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Cyn

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 01:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wargod, I wish that she could talk to me.

1. My Mom never measures anything when cooking.
2. My Mother can cook anything.
3. My paternal Grandma died when my Mom was nine.
4. I never met my Mom's Mother.
5. My Mom started cooking at a very early age.
6. She grew up with horses and crops on a farm.
7. She says you have to feel it while you're prepping the food.
8. She says there has to be lots of love in the ingredients.
9. She says it's a lot to do with commonsense.
10. Even when I follow her recipes as close as I can get, it never tastes the same.
11. She says that it's because no two tomatoes are the same.
12. She says that you are always compromising your ingredients because of #11.
13. I have always thought that to be a metaphor for Life.
14. I am so happy that my Mom is my Mom.
15. I sometimes feel that she wishes I were somehow different.
16. She is proud of who I am today.
17. She is not so proud of a few of my rebellious antics of yesterdays.
18. We will be in different states on Christmas.
19. I am hopeful.

Kady

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 03:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
1. I think I always get stuck doing 20.
2. My son had a day off from school today.
3. Two of our local football teams made the state playoffs in New orleans.
4. So many teachers wanted to go so they closed the schools parish wide.
5. I was very lazy and slept most of the day.
6. We are having Stouffers Lasagna for supper.
7. My son doesn't like it.
8. He is fixing himself tacos.
9. He was very bored today and wanted to go to town.
10. I think he is mad because I was to lazy to go.
11. We will go to the library tomorrow, books are due.
12. I used to read alot.
13. Now reading puts me to sleep.
14. I watch alot of tv.
15. If I lie down while watching, it puts me to sleep too.
16. I made an A+ on my Mars project!!!
17. I didn't go to college but wish I had.
18. I would like to take some classes now just because I like to learn new things.
19. My son is hollaring for my help.
20. Now ya'll can start back at 1. I still vote for only going to 10.

Myjohnhenry

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 03:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
1. I blend in so well with the wallpaper that I bet you didn't even know I was here.

Moondance

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 04:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
1. Good to see MJH again:)
2. I have made way too many candles today!

Wiseolowl

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 04:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I suspect that I'm one of the few people here who has been arrested and detained by Soviet police . It's not as bad as it sounds but back in 1967 during the height of the Cold War and as a 17 year old kid , it left an indellible impression on me.

Go back to 1967. It was Canada's centennial year and the Montreal World's Fair - probably the greatest World Fair of all time was in progress.

I'm Canadian , but my uncle, an American was a reporter for a major Detroit newspaper - won't say which one - although he has long since died - but he had a press pass - and gave it to family members - using the pass got you in through the press gate, thus avoiding the long lineuops for the various country pavilions. The only warning was - don't use it for the American or Soviet pavillions - they check - well as a 17 year old, full of p..s and vinegar I had the pass and tried to use it to get into the Soviet pavillion and got caught. Believe me , being detained for 4 hours by Soviet police - being shoved around - not being spoken to in English and having no access to the outside world was a very unsettling experience - They finally let me go -they called the World's Fair police who promptly escorted me off the sight and told me not to come back-- Of course , needing a ride back, I promptly re-entered the worlds's fair - with the 5 dollar admission - alot of money back in those days - went back to the place where I was supposed to get my ride back home got my ride and never went back again - not that interesting - but "that's the whole story" - for my non-internet friends , I just say that yes, as part of my background , I've been arrested and detained by the Russians - without giving the whole story!!

Goddessatlaw

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 04:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
1. I got trouble
2. My 15-year on and off boyfriend is on his way up here to talk me out of breaking it off with him
3. My 15-year on and off boyfriend is NOT Marriage Material
4. Marriage Material lives right next door
5. Both know about each other
6. But they've never met
7. I got trouble.
8. Help!

Mygetaway

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 04:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Uh-oh Goddess.. Good luck!!

Wiseolowl.. was that supposed to be for this thread or another?

Draheid

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 04:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Goddess Go for the neighbor. It worked for us! :O

Wiseolowl

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 04:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Mygetaway thought it was this thread - am confessing that I'm not the spy that some people may think I am!!

Schoolmarm

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 04:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow, what a story Wiseolowl! And great to see you MJH!

1. My tour van was detained by Mexican police until we paid a bribe. (Our offense was being "gringos" with a license plate from Mexico City when we weren't in Mexico City) $$$$ KaChing!

2. Years later on another trip, my tour van was stopped by police in Guatemala because they just wanted to see if we were safe. This was after a bunch of American girls were raped and beaten. When we went to the airport there were many army men with machine guns for "protection".

3. A photocopy of a photo of my family is in the office of the Mayan man who is the mayor of El Estor, Guatemala. It is for protection, as he is the first Maya to be elected and the army/government is corrupt and many Maya are "disappeared" every year. It is a message to leave him alone, as he knows Americans.

4. He has the picture because I stayed with his parents in a hut in a nearby village that doesn't have electricity. The running water is outside and the livestock is sometimes inside. When we asked "Donde esta el bano?" (Where is the bathroom?) the reply was "No bano, la latrina" and they pointed outside to the elevated outhouse. Their neighbors had HUGE hissing cockroaches in their latrina.

These trips were WONDERFUL adventures.

