Something about Nothing, come join in........ Part 3

[RVGal]

do what any normal nice person would do.
wait until real dark and carol and deb don't have the lights on at their place.
move those suckers to your yard and plug them in.

now you have as much decorations as they used to.


and for your other statement.....
i'm sure the ornament you bought the homie will be cherished by her.
i know who you have and she will love it.

Okay, I could do that. Of course, they would steal them back the next night... but it could be like a revolving Christmas display.

And, you have NO idea how hard it is for me to not talk about the ornament thing. I want to say who I was shopping for and what I wanted to get them and why I got them what I got them and... and...

 

[Sharon G]

before i post in reply to the other posts, let me say this
why should we wait until mid or later october to get together?
let's do it sometime this summer!

That would be great. I would love to put a face to all your screen names. Looking at a picture just isn't the same.

for the ones that work, we could do a 3 day weekend.
take off work on a friday.

It will take Penny and I 6 or 7 hours to get to FL if that's where we end up.

meet on a friday and later on sunday, all will go back to their own 4 walls.

the homies with kids, might not be able to get away during the school year.

we can do the homies, or the homies with their family.

Uh, after a winter cooped up with my family, I will leave them home gladly!

at first i thought we would decide on a location and hotel and book rooms.

Location, hmmm, have to think on that one. Somewhere with a beach and warm water would be fun.

we could squeeze together to save money if need be.
if some want to bring their kids/beans with or without the spouses, that would be kewl also.

 

[Sharon G]

Okay, is the irritating little ditty from WDW anything that plays from the "singing rocks"? We always joke when we walk around the parks and you get close to a planter that has a speaker built into one of those fake rocks... "AAAGH! The rocks! The rocks are singing!!!" We're weird. I know.

Sharon has Stop in the Name of Love stuck in her head. Now, I have the movie Airplane! stuck in mine.

OK, I know I'm blond, but what the heck are you referring to? Airplane? Whats that movie have to do with singing rocks?

 

[loribell]

Evening folks...just stopping by to say hi.

Sorry some of you guys are being hit by that winter storm...it's soo early in the season too.

Way to early, glad that is not happening here. It was very warm here today, very cold yesterday and I have no idea what tomorrow is going to be like. The kids are all getting sick. I wish the weather would pick something and stay there for a while, preferably something around the 60's.
Tricia - Loved all th epics. Carol looks beautiful!

and i can see it now.
todd smiling and laughing at the homies in the north with the snow......

it started snowing at 2:30 and hasn't stopped yet.


someday i will get to be just like you todd!
live in the south, laugh at the cold weather

No, Todd wouldn't be laughing at you guys. Looks like we are all going to be living in the same area in a few years!

Well...I sometimes miss the snow. After all...it's kinda hard getting into the Christmas spirit when it's 85 degrees outside....but....I manage.

It's supposed to get into the mid 40's tonight here.

Totally agree. It was even weirder being there for Christmas last year with that weather. It was just odd, even though many years it is pretty warm here too.

before i post in reply to the other posts, let me say this:



why should we wait until mid or later october to get together?
let's do it sometime this summer!
for the ones that work, we could do a 3 day weekend.
take off work on a friday.

meet on a friday and later on sunday, all will go back to their own 4 walls.

the homies with kids, might not be able to get away during the school year.

we can do the homies, or the homies with their family.
i will leave my family at home............
you really don't want to meet mine. but i'll bring their pics with me.

at first i thought we would decide on a location and hotel and book rooms.
we could squeeze together to save money if need be.
if some want to bring their kids/beans with or without the spouses, that would be kewl also.


1. who wants to meet in the summer?
2. what city do we want to go to?

i've been saying philly as they are places we could sight see..
if you have suggestions, share it with us.

i think it is lori/ok, marcie, ws, rose, il, mac il, for the midwest.
i think the rest is on the east coast or somewhere near PA.

I agree, why wait till summer? Anywhere but Oklahoma is good with me.

Well....my vote would be.....Orlando for a quick getaway.

Who's with me?

i would go for that too!

well holly on the show keeps talking about wanting a baby with heff.

