Introductions! OT

That is way too funny.

Doesn't feel good to eat ice cream and be in your jammies?

Hi Everybody,

My name is Karen and I found you by following Tink's "Protest Auction" link on her web page - LOL, what a gal, huh?

My birthday is August 6th, I've been married forever, well 31 years anyhow. We have two grown children, a daughter, Kellie 29 and a son, Davin 21. No grandkids, but I'm hopeful with Kellie :)

We are retired and live in an adult community in Lady Lake, Fl called The Villages. It's nice,lots of old people, golf carts and poodles! Although I've never owned a poodle, they let me in anyhow!

I love making beads and stained glass anything. The stained glass has taken a back seat to the bead making lately, love that fire!.

I know lots of you from WC and AGF, off the top of my head - Tink, Starlia, Kalera, Kandice, Mary McDuck, and I'm sure there are others, my brain isn't on full charge at midnight. I'm musical winds on WC by the way.

Glad to be here, KarenG

I suspect the next thing I said would have been, "You're fired." Well... *now* I would have said that. At your age, I would probably just have started looking for a new doctor as soon as I left his office. Doctors who don't listen to their patients are a Major Pet Peeve, and sexist doctors who want to overmedicate "hysterical women" are another.

Celine

Jesus. That's all I can say.

-Kalera

Barbara Otters> >

Nine year old girls piercing things??? Wearing skimpy clothes? Who are their parents?

-Kalera

LC aka Fiddy wrote:

Mine love chores! That's because they're too little to think chores suck.

-Kalera

vj wrote:

Misc.kids.pregnancy. There is/was a Helen there with lots of babies, and she was there being pregnant each of the three times *I* was there being pregnant. It was cool. :)

-Kalera

Helen C wrote:

9th ave, recently moved from 45th.

Small freakin' world! :)

-Kalera

Kathy N-V wrote:

And one of the problems with that is that when someone has severe Depression, they offer lots of these anti-depressants that don't do a lot, and the most serious drugs are kept off the market. Fenfluramine worked well for my depression, but after handing it out indiscriminately for weight loss it was taken off the market. Bennies and XTC might work, but are illegal, because they are taken recreationally.

Tina

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Kalera Stratton :

]Mine love chores! That's because they're too little to think chores suck.

**grin** wait until they're teenagers. then you'll be the ONLY mother who has the nerve to make their children do chores!

you should have seen the look on my father's face the ONLY time Johnny said, "kids don't work - parents work!"

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

newest creations: ----------- I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all.

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 23:57:07 -0400, KarenG wrote (in message ):

Welcome Karen! I'm Kathy, the town storyteller, red tape cutter, new product evaluator, and general PITA. Glad to have you here, despite your tragic poodle-deprived existence.

You're among friends - I suspect that the majority of us are poodle deprived as well, and we're bearing up well under the strain. To console ourselves, we have to spend lots and lots of money and time with beads. Different therapies are required - some only manage to struggle through the horrors of poodle deprivation by making beads and other lovely items out of glass. (Oddly enough, there are very few poodle beads to be had, considering.)

My poodle-deprivation isn't quite as severe: I had a poodle for a couple of years as a child. (They're supposed to be hypoallergenic, but that's another story) I can content myself with simply purchase huge quantities of glass and other materials that are all distinguished by the fact that there is a hole in every item I have. How strange.

I blame the poodle owners. If they kept their incredible luck a secret, rather than flaunting their poodles in our face, we wouldn't have to spend thousands of dollars trying to ease the crushing pain of poodle deprivation with bead therapy.

Kathy N-V, there's a hole in my beads because there's a poodle sized hole in my heart. (snicker!)

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 0:13:46 -0400, Kalera Stratton wrote (in message ):

Everyone but you and me. I know this because the kids report back to me all the time. "Everyone else's mother" lets their child have tattoos, pierce _anything_ and buy clothing to show off said piercings. They _want_ their nine year olds to be fashionable and attractive to the opposite sex. "Everyone Else's Mother" wants her children to get in dating experience quite young, so they get first dibs on all the "hotties."

When I find this "Everyone Else's Mother" person, I'm going to run her over in the Bug, back up, and run her over again. Then I'll let Sister Agatha-Margaret from the Convent at Our Lady of Perpetual Agony dictate what fashions are allowed for children.

I'm sure they'll be of good sturdy fabric, and wear well, so they can be passed down, over and over. With nice, sensible shoes, the kind that tie for boys and buckle for girls, are of black leather (as the good lord intended) with rubber soles, to keep the noise of foot-fall to a minimum.

Kathy N-V

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

]Have I mentioned that they're BORED? The girls have told Bob how bored they ]are about a million times apiece. (But all his suggestions stink) He's just ]about ready to pack them up and drive the fifteen hours back to Boston. ] ]Oh yes, I've been home beading, and I've had ice cream for dinner every night ]since they've left. Sophie the Wonder Dog and I have had about eighteen naps ]apiece, and I stayed up to watch movies all night. And I'm still in my ]jammies. heh, heh, heh

GOOD FOR YOU!

]P.S.: They don't pull this crap with me, because I'm the "mean one." Bob is ]the "fun one," and he rarely has to do anything in the discipline area. I ]give it another day, maybe less, before he blows his stack and hollers the ]kids into behaving.

i always had to be the "bad guy". partly because there was no other parent around. it was hard on the kids, at times, but there just wasn't any other way to do it.

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

newest creations: ----------- I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all.

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

]When I find this "Everyone Else's Mother" person, I'm going to run her over ]in the Bug, back up, and run her over again. Then I'll let Sister ]Agatha-Margaret from the Convent at Our Lady of Perpetual Agony dictate what ]fashions are allowed for children.

i want to help!!!!

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

newest creations: ----------- I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all.

I just bought all new cookware, too!!! Professional grade stainless...and LOVING it...or was until surgery...but will again! My DD is turning 7 on the 1st, and is learning to cook in it...scared of that!

Can you believe it? And boys are peircing ears too...I believe it will only be time till I see little kids with tattoos!!...(but not mine!...she can go berzerk after she's 18, but it won't be on MY watch!!)

The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized LC in Sunny So Cal Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.comnospam (LC aka Fiddy) :

]she can go ]berzerk after she's 18, but it won't be on MY watch!!

to this day, Jamie teases me about getting a tattoo [especially now that she is in the Navy] just to see if she can get me to take the bait.

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

newest creations: ----------- I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all.

Aha! So that's the reason I'm into bead therapy. I don't blame my parents for very much but this is one I think I will after all "Nickels" was their beloved poodle. :=)

ROFL!!!

First someone calls me a dope (love ya lady) and now I get splorted at! Okay, okay, I'm shutting up now. lol