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[Pinkocto]

I loved the Poirot reference Paula, he's one of my absolute favorites!

 

[Paula Sedley-Burke]

I loved the Poirot reference Paula, he's one of my absolute favorites!

Me too!

 

[rentayenta]

Her picture is adorable! I should *borrow* it from FB and post it.

 

[franandaj]

Her picture is adorable! I should *borrow* it from FB and post it.

I'll post it over here, I just need to upload it to PB. I just got home a little while ago. I'm getting over the shock of the whole thing!

 

[franandaj]

Just catching up! Was in hospital yesterday getting my infusion. Long day! Can only post with one hand and couldn't view the cool links you kindly posted of your band. Now seen them how wonderful! Thank you for sharing that with me your band looks amazing. When we come to Cali we will have to come see you play!

That's great you booked a cruise for next year. Which one did you book? Sounds like you got Halloween cool! Sorry you have so much on your agenda right now. You will soon be in Florida surrounded by the magic and the dis folk! X

We only do a few concerts per year, but you are always welcome to come to a rehearsal. We booked the cruise on our last cruise. We are doing the same itinerary, Cozumel and Grand Cayman but out of Miami instead of Galveston.

Oh my, sounds like we definitely need a picture of the jury duty outfit

I hope you don't get picked!

Just uploaded to PB!

oh i need a picture too.

You could have seen it on FB, but I'm putting it here too!

Me too re picture lol. I just googled pippilongstocking to see what this image looked like omg lol. I nearly died laughing. Somewhere in the UK a woman was found dead with a ipad in her hand featuring a picture of pippillongstocking. To this day not even Poirot himself knows what occurred...

When I was a kid and wore braids, everyone always called me PippiLongstocking because I had red hair and freckles. I never even knew who she was, and there was no Google!

Oh good grief what a picture in all of our heads it should work though

Actually it didn't work so much, it seems they don't care what you look like because there were some people that looked like he11 and got picked!

I just love to read Paula's posts...

Lol love the image of the chalk outline! And so it was that the ME declared the untimely passing of Lady Sedley-Burke as 'death by misadventure'. And poor Sergeant Wibbly Wobbly of the cupoftea police force would be forevermore searching for this murderer Miss Adventure to place in her royal majesty's prison.

Ick! Hope you don't get picked! I always get the summons, but every single time, it's been dismissed (knock on wood!)

Totally agree

This is the first time that they have actually told me to report. In the past I claimed financial hardship, but they don't allow that any more. The last time I got it, since they got rid of that rule, every night when I called in they said I didn't need to report. That last time I was supposed to go to the court in Compton!

Based on my experience, I might like to do it sometime, but their problem is that they don't let you postpone it to a time when you actually CAN do it. If they had let me postpone to late October early November, I would have been OK, but this was the last possible week I could have postponed when I got the summons.

I had the Car Club meet the original week that they scheduled me. Since you have to be available M-F, every week, I was planning a trip either to my parents, the Expo or a DISmeet. Had I been assigned to a case today, I would have missed the DISmeet with Pam next week and that would not have been right!

 

[franandaj]

OK for those of you who didn't see it on FB, here is the pic!

 

[kmedina]

I love it. Connor would too.

 

[Paula Sedley-Burke]

Love the picture lol and I love that apron I want one! ( tantrum all toys out the pram ) ...

 

[Pinkocto]

I love it! Maybe not grungy enough, next time rub some dirt in for good measure

I'm so glad you didn't get picked!

 

[TifffanyD]

My husband found out the hard way that they LIKE to pick people with tattoos. Even if they are Disney - lol

 

[Paula Sedley-Burke]

How long do you have to do jury service for? Cool re cruise btw. That's the one we want to do

 

[Leshaface]

OK for those of you who didn't see it on FB, here is the pic!

Yes! Love the hair.

 

[PrincessInOz]

 

[Luvchefmic]

and thats all I have to say about that

 

[franandaj]

I love it. Connor would too.