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

in the name of love before you break my heart!

Sorry...I guess I need some sleep.

Think it oh oh over
Think it oh oh over

Thanks Todd , now I have that song stuck in my head.

I'm not reading that so that it doesn't get stuck in my head!

Hey, I'm off work on Fridays! Wow - that's almost as coincidental as my husband and all his Packers' games!

And did someone say lime green crocs?

Love the pic Marcie. And I totally agree that is a great coincidence. I think it is only fair that you get to go on a homie visit since dh keeps scheduling business trips to towns that the Packers are playing in.

 

[loribell]

It was either that song or an irritating little ditty they play at WDW...but I'm not sayin which one.



It is better than shoveling....and don't call her Shirley!

Oh thanks a lot! now I have that one stuck in my head.

i always heard 3.2 beer referred as rabbit pi$$.
one time when i was 19 years old, i got a friend to go with me to a border town in wisconsin. at that time, a 19 year old could legally buy 3.2 beer.

i told my mom i was staying with a friend, and she told her mom the same thing.
it only took us 6.5 hours to get to wisconsin from st louis area.
we got a dump of a room at a flea bag hotel.
bought a 6 pack of rabbit pi$$.

i took one sip and said yuck.
my friend got drunk and she puked.

funny how your question of what is 3.2 shakes up some of those past memories...............
i'm sure this was more 411 than you really wanted to know

Well, now you all know why I don't drink beer. Our's really does taste that bad! YUCK! Great story Mac, but I was an angel and would never have done anything like that, really I wouldn't have.

do what any normal nice person would do.
wait until real dark and carol and deb don't have the lights on at their place.
move those suckers to your yard and plug them in.

now you have as much decorations as they used to.

um, i forgot what i was going to comment on but it was a good one.
maybe something in reference to crocs.
i don't have any and never will.......

but i can paint my toenails lime green if that will help

Yeah Tricia steal Carol's decorations! That'll show her!

I'm sure it was really good too. I hate it when I forget what I am going to say, but it happens all the time..

I'll say it

It's a world of laughter
A world of tears
It's a world of hopes
And a world of fears
There's so much that we share
That it's time we're aware
It's a small world after all

As if it wasn't already stuck in my head you had to go and sing it for us.

Okay, I could do that. Of course, they would steal them back the next night... but it could be like a revolving Christmas display.

And, you have NO idea how hard it is for me to not talk about the ornament thing. I want to say who I was shopping for and what I wanted to get them and why I got them what I got them and... and...

I like the revolving Christmas display, or you could try telling her that you went and bought your own and someone must have stollen hers. Yeah tell her Marcie's aliens stole them.

Hey you are excited about your ornament are you?

Nite Todd!

 

[loribell]

I am caught up!!!!!!!!

Well, it's bed time now. I'll try to stay current now.

Goodnight. Sweet Dreamies Everyone!

 

[macraven]

Okay, I could do that. Of course, they would steal them back the next night... but it could be like a revolving Christmas display.

And, you have NO idea how hard it is for me to not talk about the ornament thing. I want to say who I was shopping for and what I wanted to get them and why I got them what I got them and... and...

steal her outside decorations and never admit to it.
just say, i think it must have been a group of hoodlums that did that.

if they move them back to their side of the yard, do the same thing the next night and back to your place.

always stay in denial. don't fess up...........


you can pm me anytime about the ornabuddy exchange thingy.
i can keep a secret....

when we do post what we recieved, the sender can reply why they got what they did, what they were looking for, etc.

