I'm thinking about Derek. He left on Sunday and Texas seems so far away. That said, I had a pain shoot through my heart when I saw that he facebooked "I am coming home." Texas is home now? Boo hoo.

LOL some of your thoughts are cracking me up!

-Now you've got me thinking about tissues - and yes, I prefer them to toilet paper. We just don't have them sitting out.

-I'm thinking that I should be working on a project I keep stalling on instead of here on this forum.

-I'm also thinking and trying not to about income tax and what all I need to pull together. Oh the pain!

-I'm wondering why my brother has not responded to my text.

-My to-do list is constantly running through my thoughts. Need to make a couple of stops this afternoon.

-I'm glad I don't have hot flashes or "the other problem" YET! LOL

-I'm thinking I'm glad we have no snow.

-Thinking about birthdays, anniversaries and Valentine's - all coming up soon. We have many family b-days the first part of the year.

-Thinking about a VACATION!!

tina

Ouch, golddust...but I'm sure he's just playing to his audience. He knows what his Home is.

I'm thinking I wonder if I should start contacting wood floor installers now to do our installation/finishing...and how much moving around of Stuff that's going to entail, but how wonderful it will be when it's done. (having two rooms done rather than re-carpeting them).

Also thinking about doing the stairs while we're at it (I bought some beautiful reclaimed white oak treads to match our reclaimed white oak flooring), inspired by the thread on anti-slip strips : )

And along your lines, golddust--I'm thinking that every day until September this year I'll be thinking about the fact that our homeschooling journey is coming to an end. Literally every day I think about it...what I want to do w/DD before it's over, etc...it will be an early empty-nest experience. I'm hoping to go back to work, which should be great, though.

I have the random thoughts while jogging.

I hate winter....but I don't mind jogging in winter...I'm not so hot....

The days are getting longer yea.....the early dark is so depressing.

I should re do our powder room, but I need inspiration.

I need new songs on my i pod....wish I knew how to load them....need to ask my son....

hope my husband started dinner, I left everything out....

I could go on and on....

This has been a very unproductive day for me and I really hate that.

I need to get on a sleep schedule and stick to it.

Spent (wasted) the morning on youtube looking at makeup videos.

My hair grows really fast but I want it to grow faster.

How we need to get a wedding card in the mail this week.

Just found out my next door neighbor was robbed right before Christmas. They stole all the meat in the freezer and the potatoes in the bin in their basement. Neighbors never reported it. My parents have talked with my neighbors and think there's more to the story.

Need to figure out food for the super bowl party.

Need to go visit my grandparents.

Hmmmmm...
* If you were here in Fargo, it's way too damn cold to have "hot flashes" lol!
* @ 2pmCST here in G*d's country, it's MINUS 7.....
* For this Wed. nite....MINUS 22....
* I should go do some light snowblowing/shoveling, but it's too damn cold...have I said that b4...?
* I'm home sick with a cold today....arrrgghh. WHERE ARE THE PUFFS WITH LOTION....??!?!
* I agree on the Kleenex boxes lately. Jeeeeezzzz they're ugly!
* At 49, I DO know how to "synch" my IPOD, and buy music on i-tunes! Zounds!
* I'm kinda weird...I've always LOVED the cold & dark. Thought it made things "cozier"!
* I DO have to get our entry-floor redone...AND the spare-bedroom...AND clean up the laundry room...

Thanks Guys....;-)
>>!

Faron

Your random thoughts are fun to read everyone!

Here's where my brain is right now....

Why aren't my e-file numbers matching up for business taxes??? (GW is my break from this annoying process)

I hope we can get up and down our driveway tonight and tomorrow with all the ice. And not kill ourselves in the process.

It's so nice to have the HVAC working at work. No more sounds of a 2 ton hamster running in its wheel coming from the ceiling!

Wondering what dd's doing. Haven't had our quick chat today.

Hope the Library has a good and scary new release that I can curl up with tonight.

I am thinking that I am so tired of helping people who have practically zero computer skills. I work in a RE office, and too many of our agents don't even understand copy/paste or how to move a file. Arggh!!

Now there is a new online form service that they have to learn, plus our company is getting a cloud service, which they will have to learn to use. And they are all expecting me to be an instant expert and teacher.

"And they are all expecting me to be an instant expert and teacher." Which you can be, Terriks, for a fee! Sounds like it's time for a raise! Your job description is growing, why not your paychecks?

faron, do you notice that the Puffs Plus with lotion (my favorite too : )) are thinner than they used to be? I sighed a huge sigh of self-pity and resignation when I noticed :(

>>>>

Oooops! TMI there I bet...'-)
Fly...you're absolutely right! These things suck compared to the way they used to be!
DW picked some up on her way home from work. 3 cube boxes of Puffs-Plus w/ lotion. I thought they were regular tissues...even read the "ingredients". Sure 'nuff...Lanolin listed.

Are the actual Kleenex brand w/ lotion any better?!?
Oh....boo-hooo....box is a real homely pattern too.

