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Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
Perhaps if all new threads submitted without a category either couldn't be installed or just got placed under the heading " Mindfully challenged", one hall room monitor might have an easier time of it.
Ever been so bored that your actually thinking about what to put on a random announcement thread and NOTHING comes to mind with the exception of saying just that?
Its still a week and a half away, but I've just now begun to prepare for my trip to Dallas to see my family!
The reality of the trip only hit me today: haircut, oil change, check the tires, fix up my mp3 player (for an 8-hour drive in a truck with no A/C), tons of things to check up on at the hospital. Oh, and, uh, packing too!
But I won't have a beeper for the first time in three years since my promotion. And for the first time in four years I'll have a vacation longer than seven days.
Seeing the Michael Jackson video earlier in this thread reminded me....
One day, for no reason at all, I just started 'moon walking' across my kitchen floor while my 20-something daughter was talking to me (complaining) about something... I'd never done it before, didn't even know I could!
I don't know what possessed me! I just moon walked right out of the kitchen and around the living room/ dining room. Daughter said " What ARE you doing!??" I said " What's it look like- moon walking!"
I moon walked everywhere all over the house for at least an hour! LOL I must have looked ridiculous! A 54 year old fat woman moon walking around her house and laughing like an idiot....
Two announcements: 1) Made my first loaded cycling tour this past weekend w my girlfriend. Pics may come soon. 2) Finally got accepted into the Rehabilitation Assistant diploma program! I was on the wait list, but got a letter of acceptance the other day! Starting in Sept.
A cone of ice cream costs 1 euro per scoop. So I bought two scones with one scoop each, instead of one scone with two scoops. That got me one extra cone for free!
I got to meet a horse today. And yes I believe "meet" is the proper term. The horse was very intelligent, and downright kind if I do say so myself. I didn't ride him, though I wanted to. I petted his muzzle a bit and he looked at me with those huge brown soppy eyes. If you think puppy dog eyes can make your heart melt then you haven't met a horse.
I saw Hot Tuna last night! Oh, man. I've been listening to these guys since 1969 when they were in Jefferson Airplane and never got the chance to see them until last night. 3 hour set. A dream come true.
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I ate meat for the first time in absolute ages last night! went out with friends and had a Ruby, and tried lamb ceylon! Man, it was utterly lush!!
Did I suffer my usual cramps? Damnit, yeah, I did. Big time.
Ate lotus nuts/seeds for the first time today. I didn't even know they were edible like that...... Right out of the water. My daughter and I picking them out of the mud, standing next to the bell tower and sharing something new together. They were yummy right out of the heads, and we ate about 3 hand fulls. What a beautiful day!
We have a frost advisory. In July. I know we live in Minnesota, but c'mon. Usually July and August are safe from covering the gardens and bringing in all the container plants. On the plus side, my son's coffee plants grew like crazy in the wet, cool weather the past 2 weeks.
One of our cats, cloe, Does not go upstairs anymore and is spending time in the basement and first floor. She follows everyone around. She is still eating and drinking, but we are worried she is senile. And she has gone to a vet to test blood and whatever the vet can do.
One of our cats, cloe, Does not go upstairs anymore and is spending time in the basement and first floor. She follows everyone around. She is still eating and drinking, but we are worried she is senile. And she has gone to a vet to test blood and whatever the vet can do.
Oh @Jeffrey - I am so so sorry to hear about your Cloe...
My dad has had to have cancer treatments out of town the past few weeks, and my parents just made it back home tonight. This weekend I will hit the road to visit with them for about ten days (I haven't seen them in well over a year).
The other day, I sent this to my dad [attached]. My sister sent something too, but I can't post it here-- just a little off-color, but funny. My dad needs all the laughs he can get right now!
Thank you for a few special friends here who have given me support and a compassionate ear regarding my dad's illness. You know who you are! :wave:
Best wishes to @riverflow 's dad. Love and healing to him and your family, and laughter as well!
My random comment of the day is that I have spent much of the past 24 hours in random tears over the videos and photo essays of our first day of marriage equality in MN. SO SO much happiness in the eyes and faces of SO many people. How anyone can declare that to be wrong is beyond me. I pray for equality for all, every day. 2 minutes until my 5 year wedding anniversary, and for many others, their 24 hour anniversaries. I am seriously just over the moon happy. If joy could burst out of my body it would be happening right now. Of course, that could be the pie I ate earlier. But I'm pretty sure it's just happiness
I just want to say hi, new member here! Karasti I'm a fellow Minnesotan and I couldn't agree more. I was listening on MPR on my drive home from work the day it was passed and I was literally crying. I have friends in Massachusetts who would like to move back home and now they can since their marriage will be legally recognized here, it's just so much better for all. Yay equality!!
I decided to set up a FreeNAS computer. It was all going well and I was testing it on another computer. Both computers have locked their DVD's and become temperamental (so anthropomorphic with my hardware). Fixable. But may sulk for a while
Good luck to Dads and Cats and everyone undergoing real difficulties :bawl:
Cut my foot walking in the dark. Lots of blood when washing when I came in. Now I am special because I have special bandages. I am fascinated by looking at my owie.
Well, since I've finally told my family and everyone else, my girlfriend and I have broken up and I won't be moving to New Zealand (we've actually been apart since early July). Life goes on. impermanence, etc....
THANK YOU MOM AND DAD!! It's my b'day today! I'm fifty-freakin-seven years old today! WOW. My time is getting short! I've only got another 30-40 years to go!! :eek:
Anyway, Today is my birthday and again THANK You Mom and DAD (yes, they're still here with us). I love love LOVE my hubby and 3 grown kids, and my whole damn crazy ass family!! "
Happy Birthday. I have tried to convince my family that calories eaten on birthdays are zero calories. Be happy. Oh you are . . . so happy birthday assured. Do we get cake pics? OM YA HA HUM
I promise -- I was not drunk! nor high! when I bubbled over like that last night! LOL It was late, I was overtired and couldn't sleep.... and anyway, I really DO love you crazy kids. ;-)
I can no longer eat Blue Bunny brand Banana Split ice cream!!
The first time I had an attack of mid-night stomach and intestinal cramps, along with nausea, vomiting, and hearing the most god-awful, unnerving, whining and moaning for half the night, (that would be me) -- I didn't connect it to the consumption of named ice cream an hour or two earlier.
BUT... after a controlled (and dangerous) experiment, and further research into the individual ingredients list on said package, it is to be concluded -without a doubt- that the chopped cashews and peanuts incorporated in the Banana Split flavor renders this ice cream severely detrimental to my stomach and intestinal health.
That is All.
I am SAD.
Carry On.
PS; Thankfully, Blue Bunny does make a few other flavors that are equally deee-lishus...
you know...... sometimes I sit here and I look at the white board and the window shades and the crap on my window sill - and it just seems like I've never ever seen these things before. Then I look up at the ceiling tiles and listen to the burble and chat drifting on the air waves and I think.... I must be losing my fucking mind. or it's just another day at the office
I can no longer eat Blue Bunny brand Banana Split ice cream!!
The first time I had an attack of mid-night stomach and intestinal cramps, along with nausea, vomiting, and hearing the most god-awful, unnerving, whining and moaning for half the night, (that would be me) -- I didn't connect it to the consumption of named ice cream an hour or two earlier.
Oh, no! I've had similar issues with certain KINDS of ice cream (Blue Bunny I've had no problems with however)-- so I have to take care with what ice cream I eat (I can eat Klondike Bars all day long no prob LOL). But none of the problem ice cream I've had had nuts in them. I always assumed it had to do with some other ingredient.
Anyway, I do totally sympathize-- I had to go through it a few times before figuring out that the problem lay with the ice cream. Whimpering in pain in a fetal position on the floor next to the toilet. Yep.
I have just had another very cool haircut...a bit like David Beckham's current style...but grey. And the rest of me doesn't match...particularly the wee paunch.
For my b'day, my daughters and their spouses gave me a beautiful Buddha statue that I've had my eye on for quite a while now. The size of it, and the lines of his robes, his facial expression (THE most important feature of a Buddha statue), was perfect; everything about it I just loved.... well, except for the color....
I got my eldest daughter this same statue for her birthday back in Feb. When it arrived I was very pleased with the gorgeous all over rich burgundy undertone it had. I expected mine would be the same. It wasn't. These are hand-mixed resin statues, so coloring isn't exactly the same from statue to statue. Mine came out of the box a dark, lusterless, blackish color. The color of unburned charcoal.
But then I got a brainstorm. Searched for and found special metallic powdered paints, (That one applies by hand rubbing) and customized my statue myself ... I used a copper/bronze for his body and an 'antique' silver for his cap. The robe is the original color.
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The reality of the trip only hit me today: haircut, oil change, check the tires, fix up my mp3 player (for an 8-hour drive in a truck with no A/C), tons of things to check up on at the hospital. Oh, and, uh, packing too!
But I won't have a beeper for the first time in three years since my promotion. And for the first time in four years I'll have a vacation longer than seven days.
