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12892. arkymalarky - 12/24/2004 6:35:59 AM Thanks Prof! I put the bug in Mose's ear to get those for her dad. Guess we'll see Christmas day if she took my suggestion. If not, my parents gave us some Christmas cash so hopefully we can find them next week. Don't know if you heard, but my parents won a Harley Davidson motorcycle. Never having ridden one there was no way they were keeping it, and they finally sold it a few weeks ago so they felt like having a green Christmas. Easier for them, and we appreciated it. 12893. arkymalarky - 12/24/2004 6:37:32 AM Hey Ronski!
We got 1/2 inch, maybe and it's still really icy. Supposedly it was quite a bit more north of us. Little Rock got hit pretty good, I think. They said 4-6 inches in parts of the state, which is a lot for us. 12894. arkymalarky - 12/24/2004 6:40:32 AM My tactic wrt wrapping presents is to start out doing such a crappy job that someone--usually Mose--grabs the project right out of my hands in disgust and finishes it.
This year we exchanged presents at my parents this evening because it was the only time we would see my niece, whose birthday is today. So I was going to be smart and put everything in a Christmas bag and just hand stuff out of the bag. Typical my luck and Wal-Mart crap, the bag busts out just as I get upstairs in their house with it.
12895. woden - 12/24/2004 5:22:53 PM One thing that A-5 would not want to get out is that yesterday, while he was home with a low-grade fever, he cleaned the house, did a whole lot of laundry, went shopping nad prepared a delicious dinner.
We're not spending the holiday together. A-5 wants to be home with his Dad, who might be having a hard time this particular holiday. I feel obligated to see my family since I didn't see them on Thanksgiving.
We're going to have our own celebration next weekend, and have already googled the most humane method of killing lobsters. 12896. arkymalarky - 12/24/2004 6:51:08 PM I've discovered after 23 years of bliss, 21 of them married, that it all tends to work out in the wash.
The upcoming weekend sounds nice. We were going to have a handful of friends over next weekend for New Year's Eve, but we're both just tired, so we'll probably ring it in by ourselves, which I always enjoy anyway.
That reminds me, last year I did the stupidest thing. We had no plans, but I saw a friend of ours in Wal-Mart and made a sarcastic joke about the tons of people we were having over for New Year's Eve. I didn't think any more about it. I never thought that I, of all people, didn't clearly convey sarcasm.
9:00 that night--just Bob and me--and the doorbell rings.
I have no idea what they must have thought--probably that we had a really major flop of a party. I never mentioned that I had been joking or said another word about it. 12897. arkymalarky - 12/24/2004 6:51:46 PM I'm sure, too, that they figured it was no surprise that the party was a flop, seeing that we had no food, no decorations, and hardly any alcohol. 12898. Magoseph - 12/24/2004 7:14:29 PM Well, have you, everyone of you, finished now what you were supposed to do for the rest of the year? I mean, are you ready for the holidays? 12899. Magoseph - 12/24/2004 7:18:33 PM As far as we're concerned here, we are spending Christmas' Eve and Christmas' day together at home. 12900. judithathome - 12/24/2004 7:58:20 PM Hey, that sounds like a great idea...it's what we're doing, too! 12901. PsychProf - 12/24/2004 8:45:26 PM Tonite we spend with my youngest son and his wife, then off to Florida. My oldest son and his babe are in NC with her family. Merry Cristmas to all my old friends here...I started with the Fray in Dec of 1996...so I guess that is 8 years...fine cyberyears. I wish you all happiness, and good health...thanks for your frienship, and listening to me rant, providing so many new experiences, and insight into your lives.
Prof 12902. arkymalarky - 12/24/2004 8:55:43 PM You're a dear, PP, and we love you.
I didn't realize you started so close to when I did. A lot of us came in around that time, it seems.
Have a very safe and fun holiday. 12903. arkymalarky - 12/24/2004 8:57:22 PM Mags, once I got my paper done 4:30 AM Wednesday and sent it to be edited my holiday started. We may not do Bob's family's holiday until after Christmas because Little Rock is so icy that part of the fam still can't get out of their driveways. 12904. arkymalarky - 12/24/2004 8:58:14 PM All you Mote folks and anyone lurking out there and Mote visitors have a great holiday weekend! 12905. Max Macks - 12/24/2004 9:39:53 PM Hey arky
thanks and the same to you.
I have often seen the word Fray here.
Who started the MOTE and when? 12906. judithathome - 12/24/2004 9:53:44 PM Max, go to the front page. Click on Mote FAQS in the right hand column. When that comes up, click on What Is The Mote. There is a link there to History of the Mote. 12907. Max Macks - 12/24/2004 11:11:07 PM thanks Judith
did your meet Mr. K ( I would remember your
husband name if I saw it.
did you meet in Japan when you lived there?
spending a quiet xmas . no family now
once there was .
Judith do you go to the Atlantic still? 12908. Max Macks - 12/24/2004 11:20:20 PM Gee Judith thanks again .
I had gone to FAQ before but never noticed the history part.
Quite a lot to read there. Will have to go back
Much tech stuff is over my head.Other
things interesting.
The dumping of the Fray by Slate
sound a lot like what Atlantic Monthly did.
Who is or was the author writing from Aukland
NZ ? 12909. judithathome - 12/24/2004 11:31:22 PM Max, I check it out a few times a week but it is a ghost town now.
I met Keoni in Texas and we married and moved to Japan.
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas or whatever you celebrate and the best in the coming year! 12910. Ulgine Barrows - 12/25/2004 3:08:01 AM thoughtful, the difference betwixt the two is a chair.
We took the son to "A CHristmas Story" last year, and apparently what he took away from it was a lame joke:
FRAGILE is French for expensive.
Today we saw the Nutcracker ballet. I think he actually licked it. I'm glad I didn't drag him there he was three. A four year old 5 rows down started puking, Merry Christmas all! 12911. RickNelson - 12/25/2004 5:32:12 AM Merry Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa to all, etc... to all.
I think I must have started some time around the time PP did. I at least recall it to be sometime in early '97. Anyway, doesn't much matter. I hope you're all doing well this holiday. We're doing pretty good. It's bitterly cold here in Minnesota, but we manage to get around anyway.
It's my little Jacob's first Christmas. It's also the first we're having here in the new addition to our small old house. It's going to be fun for me.
I finised some projects too. I sheetrocked the pantry under the stairs to the second floor. Added some peg-board and the hooks for hanging pans and lids. Put a small old hutch in there and hung a shelf. We're set now.
Then, not that I wasn't already busy, but sinse I was sheetrocking I thought I might as well do the old front porch as well. It had some very old pine board wall panels. I like them Ok but it wasn't modern for the newness of the home we've made. So, I put 2" foam board on the outside walls and the ceiling, sheetrocked everything and finished it all. This took seven days and I completed it about 5pm. Whew. Cleaned and the rest too. Yah know I had a mess.
Well, it's a quiet night, glad of it. Jacob's in my lap, we're gonna go settle and get some rest.
Happy night, happy day and bless you all.
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