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Coffee, tea, and treats are at the buffet. West coast guest waitress is sipping coffee and waking up in the corner.
Newspapers are in their regular spot next to the door.
Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe from earlier – hmmm was that 3 Cafe’s yesterday or 4!)
Cafe is CLOSED – too slooooow…Froggy Bottom Cafe and Lounge is now Open!
Any regular hosts out there that can help with alignmnet etc…please step in if you want…
Clueless with HTML and it’s only 5:20 here PST…
Neeeeeed Coffee…back in 15 or so
As AndiF suggested last night (as I discovered this morning) because I am going back to school, I have been charged with posting a picture of Andrew everyday. Here it is:
He looks so happy, Toni. I love when they just have those two little teeth on the bottom, like a little staple gun.
Those teeth are sharp too! He thinks that biting is kissing.
So happy and cute! Just got a baby fix and that will make me grin all day! There is nothing sweeter than babies…
Sneaks off to corner chair holding baby and coffee…telling Andrew all about the FBC!
Careful, whoever is holding him when the diaper fills up has to change him.
He’s a sweetie!
Teacher Toni is adjusting well to the school environment. We are especially pleased at how well she follows instructions and plays well with others.
You should be very proud at how well you are raising her.
LOL!!! My principal would laugh hysterically at the notion of me following instructions. He would laugh if the idiot wasn’t so busy listening to his i-pod in the cafeteria and the hall, etc.
Well, it was my letter and you followed my instructions. We’ll just let the idiot laugh — Andrew and I are the ones with the excellent judgment.
How could I turn down instructions to post a picture of Andrew? He has brought so much joy to our lives that I just want to share that with everyone.
I wouldn’t have to give any instructions if you were a bit more mother-maniacal and posted pictures more often.
and pinch those cheeks. Adorable!
Good morning.
That’s brutal Sally – posting at 5.20.
Heading for work – hope for a great day for everyone.
before coffee is tough…foggy brain….
Have a great day…
I hate allergies.
But the new George R. R. Martin book is growing on me.
That is all.
and fortitude to read Martin’s series but I really liked Windhaven which he wrote with Lisa Tuttle.
They really suck you in – the first three do, anyway. With #4 it took a bit of plowing at the start. I was surprised by that. I haven’t read Windhaven. I’ll have to put it on my list.
Cafe au Lait in hand…cruising the front page news – of Booman Tribune – of course!
Ooouuuch! Oh, well, I guess winter has officially arrived here in the nort’land.
Blogging from the boonies today (dialup), so 4s may be in limited supply, due to lack of patience on the reload.
So far at the feeder this morning; nuthatches, chickadees, juncos, goldfinches, and Mr & Mrs Downy Woodpecker. So far the herd of 7 deer are sleeping in.
Any body know what happend to the amendment by Sen Bingaman, D NM that was supposed to re-install habeas corpus for Guantanamo?
Fire has been lit in the Lodge Room for you NDD…when you get to higher speed connection…please post photos of the birds. Would you like tea or hot chocolate or spiced cider while bird watching?
I can almost feel my fingers now. It’s so hard to type when you can’t tell if your fingers are on the keyboard or not.
Nice fireplace, sure beats the looks of the oil barrel I’ve been using. My insurance man is unhappy with that now, so I’ll have to convert to a regular woodburner. I like LOPI as I’ve seen them in operation in N CA.
But retail in Fargo is $1700 with a two month minumum wait. So I may use a old Jotul a friend is willing to sell me at a very reasonable price.
Funace oil local is as 2.56/gal, $1.00 or more over last year. My propane went from .99 last year to 1.38, last spot price was 1.48.
I’ll try to get a few bird photos. They seem to know when I’m waiting for them… so smart. I don’t think they like the flash… if I could figure out how to turn that off… digitals… electronics… more to learn, must read manual… one of these years… had one here before… but I’m a tad slow at Espanol, need to find English one.
I envy you being out there in the midwest. I spent some time in South Dakota last year and it was the most beautiful thing – I’d never been to the midwest before. I just wanted to go lose myself in all that grass under all those starts because it seemed so vast and perfect even George Bush and Dick Cheney couldn’t screw it up. (Or find me.)
