Housekeepers Day

Without housekeepers our lives would be in chaos, and our homes would be like messy little pig pens!
HURRAY FOR HOUSEKEEPERS!
A day is not enough - lets give em' a whole month! Maybe even a whole year!

And if you do your own housekeeping, pat yourself on the back - and take the day off!

Morning everybody. I made breakfast for you all to wake up to this morning. Annie B.

Good Morning Annette,

Thanks for breakfast!! Need a good one today. Packing (stuffing!) the car and driving my daughter back to University of Guelph today. I'll be tired by the time I get back about 6:00 pm today.

Everybody have a good time watching the fishies,

Bill

Annie! *yawn* *stretch* You're up early. LOL Need some OJ, too!

Maybe Ms. Cindy can pick us some oranges right off her trees!

Gorgeous day, blue skies and sunshine this morning here. BokerBob took the bike to work.

Housekeeper Day? I'll take two, please. LOL

Housekeeper! That's when procrastination REALLY kicks in!

Bill

Morning, What a saint you are - up at the crack of dawn to drive to heaven knows where. Have a safe trip!

Drive carefully Mr. Bill, and make sure to take a break. Annie B

Morning all.....Bill tell your daughter we hope she has a great year at school...don't ya love the fall!!! Weather here is very nice today...brisk and clear.....gonna try to do some weeding if I can get through the house and outside!

It is also Put Away Your Whites Day

You've heard the saying, "You can't wear white shoes after Labor Day."

Peek-a-boo!



Not sure who this is:

Yeah I'm rushing this week also.....can't wait for the weekend....It is vintage car weekend here in Ocean City...they have a parade of old cars in the parking lot across the street, this usually marks the last busy weekend here....this summer sure went fast!

Hi Meryl! You have room with a view - and lots of noise and traffic to go with it. My summers always fly by too fast. Once Labor Day gets here I start dreading the winter weather. We're still getting peppers and tomatoes - using them up as fast as I can. Frost won't spare anything.

Hi everyone. I agree with you all - this summer just flew by!!! I got my C-Card yesterday - what a dorky picture! Hate getting my picture taken and it shows. Now I just need to get a trip planned so that I can use it! Have to do it before mid-November as not allowed to take vacation in December or January. Hope everyone has a great day. By the way - going to tell my boyfriend about today being housekeeper day - maybe will be inspiration to him that we need one! LOL

Congratulations again Kelley! Good luck with the housework stuff.....Steve complains if I ask him to do too much....easier to just do it myself...
Rusty....now its time for the dreadful holiday planning....Halloween stuff in the stores already..and you know what will follow shortly!!!! UGH.....

Congratulations, Kelley! Did they take it with a polaroid right after you got back from your dive? On mine, my hair is still wet and flat and all my mascara had washed away. LOL But I look sunburnt and happy in it!

Anybody find GOOD waterproof (but removable) mascara? My fave company changed their formula and it now goes on like asphalt and stays on til your lashes fall out. Ugh. the Cover Girl Remarkable washable waterprrof tends to run when you sweat or tear up. Not good.

I bet Bill will know. He has that *feminine* side, remember?

Had just gotten back from doing our open water dives. Was sunburned, had hair yanked back in ponytail and sunglasses on top of head. The dive shop owner said I looked like I had a crew cut!!! I have the same trouble with mascara - lashes are blonde without so I look like I do not have any!!! Let me know if you find some you like.

Try Olay, aguacare Mascara....I think thats the name....my sister use to work for Elizabeth Arden...and although this was not their product she turned my daughters onto it..

Hiya Everyone

For all the world, does this not look like a creature out of Star Wars 'walking' into the right of the frame?

Seems like I had better explain the word MITHER for Rusty and Faith, and others?


This is what the slang dictionary says:-
mither: To bother, pester, hassle, harass, worry, fatigue.
Pronounced MY-thuh, this is a colloquial term current in the North and Midlands areas of England,
and is often applied to fretful children.
Example: Stop mithering, Johnny, we'll be home soon.
Johnny kept mithering me all afternoon.

So yeasterday I had a very mithery day. It never entered my head I'd have people wondering what it meant. What a laugh! You can all add it to your vocabulary now.

I would have preferred to get this done before getting my picture taken. As much as I do not like sitting for pictures - hate the results even more. Will just have to live with it I guess. My boyfriend got a giggle anyway!! LOL

Morning Jenni! Don't know what that is in the above frame!

This is the resource I use ;-)


http://www.substance.com/shop/whatshot/article/0,11576,268766,00.html,mascara

I'm not on the road yet. Daughter sleeping in........... Soon!!

Bill

Sorry Bill. Site says it is no longer valid??? I cannot remember the name of the hairy red monster - I have just always liked him and Bugs Bunny!!

Oops!

Try that link again,

http://www.substance.com/shop/whatshot/article/0,11576,268766,00.html

Hello everyone! Thought this sailboat pic was pretty cool.

Jenni, I like your new Star Wars character-"Sock Droid". You should pitch your idea to George Lucas for his next movie

Another angle.

Mr. Bill, you're the best! I knew you'd know. I'm printing it out and I'll go thru them all if I have to! Redheads looks like Naked Mole-Rats without mascara!

Sure has been quiet on the Reefcam today - I just went back thru the archives to see if I'd missed any divers and NADA. Where are you??

Couple more celebrations happening today in addition to Housekeeper Day:

Cheese Pizza Day

& The Yellow Daisy Festival

Lovely piccies of the sailboat, Glenn. Do yu reckon I'd make a lot of money with my Star Wars Sock Druid then? Enough to get to Bon?
Hmmmmmmm Good idea, mate!

Hiya Rusty, does seem quiet, doesn't it?


I'm preparing handouts for a course I am running this weekend, and needed to add some drawings. So I have been playing in Powerpoint for over an hour, and thought I had done it. But no! The 'scribble' I drew my complicated drawings with has come out as very thin and hardly visible lines. Errrrrgggghhhhhhh

So back to the drawing board - no pun intended. Think I'll try scanning them next.

Hi honey, I'm home....

Jenni, I don't know what the weather is doing where you are, but it's still summer down here... temps got up to 78 degrees today AND sunshine! WOW..

Rusty, I don't wear mascara, but I did once.. I used L'Oreal's waterproof stuff.. it came off easy too with L'Oreal sensitive remover...

Nice 10:58

TTFN
S.

"Because I'm worth it"!....

Visitor at the gate and a long fish on reefcam:

Hi Sarah,
'cos I'm worth it [too!!!]

The weather up here, Sarah, has been quite bright all day, sunny, warm-ish, nippyish breeze if you're in the shade.

And about 30 minutes ago it absolutely poured down. It is still overcast and grey. I have the lights on.

Sarah, we'll be right back, just after this break...

I woke up this morning and WHOA IT'S FRIDAY HERE...lol...nah nah nah nah nahhhhhhh HEHEHE.....ROLL ON 5PM...then i can relax.

Glenn thanks for the sailboat captures..so clear and breathtaking to wake up too....so cool

Bill have a great trip :-)

All the Girls.. Good Morning and Avon had a mascara that went on and never came off...lol

Hi Martin,

Hi Janeece

It's Friday already, for you. Wow!!! Fancy that!! It never fails to amaze me when we are all on, from different parts of the world and all with different time zones. It is fantastic.

Jenni, indeed you are.. in fact, you're all worth it... rain expected here tomorrow..

Martin..

Gotta go friends, until later then..
S.

Look what we have here.....


And who have we here, then?

The dissapointing thing for me Jenni is that the weekends go to quick and when i go back to work on Monday..you guys are generally still in your weekend...ohhhh if i could turn back time....
But one day i will catch up....

Wouldn't it be good, Janeece, if we could Friday the same time as you do, and then you have Sunday when we have it. That would give us all 2 days a week to do with whatever we wanted.


for starters..........

Boy, Yana did stay long in the sun since last time I saw her in person

Martin,

Jenni, I had that same way of thinking and tried to convince my boss to give me more money for less working. My argument that I needed more money, as I had more time to spend it, was not good enough...

And B.T.W., I'll go for # 2,5 and 8....

What i would like to know is when is their a
BT REUNION when we all get to meet each other on Bonaire...that would be fantastic..what a party that would be!

Janeece, I know a great day for that reunion... june 9-th 2003.... You all know why....

OK, Martin, you can have #2,5 & 8 for starters. What you want for main course?

As a self-employed person I do my utmost to work less and earn more. But there are not many clients who will pay me £200 per hour.

June the 9th 2003...i need to earn more money but wow what a thought!

Yeh, Janeece, that would be good.

Good date for you, Martin. :-))

Yeh, it is a thought, isn;t it?

And a tantalising thought at that

FYI, kids, I started a new thread for the late afternoon and evening... but we can carry on here as long as we'd like! LOL We rented the room for the whole night!

Janeece, you earn a lot of money... Now you have to convince your boss to pay you the money you earn.....

But, you're all welcome next year at the Passagrahan....

Well my friends got to love ya and leave ya..duty calls..i have to get kids up and away to work i go...Bahhhhhhhhhh

Have fun everyone..and catch up with you all on the flip side

Martin, this is going to be so cool - a web-wedding! You really should do a repeat performance on the street cam. Maybe we could all buy a one day subscription and Jake can run it live!

Bye, Janeece! Have a great day! See you tonite, maybe.

Bye, Janeece

Rusty, I don't think we can do a repeater, do you have any idea about the temperature then?? I know I would melt in my outfit.... But why don't you come over to Bon????

We could finally meet in person....

I'm off, I have to go in the books for my study...

Night all!

Thanks for the 'mither' definition, Jenni! I did finally get that from all the references I found online last night -- and was quite surprised to find out there was a long 'i' at the beginning, and that it didn't rhyme with dithering and blithering!

I figured it must be a slang term when I didn't find it in any dictionaries...

Faith

Faith - me, too! Long i? That sounds very archaic and sort of cool. Have to add it to my vocabulary and impress my friends and family!