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Post by Anne, Old S'cubie Cat on Feb 4, 2011 8:49:24 GMT -5
A few good vibes, please, S'cubies, for something minor - yesterday afternoon we rigged an alarm system over the attic vent, consisting of a bamboo pole holding the screen in place and two large jingley bells hooked to the two top corners of the screen with paperclips. So if something disturbed the screen, the bells would ring and the pole would fall down with a clatter; at the least, we'd know there was something up, and at best, the intruder would be scared away. It all seems undisturbed this morning. It looks as if The Thing in the Attic may not have gotten back in on Wednesday night after all. I'm living in hope that when the bamboo pole fell down that time, it scared The Thing away, and maybe the Critter Ridder spray helped as well. So, that we'll have time this weekend to get the vent properly reinforced once and for all. Honestly, between that and all my other worries, like, for example, still not knowing if Paul's going to Florida on Monday (stupid pointy-haired bosses can't make up their stupid pointy-haired minds)... I could really do with a worry vacation. That'd be a vacation from worry, not an all-you-can-worry buffet, mind.
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Feb 4, 2011 8:53:42 GMT -5
Got my tickets for California. Going to Paleyfest. How very cool!! We're going to expect lots of pictures, missy! Not having a camera, that is going to pose a problem, although I have no problem posing.
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Post by SpringSummers on Feb 4, 2011 9:01:53 GMT -5
Yeah, I think she was something like 17 when he started seeing her. Odd, but none of my business. At 17 it certainly would have been her parents' buisness! But by 24, you're right. If I was her parent, I'd have been very concerned . . . when she was 17 and, IMO, now. But me - none of my business, then or now. I read that she is from Germany, and German laws are different, so it wasn't a legal issue for him to be dating her while she was 17 and living in Germany. But no matter what the laws were, I do believe my dad would have gotten the baseball bat, and stood on the porch steps, daring a 40ish man to even think about getting out of the car to take his high school age daughter on a date. That said, Dad was 51, and Mom was 28, when they got married (though they were also those same ages when they met, 20 days before the wedding).
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Feb 4, 2011 9:05:48 GMT -5
Office is closed! Closed office! Free day off! Having had the foresight to stock up on food supplies, I am sitting here in my fuzzy robe and slippers!
I spent 15 minutes dancing around the house going WHEE!!!
When I called in the office at 5AM they hadn't posted the closing, meaning they intended to open. However, having once nearly been killed in a flood, and with every news station running vid after vid of wrecks, closed roads, stranded people and jackknifed trucks, I've decided that bad weather and tiny cars are unmixy things.
All roads that lead to my office are covered in black ice. Said roads and overpasses--including every road I would use to get to work--are closed. Most of the city is shut down and nearly school, business or city office is closed.
So I declared it a Fukitall Day and went back to bed
When I called in at 7:30 the message was up.
All you S'cubies who are buried in snow, please remember that the cowboys here don't know how to drive under icy conditions. It's not the ice that's so dangerous, it's the idiots who try to drive on it.
Meanwhile I'm going to go have a bagel and a cup of coffee!
WHEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
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Post by Sue on Feb 4, 2011 9:07:14 GMT -5
At 17 it certainly would have been her parents' buisness! But by 24, you're right. If I was her parent, I'd have been very concerned . . . when she was 17 and, IMO, now. But me - none of my business, then or now. I read that she is from Germany, and German laws are different, so it wasn't a legal issue for him to be dating her while she was 17 and living in Germany. But no matter what the laws were, I do believe my dad would have gotten the baseball bat, and stood on the porch steps, daring a 40ish man to even think about getting out of the car to take his high school age daughter on a date. That said, Dad was 51, and Mom was 28, when they got married (though they were also those same ages when they met, 20 days before the wedding). Wow! I've got a daughter who is 28 and if she married a 51 year old after knowing him only 3 weeks I'd flip. The 3 weeks would actually be a bigger problem for me, but I don't think I'd be happy about the 51 either. I guess that was less unusual several generations ago but I"m sure it was not the norm even in the 50's. So your dad was pretty old(ish) when you were growing up?
