But Patsy can't mimic that classic falsetto

I'm cry-ay-ay-ayin' over you...

All I can say is this is just the coolest. It's a fabulous spring evening, it's been hot all day, the door to the patio is open, I have a glass of wine in my hand and the songs are drifting out onto the patio.

LOL, cry-ay-ay-ay-in' has just started.

Is it my pidgin English? LOL!!! I thought you could speak pidgin? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

L.

LOL Orchid - No offense intended.

I think my thread should speak of me as a person therefore please stop mucking about with adding stars. Whoever added the third star, please remove it. I need my thread to reflect my inferiority. Maybe even only 1 star would be better than two.

I apologize to all those with three stars. It was not my doing.

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FWIW I just have to say this. There is a post here on page one that I have read twice now and I find it very hard to accept the story at face value. And I have asked myself several times if I am not being prejudicial. I just have know many welders in my life. No disrespect intended but I have not seen many with such a mastery of English.

Something about that post is just off and I can't put my finger on it. I like the part where he talks about what people tell him about all his wonderful qualities. Am I just being too critical? Probably. Just ignore me.

There you go again.

Could you leave the stars alone?

They are shinny and pretty.

Men !

It's simply a self-esteem issue.

Good morning larousse, Pio, stph, Kiwi, bigk, Todd, Luna, orcid & those soon to join in.

Kind of a quite night around here.

Todd, I'm sorry to hear your dissapointment with your WW. Are you still planning "the talk" on Sunday? If so maybe what you need to do is follow larousse's lead & get some tequila. Maybe it can help get the difficult words to come out.

Pio, you did a fine job with your daughter. Learning to manage our dissapointments & to sleep alone are two important skills kids need. She knows your care about her & that you're willing to be there for her to help her. You didn't allow her to give the problem over to you & that can be hard when we see our kids having a hard time coping.

My youngest son (11) tried out for the select chorus at his school, this is his second attempt. He found out yesterday he didn't make it but his older brother did (this will be older brother's second year). On back to school night the chorus teacher pulled me aside to say youngest son seems to have "found his voice", his pitch is good & other singing skills have shown real improvement. She shared this with him as did I. He REALLY wanted to get into the chorus & we both felt he had a good chance given his teacher's statements.

He's been good at holding back the tears (not easy for him) but they are right there ready to fall. All I could do was tell him how proud I was of him for trying, that given his improved abilities maybe next year he can try again & that I understood how dissappointed he was. Boy, did that feel lame.

I really think you need a thread of your own so you can live starless.


How do you plan to explain or tell G about the blanket and the new rutines of DD's?

Hi, all,

I had a cookies problem yesterday and couldn't post. I had self bloked me. Lol.

Todd,

did you see your WW finally or she canceled completely?
I'm sorry if she did.

I will sit down and tell her that I want to try these new routines and explain why and that I hope she will give it a try.

As far as the blanket, I won't say a word. She removes it? She is history!

Morning Nam, coffee?

Besides his kindness towards his DD's I think Pio has empathy issues towards hamsters and stars.

Kiwi, your description of a lovely spring evening sounds very nice.

Here it's a lovely fall morning. The sun is out, low in the sky so that it shines through the trees & lights up the moisture in the air showing shafts of mist. My boys are still in bed & the dog is quite so it's peacefull. It's only 42 degrees at the moment which is nice because I can wear something cozy. Fall is my favorite time of year.

Maybe when she's is there you won't need the blanket.

Hi larousse! Tea, thank you.

What time is it for you& what does your day look like so far?

Pio is a sweetheart despite his sometimes seemingly unbending attitude.

Sounds like the blanket has been an issuein the past.

What's up with that Pio?

Nam, your fall sounds great. I read that there are touristic tours with the more colorful woods leaves.

It's 7:06. Still dark. I have to wash the car to take it to the emitions verification.

Nam, by chance do you know how to take mold* humidity from the back of oil paintings? Are your activities or festivities with the art asociation, store? still going?

I wouldn't try to take mold away from a painting myself. Can you bring it to a shop, art restorer, possibly a good frame shop?

Yes, the activities are ongoing. Each month we have a new exhibit. This month we just happen to be doing it in the form of a fund raising event. The gallery I have my work in is a cooperative. All the artists work there & all have some duty or other to keep the place running. We have about 50 artists at any given time most quite good. Many painters, a couple of sculpters, fiber artist, jewlers, wood workers, potters

Fall is a big tourist time around here. So is the summer. I live in an area with a couple of touristy things. An aquarium & an old sea village recreated with original buildings brought in from the surrounding area. Plus, we have two casinos quite close by.

Behind my house I have woods & it's beautiful to watch the trees turn vivid colors. I sit onmy deck with a cup of tea or glass of wine & enjoy it with my boys, when they aren't playing the video game. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

One child just got up.

Hi nams,

As it turns out, we had the talk last night very late. It was via telephone which I did not prefer but once it unfolded, it was inevitable. As for tequila, I will not touch the stuff. As I have told my sons for year, be careful with tequila; it is the only liquor that can kill you.

Anyway, "the talk" did not go so well. It started with her again talking about the sting of exposure. We regressed to an interesting point. She said that our marriage should be between the two of us, hence I should have never brought DS or friends into it by exposing. I asked her that if the marriage is between us, why did she bring OM into it? To my utter shock and amazement, she said okay, so our marrige is about the "three of us". In case anyone is lost, that would be WW, OM and myself. Not many things in this world surprise or shock me; this one did. I said wait: you are saying that our marriage is about the three of us? She said yes.

She went on to way that I have never taken blame for her affair that it isn't just her fault. She said that she was depressed just like me but that she "didn't choose to lay in bed all day and sleep". Exact quote.

I cleared my throat and told her that if we are to have any chance of R, it nees to be based on honesty. She asked what had she not been honest about. I told her backpeddling from her affair and claiming that she and OM were just friends. She said that I didn't understand that they were/are just friends. She quickly added: well mostly friends.

She said that OMXW also is to blame because she left him alone for six weeks while she visited her family. She also said that she had nothing to do with their D, that it was doomed before her affair. So, she will no longer admit to her affair, but she will have conversation in which it is tacitly understood that she had an affair. She was raised with strong values with a religiously conservative viewpoint. I think she simply cannot face the light of day with what she did. She would rather pretend that she is as innocent as the driven snow and maybe she can convince God as well.

I told her that I didn't want to see or talk to her anymore. That I have talked about the honesty issue until I am blue in the face and I will not move forward with lies. She went onto a tangent about DS1, that if he doesn't love her she will never apologize to him or make amends. His love for her should be unconditional. I asked her what that meant. She said no matter what she did, he should still love her and treat her with the respect his Mother deserves. I asked if she felt so strongly about unconditional love, why didn't she feel it for me and not feel the need to hop in bed with OM? She reminded me that I was in bed and depressed and he admired her greatly. I reminded her of his checkered past and that he is a philanderer. She said yes, he normally is but that she was special to him. The conversation went downhill from there, if that is even possible.

I do have a painter friend I can ask about your mold issue. Is it an oil painting? I'll email her right now.