Update on me ... some OT

i'm sorry, G. i'm a snot nosed little brat with no idea what i mean or what i'm talking about. no worrys tho. i doubt i'll ever make it back to calif or anywhere in the usa again. j.

wrote ... Jeanne, each person is welcome to their own opinions, and finds the pluses or negatives to a place as they see fit. It's obvious Bakersfield is not on your list of places to visit/live. We get that. Personally, I love Bakersfield. One of my very best friends used to live there.

I was raised near the ocean. I live less than 2 miles from it now. How many times have I been there in the last 3 years? None.

How many times have I been to the desert or mountains in the last three years? Over a dozen.

G> eeeeeek, ya dont wanna be in bakersplat.

sorry, T, i am just a snot nosed little brat. there will be a few folks here who can attest to that. i doubt i'll be returning to usa ever again. j.

"Taria" wrote ... I always got the idea it was actually a pretty nice town. There are a few quilting stores and years ago there were a lot of antique stores that were always fun to hit on our way up the valley. Taria

Isn't it great that not all people like living in the same climate?! I could probably tolerate the crappy winters here if our kids were nearby so I could see them more than once a year or two.

We get it--You've said it 3 times already in this thread. Give it a rest! Gen

this is why we're not in NM already. I'd love to move there-Albuquerque south to the border-not the northern part. But DS and family are in MI, a 3 hr. drive from here. Both grand kids cried when I said I'd like to move to NM-they'd never get to see us. That did it-we're staying here (at least for now). We're close enough to get up there for all the important events, but far away enough not to have to sit through all the sports and games. Gen

I haven't seen 5 of our grands in over a year. Missed a big scouting award and a middle school graduation along with birthdays. DH hasn't seen 6 of them. (I took care of DGD in May in CA.) Right now we are 550 miles from most.

I miss the ocean too. Hadn't said I didn't but.not the same way you obviously would having not ever lived that close to it. Have lived next to small lakes but that is quite diff. I didn't think you were being uppity. .just expressing your opinion that I happen to not agree with. Figured you saw it for what it was worth. BUT. You WERE there so I know you know of that which you speaketh.

Now, don't get me started on humid places at this time of my life......

just hit block sender.

"Gen" wrote ... We get it--You've said it 3 times already in this thread. Give it a rest! Gen

again , i'm sorry, T. i seem to be having issues with everyone everywhere today. i need new shoes. i'm just gonna wander off. j.

"Butterflywings" wrote ... I miss the ocean too. Hadn't said I didn't but.not the same way you obviously would having not ever lived that close to it. Have lived next to small lakes but that is quite diff. I didn't think you were being uppity. .just expressing your opinion that I happen to not agree with. Figured you saw it for what it was worth. BUT. You WERE there so I know you know of that which you speaketh.

Now, don't get me started on humid places at this time of my life......

Butterfly (yes, I DO miss the home we had there-and no time greater than all summer and fall..and spring flush on the roses...but I do NOT miss the Tulle Fog for one second-or any other fog no matter where it may be)

Ouch--that hurts. I feel bad for you. Gen

We will get to see 7 of them next week and the 8th we will see in November. :)

i dont sit all day on the beach but i do like having the sea air near enough. like i said, no worrys, as i dont think i'll be getting back to the usa ever again. i appreciate the thot tho. take care, j.

"Taria" wrote ... Well if you get this far I can show you around the desert and mountains but you can't make me go to the beach. LOL I did drive my sil down there a few years ago. I doubt she has any idea how I just don't like it there. She enjoyed it a lot though. Next time her brother can do that. Taria

Hey Jeanne,

Everybody's got a right to his/her likes and dislikes. Me? I'm okay with the beach, desert, open plains. However, I'm not overly fond of being in the mountains and really dread driving twisty mountain roads.

Best regards, Michelle > sorry, T.

Jeanne, don't worry about it.

Hugs, Michelle in Nevada

its just me having a really shit of a day. no idea why today its bad but it is. i'm sorry to upset folks. sorry. no need to reply. if i get thru it, i do, if i dont, i dont. i didnt get a manual on this. j.

"Michelle C." wrote ... Hey Jeanne,

Everybody's got a right to his/her likes and dislikes. Me? I'm okay with the beach, desert, open plains. However, I'm not overly fond of being in the mountains and really dread driving twisty mountain roads.

Best regards, Michelle in Nevada

Beach, desert, open plains, mountains are all okay with me. Can't do cities and big accumulations of people very well. I moved here in 2002. From a city of 40,000 to an area of over

200,000. In a heartbeat would move to a small town, but cannot due to job [or more accurately lack of a job] in a small town.

G> Hey Jeanne,

Giggle... There are places I feel like that about. London, for a start... The Great Wen. Bleargh! Or Birmingham. Big cities, anyway.

Yes, London it has fabulous theatres, wonderful shops (I loathe almost all forms of shopping not fabric related), fantastic museusm (can I live in the V&A if I have to live in London? Next to Tipu's Tiger?), and amazing galleries, history, the British Library, and all that stuff... But you'd have to pay me 30 gold bars a minute to live or work there!

I'll *visit*, but one day every six months or more is plenty.

Then there are places like the wilds of East Angia and the fens of Lincolnshire... Flat as a pancake, with the odd tree sticking up here and there, and a lazy wind straight from Siberia that cuts through you rather than go round. Love every inch! Including the four and a half miles of ankle deep North Sea as you wade out at low tides off the beech at Theddlethorpe!

Or the mountains of the Highlands with their wild weather and wilder sheep, the cliffs of Northumbria, the empty cold white beaches of Fife, and the wild dark seas round the Hebrides... Hills and weather in serious chunks! And coast.

I'm less enamoured of the pretty Kent countryside with the 3000 years of civilization colouring the landscape and the tame closeness of the horizon.

I love the coast. I have it and the hills in my blood. I don't see it often enough, though where we are there is coast of a sort (well, Themes estury, anyway) only about four miles away.

When she was little (and I was a baby), the family lived for a while in a place called Sutton On Sea, and Big Sis loved nothing more than running along the top of the sea wall, dad hanging on to the kiddy reins for dear life, and being blown off into his arms! I suppose she was about two years old.

Shit happens (((((J))))))