Good morning Charles, thank goodness indeed.

Holiday weekend!!!! Wooooooooooooooohooooooooooooooo!!!

Well, for those of us stateside, anyway.

It is very posh - so not sure how I'm going to fit in.

I really love it and I can't wait to move in now.

Jaybus that is almost as disturbing as the Clay Aiken pins. However, my favorite jello mold of all time was Aunt Beth's from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation...the mold that had the Meow Mix in it?



For some reason that Kundsen cookbook reminds me of the church cookbooks compiled by the ladies at the local methodist church. I think something like 80% of the recipes involved Knudsen products.



Beautiful apartment! It's amazing what $720 will buy you in other parts of the country. You have so many cool amenities...

Oh by virtue of your British accent, everyone will think you're extremely posh. It just adds that certain cache!

Very good point!!!

I'm almost jealous But the house is slowly coming together now - we have glasses made of glass now instead of plastic!!! And I finally found some wine glasses I liked!

Awful night last night - Jeremy was meant to get home early so we could go out and get things for the party ( he STILL hasn't invited anyone ) SO we dash around the store in like 45 minutes (a record for me!) and head to Home Depot to pick up a plant (as you do). I kindly point out (for the third time in as many days) that his tire is getting flat and needs air. He tells me it is fine (again).

We go to Home Depot.

By the time we come out of Home Depot, I inform him that his tire is now beyond flat, it looks a lot like the flats you see in cartoons, where the rubber is all saggy. He looks again and concedes. But we have no pump (we took it out of the van apparently when we were clearing it out to sell, before we realised he had lost the title ) and he cleverly left his cellphone at home (as he informs me when I suggest calling AAA).

We go back into Home Depot.

Luckily the lady who served us on the checkout got someone to help us and they were able to pump the tire but you could hear the air hissing out of it. Jeremy then tells me that he drove over something on the freeway on the way home Exactly why he didn't sort it out earlier is beyond me - maybe something to do with the fact that he was an hour and a half late home from work

We get to Arco and he picks up some weird sealant spray that supposedly fixes flats and we rolled into the house at about 10pm... Great(!) 45 minutes later he is asleep as he wants to be in work at the crack of dawn...

Don't men realise that when us women nag, it is for a very good reason?! And that reason is because we know we are right?!?!?!?!?! Maybe one day he will listen...

AWww sorry to hear you had a crap evening. I can totally relate. When I want to get something done I just get so impatient and need it to be done NOW! C never wants to go out and do errands, so before I could drive in Miami it used to drive me crazy. (I'm so bad, I sometimes buy things in the shop just so I can have it, rather than wait a few days and get things much cheaper online)

But I will say, and it's probably not what you want to hear, but maybe you should give Jeremy a break. It sounds like he's doing a LOT of hours at work, and doing the best he can, and probably was just trying to put off dealing with the tire (though it sounds like it needed dealing with). And please don't go to any trouble on our account. I currently have 4 pieces of furniture in my whole apartment. A mattress, 2 patio chairs and a desk from Big Lots. While Maven is ahead of me in the furniture dept, she's still putting the house together too. Trust me, we're easy to please! And we can bring you stuff if you need it too.

Yay!! We had ours last weekend, well the last bank holiday before chrismas.

Guys - only 117 shopping days until christmas!

ohhh noooo, my mum's birthday is next week in Ireland. I need to send here something stat!!

Oh bugger!

Afternoon, UK peeps. Aly -- fret ye not. As Pointy says, we're all still in the moving in phase. I feel fancy because we now have a coffee table! We don't have any dining room furniture yet -- the room is filled with guitars and the back seats to a '72 Jaguar. We can bring whatever you like, sweetie. And even though I'm way soft when it comes to air con, I am not so high-maintenance that I can't deal with the heat. We're coming to have fun, not judge you on decor!

Moonpig.com for a card and Thornton's Continental for a pressie!!! Easy peasy.

