There was always the one- or two-week family vacations, as well. Michigan/Mackinac Island one summer, the drive around Illinois/St. Louis, the week at Bear Island Resort in Ely, MN, a few trips to my grandparents in Arkansas, the trip with those grandparents to visit my Greatgreatuncle Gus near Minneapolis (a very cool elderly man of small stature with a thick Swedish accent who loved to play pinochle until the wee hours and watch pro wrestling on Sunday mornings). We never ventured out of the Midwest until I was 14, when we went to Florida and I first saw the ocean.
Congratulations to the class of 1999. You all proved more or less adequate.
Snyder ,'Chosen'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kathy A - Jul 06, 2005 4:38:46 pm PDT #7591 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
sarameg - Jul 06, 2005 4:45:57 pm PDT #7592 of 10001
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Jesse - Jul 06, 2005 4:48:10 pm PDT #7593 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hee! But you know what? I think we've both lost weight since that picture. He isn't that fat anymore, I don't think.
Kat - Jul 06, 2005 4:48:28 pm PDT #7594 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
That is an ENORMOUS cat.
I have an urge to go to the east coast to see sarameg and friends.
sarameg - Jul 06, 2005 4:50:05 pm PDT #7595 of 10001
He also just...spread. He's spready.
And you look awesome in that picture. OK, the flash got you, but still.
Kat! You should! But not the first weekend in August.
Jesse - Jul 06, 2005 4:52:32 pm PDT #7596 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Spready! That's totally it.
Kathy A - Jul 06, 2005 4:53:11 pm PDT #7597 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Pretty cat, and very big!
I'll have to take some pics of Amarna and get them scanned and stored online to show off her tummy, as well. I think she's lost some of it since her checkup in March, when the vet said she had to lose some of the 4 lbs she'd put on in the past year since I adopted her. That cat condo I got her has her exercising a lot more just to get to her favorite sleeping perch up on top (she usually just jumps up the different levels, but lately she's taken to using her claws to go up the back way).
Cashmere - Jul 06, 2005 5:01:08 pm PDT #7598 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
since my dad was one of 9 kids and my mom one of 6, I have a lot of them
Mom was one of 12 and Dad was one of 11. I have 53 first cousins on my mother's side alone.
I totally forgot my mother's cousin and her husband would take us up to Grayling, MI for his National Guard summer camp. They had two boys close in age to me and my twin, so we'd go camping with them for two weeks every year. It was always so much fun.
erikaj - Jul 06, 2005 5:01:51 pm PDT #7599 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I would visit sarameg : a. For herself. b.Because I like meeting Buffistas. c. She lives in Baltimore. It would be like making haj.
sarameg - Jul 06, 2005 5:03:13 pm PDT #7600 of 10001
Heh.
My mom is totally obsessed with Baltimore. She REALLY wants me to buy a house here. It's cute.