Random thoughts
 

Since we haven't got a thread to chatter about whatever is on our mind, here goes:

It's COLD! Is it summer yet?

LOL not for another couple months! :)

Doing Christmas shopping a month after everyone else is GREAT! No crowds! (We're doing family 'Christmas' on Friday - and we get to meet my youngest brother's girlfriend whose from Alabama and this is her first real winter! We're taking her snowmobiling, ice skating on a pond, etc)

How do you explain the purpose of ice fishing? Or, if not the purpose, just why people are crazy enough to do it?!

I need a facial.


Come to think of it...
I need a massage even worse.


While I am wishing..
How about a Jaguar.

Here kitty..kitty..kitty..I keep calling, but all that ever shows up is one of my two cats.


Silver

Oooh, here's a tip:

if you need a facial and can't get one for whatever reason, try The Body Shop's Warming Mineral Face Mask. It is heaven, especially now that it's so darned cold.

Oh heck, while I'm at it...if you're looking for fun chapter programming, check out your local 'Body Shop at Home' consultant. Their "Girls Night Out" spa and pampering shows are a blast. Even better, their retail prices are quite reasonable and the products are addictively wonderful. They also are very community and globally conscious and VERY pro-women! If I didn't already sell my beloved PartyLite candles, I'd be tempted to join myself!

Hint for SnowLady, one of my good friends just started with BSaH, and I know she'd love to do a spa show for the CAC if we'd ever be interested.

Hello all-

Did any of you get a lot of snow this weekend? The NE looked terrible! What do you all do up there when you have to stay inside for so long?

Ebay?

Here kitty...kitty..kitty..Dang..still nothing.

Silver

B, you can't go wrong in the snow and cold with a good book (as in, reading for FUN and not school or work), hot cocoa, a cozy warm blanket, and if you're lucky, some good ole Kentucky Basketball on TV.

Yes, that last one was all special just for Sarah. Resistance is futile. ;)

Silver - you are silly! LOL

What do we do inside when it's cold outside? Well. . . . . for me, I pretend to clean/unpack my house! Others find other interesting things to do (which is why you have LOTs of babies born in the fall up here in the northwoods!). ;) Actually, life usually goes on as normal - because extreme cold (-20s and lower with windchills) IS normal up here in January and February. We just make sure to start our cars at least 15 minutes to get it warmed up or have a block heater on the car to help out. I had classes canceled once while an undergrad because it was too cold - mind you it was -50 with -70 windchills (froze an ear as well as mild frost bite).

Sarah

P.S Oh yeah, and with the snow, you just get some really developed back muscles from shoveling the ick left by the snow plows. Oh, and learn to shovel, walk, etc when you can't feel your legs! LOL

Resistence works when you don't have cable or an antenna for your TV!! :P I can't rightly head over to my parents' house to watch a basketball game - "Gee Mom, I just need to watch this game because my friends down south are making me watch college basketball!" She would SO send me back home!! ("Don't you have anything better than you need to work on at your house? How are your classes coming? How is your unpacking/cleaning going? Do you have your dining room floor refinished yet? Etc.")

Here kitty..kitty..kitty..Dang..nothing

Sarah, did you take my Jaguar when you moved?

Silver

Sounds like some of the stuff we do when we are locked in during a hurricane. (except we have no power and it is 100 degrees inside).....

I can't imagine any temperature below O! :eek: When I was in high school, they cancelled class because it got down to 20 (couldn't operate the buses)! Actually this past week I heard on the radio that Miami did get snow flurries back in 1978, and people were going crazy. I guess if you are used to a lot of snow, then it is no big deal. But do your cars get messed up when they are totally covered in snow?

Nah, but I just bought a new battery for the mom-mobile and it sleeps in a garage at night.

I didn't take your kitty. . . I just have a Porsche sitting in my garage right now (seriously).

I have a block heater on my car - and it too sleeps in the garage (which it is very happy to sleep there after having not been in a garage for an entire year! You also make sure that you have an ice scraper in your car (with a snow brush attached). Oh yeah, you also make sure that your washer fluid is full so you don't run out while you are driving home from LaCrosse on the back roads (cuz there isn't any other way to go!) and can't really see out the windshield because of the salt! I don't think my baby could handle NOT living in winter (she's only been in WI, MI, IN, and KY - but sat most of the summer in KY because her clutch able went out).

You have a Porsche? Oh my. Oh my. I think that I will live at your house!

Sad face. I am out of Diet Coke!
Silver

I WISH it were mine! LOL I'm just letting my garage be used. It actually belongs to one of the officers with whom my brother works - I DO have the key, though! It was up here to get the clutch fixed - which it was.

You can come up and live at my house if you would like - I'll even clean it up for you! LOL You can help me make my house an AOII house - I'm thinking of how to decorate so I think AOII would be perfect! I'd even let you have Diet Coke in my house! LOL

Sarah

Might my mom actually have gotten me something frivolous (like and AOII piece of jewelry I put on my wish list!) for Christmas?! There were little jewelry like boxes under the tream with my name on them. . .

I get to meet my brother's girlfriend on Thursday!! This is really the only girlfriend that he has brought to meet the family. We're borrowing a snowmobile so Brian can take her for a ride as well as ice skating, hanging out with the girls (my cousins daughters), etc. Yeah!! :)

Silver, I'm so sorry you are out of Diet Coke. Hopefully you have rectified this grave situation by this time of night.

If you come up to Ohio I will gladly share my Diet Coke with you.

Thankfully, this dire situation was rectified before I began having withdrawal symptoms. Mr. Silver drove out to Wal-mart in the middle of the night just to get me a case of "baby bottles" of DC.
Much like my "faux jewelry allergy," my Diet Coke withdrawals can cause all manner of symptoms including general household distress!
AOIIalum, you had better watch out! You never know when SilverMom and I might just randomly show up! ;)
Beryana, here is hoping that you have MANY AOII treats under the tree! I will gladly help you decorate your AOII House! I think we will stop just shy of an AOII toilet brush (Stella rolls in her grave at the idea...)
Much happiness to my sisters.
Silver

Trust me ladies, you DO NOT want to encounter me without a ready supply of Diet Coke. It's a terribly frightening sight.

I'm glad Mr. Silver takes such good care of you!

PS--You so know that the welcome mat is out, as long as you can tolerate a spoiled rotten 80lb. puppy girl who thinks she's queen of the castle :D

Yeah! A national disaster has be averted! LOL Mr. Silver IS very good to you - where can I find me one?! LOL

I would make it stop before getting an AOII toilet brush (what would Shelli say if we called her up and suggested a TOILET BRUSH for the emporium?!) Though, my bathroom is various shades a blue - which red roses looks beautifully against. Most of the rest of my house is a cream (you know, the neutral colors to sell a house type colors!) except the kitchen which is just plain ugly right now (but can't afford the redo of the kitchen quite yet - and the roof will have to come first!) Anyway, I digress! So, Silver, when are you coming up to help decorate my house?! LOL

Snark is just a glorious word.

Watching an 18 month old little girl teeter around in heels and pearls is precious - not that she isn't any other time!

Today has been one of those days that I'm just beyond blessed to be an AOII.

Curling is actually a tough sport (and NOT just to understand!)!! It really takes skill and talent to even just balance while sliding down the ice - skill and talent, I might add, that I DON'T have (I twisted my knee attempting to slide the stone down the ice yesterday).

Speaking of curling, the movie called Men with Brooms was utterly hysterical...
Silver

Never rely on common sense when dealing the a payroll department ARGH!!!!

Doing income taxes is fun - watching the refund $$ amount increase is the best! (yes, I'm getting a rather large refund and I'm EXCITED because then I can actually put something into savings, pay property taxes, etc. :) )

It would be so nice to get some sleep right now!

I'm going to physically injure the next person who tells me to "sleep when the baby sleeps"--and do exactly what with the other two? IF I could sleep through the chaos that they cause, I'm quite certain I would wake up to find the house in shambles (not that it isn't already).

She's six weeks old now...isn't it time for her to sleep through the night?!

Oh lovely! Just what I wanted to hear! lol

I'm sorry it's so rough. I'm sure I'll be crying on your shoulder in 100 days!

Popular people always have full mailboxes! (Silver, clean out your mailbox!!!)

Woops! Sorry. Fixed.
Silver

And by then she will hopefully be sleeping through the night so that I can stay awake enough to let you!

I took her for a weight check today and she's now 10 lbs. 2 oz.--usually right around the time they hit 10 lbs. is when the blessed event occurs (at least mine have been that way). I'm very hopeful!

I'm heading to My Old Kentucky Home for the weekend! Bye everyone!

I just left Nu Beta's Ritual workshop with a member of the RTJ (Or is it RJT) anyway committee! It was awesome! So glad our members loved it too! :)