I didn't know i had gmail set to record chats. Most of my chatting with Karl was on FB, but it turns out I have some saved conversations on gmail too. They made me so happy, I have to share. An unexpected Christmas present from Google.

12:07 PM Karl: meep

12:08 PM whatever happened to our cheap hotel rooms? Do we still have that?

me: erm, i dunno

Karl: we should find out

me: i think at least one expired

Karl: and go somewhere

and snuggle

in a cheap hotel

me: when when when???

Karl: my lovely wife

me: :)

12:09 PM Karl: sometime soon

me: do you have a spring breal?

break?

Karl: The friday and Monday

four day weekend

but that's not until April

12:10 PM me: hmmm

Karl: It's only March tomorrow

me: well..... any sooner long weekends?

Karl: nope

12:11 PM it's a shitty term

the kids have the twelf off

but I have a work day

me: doesn't leave much snuggle time

12:12 PM Karl: nope

me: and me turning into an elephant and all

Karl: are you swelling?

me: my jeans don't fit today

Karl: Have you been on the scale

?

time to go shopping

12:13 PM me: i've lost weight acc. to the scale

2 lbs

Karl: maybe the ababy is eating you

me: eeeek!

Karl: hehehehehehe

12:14 PM me: baby's in my belly = shouldn't be eating me

bad baby

12:15 PM Karl: hehe

I am being a bad daddy

I should be grading

me: uh oh

Karl: but I am not

so sad

12:16 PM me: no, you are allowed a little time off

to chat up your wife

Karl: ok

me: ergh. bellyache.

12:17 PM Karl: what are you up to today?

are you going to the safehouse?

I tried to clean a little this morning so that the place would devolve so fast

cleaning up after myself I mean

12:18 PM me: i'll go in to safehouse this afternoon

after lunch

12:20 PM Karl: I emailed Liz about the thing next Friday at the Scottish arms

she told me to tell you hello

12:21 PM me: i tell her hello in return

Karl: are we doing Vanessa's tonight?

me: I think so - are we not?

Karl: I just remembered it

I'm up for it

12:22 PM me: should be fun - she really wants to have more people time

12:23 PM Karl: yes

me: if I add the cheese knives to mom's order

and dill stuff

that puts us over 300

but then what do we buy???

12:24 PM aaaaaaaahhrrggg?

Karl: ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

12:26 PM Honey, I don't know... oh, the apple peeler for my folks

as a gift for their 50th

me: ok

that's what we'rll do

12:27 PM Karl: are you sure?

are there more fun options?

12:28 PM me: i'm looking

Karl: ok

11 minutes

12:40 PM me: ok

i don't teach math either

i'm clearly on crack

Karl: were we ok

on the numbers?

me: i added them the other night

and came up with totally different numbers

now i only have $250

12:41 PM Karl: double check everyone's orders

12:42 PM Mom, Sue, Vanessa, Mellissa, us, Terry, Julie

all there?

me: yep

12:43 PM i'm adding item by item

Karl: did we buy two of everything?

me: and nowhere near 300

groan

12:44 PM which is fine

i just get $0 in stuff

er

$10

12:45 PM whatever

Karl: pyramid schemes have great pyramid appeal cause they're made with consumer demands that are real....

to the tune of tater skins

12:46 PM me: stupid pyramid

12:47 PM i'm just getting the cheese set at $10 off

Karl: ok

ok, must work

c u late

12:48 PM r

me: k.

28 minutes

1:16 PM Karl: meep

meep

1:17 PM meeple

me: mooop

Karl: zweeply

I am so bad

me: zoooooooba

Karl: I got nothing done in my prep

me: bad bad bad

Karl: yeah well

1:18 PM I have first hour prep tomorrow

that rocks for getting work done

me: it'll all work out

it usually does

Karl: third hour prep you are already exhausted

I'm not worried

I'm smerply

me: oooh. shmerply. i see.

1:19 PM Karl: somewhere there is a little us growing

I dreamt about frogs last night

me: itty bitty tadpole

Karl: I dreamt we had a little aquatic frog

1:20 PM maybe we should get one

those dog watering things are on sale at petsmart

I think I'll get one on my way home

I also have to stop at ITT

me: ok

Karl: for some paperwork

me: i have to call a doctor

i'm all nervous

1:21 PM Karl: Tempe or Sandy?

me: start with tempe beause she sent me a name

Karl: ok

the bell will ring soon

and then I must teach

me: diiiing

1:22 PM Karl: soon

not yet

three minutes

or sooooooo

me: ooh. gniiiid

Karl: all our fish seem so happy

I watched them all last night before you got home

me: were they smiling?

1:23 PM Karl: singing actually

me: that's pretty happy

1:25 PM Karl: there's the bell

I must salivate now

c u