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Re: LOOKING BACK ON 2012, PART II
« Reply #180 on: December 27, 2012, 06:41:41 PM »

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« Reply #181 on: December 27, 2012, 06:41:53 PM »

For those who missed the Kennedy Center honors last night, here's the entire show:

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/173506-THE-SCREENING-ROOM-Highlights-From-the-2012-Kennedy-Center-Honors-Video/pg14
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« Reply #182 on: December 27, 2012, 06:42:53 PM »

He considered walking across the keyboard and typing his own message, but I talked him out of it.

If we can read Vixmom's typing we should be able to read Nicky's. I say Let him type!
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« Reply #183 on: December 27, 2012, 06:43:17 PM »

For those who missed the Kennedy Center honors last night, here's the entire show:

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/173506-THE-SCREENING-ROOM-Highlights-From-the-2012-Kennedy-Center-Honors-Video/pg14


No thank you, John.  I missed it on purpose.
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« Reply #184 on: December 27, 2012, 06:43:34 PM »

I way I didn't stop talking about THE BOOK THIEF it amazes me everyone here hasn't read it ;)
It's pretty spectacular.
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« Reply #185 on: December 27, 2012, 06:43:50 PM »

Bruce your darling daughter comes up with excellent gifts for you without spending money.  I like that.
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« Reply #186 on: December 27, 2012, 06:44:17 PM »

I way I didn't stop talking about THE BOOK THIEF it amazes me everyone here hasn't read it ;)
It's pretty spectacular.

I thought so which is why I read it twice.
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« Reply #187 on: December 27, 2012, 06:44:23 PM »

He considered walking across the keyboard and typing his own message, but I talked him out of it.

If we can read Vixmom's typing we should be able to read Nicky's. I say Let him type!

Too late.  He has already curled up on my legs and gone back to sleep.
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« Reply #188 on: December 27, 2012, 06:45:00 PM »

Sweet.
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« Reply #189 on: December 27, 2012, 06:47:43 PM »

I'm sure he doesn't find you boring and, of course, getting older is good.



Actually, he probably does.  I am not able to get down on the floor and play with him.  Well, I could probably get down, I am just not sure I would ever get back up.
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« Reply #190 on: December 27, 2012, 06:49:36 PM »

DR elmore when doing a search on the unabridged version you suggested I noticed you said I could not have read the unabridged version in 2 days.  Considering the speed & non stop reading I did back then I doubt another 200 pages would have made much of a difference. :)

I do not recall ever making a comment about reading the unabridged novel in two days an impossibility or whatever I supposedly posted..

This is funny because I didn't remember either but I saw it when I searched "unabridged" to find the version you had suggested reading.  There is was in the search:

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DRJane, if you read the UNABRIDGED version, it would take more than 2 days, ..
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The above quote came up for January 29, 2005  ;D


2005??

Exactly.
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« Reply #191 on: December 27, 2012, 06:49:57 PM »

That's why they make toys attached to long sticks.  Do you need some like that?
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« Reply #192 on: December 27, 2012, 06:50:24 PM »

DR elmore when doing a search on the unabridged version you suggested I noticed you said I could not have read the unabridged version in 2 days.  Considering the speed & non stop reading I did back then I doubt another 200 pages would have made much of a difference. :)

I do not recall ever making a comment about reading the unabridged novel in two days an impossibility or whatever I supposedly posted..

This is funny because I didn't remember either but I saw it when I searched "unabridged" to find the version you had suggested reading.  There is was in the search:

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...  it down.

DRJane, if you read the UNABRIDGED version, it would take more than 2 days, ..
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The above quote came up for January 29, 2005  ;D


2005??

Exactly.

;D

No wonder we didn't remember ;)
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« Reply #193 on: December 27, 2012, 06:50:44 PM »

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Re: LOOKING BACK ON 2012, PART II
« Reply #194 on: December 27, 2012, 06:51:04 PM »

... and, of course, getting older is good.

WHAT??!! For wine, maybe. This kid would like to slow things down a bit!   ;)
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« Reply #195 on: December 27, 2012, 06:53:50 PM »

That's why they make toys attached to long sticks.  Do you need some like that?

No thanks.  He has some of those, but he doesn't care for them.
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« Reply #196 on: December 27, 2012, 06:54:15 PM »

Retired General Norman Schwarzkopf has died.
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« Reply #197 on: December 27, 2012, 06:55:51 PM »

... and, of course, getting older is good.

WHAT??!! For wine, maybe. This kid would like to slow things down a bit!   ;)


Perhaps she should have said that having the chance to get older was a good thing.
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« Reply #198 on: December 27, 2012, 06:57:05 PM »

... and, of course, getting older is good.

WHAT??!! For wine, maybe. This kid would like to slow things down a bit!   ;)


Perhaps she should have said that having the chance to get older was a good thing.

But then I couldn't have made fun of it.
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« Reply #199 on: December 27, 2012, 06:57:49 PM »

Time for me to have some dindin.

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« Reply #200 on: December 27, 2012, 06:58:49 PM »

On that same subject....................


The sportscaster covering the Belk Bowl just said that he doubts that there are very many viewers who were around in 1961.  Excuse me!
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« Reply #201 on: December 27, 2012, 06:59:39 PM »

... and, of course, getting older is good.

WHAT??!! For wine, maybe. This kid would like to slow things down a bit!   ;)


Perhaps she should have said that having the chance to get older was a good thing.

But then I couldn't have made fun of it.


Sure you could.
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« Reply #202 on: December 27, 2012, 07:00:53 PM »

DR Jeanne, that is very sad.  Were they in an accident together?  Even when we don't stay close to certain people their passing can hit us very hard, especially those we grew up with. 

No, not an accident. Several months apart. I don't have all the details yet.

That is extra hard to hear the news so far after it happened.

The last time my parents visited my mom's family in Germany, she found out that her father had died a couple of years before that.  She actually had never known her dad and was never was told that he was even still alive.

That must have been very strange for her.

She really didn't talk about it after she got back from her trip, but I could see that she was a bit upset about it.
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« Reply #203 on: December 27, 2012, 07:01:16 PM »

I don't know the details, but she was born in Germany during WW2, so I guess that an unwed mother with children from different fathers was not all that unusual. :-\

And I guess she hadn't been overly curious to find out more about him. ??

I don't know if she wasn't curious or that she thought (or might've been told) that he had already died a long time ago.
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« Reply #204 on: December 27, 2012, 07:03:47 PM »

I don't know the details, but she was born in Germany during WW2, so I guess that an unwed mother with children from different fathers was not all that unusual. :-\


Was her father's first name Adolph?

No!  Actually, I have no idea.  Well, at least he wasn't that Adolph...she lived in Bavaria, which is the southern part of Germany, not too close to the action.
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« Reply #205 on: December 27, 2012, 07:08:43 PM »

I don't know the details, but she was born in Germany during WW2, so I guess that an unwed mother with children from different fathers was not all that unusual. :-\

I can only imagine what living in Germany was like during WWII. George, have you read THE BOOK THIEF? I think you might enjoy it, especially given your family background.

No, I haven't read it. ::)

I probably would like it, but right now, I'm reading "The Complete Wodnerful Wizard of Oz."
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« Reply #206 on: December 27, 2012, 07:11:59 PM »

I, too, look forward to THE WELL-DIGGER'S DAUGHTER. I have to keep a window open to Netflix whenever I'm reading the Notes or posts.

Sometimes I miss having NetFlix.  On the upside, Keith has been recording numerous old movies we didn't used to watch.

I'm seriously thinking about dropping Netflix.  I just don't watch enough to justify the monthly price.  They're definately making money off of me.
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« Reply #207 on: December 27, 2012, 07:12:38 PM »

Why was I the last to know that Jaymes, part of the Chippendale's dancer duo competing on this last season's The Amazing Race, was gay? No mention was made during the show, but still everyone I know already knew.

He was one of the nicest people I have ever watched compete on this show, I must say.




Which one is gay Jaymes? Since they both have the same name I never knew which was Jaymes and which was James.


Gay Jaymes is the one with blonde hair whose dad has cancer.

Too bad.  I think the other one is hotter.

I'd take either one. :D
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« Reply #208 on: December 27, 2012, 07:14:06 PM »

Sigh. I miss the snow. It's been in the low 60s with some rain here in LA and I'm delighted with cool temps and precip.

On Christmas Day, George hogged all of the snow down at his house.  So we had to settle for a Wet Christmas.

Don't blame me...I didn't ask for it!  Although, I didn't mind it. ;)
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« Reply #209 on: December 27, 2012, 07:17:51 PM »

And now, I'm off.  My sister called me a little while ago to ask if I would help her take some heavy boxes of shelves out of her car that she got from Ikea.  I can't help her put it (them?) together tonight, so I'm off the hook for that.  I'm otherwise free Saturday.  We'll see if she needs my help with these.

But before I go...
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