A friend of mine knows the person who makes these. He knows I love to read, so he shared them with me. I think they're pretty cool and I'm going to order a couple next month. I thought some of you might like them too...

http://www.bookthingys.com/

Raven, Gandolf, Ramona, Oz...Those book thingys have great names!

very cool

why is it that you can have piglet, and hamlet, but not baconlet or porklet?

And why are there so many ways to say pig meat? Chicken is chicken. Turkey is turkey...

those are soo cool bib! Thanks for sharing!

JP doesn't everything supposedly taste like chicken anyway?!

No one will ever convince me that octopus, oysters and escargot taste like chicken. :oP

No offense to anyone who likes that sort of thing. What can I say? I'm fussy.

I realize that we have lots of names for cow meat as well. It must be a mammal thing.

why the similarity between the words wombat and combat?

and what do either of them have to do with bats, anyway?

They both deal with bats?

ETA: Darn you! You took my line!

cat says combat is a bat in communication. Wombats...wombulate.

Message modifié par son auteur, Jan 7, 2010, 11:11pm.

>#7: don't combine them. Sheesh.

I can imagine you comb-ing a bat (which probably involves some combat), but how the heck do you wom a bat?

Why do we say "read" when we've already read? How am I supposed to know if I need to do it or I've already done it?

Yes, that's correct, i've been waiting for a new thread to get some serious derailment in. Thank you for noticing.

#12: See the edited #10. You seem a bit "postal" tonight...

Stop it! Slow down man! I'm trying to post when you're posting!

how

is

this?

*eyes narrowing* It's always one extreme or the other with you...

#13 -- I had that some confusion with "live" the other day. Can't remember the context, though.

no satisfying some people.

we don't say "read", we say "red". You talk funny.

I went clothes shopping today.

(This is the derailed train, right? Because that really does have nothing to do with the conversation at hand.)

I just thought that a wombat was a Woman Bat.

Sort of like Man and Woman? Am I making any celery?

hands? what hands? who was talking about hands?

Jesus and his buddy Chugs McGee.

Was foggi talking about live or live? "Specificity is the soul of communication."

My tongue hurts from saying "specificity."

Now you're just being a pansy... or a poesy... or maybe just a tulip. When did we start talking about botany?

This really should have been posted in the threads:

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH That is so funny!

Has anyone ever met a dog that was pretending not to beg? YOu know, you look at them sitting at your feet and they put their ears down but then you turn away and their ears perk back up? Theo is at my feet and every time I look at him he stops crying and gives me a big grin but then I look away, poof! Crying again. 8) So funny!

*and yes, baby, has been spoiled rotten, hence the crying 8)

theo is a sweet widdle baby what needs all the cuddling in the world!

I had a wonderfully random thing to say, but you have all distracted me and now I can't remember what it was...

Oh, I think I can take off the bandage the vampires gave me now. I gave them a pint of my blood this morning, my very first time. I felt a little woozy afterwards, but was okay after I'd had something to eat. Overall, it wasn't bad, except for when they had me practically upside-down in The Chair, which was a bit embarrassing.

And no, this wasn't the random thing I forgot.

hehehehehehe!
She doesn't take after me. I bleed quickly. I gave a red cell donation, which takes longer and is kind of odd because they hook you up to a machine that puts the plasma back after they remove the red cells. I was still finished faster than she was.

I am now imagining a vampire trying to suck down a thick shake.

The only time I tried to give blood, they wouldn't take me because I was anemic. That was thirty years ago

So, has anyone else ever dressed up in tuxedo and black cape, gone into a bloodbank, and said "I vish to make a vithdrawal"?

No, me neither. One day, though...

#36 -- LOL!

Polly, try again if you can...the magic number is 12;it's always a crap shoot when I go to donate--it's usually right under the 12 mark, but then I'll try again a few days later & make it. Although I went Saturday & it was 13. Eat lots of high iron food a couple of days before--red meat, spinich, dried fruit. It's really worthwhile to donate if you can. Like cat said, you might feel woozy for a while, but you feel really good that you helped someone. I felt semi-crummy all the rest of Saturday (gave platelets), but I had nothing on my agenda so it gave me a great excuse to do nothing but watch tv & nap all day! :)

#36: No one has ever made a "vithdrawal" but the blood center employees do get into dressing up as vampires on Halloween. ;o)

Both of my parents gave blood. My mother had relatively rare ABneg and was frequently called to provide a pint. They both were members of the gallons club. Funny thing - I grew up in the Virgin Islands and they had a deal - a pint for a pint. You left with a pint of rum! I don't know if they still do that or not. It's too hot and sunny for vampires down there but "Argghh", we do have pirates.

Wow, mamzel. We just get cookies. :o)

33: Cat: I have only given blood once. I passed out three times afterwards and they used the upside-down chair twice. It sure is a weird experience.

36: MrA: LOL! I can't believe that you have never done that! Make sure you wear sparkly makeup when you go.

Like exlib said, if you passed out you probably didn't eat enough iron before giving blood. That's what I've been told in the past. I also made sure I had some orange juice before heading in. I think part of cat's problem was that she forgot her ID and my husband had to take her home to get it after he gave blood. So by the time she was actually in the chair, it had been several hours since she had eaten.

Hey look what I found on LOLcats!

Overheard, from a kid leaving book club -- spoken in a tone of surprised disbelief: "You know, that was actually kind of fun!"

JP, that made me think of this video.

Message modifié par son auteur, Jan 13, 2010, 6:03pm.

I love 43! Thats awesome!

Lefty, I just spent a half an hour looking at how different movies should have ended.

Thank you.

And "How Twilight Should Have Ended" was hilarious!

Lefty, I also just spent at least a half hour looking at these...My favorite was the Wizard of Oz and the one about aliens. I sent the link to my son in college...I think he'll really get a kick out of them, as many are his favorite movies.

lol -- I'm glad I could help you all waste time. :)

This thread's too funny.

