MIscellaneous Stuff

My sister is home from her business trip to London. She said the weather was kind of crappy and that Londoners freaked out when they got a few snow flurries and some sleet.
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I was in Atlanta once when it snowed there, and the same thing happened . . motorists forget how to drive when there's a dusting of snow. Unbelievable.
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Anyway she said she bought me something from Harrod's but wouldn't tell me what it was until we see her in a week or so. Yay! Surprises!
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I took our next door neighbor some chili I made yesterday. Since the Big Snow, I didn't know whether or not he's gotten to the grocery.
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It's supposed to snow another 2 to 4 inches tonight--with blustery winds. but Monday It's supposed to get up to 40 degrees. Talk about a slushy mess the streets will be.
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Spidey, I watched The Office. Angela wearing her rain bonnet was priceless! And ole Dwight putting that big garbage bag over poor Meredith's head--ha. Did you watch the very end when Kelly went crazy because Ryan's desk was moving by hers? snort. I hate that Pam is back with Big Roy, and that Jim is being a butthole. Oh, well.

Gandhi

The other day I was watching a Grammy fashion wrap-up on E! During the hair segment, this funny, fey hairdresser assessed Shakira's puffed out curly 'do by stating, "Oh, my God it's drier than Gandhi's sandal." The others on the panel laughed and I LOL'd. I'd never heard that one before.

George Coin

I'm excited about the new presidential coins due out soon!

Rags and Sparky Sittin in a Tree

Whoaaaaaa. Sparky and Rags on the rampage on the Shelf. Thanks "Anonymous Source." Those two together have the IQ of a stump. But I'm somewhat surprised at "Lady"rockmed's nastiness because to my knowledge, I've never "gone after her," as Rags would say. Although she is a Republican, so that might explain it.
Well, here they are bitching and moaning and gnashing their teeth.
Woe is me, after I have been so nice to Rags in the past--sent her towels and money for a textbook. Maybe she ought to do some soul searching to see the one who "has changed."





Vanda52BANNED
Vanda52: hahaha
Jam7604801: hi webs
LadyMtnMedic: banned from a site?
LadyMtnMedic: say what?
Vanda52: long story roc but yes , im banned
LadyMtnMedic: who banned you?
LadyMtnMedic: and dont say Emma
LadyMtnMedic: she is full of BS
Vanda52: as i said its a long story not wrth getting into
Jam7604801: allan i could get you un banneded
Vanda52: how so jam?
Jam7604801: i could write tree and get her to set me up then give it to you
LadyMtnMedic: come on, why do you think you are banned? Tree banned you?Ragamuffingirl35: rocky she terminated his account when he said he quit
Vanda52: nah , thanks jam but if they dont want me as me forget it , ill be fine
Vanda52: thanks tho
Ragamuffingirl35: he failed to give in and kiss emma's ass
LadyMtnMedic: you emailed Tree saying you quit?
Ragamuffingirl35: no he said it in that one thread
Vanda52: i said i quit in the site and next thing i jnew i couldnt comment , it was fast like a roadside bomb in iraq
LadyMtnMedic: oh for cripes sake
LadyMtnMedic: thats ridiculous
Ragamuffingirl35: yep rocky
Vanda52: tree was looking to ditch me for a long time roc
Vanda52: and i gave her the way to do it
Vanda52: so is life
Ragamuffingirl35: i didn't even realize vanda was parodying emma's blog when he made that post until emma started yelling theif
LadyMtnMedic: she does not like your taste in , um, "art"
RoseGarden450: i dont think i know this emma and it sounds like i wouldnt get along with her
Vanda52: i think i might scare those people
Mg500mv: Emma also came after me
Ragamuffingirl35: emma posted about dahmer being the possible killer of adam walsh AFTER i posted it in my blog, and i didn't holler theif
LadyMtnMedic: thief
Ragamuffingirl35: thanks rox
LadyMtnMedic: LOL
LadyMtnMedic: since Emma never reads mine, her or her cronies, I don't care
Jam7604801: why don't emma and those loons come in here anymore
Ragamuffingirl35: i read yours. i wish you'd update more
Ragamuffingirl35: i don't know and i don't care jam
Ragamuffingirl35: the room is more pleasant without them
LadyMtnMedic: mine require thought and care takes me a while to get comfortable with posting the thought
LadyMtnMedic: I have one should be out iin a day
Jam7604801: i think tree should pass a rule anyone on the site has to at least come in here once a week
Ragamuffingirl35: yay!!!!
Mg500mv: Jam, do yuo really want Emma here?
LadyMtnMedic: I am also off for a couple days, hope to get some writing and reading time in
Ragamuffingirl35: some shelfers no longer have aol jam. like pete
Ragamuffingirl35: i sure as heck don't mary
LadyMtnMedic: geez Jam, don't summon the spirits
Ragamuffingirl35: tree doesn't even hardly come in here
LadyMtnMedic: say where is Roger lately?
Ragamuffingirl35: once every few months is all
Jam7604801: emma was always nice to me
Mg500mv: Roger, is busy
Ragamuffingirl35: he's been busy rox
Ragamuffingirl35: she used to be nice to me, but she changed
Ragamuffingirl35: she sent me towels when i moved into my last house
Ragamuffingirl35: suddenly about 2 1/2 years ago she seemed like she was angry all the time about everything and nothing at all
LadyMtnMedic: schell kinda went the same way
LadyMtnMedic: she got real edgy it seemed like
Ragamuffingirl35: well schell i understand. she has a hard life
Vanda52: women always seem to go "bad"
Ragamuffingirl35: i'm not as sweet as i was 10 years ago
Vanda52: hi kal
ParaMyrrh: hi Lady
ParaMyrrh: Raga

Happy Valentine Day to you

I had to call and cancel our tax prep appointment. The woman on the phone said, “That’s okay Judy couldn’t make it in either.”
I had gotten up at 5 when the alarm went off only to remember that LP’s school was already closed, and I don’t have to go into work either and BP has a few days off, so I went to pee and got back into bed when this buzz started happening. No, it wasn’t a sexual thing. It sounded like what happens when a smoke detector’s battery is low. I checked LP’s room, the kitchen and our bedroom and it wasn’t coming from any of those. I nudged BP and told him, “Get up! Something’s buzzing. Go find it.” He said, “Now?” and I said, “Yes, please.” When he’s away on business I usually have to handle things like this, so I figured it was his turn.
So I snuggled back into the covers while he went on a hunt. He couldn’t figure it out either but thought it was the carbon monoxide detector in the basement. So he went down there to look (he took his ciggies to smoke one while he was down there, so the trip wouldn’t be a complete wash out). About ten minutes later he came back. The buzzing had stopped and it was the carbon monoxide detector battery. Case solved and he came back to bed.
It’s 9am and he’s still sleeping. I’m up with the cat, having my coffee. I went outside and there’s a four foot drift up against my neighbor’s house.
When LP comes home from Jordan’s he’ll have to shovel because I have to get to the store today. I used the last of the milk for my coffee.
I hope restaurants are opened today because I want a nice Valentine’s Day dinner.
We’re the lucky ones though, a lot of Hoosiers were without power because a lot of people got sleet and damaging ice instead of just snow. I hate ice—unless it’s served with a gin and tonic.

Here’s a shout-out to
1. My newspaper carrier. Through all the bad weather he manages to still get up and toss up paper on the porch by six am.

2. To the US Mail. I saw my carrier, Marcia, through the window yesterday. She appeared to be three times as big as normal. She was walking like that giant Pillsbury Dough Boy in Ghostbusters. She must have had on four or five layers of clothing. God Bless her heart.

3. To the Street Department workers. I heard the plow early, early this morning clearing our street. I only hope they’ll soon clear the alleyways too.

