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Where Gypsy Reigns and Strange Things Appear 
prtfvr said
Ah!! Thanks ms.G! Even my DSL connection was starting to slow down when opening the posts!
Chery said
o.k. Margaret challenged us to write 10 post cards to Ms. Daniels and 10 postcards to Ms. Wong.
I accept the challenge beginning today!
Everyone lets flood LifeTime with post cards!
Does anyone know how to check the ratings on the two new shows LifeTime aired last night??????
Chery said
Question I just tried to get onto the Blood Ties Web page put up by Insight, you know the one that plays the real opening credits and it wasn’t there!!!!!! Can someone else try????
Yikes what does that mean? Why would they take the site down????
Chery said
O.K. I am officially freaking out now. I just went to Blood Lines Web site and tried their link to “the official Blood Ties Site” That was put up by Insight and it is GONE!
Is this bad????? what is going on.
DIZEY1 said
Hey Chery I’ve been to Blood Ties Central, & Bloodlines no problem which site are you speaking of??? Postcards, am I to mail all 21 I did last night is that the plan??
Margaret said
Chery: As someone told me breath: Take a nice long breath in and out. Maybe its under construction or temporarily unavailable.
As far as the postcards go wouldn’t it be great if we could get enough to where they would ask us to stop. We need to make it where they can’t see their desks. Have you ever heard the term: Be careful what you wish for you may get it.
When someone tells me that I can’t have something it makes me all the more determined. Are you with me ladies. I think the men have left us.
Hope you’re ok LH. We haven’t heard from Sai13, probably too much estrogen for him. lol.
Margaret said
I’d say go for it Dizey. I’m mailing 20 today. Ten to Ms. Daniels and 10 to Ms. Wong.
lwildstar said
ok just popping in to christen the new topic!
Since my last post vanished into the either I will repeat it…
challange accepted – I maile doff 8 to Ms. Daniels this morning – I had 10 cards so the other two must be in the bottom of my tote or on the counter – will look later.
I went online and ordered a pack of 100 postcards – should be here tomorrow or Wednesday – I set up my printer over the weekend to print my messages on the postcards and I printed out lables – my handwritting sucks!
Snitched a red magic marker from work to draw blood drops on the hole punches! I think it will look better then the red ink pen i used.
Ok back to work
Dani said
Morning blogkin! I had a horribly scary day yesterday. My parents were at memorial service for one of my gram’s family. I stayed home to watch Amber. I was working in the garden pulling weeds and stuff and Amber was on the porch playing. She took her shoes off and ran down into the grass with me and got bit by something. I asked my parents next door neighbor/my landlord to look for a bee sting. I have never seen one, never been stung. He could find no place on her foot that a bee could have stung her. He didn’t see a spot anywhere where there was a sting. I went in the house and sat her on the bathroom sink and had her stick her foot in cold water. I could find no spot on her foot where she got bit. I called my mom and she said out cortizone cream on her whole foot. If anything it would at least get Amber to calm down. Cream always works for her whenever she is itchy or anything. It didn’t work this time. I finally found a spot on the toe next to her big toe right where the toe meets the foot. It was really swollen. I thought maybe she stubbed it and fractured it and she thought she stepped on something. I was putting ice on it and elevated it. I called my mom again told her I found the spot and she said watch it for more swelling. Amber and I sat down to watch Barbie’s Rapunzel. I checked her foot again and the whole end of her foot had swelled. I called my mom again and she said we have to come home don’t we? I said yes. A little after that Amber started shaking. That really freaked me out. I was ready to take her the hospital. I asked her what was wrong and she said she was doing it because it hurt. I think she was just scared though. My parents came home with some Benadryl and a present for her, this is her first big time injury, and by that time the swelling was going down and the redness was gone. She completely forgot about her foot with the present.
I made my daily visit to imdb.
Chery I noticed the bloodtiescentral was down. I thought maybe they were renovating. I didn’t check the other one.
DIZEY1 said
Same here Margaret, my mom helped me make them out last night. I used my cute little bat stamp ,and my cool bow/tie thingy, oh yeah baby she’ll know which ones are mine. 🙂 😛
Dani said
I mean bloodtiestv.com not bloodtiescentral.
Dani said
I have run out of postcards I have to get more. I am going to get ones specific to Connecticut though.
Chery said
Thanks Margaret, I took a deep breath and finished my 10 cards to Ms. Daniels. On to the 10 I am sending to Ms. Wong.
I agree let’s send so many cards that they ask us to stop as they can’t see their desks!!!!!!
Margaret I would like to e-mail you privately if you don’t mind giving me your e-mail address? or I can give you mine.
Thanks everyone for the post card support. we have a dedicated (addicted) group here LOL
Margaret said
No problem on the email: I’ve splattered it here several times: Its margaret_32955@yahoo.com. Just don’t email me and tell me I’ve gone over the edge, I already know that. lol.
prtfvr said
OMG Dani! That’s horrible! I’m so glad that it wasn’t something more serious. Bee stings are horrible! Unlike mosquito bites, they hurt even after it’s really puffed up. Oh, and the itching! I feel for Amber, I really do.
Dani said
My mom thinks it was either a s-p-i-d-e-r or a nettle.
prtfvr said
Here are last week and this week’s IMDB numbers:
Ok, the IMDB stats have changed but it’s really weird.
Week of 7/9/07:
Blood Ties: 4,620 – That’s bad! We have to fix that.
Kyle: 2,613
Dylan: 8,359 – Minxes! What’s up with that?!
Christina: 4,136
and just for fun:
Gina Holden: 2,856
Michael Eklund (Norman): 10,439
Week of 7/16/07:
Blood Ties: 4,360 – Nice
Kyle: 2,681 – Kyle went south?!!
Dylan: 7,645 – Nice
Christina: 4,246 – Looks Like Christina went with Kyle!
Gina Holden: 2,303 – Nice
Michael Eklund (Norman): 9,656 – WOW! What a difference.
Of course, we just started searching on IMDB so those numbers don’t really reflect how tenacious this bunch can be. Next Monday, though. That’ll be the one that tells the tale.
http://www.imdb.com
prtfvr said
Dani: I’ve been bitten by a wolf spider twice. Both times on the back of my calf. Besides hurting, it swelled to the size of a golf ball and was just about as solid too. No camping for this girl!
prtfvr said
New comic’s up but is To be continued…
Dani said
Oh I saw Harry Potter at the drive-in Saturday night. What I caught of it, it was good. My nephew was sitting in the pickup with my sister who had a migraine. He kept turning the radio down so we missed a lot of the dialogue. Personally I thought the last one was scarier and darker but a lot of people are saying this one is. Luna really helped keep the movie lighter though.
Dani said
prtfvr-The gay comic is very clever. I love it. I can’t wait for more.
I have tried my hand at writing. I wrote a poem not long after 9/11 but I think it is so horrible. I had my mom read it and her only reaction was “Hm” I haven’t shown it to anybody since. A few months ago someone told me I should right a screenplay. I thought it would be fun so I started but I thought it was really queer and didn’t know where to start anyway so I ditched that idea.
DIZEY1 said
Prtfvr, I loved it more dick jokes?? ROFLMAO !!! I love Greg the doorman, especially the scene in Blood Price where he makes the stake & meets Vicki @ the door. When she says Henry’s tied up ( that’s what I’d do w/him ) and he says ooohh I didn’t want to disturb anything..oh anyone. I like him he’s kind of geeky funny. 😉
DIZEY1 said
It is tough being a beautiful man in this world. Not all pretty boys are gay. There’s still some out there for us straight chix !!! 😎
Dani said
I also found out yesterday that my mother’s Visa card through Chase Bank is on my credit report. With my dad being incapacitated last year and my mom losing the foster care job nothing was paid on it so it is bringing my credit score way down. My mom has since gone bankrupt. I was trying to help my sister buy a duplex and I would move there but I can’t because of that. Argh! I have to find out how to get that off of my credit report.
prtfvr said
I’m glad that you both enjoyed it. Then next chapter is actually humorous so I can’t wait to post it. All this build-up is frustrating! 😉
Anzia said
Hey Dani- if you really want to write a screenplay there are books to help you get started. One of my favorite writing self-help books is Complete Idiots Guide to Creative Writing. It covers basically EVERYTHING! It gives little exercises so you can get to learn your characters. Talks about poetry, setting, novels, short stories, plays … it really is great. I recommend just going to B & N or borders or someplace and just flipping through it. Just to take a look. ^_^ I bought that book when I was in the 9th grade and STILL reference it from time to time, So, i really REALLY do love it. That and the writer(s) are really funny!
ms.gyspsy- this is our seventh topic thread. We really do talk quite a bit. I think we average out to a thread per 8 days or something close to that.
Have a great day guys!
Dani said
Thanks Anzia-I get paid this week so I will head to Borders and check it out.
DIZEY1 said
Hey Dani girl you write it and we’ll act it out for you. Gypsy’s always in some kind of play etc. Make it a vmpire story and I’m your girl, or I’ll be the neck if you will. 😉 😎
Dani said
I think I am going to try. I have considered joining writing.com and trying to write. I get all nervous at the thought of it though. The whole anxiety issue flairs up at that point and I keep talking myself out of it.
DIZEY1 said
Hey don’t psyche yourself out, write it. You don’t have to show anybody anything you’re not comfortable with. Have fun with it. I wish I could write but I’m a tangent girl. I’d have trouble staying on track and would go off on bunny trails ya’ know? If you can do it , just do it like Nike says!!
lwildstar said
good afternoon ladies!
Lunch time – freedom – yippee! I even kicked my sheos off under the desk – I’ll have to retrieve one of them later, its all the way in the back!
Finished part one of my Henry / Vicki short – now what do I do?
Still working my my story – can you believe I’m up to chapter 6? I only started what two weeks ago? this is the most writing I’ve done since highschool (that was when I planned on being a graphic novelist/comic book writer – or at least penning the stories) Wow you guys are agreat inspiration!
Dani – sarry about the big scare. I was bitten by a spider while doing a winefest (crafters were set up in an old barn) my arm hur so bad i couldn’t even lift it and just about punched the EMT when he moved it. The bite was so small that the swelling had hidden it. They gave me a shot of anti histamin and the swelling started to go down. Now I’m paranoid of spiders. I refuse to go to my sisters trailer in Luray, just in case!
I’ll have my nephew for aweekend at the end of the month – he is turning into such a drama queen! I decided that I will ask my sister to let him bring one of her laptops with him and we are going to do some creative writing (I’ll take him to the park) I looked over some of the writing he has done for school projects and he has a really vivid imagination. I hoping that maybe I can get him to express whats been bothering him so much lately – he has difficulty with expressing his feelings……
Then I’ll have my neice the following weekend….I found a place at the mall that will do makeovers on younger girls (tweens) for about $10 – depending on we want – i may take her to do that – shes the little Diva……
Well i am off to work on my writing…
Plaes let me know how to get the Short story accessible to all of you….that one I’m not nervouse about sharing.
lwildstar said
ok took a minute to go to IMDB – all we need to do is search for Blood Ties, Kyle, Christina, Dylan..etc right?
Dani – I suffer from anxity too – and you know lately I have found the writing helps center me. Last week was bad here at work – I felt like I was “on the verge” for three days – but coming here and taking part of my lunch break to write helped. Now thats not to say I’ll get up the nerve to show anyone – but all of you have been so great I just might…who knows. 🙂
Postcards, Postcards, postcards! I’m going to be dreaming of postcards from now til October!
elizabeth said
Wow, I leave on Friday and come back on Monday to a whole new posting thread. I couldn’t believe how busy you guys were over the weekend!
I feel like I am on an emotional roller coaster with BT! I get excited when I hear something positive and then deflate when there is something that casts doubt on its renewal. I can absolutely relate to those that gasped when Kyle first showed up on screen for the Canadian viewing. I think I pretty much did the same thing. I need more episodes of BT….I have watched the ones I have on DVR so many times I can speak the dialogue along with them. sigh
I am also bummed about my car. I was out and about on Saturday and at one stop I turned back because I left something in my car and realized that someone had hit my car!! They scraped the whole driver’s side and dented the rear panel! I have no idea where it happened, but I was beyond annoyed..arrrggghhh. I hate dealing with car issues, but my insurance company is great and all I need to do it take it in and it will be fixed.
prtfvr – I checked out your site this morning and love your new storyline. Good work, lady!
I have the Dark books waiting for me at the library. maybe that will cheer me up 🙂
Scribble said
Hey All:
Just poking my head in for a minute and noticed everybody worried about the “Official” site at http://www.bloodtiestv.com, NOT TO WORRY (forgive the caps, I just wanted to catch people’s eye) we are in the process of a complete redesign of the site in time for the Canadian launch of the show so all is well!!!
I have no other news to report at the moment other than we are thrilled that the troops are rallying after the publication of Paul’s letter. Keep em coming!!
Scribble
Madonna said
Scribble, Thank you for the update. We appreciate it!
Dani said
http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/user_id/luvslegolas300 I signed up on writing.com There is nothing on there yet of course. I will try and remember to bring in the 9/11 poem I wrote tomorrow and put it on.
Dani said
Thanks Scribble. My heart palpitations has started to set in again.
prtfvr said
I love Scribble! It’s nice to know we’re not in a vaccuum.
rifkind said
Danielle,
By law we are all allowed one FREE credit report a year.
https://www.annualcreditreport.com/cra/index.jsp
Two of the site have online dispute methods. So you could try getting your Mom’s credit card off of your report that way.
If that doesn’t work.. then they should list a snail mail address to write to. they will want the credit report reference number.. so keep track of that info.
The reports are usually active and available for 30 days.
You will need to go to all three credit report companies and check them out for correctness.
One of them, I can’t remember which one, doesn’t have the nice automated dispute pages on the web.. so you’d have to write to them.. once you have the letter written, you could tweak it and send to the other two credit bureau’s too.
I co-signed on a friend’s loan, and now for the last 10 years, they are showing her address as someplace that I have lived.. I just can’t seem to get that off of my credit report.. it really doesn’t hurt me, I don’t think… but it COULD if someone asks how long I have lived at my current address… it could be confusing..
Good Luck!
Rifkind
Dani said
Thanks rifkind-I can’t figure out how my mom’s credit card got on my report. Don’t they need to use my SS#? It is a card that she had me on as a secondary card holder quite a few years ago.
Chery said
Thanks Scribble! And I am so glad that our postcards are being noticed by TPTB!
All I can say is wait this week will be even better!
Thanks for letting us know they are redesigning the site.
lwildstar said
I’m glad I decide to check in again….thanks Scribble! you’re the best – we need a good word now and again to keep the anxiety under contro1.
Danielle,
By law we are all allowed one FREE credit report a year, however I found out that it is state specific to a particular month. Like I am in MD and my free one is only avaolbe during September – if you want your credit rating it costs like $7. You can go to Equifax.com and find out when yours will be free (VA right?) other sites may have them availabe at other times for free, but I only use Equifax and I call since they ask for your SS# – not doing that online.
ok back to work now!
Dani said
Thanks for the info everyone. lwildstar it is CT.
rifkind said
Danielle,
If you are on the card as a secondary card holder, that is why it is on your report.
Are you still listed as being on it?
If your name is off the card and has been for a while, then you will definately have to write snail mail letters. the automated system to dispute errors, will say that you ARE a signer on the account, and will not let you ‘fix’ the problem online. So you will have to write the dispute letters.
Get your report corrected as soon as possible. Bad credit can affect your car insurance rates, and even folks considering renting to you can run a credit report. many employers also run credit checks on folks.. So it is VERY important that you check your report for accuracy
Foe me, the automated dispute said that the co-signed debt had listed MY address as my friend’s address…when I called then about it, I was told that I would then have to go to my friend’s credit union and get them to correct MY information on a 10 year old paid-off debt … at that point I dropped trying to get the address corrected! I am now just waiting for this one to fall off of the credit report… but that can take up to 10 years! UGH!!!
If anybody else wants info on your credit reports etc.. check out Suzi Orman, she does an excellent job at explaining how the whole credit system works and how it can help or hurt you.
http://www.myfico.com
You can check stuff out there on your FICO score etc.
-Rifkind
rifkind said
lwildstar,
I think that you WERE correct about the State you are from and which month you were allowed to get your credit reports.
BUT, I think that the staggered report requests were just for the first times that the reports became available to the public because of the new credit reporting laws.. They didn’t want the credit bureaus to be swamped by everyone in the country trying to get their credit reports, all as soon as the law became effective.. so they staggered when each region could get their FIRST reports. There shouldn’t be any problem with getting the reports now..
DIZEY1 said
Thanx Scribble, you rock girl!! We are rallying, massive amounts of postcards and very creative ones at that. I hope Ms. Daniels, and Ms. Wong like them because their desks will be covered by them.
🙂 😎 😉 🙂
I’m stoked here girls, I am using my positive affirmations, we’re gonna rock the BLood Ties world with all our responses. Keep on writing my friends. I’m gonna fill out another 20 of those little bat cards tonight for tomorrow’s mail.
Dani said
I am getting a headache just reading what I have to go through to get this corrected. I should have my mom do it. It is technically her fault. She put me as a secondary on her card without asking me. She was trying to be helpful when she did it. The account has been closed by the creditor and as I said she has gone backrupt.
rifkind said
prtfvr
I think that we have to search IMDb for Blood Ties this way
“Blood Ties” (2006)
otherwise we will end up hitting on 1991 TV show….
Laurel said
Good day bloggerkin! I have been running around with family and figuring out postcards, registering at IMDb and searcihing for everything and everyone related to Blood Ties.
I am getting ready to make a potato stamp of a “bloody tie” and maybe a moon that I can hand draw some bats over. I have several stamp-pads of ink and embossing supplies and think I will involve my girls in that project this afternoon.
On the map for the Paranormal Avenger team – if you put Gypsy in Portland I would be just 15 miles South, with Elizabeth just a pin’s width South of me. 🙂
Scribble – thank you so much for the updates!
I hope Lifetime is paying attention to what is happening in other media as well as television. There has been such a tremendous increase in all things Paranormal in movies and books as well as the upcoming season of new television offerings. My local Borders has added an entire row (between romance and sci/fi) for stories of Witches, Were-folk, Vampires, Angels, Mages….
I may be off line for a while today. My mother is having heart problems and is undergoing an angio-gram in a few minutes. I am very worried about her, especially after she called last night and pretty much told me “good bye.” I know God is watching over her and everyone at the hospital will be good to her, but I couldn’t be with her and Dad today because they are 200 miles away and I can’t drive while on pain meds. Now I have to wait for a call from my Dad to see how she does. Scarry.
Dani said
Diz-Send some of that positiveness my way that I can get this damn credit card off of my report.
Dani said
And send some Laurel’s way too. My prayers are with you Laurel.
rifkind said
Oh Yeah !!
I TURNED a couple more folks to Blood Ties..
When I go to the post office to mail stuff.. Margaret it is on the way!!!……
I go to the small local post office… there are usually only a few main folks who work at this post office at the front desk area… so I have been talking to one lady over and over about the show and our addiction…
Well today I went in and got this nice young man… I waved to the other gal and said , “Yup another care package being sent out to my Blood Ties buddy!”
He asked about the show.. and seemed very interested. I told him that it was on Lifetime and that the first episodes were available ON DEMAND..
I told him that the first shows were based on a book… he wanted to know the author… Tanya Huff… OK then… Now he is going to check out the show…
and IF HE likes it, I am sure that he will remind the other postal lady to watch the shows when they air again on Lifetime.. as she doesn’t have ON DEMAND.
Adding more to the flock all the time!!
Off to do even MORE post cards!
Rifkind
msgypsy said
“after the publication of Paul’s letter.”
I’m feeling out of the loop. What’s this about a letter?
Gotta get back to work before the boss comes in…
DIZEY1 said
Laurel, my dawlin’ with all the support and prayers you’ve done for me, I’ll send some your way . I’ll get my ladies @ work to put her on their prayer lists. Many prayers coming your way. I know how you feel when it’s so close to home. God’s got his hand on her she’ll be ok. 🙂 XOXOXOXOXOX
Luv YA!!!
Beth & family
rifkind said
{{{{HUGS}}}} Laurel,
I know how nerve racking that can be when you can’t physically be there with your parents..
I hope that all went well.
DIZEY1 said
Be back after lunch.
elizabeth said
Laurel – I am sorry to hear about your Mom. I am beaming positive thoughts to you all 🙂 I am right around the corner if you need anything, k?
i was in Borders on Saturday, but was so intent on the books I wanted I did not notice the new set up with the Paranormal section. Geez, I need to get my nose out of a book and pay attention 😉 You would think with the amount of money I spend in that store I would get personal updates on changes – hehehe.
Himmiefan said
Thank you Scribble!!!
Laurel – prayers for your mother!
Danielle – I feel for you girl. Let us know how it goes getting that off your credit report.
I’m heading over to Hen’s to see what Prtfvr’s been up to. Check back in later.
Laurel said
Thankk you dears. I knew I could count on you to add prayer power and positive energy for my mom. As always, I am in awe of the friends I have found here. You are truly a blessing in my life.
Himmiefan said
Prtfvr – “I’m Not Gay” I love it! Can’t wait to see what’s next!
Madonna said
Laurel,
My prayers are with you and your family.
For those of you who have a troubled spirit, just think about the poem Footprints In The Sand. During the times in your life when you are at your weakest, God carries you.
Claire said
Bonjour Mes Amis..
Thanks for the link Madonna…Canadian fans weren’t the only ones that gasped when Kyle came on….Jeez I almost fell off my sofa…then immediately went online to search….who was that magnificent specimen….LOL!!
I’m kind of dragging my butt today…didn’t get much sleep…my cats decided to go crazy at 4a.m. I heard a loud crash..thought someone was breaking in…went downstairs only to find everything knocked off my console table! couldn’t fall back to sleep.Finally discovered what happened when I saw the Cat chasing a huge brown ugly moth! Josie the nut dog jumped in and more havoc insued…thus waking everyone up.Don’t know where the ugly sucker is right now…but you will hear my screams if it lands on me! I really don’t like Moths!
Laurel…Prayers going out to you!
Scribble..Thank you so much…for keeping us abreast of things!
Check you out later loves!
Madonna said
OK, my last post disappeared and since it was relevant to the moment I’ve decided to type this again. Please, just ignore the other one when it comes out of spam hell.
No problem Claire!
Danielle,
I hope you are able to get all that credit stuff straightened out. Unfortunately I can’t offer any advice there. I’m glad that Amber was OK.
When I was six we went to a family reunion in Southern Ky. My great uncle took all us kids on a nature walk one afternoon. We came to a steep hill which I couldn’t climb because of the rigidity in my feet and ankles. During my struggles I fell face first into a yellow jackets’ nest. I was stung about 25-30 times before my uncle was able to get to me. He got me back to his house and my mom threw me into a cool bath and started picking the stingers out. Other than being really tired I was perfectly fine. I think my family was more afraid than I was. Funny thing is, is that I am not afraid of bees. You’d think I would be, wouldn’t you?
Elizabeth, Sorry about your car.
Madonna said
By the way,
Not to get anyone’s hopes up…. I might be wrong and probably am but I think it is a good sign that they are revamping the website. Why would a production company spend the time and money to completely update a site for a show that won’t be around long?
They probably are spending a great deal of money too. A good graphic designer can make up to $26-$50 dollars an hour. I know those numbers are higher for web designers.
Margaret said
Not to be the devil’s advocate but the other markets have ordered the first season, second season, and additional episodes too haven’t they? Which could mean the north americans will be left out in the rain while everyone else gets what we couldn’t have.
Madonna said
Margaret,
I know other markets have expressed an interest in ordering future seasons but I do not believe that any have done so yet. I might be wrong though. Does anyone else have any info on this?
prtfvr said
Laurel: Sending hugs your way!
msgypsy said
Laurel, I’m sorry I missed your post earlier. Love and brightness coming your way. Hugs, too.
So, I ask again. Who is Paul and what’s this about his letter?
Dani said
Gypsy go to bloodties-bloodlines.com. It will be on the first page once you enter the site.
Margaret said
I think the information I picked up was from one of the podcasts that Peter Mohan did some time back.
prtfvr said
Guys, I gotta tell you. I’m so sad today. One of my budgies died this morning out of no where. I had lost four parrots between September and October – all from different things and I hope I’m not on to another run of deaths. I’M SO SAD!!! It’s hard to explain why you’re sobbing at your desk to someone who’s not an animal lover, you know? They think you’re nutty.
This was a total shock. Everything had been fine. I don’t know what happened. I DO know that I can’t keep going through this. It’s too hard and I’m so tired…
msgypsy said
Thanks, Dani. I found it. Wow, this is a production team that knows and respects its fan base. I’m, frankly, blown away by this. I’ve known other groups who have approached this level of respect (Firefly comes immediately to mind) but this is beyond that.
Is it a Canadian thing? I know they’re REPUTED to be more polite than folks in the U.S. but always thought that was a stereotype. And does being more polite equal being more in touch with fans? Or is this a really special group of people no matter what nationality?
Whatever … I’m gobsmacked. (Yes, yes, I picked that up in an unrelated manner but it’s SUCH a great word!)
elizabeth said
prtfvr – I am so sorry about your little budgie. I totally understand how you must feel because I am a total animal lover. I had a cat, Gizmo, for 11 years and he was just awesome. When he passed I had him creamated with the idea I would bury him in the back yard where he liked to hang out. Believe it or not – he is still sitting on my mantle. I just can’t bury him. My daughter made a little memorial with his picture and his collar.
prtfvr said
Here’s a list of TV shows (including BT eps) that Kyle has done from http://www.imdb.com. There’s an air date for “Wild Blood” of 10/31/07. Is that the “season” premiere? Also, I know that I didn’t watch the first show until March but it has a January air date.
So who saw those January shows?
Kyle Schmid
TV Episode Filmography By Series
Beautiful People (7 episodes)
Pilot (8 August 2005) – Evan Frasier
Point and Shoot (15 August 2005) – Evan Frasier
Reload (22 August 2005) – Evan Frasier
Over Exposure (29 August 2005) – Evan Frasier
F-Stop (12 September 2005) – Evan Frasier
Blow Up (19 September 2005) – Evan Frasier
Photo Finish (26 September 2005) – Evan Frasier
Strange Days at Blake Holsey High (1 episode)
Past (19 March 2005) – Blake Holsey
Odyssey 5 (2 episodes)
Vanishing Point (22 January 2003) – Zack Ambrose
Follow the Leader (29 January 2003) – Zack Ambrose
Degrassi: The Next Generation (1 episode)
Parents Day (18 November 2001) – NAK Reporter
The Zack Files (1 episode)
Gone (12 March 2001) – Jason
Blood Ties (22 episodes)
Deep Dark (????) – Henry Fitzroy
D.O.A. (????) – Henry Fitzroy
Wrapped (????) – Henry Fitzroy
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (????) – Henry Fitzroy
The Devil You Know (1 January 2007) – Henry Fitzroy
Drawn & Quartered (1 January 2007) – Henry Fitzroy
Bugged (1 January 2007) – Henry Fitzroy
We’ll Meet Again (1 January 2007) – Henry Fitzroy
Blood Price: Part Two (11 March 2007) – Henry Fitzroy
Blood Price (11 March 2007) – Henry Fitzroy
Bad JuJu (18 March 2007) – Henry Fitzroy
Gifted (25 March 2007) – Henry Fitzroy
Deadly Departed (1 April 2007) – Henry Fitzroy
Love Hurts (8 April 2007) – Henry Fitzroy
Heart of Ice (15 April 2007) – Henry Fitzroy
Heart of Fire (22 April 2007) – Henry Fitzroy
Stone Cold (29 April 2007) – Henry Fitzroy
Necrodrome (6 May 2007) – Henry Fitzroy
Post Partum (13 May 2007) – Henry Fitzroy
5:55 (15 May 2007) – Henry Fitzroy
Norman (20 May 2007) – Henry Fitzroy
Wild Blood (31 October 2007) – Henry Fitzroy
elizabeth said
msgypsy – LOL – I haven’t heard gobsmacked in ages! I used it at work once without thinking and people thought I was nuts until I explained my British family!
prtfvr said
elizabeth: I have my other birds cremated too. They’re in an oak box in my bedroom. I have one bird that I haven’t added to it yet. It’s just so sad to see him reduced to less than an ounce of ash…I can’t bare to put him in with the others.
Trying to occupy myself with BT stuff. Work hasn’t been doing the trick. Can’t really lose myself in it. I really hate being here today…
Dani said
prtfvr-I am so sorry. I can’t believe. That is so sad. I cry if there is anything wrong with my hotdog. I can’t imagine what it will be like when she dies.
prtfvr said
Thank you, Dani. I wasn’t going to say anything here but it was just too hard to keep it to myself so here I am.
elizabeth said
prtfvr – I checked out the site and noticed that when I searched on his name there were several kyle’s that come up – Kyle Schmidt (not our boy Kyle Schmid) was one of them and it looked like some of the shows you mentioned were his. Am I confused?
prtfvr said
elizabeth: See if this one works.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0772704/
prtfvr said
Here’s the IMDB link for Blood Ties.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808013/
prtfvr said
Everyone should still search on the names though. I’m not sure if going right to the link counts.
msgypsy said
Prtvfr, I’m so sorry. I hope your budgie is with happy friends from previous lives now.
Re: Gobsmacked. It’s SUCH a wonderful word. American English has nothing equivalent.
Ever heard the phrase England and the U.S.: Two cultures separated by a common language? We need to adopt gobsmacked. Bring the two cultures closer. Just a little.
elizabeth said
gypsy – I watch BBC America quite a bit and it cracks me up that before some of the programs there is a voice over and a TV remote on the screen. Telling us that it would be a good idea to use CC in case we don’t understand everything (it is very cleverly done and funny, but I can’t remember exactly what is said). I know I have spent a lot of time translating things for friends watching the telly with me 🙂
Madonna said
prtfvr,
I’m so sorry about your baby. Here’s a hug!!! I understand what you are going through. For those of us who have a pet that we really love it is like losing a child. When they die, a piece of you dies with them. God will carry you!
Dani said
I found phone #’s for all the credit agencies. I got through to transunion no prob. They were very helpful. They are going to verify with Chase what I told them and send me a copy of my credit report when it is corrected. The other two I can’t even get through to anyone.
Dani said
This is really very frustrating. I am going home now to take some Extra Strength Tylenol and have some rum. YAY!
Dani said
Oh and I emailed the religious education director for my church to see when the registration is for this school year because Amber needs to be signed up. I also asked her how much it was. She emailed me back that Amber was already registered and she was free because I teach. She told me Amber is already on my student list. YAY!
Madonna said
Margaret,
I’ve done a little looking around. I’ve seen lots of stuff about other countries buying the first season, the U.K., France, Germany, Eastern Europe and Israel, among them. One site said it was selling like hotcakes. However I have seen nothing definite about another country buying a season two.
lwildstar said
prtfvr – Wild Blood is epi 14 – remember orginally they were going to show #13 as part of “season one” and changed their mind so that they could do 5 weeks of two episodes each.
rifkind said
Prtfvr,
I am so sorry about your baby!
When Tanya Huff was asked about what sparked her interest in the vampire genre she said.
“I’m very interested in how one deals with the gift/burden of immortality …”
Hubby and I are writing a vampire story together and just this weekend, were talking about the ramifications of being immortal.
How does an immortal interact with mortals? Do they get CLOSE?
Do they DARE let themselves fall in love with a mortal?
We recently lost our kitty, and I miss her terribly. (Had her cremated too).
Most of our pet’s lives WILL be shorter than ours, (unless you have the large parrots that live to 150 years…)
When our pets die, will we withdraw and never have another pet in our lives, because it hurts too much when they die?
Some people DO go that direction because it hurts too much.
I hope that you can let the JOY of having these creatures in your life outweigh the saddness that you are feeling right now.
Sending a big {{{HUG!}}} and we can all cry with you!
You said:
> This was a total shock. Everything had been fine. I don’t know what
> happened. I DO know that I can’t keep going through this.
> It’s too hard and I’m so tired…
You know, I can almost hear our sweet HENRY saying the exact same thing about the mortals in his life.
I know that the little critters in our lives will be there waiting for us when we cross over too!
Hugs!
Rifkind
Laurel said
prtfvr – I’m so sorry to hear of your loss. Such small creatures to take up such big places in our lives and hearts. Here is a <<>> for you today.
I hope sharing your sorrows brings you some comfort. We are here for you dear.
DIZEY1 said
Prtfvr, So sorry about your baby. I can associate I have 1 cat, and 3 dogs in little containers from the crematorium. I will never forget any of them or the love they brought me. I might start crying writing this. Love ya’ and I empathize with you. XOXOXOX
Madonna said
It’s amazing the love that animals can bring out in even the most stoic of humans. My father is the strong, silent type. He does have a genuine soft spot for animals though. I’ll never forget when our Pekingese Minnie who at 17 was dying of kidney failure. My father sat up with her all night long, talking to her and petting her. When I woke up in the morning he actually had her in his arms like a baby, just whispering to her and telling her it was alright. We had her put down later that day. That has been about 7 years ago and I’m still bawling my eyes out right now just thinking about that moment.
They’re like babies to us. I have a deep, abiding respect for those who treat their animals like members of the family. They say you can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat an animal and I’ve always found that to be true.
prtfvr,
I can tell by your love for your birds that you are a great woman. Sorry for all your sadness.
(We have a whole host of other great women and (man) on here as well!)
prtfvr said
Thank you everyone for your support. It really means a lot to me. I needed to tell someone about it who wouldn’t think I was crazy for being devastated. This really helps.
I have 16 other parrots and I love them all. Some more than others of course. I’d be lying if I didn’t say that. This budgie was my favorite of the four. He would complain when I had to catch him but suffer through me petting him afterwards. I just hope it isn’t a disease. I can’t bare to lose all of them!
prtfvr said
Tanya verified that Paul McCovney (sp?) really wrote that letter so she’s posted it on her site. FYI.
http://andpuff.livejournal.com/127807.html
Laurel said
Okay, the word hug was in the middle of all of that. Weird that it disappeared.
Elizabeth – sorry to hear about your car. 😦
Update on my mom – her proceedure went well and she should be home soon. They didn’t find anything that would cause the shortness of breath and other symptons, only minor beginnings of blockage. I don’t know what will come next.
rifkind said
OK crying at work isn’t cool…
RESET… RESET!
Get onto a Henry Fitzroy wave length…
Humm…
From Love Hurts:
* ================================
Vicki: You weren’t just at my place, somehow in bed with me, running your hands all over my body?
Henry: Well, that depends. Did you enjoy it?
Vicki: Henry.
Henry: No.
Vicki: Are you sure?
Henry: I think I’d remember it.
* ===============================+
Yup! We’d remember it too Henry!
DIZEY1 said
I guess I’m the only sucker still at work. I’ll check in with ya’ll later when I get home.
Claire said
Prtfvr…So Sorry…since lately I have turned into a water bag…I got all teary! I too empathize with you…One of my cats Smokie is like my baby….sleeps and cuddles with me and he just turned 12 yesterday…I can’t imagine life without him!
elizabeth said
Laurel – I am so glad your Mom’s tests turned out well 🙂 It is frightening to feel helpless when a loved one is involved.
Margaret said
Dani/Amber-Hope everything is ok now, prtvr-wish I could give you a hug. My ex brought home a kitten I didn’t even want one time, she got sick, I had to put her down and it broke my heart so I can empathize with you; Elizabeth-I’ve had someone shot out my window in my suv years ago so I can feel your pain too, Dani-my ex had bad credit so I can feel some of your pain.
Laurel-glad things seem to be taking a turn for the better with your mom.
Scribble-Thank you so very much for visiting and letting us know what is going on. We don’t have to tell you how much we love this show. Although, we do need to build a hospital with a wing for our addictions-only problem is we don’t seem to want to be cured. lol.
Margaret said
I’m out of here for a while to cook dinner and write those cottin-pickin postcards.
By the way, I have developed a new diet: Its called the Blood Ties Addicts Diet-You sit in a dimly lit room with post cards in one hand, pen in the other, and a computer screen with looping Blood Ties episodes. You also have the computer set to where you can send postcards through it when you take a break from handwriting them. With all this multi-tasking, who has time to eat. lol.
lwildstar said
I am mortified!
I just got home and pulled the pages of my story – that printed at work – out of my tote…and *OMG* the first two pages are missing!
Someone must ahve been printing something at the same time – ok no big deal, my names not on it…but it had the only smut section of the story !(thus far)…so now I’m hoping no one says anything like “do you know who wrote this?” or ” do you know who printed this?” augggggggg!
Oh well whats done is done – hopefully they just trashed it.
I am so not looking forward to tomorrow!
I hope it didn’t end in anything going out to a client!
Good Grief – anxiety atttack on the horizon…….
Hey may be they’ll think its the temp?
Oh well…….now on to better and brighter things!
They got my second screen set up at work, so now I can watch BT on Lifetime at lunch while Ilm writting…yippee – ok thats not why they gave me the second screen, but as I say “waste not want not”
Laurel – (((HUGS))) glad to her your mom is doing well.
Just printed off ten more post cards for tomorrow – found the two that went missing this morning…and I’ve got 100 on the way!
Ok I’m going to go write now.
msgypsy said
Laurel, when you use the angle brackets (or whatever are called) whatever you put in between them disappears. It’s a peculiarity of this kind of blog.
I need to do some work now before my boss catches me.
AlisaSG said
prtfvr,
((((((((((hugs!!!!))))))))))
I had a gorgeous cat that died over ten years ago (severe anemia and kidney failure). When I first got her, she became my baby, because all of our cats belonged to the entire family.. but this one came specifically to me, so I claimed her as my *baby*. It was very sad when she finally left us. I still mourn her loss now and then.
———-
himmiefan,
there’s a special welcome message waiting for you at roddenberry.com. That was *cool* how quick you were able to get in.. it took me 2 days on my initial registration (cause I did something super dumb). I had to flag down the moderator for extra help.
Thought you’d enjoy the adorable smilie in there, too 😎
they have a huge list of smilies to choose from, and I almost couldn’t find it..
If you need additional help (because there’s an inter-forum *PM* also waiting for you), just ask.
my e-mail addy is
mstsgcc@embarqmail.com
moonbeam said
Hello BT Fans & Family,
This is moonbeam (Debi—Laurel’s sis-in-law) of the famous, “I don’t do vampires” line blogging in! Henry has changed my opinion on that, umm, yummy!
Gracious so much is happening! I feel like I know many of you from your warm and loving care last week when I was up visiting Laurel. It sure shows here again. I’m touched by your comments and my heart goes out to all of you. I’m looking forward to getting to know you. I already know that some of you are too funny to read at work, or with coffee in your hand anyhow!
I have dutifully sent off 10 postcards and have ten more ready to go! Should I be signing a different name to any of them?
I’ve just about finished all of the Blood Books? Do I move to the Smoke Series? Does that mean I done with Vicki, Henry and Mike until our postcards work their magic?
I definitely believe that I have begun that new diet that Margaret mentioned.
FYI Laurel’s B-Day = 7/19
lwildstar said
Welcome Moonbeam!
So glad to have you visit. Yes move on to the Smoke books – althougth Vicki isn’t in them Henry does put in some appearences…they are much differnt then the Blood books – a lot funnier – especially the last one. I’m about half way through book three sSmoke and Ashes – and I swar every other page is a line that makes me laugh out loud!.
Wll my dears I think I wil log off for the night.
Still worring about what happened to the two missing pages of chapter five; and why, oh why, did it have to be THOSE two pages!? some one “up there” is messing with me, I just know it!
Oh just had to tell you – couple days ago Paul emailed me (in response to good morning) requesting valuim – I said I didn’t have any but I had chocolate and if he was stressed out he needed to take a break – even if only to hide in the bathroom for 15 -20 minutes….I got his reply to that today – he asked “and what would I be doing in the bathroom for 20 minutes to relieve stress?” ok I once I stopped laughing, spewing tea all over my desk (yes Kate – take two) I started to type out a long list of options…and immediatly delted them – ok the boy is starting to losen up, don’t want to scare him now!
So I just replyed “thats not what I meant” and left him to think about it….no response this afternoon, so we’ll see if there is something in the morning!
ok now I’m off……I have postcards to finish up! punching holes drawing blood drops…
moonbeam said
See that is what I mean about making people lol!
DIZEY1 said
Welcome Moonbeam, Yippy for Laurel keep on recruiting. Glad to have you here. We’re a crazy bunch but we’re fun!! 🙂 Once you get to know us you can’t live without us, just like Henry 😉
Iwildstar, you go girl. He’s slow but sounds like he’s starting to loosen up a little. The 2 pages, don’t stress over it, I’ll bet they were a good read, watch they’ll ask if they can read the rest.
lwildstar said
oh those pages are a good read – not graphic (THANK GOD!) but still theres enough there to make someone blush…I’m hoping that if ANYBODY in the office found them its the one lady who has the dirty mind (she is a hoot!) and since she had been the last one back in the copy room, that I know of….oh well it doesn’t matter unless someone brings it up.
As for Paul – I’m beging to wonder if the stress isn’t shkeing himn up in a good way. I’m gong to plan another lunch with his coworker – the one I’m trying to “turn”….maybe she can give me the “skiny” on him…the trick is how to ask tactfully – but then again shes’ the one who brought him up last time we went to lunch…hummm….
oh well, they just beeped in with a storm warning so I guess I should get off the computer now!
Night all…happy Henry dreams! I’ll check in tomorrow morining.
DIZEY1 said
Night Iwildstar, reves doux d’Henry 🙂
XOXOXOXOX
Annalaise duChat said
Good Evening Ladies & Gent.
This is the 1st opportunity I’ve had to write today. My you’ve been busy!
prtfvr – So sad for your loss. Loosing a pet is very hard. Hang in there.You have your blog sisters to give you moral support.
Moonbeam – Welcome! So glad you’ve decided to do vampires. They’re actually quite an entertaining group! Now that you’ve “done” Henry, may I recommend Lestat & Louis (Anne Rice), Jean-Claude (LK Hamilton) & Javier Vachon & Nick Knight (Forever Knight Series) just to get you started! Enjoy!
Scribble – Thanks for the encouraging news! We truly appreciate you taking the time to keep us in the loop. Now that wee know we are having an affect we will try even harder!
Bad news guys somehow all of the emails you sent me that I was saving for the map got deleted. No I did not do it! I opened my email tonight and was informed I had 0 messages. What’s up with that?! I’m not a happy camper. Until I figure out what happened, please let’s try again using the old account.
Same as before if you want to be indicated on the BT Avenger’s Location map email me at: : leacatlett@yahoo.com.
Thanks!
Annalaise
DIZEY1 said
Going to write some postcards, I’m watching Heart of Ice on another window. The scene before they go into the sewer w/the flame thrower, when Henry says his speech about every time he feeds he’s choosing to live and then he says “what’s your choice Vicki ?? ” . She says nothing, what the hell is he saying there?? her choice about what?? it confuses me ……..Help!! 🙂
DIZEY1 said
And another thing when Mike puts the Illuminacion del Sol on our sweet Henry’s heart, I hate it that Vicki didn’t go to him. She should have gone to him & held him. It’s what I would’ve done. They could’ve taken the Madd Monk 😉
rifkind said
Dizey,
I think that he is saying that Vicki is hiding from other parts of her life because of her eyes.. she is still trying to prove to herself that she is a worthwhile human being since she left the police force and has blocked out all other things in her life.
She really ISN’T living fully.. she is withdrawing from a potential of continuing her relationship with Mike .. or a new one with Henry.. or with anyone else.
I loved Henry’s line about passion when they were watching the vampire movie. I think he was trying to get her to face the same thing then …
make sense?
——–
Laurel — Check your verizon email .. sent you a message..
Moonbeam — Welcome! Put your coffee down NOW!
There is always room at the Clinic for the Totally Insanely Addicted Blood Ties Fans …. The padded room is around the corner.. I was just leaving, I promise… for some reason I was having flashbacks to playing PONG… while was in there and Henry was winning…
Straight jackets come only in white … but we have special ordered ones that have easy wrist access for any emergency wrist slurpies..
Dance lessions with Henry are on Wednesday nights, and the formal dance is on Saturday night.. formal gowns preferred. Henry likes dress up.
Oh YUM!!
The sign-up sheet for Henry’s dance sheet is full already for this week.. but you can join the stampede next Monday morning..
There is still room on Mike’s dance card ..
and Orlando will be stopping by… but for some reason all his dances have MY name filled in… Hee Hee!
Welcome to the fun!
-Rifkind
DIZEY1 said
Thanx Rif, you know that does make sense after I went back and re-watched, as if I minded. I feel so bad for him when he’s almost pleading for her to understand why he did the things he had to do to survive. She ‘s a bit bitchy when she says “you chose to be a vampire” he’s pissed there. I watched Post Partum this morning getting ready for work. I so love the way Henry was with the boys telling Damian, omen child that he won’t kill people or animals. He has so much humanity still in him even after 450ish years. Oh man I miss my show….(whining) an my Henry.
Well gonna go , those postcards aren’t going to write themselves……I’ll check back before bed.
prtfvr said
Hi moonbeam! This is the nicest group of people, you’ll enjoy it here. Oh, and they’re wicked funny too which is a bonus!
Many heartfelt thanks to all of your for the support on the death of my budgie. I just came up from sitting with them all and I’m so paranoid! I see a ruffled feather and I’m like “Are you ok?”. I took Nicky Jr. (budgie) to the vets tonight to have a necropsy performed. I have to know what killed him. I’m praying that it’s not contagious but he was a fat, bouncy little guy and definitely a pig. He was only 4 which is young for a budgie to die.
I have several parrots that have long lifespans. I’m so paranoid now though, I just keep waiting for the next thing. As it is, since the four birds died in Sept/Oct, I always look at the bottom of everyone’s cage to make sure no one’s down there. This morning I noticed that three of the budgies had squished themselves over the waterbowl which was weird. I look down and there’s Nicky Jr. panting like crazy. I knew right away that it was the end. I’m so tired of watching my birds die.
My husband said that I shouldn’t have pets because everything dies and I’m wrecked for a while after one passes.
Anyhow…I appreciate all the love! Thank you!
— Debbie
Madonna said
Good evening everyone,
Laurel,
I’m so happy that there was no bad news for your mother today!
Moonbeam,
Welcome to the fold. Make yourself at home. We’re a crazy bunch but at least we’re a happy crazy bunch.
Dizey,
I think Rifkind is pretty much right on. Henry is asking Vicki if she is going to choose to take life by the horns and really live it or is she just going to go through the motions.
Cree,
With all the talk about animals today I have to wonder how you handle seeing your favorite patients go? As you are obviously an animal lover, I know It can’t be easy, no matter how much you try to detach yourself.
I’m freaking out a bit myself today but for different reasons. My ex-boyfriend cornered my mom out in front of our house today. She said he was asking all kinds of questions about me, including if I was seeing anyone. It’s got me worried, because incidents like these usually end with a visit or a phone call within a week or two. I really don’t need to have to deal with that right now.
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Elder Hostel….. Every superhero has their own emblem or logo a calling card if you will. I was thinking we all needed one. It could be embroidered somewhere small on all our costumes. For example…. Anzia’s could be something with ^_^, and Margaret’s could be a pen, lol. If you like this idea, email me your ideas for yours including a description of your costume and I’ll draw some things up and send it out to everyone.
Madonna said
Oh, my email is MadonnaJPike@aol.com
Margaret said
You’re soooo funny Madonna……..make mine a pen in a crippled hand from writting too many postcards…. Have to go write some more. Was just lurking for a bit. Or maybe it can be a pen with a line through it, on top of a postcard, but wait I can’t stop until we get word from Lifetime.
Oh Henry, Oh Henry, where are you when I need you. Couldn’t you convince Damon to write these for me. lol.
Margaret said
Whoops, should have been Damian.
moonbeam said
Let’s see, I think the repeating name on the dance card is. . . Oh yes, that would be mine. I look sooooo good dancing with that or yes, it’s those men!
prtfvr I had a parrot, Sunny, in my classroom for a year or so. It was so grand to have him sit on kids shoulders, squawk around and be a friend to us. I’m thinking of you and how anxious you’re feeling right now. I’ll send positive thoughts and energy to you and your feathered family.
Anzia said
prtfvr- I’m so sorry honey! I’m sending you lots of love, hugs and warm thoughts!
Laurel- I’m glad to hear about your mom. I’m sending you love and hugs and such as well.
I’m sorry that bad things are happening to you guys! 😦 We’ll have to direct some of our positive thinking to making everyone happy ’cause it’s no use having Henry and them back if everything is making us sad at the same time! (even though they do have the tendency to brighten our days…i’m sure you guys get what I’m trying to say)
Moonbeam- Welcome to the BT family! I never blogged until I found BT so, I understand your new found interest in it! ^_^
Scribble- I’m sorry I haven’t done this before but thank you soo much for the updates and welcome to the craziness that is our BT family.
Dani- If you don’t like that book I know that there are loads others out there. 🙂 But it is the one that I recommend. But then again, i’m biased. ^_^ Oh and if you just want some fun writing exercises I recommend Write Brain. Such a fun little book. A friend and I do them together and then share them with each other. ^_^
ms.gypsy- are you on writing.com now too?
Anzia said
I just got an “account birthday card” from Writing.com! So cute! I’ve been there 5 years! Wow… how time flies…
Himmiefan said
Hello everybody!! I took a sick day today because I was wide awake from 1:00 am until after 6:00 am. Not only did I have insomnia, but I was very stressed too. The only thing I can think happened is that I drank for the first time one of those new cans of Starbucks iced coffee. I usually don’t like Starbuck’s coffee, but this was good, so I had the whole thing. Note to self: do not do that again!
Welcome Moonbeam! Glad to have you!
Alisa – Hi! I’ll run over to Roddenberry and see my message. Now, I might have to call on you for help since at first glance,the site does look kind of complicated. I need simple.
Madonna – I love your idea!! When I read your message, the first thing I thought of was Prtfvr’s ice pick! 🙂 Anyway, I’ll think on my symbol and get back to you.
Prtfvr – so sorry for your loss! My sister and brother-in-law came home Easter weekend and found their original bunny, the one they found dumped in their back yard – very, very sweet bunny – lying dead. From the look of it, she died while in mid-run. The bunny rescue lady said that with improper breeding, many bunnies have heart defects that cause sudden death. If she had to die, at least it was all of the sudden. Anyway, we all boo-hooed for quite a while. All the other kitties and bunnies in the family sent a bouquet of pale pink roses.
Ohhh Dizey. That whole scene in Heart of Ice drove me crazy (even though Kyle’s expressions were, as usual, adorable!). First, he says to Vicki that his life is his business. At that point, she should have pointed out that she had not said anything, so why make that comment. He then goes on to insist that she ask him about the woman in the picture. She should have noted that he had just said that his life was his business. He clearly did not have his mind on stalking the creature, so Vicki should have turned around, gone back up, and said that Henry needs to come clean and just come right out and say what he wants to say. None of this talking around the issue and saying confusing lines! Well, at least that’s what I would have done. Of course, I would have never bothered him in the first place while he was trying to make a deadline. Oh yeah! I would have also busted his chops for not saying in the first place that Delphine had asked to be turned. Just saying that he had killed her and leaving it at that caused a lot of unnecessary trouble.
Anzia said
himmie- I LOVE that stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! actually, i love coffee in general but that stuff is delish!
vicki said
wwelcome mooonbeam…
We are family…pull up a chair and let your hair down.
Dizy…I was watching that episode tonight LOL…I took it to mean Henry was asking her to choice if she wanted the truth..and was willing to accept the truth about his life…OR did she want to pretend that Henry didnt have a life or a history before he met her.
I looked at it as a “accept me for what I am….and dont try to see me through rose colored classes.” “I am a killler..and its my nature.”
I did LOVE the line when he said he asked to be turned to be with the woman he loved.. What would you give for a man who felt like that about you??
THings that make you say Hmmmmm…
Oh well..night all…
loves history said
i nailed bill oreilly if you saw the factor last night his answer to quustion about the Titanic was a night to remember 1958 ok but weak, but then he asked who stared and he said clifton webb ZZONKKKED CW was not in ntr but was in the TITANIC 1953 EASY IF YOU LOVE HISTORY
lwildstar said
good morning!
well the missing pages were not in the copy room and the recycling bin was emptied last night – so IF I am lucky they have dissappeared and no one will come asking “whos are these”…
if they do, well I am going to play dumb – unless someone pointedly comes to me (there are two people who would suspect me) then I’m going to say I’m editing for a friend! Oh well…….chapter three had a slightly more graphic scene, (which somehow I forgot about?) I could have lost that one!
ptrfvr – ((((((HUGS)))))…..I don’t have pets (allergies to everything), but I know its just like losing a child. My heart goes out to you. When my sisters ferret passed, she cried for three days – at least she had two dogs, a cat, a husband, and two kids to comfort her – not to mention hours on the phone with me.
Rewatched episonds 1 & 2 on LifetimeOnline last night – oh the park scene when Henrys talking about Christina – his expressions – and if you listen carefully he even seems a little choked up when talking about how much he loved her and you can here the subtext “what I gave up to be with her” in his voice….to be so young and be able to express himself that way – oh justs tugs at your heart.
I love the bedroom scene after the demon fight when Henrys asleep – the way Vicki touchs him, you see she really is starting to care for him dispite how she acts – ok yea she had just fed him, but that was instinct I think – you know the whole “serve and protect” mindset, “he’s injured I must help” she was really paniked when he didn’t just get up after the fight – the whole “why arn’t you healing?” speech – I wonder if she had had to think about it would she have done it?
oh well must start work now!
lwildstar said
Came up with another excuss if some one should ask: there are two people who may suspect they are mine but not “MINE” – I had mentioned the blood ties story site and how porny some of the stories were – she could think I just printed one off? hey theres a thougth! In which case she’ll come to me and tell me to be more carefull.
Positve thinking there.
Got half way through chapter 6 before the storm warning came up so i went to read – finished Smoke and Ashes….don’t know if you’ve read thos books yet – but (SPOILER) I was so Happy for Tony at the end of book three!
ok got to go
Margaret said
Scribble: If you’re out there please go the the Blood Ties/Blood Lines site and clarify the fact that they need to send Post Cards as they have interpreted the letter from your boss to mean an actual letter. We have been told that Lifetime will only accept post cards so all their hard work will be for nothing. HELP!!
Margaret said
Rifkind tells me that I should share that my Blood Ties Addicts diet is actually working, over the last 2 1/2 weeks I’ve lost 6 lbs. As I told her who can eat when you’re hand printing all those stupid postcards. (my printer is on the fritz). lol.
Dani said
Good morning everybody!
Welcome Moonbeam.
If only I could convince Kelly to type in to here also. She lurks but she said she doesn’t say anything to us because she has nothing to say. I said yeah right. How can you have nothing to say with all that goes on here?
I did my daily search at imdb.com. Don’t forget to go everyone.
Here is the url for my 9/11 poem, http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1292494
Be honest but gentle if you review it.
DIZEY1 said
Good Morning, my bloggeratti !!!
Dani girl that was excellent. You underestimate yourself girl. That day and every day since I fell the same way. I am a proud American and things like this bring it back home. Thanks it was great. Good for YOU!!!! 🙂 😉
Dani said
Thanks Diz. I need the encouragement.
elizabeth said
Moonbeam – welcome to our wonderful world! I have had such a wonderful time since I quit lurking and joined in the fun. This group makes me laugh, cry along with them, and doesn’t think I am insane for my addiction – how good is that!!? You are going to love it here.
Ladies, I think the thing I like most about Henry is how tactile he is. He never gropes Vicki, but gently feathers his hands along her skin or hair. He always makes eye contact with her and listens when she speaks. You know he desires her, but he also respects her. Who wouldn’t want that?
Laurel said
Good morning! I see moonbeam made her debut while I was off writing chapter four yesterday. She is a good fit for our crazy group and I am deilighted to have her company here.
Thank you all, again, for the prayers and good wishes for my mom. I talked to her last evening and she is pretty happy to have been told she won’t need bypass surgery. They still don’t know what is wrong but that eliminates one of the biggies.
prtfvr – How are you this morning? I have you and all of your feathered family in my thoughts and prayers today.
Margaret said
Moonbeam-welcome to our crazy, addicted bunch.
Elizabeth: I was just thinking the same thing last night as I was rewatching some of the episodes. Seems like Henry never misses an opportunity to touch Vicki, like you said, who wouldn’t want that. But on the other hand, wouldn’t we also die and go to heaven to hear some of the lines that he uses, such as: We could cuddle after. How often do you think you’ll ever hear that in a lifetime?
elizabeth said
Dani – I loved your 9/11 poem. It made me cry and remember that day, yet, I still felt undefeated. Does that make sense?
Margaret – if a man like Henry ever gets within my radar I will grab him so fast he won’t know what hit him! 😉 Or, at least I hope I would be smart enough to do that.
Dani said
Thanks Elizabeth.
Laurel said
I have decided to use the time between postings to address post cards. I actually gave 12 pre-addressed cards to my daughter’s friends yesterday. They were here to watch Blood and Chocolate – it didn’t live up to the book, which they loved. At the end of the movie I offered to show them Blood Ties On-Demand. Within two seconds two of them yelled “Hey! I watched this before! We love this show! I explained about them needing to get postcards in if they wanted new episodes and they started writing them. Each of them has promised to buy and send more cards, and to get more friends involved. Woooo hooo!
Dani said
I have been putting together a scrapbook to commemorate that day. I saved all the newspapers from that time. I just recently started working on it again. I only have 6 more pages to use and dozens more papers. It really helped me cope.
elizabeth said
prtfvr – How are you doing today?
Madonna – you have know idea what consternation I feel trying to come up with a logo that represents me – who knew it would be so difficult! As for a costume – hmmm – I’ll have to think on that one too.
Dani said
Laurel-I second that WooHoo!
Anzia said
I feel that TPTB should put us in charge of marketing for the show! Seriously, our recruiting powers are AMAZING
Anzia said
way to go Laurel… (that was supposed to go in the last post but got happy with the “enter” button)
DIZEY1 said
Laurel my little pied piper. You go girl keep on recruiting !! Glad to hear about Mom. Will keep her in our prayers, and thanks for Moonbeam, another great addition to the Hens (batty family). I wrote out 17 postcards last night also, wierd number I grabbed and how strange I noticed today is the 17th and also my aunt’s wedding anniversary. Cool 😎
Lets sock it to em’ ladies, lets write and send !!!!
Laurel said
Dizey – Is it just me, or does your “Write and Send” sound remarkably like “Lock and Load”?
Hmmmmm?
elizabeth said
Laurel – good to see you use your powers of persuasion for good 🙂 Way to go girl! BTW, how are you feeling today? Better, I hope..
DIZEY1 said
It sure could I am from down south and I’m writing that with a twang !! Lock and load, tuck and roll, it’s all good. Hey I can use that in our movie , still need to figure out my logo. I saw the Fantastic Four last night and they had the #4 on they’re costumes. Gotta think about that one.
How’s your booboo?? Feeling better ??
Dani said
Madonna-I have been trying to come up with my crime-fighting logo. Thing only thing that I can come up with is something that represents a mature refined 29 year old woman that acts like a starry eyed, “Like oh my God” valley girl 16 year old and sometimes she wishes she still was. It has to match my purple and black outfit.
DIZEY1 said
Hey **Z** I’m hungry for another addition to your tale. Give me a little midnight swim with my dude 😉 hee hee. October’s still a loooong way off and i need a little bit of O’Henry 🙂 😛
DIZEY1 said
**Z** I forgot , they should contract us for the marketing of said Henry Memorabilia/Products. Chocolate chains, Blow Henry Pops, Life size inflatable Henry’s ,Vicki’s, Mike’s etc. There’s definitely a market for the goodies that Henry’s Chix offers, don’t ya’ think??
DIZEY1 said
Ooops that was supposed to be “Henry Blow Pops” *Z* another Freudian slip I guess?? 😉
Laurel said
Danielle – I read you 9/11 piece. You really put your heart into it and it shines through. Nicely done!
Elizabeth – I still have a catch in my side that won’t go away, but I must admit having lunch with a friend seems to be the best pain relief I’ve been able to find. 🙂
Which leaves me to wonder…. what’s Gypsy up to this week? I still have her “Legend of the Rangers” DVD. Dylan is so easy to look at. I really prefer him in a Star-Captain type uniform, or anything but that horrid raincoat! Maybe I should design his clothes for the movie! What do you think?
Laurel said
Skip Freud! We know exactly what you meant! Now I’m not going to get anything done. Dizey sent my mind straight to the gutter.
Hmmm, I see I’m not the first arrival of the day. 😎
Dani said
Thanks Laurel.
Dizey does seem to be dangerous. Her mind is in the gutter all the time. She seems intent on taking us all down. I am happy to join her from time to time.
DIZEY1 said
Ahhhh Laurel I spend all my time down here the view is very nice, though. Glad you could join me. It’s much more fun down here too. 😉 ;(
Anzia said
LOL, NICE Diz! Your freudian slip and my mind must be psychically connected. Midnight swim huh… I’ll see what I can do. I’m really trying to get the third part done guys. It’s really hard to do when you have NO clue what’s going on. I don’t want to write something just porny. i wanted something with a plot… however minor it may have been…
Claire said
Afternoon Family!
Welcome Moonbeam…Love that name!
I went to IMDB and searched for Blood ties and Kyle Schmid…got to show theres interest!
Dani…your poem is beautiful..it made me teary…I almost lost my daughter that day…and she lost her best friend and alot of co workers.
Anyway promised the quads We’d go to the lake and feed ducks.
check back later!
xoxoxoxo
Anzia said
I open my home to all of us whose mind LIVES in the gutter. ^_^ It’s rather nice… I promise that I have extra Henry Products for anyone who stops by. 🙂 Full sized, anatomically correct Henry Action Toys for all! ^_^
Himmiefan said
Oh Dani. Your poem made me cry. Thanks for posting it.
It’s amazing how it still feels like it happened just yesterday.
DIZEY1 said
Hey I’ve got Bad JuJu playing on another window. I do miss that darned Henry.
Henry l’aime dans la gouttière avec moi. Henry m’aime quand je parle sale !!!!
(hee hee hee) 🙂 😛 😉
Dani said
Yes it is shocking to believe that it will be 6 years this year. I am dumbfounded that so many people can simply forget and complain about the war. I personally don’t condone fighting and wars but something had to be done.
DIZEY1 said
AMEN Dani girl. I’ll stand next to ya’ . I love this place best country in the world, if not there wouldn’t be soooo many people wanting to be here legal or illegal. Oh and BTW if we’re so bad here the devil’s and all that I did notice that Osama rode off in an “SUV” probably an Escalade Ha HA!! Not off on a freakin’ camel. Ok no more of my political opinions. I’m reigning them in.
lwildstar said
Danielle – the dvds and key cahin came today! yippee thank you thank you thank you!
Your little bat should be going out Saturday? Maybe sooner depending on how things go – will let you know.
can’t stay – I’ll catch up later!
Dani said
I was figuring they would show up today. I’m glad you got them. Enjoy!
prtfvr said
Laurel and elizabeth: Thank you for your concern. I’m doing better today. I’m having something that I call “heavy sigh” moments. You know, when you realize that you have been doing some shallow breathing and then just do a big inhale and sad exhale? Can’t explain it but that’s the place I’m in today. Just waiting to hear from the vets. I woke up at 4:30 this morning with a feeling of dread and couldn’t figure out what my problem was, then I remembered…I’ll be better when I know what the hell happened.
Thank you for asking.
— Debbie
lwildstar said
*OMG* I almost choked laughing – and the saga continues – Paul just responeded to my invitation to lunch Friday – one of his co-workers is leaving so they will be celebrating Friday: “”Although I may be hanging out in the bathroom w/ my pants down!!”” was the rest of his response!!!!!!!!!!
Well thats what I get for making playful suggestions about where to go hide from co-workers! I think stress is starting to losen him up…….yea me!
Dani said
That is funny lwildstar. Go you!
lwildstar said
Now the question is….just how long is he going to keep bringing that up? Funny thing is I think its Hilarious! I’m going to have a smile on my face all day just from imagining….well I’m sure you can guess!
vicki said
Hey all
I bought 20 postcards today…..HWooo Hoooo..I am going to write on them today.
Anzia said
lwildstar- make sure that you let him know that he should do it at an ‘off-peak’ time. Getting caught with your pants down could lead to MANY unwanted career changes ^_^
Chery said
Good morning everyone!
Just dropped off my 20 postcards at the mail box for today. Talk about writer’s cramp!
Now I am off to send e-mail to advertisers, and post on the LifeTime Board!
Have a great day everyone!
moonbeam said
Hello BT Crowd you sure get started early. I had to lay around and finish the very last pages in the “Blood Series” The first two “Smoke books are out at the library. Guess that leaves me more time for postcards.
Dani- Thanks for sharing your poem. I felt the day and emotions of the people nearest to the place by reading it. It made my heart ache.
I’m off to look at assisted living homes with my mom today! Yesterday she went without me and got lost. (ended up way out in no-wheres land) I was assisting my mother-in-law with insurance stuff and getting her van in the shop since she was rear ended on Friday the 13th, no-less. Neither want to be hovered over but, it’s nice to be there as the “ears” since theirs don’t catch it all.
Better get before she takes off without me again.
DIZEY1 said
bienvenue à la gouttière Iwildstar.
Henry aime de mauvaises filles comme nous (hee hee hee) 😛 😉
Dani said
Isn’t it funny how wierd things happen in Friday the 13th. That is the day that I was in my very abnormal mood. I went a little to crazy with the liquor that day.
elizabeth said
lwildstr – I love hearing your saga with Paul. I think it is a good sign that he is allowing a little naughty humor to surface 🙂
Dizey – I so love the way your mind works 😉 You often say things I wish I had thought of…..
Anzia – I am looking forward to seeing my room in your house for those of us with our minds in the gutter. Nice to have another place to hang out other than the BT room. Life is good!
prtfvr said
DIZ!!! LOVED your “freudian slip”. Good thing you didn’t have a comma in there, else it would have had a WHOLE new meaning! Instead of “Blow Henry Pops” it could have been “Blow Henry, Pops!” 😉
Dani said
You guys are bad!
elizabeth said
Moonbeam – good luck with helping your Mom find a new place. I often have to help my Mom because she doesn’t hear very well and doesn’t catch what is being said to her. Funnily enough, she didn’t seem to have a problem hearing Henry when I introduced her to Blood ties. She was glued to the screen the whole time. Must be that Vampire magnetism 🙂
prtfvr said
A male friend just sent this to me and I thought that our group might enjoy it:
9 Expressions That Women Use
1. Fine: This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up.
2. Five Minutes: If she is getting dressed, this means half an hour. Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given five more minutes to watch the game before helping around the house.
3. Nothing: This is the calm before the storm. This means something, and you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with nothing usually end in fine.
4. Go Ahead: This is a dare, not permission. Don’t do it!
5. Loud Sigh: This is actually not a word, but is a non-verbal statement often misunderstood by men. A loud sigh means she thinks you are an idiot and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you about nothing. (Refer back to #3 for the meaning of nothing.)
6. That’s Okay: This is one of the most dangerous statements a woman can make to a man. That’s okay means she wants to think long and hard before deciding how and when you will pay for your mistake.
7. Thanks: A woman is thanking you, do not question, or faint. Just say you are welcome.
8. Whatever: Is a woman’s way of saying *@!$ YOU!
9. Don’t worry about it, I got it: Another dangerous statement, meaning this is something that a woman has told a man to do several times, but is now doing it herself. This will later result in a man asking, “What’s wrong?” For the woman’s response, refer to #3.
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*Send this to the men you know to warn them about arguments they can avoid if they remember the terminology.
*Send this to all the women you know to give them a good laugh, because they know it is true.
Dani said
prtfvr-I have seen that one before. It is so funny and true.
DIZEY1 said
Prtfvr, LMAO !! I never thought about Pops that way, but he needs to step off cuz’ that fine hunk of man is mine 😉 No sharesies w/ a dude sorry I have to draw a line somewhere right??
elizabeth any time you’re looking for something questionable you know you can always count on me . Open mouth insert……(_________) I leave it up to you. Beth the Queen of “Dirty thoughts” but it’s fun and damn it……………………………….IS IT OCTOBER YET ??????…………………………..:P
elizabeth said
I thought I would share this with you guys. My sister sent it to me this morning and I thought it was kind of funny.
You might not have known this, but a lot of nonliving objects are
actually either male or female. Here are some examples:* **
FREEZER BAGS: They are male, because they hold everything in, but
you can see right through them.
PHOTOCOPIERS: These are female, because once turned off; it takes a
while to warm them up again.
They are an effective reproductive device if the right buttons are
pushed, but can also wreak havoc if you push the wrong Buttons.
TIRES: Tires are male, because they go bald easily and are often
over inflated.
HOT AIR BALLOONS: Also a male object, because to get them to go any
where, you have to light a fire under their butt
SPONGES: These are female, because they are soft, squeezable and
retain water.
WEB PAGES:
Female, because they’re constantly being looked at and frequently
getting hit on.
TRAINS: Definitely male, because they always use the same old lines
for picking up people.
EGG TIMERS: Egg timers are female because, over time, all the
weight shifts to the bottom.
HAMMERS: Male, because in the last 5000 years, they’ve hardly
changed at all, and are occasionally handy to have around.
THE REMOTE CONTROL: Female. Ha! You probably thought it would
be male, but consider this: It easily gives a man pleasure, he’d
be lost without it, and while he doesn’t always know which buttons
to push, he just keeps trying
Laurel said
prtfvr – I love that. So true. 🙂
Poor Moonbeam – she lives in the same town as her mother and our mutual mother-in-law as well. Both are single women with profound hearing loss and very independant attitudes. I have the benefit of 100 mile buffer, although that is often not a good thing. Keep the good thoughts and wishes headed her way today, she may need lots of mental/emotional support to get through this latest adventure.
This is the wonderful lady who took me to the ER at 3:30am, driving my car, and then stayed by my side for the next 8 hours at the hospital. My hero! 🙂
elizabeth said
Laurel – it sounds a bit like you and Moombeam are cut from the same cloth. If she is anything like you; then she is gracious indeed. I am beaming good thoughts to both of you 😉
vicki said
Is it Oct. Yet???
I want fall leaves….windy days..pumkins…mums….chili…football..
I want HENRY>>>!!! aRGHHHHHhhh…I think the PMS is starting. LOL
elizabeth said
Okay, I don’t know where my previous post went, but I am going to hang out and see if it shows up instead of double posting.
elizabeth said
Ha – it showed up…woo hoo!
Vicki – Fall is my favorite time of the year and when you add Henry into the mix *OMG* can’t wait!
vicki said
where’s the chocolate???
Have you tried the Dark chocolate M&M’s…???
THEY ROCK!
vicki said
Elizabeth..My favorite too..I love the colors!! I live in WV and our mountains look soo amazing at that time of year.
Dani said
Ahh! October. The best month next to December. You have Henry, Halloween, Henry, Pumpkins, Henry, going to Edmondson’s Farm for a hayride and hot cider, Henry, Changing leaves, Oh and did I mention Henry.
vicki said
right Dani..
And cnady corn..and Henry and VIcki..and Halloween..and Mike and VIcki….and jumping in leaves..and Henry…and costume parties..and Henry…and oh well you get the idea.
elizabeth said
You know Dani I am surprised you didn’t mention Henry in your Fall delights-hehehe
vicki said
do you think we all might be a little obsessed.???
Hmmmmm Nah….not us.
Dani said
Pumpkin Pie, Henry, Pumpkin Bread, Henry, Pumpkin seeds, and don’t forget Henry.
Laurel said
Okay Elizabeth – YOMANK! (you owe me a new keyboard) Dang I hate having a latte sinus wash! At least it wasn’t hot anymore.
Dani said
And come Christmas all I want under my tree is Henry in Christmas colored boxer briefs.
elizabeth said
What about snuggling with Henry by a warm fire or snuggling under a down comforter. Oh…oh.. I know, horseback riding through the Fall foliage. Okay, gotta stop now..system overlaod *sigh*
vicki said
Forget the briefs…where’s that red robe of his…we can fight over who gets to wear it…AFTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dani said
AFTER you won’t want to be wearing anything anyway. Just snuggle up together under a blanket. If it is December watch It’s A Wonderful Life or White Christmas. Perfect night.
Dani said
Christmas lights on the tree twinkling.
vicki said
egg nog…no wait..champagne….MMmmm your right no robe..just Henry and me under the covers…DAMN!!! WHere is that CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
vicki said
not a great substitute…but it will do for now..>IS IT OCT YET!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dani said
Egg nog with my fave, RUM.
Margaret said
http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/search/label/Blood%20Ties (Advice from Denis McGrath on Save Our Show Campaign).
Himmiefan said
Prtfvr and Elizabeth – you two are cracking me up!!
As for holidays, I wonder what Henry does for Christmas? Of course, this year, he’s at my house. 🙂
Now ladies, and gentleman, am I to take it that for the location of the Order’s headquarters, castles are out and the gutter is in? 🙂
elizabeth said
Margaret, thanks for the link to Denis McGrath. There was some very good information in that article.
DIZEY1 said
Dani, I think ya’ll forgot HENRY. BTW ya’ll suck because I live in LA. what the hell is changing leaves ???? I’m in a sub-tropical climate so i don’t get the fall foliage although I’m not in knee deep snow either. Every 10 yrs or so we get a little bit of sleet/snow even way the heck down here. No shoveling to my car or chiseling my way out of the door. Ok it’s not so bad here. I’d love to see the fall foliage one year and I have got to get my mom to Vermont before she dies or she’ll haunt me ya’ know?? I do love the fall , the crisp breeze going to the French Market and getting a pumpkin. Yep I’m ready for fall , Henry, Football Henry will watch with me he likes sports, good idea ladies.
Dani said
After reading that I am going to say I watched State Of Mind. I was a little afraid to say I watched it. The ads for it that were OnDemand when watching BLood Ties looked cute. I think the show was fairly good.
Dani said
Diz-Changing leaves are when the leaves change from green to beautiful oranges and reds and yellows. When the sun hits the trees on the mountains they all look golden. It is gorgeous.
elizabeth said
Dizey – the Fall leaves also kind of shiver in the wind and drift to the ground. When you walk on them they make a whispery sound and release a woody scent. The clear, crisp weather makes everything sharper to me and the slight chill is a delight after the heat of summer.
Dani said
Oh no Himmiefan we still need the castles.
Margaret said
I was the biggest criminal now I have to eat crow. I’ll tell them whatever they want to hear but I’d like to hear what Denis thinks are our chances. I’m almost afraid to ask. I suggested to nettie28 over at the Lifetime board to rethink the fang campaign after reading that. Denis isn’t the most warm and fuzzy guy in the world but his points are valid and he is in the business.
Himmiefan said
Dizey – for some reason I thought you were in the South? Do you mean Lower Alabama?
Himmiefan said
Oh, wait, wait. LA – Louisiana. I’m slow, but I’ll get there…
msgypsy said
Damn, I heart Denis McGrath.
Okay, folks, remember, no politics here. The poem was beautiful and I have no problem with it but please don’t discuss partisan matters here. That NEVER ends well.
I woke up with a tummy ache and decided to stay home today. But, Laurel, how does Thursday sound for lunch? And can Elizabeth come, too? THAT would be fun!
Well, since I’m no longer tummy-ached, I guess I’ll eat something and maybe sew some.
BTW, one of my best friends, who has only one fallopian tube due to a major problem during puberty, just found out that she’s preggers. It’s too early to say for sure and I made her promise to stop telling people since she’s so high risk for miscarriage (and a ton of other problems) but since none of you knows her (yet; I’m working on Laurel but it’ll be a while since Amy’s in Alaska for a while with her mother) I’m safe telling all of you. She and her husband (he’s a child welfare worker for the state of Washington) are going to be such awesome parents!
Well, gotta go do house stuff now that I’m awake and no long icky.
Dani said
I am out of here for the day guys. Gypsy I am sorry for starting that debate.
Himmiefan said
Denis McGrath made some really good points. I wrote on a couple of my postcards how much I loved a show where the main character was a strong female instead of just the sidekick. Actually, I think I got that idea from Denis’s earlier post. Anyway, I think we all established early on that we wouldn’t bash Army Wives on other boards. Here, it’s a good joke within the family and few if any of us want the show to take it “personally.” Army Wives was a go regardless of what Blood Ties did. Lifetime produces it and it fits Lifetime’s demographic. I wonder if BT was just something they decided to try out, and being cheap didn’t hurt. Soooo, as we all know, its our job to convince Lifetime that we’re their demographic and that the demographic loves BT.
Now, from my purely non-expert opinion, I think getting BT renewed is much more likely than trying for a show that has already been cancelled. So, I still think our chances of more Henry, Mike, et al are good.
Himmiefan said
Not to worry, Dani. I think we’re all filled with lust too much to debate anything other than Mike vs Henry. Or more likely, who gets Henry now. (Me BTW!!) 🙂
Dani said
Ha that’s what you think Himmiefan. I am still here just doing some last minute things.
Himmiefan said
Ms Gypsy – I hope you keep on feeling better!
DIZEY1 said
Sorry gypsy it won’t happen again. Consider me slapped, ouch!!
I adore Denis , I think he’s a very smart dude and funny. His humor’s a little on the dry side maybe. He’s very knowledgeable and I appreciate him stepping up to help us help him !!! COOL DUDE 😎
I must confess my friends I’ve watched Army Wives, and liked it. I watched Side or of Life, and State of mind both were really good. I’ll add that info on my next 20 post cards I write up tonight.
Oh for you smartie pants with the fall foliage ( I’m giving you a Bronx cheer **)
😛
Dani said
Ok I am really leaving now. Ciao!
Margaret said
Ladies: What would you think of sending a thank you bouquet or something from FTD to each of the ladies’s assistants telling them thank you for putting up with all the post cards coming across their desk?
prtfvr said
Am I the only one who wants Henry on a synthetic bear skin rug, stretched out in front of the fire place in edible undies?
Henry! NOT Kyle! He’s just a kid. An fricking HOT kid but still a kid. 🙂
DIZEY1 said
Prtfv, yo I can live with the faux bear skin rug. ALthough he’s not physically warm we’ll have to see how we can remedy that 😉
prtfvr said
Ok, I’m an animal lover, can’t kill a bear even for for some hot monkey love with Henry.
prtfvr said
DIZ, trust me, I’m hot enough for both of us! I’ll keep him warm, no worries there! 😉
Himmiefan said
Margaret – interesting idea. Might just be effective. What do you all think?
DIZEY1 said
Ok we need a refresher course on “sharesies” little lady. 🙂
elizabeth said
mcgypsy – I hope your tummy feels better? I can take almost anything except nausia. I had morning, noon and night sickness with my first baby for 6 months! Thought I was gonna die 😦 Ever since then I dread even the least tummy upset.
I would love to crash your lunch with Laurel if she doesn’t mind? Only thing is I will need to be somewhere close enough that I can get back to work fairly easily.
prtfvr said
DIZ! He’s undead! He’ll have plenty of energy for both of us. First dibs though, I’m older! 😉
prtfvr said
According to the stats on hens, 11am is the hour when the most people hit my site. You devils you!
Margaret said
prtfvr: One of my so called friends at work laughed her butt off at the Not Gay comic as she’s trying to tell me she thinks Kyle is gay. I told her if it was true it would surely break a lot of lusty, older hearts. lol.
vicki said
Confession..I watched State of Mind..>I liked it…it was funny and sad. TOTALLY different than BT.
Anyway…I will post pictures of what “Fall” is when we get there. My mountains here in West Virginia are absolutely gorgeous!!(of course, we are the mountain state) I was in college in TN and that was one of the things I missed the most. THe colors of fall. My uncle sent me a video of him driving down the interstate with all the colors of fall on the mountains. It really rocked. So did my uncle.@ LOL
Bear skin rug…bed…floor…table..desk…shower…I dont care where…just when!!!! Say now????? HEHEHEHEH
BTW did find the dark chocolate M&M’s ahhhhh life is good.
msgypsy said
Elizabeth, let’s try to plan something for a weekend sometime. Unless you work in Forest Grove because I have the same problem. Poor Laurel has to accommodate EVERYONE!
May I suggest not sending flowers to the folks at Lifetime? At least not until they say yes? It might prove more annoying than helpful. I think we need to take Denis McGrath’s advice to heart. Looking back at the campaign for Jericho, it was a lot better organized than most and as a result wasn’t as annoying as it might have been. MHO.
My tummy is fine now. I just haven’t eaten yet today. I probably ought to do that about now…
I’ll type at you all later!
Himmiefan said
Here in TN, fall is really risky. Maybe we’ll have a good one and maybe not. I think we just don’t get enough cold weather early on, plus August and Sept are dry, dry, dry. Spring is really our time to shine.
Speaking of fall, I was up in CT a couple of years ago, and while driving down the road, I came to a dead stop, luckly nothing was behind me, because I saw the most beautiful maple tree I had ever seen. I had never seen anything that vivid orange before. Aboslutely gorgeous!
Himmiefan said
‘scuse me, that should read “absolutely.”
elizabeth said
msgypsy – a weekend would work good. I work in Wilsonville and must confess to being directionally challenged at the best of times. Don’t tell me to head North because I am sure to ask if that is left or right 😦 There will be less pressure to find somewhere convenient for us on a weekend. Just let me know when 🙂
rifkind said
Margaret,
Thanks for the link to Denis McGrath. It is always nice to see the sutiation from the other side.
We are fanatical but wil be polite… and take his suggestions to heart.
Vicki,
Take some B vitamins with you vitamin “C” — Chocolate that is!
It might help.
vicki said
rifkind…got it…
How abut some vitamin H…(LOL)
rifkind said
Vick!!!
Oh YES! You go Girl!
Some T.L.C. from Henry will always make us feel better!
But really, good nutrition and making sure that you are not dehydrated will help you feel a lot better… Can you tell I’m a Mom???
rifkind said
OK Ladies, LH and any lurking Gents,
We have to stop hitting Lifetime Execs over the head and calling them names …..
Play nice now kids!
I do hope that our polite and fervent post card pleas, give just the right amount of pressure to let them know that we really do want the show to be renewed for production of more episodes without becoming a burden for the exec assistants who have to sort the mail
As Paul McConvey said in his “Open” letter —
“…please remember to be respectful, as they (Lifetime) are valued partners in the series.”
Paul asked us to write, and write we will… but politely and OFTEN.
Rifkind
vicki said
THANKS rifkind..
I have been drinking more water…and I tend to eat more fruit this week….I also treat myself to a bubble bath…HEHEHE that really helps.
prtfvr said
Margaret: That’s too funny! I’m going to try to work on the comic some more tonight. I was looking for a specific picture – it scares me that I can remember them THAT well and know where to find them!
Anyhow, I was looking for it when I realized that I didn’t have Deadly Departed on my computer! It was like finding a whole new episode! I’d forgotten all about it. *happy dance*
prtfvr said
Beware of bubble baths! They don’t like, um…poons very much. Can I say that? 😉
lwildstar said
ok my post vanished while I was typing…and now I don’t have time to re write it!
Damn HOA meeting tonight…
sent Scribbles a Thank You email for joining us and leaving us little tidbits – I think she appreciated it.
lets hit the highlights..
Haven’t read all of Denis’s post yet – but I think – I hope – we are all being “helpful” in the ways that he said and I think he made some really good suggestions to us.Speeking of postcards – my order of postcards didn’t show up today! I should have just gone to the post office and had them count a a 100 out…hopefully they show up tomorrow – I did get my last 12 out this morning. I did four with limricks on them – we had a couple of cute ones a while back….
uh what else – oh how do you guys like writer.com? If I get up the nerve I think I’m ready to post part one of my Henry/Vicki short story this weekend…
I think I have Robin convinced to join us – especially after I mentioned we have Harry Potter fans amoung us…..
How has Blood TIes snuck into your life? I used the term “bugfucked” today in refering to a pain in the ass client – my co worker looked at me and I said “don’t ask” – anyone reading the Smoke books will understand!
and of course I’ve had a goofy ass smile on my face all day (Sooo highschool) it just seems the phrase “and what am I to do in the bathroom for 20 minutes to relieve stress” pops into my head, and there it goes SMILE CITY – I’m such a spaz!
Ok I’ve got to get ready to go – If I get back early enough I’ll try to stop back in.
prtfvr said
And I was worried about typing “poon”. 😉
msgypsy said
Hey, I’m not even sure what “poon” is!
Sewed the top to the skirt on my garb and then realized THE TOP WAS WRONG SIDE OUT when I did it. Gotta tear it all off and do it again. (Black thread is hard to find on black fabric…) So I’m taking a break. A long break. Maybe even a nap.
moonbeam said
Oh my, I come home and decide to pop in for a little peek (ergo new fast approaching addiction) and see lots about pops and “poons” funnies and such.
The boys are wondering why I’m laughing so hard at the great descriptions of men and women. My sides are aching whew. . . .
Dragging from the retirement home, three for tomorrow (get lunch at one) and another on Thursday.
Desperate for a Henry fix since my books are done~ went in for the character talk etc in the lifetime channel working on more cards to send…
Anzia said
Elizabeth- here’s your key to the house. Just remember that trash goes out wed. nights. ^_^ Oh, and the supplies you’re looking for are in the back closet.
Bear skin rug huh? I was thinking Persian rug on the floor of a cabin with a gentle snow falling outside and a fire in the fireplace. WHICH would be pretty close to us. Lots of honey, whipped cream, grapes (not a big fan of strawberries) … ~_~ mmmm
About the dark chocolate M&Ms, those things are great! I love dark chocolate. Dark chocolate Kit Kats are great as are Dark Chocolate Milkyway Bars. Yum, yum, YUMMM!!! Oooh, how about a dark chocolate covered HENRY! ^_^
oh, I HAVE AN INTERVIEW ON MONDAY! Yayayayayayayayayay so excited! not so much for the interview but ’cause I might have a job! ^_^
moonbeam said
I’d love a Dark Chocolate covered Henry! ooooo
Elizabeth- I’m jazzed about the job prospect!!!!!!
AlisaSG said
re- reading Denis McGrath’s heywriterboy’s blogspot ..
above this post of mine, I saw something about a debate re: BT campaign?
Well, I have a different story thought I’d share that bloomed out of reading Denis McGrath’s encounters and suggestions.. This is related to his horrid DOCTOR WHO (“DW”) encounter.. mine is sort of similar, but for a different reason. (hope there’s a few laughs in here some where, too..)
———-
OMG!! I just read heywriterboy’s blogspot.. came across the DOCTOR WHO line
>> When SPACE went on the air, we bought Doctor Who. We polled the online fans on our website asking where we should start the series. Like, 90% said, “Play it from the beginning.” So we did.
>> And the show’s ratings were abysmal. I’m not talking bad. I’m talking, test-pattern bad. It was a colossal mistake.
>> So we decided we hated Doctor Who.
>> It took me years — til the new series, as a matter of fact, to get the bad taste left by the Who fans out of my mouth.
———-
reason why I have to laugh at Denis’ ordeal is – because when I was working on creating my own Tv series (supernatural/sci-fi soap that never actually got launched beyond the outline), well DOCTOR WHO was airing on Tv in those days/years. It was being introduced on FOX network, and my mom was addicted to it. Me, forget it.
I saw some creepy Doctor looking guy with a slimy green hand (he wasn’t the doctor, and turned into a giant wasp later), but I didn’t know any of that at the time, and mistaken identity – thought HE was DOCTOR WHO.. never even dawned on me the guy (Tom Baker) with the curly hair and funny long scarf was actually the DOCTOR..!!
I didn’t like the show, nor did I *want* to see it ever again.
Seriously, I had NO idea what it was about. I wasn’t paying attention, because I was too preoccupied writing up my own series in my head. DW was an interruption in my life. In fact, I hardly watched *any* Tv in those days.
———-
early 1980’s (not sure which year) – My mom broke her foot, and needed me to help out around her home. So, I’d do her laundry and mine together.. and be at her mercy with the TV set.
OMG! She had this horrid show on about man-eating TREES! I hid behind a wall cursing the program out for scaring all of the little kids.
Two weeks later, time change. Same show, but during Leonardo da Vinci’s era. It was the same program, but this time Sarah Jane was kidnapped and about to be sacrificed on a slab..
okay, that sort of grabbed my interest. Again, I hid behind a wall, but peeked whenever I could, barely making a sound. Oh, my mom figured it all out that I was watching (in secret).. So, I finally braved myself to ask her what in the world was she watching??!
DOCTOR WHO, of course! What?? I had no idea *who* was Doctor Who. I also had no idea the show was really about time travel and exploring the universe – using a similar tactic my soap opera was attempting to get involved with.
Whoah!! and finally, after several months came that blasted ep, that I saw the first time. Boy was I ever wrong about the show.
— deja vu, but seeing it from a new and *unique* perspective.
Actually, I fell in love with the entire approach once I started to *REALLY* watch it.
———-
when I realized the idiocy of my reactions, I was totally embarrassed at myself. I never forgave myself – until I wrote about the whole story to Tom Baker, who was portraying “Doctor Who” at the time (and apologized directly to him – handed him the letter in person, too, at a Who – convention!). So, that’s my life’s story about my first Tv story writing idea in a time bubble, or TARDIS.
Mine involved angels and vampires, and E.T. aliens, too.. 😉
But it was missing a KEY ingredient I had to have, but lacked the talent for-
HUMOR. 😦
(sorry if this ran a little on the lengthy side.. but it was *worth* the experience! I learned a valuable lesson from it all, too) 😀
loves history said
prtfvr BELIEVE WHEN A 6-700 LB IS AFTER YOU YOUWILL KILL HIM THE ONLY PROBLEM WILL BE WILL HE DIE FAST ENOUGH IPUT 23 ROUNDS (17 from a9mm) before i stopped mine. teachsme to let a bear get between me and my rifle. Nobody commented on my nailing oreilly dont you see the factor
AlisaSG said
one more thought.. (in contrasting my previous post about my DW encounter with now)
This is why I so highly ENJOY watching Blood Ties..
Because it **has** a nice balance of action, fantasy, and everything else – laced with a very NECESSARY ingredient (well, to capture my attention, anyway)
– called *humor*.
It helps to also have an adorable vampire like Henry in there, too! 😉
..and he’s definitely got a sharp wit, graced with years of experience, and with a great sense of (realistic) humor! 😀
AlisaSG said
uhhh, loves history,
if you’re talking about a real BEAR, and not a person –
it’s ALWAYS recommended to SHOOT to KILL the first time. Otherwise, you’ll just anger the animal. In the country where lots of bears roam, some people just shoot the animals, because it’s just a sport to them.
But in self-defense, when they’ve never been told how to deal with bears, shooting them without killing them only makes them go wilder and angrier. Not sure if the first shot was between the eyes, but if the bullet misses their heart, wounded bears only go on rampages.
and yes, I get stuck watching O’Reilly, but I read the scroll bar on the bottom of the screen (for news updates), more than watch him. 😉
my hubby watches and *listens* to him.
msgypsy said
Me, I’m thinking bare skin rug… Okay, that one out of context sounds kinda gross but you get my drift.
How come no one ever does a Vicki/Mike YouTube video?
AlisaSG, have you gotten hooked on the new “Doctor Who” yet? I’m not in love with David Tennant yet but he’s growing on me. Christopher Eccleston was my favorite but I can see where “Heroes” was a better gig for him. Tom Baker is the Doctor most people remember fondly anymore. But there were some really awesome earlier Doctors. William Hartnell even managed not to get romantically involved! I never saw Paul McGann as the Doctor but he looks like he was a yummy one. And I’m weirded out a bit by the fact that I got hooked on “Torchwood” after following it from “Doctor Who” and find that I prefer “Torchwood” these days. But no one in “Torchwood” strikes me as terribly sexy. (I’m still mind-boggled by the idea that the character getting laid most often is the obnoxious and unattractive guy. Well, that’s discounting Gwen but she lives with her boyfriend so of course she’s getting more than anyone living alone is…)
But I have digressed.
LH, I think discussing O’Riley comes too close to politics for my comfort. Sorry, darlin’.
Gotta go do laundry or SOMETHING useful today!
prtfvr said
LH: I’m an animal lover until one decides to eat me – unless it’s Henry then all bets are off!
In any event, it’s highly unlikely that I will EVER meet a bear chasing me in downtown Baltimore. In fact, compared to what COULD be chasing me, I might welcome the bear.
Didn’t comment on O’Reilly because I despise him and never watch him. It’s hard enough when my husband’s watching and talking to the TV. Sorry, I just think he’s an opinionated ass. If you got his goat, good for you! I’m glad! 🙂
lwildstar said
Hey I think I’ve caught up!
That meeting was a TOTAL waste of time – not enough people showed up so we couldn’t vote on anything.
UUUGGGG
So now its almost 9, I’m too tired to write and I still need to take a shower…
And I don’t have time to watch my dvds!…I CAN”T stay up late again.
oh well – I’m off – I’ll check in in the morning.!
I guess I’ll be having Happy Paul dreams tonight hehehehehe 😉
Margaret said
TCA: Lifetime gets real; O’Donnell on ‘Nip/Tuck’By Kimberly Nordyke
July 13, 2007 (From the Hollywood Reporter)
Lifetime Television is launching a new Friday night reality programming block in October that will include returning series “Lisa Williams: Life Among the Dead” and new series “America’s Psychic Challenge.”
Meanwhile, the July 24 premiere of “Damages,” FX’s new drama starring Glenn Close, will run commercial-free thanks to a sponsorship from Cadillac. FX also confirmed that Rosie O’Donnell will return to “Nip/Tuck.”
The announcements were made Thursday during the Television Critics Assn.’s summer press tour at the Beverly Hilton.
At Lifetime’s presentation, the network’s president of entertainment Susanne Daniels said that the network has ordered eight episodes of “Challenge,” a competition series in which amateur psychics compete against one another to become “America’s No. 1 psychic.” It’s produced by Bunim-Murray Prods., with Jon Murray executive producing.
The series will debut at 10 p.m. Oct. 12, following the Season 2 premiere of “Lisa Williams,” which features the medium clairvoyant helping others by using her abilities to see and speak with the dead, at 9 p.m.
“(Lifetime will be) offering women a distinct alternative on Friday nights,” Daniels said.
Daniels also was asked by the critics about her decision to schedule three new dramas on the same night starting Sunday, with “Side Order of Life” at 8 p.m., “State of Mind” at 9 p.m. and “Army Wives” at 10 p.m.
“I felt we needed to be loud at Lifetime to let people know we were doing things differently and to come check us out,” she said. “We put the marketing money behind it. Our thinking was, let’s start off with a bang on one night and should we be so lucky we’ll build out to two nights.”
Daniels also officially announced the renewal of “Wives,” which she said has been given an 18-episode order for Season 2 (HR 7/12).
Andrea Wong also was on hand to address the TCA crowd for the first time since becoming president and CEO of Lifetime Networks in April.
“I’m excited to build on (the network’s) success, and I hope to infuse the Lifetime brand with energy, vibrancy, relevance and optimism,” she said, adding that “we’ll be tapping into themes for women … with a confident power and tone. That’s what you’ll see in Lifetime going forward” on the air, the Web site and in its public advocacy campaigns.
In other news, Lifetime officially announced the original telefilm “Racing for Time,” starring and directed by Charles S. Dutton, which premieres next year (HR 7/12).
The network also announced the premiere dates for several programs, including the original movie “The Murder of Princess Diana,” starring Jennifer Morrison, which will air in a special three-night premiere at 9 p.m. Aug. 25, 6 p.m. Aug. 26 and 9 p.m. Aug. 27. It also will air at 9 p.m. Aug. 31, the 10th anniversary of Diana’s death.
The original movie “Custody,” starring James Denton and Rob Morrow, also has a three-night debut at 9 p.m. Sept. 8, at 6 p.m. Sept. 9 and at 9 p.m. Sept. 10 (HR 6/21).
Also debuting in the fall is the original movie “More of Me,” starring Molly Shannon, and the miniseries “The Gathering,” starring Peter Gallagher, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Kristin Lehmann, Jenna Boyd and Peter Fonda, which premieres in October.
In addition, the reality series “How to Look Good Naked,” hosted by Carson Kressley, will premiere in January.
Later in the day, “Nip/Tuck” creator/executive producer Ryan Murphy said that O’Donnell will be returning for “several episodes” of the show’s upcoming fifth season starting with Episode 4. As for talk about a potential spinoff featuring her character, Dawn Budge, Murphy said, “The character was so instantly popular. We’ve spoken about (a spinoff); it’s an ongoing discussion.”
Meanwhile, Close said she took the part in “Damages” — her first leading role in a TV series — because she’s “always been seduced by really good writing. … To have chance to do a show like this with an incredibly complex character and make it in my own backyard (New York) was very exciting.”
FX also announced that the comedy series “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” will have its Season 3 premiere at 10 p.m. Sept. 13.
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Madonna said
Not one mention of our show. It makes me sad….
lwildstar said
had to run back down here…just saw the commercial for SciFis Flash Gordon! Gina looks great – but I’m skeptical about the guy playing Flash..
Show starts next month.
Night guys
Margaret said
I’ve emailed Denis, don’t know if he’ll respond. If he does, you all will be the first to know.
Chery said
Well, Lifetime is promoting the hell out of Friday Nights and Sunday nights and did not say one word about Saturday night.
What does that mean????????
Keep up the postcards until we hear for sure.
msgypsy said
Margaret, what did you email Denis about?
Margaret said
I asked him if he knew anything more about the article in the Hollywood Reporter since Blood Ties didn’t seem to be mentioned at all.
Laurel said
I’ve been out running around all afternoon. To many things got put off last week because I felt so bad. 😦
Gypsy and Elizabeth – Thursday this week won’t work because it is my B-day and my husband has 1/2 the day off. I am expect I will be doing lunch and dinner with him.
Margaret said
http://canon.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=161230
(Here’s a link that actually mentions Blood Ties).
AlisaSG said
Madonna,
>> Not one mention of our show. It makes me sad….
ahh, .. have *FAITH*.. (i do!!)
