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Randoms

I have an impromptu day off today. We've had some heavy rains for the past few days and the town my school is in (about 30 minutes from where I live) is currently flooding and being evacuated. I have no idea what this means for school tomorrow, and I'm worried because the town as a whole is pretty disadvantaged economically (we have a pretty high free/reduced lunch count). I hope my students are ok.

I had a bizarre dream this morning that consisted of me grocery shopping and trying to pick out cereal. That was the whole dream - I couldn't decide what kind of cereal I wanted. There were so many choices! WTF, even my dreams are mundane.

I was really into Christmas and then I started decorating last night. We discovered we have mice in our basement that ate through one of my favorite stockings, I can't find some decorations, and basically I am feeling all bah-humbug now. At least I have the day now to finish decorating, but I'm looking around at the dirt and boxes and feeling like I just want to sleep all day.

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  • Last night my H wanted to talk about this funk he's in and just needed me to listen and I ended up completely making it all about ME and totally handled it all wrong and I feel like such an ass. I apologized profusely and we ended up laughing about it but I still feel shiitty about it.
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    I bet her FUPA's name is Shane, like the gunslinger/drifter of literature.--HappyTummy
  • Well you do have some awesome cereal down there so I can totally understand why it would be hard to pick!
  • The other night, the South Park with Sexual Harassment Panda came on and I was watching it while waiting for Mr. Spiderman to get his 14th snack of the evening.  He came down just in time to hear Sexual Harassment Panda say, "That makes me a saaaaaaaad panda."  Then he looks at me and asks, "Wait a minute, is that where that's from?"  Turns out, all the time I've been saying it, he just assumed it was another weirdo thing I say/do.  I'm not sure what I think of my H just chalking up all my weird behaviors to me just being me.
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    "That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
  • Lorne is giving a presentation about his research in one of his classes today and practiced his talk on me last night. Every time I hear him talk about what he does, I'm impressed, awed, and so very proud of him.

    Evie is sick. She's been waking up every 45 min. - hour to nurse back to sleep. I "went to bed" at midnight, but didn't get to sleep until well after 2. And then she woke up three times between 2 and 6 when I get up to go to work. I know she's just a sick little baby, but I was incredibly annoyed with her last night.

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  • 1.  Last night I dreamed that I was walking by a construction site in NY and noticed that Jay-Z was the foreman, so I stopped to talk to him.  He told me that Beyonce was pregnant and showed me an ultrasound pic on his phone.  He said they were naming the baby (a girl) Halo, after Beyonce's song.

    2.  I continue to be annoyed with almost everything my aunt posts to me on FB.  If I post a status update, she has to comment with something completely off topic.

     

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  • I wonder if Halo would have a last name? "Z"? Halo Z?
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    I bet her FUPA's name is Shane, like the gunslinger/drifter of literature.--HappyTummy
  • I dreamed last night that I was a high school history teacher. One of my students had a crush on me, but since I was too old for him, he invented a time machine to go back in time and date me when I was younger. Then, in one of those random transitions that only make sense in dreams, John Mayer was serenading me on the street and trying to steal me from my high school BF. I remember my though in the dream being "What a douche. I can't wait to tell the CN about it".  Then, my alarm went off. The end.
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  • I found out on The Today Show that I've been pronouncing Isla wrong.  Apparently it's Eye-la (the dash do be silent), liked island.  I thought it was Eees-la, like island in Spanish. Am I the only one?
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  • imageFallinAgain:
    I found out on The Today Show that I've been pronouncing Isla wrong.  Apparently it's Eye-la (the dash do be silent), liked island.  I thought it was Eees-la, like island in Spanish. Am I the only one?

    You are not alone.

    I also realized I have been pronouncing Braun (like the razors) wrong. It sounds like brown apparently.

  • imageJen&Joe06:

    imageFallinAgain:
    I found out on The Today Show that I've been pronouncing Isla wrong.  Apparently it's Eye-la (the dash do be silent), liked island.  I thought it was Eees-la, like island in Spanish. Am I the only one?

    You are not alone.

    I also realized I have been pronouncing Braun (like the razors) wrong. It sounds like brown apparently.

    Hmmm. Brown. Well.

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  • Going through another "company's going down the tubes" day again and i can't stop thinking about the fact that i'd have a biotch of a time finding a job while pregnant in this economy and would possibly have to be a SAHM for at least a while and that makes me want to jump out a window.

    The commercial pronounces is "Brawn"not "Brown"

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  • imageFallinAgain:
    I found out on The Today Show that I've been pronouncing Isla wrong.  Apparently it's Eye-la (the dash do be silent), liked island.  I thought it was Eees-la, like island in Spanish. Am I the only one?

    That's my niece's name.  We pronounce it "Eye-la" too.

