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Love that FAIL photo! I refer to that as a Three Stooges pile up. Spent most of the day doing orchid club work – even talking to one of my orchid friends off in Australia. She calls me. She got Magic Jack put on her ‘puter before she left so that she could stay in touch.
Now I am cleaning the house. Mr. Gnome comes home tonight and we have too many mud clots everywhere for even me to be able to stand it!
gnome de plume wrote:
Who wants to bet that the one hanging back waiting for the other three to give up is the female of the bunch.
@ Texas Betsy:
While it’s true that the sane ones are probably female, I can guarantee you that there’s a female in the front, too. And no self-respecting trouble-making boy will be out-done by a girl. Kids, dogs, cows… works the same. If one girl takes the role of “good girl”, another is forced into the role of “egging those stupid boys on”. They’ll even switch roles.
Boys, of course, are only too happy to respond with generous amounts of stupid.
Drove to Boston and back today to get to someone who son#2 could get a ride with back to school. That’s 9 hours in a car (he drove half the way down). But at least it’s only half way, so I don’t have to do it again tomorrow!
@ gordon:
Save up your energy for the end of the semester when you will be moving him home for the summer.
How are the cows? Any calves this season? My nephew has begun his nightly checks of the pastures to find any mothers in distress.
@ gnome de plume:
Terriers FTW!!! I love them in the abstract, but am not nearly so insane as to think that having one, much less four, would be anthing short of madness. My dogs do this all the time at the doggie door, only they are much, much bigger. Mitzi is more ladylike with her comings and goings, while Max just sort of galumphs through, often landing with a splat on the kitchen floor. Graceful he is not
Time to go remove my makeup
and rest up for another day. I might even get my MRI done tomorrow. 
They finally found my pre-authorization. Dorks. 
@ gnome de plume:
Sad situation.
Good Morning. Beulah dragged me out of bed at the crack of dawn because she just knew that those buzzard guns were going to go off today.
It wouldn’t have been so bad, except that Mr. Gnome was home and taking up the space that Beulah gets when bad noises start. 
Interesting day. My B-I-L was a very well loved musician, band leader, composer, etc., so there is a huge outpouring of love and sorrow from his former students from my hometown. But for some in the family he was known as an abusive jerk. GnomeSis has even stronger words like predator and a**hole. Some bad stuff happened between them when she was a teenager. It tore our family apart. I don’t think his daughters knew/know about it, but Dr. GnomeSis does because I was the one who told her.
Ughhhh! We have many similar scenarios in my family, Gnome.
Deaths can create a lot of havoc with baggage exposed.
I am organizing my work to leave for the day. The office has closed early (4:30). I was really late this morning so feel a bit guilty leaving early–but I will.
Hi all. My kitchen is clean. First time I’ve done dishes this week, I think.
@ Texas Betsy:
You could come up and give me a hand.
The powerpoint I have been working on all day just keeps getting bigger! I only have 55 minutes. I think it may be time to stop.
Someone call me if this breaks the blog.
@ Texas Betsy:
A lot of info packed into that show, Betsy. Will the participants get a hard copy of the presentation or a link to find it online?
Gnome, are you a member of the Chamber? Was this the formal dinner?
Keep protest alive.
Texteen had me add this:
gnome de plume wrote:
I do! I do! Recited in all Texas public schools every single day!
sharonlee wrote:
Online. Way to many links to do paper, though I will be giving out ginormous business cards with my website on them.
@ sharonlee:
It was business formal, which meant some jeans and some sparkly. I wore one of my new Indian silk tops that I got from Travelsmith.
No, I am not a member of the Chamber, and I never will be. I went as a rep from the retirement community whose board I sit on. Actually I am 2nd Vice President, so I am a little more than just a “rep”.
@ Texas Betsy:
Do you have a specific audience, or is this for any school that is interested in you? I thought the thoughtful communications with the teacher was the best part.
Ah! Yes, I am giving a presentation on Sunday morning to the Board of Jewish Education of Central Texas. 20-40 teachers and directors. I even get to wear a director badge. Me. Director of a school of 9 students and 1 faculty member. That being me.
