moaning monday

cakana

The sun is out - yay!!!

I haven't left my desk for more than 10 minutes today and that was for lunch 

cakana

Did anyone see the 60 Minutes segment last night about babies? It was really interesting.

kpwlee

questioning some of the results - I couldn't help but wonder about handedness (right or left) and a few other aspects

Karen - I thought the exact same thing!! I wish they would've switched it up more. The part that I found most fascinating was with the generosity segment and the younger group - wow! I'm glad things got better with the older kids.

 in case anyone is wondering here are two links

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50135417n (baby study)

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-57551552-10391709/is-your-child-fair-when-no-one-is-watching/ 

I can't believe how many stores are starting their black Friday sales at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday.  At first I thought it was only Wal-Mart, but Sears and a whole list of other places are doing the same thing.  Isn't opening at 4:00 a.m. on Friday early enough?  I guess not.  Step DGS works at Wal-Mart and has to be there at 8 p.m. on Thursday, so we moved dinner up to 5 p.m. so he'd have time to join us for dinner and get back to West Sacramento before 8:00.  There shouldn't be much traffic at all on Thanksgiving night and West Sac is only just across the causeway from Davis.

I've been slacking off so I really need to get organized and make a dent in shopping and cards.

Joyce

 I live in a house with 2 musicians who will be touring together for a brief stint the beginning of next month.  I was gone most of the afternoon/earlier evening doing some training.  Came home, did some stuff, went to bed... and around 12:30/1am they began practicing.  I bought this baby white noise thing a couple weeks ago, and thank goodness!  Didn't drown anything out, but did give me something else to focus on.  I woke up around 3am when the woman of the duo was screaming that one of her dogs peed on her bass.

Good times!  My back is a wreck now and the massage therapist who comes into work won't be here on Weds b/c of the Thanksgiving holiday.  Trying to get an appt w/my chiropractor before Thanksgiving.  Gracie is getting acupuncture tomorrow.

Called the hotel - they're  not doing anything for Thanksgiving.  SO, I know someone who will be at the show and had invited folks to her RV for Thanksgiving dinner, but she's already up to 16 people, so I won't be going there!  I think Gracie and I will watch movies at the hotel, maybe.

Karen, I feel for your mom w/your brother's dogs.  The reason I did so much with my dogs is because I was so horrified by how my sisters raised their dogs.  I refused to be the owner of a dog who was resented and unwelcome.  What's sad is my brother-in-law makes it a point to remind me that my dog is welcome at their house any time.  But he doesn't extend the same to my parents' Dobe, Zoe, and they've noticed.

God I'm rambling!  Gotta follow up w/the chiropractor before the day gets away and they don't call...

I'm in training for Thanksgiving.  I had pumpkin pie for lunch.  

Just realized I should've started a new thread and put it in the Rainbow Bridge section. If you want me to do that Karen, just let me know or feel free to move it.

 Paige the good part of the conversation with my mom is she said.......verbatim...."Bugsy is an angel"

bwahahahahaha words I've never uttered and can't imagine anyone else has or will 

Jackie I just got back from running to the food store where I bought apples because I WANT an apple pie. Should I ever finish my work today I am making one tonight!

Cathy I can try to move it later if you like or you can just start a post there

I have a client in 3,2,1............

For 2+ hours, it has been raining so hard that the noise on my window is loud enough to be distracting when I'm on the phone.  The wind is whipping against the glass, and it's so dark outside.  It's kind of scary!

Edited to move my comments about Shelby to the Rainbow Bridge section.

 OMG - last year we had a holiday party here - it was about 18 people - somehow this year we invited 38!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Ouch, Karen...my thoughts are with you!

38 people in your house all at once?  Yikes.  If you're serving food, you better contact Lisa to see if you can have some of her spare ravioli! 

So my drive home was interesting.  It is STILL pouring --- hasn't stopped for hours --- and there is standing water everywhere.  A few times I had to move way over in my lane to avoid going through very deep water.  All the sewers are backing up (I even saw one with a mini geyser coming out of it!).  At one point I had no choice but to drive through a huge "puddle," and I was concerned it was too deep, but I made it through.  A culvert just down the hill from us had a rushing stream in it -- usually it's not even visible, maybe a trickle -- but today it was high enough to see from the road.  I've never seen that before! 

kpwlee

great idea about the ravioli, oh Lisa............ :)