I love the links. I want to get a bookthingy, and just watched the first of what I'm sure is to be many "How (fill in the blank) Should Have Ended" videos.

As for derailment....

Aloft has a cleaning problem. As in, she won't stop bathing. I've decided we may try coating her is something perhaps like 'bitter-apple' so she'll quit making her stomach bald. It's so gross petting a cat and discovering them bald. Yuck. I will never own a completely bald cat. Unless it's one of those situations, of course, where you don't get to pick that cat and they pick you. (Isn't that always the case?)

45: Thank you lefty for making my work day entertaining!

See now that's not fair because everyone seems to love that link and I'm at work surrounded by people and then I'll go home and have just enough time to do the dishes and eat dinner before I leave for rehearsal and then I'll come home exhausted and then I'll wake up and come to work where I'll be surrounded....you get the point.

lol! Bib, maybe you should watch the videos as an office all together. Or, what I would probably do, watch a few videos and let the dishes wait a little longer. ;)

K, I had a cat that licked her belly bald and the vet suggested anti-anxiety meds or to do whatever we could to make her environment stress-free. Usually excessive grooming is a cat's way of expressing stress. Changes can cause it too.

when I knit I use my right hand to wrap the yarn, when I perl I use my left.

#53 lefty:
It started a year ago when I moved my furniture around. ;) Poor Aloft. I did hear from jp once that it's stress related. Giving her extra attention doesn't solve it. My mother personally thinks Aloft's OCD, but I'll suggest the anti-anxiety meds. Thanks!

My mother's recently started knitting a scarf. As I watched her knit last night she asked me if I remembered the Flinstones (sp?). She said she always thought it was funny how they knit because they were knitting upside down, with the needle ends pointing up versus down. Now I want to rewatch CoS to see how the knitting needles are at the Burrow, just in case.

#36 - They look at you kind of funny, and if you're insistent they call the police.

#56: Hmmm...sounds like someone has personal experience with using that phrase. :o)

45- ROFL!!! That was great, lefty! My brother liked them too. Now he keeps quoting from the "How Twilight Should Have Ended" video!

"Approved VIAGRA" keeps sending me emails titled "Doctor Who specials". How do they know I'd find that nearly impossible to resist?

lol! Attach "Doctor Who" to anything and Bib will buy, apparently. ;)

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!! Oh bib...

Bib, I have already ordered my "Specials" DVD! I even paid extra shipping to have it here on the 2nd. I don't trust the stores around here to have it.

"Why are there so many ways to say
"pig meat' ?. .." #5

One explanation is that in medieval England, Saxons didn't get to eat meat very often, and didn't develop there own vocabulary for animals-in-food-form. The more affluent Normans were the usual meat eaters, so it was natural to call the animal --when in food-form- by the Norman name. So, if they did eat "pig" they were eating Norman French pig: porc. If they ate "cow" they were eating "Boeuf" (later "beef").

In hunting, a parallel development: if you were affluent enough to own a "hund" (the Saxon word was something like the modern German) you caled it, as the Normans did a "dogue" (later "dog", eventaully extending that to all dogs, not just hunting dogs.)

#62: I'm planning to "preorder" on my next pay day, which is two weeks from tonight. Have you seen the recent ones? I can't remember if you have BBC America or not...

#63: That was so...thorough! I think I actually remember some of that from watching the old series "The Story of English."

Ask a rhetorical question, get a rhetorical answer. :o)

64: No! I watched last year's on the Internet, but I decided to wait for the DVD this year. I am going to try to resist cheating and finding it online. I am excited and of course sad to see the newer ones.

So to derail the thread again....My friend and I were discussing Disny world at lunch today and she has a great book that tells the ins and outs of disney world vacations, she is going to txt me with the name of it. I mentioned that the group was thinking of going the week after Xmas and she said that was actually one of the busiest times of year. I'll let everyone know what the book is as soon as I find out in case anyone from the planning committee wants to check it out.

Is it possible to derail a derailment thread? :o)

Does that work like a double negative so that it is now no longer a derailment thread?

If that's so we'd better derail it a third time. You stand on that side, I'll stand on this side and shake.

#67 it is the busiest time of year, but the other option was summer, and summer in Florida is miserable.

But thats what pools are for! and after this winter in florida's weather I wonder....

Okay, there are many reasons that the week after Christmas was chosen, but I'll go through them really quick:

1. Weather. Yes okay, it might be cold, but not any colder than anywhere else in the continental U.S. and it might be warmer. It was in the 70s this week after all. Also, hurricane season will be over
2. Timing. We have students and teachers in the group and they wouldn't be able to go if we held it in the fall or spring.
3. Money. Many of us are needing that much time to save enough money for the trip.

On a related note, things have been crazy, but they should be dying down now and I'll be working on an info packet for people planning to/hoping to come. I hope to have it ready to go by the end of the month.

The only problem with the park being busy is that...well...it'll be busy! We may have to deal with long lines

Message modifié par son auteur, Jan 19, 2010, 5:23am.

We read a book about going to Disneyland once and they said to get there early and then leave in the early afternoon, maybe around lunch or so, then come back at dinner when everyone else goes off to eat. Those are the less busy times. We would return to the hotel and the girls would swim or just chill, read, etc. before heading back.

I read somewhere that suggested you start going thru the park clockwise, instead of counter-clockwise which is the way the majority of visitors go. Less crowds early in the day in that section of the park.

if we break in at night, after the park closes...

Lots of time then. Why am I picturing Chevy Chase?

Bib, have your students read The Kingdom Keepers by Ridley Pearson before they go...a group of teens become holograms and enter the park after dark...they have to battle Malevecent and other Disney baddies. I noticed that it has a sequel since I read it, and it's on a couple of state reading lists.

