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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 21, 2011 20:52:13 GMT -5
Went to see Tron. It was exactly the kind of mindless roller-coaster ride I needed for a rainy Friday in January.
Julia, I saw Matrix 2 about the same time of year, and had the same reaction: I'm not up to subtleties of plot and characterization right now.
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Post by Lola m on Jan 21, 2011 21:10:52 GMT -5
Hey ho, all! A chilly day today, but better than rain, eh? Should be a good weekend for the Pond Hockey tournament! Here's some pics from the first day! What's going on in your neck of the woods, s'cubie-s'weeties?
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Post by Lola m on Jan 21, 2011 21:16:32 GMT -5
Went to see Tron. It was exactly the kind of mindless roller-coaster ride I needed for a rainy Friday in January. Julia, I saw Matrix 2 about the same time of year, and had the same reaction: I'm not up to subtleties of plot and characterization right now. Cool! So, you enjoyed yourself, then?
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Post by Lola m on Jan 21, 2011 21:22:59 GMT -5
Perfect! We have an "all Buffyverse" cast! Alyson, Stephanie, and Joel. I like it. Now we just have to write the screenplay, and send it to Joss with our casting suggestions. I think the story is great as it is, but we may have to add some supernatural element . . . like the Diane-character has some kind of superpower, to get the needed attention. I have no objection to having superpowers, as long as I get to be a hot chick. Do you think Alyson's (now age 36) gotten to old to play 17 year old me? Maybe Michele Trachtenberg, who's now 25? MT is an excellent choice. Hey, how about the actress that played Buffy-as-a-little-girl in The Weight of the World? Or some of the actresses who played various slayers-in-training in season 7 could maybe work too.
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Post by SpringSummers on Jan 21, 2011 21:34:24 GMT -5
Hey ho, all! A chilly day today, but better than rain, eh? Should be a good weekend for the Pond Hockey tournament! Here's some pics from the first day! What's going on in your neck of the woods, s'cubie-s'weeties? Pond Hockey championships? I didn't know such a thing existed, but it makes sense for it to be in Minnesota - land of a thousand lakes = land of a million ponds, I suppose . . . and then the whole "frozen solid all winter" thing . . . yes, makes sense! Though, of course, to me, Minneapolis will always be a place I remember as scorching hot! (In part because Lola lives there, of course.) It is cold and snowy in my neck of the woods, with my co-workers exhibitting signs of cabin fever.
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Post by SpringSummers on Jan 21, 2011 21:39:48 GMT -5
I was actually hungry at lunch time, for the first time since Monday morning!
I still ate light (largish salad with one piece of bread), as I my tummy still felt "not quite right," but still . . . progress!
I had some veggie chili and another veggie burger on english muffin for dinner.
So . . . I have high hopes that I will be back to normal this weekend.
Have lots of stuff to do in the house for the fire safety audit and then "house safety audit" for children's services.
Got some "toddler proofing" hints from Rachael on Facebook. I am more than slightly rusty on that stuff.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 21, 2011 22:41:10 GMT -5
Went to see Tron. It was exactly the kind of mindless roller-coaster ride I needed for a rainy Friday in January. Julia, I saw Matrix 2 about the same time of year, and had the same reaction: I'm not up to subtleties of plot and characterization right now. Cool! So, you enjoyed yourself, then? Oh,yeah. I love going to early afternoon showings of movies that have been out for a while; it's quiet, and I can always sit in my favorite seats. And it was a fun movie; all of the actors were well cast and their actual acting didn't show much. Julia, the scenery chewing was the only downer on Matrix 2.
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Post by Michelle on Jan 22, 2011 9:33:10 GMT -5
Hey ho, all! A chilly day today, but better than rain, eh? Should be a good weekend for the Pond Hockey tournament! Here's some pics from the first day! What's going on in your neck of the woods, s'cubie-s'weeties? Fun! I love the pictures, especially the one of the guy cracking up. Pure joy on his face, even though his mustache is frozen solid and his parts are about ready to shrivel up and fall off.