 

[macraven]

stealing the sister's outdoor christmas decorations reminds me of the tombstone i had.

when i was in college, i was the non drinker so i was always the designated driver.

all were underage so we would get one person to buy the booze.
someone would pick me up and i would do the driving then.

i was always afraid i would get in trouble so i would take the homies to a cemetery at night. where i lived, you have farm land and small cemetaries in the country outside the city. i figured we would never get caught by the law and we never were.

but when you have about 7 drunks together at the same time, the ideas get crazy.
to thank me they broke off a tombstone that had my name on it. it was an old one, dated back to the 1800's.



every weekend one of that group would place it in my parents drive way and leave a note. after dad got over being pissed, he would move the tombstone over by the garage. that night, someone would come retrieve it.

and again, the next weekend it came back home to me.

this went on for 4 months. the time it was in our driveway with christmas lights all around it was the ending of it for the parents.

i had to hide that thing under my bed for the longest time.
i couldn't get my friends to stop stealing it back after dad would hide it in the back of the garage. so i had to hide it in my room.

i forgot to take the tombstone with me when i moved to chicago when i left home.

my mother was not happy with me at all when they found it.
they moved to another house and when the movers took the beds, they mentioned to the folks they don't do tombstones.

 

[macraven]

now if i can get about 3 more pages filled up, no one will pay attention to my grave yard story.
and i surely hope no one calls the police on me to turn me in after all these years.....

 

[macraven]

where is barb tonight?



i know i read what she posted this morning, but thought she would drop in tonight.

cause tonight is not the date night of the tv show with her and mr barb....

 

[macraven]

i haven't started any cards yet.


so think of this as your card.
from me to you....

that is the front of the card.
i haven't decide on the verse for the inside yet.

 

[the Dark Marauder]

Mac, that tombstone story is trippy!

And what about Mirthas or the other sun gods that also have their birthday on/around Dec 25?

Show them some love!

 

[KStarfish82]

Morning!

It's hump day!

Wow, I'm falling way behind here because of my final term paper that is due by Friday night and have only written one page on

Hopefully after that I will be able to keep up again!

To our Jewish friends out there....Happy Chanukah!

 

[macraven]

good hump day homies.
after today, only 2 more work days this week.






we got snow.
have to leave earlier for work.


darkie, i never thought of that.
starfish, that i did think of....

 

[RVGal]

Sharon - I was responding to the two things that Todd said. The singing rocks in response to the annoying ditty at WDW... and the Airplane! comment in response to the "stop calling her Shirley" bit. The two aren't connected, I was just too tired to divide his one post into two quotes.

Raven - I have a drunks-saying-thanks story, but I don't think it will compare with a tombstone. How drunk do you have to be in order to think breaking off a tombstone and depositing it in someone's driveway is a good idea?

Here is mine. Well, it isn't actually my story. This is one that an old friend of mine used to tell. When he was still in high school, he and his buddies used to gather in a vacant lot to do their drinking. Sorta the same theory you had... they were away from everyone else and never got bothered by the law. One winter night, they were standing around an oil drum burning whatever scrap wood they could find to keep them warm while they were drinking. Scott (my friend) drank way too much and passed out. His buddies drove him home and dumped him on his front lawn. They started to drive away, but being concerned friends, they decided that he might get cold lying there on his front lawn all night... so, they drove back to the vacant lot, put the burning barrel in the back of their pickup truck, took it back to Scott's house, and set it beside him on his front lawn.

Scott used to say that his parents were "less than pleased" to wake up and find their teenaged son passed out on the lawn with a barrel of junk smouldering beside him.

 

[RVGal]

Oh, and thank you for the Christmas card Raven! Here is mine for all the homies:

 

[Sharon G]

Sharon - I was responding to the two things that Todd said. The singing rocks in response to the annoying ditty at WDW... and the Airplane! comment in response to the "stop calling her Shirley" bit. The two aren't connected, I was just too tired to divide his one post into two quotes.

Ok, now I get it! I'd forgotten about that Shirley bit!

Raven - I have a drunks-saying-thanks story, but I don't think it will compare with a tombstone. How drunk do you have to be in order to think breaking off a tombstone and depositing it in someone's driveway is a good idea?

Here is mine. Well, it isn't actually my story. This is one that an old friend of mine used to tell. When he was still in high school, he and his buddies used to gather in a vacant lot to do their drinking. Sorta the same theory you had... they were away from everyone else and never got bothered by the law. One winter night, they were standing around an oil drum burning whatever scrap wood they could find to keep them warm while they were drinking. Scott (my friend) drank way too much and passed out. His buddies drove him home and dumped him on his front lawn. They started to drive away, but being concerned friends, they decided that he might get cold lying there on his front lawn all night... so, they drove back to the vacant lot, put the burning barrel in the back of their pickup truck, took it back to Scott's house, and set it beside him on his front lawn.