Bib has students? ;-)

ETA: I've read The Kingdom Keepers -- it was a fun read. Maybe we should do a group discussion of it before we go.

Message modifié par son auteur, Jan 20, 2010, 12:16am.

#80: Duh, all you guys! We all know I'm the smartest one here right? ;D

It does sound like a fun read and could be a good discussion read.

#81: *raises hand* can I speak now, Mrs. Bib?

I got a wonderful gift from MrA and MsD!!

Message modifié par son auteur, Jan 19, 2010, 5:05pm.

sorry...I've lost track...just WHO going to Disney World?? I spend so much of my life totally clueless and confused... lol

well I don't know who's going to disney World, but we are going to HARRY POTTER WORLD! Whats the official name of it anyway?

oh my lord...I totally don't have a clue what's going on do I? lol

#184: The Wizarding World of Harry Potter is the name of the park, polly. Hopefully I will be able to make it there *knocks on wood*

I hope you do too ron! *knocks on head* oh and thanks

I'm sending Polly with a cardboard cut out of me. Just you know, when you take pictures, prop me up and then I'll pretend that I went and have snapshots to remember the memories.

LOL talk about a cheap vacation!

I miss your sense of humor when you're not here, MEM. :)

I wonder how hard it will be to strap you in to any rides.

#85 -- We're planning a meet-up for this December (the week between Christmas and New Years) in Orlando, so we can go to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, and probably Disney World, too. You're welcome to join us -- Bib is working on putting together an information packet now, so it's definitely not too late to join us.

We had a thread (or maybe a few threads) about this a while back -- let me see if I can find it for you. . . .

Here's one.

Here's the main one.

Here's another one.

Message modifié par son auteur, Jan 19, 2010, 10:44pm.

It'll be great!

#90 Sense of humor? I was being completely serious! ;}

#91 Eh, just use a bit of duct tape and watch out for tunnels! I'll be fine... because cardboard can't pee it's pants unlike the real me. LOL

It's pouring bucketfulls where I am, blowing down trees, knocking out power (obviously not here) in town. We are to expect lightning and possible hail as well. It's been years since we had this much weather at once.

foggi, see I just got totally derailed & befuzzled ...read a few posts about Disney World, and just assumed "school visit" lol.
thanks for straightening me out...it all makes sense now! I'd love to go, but it's not very likely. Hubby & I are trying to save up for our next "big" vacation--a trip to Massachusetts, sometime "in the kinda sorta foreseeable near future". He is not a HP fan (I dragged him to the Chicago exhibit this summer & he was bored and unimpressed; but we also toured a Coast Guard cutter on Lake Michigan--he's former CG--so we were even! lol)

but who knows? Maybe I'll win the lottery, and I'll go w/o him!

I'm just realizing that I've derailed again w/ this long post...sorry :)

Well, I agree with JP in #68. Can you really, actually derail this thread. Let's see....

puppy dog tails

Snickers

stapler

Duct tape. Lots and lots of duct tape.

That will keep this train together!

AAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(There'll be more in the rant thread, I just needed some inarticulate screaming first.)

Ohh, okay, Bib. I'll go over there to see what is amiss. ;)

Do I even dare go into the rants thread? This sounds scary...

#73 Bib, The reasoning behind the dates makes total sense to me! Thanks!

As for the saving money part my friend gave me a good tip. When they went last summer, they paid things off a little at a time. So everytime she had a little extra money she'd put it toward the cost of say the hotel room until it was paid off and so forth. That way by the time the trip came along all she had to worry about was spending money and transportation.

U know I should really read all the posts instead of the first few sometimes then I would've realized there was already a thread and could've posted the above statement there! =P

I read every third post.

That's why he'll never know what's going on in this one, so we can talk about whatever we want to in this post and the next.

So, what are we doing for MrA's birthday? ;)

I write every second post. I just don't read it.

you really like to read?

#106: So that post was not read by you, but it was posted...interesting....

I think he has a team of monkey trying to write his posts for him. While they've never written Shakespeare, they did write some fantastic Seinfeld scripts.

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Help! MrA got the keyboard away from the monkeys again!

Help! I'm trapped in a Chinese fortune cookie factory. It's dark, and people are screaming in French all around me.

AU SECOURS!!!

Monsieur?

Croissant petit four eclair au gratin?

Oh no! It's worse than I thought. It's not that they're speaking in French... it that no matter what they're saying I hear French!

horrible!

Why is it I can't remember my cell phone number, but after ~~ years I still know that Jenny's number is 867-5309?

Silly me decided to run on trails today when yesterday was warm enough to thaw the ground. Unbelievably muddy! At one point the mud actually sucked my shoe off my foot. Miles' belly and legs turned brown. My shoes similarly suffered. Both got a bath first thing upon getting home and I had to clean the tub afterwards. This is before the bath.

Do you bathe your shoes with your dog, or do you throw the dog in the washing machine with the shoes? :o)

Looks like the sink for both of them!

jp: We just need to make up a song with your cell phone number and you can remember it! Or set your cell phone number to the tune of Jenny's! Wow! I'm just full of exclamations today! Don't know why!

118- This is why they keep me around, you know. I remember all the cellphone numbers. ;)

119- Aw, Miles has such a sad look on his face. I wonder if it's because of the mud, or because the mud is about to all come off.
We've got a lot of mud here, too. It was raining last night and all of today. Very, very wet!

#122 re 118: Very true. We take full advantage of her fresh brain cells and photographic memory. :o)

Also, she provides a blank slate for tattooing important information.

Very true, MrA! Especially since my own blank slate is full of cheap temporary tattoos!

