what are you doing right now?

Right now I'm taking a break from trying to read my health insurance packet that came today.
What a headache!

right now I just finished catching up on group questions on elfster, and am checking LT really quick before trying to get rid of a headach.

I'm not having a headache. However, there is a lot of cleaning to be done. I'm signing off to clean and then get ready for work, hoping to stop off at Michael's on the way. *insert evil laugh here*

I'm about to step outside and rake the last of the leaves. I hope.

I'm attempting to do everything at once, as per usual. This currently involves catching up here, attempting to start a thread filling you all in on the trip, uploading pictures (some of the picture files are corrupt somehow, but my new flatmate is helping me recover all the others), tidying my room (my version of unpacking has so far involved tipping everything from my backpack onto my bed/the floor and then rummaging through the souvenirs/gifts and leaving all their wrappers everywhere too), doing laundry, and trying to get my head around the fact that it is NOT 3.40 tomorrow morning. So.....yeah....

I am catching up on LT when I should be studying :P

ETA: Welcome back LadyN!!

feeding Adara. after that I'm going to keep working on washing dishes. laundry and packing to go visit family for the holidays also needs to happen.

I wish I could go visit family. I'd love to get out of here for awhile

#6 Thanks Ron!

I'm procrastinating, of course. I should be doing laundry.

...and now I'm flagging... oh, not flagging posts, you understand. That would be mean. No, just flagging....

reading this thread.

AH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I'm cataloging Inkdeath and Harry Potter Should Have Died. Also seeing it's kind of late to research earthquakes (I know, I should know a lot already, right?) for a paper, so hurrah for bed! I'm tired.

Um . . . typing this message. Wasn't everyone?

no. i wasn't typing that message.

oh...wait...

Mr A, Booksloth, thank you! I really needed that smile this morning. :)

K, have you read Harry Potter Should Have Died? Just curious if it was one of the extra HP books I should get.

I am getting caught up with all the LT posts I've missed in an effort to put off doing the dishes just a bit longer. Also I'm typing up this post, but I figured the question was more of a guideline, so to speak.

#17 lefty:
No. I just bought these two books last night. Harry Potter Should Have Died looks really interesting, though. I read their previous book, Mugglenet.com's What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7? If it's anything like that one, it should be really good. They had some really interesting ideas. I think I remember a lot of us reading that one before DH was published. :)

I'm checking things online (bank, work site, sneaking on LT) before getting ready for work.

checking LT real quick so that when I go AFK for a week there won't be too much to read on the four or five threads I'm caught up on.

catching up on everything online: bills, LT, MLIA, etc...

FB, MSN, LT..... lots of acronyms there :oP

My daughter was supposed to take a train to visit her *grimace with shiver* boyfriend but she missed her train. Friday night she used her *impossible to say no to* face and asked if I could drive her (4.5 hrs). Couldn't say no, so we drove up Saturday morning. I checked into a horrible hotel, had a horrible Chinese dinner, slept (you guessed it) horribly, and was very glad to get home yesterday afternoon.

Procrastinating on beginning the pre-holiday house cleaning. First up, the kitchen table, which is so covered by various piles of paper that you can't really see the top anymore...

Hey party people!! I´m poaching on my dad´s assistant´s computer. I´m gonna try to check in with el tee while i´m away because when else can I do this Ñ? or say this ¿Que? ha ha ha this keyboard is soooooo weird I restarted the computer by mistake...

suge! Good to hear from you! And why did you leave without meeting up with me? :o(

Hi, suge!

Right now I'm waving an arm at Aloft to see if she's sleeping with one eye open or if she's watching me type. Creepy.

I'm trying to remember the login details of the HE flickr account...(hint hint...PM please!) I'm also wondering if I've been home too long to write a "what I've been up to in Asia" thread. I don't want to bore anyone....

It would never be boring! Tell us!

Ok, if you're sure! I'll work on reporting in the most efficient way I can, and then type it up. :-)

Yay!

Agreed.

#28 -- Done. :-)

I'm watching my husband play a Mario game on his Wii. Hilarious.

suge! I saw sharks today! We went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. When you come to Cali for a visit, you must go there. They have lots of cool sharks, including a couple of hammerheads. They are so weird! And the seahorses exhibit rawks.

Plus I got my new Kindle today. Must get back to it!

I'm trying to get my cough to stop. Its so annoying!

Getting ready to shut down my computer and leave for the weekend. I'll probably check in once or twice while I'm away, depending on the unreliable internet collection there. Happy Thanksgiving to all USA HEers, and the rest of you have a great weekend!

checking LT while doing laundry before packing to travel tomorrow and getting some cider for brunch with friends also tomorrow. The cat on mu lap is helping me time.

Happy thanksgiving foggi!

Checking in one last time before shutting down till Friday. Have a great holiday!

Biblio - ditto

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving everyone!

I'm catching up a little here while waiting for everyone to settle down for the night. We have four extra people and three extra dogs over. Everyone thinks I'm alseep but I say they're crazy. The noise!

#34 -- Is it New Super Mario Bros. Wii? Because it only makes it better if you start playing it with him ;)

Right now I'm digesting some Thanksgiving dinner and thinking if I ever eat again it will probably be too soon.

Getting ready to pick up some pizza.

drinking hot mint tea

#41 yes, but I've never played a Mario game so there would be no point in my playing with him. He's a ninja master Mario player.

Right now I am watching James Bond and relaxing after driving back from Mom's today. Had a lovely Tgiving, but I'm glad to be home.

Hubby is now playing GoldenEye video game while we watch the movie. Goofball!

Watching football (USA), getting ready to go sing at interactive "Sound of Music" movie (like Rocky Horror Picture Show) at Music Box theater in Chicago.

Procrastinating on my essay, FB, and MSN

Hubby is giving me a fashion show of the new suits I bought him for Xmas. Work it, babe!

Right now my cousin is visiting after getting back from a cruise to Mexico over Thanksgiving. I've just seen all her trip photos and our grandparents showed us photos from their own recent trip, to Hawaii.

Making Christmas presents ; )

thinking about making Christmas presents

I'm watching Mythbusters. But in a minute I'm going to the yarn store to buy some yarn to make mittens for soldiers in Afghanistan. Yes, that means I finished the Santa gift. (And they're real cool!)

Watching the Vikings with Mutombu and Bib.

I am resting, after spending the evening making 7 bibs to donate to the Alzheimer's unit. They were easy to make, but my neck is stiff from sitting at the sewing machine for the last 3 hours! And now thinking about going to bed...
*yawn*

Bed sounds good... maybe that's what I'm about to be doing.

I'm frustrated at why pictures I have resized have suddenly become ginormous.

But I give up and I am going to go eat leftover pizza and then work on some math...then it's bedtime.

MrA, I thought it was a bad idea to cross the streams! :o)

researching technophobia, the fear of technology especially computers. good thing i don't have it! ;)

i have arachnotechnophbia. Fear of mechanical spiders.

>#57: well, it probably is. I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing.

I'm drinking SmartWater and staring at the goldfish in my water bottle? This is really weird! It's the first time I've had this brand of water. It says "Spring water is for swimming. SmartWater is for drinking." My question is then, why is there a goldfish swimming in my water bottle? ;)

I just glanced out my dining room window, and noticed the neighbor's light up reindeer looks an awful lot like Harry's Patronis!

Drinking tea...again. Hubby and I are becoming real tea drinkers

Feeling like my head is going to explode. City stimulus funds came in yesterday and there was a press release. I have answered hundreds of calls in the last 3 hours. Not fun.

I'm drinking my second cup of coffee and wondering where I left my motivation. My brain is still not back from vacation.

