Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on December 23, 2015, 12:18:39 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes had Christmas decor, and now it is time for you to post until the decorated cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: PINCHBECK!
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First post after BK!
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As for yesterday's TOD, I would have to say doing the one-night reading of WRECKS. I really enjoyed doing a role so different from myself. Also, being able to reel the audience in with the story and then totally kick the chair out from under them. It was great fun!
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As for yesterday's TOD, I would have to say doing the one-night reading of WRECKS. I really enjoyed doing a role so different from myself. Also, being able to reel the audience in with the story and then totally kick the chair out from under them. It was great fun!
I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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As for yesterday's TOD, I would have to say doing the one-night reading of WRECKS. I really enjoyed doing a role so different from myself. Also, being able to reel the audience in with the story and then totally kick the chair out from under them. It was great fun!
I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Thank you, my friend.
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Well, nap or not, I think I need to try and get some sleep.
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Good night, George.
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Good night, Tom. :)
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Extra strong health vibes for those that need them, including family and friend's.
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We should be getting ready to take a tender to Devil's Island, however, we have been told the winds are too strong. We cannot feel or see these winds. Keith is especially disappointed.
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Cilla, do not forget to remove the racks before using the oven self cleaner. If you leave them in they will not glide easily.
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Bruce, would Keith and I know your classmate that is only 58?
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Good morning, all.
At a way more normal hour than yesterday's good morning.
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Thank you, DR Elmore, for the lovely card to wake to.
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Birthday wishes to Craig Brockman!
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I have some things that need to get done around here today, and a Christmas Eve Eve par-tay to attend this evening. Tomorrow, Christmas Eve, the temperature will reach 70 here.
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Christmas will be one of the warmest on record here.
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Good morning, all! I slept late and remember none of my dreams. I'm feeling quite groggy, and I hope the coffee helps wake me up.
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I must make a trip to the market this morning. That's about all I'm doing.
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Good morning, all.
Happy Wednesday vibes.
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Thank you, Elmore, for the card. It was lovely.
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I have too much to do today and work is not one of them.
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It is 61 degrees and we have severe thunderstorm and/or tornado warnings out for this afternoon.
December in Indiana.....??????
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I would HIGHLY recommend that DR TCB and DR GEORGE find Love, Actually to enjoy. It is a very fun film with some sentimental overtones....and multi-story format with some overlapping. Everyone does a nice job.
Liam Neeson plays a widower with a little boy - of course he wasn't a widower when he made the movie, but now he is.....so that makes his part more poignant.....
Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson play a brother and sister.....
Well....please watch it. I think you will like it.
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My question for ASK BK DAY is more of a comment. I think you should talk to your accountant this month about signing up for Social Security/Medicare.
You are at Full Retirement Age, so your earnings will NOT affect your benefit. You should be collecting that money that you put in. It MAY pay your rent for the month or maybe a bit more. It's YOUR money.
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Christmas will be one of the warmest on record here.
An Arizona Christmas!
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We're counting down to Christmas on the Broadway Radio Show with complete cast recordings for your listening pleasure. Today we have WHITE CHRISTMAS, the 2006 recordings featuring the wonderful songs of Irving Berlin performed by the likes of Brian D'Arcy James, Anastacia Barzee, Jeffrey Denman, Meredith Patterson and Karen Morrow. Enjoy and HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
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My question for this Wednesday is for DR Elmore.
Dear DR Elmore,
I have been watching the dvd of Show Boat by the San Fransisco Opera as well as watching the concert version from PBS (it is still online). Also listening to the cd of the revival from several years ago.
I find it interesting how different they are. The first act is pretty much the same (added song or deleted song), but the second act has some changes.
In the SF Opera version, Magnolia is the Broadway star and Adult Kim only appears as a non-speaking part in the last scene. In the other versions, Kim is the one who went on to be the big Broadway star.
Do you know why in some versions there are different songs? "I Have the Room Above Her" is in the revival version. "Dance the Night Away" is in the SFOpera version. "I Might Fall Back on You" is only in the concert version. Were some songs deleted because the show is too long?
