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Hope everybody is doing well.
Morning Andi. Question is, how are you today?
Answer is, I’m doing fine.
Still basking in the bliss and joy of AC?
Last night ws bliss.
No slacking for me today. They didn’t give me the warning about repairing the ceiling, so there’s dust everywhere in the bedroom. So today it’s take everything out and clean.
Hang in there, FM! Slacking will be even more fun when it’s all over!
Thanks MM.
As I keep saying, many strive, but few obtain the perfect slack day.
You could write the book, except it would be too much work! LOL
Morning Andi!!!
Great news that you got a camera. I think you’ll really enjoy having it.
And I’ll be expecting some pictures of the Diva Dogs.
Thanks. Yes I will finally get some pictures of the girls and also will now take pictures at meetings and events also.
Good Middle of the Night, AndiF!
Good Morning everyone!!!!!! I hope everyone has a fabulous Friday!!!!!
After lots of storms and lots of sleep, I am feeling great today. I did buy yet another gadget last night. LOL I bought a nikon coolpix l3 and a 512sd card. Now I have to start playing with the camera and learn how to use it. LOL I have decided to skip the rest of the events planned for this week and spend some time concentrating on my web sites and designs. Most of the candidates are ones I already know and support and some of the meetings are just not that interesting. LOL
Congrats on the exciting purchase, r69!!!! Sounds like you are going to have lots of fun.
Thanks!!! As busy as I get I do always seem to have fun. LOL
There’s nothing quite like a having a good attitude when it comes to getting the most out of life! LOL
Morning Refinish. I’m happy to hear you got a camera and happy to hear your going to take some time for youself.
Morning FamilyMan!!! Yeah, I feel like I need to recharge some. I cannot be effective if I am falling asleep at the meetings or wishing they would shut up the entire time I am there. LOL
You sound like me when I used to have to attend meetings. Only difference is, I didn’t have a choice about attending. 🙂
The camera. Diva Dogs pictures? That’s not a hint. I want some pictures! 😉
Oh There will be if I can get them to stop thinking I have a toy when the camera is in my hands. LOL
Years ago I had a dog named Denna. She hated to have her picture taken, it was the flash I think.
Well when she would get overbearing I’d hold my thumbs and index fingers together like they were a camera. She would hi tail it to under an piece of furniture she could find.
Didn’t do it often, because I felt bad that I was probably scaring her. Needless to say I have very few pictures of her.
Good morning!
Congratulations on the new camera AND on skipping those not-so-interesting meetings. 🙂
Morning CG. How did the costume thing go?
Shhh…I was trying to forget about it. 🙂
We have everything together, but I’m not looking forward to the complaining that I’m going to hear about “Why do we have to do this anyway?”
So, is this a big slacker day for you?
LOL But we want to see pictures of the costumes!!!!
If I’m feeling really feisty when he gets up, maybe I’ll torture him by insisting we take pictures of him in his “adorable costume”.
That will go over well, I’m sure.
CG use the time tested Mother comment.
Because I’m your Mother and I say so.
D’oh, you have ceiling repair cleanup today…(note to self: read the other comments before responding, CG….)
LOL Thank you!!! I just feel like I need a few days just for me after all the meetings the last 3 weeks.
I’m awake in the middle of the night again… soon to go back to sleep I hope! Yesterday was sunset and high tide together, perfect combination, so I was out there stumbling around with my camera wishing I knew more about how to photograph a sunset! I sure am going to miss this coastline when I’m back in good ole La La Land.
Morning/Middle of the night MM.
I would ask how it’s going, but another can’t get back to sleep night…. I already know.
I’ll miss your pictures from there too, but to me, it will be like new adventures to see your pics form La La Land.
Well last night I finally got back to sleep and woke up feeling rested, so I guess it’s okay; Sounds like you are going to need your rest to deal with that ceiling thing.
Nah. I’ll clean, nap, clean, nap.
I just haven’t hit the perfection of napping in motion.
Sounds like a lot of running around!
Nah not really. I take everything in increments. If I start getting tired I stop, catch my breath, and rest.
What Andi said earlier, it’s getting close to move day. How’re ya doing with that?
Opps, don’t worry I saw downthread.
(hope that works)
Great picture, if perhaps a little energetic for first thing.
Are you getting excited about going home?
Thanks, Mom! Will do.
Yes, I am excited! My husband and son drove up here from LA today. We rented a cargo van to bring my stuff home, and they are staying at the Motel 6 since I only have a tiny studio apartment. My husband brought his bike, he is a passionate biker, and I’m excited that he can get the experience of biking around this coastline, and without the intense concentration of auto exhaust fumes that he gets when biking around LA. Imagine breathing oxygen for a change!