I'm contemplating doing the hoovering...

LadyN... what is hoovering?!

I'm trying to ignore someone who wants to pick a fight with me. It's going well.

66 - erm... vacuuming!

67 - sorry someone's trying to do that, K. xx

getting ready for work

Psyching myself up for a job interview that's happening in 20 minutes or so.

Good luck Espy! or maybe that should be "Hope it went well" by now...

#68 LadyN:
It's okay. That's what sisters are for at times. ;) XX

#70 Espy:
We're rooting for you!

All set to collapse after a day of raising my blood pressure. (Stupid Microsoft Office Word...)

i just discovered mysterygoogle.com

I just googled mysterygoogle.com. Someone's going to find that someone googled Albus Dumbledore. Well, actually, they probably already did. ;) It would be fun to google HP things and see if any of you saw it on mysterygoogle!

Before this cool distraction, I was writing reviews and fixing book tags on LT.

yo yo yo, everyone!

i´m poaching again.

26===> why did you stay? you should have packed up the kids and headed south with me, JP!!

27===> hey, k! i´m really mad at you, but i will pause my anger long enough to say that believe it or not i have befriended a cat, now back to le cold shoulder... i´m skidding.

28===> omg omg omg you´re back from the wild!! HUGE HUG!!!

34===> LG, gods i´m crazy to go visit cali!! maybe it´ll be my next trip!!! yay, i´m going to the aquarium here on weds!!

45===> hey, the interactive Sound of Music came up in one of the last books i read! he he he!

70===> hope things went great with your interview, Espy!

#76 suge:
Always the kidder. It's good to see you on LT! I hope you're doing okay.

I've been left in an empty house so I'm doing a lot of cleaning. I'm trying to pretend that I don't need another bookshelf by moving some books around a bit.

76- Yay! Hi suge!!!

Drinking beer and watching the Texas-Nebraska football game

76 - SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE!!!! Huge hugs right back at ya!!

Oh yes, and right now I'm at work, recovering from a hangover, and preparing for another comedy gig tonight!

I'm switching back & forth between Mythbusters and PoA. I've been sick this weekend and it's so nice that they're showing Harry all weekend. And LOTR. Very theraputic.

I'm taking notes for my history day project then I have to do my math. I have a test tomorrow but I don't think I understand it all. Hopefully we eat dinner soon cause I am hungry!

I'm trying to figure out where the evening went . . . I didn't realize it was getting so late!

It went that way.
Want me to go get it?

I'm sitting on the couch, in pain and sick to my stomach.

Feel better, polly!

I am about to watch OotP because I spent all weekend watching the first 4 movies on tv. I'm feeling much better, but took the day off work anyway.

Sitting at work doing nothing because there's nothing to do at the moment. I wish I could take a nap...

Just got back from the doctor. I have a UTI. I should feel better soon

OHHH!

I just figured that out by using the letters in different words. And I'm so glad you don't have an unidentified terminal illness!

Get well soon, polly!

JP, you beat me to it.

Get well soon polly xx

This is because of our psychotic connection LadyN. We're like the Corsican twins. :o)

We´re all interrelated, aren´t we?

I´m doing a bit of poaching again. and chewing gum.

I´ve been gimping around since yesterday, because I slipped off my car and fell tibula first on a rock.. whaaaaaaa. It was honestly hilarious, but also extremely painful and I don´t even have a cool bruise to show for it all. I don´t bruise. Ever.

I´ll try to post pics later from my really, really cool white water and rock climbing adventure. you have to swim through these really cool rock formations and caverns and rivers and climb waterfall and jump off cliffs and slide down these natural rock slides. It´s sad because I survived all that, and only hurt myself getting back in the Jeep. sigh. trust me to go clumsy at the end of the day.

Well, off I limp.

¡Buenas noches! Que tengas dulces sueños.....

*snort*
Poor Suge. You would be so graceful if it weren't for the flat surfaces.

Feel better! Get yourself a nice soft pillow to sit on!

Ouch, suge! Get an xray.

Shaking the package I got today from Australia. I think my Santa has a funny accent!

edited to fix italics duh.

I just got away from cringing while watching my sister gift wrap for her boyfriend's birthday tomorrow. I now realize how flawed I've made her by agreeing to wrap for her all these years. ;)

*pauses for her sister seeking wrap inspection*

A passing grade. Heehee.

Aside from this, soon I'm going to be downloading some photos from a 'nature walk' (shooting photos from the car) at our wild life refuge. They're for my geography extra credit assignment, though I do already have an 'A.'

Shaking the package i got from the UK.

>#96: stop shaking it! It's a puppy!

Of course, there could be a cunning plan afoot for several of us to send packages via other HogXers, so that people don't guess who their santee is. I'm just sayin'.

Yep. I pulled that trick last year.

you mailed a puppy?

I got a puppy in the mail from Cat.

Ironic, no?

#98-102: LOL! I should wake up laughing like this every morning!

#98 Evil plan! But wait, you're saying my Santa might not have a funny accent? You're ruining it for me!

Right now, I'm getting ready for work.

#104: Wouldn't MrA say that we all have funny accents?

I am now panicking a bit hearing that people are already receiving packages. Come on postal system. Don't fail me.

#100 MrA:
Now that wouldn't be nice of me. LG is allergic to puppies. Oh! That wouldn't be nice of her secret santa!!

I'm in my college library watching out for a power cord to become free so I can plug my laptop into it. In the meantime I'm going to shut my laptop down and study for finals.

I am reading the million posts to try to catch up with the HE...since I have finally finished taking tests at college this year and I have more free time....

You catch up, Ron. We won't post until you tell us you're done.

....

Except for this one.

SQUEE!!! People are receiving packages! And puppies!! It's so EXCITING!!!!

#107 Sadly, it's true. I'm allergic to puppies. They hubby & I are looking into pot bellied pigs, tho. But pigs need a pen, unless you want them to tear up your drywall.

Maybe it's a pot bellied pig and not a puppy!

101- I send all kinds of things to Australia. Puppies...Vampires...Bear fashions... ;)

108- Don't worry Ron, we'll stop posting. *nods innocently*

Yikes! I need to get my package ready and in the mail! Being sick has slowed me down considerably

LOL...I have caught up you guys...you are free to post :P

Thanks, Ron. In that case I will post. ;)

I'm searching the internet for socks, a very dangerous thing indeed. Socks are quite addicting. My mom has only told me two things she wants for Christmas so far, and one is black socks with cats on them.

>116 Kerian: lol, you remind me of Dobby

#117 -- LOL! If Dobby could use the Internet, he would definitely use it to look for socks.

I know, right!!! :D

Watching Ace of Cakes. I love Duff & Geoff. And Mary Alice.

Wait. You're searching for internet socks?

VetaTorres and foggi,
Dobby would be in sock heaven on the internet for sure. :)

#121 kirby:
Why not? They'll keep their color forever, always be fragrance-free, and will never get dirty. That's much better than internet cookies if you ask me. ;)

Why does the internet need socks? It has no feet?

Right now, I'm going to bed after being terribly distracted with Cleverbot.

Yikes! Is that the time?

right now I am procrastinating, so much homework, so little motivation.

I think that the internet needs socks too. Or maybe just all the little spiders that get stuck in the "web" need them... *evil laughs*

MMmmmmmm! Home from work on a cold and windy evening, a good meal and now....a cup of tea! Nice!

Watching InuYasha instead of playing World of Zoo of Tony Hawk's RIDE so I can review them.

Watching Mythbusters, eating lasagne and shopping at amazon. I ordered First Among Sequels for my Kindle.

There's a new Jasper fforde due out on Dec. 29??? Why after xmas, that's dumb.

