8/17/08 Captain Jack's Repossession Repo Cruise to PC thru TPC #8

[cbjfan61]

OK ladies...formal shopping...
Am I the only one who can't find anything between skanky and frumpy??
I'm too old for one, too young for the other & regardless, my style is firmly planted between the two.

I'm wearing a dress I already have (and love) for Princess Night, but I'm looking for another. I stopped in David's Bridal today and found 2 that were decent on me. What do you think? Too bridesmaid??

Sorry, one comes out a photo & the other doesn't, but the link works. I look decent in this color and it goes with sunburn! I love red, but doesn't work with cruise sunburn.

So I've now been educated on the fact you are the one who lived in AK, but WAAAYYY south of where our cousin lives now in Kotzebue. I also hear now why the mention of there being Steeler fans in Ohio rubs ya I'd be no better because my love lies in southern ohio .

as they say......."it's all coming together now"

as for the formal issue, I can't figure out what I'm doing Monday for the holiday yet so I haven't even begun to think about formal/semi-formal night other than "gee....can i take ONE dress and have it give two looks somehow so I don't have to pack soooooo much!

 

[sk8ingmom]

LOVE IT!!!!!



I was at the mall today too.. Penney's was having a clearance I tried on some 10 dresses most were marked down 20-30 bucks except 1 that looked the best and it was 60.... Like I have said before - I am not a dressy girl so that is more than I wanted to spend but it was a LBD - so I might go ahead and get it....

I will try again tomorrow.

Buy it! This is TOAL!

 

[cruisin'Mike]

I got a pirate flag for a penny (and, oh yeah, the $6.95 shipping fee).

I got it from the ebay store that Todd posted the link to. If you're interested, the seller name is wholesaleflags.

 

[cbjfan61]

Exactly!



You weren't a senior hanging out at the Greenery hitting on freshman girls, were you??

don't let him fool ya.....yes he was and he looks sooo damn innocent that nobody was the wiser!

 

[sk8ingmom]

So I've now been educated on the fact you are the one who lived in AK, but WAAAYYY south of where our cousin lives now in Kotzebue. I also hear now why the mention of there being Steeler fans in Ohio rubs ya I'd be no better because my love lies in southern ohio .

as they say......."it's all coming together now"

as for the formal issue, I can't figure out what I'm doing Monday for the holiday yet so I haven't even begun to think about formal/semi-formal night other than "gee....can i take ONE dress and have it give two looks somehow so I don't have to pack soooooo much!

Oh, no. I'm bringing 2 dresses. I love dress up night. DH & DSs don't need that much - I need 2 formals and a semi!

Yeah, even Alaskans think Kotzebue is the middle of nowhere.
Shout out to the Y-K Delta!

 

[allshookup]

Hello to all the Pirates,
I am not sure if DW Caropooh has posted this or not, but we are coming too.
Last Sunday we noticed some availability and even though we had lots of problems on the site, we called DCL directly and were able to snag a GTY Cat 5.

your new shipmates are:
Me alanapapa
Caropooh DW
DD14 Disname tba
DD9 Disname tba.

We have some excursions booked, Palo Dinner, could not get a Palo Brunch.

We have late dining and have not found anyone to link with. YET!!

PS I am overwhelmed by these threads and am not going to try to catch up. I will just wing it for now.

Welcome!!!

Bobcat here.
I think I remember that I missed Joel by a year or 2 - when were you there?
I was 1990-1993. Lived on West Green and N.Congress St.



Can't buy on Sunday in CT either.



All the grocery stores in AK have a seperate entrance and cash register for liquor. Of course, it also has the highest rate of alcoholism and spousal abuse in the country...



Your bar bill was probably as much as mine & you don't have the videos and blackouts to show for it.



Paula - your aunt, your mom and you are all in my prayers. I read liver cancer and shuddered. I know how hard this can be on family. The worst day of my life was spent in a hospital room basically waiting for nothing else but my mom to stop breathing.



Congrats on the promotion!



That is awesome! Did you have a big fancy wedding?

We go married 'young' after 5 years of dating. We were 22 & 23, but we'd graduated from college, both had grown-up jobs, & had moved 4,000 miles from home. I'm not sure what else we were supposed to wait for.

Lots of military academy guys get engaged during the Ring Dance (end of junior year). DH's invitation to the ring dance basically came with a - "just so ya know, I'm not going to propose..." Thanks for the warning!
Lots more get engaged during graduation week...not us, we were broken up!



Shella and I are going to get along great. That is sooo something I would do! (but not in a creapy stalker sort of way).



One DS will turn 10 on the cruise, but I think DS8 is going to love Elvis. He hasn't done any real plays, but loved theater camp and the bit of acting he's had a chance to do.

