Something about Nothing, come join in........ Part 2

[tlinus]

im in! im new so somebody gimme a tour?

WELCOME, Tracy!!!! Not official tour, our tour guide mac will have to handle that part

you can attempt to catch up, but you may make yourself dizzy my advice would be to just jump in with both feet and introduce yourself (cause we are all nosey like that) and chat about anything! Glad to "meet you" and will talk to you again soon!!

 

[macraven]

woo hoo, we got another live one here....

welcome to our newest homie funster
assuming tracie knows you since she called you tracy.

guess we will have to say tracy with a Y when we mean you and tracie with the vowels when we mean tlinus..........

the tour begins.....
jump in anywhere and start yaking on what is on your mind.
we subject jump all the time, it is one of our well known talents here.

talk about theme parks, seaworld, busch gardens, disney or universal.
it's all good, no bashing or insults will happen here.

we are a group of people that have become friends inside this box.
we all love and welcome newbies!
i always refer to the people here as my extended family.

come and go as you like. someone here will give you the cliff notes if you fall behind many pages.

so glad you are joining us.

welcome again...

 

[macraven]

Oh well. what the heck, here's a pic of me at my 2nd job as a sound tech at a local club. As you can see from my Postal Service shirt, I just came from my day job!

mike i absolutely and totally love your hair !!
i made my boys were their hair long when they were younger. i begged 2 of them to color their hair blue when they were in high school. i think that was the kewlest color for hair. yes, i love marge simpson



when you meet wolf at the meet saturday, you'll see his hair is longer than yours. he wears it pulled back in a tail.
my youngest got his hair cut when he was 12. he had a tail to his waist.
he hated it, i loved it.....

Morning all!!

Sorry for not posting yesterday......I have to say mac, you look absolutely fantastic!! Conrats on 40 lbs in 3 months!! I had no clue you lost that much - excellent job!!!

thanks. stress does that to a person......also did curves for exercise and watched what i ate. every bite i put in my mouth i saw it go in.....


Yesterday my littlest bean (Frank) turned 6.....not my baby anymore - he is my big guy now He was funny and made me measure him on the basement door (all the kids heights are there for the last 2 years) and he was all excited that he grew a good bit from last year.


you should have told us!!

happy birthday mr frank bean #3.......

here ya go.....its me and dh and two of the beans as the oldest is taking the picture (try not to be too afraid ):

beautiful pic of you and the family......love it

ETA: awww crackers, need to fix my siggy, I've been sliced !!!!!!!!!!!

yea, your siggie is gone.........i miss it!

Oh man we missed little beans bday. So...



HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRANK!



How are the girls? Is Kate liking school? How is Court's exzema doing?

yea HB me too to frankie.....
one of my sons has exczema
we could compare medical treatment notes....

WELCOME, Tracy!!!! Not official tour, our tour guide mac will have to handle that part

thanks for helping out tracie .........one with the vowels....
anytime i am not here, please take over and welcome the newbies!

 

[AlexandNessa]

Good morning, everyone, and welcome, funster! Don't try to catch up. Just join in!

Happy Birthday to FBean!

Tricia, I hope Carol is doing better at home. My heart ached knowing that they sent her home in so much traffic when she was not well to begin with. There is certainly nothing worse than knowing you're close to home, but can't get there.

Here is a picture of my family ....

That's my cousin Tim, his wife Meri, me, my sister Erin, and hubby Mike.

Yes, beer drinking on vacation runs in the family That was all of us at the ESPN club on the Boardwalk. I won't get into the Jellyrolls pics that were many pitchers later .....


Anyway, let's talk about something we can all relate to ... sharing your bed with your bedmate. Git yur minds out of the gutters! I am talking literally sleeping. Not figuratively sleeping. My bedmate (God love him) likes to sleep diagonally, so that I get a triangle of space on the bed. He also likes to sleep with no less than 6 pillows, further inhibiting my space. He's a blanket hog and a restless sleeper. I have suffered more than one elbow to the head while sleeping. One time, I woke up with his entire arm over my throat. Sometimes when he's had a really long day, he grinds his teeth. This is my personal favorite as it sounds like he's crunching on marbles. Gross. Despite all these things, I still love him and we'll be married forever, mainly because we work separate shifts and rarely sleep at the same time!

