The Maelstromers... a FASTPASS! Part 3

[Frickles]

1000thhappyhaunt : Reason: Frickles! Take me off IGNORE.

Hauntie...I don't have you on ignore!!! I sent you a nice little email and everything....I'm spacey so I have no idea how to put someone on ignore!
PLUS...you've had me on ignore since you thought I was the tag fairy!!!

 

[1000thhappyhaunt]

A weak tag=a hanging chad. No passion, no commitment, no identity, no punch.

However...

Removing a Tag = Greatly annoying the TF and never getting another one.

Did you know that?

Perhaps one day on the Dis it will be "cool" to be tagless. But... I doubt it.

Oh well.

I don't give a half of a crap. Anyhow.

 

[sheridac]

Last edited by 1000thhappyhaunt : Today at 09:32 AM. Reason: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu? You like Irish gothic/horror writers?

Hey, stop talking about my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great uncle.

 

[jamal]

Mel, we don't need no stinkin' tag! We have the edit feature! Now go read my last tr chapter. I'm almost to your favorite part...

 

[paslea_pooh]

**No offense is intended or implied. If you own a Dunkin Donuts, work at a Dunkin Donuts, have a son and/or daughter that work there. Or even if you just frequent a Dunkin Donuts. This is not meant to be offensive**


Okay, I'm a fairly patient person. I'm nice. I'm nice to a fault. So I've been told. If someone screws my order up, I'm generally okay with it. I'm more than okay with it. I'll eat/drink whatever I didn't order , just b/c I'm nice.


My favorite coffee is hazelnut. I drink decaf. I'm high strung, don't need the additional caffeine. A couple of weeks ago I decided to go to my local Dunkin Donuts to get a cup of hazelnut coffee. Now since I usually drink decaf I wanted to get a little bit of caffeine. I was in need of it. So I wanted a cup of 1/2 decaf and 1/2 regular with hazelnut. The girl at the Dunkin Donuts looked at me like I was the Ugliest Dog in the World. The look of disgust and confuzzlement on her face. I knew I had lost her with that order. I proceeded to tell her that I wanted 1/2 decaf and 1/2 regular coffee, the regular portion with hazelnut in it! Now, I don't think I'm asking for something that has NEVER been done. I'm almost sure that others have ordered what I had just ordered. She was in confuzzleland and she wasn't coming back. She said, " I'm gonna need to make it ALL decaf because the hazelnut comes as a shot". Now I wanted to explain it to her for a 3rd time but the line behind me was LONG and I didn't want to risk my life with people who were in need of their early morning java. So I say "Okay".

So I tell hooP what happened to me and he tells me that I need to speak slooooooower. I also need to use the word POUR. Tell her to POUR 1/2 decaf and 1/2 regular into a cup and then to ADD the hazelnut. Okay, hooP. I'll try that next time. Thanks.


Which brings us to today.

This morning I woke up and felt like having a cup of coffee with a touch of caffeine. I love hazelnut coffee. It's my favorite. Wait, I told you that already. So I go to my local Dunkin Donuts. Now, I'm feeling pretty confident. I'm going to use the words POUR and ADD. I feel Good, knew that I would now...So good, sooo good...Okay, enough of James Brown. So I pull into the Dunkin Donuts get out of the car and proceed to walk in. I get on line, it's my turn and I tell her. "Yes, good morning"(see I told ya I was nice). "I'd like a medium coffee. Could you POUR 1/2 decaf and 1/2 regular and then ADD a shot of hazelnut". Girl answers. "Yes, ma'am. (see she's nice too) Do you want cream in that?" Yes, please. Cream only. Okay. I pay and I'm outta there.

I'm driving home. Oh so smug and proud of myself. hooP is a GENIUS. I love you hooP. You have successfully helped me get thru to the girl at the Dunkin Donuts. I get home pour my coffee into my Pooh mug. I sit down and take my first sip of heaven. AND it's not hazelnut coffee. It's CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like chocolate. I love chocolate. I just don't want it in my coffee.

What did I do wrong? I used the words POUR and ADD !!!! Does hazelnut SOUND like chocolate??? Is it me? Tell me, it can't be me????

 

[1000thhappyhaunt]

1000thhappyhaunt : Reason: Frickles! Take me off IGNORE.

Hauntie...I don't have you on ignore!!! I sent you a nice little email and everything....I'm spacey so I have no idea how to put someone on ignore!
PLUS...you've had me on ignore since you thought I was the tag fairy!!!

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh yeah!!!!!

BTW... guess what Jami and I did?

Heh, heh.

 

[1000thhappyhaunt]

Hey, stop talking about my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great uncle.

I KNOW.

I tried to BOLD the "Sheridan" but it wouldn't work in the edit space.

I think our edit spaces need some more features.

Geez.

What did they think the edit spaces were for? Merely edit?

 

[sheridac]

I KNOW.

I tried to BOLD the "Sheridan" but it wouldn't work in the edit space.

I think our edit spaces need some more features.

Geez.

What did they think the edit spaces were for? Merely edit?

Is there really such a thing as Merely edit??