I'm waiting for my parents to get home cause I am starving! And sick. :/ But I finished all my homework a few hours ago which makes me happy. :)

#127 LG:
RE Jasper Fforde, you took the words right out of my mouth.

#128 Chelsea:
Hope you're feeling better soon!

My family teased and watched me jumping all over the house eager to race out the door tonight because I'd forgotten to get the HBP dvd. I'm about to search the different HBP dvds that are available online. I'm not sure which to get. Target had a 2-disc, and WalMart a 1-disc with a Marauder's map, but I think I remember liking one on Amazon better.

My plan is to get the Blue-Ray triple disc pack, if it's not given to me for Christmas.

Right now I am waiting for a fire marshal inspection.

I am at work, wishing I was home, because our grandson is at my home and when I told him I was leaving he patted the seat next to him and "Grandma stay here". Normally I love coming to work but he made it very difficult.

That kid knows how to use his cuteness. I would have a hard time leaving that too.

I'm having a quiet day at work, handling a few issues and trying to get stuff done.

Just got home form the late shift at work. Finished off a jar of chocolate truffles (there were only a few left), and catching up on Eastenders...

Home from work and a bit of shopping and getting my nails done.

watching Bones, YAY!

I'm trying to get my kid sister to pack more clothes for her snow trip this weekend with little success. Luckily I can sneak more into her bag once she leaves for school tomorrow.

Reading a million unread posts on HW.

One-million-and-one...

procrastinating, like always...

A) Freezing.
B) Debating eating a chocolate bar because I'm hungry, but it is so late I'd rather save it.
C) A little bit of catching up online before going to sleep.

wishing my hips would stop aching. MEM and I went Xmas shopping last night, after I had worked all day so I am sore and achy

Rest up polly!

I'm on the sofa, relaxing after pre-christmas saturday on oxford street (urgh!!), watching Orangutan Island. Will be making a roast dinner tonight. Mmmmmm...

listening to lady gaga and eating chocolate!

#145: I have Bad Romance and Alejandro stuck on my head, I really like Lady Gaga's songs...but darn it! they are too catchy :P

I am just deciding what to do today since my plans have changed...but it's great because I am too tired to even consider going out tonight

Well, I just finished watching an episode of Stargate SG-1 on Hulu, and now I need to get ready for my work Christmas party.

I just finished watching Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I came home from work tonight to find it got here from Amazon early.

I am talking to my new puppy over the phone.

I'm watching" Holiday Inn"

Procrastinating cleaning, though my house really needs it :) Trying to get ahold of toms sister to help with said cleaning since it is for the holidays

Putting off putting up lights.

You know, if I were smart I'd just put up my twitter sig and never have to post in this thread again... but then I wouldn't have to post in this thread again, and that would make me sad.

Just got home from a carol service. Thinking about what to do next. I'm kinda thirsty...

Just finished work on Monday's comic strip after being busy for two days straight. Think I'll watch a Christmas movie...

Training my Pandora Christmas station to never, ever, ever play "The Christmas Shoes." Ever.

I'll take a wild guess that you aren't crazy about that song...

I tear up whenever I hear that one too foggi!

Right now I'm watching"America's funniest home videos"

#156 -- I hate it. It's emotionally manipulative. It's in my top five least-favorite songs of all time list, and certainly one of my top three least-favorite Christmas songs.

yeah, it doesn't actually give you that warm fuzzy holiday feel does it? Not like "Grandma got run over by a Reindeer"

#150 Polly, I'm watching Holiday Inn tonight on AMC :)

I'm eating a real dinner and stressing up a storm, the theme for tonight. (Slinky's MIA and I closed at work by myself for the first time tonight.)

Sending out vibes for Slinky's return.

I just got done watching a bunch of interviews with Dan & Tom & Rupert about Deathly Hallows at Leaky. I'm such a dork.

Thanks, LG. Your vibes are appreciated. And you're not a dork. Never in the HE.

I love doing stuff like that, LG! I feel like a teenage groupie sometimes

I'm watching the news and getting ready for work

I'm on my lunch break at work. Back to the grindstone in.... 7 minutes!

watching "Sin Nombre" for the 4th time in 2 weeks in the Spanish class I am TA-ing

looking for good books to read over the holidays

I'm sending all the photos I want to keep from my cell to my e-mail address because I plan to do the phone switch in a little while tonight.

practicing how to draw fashion croquis

sleep-typing

Are we all who we really are when you're sleep typing? I'm still me when my sister's sleep-talking.

;)

watching good morning america, checking in here and getting ready for work. Trying to figure out what I wanna read for the holidays, and what kind of art projects I can have infants do lol :)

home on lunch break and checking in!

finishing up my book wish list! I cannot wait to get to the used bookstore next week!

The last time I went to a used bookstore, I told my mother about some near bib. Guess where she wants to move?

Right now I'm sneaking on a school computer (ick) while my sister's taking a final. I just sold a textbook back to the college and returned my rented textbook.

I just helped my mom put up the christmas decorations and I am planning on watching The Blind Side in a little while...

I just started HBP. I rented it from RedBox.

getting ready for work. happy I have a job,no matter what!

ignoring the fact that i have a test in my government class tomorrow

Watching Elf with Foggi.

Watching The Nanny.

Waiting for time to pass as I fiddle around online. I'm tired, have a headache, and take two finals tomorrow, but I must talk to my mother about tomorrow's plans before I go to bed. Two hours to go.

TA-ing in my intro to spanish class

Listening to Christmas music while entering bills into the system so I can cut checks and get people paid before the holiday. 2 down 214 to go...

At work. Which is quiet. Trying to find things to do...

I'm on the most horrid school computer. The font is huge. I took one final, had lunch and studied in the cafeteria, and am in the library until my last final begins.

Getting used to my retainer. I feel like I'm wearing plastic vampire teeth, minus the fangs.

#187 Pretty much every one of my nephew's facebook posts for the last week have been whinging about his retainer. So I guess they can be uncomfortable.

I'm pretending to work at my job, as usual.

#187 LOL

Just got home from work and I'm in bed (it's 11.30pm), with hot buttered toast, and my curtains open just a sliver so in the morning I can sit up, see how deep the snow is, and judge whether I'll be able to make it to work or not. :-)

Oh, and I'm trying to put together a movie montage of my time at the wildlife centre, if only I could work out how the movie-making software works...

I JUST GOT ACCEPTED TO 2 COLLEGES!!!!!!!!!!AND I GOT A $17500 SCHOLARSHIP!!!!!!!! i have been jumping up and down for several minutes, man am i out of shape :D

#191 -- Congratulations!

Wow! Congrats Veta! That's so exciting!

GN: Today is the last day of school before Winter Break!
N: Today is Polar Express Day! Weeeeeeeee. I have my train whistle prepared.

aww thanks guys :D

i'm watching Raiders of the Lost Ark

Almost finished wrapping the presents I bought today. Finishing up the shopping tomorrow and hopefully the wrapping tomorrow can't wait til it is all done. Also still jumping for joy because I am done school for winter break!

Just back from work's christmas party. It was okay. Now ready for some tea and reading

I'm eating pizza. With my hands.

VetaTorres,
Congrats!! :)

Ha ha ha, Kerian!

I'm in bed. It's so warm. Outside of my bed it's FREEZING! I'm bracing myself to get up and go to work...

Watching the snow fall and thinking about making some tea...

Getting ready to go in to work, which I didn't think I was going to have to do. Bah, humbug.

soooooooo happy that I don't work on weekends

At work. Thinking about not being at work.

At work. Thinking about Librarything. And going home.

at home getting ready for lunch and then going to MEM's to make Christmas Cookies

Catching up on threads before the party!

