TOTALLY GEEKED!

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

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Happy Friday to all. I would mention everyone but I'm too lazy today! Glad everyone is well.

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Is your husband coming home this weekend?  I know you are real excited. 

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

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YES! Sunday! Yeah! I AM excited. It's been about two months now. This is one thing I hate about his job. It's either feast or famine.

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Yee haw! Have a great weekend! 

I am happy for you NJN!

And to all you people who have pets that lick... Our dog started out that way. Then she grew into excessive licking. She still licks weird things. Like blankets. She licks the bed before she lays down on it. When her weird licking started causing hair loss then we knew something was wrong.

And all my dogs love to lick my hands and feet after I put lotion on.

Lawyerlady wrote:

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jlbear71 wrote:

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I know what to do_sometimes wrote:

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just Czech wrote:

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I know what to do_sometimes wrote:

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ok I think I am in the market for a new lawnmower. It may be too costly to justify fixing mine. Any suggestions?

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Ahhh, one that works?  

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 I will be following suggestions.  Ours is from the late 70s-early 80s.  DH keeps fixing it.  I keep telling him to buy a new one.

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 Wow.  I am impressed.  No wonder your DH won't buy a new one - it would be hard to give up on that.

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 You know, it is funny the amount of things we have that just last way longer than normal.  

The AC we had when we moved in lasted 45 years.  Installed in 1967, died in 2012. 

Lawnmower - Gpop bought it back in the late 70s early 80s.

KitchenAid mixer - given to Mom as a wedding present in 1965.  Still going strong.

Stove - 1946 Crossley.  This was second hand but put in the house that was built in 1953.  Still works wonderfully.

1939 Philco Conservador Refrigerator - Still work, mostly it freezes things.  We don't use it and keep it unplugged.

Living Room telephone - 1950s black rotary phone.  There is a wall mount one in the garage

You have weird dogs! j/c I have weirder dogs.

Lawyerlady wrote:

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OK - so it's wrong enough that a store chain is called "BJ's" but when my email comes across with the subject line - "get a free $15 BJ's card for being friendly" that is really something.

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I did a double take when I read this one. ROTF 

Lexxy wrote:

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When I was at the vet this morning the girls at the desk had a bottle baby kitten that someone had found. She was so tiny & cute but her back legs are turned backwards & have no bones. There is a guy who is going to make her prosthetics ones she gets a little older.

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Awe, that is so sweet of that guy! That poor baby! 

Lexxy wrote:

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When I was at the vet this morning the girls at the desk had a bottle baby kitten that someone had found. She was so tiny & cute but her back legs are turned backwards & have no bones. There is a guy who is going to make her prosthetics ones she gets a little older.

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 Wow!

jlbear71 wrote:

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Lawyerlady wrote:

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jlbear71 wrote:

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I know what to do_sometimes wrote:

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just Czech wrote:

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I know what to do_sometimes wrote:

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ok I think I am in the market for a new lawnmower. It may be too costly to justify fixing mine. Any suggestions?

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Ahhh, one that works?  

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 I will be following suggestions.  Ours is from the late 70s-early 80s.  DH keeps fixing it.  I keep telling him to buy a new one.

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 Wow.  I am impressed.  No wonder your DH won't buy a new one - it would be hard to give up on that.

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 You know, it is funny the amount of things we have that just last way longer than normal.  

The AC we had when we moved in lasted 45 years.  Installed in 1967, died in 2012. 

Lawnmower - Gpop bought it back in the late 70s early 80s.

KitchenAid mixer - given to Mom as a wedding present in 1965.  Still going strong.

Stove - 1946 Crossley.  This was second hand but put in the house that was built in 1953.  Still works wonderfully.

1939 Philco Conservador Refrigerator - Still work, mostly it freezes things.  We don't use it and keep it unplugged.

Living Room telephone - 1950s black rotary phone.  There is a wall mount one in the garage

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 Kitchen aid mixers, even today, last forever!

My maternal grandfather worked at Western Electric and we usually had the neatest phones! Plus, in his basement, he had a junk drawer full of cool bits!

flan

flan327 wrote:

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My maternal grandfather worked at Western Electric and we usually had the neatest phones! Plus, in his basement, he had a junk drawer full of cool bits!

flan

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 My paternal GP worked for the phone company, we had phones all over the house, we were cool.

Lindley wrote:

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just Czech wrote:

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flan327 wrote:

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just Czech wrote:

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Suddenly my dog licking my toes, when I wear sandles, doesn't sound so bad. Hmm.... pee or slobber.....let me think...

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 Both of my dogs lick my lower legs. I'm guessing they like the taste of the lotion I wear?

flan

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You might be right, flan.

Our vet has a cat that licks everyone's hands, face, arms or toes if they have lotion on them. 

Oddly, being licked by a pet does not bother me.

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My cat, Sushi the Destroyer, loves licking lotion, hand crème, hair products, etc., off people. Evidently, he licked so much hair putty off my son's head that we had to take him to the vet for a blockage. 

