Sober up and wake up, my friends. Back to the usual chatter. It’s still only August. We have to make it through all of September, still, and part of October.
It was a great party, and thanks so much to Tanya for dropping by with her wishes, even if there was no noticeably good news yet.
I keep thinking that THIS will be the week. Every week I think that. And one of these weeks I’ll be right.
Where Gypsy Reigns and Strange Things Appear 
Anzia said
I’M THE FIRST ONE! It’s my first time, be gentle. ^_^
Ya’ll were wild in the Hen house! Anything fun happen after I passed-out. I told you I didn’t need anymore BEER! let alone another Tequila sunrise!
msgypsy said
Someone asked for my recipes. Well, I didn’t invent any of them. My dark chocolate sorbet is from the Cuisinart website, in fact, so it’s the easiest to share.
Dark Chocolate Sorbet
Ingredients
1-1/2 cups water
1-1/2 cups brown sugar, packed
1-1/2 cups unsweetened cocoa powder
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
Instructions
1. Combine the water and sugar in a saucepan and place over medium heat. Stir until the sugar dissolves. Whisk in the cocoa and bring the mixture to a simmer. Simmer for 3 minutes, stirring constantly.
2. Remove from the heat and pour through a fine strainer into a bowl. Stir in the vanilla extract. Chill in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
3. Stir the chilled mixture. Prepare ice cream maker. Turn on the machine; pour the liquid mixture into the freezer bowl and let mix until thickened, about 25 – 30 minutes. Turn the machine OFF. The sorbet will have a soft, creamy texture. If desired, transfer the sorbet to an airtight container and place in the freezer for about 2 hours (or longer) until firm. If made ahead, take ice cream out of freezer 10- 15 minutes before serving
You can add a tablespoon of instant coffee, if you like, for added depth to the flavor.
msgypsy said
Had to get my file open for these two, though.
Cherry Amaretto Ice Cream
2 cups heavy cream
1 cup whole milk
1/4 cup honey (light flavored honey is best for this recipe)
3/4 pounds cherries, pitted and torn into chunks
3T. Amaretto
Place cream, milk, and honey in a medium saucepan. Stir to dissolve the honey. Heat over low to moderate heat, stirring from time to time, until tiny bubbles form around the edges of the pan. Be careful not to heat to a full-out boil.
Remove from the heat and let cool for 5 minutes. Add the chopped cherries and liquor. Cover and refrigerate until completely chilled. Don’t skimp here or your ice-cream might not set up.
Stir the mixture again to blend and transfer it to an ice cream maker. Freeze according to manufacturer’s instructions and eat the same day.
Makes 1 quart.
Rum Raisin Ice Cream
1/2 C. golden raisins
1/2 C. dark rum
3 C. heavy or whipping cream
1 C. milk
1/2 C. sugar
1 T. pure vanilla extract
4 egg yolks
Soak the raisins in the rum for 30 minutes.
Combine the cream, milk, sugar, and vanilla in a heavy saucepan over medium heat. Cook until the milk is hot but not boiling and the sugar is dissolved, about 10 minutes. Remove from the heat.
Place the egg yolks in a bowl and whisk to mix. Whisking constantly, slowly pour in 1 cup of the hot milk mixture and whisk until smooth.
Slowly pour the egg mixture into the saucepan, whisking constantly until well combined. Place the saucepan over medium heat and stir the mixture constantly until it is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon, 6 to 8 minutes. The mixture should never boil.
Strain the mixture into a bowl and cool to room temperature. Strain the raisins and rum and stir the rum into the custard.
Freeze in an ice cream maker according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Five minutes before the ice cream is finished freezing, add the raisins and complete the freezing process.
Makes 1 quart.
Annalaise duChat said
Dizey,
Thank you for the ” Good Luck ” We had a blast!!! It was really quite amusing because the other marching band, that was from Cardinal Mooney, only had like…. oh…. maybe 8 people. Only ONE clarinet!!!! They were all REALLY out of tune. They didn’t even march in formations. My daddy said that the school probably ask for volunteers because they didn’t have a marching band.
My band has so much fun at games! The drums have little things they play, and the other sections stand up and dance, and we have chants. It’s really fun.
The bus rides are amazing too!!! On our way to the game we stopped at Quaker Steak and Lube. If there are any by you I highly recommend it. YUMMY!
The only bad thing is that we lost the game. Winning doesn’t matter to me.
Well, that’s all I have to say for now. My mommy is gratefully taking me shopping for school clothes!!! (Start Tuesday : / )
Melanie
P.s. YOU ROCK TOO!!!
AlisaSG said
this is for whatever it’s worth.. I’ve added my two cents commentary to the “media release” topic at “TV, eh?” (link to main article is below)
Margaret (posted on August 18, 2007 @ 4:08 pm)
>>
(TV eh) has a place to comment and you’re not restricted if you’re not Canadian. Talks about Blood Ties. Mine is the last comment there. How about joining me and encouraging everyone to watch.
——–
done. I only hope it helps *inspire* more creation of BT eps!!!
(my reply isn’t too difficult to locate.. it’s under “AlisaSG”)
it’s only sad that “rtms” had to be the first person on there.. it’s probably a (media) troll.. because that’s what those folks do. They do whatever it takes to tear a show apart, before the rest of the world has made up their minds for themselves. That’s why I dare not start a new topic on Gateworld.. that place is littered with those types of people. I only hope helping the GW topics where the guest actors (special topics of interest) are – will help share the GOOD news.
According to the TV-eh site, link to other BT *archived* topics is at-
http://www.tv-eh.com/tag/blood-ties/
Helping encourage the rest of the world to see what we have been super-blessed with, via “Blood Ties”. 😀
Annalaise duChat said
Good Morning Ladies
So dish!!! What happened in the chat room last night?
I really missed you guys and I was thinking of you while where taking Cook’s tour of Youngstown and the surrounding areas. We got a little lost on our way to the game last night. Which is surprising because my hubby knows his way around the whole state. He used to be an alarm installer for ADT. Well we stopped for dinner so we got a late start to begin with, and then we missed our exit and…oh well. They don’t charge admission if you arrive after halftime. =P YES! we missed the halftime show after all that! :-t
Gypsy, looks good in here, guess you didn’t need any help cleaning up.
Chery said
Madonna, just curious, did you send a copy of Kyle’s birthday card to Tanya, I think she would get a kick out of it, plus, it also might mean that it would get to him faster………
What do you think?
prtfvr said
Oh ‘laise! I have such a headache! It was after one when we quit gabbing and I couldn’t go right to sleep after either! There’re still streamers EVERYWHERE! I think Kyle’s under there somewhere, cute as a button, sleeping away.
A good time was had by all, with the exception of some people getting randomly kicked out. We’ll have another party when they renew BT. *think positive, think positive*
I’m off! The old man wants to pull the kitchen apart – further – today! *groan* I’m SO tired!!
Annalaise duChat said
Prtfvr–
Have fun. After Mel and I got back from school shopping I’ve got to get my book submission ready to send off to Cinda Chima. After that I’ll look in to those cells for the Hen’s if I have time. I have to get back to my book too I haven’t written in a week.
Annalaise duChat said
When you find Kyle send him over to to my place. I have a great hangover cure.
Luv Ya!
Annalaise
Anzia said
Analaise- LOL, I just bet you do. After the conversation about him at the Hen House last night… I don’t think there isn’t an aspect of Henry or Kyle that wasn’t covered (be it with words or tongues…) ^_^
Gyspy- oooo, those sound YUMMY!
Prtfvr- Did you get the boat…sorry SHIP in to port okay lats night then? Oh here’s for the tired/hangover/energy problem *hands over a glass filled with mysterious thick liquid* Don’t ask what’s in it. Just sip, ONLY SIP, and if you start to feel a bit …um…high strung, SIT DOWN! Immediately. Otherwise, you’ll feel like a million bucks (whatever they feel like-smooth, wrinkled, rough in a pleasureable sort of way) in a few minutes.
Claire said
Awee…I had a great time last night but..I sure missed being at the henhouse with you all!!!
Took 4 aleves to calm down my head!! and it’s back to heat here…100!
So Nikki and her Latvian guy and the Quads are dragging me out to the lake…much too bright…I think I’ll hide under the streamers with my baby Kyle!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brittany moved back to her dorm today…I surely will miss that child..she’s one of mine now…sweet thing got me Calgon(take me away) products!
She said she would like to permanently live with me…and she’d pay me rent…
so maybe at the end of this term…
Anyway my loves …off to the lake…see ya later!
lwildstar said
aww man you started the good stuff after I left teh henhouse last night!
Oh well I have a vivid imagination – I can make up for it….
I had a blast for little time I got to spend at the party!
I’ve got a different kind of hangover today – bought a new flash drive so that I can work on the lap top and then save to the Dell – the laptop wont recognize the flash drive – doesn’t even recognize the USB!
Oh well – I’ve got some house cleaning to do – I have no clean clothes – and I wnat to get some writting in….
I hope you guys wern’t too rough with Kyle last night – we want him able to start filming the season real soon (Positive thinking!)
talk at you later!
lwildstar d’ Nightwalker
AlisaSG said
okay, THIS IS SOOOOOOOOOO *UNFAIR*..!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve been spending all day here and there reading the various feedback, etc.
for the DEBUT of BLOOD TIES elsewhere on our planet. And after finding at least 3 sites/topics starting out negative, because the *trolls* from sci-fi have invaded early into the scene and scheme trying their best to convince people watching BT is going to be a waste of time———-
——–for those of us who have watched, and KNOW what’s down the road, it’s sooooooooo UNFAIR that we can’t join in on City-TV and Chum’s spacecast forum sites to encourage new viewers into sticking around. I did see a few positive comments from some who managed to see via Lifetime, so why can’t the rest of us *help*..???!!!!!!!!
I’m not normally given over to swearing, but this is sooooo “D” frustrating.
questions about Vicki’s eye-sight and Henry not having any affect on her with his powers of persuasion.. they don’t YET have the comment about it being due to Vicki’s STUBBORN hearted self.. they think it has something to do with her losing her eyesight, and interesting theories there, but HENRY already told Vicki what he thinks it is — and we can’t share!!!!!!!!!!
NOT FAIR..!!!!!!!!!
unless someone reading this has access to a CHUM forum (spacecast), or CityTV and can pass this info on, where it’s being asked. CityTV had better comments, but the spacecast site has some negative vibes interfering while the pro-BT viewers try to offset the negative comments.
here’s the troubling site and main link to read the Blood Ties forums for now.
http://forums.spacecast.com/forums/1218/ShowForum.aspx
not sure when they’ll change their links.. forum folks are prone to doing that, so I don’t know how long this will last.
AlisaSG said
BTW, I haven’t finished reading all my emails, and have those horrid house jobs to do (laundry, cleaning, shopping, etc.).
I also have another web site to visit and reply to a bunch of items there, too, so if I haven’t replied to something I should, apologies. I’m usually wiped out energy-wise on most days. The incentives are always there, but napping on a lushious pillow is just so enticing.. and dreamy.. and you all know where that ends up.. 😛
*sigh* sometimes I wish there were more hours and energy in a day to get everything done.
Anzia said
Much rather have more hours and energy in the NIGHT to get things done! ^_^ Not only is Night the time for most forms of fun, it’s also quite a bit quieter in my house than Day is. ^_^
AlisaSG said
Anzia,
well, actually — when I say “day” — I mean the entire cycle, not just the daylight or night-time.
One HOT (humid) weekend for a very hot vampire series!! 😀
Ohhh, I forgot to mention..
CITY-TV gets to watch 2 viewings of the same eps each week.. Lifetime needs to take a hint! Once, is just NOT going to be *enough*!
Margaret said
Alisa: That site indicates you can register but keeps telling you every login name and nickname has been taken. Did you have the same problem?
AlisaSG said
Margaret, which site are you referring to?
Chum (spacecast) and CityTV both request a registration login, but I don’t have an account with either, and wasn’t sure if making an account would be worth trying.
Did you try a different name?
I didn’t get that far yet, due to other scheduling (at home to do) priorities.
I managed to get another message posted to the TV-eh site, under the
“Running With My Eyes Closed” (BT) topic. But neither of my messages shown up yet (requires moderator approval first for all). I think either they’re haven’t read their responses yet, or they’re off for the weekend with no external access. Plus, the weather is keeping folks out in the pool all day or inside A/C all day doing other things (possibly sleep!).
We get lots of critters that crawl out at night. Sometimes, it’s very annoying, because when they’re awake, we’re trying to nod off. I can understand what the genuinely working night folks have to put up with (during the daylight hours), because of that.
Margaret said
I tried all kind of different names, none of which it would take and said that all of them had been taken which I find rather odd.
Claire said
Hi ladies…
Comment allez-vous tout aujourd’hui ? Êtes-vous tout fatigué de la nuit passée ?
Je suis meilleur maintenant, mes maux de tête seulement..
I don’t know what brought on this migraine..perhaps not enough sleep…but chocolate does work! I ate a slice of my chocolate brownie cheesecake birthday cake and voila` migraine gone!
had fun at the lake..will email drunken birthday pics and lake pics later…
Lady Afrodyte said
I got a small taste of the party last night. You guys are wild!
I would have posted sooner but I spent 3 hours crawling under my desk trying to figure out what was wrong with my computer….
I need a shower and a good stiff drink.
AlisaSG said
we’ve got some serious T-storms brewing, so I’ll be off most of the remainder of this evening 😦
Danae said
Hi ladies. Sorry I didn’t make it to the chat last night. I left my sisters to take a shower and tried to get ahold of Kelly to go to her house and come on there. I called her several times and she didn’t answer. It turns out her phone was buried under a pile of clothes so blame it on her. She never heard it ring.
I wanted to let you know that I am still partying. I am in my second rum and coke. Hanging out at Kelly’s. We are going to watch Kingdom of Heaven with Orlando and The Lake House with Keanu.
I noticed somebody broke the boy toy at the partay last night. Didn’t I warn you guys not to do that. Do I have to keep an eye on you all the time. Gypsy I am so sorry about the chandelier. I started the monkey swinging on it.
Danae said
Realmente ho bisogno di Kyle e del suo bello massaggiandolo su e giù. Potremmo rifinire che cosa abbiamo iniziato la notte scorsa ed allora prendiamo un acquazzone freddo insieme. Il mio acquazzone è piccolo ed intimate.
AlisaSG said
OMG!!! I’m in!!!!!
okay, I wrote this up previously, before I tried to see if I was actually in or not-
>> hey Margaret,
>> I don’t know — but I think I just got registered at CityTv w/potential access to spacecast.. (not sure tho)
this is the screen info that came up-
>>>Congratulations, you are now a Citytv Toronto Member. You should receive a confirmation email in the next couple of minutes
>>>Final step is to close this window and log in with your username and password to enjoy everything Citytv Toronto has to offer.
it worked!!! OMG!! either this is tempting fate or someone is looking very kindly upon my heart’s desire to share the BEST that BLOOD TIES has to offer.
😀
Danae said
Yay! Good for you Alisa.
AlisaSG said
I still gotta scoot off the computer, because of those nasty looking radar storms heading this direction..
Margaret,
I skipped the contest and the mobile phone thing. It’s also required to enter your birthdate & year, and Country of origin (United States is near the bottom of the list, and unless you’re military APO or whatever that was, use the plain United States selection). Keep track of anything you’ll need for a password and nickname..
CityTV let me sign on as AlisaSG, so I get to keep my own nickname in that sense. *cool*!
AlisaSG said
BTW, that same (registration) info suggestion is for anyone else who is trying to join in and help out with Blood Ties. 😎
Margaret said
http://www.tv-eh.com/tag/blood-ties/ Ok, sistas, please don’t let me be fan girl all by myself. I posted over at Eh Canada and I need company. Help a sista out. Thanks.
Danae said
I just got done posting over there Margaret. I hope what I said helps.
Margaret said
Thanks. Now I don’t feel so alone, eh?
Danae said
I wouldn’t want any of my ladies to be alone. I know all to well how that feels and I hate it
lwildstar said
any one around?
Danae said
hey I’m here
Danae said
How are you? I got your email and will start going over the story.
lwildstar said
thanks!
I wa having a good day but now I’m having an anxity attack….
Danae said
Why? Is everything ok?
lwildstar said
I think I made a booboo thursday – I’m now “waiting” to see if I did. I wasn’t worried about it earlier, but some how it popped into my head and now the “hamster is running” ya know?
Margaret said
I’m paying bills and doing walk by postings. What’s wrong lwildstar? Anything we can help with?
lwildstar said
it all because of having my brain split between training and watching over the temp and still trying to get mMY work done…plus I did make a mistake on Friday – the temp open some mail Friday marke Confidential and I didn’t notice….the mistake Thursday was I had her copy a packet of stuff and there was an envelope in with it that had notes all over it and she asked if she was to copy that as well and I said yes and the whole thing was mailed out to someone…
Danae said
I hope nothing terrible happens over this “booboo”. I know exactly about the hamster running. I always worried over things that I did and the effect was always to minor I wonder why I ever worried.
lwildstar said
just need to keep from thinking!
I don’t know why I do this to myself – I wasn’t even thinking about work – and ther it was! now I’m trying to break out of the anxiety attck and all I want to is cry over something stupid
lwildstar said
if I hadn’t gotten yelled at over the confidential mail booboo ….I think I’ve been on the verge of this since yesturday…
Margaret said
I know it seems bad now but it will pass. Besides you shouldn’t have to babysit a grown woman. Try not to worry so, you’ll get yourself all torn up about it. All anyone can do is apologize and go one. And sometimes thats not good because you admit culpability that way. Never give them ammunition to shot you with and never let them see you sweat.
lwildstar said
so I’m here looking for a distraction 🙂
Danae said
Well when your bosses are running you ragged doing this and that and training new temps after new temps after new temps and being trained yourself plus getting work done things are going to happen. They are the ones that promoted you so they know that you do a good job. Otherwise they wouldn’t have promoted you. If the nitwit temp had any brains at all she wouldn’t have opened mail marked confidential anyway. By the way, is the temp blonde? No offense to any blondies out there. Just a joke.
lwildstar said
All I said over the mail was – “well, I missed that.”. I know I am probably making a mountation out of a mole hill – I just want to do well in my new positon and having to “wear two hats” is driving me nuts – I just feel like everything I do is being judged and its not fair to put me in that position.
Danae said
I also agree with what Margaret said. Sometimes it feels good to cry. It lets all that pent up anxiety out. If you want to just do it. Lord I have done enough times at work. I know you aren’t supposed to give them ammunition but I am way to soft.
lwildstar said
no shes not acctually – shes a little pregnant college girl….two days and shes already on my nerves…
lwildstar said
so distract me!
how did things go after I logged out of the party last night? I got the impression it went to gutter and then some?
vicki said
HEY GIRLS…
Enjoyed the party….still tired..got my baby boy’s pciture taken today…He turned four this month…God bless Target…they take cute pics and dont charge a fortune….
Anyway I will check out the Canadian sites and write something inspiring to welcome the new Canadian groupies to the BT club….
lwildstar said
I never cry at work….and I only seenm to have these bad attacks at home when I’m alone – I guess because I can think about other things when I’m at work – or like today I was out with the parents – I didn’t even think about this thursday night or last night – and now….
I think Its a good thing I don’t drink….and I stopped at 6 peices of chocolate…
lwildstar said
sorry to be adowner…just needed the company
Danae said
I didn’t go on to the chat last night. I tried but I couldn’t get to a computer. I am still partying though. I am about to get my third rum and coke.
lwildstar said
😛
everybody started to show up as I was leaving
Danae said
No prob wildstar. We are here for you.
Danae said
I can gush about the hottie Indians I am going to see tomorrow.
Margaret said
Or we can keep up with that discussion of whether Kyle is a stud or a V. Were you still there for that lwildstar?
Margaret said
Anything happening with Paul?
Danae said
Bronze skin, long black straight silky hair, muscles. Oh yeah. It will be fun. Adam won’t be there so I can look all I want.
Danae said
A stud or a V? What? I wasn’t there? What was that?
Margaret said
Danae: You know there is something to be said for a good looking native american man with long black hair down his back. I could almost be distracted from Kyle, at least for a minute or two.
Margaret said
Come closer, I have to whisper this in your ear-prtfvr suggested our young man actually might still be a virgin. A lot of us told her NO WAY. He seems to have those love scenes too down pat.
Danae said
I should try to get some pictures to send you guys in all there regalia. Oh yeah baby.
Margaret said
Oh, great, someone else to lust after that I can’t have. lol
Margaret said
lwildstar-where are you? Are we talking to ourselves here?
lwildstar said
no I logged out just as we started discussing sex – all because of my mentioning my comment to Paul (yesturdays post about my lunch with him) any way by 11pm I was too tired to type and went to bed….so to Margaret I WISH something was happening – did you get to read any of that in the party last night?
Danae – I watched a Baliwood (sp) movie this morning – every once in a while I come across one on cable – did understand a word but between the dancing/singing the inappropriate humor and the great looking lead male – I found my self watching until dad showed up!
last week I came across some music videos that were an Indian singer teamed with a Caribian rapper – still didn’t understand it but it made me want to dance!
lwildstar said
sorry the computer kicked me out for a minute….’sides I needed a tissue
Danae said
He may be a virgin. He can have practice without going all the way. I have. I’m not sure where I stand on that subject. I want to say I hope he is a V but I’m not sure. It just makes me look up to actors that are still virgins. Of course Britney Spears kept saying she was but I had to disagree at the time. Then it came out that her and Justin Timberlake lost there virginity together and I doubted that too.
lwildstar said
I got kicked out for am minute – and it just did it again…..
lwildstar said
Well I still am so if he still is – maybe we can work on that together!
See I knew you guys would cheer me up!
Margaret said
Well, make the most of the time that you have left with him and don’t do anything you would regret, or don’t regret NOT doing anything. Geez, what is that quote again, how many times have you heard it now, couple of hundred. lol. Lets see, now what was that Henry: Oh yes, Love is worth the risk, eternity is a long time to live with regret. And we only tell this to you all the time because we love you and want to see you happy.
Danae said
Sorry not Bollywood Indians, Native American Indians.
lwildstar said
I would like to think he is……don’t know why….?
Margaret said
I have to go write a few more bills. Talk amongst yourselfs for a bit.
Danae said
True but only do anything if you are comfortable with it and of course if he is comfortable with it.
Danae said
Yeah I would like to think he is too. I don’t know makes him more wholesome. Oh God know I am making him sound like a loaf of bread.
lwildstar said
OH – sorry for the mistak Danae….
I dated a guy who said he was a quarter Appache? but I din’t know whether to beleive him or not – I guess because he seemed ashamed of it..(don’t know why) .but then he turned into a jerk after a month and I dumped him – so I never got to find out if it was true.
I love Native American art – still trying to get to the museum downtown.
lwildstar said
wholsome bread – LOL
And some how Margaret got my response to Danae about Kyle mixed up with Paul…LOL again…….I can’t even get Paul to hold hands – so I don’t think there will be any “deflowering” going on there!
Danae said
I would say i am about a quarter Indian. I am part Iroquios and part Mohegan. If only I could prove I could get some nice royalties from the casino Mohegan Sun up here. My aunts have tried but to no avail. That would probably be where my secret money would come from. The secret money that Dizey is always talking about.
lwildstar said
I understand its real hard to get proof – and get them to accept it. I’m orginally from Michigan and I knew several people who were trying to prove their ansestry…we havent visited in a LOOOONNNNGGG time so I don’t know what ever happened to them, if they found anything of not.
Margaret said
Well, actually that could apply to either one of them. I do have to say that Kyle does have this awe shucks (notice I didn’t spell it wrong this time) attitude which is really sweet and indearing but do we really need anything more to make us be any more infatuated with the boy.
lwildstar said
so did my depressive rant chase everyone away 😦
lwildstar said
oh good I thought i was alone again. I’m popping back and forth between here and printing post cards. Finally got some ink! I was out of red , black and blue.
Danae said
My aunt did a book on our family’s genealogy. They did not find a thing on any Indian ancestor. My grandfather, not the one that recently passed the one that died when I was 10, called his wife Little Squaw or something like that. My dad’s uncle also says that we are definitely Native American and he said that we are British which we never knew. Your ex-boyfriend that said he was Apache should not be ashamed. There is nothing to be ashamed about. If anything The White Eyes as the whites were called should be ashamed. Native Americans were and are a proud strong race. It is the part of me that I am the most proud of. I think Madonna also said she is part Native American. I wonder how she feels about it.
Margaret said
Forgive me for my upcoming rant but I used to live in New Mexico, the worst thing the white man did to the Navaho’s there was put them on welfare and help them become alcoholics. It took a lot of their spirit away, it was criminal what was done to the indians out there. My ex read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee which I hever have gotten around to reading, which I’d like to do.
Danae said
I will take anything that will make me even more infatuated with Kyle. Those hands, those eyes, that body, his smile, his manners. I want it all.
Margaret said
Isn’t Claire several parts Indian? I hadn’t seen her picture before the card, I never realized she was that beautiful.
lwildstar said
I found a great braclet today – but couldn’t afford it (trendy store) it said “change is only the begining”
the other I liked was “live for the moment”
she had a lot of nice ones. I hinted that mom could get me one for my birthday 😉 but she’ll probably just give me the money – which means I can got back and see if they still have them…there was also “live, love, laugh” and “Dare to Dream”
Margaret said
Ah come on lwildstar, don’t you want a bracelet engraved with: Love is worth the rest, yadah, yadah, yadah. lol
Margaret said
You know, looking at Kyle just makes me so damn depressed that I am sooo damned old.
