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Kalima
Admin

Well thanks to about 100 SOS emails from me to AdLib, I got my mojo back and it came with my Gravator too.

It’s almost my Sunday, hope that you all have a good Saturday.

Good night from a sleepy Tokyo.

Khirad
Member

It’s getting quiet, there seems to be an exodus, and I’ve got some offline writing to get back to. In any case, I ducked into two world stories (take a wild guess what on) quickly, but my absence here was not an indication that I wasn’t boycotting successfully. I’ve only messed up on that once when it honestly slipped my mind what day it was!

Kalima
Admin

“‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;”

boomer1949
Member

“the stockings were hung by the chimney with care…”

and boomer is ~ 2 hours from Stupid O’Clock. Between the music, Vox Populi, and plain old family drama (seems to only show up around the holidays), I’m wound up tighter than Santa’s alarm clock.

Kalima
Admin

LOL boomer, you will sleep like a log.

boomer1949
Member

I was pondering staying up and nap all day today. After all, it’s now Saturday morning, still dark out, 22 degrees, and my furry critters are staring at me. I have them really confused.

Kalima
Admin

Those days of staying up until the wee hours are long gone for me. I need at least 7 hours of sleep to function the next morning. With 16 cats always needing something, a nap is just a distant dream for me, plus napping gives me a headache. I’m usually in bed before midnight.

Pepe Lepew
Member

Awwww, I slept all day and now I’m completely full of beans…

nellie
Member

Missed you at Vox Pepe….

Pepe Lepew
Member

I was sawing logs all day… They even got me a movie, but I fell asleep 10 minutes into it.

PatsyT
Member

Well you have a nice stock of firewood then.

PatsyT
Member

HA! Beans…
My kids were feeding the dogs and I asked them –
“What did you give the dogs that made them eat everything up so fast”
They replied….
“Oh, Beans, Mom, we used that can in the fridge….
and added it to their food.”
Thanks a lot, they have to have them sleep in my room.
Oh boy, that can has been there for over a week.

Kalima
Admin

You know what we say about beans, right?

I hope that you had gas masks.

bito
Member

well this is beyond my bedtime so I bid you all a goodnight?
meds and bed for me.>>>>>>>>

Khirad
Member

Night.

Kalima
Admin

Well darn it, I’ve missed you for the 3rd time this week. Good night bito. Take care and be safe.

BigDogMom
Member
BigDogMom

Time for me to say good night to everyone…my eyes are starting to fail me, been a long day…had lots of fun.

Thanks again AdLib and everyone else here! Talk to you soon….

KQµårk 死神
Member

Goodnight folks. I may have overdid it a bit much but I missed my fellow planeteers. At least it’s time for the pain meds.

nellie
Member

Nite, KQ — it was good to see you. Rest and be well.

Kalima
Admin

Thinking of you. Get well soon, we miss you dearly.

escribacat
Member

Missed you too, KQ. Get better soon!

bito
Member

KQ,Take care, guy. Heal up! you are missed.

Khirad
Member

Night. Be well.

BigDogMom
Member
BigDogMom

Night KQ, take care of yourself, get better soon

bito
Member

Kalima, It was fun reading, but too fast for my input. Never did get a chance to say hello today. Good afternoon dear one.

Kalima
Admin

Hello bito, a bit to fast for these eyes and fingers too. Good evening to you.

BigDogMom
Member
BigDogMom

Morning Kalima, didn’t have time to say hi to you before, how are you and your furry friends?

Kalima
Admin

Hello BDM, we are being driven potty by road construction noises and shakes. I keep popping out to ask if they are done yet, my outside cats are afraid to come back to our garage to eat.

How are you and yours?

BigDogMom
Member
BigDogMom

Too bad for your little ones, my boys would be barking at them for making all that noise..

It’s very cold today, wind chill brings temp down to 6 degrees, the older one is stiff with arthritis, so I had to give him some aspirin.

Both right now are stretched out, butt to butt on my couch, oh excuse me, their couch…

escribacat
Member

Sounds just like my house! My livingroom looks like a greyhound slumber party. One grey on the couch, two on the floor, each with elegant doggie bed.

BigDogMom
Member
BigDogMom

LOL…boy do I know how you feel, and Hubbsters says it’s because I bought the wrong ones.