Yes, I know McGlinn made an excellent recording. Maybe someday when I place an order with Amazon I will remember to buy it.
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Wednesday morning greetings! Richard and I have some errands and festivities to attend today and we're aiming to be home before some blustery spring weather blows in.
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I have set up and cleaned up several Christmas parties this month. Maybe I will put up my own tree today. I haven't done anything here so far.
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We also received a lovely e-card from DR Elmore!
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My question for this Wednesday is for DR Elmore.
Dear DR Elmore,
I have been watching the dvd of Show Boat by the San Fransisco Opera as well as watching the concert version from PBS (it is still online). Also listening to the cd of the revival from several years ago.
I find it interesting how different they are. The first act is pretty much the same (added song or deleted song), but the second act has some changes.
In the SF Opera version, Magnolia is the Broadway star and Adult Kim only appears as a non-speaking part in the last scene. In the other versions, Kim is the one who went on to be the big Broadway star.
Do you know why in some versions there are different songs? "I Have the Room Above Her" is in the revival version. "Dance the Night Away" is in the SFOpera version. "I Might Fall Back on You" is only in the concert version. Were some songs deleted because the show is too long?
Yes, I know McGlinn made an excellent recording. Maybe someday when I place an order with Amazon I will remember to buy it.
DR Laura, SHOW BOAT has never been in a frozen state since the 1930s. In 1946 Kern and Hammerstein revised it (one friend of mine sneeringly calls the 1946 version the "Carousel version" of SHOW BOAT) to conform to the new "serious musical theatre" format, removing what Hammerstein felt were out-of-date practices and lowering Ravenal's voice from tenor to baritone. This version, which was scaled down after its 1946 Broadway run, became the official rental version and is still available for performances.
In 1980, John McGlinn worked for the Houston Grand Opera to attempt to restore the show to its pre-1946 status. Between 1927 and 1945, there was a published vocal score that included music that was cut before the 1927 show ever opened on Broadway and there was a 1936 film that included three new songs, including "I Have the Room Above." This film, like the show, falls apart in the second half, but it is really wonderful since a lot of the cast is from the original Broadway production, including the great Helen Morgan as Julie.
Then, in 1988, John McGlinn recorded the original 1927 SHOW BOAT with an appendix of everything written for SHOW BOAT that he could locate: the song written for London, 1928, the songs written for 1927 and dropped, the 1936 movie songs, and the 1946 song for Kim, "Nobody else But Me." In the original and all productions with Kern and Hammerstein, the actress playing Magnolia played Broadway star Kim Ravenal, to show how the generations of performers continue, before going off, changing clothes, putting on a grey wig and coming back as Magnolia to join Ravenal for the finale.
The last Broadway revival created a lot of new problems and added one of the 1936 movie songs. I believe the PBS San Francisco production includes the movie song "Ah Still Suits Me" for Queenie and Joe.
Before the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization was absorbed by the Dutch firm Imagem, there were several attempts to have me edit a complete edition of SHOW BOAT. I regret that it never happened.
A lot of productions today want to go back as far as possible to the original but I think the loose structure and the urge to make the show "contemporary" scares productions into keeping more of the 946 edition.
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Appreciate that summary, DR Elmore.
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Thank you, DR Elmore.
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So, in other news, The Fantasticks that was offered to me for early 2017 is off the table because a nearby theater beat them to it by announcing it for early summer 2016. Those people then proceeded to ask me to to do it, but that time period is completely unworkable. Now the first theater has asked me to suggest something I'd like to do in an available time slot later in the summer. But as nice as it is to be wanted (what can I say, we musicians are ALWAYS in demand :) ), I really don't like having my summer months taken up with a large commitment. I got burned out on that some years ago, and prefer fall-winter-spring now. So, I dunno.
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DR ChasSmith. Do Forever Plaid.
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There's always ONCE UPON A MATTRESS
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Thanks to DR ELMORE for the e-card and the SHOWBOAT information.