Danae said
What the whites did to Indians was horrible. If a person can prove they are at least one quarter Native American they get a free ride through college. It is only one of the ways the government has tried to make it up to them. Pretty crappy way if you ask me but it is worthwhile. My favorite books to read besides fantasy and paranormal are Native American romances. My favorite author of them is Cassie Edwards. She has set a goal for herself to right about every Native American tribe there is. I don’t think she is even halfway there.
Danae said
wildstar-Those sayings remind me of my three favorite words. Dream Believe Imagine. I believe with those three words you can achieve anything. I want them tattooed on my lower back in Chinese symbols.
lwildstar said
I may have to check out her books – I don’t normally read romance (and now I’m writing one) but once in awhile someone will recomend a good one.
Did I tell you one of the ladies at work noticed me writing at lunch and asked about it – I said i was writing a fantasy romance – she replied “arn’t the all?”
Margaret said
Hey, Kyle is my fantasy and my hobbie. Told people at work some people garden, read, etc. I Kyle. lol.
Margaret said
Besides I don’t have to EVER worry about meeting the boy.
Danae said
No not all romances are fantasy. Some lucky biatches get it all.
lwildstar said
I have a craft show on the day before my b-day so I’m hoping to make enough to go back and get at least one braclet, if I can get someone to take me back to the store….my cousin is going to spend her vacation with me (vaca from her husband and kids) which is great! she’ll take me to get – we get in so much trouble – I already told her at least one night of Blood Ties – she missed a lot of episodes before I turned her.
lwildstar said
Well I have a health fantasy life – thought I should write it down!
lwildstar said
geeze I wish the basment tv had a dvd player to watch BT – I am watching/listening to an awful snake movie – didn’t even realize it until I turned around and saw someone get eatten – EWWWW!
lwildstar said
turned to the cartoon channel!
Margaret said
Ladies: I’ve been running since early this morning on empty. I need to bank some sleep from what I missed from staying up until one with everyone at the Hen House. Have to say I had so much fun I laughed until I had tears running down my checks. Night, Night ladies. Lwildstar-try not to worry. Its kind of like 15 minutes of fame, this too will pass and something else will take its place. The other thing you need to learn if you don’t know all ready is alway CYA (Cover your ass). If I haven’t learned anything from working in government for years, that is the one thing that I’ve taken from it.
Ladies, be good to yourselves.
lwildstar said
dang – got kicked out again!
lwildstar said
take care Margaret!
Danae said
LOL! I think we all Kyle. He is all of our hobbies.
Most of her Cassie Edwards books are really. I rarely find one I have a hard time reading. I live for romances though. Her and Christine Feehan are my faves. Christine Feehan has the paranormal ones though. Most of Cassie’s books are Savage something or another. Savage Obsession, Savage Innocence, Savage Heart, Savage Torment etc. Her website is http://www.cassieedwards.com
Danae said
By Margaret. Wildstar is the movie Megasnake?
Danae said
We are watching that too.
lwildstar said
I think my mom may have read one of those – I normally read fantasy,paranormal or SciFi – currently reading the third book of a Mercedes Lacky trilogy – the poor male lead was saved bty a unicorn and has to remain not just celebat, but chase for one year and one day – he found the love of his life and now can’t even be around her! at least his sister explained it to the young woman (who is half demon – the enemy) so she understands why he avoids her…the romance is just a side story to battel between the demons and everyone else- but love her charators
lwildstar said
geeze its almost10pm already!
Danae said
I love any books with paranormal, fantasy or Indians or all in it. Fat chance for the last though.
lwildstar said
YOu could start writing one?
lwildstar said
ok – did I chase everyone away again?
Danae said
I have thought about doing a vampire one but what can I do that hasn’t been done already. I just got the book from Borders that Anzia suggested, The Complete Idiots Guide to Creative Writing. I had to order it. They didn;t have it. I have even come up with a kinda scenario.
Funny story connected to that book. This will tell how fresh and sarcastic my 13 year old niece is. She was looking at the book and she said who’s the idiot and I said You. She said to me that she wasn’t the one reading it I was. That girl is so fresh and has such a bright mind on her. I would have never thought she would come out with that.
Danae said
No sorry drinking is slowwing my typing down. I am making mistakes and am bothering to go back and fix them. I want my typing to be legible unlike some other bozo we know and that’s being nice.
Danae said
Are you feeling better?
lwildstar said
LOL!
Hey I have no excuss for my typos –
What about an Native American / Vampire story? That could be cool…
Either the vamp is Native American or involved with someone who is – it could work as a period piece….just throwing out ideas.
Along with my demon story I started a vamp story as well……
Danae said
I thought of doing a story of brothers that were turned into vampires years before and can’t remember anything about it, why they are what they are, how they became that way and find any family left. They are fed up with not knowing and set out on a quest to get some answers.
lwildstar said
yes – thank you – I think I just needed to “talk” to someone – you know some company…I still feel a little like crying – but maybe thats the “coming down” side of it now.
After tonight Iam begining to see more of myself in my female leads personality – when she gets upset she becomes a little bit like a child, needing a lot of comfort. I guess that happens when you write – because when shes “up” shes a force to berkoned with! and whenI’m “myself” thats how I am…
Danae said
That actually might work. I could incorporate it with the scenario I just gave you. I was thinking of setting it in New Mexico. That would fit really well.
Danae said
A lot of authors put a little of themselves in their characters.
Danae said
Whether knowingly or unknowingly.
lwildstar said
oo thats a good start!
My vamp was actually turned by his “master” in order to save his life – I have the whole scene worked out in my head – haven’t written it down yet , becasue I’m not to the “flash back” yet – but I’m thinking maybe I should before I forget – what with bouncing back and forth between the tsow stories and the short – and WORK – sometimes I haste work just becasue it gets in the way of life…
I said that to Paul and he was like “oh yes it does!” he is also going through the same thing I am with having to do several jobs at work becasue people have left and they havent replaced them yet – but he’s quiting…can’t say I blame him.
Danae said
I noticed Dizey posted at tv-eh. I wonder why she didn’t come here after. Not that you aren’t good company. Just wondering.
lwildstar said
in this case unknowingly – I didn’t even realize it until I started rereading sections tonight….and then this break down through it in my face.
