Topic: NUMBER EIGHT (Read 72356 times)

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #270 on:** February 07, 2008, 07:35:57 PM »

Quote from: vixmom on February 07, 2008, 07:28:36 PM

I have been dieting since January 2 in an effort to be slim and trim by the time we head up to Canada this August for Vixdad's niece's wedding.

According to Ye Olde Bathroom Scale effective today I am 16 pounds lighter than I was then

Congratulations!

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #271 on:** February 07, 2008, 07:38:50 PM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on February 07, 2008, 01:48:57 PM

...there's nobody like a drag queen/drag-queen designer to properly outfit a WWE female wrestling star!

Was there ever a doubt?

der Brucer

vixmom · « **Reply #272 on:** February 07, 2008, 07:43:53 PM »

thank you Laura... and what is new with your lovely daughter?

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #273 on:** February 07, 2008, 07:48:53 PM »

Quote from: vixmom on February 07, 2008, 07:43:53 PM

thank you Laura... and what is new with your lovely daughter?

Nothing. She works all day. She says she has nothing to say.

This job is really cutting into our play time.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #274 on:** February 07, 2008, 07:56:04 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on February 07, 2008, 03:58:46 PM

It's like watching 50 year-old Renata Tebaldi playing Madama Butterfly and telling Pinkerton that she's 18!

When I saw her Cio-Cio San-ing, she was ~~a wisp of a lass of~~ a mere 34 - a tad more believable.

der Brucer

vixmom · « **Reply #275 on:** February 07, 2008, 08:01:30 PM »

Quote from: DearReaderLaura on February 07, 2008, 07:48:53 PM

Nothing. She works all day. She says she has nothing to say.

This job is really cutting into our play time.

I am sorry to hear that she is such a bright, creative individual maybe she could spend some of her parking lot time writing a book!....I look fowad to hearing of more DR Sandra adventures in the near future

vixmom · « **Reply #276 on:** February 07, 2008, 08:01:50 PM »

and now it is bedtime for Vixmom

ArnoldMBrockman · « **Reply #277 on:** February 07, 2008, 08:04:25 PM »

Your Turn !

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #278 on:** February 07, 2008, 08:04:39 PM »

DR vixmom - Congrats!

TPunk · « **Reply #279 on:** February 07, 2008, 08:10:44 PM »

Quote from: vixmom on February 07, 2008, 07:28:36 PM

I have been dieting since January 2 in an effort to be slim and trim by the time we head up to Canada this August for Vixdad's niece's wedding.

According to Ye Olde Bathroom Scale effective today I am 16 pounds lighter than I was then

Huzzah! Only 44 more lbs to my goal!!!!

Congrats!! You are an inspiration.

Matt H. · « **Reply #280 on:** February 07, 2008, 08:12:17 PM »

A spiffy new avatar for TCB. I like seeing the real people I'm writing to and reading. Just a little affectation of mine.

TPunk · « **Reply #281 on:** February 07, 2008, 08:12:48 PM »

This has been quite a long, interesting and at times rough week at work. I am looking forward to putting in one last day tomorrow and then escaping to california for a week.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #282 on:** February 07, 2008, 08:14:05 PM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on February 07, 2008, 07:24:35 PM

No hamburgers, no mac'n'cheese, no caesar salads, etc.

Good grief - give him some reason to go on living!

der Brucer

TPunk · « **Reply #283 on:** February 07, 2008, 08:14:37 PM »

My roommate and I just watched the premiere episode of Lipstick Jungle. I don't think we'll do that again. We found the dialogue to be of the not so great variety.

Matt H. · « **Reply #284 on:** February 07, 2008, 08:14:40 PM »

I finished PROJECT RUNWAY when I got the home theater running again. Had no problem with the person sent home, but I wasn't as impressed with the winner's outfit as the judges were. Admittedly, they kept saying how expensive it looked, and I didn't see that, so perhaps I couldn't have been exactly fair to it. The person who finished next to last got on my last nerve for the entire show. I REALLY wanted this person gone.

Matt H. · « **Reply #285 on:** February 07, 2008, 08:16:39 PM »

I finished the bonus features on the POWER RANGERS set. Nothing especially new or special about them. I guess the game will be fun for kids, but maybe people have more responsive remotes than mine is. I always seemed to be about half a beat behind even though I was pressing the button as soon as it was possible to register a button press. Oh, well.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #286 on:** February 07, 2008, 08:17:30 PM »

Quote from: vixmom on February 07, 2008, 07:28:36 PM

According to Ye Olde Bathroom Scale effective today I am 16 pounds lighter than I was then

Better get a new Passport photo, or we may not let you back in

der Brucer

Matt H. · « **Reply #287 on:** February 07, 2008, 08:18:05 PM »

SMALLVILLE had a nice episode tonight with the return of the Green Arrow and the addition of the Black Canary. But I have to say that "secret identities" don't seem to be very secret any more in Smallville. Everyone seems to know everything about everybody.

Matt H. · « **Reply #288 on:** February 07, 2008, 08:20:16 PM »

LOST was sensational with lots of new stuff to intrigue, confound, and excite.

And the show looked especially impressive in HD tonight. The show always stands out, but tonight in particular it seemed razor-sharp and very dimensional with the photography.

Did those of you with HDTVs think so?

Matt H. · « **Reply #289 on:** February 07, 2008, 08:21:35 PM »

Enjoyed ELI STONE very much. Victor Garber got to sing, and it was very entertaining. The plot might not have captured my fancy quite as much as last week, but it was still enjoyable.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #290 on:** February 07, 2008, 08:22:01 PM »

Well, I should actually start getting ready for bed. The actor's briefing is at 8:00 tomorrow morning, and I'd like to get on the first bus from here to the venue which is at 7:00. It will be interesting to see how many singers we'll have tomorrow since they're all scheduled to go in the first part of the day. I could be done as early as 2:00... And if that happens, I may go head and take the shuttle back to the airport and rent a car. I was just checking out the rental rates here, and with the convention discount, it's only about $22.00/day. Not bad at all. We shall see.

Goodnight.

Matt H. · « **Reply #291 on:** February 07, 2008, 08:22:29 PM »

And I recorded SUPERNATURAL tonight (in HD; thankfully there was no basketball game preempting it this week), so I'll watch that tomorrow during lunch preparation and consumption.

Matt H. · « **Reply #292 on:** February 07, 2008, 08:23:44 PM »

Oh, I forgot to mention that as I waited for prime time to begin, I watched another episode of NCIS. This was the one with the blind photographer who mistakenly photographed a dead body. John Billingsley played the photographer.

MBarnum · « **Reply #293 on:** February 07, 2008, 08:28:01 PM »

T Punk, I am also going to be in California this next week...however, I think we will be in different cities...but still, we can wave at each other as our planes enter the same air space!

Matt H. · « **Reply #294 on:** February 07, 2008, 08:49:18 PM »

DR MBarnum, there is NO WAY that my first experience with Bollywood is going to be a piecemeal affair with my hopping through a movie. I will see it from beginning to end like any other movie as I can ascertain its effectiveness for me.

But I'm not seeing much daylight to watch any new films for pleasure this month. The stack of review material I have waiting is pretty staggering (right now: three Criterion sets, two TV box sets, two children's cartoon series, and three films - due on or before February 26th). I can occasionally slip in a 45 minute episode of some TV mystery or watch a film I've already seen before over the course of three or four days while I'm cooking and eating lunch, but that's not the way I want my first Bollywood experience to be.

Believe me, when I get a lengthy amount of free time, I'll head to Bollywoodland!

Matt H. · « **Reply #295 on:** February 07, 2008, 08:50:55 PM »

Now, I'm going to finish writing up the Power Rangers and then head down to bed.

Good night!

bk · « **Reply #296 on:** February 07, 2008, 08:53:10 PM »

I'm still blecccch, but couldn't be happier - just got muse Margaret's call about the last fifty-three pages of the book, and she declared them perfect and she was so wonderfully effusive and, as always, very specific about what she liked.

The interesting thing about the long sequence at the end is that it was a goal of mine when I began the book - to do the ending in a certain way - and at first I didn't feel there would be any way to meet the goal. But, by the time I got to page two hundred I realized I might be able to work it out, and I did. The last thirty pages, as most of you know, were a real slog, and frequently very frustrating, but I got where I wanted to go, I guess.

bk · « **Reply #297 on:** February 07, 2008, 08:53:43 PM »

I'm thinking about the white rice or the toast, but I just don't know that I should go out to get it.

FJL · « **Reply #298 on:** February 07, 2008, 08:58:24 PM »

Great new avatar, TCB.

FJL · « **Reply #299 on:** February 07, 2008, 08:58:56 PM »

Nice weight loss news, vixmom!

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