Yay for thrift stores! The kidlet's recent growth spurt meant that he was no longer able to get his feet into his winter boots. And for some ungodly reason the stores have already taken all the winter stuff off the shelves. It's February people! In Michigan! We don't get spring until at least April. Grr. Anyways, went to the thrift store and found a really nice pair in his size that are more waterproof so will really transition well for spring. And got some more pants in his new size. Now I just want to know why he always has that growth spurt right at the end of a season. Every time. Without fail.
Weird. For some reason, I'm having trouble accessing the previous page.
My function seems odd also.
And the new batch of disks seems to work just fine, unlike the dud ones I bought last week so was finally able to burn that lullaby cd for the kidlet. No more listening to him whine about being tired of the one cd he has left that hasn't been destroyed by too many plays. :)
This day just keeps getting better.
Think I'll play some rockband tonight just to round off a totally unproductive day. Well, mostly unproductive. I did do a load of laundry. And started reading that book for my geology term project. But fossil molecules are interesting. :)
Weird. For some reason, I'm having trouble accessing the previous page.My function seems odd also.
Huh. I'm not having any trouble with it at all.
Huh. I'm not having any trouble with it at all.Weird. For some reason, I'm having trouble accessing the previous page.My function seems odd also.
I may have had too many browser windows open. I closed them all, and logged back in, and it seems happy now.
Dear Greenman,
I started watering my plants with coffee, wine, and good ale. But instead of starting to talk about gaming and philosophy, they cussed for a day or two, then turned brown and crispy. What did I do wrong?
A Fan
Mmmm...peppermint soy latte. :)
Dear Greenman,
I started watering my plants with coffee, wine, and good ale. But instead of starting to talk about gaming and philosophy, they cussed for a day or two, then turned brown and crispy. What did I do wrong?
A Fan
They must have been defective plants. ;)
Of course, what do I know? I'm not really an expert on plant life...
Have fun everyone. I will check back in sometime towards Friday. New Orleans here we come!
Have fun everyone. I will check back in sometime towards Friday. New Orleans here we come!
Have a good trip, and have way too much fun! :)
I can't save the buzz from imminent death no more. It's too much effing work, and too many people staring at it as it dies.
I like dogs better than people.
Dogs listen to me like they know I'm smarter than them.
It's not that they're smarter than people. They just have more sense.
Sorry to hear that, Shiny. I hope it gets better for you.Absolutely not.Looks like it's a quiet day in FAWLTland.
I hope everyone's enjoying their weekend.
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Have fun everyone. I will check back in sometime towards Friday. New Orleans here we come!Have a good trip, and have way too much fun! :)
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"The Star Wars prequels are the best examples of [relying exclusively on visual effects] where you’re mesmerized by all the visuals and excitement on screen, but if you really stop and listen you’ll realize that almost every line and every action makes no sense and is just there to get to the next special effects scene."
"George Lucas didn't ruin my childhood. He just disappointed my adulthood."
- Mike Stoklasa (also known as the voice of Harry S. Plinkett)
I don't know. I'm questioning a lot of my decisions.Things not going so well in the CH household. More rejections...Sorry, CH. At least you know you have a place to go, though. Maybe that's the right one. I still wonder why you didn't apply to a school near me. :)
Uh-oh...I know that internal voice. :(
Hang in there, CH.
Dear Greenman,
I started watering my plants with coffee, wine, and good ale. But instead of starting to talk about gaming and philosophy, they cussed for a day or two, then turned brown and crispy. What did I do wrong?
A Fan
Dear Fan,
I think I see your problem. You indeed had awakened plants, but they were not native to Faerie -- they were merely awakened plants. Your hopes could never be fulfilled by such mundane creatures, and your quality gifts, which would have nourished fey plants, alas, were their demise.
Better Luck in the Future,
The Greenman
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I don't know. I'm questioning a lot of my decisions.Things not going so well in the CH household. More rejections...Sorry, CH. At least you know you have a place to go, though. Maybe that's the right one. I still wonder why you didn't apply to a school near me. :)Uh-oh...I know that internal voice. :(
Hang in there, CH.
Thanks. I think we'll be able to figure it out. It's just stressful right now.
I've decided that velvet cake is not a lie.
Good Sunday morning!
More for the Strunk & White crowd.
Huzzah For Elements of Style!
I have been a Strunkian since I learned grammar while on Uncle Sam's silver. Although I sometimes dive into 'American Ornateness.', I appreciate that it is a much harder chore to write your ideas concisely. Finding just the right word to convey meaning is the continual challenge we who communicate over the Internetz face. Look how many misunderstandings and flame wars are started through a simple turn of phrase understood wrong.
Eat the Rich!
Cereal is a conspiracy of our corporate masters to make us pay $5.00 for a box of silo sweepings doused in cheap corn fructose!
ARISE AND EAT MUFFINS! THEY ARE THE TRUE EGALITARIAN MEAL!
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Ok, ok. So you are 21. There! Happy? ~grins~Oh, 19 was a long, LONG time ago. A baby born when I was nineteen would be legal to drink now. :P19 is not that old.Well, you folks were busy today ...No kidding! 400+ posts since I looked in this morning. If this were Usenet, I'd be making the acquaintance of Mark Allread and moving on.