Henry does, too! 😀
Besides, if Lifetime decides to downplay something that isn’t really their genre portal STAR program, then we need to do it for them – if not for LIFETIME, then for everyone working on Blood Ties, and have us bound by ties that bind deeper than just a *blood* bond. 😉
Chery,
>> Well, Lifetime is promoting the hell out of Friday Nights and Sunday nights and did not say one word about Saturday night.
>> What does that mean????????
..that INSTEAD — *we* need to step UP to the plate, grab that BAT and make home-runs for our BT *team*!!
If LIFETIME won’t do it — then *we* will .. or should, with whatever time and amount of inspirational encouraging we can give from our hearts to the rest of the world..
.. I’m already doing it at r-com (been doing it from the beginning – ep # 1).
.. I’m also hoping to try to help out those who are already on Gateworld, and will do my darndest best to spread the BT news – as often as possible. Steve Bacic – guest star from Stargate and star of Andromeda (sci-fi) will be appearing in Blood Ties episode # 13.. so LOTS of promotion is going to go into sharing THAT news with his fan/other viewers.
Also, with Gina Holden’s leading exposure on Flash Gordon, Sy-Fy portal usually picks up info from both web sites, and reaches out to the entire Sci-Fi community in various ways, sharing the info even into further reaches of the universe.. 😎
HOPE THAT INFO HELPS, even just a smidgen..
it only takes a tiny spark to light the match for the warming glow of a candle.
..one tiny light in one tiny corner to start..
———-
(sounds *romantic* – visions of Henry.. or Mike or Vicki for everyone else)
msgypsy said
I don’t know if this works here but
and if that doesn’t work, the url is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUMNOSiAzEU
It’s just a really fun vampire video done to one of my most favorite songs.
Laurel, THURSDAY is your birthday? Then how does Friday sound? Hmmmm?
Margaret said
My apologies to everyone, I didn’t mean to make you feel bad but I think we need to know what we’re up against but as we have been advised-whoever we talk to this at Lifetime we must always be polite and sweet, even if we want to…..
Madonna said
Hi everyone!
Everyone seems so sad tonight. FIGHT THAT SADNESS OFF!!!!!!!!
POSITIVE THOUGHTS!
We will not be able to win our series without enthusiasm. Don’t give up yet. Take ownership of this thing. IMHO….This is as much our series as it is Lifetimes. Let’s do it justice. Kyle, Dylan and Christina poured their hearts into this show for seven months. We can pour our hearts into it for them. We can handle it ladies.
As for the Elder Hostel emblems…. This could be really fun. I will probably start working on them this weekend. If you think of ideas email them to me. If you can’t think of anything, email and we’ll collaborate until we come up with something. If you want me to try them on my own, I’ll do that too. I have a few ideas. I just need to know your costume for colors, design etc…
Elizabeth,
I do have an idea for yours. Email me and I’ll discuss it with you.
Laurel,
I believe you have the list of costumes. Can you send that to me. Also, Can I have your email address so I can send you something?
Everyone get those thoughfully written postcards out.
Sweet Blood Ties dreams!
AlisaSG said
msgypsy,
>> Me, I’m thinking bare skin rug… Okay, that one out of context sounds kinda gross but you get my drift.
LOL!! drift gotten.. plushy carpet helps
ever try a waterbed?? (hee-hee!) *that* would be a sight to experience on..! *g*
>> AlisaSG, have you gotten hooked on the new “Doctor Who” yet?
goodness yes – got an addicted family who keep reminding me of when it started and.. hey, at least we’ve finally got something in common to talk about around the dinner table, too! 😀
my hubby *MAKES* me record the eps, because he can’t see them while they’re airing. Sometimes he’d fall asleep in the past from an exhausting day, so Tape we do, as often as possible. It’d be nice to get the entire series with all the extras attached, but for now, temp 4-hour sessions (cram that much onto one disc/tape) will have to suffice.
>>I’m not in love with David Tennant yet but he’s growing on me. Christopher Eccleston was my favorite but I can see where “Heroes” was a better gig for him. Tom Baker is the Doctor most people remember fondly anymore. But there were some really awesome earlier Doctors.
Definitely. Actually, each actor brought their own specialness to each carnation of the Doctor. We’ve enjoyed them all.. except Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy’s stays were too short-lived. We miss them all, when each moves on, too, but keep the door open for the new guys to stretch their wings and do their *thing* .. haven’t been disappointed yet.. altho, Peter Davidson was a bit too whiny, in spite of his youthful appearance to the Doctor’s role.
Madonna said
Again, my email address is MadonnaJPike@aol.com
It might be fun if when I’m finished I put them all on one sheet and everyone can guess which emblem belongs to which person.
Anzia said
Moonbeam, you wanted the dark chocolate covered henry right? Maybe we could market that too. Have the chocolate molded into that lovely torso of his and then stick it on a stick so we can lick it and su… well i’m sure you get the idea. We could make it cream filled or strawberry or any flavor combination…we could call ’em Bite-O-Henry’s. ^_^
Diz- what do you think? Could we do a party pack with a Blow …er Henry Blow Pop, Bite-o-Henry, and a Henry Action Toy? Maybe with coupon for a bear skin rug or a good moisturizing cream for a bare skin rug?? ^_^
AlisaSG said
I bet LIFETIME didn’t expect us here to be so gabby and enthusiastic AFTER the first 12 eps of Blood Ties got smothered off Lifetime’s Tv airwaves.. and *seemingly* forgotten by them for future eps viewing (that sounds like something the Sci-Fi channel did with Stargate on many pre-occasions!).. but it’s NOT forgotten by us! 😉
———-
Margaret,
>> My apologies to everyone, I didn’t mean to make you feel bad but I think we need to know what we’re up against..
these are never easy battles to win.. especially when it *looks* like the ODDs are against you.
When we least expect it (and hopefully before “just in-time” for rest of the BT cast/crew), the light of hope shines forth.
———-
Madonna,
>> Hi everyone!
>> Everyone seems so sad tonight. FIGHT THAT SADNESS OFF!!!!!!!!
>> POSITIVE THOUGHTS!
>> We will not be able to win our series without enthusiasm. Don’t give up yet. Take ownership of this thing. IMHO….This is as much our series as it is Lifetimes. Let’s do it justice. Kyle, Dylan and Christina poured their hearts into this show for seven months. We can pour our hearts into it for them.
now THAT’s the *spirit* (of HOPE!!)
😀
AlisaSG said
silly question.. (within last 10 minutes — 11:43 PM, eastern standard time, NYC)
Did LIFETIME disable their “Blood Ties” video links on their website,
so that it’s not possible to view anything (any more) –
no previews, no eps (at ALL).. or is there just a high traffic jam into the sight in general — right now..??
I was able to view Christina Cox doing her sword-swinging techniques, but couldn’t get into either video link to view the other items in there.. 😦
so.. maybe they ARE reading our messages and cutting us off that way, or there’s a high internet traffic jam going into there??
Himmiefan said
Not to worry! I ran over there and got it to work!
Himmiefan said
Well, I didn’t make it work. It was working when I went over there.
Obviously time for bed.
Rifkind said
I got the Videos to work too..
BUT I normall HAVE to go through the Blood Ties Blog and click on Videos there.. I always have trouble getting to the videos from the LT Boards page.
Anzia said
Hey guys. I don’t have a madlib or a third part to the dinner scene but I do have something else. I am rewriting the dance blurb. I am going to just add to the same document so check back to see if i’ve added anything. I promise to post here when I do as well. 🙂 But the link is: http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1282365
I’m sure you will notice but the title has changed and when you click on it, the tiny TINY description of the item says “section 1” at the end. When I update the story I’ll update that as well so you’ll be able to quickly see if there is anything new. 🙂
I hope this helps tide everyone over ’til I can get everything else done. And I really hope that this one doesn’t have such a porny feel to it. Let me know. thanks guys
AlisaSG said
Rifkind,
>> I got the Videos to work too..
>> BUT I normall HAVE to go through the Blood Ties Blog and click on Videos there..
thanks!! I go thru the blog url, too about 99% of the time, because I have it bookmarked.. makes my life easier..
———-
sidetracking for a moment.. got radio on CoastToCoastAM with George Noory.
they’re doing a study topic on the so-called *real* Stargates
(originating at Babel or possibly “Babylon” – yes, the one in Iraq.. is that what our guys are over there trying to obtain, too?? ..makes yah wonder)
(the *gateway* of the gods, nephilium, angels.. sounds like a wormhole, but is interdimensional – cool! if it really is real..!) 😎
anywho.. Jim Croce.. “time in a bottle” song was playing.
imagine Henry meditating with this song playing in the background..
———-
Himmiefan,
>> Not to worry! I ran over there and got it to work!
>> Well, I didn’t make it work. It was working when I went over there.
hee-hee.. i knew what you meant.. 😉
BTW, Himmiefan, I sent you an e-mail earlier (from AlisaSG in subject line), with possible helps for your r-com maneuvering around dilemma..
Kyle info in there, too.. 😀
Rifkind said
About the Video link on Lifetime,
I think that there is a Javascript error on the Blood Ties Board page because when you click on the Video link it doesn’t work… I can’t get it to work from there..
So, I go to the Blood Blog and click the Video Link from there to see the full feature shows with the nice Mini Wheats with crunchlettes!
Laurel said
Gypsy – Friday is a definate possibilty but I may have my smaller anti-stalker carbon-based life-form (Rosie) with me. She may opt out if I let her have the nintendo for the afternoon. 🙂
Madonna – I am hunting the wardrobe list….it is buried under a pile of papers next to the printer…maybe…. I’ll have to get back to you on that in the morning. lanewb1@verizon.net is the easiest way to find me. If that one doesn’t work I will give you a yahoo address. 😎
Margaret said
Well, the fat lady hasn’t sung yet so I intend to keep fighting the good fight. I’m sending postcards until we know one way or the other but after reading Denis’s advice I’ve tried to focus on quality which kind of cuts down on the quanity. Tanya seems to think the end of July or around the end of July so we have taken it this far, so we need to keep the pressure up until we get word. At least we can say we gave it everything we could.
Margaret said
On the good news front-I’ve lost 10 lbs. on my BT diet. lol.
lwildstar said
good morning – just checking in – busy day ahead so if I don’t get back at lunch I’ll check in tonight.
Rifkind – Thank you!
Annalaise duChat said
Just checking in to say hi blog friends,
Things are pretty busy here at work so I won’t be around much for a while. I’ll pop in when I can though to check up on you guys. Keep up the good work BT Avengers.
I’ve been writing a lot in the evening. My main character’s in a pretty sticky situation right now and I have to write him out of it before I can start working on the map. I’m keeping my blog updated if you’re following.
I’ve got some cute ideas for the map if I can pull them off.
Have a great day all.
Margaret said
Just a thought when we’re all putting art on the cards, and I am as guilty as the next person, it dawned on me if they all looked alike they will get the idea that every one of those cards came from ONE person. When I get my printer to work I’ll be changing fonts ever so often and leaving my artwork off. After all Scribbles says they know that ONE fan sent them 150 which I doubt equates to anything than more than one viewer to them and we all know they’re interested in numbers of viewers.
Rifkind said
Margaret,
You have lost 10 lbs!!! Woo-hoo!!
Not bad, as most folks say that you have to exercise more than just your writing hand! Hee HEE!!
Margaret said
One more thought and then I have to go to work: We know that they will, at the very least, air the episodes in October. That gives us between now and October to become more mobilized but we need to be coordinated about it. Ms. Gypsy since this is your home do you want to coordinate our efforts so we don’t go flying off wily/nily?
msgypsy said
I’m not a coordinated or coordinating kind of person so I think someone else needs to handle any mobilizing and coordinating.
I have a lunch meeting today and thus will not be available to drop in. Hopefully I won’t be needed (as if!) and I’ll be back in the evening.
Dani said
Everybody don’t forget to go to imdb.com and do your searches.
AlisaSG said
I was thinking.. (sorry, just can’t help it!) 😉
Since Gina Holden is going on Flash Gordon, wherever the Flash Gordon boards are – drop a few positive lines about her awesome beauty on Blood Ties, too!!
just to pass the word around.
also, it’s a good idea to watch a few eps of Flash Gordon, just to get the feel of Gina’s new role in there.. it helps to have a reinforced *in* on the situation
— but a word of *caution* when doing so —
..if at all possible, let the comments be more on the positive side as much as possible, because the dedicated sci-fi folks take their programs kick-a## hard, and tend to be quite territorial.. had the displeasure of that between the 2003 BSG series vs the SG’s. The proBSG’ers didn’t like the pro-SG’ers.
hope that helps. I do know a few places where Gina’s name will be showing up, but one site I utterly refuse to go into (scifi.com) to post, because of the *nasty trolls under the bridges* over there. *sigh* if those folks don’t like BT for any reason, they’ll merge into a battalion and clobber everything connected to BT, just like the proBSG’ers did to all the other shows. I think some of them just thrive on violent video games, and that’s part of the reason – if something or a main character isn’t violent enough for them, they’ll cream the show..
THAT’s what Blood Ties is REALLY up against.. it’s not just LIFETIME’s choice in when and what to broadcast; but the other viewers out there who deliberately diss programs, when the programs or characters aren’t done to their liking. Plus, I’ve also noticed that some people (especially in the sci-fi/fantasy realms) get bored too quickly after a few eps, and start complaining about the “same old same old” instead of enjoying that episode all on its own.
DIZEY1 said
Good morning bloggeratti 🙂 Happy Hump Day !!
Buck up my little BT familia’ we need to shake off this defeatest attitude. All that is going to do is draw the same thing to us. Positive affirmations, will bring you the good stuff you want. I need to **TURN** you all onto The Secret. Check it out it works. Creative visualization, see it , live it, make it happen. Don’t think I’m crazy now, it’s really out there.
I want it and it will happen. TPTB will purchase more shows I BELIEVE ( I before E right??) Just because they haven’t said anything yet doesn’t mean it’s bad news. Hey Baby they save the best for last 😉 😛 🙂 😎
Dani said
Right on Diz! No news is good news right? I am trying to stay off because I am on vacay next week and I have a lot to do this week because of it. It looks like it isn’t working.
Margaret said
I’ve gone to one of the Jericho sites to ask for their advice as to what they feel worked for them.
Dani said
Good idea Margaret.
DIZEY1 said
Denis told us waht to do, and he’s been on both sides of this. I’m taking the info he gave me and am going to run with it 🙂
Dani girl I understand the vaca thing unfortunately you’ll need a vaca from your vaca. Are you going anywhere special?? I didn’t go anywhere but not being at work was a vacation 😉
AlisaSG said
finally got into the BT videos (previews & eps).. I’m just a sap for watching..
plus, I’m too lazy to go turn on the TV and plop in an ep there, instead.
commercials got me hungry, too. So, the pop tarts I’ve been craving, finally went and toasted a batch.. came back and watched the rest.. Nice having 2 screens open. Type, read, and listen at same time.. 😀
anyone notice when in Blood Price, when Vicki first meets Henry, and he sits down on the “love seat” the background has the lighting lit on Henry VIII’s portrait and *our* Henry sits next to Vicki.. but the way he is first viewed in the scene sitting on the chair, he is looking towards Vicki in the same direction Henry VIII is posed toward in the background.. 😉
oh, that’s classic.. 😎
AlisaSG said
okay, just discovered something tricky on the LIFETIME video’s site..
**WARNING** to take heed about..!!
I was watching BLOOD PRICE, and between the “6th act” and the 7th, the wheat commercial came on, as usual, but all of a sudden, Side Order of Life popped up.. I thought it was a commercial, until I looked down at my screen bar, and it switched over from BT to an actual scene from Side Order of Life..!
That’s not nice..
So, ladies (and any gents), if you’re watching the videos over at LIFETIME,
PLEASE be aware the channel navigator might pull a fasty and switch all on its own.. must be a built-in default programming trick LIFETIME installed, just to keep us folks watching stay ALERT and on our toes!!
Yep, me thinks the folks over there are doing their hardest best to turn us OFF from Blood Ties, and on to their *other* programming in the nagivator.. gosh, and all I thought I’d have to do was shake the mouse now and then, because one time weeks ago – I was watching one of the BT scenes, and my screen went black because the saver kicked on – I forgot to shake the mouse!
Dani said
Diz-I am just doing a bunch of day things that Amber will enjoy.
Sunday-Santa’s Land in Putney VT
Monday-breakfast at Rein’s NY Style Deli, get my hair done by my sister, dyed cut and she is giving me a manicure and a pedicure. It is her b-day gist to me.
Tuesday-Valley Falls to go swimming and hiking
Wednesday-Chuck E Cheese
Thursday-not sure yet either Magic Wings and Yankee Candle or a childrens museum
Friday-Mystic Aquarium and shopping at Mystic Village nearby.
The weekend resting up to get back to work.
DIZEY1 said
Alisa , that’s one of my favorite ep’s. I love when he kind of whispers ” I am a vampire” his sweet face, OMG he’s such a good actor !! I ‘ll rewatch that one over and over. I love when she feeds him and holds him like he’s her baby. 😉
Dani said
And the noise that comes out of Vicki’s mouth when he first bites into her like it is painful but strangely erotic at the same time.
DIZEY1 said
Dani I know and the music that scene was very erotic to me. It was like slow motion and the music followed along. It’s in my top 10 scenes. And of course when she watches him in his apt. I thought about that he had to trust her not to kill him, they’d only just met, so he was very trusting of her. And the last scene when he tells her she’s a great P.I. and that she’s part of him now since she gave him her blood. Love that genuine like they have for one another, very cool. Great writing. Yep they had me at Blood Price all the way !!!
Dani said
They had me at Hello! Jerry Maquire
Dani said
I guess I am not having my cottage cheese for lunch. A supplier came with boxes full of sweet stuff to sample. Oh man this place is evil.
DIZEY1 said
Ooooh Dani you lucky thing you. Eat something with chocolate for me or better yet are there any glaze donuts ??? (hee hee hee) Yeah just call me Sinea-nay , now Norman’s partner in crime 😉 😛
DIZEY1 said
BTW I do love Jerry Maguire, Tom’s pre-freak out days. Great flick and I love Cuba Gooding Jr.
Dani said
Cheesecakes, seven layer bars, pecan bars with chocolate, molten cakes. chocolate mousse cakes, raspberry chocolate cakes and pies, I can’t even name them all.
Dani said
I didn’t care for Jerry Maquire, I can’t stand Renee Zellweger. She reminds me of a mole with her squinty eyes. She just looks funny. I didn’t understand Bridget Jones’s Diary. I didn’t think it was funny at all.
elizabeth said
I have been catching up on the posts this morning and, man, I was starting to feel depressed that BT was doomed That is not a good feeling on a rainy Oregon day. So, ladies, let’s turn this around like Dizey said….it ain’t over til the fat lady sings and, trust me, she ain’t even warming up yet! 🙂 Everyone has terrific ideas on saving our show. This site is loaded with creative talented women and we need to stay focused on what is important. We don’t want to go over to the dark side with negative thoughts *does anyone but me hear the darth vadar theme here?)
I actually sat down last night and wrote a letter to the creative director at LifeTime. For some reason I have felt really compelled to do this for the past couple of days and decided to go ahead and do it. The words just flowed and I made a point of stressing that this was a show that caught three generations of my family in its spell. That none of us were LifeTime viewers and I discovered the show purely by accident. I don’t know if it will be read or if they prefer postcards, but I feel better now that it is done.
elizabeth said
Dani – my mouth is watering hearing about all those delicious goodies. Enjoy a molten cake for me, please 🙂
elizabeth said
Madonna – I sent you an email regarding the Order of the Yum emblam.
I was watching Love Hurts last night for the (okay, lost count of how many times) time. I love the interchange between Henry and Vicki at his door after she has been visited by Emmanuel. How she was able to walk away is beyond me *sigh*
DIZEY1 said
Elizabeth I don’t think it would hurt to reach out to them via your letter. I say we just try what my heywriterboy said cuz’ he’s got just as much invested in a show that he likes too also a job for him. It should work for all involved, producers, the cast & crew have jobs, the writers (Denis) great words, the manufacturers of the products, Lifetime, and ultimately us the viewers who are hooked on a great product. It all comes down to consumption doesn’t it?? I’m gonna find the list my Tango girl made w/manuf.’s info and write to some of them like Denis mentioned also. He took time to write that on his blog because I think he sees how much WE like the show and was nice enough to give us the help to help OUR show, I feel like it’s part of me now wierd as that sounds. I’ve invested my time and energy into keeping a really cool show on the air . I have NEVER participated in anything like this before and have no clue as to why this show grabbed me the way it has, but oh well I’m here and I’m gonna stay as long as they let me, I’m here for the long haul.
AlisaSG said
yes, *positive* thoughts.. (and not the positively negative! that I am prone to do). I think maybe my mouse might have slipped onto something over the web page that caused the other show to come on?? hoping that’s more the case, than the program pulling a nasty quickie.. still, I’ll be watching for it in the future.
I’ve been graced with a real day off, but need to put it to more useful projects around the home (like clean the oven, and sort thru my really *old* junk – found coupons dated from the 1980’s!).
but.. need to do more typing before I go wander off.. 😉
Margaret said
Henry (In Norman)-Well, we have to keep trying……
Dani said
Yes Diz This is much our baby as it is there’s. When, I repeat when, the show gets renewed we can feel real good of ourselves and everybody should give themselves a pat on the back.
Anzia said
At this point I think we should just have a huge Renewal party. I mean, lots of deserving people her at this blog. Really, the amount of work that the people here have put into keeping this show alive is astounding and inspiring. If anyone ever doubted that a few people could make a difference s/he never met you lot. I know we’ll get the show back because we all love it enough to do almost anything to get it.
elizabeth said
I know what you mean, Diz. I can’t explain why this show has become so important to me either, why I actually looked it up on the internet, or why I ended up on a blog about it. Those things are so out of character for me it isn’t even funny. But, I did and I feel like I have made some terrific friends through it all. The character of Henry awakened things in me I thought I had buried, which I will always be grateful for. I’ve said it before and will say it again “eternity is too long to live with regret”. We will have our show back!!!!
lwildstar said
lunch time! whoo hoo!
Postcards – I change what I do for every set of 10 or so. So like this last batch had 4 with limericks and 10 that had the bite marks and 6 that just had thank you notes on them. a lot of them I just sign – from a fan in Maryland – some I put my name on…depending on how the mood strikes me.
Hopefully my pack of 100 cards will show up today. I already set up four templates at home so all I have to do is drop them in the printer and away they go!
the missing 2 pages of chapter 5 have not showed up so i am hoping that IF someone picked them up off the printer before I got back there – they trashed them.
And yes I still have that goofy smile today – I found myself just smiling for no reason on the way in to work this morning until I realised that “bathroom time” was dancing in my head again!
ok I’ll check back later….
Now that my second screen is up and working I am going to go watch some BT and work on my writing.
AlisaSG said
re: BLOOD PRICE..
DIZEY1,
>> OMG he’s such a good actor !! I ‘ll rewatch that one over and over. I love when she feeds him and holds him like he’s her baby.
She’s gently cradling his head to support him, and he was holding her arm up, nearer to the end of that whole scene.
Dani,
>> And the noise that comes out of Vicki’s mouth when he first bites into her like it is painful but strangely erotic at the same time.
that’s because we all have extremely *vivid* imaginations.. and when I kept watching the music videos (u-tube type) with the various scenes, I could swear Henry was kissing (dare I say french kissing?) her arm and may have tickled her into gasping at a few points..
oh my..
DIZEY1,
>> And the last scene when he tells her she’s a great P.I. and that she’s part of him now since she gave him her blood. Love that genuine..
I don’t know if he was anticipating that moment at the park prior to that or not, but there was so much longing in his expressions at his apartment – when she said it must be him that was so charming.. and later when he tells her that she’s now a part of him, makes you wonder what was in the psychic link that he had with her in the park.. and drempt about afterward, during the day, while he was healing.. (yes, I’d like to believe even in his “death” state, he does dream!)
after seeing the arm slurpee again (and again), had visions of a few neck slurpees in a pool/deep jacuzzi?.. to cool off that hot sizzle from the intensity of the deeper emotion felt within.. it’s a little challenging transposing characters from my *Michael* character to Henry and his *cherished* one, tho.. After listening to Henry’s passion for his other girlfriend in Bad Juju, sometimes I think he cherishes each one during the moment, but some more and longer than others.. (so they’re not all just a morsel of dinner to play with).
😉
😀
Dani said
Vivid imaginations we certainly do have. There is no lack of that here.
Madonna said
Hey guys,
Keep up the positive thoughts about OUR show.
I trying to but today is a bad one. Do ya ever just have one of those days? Nothing is going right for me today. I have a huge stain on my shirt I didn’t see until I got to the office and I can’t get it out, and it seems like technology is completely against me. Our computers are really slow at work today, can’t seem to get anything done.
At home, I can’t connect to the internet. It says it can’t establish communication with the modem. I get a dial tone when I hook a phone up so it has to be something with the modem itself or the settings. Darn it, it was working last night! I don’t get off til 8 tonight so that means that I won’t even get a chance to sit down and take a look at it until at least 9:30 or 10 tonight. I hope there isn’t something wrong with the modem because the closest place that can service my computer is a 2 hr drive from me. ERRRRRR……
And I had a really bad low sugar episode here at work.
Let’s hope no one here at work aggravates me today, they just might regret it.
elizabeth said
I like hearing everyone’s interpretation of BT scenes. I often find myself watching these shows with a slightly different perspective because of your insights and it just makes the whole thing so much more intimate – does that make sense? I feel like I can get into the characters heads a little better – or maybe it is the other way around-hmmmm.
elizabeth said
Madonna – sorry to hear about your bad day. I’m sending soothing, positive thoughts your way 😉
lwildstar said
Just finished most of episode 2 – the end of pat two when after the line about his vampire magantism and Vicki leaves – oh the look on Henrys face when he closes his eye! oh just makes you want to grab him and tell him “everything will be all right – I’m here now!” i think thats the first sign you see from him that shows his feeling are more than just “intrest” in Vicki – he feels a connection….and the promis of more?
Well enough anylisis – just about time to go back to work and I wnat to get some more writing in.
talk to you later!
Dani said
Madonna-You poor thing. I am so glad I got out of a company that I had to work late like you for. Now I get at four or maybe four thirty everyday now.
lwildstar said
Madonna – do you have an interier modem or an exterior? if its an exterior turn it off and unplugg it count to five (some universal magic number) and plug it back in and turn it on – always works for mine. Internal – well thats a little trickier and you have to feel confident enough to open the case – when the computer stopped recognizing my cd burner I had to open the case unplug it and plug it back in – when i started the computer back up – everything was happy – I on the other hand I had to come off an anxity spike from having to open the case! the thing scares me!
toodles!
elizabeth said
Anzia – I just popped over to read your newest work. Loved it! It was so easy to visualize the action. I can’t wait for more…. 🙂
DIZEY1 said
Madonna so sorry you’re having a “sucky” day. But when you think sucks, think HENRY. It should help a little. You can turn this day around though, notice what’s not working and bring thougts of what you do want. The more you dwell on the crap, the more crap will come. It’s the secret. I swear it works. What have you got to lose, right???
**Z** I went and re-read Mr.LO-MEIN again. OMG it;s better every time I read it. I’d love to play find the noodles with tongues……(hee hee hee) 😛
Himmiefan said
Madonna – try some complex carbs. That’ll make you feel better.
Margaret – 10 lbs. Way to go!!
Remember, this is a lot easier than trying to resurrect a series that has already been cancelled. I feel optimistic.
Question: I don’t know much about how networks operate, but would Lifetime monitor scifi boards, or would they monitor more “girly” boards, you know, something that is more like their demographic? Isn’t that what iVillage is?
I’m off to see what Anzia’s up to.
Dani said
Has anyone seen that new show The Singing Bee? It is all about karaoke. I think it is so funny. I can totally win that show.
rifkind said
Love History,
I saw your note the other day. I have a hard time figuring out what you are saying sometimes.. You wrote
..i nailed bill oreilly …
But I didn’t really understand from what you typed as to exactly HOW you nailed him..
(it is kinda cryptic for me to understand sometimes).
Did you call in to the show and ask a question that stumped him?
I do not watch (the factor), not my kinda show.
I hope that you are feeling better. We miss you around here.
BTW we need you to stick around and drive the Avenger Mobile for us crazy ladies!
I really do hope that you are feeling better.
You were a history teacher, right?
What areas did you teach?
I’m working on some research for my book and need ancient egyptian names for different kinds of watercraft that were used on the NILE in ancient times.
Current boats with sails are called feluccas .. but I need ancient names if possible.
I need names for the small 2 person boats that are poled along the shallows, and are there any names for the royal barges that were towed .. and then there was a version that had about 20 rowers.. and also ones that were shallow bottomed and carried the great stone obilisks down the nile during the flood…
I want to make my story as factual as possible
Thanks in advance, if you can help me with the names!
-Rifkind
elizabeth said
rifkind – weren’t the smaller boats called skifs? I think they were made out of reeds, or something like that, and were very bouyant (spelled wrong?) I think I remember that from High School – back in the dark ages, when I studied ancient Egyptian History. I don’t remember that much though…..
Dani said
Woohoo I actually finished all my tasks today. Now I have about a half hour to catch up on things I am behind on.
Himmiefan said
I think O’Reilly got the name of a movie wrong because he said something about it last night. Anyway, I think LH noticed and named the correct movie.
DIZEY1 said
Hey ya’ll just over at Lifetime’s boards and found this interesting tidbit from Scribble. Thought ya’ll might be interested too. I need to order some of those fangs. 😉 😎
(edited by request)
Himmiefan said
Okay Rifkind, now’s your turn to say,”And is your name Loves History?”
Sorry, smart mouth mood today. The authorware I’m using at work does it to me.
Anzia – loved your piece! So when is Henry going to be scantily clad?
rifkind said
I just saw that too Dizey,
Glad to see that you were descrete about not including the last line..
I am sure that Lisa Rose will wish that nettie928 had been as careful.
Himmiefan said
Wasn’t JAG also originally cancelled, bought by another network and then became a big hit?
Anyway, thanks Dizey!
Madonna said
Thanks for the positive energy guys,
After I finished my rant earlier (sorry about that) I put on some music and I’m just a little better now.
Dani,
I get off at a different time everyday, everywhere from 3pm – 8pm, sometimes later depending on when the work is done. It’s not so much the hours here as it is the work itself and the environment. I’ve been here for six and a half years and all I do all day everyday is build car ads. I’m burnt out of it I guess. Also, I have some REALLY REALLY BAD CO-WORKERS!!! That’s why I’m trying to start my own business.
lwildstar,
I have an iMac…. everything’s internal.
Today’s reason I adore Kyle/Henry so much…. Even though he is slightly younger than my co-worker I don’t believe I’ll ever see him try to show me how a turtle would eat a worm! Yes, my 23 year old co-worker did that this morning with a gummy worm!
loves history said
rifkind oreilly has the great american culture 2 victims are asked pop culture questions while bill makes fun of there mistakes one answer to a question about the TITANIC WAS ANIGHT TO REMEMBER A BRITISH MOVIE ABOUT THE T bill then said for extra credit who starred in ANTR whennoone knew bill said clifton webb well cw was not in antr he was in 1953s TITANIC AN AMERICAN MADE MOVIE AND THE MOVIE WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE ANSWER(remember its the great americn culture quiz) I EMAILED THE SHOW SHOWING BILL HIS MISS NEXT day” our humble corrispandant”(what bill calls himself) has to fess up a rare thing indeed soory i dont know nautical terms of ancient egypt, a skif is a small boat but it could be from anywhere.
Himmiefan said
Loves History – I don’t watch O’Reilly that much, but I did catch the last few minutes of last night’s show. He read an e-mail from someone telling him that he had the wrong movie. Was that your e-mail he read?
Rifkind – I don’t know if this site has a search function, but it’s pretty interesting:
http://www.egyptology.com/kmt/
Good ‘ole Google might help you too.
Dani said
I think we can get fangs from Oriental Trading Company. Let me check. Be right back.
rifkind said
Himmiefan ,
I DO Love History.. and my story is based in Ancient Egypt.
elizabeth,
I think that the word “skiff” will describe the boat.. but that is OUR word for it.. I found one website that said that the ancient word for a boat was “Bari”
but just like we have different words for different TYPES of boats.. I was looking to see if I could find ancient words for the boats
Dani said
I found these at Oriental Trading.
http://www.orientaltrading.com/application?namespace=search&origin=searchMain.jsp&event=button.search&Ntt=vampire+fangs&Ntk=all&Ntx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial&N=0
Dani said
These too for bats. It looks like H.M.V. Fangs is on here.
http://www.orientaltrading.com/application?namespace=search&origin=searchMain.jsp&event=button.search&Ntt=bats&Ntk=all&Ntx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial&N=0&x=25&y=21
Dani said
Alright I have done my work for the day. C ya tomorrow. Ciao!
Himmiefan said
Rifkind – is your book fiction? We need more fiction books set in ancient Egypt. There are a few of us who have read everything available and are desperate for something new. Amazon has just started carrying a new ancient Egyptian detective series that’s published in Britain and hasn’t reached the US yet. I bought my copy from a used book distributor who’s taking it’s sweet time getting it to me. Oh well, come Friday night, nothing else will matter but Harry (and Henry of course!)
rifkind said
Thanks Himmiefan,
The web page shows only the front / back cover of the magazine. I may have to check with the local University and see if they have it in their library.. It would be very nice if I could do a search through the text…
Looks like I have some research to do, and the KMT magazine could be a gold mine!
Loves History,
Thanks for the explanation!
He ready your email, huh?? Good for you!
I wonder how he liked eating crow? I don’t go for shows that make fun of people like that. It seems too mean to me. I guess that the producers think that if people want their 15 minutes of fame, they can do it by looking like an idiot. It is just not my style.
Margaret said
Nettie28 over at the Lifetime message board has already ordered some fangs. Might be best to check in with her before you place any orders. Would be nice to try to centralize this as much as possible.
rifkind said
Himmiefan ,
YES! My book is fiction, set in ancient Egypt AND has vampires..
Who’da guessed??!!!
HEE HEE! and it’s all Henry’s fault!
I LOVE GOOGLE.
It is my first and usually only search engine.
Ages ago, I used to use (Web Crawler) because they allowed you to have words that could be EXCLUDED from the search criteria.. Unfortunately they were bought-out and the renamed/re-packaged product was never as good.
Himmiefan said
“The web page shows only the front / back cover of the magazine.”
Well that’s a bummer! Geesh! I’ve bought KMT every now and then, and it’s a really good magazine. Expensive, but good.
Your book sound really good. Can’t wait!
BTW – I have a thing about interviewers who won’t shut their mouths and let their guests talk.
Laurel said
Looks like you’ve been having quite the down in the dumps day. As Gypsy said earlier it is rainy and dark here in Portland today. High of only 69′. It is a good day to curl up with a book and a latte. 🙂
I had to get up at 3:30 this morning to take my 17yr and her 17yr cousing to the airport. Unfortunatly we got to bed at 1:45am. They are off to a big international church function in (of all places) Iowa. Can you say hot and muggy? Yuk. I went to college in Kansas City, and remember arriving at the end of August. 98′ and 98% humidity. 😦
Needless to say, I am a little tired in spite of the nap I just woke up from. This could be one of those major typo days so look out. 😉
I refuse to be disheartened by the lack of news about BT. In what little I have been able to read, interviews and such, I get a sense that Susanne Daniels is one smart cookie! She has plenty to point her in the right direction, and just because Blood ties was not as big as Army Wives doesn’t mean it was a bomb. Lifetime invested a great deal of time and effort into giving us not just a web sight, but also a blog with direct access to our favorite author – Tanya Huff!
When we (and I know I mean me here) asked for episodes to be returned to ON-Demand @ Comcast, they showed up. I got a nice response on e-mail from both Comcast and Lifetime after I requested episode 12. Okay, it took a few weeks but I’m over the delay, now. We requested a chance to see episodes 1 and 2, and they showed up ON-Demand. 🙂
When the not to be named site with the episodes disappeared, Lifetime gave us a chance to watch them all on their web site. Obviously we have the attention of someone with power. It seems like there is some commitement there, and now we need to have faith they will buy 22 more episodes.
So say a prayer, lite some candles, cook with fresh herbs…. whatever works for you!
I am really hoping we get the good news tomorrow. I will wish for it when I blow out the candles on the Birthday cake!
Laurel said
Oh, and mail lots and lots of post cards. 🙂
Did I mention how lovely my hair looks with the Hydrience hair color? And that I haven’t had a single one of my Pink Frosted Mini-Wheats talk to me?
What’s up with that? Mine just lay in the bowl and look tasty.
Speaking of tasty…. who’s got Henry, and where is Mike?
DIZEY1 said
I know I wanted to wish you a Pre- Happy Birthday ! Today is my aunt’s b’day also. All these great cancerians that I am lucky to know and call my friends. I love you people here, it’s such a great place to run away to. I hope you have a great birthday and get treated like the Princess that you are 🙂 What are you doing for said b’day and how young will you be ??
Kind of like the circus, speaking of where’s Lady A , and Susanna, and Maddie Mo hasn’t been here either. 😦 Missing some of you people come back to us, we’re longing for you!!
BTW on the Bloodlines site I think Barbi posted some links to different sites to search for BT’s and I went of course and looked at each site so hopefully it helps.
DIZEY1 said
Henry , sweet girl is in transit oohhh noooooo you get Mike huh???
Where the heck was he last seen ??? Must research the trail of Mike for Laurel’s b’day.
DIZEY1 said
goodby mes amours vous parlent quand je deviens à la maison
XOXOXOX
Elisabet
rifkind said
Laurel
> I haven’t had a single one of my Pink Frosted Mini-Wheats talk to me?
Don’t DO that to me here at work.. folks will wonder WHY I am laughing..
You are so funny!
Have a great birthday tomorrow.
Dizey, (Where is everyone…)
Summertime, vacations, and WORK seem to keep folks busy..
Poor Claire is probably run ragged by now with the 4 kids..
Besides, if it is nice outside.. we should be enjoying the weather instead of sitting at the computer….. just think how many posts there would be if it were winter time???
rifkind said
Himmiefan,
I shared your message with the hubby about the need for MORE fiction books about Egypt…
So we are going to eat fast food and work on the book!
Later BLogkins!
Margaret said
Got some great comments back from a few great Jericho fans: Here they are:
(1) What worked? Organization, mobilization and devotion. Don’t forget to be polite.
(2) You have to remember also that Jericho was right on the line and many of CBS’s people didn’t want to cancel it in the first place. That made it easier for us to convince the others although I think our campaign was awesome. Find something to rally around like our “Nuts”.
Margaret said
Whoops-that should be: Put don’t forget to be polite…
lwildstar said
having one of those days.
If not for replaying Pauls comments – I’d have lost it today – point in fact, today is Wednesday – I’m suposed to be at the allergist – why am I home? because I guess I was in “auto” mood and got on the bus to come home rather thatn the bus to the allergist…
oh well – missing one week wont hurt me.
I sent Scribbles a little thank you note for her encouragement….does anyone know where the info about the “fangs” campaign is? I thought I had booked marked a link – but now I can’t find it.
I like the glow in the dark fangs. and you are right abuot the bats – I guess thats where my friend got the pieces parts from…….
The intern at work says he knows of a costume place you can order fangs from – he’s suposed to give me the link tomorrow so I can check it out….he’s a nice kid and thinks we are all “nuts”, but he heard me talking to the one co worker I’m friends with and wanted to join in – usually he stays away from everyone “socially”….I think he doesn’t want to make friends because he’s only here til September – kids – now the Intern we had last year was da bomb – you couldn’t give him enough work, he was friendly, sweet, cute (baby), sent us all holiday emails at Christmas – and came back this year and joined one of our training programs! Unfourtunatly thats in the head office so we won’t get to see him, but after working with him last year, I was disapointed with the intern we got this year.
Well I am going to go write for awhile…I’ll check in later.
Margaret said
Postcards to write, they won’t write themselves, you know.
Barbi said
Wow, I can’t believe this is happening again on this site. Someone has yet again posted the entire “private” e-mail that Scribble sent to someone, including her full name and info. I am surprised Scribble ever e-mails anybody anymore when her private e-mails are constantly being posted for all to see. These e-mails are private guys and by you posting them you can get her in major trouble and at the very least ruin it for all of us. Even worse it was posted on the Lifetime site! If she wanted the information passed along for all to see she would ask the person to do so. Even though the “Fangs” campaign was not her idea and had nothing to do with her, it can look to Lifetime and her bosses that she was involved in some way and that can be VERY bad for her. They can also instruct her to cut off all ties with the fans and not give us the support that she has been giving us. We over at Bloodlines have been immensely gratefull for all the support and goodies the production, cast and crew have given us and all the fans and this not cool at all!
I certainly hope the webmaster of this blog will once again come through and delete the ENTIRE post with Scribble’s e-mail in it, not just her name.
Margaret said
Barbi: It was posted over at the Lifetime site with that info, not here. In fact someone from here cautioned her to get it taken off and cautioned others not to use the email address.
Margaret said
Ok, I take that back the email was posted by not her personal information. Sorry.
Barbi said
While it is very bad that her personal info was posted along with the e-mail, it is the entire e-mail itself being posted that bothers me. E-mails are private between the sender and the receiver and should never be posted on the internet without the senders permission. Whoever posted the e-mail, here or on Lifetime was VERY wrong in doing so and may have ruined it for all of us.
Margaret said
Barbi: At this point there’s nothing we can do to make it any better is there? Kind of closing the barn door after the horse has gotten out.
Margaret said
Barbi: Since you have more experience at this than a lot of us here can you give us some rules of thumb to follow?
(1) Obviously don’t post emails……
Barbi said
The only thing to make it better would be to have it completely removed which I hope the webmaster does. Not much can be done about the one posted on the Lifetime site I’m afraid.
There really isn’t a rule of thumb but any e-mail sent to you by another person should never be posted on the internet or made public without the senders permission. They send these with the unspoken assumption that what they are discussing is private between you and the receiver.
If you have any kind of dealings with someone from behind the scenes of a show then you need to be very careful about what you repeat to others, Any e-mails or conversations should not be repeated without getting their ok first. Everyone wants what’s best for the show and you have to trust that they know what that is. Clear everything with them first, it is always better to be safe than sorry.
Margaret said
Tango: Aren’t you handling the site when Ms. Gypsy isn’t here?
lwildstar said
well I have spent the what last hour and a hlaf writing – finished chapater 6!
Yopee!
Started part two of the short today at lunch – I’m going to take a try at twriter.com this weekend anpost part one for you – I’ll let you know monday.
well off for chocolate and some mindless tv before bed – I ‘ve got an early an morning meeting tomorrow so I’m not staying up tonight.
Happy Henry dreams!
DIZEY1 said
Barbi regarding the email I am the one who copy & pasted here. It was in a forum and was not aware that it was not legal to copy & paste into my post. Clearly you can see that I was the one who put it here. So sorry if I stepped over some line, I was not aware of a problem.
DIZEY1 said
I can only appoligize & regret having moved it here. I’m sure as soon as gypsy is aware she’ll remove it, there won’t be a problem with that. Tango’s out of town this week. I’ll see if I can email gypsy and I or she’ll be back.
Laurel said
Rifkind – Sorry about catching you with that mini-wheat post. 😉 I have heard the commercial so many times I now expect to see Blood Ties come on every time it plays. It was a huge disapointment to get just some random program on the TV after hearing “I’ve got crunchletts?” My husband laughed because my head sort of whipped around from where I was typing on the computer.
DIZEY1 said
Hey Laurel verify gypsy’s email I think I’ve got an old one. Thanks
Margaret said
Did anyone happen to catch that I don’t believe anyone from BT was nominated for an emmy. Kyle-you were robbed. What do those people know.
Laurel said
I must admit I am hoping for both Mike and Henry for my birthday. I think I’ll be old enough to deal with one by day and the other by night. 🙂 (49, yikes!)
I’m hoping that we will get 22 more episodes AND some substantial merchandise as well. I was in Hot Topic yesterday with my girls and when the sales-person asked if we were looking for anything specific I told him I was looking for Blood Ties merchandise. To my surprised delight he knew about the show and said he was hoping there would be something showing up in time for the holidays. From his pierced and adorned lips to the somebody’s ears! Not sure who needs to hear it but I know I would buy more than my share. 😎
Margaret said
I tried asking Hot Topic where I live and they looked at me like I had two heads. Of course the site of an old fart like me in Hot Topics was probably too much for them. lol.
DIZEY1 said
Me too Laurel. Over by I’m sure, and guess what everyoen would be getting for Christmas, that’s right folks Blood Ties tee’s, tie’s, socks, hats yep I’ll *TURN* them yet.
DIZEY1 said
Anybody got a current email for the gypsy. I really want her to remove that post soon. I don’t have an anxiety disorder……yet ! I so don’t want to get anyone in trouble ya’ know what I mean. 😦
Madonna said
Dizey,
Her email is msgyspy.com
You have to watch the spelling.
Madonna said
Strike that…. more of my nothing’s going right day.
Its msgyspy@gmail.com
DIZEY1 said
Thanx Madonna you rock sista’.
Laurel said
Dizely – be careful typing in Gypsy’s name on her e-mail it is actually gyspy – I remember it as gy (guy) spy. I will send you an e-mail to give you the whole address. Give me a couple of minutes and then check.
Laurel said
You gals are way fast. I barely got my page loaded and you all had Dizey taken care of! Wheew.
Nice work.
Anybody seen moonbeam today?
Madonna said
Well,
I just thought I’d check in and see how eveyone is doing. Things are going a little better for me now. Our computer guy at work gave me a list of some things to try and the 2nd one worked. Whew…. I still don’t understand how something can work perfectly fine and then 8hrs. later be completely whacked.
Dizey,
Don’t beat yourself up over that! You didn’t know!
Rifkind,
I got your emblem design. Thanks!!!
It’s been a looonnng day! I think I’m going to finish a few things up then head to bed.
Love y’all!!!!
prtfvr said
DIZ: Don’t torture yourself. If you picked it up from a public site and posted it, you haven’t done anything wrong.
Of course, we all know that you’re an incredible hacker and probably broke into Scribble’s email account and stole that letter for your own personal gain but we’ll keep it our little secret.
If you start feeling better about yourself and the horrible, horrible thing you did by posting that, just get in touch with me and I’ll make you feel guilty again. Deal?
🙂
prtfvr said
Oh, P.S. New nonsense on the front page of hens if you care to look.
Madonna said
Dizey,
Just thought I’d let you know….. Looks like that post was deleted from Lifetime’s board.
DIZEY1 said
OMG prtfvr , thanx that made my day 🙂 🙂 😉
Yes that’s me the hacker?? That is funny if you only knew how much I don’t know. My technical terminology is “THINGY” it describes any part of a computer for me. It’s safe and generic, it works for me.
Margaret said
prtfvr: Laughed my butt off. Are you trying to tell us something with his finger like that (how perfect was that picture)? At least it wasn’t the other gesture. lol.
DIZEY1 said
No Madonna I looked a little while ago and it was still there #2906. I’ll check again and see. Be right back.
DIZEY1 said
Oh good I had emailed LTKaren and asked her to please remove it so no one would catch flack from their superiors. Glad she did.
AlisaSG said
DIZEY1,
I have an email from msgypsy with return email as
ms.gyspy@gmail.com
(there’s a period between in there, too)
I’m not on the LIFETIME boards, so it was a shock to see conflict show up about this whole “inform the media,” etc.. Based on what I’ve read between the receiver and what Barbi said, it sounds like a misunderstanding occurred from the receiver.
I can understand the whole e-mail privacy issue, we get lots of those marked *privacy* attached in the emails, mostly from the executive staff, but sometimes from the lower rungs on the totem pole, too.
However, the phrase “rally the troops” (which was in that) is probably where the misunderstanding came in the receiver thinking that comment (phrase) in itself was a green light to show the entire rest of everything in the correspondence.
I know of news web sites that don’t permit anything from their site being passed out into the public domain, which netiquette sort of screams-
“well, if you want the news made public, but can’t lead people back to the news article in some form, how are they going to know it even exists??”
anywho, in the meantime I would recommend taking what Barbi said to heart about how we share what we’ve encountered, because especially with the internet, TPTB in the legal depts are finally cracking down on everything they’ve failed to spell out before this medium (the internet, etc) became exposed to the entire planet and overly popular.
prtfvr said
Thanks Margaret! I noticed that my site hits were down since I pulled the pics and only had the comic links, can’t lose the few viewers that I already have so I put in a “lead” story. 🙂
prtfvr said
DIZ: We can’t have non-regulars come in and slap our peeps around! Girlfriend, you KNOW I don’t play that! Only the regulars get to be condescending and shitty to each other! 😉
DIZEY1 said
Alisa I didn’t think beyond the information, that’s my ignorance about the internet I guess. I’m not savvy w/any of this legal/illegal thing. I just joined in a blog and started talking, and here we are.
Well that being said nothing I can do now. Once gypsy removes it I’ll feel better. Any way I’m beat and have to go write more postcards before I hit the hay.