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Post by Sue on Feb 4, 2011 9:08:06 GMT -5
A few good vibes, please, S'cubies, for something minor - yesterday afternoon we rigged an alarm system over the attic vent, consisting of a bamboo pole holding the screen in place and two large jingley bells hooked to the two top corners of the screen with paperclips. So if something disturbed the screen, the bells would ring and the pole would fall down with a clatter; at the least, we'd know there was something up, and at best, the intruder would be scared away. It all seems undisturbed this morning. It looks as if The Thing in the Attic may not have gotten back in on Wednesday night after all. I'm living in hope that when the bamboo pole fell down that time, it scared The Thing away, and maybe the Critter Ridder spray helped as well. So, that we'll have time this weekend to get the vent properly reinforced once and for all. Honestly, between that and all my other worries, like, for example, still not knowing if Paul's going to Florida on Monday (stupid pointy-haired bosses can't make up their stupid pointy-haired minds)... I could really do with a worry vacation. That'd be a vacation from worry, not an all-you-can-worry buffet, mind. Vibes. My SIL has done battle with raccoons in her attic (twice) and it is a very worrisome issue for her as well.
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Feb 4, 2011 9:11:14 GMT -5
If I was her parent, I'd have been very concerned . . . when she was 17 and, IMO, now. But me - none of my business, then or now. I read that she is from Germany, and German laws are different, so it wasn't a legal issue for him to be dating her while she was 17 and living in Germany. But no matter what the laws were, I do believe my dad would have gotten the baseball bat, and stood on the porch steps, daring a 40ish man to even think about getting out of the car to take his high school age daughter on a date. That said, Dad was 51, and Mom was 28, when they got married (though they were also those same ages when they met, 20 days before the wedding). Wow! I've got a daughter who is 28 and if she married a 51 year old after knowing him only 3 weeks I'd flip. The 3 weeks would actually be a bigger problem for me, but I don't think I'd be happy about the 51 either. I guess that was less unusual several generations ago but I"m sure it was not the norm even in the 50's. So your dad was pretty old(ish) when you were growing up? My dad married my stepmother (a year younger than me) when she was 27; He was an older father, not when I was a kid--but when my sister was. He was 27 when I was born and 57 when she was born. You could say that whatever the best of him may have been, I got it. How old IS Marsters? The mags are saying 48, but I could swear he's a year or two past 50 by now.
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Post by Sue on Feb 4, 2011 9:20:11 GMT -5
Wow! I've got a daughter who is 28 and if she married a 51 year old after knowing him only 3 weeks I'd flip. The 3 weeks would actually be a bigger problem for me, but I don't think I'd be happy about the 51 either. I guess that was less unusual several generations ago but I"m sure it was not the norm even in the 50's. So your dad was pretty old(ish) when you were growing up? My dad married my stepmother (a year younger than me) when she was 27; He was an older father, not when I was a kid--but when my sister was. He was 27 when I was born and 57 when she was born. You could say that whatever the best of him may have been, I got it. How old IS Marsters? The mags are saying 48, but I could swear he's a year or two past 50 by now. The entire time I've been posting here he's always been advertised at 10 years younger than me. So that would make him 48. (arouind 35 when he was first cast as Spike, which sounds about right)
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Post by angelique on Feb 4, 2011 10:20:30 GMT -5
At 17 it certainly would have been her parents' buisness! But by 24, you're right. If I was her parent, I'd have been very concerned . . . when she was 17 and, IMO, now. But me - none of my business, then or now. I read that she is from Germany, and German laws are different, so it wasn't a legal issue for him to be dating her while she was 17 and living in Germany. But no matter what the laws were, I do believe my dad would have gotten the baseball bat, and stood on the porch steps, daring a 40ish man to even think about getting out of the car to take his high school age daughter on a date. That said, Dad was 51, and Mom was 28, when they got married (though they were also those same ages when they met, 20 days before the wedding). Actually, my first serious relationship was when I was 17 with a mid - late 30sih gentleman. My parents were fine with it as long as I was. But then again, I was a very mature 17 almost 18. Just saying.
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Feb 4, 2011 10:59:46 GMT -5
Is anybody watching Face Off? It's like Project Runway with special effects makeup. One of the judges is Glenn Hetrick who, among other things, did the vampire makeups for Buffy and Angel! I'm liking it!
