I'm "just going". I can get away with it 'cause my stock is high at work and I haven't gone the last few years.

Sorry I won't see you, 2long. Still, I'm looking forward to seeing lots of old pals who will no doubt be gushing with sympathy because they knew sparrow and me when we were first married.

I'm sure there will be serious conversations. I'll have to resist the temptation to run her down, even though she deserves it.

Well, I made Thanksgiving dessert and went to a rock show. My ears are ringing and I'm incredibly tired. Night.

GC

Hey Gray!

Been thinking about you lately buddy. Hope your Thanksgiving was good.

What do you say you plan a get together for this spring? LOL That's right... you. And maybe some of us would be able to travel to meet up. What do you think?

I have been thinking about this a lot lately. I so wanted to have a get together on the island, but now that is gone to me, and it was too far out of the way for anyone else anyway.

What say you guy?

I'd plan it myself, but like I said I am too hard to get to, and I am too dismantled to plan a party. Is dismantled the right word?

I want to meet all of you...and I feel this urgency all of a sudden, for some reason.

Am I being too pushy Gray? LOL

My song for the evening's fire -

Artist: Van Morrison Lyrics
Song: Into The Mystic Lyrics


We were born before the wind
Also younger than the sun
Ere the bonnie boat was won as we sailed into the mystic
Hark, now hear the sailors cry
Smell the sea and feel the sky
Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic
And when that fog horn blows I will be coming home
And when that fog horn blows I want to hear it
I don't have to fear it
I want to rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
Then magnificently we will float into the mystic
And when that fog horn blows you know I will be coming home
And when thst fog horn whistle blows I got to hear it
I don't have to fear it
I want to rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
And together we will float into the mystic
Come on girl...

Oh and here is one - dedicated to JJ and HoFS (I remembered his intitials J!), and maybe for DW and me...but I'm looking before I leap this time (atleast trying to).

Artist: Van Morrison Lyrics
Song: Someone Like You Lyrics

I've been searching a long time
For someone exactly like you
I've been travelling all around the world
Waiting for you to come through.
Someone like you makes it
All worth while
Someone like you keeps
Me satisfied. Someone exactly
Like you.
I've been travellin' a hard road
Lookin' for someone exactly like you
I've been carryin' my heavy load
Waiting for the light to come
Shining through.
Someone like you makes it
All worth while
Someone like you keeps
Me satisfied. Someone exactly
Like you.

I've been doin' some soul searching
To find out where you're at
I've been up and down the highway
In all kinds of foreign lands
Someone like you... [etc.]

I've been all around the world
Marching to the beat of a different
Drum.
But just lately I have
Realised
The best is yet to come.
Someone like you... [etc.]

Okay, I've got a song for all y'all!

Just downloaded it.

"Iron Butterfly Theme" - Iron Butterfly

Instrumental


Sorry, couldn't resist. At the time it came out, it achieved - as coined by Woody Allen in "Annie Hall" - total heaviosity.

I remember hearing it for the first time in my friend's garage, sitting in his unrestored 1931 Model A Coupe, wire brushing some cast part for the running gear I think. His house was "cool". They had one of those intercom systems that could be switched 2 either AM or FM radio, so we could listen 2 music while working on the A. Takes me back...

He got me (and a few other friends) interested in old cars. Also got his parents in2 them, and they restored a 1909 Overland (I helped some) and a couple other rare cars...

-ol' 2long

Sure, weaver. I'd love to have a shindig. Let's just see if the idea catches on. Yesterday after dinner I was drafted to host Xmas again, and I'm having a "housewarming" party in January, so I should have it together pretty well by spring '06.

2005 was supposed to be my "new life" year. Horse$H!t!

Oh, six. Gimme some sugar.

GC

Now that was funny! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I loved that song 2long. It came out around the onset of my flower power years. Brings back good memories for me too.

Who's "six" Gray?

Wish we had someone around here with a big house, willing to host all the parties. There is a single guy with no kids who lives across the alley-way from me (a gardener) who has some very loud parties out on his "veranda", he has an outdoor fire place and lots of good music going on into the wee hours, and some absolutely beautful horticulture. The guy is an artist really.