I STILL have two bags of papers to grade, but I graded at least a whole bag....damn, wish they would quit turning work in!

Schoolmarm

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 04:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Goddess....RUN!!!! Don't waste your time with a guy who isn't marriage material when marriage material is right next door.

Good luck, girlfriend!

Twiggyish

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 05:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Goddess, I absolutely agree with Marm!!

Goddessatlaw

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 05:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm gonna try, guys - I'm gonna try. But there's a reason why the 15-year bf has been around for that long - he's hot as hell, one of my best friends, he's always been very good to me and I have a real weak spot for him. I have an awful night ahead of me. He's got a right to gripe. Wish me luck. The BF should be here in a few minutes. If I don't log on first thing in the morning, please tell my parents I love them.

Goddessatlaw

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 05:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'll want an explanation of your post tomorrow morning, Draheid. You were the Marriage Material next door for JMM?

Squaredsc

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 05:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
gal, better 2 than none? ditto what schoolmarm said, sometimes you gotta let a hottie go.

Bryan

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 05:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
1. If I were a Guatemalan cockroach I would be hissing if people dumped their unwanted waste in my home even if you called my home a latrina
2. I agree that Goddessatlaw has trouble
3. I read her post to say she has a 15 year old boy friend
4. I read her post to say he was an on and off type of guy that was not marriage material
5. I will refrain from asking where the weak spot is that Goddessatlaw referred to
6. I need her Dad’s phone number
7. The numbering is screwed so disregard this and go where you feel comfortable

Mygetaway

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 05:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sorry Wise.. I must have spaced out a little..
Thanks for sharing the story. :)

Twinkie

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 05:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
GAL, JMM was the MM.....dra just got lucky! LOL

j/k daddy dra!!

Whit4you

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 05:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
1) I'm tired, tired of working full time +

2) This is the first 'real' job - full time job I've ever had

3) And the last!

4) I'm planning to semi retire again by April or May

5) 20 hours a week for exercise and ensuring I get out of the house - is all I need

6) This thread is my daily dose of humor and comfort

7) I decided to put up my fiberoptics tree - to cheer me a bit - it's incredibly beautiful - and so relaxing to watch in the dark.

Heyltslori

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 05:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
1. I have no interest in the LOTR movies.
2. Same goes for anything Star Trek
3. Same goes for anything Star Wars...never saw it, never will.
4. I have never read a Harry Potter book.
5. That being said...I see at least one new movie a week...and read avidly.
6. I wish I had the problem of two men wanting me.
7. I have glow-in-the-dark stars and planets on the ceiling above my bed.
8. Two nights ago a planet fell on me and scared the crap outta me! (not literally)

Whoami

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 08:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Lori, which part of #8 should we not take literally? The planet, or the crap?

Goddessatlaw

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 09:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
1. Situation handled
2. I cried alot
3. So did he
4. I miss him already
5. But I know I'm right to break it off
6. So does he
7. He was so mad he forgot he was deathly allergic to my cat when he drove up here
8. I didn't, but didn't remind him (6'4", 225 lb wussy, and I'm not talking about Julio the Wonderpussy)
9. Knew he'd probably have to leave pretty quickly, and he did, so situation handled and expeditiously.

Oregonfire

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 09:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This seems interesting. I'll try:

1. I'm left-handed.
2. Am switching careers mid-stream.
3. I've climbed the Annapurna Mountain Circuit in Nepal and met the Dalai Lama (big, showy, ostentatious claim to fame.)
4. I'm infatuated with my graphic design instructor, who's a Scorpio and likes me back in capricious spurts and who I think may be gay because he's taking a Caribbean cruise during the winter break and loves Italian shoes.
5. I have a new "art" friend with whom I've spent many sleepness nights doing artwork. She's a Leo too and we're practically cosmic twins.
6. This new art friend flirts outrageously with the aforementioned graphic design instructor (plus another one who *used* to be an admirer of mine) and sucks up all the male attention in the room whenever she possibly can. I'm so jealous that when I have the distinct displeasure of witnessing the attention black hole that is created in her wake, I clench my fingernails into my palms until I get little half moons in them.
7. I know that being jealous is ugly, but don't know how to compete. Coming on strong is just not my style. Plus what the heck am I thinking anyway?
8. That's it, that's all--now I'm consumed with jealousy all over again and feel a burning need to brood over my sorry, spinsterlike fate.

Goddessatlaw

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 09:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL, Oregonfire - there are millions of men who go after the quiet one. Frankly, I envy women who AREN'T like a parade entering the room. Just wait - you'll un-spinster before I do. PS how'd you manage to climb the Annapurna Circuit? I climbed a 3,000 footer on Sunday and my thighs are no longer willing to claim me as their own.

Oregonfire

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 09:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hi Goddess--good to "hear" your voice again. :) I'm sorry to hear about your boyfriend situation. It must be hard (not that I'd know, being the big guy repellant that I am).

I climbed Annapurna years ago, before I knew what I was getting into. I got very ill near the summit and stayed that way for months, but lost 30 pounds from the exertion and illness. It was the most worthwhile thing I ever did overseas by far, just so great. I actually stayed in a guesthouse near the summit that had a painting on the wall done by Jimi Hendrix (he climbed it himself many moons ago) that said, "If I don't see you in this life, I'll see you in the next." It was almost a religious experience.