Froggy Bottom 24/7 Nightowl Lounge
Man Eegee is your host
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If you behave yourselves, the management will be very disappointed
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier)
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May the 4’s be with you
Oops. The heat must be slowing me down. I was just advising maryb to post photos of her watches so we could design outfits around them, and the lounge was already closed.
Hi Izzy. The heat getting to ya.
Welcome to my world. 🙂
It is indeed. I was raised in Los Angeles, but I never acclimated. I don’t know how you put up with the humidity on top of it. I was in Tennessee for two weeks in May once and I thought I was gonna die.
Heck TN is up north. They don’t get a lot of humidity. 🙂
oh god oh god oh god…
No it’s oh hell, oh hell, oh hell. 🙂
Y’know, I hear autumn in Chicago is nice.
LOL. Geeze I’m catching it from you too Izzy? 🙂
And they all work together … lol 🙂
heh
We’ll get you two yet …
LOL!
I grew up in the desert of eastern Washington. Even though I lived within spittin’ distance of the Columbia River, I never knew what humidity was until I was about 16 and we moved to New Jersey, right where the Delaware River widens out into Delaware Bay. The first day we were there, it was July with about 100% humidity. I thought I was gonna die.
I described them in the last cafe — no camera.
I just saw that — they all sound very cute. I’ve been searching for a watch you can wind. I can’t keep up with replacing batteries anymore.
I have a Mickey Mouse watch that you wind. But it’s hard to wear it to work.
My very first watch was a Cinderella one with a pink strap. I wore it well into my twenties. I wish I still had it.
I had an Alice in Wonderland watch with a blue strap. I still have the watch, but the strap wore out years ago.
It came with a little porcelein statue of Alice. I still have that too.
I wish I’d had the kind of life that allowed me to keep things. There’s very few items I miss, but certain ones I really do. Every once in a great while, in certain moods, I’ll cruise through ebay looking for my childhood.
I had the opposite experience of you. My mother kept everything. Even when I’d try to throw something out, she’d retrieve it from the trash.
She had a hard childhood and one time she was sent off to visit cousins in Iowa for a couple of weeks, when she got home her family had moved to a much smaller house and her mother had given away almost all of her things. I don’t think she ever got over it. So she keeps everything.
Do you force your kids to keep things since you weren’t able to do that?
Yes, I do. My mom and I made a list once and figured out that I’ve moved 57 times. My gran used to throw all my stuff away all the time when I was at school, too. I’d always come home and check.
Now, I’ve lived in my current house 8 years — more than twice as long as my previous record. And I have a very difficult time throwing anything away. I still have way more of my son’s old stuff than I should, although I’ve been pretty good about giving away servicable clothes and toys away so they’ll get some use. Still, the “mementos” are ridiculous.
The “mementos” are never ridiculous. I’ve still got every little drawing and little things my daughters ever made for me.
… and is incredibly sweet.
If your kids start complaining about it, it just means you’ve made them feel secure. 🙂
57 times! I can’t imagine.
Well, moving that much has its pros and cons. On the one hand, I feel sort of at home anywhere. On the other hand, feeling “at home” isn’t all that different from feeling touristy.
On the other other hand, I’ve done way less than my fair share of things like cleaning under the fridge.
I thought you only had to clean under the fridge when you were moving out? LOL
I try not to get too attached to things, but it seems like I’ve accumulated quite a bit since my last move.
post them before or after explaining that Psi will have to “make due” with my Chivalry Training since ej has been in lurker mode?
Any timeframe on the heat letting up, Izzy? It’s going to be miserable until September here
It should have been “make do”. 🙂
better than “make doo”
I was just teasing you.
trying to figure out what happened to nice Mary. I guess she’s still on vacation? 🙂
gave up. The atmosphere hasn’t been conducive to niceness.
It’s actually starting to cool down today. I’m not sure when it’s supposed to break, though. We’ll all be whining here until it gets under 80.
Good night everyone!
And to maryb2004…you haven’t won yet! I will make you laugh…somehow!
see, you have no idea how easy it is to make me laugh. But I love watching you try 🙂
Night Psi.
b/c you slept in this morning?
I guess so, although I’m starting to get sleepy.
I couldn’t believe how full the last cafe was when I got back.
I thought the nice Mary was gone? 🙂
Make sure you dream of wonderful train rides to Chicago … 🙂
I will and I’ll dream about Olivia committing to go to Chicago. Hah. 😛
We’ve got you working on each other!
Your devious Mary. 🙂
don’t forget to give the diaries some love. There’s some great work being done around here.
Nice.
But since I had such a nice time tonight, I think I’m better off staying in the cafe 🙂
that’s why I have my own blog to use as a refuge when the need arises.
Thunder and lightning moving in, gonna shut down for a few minutes until it blows over. Be back in a few.
In here, life eez beautiful…
and so far it sure beats listening to this baseball game.
The 9th inning. I better start digging up the picture of chocolate icing for SN.
… I don’t like it when you’re gone (sorry, more gush).
I agree with Olivia and I’ll gush as much as ya want.
as a kid we used to eat that stuff in bowls with lots of white sugar plus milk.
chocolate frosting?
LOL! No. It’s chocolate frosting.
festival season just ended. It was good. 4 operas: Barber of Seville; Jane Eyre; Hansel and Gretel; and Street Scene. I liked them all except Jane Eyre – to atonal for me.
They have jazz at the botanical garden in the summer and I’m going to try to get to some of that. But after the 4th I volunteer for some local community theater, so my time is limited until the middle of July.
You?
I pretty deficient in opera knowledge, but I did see Copeland’s Rodeo performed in Winnipeg one time years ago. At least I got the drift of that one without extensive coaching.
Not much for music lately, and no big events scheduled between now and the two-day Fargo Blues Fest, at the Red Hawks field.
hard for music. People don’t want to be cooped up inside listening to music. And around here it gets really hot outside, so outdoor concerts aren’t always comfortable. But come october, things pick up.
Some of the locals put together a concert band that plays Sousa marches and stuff like that. They play in the nearby park on Sunday nights. It’s sometimes fun to take a lawn chair over and listen.
sounds like great fun. I rarely hear Sousa marches. I suppose the univ bands still play them now and then.
So what do people do for entertainment all summer long then?
it’s just usually shorter and easier on the ears (less challenging) than the winter. It’s too hot to sit through 3 hour concerts.
And there’s outdoor theater. Shakespeare in the park just closed. There are musicals at this ampitheater in Forest Park. The bands on tour bome to Riverport.
There’s a lot. It’s just hot 🙂
to live in, discounint the temps. Just for the record how hot is hot and how humid along with it. That whole quadrant of the country is a blank slate for me.
usually in the mid to high 90s and 70% humidity (sometimes higher). There’s a cool front right now — high 80’s this week. Heaven.
cardiovascular activity.
Can you even walk without breaking into a sweat, ooops, I mean without perspiring?
and what’s even worse — perspiring doesn’t cool you off because it doesn’t evaporate — so you just end up very wet. It’s pretty disgusting. 🙂
Of course I’m a lady — we don’t perspire, we glow
Ooh, yummy. I’m glad I checked in one last time before bed. Thanks maryb.
he was hopping around the yard at the farmstead last week.
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Hi NDD. I like your friend 🙂
I’ll introduce you to him-her!!!
isn’t “late June” the next few days?
Hi NDD. Looks like he’ll fit right into the pond.
How was your last day on the FCHFHCHCF… whatever that was you were working on so diligently over the last several weeks, months?
… but I’ve got two and a half pages left. So tomorrow will be it for sure! 🙂 How was your day? Are you BNFing or cityliving?
(I sent that e/m btw … I forgot!)
to celebrate… moderately…
Some trepidation prior to the “shoot” but I took some of FM’s advice and had a very brief nap not long before and that took much of the anxiety out of it.
I was rewarded for my efforts afterwards with a great salmon meal with Blue Moon Belgian White beer at Monte’s on Broadway. Best place in town these days.
Hey, once a BNF always a BNF. (Still in the city for a few more days. Sherlock would notice the rapid appearance of 4s vs little to none in the boonies location.)
So did you give her a hard time? What kind of exam did she have to do — full or a specific body system?
I can’t keep up w/ you … you’re always going back and forth!
ha! There’s one now. I was hoping nothing got hard… oops I mean I was able to avoid the usual wisecracks and maintain a serious posture… very difficult for me, as you might guess.
One part of it that was interesting was the cranial nerve testing. I don’t know that I’d ever run into that before. All kinds of weird facial expressions, touch tests, to see if all the major nerves to the brain were funcioning.
And a bunch of body movements to check joints, ya know like the tap on the knee with the little hammer, to see it jerk…
Pretty much exam of everything you can see, hear, touch, (excepting the private area.)
Although yes, I imagine it was ahem hard for you.
I had to do a similar course, but for our examination it was broken up: we had to pull a ‘problem’ from the hat and then do the appropriate physical assessment based on that problem.
So, is your cranial nerveway functioning optimally?
LOL, far as I know. Student-nurse-practicioner determined optimal functioning, however, one or more of my brothers is likely to dispute that, ha!
How many do you have?
thanks be to the spagetti monster!!!
hmmm, that’s tough one. I’d say we’re all wise, but in different areas of expertise.
I think I’d be accurate to say I’m more the Buckminster Fuller comprehensivist of the bunch, while two of the others trend more towards being specialists. And the third might be about half way in between.
to your retreat yet O?
(I got out of it maryb!!! 🙂
WOW! How’d you do that? I couldn’t get out of mine.
… but it involved a lot of complaining and the looming deadline for FCH.
She’s a credit to the FBC. 🙂
here last night.
Canadian sense of humor. We’d understand it better if we could meet her in person. In, say … Chicago.
of falling into place for me if I really want to do something, not always, but a surprising number of times over the “decadences”, but as yet I do not have firm plans.
If all my favorite nightowls decide to go, well, that’d sure put a lot of weight on that end of the justice scale.
much better if Olivia would commit to coming. Wouldn’t it?
I’m counting on you NDD 🙂
Now I’m off to bed. Sleep tight.
I’m working on it!
Are you a bunny-lover?
man could ever meet his match, ha!
>Bunny-lover? – o
Playboy bunnies 🙂 -NDD
Night all. It’s way past my bed time.
Have a good night in the pond.
at least we had a little overlap tonight, at a a reasonable hour, vs 3-4 AM, hah! And ya got to meet my new friend.
lots of thunder and lighting with about five minutes of light rain. Sigh…. be back after I open up a new lounge
I wondered if you were having a big storm with lots of the wet stuff. Too bad 🙁
I’ve yet to see a great one this year.
a hotbed for lightning. I’ve been near (within 200 yards) of three strikes in the past eight years. Think something on the lines of the Independence Day movie.
clean tables and unbusted margins await you all 🙂