May 10, 2008 Ship of Thieves! Stealing the Magic..AGAIN!!! Panama Canal FL to CA!!! Part 3

[lillygator]

Yeah Billy is staying on to coach at UF but boooo all four juniors are leaving for the draft. Which after staying last year and winning a second title I can understand them not wanting to hang around...

 

[lillygator]

feel better Holly.....I love Nyquil when I have a cold....knocks me right out.

 

[granmaz]

OK everybody, it's safe to talk about Lost now, unless there's somebody else here who cares and hasn't yet seen it. Just finished my soup, took some Nyquil, and am headed to bed with my laptop to watch Lost as I fall asleep. My chest is really hurting from coughing, so hopefully sleep and Nyquil will do the trick. And since I made it through the day today in my foggy state, I can surely make it through a 1/2 day tomorrow and will go back to bed again.

Enjoy Lost if you can stay awake!! Whilst it was lovely chatting with you in the middle of your night, I hope you aren't around tomorrow at the same time! Have a great night's sleep.

 

[MrsMork]

I always have Fridays off...so no work for me I am actually leaving here at 6am tomorrow and driving to Redding, CA to the Costco there and then heading home Is there a smiley for crazy?! My girlfriend is hosting a fundraising Adult Prom for her DD's bowling team and she needs to purchase a large amount of alcohol for the event. She figured everything out and it would be cheaper to head to Cali and buy it there than to get it here in our liquor stores (even with the cost of gas and hotel). She asked me to go along to keep her company. Although it isn't ideal...2 days childless sounded kind of nice, so off I will head tomorrow am.

Then we head to the IL's on Sunday for Easter...hopefully just for a quick bite, egg hunt and then out of there to get home again!

This is so funny! When we drive to CA we always stop at the Redding Costco. Last trip we had orders from several relatives/friends and loaded up the basket with booze. When I got to the check out the clerk looked at me and said "Washington or Oregon?"

 

[Jhalkias]

Tonight is the service of the crucifixion at church.

One of the most moving hymns is sung tonight as the priest carries a cross around the church in a procession, while chanting the hymn that is at this link:

http://www.newbyz.org/todayishung.pdf

Twelve Gospel readings are read tonight detailing the passion, and after the Gospel of the crucifixion, the congregation files up to the cross (which is about 1/3 life size, with Christ on it) and lights a candle and venerates the cross.

I probably mentioned this already, but the Orthodox Church is often called the church of the Resurrection, and our word for Easter is Pascha, which in Greek means Passover.

Hope you are all enjoying the Greek Orthodoxy lessons!

 

[fourmcds]

This is so funny! When we drive to CA we always stop at the Redding Costco. Last trip we had orders from several relatives/friends and loaded up the basket with booze. When I got to the check out the clerk looked at me and said "Washington or Oregon?"

So, I am not the only crazy one. Oh, but you did say whenever you drive to CA not drive to Costco just for an alcohol run Really, I will probably pick up some bottles, but they will last us a year.

 

[NotSoLittleMermaid]

But I'm not going to the the meet, so ya gotta tell me, please please please

OK, OK, I sent you a PM with a link to a picture of my "special" t-shirt--but you can't tell anyone. Actually, I'm afraid now I've made way too big a deal out of it and people will be expecting something really great!


I haven't forgotten about telling everyone about the psychic, but I've run out of time today--I'm going out of town to see my family for Easter and had a lot to do to get ready. No doubt I'll be pages and pages behind by the time I get back, but I will post about, I promise.

Hope everyone has a nice weekend!

 

[granmaz]

Have a lovely weekend yourself Cheri.

I'm off to bed now. Night all.

 

[UKANGEL]

OK everybody, it's safe to talk about Lost now, unless there's somebody else here who cares and hasn't yet seen it.

NO!!!! Don't forget that us brits see it way after you so you'll spoil it for us!!!! I have 3 episodes to watch over easter, but I ahve no idea how far behind you we are!


Hope you start to feel better tomorrow Holly

 

[UKANGEL]

Off to bed now, so have a good evening/afternoon everyone

 

[lillygator]

I wish I was off to bed...I am so exhausted....!

got the aspargus cooking and now I am off to peel the shrimp!! Fun stuff....


anyone know anything about Lelli Kelli (spelling) shoes? The horrendous commercial keeps coming on......

 

[disneylover5]

I know how you feel. I am so frustrated with my dell laptop, but luckily I don't have to drive that far to get it fixed. At this point, I am just throwing it in the garbage because it gives me only headaches. Hope it gets fixed so you can get back to quickly!

Well, after a second new Dell laptop this week, looks like I got one to work so far. Only time will tell

I have missed you guys!!

Off to church for Holy Thursday. I will catch up tonight!!

 

[been2marceline]

DH has a bottle of white chilling in the fridge...the Stump Jump. I'm not sure if I'm going to like that one, but I'll try it anyway.

Karen, what goes best with lamb? red or white? We'll take some to Easter dinner at mom's on Sunday. Not sure what to choose. What do you suggest?

What are your plans for Easter Sunday? I think Greek and American are the same day this year...it's not always and we just celebrate Greek Easter, so I'm not always sure.

With Lamb it's Pinot, Pinot and Pinot!! Pinot Noir is really great with lamb, but it is not a very dry wine. You might try one of other Syrah that you ordered, the Petite Sirah or the O'Brien Merlot that you ordered.