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I am home from market. I stopped at Barnes & Noble to see friends and wish them a Merry and Happy.
Tomorrow, I will peel a lot of potatoes while the laundry is in the washers and dryers.
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A small show I truly love is Birds of Paradise, a really intelligent adaptation of Chekhov's The Sea Gull by Winnie Holzman ("My So-Called Life" series) and David Evans. The script is good and the score really really good.
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Don't know it, but the descriptions sound great.
(Not that an unhesitating recommendation from DR Elmore isn't enough!)
Hmmm... MTI sez: "Expected general release is within the next three months."
There's a CD. I'll get that.
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Little Shop of Horrors is a fun show with a small cast.
Then there's Silence! The Musical.
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Always enjoy reading about Show Boat. Thanks to both Elmore and Laura.
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I wanna take a nap.
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It's 80 degrees here today -- and it feels great!
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I'm up, I'm up. Helper arrived at ten so I only got seven hours of sleep. I got back into bed after she was gone but didn't sleep.
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Jane, I'm not sure you'd remember her - she was in Fumed Oak and Skin of our Teeth with me - Arlene was her first name.
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Grr. I have been trying to get in contact with the florist in the town where my MIL lives. The floral shop must have changed hands -- their website is under construction, and no one answers the phone.
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Thank you, DR Elmore, for the lovely card to wake to.
Yes, thank you. I will have to open ours once we are off the ship.
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Jane, I'm not sure you'd remember her - she was in Fumed Oak and Skin of our Teeth with me - Arlene was her first name.
Keith said he remembers that she was cute.
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We have returned from a nice open house at the Middletown Historical Society and several errands. The final errand was a trip to Kroger, which was busy but nothing like it will be tomorrow. We're good until after the weekend. I now have just a few stocking stuffers to wrap, cookies to decorate, and a pecan pie to bake for Friday.
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The supermarkets here have been crazy all week, all hours of the day. I had to stop in last night at around 9 p.m. to grab something and it was a madhouse. I had to go at lunch today. Different store, but worse traffic.
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Happy Noche de los Rabanos, y'all. This is the night in which all the residents of Oaxaca parade to the center to the town with their prize radishes to celebrate the harvest and, well, have yet another excuse to party before Christmas.
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And more radishes:
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Wow! Those are some incredible radish carvings!
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Just wrapped (as in drop in a bag) some presents. I hate wrapping paper, but I see that I need it for one gift.
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I would HIGHLY recommend that DR TCB and DR GEORGE find Love, Actually to enjoy. It is a very fun film with some sentimental overtones....and multi-story format with some overlapping. Everyone does a nice job.
Liam Neeson plays a widower with a little boy - of course he wasn't a widower when he made the movie, but now he is.....so that makes his part more poignant.....
Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson play a brother and sister.....
Well....please watch it. I think you will like it.
I think I'll (finally) check this out.
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Back from soup and a sandwich, picking up no packages, shopping at Gelson's (decided to get it out of the way - crowded, but I got in and out in twenty minutes), and banking. Everything is put away, the last of the organization and clean-up went to the garage and all that's left to do is prepare the tuna pasta salad this evening, as well as slice, dice, and mince, not necessarily in that order.
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Page two? Really?
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Page three? Really?
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Getting ready for the do vibes for MR BK.
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Time to cook some cauliflower.
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And it was really deelish!
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I keep thinking today is Thursday and it's really screwing up my life.
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My week has been all messed up, too, DR ELMORE.
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I was going to bake a pecan pie tonight, but we're having a doozy of a thunderstorm. I'd hate to have a power failure with a half-baked pie in the oven...
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Good evening !
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Watching the colorized Vitametavegimen episode of "I Love Lucy"
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It's so strange having a temperature around sixty in December in Buffalo!
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Well, it's time for me to leave work. Actually, it's early, but my friend Margo and I are going to see "Miracle on 34th Street (http://www.fandango.com/tcmpresentsmiracleon34thstreet_184824/movieoverview), presented by TCM. I've never seen it on the big screen (who who's still alive has??), so it'll be a treat. :D
Until later!
