Oops! hit the wrong button! Just wanted to say Hi , and it looks like you all have a fun board here. Pleased to meet all of you.

Hi, there! Welcome to the OT thread. We're pretty laid back here. Grab yourself something cold to drink and sit a while!

Thanks for the welcome, brought my bourbon!

Oh, I think we'll make fast friends.

Welcome!

Please feel free to wax poetic, post a musical tribute, B*tch about anything (work, person[although, I'd like to think of this as a "No Lisa" Zone -it might just be wishful thinking], gas prices, etc. ), have a drink (or several), tell us about yourself-I personally love little personal vignettes, or just sit back and relax.

Cool beans Man!

I have a Fuzzy Navel because, if you hadn't noticed, I'm hankerin' a good ripe peach which is still about a week away.

Pita,

Been there, done that, and have the footprint bruises to prove it. It's the ones that are "nice" and "good-hearted" that get walked all over. I guess that's why I now teach - and even now I sometimes long for the "good ol' days" of sales with kids these days ..........

So. I don't have anything as intellectual as Bernard Pivot or James Lipton or anyone else for that matter, but I do have some very inquiring inquiries.

Bear with me people, it's Friday and most of you have more exciting lives than I do. So humor me.


What's your favorite drink? Why?

Who was your first "love"?

Who was your first "lust"?

What book/story(-s, -ies) would you read over and over again?

What movie(-s) would you see over and over again?

If you have a partner in life, who would you leave them for in a heartbeat?

Who would they leave you for?

What moment or memory in life can't you shake?

Could I please join in?

Sure!!!!

I'll go so none of you have to be askeered. You can all sit back and point & laugh.

What's your favorite drink? Why? Beer at home. Vodka tonic w/ a twist of lime when dining out.

Who was your first "love"? C.G. 11th and 12th grade. Oh, the swooning.

Who was your first "lust"? R.S. Oh, the *ahem* physical stuff.

What book/story(-s, -ies) would you read over and over again?
Kate Chopin's Collected Stories, and The Awakening.

What movie(-s) would you see over and over again? Forrest Gump and Shawshank Redemption. But, I'll stop everything for any of the Godfather trilogy.

If you have a partner in life, who would you leave them for in a heartbeat? George Clooney, as long as he doesn't speak. I'm not there for the conversation, there Fella.

Who would they leave you for? Michelle Pfieffer(sp?), her "Catwoman" role.

What moment or memory in life can't you shake?

When R.S. committed suicide. It was like I was living with a ghost for at least a year afterward. He still pops into my life to be a pest every now and again. I just yell at "him" to knock it off. He was always a mischievous little [expletive deleted].

Please Do!

Hello! I've read you on the Epi thread(s). Yes/No/Maybe So is about all I'll stand by when agreeing with anyone. Take that for what it's worth.
It's been a rough couple of weeks.

Just so you know, I'm a N00bie, too. Don't let the post count fool ya.

I've been wondering where you've been! I hope you have a decent impression of me

2PP,
1st Lust: Luke Skywalker? LOL I think 80% of guys who saw him in SW 1979 will say the same thing (the other 20% will claim Princess Leia in gold bikini)

OH my. That you have any impression of me at all, leaves me flabbergasted. Thank you. I hope I wasn't obnoxious.


I"m l oving everyone's answers to me goofy questions. YOUR answers are so much better than mine, too!

I do have to say, I'd never forget the days my children were born. But, they were joyous occasions. R.S.'s passing was just jarring. It was a day that still makes me shudder.

2Pooped, I'd never let you alone with my husband! He's got the Sean Connery look currently. Not the original Bond look. I must loves them older and balder. LOL! He's mine. He knows it, or at least he'd better by now.

*whisper* I loved Donny, not Luke, but Shaun Cassidy*

\*dies of embarrasssment*/

Oops...should have asked to join in...sorry to be so rude.

THIS gal wanted Lea's hair, but lusted after Luke. I had just gotten to the age to really discover guys, but still naive about many things.


Harrison Ford was a CLOSE 2nd - but only because he was older and not quite as approachable.

How is your son doing? I hope he hasn't been sick.

Might I ask ...who is R.S.?

OH stop it. *I* know you and I'm sure many of the porch peeps do, too.


Jump in. The water is fine. Iced tea ias cool by me. Straight, Sweet, or otherwise.

Ok WHY is DALLAS/FORT WORTH NOT on the tour schedual?? They've had chef's on the show from here and I for one would LOVE to see the "tour". I feel IGNORED AND SLIGHTED TOP CHEF PEEPS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh Man. I wanted Harrison Ford. But, I wanted Dorothy Hamil's hair, too. Yeah, I'm a big ol' weirdo.

Hun, you're in the wrong thread. No TC talk here.

Thank you for asking. He's been so-so. Still exhibiting acid reflux symptoms, but I've weaned the dairy out until he can be tested for a lactose intolerance *red flag*. Weird. The kid has been on milk since one year and never demonstrated anything I would associated with lactose intolerance, yet his enzyme levels came back as borderline.

Goofy kid.

Thank you again, for thinking of him. *warm smile*

The birth of my babies and every little thing they do are the highlights of my life as well. However, they wouldn't be here if I didn't have my first moment with husband. That moment certainly changed my life.

Well, I don't know, but I'm sure we can rustle up some recipes for you and gas up the ol' Lear jet and make a TC board peeps "tour" for you.....

If you'd like to grab a cold drink and sit here on the OT thread and gab a bit, we'd love to have you.

Perhaps you'd like to take that up with the BBB. I'd like to think I have mighty powers, but you're reaching outside of even my reach of magical powers.

