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Froggy Bottom Cafe Lounge

Posted by CabinGirl | Dec 26, 2007 | 88 |

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  1. CabinGirl
    CabinGirl on December 26, 2007 at 9:35 am

    Here’s a link to the old cafe with more birthday wishes.

    • Second Nature
      Second Nature on December 26, 2007 at 9:37 am

      Thanks, CG!  

      Are you all recovered from Wii tennis?

      • CabinGirl
        CabinGirl on December 26, 2007 at 9:46 am

        I hope you have a great day today – you deserve it.  Are the kids there?   Is there cake?  Chocolate frosting?

        Re the Wii, I woke up this morning wondering why my back felt like I had been carrying something heavy…and did I mention I am lousy at golf?

        Tennis, on the other hand, is great fun.  And it’s really funny to watch someone else who shall remain nameless get so in to the boxing game that I have to remind him to back away from the teevee…  🙂

        • Family Man
          Family Man on December 26, 2007 at 10:01 am

          And it’s really funny to watch someone else who shall remain nameless get so in to the boxing game that I have to remind him to back away from the teevee…  🙂

          Yea but is it better than watching wrestling? 🙂

        • Second Nature
          Second Nature on December 26, 2007 at 10:10 am

          That Rock Band game is so f-ing awesome I can hardly believe it!  We are now the most awesome-ist garage band in history, having toured all over the country as The Plastic Snakewads (my daughter in law came up with that after her third glass of wine)with C on drums, O or B on bass guitar and the loser on vocals.  We are going to set up practice times twice a week until we can all quit our day jobs.

          Family man – I’m picturing you on cowbell.  Whaddya say?

          • Family Man
            Family Man on December 26, 2007 at 10:15 am

            I think I could handle a cowbell.  But I have to warn ya.  After a few drinks I can get carried away musically.  BTW how do you tune a cowbell. 😛

          • Second Nature
            Second Nature on December 26, 2007 at 10:18 am

            I don’t think you ever know if a cowbell is out of tune, so don’t worry about that.  I’d like to see you get carried away musically.  That would be a fine sight.

          • Family Man
            Family Man on December 26, 2007 at 10:28 am

            To see me get carried away on anything other than a nap is quite a sight indeed. 🙂

            I just realized you talking about a game.  Duh.  I thought ya’ll were really out in the garage.

          • Second Nature
            Second Nature on December 26, 2007 at 10:31 am

            This one: Rock Band – The Game!

          • Family Man
            Family Man on December 26, 2007 at 10:37 am

            That’s pretty cool.  I saw a few songs I wouldn’t mind trying, but where are the Lettermen and James Taylor?  Kids now of days just don’t know how to rock out. 🙂

          • keres
            keres on December 26, 2007 at 3:17 pm

            Bad Joke alert!

            How do you know a cowbell is out of tune?  

            Someone’s playing it.

          • keres
            keres on December 26, 2007 at 3:18 pm

            Happiest of all possible birthdays!

          • CabinGirl
            CabinGirl on December 26, 2007 at 10:23 am

            That sounds really fun.  I can picture you all having a blast with that.  Especially post-birthday martinis.  🙂

          • Second Nature
            Second Nature on December 26, 2007 at 10:28 am

            I think after tonight I’ll be ready to tackle vocals on the Beastie Boys.

          • CabinGirl
            CabinGirl on December 26, 2007 at 10:52 am

            Did anybody at your house get a video camera for Christmas?  I think we need to see some footage.

            I see they have Blitzkrieg Bop on RockBand.  That would be way fun.

          • Second Nature
            Second Nature on December 26, 2007 at 10:57 am

            Owen rocks on that song. He’s got the accent down perfectly.  I was actually thinking of buying myself that Flip video thingey for my birthday just so I can record our practice sessions for future drunken entertainment.

          • Family Man
            Family Man on December 26, 2007 at 11:00 am

            I’m always up for watching drunken entertainment, or even being the drunken entertainment for that matter.

          • Second Nature
            Second Nature on December 26, 2007 at 11:23 am

            I’ve got a lampshade and some fishnets for you, FM.

          • Family Man
            Family Man on December 26, 2007 at 12:01 pm

            I just got back.  I kept getting a crash/dump message from my computer and it took forever to get it to boot up.

            I’m all for lampshades, but the fishnets I’m not to sure of.

