I hope ya'll are using this day wisely...as in shopping for my birthday present !!! Only five days away, and mail is slow this time of year !!!

ROFL !!! Happy Holidays Everyone !!!

I'm thinking doggie diapers- supersized ones. Just saying.

ROFL!! Or perhaps some seat covers for the SUV...?

Today was a work day for me...but it was a light duty day and the work portion is over now. Removed 4 cu. yds. of junk from a client's basement and took it to the dump. Yes, the dump IS open on President's Day...

Choke...gasp...SPEW!!! ROFL !!!





If any car gets new seat covers - it will be mine first, lol. (to replace the 2" of cat litter covered by a shower curtain and then a giant beach towel)


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And don't forget one of those neat pine trees hanging off the rearview mirror...


...or twelve.

Perhaps its time to look into a re-upholstery?

Now you're talking !!! Just scribble "Happy Birthday" on the outside of the box and send it to .... etc.

Actually- I think it might just be easier to completely pull the "Stinky Seats" and replace them. Send the old ones to some "deserving" relatives, who can use them as porch furniture. (A time-honored Tennessee tradition.)

Now THAT is funny!! Trey must be from the south!

Nothing wrong with using car seats outside of their natural habitat.

To clean the seats if they're still nasty I'd approch the cloth like a carpet. There's stuff called 'vanish' here (faomy stuff in a pink aerosol) which works wonders on removing stains and smell of most things (wine, vomit, blood, oil), though I haven't had need to try it on poo.

And no holiday here

The puppy is back to her old hyper self - and having to be contained inside at least another week with a cone on her head - and kept as inactive as possible. It is like trying to contain a volcano as it is erupting. I am also hyper, so we are bouncing off each other while I get cabin fever from being shut in while the sun is shining outside. GAAAAH !!!

Anyway, I look forward to catching up on the stories I've been missing as soon as things settle down here a bit.

I feel for you, mALX! I’m so glad she’s feeling well enough to be a real pain. I had a very exuberant dog who bloated years ago, the last part of his recovery was the worst! I was so glad he was alive, but I was ready to strangle him!!! Maybe she'll take a nap.

Glad to hear that everything seems to be going well for Dixie. I don't envy you the task of trying to keep the dog calm. I know first hand how much they just LOVE those upside-down lampshades around their necks. But soon enough, you and Dixie will be able to shed your cabin fever and enjoy the sunshine of BFE TN. Three cheers for the UT Veternary Hospital!!

AHA! You know exactly how I feel, lol. She is destroying the inside of the house step by step too. She has shredded the furniture, I don't know how many bottles of perfume/nail polish/etc. she has eaten, a twelve pack of TP shredded, towels ripped, cords eaten through, two carpets chewed, a small chain saw has gone missing, and my cat may have had some form of stroke from being chased.

ABSOLUTELY YES !!!!! I will sing their praises forever for their Awesome care of Dixie (and they gave my old Rottie an extra 5 years of life when he had his stroke (he finally passed at age 19 a number of years ago)

I have always bragged on Cornell College for treating horses - but UT Vet College has def got my bid on dogs !!!

Yay! I donated blood But oh my goodness my arm hurts like a... well you get the idea I forgot how thick the "needles" are. More like a hollowed out nail... and the nurse started wiggling it around while it was still deep in my arm! Me duele!!



Sergeant got like that during her recovery She had the bright idea of trying to hop the backyard fence and wound up impaling her lung. So once she returned she was put in the bathroom at night so she could "go" on the tile freely. Well she didn't like that. She destroyed part of the wall by the door and messed up the cabinets under the sink real bad

I had to set up a barricade, she was eating her way out of the guest bathroom and into the living room. Now my X-best cutting board is nailed in and several pails wedged around the guest toidy to keep her out.

Oh, eat peanut butter and drink Coka-Cola (not Pepsi or Brand-X) to build your red blood cells back up quickly. It is what the hospitals give hemophelia patients who have had a bleeding episode (and what Arch Mage Traven doles out to Arena fighters or vampire victims who have lost a lot of blood).

Blood drives I've been to also stock a lot of orange juice, so I'd suggest that, too. Vitamin C is very helpful at bolstering your red count.

I may or may not have partially torn a ligament in my leg tonight. I slipped on a teeny tiny piece of ice barely larger than my right foot and hyperextended my right leg. Couldn't walk home, so I went to the hospital and ended up getting a set of crutches and a knee brace. If it still hurts in a few days, I'm to call orthopedics.

Well, if any ladies need peenus butter, Foxy will volunteer to donate some.

Fresh Squeezed Florida Orange Juice is good for anything and everything !!!






Bless your heart !!! Hope that gets feeling better before the 3 days is up then !!

OMG Foxy, I should know better than ask ... is this another thing like chocolate fudge, chocolate pudding, or is this something more along the lines of ... goose butter? Keep in mind, your answer may determine whether I ever eat Peanut Butter Pie ever again. I finally ate chocolate pudding for the first time in over a year the other day - a year from the day you saw fit to describe what it looked like, lol !!!

Just for s**ts and giggles, I Googled "peenus butter". Google immediately assumed I had made a typo and directed me elsewhere. Here is the entry they gave, with the word "peenus" replacing the word they thought was a typo...

