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

[macraven]

At almost 46, I think I need 2 days of beauty a month....holy crap I'm old.

45 is the new 25 now.
you are still young

 

[keishashadow]

My entire life is a pre vacation ritual

My husband and I hit the mall a week or so before we go to Sephora, Bloomingdales....whatever, and buy what we want...then we go for lunch.

2 days before I ship my box o'liquids FedEx to the hotel so we can do carry ons only.

The day before we leave is a "Day of Beauty" for me. I get to the salon early for hair cut and color, mani, pedi, facial and massage. Sometimes if the spirit moves me and I feel like donning a paper thong I will also get a spray on tan and forego the massage. My husband and I have a bottle of champagne then go out for a nice relaxing dinner. I have all our travel clothes out for the next morning and our boarding passes printed. Then it's into the limo we go and we're off!! My husband spoils me and I do a day of beauty once a month, but before vacation it feels better. At almost 46, I think I need 2 days of beauty a month....holy crap I'm old.

sound like something outta martha stewart or robin leech/lifestyles of rich & famous

Here's my version: tan to cover my existing wrinkles & get my roots touched up, never had a pedicure/manicure (personal aversion)

I'm still packing the night before, fine-tuning list for house/pet sitter; up all night too excited to sleep and usually need to gas-up on the way to the airport.

 

[macraven]

well, i do start planning my next vacation the day i come back from the present vacation.

i try to figure out when the hhn dates will be for the following year.

when i think i have it, i book the hotel the first week of january.
this year i got lazy and didn't book until feb 1st for this fall.


i chart out everything i am going to do and the time i will do it.
i'm so pathetic.......but it keeps me happy.


half of the trip is in the planning for me.

i have to go out soon and will be back on line after 9.
i do have my priorities and have to watch CSI at 8 tonight.

 

[marciemi]

marciemi - CSI has been one of our favorites for a long time but this season I find myself TiVo'ing more often. The whole miniature thing does have me curious though.....

They stretched it out too long though. When the first couple episodes about it ended, it was like "so what happened?" Just didn't seem complete - I couldn't understand how the guy they thought did it was related to all the folks who he'd "killed".

Then so much time passed that by the time they did the second segment on it, I still felt lost. After that one, they apparently hadn't solved it (just the one "copycat" death). But then when they started showing the trailers for this week, even DH was like "Wait, didn't they solve all that?" All mixed up in my (and apparently) others' minds by now!

 

[tlinus]

tlinus - fast eddy (our great & exhaulted leader ; think he's cloned -- never seems to miss a photo op) emperor of Phillie and the provinces westward ho (that us in Pittsburgh lol the true red-headed step child of PA)...

Put in a good word for me too, please --- after 9-11 they must have had a major reshift in flight routes! Instead of counting sheep, i now use the planes overhead. Sometimes it sounds like they're going to land on our roof (especially the big military transports); despite living a good 30 - 40 miles from the airport.

Sanjaya's growing on me, like a bad rash . Don't want to scratch; but just cannot help myself (he's spreading - watch out lol).

keisha -

They are talking about these planes taking off like 300 feet above the house!!!

I wrote a Sound Off! (like a complaint section) to our local paper:

Where and when can we expect our exhaulted leader of state, Ed Rendell, to become involved with this issue of redirected flight paths? And when will it get local television news coverage? The widening of the turnpike, and the people it will effect, was a highlight the other night on all the news stations. Just recently weren’t there two separate incidents where ice chunks fell off planes in Delaware County? This is not a matter to take lightly, imagine something like that happening at a school in the middle of the day!! Or a plane having mechanical problems and having to ditch. Any number of things can happen, not to mention the increase in noise and pollution! In Ridley Park the noise level increase is projected to increase 72-90%. All of this for what? One lousy minute per flight delay decrease? I say if the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce is steadily backing the FAA plan, let the planes fly out over the city!!

Angered Mom in Ridley Park

don't even get me started with American Idol

 

[goofie4goofy]

Oh yeah!!! Vacation Planning!!

Our anniversary vacation is here www.maromahotel.com can't wait. We have never been and it looks totally relaxing. It's not until November and since our business recently expanded, it seems as though we will not be able to take an extended vacation until then....so I better enjoy this one!

I wish 45 was the new 25....my joints don't feel 25.

 

[bubba's mom]

Sad to say, but Survivor and CSI are DH and I's "quality" time together We sit together and watch those (we really don't watch anything else "together"). the miniature thing has us intrigued also....we always look forward to CSI

Pre-vacation rit's:

as you can see by my ticker waaaay below, i plan ahead but, for the annual summer trip:
always the last week of june (UO followed by a week at DFIL's house for 4th of July (that's his birthday)
I notify police dept. of our vacation and make arrangements to stop mail. give money and lottery numbers to friend to get (cuz you know i WILL hit if i don't play while on vaca). make out checks to pay bills and give to Mom to mail on given dates. give plants to my neighbor to water. get brows waxed....(tan around Mother's Day for a month --usually the standard "mother's day gift") I don't get a pedicure...makes feet too soft and not good with walking around all day....i work in a salon, so I keep on top of it anyhows....do fresh coat of polish on toes and fingers. get jewelry cleaned (and try to keep it that way till vacation). just got a haircut, so i'm good till the fall and i don't color my hair either.... fill tolietries. (we usually leave on a Tuesday or Wed) do wash Sunday. We both actually work the day before we leave (altho i work 1/2 day vs. DH's full day). when we get home, we all grab a bite to eat for dinner and clean up (trash out, run dishwasher, etc...) and then finish packing (stuff from that morning: toothbrushes, makeup, deodorants, etc....), gas the car up on the way to PHL. We spend the night in a hotel near the airport and try to get there about 8pm (our Jan. trip, we went down on a Tuesday nite, and the goal was to be there and in bed to watch HOUSE at 9pm... --made it too ). So, we try to get to sleep around 9-9:30 cuz we have to get up at 4:30-5am to get shuttle and thru security at PHL for 7am flight! Not an exciting ritual, but it works for us. I take just enough clothes to make it thru the first part of the trip (UO) without having to do wash. the first day at DFIL's i'm doing ....but that's okay, cuz while it's washing and drying, I'm in the pool OR yakking to you guys!

 

[bubba's mom]

I wrote a Sound Off! (like a complaint section) to our local paper:

Where and when can we expect our exhaulted leader of state, Ed Rendell, to become involved with this issue of redirected flight paths? And when will it get local television news coverage? The widening of the turnpike, and the people it will effect, was a highlight the other night on all the news stations. Just recently weren’t there two separate incidents where ice chunks fell off planes in Delaware County? This is not a matter to take lightly, imagine something like that happening at a school in the middle of the day!! Or a plane having mechanical problems and having to ditch. Any number of things can happen, not to mention the increase in noise and pollution! In Ridley Park the noise level increase is projected to increase 72-90%. All of this for what? One lousy minute per flight delay decrease? I say if the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce is steadily backing the FAA plan, let the planes fly out over the city!!

Angered Mom in Ridley Park

you go girl!!

 

[goofie4goofy]

keisha -

They are talking about these planes taking off like 300 feet above the house!!!

I wrote a Sound Off! (like a complaint section) to our local paper:

Where and when can we expect our exhaulted leader of state, Ed Rendell, to become involved with this issue of redirected flight paths? And when will it get local television news coverage? The widening of the turnpike, and the people it will effect, was a highlight the other night on all the news stations. Just recently weren’t there two separate incidents where ice chunks fell off planes in Delaware County? This is not a matter to take lightly, imagine something like that happening at a school in the middle of the day!! Or a plane having mechanical problems and having to ditch. Any number of things can happen, not to mention the increase in noise and pollution! In Ridley Park the noise level increase is projected to increase 72-90%. All of this for what? One lousy minute per flight delay decrease? I say if the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce is steadily backing the FAA plan, let the planes fly out over the city!!

Angered Mom in Ridley Park

don't even get me started with American Idol

I know what your are talking about. We don't live far from JFK (about 15 miles) and LGA is not far from that. The flight path for landings is right over our section of Long Island. Also not far from us is a small airport which has private jets taking off and landing. Not to mention the coroprate helicopters for Charles Dolan and others going to the Hamptons in the summer. The small planes pretty scary and the others are just annoying. The skies over Long Island have become the new Long Island Expressway. I also feel that it is an invasion of my privacy. We go to the beach often and when you look in the sky you can see all the commercial airliners lines up ready to land they are all about 30 seconds apart. Many people think that commercial jets do not fly over Long Island, but they do. It never used to be that way, it sucks.