          • CabinGirl
            CabinGirl on December 26, 2007 at 12:47 pm

            Definitely you should get the flip.  Order it for yourself. Now.  So we can all enjoy the fun. 🙂

      • shirlstars
        shirlstars on December 26, 2007 at 3:15 pm

        Happy Birthday SN!  Hope it is a fabulous one. I think you’ve had two or three since I last had one. . .pretty soon you’ll catch up to me.  LOL!

        Enjoy your day and know you are in my thoughts.

        Hugs and loves,
        Shirl

  2. diane101
    diane101 on December 26, 2007 at 11:34 am

    “Happy Birthday”, Second Nature, hope you are having a great day and many more to come.

    Cabin Girl, could you please email me with the password for froggy bottom, I am trying to post WW diary but find that I have no links, no passwords and no wagon pic to post, and I can remember very little about doing this, but it’s coming back.  In view of my problems, I think it will be a WW Thursday.  Plus it’s freezing here in socal, and my fingers are stiff.

    • CabinGirl
      CabinGirl on December 26, 2007 at 3:47 pm

      Diane, I sent you an email, did you get it?  I’m afraid it might have been an older email address that I used.

  3. Man Eegee
    Man Eegee on December 26, 2007 at 12:03 pm

    • Second Nature
      Second Nature on December 26, 2007 at 12:17 pm

      I’m accepting birthday kisses! 😉

      • AndiF
        AndiF on December 26, 2007 at 12:31 pm

        your inner cougar. 😉

        • Second Nature
          Second Nature on December 26, 2007 at 12:56 pm

          I thought the time was right to let her out for a night or two. 🙂

          • AndiF
            AndiF on December 26, 2007 at 1:19 pm

            Sounds like good timing — what with the college-age kids being home and having lots of friends over. 😀

          • Second Nature
            Second Nature on December 26, 2007 at 1:35 pm

            That’s just wrong (and true) on so many levels…

          • AndiF
            AndiF on December 26, 2007 at 1:51 pm

            I think it would be absolutely sinful to ignore being offered such splendid assets.

      • Man Eegee
        Man Eegee on December 26, 2007 at 12:32 pm

        and foot rubs, and bubble baths, and and and  😉

  4. BooMan
    BooMan on December 26, 2007 at 12:22 pm

    Happy B-Day, SN.  Here’s a present.

    • Second Nature
      Second Nature on December 26, 2007 at 12:56 pm

      Thank you, BooMan.  

  5. Indianadem
    Indianadem on December 26, 2007 at 6:39 pm

    Happy Birthday SN – you auburn-maned cutie, you!

    • Second Nature
      Second Nature on December 26, 2007 at 7:30 pm

      Thank, ID – I’ve had a good one. 🙂

      • Family Man
        Family Man on December 27, 2007 at 4:58 am

        yea but the question of mine is did you drink all of those martinis last might?   :O

        • boran2
          boran2 on December 27, 2007 at 9:12 am

          Spread them out over time, I say.

  6. AndiF
    AndiF on December 27, 2007 at 6:45 am

    Wow, I slept all the way to 6 a.m. (I know it’s tacky to brag but, hey, some accomplishments are just too amazing to keep to oneself.)

    • CabinGirl
      CabinGirl on December 27, 2007 at 7:11 am

      Well, check you out, Miss Vacation Mode.

      CBtE and I are up, but everyone else is snoozing.  It’s very nice.

      • AndiF
        AndiF on December 27, 2007 at 7:50 am

        is sleeping dogs. Fortunately, that’s pretty much the norm.

        Yeah, I almost went into shock when I opened my eyes and saw it 5:56 a.m. Of course, I had to stay up later than usual to accomplish it — which is good because I’m in training for New Year’s Eve.

        • olivia
          olivia on December 27, 2007 at 12:51 pm

          🙂

        • CabinGirl
          CabinGirl on December 27, 2007 at 12:58 pm

          I think they exist only to sit near me and give me mournful looks, or get under my feet when I get up to go anywhere else.  

          Got big plans for NYE, have you?

          I just finished knitting one of CBtE’s Christmas presents  that he wanted, and it is so darn cute I can hardly wait until Sunday to post pictures of it in my knitting diary.  I can’t believe I’m giving it to him – I want to keep it.  I should just keep it for me, right?  😉

          • AndiF
            AndiF on December 27, 2007 at 2:30 pm

            My big plans for NYE are staying up until midnight. It’s the secret dream of every geezer. 😉

            You can keep for you and tell him that was the practice one so that the one you make for him will be perfect.

