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Posted on 03/05/2005 11:51:13 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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jest got off'n the phone with the military clothing store on FLW... seems those coveralls are a CIF item with a NSN... yuh havetuh go thru supply, or get 'em the way exgeeeye plans to...
set of utes, top and bottom cost $110... so the coveralls are a cheaper way to go...
sleepin' in his utes is a minor inconvenience in a war zone... but he is air-winger... their standards are much higher than grunts...
blood and teeth on the floor... the way a good bar/pub should be...
*sniff* no good bars/pubs round here...
Tomorrow will be an exciting day for you!
I lay awake for hours last night figuring logistics of my stuff. All depends on whether or not I can rope a friend into helping me, and that depends on whether her parents have finished their visit or not. Bah, if my other friend wasn't pregnant... I'm guilting the guys into helping me with the immovable large hunks of wood I call furniture, but that might end up being Saturday's task. And I'd like to have three things for them to move instead of six.
It's raining anyway...Steve's gonna be working at his wetland all day. He just emailed me and told me so.
So Friday is the better day.
Unless it rains on Friday, too. Or the band gets sick. Or something.
Hush! Hush!!!
;-)
You know me, I have to say something about that, after all.
Ah well, it's for the best, probably...I went to bed feeling under the weather. Cold, shivering, backache, hips aching, head aching! Went right to sleep and slept like the dead all night but woke up feeling the same way. Took some Advil and slept for another hour and I feel much better. Who knows.
Steve won't be home till late tonight...once he pours his dye he has to sample at certain intervals.
I'm gonna splurge and get some more chinese. General Tso Chicken this time, I believe... It's only five bucks and it fed me twice and Steve once the last time I got it! Besides, I found $10 in the Aldis parking lot yesterday.
Heh, not bad!
Once when I was about 9 and we were going through a broke phase, I found $80 in the parking lot of Sears. No way at all to tell whose it was... actually my mom didn't believe me until we were in the car already.
That $80 bought us groceries for the next two weeks!
I know! That's the way this was...I looked around and there was nobody around even. Aldis can be pretty empty at times during the day.
You hate to be grateful at someone else's expense, but there it is.
I can do ya one better...one of those "the Lord provides" stories!
During a particularly lean period when I was twelve or so, we went to a rummage sale lookin' for some things, and Bill and Ben found two old wallets they really wanted. They were too little to seriously carry one, but they liked being like Dad. They were only a nickel apiece, so Mom got them for them.
On the way home, Bill found that his wallet had money in it - LOTS of money. Close to two hundred, as I recall. We of course immediately called the church that had held the rummage sale and they took the money back to see if they could find the owner.
Several weeks later (just as our car died), they called back to say they hadn't found an owner, and we were welcome to the money. Dad used it as a downpayment! Worked out perfectly.
Sometimes you just have to say "The Lord provides". And then try to remember when you lose a twenty, sometime, hopefully when you're well-off enough to not then starve, that maybe the Lord's providing for someone else....
And I just never hear these stories about miraculous money from people who are well-off and not in financial need.
ping to get extremely hugh graphic off of my ping page...
Heh...true, we don't usually think of the other way 'round!
Nope, we don't... I try... I always say, "well, maybe my misfortunes are helping someone else. Or at least amusing someone else". Not that I have many misfortunes.
What the...
Ugh, that was one of the worst cartoons my siblings ever watched.
What? You can't name them?
I sure can't. But then, we didn't have TV other than for watchin' movies, so in that realm, I'm a fish out of water.
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