Happy Sunday Paper Day!

[Javaman]

If you say it out loud like you're reenacting a Japanese commercial, it's even more fun:

Happy Sunday Paper Day!

We've had this tradition for years and years. I get up on Sunday morning and lounge until I hear the faint, "Helloooo...." from the bedroom. Then I bring in the fat Sunday paper and her coffee. I pour myself a fresh mug and join her. The cats slowly come in until all four are on the bed with us (actually, usually three and the weird old lady 'Sad Sack' in the closet). Then we spread the paper out and lounge, read, and drink our java with our crazy bedtime hair and jim-jams. More enjoyable than it sounds, I assure you.

I double-dog dare you to try it out.

[viscousmemories]

I do something similar, except imagine me alone and replace "Sunday paper" with "Internet pornography".

[pescifish]

More enjoyable than it sounds, I assure you.I dunno 'bout anyone else, but that lovely snapshot of your morning is just about my idea of 'perfect'. The real pleasures of life.

:huggle: to Ms. Sad Sack in the closet. :bagcat:

[inland wave]

I second that pescifish...enjoy Javaman!

[Clutch Munny]

I do something similar, except imagine me alone and replace "Sunday paper" with "Internet pornography".

:lol:

[godfry n. glad]

Sounds delightful. The coffee is already made, but I have to go out and get the Sunday paper, gut and bone it for the funday sunnies, and take a cup of joe and the funday sunnies to the throne room for meditation. After that, we coalesce about the kitchen table for brekkies and then retire to the bed with the rest of the paper and lounge about...ahem.

[Dingfod]

:yeahthat:

[Javaman]

It is again HSPD! I think it'll remain quiet in the front room for another hour or so. My wife is very good at using Sunday morning for as much sleep as possible. I'm on my second cup of coffee and am reading the stories on digg. (http://www.digg.com/) I've even logged on this time so I can digg a couple of stories (I don't normally do that). My only goal this morning, internet-wise, is to get that big :M: on this, my one-year anniversary at :ff: .

I hope everybody else has a great day!

[Shelli]

No Sunday paper here, but relaxing just the same while I :tea: and browse the :ff: and internet. :user:

Hope you have a good day also, Javaman. :coffeepaper:

[Javaman]

No Sunday paper here, but relaxing just the same while I :tea: and browse the :ff: and internet. :user:

Hope you have a good day also, Javaman. :coffeepaper:I must be pretty oblivious if I never noticed that smiley before. All it needs is to be surrounded by cats and it would be perfect. Lemee try to put something together...

[Javaman]

No Sunday paper here, but relaxing just the same while I :tea: and browse the :ff: and internet. :user:

Hope you have a good day also, Javaman. :coffeepaper:I must be pretty oblivious if I never noticed that smiley before. All it needs is to be surrounded by cats and it would be perfect. Lemee try to put something together...See, I need to put :coffeepaper: with another one and then use these guys somehow:

:rollover: :bastet: :hellokit: :rolleye2: :kitty: :kitten: :cat:

[Shelli]

Ooh.. you need to add musics too. :notes: I forgot about that. :yup:

[Javaman]

Well, our pond is right outside the bedroom window so we just listen to the waterfall. Lately, though, we've had the TV on. I made the mistake right before my last trip of moving our old one into the bedroom. I don't like having television in the bedroom but she wanted it for while I was out of the country... which reminds me (off to 'Member News')...

[Shelli]

eww to :tv: noise :nuhuh:

[Javaman]

I think the only appropriate TV for Sunday morning is 'CBS Sunday Morning' Growing up, we used to always have it on (with Charles Kuralt?). I loved the trumpet piece at the beginning and, although I'm a fan of Wynton, his new take on it just doesn't feel right when I hear it. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing bad about it. It just doesn't make my brain happy.

[Shelli]

Aha. I just find tv noise irritating and distracting as a norm.:damnemo:

COULD YOU TURN THAT DOWN PLEASE?!
:tiggermonkey:

[Javaman]

Well, someone has decided to start weed-eating already this morning so I'm pretty sure I'll need to get the wife's coffee started. Man, I'm not sure I'm going to get to 1000 posts today. :(

[Shelli]

You're almost there. Why don't you say hi on the Countdown thread? :ffnod:

[Javaman]

There's math involved and I always get confused. I deal with numbers all day long and I still screw up the countdown.

[Javaman]

Maybe I'll head over to that thread, though... Maybe somebody'll help me.

[Shelli]

:hyper:

[quiet bear]

I spend a buck fifty on the crossword puzzle every Sunday. And if that's done early, I'll do the sudoku and the crosscryptic, or whatever it's called.

