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Reader234

Tuesday, November 25, 2003 - 02:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Egbok, do throw the shoe, and then remind them...

I am INNOCENT!!

I'm sure it will work!! OK, why not leave, tell whomever it was that suggested this arrangement, that the other cubicle needs privacy, and kicked you out, so go to lunch, go shopping, and you'll be back later!! OK, so its a nice dream isnt it...

Go to the happy place Egmom!! :) :) :)

Reader234

Tuesday, November 25, 2003 - 02:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I forgot, I came here to rant...

I am getting grouchier and grouchier... why do my kids find it necessary to bicker? Where do they learn this?

HE's 18!! SHE'S 7, GET A CLUE< LEAVE ME OUT OF IT!

Is it Friday yet? Wake me when its over! PLEASE??

Jan

Tuesday, November 25, 2003 - 03:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
hmmmm Reader, I guess the option of "solve it yourselves or I will punish you both" wouldn't work with an 18 yr old too well?

Hope tomorrow is better for you.

Miss_Wings

Tuesday, November 25, 2003 - 04:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have decided that teaching math to teenagers is like trying to put fruit into jello cubes after they have already hardened.

Three more weeks.

Squaredsc

Wednesday, November 26, 2003 - 06:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
i forgot to take the damn turkey out of the freezer last night!!! damn damn damn!

Texannie

Wednesday, November 26, 2003 - 06:36 am EditMoveDeleteIP
HOw to quick thaw a turkey by Alton Brown

http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/SeasonMisc/Turkey/TurkeyTranscript.htm#13

Just place your block-o-bird in clean, 5-gallon bucket and fill it to the top with cold water. If you find you've got a floater on your hands just give it, uh, "Mafia Treatment." [place brick on top] There. 5 G Bucket
Cold H2O

So, why am I in the tub? Well, this water really should be changed about every 3 to 4 hours and it's a lot easier to tip and fill here than to haul this up to the kitchen sink.
Change every 3 hours

This bird will be perfectly pliable in 6 to 8 hours. That's about 2 pounds an hour.


Whatever method you use, always remember to thaw your bird in its original wrapping.

Squaredsc

Wednesday, November 26, 2003 - 06:45 am EditMoveDeleteIP
thx texannie. stupid frozen bird.

Biloxibelle

Wednesday, November 26, 2003 - 07:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I always have Thanksgiving at my house by choice that is the way I want it. When people invite us over I always turn the invitaion around to come to our house. But this year everything is in such a mess with moving when some friends invited us over I jumped on it and said yes.

Fast forward to last night they got into a huge fight and she moved out to a hotel. So here I am on my way to the store find a turkey (might be a large chicken at this point) and all the trimmings. I hate last minute shopping.

Oh and just now got around to getting dressed and my clean sock drawer has NO clean socks!

Tagurit

Wednesday, November 26, 2003 - 08:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Squared - you are not the only one! I forgot to take the damn bird out of the freezer last night too! Hopefully the dang thing will thaw in time!

Thank Texannie for the tips!

Biloxi - that stinks you have to run around for everything today. I hate that. I hope you are able to find everything. Or, you can find a nice restaurant's # to make reservations. :)

Sweetbabygirl

Wednesday, November 26, 2003 - 08:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Square....thanks for the gut-busting laugh, ONLY YOU would forget to thaw out the turkey!

Squaredsc

Wednesday, November 26, 2003 - 09:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
hey tag forgot too, lol.

Lostintheglades

Wednesday, November 26, 2003 - 12:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL...I didn't forget to thaw it...I just didn't have time to buy the darn thing...(I wasn't supposed to be cooking) Went to Tallahassee yesterday, spent 5 hours there and 5 hours back and 4 hours walking the campus and finalizing her acceptance to FSU. Anyway, the sister I was going to have t-day with is so scatterbrained since her divorce 5 years ago I went to the store this am and turkey is sitting in the sink in water as Tex said. Called my sister and she just got back from out hometown about 2 hours from here where she had to go to court to help her son get custody of his 3 month old little boy since the mothers a drugie...that's another story, she has custody right now until he finishes some parenting classes so that's good. Anyway, she totally forgot to pick up the stuff for what she was going to bring...hehe...I thought ahead, bought everything and told her to take a nap because she has to come over here and help me start the casseroles and pies tonight. The good new is...DD#2 finally committed to FSU so we can move on now with getting financial aid, finding a dorm and stuff.

Happy T-day everyone. Grrrrr...next year I'm going to MIL's with or without DH. She loves this stuff.

Mygetaway

Wednesday, November 26, 2003 - 04:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Today is supposed to be my day and DH and I have fought 3 times over s-t-u-p-i-d little things!!! I hate this. I am this close to just giving up and going to live in a nursing home. He tells me to "articulate" what I want. I do that. Then he tells me to stop bossing him around..mad

I heard this saying on a show last week that was perfect for us.

