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22756. wonkers2 - 10/25/2007 1:03:58 AM My most difficult adjustment was going to three different schools in the first grade and then moving to Baton Rouge where I encountered the three next door neighbor girls the oldest of which, a playmate of Jex no doubt, greeted me warmly with "My momma says you're a damn yankee!" For a while it went down hill from there. 22757. jexster - 10/25/2007 1:09:03 AM I3...had the same experience in Los Angeles..and I STILL HATE LA...I left after 2 years of it.
But wherever you are cannot be remotely as grimy as Los Angeles. Anyway by the time I left I had all kinds of friends...Still hated it
Esp now..literally as well as figuratively
This from a friend in Laguna Niguel (OC near Irvine)
It looks like a cloudy or rainy day today, totally overcast everywhere you look. But of course it isn't. Those high "clouds" are the smoke blowing up here from San Diego. Since everybody was hosing his house down yesterday, Ryan said he'll bring a few beers from the bar to damp down my place. Then I guess we could damp down ourselves with the leftovers. Fire dangers around the region diminishing today though. TeeVee said the high clouds of smoke are so bad, the national radar is mistaking it for rainclouds.
X - Los Angeles
22758. wonkers2 - 10/25/2007 2:19:16 AM I'd rather be a sod-head than a dick-head. 22759. iiibbb - 10/25/2007 2:27:12 AM Message # 22754
You're right that she'd be better off thinking positive. But it's a 2 PhD family and her degrees is the type she can pretty much name a location and get a job there... mine I have to follow a bit (at least on the first job). That's the rub.
I think a lot of the friction is because we're leaving somewhere we love and have some really deep roots. Makes it a bit tougher.
I already feel guilty allowing myself to have moments where I feel bad. In the grand scheme of things this situation kicks butt. Once she moves here permanently (she hasn't moved yet) perhaps the place will grow on her. Right now she's still seeing every day what she's giving up... 22760. jexster - 10/25/2007 2:47:02 AM Friggin sod buster
Man of the Corn
Here's another Mago...along the lines of John Fred
Give it up for STEVE WINWOOD - Spencer Davis Group
22761. jexster - 10/25/2007 2:48:09 AM Not U i3..that Moron of Michigan...via CornDog NE 22762. jexster - 10/25/2007 2:51:30 AM I encountered the three next door neighbor girls the oldest of which, a playmate of Jex no doubt, greeted me warmly with "My momma says you're a damn yankee!"
 22763. prolph - 10/25/2007 5:50:47 AM patsy still has a house
and other fortunate tales i'm too tired to tell
22764. alistairconnor - 10/25/2007 9:29:37 AM Ah good to hear from you Patsy!
Your little troubles made the national news in France.
Could have been worse. Could have been the Peloponnesian. 22765. wonkers2 - 10/25/2007 3:14:58 PM A welcome ray of sunshine, Patsy! 22766. wabbit - 10/25/2007 3:47:49 PM Great news, Patsy! 22767. judithathome - 10/25/2007 9:36:36 PM Patsy, great news! My sister is in Temecula and she has been packed and ready to bolt...says it is much better today.
Are you anywhere near there? If so, she said maybe the two of you could meet up sometime.
She lurks here at times and feels she knows y'all...I've asked her to post. Maybe she will one of these days. 22768. judithathome - 10/25/2007 9:37:02 PM Good news abounds: my son likes the neurosurgeon he met with on Tuesday and is going to have an angiogram next week and then, surgery on two veins and one artery leading into his brain in about 3 weeks. The doctor seems confident he can put stents in all three and that my son's problems with recurring strokes will be solved...or at least, his chances bettered. 22769. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 10/25/2007 10:24:33 PM A good news day it would seem--boooyaaaahhhhh! 22770. prolph - 10/25/2007 10:50:34 PM thanks for the good wishes, i think they worked,
temecula is up the road qnd i wood be delighed tp meet your sisterr
my daughter in law is a genius--she found a place for us to go when all the
hotels were full --she foound a vacation site that hed been booked for a wedding, so we got the rooms, on the cllff above the ocean,two bedrooms.
kitchen and other amenities so there we all nestled in four adults , four cats and a dog, monday night another family joined us so we had six cats and
two dogs. seriously grateful patsy
22771. arkymalarky - 10/25/2007 11:22:28 PM Oh wow, good for Patsy and Judith! 22772. prolph - 10/25/2007 11:46:23 PM worse feelings-police call early in the morning--not knowing if house still
there-surviers quilt; 22773. judithathome - 10/25/2007 11:48:27 PM Patsy, write me at
judithathome@lycos.com
and when this is all over, youand my sister can plan a meet-up. 22774. prolph - 10/26/2007 1:03:41 AM my emaail bounced -i'll try later i am at prolph@cox,net
2 22775. judithathome - 10/29/2007 4:12:28 AM Breaking news! Keoni and I just saw the most amazing thing...our neighbor has a 12 inch telescope (it looks like a huge cannon and weighs 75 pounds!) and he showed us the 17P/Holmes comet which is currently circling the earth. It was amazing!
Here's some shots of it.
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