MetaChat - Three Point Status Update

1. Stupid low barometric pressure is making me all logy.

2. In a few weeks I'll have a nice new smile. Thank god for modern dentistry.

3. I love it when my boss comes in for only half a day; I get so much work done!

posted by Specklet 16 August | 11:53

1. I have a friend coming for the weekend tomorrow and a shedload of housework to do, but need food before I can think of it. So a lamb steak is sizzling, to be served in a couple of minutes with salad.

2. My damn cats have got fleas, and it cost me £43 in flea treatment at the vet yesterday (drops for their necks, coupled with some flea doom spray for the house that is so deadly it only needs to be used once a year).

3. If the weather's nice on Saturday I'll take my friend to the seaside.

posted by essexjan 16 August | 12:00

1. hurrah for this week's photo friday theme!

2. my better half booked us a long weekend in seattle the end of september. i've never been to seattle and am giddy like a thirteen-year-old. yay us!

3. brain hurts from looking up chemical data on internets. back at it in 3...2...1...

bizarre bonus 4. ex-ex-ex-EX bf from +15 years ago turned up last week and acted nonplussed that i was taken. let's just file that in the 'boys are weird' drawer.

posted by lonefrontranger 16 August | 12:07

1. My summer classes finished yesterday (read: w00t!).

2. My in-laws are visiting this weekend. A good thing, since I actually like them.

3. I'm bummed since I can't come up with anything for Photo Friday.

posted by fallenposters 16 August | 12:19

1. No coffee. Accordingly, there are no subsequent numbered items. Nothing happens 'til there's coffee, babe.

posted by Elsa 16 August | 12:24

1. Had a conversation with my future boss in Latvia this morning; it looks like I'll be missing the first day of induction for new staff, so that's kind of a bust. Luckily, though, I arrive Friday night, so I'll have a free weekend to get settled. Lots of technical stuff to review, but as I'm coming from far away, I've sort of taken it upon myself to make up the difference and have been super-diligent about reading and understanding all the guidelines/contracts/etc that have been sent my way.

2. I spent three hours in LA traffic yesterday to get an apostille on my teaching certification to please the Latvian work-permit-issuing authorities; luckily that's the only legal-eagle thing I have to do before getting there, and unlike my previous job in Indonesia, I won't have to lie to the immigration officers about my real reason for being there.

3. Shopping online for warm clothes this weekend.

posted by mdonley 16 August | 12:26

3. I'm bummed since I can't come up with anything for Photo Friday.

LOL!

posted by mdonley 16 August | 12:27

1. Did not sleep enough.
2. Somewhat cranky and glad people have misbooked their time.
3. Need food and good spirits of the non liquid variety.
4. Definitely not got my butts together for Friday.

posted by ethylene 16 August | 12:45

1. Have done all of my work for the day. I'm never this productive!
2. Best friend just had a positive pregnancy test - YAY! Now I just have to keep it secret for 3 months before she tells anyone else
3. Any minute now the skies are gonna open. Hopefully I won't be outside when that happens.

posted by gaspode 16 August | 12:57

1. It seems I'm fighting off an oncoming cold.
2. Exhausted.
3. Lots of work to do, about an hour behind on the day overall.

posted by safetyfork 16 August | 13:03

1) Just got my oil changed (in the CAR, numbnuts!) and new wiper blades, so I can stop feeling guilty about driving around a car that's 30 miles overdue for an oil change.

2) I should check out the yoga studio three blocks away and see how I like it. Today? Maybe.

3) Need to check a whole boatload of other things off the to-do list. And do laundry.

posted by Fuzzbean 16 August | 13:05

1. It is my Friday - virtual day tomorrow.

2. I love you all MeCha.

3. See #2. Thanks for being . . . here.

posted by tr33hggr 16 August | 13:18

1. Just got back from London

2. Brother's family going back to America

3. It's Over

posted by chuckdarwin 16 August | 13:18

1. Went out with my sisters last night to celebrate the youngest one going off to college on the west coast. We've been hanging out a lot this summer and I'm really going to miss her.