Bonne nuit
XOXOXOXOXOX
reves doux d’Henri
prtfvr said
OMG!! Can we stop the self-flaggellation and reprimands around here? For Pete’s sake, not only has the horse been beaten but ground to a pulp, put into a pipe and smoked! Man! You’d think Scribble was in the Witness Protection Program and was outted by DIZ herself.
We get the message, someone’s personal info was published and we’re almost certain it wasn’t supposed to. Give the girl a break.
AlisaSG said
prtfvr,
>> DIZ: Don’t torture yourself. If you picked it up from a public site and posted it, you haven’t done anything wrong.
(that’s true – how else would anyone know, unless the laws and regs were posted on the what NOT to do, except for the ones working on the laws and regulations?)
>> Of course, we all know that you’re an incredible hacker and probably broke into Scribble’s email account and stole that letter for your own personal gain but we’ll keep it our little secret.
prtfvr, you’re too funny!! 😀
and DIZEY1,
>> Yes that’s me the hacker?? That is funny if you only knew how much I don’t know. My technical terminology is “THINGY” it describes any part of a computer for me. It’s safe and generic, it works for me.
“THINGY” works for me too many times too, even at work.. also go with
“you know – *that* (point to “thing” in question) – right there!” 😛
I get told that I’m the *expert* in “such and such..” ok… fine.
Then, do I get to sign my working title as “the Nobody person”..??
it works for me.. nobody else cares – anyway. 😉
even just once, as an inter-office joke.. someone else suggested I should just try that to see if anyone else notices.. 😀
DIZEY1 said
Thanx Prtfvr, I know I can count on you to have my back 😉
V:”He just wants to ask you some questions, you have nothing to worry about”
H: ” That’s what my father said to Anne Boelyn just before he took her HEAD”
I feel like I’ll be dragged away by a Madd Monk and chained to a big “X”.
There better be something good in it for me if I’m scarificing myself for my village !!! And I mean something (someone) REAL GOOD yummty even 😉
prtfvr said
Well DIZ, I’m feeling a little brutalized myself today and I could tell by your responses that if you fell on that sword apologizing for something that you didn’t do, we might have a bleeder on our hands.
But just in case it didn’t sink in…NEVER, EVER do what you didn’t even do again in the first place! Don’t make me tell you again, young lady! 😉
prtfvr said
Now it’s off to bed. I’m thinking that although I have some pretty good grabs, I’d better get them laminated because my tongues turning colors from liking the ink jet print outs. 🙂 Henry’s worth it but I’m feeling kinda woozy… 😉
DIZEY1 said
Got it ma’am. You’ve got me laughing so hard my mascara’s runnig. Thanx , oh and love the witness protection thing. I’m gonna go check out Hunky Henry before bed. Thanks again for the good laugh, besides I have PMS and this just makes it funnier.
prtfvr said
That’s pronounced “licking” and the “grab” are the pics I pull from BT! Whew! Couldn’t leave that one out there without a correction!
Nite, nite!
AlisaSG said
DIZEY1,
an encouragement — as
as Madonna said-
>> Dizey,
>> Don’t beat yourself up over that! You didn’t know!
and also as prtfvr said,
>> DIZ: Don’t torture yourself. If you picked it up from a public site and posted it, you haven’t done anything wrong.
just imagine the hundreds or thousands of younger people out there on the ‘net who do the exact same thing.. and have never been told. I think most of us posting not connected to any of the more professional sites — we’re all sort of in the same boat.
———-
.. and something I wanted to share earlier but didn’t, because of time factors.. Madonna’s not the only one having a bad day – I locked myself out of my own house this morning (had the wrong set of keys), and had to wait on a damp step for more than a half hour (it fortunately stopped raining), until my hubby came home to let me back in. Meantime, my Slimfast (milk) breakfast shake was sitting on the kitchen counter getting warm and going sour.. 😦
good thing was that I didn’t have to go anywhere at all. I couldn’t even get into my car where it was warm and more comfortable, and I couldn’t call because I didn’t have my cell phone with me. Good thing also that I just went to the bathroom only moments before getting stuck outside, too.. =)
vicki said
hey all..
I will mail my post cards tomorrow…Should I add fangs to them?? I am sure I could find some at the dollar store..or somewhere.
Dizy…dont worry…we are all just trying to make till Oct. and praying for that second season..
I am old enough to remember the whole “Beauty and the Beast” show..(LOVED IT) and BTW the second season is out on DVD now. I taped every episode of that show..but I still was not motivated enough to actually write the network.
I am a tv aholic..I tivo at least 20 shows a week. My children are named Willow and Xander.(buffy fan). I had end of show party for X-files, and end of season party for Buffy. This is the first time I have written a network and I am going to mention that on one postcard.
My name is Vicki and I want more BloodTies..
Laurel said
AlisaSG – Oh girl, I have soooo done that! hehehe
I had to walk two blocks in my slippers – at least I was dressed for the day – just to find a phone. My husband was unreachable and the only neighbor with a key to our house was on vacation in Hawaii. It finally dawned on me that my daughter had a key and she was at the middle school just five blocks away. Lucky for me she didn’t even notice the slippers. Just gave me the key and said “Good going, mom!”
AlisaSG said
Laurel,
now you’re daughter will now have an *interesting* memory to remember in those years after she leaves the nest.. we tend to remember the strangest things, but even if we think of them as a bad experience at the time, they do tend to make us laugh later – at ourselves.. and for some reason, things like that keep my mom’s memories even closer to my heart.
also Laurel-
>> Update on my mom – her proceedure went well and she should be home soon. They didn’t find anything that would cause the shortness of breath and other symptons, only minor beginnings of blockage. I don’t know what will come next.
sorry I missed this earlier and didn’t mention it sooner. Prayers for all of you!
my mom had an angio-plasty. I’m not sure if that was before or after her cabbage (five-bypass) heart surgery. She lived for many more years after, even tho she was diabetic. Complications in health care from her car accident is what killed her – not her heart problems or diabetes.
Had she not been in a head-on collision and banged up so bad, and realizing her body was rejecting the super antibiotics she was getting, she’d probably still be kicking now and calling me up nightly “Hi doll!”
(huge, HUGE phone bills! AT&T loved her!!) 😉
(I was her youngest, and I looked like a *doll* in my toddler years, too.. so the name sort of stuck.)
anywho.. on cheerier notes “HAPPY early BIRTHDAY!!” Laurel 😎
and Hi moonbeam.. 🙂
>> This is moonbeam (Debi—Laurel’s sis-in-law) of the famous, “I don’t do vampires” line blogging in! Henry has changed my opinion on that, umm, yummy!
even when he was tortured, he was still *yummy!* 😀
I love his acting – especially in HEART OF FIRE.. absolutely fantastic!
Himmiefan said
Hi everybody! This is the sound of me dragging our wagons into a circle. I agree with Prtfvr. We can slap each other around, but no one else had better try!
Dizey – I doubt a vortex from Hell is going to open and drag you down into it. Now,I know nothing about posting an entire e-mail like that, I assumed it was public, but I do know there was no personal info in it. On Lifetime’s board, yes, but not what you posted here.
Himmiefan said
Prtfvr – where did you get the sad face? That’s hysterical!
As for the gay thing, I can’t help but wonder if that was started by some wishful thinking guys…
Funny, funny, funny. 🙂
Anzia said
Diz- Honey, Here’ a hug: (((DIZ))) and a LARGE Blow Henry Pop. ^_^ And, if I’m not mistaken, you didn’t do anything wrong at all (this is based on my knowledge of the WI state laws so, I could be wrong in other states). An email is a transferance of information from one person to another. Once it has been transfered it is no longer in the control of the person who wrote it and, unless it invovles copyright issues, is no longer owned by the person who wrote it. So, even if the email had been sent to you directly you could have posted it. It’s your email. I hope that makes you feel a better. Love you girl! hey are you still coming to milwaukee??
I haven’t had Chinese since writing Part 2 and have never had Lo Mein. *hides head* Yup… i’m a traitor with a great imagination it seems. ^_^ I’m glad ya’ll like it. The numbers on that thing are AMAZING! I don’t think you guys are the only ones reading it. Well, unless ya’ll have read it about 10 each!
elizabeth (i think it was you, if not, SORRY to you and whomever I forgot :()- I’m glad you liked the new bit. I plan on having a VERY Scantilly clad Henry very soon. I actually have a GREAT idea to get henry in a pool. *giggles* and Vicki gets some revenge for the outfit she’s wearing in the rewrite. ^_^ So wicked those two are…
prtfvr- I LOVE THE NEW STUFF! OMG. I was laughing so hard I actually had an asthma attack! GREAT STUFF! “and 2…” GREAT!
Madonna- ((((MADONNA)))) I’m sorry your day has been bad. My computer actually does that too. What sucks is that I can’t just restart my modem. I have a laptop… don’t work that way. I have to reboot the internet itself. 😦 Which my uncle hates doing so I have to hope and pray that a rain storm comes and knocks it out (we have digital internet…). 😦 It sucks! *giggles* like Henry… *holds up bag* I have a bag of yummy henry hard suckables… want some?
rifkind- go with the book! ^_^ I don’t have the patience to finish any of the many I’ve started. It has a little to do with not getting stuff to come out the way I want it to and disbelief in my own writing ability. (which is slowly changing thanks to the support of lots of friends- a lot of which inhabit this site) I love ancient Egypt and it’s mythologies so I’m am STOKED about your book! ^_^
Vicki- I’m with you on the Buffy & X-files! And I never wrote to the networks for them either… Just goes to show that BT has something that no other paranormal show has had yet.
Anzia said
himmie & Prtfvr- my uncle claims the Kyle is gay. It’s really annoying. One night he was being particularly pushy about it so I looked at my aunt and said, “if that’s the case I’m scheduling my surgery now.” She started to laugh and my uncles just looked a little confused.. it took him a while to figure it out. Hasn’t mentioned it since. 😀
Barbi said
Ok, while all you “regulars” are picking up your torches and ropes I will say a few things. First off, of course an e-mail sent to one person is considered private, that’s common sense. Now when I posted my message I had no clue who posted it on this blog, didn’t even look, just saw it on Lifetime and here and assumed it was the same person. What irked me was the fact that this same thing happened here on this very blog about a month or so ago and we discussed how wrong it was then so I would have thought that any “regular” would remember that and not post it even if it was copied from another site.
For the record Himmiefan, there is personal info in it. Lisa goes by Scribble all over the internet and only those receiving her e-mails would know her complete real name and that was posted along with the e-mail. In my book that is personal info.
I have been coming to this blog for months but I guess because I don’t actually post everyday I am not a “regular”, whatever. You guys are trying to protect your own and I am trying to protect Scribble. The true one who should be chastised is the receiver of the e-mail and hopefully the wrong people do not see it on the Lifetime site.
So prtfvr and Himmiefan if you have something you wish to say to me directly by all means do so, no need for innuendos, it’s easy enough to find my e-mail.
Dizey, no harm not foul, I know you did not set out to itentionally hurt Scribble and I see now that you were not the one that made the original post, you were just passing on information. Hopefully it will be removed from the Lifetime website and all will be right with the Universe again 🙂
Himmiefan said
Anzia – that’s funny! Yes, less clothes for Henry! I love how sometime his shirt isn’t buttoned all the way, like he just threw it on or something.
I’m glad you said what you said about the e-mail. I had wondered about that with it being in the public domain…
Himmiefan said
Everybody,
Seriously, I am not, I repeat not, happy with Barbi’s e-mail and am backing off from this blog for a while. I will let the rest of you deal with this.
Himmiefan said
Sorry. I was mad and said e-mail when I should have said post.
Sorry, I’ve had it.
Anzia said
Himmie- don’t leave lov! 😦 Please! This place wouldn’t be the same! Seriously girl, don’t do it. The reason we all love this place is because of the special something everyone brings to the board. It’s a home and if you leave, we’ll be missing a very important part of our home. No one, no matter how much we may compare to each other, is exactly like you. And what you are exactly is what helps make me love this place. Don’t let one person drive you from your home. (((Himmie)))
Anzia said
I’m off for the night. I’m not fit for anyone’s company right now. I’ll check in tomorrow morning. I hope everyone else has an okay night and sweet dreams. 😦
g’night
Barbi said
Oh good grief, this is just ridiculous. Once again Himmiefan I will say, if you have a problem with me then deal with me directly instead of stomping off in a huff. I was merely trying to say posting someone’s e-mail is not a good idea and I told Dizey I know it was not her. I honestly would not have said another thing beyond that first post but it is in my nature to defend myself, especially when it is done by little jabs and innuendos instead of someone coming right out and saying hey we think you were wrong.
I am not driving anyone from their home or off this blog. Himmie, by all means stay and I will go. WAY too much drama for me. Next time I will just try and find a way to contact the poster personally. Yeesh.
Anzia said
😦 Okay, so i said I was going to bed, but I got another call from my mom & I don’t have anyone to tell right now. 😦
My puppy (not really a puppy. He’s 17 yr old rotty), they don’t think he’s gonna make it. 😦 It seems he’s been pretty sick. He has a tumor…they just now told me! My mom called earlier (between my post to himmie and saying goodnight) saying that they’d had to take him to the pet ER but that it wasn’t anything to worry about. She’d lied then felt bad ’cause she’s sure the next call will be “Sorry he’s dead.” 😦 She wouldn’t tell me what they’re doing… just that i should ‘be prepared.’
I’ve had Ruffuss since I was in middle school. He’s always been “MY” dog. He woke my mom up when our house caught on fire. He woke me up on the weekends…:( Tomorrow isn’t going to be a good day…
Anzia said
We need a henry stuffed thing or just something that can be cuddled with. … Now i’m going to bed… with Henry playing…
Margaret said
Barbi & everyone else: As they used to say on a skit on Saturday Night Live Years Ago (showing my age, sorry) everyone needs to “simmer down”. I think what has happened is the poster over at Lifetime did the posting out of inexperience. I see your points Barbi and the last thing any one of us wants to do is get Scribble in trouble. The information looked like it needed to be shared so how does one do that: Saying something to the effect of “a source has told us this, this and this” (no names included and certainly no location of the source). How would they have explained their reversal on the fangs campaign if they didn’t explain it somehow.
You certainly have more experience at this so please share how we can get information out that we need to know without killing the messenger.
P. S. Barbi, I for one, want your experience. You have my email but if not its margaret_32955@yahoo.com. The problem with the written word is that no one can see your face or hear your tone of voice and it came off kind of gruff but some of the things need to be said. If you see us doing something wrong email one of us, since this is Ms. Gypsy’s board it would probably be best to email her.
I guess I need to apologize because I posted the information from Denis McGrath which caused the response in the first place. I believe that we are all so passionate about trying to save this show that we would do just about anything. We all now get not to post an email without permission but if you have any more information that we need to know please share. I, for one, am getting sick of being told send fangs, don’t send fangs-you’ll piss everyone off, do this, no, don’t do that. Many of us haven’t been involved in something like this before and we need your experience. If I had the money I’d be flying up there sitting in Ms. Daniels or Ms. Wongs office and going on a hunger strike until they make a commitment (I need to lose the weight anyway).
And last, but certainly not least, TOGETHER WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL. We all need to be circling the wagons on this board and every other connected to Blood Ties and work together. THATS HOW THE FANS OF JERICHO MADE THEIR VOICES HEARD-MOBILIZE AND COORDINATE EFFORTS.
So, please everyone, lets put this all behind us, we’ve learned a rough lesson and hopefully our friend will be safe.
We have a common target that we all need to mobilize against and we can’t do it if we’re wasting time on regrets about what we did. Lesson learned, lets move on AND NOT DO IT AGAIN……
OK, PEOPLE, TODAY IS ANOTHER DAY, LETS ALL KISS AND MAKE-UP AND FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT AGAINST LIFETIME, NOT EACH OTHER.
Love all of you……..
lwildstar said
I have 15 minutes until my meeting and just wanted to check in…
today is a new day, lets all take a deep calming, cleansing breath and move on.
Finished champter 6 last night and i think I may start chapter 7 at lunch – if I get a lunch today.
Play nice and I’ll check in after work!
lwildstar said
Ok this is scary – I just thought I’d check in while we are on a break – and I’m the only ones whos been here this morning?
Did last night take the wind out of our sails? Or am I just too early?
Well this is suposed to be a potty break so I better tak the opportunity….
Hopefully things will pick up by the time I check back in. 🙂
msgypsy said
Wow, I go out for dinner and WEIRD STUFF happens here.
1. I’ve edited the post but haven’t deleted it because it does weird things with my stats when I do that. But the entire post is gone. For the record, I didn’t see any email addresses in it, but it wasn’t yet 6 AM when I read it.
2. Barbi, if you see stuff that bothers you on this blog, please email me. I don’t always check the blog when I get home after 10 PM but I do check email.
3. Himmiefan, come back! None of it was hostile. I think we’re all on edge this week for some reason. And Mercury’s gone direct! (Or did it go retrograde again?)
4. My email is ms.gyspy@gmail.com and if that doesn’t work, there are a few folks here with my work email (and I can’t ever ignore that one!) so you can ask Laurel (or I think Tango has it and if not she should, and I thought I gave it to a couple of other people) to alert me to something.
5. Laurel…HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LADY! 49? Is that for real or again? And am I buying you Chinese tomorrow to celebrate?
Now, then…some of the cast of “Macbeth in Minutes” met last night to enjoy a really good dinner and go over our lines. I’m having a hell of a time with “Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood to High Dunsinane Hill doth come against him,” which I think is the entire speech I make. I also do “All hail Macbeth, thou shalt be king thereafter,” but it’s easy to remember it since I sing it to the tune of “YMCA.” (We’re determined to get this on YouTube to share with everyone when we’re finally in production.)
And under the heading of Only In Portland. We ate at a vegan restaurant perched up on a hill bordering Forest Park. It’s in the NW Industrial District and it’s quite lovely and apparently on weekends it’s extremely lively. It’s called Pirates Tavern and … uh … yeah … it’s totally pirate themed, all the way through to the live music they book most nights and the design of the menu. Vegan. Pirates.And yet it works quite nicely.
And on that note I think I’ll go get ready for work and wish the day would end because I’m in a “Gifted” kind of a mood…
msgypsy said
Prtfvr, where did you get the shot of Henry with the glowing ring and the … er … gesture? I ask because I once again must say that Kyle is a smartass! If he were my kid I’d … oh, hell with it, I’d be SO proud!
Margaret said
Laurel: Are you a hen or a minx? Can you email me (margaret_32955@yahoo.com) your email. I need to send you something.
Margaret said
Ladies: Don’t forget to write to the advertisers on the show, along with the writer’s cramp we’re getting from doing the post cards.
Dani said
Ok dears. Lets all calm down. Now that that is out of your systems lets get down to what we love best, each other, Henry, and Blood Ties.
As Margaret said: TOGETHER WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL
Reading what I just read kinda made me sick to my stomach. Confrontation and me don’t mix well. I have always been known in my family to be the one to heal everyone else in situations like this. Now is when we all have to be together in this. Himmiefan we need you back. Barbi and anyone else from Blood Lines we need to too. Now is not the time to fight. Now kiss and make up. Let’s make Laurel’s birthday the most memorable of ever.
Happy Birthday Luv!
Don’t forget to go to imdb.com to do your daily searches.
Dani said
Oh I forgot to mention that prtfvr, I loved the new stuff on henryshens.com.
Dani said
I had to go back and figure out what you were saying about the finger gesture ms gypsy. I missed the first time around. I caught it this time. I love it even more now. HEHE!
I saw Hairspray last night. My sister had 6 free passes for the special screening. That movie was hilarious. You all have got to go see it. John Travolta as a woman is the funniest thing I have ever seen. The movie was just great all around.
Rifkind said
Anzia,
Sending you a H U G E cyber hug this morning
{{{{{{{ H U G }}}}}}}
Those of us who have lost pets are crying with you today.
It is so hard to lose a cherished loved one, and our pets worm their way into the deepest corners of our hearts, where we may never feel safe sharing with anyone else. This makes their loss so much more difficult.
Remember that we love you here!
Dani said
Sorry Anzia. I forgot to put this in my first post of the day. You little puppy will always be with you in your heart. Like I said to prtfvr when my hotdog gets sick I get so nervous. She is your still and I still get scared.
Dani said
That was supposed to be she is young still.
Rifkind said
I am soo late for work!
Catcha’ all later my wonderful cyber family!
Anzia said
prtfvr & dani- thank you. very much. It really seems to be a bad time for us here huh? bad stuff just keeps happening. I’m glad I woke up to understanding individuals. so thank you!
I’m not sure how much I’ll be around. I might just bury my head in all the crochetting I need to get done.
I love you guys! Have a good day.
prtfvr said
“Barbi said,
July 18, 2007 @ 3:46 pm
Wow, I can’t believe this is happening again on this site. Someone has yet again posted the entire “private” e-mail that Scribble sent to someone, including her full name and info. I am surprised Scribble ever e-mails anybody anymore when her private e-mails are constantly being posted for all to see. These e-mails are private guys and by you posting them you can get her in major trouble and at the very least ruin it for all of us. Even worse it was posted on the Lifetime site! If she wanted the information passed along for all to see she would ask the person to do so. Even though the “Fangs” campaign was not her idea and had nothing to do with her, it can look to Lifetime and her bosses that she was involved in some way and that can be VERY bad for her. They can also instruct her to cut off all ties with the fans and not give us the support that she has been giving us. We over at Bloodlines have been immensely gratefull for all the support and goodies the production, cast and crew have given us and all the fans and this not cool at all!
I certainly hope the webmaster of this blog will once again come through and delete the ENTIRE post with Scribble’s e-mail in it, not just her name.”
and Barbi followed up with:
“So prtfvr and Himmiefan if you have something you wish to say to me directly by all means do so, no need for innuendos, it’s easy enough to find my e-mail.”
So Barbi, I’m addressing you personally. Your first post (above) did not mention the name of the “someone” who posted Scribble’s email here although you knew it was DIZ, second, if you regularly read this site you’d know that the webmaster is ms.gypsy whom you didn’t mention by name either. I responded in kind which was not to mention any names. I have no problem mentioning names but I was continuing in the passive-aggressive tone set before me.
You have to understand that just because you regularly read the site doesn’t mean that we know you. Plus your email was a little harsh and the person you were chastising hadn’t done anything wrong. I don’t want my friends taken to task over an unfounded accusation and you don’t want your friend’s annonymity exposed. We can consider ourselves both protective den mothers of our own and call it even. Nothing wrong with defending people as long as it’s not done blindly.
If you want to continue arguing with me or just bury the hatchett, more like a dull blade, you can email me at prtfvr@verizon.net.
Himmiefan! You are SO not allowed to run away!! I have to keep all the people who actually find me funny as close as possible! It helps the old ego!
😉
prtfvr said
Anzia! I’m SO sorry about your baby! I really know how it is! There’s not a good age to lose anyone or thing. I completely understand!
Anzia said
sorry, i meant rifkind in there. I was thinking about your recent loss prtfvr.
Sorry rifkind! (((hugs))) didn’t mean to do that.
Anzia said
thanks prtfvr. 🙂
addled brain much on my end huh?
prtfvr said
Anzia: I SO don’t care if Kyle’s gay. Actually, I’d rather he’d be bi so everyone could have a chance. The man is BEAUTIFUL! No doubt about it! He’s probably getting boxers and bikinis thrown at him right and left! God, I hope he doesn’t trip on one and fall!!
Regarding the sad face and “the finger” pics. They’re from the same episode but I’ve sat through so many frames of images one click at a time to get the pic to give the impression of the story that I’m writing that I can’t remember where they’re from specifically. I might have to apply for pointer-finger-over use disability if I don’t quit going through all these shows soon!
The only good thing about having only 12 episodes is that I’d NEVER get anything posted if there were 22 already!
prtfvr said
Random thought for the day: Am I the only one who finds Henry/Kyle’s sideburns extremely sexy? Maybe I’m having a flash back to the 70s or something but I likey.
DIZEY1 said
Good morning to my blog family. Thanks to all of you for having my back. CLEARLY, ya’ll will be the people I call if I ever need anything, you girls ROCK 🙂 That being said I’m sorry it got so blown out of proportion(SP) and the only ones I really didn’t want to catch flack from this were gypsy and Scribble, so if you’re lurking I do apologize again. MOVING ON!!! 😉
**Z** My dawlin’ you know I feel for you. I’ve had to put 4 animals down over the years. I’d hoped God would just take them but sadly it was not his plan. I would not trade that experience as sad as it was for anything. It amazes me how much love and loyalty they had for me and I for them. Mine were also old like your pup, it’s like a sibling I know. Love you and I’ll think about you all day . On a lighter note I’m not a Lo-Mein girl either but for Henry I’ll learn a new trick 😉 🙂 Oh and yes I’ve been there waaay more than 10 times (hee hee) XOXOXOX Luv Ya !!!
Gypsy, I would love to see some of that play. Hysterical YMCA do you have to make the letters too?? I think the Chariots of fire thing will be hysterical too.
Thanks for taking care of the post .
DIZEY1 said
Prtfvr wierd that you say that, cuz I think so too. I love when he’s on the floor and Vicki fights of Norman and she kisses him. They do look sexy I think anyway.
prtfvr said
Does anyone know how to reach Himmie? I don’t trust her to lurk and come back. Force may be necessary to bring her ass back!
Dani said
I just like all of him, his hair, sideburns, bum. You name it I love it.
DIZEY1 said
himmiefan@comcast.net
Prtfvr how’s that for service, and with a smile.
Dani said
prtfvr-I thought I had her email. I guess I was wrong. It might be on the list that Dizey has of all our locations and emails though.
Dani said
Oops! Dizey beat me anyway. 😛
DIZEY1 said
Hey off subject , has anyone watched “John from Cincinnati” ?? I have and am trying to figure out is he God??? Just a random thought also.
May I say YUMMMM…. 😉 😎
http://www.bloodties-bloodlines.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=1519&fullsize=1
or maybe ……yeah very fine, very sexy dude 😉
http://www.bloodties-bloodlines.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=349&fullsize=1
and one of my favorites 🙂 oh that’s me next to him BTW
http://www.bloodties-bloodlines.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=150&fullsize=1
Claire said
Good Morning Family,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAUREL!!!!!!! I’m sending Henry over in a few!
I wasn’t feeling well and he was keeping me company.
Dang…I go away for a day and all kinds of drama breaks out!
Is everything Ok now? Himmiefan?
Anzia…I love you girl…hang in there!
Prtfvr…I’m sorry I haven’t checked out the new comic…but I promise I will today…love you girl!
Diz…Je t’aime fille… vous n’avez fait rien mal ! Quelqu’un doit fermer leur bouche!
Anyway..you know how it is with quads…so I will check in later! 😛
XOXOXO
Margaret said
OK, LISTEN UP EVERYONE: I WAS THE ONE WHO POSTED DENIS’S LINK SO ITS ALL MY FAULT, ALL THE ACTIONS & REACTIONS. NOW THAT WE HAVE THAT SETTLED, CAN WE GET BACK TO WHAT’S IMPORTANT, TRYING TO SAVE BLOOD TIES! I’m sorry about the hurt feelings all the way around but we need to move past that and focus on what’s important. LIKE WHY ARE WE STILL TALKING ABOUT THIS AND NOT WRITING POST CARDS TO LIFETIME, OR EMAILING THEM OR THEIR SPONSORS/ADVERTISERS???????????????
Dani said
Yes Ma’am! 🙂
DIZEY1 said
Claire , bonjour! Je t’aime aussi. Je conviens, et espère que vous allez bien.
Merci beaucoup. XOXOXOX
Margaret said
Anzia: I should have done this first and I’m sorry. I’m so sorry to hear about your pet. I’ve been there and its never easy. My thoughts and prayers are with you, they get to be like your kids after a while. Heck, my dogs is probably nicer to me than my “natural” kid is. Wish I could send you a hug.
Himmiefan said
Hello everyone.
Last night, I was so taken aback that I had to leave. I’m back now and will say this:
Barbie,
You may have made a good point in your original post, but your wording was harsh and unproductive. Had it been here at work,I would have nailed you for being unprofessional. This is great group of people, and antagonizing words are not welcome.
Himmiefan said
Now, for everybody else, good morning! I missed all of you for the five minutes I was gone.
Anzia – I am so sorry! I was 13 when I got my other cat and 32 when she died. You know we’re all here for you!
DIZEY1 said
Hey Maggie May, I read Denis’ post at his site on the same day so no big. Yesterday I went and emailed the manuf. that I could actually get an email to some I had trouble getting onto. My postcards are written and ready to mail.
Oh and on the BLOODLINES site which I saw and left there was a list of sites to go and search for BT’s etc. I clicked on all the sites and searched where I could.
AlisaSG said
prtfvr,
>> Random thought for the day: Am I the only one who finds Henry/Kyle’s sideburns extremely sexy? Maybe I’m having a flash back to the 70s or something but I likey.
*cool* – I think this is the first time this has been brought up. I first noticed his sideburns when Rifkind and I were comparing Kyle’s *Henry* pix with actor Roy Dupuis (who portrayed Michael) on La Femme Nikita. Roy’s *Michael* didn’t always have the sideburns, and that’s when I noticed it.. 😉
>> Does anyone know how to reach Himmie?
I do.. unless she writes back here first – I’ll send her an email or PM to let her know you’re trying to contact her.. 🙂
.. she might be busy doing other things in the meantime, or reading a long list of topics I recently sent to her..
I have to go out, so it might not be until later, that I can send something out.
Laurel said
Good morning! Thank you all for the Birthday wishes!
Himmiefan – glad you came back! It wouldn’t be the same without you!
Claire – I was begining to wonder if your kids had tied you to a chair by the pool. lol You were missed.
Anzia – My heart goes out to you sweetie.
prtfvr – how are you doing? Did you get any answers from the test?
Gypsy – I think tomorrow will work, I will figure that out shortly and e-mail you. Btw – yes, 49. For the first time. Or, as my daughter said – the 24th aniversary of my 25th birthday. Egad!
I get to pick a place to go out for dinner tonight. I told my husban P.F. Chang’s sounds good. I think I’ll have to order Mushu instead of lo-mein. 😉
AlisaSG said
dang! she (Himmiefan) beat me to it.. (that just shows how sloooooooooow of a writer I am)
😀
Himmiefan,
>> Now, for everybody else, good morning! I missed all of you for the five minutes I was gone.
glad to see you back.. 🙂
I’d encourage – don’t forget to visit my other *secret* place..
keeping Norman in focus over there, so HENRY can be absorbed by all of us here.. *g*
even in a pool / jacuzzi scene, if necessary. 😛
moonbeam said
Good Morning BT family, ( I checked in about midnight last night and was way too burnt to get my fingers moving.)
Happy Birthday Laurel!!!!!! Love you!
Anzia- I’m so sorry about your forever puppy.
Prtfvr- I like those random thoughts. Sideburns hmmm. . .sexy oh yeah, makes my blood moves. Must be true, I caught a typo- good thing I caught it before I sent it. I know how much fun everyone had over the (weed) typo of Laurel’s
Back to the labels and postcards and then the retirement homes again. . . .
Laurel said
Margaret – I am a Minx, but I wouldn’t turn down time with Henry so maybe I am a Hinx.
lanewb1@verizon.net is my primary address. If it doesn’t work I can send my yahoo address, of couse then I would have to remember what my password is. 🙂
Dizey – Keep putting ice on those bruises! 😎
Re sideburns – not every man can wear that look well. Kyle/Henry can and does.
I think I’ll go watch some more BT while I sip my latte and eat my Mini-wheats. Maybe the little pink guy will sing me “Happy Birthday”!
Claire said
Lmao! Laurel! If they could they would!!! As It is They kept me and Nikki at the pool until closing 9p.m. last night!!!!
Plus I had gone hiking with them in the woods all day!
Listen…this here gal will also be 49 in about 3 weeks…
almost 49 versus 4 7 year olds= one very tired person!!!!!!
It’s cloudy today but still 93…I’m hoping to get away without outdoor activities…but you never know when the Indians might revolt!!!
Hi Dizey!!!!!!
Claire said
Ok Prtfvr!!!! That was hysterical!!!! I am going to have to watch all the Epis in slo mo to find those scenes….love the finger shot…and the booboo face!!!!
😛
Laurel said
Hah! I knew moonbeam had to be out there somewhere!
Good morning dear, your latte is ready. hehehe
prtfvr said
Damn Margaret, we were done. What’s up with the yelling?
DIZEY1 said
Hi my Claire, did I say my french thingy right??? Or at least close ??
Laurel if those little pink guys sing to you , well it was a gift from Henry, he has SUPER POWERS !!! Well you know you’ve seen him. Actually in just a bow right??? Oh and lot’s of tape of course 😉 🙂
moonbeam said
Thanks, Laurel It’s nice to know that the “girls” didn’t interfere. Hey, how were my heart shaped biscuits? Dang that Gus!
Have a fun B-day, You can have a visit from Kyle, oh what the heck- I’ll even share Henry for an hour or two (during the day)
Laurel said
Oh, yeah. Heart shaped biscuits are just coming out of the oven. Can’t you just smell the cinammon? I think I’ll top them with fresh blueberries and raspberries from my back yard. Add a little freshly whipped (real) cream. Yum!
Margaret said
I yell when my nerves are shot, when I haven’t slept well, when I haven’t been able to polish my nails for weeks because I’ve been writing all those damn postcards, when my friends look at me like I need to be commited, when I realize exactly how much time this has comsumed out of my life and I’m wondering if we are actually making a dent with Lifetime. I just think we need to be spending our time better than rehashing something better left alone. SORRY FOR YELLING. LOL.
DIZEY1 said
Laurel I’ll take mine with real butter, no fake or diet stuff oooh and my mom makes homemade apple butter that would taste really good on there.
God I’m hungry now.
Dani said
O Diz I love apple butter. I am really hunger. You all need to stop.
DIZEY1 said
It’s ok Margaret, we’re all a little stressed, no Henry and all. He gives really good massages with those strong hands I’ll send him over. Get the deep tissue massage with the body oil, trust me he’s GOOD 😉
Dani said
Wait that wasn’t nice. I was just talking about the sweets we had yesterday. Don’t mind me. I am frazzled from all the work I am doing and wishing it was 4 on Friday so I can start my vacation with a Harry Potter party at Borders. Sorry luvs.
DIZEY1 said
Dani you lucky dawg!!! Great way to start your vaca w/Harry Potter. 🙂
prtfvr said
DIZ, I now pronounce you “Quick Draw”! Nice reflexes on the email address for Himmie!
Laurel said: “Maybe the little pink guy will sing me “Happy Birthday”!”
I have absolutely NO idea what you’re referring to above but my mind instantly pictured the little man in the boat. =O
I need to get out more! Or would that be, in? 😉
prtfvr said
Margaret: I SO know how you feel! I try to avoid the yelling on IM though. It hurts the eyes! 😉
Happy Birthday Laurel!
DIZ said: “Get the deep tissue massage with the body oil, trust me he’s GOOD”
OMG!! ROTFL! You’re too young to need the oil! You should be able to go without. Now maybe when you’re geezing it up like me, Laurel and msgypsy that might be justified but right now? I think it’s excessive! Enjoy the “deep tissue massage” without the oil while you can. Getting old sucks! 😉
DIZEY1 said
Prtfvr, LMAO you don’t know how much you were missed around here 🙂 😉
The little mini wheat guys w/crunchlettes are shown before the videos on Lifetimes site. Before every freakin’ part of every show. After a while they’ll make you want to pull out the ICE PICK!!
moonbeam said
You’re cute and I love you! But I know for a fact that you’re talking to some little pink shredded wheat guy because you said so earlier. Hah!
It your birthday so I guess you can just have your Hinx guys and dangle tempting yummies at me- but I know you’re having the wheatie & latte (ahhh)
DIZEY1 said
Thanx but I don’t think you’re that much older than I am . I just made……….(whispers) (47).
prtfvr said
DIZ: Hey, I’ve missed you guys too! Can’t wait to post Chapter 6. It’s actually funny.
So THAT’S where my ice pick went! You keep it! If its been around the little man in the boat I, uh…I’ll get another one but you GO girl!! 😉
prtfvr said
Damn DIZ! You’re a geezer too!! I’m 46! Ok, go for the oil but be very, very careful. I think I’ve warned before of the dangers of too much oil versus things going where they shouldn’t! That “liberal amount” thing on the label is BULLSHIT! 😉
DIZEY1 said
Hey chick I just TURNED 47 13 days ago. BTW when is your b’day bird lady???
Speaking of birds did you get any wrod on the necropsy??
DIZEY1 said
that’s supposed to be word not wrod. So you’ve had oil problems?? I love the way that feels on the bod. Very erotic, too much Henry on the brain.
God is October yet??
Jimmy Buffet says that it’s 5 o’clock somewhere, can’t it be October somewhere?? Grasping at straws here I know. It was worth a shot 😉
moonbeam said
Henry, massage, biscuits, apple butter, hmmmm. . . . sounds luscious I’m sure there’s chocolate and lots of well room for the imagination in there, but it’s a grand beginning
DIZEY1 said
Moonbeam, you’re gonna fit in here just fine 😉 I’m sorry did you say chocolate?? Right now I’m having a “Norman” of the red variety , but with some chocolate it would be even better YUMMY 🙂
Dani said
You know vampgrl hasn’t been here either. What happened to her?
moonbeam said
Dizey1- I will probably live to regret this, but what the heck is a “Norman”?
DIZEY1 said
It’s an apple. It’s become his trademark. So I figured why not just go with it. Oh but mine are NOT from the garbage can and sooooo not partially eaten.
moonbeam said
Dang, I get it now! Norman—-oh yeah—duh! Hello..
Okay! I guess I can give myself a break since I did just see all of the episodes at Laurel’s last week and read all of the Blood series too! Thanks!
I’m in bad shape here. I have this going and now I have the other computer up looking for something that I need to do…….
Dani said
Hey Diz-Anymore news on your dad’s foot? How is that infection?
Claire said
Damn…Prtfvr….if Dizey is a geezer…then all us 49’rs are….Mummys?
Well at least we rhyme with yummy!!
You all are making me hungry…I love apple butter…and where are the biscuits?
pass one over here!!!
Yeah Diz…your French is getting better and better! hmmm…which leads me to believe..everytime Henrys missing…we should go looking at your house!!!
Est-ce que vous m’avez-vous obtenu à des leçons supplémentaires de Henri… en français signifiez ? parce que je pense vous avez également obtenu d’autres leçons! ;0
prtfvr said
DIZ: My birthday was in March so you’re going to be 47 a while longer than I’ll get there. 😉
Laurel, DIZ: No word on the necropsy. I’m calling today! I can’t imagine what’s taking so long!
prtfvr said
Claire: Maybe I prematurely geezed everyone! It’s just that I’ve been studying Kyle/Henry so intensely recently – purely for research, of course – that I’m starting to feel really old!
elizabeth said
Laurel – Happy birthday! I hope you have an awesome day! hey, I love that you are a Hinx. I think I have a little of that in me as well 😉
prtfvr- you have no idea what a delight it was to check out your hen’s site. My morning has been horrific and I sooo needed a giggle. There have been so many times I wished I could carry off “the gesture” as eloquently as Henry does in that picture 🙂 Oh, and the sideburns, Love them!!!!!
Moombeam – good luck with your day visiting retirement homes.
Himmiefan – Glad you didn’t stay away. I know it has been said numerous times in previous posts; but we would miss you! And, trust me, I don’t think anyone would have let you stay away for long. This is one group of terrific ladies!
Anzia – I am sorry about your puppy. I’m sending you a hug, k?
prtfvr said
Good thing I know I can’t be pregnant! I just went to Panera Bread to pick up lunch and came back with;
A sourdough bread bowl;
Brownie;
Cranberry/Orange Muffin and;
Lemonade!
YIKES!!
Almost forgot – butter!
prtfvr said
Thanks elizabeth. I live to entertain our group. 🙂
elizabeth said
Dizey – a Norman!!! I will never be able to look at an apple in quite the same way again. You actually made me laugh out loud this morning and I didn’t think that was possible today 🙂
elizabeth said
lwildstr – I have my rosary bracelet on today. You have no idea how many compliments I have received on it.
DIZEY1 said
Claire, oui Henri ‘m’a enseigné que beaucoup de choses utiles, des baisers français étaient l’un d’entre eux.
Dani , they went today to the wound care nurse. His Dr. is not back in town yet and has a main line in him for the IV antibiotics. As long as the infections controlled he’s good, but there lies the problem will it flare back up when they take him off those. Only time will tell and the Dr. should be back in about a week or so.
DIZEY1 said
Hey kidz, heading to lunch and will be back in a bit.
be good and “wear something nice ! “
Laurel said
Hey lwildstar? Any chance you have a bracelet like Elizabeth’s still available? I would really like to order one and now that I’ve seen hers I REALLY want one! Let me know?
My Rosie (12) and I figured out our wardrobe for the Hallows Ball at Borders. That is the pre-book event. We are going to go in our most formal attire – velvet gowns, jewels and silly shoes, flowing capes, plus owl and dragon puppets.. Anyone care to join us? We will be there all evening!
Dani said
I have a really awesome deep purple dress with a handkerchief hem that I am going to wear. It has black velvet moons and stars on the bodice and the back laces up with silky black cord. The sad thing is I don’t have a cape. I have these cute little silk Japanese slippers that I am going to wear with it.
Margaret said
Thanks Dizey1 but I’m so tense it will probably take a really, really longggggg time before anyone gets him back.
I realize those little shredded wheat guys are a pia but remember they are the reason we can still see the episodes. I emailed Kelloggs and told them I appreciated their sponsoring the site so much that I would be eating cereal morning, noon and night now.
Dani said
I will eat the normal frosted shredded wheat but there is no way I am putting anything pink in my body. Not no how, not no way.
prtfvr said
Budgie Scoop: Vet said that Nicky Jr. was perfectly healthy and most likely suffered from a heart attack, stroke or anuerism. WTF? I’m glad it’s not a disease, believe me but a heart attack? He was fat but he wasn’t THAT fat.
Basically, it was just how it looked. He was fine one day and dead the next. So unfair…They asked me what I wanted to do with the body and I said that I wanted him back and they asked when I would pick him up and I was too choked up to answer that one and said I’d call them back. I couldn’t think of when I wanted to pick up his little, dissected body…
Ok, I’m getting teary eyed again so I’m going to go.
elizabeth said
prtvfr – I am so sorry about your little budgie. I don’t know what else to say that can give you any comfort; believe me, at time like this, I wish I had some magic words that would make everything better.
Dani said
Hang in there prtfvr. We are here.
Anzia said
First off, ya’ll are great. Thanks for the hugs and love.
Secondly, “pink guy?!” SO did not go with shredded wheat! I was gonna comment that he probably wasn’t little either. ^_^ Great to have a dirty sense of humor to fall back on when in emotional termoil huh? ^_^
oil huh? I’m not a fan of major slippery feelings so… anything that can be quickly licked off is better for me. Thus, whipped cream and liquid chocolate. YUMMY!
vicki said
HEY ALL..
I just wanted to pop in and say I am just about finished with my 20 postcards. I printed off a picture of a tie dripping blood from the bloodlines site. (looks nice) I made it smaller and I am cutting them out to put on the postcards.
prtfvr…my thoughts are with you.
I also printed a thumbnail picture of me in my “is it Oct. yet?” T-shirt. I am going to put those on a few of the postcards, but I am writing on each one that we all want a full, new, 22 episode season.
Anyway…busy writing postcards…later all.
BTW..I am wearing my T-shirt today and I had about 4 people ask me what it meant.. Of course I explained in detail LOL
Claire said
Prtfvr…first let me say I’m sorry about your budgie…I had a kitten named Simba a year old…all black..so loving..always giving kisses.Well one minute I was scolding him for running up my curtains…that same night he was dead! same thing as your budgie! The vet said sometimes animals are born with heart defects that aren’t noticed.I still get upset…and that happened in 1996.
Now to make you laugh…Hmmm…sure heard that before..studying Henry so closely…hmmm for research purposes? Lmao!! Okay! ;P
Dizey.… vous mauvaise mauvaise fille ! Vous connaissez puisque je suis français qui c’était qu’enseigné notre Henry tout au sujet de l’art des baisers français ?
😛
lwildstar said
laurel – the website is http://hometown.aol.com/lognwldstr/Moon.html I think the remaining rosary bracelets are on page 3 – follow the links
I have one more black one – someone ordered it and I never heard back from them – its not posted yet. If you have any problems viewing email me at LognWldstr@aol.com and put BloodTies in the subjet
Thanks for the compliment Elizabeth – I haven’t worked on any new jewelry as the “fever” seems to have cooled off – plus now that I’m writing I don’t have the time. I really have to work on getting rid of the jewelry I have – all of it…don’t be surprised if one day I announce a going out of buisness sale for all the stuff I have stacking up – if anyone is interested I have a .PDF version of the “catalog”. I’ve told myself I CAN NOT buy another bead until I sell some of this stuff off…but its like BT – you can never have enough!
My pack of 100 postcards finally showed up! – so I’m two days behind….I guess that means tonight I’ll have to do 30! Thank goodness I already have the computer set up – I just cantt hand write another one!
ok back to work – I’ll catch up after I get home. Its storming here right now so I hope I have power tonight.
AlisaSG said
DIZEY1,
>> The little mini wheat guys w/crunchlettes are shown before the videos on Lifetimes site. Before every freakin’ part of every show.
I just take my headphones off and do something else for the quick moment.. 😉
DIZEY1,
>> It’s ok Margaret, we’re all a little stressed, no Henry and all. He gives really good massages with those strong hands I’ll send him over. Get the deep tissue massage..
Ooooo, you’re *bad* .. just reading it is as bad as enjoying the
*jacuzzi treatment*..
prtfvr,
>> I have absolutely NO idea what you’re referring to above but my mind instantly pictured the little man in the boat. =O
yikes!! more *baaaad* .. that’s what my hubby says, too-
“little man in the boat” (LOL!)
and (Henry//*Michael* or __character’s name__) has no trouble maneuvering the boat oars going upstream a little further, too, tho. 😛
O.M.G..!! drop-dead gorgeous *vampires* steering the helm!! 😀
prtfvr,
>> Claire: Maybe I prematurely geezed everyone! It’s just that I’ve been studying Kyle/Henry so intensely recently – purely for research, of course –
sure. *g* .. Of course..! *g*
now we know where you’ve disappeared to – all those days you weren’t here..
😉
good golly!
especially the photo with the fingers and Henry’s drooppy expression..
*that* takes talent (and probably dozens of hours) to meticulously find those things.
prtfvr, Do you have a picture capturer machine attachment?
We used to have a color one (it could go frame-by-frame too), but it was a hand-me-down and not in great shape, so we got rid of it from a lack of use.. and do I miss it! 😦
rifkind said
Hey Danielle,
Check your email … 🙂
msgypsy said
The odds against me catching up are pretty solid. Sigh! I’m training someone today so I get minutes at my desk, and most of them are taken up with email.
I thought I was going to print out my own postcards yesterday, all pretty pictures and stuff, but I checked and my paper is too small. DAMN! So I’m back to having to buy them!
Does anyone know how to convert .avi files to files that can be viewed from a dvd? And I’m not asking for immoral or even unethical reasons.
Dani said
rifkind-You and Anzia are so BAD! I guess I will have to be a little to pink I guess.
I have to go. My mother is freaking out. Tornados are touching down all over the place up here and she wants me home. She doesn’t want me out if one touches down in our immediate area which the weather guy is saying it will.
Madonna said
Greetings from Kentucky everyone!
It’s pouring buckets here and has been for about 2 hrs. I know, my workstation is right underneath a 16×16 skylight, and we’ve had a heck of a lightning show. Also the floor my office is on is starting to flood.
I’m at lunch and I just got caught up on all the posts. It looks like it got pretty intense on here last night. I’m glad that is over. I agree with Dani about avoiding conflict whenever I can. It makes me antzy.
I think we’re all just dealing with personal issues on here coupled with serious Henry, Mike, and Vicki withdrawals. We’ll be OK!!!!
Now everyone in for a big group hug…. (((((((Anzia, Dizey, Dani, Claire, prtfvr, Himmiefan, Lady Afrodyte, Margaret, Vicki, Annalaise…. wait a minute… catching my breath….Laurel, Moonbeam, AlisaSG, Ms. Gypsy, Cree, susana…. damn, I need to work out more…….Elizabeth, loves history, Tango, Teresa, Chery, Mara, DebS, Brenda, vampgrl, simone taylor, Rifkind……. gasping for breath….)))))))) Now that is what I call a good group hug! Look how many friends we’ve made and it is all thanks to Blood Ties!!!! I feel like I’ve left out a few, if I have I’m sorry. You can jump in any time.
Anzia,
prtfvr, Here is an extra big bear hug for you two, since you two need it the most right now.
(((((((((((((((HUG)))))))))))))))))
Laurel, Happy Birthday!
Himmiefan,
I’m glad you decided to come back. I thought I was going to have to leave work and drag your butt back. My boss wouldn’t have liked that at all! But I would have you know!
Madonna said
Bye Danielle
Anzia said
Thanks for the hug! I love hugs. 🙂 I’m a very huggy person.
