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[resigned]

What else do you do beside cleaning? Can we negotiate?

The bird will be treated like royal! Promise!

I like to be taken to lunch. Someplace nice preferably - and if I don't like it - the bird gets it right in the beak.

[CherokeeKid]

I like to be taken to lunch. Someplace nice preferably - and if I don't like it - the bird gets it right in the beak.

Sure, I'll take you to lunch ~ after you earned it!

No play, no pay!

[Elaine S]

It was just ment to be a week stay. The day I leave I throw a couple of things in a bag and that's it. Shop one day in Amsterdam and I am all set.
So had to skip Queen's day anyway this year.
I will go to Holland in September and stay a whole month.
Have to go to Ibiza for a week also and on my way to Spain I will make a stop in France to check out Yif's new house.
She will be delighted.

Sheeeeeeet.... you gonna be back by January 29th?? lol Already got my tickets for the flights!!

[suraja]

Was outside talking to a fellow smoker today, apparently she is a receptionist at Remax Real Estates as she had her cordless phone with her and answered it a couple of times. I mentioned to her that your clients must be happy to have a live person answer the phone and we started talking about the annoyance of calling companies with only automated phone service…press 1 for this 2 for that and a lot of time you don't get press 0 for a representative anymore.

She told me that her daughter told her that the automated phone services are programmed so that if you drop the F bomb it will take you to a live person. I don't believe it to be true, but I will give it a try.

Oh well, we have come a long way baby with technology…some of it great and some of it not so great. I still haven't gotten used to people with the blue tooth in their ear. They come toward me at the office building and say hi, how are you and I say fine how are you only to realize that they aren't talking to me. Thank God for Warren Buffet, he became a billionaire without a cell phone, a totally foreign concept for young people.

I will never forget when I was a young girl and on Friday nights we listened to ongoing mystery novels (like soaps today) on our BIG radio and then my father told me that in America they have this thing like our radio but with pictures like in the movies and described a TV. He truly disappointed me that night because my father had never lied to me before but he surely did that night….there couldn't possibly be anything like that.

As a last thought about technology, it will never trump Mother Nature as we have seen about the volcanic ashes of Iceland that have stranded millions of people in airports.

If you suffer from insomnia, this post will surely put you to sleep.

Have a nice weekend everyone and I'm truly sorry Knipoog that your plans have been ruined by Mother Nature.

[yankee-in-france]

It was just ment to be a week stay. The day I leave I throw a couple of things in a bag and that's it. Shop one day in Amsterdam and I am all set.
So had to skip Queen's day anyway this year.
I will go to Holland in September and stay a whole month.
Have to go to Ibiza for a week also and on my way to Spain I will make a stop in France to check out Yif's new house.
She will be delighted.

I do the same thing when I go to the States. I take an extra piece of luggage which is filled with goodies for my grandchildren and then I bring back things from the States. You're not too far away if you're in Ibiza.

[yankee-in-france]

YIF, Congratulations on your new house! Is it in the same area where you live now? It sounds like a wonderful area to live.

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It is in the same area but not in St. Cyprien. We are moving near Villaneuve-de-la-Rajo which is about five miles west of the sea and a few miles north of St. Cyp. It is more Frenchy, less touristy, and more rural which we prefer. It has a wonderful lac (actually two, a large one and a small one) and many walking and cycling paths around the lakes which we love and so does Mugsy. We have a strange dog. Mugsy doesn't like walking by the sea.

It is also a smaller home than our present which pleases me but has an annex which if we ever want or need to enlarge, we can do it.

[resigned]

It is in the same area but not in St. Cyprien. We are moving near Villaneuve-de-la-Rajo which is about five miles west of the sea and a few miles north of St. Cyp. It is more Frenchy, less touristy, and more rural which we prefer. It has a wonderful lac (actually two, a large one and a small one) and many walking and cycling paths around the lakes which we love and so does Mugsy. We have a strange dog. Mugsy doesn't like walking by the sea.

It is also a smaller home than our present which pleases me but has an annex which if we ever want or need to enlarge, we can do it.

More Frenchy makes me think of Mr. French on Family Affair.

