Weav,
You can go anywhere you want, and do anything you want, but it's really good to have you here, when you are here.

SS

And she KNOWS she's welcome in SAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She'd better know it by now!

Thanks guys!

And Kimmy next spring I plan on going to SAT. My SIL is in treatments now for ovarian cancer, and my lil bro feels that any guests would be unfair to her (even at a hotel), as she is so sick she can't partake, and she would get all stressed out, etc. He loves her more than life, bless his heart...and she him.

So next spring when she is back in remission (please God let her have another remission) I will go, and I'm going to meet you! I can't wait.

Hi all...

SLH, it's his dream to live with his parents? I don't understand.

I need an epiphany. Went to the grocery store tonight... I think the reason I stay so slim is because grocery shopping still makes me sad. Isn't that funny? Shopping, being in stores, really gets to me. Weird.

I don't look so rough outta my duds either, people. I'm only 34! And much fitter than I used to be.

GC

You are a super stud, GC. Live with it.

Weav - just planted another big hibiscus topiary, and a crepe myrtle. I'm sweatin like a stuck pig (sorry for the visual to all you who think southern women just get dewy). Make sure you come in SPRING! Geeze. The sun's even below the horizon....2long, I'm ready for swimmin' now! Where's my beer?

SS... by the way, thanks for what you said before. I have the blahs right now, partly because I'm back to looking at my own faults and trying to be mindful of them all the time. Not a "I'm no good at all" feeling, just impatience. Seems my grieving is awfully protracted, and I don't know why, but it seems sometimes like it will never end. But then, I haven't even gotten my "you're divorced, dude" letter from the county yet. Maybe that will matter. My doc wants me to head back to my IC, which... honestly I do miss talking to her.

2long! Did you ever strip paint from sashes all on your own? I've done several, and I'm getting sick of it. It takes FOREVER! So today I called a restorer, hoping I could have him do my last two for me so I could get on to other things. Waaay too much $, even for two small sashes (with divided lights, which probably explains it). So I'm off to the garage to get going on another one...

GC

Hey y'all. Taking a break from the massive cleaning frenzy. I wouldn't hate housework so much if it didn't get in the same decrepit state ten minutes later! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

FF, did you Massengil your dog? LOL, love that one. I forgot to mention, your house is absolutely beautiful! Did y'all do all the work on it yourselves? And you say the china cabinent is origianl? Wow.

SS, I've only seen one real creek, and that was in North Carolina. Here in TX (and in LA, where I'm from) they call creeks "cricks" and they're really naught but ditches. *sigh* In NC, some friends and I went "creekin'"-- followed the creek all the way up the mountain to the resevoir, and dove right in. It was so bloody icy it stole your breath, stopped your heart. I could go on but I don't want to bore the bejeebees out of everyone; suffice to say it was one heckuva experience. I've always been a water girl but this just rendered me an impossibley incurable one.

Gray, H's got this Save-the-World complex that extends especially to his folks. Taking care of them in their relative old age is something he has aspired to for years. I think it began when his little sister died way back in '84 and his whole family got wacked out. They've never been the same; neither has he. He thinks we can help them be happier. Hmmmmmmmm. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Still, thanks for your opinions, everyone. I needed to hear it.

Hey Kimmy, Weaves, shuddup already about those gorgeous chicken legs! Some of us have the opposite problem, alrighty? LOL <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Sakes alive, I can hear the screamin from in here! Let me go break up the fightin' between the 3 year old and the 5 year old. They're having another smackdown outside and I'm sure hairpullin' and mud are involved, like last time.

Be right back.

slh

>Sakes alive, I can hear the screamin from in here!

Is that what THAT was? I was fixin' ta yell at my young'uns!

I love hibiscus topiary and crepe myrtle...like beer too. And yes definately in the spring. I'll be dating by then Kimmy, and I just can't wait to meet some of those Texan cowboys (again <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />). Just can't wait, oh yes and those latin fishermen, dayammmm!

Gray,

Liquid Sandpaper buddy boy! I'm going to start on my porch, soon as it cools down a a bit, and everyone tells me Liquid Sandpaper is the way to go!

Ah the good ole days. We used to hold my lil sis down and rub salteens on her chest. Don't ask me why... but it sure ticked her off! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Weav - I got a 3 ft. crepe myrtle (dark pink) at the $100 store (aka: WalMart) for $3.92! You can't beat that price with a big stick!

WHERE'S MY BEER??? All we have in the fridge is 1 lousy pineapple/orange wine cooler...that's like drinkin a snow cone without the snow. Blech!

Kimmy, are you going to make me get on my soapbox about Wal-Mart?

Maybe another time.

GC

What'd the $100 store do to you?

My peeve is that they put the indoor plants in the blazing sun...drives me INSANE...but then I'm a plant girl...I keep threatening to apply there just so I can straighten that department out.

It's in the genes...my grandfather owned a plant import buisness, and my granmother worked as a holiday (Christmas only) landscaper in Dallas for the richies.

Oh, I was thinking more about the price that non-Americans pay for their low low prices, and about the indirect cost of their low low prices to Americans, like how they encourage their employees to go on public assistance and how their presence in communities is subsidized and whether after all that their low low prices are actually a good thing.

I don't know the answer. I suspect that Wal-Mart costs us all more than it saves us, but I'm not sure.

1 in 200 Americans works there. Does that mean Wal-Mart is a wonderful provider of jobs? Not sure.

Their refusal to permit their employees to organize is troublesome to me.

Something like 40% of Wisconsin's Wal-Mart employees are on some form of public assistance.

They recently fired their guy who's job it is to go to Central America and see that the manufacturers they buy from are compliant with some set of standards, I don't know whose. The fella claims that he was fired because when he found non-compliance (locked exits, 24-hour shifts, &c) he actually put it in his reports.

Again, not sure. But suspicious.

Interesting...

GC

MMmmmmmm. Another interesting tidbit, they're now able to claim Eminent Domain and take your property if they want to put up a Wal-Mart and you're squattin' on "their" land.

Yeah, yeah, the city has to approve. But the thing is, the Supreme Court has already given them (the City) the go-ahead to sieze private land and turn it over to private developers for economic development. Scary, what things are coming to. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

And yes, I still shop there, for many items. It's less than a block from my house, and so dang cheap. :: sigh ::


slh

>They recently fired their guy who's job it is to go to Central America and see that the manufacturers they buy from are compliant with some set of standards, I don't know whose. The fella claims that he was fired because when he found non-compliance (locked exits, 24-hour shifts, &c) he actually put it in his reports.


I've my suspicions about ALL mfg out of country for American based cos.. It's all shady and fishy...not to mention unpatriotic....BUT! I, as a consumer, cannot afford to be picky. 5 kids we have, between Wookie and I...1 full time income (and a coppeaceman's wages at that), 1 part time income...we cannot AFFORD not to shop where we can pinch our pennies till they squeal. We'd have to sell one of the kids if we did.....hmmm?!?! No, wait. We can't do that...but...hehe.

I totally get where you're coming from. I know you get where I am. I just don't see a fix.

I still worry about his candidness with me. It is easy getting better but I still have to ask and pull things out of him. I want, need more reassurance. I am still aching from this last betrayal.

LOL, nope hydrogen peroxide and vinegar bath. No we both work and my H works 6 days so we hire out the work on the house. The upstairs and back of the house are the addition. Yep, we have beautiful original moulding and built-ins. I love this house. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Let it go for now Faith. Trust that it will come. Trust that even if he should backslide, you can handle it.

Have faith that he is what he appears to be. Do NOT speculate. Speculation is crippeling and a complete waste of time.

Faith, you act as if you are recovered. You be the brightly shining light, with loving indifference.

Do not let your fears and negativity cripple your love. What ever you believe to be true, is true. Build on this, his affairs are not important right now. Only your family is, let them go.

Got it?

Got it. Oh Weaver, how do you manage to be here just when I need you? You and SS have been a light for me the past couple weeks. Thank you so much.

I had your words echoing in my head all weekend but we grappled over his cell phone and it set me back even though he showed me he doesn't answer the calls. I will start again this evening. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />