The Funny Pages - Tickle Me Elbow - The Original

[Jestgar]

I know how you feel. I've been a stay home mom for 14 years & done the job too well, maybe. They really don't need me too much.

Throw those free-loaders out! Then use your energy re-vamping your new rooms into you personal "Mom the Goddess" shrine rooms complete with whirlpool and resident masseuse.

[jerseyangel]

I'm just having an identity crisis, that's why I haven't been around. I guess I feel like I never accomplish anything important and I have no idea what I want to do with my life. Isn't this supposed to happen to middleaged men?

I hear you, Bunnie. I think a lot of us go through something like this at one time or another. Probably a good thing--really--keeps us from getting in a rut. There's a world of possibilities out there and something will click for you, it's just a matter of time.

[jerseyangel]

I know how you feel. I've been a stay home mom for 14 years & done the job too well, maybe. They really don't need me too much. They can fix food, grocery shop, do laundry & clean if they have to. The oldest can drive. I've been trying to think of what to do with the rest of my life. It seemed pretty hard a few months ago when I was always exhausted & couldn't go far without huffing & puffing. I got diagnosed with extreme anemia & Celiacs. The massive doses of iron & B12 have given me more energy & now I think I must figure out what to do with myself. I'm thinking 20 year old Sports Illustrated swim suit model.

Hope that wasn't too depressing for this forum.

Depressing? Nah--plus, add 10 years and we could be twins

[kareng]

Throw those free-loaders out! Then use your energy re-vamping your new rooms into you personal "Mom the Goddess" shrine rooms complete with whirlpool and resident masseuse.

Unfortunately, they are not so advanced as to have finished High School so I probably should keep them around. At least for heavy lifting, opening jars & reaching the top cupboards. Like the shrine idea....

[Jestgar]

Unfortunately, they are not so advanced as to have finished High School so I probably should keep them around. At least for heavy lifting, opening jars & reaching the top cupboards. Like the shrine idea....

Many many people get by without a highschool education.....

If they can tie their shoes, and know to button up when it's cold, I say you're good to go. Give 'em a jar of peanut butter (the Costco size - just to show you care) and a ride to wherever they want to go, and you are on your way!

[JNBunnie1]

Isn't this the feeling that precedes doing something amazing?

Tomorrow I'm gonna try making chocolate cake in the crockpot. Does that count?

[nikki-uk]

Many many people get by without a highschool education.....

If they can tie their shoes, and know to button up when it's cold, I say you're good to go. Give 'em a jar of peanut butter (the Costco size - just to show you care) and a ride to wherever they want to go, and you are on your way!

*nodding head*

The temptation to run away in my house is overwhelming at the moment!! (aside from the sub zero temps and no hot water 'til MONDAY for POete's sake )

I suppose me & Tel would take Alzey with us on our adventures...... we've always wanted to buy a hippy VW Camper van and drive around the UK.

Trouble is there'd be no house left to come home to

Morning Psills!!!!!!!!

Looking forward to the start of the Olympics this weekend. Seems only fitting we will be wearing our own attire fit for sking

[elye]

'Mornin', peeeeeps!

Cannot wait for the BIG "O"!

....That's The Olympics. . . . . . ........

Gnick is hunkered down in her house that is likely colder than the ski hills on Whistler Mountain, where rain is causing all sorts of uncertainty and stress for the alpine event organizers. . . . .......

There is all sorts of buzz and speculation on who will be take the final leg of the torch relay and light the big flame to officially start the Games. Wayne Gretzky? Nancy Greene? Terry Fox's mother?

Good lord - - people have actually wondered aloud about Celine Dion being in place. I believe that I will throw myself into the Rideau Canal if this transpires.

And yes, what to be when I grow up. .... ........ . .such a stressful, vexing question when posed during one's foray into their forties.... . . ...teaching? Hmph. Visual art? Bah.

I do wanna run away from home, regularly at this point.

I would like to become a shepherd.

Um, where do I get my diploma/degree in such a practice? The job would take me far away, would involve minimal stress and little communication/liaising with other humans. Not sure about medical/dental coverage.... .. . . .is shepherding unionized?