'06 is what he was saying Weaver. GC's new life will be in '06 since '05 was er..kinda sucky..I would guess.

Soiree sounds like fun! Don't think I could come up with enough money to come though. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Ohhhhhh. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />





Well you just never know...that's the beauty of life, you just never know. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

The opportunity to meet in person sure would be worth it though!! Hi ya Weaver.

Gonna jump off now. Love you all. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> Thanks weaver. I'm not sure if I've been searching for a long time but I'm very happy with where my compass is pointed these days!

Hope you had a wonderful holiday weekend. J and I had a great holiday with lots to give thanks for.

HoFS

Glad you had a good Tday, we did as well.

Now let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Weaver <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />.....just wanted to say I always think of "Ants" when I see your name.....I love it!


Oh, and it is snowing over here........it is cooollllldddddd. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />.....

Daisy

"ants", how so whitedaisy? I keep thinking of what you could mean, and keep coming up blank. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I just love it when it snows...and I don't have to go anywhere.

A fireplace and a hot-tub would really make it nice, hey? Oh well, someday.

I saw Walk The Line the other day.

Johnny Cash's first wife, Vivan, is never in a good mood. Always frowning. One of Johnny and Vivian's daughters repeatedly walked out of a screening because this portrayal drove her crazy.

Did Johnny and June begin things with the big A? Unknown. As for what's shown in the movie... the filmmakers took so much license with events and timelines, and made up so many things, that you'd never know truth from fiction after seeing the picture.

But after the movie, as I leafed through Cash to reread some of the stories that were inexplicably left out of the movie, I came across this:


Anyway, as a story the movie is pretty good and sometimes even inspiring. I wish it had been more true, and more about music.

Anyway, hi HoFS et al!

GC

Wow. It's been a while since HoFS posted here (almost a year). You drew him out, Weaver.

Thanks for the lyrics from me, too. I seem to have a distinct Northwesterly direction to my compass these days. I wonder if the neighbors think I'm weird for waving in that direction sometimes....

Hi all,

I miss this place. I am internetless these days, so I am at the public libary.

It has been a month since I moved back to the house. I am okay- keeping busy cleaning, painting, firewood etc. I cook and sleep in and read books. It is really nice to be not working for a few months.

The Desperado is there. I had forgotten what a miserable pr*** he can be to live with at times. I have almost bitten my tongue through at times.

I am trying to keep it sane and peaceful for Beths sake.

If it gets too much he will leave.

I hope you are all okay. I miss you all.

Shul

Shul,
What are your hopes?

SS

Shul, I wish you could stick around and talk, for once.

Thinking of you and wishing you and Beth the best!


J,

I hope you shared my email with him, the one with the excerpt from Marianne Williamson's "Enchanted Love", because an intimate relationship (expecially when it is the real deal), will bring out all your "stuff", and it is for healing purposes so that your relationship can become a "holy relationship" and spread good to all that you effect.

It is very important to be evolved about this, so that you know that all the yucky stuff that comes up in a relationship which is destined, is for the good of all concerned. It is the greatest and most important aspect of an intimate relationship...to heal and help the two people "and all they effect" effect the good in all.

Make sense?

Probably not (damned this language which cripples me LOL).

Weaver, you're absolutely right about how an intimate relationship brings out all the "stuff" and that healing it is the only way to deal with it. He and I have both taken several classes on compassion, ethics, and healing, and have spent quite a lot of time studying the painful stuff parts of relationships as well -- infidelity, abuse, addiction, etc.

We've also both lived a lot of the very difficult things, and have each had to do a lot of our own healing. There is a great deal that you can't learn or heal, though, until you're in an intimate relationship and dealing with the close dynamics of that particular situation.

All of which is to say, yeah. I agree completely.

But!!! What's this about an e-mail with excerpt from Enchanted Love. Errr. Uhm. I don't think I have an e-mail with that in it?

Well I sent you this email with an excerpt that just blew me away from Williamson. You know all this already though, so I don't need to resend it.

It's all new to me and I find the whole idea just fascinating, and it brings such a sense of peace to know that this is what relationships do...and were not just crazy people when we fall in love with the right person. This is what is supposed to happen! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />