It was online chocolate covered cherries, 2Long.

I adored it. Bookmarked for the next time I need something sweet...

I also had the urge to buy a bicycle.... ;-)

Yes, SS.

You are right (I can see you smiling and nodding your head knowingly at my post).

For me, it IS all about the food.

Hi all.

More strange events! Today my brother announced that the baby his wife is expecting this fall will be a girl. I'll have a niece. Of course I made the joke that "I was looking forward to being an uncle, but I guess I'll be an aunt... oh wait." My brother says my new name is "Aunt GC".

I had a niece once, by marriage. Today I received a "friend request" from her on myspace. I thought it was some troll, but because of the familiar name I agreed, landed on her page, and saw the photos. I saw my former SIL. My heart raced. I saw OM's name among the former niece's myspace friends.

I heard a voice. Has anyone seen Minority Report?

I heard Samantha Morton as "Agatha":

"RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN"


Kimmy, I'm working towards being able to swim a mile, fast, without resting. I'd also like to do the individual medley. Did you have a specialty in the old days?

GC

Aunt GC...

I like it!

right along the lines of "I don't have any brothers, but my sisters do", which I use quite often.

That scene in Minority Report was well done. Like... DUH!

But the scene with the eyeball was a lot funnier.

And the one with the sandwich and the glass of milk...

EW!

-ol' 2long

I'm nuts about Samantha Morton. That woman has talent.

OK 2long,
was just wondering how it was going. I keep hoping for an improvement for you.


Then there is Graycloud. That cloud with the silver lining.
Tell us Gray,
What you going to do?

Big changes, or just keep going along slow for a while?

SS

http://www.chukar.com/

You won't be sorry. Order something from them. Anything. I've been eating their stuff since about 1992. Ooooo, it is GOOOOD.

particularly THIS page:

http://www.chukar.com/ShowView/category/30

I recommend the black forest chocolate cherry at the bottom. You'll think you died and went to heaven.

Oh, and I own a bike. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

SS, I have a few more millstones around my neck than I'd like, but that's the American Way, man.

I'd like to move away, but there are some external pressures that make that feel like a selfish choice right now. And also for the next, oh, 20-30 years.

Say this for me: my life has vitality. I just wish someone else were involved.

GC

SS- Apparently it's not all about the food for only me...

I think JJ has a problem with it, too.

Gray!

Congratulations Tio!

I definitely have a problem with food. Which is that I really like to eat it! Ah, well.

What are we congratulating GC about? I wanna join in.

It's summer. How can I tell? My work hours have dropped off precipitously. 11.5 hours of leave in a two week period. Ow. I really try hard to not use my leave just in the course of living, but you know, when you're at the office three days a week and you're supposed to work on Sundays but you're never around to do it, it really gets tough to put in the hours. Now that DD is out of school for the summer, that's another 4 hours a week I'm losing. I'm thoroughly enjoying the time off, but I'm not going to like it when I'm back down to taking leave without pay.


Hmmmmm.


Then again, that's about ten pay periods away, which is well into the autumn. By then, I suspect I'll be focused and working again.

So perhaps I'll enjoy the summer while it's here. It really is gorgeous these days, though I'd like some rain. Carrying around watering cans takes a long time.

Dealen-de, who are Lilo and Nani?

Just J - they are characters from the movie Lilo and Stitch. It is a fun movie - you might enjoy it!

far

Howdy campers.

Just passn' through on my way down to the fishn' hole. I'll be sittn' on my favorite log there a spell, but I'll drop a few pan-size off for your breakfast when I do head back.

With prayers,

PS: 2long, I see you haven't used my ATOP input!

Wow, that sounds good.

I'm drinking a protein shake (bleah) and refinishing floors. Jealous?

GC

Hi Gray. I'm going to have my floors refinished in a week or so. The nice man who's going to do it alleges that it will be all done in three days. I guess he's not going to do it whatever way you do it. I'm glad of that; I think it would make me crazy to be floorless for as long as you've been floorless.

I have to move everything in the house off of the floors that are wooden. That means the living room, dining room, downstairs hallway, upstairs hallway, guest room, DD's room, the linen closet, a clothes closet full of Christmas stuff, and two major storage closets full of, uhm, storage.

So far I've moved all the books, most of the linens, and many of the things that were on the desk in the guest room (which is where I file papers and things). It was good to finish that, especially the books. I have, err, a lot of books.

Next I'll move all the china and glass out of the dining room. After that, I'll tackle the storage closet that has DD's old clothes, all the Christmas decorations, Christmas and Easter stuff, the crib, and myriad other things in it. A lot of it will go up in the attic. I bet this is how people's attics become treasure troves of unknown stuff.

While I'm doing it, I'm trying to get rid of as much as I can. There are about 75 books sitting on a table that need to go out to the car. In the car there are already 25 or so books, plus two big bags of clothes. Probably 50 or 60 pounds of stuff went out in the trash last week. I'd like to get rid of lots more.

I have a hard time doing that, though, since a whole lot of my stuff is now antiques covered by a legal agreement my mom and aunt made, and which binds all of their heirs as well. No getting rid of any of that stuff until my mom has gone to the great antique dealership in the sky.

So I'm even more draconian about getting my own stuff as minimized as possible, and wait for the day when I can send all this other stuff to my cousins and siblings. (And no, I can't send it to my mom. She already has a whole houseful of it herself, and I'd just have to deal with it eventually anyway.)

There are some plusses, of course. I just noticed that one of the ancient books is a book by Kahlil Gibran that I've never read before, and I've got a giant copper cauldron in the sunroom that was once an applesauce cauldron, and then was used as a bloodletting cauldron at the battle of Pea Ridge, where my great-great grandfather and two great-great-great uncles fought during the Civil War. That's kinda cool.

Haw, looks like my floorlessness will end in one week. I'm the sort, likes things around my domicile to be tidy. Right now, there's piles of clothing and heaps of books and magazines (and some sawdust) all around me. And I don't know about other people, but when one part of my house goes all screwy, the spirit of chaos infects the rest of the place. So even when I shut the doors to the rooms that are taking up the slack storage-wise, the rest of the house is still just off a ways.

Today I met a friend at the movies. After, I talked about wanting to move away. She said she wouldn't let me. Another friend has said the same thing, bless their hearts. But you know, I told her, I spend a lot of weekends by myself, sometimes a little lonely and blue, and so even though I technically have lots of friends, I don't feel I have this magnificent social life I'll be giving up. We're at that age where people are settling in, not going out so much. Kids or not, married or not, people my age are just not as energetic and carefree as they used to be, and they're more careful how they spend their leisure hours.

"You'll be surprised how many people will miss you," she said.

I said, "Aw, shut up. Hardly anyone will notice."

This is the woman I sorta dated briefly last winter and then made into a friend. What powers I have! She's swell. We said good night and she kissed me on the cheek, said don't move away.

But I might just.

GC

No floors?

Try no walls for 4 and a half years. Well, not "no" walls, but still holes in some.

The "friend" still sounds like a wonderful gal, gc.

Stay in fre2uent touch with that one if you do move, ol' 2long's thinkin'

Oh, and Appy:

I didn't want 2 copy and paste your post ATOP, because it's your stuff. Besides, all that catholic stuff is way over my haid.

...and I gave up on that silly argument. Wears me out!

-ol' 2long
P.S. I just bought another Model A 2day. Sending a deposit check 2morrow. But it's up in your neck of the woods, and i need 2 sell my other one 2 make room in the garage for it. So it may be a few weeks before I get it down here.

So Gray... if you move away, how will that help the emptiness of your life? How will moving fill it up any?

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