So, what's everybody doing tonight?

[BeachBaby]

As for me, I hung out at Barnes & Noble for a couple of hours, did a Target run, and am now kicking back with some hot chocolate, spiked with peppermint schnapps. :)

[AlienGirl]

1. Beer and oxycodone!

[BeachBaby]

5. Living dangerously, I see!

:P

[AlienGirl]

36. Eh, at the rate I drink the beer, not so dangerous...

Still counting down to my magic root canal day.

Tucker

[muffin1]

39. You shouldn't be alone...

I'll be right there!:)

[kayakjohnny]

43. Are you free next Friday night?

[Skittles]

45. SCHEDULING KAYAKJOHNNY FOR ASS KICKING

EGREGIOUS

[kentauros]

2. Sitting on a heating pad and trying not to move around much

:P

[AlienGirl]

3. Sounds like a good story, mind sharing?

[kentauros]

4. I don't mind sharing, but it's not as I make it sound.

Just another flare-up of the sciatic nerve in my left leg. It seems worse today, and after I thought I had been making progress for the last week or so...

I was noticing the prescription med ads on MSNBC tonight and wondering why they never seem to advertise the really heavy-duty painkillers

[BeachBaby]

17. Feel better, k?

(((hug)))

[kentauros]

32. Thank you

:hug:

The allergy medicine is kicking in so I'm starting to lose transparency.......

[Blue_In_AK]

6. We just got back from a fundraiser for Shannyn Moore.

She's trying to raise money so she can go on location throughout Alaska for her TV show "Moore Up North."

Here she is talking on speaker phone with Thom Hartmann who called to wish her luck.

[BeachBaby]

18. Very cool.

Hope you had fun! :)

[Blue_In_AK]

24. It was a great time.

Good food, good company. Good gossip. :evilgrin: Several of the local bloggers were there -- Mudflats, Immoral Minority, Celtic Diva -- and a good group of local progressives, three of the Assembly members, a candidate for governor. It was really fun.

I'm really proud of Shannyn. Our local media here is overwhelmingly right-wing and mean, so she is a very refreshing friendly, progressive voice. We love it when we see her on Countdown. Her TV shows have been so entertaining and so educational. She's had fantastic guests, and we've all been learning so much. Our bloggers up here are some of the best.

[gmoney]

7. watching a lame movie, considering going to sleep

trying not to cough my head off...

[BeachBaby]

20. Sounds like you have what I battled last week and this week.

Head and chest cold of the ages. Never experienced anything like that in my life. Spent every night coughing. Knocked me on my ass for 10 days.

Hope you feel better soon. :)

[lazarus]

8. enjoying some split pea soup

I had lap band surgery on Tuesday, and have been on clear liquids since. Tonight I was allowed to move to creamy soups. I'll be on that for a week or so until I can go to soft foods.

[BeachBaby]

21. Wow!

Keep us posted on your progress, k? :)

[lazarus]

28. will do

I was kinda afraid of saying anything, because I know there are people out there who think I should just exercise (disabled) and eat right (food addiction) and the weight will come right off!

[tango-tee]

37. Poor dear, that really sucks.

I do feel for you. Hope that you feel better and get to enjoy REAL food again soon!

Sending best wishes across the Atlantic for a good and speedy recovery! :hi:

[Kali]

9. just relaxing

I met with a friend I hadn't seen in 15 or 20 years. We gabbed for about 3 hours non-stop and that is a lot of human interaction for me. My jaw is sore.:rofl:

[BeachBaby]

22. Cool!

That sounds like fun. Hope you had a good time. :)

[Kaleva]

10. Just reading DU while wearing bloody pants and underwear.

Doc says I'm to stay on blood thinners as I haven't lost much blood and the discomfort is much better then risking getting clots in my legs again.

[LeftyMom]

11. Here's a synopsis of my evening:

Small, annoying human who shares half of my DNA and all of my attitude problem: Can I have some fries?

Me: No, I'm tired, you're sick, I don't especially want to leave the house. Pick something to eat out of the kitchen.

SAHWSHOMDNAAAOMAP: You're mean. :goes to look in kitchen: I wish we lived in a restaurant so I could eat fries all day.

Me: If you're just going to complain at me and not get any actual food out, close the fridge.

a few minutes later...

SAHWSHOMDNAAAOMAP: (holding NERF swords and axe) Can we roughhouse?

Me: No, I'm busy, and you're sick and are supposed to be resting. Plus I really don't want you tackling me and breathing on me while you're sick.

SAHWSHOMDNAAAOMAP: Okay, can I have some fries then?

Me: Didn't we just have this conversation?