Laurel- Sorry i didn’t do this before. HAPPY BIRTHDAY (((laurel))) have a birthday hug… or two! Here’s my present to you: http://www.mostbeautifulman.com/sambagblog/17.shtml Enjoy love.
Himmie- I’m glad you’re here.
Himmiefan said
I’m here, I’m here! I appreciate the various and assorted threats to different parts of my anatomy.
Madonna – I love your roll call!
Laurel – here’s a big load of birthday weed coming your way! 🙂
rifkind said
Hi ALL,
Yesterday was a tough day here!
I am going to post this note that was being sent around the internet..
Many of you may have already read it, but I think that this helps to explain why we are FAMILY.
We may not be a genetically related family… but we ARE BLOOD (Ties) Family.. so that makes us related by Blood .. hee hee!
This note talks about Women.. but guys can get very socially isolated too..
Friendships that provide love and support are what makes us human.
SO here it is.. Loves History and SAI and any other lurking guys, translate it to your gender and make sure that you have some close guy friends, and you are always welcome to come here and swim in the estrogen pool with us!!
I have tweaked the original email to add a few blog entries..
Sorry that this is going to be a Loooong Post…
—————-
Sisters
A young wife sat on a sofa on a hot humid day, drinking iced tea and visiting with her Mother. As they talked about life, about marriage, about the
responsibilities of life and the obligations of adulthood, the mother clinked the ice cubes in her glass thoughtfully and turned a clear, sober glance
upon her daughter.
“Don’t forget your Sisters,” she advised, swirling the tea leaves to the bottom of her glass. “They’ll be more important as you get older. No matter how
much you love your husband, no matter how much you love the children you may have, you are still going to need Sisters. Remember to go places with them now and then; do things with them.”
“Remember that ‘Sisters’ means ALL the women…
your girlfriends, your daughters, and all your other women relatives too. “You’ll need other women. Women always do.”
‘What a funny piece of advice!’ the young woman thought.
‘Haven’t I just gotten married? Haven’t I just joined the couple-world? I’m now a married woman, for goodness sake! A grownup! Surely my husband and the family we may start will be all I need to make my life worthwhile!’
But she listened to her Mother. She kept contact with her Sisters and made more women friends each year. As the years tumbled by, one after another,
she gradually came to understand that her Mom really knew what she was talking about. As time and nature work their changes and their mysteries upon a woman, Sisters are the mainstays of her life.
After more than 50 years of living in this world,
here is what I’ve learned:
THIS SAYS IT ALL:
Time passes.
Life happens.
Distance separates.
Children grow up.
Jobs come and go.
Love waxes and wanes.
Men don’t do what they’re supposed to do.
Hearts break.
Parents die.
Colleagues forget favors.
Careers end.
BUT………
Sisters are there, no matter how much time and how many miles are between you. A girl friend is never farther away than needing her can reach.
When you have to walk that lonesome valley and you have to walk it by yourself, the women in your life will be on the valley’s rim, cheering you on,
praying for you, pulling for you, intervening on your behalf, and waiting with open arms at the valley’s end.
Sometimes, they will even break the rules and walk beside you…Or come in and carry you out.
Girlfriends, daughters, granddaughters, daughters-in-law, sisters, sisters-in-law, Mothers, Grandmothers, aunties, nieces, cousins, and extended
family, (and Blogkin), all bless our life!
The world wouldn’t be the same without women, and neither would I. When we began this adventure called womanhood, we had no idea of the incredible joys or sorrows that lay ahead. Nor did we know how much we would need each other.
Every day, we need each other still. Pass this on to all the women who help make your life meaningful.
I just did. Short and very sweet:
There are more than twenty angels in this world.
Ten are peacefully sleeping on clouds.
Nine are playing.
And one is reading her email (OK this BLOG), at this moment.
Happy days!
——————–
{{{ HUGS }}} to you all dear Blog Family 🙂
rifkind said
Oh Anzia!
You have to put ***WARNINGS*** on those links girlfriend!
OMG! Those pics are almost too hot to open up at work… Someone may see the steam rising from my monitor and cubicle!
🙂 😉
elizabeth said
rifkind – thank you for posting about sisters. I have had a difficult day and this was just what I needed to remind me that it will be okay.
vicki said
wentworth miller is gay???? i am dying!!!!!!
elizabeth said
Did I miss something? who is Wentworth Miller?
DIZEY1 said
Claire alors je vous remercie He m’a enseigné bien
Will check back later my peeps are bugging me here at work.
prtfvr said
Hey! Pulling all those pictures of Kyle WAS research! Yes indeedy! I just use the picture capture software that came with my mac. Photoshop supposedly lets you do that too but I haven’t figured out how yet.
I actually DO go frame by frame until it gets to the point that I like the image and then, SNAP! It’s MINE!! 🙂 It’s been an enlightening experience. People have so many different expressions when you slow it down to a snail’s pace. Like that frowny face? That was actually Kyle doing an “It could happen” look that I moused through to make it fit what I was saying. It ain’t art – anyone can do it, but I’m enjoying the hell out of myself!
As soon as I can figure out how to photoshop myself in with Henry in some of those hot pics, I WILL!! That’s the best shot I’ll ever get to be with Henry and I’m not too proud to fake it. Women fake it all the time! I’m a woman so it’s fair. Really, it IS!!
prtfvr said
Thank you so much for the warm wishes and support. When I asked my husband whether or not I should have my budgie cremated he said “Do whatever you want, it’s your money.” OUCH!
vicki said
he is on PRison Break Major HOTTIE…he was on that site of beautiful men..and it said he was “dating” some actor…gave his name dont remember..I think I blacked out!!
that ruins prison break for me…(((Sighs))))
elizabeth said
Ahh, I don’t watch prison break, but have seen ads for it. I think that is why I don’t want to know too much about an actor. I love the fantasy of their character they play…reality can be a real turnoff sometimes. Tom Cruise comes to mind..
I just checked out the blood ties site. It seems to be up and running and I love the video that plays. Another item to bookmark for repeat viewings 🙂
Anzia said
That was a great post about sisters. So true too!
I’m glad you liked the pics. ^_^ Um… i’m not sure how true anything on that site is. I just keep it ’round ’cause those pics are REALLY nice and since I am a totally and COMPLETELY devoted Hen…
Wentworth is his name huh? Somehow it fits. ^_^ He was in Dinotopia… I loved his character… well what he became. There was a period of whiney baby in there that drove me batty.
So, i’m introducing my aunt to Zerophilia.
prtfvr- Here’s a hug back to you. I lov you dear and am sending you strength and support.
DIZEY1 said
Well I’ll check in when I get home, love ya’ll my sista’s XOXOXOX
Laurel said
Thank you to everyone for the Birthday wishes!!!! I have never gotten so many e-cards, especially since moonbeam is the only one in the family who has been able to master her computer.
I went to lunch with my husband and daughter. We did go to PF Changs and had MuShu pork, sweet and sour chicken, and singapore street noodles – glorified lo-mein! lol It was a good (slightly giggly) lunch. Birthday dessert was Banana spring roll with coconut ice cream, fresh berrys and a drizzle of caramel. Yummy!
Now for presents!
lwildstar said
good evening ladies!
don’t have much time – they just announced a thunderstorm warning – and I don’t want to be on the computer ya know?
Ok I must say I am doing the happy dance! While no one has offically said anything about my new position – I did get a raise – retroactive to July first! Yippeeeeeeeee!
Just finished 20 postcards – will do another 10 just to keep the quota up….
Gave Robin my dvd to get her hooked! I made her promise to bring it back – every day I send her another picture of Henry to entice her to come join us……this is funny, when she stopped by to pick you the disk – after she said thank you , the next thing she says is “have you talked to Paul about going to lunch?” I just laughed about how he hasn’t accepted my invitation yet…..ok now should I be worried? I’m torn between liking the idea of have an “insider” and worring about, well what she may say to him. So I’ve decided I am not voulentering any info about how I feel (dah I think she knows) and I am not going to ask her to “fish” for me – that is just too high school…plus I made that mistake once. One of my coworkers put in her notice last year and one day at lunch I jokenly said “before you leave go find out what Paul thinks of me”, damned if on her last day she didn’t corner him in the hall! she’s never told me what he said. I have the feeling I’m gla I didn’t find out……oh well. But I am DYING to know if he has said anything to Robin!
Well I’m off to make corrections to the Henry-Vicki short – hopefully it will be ready this weekend….and print some more postcards.
Night to all my sisters!
DIZEY1 said
Hey Prtfvr 🙂 What do I need to have to do the picture thingy you did w/your Mac. I have a Dell PC w/Photoshow deluxe 4 and Printshop 21. I don’t know if either of these are comparable to what you have. Maybe I need to purchase something different like the Photoshop THINGY. See I use my technical computer lingo all the time 😉
AlisaSG said
prtfvr,
>> Hey! Pulling all those pictures of Kyle WAS research! Yes indeedy!
>> I actually DO go frame by frame until it gets to the point that I like the image and then, SNAP! It’s MINE!! 🙂
ugh.. thinking about sitting at a computer for *that* long — oy!
if you read one of my posts several months back, I made a note about how intensive it was making a video documentary (it was about vampires, btw). I literally ate, slept and drempt about where to pull scenes from various sources, and how to write it all up for at least 3 entire weeks. I had other projects to do, too; but that became my pampered *baby* so to speak.. where I poured my emotional heart and soul into it.. 😀
of course, the instructor who was supposed to watch it had other commitments, and didn’t even see the whole hour, plus, because of those other appointments! He got about 2 minutes into the tape and kept asking “wow! how’d you do that??” (a machine called a video special effects generator..) 😉
He gave me an A or A+
It would have been fun to see his reaction into seeing the entire documentary. I mean, there was a LOT of research that went into finding the still shots (which made up a good half hour at least of the tape).
anyways,
>> Budgie Scoop: Vet said that Nicky Jr. was perfectly healthy and most likely suffered from a heart attack, stroke or anuerism.
😦
here’s more ((((((((((hugs!!!!)))))))))).
Laurel said
Sisters, the greatest blessing I know is to be in your company. Thank you all for being out there where I could discover you.
Laurel said
Oh yeah, and thank you for steaming up my glasses today! lol
😎
Madonna said
Good evening everyone,
prtfvr,
I love the new opening page. I especially love, And 2…… That’s my sense of humor! I’m not sure exactly what you are trying to do with the photos in photoshop from your description, but on your Mac you can press Command + Shift + 4. That will give you crosshairs and then you can capture any part of an image you want and not the whole screen.
AlisaSG, Thanks for that. It was very uplifting!
Not to exclude any men, but we are a sisterhood here ladies. That being the case I propose another new name for our group. Echoing one of Kyle’s movies…..
Sisterhood Of The Traveling Henry.
Now down to business…..
It’s time to save OUR show. We all need to decide as a united front what direction we need to go in. Do we take someones advice and join the fangs campaign? Do we try to come up with another campaign that will catch. If so, does anyone have any ideas that we can spread far and wide to all the forums and sites? Do we just let the postcards do the talking?
Referring to someone’s letter, How do we peons get the word out to the press?
This is already July 19th. It’s crunch time!!!! Whatever we decide, everyone from all the boards needs to be involved. Strength in numbers right?
IT’S TIME TO RALLY GIRLS AND GUYS!!!
Now anyone got any suggestions?
Madonna said
Your very welcome Laurel.
DIZEY1 said
Awwww Laurel I’m so glad you had a good day!! It sounds like the food and the company were good too. See in life that’s the good stuff the true important stuff. The family and the friends that we have on this journey are the things and people that make us who we are. There’s no tangible gift that you can receive that could come close to the warmth and love you get from family and friends. Enjoy!! This day’s all yours , oh and “wear something nice !” Love that line sorry. 🙂 😉 😎
DIZEY1 said
Madonna, I’m still a postcarding fool. Wrote more out at lunch while my iPod played Norman coinkidinkily (SP) . I thought about the fang thing, I don’t know??? 😦
DIZEY1 said
Just checking my pic’ that I changed 😉
DIZEY1 said
Found a couple of new wallpapers on Bloodlines go check em’ out. Cool 😎
lwildstar said
ok I’m postcarded out for the night! my printer ate three of them so I will have to see if I can save them.
I have lost my links to The Dinner story parts one and two and the links to Elder Hotel – its like my computer deleted them….someone please repost or email them to me, please 🙂 oh and how do you get the sunglass smiley 8)
LognWldstr@aol.com
Thanks – My head is starting to hurt – and the storm is starting to come in – took longer thatn I thought the way the weather man was acting – so I am logging out and I’m off to bed.
((((HUGS)))) everyone!
lwildstar said
Hey it worked!
Night!
DIZEY1 said
Nighty night Iwildstar XOXOXOX 😎
prtfvr said
God DIZ! You’re asking the wrong person! If “Preview” didn’t come with my mac I would have had to figure something else out.
I really need to find out how to do it with Photoshop since I’m hoping that it would produce better quality pictures – I’m not satisfied with most that I pull but I have over a hundred and counting now so I guess I’m used to the embarassment of posting lousy pics as long as my story is clear. 😉
Hey Madonna! Do you have any advice for the DIZ-meister on how to grab screen shots on the PC? I know that you can but I never needed to know how before this.
Madonna said
prtfvr,
Here’s my secret graphic design tip for you. If you can get that image capture at a decent size, open that file in Photoshop, Go to Image, then go down to Image Size and set the resolution to 266 dpi. That should give you pretty good quality. They rarely give us all the artwork we need to do an ad so I have to use this trick all the time.
Dizey,
Sorry, when it comes to PC’s I know nothing. Believe me you probably don’t want to invest in Photoshop either. It’s hundreds of dollars and I don’t even know if they sell it separately. You may have to get Creative Suite to get it. I paid $1,200 for mine.
prtfvr said
Thanks Madonna! I have Creative Suite 3 for Web Design. There’s a great discount where I work so instead of $2,000 it only cost $500. How could I resist.
Damned if I know how to use Fireworks or much of anything else besides Bridge; Contribute and Dreamweaver but I can’t resist a deal AND I’m a meglomaniac! I love having neat stuff and all the associated bells and whistles even if I’ll never use it. It’s very sad. I have issues!
Madonna said
Prtfvr,
Photoshop, InDesign, QuarkXPress and Illustrator are my specialties.
I wish they did but my company doesn’t offer deals to it’s employees. Now I’m jealous.
Chery said
Hey everyone! I think you all have very good ideas, but don’t forget to e-mail some of the advertisers that you used their products after seeing it advertised on Blood Ties.
I think Margaret posted a list of the advertisers on the last thered.
Also! Media! E-mail the television critic in your town and say all of the things we like about this show!!!! Maybe they will contact Lifetime to ask about the show.
I turned my hairdresser today, like everyone I have “turned” they had never heard of Blood Ties. Come on Lifetime promote the show and “they will come”
Off to write 20 postcards to send tomorrow!
Love yu all……………..
Margaret said
Chery: I asked for them but I think Tango was the one that posted them. Its not in this topic but the one before this I believe. And everyone, don’t forget to thank Kelloggs for providing the videos of the show, even if you don’t like those little pink crunchlettes.
Madonna said
Hey guys,
You know how we have talked on here about how often Lifetime plays Army Wives?
Has anyone else noticed that fans of Army Wives can’t watch their show on Lifetime’s site? I still want repeats of Blood Ties but I guess that is one small concession that they made for us.
prtfvr said
Madonna: Of course I have InDesign too as part of the package but I’ve never even opened it. I don’t know what it does! I barely get by on Dreamweaver, it’s rudimentary knowledge at best.
What I’d like to know is how to make the pictures all fit in the same size box without making their dimensions screwy like lightbulb head Henry or horse face Vicki. Know what I mean? I’d like it to look like a real comic strip with real pictures. If I could draw I’d be drawing Henry and me together all day!
Himmiefan said
Lwildstar – congratulations on the raise!
Madonna said
Prtfvr,
InDesign is page layout software.
First of all you need to decide how big you want your photos to be.
You may want to do all of these in a different document and save the original photos in case you want to use them again later.
In Photoshop make a document the size you want it to be. If the photo is low quality or you want to increase the size you’ll want to set it to 266dpi. Make sure it is set to RGB. If it looks OK and you are not trying to make it much bigger you can leave it at 72dpi since it is going on the net. Open the picture you are working on. Drag it to the new document. To adjust the size to scale, do a Command + T to transform. Hold down Shift and drag one of the corners. If you don’t hold down Shift while doing this it will distort the picture. Then you can add borders or play around with it however you like. Unfortunately some photos may have to get cropped somewhat to fit in your desired size. If you have further questions for me about it, feel free to email me. I’ll be glad to help. I usually don’t check my email until the evening though. MadonnaJPike@aol.com
Madonna said
lwildstar,
You got a raise? Sorry I must have missed that. Congratulations to you dear!
msgypsy said
Blog-kin, I officially surrender. I CAN’T keep up! So if I’m missing something important, please someone email me. Meantime, I’m going to go finish dinner and then bake something … for … some reason…
vicki said
HEY ALL…
Madonna- I mailed 10 of my postcards today. I printed off that picture from the bloodties-bloodlines site of a red “blood” tie. I made it a little smaller and taped it to all of the postcards.
I thought it was a nice visual to get the attention of the people reading it. A “blood tie” on the postcard is a link to the show…a name…a reminder. If nothing else the people reading it will get a giggle, and hopefully remember we are fans taht love our show and want MORE!!
I also took a picture of me wearing my “Is it Oct. yet?” t-shirt and taped it to one of the postcards. I also made sure that each postcard was respectful, polite, and of course asked for another FULL season of BLoodties..
Anything else I should add??? Just wondering..
Madonna said
vicki,
I really don’t know what we should do. That’s why I was asking earlier. Whatever it is though it needs to be a combined effort. Should we get craftier to grab their attention? Truth is, I just don’t know.
All the criticism I have seen about Blood Ties tends to stem from the fact that they think to plot is unbelievable and too “out there” to be mainstream television. I’m thinking that if we could find a way to show Lifetime that we are “real women” watching, that that might be a good theme. That is what they are going after in viewers after all.
We’re real women who just want a little fantasy, just look at the romance novels out there today. There’s a ton of people out there who would love Blood Ties if only they knew about it.
Claire said
Hi Family and Sistas(LOL)
Finally!!!! Those kids are asleep!!! How can kids get up at 7 and not be falling on their faces by 10?? Man…I love to sleep…always did!
Rifkind…The poem about sisters…Awe I’m so damned Happy…I found you guys!! 😛
Madonna…The group hug was awesome…right back at ya! 😛
Iwildstar…you go girl…congrats!
Dizey….vous êtes bienvenu, il étiez mon plaisir ! LOL!!!
Anyway until tomorrow…Bonne nuit mes soeurs …..
et d’hommes aux rêves doux également !
Madonna said
Alright everyone,
I’m going to bed now.
Goodnight, and let Henry bite.
(He needs the nourishment to keep up with The Sisterhood of The Traveling Henry you know!)
vicki said
I did mention on a postcard that I am a teacher and a “normal” woman. I also put in that I wasnt a big fan of supernatural shows, but this one was so well written, acted, etc. that I couldnt help but watch.
I am going to finish the other ten cards tomorrow for the head of programming. I will mentin this stuff again. I also will mention that I have NEVER written to a network about a show, but I felt so strongly about this one that I HAD to write and let them know how I felt.
well..night all…sleep tight…let Henry or Mike dreams fill you up!!
vicki said
BTW…I also emphasised (Sp) that what I like most was the strong, self-reliant, capable, kick butt woman in the lead!!! I think being the “television for woman” this would mean more to them than anything.
I may have also mentioned the chemistry between the three main characters and what a fantastic job the actors were doing..What woman wouldnt want Henry or Mike…as we have proven here…Minx or Hen…we got it going on with this showQ!!!! LOL
DIZEY1 said
merci que Claire pour le plaisir Henri me donne
Well goodnight my sweets, be good and sleep well.
XOXOXOXOXO
reves doux d’Henri
Beth
Anzia said
Hey guys. I would suggest that we continue with the postcards and if we do anything beyond that, do it in conjunction with other “groups” that way the BT fan front is more united and organized. Besides, if they have to many things like the fangs they might get more annoyed than not. That, and as was pointed out a couple of times, the sheer amount of nuts sent by the Jericho fans is what got them into the media. If we split our man power into different gimicky (for lack of a better word) things then we might not have the same force as they did. I do think we could do something with the postcards so that we all had that same something. Maybe a tiny picture of the “Is it october yet?” logo on it.
Actually, come to think of it… that might be something that everyone could do. Even the people at the bloodlines site and so forth. If the creature of said logo was okay with that of course. I mean, that’s OUR motto, logo, mantra, whatever. That’s the essence of our campaign.
I thought that someone posted the list of advertisers in a “contact/information” thread. I could be wrong but I Thought someone asked ms. gypsy if that was okay…
OH, and another thing that could be mentioned on the postcards is Coreen’s character. That the bond between her and Vicki is the perfect example of “sisterhood” and that we like (or at least I do) seeing a friendship on TV that is shared in reality with someone close to us. Or just that Coreen is another non-wilting flower woman who knows something paranormal happened to her boyfriend and wasn’t going ot be steam rolled into thinking otherwise. It’s another example of a strong woman.
Anzia said
Oh, another thing we could mention is that while the women characters in BT are strong and independant, they do not drag the men behind them. Instead, they allow the men to walk beside them and take the lead when they feel it necessary. It is not a show that beats it’s viewers over the head with the idea that either men are more in charge than women or that women have to be in charge ‘case we deserve it. Instead, the show shows the equality between the two. Mike is in charge in the police area. Henry in the supernatural. Vicki in the PI & butt kicking. Coreen in the research. The good Doc in the science. It is a TEAM and not one man or one woman against the whole supernatural world. That, at least, is something that I love about the show anyway.
let me know when I go too far off the deep end with this stuff guys…
Anzia said
On the “normal” woman front (be warned this is a pet peeve of mine)- There is no such thing as “normal” for it to be applied it has to be so abstract to inclued things that actually go against the definition of “normal.” Unless you go with normal meaning confines to all societal “norms” in which case I think every human being breaks at least one of those and thus cannot be termed normal. Besides, if they want a ‘normal’ bunch of people watching they need a ‘normal’ show. They dont have one of those. They have an extradordinary show with great writing, acting and concepts. They have a lead woman who doesn’t just sit down and cry when things get tough but instead squares her shoulders and meets it head on. Growing and learning along the way. Their audience is a reflectoin of their show and if they expect a “normal” batch of people then they’ve sorely mistaken BT for Friends or Seinfeld or something.
*puts soapbox away* Sorry, i’m done now… *goes and sits quietly in a darkened corner*
rifkind said
Hi Blogkins!
I am glad that you liked my “Sisters” post. I was a bit worried that it was too long, but then folks could skip over it if they wanted to.
I guess that the post reflects how I feel about you here at MsGypsy’s.
I have no genetic sisters, and I only get to see my physically close gal friends, about twice a year. At work, I am mostly alone, and no gal friends there either. I think that when families were large, and you had built-in sisters to share the world with.. now families are so much smaller and we tend to get isolated.
Women tend to want to support each other and share our life experiences… the older women want to share their knowledge with younger gals… and we all sometimes need someone to JUST listen.
I love this blog because we are here for each other.
* We celebrate with Anzia as she graduates starts her “after college” life.
* We laugh with lwildstar as she shares her stories and fears about talking to Paul. (We LOVE that you are coming out of your shell dear! I am so happy to read that you are writing again!)
* We can relate to Claire’s position.. I would be run ragged by 4 children. We respect her and can give her an ear when she needs to share something with other women. Claire you have been through so much, and we all really think that you deserve the title of SUPER MOM!
* We cry with each other as we lose our pets, and share our support of each other in our grief. Sharing the world with those little critters is a blessing!
* We send love and prayers for parents who are sick or in the hospital, and for Loves History to pull through, get a transplant and be well.
* We chastise each other when we get too far out of line — or too far into the gutter…
* We group together in support of each other and also for support of BLOOD TIES, which we love.
* Our Den Mothers will defend the family against attack from intruders.. (But we can still disagree and chastise ourselves , but this has to be from WITHIN the family..)
* We want to be there for those of our family who are usually shy and withdrawn. We give you a chance to share yourselves with us, when you are ready, knowing that we will not be judgmental and will be here for you and be supportive.
We will be here and rejoice with you as you find your way in the world. Not everyone has to be an extrovert.. and being quiet or introverted doesn’t mean that you don’t need your Sisters any less.
This sounds to me like that is what a FAMILY does.
{{{ H U G S }}} to all of you.
-Rifkind
Laurel said
Anzia – I think you nailed it with the whole “team” spirit thing. I love the ensemble cast. Strong personalities, great interaction, plenty of eye-candy. Respect between the men and women. Men who can take no for an answer and not get all pissy about it! What’s not to like?
lwildstar – congrats girl! You rock!
Lunch tomorrow? I will have Rose with me but she has a book to read and will let us talk to our hearts content! You can let me know here if you want, or e-mail. 🙂
Anzia said
I’m proud to call you guys family.
(((Rifkind))) I agree 100%
Laurel said
That lunch bit is aimed at Gypsy! I am in a stupor from all of the dessert.
Laurel said
Well said Rifkind, well said.
Anzia said
My mom is mad at me. Why, you might ask, would a mother be angry at her daughter after SHE lied about how sick my dog was. Because there’s a family reuinion this weekend and I can’t come. I have an interview the interview on Monday. 😦 She felt it necessary to call and push the guilt trip. *sigh* oh do i just enjoy talking to my mom… you get a free trip with every call or text msg or email or IM…
Diz- we REALLY need to come up with a Henry Cuddle toy. Actually, they could be manufactured in all the characters so everyone could cuddle with anyone they chose. Since my mind is teetering on the edge of gutter at the idea of wrapping any part of me around something remotely associated with Henry and bed…
msgypsy said
Laurel, noon? Call me. Rose is welcome. She can protect you in case day-walking vampires attack … or something.
My baking was … less than spectacular. Possibly because I was distracted by a great postcard idea. I’m sending pictures of my ancestors (I’m the family archivist because I have a scanner) and saying they want to see more “Blood Ties.” And a picture of Faraday because he just LOVES it when I cuddle up in front of the tv to watch shows that I like and he totally resents my having to watch some of them on the computer since there’s no room for him in my lap when I’m online.
Pant pant pant. Run on sentence much?
Bedtime. Type at you all tomorrow. Y’all are making me choke a little with the outpouring of love here. Kisses, all of you, and ya know what? I’m not dreaming about Mike, Vicki, or even having Kyle for a son. I’m dreaming about all of you. So there!
Laurel said
Gypsy – You know I love ya’ but dreaming of all of us? That’s just a little….creepy? Crowded? Hmmmmm.
Lunch at noon is good. Maybe I can figure out what’s wrong with my birthday toy by then. Steve got me an i-pod to play Blood Ties I downloaded from i-tunes! Only problem is – they sold him one that is formated for windows and I have a mac. A mac with all of the i-tunes software already installed and loaded.
😦 I think I have to go to the Costco to exchange it before I can actually play. So far it is capable of being a clock. Whooo hooo!
Nuts.
Margaret said
I posted this over at the Lifetime Board:
BLOOD TIES
TPTB: As you already know Blood Ties has inspired several websites, message boards, etc. Over at Ms.Gypsy’s we have become Blood Sisters in the true sense of the word, we have shared our ups and downs, given advice when it was asked for and sometimes even when it wasn’t, some of us are incredibly good looking just like Vicki, some of us aren’t, but the one common thread is that we are women (for the most part, although we do/did have two men who visited) who have gone through lifes trials and tribulations just as Vicki has. The show has inspired some of the more shy ones on the board to venture out and test the waters. HOW CAN YOU TAKE THAT FROM US? This show has united women from every end of the world together to form a common bond, it would be cruel to take that from us. The women range in ages from the young, in that demographic that makes all of you networks jump up and down, to the more mature women who can still appreciate the beauty of a well-written show with great actors who just happen to look downright beautiful
lwildstar said
Hey guys!
Thanks for the congrats!
YOu know I’ve been at this job only 3 and a half years – and I feel more respect then i did at the place I worked at for 8 years (I won’t go into details – but they fired me so that the owner could retire and turn the company over to her daughter how hated me – up side – the mother fired the daughter had to go back to running the company and has finally come forward and told my sister (who still works for her) that she made a terrrible mistake in firng me. HA!) anywho – I just hope I can keep up the good work.
on the post card front: sent off a pile this morning. basically i’m saying that while I was not one to watch Lifetime on a regular basis BloodTies really pulled me in, and I have been watching the occasional Nora Roberst movie and Reba. That I love the strong, yet volnerable Vicki nelson (and Hot Henry) and that i wish they had more charactors like Vicki that we can relate to.
It sounds better ont he card – trust me.
Well the boss is here and I must go. I’m alone again today, so i expect o be swamped!
Margaret said
Ok, not that I’m obsessed or anything but I have to go to the post office for my second set of 100 post cards, or is it my third, I’m starting to lose count. Don’t know about the rest of you but I’ll be writing post cards this week and emailing sponsors.
Just heard a Rob Thomas song that pretty much sums my addiction:
“I’m not crazy, I’m just a little impaired.” Lol, or should I insert an earie laugh her.
Margaret said
should have been “here”.
msgypsy said
Lwildstar, sorry I’ve been remiss but MAZEL TOV! on the raise.
Speaking of Nora Roberts, does anyone think Lifetime ought to consider the Eve Dallas books for TV? Me, I just want to see the near-future high tech, but I can imagine who would play Roarke … or, for that matter, Ian McNAbb.
Chery said
Margaet, I have to go to the post office for my next 100 postcards also.
Thanks for the post over at the LifeTime board. How wonderful E-mail and the Internet are! The fact it has brought together a diverse group of women of all ages because of this show is simply amazing!
As I have said before, I have never in my entire life been this obsessed about a show like this one.
By the way does anyone live out west besides me? I am in Colorado am I the only one?
Talk later
Love yu all……..
msgypsy said
Hey, Chery, some of us are FURTHER west than you are. I used to live in Colorado but now I’m in Portland, OR and I think we have a group of Californians here, as well.
BTW, those aren’t CREEPY dreams, Laurel. They’re happy dreams of women and men who have come to care about one another. And mostly I dreamt about my dog trying to push me out of bed because … well, that’s what’s usually happening to me when I sleep.
msgypsy said
Just curious … do we have any Canadians here? The ones who’re watching the show on Lifetime or who downloaded it from iTunes because they Just Couldn’t Wait?
I want to shake their virtual hands. Now THAT’S loyalty.
I know some Canadian fans did that but I don’t know how many found their way to the various blogs and websites.
Dani said
Hey Sisters. Kudos on the Blood Sisters post rifkind.
I will pretty much be lurking today preparing to take next week off. Woohoo!
Dani said
Oh and Madonna I liked what you posted over at Lifetime.
Dani said
I just had to let you guys know that a 25 year old emailed on match.com. He is a little younger then what I am looking for but you never know what might work out so I am giving him a try.
DIZEY1 said
Yes Dani try the young ones, they’re good!!
Iwildstar sorry I didn’t see the part about the raise, PROPS to you girl you I’m sure deserve it. Bat money in mail today 😎
Chery, & Margaret, I also will p/u another 100 tomorrow and will finish up the pack I bought last Saturday. My weekend will I suppose include a little writers cramp. I still need to figure out how to make my printer do the Lifetime printing part. It would cut some of my writing down a little anyway. Woo Hoo on all these postcards. Oh and I think they’ll know which are mine w/all my little bat stamps, and my bow stamp. Eyes will roll and they’ll say OMG it’s these batty people aaaagain !!!! (hee hee hee) 😉 🙂
Margaret said
Dani: I’d say go for it. Of course, we want detail later.
elizabeth said
lwildstr – congrats on your raise! You go girl! 🙂 It is wonderful when a company recognizes talent. I don’t know if you work in a large corporation or not, but sometimes it isn’t easy to gain respect for the work you produce.
I love reading this blog. We have some wonderfully talented women here and reading how eloquently some of you express the whole feel here is..okay I am at a loss for words *looks sheepish*. I love you guys!
Margaret – I sometimes think that song you referred to should be my theme! I find mentally singing it when my days get tough at work. See, there it goes again……
elizabeth said
Ooops – should have inserted “myself” mentally singing. Sigh – it is going to be a long day….
Laurel said
Dani – younger men are a good thing! I know because I am married to one! Not much younger, but… 🙂
elizabeth – I think you’re right about the long day. The Harry Potter book doesn’t come out until mid-night and I will be at Borders for at least five hours by then.
Okay, did you all just hear a little voice say “Wear something nice” ?
Margaret said
lwildstar-Congrats on your raise and your new job.
We have a drinking game, now we need a theme song, should it be the
Rob Thomas one I referenced:
I’m not crazy, I’m just a little impaired.?
msgypsy said
Laurel, considering who said “wear something nice” you might want to run very, very fast AWAY from that voice.
Well, I made my ancestor postcard. It’s kinda cute. It’s my two grandmothers and my father. I should make one with the really awesome photo of my great-great-grandmother (I think that’s the right number of greats) that was taken with a Civil War era camera and you can tell the poor woman had been sitting for hours with that same look on her face.
I’m not messing with Borders. I’ll be home sewing (I need FOUR INCHES MORE of the $25 a yard border fabric, dammit!) and waiting for the mailman to bring me my book from Overstock.com. I can wait a few more hours in exchange for the comfort of my own living room.
DIZEY1 said
Margaret, it sounds good to me. I love Rob Thomas. I love the Street Serenade 😉 😎
Himmiefan said
Rifkind – 🙂
Anzia – come out of your corner, girl. What you said was really good!
Margaret – your Lifetime post: you go girl!
Dani said
Diz-Isn’t it Symphony
lwildstar said
AAAAUUUUGGGGG!
sorry just had to get that out of my system, its been one of those mornings. They really ahve to stop leaving me by myself until I learn a little more – but oh well what are you going to do/
To tell you what my mind has been like – it took me 5 tries to figure out MAZEL TOV! and I spent most of my early years as a mothers helper in a Jewish community! then i couldn’t log into my email and couldn’t figure out why – turns out I was trying to use my blog pass word!
thank you everyone – yes its nice to be appreciated at work. We have almost 300 employees between 5 offices and my office is one of the small ones (for now – we are getting 15 new employees by the end of the year). I sat down and figured that in 3 years I’m now at the same place I was after 8 years at the other company – and I ran that company for 7 of the 8 years! I didn’t realize how little she repected me…my sister is right – I am so much better off now!
And speaking of Sisters – I think i am going to work that in to my next set of post cards…thanks for the inspiration Margaret.
Well I think I am going to run off and write for awhile – chapter 7, can you believe it? I even got a co worker to start writing. She makes up these stories for her neices and her husband suggested she write them down, well you know she made a lot of excusses and what not – so at lunch yesturday I told her to just take an hour a day – even just 30 minutes and just write – don’t worry about any of the technical stuff (as Rifkind told me – you can address that in edit). Shes been carrying around a little note book for months jotting stuff down. She said she wrote one page last night and then her husband wanted to “help” – his style is to get ALL the back story, description, etc first and then write (its a childs story about a magical ballarena)…so now she is all frustrated..I suggested she thank her husband for wanting to help, but that maybe it would be best for her if she just write and then give him the pages in sections to edit for her. Hope she doesn’t give up on it.
And on that note – I would like to thank all of you for insiping me to “oick up a pen” and start again myself!
o-kly-dok-e-ly I’ll check in later
DIZEY1 said
Dani yeah I re-typed w/my correction it’s Streetcorner Symphomy 🙂
but it must have not posted or I didn’t hit the submit button. 😉
Himmiefan said
Hi everybody. I just have to share. This has nothing to do with BT, but appeals to my warped sense of humor. This is from today’s Tennessean:
Cowboy Troy looks for ‘hickest chick’
By BEVERLY KEEL
Cowboy Troy, a country rapper known for his brand of “hick-hop,” has launched a 14-city quest to find the hickest chick around.
The Miss Hick USA contest was inspired by his new single, “Hick Chick,” and includes such competitions as watermelon seed spitting, pie eating and dancing the “Hick Chick” line dance.
Silly, I know, but I think it’s funny.
Madonna said
Hey everyone!
My boss just came to me and told me I’ll be doing 5 new books by myself on top of the other 7 that I work on. Oh, yeah….. Can’t ya hear the excitement here?
Rifkind,
Sorry my eyes were faster than me and I thought it was Alisa who gave us the sisters post. It really was beautiful.
Danielle,
Don’t know if I’ll get to stop by here during my lunch at 3 so have a great vacation. Try to stop by and see us from Kelly’s if you can. By the way, I say go for it!!!!
lwildstar said
ooooo Dani – yes go for it and we want details! Some of us have to live vicariously (sp) through others.
Heres hoping all the best for you!
ok lunch is over and its backto work!
Anzia said
madonna- what do you do? if you mentioned it before and i missed it i’m sorry. 🙂
vicki said
hey all…
congrats on the raise…
BTW,,, soapbox out….I didnt use the word normal…you did..I was only trying to convey on my postcards that I wa sthe “target” audience. (Female…etc) I dont think there is such a thing as normal..no one is that. we are all different, unquie, strange, and wonderful creatures. I use the word strange as a good thing. No one is normal. heck. I am almost 40, a teacher, two kids under 10, I sing with a band, I was born with only one ear..had 33 surgeries growing up so they could “make” me an ear, I am a tv aholic, and I believe that people have some good in them no matter how they try to hide it. ….soapbox in..
Sorry.. I feel better now…I think the PMS is gettinng worse..LOL
Anzia said
Vicki- i wasn’t directing it at you. I was just commenting. It was said somewhere that we needed to let LT know they had gotten ‘normal’ people and not just paranormal fans involved. I’m sorry if you thought I was. (((hugs)))
Madonna said
Wow,
It’s slow on here today.
Anzia,
Full Time, I’m a graphic designer for AutoMart Magazine. Didn’t you say you lived near Milwaukee? If so, pick up a copy of the magazine up there, you’ll see some of my handywork. Part Time for now, I’m trying to start my own candle business. I also dabble in romance writing.
vicki,
I hear ya! There is no such thing as normal because in reality we’re all abnormal. Does that make any sense? Each of us is in some way flawed and utterly beautiful.
DIZEY1 said
Hi ya’ll back from lunch. Kinda quiet here on the farm today.
Hey Vick I too am PMSing last night took 2 Midol’s hell I didn’t wake up till that old alarm was buzzin’ away. They work really well I must say and the people around me appreciate them too!! 🙂
Hey Z, what’s up with the pup?? DId they have to do anything yet?? I went last night and re read the food scences love those stories girly 😉 🙂
Madonna said
Sorry to start the confusion. I said “normal” last night. I just think that as sad as that is that is what Lifetime wants to consider it’s target audience.
Margaret said
Where did you all see that they (Lifetime) wanted “normal” viewers?
Madonna said
Hi Dizey,
How are you this fine day?
Madonna said
Margaret,
I didn’t see it anywhere. Lifetime and critics of Blood Ties has said that it is really a show that is out of the networks element. Just my opinion, but I think they see us as paranormal viewers as “out of the norm” and therefore a much smaller market. Oh hell, I don’t know if I am even making sense here anymore. Brain’s fried from this week!
vicki said
Dizy..
Midol does nothing for me LOL…I am reduced to either chocolate or wine…HEHEHEH hmmmm I am thinking both for tonight.
I will be a golf “widow” this weekend..and I am going to get up and go buy Harry Potter..Cant wait to read it.!!!
Its. ok …I will be fine by Sunday…by then my “little friend” will show up and I will be on DMS>..(During Menstral Syndrome) LOL
Growing up my sisters and I referred to it as “George” because we decided that only a man could be that cruel to a woman. LOL
DIZEY1 said
OOh Madonna I like that ! I’ll have to tell that to my peeps I”m flawed and utterly beautiful.
I know when you think about it all families are somewhat disfuntional too. We’re all raised differently, and somehow we can all be on the same page here. That’s one of the cool things about being from New Orleans, we’re called the melting pot and it’s such a diverse culture. Huge variety of peoples, foods, music, makes you more accepting and tollerant of the different kinds of people in the world. Yep I love it here, it’s all I know. I’d love to **TURN** you people.
Madonna said
Guys, PMS for me means that when someone says hi to me I tend to either break down in tears or have very sudden, vivid fantasies of ways to rip their heads from their shoulders. My poor, poor family!
Dani said
HAHA my sister calls it Myrtle
Madonna said
Why Myrtle?
DIZEY1 said
Ms.Madonna I’m just fine on this Friday afternoon. We’re on the downslide now and I’m off tomorrow, so IT”S ALL GOOD 🙂 😉
Hey where the heck is my Prtfvr today?? I miss my Ice Pickin’ girl when she’s not here. Come back little Debbie……….I’ve got Henry looking for you toooooo 🙂 😛
DIZEY1 said
Ha Dani I just call it a pain in the ass 😉 😛 😎
Madonna said
Didey,
I’m sure it’s New Orleans is beautiful, but I don’t think I could handle the heat and humidity. I have asthma and my hair already looks like I put my finger into a light socket.
Sorry guys my ride’s here… Check in with y’all later!
Dani,
Have a wonderful vacation.
Dani said
Not sure why it is Myrtle. It has caught on with me and her daughter who just got Myrtle for the first time a couple months ago. Poor thing. At least she has reason to be moody now.
Madonna said
Dizey, Sorry I didn’t mean to call you Didey dear! Slip of the fingers.
DIZEY1 said
Hey no prob. Madonna, yes the heat and humidity can be pretty rough at times. And sometimes I could run our AC for at least 9-10 months a year. Hell it’s sub-tropical and we get the storms and stuff right from the Gulf, so yeah it can be a little sticky from time to time. You just grab a cold beverage/cocktail for me and jump into the pool, and we’re good to go.
Dani girl if I don’t see you leave have a great vaca.!!! 🙂
lwildstar said
Growing up in my house George was the garbage disposal! we always refered to IT as a curse – mainly because my poor dad was trapped in a two bedroom apartment with three females~ poor guy had no escape!
Now I think I’m have that new verson of PMS – what ist PMDS or something – with the massive anxiety attacks and depression….itsn’t just regular PMS bad enough! Give me chocolate!
I heard back from Robin today – she tried to watch episode 4 last night (I lent her my disks) and she said that about 15 minutes into it her husband asked “can’t we watch something else?”…shes hoping for some hubby time this weekend so she can watch at least one disk. I offered to have her over for a marathon if need be! her husband has the greatest accent – he’s from Sweden? Switzerland – gosh now I can’t remember! But he has a French undertone to it.
I’ll be out all day tomorrow with the parents – part of the “help me decide how to decorate” saga – they are remodeling. We are going to the Eastern Shore for the day. I already told them I HAVE to swing by the post box up the street before we leave – must send my daily requist of postcards!
I spent almost my whole lunch time writing – I think I might even finish chapter 7 to night…..good grief. I think i will print out the short story and take it with me tomorrow to proof – its a two and half hour drive, so i might as well use my time wisely…if I thought they wouldn’t look like a child wrote them I’d take post cards – but I like how the computer printed ones look so I don’t think so.
I tried to print a picture of a bat over the moon on the cards last night and they came out all in red instead of black – which was a problem because I did the text in red (I think my ink must be low)- can you say unreadable? I printed the words out on a sticker and stuck it on over the mess. Oh well – its not prett, but it works.
Can you tell nothing is goingn on at the moment? I have 15 minutes left before I can sneek out at the earliest…….sigh……
ok what else – oh Paul thinks he can make lunch next week but will have to get back to me – sorry no more bathroom jokes – now I’ll have to think of something to get him going again 🙂 I wonder if he thought he went over the line with that last statement – frankly i couldn’t stop laughing, and It’s kept me smiling all week!
Well i should log off now – just in case.
lwildstar said
Danielle – didn’t make it to the post office with your bat…sorry time got away from me today!
moonbeam said
Hey BT Family-
It’s so nice to take a break and catch up on what’s happening. It’s amazing how quickly this site has infiltrated my life! Wow.
Dani- Have a fabulous vacation!
Dizey1- I remember a grand vacation in New Orleans on our Motorcycle way back in’79 Big Fun (pre kids/world of work and all of that jazz)
This week however:
Seven retirement homes, minimum of 1 1/2 hours @ each with a grouchy mother, at times – 0ne map quest dead end = scenic route . . . .ugg more appts. to make- sigh. . .
Harry Potter tonight :>)
50 postcards sent
Anzia said
Madonna- I’ll do that. ^_^ Get the mag. I mean. 🙂
Diz- I don’t know. I’m not talking to my mom right now. It’s a pretty sticky situation between the two of us. I hope he’s okay but I don’t know. I’d think my brother would call me if something happened.
Vicki- I hope i’m not asking a really bad question but what do you mean by “golf ‘widow'”?
Midol doesn’t work for me either. My PMS is basically three weeks outa the month and the one week i’m not hormonal I’m in so much pain i’d rather kill than look at ya. I’m always on the verge of tears but will pick a fight at the slightest provocation.
Himmiefan said
Hey Moonbeam! One thing to consider when you’re looking at retirement places. My parents are in what I call a three-in-one. It’s a bit more expensive, but worth it. My parents have their apartment, and when it’s time, they’re guaranteed a place in the assisted living unit, plus guaranteed a place in the nursing home part. They live in a verrry nice place. Anyway, have fun!
Anzia – have you been to a doctor about this? What about going to a different one? There is no need to suffer like this.
rifkind said
Hi All!
I’m sneaking a peek at the blog …
I’m still at work, but didn’t take a lunch break.
Happy Friday everybody!
Thanks to all of you who appraciated the “Sisters” post.
We ARE a great bunch of folks, aren’t we?
vicki said
Anzia..
LOL..it means my husband is leaving for the weekend to join up with some of his friends to play golf at Myrtle Beach.
I will be all alone..which means BT marathon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHOOO HOOO
Anzia said
Oh, okay. I was imagining a very horrible story … ^_^
moonbeam said
Thanks- It’s slow process and I’ve had to gently proceed to get her to this point. It won’t be long before you hear me talking about trying to deal with selling her condo, I hope!
Anzia- I agree about the doc. Gracious sakes, you shouldn’t spend so much of your life in distress!
As a migrainer, I know that there are ways to seek treatment for our maladies. Some of my family just endures their headaches and some of us have learned to get help to prevent them.
DIZEY1 said
Sorry Z about the squabble w/you and mom. I’m sure you’d have heard if anything would have happened. Have you ever gone to any like GNC’s they sell herbs and stuff more vitaminy for the PMS. By herbs I don’t mean (birthday weeds) although you’d probably feel better. Anyway buck up my little friend it’ll get better I SWEAR 😉 I’ll send you a little bit o’ Henry ok, he can rub it and make it feel all better (wink wink) 😉
Rifkind, I didn’t get to tell you I’ve gotten that as an email from a friend (like my sister) before and those are some of the most profound words and really do express how we feel here. Henry would be the ties that bind us together, ya’ll rock and I look forward everyday to opening this site and see what kind of good stuff my sista’s have got goin’ on. So thanks for the reminder of the sisterhood 🙂
DIZEY1 said
Moonbeam I just realized you were an easy rider. You go girl. A motorcycle mama !!! I’m impressed 🙂
rifkind said
Thanks Dizey!
Things got a bit upsetting and all here at the blog the other day.. and I wanted to share with everyone, why this is such a special group.
I still had the emial in my “IN” box, and wanted to share.
moonbeam said
Ummm, that was in the old days—we haven’t had a motorcycle for years and even though I’m licensed, I haven’t had my own since forever. I did have a cat, Aloysius, that we took to live with my folks on the back of one (in a crate) He purred) (from Oregon to Las Vegas~ that was crazy)
I got really tired of putting on all of the rain gear. On a day like today, I’d love to go for a ride, however!
On the trip to New Orleans, we put on 15,000 miles ,in the summer, 33 states few motels, young love lots of peanut butter
Cree said
Good Afternoon, BT Family! Hope everyone is doing well. Sorry to those of you who have lost pets over the past week. It is a very hard thing to have to go thru. That is the only part of my job that I really hate is having to deal with death and having to help people make the decision of when is the *right* time to do it.
>>Margaret said (from her post on the LT board): “The show has inspired some of the more shy ones on the board to venture out and test the waters”
and Rifkind said: “We want to be there for those of our family who are usually shy and withdrawn. We give you a chance to share yourselves with us, when you are ready, knowing that we will not be judgmental and will be here for you and be supportive. We will be here and rejoice with you as you find your way in the world. Not everyone has to be an extrovert.. and being quiet or introverted doesn’t mean that you don’t need your Sisters any less.”
Ok, Ok, I can take a hint…….I’ll try to stop being so shy and start posting more often! LOL. Just kidding. Don’t know if you guys were referring to me, specifically, but I am assuming you were (which is totally fine). Both of those posts hold so true for me. I have never done any kind of blogging before this site and you guys have all become like sisters to me. I have come to love all of you girls here. Your kindness and non-judgemental attitudes have given me the courage to come out of my dark little corner and say “hi” every so often. I always catch up on the blog everyday when I get home from work, but am still working on the courage to actually post everyday like most of you. I’m slowly getting there though….don’t give up hope on me yet!!
