Good morning, good evening all, welcome to the FBC.
We had a very good response yesterday, with the “Tell Us Why you came to Booman, diaries and I see they are continuing today…so keep those going, they are great testimonials to the site.
We also had the Photo fair, which was a great success, thanks to Katiebird, Brother, Nag, Andif, and many others who contributed their beautiful and gorgeous pictures.
Today we will have this lovely tea set for serving our guests in the cafe, and now I must stop writing to get this cafe up for all the guests waiting just outside the door.
Have a great day everyone!
Cafe is now open and ready for business, come on in, sit right down, have a nice cuppa,
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and warmth of the heart, a nice place to reside. A Loving Village Diane!
I do miss my nickname – creve coeur.
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I could sit there all day long. How lovely of a place.
Good morning Diane and everyone,
Jetlagged and tired the whole weekend. Noticed yesterday and this morning that I “missed out” on some hot discussions – maybe just as well.
Hope we all are able to bring our views and arguments to the board with respect to each other.
This picture was taken in Juba/south (New) Sudan last Monday. Amazing to be in a town so hotly contested until recently and observe SPLA soldiers strolling the streets with Govt. of Sudan troops just down the block. Most of them not even carrying their AK-47s.
Maybe there is hope.
“Noticed yesterday and this morning that I “missed out” on some hot discussions – maybe just as well.
Hope we all are able to bring our views and arguments to the board with respect to each other”
Exactly what I was posting but you said it much more eloquently 🙂
Was thinking about you all week. Spouse is trying desperately to get out of this biz he’s been in for 2 yrs now. Let’s just say – they do contracts with the DoD. He does safety and design… but it’s still not good for the soul. A new job will mean so so so much to this family.
((((((((ASK))))))))) I told him what you were doing, and I thought he was going to cry. He’s at interviews right now.
Thanks Damnit,
Wishing you and your spouse all the best and crossing my fingers for you both during the ongoing interviews. Most of us need a job and the safety of a weekly/monthly paycheck and are happy to have one. So much better if it is also for something close to heart if we have the luxury of choice.
Hugs back to you. Hope all works out.
and maybe that’s good. I was surfing around BooTidalWave and read a bit on GhostDancersWay in the “Why are you here?” thread. I don’t know what happened…and right now I feel a bit anxious over that. I don’t know what the cause was or if it’s been resolved…
But I like it here because I’m free to be a Liberal. I’m free to LEARN here. aka I don’t get smacked down for basic errors or for asking questions. I like it here because it’s a sanctuary. I’m free to laugh here also.
My “idea” about life is that it’s about Living, Laughing and Learning. (hey all starts with an “L” just like “L”iberal. 🙂
Awaiting phonecall from spouse who has the interview part to attend to today.
Good news!!!! They do pay for relocation!!!!!! we weren’t even expectign that!
And health, dental and vision benefits. In some cases, even college help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
crossing fingers, eyes, legs and all that jazz.
Morning went rather smoothly for Wesley (hooray). Little grumpy but he’s not a morning person AT ALL. WHEW!
I’ll cross an appendage or two for you as well.
Cross my heart bra 🙂
Wow, Janet, that job sounds great! I’ll be thinking about you and the spouse today!
It is rainy and gloomy here (a stereotypical Monday, really) and all I have to look forward to is going in and signing the final bankruptcy papers…
Wish I could feel all excited about that, but can’t muster anything. Still have to wait 30-40 days until the meeting with the trustee — I won’t feel better until we know we have the discharge…maybe before Thanksgiving?
That past few years here have been tough. We hadn’t any insurance for over 3 years and that was SCARY and hard!
Was awful to tell Danni she couldn’t rollerblade because she might brake something and that could cause us to lose everything. Then Wesley’s dental nightmare…
Bankruptcy? I’m sorry to hear that. Several around here are trying to file for that as well. I see more and more garage sales, moving sales…
(((Bri))))I’ll be thinking fo you too, for the ummm next 30 to 40 days or however long it takes – and then some 🙂
Thanks, Janet — it sucked, we went in, husband and I just happened to be there at the same time, I had elder son with ’cause he has no school today — we started going through it all, and things looked ok until about 1/2 way through — there were so many things fucked up, accounts included in the write off that have no balances, the hub’s student loan balance shown as zero, 3 out of 4 of our computers not listed, $400 listed for no apparent reason and with no description, 2 shares of GM stock that my dad bought me when I was born listed as valued at 2,300 (they are worth about 31 bucks a piece) — it was totally nerve-wracking. I just stopped because there were so many corrections to make and told the girl at the desk that I wasn’t signing it because now I didn’t trust that ANY of it was done right and the lawyer has all the paperwork that I spent hours and hours putting together for him…I was quite pissed.
The lawyer came out and said he would fix it (great, he did such a grand job the first time!) and I am going back in tomorrow afternoon to take another look. And I was in there so long, I got a $15 parking ticket.
Then Ethan and I went to the Halloween store, where of course, I couldn’t buy him much of anything, but we had fun looking at all of the stuff anyway — I explained to him what “stressed out” means — I am very worried and a little bit sad — and he said just calm yourself down, mom, everything will be ok. He is so awesome for 6 1/2 and I feel like a jerk.
Eh, well. And so it goes. Thanks for listening.
stressed out. I know what that means. I know what it means to stand in a grocery line and wonder what you can get away with putting back on the shelves.
I know laying awake all night worrying “what if my child gets sick/injured”… without health insurance.
The whole time both kids being absolutely cool about it all. I truly think we are suppoed to guide, nuture our kids – while learning from them.
Damn about the parking ticket…too. That’s like a slushy snowball to the face.
Go hug Ethan (again). For all of us 🙂
(((((Bri))))))) xoxox
I’m sorry that you have to wade through that big pile of crap. It would be so nice to live life without worrying about money at all.
I raised all four of my kids under the poverty level and with no health insurance. I can’t tell you how much it sucked to rotate emergency rooms because you owe the other two hospitals too much money already and you’re afraid they’ll humiliate you during the registration process. Or bouncing checks to merchants you’ve been dealing with for years and having them never trust you again. Or telling your kids no band instruments or after school sports for you because we can’t afford the equipment.
But it does make you stronger and closer, at least it did for us. And it sure makes you grateful when you are able to splurge a little. I used to occasionally tape a dollar bill to the inside of the bottom of the kitchen trash can, so that when one of them took the trash out without me asking they would get a big surprise. I can’t tell you have excited and grateful they were to get ONE BUCK! Now that I’m remarried and can afford stuff, I still look back at that time with a mixture of guilt, sadness, and even longing to go back to that time if just for the closeness and the gratitude we all felt for small things.
Good luck :0)
I don’t feel like we’re getting closer, I feel like we’re all growing apart. And hearing your story just makes me feel like a terrible wimp. We have health insurance, at least.
It’s my fault, I suppose, I have tired hard to raise kids who appreciate what they have but they just have too much and now, when we have no money to spare, it just doesn’t seem like they can make use of what is already here — I am NOT looking forward to the holidays at all. I have always liked Thanksgiving, but always wish that then it could just be new years and skip over everything in between.
Yegods and I depressing today or what?
Thanks for sharing and the words of support. BTW, your daughter is beautiful — loved seeing that picture yesterday.
Now Ethan wants to go skating around the block — hope it doesn’t rain on us!
Yeah, sorry about that crap about it making you grow closer. I used to hate it when people would tell me that money can’t buy happiness. Oh yeah!? Well it can buy diapers and that makes me happy. It can pay the electric bill and that makes me happy.
It sucks not having money. If anything good can come out of it it’s that my kids (and myself) are very grateful for things, we’re not very materialistic, and we had to be really tenacious and inventive to keep a roof over our heads and keep ourselves amused. We all remember snowball fights we had INSIDE the house; water fights too. That’s when I wasn’t too depressed to get out of bed, and the kids weren’t hiding in their rooms trying not to bother me. It sucked. But, oddly, I miss it too.
Never say you’re sorry, Laura, you are an inspiration — like I said, things could be so much worse, I really need to stop being such a whiner. The thing that’s killing me right now is that the lawyer said that if I got any income before the discharge, that could hurt our bankruptcy case, so I’ve even had to stop looking so hard for work. Not working is killing my ass — this is the longest I’ve been unemployed since I was 15.
No, money can’t buy happy, but it sure as hell can pay off some gloom and anxiety, right?
😉
Aww honey- what a great kid you have!
I guess. Yeah, he’s a great kid, I’m just a shitty mother, all he does is watch TV or play video games, I can’t get him to do ANYthing with me — we have had two days of this 4 day weekend all to ourselves, but he doesn’t want to read books or play games or catch or do puzzles or anything that we used to like to do. Homework is an insane struggle, when I can even get him to do any of it — and it is all my fault, I have been very uninvolved, or detached or something, I don’t know. My heart is just breaking right now.
When things like that used to happen to us, I would pack everybody up and take them out hiking in the park or playing in the creek there (skipping rocks is a major diversion)…I think there’s something very good about being out in a place that’s bigger than oneself and all one’s problems that always seems to help turn things around…
my response to Second Nature, Ethan decided he wanted to go skate around the block (actually about 4 blocks), he made skate tracks after skating through puddles, we found some cool rocks and leaves and when we got home we played a little basketball and had a popsicle…..all is much better than it was an hour ago.
Thanks, CG, you always have solutions!! You’re the best!
Here’s one for Brenda Stewart who expressed a desire in my fair diary for some sunrises.
This is dawn on Easter morning. A deer is crossing the lane in the distance.
A little peace to get you through your day.
I’m guessing that the selection of html format for the photo fair diary seems to apply to all my comments as well. (br)(br)
Sorry for the margin-busting.
Yep, I left the part about setting that back to Autoformat out of the instructions. I’m very sorry about that. (It might take preview to lock the change in place, sometimes it sticks in HTML format for a while)
This means you!
and very busy at it, so she can only pop in in the evenings and weekends. Working at home, I can often take a minute drop a comment here or there.
But I have a feeling you’ll begin seeing her around.
(Drat! This isn’t email so I can’t cc: her!)
There’s a lot of that going around (though I’m like you and work at home, except when I have to travel).
Please let her know we’re all eager to have her come join us. Her photo diary was outstanding and I really enjoyed reading her comments in the other diaries.
What Andi said!
Thanks my friend. I really appreciate this. I feel as if I could just reach out and touch it. I feel the warmth as well as the cool. How very pretty…thanks again….
Diane, just want to thank you again for sparking that wonderful discussion (why we’re here). Every once in a while, it helps to take stock of what we’re trying to accomplish, so that we can gird our loins for the next marathon.
DJ, sounds like things are OK with GDW and what was bugging him — evidently some comments were made in one of the diaries that rubbed him the wrong way, but I think things have been clarified. (OT — how about the Sharks coming back to beat the Blues over the weekend? Got to feel sorry for the goalies; if early season is any indication, goals allowed averages are going to totally suck this year…)
Okay, got this morning’s Rachel Maddow loaded on the iPod so off for a workout; will check back in a bit…
13 goal game… that’s not hockey, that’s badminton on ice or something LOL
Remember when a goal was a cause for celebration and losing one’s mind?? 🙂
Nu NHL rules… Ack. They are trying to entertain non-hockey fans… I swear, Gary Bettman (Buttman) must be related to the Bushes.
I’m glad they got 2 pts though 🙂
Just back from a wasted trip to the dermatologist with my 15 year old son whose pediatrician referred him for some weird halo moles on his back. Thanks to Google I learned that they’re very common especially in teenagers and nothing to worry about. The doc still wanted us to get them checked out because he had so many of them (13) and they appeared suddenly over the summer.
So, after 30 minutes in the waiting room, and another 30 minutes waiting alone in the exam room, she comes in, lifts up his shirt and goes “yup, halo nevi, nothing to worry about.” Gee thanks. And how much is this going to cost? Grrr. And he missed two classes for that. At least they had some samples of Olay at the front desk, and suckers too.
My daughter is home for her fall break from college, and yesterday, on her 21st birthday, she tells me she is most likely staying in her college town over the summer and sharing a house with friends. Which means she will never live here with me again. Which of course made me cry myself to sleep last night. Why am I such a pussy about my kids leaving?
