I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

suzieq60

Barbara - looks like you had a great time - great to see you all in person!!!

bluedahlia

Barbara, love the photos.

Guess I'm gonna have to keep changing my name here.

covertanjou

Barbara, what beautiful photos!  I am so glad you had a wonderful time!

((((coolairheights))) 

BarbaraA

Blue, you will always be blue to me! Cindy thanks for the chuckles. The Dali is in St Petersburg. Right on the water with stunning views.

Bren-2007

Nancy .. I've stayed in Half Moon Bay on the central CA coast before.  It was lovely!  Been to San Juan Capistrano many times when I lived in San Diego.  Santa Barbara is beautiful too.  Hope you have a wonderful time on your mini vacation!  I stayed at a beautiful inn in Moro Bay a couple of times too.

hugs,

Bren

Bren-2007

Hi Nancy .. my sis and I celebrated one of my B-days at Laguna Beach one year and attended the Sawdust Festival.  It was fun, but not the same as when I had been there 20 years before that.  It's become a little too touristy now.

I'm sure you'll have a great time!

Bren

RetiredLibby

Cindy, thanks for the funnies! I laughed so hard that DH, who is in the basement looking at sailboat porn on the new 'puter, came upstairs to see why I was cackling. I want to be a pig in my next life, too!



Got the new 'puter this morning at Office Depot -- another HP, but with a Pentium instead of an AMD. Let's see how long this lasts. I haven't thrown away the old one yet ... I still want to try ONE MORE TIME to use the recovery disks (as opposed to trying to recover from the factory mirror on the hard drive). I just hate to let a chunk of metal and wires defeat me.



I did spend a good deal of time creating recovery disks for the new computer, too. First thing I did,

actually, after downloading Windows 7 updates and Avast antivirus. Computer is now secure but

not yet fully kitted-out, but DH was DYING to look at sailboat porn (he has been without for a week)

so I turned it over to him.



Barbara and Kira, how cool is your meet-up! That is so wonderful! This time next week, some more of us will be in CANADA hanging out at someplace fun and laughing up a storm!



OK, off to do housecleaning so I can play on the computer tomorrow. Cindy, I hope posting the funnies for me lightened the gloom for you a little big ...I sure got a big chuckle out of them!



L

208sandy

Nancy - waaaay back in 1979 we lived in Irvine for a year - we used to go to Laguna Beach every Sunday for brunch - it was a sleepy little town then and so much fun - when I went back in I think 85 for a wedding and a short visit things had changed so much - it was very sad so I am glad I have my memories and some really bad photos (I really hate everything to do with cameras including having my picture taken).

Anonymous

Fabulous pictures - what smiles!!!  You all look so good.  Makes me really JEALOUS not to be able to make it North nest weekend.  Well, next year.

HL you crack me up!!!!  "sailboat" porn.  So FUNNY.  You must be the Best couple!!!!!!

I'm having th same weirdo putah stuff happening with the site, but I always figure I've done something wrong, pressed a button I didn't realize or something like that.

otter

H-L, I'm laughing at the "sailboat porn" too.  I never thought about it that way, but Mr. otter was on what were probably those same sailboat porn websites last night and earlier today.  He was drooling all over his laptop keyboard.  I guess I need to look at that stack of magazines he keeps underneath his recliner.

I wish I were going to NOTL, but... maybe next time. <sigh>

I think supper is going to be grilled chicken breasts with leftover potato salad and whatever frozen vegetable my assistant is willing to thaw out.  I ate the rest of the good ice cream (Blue Bell Pecan Pralines & Cream) last night, after learning that one of my chemo sisters is having a biopsy next week for possible mets.

otter

AnnNYC

Beautiful pictures of beautiful people, Barbara!  So nice to see you all!  (And I'll see you in person in one week!  Can't wait!)

Otter -- sending hugs for your chemo sister...

((((coolairheights))))

suzieq60

Hi Girls - I'm back from the markets - got fish, bananas, cherry tomatoes, choc fudge and a danish. It was absolutely packed and a lovely morning. I came home wanting chickens for my back yard. There was a stall there called "Girls for the Garden' - they sell chook pens, feed etc. for people who live in the city. Well, they had 2 of the fattest white chickens I've ever seen - absolutely beautiful. They were some English breed - wish I could remember the name.

Name changing won't work seeing we're being stalked. I'm over it - why lower ourselves to their level.

