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  • Karz72
    Karz72 Member Posts: 160
    edited July 2015

    Thank you all :-) am feeling very naked but very liberated & not minding short hair for the first time in my life. Any hair that's my own is good!

    Intothewoods I had a giggle at your comment about cheating on your hairdresser! Why do we feel so guilty???

    Stefajoy fabulous pics. Looks wonderful.

    9 more sleeps till little one & I climb on a plane & jet off to our tropical island. Cannot wait!

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  • annieoakley
    annieoakley Member Posts: 870
    edited July 2015

    Caryn, great news! Very happy for you!

    Karz, love the picture, you look fabulous! 

    Shutterbug73, I really like your new avatar, such a beautiful picture of you. So sorry you had to postpone your vacation.

    Stefajoy, amazing pictures and you have a beautiful family.

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  • Tina2
    Tina2 Member Posts: 2,943
    edited July 2015

    Karz, Stefa, Shutterbug and proud grandmother of Frankie, everyone looks fabulous!

    Susan, I can't find you in that crowd at the ballpark. Where's the selfie behind home plate?

    Tina

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  • GatorGal
    GatorGal Member Posts: 2,550
    edited July 2015

    such a great thread. I just love hearing how much fun everyone is having. Steafjoy, great family pictures!! Karz, love the hairstyle. Can't wait til I can do that. My doctor has given me the go-ahead to travel as well as two different antibiotics to take with me in case this first one fails me. She looked me straight in the eye and said "life is short ... Go for it!" She's my primary care physician but we go way back. don't know if I will be able to post pictures or not but you will see them sooner or later. Susan, I love the Orioles but I would guess I've seen more losses over the years I have followed them than wins. It's just such a treat being at the ball park!! See you all in a few weeks! Glenn

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  • Karz72
    Karz72 Member Posts: 160
    edited July 2015

    Have the time of your life Glenn!

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  • KiwiCatMom
    KiwiCatMom Member Posts: 2,553
    edited July 2015

    Have a blast, Glenn! Sounds fantastic and we want pics.

    Stefanie - thanks for the amazing photos of your beautiful family. You all look so happy!

    I'm doing part 2 of operation kitten rescue tomorrow...picking up two kittens for Kitten Inn. And running errands and shopping. Oh well! Sunday, I plan to be lazy. :)

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  • teacher911
    teacher911 Member Posts: 853
    edited August 2015

    Glenna, so good to hear from you. I am happy the antibiotics are working and you are able to take your trip. I'll be looking forward to seeing pictures. My daughter lives in Baltimore, Federal Hill and loves to go to Orioles games on a nice summer night.

    Caryn, your granddaughter is beautiful. My niece just had her second baby and she is adorable. I am fortunate that they don't live too far away so I can see them. Their oldest is almost 3 and she is so much fun to be around. Very happy about your news about the biopsy.

    Karz,I love your haircut and color. Beautiful!

    I just celebrated my 55th birthday with great scan results and retirement after teaching for 28 years. Two big events!! I am hoping to travel and spend more time with my family.

    Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

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  • Tina2
    Tina2 Member Posts: 2,943
    edited August 2015

    Teacher, congratulations on your birthday, scans and retirement!

    My fun of late: Stuck at my desk for the past few days, I've been getting a lot of pleasure from witnessing the action in our suburban backyard, which is adjacent to wooded parkland. Huge robins plunge into the birdbaths, their sloppily enthusiastic flapping splashing out most of the water. Tireless wren parents in search of grubs for their offspring make endless trips back and forth to the houses I placed under the eaves for them. Goldfinches perch picturesquely in the frondy branches of a small Dawn Redwood I've restrained in a container. Hummingbirds pay regular visits to pink and orange hibiscus blossoms. One eccentric squirrel has taken to climbing up on the rim of the pot and chomping on the hibiscus leaves--not the buds, mind you, the leaves!

    Lately an adolescent groundhog has been lumbering out of the back garden across the patio, where it stops, sits up on its hind legs, and calmly looks around before proceeding to parts unknown around the side of the house. Chipmunks and squirrels scamper everywhere. Rabbits bounce out of the shrubs to sit calmly in the middle of the weedy lawn, chomping and pooping.

    Then there are the white-tailed deer that often hang out just beyond our fence, lounging in a soft pile of leaves and looking longingly at our hostas and daylilies.

    It's amazing I get any work done. Really.

    Tina

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  • Karz72
    Karz72 Member Posts: 160
    edited August 2015

    congrats Teacher911!! Enjoy your new life & don't miss your students too much ;-)

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  • KiwiCatMom
    KiwiCatMom Member Posts: 2,553
    edited August 2015

    Congratulations and happy (belated) birthday Teacher911!

    Tina - beautifully written. I could visualise the life in your back yard. Really made me smile, so thank you!


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  • stagefree
    stagefree Member Posts: 2,780
    edited August 2015

    dear ladies,

    Definitely suggest you watch Chappie the movie, available on iTunes, great one!

    Hugs,

    Ebru

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  • Freygea
    Freygea Member Posts: 300
    edited August 2015

    Thanks for the reminder. It looked good in the reviews and then I plumb forgot about it. Will have to Chappie.

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  • exbrnxgrl
    exbrnxgrl Member Posts: 12,424
    edited August 2015

    This appeared on that "memories" thing that FB is doing. It was taken about two weeks after my bc dx and my dd finding out that she was pregnant. It was taken at younger dd's engagement party. Hard to believe that my granddaughter is almost 3 1/2 and my mother has passed away. I love this pic and the time, 4 years, has really flown. Standing: older ddand SIL. Seated: my mother and father

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  • KiwiCatMom
    KiwiCatMom Member Posts: 2,553
    edited August 2015

    Beautiful photo, Caryn.

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  • NYCchutzpah
    NYCchutzpah Member Posts: 415
    edited August 2015

    Nice photo Caryn. Looks like it was a great party. Did my usual Sat garage saleing this morning. Didn't find anything for resale but did have one great score got a nice Missoni fall sweater and another silk scarf for only $3 Hope t he dry cleaning cost isn't too much for the sweater. I told my family to donate my head wear when I'm through using them. Got a fairly large collection now.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2015

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    Drumbeg Stone Circle in Cork County, Ireland. While the stones are not huge in size, it is the largest number of stones in any of the Druid stone circles in Ireland. Just got back from my trip with a friend trying to cross some things off of her bucket list, and I was thankful I got to cross it off mine as well. .

    This 2nd picture is from the Cliffs of Moher, and I think it is one of my favorites. If you ever have the chance, I would strongly recommend a trip to Ireland. It was amazing!

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  • Shutterbug73
    Shutterbug73 Member Posts: 791
    edited August 2015

    Beautiful photos nbnotes! Sound like a great trip!

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  • Freygea
    Freygea Member Posts: 300
    edited August 2015

    Those pictures are great nbnotes. I cannot imagine how it would feel tostand on those cliffs. Thanks for sharing.

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  • KiwiCatMom
    KiwiCatMom Member Posts: 2,553
    edited August 2015

    Beautiful photos, nbnotes! thanks for sharing those. Looks like a beautiful place.

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  • exbrnxgrl
    exbrnxgrl Member Posts: 12,424
    edited August 2015
    Nbnotes,
    Thank you for the pics.when I'm not traveling, I love looking at travel photos of others.

    Most people don't consider work to be fun, but as you all know, I adore my work. I have been working like crazy to get my classroom ready for school. We had lots of new tech installed over the summer, so everything was stripped bare in June, then I had to re-do,the whole set up of my room, in a completely different arrangement. Many thanks to my SIL, who did almost everything requiring ladders and placing things in high up locations. Major thanks to one of my grade level team members, JT, who climbed the ladder to put up the letters for my class motto ( Lawson's Lions; Be part of the pride!). And the happy reward for all of this work? Tomorrow, I get to meet 23 happy, nervous, excited and fabulous first graders. And just like them, I am happy, nervous and excited. A new school year is full of possibilities and promise. I am going to have so much fun!
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  • KiwiCatMom
    KiwiCatMom Member Posts: 2,553
    edited August 2015

    I guess this is fun...or will be. We just bought a house! We don't get it until November (by mutual agreement) but it has chickens and an orchard. And a riding lawn mower. Terrifying but exciting!