 

[Amity 3]

si is everyone here on the verge of going through menopause besides me? the estrogen level is frightening.

 

[tlinus]

si is everyone here on the verge of going through menopause besides me? the estrogen level is frightening.

well, I hope at 37 its not me ......I am just in a really pissy mood about all of this FAA stuff

you better watchout for the estrogen seeping through the computer, Amity, next thing you know you are going to tell us that you are color coordinating your underwear and socks (since you don't wear bras) and that you spend more time primping and preening than you wife!!!

 

[Eclpz314]

Hi everyone! Mac, I kept meaning to get over here and finally had free time to do so.

 

[macraven]

bringing out the welcome mat again.

we got another homie.......


eclipz314


come on in for a cup of java with us

 

[macraven]

i think men have it made.

they age gracefully. they don't have the hormones that make females get pissy each month. and they get to pee standing up.

and all they have to do is shower and shave and they are ready to face the morning.

 

[macraven]

on my way back home i stopped at kmart. they had all their easter candy on sale 50% off. i bought some "snacks"......brachs chocolates and the good truffles.

i watched CSI and had my snacks.

it was a pretty good show tonight. different and i was a tad disappointed when it started with the different slant to it, but it turned out all right.

anyone else watch CSI tonight?
whatch' think of it?

 

[yankeepenny]

good evening. took me all day to get back here. crummy weather here in new england. made spaghetti and boy did it hit the spot tonight.
I f you taped CSI and have not watched it yet, stop now.

THAT SHOW JUST SUCKED!~

I thought they were gonna solve it??????

Lost was good. that i tape/
I think my Sayeed is gonna figure out Juliette...she is such a
________(insert fave word here)
or hurley will figure it out. and kate will play sawyer vs, jack, because she is wishy washy. and desmond will hook up with claire!!

 

[Eclpz314]

bringing out the welcome mat again.

we got another homie.......


eclipz314


come on in for a cup of java with us

Thanks for the welcome! Now that I've found the thread, I'll stop back more often.

on my way back home i stopped at kmart. they had all their easter candy on sale 50% off. i bought some "snacks"......brachs chocolates and the good truffles.

i watched CSI and had my snacks.

it was a pretty good show tonight. different and i was a tad disappointed when it started with the different slant to it, but it turned out all right.

anyone else watch CSI tonight?
whatch' think of it?

Well, I'm kicking myself because I forgot it was on tonight. I need to go see if ER is back on this week. I'll stop back later.

 

[yankeepenny]

oh yes....
vacay planning rituals.....
already done this years... and it is not till sept. planned days, meals, and thinking of the next....YES, I AM MONKISH AND PROUD!

do need tevas for some of the US/IOA rides.the crocs i ordered over a week ago from the website in Colorado are still in route. lets see.....9 days, trecking across to Maine.....
thougth they would be here by now.....
must be pony express....

 

[marciemi]

good evening. took me all day to get back here. crummy weather here in new england. made spaghetti and boy did it hit the spot tonight.
If you taped CSI and have not watched it yet, stop now.

THAT SHOW JUST SUCKED!~

AGREED! DH and oldest DS are at a concert and I'll sum it up in one word for them - bleach! - so they don't have to bother watching the reruns of the previous episodes with 3 minutes of new stuff! No preview for next week either! Can we just finish the stupid thing!

 

[Amity 3]

well, I hope at 37 its not me ......I am just in a really pissy mood about all of this FAA stuff

you better watchout for the estrogen seeping through the computer, Amity, next thing you know you are going to tell us that you are color coordinating your underwear and socks (since you don't wear bras) and that you spend more time primping and preening than you wife!!!

wow, we're the same age, that's scary.

we've got two Macs and one PC, so the only one I need to worry about estrogen leakage is the PC.

I'm hetero, so my wife and daughter get all of the mirror time in this house.