Happy Caturday!

[Shelli]

... to all and to all a happy Saturday, however you spend/spent it. :nova:

My Saturdays are usually a little more low key than today was, but I got a lot done which means less to do tomorrow. :nod:

I was up at 5:45 am this morning :tired:, put my banking together :writing:, took three of my :catwalk:s to their yearly vet apt. for 8:00 am, went to the post office :mail2:, then to the drug store :meds:, then to the bank :money:, then to Wal Mart & Stop & Shop :cart:, then home where I did laundry :rinse:, opened my week's worth of mail :gotmail:, and paid my bills :user:. The most awesome part was that I was able to pay off two credit cards today! :w00t:

I do believe I'll sleep well tonight. :=)

[inland wave]

That is awesome Shelli. I hope you have a wonderful week ahead of you as well. I wish my weekend was a fruitful as yours, but alas, just chaos which seems to be the norm around here these days.

[Shelli]

Back from the hair dresser :haircut: and the bank :cash:, eatin' mah :fryegg:, and contemplating what to do next. :girlthink:

I think I'll take a ride first :motor: and then do the :cart:. :nod:

I hope everyone's having a decent day today. :glomps:

[Shelli]

With a three day weekend, there will be no :cart: for me today. :nope: I'll go Monday instead so that I can get some VROOMIN' in on this be-a-U-tiful :sun:ny, low humidity summer day. :cycleluv:

... and a happy Saturday it shall be. :beaugest:

:motorbike:

[But]

Shelli, you seem to be :hyper: 120% of the time. What is your secret ingredient?

[Stormlight]

She secretly ingests smilies. At least that's my theory. :larrybounce:

[Shelli]

:giggle: :yeahthat: :yum:

Also, because I'm a cross between a :monkey: and a :tigger: = :tiggermonkey:

I dunno actually. I've always been :hyper: since :curlbaby:.

The down side is that a bad mood for me can be just as intense as a good mood. :yikes: but hey, that's what they make prozac for. :=D

[Shelli]

Happeh Saturday! :singrain:

Rainy Saturday so far for me, but meh, don't care, I'll be indoors most of the day anyway. :cart: :vacuum: :polish: :rinse:

[Watser?]

Happy Saturday. It's sunny here for once :sun:
Autumn will resume on Monday it seems :rain: :leafpile:

[inland wave]

Yeah, suppose to be studing, but will be cleaning house instead. The in-laws are coming over this afternoon and then I get my grandson late afternoon. So this day is shot to hell.....On a more positive note, it does feel like fall outside and everyone, including the horses, seems to be really happy about the weather change....

[Shelli]

:hug:

[Ensign Steve]

Happeh Saturday! :singrain:

Rainy Saturday so far for me, but meh, don't care, I'll be indoors most of the day anyway. :cart: :vacuum: :polish: :rinse:

ditto for me on all of the above.

[Shelli]

:cart: all done & put away, three :kitty: litter boxes changed, :laundry: going, :gotmail: opened, yard :shit: scooped, :trash: taken out, and lastly, a change of clothes after I spilled :tea: all over myself :duh:.

Now I'm about to pay off a credit card! :w00t:

[inland wave]

Pay off a credit card?? Wow, I can just dream of doing such a thing.....As for the rest of it I still need to :dusting:,:student:,:vacuum:and either I or someone in this household needs to :paintwall:that middle bedroom this week. As far as I know I am not traveling for a few days, but got a lot of stuff to do for the new class so, I guess it will be me...to figure out a time line to get the bedroom painted......

[Shelli]

OMG! I'm going to be able to pay off another credit card today!!1! :8D

It's just so cool because not that long ago we had dug ourselves a very dark and stressful hole :dighole: and didn't know how we were going to climb out of it, but little by little, it's happening. :yup:

:wallclimber:

Happy Saturday all! :nova:

[Clutch Munny]

Successful Saturday, and it's not even noon! First I mailed a CD to my mother without the usual hassles that snail mailing seems to involve. Good start. Then went over to the local surplus store.

Last year I saw some flashing rear bike lights there for cheap, and only bought one for myself. Since then I've been kicking myself, because I often see students biking from the university at night with no lights on them or their bikes. I'd like to have some spares to carry around for such cases, but not at $15 a pop.

The surplus store didn't have any in their bike section. Crap. But I wandered around anyhow, looking at rusty WWII helmets and such, until I wandered through their pet section. And lo! Pet lights! Flashing red lights on keychains, suitable for hanging from a pet's collar. For only 99 cents.

Okay, so they're shaped like little bones. BFD! I bought 15, and now look forward to becoming the... Johnny Appleseed? Robin Hood? Smokey the Bear? ...of nighttime cycling safety.

To top it off, my middle daughter came along on the out-trip and we had a great time together. I put a Beatles CD in when we left the house, and after a minute she asked, "Could we listen to rock and roll instead? Like, Matchbox 20?"

Yeesh. :vomit:

Okay, it was on "Yesterday". Fair enough. But I kicked it ahead to "Paperback Writer" and "Daytripper" -- which she loved. By the return trip she made me play "All You Need is Love" three times.

[Crumb]

Good to hear she came around, Clutch. I had to explain to my neph that the Beatles and Buddy Holly were rock 'n' roll. :giggles:

Great work on paying off the debt Shelli!

[Shelli]

Cool find on the lights, Clutch and good to hear that the two of you could agree on some tunes. :thumbup:

[vremya]

I washed a pile of dishes, wiped down the counters, managed to feed my army of kittens without any bloodshed, and walked to the store and back. Nap time! :hammock:

'sides, it's a dreary day, great for sleeping.

[Shelli]

I was gonna take a :hammock: but instead I'm helping repair a leak before I can do any more :laundry: .

