Teh Squeaky Wheel

Comment by Teh Plague Fairy

February 6, 2010 @ 4:08 am

Happy Birthday, Cousin!! I got this firsties for you…

(You thought I was gonna sleep, didn’t you?)

Comment by machinist

February 6, 2010 @ 4:11 am

Comment by Teh Plague Fairy

February 6, 2010 @ 4:16 am

Gentle Mac!!! YaY!!!!11ponies!

I can’t sleep. I’ve got snow envy.
Not a very pretty emotion for a nice plague fairy but…there you are. I know, I should just feel happy for Jerrie and everyone else who is enjoying my snow. My nice, *sniff* fluffy, *sniff* beautiful, *sniff* sunlight obscuring *sniff, sniff* snow.

How are you feeling, Sir? I have missed you.

Comment by Teh Plague Fairy

February 6, 2010 @ 4:34 am

*shhhhh, gentle mac has gone back to sleep…

Comment by Teh Plague Fairy

February 6, 2010 @ 4:35 am

Comment by Teh Plague Fairy

February 6, 2010 @ 4:36 am

and one more!

Comment by Teh Plague Fairy

February 6, 2010 @ 4:37 am

I get evil when my snow goes missing.

(((poof)))

Comment by machinist

February 6, 2010 @ 4:44 am

Sorry, Gentle Lady. Put a mouse under that kitten’s paw and that would look like me. Perhaps I will try to go back to bed. Elena is going to the casino with her family to celebrate her oldest Sister’s birthday so I will have a quiet house today.

Comment by Teh Plague Fairy

February 6, 2010 @ 5:36 am

Hah! I’m not asleep, Bwahahaaaaa….

Aaw, sorry for what, Gentle Mac? You didn’t steal my snow. You’re an innocent bystander who should be snuggled up in your quiet house sleepin’. Rest well, Sir. Enjoy your day.

*tiptoe*

(((poof)))

for real this time..

Comment by Fatwa Arbuckle

February 6, 2010 @ 7:12 am

Drive-by:

Hola, GN!

Happy Birfday, K8-E!!1!

I tried really, really hard to make you a cute, decorative cake but I ran into a leetle problem…

Miss Emily –

Hope you feel better soon! And regards to Backhoe, plztks.

*poo-t*

Comment by BrendaK

February 6, 2010 @ 8:37 am

Happy Birthday, Kate!

We hope you have a MONSTROUSLY great day! (Haha, see what I did there?!)

Comment by Paddy O'Furnijur

February 6, 2010 @ 8:52 am

For our snow-deprived Plague Fairy: here’s a photo from Teh Older’s college, taken last week. He should have more snow by now.

Comment by Paddy O'Furnijur

February 6, 2010 @ 8:55 am

Happy Birthday, K8!
I think I put too much baking powder in the batter.

Comment by TeX_LA_Native

February 6, 2010 @ 9:45 am

Awwww….”Where the Wild Things Are”…I loved that book…

Happy Birfday Kaaaaaate-y!!!

Comment by Jerrie.Atrick teh Homophone

February 6, 2010 @ 10:37 am

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATE!!!!

I got you a cake:

But I ran out of candles!

Comment by Jerrie.Atrick teh Homophone

February 6, 2010 @ 10:41 am

Plaguie, all your snowflakes are belong to Jerrie!

Well, except for the special snowflakes. Those you can have. I’m a giver.

Comment by Jerrie.Atrick teh Homophone

February 6, 2010 @ 10:44 am

GOOD MORNING/AFTERNOON EVERYONE!

Greetings from snowy Trans-Potomac.

I sure hope y’all have a great day, ’cause you just know I will.

Comment by sekrit agent Mom

February 6, 2010 @ 10:56 am

I return, victorious! The ladies loved the luncheon and I did not drop, ’splode, or otherwise destroy any food stuffs.

Thank you all for the birthday greetings, cakes, and cute kittens.

As my father is want to remind me, 51 years ago today we had an ice storm. So I am grateful for the miserably drizzly cold weather we are having here today.

Comment by Rabbit

February 6, 2010 @ 11:16 am

Happy Birthday Greetings, Kate!!!
I’ve heard teh first 50 are teh hardest!
May you have 50 more (of teh easy kind)!

Comment by Rabbit

February 6, 2010 @ 11:24 am

We are still cold & snowfree (Yay!) here.

