[shirleyville]

Evening, All!

Maia -- Happy Lent, to you, as well! Giving anything up?? Last year, I gave up arguing and I actually did it, too! I made it all the way thru without saying one cross word to a single soul! This year, I think I will give up impatience.....

Taramaryn -- Welcome, if I didn't say so before!

Cobb -- I found a site where you can order your tangerine white tea! I think it's against the terms of service to post it here....I will PM the site to you!

Cathy -- Happy Birthday!!

I had a blast today at rehearsal!!! I had forgotten how much fun I have with those people!! It was the best time I've had in a very, very long time!! Hubby's not too happy.....but he can just get glad in the same pants he got mad in, because I am not going to give this up!! It's too important to my emotional well-being right now!
Hope everyone has a good evening!!
Hugs,
Sal

[katnap80]

Ironically, as I am catching up with my reading, I am "chatting" with a young reunited adoptee from the mid west, who happens to be a communications officer, as am I. She just had a dreadful head on collision involving children. It appears so far, no fatalities, thank God. Sorry to hear you had to experience that Chrissy. So senseless... drunk drivers.... especially when they kill or injure someone else.

Sally... congrats on the theater part. It will be good for you to have something positive in your life right now. "Break a leg".

DL.... My "pest" has been lingering since mid Dec. I think I had sinusitus as well as my asthma acting up. Still coughing, but feel much better today.

Snowprincess... beautifu painting. Your friend will really appreciate it.

Cathy... Welcome back. How was the cruise? and of course Happy belated B'day.

To all the rest of the gang... Have a great night. Have to "retire" early as 0500hrs comes far too early.
LOL
"K"

[l-thompson]

Hi again

Sally - what a cool saying "he can just get glad in the same pants he got mad in"...love it!!

dl - actually, its Sunday afternoon here...we are a day ahead of you all over there and yes...I survived and had fun too. The girls both got their hair cut and they both look lovely. There's only 16 months between our girls and they are both into the same thing at the same time.....consequently, their hairstyles are pretty identical. They both have long hair and they both had it shaped and layered around their faces - looks great. Now they both want highlights in their hair...checked out the prices and said no way!! - its just too expensive.

Cathy - gosh, another birthday girl - best wishes to you..enjoy your day. "Happy Birthday to you!!!"

Will go for now and enjoy the last few hours of our precious weekend....why do weekends go so fast and yet the week at work seems to drag on forever
Linz

[jenniperg]

yes, DL, I did, then I got sidetracked.

I had a wonderful friend from college - a man - that was like an uncle to my children. My husband was fine with it (most of my close friends are men), and it was really nice - he was so supportive of my kids and their activities. Then he got engaged and married. His future wife apparently didn't think it proper for men and women to be friends. It was clear that she "tolerated" me and my kids, my daughter was their flower girl. On the wedding day, the bride and sister were making fun of me to my daughter's face (and within earshot of me), and I probably should have just taken my kid and went home, but I sucked up because I didn't want to mess up the wedding day for anyone. It sailed over my daughter's head anyhow. For a few years, things were peaceful, and I thought that maybe she was "over" whatever issue she had with me.

A few years later, he and wifey were supposed to come to one of my daughter's games, but there was a conflict, and I wrote him an email politely explaining that it wasn't the best time for *^*(*^ reason. Nothing mean.

Within 15 minutes, I got back a vicious email from her (she read his email) detailing exactly what a horrible person and friend I was. I responded that my intentions in cancelling were only for good, and that while I was sorry she felt the way she did, if her husband thought I was such a bad person, he should be man enough to tell me himself. I got something just as vicious as the first one in return.

When I finally managed to pin him down, he refused to discuss any of it. Granted, I'll defend my husband most of the time, but he dared to chew out one of my friends, I'd get to the bottom of it. I hear from mutual friends that he knows he owes me a conversation, but he never reached out or returned a single phone call. Not a word to my kids, just GONE. That was a few years ago.

The kicker here is that out of the blue this year we got an Xmas card from them, signed (him), (her), and ??? All the anger and hurt came rushing back - why contact me now? I was over it, or so I thought.

