Not location specific, No rules: Welcome to ILX heaven

Cowboy up, stereo up.

We could make them with wee apple bits in them to complement the rough cider. Or we could get drunk and burn the sausages.

This sounds like some kind of GENIUS. I will see no bands at all at ATP next year, I think. Just sit in your chalet and SCOFF SOSSIES.

Speaking of ATP, teh_kit friended me on teh_fasebuk! His picture there is adorable.

And, not speaking of ATP, the Middle East journal that looked like it was going to be really difficult actually turned out to have one-line abstracts. Wheeeeeee, that's 12 abstracts done in three minutes and an early dart for our heroine. Look out goldfish, your tank's getting cleaned this afternoon.

So fed up. I've been starting at 7am all week (getting up at "shit the bed time" as aldo would say) and I'm officially beat. I was attempting some e-training modules this morning and my brain hit saturation point. My hand refused to keep taking notes and instead started drawing eyeballs*.

This afternoon I have spent over an hour pressing F5 every 5 seconds on the BBC transfer deadline page and a Celtic news blog.

* I read somewhere that drawing eyes is a signifier of possible schizophrenia and worry when I start doing it so much

At least you weren't drawing dicks like that kid in Superbad.

I want to be kit's facebook friend. :(

I do love a chicken and apple sausage.

Onimo, do you have to start at 7am all next week too? Sounds awful. Especially if it's bringing out your psychosis.

Ms. M, he's right there, you can befriend him too!

Beth, mmmm, sossies.

xxxpost I've been doing the same on the BBC transfer page.

And nothing is happening apart from the possibility of Steven Naismith going to Celtic, which may be interesting for you but isn't particularly for me.

If you going to draw eyeballs you may as well be good at it:

http://www.picturedraw.co.uk/How%20to%20draw%20eyes.htm

Isn't it great when you get that uplifting feeling when a great track you weren't expecting comes on your MP3 player? In this case White Town and Your Woman.

I am mentally singing along and actually grinning like a looney.

I don't have to start at 7, I have been choosing to do so for the benefit of my flexi-time but I think I've done too many hours and my body is rejecting work :)

I wants sausages.

I don't have facebook. I don't think I need anything else to occupy my wasted time.

Thanks for eyeball tutorial GB - mine have all been a bit cartoonish compared with that. I've looked back through my notes and there's as many squiggly signatures as eyes. Is that a good sign?

I really only go on fbook for scrabble these days and that's usually just once a day b/c I'm busy. I'll probably hit it more tonight with a few beers. Always a good time to play word games.

"WAHT! Of course cnutface is areel wurd! FCUK YUO!"

I've looked back through my notes and there's as many squiggly signatures as eyes. Is that a good sign?

If the eyeballs start floating up from the page and circling around your head, cawing like crows, that's definitely a sign that you need to have a long lie down. That's as far as my art therapy training ever went.

good morning. i just gt a fabulous haircut. regular stylist, finally - i've been seeing her for like a year now and she's God.

swordfish was great (why is it fucking easy to cook?), thanks for the support yesterday!

SUCH A NICE GRAY DAY

Usually I get more work done when I'm by myself in the office. But I'm so anxious for the three day weekend to begin that everything is essentially a wash. :(

OK GUYS BIG NEWS: I finally have an Internet connection at work! Now I can internet during the day instead of waiting til night when the kids are asleep and everyone of the ROXOR persuasion is off doing fun things and sleeping.

wow that is big! congratulations

Wow, where do you work Maria? Wherever it is I'm sure it used to be a very productive workplace. ;)

haha ya

swordfish was great (why is it fucking easy to cook?), thanks for the support yesterday!

I will expect to see my share of the swordfish in the post.

=)

I work for myself, by myself, with myself in my own office. I've got a killer boss. And yes our office will now be less productive.

haha, congrats!