Pooh, Tigger and Eeyore are my favorites!

Love the picture lol and I love that apron I want one! ( tantrum all toys out the pram ) ...

OK, here is one of those, we both speak English, but not the same English, moments!

We would not call the dress I'm wearing an apron over here, more like a jumper. An apron is something that you wear over your clothes when cooking to keep the stains off of you. I got a chuckle out of your use of the word apron.

Also what the heck is a Pram? At the end of the Camelot song in Monty Python and the Holy Grail the last line is, "I have to push the Pram a lot." I have never known what that means!

I love it! Maybe not grungy enough, next time rub some dirt in for good measure

I'm so glad you didn't get picked!

I was just going for the simple and ignorant, not necessarily grungy. They picked some pretty strange looking folks. I guess they have gotten past the looks are deceiving thing.

My husband found out the hard way that they LIKE to pick people with tattoos. Even if they are Disney - lol

You know I think I had it all wrong. They were dismissing all the folks who were dressed all business like and keeping the gals showing undergarments and skin, and guys with less than business like looks.

How long do you have to do jury service for? Cool re cruise btw. That's the one we want to do

You have to do one day per year, and all week you call in the night before. If they don't need you, you call the next day. If they don't need you all week, you are excused. If they call you in, you have to sit in a room and wait to see if they select you as a group of 30 to be eligible to sit on a panel. Once you are in the room, they selected 12 of the 30 and interview you. Then the lawyers for the prosecution and defense, get to excuse jurors one by one. When one is excused, they take another from the initial 30 until they either find 12 people they are happy with, or they run out of potential jurors.

The first one that I sat in on, I got called when there were about 10 people left to choose from. The judge was a real jerk and tried to beliddle me, so I just behaved even more like a basket case, and they finally agreed to let me go. I didn't get called onto the panel of 12 until after lunch, so I went back to the room to wait.

Then there was a trial that couldn't seem to find any appropriate jurors, they had started the day before, and had already been through 30 potential jurors that day by the time they called my group down. They finally found the right people before I got called up there, so that was 4:30PM and I got to go home with my certificate that said I don't have to do it for another year.

Yes! Love the hair.

and thats all I have to say about that

 

[jedijill]

A pram is an old fashioned baby buggy.



Jill in CO

 

[franandaj]

A pram is an old fashioned baby buggy.



Jill in CO

OK, Thanks for the info!

 

[franandaj]

So I made it through my first hurdle weekend!

We worked most of the day Wednesday to dig out the table. Here is how far we got. I was pretty impressed since when we started, the entire table was one big mound of stuff, from boxes of Disney figurines to packing peanuts, clothes and other random stuff!



Friday morning, three huge boxes arrived. (like 3 1/2 feet tall and 2 1/2 feet square) These were her hitchhiking ghosts that will eventually go in the HM room. As you can see from the picture above we had no room for such things, so they went right out to the garage. Then we had to continue to erode the piles of boxes.

Here we are Friday night.



We are about to have dessert.



Last night, was a little more relaxing, except for the fact that it never cooled down enough for me to put on anything other than a tank top, and we left the Bowl at 11:00PM. I spent several hours making summer salad, frosting cupcakes, slicing cheese and packing our cases for the picnic. Here was our view.



And once the sun set and the show began.



When the orchestra began playing the music from Star Wars, everyone got out their light sabers.

 

[Pinkocto]

That cake looks delicious!

Who were you seeing? I completely missed that tidbit.

 

[franandaj]

That cake looks delicious!

Who were you seeing? I completely missed that tidbit.

It was John Williams at the Bowl. The entire evening was conducted by John Williams. The first half was a tribute to Henry Mancini with Julie Andrews narrating. The second half was all music by John Williams, some great stuff from Hook, Indiana Jones, Lincoln and a few others that I don't recall. He did three encores, it was great!