Oh that was WRONG J. Just WRONG!

Toldja not to look.

ROTFLMAO.

You're too cute for color TV, J.

Really laughing, J!

Don't even go there, girl! I think I've seen pics of you (in your album) and you look NOTHING like that. As if!

:: still chuckling ::


slh

Hi J,
I'm back from my little trip wth AD.

Ahh, SS, plans.

We have lots of plans, actually.....................

...............I have a sense that might not be the plans you meant.

You told me what I wanted to know.

If you read over on SYMC, you also know that P asked us some really tough questions on the interview thread and then also suggested that we think about handfasting on another thread. We both twitch about stuff like that. Approach with caution... there are many complex nuances and currents in our world.

I worry about those same things. Penny is better at many of the hard questions than I. I worry, but continue to pray that you might know what to do, how to proceed. That you may make choices that add to your happiness.

I still aspire to have a marriage like yours, though, SS. Penny says that a stepfamily is as different from a first marriage as male is from female, and I'm sure she's right. I don't have any good role models for fantastic stepfamilies, though, so I'm still rooting for a marriage and family like yours.

I wish things were as good on this end as some people think they are. (Grin.)

It is said that "into every life a little rain must fall." I just hope you don't have too much of it all at once.

And that, in a nutshell, is my world.

Very small nut - if the shell is any indicator.

I have not read on SYMC. I don't know what is happening. This (Grayclouds) thread has been light, and that's good, but I would like to know how you are.
I think your plans are excellant and make a good time line. Safe interaction is where it's at at during this stage of the process. As you already know, there is much learning taking place. That's necessarry, and as it should be.

As far as wanting to run screeming into the night....... join the club. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

J, You are better than you think. When it is (sometimes ) hard, keep that in mind. You'll figure it out.

SS

SS, we missed you!

AD and I had a really good time. He is a true southern Gentleman. As with many others, he does't yet know just how good he really is. Having a spouse that has an A tends to do that to us.

Too many of us worry about the things we fail to do, or what we do wrong. That means we don't give ourselves credit for the many more thing we do right, the things we DO acomplish.

It's hard to stay in the middle. Realizing we have talent, and abilities, but continueing to learn, and improve where we are weak.

I had a great time, wish more of you could have come.

SS

I missed everyone here too. Funny how that works.

SLH, Your weekend was happy, and productive?

SS

10: You have ever had 2 respond "yes" 2 the 2uestion, "What have you got in here, rocks?"

9. You have ever taken a 22-passenger van over "roads" that were really intended only for cattle.

8. You have ever found yourself trying 2 explain 2 airport security that a rock hammer isn't really a weapon.

7. Your rock garden is located *inside* your house.

6. You have ever hung a pic2re using a Brunton as a level.

5. Your collection of beer cans and/or bottles rivals the size of your rock collection.

4. You consider a "recent event" 2 be anything that has happened in the last hundred thousand years.

3. Your photos include people only for scale and you have more pictures of your rock hammer and lens cap than of your family.

2. You have ever been on a field trip that included scheduled stops at a gravel pit and/or a liquor store.

And the #1 sign you might be a geologist:

1. You have ever uttered the phrase "have you tried licking it?" with no sexual connotation whatsoever.


-ol' geologist.

2long, I have one photo just for you. Lava flows into the canyon at Lava falls.

Both of us wished you had been there to tell us what stuff was.

SS

This one's for you 2long.

Lava Flow into the Grand Canyon

Both the foreground flow, and the background flow dammed the river and were later worn away by the water.

SS

SS:

When I was there, I couldn't help wondering why the lava went 2 all that trouble 2 work its way through fissures all the way up 2 the rim before erupting and spilling in2 the canyon? Like, wouldn't it have been a lot more expedient 2 just erupt on the banks of the river? (and the steam explosions would have been spectacular!). I wouldn't do that if I'd left my lunch at the rim!

-ol' 2long

I didn't know you had been there. You probably already have the pics yourself.

I agree, all that work, just to run back down into the river.

Looks cool though.

SS

What a picture SS! You are so lucky, where you live...all that beauty.

I am so glad AD went out to see you, and that you had a good time.

AD, glad you had a good time! You are not on the board very often anymore, and I hope that means you are back to giving your daytime job 100% of yourself, because I have this theory that when we are really happy and content we become the best we can be at work, at home and at play.

Hope choir practice is going well.

(probably should have put this on your thread)

SS, that view was spectacular. I'm envious of you your talent and trips.

Productive weekend? Oh, Yes. . . took my daughter to that Christian Conference (Yada Yada Jr.) and was really impressed with it. Fantastic choice of classes for mother-daughters to pic from and incredible praise and worship music. DD loved it and can't wait for their next return.

Really been cleaning things up around the house. Pondering a garage sale, but too much trouble. Throwing out the old stuff, even if I have kept it for years. Why is that so hard sometimes?

A lady I know saw a few of my photos and liked them so much that she is hiring me to come out to her property and do a photo shoot of she & her family. I'm flattered and thrilled and a little scared. I have no formal photography schooling, and my little camera is falling aprt to the point where even Ti can only do so much. But I can't help but be excited about the opportunity!


slh

SS, that view was spectacular. I'm envious of you your talent and trips.

Photoshop can cover a multitude of sins. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Productive weekend? Oh, Yes. . . took my daughter to that Christian Conference (Yada Yada Jr.) and was really impressed with it. Fantastic choice of classes for mother-daughters to pic from and incredible praise and worship music. DD loved it and can't wait for their next return.

That is so sweet!!
It's always nice when you can do it together. I'm glad you had a good time, and are making memories with her.


Really been cleaning things up around the house. Pondering a garage sale, but too much trouble. Throwing out the old stuff, even if I have kept it for years. Why is that so hard sometimes?

Why?
Memories...... pressed between the pages of our minds.
Memories.......sweetened through the ages just like wine.

It's hard to throw memories away. Especially good ones. Especially when times MAY have changed.

A lady I know saw a few of my photos and liked them so much that she is hiring me to come out to her property and do a photo shoot of she & her family. I'm flattered and thrilled and a little scared. I have no formal photography schooling, and my little camera is falling aprt to the point where even Ti can only do so much. But I can't help but be excited about the opportunity!

Good for you. I have no formal schooling either, but I can see from your web site that you have an eye for what will look good. I also see you can catch the special moments, the smiles, the happy faces. Not everyone can do that. Go, have fun, don't worry. Be your self, smile..... I bet it will work for you. Believe in your self.

Many others of us believe in you.

SS

Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.

The winners are:

Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.

Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.

Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.

Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absent-mindedly answer the door in your nightgown.

Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.

Gargoyle (n.), olive-flavoured mouthwash.

Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.

Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline. (this one's for WAT!)

Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.

Frisbeetarianism (n.), (back by popular demand): The belief that, when you die, your Soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.

The Washington Post's Style Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this year's winners:

Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

Giraffiti (n): Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

Inoculatte (v): To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

Hipatitis (n): Terminal coolness.

Karmageddon (n): It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

Dopeler effect (n): The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

Caterpallor (n.): The colour you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you're eating.




-ol' 2long

Good Job 2long. It's nice to laugh on Friday.

Kimmy,
Has anything changed?

SS

Yeah. I can't post here about it, tho. I dunno if it's perm or a blip, and some in my family check here to check on me. I'm tired of their attitudes about it.

GC has hipatitis <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Hi SS <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />