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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
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Please spare me the morons of the world who arm themselves with jackhammers, electric saws, leaf blowers, and YES--AMPLIFIERS.  I understand, and appreciate very much, the home improvement guys. I realize that cool(er) weather in New Orleans is hard to come by--but folks? I've been watching this idiot for four hours now. (The one with the jackhammer.) I swear he is in the same damned spot. I think he's trying to make gravel. HE IS DRIVING ME NUTS.  Call it a day already! Just...STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT.  He's out there with one other guy, and yanno? There's a trick to using jackhammers--TRY CRACKING THE CONCRETE FIRST, y'IDJIT. My brother's crews could take out a driveway in two hours--with a CREW. Ya'll know--like, with pry bars, sledgehammers, and SWEAT. I'm convinced the entire neighborhood has been smoking meth. I hate it here. (I added the amplifiers because it occurs to me that as soon as it is too dark to work? My son will be home...and he just acquired some dandy stadium style amp...) oy I exit, twitching. |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
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ah...and yeah, yeah, I KNOW. "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference." The second part is quoted less often-- "Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him Forever in the next. Amen." --Reinhold Niebuhr serenity...blaze, mind you.  And honestly folks, the jackhammer thingie works much better if you lean into it.  And yes, I DO know. (Not all of my jobs that I had under the table were literally under the table.)  This is me--the one who says you must try everything twice. I confess my jackhammer experience was only once--and for less than a minute. Not because I didn't WANNA continue, the crew was wisely cavalier about putting me on clean up detail. *smile* And lawsy--now my neighbor is working on the sound studio again...this thing is to be located right outside my window.. I'm tempted to tell him I'll kiss his hairy butt on Youtube if he accomplishes that. It might not work, but he'll try harder. Now. I'm off to oil hinges on all the doors in the house. I've got a headache.  |
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Brad Member Ascendant
since 1999-08-20
Posts 5705Jejudo, South Korea |
The leaf, the leaf! |
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Pantheress Member
since 2008-11-02
Posts 215Queensland, Australia |
Do you have Rum over there? its been known to help whatever ails you,smiles.. |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Rum makes me mean. *sweet smile* |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
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And Brad? Y'want me to be a LEAF around a meth-head armed with a leafblower??? *collapses laughing* But okay. Noting the time. I started out laughing today. 7:39 and I'm laughing.  |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
yanno.... you and me, Karen? We should run away together. My children keep reproducing. I have sent in a resume' for a position in Iraq. I am not even kidding. "too bad ignorance isn't painful" |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Aw, Suze. *hugs* Iraq??? Lawsy, woman. I'll try to fetch supper early tonight. (I'm sick of this gig, too.) Call me. Or I'll call you? Er....eightish? And I've told ya before? When you want your kids to leave you alone, buy a hubcap house in Tennessee. Just the word "Arkansas" put fear into my little urban repro's.  |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
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And Pantheress? Welcome to Pip. Judging by your name alone, you've found the right thread. *chuckle* You don't happen to still have your uterus, do ya?  |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
I can call around 8ish...around 9ish I have a phone date with my sister (we watch Private Practice together). talk to you later."too bad ignorance isn't painful" |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
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 (and um, folks? Can I score or WHUT?) *chuckle* |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
speaking of rum... it's all I drink, with coke zero of course. doesn't make me mean...or any meaner anyway. "I use to be sweeter" name that movie. why yes, I have had way too much coffee today. "too bad ignorance isn't painful" |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
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Too much coffee was yesterday's problem. And oh, an update. They're still at it. IN THE RAIN.  |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
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Are you praying for lightning? |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
that was so uncharacteristic of Karilea... made me snort. "too bad ignorance isn't painful" |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
I should have put THEM on youtube. Heh. That's not a bad idea. I wonder how much they'd pay me to delete the beer runs? Hmmm. (Even green tea will make ya mean after a while...) It's good to see ya Sunshine? How's the.. how things? ? |
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Sunshine
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Things are good. It's not raining, but I can probably make lightning happen. Susan, I thought you knew I owned an imp or two within the confines of my skin...I can get a little ornery myself when conditions are right.I've got my "stuff" at the office straightened out so that between now and 11/21, I should be "winding down" so I can get out of town for a couple of weeks. You'll all get photos... |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
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BULL DURHAM IS ON--BULL DURHAM IS ON!!! Maybe I should invite the guys over some brewski and Sarandon? |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
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and tsk...don't play with the weather.  Remember Katrina... |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
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I love that scene where she ties up Tim Robbins and reads Walt Whitman to him. classic!  |
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Sunshine
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Serenity, I wouldn't touch LA! Y'know, for some reason that's one movie I couldn't ever get into. But I could probably watch "In The Garden of Good & Evil" over and over and over... |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
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b-but??? It's BASEBALL, sexy, and philosophical. And her name is SUSAN. *laughing* and Costner was lookin' okay too. |
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Sunshine
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Yep, you're right on all counts. Maybe I was jealous!  |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
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from the movie-- "Dear Crash, You have a lovely swing, but yer pullin' yer hips out too early..." it's classic, I tell ya! |
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oceanvu2 Senior Member
since 2007-02-24
Posts 1066Santa Monica, California, USA |
Hi dere. Even though I never get irritable unless I'm off my meds, I have been irked of late by my neighbor. Alhough he seems in many ways to be rational, he is, unfortunately, a rock hound. Apparently, his hobby requires running three industrial strength rock tumblers 8 hours a day, five days a week, turning perfectly decent lumpy rocks into perfectly stupid round rocks for sale on eBay. We get a break on the weekends when he goes off to collect more rocks. I have offered to take him to Arizona and show him where and how to mine turqouise. One mines turquoise by augering several holes in the desert, inserting dynamite, blowing up a sizeable patch of earth, then picking through the debris. My only condition is that I get to tell him where to stand. I'm not sure that's legal. I think you can't dynamite for turquoise in the desert anymore. Has somthing to do with the desert tortoise. Rockhounds, on the other hand, are not an endangered species. Perhaps the Pantheress could send him a brochure on the beauty of life in Coober Pedy. Now THAT'S an underground economy! Best, Jimbeaux |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
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"My only condition is that I get to tell him where to stand." Sounds like a Wile E. Coyote moment to me! And speaking of Kevin Costner--grin--I saw this show on the travel channel where they showed how to ...quarry? for petrified wood. I'm fascinated. Good luck with your laundromat from Hell, J-beaux! |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
"the road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom" William Blake (The lovely Sarandon just yelled that outta my tv) I thought I'd just toss that in the tumbler. (I found a stray med today--works for me too, Jim! ) |
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rwood Member Elite
since 2000-02-29
Posts 3793Tennessee |
"When you want your kids to leave you alone, buy a hubcap house in Tennessee" Laugh. I wish. Try some full blast "Phantom of the Opera." Tends to make nearly anyone flee the premises, or at least question your sanity enough to leave you alone. Within moments, they go away. then it's time for some Santana and a Captain and Ginger. |
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Sunshine
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Try some full blast "Phantom of the Opera." Reg, I keep telling you I like you... When my husband bought the CDs for me, I had that music blaring in the house. It gave me energy when I had to clean the house - so I had it on so I could hear it from any room, no matter what. Of course, that would make the kids and the spouse get out [who wants to stand in the way of a woman with a mop and broom in her hands, anyway??] Later, when I was going back and forth from Modesto to Santa Maria so often I had the speed traps and times set just "so" that I could play the full thing from door to door and the trip always seemed much shorter. Or could it have been the speed limit that I was crossing? LOL... Did I tell anyone lately that I saw David Crosby and Graham Nash last Friday night? Gads, did those two bring back the '60's in a warm sweep...and their new stuff is great, too! SRO...great crowd - all ages. And the story that Nash told about his wife...how he met her, how he first talked to her? That's where romance novels come from! |
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SEA 
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since 2000-01-18
Posts 22676with you |