J.D. Salinger died. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/books/29salinger.html?hp

Why does "paper wraps rock" win? If you ask me, that's just a rock wearing paper clothes. My clothes don't beat me because they enclose me, if anything it's the other way around. Ok, scissors cuts paper, and rock breaks scissors, but seriously, "paper wraps rock"? How about "rock beats paper until its disintegrated and blows away", or even "rock wears paper like a trophy"?

Derailing. I r doin it right.

Well, Rock is weak to Grass type. Since paper comes from tree I can assume it is Grass type. Therefore Paper is super effective again Rock. Se you can describe all these little logical quandaries with Pokémon!

*shakes head at Espy's PokéLogic*

Which only makes me think of the "Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock" scene from Big Bang Theory.

-Someone has to choose something besides Spock or we'll never get anywhere.
-But how will we decide who?
-Rock! Paper! Scissors! Lizard! Spock!

randomness at my house:

Me- sitting at desk untangling my hair
Missie- laying on couch with Theo on stomach

Me: Ow! Ouch!! Ow!
Missie: Wah wah You're not the one bouncing Theo on your stomach. I don't want to hear it.
Me: Yeah, well, I have a sensitive head.
Missie: Well, I have a sensitive stomach!
Me: Well, I carried him in my sensitive stomach.
Missie: I have him jumping on my sensitive BODY.
Me: I had him bouncing on my sensitive spleen!
Missie: My body is way more sensitive than your spleen!
Me: I then gave birth to him. HAH!
Missie: Well- well I- my stomach is still more sensitive than your scalp! So HA HA!
Cole: Mommy, I'm trying to watch TV.

MEM, that sounds so much like our house it's eerie. Are you channeling us?

*snicker* What are you talking about? *kicks crystal ball under the table*

AAAAAHHHH!
*suddenly tossed around the room as if stuck inside a snowglobe someone shook*

Oops! I wonder what happened last week when I let the baby play with it? LOL

More randomness after reading a news story-

I'm 27 so I'm really not that far off college age, right? RIGHT?! ahem anyway.. I know I would have never agreed to allowing my frat brothers or sorority sisters to brand me with a hot clothes hanger. Seriously? The few times I have ever been drunk I was never like, "Hey, scar me for life! Sounds like fun!" My brain just does not let me be that stupid. Ever. Just saying...

My brain just does not let me be that stupid. Ever.
So far! Don't push your luck MEM

LOL Nope I'm pretty sure I'll never volunteer my skin to be burnt with a logo by a bunch of drunken buddies. Maybe other stupid things are in my future but nothing on that level. 8)

I agree. I'm perfectly capable of burning myself. *mental note: use potholders*

#139: KIK...

Ok, I don't know if you guys have heard about what's going on in my country (Venezuela) but here is an article...I must express I am really worried about what may happen here, I won't say I have been part of the protests because I haven't but my heart is with all the students who have suffered any kind of abuse during this last week.

Gosh Ron, thats sounds nerve racking and awful. Just keep yourself safe OK?

That is horrible! I would be scared to leave the house! Stay safe Ron!

Ron, this must be terrifying. Stay safe!

Thanks guys, I will stay safe I promise.

Today, at the park where I walk, I got out of my car and smiled at an elderly, little lady who was getting out of her car. She smiled very sweetly back and began to baby talk to a dog that I couldn't see. As I rounded my car I glanced down, thinking I would see a little frou-frou dog on the end of her leash. Instead it was this huge Pit Bull. If that wasn't disconcerting enough, the dog was also wearing a handmade doggy dress complete with ruffled skirt. Even better, the pattern on the dress was small. red, white and blue flowers. XD

Message modifié par son auteur, Fév 2, 2010, 7:19pm.

Well if that dog snaps, we'll all know why. :o)

Sophie is being a little terror terrier this evening. First she found a pair of my socks (from the laundry hamper) and killed them (shook them viciously to snap their necks, then dismembered them, poor things). After she got done being told off for the socks, she went on to her next project of trying to dig a hole in the sofa. I managed to distract her with a fierce game of tug, which seems to have worn her out for the moment, but I'm sure in ten minutes or so she will have discovered some new mischief.

Has she been housebound due to weather?

Has she been dressed up in a ruffled skirt with red, white, and blue flowers?

I'm thinking about doing that to my boys to punish them for last night. Hello! Do I not get to sleep too?

#148-149: No to both. :-) She just had a lot of energy yesterday to channel into inappropriate activities -- long afternoon nap, or something.

i only dress my pug, Pixiesue, up once a year for the pug-o-ween party and then I don't make her wear it after she's been registered and photo'd. She hates wearing clothes!

I'd like to get a sweater for Gidget my min pin/ chihauhau but I guess she's fine without it. She just seems like her thin little fur would make her cold. Of course she is an inside dog so she really doesn't need it does she?

Yesterday My boss and I got to discussing whether or not Harry should have died in deathly hallows. (She is on the side of he should have while I'm on the side No way!)well she kept misquoting the famous prophecy and insisting that she was right , So I looked it up this morning and wrote it down with page number and all. She laughed and laughed and said, "You take your Harry Potter seriusly don't you!"

And we might ask her, "And you don't?"

Exactly!

#153: I would have done the same thing, :P! And I would have taken the book with me.

#153: And she only laughed and said that because she was wrong. Way to go polly!

#153 I never understood why some people (who really liked the books) wanted Harry to die. 8( How depressing would that have been? Some people were positively furious that JK didn't off him.

I think my kids were relieved that Harry did not die. And since it was written for kids, maybe JK knew what she was doing.

There was enough death in the series for young ones to contend with without doing in our hero, too.

Forget the young ones, *I'm* still unhappy at the loss of several favorites!!! I guess we can be grateful that she reconsidered her initial decision to do away with Mr. Weasley earlier in the series. I would probably have given up at that point.

ETA I don't really mean *forget* the young ones!

