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12-11-2012, 09:15 AM
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polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
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Got two Cellar Christmas cards AND some goodies.
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12-12-2012, 08:41 PM
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Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
Join Date: Oct 2006
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I spent the day watching my oldest son get sworn in/called to the Bar at the Maryland Courts of Appeal. He's persevered and overcome so many challenges ... my heart was so full, watching him take the oath, it almost hurt. Later we wandered around Annapolis, which I've never seen, and browsed a great spice shop - they had the most amazing spice blends, and all sorts of salt - Cyprus flake, black lava salt, big blocks of pink Himalayan, chardonnay smoked salt, salt with lavender and cardamom, and black truffle salt. And we found an Irish store with real Christmas crackers!! (I can never find them in PA.) And Christmas pudding with brandy butter! And real mincemeat! And Christmas cake!!
(In my family, it isn't Christmas without Christmas crackers. All the years I did the Ukrainian twelve-dish dinner, I still had Christmas crackers. You have to wear the little paper hats (for at least one photo) and take turns reading the jokes on the slips of paper while the turkey gets cold, or it just isn't Christmas.  )It was a great day, a once in a lifetime sort of day.
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12-12-2012, 09:04 PM
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Goon Squad Leader
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Seattle
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:applause:
:congrats:
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12-13-2012, 01:09 AM
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The future is unwritten
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Hell, I've never even heard of most of those salts.
 Congrats on the boy passing the bar.
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12-13-2012, 02:11 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Badelaide, Baustralia
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It takes a special kind of salt to make a man pass a bar.
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12-13-2012, 03:48 AM
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Encroaching on your decrees
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland
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Fantastic, Ortho! What a great day, what great memories to have! And you're right about the crackers! Mr Limey and I have crackers with our Christmas dinner even though there's just the two of us!
Sent by thought transference.
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12-13-2012, 05:40 AM
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still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
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Congrats!
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12-13-2012, 08:53 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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Sunshine today AND tomorrow!
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12-13-2012, 09:34 AM
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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Sounds like a wonderful and happy day, Ortho. Congrats to both of you.
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12-13-2012, 10:58 AM
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Quote:
 Always have the crackers with their bad jokes and fun prizes.
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12-13-2012, 10:58 AM
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Glutton for Gluttony
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Tampa, FL
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Congrats to your son, ortho! You sound so proud.
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12-13-2012, 03:04 PM
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LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Arkansas
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Oh God !!! Another Shark in the water !!!
JK Ortho , congrats to your son !!! Whats makeing ME Happy you ask ?? Free lunch at a Plant I was checking scales at !!! I was just getting finished checking scale and the Quality Lady asked " Are you going to have lunch with us today ??" " Ughh Whats for lunch ?? " "Pork ( I start knodding my head ) Steaks ( I Knodd faster )" They had Grand paw behind the plant with his smoker fixing pork steaks , and Grand maw had fixed Beans and slaw and MANY baked goods !!! No I dont know who's grand parents they were , i just know they seemed Pleased when I complimented they on the food ! It was KILLLLLLER , oh and Grannys Brownies were OUT STANDING !!!!!
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12-13-2012, 03:52 PM
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Glutton for Gluttony
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Tampa, FL
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Yum! Lucky you, zip!
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12-13-2012, 04:01 PM
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Glutton for Gluttony
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Tampa, FL
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Today I am happy to receive a bit of perspective.
It becomes so easy to drown in our personal struggles. I am not diminishing mine or anyone else's, but I feel like today the universe tapped me on the shoulder and brought me up for air. I was reminded that, in the grand scheme of things, I'm pretty damned lucky. A former student of mine had an (unplanned) baby her senior year. She was able to graduate, but she just found out she is pregnant again. She's 19. Her first baby is only 8 months old, and she has an on again/off again relationship with the father of her children, who himself is a drug addled teenager. They are currently off, and all her friends on FB are asking who the daddy is. Meanwhile, for all that I may be struggling in my role as a new mom, my daughter was brought in to a stable home with two parents who love her fiercely and are doing their best to be good role models for her. I'm on leave for a year from the high school I've taught at for three years. At school today, three students were arrested for bringing weapons to school. Seeing blood and ripped weave on the walls was fairly standard for a Friday afternoon, and I have several coworkers who have been punched, kicked, and shoved against walls trying to break up fights. While my friends have to worry about their own safety and the safety of their students, my two biggest stressors today were trying to find a parking space at the mall and two stocking stuffers that won't fit in their stockings. My life is awesome. Even when I think things suck, looking around with fresh eyes reminds me just how good I have it. |
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12-13-2012, 04:55 PM
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Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Thanks for all the good wishes, folks! And the salt - yeah, I got a little carried away with the salt. Not that I bought all that stuff, I'd just never seen so many kinds before. Lunch sounds like it was awesome, zippyt! What a great thing to happen! And thanks for the perspective, choco - as always your comments are full of insight.
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