Welcome to the Mote!  

The Good Life

Host: arkymalarky

Are you a newbie?
Get an attitude.

Jump right in!

Mote Members: Log in Home
Post

Go to first message Go back 20 messages Messages 4993 - 5012 out of 5155 Go forward 20 messages Go to most recent message
4993. judithathome - 9/7/2013 8:10:05 PM

Arrgh...I did not do that on purpose!

4994. judithathome - 9/7/2013 8:14:02 PM

But I might...

4995. judithathome - 9/7/2013 8:14:14 PM

do

4996. judithathome - 9/7/2013 8:14:24 PM

this

4997. judithathome - 9/7/2013 8:14:39 PM

on

4998. judithathome - 9/7/2013 8:14:50 PM

purpose

4999. judithathome - 9/7/2013 8:15:00 PM

If I

5000. judithathome - 9/7/2013 8:15:07 PM

can

5001. judithathome - 9/7/2013 8:15:22 PM

get that!!

5002. arkymalarky - 9/7/2013 10:46:40 PM

Yay!

5003. thoughtful - 9/9/2013 12:09:57 AM

Try nature's miracle cat urine destroyer...it works really well...but don't be afraid to use enough to soak the carpet....it may take several days to dry, but it really does a great job of eliminating the odor...

5004. thoughtful - 9/9/2013 12:23:32 PM

Down the road a tad, a fellow has created a "tonka tree". Every little boy's dream come true!

5005. iiibbb - 9/9/2013 8:01:23 PM

Thoughful... the race for the millinial occluded the fact I did use it. For 2 weeks with much saturation. It did some... even a lot... but it didn't get rid of all of the smell. Luckily, the vinegar wash did seal the deal.

5006. judithathome - 9/9/2013 9:12:26 PM

How many posts per page do you view? I do 20 at a time...your posts about the cat-astrophe showed on screen for a long time, 3i3b.

That Tonka Tree is really cool..."art" can happen anywhere.

5007. judithathome - 9/12/2013 5:37:30 AM

Had the best escargot tonight I've had in ages!

5008. alistairconnor - 9/13/2013 3:08:42 PM

Hello... Summer appears to be over. Oh well, it looks like it'll be warm tomorrow in Avignon -- I'm moving my daughter back down there for her third year at university. I met her Finnish boyfriend during the summer -- that was interesting, we had barely met then she took off to Italy with her girlfriends (in my van!) having neglected to mention that he would be staying on a couple more days at my place. But that was fine -- he's actually quite talkative, for a Finn, and we get on well.

Oh and for Finnish humour, I warmly recommend this, a cartoonist. I laughed a lot, perhaps I should see a psychiatrist.

5009. alistairconnor - 9/13/2013 3:13:46 PM

Bibiche, if you're in Aix this weekend, beware! If you see a younger version of me, that would be my nephew, Pete. He's better-looking and more self-assured than I was at twenty... (that's not saying much, actually). And he has looked disturbingly like me ever since he was three.

Also, I bought some wine for you a couple of weeks ago in Croatia. I was looking for winemakers in Dalmatia, for reasons of nostalgia -- the winemakers in west Auckland where I grew up were all Dalmations (wine was terrible, actually) and I found a domain called... Bibich. So if you're going anywhere near Lyon... get in touch! And we can drink some.

5010. iiibbb - 9/13/2013 6:37:52 PM

Alistair... thanks very much for that link... I love it.

5011. Trillium - 9/14/2013 12:40:38 AM

Funny Finns!

5012. Ms. No - 9/15/2013 2:49:51 AM

I am currently surrounded by and being annoyed by people ostensibly living the good life.

It is my own fault, but I am nonetheless annoyed.

In an effort to escape my tiny apartment, I packed up my laptop and a bunch of writings that I needed to type up and headed to a local coffee house. Little did I know that there is a downtown artist studio walking tour going on. It includes not only communal studio spaces, but also such informal galleries as coffee houses and bistros.

There are currently about thirty hipsters and wannabe hipsters loitering around me talking to each other and not really looking at the art. The coffee house is sort of nouveau-industrial in design with concrete floors and high ceilings with exposed duct-work.

So they echo.

Endlessly.

In high-pitched, oh-so-enthusiastic voices.

And I have so far not typed a single page except to post here.


The artist --- I assume he's the artist since he was here before the crowd showed up and he's looking a bit anxious --- has beautiful, curly, yellow hair. You rarely see this shade in nature except on very young children. He looks vaguely familiar to me, but after living downtown for so many years, nearly everyone down here does. I am quite certain, however, that I have never slept with him, and so I don't have to pretend to be interested in what is going on.


In case you are wondering, yes, I am completely aware that I am being a crusty curmudgeon. These people are enjoying themselves, supporting the arts --- whether or not they actually intend to purchase anything --- and if what I really wanted to was to work in quiet, I should have stayed home.

Ah, the mid-life crisis. I'm coming to know it well.

Go to first message Go back 20 messages Messages 4993 - 5012 out of 5155 Go forward 20 messages Go to most recent message
Home
Back to the Top
Posts/page

The Good Life

You can't post until you register. Come on, you'll never regret it. Join up!