Message modifié par son auteur, Fév 4, 2010, 2:28pm.

*morose sigh* Both of my favorite characters died, one at the hands of the other. I'd say there was enough death in the series! ;-)

I would have been mad at her if she killed Harry, Deathly Hallows spoiler alert at one point in the last book I had to stop, breathe and take a glass of water, and I kept chanting she can't do this to me, she can't just kill Harry, he deserves happiness in his life...

I always contend that he did in fact die, but he was given the choice to come back to life. I have no proof to back this up, but I think that, had he chosen to take the train on he would have remained dead.

#164: Cat and I were talking about that earlier Espy. We agree with you. If he wasn't dead for a moment, he was at least having a near death experience. The whole point is that he was the Boy Who Lived. I was very satisfied with that part of the story.

I was also saying I could imagine the scene if, say, Snape lived and Harry died. Snape cradling Harry's limp broken body as the rain streams down his face (there would have to be rain) and mud spattering against his robe. He would be yelling, "NOOOO! LILY! I'm sorry, Lily! I tried!"
Then he would get up and go Psycho on Voldy and company while all the students and professors look on, dumbfounded.

Wow. I like that version JP!

Thank you. I give all the credit to a sleepless night followed by way too much caffeine. :o)

LOL! I love it, JP!

Applause!

So Harry was just "mostly dead"?

But I like your ending.

Message modifié par son auteur, Fév 5, 2010, 12:38pm.

Emma Watson is the highest paid actress in Hollywood. I think that's weird.

Well, I've found her next big role here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS7xDS24GGE

LOL! Deathly Hallows meets Sister Act 2!

I took several DS games back to Game Stop on Thursday and was able to get BookWorm (for DS) and HPHBP (for Wii) for the trade in value! The HPHBP game is set up differently than the others.

I'm so incredibly curious about what MEM wrote and deleted.
I'm also lacking someone to play with. Hope someone posts soon, or I may need to run amuck in the threads.

MEM tried to post a funny picture but alas it did not work...
MEM was very sad about this and walked away from her keyboard
MEM then played Metallica Guitar Hero and it made her happy

Ooh, I'll run amuck (amok?) with you, JP! Where shall we run first?

Let's muck about.
How do you spell amok? Is that right?
I must not run amok enough....

Muck, muck muck

"What are you doing, foggi?"
"Just mucking about in the threads, JP."

:-)

Sooooo latest Pepper weirdness. I'm in my kitchen getting myself some yogurt so of course Pepper heard me opening the container and came running down the stairs (they are right off my kitchen) in hopes that I would give her some yogurt, I turn around to greet her and there she is...wearing a pair of my underwear, and I mean that she somehow got her head and her front right leg through them and was wearing them. I have no clue how she pulled this off. I have a picture but you'll have to forgive me for not wanting to post my underwear on the internet...but it was HYSTERICAL and I just had to share.

#181 -- LOL! I can so see Sophie doing something like that!

BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Just promise me you'll post it if she ever wears a bra on her head! Pleeeeease?

Catbastet said I have bras on the brain right now. Must be all the rock cleavage. :o)

#181: ROFLMAO! Will you email me the picture? Or at least make sure I get to see it this weekend?

I just emailed it to you and mom.

#181 LOL! That is too funny! I wonder how he managed to get them on?

random snapshot:

Theo standing in his Exersaucer, straining towards the spoon that is inches away from his mouth. Missie holding the spoon just out of his reach, not looking at him, yelling, "Mom! MOM! Look I'm doing it- I'm feeding the baby! I'm feeding the baby!" Theo starts yelling at the spoon to get in his mouth. Missie, still holding the spoon just out of his reach, twisting to see if I'm really, really watching her, yells louder, "MOM! MOM! I"M DOING IT! I"M DOING IT! HE'S EATING IT! HE'S EATING IT!"

sigh

LOL! Cherish these moments. Some day soon, Theo will learn the AWESOME POWER OF THE YOUNGEST CHILD (insert echoes). :o)

*evil grin* Oh I know all about the Awesome Power of the Youngest Child. I also know the Awesome Power of the Only Girl. I'm the youngest of four and the only girl.

And she was awesomely evil

I was the youngest of three. My husband was the surprise bonus youngest of three (12 years separating him from his sister.) It's a wonder our house is still standing after our youngest was born. :o)

Actual phone conversation I just had:

Me: LCS this is Heather.
Caller: Hello?
Me: Hi!
Caller: Who is this?
Me: This is Heather.
Caller: LCH?
Me: No, LCS.
Caller: What is that?
Me: L____________ Community Services.
Caller: Did I call you?
Me: Yes.
Caller: Oh. I think I'm sorry.
Me: Okay.
*click* (caller hangs up)

A coworker was standing in my office listening to my half and cracking up.

"I think I'm sorry"?....they weren't sure.

Hahaha! I wouldn't have been able to keep from laughing!

It reminds me of a call I took this morning

me: Rainbow Station, this is Polly
her: Um..yes, do you know if my childs school is delayed?
me: What school is it?
her: Licking Heights
me: Licking Heights is closed for the day
her: Oh....what about Reynoldsburg?
me: They are closed as well
Her: Columbus?
me: I believe they are open
her: Okay, thank you

I looked at my coworker who had been listening and said "What am I? A frickin' radio station? sheesh!"

I got a call once while I was church secretary. The man had a heavy accent and asked me for directions to our church for our live Nativity. I asked where he was coming from and started to give him directions. He asked if we were near Goldy Beacom college, I said no, but tried giving directions from there. He was sure our church was old and that Biden had spoken there, which it isn't had he hasn't. He was sure he knew our church, but it wasn't us, I tried street names, and landmarks. After a half hour, he said 'so it is near___ ____ , which is no where near us, but I said yes and he was happy and hung up. I thought "well, Lord, it's up to you to get him here," The volunteer then asked what that was all about and I just started laughing.