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Feb 4, 2011 12:47:03 GMT -5
At 17 it certainly would have been her parents' buisness! But by 24, you're right. If I was her parent, I'd have been very concerned . . . when she was 17 and, IMO, now. But me - none of my business, then or now. I read that she is from Germany, and German laws are different, so it wasn't a legal issue for him to be dating her while she was 17 and living in Germany. But no matter what the laws were, I do believe my dad would have gotten the baseball bat, and stood on the porch steps, daring a 40ish man to even think about getting out of the car to take his high school age daughter on a date. That said, Dad was 51, and Mom was 28, when they got married (though they were also those same ages when they met, 20 days before the wedding). And yet we all think Bogart and Bacall had one of the great romances of our times. She was born in 1924, he in 1899; she was 21 when they married. Michael Douglas is also 25 years older than Catherine Zeta Jones (and was 14 years older than his first wife). For that matter, my sister is 13 years older than her husband. Now, if he'd dumped her when she turned 21 and found another teenager, that would be a very bad sign. Julia, not, in fact, an advocate of great disparities in age between spouses, especially since I have a birds-eye view of the horrors of being 50 with a spouse in his eighties in a friends marriage.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Feb 4, 2011 12:49:59 GMT -5
Wow! I've got a daughter who is 28 and if she married a 51 year old after knowing him only 3 weeks I'd flip. The 3 weeks would actually be a bigger problem for me, but I don't think I'd be happy about the 51 either. I guess that was less unusual several generations ago but I"m sure it was not the norm even in the 50's. So your dad was pretty old(ish) when you were growing up? My dad married my stepmother (a year younger than me) when she was 27; He was an older father, not when I was a kid--but when my sister was. He was 27 when I was born and 57 when she was born. You could say that whatever the best of him may have been, I got it. How old IS Marsters? The mags are saying 48, but I could swear he's a year or two past 50 by now. No, that's right: he's been ten years and change younger than me as long as I knew how old he was. Julia, it was a surprise to find out ; he was really invested in being mistaken for much younger than he is for a very long time.
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Feb 4, 2011 13:29:18 GMT -5
My dad married my stepmother (a year younger than me) when she was 27; He was an older father, not when I was a kid--but when my sister was. He was 27 when I was born and 57 when she was born. You could say that whatever the best of him may have been, I got it. How old IS Marsters? The mags are saying 48, but I could swear he's a year or two past 50 by now. No, that's right: he's been ten years and change younger than me as long as I knew how old he was. Julia, it was a surprise to find out ; he was really invested in being mistaken for much younger than he is for a very long time. He still looks good, but he's never looked as good to me since he shaved his head on TV. His own hair color doesn't emphasize his best features as well as the Spike look did.
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Post by Sue on Feb 4, 2011 14:07:40 GMT -5
Office is closed! Closed office! Free day off! Having had the foresight to stock up on food supplies, I am sitting here in my fuzzy robe and slippers! I spent 15 minutes dancing around the house going WHEE!!! When I called in the office at 5AM they hadn't posted the closing, meaning they intended to open. However, having once nearly been killed in a flood, and with every news station running vid after vid of wrecks, closed roads, stranded people and jackknifed trucks, I've decided that bad weather and tiny cars are unmixy things. All roads that lead to my office are covered in black ice. Said roads and overpasses--including every road I would use to get to work--are closed. Most of the city is shut down and nearly school, business or city office is closed. So I declared it a Fukitall Day and went back to bed When I called in at 7:30 the message was up. All you S'cubies who are buried in snow, please remember that the cowboys here don't know how to drive under icy conditions. It's not the ice that's so dangerous, it's the idiots who try to drive on it. Meanwhile I'm going to go have a bagel and a cup of coffee! WHEEEEEEEEE!!!!! Houston was on the weather channel -- with videos of 18 wheelers sliding around on interstate entry ramps. It said the surface streets were actually okay because they are on solid ground -- which was warm; but the flyovers were freezing into solid ice in the extremely cold air. Wise decision.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Feb 4, 2011 14:41:56 GMT -5
No, that's right: he's been ten years and change younger than me as long as I knew how old he was. Julia, it was a surprise to find out ; he was really invested in being mistaken for much younger than he is for a very long time. He still looks good, but he's never looked as good to me since he shaved his head on TV. His own hair color doesn't emphasize his best features as well as the Spike look did. Yeah, his features sort of shrink away under darker hair. However old he is, he managed to do some damage to Alex O'Loughlin when they fought on H50. Julia, given that AOL is fourteen years younger and at least six intches taller...
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