2. Saturday is the big Walking With Dinosaurs Live show. The girl has declared herself "blasting with excitement" and illustrated said excitement by running laps around the rumpus room.

3. I'm trying to bring back the term "rumpus room." It is so much more fun than "family room." I don't understand why it fell out of favor. Let the Wild Rumpus Start!

posted by jrossi4r 16 August | 13:42

jrossi4r, i concur. i also think it applies to more than family areas. for example the IT dept. in this place should also be called the "rumpus room". or perhaps "rumpus moshpit" or "rumpus area" in honour of the fact that they don't have walls to speak of, hence their rumpuses tend to spread.

they've been rumpus-ing all morning, actually.

*joins rumpus*

posted by lonefrontranger 16 August | 14:03

It's been FAR too long since I had any, er, rumpus.

posted by essexjan 16 August | 14:09

1. I looked at the sweetest apartment yesterday (actually the first floor of a house) and considering that I was the first and how well I hit it off with the landlady/upstairs neighbor, I am 95% sure IT IS MINE! (My credit check will of course be spotless.)
2. Tonight I'm going to Crate & Barrel (my favorite store) with the boyfriend (one of my favorite people) to help him buy martini glasses (my favorite kind of glass).
3. There is no 3.

posted by matildaben 16 August | 14:17

1. I've moved into the rising-excitement stage on my latest project, which is good. This one had an unusually long man-I-don't-know-if-this-is-going-to-work stage.
2. Excited to go camping tomorrow night, even if it looks like we're going to get rained on a little on Saturday.
3. I need a haircut desperately but can't bring myself to pay $40 to the woman who usually cuts it and leaves me dissatisfied with the haircut, but at the same time am paralyzed with fear at the thought of trying to find a new hair-cutting-person, and have been driven into inaction and run-on sentences.

posted by cobra! 16 August | 14:20

1. The guy training me stopped by to tell me how much I'm impressing everyone here and what a great job I'm doing, which made me all giddythrilled, and even more so when my manager called me in to say the same thing!

2. I'm getting a start on my tattoo work on Saturday. I'm doing a sewing machine on my right shoulder, and a tomato pincushion on my left. My artist is working out an old-school Sailor Jerry kind of thing for me.
Oh, and I have a fierce, raging crush on him. He's cute, he rocks a pomp like no one else, he's got some awesome tattoos, and those brown eyes that make your knees shake. My goal: get my inkwork done without making a fool of myself. Then ask him out when it's done (since asking him out now and being shot down would make the sessions a bit uncomfortable.)

3. I need to start working out again. I want my big butt to be less big.

posted by kellydamnit 16 August | 14:25

1: Just back from a loooong meeting in London
2: I've eaten far too much food today
3: I'm going to bake a loaf of soda bread for tomorrow's lunch

posted by TheDonF 16 August | 14:29

Reports from Kellydamnitland always make me feel better.

posted by ethylene 16 August | 14:30

Yeah! Join the revolution, LFR! Family Rooms are for squares, man.

posted by jrossi4r 16 August | 14:34

Oh and TPS, is it a plantar's wart? I'm doing the duct tape treatment on one of my very own as we speak.

posted by jrossi4r 16 August | 14:35

No, I think it was a flat wart (it kinda seemed like a big, thick callus on the top of my foot, but weeks of lotion and scrubbing didn't fix it, and it started to spread). Although I'm not really sure. All I know is that I put the wart stuff on starting Monday, and today, everything just peeled off (it was like the joy of taking off a Biore nose strip x 100- so gross and beautiful). I now have 2 white patches, where all the new skin is.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 16 August | 14:47

I'm always impressed with people who have enough rooms to have either a rumpus room or family room! [1]

