Productive lunch time. Watched a short doc (20 min) and confirmed I’ll get a 2% COLA 1/1/24.
My heart expands / 'tis grown a bulge in't / inspired by / your beauty effulgent.
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
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.
msbelle - Dec 22, 2023 12:10:41 pm PST #27562 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
flea - Dec 22, 2023 12:41:53 pm PST #27563 of 30000
information libertarian
I am at work, but currently screening the movie Elf, so it could be worse.
Calli - Dec 22, 2023 12:57:20 pm PST #27564 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I’m off work today. I’m heading to Michigan on Sunday, so I’m wrapping up household stuff (cleaning, laundry, etc.) at a leisurely pace.
JenP - Dec 22, 2023 1:14:50 pm PST #27565 of 30000
We have a holiday today, and I just got back from a lovely lunch with friends downtown... and they surprise treated us, which was a super sweet bonus. ("Us" in this case was my friend Dave and me. DH was working and a bit under the weather.)
I still have to do most of my shopping. Our trip is in limbo, though, because everyone we were spending Christmas with came down with Covid last week (from a HS Holiday concert -- my niece is the choral teacher there). So they're all going to retest Sat/Sun because it was sort of a rolling infection... depending on how it all shakes out, we may delay for a day or two.
Tomorrow night I'm going to see the White House decorations, though, so that will be very Christmassy!
Consuela - Dec 22, 2023 1:33:02 pm PST #27566 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Today's my regular day off, so I have done laundry, vacuumed, ran 3 miles in the woods, and made 3 loaves of stollen. Now I need to take some ibuprofen and brave the shops: I need presents for my youngest niece and nephew, who we will see tomorrow afternoon for a holiday potluck.
msbelle - Dec 22, 2023 1:45:19 pm PST #27567 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Ohh the WH decorations look super fun this year.
NoiseDesign - Dec 22, 2023 2:07:50 pm PST #27568 of 30000
Our wings are not tired
I'm always at work. I'm still dealing with a holiday season where all of my clients are not paying on time when things were already tight.
My anxiety is off the charts right now.
brenda m - Dec 22, 2023 2:33:31 pm PST #27569 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Steph L. - Dec 22, 2023 2:35:38 pm PST #27570 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Tomorrow night I'm going to see the White House decorations, though, so that will be very Christmassy!
So fun!
I have wrapped all the presents (well, put them in gift bags and tried to tuck in tissue paper to make it look somewhat acceptable) and Tim is bringing home pizza. I'll bake the pumpkin bread later tonight, do a grocery pickup tomorrow, and we'll be all set.
dcp - Dec 22, 2023 2:52:45 pm PST #27571 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
all of my clients are not paying on time
Will you have leverage for better contract terms (up-front deposits, bonds, escrow, etc.) next year?