I hope all you in the path of the storm stay safe...

Looks like a biggie... ...

Jack o’ lanterns: carved. Costumes: assembled. Pumpkin seeds: roasting. Blood sugar: elevated.

Happy Halloween!

Mrs. Treydog is home. And, true to her nature (i.e.- she is a nutball), the first thing she tried to do is run the vacuum cleaner.

(Sigh)

I suppose I should just be happy she isn't trying to get up on the roof to clean the leaves out of the gutters. Wait a minute- did I remember to hide the ladder? Be right back.

Good that she's back safe and clearly kicking (with that brand new knee).

Yeah Mrs. Treydoggie! Time to get back to your "famous artist status" painting - let Trey-man handle the housework! So glad you are home!

Yay, I’m so glad that Mrs. Treydog is home and feeling good enough to cause some trouble!

New Skyrim DLC:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRmdXDH9b1s&feature=plcp

Happy election day US! Finally the ads and phone calls end!

I think that revisiting Solthseim was a great idea on part of the devs. They're giving alot of things that the fans have been asking for in a single DLC. Like I've said before, looks like Bethsoft finally figured out how to market the DLC to their fans.

At first with their last DLC I was disappointed at the price, seeing a $20 price tag on DLC made me think that Bethsoft had just gotten money hungry but the quest was pretty great IMO and added lots of stuff.

I'll be buying the Dragonborn DLC just so I can revisit Solthseim in high definition and see it a couple hundred years later. Everything else is just gravy.

Obama just won... ...

Hands up who's pleased?...I know I am...He's a damned good man that one... ...

Wait!!...Stop throwing things!...

*Runs away*...

ROFL !!!

No comment.

Our household is divided on politics, and of course each of us KNOWS that he or she is right. Discussions are frequent and lively. I tend to vote for peace, love, and environmental regulations, while Mr. Grits can most politely be described as pro-business. He has taken every opportunity this election season to bait me into incoherence (though I confess I may have overstated some of my concerns). Last night he commented that we don’t really need a Labor Commissioner, and what does the Department of Agriculture really do?

We had a number of very important state and local elections in addition to the big ones, most of which went his way. I’ve met our new Lieutenant Governor. He is a prick. Luckily he doesn’t get to do much. Most confusing statement of last night: our governor-elect announced that “[We] will be number one again.” Number one at what? Sweet potato production? Was he talking about football?

This morning I was looking over Mr. Grits’ shoulder at the paper (which he hates me doing but does not remark upon), when amongst the election results I saw a photo of a cute little rabbit with a bunch of grass hanging out of its mouth. I thought it might be a comment on Washington State’s legalizing weed.

“What’s the deal with the bunny?” I asked.

“It’s about to be shot by a Republican governor.”

- One little known way to agitate one's spouse in TN - Offer to buy his car tags for him during the first term the opposing team is entrenched in the White House.

The Presidential Re-election committee is set up where you buy your tags for your car. For one dollar more than your tags cost, you pledge your hope that they will remain there another four years.

The grateful entrenched will inundate him with extremely large photographs of themselves thanking him for his support.

My husband got an enormous picture of Chaney smiling like a possom, W, and one of W & Laura together, then a smaller one of Chaney and his daughter - even the postage had to cost them much more than the buck I donated on my husband's behalf.

I was kept rolling laughing for weeks while giant picture after giant picture rolled in thanking him for his wonderful support and Col B. tried to figure out how they got under the false impression he would ever help them stay in the White House.

Finally his eyes fell suspiciously on me as the culprit source. Now he won't allow me to pick up his tags for him ever again - (saves me 60 bucks annually) But I still have that giant picture of Chaney I can pull out at parties and tell the story, so that dollar I spent just keeps paying itself back.

Surprisingly enough, Col. B. gets a good laugh out of it now too, lol.

I have been rolling over this since yesterday, mALX!!

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Well, you'll be alright for a dartboard for a while won'tcha... ...

You don't throw darts at a picture of Cheney, you blast it with a shotgun. That's what he would do if the positions were reversed.

At least mALX is getting some use out of what must be an ugly picture!

Well, just to show that we over here have as much affection for Dubbl-yuh as you over there...Well, our own former premier fared just as well... ...

Watch this...

I'm attempting NaNoWriMo for the first time in my life.

7,883 words later I have learned that I can, if I push myself, crank out 800 words per day, on average.

I've also learned that my writing style is probably too spare, or my current work is too sparse, for padding out to fifty thousand words.

Oh well, I can say I had a go.

I had to google what that was, but it sounds awesome! Good luck with that.

I just had some pumpkin pancakes. I'm not usually a fan of pancakes, but those were pretty good.

Lol, but then I'd have nothing to pull out at parties except my tape of an Appalacian Elvis impersonator. (One of the funniest vids anyone could ever see).

I have been very careful never to wear deer antler hats around when Chaney is known to be outdoors. Of course, I don't have any goodies on him like Harry Whittington probably did.

In the same respect, I am careful not to leave my briefcase around Hillary Clinton right before walking in parks like Vince Foster mistakenly did. Would hate to inadvertently be found to have commited suicide by by a gunshot wound from 3 feet away (confirmed by odd typed notes mysteriously placed inside my attache that haven't got any fingerprints on them).




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Yum! Pancakes!

