AD kinda.... Taking color requests

But you've also got the time-change to deal with -- so effectively, it's 5.5 hours in one direction and 3.5 in the other!

Celine

I always forget about the time changes!!!

I had a flight from Atl to New Orleans once that almost landed before it took off :)

I spent 9 months contracting in Chattanooga, while based out of Nashville (got a studio to live in during the week, drove home on weekends). I got *really* familiar with that time change!

Celine

I know *exactly* what you mean, Diana! Here's a link for bumplovers:

've really been into the "dew drop" kind of embellishment lately. I'm not much for stacked dots, personally.

How's that for several completely disjointed thoughts?

Margie

auctions:

Yes, I normally am not a fan of bumps, but those are really well done!

Laura

Glad you guys like that... I adore Kristina's work. It's obvious that the dots/bumps are an integral part of the design, well thought out and expertly applied. I think more than anything, I like doing dots/bumps because of the difficulty in doing it 'right'.

Sometimes I like them, there are those of you who make them look like an integral part of the design and there are those who seem to put them on as an afterthought.. or as in. what else can I do to these beads. So, I have revised my opinion on bumps..I used to hate them no matter what. Diana

What a wonderful thing to say! And I know you wouldn't say it if you didn't mean it, too. It means a lot to me...

Whoa! Those are bumps that could grow on me ...

If you can do bumps that are -that- integral to the design, I say go for it!

Deirdre

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 01:39:42 -0500, "starlia" wrote:

Before my "baby" left for boot camp he got me a replacement son, Sean. Matt and Sean were (are) very close. Matt knew how desolate I would feel when he left, so he arranged for Sean to be my son in his absence. And Sean (who has had many, many run-ins with the law) has really taken it to heart. He mows our lawn, house sits, whatever. By his own mom's admission, he has burned others who have tried to help him, but I'm hoping Jim and I will be the ones who can actually pull him through. He's really a great kid. His dad died of a heart attack right in front of him several years ago and that messed him up, drinking, drugs, etc. He's off drugs now and I think he's ready to pull the loose ends of his life together. But it's so hard to listen to your birth mom at that age (about 19). I have taken him on as my apprentice. He was supposed to start yesterday, but I spent the time I was supposed to be with him in the ER. Seems I am hyperthyroid and I have some kind of viral inner-ear thing where the only symptoms are dizziness (to the point of vomiting if I try to eat) and exhaustion. Add that to the exhaustion of the hyperthyroid thing, and I'm really wiped. At least I have answers! Of course the only drug that stops the vertigo enough for me to eat makes me sleep for 4 hours when I take it. And I have to take it every 6 to 8 hours. Anyway, when he found out that I had been in the ER he was so worried. Came over, gave me lots of hugs, kept asking what he could do for me, etc. I think he's not only salvageable, but a keeper. Hopefully Jim and I can get him to take a class or two at the community college -- then push him the rest of the way thru to a degree. This is the first time in 10 years that we haven't had one of "our" kids in college! It feels weird. The telling part of who he is was when we were out of town over the weekend. He was housesitting and took our dog for a walk. The rottweiler down the street got loose and attacked our little whippet. Sean grabbed up LB (short for Lord Byron) and put him over his shoulders, then beat off the rott. LB ended up losing a 2" x 2" piece of hide on his butt, but that's all. Good kid. No, great kid. I see great things in his future. Barbara Dream Master

"We've got two lives, one we're given, the other one we make." Mary Chapin Carpenter

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Barbara Otterson :

Barbara, what an absolutely SWEET thing for your son to do!

]His dad died of a heart attack right in front ]of him several years ago and that messed him up, ]drinking, drugs, etc.

is it something about being a teenager that makes them more susceptible to death at that age? [and no, i don't mean the death of someone you know at another age is somehow "less"]

but . . . when Jamie was 15, a good friend of hers was murdered. now, it could have been the circumstances, i admit, but teenagers seem particularly more fragile than other population segments when it comes to the death of someone close.

she became defiant, cut more classes than she attended, all KINDS of things . . . which culminated in her suicide attempt. that seemed to be the turning point, for her, but for a long time there, we came real close to losing her completely.

so - GOOD FOR YOU, Barbara - and for your son! he must have known you BOTH needed each other!

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

's not what you take, when you leave this world behind you;it's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:48:48 -0400, starlia wrote (in message ):

Aren't there laws against statutory rape in your state? In Massachusetts, this man would be in jail as a sex offender.

Kathy N-V

There are laws as long as the parents enforce it. They are scared that if they tell her she can't see him, that she will do it behind their backs. He left his wife, etc, but he is a low life. He is a slacker and isn't good enough for her. I've met some of the other guys that fawn all over her, and they would be tons better. At least not married.

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Kathy N-V :

]Aren't there laws against statutory rape in your state? In Massachusetts, ]this man would be in jail as a sex offender.

seconded!

California as well.

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

's not what you take, when you leave this world behind you;it's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Kathy N-V :

]If the animals' are wary, so am I. They've never been wrong yet.

good idea.

]Did I ever mention that every dog I've ever had has bitten my father? (nope, ]no coincidence there, no siree)

dear heavens!

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

's not what you take, when you leave this world behind you;it's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis

No, no. They don't tell *her* -- they tell the cops. If he's in jail, she damn sure won't be seeing him behind their backs!

Celine

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:31:28 -0400, starlia wrote (in message ):

Well, here he would be looking at serious jail time, along with time on probation, as well as a lifetime as a registered sex offender. Part of his probation would be a restraining order to keep him from going within X00 feet of this girl. She would not be allowed to see him in jail, and if he tried to call her from jail, he'd just be increasing his sentence.

I don't know many fifteen year old girls that would be willing to wait at least three years with no contact just to get an unemployable sex offender back at the end of that time.

With their age disparity, he is definitely using his power and age to sway a child for sexual purposes. He's definitely bad news.

Kathy N-V