my neighbors are NOSY snobs. I live in jerk land I swear it....we are the bad neighbors here One has this little excuse for a dog that does not shut up. Ever.  But I have to laugh cause if that thing ever gets in my yard I'm afraid my dogs would mistake it for a rabbit and it would be done for. My labs are fast, one is dead on mean(to anyone that isn't family), but thankfully they don't bark like that....and Karilea, I almost choked reading that....and I laughed, it's nice to see you get spunky |
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Sunshine
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Oh, you haven't seen me get spunky yet. Problem is sometimes my spunk gets me into a chunk o' trouble, so I have to be careful with my imp. She use to be a real handful. Hasn't been "out" in quite a while...maybe she's ready for a comeback. |
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Pantheress Member
since 2008-11-02
Posts 215Queensland, Australia |
Morning.. Rum Makes you mean? Awww.. come on, You probably need a little meanness in your life,chuckles.. Get the garden hose out and water down the noise, but don't spill the rum or dilute it,grins.. My uterus? Is long gone, thank goodness, although I have a second hand slightly used 10 year old son Wylie, If that's any use to you?LOL.. I'd be happy to pack the little darling up most days and send him on a cruise,smiles.. Cooper peady, Mmmm.. Emerald or Blackwater's dry, very hot, dusty, underground and open cut, but not opals.. just glorious black dirty coal.. great place to send your favourite people on hols,smiles.. |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Kari's got spunk? gleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I had my spunk plug removed. and Pantheress...when it's very, very cold outside, I can be persuaded to sip some hot buttered rum. But I prefer a cognac.  <--and the cigar, tyvm!whoops heh See me backspace, Ron? (found my home keys too! heh heh?)<-----------------------------that was gonna be a long grass rant parsing the word, "spunk". But anybody remember what Lou Grant told Mary Richards during her job interview? And hey? *Karen sniffs the air* Ya'll hear that? That natives have ceased their drumming. I exit...suspicious... |
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Balladeer
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Someone mentioned Phantom of the Opera???? Did I mention I'm going to a Sarah Brightman concert on Saturday? Don't hate me.... Sunshine...pics? Don't forget me! |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
"I hate it here" been thinkin' about that. and I think I have outgrown my life. and K? the docs asst. called this morning to remind me of the appt. for tomorrow...*glee* I reassured him I wouldn't miss it for the world... at least it will be fun.*fk* thanks for last night "too bad ignorance isn't painful" |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
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a kjillion giggles, Miss Thang!  You stick with me. "Ah...Juicy Fruit." |
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Sunshine
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Sarah... I'll just have to play my CD's and be content... but maybe the beaches in Hawaii will let me find some shells... pics galore... and there's a lounge chair awaiting me on a veranda with my own bottle of vino waiting... Oh BTW, ladies, just because they remove some of our plumbing doesn't mean they remove the spunk. In fact, I've got it on pretty good authority that's what they help plug us up with.  |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
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If I must try this hard to be good, does that mean I must be very very bad?  alaho, Kari! *laughing* |
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Sunshine
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Naw...you're just good at being a little bad! |
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SEA
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since 2000-01-18
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well I like Karen's brand of "bad"  and Kari? can you say, jealous? oh I am....lol  |
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Sunshine
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Nah, SEA...you're not jealous...and you're not 56, either! It's one of those "pay as you go" plans. I've been paying, now I'm going!!! |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
"plumbing?" ewww.. It was a womb and I was more than done with it. "too bad ignorance isn't painful" |
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SEA
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since 2000-01-18
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lol I'll get there |
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rwood Member Elite
since 2000-02-29
Posts 3793Tennessee |