[Shelli]

:w00t: The easier of the two possible reasons why what was leaking was leaking ended up being the correct reason, it's been repaired, and the wash is going! :rinse:

[vremya]

Now that I'm up, :yawn: I have to do some of that myself. We're out of clean towels! :nooo:

[Adora]

Dude, it's Sunday, not Caturday. But that's cool.

I saw Surf's Up yesterday. Chicken Joe is my hero.

[Shelli]

We're out of clean towels! :nooo::chuckle: So were we which is what convinced him to not put off till tomorrow what he could do today. :wink:

[Ensign Steve]

It's Sunday now, but I had a productive Saturday, too.

I did my run outdoors, totally on impulse. I was walking to the fitness center to get back on the treadmill, and I thought it was so gosh darn pleasant out, there was no reason to trap myself indoors. It made my run a lot more hilly than I'm used to, but I enjoyed it a lot. I also ran into my buddy from work, who is moving in to my building. Small world!

Then I went to the Krogers and bought lots of healthy foods. :hungry:

[Shelli]

It's only 30:degrees: F outside right now and in an hour, it'll be even colder with the windchill when I go a'VROOOM'in. :motor:

Am I insane?! Don't answer that. :narrow:

[Shelli]

I BOUGHT A NEW BIKE TODAY!!1! (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showpost.php?p=428143&postcount=247) :caps:

[Shelli]

Hrm.. today wasn't very happy. :nuhuh:

Woke up from a crappy, emotional, all too vivid dream with the migraine that I've almost gotten rid of for two days now. Bleh. :headache: When I got back from the bank and went to sit down in front of my puter with my bowl of cereal, I promptly spilled it all over my chair, the floor, and one dog. Good grief. :facepalm: And then found out that I'm majorly PMS'ing the hard way which is usually the only way, a nice big fat emotional tornado. :tornado: Oh yeah, that made my head feel soooo much better. :doh:

Hoping for a better tomorrow. :smashdr:

[biochemgirl]

:cheerhug:

Shelli, do you want to snuggle my llama? It always makes me feel better. :llamaglomp:

[Shelli]

:llamaglomp: ... yeah, I do feel better now. :^^ :thankee:

[Shelli]

I just went upstairs to fold laundry and when I was done, one of my :cat:s, Flint, jumped in the empty laundry basket like he sometimes does and meowed to me for a laundry basket ride. So, off we went on a magic laundry basket ride :giggle: from room to room while he looked over the edge, purring. :^^

[livius drusus]

:aww: So cute!

[Crumb]

Shelli: :squeezle:

Flint: :squee:

[Shelli]

:thankee: Crumb and liv. Flint says thanks too...

MEOW!

[Watser?]

That's so sweet :aww:

I had a cat that would love to take rides on my shoulder, purring all the way

[Crumb]

Flints a cutey!

[Shelli]

I've been up since 7:00 this morning which isn't too bad. Got the zoo fed and fresh watered, bed made :bbed:, :laundry: going, banking done :money: (which included having to have my debit card re-pinned, dunno wtf happened there :?), hair apt. :haircut:, pooper scoopin' the back yard :shit:, and last, but definitely not least, I cooked myself breakfast :fryegg: which consisted of two :england: muffins slathered in soy butter, 4 :friedegg:'s and soy :milk:. Apparently, I was starving by the time I finally ate. :orly:

Now, I'm contemplating :recline: .

:cheerful:

[Watser?]

I went to the post office :sendmail: to send some mail out and found a can of yummy :peanut: soup at the supermarket next to it.

[Shelli]

Monkey see, monkey slurp. :soup::monkey:

:giggle: :kiss:

[biochemgirl]

I think you deserve a rest Shelli, you have been most productive!

I got up at 5 this morning, for some reason I just can not sleep in, I cleaned the fridge and have scrubbed the kitchen from top to bottom :mopping: I also made hubby breakfast and packed his lunch since he will be headed off to work soon. I'm looking up some recipes to do some :cook: with all the canned pumpkin I got yesterday and I am trying to get the rest of the house cleaned today :vacuum:. If I have time I will keep working on my Christmas quilting projects.

I think I should make more :coffeemug:


Peanut soup??? I've never heard of such a thing!

[Shelli]

Yeah, I would say you're going to need more coffee, BCG. :coffeeplz:

:^^ @ x-mas quilt. :watchsnow:

[Watser?]

It is a recipe from Suriname :suriname: a former Dutch colony. When they became independent in the 1970s about half the population (500.000 people) decided to come here, so they have influenced the culture a lot.

The soup has chicken, hot peppers and bean sprouts in it too.

Oh, it says on the label it is Javanese :indonesia: Well, that's a former colony too and there are a lot of Javanese in Suriname too, so they probably introduced it there.

[Crumb]

Snow Laie?

It will be a happy Saturday when my ass gets home.

[Shelli]

Why, Crumb, did you leave your :butt: somewhere? :search: Did it miss curfew? :time: Or worse.. did it leave you for someone else? :gasp:

That's why I sit on mine most of the time; that way it can't leave me. :smugnod:

[Crumb]

It's firmly attached.

[Shelli]

Oh no! :ohno: It's worse than I thought then! Not only did your :butt: leave you but it's already attached to someone else?! OMG, Crumb! I'm so sorry! :comfort:

[biochemgirl]

It is a recipe from Suriname :suriname: a former Dutch colony. When they became independent in the 1970s about half the population (500.000 people) decided to come here, so they have influenced the culture a lot.

The soup has chicken, hot peppers and bean sprouts in it too.

Oh, it says on the label it is Javanese :indonesia: Well, that's a former colony too and there are a lot of Javanese in Suriname too, so they probably introduced it there.


Hmmm, that sounds quite good actually!

[Watser?]

It is a recipe from Suriname :suriname: a former Dutch colony. When they became independent in the 1970s about half the population (500.000 people) decided to come here, so they have influenced the culture a lot.

The soup has chicken, hot peppers and bean sprouts in it too.