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Cute name for a cat.  I'm glad he is doing better and sorry he had to go threw that.  That must have been some tasty hair putty. 

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 Thanks. His name wasn't always Sushi. He's a Siamese cat and needed an oriental name. When I adopted him his name was ......

Michael Jackson!!

That wouldn't do at all.

weltschmerz wrote:

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Lindley wrote:

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weltschmerz wrote:

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just Czech wrote:

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flan327 wrote:

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just Czech wrote:

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Suddenly my dog licking my toes, when I wear sandles, doesn't sound so bad. Hmm.... pee or slobber.....let me think...

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 Both of my dogs lick my lower legs. I'm guessing they like the taste of the lotion I wear?

flan

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You might be right, flan.

Our vet has a cat that licks everyone's hands, face, arms or toes if they have lotion on them. 

Oddly, being licked by a pet does not bother me.

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My cat, Sushi the Destroyer, loves licking lotion, hand crème, hair products, etc., off people. Evidently, he licked so much hair putty off my son's head that we had to take him to the vet for a blockage. 

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Cute name for a cat.  I'm glad he is doing better and sorry he had to go threw that.  That must have been some tasty hair putty. 

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 Thanks. His name wasn't always Sushi. He's a Siamese cat and needed an oriental name. When I adopted him his name was ......

Michael Jackson!!

That wouldn't do at all.

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LOL! I think Sushi the Destroyer is cuter.  It makes me smile. 

I'm so irritated. I work all day, go to the store, make dinner for my family and my DH's parents who are visiting and my DD11 and DH can't be bothered to do the two very simple things I asked them to help get dinner ready. And this is the 3rd night I've made dinner for everyone and my MIL has not once offered to help. I just finished making it and left them all to get it themselves and went to my room. I am not a frickin' maid. Gah.

Lawyerlady wrote:

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I'm so irritated. I work all day, go to the store, make dinner for my family and my DH's parents who are visiting and my DD11 and DH can't be bothered to do the two very simple things I asked them to help get dinner ready. And this is the 3rd night I've made dinner for everyone and my MIL has not once offered to help. I just finished making it and left them all to get it themselves and went to my room. I am not a frickin' maid. Gah.

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 I feel ya.  Be as angry as you want!

Lawyerlady wrote:

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I'm so irritated. I work all day, go to the store, make dinner for my family and my DH's parents who are visiting and my DD11 and DH can't be bothered to do the two very simple things I asked them to help get dinner ready. And this is the 3rd night I've made dinner for everyone and my MIL has not once offered to help. I just finished making it and left them all to get it themselves and went to my room. I am not a frickin' maid. Gah.

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 IVY LL. Crawl out the window and go get a coffee.

Thanks, all. It helps.

weltschmerz wrote:

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There's nothing in the house he hasn't destroyed. My couch is down to the bare wood.

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 He would have been Sweet and Sour Chicken if he had been mine. 

Did he apologize for not helping?

Southern_Belle wrote:

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Did he apologize for not helping?

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 No.  He made excuses.  Which is why I'm still ignoring him for the most part.  They are all down in the family room.  I'm going to go watch some Criminal Minds.

Lawyerlady wrote:

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I'm so irritated. I work all day, go to the store, make dinner for my family and my DH's parents who are visiting and my DD11 and DH can't be bothered to do the two very simple things I asked them to help get dinner ready. And this is the 3rd night I've made dinner for everyone and my MIL has not once offered to help. I just finished making it and left them all to get it themselves and went to my room. I am not a frickin' maid. Gah.

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Sounds like you need to get better at sayin "NO". 

Don't cook for anyone, go eat out, or order a pizza for yourself, and let the others figure it out for themselves.

Post a note on the refrigerator, "I worked all day, and asked for two things to be done. They weren't done.

So now I'm taking care of myself."

 

Ohfour wrote:

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Im so sorry...:( I would LURVE to have your curry....

Im making Korma this weekend. If you dont hear from me, I've killed us....

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 Is the cat an ingredient?

I know what to do_sometimes wrote:

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Lawyerlady wrote:

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I'm so irritated. I work all day, go to the store, make dinner for my family and my DH's parents who are visiting and my DD11 and DH can't be bothered to do the two very simple things I asked them to help get dinner ready. And this is the 3rd night I've made dinner for everyone and my MIL has not once offered to help. I just finished making it and left them all to get it themselves and went to my room. I am not a frickin' maid. Gah.

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 I think I would have snapped.  I hope they did the clean up for you.  or should I say for them?

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 I went back down to get some food, and my MIL was talking about how everyone is "tired" and a good night's rest will do everyone good.  REALLY?  Why are you tired?  You sat around all day - that's what I wanted to say, but she was directing it at me for being pissed off.  I did not say a word and went back upstairs.  I'm going to f'ing lose it!!!!!