Sue

Anonymous

OK - this might cause "trouble" - I'm watching the Boston Red Sox about to beat the Yankees on TV.

I used to LOVE the Yankees, then moved to MA, went to Dana Farber, ah well.  Does eveyone know Ted Williams helped start The Jimmy Fund in 1953, can't remember the zillions of $$$$ they've raised for Dana Farber - players still visit kids in treatment - DF is just around the corner from Fenway Park, better known as The Green Monster ( with love)

 

rosemary-b

I went to the dairy near by that sells their milk right there I either buy their milk or organic and I was excited to see cows outside wandering around eating grass. No wonder their milk tastes better. The cows in the other nearby daires are in their nasty little stalls all the time. Poor babies.

BarbaraA

Rosemary, I hear you. Sunflowers, I HATE the Yankees. Go figure.

rosemary-b

Nancy

The milk is pasteurized. You can get unhomogenized milk there. I buy skim milk so when I buy the unhomogenized it is a big treat. I skim off the top for my coffee. It is soooo good.

ritaz

And the Red Sox SOUNDLY beat the dreaded Yankees 10 - 4!!! Yippee!

AnnNYC

I grew up in Wisconsin, lived for 2 years in Boston, and became a Mets fan when I moved to NYC... so the Red Sox beating the Yankees is fine with me!  But I was thrilled when the Mets beat the Red Sox in 1986!!!

BarbaraA

Yippee beating the hated Yankees!

Anonymous

YEAH, ritaz - we get that on tv here in MA.  I confess to starting to love them when they won the Series, I was still living in DC, a neighbor was from Boston, we watched at her house, and had SUCH fun clinking SPOONS with the folks in the bull pen ;-))))  They were wonderfully "shaggy" then, and just SUCH spirit.

But I REALLY feel in love, I mean LOVE, when I'd see these Big Burly guys talking to little kids at Dana Farber - no cameras, just the few kids, and somehow, seeing kids in treatment for cancer makes me cry anyhow, but the SMILES, when they saw a player.  Full blown sobs.  They have a special day, at away games for them too!!!!!  It's been gong on for years, a very special relationship. And they rasie so much money, do so much good, I LOVE it when they win on the field too

duckyb1

Our Phillies are kicking ass.............................go Phillies................and now the Eagles are about to do the same........................

Enjoyful

The Phillies picked up Halladay from the Jays, correct? 

I need a new team to root for.  My hometown team won a game recently, but it was against a local girls' softball team so I'm not sure it counts.

suzieq60

The All Blacks beat the Aussies in Rugby Union last night - thrashed them!!! Had to be careful not to be too happy about it as DH hates it when the Kiwis win

CherrylH

Sue, I love the name of your team. Tell DH to get over it.

suzieq60

He's going around saying bl%^y Kiwis and I'm quietly laughing I might not have lived there for a very long time but I'm loyal. They are really clever - their basketball team is called the 'Tall Blacks'.

Bren-2007

Morning Friends!

What's everyone doing today?  It's still early here so we haven't made any plans yet.

Hope you guys have a good day!

Bren

suzieq60

Hi Bren - You gals must be sleeping in, it's nearly time for me to go to bed. It was 25C here today - so much for winter.

Yay - no work tomorrow - just heaps of ironing to do so everything will fit in the cases.

Sue

suzieq60

Just wanted to add - I'm so sad about the wonderful defence force men you lost today. I really don't believe this is a war that will ever be won.

Sue

apple

navy seals are so cool.  We've gotten some informational literature about their training.. OMG!!!  their exercises are so creative and strength demanding.. dolphin kicking without arms is soooo hard.  (we used to do that for swim team.. there is very little way to keep your head close to the top).  Anyway

I used to be very  politically aware.. now I just ignore it .

Dilly

Sue, being in a sort-of "military family" ( 2 nephews & 1 niece serving currently, 1 nephew died in service, another served as first on the ground after 9/11;not to mention all those who've "done their hitch") puts my bc right where it belonged - not the most important thing in my world.  One nephew goes back to the sandbox in autumn.  I hate this war, but I love (most of) the warriors. I don't want to talk politics either.

Apple, ever heard of Mulvane KS?

To make the subject lighter, I'll invite you all to join a Society I founded many years ago, on the premise that the more you know the more people expect of you:

The Society for Selective Incompetency.  Who's in?

I don't want to know how to _____________________