Oh, it says on the label it is Javanese :indonesia: Well, that's a former colony too and there are a lot of Javanese in Suriname too, so they probably introduced it there.


Hmmm, that sounds quite good actually!

I translated this recipe for you:

# 6 chicken leg pieces
# 6 table spoons chunky peanut butter (this could be tricky, Dutch and Surinamese peanut butter is salty rather than sweet as I understand American is)
# 1 à 2 tea spoons sambal oelek (could also be tricky, is an Indonesian pepper paste)
# 250 gram bacon bits (you can leave this out)
# 250 gram bean sprouts
# 2 tea spoons allspice
# 1 tablet of chicken bouillon cube
# 1 large onion, diced
# 1,5 liter water

Boil the chicken pieces in a large pan with 1/2 a liter of water, the chicken bouillon cube and the onion. Leave it to simmer for an hour until the meat falls from the bones. Take the chicken out, let it cool and cube the meat. Take a table spoon of the soup and stir the peanut butter and sambal thorugh it in a bowl and add it. Put the chicken meat and the bacon in the cooking pot. Taste the soup, if it's too hot add peanut butter, not hot enough add sambal. Add bean sprouts and allspice and simmer for 10 minutes.

[biochemgirl]

:hyper: I can't wait to make it!

[vremya]

:thankee: Crumb and liv. Flint says thanks too...


Flint looks just like my kitty Marv!
http://www.davidbowie.com/users/apalumbo/marv.gif

His eyes are actually green, BTW. And he only looks possessed. He's really sweet.

[Shelli]

Oh, wow, they do look a lot alike, vremya! :^^ :purr:

[JoeP]

Shelli - and bcg - you seem to have had very busy days. You've even used far more smilies than I normally manage. Happy Saturday evenings now!

And cute kitty!

[JoeP]

Shelli, do you want to snuggle my llama? It always makes me feel better. :llamaglomp:

I want to watch.
:peru:

Oh, you didn't mean that?

[biochemgirl]

:giggle:

It's between Shelli, my llama and me! We do not kiss and tell!

[biochemgirl]

I finished cleaning the house and I am exhausted! I even managed to give the :doggies: a bath. Not enough time for the baking or sewing I wanted to do but I will have all of tommorrow free.

Now I suppose I should fix something for supper.

[JoeP]

:giggle:

It's between Shelli, my llama and me! We do not kiss and tell!

Oh, quite. No talking necessary.

[Crumb]

Ah a good nap on a Saturday afternoon is paradise. :hammock:

[Shelli]

:giggle: @ JoeP & BCG. :shutmou:

Flint says :thankee:, JoeP. :meow:

I took a long :hammock: myself today, Crumb. :^^

When I got up I went into whirlwind mode :twister: again and got lots done. :cheerful:

[Uthgar the Brazen]

Divvying up Saturday time between World of Warcraft and Assassin's Creed. AC is sooooo cool. Listening to Parliamant during and in between. :rockon:

[Ensign Steve]

You people are very clean. Would you like to come over and clean my house, too?

[Shelli]

Well, the laundry gets done, I keep up on animal waste management (heh, there's a new title for ya :chuckle:), there's never dirty dishes piled up, my zoo is well taken care of, and I get the bills get paid and on time, but there's stuff I never seem to get to like dusting, per instance. If I collected all the dust in my house, I could probably make it into the Guiness World Book of Records for the largest dust bunny ever constructed. :bunnythrust:

[JoeP]

I could probably make it into the Guiness World Book of Records for the largest dust bunny ever constructed. :bunnythrust:

dust bunny :!=: thrust bunny

Do we need a new smilie? Or are you assuming that (maybe with a 50,000V shock) the monster dust bunny will come to life (and start humping everything in sight)?

[JoeP]

You people are very clean. Would you like to come over and clean my house, too?

:popcorn: :peru:
:mopping: :llamaglomp: :polish: :shutmou:

[biochemgirl]

You people are very clean. Would you like to come over and clean my house, too?

:popcorn: :peru:
:mopping: :llamaglomp: :polish: :shutmou:

:lol:

Sure ES! What time shall I show up with the :llama: :llama: :llama:

[Shelli]

:lol: @ JoeP :totoro:

[Ensign Steve]

I don't get it
:dunce:

[JoeP]

I don't get it
:dunce:

What don't you get, ES?

:popcorn: :peru:
:mopping: :llamaglomp: :polish: :shutmou:
or
:lol: @ JoeP :totoro:
?

[Ensign Steve]

Yes. :unnod:

[JoeP]

OK, let's see if this helps.

...
:popcorn: I would like to pretend I am at the movies while at your house watching :peru: (and peruing at) :mopping: Shelli mopping the floor :llamaglomp: while rubbing biochemgirl's llama :polish: and bcg polishing things :shutmou: no talking required

...
:lol: Shelli laughs out loud @ at JoeP me :totoro: while being abducted by a giant hamster

[Shelli]

That's a :hamster:? I always thought it was a :bunny:. :wha:

[JoeP]

Technically I don't think it's either. Abduction by giant rabbits is a thoroughly overused theme, so it had to be "hamster".

[Shelli]

:giggle:

[Ensign Steve]

Clear as mud. :1thumbup:

[Shelli]

I don't have a million things to do. Should be a good thing, right?

I'm bored. :blank:

[Shelli]

I hope everyone's Saturday is going or, as the case may be, went well. :=)

[Shelli]

Happy Saturday all! :allglomp:

After the usual bank run today, I have :apresent:'s to wrap for tonight's x-mas party that my herd is having :motor: along with shrimps to defrost and shrimp cocktail to make for the party. There is going to be a TON of food there tonight. :gnoshing:

Here's hoping everyone has a good day today. :moustache:

[vremya]

Mmmm...shrimp cocktail! :yum:

I have to do some :polish: :mopping: since the place is a mess (again).

I think I might make some :cookie::cookie::cookie::cookie::cookie: later too.