[1]I always think of rumpus rooms to be sort of finished rooms, maybe not so polished, mostly the domain of kids, and family rooms to be rich person living rooms, like, in place of the formal living room no one is allowed to go in, but basically like normal person living rooms. So mentally I see them as different things.

posted by kellydamnit 16 August | 14:51

When the Japanese pharmaceutical giant, Kao Corporation, was first rolling out the Bioré line of cosmetics and cleansers, I was hired to teach junior executives to present their products in English at meetings and trade shows in the US. Every time I see the name, I feel a rush of pride (it was such a fun class).

posted by Hugh Janus 16 August | 14:53

i can never get those Biore strips to work worth a damn. You know who gets a good forest o' crap on a Biore pore strip? Guys.

i always think of rumpus rooms as finished basements.

posted by ethylene 16 August | 14:56

4. What kind of wart remover if you don't mind me asking?

posted by safetyfork 16 August | 15:08

When I loaded the page I was right next to ThePinkSuperhero, I swear. Plus, I'm serious about the brand. Also on the swearing front, I could've sworn I saw Hugh J. today (the, not a).

posted by safetyfork 16 August | 15:10

I got the Duane Reade liquid wart remover. I bought it because it was the cheapest, lol.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 16 August | 15:11

Where was I?

posted by Hugh Janus 16 August | 15:12

You killed it and at a cost. Good work. I have to do the same.

posted by safetyfork 16 August | 15:13

eth- same here! Ours was a finished basement growing up.

And those biore strips... yeah. I think I'm allergic to the glue they use or something. Badness happened.

posted by kellydamnit 16 August | 15:13

Waiting for the subway at the 23rd Ely stop about 10 mins to 9am wearing a blue blazer and darkish khakis. It could've been a double Hugh, but I could've sworn it was you. I hopped on the next train coming in and so didn't have the opportunity to shout "Hugh Janus" in the station, which is something I've wanted to do for some time.

posted by safetyfork 16 August | 15:16

That was me.

posted by Hugh Janus 16 August | 15:16

Next time I will miss the train to make the call then! I have a newish route to work. I'm through that stop twice daily now.

posted by safetyfork 16 August | 15:18

You know who I see all the time? Afroblanco.

I mean, he's not hard to spot, I guess, but every time I see him he's across the street and I'm not in a situation where I can just yell his handle out. One of these days.

posted by Hugh Janus 16 August | 15:18

Next time I will miss the train...

That's awesome, safetyfork. I always stand towards the back of the Manhattan-bound platform.

But I'm usually there a little earlier; last night I went carousing with hellbient so the snooze button saw a lot of play this morning.

posted by Hugh Janus 16 August | 15:22

I was a bit late today as well. Typically I head towards the front, but it's always from that end since I'm a G-train transfer. I'll have to keep my eyes open in the morning instead of my typical zombie walk.

5. Apologies for the derail.

posted by safetyfork 16 August | 15:26

1. Got the water turned off in the garage so that the small lake from the leaky pipe doesn't become a giant lake.

2. Noticed that the shower is at least partially draining into the power room below it.

3. Finally got the stove hooked up so that we can actually cook in the kitchen.

Home ownership is a joy.

posted by octothorpe 16 August | 15:33

1. I'm worried about husband's health at the moment. He has had a swollen lymph node and low-grade fever for 14 days. I finally convinced him to go see a doctor we know. Doctor friend gave him some antibiotics, but wants him to see his primary doc ASAP.

2. I spent this morning working at my walk of a cake job.

3. I spent this afternoon shopping with my very busy, very Type-A friend and our children. I bought some obscenely expensive clothes and listened to her wheel and deal.

posted by LoriFLA 16 August | 15:36

1. "The Zoo": The first time we came to New York, our manager told his assistant, "Go show the Scorpions the zoo." And we thought, "The zoo?" So we went out to the street and the guy says, "Here’s the zoo." At the end of the song, you hear talking. This is actually from the street.

