Does anyone remember what part of Fl Laura lives in?
The Bay City Rollers, now that's music.
Giles ,'Sleeper'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Strix - Dec 12, 2014 6:31:32 am PST #12384 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Jesse - Dec 12, 2014 6:42:11 am PST #12385 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesse, sweatshirts would be awesome!
I have a Penn sweatshirt I would lend you, but I think I'll want it for my 20th reunion in May....
Ginger - Dec 12, 2014 6:58:25 am PST #12386 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Laura is near Ft Lauderdale, iirc.
meara - Dec 12, 2014 7:09:15 am PST #12387 of 30000
Wtf. Why did I wake up with Shakira in my head/ear worming me??
Kat - Dec 12, 2014 7:18:06 am PST #12388 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Jesse, how is it we are old enough for 20 year college reunions? Also, no worries I'll keep looking for college stuff.
zuisa - Dec 12, 2014 7:29:02 am PST #12389 of 30000
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Our shower is broken. We only have one bathroom in the house, so things are..... unpleasant. Someone is coming to fix it this afternoon, and I have never been so excited to take a shower in my life.
P.M. Marc - Dec 12, 2014 7:33:48 am PST #12390 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
My grandfather somehow managed to enlist (he was born in 1901), and given that he had five children under 10, was already in his late 30s (Canada having entered the war long before the US), they just sent him to Victoria. No overseas service for him! I'm not entirely sure why he bothered enlisting, though my mother claims it's because he thought it would get him back to Scotland.
My step-grandfather on the other side (who was in Scotland, as that's where he started out) was in Europe, and the shrapnel in his knee ultimately led to his death (surgery + painkillers = bleeding ulcer). All he ever talked about was shit he got up to on leave, however. (Which was a lot, as he was very young--turned 18 in 1942 [Gram kind of cradle robbed with him]--and filled with wild oats.)
I had no real relationship with any of the other vets in the family, as my bio grandfathers all fell into age ranges where they missed the war windows--too young in some cases for WWI, barely, too old for WWII.
Jesse - Dec 12, 2014 7:38:03 am PST #12391 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesse, how is it we are old enough for 20 year college reunions?
I know, right? It's ridiculous.
Connie Neil - Dec 12, 2014 7:39:27 am PST #12392 of 30000
brillig
I so wish I'd known to ask for stories. Daddy was 21 in 1940 and good-looking young man. Such a man in uniform in New York is a Broadway musical waiting to happen. But he died when I was in college and still getting my head around the potential of history.
Connie Neil - Dec 12, 2014 7:40:06 am PST #12393 of 30000
brillig
Last year was my 30th college reunion. I've never been to a reunion.