Me to Him: Don't put words in my mouth, and then not like what I say!!! grrrr

(oh yeah, and I'm flippin' 40 today..lol)

Twiggyish

Wednesday, November 26, 2003 - 04:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Happy Birthday Mygetaway!!!

Squaredsc

Wednesday, November 26, 2003 - 04:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
<passing mga a shot of tequila>

Mygetaway

Wednesday, November 26, 2003 - 05:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey, here's another one... (I had never opened this thread before.. )

I had a fun night (NOT) with one of the little ones staying with us right now. She's 5 but was throwing one of those 2 year old temper tantrums.

I feel a little guilty about something I did to her, but she was warned several times. (Her parents had left, but didn't bother to tell me they were going out for their anniversary.)

She kept acting like she was going to spit at me. I told her if she did I would spit back. Then I explained that spitting at someone is actually considered an assault. That went over her head of course. She kept calling me dummy and stupid, and was doing everything to push my buttons including hitting and kicking me, and making these high pitched squealing noises.

Then she spit at me. I could not force myself to spit back, so I had about a ½ inch of water in my glass. I dumped it on her. After her initial shock, she started to behave. This was all because she had refused to eat dinner at dinner time, and her Dad sent her to bed hungry.

WTF??? LOL

Ladytex

Wednesday, November 26, 2003 - 07:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
rofl, mga ... that's hilarious ... don't feel guilty

Squaredsc

Thursday, November 27, 2003 - 07:55 am EditMoveDeleteIP
ok someone came in and dirtied up the kitchen late last night and i can't find a new color that i like. grrrrrr!

Lostintheglades

Thursday, November 27, 2003 - 08:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
LMAO mga....I think you did exactly the right thing. You always follow through with the consequence that you set...especially with a 5 year old. Don't feel at all guilty as I would have done exactly the same thing in that situation.

Goddessatlaw

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 07:04 am EditMoveDeleteIP
It's freaking December already - what the hell happened to November? I didn't get any turkey on Thanksgiving because I was touring Mayan ruins and snorkeling on a reef in the Carribean with Colossus. We had to have fresh lobster instead. Nothing right about that. My native tan it took me 10 days to get is starting to fade. My skin is dry from body surfing in the Gulf of Mexico. My manicure got chipped reaching for pesos in Colossus' front pocket and I have elbow-f/ from hoisting too many pineapple brain-erasers to my face (this was before I learned how to drink off the pool bar - after I learned to lean on the pool bar, I got sores on my elbow to supplant the tendonitis). The sun was way too hot - 85 to 90 degrees every day. I like it 80 degrees. We had way too much room in our penthouse suite - and thus had to expend way too much energy making sure every room was properly baptised. I have Mexican marble waffle marks on my ass and rattan furniture scrapes on the insides of my knees. You can do the math on that. Woke up way too early most days and was forced to hold hands with Colossus watching the sun rise over the Gulf while drinking fresh-squeezed orange mimosa's and deciding which side of the pool to lounge on before the sun got too hot. My heels are chapped from running in the surf and I have sand in every crack known to man. My hair is frizzed from the saltwater and bleached from the sun. What with the native tan and all, I look like a photographic negative. Ummm . . . all in all, it just flat sucks to be me right now. I'm wiped out. Remind to tell you later about Hymie the Tour Guide Extradordinaire - a half Mayan, half-British grandson of a Polish Jew and a Scottish Highlander, who was raised in the Grand Caymans by way of Helsinki and New Zealand. Oy. I still know nothing of the ruins at Tulum, but I sure know way too much about his ass!

Ladytex

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 07:07 am EditMoveDeleteIP
GAL, my heart is bleeding for your misfortunes .... NOT

Mak1

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 07:12 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh GAL, that's the phoniest grouch post I've ever heard! (Do you have pictures to share?)

<rushing out of the thread so I won't upset the grouchers with my LOL, causing stilettos to fly!>

Texannie

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 07:38 am EditMoveDeleteIP
GAL..you sound like one of those obnoxious Christmas newsletters that people insist on sending!!! LOL Sounds like you had a wonderful trip.

Mygetaway

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 08:38 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I really hate getting 4:45 am calls from someone after going to sleep at 2:30 am and then not being able to get back to sleep afterwards.. grrrrrrrrr

Midlifer

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 09:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
mygetaway...why are you getting such early a.m. calls?

OK, now I know you guys are tired of hearing my pantyhose tales (pun intended), but I have another one....WHY is it that after you've used the restroom, wearing pantyhose, when you've pulled them back up, they bind worse than before?

ARGHHHHHHHHH!