General Discussion & Chat: Coffee and...for Monday, February 13, 2006, 1 by meezersfive

meezersfive wrote:
We got short shrift on the snow too but the outlook is for more snow later this week. Probably on the day I have to go somewhere. My car looks like heck covered with salt streaks and splotches, but I'm not washing it.

MaryE, I can relate to the sneaky dust bunnies, Sammi's always coming out of somewhere with cobwebs or dust bunny residue on his whiskers but he won't tell me where he found them and I'm not hunting them down. The new addition to our living room *decor* is a yard stick for retrieving jingle bells and other toys from under the furniture. Sammi has doubled in size and can't squeeze underneath anymore.

Last night's entertainment was a big brown paper bag, he and Souky actually played together without hissing or puffing up. Should have done that before. They were so funny. Mini looked rather put out at the athletics, since she wasn't involved.

FC, all three are now sharing the bed with us, having staked out clear territorial lines which are not to be violated. Samoa is making real progress at bonding, a good sign that she came to sleep with you.

Ebay! About two weeks ago DH asked me to bid on a car door panel for him, wanting to make a max bid at the last few minutes of $160. My computer was at the fix-it place, so I had to use his. I had Sammi on my lap, the keyboard was up on the table, so I was reaching over the kitten and couldn't see the keyboard well. To make a long story short, I hit the comma instead of the decimal point and ended up bidding $160,000 for it! Naturally we won the auction. I immediately panicked and emailed the seller telling him my DH was going to kill me and lucky for me the guy had a great sense of humor and cancelled the auction. But he's got a great story to tell his buddies. I'm telling you, I went hot cold sweaty dizzy in the space of a minute or two. Don't think he'll ask me to bid on anything in the foreseeable future!!

9kitty, friend and I picked up the meezer and he's in his new home. Poor thing looked like he'd had a hard time, but he was docile and didn't complain about the car ride. He'll need lots of TLC. Thinking of your DD and hoping that kidney stone gets gone fast! Better to know what it is and deal with it than be in pain and not know why. We wish her a speedy recovery.

Maria, Samson is getting plenty of exercise in that snow! I'm going to call my friend in MA when I get off the computer. She broke her tibia a couple months ago, so I doubt if she is shoveling either.

Sarv, your tax solution sounds much better than slogging through that paperwork. I would hate to do ours. It's way over my head.

Elaine, I can't tell you happy I am that it is cool down your way. In a day or so you'll know why. I'm having grits with my breakfast this morning, they are simmering away at the moment. YUM

Dcat, we don't have a Smoky Bones up here, sounds pretty tasty, Glad your kids were available to join you, and that they enjoyed it. If they were able to aspirate the fluid without putting tubes in, it bodes well for your MIL. Poor dear, she's had such a rough time.

Ann, we need to see that afghan! I don't have any partially done projects at the moment, but I do have a list of to-dos that I should tackle before the weather gets warm enough to go play in the dirt.

Hello to everyone else, I need to get myself moving before I grow roots into this chair....have a great day!

Sheila