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  • My office smells like hot chocolate.
  • I don't think we're going to get a tree this year.  It bums me out a bit because I love the smell of a tree and the twinkling lights, but all of our ornaments and stuff is buried under a pile of crap we've been storing at my parents house. 
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    "That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
  • I have braces with metal plates on both of my wrists now. It makes doing anything irritating. Typing is like an Olympic event now.
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  • imageCaliopeSpidrman:
    I don't think we're going to get a tree this year.  It bums me out a bit because I love the smell of a tree and the twinkling lights, but all of our ornaments and stuff is buried under a pile of crap we've been storing at my parents house. 
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  • imageCaliopeSpidrman:
    I don't think we're going to get a tree this year.  It bums me out a bit because I love the smell of a tree and the twinkling lights, but all of our ornaments and stuff is buried under a pile of crap we've been storing at my parents house. 

    Wha?  How could you not have a tree?  Think of all the poor non-christians who live vicariously through you on this most wonderful time of the year.  CHRISTMAS TREE!  CHRISTMAS TREE!

    image Mabel the Loser.
  • My office is doing a Christmas cookie exchange and I have decided that I MUST do iced sugar cookies. I have to do 8 dozen of these, why not just do some simple drop cookies? Because I'm stupid and try too hard, that's why.

    I'm going to one of those Lia Sophia jewelery parties tomorrow night for a coworker. I am excited for female bonding and to develop my work relationships, but I went online and looked at the catalogue and holy shiznit that stuff is expensive. There's nothing under 70 bucks I'm pretty sure. I don't even really wear jewelery, and of course I'll feel obligated to support her by buying something. Bah humbug. 

  • F suggested not getting a tree this year, because Ian is a human wrecking ball.  I gave him a Lanie-face so he just shrugged his shoulders and said we could get a tree.
  • I can't wait to get home and tell Mr. Spiderman we're getting a tree.  "Sorry sweetheart, the internets demanded it."
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    "That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
  • Cali, you need a tree.

     

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  • I started reading this post thinking it was a WWCND post and was all. "Heymelina what the hell do you want us to tell you to do"
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    If I were a man (or fitty) I'd totally call my penis THE WIZARD - HappyTummy
  • imagemodb1rd:
    I started reading this post thinking it was a WWCND post and was all. "Heymelina what the hell do you want us to tell you to do"

    Hey, I'm still waiting for you all to tell me how to stop flooding, not have boring dreams, and get my Christmas mojo back!

    *taps foot impatiently* 

  • HT!  Look at your belleh!  I can't believe you're going to be birthin' a baby in 3 weeks.  It seems like just yesterday when you were sheepishly announcing that you would not be naming your baby Edward Cullen.  And now you're so close!  If you give birth on Christimas, will you consider naming the baby Jamesus?
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    "That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
  • imageCaliopeSpidrman:
    If you give birth on Christimas, will you consider naming the baby Jamesus?

    My instructions are for him to emerge between the 17th and the 21st so I can be home by Christmas, eating cookies.  If he messes up this plan and causes me pain on Christmas Day, his name will be Buttface.

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  • HT, "they" lie about the baby part. There really isn't one in there. They say things like Due Date and stuff to get you excited and then it never comes and people hound you night and day about "where's that baby" and no answer you give will ever be enough to get them all to stop asking. But, your turkey stuffed belly looks great! How are you feeling?

    I had a doctor's appointment today and they stripped my membranes (mmmmmmm BrAiNs!) and it hurt a wicked lot. Then they scheduled my induction date for 12/8 sooooooooooo... Next Wednesday, or bust.
    also, also... Someone is sleeeeeeeeping right now. America! FVCK Yeah!

  • Yay Hezz! Everything's coming up Milhouse!

    HT, fess up. Are you naming your kid James because of Harry Potter?

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    I bet her FUPA's name is Shane, like the gunslinger/drifter of literature.--HappyTummy
  • imageHezzerlah:

    I had a doctor's appointment today and they stripped my membranes (mmmmmmm BrAiNs!) and it hurt a wicked lot

    I'm not even kidding. I think the membrane sweeping may have hurt worse than the actual labor. It just didn't last as long. 

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  • Hezz, for like 2 days, I've been tempted to post something on your FB wall like "Dear Lauren, You are a selfish beast.  I hope when you finally come out no one hugs you and they all watch TV instead, and you won't know what's happening on the show they're watching because you've never seen it before."  But I haven't, because I suspect it would offend your family.

    Bethie--The choice of James wasn't due to Harry Potter at all.  My agreement to Ronald as a middle name is like 80% due to Harry Potter, though.

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  • imagesamfish2bcrab:

    The commercial pronounces is "Brawn"not "Brown"

    The one I saw last night said Brown.

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