DIZEY1 said
Doc not a problem write when you want and lurk like most of us do when you just don’t feel like talking. It’s all good here sista’.
Rifkind it worked, touched everyone wise words.
Well I’m ready to blow this pop stand and I’ll catch ya’ when I get home.
rifkind said
Hey Cree!
I was thinking of you and a few others who post here once in a while.
Can you guess that I fit into the Extravert side?
You shared a bit of yourself with us, and others also added how difficult it is for them to mix in face-to-face meetings. You let me see a small part of your world… one that I don’t see being an extravert. Sometimes it is a good thing to see the world with different colored glasses.
I’m glad that you came to join us here at MsGypsy’s.
Lurk and laugh with us.. and post when you like.
When you need your Sisters, we are here for you!
-Rifkind
Dani said
Hey sisters. I’m FREE! One whole week. YAY! Thanks for all the good wishes for my vacay.
Dani said
Cree Welcome back
Himmiefan said
Hi everybody! A little bit of silliness before Potter-mania sets in:
http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1294441
Cree said
Himmiefan: OMG…your latest installment of Elder Hostel was laugh-out-loud funny! I’m still laughing even now. Great Job!
Dani said
You are a genius himmiefan. That is so funny.
Dani said
We have a few places to go before Kelly and I go to Borders. We will be leaving soon. If I can coem on after I will. Ciao!
lwildstar said
*OMG* Himmiefan! that was a great way to start the weekend!
I have been trapped on the phone with my sister for almost two hours – I needed a good laugh. I just couldn’t hang up I felt soooo bad for her – she was starving for adult conversation – although a conversation for my sister means she talks you listen and interject a soothing noise once in a while…
oh well
and AHHHHHHH, my baby shaved his head! I saw Paul as I was leaving work and he’s got a military hair cut! ok his hair was short but how am I to run my fingers trhougha buzz cut! I must say I couldn’t help my self and before I knew it I was touching his soft soft hair….I think his ears turned red…on;ly lasted a few seconds before I realized we were in the hall whee anyone could see and retreated (blushing myself I’m sure) but I fussed at him for cutting it and reminded him were ARE going to lunch next week if I have to get Robin to throw him out the door and I have to kid nap him!
What was Margaret saying about the shy ones venturing out! I would NEVER have done that a few months ago…you guys have really given me more confidence…and I am TRYING to take Henry to heart and not have “regrets” for not taking a chance.
Ok I am going to go write – I tried to while I was listening to my sister and couldn’t concentrate.
May or may not check in tomorrow night – depends on when we get back.
Love ya. (((HUGS))) all around…….Night All!
lwildstar said
well its quiet tonight…have to get up early tomorrow so I’m off for the night!
DIZEY1 said
Nighty night Iwildstar .
Himmie that was OMG on the money. You have really got my Norman down pretty good I must say, I can see Michael echoing your words.
I just finished watching Music and Lyrics, can I say I love Hugh Grant I love British humor. LMAO funny, and Drew she’s so cute and so funny. Anywho gonna go watch a little more tube and will check back in a bit. 😉
rifkind said
Himmiefan,
OH you are so funny! I just loved it.. You have that comic humor down!
lwildstar —
OMG! You didn’t??!!
When started reading your post, I thought that you were talking about playing with his hair… as in speculation …not real action… then got to the blushing part… YEAH! You GO Girl!
I am so happy for you… well at least Paul knows that his little joke about hiding in the bathroom didn’t bother you.
Sounds like you BOTH are coming out of your shells a little bit.
😉
Claire said
Phew!!!! Can you imagine the sweat running down my brow? I finally finished my big Friday cleaning!!!! My back is killing me!! Speaking of PMS…Holy Merde!!
You know what happens when a bunch of women hang together right? everyones cycle changes so they all get it together! cause I’m so crampy and Anzia I feel ya! I am evil today!!Dizey…You’re welcome…LOL!! Believe me the pleasure was all mine!!!!!
Rifkind…Thank you..I don’t feel like supermom…especially today!!! just tired like a dog mom!
Himmie…I love Elder Hostel…You do Norman SOOOO good!!
Well ladies….Nikki is breathing down my neck…I have to watch a movie with her!
Until tomorrow ….Sweet dreams…Love yas all!
moonbeam said
Iwildstar- too, too funny about the hair!! Snickering at my computer gets quite the looks around my household.
Madonna said
Hey all,
I laid down about 7 and told my mom not to let me sleep too long. It is almost 11 here and I didn’t get up until about 10 minutes ago. Needless to say…… I’m awake now.
You know with all this talk about sisters and PMS and such the past couple of days, I kind of feel sorry for loves history and any other men who might be lurking. I’m sure however, that to an outsider this blog is a fascinating study into the minds of us women.
Himmiefan,
That’s too funny. I just love how Sinead just pops in.
Cree,
I started lurking on Tanya’s blog about episode 5 or 6 of our show and I didn’t pipe up and say anything on there or here until about 2 wks after Norman. That’s a solid two months of just looking before I got my courage to pipe up. So post when you are comfortable, laugh with us when you are not, and remember you are a sister here too. NO one is going to give up on you.
DIZEY1 said
I just re listened to Kyle’s podcast , damn I just adore this dude. I pray that he’s got a guardian angel watching over him, because there’ll be hell to pay if anyone messes him up. He’s been in the biz a good while he’s got a lot of credits to his name and so far his head’s on straight. He’s just so amazing for someone so young and I know I’ve said it before, but when I listen to him speak he just blows me away. Oh yes my girls there most certainly will be a season 2, and 3, and 4……….. 😉 Mark my words BLOOD TIES will be ours. On that note of glee as my Henri would say I bid you all adieu’.
reves doux d’Henri’/Kyle too (hee hee) they’re hard to separate 😛 😎
XOXOXOXOXOX Beth
Oh CLaire BTW…..Aujourd’hui Henri m’a enseigné l’art du massage. Il a frotté mon corps avec ses mains passionnées. May I say OOLA LA BABY 🙂
JE T’AIME
Margaret said
More advice from some of the Jericho fans:
Organize,organize, organize. Even before the cancelation was announced, hard core fans began setting up alternate fan sites, we found an icon(NUTS) ,and we proceeded to innudiate the network fot attention. What do you know, IT WORKED.
Keep up the pressure, get organized, and DON”T STOP until your satisified. Good Luck.
Anzia said
Himmie- sent you a note via writing.com 🙂
Diz- Henry and massages… What a lovely thought. ^_^
I showed Zerophilia to my aunt. She wasn’t impressed with much of anything but Kyle’s body. Kind of sad…
Himmiefan said
Hi everybody!
Llwildstar – sounds like you had a good day 🙂
Claire – thanks for coming over and doing my house next. 🙂
Thanks for the reviews! I did a second part but deleted it. Believe it or not, it’s really, really hard to do meaningful dialogue between a vampire and a frosted mini-wheat.
Gotta go to the bookstore! Have a good night!
Madonna said
Hey everyone!
I just found this and I thought it was interesting so I though I’d share. There is a book that has been written about my high school and the tragedy that occured there in the early 80’s. Looks like a movie about it is in the works too. This article references George Clooney and his dad Nick. George is from Augusta, KY, about an hour away from me. His parents currently live about a 10 minute drive from me. It’s basketball related so it is probably not everyone’s cup of tea on here.
http://www.ucadvocate.com/articles/stories/public/200610/25/04e5_sports.html
Anzia said
Madonna- I’m glad the story is being told but sorry that it happened. It’s always sad to see stories like that.
Something like that happened in my HS when my aunt (only 10 yrs older than me) was a freshman. There was no explosion or anything but it was something that shocked the entire school system and city. There was a boy. The stereotypical geeky nerdy boy that the popular kids would pick on and always had a crush on the most popular girl. Well, this kid saw the most popular girl crying one day and walked her home. Her ex (that’s why she was crying- they’d broken up or something) and his friends caught up with him and beat him. When everyone left, the ex came back and stabbed him to death and left him in a ditch. There’s a memorial by our football stadium to him. No one talks about it in my family though (thus the sketchy details) ’cause my aunt and him were friends. His house was actually at the end of the street my grandmother lives on. It’s really sad that kids can do that kind of thing to one another. 😦
So, I just watched the pilot of “Side order of Life” and I really like the show. I was crying so hard by the end of the episode. I’m sure that there are more than one of you guys that would like the show. *shrugs* Just thought I’d share. Sadly, it has left me a bit on the depressed side… which means some fun angsty poetry…
I’ll be back tomorrow guys… or later I don’t know yet… I got to get me some Henry…
moonbeam said
Oh, those are all such heartaches. . . . I think that show sounds good~might be pretty tough some days
Madonna said
Just a side note….
When the school exploded there was one student killed. He was in the art room when a wall fell on him. (Closest spot next to the boiler room where the explosion occured.) There is a scholarship set up in his name for 1 student who wants to pursue a career in art. I won the scholarship my senior year.
moonbeam said
Madonna- that certainly makes the scholarship have a unique and special meaning Wow!
My son, Maxx, is hoping to study art. Currently he is into ceramics. He really loves to draw and silkscreen, as well. He is quite the artist. He is working on his senior project this summer with an artist in ceramics.
Margaret said
I know a lot of us are undecided about sending the fangs but we need to decide one way or the other, it can’t be done in a small way. For better or worse, I guess I’m going to make the leap. Since we were told by someone who should know I think we need to go ahead with it but as I said we really can’t do it in a small way. Jericho fans said to organize, organize, organize and latch onto an icon. I can’t speak for anyone else but I have uneasily thrown my hat into that ring, for better or worse. If we do it in a small way it most certainly will piss them off, if we do it in a big way it will piss them off but it will make a point.
prtfvr said
Good morning! I couldn’t post yesterday. Took the old 18 year old to get all of his wisdom teeth yanked so I was playing nurse. I gotta say though, that kid of mine is TOUGH! He came home, tried to eat – spilled food all down himself, numb mouth – and never went to sleep!
Later last night he ran around trying to figure out why the phone line had noise on it. He drove me CRAZY!! I told him to remember that pain pills give you a false sense of well being and that he was going to pay for running around like a nut all day! He’s a good boy though.
I made him go upstairs to take a nap, he got up and I fell asleep in my room! I’ve been getting a chest cold for about a week – everyone has been sick here on and off since my oldest brought back the creeping crud from Ocean City. I held out the longest but it hit me full force yesterday. I’mthisclose to having bronchitis, I can feel it.
So I went back to bed at nine which annoyed my husband because I absolutely HAVE to be sitting wherever he is even if we’re not talking or he’s just gaming.
My tolerance is lower than EVER for nonsense so I’m feeling a bit evil right now. I can’t tell if my husband’s really a jerk – more than usual – or if I’m just sick. A little of both I’m thinking.
Anyhow, I’m sorry that I missed everyone yesterday. Anzia, I don’t understand your mom. That was a cruel thing to do (pretend your pet was seriously ill to make you feel bad). I’ve cut off people for doing less. you’re a better person than me! *hugs*
Rifkind – you really know how to hit the nail on the head. This is a great group of sisters. You called it right.
Madonna – Thanks for the Adobe help! You should never have given me your email address!! MUHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA!
Himmie – I haven’t had a chance to read any of your story! I’m so disappointed! It’s going to be a novel by the time I can get to it.
Hey! I feel like this is an Oscar award acceptance speech and the music has been up for the past five minutes! Hopefully I’ll be back on later with shorter posts. Then again, my big plans for today are to go to McDonald’s and get the best Coke in the world! Sit around, read my Kelley Armstrong book and moan. And I didn’t even need to put much thought into that plan either! It just sorta came to me!
Later!
rifkind said
Morning!
prtfvr – we missed you yesterday. Please takea a few minutes to read Himmiefan’s story! The third installment is SO FUNNY! And you know that humor is a boost to the immune system. I’ve read it three times, and still laugh out loud when I read it!
Danielle – Where are you dear? We haven’t heard from you since the tornado warnings post.
Well it’s Saturday and I am sure that many folks are suffering from a Harry Potter hangover, or are still sitting in a chair with their nose in the book.
Wishing you ALL a great weekend! -Rifkind
rifkind said
Sideburns, Oh Yeah!
A while ago you were talking about Kyle’s sideburns.
I love them on Kyle, they aren’t too big and bushy, trimmed nicely, they give him a much older look.
I just noticed that Kyle has his sideburns in the Covenant too, so it isn’t just something developed for Henry.
http://www.bloodties-bloodlines.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=60&fullsize=1
prtfvr said
Kyle’s had the sideburns for a while. History of Violence; Zerophilia. The dude is effing HOT!
Chery said
Margaret My hat is in the ring too! We need to send a lot of fangs to make a difference……….
Nettie is in charge? We need a deadline to send money so she can buy them and send them, I think it needs to be done this week………
Hey everyone lets get on board with this it worked as one of the things that fans of Jericho did to save their show.
FANGS FOR HENRY!!!!!!
Madonna said
Good Saturday morning everyone!
prtfvr,
Should I be afraid?……. No seriously, any time you need help just give me a holla.
moonbeam,
Sorry I didn’t reply last night. I went to bed right after my last post.
Yes, it does make the scholarship very special. You’re probably already doing this but my advice to you for your son….
1.) Don’t discourage him from following a career in art. If he’s that passionate about it he’ll only resent you.
2.) Do encourage him to find something else to fall back on if he does pursue the art and it doesn’t pan out. Tell him another artist told you to tell him.
Speaking from experience, the art world is tough. Fine art, although fun there is hardly any money in it unless you are among the elite few. As far as graphic art goes, well the competition for jobs is astounding. Studios are almost impossible to find a place in. Many designers, like me, find themselves stuck in a production position and unable to get out.
My job, I hate. Due to a car accident I had to have back surgery right out of college. Recovery put me on the sidelines for over a year and by that time anyone who had seen my work in school and had considered me forgot I existed. Finding a job was tough for me then so I settled with the only design position I could find. It is basically a specialized factory job. Quantity over quality.
Sadly where I live graphic designers are not in very high demand and I am in no position to move elsewhere. Art however is the only thing I know, and I know the right fit is out there for me. I just have to find it.
AlisaSG said
rifkind,
thank you so very much for sharing about sisters and family. Before these blogs came to where they are now, I had a secret wish that something like this would happen — that people here would eventually find other common bonds that not just brought us together, but keep us together.
I have 2 sisters, who are as opposite from each other in personality as day is to night. One is close, but lives too far away – yet is as close as the phone and e-mail (thank you INTERNET!).
The other refuses to talk with me, and she’s only a few hours drive away. She also has major health problems, and was diagnosed with not much longer to live. She’s partially jealous because our mom favored me over her – and that was most of our life.
I learned that after I got married and my dad passed away from a sudden heart-attack, my mom wasn’t just “Mom” – she was my closest friend and defender. Tho I’d get smart-alecky sassy upon occasion, I never bullied my mom around. On the other extreme, my sister (who won’t talk to/with me) dominated all of us. She told me on the day of our dad’s funeral that SHE was taking over the household (sort of like saying, “I’m God now, and YOU WILL bow down and worship me!!”). Under my breath, I thought – “Like hell you are!”
okay.. I realize these are public forums, so if she ever sees it – I’m not proud that I thought that in those days. I do love my sister, in spite of her bossing our entire family around (and I heard via the grapevine -from the actual sources verifying these conflicts- that she’s done that to our aunts and uncles, as well!).
But sadly, unless my sister changes her attitude and puts her differences away, buries the proverbial (verbal) hatchetts – so to speak, she will die an empty death. I worked with someone else who was just like her – same attitude, and anger. But I also saw her deeper compassionate side – AFTER she had a major stroke and was left half paralyzed flat on her back. She was hurting for all those years deep inside for various reasons, and she too, hated her own sister.
However, the good news is that a week before she died, she asked her sister for forgiveness for hating her for all those years; and I saw the whole thing the moment it actually happened, and cried for both of them, because she died without the anger still wedged into her heart.
I fear for my own sister. I mean, holding grudges and playing favorites is NOT my idea of what family means.. I’ve been told she’s done this to other people, too. But I don’t want to see her die with the anger still wedged deep in her heart. Plus, my mom believed she has a split personality, which nowadays translates to being bi-polar in certain situations. My sister does take after our dad, because that’s the way was all the days I ever knew him.
I just didn’t want to end up hating her the way I hated my dad for beating on us – for no good reason (he’d start pulling hair and smacking us around) and not a day went by that I didn’t have something to not like about him. Not until the day before he died. Well, that’s another long story, and the good news is that I was able to reconcile with him the day before he died, because it was the first day I ever felt he ever appreciated me as his daughter. That’s sad when life gets to that point – yet that one day in his life made ALL the difference to me.
That’s another reason why I was rejecting my sister from declaring she was going to be just like DADDY from now on.. she meant it on the terms of before he appreciated me. And I was fighting against that with ALL my heart and soul. I didn’t *WANT* her to turn out just like him! I wanted to love her, because she was herself – her own entity, not because she was taking over his role. And to this day, I’m still not sure if she ever realized that.
She has my phone number and e-mail, and the silence is maddening. After our mom died, I wrote to her – trying to explain everything from my side that’s happened over the years, because it’s easier to speak in writing than break up in tears over the phone. She hasn’t yet responded. I asked her to make the next move, and she’s resisting – and I don’t even know if she actually read my letter. I only fear that she’ll go to her grave hating me for whatever mental walls she’s forced between us.
And I can’t dwell on it – lest I’d go insane from the frustration. That’s why I’m here, and grateful to find the rest of you all reaching out to one another as an extended family and friends. It brings joy to my heart when I see this, and I believe with everyone here – that reaching out is *genuine* .. and as a result, it’s truly a blessing and a *genuine* joy to see, and something that will be cherished and treasured forever. 😀
so again – here’s more ((((((((((hugs!!!!)))))))))) to everyone. 🙂
AlisaSG said
ugh.. hate finding things that might translate into something else AFTER posting..
>> and not a day went by that I didn’t have something to not like about him.
maybe that should read instead as
“and not a day went by that I had something to actually like about him.”
(he didn’t provide too many enjoyable memories, in other words..)
Anzia said
I don’t have actual numbers but according to IMDB from last week:
Blood Ties is up 5%
Kyle Schmid is down 2%
Chirstina Cox is down 2%
Dylan Neal is is up 9%
Gina Holden is up 24%
Michael Eklund is up 8%
Anzia said
oh, i think my post became spam folder fodder. 😦 It had a list of how much viewage our IMDB pages had when compared to last week… we’ll see if it gets de-spammed…
I remember that both Kyle & Christina were down 2%, but Blood Ties was up.
DIZEY1 said
Morning chix, and dudz if there’s any still here.
Prtfvr, send someone to the store and get “AIRBORNE” the stuff should cut down the duration of said cold and it boosts your immune system. I swear by the stuff it works. Developed by a I think 2nd grade school teacher she of course got sick of getting sick. Great product, try it. We did miss you yesterday also. BTW Barbi sent me an apology email yesterday and it’s all cool , I told her to stop in any time because we are all after the same thing here MORE HENRY 😉 🙂 Right??
Well I’m going to the gym and maybe go rollerblade later, check back in a little while.
Anzia said
Himmie- I have a question. You said sometihng about having a discussion between a vampire and a crunchlette… I don’t know if you’ve thought this yet, or if I’m just REALLY off the wall… but why not have the crunchlettes be our spies! That’s how we know where Henry is! ‘Cause Sinead is eating ’em or Norman… just a thought… ^_^
I guess that wasn’t really a question was it
Madonna said
Margaret,
I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the fangs campaign and since you have had some contact with the Jericho fans I thought maybe you could find this out.
What were their statistics? How were their ratings, and about how many bags of peanuts were sent? It seems we need to find out that ratio if we are to know if the fangs will make a difference or not. Just how many fangs might it take to get us noticed? We know we had a average audience of 1.3 million.
On Thursday I think, Vicki was the one who said she has been writing Is It October Yet? on all her postcards. I really think this is a good idea for us all to do on all our cards. Do you remember during the Spring when Blood Ties was airing that Lifetime’s marketing people stole the phrase, Is It Sunday Yet? from the fans. They obviously liked it. I vote that all of us use that as our campaign slogan on all our correspondence. What do you guys think? If you like it we should start spreading the word on other forums to do the same.
Margaret said
Sorry, but I bookmarked the Jericho site that I was on at work. Don’t have it at home but the company that took care of the orders had the following info on their website: There were 4,781 orders=$54,968, totaling 40,377 lbs. which ended up being over 20 tons or 8 million peanuts. A one day record on 5/29 was l0,000 lbs.
But you can’t compare apples and oranges, fangs and peanuts, as the fangs are plastic. Some people only order $1.00 to $5.00 worth of peanuts. I think the think Jericho fans did early on was organize and they blitzed the media as much as they could. We need to decide what we’re doing here as time is ticking away. If we do it in a small manner, yes they will be pissed and it will be a joke-like see they can’t even raise enough interest to send more than one box-if you all get my drift?
Madonna said
Margaret,
I’m still undecided about the fangs.
I know we’ve had advice from 2 different sources as to send things or not. Here is my concern and I am going to be blunt about it. This is my opinion and only my opinion. I know there are lots of Blood Ties fans out there but I don’t think there are enough of them searching the internet about it to even know that Blood Ties is on the bubble. I do not believe that we have the organization behind it at this point. Even if we and every person on Lifetime’s and even some from Bloodlines sent fangs I still don’t think those numbers would have enough of an impact. How do we get the media to stand up and take notice?
Also what concerns me is the fact that Lifetime has clearly stated that they will not accept packages. What will they do with them? They’re probably just going to throw them away. I kind of wonder that even if we do get the volume behind us that the only thing that might happen is we just really piss Lifetime off for completely ignoring their wishes.
Margaret said
These were the responses from the Jericho fans. I found the website. I’ll ask them if CBS had an regulations about not sending packages.
Organize,organize, organize. Even before the cancelation was announced, hard core fans began setting up alternate fan sites, we found an icon(NUTS) ,and we proceeded to innudiate the network fot attention. What do you know, IT WORKED.
Keep up the pressure, get organized, and DON”T STOP until your satisified. Good Luck.
You have to remember also that Jericho was right on the line and many of CBS’s people didn’t want to camcel it in the first place. That made it easier for us to convince the others although I think our campaign was awesome. Find something to rally around like our “NUTS”.
What worked? Organization, mobilization, and devotion. Put don’t forget to be polite! That was key!
rifkind said
AlisaSG,
I’m glad that you found us too.
So sad to hear about your (genetic) sister. It is sad when childhood sibling rivalries continue into adulthood.
As kids we look up to our parents, and many of us thought that our parents were “perfect”. Kids don’t come with instruction books, and sometimes parents make terrible mistakes. If your Dad grew up in a household with abuse and shouting every day, then that is how he learned that adults show their anger and take control of the situation. He may not have known any other way to handle his frustrations.
Some men, like my Dad, grew up in a household where his Dad NEVER told him that he loved him, and a hug to his sons, was out of the question. The only thing my Dad got from my Grandpa, was criticism and low self-esteem.
When we grow into adults, it is up to us, to figure out what parts of our upbringing are worth passing on to our kids. We need to be brave and get counseling, if necessary, to find BETTER ways to deal with disagreements and anger besides yelling and hitting. Also get help, if you are the passive person who internalizes all the shouting and just goes to a corner to hide, that can bring ulcers, depression and social withdrawal.
Real or imagined favoritism can leave deep resentments. The small child inside still feels angry and hurt, but as adults it is up to us to see that our parents aren’t perfect. They did the best that they knew how to raise us. You might have been your Mom’s favorite, but your sister should have talked to your Mom about that. It is your sister’s problem. You were the favorite, and your sister has chosen to be angry with YOU about it. Not much you are going to do about it.
Your sister sounds like she is stuck in the angry mold of your father, I bet that you don’t have any brothers, right? She became the ‘boy’ and took after your Dad.
Here’s what you can do :
You can love her and pray for her.
You have extended the olive branch and she hasn’t chosen to take it.
That is not your fault. The ball is definitely in her court now.
You can forgive her, her shortcomings.
One thing to remember, Forgiveness is for the person giving it.
If I sit here and sent hate to person xx, does it really hurt them? NO. The only person who is hurt by hanging onto hate, is the person who focuses on it and can’t let go of the negative emotion.
Forgiveness lets your heart not dwell on the problem any more, and be able to move on, and have love and joy in your heart, instead of bitterness, and hate. Being full of hate and negativity can even make you physically sick. And everyone knows someone who is so hateful, that you just can’t stand to be around them.
I live in an older neighborhood, our house is newer construction and was built between 2 existing houses. Our neighbors were ladies in their 80’s. One neighbor is the most awful person. She has let the bad things in her life poison her. We tried to be nice to her when we moved in, but decided that the best thing to do was ignore her and not respond when she did hateful things. She drives everyone away, even her own children. She is now alone in a nursing home, and I am sure that her kids don’t visit her. Why would they?
Our other neighbor, is an angel in disguise. She is like a Grandmother to our children, and I am like her daughter. I’m the same age of her youngest daughter, who died of flu when she was 18 months old. Don’t think that terrible things haven’t happened in her life too, but she CHOSE to remain positive. She has always had the love and attention of her family. She is very ill now, and is dying. She is surrounded by friends and family who love her and pray for her and are caring for her in her own home where she can be with her family and her kitties.
We get to choose what we do with the horrible things that happen to us.
Sometimes we want justice. Sometimes we just have to trust that there is a God or karma that will balance things out in the end. We as little mortals, don’t really have the power to force things to be “right”. Those that focus on the injustice and hate, will poison themselves and those around them.
Adeline has focused on love, prayer and forgiveness, and that has made all the difference in her life.
For your Sister, maybe you could send a post card. That way she will SEE what you have written. She doesn’t have to open a letter or anything.
Maybe just put a few simple lines on it, or maybe only one. Like :
I LOVE YOU
Then let it go and see if she answers.
We don’t always get the happy ending.
One of the hardest things for my Dad was when HIS father died. His Dad was such an A$$hole, that there was grief for the relationship that he wanted to have with his father, but never had. Dad felt guilty that he did not love his father. In the end, they both lost out on having a close relationship.
They are both now in spirit, and I know that they have found peace and at least an understanding of each other.
Hugs to you!
Find peace in your heart.
You’ve got a great blog family here, who will be here for you
-Rifkind
msgypsy said
What I think worked for Jericho was that they didn’t have little bags of peanuts showing up. They had tons and tons. This one company (bookmarked at work, sorry) coordinated the whole thing so peanuts arrived properly packaged, with consistent markings and with our names on attached or enclosed (probably attached because peanut allergies among the receiving dock staff would have proved a really bad thing) correspondence. The company took copies of all our emails and sent them along, also.
Fangs are a different matter. Can we get a novelties company to back us up? If so, then I’d be behind the fangs campaign. Unless we are capable of that level or organization, I think photos of fangs on the postcards is a better idea. And for some folks to send actual plastic fangs would be fine, but if we tried to bury Lifetime in them, I think the backlash would be … sad for us.
Now, then, why are we not all curled up with our Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows? I’m only on chapter 4, had to stop to refill my coffee. Back to Harry now…
prtfvr said
Regarding the IMDB numbers: They won’t roll over until Monday. I’ll post the actuals as soon as the IMDB posts them. So even though it might seem like there hasn’t been a change we won’t know if we’ve made a difference until then. Keep searching!
msgypsy said
To all my blog-kin, especially those of you with family concerns, please remember that the family you choose is often more sympathetic than the family you’re born to, but the family you’re born to is your roots. You have to forgive your roots or else you have failed to forgive yourself.
When my father died, my sister, nephew, brother-in-law, and I all spoke at his memorial service. Interestingly, every one of us talked about the same thing. We all spoke about my father’s ability to turn anything: any conversation, any tv show, any newspaper article, any piece of music … into an argument. He argued because he felt the need to win at everything, and arguing was one of this strongest talents. If he couldn’t win with words themselves, he won with the volume at which he spoke. And every one of us ended by saying that even so, we forgave him for arguing with all of us all our lives. We had never discussed it amongst ourselves. Well, maybe my sister and her husband had, but no other combination had. The rabbi noticed this and when he did the final eulogy he brought it up. He’s the one who explained that you have to forgive your roots in order to live with yourself without a degree of self-hate. And we all realized, afterwards, that he was right. So I’m sharing his wisdom with you.
Of course, after the funeral we were at my mother’s apartment playing host to a ton of people, and my nephew and I were the wait staff and bar staff, so we didn’t have a lot of time to talk about it. (I blame the rabbi for suggesting my mother host the after-lunch, btw. The widow shouldn’t have to play hostess!) But it’s been nine months now and we’ve had time since to let it sink in.
You don’t have to be friends with your family. You do have to forgive them for helping shape you. Even if a difficult family member made you more tolerant of others and is still a pita, you can avoid that person but you have to forgive that person.
Back to Harry now. Really. I mean it.
Margaret said
Madonna: I don’t know what to tell you. Bloodlines-Blood Ties has a topic thread for the fangs program. If we/you aren’t going to do this then we need to be visiting sponsors websites, lifetime’s message board, and bury them in postcards (of course we need to be doing that anyway). If I hear anything back from Jericho fans about CBS/packages I’ll certainly let you all know. I’ve sent a check but that’s me. I also suggested to send flowers to the executive assistants prior to any word being received for putting up with all of this which got poo pooed. Everyone has to do what they are comfortable with but if we splinter into twelve different directions, not giving attention to any specific thing, we won’t get anything accomplished. Ill advised or not I know that I did everything I could….
Margaret said
I guess I should add a P. S. to that, as if you all haven’t figured it out yet, I seem to have gone over the edge and become somewhat obsessive but we need to decide exactly what we are doing and get to it.
prtfvr said
I think that a good percentage of us here might have a somewhat disfunctional family backgroud – it definitely makes us who we are.
Personally, I can trace my love of vampires back to my father dying when I was seven. Then we had a rush on funerals for many years. So many that when I smell carnations it reminds of those times and I have to say that they are actually good memories in a way because that was the only time the whole family got together and said nice things about each other! That was novel!
I love the idea of vampires and ghosts I guess because I hope that we get a second chance and that things aren’t “over”.
I didn’t get the “I love yous” either. My mom’s idea of punishment was not to kiss me goodbye before I left for school when she was made at me. Let me tell you, I was crushed! It always seemed that I was trying to get her to love me.
But the most fun part of all was when my boyfriend “asked” me when I was 17 – “What’s up with Nancy being your mom?” Of course, Nancy was my sister. She couldn’t be my mother. She was my favorite, I loved her like crazy and I knew she wouldn’t lie to me, right? Wrong.
Turned out that who I thought were my mom and dad were actually my grandparents, my brother and sister were my aunt and uncle and my other system was my mother. I don’t know who my father is/was.
For my 30th birthday my sister/aunt took me to our favorite chinese restaurant and proceed to inform me that the reason that Nancy was “different” (God was talking to her personally by this point) was because dad/grandfather molested her – repeatedly – when she was little and mom/grandmom never believed her so after she had me at 16, she left home – and me – never to return.
Nancy was thrilled that I had found this out! NOT. She said that it wasn’t my sister/aunts place to tell me that (which was true) and we never discussed it again.
Long story short (HAHAHAHAHAHA), I’ve slowly come to the conclusion that my grandfather was actually my father. Too many things point that way but my family is all dead now, including Nancy. So there’s no one left to ask – not that any of them ever told the truth in the first place.
Let me say that I never really knew these people when they were alive so I don’t have much to miss except Nancy. I do miss her. She was the best.
I sometimes wonder why she thought I’d be better off left in the hands of a violant pedophile, remote mother and just in general crazy people. But mostly I don’t think about it at all. It doesn’t change anything.
I don’t wish I could go back and do things over. I don’t wish I could go back at all. I hear people talk about how great their childhoods were and it just boggles my mine!
I guess that makes me an orphan at 46!!
Anyhow, it’s doesn’t help anything to agonize over this stuff because it is what it is. They made the choice to be the way they were and I’ve made mine. It’s just life, you know?
Margaret said
Jericho: CBS’ Official Fan Community
http://www.nutsonline.com/jericho
AlisaSG said
re: fangs..
dumb question.. but has anyone gone over to any of the larger Dark Shadows fan sites, to pass on this news?? THEM of all people are most likely experts in *fangs* and other supernatural ideas.. I used to belong to the original DS society, and *ALMOST* made it out to one of the first conventions in Calif. But the earthquakes and finances sort of kept me away.
I’m not a member on any of those sites, so I don’t know how much they’d be involved if they began to.
probably this is a good link to start with in finding other links..
http://www.darkshadows.com/
Personally, for BT, I prefer the red ribbons with one end tied (bow or knot), but if LIFETIME (not the other TPTB) will only receive postcards, then this whole idea seems mute when approaching Lifetime. Also, when Jericho sent “tons and tons” of peanuts by the actual manufacturers, on the BT spectrum – who’s got tons and tons of money to send *thousands* of fangs..? I can see someone at one of the receiving ends — selling them on e-bay for Halloween and Goth party/club functions..
whereas, ribbons can be used for multiple uses- gift wraps, flowers, valentines, and clothes, etc. Varying shades and styles, too. 😉
AlisaSG said
OMG.. I always felt a close connection to actress Kathryn Leigh Scott, who portrayed Maggie Evans and Josette duPrés on Dark Shadows, mostly because I just adored how beautiful she always looked.
And after all these years, I never knew – that similar to one of those amazing BT coincidences again – Her birthday is the same day as a friend of mine (also an avid DS viewer!), which is the day before mine.
Kathryn’s is Jan. 26
Mine is Jan. 27.
totally *awesome*..!!
Claire has the record beat with her and Kyle sharing the same day. 😉
AlisaSG said
.. themes .. good for TPTB
Postcards are better for LIFETIME.
Plus, I like the idea of visiting LIFETIME’s videos and clogging the line on Sunday nights for BT eps.
.. and tho I like the blood-red color for assorted red ribbons with other varying shades and styles, it may be weak in not a direct “hint, hint” type of connection. Fangs – sounds like something that would end up at a gothic party or club, or sold on-line.
I’d say plastic “vicki” glasses, but again, what would TPTB do with those after?
is there something that is recyclable or usable that won’t get put under the microscope of scrutiny?
I did go shopping and looked at hundreds of toothpicks for party favors and skewering sandwiches and.. 😀
—- *olives!*.. the flat sticks look like miniature stakes.. just need red-food coloring, but then again, if these were mass purchased and sent out, would the manufacturer be willing to special order them?? and who and how would the money be properly gathered to do this as a goal?
prtfvr said
Blood Ties Clings? Fits in an envelope – looks like a letter.
prtfvr said
Oooh! Blood Ties magnets?
prtfvr said
Tanya just posted on her blog. There’s some mention of Blood Ties.
Go here:
http://andpuff.livejournal.com/128357.html
AlisaSG said
rifkind,
thanks. and your amazingly right about no brothers.. our dad wanted boys, and got all girls instead. He also wanted computer geeks, and got resistance against that in the ranks instead (Cobol and binary coding was just not our idea of a fun career)..
I do appreciate your additional thoughts about family and sisters..
truth is, everything that ever could be done, has been done. Including having various prayer ministries praying. I’ve “let it go, and let God..” intervene, because I can’t.
What started it? I’m not sure. I’ve let her walk on me for years and years, and one day she was willing to let me speak, and I trusted her with all my heart and thought she was being honest about it, and not genuinely deceptive. So, speak I did, but in a loving way of saying I didn’t really know her as a sister. She was more of a stranger in my life, and I hoped we could get closer. But she was on a religious tirade kick for many years, so I had to overlook that.. even tho we both grew up Catholic, she resented my stronger *faith* and Christianity.
The day of our dad’s funeral she told me to keep *my* Christianity away from the rest of the family, because SHE was taking over “daddy’s place”.. I had to forgive her for that, because she didn’t know what she was getting herself into.
Anyway, many, many years later, she got mad at me on the phone one day and hung up. I wrote back to her.. wrote to her husband even – so he could reach out to her, and the envelope ended up being returned UNopened, and marked REFUSED. I never expected in a million years for him to treat me in the same way she was. Yet, that’s the way life has been ever since. Phone calls?? If I answered the phone at my mom’s, my sister got jealous because *I* was there (on my vacation!)..
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Did I mention some of her actions were petty, and over some of the stupidest things..??!
She resents my hubby more, and his first impression of her was not a good one at all.. all started because of something super petty on her part about me not wearing a corsage at her wedding. Well, when someone else gave me a corsage and my entire family of relatives said to ignore her reactions if she went into “if looks could kill mode”, she still got nasty when she saw me with the corsage, and that sent me into tears.
That was also my hubby’s first impression of her too, so they’ve been like mortal enemies ever since from day one. Oh, she apologized, but the wounds still showed scars years later from her other actions similar to that.
anyways.. after our mom died, there was a tiny window of opportunity in reaching out to her. I sent out Christmas cards. She did receive that, but never said thank you or acknowledged receiving it. When my mom’s property got settled, I had another open door that she had to open the envelope at the very least. So, I sent a long letter to her, and poured out my heart to her.. gave her my phone number again, and e-mail address. Never got a reply at all.
She and I both live in NJ. NJ isn’t a big state! and east isn’t too far from the west, so it’s not a problem if she said, “okay, come visit anytime,” which I would rearrange my schedule in a heartbeat, if necessary, because traveling for her is difficult (she’s on oxygen).
But that moment hasn’t come yet.
The door is still firmly shut on her end.
I only recently received her e-mail address from my other sister, and was advised to send something that way instead. Worst case- she’d block my address.
I had thought of simply showing up at her front door (she won’t accept ANYTHING tangible from anyone she’s harboring a grudge against — and I discovered the hand-me-downs she got from a friend and passed them on to me, were never worn by her, because she later had a grudge against that person, too! So,) I’d be expecting to find myself breaking down crying at any moment, if I did go .. but my bravery isn’t that strong. She’s moody, and if you catch her in the wrong mood, nothing combined between heaven and earth would help. 😦
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msgypsy, thank you too for sharing about families. 🙂
Rifkind said
AlisaSG,
Well it sounds like she wants to stew, so there isn’t much you can do.
The post cards might GET to her, but she may never reply. Again that is HER problem. You can say that you tried on last time before she passes.
Forgive her and let it be.
“Hate” poisons the well it comes from.
You can substitute pettiness, evil, vile actions etc.. instead of “Hate”, fill in the blank with the best words.
It sounds like the well is pretty poisonous.
Don’t make yourself drink from it.
It takes two to make a relationship, and she has chosen not to have one with you. Her loss.
Let it go. You have a great bunch of Sisters here, who care!
{{{ HUGS }}}
Rifkind
lwildstar said
*OMG* spending the day with my parents was like spending the day with two cranky, bitchy teenagers! AAAUUUGGGGGG!
ok done venting. got home about an hour ago but had to take a bubble bath and decompress……I am so worn out.
And to all of the above comments about Pauls hair – I CAN”T BELIEVE I DID IT EITHER! *OMG* what was I thinking! of course I wasn’t – hormones were driving the bus (as my sister would say) it was like watching someone elses hand reach up and touch him! Red ears all around……
The only touching I’ve done is to “accidently” bump into him when we are walking, but this – oh I coulnd’t give an excuse for this…..yes you are right it looks like I am coming out of my shell.
My best friend said I was much more of a flirt in high school, and wanted to know what happened between then and now – I told her “jerks” happened.
Haven’t had a chance to read everything in full – did the speed reading thing again – which means I lose some of the content. Tomorrow I am going to venture onto writing.com and see about posting – will let you know if I get up the nerve. I had planed on taking the printed copy of part one with me today to proof and edit on the drive, but with all the bickering going on I couldn’t concentrate – and then started feeling car sick – so I made my mom switch places with me so I could ride up front (stress) so at least they stopped bickering because dad is half deaf and of course didn’t wear his hearing aids today, and it would have been pointless for mom to respond to any of his comments if he couldn’t hear her. Besides dad instigates alot of this nonsence and with her in the backseat he backed off…I guess it wasn’t as much fun. Teenagers I tell you its like being with teenagers.
I finished another set of postcards to pop in the mail box tomorrow – describing the wonderful Sisterhood BloodTies has inspired and how we hope this inspires TPTB to not just keep BT, but to have more shows with stong female leads, that todays women can relate to.
Well I am going to go see if I have any chocolate left, and proof my pages – maybe I’ll get some writing done.
Night guys! Will check in tomorrow.
Rifkind said
prtfvr – {{{ HUGS }}} to you too.
I’m glad that you now have the MsGypsy’s Blood Ties Family.
prtfvr said
Rifkind: Thanks for the hugs. It’s no big deal though, really. When my mom died it set me free. It was the weirdest feeling. I became my own person at 22.
Bad things have happened but great things too. Everything happens for a reason, what’re ya gonna do?
DIZEY1 said
Prtfvr, wow sorry you had a sucky childhood, XOXOXOX but you’re right that had you not gone through those trials and tribulations you would NOT be who you are today. I personally like you just the way you are. 😉 Special to all of us 🙂
That old saying you can pick your friends but you can’t pick your family. Very true, and I do believe that all families are a little disfunctional. Like was said the other day there is no such thing as “normal”. It’s a falacy and personally I wouldn’t want to be “normal” , hell I’d be boring. If you step back and read all the stuff each and every person here’s had to deal with etc. we ARE the Lifetime women, their demographic. The movies that they run a lot of them are from sadly real women just like you and I that have gone through some crappy stuff in their lives.
I was so lucky to have grown up in a house, chaotic at times but has so much love to give. My parents will celebrate their *48th* wedding anniversary this September. Not always a funfest but at the end of the day they’re my people warts and all.
I was working my butt off at the gym earlier today, and on my iPod there’s a couple of tunes that I think of either Blood Ties or Vicki/Henry tunes. Sarah McLachlan’s “Building a mystery” cool tune, and Spin Dr’s “Two Princes” fighting over Vicki, and Five for Fighting “World” they’d be cool tunes playing as like background music. My mind’s always spinning.
vicki said
hey all
I didnt just write “Is it Oct. yet?” on the postcards..I taped a picture of me in my t-shirt that says “Is it Oct. yet?” to the postcard. HEHEHE I thought that it might surprise them since they have no merchandise to speak of. I made it myself….I took a picture of a moon from the internet and then I added a few bats flying across and then I wrote “Is it Oct yet?” across the moon. It really didnt take very long and I thought to give myself some comfort with it. It makes me smile every time I look at it or wear it.
LOL…the picture is rather funny..me with a silly grin on my face.
lwildstar said
Thats why I love this place – its like having a ginormus family to laugh with, cry to and B—h at!
(((HUGS))) all around.
You know this was my first foray into the blogging world – I took baby steps at first and look at me now!
You know I was thinking the othe day: What just 10-15 years ago the only way fans could join together was through the offical fan clubs or at conventions. Unless you got lucky and found enough “groupies” in your home town to hang around with, you were virtually “alone” in your obsession….and now look at us! Good grief. You would think we’ve know each other forever, and we only “met” a few months ago. Who knew that when this started the direction it would go! From fanatics to family? ok we’re still fanatic but now we’re not alone!
Couldn’t find any chocolate so I sat back and watched Love Hurts, again….oh some of Henrys expressions just set me into giggles!
well now I’m off to bed!
DIZEY1 said
Sleep well Iwildstar 🙂
reves doux d’Henri’ 😉
XOXOXOXOX
AlisaSG said
Rifkind,
(wow.. sorry this went long again – I’m breaking it into 2 chunks)
–Part 1 of 2–
>> Well it sounds like she wants to stew, so there isn’t much you can do.
nope. tried. the ball is officially now in her court. 😉
and one more thing.. when I wrote
>> I’ve let her walk on me for years and years,..
I meant that I only let her bully me only to a certain point. She is the ultimate *control freak*. If she can’t control something, she’ll storm off in a huff, and never discuss that again, unless it is to hurt the other person later down the road. That’s what my entire family warned me about BEFORE she let me pour my heart out about the type of people she hung around (kids on drugs, boos, etc. – the *popular* kids and hippie crowds), and what resulted from how their siblings treated me at school.
which was.. NOT very nice.
you hear news stories nowadays about *lesbian bullies* (forcing sex on each other) in the school bathrooms – well, I lived thru one in the early 1970’s, and fought back.. nearly broke someone’s hand for trying to pry open the door to the stall I was in at the time.. also, it was a whole gang of girls; and in those days, they were called school bullies, not lesbians.. their motives were the same tho.
lovely lot. That’s what I had to tolerate for more than 5 miserable years of my life.
I didn’t think REAL people actually existed. Most of them were Catholic, but in *name* only.
———-
Anywho..
>> It sounds like the well is pretty poisonous.
>> Don’t make yourself drink from it.
I don’t. In some of her conversations with me – if I did everything her way, my mom saw it as my sister feeling power hungry and be polite.. she’d talk *terse* (with gritted and nearly clenched teeth) with people she tolerated. If I resisted (and I tried to be nice without showing it internally), she’d get upset, but still talk later. If I told her to instantly just shut up and stop bullying me around whenever it seemed that’s what she was doing, I would have lost her as a sister YEARS before I actually did.
So, no matter what I did, I’d always be in a catch-22 with her. Depending on her *mood* – if I call her first, I’m invading and wasting her time. If I don’t call, she’ll use it against me (later) and say I never bothered to care enough to call at all. I simply cannot win her heart back, and I’m not sure if I could trust her whole-heartedly if I tried, because of that catch-22 factor.
———-
prtfvr,
>> Bad things have happened but great things too. Everything happens for a reason, what’re ya gonna do?
((((((((((hugs!!!!))))))))))
I’m so amazed at how deep some of the stories here are, and how everyone has managed to cope and still retain a healthy outlook on life. 😎
Rifkind said
Prtfvr has added another chapter to her “I’m not gay” story!
Love the pictures! 🙂
AlisaSG said
part 2 of 2.. (continued..)
sharing this with everyone..
from Rifkind,
>> It sounds like the well is pretty poisonous.
>> Don’t make yourself drink from it.
in the situation with my sister and the “corsage” incident–
She didn’t want me to wear a corsage at her wedding. She begged and pleaded with my family to make certain I didn’t show up with any flowers, just this once, but it was the way she went about ordering it around that made me want to be spiteful and get one as a joke.. I later found out it was because of her own fears and jealousies..
She was afraid of her own sister-in-laws getting jealous against her, so everyone on my side of the family had to show up like PLAIN Jane’s. My polyester dress itched. My other sister complained about her ugly dress – and she was matron-of-honor..! ..and it was soooooooooo tempting to just walk into the flower shop and get a gorgeous wrist corsage. I never had one, always wanted one, but held my tongue and never bought one. Not even on that day. The corsage was given to me from a family friend.
My aunt’s kids used to share announcements at their siblings weddings and other festive functions.. but God forbid that would be a great idea and save on announcement cards if I announced my engagement at my own sister’s wedding. Well, I did announce my engagement anyway. Quietly tho. That’s how I ended up with the corsage – and it wasn’t even real flowers! It was a fabric made rose! I told my family I couldn’t wear it. They insisted, and marched me onto the congrats line wearing it! I was fine, until she had that death look on her face.
If I had been intentionally spiteful about wearing it, I probably wouldn’t have cried as much. But the fact that I went out of my way NOT to wear it, and resisted while being in the mall’s flower shop – by golly, I wanted to scream at the top of my lungs at her about that and make a scene in front of everyone on the spot, but didn’t.
Instead, I went outside and broke down out there, instead. My hubby, then fiance, decided to take me home, and not go back in. I thought she hated me from that moment on. But she managed to find me and apologized.. because she wanted this to be HER day, and HER day alone. Apparently, in her world, sisters aren’t allowed to share, even when being quiet.. 😦
Well, after her little spat at seeing the corsage and hearing the whole story.. she backed off from being mean and selfish.. gosh, the lessons we learn in LIFE! So, my way of forgiving her was to let her be my matron-of-honor at my wedding. I was surprised she poured her heart into it, and gave me a surprise shower I’ll never forget (because I wore an ugly shirt that day!! ugh!).
anyway, that went okay, until her next chastising incident, which happened on the day of our dad’s funeral.. I mean, she dragged me into my own room to yell at me about “my religion vs. HER religion”.. that’s where I drew the line on hostilities. I let her rant, but didn’t understand how we could both grow up Catholic, and she ending up hating me because I prayed and she didn’t.
That’s one reason why I’d rather avoid getting involved with hostile religious wars. The other person is ALWAYS right.. thinking of (her as) Mendoza torturing poor Henry at this moment. 😛
>> It takes two to make a relationship, and she has chosen not to have one with you. Her loss.
>> Let it go. You have a great bunch of Sisters here, who care!
thank you again, with *precious* ((((((((((hugs!!!!)))))))))) 😀
DIZEY1 said
Ok ya’ll I soooo need some Henry that I’m gonna go watch some ep’s till I can’t keep my eyes open. I’ll chat at ya’ in the morning.
JE T’AIME , reves doux d’Henri XOXOXOXOX
Elisabet
Anzia said
prtfvr- I love those pics! You really do get the perfect pics for your phrases. ^_ ^
Rifkind said
AlisaSG,
I’m glad that we can be here for each other!