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[pax]

Enjoy those walking paths. Mugsy's gonna love it. It's funny how every dog has quirks. Angie barks at skateboarders. From her perspective people shouldn't float on air, lol.

[pax]

Pat - how was Lisa Lampenelli?

[resigned]

Pat - how was Lisa Lampenelli?

Ignorant as hell - I loved it.

She said she is having a feud with Joan Rivers because Joan didn't want her to be her roastmaster on Comedy Central - she said that Joan looks like an old barbie doll that was left on a heating duct and melted.

[CherokeeKid]

It is in the same area but not in St. Cyprien. We are moving near Villaneuve-de-la-Rajo which is about five miles west of the sea and a few miles north of St. Cyp. It is more Frenchy, less touristy, and more rural which we prefer. It has a wonderful lac (actually two, a large one and a small one) and many walking and cycling paths around the lakes which we love and so does Mugsy. We have a strange dog. Mugsy doesn't like walking by the sea.

It is also a smaller home than our present which pleases me but has an annex which if we ever want or need to enlarge, we can do it.

It sounds just lovely, YIF. I made a google search, the spelling is a little different, but I found this pastel painting and I think that's the area you will be living in, it's absolutely gorgeous:



And in regards to Mugsy: He might not be a water dog and walking along the beach might frighten him as those "waves are out to get him"! LOL
He might love the large and the small lake at your new home.

[CherokeeKid]

Ignorant as hell - I loved it.

She said she is having a feud with Joan Rivers because Joan didn't want her to be her roastmaster on Comedy Central - she said that Joan looks like an old barbie doll that was left on a heating duct and melted.

Oops... and I thought you were cleaning her house!

Glad you enjoyed her show. I saw her recently for the first time on TV. And was kinda speechless. One tough humor. The audience loved her. I guess she deserves her name "Queen of Mean".

[resigned]

Oops... and I thought you were cleaning her house!

Glad you enjoyed her show. I saw her recently for the first time on TV. And was kinda speechless. One tough humor. The audience loved her. I guess she deserves her name "Queen of Mean".

If you want chicken soup for the soul - her show isn't it. It's like she says - "if you can't take a joke - leave"

Warning - insult comedian @ link - may be considered offensive to some.

Lisa Lampanelli video:

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/961635/

[CherokeeKid]

If you want chicken soup for the soul - her show isn't it. It's like she says - "if you can't take a joke - leave"

Warning - insult comedian @ link - may be considered offensive to some.

Lisa Lampanelli video:

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/961635/

Oh, I watched her show to the end. I was not insulted at all.

I did not know who she was. So, her 'style' caught me by surprise.

[CherokeeKid]

Last night, I had a funny dream: similar to "Carrie Bradshaw" in that video, but instead of falling, I had a 'bikini malfunction'!
In my dream, I was in Aruba, entering a party scene but I even heard the music from that video in my dream!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auQark8fbNQ

Have a fabulous weekend, Everyone!

[DocTar]

Is Lisa anything like Chelsea Handler? I love Chelsea Lately!

[resigned]

Is Lisa anything like Chelsea Handler? I love Chelsea Lately!

Not really, DocTar. Lisa is more of an insult comic in the Don Rickles vein. She insults everyone regardless of age, race, creed, disability, whatever - equally. She can be really crude and ignorant. ..but that's the joke.

I've liked Chelsea from when she was on "Girl's Behaving Badly" ( a female version of Punk'd)

Have you read Chelsea's books? I thought the first two were better than her last.

[DocTar]

No, I have not read her books yet...but I intend to. I watched the Lisa link, and somehow I must have missed her cause I can't say I have ever seen her before, but she is in a class all by herself!

[resigned]

I thought San Franfreako was a radical town—but there’s barely an angry liberal opposition to be found. Herded over by a group of tea baggers, who adore my Obama/Charlie Chaplin sign, we conduct a hearty conversation on why our healthcare system is the best in the world.

“You have the choice on whether you want to be poor or not,” explains a woman with poodle hair.

“Yeah,” I contribute. “Stupid poor people choosing to be poor!”

Suddenly, we’re confronted by a sole hippy chick who pans the crowd with a sign reading: WHO COULD JESUS INSURE?