However, if you'd like to just goof the *insert strong verbage here*, then please, by all means, join in. It's Friday. I'll get this round.

Man, that really sucks for a little kid to have that. I have it sometimes...and it ain't no fun. Poor little kid.

DITTO.

I'm lactose intolerant as well. It's almost like an allergy. Just like any allergy, it's something that he probably developed or already had, but just didn't come out sooner or was pronounced. When I was pregnant with my boy, it went away for a while and came back after I had my daughter 3 years later. I grew up drinking soy milk (hence the soy lattes), but will suffer for ice cream

I do hope they can find an answer .....

My son somehow manages to end up with stitches almost all the time now. I kid him that he is now doing it flirt with the nurses! He has grown 4 inches this past school year and his voice has dropped what seems like 3 octives. I now have to look up to him and I'm not short. The poor kid is so clumsy with his new height - we seem to go about 2 weeks before he gets new stitches somewhere because he is not aware of where his person is anymore. My poor cabinet door and door jambs!!!

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So...lets see...Pita is from the upper mid-Atlantic coast, and 2P2S is from Georgia...right? Where are you from Sam? And you other peeps are from where?

I have never tasted soy milk. I don't think I would like it. I keep thinking it would taste like milk with soy sauce in it...yuck. But, I have read that it is very good for your health.

Florida, the land of hanging chads and gator tail nuggets. You're from Texas, right?

LOL...how old is your son?

LOL. It' actually has a nutty flavor to it. Try it sometime, I promise it's not as gross as you think it is and definitely healthier. My son prefers chocolate soy milk over regular chocolate milk.

He just recently turned 14 and he starts high school next year - that puts one kid in college, one in high school and one in middle school.

Lord, I'm getting OLD!!

Yep...good old George Bush's home state..I like him though. LOL...about the chads.Hopefully that was a one time thing!

So strange you'd mention your boy's growth spurt! My boy (7.5) has grown wildly (3+ inches) since his birthday in Dec.! That's 6 months people! He's complained offhandedly about his knees and back aching and I've dismissed it as early growing pains. But, what if his "insides" aren't physically maturing as fast as his "outsides".

Typically, he gets a dose of children's Ibuprofen and off to bed he goes.

But, I'll be d*mned. I wonder if he's not growing too fast for his insides to catch up.


Thank you for the food for thought.
*furiously scribbles notes to ask the Ped. when we talk this week.

Heeeeeyyy ..... I LOVE chads - hanging or otherwise!!!!

I voted by absentee ballot in one of the contested counties that year! (Hubby was in the military)

Absentee ballots aren't usually counted unless the number of ballots are equal to or more than the number that can sway the results. It costs too much if candidate B needs 5,000 votes to beat candidate A and there are only 1500 absentee ballots. They could ALL be for the same person and not change the results. If it is much closer, then they get counted.

My absentee ballot get counted 3 times that year because of the county I voted in. I think I voted for Charlie the Tuna (kidding), but it got counted. It was probably the first time in the 16 years I had been able to vote that my ballot actually got counted for the person I voted for!

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Gatore nuggets = Gooood
Hanging anything = Baaaad. *NoNoNo*


Off topic, no duh right?, but: you mentioned you've been on soy milk for a while. How do you feel and do you have regualr blood tests/ feel good?

I ask, because soy messes with my thyroid something terrible. Can't do soy producgts. Imagine my dismay when I was told to lay off the salted edamame. *cries*

For now (and what I've given the Goofy Boy) I've enjoyed Rice Dream rice milk or Pacific hazelnut milk. In cooler temps, I make a mean hazelnut-mocha coffee concoction that satisfies both my sweet and caffeine tooth. Everyday cereal/granola, etc. gets rice milk and none of us taste the difference.


I'm just wondering if you've played around with any other products of milk alternatives and your take on them.

Well...just call me Granny (not really,please) lol.My Granddaughter is 18 and she goes to A&M College, I have a Step Grandson that is 18 and in the Navy. Plus I have 2, 14 year old Grandsons. Just wait till your BABY turns 30...then you feel OLD. haha!! I want another Granddaughter...but my son and daughter and their spouses say...NO!

Oh, I see that your boy is 14. 14 and 7.5 is a big leap. I know that I've read that puberty is hitting our children earlier, but I have a very hard time believing THAT early!

Please, oh please, oh please, not this early! *cries*

(((WimpMe)))

So, I can count on you for Motherly/Grandmotherly/Kick-In-The-Pants Advice, right? Riiiiight? *cries of desperation at Grade School*

Pita, ask about thyroid testing. It sounds to me like he maybe having some thyroid problems. Do you have it in your family? Thyroid disorder is usually characterized by huge growth spurts and joint pains. Also research celiac disease which is also caused by thyroid disorder and see if your son's symptoms sounds familiar. Celiac disease and thyroid problems are usually disorders that are easily missed since the symptoms are not so apparent.

Well...sure, but, as you know "There's no fool like an old fool". LOL!

He had a big growth spurt at that age as well! I think he grew 5 inches in first grade and then leveled off and creeped up for awhile. He was achey all the time as well, but I don't know if it's the same thing for your son.

My "baby" is already 6 ft. (probably a tad more). BUT, his dad is 6'4, the shortest guy in MY family is 6'1 (goes to 6'7) and I'm near the shortest gal at 5'10. His Army ped. was worried that he may have growth hormone problems as in too many when he started school. I don't think so, just has a good dose of tall genes. He also eats me out of house and home and still remains skinny as a board - it's NOT FAIR!!

The coaches are upset that he is NOT into basketball and ALL into track.