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ands spent some time afterwards gasping for breath.
I like my alcohol well diluted (as in beer, mostly) thank you very much.
answered my question before I asked it
A quick google search indicates that the Goliath Grouper is found in both the eastern and western tropical atlantic.
ever had Wild Turkey?
I love Wild Turkey. The drink that is.
I just ate leftover sloppy joes and I burned the top of my mouth 🙁
Shoot, Matt Blunt sucks so much I may just have to change my sig line.
How are you, maryb?
He REALLY sucks. Two more years until we can kick him out – hopefully.
I take it you clicked the link? Makes me proud to be from Missourah I tell ya, proud.
Yeah, in the same way Bob Casey makes me proud, I’ll bet.
As far as I know Casey hasn’t also cut 90,000 people from Pennsylvania’s Medicaid rolls and shut down state mental health facilities and reduced benefits for more. Blunt has.
Or issued a press release just this week saying this, despite the fact that our unemployment rate just jumped to 5.4% from 4.8%
Casey will be one out of 100 — Blunt runs our state. I think I win. Unfortunately.
Yeah, Blunt is a class A creep.
I agree with you about the 1 of 100 thing (although I didn’t vote for Casey). But many people think Casey will drop his senate job to be governor in 4 years, and that’s where he can do the most damage to women.
during the week and she tells me your state government is … interesting (to say the least). So I suppose there’s no chance that the state legislature can (or would want to) block anything?
Our state legislature, of course, is made up of those wonderful people who issued the report linking illegal immigration with abortion.
Yeah, interesting would probably describe it…
So, do you ever visit your sister at her place in PA?
She’s only there Monday through Friday and goes home to Chicago on the weekends. We’ve talked about her staying there one weekend and me coming out to visit so we could take a nostalgic trip to Gettysburg. But my weekends since the beginning of June have been too busy. And from now to the end of the year will be too busy. And she may get a new project after the first of the year.
I think I may have been a grouper in a former life. Possibly even at the Shedd Aquarium.
kinda tacky to ask where everybody is and then disappear.
Yeah, I was making dinner. Sorry.
letting real life interfere with your online one.
Was there a disruption in the force? I went over to Orange to rec BooMan’s diary and suddenly couldn’t get back into Green.
you left and took the life out of the place.
I wasn’t gone long — although I was distracted over there by a little party that was going on.
You just don’t understand your true power.
So what’s your contribution to T’day dinner?
Cranberry Relish (the same one that Omir put in the Thanksgiving open thread, basically) and a pie. Pumpkin.
I missed Veronica Mars last night. I went over to sit with the invalid and entertain her and she wanted to watch House. Did I miss a good one?
pretty good.
We learned that several of the rapes were phonies — staged by the womens group. Veronica and Logan are having problems — Logan is being a control freak and Veronica has trust issues.
I thought she and Logan would get along better since he saved her last week.
Is Laura San Giacomo still on or was last week it for her?
Logan got angsty and tried to tell her what she could and couldn’t do — you can imagine how well that went over.
Don’t know if that was it the last week or not but there was no Harmony this week.
I forgot to mention that Patty Hearst guest starred. She can’t act for shit but it was kind of fun — she played the scion of Hearst-Mart, a chain of discount stores whose founder also founded the school.
Patty Hearst? funny.
The CBs just came back from dinner with their dad, and CBtE brought David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust with him. What perfect cranberry chutney-making music!
I am having some computer problems this evening. I think that my Explorer up-dated somehow and now I cannot read half the comments on the screen. I can only see half of each line.
If anyone has any ideas, e-mail me, because I won’t be able to read your suggestions here.
Other than that, things are great.
Check your email for something from me.
This is so weird. I can read the comments in the recent comments section.
Thanks, I’ll go to check my e-mail.
Perfect fix CG. Thanks for the help.
It worked, then?
Yup! Perfectly.
So I feel a little guilty for secretly hoping my in-laws wouldn’t be able to make it for dinner tomorrow because of the bad weather. My MIL had a stroke this afternoon. Eek.
That’s terrible — how severe is it?
It looks pretty mild, so far. It’s weird, she had just sent me an article on the signs of a stroke a few weeks ago. So her husband recognized it immediately and called 911
that is odd. But being able to recognize what was happening early was a very good thing!