Scott used to say that his parents were "less than pleased" to wake up and find their teenaged son passed out on the lawn with a barrel of junk smouldering beside him.

I know I'd be less than pleased, not only do I have to deal with the whole drinking issue, now I have to find a way to dispose of the barrel of junk!
The story sounds like it would make a good story line for Desperate Housewives. I can just see the wives all standing together across the street looking at the barrel and kid and shaking their heads.

Thank you for the Christmas card. You have a beautiful family!

Did you see Mac's post about all of us Homies getting together this summer? Any good ideas on where we could meet? If I remember correctly, there is some kind of tourist destination not far from you!?! I'm thinking summer is your busy time at the RV store and you might not be able to get away.

 

[loribell]

stealing the sister's outdoor christmas decorations reminds me of the tombstone i had.

when i was in college, i was the non drinker so i was always the designated driver.

all were underage so we would get one person to buy the booze.
someone would pick me up and i would do the driving then.

i was always afraid i would get in trouble so i would take the homies to a cemetery at night. where i lived, you have farm land and small cemetaries in the country outside the city. i figured we would never get caught by the law and we never were.

but when you have about 7 drunks together at the same time, the ideas get crazy.
to thank me they broke off a tombstone that had my name on it. it was an old one, dated back to the 1800's.



every weekend one of that group would place it in my parents drive way and leave a note. after dad got over being pissed, he would move the tombstone over by the garage. that night, someone would come retrieve it.

and again, the next weekend it came back home to me.

this went on for 4 months. the time it was in our driveway with christmas lights all around it was the ending of it for the parents.

i had to hide that thing under my bed for the longest time.
i couldn't get my friends to stop stealing it back after dad would hide it in the back of the garage. so i had to hide it in my room.

i forgot to take the tombstone with me when i moved to chicago when i left home.

my mother was not happy with me at all when they found it.
they moved to another house and when the movers took the beds, they mentioned to the folks they don't do tombstones.

now if i can get about 3 more pages filled up, no one will pay attention to my grave yard story.
and i surely hope no one calls the police on me to turn me in after all these years.....

OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!

Don't worry, your story is safe with me! (I promise I won't call the law)

 

[RVGal]

Did you see Mac's post about all of us Homies getting together this summer? Any good ideas on where we could meet? If I remember correctly, there is some kind of tourist destination not far from you!?! I'm thinking summer is your busy time at the RV store and you might not be able to get away.

I don't know if you would really consider it much of a destination. Helen, GA is a town built for tourism, but it isn't much. Most of the people who come to our area are here for the scenery. We're in the foothills... the southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail is about 25 miles from my house. There isn't that much to DO, just a lot of pretty nature to SEE. We have some winery places that have cropped up and Dahlonega has a very nice town square with lots of little bistro type restaurants and wine tasting rooms. It's small, however. I am about a 2 hour drive from Chattanooga, TN... about 3 hours from Pigeon Forge, TN or Asheville, NC... 5 hours from Myrtle Beach, SC... 1.5 hours from Atlanta, GA... well, there are a lot of places around here.

Yes, the summer is our busy season. I doubt that I could get very far away from home unless it is a family vacation where we shut down for a few days.

 

[loribell]

Hi DM! How's it going? Hope you are doing well. Are you going to get to see Ad at all over the holidays?

Katie - Don't worry about staying caught up. Take care of that term paper. Mac is doing cliff notes for Traice so you can catch up that way when you are done with the paper.

Tricia - I was totally confused on that last night too. Now it totally makes sense. Absolutely love the Christmas card.

I would imagine Scott's parents were a little less than thrilled. I nver did anything like that. Like I said last night I was an angel, just don't ask my parents.

Mac - Loved the beginnings of your card. I was thinking of asking for addresses from you guys but maybe I can just put it in here for all my homies.

Sharon - I agree, great idea for a DHW story line.


Have a terrific day everyone!