Good morning Lounge

*YAWN* I'm still tired. Didn't go to bed till 1am last night. The Christmas party was a blast. Good conversations, good food, good wine (except one ... *BAH*) ... the last people left at 11pm (we started at 6pm). I was among them. Now all I have to do is survive today ....


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nice ball :) :hi:

Happy Friday to you too. Any plans for the weekend?

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Just tons of work :mad: I've got some overtime that I can't get out of :(

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But I will have to work this weekend too ... packing x(

You stayed until 11:00 p.m. at a work party? Wow! I enjoy my colleagues, but I'd want to leave after a couple of hours. ;)

Maybe you'll be allowed to leave work early, seeing you were the organizer, and from all appearances, you put on a GREAT party. :rofl:

I'm so glad today is Friday. I'm still in my jammies, and I'm already hoping that the work day goes by fast.

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yes, it was a really good party. The other people who stayed that long were the people I get along with just great. Almost all of them were young (30 and 40 :rofl: )

I'm really glad it is Friday too :D Just had my lunch break with left overs from yesterday. Now I brought the cake down to my office and can munch while I work :D

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for lunch? Don't have to worry about deciding what to bring to work.

Cake? In your office? Is that safe? :rofl:

and it is cheaper :rofl:

Of course it is safe. I am not eating cake while cataloging a book from 1775 :rofl:

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I keep getting here too late to see you. Did I make it in time today? :bounce:

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How are you today? Excited it is Friday? :D

I was wondering how your party went. Glad you had fun!

Guess what, we've got SNOW!!! Everything is white. :D

oh yeah, it was a fun party ... including the one who makes a fool of himself (In our case our HR guy :rofl: )

I got the hairspray today .... THANKS A LOT!!!!!!!! :hug:

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Today is my oldest daughter's 27th birthday. I can't believe she is that old already. Where the hell does time go??

the Deutsche Post can be fast ... if they want to. If you bring it before 4pm it normally arrives a day later.

Happy Birthday to your oldest daughter .... 27 is still young :D

Wash. DC tonight with her boyfriend. A change of wallpaper will do her good. :D

DC is a beautiful city and a lot to see and do :D

Today is our 3rd straight day of rain. I'm hoping we see some sun this weekend.

It sounds like your party was a lot of fun. :hi:

ugh ... I know how you feel. We had such a weather last week. It is depressing :hug:

Yes, the party was fun :D

I saw your thread in the Photography group. Haven't answered yet though :blush:

and it looks like we may get at most 3 days of sunshine, and then rain for the foreseeable future. ick.


Our party was pretty fun too. We have such a diverse lab - we ended up with food from all over the world which was cool.


Don't worry about that thread - answer when you have time. :)

Did you try all dishes?

I got an email today from cafépress that they sent out my calendars :bounce:

I think my favorite was a mango based drink from China - but I couldn't tell you the name. It was interesting.

Someone also brought an amazing banana pudding. :9


Yay! I hope your calendars reach you by Christmas! They might.

but that is from India :shrug:

I doubt the calendar will arrive before Christmas. They say it arrives between Dec 26th and 31st. I will see if that is true. Last year I had to wait till January to get my copies.

it has some a name which the students who knew what it was would say really fast, so I never quite figured out what it was. :shrug:


Well, maybe the mail fairies will speed up the delivery. :silly:
I can usually get packages from England within a week or so. I don't see why Germany should be any different.

how long they will keep it.

but it still seems like a really long time in this day and age. :(


Are you doing anything fun this weekend?

when I will get it. They send it with UPS International. I am not able to track it. That is how I got 10 calendars last year. I complained because it took so long, so they send me 5 new copies I didn't had to pay :D

I will have to pack stuff already. Want to go buy boxes either today or tomorrow.

Not sure how much I will be able to post next week here, as I will be home resting my foot after OP on Monday. At least Monday I am sure I will not post. I have no laptop I could use while sitting on my couch.

I hope you have some help. I'd come...but airplane tickets are too high for me these days. :(


What kind of surgery are you having? I hope it's not too intrusive. :hug:

at least not till the week I move. Then my mom and her bf are coming. First we paint the new condo, then they will help me finish packing and on Jan 8th a moving company is doing the moving itself.