[Dingfod]

I'm working. Again.

[Ensign Steve]

G'morning! :hello:

I slept way way in, and then first thing in the morning afternoon I had a computer hardware problem to deal with. But I fixed it up and now I'm ready for :friedegg::bacon::croissant:, :wash:, and :cart: !

[Shelli]

I'm off to my x-mas party! :xmas:

[inland wave]

Have been at the office moving from the 25th floor to the 26th floor. My first official day is Wednesday. Spent all day friday in meeting associated with my new job. Gawd, I hope I don't regret this decision. Cold out side babee!!

[Ensign Steve]

:wriggle: I went to the Krogers and I decided to walk so I wouldn't have to deal with traffic and parking (I only had to buy a couple ingredients, not a whole grocery trip). So I walked through the new portion of the mall that just opened and it is all new and pretty and festive. Whee!

:shopping:

[Deadlokd]

It's Sunday.:glare:

[Ensign Steve]

Yeah right. Next thing you're going to try to convince us it's summertime!

[Deadlokd]

Yeah, who'd believe it?

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w190/Deadlokd/Summerdays.jpg

[Ensign Steve]

:aww:

[Shelli]

You has summer?! Gimme!
:mememe:

[Ensign Steve]

How was the party, Shelli?

:party:

[Shelli]

The x-mas party was pretty good. Lotsa yummy foods and then we all exchanged gifts. We each brought a gift with a $20 cap on it and they were all put in a pile. Then we each picked a piece of paper with a number on it from a hat with #1 going first to pick and open a gift. #2 then picked and opened a gift and if he/she didn't like his/hers, he/she could take #1's gift, giving #1 his/her gift. #3 then picked a gift and if he didn't like the gift, he could take either #1 or #2's gift, giving that person his. And so it went down the line with each higher number picking a gift next and then having the choice of gifts of all those that came before his to take and leave his in the place of. Finally, when all the presents were opened, #1 then had the choice of ALL the gifts opened and giving his to that person in trade.

My husband opened an electric chocolate melter and melting chocolate and I opened a dancing motorcycle Santa singing "Born To Be Wilde" :santathrust:. :giggle: Neither one of us traded ours and no one took ours in trade. :phew:

Every year, I buy him a singing, dancing something for x-mas, so really, the :apresent: I opened ended up being his and the :apresent: he opened is ALL MINE! :chocohol:

I can has strawberries dipped in chocolate on Skype night now!
:tiggermonkey:

Also, now that I've decaffeinated which means no more chocolate, caramel chai tea for me because I can't find it in decaf, I can experiment with my new chocolate melter by mixing some melted chocolate with the decaf vanilla chai that I found. :hellyes:

For food there was...

Appetizers: :cheese:s, fruits, crackers, veggies, chips, dip, shrimps with cocktail sauce, salsa sauce with chips, kielbasa

Main meal: :turkey:, :ham:, mashed :potato:s, stuffing, baked ziti, meatballs, and an unknown item that I decided best left unknown. :stwitch:

Desert: Brownies, some white chocolate candy with stuff in it, and a weird :pineapple: :banana: :applepie: with fluffy stuff on top and graham cracker crust that was actually quite yummy. :yum:

I had orange Poweraide for a drink. :pleased:

And I'm full. Very full. :gluttony: :giggle:

[Shelli]

This is a pic of me tonight just before going to the party. :beaugest:

I put the same pic, but without my fur kids cropped out, in my profile. I don't know if it shows or not, but I've gained almost 25 pounds since the pic that I last had in my profile not to mention that I have a new bike too. This spring I'll get a pic of the new me on my new bike. :yup2:

[Ensign Steve]

How festive in your pretty sweater! :aww:

[Shelli]

:thankee: :glomp2:

[Qingdai]

Yeah, who'd believe it?

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w190/Deadlokd/Summerdays.jpg

Yeah, a pool! What about the whole drought thing?

[Deadlokd]

Yeah, who'd believe it?



Yeah, a pool! What about the whole drought thing?

Not in our little corner of the world. Our water comes from an aquifer that flows from PNG, down under the Coral Sea along the East coast of Queensland, under Fraser Island, comes ashore near us where it is tapped and processed and the water that is left (lots) flows back out to sea eventually emptying into the Pacific Ocean east of Brisbane. Of course, there are no pipes connecting our water supply to the SE Queensland dams so our surplus isn't used.

Even without an independent source of water, pools are not forbidden in SEQ. Water saving measures do need to be incorporated into the pool area, but to prevent a whole section of the business community going bankrupt the government has allowed home owners to keep their pools.

[Qingdai]

OK, I had a completely different idea of where the drought actually was in Australia.
Only three maps later and I've got it.

Figures the pool industry would beat out farmers.

[Deadlokd]

OK, I had a completely different idea of where the drought actually was in Australia.
Only three maps later and I've got it.

Figures the pool industry would beat out farmers.

Right. It wasn't a one or the other scenario. And you'd probably be surprised how many farms aren't in the middle of cities where the majority of pools congregate. But if we ever do get a farm we'll be sure to tip the pool on it. That should keep one quarter of a paddock wet for, oh about two days.