I’m happy having landed in Virginia; I love being near DC. But I do miss being out in the Black Hills, because there almost every day as I walked or drove around about my business, I’d come on some view that was just so exquisitely beautiful that it made me feel so lucky to be alive, right there, right then. It’s easy to forget that. It’s such a wonderful thing to have.
Where you live, is it beautiful like that?
Dick Cheney can always find you! 😉
I love the prairie, born and raised here, lived in the mountains of N CA for several years, saw much beauty there also, but I’m still in love with the prairie.
Beauty for me, at this location, depends on the seasons, the cloud vs. sky element, wildlife…
The late author Michael Dorris once wrote, “…sunsets that will break your heart.” I can think of some that did.
See my post HereThat’s my short view, actually. I’ll see if I can post my favorite long view one of these days.
I would highly recommend visiting the Badlands of ND. It’s sort of a miniature Grand Canyon. I tell people to avoid the interstates I-94, I-29 as they are the most boring. Almost any other roads traversing the state you will see some beauty.
BTW, if you want don’t want to meet up with BS for Brains #2, avoid SD during pheasant hunting season, as he was just there a couple of weeks ago.
He probably wanted his butt kissed by the-junior-senator-who-must-not-be-named.
That’s a beautiful picture. It’s like a lot of the ones I took, the things I saw. I grew up reading Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books and it’s one thing to read about a thing, but it wasn’t until I was there and saw for myself that I really understood, I really KNEW deep inside, exactly why and how much Laura and her father loved the prairie. How could her mother not get it?!
I’ve been to the Badlands in SD and they were awesome. We climbed up a giant rock thing. I thought I was never going to make it to the top, but my campaign buddies gave me a pull at just the right time. That is what campaign buddies are for. Are the ND badlands connected? This is me sucking at Geography, hehe.
We got used to thinking in terms of “East River” and “West River” while we were out there. Everyone did. But I remember on my second day in South Dakota discovering what an amazing divider that river really is. We were driving along I-90, all the way across the state, from Sioux Falls HQ to our sattelite office in Rapid City. There were farmlands and gentle hills. And suddenly – all at once – we topped this hill and the world went down from there, down down down into this valley with this river and… I couldn’t breathe for a moment. It was the most startlingly incredible thing I’d ever seen. We both gasped. And the guy who was driving immediately pulled over to the side to dig out his camera. And from then on, everything was different.
I really miss South Dakota. I want to go back, some day.
Thanks for the compliment on the photo. Since others have been so kind also, I’m about to do a 8X10 of it… it’s so hard to tell how they’ll turn out sometimes.
Re: Badlands; Well, if you thought the badlands in SD were awesome then you’re in for quite a treat, next time you’re out this way. ‘Cause IMHO the scale and color differentiation of the ND badlands make SD badlands look rather puny.
I envy you being out there in the midwest.
There’s a sentence I don’t see very often.
I think some of us are natural born prairie people and you’re obviously one of them, furryj.
This is my favorite time of year on the prairie, when the grass turns the russet color of a Hereford cow and it looks so soft and alive that I want to stop the car and get out and stroke it. “What a nice prairie you are. Good prairie! Good job!” (I original typed God job, heh.)
“There’s a sentence I don’t see very often.”
Yeah, you can say that again.
Come Jan-Feb furryjester might have a slightly different perspective at -20F, 30 mph NW Alberta Clipper, on the way to the outhouse…
[nah, just kiddin’ folks… although I may have to do one for next year’s gathering, as the porta things are prohibitively expensive when out in the boonies.]
I’ve never been anywhere that cold. We didn’t even get to see any snow while I was there, which is a bit of a disappointment. It snowed in Spearfish right before election day, but not in Rapid City; and we didn’t go to Spearfish that weekend. Snow is still a treat for this southern girl. My biggest “blizzard” was that in DC a few winters ago. I think we got a bit over a foot of snow, twice.
But my thought on hot vs. cold has always been that if it is too cold you can always put on more clothes. But if it is too hot, there are only so many clothes that you can take off and maintain your dignity and reputation. Plus, it’s infinitely nicer to sleep burrowed under a pile of blankets, than to lie on top of the sheets sweating.
“…if it is too cold you can always put on more clothes.” True to some extent, but actual human survival still depends on the circumstances.
It took more years than I care to admit, in order to figure out why I was getting hypothermia while blowing snow off the driveway with a farm tractor with no cab, and no heat.
If one is not moving, and thus generating very little internal heat, then all the clothes, down vests, etc will not prevent hypothermia. Why?
Breathing! I eventually realized my body was slowly being refrigerated from the inside out. (So it helps to breath through a scarf, or mask, to get preheated air.)
And if you are out on the open prairie, exposed to the wind, then the wind chill factor will cool the body both inside and out.
Which is why it is recommended to never leave a stalled auto and walk to that “nearby” farm house, as that farm house is not as close as you think it is, especially relative to the body’s battle with hypothermia.
And than these days, more than likely, nobody lives there anymore anyway.
I’ve heard about people freezing to death like that. I guess if people go by and see a car off to the side they would check? you would hope. Otherwise you’re screwed either way.
Prairie people. I guess I must be one. 🙂 It surprises me that more people wouldn’t be!
I know what you mean. I wanted to… to go out and ROLL in it! (But the grass would probably itch, says my city-self. I grew up in Louisiana where there are a lot of fire ants. And apparently I have some quality that fire ants find especially appealing. So I don’t have the greatest relationship with tall grass, not up close at least.)
I’m sort of a-religious but in South Dakota it wasn’t easy to stay that way. Your typo is apt.
Not to mention the rattlesnakes, but yeah, it looks so inviting and fuzzy and soft and like it’s breathing. Wait. Are we describing a prairie or a Stephen King novel?
Yipes!
lol! Cowboys don’t wear those boots only to keep their ankles from rubbing in the stirrups.
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Australia v Uruguay clockwatch
Result:
FT Australia 1-0 Uruguay (1st leg: 0-1)
Penalty shoot-out: Australia 4-2 Uruguay
Match report soon!
Australia booked their place at next summer’s World Cup finals in Germany after a dramatic penalty shoot-out win over Uruguay with John Aloisi netting the decisive spot-kick.
“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
▼ ▼ ▼ MY DIARY
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The Netherlands will be present with 4 soccer coaches ::
Marco van Basten – the Netherlands
Dick Advokaat – South Korea
Guus Hiddink – Australia
Leo Beenhakker – Trinidad & Tobago
Amazing success for these tiny soccer countries to qualify today!
World Cup Soccer Fans :: Australia Did It!
EU parliament will question FIFA World Cup ticket sales.
“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
▼ ▼ ▼ MY DIARY
Judging from my backyard it is time to either get out the rake and the big blue tarp, or let the leaves joyously pile up and cover up the fact that the grass still needs to be cut. Hmmm…let me think about that for a few weeks…
So beautiful. Fall’s pretty much over here.
That sky is such a deep blue. There’s something so starkly beautiful about bare branches.
Yeah, I found out fast that there’s a reason they call it Big Sky Country out west. Flagstaff also has a local ordinance about low night lighting to avoid light pollution, so you can see the stars out here like it’s a specially designed show at the planetarium. Breathtaking.
Do y’all get a true winter there in NC, or does it just kinda fake its way through the cold season with an occasional frost? I’ve only seen the summer there.
It’s generally in the 40s and 50s but the temperature differential is big so we often have nights in the teens. We have “surprise” snowstorms a couple times each winter ranging from less than an inch to several inches. We have almost no snow removal equipment to speak of so the entire city shuts down until it melts.
Last year less than an inch of snow caused utter chaos as the schools let out early and thousands of people fled their cubicles at the same time to get home to their kids causing total gridlock. It took my husband 6 hours to get home, a distance of about 13 miles. My son got on his school bus at 1:30 and finally got home about 8:00, but during that time the phone lines were all jammed and I didn’t know where he was. Thousands of kids actually had to sleep in their schools and there were abandoned cars everywhere.
My family back in Cleveland all laughed at us, because they had a record breaking snowy winter and only missed 2 days of school, while my kids missed 6.
Some of that sounds familiar.
We get those wild temp variations around here, too. It took me 3 years to learn to layer my clothes right.
And back when I lived in Anchorage, we used to get a Seattle TV station that we sometimes watched in the morning while getting ready to go. We’d be sitting there at the counter having breakfast while there were 6 foot snow drifts outside, with subzero temps, watching Seattle close the whole city because they got 2 inches of snow and there were rumors of possible patches of black ice. And then we’d have to go catch the school bus.
Really nice photo — we always call skies like that (no matter where they occur) “utah blue.”
I notice that there is a bit of a similarity between the pattern of the tree branches and your wiring inside your computer case — taking inspiration from nature?
Not intentionally. But I did once write a sex scene in a novel structured on the Fibonacci series, which I thought was geeky and groovy…until no one who read the novel noticed it. ;p
Here’s where I display my appalling lack of education. Fibonacci? I could just Google it and pretend I knew all along what he/she/it is…but we’re all friends here and you already know how dumb I am.
When I say things like that it makes me look smarter than I really am. Don’t think I don’t do it on purpose.
The Fibonacci series is a series of numbers with some spectacularly interesting properties to math geeks, partially involving a ratio at a certain point in the series called the Golden Mean. Also, there are recurrent manifestations of the numerical pattern as well as the Golden Mean in the construction of nature, like flower petals or the length of human bones relative to one another. You really would be much better off googling it than for me to try to explain it because while I very much appreciate the symbolism of it, I don’t even begin to fully understand the significance of the math.
This pretty much explains it all:
http://www.greatleapforward.com/fib.htm
(My first post in the cafe: sorry to jump in in the middle of your thing, but the mention of italian mathematicians always catches my eye.)
My babies are stirring, got to run!
Glad you jumped in…tea will be waiting when you get back with the babies!
Mathematicians and writers and teachers and moms and dads and crafts people and…..and wow just lots of cool people.
I love all the smart people here!
Are you keeping something from us?
Do you really think I would do a thing like that?
Okay, I would, but I’m not. I’m unpublished and increasingly likely to remain that way.
so is this novel in electronic form and are you interested in having other people read it?
It is on the PC and could certainly be emailed, but I am not in a place where I’m feeling comfortable sending it out.
Briefly, the story is: I wrote stories and books and scripts and such all through my late teens and 20s; wanted to be a writer, probably a novelist in the tradition of John Irving (with a side dish of early Anne Rice). I wrote about 7 novels, I guess, maybe 8, I’m not sure anymore how many I finished. Most of them were very bad. But the one I mentioned upthread was one of the later ones, and it had promise even though it needed some serious editing work before I could even send it to a real editor.
Then I got sick. Real sick. And the worst thing this illness has stolen from me, the thing I haven’t made peace with, the thing that really hurts, is the writing. I lack not only the energy now but also the focus, the ability to craft a cohesive overall plot, characters with enough consistency and depth; a chunk of my former creativity has also just vanished.
So for now, the whole novelist thing is set aside on a back burner of the stove of my life, waiting to see whether things ever get wired up right enough again to cook. It’s still too painful to get too close to it, but I can talk about it casually now without melting down.
If you get to the point where you want to take it up again, I’d be both honored and happy to read it. I even have some credentials to offer since I have a BA in lit and composition, a Masters in Humanities, and have taught comp and creative writing. I’ve also been a technical editor but that experience was more useful in developing skills in controlling macho engineers without resorting to whip and chair than it was in honing my editorial ability.
Thanks, Andi. I’m flattered by your interest and your offer. And impressed with your resume and your…extracurricular skills. 😉
with the whip and chair.
A very similar thing happened to me with my depression, which went untreated for over 10 years and which I am still recovering from. It has totally robbed me of the ability to think clearly and to hold more than one thought in my head at a time. I have tried to explain it to people form time to time and it just sounds so lame. I cannot come up with the words I want to say, and when I read over something I have written it is not at all what I wanted to say but I lack the ability to really express myself adequately. It is so frustrating because I’ve always been such a verbal person, and a good writer and now I don’t write because I suck at it now.
I know you have an autoimmune disease, but do you think you also have clinical depression? My symptoms included severe lack of focus, inability to make decisions and of course no energy. I also lost the ability to feel more than cursory empathy for others because I was so mired in my own pain.
Interestingly, a wide variety of different kinds of chemical imbalances can cause these exact same symptoms. My autoimmune disease does cause some chemical imbalance trouble, but not the sort that can be addressed by the SSRI and anti-depressive/anti-anxiety meds.
I’m as sure as I can be that I’m not depressed in the chemical sense. I occasionally have to battle the blues, but nothing that isn’t a normal response to my circumstances. As an example, I get really down and angry maybe twice a year about being so sick, it lasts all of about 2 days if even that long, and then I bounce (okay, shuffle) right back into my normal mode of being, which is optimistic enough to annoy other people. I think I’m actually coping extremely well, all things considered, and feel fortunate not to be affected by an additional chemical imbalance that would only make everything harder. Not to mention, my capacity for empathy is so great that it could — and I mean this quite literally — kill me someday.
I’m so glad you were able to find a treatment plan that works for you, at least in part. Some of my friends and family have been affected by depression and I know how serious it can be at the same time as no one is taking it seriously. I’m pretty sure chemical depression was a primary cause of my mother’s alcoholism, actually — you know how it was back in the 70s, you couldn’t get help for this stuff.
Went to sleep with rain and woke up with snow. It’s currently covering up the giant sheet of ice that used to be my front yard.
I think the cold front is supposed to come through here (NC) tonight, but right now it’s in the 70’s and I just got done scrubbing the kitchen floor so I’m sweating like a pig. Oh, right, I’m a woman….I’m glistening like…someone who just….scrubbed the floor?
We’ll have our ice storm sometime soon and when it comes it will surely shut down the entire city of Raleigh, and deplete the milk and bread from every supermarket the day before. Sheesh.
The snow I’m actually happy about. The ice less so. This ice storm stuff is just wrong. We didn’t get them very often when I was a kid, but the past ten years have brought at least a couple a season. We’re definitely experiencing climate change here in the north country. I used to be able to cross-country ski for the better part of four months, now I’m lucky to get ten good days scattered across that same period. Give me a couple feet of snow any day. Then I can get out the cross-country skis and have some fun.
My father-in-law, who was raised on a farm, had a beautiful yard and great vegetable garden, believed that you shouldn’t rake up leaves because he thought the ground cover they made helped protect the grass during the winter.
Just in case you wanted a really good-sounding excuse.
Your diary is so much more delicious than mine. You are going to be high on everyone’s substitute list.
Mmmm, pastries! All this food really makes me forget about your sparkling personality and wit.
No contest – you’ve got the touch for FBC! Three diaries that were way off the charts with comments yesterday!
Now that I’m at work and have faster speed I can go drop 4’s in the Marmotini diary!
I just finished peeling an orange when I opened up the cafe window SallyCat, mmmmm, what a great breakfast! I want to dive into the screen and pluck out some more goodies. Have a great day everyone! Here’s something my boss just sent me, it made me appreciate my cubicle slightly more than before:
And thanks to SallyCat for guest hosting. Thanks also to AndiF for yesterday’s cascade of full diaries, and to all the regular hosts.
My head feels like its full of cotton candy today as I try and recover from whatever virus it is that’s been batting me around this week.
I’m currently working on my World Fantasy report and trying to decide whether there’s enough there and if it’s coherent enough for a diary. Once I figure it out and post it, y’all be the first to know. Either because it shows up as a long comment here, or because of a note with a link to a diary.
No tea today, hot lemonade with honey.
I did get around to making a new drink for you. Nope, it’s not a boilermonkey, it’s a
Boilermunker!
Thank you. The munk probably fits in the shot glass better anyway.
but it’s a lot easier to catch and hold onto a chipmunk that a monkey.
But don’t worry, no chipmunks were hurt during the mixing of this drink.
Please check out Tampopo’s Diary about organizing something to protest Alito. We have time to plan it and get a sinergy going that eventually the entire nation can join in on. I firmly believe that this is the time for this…..Crawford opened the door the question the Iraq War and look where we are today. I think that this could be even bigger in scale!
Morning Mrs.SallyCat, and happy first FBC diary….You did a great job, I knew you would..
I am going to run out with my daughter to go to a Farmers Market this morning, but I will see if help is needed when I get back…but I doubt that as the ‘cafe delightful’ people just keep it rolling along.
I’ll bring everyone some fresh fruit treats or maybe some fresh bread….see ya later folks.
Are y’all going anywhere for Thanksgiving? Where are you going? I don’t have my plans yet – I was saving up my $$$ for a family visit at Christmas time, and the election was all-consuming. Now I have to figure out what to do with myself, as my best friends will be out of town.
This is breakfast food for Gooserock. Puget4 because of cholesterol is off the crab cakes, and she never liked raw oysters, so you can all help yourselves.
It’ll be light lunch food for those of you dodging tornadoes at the moment.
In a while I’m heading down the bland asphalt road to the Emerald City without toto —
–to fetch the Good Witch of the Southeast–
–a.k.a. Florida Mom. Of course we’ll swing by the waterfront to grab a seafood lunch before heading home to rural Puget Sound.
Time for my periodic reminder that, as the monorail is fading into history, the project we really need to launch is
100 Sailing Ferries for Puget Sound.
And a blimp or two.
Since it’s lunch time for the East Coasters and Tea Time for our European friends…FBC Provence Annex is now open for lunch and tea…and I’m off to a managers meeting (read snoozer) for an hour or so…
I notice that the cafe is quieter today than yesterday and looking around I see that kansas, katiebird, and olivia are absent today.
Just saying.
How little you know, Grasshopper. That is we, quietly chirruping in the background, preparing to burst into full cacaphonous symphony at any moment when it seems that peace might suddenly break out.
:o)
would like to point out that she is older and wiser than you and that this Grasshopper shtick is thoroughly inappropriate. And even worse is that it is an allusion to one of the worst tv shows ever.
One would think that somebody who is known as a Blue Dot might welcome the change to Grasshopper. (Is it undignified for Accomplished Masters to giggle?)
The Blue Dot is a beautiful and dignified appellation, suggesting the wonders and vastness of the universe. A grasshopper is a bug.
Giggling is always appropriate, except at funerals and yom kippur services.
The Dalai Lama giggles. I guess that settles it. You know,it is those weighty single syllables with that final stacatto closure of the “t” that give the Blue Dot its inherent dignity. Do you watch Boston Legal? I imagine you walking around saying, “Blue Dot” to people you see, like William Shatner says, “Denny Crain.”
Do you feel like you’re sneaking into a closed Cafe after hours?
but I do strenuously object to have my being mentioned in anywhere in proximity to Willaim Shatner. Unless there is a tribble involved.
I just love waking up to our guest hosts. Psst, to everybody else. . .They don’t know it but we’re calling them “guests” just so as not to scare them off from doing this regularly. Secretly, we already think of them as Hosts with a capital letter. Shh, don’t tell them.
Andi. . .I may call you Andi?. . .you got the bath of fire yesterday! Three HUGE diaries, but you rode those broncos like a pro. Blue ribbon to the Blue Dot in the cowboy boots!
you mean, with you and katiebird, holding the lead.
All I had to do was chat and ignore work, two tasks for which I appear to have innate capabilities.
You’re saying that katiebird and I are Accomplished Masters at chatting and avoiding work? Yes, Grasshopper, you have definite potential.
But now I must set a terrible example by going to work. Do as I say, not as I do today.
Aren’t you glad a certain something happened on Gilmore Girls? I was tired of grumpy Lorelie.
What happened on GG? I have class on Tuesday nights now, and I missed it…tell, tell!
Rory put an end to her dishrag stage, moved out of the mansion and in with Lane temporarily, then bullied her way into a job at the newspaper where she interned, is going back to Yale, and made up with Loreli. Meanwhile, Luke found out he has a 12-year-old daughter that he never knew about (she conducted a science fair project using the dna from the 3 men who were the possibilities). Oh yeah, and Christopher called and left Loreli a message saying he has very good news.
Does Luke’s daughter live in Star’s Hollow? Did Jess tell Rory off about her dishrag stage, and that’s what made her wake up? Do we think Christopher is thinking that Rory and Lorelei are looking forward o being picked up and dumped by him yet again?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Does Luke’s daughter live in Star’s Hollow?
She rode her bike to the restaurant but he didn’t recognize her as a town kid, and he hasn’t seen the mother since some time around her inception; so I think she must be from a nearby town.
Did Jess tell Rory off about her dishrag stage, and that’s what made her wake up?
Jess told Rory off last week and that did seem to really help set her on fire but her unhappiness with Emily’s intrusion into her life also was a motivator. I do hope that one result of this will be the end of Logan. Yuck.
Do we think Christopher is thinking that Rory and Lorelei are looking forward o being picked up and dumped by him yet again?
Loreli and Luke had a fight about C’s calling because Luke is very jealous but they agreed to open about everything (this was before the lukette showed up). Previews indicate that C has come into money which he wants to share.
Logan, yuk. This cannot be said too often. I still miss Dean. Also, I don’t like it that in his new show they gave his “brother” the name Dean.
Thanks! I think Logan will be around for a while yet. Ick.
I can’t remember if the daughter lives in SH, but the answer to all of your other questions is definitely yes. Plus, in this ep Luke’s nose was already so far out of joint over Christopher that he could practically sniff his own ear. Oh, and Emily is in high martyr dudgeon over Rory leaving without telling them she was moving out. This is one of the rare times I have a smidgeon of sympathy for Emily. Would it have killed Rory to leave a note saying thanks for the gorgeous apartment and redecorating it just for me and all the meals and the kindness, and also thanks for the job I got because of you, even though I now realize it sucked and so do you?
Somehow I could never imagine Rory as an Emily clone…but I feel sorry for Emily more than I think I should sometimes, because she’s so pathetically uptight.
Sallycat … wonderful cafe today! I’m so hungry right now… Looks good.
I had a late and crappy start to the morning. Running late for work, then once there … call from alarm company … the house alarm was triggered. I had to return home to check it out. Thankfully all ok. But I’ve already driven back and forth to/from work TWICE today!
I’m calming now… Practicing my yoga breathing (took a class – my first – the other week. It was, um, interesting 🙂
Late start today — slept TOO well last night. Just kicked the spouse off the computer; he’s showering and getting ready to head for the clinic before work. I’m going to shower and head off in a bit to book shop and pick up a few other things.
Have a great day, everyone…
Hi .. new here.. only been coming to this site for a lil over a month or so I guess.. but I love it and read it every day!
Seen that it said if your new to introduce yourself.. so here I am (first post ever on this site)
My name is Liz, I’m 26 and live in South Eastern PA.
Again Hi, and this place rocks!
Welcome, Liz! Glad you decided to join in today.
First I have to say that I LOVE your name! I’m sure there is a story there and as a pagan I love learning how people choose to use witch in their id’s! And Isis is one of the best names of the Goddesses!
Welcome to the Cafe – it’s quiet for a while…another lunch rush shortly and then the Lounge and Happy Hour will kick off for all you folks on the East Coast.
Welcome! Would you like some tea or an early afternoon glass of wine?
Welcome to BooTrib and the Froggy Bottom Cafe! Glad to see more 20’s peeps here in the frog pond (i’m 25) Have a great day, hope to see more comments and diaries from you!
or changed my fantasies!
Because of your writing I had you somewhere in your mid-40’s…wise, mature, someone within reach of this older woman’s fantasies…
So – – I’ll have to adjust my image to one of you as young and hot and wise!
[blush]
🙂
Hey, I’m from SE PA too! Welcome!
Welcome to the pond, Liz!
Thank You all for the wonderful welcome!
I take tea thank you 🙂
It’s a name I started using years ago when I first came online. (only used to be in Pagan type chat rooms)
Find it’s easier to keep one name all over then make up different ones depending on where I am.
And I have to agree Isis is the best name of the Goddess 🙂
I had to do mine here because I hate being part of a crowd. (I’m only 5’2″ so it’s really easy to lose sight of me.)
Glad to have you here — both at BooTrib and the cafe.
Hi and welcome, Liz! So glad you jumped in!
Very pleased to meet you Witch Isis! (I’m standing behind AndiF waving hello.)
When not perusing Booman Tribune please drop by the Watersmeet Inn
Over there I’m known as MtnCerridwen. It’s a forum for sharing with all types of witches, pagans, and others with similar ideas.
Getting a little slow on refresh even with high speed…so I’ve opened the lounge….
Let the afternoon and evening fun begin….
Froggy Bottom Cafe & Lounge is now open