I have some deadlines coming up, and I’m trying to juggle working with being the teenage taxi service this week, so I’m a little busier than usual.
I think the boys are enjoying their vacation time, so that’s good. They just opened up an Obama campaign office nearby, so we’re going to squeeze in some time to help out with that too (CBtE is even looking forward to it).
Hi there. My big plans for today is to tell my current asshole of a boss that today is my last day there and I do not want to work an extra day tomorrow. LOL I was given my two week notice on a Thursday tow weeks ago and cannot wait to be out of there. I do not look forward to job hunting but think any place will be a better place mentally and emotionally for me.
Good for you! Not on the job hunting so much, but on getting out of a situation that isn’t good for you. I hope the new job search goes quickly.
I still run into the boss from the last job I quit (nearly 20 years ago) at the grocery store from time to time…it brings back that feeling of satisfaction every time. 😉
The walk away was a mutual decision but I have enough on hand to pay next months rent and utilities so I will make it. LOL I can always do data entry for 10 bucks an hour if I have to to get by.
8″ and 60 hours of rain later. Please somebody, make AT&T put in DSL. If you do, I’ll even register as a member of a political party and vote for whomever you want in the Indiana primary.
Here’s what 8″ of rain does to the roads out in the country (not mine, thank the FSM).
Good morning!
The real good things seem to come in small portions.
It looks like you have plenty of mud sources in your neighborhood.
How is the rest of the pack dealing with the loss?
The ground squishes when you walk on it. It can’t hold any more so water so every hollow, gully, and ravine, even ones that are normally dry have water in them.
Sniff and Giddy are doing fine. I think it was fairly easy for them to adjust because Hopeful had long since stopped interacting with them.
I guess 8 inches of rain will do that to yo.
Be glad you didn’t get this:
More than 20 inches since yesterday afternoon for southern Scandinavia. swimmer is a bit nervous; she is flying to Sweden this afternoon for spring break and is worried airports may be temporarily closed…
(She was worried based on forecast yesterday, I’ll show her the pic when she gets up – instant wake-up.)
I was reading somewhere yesterday that they think Ottawa has 6 more weeks of ugh weather coming to them, and thinking of her. I don’t think I could take it.
Speaking of Ugg – I’ve been wearing my sheepskin Ugg flip flops and they are sooo comfortable. Oh, you meant the other kind of ugh. I was just taking the opportunity to brag about the beautiful spring we’ve been having.
If the weather holds, we should have a lot more green in two or three weeks. And the redbuds and dogwoods should be blooming in less than a month, too. I am soooo ready for spring, mud or no.
Hey, I got a brief taste of that weather last week, and I’m really jealous. Daffodils and no-coat weather was such a nice treat after all this cold rain.
They’re loving it and it’s been an especially mild winter for them. Here’s O’s latest painting just by way of bragging on children – it’s for a fair trade coffee shop:
See if you can talk maryb into visiting this gallery near her in Webster Groves with some samples. Your son’s art reminds me of some of the paintings from the Ste. Genevieve, MO depression artists featured in the gallery owner’s book on that subject.
Note to Andi – There’s a Thomas Hart Benton exhibit coming up at the IU Art Museum in April, I think. That’s if you like that sort of thing;-)
Well, I am single for the weekend (yippee!) but I had dental surgery on Thursday and I’m cranky from two days of soft foods and my face hurts like hell. So I can’t decide if it’s a good weekend or a bad one.
Morning, Andi. :/
I was gonna gloat about our weather — it was so nice yesterday that we cooked out but now the temps are falling 20 degrees and the forecast shows the lows below freezing for the next 3 nights.
So instead of gloating I’ll jsut feel bad for both of us. 🙁
Apparently Cleveland was supposed to get 3 to 6 inches of snow overnight. I’d have slit my wrists sometime during this winter if I still lived up there. Spring has been in full swing since early February down here.
I’m not sure what category I’m in. CBtY goes back Monday, CBtE has one more week. I’m looking forward to returning to my normal schedule and some time with fewer people in the house…
Good morning everyone!
My kids just started a 2-week break. The older took off for boyfriend in Sweden yesterday, but the young one needs to be kept active.
He’ll come here Monday.
His mother wants to take him to church tomorrow, so I’m having a quiet weekend. Practice this morning done and curly headed home for her own plans.
They threatened snow here this morning as well, but instead the sun broke through and it’s pretty nice.
My boys love the ways I keep them busy: clean the garage, vacuum my car, turn the compost pile, take the dog to the park, clean your room. They looooove vacations! 😉
yeah, it looks similar here. At least we’re not starting with snowflakes today.
I think it loks like a nice day for a walk. And then it’s off to put together easter goodies for the guys when they get home from their dad’s this afternoon.
Good morning all! Its pleasantly sunny and 30F at our house. Instead of cooking and cleaning up, we’re booked at a local restaurant for an Easter buffet with Mom & family later today. Ha! Take that for slacking, FM;-)
I used to do most of the cooking when the kids were still at home. Now, when the thought of home cooked food strikes me, I think about it and all the attendent work of prep and cleanup and I say to myself, “NAAAAAAAAAH!”