Mutual friends called them after getting the same cryptic card and apparently they were expecting a baby in late Dec. When the baby was born, he sent me an email with a picture and vital stats. I couldn't bring myself to respond with more than a brief "congratulations." Mature, I know, but I just couldn't do more. It was so tough on my kids when he suddenly "vanished" on them - esp. since my own brother never comes to anything. I just couldn't leave the door open. I realize in hindsight that I tolerated way more than I should have in that friendship.

It felt good to unload that - I've been stewing on it since Dec.

[dpen6]

Sally, you come up with some of the greatest sayings...still laughing at "DR. Richard Cranium"....told some of my friends at work...they thought it was great!

We have not heard from Toby yet...as she changed her name...that edger name was reallt something....live is funny hey??

Dl and katnap...there are all sorts of viral things going around and they last for ever...its been keeping me hopping at work...gotta watch the ole folks it can turn to pneumonia real easy and that can be deadly for them...but generally they just last forever!!

jenniperg...we all have our stories about

not so good friends don't we...its very depressing when one realized they have been used...thats when you treasure the true friendships you have!


crissy...that is aweful about the accident...it must have been creepy knowinng you folks were the last to see himm alive.....it so true how life can change in a split second.

Mary,

love the stool...I do like that kind of "homey art"...I am surlly no expert but I connect to it.

well, kids want to get on...talk later

Donna

[shirleyville]

Sally, you come up with some of the greatest sayings...still laughing at "DR. Richard Cranium"....told some of my friends at work...they thought it was great!

Donna -- thanks!! My friends and I have always used the term "Richard Cranium" .... for as far back as I can remember knowing what it meant to call someone a __________ head!!! I dunno....must be a Hoosier-ism!!! Anyway, I am glad you found humor in it!!
It sure is quiet around here tonight!!
I am cracking up over this play that I am in!! It's based on the "Harmony" series of books by Phillip Gulley. Harmony is a small town community of Quakers (present day) and there's a whole series about all the things that go on in the town, and all the people in it. Jim (the guy who wrote the stage version) did a series of plays to go along with the book series....this is the third, I believe, and most of the other characters have all been together for the first two........
In this one, the "Friendly Women's Circle" is trying to come up with a way to raise money.....they decide to come together and create a quilt to be auctioned off at the annual Chicken and Noodles Festival. Once the quilt is finished, Deena (who used to be an attorney, but left the big city to open a coffee house in Harmony -- known as Legal Grounds) accidentally spills some coffee on the quilt! The quilt gets displayed in the Meeting House one Sunday, and as the parishoners are called to worship, one of the characters yells out that she sees the face of Jesus in the quilt!!!! (The coffee stain) Everything runs amuck from there as they try to figure out how to let the world know that the face of Jesus is on their beloved quilt, without turning Harmony into a side show!!!
It really does crack me up!!!
Anyway....that's about all that's going on here. I need to work on Peter Pan for awhile before I turn in, so I will chat with y'all in the morning!
Hugs,
Sal

[shirleyville]

Oh, and Donna, I did want to comment about the viral thing turning ugly for older folks.....
That's what my Mom's official cause of death was -- pneumonia. She was so careful never to go into public....EVER.....but the Thursday before she was hospitalized, I went with her to her doctor's appointment and Dad has a way of never being late! He got us there way early, and we had to sit in the waiting room for a long time. I am sure that's where she picked up whatever turned into pneumonia.....
I hate waiting rooms!!!!
I also hate that she was so careful....only to have it end up that way!
Hugs,
Sal

[Linnie65]

Hubby's not too happy.....but he can just get glad in the same pants he got mad in

LMAO!!!
You are too funny Sally!!!

Can't stay long, I"m in the middle of doing my taxes! UGGH! Be back tomorrow to respond to y'all!

Linnie

P.S.
Chrissy, I hope you are doing better now. Love ya girl and my thoughts have been with you this weekend.

[Linnie65]

One more quick one -
You gave up Arguing Sally? WOW, you ARE a much better person than I am.