(Yeah, I'm old.)
Actually, yeah, I AM pretty happy with 40. My life is WAY better now than it was when I was either 19 or 21. :)
(I really don't understand the whole 'pretending to be younger' thing that people do. I'm perfectly happy to get old.)
Meh. I'll be 40 in June. Still act like I'm 25 though, so what's the difference?
As a side note, why do women lie about their age? I mean really, if you start dating 'seriously', sooner or later the truth will come out. Then you get to explain to your SO why your whole relationship started with a lie. A lie about something that's really trivial, which to my point of view, makes it even MORE annoying.
Don't let the poodles find out she's using a French pronunciation.Soul..NAY! Soul..NAY!! You know how its pronounced! I told that night at the hotel....Afternoon folks!! :DSoul-ness *WOOT*Wow... I've had that so wrong.
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<Steve Martin> Those French. They have a different word for everything.</Steve Martin>
Actually, yeah, I AM pretty happy with 40. My life is WAY better now than it was when I was either 19 or 21. :)
(I really don't understand the whole 'pretending to be younger' thing that people do. I'm perfectly happy to get old.)
Meh. I'll be 40 in June. Still act like I'm 25 though, so what's the difference?
As a side note, why do women lie about their age? I mean really, if you start dating 'seriously', sooner or later the truth will come out. Then you get to explain to your SO why your whole relationship started with a lie. A lie about something that's really trivial, which to my point of view, makes it even MORE annoying.
Uh... Are you asking me specifically, or is that a rhetorical question?
If you're asking me, I dunno. I've never lied about my age. (See above, where I said I don't get the whole 'pretending to be younger' thing.)
But it's not as though lying about one's age is only something women do. In my experience, it's actually more common for men to lie about their age, especially in prospective dating situations.
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Actually, yeah, I AM pretty happy with 40. My life is WAY better now than it was when I was either 19 or 21. :)
(I really don't understand the whole 'pretending to be younger' thing that people do. I'm perfectly happy to get old.)
Meh. I'll be 40 in June. Still act like I'm 25 though, so what's the difference?
As a side note, why do women lie about their age? I mean really, if you start dating 'seriously', sooner or later the truth will come out. Then you get to explain to your SO why your whole relationship started with a lie. A lie about something that's really trivial, which to my point of view, makes it even MORE annoying.
Uh... Are you asking me specifically, or is that a rhetorical question?
If you're asking me, I dunno. I've never lied about my age. (See above, where I said I don't get the whole 'pretending to be younger' thing.)
But it's not as though lying about one's age is only something women do. In my experience, it's actually more common for men to lie about their age, especially in prospective dating situations.
Just a general question, directed at no one in particular. Or more specifically to anyone who cares to address it. Your 'pretending to be younger' comment is what made me think to bring it up... that's all.
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I find it annoying that one of my cats talks to everyone in the house but me. She is the only cat I've ever met that doesn't like me. The only time she will let me near her is when I go in to give my daughters kisses before I leave for work in the morning. (I leave for work before everyone else gets out of bed.)
Clearly, the cat has brain damage.
when I was in kindergarten we adopted a cat. Her littermate was adopted by our next door neighbor, Sharie. Well, Sharie's kitten would leap from one side of the stairwell to the attic to the other. back and forth. back and forth. Until it missed one time, and fell. Sharie heard it "thump!" and checked...and found the kitten, not breathing, on the carpeted steps. She administered CPR...and revived Henry!
Henry was never right in the head after that, though. He literally was brain damaged. the only arguement was...did the fall and lack of oxygen do it? or was the back and forth jumping the first sign?
His sister Snowball (our cat) hated everyone, terrified every human in the household, stopped a house robber once, and loved to kill goldfinches. Only the male ones.
O.o
See? I keep telling you cats are ebil!
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That's silly! Girls don't think!I found out my wife and daughter are at "Thinking Day" with Girl Scouts, so I took a dinner break.
Heh. What's sad is I bet you can find people on these boards who truly think that.
Not in this thread...as far as I know...
Well, we already know they can't GM or do math. Is it such a strech, really?
;)
Just a general question, directed at no one in particular. Or more specifically to anyone who cares to address it. Your 'pretending to be younger' comment is what made me think to bring it up... that's all.Actually, yeah, I AM pretty happy with 40. My life is WAY better now than it was when I was either 19 or 21. :)
(I really don't understand the whole 'pretending to be younger' thing that people do. I'm perfectly happy to get old.)
Meh. I'll be 40 in June. Still act like I'm 25 though, so what's the difference?
As a side note, why do women lie about their age? I mean really, if you start dating 'seriously', sooner or later the truth will come out. Then you get to explain to your SO why your whole relationship started with a lie. A lie about something that's really trivial, which to my point of view, makes it even MORE annoying.
Uh... Are you asking me specifically, or is that a rhetorical question?
If you're asking me, I dunno. I've never lied about my age. (See above, where I said I don't get the whole 'pretending to be younger' thing.)