We are one of the smaller schools.
From Huffington Post:
“A Republican member of the Indiana General Assembly withdrew his bill to create a pilot program for drug testing welfare applicants Friday after one of his Democratic colleagues amended the measure to require drug testing for lawmakers.”
Fair if fair.
@ sharonlee: That is wonderful! What’s good for the goose wasn’t good for the gander I guess. Idjits.
I forgot to tell y’all how insular and non-inclusive Gnomeville’s C of C is: The dinner blessing was of course made in thanks to Jesus, but for the second year in a row, the only meat on the plate was pork!
Yes, we are German, after all. And then in the booklet that came with program were pictures of various “dignitaries” who had been “honored” by the Gnomeville C of C. Whose face do you think I saw staring out at me? Karl Rove!!! 
@Gnome, what would they make of the vegans who hang out at my house?
@ Betsy:
They don’t even know the term vegan.
Probably they are so insular that they don’t know there are different people in the world (let alone in Gnomeville).
I was online buying a baby shower gift. Ended up ordering a couple of Fisher-Price block-stacking toys. The mother-to-be is a young woman who grew up in my church. She used to sit with me while here mother was in the choir.
@ Betsy:
We had a choice of chocolate, lemon and strawberry cakes. 
The strawberry was the best. 
But the chocolate was pretty good, too. The lemon was too lemony.
You might have been able to eat the green beans with almonds and the mashed potatoes. And then you could join us in eating the desserts that were at the two empty seats at the table.
@ gnome de plume:
THose cakes may not have been vegan.
Gnome, when is the MRI scheduled? Take care with your back.
Night, all. Going to see Iron Lady tomorrow.
Before I sleep,
Happy Birthday to Madmommy!
NOw why didn’t the emoties work for me?
What? Are the emoties back???
@ gnome de plume:
PB! 
They are!!!
Sharonlee, my MRI is not scheduled yet. The stoopid clinic and my doctor’s office cannot get their act together.
I am going to have to go to the MRI clinic and stand in front of them and explain v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y that they have all the information they need. They just need to put it in one pile in front of one person and get the code from the other office. I knew when I went over there that they were not the brightest bulbs in the drawer. 
Hubby’s wallet stolen out of car last night.
Cards cancelled before being used but nothing we can do about the $150 cash he had. And no, I don’t know why he had that much cash. I think it’s a guy thing. 
Well that sucks! Why did he leave his wallet in the car? Maybe this will learn him not to carry lots of cash. Or not. My dad always has to have a bankroll in his pocket. Luckily he doesn’t keep it in his wallet, because he walks off and leaves his wallet on tables. He can’t put it in his pocket, see, because it ruins the line of his suit
@ madmommy:
He frequently leaves his wallet in the car but in the console so it can’t be seen. He said he left it in there last night because he had his hands full. I think it was kids/teenagers because they didn’t take the checkbook in the section underneath or the gas card that was loose right under the wallet. Or the circular saw in the back of the car. And because they didn’t use any of the cards.
@ Lea:
Didn’t he do something similar maybe a year ago? Maybe you need to get over your hatred of cold. The car and the truck are outside with their keys in their respective drink holders.
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I have, for the most part, been avoiding the news as much as possible. But apparently Newt and Mittens are lobbing major stink bombs at each other in FL. Like, at most one of them can survive, career-wise. Heh heh. And a bunch of Murdochites at the Sun have been busted on charges of hacking and bribing police. One conviction on bribing police, and News Corp (a USA corp) is in really serious trouble. Or, as I like to think of it, another nail in the coffin of Fox News.
Yeah, his backpack containing his wallet and checkbook was stolen from the car a few years ago. They were used immediately and frequently, which suggests to me that these thieves were happy with the cash.
I used to leave the keys to my ’71 Ford Torino in the ignition in the high school parking lot. It was easier and I secretly hoped it would get stolen. It was a town of 7,000 though, so it was perfectly safe.
@ Lea:
Torino, huh? A singularly unmemorable car. Is that the one that looked like a maggot with wheels?
@ gordon:
A maggot with wheels! 
Mr. Gnome tried to leave his golf clubs in the driveway yesterday. I asked him if he wanted them to get stolen, because sometimes he does that when he “needs” a new set.
Yes, even in Gnomeville there is crime. 
She (Henrietta) looked like this:
only very faintly green.
She didn’t look bad, she was just old. I had to keep one foot on the gas and one on the brake going around corners or she would die. She also did NOT like starting up when it was cold.
refresh to see the pic if it’s not there
@ Lea:
It is there.
Happy Birthday Madmommy!
@ Lea:
Oh, not the one I was thinking of, dammit! As I recall, in the wake of the disaster that was the Pinto, Ford tried a bunch of things. Yours was the “lets go for a Dukes of Hazzard[*] car for the budget conscious suburbanite” model.
[*] Yeah, I know the Dukes hadn’t happened yet. But most of their cars had.
Thank You Peanut Butter!!!!
Betsy wrote:
Aaaagh! I hate to say it, but these new Subaru doggie ads are adorable!
I prolly shouldn’t have had dessert before my dinner. I’ve been
chicken for broth. Now the dumplings are on. 
I’ve been out celebrating MM’s birthday today. Saw too movies and had a light meal of pot stickers between.
Iron Lady was good, but I don’t recommend it for Gordon. It might track too closely with what he is experiencing with his father.
Lea, you must put Being Elmo on your list of movies to see. It’s a documentary on the the fellow who creates Elmo.
Thanks to PB for fixing the emoties.
Betsy, good luck with your presentation tomorrow morning.
Home from dinner-it was very good, though the place was quite busy. Almost an hour from the time we sat down before the chef arrived to start cooking. Unfortunately the males in my house are such neanderthals that all three of them barely ate anything. Hubby kept making snotty comments, the big kid picked the noodles out from the tiny pieces of diced veggies and chicken, finishing about half, and the little guy ate about 3 pieces of chicken after complaining loudly for an hour about how he was starving to death. Evidently we can only go to places that serve steak, potatoes, burgers and chicken nuggets. We could have saved a fortune by going to Five Guys
@ madmommy:
Hopefully you ate enough to make up for their snottiness, yes? Got any birthday cake?
madmommy wrote:
Not to mention your irritation.
My nephew and fellow students launched something this morning. It was tracked from launch in Albany NY and landed over near Gordon in Steep Falls Maine. The missile or whatever filmed the event so I am waiting until it gets posted somewhere. When I was in college, there were no real rockets into space yet.
@Madmom, did you take it home for leftovers?
@Sharonlee Thanks. Just put finishing touches on the presentation. The word spacing looks weird in miniature, but otherwise it’s just right.
@ sharonlee:
I definitely want to see Being Elmo. I added it to my Netflix queue, even though it’s not available yet. I highly recommend “I Am” too.
MM, I feel your pain. That’s why we only go to The Spaghetti Factory or Red Robin.
@ gnome de plume:
@ sharonlee:
I got to watch him the other day when major was here for a few hours while his daddy went to get his new glasses. Major loves him some Elmo!
Yep. To-go boxes in the fridge. After dinner dad suggested we go get ice cream and Cold Stone. I had to put the kibosh on that, since no one ate dinner. Yeah, I am mean, evil mommy. Tough shit
Being Elmo got great reviews here when it was featured in a local film festival. I have been a fan of the little furry red guy for some time now
I’m sitting here getting a buzz on.
Sadly, it’s not what you are thinking. I put a new battery in my TENS unit, so my back is getting a good workout.
OK folks. Going to sleep. Alarm set for 7. Everything is done. All finished tinkering.
@ Betsy:
Looking good! Hope all goes well.
I’m going to head to bed in a little bit. After my back is all worn out.
good night all. please wish me quick and good sleep. i can’t believe i need to be somewhere before 8 AM
@ Betsy:
Being somewhere before 8am should be against the law!
I need to be somewhere by 10:30am, so I am going to bed, too. Wish me good sleep. My back is all buzzed. Hopefully I can sleep on it. Last night was horrible.
@ gnome de plume:
Good sleep all. I will sleep in tomorrow. No alarms before noon.