Welcome to the Froggy Bottom Lounge III
Make yourself at home. The bar is fully stocked.
Newcomers and Lurkers are welcome!.
Just jump right in and introduce yourself.
Just jump right in and introduce yourself.
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Make the Froggy Bottom your Home Away from Home for the Holidays.
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier)
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Hey! That 4 looks good on you!
sheesh, I forgot how exhausting this hostessing thing is.
I’ve just cleaned up YET ANOTHER fresh lounge for you folks. Please, please, please, keep the jam, honey, syrup and other accoutrements in the OTHER lounge.
I’ll take 27 beers and anything to eat ya got. Gosh I hungry.
Andi got any food left?
Just wait, she’s going to explode soon and you can fight the dogs for a share 🙂
There’s no way that FM would ever move fast enough.
How was the family?
Everybody was just fine. Very impressively the 9 and 11 year old boys didn’t giggle and act grossed out when the new member of the the family got his dinner. 🙂
I assume the new member was eating au naturale?
I’m glad it was fun. And filling. Is Jim as full as you?
He’s (jim, not the new member who was dining a la mom) drinking wine so he can’t possibly be as full.
I’m glad you clarified that 🙂
Tell him to join us. It’s a Holiday (war on Hanukkah ) Party.
🙂
Was it hockey night at chez vous?
I was at a game earlier this afternoon … and I watched the Sens beat the Sabres and the Habs beat the Penguins … and now I’m wtching Vancouver v Minnesota.
So you won’t be eating for a few days then? 🙂
Well, the Blues lost. Again. They were ahead 2-0. And blew it.
The Blues are a sad team.
They have an appropriate name the last few years.
Remember Marvin Barnes and the St Louis Spirit of the ABA? Those were some crazy bad teams. And I do mean crazy.
Pleeeeze, I’ve tried to block out our ABA fiasco. I’d rather remember when indoor soccer was the big sport.
So what have I been missing? I’m sorta busy playing the guitar right now.
Your air guitar?
Nah, my blue Fender Stratocaster. I’d take a picture just to prove it to you, but my memory card in my camera melted. 🙁
Melted? You were talking hot pictures?
Heh, I wish. I think it melted from overuse.
Do you play a lot Psi?
Unfortunately, no. I’m self-taught, so I’m not that good to begin with, but I don’t take any of my guitars to college, so I don’t really have a chance to keep up. If I had the time, I’d love to take guitar lessons.
My 19 yo son taught himself the guitar and I love to hear him play! Unfortunately, every time he comes home from college he sounds better so I think he spends a lot of time playing instead of studying.
Don’t tell him, but I’m getting him a set of harmonicas for Christmas so he can play the blues.
That’s cool. I took my guitar with me freshman year, but I pulled it out exactly once to play. :/ And that was the year when I didn’t even study for anything!
You folks are hard to keep up with tonight. I just saw that some people were wondering what we are up to. KS is light dancing in the kitchen with a cat. I’m writing. Howlin’ Wolf is singing about a Spoonful of coffee. Just a regular Sat night at the homestead.
Oliva, you’ll understand this.
I was listening to a Red Wings game the other night (the loss to your boys, I think) and they were talking about the other teams in the league. The announcer mentioned that a team (I forget which, maybe Ottowa?) leads the league in scoring and fights. Fights! Fights as an official stat.
not so loud … we don’t want Psi to hear us talking about hockey fights … he already thinks hockey sucks … 🙂
And there’s no way that Ottawa could lead the league in fights … they’re pretty well-behaved. It’s actually the Ducks … 🙂
That sounds right. The concern here is that the Wings aren’t scoring enough. I don’t get it. Yeah, they miss Shanahan, but who wouldn’t?
And Stevie Y too is a big loss.
TRue, but his loss was anticipated. The last knee and eye injuries really took a toll on him. He tried to gut it out, but he just couldn’t do it anymore. Shanahan is still scoring like a madman.
b/c Hasek came back … any truth to that?
If the Rangers make the playoffs and don’t massively suck like they did in last year’s postseason, I might pay a little bit of attention. 🙂
tonight wasn’t a good game then — in the not massively sucking department — was it … :/
more sucking …
What’s light dancing?
Lights off, thin flashlight beam, insane cat chasing light.
Good job Olivia!
Is that Family Man driving?
He’s been in to the cooking wine tonight … 😉
Far as I can see, nobody’s driving. Perfect! A magical bus that drives itself.
I’ll bet it runs on jello shots, too.
Excellent work, Miss O!
a magical bus!
It will be a magical mystery boo tour.
And the first run is down to retrieve you and returning post haste to the wildnerness … 🙂
I’d call that an excellent plan — unless I’m back up north before then & I can spare you the overheated Hummer drivers screaming at each other under the palms.
The Catskills roads are so much clearer.
Hope you’ve enjoyed the day, Miss O!
Ok, I’ve been peeking into the lounge now and then and during the day and I swear that I cannot figure out what you guys are talking about half the time…lol…
Has Mannee been around with his hooka…
So, really what’s up.
LOL! We don’t know what we’re talking about half the time. Haven’t seen Manny — we’re doing all this without the hookah.
How are you Diane? Did you bring some peanut brittle? 😉
Yes I did, I brought the cutest little christmas bag, all filled with extra special, wonderful, peanut brittle.
Hey we are having some weather here right now, it’s pouring down rain and I’m so excited. It’s been a long time since we had some good rain, we did get a little downpour the other day, but this is a nice long one.
Plus I am watching Zoolander, of all movies, it’s really kinda kicky.
How you doin?
As long as you’re not having high winds …
I’ve never seen Zoolander — I don’t think I even know who is in it.
I’m hanging, writing some Christmas cards, listening to Christmas tunes, blogging. Trying to keep up with the people in the Lounge tonight — they all must have had a lot of caffeine today 🙂
That would be Ben Stiller — the guy I saw just the other day injecting heroin into his neck in Permanent Midnight. Can’t recall who else is in it.
Hi WW. It’s evening — has it cooled off for you?
Yes, a wee bit — though, as always, the humidity is deathly high (about 90% currently) & the hot-flashes throw it all into an uproar.
I tried to load up the Time piece to see us all, since we’re all Person Of The Year, but the only images loading were of Pelosi & Ahmedinejad. Couldn’t even see the one of the buff, barefoot, razor-shaved, hatchet-totin’ monk, which would be me.
Sounds like you’ve had a good day, eh? No coat required.
I have gotten so lazy about Christmas cards! I used to have them out by the first week in December, but I’m so disorganized now and can’t find where I wrote down various addresses. I’m always jotting them down on a post-it or something and then losing it.
I just counted and this is the 6th cafe for the day, and Sat.’s are usually slow, what is in the water.
I think the last lounge was a record — it was only about 45 minutes until it was at 100 comments.
Hah and double hah! You were counting!
what? I went back and looked. I can’t look?
Hah! yourself 🙂
Beat THAT record sucker!
There’s a lot of sucking going on here tonight.
Mary my dear I can’t beat you record. That should show you how much you are loved here.
But just incase you get to big of a head, I saw your ankles, Hah!
and mary was. Now correlation is not causation but …
it was Psifighgter. He’s been the life of the party. I’ve had to open 4 lounges since 5:30 just for him 🙂
You are Diane. It so good to see you. How’re ya been dong?
I’m so sorry, it should have been how are you doing?
bwa ha ha ha!
requires a meeting of the ISG in order to determine the correct course of action.
Who’s the one next to your mother (?) who looks just like you but dressed like a girl?
That’s my older sister — she’s very femmy.
And where’s the baby? I’ve been having dreams about breastfeeding lately. What do you think that means?
Yeah, where’s the baby?
It’s always either one of my babies from waaaaay back in the day, or just some random new baby.
well, at least its a baby …
who is the yellow shirt (see the little bit of blue).
Closer view — post-feeding zone out.
Just the perfect size to cuddle.
I have a plan. You have a baby and then I’ll breastfeed it and smell its head while you go to work. 🙂
I’m not really much on little babies. I like them much better once they’ve reached the toddler stage.
What a beautiful scene, Andi. Looks like a lovely time. I don’t suppose you’re in that one, as you were on the receiving end of the image, no? I don’t believe I quite see Jim either.
Thanks for sharing the pic. My heart is actually warmed.
No, neither Jim nor I are in the picture, which is very intentional.
It’s going to take some real adjustment on my part to think of our family gathering’s as being heart-warming. — I think I’ll need two or three decades.
I see — ‘you had to be there’.
😉
Well I did have to be there but mostly I just meant we aren’t a real heart-warming bunch — but if you want to be loud, somewhat ill-behaved, and ready and willing to argue — we are the group for you.
Other people’s families always look like they are having a heart-warming time.
Andi I love nothing better than seeing family pictures. I wished I could have been there to say hi ya’ll.
Great pic!
In and effort to remove the feral pines from our property we’ve been offering them to friends and family as xmas trees.
We just brought our own tree in today and have it about half trimmed.
A little while ago Albert figured out there is a tree in the house. I’ll let you know how that one progresses.
it’s funny, but I never think of trees as feral. Only animals.
Poor albert — is he confused?
Intrigued would be a better word. I’m not sure he’s ever tried eating pine needles before, but I’m sure that’s about to change shortly.
As for the feral pine trees, unfortunately they self seed from the intentionally planted ones along our boundries. We have an amazing number of pest species of plants in Australia. Mostly because the English came here and tried to “nativize” the place with everything from home. I understand how foriegn this place must have felt to europeans, and the desire for a familiar landscape, but the introduction of plant species has in some ways been more devastating than the introduction of animal species.
Hey Keres how it going?
Today has been a good day thus far – cool and unhurried.
We’ll probably take the dog for a mosey soon.
hey keres … 🙂
But of course.
I’m guessing that’ll make for some interesting images, keres. Also guessing you should make sure he’s clear on what decorations are edible.
That’s a great idea on the feral trees — seems like a nice win-win.
None of the decorations are edible. Only the treee.
Hi, keres. You and Albert play an important part in FM’s backstory.
I’d notice my appearance. I’ll go look to see what Albert is up to.
I laughed out loud when I got to the Albert reference.
Okay…so which one is allegedly Mary, and which one is supposed to be SN?
SN is the one in red with the flat tummy and I’m the one in blue with the defined arms.
Okay.
The sad thing is, looking at pictures like these, I know that in real life, I wouldn’t ever have a shot with women like this. As I tell my business school friends, I’m already priced out of an asset class before I even take a good look. 🙁
I have news for you — they’re airbrushed.
and ASSET CLASS?
As I said, I make this comment when speaking to business school friends. I’m applying a certain terminology to it.
In other words, if all females composed the bond market, I already know I can’t get any bonds in the A class. I have to start at the mezz debt level.
Yeah, sometimes I can make interesting analogies. 😛
You’re assuming that looks define who is an A class in females. Bad, bad PF.
applying a certain terminology to it
what’s “it” — I thought women were animate?
Maybe the fact that you think of Women as assets is part of your problem.
And maybe the fact that you are classifying women based on their looks is another part of the problem.
I wasn’t referring to women as ‘it’. I also don’t look at women as ‘assets’. It’s a bad analogy, I know.
Should’ve kept my mouth shut, as Teach said below…now I’m really gonna get it. :/
Stop talking now.
Are all your business school friends men?
No.
Geeze I just woke up again. What’s no?
You know you people should really get on my schedule. It would be so much easier.
Hey Psi. I think my daughter is an A and she has a nerdy little boyfriend. She always has nerdy little boyfriends because she much prefers them to jocks or frat boys.
I should point out that my kids are in the back and this was two years ago and she’s since gotten hit by a truck…
The PRINCIPAL life crisis of persons you age is Intimacy vs. Isolation (Erik Erickson!).
You, sir, are showing your stuff: Isolation guaranteed!
If you can’t begin to stop grading women as bonds, for God’s sake, EVEN AMONG YOUR BUSINESS FRIENDS, we know how you will end up! Do you want to have a long-term close relationship based on how much money you earn? Really?
You might want to think about the values of your male business friends. It is NOT ok to talk about women this way among the friends in business school you hand out with. Think about George Allen: This is exactly the kind of thing he did that got him in trouble. Republican-speak!
Sheesh…I was joking. I don’t actually use this analogy on a regular basis. It just came up in a discussion with one person when I was talking about the deficiencies of being a short guy.
I’m glad you said it to us. Because now we know how you think about women.
Alright, so evidently despite my attempts at making it clear what I was getting at, it won’t take.
Pleasure knowing you all. Peace.
This isn’t over …
You can’t continue a conversation when only one side’s around.
Later.
But you’ll be back, grasshopper. You’ll be back.
Dream on.
You’re leaving forever? No. GBCW’s are not allowed in the Lounge 🙂
Besides, you’ll miss me.
Psi get your ass back here right now. Do you think any of us give you a hard time because we don’t like you? Hell no. If you don’t know your are liked then I don’t know what to tell you. I’ve been asleep again, and yes I know, but what the hell is going on!
If you have to talk, say you were just trying to be provocative so that we’d break Mary’s 100 comments in 45 minutes record.
Never walk out when you’ve messed up. You need to face the punishment that you’re due.
I’m trying to explain myself…and evidently, one joke makes me some sort of raging sexist.
Whatever.
Sorry, but your joke reflected an ugly attitude toward women.
Duck & Cover!
LOL, Ok, he’s 21 or something. He has time to learn.
He’s old enough.
Please stop trying to explain. It’s fetal position time. Protect your head & groin.
Look Psi, let me put this in business terms: Not so long ago, I had to buy several thousand dollars worth of goods. The owner of the small business referred to his workers as “girls”, specifically, “my girls”. I kindly told him, that this was extremely offensive to women, and to this professional. And that he had my free advice: Stop thinking about the women who are your employees as your “girls”. Almost any woman will be put off, and professional persons that you meet in the business world will be especially put off.
I told him that in other circumstances, I would not have used his products and would not have told him why.
Psi, Psi. Don’t ever use this analogy again in a roomful of women.
Or anywhere else!
Of course.
Who does have a chance? And who cares. Models ain’t real, my friend. Look around, there are plenty of real women out there.
Damn straight! (So to speak.)
Personally, I wouldn’t give either one of those chicks the time of day. No character at all. Very far from luscious.
so we can check for freckles? 😉
DON’T BLOW ME UP! I like the size my stomach is in that picture.
I took a break to write a diary and this ones almost gone, wow…..so see you on the next one, maybe, gonna go and call Shirl now to gab for awhile!
Geeze I take a nap and now I don’t know what’s goin on.
All right spill it. Have ya’ll been picking on Psi again?
No. Quite the opposite.
Psi walked into a buzz saw that he started up. And then he kept walking into it.
I say we all retire to the new lounge. I’d post a link but I’m too lazy.
I’ve opened SO MANY lounges tonight. sigh.