Yesterday UPS brought us a biometric safe for BW’s Mother. I spent part of last night & this morning trying to get it to accept our fingerprints. Then the batteries claimed to be run down. I replaced with new batteries. Nothing. I went to the store & bought even newer batteries. Nothing. Then I saw a wire thingy that had escaped from the circuit board & we tried to connect it back & couldn’t-plus it had to be glued back to the borad after connecting. Soooo, the safe is in the box & will be sent back to Califorina for repair. (whenever I get around to it-Monday). the safe itself is pretty cool. About as big as a toaster oven & once we get it rigged up, the zombies won’t be able to steal her stuff anymore.

Comment by Rabbit

February 6, 2010 @ 11:35 am

Thursday, BW, Sis & I took her to the xray place & then to her favorite Red Lobster. After that, to a SAS shoe store & got her to try on some shoes that will help her walk better. We ended up getting those & a pair of corrective sandals, too. Of course she didn’t want us to pay the high price & of course we insisted that we would get them anyway. She is already seeing a difference in her gait. She may have to go see an orthopedic guy. We are very unhappy with her primary care dr. & are trying to find someone else. Whenever she hesitantly brings up a complaint or symptom, his standard response is,”You’re old & this is what happens.” BW is livid, but up until lately, teh Mother wouldn’t tell us any of this. This guy…well, nevermind. We are taking as much action as we can right now.

The good news is that she did call Sis & wants to spend some time & maybe the night with her again today.

Comment by Rabbit

February 6, 2010 @ 11:43 am

That was a pretty cool dog dream, Miss Emily.

Mine wasn’t as great.
I dreamed I was standing in the kitchen getting ready to feed the dogs. They were standing behind BW’s chair & she was standing there, too. Then Poof! There were 4 pugs! Poof! 6 pugs! They kept multiplying & she didn’t notice. I yelled, “Hey! There’s too many pugs!!” And they kept coming. Then the phone rang (in real life). I woke up saying, “OH, Good! It was a nightmare! We don’t have all those pugs.”

Trust me- it was a nightmare.

Comment by Rabbit

February 6, 2010 @ 11:44 am

See y’all later.

(Poo-f)
-pug free poof.

Comment by Jerrie.Atrick teh Homophone

February 6, 2010 @ 12:40 pm

Ahhh, the bright light of realization and the sweet, sweet taste of disappointment. Goes so well with bacon and pancakes.

The kids have gotten into their huff-mobiles and gone straight back to bed. NO POT-ROAST FOR THEM!

I guess the joke’s on me. I had to take the insert out of the storm door just to get outside to begin shoveling.

Comment by Lee

February 6, 2010 @ 4:48 pm

Happy Birthday Kate!

Comment by Lee

February 6, 2010 @ 4:50 pm

Teh rain has let up-2.5 inches or so up here from this storm. No immediate problems in our area but the rest of SoCal appears to be a mess. It’s a cumulative thing; the next big storm will be the one that brings the hills down big time.

Jerrie though, it looks like they weren’t lying about your storm.

Comment by Lee

February 6, 2010 @ 4:55 pm

In about an hour, Sarah Palin will be speaking. I’m going to watch; while it won’t be as exciting or as inspiring as watching and listening to President Swivel, I’m sure she’ll do a good job.

Poof

Comment by Teh Plague Fairy

February 6, 2010 @ 5:49 pm

Beautiful pictures, Jerrie, thank you!! I trust you are properly enjoying the situation with warm drinks and warmer company…

Comment by Teh Plague Fairy

February 6, 2010 @ 6:04 pm

I’m happy to hear that Cousin Kate has had a mishap free Birthday, Sven’s hills haven’t come down yet, and Rabbit is doing such good works with teh family. It sounds like Sis is doing well and teh mom is walking better and happy to see Sis doing so well. Rabbit is a good gerbil and so is BreadWinner!! No more Pugs! I do so declare…

My…those pictures Jerrie posted are breathtaking.

And my thanks to you, Paddy, for the snow picture from teh younger’s school. Takes me back to my own college years when my friends used to make a snow troll under the bridge connecting north and south campuses. Funny, I wonder if Kirk ever ran across our troll. We were living in the same town for a few years there. Small world. I heard recently that the troll tradition lives on.

Comment by Teh Plague Fairy

February 6, 2010 @ 6:09 pm

*respectfully stolen from Jawa
“Government Snow Job”
But where are the signs? There are supposed to be expensive signs telling us that they’re using our money to do this plowing…

Comment by John the Baptist

February 6, 2010 @ 6:14 pm

Happy Birthday, K8!

And Sven, sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, but it looks like that next storm is on the way.

