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  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited December 2015

    Smarty- very nice! And a nice deal too!

    I wonder if anyone has had this problem though?

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited December 2015

    Hah! Too funny!

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  • Loveroflife
    Loveroflife Member Posts: 5,563
    edited December 2015

    Hahahaha

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  • Loveroflife
    Loveroflife Member Posts: 5,563
    edited December 2015

    Ms. Smaarty-Nice tree. I wonder what the cats think....bigger jungle gym??

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  • magdalene51
    magdalene51 Member Posts: 2,214
    edited December 2015

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  • Smaarty
    Smaarty Member Posts: 2,951
    edited December 2015

    mags, I like.

    The cats were very helpful this morning but they're leaving it alone now.

    Jazzy, congrats!

    Rose and Patty, lurking??


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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited December 2015

    Got an email from ZILLS today. Said she heard Blondie isn't doing well, wanted to do a card bomb. I don't have Blondies personal info, not even sure of her real name. Does anybody have this?

    I guess if somebody does have it, say so here, then we can send PMs to exchange info.

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  • Rosevalley
    Rosevalley Member Posts: 3,061
    edited December 2015

    Count me in! I do not know addresses or contact information. How is it you guys met for lunch and didn't exchange names.

    Loverof life-- LOVE the photos you hit my favorites. Love the cardinals Susan. I miss them as we had them in PA when I was living there and there are none here in Oregon. They are gorgeous birds. Smarty like your tree. Hugs to everyone.

    I got sprung from the hospital yesterday. It was heaven sleeping in my own bed --- all night. The nurses were exceptionally nice at the hospital, I will say that. One nurse even has stage 4 cancer and is NED now and works full time, has always worked oncology and finds it a calling. That is dedication above and beyond! I was speechless and humbled.

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  • Zillsnot4me
    Zillsnot4me Member Posts: 2,687
    edited December 2015

    Yea for sleeping in your own bed! So glad you are home. Does someone here have your contact info?

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  • magdalene51
    magdalene51 Member Posts: 2,214
    edited December 2015

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    Here's the first iteration of our Christmas tree. DH said we had to do it today because he's back to work tomorrow. Poor guy spent all his time off being sick. Our hearts (and bodies) weren't really into it, so we didn't do much, and the lights are a disaster. But that's ok, because when my cousin sees it she will take everything off and redo it, and finish it with ribbon and it will look all professional. And that's perfectly fine with us. (She also rearranges the dishwasher.

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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited December 2015

    Easy Rose. The same way we did it with you last summer when you were here.

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  • glennie19
    glennie19 Member Posts: 6,398
    edited December 2015

    Check with Tomboy and SlowDeepBreaths. There is a BLONDIE thread,, think Tomboy started it. I believe either one of them will have contact info. I'm in for card bomb.

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  • queenmomcat
    queenmomcat Member Posts: 3,039
    edited December 2015

    Sleeping in your own bed, Rose? Heaven!

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  • Holeinone
    Holeinone Member Posts: 2,478
    edited December 2015

    I pm' Tomboy...

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  • susan3
    susan3 Member Posts: 3,728
    edited December 2015

    slow deep breaths has her home phone number. She keeps a check on her.

    Yeahhhhh Rosie posie for getting home in comfy bed


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  • magdalene51
    magdalene51 Member Posts: 2,214
    edited December 2015

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    This was our tree in 2001. Complete with village and train. I kinda miss that house, lots of light. 2 houses ago.

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  • magdalene51
    magdalene51 Member Posts: 2,214
    edited December 2015

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    This was at the last house. Have we had enough trees now?

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  • Loveroflife
    Loveroflife Member Posts: 5,563
    edited December 2015

    Please excuse my ignorance, but whatis a card bomb?

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  • Loveroflife
    Loveroflife Member Posts: 5,563
    edited December 2015

    Jazzy, congrats on your signed contract. Do you have people working under you? DH is self-employed too. Doesn't get paid until deal is closed. No income if deal falls through. It can get pretty intense at times.

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  • Zillsnot4me
    Zillsnot4me Member Posts: 2,687
    edited December 2015

    Everyonesends a card so she gets lots of well wishes. I think cards are better than texts because you can take them out over and over or put them up in your house. Holidays are always tough if you're lonely and everything's worse if you don't feel good.

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited December 2015

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  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited December 2015

    Good morning friends! It is 16 degrees here this morning, yeowza!

    Loveroflife- I am a freelance consultant, no employees. Although I have had a lot of people who try to get me to hire them! But I am not interested in building a company, etc. And yes, it can be very hard sometimes too because deals fall through, or take longer than expected, or something can happen that results in you getting sued or needing to sue someone. Running a business is not for sissys!

    Mags- I love the trees you are posting. I bet your cousin will have fun upping the game on the new tree. The rearranging of the dishwasher comment cracked me up.

    Okay friends, off to my first busy day at the client site. Have a good day!

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  • magdalene51
    magdalene51 Member Posts: 2,214
    edited December 2015
    I had my own business for 18 years. I started out doing consulting. In the early 90's many companies were transitioning from conventional artwork to computers. I had a leg up because I'd started when Macs first came out, and had taught myself all the software – because there was no one else to teach it! I was offered a part time teaching spot at our vocational technical school, teaching the programs, and companies and state agencies started sending whole departments to my classes. That was where a lot of my early clients came from. After a few years one of them wanted me to do a catalog for them. So I started doing more hands on work. Eventually that client wanted to contract me to do most of their catalog work, and were willing to pay me enough to be available to them. When I would write a contract, I would ask for a third up front, so that they had a stake in following through. And so that if they cancelled I wasn't completely out. We continued on that way until 2008, when DH encouraged me to close it down because it was taking such a toll on my body. Pretty sure all those years of sitting at a computer fo 12-18 hours a day 7 days a week contributed to my back problems. Fortunately I didn't do that all year round, and when a catalog was finished I would get a nice break. And they paid me well. Which is why it's been really hard to be a "kept woman" even though I know there's no way I could work.
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  • PattyPeppermint
    PattyPeppermint Member Posts: 11,162
    edited December 2015

    wavinh Hi. Feeling a lil better. Good enough to sit up and use my pad to catch up wit y'all.

    Hugs all around

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited December 2015

    Hello gals.... And it's PEPPERMINT! YAYYyyyyyyyy!

    You gals are very well educated...! Proud of you all, and your accomplishments! I'm sort of getting to know our "new" neighbors.... They Both are very well educated, and he is a something, like being a Physicist, and she works out of home on her computer for "A Place For Mom"..... I think she is like a go-between, or will offer assistance finding options for women coming out of hospitals? Or figuring out with families how best to care for aging Parents..... I don't know her well enough.... but when the weather ever warms up, like maybe in March, we will walk up to Starbucks together....

    This could be our basement.... if we had a basement.... Ha!

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited December 2015

    French Toast for Peppermint!

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  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited December 2015

    Hi, sorry, I'm late. I have Blondie's address . The phone number I have isn't current. The one from last summer went away with the phone in it's demise.

    So, what to do. Usually I have the person's permission to share. Last we Pm'd together she was getting lot's weaker.

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited December 2015

    Sass, what thread does she go on? Does she have her own? We could all talk to her there??

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  • glennie19
    glennie19 Member Posts: 6,398
    edited December 2015

    There is a Blondie thread,, started by Tomboy. But she hasn't been on in a while.

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited December 2015

    Wife texts husband on a cold winter morning: "Windows frozen."

    Husband texts back: "Pour some lukewarm water over it."

    Wife texts back 5 minutes later: "Computer completely f#%^d now."


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