Anyone old enough like me to remember "Paradise by the Dashboard Lights"? Meatloaf?
Our group did 14 jeeps in Grand Caymen....OMG....worst experience of my life....but we sure did laugh!! We drove to Rum Point.....all of us got stopped for speeding and several were threatened with jail!!
We got lost on the way back....almost missed the ship.....when we climbed aboard they SLAMMED the door behind us!! We were the last ones on board....
NIGHTMARE!!
All of these "talk to the dead" stories kind of "creep" me out
Never had anything like that....Thank Goodness....
But, I can tell some pretty awesome "We almost missed the ship" stories....anyone have any of those???
NO, thank goodness! Last summer we took the Disney excursion to Rum Point (bus to water taxi, to the beach). That place is WAY far away! You guys sound CRAZY! Did you get a picture of your convoy pulled over by the cops???
I am saving up my points (large sales, training,etc.) for the either a macbook or the new widescreen video ipod whenever it comes out.
ENVY!!!
And the first one they put us in was running when we got in. Thankfully Dennis is always prepared and decided he should turn it off and start it, just to make sure and sure enough it wouldn't start up again.
We called the rental guys over and they moved us to another. Thank goodness he was suspicious of that engine being already running for us. We would have been stuck at the first stop.
Just part of the adventure of traveling in Mexico!!
These stories are all so wild!! I have never had...or ever known anyone who has had anything like this!!
I am so sorry for your family.....I hope everything worked out.
Yes, fortunately it did. After 5-6 years, my aunt made the first move of restoring communication, kind of apologizing in a round-about way. It was a relief to me to be on good terms again because we had always been very close (she and my mother were sorority sisters in college and she introduced my mom & dad). It had caused a very awkward situation with her kids (my only cousins) who didn't want to take sides. One of my sisters and I were very willing to put it behind us, but my other sister and my brother held on to their resentments quite a bit longer. But eventually everything was put to rest. By the time my mom died, we were all on good terms again.
That reminds me of something else my sister and I heard at our reading from Allison DuBois. At one point she said, "Sister...does your mother have a sister?" We said no, she was an only child. She kept saying, "I keep getting 'sister' ". Then I remembered that my aunt's family nickname was "Sister"--everyone in the family and from her childhood called her that, even friends. And she was also my mother's sorority sister--so I told her these things. Then Allison said, "Oh that must be what it is...well, I don't want to upset you, but your aunt is ill. Your mother is going to do everything she can to keep her around as long as possible." This was in May. We said nothing to our cousins. A few months later my aunt was diagnosed with lung cancer (which is what my mother also had). She lived about a year longer.
This reminds me of another Greek thing. Greeks believe that for 40 days after death, the soul walks the earth, and communicates with loved ones. My mother used to tell me this all the time. She told me she saw her parents after they died when she was over here instead of in Greece. Once the memorial service is held at church after 40 days, the soul can then rest, and goes to heaven.
I have to say that since mom's death in December, I had dreams with her in them, but nothing vivid or earth-shaking like you guys have related. Just normal stuff. I waited for it too, because I was betting she would come back and say "told you so" to me about the 40 days.
That's very interesting about the 40 days and makes sense to me. I, too, have had many dreams with my mom, dad and brother
in them, but have only had one where I felt I was communicating with my dad, and maybe one or two with my mom. None with my brother.
Hello everyone! I soooo miss you all. It has been just crazy. We are selling our first home (which has been a rental). All with the secret plans to have enough money to take this cruise!! Just kidding (somewhat!). Tax season has KILLED us! My husband had his severance from his last job before starting his business. The taxes are sooo big. My DH is questioning this cruise and I WILL NOT LET IT GO! Of course they make real estate taxes come the same time as income taxes. Noel, you can I sure imagine what our real estate taxes is since we just got in the Woodside market in 2005. Yikes! Anyway, work and taxes has taken over our lives but I wanted to take a breath to say hi. I think soon I can do my nightly reading of DIS to catch up. But until then please keep me in your thoughts! By the way, my friend got an okay from Stanford oncology to wait for chemo and try IVF for one more month. She is thrilled as last month she could only get one egg (or how ever that works). I'm scared of course because she is postponing treatment, but I figure the doctors wouldn't okay it unless it wasn't too risky.
That's all - sorry for the long posting. Lisa
Good to hear from you, Lisa!
Yes I do, tucked away inside a magic catalogue. Have not looked at it in a while. In the picture he is in handcuffs, ready to escape!
Are you going to entertain us with some magic?? Maybe after a couple of DODs?
I got one too about six months ago, while I really like it, I hardly ever use the laptop anywhere near a flat surface (other than when using Quicken) so I found I don't use it much.
I use it with my iMac desktop. With my iBook I just tough it out with the touch pad!
You must have sensed that we were all talking about you. I think it was this am actually I asked where you were! Glad to hear your friend is still doing well. I am sure if they were worried about her treatment they would insist she started sooner.
My dad is our accountant and we are always the last to get done.
He also was 19 years old and all of the seniors here were 17. He never fit in at school, he was very interested in world affairs and the kids at the HS were interested in who would be winning the football game this week. It really was a sad situation. We sent him to visit friends of ours in California over Christmas break so that he could at least experience that and when he returned he called the coordinator and told her that he would either be sent to live with a family in California or he would return home. Luckily they were able to locate a willing family in California so that the last half of his stay was better for him. He was a nice young man, just put in the wrong place.
