Socks @ MindSay 
mismatched socks
"Borrowed" from Noelle67
:) What is the meaning of life?
The idea that everything and everyone is connected in some way.
:) Does god exist?
Absolutely
:D Where does the sock that your dryer eats actually go?
I agree with Noelle67 . The tumbling of the dryer and the built up static electricity actually opens up a vortex to an alternate dimension. It sucks in socks and leaves pennies behind.
:D Why do mothers say 'because I said so!'?
Because it prevents them from explaining why and going into a diatribe of, "I've had a hard day and nobody gives a crap. All day long I sacrifice for you kids and your father and what do I get in return? I didn't spend ____ hours in the hospital pushing out your big head just to hear some lip from you! When I was your age my mother woulda..."
:P Why don't dad's understand why we're so irritable once a month?
Because they don't realize they are often the source of our irritation.
:P Why don't teachers ever let you go to the bathroom when you ask?
For some reason full bladders in the middle of a test or a lecture seems contagious. One kid asks to go and the next thing you know 15 other kids suddenly have the urge to urinate.
One of the good things about this trip is that it'll result in mondo overtime. My next paycheck will have 15 1/2 hours of OT. The one after that? Not sure, but probably about ten. And after this year's IRS debacle, I can use all the extra I can get.
It may, unfortunately, be time to consider a part-time job.
I have no idea if I'll be updating this thing while away. Certainly, I'll have 'net access in D.C., but after Wednesday, I may not be able to log in until I get home. No idea what the situation is there in my home town.
I just hope I have time to see everyone I want to. I really do miss my family, and can't wait to spend some time with them.
Just wish it could be more.
Before I unviel the new addition to our zoo, I would like to show you all updated pictures of our family's zoo! These fur babies are the old residents.
1. Is Tweek and Tweeter the Birds. We adopted these lil snots down in OK. Actually we got them from a pet store in Liberal KS. Most parakeets like to be handled but these two do NOT. So we do a lot of talking to them and swapping out toys for them.
2. These two boys here are the Guine Pigs. Eyeore and Piglet were the first new additions to our zoo of cats and birds right after we moved back. We adopted them from the Humane Society when we went to go look at dogs when we got back home. They are what we fondly call the "Fat Boys"! They think they need to be feed all day long! Again they do NOT like to be handled much, so twice a week we get them out of their cage and handle them either on the floor or on the coaches. Otherwise we just sit down next to the cage and pet them and they really don't like that either. I think it is because they were 2 years old when we got htem and the previous family didn't handle them much.
3. This is my Bitch Kitty aka Shadow. She has been with the family since she was a 6 week old kitten and she is now about 7-8 years old. She has made tenitive peace w/ Randy and now only growls and attacks him when she is in a pissy mood in the mornings. She is suppose to be my daughter's cat but she only claims her at night during the day she is more my cat.
4. This next fur baby is our new kitty addation. Cinnamon aka Sin Kitty. Sin is about 4-5 months old and still very much a kitten. We adopted him from a co-worker of mine. My co-worker's family took in Sin and his brother Spice when they were new born kittens left outside to die in the winter. They didn't want to keep 2 male tom kitties so I said I would take him. He is quite the pistol! Tweek and Tweeter aren't to thrilled with him because he hasn't learned that their bird cage is NOT a jungle gym and he can't jump from the sterio speaker by the TV on to their cage and just swing!
5. This next lil furry baby is my Smokey. Smokey is the kitten that adopted us by coming up through the duct work down in OK not once but twice! She is about 8-9 months old now and is officially my crabby prego cat. Ever since she got knocked up after out catting around for a week, she has decieded she is going to be a lil crab ass! She attacks Coltin, my boy and Randy on sight now; will not have anything to do with Socks or Sin anymore. And I have to throw her outside to settle her crabby ass down. She is still primarly my kitty.
6. And then we have Fat Man aka Socks. He is the old man of the bunch at 13 years old. He weighs a whopping 30 lbs and yes we do monitor his food intake and the kittens forced him into his 3rd kitty hood so he gets plenty of exersie. He is my 1st dog as Randy says because he comes to my whistle and follows me around the house like a dog does!
Currently, I'm working my butt off on an upcoming symposium that's in less than two weeks. Also, the annual D.C. trip in early May. And a whole bunch of other stuff that's falling further and further behind while I focus on these events. And of course, Boss B is back from her medical leave, now, so her work is also piling up.
Speaking of medical things, my sister had surgery recently. Gastric bypass surgery. Her doctor recommended it, as he said if she lost weight she could probably do away with most of her medications (including meds for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, fibromyalgia, and others). She came home Sunday, and I spoke with her yesterday.
I also spoke with my kid brother yesterday, as it was his birthday. I'm really looking forward to seeing him, and sis, in May.
Assuming I don't drop dead from stress at work before I go.
I got no nutrition, of course, but still...
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About ten years ago, I made a drastic change in my underwear selection. I switched from tighty-whities to boxer briefs. I tried a wide variety of brands, back then, and one particular brand was, without question, the best pair for me. (Jockey, if you must know... and I know you were gonna ask.) They have a lot of Lycra in them, and I like that. They also go about halfway down the thigh, and I like that, too. I like how the fly opens horizontally instead of vertically. I like how they cradle my…
Anyway… The only thing I don’t like about them is the price.
Department stores around here (the few that carry them) generally price them at $14 a pair. That’s rather outrageous, but the truth is, if you’re not happy with your underpants, you’re just not truly happy.
Nevertheless, this past weekend, when I went on a sock and underwear buying venture, I thought about my bills more than my balls. And I didn’t buy them.
Instead, I bought a 4-pack of Hanes boxer briefs for something like $8.50. And boy, do they suck. As the name would imply, boxer briefs should be long (as are boxers) and form-fitting (as are briefs). These were neither.
So, while I may have saved nearly fifty bucks by buying four pairs of Hanes instead of Jockeys, I look at it as wasting nearly ten, because the only way I’m ever going to wear these things again is if all the Jockeys are in the dirty clothes basket. And I’m not gonna let that be the case.
On the other hand, I took StalkerChick’s words to heart and bought a bunch of new socks. And then I purged about half my drawer, because although I have a lot of socks, many of them I never wore, simply because they were uncomfortable.
I'll bet I've made a homeless person quite happy.
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