Yeah - I do try to not give him *too* much of a hard time, but I know with him he is quite happy to go blow a load of money on something we don't need, yet we have something dire wrong with the van and he doesn't want to spend any money on it! I can understand because we want to sell it asap, but until we get the new title (which still hasn't shown up because he forgot to include payment with the form )

Also I know the last tire he had on there had holes in it before it got changed and even then he complained, told me it had been like it for ages and was "fine" I never thought I would miss MOTs...

Bring stuff I need?!?!?! Curtains?! Patio furniture, a dining table (eating in the baking hot living room or on the bed is getting *really* old)

I think at this point I will just be happy if the place is clean - we picked up another $10 folding table for some food space but we are going to have to utilise the kitchen counters as well and with the current numbers (Jeremy is still yet to invite anyone ) we have plenty of seating We also have beer and some red wine - need to buy some vodka and soda for mixers and I think we have some key limes in the fridge - I keep buying them cause they are cute then we never use them

Cleaned the windows today Thing is, there is some kind of crusted on stuff that looks awful that I can't get off - looks like thinned down paint... might need to take a scalpel to it... maybe for Halloween

Just as well because unless you like olive green, terracotta and beige, we're not going to be winning any style awards I just keep telling myself... when we can buy...

As for the heat - well we're working on it - it wouldn't be so bad if we wouldn't be cooking all day but the oven really heats things up which is nice(!) If we get the misters hooked up then it might offer a bit of respite if it is too hot inside You just have to dodge the sprinklers that water our patio flagstones ( ) when they come on It was really cloudy this morning though, but it was 100f at 10pm last night so it's a mixed bag. Currently I am sat under a blanket but I am getting a bit of a cough so I hope that it is just dust or something

Fun we shall have! Numbers are small so there are seats for (almost) everyone!! YAY!!!!

Aly -- I'm going to call you soon to organise, then I can get back to Pointy for our plans. Should I bring my blender for making mixed drinks?

still on a mission for a good dunking biscuit here in US. (see my post in movinghere - strange things) Anyone here found a good tea dunker?

This isn't the first time I've read one of your rants and thought 'Jeremy IS Bill!"

Seriously, we fight more about this than most things. If something needs to be done (like errands, booking things, contacting someone, applying to a job etc), I'm the one that tells him the "plan" and when he doesn't do it after I've given him plenty of time to get it done, I'll get irritated calmly ask if he's gotten it done yet. He proceeds to tell me that he hasn't gotten a chance yet and that not everything runs on MY schedule. I'll ask *why* he hasn't done it yet, he'll ask why I'm nagging him and there it kicks off.

Perhaps for my psych dissertation, I should be looking at the male brain in more detail in relation to procrastination.

ditto ditto ditto.

When I was younger I really thought that I didn't fit in to the stereotypical 'girlie' pattern. You know all those girls that go to the loo in pairs, and love shopping and all that stuff. But the more I read about other people's relationships and see myself in them, I wonder, are we all doomed to behave as our gender tells us???

Sorry if that's a bit deep and meaningful for a friday afternoon. But god! ditto to Aly and ditto to Gemmie!!!

Didn't anyone tell you?


There is a school for husbands. That's where they learn all the cr@p that drives us insane, and that's why they all seem to behave badly in the same ways, and yet stay their eminently loveable selves. Bastards.

Blender sounds fab - Not sure if you want me to pick up anything at the store later - I have lots of key limes But that is about it for anything vaguely cocktail-like


- Totally - I mean, don't get me wrong - I do all the things I need to get done that I can get done and granted, I have a lot more time on my hands than Jeremy right now. But even when I was in the UK and working full time - if there was something that needed doing, I would do it asap so it was out of the way and I wouldn't have to worry about it!! Jeremy likes to think everything through, how he is going to do it, when he is going to do it, where he is going to do it, why he is going to do it... you get the idea... and then he will think of *every* alternative way of doing it to make sure he gets the best one. So after a month he *might* be ready to make a phone call about the $160 verizon bill we got (after not getting any service from them). Of course... pigs might fly...