THANK G&D for the squeeze-tube Blistex! Best stuff on Earth for sore noses/lips!! I kinda like the vapor-effect thru the nose too!

Sorry OP....REALLY dragging this thread OT!!!

Faron

Sorry OP....REALLY dragging this thread OT!!!

No, no...you can't really go off topic on this one. It's what you're thinking about so it's fair game.

I don't like the tissue with lotion since I have so many allergies and skin sensitivity.

I do notice that sometimes I accidentally leave a tissue in a pocket but when it goes through the wash, it comes out whole, not shredded! My problem is I use both Scotty brand and Kleenex brand so I don't know which one is the hearty one that stands up to the washing machine. Nothing like a clean piece of trash.

Once, in desperation while traveling, I bought a box of some "green" recycled brand of tissue. OMG - I would have been better off using regular sand paper.

My DH is going to drive me to murder if he doesn't get out of this house soon. (Both retired, he had a full knee replacement, snow outside....."Dee, where are you? Dee, what are you doing?")

My two dogs need exercise.

I need to call and complain about my new chairs, both with flaws, and I don't want to deal with it.

I still need to get new spice jars to organize the cabinet.

I have to go to the dentist tomorrow. And, I need to find a new one because my insurance changed.

Dee

I think I'll buy some squeeze-tube Blistex today--thanks for the lead :)

While I was cracking and scraping all the ice on my car and driveway yesterday:

I should've used DH's waterproof gloves, my 1.99 Target ones are not keeping my hands dry.

Why do babies and all their sweetness turn into menacing toddlers?

I really need to go to Shoprite, running low on milk and eggs, but I really don't want to be there with all the crazy "OMG it's gonna snow people"

I really, really miss my last house where the driveway was only a car length deep and not 200ft. long.

Why do we have to have bad weather on a Tuesday when I have to take both girls to school/nursery school and dancing school with the menacing toddler in tow?

Why does my son hate his jacket and shoes/socks. I wonder what it would be like to put them on him, and he cooperate.

If I won the lottery, I wouldn't be doing this, and I wouldn't have to work, and worry about paying bills, or juggle my children around while I'm at work.

Why can't I win the lotto??? I hate being cold and wet. I should've put socks on with my uggs.

Polly929-
Please come and do my driveway...I've been housebound for a couple days...damn aches/cold/crappy-looking tissue-boxes!

* It needs touch-up shoveling...AGAIN.
* We're finally above ZERO!
* Again...squeeze-tube Blistex...a LIFESAVER for lips & noses. I got DD "hooked" on it years ago.

Dee-
That's pretty funny...;-) I couldn't imagine being that way though!

Have to get my 2001 Jimmy's heater-core backflushed again tomorrow. Below Zero temps and little/no heat kinda suck here in Fargo! I WILL get rid of that damn thing this spring/summer!!! Anybody have an Escalade to sell me...Black pleeeeeze?!?!

Faron

My turn...

I don't think I like snow anymore.

Why am I the only one on the street who shovels the sidewalk. I know the one day I don't do it the township will come and fine me.

Don't forget to call the roofer and check out the stain on the bathroom ceiling- ice dam? leak?

Why did my best friend cancel lunch this week and go to Puerto Rico with her family and leave me here to shovel?

Remember to call the landscaper and tell him the tree he planted in the fall doesn't have any branches on one side. Who ever heard of a one sided honey locust. I need a nice holly.

OMG - what am I going to do when DH retires!

My birthday is less than a week away and no one has hinted (or downright asked) about dinner plans for this weekend.

Maybe he'll shovel :)

When will my DS pop the question?

Faron, I will do your driveway - if you change my 18 month old's diapers :P

I'd rather change diapers any day of the week over shoveling snow. LOL!

Funny that this post happened today. I've been checking weather sites all day, hoping one will say the winter storm warning has been canceled.

If it isn't, the RN from the infusion center, 80 miles away, won't come to unhook me from from the chemo pump.

If she doesn't come, will it be too dangerous (and selfish of me) to ask my son to drive 10 miles to unhook and flush my port? I can not do it myself.

Why would the schools not call a snow day if it is snowing in the morning instead of calling off school at 11 A.M., which is the plan they announced this afternoon. My granddaughter will just have to miss a day. No way is my ill husband (nor am I) in any shape to be out driving in a snow storm.

All my random thoughts (more like worries than thoughts) are centered around the weather. We live in a rural area with a lot of hills and curves. So far, we have been missed by all the snow and ice this winter, maybe we will be lucky again.

Hmmm...

I hope it snows again this winter. I just ordered some snow boots and want to wear them and the new peacoat. It was sixty today.

Will Restoration Hardware get it right this time? They have sent me the wrong rusted hook three times now. How do I contact the president to let him know how lousy their service is?
Will the the Ups man drive on the grass again?

How come the propane gas delivery can't get it right after ten years? We have a side dirt driveway for their huge truck, not the main concrete driveway.

My dogs nails need clipping...

Dad needs a haircut..I need a haircut

I hope I can get four truckloads of mulch spread by Saturday.
I am so looking forward to it!