One day, for no reason at all, I just started 'moon walking' across my kitchen floor while my 20-something daughter was talking to me (complaining) about something... I'd never done it before, didn't even know I could!
I don't know what possessed me! I just moon walked right out of the kitchen and around the living room/ dining room.
Daughter said " What ARE you doing!??" I said " What's it look like- moon walking!"
I moon walked everywhere all over the house for at least an hour! LOL I must have looked ridiculous! A 54 year old fat woman moon walking around her house and laughing like an idiot....
1) Made my first loaded cycling tour this past weekend w my girlfriend. Pics may come soon.
2) Finally got accepted into the Rehabilitation Assistant diploma program! I was on the wait list, but got a letter of acceptance the other day! Starting in Sept.
So I bought two scones with one scoop each, instead of one scone with two scoops.
That got me one extra cone for free!
What a night out!
Did I suffer my usual cramps?
Damnit, yeah, I did. Big time.
Was it worth it??
Ditto!!
Sound so good, I may go
. . . oh they stopped . . .
phew . . . nearly was deBuddified . . .
saved by the non-bell.
:wave:
edible like that...... Right out of the water.
My daughter and I picking them out of the mud,
standing next to the bell tower and sharing something new together. They
were yummy right out of the heads, and we ate about 3 hand fulls. What a
beautiful day!
_/\_
The other day, I sent this to my dad [attached]. My sister sent something too, but I can't post it here-- just a little off-color, but funny. My dad needs all the laughs he can get right now!
Thank you for a few special friends here who have given me support and a compassionate ear regarding my dad's illness. You know who you are! :wave:
All the best to your dad.
My random comment of the day is that I have spent much of the past 24 hours in random tears over the videos and photo essays of our first day of marriage equality in MN. SO SO much happiness in the eyes and faces of SO many people. How anyone can declare that to be wrong is beyond me. I pray for equality for all, every day. 2 minutes until my 5 year wedding anniversary, and for many others, their 24 hour anniversaries. I am seriously just over the moon happy. If joy could burst out of my body it would be happening right now.
Of course, that could be the pie I ate earlier. But I'm pretty sure it's just happiness
_/\_
Both computers have locked their DVD's and become temperamental (so anthropomorphic with my hardware). Fixable. But may sulk for a while
Good luck to Dads and Cats and everyone undergoing real difficulties :bawl:
Anyway, Today is my birthday and again THANK You Mom and DAD (yes, they're still here with us).
I love love LOVE my hubby and 3 grown kids, and my whole damn crazy ass family!!
Love all you crazy ass guys too! :: grin ::
OM YA HA HUM
I promise -- I was not drunk! nor high! when I bubbled over like that last night! LOL
It was late, I was overtired and couldn't sleep.... and anyway, I really DO love you crazy kids. ;-)
seeing his cushions set up in the living room:
"Daddy, actually you should go to the Temple....it's a good place".
I can no longer eat Blue Bunny brand Banana Split ice cream!!
The first time I had an attack of mid-night stomach and intestinal cramps, along with nausea, vomiting, and hearing the most god-awful, unnerving, whining and moaning for half the night, (that would be me) -- I didn't connect it to the consumption of named ice cream an hour or two earlier.
BUT... after a controlled (and dangerous) experiment, and further research into the individual ingredients list on said package, it is to be concluded -without a doubt- that the chopped cashews and peanuts incorporated in the Banana Split flavor renders this ice cream severely detrimental to my stomach and intestinal health.
That is All.
I am SAD.
Carry On.
PS; Thankfully, Blue Bunny does make a few other flavors that are equally deee-lishus...
http://yinyana.smugmug.com/
I must be losing my fucking mind.
or it's just another day at the office
Anyway, I do totally sympathize-- I had to go through it a few times before figuring out that the problem lay with the ice cream. Whimpering in pain in a fetal position on the floor next to the toilet. Yep.
And the rest of me doesn't match...particularly the wee paunch.
The size of it, and the lines of his robes, his facial expression (THE most important feature of a Buddha statue), was perfect; everything about it I just loved.... well, except for the color....
I got my eldest daughter this same statue for her birthday back in Feb. When it arrived I was very pleased with the gorgeous all over rich burgundy undertone it had.
I expected mine would be the same. It wasn't. These are hand-mixed resin statues, so coloring isn't exactly the same from statue to statue. Mine came out of the box a dark, lusterless, blackish color.
But then I got a brainstorm. Searched for and found special metallic powdered paints, (That one applies by hand rubbing) and customized my statue myself ... I used a copper/bronze for his body and an 'antique' silver for his cap. The robe is the original color.
I LOVE the way it came out!