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| crummy [message #3494] |
Mon, 03 November 2008 18:43  |
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crummy
Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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| Re: crummy [message #3496 is a reply to message #3494 ] |
Mon, 03 November 2008 19:05  |
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Wow... being the Very Bad Girl I am, I'm reading this at work... and nearly gave myself away with rampant giggles.
Wish I could show up, but I'm afraid it's a bit far for me to get to... Best of luck with the computers! They're ornery beasts, to be sure.
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| Re: crummy [message #3498 is a reply to message #3494 ] |
Mon, 03 November 2008 19:09 |
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And I stood there, dripping with salad dressing, and screamed I hate my life! I hate my life! I hate my life! And danced up and down on the spot once or twice for good measure§§, like a toddler having a tantrum.
Peter went on playing patience.
Hellhounds remained in their crate.
They know me well.
...and love you more. And it's so therapeutic to have a tantrum occasionally, even better than chocolate on rare (usually computer induced) occasions 
And if Obama doesn’t win tomorrow, I’m moving to Pluto
Sarah Palin said this week that she thought she'd like to be president in 8 years time - I'll be on Pluto before you... and thanks! Black Bear for that link 
Chaos’ interesting habit of rubbing his head fondly against the inside of your thigh . . . and then raising his head sharply like Grond against the gates of Gondor. I’m a girl, I don’t have dangly bits, I don’t much care.
Hahahahahaha! Umm, should we care?!
Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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| Re: crummy [message #3501 is a reply to message #3494 ] |
Mon, 03 November 2008 19:30 |
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I am quite literally TERRIFIED by the thought of President Palin.... Count me in for the colony on Chiron if that ever happens!
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| Re: crummy [message #3502 is a reply to message #3494 ] |
Mon, 03 November 2008 19:32 |
 b_twin_1
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wow. Sounds like an interesting day.
1) At least it is good that finally the computer men may have worked out what is wrong on your computers. (You may not like the answer but at least you have an answer.)
2) Shame on you Darkness! *sigh*
3) Here.... have a freshly baked choc chip cookie with cherries in it...
**stacks the cookies beside the candle**
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: crummy [message #3505 is a reply to message #3494 ] |
Mon, 03 November 2008 19:48 |
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Julia
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Oh ugh, oh ugh, oh ugh.
How horrid.
Ugh. Ugh. ugh ugh ugh.
Unfortunately have no helpful suggestions regarding alternate thesaurus software... only sympathy.
However, and I do feel obliged to mention this... perhaps it will make things a bit less crummy? You are so totally right. In general, yes, but I am referring specifically to a conversation we had a few months ago now, I suppose, about the Met Museum and the Cloisters in NYC. Ah, here it is!
ANyway... I WENT ON SATURDAY! AND IT WAS AMAZING! AND I KNEW IT WOULD BE. BUT IT WAS EVEN MORE THAN THAT. AND I SIMPLY MUST GO BACK. SEVERAL MILLION MORE TIMES. And you and Black Bear are/were/whatever so right. It seems that I didn't make it in time for all the gardens-- some were already blocked off with glass or plastic or something. But some you still could get at.
Which is how I justified it, you see, because I have to write a paper on Renaissance gardens. So I was sort of doing research, which is why it is okay that I spent my entire day gallivanting around New York City [well not really. but still...] having an amazing adventure, getting to go to The Cloisters, something I have wanted to do since sixth grade(!)-- but it was research. Kinda sorta not really oh well. Even though it is medieval stuff there, and nothing much at all to do with my paper. Doesn't matter. Because now I have been there! I SAW THE UNICORN TAPESTRIES!!!
Unfortunately, my paper still awaits. My many many many papers still await, actually. But I felt obliged to let you know, after the discussion about how it is imperative that I go, etc etc etc.
And the walk through Ft. Tryon garden park place-- I actually was thinking of you all, because even simply walking down the pathway, you could smell those roses and it was all so beautiful...
Okay, I'll stop now. Time to go back to the ugh-ing at those dratted computers and so on. Candles lit. Hugs at the ready.
And a big smile. Oh, and Darkness- you get better now, stop worrying Robin. Hugs and encouragement for both hellhounds, so neither one feels left out.
Oh, and as for the salad dressing... I've done that too. So no worries.
Eeek! The elections are tomorrow!!! I sent my absentee ballot in a week or two ago. Fingers crossed.
I've spent far too long writing this post. So I'm just going to stop now.
The end.
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| Re: crummy [message #3508 is a reply to message #3507 ] |
Mon, 03 November 2008 20:03 |
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Julia
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| Black Bear wrote on Mon, 03 November 2008 19:53 |
OO RAH. Well done, Julia. You remind me of how it felt the first time I went to the Cloisters... little did I know it would have such a profound eventual effect on my life.
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Yaay!
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They put plastic up to protect the collections indoors--it's all open air in the summer, you know, and it's a conservationist's nightmare. Go back in the spring when the bulbs are blooming, it'll take your breath away.
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Yes, I remember you said that. And it makes sense.
All that means is that I'll just have to go back. Again, and again, and again......
Oh the horror. But somehow I think that I'll survive.
And I'll drag my family with me, so they can see it too. As a matter of fact, I called my mother and told her just that.
It is not longer a conciliatory: Oh, Julia. We'll go. Eventually. Next time. Maybe. There is no question, no option but when we all can go together. Ha.
So yaay once more.
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| Re: crummy [message #3509 is a reply to message #3494 ] |
Mon, 03 November 2008 20:05 |
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anne_d
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Oh, poor budgie!
This calls for major hugs, chocolate and champagne for you, and smiteage for every last little thing that's annoying you. Although I did smile sympathetically, just a bit, at the salad dressing; it's just the sort of thing I do to myself when I'm already frantic.