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Well, it's time for me to leave work. Actually, it's early, but my friend Margo and I are going to see "Miracle on 34th Street (http://www.fandango.com/tcmpresentsmiracleon34thstreet_184824/movieoverview), presented by TCM. I've never seen it on the big screen (who who's still alive has??), so it'll be a treat. :D
Until later!
I saw it in college on a big screen. What I think is weird is that the movie was released in June or July. No wonder it didn't do well when it was first shown.
But, I think it is a good example of a movie that's become a perennial classic that wasn't intended to be that. I think many movies that were intentionally made to be classics really don't turn out that way.
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Cilla, do not forget to remove the racks before using the oven self cleaner. If you leave them in they will not glide easily.
I remembered that part, just not that I needed to clean it before cleaning it
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I would HIGHLY recommend that DR TCB and DR GEORGE find Love, Actually to enjoy. It is a very fun film with some sentimental overtones....and multi-story format with some overlapping. Everyone does a nice job.
Liam Neeson plays a widower with a little boy - of course he wasn't a widower when he made the movie, but now he is.....so that makes his part more poignant.....
Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson play a brother and sister.....
Well....please watch it. I think you will like it.
I like Colin Firth's story line
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I would HIGHLY recommend that DR TCB and DR GEORGE find Love, Actually to enjoy. It is a very fun film with some sentimental overtones....and multi-story format with some overlapping. Everyone does a nice job.
Liam Neeson plays a widower with a little boy - of course he wasn't a widower when he made the movie, but now he is.....so that makes his part more poignant.....
Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson play a brother and sister.....
Well....please watch it. I think you will like it.
I like Colin Firth's story line
Oh Heck, I like them all
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We also received a lovely e-card from DR Elmore!
I, too received a lovely e-card from DR Elmore, thank you
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Ok page 3 is craziness. You'd think it was the night before the night before Christmas
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I made divinity candy tonight. It turned out, but I don't think I'll ever do that again.
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Have changed my plans due to the weather. So I'm going to my parent's house tomorrow and will come back on Christmas day. It will be fine and I'll be home before the snowy wintry mix Christmas night. I'm not sure if I'll be there for dinner Christmas Day, but I will be there for Christmas Even dinner and will get to spend time with Gabe.
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I don't have a lot to say. Still have to wrap gifts.
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Did I mention I didn't realize what a pain in the butt it is to make Divinity?
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It is, however, my mom's favorite candy, so I made it for the first time. It actually turned out fine but took forever
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I had a client bring me chocolate covered cherries and chocolate almonds today. Yum!
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Oh man I've at least got to get us to page 4
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Is this page 4
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Why yes, yes it is
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Yesterday I worked until just after 9
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Then I drove to BJ's since my gas light was on.... I was very pleased to pay only $2.05 a gallon
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So after filling up my tank I went inside a bought some gift cards and some candy as gifts
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Then I went to Kohl's (which is open 24 hours at the moment) bought some more gift cards and gloves and small presents and finally got home around 1:30 and went right to sleep
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So that us why I was E &t
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This morning. I went to restaurant depot around 7 and bought a 5lb box of cleaned and sliced white mushrooms
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I got yo work by 8 and managed to be out by 8,,,
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Then off to fairway market to load up on British goodies....cadburys fingers, cookies and the like
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But I have not been able to findterrys chocolate orNges anywhere this year
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Chocolate oranges are always in our Christmas stockings....
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I am sorry I have not done any cards this year
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Good evening!
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All is quiet on the western front (or coast in this case).
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Is Vixmom still with us?
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Us? Who is us? Other than Vixmom, I am the only one here.
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Not even any Guests, at the moment.
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Thank you elmore for the lovely ecard that I received today.
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Mi am so glad I am not working tomorrow I have to make christmas
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This morning I got dressed early and headed out to Fred Meyers (Kroeger's in other areas).
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I got there a few minutes after nine.
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I got involved in a little project so that's what I've been doing for the past ninety minutes. We'll see how it turns out.
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I got a handicapped parking spot right outside the door.
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I managed to get in and out of the store in less than a half hour.
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I was back home by 10 o'clock.
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The rain has been torrential today.
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This afternoon I had my physical.
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I drove my car to the doctor, but a boat would have been easier.
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One more post.
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Five!
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My doctor told me I needed a colonoscopy.
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I told my doctor that my blood work would probably show that I was now diabetic.
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We decided it was a draw.
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The rain storm was even worse coming home from the doctor.
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I needed to stop and pick up a bottle of wine as a Christmas present, but it was so stormy, that I decided not to stop.
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Now I found out that the wine store is closed tomorrow.
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I guess I will go to the liquor store in the morning and hope that someone working there knows something about wine.
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Tomorrow afternoon, a friend is taking me to a long lunch at 13 Coins near the airport.
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The two 13 Coins locations are pretty much an institution in Seattle.
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Their entire menu is available twenty-four hours a day.
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They have killer French Onion soup.
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They also have great breakfasts.
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Good evening. Still haven't wrapped the gifts, but there aren't very many to wrap
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Did I mention it was a pain to make divinity?
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They have sautéed chicken livers with mushrooms and onions which is out of this world
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I could go on and on.
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I'm not thrilled about leaving the cats, but I'll only be gone for one night so they will be fine I've done that a number of times and it's just easier to do it that way than to get a cat sitter.
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They have sautéed chicken livers with mushrooms and onions which is out of this world
YUM
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They have the best Joe's Special I have ever eaten.
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Mom asked if I have a plan if I get snowed in. I told her not to get snowed in...I'd go home before it got too bad
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They have the best Joe's Special I have ever eaten.
What's a Joe's Special
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Come visit Seattle and I will take you to 13 Coins.
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Someday I just may do that
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but I'd have to know what's in a Joe's Special first :)
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They have the best Joe's Special I have ever eaten.
What's a Joe's Special
It is spinach, ground sirloin, onion, cheese, mushrooms, and eggs, I think.
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It is wonderful.
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Sounds interesting
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Time to wrap gifts...
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It is a great item on a Sunday brunch.
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I made divinity candy tonight. It turned out, but I don't think I'll ever do that again.
I think that about a lot of things I try -- once.
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Then I drove to BJ's since my gas light was on.... I was very pleased to pay only $2.05 a gallon
I was glad to get $1.66 a gallon today. Happy price.
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They have sautéed chicken livers with mushrooms and onions which is out of this world
I made chicken liver pate for the first time today. The recipe called for onion and apple as well as Calvados in the mix. Oh, and two and half sticks of butter. I hope it turns out OK. I haven't had time to try it.
I will make this or something like it again. It was easy.
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I actually spent a couple of hours this evening trying to clean up this place. I made some headway and I even packed for my trip to San Angelo, but my to-do list is still way too long.
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I made two full-sized tarts this morning, a congealed salad (my dance teacher's favorite), and the chicken liver pate. That's the most I've used my kitchen in ages.
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Hello, everyone.
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I went to the hairdresser today and to two food stores--one for gifts, the other for food for me to eat.
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Since I do most of my Christmas online I had only one present to wrap and I did that this afternoon. I'll deliver it tomorrow. (It's close by.)
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So, Cilla, how'd you like making divinity?
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I made two full-sized tarts this morning, a congealed salad (my dance teacher's favorite), and the chicken liver pate. That's the most I've used my kitchen in ages.
What kind of tarts?
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I actually spent a couple of hours this evening trying to clean up this place. I made some headway and I even packed for my trip to San Angelo, but my to-do list is still way too long.
Where is San Angelo?
Travel vibes for wherever it is.
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Then I drove to BJ's since my gas light was on.... I was very pleased to pay only $2.05 a gallon
I was glad to get $1.66 a gallon today. Happy price.
It's been many, many years since we've seen that price here.
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Sorry you had such a rough time of it, TCB.
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Enjoy your lunch tomorrow at 13 Coins. Have you already decided what to order?
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I'm fading fast.
Good night, all.
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Oh well, it is all good!
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Enjoy your lunch tomorrow at 13 Coins. Have you already decided what to order?
No, I never can decide.
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I actually spent a couple of hours this evening trying to clean up this place. I made some headway and I even packed for my trip to San Angelo, but my to-do list is still way too long.
Where is San Angelo?
Travel vibes for wherever it is.
It's about 3 1/2 hours from San Antonio to the northwest. Thankfully, it's through barbecue country -- at least on the way back. I doubt anyone will be open Christmas Day, when I'm traveling.
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I made two full-sized tarts this morning, a congealed salad (my dance teacher's favorite), and the chicken liver pate. That's the most I've used my kitchen in ages.
What kind of tarts?
One was apricot, the other was fig using my homemade jam.
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I'm beginning to fade.
Good night, all.
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W,ow 1.66. That's amazing
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Good night, John.
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I have no idea what divinity is
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W,ow 1.66. That's amazing
What is 1.66?
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Project on hold until Doug Haverty gets home and does his part of it.
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In the sense that Cilla is using it
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W,ow 1.66. That's amazing
What is 1.66?
The price John paid fir gas
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Back from one wild and crazy Christmas par-tay.
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Falling asleep and have to be at the stores when they open or there will be no dinner nor presents
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Since we're all reporting in, gas is $1.97 at our Costco and BJ's this week.
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Well, that shut everybody up but good.
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Okay, folks, bed calls. And I must answer that call.
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I think it is time to take my medications and switch to my iPad.
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I'm back!
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I know, nobody missed me.
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We have 7 Guests on the site, but not one of them is looking at today.
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I wonder what they are reading?
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Perhaps they are BK newbies who are catching up on his years of daily columns!
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Welcome 1 Guest!
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I'm back from seeing "Miracle on 34th Street." It was great!
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Very much worth seeing it on the big screen. It was all cleaned up and looked wonderful. Robert Osbourne did a TCM intro and outro.
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Just like he does on TV. :)
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Well, it's time for me to leave work. Actually, it's early, but my friend Margo and I are going to see "Miracle on 34th Street (http://www.fandango.com/tcmpresentsmiracleon34thstreet_184824/movieoverview), presented by TCM. I've never seen it on the big screen (who who's still alive has??), so it'll be a treat. :D
Until later!
I saw it in college on a big screen. What I think is weird is that the movie was released in June or July. No wonder it didn't do well when it was first shown.
But, I think it is a good example of a movie that's become a perennial classic that wasn't intended to be that. I think many movies that were intentionally made to be classics really don't turn out that way.
True, when they are billed as "an instant classic!", it makes no sense. :P
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We also received a lovely e-card from DR Elmore!
I, too received a lovely e-card from DR Elmore, thank you
As did I! I replied through the e-card site. :)
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The two 13 Coins locations are pretty much an institution in Seattle.
I've never heard of it...but then, I don't live in Seattle.
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Then I drove to BJ's since my gas light was on.... I was very pleased to pay only $2.05 a gallon
I was glad to get $1.66 a gallon today. Happy price.
Wow! I can't remember the last time I paid less than $2 a gallon for gas.
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Well...
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...since...
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...I'm so close...
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Gratuitous Post #200!
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Well...
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...it's...
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...after...
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...midnight...
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...at...
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...least...
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Slicing, dicing, chopping and mincing are done. Project is now done, about which more in the notes, which I suppose I should write.
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...on...
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...the left coast, so it's officially...
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...Christmas Eve Day! :D
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PAGE EIGHT DANCE!
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Christmas Eve? So soon. It doesn't seem possible.
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Which means we are only one week away from New Year's Eve!
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Which means we are only one week away from New Year's Eve!
I know, right?
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And then comes 2016.
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Do you have to work a full day tomorrow, George?
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Do you have to work a full day tomorrow, George?
Not at all. We get both Christmas Eve day and Christmas day off.
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That is very nice.