Monday Night Lounge
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Beer – it’s what’s for dinner
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Please recommend
(and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier) |
May the 4’s be with you
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Beer – it’s what’s for dinner
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Please recommend
(and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier) |
I wish George was here to help serve drinks, I’m busted from running errands all day.
What’s up SN. George and I are here.
Hey FM. Is it hot down there? I had to run the a/c in the car today while Christmas shopping.
Same here. Got up to the mid 60’s today. I think next week it will turn cold again.
It was like 75 today but sitting at long lights with the sun streaming into the car I was roasting.
It’s weird to be so close to christmas and see people in shorts and flip flops.
I think keres was commenting on how it was wierd in her part of the world celebrating Xmas during summer. I’m ready for another big cold front to come through.
Oh shush. It’s 39° in Seattle as I type this. 🙂
Omir I’m so happy the family is doing OK. Now don’t you see ya’ll should be here in AL. Not so much snow and wind. Of course hurricanes and everything is here, but…..
I guess I’ll have to show George to prove we’re here.
Gosh, he is so dapper! And is the champagne new or didn’t I notice it before?
No it’s new thanks to keres. She’s so much better at that stuff than me.
And George says thanks. 🙂
It’s the FM and SN show tonight. Maybe someone else will show up. If not, I’m just going to curl up in the corner and go to sleep.
Oh sure, you get me out of lurking and George in the tux and you want to go to sleep. You’re stealing my gig. Sleeping is supposed to be my thing. 😛
Oh and BTW. Are you trying to say I’m boring? 😉
No, of course you’re not boring. You’re so exciting that I keep fainting!
Gee most people tell me it’s my breath.
Good thing I don’t have a smellophone internet hookup.
Have you finished your christmas shopping?
Nope haven’t even started. What about you?
Hi MM. Now that’s the kind of Xmas cheer I like to see. 🙂
Does happy hour mean we can only be happy for an hour?
MM it’s happy any time you are around!
Hey MM! ‘Sup with you today?
Hey SN. I’m on temporary disability for carpal tunnel. I convinced my doctor that rest was called for. Wasn’t easy. So I get 5 weeks and this is week 4. Catching up with light housework and just got a jigsaw puzzle. Can’t remember the last time I did a jigsaw. Used to love ’em.
Happy holidays to you and yours!!
I love doing puzzles, but I wish someone else would turn over all the pieces for me and pick out the edge ones. I hate prep work! 🙂
I used to have a computer jigsaw program. It was fun.
I’m mostly done but I’m having trouble finding a couple of the harmonicas I wanted to get my son. Everyone online is out of stock until after christmas.
I used to work with a guy that was taking lessons from some guy in Boston for blues harmonica. Before I had to leave that area he got to be pretty good.
If it’s that important to your son, I’m sure he’ll understand getting it later.
He taught himself the guitar really fast, so I’m guessing he’ll do the same with the harmonica. Then we’ll see if he can do both at the same time!
What are you getting FMom?
Breakfast probably. 🙂
Sounds good to me. I haven’t really eaten yet today.
Not much of a happy hour crowd tonight is there?
I had a pimento cheese sandwich earlier, but haven’t been that hungry today.
I have found out one thing. When I first moved back here I gain about 30 pound from eating what everybody else was eating. So needless to say I couldn’t get into any of my clothes. I knew I would loose the weight again, but not when. I can now fit back into all my old clothes. Yep back down to a trim, pot bellied, 210. 🙂
That’s good since you’re really tall, aren’t you?
Yep 210 on me is kind of skinny. When I first moved back here one of my friends from high school dropped by and was amazed at how I looked. He said he could believe I had finally put on weight. In HS I was always trying to put on weight, but was rail thin. Used to piss me off. 🙂
I hate people like you. Nothing personal.
Of course nothing personal, I know. I’ve just never understood people who didn’t like themselves no matter how they looked. I might be a street bum, 700 lbs or whatever, but it’s still me. I’ve always thought that I’m a good person and as long as I try and treat everybody nice, then I am a good person. Doesn’t matter how I look.
Society and pop culture dictates how you’re supposed to look and if you don’t look that way it’s very hard not to feel like you’re inferior somehow. I remember my daughter and her friend, at 9 years old, sitting on the porch step and complaining about how their thighs got fat when they sat down. It made me so sad.
I know exactly what you’re talking about and that one of the reasons I’ve always hated that outlook. I’ve seen it so many time with TV showing how you’re supposed to look, but not how you are supposed to feel. I’ve got a buff body so I’m happy. Bullshit!
Good evening SN, FM and MM.
Yeah guys, that shopping. I am phobic to shopping as it is, this is a stressful holiday season for folks like me.
Did something different this year – all the nieces and nephews in Norway will get shares in goats and other goodies from Heiffer International (though, they won’t even get to see these presents). Saves on postage, too.
I did that last year for my mother in law and myself. So this year I got really cool free address labels with sheep and cows on them!
OK, something to look forward to next year, then.
Were the recipients kids or adults, and how were the gifts received?
Well, my mother in law is an adult, and I am an adult as well. 🙂
My mother in law thought it was cool. She’s 83 and she has everything she needs or wants and would slit her throat if someone got her another knick knack.
LOL. Well, how about that…
I read it as if you and your mil got such presents for others. Pay attention, ask!
Then don’t. Tell the family because it’s so stressful to you, that their Xmas present to you is for you not to shop.
If you’ve got any family after that, then you’ll know how much they love you, and you can get them what they want without the hassel.
That’s an interesting strategy, FM.
Problem is, my siblings and I gave up on the present thing many, many years ago. But now they have kids (have had for some time, actually) – can’t disappoint them!
You’re corrrect ask. The children are always the most important part of Xmas.
and George of course.
Hi Andi. Ever get rid of the bowling ball? George say hi too. 🙂
It’s more like a whiffle ball now.
Yep good food stays with you for awhile. 🙂
Here is a preview of some of the presidential designs. Lots more will be coming in the next few weeks. I have done a version of the Hillary design for Edwards already.
Barack Obama for President
Obama For President
John Edwards for President
John Edwards for President
Hillary Clinton for President
Hi Refinish. As usual you’ve done a wonderful job.
Hi FamilyMan!!! Thank you. It is really hard to design for all of them when I have one who is a favorite, but of course who ever wins the nomination, I will back 100%. Even a bad Democrat is 5 million times better than another repugnant in office. LOL
We need a great man or woman in office now. We’ve seen mediocre and poor and seen where it has lead us. Refinish honestly if there was a martian that came from space and could make things better, they would get my vote.
I agree 100%. I actually think Edwards would be great out of the three top contenders but I am still hoping someone comes out of the wood work like clinton did back in the 90’s. I want a great president who is unafraid to make the tough calls to correct the fuck ups of the Bush Regime.
I like the obama button the best — I think I just prefer simpler designs.
I really like that one also because it reminds me of old timey political designs. A lot of designers say the stripes look like prison bars but I think they are nuts. LOL
That’s an idea Refinish. Find a very old time (and I’m talking very old time) button. Make your own design, but from something looking like that.
That is why I did the obama design. I am also planning on doing some research to fins the oldest button designs I can and work up something simillar. I also have some other ideas in the hopper already. It’s all a matter of finding the time to do the designs and get them loaded. Luckily I am done with the holidays except working Christmas day. LOL
No your not really working Xmas day are you?
I am working 8 hours since I get paid double time and a half. LOL
I will check your site for your new Edwards
I’m listening to Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) singing Peach Train via the NPR link in jimstaro’s diary – and it’s bringing tears to my eyes.
I’m watching Grandma got run over by a reindeeer and laughing. LOL
Was Yusef in Georgia when he wrote that song. 😛
LOL – well, I can’t really listen to music that I know the words to and type at the same time. I always have to sing along with it and then…well you get peach instead of peace.
You know I was kidding. Actually I saw a thing on him a week ago and he has a new album out. I’d like to hear the songs from it.
You can hear 3 of them on the NPR website and several more on his main website.
Thank the Cosmic Muffin I’m a cynic and get to completely avoid moments like this (your typo did make me smirk for a moment as I imagined the Frogs and Peaches Train).
You’re made of stone, Andi. I can’t listen to Cat Stevens without feeling emotional. I go right back to 7th grade.
That’s what a 10 year age difference will get you. I will cry buckets for old yeller.
You know I have never seen the entire move yet.
well if you don’t want to cry, don’t watch the end. 🙁
Thanks, I guess that’s one reason I never watched the whole thing. I hate sad stories.
I was wondering where Peach train came in to his music repetroir. Maybe right after the Chitlin Boogey. LOL
Now I don’t think Yusef ever heard of a chittlin. 🙂
I also saw something last night about boat homes. One is an old aircraft that’s made into a boat and it called cosmic muffin.
Tells you something about the age and sense of humor of the owner.
He got the name from something Jimmy Buffet wrote.
is from the Deteriorata
Tahnks Andi. From what I got from the what I saw, was the guy who wrote Dr. Who came up with it. Just shows you, never believe anything you see or read. 😉
Well maybe multiple people all hit on the cosmic muffin at the same time. 🙂
Hey the wine I ordered tastes fishyish.
Kncukle you have the greatest pictures. I saw the one earlier from you yard. Beautiful.
Well, thank`s a lot. Some times though, it`s torture, trying to pick one to post.
Depoends on what you want to pictrure. You’re pictures have always been great to me.
I usually open my own doors, which allows me to post whatever I want.
After reading about some of the atrocities being committed on the “enemy”, I just wanted to post the “Toture” pic I`d created. See a few posts down. Also, thanks for the compliments.
Quite cool…would love to know what beer those are for. 🙂
Home for a bit before heading out to dinner (soup/salad night, yummy). Thought that the malls would be less busy on a weekday…I was wrong. Did find some smelly stuff (aftershave/cologne) for the spouse that he liked in a magazine ad; he’s expressed interest in wearing stuff like that occasionally. Oh, and bought myself a new heavy jacket — it’s been chilly around here lately.
Other than that, not much…
This pic I created a few months ago when the “gang” was debating if torture was OK. I was walking in my yard & saw a moth beating itself to death, in it`s last throes. I decided to give it one more life, that of the analogy of this country beating itself to doom contemplating hurting others. What an end, must surely follow.
Anybody here?????????????????
Guess I’ll just help me self, then
Everyone surviving the shopping and fal der al of the season?
Just popped in to say Howdy and wish you all a great Holiday.
Hugs,
Shirl
Shirl I actually just woke up again. It’s so nice to see ya.
What up?
I ran out of tape.
I was wrapping presents and I ran out of tape. Should I go out and get some more? Or not? What to do, Family Man.
Use duct tape. It’s so much fun to watch them try to open it.
but not as pretty …
Stop being so shallow. In my day we used the sunday funnies and duct tape. And Sweetheart soap boxes. And tampax boxes. We were poor. And we liked it that way.
but I LIKE my presents to look pretty — so they look nice under my tree. Cuz it’s all about me 🙂
You know, when I was a kid santa never wrapped any of our gifts. They were just there. Now that I think about it, it was probably because my parents didn’t have much money and weren’t going to waste it on wrapping paper we kids would rip to shreds.
Are you wrapping presents to yourself?
no, for other people. But they sit under my tree until I give them to the other people. So they’re part of the Christmas decorations.
It’s the only way I can motivate myself to wrap presents …
Ah, I see. I have no ability to delay gratification – if I see a present under the tree I have to open it, or I have to make someone else open it. I can’t tell you how many times I gave xmas presents early and then had to go get another one to give on the actual day.
you might want to talk to a professional about that
Do you think it’s a problem?
maybe just a little … compulsive?
Wait a minutre who’s compuslise?
have you been in the cooking sherry again? Your spelling looks like it.
I envy people that have self control. Really.
Those gift bags are the greatest thing to happen to gift-giving since frankincense and myrrh.
Did your Hanukkah pencils come in a bag?
my dreaded pencil pre-date gift bags by about 4 decades.
well, your parents could have put them in a brown paper bag …
I’m not sure why she bothered to wrap them at all — it wasn’t like we didn’t know what they were; even the hanukah gelt got picked before the pencils.
What’s gelt? Those chocolate coins?
I agree. But I like the look of wrapped presents.
I feel about wrapped gifts exactly as I do about wearing dressy shoes — it’s fine so long as someone else is doing it.
Sorry just got back. FMom need something. I would give it to the kids as is. Umwreparrping a prewsent is hell to begin with. The hint to do is not make it a surprise, but to give it to them as the real thing. That way every year Aunt Mary won’t surprise them, but they’ll know Aunt Mary is the one they can count on.
It’s really so simple. 😉
I feel like I must be stoned. I didn’t really understand what you said there, FM.
I didn’t understand it either, but I’m gonna take it as a “screw the tape, stay home” answer.
Which of course is the answer I wanted — or why would I have asked FM?
what kids?
FM, do you think you have narcolepsy? Who the hell takes naps at 8:30 in the evening?
SN who the hell doesn’t? Gees you people who have things to do all the time. Don’t you thing some people have nothing to do?
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