 

[hooP]

**No offense is intended or implied. If you own a Dunkin Donuts, work at a Dunkin Donuts, have a son and/or daughter that work there. Or even if you just frequent a Dunkin Donuts. This is not meant to be offensive**


Okay, I'm a fairly patient person. I'm nice. I'm nice to a fault. So I've been told. If someone screws my order up, I'm generally okay with it. I'm more than okay with it. I'll eat/drink whatever I didn't order , just b/c I'm nice.


My favorite coffee is hazelnut. I drink decaf. I'm high strung, don't need the additional caffeine. A couple of weeks ago I decided to go to my local Dunkin Donuts to get a cup of hazelnut coffee. Now since I usually drink decaf I wanted to get a little bit of caffeine. I was in need of it. So I wanted a cup of 1/2 decaf and 1/2 regular with hazelnut. The girl at the Dunkin Donuts looked at me like I was the Ugliest Dog in the World. The look of disgust and confuzzlement on her face. I knew I had lost her with that order. I proceeded to tell her that I wanted 1/2 decaf and 1/2 regular coffee, the regular portion with hazelnut in it! Now, I don't think I'm asking for something that has NEVER been done. I'm almost sure that others have ordered what I had just ordered. She was in confuzzleland and she wasn't coming back. She said, " I'm gonna need to make it ALL decaf because the hazelnut comes as a shot". Now I wanted to explain it to her for a 3rd time but the line behind me was LONG and I didn't want to risk my life with people who were in need of their early morning java. So I say "Okay".

So I tell hooP what happened to me and he tells me that I need to speak slooooooower. I also need to use the word POUR. Tell her to POUR 1/2 decaf and 1/2 regular into a cup and then to ADD the hazelnut. Okay, hooP. I'll try that next time. Thanks.


Which brings us to today.

This morning I woke up and felt like having a cup of coffee with a touch of caffeine. I love hazelnut coffee. It's my favorite. Wait, I told you that already. So I go to my local Dunkin Donuts. Now, I'm feeling pretty confident. I'm going to use the words POUR and ADD. I feel Good, knew that I would now...So good, sooo good...Okay, enough of James Brown. So I pull into the Dunkin Donuts get out of the car and proceed to walk in. I get on line, it's my turn and I tell her. "Yes, good morning"(see I told ya I was nice). "I'd like a medium coffee. Could you POUR 1/2 decaf and 1/2 regular and then ADD a shot of hazelnut". Girl answers. "Yes, ma'am. (see she's nice too) Do you want cream in that?" Yes, please. Cream only. Okay. I pay and I'm outta there.

I'm driving home. Oh so smug and proud of myself. hooP is a GENIUS. I love you hooP. You have successfully helped me get thru to the girl at the Dunkin Donuts. I get home pour my coffee into my Pooh mug. I sit down and take my first sip of heaven. AND it's not hazelnut coffee. It's CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like chocolate. I love chocolate. I just don't want it in my coffee.

What did I do wrong? I used the words POUR and ADD !!!! Does hazelnut SOUND like chocolate??? Is it me? Tell me, it can't be me????

A pure case of "hangover anger"

One last suggestion. Ask if you could pour it yourself next time, or get one cup of each and mix it when you get home.

Sorry you're having a bad day.

 

[1000thhappyhaunt]

Is there really such a thing as Merely edit??

No.

And it's all ZZUB's fault.

You know... the real reason I left was because of his Yoo Hoo rage.

He's unbalanced. I think.

 

[Master Gracie]

I'm an issue now, Master G?? Just what kind of issue would that be exactly?

Don't make me quote Irish poetry at you. 'Cause I can.

On Raglan Road of an Autumn day
I saw her first and knew,
That her dark hair would weave a snare
That I might someday rue.
I saw the danger and I passed
Along the enchanted way.
And I said,"Let grief be a fallen leaf
At the dawning of the day."

On Grafton Street in November, we
Tripped lightly along the ledge
Of a deep ravine where can be seen
The worth of passion play.
The Queen of Hearts still making tarts
And I not making hay;
Oh, I loved too much and by such and such
Is happiness thrown away.

I gave her gifts of the mind,
I gave her the secret signs,
That's known to the artists who have known
The true gods of sound and stone.
And her words and tint without stint
I gave her poems to say
With her own name there and her own dark hair
Like clouds over fields of May.

On a quiet street where old ghosts meet
I see her walking now,
And away from me so hurriedly
My reason must allow.
That I had loved, not as I should
A creature made of clay,
When the angel woos the clay, he'll lose
His wings at the dawn of day.


That kind of issue, my fair Sheridac.

 

[Frickles]

MEL!!!

I take very good care of my kitty.

In fact she's off playing with Horsey's dog today.

 

[Master Gracie]

You know... the real reason I left was because of his Yoo Hoo rage.

He is angry over a mediocre chocolate drink?

The man has issues...and not the Sheridac kind.

 

[Chapter 11]

A pure case of "hangover anger"

One last suggestion. Ask if you could pour it yourself next time, or get one cup of each and mix it when you get home.

Sorry you're having a bad day.

Or, you know, she could just start hitting the sauce again. Nothing cures a hangover like a little "hair of the bear".