 

[AlexandNessa]

Tracie, I miss your siggie too! I didn't think it was that big. Wow, they really did cut down, didn't they?! I have started my trippie already. I don't know how I'm going to get through 8 days though.

Mike, I like your hair too! I love longer hair and wish Mike would grow his out a bit.

Where are everyone else's pics? I am enjoying them!

 

[RVGal]

im in! im new so somebody gimme a tour?

WOO HOO!!!

Somebody new and they are from GEORGIA!!!

I'm so excited!!!

Okay, I excite easily.

So, pull up a chair and stay awhile. Where in the state are you? I'm finally getting some rain here in my little corner. I'd almost forgotten what it looks like!

 

[macraven]

WOO HOO!!!

Somebody new and they are from GEORGIA!!!

I'm so excited!!!

Okay, I excite easily.

So, pull up a chair and stay awhile. Where in the state are you? I'm finally getting some rain here in my little corner. I'd almost forgotten what it looks like!

you crack me up ....... you're so cute when georgians appear here....

kind of like me when someone mentions the cardinals.......

 

[RVGal]

you crack me up ....... you're so cute when georgians appear here....

kind of like me when someone mentions the cardinals.......

Well, you must admit that our group leans heavily toward the northeast. Not that there's anything wrong with that (to quote Seinfeld), but it is exciting to see someone from my neck 'o the woods.

Do you guys really want to see MORE pictures of me? Haven't you seen enough? I'll have a mini trippie after we go to the races Oct 27-28... but if you need something to hold you until then, here's a recent shot of me and the boys from "Family Reading Night" at Joshua's school (you'll remember that was a thinly veiled excuse for Book Fair).

Ugh. I need a haircut.

 

[macraven]

well i do ........bring them on tricia, more pics for us to see...woo hoo


seinfeld came to mind when i was thinking of a name for the thread.
not like there is something wrong with that...


come to think of it, there are a lot of NE homies here on this thread.




am i the only midwest homie here?
i think the "okie" lori would be closest to me distance wise.

 

[macraven]

WAIT..............


almost forgot marcie up in greenbay.
yea, she is a midwestern transplant also.

me, born and raised in the arm pit of the usa.
st louis area...

then moved north

 

[RVGal]

I think the closest to me is Melissa (NashvilleTrio), but haven't seen her on the boards lately. Next would be the guys in Orlando I guess?

 

[keishashadow]

very cool pics quickie drive by; volunteer @ open house today - feet hurt; did get treated to lunch again by DH/DS @ applebees

bbl

 

[roseprincess]

HI all!

Sorry, having a hard time catching up, as I haven't been on much lately.
Have alot on my plate the last couple of days

Enjoyed all the pics Sorry, don't have much time to comment on all the pics, just really like them all! Thanks for posting the pics, you guys!
I did recognize Mac right away in her pics, as I met her last Dec, for a Chicago DISer mini-meet at the blue restaurant she adores . You look great, Mac I can tell you lost weight since I saw you last, congrats
Mac, you and I and my family will need to meet again sometime soon!
I can't make the Oct. 27 Great America meet with Marcie, tho I wasn't invited DH and I have to go to a health care meeting that day, for DH's dad, pretty important meeting to attend, about FIL.

Mac- enjoy your mini-trip!
Is everything ok at home? Or is this a getaway weekend with your DH?


tlinus-Happy birthday to Fbean!
Is it ok to say, I never heard of kids being called "beans" before. This is a first to me, when I joined this thread. I guess I'm very out of the loop
on the "bean" stuff

Funster- Welcome to our thread!

Welcome to anyone else that's new!
Happy Birthday to anyone else I missed!


My dad is doing a little better. I guess his chemo treatment isn't going to be til January, as far as I know. Thank you all, for your concern and thoughts and prayers.

Team meetings at school went fairly well yest.
I have been stalked lately by the Social Security Disability people from our state capital- in Springfield,IL. I re-applied Chrissy and applied Matthew
over the summer, for disability benefits. Now the adjudicator my kids are assigned to is stalking me for more info and all these extra doctor appts I HAVE to take hte kids to, etc. These people are driving me nuts!

What else is going on.... Oh, ok, mommy brag... do any of you get Nick Magazine? In hte November issue, Matthew had his quote published from the Say What caption! Say What is a funny picture that has the empty caption and you fill in hte caption and mail it in. Well Matthew's caption got picked and published . Just found out when we got our Nick mag a couple of days ago! It's not much, but Matthew is thrilled! Oh, it's on page 74 of the November issue of Nick
mag.

