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Myjohnhenry

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 10:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I am listening to someone who was fool enough to go out in a 6 degree (windchill) blizzard in the Portland OR area try to make it up the slight hill to my apartment complex parking lot.

Sillycalimomma

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 10:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I am thinking that a nap on the couch sounds good. I am scared to go back to bed with DH in there since I can't seem to break this *naughty* dream about Jesse James from Monster Garage from taking over my brain!!!**blushes*can't believe she admitted it***

Tess

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 10:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Nope, it was a result of having Karate after 2 weeks off. Her legs were hurting like crazy. Some heat, children's motrin and mom and dad settled her down.

Right now I'm headed out to the painting studio. Back later.

Midlifer

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 10:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now my stomach is growling as I think about eating lunch in 20 mins., I'm having a chill as I read the above posts, and I'm thinking of asking my daughter (home on College Break) if she wants to go to her old high school's basketball game tonight (she used to play for them)...I may bribe her with a dinner at a restaurant. Still thinking about it.

Jagger

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 10:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I'm thinking about going home sick, I had the nasty cold/flu that was going around and it turned into an infection and the antibiotics I am on are really upsetting my stomach.

If I only had lots more PTO I'd be out of here in a heart beat.

Mamie316

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 10:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, I am wishing I hadn't stayed up late because my book had me hooked. I just woke up and I think I need a nap!

Midlifer

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 10:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I want to smack Mamie for sleeping in (you know I'm just kidding, kindred spirit, right?).

Mamie316

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 10:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well I actually got up at 6:30 so that's really not sleeping in, is it?


Right now, I couldn't be mad at my kindred buddy!

Marysafan

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 10:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I am still laughing after hanging up the phone with the youngest daughter.

First a little background, dear daughter has loved cars since she was a baby. She has spent hours in the garage with hubby working on mechanical things since she was a child. In Junior high, I got called in to see the guidance counselor as he tried to get me to withdraw her from the small engines class she had signed up for. I refused, and threatened to contact a lawyer if he didn't allow her to take the class. She got a B+ in the class and finished 4th among 16 students being the only girl in the class. The next year, they approached her about signing up for a robotics class as the instructor really enjoyed having her in his class.

She is an avid NASCAR fan and has done lots of work at the local tracks doing driver introductions and interviews, but her favorite place to be is in the pits. She is currently on a career path that will take her into the public relations part of racing.

Fast forward to 2004:

A female co-worker was having problems with her car when she arrived at work yesterday morning, so dd offered to take a look to see if she could determine the problem. There she was in the freezing cold, with her head under the hood, when a male co-worker walks by and says, "Do you even know what you are looking at?"

Dear daughter, turns and says, "I know enough to know where to shove this dipstick if I wanted to check your oil." (Dd gets a might testy when someone questions her automotive expertise).

She sees that the anti-freeze container is EMPTY! and advises her friend to take the car to her dealership immediately to have it filled. She showed her friend the line where it says "Do not go below" or some such thing. Friend takes the advice and when she returns thanks dear daughter...and was told that when she got to the dealership..."They yelled at her"!

Dear daughter expresses frustrations with men who question her knowledge about cars with ..."Do they think I have boobs instead of brains!"

So ladies...if you are where the weather is really cold today...check your anti-freeze!

Midlifer

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 11:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Marys, I wholeheartedly concur with your DD. I have 2 DD's of my own, and they're as feisty as yours. I detest stereotyping, don't you?

Mamie, 6:30 is not too late (I got up at 6:20 a.m. myself)...I was under the false impression that you slept until 9 a.m. (the time next to your post. What time zone are you in?

Mamie316

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 11:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Pacific time Mid, I know I wrote that I just woke up so that is what is confusing I think! I didn't actually just wake up!

And for Mary (great name as I am a fellow Mary!), my dd is just like that. I am so glad that our daughters have gumption. I know I was gutsy when I was young but not at all like my daughter! I love it!

Sillycalimomma

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 1:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I am back up from my lil nap. I have at least four loads of laundry to do, dishes, sweeping AND mopping, dusting, vacuuming....the list goes on and on and on.....and to top it all off it is a rainy California day which makes me not want to do a thing. How on Earth do you all do it with your "real" winters!*i'm such a wimp*

Weinermr

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 1:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, a big YAY for your DD, Marysafan!

Urgrace

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 1:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now that reminds me of years ago when I was hired to drive a school bus. Supervisor takes the newbies out to discuss the vehicle, inside and out. He told me to get in the driver's seat and we take a spin, with me learning to double clutch. We get back and no one would talk to me. Several days of training go by with cold shoulders, and I find out everyone is jealous because the trainer had NeVeR taken anyone out on the first day but me. (I knew the answers when he asked what was under the hood)

Marysafan, be proud. Be very proud.

