nellie

Paw, with all due respect...the new chatroom stinks. It is so user UNfriendly, it has taken the fun out of it for me. It's the color thing mostly - everyone can choose their own color for background, so depending upon what color a chatter uses as his/her font, you may or not be able to read what they write. It's frustrating as hell...not to mention, there are no sound effects. it's been nice, but i may even be forced to take up the telephone...sigh. love ya! ex-chatter-nellie p.s. if ya ever change back to something fun to use, let me know please.

just a little nudge... you're such a good story teller! looking forward to the next installment!

I enjoyed a wonderful concert at the Mansion in MIddletown, NY - "friends of music" hosted Harvey Reid and his wife who played folk music for 60 of us (sold out). It was a beautiful venue and the local garden club had decked the place out for the holidays quite nicely. An enormous Tiffany stained glass window adorned the stair-well which led to the delicious pastries and coffee/tea during intermission. The combination guitar and fiddle and the blend of their voices was just lovely - and i must say, this concert beat out a lot of the big name concerts I've attended in the past. Nice way to spend the weekend. We stayed at the old resort - Mohonk Mountain House (much like the resort in the 'the shining') after the concert - all my senses were stimulated. :)

During the past 13+/- months i've seen Nora Jones at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center which was wonderful. I also went to Wolf Trap in Virginia and saw Hootie and the Blow Fish...wasn't too bad (that's who was playing there when I was in town, so sue me!). Last weekend I got to see the Dixie Hummingbirds. I have to admit right up front, that I didn't know the greatness of this group before I went, and although it was clear they are WAY old (and past their prime) they have a tremendous presence! It was a great experience and a really wonderful and memorable night! Mstar, I saw willie nelson when he played before grateful dead in NJ way way back in the mid 70s (waylon jennings was supposed to be with him, but was nursing a hangover i guess and never showed), and then I saw willie again when I was limb staff in SC in 1980/81 (?). He's timeless. The Moody Blues concert i saw about 3 or 4 years ago in manhattan wasn't half bad - but it was weird to hear the music of my youth being sung by some old guys in leather pants while the guy behind me argued with his girlfriend on his cellphone. ah well. Maybe two years after that concert, I went to Town Hall and saw A Prarie Home Companion which had Leo Kotke and John Sebastian - that was cool. The bass player from Phish was playing with Kotke - and sounded great! Quite a departure from Kotke's normal solo performance. BTW - I ordered the Ted Green cd mentioned earlier in this thread. Still waiting for it to arrive (and have also seen some weird transactions on my bank statement that I can't explain just after ordering it, so I'm wondering if pehaps the site is spishy...? probably not related - but I'll let ya know. my bank is looking into it.) Not long ago I went to the Village Vanguard with my totally cool brother - that was a great experience, but i can't remember who i saw there...just that that they were very very good and the venue is world class. The history of music you feel just by walking into that place is awe inspiring, and then feeling the subway rumble under my feet while hearing the music just kinda added to the experience. next up is a harvey reid concert in December - then Mulgrew Miller and Wingspan sextet at dizzy's club in late january in nyc. Can't wait for either of these! lah lah lah, hummmm :)

well, the reason chat is so quiet is because dmiller turned us all onto "sudoku" and we're addicted...try it when you want to chat and nobody is "home" lol but yeah, mostly folks chat at night after the dinner hour, and even then it's hit or miss...but wednesday is naked night, don't miss it!

thanks paw! you're da bomb!

what if i don't want to shave my privates?

I was told by my mother, and she was told by her mother...etc., that when making homemade vegie soup - only use kosher salt. I'm not sure, but I think Morton's has something added to it that makes the broth clowdy - maybe it's even cornstarch?...not sure. anyway, I'm a big fan of kosher salt myself, but don't forget your body's requirement for iodine. :)-->

sorry ... but didn't the comment about "changing the mindset of men" refer to the men that rape? I don't think they were referring to you, raf.

When i have to go to court to fight yet AGAIN another stupid thing regarding my ex, i get scanned going in. They took away my knitting once, but left me with my bic pens, which if i wanted to kill him, would do the trick. I did pass through the scanners another time with my swiss army knife without a problem ... go figure. I didn't know i had it in my backpack. They did make me take a video tape out of the bag though - what? was i gonna beat him over the head with it? It's all just a little silly.

I am sooooOOOOoooooOOOOoooo happy you were born! Your life makes the world a better place! Happy birthday dear friend! xoxoxoxo

Doesn’t that couch go with our butts? Hah! I am the product of two (2!) depression era survivors, and throwing things away comes easily for me! I can’t stand the thought of having to store things. If it isn’t going to be used within the next 12 months (tools are an exception!), then it is useless in my book. If it doesn’t fit now…let’s face it…it never will fit…and if it does, honey – you deserve a new wardrobe!  But here’s my story: My dear dad, god rest his soul, finally entered hospice and we prepared a room for him downstairs in his home in which to spend his last few days on this earth. As he’s watching us move out the furniture, he starts getting agitated. We’re making room for his flippin’ death bed, for Christ’s sake, and he’s worried we’re going to throw away a “perfectly good desk” to be able to fit the hospital bed in. You’d think he’d have better things on his mind…like meeting his maker! - than to be worrying about losing some old desk he probably scalped from a curb-side pickup night! Well, apparently the pack-rat syndrome skips a generation, because my kid squirrels things away. I won’t bore you with those details, but I hope you’re not in hearing distance of my future gravesite! The curses I’m sure will shower down upon me while cold in my grave will be fierce – I’m sure!!!! Get rid of the ballast is probably the only twi thing I still hold onto…except don’t throw away old yarn that might make a good stripe in a mitten, and magazines dealing with my particular passion, and of course books – books are like art – don’t discard… I also pull the buttons off shirts before discarding, and put them in my button box. I don’t use them, I just like having the buttons in there. 

I was able to participate in a small way last night during the circle discussion, and enjoyed the format very much. It is great to have a choice between the light and free-flowing chat in the general room, and the more disciplined discussion in the doctrinal room that we had last night. I see benefits to both methods. Sirguess, I appreciate how you “moderated” the discussion, and I hope you will post another planned meeting time with discussion topic in advance.