Life's story

Newbies votes count just as much as long timers do. Diana

Actually, is this quilt related if one of the ladies involved is in my quilt guild? *grin*

A few years ago in Woodland, among my many customers were two different couples with the same last name. One couple had a husband named Gary and a wife named Pat -- the other couple, the husband was named Pat and the wife was Garrie.

Woodland isn't the biggest of towns -- these poor couples shopped at the same paint store, went to the same hospital, even had the same dentist. Personally, I think one of the couples moved out of town just because they were so sick and tired of constantly straightening out records! ROFLOL

There's a couple in our area named: husband - Gene; wife - Jean. How confusing would that be!?

then there's me and dh.....Jym and Jenn. When you say them out loud, they sound similar.

They did it to themselves. :)

I have enough problems with a SIL with the same name. If my spouse had the same first name, I'd definitely pick an alias to go by! LOL

Our kids have 2 Aunt Stephanies, and 2 Uncle Steves. One Stephanie is married to one of the Steves. We are constantly saying "no, not that Steve, the other one. The one with the beard." Or "no, not that Stephanie, the one that's married to Uncle George." If Spike and Giles had been boy/girl twins, we considered naming them Steve and Stephanie, just for fun.

Seriously! The moral of the story is... "sometimes it's good to be boring!"

Emilia

"Martha in IN" wrote in news:sAy3b.26000$vy5.16067 @nwrddc01.gnilink.net:

threatened

"frood" wrote in news:Vot3b.39183 $ snipped-for-privacy@twister.southeast.rr.com:

Oh, I guess you didn't see my post about how my stash was raided... They left me with almost nothing left...

Yikes... confession time:

I've only actually finished one.... The rest are in various states of UFO. But I've decided to participate in hugs & block swaps (speaking of which, there aren't too of either going on)... This way, I can practice without getting frustrated by all my mistakes. I've been getting very frustrated that I'm not able to finish anything. Did finish a few adorable doll house quilts. Not to mention the devastating stash raid.... :)

Emilia

"Diana Curtis" wrote in news:wyu3b.2122$ snipped-for-privacy@reggie.win.bright.net:

threatened

At a conference years ago, I met a Barry & Cheri Sharry.... I certainly never forgot their names. (I wouldn't be surprised if any of you knew them. I'm sure she is a quilter, though I can't confirm this)

Patti wrote in news:7JzOAtB29mT $ snipped-for-privacy@quik.clara.co.uk:

Both my sister and I are married to men named John/Jon -- and John happens to be Jon's uncle. That's been fun! We've tried "Big John" and "Little Jon" (they didn't like that!), "Old John" and "Young Jon" (that was even worse!), "John With an H" and "Jon Without an H" (too long), and then tried "Louise's John" and "Peg's Jon" (we're just careful who's around when we start using that terminology!). Most of the time, though, we just use Uncle John and Jon.

Then, we got a new niece and nephew (Peg's and my brother adopted two children). So, we got them used to having two Uncle Jo(h)ns. Can you imagine their confusion, though, when they went to the East coast to visit their mom's family and were introduced to yet another Uncle John? I guess they both kind of stopped and looked at each other for a little bit and then decided that EVERY uncle was named Jo(h)n!

I have a friend named Dian without the e. She calls herself Eless online. LOL Maybe you can have John and Hless or noH.

No, I think the moral is...

If you are going to be naked in the movies, you'd better learn to make quilts!

I meant "one of you RCTQers may know them"... Not you specifically Patti! :)

Emilia

You want short? The Queen of Everything's Story:

I am, therefore I quilt!

PAT, Q/E

ruffian, That's nice of you to defend Buddy but so many people were offended by Buddy's comment...we are close here and most of it is due to our OT posts. Stop being a "newbie", make more quilts, show and tell, get to know us...we aren't all that bad! So we like to "talk story" as we call it here in Hawaii! You seem to like to, too, since this is your second post on this thread! If not, go access RCTQ on Google groups, search the topic you have questions on in RCTQ only, and your questions will be answered faster than reading current posts. A lot of questions do get answered to death, but a wealth of quilting info is there for you all the time. Aloha!

Me, too, Donna. I thought I was confusing when trying to explain how my dad's 3d wife was the daughter of his first wife's first husband.