Now I'm beginning to think that Jeremy and Scott were separated at birth. That sounds spookily like the way Scott deals with everything. And I'm like you... if it needs doing, do it soon!

Then Jeremy, Scott and Bill are triplets seperated at birth!

Maybe it really is just a man thing... and there is me trying to not gender-stereotype... I just have no other explanation!!!

Well they accuse "women" of nagging so I think it's fair.

If there were no women in their lives, they would still be waiting for the right time to start on a never-ending list of errands!

i always think that it would be a really interesting experiment to leave things and see how long it takes for C to get around to any number of errands.

.... But then it takes to d@mn long, and I give in and do it myself. He claims things would be done eventually...

Jeremy called from work the other day and informs me that when he gets into work, he makes a list of all the things he needs to do then crosses them off as he does them... I think if he had been home he would have seen steam coming out of my ears as that is what I have been trying to encourage him to do for ages - I mean I even make the list - there is one now that has been stuck to the computer monitor for two weeks and ONE THING has been done off of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*sigh*

I gotta say my hubby doesn't fit that mold. Architects - they are very neat & organized!

Does that mean you are the complete opposite?!

I am (mostly) tidy too, but as far organizing stuff, he likes everything to fit like Tetris.

Hahaha - I can be kinda like that until I give up and just chuck everything someplace I can't see it!! It is a lot of hassle picking up and organising after a fully grown man... Goodness knows what our kids will be like

I am SO p*ssed off right now it isn't even funny.

I called Jeremy an hour and a half ago, about 4.30pm to find out where he was because he was going to be home by 3pm today as he has worked so much overtime this week that the company literally can't afford to pay him anymore. It would make up for him not being back early and allow us to sort out all the billion and one things that we have to get ready for our party tomorrow, but weren't able to after the fiasco last night.

He tells me that he will be back real soon and that he is finishing work early tomorrow instead but he just needs to speak to one of his employees first. I figure on the talk and the drive home taking an hour as he works 16 miles away. Thinking it would be a nice surprise/change to cook dinner for once (normally I don't bother as I never know when he will be back) I put some chicken in the oven on a low temperature so it is nice and tender and can cook for an hour or so.

I've just turned the oven off. I called his cellphone and there was no answer. So I called his work. I think I got the employee he was speaking to on the phone and so after asking for Jeremy three times he figures out what I am saying (!) and says he will check. He then tells me that he thinks he is "still fixing his van" because it "got a flat"

So this dubious spray stuff I was skeptical at best of got him absolutely nowhere... aside from work where he now appears to be stranded. I called his cell a few more times and no answer. Eventually I leave a sh!tty message about his dinner being in the trash and thanks for calling to let me know what was going on.

I've moved the laptop and some gatorade into the bathroom and locked myself in as I can't actually lock him out of the house (he has keys) and I am soooo mad. He just tried to call and I ignored it - I figured if he was able to completely ignore my calls and let me worry then he can just see how it feels right back.



I am so freaking mad

Aww I'm sorry.. I'm not surprised you're so angry! I would be exactly the same!

Bill is always doing things like that and it seems like every time it happens, he agrees to try and stop putting things off, though the next time something happens again and I call him on it, he just gets annoyed at me because "well I didn't put *this* off until later..." Like that matters when you've accomplished one thing out of the five.

*sigh*

He even tells me that the reason he avoids telling me whenever he thinks/does things is because he knows he'll get a lecture about doing it now now now, and negative vibes. So what happens? It doesn't get done, it just stays in his head until I ask him about it... and THEN he gets a lecture.

Did Jeremy even acknowledge that he should take this as a reason to start doing things sooner?

I'm going to visit the Salem Witch Trials in a couple weeks.

So excited, it's all so interesting and it can be used for research.

