Conservative Thread: We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once

[wonderlanne]

I found some of the old ideas for thread titles

there was one...sumpin' like "i'll cling to my guns and my religion, you can cling to your change".

and..."read my lipstick, i'll keep my guns and my religion, you keep the change".

i thought of this whilc attempting to fall asleep, a combo of my prior..."have a batty christmas and a flabby new year".

 

[Humphrey Bear]

We went to a Brazillian steakhouse in Orlando. Has anyone ever been to one? It was so fun. The people walk around the restaurant with HUGE skewers of different kinds of meat (beef, pork, chicken, sausage). You have a card on the table that's green on one side and red on the other. If you want them to stop, you flip it to green and if you don't you flip it to red. Plus they have a gigantic salad bar, soup, dessert. It was so good and I ate TOOOOO much! The service all the way around was just about the best service I've had anywhere. I'd highly recommend it, but come VERY hungry!

We went to one in Orlando about a year ago. It was SOOOOO GOOOOD! Of course I am a meatoholic so I was in heaven.

 

[wonderlanne]

OT, but I never knew the DIS had so many armchair psychologists, psychiatrists, and counselors on here! By golly, then we probably need a whole other forum for all of these folks! I was reading a thread earlier where oodles of people are telling the OP that she has deep psychological problems, needs therapy, etc. based on a couple posts she made about something she's struggling with. Nothing life-threatening, nothing totally out there. Nice to know they are all so qualified to make a diagnosis and to tell someone they've never met they have to go into therapy and if not, they're living in denial. I am trained to diagnose people with disorders, and any idiot professor will tell you that you can't diagnose a person based on a post on the internet. I mean, come on! These people are not qualified to diagnose her with anything, nor can they even know based on a couple of posts that she needs therapy. Absolutely absurd. Only people around her and her doctors would know that.

I was quite tempted to ask these people if they know what a DSM-IV-TR is, and if they're trained to use it.

YOU GO GET 'EM!!!

 

[wonderlanne]

I'm debating whether to go to my parents house tomorrow, which means that I have to go to the train station 2 hours early tomorrow and hope it's open that early so that I have a place to wait. Or bag it all together and travel down on Christmas Day, meaning that I miss our typical, really cool Christmas Eve stuff. There are no train tickets between now and Christmas available, so it's tomorrow or Christmas Day. [/B][/COLOR]

i vote for going tomorrow. when you arrive for christmas early, parents pamper you. : )

 

[wonderlanne]

I'm supposed to get up in 2.5 hours to get ready to go "home" for the holidays. It's going to be a really long day... Once I get there (if I get there...) I'm supposed to go to my little nephew's birthday party. That's going to take what little energy I have left. But hey, they'll have cake. mmm, cake. I hope it's a good cake, not that crappy banana cake, but good white cake with raspberry or something or chocolate. Yum. I love Costco cake. Maybe I need to go buy myself a Costco cake......

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there's nothing like eating baked goods! all the better of costco bakes 'em for ya.

 

[wonderlanne]

What makes Costco cakes so good?

somebody else does the work.

 

[wonderlanne]

Vancouver, so it's about a 6 hour ride in all, with the short layover in Seattle. It's a nice ride. They have movies and some other stuff. The food is good. They serve Ivar's Clam Chowder! Yum! The scenery is decent for a good part of it too. It goes along the water. I'll wave to you when I go under the Narrows bridge tomorrow.

that sounds absolutely beautiful! i am hoping to take my father up to washington some time next year, to visit with my mother's side of the family, who live in yakima, leavenworth, and wenatchee (my mama's home town). i thought about flying, but the train would be so much more relaxing, and we have something quite fragile which needs to go with us...so maybe the train is the way to go.

 

[Family Fun Mom]

and lots of these:



[and the same goes for our friends up in the mitten - ]

Thanks! I needed that. I'm so cold. Brrrrrrrr.

They finally plowed my street today. I saw a total of five cars get stuck in the snow right in front of my house yesterday. The neat thing is that each time it happened neighbors would come out of their houses to help. They grab shovels to dig them out, while others help push the car. Times like this can really bring a community together. Everyone is out shoveling or snowblowing, and not just their own walkway, either. They are making sure that the older neighbors' and single ladies' walks are done for them. Everybody is out chatting and being neighborly. It's really heartwarming to see people helping each other out that way. It makes me proud to be from here.

 

[debbieandroo]

that sounds absolutely beautiful! i am hoping to take my father up to washington some time next year, to visit with my mother's side of the family, who live in yakima, leavenworth, and wenatchee (my mama's home town). i thought about flying, but the train would be so much more relaxing, and we have something quite fragile which needs to go with us...so maybe the train is the way to go.

I just finished listening to David Baldacci's "Christmas Train" - about a guy trying to find himself on a journey from DC to LA - anyway, apparently Baldacci loves trains because he put a lot of information in the book about their history and the benefits of riding trains, especially around the holidays. I've decided then, one of these days, in the near future [within a couple of years] to take a train around the country, maybe even around Christmas. This will be after the year I go to WDW to see their Christmas decorations.

Anyway, I enjoyed the book - the narration wasn't so hot - but it was a fun, light read and made me really want to ride a train.

Honugirl, you're probably on your way to the station - be careful! And get really spoiled at your parents' house.

Thanks! I needed that. I'm so cold. Brrrrrrrr.

They finally plowed my street today. I saw a total of five cars get stuck in the snow right in front of my house yesterday. The neat thing is that each time it happened neighbors would come out of their houses to help. They grab shovels to dig them out, while others help push the car. Times like this can really bring a community together. Everyone is out shoveling or snowblowing, and not just their own walkway, either. They are making sure that the older neighbors' and single ladies' walks are done for them. Everybody is out chatting and being neighborly. It's really heartwarming to see people helping each other out that way. It makes me proud to be from here.

That is cool - something about getting out of one's reckless busy schedule that brings out the neighborly in some folks [although Deb's neighbors don't seem to be as nice as yours]. Too bad we have to have bad stuff happen for us to decide to talk to each other.

 

[wonderlanne]

shocking news: our liberal california attorney general, jerry brown, (you may remember him as a former boyfriend of linda ronstadt) has filed papers with our state supreme court for a "review" of prop. 8 opposition filings.

i would like to say, for the record, that we have voted on this issue twice here: the first was a mere statute, the last vote was to amend the state constitution. we voted the same way twice. it is disgraceful to now suggest that the measure was not constitutional (check that BEFORE putting it on the balot!) or that we the people are too stupid to know what we're doing.

[heavy sigh...tired of this...]

 

[debbieandroo]

18 inches of snow! Yikes! I have seen that much snow maybe 3 times in my lifetime. We had some nasty ice here in March, but it had melted by the end of the day. We haven't had anything stick on the ground and be more than an inch in about 4 years. Shame because I like snow, as long as I'm not forced to drive in it.

OT, but I never knew the DIS had so many armchair psychologists, psychiatrists, and counselors on here! By golly, then we probably need a whole other forum for all of these folks! I was reading a thread earlier where oodles of people are telling the OP that she has deep psychological problems, needs therapy, etc. based on a couple posts she made about something she's struggling with. Nothing life-threatening, nothing totally out there. Nice to know they are all so qualified to make a diagnosis and to tell someone they've never met they have to go into therapy and if not, they're living in denial. I am trained to diagnose people with disorders, and any idiot professor will tell you that you can't diagnose a person based on a post on the internet. I mean, come on! These people are not qualified to diagnose her with anything, nor can they even know based on a couple of posts that she needs therapy. Absolutely absurd. Only people around her and her doctors would know that.

I was quite tempted to ask these people if they know what a DSM-IV-TR is, and if they're trained to use it.

And, if someone did all that to me, I would need the DSM-IV-TR! Yet another reason I love this thread....y'all know I'm a little nuts and it's cool.

 

[debbieandroo]

Stinks being wide awake late at night when everyone is sleeping, doesn't it?

I just came back in from putting traction cables (aka chains, but they aren't chains) on my car so I can brave the snow and ice in the morning to go get gas for the gen and a few other things in case I don't get out again until after Christmas. I've never put them on before. In the past I always just bought studs in November just in case I needed them, and left it at that. It took me awhile, and I begged and pleaded with them a lot...but I did it! I'm pretty proud of myself (and kinda worn out ).