[Shelli]

Oh yeah, we each received a :dollah:10 gift certificate to Dunkin Donuts from the President of the herd. :biggrin:

I don't drink coffee anymore, but I do like to stop in for one of their breakfast sandwhiches and an orange juice now and then. :yup2:

[Shelli]

Got up, let the :dog:s out, gave 'em fresh water and chewies, went back upstairs, fed and fresh watered the :cat:s, took care of litter boxes and then went back to bed. :sleepin:

Got up, went to the bank :money:, stopped at the drugstore for :meds: and a couple x-mas cards, :driving: :house:, pooper scooped the poopsicles :giggle:, :eating: yummy & healthy high fiber cereal with some :rasp:s while listening to the dvd of :notes: that Watser? sent me :listenin:, took a :shower:, and now I'm about to eat a lunch of basmati :rice: and pink beans with :chicken: broth, soybutter, and :sp:. :yum:

Then I think I'll take a nap. :hammock:

:relaxation:

[ceptimus]

I had to go to work today. Early start at 05:15. But I was finished before nine :) Then I did some Christmas grocery shopping, changed the oil in my car, practised the accordion and surfed the web. :cool:

[Shelli]

Cool! :monkeymusic:

[Shelli]

I'm so mellow today that I'm like sleep sitting. Every now and then I have to check and see if I'm still breathing. :giggle:

:relaxation:

[Shelli]

:rollover: Happy Caturday!! :bagcat:

[Kyuss Apollo]

Happy catshitsday to you to Shelli! :hug:

This morning I got up late and just made it to the bank before it closed. Then I played Travian. Then I laid down and took a nap. Then I talked to Mrs. KA for a while. Then she went to work. Then I ordered a new battery for my brush cutter that WON'T START DAMMIT and then I played Travian some more. Most recently I fed the dog and then drained the oil out of the Civic. Now I am going to go to the potstaw and get an oil filter and a better oil filter wrench. Then I am going to the YMCA.

I was going to go to work and get some work done, but I so don't feel like it so I am not going to.

:ptht: to work!!

Did you take the :biker: out today after the rain cleared up?

[Shelli]

Sounds like you're having a good day, Kyuss. :hug:

I'm saying :ptht: to work today too. I'm resting today to get rid of a cold that's knocking on my door. :doordate: :noway:

Nah, Kyuss, we winterized and put up our bikes for the season. :uncoldasice: I'm so looking forward to spring though. :cycleluv:

[Naru]

I've been downloading a really great psychological thriller TV series. I restrained myself from watching more than one episode a day, but today I said "fuck it" and watched like five. It's definitely one of my all-time favorites already, and I still have like 14 episodes left to watch :pleased:

So my Caturday was great.

[Ensign Steve]

:cat:

I spent 10 hours doing something that should only have taken five hours if we hadn't fucked around so much, which was drive my mom to the airport in Atlanta. Who the fuck flies into a totally different city from the person they are visiting when it's almost a three hour drive and expect to be both picked up and dropped off at the fucking airport? Man I am so tired of being the the car!

Fortunately I have the next three days off work. Whee!

[Brimshack]

I'm so mellow today that I'm like sleep sitting. Every now and then I have to check and see if I'm still breathing. :giggle:

:relaxation:

and when you have reached de point where you no longer feel the need to check, den grasshoppa, den you know that you have achieved Nibanna.

[Shelli]

I'm so mellow today that I'm like sleep sitting. Every now and then I have to check and see if I'm still breathing. :giggle:

:relaxation:

and when you have reached de point where you no longer feel the need to check, den grasshoppa, den you know that you have achieved Nibanna.:giggle: Yeah, 'cause then I'll be :rolldead:

[Shelli]

:cat: Happy Caturday! :cat:


lifts lid mommeh, I gots ta go!

[Ensign Steve]

http://mostlycajun.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/caturday.jpg

[Shelli]

:giggle:

[Shelli]

I can haz Caturday! :uncat:

[vremya]

The kittens are definitely celebrating Caturday - they're running around like crazy little beasts!

I have a meeting in a few minutes - blah. I don't really want to go, but I have to. Especially after I complained about them never having convenient meeting times, like on the weekends.

After that, maybe some :laundry: and :polish: and :catjuggling:

[Shelli]

How do the kitties feel about being juggled? :giggle:

[Shelli]

So far today, I've gotten the banking together, went to the hair dresser and then the bank, stopped at Dunkin Donuts and used $5.00 of my gift card I got at x-mas for a supreme omelet sandwich on a :croissant: with :cheese: and :bacon: along with an orange juice to wash it down with, came home, called the phone company and persisted 'till I got a human on the line to talk to about a problem with my phone line since yesterday's storm, opened the mail for the week, did some laundry, scooped some poop, and I just got done finding a whole slew of :cat: avatars to add to my avatar collection and then decided to start a new folder to put all the cat avs in. As it stands now, I have collected 75 :meow: avatars. :^^

[Histrionica]

Are you still breathing? :shaketigger:

[Ensign Steve]

That's it! I'm making a bacon sammich. Don't try and stop me!

[Watser?]

:ohnoes:

[Shelli]

Are you still breathing? :shaketigger::giggle: yep, and still collecting cat avatars for my new folder. :^^

That's it! I'm making a bacon sammich. Don't try and stop me!No! Don't! Stop! Don't Stop! :giggles:

[Shelli]

Oh my :tigger:! If you want to see the cutest kitties ever click this link..

Cutest Kitties Eva! (http://www.perturb.org/content/kitties/) :^^

[vremya]

A supreme omelet sandwich on a :croissant: with :cheese: and :bacon:

That sounds SO good! I had a ham sandwich with chipotle cheddar cheese and some cheddar :goldfish: crackers. I :heart: :goldfish:!

The kitties are all hiding from me - I don't think they liked being juggled too much!

[Shelli]

:giggle: No, probably not.

I found some cool animated cat avatars today too. :rollover:

[Shelli]

Well, I've done some errands :driving:, some housework :laundry:, some :rant:, ate lunch :rice:, and took a :hammock:. Now I'm steeping some of my yummeh homemade chai to take with me on the ride to Phillipston, MA to a herd thing at Cycle Design. I don't really want to go, but my co-worker and fellow herd member along with his wife will be there alone to represent our Chapter otherwise, so, ho hum, I suppose. :shrug: Maybe we'll stop somewhere for dinner on the way back. :hungry:

[Watser?]

Went to a Birthday party in the rain :rain:

Came back in the rain :rains:

I think I saw this guy loading animals into a large wooden ship...

[Ensign Steve]

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/funny-pictures-cat-stops-dog-hallway.jpg

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/1170054034268.jpg

[Shelli]

:giggle: @ Watser? and :thankee: Ensign. :^^

[Shelli]

Well, the get together was pretty boring, but I made the best of it and chatted with some people, ate some food, and won a couple of small bags for carrying things in my saddle bags in their raffle. So, all in all, at least it wasn't a bad thing even if it wasn't really a good thing. :shrug:

[vremya]

It's been COLD all day today. :shiver: Even the kitties were cold!

I couldn't work up the nerve to go out in the cold, cold world, so I took a nap.

[Pinecone]

My Caterday made better by seeing Shelli's laundry cat avatar! Adorable oversize kitty toes :squee:

[Shelli]

:vibes:

[Ensign Steve]

:larry: Wake up, Shelleh! :larry:


http://kattefoto.com/da_journal/070127/caturday_7319.jpg

[Shelli]

Is it Caturday? :peek: Are you sure? :peekaboo:

It is? :excited:

WOOOOOOOOOO!!!1! :w00t:

Cute kitteh, Ensign. :^^

[Shelli]

Well, I'm not sure that I entirely woke up today, but it was a fine day nonetheless, ending with Chinese food out with the in-laws who got along the whole night. :faint:

The :dog:s got groomed today, the banking got done, I picked up a couple new herbs at the whole foods store for my :tea: and I when I asked the owner what the best thing to use to grind flaxseed and milk thistle with, her answer was something that someone had given me awhile ago but I hadn't had a use for until now; a small coffee grinder. :biggrin:

Oh, and I took a two hour :hammock: earlier and did one load of :laundry: along with the usual animal detail. :doggies: :2faces:

Not bad for a Caturday. :=)

[Shelli]

:meow:

[Julie]

bwack bwack meow
http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/6310/j81ndimp1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Shelli]

:^^

[Ensign Steve]

http://chickencrap.com/images/1546.jpg

[Uthgar the Brazen]

Awwww, who's a cute buncha....YAAAAAARGGGGHHHH! OH GOD MY SPLEEN! AAAAAAHHHH! AAAAAAAAHH.....

:D

Belated Happy Caturday, peoples. :cheer:

[Ymir's blood]

Here is one of the stray? cats surveying the downed branch in the backyard.

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=3373&stc=1&d=1201997031

[Shelli]

Kewl pics, Julie, Ensign & Ymir. :aww:

I has new shoes! :cheer:

I haven't bought new shoes/sneakers/sandals in a few years now and it was time for replacements. I usually have a hard time finding shoes that fit because I take 10 1/2 or a 10 that runs big or an 11 that runs small. Yeah.. good luck. I lucked out tonight though. I went to a discount shoe outlet at the mall and tried on about a dozen different shoes and came home with two new pairs. :=D

A pair of shoes/sandals that I :heart: how they feel and look along with a pair of no-back sneakers that I've never had a pair of and might take getting used to but they are like walking on air. :^^

[Uthgar the Brazen]

It's a Caturday miracle! :giggle:

[Shelli]

:chuckle:

[Shelli]

Now, THIS, is what Caturday is all about.

[Uthgar the Brazen]

:squee:

My baby started off her day with multiple lap-sittings and pettings, followed up by being forced into a miniature prison and taken to that man who, while very nice, always sticks needles in her. The rest of the day will likely be committed to plotting the demise of the foolish servant who did this to her.

:ohnoes:

[Pinecone]

You are so getting shredded Uth...and maybe even the shreds will be boiled for Uth fettucini :sadnod:

[Shelli]

:shakeuthgar:

I went to the vet today also, but without any animals in tow. I get my cat food there, which, while being a little more expensive that what I had fed them previously, has solved a host of problems and they've all four been the healthiest kitties since. :^^

[Crumb]

Jeeves is spending his Caturday morning lounging in the sun on some stacks of papers. Stacks of papers... how comfortable. :blank:

:purr:

[Shelli]

:uncat: Happy Caturday! :uncat:


I wonder if I can get one of my cats to do my taxes for me? :girlthink:

Can't you see I'm sleeping?

[Uthgar the Brazen]

Happy Caturday! :purr:

[Shelli]

Oooo.. you is a :mad::tard: runner-up!? :excited:

[Shelli]

My cats are having a Happy Caturday too. :cat:

I picked up some catnip at the whole foods store today for :dollah:1.09; the same amount that would have cost me :dollah:4.89 at WalMart :stunned: and they :heart: it. :biggrin:

[Shelli]

Meh, I was all tired out and groggy tonight, so rather than do the taxes in that state, I switched things around. I did my mindless, Sunday morning routine tonight and I'll do the taxes in the morning when I'm fresh. Those damn cats are no help at all. Hmph. :shakecat:

They're all partying from the catnip high still. :giggle: :catjuggling:

[Shelli]

:snowflake: Happy Snow Bunny Day! :bunny:

[Shelli]

After I got done :broom::snowflake: I went to the bank :cash: and then the whole foods store where I replenished a few herbs and also bought myself a really neat colored candle lamp along with some mandarin oil. It came with lavender oil and I had some cinnamon oil left from years ago when I used to use one. I've used the mandarin so far and it smells awesome. :^^

All this prompted my next tangent which was to make a trip to my attic. It was like going shopping except that it was free. :chuckle:

Among other things, I ended up bringing down two big candles (one berry/mango candle in a big jar and another of an undetermined but nice scent, so big that it has three wicks) along with a yummeh blueberry candle and three small candles in different colored glass candle holders. :uncandle:

[vremya]

I'm just back from the YWCA and the house smells super yummy because CaDan's cooking again. :lechef:

[Shelli]

Oooo.. :hungry:

[Shelli]

I also found a small, heart shaped, shallow, wicker basket that I just arranged into the prepackaged, wrapped tea bags of various flavors that I have left from before the make-my-own teas era. :teaparty:

[Uthgar the Brazen]

Meow?

