|
23280. vonKreedon - 12/26/2007 7:26:30 PM A Happy Boxing Day to you all and best wishes for the coming year! 23281. jexster - 12/26/2007 9:48:14 PM Back at ya VK...
You do know what TODAY is?
23282. arkymalarky - 12/26/2007 11:52:37 PM HEY VK!! 23283. concerned - 12/27/2007 4:23:04 AM Happy Kwanzaadon Hanumas! 23284. concerned - 12/27/2007 4:24:54 AM It's rather amusing that people Conn'd supports would throw him in prison in a heartbeat for cultivating an innocuous substance that is, literally, a weed.
Not as bad as the Left supporting Iranian Muslim Fundamentalists....
23285. arkymalarky - 12/27/2007 4:32:54 AM But you'd probably be sharing a cell with an Iranian Muslim Fundamentalist named Bubba. 23286. concerned - 12/27/2007 5:09:36 AM Well, 'Bubba' would be a good deal smaller and weaker than me, so I wouldn't have much to worry about. 23287. jexster - 12/27/2007 5:31:54 PM On the second day of Kwanzaa, Wonkers celebrates
UMOJA
To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race. 23288. judithathome - 12/28/2007 4:45:42 PM Missed the entire week due to a virus I caught from my son...it's what I get for playing Florence Nightengale over last weekend when he was so ill.
I spent Christmas day in the bathroom...let's put it this way, I've lost 7 pounds since Tuesday morning when it hit. Have had no solid food since Monday. 23289. David Ehrenstein - 12/28/2007 6:27:47 PM NOT TO BE BELIEVED!!!! 23290. judithathome - 12/28/2007 7:08:12 PM Gawd...I remember that ad. I think it was on our first TV, too! I definitely remember the rose in the dishwater and and her calling herself "Merm"...my dad couldn't stand her. 23291. arkymalarky - 12/28/2007 7:22:35 PM Damn. Mose had a stomach virus last weekend and lost several pounds, too. Wonder if they're the same bug. Her past-due pregnant friend y'all met got it, as well. In fact, her whole family did. We didn't get it, but after teaching school so many years Bob and I rarely get that kind of thing any more. 23292. judithathome - 12/28/2007 10:36:06 PM I think Leslie picked it up at work and he gave it to me....hopefully, it's the end of the line for it here. My worst fear is to hear Keoni in the bathroom, puking his guts out. We'll just have to cancel the party if he gets it.
If that's what Mose had, tell her I really feel for her.
I'm doing things around the house to get ready for the party...like getting anything that will distract Keoni the next two days from helping me clean...this means hiding stacks of stuff he would stop for and sift through for hours in order to avoid the things we HAVE to do.
Anyhow, I feel weak as all get out and have to rest between tasks...this is ridiculous!
Ask Mose if her muscles ached after the worst of it was over...mine feel like I've been working out and overdoing it. And I know I haven't been doing that....ha!
Oh, by the way...do you or Mose want a DVD of "Love, Actually"? What husbands do when wives are sick: think Amazon didn't take their order so they poke the "order now" button about 4 times and end up with four copies of the same movie. 23293. arkymalarky - 12/29/2007 10:07:13 AM Haha! Sure! 23294. Ms. No - 12/30/2007 5:33:17 AM Happy Holidays to you all --- sorry I missed everybody!
Baton Rouge was wonderful and we ended up driving into East Texas for Christmas Eve at my Aunt's (actually first cousin once removed, but she's always been "Aunt" to me)
Turns out it was a lucky year as nearly all the cousins were in from out of town --- even the ones who've been living in Switzerland for the past five years. The only folks missing were my brother and his family, and two of my cousins and their spouses although we did pick up their children along the way and bring them since their parents had to work.
24 people in the house. Excellent food and excellent company. We were counting up and realized that of the 24 there and six missing only 7 people in my whole family are not employed in education. Wild. 23295. wonkers2 - 12/30/2007 6:38:04 PM Ms. No, what's your connection to Baton Rouge? I grew up and graduated from high school there. It's a great town in many ways. But when I was there it was totally segregated. I lived not far from the LSU campus and went to U-High which was a great school, much better than the supposedly good one my kids attended to in a Detroit suburb. 23296. arkymalarky - 12/30/2007 8:57:16 PM Hey No! (I always have the urge to post "hey nonny nonny")
You were close to our house, then! Glad you had such a good family Christmas. Bob did too, getting to see all his nieces and nephews and their kids for the first time in several years. It required two get-togethers to do it, but it worked out well. We bought his mom a digital photo frame and took pictures with a 1g card. I don't know how close we came to filling it up in the two get-togethers, but she has a lot of pictures of all her grandkids and great-grandkids. 23297. Ms. No - 12/30/2007 9:25:20 PM Wonk,
My step-dad was transferred there over the summer so that was "home" this Christmas. They're over in East BR Parrish. I didn't see a whole lot of the city, but we did go over to the LSU campus and visit Mike the Tiger who was kind enough to come out and preen for his fans.
The coolest thing was taking a Bayou tour. A couple of guys originally from LA went to New York and made lots of money as builders then sold everything, came back to Baton Rouge and bought up 1,600 acres of swampland as a preserve and started a non-profit educational business. They do wildlife rescue -- primarily for aligators -- and eco-education about the swamp.
They've got a pen for gators that will eventually be released back into the wild and then a 3 acre pen for gators that can't be released because they're hand-fed and are now dangerous to humans. That was really amazing since some of the gators are 40-45 years old and measure in at 15 feet long.
I got to play with baby gators, feed Dum-Dums to Mr. Boo the Nutria and put my finger in a possum's pouch. That was only creepy because people were lining up to do it and all I could think was that it seemed a little like a gang-bang. The possum didn't seem to mind, though.
It's too bad they can't make Nutria fur fashionable since they're such a nuisance and so hard on the eco-system. I figure they're not popular for their pelts for purely psychological reasons. Sure, they wouldn't be as soft as Beaver, but what is? Get some celebrity to start a fashion line with Nutria Pelts and they could boost the LA economy and thin the Nutria population down and preserve the environment. 23298. Ms. No - 12/30/2007 9:27:39 PM Arky,
Sounds like Bob and I had similar Christmases! I always feel so lucky that I have this huge family that all gets along. 23299. wonkers2 - 12/31/2007 12:21:11 AM Tnx, Ms.No, for the explanation. I've had the impression that Jex and I are the only Louisianians. Sometime the three of us should get together in San Francisco next time I'm in town. I had an enjoyable lunch with Jex two years ago.
|
