A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....02-23-05....Another Finest Play Day

Mama_Bear

[Mama_Bear]

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day

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A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day was introduced on June 24, 2002. It's only a small room in JimRob's house where we can get to know one another a little better; salute and support our military and our leaders; pray for those in need; and congratulate those deserving. We strive to keep our threads entertaining, fun, and pleasing to look at, and often have guest writers contribute an essay, or a profile of another FReeper.

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We're having fun and hope you are!
~ Billie, Mama_Bear, Dutchess, Dansangel, Aquamarine ~

Yes, FRiends, it's another
Finest "Play Day"!

We should be visiting another state today, but the 'Finest Tour Bus' is in the shop for repairs (again!). So, we will be staying home and having a play day instead.

For those of you who have your heart set on traveling, you are welcome to re-visit any or all of our Finest states below..... :-)

05-23-03 Alabama 06-27-03 Maryland 07-11-03 Vermont 07-25-03 Utah 08-05-03 Texas 08-22-03 Nevada 08-26-03 Wash DC 09-05-03 Tennessee 09-17-03 Florida 09-19-03 Minnesota 10-03-03 New Mexico 10-14-03 Georgia 10-17-03 Louisiana 10-22-03 Michigan 11-04-03 South Dakota

11-14-03 California 01-09-04 South Carolina 02-06-04 West Virginia 02-20-04 Oregon 03-09-04 Pennsylvania 03-30-04 Wyoming 04-13-04 Mississippi 04-27-04 Missouri 05-25-04 Indiana 07-21-04 Virginia 08-18-04 Colorado 09-29-04 Idaho 10-20-04 New Hampshire 12-07-04 Hawaii 02-09-05 Maine

...the rest of us will
stay here and









Being 8 Years Old Again

I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year-old again.

• I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant.
• I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make a sidewalk with rocks.
• I want to think M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them.
• I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer's day.
• I want to return to a time when life was simple. When all you knew were colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care. All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or upset.
• I want to think the world is fair. That everyone is honest and good.
• I want to believe that anything is possible.
• I want to be oblivious to the complexities of life and be overly excited by the little things again.
• I want to live simple again. I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes, mountains of paperwork, depressing news, how to survive more days in the month than there is money in the bank, doctor bills, gossip, illness, and loss of loved ones.
• I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind, and making angels in the snow.

So, here's my checkbook and my car-keys, my credit card bills and my 401K statements. I am officially resigning from adulthood. And if you want to discuss this further, you'll have to catch me first, 'cause...

"Tag! You're it!"

and have a wonderful Wednesday!

THIS WEEK'S THREADS 02-21-05 Military Monday 02-22-05 Fontastic!

Opinions by our own 'King of Ping' The guy's good, folks!

Thanks, Mixer!

1) Click on the graphic to open the Calendar.
2) Once there you can click on any month and even click to the right to go into next year. Once you are in the month that you joined FR you will need to click on the number in the calendar and then an add item screen will come up.
3) In the next box enter your name in the "Calendar Text" field and then click on submit.
4) If any of the screens fail to load simply click on refresh in your browser and that will usually fix it.
5) If all else fails or simply if you want me to do this for you send me a FReepmail and I will gladly do it for you. ~Mixer

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at
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and include Freeper Photo Album in subject line.

Hall of Fame #10 ~ 12-29-04

[Mama_Bear]

Thanks for posting the correction. I just went to the site. I'll go back tomorrow when I have more time and look around.

[Mama_Bear]

As Lady Jag said, I believe the wait is a good sign. :)

Very true. :-)

[Gabz]

Thank you - that means a lot to me coming from you.

[luvie]

....I still don't see them--and I even started a font folder, although I don't have but three styles in it. I need much more study of this fun stuff, I reckon!

[Gabz]

I've been in and out all day.

Story of my life today (oops, yesterday)..little one home sick today, nasty folks on another thread, hubby not feeling well this evening, nasty weather in the forecast........Thursday is not looking like a good day.

OK - I feel better now, thank you for letting me rant my miserable rant.

[luvie]

You are a hero, Mayor! And by the time you and your supporters get through with those guys, you will be a hero in Erie county too, if not already. Sometimes change is a hard thing to take, but change for the good has got to be a positive move!

[luvie]

Oh, Gabz! Sorry you met nasty people on FR! I just hate it when someone goes off on me, and I didn't even say anything to deserve that kind of treatment. You would only expect that kind of treatment in the DUmpster! Well, you are among friends here!

[Mama_Bear]

"...I still don't see them--and I even started a font folder, although I don't have but three styles in it. I need much more study of this fun stuff, I reckon!"

I think your problem is, you don't have them in your WINDOWS font folder. That's where they need to be. When you locate your WINDOWS font folder and open it, you will find fonts already in there. Just copy the fonts you downloaded and paste them into that folder. That's all there is to it. :-)

[Mama_Bear]

OK - I feel better now, thank you for letting me rant my miserable rant.

LOL. You are welcome. And I hope you are pleasantly surprised tomorrow and it turns out to be a very nice day for your whole family. :-)

[Gabz]

Thank you, thank you, thank you..........One of the "nicer" things I was told to do was go back to DU where I belonged.

Yes, I'm a bit agitated, to say the least.

[luvie]

Okaaayy! I knew there was something wrong! It is kinda late for my brain to work tonight, I am going to DO this thing in the morning or else!

[Gabz]

Aren't you the dearest person........Oh big HUGS to you for that.

I really need to go to bed.........her little majesty is NOT going to school tomorrow, no matter what she says and the last words I expressed to hubby were about him calling out sick and staying in bed all day.

[luvie]

Geez! I hope I don't happen onto that thread! Some people just get off on being hateful. Maybe you should have reported them as abusive to the Mod! I can't imagine that this kind of behavior would be sanctioned by Jim!

[Mama_Bear]

Good night you two. TTYL. I'm otta here.

[Gabz]

I'm not a believer in hitting the abuse button, as I know we all have our moments and can say a thing or two that we shouldn't.

Other than hitting it on myself to ask for mulitple posts to be deleted, I had only hit the abuse button 3 times in all my time here - I made it 4 tonight.......and it's killing me, because I hate doing it.

[Gabz]

Good night, FRiend - I'm not far behind you.

[Mama_Bear]

I'm otta here.

outta......I'm tired, making typos everywhere. Time to call it quits. LOL

Sweet dreams, Gabz.

[luvie]

Just don't dwell on it though I know it makes you feel rotten. Like Mama_Bear said, tomorrow is gonna be a better day! Just stay here with us!:<) Good night to you. See ya on the Finest!

[Gabz]

You both are a pleasant respite in what had been a bit of angst for me.


One of the moderators pulling a particularly offensive post and then admonishing the poster also helped, I will admit....

[dansangel]

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