Topic : Is This Normal Social Discussion

I loved hearing that one too m'dear.

No  can't dance. That's tonite, but my leg and foot are fretting so I figured if I really want to heal I'm gonna have to not go. Work is alot really cos I am better and more focused and therefore work harder. I'm spending mucho denaro and have to stay ahead. At the moment I'm behind (where I feel I need to be) and have schedualed some things to be done at my house this week so first things first. It felt sooooo good to feel normal for a day I truely was beside myself. But! All's well in Janetpoo land.

Ya know what's different now though? I could care less about being in a relationship. Could care less. Alot of my friends have been telling me that and I never dreamed I'd get there. I suppose alot of it is not going to the dance in like forever, so I don't have all those guys thinking I'm hot. I am loosing my hair and doing everything I can to stop it from happening, but it is, and it ain't exactly all purty either. So. Now I'm like "A boy? Are you kidding me with this?" lol Kinda like it in single land and don't mind staying here at all. I really and truely think they're just too much trouble.

So tell us stories when you want. Of course I hope it's sooner than later! lol And I'l quit bugging you.  ...or try to anyway. I forgot you where gonna see Cygne. Where'd she disappear to anyway?

we got back last night from a vacation on the southern Maine coast.  A glorious week spent in a small little beach community, almost from another time.  A small grocery, gift shop and ice cream shop and a beautiful sandy beach, what else could a person possibly need?  The days were perfect 10s with the exception of the last, lightening is a very effective beach clearer!  We've been coming to this place since before we were married, some of my family spend time up there and we all try to do it together when we can.  Hubby, the girls and I, skipped the last two years, thought we would try new places and it was unanimous, we won't be doing that again.

Prior to the lightening I stood on the beach to say my goodbyes for the year.  I could just stand there and watch the waves pound the shore for hours (or at least until the tide came for me).  I was on a sandbar and the water would break then spread over the sandbar and over my feet.  I love the way I feel at the beach, watching the waves, makes me feel so damn alive I guess. 

We got home to a runaway cat, broken door lock (had to go through a window) and miserable humidity.  I'm thinking that next year we try and do two weeks.

2 cents time....

Ami, hope you are feeling better.  I'm not sure I could pull off your attitude.  Oh and Congrats to John!

Kelly, what they said and I'm glad that it all got worked out.  Hope you are doing well and happy birthday to Stephanie.  My Lily is the same age.

Neecie, my girls are into the Webkinz thing.  I made sure that I checked it out before they got involved and it seems pretty safe to me.  I think that it was created as a great marketing tool for Ganz, hook them in and get them to want MORE!  The price point makes for the perfect party gift and they have something tangible and access to the WHEEL of WOW!  Oh and our computer is in the family room, along with the TV.  And I pay pretty close attention to what they are doing and how much time they are on.  Everything in moderation.

Right now I am going to hit the pillow, my eyes are closing but I will be back tomorrow to say hi to everyone else.

Boy-ee, what nice weather we're having here!  I would never have predicted this, with all the fires, but the day we arrived, the delta breezes kicked up, pushe all the smoke out to the east and cooled things down.  I can't remember ever having a nicer day in the Central Valley in July.  Perfect, perfect.  And to think it was probably 10 degrees warmer in Denver, and pretty miserable.  I feel pretty lucky!

Wish I could say the same about how things are going with Mom, but it's tolerable so far, and I'm trying to stay cool about it, because we've got a ways to go before we get back home where I can breathe again.  Among other little digs, was the comment she made after I agreed to go have lunch with a friend and her parents, and then go along for her Mom's chemo treatment - about 30 minutes long.  Mom made it very clear that she had told people, and Expected, that anyone who wanted to see me outside the party should come HERE, rather than for me to go traipsing about visiting them.  Was it because I might not feel up to it?  No, "you've come out here to stay at my house and visit with me, and if you're going to take my car and be gone all the time, then what am I supposed to do?"  I was agog, that she would act as though we're not allowed to leave this house without her.  How depressing is that?  So, Erin and I ARE going to go see my friend's mother, and another friend is going to come her with her daughter briefly on Wed afternoon.  And I have one other friend and we have talked (and Mom knows this) about coming out to see her new home and meet her dog, but that has not been planned into the schedule yet.  As usual, Mom wanted to not try to do too much and just be able to relax, but she has SO many things that we must do.  Oh whatever.  I better not keep talking about it, or I'll start thinking I want to go home TOMORROW, and then I won't be able to bear being here another moment, and we have more than a week to go.  So, I'm just going to be Scarlet and say, I won't think about that until August, and just say... whatevah.

Miss you all.

Had to see how much catching up I had to do. Wasn't much, but I accidently wandered to the end of this boards posts and took quite a trip down memory lane with the posts from August 2005.

I even found JPs Bluebird and some instructions from Tap that maybe will help JP figure out how to get her little bluebird back with her posts. I miss him! And I have to kinda scratch my head for a second to recognize Janetpoo's posts without her birdie avatar.

Good luck JP!

Loretta, your vacation sounds like my dream vacation. We spent our honeymoon at Ocracoke Island in the Outer Banks and loved it, quiet, (though lots of tourists but still surprisingly quiet), oodles of gorgeous beaches, and we bicycled all over the sleepy little town. It was great and I want to go again soon. Not sure that will happen but it would be grand imo. Also visted Tybee Island for a quick run through when we were in Savannah for All-State and it made me want to come back for a stay. What is it about beaches?? I stand in the sand just looking straight out to sea and feel sure I have once upon sometime done this before watching for someone. It is a eery haunting kind of feeling to me.

Perhaps it's just meds. ;P

Funny thing is I get the somewhat the same feeling in the mountains. Like I know I once was here. So very odd. Raj and I went to Nickajack Dam and took John to hook up with his dad. He is with him for the next two weeks (possibly three). I usually spend the time he is with his dad in Ky visiting my mom but it just couldn't be managed this time so we met and did the drop off. Raj and I then spent the day at Lookout Mountain, an unbelievable view. We then prowled Chickamauga National Battlefield. It is so very hard to think of so many people being in one place and all the sadness there. Yet like the National Military Cemetery (went there too as my uncle and aunt are buried there) it such a reverent and holy place. Though it isn't anything you can touch actually, the feel of the time in history is tangible in some manner I can't explain.  History just does that to me.

It was fun, but I sure do miss John today. He had hardly been home for me to enjoy before he had to take off again. School is creeping up, he starts Aug 11, so with summer school he hasn't had and isn't going to actually get much of a break. The school systems I really do not feel do kids much justice. They certainly aren't any smarter for all the more time they spend in school than we did. Such a mess. =/

Janet, isn't a day when you feel normal amazing when you have been down and out?? It gives a flash of what life can (and hopefully will) be again!!! I have days I actually think "now this is it, I want this all the time". lol Don't stress over the dancing, it will be there when you and foot are ready to partay again!!! (((hugs)))

Trace, loved the men's room saga!!

Neecie, bless your heart it sounds much like my mom at times. When I was first traveling to Ky, my mom would get really perturbed with me that I would spend my time out visiting my friends. She would have made plans that I didn't know about and I would have made plans that she didn't know about. It was a point of contention at one point. So I know the feeling you are describing for sure.  Hang in there, I'm sure your mom doesn't want you wearing yourself out. And if it is like mine, I'm automatically 12 years old again as soon as I enter the door. lol

Too all I missed, hope your days are filled with fun!!!

Must get to work now, it is a Monday on a Monday. =)

~Ami

xoxox

First, KAK, Trace, JP and whoever I didn't say hi to last night, Hi!

Ami, we also spent some time in the Outer Banks on our honeymoon.  We had planned a wonderful tropical island vacation for our honeymoon.  The day before I was to make the payment to the travel agent I got to thinking.  I was looking at the dollar amount and it was pretty big.  We had the money but I finally came out and said it "why the hell are we going to spend all this money on 2 weeks when what I really want is a house".  Hubby agreed and the poor travel agent missed out on that sale.  We hoped in the car after the wedding with only a final destination on the table...Charleston.  We stopped whenever we felt the urge.  We saw more on that trip and learned more about each other, one of the things we learned was that we liked each other enough to spend that much time in a car together. 

I still remember the man who overheard us talking to the waitress about how we were on our honeymoon.  It was a roadside diner in the south, I think Virginia, when we asked for the check the waitress pointed to a man a few tables away and told us he'd already taken care of it.  He told us that he wanted us to have a great life together and to remember some good old fashioned southern hospitality.  Just thinking about him put a big smile on my face.

Anyway, the beach is my favorite place to be.  The sounds, the smells, the feel of the sand and the water.  When I was a teenager and could finally drive I would head to the beach and if something was troubling me I would tell it to the sea.  More often than not I would leave feeling much better.  It still does the same thing for me.  I am fortunate that I can go just about anytime, the beaches near me are not as amazing as the ones in Maine but I might also take them for granted.  We once lived about 2 hours from the nearest beach, it was much too far for me, I felt land locked.  Can't imagine how I would handle living in the middle of the country.

Hugs all

Oh and I've never regretted not going on the expensive island honeymoon.  That seemingly small choice we made landed us in a wonderful old farmhouse within 5 months of the wedding.  We were lucky enough to buy it, restore it and made a nice little profit to boot when we sold the thing. 

Or Mr for that matter, since I have no idea who it is that moderates us. I used to have the name Bluebird and an avatar of a bluebird. I got a new computer and when I tried to sign on as Bluebird this site wouldn't allow me to. Seems my friends, and of course myself, miss the old me and if there's anything you can do to help me get it back, it would be greatly appreciated. Or! If I could at the very, very least have the avatar put with my new name it would be good too.

Thank you so much for any help you can give me....

because reading your posts is giving me such a warm fuzzy feeling and I wanted you all to know I care very deeply about every single one of you. I am so blessed to have you in my life and I want you to know how much you are appreciated. *hugs*

The story of the guy buying breakfast gave me cold chills!!!! I love humankind!

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