WBRepo-Ship of Thieves-Remember the Magic Pt 13

[scottishwee35]

That must have been tough for you a such a young age. Were you on your own, or had you family to help you?

I was engaged and my brother with his girlfriend (Sylvia) and I got help from my aunt, my grandmother and grandfather... At the house that my brother and I stayed in the house for wee while as my brother got married 5 months later... I moved to ex boyfriend's parent...

I was visiting them last April at Peterhead and they was delighted to see me..

Scottishwee35

 

[scottishwee35]

Did you know Adam is a Redhead and has freckles??? His hair looks so dumb.

really wow I didnt think that but his dad look redhead/blonde as his mum dark hair... mmm He look quiery to me but he got lovely face but I prefer Danny but I am not sure about Adam's singing... I didn't think that he will be winner but look like ... Danny never had been bottom through 13th around... Adam had been bottom ... huh not fair...

Scottishwee35

 

[iankh]

Ian, do know if the online program vs. the etools that I get for being on the monthly pass is the same. I saw an ad on tv for ww online and it looks like some things they get I don't. Specificely there was a shot of building a pizza. and to the online change, does this have to do with the boards they currently have? cause I do have access to those. Just wondered if I don't get this upcoming cool stuff.

Sorry to say that I don't know what online users get. I thought it was the same as eTools. I know when I go online I do have access to things like the pizza builder and the deli sandwich builder. Could it be that you just can't find them and they're there? I always assumed that the online members get what regular members get, from an internet perspective. What is different are the meetings, printed material, support of a leader, etc. But never having seen what online members get, I could be wrong.

The community, from what I understand will become more robust like popular social networking applications out there.

 

[iankh]

Welcome to Friday!
Your Gateway to the Weekend!

Just a week ago we were preparing to head to Midway to catch a flight to MCO, and the dogs were being spoiled silly by Cheri.

 

[scottishwee35]

Welcome to Friday!
Your Gateway to the Weekend!

Just a week ago we were preparing to head to Midway to catch a flight to MCO, and the dogs were being spoiled silly by Cheri.

Happy Friday

but I am working tonight huh...

Well you are so lucky to have Cheri to looked after your dogs...

She is much better than last year that you were angrying with your dog sitting when you were cruising at Panama Canal...

I am thinking to ask Cheri come over to Scotland to have dogsitting for us when we get the hearing for the dog... Maybe she would love to that to see sight of Scotland!!

Scottishwee35

 

[scottishwee35]

I was panic this morning as I got emailed from photoshow to tell me that my photos will be finishing by 26 May as all my photos are in slidemaking as when my PC was crashing and wipe out lots of photos....

I decide to pay another year to keep all the photos in photoshow as it had been changing names now Roxio Photoshow and now this photos are still in photoshow phew...

I will copy it on the disc soon.. to be safe side as I have not finish make up 2nd weeks on Panama Canal so will need doing it soon...

Scottishwee35

 

[ibouncetoo]

Welcome to Friday!
Your Gateway to the Weekend!

Just a week ago we were preparing to head to Midway to catch a flight to MCO, and the dogs were being spoiled silly by Cheri.

Um, that was TWO weeks ago, sweetie!

Happy Friday

I am thinking to ask Cheri come over to Scotland to have dogsitting for us when we get the hearing for the dog... Maybe she would love to that to see sight of Scotland!!

Scottishwee35

I think you'd have most all of us lining up for that job!

.

 

[granmaz]

Um, that was TWO weeks ago, sweetie!


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I hadn't noticed that.

 

[granmaz]

Well we are moving today to a villa. I think you call them vacation homes.

Looking forward to having more space and a pool, but will miss all the opportunities for walking around the spaces at the resorts here. I have really enjoyed both SSR and BCV. We have had great rooms.

Negatives have been onsite dining. The food was mainly ok, but service has been nothing special, so really making it all a negative experience. Best place for us was Le Chefs de France. Our 3rd meal there, and we have had consistently great service and food. We had the feeling the servers were just doing their jobs, often sounding like they were reeling off learned spiel. We wonder if they are feeling disenchanted with things at the moment. We were always friendly, helpful and pleasant(and tipped), so I hope we helped their days go better. We cancelled 3 bookings we had as we were a little fed up.