If they recognized what was going on and she got to the hospital right away, she should do very well.
She also has congestive heart failure and she smoked for 50 years. :/
I’ve always thought they seem like the sort of couple that when one goes, the other will follow quickly.
Still, the earlier you recognize a stroke, the more (and more effective) treatment options you have. And you said it appears mild, so that’s hopeful.
You all have spent quite a bit of time at the hospital this year, haven’t you?
Yes, we have. I’m beginning to like the smell of industrial floor cleaner and lime jello.
my stepfather had a mild stroke when he was 70. It was a pretty good thing as it turned out because it made him really change his way of living — better eating, more exercise, less stress. And he lived to 90.
She is a tough cookie, that’s for sure. Everyone who calls the house thinks she’s a man. She used to be 6 ft. tall but now she’s 5’8″. She blew all of my stereotypes about southern belles to smithereens.
If she’s tough and willing to listen to the docs, that’s a really good combination.
My grandma smoked unfiltered cigarettes from her teens until she had a stroke in her seventies. She stopped cold turkey — never smoked again. Lived to be ninety-six.
She may surprise you.
My parents both smoked two packs a day of Camel unfiltered cigs – and I guess so did all of the kiddoes in the house by proximity.
no! how is she?
Are you going to see her?
Mr. Nature went down there to be with his dad, who doesn’t do well when he’s alone. She’ll be in the ICU for at least a few days while they assess her. I guess there’s a great risk of another larger stroke in the first 48 hours.
Larger strokes are generally precipitated by smaller attacks, called transient ischemic attacks or TIAs. Being monitored in ICU is the best thing right now.
It’s such a shame this happened — especially right before a holiday. But hopefully since he recognized all the symptoms and got her in quickly she will do well. How far away do they live?
They live in Wilmington, which is about 2 hours from here, on the coast.
The results are in! 😀
woo hooooooo!
I’ve been voting (almost) every day 🙂
Wow!
Congratulations, olivia.
What a great result.
Yay!!! That was some pretty stiff competition, too.
Yay for olivia!
(but don’t yell too loud — you’ll hurt your voice)
Thanks for your votes! It is very much appreciated! 🙂
I’m ready to start voting again on Saturday. It’s so easy to vote everyday. Yippee.
Thanks P4! It seems like such an imposition, asking people to vote every day … lol
Hey, no problem. It’s so easy to do. I have a link on my own blog and so does FM and so do you so there are lots of options. I’m happy to have the opportunity.
Yeah I won I won
Congrats Olivia .
I think if everybody gets together on this, & votes for the best photo blog, you`d be sure to win. I know I started voting late & must apologize for your second place finish. It`s my fault & I take full responsibility.
That is so good news after being sick for such a long time.
“To be honest, I don’t think I’m going to make the top 5”
A man had worked at the same place for fifty years. He also had been married for fifty years. He had five daughters who, strangely enough each had five children. He was born on May fifth in 1955. When he retired he was awarded $5,000.00, plus his retirement checks which were also $5000.00 a month. He took his award & went to the racetrack & bet it all on the fifth horse in the fifth race, with the odds at 50 to 1.
His horse came in fifth.
Olivia!!! Congratulations!! I just went out and checked and there you are….#2 in the top five of photo blogs. You’re in the running for the run-off. Yippee!!!!
I just watched the second half of the Madonna special. I’m exhausted just watching her.
that you didn’t already know?
I don’t know if it was her normal concert or if they did it just for TV. I always forget that she can dance.
The most ripped 45+ yr old woman on the planet. 🙂
but Tina Turner was singing and dancing pretty good at 45. And I’d put her up against Madonna any day despite the differences in age.
I totally agree that Tina wins — for the legs alone. 🙂
for the Art Fair? Or help? I like it.
Cabin Girl, are you still around?
Is there an echo in here?
A school teacher and two cats walk into a bar.
“Anybody here?” he said.
The prettier cat jumped up on the bar, and after eating a few hard-boiled eggs, said,”Looks like we’ve got the rub of the place.”
The friendlier cat said, “Don’t you mean the run of the place?”
The prettier cat answered,”Yeah. It’s not my fault the teacher can’t type.”
Havin fun?
“Hey cat, get off the bar! We’ve got company.”