181- LOL, Pepper is so funny!

These phone conversations are hilarious!

#164, I totally agree
#165, That is an awesome ending!

I have a cute phone conversation to add

Doug: (my 8 year old & the baby btw): hello
caller: hello, is your dad there?
Doug: who is this?
caller: It's Jesus, let me talk to your dad bugga (Doug's nickname)
Doug: *whispers to his brother* Zach, Jesus is on the phone and he wants to talk to dad.... *in a tone of exasperation*...and he knows my name!!!

It was really our friend CJ,

I came here to post something specific. In catching up with the thread, my own train of thought has been thoroughly derailed and I have no idea what I wanted to say.

Well, at least I was HIGHLY entertained during the crash-and-burn of my own thoughts. :)

Adara has been exploring which of her toys can be used as musical instraments.

198- That has happened to me more times than I can say.

Maybe this has been a feature for a while and I'm slow to notice, but you can click on the message numbers now and label posts as favorites and even set it so the whole thread doesn't get marked as read. I don't think I said that well. There's a third option "permanent link to message" but I didn't try it and I don't know what it means.

I remembered what I meant to say earlier too. The font for PM on profiles pages is different. Mostly it is just smaller, which makes it look different.

Have I been out of it for a while or something?

Lefty - You can read about this new feature in the latest entry of the LibraryThing blog. Look at your Home page on the right side for a link.

198 & 200: If reading the derailed thoughts thread derails thoughts, are we back on track?

Do two derailments make a right?

Do you ever wonder why anyone would use the emergency stop button on an elevator? You would end up trapped inside between floors.

Do you ever wonder where I'm going with all this? Do you ever wonder why there are no GPS devices to keep our minds from wandering? And can you set the GPS so that it takes you on the scenic route?

#203 -- The only time I can think of wanting to use the emergency stop button would be a time when I can't imagine it would still be working in any event. Perhaps it's there to give people something to pound on as they plummet to their doom at the end of a snapped cable?

. . . gosh, that makes me want to never ride an elevator again.

Well, Gibbs on NCIS uses the stop button all the time--makes the elevator into a private office. But there are also many unforeseen head slaps involved, so it's not really an ideal work environment.

And GPS devices don't have eyes, so how could it find the scenic route?

If you jumped up just as the elevator crashed, then maybe it would not be your doom

#204: Oops. Sorry Foggi!
#205: Silly. If GPS devices don't have eyes, how do they know where I'm going?

Wouldn't it be great if they invented a GPS that could find things that you lose in your house. Then I wouldn't have to spend a month looking for the (expensive) gift card I had told catbastet not to leave on my desk.

Hmmm, well I find the GPS voice just as annoying as the one at the self-serve checkout register at the grocery store. Always bossing you around, repeating herself 'cause you're not fast enough. If I have to listen to this, I want to be paid for it. And that's why I don't want to work retail! The voices in my head are enough to deal with (er, taking inner monologue off speakerphone now).

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207- I didn't leave it on the desk! At least, I don't think I did. Actually, I don't remember where I put it, if I put it anywhere...

208- I have no control over what the voices in my head say. Sometimes, a whole piece of narration pops up, like the day when all of a sudden, I heard: "She had calender pictures hung up all over the place, to make it look a little more homey..."

This isn't the oddest of things that pop into my head, considering I also get strange, complex dreams. Like the dream I had with the killer pickle slices, and the pale white zombie turkeys which you could kill by spraying them with a Super Soaker.

To me, killer pickle slices = fried pickles. Mmm ... fried pickles. Especially lovely dipped in ranch.

208-we've named our GPS Bossyboots. She gets a little huffy if you don't follow her directions.

The last time I had fried pickles is when I went to see Enchanted in the dinner theater. That was a fun experience.

#211 -- LOL! I love the nickname!

our GPS is Mandy, our '91 Toyota is Edda and my Ford Neon is Eva

Hi you guys, I totally forgot to post here...it was actually on Sunday but still HAPPY NEW CHINESE YEAR!!



It's the year of the tiger according to the Chinese calendar...I tried getting a nicer picture but none of them had the HTML thing to post it here...

Awesome, we're back to my year. Beware Foggi, though. She's year of the Monkey.

And what's wrong with monkeys? *Waves to fellow Monkeys while swinging from a tree.*

I thought this was year of the Dalek.

Can you lose a GPS device?

214: My friend Amy's GPS is also named Mandy...it gets confusing.

At first glance, I always think GPS is GSP (German Shorthaired Pointer -- Miles' breed). I keep wondering how we got into a discussion of dog breeds and realizing again that we're talking about navigational devices.

Well, the Westminster was on last night.

A black Scottie won. Too cute!

They all seemed like good choices, although the announcer seemed a bit confused. Chaos in the sound booth, I guess. I saw the terriers as well. They are so sturdy and intense, yet fun. I wonder how some of them see through the fancy haircuts, lol. Maybe they use doggles.

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Hair gel. I've wanted to give Finnegan a spiked look, but I don't know if I can hold him down long enough.

Of course Sadie is adorable, but I'm a little partial to two other breeds. Watching the Welshies, you can see that they all wag their tails almost the entire time. They also want to play with each other. It's too cute.

Happy Chinese New Year to you too, Ren!

For half a second, I thought this was the What are You Eating thread and Kirby had just put "hair gel." I was rather relieved to remember this was not the food thread!

Mmm, hair gel with just a little spritz of hair spray, and a dollop of pomade.
Delicious!

The family of the dog that won at Westminster live near hear, so I was rooting for her twice as much since she is a Scottie! She is cute, but not as cute as my Gregor!