I like your idea – run with it!
lwildstar said
I know I’m getting boring! She probably lured – saw where this was going and tiptoed out! LOL 😉
Danae said
You should definitely right it down. You never know. Tomorrow it good be completely erased from your mind. I have already written mine down. Now if only I could remember what I did with my journal.
Danae said
No your now boring. Fair from it. I didn;t mean it that way. I was just being curious.
lwildstar said
tv-eh, I posted there earlier – I hope in the right place.
you know ms. G started a blog for writers to chat about story lines and what not – and I don’ think anyone went back after the first couple of days! I know I went back and the last post was the one I had posteed like two weeks before…
Danae said
The mistakes are starting to crop up without me noticing them. That was supposed to be not boring.
Danae said
Huh! I will go and see if anyone bites but not tonight. I am having a hard time thuinking.
Danae said
:()
Danae said
Nope :O
Danae said
Nope :0
Danae said
Grrr how do you do the laughing smiley.
lwildstar said
I know you didn’t mean it. I was poking fun at myself! And I think I will have to write it down. Just in case as you say. I’m going to get my cousin involved she use to study the Russian language and cluture – why I don’t know, it was her minor in college – and I have decided to make my Vamp Baltic – possibly Russian or Ukranian….hoping she could give me some good historical and cultural ideas.
Laurel has become my location researcher for both stories – the demon story takes place in present day Portland and the Vamp in present day Seattle! two cities I know nothing about!
Danae said
I keep gettign knocked off to. It is really gettign aggravating. Aw hell I ma not correcting anynmore
Danae said
Ooo go weith unkranian. The guy on ER Goran visnjic is from the ukraine. he;s hot
lwildstar said
🙂
:-O
;P
😛
: )
: O
lwildstar said
ok non of those worked!
Danae said
Oh weel I give up
Danae said
I jsut used the last of the pepsi with the rum I don;t thin k it is a good idea to do straight rum at thsi pioint.
lwildstar said
don’t bother correcting – I stopped a while ago!
oooo…I forgot about that doctor! oh yes…hum Ukrainian…I will have to make sure that Michael – not sure how to spell the pronounciation, Mikal? – is used in the Ukrain – but if its not I guess he can use Michael as his current “use -name”
Danae said
😀
Danae said
It worked yay! It is a : with a D
Danae said
Try Mikhail
Danae said
It is pronounced Mik short I and hail as in the ise balls thatr fall from the sky
lwildstar said
Mikhail – duh – its almost phonetic!
(could have had a V8 slap to forhead)…I love that name!
Danae said
I liek to go to http://www.babynames.com to find names for characters.
Danae said
Yep V8
lwildstar said
had to read that twice! After last nights conversations something about balls just throws me off!
I’ll have to find a web site and look up its meaning.
lwildstar said
and you are one step ahead of me!
Danae said
LOL! The website above gives names and meanings and origins and whethere is is boy gitkl or both
Danae said
I used to put things stories together in my head and went there to find names for the people.
Danae said
unfortunataely i never wtotye them down. lately I ahve been extended books i ahve read or movies i saw to continued the story line
lwildstar said
The meaning of the name Mikhail is Who Is Like God? Origin – Russian
Do you think a Ukraininan would have a Russian name?…
Either way I am still going to keep his use-name Michael
Danae said
adn when i was a kid i would act out my favorite movies at night when i shold have been sleeping
Danae said
yeah the urlaine used to be part of russia
Danae said
doo you knwo the movie the dark crystal
lwildstar said
When I thought I was going to be a graphic noveleist (yeah I know) I had hundreds of story lines and outlines – only found a handful – the begining of the demon story – which ahs really changed from what I orginally plande, was one of them.
The vamp story came from all our discussions surrounding Henry – it just seemed inevitable 😉 ;D 😀
lwildstar said
LOVED that movie! I really need to get it on DVD!
Danae said
yeah i agree
lwildstar said
Had the sound track – but I lost it.
Danae said
I ahve it if I could maek a copy for you i would. When I was a kdi I would pretend I as the girl gelfling at the end of the movie that was stabged and hte boy gelfling brought me back. I would act that one scweene iout several bnights in a row. I jsut showed that movie to amber she loved it.
Danae said
oh cool the soundtrakc woudl be awesome
lwildstar said
yes your typing is getting worse – how many drinks have you had? 😀
BTW – Thanks for sticking around with me.
Danae said
your welcome and 4
Danae said
i haven;t eaten dinner though
Danae said
dont; worry i think i anm through
Danae said
no i promise i am trhoguh
lwildstar said
yes your typing is getting worse – how many drinks have you had? 😀
BTW – Thanks for sticking around with me.
having posting issues here!
Danae said
I know what it si like to have anxiety attacks.
lwildstar said
are you sure?
maybe you should go have asandwich 😉
Danae said
the funny thing is i feel compeltely sober i am not gettign any hotter like i usuaally do and i am not foggy headed
Danae said
I promise I am done. and I think kelly has some chicken i can eat. I will go do that know. BRB
lwildstar said
what makes it worse is that the boss is out of town til Friday – so it will be a week before I know if it was a big booboo or a little booboo – either way I’m going to tell her – that if my brain wasn’t split I would be able to concentrait better! It just makes me feel so “stupid” ya know? Something so silly as “should I have sent a copy of that or not?” and I’m a wreck! But even when she yelled at me Friday – I didn’t let her see me get up set – and Paul was so sweet – when he finished venting – he let me vent – and ince he is going through a lot of the same crap – hewas very understanding….and then I invoited him for a sleep over ! 😀 😀 😀
lwildstar said
well at least the typos are funny!
Danae said
Nomore chicken no bread I am havign rice krispioes
Danae said
You know what I think all witll be fine. I liek being funny even if it isn’t on purposed
Danae said
snap crackele pop
lwildstar said
protine is better but that should help!
Danae said
milk has protein right
Danae said
hey i semlld protein right
Danae said
and I haven’t gone to get another drink
lwildstar said
I know it will be fine – I really can’t play dumb thought – the temp did ask if she should copy it and I said yes – wouldn’t be right, if asked, to denie it…. oh well, but I’m NOT throwing myself on the sword – let them yell at me. I’m sure others have done worse – and I don’t think its would make a diffenece one way or the other – it was just notes scribbled on an envelope and it didn’ look like anything “comprimising” ….but you know how bosses can be…”You did what?”
Danae said
i started watchign that smake movie and the snake bit the heads off of a bunch of people on a fair ride and i couldn’t watch. Ew!
lwildstar said
yess you SPELLED protein right – I didn’t but I spelled SPELLED right!
lwildstar said
I flipped back to just at that scene!
