Well, now that I'm done with breakfast I guess I'll go put another coat on my toenails.

But they all mean:


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You wouldn't think one elderly gentleman would have so many whiskers on his face! You could probably dye your hair, too, and still have time for a perm. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Thank you for the clarification. Even I don't speak Clamoticon! I have farther to go than you do, so I'm leaving now. Well, right after I get out of my pj's and get dressed. No use trying to amuse me any more this morning. At least on the computer. But we could always embarrass your sister by misbehaving in church (for a change), if somebody does something funny!!!!!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

t&l

And a wax, and a facial, and a footrub, and a whoopin' for a rebellious small fry, and and and.

Well, puppy pads are those little plastic-backed sheets that you put down for paper-training puppies. Supposedly, they're supposed to be treated with some sort of chemical to induce puppies to do their business there instead of on the carpet. I tried using that so that Lacey wouldn't pee all over the kitchen (I had already blocked her off from the only remaining carpeted room in the house!). Didn't work.

I don't know what the pads I'm talking about are called. I just know that they are usually blue and used in hospitals to protect the bed sheets from leaky patients. Don't tell me that the hospitals in my poor lil' backward step-child of a state have something that the hospitals in the great, progressive. enlightened, and ultra-modern state of California don't have! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

Don't forget TarBabyicons either!!

I might have to go up and get the book and get started...but I owe SS a story!

Never a dull moment on this thread.

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I got that one from 2long.
Maybe it has too much for a clam.

Church was good?

SS

The pads are called chux. As a parent of a special needs kid I can tell you I am well versed in "pads". LOL And yus I live in CA so we do have them here. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Unlikely. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

t&l

FF is right about the name, although now economizing hospitals buy generic Chux, and they're simply called "pads." <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> There are the smallish blue ones, the middle-sized blue ones, and the super-size salmon colored ones. Doesn't really matter. However large or small those stupid pads are, however carefully or strategically you position them, however much of the bed you cover for protection, rest assured your patient will manage to find the one place the pad does NOT cover and leak, spray, ooze upon, or otherwise emit some noxious bodily substance so that the sheets are dirty and need to be changed! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> Sometimes I think they should make sheets out of linoleum so everything could just be hosed down. It would certainly be easier. And quicker, too. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

t&l

P.S. Hello, Smidgen. Feel free to browse in the feminine hygiene products aisle. No purchase required. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

On her birthday, when Neaksis was making the gluten "steaks" for shickabobs, apparently she sampled a little too freely of her product before it was cooked. By the time we all arrived for dinner, she was feeling a little, um, bloated, and not quite as hungry as the rest of us. Two days later, it doesn't seem that the gluten has budged a whole lot. It's just sort of lingering around in her tummy, kinda like a dead armadillo. I didn't know this until we got to church this morning, and she came up to me and whispered, "Mama, I think I'm suffering the effects of gluteny!" <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Everybody better be doggone amused by her pun, because she really wasn't that enthused about having an anecdote regarding her gastrointestinal functions, or the lack thereof, put on the internet until I convinced her the play on words was funny enough to be worth it. (Under ordinary circumstances, Neaksis likes to pretend like she doesn't HAVE any bodily functions! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />) Ha.

t&l

Yes and no. (Is that man EVER uncomplicated? Yes and no! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />) HP is perfectly capable of making acceptable social conversation with women in normal social settings. He's also capable of sitting there like a great lump, too, depending on which mood has struck him at the moment. He can be humorous, interested/interesting, intellectual, or something else that the situation requires. This doesn't bother me, since I'm generally off chatting somebody up myself.

What bothered me fairly recently, which I mentioned here at the time, was when he told the lady at his job how much he appreciated her hard work and how grateful he was...and how thankful SHE was for someone to thank her when nobody ever did, blah, blah, blah, then he came home and told ME the whole story with such pleasure in the good he accomplished. This from a man who disapproves of almost everything I do, who has trouble getting out a thank you for me that isn't pried loose from him with a crowbar, and who knows that his lack of appreciation for the things I do really bothers me. A lot. That interaction with another female bit, I have to confess. I don't know if he told me on purpose for its irritation effect, or if he really didn't make a connection between the two. Haven't tried to figure it out either. Just acknowledged briefly that it made me really unhappy, and then let it go for good. (Except for dragging it out into the forum for inspection just once more! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />)

I can't imagine him seeking a real relationship with another live woman. Anything is possible, I guess, but the effort involved would be foreign to him. He'd have to actually make meaningful talk with somebody, who would expect to know what he thinks and, gasp, feels!!! It just seems unlikely to me, at least at this point in his life. If he were going to do it, I think he would've done it sooner. Of course, now watch him go off the deep end and surprise me! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

t&l

I guess you'll find out when he shows up at your doorstep. Or not. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

t&l

AD--not trying to keep you from expressing an opinion. REALLY! I just don't know if I could bear the burden of knowing that "getting" me ruined one man's life, and losing me "saved" another's. If that were truly the case, then ignorance definitely remains the best way to go!

t&l

Hope he didn't pi$$ the wasp off! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> Hate to have him get stung THERE!!!!!!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Hope Neaksis is better

Sorry I was "out" last night, but I read your thread until the moment I left <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

BTW, I told you WH never said much and even less about the A, so don't think that HP can't surprise you! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

I don't think he has to say much to OW, she's prorbably not interested in him saying anything! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> just needs him to listen to her complain. Afterall, she's a predator OW <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />
Unfoertunately he seems to like that. Go figure!

T&L,

I was afraid that I would be unable to express what I was trying to say well enough to avoid giving the impressing which I have apparently given, but heartened by your general tolerance of me all the same.

I want to say that I very much respect your position of not "ratting" on HP about his faults other than the frustration you feel at not being able to communicate with him at the level which you desire. That you have real "dirt" on him, but withhold telling us about it, while freely exposing your own misdeeds, says a lot about your character.

Your current actions and mode of life make it very clear that you are a wise lady. I don't even begin to imagine that I could teach you anything about anything.

I certainly didn't intend to say (and don't believe) that you, all on your own, turned HP into the great clam, while sparing TSYTWY from some awful personality-disgiguring transformation.

I realize that I'm still not able to clearly express what troubles me about your attitude toward HP and TSYTWY. If it comes to me, I'll post it.

-AD

I decided it was time to change the title of this thread once again .... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> and guess what ??? the time has *expired* for me to edit my first post whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

I titled this particular post with my creation, so all ya'll could enjoy it .... I'm really sad about this <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> coz I thought the title was due for a remodel...... whaaaaaaaaaa <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

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