Don’t answer that…it may scare me.
Because you love them. You need a hug! Come to lunch with me and katiebird in an hour, okay? In fact, everybody come. Meet us at Sophie’s Deli in KCK. Aren’t I lucky to get to sit across a table from the Goddess of the Photo Fair and rehash the wonders of it with her? Any messages for her?
I have a message for her: tell her she did an awesome job with the photo fair and let’s have another one in a couple of months.
I’ll meet you there and if you arrive before me just order me a turkey reuben (no thousand island dressing) and a big glass of iced tea. Oh, and a huge stinky garlic dill.
I’ll take a BLT on swirl rye with extra mayo and American Cheese.
Hugs for you and Katiebird! I wish the rest of us could be there!
Tell her I said “what an excellent job she did with organizing, tirelessly, and keeping Photo Fair going even through the awful depression that set upon us with Katrina.
So glad it wasn’t anything nasty. Big Sigh.
Hmmm Oil of Olay products? I love Oil of Olay 🙂
Mommy Heart Tremors. My dear friends is going through what you are right now, too. Her son is in Germany with a host family while at film school. I know how much she wants him to be independent but yet wants to know he’s safe and such. Being a mommy is, to coin a phrase, Hurrrd Wurrrk 🙂 Take care.
My kids grew up waaaaay too fast; while I was busy doing other things, and I’m not ready for them to leave, probably because I don’t know what to do with the rest of my life.
My oldest son, Owen, used to call Oil of Olay “Oil of Old Age” when he was very little. Now he’s a bartender making nine-dollar martinis. How did that happen?
Lol, Oil of Old Age! From the mouths of babes. Too true.
Kids leaving, I’ve had them all go….but it opens up a whole new world with your children, they really blossom and bloom when on their own and you can enjoy them in a new and different way.
As parents we don’t want our parenting days to end, but they never really do,and then there are the grandkids, which start the whole bit over again.
How are ‘you’ today Laura!
Me? Who’s me? 🙂
My wife left me a great big mug of English Breakfast 🙂 before going off to work. I didn’t notice it until it got way cold 🙁 But tea is tea and I drank it anyway : I don’t have a problem. I swear I don’t. Well, maybe a little one 😉 I’ll need to make more, perhaps Irish Breakfast this time 🙂 :{} :{_} etc, just because I’m having a vicious outbreak of emoticons–like measels, only less dire.
Sorry, just a little bit non-linear this morning. Comes from dealing with family stress over the last couple of months. Paranoid schizophrenia in one’s relatives can really light up the day.
Diane101, Thanks for yesterday’s community building diary and the follow up that continues this morning.
If anyone is interested, I have a BFD (big fat diary) up now that includes about five of my LTEs, a couple of which have been posted here already, and extracted progressive talking points. It’s a little complex to explain and I’ve already done it in the intro, so I won’t go on here. Anyway, this is the first result of my having been recurited to help with progressive messaging in WI.
Ta-ta… Or should that be tea-tea? In any case, see y’all later.
ta-ta or tea-tea … and the ever common nickname for you know what – “tee tee” 🙂
Why do railfans call Union Pacific “the beer train”?
Because after you drink a lot of beer…UP.
(I never said it was a good railfan joke…)
It’s a gloomy, chilly day here in Central VA and my old bones and joints are aching. Rained torrents this weekend and supposed to continue thru Wednesday. Well, at least, I’ve got all you cheerful folks to keep me company.
I am still loving my Master Gardener classes. It’s so much more than book-learnin’. Real professionals come and teach the classes and last week we hiked all over a nursery business with the owner. Learned about a great product called VoleBloc — you mix it in with your bedding soil and it keeps the critters from eating your root crops. It’s sharp little puffs of slate that cut up their little feetsies. har.
If you happen to learn of anything to control gigantic slugs let me know. Short of spreading poison all over the yard I have run out of ideas. The old can filled with beer attracted them like flies to, well you know, but there were just hundreds of them and then we’d have bloated smelly slugs in the cans which no one wanted to empty each day.