Even though I have no idea what you said, it still sounds impressive!

You go, girl!

Funny, being a singleton, I had thought, in the past, - wouldn't it be great to have a husband to do the hard stuff? Fix the car? Mow the lawn? Carry furniture? Now I see that most of my married friends do that kind of thing themselves - either their husbands travel or they'd just rather do it themselves.

 

[wonderlanne]

They finally plowed my street today. I saw a total of five cars get stuck in the snow right in front of my house yesterday. The neat thing is that each time it happened neighbors would come out of their houses to help. They grab shovels to dig them out, while others help push the car. Times like this can really bring a community together. Everyone is out shoveling or snowblowing, and not just their own walkway, either. They are making sure that the older neighbors' and single ladies' walks are done for them. Everybody is out chatting and being neighborly. It's really heartwarming to see people helping each other out that way. It makes me proud to be from here.

that is what it is all about. how nice to live in a community like that.

 

[debbieandroo]

shocking news: our liberal california attorney general, jerry brown, (you may remember him as a former boyfriend of linda ronstadt) has filed papers with our state supreme court for a "review" of prop. 8 opposition filings.

i would like to say, for the record, that we have voted on this issue twice here: the first was a mere statute, the last vote was to amend the state constitution. we voted the same way twice. it is disgraceful to now suggest that the measure was not constitutional (check that BEFORE putting it on the balot!) or that we the people are too stupid to know what we're doing.

[heavy sigh...tired of this...]

I wonder if Mr Brown knows what the word 'majority' means....or 'twice'

 

[wonderlanne]

I wonder if Mr Brown knows what the word 'majority' means....or 'twice'

he knows "twice" 'cause it meant two terms for him when as was governor, mayor, etc. "majority" he understands as it relates to liberal majority, but not conservative majority.

 

[Michelle67]

that sounds absolutely beautiful! i am hoping to take my father up to washington some time next year, to visit with my mother's side of the family, who live in yakima, leavenworth, and wenatchee (my mama's home town). i thought about flying, but the train would be so much more relaxing, and we have something quite fragile which needs to go with us...so maybe the train is the way to go.

We love Leavenworth! We had our first date there.

Even though I have no idea what you said, it still sounds impressive!

You go, girl!

Funny, being a singleton, I had thought, in the past, - wouldn't it be great to have a husband to do the hard stuff? Fix the car? Mow the lawn? Carry furniture? Now I see that most of my married friends do that kind of thing themselves - either their husbands travel or they'd just rather do it themselves.

When my husband is home he does all this manly stuff. I was sooooo missing him last night while I struggled with those stupid cables. Don't get me wrong, I miss him just for himself, but I was complaining to the car that I knew it would be cooperating with him.

 

[Decorated_Dust]

shocking news: our liberal california attorney general, jerry brown, (you may remember him as a former boyfriend of linda ronstadt) has filed papers with our state supreme court for a "review" of prop. 8 opposition filings.

i would like to say, for the record, that we have voted on this issue twice here: the first was a mere statute, the last vote was to amend the state constitution. we voted the same way twice. it is disgraceful to now suggest that the measure was not constitutional (check that BEFORE putting it on the balot!) or that we the people are too stupid to know what we're doing.

[heavy sigh...tired of this...]

I'm not shocked at all. They are only reviewing this because it lost. Oye.

 

[wonderlanne]

We love Leavenworth! We had our first date there.

i've never been, but my cousin and his wife own two inns there (no idea what they're called! their last name is bunting).

 

[wonderlanne]

I'm not shocked at all. They are only reviewing this because it lost. Oye.

prop. 8 won in california. marriage was determined to be between a man and a woman. they're reviewing it because of the violence and intimidation tactics still going on today against prop. 8 supporters, and, of course, because those who voted in favor of prop. 8 are not smart enough to vote i guess. whatev, right?

 

[Michelle67]

Okay guys...quick prayers for me please. This storm is coming in fast already. I'm about to venture out and see if I can get to the gas station and the store. Cross your fingers!