I'm having trouble finding a plumber. there's so much color to that statement that I can't go into it right now. or that one either. temporarily insane plea of a subject change: I hate commercials. Does anyone besides me want to smack the creator of the yellow swim-suited women's birth control commercial? The water ballet one where they form a giant pack of bcpills? I don't even know the name of the product. But I have a dang earwig now from the song. "Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, blahday blahblahday" Ugh. anyways, Karen? How's your house sound today?? "Thursday, Friday, Saturday" somebody shoot me a shot. |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Reg? It must be my week for communications! Another lovely phone call today, and now I'm listening to some Reggae, and trying to figure out how to utilize my other door prize from the election party-- A Rotisserie Oven! And nope, I've never used one of these before--well, not one that didn't involve a hand-hewn spike, a pit of fire, and whips and gimps and...OH *nevermind* And annoying commercials? This gets back to my rattled nerves and noise sensitivity. It's not any one particular commercial per se, but just, well? Picture it: Karen is laying in bed, kinda sorta watching something on tv--with either a notebook open or a book, and the commercials are just background noise and she's mellow, and probably chain-smoking (YES IN BED--if you spent as much time there as I do so would you) but anyhow, there might be a cup of chamomile or a cold beer on the table next to the ashtray as BAM!!! Some damned fool advertiser (usually local) decided to get my attention by TURNING UP THE VOLUME FULL BLAST, shattering my last nerve, quivering my fingers, triggering my tics, as I do the mad dash to find the mute button on one of the five thousand remote controls, and I spill my tea (or beer) into the ashtray and ruin the cigarette that now costs a buck fifty each. <--hyperbole But still? Anyhow, the "crew" has had mercy on me today. The driveway over there is appropriately graveled, and now, in the time it took me to post this? Carole King is playing "It's Too Late" on my play list. Y'think it's a sign? *grins* |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
This is why I rarely watch TV... as for the song..well, my song right now is the new Leona Lewis... "Better in Time" I think so...except there was that news item about the women that was killed by her husbands coffin.... "too bad ignorance isn't painful" |
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rwood Member Elite
since 2000-02-29
Posts 3793Tennessee |
Karen, thanks now I have "It's too late, baby, now it's too late," in place of the days of the week water ballet song. HUGE improvement. Hugs. yep, the loud volume busting commercials should be fined for disturbing the peace!! Lucky you. I never win anything. |
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Sunshine
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quote: DITTO. That's one button pusher for me, and no wonder my husband can't understand why I went from sweet to sour in a nanosecond. Damn commercials... But here y'are... David Crosby & Graham Nash, now six days old in memory of visual and sound and sense...and I'm still hearing... quote:http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/lyrics/ourhouse.htm Now. Get that out of your head. |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
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Reg? Luck didn't have much to do with it. It was a Barack Obama party. I'm in the deep trenches of the racist south. (New Orleans is cool--suburbs? NOT.) In other words? I was the only adult who showed up, besides my son and his gf. (I'll have to honor my stoic friend and benevolent hostess who had to keep moving her Obama sign during the past six months. She's pure poetry--at one point during the debates, I actually witnessed her grasping the television in two hands and screaming--"Answer the expletive question!!") *chuckle* It was....interesting to watch somebody else go nuts for a change. Well. I was the only one who stayed. So I won by default.And the copy of the Constitution I won was a 'just in case' prize...it was given to me as a surprise gift, because I uttered these immortal words: "I just want my Constitution back." (I doooooo get to go to some of the bestest parties.) <--not my fault it's blue...*smiles and hugs* |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
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I've got that one too, Kari! But right now, I'm listening to Cat Stevens (when he was Cat Stevens) "Miles from Nowhere" reminds me of my brother, and yep, I know you know-- It gets better though, lovie. I'm smiling while I remember. |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
Funny how things work out sometimes... Just got off the phone with the sister of my first ex husband (there are two now, keep up folks)... and I love that girl completely. Her brother and I have been divorced for several years and her and I stay in touch and still blow kisses goodbye on the phone.. and she reminds me so much of her mother, the mother-in-law I was closer to than my own mother. I miss Mum deeply. Maybe I don't "hate it here" as much as I thought. It was a better day and now I shall go home. love to the ladies. "too bad ignorance isn't painful" |
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Sunshine
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Yes, serenity-gal...I know. He still comes to me in dreams, though...and I listen! and Susan, I've been back in touch and am keeping in better touch with my ex-husband's sister-in-law and vicariously, the rest of that part of the family as well. And it's nice, because there were a lot of good memories of them and now I'm getting to see and hear about my "shoulda-been" great-nieces and nephews and it makes me glad that we all shared space at one time or another. Not "all families" should end up as "ex's" if at all possible...there's just too much history. |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
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*smile* "g'nite sweetheart, well it's time to go..." (b'duh-da-duh-da-d'DAH) We're getting a pretty cool soundtrack, and it all started with NOISE. Yay! |
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