These babies ate every single leaf off of every single thing I planted, both in the ground and in pots. They are 3 to 6 inches long and voracious eaters. Every morning my yard is covered with shiny slime trails and it looks like the Creature from the Black Lagoon has been roaming around. Yuck.
diatomaceous earth would be my rec. slugs, sprinkle it around the plants, it cuts them, and they die….
According to my “Pest Management Guide 2005” for the state of Virginia: Slugs thrive in moist, humid conditions and are encouraged by using too much mulch so that the ground never dries out underneath. There are no poisons you can spread that will have much effect. The remedies are:
8)Crushed oyster shells (a chicken feed supplement) placed around the base of a plant may also deter slugs.
Hmmm… this last suggestion brings me back to the VoleBloc oddly enough. It’s sharp little bits of rock and you’d think slugs wouldn’t like slithering over little razor edges. If you can’t find crushed oyster shells in your neighborhood, you can probably get VoleBloc or PermaTill (which is the same thing) in a bag at your nearest garden center.
Hope this inspires you to go slug hunting tonight. After a couple of glasses of wine, you might even convince yourself that it’s fun. LOL!
2 kids
a cannister of Morton salt
🙂
Glad to see the different enviro friendly and pet friendly suggestions.
Anti-Freeze and Slug bait. The two things used a total nutcase serial murdered used to kill my dog, Willow and 5 other’s on one street.
Based on this comment, I think our kids would get along famously…
They got along well with me and Ry 🙂 We were the two kids. Heck that was entertainment to us LOL
My two kids… and yours would get along 🙂 But for other great reasons.
I think Danni would go berserko about the “torturing” of a creature. 🙂 She’d probably take off her shoes and casually tell the boys, “Okay I asked you nicely not to kill the creatures, now it’s Jujitsu for you” 🙂
LOL
Exactly!!HAHA
LOL…As a kid I used to watch them mate at night on our front porch steps. What a creepy, yet fascinating thing to see. Going to Catholic school, this was the closest thing to sex education that I had.
If you put a copper border around your plants, slugs and snails will not cross it. Something in their slime reacts with copper and it gives them an electric shock.
I think some nurseries carry these products. I’ve never done it — it’s expensive, and I’ve been too lazy to get really fired up over snails and slugs. But it’s supposed to absolutely work.
Maybe a circle of pennies? (is there enough real copper in them for that?)
36 w/ lt rain and snow…not a great pic but you can see the “snow line” if you look. It’s at roughly 6000 ft., just about where I am elevation-wise.
Truly enjoyed the Photo Fair, and Big thanks to everyone involved and the viewers who left so many great comments. This is a perfect example of what makes BT a special place. There is room here for Art and the Personal, as well as Politics.
Have a great one.
Later
Peace
me too, dada. I truly enjoyed seeing all the great works of all involved. Thanks to the staff and I know you all had just so much fun….:o)
Wish I had a beautiful photo to share, but inspired by Ask’s lovely bird I post this beautiful poem by Emily Dickinson:
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune–without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I’ve heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
What a whirlwind. So much going on at BT these last few days. I’m exhausted trying to read it all!
The Photo Fair seems to have been a wonderful success. I’m in the process of viewing everyone’s diaries… They are just superb. Big thanks to katiebird, AndiF, BrotherFeldspar for all their hard work in creating and administering the Fair, and all the photographers for sharing their photos.
Also, Diane – wonderful diaries on ‘why you came to Bootrib.’ Still trying to get through those. Sad to see some upset, but good to see that people are still here talking about it. There are a lot of strong personalities, and disagreement is good – upset not so much. Hope that no one leaves, as their voices will be truly missed.
these New NHL rules seem to make the game… suck 🙂 ACCKKKK Sharks v Blues ended up being a 7 to 6 “game”. It’s like pond hockey without the free beer, kids and dogs running around and chapstick.
Hey, I ain’t goin’ nowhere. Stuck with me, if you like 🙂
Definitely like being ‘stuck’ with you, DJ!
Well, rules schmooles. Some of ’em stink. I had to laugh at your badminton remark in another diary (omg… I have read SO many diaries and comments I’m not sure where I am right now! lol.)
