucking roller coaster.

U-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p.DOWWWWWWWWN!

U-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p--p--p--p--p--p--p--p--p--p--p-pp--p--pp--p---DOWWWN!

And so forth.

The "up" part is supposed to become longer. ;-)

We'll see.

You haven't even been to "upsetting" yet.

Welcome Morgan!

Forgive me for saying but this is a distinctly odd thread to start with :P

@ THE: OUt of interest, what line of work do you freelance in?

I agree with THE. Freelancing can be brutal.

Or you could do like me, go back to college and only kinda-sorta freelance when there's time. Completely halfheartedly.

Actually it's funny; at first, registering for classes made the clients call me. Something about being busy making us even busier, you know? It's slowed down now, but I console myself by planning to re-launch next fall. I might even change my cheesy business name.

Oh, get this, I did just get an e-mail from a client, so it looks like they're giving me a little project for Christmas. Probably writing about tile or cabinets again.

What's irritating me today? I have to go to the grocery for Christmas food. Bah. I don't even know what I'm going to serve yet. Ham and what else?

There is a 'keep cats inside' policy here but some people that have always allowed their cats outside will continue to do so and take advantage of the new managements youth. I sort of understand if you have allowed your cats outside but this was an annoyance to me too last summer.

What I did was keep the soil moist if I could but mostly I put orange peel or sprinkled cloves on the ground if I could find them cheap. That seemed to work. I have read you can lay out a netting on the ground also. There was something else I did too but I can't think of it right now.

Scrapple!

Motion-activated sprinkler?

A shotgun will stop them from going anywhere . . . provided you have good timing AND aim. :rolleyes:

Get a pet Coyote. :wolf:

As a sidenote, the rats that were pooping on my front step have gone away since my mom's dog came to stay with us. GOOD doggie! :thumb:

Entire day at airport waiting for Banana Lady. Tis my own fault though....when we left at 10am beest said "shall I put the outside lights on for when we get back (we have a power-outage-inducing seasonal lights up in the front yard). I said "No, it's bright sunshine, you can't even see they're on in the sun". so of course it was dark by the time we finally got back......

I paid for Amazon to wrap some of the gifts I ordered for my wife. They did that at about $4.50 a pop. About 5 items. They did nothing more than put them in bag so that you can tell exactly what they are once you pick the fist one up. Waste of money but at least I did not have to wrap them.

this
http://is7.itookthisonmyphone.com/m/..._568x426r0.jpg

it was pretty freakin windy last night.

http://is7.itookthisonmyphone.com/m/..._336x248r0.jpg

Uhh, what the hell?
That looks bad...

Our system at work has been off/on slow and super slow at work for the past few days. This is the system we use to fix issues at the stores we troubleshoot. Right now a 3min issue has turned into 15minutes and counting.

Good: my client has bought my old monitor, meaning I could buy a new one

Bad: the Cellar's "olive" color now looks more like "puke". Has it been this way all along? Do I have to redesign, or just adjust the monitor's color?

The text and olive contrast is bad imo. I can read on the blue better.

I work blue, too. :)

I thought my eyes were just bad.


@ UT - Re design! It is a new year after all. :)

I'm a sterile kind of guy, so the colors don't matter to me at all. What olive?

Nuh-uh...you have kids!

Yeh what part of the cellar is olive? I gots me some brown and/or blue.

I'm usually looking at the plain grey theme, but I don't see a problem with either of the other schemes (brown/tan or blue/grey).

Well, the olive-esque color comes up to the left of each message, you know, the background color over there

<--- where it says Undertoad. And it's not olive, really, although it's not exactly tan either.

And the brown isn't brown, it's brick, because it would be maroon except that it has more orange in it.

say "orange"

blue here.

Yeah, at work I'm sterile too. ;) At home, I'm all about the blue, baybay.

Olive? My monitor shows gray with a vague greenish cast, and Rustoleum Damp-Proof Primer Red.
I use blue, but the drawback of that is, I can't see hidden(white) lettering some people use, until I highlight or quote. :(

On my laptop, it looks slate gray, and rusty brick red.

I like Clods description. Seems thats what I see as well.

Mine looks brown and cream, with grey trim and grey where the names are.

Oranges poranges who said
Oranges poranges who said
Oranges poranges who said
there ain't no rhyme for oranges?
--witchie poo

Non-stop "Year in Review" and "Decade in Review" are irritating every years. Everyone does it, radio, tv, all of it is blaaaa. Get on with it people. Stop living in the past already.

Doorhinges.

Fecking bastard loud fireworks.

Pil's poorly (not too poorly to wreck a toy) and I've given him his antibiotics and painkillers. Would really like it if he could just snooze calmly. As it is he keeps being frightened by nasty whizz-bangs. Poor lamb.

The big flurry of them at midnight...I don;t like em, but y'know, it's celebratory. Why are people letting them off randomly from 4pm onwards? grrrr.

The two bottles of champagne and fifth of Jimmy Beam I drank last night.

ooh. I like the blue bettah!

Something in my guts.
I've got it better than Mum, who is really quite poorly (mostly non-gut related so I assume it's not the same cause) but then I have to put up with her as well. Feeling under the weather tends to make my mother a little... tetchy.

Tetchier is more accurate, existing as she does in a permanent state of tetch.

So I have grumbling bowels and a grumbling old woman nagging at me.
Oh, and a coldsore coming up.