Common Ground Coffee House #104

Top of the Mornin' to Ya!,

And the bottom of it to me. :laugh:

Ann - You should have told me that you were contagious... I fell outside last night. I now have my right arm in a sling [messed up my shoulder], threw my back out, hurt my left knee, and [I'm told] have a slight concussion. When I do it...I do it good!

You'll have to excuse my typing, I'm using my left hand.

Tonight's dinner is LEFTOVERS. This cook is out-of-commission for awhile. I could try and cook using my left arm/hand only; but; I can't stand very long. * SIGH * fortunately we have enough leftovers to feed us for awhile.

I tried to make biscuits this morning, I'd tell you how it went, but Sue would end up censoring my post. Pretty bad when I can't even make hot biacuits to eat with homemade jam for breakfast. I ended up giving the g-kids $ so they could have breakfast & lunch at school. Usually they just have lunch at school. Had to find someone to take them to school too. Afraid the laundry, and housecleaning will suffer for awhile also.

Sorry guys 'n dolls can't bring anything into the coffeehouse either.

I'm going to lie down for awhile and try to get everything to stop hurting.

 

Oh Rob! Bless your heart! You really did yourself up good.

If it will make you feel better, it doesn't take a fall to get me to hand out money for school breakfasts. You KNOW I just love it when someone else cooks! That 75 cents just slides right on out of my pocket. :laugh: Come to think of it, my kids haven't had breakfast at school this year. Hmmm, I wonder why that is? They did it a bunch last year. Probably don't have any friends eating there. Cause that's what breakfast at school is; social time!

I finally broke down yesterday and turned the heat on. Couldn't get Jenna's room or my feet warm. Cass said Jenna's room was still cold last night, so I've got to check and see if the vent is blocked. Probably not, Jenna's room is usually the coolest, even in summer. Just need to turn the thermostat up a bit.

It was 26 degrees this morning when I got out to take kids to school. It is supposed to warm up to about 50. We have a promise of 58 tomorrow so I'm going to spend today sewing and paint the trim for Cassie's room tomorrow.

Since Rob is down, I put out some doughnuts. They're not home made, sorry. (not) They will give you a nice sugar high. Since I've had two and a half a pot of coffee, I'm heading off to see what's happening on the BB.

See ya!

 

Cindi's cooking is just fine, thank you. :saint:
Trust me, I'm an expert in these things.


In Algebra "x" denotes the unknown quanity[ according to Bitsy-the Algebra Teacher], and any plumber will tell you that a "spurt" is water driven by pressure.


So. I'm an unknown drip, under pressure. :tongue3:

 

Just to show you how well I really can cook, I put nacho fixin's on the counter. The cheese sauce is in the crockpot.

Ann, you doing the household cold? I'm really, really hoping that is not happening here. This thing Cass has is hanging on and on and on..... Chris had it and thankfully got rid of it, but now Jenna's complaining.

Down here, we have the school's to blame for parents sending their kids sick. So much fussiness about attendence! Always wanting a doctor's excuse if a kid is out sick, like a parent can't tell if a kid is too sick to go to school. And why would a parent want to take a kid to the doc only to be told what we already know? That the kid has a viral infection and there is nothing the doc can do. Oh, and the docs are supposed to be mind readers and sense the exact minute the kid will be well and excuse them in advance, so the school will accept the excuse, because an excuse implies that the doctor has seen a child on the day a child has missed. (yes, I'm confused too. Practically it means that the docs here won't write an excuse for a child they have seen two days ago unless the child comes in to be rechecked, because the schools are overstepping their bounds and bothering the doctors about how many excuses they write. And holding them legally responsible. Haven't figured out just how the schools are doing that. )

You missed my whole fight last year over just this issue because I wasn't to be trusted to know when Cass' pain levels from her arthritis and migraines was to high for her to attend school. (I won, btw.)

Speaking of school, I've got to head that way and pick up kids. I'm suprised that none of them have called me after last night's outing in the cold.

 

Alright!!!

Lets compare temps!!

It was 16degrees for a low --- 5:30am this morning!!

Current temp --- 48 --- 4:15pm

 

We had a high of 61 today. Currently 59 at 6:25 pm.
Don't know how low it went . . .

 

We had a low of 8 degrees this morning, with a high of 30 degrees. It's now 9:35pm and its 27 degrees.


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Anybody know what this is? It's 3 degrees below 0!:laugh:


Well, I just shot my night. I laid down at 4pm, and got up at 8:30pm.
Hope it works for my pain, because if it was a beauty sleep... I got cheated!!


Time to take another painkiller, and go back to sleep. My Wife checks on me every few minutes, due to the concussion I had.

Thanks for the Nachos MK! Don't let anybody tell you you can't cook! Give me some time, and I'll turn you into a common sewer, ehhhh I mean a conneseuoir!