But, maybe I'll encourage my kids to do that! LOL

[InionGrinn]

Ugh Linnie you just gave me a pang of panic and guilt! I do our taxes, too and should get started. Erk. Ugh. Blech. Eek. Grrr. (gee, how many sounds can I make here? )

SO I just got back from a great Chinese New Year Party! It was GREAT! we had great food, and a lion dance (one of the dads was in the head, with the kiddies following behind, one 'bigger' kid doing the drum thing. It ROCKED! Then we shot off these confetti rockets YAY! They got them in NYC Chinatown...SO fun. The Chinese sure know how to PARTAAY!
We were invited b/c hubby is part Chinese, our neighbors who adopted their daughter from China invited us - it was about 15 families with children from China. They were ALL so CUTE - most of them in traditional garb...mostly girls but a few boys. Gosh was it great. Its a tradition that is growing each year in our community, I am so glad they included us, we LOVE chinese traditions. Big into Feng Shui in our house... we all have our signs etc so we know how to 'deal' with one another lol....last spring when I was buying a car I made sure all the interior lights were NOT red- those sap your energy or something.

ANYway, I have work (URRRRGGGGHHHLLLGGGGHHH) in the AM...I have decided to Q - U - I - T !! DH does not know this yet...I'm giving my 6 month notice. Yes, 6 months. Thats how much crap I have to wind up. I want to just follow my heart and be a MOM MOM MOM gosh darnit! More to follow...

[l-thompson]

Hi all

Gosh, I remember the days of doing taxes
Nowadays we don't need to file a tax return if we only receive income from salary/wages....its so much easier. Here in NZ we are P.A.Y.E (pay as you earn) and so if you are on the right tax code you pay the right amount every year straight from your earnings....I like it!!

Chrissy - good on you leaving your job - 6 months is an awful lot of notice?..you must have a lot of crap to sort out!! Good move though..I loved being a stay at home mother with the girls when they were young...never regretted a minute of it. Sure, we went without a lot of "extras" but it wasn't a big deal and I look back now and am glad I was able to take time out of the paid workforce. The children grow up soon enough - always time later to get back out there. How I wish for those days again at times...this working business does my head in sometimes however with two teenage, label concious young woman it is one of lifes necessities these days....not to mention the costs involved with education Here in NZ the politicians will tell you that education is free......mmm...free my ***!!! lol..

Catch you all later
Linz

[katnap80]

Here I sit, fresh cup of coffee and a chocolate, chocolate chip muffin. I am still "unwell", it is raining outside, I am TRYING to quit smoking again, no special mail today and I am just overall cranky. What a better place to come to than TRUVY's Place, but it looks like the Monday morning blahs have kept most of you away. ..... well, I will read by myself and maybe some friends will join me later.
Happy Day to All!!

"K"

[shirleyville]

I'm here, Kat!!
I'm typing my Peter Pan script for tonight!! Seems I just can't get the darn thing done for everything else going on in my life!
I made home made chicken and noodles, mashed potatoes, and green beans with bacon and onions for my Dad's Valentine's Day present.....I'll be taking them over on my way to theatre class tonight. I'm sure it's a hard day for him.....
It sorta is for me, too. Mom used to make a big deal out of Valentine's Day.....she always sent a card in the mail and brought over those silly candy hearts with the little sayings on them.........
I also seem to be catching a cold!! That makes four colds this winter....and I rarely, if ever, get a cold. Guess I've had a lot going on this winter, tho, and my system is probably down.
Feel better, okay, Kat?? (((warm hugs)))
Sal

[katnap80]

Sally... that dinner for Dad sure sounds delicious. Wonder if he'd mind some company!!! I have not had an appetite for a couple of days...root thru the frig and cupboards doing a "think" taste...do I want that or that...... The dog and I went back to bed. I slept another 4 1/2 hrs. There is no way I could be tired tonight at work.....
HOPE you are not catching another one of these "PESTS". They seem to just go dormat for a couple of days and spring back into action when we least expect it.
Hope you have fun in Theatre class tonight..............
Join you for coffee again tomorrow.

All the rest of the gang...have a good night.
LOL
"K"

[Volfe]

Sally I'm glad youre having so much fun in the theatre!
And I hope you stay healthy, not get sick

Happy Valentine's Day everybody, enjoy your friends and loves...

Maia