I’m also very excited since I get to see Shadow on Sunday! Yay! I really miss that silly cat.
I’m very happy for you.
Now, go back to sleep. 🙂
Off I go!
Se ya later MM and have a good sleep.
Stunning Picture as always. I hope you can get some more sleep!!!!!
Thanks, refinish! Yes, I’m starting to feel sleepy again, and will soon be snuggling down for another round of rest.
sweet dreams!!!!
Time for me to shower and get ready for work. This week has been employee appreciation week and they have had different events everyday. Cook outs, gifts and that type fo thing. Today is T-shirt day where you are suppose to wear a t-shirt for a web site, band or project you help with. This is the t-shirt I will be wearing while being very careful to not talk too much politics at work. LOL
DOING MY PART FOR THE LEFT
Perfect choice. Have a good day and fun at work.
I’ve got to get the day started or I won’t do all the things I have to do.
I’ll check back later and save a lilly pad for me.
We’re a bit dense out here in the country.
4/21/06 7:01 a.m. EDT
Whew – that scared me! I thought it was a fresh snowfall when I first looked at it.
Was it the fog or the dogwood flowers that made you think that?
The latest snow I can remember us having was in the middle of April so it’s possible if not too likely.
It was the dogwood flowers – it looks like one of those very early heavy snows when the trees are still full of leaves.
The picture of your woods from yesterday was so beautiful!
I always think that the dogwood flowers make the woods look like it is snowing (but in suspended animation).
Re: yesterday’s picture. That was the one that prompted me to wish I could keep the woods the way they are so you could see them at their prettiest.
I figured that was it. Spring up north is so fleeting, which is what makes it special. Sort of like bubbles before they pop or your kids when they’re small. All of them gone so quick.
we have this whole cafe to ourselves. It makes me wish I had something like a nude photo of FM so I could post it.
I’m sure we could dig up a good facsimile. I’ll bet he’s napping, which sounds tempting to me except that my house is full of strange men going up and down the stairs with heavy metal things. I hate feeling weird in my own home. I feel strange even going to the bathroom while they’re here. Not to mention that these bizarre southern houses have no basements so the furnace is in Colin’s room on the third floor, and his room is a complete disaster with only a small pathway of exposed floor from the door of his room to the closet which holds the furnace. He wasn’t even embarrassed showing them up to his room. Sorry, I’m rambling, but there’s just so much I can do being sequestered here in the office with just you and me in the empty cafe. 🙂
I hate having repair folks come to the house — it’s the one thing that will make me clean.
Ramble away. It keeps the echoes down.
Just for you Andi, but I’ve lost weight since then. 😛
Hey, we must be cousins! That shot looks like me writing on deadline.
I was actually in one of my somber moods back then.
I was trying to decided whether I should go into the cafe at Boomans or not.
Little did I know that people would be around with cameras.
you must shed worse than George?
That’s the reason both of us get haircuts during the summer. Too hot and shedding. But I do keep the mustache.
Really, that’s gorgeous and I thought it was snow at first as well-the dogwoods.
Thanks and it’s nice to know there’s somebody else out there besides SN and me.
No tea this morning?
OK, OK I’m taking my first break. I’m here.
Hi Kelly, SN and Andi.
Other than Andi and SN trying to find some pictures of people in the buff, what’s going on?
Howdy all! Very little slacking for me today, since I have to finish that f-in report today so I can have a real weekend for once. I vow NOT to take work home with me this weekend, so I can concentrate on the garden and flowers.
Top of the morning to you, folks… Andi, SN, FM, MM and whoever else may be lurking there! This will probably be my one appearance for the day until later, unless that executive summary magically writes itself, which I highly doubt.
Great pic Andi… I freaked and thought it was snow too! Glad to heare it’s just purty flowering trees.
Slack when possible IVG.
Will do, FM… but if I slack on the slacking, I’ll have to ask you to take up the slack. Do you think you’re up to it?
Glad to hear your house is getting back a little cloer to normal! Say hi to George for me and toss him a treat…
Will do IVG. Ask me to the up the slack? You’ve got to be kidding? 🙂
Geroge? I’d have to wake him up. He’s slacking more than me.
Now get your stuff done, because we want you to have a great weekend.
Wasn’t sure if anyone was still here. The tea’s below with a general hello. Lately I’ve been thinking I shouldn’t limit myself to just what I’m actually drinking since one of the charms about the cafe is that I can have anything I want to go with breakfast. So Maybe instead of the Scottish Breakfast I should have some fancy green like Jasmine Dragon Phoenix Pearl this morning.