Thise are done throughout the day, though. I'll go through the sports page, read the majority of the baseball page.

The rest I flip through and read what catches my eye. For the most part, if you're keeping track of a particular story, you know what's going on just by reading the headlines.

The sale ads I might go through once in a while, or if I'm thinking about something in particular.

I read Dear Abby sometimes. In the funnies, I'm partial to For Better or Worse and Zits.

[ChuckF]

I think the only appropriate TV for Sunday morning is 'CBS Sunday Morning' Growing up, we used to always have it on (with Charles Kuralt?). I loved the trumpet piece at the beginning and, although I'm a fan of Wynton, his new take on it just doesn't feel right when I hear it. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing bad about it. It just doesn't make my brain happy.
I know exactly what you mean. When I was a kid, every single Sunday morning was devoted to Charles Kuralt. I always like the various suns. I was disappointed when Kuralt left, but Charles Osgood is just fine too.

[Watser?]

We don't have any Sunday papers here :(

It's kinda weird, we are pretty much a post-Christian country, at least more than most and certainly more than the US, but shops are still closed on Sundays and no papers appear.
The Saturday papers will keep you busy for a week though.

[Javaman]

Well, the cool thing today is that it is a holiday and sometimes the newspaper company blesses us with a free paper! Then we get to have Happy Monday Paper Day! :w00t: Except, it's nearly 8:00 A.M. and I don't see the paper in the driveway. :damn:

I'll keep my fingers crossed.

[Shelli]

Oh noes! No paper?!
:cohnoes:

[Javaman]

The worst thing about the newspaper on Sunday Morning is that, by the time I actually open it, I've been reading news on the internet for upwards of three hours. A good portion of it is redundant. I think I only really look forward to "Non Sequitur." (http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/)

[Javaman]

Oh noes! No paper?!
:cohnoes:Maybe they're just late, maybe. Do you think that's it??? C'mon, you can tell me. It'll be OK, won't it? Right? RIGHT?!?!?!

[Shelli]

"Non Sequitur" is a great comic, Javaman. I have it put on the front page of my MSN every day. :thumbup:

[Shelli]

Oh noes! No paper?!
:cohnoes:Maybe they're just late, maybe. Do you think that's it??? C'mon, you can tell me. It'll be OK, won't it? Right? RIGHT?!?!?!:giggle:

Shhh.. it'll be okay, Javaman
:patpat:

[Javaman]

I believe you... :sniffles:

[Sock Puppet]

Does anybody else compulsively read all of the funnies even though s/he thinks only a couple of them are worth reading? It must be some childhood-holdover thing. I absolutely HATE some of those alleged "funnies," but I still read 'em all like a dope. :dopey:

[Shelli]

I used to, but I don't get the paper anymore, so I don't.

:giggle:

[Javaman]

Just to let y'all know, we did get a Monday (holiday) paper. It was in the ditch and I didn't find it until late afternoon when I took the garbage to the street. :shakefist:

[Shelli]

That's just wrong. :ffno:

[Javaman]

That's just wrong. :ffno:To be fair, I can't get overly upset as it is the Omaha World-Herald (http://www.omaha.com/) which has as its top story right now, "Omaha's manhole covers get new look" (http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=2392501) (a hotbed of news, we are not).

[Shelli]

:giggle:

[Crumb]

:chuckle:

Oh to be in that newsroom ...

We're going with the manhole covers. We've got great art!
:boss:

All I know about the newspaper biz I learned from The Paper and Superman.

[Shelli]

:tea: & :news:

[viscousmemories]

Does anybody else compulsively read all of the funnies even though s/he thinks only a couple of them are worth reading? It must be some childhood-holdover thing. I absolutely HATE some of those alleged "funnies," but I still read 'em all like a dope. :dopey:
Like Shelli; I used to - but don't get a paper anymore!

[livius drusus]

Berkeley Breathed has a Sunday cartoon in Salon now! :hyper:

[quiet bear]

I just rode to town and got the Sunday paper. Hair sticking up, coffee breath, the works.

I don't care. It's raining, and it's going to rain all day. I think I will be a bum today. Heck, I already slept until almost ten.

[inland wave]

My days of being a bum are far and few between. I love to sleep in when I get the chance and just chill. Unfortunately it will be a while before I can do that again. I am very jealous qb!

[Shelli]

I did enough relaxing yesterday. I slept in a bit this morning but I've been on the the go ever since I got up. :cheerful:

[Javaman]

Yay Shelli! You necromanced my thread. :live: We had a good one today with dippy eggs for breakfast. I cut the toast into soldiers just like my wife taught me. We have an extensive collection of egg cups. Oh, and for Liv, they were the blue eggs again!