The park toilets were not cleaned as often either. I had read this before we left home, but didn't believe it until I saw it for myself. Poor cost cutting measure there I think.

Other than that we met some great CM's. Go have a cappuccino at the Writer's Stop in DHS. Great place, and we always had some great chats and laughs there with the CM's. Try their carrot cake cookie - yummy, and enough for 3 people.rolleyes1)

 

[cquick]

Well we are moving today to a villa. I think you call them vacation homes.
The park toilets were not cleaned as often either. I had read this before we left home, but didn't believe it until I saw it for myself. Poor cost cutting measure there I think..rolleyes1)

OH, you will love having a "house" in Orlando! You can cook your own food or just ging food in........

I had to mention the condition of 2 handicapped accessible restrooms a couple months ago....both were in bad condition on the same day.....I know what you mean.

Can't wait to see al of you tomorrow......too hot to cook out....we ordered chicken platter and Chuck's favorite buffalo wings.....mmmmmmmm

 

[scottishwee35]

Well we are moving today to a villa. I think you call them vacation homes.

Looking forward to having more space and a pool, but will miss all the opportunities for walking around the spaces at the resorts here. I have really enjoyed both SSR and BCV. We have had great rooms.

Negatives have been onsite dining. The food was mainly ok, but service has been nothing special, so really making it all a negative experience. Best place for us was Le Chefs de France. Our 3rd meal there, and we have had consistently great service and food. We had the feeling the servers were just doing their jobs, often sounding like they were reeling off learned spiel. We wonder if they are feeling disenchanted with things at the moment. We were always friendly, helpful and pleasant(and tipped), so I hope we helped their days go better. We cancelled 3 bookings we had as we were a little fed up.

The park toilets were not cleaned as often either. I had read this before we left home, but didn't believe it until I saw it for myself. Poor cost cutting measure there I think.

Other than that we met some great CM's. Go have a cappuccino at the Writer's Stop in DHS. Great place, and we always had some great chats and laughs there with the CM's. Try their carrot cake cookie - yummy, and enough for 3 people.rolleyes1)

Marilyn

Today, I was reading the dibb as lady came back from florida and she was mentioned about park toilets and I was shocking because it always spotless and very cleaned... Must be cut off with staff??

Don't worry your family will be coming soon and they will keep you busy

Scottishwee35

 

[mishoe01]

Marilyn - if you want Chinese food.....take away or dine in....China One gets my vote. It's over in Champions Gate. Let me know if you'd like me to drop off a menu to you (there are 2 new chinese places closer but they're NOTHING like China One)

 

[tink1963]

Sorry to say that I don't know what online users get. I thought it was the same as eTools. I know when I go online I do have access to things like the pizza builder and the deli sandwich builder. Could it be that you just can't find them and they're there? I always assumed that the online members get what regular members get, from an internet perspective. What is different are the meetings, printed material, support of a leader, etc. But never having seen what online members get, I could be wrong.

The community, from what I understand will become more robust like popular social networking applications out there.

I can only hope I cant find them. but I searched again and still cant find. And this is a tool I could really use. How unfair. Do you get to yours from etools, cause thats all I have access too. well and the community boards. Maybe I should go and ask there.

 

[EllaEnchanted]

YEAH!!! It's a good weigh in today....4lbs. down. I'm so happy....it's a total of 9 from my first log in three weeks ago even though I wasn't tracking the first week. Next week I'll break the 10lbs mark and be even happier. I'm going in the right direction and I'm doing it healthy. That's got to be good.

John already got the day approved to take a vacation day today so he'll be taking Ray and I'll stay home and pay bills. Tonight we'll go out to eat at Olive Garden and then onto Becky's to watch Star Trek. I'm excited. It's a great reward for doing well. I'll even watch my points at Olive Garden. I may use some weekly points for the first time.