Did I really get up earlier than Andi today?
Morning!
She may be stuck in flooding…
I see she prefers the old cafe…maybe it’s drier there? 😉
How are you this morning? All the deadlines met?
Just in the nick of time.
A great relief though (until the next).
Busy?
I have some deadlines coming up, and I’m trying to juggle working with being the teenage taxi service this week, so I’m a little busier than usual.
I think the boys are enjoying their vacation time, so that’s good. They just opened up an Obama campaign office nearby, so we’re going to squeeze in some time to help out with that too (CBtE is even looking forward to it).
Morning Folks!!!!
Hi refinish! Good to see you here this morning!
Big plans for today?
Hi there. My big plans for today is to tell my current asshole of a boss that today is my last day there and I do not want to work an extra day tomorrow. LOL I was given my two week notice on a Thursday tow weeks ago and cannot wait to be out of there. I do not look forward to job hunting but think any place will be a better place mentally and emotionally for me.
Good for you! Not on the job hunting so much, but on getting out of a situation that isn’t good for you. I hope the new job search goes quickly.
I still run into the boss from the last job I quit (nearly 20 years ago) at the grocery store from time to time…it brings back that feeling of satisfaction every time. 😉
ps – I have left other jobs since, but I always resigned on excellent terms. That one, I walked out mid-workday because this woman was so abusive.
Good luck with your job search! I’ve had to stick with jobs in the past that drained me emotionally. It’s good that you can walk away.
The walk away was a mutual decision but I have enough on hand to pay next months rent and utilities so I will make it. LOL I can always do data entry for 10 bucks an hour if I have to to get by.
8″ and 60 hours of rain later. Please somebody, make AT&T put in DSL. If you do, I’ll even register as a member of a political party and vote for whomever you want in the Indiana primary.
Here’s what 8″ of rain does to the roads out in the country (not mine, thank the FSM).
Wow. And here we’re suffering more and more water restrictions as the drought continues…
It’s a lovely picture though.
This winter certainly ended our drought very convincingly.
I think you must really be water-starved if you find a water-logged road “lovely.” 🙂
Well, you know, water plus reflections plus dongs equals a lovely thing.
Ummm, I meant “dogs”…..:P
Well I knew what you meant ’cause well you know … lovely
I guess lovely is in the eye of the beholder.
Vacation’s almost over. 🙁
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Good morning!
The real good things seem to come in small portions.
It looks like you have plenty of mud sources in your neighborhood.
How is the rest of the pack dealing with the loss?
The ground squishes when you walk on it. It can’t hold any more so water so every hollow, gully, and ravine, even ones that are normally dry have water in them.
Sniff and Giddy are doing fine. I think it was fairly easy for them to adjust because Hopeful had long since stopped interacting with them.
I guess 8 inches of rain will do that to yo.
Be glad you didn’t get this:
More than 20 inches since yesterday afternoon for southern Scandinavia. swimmer is a bit nervous; she is flying to Sweden this afternoon for spring break and is worried airports may be temporarily closed…
(She was worried based on forecast yesterday, I’ll show her the pic when she gets up – instant wake-up.)
I hope we are done with snow. Every once in awhile we get a snow in April but it’s not common.
That picture is what poor Olivia has been going through in Ottawa. They’ve had something like 13 feet so far and just got more yesterday.
I was reading somewhere yesterday that they think Ottawa has 6 more weeks of ugh weather coming to them, and thinking of her. I don’t think I could take it.
Speaking of Ugg – I’ve been wearing my sheepskin Ugg flip flops and they are sooo comfortable. Oh, you meant the other kind of ugh. I was just taking the opportunity to brag about the beautiful spring we’ve been having.
Well it’s not raining and the sun is even out so right now I’m not jealous at all.
BTW, the above picture is more my idea of lovely, especially the newly green moss. 🙂
Yep, that green is lovely. Especially when there is so little of it to go around.
If the weather holds, we should have a lot more green in two or three weeks. And the redbuds and dogwoods should be blooming in less than a month, too. I am soooo ready for spring, mud or no.
I’m ready for that. I looking forward to having my birthday dogwood tree blooming outside my office window this year.
Hey, I got a brief taste of that weather last week, and I’m really jealous. Daffodils and no-coat weather was such a nice treat after all this cold rain.
My family in Cleveland are about ready to resort to cannibalism. It’s been an especially crappy and long-lasting winter there.
Better watch out, they may turn up on your doorstep next. 🙂
How are your oldest and his wife enjoying the change in climate?
Hay CG, have you been getting the windstorms? Everything is blowing away here!
It’s awful here. I keep waiting for the power to go out, it’s so bad.
If only it would blow the leaves out of my daffodils and save me some work.
Ha! That sounds like the FM method of gardening.
We actually had no functioning streetlights in town yesterday because of the winds.