Must ponder this. . . . . . . . ........

[kareng]

Many many people get by without a highschool education.....

If they can tie their shoes, and know to button up when it's cold, I say you're good to go. Give 'em a jar of peanut butter (the Costco size - just to show you care) and a ride to wherever they want to go, and you are on your way!

They may be a bit lacking. One doesn't tie his shoes well - always coming untied in soccer & usually untied all day. Neither of them wear more then a sweeatshirt most days. They are good at shoveling snow, mowing & do handy work. They re-screened my porch. Hub & Puppy likes them. Can't stand a depressed Puppy.

[kareng]

Tomorrow I'm gonna try making chocolate cake in the crockpot. Does that count?

I think that counts. I am in awe of anyone who can make more then soup in a crockpot.

[elye]

I think that counts. I am in awe of anyone who can make more then soup in a crockpot.

Jeez, I am reminded of the past psillie days when a hilarious banter took place between those of us who talked about our great successes involving sudden crock-pot meals. We were deemed crock-teases.

[psawyer]

Jeez, I am reminded of the past psillie days when a hilarious banter took place between those of us who talked about our great successes involving sudden crock-pot meals. We were deemed crock-teases.

Those were the days!

[jerseyangel]

Jeez, I am reminded of the past psillie days when a hilarious banter took place between those of us who talked about our great successes involving sudden crock-pot meals. We were deemed crock-teases.

crock tease

Good tymes

[Darn210]

Em . . . I like yer new av.

I should have gotten a picture earlier of the trees around here. We had a two-hour school delay which we weren't expecting. We had freezing fog and all the trees were covered with "delicate" ice . . . don't know how else to explain it . . . but it was beautiful . . . and then quickly melted away.

I haven't decided what I'm going to be when I grow up. Hubby thinks I'll go back to engineering and bring home some $$$ so that he can take a much different job (read minimum wage with no responsibility). I told him eleven years out of the biz will be a little hard to overcome. I do know that I won't be doing the preschool thing long-term . . . maybe not even next year as enrollment is down this year and looking worse for next year.

Well, lots to do. House is a mess and in-laws are coming over for supper. Made a gluten-free cake (and cupcakes) for tonight and today(Valentines parties at school today.) I gave one of my cupcakes to the nurse. She likes to try all the -free stuff that the kids in the school eat. She made the peanut free cookies for the peanut free kids at school for today's parties. She thought they were horrible and was headed to the store to buy icing to cover up the taste The recipe was also egg-free for the kids that are egg-free. I found it pretty amusing and agreed that icing hides a lot!!! Anywho . . . she told me she was listening to a 5th grader telling his class mates that his mom made him gluten-free cupcakes and they were horrible. She said she was surprised because everything I have given her has been so good (Tootoodooo <--blowing my own horn). I told her to give my name to the mom (she's not allowed to tell me who it was without permission)who is just starting out with the gluten-free thang. We'll see if she contacts me. If she does so in a hurry, she can have some cupcakes out of this batch to try.

[jerseyangel]

Em . . . I like yer new av.

I'm still seeing Elsie and Charles--even after refreshing...

Still don't know what I want to be when I grow up....when I was young, the age I am now seemed so old but I still feel (mentally) like I did at 20.

[jerseyangel]

Swear to gawd....I just scrolled up seconds after posting and there was Em wif the two pups

Phab pic, Em--you look great

[kareng]

Don't know how funny this is but I'm making tortilla soup right now - stove top.

[Jestgar]

Still don't know what I want to be when I grow up....when I was young, the age I am now seemed so old but I still feel (mentally) like I did at 20.

I cleverly avoided having children and therefor have no need to ever grow up, or even get a real job. I think I'll stick with playing with expensive toys.

[elye]

Don't know how funny this is but I'm making tortilla soup right now - stove top.

Kerrrighn: It is funny. And weird.. . . how in hell do you make this? Sounds phab, actually...like something to which my kids would stare into the pot and say, "Cool! Soup made outta good stuff!"

I cleverly avoided having children and therefor have no need to ever grow up, or even get a real job. I think I'll stick with playing with expensive toys.

