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Sunshinemiss

Monday, May 27, 2002 - 10:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Webkitty, very sensible. Some landlords might be less than thrilled but it would certainly get the message across, and it also stops any previous tenants that may have a copy of your key floating around out there. I think you are required to give your landlord a copy though... at least here. But I don't believe it specifies as to whether you have to offer, or wait til he asks, which would certainly let you know what he has been (trying to be) up to!

Butter, I love your posts, they are always so creative!

I envy all of you your gardens and birdies, I live vicariously through you. In my part of California, the average house rents for $1200 a month, and that is for a plain old normal 2 or 3 suburban ranch type, nothing special. Divorced moms don't stand a chance, unless you are willing to go the roommate route, which gets pretty old by the time you are 40, not to mention my rambunctious child. Argh! But it was a beautiful day here today, and my son and I are healthy and I have a good job, so I am definitely blessed in many ways. Just not real estate! Grow a tomato for me!

Urgrace

Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 03:12 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Yesterday I slept in then sat outside in the sun after checking on my plants. When I came into the house I cleaned up the kitchen and started cooking, chopping, marinating, etc. At some point while things were cooking I watched TS and started trying to catch up on reading some of the posts I've missed during the last three weeks. I served our picnic dinner around 5:30. We had Angus steaks and BBQ chicken, potato salad and cucumber salad, deviled eggs w/paprika, whole green beans, fresh cut veggies and guacamole, also iced tea. I made spice cake with cream cheese frosting for dessert. We didn't eat outside because it was hot and a little steamy, but I served our picnic on red and blue plastic picnic-ware with stars and stripes on the cups. After the table was cleared, I ran the vacuum around the dining room with help from my almost 2 year old grandson.

Today, I have to do the grocery shopping and later go to work. It looks like I will miss the Mole, but hopefully my DIL will tape it for me.

Buttercuppy, isn't it great having those pears right at your fingertips? The critters that eat my tomatoes are birds. As soon as they turn orange I have to pick them or forget it. My cauliflower plants turned brownish while I was away because the leaves covering the flowers came untied.

As for the housekeeper Gail suggests, I have had one before, I have been one for myself and for others, and I will have one again sometime in the future. There is no point having one when you have seven people in the house, because you have to pick up behind them anyway and it's just as easy to clean up at the same time. I used to detest housekeeping, but now I am at peace with the fact that I have a house to keep while others don't.

Buttercup

Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 04:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
How neat is this!?!.... A friend of mine came by my house yesterday afternoon and picked up his lawn mower (that he so kindly lets me borrow when needed :)) I wasn't here at the time, so this morning at school he jokingly asked me if I had brought on land the big turtle that was right outside my home office window yesterday. He said the turtle's shell was about a foot and a half in diameter! (This is quite a bit larger than the ones I usually see cruising around in the bayou.) I knew nothing of this turtle and hadn't seen it when I had been out earlier in the morning.

So today, I get home, and for whatever reason I decided to check out where the turtle supposedly had been. And guess what??? There was a newly dug hole in the ground right outside my window with white broken eggshells strewn about. About three or four eggs from what I could tell. The turtle had had babies! They hatched right here! How cool is that?!!

I am only slightly bummed that I missed the hatching, but I am so stunned that this happened right here anyway, so it really doesn't matter

I do wonder how long the eggs might have been buried outside, however. Weiner, do you have any turtle knowledge?

Anyway, yesterday I saw newly hatched baby birds and today the remains of hatched turtles. I am kind of feeling like a proud freaky nature mom! This southern livin' sure is sumptin' else

Turtle

Rabbit

Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 05:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Okay, the bidding war is over, I got the house I wasnt shopping for. Someone contact Juju and tell her "Xnay on the Hit-say". Rabbit is calm now, no one need get hurt.

Butter send turtles. I gots me a pond now dat dem repitils kant gets sure dang nuff of.

Buttercup

Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 05:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
YEAH, RABBIT!! Congrats!! Party at Rabbit's house!

Happy for Rabbit

Weinermr

Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 06:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
No sorry Buttercup. My vast storehouse of knowledge doesn't include turtles. I do know however, the gift I will be bringing to Rabbit's housewarming party.

Wargod

Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 09:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Day started nice and early. Registered for my fall class, and got it. Intercultural and Women's Film.......and I'm pretty excited about it. Not too sure how well I'll handle a class that is 4 hours long, but should be ok!

Then my son got up and reminded me it was his birthday (as if I didn't know) and asked me if I was going to spank him, hehehe. He also asked for his cake, but since this was at 5 til 6am, I told him no, LOL. We did a little family party for him today, where he got that cake, and a couple of presents, and he got to decide where he wanted to go to dinner. Well, he's 6! We ended up at McDonalds eating not so great food, while him and his sister played for awhile.