It's crazy ass wind and pouring rain here. Chappelle's on. I just finished a steak and am getting my drink on. Goddamn do I love Fridays.

mhmm. i just had some steak too, and am hoping for a good drink by the end of the night. i don't know how this will happen yet.

i feel i've been drinking 2 much liquor. i could really go for some wine actually. i should seize the sentiment considering i'm not always up for wine.

Ugh, the rain. Way to start the holiday weekend! Two and a half hour rain delay at the ball game, lightening shorts out the main scoreboard. They have the fireworks before it starts to keep the natives from getting too restless. The team could barely put together two runs, and the first hit by the opponents is a home run. Sat in a section with a lot of Korean fans because Chan Ho Park was pitching. He managed to get nine strikeouts, but with no support from his team it was a wash.

Best moment of the game: Park gets caught in a rundown on his way to first. He starts running toward home and tags, evenb though this won't do him a damn bit of good. The first baseman turns around to head back to the bag and Chan Ho starts up the baseline again! We got a big laugh from it, though his expression never changed at all.

Translation for non-baseball fans: a lovely night out with perfect weather after a horrendous storm, home waaaay later than planned.

That sounds like a suckass night out.

Mister M and I are going into Dublin today to the cinema and out to dinner. Tomorrow is our wedding anniversary.

Maria, we'll hold a benefit for you because of your Internet-related lost wages. It's no different than having a kid with cancer.

Happy Anniversary!

Happy anniversary Mr & Mrs Monkey!

I am just finishing off my 2nd bottle of wine in your honour :)

Happy anniversary! We finally drank a bottle of wine that I received as a birthday present over a month ago. Lovely. We went out to the Jamaican restaurant up the street, BYOB because it's a dry town. So I'll cinsuder (whoa, awesome typo, I think I'll leave it there) it our monkey anniversary dinner!

Ooh happy anniversary dear Monkeys! Hope the cinema and meal were fabulous :)

we're staying in tonight, as our luck seems better that way.

Aw, you guys and the niceness. Thanks.

In the end we didn't go out. I was a bit too periodic for the trip into town, so we stayed home and I cooked lovely dinner (free range organic pork sausages with mashed potato and a relish of cranberries, leek, apple, and maple syrup) and we watched Gilmore Girls and drank maple wine (not, perhaps, the most successful wine in the world, but interesting). It was a lovely evening.

Right now this second, Mister M is making wild mushroom omelettes for breakfast. Later we are going to my mother's for dinner where I can hear all about the Edinburgh Fringe this year.

Happy Monkey Anniversary.

That sounds like it should be an actual one, for a set number of years, where people buy you monkeys.

Maple wine? If I was the sort to use worried-face emoticons, there'd be a whole herd of 'em right here:

Maple Monkeys sounds like a band.

aww Gilmore Girls =)

Okay threadies, here are some Bill pics!

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/billincrowd.jpg

towering over the welll-shampooed heads of Martha's Vineyard

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/billwithkids2.jpg

With demonic children

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/billwithkids.jpg

Again

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/billwithboy.jpg

A Good Child, finally.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/billanddog.jpg

Greeting a very cute doggy.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/billwaving.jpg

Bye, Bill!

That's Hillary's hand in pink.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/pinkhouse.jpg

...and here's the pink house right near where the Hillary rave-up took place. It's a labyrinthine neighborhood, fun to walk through after dinner in an Oak Bluffs restaurant.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/inthesandbarcropped.jpg

but not this restaurant. Okay appetizers, bad entrees.

thanks beth! those are so great - the kids are amazing. bill looks chemical peeled and beautiful, and hillary's hand is fantastic.

^^^^ AWESOME PICS!

I should visit this thread more often. Happy Labor Day ILX Heaven residents!

Happy anniversary, Trish and Mr. Monkey!

I've been in Atlanta all weekend, a trip planned at the last minute. Made it a grocery run -- Whole Foods, Trader Joes, Super H Mart (Korean megamarket) and of course the Dekalb Farmers Market, the be-all and end-all. I am so freaking tired I can't see straight.

sounds rewarding tho =)