Happy that I have finished my antibiotics and am coughing less.

Celebrating the fact that yesterday was the start of break!

Procrastinating the chores my dad wanted me to do...

Wishing I could see the adorable 10 day old baby hamsters right now.

Looking at my secret santa prezzies, and loving all of my friends in LT, and thanking the powers that be that there are such lovely people in my life.

Trying to build up the courage and fortitude to survive a late-night Walmart run for Christmas presents.

we just got back from Walmart espy so I totally understand!

Thanks Kerian!!

I'm watching Bones and playing with my puppy

About to cast on for a new lacy stole. Yay.

I love all y'all. So much fun at the party today!

Well, Foggi and I survived Walmart, but unfortunately I didn't finish my Christmas shopping (she did) so I may be making more dangerous trips to retail stores. *Shudders*

I'm listening to the sound of Slinky snoring in that ever-loved cardboard box she is so fond of that is under my bed. Hurrah for Slinky being home!

#212: I know what you mean....I am going christmas shopping today...even though I have already finished mine this year

Getting ready to go christmas shopping this afternoon...

I went to my grandma's today, it's so sad, she has Alzheimer's. She never said my name, just introduced me as her granddaughter.

Tonight i watched Enchanted and The Santa Clause

#215 - I'm sorry, Veta. I know how difficult it is - my grandma was the same. She didn't know who I was the last time I saw her, as I'd changed my hair colour. You could see she didn't want to admit it though. In the end we sat down with old photographs and pointed out me, and other members of our family, using names frequently until it sunk in a bit with her.

Jim's Grandma is that way, right now. People she sees frequently she can remember, and she remembers Jim since he was her favorite grandkid. Me she's known for twelve years, and everytime I go in to visit she smiles and talks to me but as soon as I leave the room for a minute she asks who I am. " and They say, "Thats Jimmy's wife!" She always says in surprise, "Jimmy got married?" I don't mind I know she can't help it and I know she is really loves me for making her Jimmy happy.

Veta, when I was a teenager, my family dealt with my great-grandmother's Alzheimer's. My mother tried to help out by taking in my great-grandmother to give my grandma a break. Nanny never recognized me, even as her great-granddaughter. She thought I was the maid or a waitress. It can be so stressful and frustrating for everyone, but try to remember that this is the disease, not the person. {{{hugs}}}

Right now I'm at work, watching it SNOW SNOW SNOW in the West End. SQUEEEEEEEEEE!!!! Only thing is, I hope it doesn't stop me getting home for Christmas later in the week...

We' have a light snow cover which looks very christmasy but it will likely be gone by Christmas but we are supposed to get more so we shall see!
Right now I am happy to have recieved my secret santa gift today, see party thread for details, I must get back to work now

Making homemade from scratch beef stew and hoping it come out okay, also getting the stuff together to make homemade cornbread and cleaning up my house

>218 jugglingpaynes: thanks jugglingpaynes: yeah i have to keep reminding my dad that she isn't who she used to be, he still tries to reason with her when she comes up with off the wall stories. She did remember watching me dance when i was little which made me smile.

right now i'm researching Commedia dell'arte for my theatre class and watching The Mummy

222 Check out the relationship of Commedia dell'arte and British pantomime (or panto). I think the panto came from that tradition.

Veta, I'm sorry. My great grandfather saw me often but never knew who I was. I'll never forget the time he took a bite of the sand dollar I'd brought over to show my grandmother. He thought it was a cookie.

Right now I'm catching up here and checking other things online. After that I have gift wrapping to do.

>223 Mutombu: thanks, i will check it out :)
>Kerian, thanks. i never knew that many ppl with grandparents with memory problems, but now that its in my family it seems like i know off alot more ppl that have had the same kind of issues.

I love the holidays, movie marathons, today i've watched The Mummy, Funny Face, and now i'm watching National Treasure

It is the 1st day of my holidays :) so I'm procrastinating about whether I should finish my gift wrapping or having another nap. I'm also tempted by the beach as it looks heavenly but there aren't enough people in the water for me to feel statistically safe ; )

Just got back from unplanned Christmas shopping. Not much luck, either. :/

watching The Big Bang theory and being happy that I have a new range

Just baked a cake, now loading pictures onto my computer and listening to music...

222/223 - There are elements of commedia in panto, however, many of pantos routes are in the medieval mystery plays. Traditions of staging, such as stage left being the realm of the Good and stage right being the realm of the Bad echo the positions of heaven and hell in the mystery plays. Of course, panto is a result of theatrical evolution, so does have many influences. Most obviously the permission (or not) for women to appear legitimately on stage, hence the "Principal Boy" role and of course the Dame. I could go on, but it would be dull. :-)

Actually, stage right is for Goodies and stage left is for Baddies. I'm the good fairy this year and I'm on from the right. I've always been a baddie in the past, so it's weird to be coming in from that side. :)

(I double checked this on Wikipedia, just in case we had somehow "Americanized" it, but we're doing it right. Dad, you should check out the wiki entry on pantomime, there's a small section on American companies doing it. I'm going to attempt to add us.)

ETS: I did it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantomime

CAn't believe I got my left and right mixed up!! Of course you're right bib :-) So ashamed!

I checked out a book from the local library, The Triumph of Pierrot: The Commedia dell'arte and the Modern Imagination, its very interesting

Sitting at the Library, wishing I could take a nap.

Now i'm trying to remember if Snagglepuss would "exit, stage left" or "exit, stage right". Not sure if he was a goodie or a baddie. Heavens to murgatroyd!

Snagglepuss would "exit, stage left." And yes, that's where my mind went too. Get outta my head!

sinister.

Looking through pictures of baby hamsters to make an album for Facebook. Yes, I am obsessed with them. But they're just so cute! And soon one (or two) will be mine!

OMG! Snagglepuss! I haven't thought of him for years!

On the You Yube video I saw he said stage left, but went stage right which is on the viewers left. According to one site he would say Stage left or right depending on the situation. Sometimes even stage up or down.

Heavens to betsy! Stage directions, even!

Watching my new TV that I bought myself for Christmas.

Also eating the snickerdoodle chex mix I just made. It smells so good, and tastes so yummy.

Now I need to watch Snagglepuss!

Wow, Snagglepuss, flashback!

I should be finishing making and wrapping gifts, and I want to be on LT, but I am so tired that I may sign off to go read and perhaps happily fall asleep reading. That sounds lovely right now.

Gar. And I'm typing with the 'v' button right now (and deleting it) trying to get it back in it's place on the keyboard because it keeps popping out. It's why my laptop was on discount, about $20 off. vvvvvvvv Okay. I think it's 'fixed' now. ;)

I'm sitting here waiting for the Fedex guy who was supposed to be here "Before 10:30." Maybe he's running on Pacific time?

#246 -- Maybe we read the slip wrong, and it was before 10:30 PM.

About to go hunting for the rants thread.

Laughing because my friend is such a nerd that she was practicing her backwards marching at the White House and broke a vase. Haha!

Getting freaked out by how much stuff I need to do...

Wondering if Espy and Foggi's slip from the FedEx guy was for 10:30pm Pacific time. Possibly thirty-two minutes to go! ;)

(Can't spell. Good! Maybe I'm tired. I have to get up at 5am.)

Wasting time. I have another hour here at work and I just don't feel like doing anything. Luckily, I'm caught up.

I want to go home and bake some cookies!!!!

Listening to Luther College choirs sing on TV.

Thinking about cookies... curse you, post #251.

I want cookies too now. If only there was someone in this place who can cook *looks up*.

Mutombu and I are waiting for the girls to wake up!!

#254: Yeah, God makes awesome cookies...