Good to company! Would you mind feeding that friendly cat?
slightly allergic to cats. Oh well… here kitty, kitty, kitty. Here …. ouch! Damn cat!
Kidspeak? Kidspeak? Would you do us favor and get these cats out of the lounge? Oh, and Mary needs a bit of first aid.
a dog in the lounge?
They’d fillet poor George with one swipe. But on a non-cat related theme, I have some info for Cabin Girl.
But if you give it to me, I’ll see that she gets the message. Yeah …. I’ll see that she get’s it …. sure ….
so I did a little research. It turns out they are authentic Plymouth Plantation recipes. I found a copy of a 1640 manuscript of recipes by Rebbe Moshe Huntchinson and there they were!
The one in the news bucket? Or from last year?
News Bucket. Man, I worked to put that joke out there. I think I should just go sit at the bar, have what the cat’s are having ,(I think their drinking White Russians again), and listen in on the Madonna review.
sorry — I forgot she posted the matzo recipe 😉
Too many recipes today.
Kidspeak was reading me the recipes and I heard the matzo one and, well, whatever. I think I pulled a muscle working that one in.
Quick question, Mary: If you read my diary about Scottish religious conflicts did you think it was about religious conflicts?
And the Madonna discussion is more fun, anyway.
I thought you were trying to make the point that if you are a purist and refuse any compromise you may eventually destroy yourself and your movement. I thought you used the Scottish religious conflicts to show how ludicrous things could get if you didn’t compromise.
OK, I blew it completely with that one. I was aiming at satirizing the who’s progressive and who’s not arguments. You know, he/she’s not progressive because they don’t believe in this, or that, or the other. As if there’d been a sort of Nicean Council on Progressivism. Kidspeak knows me rather well, so she got it, but she warned me it was to indirect. That’s always a danger with satire. That and pissing people off, of course.
come over to the new lounge and I’ll tell you what I think
Mary, I didn’t have my glasses on and missed the word “IF” in our answer. I am an idiot. Of course, you got it. Good, I feel a better now. Thanks for the fed back.
“Everybody’s a comedian,” grumbled the teacher.
Hello folks, what’s going on here. Is/has anyone watched the Madonna show tonight…Quite an experience I must say, but the strobe lighting is giving me a headache. Not much else on tonight so I am bored and Shirl is unavailable, thus I am here writing these words, hoping that someone is out there in the great somewhere!!!!!!!! Dramatic, I guess….lol
So……what’s up!!!!
Hi Diane! It was on earlier here and I forgot about it until the second half, but I watched that. That girl has quite the energy doesn’t she?
I thought that the lights and all the fast cutting from long to short to wide to closeup was a little disconcerting.
Hi Mary, yeah she does have the energy, but even more so the dancers, in an earlier part, they were doing this gymnastic thing, swinging from bars and leaping here and there, and it was incredible, I got to be worried about them and wondering if the same group does all the dances, how can they manage.
The show opened with a domanatrix routine, not too unusual for her I gather.,
Sounds like the old Madonna.
I thought she sang really well (although I wondered if it was taped — they never showed her mouth for longer than a few seconds).
But her quasi English accent kind of bothered me when she shouted to the crowd.
On the whole I liked it though.
She must have been singing live otherwise she would not have had to have the handmike when she was doing a pole dance, thus she would have been able to do even more gyrations.
Anyway, I am not so much into her, although I find her a strange breed.
Mary, I forget what part of country you are in, are you in pacific time?
BTW Teacher, hope I didn’t interrupt the conversation, if you don’t mind I think I will have a white russian too.
No problem, Diane. I was mostly being silly. I’ll see if I can mix up a White Russian with no cat hair or typos.
I’m in St. Louis – central time.
It’s funny because I’ve never considered myself a big Madonna fan. But I usually enjoy her when I see her — but only in short increments.
Ok, I guess I am live blogging Madonna, cause I have another comment…..how on earth do they remember all the moves and the steps, not to mention the words to the songs. I noticed also that they bleeped some of her words in one song.
Ok, this is a pretty funny thing to do on T=giving eve, right????
Say, should I post a FBC diary as this is getting long….been so long since I did one?
I can do it — I just did one for the first time in a long time the other night. I’ll be right back.
Hold the thought …
Let’s all head over to the Late Night Lounge and talk some turkey.