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[loracs]

Have you been sitting on the edge of your seat wondering what I did yesterday on my sick/bad back day? Probably not, but here's what I did anyway.
Took it easy getting up and going, but we (stonebender  and I) went out to breakfast at 11:30 am.  Stopped at cheap place to get my hair trimmed, then off to get the van smogged.  It failed, so we went to the next place to see what we needed to do.  I have an appointment on Friday morning for them to check on, and probably just reset, the sensor that failed.  Then we went to see Watchmen.  After the movie, we picked up tacos for dbubley and spent about an hour or so at KPPACC with her.  Then home and rested the rest of the night.

All in all, I didn't do too much.  My back is still painful today, but I'm at work anyway.  I should have brought the ice pack with me, but hindsight is 20/20, huh?

Phone Call of the day (so far)
Me: Good Morning etc . . .
Caller in very loud voice with a southern accent: This is a man calling.  I am not a woman.  My name is . . . .

I guess he'd had his fill of "yes ma'ams" over the phone.  Bonus points: In the previous sentence did I use the quotation marks and apostrophe correctly - I want to put another apostrophe after the last "m" but then it looks like too many.  I have a love/hate relationship with punctuation.  As a reader - I need it, as a writer - make it go away.

Comments

[waywardcats.livejournal.com]

Whew, now i can sit back.

All I can say is frozen peas are cheap, can you pick up a bag somewhere to get you through the rest of the day?

[clever-doberman.livejournal.com]

Grammar/punctuation: yes, you did it just right. we have a proliferation of apostrophes where they don't belong. you were making ma'am PLURAL = no apostrophe. if it BELONGED TO the ma'am then you'd need one. the only exception is the contraction of the words IT IS, which then leaves us having a possessive without an apostrophe when we refer to that which belongs to it: ITS.


I've GOT to get that key from you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Pronouns do that in general, as well: hers, his, theirs, ours (that is, pronouns don't use apostrophes for the plurals, generally speaking, and "it" is a pronoun).

[clever-doberman.livejournal.com]

aw, rats, you went even further into it and I'm glad. rats because I wasn't thinking in terms of parts of speech and missed tht essential part, and glad because you made it make more sense.

[tracytreefrog.livejournal.com]

Glad you took it easy. Sorry you are still in pain.