I now have a mental image of MsDonna sitting in a shower of cookies from above. . . .

"Every time it rains, it rains
Cookies from heaven"

Cloudy with a chance of cookies?

*basking in the image*

Watching Mythbusters and eating cookies for breakfast. In my new Snuggie. Is this an awesome xmas or what?

Getting ready to fix the green bean casserole and mashed potatoes to go with the ham we're eating in a little while here.

Waiting for my mom to wake up so we can open stockings and then presents...at least I have books and a laptop.

>#256:ROFL.

*looks at MsD who appears to be deep in prayer*

drinking tea and being depressed now that Christmas is over

#264 - Only 365 days until Christmas!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

*runs away screaming*

264-265: It's not really over for us. We go until January 6th. :o) I like that we extend it so I can actually enjoy some of it. (I have some cookies hoarded for after we finish with all our holiday visiting.)
Right now I'm enjoying a break after a hectic couple of weeks.

Wishing for some chocolate. Wondering if I should go raid my dad's computer room. I know he has some. I gave him some for Christmas. Man, I hope we can get into town tomorrow.

This wasn't right-right now, but continuously today Slinky has let me pet her and give her real head rubs as though she were any of the other cats. There has been a lot of purring, a first for this poor cat who has been deprived of accepting love.

Maybe she went away to straighten out her affairs, find closure with her past life, make any kitty divorces she needed to, so now she feels more open to enjoying living with you permanently. :o)

or it's still the pod-slinky.

I am heading over a friend's house because we are cooking ñoquis (Italian meal) and playing Wii, Ps3 and board games...should be an awesome day :D...

I've been trying to make some sense out of the trash heap we call home, Lordy! Let up on it just one or two days and you're overrun with papers, books clothes, magazines, dishes!

Sitting in shock because my friend just told me her hamster had more babies last night! The other babies are 18 days old, not weaned yet and I don't think they've even been picked up yet. :O!!! I read online a week ago that dwarf hamsters can get pregnant hours after giving birth and I thought about telling my friend to be warned. They didn't take out the male until I practically forced them to and it was already at least 8 hours later. But then I thought "No, that couldn't happen"

Wondering what we're going to do with all the hamsters. There are 8 babies from the last litter and I was planning on taking one or maybe two. Then we would have to find homes for the others. I think only 3 people are on the list...I sure hope there was only 5 babies this time...

maybe you can sell/give them to a pet store?

We are discovering that do-it-yourself isn't very easy to do! Jim's putting a new bookshelf together for me

I'm not sure pet stores will take them since there are a lot of hamsters. But we could always try. Or put posters around school about free hamsters. Some people will want them. We will definitely ask all the people in band and I'm sure the hamsters will get some homes from that.

homework :( need i say more...

starting to plan my new style of eating (aka: diet) I really do want to lose weight
oh and thinking of ways to sneak in exercise so it won't seem like a chore!

#1270 jp & 271 MrA:
Who knows which of these is true. ;)

#276 polly:
I should lend you my 21-year-old sister. She's great at it and did most of the work putting together my last bookcase.

Speaking of...I'm checking which of my LT tags I use the most often wondering how I might shelf books on my new bookshelf once it's built. We're building it Tuesday or Wednesday when I have a day off. Besides checking tags here I'm also getting ready to go see a movie.

i'm in ur laptop, stealing ur game ;)

I was just knitting and watching the Channel 4 adaptation of White Teeth on hulu. Not as funny as the book, but well done. Hulu has some really great things if you take the time to look. (Oh, and if you haven't read the book, you should. It's great.)

Polly, try sneaking in excercise while cleaning lol.. My cousin puts on music then dances around as she cleans her house. She says it makes it go faster :)

Right now I am dreading going to work. I don't wanna!

Bella> I do that too! I need to do more of it, thanks!

I'm at work....BORING!

I'm at home, relaxing! Tommorrow short day at work then off for the weekend unless I get called in on the 31st

I'm waiting for the sleeping cats on my bed to please wake up so I may continue cleaning and get my bookcase built and put in there. There's not much room for moving around so having three sleeping cats on my bed makes all the difference, or so says my procrastinating self. I can't find the tools so I'll probably build the bookshelf tomorrow.

That was a lot of words to say you are procrastinating right now. :o)

I'm practicing being creative with words. I just lost a game of Man Bites Dog to my kid sister and then to my grandmother. ;)

Trying to catch up on some threads.

Came home not that long ago from shopping with my mom and friend. I actually found some stuff I liked! :)

Enjoying my internet after not having it since Monday night!

Trying to eat a good breakfast as I am scheduled to give blood platelets in a half hour...tried Monday and my iron count was just a hair too low (12.4 and the magic number is 12.5). I do not generally eat breakfast, which sadly usually consists of a Coke.

I'm about to shovel snow...

Lift with your knees!

I never lift. I push it and tilt it to the side. ;o)
We have the best packing snow today! My kids are now outside making snowmen and snowballs! The last snowfall was so cold and powdery it was useless.

Watching The Fellowship of the Ring because Foggi wanted to have a LotR marathon. Fellowship tonight, and the others tomorrow.

ETA: We decided during the prologue of Fellowship to switch to the old Warner Bros. Animated The Hobbit, but will go back to Fellowship after The Hobbit is done.

Finally resting after spending the last five hours moving all my DVDs from their cases into space saving sleeves, which will free up more shelf space for books. Priorities.

We're watching FotR now -- just got to Elrond's house. I still want to live there.

Wow, I'd forgotten how much wangst there was in the last 15 minutes of The Fellowship of the Ring. Foggi and I combatted it by making highly inappropriate comments in the silent spaces. You can do so too!

We're now sitting in the chat room, if anybody else is around and wants to drop in!

I can't picture that. ;) Enjoy the rest of your movie! Marathons are marvelous.

I'm about to say goodbye for the night. My sister and I are racing to see who can read more books this year. If I finish my book tonight, we're tied at 69 books. If not, she'll beat me by one book. I can't let that happen, right? It gives me a little fun since I know I've already lost my reading challenge of 75 books, and my mother has once again read more books than me in a year's time span.

Aww! I love, but hate, really hate, my laptop! :( I still need it taken back to Fry's so they can help me let it accept the program our chat room uses. I wish I could join you guys! Have a lovely night and 2010 celebration!! *new year hug*

Happy New Year, K! Good luck finishing your book!

@foggi & Espy - we're watching the LOTR triology too!! We only got through FOTR tonight, but I am looking forward to finishing them (later) tomorrow...

About to ring in the New Year with a toast with my husband!

Starting at midnight (though I was not awake) BBC America started showing a marathon of every David Tennant episode of Doctor Who leading up to the American premiere of his final episode tomorrow night (UKers get to see it today :( ) I have all these episodes on DVD, but this way I don't have to stop what I'm doing to change discs every couple hours.

Going to bed...zzzZzzZzzz

Getting ready to start sewing costumes all weekend.

waking up

Me too. I've been up, but not really awake. I've already burned a pot because I turned on the wrong burner trying to heat water for coffee. My stove knobs are not logical, especially when I haven't had coffee.

Yeah, I'm still not awake. *pours more coffee*

Drinking coffee and getting up the energy to do my annual new years purging of junk and reorganize the apartment.

#303 foggi:
Thank you! I finished it right in time. :)

I just got home from work. Now I'm talking to a friend, am about to review the book I finished reading last night, and then look over last year's reading challenge.

Finally I'm done with homework and now i only have 1 day til school starts again...sad day!

I'm at work.... :-(

Trying to wake up enough to make a two-hour drive.

Feeling better, finally! Doctor said I had a sinus infection, way deep behind my eyes which is why my nose wasn't involved.