Comment by BrendaK

February 6, 2010 @ 6:18 pm

Hey, Jerrie – Did you get in on the big snowfight on the Mall?

Apparently, the DC cops decided they didn’t even need to shoot anyone for throwing snowballs — this time…

Keep warm and safe, and ration that toilet paper!

Comment by Teh Plague Fairy

February 6, 2010 @ 6:20 pm

JtB! Brenda! Y’all keeping warm and safe?

Comment by Teh Plague Fairy

February 6, 2010 @ 6:25 pm

This whole “she (I can’t remember her name) was buried in her Obama shirt” thing our president said…
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/200859.php

…why doesn’t he just skip to the chase and start channeling a fetus. He’s John Edwards classy.

Comment by Teh Plague Fairy

February 6, 2010 @ 6:43 pm

Oooo, look what else I found over at mypetjawa. Fatwa gets around! Cool.

Comment by John the Baptist

February 6, 2010 @ 7:30 pm

Plaguie!

Sorry, was called away on an errand right after I hit “send.”

I can’t speak for Fatwa’s Main Moll, not to mention Fatwanookins hisself, but yes, we are warm and safe and dry. It has rained now every day for the past, oh, 25, 30 years of so, or so it seems at least, but the weatherguessers are saying we should see the evil bright orb for a few minutes sometime this week, before the Pacific Northwest comes back to town. On top of that, at least one of them is saying we’re going to have snow the week after next.

…why doesn’t he just skip to the chase and start channeling a fetus.

Shudder. This brings up a very bad memory..

[storytime]

A few years ago, we had a week-long series of assemblies at my school, covering various medical and health related ethical issues. One was over abortion, and the director of the local pregnancy crisis center was invited to speak. She seemed a bit on the high-strung side when we met and spoke to her before the assembly, but started off pretty well, presenting in an interesting but not too dry or too condescending way to the students about all the issues involved. We noticed relatively few students were openly snoring, and most seemed to be at least mildly interested, so we thought everything would go swimmingly for a change.

Then she stopped, quite literally in the middle of a sentence, and announced that she had written a song about the scourge of abortion, and wanted the students to hear it. We did not know she was going to do this, but assumed she had given the sound people a CD or something beforehand. She hadn’t.

She sang it.

A capella.

It lasted for hours.

It was from the point of view of a fetus.

Begging it’s mother not to abort it.

It included somewhat graphic sound effects.

She stopped to weep openly on at least two occasions during her performance.

She did a sort of little dance at one point.

The big ending included a sort of combination mambo and yoga movement, that I think was her reenacting the birth process.

When she raised her arms at the end of the song and then rather dramatically bowed, you could have heard a pin drop in the audience.

Not one person applauded, or even seemed to breath much afterwords.

She then started right back at the exact point she had stopped before the “performance,” and went on as if it had never occurred.

I looked around and saw quite the combination of shock, horror, and amazement on everyone’s faces, but all I could think of was the line from Airplane!: “I picked a heckova day to quite drinking!”

[/storytime]

Comment by Teh Plague Fairy

February 6, 2010 @ 7:41 pm

Ah, horrors! That is hysterical, JtB!

Oh, my….

And no apologies necessary. Remember, you just went into the other room as I did soon after.

What a tale.

Comment by Teh Plague Fairy

February 6, 2010 @ 7:43 pm

Comment by Cali Cap Yer Ass Fornican

February 6, 2010 @ 7:44 pm

Helloooooo gerbils!
Just couldn’t let this day end without wishing my favorite Kate a happy happy birthday!

Comment by Cali Cap Yer Ass Fornican

February 6, 2010 @ 7:45 pm

Sweet!! Plauguie is here!
Yay!

Comment by Cali Cap Yer Ass Fornican

February 6, 2010 @ 7:47 pm

tap tap tap….is this thing on?

Comment by Cali Cap Yer Ass Fornican

February 6, 2010 @ 7:50 pm

dang!

Comment by John the Baptist

February 6, 2010 @ 7:52 pm

Hiya, Cali!

Sorry, I’m in and out at the moment, getting ready for work tomorrow. Hope everything out in Cali-four-ni-a is good for ya these days!

Comment by Teh Plague Fairy

February 6, 2010 @ 8:03 pm

Cali!
Sorry, dinner is served…
so happy to see you1!!

(((poof)))

Comment by Paddy O'Furnijur

February 6, 2010 @ 10:59 pm

Teh Younger and I just got back from a production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons at his high school.
Wow! What an incredible performance by some very talented young actors!