 

[sheridac]

On Raglan Road of an Autumn day
I saw her first and knew,
That her dark hair would weave a snare
That I might someday rue.
I saw the danger and I passed
Along the enchanted way.
And I said,"Let grief be a fallen leaf
At the dawning of the day."

On Grafton Street in November, we
Tripped lightly along the ledge
Of a deep ravine where can be seen
The worth of passion play.
The Queen of Hearts still making tarts
And I not making hay;
Oh, I loved too much and by such and such
Is happiness thrown away.

I gave her gifts of the mind,
I gave her the secret signs,
That's known to the artists who have known
The true gods of sound and stone.
And her words and tint without stint
I gave her poems to say
With her own name there and her own dark hair
Like clouds over fields of May.

On a quiet street where old ghosts meet
I see her walking now,
And away from me so hurriedly
My reason must allow.
That I had loved, not as I should
A creature made of clay,
When the angel woos the clay, he'll lose
His wings at the dawn of day.


That kind of issue, my fair Sheridac.

Awww. He's quoting Patrick Kavanagh at me. Master G gets the love today!

 

[horsegirl]

Well as long as you are all doing this. Here is one of my favs.....I'm not a boy Sher. But this one is for you.






I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all aglimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.

 

[hooP]

Or, you know, she could just start hitting the sauce again. Nothing cures a hangover like a little "hair of the bear".

PP you heard the man. Lock Pooh in the closet and start drinking.

 

[2infinity&B-ond]

Now that my class is over, I have all kinds of free time to do other things. I suppose I should clean my house as it has suffered greatly during the semester. Or I could catch up on the monumental pile of laundry in the laundry room. But I DON'T WANT TO. I was hoping to read some of Mel's TR, but since hooP hasn't sold her on the CD idea yet I guess I will have to come up with some other plan.

So, as I sit here catching up on this Maelstrom of a thread I began to wonder why my kids are into such expensive sports.

2 of them play hockey. Hockey is expensive. You have to buy all the equipment, and then the kids have the nerve to GROW. Then you spend all your time and money FREEZING at the rink, while they practice or play at all hours of the morning/day/night. Don't even get me STARTED on how bad the equipment can smell either. Why did I spend all that money so the pads could smell worse than DS's FEET???

The other sport that is a favorite of my kids is gymnastics. Gymnastics is NOT a cheap sport. DD6 has the chance to be on a gymnastics team. Of course, this will mean splitting my time at the ice rink with the gym. They have recommended that she have several PRIVATE lessons, so they can better evaluate her. She is totally excited, and of course I am not going to say no, but c'mon people. I pay for the semester of regular classes, and then you have to buy the special leotard for the show at the end of the semester. Then they charge you to get into the show (what a crock). And now, they want the private lessons. THen, if they decide that she has potential, we have to make a YEAR committment and the practices will almost quadruple what she is doing now.

So I guess all I am really wondering is why couldn't my kids take up ping pong?? Ping pong HAS to be a cheap sport, right? I mean, what do you need other than the paddle??

 

[edcrbnsoul]

Now I have to be Poetic, dang I need a degree to post on this thread.

IS it thy will that I should wax and wane,
Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey,
And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain
Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?

Is it thy will That my Soul's House should be a tortured spot
Wherein, like evil paramours, must dwell
The quenchless flame, the worm that dieth not?

Nay, if it be thy will I shall endure,
And sell ambition at the common mart,
And let dull failure be my vestiture,
And sorrow dig its grave within my heart.

Perchance it may be better so I have not made my heart a heart of stone,
Nor starved my boyhood of its goodly feast,
Nor walked where Beauty is a thing unknown.

Many a man hath done so; sought to fence
In straitened bonds the soul that should be free,
Trodden the dusty road of common sense,
While all the forest sang of liberty,

Not marking how the spotted hawk in flight
Passed on wide pinion through the lofty air,
To where the steep untrodden mountain height
Caught the last tresses of the Sun God¹s hair.

Or how the little flower he trod upon,
The daisy, that white-feathered shield of gold,
Followed with wistful eyes the wandering sun
Content if once its leaves were aureoled.

But surely it is something to have been
The best belovèd for a little while,
To have walked hand in hand with Love, and seen
His purple wings flit once across thy smile.

Ay! though the gorgèd asp of passion feed
On my boy's heart, yet have I burst the bars,
Stood face to face with Beauty, known indeed
The Love which moves the Sun and all the stars!

 

[dana0801]

Oh my! I remember when my wisdom teeth were removed (I HAD SIX OF THEM!). My mom stopped in and got the pain pills but forgot to give them to me when we got home and I awoke two hours later in SEVERE PAIN! ouch!

Definitely should have had a video camera. That would be good to pull out and show her from time-to-time.

So, has her swelling gone down yet?

She had minimal swelling. It only lasted until mid afternoon on Sunday. She did get a prescrip for Vicadin but she says regular tylenol (2 every 4 hrs) is working better. I can't believe she asked me to make her popcorn the day after they were pulled (Is she nuts!?!?!?) I told her not for at least 2 weeks.