Doctor who?

Glad to hear that your nose was cleared of any involvement. I always thought that that was just a vicious, unsubstantiated rumour.

Watching Incredible Dog Challenge. But hubby is putting A Day at the Races into the DVD player right now. We have been rewatching all the Marx Bros. movies.

I just finished making sugar cookies for the ladies at the local library, they help me out alot with books for school

LG, we'll be watching Marx Bros. soon too! My son had me order a DVD collection of Marx Bros. movies with his gift card!

Actually, we watched A Night at the Opera. Which is awesome. I love all Marx Bros. movies.

He opted for the collection with Duck Soup, Horse Feathers and Animal Crackers since we've seen Night at the Opera several times. :o)

Watching NCIS thinking about when I can take more medicine. I can't calculate it right now.

getting ready for work, first day as cook at the daycare!

Enjoy your first day in your new role, polly!

The pudgy children require extra cooking time... oops did i say that out loud?

Mentally preparing myself for work, I am determined to have a good day. Making coffee.

Psyching myself up to go back to work after my amazing 4-day weekend. Not getting another one of those any time soon... *sigh*

home! this is the best part of the new job, getting home early!

I'm making a list of who borrowed what dvd(s) and/or book(s). When people have things for a year and five months, it makes me less keen to lend things out. ;)

At this moment I'm repeatedly banging my head on my desk in reaction to the seemingly endless stupidity of that unfortunate species "The General Public"...

Be careful, LadyN. Bang your head one too many times and you might become one of them.

#321 I love the Paramount movies best but Night at the Opera has the stateroom scene. And the "sanity clause" scene. Enjoy your boxed set!

You can't fool me! Everyone knows there ain't no Sanity Clause!

#331 - That's very true. I'll stop immediately.

right now,I'm watching a dum girl make a fool of herself

#334 - I'm very glad you took my advice, LadyN. The world can always use less brain-damage.

Right now I'm waiting for an ebay auction to end to see if I won it.

I have pretty much wasted the whole day at work. I got like one thing done. Good thing I don't really have that much to do.

just finished a scholarship application, and trying to think of what to write for the essay that goes with it... i hope i get the scholarship it would give a full ride + text book money + a new computer + priority registration + complementry parking + priority housing + priority campus jobs = one happy camper :D

trying to motivate myself to proofread some important paperwork of my husband's...the last papers he has to write before he gets ordained. No pressure (hah)...but they've reiterated that grammar, syntax, etc. is very very important. Eight years of graduate school, turning the family dynamics topsy turvy, career change at the half-century mark...and all could be for naught if ptb's don't like his writing style...

Do you think Moses had this much trouble getting his credentials?

#339 - Well, he did have to hire someone to do his public speaking for him.

Moses had a Friend in a very high place...HE didn't have to go thru the Board of Ordained Ministers. lol

#339 My dad changed careers when he was around 45, from a buyer for a department store to Episcopal priest. I was a freshman in high school when we moved to the bay area for him to complete seminary. I remember all the tests and papers he had to do, but he made it. I loved the time in Berkeley.

It's done. Took over an hour, and I'm pretty crossed-eyed and dizzy from all the theological terminology used, but I used a bunch of red ink all over the 50 or so pages...I love the man, and he's better at this preaching thing than I would have thought at one time , but his gifts and talents DO NOT include writing. I just texted him, and explained to him that a really wonderful thing had been invented: it's called "the comma", and he might consider using it occasionally. He also has a tendency to meander in his writings, and so I cleaned up a lot of extra verbage.

While I am proofreading and editing his extremely important papers, he is in Arizona at the Fiesta Bowl. Good to know his priorities are in order--the papers are due on Jan. 15. lol

Commas? But it's so much more fun to talk and talk and talk until you foam at the mouth turn blue in the face and fall over backwards....*collapses*

Heehee.

Right now I'm using my laptop with my new folding laptop table that my mother got me for Christmas. It's something to get used to. Typing is a bit different. This will do wonders for my wrists, though.

Sending MrA out to pick up trash (aka discarded treasure) from the side of the road that I spotted on the bus ride home tonight. Like a Ninja, he is doing it under the cover of darkness.

Like Chris Farley, epic ninja fail.

About to start getting ready for my interviews. My stomach is full of butterflies and I didn't get a very good nights sleep :(

well, that will happen if you eat butterflies for dinner.

Good luck! You'll be great!

I'm not sleeping. Tumbledore would not let me sleep in this morning. Instead I'm up and getting ready for the day early. Very soon I'm going to the grocery store for water and either grapes or an apple to take to work.

Sitting on the sofa, watching a re-run of ANTM, thinking about what to make for dinner. In fact, I'd better get started if it's gonna be cooked in time for Project Runway...

getting ready to take son to work in major snowstorm!

I just discovered Jango.com which is a free music radio, which is sweet since i don't store my music on my laptop rather i store it on the "family" computer.

#353 -- Do you know about Pandora? I'm not familiar with Jango, but you can customize what plays on your Pandora stations, which I think is pretty cool. (Gosh, I sound like a commercial.)

> 354 i have, just never tried it. but u can do the same thing on jango

I've been playing around with Last.fm lately, but for straight-up Internet radio I think that Pandora is better.

Changing my name on a website so I can see what grade my parents get on my name. It's fault and doesn't accept my beloved hyphen. For a very short amount of time, I will not have a hyphen. ;)

Next time just hit refresh K. I think there was a glitch with that app. ;o)

Waiting for some students to choose a book so I can check them out...trying not to stray too far away from my space heater (this building is cold!)

I SHOULD be shelving books, writing next week's lesson plans, and running overdue notices...hmmm, the last 2 I can do w/o leaving my cozy warm spot.

Wondering if Kerian has read Shades of Grey yet. I'd like her thoughts on it before I download it.

sitting here, warm and comfy and happy that it is the WEEKEND!

Its so nice to look foreward to weekends again! Working at Walmart weekends were just workdays!

Getting ready to get ready. It's Friday night and we go to a friends house for dinner every Friday. We haven't been able to go for the last 3 weeks because of weather or family visiting.

getting ready to prepare to get ready in preparation for getting ready... no wait, i'm actually doing nothing. My mistake.

I'm "cleaning." (Obviously, if I were really cleaning, I would not be posting here.)

Right now I'm holding a cranky Theo while the older two are outside playing in the snow. Theo is now laughing and crying at the same time. It is hilarious! That is my super fun Friday night plans because I am just that cool.

awww why is Theo cranky? Does him want to play out in the snow too! (grandma's cooing voice)

#365 -- Wow, you and I could compete for most exciting Friday evening plans, but I think you would win. I'm off to clean the bathroom now.

I was in the bathroom cleaning club earlier today. *sigh* Well, at least my family will have toothpaste free sinks...until bedtime.

You know, if you just told them to quit brushing their teeth and to let their teeth rot and gums to become infected with the dreaded GINGIVITIS you would never have to clean the toothpaste out of the sink again!

#369 Wow my brain just flashed Pink Floyd. IF you don't eat you meat, you can't have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

I am about to go to bed, just coming back from a small birthday gettogether.

#358 jp:
I tried that first. :)

#360 LG:
I didn't read it yet! I still have to get a copy. Just this weekend I remembered it had to have been published already. I am looking forward to reading it and am trying to not get too excited, just in case. I will definitely share what I think of it with you! My goal is to get a copy on Sunday.

Right now I'm giving suggestions to my aunt via the lovely internet on how to send my cousins to bed. They won't like this when they find out. ;) She gets very overwhelmed from them, though.

>#371: what's a small birthday? 2? 8?

>#372: dear aunt: drug them.