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  • teacher911
    teacher911 Member Posts: 853
    edited August 2015

    Beautiful pictures Nancy, thanks for sharing. I hope to visit someday.

    Caryn, I am so happy to hear you excited. Even though I've just retired I always enjoyed getting my classroom ready and loved the first day. No matter how many years I taught, I never slept the night before. I was always too excited! I think September will be a big transition for me.

    KiwiCatMom, Congratulations on your new home. That is very exciting news!

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  • KiwiCatMom
    KiwiCatMom Member Posts: 2,553
    edited August 2015

    Our offer was accepted and while the move in date is a ways off (mid-November), we are already researching how to properly take care of the chickens that come with the property. We liked it the first time we saw it - an ok house on a full acre with fruit and nut trees. The second time we saw it, a fantail (native NZ bird) followed around behind us, less than 0.5 metre away, grabbing the small insects we kicked up from the grass. And a tui (another native bird) flew from treetop to treetop, travelling along with us. And when we got to the back corner of the property and looked over the fence at the neighbour's property, there was a momma sheep feeding two baby lambs with their little tails spinning around. That pretty much sealed the deal. We're quite excited - I think DH is mostly excited about the riding mower that comes with the property.

    Hugs to all,Terre

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  • ABeautifulSunset
    ABeautifulSunset Member Posts: 990
    edited August 2015

    My DH and I enjoying a weekend without the kids in Laguna Beach.


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  • KiwiCatMom
    KiwiCatMom Member Posts: 2,553
    edited August 2015

    Looks fantastic, Stefajoy! And what a beautiful couple you are!


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  • Tina2
    Tina2 Member Posts: 2,943
    edited August 2015

    We've spent the past few days in Rehoboth Beach, exploring surroundng seashore parks and eating too well. Heading home in a few hours. I just finished hours of hand watering dozens of container plants and thirsty shrubs around the yard of the friends' house in which we're staying, and am about to go out again to spray anti-deer formula on their salad bar. I am a dirty, sweaty lady with mosquito bites on my ankles and a blossoming cold sore on my lip -who at the moment couldn't be happier! 

    Tina

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  • exbrnxgrl
    exbrnxgrl Member Posts: 12,424
    edited August 2015
    Sounds wonderful , Tina. Dirt, sweat, cold sores? Who cares, if you're happy?

    I am having a consult with a tattoo artist tonight. Stay tuned...
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  • KiwiCatMom
    KiwiCatMom Member Posts: 2,553
    edited August 2015

    Sounds great, Tina!

    Caryn...can't wait for the update.

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  • ABeautifulSunset
    ABeautifulSunset Member Posts: 990
    edited August 2015


    This is the tattoo that I got on the back of my shoulder after the initial success of my first line treatment . It's red because it was taken right after it was done. The colors have also faded just a bit, so it's not as bright, which is good. I hid a pink ribbon in the wing. Most people don't see it unless I point it out, which is like my cancer. Unless I choose to tell you it's there, you probably wouldn't know. I'm thinking about adding to it at some point.

    Have fun with it Caryn. I don't regret it for a second.

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  • exbrnxgrl
    exbrnxgrl Member Posts: 12,424
    edited August 2015
    Stefajoy,
    That is beautiful! I have always been against tattoos for my self and was not thrilled when my daughters got them. Also, Jewish mothers having been telling their children for generations that if you have a tattoo you can't be buried in a Jewish cemetery. Although there is much rabbinical debate over this, it's not true. The rabbi who married my younger dd had a tattoo on his ankle. My younger dd's tattoo is in Hebrew (ahava, the Hebrew word for love). So... I am getting a small hamsa (hand of Miriam to Jews, hand of Fatima to Muslims) on my forearm. The hamsa is a traditional Jewish symbol and I have one in my car, front door, jewelry etc. I am really drawn to it. My daughters think I am crazy ( but support me) and I can't imagine what some of my friends and family will think. I don't care. It makes me happy!
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