Midlifer

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 2:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Silly, I don't know what I'd do without my real winter (and they're not even that bad in Virginia...we just have hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes)...but I DO love an occasional snow, where you can curl up under an afghan, read by the fire, etc.

Heyltslori

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 3:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I just looked outside and I can hardly see my car through the blizzard we are having. They have closed part of the highway and are telling everyone to go home and stay there. Michigan bites.

Sillycalimomma

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 3:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I am lol because if you go to our local news channels website it says that our county is under a "severe weather watch"....it has said that since this morning. I look outside and I can still see blue sky poking through the clouds. Us Californians....just have to laugh....

Max

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 3:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, Oregon bites, too! I'm at around 300 feet altitude and woke up to about 4 inches of VERY powdery snow on the ground (it's less than 20 degress out there before the wind chill). Now, it's turning to freezing rain, which is worse.

Parts of I5 have been closed and I84 through the Columbia Gorge is closed. I'm glad I don't have to go anywhere! Water mains have been breaking in Portland, but thankfully not anywhere near where I live. We simply are not used to this kind of weather!

The thing is, by Wednesday, it is supposed to be back to 40-50 degrees and rain, so at least it won't last very long! (Of course, then there will be mud slides and flooding, but you can't have everything!)

Myjohnhenry

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 4:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I am annoyed that the Trailblazers are still playing here tonight and expecting arena employees to show up to work when most everything else is shut down due to the nasty weather. It is cold and dangerous out there!
Flights are cancelled at the airport, people are being told to stay off the roads if not absolutely necessary, traction devices are required on the roads, most of the light rail system is closed down and buses jam packed and slow, people are not able to get up the slight hill to my apartment complex, government offices closed early, malls and stores have closed, Greyhound is not running, Amtrack is being delayed....and a professional basketball game goes on as scheduled!
Right now I am saying that barely over minimum wage is not nearly enough compensation to make me go out in these conditions!

Max

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 4:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Johnhenry, maybe they figure since attendance is so far down the tubes, it won't really matter!

Just kidding. Actually, I'm appalled that they haven't called the game off. Things are going to get a lot worse, weather-wise, before they get better. There's freezing rain coming tonight and if anyone really thinks MAX trains or the airport or the roads are going to be in any better shape before tomorrow, they are nuts!

Right now, I'd recommend calling in sick or simply calling in snowbound! Much better to miss a day's pay than to get stranded or in an accident. 'Jailblazers' aren't worth it!

Lancecrossfire

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 4:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
MJH, what Max said. Call in snowbound. If they insist, let them know one of the players should pick you up if it's so easy to get around in that stuff. We are having the same thing here with the snow we've been getting all day.

There is an early release from work, and swing and graveyard shift workers we told not to show up. If I don't get the ride home I had to get to work, I'll be here all evening (which I knew was a possibility)

Max

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 4:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, MJH can relax 'cause the news just broadcast that the Blazers game tonight has been postponed. :)

Right now, I'm watching one of my neighbors spin the tires on her big BMW trying to get into her garage. If I was nicer, I suppose I'd go try to help push the car up the driveway (it's just about a car length long), but I'm in my jammies and don't feel like getting bundled up! :)

Myjohnhenry

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 4:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I am saying that I called in long ago and said that I could not make it there due to the weather and road conditions.

Right now I am adding that I just heard on TV that the game has been postponed to March 3. It is about time!

Right now I am thinking things will be shut down tomorrow too considering the conditions outside now and the forecast.

Right now I am hoping for some regular TV tonight since I don't hav cable and all that 4 of the stations I get have had all day is storm coverage.

Herckleperckle

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 6:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, my heart goes out to all of you Michigan and Oregon folks. Hope you are all safe and warm and home. Lance?

Right now, it's 25 here in CT, with only a dusting of snow on the ground. Weatherbug says we may get snow on Sunday night or Monday. Temps supposed to remain in the 20s.

Ane right now, I'm getting ready to serve my Chinese Pepper Steak for dinner! Not allowed on my diet, but I will limit my portion. Can't resist.

Babyruth

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 6:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Herckleperkle, I grew up in the town next door to you, and I miss the fun of snow in those hills and woods.
I'm in Michigan now, but we only got a few inches here in the SE area. But very windy and chilly. Oregon and Seattle looked mighty cold on the news tonite,too.
I want some of that Chinese pepper steak!