HAPPY FRIDAY!!

Yee-ha!  It's here!!  And everyone in my office is off, so I'm taking off early!!  WOO-HOO!!  I have lots of leave to burn between now and the end of the year, so I'm basically taking off every other week.  I can't wait!!!! I hope you're all sitting down - I have a lunch date today, and a dinner date tomorrow - two different guys!!  THIS IS NOT A TEST, THIS IS AN ACTUAL EMERGENCY!!!!  I know, I can't believe it myself. The lunch date is the second date with this guy, and the dinner tomorrow is a brand-spanking new guy.  Well, I don't know if he's into spanking, that's really not something you want to discuss until dessert!!!! On Sunday, Gary and I are taking KB to NYC for the day!!  All of us but B have been, so this trip is really for him.  Gary said he's talked nonstop for four days about going to the Toys R Us in Times Square.  We're going to eat at the Carnegie Deli, where K and I will share a sandwich and a piece of cheesecake, B will get a hotdog (surprise), and my brother will inhale everything else on the menu.  Then we're going to take a carriage ride through Central Park, do FAO Schwarz, Toys R Us, the Hershey's Store in Times Square and whatever else we have time for.  I'm going to have to tie a rope around B to get him out of there.  I'm just looking forward to spending time with my guys.  B asked that I make sure I have enough gummy worms for the trip up and back.  I didn't tell him that I think he'll be passed out on the trip back. Monday's a blessed State holiday, and I'm sure my feet will be grateful! Heather Mod-i and I had steamed crabs last night - AUCE for $20 - and they were soooo good!! Happy is doing well, spastic as ever.  Yesterday, Mom came home to find that Happy had pulled some Halloween decorations out of a box and had them on the sofa with her!!  Crazy doggie!!  Mod-i bought her a flapper dress for Halloween - white with black leopard print, a belt and a pink flower.  It lasted on her for about an hour!!!  I'll get pictures when I can!! Well, what's up with everyone?  Have a great weekend!! Tia

Congrats on the dates!  I hope you have fun.... No comment on the spanking.   NYC sounds like it will be fun too. --E

Woo-hoo, Eric, you are looking FINE!!!!  Oh, sorry, still thinking about the spanking!!  But you do look great - you have such the chiseled face that was hiding under the fuzz!!! Yeah, I think it'll be fun this weekend.  I've kind of revamped my thinking about Mr. Right - I'll now take Mr. Let's Have Some Fun Right Now - less pressure on myself that way!! Have a good one!! Tia

Happy Friday (and dates to you too!!)   It's a 'quiet' day here, but I am swamped.   I'm sort of half playing cashier today.    Just helping out with a few things, I've got til after lunch and then I will have to do the Detention Center deposit.   I am trying to remember what that is like on Friday .. I think it's not so bad .. or I hope it's not so bad. Looking forward to the long weekend too.  I sort of wish we were staying home rather than the road trip to CT but we do need to see Mom and Dad and other family ... I haven't been since April and Mr Mo's not been since February. Hugs, Mo

Hey Moie - Have a safe and fun trip to CT!!!  Poor Lefty....make sure he's got Aunt Tia's phone number.  Although I don't speak cat, I know for a fact that Happy does!!! Hugs, Tia

so, let me start by saying that the past couple of days I have been an emotional wreck.  I cry for no reason...I get mad over something that I would have laughed at before.  It is truely out of hand...here is my example from earlier today - My husband had to get his car dropped off at the dealership for some work to be done, so I volunteered to do it.  I got the loaner car and parked next to hubby's car to switch out somethings that I was not sure if he needed or not.  I anticipated doing this, so before I got there I bagged everything up into 3 bags, figuring it would be quicker to just throw the bags from one car to another.  Well as I got out of the rental, this guy starts blowing his horn at me and indicates that I need to move the vehicle...mind you there was p-l-e-n-t-y of room for him to go around me...so, with gestures, I showed him what to do.  He continued to honk at me to move the vehicle.  By this point, I already had one bag in the loaner and was grabbing the second bag.  I turned and gestured to give me "one second."  Yeah, he didn't like that and laid on his horn.  At that point I was like "screw him" and I started just looking in the car, just to take up time   After a minute of hearing his horn now, I figured I had my fun and closed all the doors and got in the loaner car.  As I was backing up to leave the parking lot, he speeds up to my front bumper and laid on his horn again.  I put the car in park, gave him the finger and then got out of my car.  Hormonal pregnant lady had enough of this jerk!!!  I begin cussing him out and pointing my finger in his face...until the manager of the store came out and told "Mr. I love my horn" that I had done nothing wrong and that he needed to calm down.  I got back in my car, called "Mr. I love my horn" an "Impatient F%ck" and went on my merry way. Oh, it isn't over.  So, I pull out of the parking lot and who is behind me...Mr. I love my horn.  Well, thank goodness I was on a one-lane road, with a speedlimit of 30mph.  Yeah, vendictive hormonal biatch that I was at that moment, became the forgetful pregnant lady who did not remember where the gas petal was .  Needless to say, if he was in a hurry he messed with the wrong pregnant lady.  I took up at least 30mins of his time total today...all he would have had to have done was sit quitely for 30seconds in the parking lot or just go around me in the first place. Now I am just finding it funny...  That has been my week in a nutshell  Hopefully the weekend will let me relax a little! Leslie

NOTE TO MD BOARD MEMBERS:  No one, but no one, is to **** Leslie off - or buy her a baseball bat for Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Les, I love it - although some would say take the higher road - the higher road doesn't always give you satisfaction that being a ***** does!!!  And this guy sounds like he deserved it!!! Having said that, try not to stress out over jerks like this, they're not worth your blood pressure!! Oh, and welcome back - don't be such a stranger! Tia

Oh, Leslie .. I love it!!!   I can be the nicest most courteous person .. if you treat me that way .. but act like an @$$ .. and I'll set the cruise control for 1 mph BELOW the speed limit and let you sit on my bumper!!! Hope the day got better for you. Hugs, Mo

Tia you have to hit Dillon's Candy Bar! What fun!  http://www.dylanscandybar.com/ As for the dates, you are such a nice person if they don't see it, there is no dessert for them!  I will be thinking about you.  I love NY let me know if you ever need someone to go with you.  Shop are you nuts I am in! Hugs Kristen

Hey Kristen - I pm'd you about my trip AND my dates.  Actually, trying to juggle more than one guy is so beyond me I'm going to have to scale them back.   Oh, you're such a sweetie, thanks for the compliments!!! I really want to hit Dylan's Candy Bar and Serendipity when we go back to NYC in three weeks.  I would LOVE to organze an OH day trip there.  Maybe we can do something next Christmas!! Take care, Tia