But it's not as though lying about one's age is only something women do. In my experience, it's actually more common for men to lie about their age, especially in prospective dating situations.
Ah, okay, well, if you want my personal opinion...
This may be a little deep for this thread, so I'll hide it in case folks don't want to read:
I'd say that in a lot of cases, a heterosexual woman might lie about her age to a prospective partner because society still tends to place a lot of 'relationship value' on a woman's fertility, and youth is correlated pretty strongly with fertility. And even if it isn't directly related, there's an awful lot of social judgment of women based on appearance and relationship status. (e.g. a single woman in her late thirties is more often seen as an object of ridicule and/or pity than a single man in his late thirties would be.)
I seemed to have missed both the maternal urge and the whole 'valuing myself according to my relationship status' indoctrination, for the most part, but I've seen it mess up enough of my women friends that I know it's not uncommon.
Disclaimer: Not that there isn't appearance-based or relationship based societal pressure on men, but it's a different kind of pressure, and you were asking specifically about women, so I'm trying to stay on point.
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Just a general question, directed at no one in particular. Or more specifically to anyone who cares to address it. Your 'pretending to be younger' comment is what made me think to bring it up... that's all.Actually, yeah, I AM pretty happy with 40. My life is WAY better now than it was when I was either 19 or 21. :)
(I really don't understand the whole 'pretending to be younger' thing that people do. I'm perfectly happy to get old.)
Meh. I'll be 40 in June. Still act like I'm 25 though, so what's the difference?
As a side note, why do women lie about their age? I mean really, if you start dating 'seriously', sooner or later the truth will come out. Then you get to explain to your SO why your whole relationship started with a lie. A lie about something that's really trivial, which to my point of view, makes it even MORE annoying.
Uh... Are you asking me specifically, or is that a rhetorical question?
If you're asking me, I dunno. I've never lied about my age. (See above, where I said I don't get the whole 'pretending to be younger' thing.)
But it's not as though lying about one's age is only something women do. In my experience, it's actually more common for men to lie about their age, especially in prospective dating situations.
I like the way my wife puts it. She'll be turning 40 very soon. The kindergartners that she reads for at my daughters' school asked her age and came back with the obvious, "Wow! You're old!" My wife just laughed and told them she was glad to be 40...because she'd earned it!
I like the way my wife puts it. She'll be turning 40 very soon. The kindergartners that she reads for at my daughters' school asked her age and came back with the obvious, "Wow! You're old!" My wife just laughed and told them she was glad to be 40...because she'd earned it!
And let's be honest, anything older than ten is old to a kindergartner. :)
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So, after a rough start last night, the boy did rather well. Woke to eat at midnight and 2 am, then slept for over 4 hours.
In other news, however, he is a dangerous one to diaper change...
(Warning: spoilered in case some people are eating, very gross information contained in the following spoiler tag)
Luckily, I avoided the earlier-in-the-day fates of both my wife and mother-in-law, who happened to be facing the ass when something similar happened.
Just a general question, directed at no one in particular. Or more specifically to anyone who cares to address it. Your 'pretending to be younger' comment is what made me think to bring it up... that's all.Actually, yeah, I AM pretty happy with 40. My life is WAY better now than it was when I was either 19 or 21. :)
(I really don't understand the whole 'pretending to be younger' thing that people do. I'm perfectly happy to get old.)
Meh. I'll be 40 in June. Still act like I'm 25 though, so what's the difference?
As a side note, why do women lie about their age? I mean really, if you start dating 'seriously', sooner or later the truth will come out. Then you get to explain to your SO why your whole relationship started with a lie. A lie about something that's really trivial, which to my point of view, makes it even MORE annoying.
Uh... Are you asking me specifically, or is that a rhetorical question?
If you're asking me, I dunno. I've never lied about my age. (See above, where I said I don't get the whole 'pretending to be younger' thing.)
But it's not as though lying about one's age is only something women do. In my experience, it's actually more common for men to lie about their age, especially in prospective dating situations.
I like the way my wife puts it. She'll be turning 40 very soon. The kindergartners that she reads for at my daughters' school asked her age and came back with the obvious, "Wow! You're old!" My wife just laughed and told them she was glad to be 40...because she'd earned it!
LOL! We have a fridge magnet that says, "I'm not 50; I'm 18 with 32 years of experience!".
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So, after a rough start last night, the boy did rather well. Woke to eat at midnight and 2 am, then slept for over 4 hours.
In other news, however, he is a dangerous one to diaper change...
(Warning: spoilered in case some people are eating, very gross information contained in the following spoiler tag)
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LOL! Sorry, but that's too funny...messy and difficult to clean up...but funny!
I've never been too easy to gross out, but I've been doubly fortified since becoming a dad.
So, after a rough start last night, the boy did rather well. Woke to eat at midnight and 2 am, then slept for over 4 hours.
In other news, however, he is a dangerous one to diaper change...
(Warning: spoilered in case some people are eating, very gross information contained in the following spoiler tag)
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Question:
Say.....it's Friday. I say we're doing something next Monday. To YOU, does this mean "the next coming up Monday three days from now," or "the Monday after the next coming Monday, which is 10 days hence?"