I have to get my toe operated again. I had an OP in October because I have problems with ingrown toenails. They missed a piece of the root and the toe is infected again. That is why I need a second OP. But I can go home afterwards, it is a local OP.

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and the surgery sounds like no fun either. Good Luck! :hug: :hug:

I have to go work, so I'm going to disappear for awhile. If I don't see you on here later, have a good weekend! :hi:

I wish you a great weekend too!!

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It rained all week here. We needed it, though. Today is looking sunny for now, but is supposed to snow ... wanna come over? :bounce:

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We've had a lot of rain recently...I just wish it would turn into snow so it would at least be pretty. I would love to come over, but it's probably a too long a trip to justify just for snow :( Particularly since I'm supposed to be working right now.

one of the local farmers. When I told him it was going to snow today he said, "Don't believe everything you hear. I don't care what the weather man says, it ain't gonna snow today!" :rofl: He's been more accurate than any weather forecast since we've known him.

I favor rain when I have to go anywhere. Had a fender bender in light snow just a few months after I got married and it made me nervous about driving in the stuff ... even though I've done it safely plenty of times since then.

It would be a long trip. We should chart it out sometime. BTW, I was born in MD. :D

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I live in the city and I don't have a car, so snow just means walking in it, and as long as it isn't a blizzard (which Baltimore almost never gets) or icy, I prefer it to rain. But I'm weird. I have a feeling I'd feel a lot differently if I was driving.


It would be a long trip, but not that long, I think. My boss has family in TN, and she drives down to see them, and doesn't complain about the trip (well, she does, but it's mostly about the craziness of her family, not the drive :rofl:). Where in MD were you born? :)

stay home this time. :rofl:

If I weren't so lazy, I could go to Google and get a rough idea. We're just an hour from the Bristol VA/TN border.

LOL! Who doesn't complain about the craziness of their family? :rofl:

Ft. Meade. Dad was stationed there (Army).

I'm lazy too :rofl:


I think I'm about to disappear. I'm training someone (who is in a position higher than me and makes more) on how to use a system. :banghead:


See you later :hug:

and 49 minutes. Of course, they always estimate it longer than it really takes.

I'm about to disappear, too. Have a great day and weekend! Thanks for chatting! :hug: :hi:

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Glad you had a nice party! Now you have the weekend to sleep it off. :bounce:

Nice pic! I have a gazing ball in my garden, but I think I need to move it to another garden so it can get a more interesting reflection. The one in the pic is awesome! :toast:

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Yours is in the front garden, isn't it?

Looking forward to the weekend. And I can sleep in next week too ... at least some days :D

It's in the circle garden in the driveway. Sort of shows the vegetable garden, but you have to look at it just right.

You'll catch up in no time ... :hug:

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Oh I'm sure I will. Might even take a nap when I get home.

that's not the front, it's the back. :spank:

I'm going to move it to the new garden that isn't there yet eventually. Once we get some money (yeah, right ...) harleydad wants to plant evergreens so he can see them from the office window. And put a lamp post and bench in the middle of it all. Then I'll put the gazing ball there to reflect the mountains. I think that'll be cool. It sort of got started over the summer. We planted 2 metasequoias on the hill behind the clump of cedars. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasequoia) They're just babies now, but they'll grow fast.


Only problem with you coming for Thanksgiving next year is that you won't get to see how fabulous the gardens are. But I'll take lots of pics. :D

sorry ... for me it is the front since you arrive there and it is one of the first things you see :hide:

You have to take pictures no matter what, you know that :D

That tree sounds cool. How large will it get? It looks like it will get huge.

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I do have to take pictures! And I owe some to someone ... I promised to print some out so she could show them to other potential clients. Must do that!

Yes, it will get pretty big. But they're both planted just over the hill, as a sort of backdrop for the rest of the area. So if you're sitting on the kitty porch, one of them is almost straight ahead from where you're sitting on the glider, but beyond the cedars. The other one is down the hill to the left, and closer to the house. They're both about 10 ft. tall now, but very thin and young. They're already cool looking, though.

I'm glad we got some of the trees planted before the bad stuff happened. We planted a lot of fruit trees, too, so we'll have plenty to eat next summer!

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how's the day so far?

day is coming to an end. at least the work day

Hello and good bye. Wishing you a great weekend :hi:

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