SAHWSHOMDNAAAOMAP: You're the worst mother ever and I don't like you.

Repeat from beginning

[BeachBaby]

23. Wow.

And he hasn't even hit puberty yet. I'm not religious, but I feel like I have to pray for you or something. :P

[MiddleFingerMom]

33. Wish I could introduce you to my ex-wife...

.
... she was VERY adept at handling the EXACT same
attitude and behavior coming from me.
.
Consider yourself lucky. I STILL had not gotten
over the "Are we there yet? Are we there yet?
Are we there yet? Are we there yet?" phase.
.
.
.
.
.
Of course... that was just during sex.
.

[Wapsie B]

12. Oh just the usual, creating world turmoil, pestilence, and discontent.

I think I've done enough damage for one day.

[BeachBaby]

25. LOL.

Sounds like you had a productive day. :thumbsup:

[realisticphish]

13. Went to see "The Last Station"

(great movie, by the way)

Then some olympics, some homework. Blah.

[Iggo]

14. Laundry and television...like every friday. (n/t)

[redqueen]

15. Took the kids out to eat,

went grocery shopping, typed my notes and emailed them to a classmate... and now I'm avoiding picking out a disease that affects the nervous system to do a report on. :P

[flvegan]

16. My dane, Dharma, is totally blasted on dope.

Had his gastropexy today and he is just wasted coming down from his meds. I'm keeping my eyes on him, for obvious reasons.

[BeachBaby]

26. Damn. You've been through a lot lately.

Give the big boy a hug for me. I'll check in with you over the weekend. (((hug)))

[flvegan]

31. Some say...

you have no idea.

Thanks.

[mcctatas]

19. entertaining myself by texting my boyfriends daughter ways

to drive him nutters while simultaneously watching special needs kitty jump at a non-existent something on the wall. I live such a wild and debauched life

[Capn Sunshine]

27. you are truly an example for us all

Debauchery is an art form we all should aspire to

[donheld]

29. each other

[texanwitch]

30. Watching Leverage on netflix and making a big pot of soup on the wood stove.

Another wild night.

[AsahinaKimi]

34. Stayed at home..

Chatted with friends on IMVU..now about to go do twitter for a while!

[DFW]

35. For the first time in two weeks: NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The last week especially was a week from hell. The train accident that disrupted traffic between Brussels and Paris
was still disrupting train traffic between Brussels and Paris during a week when I had to be commuting by train
between Brussels and Paris. I got 80% of the stuff done I needed to do in Brussels and about 50% of the stuff done
I had to do in Paris, and NONE of the stuff I should have done back in Germany, for which I will now suffer during
the course of the next week in overtime in Bavaria.

An American woman who was interviewing for a position with us was here, and I took her out to the Brussels airport
yesterday morning. The Continental Airlines agent in the ticket line started interrogating her (she's a 28 year old
from Colorado) as if she were wearing a sweater with Osama Bin Laden on one side and Mahmoud AhmadiNejad on the other.
The Continental agent called over some Zavantem security guy to stick by her side through passport control and
security control with two extra searches of her hand baggage and two extra pat-downs. This was for no apparent reason,
and I think Continental must be skimping on expenses by hiring incompetent agents. Either that, or their Belgian
employee was being paid by some terrorist group to provide a distraction by harassing someone completely innocuous
in order to let someone with evil intentions to pass unnoticed. At any rate, I saw that Continental had just joined
the Star Alliance with United Airlines, which should only be taken in cases of extreme desperation and emergency.
Add Continental to this category.

But tonight, for the first time in two weeks (and probably last time during the next three weeks) I'm just hanging
out and doing nothing at all. My wife's mom lives up in a small village in northern Germany, and she had planned to
go up and visit for the weekend. Her mom is very good people, and even though she would have stayed if I had insisted,
I told her to go on as planned, and I would just decompress.

[old mark]

38. Evidently I slept through the parties.

What I do best.


mark

[femmocrat]

40. Watching the Olympics.

I am going to have serious withdrawal when it's over tomorrow night.

[HipChick]

41. Getting drunk,and then VPN into work to fix a database

I already put in something like 80hrs alone last week, and the on-call person is sick..

[applegrove]

42. Watching the closing of the olympics.

[Urban Prairie]

44. Waiting for this last day of February to be over with.

Then March arrives, and we are that much closer to Spring arriving on the 21st..Yay!!

It can still snow here until May, and this winter has sure seemed to be much longer, with only a few days above freezing and not very many sunny days, but the sun did peek out for about twenty minutes early this afternoon. We have so far been spared any very heavy snowfalls like the Northeast has had, but knock on wood, some of our deepest snowfall records have been set in March and April.