I feel the need to share something I got from a friend--her kitties were spayed and she wanted to make sure they couldn't get at the incisions, so she made them these:

Oh how cute! I would love to see the pattern directions!

Cute!

#374 That's adorable. I wonder how the kitties liked them...

Doing my history day project (a website).

Working on my essay.

Soon I will get something to eat and go to the library (for school though).

Watching the playoffs.

#373 MrA:
Haha. Only if she lets me drug her next time she visits. ;)

#374 ejj:
How clever! That was a brilliant idea.

Right now I'm trying to not be mad at someone who chased my sick cat into a corner shouting "Don't you dare be sick there!" Well, what did they think would happen if they chased the cat there?

Now I will be going to do some cleaning that I would have otherwise been able to clean on linoleum instead of carpet. (Sick cat 101: rush cat to linoleum. Is this TMI? I'm sorry!)

#374 - they are so cute! I wonder if she can do them in husky size.

Wondering if anyone knows anything about a site called SwapTree? My son has an XBox 360 game from Christmas and we don't have an XBox, so we were thinking of trading it. My relatives didn't give a gift receipt or any clue what store it was from.

Does anyone know if this site is reliable?

#373: Actually it's 6 months, MrA...since it's not a full birthday it's a small birthday...:P

I am catching up on twitter, e-mails and LT, will probably read a little bit in a while...

#381: I've not heard of that site, but a lot of places will let you return without a receipt close enough to the holidays...though you might be past that by now. You can also usually get store credit or an exchange from a store so long as they carry that title...so you could go to GameStop to get another game or take it to Best Buy and get something else...

Trying get my favorites and programs on the computer I got this afternoon to replace the one that died last Thursday and at the same time watching the NFL playoffs.

Drinking tea and waiting for supper to be ready.

Watching the movie "Purple Rain" while editing a friend's romance novel. Great music. Silly movie. Fun book.

I'm taking a break from sewing -- I'm almost done with some comfy flannel shorts that I'm making for sleepwear. My most comfortable flannel pants experienced a terminal malfunction last week, ;-) so I need to make replacements. I have flannel to make another pair of pants, but I cut these shorts out about four years ago (okay, so I occasionally procrastinate a bit on sewing projects) and I thought I'd go ahead and put them together before starting a new project.

I spent all morning reading Dostoevski so I decided to take a break and check on the interwebs. And then I couldn't resist amazon and bought 3 books. (Last 2 Soldier Son books and The Graveyard Book.) Seriously, amazon pwns me.

Taking a sewing break, still have lots to do.

I finished making a mask for theatre and wrote an essay for a scholarship.

I just ordered 25 pairs of white tea gloves. I wonder if I can get boa trim by the yard cheap...

dolphin spotting.

About to take a nice bath with a cup of tea and read for a bit before cooking dinner.

Trying to figure out whether the baby is really asleep so I can go or whether he is playing possum.

getting ready to go to bed!

trying to figure out facebook...

Listening to the "New Moon" soundtrack, talking to my mother who just got home from work, and trying to think of a hand cream that, in the current condition of my hands, they won't get a rash from. Winter skin sucks.

Dreading getting ready for work... I don't wanna go! :) But I will at least get to see the babies.

Emailing myself all my links I found for our tea party.

Making a list for the grocery store to pick up things for our science experiment tomorrow.

K, if you can get some plain white gloves, you can put something like vaseline or olive oil on your hands before bedtime and that might help. I don't have much trouble with allergies, so I always put some scented lotion on my hands before bedtime to fight the winter dry hands problem--added bonus of having the nice scent to help lull me to sleep.

ETA--if you have heat drying out the air in your house, it really helps a lot to run a humidifier during the winter. Mine puts at least a gallon of moisture into the air daily.

Thanks, ejj. You just reminded me that I needed to water the plants. They dry out quicker in the winter too.

Cleaning and I just put a pot roast in the Crockpot for dinner.

I have just enjoyed a delicious home-made veggie casserole, complete with dumplings, and a glass of wine. Am now trying to decide if I have enough time to have a shower before tackling the snow-restircted transport system to get in to the west end for Les Miserables tonight... I think I possibly don't. Which is frustrating. I shall just have to hope the rest of the audience are so enjoying the show that they can't smell me.

Eating lunch and taking a brief break before moving on to my next project at work.

Catching up on the HE posts and realizing how much I miss just sitting down and reading everyone's posts without any pressure because I don't have anything else to do until later...

Trying to find a recipe for snow crab legs.... not finding many surprisingly.

Planning out invitations, and trying to find the most efficient way to make 64 of them.

On Facebook talking with my friend about my "pet dragon" and how we'd be able to play with it without getting our limbs burnt off...

#406 Using a large pot, sweat some shallots and a clove of crushed garlic in butter -- do not allow to brown but saute until fragrant. Add a litre of white wine and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and add some fresh herbs (dill, parsley or whatever you like but lightly so that you don’t overpower the delicate flavour of the crab legs). Toss in your crab legs. Cover and allow to steam until cooked.

#409: I know what you meant, but I just pictured shallots in little jogging suits with sweat bands. :o) Alright you shallots! Five more laps around the pot! I want to see some sweat!

After I posted, I was worried that people would think I was sweating shallots - eewwww!

I just got braces!

I'm just watching"ghost hunters" until I have to pick Jim up at school

Catching up on LT and putting off homework for a little bit.

I named my hamster Alice a few days ago. After Alice Cullen, my favorite character. I have decided all our hamsters will be named after literary characters. :)

#200 ejj:
Thanks a million! I can't wait to try it out. My hands have been stinging for days. Good idea about a humidifier, too! I never thought of that for my hands. Now I want to go shopping! :)

Right now I'm checking some threads on LT before writing a review for Shades of Grey.

Trying to fight going back to sleep as I know if I do I will not be waking up for work in an hour.

#381 - I've never heard of SwapTree, but I have friends who swear by Goozex.

Right now I'm trying to get caught up on threads which is not exactly the easiest since it's been a few days since I've been on.

Trying to make a list of books for my B&N trip in an hour, and trying to take some medicine before I have to pick up the kids from recess.

I'm waiting for someone to go out the door so I can begin building my bookcase. :) I'm not sure how I can manage without someone to assist me, but one way or another it will be done tonight.

Waiting to get this day over with! Can't wait for my weekend to start!

Procrastinating.

trying to make my eyes focus.

trying to make my focus eyes.

I'm also procrastinating! I am feeling very very lazy today. 8)

I haven't started procrastinating yet, but I"m sure I'll get around to it. First, I need coffee. And then a shower.

I'm about to get ready for work and tell off two cats for growling over who gets to sit on my new bookshelf. Hissing and clawing. Lovely. Do you suppose I'll come home to find all my books scattered on the floor? I swear they never fight.

You mean you didn't build it for them?

How mean of you K!

What am I doing? I am being glad its the weekend

I'm lying in bed, feeling very tired, and wondering why I don't just turn the computer off and go to sleep, since I have to get up for work in the morning.

AHHH i have finals next week!!! lovely...

#427 jp:
That would be re-gifting. ;)

I'm telling Tumbledore to please be a good girl, but she is a curious thing. Meanwhile I sit cold (forced air coming on is cold at first) at my laptop contimplating what movie to watch.

#429: Ditto. Except the having to work thing, I have two more shows to do tomorrow instead!

I've just finished Outlander. I'm now looking for the next book.

I am sitting here with wet hair contemplating when I have to dry it to get ready.

ready for what,Kirby? I'm sipping coffee and eating toast, watching the news and posting here. I am so multi-talented!

Just finished putting my comics on the computer and cleaning them up for this week. And I did while suffering from a killer headache. Which still hurts.

