time to go home...... run shawnee, run!

Boss lady said I could take personal time, no prob, but I sit here feeling guilty for thinking of it. Why? I don't know. I live the farthest away. It's one of the better times of year for me to go.

So I'm all tense and apprehensive, they just shut down a nearby highway due to a crash involving a patrolman, but we sit here all martyred and sweet and loyal.

I'M not loyal. I just need the nerve to say "eff it."

(It's really no big deal, I do have the time I can take as I want, but that's what I do to myself, fret and worry about what everyone thinks except about what I think.) :(

Agh.

You try to be good; you stock up on clothes one- and even two-sizes-up when the thrift store is having a sale. You congratulate yourself on already having a full collection of size 5 pants for the boy when he gets big enough for them next winter. It's kind of more pairs than he needs, but you figure he'll tear out the knees in at least 2-3 pairs when he's wearing them.

And as you dig back into the closet to neatly store them until that time, you discover another box.

A box that you painstakingly packed, and have held onto for years, from way back when your stepson was that size. It was kind of a lot to save at the time, but you figured, boys tear out the knees of their pants all the time, so you might as well keep them all.

And now you have like 20 fucking pairs of size 5 jeans.

you'll get through them.

it's snowing here now.

bah! that feeling will pass when work is in the rear view mirror!

(that recipe was Awesome by the way!)

And when the crazy butts are in my rear view.

Glad you tried the recipe!!!! :)

Well the snow all but stopped so I stayed at work, and the drive home was just fine. Better than normal, maybe some people left work earlier, I know my friend's college closed early.

Alls well that ends well. I worried for nothing, typical. ;)

ahhh but not to worry means you don't have a care! :cool:

Thank you Lamplighter, that's a very nice thing to say. Those are partly observations based on my time as a member of our authority's Children and Young People's Scrutiny Panel, and as an active Regulation 33 visitor (as part of the local councillor 'Corporate Parenting' responsibility); and partly observations drawn from news analysis around the high profile cases, and the various investigations into the care system provoked by those cases. And yes it was written for the Cellar. My particular level of involvement (elected member) is not one that tends to require a lot of report writing.

heck of a lot of report reading though :P

I no longer sit on that committee, but I did for three years. Funnily enough I'm currently posted at the other end of the scale, as a sitting member of the Adult Health and Social Care Scrutiny Panel.

Bloody League of Gentlemen and their bloody reticent agent(s).
I do not watch daytime TV - even though I am currently unemployed.
Daytime TV is for people with very different tastes and sensibilities to me.

I occasionally listen to the radio in the afternoon (Five Live) and sometimes pick up word of the Gents' doings from there. But how many people who get to listen to the radio in the afternoon can necessarily afford West End theatre prices anyway. I can't - I have to save (or borrow from my long suffering bro and pay back, or look after Grandad and have him tell Mum to treat me).

So it was by accident I found out Mark Gatiss is in Ayckbourn's Seasons Greetings with Catherine Tate and David Troughton (yes, Patrick's son) until March.

And by accident I discovered Reece Shearsmith has taken over Andy Nyman's part in Ghost Stories. And yes, I would see it again just to see Reece. DanaC, if he's still in it next time you come down South we really both have to go - you'd adore it. In fact even if he's not in it, I think it's worth scheduling in.

It just grates that I follow JB far more closely these days, because his website is so detailed and the spin-off message boards so well-modded (no "OMG he is so fit!!!!!!!!" posts) that it's really easy. Following the League used to be a sneaky pleasure, but when you have limited time/ access it's tricky to keep up.

Humph.
Bet I wouldn't even know if they were touring again.

Derren Brown isn't much better.
But at least he has a fairly up to date website.
He's gay too, Dana, don't know if I mentioned :)

Just to wet your whistle, and because he's not on our screens enough right now, here is the devilish Mr Shearsmith

I do love his accent. even when he is being posh for interviews.
Might have to go find some Jeremy Dyson interviews now - he has the sexiest accent out of the four of them (Leeds).

My own inertia is irritating me.

proper lancs accent is my fave. Burnley or Rawtenstall way. Much softer than the manc accent. slightly softer than the Bolton accent, though old style Bolton was lovely, with its soft burr. These days Bolton is veering more to the manc accent, with its harsher, more clipped tones.

Here's a clip of Jane Horrocks. Best example I could find of a Rawtenstall accent:



I also love the Leeds accent. And the Sheffield accent:

Jarvis Cocker, I love the way he speaks (Sheffield accedent):

Rawtenstall: dry ski slope. The memories....

Ahehehe. yah. My cousins lived there for a little while.

Just a hop skip and a jump from sunny Bolton.

Being home with a Cold !!!!!

drink ya some gentleman jack with honey! ;)

Jane Horrocks is great as piglet in

And we add another today, although I have not been officially contacted yet. ShitPissFuck...

I broke my little toe last night and then my husband stepped on it this morning :thepain:

Did that help?

Being home with a Cold !!!!!

