I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
From what I understand on those books that have lots of 'smirking', the reviewers who raved these books love how the characters are 'sarcastic.' Uhm.. when offering condolences on the lady's husband's death, the main character smirked and offered her condolences.... Misuse or inappropriate use of the word 'smirk.' One does not smirk when offering condolences. A sad smile, a sympathetic smile - yes. Smirk? No.
the Viking is out of diaper ointment- I buy her special lanolin not Zinc oxide - shall I try to get to hoca tonight?
this morning I cleaned the bathroom sink before going to work and when I couldn't get the plunger back up I pulled it out and looked down the pipe with a flashlight- the rod that goes through the pipe to hold it in place was gone - where did it go? Is our water so harsh it eats through metal?
do they sell these things at HD or do I have to call a plumber?
sink stopper rods for $7
Can you get your car parked closer to a safe place? With the heat, and a battery over 3 yrs. old....it might be time. AAA delivers batteries. Please be safe.
Good luck.
Do not do any of this while in a hurry, drunk, or if nervous.
"London. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets, as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snow-flakes - gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. Horses, scarcely better; splashed to their very blinkers. Foot passengers, jostling one another's umbrellas, in a general infection of ill-temper, and losing their foot-hold at street-corners, where tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke..."
Sometimes the setting IS another character, and in the right hands the description is almost cinematographic.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
It was a cold, bright day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a fortune must be in want of a wife.
The past is another country. They do things differently there.
And, of course, "Call me Ishmael." Though I have to confess that even though I long to know how Captain Ahab and the whale finally came to terms I have been unable ever to get past the cannibal with the pointy teeth in the bedroom, and skip past Moby Dick no matter how desperate I am for some bedtime reading.
i have no idea what happens on page 28 - just remember as a kid everyone snickered like it was taboo
or his activity at a wedding?
I really should be a more patient reader. There are some truly beautiful descriptive phrases. It's just I find myself thinking, "Ok, what happens? Let's hurry up and get on with it already!" if it goes too long and I either skip ahead past the description stuff or I lose interest altogether.
Burt still looked pretty good back then too.😉
No whines about it, just about my brain needing light entertainment, but, as you say, cw, nothing wrong with that sometimes.
Wish it was clear when I have posted. Mushy brain didn't check.
don't take the Viking outside for Friday night fiesta - I've got bug bites on both legs
I have an anti-whine. A friend is coming to town for a week stay in 10 days and we are going to see Hamilton while he's here!!!!!!!!!!
Ms. Madge, you suggested I do this with the reimbursement money a year ago but I'm happy to finally be going. I'm very excited! I'm almost as excited for a chance to dress sharp as I am to see the musical. I never get to wear fancy duds anymore.
All this talk of movies and I can't remember the last time I went to see one in a theater... it's been a couple of years, maybe. I don't even know what's out there right now.
you are going to have so much fun at Hamilton and afterwards your thoughts will be consumed by the experience- so glad you're not going to miss your shot !!! 😂
In in the meantime- go see Mamma Mia - it's silly and fun, and a good escape on a hot summer afternoon