 

[EllaEnchanted]

Wow Deb, that's a lot of people to lay off in one department. Very scary. I hope things work out for you guys! Maybe with already laying off so many, they won't have to lay off any more people.

We can only hope so Holly.

 

[EllaEnchanted]

Good luck Deb! I'm sure you're doing great!

Thanks Holly.....you are doing great too. It makes it so much better to be doing it all together.

 

[EllaEnchanted]

So I still have NO IDEA what that giant statue is about in "Lost". Who built it? Why is it there? How did it get broken? Maybe that was talked about in the beginning before I started watching it. But I'm pretty sure I rented all the episodes on DVD. Anybody know?

I don't have a clue....but I do think that Ben knows more than what he's saying. We'll have to wait until next season to find out.

Here's some more interesting LOST reading for those of you who have watched the season finale:

http://*******.com/r2rgbt


Apparently, it's not going to let me post the link. I'll have to copy and paste the text....but I wanted to warn you all that it's a SPOILER alert. Do not read if you have not watched.

 

[EllaEnchanted]

LOST SPOILER.....DO NOT READ UNTIL YOU WATCH LAST EPISODE!!!!


Lost Redux: What Just Happened?!
Wed., May. 13, 2009 10:00 PM PDT by Jennifer Godwin



This one hurt a little bit, didn't it? Lost's fifth-season finale, "The Incident," was one of the show's more morose and hopeless outings in some time. Many terrible things happened and there was just one lone puppy dog on the scene to help make things happier. (There's only so much the fuzzy fella can do!)

If you haven't watched yet, you really need to spin up that DVR and see what happened, but if you have seen tonight's episode and you're ready to discuss, grab some dog treats for Vincent and get in here...


THE CURSED LOVE POLYGON

Here are tonight's key developments on the Jack-Kate-Sawyer-Juliet circuit:

Jate: The only thing Jack wants in life is apparently Kate, but as he told Sawyer, "I had her. I had her and I lost her." This was one of the many semi-pathetic declarations of surrender in this episode. Will no one fight for love? Kate, for her part, was wicked pissed at Jack for making her come back to the Island, but she still had his back anyway. Then again, she also had Sawyer's and Juliet's backs, doing everything possible to help them fight the good fight.

Jawyer: Jack and Sawyer finally had the fistfight they've needed to have since episode three of Lost. As Juliet said, it was good that Sawyer got it out of his system, and we're just glad we can check it off the Lost to-do list. (But who won?!)

Kulawyer: Kate, Sawyer and Juliet made a formidable threesome as they stood up to Jack and his Dharma van of doom. Sigh. Couldn't they all have moved to Juniper Creek on Big Love or the Oprah-endorsed Yearning for Zion Ranch to be polygamistically happy and gorgeous together?

Suliet: We saw (straight through to the end of "The Incident") that Sawyer was never anything but loyal and loving with Juliet. Once the Island's leading screwup, Sawyer never so much as set a foot wrong in their relationship. As he put it, "I made a choice, and I'm sticking to it." Sawyer would be (or perhaps is) a wonderful politician: No flip-flopping, ever. But...according to Juju, Sawyer looked at Kate a certain way, and that convinced "Blondie" that they were doomed, so she signed up for the apocalypse as a backup plan. As she told Sawyer, "I changed my mind when I saw you look at her...If I never meet you then I never have to lose you." Later, she parroted her mother and said, "Just because two people love each other doesn't mean they're always supposed to be together." Way to rip our hearts out, J.

Juliet Alone: Juju, you are the apotheosis of tragedy. Juliet killed herself (more or less) in a Shakespearean expression of despair, grief and hopelessness. Despite the heroic efforts of both Kate and Sawyer, Juliet made like her namesake from the play and cheerfully, melodramatically died of a dysfunctional relationship. And in the end, that's not cool...I truly thought our Juliet had more gumption.