Whites don't generally go that well with lamb, but it does depend on how it is being prepared.

We are going up to Bodega on Friday and then we will pop back for Easter at my sister's house. It's only an hourish drive.

Karen

 

[been2marceline]

Hi Marilyn, isn't it funny how a traditional holiday evolves... what are your plans on Sunday? Will you do a big family dinner? Will you color eggs? Do you hide them? For American Easter the tradition is to make the eggs all colors and hide them. Then you have an Easter egg hunt and probably win little prizes. For Greek Easter the tradition is to make all the eggs red and you have an Easter egg fight...really two people just hit each other's eggs and the one that doesn't break, wins. There are no gifts or prizes for the winner....just bragging rights.

Deb,

We've done all of the above! We always color eggs, this year we will do them in Bodega which is fun as the counter is so big. We usually use the plastic eggs for the Easter egg hunts in the past, but all of the kids have gotten so big!

We also did the Easter egg fight a couple of years ago and it was a lot of fun!!

I still do Easter baskets for my family and close friends, usually See's candy and some sort of goody. I am doing some coffee mugs in a couple of my friends baskets and a cd and dvd for DD in hers. I often find cute "bunny" Jim Shore items for one of my dearest friends and for my sister.

I think that my sister is doing a crown rack of lamb or pork for dinner, not sure. We are bringing some fresh crab to do as appetizers in a cocktail. And of course, there will be wine!!!

Karen

 

[LiserAnn]

My health is fine but have had some family issues related to inheritance etc. to deal with the lawyers and my surviving siblings etc. We had to deal with some issues regarding my deceased sister's surving son which were not properly handled in my father's trust. Resolution is not what we wanted but my father did not want to pay large legal fees so many of the contingencies that are in my DH and my personal trust were not covered in my father's trust.

Needless to say, it sure would have been less expensive in the long run if my father would have spent the money on the front end with my lawyer instead of the one he used really did not even want to administer the trust. My sister made eleven phone calls to her after my father's death which were not returned. Her only response was an acknowledgement of the transfer via letter from the new trust attorney of the transfer.

Lesson learned by my siblings is making a very basic trust with an attorney who makes basic trusts without considering ramfications has cost our family several hundred thousand dollars in legal and tax fees. Basic mistake the attorney made is not properly advising us to deal with the issues of money and property that my sisters minor son would inherit as a minor in the year before my fathers death.

On top of that stressful situation, I had to help my middle DD by taking care of her children while they deal with some medical issues related to her husband. With that and Easter this weekend, I may be on and off the computer through the weekend.

Noel-it sounds like you guys have a lot hitting you at one time. I'm sure it will all be better soon.

 

[amesmom]

Tyler gave me a very detailed description the other day about Easter and what it means, what happened to Jesus, how he came back to life after 3 days of being in the tomb, etc. Of course I already knew this, but it was funny how he thought I didn't know! Very cute! His day care is at a church and is very bible-study oriented, so I'm thrilled that he's learning so much because I agree about how so many people just don't know what Easter is all about anymore.

You know for a couple of years there's been all this controversy over retailers going out of their way not to mention "Christmas" during the Christmas season? Everything is "Holiday" sales and "Holiday" trees and "Happy Holidays." Anyway, I saw a new one today: our local library is having a Spring egg hunt...not an Easter egg hunt. Oh, brother. Now I know that eggs don't really have a darn thing to do with the Christian Easter, but what is a spring egg hunt?

 

[amesmom]

Very cute!





PILGRIMS!

You beat me to the punchline.

 

[been2marceline]

Nope....this is just the start. Since the congestion started breaking up, I'll probably be couging it up for 2 or 3 days. Wonderful. But at least this is happening before school starts back up. That's the good part! And Tyler left for his dad's house last night and won't be home until Saturday at 5pm, so that gives me plenty of sleep time after work.

Probably won't see me much here today. Feeling very fuzzy-headed and groggy. Too grumpy to chat because of feeling lousy. Wish I could afford to leave work and go home to bed. Have a great day everybody!

Holly,

Sending you lots of pixie dust!!

Feel better and get lots of rest. Remember, better living through chemistry!!

Karen

 

[amesmom]

Noel, hopefully you can relax some this weekend. Sounds like you have tons going on.



Happy Afternoon!
Is everyone off tomorrow? We have to work, all our month end entries have to be in by noon tomorrow. The girls have their egg hunts and parties at school tomorrow as well.

No day off here. Our school district hasn't had Good Friday off in years. We did when I was in school, but that was way back in the day.

 

[been2marceline]

OK I'm finished for now...got busy work in the house then the two teen boys, grandsons, are coming to sleep here tonight and tomorrow. Their parents, DD and DSIL, are going to Atlantic City until Saturday night. DSIL is getting in on a couple of poker tournaments there. Hope he wins big so he can throw some money towards our Oct 07 cruise together. HA HA HA

The house should be very bustling and chaotic for the next few days....See empty nesters, they never actually leave, they come back and when they do they bring more people, kids, and pets.....Yes, their dog is coming with the boys too. Angel will LOVE it and Ella will hide all weekend.

Poor Ella!!!

(I always side with the cat...)

Karen