Morning! Movers came and went yesterday -- they arrived 4 hours late! Grrrrr.... Now it seems much more real that we are actually doing this move. There's a big hole where our bed was.

Hahaha...modern science it with a .01% margin of error circumventing nature

How many days left til u get here??

Ah, lazy people on VJ, who'd athunk it?

Evening everyone

How as your day today?

If the cake smashing was helping fertility, it would have been great But fertility clinics don´t seem to be going out of business. We have many wedding traditions in cz, that show that the couple should take care of each other but luckily cake smashing isn´t one of them. I think doing something like that to each other on purpose isn´t a big proof of taking care of one another

*throws cake at marta*

*wipes the nasty sticky stuff off her face*

So now we are married?

*throws some cake back at ya*

No, but I just heard you're having twins!

if it turns out to be true, I´ll blame it on you But it´s a good thing I like twins

Who doesn't like a nice set of twins!

I've been thinking a lot about twins....wonder if it's a sign?

I'm more worried about your driving off the draw bridge dream. What could that mean?

I figured it wasn't too bad since we survived?

Gumshoeing found these:

Drawbridge
To see a drawbridge in your dream, represents protection. You may feel that some relationship or situation is too invasive. It may also mean that you are drawing the line and creating boundaries.


Bridge
Whenever a bridge appears in a dream, the psyche is signaling that a difficulty can be reconciled or bridged over.

Bridge
Bridges can symbolize transitions. Transition from one stage to another, from one level of consciousness to another. Since most bridges are over water (emotions, unconscious), this dream could also be symbolic of you raising above your emotional difficulties, or unconscious drives.

So are you bridging over to motherhood, what with all these twin thoughts??

Maybe?!

my aunt has two sets of twins, bless her!

Yay!



Twins never appealed to me. I had 3 kids over 4 & 1/2 years and that was/is hard enough!

My Dad is one of 16 kids and my Mom one of 7. I cannot imagine having that many kids.

But if you had twins, they would appeal to you and you wouldn´t think it´s too hard

I'm sure if I had twins I would have loved them, but I never actually *wanted* twins. No longer worried about that though, as this baby maker is now closed!

But I threw a cake at ya

I am impervious to your cake throwing!!

Noone is

Throw all the cake you want, my days of fertility are over!! Three kids is enough, and NO ONE can a make me have another one!!

Yay!! let the road trip begin. Safe Journey Maven!


I'll be there on the 6th of August soooo excited now. (also pretty scared - I hate job hunting)

Hopefully strike armageddon won't have hit town before you arrive or there will be no jobs for anybody (except scab work for maven's hub)

Take that back!



12 days!!!



Ta, Poiteen! Safe travels to you too. Woo hoo -- LA VJ UK meetup in August!

If there is a strike, I bet a bunch of people will scab. There is nowhere near the unity there was with the WGA, I don't think. Though I'm sure Bruce will do the honorable thing


And guys - EARTHQUAKE!!!

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/ci14377160.html

You feel it Dev?

1.8 is an earthquake?!?!?! The only one I ever felt was 3.4 but I kept checking the earthquake news religiously after that

Maven - lemme know when you will be in PS - if you have a cell number that would be awesome - I don't have a US cell yet but I can give you Jeremy's? We can meet when you get there - is it the 7th?

Marta - throw some cake at me! I'd love twins! Just gimme a year or two to get fed up with Jeremy first

Apparently Beverly Hills is too posh to feel a 1.8.....







He!!s no, we are meeting in July to welcome you. Then we'll meet again in August for Poiteen (& Jeraly)!

It was just a little jolt but I think I'm sitting right on top of it. I am disappointed by the richter classification of said earthquake but it FELT like 3.0

THere was a 1.9 a minute earlier!

It said 2 miles west of SM - I shoulda felt it?

I miss all the excitement!

1.7+1.9=3.6 - no wonder it felt big! It was almost a 4!

Maybe that was a rolling one? I always wondered how those differed....

I'm not in the union yet, so I gotta get non union work first... does that make me a scab

good morning everyone.

only if you cross the picket line. ARe editors members of the IATSE? No one care about them anyway (heavy saracasm)


edit: are you a member of the UK guild?

Can anyone confirm the rumour that Lucozade is going to have its formula changed because it contains sodium benzoate? I had one sad, sad husband last night when my mom said she'd heard something about it.

I am so sick of shipping companies - they just get more and more expensive and I am at my wit's end. PLUS I can't even get into my e-mail to try and sort things out.

Yup, Local 700 I believe. We don't really have such a strong union here in the UK. There used to be one, but it doesn't have any power anymore. So, no, not a member.



can't find anything about it on the internets. never did understand the appeal of lucozade myself



But I thought you had booked it already?

No - I've been trying to get a quote that I can afford and it doesn't seem that it is possible. I am so fed up - I movee in four days and this is the last thing I need - now I have half full boxes all over as I try and figure out what to throw away and I just can't take anymore

Owel - panic kinda over - I got super stressed then went back over all my other shipping companies and tried to get revised quotes and clarification of details.

Turns out that John Mason are my guys - they were the first to call me on Monday morning and their correspondence and help has been excellent. Quote is £595 door to door although insurance is on top but at this point I don't care anymore!! Roll on normality ><

Like the kolache toss? :-p

My parents has their reception in an old ZCBJ hall. As for traditions, tell me more about them as my grandpa's parents came over from Bohemia...it seems that over time the old ways get lost.



Tabor Lodge 74, located near Dorchester in Saline County Nebraska was organized on October 8, 1899, with fourteen charter members. The Zapadni Cesko Bratrske Jednota (Z.C.B.J.) or Western Bohemian Fraternal Association was an outgrowth of the Czech Freethinking movement, which began in Bohemia (a province in the presentday Czech Republic) in the mid-nineteenth century. The Freethinkers broke away from organized religion and promoted liberalism and strong national and democratic views. As a fraternal organization, the Z.C.B.J. lodges provided security and ethnic solidarity for Czech immigrants in America. The Z.C.B.J. lodges have been primary conservators of Czech heritage. Tabor Hall was constructed in 1914, with a large dance pavilion added in 1934.

GGGRRRRrrrrr!!!! Archstone is not what I thought at all. It's just a normal apartment deal, with flexible leases. They aren't furnished or come with bills. Their ads on Craigslist and their website are very misleading.

Pi$$ed off. Thought I had figured it out. Back to drawing board.

Oakwood is thougH!

http://www.oakwood.com/

It's like a ghost town in here lately...

Where are my UK peeps?

Well, I for one am freaking EXHAUSTED. We set out in about 9 hours. Tonight we went for a long walk and talked and talked about how much we are going to miss it here and all the friends we've made. New Haven is and always will be home for me, but now it's become something of a hometown for Bruce too.

I'll miss you, my beautiful Elm City.

I'm here! I've been venting my shipping woes!!

Maven - when will you be passing through Palm Springs again? I'll look out for somewhere nice to eat out or something

I'm actually trying to get some work done here at work! Its what I'm paid to do. Just got handed a stack of investigations that are due the end of next week, and I only work 3 days next week! UGH!