Bonjour mes amis,

It's a white-out in Chi-town, and I am feeling a twinge of cabin fever. Bleh.

So, I will find a way to get downtown to Navy Pier for the huge boat show and shmooze galore.
Bus, train, walk....better get the ski-doo suit out. Bah!

What better way to kick the Winter blahs but with tons of fun and whacky socializing.
There are so many people I have to meet that I have met over time on-line (sailing world) there , plus ones I've met in other places and raced with or talk to in some drunken state ...so this will be a good thing to do.

Although my feeling is to hibernate....


I shall fight it!


YES!

HAPPY FEBRUARY EVERYONE.

Let's hope for those of us suffering the Winter that it goes by quickly.
Hey there's a little thingie to be planned: a February 29th wedding.
AOS, wedding, refurbishing, finding a new home, moving, travelling, schmoozing, etc, etc...
I need to clone myself to get it all done.

I did go to the local social security office yesterday during the snow storm and got through quickly and efficiently.
SSN card arriving sooooooon.
One thing down, one zillion things to go.
Ha!

Yes, it's February! So I woke up the morning, laying there in a drowsy state then I think oh - the Grammys are soon (I like the Grammys) then I think oh it's February! WE ARE MOVING WE ARE MOVING!! So then of course I go in to moving mind - oh must do this pack that blah blah blah.

Oh and good morning and krikit i'm so happy your friend is coming to visit

Oh and I really like those clothes Karen! I can't believe you are going out in a white-out Spirit, hibernation can be fun too

Question:

When your name appears as the last person to reply in the top 6 threads in the forum, does this mean you are posting too much?

Never.

No. It just means you are late and everyone else has gone home.

Good morning, everybody. Well, good afternoon, actually, now that I see the time. I slept in today. Woke up in the middle of the night coughing and choking and feeling like I was drowning and not able to breathe. A recurring problem that I really do need to see a doctor about. Took some Nyquil, sat at the computer for a while, then was knocked out until 11:00am.

Anyway..... black history month now. There's a free ethnic dance production going on at the local town hall this evening. If I'm able to summon up the energy I think it would be nice to attend.

Do you have a moving date, Trailmix? Shall I get ready to be excited too?

We are are thinking March 31st to be all packed and ready to go, will probably spend the night in a hotel then head out on April 1st, should be quite the road trip.

I'll be waiting for you!

Ok, they are doing that thing where they put the first post in a thread at the top of every new page. I just don't like it.

Choose "Options" then "Standard" and it will go back. For some reason the site sporadically loses your default settings.

Thanks krikit! That fixed it, I thought it was a new 'feature' because I saw someone suggest it somewhere. I've had it lose my settings before, but not like that

THAT was funny.

nu uh! not true!


just means you are catching up on the threads. i have seen on a few instances in ot (keep in mind the settings i use is 25 topics per page) where the same person had last reply on almost every thread.

Well that's good then! Oh and it is true what Carla said, you like to get your coffee then duck and run.

You are awesome. Bonus points!!!

Hmmmm..... trailmix... we need to talk.... you have a VJ PROBLEM and this is an INTERVENTION

woot woot!! Do I get bundled in to a white van out front or!?!?

Yup, and you get free sugar loaded snacks. Then, we restrain you in one of those weird looney bin shirts, we put a hood over your head and drag you out. All that after managing to unglue your fingers from the keyboard.....

What's a gym?

No problemo, for a doughnut i'll get in the van

hmmpffff

For some reason they're called IR5s. I have a few in my closet that you're welcome to.



What would you do for a Klondike bar? *gets out a box of Timbits*

Hey the gym is that place with the doughnuts on a stick that you pick up.

I'm just about to have some vegetable egg rolls for lunch with soy sauce and sweet thai chili sauce on the side. I figure I should eat before len gets here with the van.

Isn't that the Policeman's ball?
Len's going to be a bit delayed. She needs to borrow a van from the local Diocese and she can't drive a vehicle with a dogmatic transmission.

OK, with the bad news that the Archdiocese cannot lend their van this weekend.... apparently they are attending a perverts-R-us convention in Neverland Ranch....
so trailmix, we will postpone your intervention till further notice.
Brother.... hand over a couple of those IR% shirts, Bren has been naughty lately and the restraints are getting too comfy...

Well you tried!!

Tried what? Getting the van or chaining Bren to the bedposts???????????????

oops.

What??? I already gave you a cattle prod for your last birthday. Needy sisters, gotta luv'em.

Trailmix, I considered posting my portrait online to scare you straight but that might lead to a loss of control of bodily functions and I'm not cleaning up the mess.

Uh..... but you borrowed that one last time you were meeting Hilary Clinton (or was it Dr. Phil???) so shut up and send the shirts

HOLY MOLY

WOOOHOOOOOOO
Do you guys like my new avatar or WHAT???????????????

I like it! Even though I don't know who it is. lol. Speaking of which..... who's the drive-by poster?

I think he is trying to compete in this "Friday 1st February is Hijack-A-Thread Day!"

*someone tell him he needs to insert a duck*

Leela and Fry, very nice. I don't know what's come over me, but I've reconsidered. It must be brotherly love so I'll send you my shirts. You'll need to take in a bit though.
BTW, are you finished with my handcuffs yet?


Where should he insert it?

Ok bro - it's ok to honour what we were taught and be perverts , but a DUCK???????????????

It's Leela and Fry from the show "Futurama", latest adition to our household's points of unity against the world's evil. And since Bren is a redhead and I have tunnel vision, there you gooooooo

The drive-by poster seems to be stirring up a bit of trouble over in the OT forum. Click to view attachment

You don't think I should put the duck in the oven, where did you think I meant to put it. Smut, that's all you kids have on your minds these days.



Does that mean that Bren is over 1000 years old?

Good morning, everyone.

*yawn* G'morning...gotta go find some coffee...cheesecake for brekkie maybe *yawn*

I had cheesecake for breffrus once. I had a girls weekend and we never got around to eating the cheesecake. So we all had some for breffrus the next morning. Good times.

This morning I will make some cranberry blueberry muffins. The batter's in the fridge just waiting for me to scoop it into the muffin tins. But I'm not hungry yet so it can wait.

It's a sunny day today!

Here we go to break our CD (no penalty) at the bank since we gotta start making deposits for catering stuff and I will finally be filing!!!!!!

btw, anyone know of a bank that offers a good savings rate?
Virginia commerce only offers 0.25% !!

We use ING for short time savings. takes a few dyas to transfer the $$ back and forth, but gives around 4% interest. Plus if I were to senf you an invite to use it, i would get $25 and so would you,lol

I was gonna say - that alien love is hot!




Good morning!!
Oh that all sounds so yummy and I'd love to bake - but my husband is bent on watching his weight so I have to be supportive and make a light breakfast

I love that American delivers mail on Saturdays!!

I got my ASC Appointment notice for biometrics for my EAD!!! I only applied like 8 days ago!

The US postal system rawks!

Off to work till tonight!!
Have a fantastic day all!!!

Hey that's great Candi and I hope you have a good day too Laura!

It's funny, on television just now, one of their 'helpful' hints was to use boiling water to kill weeds growing through concrete - yeah.

We have a parking spot in the back which has gravel, for the last 3 years or so we have been fighting weeds back there, we have used vinegar, boiling water, tons of roundup (which I don't like to use, but what are you going to do).

They come back bigger and better every year! In fact there are some back there that are bigger than any I have ever seen, about 5 feet tall.

They have morphed and there is no getting rid of them

yay for coffeee