          • Second Nature
            Second Nature on December 27, 2007 at 5:45 pm

            I haven’t made it to midnight in years and years.  I hate NYE…bah, humbug.

          • AndiF
            AndiF on December 27, 2007 at 7:41 pm

            I can do something that you can’t. 😉

            I’m kind of indifferent to NYE but my sister always has a small gathering of people I actually like and it seems churlish not to go (plus her friend Bob generally contributes something unbelievably yummy to dinner).

          • Second Nature
            Second Nature on December 27, 2007 at 8:25 pm

            Well, if there was free food involved I might reconsider.

            I am about to pick up a very very good friend from the airport and celebrate NYE early. Heh.

          • AndiF
            AndiF on December 27, 2007 at 8:52 pm

            Well then you’d don’t need to stay up. Enjoy.

          • CabinGirl
            CabinGirl on December 28, 2007 at 6:43 am

            Making it to midnight might be my dream too.  Does that make me a geezer too?

            I decided I’ll have to borrow it when he isn’t looking…

  7. Family Man
    Family Man on December 28, 2007 at 6:24 am

    We’ve got some thunderstorms coming in this morning and it’s supposed to get up to around 70 today.  Still have some rels here that I thought were leaving last night, but I guess they changed their minds.  

    • Indianadem
      Indianadem on December 28, 2007 at 6:30 am

      Good morning Family Man! I’m up early today for some unexplained reason. Maybe its my great enthusiasm for public works </snark&gt Hope all went well with the rels.

      • CabinGirl
        CabinGirl on December 28, 2007 at 6:46 am

        Hi ID.  I was up earlier (like, AndiF time!), but managed to fall back to sleep till now.

        Are you working today, or are you having some vacation this week with the holidays?

        • Indianadem
          Indianadem on December 28, 2007 at 6:52 am

          Must go to the office today, dammit! We started printing 16K records yesterday and will be at it for another 2 at least. Our software license agreement expires at midnight on the 31st and the new software hasn’t arrived yet. We have to have some kind of record in case the old databases are shut off by our former vendor, but all that printing – boooooring!

      • Family Man
        Family Man on December 28, 2007 at 6:46 am

        HI ID.

        I think the the whole week of Christmas should be made a holiday.  Head back to work after the New Year.  

        Only got a couple of rels left, so we’re not stepping over each other now. 🙂

        • Indianadem
          Indianadem on December 28, 2007 at 6:54 am

          I like your plan, FM! Would you consider running for county commissioner here? The area is quite scenic – not at all flat like much of northern Indiana.

          • Family Man
            Family Man on December 28, 2007 at 6:59 am

            Sorry ID, but that sounds like too much work.  I’d love to see the scenery though.

    • CabinGirl
      CabinGirl on December 28, 2007 at 6:44 am

      Hi FM!  Can I borrow your 70 degree weather?

      • Family Man
        Family Man on December 28, 2007 at 6:47 am

        Morning CG.

        Yep you can, but only if you send some snow.

        • boran2
          boran2 on December 28, 2007 at 9:24 am

          I’ll take that deal.

  8. AndiF
    AndiF on December 28, 2007 at 8:01 am

    Really. I lay back down on the couch after getting up way too early and slept till 7:30 a.m. I’m so proud of myself (and the dogs for letting me).

    Happy Weekend to everyone who has had to work this week.

    • Family Man
      Family Man on December 28, 2007 at 8:07 am

      Ooooh nice moon picture Andi.

      So is sleeping late the packs yearly gift to you?

      • AndiF
        AndiF on December 28, 2007 at 8:28 am

        I swear that moon was 3 times as big as it looks in the picture.

        I think the sleeping late is more of my training for NYE.

    • CabinGirl
      CabinGirl on December 28, 2007 at 8:15 am

      Gorgeous picture.  And kudos on the falling back to sleep.  🙂

      • AndiF
        AndiF on December 28, 2007 at 8:32 am

        Did you go to Spamalot?

        • CabinGirl
          CabinGirl on December 29, 2007 at 2:45 am

          Yes, I did, and we had a wonderful time.  In spite of the crazy Times Square crowd scene.

          We also had a very nice lunch with some NYC friends while we were in town.  🙂  

  9. Man Eegee
    Man Eegee on December 28, 2007 at 1:04 pm

    you’ve got mail  🙂

    • ask
      ask on December 28, 2007 at 6:09 pm

      Just back home – you have reply.

  10. AndiF
    AndiF on December 29, 2007 at 6:10 am

    I guess the FSM is only going to grant me a limited number of miracles.

    Morning/Afternoon/Evening all.

    • Family Man
      Family Man on December 29, 2007 at 7:01 am

      Morning Andi.

      I’m just waiting on coffee.  

      • AndiF
        AndiF on December 29, 2007 at 7:26 am

        If you don’t have it by now, you must have biggest slacker of a coffeemaker in the South.

        • Family Man
          Family Man on December 29, 2007 at 7:33 am

          Yep I’m half way through the first cup.  I need to be half way through a pot to wake up though.

          • AndiF
            AndiF on December 29, 2007 at 7:56 am

            Well, I’ve got to go get ready to meet some old* friends up in Indy.

            Have a good one (pot of coffee and day).

            *as in since 1965 so “old” in all senses of the word.

          • Family Man
            Family Man on December 29, 2007 at 8:04 am

            Have a good one Andi and be safe.

    • ask
      ask on December 29, 2007 at 7:22 am

      Good morning!
      Sorry to hear that.
      I got another 11-7. Woke up as usual around 4.30 – but managed more.

      • AndiF
        AndiF on December 29, 2007 at 7:28 am

        Wow, another 8 hour night — I think I may have had one of those some time in the last decade.

      • Family Man
        Family Man on December 29, 2007 at 7:36 am

        Morning Ask.

        I woke up at 3:00 am, but I did get back to sleep.  Weirdest dream though.  I dreamed I was in a Harry Potter play and waited until 30 minutes before to learn my lines.  Woke up when the play started.  I guess I didn’t learn my lines.

        • ask
          ask on December 29, 2007 at 8:27 am

          Morning, FM!
          Curious minds want to know which role you were assigned.

          • Family Man
            Family Man on December 29, 2007 at 8:29 am

            I actually don’t know.  I just remember everyone was giving me hell for not knowing my lines.  

  11. CabinGirl
    CabinGirl on December 29, 2007 at 8:25 am

    Did I miss everybody already?

    • ask
      ask on December 29, 2007 at 8:28 am

      Good morning!
      Second cup of coffee – young asklet just waking up – time for breakfast.
      How was the show?

      • CabinGirl
        CabinGirl on December 29, 2007 at 8:50 am

        It was so funny!  Much enjoyed by all.

        And now we have all had the experience of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree and Times Square at the holidays, and need never repeat it.  😉  Way too many people.

    • Family Man
      Family Man on December 29, 2007 at 8:30 am

      Morning CG.

      Nope I’m still around, but feeling sleepy at the moment.

      • CabinGirl
        CabinGirl on December 29, 2007 at 8:51 am

        I’m sleepy too.  I think I may give in to the desire to go back to bed before too long.

        Still have rels, or are they all gone now?

        • Family Man
          Family Man on December 29, 2007 at 8:56 am

          Yep all the rels are gone, so it pretty quiet around here.  I think going back to sleep is a good idea.  Doesn’t seem the coffee is getting me going this morning.

  12. AndiF
    AndiF on December 30, 2007 at 7:17 am

    and this is what the inside of my head feels like.

    • ask
      ask on December 30, 2007 at 7:50 am

      Good morning, Andi!
      Sorry to hear of the cold – I had a persistent one the week before Christmas. Still coughing a bit.

      • AndiF
        AndiF on December 30, 2007 at 8:03 am

        I hope you’ll be over yours by tomorrow. If I’m not, I’m planning on just ignoring it.

    • Second Nature
      Second Nature on December 30, 2007 at 8:31 am

      That’s precisely what it looks like here this morning – rainy, misty, cool and breezy.  I’m loving it though it won’t put a dent in the drought.  I think I might test my theory that it is possible to stay in bed all day and not feel guilty about it, provided it never gets fully light out.

      Sorry about your cold! 🙁

      • AndiF
        AndiF on December 30, 2007 at 8:47 am

        Staying in bed sounds like a good way to get all ready for the new year — beats practicing writing 2008 instead of 2007 on checks.

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