HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

well <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

I may have been a bit too "Enthusiastic" .. told I'm going to get a visit tomorrow. At least its not one of "THOSE" visits or they would have been on the doorstep tonight ... so we shall have to wait <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

I got a very funny test in my email. I posted the test over on Idiotville, and am putting the answers here. So if you haven't taken the test yet, look over there first.

Personality test answers:

So have fun!

"Noisy and furry" ROFLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Are "visits" ever good?

As you say, at least you know it's not too bad.

That's great news, AW. Can he hunker down for 10 days and stay out of trouble? This is Aussie we're talking about, after all! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

I've been waiting for Neak to tell everybody how wonderful I am, so I can <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> modestly and say, "Oh, it was nothing. Just my insanity talking again." But she hasn't, so I'll say it anyway. I AM SO NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Mom, you make a wonderful Karen Carpenter. I was just so stunned by my test results that my fingers wouldn't shape the words at first. Wait till you see Neaksis' results!

Ok, here are Neaksis' answers. Please swallow all food and beverages.

Hope Aussie is OK. Maybe they read this thread, and broke his leg for you so you wouldn't have to worry. (I know it doesn't make sense, but I'm a guy...... remember.

Just back from a short trip.

I suppose the rest of us can't take this test now, becasue we already know what the questions mean?

Hope everyone is well and happy. I know AW is TRYING To be happy. May she succeed.

Hi T&L,
still praying for all of you.

ON Karaoke -
I sing all the time to my W, and she says it's nice, but it would be even better if I could stay on key, and if I had a good voice. At least I know where I stand. She's nothing if not honest.

I told her once I thought I could sing like a famous person. She said "yes, but Adolph Hitler wasn't famous for his voice."

Just kidding on that last one.

SS

PS,
Where's Cinders?

I expect Neaksis to be kind of scarce, but not Cinders.

Neak I'm not in a panic.. I mean WHAT can I do in any event? Just have to accept whatever good or bad ... of course nothing stops me from praying for good though <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

More than likely its to tell us we can't talk about whatever we eventually get told. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

TL yes well Aussies idea of avoidance mmmm now I wouldn't say he's not playing with a full deck of cards on that score .... but ..... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

so tell me Why you are so NUTS ?? lol come on tell ALL!!

AW - That is WONDERFUL news that Aussie is coming home. I don't care if he DID break a leg.

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> Oh, that OTHER thing I needed to praise you for. Really, more along the lines of groveling.

(Mom is taking the kids tamping, while AJ and I go get the truck unencumbered. Footloose and fancy free.)

Mom, if you were going to have a sudden attack of sanity, you should have done it before I cancelled their tickets. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> But I am terribly grateful!!!!!!!!!!! And you will have a good time, I just KNOW you will. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

SS - I am waiting to hear you sing "Unchained Melody". I am going to perform "Mean Mean Mama" (for the children), and "Who Put the Turtle in Myrtle's Girdle?" (for everyone else).

AW, not much you can do. I'm just glad he's coming home. A broken leg would be a bonus. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

B - <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> God has a thousand ways of which we know nothing. A2 has well over a thousand non-vital parts, lol, legs among them.

Wow - T&L, Kids, and tamping all mixed up together.

It's not like she gets out of any work or anything, so you should probably shamelessly grovel - as opposed to groveling because you have to.


I don't know about "Unchained Melody"
If the music is really loud, there are a few things I might try though. Just what escapes me at the moment, but I have been taken with temporary insanity before, and it might strike me again.

Hope the new truck has a nice sleeper. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

Believer,
Are the guys coming back from A looking beat up pretty bad?

Is Believer doing well these days?

SS

That was woefully insufficient as groveling, let me tell you. Here's what I'm going to do... (1) I'm going camping. In a tent. With 6 children, a foster baby 6 months old, and only Neaksis as the spoonful of sugar making the medicine go down. (2) It will cost me only $1200 in lost wages, since I'm losing overtime days to do it. (Oh, boy, I'm roughing it AND paying for it, too! Whee.) (3) During this time, Neak and AJ are going to be riding the train for 2+ carefree, childless, workless days and 2 (undescribed!) nights (in a bedroom car, no less <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />) from California to Montana while I'm living with their little darlings in a tent, in the sand, and without a bedtime fan. (not that I'm bitter... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />) (4) They will then have another day or two to drive back from Montana in the big rig. With two of them, I'm sure they could take turns with one driving while the other sleeps in the bed compartment, and barrel straight through. Somehow, though, I think they'll be taking a "rest stop." Or two. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

And I did it to myself, too. They were planning to take their cherubic progeny along on both the train and the truck, which trip sounded absolutely hideous to me...cooped up in close quarters for days with the Dervish, as well as his siblings, the Dust Devil, and the Water Spout--this unrelenting intimacy broken only by the dilemma of "How shall we make the inlaws angry this time? Shall we annoy them by visiting briefly with the children, and inadvertently doing something offensive, or shall we annoy them by avoiding them, which will (of course) be offensive." This way the dilemma is removed, since it remains in California...and I have great confidence in the good sense that will keep Neak from running over for a visit all by her lonesome. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

I'm going home to bed. Yesterday afternoon when I got up was a LONG time ago, and I feel my normal good humor beginning to flag. Neak, your first payment is due before you leave. You can post the pictures of your sister's birthday, and yours after you rode down the slide at the park. (Static electricity does very interesting things to long hair. Your mother-in-law thinks you're a witch anyway, so the picture will be appropriate for your new image.)

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All she needs is a broom




OK, I did that one myself. It even looks like she's got the appropriate blemish on the end of her nose, but I think it's just a shadow, since that wart wasn't nearly so big the last time I looked! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

t&l

And may I say, Neak, that it was very nice to see the music on the piano and know that you're getting some enjoyment out of my purchase. Don't forget to play for your grandpa too. Sometime we need to get out all that old sheet music and have a concert for him. On one of my nights off, for instance. Haha. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Me and Otis.......Sitting On The Dock of the Bay.......

I know, that was grammatically incorrect but it was, in my opinion, the only way I could say it.

Once, an office in which I worked had a Christmas party at a dive of a bar. You know the kind I mean. The kind that is so yucky you can tell by the directions to the party that this is not a good idea. But, I went. The place was very out of the way and basically closed other than to our party.

So, we did the karaoke thing. Now, pressure is doing that in front of your peers. Especially when you are very sober. I think I only drank cokes that night - as is usual. So, I got one of the men to come sit on a stool on the stage - guy has a great sense of humor.....long divorced. A really nice guy. All he did was sit there....and I sang "Crazy" to him - in my best effort at theatrical exaggeration.

BTW, anybody know who Cletus T Judd is? He was there - w/ his now x-wife. He didn't sing.

But the guy I sang to borrowed a guitar and did this really fast, hysterical version of "Alice's Restaurant."

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> After 29 hrs. awake, I finally got tucked in, and slept little more than 12 hrs. before I finally rousted myself out of bed. The good news? I'm not really sleepy any more. The bad news? I can't move. I think everything froze solid while I was "away". So I'm sitting here at the computer waiting for my joints to de-solidify enough to let me up and do something constructive. Even at 91, I bet my dad could beat me at a race this morning... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

urgh <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

t&l

I see I'm going to have to hone my voluntary groveling skills.

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