Cade loves to act too! Ever since he played Rolf in the Sound of Music this year, he is dying to get back in it.

Beautiful! Maybe the yours/mine/ours comments come from the age gap, not the number. I'll admit that was my first thought. I have a brother 10 years younger (same parents) & I thought we had a huge gap! The good news is that we have always been close (even though I left home when he was 7). He's one of my best friends and I've really been his 'fill-in mom' since he was 15.



Sorry. No Steelers talk allowed.



Well, geeze Diane. If you're gonna discriminate against people who don't post all the time...

Sorry I don't make the rules around here....I just enforce them!

This is just a public service announcement for anyone who might be flying back via Southwest on the 1st. Since we only booked two weeks ago, I was still working on flights. Southwest is the only one that offers me a direct flight after 8 am. The price over the past two weeks kept going up from Orlando and tonight I was just going to book at the highest rate (I thought because it was Labor Day) and the flight went down nearly $50 per person. So, you may want to check if any of the other Orlando flights went down for that day!

Woohoo! That's great news. Thanks for sharing!

My point exactly! Why wait for him to figure out she wasn't right for him when I can just invite myself and make sure he gets to know me?

TY for standing up for me and the need sometimes for a girl to take control of the situation and just do what needs to be done!

Good for you!

 

[bellelinus]

Sorry I had to jump out of chat yesterday, a visitor turned up then we ended up going out for the evening.

This past week has been a little eventful to say the least...

My aunt (Mum's sister) in the UK has been unwell for sometime and was diagnosed with anorexia - she's in her 70's, they couldn't find anything physically wrong. They finally admitted her to a psychiatric facility and gave her another batch of tests and found it actually wasn't all in her head, she has pancreatic cancer which had already spread to her liver. This was last weekend they finally diagnosed that... and by this stage she was so weak and sick they couldn't even move her to a hospice - they gave her 2 months max to live.

I was then working away in Auckland, Monday-Thursday, and once I arrived in Auckland, one of the first emails from Mum was that she was catching the first flight to the UK on Monday evening - she always said she'd never go back to the UK for a funeral but was hoping she could at least see her sister before she passed.

I then got promoted at work on Friday - finally - good news!

I also on Friday spoke to my brother and he said the title for the property is now done so we should hear from the lawyers this week about buying the land in the country - only been waiting since Christmas for this.

Mum emailed to say she would be coming home next Thursday but we got another message this morning saying that she was at her sister's bedside as at this stage they were talking hours to live.

If you are religious feel free to say a small prayer for my Aunt for a swift and painless passing. That is all I am wishing for her at this moment. Although she lives in England, I have very fond memories of her when we visited and I will be sad to know I won't see her again.

A real week of ups and downs.

My thoughts and prayers are with all of you, Paula

Hello to all the Pirates,
I am not sure if DW Caropooh has posted this or not, but we are coming too.
Last Sunday we noticed some availability and even though we had lots of problems on the site, we called DCL directly and were able to snag a GTY Cat 5.

your new shipmates are:
Me alanapapa
Caropooh DW
DD14 Disname tba
DD9 Disname tba.

We have some excursions booked, Palo Dinner, could not get a Palo Brunch.

We have late dining and have not found anyone to link with. YET!!

PS I am overwhelmed by these threads and am not going to try to catch up. I will just wing it for now.

Welcome!

 

[sk8ingmom]

don't let him fool ya.....yes he was and he looks sooo damn innocent that nobody was the wiser!

Well, if he looked innocent, I probably didn't dance with him.

So is it just me, or did the Greenery ruin the Eric Clapton song Wonderful Tonight for an entire generation of Ohio kids? All I ever think about when I hear that song is all the lights coming on and the beer goggles coming off...


For those not in the know, that was the full-house lights, last song at the (technically) underage bar in Athens, by-God-Ohio.

 

[Joel110]

FARC takes a hit as top Colombian guerilla Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda is dead.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-05-24-colombia-rebel_N.htm

Not gorilla, guerilla. Huge difference. HUGE! ... He did it on purpose...you can see it in his eyes. Excuse me...his eye!

 

[allshookup]

Okay.........Garage Sale is over!!! I only stayed open for 4 hours today. My grand total for my slush fund or lush fund for Toal from my gargae sale is $378!!!

Woohoo!

OK ladies...formal shopping...
Am I the only one who can't find anything between skanky and frumpy??
I'm too old for one, too young for the other & regardless, my style is firmly planted between the two.

I'm wearing a dress I already have (and love) for Princess Night, but I'm looking for another. I stopped in David's Bridal today and found 2 that were decent on me. What do you think? Too bridesmaid??

Sorry, one comes out a photo & the other doesn't, but the link works. I look decent in this color and it goes with sunburn! I love red, but doesn't work with cruise sunburn.

They are both nice, but I like the second image better. I always seem to be in the minority though, so better not go by me!

I got a pirate flag for a penny (and, oh yeah, the $6.95 shipping fee).

I got it from the ebay store that Todd posted the link to. If you're interested, the seller name is wholesaleflags.

I like it Mike!

 

[Joel110]

For those not in the know, that was the full-house lights, last song at the (technically) underage bar in Athens, by-God-Ohio.

Thanks for helping those of us not in the know

I still can't believe it's a Cajun restaurant now...

 

[sk8ingmom]

They are both nice, but I like the second image better. I always seem to be in the minority though, so better not go by me!

You must have great taste . DH said the same thing!

Thanks for helping those of us not in the know

I still can't believe it's a Cajun restaurant now...

I would never eat anything prepared in that building.

As far as I know, though, The Junction still lives.
The Pub, Junction and C.I. were my hang outs.
Of course I had to hang out where friends were working the door since I didn't turn 21 until 6 weeks before graduation.

 

[goofyforlife]

That's gotta be a Philly term. My Dad used to call hotdogs tube steaks.

I am from Philly ya know..... but i found this other useless info.....

A “tube steak” is another name for a “hot dog.” The origin of the name isn’t known, but “tube steak” appears in slang from at least the 1930s. “Tube steak” is somewhat dated today.

(Oxford English Dictionary)
tube steak slang, a hot dog, a frankfurter
1963 Amer. Speech XXXVIII. 272 Frankfurters are *tube steaks.
1978 Boston Globe 15 Aug. 1/1 The food isn’t bad which is mainly tube steaks (hot dogs).

22 April 1939, Charleston (WV) Daily Mail, pg. 3, col. 5:
He said it was called “tube steak” (simply “hot dogs” to the rest of America).

Maybe an older Philly term?
I've lived down hear for 15 years, and I thought it was something dirty.

i don't know i guess i've been gone from Philly since i left home in 92...

WHen I told DH what K said he said *Too bad for her but, it sounds like a plan.*

NICE.... but i kneel to no-one...

We need desperately to have one too, but I am so overwhelmed!

Tell me about it..... I've got boxes of stuff that's never been opened since we moved to MD in '02

 

[dahuffy]

OK ladies...formal shopping...
Am I the only one who can't find anything between skanky and frumpy??
I'm too old for one, too young for the other & regardless, my style is firmly planted between the two.

I'm wearing a dress I already have (and love) for Princess Night, but I'm looking for another. I stopped in David's Bridal today and found 2 that were decent on me. What do you think? Too bridesmaid??

Sorry, one comes out a photo & the other doesn't, but the link works. I look decent in this color and it goes with sunburn! I love red, but doesn't work with cruise sunburn.

I like them both M....love the color too!! I went shopping for dress #2 today,didn't try on the first thing!

 

[minnieandmickey]

Good Evening Everyone,
I have a question for all of those that are participating in the Fish Extender Mail (gifting). Does anyone in your cabin have any allergies such as nut allergies? This would be very important to know for those of us that maybe putting candy in our gift bags.

 

[paulasillars]

Sorry, one comes out a photo & the other doesn't, but the link works. I look decent in this color and it goes with sunburn! I love red, but doesn't work with cruise sunburn.

I like the second one best - its got more interest with the ruffles. Both really pretty though and a beautiful colour!

 

[minnieandmickey]

I like them both M....love the color too!! I went shopping for dress #2 today,didn't try on the first thing!

I like both as well, but I do like the second one better.
I for one have went from wearing the same dress for both formal nights to having a dress for each of the formal nights although one is the same as I wore last year, plus a dress for semiformal

 

[paulasillars]

Good Evening Everyone,
I have a question for all of those that are participating in the Fish Extender Mail (gifting). Does anyone in your cabin have any allergies such as nut allergies? This would be very important to know for those of us that maybe putting candy in our gift bags.

No nut allergies with these pirates, but I am allergic to Ibuprofen so no pain killer meds as gifts please

 

[minnieandmickey]

No nut allergies with these pirates, but I am allergic to Ibuprofen so no pain killer meds as gifts please

Darn and I was going to put in chocolate covered motrin sprinkled with almonds in my bags. Well back to the drawing board!

 

[micmse2003]

Good Evening Everyone,
I have a question for all of those that are participating in the Fish Extender Mail (gifting). Does anyone in your cabin have any allergies such as nut allergies? This would be very important to know for those of us that maybe putting candy in our gift bags.

Good question!!! No allergies and I love candy.....any kind of candy!!!