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Jan 22, 2011 10:55:19 GMT -5
I am a Bad Daughter and a Bad Sister. This afternoon during the daily (M-F) call from my mother, I lost it. I told Aged Mum, politely, that it's time she called Ratbag and BiL and leaned on them to visit more often. I also told her that I was tired of hearing what a saint BiL is for driving up once in a while, and for making vague promises of visiting, and even committing to driving her to appointments, which he then breaks, and that I am tired of no matter how much I do, it's never good enough, and furthermore, that I think Ratbag is faking most of her "issues". If she's well enough to stay up all night getting into flame wars on the internet, she can damn well call her mother once a month. Bipolar my . I also reminded her, politely, that while I had to support myself most of my adult life (until six months after Emily was born, when I quit to raise the baby), Ratbag never has - she went straight from something like six years of flapping around in college paid for by proud parents (who couldn't be arsed to go to my high school graduation, so I didn't either) to living with and then married to BiL. She's never had a paying job, just a few volunteer gigs at animal shelters, which she always left because she "couldn't deal with the politics". She says she agrees with me, and that she thinks I do enough *insert hollow laugh from me here*. We. Shall. See. So tomorrow I am, again, giving up my morning out (because Himself has a mythie meeting Sunday afternoon, and one can't expect him to sacrifice his social life) to, with the Husband, dance attendance on my mother, as is our monthly custom. I do have a bit of grocery shopping for Aged Mum, so if I actually get enough any sleep tonight, I might sneak out to a coffee shop for twenty minutes tomorrow morning before we leave. If I'm very lucky. Thus endeth the rant. Sunday we have to drive to Westminster. Kitty needs some art supplies (the ones we don't already have around the house) for her drawing class. Boo hoo, we have to go to Art Supply Warehouse. Don't throw me in that briar patch... The most amusing thing is that Kitty said she had a list, I said we'd go to ASW on Sunday morning, and at the bottom of the list, the first place the teacher recommended is ASW. Hee. Anne, evil bitch monster of death and proud of it If that's being a bad daughter/sister then sign me up! Personally, I think it's LONG overdue. Yay, you for finally speaking up! And on my end, my bank's security company has just called me to say that my check card has been compromised. There have been transactions to, among other things, Olympic Air. Good on them for being on the lookout. on the bustards who stole my number. Moreover, I think I know who did it. I ate at my favorite Japanese lunch place yesterday. They've lately been hiring some very questionable wait staff. The last time one solicited my business for his new, start-up electric company. Now this. And just when I needed to go shopping. Now I'm back to writing checks again. Grr! Well at least Mr. Amex and Dear Little Discover are still working. I wanted to book my air fare to California for PaleyFest in March some time today.
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Post by Sue on Jan 22, 2011 12:12:52 GMT -5
Some years were pay no attention to football, but this year, oh my.
Chicago Bears: 2 kids in Chicago, the other was there 5 years. Favorite SIL, BIL and nephew life long Chicagoans. 5 Vandy guys on the Bears team including the QB (Cutler might be the only VU quarterback to ever go to the NFL -- certainly one of a handful of VU players ever drafted in the first round.)
Pittsburgh Steelers: That's my hometown. Actually, baseball was THE game growing up, way way way back when the Pirates went to the WS. But the Terry Bradshaw era was during my high school and college years. We have another SIL, BIL, niece and nephew in Pittsburgh and it's still the team most of siblings root for, including their kids, even those who now live in NY and VA and TN.
So, sorry Packers and Jets we know who we are rooting for. However, if they both win then we've got a problem.......
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Post by Karen on Jan 22, 2011 13:14:46 GMT -5
Some years were pay no attention to football, but this year, oh my. Chicago Bears: 2 kids in Chicago, the other was there 5 years. Favorite SIL, BIL and nephew life long Chicagoans. 5 Vandy guys on the Bears team including the QB (Cutler might be the only VU quarterback to ever go to the NFL -- certainly one of a handful of VU players ever drafted in the first round.) Pittsburgh Steelers: That's my hometown. Actually, baseball was THE game growing up, way way way back when the Pirates went to the WS. But the Terry Bradshaw era was during my high school and college years. We have another SIL, BIL, niece and nephew in Pittsburgh and it's still the team most of siblings root for, including their kids, even those who now live in NY and VA and TN. So, sorry Packers and Jets we know who we are rooting for. However, if they both win then we've got a problem....... 5 Vandy guys on the Bears team? That is very cool. Wouldn't a Bears/Steelers game be classic? The only thing that would make that scenario better is if they would play it outdoors in either Pittsburgh or Chicago! and in the snow! *happy fantasy sigh*
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Post by Karen on Jan 22, 2011 13:17:20 GMT -5