Also, Mr Bolty and I slay the usefuls. Perhaps those are usefuls on your list and not basilisks?
Obama is going to win tomorrow. And if the worst does happen, Elder Daughter and I shall immediately start planning for the midterms, by which time Younger Daughter will also be of voting age, and The Hellgoddess and the Demi-Hellgoddesses Will Take Over and Fix Things. If we ruled the world...
[More hugs, virtual candles, and may all your tribbles be little ones]
"The creative urge can come out in any form: in embroidery, in... cooking, in painting, drawing and sculpture, in composing music, as well as in writing books and stories... the artist's inner satisfaction was probably much the same." ~ Agatha Christie
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| Re: crummy [message #3516 is a reply to message #3494 ] |
Mon, 03 November 2008 20:40 |
Lissla Lissar
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You know, when I was much younger and had just broken up with a Serious Boyfriend, I poured an entire batch of soup all over the kitchen floor. By accident. And then my dad came in, and asked accusingly,
"What did you do that for?"
In a heavy Japanese accent, because that's Dad's standard question to anyone who has just done some lamentably stupid. I did NOT throw the pot at him, but I thought about it.
You know I don't want you to ever stop writing or doing anything you love, but sometimes, Robin, I get the impression that it would be awfully good for you to spend six months in an exceptionally quiet hotel somewhere de-stressing. With massages and champagne. Lacking that option, have some of the Sugar Cream Pie I'm currently eating (real name. It's like Tarte Au Sucre, the Quebecois pie. It has lots of no calories).
:pushes through cd drive:
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| Re: crummy [message #3521 is a reply to message #3494 ] |
Mon, 03 November 2008 21:00 |
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poor darkness, i hope he gets better quick for your sake robin.i hope that the computer men have finally solved the problem and sorry it was the dictionary. [winces].as for the salade dressing, been there, done that with maple syrup[ouch].
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: crummy [message #3527 is a reply to message #3494 ] |
Mon, 03 November 2008 21:27 |
skating librarian
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Tomorrow will be better.
And thanks to all for the links ... they provided needed relief.
At least it was the salad dressing and not the champagne which exploded ...
Chaos's little trick reminds of the time at college when a seeing eye dog put her very wet, very cold nose on my inner thigh when I was sitting at the dinner table. At first I thought it was the young man sitting next to me, but luckily I checked under the table before shrieking.
"Winning a war is like winning an earthquake" Jeanette Rankin
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| Re: crummy [message #3528 is a reply to message #3518 ] |
Mon, 03 November 2008 21:27 |
b_twin_1
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| ChrisW wrote on Mon, 03 November 2008 20:50 |
http://www.palinaspresident.us/
I forgot to include this. Click on things around the office. Funny yet SOOOOOO frightening.
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LOL.
*gulp*
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: crummy [message #3532 is a reply to message #3528 ] |
Mon, 03 November 2008 23:21 |
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Akai
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Ok, on the thesaurus problem, I second BlueRose and suggest Visual Thesaurus. It is superb, especially for those times when you go "There's this word I want... it's sort of like _____, but not really, but sort of in a second step-cousin three times removed kind of way.... Do you know which word it is?" (insert giant heart between me and visual thesaurus).
Also, I'm terribly sorry to hear about your salad dressing incident. Look at the bright side... at least you hadn't just finished cleaning the kitchen to within an inch of its life when the dressing exploded. (You hadn't, right? If you had, I'd be forced to mail you some chocolate covered cheesecake or something to help deter the evil that just took place.) And now that I sound just like my mother when I call her during my bad days, I'll leave you in peace, knowing we're all here wishing you, the computers, the Hellhounds (and yes, even the salad dressing) well.
PS: I'll join any escape-from-Sarah-Palin exodus. And I'll help finance it. Just get me away!!! (Or better yet, we'll ship her to Chiron.)
[Updated on: Mon, 03 November 2008 23:22]
self respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
--H.L. Mencken
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| Re: crummy [message #3547 is a reply to message #3517 ] |
Tue, 04 November 2008 03:12 |
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| ChrisW wrote on Tue, 04 November 2008 01:46 |
My days just keep getting worse,
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Sending you good thoughts and lighting a candle for you Chris. Hoping that you have some great times coming to you
Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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| Re: crummy [message #3554 is a reply to message #3548 ] |
Tue, 04 November 2008 04:05 |
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| Diane in MN wrote on Tue, 04 November 2008 08:47 |
My day started with two dead mice in the dog room. It could only get better.
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Aarrghh! I'd rather not meet dead mice at all, but later is better ...
Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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| Re: crummy [message #3564 is a reply to message #3494 ] |
Tue, 04 November 2008 07:13 |
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Oh, dear! I'm so sorry. [lights another candle]
Scar
"People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around."
T.P.
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| Re: crummy [message #3566 is a reply to message #3494 ] |
Tue, 04 November 2008 09:54 |
Louiz
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Forget the 6th? No chance!
I have my map. I have charged my oyster card. I have charged Himself with picking up small girl. I have regaled all and sundry that They Must Come. I have given up on finding my copy of Sunshine and bought another one (bookshop lady says, will you be writing more?).
I might be late on the 6th, but I'll be there!
Sympathies on Darkness, computer men and salad dressing:( Sounds miserable for all involved.
Louiz.
Bibliovorous.
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| Re: crummy [message #3581 is a reply to message #3494 ] |
Tue, 04 November 2008 13:53 |
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AJLR
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Living a normal life (for one's own given value of normal) sometimes seems almost unobtainable. I hope that you found the remaining basilisks and were able to slay them all today, and that you enjoyed the salad even without that particular dressing.
[Updated on: Tue, 04 November 2008 13:54]
"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."
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