I love winter.

Gold-
I bet you'd change your mind about that if you ever changed my son's diaper. Let me just say, good thing he is #3, because if he were first, he'd be an only child.
(I love him to pieces despite this, but I think only a mother could)

Y'all are a funny group.

I'm wondering why my lips are chapped when I haven't been outside. They never get chapped.

Why does Boo (cat #1) breath funny when he sleeps? Does he have a deviated septum.

Did I spell deviated septum correctly?

Must have, it's not underlined. ;D

I wonder if the POA meeting tomorrow night should be recorded on my iPhone for reviewing again later?

I wonder if everyone who says they are coming really are coming?

I wonder if my new grandchild is a boy or a girl?

And what they are going to name him or her?

How many are they going to have?

Is DD1 ever going to get married?

Have a baby?

I'm not even going to guess about DS and his GF.

That is my random thoughts for now.... along with

I am so glad we don't have snow to shovel. ;D

LOL Polly!
DD is 20 now, so I've long since forgotten that lost art!

Do any of you still doing outside jobs want some snow?!!?

They've just issued a possible record flood forecast for our Red-River. We're in a heavy winter.
Hope the spring melt goes slow and even....that'll help a lot.

Is Hawaii still open for business?!??

Gotta get some new tunes onto my Ipod...

Actually felt like gettin' some groceries tonite!

Faron

lukesmom,
will it be too dangerous (and selfish of me) to ask my son to drive 10 miles to unhook and flush my port? I can't answer if the driving will be dangerous but I will say: No it is not selfish of you to ask this.

marie cate,
Why did my best friend cancel lunch this week and go to Puerto Rico with her family and leave me here to shovel? I think you mean former best friend...

bumblebeez,
It was sixty today. I love winter. I might like winter if my temps were in the 60's.

deeinohio,
My DH is going to drive me to murder if he doesn't get out of this house soon. I think the solution to this is My two dogs need exercise.

LOL hhireno, but did you miss the part about the total knee replacement? He can't risk walking the dogs, but thanks for the suggestion. Still mulling that murder.
Dee

I think she means YOU walk the dogs. Kind of like kill two birds with one stone - get out of the house (and away from hubby) and you and the pups both get exercise!

tina

Today's thoughts:
I can't believe I have to shovel again. At least today's is lighter and easier to move. There's also a pretty blue sky today, so that's a nice change.

I feel so badly that I didn't get back out there to re-clear the end of the driveway, which gets blocked from the township snowplow, before the thrift store truck arrived to pick up the old chairs.

I'm so happy that the thrift store truck took the chairs. Four fewer things clogging up my physical and psychic space.

I didn't mean for deeinohio to walk the dogs but I think I'll play along that I did. If she does murder him and gets a jury of her GW peers, she'll get off from the charges.

I may have to take you up on that character reference, hhireno. We just got 6 inches more snow. And, yes, the objective is to get HIM out of OUR house so I can piddle with it and TURN OFF THE TV!!!!

Dee

*Why did I think it would be a good idea to eat half a bag of Fritos with a Little Debbie heart-shaped cake chaser?

*This desk is really dusty.

*Will I make it to the bank before it closes at 1:00 tomorrow, or will I say "to hell with deposits" and lounge around in my pajamas drinking coffee instead?

*Why do I smell cat breath when there aren't even any cats in here? (Is it me???)

*I should go curl up in the chair with a Snuggie and read some more Olive Kittridge.

*I'm glad we bypassed Friday night happy hour in favor of Friday night pajamas-and-do-nothing-hour(s).

I'm not shoveling snow but I've been uncharacteristically sick, so sick as to not even turn on the television much the last few days, and it's hard to concentrate to read much.
I folly myself like the character in O Henry's The Last Leaf.

Looking out the window at the barren trees and scurrying squirrels, here's my train of thought:

"Well, at least I'm not a squirrel trying to stay warm in a pile of brush 50 feet at the top of a barren tree."

"Well, at least I'm not at the Hanoi Hilton sick from an intestinal disease tapping out messages on a concrete wall."

"Who'd have thought Saigon would now be called Ho Chi Minh City?"

"I wonder what's going to happen with China in the coming years, will I be around to see a shift of power and economic strength?"

"I wonder if I knew how long I'd live if I would spend money any differently." (Probably not)

"I need to spend money and do something for myself.
I think a vacation is in order this year.
Do I go by myself--that's the direction I'm leaning."

"What if I went to an island by myself and wound up like that guy in Silence of the Lambs, on a plate with fava beans and a nice Chianti?"

"That guy in the movie was wearing a hat. I have lots of hats I haven't worn in years, I need to get them out of the hat boxes and start wearing hats again--it's actually easier to wear hats when you are older."

"I wore my red leather gloves last week--I'm so glad I didn't take the experts' advice and throw out clothing and accessories I haven't worn in years. I bought those gloves in September of 1987 and sometimes go years and years without wearing them. But red is in this year and I got compliments on my red leather gloves--so glad I still have them."

Strange how the mind works, isn't it?