Thursday chat

 Last night it got down to the mid FORTIES!  It was wonderful sleeping weather.  I even had to drag out a light comforter.  I wish I could go out and enjoy it, but alas I don't feel well.  I think I have a cold now on top of my allergies.  Allergies haven't been this bad since I was a kid.  Now a cold to boot.  Soon as the boss comes into the office, I'm headed home and going back to bed.  I need some Ari snuggles.  She's always super snuggly when I don't feel well.  Sometimes that dog, despite being a complete airhead, dunce, ditz and just a wee bit crazy, is really a sweetheart when it counts lol. 

Oh and our new part time office gal CAN make binders.  WOO HOOO!  The ones she made up the other day, were perfect.  This gives me a big happy.  

You awake yet, Julie?

Feel better Sharon!

Not much excitement here today.

 Couldn't get on here at all yesterday.  When I tried to log in it decided I had "changed my password" and wouldn't let me in.   AT home it holds the password for a week or two so I could just log in and I "changed" my password back to what it's supposed to be??

So ok -- TODAY I am 21 !!!  (I started counting backwards when I was 40 *grin*).  So it sounds insane, but I used to get SO depressed about my age (Not able to have kids, nowhere job, bad marriage, yada yada). You get to 39 and the world thinks you're "lying" anyway ... and I always thot WHY would you lie and say 39??  why not come up with an age that was FUN?? and with the whole divorce thing I felt like I needed a "do-over" anyway.  So subtracting a year just seemed better. 

 For **me** it has been heaven sent.  No more "Oh woe is me, my biological clock is crashing WAH!! " -- it has just plain defused it for me.  I have always figured I'd count backwards until I was too senile to figure it out and by then who the heck cares!!

So ya'll c'mon down - we'll all go to Enzo's on the Lake tonight and blow next month's pay on dinner. The chocolate soufle is to die for (Tina -- I'm particularly thinking of you!).     

Happy 21st, Callie!! I hope you don't whoop it up too much tonight and make sure to have a DD.

Hopefully this will be my last day of work before my vacation. I'm so excited to be disconnected from the world of technology for a while. Of course I'll have a bazillion emails to go through when I get back though.

I am celebrating your backwards birthday by having a great day myself. Little Man was having a great day yesterday so we all got to go to the dog park and visit with our friends. Little Man's favorite dog to visit is a black and white Newfie named Bear. He ends up covered in slobber and loves it. DH got home last night so the puppehs got to go back to the park for a long jaunt this morning.

I wrote a, hopefully, amusing blog post for a friend of mine in our Ichthyosis community and it was posted this morning. I'm very excited about it for some reason. It may be because it looks like I'm getting back into writing. Phew!

My only issue (first world problem) is that the office is too cold today. Huh, just never happy I guess. ;)

Wake up Julie.

Feel better Sharon.

Get naked and have a party Tina.

Happy Birthday Callie.

Get something to eat Jen.

Have a great vacation Jano !!

Whew, I'm exhausted now and could use a pick me up.

Pick-Me-Up Cocktail


1 1/2 oz Apricot brandy
1/2oz fresh lemon juice
1 tsp. pomegranate grenadine
Champagne

Shake well with ice, strain into a 6 ounce coupe glass and top off with champagne.

Deb W.

ETA:  Put a sweater on Sarah.

ETA:  Good luck Cathy. 

I have an eye dr. appt with Kaiser tomorrow to see if they'll prescribe Restasis. I've been using it for a few yrs now and can't imagine living without it. My old insurance covered some of the cost but I've been told it can be difficult to get Kaiser to approve it. I'd hate to have to pay for it myself, so I'm already thinking of how to adequately describe how awful life was before I started using it. Wish me luck :)

 Happy Birthday Callie!

Long sleeves??? I only wear those for tick protection until about November

Cathy DH had something put into his tear duct years ago and its worked great for him. I'd take a turn sweeping the pool for you if I was local

Yum the last two days the drinks have looked yummy. I am mostly a traditionalist so I am not keen on most mixed drinks

I am super sleepy today, wishing I could take a nap

I went for a mammogram today - the lady was nice but it is truly unpleasant

Sarah glad you are writing again!

Jano I am envious - I am really in need of a little break but I've got none planned

Bugsy is my shadow today - I wonder why? 

I've got nothing interesting to contribute and can't remember what anyone posted.  Except the drink, of course. :)

I did read the most bizarre story I've read in a long time.  Ha ha, you guys thought you'd get off without me rambling on about something, didn't you? 

 So some skinhead decided he was going to rid the world of a child molester.  So he and his wife track down a registered sex offender and go to his house.  The cops know all this because the skinhead happily described it to them in great detail.  The skinhead and his wife pretend to have car trouble in front of the offender's house.  They go in the house and kill the sex offender and his wife.  First the skinhead told the sex offender why he was killing him.  When asked why they killed his wife he said "because she was there".  Someone, some time later, noticed the door open and discovered the bodies.  The police were called but they had to wait for animal control.  Apparently the 18 Chihuahuas inside wouldn't let the cops near the bodies.  Talk about these cops having a story to tell for years.  I have to admit I laughed picturing the cops held off by 18 protective Chihuahuas.  I do hope the dogs find a safe place, and as for the other players, I've got no comment.

Sigh.

So far the blog post seems to be well received with a few good comments and a bunch of Likes on the FB link. I'm sure that, in my boredom I am checking it way too much. Perhaps I just have a need to be validated today.

Must drink wine when I get home - it does make the evenings more interesting.

kpwlee

Jano I am envious - I am really in need of a little break but I've got none planned

Come along and bring the Bugasaurus! We've got an 8-bunk cabin - plenty of room! 

Lisa, you're not too far. Last-minute vacation? 

http://community.dog.com/forums/p/119529/988397.aspx#988397

Happy Birthday, Callie!!!  Let's see . . . if I followed the math of your "reverse counting" correctly, I think this is a milestone birthday, right?  I hope you had a very special day, with lots of birthday cuddles from your dogs (even better than a favorite chocolate dessert, I think!).

Sharon, hope you're feeling better tomorrow.

Jackie, you're right --- that is one bizarre/disturbing story.  I'm not sure what to say about the humans involved, but hopefully all turns out as well as possible for all those dogs.

Sharon, I had to look up ichthyosis -- I couldn't imagine what your blog post was about since I had no idea what that word was!  :-)  I hope you got some good feedback; we all like to get that in response to something we've worked on!

Stayed up talking until 2AM with my sister; she had to get back to Boston by noon, so we didn't sleep in as late as we'd have liked.  Today my Mom and I ran a few errands -- she makes lists of things for us to do while I'm here because they're things she "can't handle" by herself.  For example, she wanted to look into changing her cellphone plan.  All I'll say is these kinds of tasks are frustrating due to her personality quirks.

Tonight we had dinner with one of my childhood friends.  I hadn't seen her in well over 20 years (my Mom and her Mom keep in touch).  We were in tears, laughing so hard about stories from when we lived in the same apartment complex when we were aged 8-12.  Some of the stuff we remembered was hilarious.  We had the same life situations - raised by single mothers who worked full time, so we were left alone in charge of our younger sisters (who are the same age) far too often.  As a result, my friend and I have exaggerated senses of responsibility, taking life rather seriously, while our sisters were (still are) all about fun and not worrying about stuff so much.  We decided the world needs people like us because if everyone was like our younger sisters, there would be no order in the world!