Unutterably Silly So what are you doing RIGHT NOW?

[nomesque]

Originally Posted by happy_terd

About how I would sell my body if I had boobs. Gotta keep up, nomesque.

Huh? Surely you'd hire it out. Selling it's a bit silly. You'd lose your boobs.

[Dylrob]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

well hey there! you're back!

I am? Where did I go?

[rebarnmom]

Originally Posted by happy_terd

“Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics of the chips that were left.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes

“If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter”
Anton Chekhov

“The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it”
Mark Twain

“A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded”
Tyne Daly

“Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck”
Eli Wallach

Great quotes h_t!

[rebarnmom]

Originally Posted by afa

I have to wake up for work in about 5 hours, so...

I'm about to go to bed. (Although I'm probably going to read for a bit, first.)

Happy Birthday afa!
Sounds like a lot of my late nights, except I don't have to wake for work, just for life in general.

[rebarnmom]

Originally Posted by recluse

That's wonderful, Rebarnmom!
May all your days be filled with the blessing of contentment!
*BIG HUG*

Thank you recluse! *BIG HUGS* back at you!

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

yAy!!! as I am going through horrid issues with my daughter, I relish those memories!!!

I'm sorry to hear that you're having horrid issues! I am really trying hard to focus on the good, because pre-pubescent issues have been making their unwelcome arrival! Her reading Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde now is actually quite fitting!

Originally Posted by nomesque

Rebarnmom - woohoo! I remember the 'not interested in reading' jag my son went on. I very carefully didn't panic. He's now into sci fi and fantasy with a vengeance

A last minute gift for my daughter came yesterday. It was a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy t-shirt with the logo and the words "Don't Panic" in big friendly letters on it! Good advice!

[rebarnmom]

Originally Posted by SneakySnake

Told the boss I was sick this morning. So now stranded til lunch time in hotel room drinking horrible hotel instant coffee (and feeling crook, but the codeine kicking in now). Found a Growling dog bar in my suitcase for breakfast. I wanna go home

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Originally Posted by SneakySnake

OK. going for a shower and getting dressed and I have a mission.

I will go downstairs and do my laundry... Nothing like a few hugs, codeine and a mission to get you going.

I'm sorry to hear you were not feeling feel, especially being away from home!
Glad you got a jumpstart, but doesn't the codeine totally knock you out? I would need a healthy dose of caffeine with the hugs and the mission!

I'm hoping you're feeling much better by now, since I am late in getting caught up with my thread reading.

[recluse]

You are very lucky, rebarnmom.

I've got 3 nephews and a niece around the same age as your daughter and if I bought that cartridge for any one of them, it would be returned so fast, it would burst into flames.

I'm the only reader in my family except my mom and my uncle. I finally got them reading recently. When they hit 70.

[rebarnmom]

Originally Posted by recluse

You are very lucky, rebarnmom.

I've got 3 nephews and a niece around the same age as your daughter and if I bought that cartridge for any one of them, it would be returned so fast, it would burst into flames.

I'm the only reader in my family except my mom and my uncle. I finally got them reading recently. When they hit 70.

Better late than never!

The love of reading runs rampant in our family and I remember being so worried that it had skipped this generation, which is thankfully now not the case!

Clumsy accidents with sharp objects also runs in my side of the family. For me it was the blender and 20 stitches. For my mom it was the lawn mower and 15 stitches. I've pre-warned my daughter on this family curse!

[recluse]

The clumsy years.
Yes, I remember them well.
Snakebites, smashed 3 fingers in a car door (12 stitches, fracture), bike accident (skull fracture, coma).
My family refers to them as "recluse's Suicide Summers".
Thank Heaven I don't have kids.

[SneakySnake]

Originally Posted by rebarnmom

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I'm sorry to hear you were not feeling feel, especially being away from home!
Glad you got a jumpstart, but doesn't the codeine totally knock you out? I would need a healthy dose of caffeine with the hugs and the mission!

I'm hoping you're feeling much better by now, since I am late in getting caught up with my thread reading.

Thanks for your concern. I am feeling better now with help. I am saving the rest of my codeine ration for bedtime which is in a few hours now. I have to go and have curry takeaway soon and I am sure that will cure me.

This is a doggie bar

growling dog bar

Originally Posted by recluse

The clumsy years.
Yes, I remember them well.
Snakebites, smashed 3 fingers in a car door (12 stitches, fracture), bike accident (skull fracture, coma).
My family refers to them as "recluse's Suicide Summers".
Thank Heaven I don't have kids.

Wasn't me

I thought we were all unbreakable as kids. Man the number of times I fell of my horse and only broke bone once. Pretty lucky huh?

love youse all

[Javed]

Originally Posted by SneakySnake

Thanks for your concern. I am feeling better now with help. I am saving the rest of my codeine ration for bedtime which is in a few hours now. I have to go and have curry takeaway soon and I am sure that will cure me.

This is a doggie bar

Sorry to hear that you haven't been feeling well, Sneaky. Glad you are starting to feel better now. That red eyed doggie looks like he is full of energy, hope he didn't bite back. Be careful not to get curry on your jammies!

[happy_terd]

For the longest time I could have sworn I heard a rooster crow 2-3 times every morning. About 6 months ago my 11 year old says "dad, come quick. There is a chicken in our backyard." We live in an area where it is unheard of to see a live chicken. I say to my boy "get me my pellet gun." because wild chickens generally carry diseases.

The rooster did some kind of ninja move and went straight up about 50 feet and didnt actually fly but somehow chicken-hopped back into my neighbor's yard.

Lately I have been hearing either a duck or a goose quack.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by happy_terd

For the longest time I could have sworn I heard a rooster crow 2-3 times every morning. About 6 months ago my 11 year old says "dad, come quick. There is a chicken in our backyard." We live in an area where it is unheard of to see a live chicken. I say to my boy "get me my pellet gun." because wild chickens generally carry diseases.

The rooster did some kind of ninja move and went straight up about 50 feet and didnt actually fly but somehow chicken-hopped back into my neighbor's yard.

Lately I have been hearing either a duck or a goose quack.

It's the horse piss you drink.

[recluse]

Wild Killer Ninja Chickens.

happy_terd, you really, REALLY have got to stop sniffing your dirty laundry.

[poohbear_nc]

Originally Posted by happy_terd

For the longest time I could have sworn I heard a rooster crow 2-3 times every morning. About 6 months ago my 11 year old says "dad, come quick. There is a chicken in our backyard." We live in an area where it is unheard of to see a live chicken. I say to my boy "get me my pellet gun." because wild chickens generally carry diseases.

The rooster did some kind of ninja move and went straight up about 50 feet and didnt actually fly but somehow chicken-hopped back into my neighbor's yard.

Lately I have been hearing either a duck or a goose quack.

h_t ... I dropped by to visit you the other day, but this crazy guy ran out of your house and tried to shoot me! Is this neighborly? Should I have called first?