Danae said
yeah i know I always get reprimanded fro things but no one else does. Especially the men. Ugh! One guy goes to Kahoots, a strip joint, on work hours and gets no flack for it or just a slap om the hand.
lwildstar said
ewww IS RIGHT! I went back to the cartoon channel!
what is the gang going to think when they play blog catch up? do you think anyone stopped by and snuck off?
Danae said
LOL! what you mean I almost spelled smelled.
Danae said
Probably Dizey and I jsut got a couple email from prtfvr so maybe her.
Danae said
They might wish They were me right now. We are goign back and forth bewteen that and X2
lwildstar said
OMG! you’re kidding!
The worse , that way, anyone has done was drink alcahol at lunch and then came back to the office a little tipsy….
I wish the little things didn’t bug me so! but what irks me is that the boss was very suportive to someone who mad a BIG mistake this past week and I get chewed out for something small because “I sohould know better” geeze she should have know better for what ever she did – it must have been “bad” becasue she was still apoliginzing three days later – and was told “oh no I’ll take responsibility for it, I’m your boss” UUUUGGGG!
I’m thinking too much, thats the problem!
Madonna said
Hi Danae, lwildstar, everyone else…..
lwildstar,
Sorry you are having such a crappy couple of days. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help. ((((((((HUGS)))))))))
Danae,
Step away from the bottle of rum………..
Did you all notice on http://www.kyleschmidcentral.com that Peter Mohan signed it?
Wish I could stay around and chat but I’ve been busy, busy, busy and I have candle supplies to order before I go to bed.
Goodnight!
Danae said
Ok stop thinking. That’s easy right
msgypsy said
Whew! I finally got caught up!
Just got back from meeting with Laurel and Elizabeth and Moonbeam and Arrowyn. And a friend of Arrowyn’s whose name I can’t remember because I totally suck at remembering names. We ate good ice cream, introduced some new people to the wonder that is Trader Joe’s (if you haven’t got one in your home town I really pity you) and then stood on the sidewalk and undoubtedly frightened many people. It was GREAT! We took pictures and I will have them available for your perusal at some point.
We talked about the blog party and it was interesting how many of us said that as we read we could hear the noise and just picture ourselves in this party. It was real to us. I’m fascinated. I could hear it, too, and smell some of the yummy smells, and picture the whole event. How DID that monkey get in? It was great. I think we should have another one in a month or so. Maybe to celebrate the return of Blood Ties to Lifetime!
I need to make something real to eat soon. The ice cream was yummy but now I need real food.
Danae said
Hey Madonna. I am away I promise
lwildstar said
aww crap – my anime shows arn’t on tonight – theyre showing Futurama all night!
I love Bleach and Blood (two differnt shows)
Blood is a vamp anime
Bleach is a paranormal about – well hell how would I explain – theres a parrella world where beings live who collect and protec the souls of the dead and help those who have “been lost” pass on properly…
Danae said
I don’t Rice Krispies is good enough. I will just sit her for awhile and calm down. HEHE! I am so happy right now. Hi Gypsy. Ditto on the next party. I could totally hear it too. My typing is gettign better.
Danae said
I don’t usually watch Cartoon Neteork. I have caught Adult Swim but wasn’t too impressed.
lwildstar said
hi guys!
Wow I checked the gust book at Kyle.com a couple of hours ago and it was at 56 – and Peter is 57 – so he just signed tonight!
Danae said
I am goign to look know. Shoule I post in my drunken state?
lwildstar said
I only watch those two shows – they change them every couple of months – so I could turn it on and they’ll have something else running – or like tonight Futurama! hate taht show!
And I read your respons to Prtfvr – LOL
lwildstar said
sure why not! some one will get a laugh out of it!
Danae said
I made sure it was clean and perfect. Maybe i should do anitther one that isn’t
lwildstar said
LOL!
Well its getting late and I am feeling better – I have monopolized your time enough….hopefully I am too tired to think!
Danae said
It wom’t let me do a doubl;e post. darn! Ok I should go so I can get up to see all the hottue Indians tomorrow. Ciao! Glad I coudl help.
lwildstar said
thanks again for sticking around with me. I really appreciate the friends I’ve made here.
Can’t wait to see your notes on the short story and I am really looking forward to reading your vamp story in the near future!
and thank yo to everyone else!
Danae said
Take some tynenol PM or Advil Pm and sleep well.
lwildstar said
night!
Danae said
Ti Amo
msgypsy said
For those who want to see “Macbeth in Minutes,” here’s the link.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2523008530539788025&pr=goog-sl
Anzia said
lwildstar- I’m so sorry about the work thing hon. ((((HUGS)))) The key to the emergency stash of everything is yours. Just don’t let Claire, Diz or Prtfvr know. Oh, and what bollywood movie did you watch? Or what was the plotline? And where do you live that they come on cable?!
Danae- the convo last night was a bit all over the place. We seriously covered almost everything regarding Henry/Kyle. We covered a tiny bit of religion, a little bit of viriginity/sex, we talked about books, which led back to kyle/henry. There was a very small thing about writing and other creative things. My new job was talked about, and that led to shoes and weddings and feet and well… we covered A LOT of ground last night. ^_^ I kept getting kicked out towards the end so I’m not sure of everything that was covered.
Claire- chocolate cures practically EVERYTHING!
Laurel said
Well, Moonbeam, Elizabeth and I had lunch and went shopping, then drove together to pick up Arrowyn and her friend (Bev) and drive further to meet Gypsy. We have laughed so hard I don’t think I will be able to smile comfortably for a week. 🙂 It started yesterday with the party and then at the Hen House, and continued pretty much non-stop today.
If our small Oregon group is any indication – and I am sure it is – we all have a great deal in common so we could meet anywhere and you would think we had always known one another. If there is any possiblity of getting together, my advise is GO FOR IT! For those of you who weren’t with us today – You Were Missed!
Fyi – Trader Joe’s is an awsome grocery and goodies market. They have good, inexpensive food, exceptional chocolates and cookies, beer and wine. Not a bad place for our group to wander for a little while. We were not quite as giggly by the time we left the Coldstone Ice-Creamery. I am a little surprised we didn’t get ourselves thrown out because we spent a really long time there. 😎
msgypsy said
Apropos of nothing other than Hello Kitty tattoos (and it makes sense in context, but of course I’m not giving you the context…)
http://www.slashfood.com/2007/08/21/holy-hello-kitty-hotness-in-a-bento-box/
It’s just SO wrong!