[Shelli]

Meow if you like catnip!

[Watser?]

:billcat:

[Ensign Steve]

http://www.ondmis.dk/ebbe/The_Great_Prophecy_of_Caturday2.jpg

[Shelli]

:giggle: & :^^

[Shelli]

Happy Caturday all! :shakecat:

I've done my errands for the day including my hair apt., the bank and the whole foods store where I not only replenished my herb supply (including the cat's herb of choice, catnip :billcat:), but I also bought a new rice to try (new to me). :=)

Lundberg Brown Sweet Rice (http://lundberg.elsstore.com/view/product/?id=48477) :rice:

[Uthgar the Brazen]

It's Caturday. I can move from the couch to the computer chair and back. Somehow I managed to get some laundry started. Thank the powers I don't have to be anywhere.

* Uthgar the Brazen loafs/collapses

[Watser?]

I got a free smurf with my shoppings :smurf:

It is the fry-smurf with a frying pan and a pancake on his smurfing hat.

Also: I went to an ATM to get some money and it was all covered in mayonaise. Bastardos borrachos! :shakefist:

[Ymir's blood]

Fried smurf and mayonnaise! :yuck:

[Watser?]

:giggles:

[Shelli]

A free fry-pancake Smurf? I wanna see! :excited: :snapshot: :hellyes:

About the mayo covered ATM machine.. :gross:

[Shelli]

I cooked up some of my new :rice: and it is AWESOME! :yum:

[Shelli]

I'm having some more of that :rice: in a few. :yum:

Brought my VROOM in today for it's first maintenance and to get new, more comfy hand grips put on it. :biggrin:

Two new awesome smilies were uploaded today, courtesy of liv and humpy:

:vroom: made by humpy and brought over from the dA

And humpy made a most awesomely personalized :motorcycleglomp: for me today. :bgirl:

Life is good. :^^

[Shelli]

... all of which more than makes up for the uber busy, crazy last week that I had catch up with me today in that I'm totally dragged out tired and developed a migraine as the day went on. I'm not surprised about either. I was pretty revved up all week, chilled out last night and today, a pattern which releases chemicals at each stage that usually result in a migraine for me at the end all. That's what I have Imitrex for though. :thumbup:

:love: :rarrow: :motorcycleglomp: & :giggle: endlessly @ :vroom:

[Ensign Steve]

http://jj.am/gallery/d/37762-1/CaturdayMotivator.jpg

[Shelli]

:^^

[Shelli]

.... Happeh Caturday

[vremya]

Happy Caterday! Jake the Wonder Cat is sitting next to me with a goofy kitty grin, purring away.

It snowed AGAIN! It's very pretty, but not really the sort of thing I want to see on Easter. I think Jake's behind it, but he's not telling.

My major plan is to get a bunch of work done on my paper for school. And get back to the gym, since that got derailed a few weeks ago. And cleaning. Why is there always cleaning to do?

[Shelli]

Why is there always cleaning to do?Yeah! Why?! :shakedishsoap:

[Shelli]

Happy Caturday :=)

[Shelli]

Dis is mai box. U get ur own.

[Shelli]

Happy Caturday! :shakemotorcycle:

[godfry n. glad]

Hobbes has been out already this morning and came back to find me still snoozing, so I awoke to cold little kitty paws being practically shoved into my snoring mouth. "Warm dis up!"

We're going to go out to a late breakfast at the French restaurant, eggs benedict done right...then to see The Forbidden Kingdom. Jackie Chan and Jet Li! :woohoo:

[Shelli]

:giggle: @ cold kitty paws... better you than me.

Hope breakfast was yummy and the movie was all you wanted it to be. :=)

I went VROOMing! On the highway!! :hyper:

AWESOME! :powerwoot:

[godfry n. glad]

Brefus was da bomb! Man, those guys know how to do Eggs Benedict.

And Jackie Chan was hissef, too....that was fun. The Forbidden Kingdom is an enjoyable romp through some bastardized Chinese mythology...but with Chan and Jet Li together! And the love interest (Liu Yifei) is an absolute stunner!!! Jackie got an excellent role playing a drunken Taoist master, along with Li as a warrior priest.

I recommend, but then I'm a sucker for Jackie Chan's puckishness.

[Shelli]

:w00t: for godfry!

[Shelli]

Yay! :unbounce: It's Caturday again! :undolls:

[Ensign Steve]

I had a rough fucking morning. I drove an hour to school for the open house, only to get there and find that the engineering department had to be all cute and change the time, and when I arrived it was already ending. Assholes!

That's okay because I'm having a party tonight. Whee! :w00t:

[Shelli]

:party:

[Shelli]

Happeh Caturday!
:catjuggling:

[Shelli]

Happy Caturday! :shakecat:

[Ensign Steve]

Hai!

I'm going to fish's house today to hot tub and see the remodel and meet the doggies and stuff. I think maddog is coming, too.

[vremya]

Yay Caturday! :catjuggling:

It's so gorgeous outside, I'm going to go for a bike ride. Maybe I can talk CaDan into grilling something too. :weber:

[godfry n. glad]

Into the garden!

[vremya]

Okay, now it looks like it's going to rain, so grilling is off. I'm still up for a bike ride, though.

[Shelli]

Well, the picnic got canceled, but that was all well and good because it meant I had time to go to the mall to find and buy a farewell gift for my boss from the other office girl and myself and also a "thinking of you" gift from the company for the owner who is now in rehab after a stroke that left his left side paralyzed. The second gift was much harder. :unwhat:

While we were there, we also bought ourselves some bath towels that were on sale along with new, sorely needed bath mats. We were barely able to fit it all in our saddle bags and my husband's additional bag on his bike. :ungiggle:

We're planning on giving our bikes a bath once they've cooled off which should be any time now. :unwatering:

Oh and...

