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**snapdragen** · 12-09-2006, 06:26 PM

I was going to make Cinnamon Buttons - they use Hershey's Cinnamon Drops. But the stupid Safeway by me doesn't carry Hershey's Cinnamon Drops. (#&$^*@#%*!!!!!!

I'll try Lunardi's tomorrow - they usually carry much more than freakin' Safeway.

It's raining right now, I love the sound of raindrops. My silly dog wants to go outside and sit in the rain. Chloe is not the brightest crayon in the box at times...

**KnottedYet** · 12-09-2006, 06:30 PM

BMo3!!!!! YOU'RE BAAAAAAACK!!!!!

Oh, I'm so happy! Welcome back, dear! We were all so worried and scared for you! Phone calls and PMs flashing up and down and across the continent with concern for you!

Glad you are back!

Edit: SKnot plays bassoon, and I used to play oboe.

**Nanci** · 12-09-2006, 06:35 PM

BMO3, glad your boys have adopted me, when are they coming to visit???

Snap, I had to buy a bag of crickets for the toad. In the car, hopping around in their bag, they sounded like rain. you could get some for the dry times!

I am watching Transamerica again. It is very good. I found something in the fridge tonight that made me laugh so hard I cried and almost peed.

**Nanci** · 12-09-2006, 06:37 PM

Even people on the snake forum needed an explanation- can't imagine why...

**Nanci** · 12-09-2006, 06:37 PM

BF went to bed in disgust.

**KnottedYet** · 12-09-2006, 06:43 PM

perhaps he just didn't want to get "fresh" with you, lest he befall the same fate...

**Nanci** · 12-09-2006, 06:45 PM

Choco, bad Choco, came out for about an hour of Jackass tonight. As he was running through my fingers I detected a lump about two inches down from his head. Crap! What could it be? Tumor? Stuck mouse from last time, and that's why he didn't eat last night?? A quick check at the snake anatomy diagram showed that his heart is in that location! What if I could FEEL it???

Creepy.

Nanci

**Nanci** · 12-09-2006, 06:47 PM

Knot, it's his sausage, not mine...

He did ask if I wanted him to make cheesy eggs for breakfast!

Nanci

Remember that whole Loraina Bobbit thing? The local radio station, at the time, had a contest where people would drive by in their cars and throw a hotdog out the window to win a prize. I thought that was excellently creative. We all know what happened to him, I wonder whatever happened to her?

**Bikingmomof3** · 12-10-2006, 07:44 AM

Originally Posted by KnottedYet

BMo3!!!!! YOU'RE BAAAAAAACK!!!!!

Oh, I'm so happy! Welcome back, dear! We were all so worried and scared for you! Phone calls and PMs flashing up and down and across the continent with concern for you!

Glad you are back!

Edit: SKnot plays bassoon, and I used to play oboe.

Knot I am glad to be back.

I overdid it last night and kinda got sick, but I am okay today.

I think it very cool that Sknot plays the bassoon and you played the oboe.

**KnottedYet** · 12-10-2006, 07:52 AM

Originally Posted by Bikingmomof3

I am glad to be back.

I overdid it last night and kinda got sick, but I am okay today.

Next time Snap and X and half the rest of TD are telling you to rest, we're all gonna stop posting until you DO go rest!

Don't overdo! We care about you too much!

**mimitabby** · 12-10-2006, 08:02 AM

now, Jen, you know you don't need to apologize OR feel bad.
HEY you wrote a poem about me too? sheesh, all this attention is too much!

i have to share this with you guys;
meet my plumber!

We got to know her through a friend. I ran into her the other day which is what made me think of her. And then i found her website.

**mimitabby** · 12-10-2006, 08:11 AM

X your family history is interesting. My husband was considered a "bad" boy
and was always in trouble in school. It was obvious to me where my kids got THAT from. No wonder to this day he has enough energy to think riding a bike 140 miles in one day is fun! These guys are descended from farmers who worked hard to stay alive. They're not made to sit in cubicles!!

and you're right, If Jo wasn't being a brat on the stage that day, it wouldn't stand out in my memory.

**salsabike** · 12-10-2006, 08:09 AM

Rant away, Mimi and X. I have a soapbox I carry with me (metaphorically speaking, anyway) for a long, grumpy speech about how schools emphasize verbal, seat skills over visual-spatial, movement skills that are valued just as much in society, and how it's a sin that active boys don't have the opportunity to see that their skills are really valuable, and how that attitude "creates" disabilities when there really aren't any....see what I mean? I'll stop now. It does, however, drive me crazy in my profession.

Knot, it'll be nice to get that app done before you go, only in the sense that it's a pain in the *** AND you'll have a much better time knowing most of it's behind you.

BMof3, the heating/plumbing/electrical work is supposed to be done this week and inspected. Then they can do insulation and dry wall. After that there's lots of bits and pieces left---putting in hard wood floors, building various shelves, installing all the bathroom stuff, etc. I am not sure when they'll finish because I think I will be killing the contractor first, possibly even this afternoon. Please consider visiting me in jail and maybe getting Snap's recipe for cinnamon buttons so you could bring me some if you're feeling kindly.

The contractor is coming over this afternoon to discuss the bill and the totally unexpected $15,000 overrun. We are expecting a call from an architect friend in Paris whom we've used as a sort of consultant on contractor stuff. Mr. Salsa leaves tomorrow for a 12-day boat trip (work) and I leave a week from today for another week in Albany to help my mother move to assisted living. We are still definitely in la vida loca territory. But after we went to the Bellevue Botanical Garden D'Lights show, we went to the local Ethiopian restaurant, which was great. We'll go for a tandem ride sometime today, although maybe only 30 miles. So things could be worse...

CC, congrats on the 12-hour! I'd be bonkers, I expect. How fun to finally see pics of you and Ian--now I know who I'm talking to when I babble about football and Lake Taupo.

Fine limerick, X. Team Addled. I think I'll add it to my profile with Mimi's permission.

Any future business I do with contractors will have to include a materials clause that provides steady valium. Or something like that. Or, maybe just the flamethrower. I may like the latter better, come to think of it.

**Bikingmomof3** · 12-10-2006, 09:56 AM