Jasmine Dragon Phoenix Pearl
What is it?
Sorry to hear about your sprain … ouch!
Good morning everyone!
Morning Olivia.
Big plans for slacking today?
Nope. Just taking a break now. I’m cleaning up the mess the repair people left yesterday.
The whole bedroom is covered in dust from the ceiling repair. I’ve got to clean every single thing in here.
ARGGGGG.
That is good news… 🙂
Yep. How’s your day going?
Jasmine Dragon Phoenix Pearl:
The youngest tea leaf tips are scented with fresh Jasmine blossoms 8-10 times and rolled into pellets, a delicate slightly sweet and floral flavor.
I haven’t had this particular jasmine green, but they’re usually heavenly, the perfect thing for a rainy afternoon on the porch, one of those with the ocasional patch of wispy fog and difuse light filtering down through the clouds. I don’t drink as much green as I’d like. I need the caffiene of a black most mornings, and I haven’t had a free afternoon in a very long time.
But it did give me a scare as I thought it was snow at first too. 🙂
this was a universally scary picture.
Today’s Tea: Scottish Breakfast
Which I’m drinking while I edit a friend’s novel with one foot elevated. Managed to take a tumble yesterday and give myself a minor sprain. I’ll only be around for a little bit. Dr.Mc is running an event at the statewide science Olympiad in Madison tonight and tomorrow, so it’s road trip time. I checked out early last night. Did Olivia end up dancing on the tables at her “low key” birthday bash?
Hope all you froggies have a good day!
TTFN
P.S. is anyone else having troubles with loading stuff from big orange?
Hi Kelly sorry to hear about the sprain. I just checked over at orange and I had no trouble.
Thanks for the effort FM. Nice to know it’s my end not Kos. The sprain is minor, and especially so in light of my taking a dive down the last couple of stairs in the science building. The main sting is in the feeling stupid, not the ankle. I just wasn’t paying enough attention to the here and now. Silly me.
Happens to me all the time. Not as bad as when I was in high school, but I still have to watch myself.
Have you done the ice and everything else?
Yep-ICE. Ice, compression, elevation. I probably should have done a second round of cold packs, but it’s really not that bad. I didn’t even bother to re-compress once I took the Ace off after about 14 hours. When I head out the door here in an hour or so I’ll put hikers back on and that’ll give me good compression again. Thanks for asking.
Sounds like you’ve got everything under control.
Be careful.
Having been an adrenaline junkie in an earlier incarnation – late teens early twenties – left me with a pretty good self care skill set for injuries. I also learned how to make sure blood stains don’t set, how to patch rips made by various sorts of bad ideas made into reality and other domestic skills of the rest and recovery sort.
I think I’ve always been adrenaline deficient.
Even as as teen my thoughts drifted off to slackdom.
Oops, sorry I missed you up thread KM… howdy and great Friday to you too!
Now I must go poof for real… PowerPoint hell awaits me. 🙁
I hope you get your report done and have that real weekend you were talking about.
I sprained my left ankle twice when I was in 4th grade — the first one was thisclose to being a fracture according to the Xrays — and ever since then, I’ve had trouble with that ankle turning or twinging or some such. (Carrying around waaaaay too much extra weight probably doesn’t help matters; as soon as I’m done here, it’s off to the workout room with me…)
Doing some errands today, then going over to Dave & Buster’s for a Sharks playoff viewing party; should be a heck of a lot of fun. 🙂
New fun discovery: The Onion Radio News podcasts! They’re really short bits (less than a minute), but freakin’ funny…especially since they’re delivered in the standard deadpan “real news” voice. Some of the headlines:
People Saying “Happy Spring Holiday” Just to Piss Off Bill O’Reilly
God Thanked For Something He Would Never Do
Man Dies After Long, Painful Battle With Life
Dry Cleaner Breaks One-Hour Martinizing Barrier
President’s Desire to View Opinion Polls Reaches New Low
Found a link here to some of the recent ones…
And to quote one of the “life coaches” on my guilty pleasure, Starting Over, be a great day! 🙂
Yeah, I’ve got similar problems with this one-my left as well. I put a bunch of micro-tears in the tendons spraining it while doing martial arts in high-school and it’s been a bit futzy ever since. That’s part of why I feel a little stupid about the whole thing. I’m normally more careful, especially in spring when I’m making the transition from nice supportive hikers to sandals. Have fun with your workout, Cali.
OK I’ve got to get back to work.
Check back in a little while.