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The Funny Pages - Tickle Me Elbow - The Original


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psawyer Proficient

He kept me up late and I got him up early...

How long did it take, after that, before you let him out of bed? :ph34r:


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Loey Rising Star

Only a bow tie? No wonder you didn't get dinner. :D

PLEASE keep the spice going for us old married pfolks. I love it!!! Details, Details, and more Details please!!!!!

BTW, been offline because Clark got even sicker. I've had to sleep in Tony's room because he sounds like Darth Vader. I He actually took two sick days and he usually only calls out when I need him. But after all he does for me he deserves a lot of TLC. Phone rang at 6:30 AM this morning. It was our son wanting to be picked up earlier today. He was staying until his BF ( a girl) left and evidently the airport isn't letting anyone without a boarding pass hang around. He was able to wait with her for Thanksgiving. I guess they're upping the security.

Loey Rising Star

I passed. Too much to do to be excited.

Yay and congrats!!!!!

Loey rolleyes.gifrolleyes.gifrolleyes.gif

Loey Rising Star

I only have a coupla days. Nathan and his wife are driving up from Texas. They'll be here tomorrow. We'll have Christmas this Sunday. Guess I oughta put up the tree :ph34r:

From here they drive to Michigan to see her family.

Hope you all have a wonderful time with your families. We'll eventually see Clark's cousins but not for Christmas. We saw my brother and SIL 2 weeks ago. We have a tiny family. Clark and I are placing bets on when we'll be ready for Tony to go back to school. As I mentioned the other day he has 6 weeks off. He's supposed to go visit pfriends back home for a week. I spent more on pfood yesterday than I have for a month and it won't last. I'm sure he's not looking forward to eating gluten-free.

OK, time to wrap the last presents before they get home. We postponed our company until tomorrow so I'll be offline til Monday.

I'll miss my psilly pfamily!

Loey wub.gifwub.gifwub.gif

Loey Rising Star

:P Sleep last night. More than 9 hours. I was sooo exhausted and I have sooo much stuff to do in the next week.

I take retake the GRE on Monday so I'm doing the practice tests for that. Gotta order all my transcripts, do my personal statement so's I can give it to the folks from whom I've requested letters of reference, last weekend of the play starts tonight, caroling on Saturday, Messiah sing-a-long on the 28th, gotta figure out a new class to take.

Bah.

Good Luck! I know you'll do great!!!!

Sending positive energy and thoughts!

(((HUGS)))

Loey

Jestgar Rising Star

How long did it take, after that, before you let him out of bed? :ph34r:

:P

I'm still a little sore:unsure:

How do I know this, you ask? :D :D

Damn life is good.

Loey Rising Star

So if you're congratulated for finishing, then you never really stop being congratulated, right?............ :D

I sooooo have not done any Christmas cards. Was planning on it. Maybe I'll take them with me tonight to work on in the car. That'll take my eyes off the road while hub's driving over the pass..... Maybe I'll be sitting in the back seat. 10 to 1, I'll be the one driving <_<

I've gotten this damn cold that's going around here, but I swear I'm skiing tomorrow, snot bubbles and all!! :rolleyes:

I need to take learn to be more like you..... Was thinking about trying this weekend, but found out the 'toe cleavage guy' from last year is putting us all up in condos-3 couples per condo.... I'm soooo not the swinging type! Well, not with these people anyways........... :ph34r:

Got the same cold. Clark gave it to me as an early Xmas present. Enjoy the skiing. You're not the type to let a cold keep you down!

(((HUGS)))

Loey


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Jestgar Rising Star

Went to my Brother and SIL's house for their winter solstice bonfire. When I went in, a bunch of the dishes of food had little 'gluten free' signs on them. :)

elye Community Regular

Went to my Brother and SIL's house for their winter solstice bonfire. When I went in, a bunch of the dishes of food had little 'gluten free' signs on them. :)

'Tis a wonderful Christmas present and surprise. :)

Gads.. . .went to my second big Christmas party last eve. .. . . ..... . . ..am feeling somewhat like this.....

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kareng Grand Master

Went to my Brother and SIL's house for their winter solstice bonfire. When I went in, a bunch of the dishes of food had little 'gluten free' signs on them. :)

What a nice surprise!

'Tis a wonderful Christmas present and surprise. :)

Gads.. . .went to my second big Christmas party last eve. .. . . ..... . . ..am feeling somewhat like this.....

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Your party was wilder than mine. I spent a lot of time sitting on the floor, petting the host's old sick Golden. Told the host ( one of hubs bosses) that I like dogs better than people.

:ph34r: He laughed and said he did, too. :)

jerseyangel Proficient

Went to my Brother and SIL's house for their winter solstice bonfire. When I went in, a bunch of the dishes of food had little 'gluten free' signs on them. :)

Wow--how sweet!

You walkin' more comfortably this evening? :P

Loey Rising Star

Went to my Brother and SIL's house for their winter solstice bonfire. When I went in, a bunch of the dishes of food had little 'gluten free' signs on them. :)

That is awesome and so considerate. Which brings me to a question I was going to post. We were invited to a New Year's Eve party in our neighborhood (a woman in my painting class lives up the block in our development). Everyone brings an appetizer. I figured a vegetable or fruit platter would be the safest as I could recognize it. Any other suggestions? Clark and I usually spend New Year's home with Tony but this will be a good way for us to meet our neighbors.

