Double Whew!! Caught up--but will I get this ready to post before the DIS goes down?
I am very envious! I don't think I'll ever own a motorhome, but I hope to do some traveling in one someday.
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I like our group, we are more like the tortise group to their hare group. However, you know how the tortise and the hare story turned out!! We get to win the race as we sail first!!
I agree, I like our pace much more. I don't know how one could keep up the pace, would make it very hard to get to "know" one another. I'm glad we're the way we are!!!
Yes, as others have already said, quality, not quantity!
Ok - This will be my third cruise and it's my husband's and my 10th anniversary celebration. We are in our mid 50's and so if there are others out there who are like us, let me know. I am the Disney fanatic of the family - I just wish I could live there - it's the place I find my peace and my joy.
I'll be turning 59 on the cruise--baby boomers rule!!!
Another question to see how geeky you all may be . . . How many of you have iPods, and how many in your family?
Between the four of us, we have SEVEN iPods! Four video iPods (one each) a shuffle, a nano, and a non-video iPod. I am a Mac AND iPod Geek.
(Apple TV is on order too)
I only have an iPod shuffle and I never use it. I either listen on the computer or burn CDs for the car.
Hi all...I'm spitting feathers o may I please vent?...
This is a great one! Is it in any way related to "mad as a wet hen"?
YEAH! Can't wait to start mine. I believe when Peg (TiggersPal) see's it she will be ordering one also. She did mention it at dinner last week and is willing to give it a go, though she considers herself craft challenged. Though while talking with Cheri at dinner, Peg did give here a scathingly brillient idea for something for the cruise (sorry, sworn to secrecy and as a Scorpio, I know how to keep a secret!).
Yes, I hope I can pull it off! I can see it in my mind, but making it a reality is another thing altogether. However, I do have 14 months to figure it out!
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E=pahrumpgirl;17340938]Just a quick question that has been on my mind.
Just wonder how many "Parrot Heads" might be in this group?
If you have no idea what a "parrot Head" is do not worry, however you may be one before this cruise is over.
Doug[/QUOTE]
I haven't been to any concerts, but nothing sounds more like "vacation" to me than JB music!
Question for today . . . How many of you have pets, and what kind?
No pets. Eventually I'd like to get a small dog, but I'm not home much. I work a lot, and if I'm not at work I'm usually out of town. I keep saying that by the time I'm 30 I'll slow down and get a dog, but I'm going to be 30 in 5 months, so maybe by the time I'm 35 I'll get a Boston Terrier.
I always said when I retired I'd get a dog, but I'm just not ready to get tied down yet. I love 'em, though!
Just had to post this . . . the expressions on the kid's faces just kill me. This is Sophia's BD party from last Saturday. She is the one in the black shirt with gold on it (High School Musical). The party was at a paint your own pottery store.
Boy, does this take me back to my first grade teaching days! You couldn't have gotten a better set of expressions if you'd posed them!
The kids wanted her ashes but life had been so hectic (we had the cruise in January, work crazy, etc) we couldn't get around to picking them/her up. It was so sad and somewhat humerous - every night the kids would pray that Kimba was safe and that her ashes would be home soon. And I would be like OOPS. So at night I would keep telling myself tomorrow I will for sure go back to the pet hospital and pick her up. The morning would come, dropping the kids off at school, going to work, this thing and that thing. Next thing I know it is night time again and the same gosh darn prayer. OOPS again. Felt like such a terrible mom. So anyway, we FINALLY picked her up on Thursday 2 months later and now she has a spot upstairs right in the hallway in a nook right outside the boys' rooms. The kids just love having her - it is somewhat weird. Jack wants to take her to show and tell and I think the proper answer is no.
Sorry if I offended anyone with my story. I thought I'd share it as it is - which is a bit sad, a bit funny, and maybe just a little bit weird.
Lisa
As I was reading this, I was sure you were going to say that you waited so long that the cat's ashes were disposed of, so you had to scrounge up some ashes from somewhere else so they wouldn't be devastated--and now you have to be sure they never find out the truth!
OK....to give John1 a break from coming up with a new topic, what was everybody's first job and at what age?
Me: Age 14 (1984) -- worked in the cafeteria of a tiny college serving meals to the students. It was called Nazereth College, was primarily a nursing school, and was only a mile down the road from my mom's house so I walked. It had one main building for classrooms and the cafeteria, and one dorm wing attached. Another part of my job was to serve at banquets they also held there on weekends, then clean up afterwards and do dishes.
Yeah, really exciting....I know. 
Just another topic starter!
Besides one babysitting job, my first job was at age 18, typing tax rolls at the county courthouse in a closed up, air conditioned office that I shared with two heavy smoking women
! Just thinking about it as I'm writing makes me feel queasy.
Yes, my mother taught me good work ethics! She would tell us that these farmers would not hire children usually (and that was true) and that we were very lucky to have a job and so we had to work very hard to show appreciation for that job AND go to school and get good grades so we would not have to do this for the rest of our lives. My mother is 81 and still is very active, does her own yard work and keeps busy constantly in her house or helping my neice with her baby or doing laundry for my sister. She is really amazing.
Your mother sounds like quite a woman! I hope I can be like her when I grow up!
RATS!
The board is down! Didn't make the deadline!
Hope this saves till tomorrow.
He lived to be almost 15 then went out on Millennium Day and never came home. We think the fireworks that were still going on may have frightened him as he was a nervous wreck when there were any bangs. What happened then we will never know. We decided not to have any more pets. We can go and enjoy our friend's 4 cats, 3 Maine Coons and 1 honorary Maine Coon, a few times a year!
When I took Tyler to the doctor when he had strep throat, there was a woman there who they sent to the E.R. for the rabies series because she found a bat in her apartment....the doc told her the rabies series has changed a bit so that it's not as bad as it used to be. However, I imagine for a 7 year old, it's still horrible. 
Actually, I think HP makes the best printers, and I'm not coming from a biased place. Even before he worked at HP, I loved their printers! 
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