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#26 2011-06-11 14:44:46

Magpie
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Re: QM - The Neverending well

Fine. Not too much work, not too much heat, life could stay like this for a loooong time.

Washing a million of jars in preparation of a midnightly jam-making session right now.


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#27 2011-06-11 15:19:52

Magpie
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Re: QM - The Neverending well

Strawberries washed and cut up, and now the big stirring begins. *drags a chair over to the stoves*


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#28 2011-06-11 16:06:46

Magpie
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Re: QM - The Neverending well

Second batch is in the pot.
*stirs*


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#29 2011-06-11 16:25:50

Magpie
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Re: QM - The Neverending well

Time to lick the pot - anyone want to help?
Mmmm fresh strawberry jam!


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#30 2011-06-11 16:40:28

Libra-in-a-roundabout-way
Mantis
From: the lowlands
Registered: 2006-03-29
Posts: 10990

Re: QM - The Neverending well

*licking the pot*


"If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend you life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is, to go on doing things you don't like doing... which is stupid."
~ Alan Watts

 

#31 2011-06-11 17:00:57

Magpie
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Re: QM - The Neverending well

*going to bed*


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#32 2011-06-12 08:46:23

Magpie
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Re: QM - The Neverending well

Three-day weekends are perfect - one day to get stuff done, one day to relax, and one day to meet friends. Why can't we have three-day weekends every week?


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#33 2011-06-12 13:26:27

Libra-in-a-roundabout-way
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From: the lowlands
Registered: 2006-03-29
Posts: 10990

Re: QM - The Neverending well

Magpie wrote:

Three-day weekends are perfect - one day to get stuff done, one day to relax, and one day to meet friends. Why can't we have three-day weekends every week?

Sooooooo agrees!!!!


"If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend you life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is, to go on doing things you don't like doing... which is stupid."
~ Alan Watts

 

#34 2011-06-12 13:28:39

Libra-in-a-roundabout-way
Mantis
From: the lowlands
Registered: 2006-03-29
Posts: 10990

Re: QM - The Neverending well

Well.... I cancelled the house.... the form they sent us to sign had new unknown clauses in it which we had not been informed about before..... And saw a new place that has so much more potential that it dazzles me!!! *need all fingers and toes crossed*


"If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend you life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is, to go on doing things you don't like doing... which is stupid."
~ Alan Watts

 

#35 2011-06-12 14:00:25

Magpie
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From: the town of thistly flowerbeds
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Posts: 19902
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Re: QM - The Neverending well

*dutifully crosses fingers, toes, eyes and hairs*

Well, this makes typing difficult!


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#36 2011-06-12 16:19:53

Genisis X
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From: Canberra
Registered: 2005-05-08
Posts: 12416
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Re: QM - The Neverending well

Magpie wrote:

Three-day weekends are perfect - one day to get stuff done, one day to relax, and one day to meet friends. Why can't we have three-day weekends every week?

There's a three day weekend here as well.

*cues twilight zone music*

-X


Cyan on the merits of Dubstep: "That's not music. That's a patchwork quilt made by a blind iron worker."

My new webcomic of sarcasm and profanity!

 

#37 2011-06-13 00:51:11

Sahi
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Re: QM - The Neverending well

I'm seriously thinking of cutting my working hours from 38 to 36, so I can have a three day weekend every two weeks... (Although, it will take months and months before I'll act on such thoughts.)


"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein

First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.

 

#38 2011-06-13 06:43:46

Jadelin
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Re: QM - The Neverending well

I hate to actually mention it, but next semester I will have a FOUR-day weekend.

Well, it just means I don't have to teach from Thursday to Sunday, but there is still preparations and paper writing to be done during that time.

I strongly recommend it!!!

 

#39 2011-06-13 07:36:19

Sahi
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Re: QM - The Neverending well

I hope you'll get some time (aside from preparation and grading) to enjoy those weekends!


"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein

First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.

 

#40 2011-06-13 14:31:19

Magpie
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Re: QM - The Neverending well

Whoops, totally lost track of time while goofing around with my best friend!

I sometimes wonder what "normal" people talk about - we spend all day talking about things like why all the alien species we made up as kids have hair, or giggling about stuff like the dramatic announcement,"the new weapon of mass destruction: the flatscreen!" or "strawberries, bananas, Chimi-dai-rui, Te-goai, all the same thing, they've all got hair - oh no, wait, bananas don't..." or "I don't mind corpses. I just don't want puke or piss-puddles!"


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#41 2011-06-13 14:35:01

Libra-in-a-roundabout-way
Mantis
From: the lowlands
Registered: 2006-03-29
Posts: 10990

Re: QM - The Neverending well

*drops into mint and wails*

Even a three day weekend was too short.... really don't want to go to work tomorrow!!!!