#228 -- Isn't it amazing how that's always the case? One's own personal dog is always cuter than any dog show winner. I didn't even see the dog show, but I am sure the winner was not as cute as Sophie. ;-)

This is the only place I can think of to post this and it's mostly for JP and Cat as they're the ones I know are as into this series as I am, but the new Amelia Peabody is coming out on April 6th.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw3eNDXA_WE

what was wrong with the old Amelia Peabody? Was she broken?

Don't you hate it when a new model comes out, and the old one gets instantly devalued? Poor old Amelia Peabody.

I love Amelia Peabody! I've read and reread all the novels about her! I love Ramses!

230- Yay! JP just got a message about it from Author Tracker.

231- It sounds like it is set some years before the last Amelia Peabody. So, in a way, it is the old Amelia Peabody. ;)

#233: That's how I found out too. JP, did you also get an email last week announcing "new Elizabeth Peters" that turned out to be new covers for old books? That was annoying!

#234:Yes, I got those emails! That was so confusing! It's a good thing she actually did have a new book, because I was so disappointed!

I can't wait!

I knew there was a good reason to hug my kids...

LOL!

That's hilarious, JP!

LOL! I love it!

I just sent an email to my daughter with hugs! Thanks for the reminder.

Translated from Theo during the past hour:

"Mom! MOM! Look at me! Why aren't you looking at me! Look, look, LOOK! HAHAHAHA You looked! Wait! No! Look again! Look again! I NEEEEEED YOU TO LOOK AT ME! HAHAH YOU LOOKED AGAIN! No stop looking at me now! Why are you looking at me! Stop! AHHHH How do I get my hands up here to block your face from my sight! AHHHH I just poked a finger in my nose AND IT"S ALL YOUR FAULT FOR LOOKING AT ME! OH MY LORD! Pick me up pick me up pick me up. Okay better hold me just like that- Wait no UPRIGHT! UP!RIGHT! I don't want to lie back! NO NO NO NO NO NO ARCHING MY BACK AWAY FROM YOUR ARMS That BURN me with their evil touch! AUGH- hey look shiny thing on the desk. I want it! Mom, stop it! I want want want it! WOMAN STOP BLOCKING MY HANDS FROM SHINY THING! AUGHWhere did you put it! It's mine!! MINE Where did it go?I loooovvved it and now it's gooooone. I curse you! Curse you with the burning white hot passion of a thousand suns- Hey my baba! Mine! No, I don't want to lie down! I want my BABA! BABABABABABA! HA Got it! In my mouth! HEy it's not working! Why not! AHHHHH YOU broke my BABA! Dying oh hunger! OH what a horrible way to live! Why Can't I lie down and drink my baba? You won't let me lean back! I hate being upright! Why don't you love me? AAAAAAAAUUUUUWWWWWWW Hey! Don't lean me back! Upright! I want to be upright!....."

LOL - I'm not one for writing poetry but I came up with this when my kids were wee bairns.

Oh, what a tragedy!
Being a little ba-by!

#242 -- LOL!

#243 LOL I"m glad I'm not the only one!

#245: Trust me. You're not the only one. ;o)

I'm getting terrible reception out of my windows. Nothing but snow. There doesn't seem to be a way to adjust the picture.

Have you tried banging the side of the house? LOL

A shovel might work. We have 2 if you want to borrow one. ;)

A friend shared this with me while I was at work and I think I literally almost died laughing while reading it.

http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/wall-of-flame-challenge/

#211 I gave MrAndrew a GPS for Valentine's day
#216 - monkey's rule - literally ;)

Espy, that was hilarious! I must share it.

Love the announcement line right now.

Well everyone, pull out your tin foil hats and start praying to you personal Supreme Being. The world is about to end. 8-O

Yes. Amazing but true. I manage to snag an early reviewer book.

Not actually as thrilling as it sounds. It's a nonfiction book. The TMJ Healing Plan. Since I've suffered from this, I was interested in gathering some info and advice about it.

Yay! Congratulations on your ER book!

I never thought I'd see the day. They must think I really like how-to and self-improvement books. I think I requested seven books and the was the only how-to style book.

Yay, JP! Finally! You know, if I request a non-fiction book I always seem to get it. When I stopped even requesting non-fiction because I can only take so much of it, I went on an early reviewer dry spell. But that has ended! I'm getting Heartless this month. :)

Quick! I need someone to talk me down from rearranging my classroom. I've gone all year so far without doing it (student desks do not count), and am on the verge of doing so. I even have it sketched up. Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

kirby, I thought your year was almost over? There's nothing you can do that you can't put off till tomorrow. Or next term. :o)

Whew! Barely made it past that one. I sometimes get in this rearranging mood and I have to move all the furniture.

I get that too, Kirby. I have been fighting the urge the entire month so far that hubby has been away...2 weeks left we'll see if i make it.

I have never been in a rearranging mood. My sisters used to make me help them rearrange bedrooms and I could never understand why it was so fun to them. At least, I assume they found it fun. Is it actually fun or is there some other draw?

Fun? Well, its satisfying to some degree ...but fun? I don't know. Its more a desire for something different I think

I think Foggi is in a rearranging mood today... It might just be because she has the room painted and everything out so now she just needs to do a little bit of cleaning up and she can move thinhs into the room.

I don't know -- I'm not in a rearranging mood so much as I'm in a mood to get this room done and get all of this stuff out of my living room. I do get rearranging moods sometimes. It's not that it's fun to move stuff around, but it is nice to make a space more functional, or more comfortable, or more aesthetically pleasing.

Perhaps I'm just easily contented. I think the only thing I get excited about moving around is my books.

I think it may be a sickness. Some form of OCD or ORD (obsessive rearranging disorder). I'm constantly trying to redo something. That's why it takes me an entire day to do a simple craft. I have to redo my craft drawers before I can get started. Make sure everything is in the right spot.

lol, if you have ORD I have ODD -- obsessive disordering disorder. My craft drawers never get arranged, let alone rearranged.