But the Phone KEEPS ringing , My Boss And Customers just Keep Calling !!

guffaw!

I am so lethargic today.
And sleepy!

I got up slightly earlier than normal, knowing I had the house to myself. Was full of plans to go shopping, maybe even in Milton Keynes, jobserch online, amend my CV for bar-work, come in here etc etc.

I had to go back to bed - not once but twice.
Dad woke me up when he dropped in at 10.15, and again at 11.35.
I was completely sparko - I think if I'd had my earplugs in I would have slept through.

The only thing I can think it is, is that I'm trying antabuse again. It's a medication that makes you violently sick any time you consume alcohol - to the extent I have not used my normal mouthwash today. I have a course to last me until Monday, but the effects will last for up to another two weeks. This is really a safegaurd - I knew today I would have the house pretty much to myself, and that my benefits would be paid into my bank. This is always a danger time for me - I only have £45 to last me two weeks once all bills are taken care of, but that can easily be spent in two days on alcohol and then a fast food binge once my defenses are down. So I thought this was a really positive thing to do.

I'll be gutted if this drowsiness continues though - what will I be like tomorrow at school?

Still - I'm committed to it now.
A month teetotal should give my body a good detox and hopefully break the cycle of drink-hangover-drink I was getting back into.
And the subsequent weight loss - if nothing else - should act as a good incentive.

It's just an irritation, because I'd started to feel the benefits of being teetotal on willpower alone, and the extra step I've taken has had a more negative impact than I expected.

Snow, starting during morning commute. White Death is coming!

Forecast for the evening commute: Partly crappy with a chance of death.

Hee!

yeah, I thought this wasn't supposed to happen until noon or so? the weatherman lied on us again.

Brace yourselves, Philly.

Bri, pray (and that can mean whatever you want: do a nekkid snow dance outside or something) for early dismissal for me.

consider it done. I'll wear my new mittens.

:jig:

damn you guys crack me up!

mildly irritating? last night texas lotto numbers: 20 - 22 - 37 - 39 - 42 - 43

my numbers?


02-36-38-39-41-45.

Snow is irritating me. We're closing at 4, I get to leave an hour early, but the way it's coming down I expect I'll get home around 8 tonight.

I HATE WINTER.

make like a goose and migrate!

I'm gonna make like a scalp and depart!

need some head and shoulders for that?

Make like a baby and head out.

Make like a tree and get out of here!

make like an illiterate signing a form and exit.

man! i'm so poor i gotta fart to have a cent in my pocket!

oops sorry, here we go:

make like a banana and split!

Make like a tumor and cut out.

make like acne and clear out.

Make like a hockey player and get the puck outta here!

Make like an extrememly large sick dear that used to be in the army and.....

.... VAmoose

:bolt:

make like a busboy and get the fork out of here

HA!

I'm home. Only 2+ hours plus a stop at the store. Yikes. At one point sitting on the interstate for 15 minutes, standstill, move a bit, standstill. I finally was able to get off an exit and work my way back around. Of course, every accident I heard about involved jack-knifed semis, two that blocked and shut down my interstate. Do they not cover driving in snow/ice in driving school? :mad:

maybe i should get a pell grant and find out?

Hell, get a research grant!

I know someone who knows a little about writing grant proposals. ;)

right!

brianr where are you? need the answer!

OOH OOH Pick me! I have a bunch of ideas for grants. REALLY good ones too, not just your ordinary elephant poop sculpture of the virgin mary.

I saw this number once "For a good grant call 1-800 SHA WNEE" but I never called...

for a bad grant call 1-800-PER-WINKL

I resemble that remark.

Eye twitching. :mad:

That's not the eye twitching smilie.

uh oh!

:bolt:

:mg: :eyebrow: :unsure: :smack: :ninja:

Hmmm, which one best exemplifies eye twitchies? I like the head smacky one because that's what I feel like doing when my eye starts twitching.

That's right, plt, live in fear, my friend, live in fear. :lol:

i think i need more :coffee2: and a :fumette:

At work we used to say that a twitchy eye meant you were coming into money.
In fact my friend and I made it up one afternoon as a fake old wives' tale, and got a lot of pleasure from hearing it repeated. I'm sure other offices have been brought round to the new-old belief by now.

We figured that having twitchy eye was annoying enough to warrant some kind of prize from the Universe.

Wouldn't that be awesome?

But I call them Old Husband's Tales. ;)

My eye is still twitching, and now I have one of those funky little spots (do they call them 'auras'?) where everything is a certain part of my sight is blurry, looks like little zigzaggy lines. Crap, as I typed this I realized it's growing.

WTF? Hard to see to work, or even read what I'm typing. I went to bed at a decent hour, trying to rest my eyeballs.

a Google for twitchy eye aura says you are having an eye migraine, which is usually painless. Also known as a silent migraine.

It's grown. This sucks!

I googled how to get rid of one. Basically...ain't gonna happen. I guess it'll go away on its own, but when?

Spexx? HELP! Any ideas, Eye Man?