[Shelli]

:pancakeglomp: for me this morning. :yum:

It's about time for me to collect myself, get a :shower: and go :cart: .

[Javaman]

We weren't going to go anywhere but we ended up :shopping: anyway. It's very Christmas-y and we are nice and warm.

[Shelli]

It was crazy hectic shopping today with so many people out and in a :rush:.

I'm glad to be :house:. :chillpill:

[Shelli]

Good Sunday, :ff:. :tea:

[Kyuss Apollo]

Happy Sunday day Shell!

I'm sleepy. :yawn: Maybe I'll take a nap this morning...:sleepin:

[Javaman]

I have to grind some beans here in a minute and brave the outdoors in my jim-jams to get the paper (it's 18 degrees F right now). Then HSPD can begin in earnest!

[Shelli]

HSPD? :?

[SharonDee]

:confide:
Psst! Shelli! Check the title of the thread.

[Shelli]

:duh: :thankee:

I haven't been altogether with it these past couple days. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. :unnod:

[SharonDee]

And a good excuse it is. :pat:

:squeezle:

[Shelli]

:vibes:

[Shake]

The o.p. sounds good, with two exceptions:

1. coffee
2. cats

Remove those, and things are good.

[Shelli]

Happy Sunday! :coffeepaper:

[Ensign Steve]

:gmorning:

[Shelli]

Happy Sunday! :bbed:

[Javaman]

It's a good (but cold) HSPD. I haven't posted for a while but I'm OK. I've been out of town lately and I'll try to get back here more often.

[Crumb]

Hi Javaman! :hai: We don't have a SPD at my place. :shrug:

[Shelli]

Manic Sunday for me today. :rush:

[Crumb]

:huggle:

[Shelli]

:squeezle:

[Javaman]

Hi Javaman! :hai: We don't have a SPD at my place. :shrug:Aww... Really, the paper is just an excuse to be lazy in bed on a Sunday morning. Since I read most of the news on-line, not a whole lot in the paper is new but I enjoy it anyway. For some reason, all three cats jump up on the bed with us and it is a true loungefest. The only thing that spoils it is the coffee refill time but that takes only moments.

Perhaps next week I'll try the Super Happy Sunday Paper Day which involves unfolding the sleeper couch in the living room and getting a good fire going. I'll have to get busy and split some more firewood, though.

[Crumb]

I don't need an excuse to be lazy on Sundays. :)

[Ensign Steve]

:gmorning:

[Javaman]

And today is Happy Super Sunday Paper Day! Snacks, snacks, snacks!

On a TMI note, I made sure to have plenty of fiber this morning cause the afternoon is sure to be unpleasant on my GI tract.

[Ensign Steve]

TMI indeed!

I'm not watching the game today, except for however much of the end I have to watch to make sure I don't miss the House "event" that comes on after. I will be switching between the Law and Order marathon and the Puppy Bowl. Also I will be getting my house ready for the movers.

That is after I finish my gallon of coffee, in bed, in my PJs, while browsing the forums. Because it is Happy Lazy Coffee Sunday Day!

[Shelli]

Today was a typically busy Sunday for me. And I'm not in a very good mood today. At all. For why? I have no idea. :shrug:

[Shelli]

Happy go, go Sunday! :cart: :laundry: :spend: :polish:

[Ensign Steve]

We're going to the farmers market today. :vegcook:

[godfry n. glad]

You're going to pick up a farmer or two?

[Shelli]

:giggle: :farmer:

Provided you've gone, what'd you get, Ensign?

[godfry n. glad]

Probably one that just fell off the turnip truck. :giggle:

[Shelli]

:chuckle:

:pickuptruck::turnip:

[Shelli]

Happeh Sunday!

I got up sooper early (5 am) on a Sunday so that I could get the :cart: done and then go a-VROOM'n. :motorbike:

I quit caffeine, why again? Someone remind me quick. :yawn:

[Pinecone]

Um...sip...sip...because when our entire economy collapses, which will probably be next month, you will be one of the few of us without a headache since we won't be able to import coffee beans into the US with our valueless dollars.

[Shelli]

Oh. Yeah. I feel so much better now. :unstare:

[Pinecone]

Glad I could brighten your coffeeless early mornings!! :didi:

[Shelli]

:ungiggle:

Speaking of, I'm going for my semi annual checkup this morning and I get to tell my doctor that I've been caffeine free for 6 months now. :w00t:

Go me! :tiggermonkey: