Will someone talk to me? Pleease?

[del]

We sold our quad today!!  Now to sell our snow machine.  We have had a few inquiries so hopefully it will sell.  We are planning to buy a new quad with the tracks that you can put on it for using it in snow.  We just got home from a walk on snowshoes. It is such a beautiful day it was a waste to stay inside!!

[WishIKnew]

My husband made the most delicious dinner, salsa chicken over rice!  Yummy!

(very easy - your favorite jar of salsa poured over boneless, skinless chicken breasts and cooked all day in the crock pot 'til the chicken almost falls apart.  We serve it over rice and they dribble cheese and sour cream on top, but it's good just plain!)

[Sugarlump]

That sounds wicked sitting here having a glass of wine and thinking
I could just eat that! 

[Heymike]

Getting ready to rain here in San Diego. In April the forcast changes to sunny and warm until October .  Then sunny and not quite as warm until January. Then Winter four or five days of rain and the population panics.  The news cast actually calls it STORM WATCH!!  Can you believe it?

[Brightsky69]

It's Sunday night and  I have to go to work tomorrow. 

[WishIKnew]

My son is home from school sick today.  A cold, sore throat, fever....  At least we get to cuddle!

[TexanSummer]

I got up this morning & realized that I forgot to add the hair to my daughter's "cowgirl" poster she had to make for kindergarden....she's 6. So I had to rush & scalp a Barbie (the head wouldn't stay on the body anymore), glue the hair on the posterboard, then walk the dogs & get her ready for school. We drove her to school this morning so she wouldn't get her cowgirl messed up on the bus (we even cut a foam cowboy hat down to put on the poster for the 3-D effect). By the time hubby dropped me off at work, I realized that I left my badge (keycard to get in & out of the office) hanging by the dog's leashes!!! Then, I have to wait for one of my co-workers to get here to let me into the receptionist area so I could cover for her while she's out this week! Oh what a morning! I am TIRED already!
    lmao

[jbeany]

When I'm studying, I tend to get so focused that nothing else in my environment gets through to me.  While it's helpful for studying, it's not always so great for things I SHOULD be paying attention to in the world around me. (My cat has learned to deal with this by simply jumping on the desk and standing on the keyboard so I can't type or see the screen.  Then I have to pay attention to her.) 
Last night, though, my usual blocking out nearly gave me a heart attack.  I hadn't noticed that it has started to rain, and I hadn't paid any attention to the storm that was headed my way either.  At least not until a bolt of lightning hit so close and with such violence that it knocked a 20 inch iron scroll-work clock off the outside wall!  It smashed into the chair below, and then bounced off the back into the wall, smashing the plate on the electrical plug and bending the two plugs in it.  The cat, who was in the chair, launched off with a yowl of fright and tore down the hall to hide under the bed.
Okay, I'm paying attention now!

[Poppylicious]

My cat has learned to deal with this by simply jumping on the desk and standing on the keyboard so I can't type or see the screen.  Then I have to pay attention to her.

My little old cat (which everyone thinks is a kitten) has just started doing that in the last couple of weeks.  I think she's been in contact with yours when we're not on the 'puters.

Sugarlump - this chap is so good that you broke the hoover?  Wow!   

I hung some washing on the line for the first time this year today and it had dried by the time I got home from work.  I likes spring, I does.  I particularly like daffodils.  They're the only flower that I imagine being alive. We got some new fish for our aquarium.  And we moved the living room around in preparation for our new settee.  Hurry up, settee!  I was VERY hyper all weekend.  It's an odd sensation for me. 

I think that's enough randomness.

 

[Sugarlump]

Sugarlump - this chap is so good that you broke the hoover?  Wow!   
 

HEY Poppy the man and the hoover totally unconnected! 
I blame the steroids giving me so much excess energy that I've been hoovering madly everyday and I think the hoover went and had a heart attack on Saturday!!!! But I rang Sainsburys and they're going to replace it with a new one (only 8 months old!) so all's well that end well!

[Poppylicious]

I've been hoovering madly everyday ...

Please will you bring your new hoover to my house (I hate hoovering.)

[Sugarlump]

No problem I get very twitchy in the evenings if i sit still for long so whizzing round with hoover keeps me calm (in the absence of
anything else!!!)

[Sugarlump]

Dogwalking and garrdening extra!!!     

[Poppylicious]

I had a sh!tty day: a student became aggressive with me and the stupid jobs worth of a bus driver wouldn't let me off the bus at the bus station (to catch another bus) because of 'elf & safety so a 12 mile journey home became a 45 mile journey home, and then I embarrassed myself by just bursting into tears ON THE BUS. 

But when Blokey came home he brought with him Little Big Planet 2 (yay! i ♥ surprises!) so I shall spend tomorrow hooked up to the PS3.  Huzzah!

 

[Sugarlump]

Sorry to hear about your shitty day Poppy 

Have a jellybaby?
I'm sitting here eating a packet of them (comfort eating!!)

[cariad]

I had a sh!tty day: a student became aggressive with me and the stupid jobs worth of a bus driver wouldn't let me off the bus at the bus station (to catch another bus) because of 'elf & safety so a 12 mile journey home became a 45 mile journey home, and then I embarrassed myself by just bursting into tears ON THE BUS. 

But when Blokey came home he brought with him Little Big Planet 2 (yay! i ♥ surprises!) so I shall spend tomorrow hooked up to the PS3.  Huzzah!

 

You poor thing. I think tears were warranted. Trust me, I have burst into tears in the most inappropriate and embarrassing places, far worse than a bus full of strangers. In fact, when I saw "student became aggressive with me" I thought to myself 'if it were me, I would have just collapsed into sobs' which I'm sure would have drawn mocking laughter from the kids, and ruined any authority I might have had. It sounds like you handled a difficult situation with grace, so Poppy, please give yourself credit. I'm sure your fellow bus riders have had days like that, too. 

Enjoy your Little Big Planet. (Video game??)

[willowtreewren]

I love reading all the things going on all over the world.

I got home from a trip to Massachusetts last night. Went grocery shopping and bought a roast that smells wonderful as it cooks in the crock pot....and this afternoon I went to the gym and did water exercises for over an hour. Afterward I went to school to feed all the critters.

Now I call that a nearly perfect day! 

[Sugarlump]

Your post made me think about what "would" constitute the perfect day ?

Someone bringing me a cup of real coffee in bed to start the day, a house that has been magically cleaned by fairies overnight, the sun actually shining, maybe going on a hike into the countryside with my dog and being fit enough to walk say 10 miles, stopping for a gourmet picnic (prepared by same magical fairies) and coming home refreshed and relaxed to find a sweet guy in my kitchen cooking dinner, sharing steak, salad and a glass of wine with some decent conversation and music in the background, and ....................... 
That will do nicely!
                         

[Poppylicious]

You poor thing. I think tears were warranted. Trust me, I have burst into tears in the most inappropriate and embarrassing places, far worse than a bus full of strangers. In fact, when I saw "student became aggressive with me" I thought to myself 'if it were me, I would have just collapsed into sobs' which I'm sure would have drawn mocking laughter from the kids, and ruined any authority I might have had. It sounds like you handled a difficult situation with grace, so Poppy, please give yourself credit. I'm sure your fellow bus riders have had days like that, too. 

Enjoy your Little Big Planet. (Video game??)

Thank you cariad.  This made me tearful again!  (But in a relieved 'I'm normal' way, rather than an embarrassed 'I'm so weak' way.)

And Little Big Planet is indeedy a video game. 

*takes jellybaby from sugarlump* ... how did you know they're my favourites?!

[willowtreewren]

Sugarlump, your perfect day REALLY topped mine....

But we even had dinner on the porch. Now THAT was a real treat for this time of year!

 

[Sugarlump]

Hey Willow just thinking about it put a smile on my face  but reading it back just now made me think it doesn't sound very adventurous perhaps I should have written climbing Mt Kilimanjaro or something but don't think I'm quite up to that yet x

Sugarlump, your perfect day REALLY topped mine....

But we even had dinner on the porch. Now THAT was a real treat for this time of year!

 

Can tell you don't live in England dinner outside in March wow!!!!

[jbeany]

I was begged several times for the recipe to my Bacon Pecan fudge today.  Wahahahahah - NO!  (I can't anyhow - there isn't really a recipe in set measurements.  It's a dash of this and a heaping spoonful of that and stir until it looks right.)   I do so love the "Ewww, bacon in fudge?"  which is immediately followed by "Omigod, gimme some more!"  when you finally convince someone to try it!

[monrein]

I had a wonderful day today.  Rowed for 30 minutes at the gym followed by 30 minutes of upper body weight work and 30 minutes of biking.  Delicious lunch at Indian restaurant near my house with my aunt then my 75 minute daily walk (7 and a half kilometers) during which I succumbed to the decadence of a splurge on a beautiful red leather handbag (see attached photo).  Then the anguish as I realized too late that I'd totally forgotten a dental appointment.  AAARRGGHHH!

[Des]

BEAUTIFUL BAG!

I want some pie too 

Well I am working (sort of).

I am so proud of my daughter , she is this amazing human being. 

[texasstyle]

I want a nurse purse now lol. Maybe just like that. A nice bright red one to  cheer my day. I usually get....black lol. Today is rainy, grey and quiet. I had a bagel w/ honey nut cream cheese. It is dialysis day so I'm enjoying my alone time. I've even cranked my music way up! lol