Today is September 15. I just saw a Christmas commercial on TV.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage, and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny.
Oz ,'Beneath You'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Amy - Sep 15, 2017 12:19:50 pm PDT #16669 of 30002
Because books.
sarameg - Sep 15, 2017 12:27:02 pm PDT #16670 of 30002
Intercepted the UPS guy! Got me new Bluetooth portable speaker, yay podcasts and music without carting my device along to ever room. If the vet doesn't call by 6, hafta call them cause they close at 7...
shrift - Sep 15, 2017 12:30:13 pm PDT #16671 of 30002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Then I got pulled into a meeting with a PM, and I haven't eaten lunch yet.
I'm making tater tots and nobody can stop me. Well, theoretically PG&E can stop me...
-t - Sep 15, 2017 12:44:56 pm PDT #16672 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Hooray tater tots!
Calli - Sep 15, 2017 1:19:21 pm PDT #16673 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Yay tots! Yay bluetooth thingies! Boo further encroachment of the Yuletide beast.
Today would normally be my work from home day, but an instructor for whom my team made a bunch of materials was presenting about them to a university interest group. It's an open group (with free lunch), so I went in to see what the instructor had to say. He was really positive about my team's work, which was nice to hear. And then there was a "meet a therapy dog" event at the university farmer's market, so I got to pet multiple puppies. All in all, it was a pretty good day.
sarameg - Sep 15, 2017 1:51:42 pm PDT #16674 of 30002
sarameg - Sep 15, 2017 1:55:10 pm PDT #16675 of 30002
Loki basically has a big chin zit. He got a shot of antibiotics and I'm now to wash his face:/
What I expected, but erred with caution.
Jesse - Sep 15, 2017 2:11:12 pm PDT #16676 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That does sound like a good day, Calli!
I ended my day with a super annoying interaction, so now I get to carry that into the weekend. I just need to remind myself that I was right, and wtf was the other person doing??
Scrappy - Sep 15, 2017 2:13:42 pm PDT #16677 of 30002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
We have a big RV that J is reviewing and the company made reservations at campground at a cute little town called Frankenmuth. We got there last night and I was trying to be a good supportive partner about this whole thing. When you travel in a big-ass RV, you park it and hook it up and you can't just tool around looking at stuff. One of our dogs is an old arthritic dude and we could not walk the half-mile into town. I was trying my best to enjoy the tight quarters and the fact that we had to take turns hanging out in town. Finally, J sat up in the lumpy bed and said, "I hate this. I want to go home." I HAVE NEVER BEEN HAPPIER.
We left early this morning, drove the long scenic route home and then went out to lunch. We are just not RV people. Even fancy new RVs stuffed with all kinds of features (It had three TVs!).
shrift - Sep 15, 2017 2:19:50 pm PDT #16678 of 30002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Well, if you're ever back in Frankemuth, you should probably go boggle at Bronner's Christmas Wonderland.