petty b*tching

Very well put. True - e-friends are great to have, but you must always remember to keep things in some sort of perspective.

Personally, I think it's nice for many people to have a palce they can communicate - without some of the risk of "in -person" friends. (Such as moaning about something that happened to friend A, who may well end up running into the moaned about friends B-C, and the awkwardness that ensues). Of course, in real life, or electronically, some peole will still talk out of their bum - so to speak. You just take it for what it's worth - verify what you feel compelled to verify, and for me - if people want to play a role, present themselves however - that's fine - that's what I see if I only know them electronically.

What's nice for me is when real life successfully works out to a friendship with someone you've met electronically. Sometimes it doesn't - but sometimes it does.

Well, off to let the dog back in, fold laundry, stare at the messy kitchen and wonder why it hasn't cleaned itself (at least it's just dishes), and then send out more resumes. Yuck. It keeps making me thing about pantyhose

- what if someone actually calls me for an interview. Dang.

Ellice

LOL! Thanks Mirjam! These things happen - perhaps it`s best that they all happen at once so we get them out of the way. Hopefully we`ve had our share for a while.

You know the saying "Worse things happen at sea!"

How are things in Haifa now, anyway?

Pat

What's that phrase? "If the momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy?"

I think it applies!

Caryn

Cheryl Isaak wrote:

If only you could persuade him how good for him stitching would be!

Pat

Like that would ever happen!

Cheryl

Maybe you should try to convince him, possibly even show him, how antsy you get when you're not stitching and, therefore, how bad for him not stitching is. lol

Lucille

Atta girl! Go for it. Tell him how it is so helpful to you so that you can be even more patient and caring for him - or some such ...

Ellice

Perhaps you could remind him that when your hands are busying stitching, they aren't free to weild a cast iron pan to his head, or to strangle him ?! ;-)

-- Carey in MA

"Carey N." ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

Ooh don't tell her that ! Cast iron pans can be broken if they hit something hard !

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A friend of mine told me that one of her cast iron pans split in half recently. It was rather old(probably her grandmother's), but she wasn't swinging it at anyone/thing at the time(luckily!), and we were all surprised that it broke.

-- Carey in MA

Snicker!

And I really love using my cast iron for their intended purpose....

Was it one of the "Full" series? I just finished those! I'm now on the last of the Terry Goodkind "Sword of Truth" books.

Joan

Be blunt ... "either I stick the knitting needles into the scarf, or I stick the knitting needles into you. Pick one, dearest."

"Carey N." ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

Yes they really will break just like that. It's not common though and I have two really old ones that I realize with the passage of time are heading up to 100 years old soon lol

You could do it easily by dunking it in cold water when it's good and hot.

Cheryl Isaak ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

That's what I thunked ! I once threw a cast iron ash tray at my husband (I was three months pregnant with my third when he broke the news he had a pier head jump and was going to sea for the next two years) and all it did was smash a window when he ducked, which it fell to me to fix. The dog stood up for me though, in the excitement of it all he rushed over and bit his ankle !

My mother recalls having "chicken pox parties" even when I was little.

I've decided to reserve the knitting for the rink (reminder to self, find Lancer colors for hockey scarf; needs to last 4 years)

Cheryl