Not location specific, No rules: Welcome to ILX heaven

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 =)

Wow, it's luck Mr. Beth Parker found you, Beth. Otherwise his facial tattoo would be a little awkward.

BILL CLINTON!!!!! Holy crap!

Happy Labor Day, U.S.A.ers.

Haha, I just overheard the Office Casual Girl I've mentioned before for the first time in ages:

"Yeah, we always go on holiday in Britain, because I couldn't use the toilets abroad. I couldn't put my bum somewhere knowing a foreigner had sat there before me."

Can you get her to repeat that into a tape recorder, please? We need to sample it.

honestly

Beth and her dinnermate are about to arm wrestle; Mr. BP is pointing that out.

I crushed him completely. He's still lying under the table at The Sand Bar, cradling his shattered arm and weeping.

It's his own look out.

It looks like Miss Lorelai Gilmore Brady Byrne is in perfect, tip top health after all. Her brush with ringworm was either very slight, or some other problem, because it's pretty much cleared up now. She will now start the long, slow process of assimilation into the pack.

Lovely Bill pics Beth! I'm always happy to see him on the news lately trailing around after Hillary with a goofy smile on his face eating chili or something.

ugh, it's a holiday right? so far the weekend's been lovely if rainy. Done lots of cooking and drinking. And of course I've put off homework until the last minute. Why am I doing this to myself?!? This is the worst class for me to take ever. My almost-34-yr-old brain is rebelling every step of the way saying "I DON'T CARE!!"

I checked the MBA - Information Mgmt program I've been considering and they recommend a knowledge of Calculus but require no formal coursework. hmm. However I don't think you can work fulltime while in that program and it's currently $10k a semester. bleargh.

maybe I should just get an English master's, teach community college, start a small DIY sewing business and be done with it.

I think the boy and I are going clothes shopping soon. We must fulfill the ultimate American meaning of holidays such as Labor Day.

kisses no loco folks.

Today the mister and myself have to shop for toys! One of our friends just had a baby, so there will be some time spent at the hospital as well. I've also brought home some work, but nothing too taxing. Señor Patita will play video games and wash dishes.

Ms. Miz, I went back to the pet store yesterday to ogle the bunnies and play with adoptable puppies :)

K, you should volunteer at Town Lake.

(I'm back at my desk again after a carrot cake break. Not sure how long I will last.)

Today the mister and myself have to shop for toys!

I spent all day today shopping for toys. Five birthdays in a month: our three plus two nieces. We spent a small fortune :(

Great Clinton pics Beth! Up close and personal with the most powerful saxophonist in teh world! I never noticed before he has a dimple right on the end of his nose. Love that pink house too.

I'm now wondering what kind of toys patita was shopping for.