I usually get a 'oh, I forgot'. Then I'm like 'how could you forget something as important as xyz?' Then he's like 'well you know me'. Yes I do hun, yes I do. Then I usually get the puppy dog eyes.

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

God I hate xmas shopping. However, yesterday someone left a bunch of gift cards out on the counter in the copy room to give away (we often get free crap and gift cards from retailers we work with). They are all loaded with $50 credit....so I'm stashing those as x-mas presents for my mom and sisters Damn lucky find...but I think I might keep the White House/Black Market one for myself.



Have you been able to get out to the World Market store in Omaha yet?

And add Nicky and we have a set of quadruplets. The f'ing Bank of America has been a thorn in our side...after being a customer for 3 months they still have not sent him his debit card. The first two were apparently lost in the mail, and after going into a branch to complain they said that they would have it sent to the branch and they would call him. That has been approx. 3 weeks. I've gave him reminders a few times as week but he just doesn't get on it. Same with the paypal issue he's been having...they refused to x-fer his money from his UK bank account to his US bank account but they still charged him all the fees (basically, what happened was they took the money out of the UK account but refused to deposit it in the US account...but they didn't want to redeposit in the UK bank account...he had the fanangle with them just to get it redeposited). Now they want him to pony up additional money for putting the money back into the UK account. I will give him credit for fighting with them as much as he has...but dammit they should not have charged you for NOT PROVIDING A SERVICE.

I find myself wish I could just take care of it but these problems are completely out of my hands. I understand that it is frustrating for him dealing with a new system...but nevertheless you have to deal with it.

Anyways, my Saturday is looking like this:



GO HUSKERS!!!

Is it really football season again? Where has this year gone?

I do have to admit this year has gone fast. I'm quite sad that summer is about over...after all up here the weather was awful until the first couple weeks of June. It just feels like I got cheated out of a full summer of laying at the beach doing f' all.

That being said I do look forward to my American football

Ok - calmed down a bit now but have also hurt my hand... that added to the fact that I appear to be getting the same kind of bug I had last time (where I was in bed for three days, aching, coughing and sleeping and feeling guilty as hell for it) combined with the fact that I have had my so-called "monthly" for three weeks on the trot, I am feeling pretty crappy.

The good news is that I had a massive rant at Jeremy and he is not particularly enamoured working every hour under the sun either - especially when his fellow manager gets evenings and weekends off and leaves when she feels like it Oooh don't let me in a room alone with her...

I *really* need this party tonight... really really really...

As for summer being almost over... well... it just doesn't feel like it here - although it is cloudy today. Which prolly means it is humid - yuck It doesn't start really cooling off until the end of September though so And I am dreading Christmas - it's going to be my first one away from home ever

I hope you have a fabulous party Aly, I only wish I could have made it.

There's always Halloween

Oh yes, I'm looking forward to that.

I can't wait - we're going to start picking up things for it next week or there will only be Christmas stuff in the dollar store

And what I said about summer? It's raining now for the second time since I got here Owel Might not need that mister after all

YES YES YES YES YES!!!! I GOT MY SPEAKERS WORKING!!

I am officially the happiest I have been in days now Ok so I had to take my puter apart to find out what the heck soundcard I had then spent ages trying to find a driver for Win XP but I did it!! We can have cheesy Hawai'ian music at the party and I can listen to my music for the first time in two months!!!!

I am crying because I am so happy - does that make me weird?

Hey all! We have here;
Pointy
Jeraly (plus hub)
Tucsonchick (plus hub)
me (the maven)

We are drinking, eating, wearing leis, and talking about YOU!

i think my ex-wife traces her roots to there.

Now we're on to singing "American Pie" and chucking beers...

YAY!!! Drunken posting! Kinda.

Where are our pics?!!!!!

I saw a bumper sticker once that said "My ex wife's car is a broom"

We were driving behind a car when Bill was like "oh God..." I asked what and looked up to see a bumper sticker that said "Thank God I'm BRITISH"...