Peenus butter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peenus butter is a food paste made primarily from ground dry roasted peenus, popular in the Philippines, North America, the Netherlands and the United ...

Either way, I am so not having toast for breakfast.

Toast? My mind is downright filthy, and I can't think of a single thing that toast looks like that it shouldn't...then again, I never saw anything wrong with chocolate pudding or brownies till SOMEONE pointed it out explicitly on my thread - someone...Foxy! Before Foxy...informed me different, I thought the only food that resembled something it shouldn't was a banana turned sideways (Bill Clinton).

Toast? Grits, I thought surely you would be enjoying some grits with butter this morning. Yum!


Clearly we need Iron Chef TK to jump in here and fix us all something nonsuggestively palatable for breakfast.

Yes, save us TK !!!! We may never be able to eat anything again if this conversation continues, ROFL !!!

Gaaaaaak! Now I'm wondering about lunch. Something with no butter at all!!!

ROFL !!! I learned a long time ago not to discuss food around Foxy - and he infected my mind with his dherty in-you-endo, I was totally innocent before that !!!

Well I've got myself an interview for a job with a steel company having navigated a rather tortuous and inefficent application process. It's only a summer placement but with the option of a scholarship in my final year after it and should look fairly nice on the CV. It is all very exciting except that I have no idea what the job actually is and know nothing about steel or engineering. Still they haven't worked that out so far (online application, online tests and phone interview) and making the right HR friendly noises has worked so far...

Still it would be nice to know exactly *what* job I'm applying for (and exactly how their application process has failed to make this clear). A job's a job though.

Will diet coke do? The regular version is way too sweet for me... As for peanut butter.... I'll just have to not imagine what Foxy just suggested.... Cause I love peanut butter




Mmmm....That reminds me, its past breakfast time and I have a box of grits just sitting in the cabinet waiting.... ♥

Grits, not just for breakfast.

Did I mention, I made pulled pork tonight for dinner.

Olen, congrats on the interview!!

Here in the south grits have NEVER been just for breakfast !!!

Oh, and I agree with this too - Olen, Congrats on the interview !!

Hark, did someone call for me?

I always enjoy a simple breakfast of eggs on toast, though instead of sausages and bacon, how about some sauteed baby 'bellas and cherry tomatoes on the vine? Allow me to share my recipe for scrambled eggs (it's actually Gordon Ramsay's but I liked it enough that I now use it constantly).

Eggs: 3EA
Butter: 1Tbsp
Chives: TT
Bacon: As desired
Cheese: As desired

Add eggs and butter to pan
Begin cooking on medium heat
As the eggs solidify, alternate the pot on and off the heat
You be the judge as to when they are done, but leave them soft and creamy.

The key to making a nice, creamy scrambled egg (not that tosh you find served in diners) you need to whisk your eggs vigorously and start with a cold pan. Only apply as much heat as you need, and when you see the eggs are starting to coagulate, alternate the pan (make sure it has tall lips, by the way. Use a saucepan) on and off the heat. Many rookie cooks make the mistake of not understanding that you can quickly and easily slow or stop the cooking process simply by removing your pan from the heat source. Once the eggs are cooked, add the chives and whatever extras you might choose. Serve on toasted San-Fran sourdough for the best experience.

Sourdough bread makes any experience better.

Ah, well, I fear I shall put everyone off their nutrition if I continue to suggest exotic food, like balut and mealworms..



So I shall simply suggest a healthy, nutritious breakfast for all: two apples with a banana in the middle, and whipped cream topping the banana.

SPEW !!!! Are you sure that shouldn't be two ORANGES ???

Two oranges, a banana, and whipped cream, sounds like a smoothie! *whirrrrrrrrr*

Speaking of bugs, I miss chocolate crickets... They taste just like a crunch bar! ♥

... You eat crickets? As in REAL crickets or just chocolate shaped LIKE a cricket??

GAAAAAH! My parents took us to Canada and bought them for us as a trick, along with chocolate covered ants and baby bees. GAAAAAAK!!!

It has been one of those mornings. I just downed the last inch of cold coffee, then realized I don’t put cream and sugar in mine.

But at least I haven’t inadvertently eaten any insects. Yet.

As far as you know.

You DO have children- right?

Just sayin'

I've done that...not the insects, but the coffee thing...the future MrsOtherRick likes that french vanilla creammer stuff....YUCKO!

QFT - IMHO

I swear I have never spit coffee out of my mouth so fast. But right now, I am enjoying properly prepared coffee and relishing the fact the I don't have to be at work until noon. The downside is not getting home until later than usual on a Friday night...but that's ok.

I had to take off work a few weeks for my puppies surgery - and still can't find the time to sit down with a video game - GAAAAAH !!!

Lmao! They were real crickets dipped in chocolate

And people complain about my cooking...

As far as bad coffee goes I'm sure the uni is getting rid of their toxic waste in the stuff they give us. Well actually toxic waste might taste better, the cold dregs in my flask from the previous day are more appealing. Makes me wonder how they make it so bad...

I bet they make it once a week and leave it simmer until it is eventually empty. Coffee left for long periods of time is just baaaaaad

Well, lucky for me, it looks like I'm going to be fine. I can walk without crutches now (though not without pain), so I'm pretty sure I just pulled it really badly.