Today I kinda feel like Dr. felicia…
or should that be spelled Dr. Phil-icia?
Hee Hee!
Madonna said
Good evening everyone!
AlisaSG,
prtfvr,
Sounds like you both went through some hard times growing up. Here’s to you for not letting it bring you down. (((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))
Although I like the fangs idea I’m still a little uncertain about whether it the right thing to do. I like Ms. Gypsy’s idea earlier about putting the theme on a postcard, so that is just what I did. I thought even if people were going to send in actual fangs that this might at least be a good supplement to it as well. If we all sent the same postcard all the time, that is in and of itself a campaign. Plus they’ll have a harder time figuring out how many cards the same person might be sending.
The postcard I designed uses a cut-out picture of Kyle smiling with the fangs in his pose with David Winning, minus David Winning of course.
It says:
Fangs
4 More Blood Ties
Lifetime,
Thank you for giving us this incredible show. We have all fallen in love with three strong, unforgettable characters who have inspired us to live life to the fullest. We’ll keep “turning” people if you keep the episodes coming. Please give us a full 22 episode third season. There isn’t a better show on television!
And along the bottom……. Is It October Yet?
I have it set up on a document that is easy to use. All you should have to do open it maybe import it and print it on the 8 1/2 x 11 2-up postcard sheets you can buy at office supply stores. I did not create a back for it so there is plenty of room for writing and personalization.
If you want it let me know and I’ll send it on out to you. I think I already have most of your email addresses.
AlisaSG said
DIZEY1,
>> That old saying you can pick your friends but you can’t pick your family. Very true, and I do believe that all families are a little disfunctional. Like was said the other day there is no such thing as “normal”. It’s a falacy and personally I wouldn’t want to be “normal” , hell I’d be boring. If you step back and read all the stuff each and every person here’s had to deal with etc. we ARE the Lifetime women, their demographic..
Is there a way to let them understand and know that on a postcard?? Somehow, I think it’d take more than 2 pages of writing, just from each of us to help them (at LIFETIME) understand that reality.
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lwildstar,
>> You know I was thinking the othe day: What just 10-15 years ago the only way fans could join together was through the offical fan clubs or at conventions.
yep.. been there, done that (the originally formed Dark Shadows clubs, etc).. but stopped my membership after I got married (hubby’s not into that show, and I’m just wondering how long he’ll tolerate me looking at the Blood Ties “Blood blogs” and Bloodlines sites..
this is him — oooooou, vampires!
hmmm, I wonder what has him letting me watch SG-Atlantis with the Wraith, which are a form of *vampires*..!!
and then there’s occasional DOCTOR WHO eps with bats and vampires and witches, oh MY!! (DW’s answer is they’re all aliens from other worlds!) I was waiting for him to cringe from those, too..
>> Unless you got lucky and found enough “groupies” in your home town to hang around with, you were virtually “alone” in your obsession….and now look at us! Good grief. You would think we’ve know each other forever, and we only “met” a few months ago. Who knew that when this started the direction it would go! From fanatics to family? ok we’re still fanatic but now we’re not alone!
Exactly.. who would have ever imagined “Blood Ties” would have ever bonded us this much closer, when Tanya’s blood-blogs first posted to the internet..? It’s amazing reading back on those first few blogs.. nothing but the show.. then it became how various characters on the series had coincidences happen between each other and even us.. and NOW..
it’s a wonderful and precious moment to see how everything has a reason for its season.. Blood Ties goes deeper than mere *veins* beneath the surface.. 🙂
Himmiefan said
Hi everybody. I am exhausted! I’ve been fighting my way out of the Ministry..um, I mean, I’ve been reading and am taking a break. As Henry said, “I have to eat.” I just have no food to play with. Sigh.
Z – your idea is brilliant!!! Crunchletts as spys – cute! Now, for your piece, when Vicki and Henry go into the bar, he’s going to be jealous about the attention she gets, isn’t he? I want to read all about it!
Dizey – I thought I was the only one that “assigned” songs to stories! My Henry song is “Crystal Ball” by Styx. For my vampire story, yes, I’m going to have to do one, my heroine’s signature song is “Suddenly I See” by KT Tungstall. In my book, I’ll change the looks of the vampire, but we all know whom I’m really picturing in my head!
Prtfvr – I just have no words… Major hugs!!
Alisa – as you know, you can reason only so much with someone who is mentally ill. All you can do at this point is pray for her, which I know you’ve been doing. Am I being callous to suggest just not contacting her and going on with your life? Hard, I know. Hugs for you too!!
Ms Gypsy – thank you so much for your great wisdom. 🙂
Himmiefan said
Oops. I mean I have no “food” to play with. Double sigh.
vicki said
well…I am on pg. 184 into Harry…I have to get back to readng..I have a feeling that I will be up all night reading it.. I know I will cry..(((PMS not withstanding)))))
Anyway….I am signing off. Harry, Ron, and Hermonie await me..
God save them all.
Anzia said
OKay, i don’t have the seventh book and have no way to read it so PLEASE if you talk about it make it VERY VERY Obvious that there are spoilers. My cousin is reading it right now and him and my uncle keep talking about it. I’m going nuts with the anger. (I think i’m PMS-ing… so this might get ugly soon)
Himmie- I’m glad you liked the idea. ^_^ Um… I won’t say your right and I won’t say your wrong but I will say that the third member of the triangle has a little word time coming up. ^_^
Anzia said
the anger is NOT directed at you guys. It’s in reference to my cousin & uncle. Just wanted to make that clear. ^_^
AlisaSG said
Madonna,
>> AlisaSG,..
>> Sounds like you .. went through some hard times growing up. Here’s to you for not letting it bring you down. (((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))
thank you. ((((((((((hugs!!!!)))))))))) back. 😀
Really, I think there are some other people here who’ve lived thru worse than me. At least DYFUS didn’t haul me out of my parents home from my dad beating us up. I was able to grow stronger thru that experience, and see the day I was able to forgive my dad – totally.. even if we only spent one hour talking the day before he died. As for my sister.. she’s still an open book.
Later in life, my childhood dream of being shown whether or not God was real came true, when I met my husband. Truly amazing miracles happened. I stopped doubting. maybe that’s another reason why my sister is so angry with me – her idea of God is so different from mine. He’s on a shelf with her, and convenient for when she wants him; but he’s constantly within my heart with me.
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Himmiefan,
>> Alisa – as you know, you can reason only so much with someone who is mentally ill.
Ouch! “Like daddy, like daughter..” We’ve all thought that, but never actually said it to my sister’s face. My mom tried to reason and instead – paid a lifetime of grief for it.
>> Am I being callous to suggest just not contacting her and going on with your life? Hard, I know.
No. We’ve probably envisioned every potential scenario, and sadly, that seems to be the only one left.
———-
thank you all again, with *precious* ((((((((((hugs!!!!)))))))))) 😀
Lady Afrodyte said
ok… omg there is too much to catch up on. Work took over every aspect of my life for over a week and I kinda feel bad. 😦
But to make it up to you I have finished that story I promised! It’s still kind of a rough draft, but I’ll share anyways.
If you can’t see it, let me know and I’ll try to find another home for it.
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog&pop=1&ping=1&indicate=1
Anzia said
LA- welcome back dear. ^_^ I hope work went okay! I tried your link and it won’t let me get to it. 😦 Other than that, how are you?
Rifkind said
Hi Lady A!
When I click on your link it just takes me to the generic (My Space) login page.
I don’t have a My Space account. Do we have to have one to see your story?
Lady Afrodyte said
I will post it on my livejournal as well. I didn’t realize that you couldn’t access blogs without an account. Give me a few minutes and I’ll fix it.
Lady Afrodyte said
http://afrodyte5150.livejournal.com/
There we go, that link should work for all of you.
msgypsy said
Lady A, I have a myspace account and it wouldn’t let me access your blog. Sigh! Sometimes I HATE myspace. Which is why I hardly ever use it.
I have 200 pages left in Deathly Hallows. I just HAD to take a break, though! No sleep for me tonight, I suspect.
Lady Afrodyte said
Let me know if the livejournal link works for you all.
I’ll be online for a few more minutes and then its off to try and get a few pages written on my book. I got totally distracted by the Blood Ties story, although it was incredibly fun!
Lady Afrodyte said
I’ll swing by in the morning and chat. I can’t believe how busy I was I barely even got to check my email let alone write or, hell, breathe!
Anzia said
LA- the livejournal link works. ^_^ THANK YOU!
Anzia said
LA- I LOVE the end of your story. I think that is one of the BEST captures of Vicki’s character ever! Congrads! ^_ ^
Rifkind said
Lady Afrodyte,
Wow!
That was great! I could see Henry, Vicki, and Mike as I read your story.
I could just see Vicki being embarrassed and uncomfortable in that outfit.
Himmiefan said
LA – Man! That was fantastic! I really liked the part where Vicki turned away, and Henry came up and put his arm around her shoulder.
Anzia – oh no, no spoilers here. Don’t worry. But, if you can, run, don’t walk and get the book!
Himmiefan said
Hi guys. Me again. What am I still doing up? I’ve got to go do the whole “welcome” “Hi” “welcome” “Hi” thing at church tomorrow, and I’m going to look like death warmed over. Oh well…
Alisa- you said “Later in life, my childhood dream of being shown whether or not God was real came true, when I met my husband. Truly amazing miracles happened.” Funny you said this today. It was actually encouraging. I didn’t go to my family reunion today even though I really wanted to (yes, I cried when Mother called to tell me how fun it was) because I would feel like the family freak being the only cousin not married, and at 41 at that! I can only take just so much of “Why aren’t you married? What is wrong with men today?” Translation: what is wrong with YOU? One of these days, I’m going to break down and say that it must be my table manners.
Anyway, your comment was kind of interesting. Okay, I’m going to bed.
Put book down. Put book down…..
vicki said
anzia…I promise no spoilers…I am up to pg. 290…and I had to MAKE myself put it down and go to sleep.
Ok…time to get ready for church and run home to read Harry..
God will forgive me right???
Anzia said
Vicki- I’m sure God will understand. ^_^ He’s the one who gave J.K the talent right?
Christianna said
This may have already been mentioned but was over at the Bloodlines forum and saw a update on Mr. Schmid. He will be starring in a movie called, Into a Far Country, with Jeff Goldblum. Only the cast has been announced thus far. You can see it for yourself at Hollywood.com
Good day all!
AlisaSG said
Anzia, good answer about JK’s *talent* 😉
vicki, it’s what’s in your heart relationships that counts. I was just reading last week about a dispute that’s occurred between the Christian community over the entire Harry Potter phenomena. Some declare it promotes evil (magic), others claim it’s just fantasy – get over it!
good golly! I know what that same community feels about LORD OF THE RINGS, and watching the Sci-Fi channel in general. If a program is say
the NeverEnding Story — well, that’s okay, because it’s about a flying dog with fuzzy, floppy ears and is half dragon.. pure fantasy. The message of good and evil is clearly defined.
If the program is sci-fi/fantasy “Legend of Earthsea”
(which was a two-part miniseries on the Sci Fi Channel)
well, now you’re treading into darker waters.. magic amulates nekked buxom actress (the evil blond) who don’t mind making out with some guy on camera, and it’s *obvious* she’s not wearing nuthing..
The whole argument I guess has to do with revolving around keeping something G or PG rated instead of PG-13, PG-14, or R. Anything darker and involving demons and witchcraft is an automatic “No-No”.. so, I guess that includes DOCTOR WHO, too.. *sigh*
BTW, pictures of Shawn Ashmore (who was the hero) in “Earthsea”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407384/
–note his hair.. something familiar about those long, wild dark, blond curls and suave outfits..?
maybe it’s his boots.. yeah, it must be the boots and cloak..!
(with shorter hair in *normal* roles, he doesn’t look as swash-buckling.. not too bad, but not overly great either)
(my niece went ga-ga getting his autograph one time.. she also didn’t bug him either when they had dinner near each other at some celebrity dinner function .. and because she gave him that respectable *space* – even tho she was *dying* inside, later, he granted her with a wonderful conversation, too!) 😀
funny thing.. I think I had been comparing his photo with Kyle’s at one time.
Kyle has Shawn beat – even with shorter hair, too! 😉
(my niece will hit me now!) *g*
AlisaSG said
one more tidbit about this note-
>> I was just reading last week about a dispute that’s occurred between the Christian community over the entire Harry Potter phenomena. Some declare it promotes evil (magic), others claim it’s just fantasy – get over it!
I’ve actually seen Churches split over these types of dispute. The ones who want to watch get chastised. The ones who believe it’s tainting their soul with darkness – go on a rampage.. The ones who secretly watch in the middle, do care, but don’t pipe up an opinion – usually side with the ones who do watch and then inside scream – “get over it!”
so.. if you’ve ever read vampire stories (especially with sexy looking characters), you’re just automatically doomed.. 😛
I’ve known too many people who think and believe that.. so if you don’t rebuke those dreams during your sleep and waking states – oh boy!
Personally, I think it’s more in what you do with the information that you’ve processed.. did you sell your soul to the devil in real life? have you compromised your own *faith*..? things of that nature. So, where would that place Henry, since his lifestyle is in question because of what he became? When Mendoza called Henry a spawn of the devil, Mendoza was a worse spawn for leaching off of all the vampires – Henry’s expression when he watched Mendoza drain his (Henry’s) blood from the sol/sun device was so very telling.. and Henry was in complete vampire make-up at the time it happened, too.
Who was the good guy and who was the truly evil one? 😉
AlisaSG said
vicki,
when I wrote the following-
>> Some declare it promotes evil (magic), others claim it’s just fantasy – get over it!
that wasn’t directed at you.
It was the reaction of the many who have been involved in those types of disputes.. and was from the ones who watch Harry Potter and other fantasies and directed at the ones who utterly condemn it.
I should have worded it better, but 3 times now, I kept rereading it and hoping you weren’t taking it personally.. (please!) 😦
hiding from this blog, now..
(actually, I’m off to go shopping and laundry and the rest..) 😉
DIZEY1 said
Good Morning bloggeratti, 😉
Lady A I loved your story!! Great writing , you’ve got all the characters on the money. Too cool 😎
Well I’ll check back later Melanie and I will be playing in the pool today gonna have some daiquiri’s and maybe some beer too. Hey gotta do what ya’ gotta do. Love ya’s and whatever ya’ll do today…….”Wear something nice!!” (hee hee hee) 😉 🙂
lwildstar said
I’ve got house cleaning to and laundry to do – just wanted to check in – so glad I did!
Lady A – WOW….
I still haven’t finished tweaking my short yet (found some problems when I proofed it last night) – so I haven’t posted anything…..
but I’m inspired to get it up this week!
Talk to you guys later!
AlisaSG said
lwildstar,
>> I’ve got house cleaning to and laundry to do…
you too??
I need the strength to get thru the day. My allergies to the outside (trees and grass) want me to find a pillow and sleep!)
I always thought I must be part vampire.. being more awake in the evening and early, early morning.. but so wanting to take a nap in the afternoon.. and when my allergy medicine decides to stop working prematurely. 😉
msgypsy said
Good morning, bloggins, I have conquered the Deadly Hallows and now am moving on to finishing my garb for the play cooking lots of lunches for the next couple of weeks. (I can’t cook when it’s hot out and I’d like to avoid buying too many lunches if I can since most of what’s around my work is junk food.) So I’ll be in and out today.
And now I’m out because my dirty rice is done and the pasilla chiles are probably cool enough to peel now…
Rifkind said
AlisaSG and Vicki…
Matthew 7:1
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Religious intolerance of ANY type pisses me off.
I think that Matthew clearly states that “Judging” is God’s job.
Be good in your intent, follow your beliefs, and trust the God or spirits or Goddess or whoever you believe in…
Trust in the higher power to see your heart when making his/her judgment.
**OK getting off of soapboxes now**
Rifkind said
Sorry !
I grew up with some real religious hypocrisy and can’t stand it when folks start getting all judgmental etc.. Seems that those judging others openly and out-loud are the biggest hypocrites!
Anyway, that whole subject gets my blood boiling..
I don’t think any of you on the blog believe that way.. as you wouldn’t be watching Blood Ties in the first place..
I’m glad that we haven’t gotten too far into religious beliefs discussions, as just like politics, it can be very divisive and turn a nice discussion into a family brawl.
I will respect your beliefs and look for the same.
{{{ HUGS }}}
-Rifkind
AlisaSG said
Rifkind,
about judging others and Bible verses..
it’s sort of funny, yet sad when thinking about all the people I’ve watched get bulldozed in the Church from various comments coming from the sides and the top levels of the Church “elders” level.. some of the very people who spouted off about what to do and not to do, and not advise go with your gut instincts (in certain situations), well, those people are no longer in those Churches, nor in positions of leadership..
I knew of an entire Church where about 80% of them lived the golden rule and rebuked constantly in the “NAME of Jesus” and shunned anything connected to Sci-Fi/fantasy land that included magic and witches and well, Blood Ties type of stuff..
When it was discovered the Pastor was actually having an extra-marital affair with his secretary, Ooops!! (yeah, while his wife was pregnant or raising their zillion kids).. OMG – an outsider would have thought the world just ended!
Seriously. That entire place fell apart. We actually left before the news came out, but we saw the aftermath and apologies that were made to the entire congregation.. and then heard of all of the other things that resulted from that mess as well. Several of the girls (in their 30’s) left and said they were lesbians (yep, right under everyone’s noses.. more declarations of “no-no’s” were declared!).
Two of the lesbians completely left and stopped believing in God, because that’s what the Church taught – that anyone who did that was going to be condemned to hell, so they took it to heart believing they were forever outcast from heaven, so why wait on the path to hell..
I mean, really *insane* thinking came about because of that whole fallout.
One rule of thought that kept getting drilled was – if you think what you’re doing is wrong or out of favor with God, it probably is, so don’t get involved with it.. that should lead you down the path of righteousness. (Unfortunately, that’s what the terrorists also believe, and yet they kill anyway, because they think what they are doing is right by murdering in God’s eyes and their name for God..)
So, when people get involved with fantasy and magic, I cringe whenever I’m listening to someone – trying to figure out which side of the fence they’re going to jump on and potentially lash out at.
If I had told any of those people that I was having nightmares and in those dreams a gorgeous vampire came and rescued me from various horrors – I wouldn’t have survived as long as I did in there. I just knew where they all stood on the issue, and couldn’t tell a soul, lest I be REBUKED by the scriptural preachings of Paul and words of Moses (necromacy is supposedly a form of vampirism, and the whole Sodom issues haunt vampires, because they get // take blood from both genders).
That’s why I think people like Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (who created Saint-Germain) and the rest of the lot publicly claim to be either atheists or agnostics, and definitely not Christians. Funny thing tho, a lot of what CQY wrote, was written years before such “sins” became public NEWS knowledge in the Catholic Church. So, who was in the wrong there? The ones hiding behind the veils of “religion” or the ones talking about it actually happening?
wow!! That’s why I prefer to avoid getting into “spiritual” (debate) wars when both split sides of Christianity go to war against each other. Personally, I know God knows where *my* heart stands with “Him” and the rest of the people on earth. I’ve learned a lot in the 27 years in “born-again” Christian mode. And one of those things is – just because a person isn’t going to Church, did the people inside the “building” ever consider that maybe allergies to perfumes and the desire to want to stay healthy from airborne illnesses being dragged into Church were ever taken into account?
There’s so much I had wanted to share with my sister who won’t talk with me. My other sister is amazingly generous with the whole “it’s okay to watch Sci-Fi Tv and Fantasy” like DOCTOR WHO, Stargate, Legend of EarthSea, etc. She’s the one who told me about Shawn Ashmore in the first place, and it sort of shocked me, because I didn’t expect it.. She works for a Christian Church, so imagine my jaw dropping into shock, when I heard she was okay with it.. 😎
lwildstar said
AlisaSG- I know what you mean about the allergies – I just walked up the grocery store and now my head is killing me – forgot to take my pills this morning – so now that I have taken my meds – I want to sleep! Bad enough I slept in until 11 which put me behind for the day (I only got up because my friend called – she got in another car accident – the universe has painted a target on that girl – and her husband was being ussuportive and she needed to cry – acctually if she hadn’t called, I may not have gotten up at all!)…I haven’t cleaned the house in like three weeks. I’m allergic to everything trees, grass, mold, flowers..(and I LOVE to garden – I have a tiny flower bed out back) ..I can’t even take echincia (sp) to help with colds because it makes me sick. sigh…..I’m rambling….
ok I’m sure some of you have gotten your Harry Potter books but Please no spoilers – I am expecting mine tomorrow or Tuesday….maybe we can say give a week or two grace period before any thing is brought up to give everyone a chance to read…..
Rifkind – and that is why everytime Paul brings up religion I have to turn him from the subject – I think after my last comment about how I tend to start arguments when discussing religion – he’s backed off…..I think “not a safe place to go” was the phrase I used. 😉
ok I am going to go work on fixing my story so that I can get it posted this week (maybe if I don’t chicken out)- if I can stay awake!
AlisaSG said
I didn’t see this while I was typing that long post of mine above..
Rifkind,
>> I don’t think any of you on the blog believe that way.. as you wouldn’t be watching Blood Ties in the first place..
how true, how true, how true.
I’m just amazed because I see a lot of genuine hearts of compassion on here that transcends those of the “hard core, born-again variety” and it tickles me pink with joy, to see that for each of us, God has a purpose. It hasn’t ruined us from watching Blood Ties (tho we tend to run off and think OMG type things!! *g*). Instead, it has brought most of us closer together.
and that includes people like msgypsy too (and if I read earlier postings correctly believes in solstice?) whom most of us are very grateful she’s even let us share from the depths of our souls on her blogs.. things that bind deeper than just “Blood Ties” as a program.
so, here’s some many thank you’s especially to msgypsy for letting us share – what are probably our deepest thoughts, 😉
with another batch of *precious* ((((((((((hugs!!!!)))))))))) 😀
Rifkind said
AlisaSG {{HUGS }}}
I am glad that the hypocrites didn’t destroy your faith, like it did to others in that church. I’ve seen folks lose faith because of that kind of thing.
AlisaSG said
lwildstar
>> (I only got up because my friend called – she got in another car accident – the universe has painted a target on that girl – and her husband was being ussuportive and she needed to cry – acctually if she hadn’t called, I may not have gotten up at all!)…
😦
whoah. more ((((((((((hugs!!!!)))))))))) and comfort..
now see, you became her *angel* in human skin – someone she could tangibly feel a comforting arm, when the ground fell out from beneath, so to speak.
and *prayers* for your friend too.
my car that was supposed to last forever (a Honda) got smashed into a while back. The news devastated me, because it was a goner. Recently, one of our relatives got plowed into the same way (at an intersection by a speeding driver in an SUV who didn’t slow down or stop behind her). Our world just seems to be on the fast track with disasters of their own making. 😦
anyways, I totally believe in angels, and it’s rare to hear how various people take upon those roles, too. I often wonder about the angels we don’t see, but sense (feel instinctively) that they are there, and very real.
Lady Afrodyte said
Thanks for the kind words. I was so afraid that I had thrown too much of myself into the characters. I really had no access to anything Blood Ties related while I was writing, so I did what I could from memory.
It was a great break from my book and helped to inspire me to write more. After writing the last four pages of the fanfic yesterday afternoon and took a break and wrote an amazing 7 pages in my own book!
Blood Ties: the cure for writers block!
Lady Afrodyte said
I must have missed the comment rush. 😦 Thats what I get for sleeping in way past when I should have.
lwildstar said
AlisaSG – thanks! you know I have know her since I was 12?13? we’re just like sisters…since she’s been driving she has been in 9 accidents tow of which I’ve been in the car with her – and none were her fault. She can just be sitting in the parking lot and some one will hit her – come to think of it that did happen. I think thats why she called me – her husband was bing a jerk, like it was her fault. The guy her hit her this morning admited it was his fault – he ran a stop sign. I told her that if she needed to come over I’d be home all day – and for her to remember that both her mother and grand mother were watching over her and had kept her safe – of course she started crying again, but I think is was could for her.
I reworked my short story – I had Blood ties playing in the background online – you know it ticks me off that lately at the end of each section it flips to Side Order Of LIfe (which I do think is cute) but still thats not what I wanted ot watch – or in this case listen to…
Oh well, the mesd have kicked in and I am ready to curl up and go to sleep for a while…good thing I finished the laundry! I still need to clean the upstairs, but I’m just not into it.
LadyA – {Blood Ties: the cure for writers block!} – you can say that again!
I’ve finished part ones and part two of the short – need to proof and edit….
And I’m almost finished with chapter 7 of my story!
I printed ten more post cards.
I think I’ll log off for now….will chack back later!
Lady Afrodyte said
I tried to break my short into 2 sections, but I didn’t feel comfortable breaking it up. I know it would have been easier to read, but I’d rather have a long chunk of story. That’s just how I work.
I do have a sneak peek at my novel ready if anyone wants to see it. It’s taken straight from the rough draft and will probably change a couple of times after editing, but it’s there.
I had run a small myspace contest, the winners receiving access to the blog containing the sneak peek.
email me at afrodyte5150 at gmail dot com if you want to read it.
I’ll hang around for a few more minutes before chaining myself to my laptop and attempting to write another 7 or so pages.
Margaret said
So, I guess it would be safe to say no one is writing any post cards any more?
Lady Afrodyte said
I will be sending postcards this week. I’ve also been telling others to keep sending them in as well.
vicki said
Alisa…
No offense taken..I am a stronge believer in “to each his own” I think how you worship and what you believe is your own buisness. I wish more churches felt that way, including my own.
they used to badger my father all the time about getting baptised and I kept telling everyone Leave him alone…when he is ready he will do it..
He did and he is now a decon!! I am very proud of him. He never even went to church while we were growing up.
Anyway..My church has never really made a big deal about withces..and wizards..and Harry and magic.. I have always been quite open to talk about how I LOVE harry books, sci fi…and vampire stuff, and not one of our members has said anything to me (and we have an ‘older” congregation)
our preacher even mentioned Harry Potter today!! in a good way.
I think God is mercy just like Henry said, and its a good thing for all the evil going on in the world.
vicki said
Giggle:::: I even wore my t-shirt..to church last Sunday night. “Is it Oct yet?” LOL
I had about four people ask me if I was a big Halloween fan and of course I corrected them and told them all about BloodTies!!!!!!!!!! Christian converts !!!
HEHEHEH
AlisaSG said
lwildstar,
>> I reworked my short story – I had Blood ties playing in the background online – you know it ticks me off that lately at the end of each section it flips to Side Order Of LIfe (which I do think is cute) but still thats not what I wanted ot watch – or in this case listen to…
thank you for saying that! I thought it was something I screwed up with and moved my mouse into the wrong spot on the screen.. (now I *know* it wasn’t just me this happened to)
Guess that means LIFETIME is listening to us here (hmmm, they send someone to lurk and read?).. lest they might have left the site alone. When some of us were discussing about leaving the window open and the BT videos on automatic, LIFETIME set up a system to kick the screen over to something else instead.. at least it wasn’t ARMY WIVES..! 😛
still, gotta keep on the alert during those interim breaks.. *sigh*
lwildstar said
Just checking in…
Margaret – I’m still writing postcards! I bought a 100 last week…I’ve been printing themon the computer bcause my handwriting sucks – hell half the time I can’t read! What made you think we stopped?
I took a nap – helped clear my head some so I’m going to go print some more crds and go do some more writing.
Night everyone!
Chery said
Hey Margaret I just sent my 20 postcards for today, and I got in the car and took them to the post office my me so they will go out tonight. (No mail delivery on Sunday of course, so they would not be picked up until tomorrow.)
I e-mailed 4 advertisors who had ads on “Heart of Fire” on 4/22
I also wrote a postcard to one I could not find an e-mail contact address.
I wrote a e-mail to tvguide.com
Posted on the Lifetime Board and the LifeTime feed back.
And I will continue to do these things until LifeTime comes through!
I want to send fangs also.
Hang in their Margaret! I hope at least 20 of us did this last week, Lifetime should have received over 1,000 cards if so.
IT IS REALLY CRITICAL THAT WE DO ALL OF THIS NEXT WEEK, IT COULD BE THE MAKE IT OR BREAK IT WEEK EVERYONE!
Margaret said
By reading it seemed that everyone was either reading Harry Potter or writing something else.
Rifkind said
You go! Vicki!
Good for you!
> . . . told them all about BloodTies!!!!!!!!!! Christian converts !!!
Margaret,
Hang in there, it is Sunday and the mail doesn’t go out until tomorrow.. I have a bunch of cards that I will be writing tonight too!
I half expected that this would be a Harry Potter obsessed weekend. Those who are dyed in the wool fans of HP will get the book read in a jiffy and then be back to our favorite vampire.
prtfvr says that I am obsessed..I keep sending her freeze frames from Blood Ties that are funny or could be used in her comics.. I just LOVE them!
vicki said
i am over half way through harry..I will have it finished by Mon. if not tonight..I have my box of tissues ready….just in case..
I will send out 10 more postcards tomorrow….More BT!!!
lwildstar said
Margaret I dropped ten cards in the mail box today for tomorrows pick up and I have ten more to drop in the mail tomorrow at work.
Don’t worry we’re NOT giving up!
Lets see that leaves me 70 cards – of which I printed another twenty of today – just ran out of address lables.
Finished Chapter 7!…yipeee!
I think I’m going to take a break and start reading what I’ve written thus far and start some editing….I keep forgetting what I’ve already brought up ….anyone else have that problem?
ok off for the night (again) giggles – I know I say that and then pop back in (giggles) I just can’t stay away. I brought up the blog yesturday and my mom just rolled her eyes at me…”parents just don’t understand”
ok night all…happy Henry dreams my loves!
Himmiefan said
Hey Margaret and everybody else. I think a lot of us took a breather this weekend with our Potter books, but we’re back on duty this week!
Anzia said
So, interview tomorrow at 1… am I freaking out? … NO NOT AT ALL!
OF COURSE I AM! UGH! I hate interviews… so am NOT good at selling myself. *long desperate sigh* I’m too honest I guess… why can’t you be honest? I mean seriously? what’s the point of holding an interview if you know before hand that the responses aren’t going to be 100%? Drives me nuts. You wouldnt’ give a test knowing that 15% of the answers are crap would you? And i’m just estimating here. The number could be higher. I hate this. I want to walk into the room, sit down and say, “Here’s the deal. Do I have experience relevant to this position? Yes. I’ve had four years of it and, as my manager will tell you, I was good at it. Now, I wasn’t the best but I was a solid upper middle person. Do I think I can do the job? Yes I think I can but to be honest your quotas scare the daylights out of me. They are very high standards and while I understand why they are, they are still intimidating. DO I work well in teams? It depends on the members of the team whether the team is smoothly working together on the surface or all over. Will I work in a team? yes. Even if I have problems with the other members? yes. Will it work as well as a team where we all got along well? no. Why? because I have a very dominant Alpha personality and if I think I can do something better than the person in charge my first instinct is to take power. Will i do that? probaly not. Have i done it in the past? yes. Oh, and if you’re wondering how I handle difficult people and the resulting anger I do it in two ways. 1) I bottle it up until it had diffused enough that the top won’t pop off the bottle (that happens rarely but is VERY ugly when it does) and 2) by singing songs in my head or outwardly singing Christmas Carols. No, I promise to make sure no one on the phone can hear me and No I don’t care if it’s June, August or the middle of Oct. I will sing Christmas music.”
Somehow I don’t see me quite getting the job…
Oh, the interview is for a job in the Collections department to Khols department store. Their world headquarters is about 5 min. from my current dwelling. I really want the job. It pays really well. Nicely located. Great benifits… and I’d be able to pay my bills next month! Which is always a plus in any situation.
okay.. back to silently freaking out…
Rifkind said
Please post over at Lifetime. AW is now #1..
I posted 3 times in a row… so need a new name or two..PLEASE..
🙂
Anzia said
🙂 I posted Rifkind. ^_^ I sounded like a total DORK but I posted. 🙂 🙂
okay… off to bed now… if anyone finds this before bed GOOD NIGHT!
For those who find it in the morning: HAVE A GREAT DAY!
prtfvr said
MONDAY MORNING IMDB STATS:
NAME 7/23/07 7/16/07 7/9/07
Blood Ties 3,462 4,360 4,620
Kyle 2,583 2,681 2,613
Dylan 6,792 7,645 8,359
Christina 3,779 4,246 4,136
Gina 2,569 2,303 2,856
Michael 11,189 9,656 10,439
prtfvr said
Well, crap! Those numbers looked a lot better before I hit “submit”. I’m going to post them in a table on hens from now on so that it’s easier to look at. Can’t right now though. Gotta go to work!
Anyhow, good job moving the main characters numbers! This is our first view of whether or not we’ve actually made a difference in the ratings and guess what? We really did! So get out there and search like crazy! The higher we move the ratings, the more people who are going to be curious about these people and Blood Ties.
Instant gratification RULES!!
Unless anyone requests otherwise, I’m going to stop tracking Gina and Michael. It’s no big deal to track them, I’m just not sure that everyone is interested. Let me know.
lwildstar said
good morning blogkin – I’ll be back at lucnh to catch up – good luch Anzia – I know interviews are the hardest thing ever. When i interviewed for the job I had now – I was just so frustrated after 5 months of job hunting I was just like “here I am take me or leave me”, when they asked what my best and worse qualites wee I said I can be a B—h, somethimes that can be good and sometimes that can be bad! I thought I had blown the interview!
Two days later they called and asked when I could start!
And Ihave been myself everyday – and they still love me 🙂
Ok time to go t check in at Lifetime and IMDB before I get to work!
Rifkind said
Anzia –
More good luck wishes to you!
“Let me be the best that I can be!”, was my motto whispered under my breath when I went to an interview. Be yourself and your best, and see what happens. Good Luck!
— And your post over on LT last night wasn’t dorky at all! Thanks
Rifkind said
Morning All!
GREAT NEWS!
I just posted this over at the Lifetime board!
—————
Books Reprinted with Blood Ties Covers!
Hey nettie928,
Yes the reprinting of the books with Blood Ties characters on them is so great for Tanya! Woo – who!!
Here are the links at Amazon
Blood Price
Blood Trail
Blood Lines
Blood Pact
Blood Debt
_____________________
msgypsy said
Anzia, fingers and toes are crossed for you.
I had an all-Potter weekend, reading the Deadly Hallows on Saturday and then seeing Order of the Phoenix on Sunday, but I mailed postcards on Friday and will be back to it this week.
I also finally watched all of Zerophilia and I have to say it was a lovely movie. I was expecting to dislike it because I have several trans friends and I thought it was going to be somehow making fun of their situation but instead it never even brought that up and was just a very nice and unrelated movie. Made me wonder, though, why Kyle’s hair is the same in that movie as it is in Blood Ties. I gotta wonder, does the boy have some vampire in him after all? LOL! But I’m embarrassed to admit that one high point for me (yes, I’m weird) was suddenly recognizing the Eugene skyline (in the scene when the two guys are on top of the truck on a hillside)
I’m having a really hard time waking up today so excuse me while I go drink a couple gallons of coffee…
Margaret said
If you don’t have an amazon.com account, create one. Get on thier site, review the books and refer them back over to lifetimetv.com to help them see what the books are about. Tell them how the show made the books come alive.
Chery said
Good morning fellow BT Addicts!
I am thrilled about the re-printing of Tanya’s books with pictures of the actors.
PLEASE MENTION THAT ON YOUR POSTCARDS! I am sure that Lifetime knows this but remind them how that will increase viewship!!!!
I am off to write 20 more cards. Also everyone, please contact the media, and e-mail advertisors also!
Love yu!
lwildstar said
my book just arrived! yipeeeeeeee!
i want to leave work and go home now – I plan tonight to have Blood Ties playing on the background (online) and read – read – read!
Love the pictures they selected for the book covers!
Ok need to go back to work
DIZEY1 said
Good morning fellow Betty Ford residents !! 🙂 Love the new covers on the books , damn do I have to order them now too, I so obsess 😉
Gypsy, didn’t you just love Zerophilia, I thought it was a cool little flick too. I of course loved Max but the friends were hysterical, Janine and Keenan too funny. How goes the play ???
Margaret, I must admit I played in the pool all day yesterday and was a bit fried from the sun so I didn’t write out postcards last night but my sweet Mom said she’d do some of them for me today. She rocks!! Love her and she knows and understands my obsessions and NEVER makes fun of me. Mom’s where I get my love/obsession for movies old and new and for television. When I think back my mom was watching the original Star Trek’s w/William Shatner etc. She was ahead of her time. Anyway this will finish off the 100 so off to the post office to p/u another 100 I guess. I’ll keep buying them until someone screams “UNCLE” right????
Cree said
Good Morning Everyone!
I love the new book covers. I especially love the fact that it says “now an original series on LifeTime”. That is great promotion for the show. And since these book covers are new ( I noticed they aren’t even available for order yet), does that mean that LT is definately going to renew??!! I don’t know why they would bother putting that on the cover unless they were trying to promote the show, and why bother promoting the last few episodes that haven’t aired yet if they weren’t planning on renewing? Am I being overly optimistic, here, or do you guys agree? I am so nervous to hear the final word this week (hopefully this week). I can’t take the waiting much longer…AUGH!!
DIZEY1 said
Hey Doc, I never think you can be overly optimistic. That’s very true why invest in something you’re not going to keep. I do hope it’s soon because hand writing all these postcards is killing my hand. I’ve tried to set up my printer and my mom tried at my Aunt’s yesterday and she couldn’t do it on her printer either. Sooooo back to the old manually done way. I hope they know how much I LOVE THEM to be agonizing over these pieces of art I’m mailing to Lifetime. 🙂 😎
Himmiefan said
Don’t forget to also access the episodes on Lifetime!
Good morning, by the way! Fell asleep last night reading my Potter book. Hmmm. Creative idea coming on: Harry, Henry, Norman, and Crunchlette…..
Well, I’m off to do more IMDBing.
DIZEY1 said
Hey Himmie, I just did my BT duty and did my IMDB thingy. Click, click, click ya know. 😉
Hey Himmie was it you and I that were talking about the songs?? If so I was so stoked when you said “Crystal Ball” by Styx. This Saturday they’re having this Arena Bowl thingy and there will be a pre game concert by the river (MIssissippi river) and the concert’s free. It’s the Rebirth Brass Band and catch this STYX BABY!!! Woo hooo!!! Melanie and I are so gonna be there and I’m trying to get a bunch more to go. It should be a blast !!!! 🙂 😉 😎
Love Tommy Shaw saw them many times but hey, I can always see them again!!
Laurel said
Well, I fell off the face of the earth for a couple of days and you all just kept right on talking. I Have been up for a couple of hours just trying to catch up! Of course, it would be faster if I didn’t take all of the side-trips you provide with the links. I got lost over at Tanya’s LJ for quite a while and finally realized I was wearting my old glasses. No wonder I couln’t read the fine print!
I have been reading Deathly Hallows – only up to chapter 18 so far – and also reading the Black Dagger Brotherhood. I finished the second and started the third at about 1am.
It would all go faster if I didn’t actually have stuff to do. Dishes, laundry, vacuuming, cooking, painting a bedroom…
Laurel said
I have been having the best birthday ever! My husband actually got a small bonus just before he went shopping for my B-day and he splurged and got me an i-pod! It is the 30gb model with the video screen! And a gift card with enough on it to order all 12 episodes of Blood Ties from i-tunes!
Down side – my i-mac is so old it doesn’t have a fast enough usb port and it only has two ports. That means I can either unplug the internet or the keyboard. It took 5 1/2 hours to download the episodes to my really slow computer, then I had to unplug the internet and plug in the i-pod. It took another 1 1/2 hours for my computer to regurgitate the whole business to the i-pod.
Bottom line? This thing is soooooo coool! 🙂 I am able to watch the episodes anywhere and anytime. I was watching Blood Price 1 & 2 while waiting in line at Borders for the HP book! I did as much recruiting as possible while standing around. Several people will be checking out BT On-Demand.
I would be typing faster now if I weren’t also watching Bad Ju-Ju. 😎
See how much this show has warped me?
Now, I really must go see if I can access the most recent of Lady A’s writing.
lwildstar said
Laurel – did you see the link you requested from me regarding the rosary braclets? – its somewhere up there
Dani – your little bat has launched and should be with you in a few days – please emali me when he arrives.
Elizabeth – I lost the post it with your bats name on it – please let me know. – I’m going to keep a family tree of them!
I have two – one for home HMV Fangs and one for work Queen Victoria!
I so want to start reading Deathly Hollows, but I know if I start now – I’ll never go back to work so I am going to be good and wait til I get home – but its taughnting me! So I think I will go write for a while and take my mind off of it…
ok I’ll check back later!
Himmiefan said
Dizey – Styx rocks!!! Can you see that I’m a child of the 80’s? 🙂
Laurel – my posting has gone down too. Was at my favorite bookstore at midnight on Fri/Sat. Had a blast! I was really surprised at how well-mannered everyone was. Happy atmosphere, everyone got into lines, etc.
By the way, if you guys haven’t seen the movie yet, it’s great!
Now, has anyone heard from Tango recently???
Laurel said
Styx fan here too! I need to find my cd’s and download to my new toy. I wonder what kind of story I would write with that behind the scenes. Puts me right back into my friend Sandy’s ’69 red mustang with the 8-track. lol Windows down, music up, hot summer nights just driving around and singing our heads off. (Come on, you’re not shocked? I told you how old I am.)
Tango said
Boy! You gals have been very creative while I was gone. The name of this page is spot on! You are a bunch of talkers! I’m gone for a week, and I thought I’d never catch up. Missed you guys while I has in Oklahoma City, my company always puts on the dogs for us when they pull us out of the field, but the festivities are all day and most of the night. I only got to visit with Henry in the airport and on the plane. I didn’t even have anyone to speak French to me 😦 other than Henry on the plane. Say something to me quick Claire!
Hemmie – loved chapters 2 & 3! Bill O’Riley? Wow! I didn’t see that coming. Bu then Norman is so quirkey, that you really can’t tell what he will do at any given moment, can you? I hope Norman will continue to plan a major role in the rest of our movie.
Anzia – I likey very much what you’ve added, but as any good junkie would say, “ I need more!” Good luck on your interviews this week. Chin up and shoulders back – keep that eye contact strong and let the Z out that we all love and adore and I am sure that if I is the job you are su ppose to have that you will get it.
Prfvr – thanks for all the stats and especially for the new comic over at the “hens”. You certainly have a knack at that. I laughed so hard at how you pulled all the lounge action together. 😉
Tango said
I thought I’d break this up a bit since I’ve been gone so long so that it is not a super long post.
Dizey – thanks for my e-mails. I especially loved the printer humor, as it seems I am eternally having problems with mine – can’t say that my cat has ever been a culprit though.
Lwildstar – sorry I couldn’t help with the issue you e-mailed me about since I was gone, but I am glad Gypsy was able to remedy things. I am still loving my bracelet and see that I will have a lot of things to wear it with in the fall.
Tango said
And last, but certainly not least –
Laurel~
A Birthday wish I have for you
Although it’s late a day or two.
A Birthday Week is standard here
You were the one that made that clear.
A friend to all you have become
A Queen amoungst the Order of Yum.
Here’s wishing you the very best
That this world offers to the blessed.
Love ya!
DIZEY1 said
Himmie yes I did hear from her, she’s got Bonco(SP) tonight at her house and may not be able to chat till later. She replied to an email I sent her last week and must have just got back from her work trip. I loved the 80’s music, my brother Eric (drummer in the band) made an 80’s cd mix for me and him actually. It’s got some stuff I haven’t heard in years, loved it too funny. 🙂
Laurel, I bought that iPod when BT first came out just so I could watch them anytime anywhere. YES MY NAME IS BETH AND I’M AN ADDICT….YIPPY !!! 😎
Bought my Mom the new Harry , they had a big display believe it or not at Wal-Mart .
Laurel said
lwildstar – yes, I did manage to get onto your websight. I am fairly techno challenged and was going to e-mail you to figure out an order plus shipping. I am looking for bracelet like Elizabeth’s but can’t tell which one she got. If you have one left I want it. I don’t have a pay-pal account but I can send you check or money order prior to shipping.
Lady A – let me just say – Wow! That is some awsome writing. I feel like I have just received another B-day gift, and I thank you for sharing your wonderful skills with us. I can hardly wait until you have a published work to share with us. When you go on a book signing tour make sure you come out to Portland. I know a place you can stay – bed and breakfast service is provided. (Warning – ambient cat hair is the one true downside). Car and driver could also be provided. 🙂
Tango said
As you can tell, I didn’t go to any typing classes while I was gone. That was suppose to be:
to Himmie not Hemmie- and play not plan
to prtfvr that should have been tongue not lounge action. Although some tongue action in the lounge would be perfectly fine too! 😉
I’m giving myself a C- in typing. I’m glad I’m not interviewing this week and having to take typing tests for speed.
Tango said
Laurel,
So glad you got the ipod you wanted. I love the one I got for my b’day. (80Gig) If you know someone with one, see if you can get songs from them as this will save you mucho dinero. I also have quite an extensive CD collection which I transferred much from. I have all the BT eppies, but that’s a given. It is great to be able to watch it anytime anyplace!
Well, I must get back to my chores! Chat atcha latter!
DIZEY1 said
Bonjour Tango, vous avez été manqué. j’ai pris le grand soin de Henri.
Henri m’a donné de grands massages avec ses mains sensuelles.
That’s the best I can do for you Tango, Claire’s been away the last day or so, I miss her terribly too.
Laurel said
Tango! I missed you! Thank you for the birthday poem, I love it. I just copied it into a word document so I could keep it with my BT pics. Typos are always forgiven here. Without them we would never have had Birthday Weed and I wouldn’t have my twin – Lauren! lol
Beth – do we get any special set up at the Betty Ford Clinic? You know, plug ins for our i-pods, high speed internet…?
Himmie – I too loved the Bill O’Reilly scene. It seems to me that Norman is alway up against the greater demons as well as the heros. 🙂
lwildstar said
another Styx fan – i had front row seats – on the stage – for the reunioun tour years ago with Denis deyoung, (boy I feel old) and even got JY to give a guitar pick.
laurel – they are all different ( I hate the “cookie cutter jewelry” you find in stores where you meet 20 people wearing the same thing so everything I do is just different enough to make it unique) so just pick out which one you like and email me – and we’ll work things out over the payment. LognWldstr@aol.com
Ok watched episode 5 over lunch – did anyone else notice that when the ghost walks through Henry it almost looks like Henry turned to dust? Could just be the camera angles – not sure.
Ok must return to work!
Tango said
Dizey – Thanks! I needed that! Claire peut lui avoir enseigné le français, mais il semble que Henry ait pris que je lui ai enseigné l’art de massage et étends l’amour!
Laurel – ROTFLOL! I forgot about the birthday weed! I won’t even ask if you participated. Did you and Lauren celebrate together or was she participating in the birthday weed?
DIZEY1 said
Laurel but of course, we will have all the amenities. 50″ Plasma TV’s the better to watch my Henri on. We have sustanance brought in so we can watch 24-7 if you need a fix and can’t leave said 50″ TV. Oh and Henri will make special visits to those of us who just can’t make it another day without him. Massages are extra, but Henry/Kyle said the fee is minimal compared to the benefits he gives. (hee hee hee) 😉 🙂 I have my room reserved for a couple of years maybe more depending on how many years Lifetime’s gonna buy.
DIZEY1 said
Iwildstar, Yes he gets dusted when Magnus walks through him. Very cool I noticed it when I first saw it. Love CGI 😉
elizabeth said
My mind is just buzzing from all the posts I have tried to catch up on! Wow!
Lady A – loved your story. Can we say I am so addicted I could see the characters like I was watching a BT episode? That’s me..stand up and be counted…yes, I am a serious addict 😉
Himmiefan – You certainly know how to make me laugh! I will probably go back and read your stuff again when work gets to me.
prtfvr – Chapter 6 is great! You do such a wonderful job of capturing screen shots and adding the dialogue.
Anzia – good luck on your interview. Just be yourself. I have interviewed a lot of people for positions in this company and I have always responded better to those that were up front with me. I am always pretty honest in how I represent myself and it just works out better.
Laurel – my daughter is lobbying bit time for an iPod, but now I wonder if I want one too! How wonderful to watch Bt whenever I want. I’m glad you had a terrific birthday. Many more, my friend!
I look forward to Mondays with mixed feelings – bummed because IT IS Monday and I have to go to work, but excitement because I can catch up on all the posts. It is also very frustrating because people keep coming into my office to ask questions. What – do they think I am here to work????? 😉
elizabeth said
lwildstr – I named my vamp bat Vampiro Lunari. He is the Italian cousin to your little fellow. He insisted that was his name. What was I to do, but agree with him particularly when he whispered it in that lovely accent 🙂
Himmiefan said
Hmmm. Maybe we should make Betty Ford our headquarters with the castle(s) and the gutter as our vacation homes.
Loves History (where has he been??) first brought up Bill O’Reilly, and that got my warped mind going. I wish I could write as well as Z and Lady A (they’re both fantastic!), but someday with practice…. Got my own vampire story to write.