Ok, that's enough from me.

Have a good day everyone!

 

[Lynne1875]

Hey Mac, it's so nice to see a picture of you!

I pictured you as having short, brown hair for some reason! Obviously I was way off the mark!

 

[yankeepenny]

Good evening threaders!


need your opinion.....okay , I will admit it....I like crocs...

so....I just happened to go over to Dick's tonight and happened to get another pair......brown and put on orange straps

so..........I am addicted, there I said it....so I have umpteen pairs! so I only have two feet!
well, somedays they both feel like dopeys....

am i a croc freak? or a typical girl's gotta have her shoes
kinda person????????????

 

[marciemi]

Uh oh Mac - you forgot Rose too! Now you're really in trouble! Rose, I guess I knew you'd mentioned Chicago before but didn't realize you were from the area (yeah, it takes a lot for things to sink in here!). Sorry you can't join us - I'd love to tip the scales towards the non-teenaged-crowd!

I also find it funny how most of you don't look ANYTHING like I'd imagine you to! I know you don't have that problem with me since you've seen probably a THOUSAND pics of me or so!

In case you've forgotten though, I just received a package from my mom and she included some old stuff of mine, including a cadet pic. So here's me, looking all serious in my senior class pic back in 1988:

 

[yankeepenny]

Marci- If you had pictured me as a beautiful, thin, model-quality kind of a girl, well, thanks for the good thoughts..


but if you pictured me as a card carrying "boeing made my broom kinda girl" then you got it right



ask anyone who is related to me.....

 

[keishashadow]

jodie - get one of those body pillows (i stick one on both sides of me)...sorta like a cat marking his space. we enjoy ESPN, especially in the afternoon when you don't have to wait 2 hours in line. i can admit it here...never checkout jellyrolls or atlantic dance hall; always too bushed...that & those big brown eyes staring balefully @ me when I'd mention "kids club". He's 14 now, old enough to hang for a few hours in the room, etc.

note to self - read the NICK magazine in the checkout line! congrats!

open house went swell today ; the teachers have decided to not only have youngest keep up with all this school work while we're on the cruise but, several have come up with a special project for him to complete. They were so excited about him sharing his experiences with the class - journal for English, Powerpoint presentation for Social Studies, etc. - groan...just what HS kids want to see-not.

Algebra II teacher suggested DS email his assignments every day...he's tripping, internet very pricey onboard. Realize they step things up in the big leagues (hi school); bit much imo. In the past he worked ahead or had the same amount of time to finish that he missed

 

[AlexandNessa]

open house went swell today ; the teachers have decided to not only have youngest keep up with all this school work while we're on the cruise but, several have come up with a special project for him to complete. They were so excited about him sharing his experiences with the class - journal for English, Powerpoint presentation for Social Studies, etc. - groan...just what HS kids want to see-not.

Algebra II teacher suggested DS email his assignments every day...he's tripping, internet very pricey onboard. Realize they step things up in the big leagues (hi school); bit much imo. In the past he worked ahead or had the same amount of time to finish that he missed

Oh, no! Emailing homework from the ships?! Doesn't the school know how much DCL costs and they want you to pay for Internet access on top of that?!

But does he seriously have to do Power Point presentations for his social studies class? Algebra II is 10th grade, right? Slide 1: The Social Conundrums of Pirate Night. Slide 2: The Peter Pan Syndrome Slide 3: Psuedo-societies on DCL: DISers v. Non-DISers. The possibilities are endless. (Of course, I assume he'll be doing presentations on ports of call -- he should do all that crud before hand -- ave. GDP, population, all that garbage you're supposed to care about in Social Studies)

 

[AlexandNessa]

Good evening threaders!


need your opinion.....okay , I will admit it....I like crocs...

so....I just happened to go over to Dick's tonight and happened to get another pair......brown and put on orange straps

so..........I am addicted, there I said it....so I have umpteen pairs! so I only have two feet!
well, somedays they both feel like dopeys....

am i a croc freak? or a typical girl's gotta have her shoes
kinda person????????????

You're a croc freak ... but it's OK to be a croc freak! I am a Teva freak! (10 years ago, I was a Birkenstock freak, then a Clark freak, the shoe de jour just happens to be Teva right now!)