Hey look - It's Friday night

[AmyK]

Where's Raven with her Friday night musings? I see she posted some last night, but I decided I need a new thread tonight. I am in the midst of turmoil. Boxes are piled everywhere. We are moving out by the end of this month. We also leave on Monday for an 8-day road trip out to the middle of nowhere Wyoming. It should be grand fun. A huge, long vacation, followed by 10 days of packing and moving in with the in-laws until our other place is ready, followed by moving again weeks later when the place is ready for us. Ugh.

Despite the limited time frame to pack up, I am so terribly unmotivated that I just want to climb under a rock and go to sleep. I keep drifting back onto the computer, but I can't get the Mojo to create anything. blah blah blah.

My new computer is awesome possum, though! It is super fast and slick. I've got it all set up the way I like it too. But I really should uninstall the internet so I might get something done.

So what's everyone else up to? Know any good jokes? What's for dinner? Do you have suggestions for fun road trip games for a 2.5 year old and a 6 month old? Do you want to join in my pity party tonight? I'm giving away free virtual ice cream.

[Nevermore]

Had to come running to see who is stealing my lines, lol! Raven has just come through a month and a half of hell with no real end in sight albeit I have a vacation waiting for me starting next Saturday if I live that long.

Hmmm, moving and vacationing. I can't top that. Especially the moving in with the in laws. I definitely can't top that!

There is nothing exciting in my life right now except some fun stuff Debra is throwing my way. I am just a legal machine, all work and hardly any play. Got my period today which doesn't actually explain why I have just wanted to go on extended primal scream rages for a week but does give it a little context. I am not sure if my cat is dying or not but the vet is going to make darn sure that I pay over every last cent they can ding me for before they let me know (my apologies to any vets reading this: I do not disparage the entire race just my vet.) She is a purebred long haired Himalayan (oh oh, I feel a novel coming on...) with a smooshed nose. They are bred for smooshed noses which is a very bad idea. Whenever some guy gets the idea he can muck with evolution it is generally a bad idea. Anyway, I adopted her eons ago, would never buy because that would just encourage the idiots who think smooshed noses are cute. I say let them breathe through them for, say, ten years first before they are allowed to market them. Underneath her MASSIVE hair (which is to die for melted butterscotch ice cream colour with a lot of butterscotch on top and melted creamy beige on bottom colour) she is the size of a small gerbil. No guff. She has never weighed in at more than 8 pounds. We have to get her shaved every summer because her fur gets very rasta. Which is not cool on a cat. This time they mega mega mega shaved her down to the skin and except her head and she looks like a naked mole rat with a serious hair dresser. My cat, who stops people on the street with her beauty, is HIDEOUS. And she has a kidney infection or kidney failure (we wait to find out). And she has lost 2 pounds so she weighs less than 6 pounds. And I am going on vacation and have not been able to find a single soul who has agreed that babysitting a sick, possibly dying naked mole rat sounds like fun. So I have to sneak her with me which will p*** off my sister and the people we rent the cottage from. She probably can shed more from what is left on her head than a dozen tabby cats. I hate lying or deception which is what this will involve. And I am fat because of my period.

But other than that, I have to say that my circumstances seem relatively blissful, Amy. I would like butterscotch sauce on my ice cream, please. WAIT I am too fat to have ice cream tonight. Can I just get a nice cup of coffee please? Your vacation might be just the ticket--moving is going to be stressful no matter what you do so might as well just bail ship, enjoy, and stress out when you get back. I used to move a lot and discovered that moving takes up the amount of time you give it. I could move in a day and I could move in a month and even, once, in two months. There was no noticeable difference in the moves except in the amount of time I suffered. The longer I took, the longer the pain. So, congratulations! You are one smart cookie. Not only are you SHORTENING the pain of moving, you are planning a pleasure substitute. Hey, okay! Now ya gotta move over because my period and dying cat trump a couple of lousy moves, right ;)

[Pixeldigger]

[QUOTE I would like butterscotch sauce on my ice cream, please. WAIT I am too fat to have ice cream tonight. QUOTE]

So don't have ice cream, have a delicious, low cal frozen yoghout instead with pureed strawberries or raspberries on the top instead of butterscotch. The yog will help your gut go down and the berries are sinfully delicious and full of pick-you-up vitamins

I'm sorry about the cat, I hope she improves.

Moving sucks. I have travelled so much with my husband's job and likely to travel again once more before he retires and I HATE packing and unpacking, something always gets broken and it is sheer, physical hard work and I just can't do it any more.

I have a holiday to look forward to at the end of August, I shall tease you and not tell you the details now, but I will digiscrap it when I get back.

[AmyK]

I said a *virtual* ice cream, and it could be doused in butterscotch, or pure lard if you'd like. There are no calories involved.

What can I serve up for you, Judith? The berries sound yummy to me. I think I'll make up a blueberry, strawberry, banana smoothie. Delish! And I'm excited to hear more about your holiday (or see more). I'm going to try to scrap an album of our road trip, although you may not see it until 2015. I've got 2 pages finished of my wedding album, and our 5 year anniversary is coming up in a couple of weeks.

Raven, I hear you about moving taking as long as you let it. I think that's why I'm so unmotivated about the whole thing. I could pack today, but there would still be more to pack tomorrow. *sigh*

But I think a genetically altered cat with a kidney infection and an owner full of raging hormones trumps a few random boxes. I will have to think of something more sinister with my next post. Perhaps I will talk some more about my mother-in-law.

[Nightwolf]

*hugs* to you all

having a quiet Saturday morning here, although I have to go to work in about an hour :( still sitting in pjs and having my morning coffee.

Can't beat boxes, moving with in-laws, or sick cats so therefore the hugs ;)

[Vania16]

Amy, you can make mine the Moose Tracks with chocolate ice cream please - I'm loving that stuff! As for misery, I can't beat Amy's move or Raven's unfortunate cat, but I can relate to the "legal machine" feeling - I have edited more opinions in the last few weeks than I ever want to look at again! The end of the fiscal year apparently makes people think that they should crank out half of their annual production in two weeks! Anyway, it's finally passed now, so I'm just cleaning up the strays and trying to get my own cases written. In good news for the week, however, tomorrow Ursula and I are gonna have lunch, shop a bit and hit the scrapbook store for a Heidi Swapp appearance, so I'm excited about that! Amy, I hope your moving goes tolerably well and Raven, I hope your kitty situation works out - if they come up with a way to rapidly transport naked mole rats, I'll keep an eye on her for ya :)

[Nevermore]

Thanks, Vania, I may just beam her up...and glad you are at the end of your cases. Still debating with hubby re home or travel?

Pixeldigger, sorry, I am just so not the low fat good for you kind of person. If it isn't bad for me I usually don't like it. Fortunately, I don't gain weight (let's not talk about health, okay?) so I don't get penalised (I said we are not talking health). When I get my period I look like I swallowed a basketball. I feel like someone just threw me against a backboard a zillion times so it kinda fits, no?

Amy, I'll take the coffee anyway. But since it is virtual and no real work, please make it a latte. :) Thanks.

[AmyK]

I'm always up for hugs, so thanks Judith!

Lisa, I love moose tracks too! Have you had the Caramel Caribou? That's one of my faves.

And Raven, I hope you get to feeling better soon. Here's a double-shot latte for you made with coffee from the Kona coast. My parents are there, and have a friend with a coffee farm. ;)