Jean in Newcastle Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 My mom sent the kids a book. I called to say thank you and her machine picked up. :leaving: SIL got a promotion and will be producing Red's games next year. :hurray: I'm on the last episode of Firefly. :crying: Have the kids make her a thank you card. Send it . No drama. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Have the kids make her a thank you card. Send it . No drama. I left a message, but awesome idea! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Booya!How come you get all the booyahs? It's not fair! I'm telling! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 No to ding dong ditch Bibles. Although I have heard of Rake and Runs and have a favorable opinion of those. You go to an elderly person's house, rake all the leaves in the front yard, dispose of them and run away. Although there may be some problem with that I haven't thought of, so never mind. I support rake and runs. Significantly different than trying to spread god's love by ringing my doorbell, giving me a book I have three of, and running off. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 How come you get all the booyahs? It's not fair! I'm telling! Please see member title. #noh 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 That is so, so perfect, Jean. :D 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 booyah 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 booyah? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Is there such a thing as a 50-year fixed-rate mortgage? What's the interest on that mofo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 I once grew okra. I hate okra. But I still try it every once in a while because my mom likes it. We use okra medicinally. We had okra in our freezer forever and no one wanted any after I became allergic to it, so we use it as ice for injuries. It is better than peas for icing! We are currently in the PNW and had to settle for Lima beans instead, apparently no one here eats okra either. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Is there such a thing as a 50-year fixed-rate mortgage? What's the interest on that mofo? 40 and 50 year mortgages are a thing but I don't know if they are hard to get or not. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 We want a 50 year mortgage with a 10 - 40 APR so we can sell in eight. We've decided that is the best option for us. Now if only the banks would agree... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Lynn Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 We use okra medicinally. We had okra in our freezer forever and no one wanted any after I became allergic to it, so we use it as ice for injuries. It is better than peas for icing! We are currently in the PNW and had to settle for Lima beans instead, apparently no one here eats okra either. :lol: (And welcome!) 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Lynn Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Good Thursday Morning! Look how far we've made it this week! Anyone starting Christmas break next week? I'm thinking of only doing math and free reading. Or not. (And I'm still outta likes.) 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 (edited) We usually do the holiday break the weeks of Christmas and New Year's. But this year DH isn't off like he usually is to hang out with DS, and we took a week off for Thanksgiving, so I'm thinking just the week of Christmas off, and using the week of New Year's to catch up on a few subjects. Science for one, and art (um, for someone who was an art history major I have been severely negligent in my teaching duties for this subject this year - as in, forgot all about it. :leaving: ) Maybe math as well - we aren't behind, but I'm thinking math facts games for practice. Edited December 10, 2015 by ikslo 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 And good morning! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 I want to know how Susan's vanilla cookies turned out. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 We use okra medicinally. We had okra in our freezer forever and no one wanted any after I became allergic to it, so we use it as ice for injuries. It is better than peas for icing! We are currently in the PNW and had to settle for Lima beans instead, apparently no one here eats okra either.Why, hello there. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 We use okra medicinally. We had okra in our freezer forever and no one wanted any after I became allergic to it, so we use it as ice for injuries. It is better than peas for icing! We are currently in the PNW and had to settle for Lima beans instead, apparently no one here eats okra either. Best use of okra I have ever heard of. :thumbup1: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 I currently am sitting through a mind-numbingly boring audit. In a too cold conference room. With a woman auditor who wore a bright pink shirt. It is the only color in the room, which draws one's attention. I feel like I am staring at her. No one is talking. She is typing away on her laptop, and I on mine. But every time I start to work on something job-related, she asks a question. I can't get work done. So I sit. Someone talk to me about something. Please. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 I currently am sitting through a mind-numbingly boring audit. In a too cold conference room. With a woman auditor who wore a bright pink shirt. It is the only color in the room, which draws one's attention. I feel like I am staring at her. No one is talking. She is typing away on her laptop, and I on mine. But every time I start to work on something job-related, she asks a question. I can't get work done. So I sit. Someone talk to me about something. Please. Does she look like Professor Umbrage? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 (edited) LOL - Sort of. And now she has a scarf wrapped around her neck because she is cold. Also Pink. Edited December 10, 2015 by ikslo 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 (edited) I currently am sitting through a mind-numbingly boring audit. In a too cold conference room. With a woman auditor who wore a bright pink shirt. It is the only color in the room, which draws one's attention. I feel like I am staring at her. No one is talking. She is typing away on her laptop, and I on mine. But every time I start to work on something job-related, she asks a question. I can't get work done. So I sit. Someone talk to me about something. Please. Okay! This one time when I was working full time and my boss needed my office mate or me for a quorum of a QA meeting, the office mate and I did rock paper scissors, and I lost. So I had to sit through the boring meeting. My boss was a really cool long-haired, smart as anything, introvert. So I sat there and listened to a lot of boring stats that had nothing to do with me and then grew pained every time my smart boss tried to interject a piece of wisdom and got interrupted by a loud extrovert sharing recipes for tea cakes or something irrelevant. Edited May 21, 2016 by texasmama 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 I had to turn up the heat. But it didn't get warm enough fast enough for her. She's mentioned the traffic noise as well. And the fact that there was no hot water for her tea that she brought with her. Had to use the microwave. Boo hoo. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Ikslo, you can spend time editing my paragraph for punctuation. In particular, there are many comma errors, both in omission and commission. That should take up a fair amount of time. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 I was here. . . . :ph34r: . . . and then I wasn't. :leaving: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 I had to turn up the heat. But it didn't get warm enough fast enough for her. She's mentioned the traffic noise as well. And the fact that there was no hot water for her tea that she brought with her. Had to use the microwave. Boo hoo. It is exceedingly difficult to be her. :hat: And you, with her. :lol: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 I don't hate her. I'm just bored and cranky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 I don't hate her. I'm just bored and cranky. No one actually hated me, either. #queenofhyperbole We pronounce it hy-per-bole here cuz that's how we roll. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Right now I am more annoyed than anything. My boss was supposed to be here for this, but he had to be somewhere else last minute so I got saddled with doing it solo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Right now I am more annoyed than anything. My boss was supposed to be here for this, but he had to be somewhere else last minute so I got saddled with doing it solo. You lost in rock, paper, scissors. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 (edited) Double post so please allow me this opportunity to advise everyone not to swim in the sea or take unnecessary journeys!!!! Edited December 10, 2015 by texasmama 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Usually I have at least him with which I can converse; we email back and forth the whole time. Today, I have me, myself, and I. I'm bored with me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 We pronounce it hy-per-bole here cuz that's how we roll. It's way more fun to pronounce it that way than the real way. I also like to say P-Salm. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 It's way more fun to pronounce it that way than the real way. I also like to say P-Salm. I know right???? :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 No one actually hated me, either. #queenofhyperbole We pronounce it hy-per-bole here cuz that's how we roll. My high school trig teacher *hated* us because the students in my class insisted on hyper-bola and para-bola. He loved us, though. He gave me bonus points on a test once for spelling my name correctly. (He didn't want to give a zero to someone who actually tried :leaving: ). 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 You lost in rock, paper, scissors. It was more like: Me: Can I work from home on Thursday? My DH has to work overtime. (He often lets me do this, and I will be doing this tomorrow.) Boss: No. Me, incredulously: Huh? Why not? Boss: Because I need to you to cover Thursday's audit. Me: What audit? Boss: The one I forgot to tell you about. Sorry. Me: You so owe me Swedish Fish. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 It was more like: Me: Can I work from home on Thursday? My DH has to work overtime. (He often lets me do this, and I will be doing this tomorrow.) Boss: No. Me, incredulously: Huh? Why not? Boss: Because I need to you to cover Thursday's audit. Me: What audit? Boss: The one I forgot to tell you about. Sorry. Me: You so owe me Swedish Fish. Boss owes a crap ton of Swedish Fish. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 A friend of mine in the military once sent someone in his charge to a luncheon that he didn't want to attend. That man ended up eating lunch with the president. :svengo: I don't think my friend gave up many lunch opportunities after that. :lol: 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Ikslo, you can spend time editing my paragraph for punctuation. In particular, there are many comma errors, both in omission and commission. That should take up a fair amount of time. No, I shan't. I do enough of that at work. ITT shall not be edited. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 K-nif-e (3 syllables.) Just because. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiewindmomma Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Oldest may be done with school by noon. I told him he could join me for a lunch out if he was. I am in total shock--usually he drags it out for hours and hours. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 ITT shall not be edited, fer sure. If anyone has seen Christmas Vacation with Chevy Chase and can recall the Cousin Eddy scene in which he empties his travel trailer septic system you know what we have been saying to each other. Dh just insisted that I find shoes and come out to evaluate the status of the ground to tell the septic system people. We call it good. Trench the yard, septic dude! I want to stop washing all dishes by hand and having the laundry pile up. This morning, I fed the kids brekkie on Littlest Pet Shop paper plates. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 My goodness. Now she is switching chairs because the one she was sitting on wasn't good enough. It's a conference table with 12 identical chairs. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiewindmomma Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 rubber boots and bleach? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Call for security, ala Bon Qui Qui. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 (edited) The other auditor and the Cal Lab supervisor just joined us. Now she is talking about rental properties/being a landlord with the Cal Lab supervisor. Lord have mercy! I am going to crack. ETA: Booyah bells, Booyah bells, Booyah all the way!Oh what fun it is to Booyah, or booya Slashe's way! Edited December 10, 2015 by ikslo 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 The other auditor and the Cal Lab supervisor just joined us. Now she is talking about rental properties/being a landlord with the Cal Lab supervisor. Lord have mercy! I am going to crack. Maybe the president will join you by lunchtime? 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoJosMom Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 HI, everyone! This is great! Everything thing here is great! (Well, compared to ikslo's reality! Thanks, ikslo!) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.