I should have bought the one that look like couches, that have the back to them. Because that’s what they like…apparently he has had some heart to heart talks with the boys when I was not around.

bito
Member

E’cat, bought a pricey bed for one of my hounds. He would sleep on the hardwood floor an put his head on the bed. (if he couldn’t sneak on my bed)

BigDogMom
Member
BigDogMom

Thanks AdLib –

bito
Member

Bdm, I liked you last line 😆

BigDogMom
Member
BigDogMom

Which one…I’m still spinning in circles from the speed of this..LOL

boomer1949
Member

lol…:-)

bito
Member

BDM, was it not you who put in the airline announcement? It was a bit fast for this old fart. lol

Khirad
Member

Reminds me of the David Spade bit on SNL. Buh-bye, buh-bye, and buh-bye.

boomer1949
Member

I am exhausted..I am an Administrative Assistant and do this all day. Whew that was totally different. Loved it thoug.

escribacat
Member

Boomer, your family Sundays sound like absolute hell! I had a boyfriend like that. I would go to his house and his friends would come over and suddenly I’m surrounded by jerks spouting off the N word. It was a real shock to me and I ended up just slinking away to hide in the bedroom.

boomer1949
Member

E’Cat,
Yep, just imagine it went on until I got married and had kids. One day, and after much therapy, I told all of them they could do whatever they wanted in their own homes, EXCEPT when my kids were around OR in my home.

I’ve been the outsider ever since.

Khirad
Member

On the racism thing, I wrote this at ‘another site’ and kinda saved it:

So, I’m just gonna throw this out there. I know some see racism everywhere. I try to be circumspect about it. But here’s what I’ve been thinking.

Now, all their memes are vapid: teleprompter, mustard, ACORN, pronunciation of a certain South Asian country, and yes, Birthers, especially. But what I was rolling through my mind was this obsession with him golfing. Now, with some, I think they get a certain kick throwing back our stuff – though many seem genuinely thrown off by the fact that Bush was golfing away too – “now watch this drive”. Yet, with the mocking of him golfing, and I’m sorry to say this in the post-Tiger world (no not the current state of ‘affairs’), I sense a tinge of something else in the snide tone and the rapid spread with which it took hold (represented in monikers (t)here, for example). How many presidents have golfed? More than have used a teleprompter, that’s for sure. So what is the big fixation about him golfing really about? Seems like it should be, pardon this, par for the course. (If you’re Boehner though you always look like you missed par on a gimme putt.)

Am I unfairly reading too much into it?

Granted, I don’t have to be so coy with you guys, but what do you think?

BigDogMom
Member
BigDogMom

No, you are correct, my husband also picked up on the snide tone….welcome to the Good Old White Boys Club….

Khirad
Member

It confirmed for me that it really is (with quite a few of them), about him being in the most exclusive clubhouse. Others, who are younger (remember that one case where the young Republican girl didn’t get the slave reference posted online?) may not get the undertones and really be so dense as to think it’s the criticism they purport it to be – of a man at play while shirking his duties (again, cf. Bush). But the others know full well the dog whistles they’re sending out there.

BigDogMom
Member
BigDogMom

I worked at a private golf club for a couple of years, blacks where allowed but not encouraged to be members…they always found a way to deny them membership. All on the up and up though, {{wink}}, {{wink}}…

There are code words, some secret language that they have, winks, nods and so forth…

boomer1949
Member

Skull and Bones?

BigDogMom
Member
BigDogMom

You got it…the chosen ones, don’t you know THEIR supposed to lead our country…they know what’s best for us.

escribacat
Member

I remember this post, Khirad. I never watch Fox et al so I haven’t seen them making a big deal out of it. But my old dad was a huge golf fan and fond of the term “blackies” and, had he still been alive, he would have had a fit both at Tiger and Obama.

boomer1949
Member

Khirad,

I had the sense long before golf. During the campaign for example…folks (and I’m being generous here) stood in line to see the McPalin KLAN. tHEY WERE HOLDING EVIL SIGNS, CARRYING SOCK MONKEYS, AND OVERWHELMINGly reminded me of my family (both sides)…a bunch of old, bigoted men and wome, with their adult children (who knew no better) in tow. It’s inbred. Period. If one is never exposed to anything different, one becomes a product of one’s environment.

It’s all that nature vs. nurture thing.

Khirad
Member

I loved the poetic use of ‘inbred’. 😉

boomer1949
Member

Best analogy I could come up with.

nellie
Member

This is why I say it makes people stupid.

Being on the receiving end of this attitude… People look like they’ve lost their minds. Seriously.

escribacat
Member

Another stimulating session.

Kalima
Admin

I’m back, hope you all had a good time.

boomer1949
Member

Hi Kalima! Totally good.

Kalima
Admin

Hi boomer, that’s what we love to hear.

nellie
Member

Another hit!

KQµårk 死神
Member

Not without you Kalima.

Kalima
Admin

Too sweet my friend. 🙂

Isn’t it time for you to sleep before the nurses give you a spanking?

bito
Member

I never got that! Whats that take? 😀

Kalima
Admin

You gotta be really bad!! 😆