2. "Holiday": When I composed this song, my English was not so good. I was singing, "Da-da-dah, blah, blah, blah – hall-eee-day." I don’t know why I was singing it "Holiday," but Klaus [Meine] said, "Oh, yes. Perfect."

3. "Blackout": I had a big party with the Judas Priest guys. They wanted to drink with me. I said, "OK, we do it the German way: whiskey, red wine on top, and then beer." It ended up really crazy; the police had to come get me out of a stairwell. I couldn’t remember anything the next day, and Herman [Rarebell] said to me, "You had a black-out." I said, "Blackout?!"

posted by Hugh Janus 16 August | 15:39

Home ownership is a joy.

octothorpe: ain't it just? the mister just called to say he's got several estimates telling him its going to cost nearly $6K for some long-overdue bathroom refitting. *sigh*

spending lovely, lovely ducats on pedestrian blather such as commodes and the like is so... so... ghastly unglamourous. bleah.

posted by lonefrontranger 16 August | 15:45

HJ - that's far too much Scorpions. Copious amounts of early Iron Maiden can help rectify that.

posted by TheDonF 16 August | 16:56

Good luck with the wart. I had a plantar's wart. I tried the Dr. Schole's freezing. i tried duct tape. etc.

I went to my doctor and he said the Dr Schole's was a waste of money and good luck with the duct tape, but the only proven way to get rid of a wart is via the liquid nitrogen in a doc's office. It took about 4 months of visits every two weeks before I got rid of one of mine. The other needed to be surgically removed. I took a photo if you really want to be grossed out.

posted by terrapin 16 August | 18:30

1. I'm sweaty
2. The bimbonic wonder from upstairs sabotaged me with a books-by-the-foot order an hour before I got off, making that hour frantic and th carts bare (don't ask).
3. I have a blister.

posted by jonmc 16 August | 18:44

1. I made Mom chicken and veg for dinner tonight. She had seconds. Yay!

2. I am almost broke, but I have a full carton of cigarettes.

3. Going to a minor league baseball game Saturday night, even though it will be 100º at the stadium. The beer stand behind the bleachers along the first base line sells Yuengling, so that's a plus. Hey battabattabattaSWINGbatta!

posted by BitterOldPunk 16 August | 19:42

1. Wearing my TWA shirt from Old Navy - Up, up and away!
2. I got marked best answer twice this week on AskMe. Whee!!!!
3. I ate meatballs from Ikea for lunch today. They were delicious.

posted by youngergirl44 16 August | 21:59

Ooh, one more - 4. I spend a good 20 minutes taking butt pictures today. I have about 30 pictures of my butt and I think only one is good. *sigh*

posted by youngergirl44 16 August | 22:04

I was about to ask why you were taking pictures of your butt, and then I remembered.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 16 August | 22:34

1.I met Jessamyn last night!
2.Unlike Thoroughbreds and Lipizzaners, Morgans are not bred naturally.
3.I completely understand why New Yorkers who can afford it have second homes outside the city(technically I am, but I need to make my place liveable first.)

posted by brujita 16 August | 22:35

3. I GOT THE APARTMENT! Signed the papers about 2 hours ago, sitting on the deck, watching the sun set over Puget Sound.

posted by matildaben 16 August | 23:48

1a. I have a date next week.
1b. I have another date next week.
2. I'm not sure how excited I am about either.
3. Going on both anyway.

4. Still waiting to hear about mom's surgery dates. Will be flying home for a week or two when it happens.
4a. Dread.

posted by mudpuppie 17 August | 00:45

1. Just returned from my Aunt and Uncle's farm in Pennsylvania, dropping off my 14 year old son for a week. Had to drive through horrible, pelting rain/hail, with zero visibility to get home.

2. Pool party at my friend's house tomorrow!

3. Three day weekend!

posted by redvixen 17 August | 17:53

16 August 2007