It took a while for Col. B. to laugh about it, he was livid for about 3 days, lol. He is a staunch Democrat, to the point where he dominates every pre-election period with all kinds of propaganda trying to sway my vote to match his. It seriously gets to be a headache, hence when I was buying his tags and the sweet lady offered to donate a buck toward W's continued enjoyment of the White House - couldn't resist the temptation.

That would be a tough one to pass up on!

So, this morning Col. B. gets up and makes himself a spam sandwich and bowl of Campbell's Tomato soup. Being in his newfound lazy state, Col. B. decides to use his soup spoon to dip out the mayo and spread it on his sandwich.

The microwave binged that his soup was ready. So, without rinsing the spoon, he stirs the soup and heats it some more. Then he flings pepper in it and sits down to eat.

I pass by his den and he is sitting up staring into his bowl of soup.

"What's wrong?" I ask.

"Something isn't right about this soup!"

I come look, and white stuff is floating around in it. Now, I don't know he used the spoon in the mayo. So I told him not to eat it, it looked like moldy tomatoes or something.

So, Col. B. gets out another can of tomato soup and heats it - stirring it with the same spoon. Same thing happens.

"This soup tastes funny too! Will you taste it and see what you think?"

"That's a big N.O."

Next thing I see, Col. B. is digging cans out of the garbage to see if those white specks are in the stuff left in the can.

So, about 2.5 hours later, Col. B. comes sheepishly into the kitchen and confesses the spoon had mayo on it. It took him that long to figure out what the white stuff was.

Had we been in a restaurant, no telling what we would have suspected. URK!

Anyway, so that's how my day started out.

Doesn't sound promising.

We just had one hell of an earthquake here!!!!!

Wow! I hope everything is alright mALX! It hasn't hit the news yet.

It was all the way off in Lexington Kentucky, but the jolt was felt as far away as Atlanta and Pittsburg according to the Weather Channel - it ran down a fault line probably (all of ETN/KY is sitting on a huge fault line). But the shock went through all of ETN.

Why do they do that?!


And then an earthquake! Good grief. I hope everything's OK. I would probably not have noticed an earthquake here today. The Boy has been playing a new shooting game.

Now every time I see the mayo jar, I'm going to be giggling!

Halo 4 I bet. I just bought that one. Maybe I'll find time to play it too.

Halo 4 came out and my son didn't spend months begging me for it? He must be buying it with his own money! Urk, they grow up so quickly!

I've been in a 7.2 here years back, it hit quickly and then stopped - this was not as hard hitting as that one, but it kept going and going - then left behind some kind of odd air pressure afterward. Everyone got a severe headache.

Col. B. and I fought for control of the Tylenol bottle, then both tottered to our respective corners to sleep it off, lol.





Where is Foxy when you need him? This is November, he is supposed to be back now! GAAAAAAH!

Are you okay, Malx?

I am now, I was just freaked out by how long it lasted and that strange air pressure afterward. We had no actual damages that we've noticed yet.

Glad to hear you're okay, mALX! I'll bet that was scarier than closing an Oblivion Gate!

It was worse than dealing with Farwil Indarys, lol!

Hey guys! I just posted this in the 'now reading' thread, but I thought I'd share it here.

Recently I discovered purchased a book from Kindle called The Crew: Farron and the Xerxes. It's really good!

It's a short story which I think is planned to be a weekly series. It's kinda like Buffy and Charmed, or at least goes along with that theme, but it is really original and it's pretty darn exciting.

It's set in an English town called Farron and follows three teens who each have their own individual demon fighting skills. I'm rubbish at describing, but check out the book and find out for yourself!

Link to amazon page

AAAAAND my good deed for the day is done. Haha

Mmmmmmm, books..... Delicioso!!

Ha ha I really do love it! I only worry that if it doesn't get enough intrest the writer will stop doing them, so i'm trying to get an many people interested as possible! haha. Very worth the read if you like that sort of thing.

Yeah! You are a full member now, the PM I sent you finally went through, lol.


If King Of Beasts is reading this - I think you have to make a couple posts on the general forum to open up your PM box.

I see new people! Welcome, welcome!!

I used to read all the time for fun, then college started...

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@ EVERYONE - I will be going to visit my mom for a couple weeks, leaving tonight. As most of you know, she has cancer with no prognosis. I don't know how I'll stand seeing her and knowing it‘s for the last time, but couldn't take not seeing her one last time either. I'm going to stay as long as I can, but should be back by early December. Thank you all for the friendship and support you’ve given me through this.

Anyone posting stories - I'll catch up when I return.


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Our thoughts and prayers will be with you and your mother. Have a safe and meaningful trip, my friend.

Oh my dear mALX. We will hold you all in our hearts.

Glad you are getting to see her mALX. I know this year has been tough.

Have a safe journey, my friend. I hope you find some peace and comfort in the time you have together, and the courage to face whatever comes. You and your family are very much in my thoughts.

Boy , I missed a lot, you'll be in my thoughts mALX!
*bear hug*!!

But yes, I am back, my computer decided that working was overrated a while back! I'm almost face palming myself, since the first times that I tried to come here my Ps3 froze, using it's browser, the fix was simple, make a new Ps3 user and use that browser, I feel silly!
It does feel like i'm coming back home though! The Ps3 keyboard is like you're texting....