Pond hockey … I miss it. The last time I played pond hockey was a long time ago. The chapstick comment is right on. We had hot chocolate as well as beer.
Buttman (another DJism!) reminds me of a muppet. Have you ever seen Ron Maclean interview him on HNIC? Ron gets so agitated w/ Buttman, and Buttman is constantly touching him. It’s a hoot.
The Sens are playing the Leafs tonight. The Sens are 2-0 and the Leafs are 0-2. Typical start for both. It’s the playoffs where things reverse, unfortunately.
Cool! We were just notified that we have a free preview of Centre Ice this month (the dish package that provides games and even HNiC (I LOVE hockey DAYS in Canada) so I will check out the game 🙂
Yup we love Cherry and MacLaren 🙂 Ok ok Don Cherry is a bit of a blowhard, but I love it when he gets on a roll. Plus he seems really interested in the young fans.
Olivia, I must have a copy of your white rose with the dew drops on it. I would love to frame it for one of my rooms. Please email me with your charges and sending requirements, if you will. That happens to be my most eye catching of all.
Yes indeed, everyone did a great job. I applaud you all………..
WHOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!
Mr. Damnit just called. He was very relaxed for the group interview. He ACED the tech part. Didn’t even need paper 🙂
And they offered him a job ON THE SPOT!
We’re MOOOOOOOOOOOOOVING!!!!!!!!!!! We’re starting over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And (Olivia and Cali Scribe) this means season tickets to the local minor leagues – the Winterhawks!
This also means better schools for BOTH the kids. This means health coverage that doesn’t require a second mortgage. This means he can tell his old boss and his kneepad wearing “assistant” to STICK IT! (he won’t because he’s too professional but I will)
OMFG!!!! I feel like we won the Stanley Cup!!!!
How cool! Congratulations to you and the whole Damn family!
Yahooo!!!!!!
I’m so excited for you- Now you can say buh-bye to the redneck republicans!
(clapping and dancing)
Wow, on the spot!! Drinks on the house!
Thank you everyone!!! He’ll be home tomorrow. RED RED WINE! Goes to my hea–e–ad 🙂
Yup, on the spot. They also turned someone down on the spot too. Othes will be notified “later”. So he’s feeling very happy, lucky and … this is so great. We really needed this start.
Next step is the HR formality.
He’s driving around town – which has two libraries, a civic center, theatres, art centers… parks… OMG! The site itself has a martial arts studio, gym, cafeteria and a Phoenix College.
and.. I’ll be closer to the ocean. The Gorge!!!!!
Sorry, very happy right now. It’s been a very rough couple of years. xoxoxoxox
What town will you be moving to???? Still in Ca. I hope.
Moving back to the Pacific Northwest.
Hillsboro, Oregon
🙂
Hey… I wonder if we’ll still be around for the “speshul eelecshuns” the Gropenator has caused?? Gawd…
dammit ryan will have to come visit and we’ll go have sept. 24th remembrance beers!!!
welcome home, lady and congratumalations!
Howdy Neighbor! 🙂
Clink!
Small world isn’t it? 🙂
Sheesh! My face hurts from smiling so damn much 🙂
when’s the big move?
we have a room for rent in our house, too…LOL
in a snake dance of adulation. Good luck with the move!
… all around. This is great news DJ. I’m so happy for your family!!! WHOOOT! WHOOT! WHOOT!
Wonderful DJ,
Such great news – and the way you describe it, making a real difference in your lives. All the best to all of you!
OH YIPPEEE!! OH YIPPEEE!!
A bow and a curtsey from me and mine for your new,
wondrous opportunity!
(((((((((((((((Janet))))))))))))))))))
I am so happy for you ALL!!
Moving is stressful, but what a wonderful thing to be moving to a fresh start! And no one deserves it more than you!
Enjoy, enjoy!!
Whooot!!!!! Fantastic!
I see a line of little frogs in top hats forming a conga line, just for you… okay, they’re not that graceful, but they’re ENTHUSIASTIC!!!
<<<jumping up and down for you and family>>>!!!!!!!!!!!! hugs…I know you are simply so happy..and relieved.