A fine strategy you carried out, Jyessss. Yep, this husband and children I suddenly notice in my kitchen or laying about in my backyard have certainly been limiting. Like, I have NEVER been able to become a shepherd.

[jerseyangel]

I cleverly avoided having children and therefor have no need to ever grow up, or even get a real job. I think I'll stick with playing with expensive toys.

I think I'm going through a second childhood!!

Hee! Em wants to pursue shepherdism

[jerseyangel]

Don't know how funny this is but I'm making tortilla soup right now - stove top.

Ha--see, but we can make it phunny Like how do you get the 'lil chips to stay crunchy whilst cooking them in hot liquid? Of course, it would have been slightly phunnier if you had decided to make it in a crock pot....

[kareng]

Ha--see, but we can make it phunny Like how do you get the 'lil chips to stay crunchy whilst cooking them in hot liquid? Of course, it would have been slightly phunnier if you had decided to make it in a crock pot....

I'll probably make something in a crockpot next week. Unfortunately, the tortillas get all mushy & disappear! OOOH! AAH! Its a magic trick.

[mushroom]

"Mornin oeeps" to y'all, too. Yep, just staggered from me overslept in bed, bleary-eyed, haggard (so what else is new); New day is it??? Must be I spose. Too bright though

I would like to become a shepherd.

Um, where do I get my diploma/degree in such a practice? The job would take me far away, would involve minimal stress and little communication/liaising with other humans. Not sure about medical/dental coverage.... .. . . .is shepherding unionized?

I believe the shepherdizing college is conducted in the Basque hillsmountains and involves much physical exertion and mountain goat-like agility and expertise. Soitenly not my cuppa tea. Need the kinds of shehperding I grew up with where they (at that time) got to ride horses (or lead horses up the steep bits). Now I unnerstand they ride quad bikes and only send the dogs up the steep bits--"Wayleggo Tyne" and a piercin' whistle or two and a few muttered oaths and you eventually end up with most of the sheep mustered at the foot of the mountain. They found a wily one a couple of years ago, named him "Shrek" and he became world famous in New Zealand for having missed at least five musters, had so much wool on him he could hardly walk. He travelled around the country as a celeb afore he was phinally shorn. So I guess you are talking about the solitary shepherd of Basqueland. There are still a few of those; come over to the US and take the sheep from the hotter parts of CA as it starts to warm up in summer, and herd them through the state/BLM/national parks and wildernesses working their way north through the Sierra, and when they hit Canada they turn around and bring 'em back again Mebbe dat's what you think of as a shepherd? And yep, I think they still have crooks (no, not dat kind, de uvver kind)

I'm still seeing Elsie and Charles--even after refreshing...

Still don't know what I want to be when I grow up....when I was young, the age I am now seemed so old but I still feel (mentally) like I did at 20.

When I was young (was there such a time?? -- aye, I guess there wuz) I thought I would be dead, or at least thought I wanted to be dead by the age I am now. It seemed so positively ancient, and everybody was so much OLDER in the olden days anyways and acted so o-l-d that life didn't seem worth livin' to young eyes. Now we live in the age of botox and facelifts smf liposuction and tummy tucks and eyebrow lifts and perennial youth if you believe Jane Fonda, but I thought last time I saw her she wasn't lookin' that hot either. Ted did well to get rid of her.

Ha--see, but we can make it phunny Like how do you get the 'lil chips to stay crunchy whilst cooking them in hot liquid? Of course, it would have been slightly phunnier if you had decided to make it in a crock pot....

Ah the poifect tortilla chip...yeah the secret has definitely got to be in the l-o-n-g simmerin' The longer you simmer 'em, the less toxic they are Still wouldn't touch 'em wif a barf pole!, though!

[jerseyangel]

It seemed so positively ancient, and everybody was so much OLDER in the olden days anyways and acted so o-l-d that life didn't seem worth livin' to young eyes.

OMGawd Shroomie--ain't that the troof!

[Darn210]

If you remember, I sent this out via email a while back . . . but due to the subject at hand, it's worth repeating (plus not everybody's seen it) . . .

. . . and no, it's not about tortilla soup!!