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Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
I hope for the best for your next chapter... Hopefully the details will come together so you can focus on getting g’nad well. :~)
Nope, not yet, should be later this afternoon, no real accumulation; it’s likely to be the usual, rain - sleet - snow - freeze. sigh.
Hey - we don’t mind being a backup plan. No trouble at all. We’re sortof ‘decide what to do at the last minute’ kind of folks ourselves... Hopefully you’ll feel invited there. You are invited up at the beach house. I dunno... if you wanted to, you could even drive yourself and stop by both places.
Cue theme from “The Good, The Bad & The Ugly” ....
I’ll be happy just to get some precip.
Guess I’d better get the shopping list together.
I think the trouble is that my brother thinks of me as family and therefore doesn’t consider giving me a formal invitation of any sort...and my sister-in-law doesn’t feel comfortable with inviting me to someone else’s house, and for some reason it doesn’t occur to either of them (or the rest of the clan) to say, “Hey, we really should ask Rosie, shouldn’t we? Just see what she’s up to?”
At the very least, it’d be nice if I got a phone call saying, “Hey, this year we’re meeting at X’s house — if you’d like to come, you’re always welcome!”
Instead I end up playing this game, where it feels like I’m begging them for sympathy, which I don’t care for. :-\ But I would like to see my nieces and that. Ungh.
We’ve got ours, we’ll be heading out shortly.
Yeah - it’s a little messed up. I’d feel the same way in your position. Heck, if Dona wasn’t running the show for our holiday plans, none of us would think to do all these things like ~plan~ or make sure people are invited either.
We’re supposed to get an inch or so of snow here... we’ll see.
Well, then, you ARE writing, just not the novel. ;o)
If that's the case, you could get some more NaNo writing done! ;o)
I wish. We’re supposed to use the time for documentation and other such things.
It’s going to be busy. Which is good...and bad.
If it didn’t happen on every major holiday, it wouldn’t bother me, ya know?
Oh well.
Two weeks ago, we decided that it would be neat to hold on to all the catalogs to roll into logs and burn in the chiminea we want to get for the deck. We had a HUGH Rubbermaid tub that we had originally used for recycling, and started putting the catalogs in it. It is over halfway filled, and that's only TWO WEEKS! I wish we could burn them in our regular fireplace; we wouldn't have to worry about getting any firewood at all!
Five day weekend, huh? That’s terrific!
Well, you could always call your brother, wish him a Happy Thanksgiving and ask him what his plans are. If he says they’re going to the in-laws, you have an out! You could say, That’s great, I’m having Thanksgiving dinner with friends. If he says, We’re having dinner here, why don’t you come, then there’s your invitation. Either way, you’ll have Thanksgiving with someone!
No, you don’t get it, it’s more complicated than that — they *always* go to the in-laws. More than half the time when I go up there when they *do* invite me (on just your average Sunday, for instance), it’s not to actually go to their house — it’s to join the crowd at her mother’s house. The trouble is that in general, they seem to assume that because I’m family, I’ll know I’m invited, and then I’m kind of expected to call and ask for time and directions. Best I can figure it, anyhow.
And instead, every time (every holiday, that is), I end up calling and kind of saying, “So what are you guys up to?” and then they kind of say I should come, and I think would be a little offended if I didn’t. But always, always, always we have to do this whole situation where I’m the one who asks, so I feel like a schmuck. And it’s not their intent, I know, but it still gets me somewhat het up, whereupon I feel guilty for getting het up, and so on.
Ungh.
In some ways, I’d rather take a book to read, and get something at Denny’s.
So why not call, say, “I’m doing dinner with friends, can I come down this weekend to see the girls”? And it’ll remind them to actually invite you next time!
Last year I tried that and got something about, “But you know, Thanksgiving is really for family...”
It didn’t remind ‘em. Like I said, I think I’m expecting too much to hope for something more than just an assumption that I’m gonna come. But is that really so lofty a hope?
In other news, I really need an “Arrests, Trials and Convictions for Dummies”. I don’t really have any idea how bail works, for example, or how serious a crime would need to be before it wouldn’t be allowed, or any reason why someone *wouldn’t* be released on bail. And does there have to be someone accountable for the releasee? Or what? And how long does it take before a trial comes to court?
Etc.
I know nuffing.
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