Then I ran off to class, where I took the first of my two finals. I have never been so happy to see the end of a class in all the time I've been making my slow crawl through college!!! The lecture part of the class is not bad at all, and I would probably have enjoyed most of the science class if it was just that. But, no, I have to have a Lab too.....with a different teacher, who does experiments that we don't cover in Lecture, and who thinks its ok to cover stuff on his test that are nowhere near the level this basic science class is at!!! Thank God the Lab is just a pass/fail and not graded, or I would be retaking the class!

Butter, I want a turtle! I think that would be a cool pet to have.

Tess

Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 12:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Just one more class, War, and you're done for now!

Rabbit!! Yay!!!!

Buttercup, I love your turtle story. :)

We all slept in at our house today (dear child slept til noon I kid you not!). Then it was off to run errands and get her hair put in a bun during a massive thunderstorm--flooded streets, downed trees and all. The recital was a big success. The little rosebud ballerinas were perfect. It was a good day.

Tomorrow we are back to doing nothing. :)

Donut

Saturday, June 01, 2002 - 10:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
man, for a thread about much to do about nuffin , there sure is a LOT goin on around here!
Rabbit-Congrats on the house!
Tess- Congrats on the recital!
Spygirl- I was just going crazy looking for the gripe site too! Has it been so long since a gripe that it got archived? Boy, there is too much happy here! :) :) It figures, the first time i decide to go gripe, the thread is gone! I'll start a new one.
Buttercup: Wow, baby turtles AND baby birds! Is there some other news about you we should be knowing? Actually, we have been enjoying the many baby canadian geese around here. One family actually has 13 babies! We live in an apt. next to a well landscaped office park with ponds, so we get to see lots of geese, skunks (ick), feral cats, and occasionally a heron, turtles, ducks and rabbits etc. We saw turtle babies once, it was great. Once when i was in Costa Rica, i got to see them hatch on a beach and help the stragglers get into the sea. That was really cool. My dad used to always give me the first tomato for my birthday, july4.
URgrace- Can i come over for dinner ? that sounds amazing. bring leftovers to the chess game. i will eat all the nonmeat stuff. I used to love spice cake as a kid, and you just dont see it much anymore..
Weiner: go to the turtle library. you are not allowed to not know something about anything when you are here....people are counting on you:)
Sunshinemiss-that really sucks! I thought it would have been illegal..
webkitty- glad your hub is back home and better! btw, you could alleviate your boredom by trying to post some pics from TV, using that lesson you asked for...
as far as my day, half of it is in the movie thread, and the rest will now go to the new gripe site...

Juju2bigdog

Sunday, June 02, 2002 - 09:36 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Huh! I somehow missed coming to this thread for a couple days. No wonder I did not know Rabbit got his house! And I totally missed Buttercup's baby turtles. Sheesh!

(Donut, I agree it is quite shocking to think Weinermr knows little of turtles. We rely on him for everything.)

Weinermr

Sunday, June 02, 2002 - 03:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm in a bit of an introspective mood today. Whenever I get this way, I listen to music. I find that listening to music helps me release emotions and feelings I wouldn't otherwise recognize. I just start listening to different things until something resonates internally and the dam breaks as the emotions spill out.

This morning I ended up listening to Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, and that was the piece that ultimately had the greatest effect upon me today. Whenever I listen to it, I think back to the first time I heard it live. I was 18, and had been attending a series of L.A. Philharmonic concerts with some friends. I had always been in the band and orchestra in school, I play the clarinet, and I was a half-decent player. But I never really had studied or listened to classical music until I went to college and took a Music Appreciation class. The alternative was a class on Economics, a subject I was to learn quite a bit about later on - but at the time, the Music Appreciation class was much more valuable.

I was hearing lots of pieces for the first time in those days, and sometimes regret that I cannot replicate the experience of those first impressions. I don't remember who the soloist was that day, but I remember the conductor was Zubin Mehta, who was then the music director of the L.A. Phil. The piece began, and I was listening - beautiful music, but nothing in particular was making an impression on me - until they reached that point in the first movement when the orchestra breaks into that first fortissimo restatement of the main theme which the violin has been playing all along - and OMG, it was like I was hearing an orchestra for the first time... no, it was like I was feeling what an orchestra could make me feel for the first time. I look forward to that moment now every time I hear the concerto, either in live performance or on CD. In fact I now judge a performance of this concerto by how that particular moment makes me feel.

Of course there have been many similar moments and experiences to follow in the days and years since that performance. There are so many pieces of music that move me, make me feel things in a way that I don't feel any other way. Mostly classical music, but I'm also talking about film music, rock, pop songs, TV themes, all kinds of different music have the power to move me and say things to me that nothing else in my life says in quite the same way.

The first movement of Mahler's Fifth Symphony is titled Trauermarsch - Funeral March. I listened to this particular movement countless times from 1975 through 1987, and have listened to it countless more times since. But its meaning changed for me forever, when, after having experienced my father-in-law's funeral and burial in 1987, I realized that the progression of my emotions from start to finish that sad day was EXACTLY the same as the progression of my emotions when listening to that movement. And now when I listen to it, I can't help thinking of my father-in-law, and the experience of that day.