Snow Today

We’ve gotten about ten inches so far, with the snow not subsiding until around midnight tonight. LP’s school’s already announced the closing for Wednesday which is good considering that the county’s under a state of emergency and no one’s to be on the road unless it’s an emergency. Watching the closings on television, whole cities are closing down!
LP shoveled the front walk before noon and of course you can’t even tell it now. He wanted to walk to Jordan’s (about three blocks) and after assuring me that he’d dress in layers with hoodies and gloves, I let him go. I called him 15 minutes later and he arrived safely but he said he had to walk backwards half the way because the snow-wind stung his face. I don’t know why it would kill him to stay home and do something here just for today. Anyway he called an hour ago and wants to stay the night there. Big Surprise. I don’t know yet—BP can probably get the car out of he garage and go pick him up.
My Muncie sister called and said that Ball State (she’s faculty/staff there) called off classes but left it up to faculty and staff on whether they wanted to come into work. If they didn’t they’d have to take a vacation day instead of a weather day. That’s kind of ridiculous. She said her boss emailed all of the people who work in the department and said that they can “work from home” today. So she and her husband and three kids are at home.
She said her husband had to shovel a path to get to the dog’s house (which is attached to the garage) because the doggie couldn’t get out to pee. When she looked out later the dog was out in a snow drift and couldn’t move! Dave had to shovel her out again.
Anyway, back here, the two kids from a few doors down were out playing in the snow and were trying to run a radio-controlled truck out in the street. When the thing couldn’t move, the little kid would reach down and throw the truck and try again. Sigh. Those tiny kids have no business playing out in this weather.
The older man next door was out shoveling his walk! Jesus. He has no place to go, and should just wait until tomorrow when the guy with the snow blower will come around the neighborhood. I’m afraid he’ll have a heart attack.
I heated up leftover Italian roast beef for lunch. It was most excellent, and then we were organizing receipts and other tax stuff. We have an appointment with Judy our tax lady tomorrow, but with this weather we’ll probably reschedule it.
I was going to make cookies today, but since LP might stay the night at Jordan’s I think I might just watch American Idol, and then Boston Legal with my BP.

Mourning Oranges

Today:
Waited one and a half hours at the doctor’s office. My blood pressure was high because I had to wait so damned long. The nurse practioner (I hate nurse practioners) gave me scripts for codeine cough liquid and some antibiotics for my sore throat—which wasn’t strep like I told BP it WASN’T, but he insisted that I go to the doctor’s office to have it checked out because it has been sore for over two weeks.

Anyway some kid was bawling at the top of his lungs and his mother ignored him, as we sick people wanted to do, but could not.

I waited another 20 minutes at the pharmacy, sitting next to an elderly woman. I glanced over and saw a blue blob on her earlobe. Upon closer inspection found that it was, or had been, a tattoo of a spider-like creature. Although now the ink had all bled together and it looked like a big messy blob. I figure that’s what Mary J. Blige and Angelina Jolie and and all of those other dumbasses who get gigantic tattoos will look like one day: All the ink will run together into their wrinkles and old age fat and they’ll look like one big blue blob walking around.

Speaking of Mary J. Blige . . . what’s the deal? Why is she so popular? Why did other performers worship at her feet? I saw her “emotional” Grammy performance which was blah to me.

So last night after my friend called and told me we were getting a hellacious snow storm, I ran out to Kroger’s. I got some stuff to make chili, some Lean Cuisines, and some Stewart’s orange & cream soda, and some rye bread. As I was looking around at the produce and buying some garlic, peppers and onion, I noticed the oranges! GOOD GOD!!! Ninety nine cents for one fecking orange! Last year I could buy 4 for 99 cents. Was the price hike because of the freezing California/Florida weather? Lemons were 89 cents apiece. I refuse to pay 99 cents for one orange. It’s un-American, it is. So if I get scurvy—that’s why. It’s an abomination.

Instead of Iraq why don’t we invade some orange producing country so we can ship free oranges to the masses. I love navel oranges. I could eat three every day. They peel easily. They segment easily. They’re juicy. Delicious and nutritious. I miss them already. Maybe send one measly Naval battleship to South America to bring me a boatload of navel oranges. Free. The navel oranges would morph into Naval oranges.

The Big Ten Inch

Mr. Weatherman says we're to expect ten-12 inches of snow. 4 inches late today with up to 7 more tomorrow throughout the day. I blame Tree for this. But I'll just send it on to Porks and Schell and other parts east.


PS: Since The Police reunioned (that a word) on last night's Grammys, raise your hand if you think Kevin's band, Scrantonicity covers "Roxanne" better than the original band.