Happy Thanksgiving day to my fellow Canadians!
After reading through several comments and diaries in a day at BT, sitting there nodding your head, experiencing anger, sadness or whatever other emotion is brought up, do you ever walk away feeling like “wow! I really participated at BT today” – only to find that you made a total of 4 comments?
That’s a weird feeling. 🙂
…to you too, catnip.
I can relate to your comment, as I’ve been known to mutter to myself as I read diaries but not post. Today? Well, that’s a different story. I don’t think I’ve ever posted so many comments since I’ve been here at BT. But I wanted to try to personally thank everyone who commented in my photo diary, so what the hell.
I hope your day has been turkey-licious!
Thanks. I have so much catching up to do. My turkey dinner was yesterday, so I can relax today and look at all of the great pics.
Missed you yesterday Catnip, but nice that you had Thanksgiving….
I’ve been meaning to ask you about your obsession with cheesecake, do you like it that much? I love it too but actually only want to eat it maybe twice a year as it is so rich. I like homemade the best, but we have a very good cheesecake bakery here that I used to frequent on a regular basis.
I bought some lovely eclairs, yes lovely, and I am working my way through the box, one half at a time and I think I just made myself hungry for one right now..
Excuse me while I have a snack.
Yeah I know what you mean about all the reading, all the comments that you thought of but didn’t make, lord knows I think in terms of comments now, even in real time conversation. Comments or diaries, as I am shopping I will be thinking of writing this or that diary.
With my poor memory, I don’t even know how the whole cheesecake thing started! 🙂 I don’t even eat it that much (but, boy is it yummy).
I had pumpkin pie and whipped cream for breakfast. It’s fun being an adult.
lord knows I think in terms of comments now, even in real time conversation.
That is so true for me too! And I often get diary ideas when I’m trying to get to sleep at nite. There must be some name for this condition: bloggeritis or bloggermania or something…
I like bloggeritis, I do the diary writing or framing before I go to sleep too, especially when I am really feeling passionate about something, and I swear sometimes I do it in my sleep as it will come forth in the morning.
But then there are other times when comments, diaries and words fail me as they have recently and remain in the nether world..seems I have come out of my writing slump…..
I eat all kinds of things for breakfast none of them normal food, today I had a stuffed focaccia (spinach, cheese and mushrooms) from ‘Mediterranean’ that was delicious.
to let him know we’ve got his back in a primary against brown, if you are so inclined.
http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/runhackett06/
i, for one, am appalled that brown has changed his mind and decided to run now that hackett already stepped up to the plate.
Here’s another sunrise pic for anyone who needs hope.
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! I CAN FEEL JUST LIKE I AM THERE. Thanks I need some of these every day. It makes my day start off on the right foot. :o)
Woke up late this morning because I have this amazing ability to justify hitting the snooze button way too many times when my alarm starts going (“I just won’t take a shower. I can sleep another few minutes.”). So I missed my public transit to school… which would be okay except that I also can’t drive right now, since they’re tearing apart the parking lot.
Of course, that wouldn’t be that big a deal except that I’ve missed so much &%$*%@ class already this semester that now I feel horribly guilty missing any more. I’m already among the crappiest students I know, I don’t really need to push for a personal record right now.
But otherwise, I’m pretty good. Beautiful day here; sunny but not too hot, almost (almost!) actually feels like autumn — or the California version thereof, at any rate. So here I am wasting time, think I’ll do some digging out the summer garden soon to prepare for my winter crops, maybe walk to the pub later when my girlfriend escapes her day of work meetings and crap.
Plus, we made chocolate chip cookies last night. Which makes it impossible to be too grouchy.
Were we separated at birth?
Most of what you wrote is parallel to me, even the cookie thing except ours were oatmeal/choc. chip.
Mufasa! [shudder]
Paz Spit (I will never get tired of typing your UID)
😀
Where in Ca. do you live..
Sacramento… land of terrifying summer heat, incredible smog, and far, far too many legislative types.
Also the home of the upcoming pink week, a vital celebration if there ever was one.
Lemmee try that again
Pink Week!