#436 Do you archive your comics somewhere on your blog? I love reading them and wondered if you had a link to the older ones. 8)

I'm sitting here getting Missie's school stuff in order and trying to brainstorm chapter books for Cole. Every night I read to him and we have a huge collection of books but honestly after eight years of the same picture books, my brain is mush.

ignoring the fact that i have homework to do

Procrastinating, as usual...

I'll send you the link MEM. :o)

How old is Cole? I think Chase's first chapter books were The Magic School Bus chapter books and The Magic Tree House series.

The football game is on but I'm not really watching it. Catching up on threads, then back into Harpo Speaks! until hubby wakes up from his nap. Then I'm making some stuffed green peppers. Then TENNIS!!!! What a lovely rainy day this is.

Thanks!

Cole just turned five but he is a young five in a lot of ways. He and I read a book every night but I don't know if he would hold still for a longer story or even a chapter that isn't very fast paced. LOL It's ME who is bored with them. I'm hoping as we work more on reading maybe his attention span will grow... or maybe letting him jump on the bed as I read would help though that probably would be counter productive to sleep.

get him different books, MEM You know your grandfather bought you new books all the time, thats why we had so many. I would love to find a copy of "Bembleman's Bakery" again. Do you remember that one?

Buy him different books.... ah gee, Mom, what a good idea. Why did I not think of that? Oh wait I did! You can only buy/borrow so many books. I guess, to clarify, I'm sick of the whole picture concept all together. Then, the thought of beginning to read to Theo a bedtime story every night (since I'm an equal opportunity mommy), I get a bit ill. I was hoping to give myself a picture book break before Theo is old enough to want them. 8)

And, no, actually, I don't remember that one. I do remember the one about the sleeping bumble bee, though.

And do you remember "The Monster at the End Of this Book?

And Honey, as long as you have young children you will have to read picture books!

#435: Church this morning.

Right now I'm printing Tea Party invitations on vellum paper. Next I'm going to cut those and the scrapbooking paper. Hopefully I'll be able to put stuff together soon.

I am doing not much of anything, resting from the last week.

eating a "skinny cow"
ice cream cone

watching tennis.

MEM: There are some wonderful picture books that held my son for longer sittings, like The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins or the Custard the Dragon books. You could also have Missie read to him. Catbastet did most of the reading to my youngest. By the third, I really had enough of certain picture book titles. (The youngest always likes the ones that you've read a thousand times before they were born.) :o)

Sitting at work, getting caught up on threads and waiting impatiently for Foggi to get home with the Arc of A Conspiracy of Kings.

Enjoying a day off work.

Home from work. just catching up

Sitting at a hotel lobby computer, wondering why I am not asleep yet and whether my feet will fall off before I get up to my hotel room. The short walk from here to the elevator, and from the elevator down the hall to the room, seems incredibly long. But I wanted to check in here and see how everyone was doing! I've been at a conference all weekend (I think I may not have mentioned that, thinking that I would still have time to post, silly me!) and have missed you all. I fly home tomorrow evening, so my life should get back to normal shortly.

Just got back from watching Daybreakers...not the best vampire movie ever made imo, but at least the vamps burst into flames in the sunlight, and didn't just glow lol. Ethan Hawke was nice to look at.

sparkle. Modern vampires sparkle, not glow.

hmmm. Glow in the dark vampires... easy to avoid?

And fairies glow, they don't sweat - according to Bib's line in the panto.

And zombies...um...zombies flake.

And werewolves shed.

lol, cat, I was just going to say that!!!

LOL, well, you know, it's the natural choice after vampires, fairies, and zombies. ;)

I'm finding it quite frustrating that BookMooch has been down all day.

Getting ready to take a shower and get on with work for the day.

Feeling very very sad because my niece died Sunday night.

Thinking I should probably take a walk and maybe buy some blueberries.

I'm so sorry ejj, but remember she is free of suffering now. I know, so cliche` but its true. I am thinking of her children and family and sending them good thoughts

I am sorry as well ejj. {{hugs}}

#464: My deepest condolences, ejj. She is in a better place now.

I am admiring (and smelling) my wonderful Bondilight candle that arrived in the mail today from MrA and MsD! (Thanks again) and watching old episodes of The Big Bang Theory.I am admiring (and smelling) my wonderful Bondilight candle that arrived in the mail today from MrA and MsD! (Thanks again) and watching old episodes of The Big Bang Theory.

Bout to get up and do the dishes and clean up in general. Afterwards I might dye my hair again....then sit and relax in a nice hot bubble bath and read :)

Thank you all.

>467 Renald128: Ron, the Big Bang Theory is the only sitcom I watch--I just love Sheldon! I'm not sure which is my favorite episode but it *might* be the one where Leonard, Raj, and Howard are away and Sheldon gets locked out of his apartment and has to spend the night with Penny.

Any episode where Sheldon and Penny are together is awesome! They have serious on screen chemistry!

That episode features the first instance of the "Soft kitty" song!

I love the big bang theory and am so mad they put it last in the lineup! I wish they'd cancel that Accidently on Purpose or put that one last,

#464 My prayers are with you and yours, ejj.

Right now I'm typing one handed, and bouncing Theo on my knee. I'm making excuses not to clean the dinner stuff up. 8)

I thought you were exercising?

Well, yes, you see when I was typing earlier it was all with my mind...
My powers are great and you should be in awe.

but you said you were typing one handed? I don't understand.....Are you really Hermione granger? Have you put a spell on me so I simply think I gave birth to you and brought you up to be the fun and loving person that you are?

Um, yeah if I was going to pick my parent if would definitely not be you! Dearest of my heart. But I am cool enough to do magic, just so you, like, know.

#456 foggi:
Espy told us! He eagerly awaits your return. I can't imagine why. ;)

*hugs for ejj*

I'm listening to the wind, the rare pause of rain (we're having a storm), and a few birds chirping while asking of my feet that they please stop sleeping. I suppose I had better use my laptop for a bit longer than I'd wanted because a cat is once again asleep on my laptop cover.

ETA: A missing 'a.'

I love storms (as long as they aren't popping tornadoes) but we're so water logged here that I won't wish I could listen to one now.

Edited to improve structure LOL

I loved this storm until I had to leave home during it this morning. ;) It's so lovely to stay home and curl up with a book and blanket during storms. It's my ideal way of experiencing them. Unless there's hail. I love to go outside to feel the hail. Um, no, I'm not mad. I think.

Oh my grief! The stress is maddening! My youngest sister got colored contacts this weekend and had one stuck way high in her eye. To maintain my cool is so hard. I went on to tell her sight is a gift. It's out now, thank goodness. I hate her contacts.

I am home! I've been petting the puppy and not unpacking and thinking about how glad I will be to sleep in my own bed tonight.

studying for a test on Grendel in my English AP class

I'm on LT on my laptop and trying to fix my pc at the same time. Firefox keeps crashing, which crashes my hard drive. When I finally get Firefox up and running, I loose my internet connection.

ETA: my computer works, again! I spent about 12 hours yesterday fixing it, but it works.

((hugs)) for ejj :(

here I am getting ready for work again, I'm so predictable!

I'm taking a break from cleaning and bill paying. Theo is attacking my hands as I type.

im in a real boring class right this second abg ready 2 go home to go to sleep

just finished writing lesson plans for a long-term research project for 3rd grade...collaborative b/t librarian (me), classroom teachers, and computer teacher. Hopefully, everyone will get on board w/ it...the computer teacher likes it and one teacher also has said she likes it. The teachers are coming in in about 10 minutes to discuss it. This is a whole new concept for this school!

My neck is stiff from sitting at the computer all morning writing it.