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24808. wabbit - 12/18/2008 7:57:04 PM I agree with arky, mags, you are the hostess with the mostess. It's always slow around the holidays and I think very few people who post here have nothing else to do, so don't worry that you don't get an immediate response. We're catch as catch can. It isn't you. 24809. Wombat - 12/18/2008 8:12:54 PM Arky:
Aha! Fairly obvious. With pollution controls and the end of coal-fired furnaces, the fog of London is a thing of the past. 24810. arkymalarky - 12/18/2008 11:11:39 PM Ok, it's like 19th century London! Tho the one week I was there in the month of June it was foggy, drizzly, cloudy and cold. Which describes here to a T. But tomorrow is a major warmup, which I think is the culprit keeping me home and miserable today. 24811. Ms. No - 12/19/2008 6:38:49 AM Arx,
Today was my last day since I only teach 1-3-5 and tomorrow is a 2-4-6 day. That bell couldn't get to 3:30 fast enough for me although my kids did some really nice work this week.
I had them do sketches of Fairy Tales but inspired by Greek theater elements. They made paper plate masks and had a chorus for each group in additio to the 3 main actors. Some of them were less than inspiring but a couple of the groups were really great!
My folks are coming this way for Christmas this year so we'll be in the Bay Area at my red-headed stepdad's parents' house. My bro will have all three of his chirrun for the holiday and I'm wavering between extreme excitement and extreme panic since I'm nowhere near ready for the holiday. I'll have to get everything done in the next three days! 24812. judithathome - 12/19/2008 5:28:53 PM I'm done for the holidays...both figuratively and literally. Keoni's cold is staying with me longer than it did him!
I do have one gift left to buy and hope it's still at the little shop where I saw it: a silver 2008 Christmas tree ornament that I will have the great granddaughter's name engraved on; and thus a Christmas tradition starts! 24813. judithathome - 12/19/2008 5:29:34 PM Well...as long as the shop stays in business. So, it may be "one of a kind"...ha! 24814. webfeet - 12/19/2008 6:09:36 PM What could be finer?
It's snowing! And I am making sablés and listening to Maria Callas. All that is missing is the prosecco and Guido, perhaps. but so what? I have knives.
My only New Year's wish is that I come back in my next life Italian. A robust appetite? Check. Love and passion? check. A book deal? Time will tell.
Best to all the moties in 2009 may the season be merry and may your cups overflow with something more than dairy queen eggnog. 24815. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 12/19/2008 6:25:09 PM Molte grazie e ogni buon auspicio anche a voi! 24816. magoseph - 12/19/2008 6:47:46 PM Storm is 'right on target' for 8-12 inches
By Linda Spice of the Journal Sentinel
Posted: Dec. 19, 2008 4:38 a.m.
That white Christmas thing is no longer a dream. Just look out your window this morning.
“The clobbering is in progress,” said Channel 4 meteorologist Craig Koplien, who said the snow storm is on target to drop 8 to 12 inches as promised today.
Butchdog doesn't like the snow so it dug a hole and crouched in it.
See you later--more chores to deal what with the 11 inches we got and finally could see after I posted in Religion.
24817. arkymalarky - 12/19/2008 6:52:32 PM Thanks webfeet!
Back at work and feeling human again and it's beautiful outside with a temp around 65F. Life is good. I have the break to finish shopping and grades, which is fine with me. 24818. anomie - 12/19/2008 7:29:11 PM Wow, Webfeet, maybe you could even afford the extra deluxe motor scooter with a rain guard and lots of chrome. 24819. magoseph - 12/20/2008 12:50:59 AM Thanks, Arky and Wabbit for the validation. I don't rightly deserve it, but I'll take it.
Good, Wabbit hasn't forgotten us--now I'm waiting for Macnas.
I'm having one senior moment after another--the big storm we went through was very worrisome while it lasted. I was so stressed today that at one point I forgot that Butchdog was attached to the back door on the outside. I had to pet him a long time before he forgave me and consented to go to his spot. I need sleep.
Hey, Anomie!
24820. arkymalarky - 12/20/2008 1:58:53 AM We're officially out and it's a beautiful evening--but since I was sick I have grades to do. But I have two weeks to deal with that. I told the kids who were asking to just call me after Christmas and I'd give them their grades over the phone. That will force me out of my tendency to procrastinate. I'm more ecited about this break than I have been in a long time, for some reason. 24821. anomie - 12/20/2008 2:52:33 AM Hey Mago! I think you do a great job too. It seems everything is slow these days. It was me and one cousin on the family site today. Holidays, I think. 24822. alistairConnor - 12/20/2008 8:24:03 AM Sitting about at my little sister's place, playing vinyl records. Some of them are mine! Visibly she's picked out the ones she liked out of my collection of a couple of hundred, vintage early eighties, which are in the back of the shed (which I sleep in), according to her elder daughter.
Currently on the turntable : The Smiths, "this charming man" EP. Actually that one can't be mine, I discovered them in the UK, post-emigration.
I shall now put on some ska, the Specials, or even better, the Beat.
Oh no! scratch that : it'll be Haircut One Hundred, "Favourite Shirts". We'll see what the adolescents think of that.
Meanwhile, out in the shed, my younger niece is having her twelfth birthday do. She's got her father's thousand-watt ex-disco sound system, hooked up to my laptop to play her iTunes selections. 24823. Ms. No - 12/20/2008 8:41:23 AM Ah, the 80's Brit Invasion. Love that stuff!
AC, you ever tune into Radio Nigel on the web? I used to get pissed off at a bunch of 80's stations because the good music in the 80's wasn't the American stuff. I couldn't give two shits about Madonna and NightRanger and even stations that would play a lot of the British bands still had too much of the stuff that I wasn't wild about.
RadioNigel gets Elvis Costello and The English Beat as well as the Specials into their mix. You get The Housemartins and Haricut 100 and Marc Almond's It's a Mug's Life with a minimum of Depeche Mode and maximized Clash and Fixx. (Not that I dislike Depeche Mode, but they weren't even in my top 10 favorites) 24824. alistairConnor - 12/20/2008 8:51:50 AM heh. Little Sister denies that my records are even at her place at all, and that we simply had overlapping tastes... we shall see. When the party's over!
Thank you for Radio Nigel -- I am making plans to listen, back in France.
(An attack of fluffy needle syndrome! Isn't vinyl wonderful?) 24825. magoseph - 12/20/2008 9:24:36 AM Good, Wabbit hasn't forgotten us--now I'm waiting for Macnas.
I meant to say: Good, webfeet hasn't forgotten us--now I'm waiting for Macnas.
I need sleep.
24826. iiibbb - 12/20/2008 4:07:32 PM She got the job.
Now all we have to do is sell the house... then get me a job.
I'm debating how to break the news to my own boss. My current feeling is to not tell him until we sell the house. I can't leave my job until we sell it because we can't afford to abodes on one salary.
It's a small town, so there's the off chance someone will find out. I'm not going to volunteer anything, and if anyone asks I will just say that we haven't decided how we're going to deal with the living apart situation yet. If they ask about the house being for sale I'll say that I will bump down to an apartment in order to afford the travel costs to see her.
...it's a "lie" because if we sell the house, I'm moving on, but I don't want to jeopardize my job while I still have a house to pay for.
The upshot is we think we may already have a potential buyer. Maybe my luck is changing (knock on wood). 24827. iiibbb - 12/20/2008 4:08:03 PM "two" abodes.
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