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Posted on 09/02/2004 2:18:28 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
New verse:
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I'm afraid Jeanne and Lisa will team up and go all Thelma and Louise on us...
Speaking of confused. Corin is vey confused about the shirt tie combination he chose this morning. Granted it is a bit ~unusual~ (it's an unusual tie to begin with).
But it is either vey stuning OR it makes people want to barf. I've had people staring all day long...or at least it seems like it...
Can you get a description, Corin?
How on earth can we help you determine which it is without a mental picture at the very least?
Well, it's a patterned tie. Multi-color. It's a Children's Miracle Network tie, so it's a bunch of overlapping hand prints that form an abstract pattern. The shirt is kind of "melon" although if I wear it with black (which I'm not) I feel like a pumpkin...
Maybe you just look bright and cheery when folks are used to seeing dull and gloomy. :-D
Yes, yes that's it. I thought I looked incredibly good...
Isn't he something? Hi everyone.... made it home from town!
See, I'm kinda philosophically opposed to Sailor Moon... but you were right about a lot of other things.
Which means that if I like things you strongly recommend, you ought to like things I strongly recommend... it's my goal to get as many people as possible to watch Fullmetal Alchemist... so far everyone I've made watch it has liked it.
I think we need pictures...
:~D
You always do!
From ~town~??!! I'm glad to see you made it back in one piece, especially after your adventures at the County Fair last night!
You are doing far too much wandering for a Hobbit. ;-)
I know. I think I should stay home for a week and recover!
I couldn't agree more, chica.
Hmmmm.....that kind of therapy sounds very promising. Maybe I should do the same....
Oh yeah, I can't. Since the conversion, they have blacked out all vacations here at work. Delightful, isn't it? :-P
Man... are they sadists, there?
I'm convinced of it.
They black out vacation from November through January as well, so you can't take a day off at all during the holidays....believe it or not.
They don't give Christmas bonuses because they give us "retention" bonuses quarterly. Even though those bonuses only materialize if we reach a certain level of client retention.
They have terrific benefits though and I've got pretty good job security, so it all evens out I guess.
Bottom line - I absolutely HAVE to work and care for my kids, so I'll take what I can get.
After venting all of that, I'm going to get the heck out of here!!
To thrive, stay alive with the Kerrys
It was the best and worst of times -- for hamsters.
One hamster, Licorice Kerry, lived a Brahmin life of luxury and love. Licorice Kerry was owned by the Kerry sisters.
One day, a planned sailboat cruise was aborted when Licorice's cage, perched beside the briny drink, accidentally toppled into the deep when catastrophe struck. Licorice could feel himself falling, falling. Darkness and silence, and then, suddenly, he felt quick, strong, sure arms surrounding him, uplifting him to safety. John's quick thinking and courage had saved the tiny and important life for the sisters. A loved, saved hamster is ever more precious.
After a bit of a dry-out and a visit to the local hamster beauty salon, Licorice Kerry was only a trifle the worse for wear.
The other hamster, A. Bush, lived a life of sterile anonymity, devoid of a given name and hardly noticed on the busy Texas ranch. His short life, lived in obscurity, is marked only by the sad one-line eulogy -- "he did not make it."
Somehow, A. Bush's life didn't seem to count or register on anyone's sympathy scale.
Well, there it is in a hamster nutshell -- to thrive, stay alive with the Kerrys.
Help is on the way!
Gail E. James, Lacey
I know the feeling. Once in a while, though, its agood idea to simplify.
Lst time I visited my Mom I went to the basement and went through 3 large boxes of stuff I had left in my room when I left home. Some of it-- a little plastic "treasure chest" I got for Christmas when I was 10-- a toffee tim in which I'd kept a constantly changing collection of treasures since I was 5-- my HO scale American Freedom Train locomotive-- I kept. Much, including raggedy 3-ring binders I'd used in school, with assorted school and school-time krep stashed in 'em, I threw out or set aside for Mom to donate to the Goodwill.
So now I have one box in Mom's basement...and a couple others in my old room :)
Hat tip to the late D. Adams...
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