They’re loving it and it’s been an especially mild winter for them. Here’s O’s latest painting just by way of bragging on children – it’s for a fair trade coffee shop:
He is so talented, SN. You should brag more often, I won’t mind at all. 🙂
The pass the love on. He just has to figure out how to market his stuff…
See if you can talk maryb into visiting this gallery near her in Webster Groves with some samples. Your son’s art reminds me of some of the paintings from the Ste. Genevieve, MO depression artists featured in the gallery owner’s book on that subject.
Note to Andi – There’s a Thomas Hart Benton exhibit coming up at the IU Art Museum in April, I think. That’s if you like that sort of thing;-)
That’s an interesting gallery…thanks. 🙂
That’s just wonderful.
I’m with CG — brag more often.
Is it obvious to you that he modeled the woman’s figure after mine? Um, yeah…
I knew something about her looked familiar. 😉
It’s the bare feet that are the real tell.
to all who aren’t mourning the end of their vacation. Lots of pouting to those who are. 🙁
Well, I am single for the weekend (yippee!) but I had dental surgery on Thursday and I’m cranky from two days of soft foods and my face hurts like hell. So I can’t decide if it’s a good weekend or a bad one.
Morning, Andi. :/
Are you having the kids mother you?
I was gonna gloat about our weather — it was so nice yesterday that we cooked out but now the temps are falling 20 degrees and the forecast shows the lows below freezing for the next 3 nights.
So instead of gloating I’ll jsut feel bad for both of us. 🙁
Apparently Cleveland was supposed to get 3 to 6 inches of snow overnight. I’d have slit my wrists sometime during this winter if I still lived up there. Spring has been in full swing since early February down here.
Sounds like you need a nice big milkshake and some pain medicine. Call the dentist’s office and ask for some if they didn’t give you any.
You know me and pain meds. He gave me a script for vicodin but I have no intention of filling it. Mmmmm, milkshake…why didn’t I think of that?
Black and white milkshakes are a cure for any ailment, IMO. 🙂
Tom Kha soup was pretty good too, but I think today calls for milkshakes.
I wish I could lend you some of our weather. It’s gorgeous.
I made a chocolate cake this morning…I’m just waiting for it to cool so I can put the fudge frosting on. MMM. I am so hungry now.
I had an infected back molar removed Thurs. afternoon. Its still a little sore, but much better than Thurs. night! Hope yours is ok soon.
Gosh, that went quick.
I’m not sure what category I’m in. CBtY goes back Monday, CBtE has one more week. I’m looking forward to returning to my normal schedule and some time with fewer people in the house…
Good morning everyone!
My kids just started a 2-week break. The older took off for boyfriend in Sweden yesterday, but the young one needs to be kept active.
Do you have any big plans for young one?
I wish the weather would warm up. It’s snowing here.
He’ll come here Monday.
His mother wants to take him to church tomorrow, so I’m having a quiet weekend. Practice this morning done and curly headed home for her own plans.
They threatened snow here this morning as well, but instead the sun broke through and it’s pretty nice.
My boys love the ways I keep them busy: clean the garage, vacuum my car, turn the compost pile, take the dog to the park, clean your room. They looooove vacations! 😉
and unhappy bye-bye vacation to me.
Good morning, Andi!
At least it’s still Sunday; I woke up with that Monday feeling. The coffee will help…
Dunno about the coffee helping — I’ve had a 5 cups and I’m still grumpy.
I’m still on my first cup, and trying to get excited about the work project I need to do this morning. Ick.
It looks like a nice day out today though, with much less wind. How’s it out your way?
A beautiful, sunny morning here – but cold, only 30 now and we’ll not break 50, even with the sun.
yeah, it looks similar here. At least we’re not starting with snowflakes today.
I think it loks like a nice day for a walk. And then it’s off to put together easter goodies for the guys when they get home from their dad’s this afternoon.
=:-O
I’m sorry your vacation is almost over … ‘end of vacation’ is a sad thing.
Good morning olivia! How’s things up north?
It’s very snowy and cold — still have feet and feet of it on the ground — but it’s been sunny this w/e. I’m afraid Spring is a long way off yet.
How about you? Are you noticing signs of Spring?
Our snow has left – we actually had a 60F day last week! The daffodils are almost ready to pop and our crocus began to bloom last Thursday.
It’s reassuring to know that Spring is springing … 🙂
😉
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Well, beautiful sky you have there. I like the white stuff too, but in moderation.
Good morning all! Its pleasantly sunny and 30F at our house. Instead of cooking and cleaning up, we’re booked at a local restaurant for an Easter buffet with Mom & family later today. Ha! Take that for slacking, FM;-)
Dining out sounds like a great plan!
I used to do most of the cooking when the kids were still at home. Now, when the thought of home cooked food strikes me, I think about it and all the attendent work of prep and cleanup and I say to myself, “NAAAAAAAAAH!”
Besides, Mrs. Dem has “will work for food” agreements with a local restaurant and a coffee shop too! This has worked very well for us.