So we're back to the house we had already... seems that some of the clauses are standard and some can be changed.... but we have a little opt on another property which isn't on the market yet and which is an actual house.... only issue with it is that it's not available until 16 August... so tomorrow I'll be calling them and seeing if there is a little chance to get it earlier.... if not we'll stick with the current house.... This thing is driving me nuts, not only because of the house hunt but also because my siss is playing up and if she keeps doing this I'll prolly end up deciding not to live with her at all!! She now wants to bring her couch (which is at my parents' place) to her current house, so we both have comfortable places to sit on.... What??? It's just weird... I mean I get that living in a tiny house together will take some actual give&take, but we can't hire a van to drive her couch over, that's just silly... she has a couch... and chairs a-plenty....


"If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend you life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is, to go on doing things you don't like doing... which is stupid."
~ Alan Watts

 

#42 2011-06-13 14:39:38

Libra-in-a-roundabout-way
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Re: QM - The Neverending well

Libra-in-a-roundabout-way wrote:

*drops into mint and wails*

Even a three day weekend was too short.... really don't want to go to work tomorrow!!!!

So we're back to the house we had already... seems that some of the clauses are standard and some can be changed.... but we have a little opt on another property which isn't on the market yet and which is an actual house.... only issue with it is that it's not available until 16 August... so tomorrow I'll be calling them and seeing if there is a little chance to get it earlier.... if not we'll stick with the current house.... This thing is driving me nuts, not only because of the house hunt but also because my siss is playing up and if she keeps doing this I'll prolly end up deciding not to live with her at all!! She now wants to bring her couch (which is at my parents' place) to her current house, so we both have comfortable places to sit on.... What??? It's just weird... I mean I get that living in a tiny house together will take some actual give&take, but we can't hire a van to drive her couch over, that's just silly... she has a couch... and chairs a-plenty....

Oh and then she got all pissed of because of me and mum saying it was not such a good idea..... pffff....


"If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend you life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is, to go on doing things you don't like doing... which is stupid."
~ Alan Watts

 

#43 2011-06-13 14:55:53

Magpie
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Posts: 19902
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Re: QM - The Neverending well

The thing with three-day weekends is... they're not too short, for me, but after three days I've gotten so used to not working that I don't want to go back to work!


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#44 2011-06-13 17:43:23

Genisis X
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From: Canberra
Registered: 2005-05-08
Posts: 12416
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Re: QM - The Neverending well

Magpie wrote:

The thing with three-day weekends is... they're not too short, for me, but after three days I've gotten so used to not working that I don't want to go back to work!

The only solution is to find people to pay us for being awesome.

-X


Cyan on the merits of Dubstep: "That's not music. That's a patchwork quilt made by a blind iron worker."

My new webcomic of sarcasm and profanity!

 

#45 2011-06-14 07:10:02

Em
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Posts: 42255

Re: QM - The Neverending well

Genisis X wrote:

Magpie wrote:

The thing with three-day weekends is... they're not too short, for me, but after three days I've gotten so used to not working that I don't want to go back to work!

The only solution is to find people to pay us for being awesome.

-X

We'd all be gazillionaires, then.


Someday will find you.

 

#46 2011-06-14 11:17:07

Magpie
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Re: QM - The Neverending well

Where the fluttering flamingo is my jacket?! It's not at home, it's not at work, I'm 99% sure I didn't leave it on the train (and it's not at the lost+found, I already called), I know I didn't wear it when I went shopping on Saturday, and there's nowhere else I've been.
Guess I'll blame my cleptomanic goblin again.


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#47 2011-06-14 13:48:53

Em
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Registered: 2004-12-28
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Re: QM - The Neverending well

So tired. Was in Los Angeles for the weekend (flew in Friday night, flew home Monday night). While we were there, went to the Los Angeles Museum of Art. They had a Tim Burton exhibition there (plus lots of other art). Very interesting and overwhelming. Los Angeles is overwhelming. *whew* Kinda glad I don't live there anymore.

Stepped out of the airport in Charleston. It was like getting smacked in the face with a wet towel. Humidity very high. Hopefully, it rains soon. T-storms forecast for tonight and tomorrow. We'll see.


Someday will find you.

 

#48 2011-06-14 20:07:01

Genisis X
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From: Canberra
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Re: QM - The Neverending well

Em wrote:

Genisis X wrote:

Magpie wrote:

The thing with three-day weekends is... they're not too short, for me, but after three days I've gotten so used to not working that I don't want to go back to work!

The only solution is to find people to pay us for being awesome.

-X

We'd all be gazillionaires, then.

All animals are awesome, but some are more awesome than others.

-X


Cyan on the merits of Dubstep: "That's not music. That's a patchwork quilt made by a blind iron worker."

My new webcomic of sarcasm and profanity!

 

#49 2011-06-15 07:29:06

sisterdew
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From: Vienna, Austria
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Re: QM - The Neverending well

BF and I have been re-doing the balcony(including the deconstruction of an old shelf and an old trunk and two trips to the Garden center) yesterday and today. All new flowers and herbs and plants are in their pots now, the balcony is clean and looks awesome and spacious, and we're dead tired. Everything hurts!
The cat now has 4 plants to nibble on(2 different kinds of grass especially for cats) and lots of space to lie in the sun or shadow. He approves.


daisy-headed, one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater!

 

#50 2011-06-15 09:12:40

Em
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Posts: 42255

Re: QM - The Neverending well

Hooray for clean balcony!!!


Someday will find you.

 

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