When I start rearranging, it's because I'm bored with the way things are looking and I think I might have found a way to make the place function better.

My house has only ONE way in which to arrange the furniture...my last house had only TWO ways to arrange it. Fortunately, I'm not a furniture-moving kind of gal.

Today I moved the book drop in the library. It has been moved a mere 5 feet to the left and now sits nearly directly IN FRONT OF the check out computer. It has a big blue sign on it that says "Book Drop". The students are beside themselves wandering around looking for the dad-gum thing. So I don't move furniture around at school much either...it's just more than my sweeties can handle. :)

"One more week till spring break" is my mantra today b/c the kids are all squirrelly...

The kids at my daycare are so wound up from this winter! It makes me glad I'm not a teacher anymore. We had a fire drill today. I went to the infant room to help, One little guy was sleeping in the swing. I unbuckled him and lifted him, grabbed his blanket and hurried to place him in the fire crib with the other babies. Then we bumped and rattled quickly out of the building. Ten seconds later we are rattling back in. The teacher took sleeper and put him back in the swing while I took the other babies out. Sleeper never woke up, not once. Until lunchtime.

In the threes, room, where I have a window, one boy set up a wail at not getting the job he wanted. After a few minutes, I leaned thru my window to glare at him and said, firmly " Conner Dunn! If you don't stop that noise, right now, I will take you to the baby room and you can have baby food for lunch instead of chicken nuggets!" he gave me a look of horror and swallowed his cries and shook his head. A moment later he was starting up again and I said "Baby Food!" and he stopped for good. It was kind of funny, this boy always gives me a hug in the morning and is generally a sweet kid but he has his moments!

LOL, polly, sounds like some serious experience behind that firmness! And the kids love clear rules and consequences, no matter what they say.

I don't get to watch my great-nieces and nephew often. And they wear me down quickly, smelling my wavering between tough and cuddly.

I was there recently and the boy brought down a toy that gets on everyone's nerves after about 10 minutes (you can't hear the TV). I was in a "tough aunt" mood and decided to take it back up, since there are upstairs and downstairs toys.

I got halfway up the steps when the 2yo yells "Shell! Back!" and then "Hey!" when I kept going. I turned around, said "Don't you Hey me." She's pretty bossy, but that was the end of that one. They have thirty bazillion toys everywhere; some of them *gotta* stay put! (And she came up with a different defiance later; mommy was home, so I left the 'tude for her.)

I was way behind this thread and can't respond to everything, but I wanted to say how happy I am that JP got an early reviewer book! Congratulations, JP! :)

MUST GO TO SLEEEEP....have to get up early tomorrow. Go to sleep....your eyelids are getting heavy....

It's not working.

Thanks K! I was going to put it on the I got an ER thread, so of course I couldn't find the ER thread...

LOL, kirby! I have three children who think that way every night. They get that from me. :o)

I was awake at 3:20 and wasn't able to get back to sleep. I tried all my tricks which usually help but didn't and finally turned on the TV and watched Gregory Peck in The Man in the Flannel Suit.

Well the last time I looked at the clock was around 2:00 a.m. or so. 5:30 came really early it seems. And it's really only an hour before I normally get up. Oh well. I sense a nap or early bed time in my future.

I went to bed at one, woke up at four something and couldn't go back to sleep. I ended up watching Prince Caspian and falling asleep during it for a half hour. Now the long day begins.

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I laughed a lot at this pic...I thought you guys may enjoy it

Nice!

Hahahaha! Good one Ron!

how apropo!

278- Ooh, you mean there are books that work without batteries? ;)

Why, oh why, can't I get any sleep? Well, I'm getting some. I've been going to bed at my normal times (anywhere between 11:00 and 12:00) but I can't get to sleep until after 1:00 or 2:00. Then when it's time to get up at 6:15 I can't wake up. I've pressed my snooze button so many times this week that I may have to look into buying a new alarm clock. Usually the time change doesn't get to me this much. It's been such a crazy week with conferences that you would think I could sleep... nope. Not happening.

My theory is the time change. I think it's a reasonable theory for at least one week following the change, the light's all weird and different, darker than you were used to when you wake up and then being light later makes your body think it's earlier than it actually is, basically I blame the government and the laws of time. This morning for instance, I was able to convince myself to get up when the alarm went off, I then walked about two steps, sat back down on the bed and stared into space for about 5 minutes before getting up again. This happened about three more times before the last time when I realized that I was late leaving for work.

What you need is a puppy who wakes up with a surplus of energy every morning, about an hour before you are ready to get out of bed. The puppy can then romp around your bed, bouncing on and around you, possibly leaving bruises, barking and licking and sniffing and nudging you until you are glad to get up and out of bed to escape the beast.

I would be glad to give you mine. She's been driving me crazy in the mornings lately. She backs off for approximately 3.5 seconds if I push her away or growl at her, but then she comes right back and starts over again. I know if I put her down on the floor, she will either go off and make a puddle somewhere, or will stand with her front paws on the edge of my mattress and continue to make a nuisance of herself.

She won't always be this jumpy. Enjoy it while you can. When I was in high school my parents would either throw the cat on my bed or send the dog in to lick my face because I was nicer waking up to the animals than my family.

I always put the alarm on the opposite side of the room so I would have to get out of bed. Once up, I never went back to bed. That snooze button is just too easy to hit when it's right next to the bed.

Finn used to do that too foggi. I remember not getting sleep because of him. Now he will only get up if the alarm goes off, and sometimes that's iffy. He will crawl on top of me and stretch out. That's okay unless I'm laying on my tummy. Then I can't get up. It's rather humorous. Hey...I wonder if that will work as an excuse for being late.