I am a Bad Daughter and a Bad Sister. This afternoon during the daily (M-F) call from my mother, I lost it. I told Aged Mum, politely, that it's time she called Ratbag and BiL and leaned on them to visit more often. I also told her that I was tired of hearing what a saint BiL is for driving up once in a while, and for making vague promises of visiting, and even committing to driving her to appointments, which he then breaks, and that I am tired of no matter how much I do, it's never good enough, and furthermore, that I think Ratbag is faking most of her "issues". If she's well enough to stay up all night getting into flame wars on the internet, she can damn well call her mother once a month. Bipolar my . I also reminded her, politely, that while I had to support myself most of my adult life (until six months after Emily was born, when I quit to raise the baby), Ratbag never has - she went straight from something like six years of flapping around in college paid for by proud parents (who couldn't be arsed to go to my high school graduation, so I didn't either) to living with and then married to BiL. She's never had a paying job, just a few volunteer gigs at animal shelters, which she always left because she "couldn't deal with the politics". She says she agrees with me, and that she thinks I do enough *insert hollow laugh from me here*. We. Shall. See. So tomorrow I am, again, giving up my morning out (because Himself has a mythie meeting Sunday afternoon, and one can't expect him to sacrifice his social life) to, with the Husband, dance attendance on my mother, as is our monthly custom. I do have a bit of grocery shopping for Aged Mum, so if I actually get enough any sleep tonight, I might sneak out to a coffee shop for twenty minutes tomorrow morning before we leave. If I'm very lucky. Thus endeth the rant. Sunday we have to drive to Westminster. Kitty needs some art supplies (the ones we don't already have around the house) for her drawing class. Boo hoo, we have to go to Art Supply Warehouse. Don't throw me in that briar patch... The most amusing thing is that Kitty said she had a list, I said we'd go to ASW on Sunday morning, and at the bottom of the list, the first place the teacher recommended is ASW. Hee. Anne, evil bitch monster of death and proud of it If that's being a bad daughter/sister then sign me up! Personally, I think it's LONG overdue. Yay, you for finally speaking up! And on my end, my bank's security company has just called me to say that my check card has been compromised. There have been transactions to, among other things, Olympic Air. Good on them for being on the lookout. on the bustards who stole my number. Moreover, I think I know who did it. I ate at my favorite Japanese lunch place yesterday. They've lately been hiring some very questionable wait staff. The last time one solicited my business for his new, start-up electric company. Now this. And just when I needed to go shopping. Now I'm back to writing checks again. Grr! Well at least Mr. Amex and Dear Little Discover are still working. I wanted to book my air fare to California for PaleyFest in March some time today. You are going to PaleyFest? Awesome!!! Sorry about the bankcard breech.
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Post by Sue on Jan 22, 2011 13:28:46 GMT -5
Well, if I was even considering waffling (re treatment) before yesterday's breathing tests settled that: Had pfts (pulmo function tests) yesterday to get a baseline. Unfortunately the tests showed a rather dramatic additional drop from the previous test, just back in Sept. (4 tests in a row over the past year have shown decline -- sort of the reason we were exploring options to begin with) so we are both really glad we made the trip to Houston and a plan for treatment is being put in place. It makes the decision much more obvious and the question of any side effects less important.
Now a lot more is riding on this being effective. At the rate my test values are dropping I"ll be in lung transplant territory in another 2-3 years.
What is so weird is that to meet me on the street even people who have known me for 20 years wouldn't even think I was sick.
Sorry to be a downer and I still feel like I am a very fortunate person in my life -- but just a bit more nervous than I was. And anxious to start treatment.
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Post by beccaelizabeth on Jan 22, 2011 13:47:26 GMT -5
Well, if I was even considering waffling (re treatment) before yesterday's breathing tests settled that: Had pfts (pulmo function tests) yesterday to get a baseline. Unfortunately the tests showed a rather dramatic additional drop from the previous test, just back in Sept. (4 tests in a row over the past year have shown decline -- sort of the reason we were exploring options to begin with) so we are both really glad we made the trip to Houston and a plan for treatment is being put in place. It makes the decision much more obvious and the question of any side effects less important. Now a lot more is riding on this being effective. At the rate my test values are dropping I"ll be in lung transplant territory in another 2-3 years. What is so weird is that to meet me on the street even people who have known me for 20 years wouldn't even think I was sick. Sorry to be a downer and I still feel like I am a very fortunate person in my life -- but just a bit more nervous than I was. And anxious to start treatment. it is a living-in-the-future marvel the number of medical options that keep getting invented. hope they work real good.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 22, 2011 14:42:19 GMT -5
Had a wake up puking in the middle of the night episode last night, first in years.
Feel as if I've been washed in boiling water and left out th freeze dry.
Julia, and so I am punished for not running errands yesterday by having to do them today when I feel all weak-like.
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