Good question. Standing up for my tea bagger peers, I sarcastically yell. “So tell us, who would Jesus insure?”
The hippie chick turns her sign. It reads: EVERYONE.

“I’m surprising they are not shutting her down?” remark an elderly patriot man.

“Yeah, this is our time!”

“They’ll end up kicking her out,” the patriot man confirms.

“Remember, we’re in enemy territory.” I clarify, “And besides, Jesus didn’t work in the insurance business; he was a carpenter by trade.”

http://trueslant.com/harmonleon/2010/04 ... ave-grown/



Harmon Leon wrote "The Infiltrator: My Undercover Exploits in Right-wing America" - It's funny as hell - here is the Amazon description:

Called "a cross between Michael Moore and South Park," gonzo journalist Harmon Leon shared his undercover exploits among fringe right-wingers in the riotously funny book Republican Like Me. Now, in The Infiltrator, Harmon exposes more of the harrowing and hilarious reality of living in red-state America.

· Desperate for a job in the no-new-job Republican economy, Harmon becomes O.J. Simpson’s sidekick helping him to pull off hidden-camera tricks on O.J.’s budding reality show. · Harmon joins a civilian vigilante group of senior citizens called the Minuteman Project and helps them "patrol for illegal aliens" along the Mexican border by sitting in a lawn chair. · He becomes a Promise Keeper at one of the group’s weekend stadium events, where he "gets pumped up about Jesus" but finds that women are clearly not welcome. · Harmon infiltrates the Protest Warriors (who vehemently oppose liberal protestors) and meets a right-wing Warrior who boastfully confides to Harmon that he’s infiltrated leftist protests. Harmon rises to become president of the local chapter. · Harmon shows his flair for drama when he trains to be a teen abstinence educator and makes an unforgettable impression using mime. · At a faith healing extravaganza, Harmon throws away his crutches and walks again—before being "assisted" to the ground.

http://www.amazon.com/Infiltrator-Under ... 1591024668

[yankee-in-france]

Warm and sunny, a nice lazy Sunday, no stores open so we can't shop except to get our poulet roti from the butcher and le pan. It is beginning to get busy down here and it is just April. Mugs and I usually walk the rural roads and yesterday it was so busy that we were dodging more than anything. Mugs is good off the lead but I worry on the one-way roads when two cars are coming in opposite directions.

Enjoy the day, my friends.

PS Has anyone seen Michael Moore's movie about capitalism? My hubby is trying to get it.

[yankee-in-france]

Here is a pic of Villaneuve-de-la-Raho which shows the large lake, the village center is on the mound, and the Les Alberes mountain ridge is to the right. The view is looking southeast.

[DocTar]

Today I am traveling to attend my oldest daughter's bridal shower this afternoon. My youngest daughter planned it along with the other bride's maids, and it ought to be interesting to say the least meaning, the old traditional way of doing things will not be in play today!....it is being held in the Union Pacific Depot, which I had no idea was open for such events. I will let you know how it goes later...

[yankee-in-france]

Enjoy, DT. Yes, the wedding must be getting close. I forgot the date.

[CherokeeKid]

YIF, this is one fantastic picture! Didn't expect palm trees and a beach on the lake. You truly live in a laid-back vacation area. Gorgeous!

DT, your daughter looks lovely in her bridal dress! I don't know anything about traditions but as it is one of the most special days for her, just let her do it her way and be happy for her. Just my thoughts.

It's cool her, 61 degrees and the rain finally stopped. I'll join YIF in having a nice and lazy Sunday.

[Elaine S]

Congrats DT!! Your daughters are beautiful, and their gowns lovely.

Yiffy... what a wonderful picture.

CK... get busy and pack! <sigh>

It's pretty cool here today, but I decided to put my winter coats away, and bring up the summer jackets, sweaters, etc. Of course one thing led to another, and I got rid of lots of shoes and clothes I hadn't wore in forever, and some things I had of my Mom's. Packed up three humongous bags, and deposited them in a MS container not far from my house. They're always looking for clothes, shoes, and household goods.

Tonight... out for dinner with my brother!