The Nuke: It's not the fall that kills you. It's the hydrogen bomb. Juliet somehow didn't die after falling into the pit of despair. Alive but wishing herself quite dead just the same, she took a rock and detonated Jughead by hand. We'd usually say "you go girl" at this juncture, but the white-out ending put a fine point on the issue of thermonuclear weapons: It's never until after the bomb goes off that everyone realizes how absolutely ridiculous the nuclear option was in the first place.

Locke Is Dead: Ilana had John Locke's body in a case, which means that the Locke who's been blithely walking around the Island is no longer original-recipe John Locke. Ben successfully killed original-recipe back in the real world, but what has reanimated him? What connection does extra-crispy Locke have to fellow walking dead guy Christian Shephard? Does zombie Locke have a boss? If we come back in 2010, Damon and Carlton might tell us...


Jacob: In other, more mythological news, we finally met the much-discussed Island god called Jacob. Jacob is played by Mark Pellegrino, whom you Dexter fans will remember from his role as Rita's abusive ex, Paul.

•Jacob is the old man who lived in a shoe foot.
•Jacob thinks Ben is beneath contempt.
•Jacob has a BFF (best frenemies forever!) who wants to kill him, but it's not possible for some reason.
•Jacob likes to spin his own thread (even though it takes a long time) and weave tapestries...and leave shreds of them as mementos on walls in cabins.
•Jacob made Richard Alpert into the ageless wonder he is. (Jacob takes no credit for Richard Alpert's fabulous eyelashes.)
•Jacob is corporeal enough that he can be killed, thanks to the tag team of Locke and Ben.

Flashbacks: Wonderful to see some old-fashioned expository flashbacks of our main characters! They were arguably Jacob-centric, as he stepped off the Island to push the pieces around the board to his satisfaction, but his agenda seemed to be to make sure that the Losties got on the various paths that eventually brought them to the Island: Kate became an flirtatious, amoral wench with an affinity for Patsy Cline; Sawyer was a punk consumed by vengeance; Juliet learned not to trust in love; Sun and Jin were lovers with terrible communication skills; Locke ended up a paraplegic dupe; Jack became an emotionally needy fixer; Sayid reverted to his familiar lone-wolf status; etc.

Black Rock/Richard: Was that the Black Rock on the horizon in the first scene between Jacob and the guy played by Titus Welliver? It has to be, right? Seriously, how many clipper ships can one show support? And do we all agree that Ricardos, aka Richard Alpert, was likely a Black Rock sailor before Jacob got his magical mitts on him?

Michael Emerson: Gotta love Memerson. Even when Ben is committing murder in a fit of childish pique—"Why him? What was so wrong with me? What about me?"—he still has more dignity than the next 20 men.

Locke Versus Jack: At the moment, the man in charge is dead zombie Locke. According to Ben, Locke's not just the leader, he's well and truly a Moses of his people. Do you buy that? Do you think that by the end of series Locke will have liberated his people from bondage?

Sayid Is Mr. Orange: Sayid has always been the most lost of causes, past the point of no return before we even met him, and tonight he reiterated, "Nothing can save me." That is so sad and has so many layers of meaning. Also, OMG, Jacob intervened in Sayid's life to make sure Nadia was run down and killed. Hey, Ben, do us all a favor and stab Jacob a few more times, will ya? Evil freak. (Oh, and speaking of whimsical vengeance, was anyone else bummed that Phil didn't die by Sawyer's hand but by accidental rebar impalement?)


Losties! Rose, Bernard and Vincent were all rediscovered, and Rose laid the smack down, like she always does. "Oh hell no. Bernard! They found us." Renard have been happily retired from the Lost craziness for the past three years, enjoying their quiet place by the ocean and each other's company. Rose and Bernard have a simple, clutter-free value system that they live and die by. Fantastic.