What does all this have to do with today? I realized in listening to the first movement of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto this morning that the way I felt listening to that movement is EXACTLY the way I feel when I read a certain TVCHer's posts, and when I think about them and take note of the way I feel when I think about that person. Pretty interesting. Music is wonderful.

Since this thread is much ado about nothing or anything, I just though I would share.

Angelnikki

Sunday, June 02, 2002 - 04:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
and who is this "person"??? :)

Buttercup

Sunday, June 02, 2002 - 04:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Weiner, I just loved that post! Thanks for sharing

I just finished watching The Big Chill. Actually, I was kind of watching it last night, but was too distracted to get into it. However, at some point in the movie I realized that it was a movie that I probably would enjoy concentrating on, hence I saw it again today :)

It's an older movie about old friends coming together for a friend's funeral. They end up spending a few days together reflecting on how life was when they met back in college, and how life has been since and is now, some 10-15 years later.

It's a timeless movie, as it makes you think and reflect on your own life, your friends and other people you are surrounded by. I guess you could say it got me in an introspective mood as well. I liked it :)

Now I will go and turn on some music...

Buttercup

Theowl

Sunday, June 02, 2002 - 04:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Buttercup, now everytime you hear the song "Ain't to Proud to Beg", you will think of that movie and them dancing and singing around the turkey. I Promise you of that!! I saw the movie when it first came out, and have loved that scene and song since!!

Juju2bigdog

Sunday, June 02, 2002 - 05:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Weinermr, if you are gonna assign us theme music, could I please be theme to Hampsterdance? I think that is a fine song.

Buttercup

Sunday, June 02, 2002 - 05:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Juju's hampster dude

Weinermr

Sunday, June 02, 2002 - 05:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
There ya go, Juju. Buttercup found it for you. Thanks Buttercup. The Hampsterdance is all yours, Juju.

Angelnikki - Nice try.

Theowl

Sunday, June 02, 2002 - 05:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Angelnikki, if you read his posts, and if you kinda think you know who, it is obvious. Gottcha!!

Spygirl

Sunday, June 02, 2002 - 06:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree, Owl

Great post, Weinermr. Introspection is a worthy endeavor...just don't do it too much or you'll go blind. Wait. That's something else.

Angelnikki

Sunday, June 02, 2002 - 08:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
im still stumped ;)
great post weinermr, your very deep. i like the way you express yourself

Buttercup

Saturday, June 08, 2002 - 02:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yesterday. It had been another hot and sunny day. When I got home from school and work in the early afternoon, I turned on the a/c and the ceiling fans to cool the house down while I caught up on some house chores. I emptied the dishwasher, cleaned up the kitchen, vacuumed, did some laundry, changed the bed linens and put out some new towels. In other words, just the basics of most people’s chores.

The lack of sleep this week was becoming evident as I kept yawning, but I decided to take a refreshing shower before I sat down. A little while later, I eyed my white comfortable cushy couch, and couldn’t resist—I laid down. I was out like a light. I woke up an hour or so later with Phil, the black kitty cat, sound asleep on top of me :)

I was sitting at my desk studying when there was a knock on my door. It was a friend of mine who came to visit and brought some freshly steamed spiced shrimp. It was still light outside and the evening was warm so we took the shrimp and some cold drinks and went and sat on my dock. With our feet dangling, almost touching the water, we sat there and talked about life while peeling and eating the still warm delicious shrimp.

We watched the fish and some cute baby turtles go after the shrimp peels as we tossed them and they descended into the water. In the background was the soothing sound of birds, crickets and other creatures. A couple of guys were out in their small fishing boat and we watched them catch a few fish. Some fish evidently were too small as they released them back into the water. Saving them for another day perhaps :)

The mosquitoes came out as it got darker, so we walked back inside and decided to watch a movie. Forrest Gump. So for another couple of hours I was again snuggled up on my comfy couch. I hadn’t seen the movie since it came out, and I had forgotten how funny, sad and thought provoking it was. At times I was laughing and at other times tears were trickling down my face, but it was all good :)

Before I drifted off to sleep last night I thought about my day. It had been so normal, so simple, yet extremely fulfilling. I once had much more in my life than I have now. Both financially and activity wise. Perhaps I will again some day when I am done with school yet again. But those aren’t the things that matter.

Appreciating the moment and finding the beauty in what is right now is what matters. Like Forrest Gump said:

Life is like a box of chocolates...you never know what you are going to get.


Buttercup

Weinermr

Saturday, June 08, 2002 - 02:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well said, B

Ketchuplover

Saturday, June 08, 2002 - 02:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've wasted my whole life :)

Juju2bigdog

Saturday, June 08, 2002 - 06:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL, Ketchup.

Buttercup, did you save your little imaginary buddies any shrimp? AND, after watching Forrest Gump, did you reflect on the fact that you had just eaten a mess of shrimp?

Oregonfire

Saturday, June 08, 2002 - 06:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
That sounds like a gorgeous perfect day, Buttercup!