I think it was Madonna who said that Lauren could be Laurel’s evil twin. 🙂
By the way, I watched Blood Price again (and again, and again), and I love Henry’s expression when he looks at Mike after they’ve defeated Norman. He looks very jealous like he realizes that Mike is a dangerous rival in that he can give Vicki the normal relationship that Henry can’t. Poor baby!
elizabeth said
You guys want to know what a serious addiction I have…I have seriously considered going out and buying a 50″ LCD TV just to watch Blood Ties. I know…i’d hang my head in shame, but I think most of you understand my problem. Where is my room on the Blood Ties wing – I think I need to check in for awhile….
DIZEY1 said
Tango,
Henry m’a enseigné beaucoup de nouvelles choses. J’ai heureusement obligé, service avec un sourire. (HEE HEE HEE) 🙂 😉 😎
Himmiefan said
Prtfvr – I love your latest installment!
Elizabeth – thanks!
Anzia – good luck!! We’re all pulling for you!
DIZEY1 said
Elizabeth my dawlin’ I bought said 50″ flat screen TV last christmas for my mom and dad (sure!!) as their gift, along with TV I also HAAAD to buy this awesome Onkyo Surround Sound stero system, also got same system for my other brother. Now to watch that beautiful face so big and Henryish I’m glad I made the investment. BTW the TV’s awesome for football and soccer games the HD clarity is phenominal. Everyone should own one. IMO 😉
DIZEY1 said
Going to eat lunch mom made chicken sausage gumbo yesterday w/potato salad yummy. See ya when I get back.
elizabeth said
Okay, dizey, I now know for sure I absolutely have to have a new TV! I am drooling, positively drooling at the thought of watching Henry on it.
Laurel said
Elizabeth – Next time we go to lunch I will bring my new toy. You will want one. Even though the screen is small it is really clear and the sound is great. Now I want a new computer and a bigger tv with HD.
At this rate you’re going to end up interviewing me for a job over there. (I assure you I am only kidding). I used to do import/export for Nike and dealt directly with customs. I have also worked in domestic shipping.
If my daughter decides to go to one of the schools that are courting her I’m going to have to get back out there. I would really like to work at Borders, but I think I would end up owing more than I’d make! 🙂
elizabeth said
I’ve had these thoughts rattling around in my head for awhile and have always hesitated when it came to actually writing them down. I know many of us have had horrendously difficult things in our pasts that still ripple in our lives today. These experiences make us the people we are now; give us compassion for others that are suffering and color the way we look at the world today. Some of us suffer from crippling shyness or have battled back from physical difficulties and I admire each and every one of you!
I always considered myself painfully shy. I think I even mentioned it when I got up the nerve to quit lurking and actually post here. But, what I have discovered about myself is that some of those long held beliefs I had aren’t necessarily true anymore. At one point in my life I would break out in a cold sweat walking into a room of people I did not know. I couldn’t go anywhere by myself, offer an opinion or be the person that was the life of the party. I stood on the sidelines and observed. I still have those twinges.
What I am discovering about myself is I am becoming more comfortable in my own skin. Recently I was sitting in the San Diego airport waiting for a flight and I started to watch the people around me rather than have my nose buried in a book. What I suddenly realized was that all these people around me were not the perfect Hollywood ideal, that I didn’t need to be perfect to find a mate and that the way I looked was as good as anyone else I saw. What an epiphany! All these people were just as flawed as I was and were probably dealing with just as many insecurities as me!
This all really hit home when I met our dear Laurel for lunch. I actually expected myself to be nervous and awkward (like I was in the past), but what I found was anticipation to meet someone I just knew I was going to like 🙂 I didn’t find it difficult to talk to her and her lovely daughter at all. I just let myself be…myself. What a blessing.
lwildstr – you are taking chances with Paul and I applaud you. Keep it up!
Cree – I know how difficult it can be to put yourself out there. We all worry about rejection and being humiliated. I hope that time allows you to spread your wings a little and fly. You won’t hit the rocks because there are so many people out there like this “family” that will be there to catch you and help you gain your strength to soar. Keep taking that deep breath and post your thoughts, smile more and realize you are special and worthy of friendship and love. I say that to all of you. I am learning this daily. Eternity is too long to live with regret!!
Okay, I feel better now. I will step down and take a deep breath 😉
Laurel said
So which one of you sent the Birthday Weed?
It was apparently catnip! My kitties have strewn the contents of the package all over the living room! They are now drooling stupidly and wobbling around the house. They haven’t been this happy since last Christmas when they broke into Sarah’s closet and got into the catnip she was using to make cat-toys for the no-kill cat shelter where she volunteers. They are not to be trusted around the stuff. At least they are mellow drunks. Himmie dear, did you send it?
Laurel said
Elizabeth – It was such a joy to meet with you too. Sarah thinks we should get together with your daughter as well. They would have plenty of anime/manga to talk about. I do have two daughters, so you will probably meet her before too long. Are we going to be able to have lunch this week? I have no children at home this week, so I am available most days. I sometimes have a lunch date with my hubby on Thursdays, but I can easily convince him to go fishing. 🙂
Laurel said
Where did everybody go?
lwildstar said
Ok just snuck in – should get back to work – but I needed a brain break!
Dizey – I thought so – but it goes by so fast I wasn’t sure – and Vicki didn’t react so…you start to think your eyes played tricks you know – I really think Vicki should have said something about it later (sarcasticly “is that going to happen often?”) – I would have freaked if my partner turned to dust and then came back!
Also i slow-moed that segment – if you get a chance to do that I had to laugh – Vickis hand is right at the ghost crotch as he knocks her down!
To those adopting bats: please add the origin of you guy – as Elizabeth did – for the family tree – plenty of little guys left who need a home! other wise they’ll be returned to my friend and put away in the closet 😦
ok must go
Tango said
Dizey, Service with a smile is inevitable with Henry. He says his smile is his best feature, but I beg to differ. His eyes, his lips, those hands and arms, can’t forget those abs and legs. Did I mention that back? Oooohhh, my head is getting woosie, I’m feeling light headed. It must be withdrawls – someone send me Henry – quick! I need to run my fingers through those curls!
Elizabeth, I’m so proud of you! Is this the same woman that joined us just a few months ago who was so unsure of herself? I think the lesson you learned is one of the most important to grasp in life. The confidence you will gain from it will make you rise above things you never thought possible. And I do believe you are headed for great things. Yea for you!
Lady Afrodyte said
“Lady A – loved your story. Can we say I am so addicted I could see the characters like I was watching a BT episode? That’s me..stand up and be counted…yes, I am a serious addict”
As I was writing it I would write about half a page, stop and visualize the action. If I thought it worked I left it, if it didn’t I made a note of what needed to change and moved on. For over a week I had them walking through my head. I can tell you Vicki was not at all happy about my absence. I had to leave them shortly after Henry fought the creature, and I felt so bad about it, but work called.
I too admit here and now that I am a Blood Ties addict. I don’t mind so much now that I know I can use my “mad writing skillz” to vent my frustrations. Every morning I check around to see if there has been any news about another season.
msgypsy said
Just a post-and-run from me today, blog-kin. got work to do…
But I had to tell you something I forgot about this morning. (Hadn’t had enough caffeine yet.)
When I went to “Harry Potter” yesterday, the guy at the ticket booth was a dead ringer for Norman in the episode “Norman.” Hair and all. Nails weren’t quite claws but they were black. Anyhow, thisis a little neighborhood theater and the ticket sellers are also backup on the popcorn sales so I got to see him over the counter as well as in the little ticket window. And I said out loud to him, “Man, you look like a character from this vampire show I watch.” And HE said, “Norman, you mean? Yeah, my girlfriend watches Blood Ties and we decided this was a good look for me.”
Then we both giggled insanely until someone else walked up to the ticket window.
Later, bloggerini!
rifkind said
Elizabeth,
I add my voice to Tango’s. Wow! You have grown so much. Congratulations!
You had a great observation at the airport. Most folks are living in their own little bubble and are definitely NOT all Hollywood types!
elizabeth said
Laurel – I would love to meet you for lunch again. Unfortunately, this week is chaos, but Wednesday or Friday of next week are pretty clear. Will that work for you?
How are your kitties doing after their catnip adventure? My cats love the stuff. I even tried planting some in my garden for them, but every cat in the neighborhood started hanging out and just mangled the poor plant. It was hysterical watching “stoned” cats weave through my yard though and they always found a way to get to the plant no matter what I did. I thought I would be smarter the next year and just plant the catnip in a container and put it on my potting table the next year. Imagine my surprise to walk out one morning and find the neighbors cat asleep in the middle of my crushed plant! That was the end of my growing it for my own cats-hehehe
loves history said
heading to nashville to see about a transplant down south be back in aweek so hasta la vista
elizabeth said
Loves history – Good luck! Say “hi” to Nashville for me. I haven’t been there in a lot of years! You are in my prayers..
Thank you Tango/rifkind for your words of encouragement. They mean a lot to me!
Lady Afrodyte said
Good luck LH!! My thoughts are with you.
DIZEY1 said
Elizabeth,
You almost had me in tears. In a good way 😉 You know I have to say that since March 11th I think when I watched Blood Price, things have changed for me also. I never went onto any sites like these and never got on and chated or blogged w/anyone before now. Had I not watched that 2 hr. movie I’d have never met some of the most interesting, & awesome people. I can only say thank you to LIFETIME, and Tanya for the gift of Henry,VIcki,Mike of course my sweety Norman and ya’ll. 🙂 You people ROCK!!!
DIZEY1 said
LH so glad to hear from you. I”m so happy for you. I told you it would happen. I’ve got my fingers crossed and will keep you in my prayers.
*****GOOD LUCK AND GODSPEED*****
Beth
Himmiefan said
Loves History – I’m in Nashville! You must be going to Vanderbilt. They’re one of the best in the country. I’d try to stick my head in and say hi to you and your wife, but I’m drowning in projects and may have to go out of town. Plus, I know you might not feel well.
Anyway, if you’re looking for good food in that area, there’s a PF Changs (love PFs), Bread and Company for great sandwiches, and in the downtown area, Merchant’s and The Palm. Also, Hillsboro Village has a great selection.
Hope everything goes well, and you and your wife are in our prayers.
Himmiefan said
Laurel – I sent you, shall we say, weed-filled well wishes. If I had had the “hard stuff” as I call it, in my home, my cat would have been staggering around trying to get a monkey off her back.
I second the statement that I’m glad so many of us got up the courage to post, first on Tanya’s blog, then here. Like many of you, I had never done anything like that before, and am really glad I did. I’ve made so many friends!
Laurel said
Blessings go with you LH. We will be praying for you and your dear lady.
Elizabeth, next week I am the craft diva for Vacation Bible School. I will be in charge of ALL craft projects for the week. I have done this for the past four years but have never been so ill-prepared. I didn’t get all the recycled pringles cans, etc that we need so now I am having to go with plan B. Actually ever single craft now has a plan B or later component. Yikes.
Actually I will be going to the Estacada Quilt Show on Saturday with my folks and Moonbeam (if she can break free). Will you be going with your mom?
Claire said
Dizey… ce qui étaient toi masaging sur Henri ?
Tango… quel type de service sont toi parlant ? Que vous avez fourni en sourire?
Oh..eut-être les mêmes services nous avons fourni entre nous samedi et dimanche?
LOL…that Henri…he really does get around…I’m still tired…lol!
Prtfvr…(((((((((HUG))))))) more amazing similarities…your childhood has some very similar qualities as mine…also my father died when I was 22.You are also an amazing woman..my sister…so many people that experience those sorts of things…use them to become unbelieving,mean and sometimes downright evil…you instead are loving and kind and downright funny!As we have all seen from your comics!
Now…who mentioned Kyles sideburns? OOOOH Mercy…I love them!
I hope to check back in later…I missed you guys! Well, in between the breaks between services! Dizey and Tango know what I’m talking about…but anyway it’s getting hard to blog…with the Quads off of school…if I don’t entertain them…they run amok and start fighting!
Laurel said
Himmie and Elizabeth – your cat stories crack me up! I too tried to grow a little catnip in my garden and ended up with crushed plants. lol
Lady Afrodyte said
Claire, you brought up a good point.
I lost my father at age 17. My sister has, ever since, used my fathers death as an excuse for her behavior.
When my mother and I confronted her about her drug use, she blamed dad’s passing. It sickens me to remember it.
I can’t believe some people and how they cannot or will not take the blame for their actions and instead use some hardship in their past to explain it all.
Ugh!
Claire said
LH-GodBless and Good`luck!!!!!!!!! I hope you recieve good news!
I will be praying for you and your wife!
Madonna…thank you for the email! I love it!
DIZEY1 said
Claire,
J’ai frotté chaque partie du corps glorieux d’Henry. Je lui ai donné le service avec un sourire.
Hey can you blame me?? I don’t think so. 😉 🙂 😎
elizabeth said
Laurel – Good luck with your stint as the craft diva. I am not terribly artistic, but I certainly admire those that are! How does August 6 or 7 look for your schedule? I am leaving for a weeks vacation later in the week, but that Monday or tuesday my schedule is blessedly clear 🙂
I was sitting in my Den on Sunday and knitting. The Tv was on in the background and I can’t remember what was on, but I happened to look up about the the this beautiful moon was on the screen. I kept expecting bats to fly across and the Bt theme to play. It certainly got my heart pumping for a minute until I realized it was just wishful thinking on my part and the movie continued on its way. *sigh*
elizabeth said
Oops, Sorry Laurel, I didn’t mean to ignore you question about Saturday and the Quilt show in Estacada. My mom mentioned it and I may try to go out there for the weekend. I will keep an eye out for you if I do make it. Just look for me and my Mom (she’s the one in the cast 🙂
Cree said
Elizabeth: Good for you that you are starting to come out of your shell. I didn’t realize until today that you were one of the “shy” ones on here as I see you post frequently and I wasn’t around when you first started posting. I wish I had the courage to look up and start watching other people like you did, but every time I almost get the nerve up to, some little stupid voice in my head says not to out of fear that someone will realize that I am watching them and confront me on it and then I would be embarrassed and wouldn’t know how to respond to something like that (silly, I know).
Dizey: You really nailed it when you said “I have to say that since March 11th I think when I watched Blood Price, things have changed for me also. I never went onto any sites like these and never got on and chated or blogged w/anyone before now. Had I not watched that 2 hr. movie I’d have never met some of the most interesting, & awesome people”
That is so true for me too. This is the first time I have ever chatted online or blogged and I still can’t believe I had the nerve to do it, but I am sure glad I did. Funny how one TV show could change so many of our lives in the ways it has!
Laurel said
I will only be gone through noon each day next week, so I could do lunch. Pick a day and I will make it happen. My craft segments should end by 11:40 and I can sneak away. I’ll have my cell phone on me this weekend in case we get a chance to meet up!
I know what you mean about seeing the moon on a program and expecting BT. We may be warped forever! “sigh”
I’m going to have to log out for a while so I can recharge my i-pod. I seem to have run down the battery already. Watching episodes of BT is sucking the life out of it! bwahahahaha
Himmiefan said
Dizey – Love your avatar!! I need to remember to log in so mine will show up. I’ve also got to do some of that stuff to it that Rifkind recommended. Anyway, what a smile!
elizabeth said
Cree – You are moving in the right direction. Just try to stop listening to the “stupid little voice” that makes you doubt yourself. I had the same one constantly nagging me about my short comings, but I try to ignore it now. I have found myself walking much straighter down our halls here at work and making eye contact. You cannot imagine how amazed I have been at the smiles and greetings I get! It just makes my day 🙂
Laurel – yea for lunch next week! Friday is still the best day for me. You pick the place this time and I can meet you whenever it is convenient with your schedule. Mine is pretty clear for the afternoon.
DIZEY1 said
Doc Cree,
I know how strange things just happen. What are the odds of all us women meeting up and curing each other of our ailments. My brother even said something to me one day that I seemed different , happier something to that effect. Go figure how a FINE, HUNKY VAMPIRE would wind up changing my life. Hmmmmmm. 😉
Well I’m getting ready to head out got to go rollerblading w/Melanie after work and I’ll check in at home later.
Love Ya’ll XOXOXOXO
loves history said
thx everyone i will be going to vanderbilt for tests my brother in law is a dr there not in transplant but he has talked to them for me
DIZEY1 said
OH LH that is wonderful. It will happen for you. The universe is leading you to the place that will fix it and make it better. Go for it. I’ll most certainly keep you and your lovely bride in my prayers. God Bless !! 🙂
Cree said
Dizey said: “What are the odds of all us women meeting up and curing each other of our ailments. My brother even said something to me one day that I seemed different , happier something to that effect”
That is so funny that you said that because soon after I found this blog, my co-workers actually said the same thing to me, that I seem happier and that I smile more now. I definitely notice that I smile more. It just seems that everything throughout the day reminds me of BT in one way or another which makes me giggle to myself, then I can’t wait to get home and check the blog to see what similar stories you guys had throughout the day. This is the only place anyone understands the obsession! Like Ms. Gypsy said earlier about the ticket guy looking like Norman (and that was actually the look he was going for)….that is too funny!
Cree said
Elizabeth: Doesn’t it scare you to make eye contact with people in the halls, though, because it would sure scare the crap out of me! Eye contact makes me more nervous than anything else because I never know what to do….smile, nod, etc? I am just uncomfortable with people looking at me and by making eye contact I would feel like I was inviting them to look at me. By avoiding it, I am saying “leave me alone and don’t look at me” which is the way I have come to like it. Were you like that before?
vicki said
LH…good luck,,and God bless. I will be praying for you.
Still not done with Harry..I will finish it before this night is over…It is way to good. I have not been able to guess what is going to happen next.
I watched State of Mind last night on Lifetime..it is not too bad. I do like Lilly Taylor she is a good actress.
Later blog kin
Anzia said
WOW, a girl goes away for a day and ya’ll come back to play! I’m glad to see everyone back. I was starting to plan search parties!
Elizabeth- I’m glad you’ve come so far. Even more glad that you decided to post. You’re so much fun!
lwldstar- bats? did I miss something? Are they little furry creatures or the real deal?
Thanks for all the well wishing. I think it went pretty good. I won’t know if I got it for a day or two so… Keep the fingers crossed! ^_^
Anzia said
LH- Good luck dear!
rifkind said
LH – Good wishes and health
lwildstar said
Anzia – HMV Fangs is on my website – he is also Rifkinds avatar. Small metalic fuzzy purple bats – they are the “unofficial” mascot for this group.
If you want one let me know
The link to my site is somewhere above – or email me and I’ll send you his picture LognWldstr@aol.com
And I’m sure you got the job….positive thinking.
Ms. Gypsy – the letter came today – I wasn’t worried, I knew you have been busy – Thanks!
LH – my prayers are with you!
And you know my co workers have mentioned that I’ve been smiling more (at first they chalked it up to Paul) but I think I’ve been more open with Paul because of all of your encouragement…I just keep repeating some of the things that Henry has said about love and passion and regret, and It gives me a little jolt of courage. Who knew….and yes I was one of the shy ones too…I lurked for quite a long time before I joined in.
Well there goes the timer, dinner is done and I am off to go read Harry Potter.
I am setting a time limit of 11pm for bed – thats the latest I can stay up and still be functional the next day.
elizabeth said
Cree – I was absolutely like you described at one time. I rarely made eye contact and would literally break out in a sweat getting on an elevator with a lot of people – particularly if they were men! I always felt so inadequate and would blush to the roots of my hair if anyone looked at me. I am not kidding! I have just found that the more I reached out the easier it became. I found friends that were outgoing and that allowed me to sit quietly until I became comfortable enough with others to speak up. I am not saying it was always great – I’ve had my share of rejection and that is painful, but I found I needed more than an internal life on my own.
I found a guy that liked me for myself and we spent 15 years together and had two wonderful children. That also expanded my world, because now I needed to advocate for my children and I couldn’t hide in a corner. It just kept getting easier. Even after our divorce, a spectacularly failed relationship that produced my youngest child and a move to Oregon I just kept trying to find myself.
My biggest growth was when I was promoted to Management. Trust me, nobody was more surprised and shocked than me! I was terrified to make a mistake or be the center of attention for any reason. But, that became easier over time and I really enjoy my role now. Meetings don’t scare me very much anymore, talking to the President of the company doesn’t make me shake in my shoes (I just feel shaky), and dealing with millions of corporate dollars is easier than balancing my own checkbook!
Honestly, writing this has made me realize how far I have come. It isn’t to say is hasn’t been difficult and every day I make the choice as to how I will react to my environment, but it is so worth the journey, Cree. You might be surprised at the smiles you get from people. And even if you don’t know what to say if they speak to you just take a deep breath and smile back at them. I have found that people will take that opening and you could find a valued friend you wouldn’t have otherwise. Does that make sense?
rifkind said
Anzia –
About HMV Bat.. that is my little avatar.. but came from a post AGES ago from lwildstar.. Her friend made the little critters for Halloween and had a bunch left over.. (HMV Henry Mike Vicky) and we have adopted him as the mascot for the Paranormal Avengers.. 🙂
——- From Ages ago —–
lwildstar said,
June 27, 2007 @ 10:03 am
…..if anyone would like to adopt some of HMV Fangs’ brothers (yet to be named) please let me know. My friend went berserk making them to give out instead of candy for Halloween last year – and no kids showed up! I think she has like 12 of them – adoption fee is $2.50 each for the postage!
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elizabeth said
Jeez, I have been very wordy today. I don’t think I have ever posted such long scrolls of words before *sheepish grin* Thanks for putting up with me 🙂
Lady Afrodyte said
“Doesn’t it scare you to make eye contact with people in the halls, though, because it would sure scare the crap out of me!”
I’m an unusually tall woman for my area. I get noticed no matter where I go. In high school I always kept my head low, my shoulders hunched. I really wanted to hide.
Now that I am beginning to become more comfortable with my self and who I really am inside I find myself head high and meeting the stares of those around me. I give a small smile and sometimes a nod. I don’t want to intimidate or scare people, although I can do that just as easily.
Make an effort to make eye contact with a small number of people. Do it at the mall, or someplace where you probably won’t see the people again.
It’s a great character builder. I know I would have never even considered modeling or being a model recruit had I not built up my confidence.
elizabeth said
I am heading home, my friends. Have a wonderful evening and I look forward to catching up with you tomorrow. Toodles.
Madonna said
Hi everyone,
First off, big Styx fan here too. Favorite songs by them are The Best Of Times (Love That One!), Babe and Too Much Time On My hands.
Now tell me y’all…. How rare and how special is it that a simple but fabulous show can mean so much to so many? I keep thinking about all the people Blood Ties hasn’t yet reached. This show could be a self-esteem phenomenon.
Something that I can tell you all about my shyness. It directly coincides with how I feel physically and how I feel about my weight on any given day. I’ve had the opportunity to see what it is like being more slender and I am a much more outgoing person. I can look anyone in the eye. Actually speaking with stangers is my biggest problem.
I was isolated during my adolesence. For close to two years literally the only people I saw were my parents, my sister, doctors, physical therapists and occasionally my aunt and my cousin who was my age. This is pretty bad considering my mom has 6 brothers and sisters who all have kids and my dad has 7 brothers and sisters, most of whom have kids.
Due to this I have a horrible time getting close to people I don’t know. Either I feel stupid around people my own age because I don’t know pop culture and I’ve never been involved in the things they were or I feel like they are judging me because of my appearance. I have my good days and bad days but I always try to put myself out there in some small way. My worst days are when the depression hits.
About 2 months ago one of my doctors told me this….. Isolation is cruel and unusual punishment, especially when it is forced on you. That is what they do to POW’s and to people in prisons. You can’t live like that. The soul craves companionship.
Cree,
Elizabeth,
lwildstar,
I hear you ladies loud and clear. Blood Ties and the companionship I’ve found on here have helped me immensely too.
Remember, (I include myself here too) You have to crawl before you can walk. Baby steps…..We’ll get there!
Loves history,
Congratulations on the possibility of a transplant. My thoughts and prayers are with you. I’ll keep my fingers and toes crossed for you.
Anzia,
Glad to hear you think it went well. I hope you get it!!!!!!!
Claire,
You’re very welcome!
Lady Afrodyte,
How tall are you? I’m on the opposite end of that spectrum. 5’3″ and I get flack about it all the time.
Margaret said
While everyone is remembering what Blood Ties has done for each of us we need to still remember that BLOOD TIES NEEDS US. We still need to bury Lifetime with Post Cards until they tell us otherwise.
Cree said
Elizabeth: Thanks for sharing your story. Maybe one day I will be able to muster up the courage to look someone in the eye and smile and perhaps make a new friend. For now though, just posting on this blog has put me just outside my comfort zone enough to last a while. I am still getting used to this, and its not even face to face. I can’t tell you how many times over the past few weeks I have written something to post and then deleted it because I thought it was stupid after I got it all typed out. I know it is silly and you guys don’t care even if I were to post something stupid (as you have all told me numerous times), but that just kinda gives you an idea about where I am coming from with this. You guys sure do make it easier when I do decide to hit that submit button though, for which I am very thankful for your kindness and understanding.
Himmiefan said
Hey Margaret! Are we supposed to know something by the end of this month, or did I dream that?
Gosh, I sure hope I don’t say Harry instead of Henry on my postcards. 🙂
I’ve been playing up how I like the strong lead being female. Hope they like that!
Himmiefan said
Hey Madonna! I’ve been kind of slow lately and am not just getting aroung to telling you my slogan and logo. Should I post here or e-mail you? What’s your e-mail again?
Claire said
Oh My My Ms.Dizey!!! You are one naughty girl in Francais!!!!! 😛
Lady A….Your story could be an episode!!! It was damn good!
As a matter of fact..all of you that wrote stories were that good!!!
Wouldn’t it be great if lifetime held a contest…where fans got to write some episodes?
Awww…there are such talented women on this blog…I love it!
Anzia…Positive thoughts..remember? You will get the job.
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Margaret said
According to Tanya sometime back she said on her Live Journal-either BY the end of July or the END of July, so no you didn’t dream it. We still have work to do.
moonbeam said
My-oh-my- quite the chat
Anzia- I am truly rooting for you!
LH- I’m right up there with everyone on keeping you in the forefront with prayers for a transplant.
Thinking tall and feeling secure, I work really hard trying to remember that everyone puts their clothes on the same way. I try to pretend that I’m serving them coffee like when I was waiting tables. That’s what I did when I was looking for my job as a teacher, because I was so wigged out and had the adminstrators on such a pedestal. When I face a conflict with a colleague or difficult family, I try to visualize things that give us common ground, make eye contact, physical touch and smile (even when I don’t feel like it) My first response is to become very tired and need to take a nap or to get a major migraine and have to take a nap!
I’m still working on those BT cards and I even went to their blog and left a note.
moonbeam said
Cree, I’m right there with you on the typing and deleting!
Himmiefan said
Thinking tall and feeling secure – I like that!
Thinking back to what Elizabeth said today about watching people at the airport and realizing that she’s just like everyone else and no worse (if I’ve gotten that part right). I agree! Also, no one should beat themselves up because they don’t look like models and actors; those models and actors don’t even look like that! It’s called the miracle of Photoshop and filters.
Also, something I’ve discovered: we judge ourselves far harder than others judge us. Sure, you’re going to find your judgemental ones, but they’re just acting out of their own insecurities.
By the way Ms Gypsy, I love your Norman incident. How funny! You know, I’m a medium (bottle) blond in Ann Taylor clearance sale clothes. I wonder if the Norman look would work for me. Hmmmm…
prtfvr said
rifkind: I have to tell you, and this is NO lie! I always wondered why you had a hard candy as your icon! It’s a bat! LOL!! I never knew! That’s too funny!
Maybe we need to start a self-help group. We could call it the Bloody Ford Clinic and talk about how horrible our childhoods were and what ails us. Sign me up first!
It’s official! I have bronchitis! I’m a doctor in my spare time! Wish it paid more. Unfortunately, and this falls into the realm of TMI so avert your eyes, I can’t take antibiotics unless there’s no other choice. Colitis doesn’t like it. So here I sit, with my pack of antibiotics, waiting a few days to see if this stupid thing clears up on its own so that I don’t have to risk taking them.
Oh well, if that’s the worst complaint I have, I DAMN lucky!! Woo Hoo for me!! 🙂
moonbeam said
I like that “Bloody Ford” clinic hmmm the Norman look!
I want to know how to get the icon next to my “moonbeam” I got my pic of Henry on my desktop, but I can’t get him to drag over? It’s a drag, literally
Laurel said
Moonbeam – Ah ha! There you are! I hope you know I have always thought of you as beautiful and strong. I can’t imagine you taking any garbage to heart because I know you are wonderful, not to mention – how well dressed you are. 🙂 Guess I should tell you so more often.
Anzia – good job with the interview! I hope you get good news soon.
I also thought Lady A wrote something good enough to be an episode. I feel like I actually got to see one before October because the characters and the story were so right.
Madonna said
Margaret,
I’ve been emailing sponsors, doing internet searches and sending postcards. I haven’t forgotten that Henry needs us.
Himmiefan,
I haven’t even started on the emblems yet. Just send it to my email. I might be able to get to them for a little while on Thursday, Friday and maybe this weekend. Still not sure yet. MadonnaJPike@aol.com
I probably won’t be around too much this week. I have a mountain of stuff that needs my attention. We just had someone quit at work and another is off on vacation all week. That leaves 4 designers to do about 1,300 ads. Also Fall and Winter are the biggest candle seasons, and well, lets just say they don’t make themselves.
Can whoever has Henry send him my way in the next day or two? I NEED HIM!!!!
Until later,
Love y’all!
moonbeam said
Laurel- anxious to see the new b-day toy!
Hoping to go to Victoria this next week. Might have to skip quilt show, unless Allan is willing to stop for visit in P-land enroute. Still waiting for birth certificate on me (what an ordeal)
With a personal seamstress like you, it’s only natural that I look sooooooo good!
I echo the episode comment that has be made by many to Lady A ~ Wow!
I’m glad you had such a good birthday sweetie! xo
Madonna said
prtfvr,
I hope you feel better soon. Just think about Henry there nursing you.
Laurel said
rifkind, I too must admit to seeing a hard candy as your icon. Guess I can chalk that up to my addiction to sugar as well as poor eye-sight. Nuts, I had to go find my glasses just to type this in. 😎
moonbeam said
rifkind, well it looks like a little bat with eyes to me, or it could be a hard candy (BT/Halloween themed :>). Either way, I couldn’t see it without my readers on one way or the other. Of course, I couldn’t see much of anything without them perched upon my nose if I’m looking to type or read. The eyes are going . . .quickly. . .
AlisaSG said
from AlisaSG,
>> vicki,
>> when I wrote the following-
>> >> Some declare it promotes evil (magic), others claim it’s just fantasy – get over it!
>> that wasn’t directed at you. ..
>> I should have worded it better, but 3 times now, I kept rereading it and hoping you weren’t taking it personally.. (please!)
from vicki,
>> Alisa…
>> No offense taken..
to vicki,
thank you! 🙂
msgypsy said
“Can whoever has Henry send him my way in the next day or two? I NEED HIM!!!!”
Madonna, for some reason it’s me tonight but I’m done with him and he’s heading your way. (I took a brief nap when I got home and had a Blood Ties/Harry Potter dream and I just do not want to talk about it now!)
Laurel and Elizabeth! We need to plan a weekend meeting sometime. I work in Forest Grove and only get an hour for lunch and they don’t make a good TARDIS like they used to…
I’m thinking about caramel frozen yogurt with bits of cinnamon rolls in it. (This is a Schwans product and while I wouldn’t normally advertise for anyone, this stuff is so amazingly wonderful I just have to mention it…) After that maybe I’ll be back. Or maybe I’ll be watching a movie. I keep forgetting that my laptop has a bigger screen than my tv does. And the DVD player in it is better than the one my tv has, too. I’m thinking either Legend of the Rangers (Laurel, I’ll see if I can find the iTunes link for you) or another few episodes of Crusade.
AlisaSG said
Mostly everyone here is concerned about LIFETIME renewing the series..
but I have a question – has anyone considered the other stations and countries outside of Lifetime, where Blood Ties has been scheduled, or is potentially considering to broadcast hopefully, the entire series??
(just wondering)
I’m thinking those people need as much encouragement as possible – wherever they are. I saw the latest list of countries added for viewing BT on the BloodTiesCentral news site, and the info below is a direct copy and paste of that info–
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as of “2007-07-19:
FINALLY! More info about which other countries are going to air Blood Ties.
So far, its:
EUROPE:
France
Germany – on RTL2
Italy
Spain
UK – on Living, starting August 20
Plus in some as yet un-identified countries in Central & Eastern Europe
MIDDLE EAST:
Israel – on Sony’s AXN
AFRICA:
South Africa
SOUTH AMERICA:
Brazil
ASIA:
Some as yet un-identified countries
Sorry – no news about Australia or the other continents.
Meanwhile, it seems a bit uncertain whether CityTV Toronto and Winnipeg will start airing Blood Ties on August 20.
CityTV Toronto and Winnipeg – check your local listings
CityTV Calgary and Edmonton – Thurs at 8 -10 PM, starts August 23
CityTV Vancouver – Sundays at 8 – 10 PM, starts August 26
Space – Fridays at 9 PM ET, starting either September 13 or 20
Looks like Lifetime will start airing the remaining Blood Ties episode on Saturday October 13th. Supposedly two episodes per week, meaning that they will only last 5 weeks.”
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If the ratings in those countries do very good (or maybe even climb sky-high, and with maybe more getting added to the list), that is another avenue that might make Lifetime *reconsider* a (REAL and full 22 eps) 2nd season.
I’ve passed the link to the above countries list and station details over at Gateworld’s Steve Bacic’s topic. Apparently, most of the folks reading his topic have NOT seen Blood Ties YET, and some are from Canada and the UK, etc. So, they will be starting from the VERY BEGINNING, and will have to wait until his episode (# 1×13) shows up.. I recommended watching the earlier eps to gain a better understanding of the series, and also to see Henry!
Some of Steve’s faithful fans thought he might be good to play Mike (as a long-termed job role.. plus, they’ve read the books, but haven’t seen the Tv version yet).. so more converts are hopefully on their way..
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Please also remember, if passing on any of the news info, or storyline info — please make note of any SPOILERs or SPOILER tags as a courtesy to those who haven’t yet seen, and don’t want to know that Mike’s character starts out being really mean and suspicious (and JEALOUS!), when he first meets Henry, etc. 😉
I had to even HIDE Henry’s gorgeous photos from folks who’ve never seen them before, too, and were curious; but some other people would prefer getting surprised the long route of waiting instead.
Himmiefan said
Prtfvr – I feel for you! Bronchitis is no fun, especially since you have problems with antibiotics. Hope you feel better soon!! By the way, when you do take antibiotics, do you drink acidopholus ( I know I didn’t spell that right…) milk with it? A doctor suggested that to me, and it made a big difference.
Sounds like Prtfvr needs Henry whenever whoever has him can let him go.
prtfvr said
I know the stuff you’re talking about, Himmie and I ain’t drinkin’ it no way, no how!! UGH!!
Well, Madonna has Henry here “nursing” me. Maybe it’s just my age showing but I’d rather be nursing Henry. I mean, really Madonna! I have bronchitis! I ain’t much for nursing even Henry right now! Got enough gunk in my lungs as it is! 😉
Delete, delete, delete!
prtfvr said
Chapter 7 is up.
Lady Afrodyte said
Lady Afrodyte,
“How tall are you? I’m on the opposite end of that spectrum. 5′3″ and I get flack about it all the time.”
I am 5’8″ the average height around here is probably 5’3″ or so. I also usually wear heels of some sort.
“Lady A….Your story could be an episode!!! It was damn good!”
Funny that all of you would pick up on this. I made a comment to my boy friend as I was writing that I should be a writer for the show. I ended up having to spend an entire afternoon researching to find the perfect creature. If they did have such a contest I would definitely enter, although I think I would be up against some great writers.
I also have always wanted to write for a tv show. Maybe one day I’ll get the chance!
Himmiefan said
Prtfvr – sounds like you need an emergency dose of chocolate. Good for whatever ails you.
Um, since you’re not using Henry at this moment, um, can I have him? Please?
Himmiefan said
Lady A – I second that. Your writing did “feel” just like an episode. You go girl!
By the way, what is that, um, critter on you weblog? Also, that photo, is that you? What are you all banged up????
I read the post about your sister, I think it is. Are things better?
Lady Afrodyte said
Ok, the “critter” is a random painting I saw YEARS ago and thought was cool. I don’t know what picture you are talking about,
My sister hasn’t changed. She still blames others for her drug use. We haven’t heard from her in a few weeks. I think she went back into rehab, but I could be wrong.
Himmiefan said
Hi! I clicked on something, I forget what, and it took me to a homepage. On it was an enlarged photo of a woman with bruises and cuts all over her face. Quite concerning, actually.
I hope things get better with your sister. I have a good friend whose son recently chose, on his own, to go into rehab and actually got a job! He got into drugs about three years ago and put his family through hell. When he turned 18 about a year ago, he left home and they didn’t hear from him for a long time. He finally contacted them and said that he was ready to change. Now, I know he could have a setback, but maybe not. All you can do for people at this point is just pray for them.
Keep us posted!
Anzia said
LA- I’m with you… on the always wanting to write for a TV show. ^_^ You’d definitely do good in that avenue!
prtfvr- naughty naughty girl! 😉 I hope you start feeling better soon. I hate having bronchitis. BLECH!
Thanks for the bat info. They sounds adorable!
I’m working on the stories I am.. I promise! Just busy busy busy on this end. Sorry!
Lady Afrodyte said
Ahh! You must have found my Deviant art page! It’s makeup, all makeup. FX makeup is one of my odd hobbies. I was attempting to make myself into a zombie and it didn’t quite work out right. I used it as and ID for the site because it’s one of the few that show my face closely.
I hope you didn’t think that I would advocate violence against women… eep!
Himmiefan said
“I’m working on the stories I am.. I promise! Just busy busy busy on this end. Sorry!”
Like that’s an excuse! 🙂
Lady Afrodyte said
Z, I totally understand being busy. Take your time, don’t rush it and put out something you are not 100% happy with.
Himmiefan said
Lady A – no, no! I didn’t think that!! I didn’t know what to think, but I didn’t think that!! Not to worry. I’m just glad it wasn’t real!
I read a story a few years ago about a man who got a photo in the mail. It was a close up of a woman who had been strangled to death. He was horrified and gave it to the police. The police noticed that the woman’s pupils weren’t quite right for a dead body. It turned out to be a still from a movie and the makeup artist was putting it into her portfolio. It was delivered to the man by accident.
Anywho, I’m currently reading (well, before Harry Potter came along) The TV Writer’s Workbook by Ellen Sandler. It’s really good.
Anzia said
Himmie dear, 😛 that’s all I have to say to that. 😉 (said with LOTS of joking!… in case that wasn’t obvious ^_^)
LA- Have you thought about trying to get into that market?
That actually goes for you too Himmie. Even though you say you don’t write well, you do. You capture character REALLY well. And to do it through dialogue only isn’t easy. I can see you writing scripts.
So, have either of you looked into something like that?
Himmiefan said
Z – I hope you know I was joking (sort of)….
🙂
I’m torn! Both Henry and Harry are calling my name!
Lady Afrodyte said
Oh jeeze that poor man!
I need a few brush ups on screen writing before I try to actually write out an episode of anything.
Anzia said
For the record, if *I* ever got a picture of what looked like a dead person I’d freak out too! Well, knowing an ex-friend of mine I’d also be calling every person that was near and dear to me to make sure they were still alive and kickin… but still. CREEPY!
Himmiefan said
Yes, actually, my two-year plan is to leave corporate America and support myself writing both novels and scripts. I also want to do the husband and screaming baby thing. I’ll have to Post-It Note it or it just won’t get done.
How did the interview go?
Anzia said
Himmie- of course! So was I ^_^
Lady Afrodyte said
Hahahaha!
I don’t have a husband yet, and while the kid isn’t mine he still screams and makes a mess of the house.
That being said… My house is COVERED in post-it notes and To-Do lists.
Lady Afrodyte said
Once upon a time I was a theatre major I wanted to break away from theatre to film and if I couldn’t make it as an actress I wanted to write.
I have considered returning to my “roots” as they were, but until I am financially stable I’ll stick to writing novels in my spare time.
If I get the bug to really make an effort I’ll try my best to do it, but until then I’ll be happy writing trashy romances. 😉
Anzia said
LOL! Post-it note? 🙂 Um, I think it went pretty well. I had examples of basically everything that they were asking for. Sort of answered all of their questions. I impressed the second interviewer with an answer. He asked how If i had ever had to deal with a stressful situation outside work adn then go to work and how I had dealt with that. I had to stop myself from laughing! I explained that when I was at school I was working at least 3 jobs on top of my school work and such. I told him that going to work didn’t always mean going to “work.” That I loved, thrived, and tried to create an environment that induced stress reduction and fun. That there were definitely days where going to work was the stress-free parts of my day. He told me that he’d never had anyone answer like that. ^_^ So, maybe not impressed but he was definitly liking it. ^_^
Himmiefan said
Hey, every now and then, everyone needs a good trashy romance novel. Novels, scrips, whatever, I just like the creative process.
When I’m standing at the Pearly Gates, if God asks me what I’ve done with my life on Earth, I’m just going to hand over a pile of Post-Its and say, “Here. It’s all in here.” How did human civilization progress with out sticky notes?
Well, night ya’ll. The Deathly Hallows are calling.
Anzia said
I LOVE “trashy” romances! My favorite authors have some REALLY explicit love scenes but absolutely AMAZING characters and plotlines. They’re purrrrrrrrrfect!
In a perfect world I would try to write as a “profession” but, it’s not a perfect world so I only do it for my personal peace of mind, enjoyment for friends, and demanding BT addicts (J/K!…about the demanding part… not the addicted part ^_^)
I don’t really do the post-it note thing or the to-do lists. There are times when I make To-Do’s though and I get so anal about crossing those things off! I’ll write something I did on the list just so I can cross it off. (Yup…OCD much!?)
I too have a screaming kid (2 actually) not mine that destory the house. ^_^ Wouldn’t mind the husband… or a boyfriend… hell, I’ll go with a cuddle buddy at this point! … wait… i swear i’m not as desperate as that sounded… i don’t think…;)
Himmiefan said
Z – sounds like you made a good impression! Hope you get a second interview, if that’s how they’re doing it.
Okay, good night, again.
Lady Afrodyte said
lol!! that’s priceless!
Anzia said
Himmie- definitely like that idea! ^_^ *giggles* oh, I’d love to see the look on St. Peter’s face as he’s helping you cart all those post-it’s in! ^_^
Himmiefan said
Bertrice Small’s earlier works were great for trashy scenes.
You know, our favorite cast of characters might just have to have to-do lists. Hmmm…
Harry, I’m coming!!
Anzia said
g’night himmie
Lady Afrodyte said
sweet dreams Himmie
Anzia said
Hmm… there’s a thought. What would be on their to-do lists? Other than each other…
Lady Afrodyte said
Vicki… hmmm… Get a new case so she can get her landlord off her back.
Henry… Finish latest book, and convince Vicki to be with him
Mike… Dig up some real dirt on Henry so Vicki will be with him
Lady Afrodyte said
Oh and Coreen… Find that Demon Be Gone spray
Himmiefan said
Oh Z, you are bad! 🙂
Signing off. Sweet dreams ladies.
Anzia said
Himmie- ^_^ Of course ^_^
Um… I’d add “knock Henry & Mike’s heads together should they starting acting like fighting dogs” to Vicki’s
Coreen- convince someone to give her money for whatever reason.
Henry- stock his fridge… 😉
Lady Afrodyte said
naughty!
I have to toot my own horn for a moment and say how much I loved when I compared Vicki to a chew toy.
sorry… I had to.
Anzia said
YES! that was great! ^_^
Anzia said
Toot your own horn! sometimes that’s the only time it gets played right anyway.
^_^
Lady Afrodyte said
I should be writing… *glares at laptop*
In a few minutes maybe.
I’m gonna hop off of here and get some fresh air.
Talk to you all in the morning.
Anzia said
g’night LA!
rifkind said
Hi All,
I am just getting logged on tonight!
prtfvr
Yup, that is a little bat… I had to tip him to fit, or I would have cut off his wings! It is a picture from lwildstar’s webpage of HMV Fangs.
Moonbean
I haven’t gotten caught up with reading all the blog yet, BUT if you haven’t figured out how to get the Avatar to work.. I wrote up some notes and posted them on my wordpress pages.
prtfvr there is a larger picture of the cute little bat on the top of that page, where you can actually SEE what it is.. I had to shrink the image down to try to get it to fit into the Avatar window. 🙂
Anzia said
prtfvr- “Mike dresses for his flasback” OMG! LMAO! Great! GREAT! GREAT!
rifkind said
My Angel who lived next door, passed into spirit tonight at 5 PM.
Earlier today Madonna was talking about social isolation and loneliness.
I am so thankful for the great community of folks here, sharing conversations with you has lightened my heart too!
I know that I have a great community of gals (and a few guys!) , that I can count on. Since joining you on the blog, I can tell that I am feeling more connected and happier as well. Something about human beings being social creatures or something…
rifkind said
My Avatar,
So funny that you all thought that I had a piece of wrapped candy as my Avatar!
I can see that now..
Since I knew it was a stylized “puff” with eyes and wings to look like a cute pseudo bat… I never realized that it looked like grape candy with eyes…
Too funny!
rifkind said
Night! See you in the morning!
Anzia said
rifkind- ((((HUG)))) ^_^ and a tiny one for your “grape candy” (((HMV)))
Himmie- what’s your email addy!? I have something I want to run by you…
Anzia said
himmie- nevermind. ^_^ I sent it via writing.com. ^_^
Margaret said
Time is running out for Blood Ties-Tick Tock, Tick Tock…..post cards….
vampgrl said
Hey guys. Sorry I haven’t been around much lately. Er…I fell at work last Thursday and dislocated my kneecap again…for the 3rd time. Got my foot caught on the bottom of a stupid chair. Had to be taken to the hospital in an ambulance and everything. So I still won’t be around for a while while I play catch up at work. And don’t wanna try getting on my own computer yet
’cause my desk chair is too low to the floor and I might have a problem getting back out of it. So, if Cairo2 is still lurking around on here…then that’s why you haven’t heard from me. Sorry about that. Oh! I have spend some time reading A’s novel though. Keiron in Darkness. Though I didn’t get through all the chapters yet. Love it lots though. Gotta love an Irish vampire. You totally had me at that part right there. *ddrroooll..*
Oh! I heard BT is back in October, but they’re cramming all the eps into 5 weeks?! What the?! Grrrr…and yet LT continues to run AW over and over and over….I have officially lost all respect for that network…
lwildstar said
Hard Candy! I never noticed that before! ha!
I made it chapert 9 last night (HArry potter) finally had to put the book down when i realied i read the same page for the third time!
It is going to be so hard to focus on work today.
good luck LH – our prayers are with you!
I did take about a half hour to look over my short story – I am completely reworking the intro – discovered that once I got into the story – it did’nt fit any more. (shurgs) i haven’t written anything based on other people charactors before, and want to do Henry, Vicki, Mike and Correen justice so it may be a while before you see it….then again i may just chicken out …. who knows 😉
Just dropped another batch of postcards in the mail box on the way in to work (I’m going to print a “double batch” tonight) – need to go post at Lifetime, but I think that will have to wait til lunch time, it took so long for me to catch up this morning!
have a good day ladies! think happy thoughts!
hard candy….(giggles)….with eyes!
Cree said
Moonbeam: Glad to know I’m not the only one!! 🙂
annalaiseduchat said
Good Morning All!
Sorry I haven’t been around much lately. I skimmed back about a dozen posts but I don’t have time to get caught up now.
Things at work have been extremely hectic and I’ve been spending my evenings writing. I just posted Chapter 9 last night if you’re following.
I know I promised a map. and I will do it but Kieron was in so much trouble I had to write him out of it first. I haven’t even started The Deathly Hallows yet and I’ve had it since Saturday, So no spoilers anyone!
Have a great day! Work calls.
prtfvr said
rifkind: I’m so sorry for your loss. *hugs*
msgypsy said
I think it’s time. New topic is at https://msgypsy.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/and-now-my-bloggren-and-blogginis-our-next-topic/.
I suspect, btw, that the episodes being crammed into 5 weeks by Lifetime are the ones that have already aired. If I’m wrong, then that sounds like a death-knell, but that announcement was made while we were still hearing upbeat, positive things from folks at Lifetime (I think we still are, to some extent) so I doubt I’m THAT wrong.
Have fun in the next topic, y’all. (I’m the ex-wife of a southerner and that earns me the right to say y’all every once in a great while.)
moonbeam2016 said
Rifkind- Thanks for the avatar lesson! I had to officially sign on~ moonbeam ~ solo was taken so added email part = 2016 – the last year I think that I’ll be going to Resident Outdoor School before I retire from teaching.
I think that I’m going to have to go in and adjust it. I just bopped in and gave it a quick try in-between retirement homes and Dr. office for kiddo sigh. . .