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sassy moose · Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 250 Location: Virginia

Go shopping. You'll feel better!

cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1777 Location: shippensburg

haha!

i may do that on friday after the week i've had. LOL...

i need new pants and some tops. and. stuff. and. more stuff. and i need to clean my closet first.

hahahaha!!!!

cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1777 Location: shippensburg

my lack of patience has grown exponentially today....

calgon! take me away!!!

.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 2723 Location: Chambersburg

Today H turns 27.

I have to bake a cake 'cause he wanted it made and not bought, darn him!
I have to buy a nice Porterhouse or T-bone. I guess it's off to the Butcher Shoppe, unless someone has a better suggestion.

I'm thinking of serving skillet apples as a side since he loves them so, but I can't think of any others (he likes skin-in mashed potatoes, but he has taken to preferring it with gravy and I am NOT making giblet gravy tonight! He likes corn and sauerkraut and for sides I think that's it? Confused

and I'd love to make Fruit Gratin, but with a birthday cake?...I don't think so.

Oh and I haven't bought him anything yet...I'm bad. If money weren't an option I'd buy him a Radio Shack that wasn't located in the mall. Laughing

Yes. He's a dork.
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sassy moose · Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 250 Location: Virginia

OK, pardon me for the irrelevance to, well, anything else, but I need to rant.

So we had a flood watch tonight, then a tornado watch, then a severe thunderstorm warning, then a tornado warning. I was at work when all this went down, on the third floor of an office building, so we hauled it down to the basement and watched local news coverage.

At some point, some of us ran and peeked out from the loading dock. It was a little windy with lots of lightning, but nothing too crazy...except that the concert at the BIG METAL PAVILION was still going on. They didn't evacuate the pavilion until after the warnings were cancelled and another one was pending, because more storms were on the way.

SO after the first one passed, me and a co-worker ran eight blocks to the parking garage...right when they had decided to evacuate anyone. So the parking garage was full of drunk people yelling and getting drunker waiting to get out of the garage, then by the time I got out, there was another tornado warning. Evil or Very Mad

I'm home. It's raining now. No big thing. I don't know if there was a tornado or not, but I do know that a bunch of roads are flooded. I feel like I just drove through a sea.

I can see that maybe they didn't want all of those people out on the roads earlier...but it seems as though there should have been a better plan than that. My office building is a block away, and we have a HUGE basement. They could have come in there. There is apparently a plan specifically FOR that.

Grumble. I'm hungry.

At least the power's on.

cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1777 Location: shippensburg

well, i had a bad day, but your's topped me sassy.

/hugs

go shopping! Very Happy

some wise poster recommended i do the same Wink

.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 2723 Location: Chambersburg

Ah, the glory of the internet! You can shop trough tornadoes and floods and probably Armageddon, but I have not yet tested that theory.
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cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1777 Location: shippensburg

maybe some day, chel, maybe some day ....

today i am taking out my anger and frustration on my house and am going to repaint the steps that were the catalyst for the anger. well, one of the catalysts. i had a few. then i'ma kill alliance in the battlegrounds cuz its my day off.

thank GOODNESS....

.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 2723 Location: Chambersburg

I wish I could paint my floors...if I even thought about slapping some paint on our old wood floors, doors, baseboards or sills, my normally 'mostly' patient H would have my head. Sad

He won't let me paint a giant sunflower on the ceiling either.

I like big bright murals.

Peace, Love and hair grease, ya'll
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Pink Elephant in the Room · Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 103 Location: in the corner

Oh, just paint it anyway. H will look at it, love it, and then who knows what will happen! It's a great stress releaser.

.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 2723 Location: Chambersburg

HI Pink Elephant in the Room!!! Very Happy

WELCOME!!

Glad you're here!
Please stick around, make yourself comfortable!

And though I like your style (in regards to the stairs) H is stubborn and stylistically conservative...it took months before I could get him to wear a shirt that wasn't grey-blue, black or grey and more months before I could get him to wear a striped shirt. I'm quite sure if he were to see paint on the floor, his head would explode.

Plus he doesn't trust me much lately. We have a bathroom we remodeled that I want to do in a Victorian theme. I whined and pushed and pulled and convinced him that shades of purple would be perfect. He finally gave in, I bought the paint, the towels, the rugs and right before painting, I decided maybe I should rethink this...
The bathroom is till primer and multiple cans full of paint are sitting unused!
Razz

I really can't be trusted.

But welcome to you anyway!!
Very Happy

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Coppy · Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 2251 Location: Chambersburg

.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 2723 Location: Chambersburg

Either

I don't even want to think about getting him to wear anything other than jeans and t-shirts. It was a huge victory just to get him to wear a doggone polo!

He has a job interview on Tuesday can't decide if he should go for a suit or a bit less (it isn't a suit job, he will NEVER have a suit job.)
After talking to him, I realized that he actually wants to go out and buy some stuff...it is going to be a loooonnnggg day.
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Coppy · Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 2251 Location: Chambersburg

Here is some advice from a yuppie: wear a suit to ANY interview. If the job isn't in an office, maybe there's some leeway, but if he's not going to be a plumber or truck driver, he should wear a suit. It doesn't matter whether or not it's a "suit job" (I'm not sure if they even really exist out here), if it's a professional job, suit is a must.

And if he doesn't have one... he should anyway.

It's also a great opportunity to patronize a local business; Lyon's & Co. downtown is a great place for men's formal-wear. Ask for Dennis. Wink

.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 2723 Location: Chambersburg

Ha!
Now I have back up I can cite! I'm not going to tell him you're a yuppie though, he thinks I'm trying to turn him into one...

He had a few suits and pants and gorgeous dress shirts I bought him when we first met, but married life hasn't been good for his figure and leaving the Army was even worse! (For the record, I think he looks fine. I just bulked him up a bit, except without the muscle part!)
So, now he has one that fits it needs to be taken in for cleaning and the cuffs hemmed and his interview is Monday or Tuesday. Shocked

He's such teh pain.
And the thing is, the benefits are better and it's in Hagerstown instead of Frederick, but the pay is 3-6K less! I don't think that's the equivalent of what we save in gas, but I've never had a head for numbers...

He put in for some position at Letterkenney, too, but we were told since he isn't a FreeMason and we don't know anyone in the area that he didn't have a snowball's chance in hell, no matter what experience he had. >shrug< Their loss. My H. is the shizzit when it comes to electronics, troubleshooting, schematics, reverse engineering and all that other mumbo jumbo...he sits down, his forehead gets all wrinkly and next thing you know he's MacGuyver-ed something out of tinfoil, bits of wire and a Rubik's cube.

Ugh. I don't know, I'm a worrier and we already have so much going on...I don't know why he would want to risk it, when the only thing he doesn't like is the commute and his current management loves him to death and he earns every bonus he's eligible for...

sorry, this was about suits and I ranted.

I like ya'll Smile

Coppy, dearest, I don't suppose you know Lyons and Co hours? I figure I will push him through the door when they open, say,"He's all yours" and pick him up sometime in the afternoon.
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