The couple next door to us that we really like will be there. The family on the other side is the the one with 7 kids and not really friendly. They're away for two weeks so they won't be at the party. I tried reaching to to the wife when we first moved here (she was pregnant with their 7th child) but she was weird so after the 7th call I stopped trying. I still gave them a present when she had the baby and made special Halloween bags with toys for her children.

BTW, dinner went well with Rob's friend from work and his wife. We really hit it off so I'm beginning to feel less isolated. He filled me in on some of the things he hs to avoid in his diet (at least he did for two years). My diet is going to be even more limited but I want to get well. I also know that, unlike him, I'll always have t remain gluten-free (he never had to ). He told me that the doctor I'm seeing will spend an hour (or however long I need) with me and will be willing to try anything that I might come across even if he's never heard of it. I wish I had gone to him when we first moved here.

Off to fold laundry (it seems to grow like weeds) and then my little girl will be here for tutoring.

Hugs,

Loey

kareng Grand Master

Bring whatever you want to the party but don't expect to eat it. Once the crackers and bread are being eaten, the crumbs will be in your carrot sticks and dip ( or whatever). I just went to a party where I got a drink, then stayed in one of the other parts of the party away from the food. It helped that we ate at PF Changs before and had the chocolate dome dessert!

jerseyangel Proficient

Bring whatever you want to the party but don't expect to eat it. Once the crackers and bread are being eaten, the crumbs will be in your carrot sticks and dip ( or whatever).

Yep--Make yourself a small container of veggies and dip while you're putting together the platter.....maybe a baggie of gluten-free crackers and/or Lay's Stax too. Carry a bag that will accommodate your snacks, grab a drink, and have a great time :D

Hope Clark is feeling all better ;)

elye Community Regular

Man, 'tis a good thing that we hadn't planned a Psilly Psummit across the pond in Gnick's neck o' the woods this holiday season. . . . . .. . ..:unsure:.. . . .psnough like they've never seen before . . . .....airports closed. . . . . .....

Ya diggin' out, Gnick?

jerseyangel Proficient

Man, 'tis a good thing that we hadn't planned a Psilly Psummit across the pond in Gnick's neck o' the woods this holiday season. . . . . .. . ..:unsure:.. . . .psnough like they've never seen before . . . .....airports closed. . . . . .....

Ya diggin' out, Gnick?

True dat! How you doin' over there, Nik?

kareng Grand Master

Man, 'tis a good thing that we hadn't planned a Psilly Psummit across the pond in Gnick's neck o' the woods this holiday season. . . . . .. . ..:unsure:.. . . .psnough like they've never seen before . . . .....airports closed. . . . . .....

Ya diggin' out, Gnick?

Nik, need to borrow my ski clothes?

Loey Rising Star

Yep--Make yourself a small container of veggies and dip while you're putting together the platter.....maybe a baggie of gluten-free crackers and/or Lay's Stax too. Carry a bag that will accommodate your snacks, grab a drink, and have a great time :D

Hope Clark is feeling all better ;)

Thanks to both replies. I figured I would eat before the party. Keeping a snack in a ziplock bag is a great idea. Clark will be in heaven eating all the gluten he wants. The last New Year's Eve party we went to was the year of Y2K so I was surprised when he said we should go. Evidently some people get rather dressed up for it. The woman throwing it is English. I might even buy myself a nice outfit for it.

Clark seems to be a little better but he used to bounce back immediately after getting sick (one day) and this is dragging on. I did sleep last night without his cough or Darth Vader breathing waking me up. He went into work today. He didn't want to take another day since Pfizer has a reputation for letting people go without you seeing it coming. He wants and needs to make a good impression. Luckily he's creating a software program that they're interested in. When they bought his former company (Wyeth) only 40 people were brought up here and they let more than 40 go at Pfizer.

Hugs to my psillies, biggrin.gif

Loey

P.S. Tony took a break from his game long enough to shower (again) and belt out his songs. He wants to join Acapulco next year so he's practicing. laugh.giflaugh.gif

Jestgar Rising Star

Hope Knick's boiler is having one of it's good days.

GRE taken. One less thing to worry about.

jerseyangel Proficient

GRE-at to get that behind ya :D

kareng Grand Master
elye Community Regular

Nik, need to borrow my ski clothes?

Or my Badass Snow Poodles? :lol:

GRE taken. One less thing to worry about.

OMG. . . .whot have I missed... .?.. .. .. .. G. R. E.. . ... . . .. .:huh:. . . . . ..is this a new brand of birth control pill??. .. . . . .. .. :unsure:

:rolleyes:

On the twelfth day of Christmas my puppy gave to me

A dozen puppy kisses and I forgot all about the other eleven days.

:lol: Gah.....so true!

Jestgar Rising Star

GRE-at to get that behind ya :D

:D :D

*sigh*

I think I get 'congratulated' again :P (I did fairly well on the math section).

mushroom Proficient

Can there be such a thing as too much congratulation? :unsure: Nevertheless, I'll add mine.

jerseyangel Proficient

(I did fairly well on the math section).

Well then, I think more congratulations are in order B)

Have phun!

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