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16522. Ulgine Barrows - 9/9/2005 10:04:04 AM two drops of happy
one pinch of pain
Lee Hazlewood 16523. alistairconnor - 9/9/2005 11:24:13 AM I feel your pain
New woman recently gave up smoking -- not tobacco. She says it was like leaving a lover after 20 years.
That lover didn't deserve her.
New woman is good! And happy. But she is not family. Not yet, anyway. I have no intention of imposing her on the children, nor vice versa.
16524. Macnas - 9/9/2005 11:34:23 AM Just so long as she sees everything thats on the menu alistair.
How often do you have the kids? 16525. alistairconnor - 9/9/2005 11:43:38 AM Ah yes we are the total transparency team.
We are on 50/50 timeshare. mum gets the week, I get the weekends. To make it come out theoretically even, I have responsibility from start of school Friday to end of school Monday, i.e. I pick them up from school in a couple of hours and take them to school on Monday morning.
That's what the ex suggested, and it works remarkably well for me, except for the lack of a private life on weekends. But even that is only a minor inconvenience, mostly.
Except that I've got a wee crisis coming up next weekend. The New Woman suggested a mountaneering trip, I cleared the date with the Ex (i.e. she agreed to keep the kids for the weekend), then she found out about the NW and went back on the arrangement... NW has made special arrangements to have the weekend free - she usually works weekends. Either we take the kids with us (feasible, but a bit early for my taste) or I need to find other arrangements for them. 16526. Macnas - 9/9/2005 11:48:17 AM Welcome to the town of Awkward! We know you'll visit us time and time again. 16527. Magoseph - 9/9/2005 1:12:04 PM Gallery Night, a play, and dinner, all with 12 of our friends.
Oh, yes, that’s right, Judith, I remember now, the Gallery Night. I’m confusing my days when I get upset. Anyway, I’m glad that you’ll not run for election because I feel it’d interfere with your social life, your charity projects, and your domestic happiness.
Rained all night, still raining now.
I wish you a clear lovely day for Sunday, Mac.
She says it was like leaving a lover after 20 years.
I’d say less addictive, Ali, and don’t assume that I don’t know what I’m talking about.--goody-goody now, that’s just old age setting in, unfortunately.
Hi, Ulgine.
Welcome to the town of Awkward! We know you'll visit us time and time again.
The first seven years of my eldest son’s life, I took care of his half brother and sister every summer, but it wasn’t painful at all because the kids were perfect playmates for their brother.
Now, I’m starting to think: What is it that I haven’t experienced. I should really write that book, or at least write for Ali’s fiction thread in the meantime.
Today, daughter-in-law and I are meeting for lunch and for a foray in the only knitting store she could find, short of going to Chicago or Milwaukee, and it’s only open on Fridays. I intend to knit a sweater for my brother, who insists that I do. His rationale is that I knitted one for him when he was a young man and that I owe him another now before he ceases to be an old one. Since knitting is the only domestic talent I have, I will, just to show off that such skill is like riding a bicycle. I need needles, wool and some modern pattern books.
I know knitting well because when it was found that I had a lazy left eye (which was operated later on), my grandmother taught me how to knit believing that knitting could strengthen my eye. Well, the granny didn’t let up until I had knitted sweaters for every one of my four siblings and my father and mother. I made a shawl for her also, all that and more before boys appeared.
I hope that I’m not going to bore the bejesus out of you with the progress of my knitting, but, you can scrawl pass …I’ll probably bore my faithful readers, you are out there, aren't’ you? Don't answer that.
16528. Macnas - 9/9/2005 1:24:12 PM My missus is into the knitting as well, she made christening shawls for my sisters twins recently, and cot blankets for another sisters child. She does crochet as well. 16529. PelleNilsson - 9/9/2005 4:49:48 PM I did crochet when I was younger. Very relaxing and fun. 16530. Ms. No - 9/9/2005 4:51:39 PM Mago,
We should start posting craft pictures. We Moties are a talented lot --- gorgeous gardens, Wiz's work, home repair. I'd love to see your knitting. I'll eventually have some pictures of the leatherwork I've been doing. I still haven't broken down and bought a digital camera which would make things much easier. 16531. Macnas - 9/9/2005 4:57:09 PM A mate of mine used to knit his own pullovers. He looked like a colourful hairy goat. 16532. Ms. No - 9/9/2005 5:21:12 PM Are you sure they were sweaters and not just lovingly cultivated back hair? 16533. Ms. No - 9/9/2005 5:22:20 PM Speaking of digital cameras, I've posted the one I'm looking at in Escapes. Pelle, you're knowledgeable about such things, might you take a look at it? 16534. Ms. No - 9/9/2005 8:39:26 PM Okay, so I've been keeping my under-brain occupied with a German internet radio feed called "Darkland" which is all darkwave and gothic music. They play some of my old favorites and then a lot of stuff I've never heard before but enjoy anyway. For the most part it's been very satisfactory, not much DJ interjection and even when there is, it's all in German so it's like white noise to me.
Until today. They've got some chick on there that's trying really REALLY hard to give her audience a chubby. I mean, I've never heard so much moaning and groaning and lip-smacking and swallowing outside of a porno. Seriously.
What is it about the radio concept of "sexy female voice" that so misses the mark? I mean, it's just annoying. I notice it on the mainstream US radio a lot too --- it's rarely an actual DJ with an assigned broadcast time. It's usually an intern they've tapped to do an ad spot or it's the traffic girl or something.
Maybe it's that they're trying so hard to sound sexy when there's no reason for it? Or maybe my idea of sexy just isn't in line with what the general radio audience finds sexy.
Anyway, this woman is making my teeth itch. I may have to change channels. 16535. judithathome - 9/9/2005 8:48:22 PM On radio voices, there's a local chick on NPR who does the arts and culture updates and she makes me want to hit the radio. She either has adnoids still or some major sinus infection all the time. You know how people sound when their nose is all stopped up but running down their throat, too? That's her. Every day. 16536. Ms. No - 9/9/2005 8:55:28 PM Yeah, we've got a couple of those on our local public radio as well. Also a couple of folks with unfortunate speech impediments that I wonder how they ever got into radio. I suppose I should be glad that their speech imperfections were overlooked in favor of their other talents and knowledge, but they're still hard to listen to. 16537. iiibbb - 9/9/2005 9:07:02 PM Scary... I might get hired as an expert witness... 16538. judithathome - 9/9/2005 9:35:41 PM Oh? As an expert in what? 16539. iiibbb - 9/9/2005 9:42:55 PM The area of forestry that I work on. 16540. judithathome - 9/9/2005 10:12:50 PM Well, that ought to be a snap for you! 16541. arkymalarky - 9/9/2005 11:39:50 PM I usually detest women dj's. Mose's best friend is a dj (female) and her voice is the same online as off--like a six year old's. But it's real. Mose's bf was a dj also, and he sounded just like himself. He has a very good dj voice, but he hated the job.
I'm telling you, MsNo, you could do great in that business.
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