I'll check in sometime in the morning. :sleeping_2: :sleeping_2:

 

No, no, no Rob! Don't tell folks I can cook! If they find out my secret they'll want to see and that means I'll have to cook!

You see with this cook it is less about ability and more about motivation! You see, I figured out real fast that if I could convince T that I couldn't boil water, that HE would do the cooking. It's worked for 19 years!

I'm headed for the bed. I tried karate tonight knowing my joints were already unhappy with me for taking them out in the cold last night. They showed me just how unhappy they really are during class. Couldn't work hard enough to break a sweat. Oh well, maybe by Thursday's class they'll be better.

What I really think is that my joints are reading Rob and Ann's posts and are warning me not to slip on any ice!

Ya'll stay warm. Brother Blackbird it is currently 37 degrees here.

 

Good Morning Everybody,


Don't tell anybody, but Cindi hasn't cooked in 19 years. T does all the cooking. Maybe we can get him to cook here in the coffeehouse.

Oh, and Cindi...I never said I had any ability to cook, I just learned to enjoy trying different recipes, and eventually got good in following directions in recipes. LOL!!


I ended up sleeping in the recliner last night. Seems like every time I move I discover something else that hurts.


Seems that I'm like the guy who went to his doctor. "Doc, when I touch my head,my head hurts. When I touch my arm, my arm hurts, and when I touch my leg, my leg hurts. What's wrong with me doc?" "That's easy son." said the doctor, "You've got a broken finger."


I still can't understand how I got a concussion with this rock-head of mine. Today I go see my family doctor, and I know that's what he's going to say to me.


He's the guy who once told me that I was the fattest man he'd ever seen. I told him I wanted a second opinion. He said "okay, you're ugly too!" [not really - but my doc doesn't mince any words. LOL :laugh: ]


I ordered omlettes, bacon, and pastries from the restaurant, and they said they'd deliver to the Coffeehouse.

Disregard the card - I told them to sign it Cindi [just to fool T. :laugh: ]

 

Thanks Ann.

.Now if I could just get rid of my headache, and get my arm out of this sling I'd be good to go.

I'm praying for you, and your surgery. I guess that means you dh is going to be taking you out to eat a lot while you're recovering...right?

 

Ann honey, did you forget tonight was Wednesday night? You've got to go to church, unless your preacher is giving you the night off (something I don't believe our preacher will ever do!).

I have your morning laugh for you. I needed to pick up the moulding for Cassie's baseboards this morning so I can get them painted as soon as it warms up today. T told me to take the jeep and stick the 16 ft pieces out the passenger side window. Well, I wasn't driving the jeep, I was driving my Rendezvous. Didn't dawn on me till I pulled into Home Depot that I was driving the wrong car. Of course I'm too stubborn to drive on home and come back in the right car, so I decide my car can do the job.

It did the job, but you should have seen me driving home with at least 4 1/2 feet of moulding sticking out my side window and me dodging all the mailboxes I had to pass! :laugh: We won't talk about how I used some lace trim to tie the pieces together cause that's all I had in the car. At least they weren't flopping about in the wind!

So today is back to the sewing machine. I'm starting on Christmas gifts just as soon as I get a blouse done that I need. Then as soon as it gets warm enough I'll take a break and go paint and then it will be back to the presents!

Thanks for breakfast Rob! Ann is correct, the third day after a fall or accident is always the worst. Not sure why that is, but it's how it happens here.

My joints are still screaming this morning, and I can't remember if I took anything. I hate when I'm this forgetful. At least my hands are not that bad for a change so working at the sewing machine shouldn't be to big a problem. I bet I'm headed for the doc here soon though. Makes me grumpy just thinking I'm bad off enough for a doc. MOTHER'S ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO GET SICK!!!!

Oh well, ya'll have a good day. I'm going to scarf an orange to go along with my breakfast and get started (restarted?) on my day.

 

LOL Sue, you make me feel so much better!

I have made progress today! My blouse is finished except the hem and the buttons and buttonholes. Cassie's trim is painted and whew! if the Lord hadn't stretched the paint I would have had to buy a quart for a few feet of trim. I dried out the can. Now all that is left to paint is her doors, all three of them. But those are going to be a different color and I was expecting to buy paint for them. It's going to have to warm up some before those get painted. It was almost to cold to paint today even.

So now I have to finish the blouse, which has turned out beautifully, hem the skirt I made yesterday and start making Christmas presents for teachers! The teacher gifts are fun stuff and shouldn't take very long, except the embroidery takes some time. They are getting embroidered Christmas ornaments.

Right now though, it is lunch time and then I have to find something better to wear and get dressed. I can't go to church tonight wearing my painting clothes! (no Wednesday church break like that liberal Ann is getting. )

Enjoy your nap Sue!