Easter Eggs

•The colors of the final Lost logo were reversed: black on white instead of white on black. Does that mean season six will be an inverted bizarro world, or was this season the inverted bizarro world? (And not to whine, but can't we all go back to the beach camp and hang out together? I had such a fit of nostalgia when Sun found Aaron's crib and Charlie's Drive Shaft ring, and for that matter, when the gang got together to attack Radzinsky's well-defended Fort Swan.)
•Richard's answer to Ilana's question ("What lies in the shadow of the statue?") was in Latin, He said, "Ille qui nos omnis servabit." Translation: "He who will save us all." But which of the fellas now in the shadow of the statue is the savior? Is it Ben, dead Locke, now-dead Jacob or a player to be named later?
•We've spent years wondering what it means to be on a list or to be special on Lost, and there was another hint tonight about this aspect of the show. Ilana and Bram debated Frank's worth and wondered out loud, "What, you think he's a candidate?" Hopefully next season this business of listy specialness and candidacy will be explained once and for all!
•Jack was trying to buy an Apollo bar in his hospital flashback.
•Radzinsky spent eight years designing the Swan.
•While waiting for Anthony Cooper to push Locke out of an eighth-floor window, Jacob was reading Flannery O'Connor's Everything That Rises Must Converge.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Geb_end_Nut01.jpg

MYTHOLOGY

This episode seemed to be positively chock-full of allusions to ancient mythologies. Here are some highlights:

Ancient Egypt:

•Jacob's tapestry appeared to depict a winged sun, which is a key icon of ancient Egyptian art.
•There were also three jars in Jacob's temple. Any chance those are the canopic jars that typically contain the organs of Egyptians who'd been mummified?
•Is the statue the crocodile-headed Egyptian god Sobek, representative of Nile fertility, or is it another member of the Egyptian pantheon? Michael Emerson says it's Taweret, a hippo-headed goddess of childbirth, but those teeth look crocodilian to me...What's your call?
•Jin said that being away from like Sun was wrong, like the "sky being apart from the earth." In Egyptian mythology, the goddess of the sky is Nut, and the god of the Earth is Geb, and as depicted in the image above, they are lovers lying together, forever mating and creating the world.

Ancient Greece:

•There have been many references to the Odyssey in the show, and another oblique one would appear to be Jacob's hobby of wiling away eternity by weaving a tapestry. The original Penelope (Odysseus' wife, not Desmond's girl) warded off the many suitors who wanted to court her by saying she would consider their offers once her tapestry was finished. She wove during the day...and unraveled her work every night, buying herself endless time to wait for her man.
•Another classical myth worth mentioning is the Fates (Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos), the three sister and weavers of destiny, who manipulate our mortal lives with their spinning, measuring and cutting of thread.

Fairy tales:

•You can't throw a spinning wheel and spindle into a story without reminding us of Sleeping Beauty and her affiliation with Dorothy Gale and all the other dreamers of myth and legend. Our Losties surely have been living in a dream time since this tale began. Will they ever be able to awake?

Questions:

•What language were Ilana and Jacob speaking to each other in the hospital?
•Sorry, but who do Ilana and Bram work for? They say they are the good guys, but let's just skip to their chain of command for a second: Who's the boss? Widmore? Jacob? Someone else? Very confusing.
•Jacob's last words were: "They're coming." But who is they? The extras on the beach or someone else?

And that's all we wrote about Lost season five!

 

[tink1963]

YEAH!!! It's a good weigh in today....4lbs. down. I'm so happy....it's a total of 9 from my first log in three weeks ago even though I wasn't tracking the first week. Next week I'll break the 10lbs mark and be even happier. I'm going in the right direction and I'm doing it healthy. That's got to be good.

John already got the day approved to take a vacation day today so he'll be taking Ray and I'll stay home and pay bills. Tonight we'll go out to eat at Olive Garden and then onto Becky's to watch Star Trek. I'm excited. It's a great reward for doing well. I'll even watch my points at Olive Garden. I may use some weekly points for the first time.

BRAVO DEB


Just a suggestion, and you may have already done so, but check out olive garden's menu online and do some research before you go.

 

[EllaEnchanted]

I'm there!!!!

Deb, keep up the good work on WW!

to all who need it (or want it!)

Deborah, the deaf cruise sounds really cool!

Connie, how nice that you're hosting everyone! Wish I could be there. Looking forward to pics!

Thank you Cheri. I'll do my best.