On the way home from the mall, we hit the highway and I did my highest mph ever! :unbounce:

105! :unshock:

:unbow:

[Crumb]

:faint:

[Shelli]

It's not my fault. :unnope:

It's my husband's fault. :unnod:

I was following him and next thing you know he was getting way ahead of me, so I laid on the throttle to catch up and then I thought.. hey, I think I'm going rather fast.. then I looked at my gauge and I was going 100 mph already! :unshock:

Then I said.. WOOHOO!!! :unbounce: and revved it up to 105 and then he slowed down because the speed limit had gone down and we were entering a more trafficked area. :unsad:


VROOOOOOOM! :unundies:

[pescifish]

I'm going to fish's house today to hot tub and see the remodel and meet the doggies and stuff. I think maddog is coming, too.A Happy Caturday, it was!
:party:

maddog, Ensign Steve and my friend Kim came up. They helped me out by hanging the crystal pieces back on lamps I inherited from my folks' house, so now my place is all sparkly bright again. The dogs were their usual overwhelming, poorly socialized selves, but Mojave did make an appearance late in the festivities and Flutter joined in some of the noise making.
:doggies: :bagcat: :flutter:

I fed 'em soup and sandwiches, champagne and tequila and I am glad they were the first of my little world to see the fresh paint and flooring in my house. We all enjoyed pics and stories from maddog's trip across the southwest (see some of her photos in the gallery). She had a couple of nice shots of viscousmemories from when she hung out with him and squian. I miss those guys! :deepsigh:

[Ensign Steve]

I fed 'em soup and sandwiches homemade albondigas and panini ...

:fixed:

[godfry n. glad]

Hey!

I had a good day in the garden, then a nice nap, and followed with a night thunder storm, complete with lightening and thunder...a real rarity around these parts. If the whole "1001...1002..." count thing is anywhere near accurate, we had a strike just a half mile from the house. Waaaaaay kewl....

[Shelli]

Coolness, Pesci, Ensign, maddog, Kim, and godfry. :larrybounce:

[Shelli]

Happy Caturday! :hellokit:

[Shelli]

Happy Caturday!
:uncat:

[vremya]

Yay Caturday!:w00t:

[Uthgar the Brazen]

I just watched No Country For Old Men, and the fire truck and police sirens having been going off pretty steady since about 09:00 this morning, so my Caturday's taken a solemn turn.

[Ensign Steve]

I'm at work.

That's okay, though. There's free food!

[Shelli]

I didn't :getup: till 1:00 after which, I did some mad :posting: on the :fflorin:, took a :shower:, and then had broiled haddock, salad, spaghetti, and iced tea for dinner at my favorite Italian restaurant. :=D

[JoeP]

I didn't :getup: till 1:00 after which, I did some mad :posting: on the :fflorin:
Mad? :hellyes: We need a :smiliebombing: smilie

took a :shower:,
Post pics or it didn't happen.

[Shelli]

I didn't :getup: till 1:00 after which, I did some mad :posting: on the :fflorin:
Mad? :hellyes: We need a :smiliebombing: smilieWhat do you mean by :smiliebombing: smilie? :scratch:


took a :shower:,
Post pics or it didn't happen.I guess it didn't happen then. :bo:

:woopsie:

[JoeP]

took a :shower:,
Post pics or it didn't happen.I guess it didn't happen then. :bo:

:woopsie:

Ewww! Shelli stinks!

[Shelli]

*sniff* *sniff* hmm.. like fresh air from VROOM'n all day. :motorcycleglomp:

[Ensign Steve]

http://kattefoto.com/da_journal/070908/caturday_3840.jpg

GOOD MORNING
:loud:

[Uthgar the Brazen]

:flowerdance:

[Shelli]

I left at 8:30 or so this morning and just got home a few minutes ago. It was a nice day and I had a great dinner. :=)

Happy Caturday! :billcat:

[Shelli]

Happy Meow Day! :meow:

I decided that I wanted to riding out to Danvers, Ma today, rather than drive.. before I realized that this was going to be a 2 1/2 hour ride in high speed & traffic areas including the Mass. Pike and also a stretch of Boston traffic. After he told me, he asked, "Are you sure you want to do that?" :?

:girlthink: (2 to 5 seconds)

Yeah, what the hell. It'll be a challenge.
:tiggermonkey:

He said, "Well, I think it's nuts and it's gonna be pretty spooky with the traffic and a little cold, but okay.. *laughs*.. "

:8D

[Ensign Steve]

Oooh, have fun! Be safe!

Me? I'm gonna go to work. :chain:

[godfry n. glad]

From my visible evidence, I'd say every day is Caturday.

[Shelli]

I made it there and back alive!! :ovation:

Round trip, it was about 240 miles, of which most of it was ridden at 85 to 90 mph through medium to heavy traffic areas of two to four lanes. :shakemotorcycle:

I had to take a few deep breaths throughout and hummed whatever the last song was I heard before getting on the bike each time (we stopped a couple rest areas) to stay calm and focused. :chillpill:

All in all, it was awesome! :motorcycleglomp:

[Shelli]

Man, that ride is still the most awesomest ever ride I've ever been on. :^: What a thrill! :powerwoot:


oh, and...


:hcat::acat::pcat::pcat::ycat: :ccat::acat::tcat::ucat::rcat::dcat::acat::ycat::exclamcat: :fallcat:

[vremya]

It's Caturday! :w00t:

We were away for Thanksgiving with the in-laws, left Wednesday night and came back Friday evening, and poor little Evil Eye kitteh forgot who we were. :facepalm: He hid under the bed and wouldn't come out and when he did come out, he ran away when I tried to pick him up. (He eventually figured it out.)

[Shelli]

:giggle:

[Shelli]

:hcat::acat::pcat::pcat::ycat: :catwalk: :ccat::acat::tcat::ucat::rcat::dcat::acat::ycat: :catjuggling: :exclamcat:

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