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Post by kristalina on Aug 30, 2014 16:35:21 GMT
not in my town, but I've recently seen them for the first time and I liked them!
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Post by kristalina on Aug 30, 2014 2:29:47 GMT
wow, that's pretty amazing. Stories like that make me happy actually, he did it his way.
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Post by kristalina on Aug 29, 2014 22:49:15 GMT
yes, we have never followed popular fashion rules in my family.
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Post by kristalina on Aug 29, 2014 15:39:45 GMT
Yes, Allipeas. She and her family moved to Morocco. I tried to contact her when 2peas closed but I never heard back from her. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk OOOOH, I remember they moved to Morocco to work in her dh's parent's school, but I didn't realize it was because of or partly because of anti-Muslimism.
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Post by kristalina on Aug 29, 2014 0:34:12 GMT
And I wish that more of the Muslim community who are not jihadists would speak out. It would help their cause tremendously. But for the most part they remain silent...and unfortunately that silence can be interpreted a lot of ways. Actually this is not true either. Many spoke out after 9/11 and other times but sadly it is not widely reported. And this is exactly the type of assumptions that are being made and Muslims are feeling very hated in this country. We had one on the old board that talked about it at length. They ended up leaving the country because they were tired of it. S.P. - Who was this? I don't remember this happening?
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Post by kristalina on Aug 28, 2014 19:58:49 GMT
haha! I love those pet-shaming sites!
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Post by kristalina on Aug 28, 2014 19:55:50 GMT
It's pretty rare that people stop for pedestrians around here. I feel like I break into a full run and yell thank you. I swear, I've even blown people a kiss before!
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Post by kristalina on Aug 28, 2014 18:45:12 GMT
Ok, I made up the pmail part! I can't believe the only reference I don't get is the beet one. What happened with beets that I missed?
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Post by kristalina on Aug 28, 2014 17:31:57 GMT
oh shit! Is the bandaid on your shoulder a hedge-trimmer injury or something different? edited: dumb question, it's where you got the shot. never mind. to answer your question, I've really only wondered about wood-chipper accidents, not hedge clipper accidents. We had a city employee die in a chipper accident last year and it's really been on my mind.
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Post by kristalina on Aug 28, 2014 17:22:10 GMT
I've gotten p-mails from MissAng and several other peas that she had actually posted a picture of her newly MSP'd lady parts sporting a sparkly new Vagazzle .
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Post by kristalina on Aug 28, 2014 3:43:29 GMT
off to google Twinnies...
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Post by kristalina on Aug 28, 2014 3:30:52 GMT
I was just talking about this today with a coworker. In my head I want to be cremated and have my cremains spread someplace, probably the beach or around my family's tombstones. But emotionally I want to be buried with a tombstone that my descendants can visit, in a family plot where all my family can be buried with me. I could be buried in a military cemetery but then my kids could not be buried with me, and I like the idea of being with them, although again, there are no guarantees they will even want to be buried or anything like that. It's just a romantic, for lack of a better term, notion of all of us being together even in death. I'm not very religious, so the idea of being together in heaven is not a sure thing for me. This is how I feel also. I have written out my instructions - after any possible organ donations are made, I should be cremated. Part of me will be buried in a spot that I've picked out in a State Park and a tree planted on the spot. The other part of me should be sprinkled on my parent's grave. They and my dad's parents are buried at Punchbowl National Cemetery on Oahu. I've loved visiting my grand parents there, then going with my mom to bury my dad and then with my sisters to bury my mom. They were all cremated and we were able to have the 4 of them in one plot. I would never want my body embalmed and buried but I do want part of my ashes with my family so my daughters can visit me there.
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Post by kristalina on Aug 27, 2014 4:28:08 GMT
to clarify, I guess we can get earthquake insurance, but no-one company wants to insure us, we're too much of a risk, our house is on a faultline, it would cost us thousands per year to insure our house Are you near Summit? or the other way SLV?
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Post by kristalina on Aug 26, 2014 6:24:25 GMT
That's great! Job well done Nick! Love that he's still dressing in his own style.
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Post by kristalina on Aug 26, 2014 6:15:36 GMT
After 8 pages, this is still my favorite! Mine too! I went to a willie Nelson concert when I was 6 years old with my dad. My mom was sick in bed and my dad had two tickets and since she was sick and couldn't go he took me. I could pick one souvineer and I chose a pair of tan boys underware with a shiny iron on picture of willie Nelson on the front and willie on the back. Why I chose these I have no idea but my dad tried to get me to choose a t shirt but I was hard headed. My mother tells me I wore those underware almost everyday. I would sleep in different underware so she could wash them at night... I was a weird kid...still am. Ok, that man gets around! I was asleep in my bed at 5 am and my roommate woke me up to go see the sunrise with Willie Nelson - or as he called himself "Tex". I walked out in the living room, verified that Yes, it was Willie Nelson and went back to bed. I'm from Tahoe, she had met him in the casinos after her shift and they partied all night. She kept in contact with him and we visited him at his son's house in the bay area. Didn't get high with him though, but I met him twice.
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Post by kristalina on Aug 26, 2014 5:58:03 GMT
yep. I agree. Lame. They just have to feel important. bleck.
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Post by kristalina on Aug 26, 2014 5:54:39 GMT
I'm so happy for you and your family! You guys have been on my mind. It's a funny thing how people you don't know will just pop in your mind and you find yourself so concerned for their will being. But I think of you and your son every day! Glad he's on the mend.
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Post by kristalina on Aug 26, 2014 5:37:41 GMT
I've seen bigger tarantulas running around loose on Mt. Diablo in Walnut Creek. I don't get out of my car. kristalina, so did your DD find a place in SF? It looks beautiful from what's in the photo. About those tarantulas, I forgot, one year when the girls were little, we heard they were above ground for mating and running around all over Mt. Tam. and drove up there to look for them. We didn't find any but it sure was pretty up there. Yes, Lucy!!! what a relief, she's all settled in. - after answering probably 100+ Craigslist ads for rooms in other people's apartments, we were driving down the street and saw a For Rent sign in the window of the cutest house on the planet (dd's words, it's pink) and stopped and rented it right then and there. It didn't take her very long to find roommates, so many kids answered the ad. They had probably 50-75 people respond in the first few days. No wonder she couldn't find a room. So now I'm having fun helping her furnish it. And my other dd drove away today headed for new place in Santa Barbara. I'm kindof a mess! (the one with the dog above.) Here's the pink house: (it is adorable, right?)
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Post by kristalina on Aug 26, 2014 5:26:03 GMT
Congratulations! that's pretty cool!
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Post by kristalina on Aug 26, 2014 5:16:35 GMT
I hope everyone is OK. We didn't feel it (in the Santa Cruz area) but I'm remembering 1989 and how horrible it was. We're close to you - Santa Cruz Mountains. Dh and I felt it, but thought it was one of the dogs (sleeping between us) twitching in their sleep. Hey SC County people! HI ! I didn't feel it either - in Watsonville. But I will never ever forget the Loma Prieta quake. I love talking to people about it, everyone remembers exactly where they were and what they were doing. I remember it like it was yesterday.
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Post by kristalina on Aug 26, 2014 5:02:32 GMT
Ok, I'm in Ca and I've never seen a spider that big! I hope you live very far away from me!!! It took me over an hour to upload some pics to a hosting site. what a pita. Is there a way to choose a picture from your computer instead of a pic hosting site? Rusty at the beach: DD2 and her main man: and this is dd [HASH]1 in her first apartment - about 2 weeks ago:
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Post by kristalina on Aug 26, 2014 3:37:49 GMT
I'm not sure if this will show, but this "little" guy came walking up the sidewalk last week. From what I read, it's not poisonous and just a lonely male looking for a mate. It scared the bejesus out of us, never seen one that wasn't behind glass. Probably not the summer image you had in mind. holy cow, where do you live? that thing was fast!!
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Post by kristalina on Aug 26, 2014 3:24:35 GMT
I get a sparkely silver zig-zag semi-circle that starts like a dot and then gets big and disappears over about 1/2 hour. After the light display finishes, my headache hits and I'm down for the count. My dh only gets the ocular part and not the headache. That's what yours sounds like to me.
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Post by kristalina on Aug 26, 2014 2:32:33 GMT
Sending good thoughts! Do you feel sick at your stomach or have disorientation with it? (both of these joys come w/my ocular migraines)
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Post by kristalina on Aug 23, 2014 15:27:24 GMT
LOL! Do they come with black hairs? 'cause that would be HOT! No, it's a hairless wonder. It sprouted during my first pregnancy. It doesn't appear to be going away any time soon. I'm thinking of naming it. Suggestions welcome. I've always thought Trinity was a lovely name for the third, but also Trine if its more masculine.
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Post by kristalina on Aug 23, 2014 6:02:20 GMT
Yea! That is so cool!
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Post by kristalina on Aug 22, 2014 17:53:06 GMT
As Ginacivey said - I believe it literally means that at the end of a pay-period, the money has run out. It means if you miss a paycheck, you're screwed. You have no buffer.
It means to barely make ends meet. When you are living paycheck to paycheck, you have money for the bare necessities - rent or mtg, food, utilities and other necessities. Nothing more.
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Post by kristalina on Aug 22, 2014 17:43:11 GMT
My two big trips in my early 20's were alone.
The 2 week vacation that I mentioned on the other thread to Hawaii that turned into 3 years, was by myself.
And a cross-country trip with a "friend" where she ditched me in Florida and I stayed and lived there for a year was alone. I didn't go running home to Ca, I stayed by myself in Miami and got a job and apartment without knowing anyone. (I intended to find someone to finish out my trip with, up the east coast and across Canada) but just ended up staying in Miami. I lived in my VW van until I got a job and apartment, then worked on SW 8th St (Little Havana) before it cleaned up and became a tourist spot. This was in the late 70's - Miami's big disco club days.
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Post by kristalina on Aug 22, 2014 14:57:53 GMT
Not me, but my younger dd used to do that and always scare the crap out of me! When I was young, I saw my friend fall from the monkey bars and break her elbow, her arm just swung back and forth. I never wanted to play on the bars after that!
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Post by kristalina on Aug 22, 2014 14:55:26 GMT
Do you use Knorr chicken/tomato? When dh's mom showed me how to cook for him 30 years ago, that was her "secret" to good rice. We did have to stop using it after his heart attack because it is loaded w/salt, but it always made great rice. Yes, I use both depending what I have on hand and usually just half of the cube. It's my Mom's secret ingredient as well as mine. Sometimes instead of the tomato sauce we use stewed tomatoes or Ro-Tel, add our spices to it and chop it up in a mini chopper and add it to our rice. If my Mom had neither in the pantry she'd use a jar of picante sauce. Yep, before the salt limitation, I used Ro-Tel also or a can of El Pato but man, the sodium in those is super high. I really wish I could use that tortilla broth, it sounds heavenly! I made tortilla soup once and one of the ingredients was masa and it was just made the soup so good!
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