And we didn’t get thrown out of Coldstone Creamery because they knew we’d be back. They’re not fools there…. LOL! And the fact that the wine steward at Trader Joe’s was following us and eavesdropping proves that we’re lovable…
Arrowyn said
Somewhere waaaaay back near the beginning of this topic, AlisaSG posted the site to the SPACE forum for Blood Ties and one of the posters there put a link to the behind-the-scenes video that Canada saw (or is going to see). Great video, but I couldn’t get any sound! Did anyone go there and have the same problem? I checked all the volume settings I could find on their site and my computer — nada! Very frustrating to see Kyle being his cutey self, and I couldn’t hear his lovely voice (oh, yeah, there were other people in the video, too, I guess).
Margaret said
Arrowyn: I can hear it fine. Have you checked all your wiring to make sure it hasn’t gotten pulled out and is still plugged in.
lwildstar said
good morning – I would like to say thank you for the hugs and support – I’m so glad I have all of you as a fmaily – can’t reply to emails currently it looks like AOL is having issues again – I may have to switch to another email address for you guys – will keep you posted.
Anzia – I have no idea wha the Baliwood movie was – nothing was in English – once in a while one of the cable channels will run international movies or music videos in the morning – sort of during the paid programing slots – you never know what you’ll come across…but it was the typical love story just with more music and more comedy….guy loves girl – girl rejects him, only to realize she does love him – a horrible man comes along and asks her father for her – good looking guy must crash the wedding to win her back.
ok I’m off for now – going to go see whats up with AOL – will check back this after noon
and Ms G…if you want to zap some of the ranting posts from last night I don’t mind – I kinda took over.
Thanks!
lwildstar said
until I figure out what is up with AOL – please send email to me at lognwldstr@verizon.net
that is the same as the AOL only with verizon.
I can’t get into AOL to inform anyone so I’d appreciate it someone could spred the word and update your distribution lists. It looks like I read emails at AOL just not respond to them…and I find any technical support because its a free account not a paid one.
Thanks!
DIZEY1 :-) said
Good morning chix! Sorry I didn’t hang around too much yesterday played in the pool for a while and I guess the sun kicked my butt a bit 😉
Maggie May, I did make a post for you on TV-Eh? my posting duty you know I do whatever you tell me to do 😉
Danae-Dani-Bryony, Ciao Bella’, sorry I didn’t come and chat w/you and Wildstalker but I was beat by the heat. I was however very entertained by the power of Hooch and trying to write while under the influence of said Hooch 😀 you are afunny girl! Love ya’
Laurel, Gypsy, Arrowyn, E, Moonbeam………Ya’ll SUCK! I need a pal down here to play with mannnnn. I’m glad ya’ll had a good time though , just a little jealous 😦
Hey I didn’t get any emails if ya’ll are emailing , which is scary if they’re held up anywhere I may get a 100 or more if they get released.
Prtfvr how goes the kitchen, come see me I’ll sell ya’ some waaaay cool appliances sista’! Sub-Zero , Wolf (made in Madison, WI yeah **Dr.Z**) Asko d/w the ultimate. Anyway hope the project’s going well, remodeling or renovating can suck! We lived through a full kitchen remodel last fall , yep big PIA, but it’s beautiful now and I love it 😀
Check back a little later, enjoy ya’lls day !
lwildstar said
boy we all seem to be having email issues
Madonna was kind enough to email all of you my new email account address
lognwldstr@verizon.net
So please update your address books – as soon as I get my new one set up I’ll send out a message with the new Names list attached – I had more updates anyway.
Ug! I really hate getting all this stuff set up! I can still read messages in AOL I just don’t seem to be able to reply to anyone except Madonna becasue she has an AOL account – ok thanks!
DIZEY1 :-) said
Done Wildstalker! changed and I got that one from Madonna, unless they’re going to my work email. OH well cool beans 😎
lwildstar said
Dizey – I just sent everyone an email with the update and the update name list – but I can’t remember which of your emails I sent it to.
Thanks!
need Arrowyns contact info – please send to new address lognwldstr@verizon.net
lwildstar said
i’m off to go write – will be back later!
lwildstar said
well I got the account set up but I can’t get it to stop showing the account name so if you get an email for K Wheeler – thats me……
thank you for your patience with this!
prtfvr said
Everyone who’s selling stuff, email your website to me! Beads, appliances, WOO HOO!
Diz, the kitchen’s going great! I haven’t done a damn thing with it! It’s just been the hubby and the boys! Sweet! I have laundry to do today – I know because my husband just so nicely reminded me – but our water cooler is at the top of the basement stairs so I can’t get a basket down there until it’s moved. Darn it! 😉
Madonna said
Hey everyone! How goes it this Sunday?
So far I’ve been really busy this weekend. The rest of today looks no different. I have some bad news girls. It may be another month or more before I can get back to Elder Hostel emblems and costumes. This is just getting ready to start candle season and that means little rest for me from now til Christmas.
I did find a little time this morning to do my Blood Ties duty and do some searching.
Here’s a Canadian review I found. This is the kind of critic I love.
http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.html?id=3654
You know I think one of the biggest differences between BT airing in Canada as opposed to here is that men will get a much bigger chance to see it there and I think that will help their ratings.
Himmiefan,
Are you OK? We haven’t heard from you since your work troubles about a week ago.
Ms. Gypsy,
I couldn’t agree with you more. It was AMAZING how much fun Friday’s party was. It was a testament to the vivid imaginations all of us girls have. I only wish more people could have shown up. I think we should have another one for Blood Tie’s renewal (POSITIVE THOUGHTS) and I can only imagine the fun we could have with a Halloween and Christmas party. We could have started a new phenomena here ladies.
Well I’m off to work now girls. Hopefully I can check back in tonight.
DIZEY1 :-) said
Prtfvr, cool deal w/the guys doing the main hard work on the kitchen, this is my work website but you can see some of the diff. products available to you I don’t know how much remodeling you’re doing but it’ll give you some ideas of what’s out there and we carry a small portion of what’s out there but we carry some of the best products (IMHO) http://www.mckitchens.com
Madonna, when you get some of those candles done let me know I’d love to order some from you maybe for gifts , probably I’ll just hord them 😉 Are they soy??
Margaret said
Thanks Dizey. You’re too good to me. Ok, where were the rest of you, eh? Need more comments on Eh Canada so these Canadians will know what they have, if they don’t already, from us North Americans who think Canada is exotic, eh.
Margaret said
Madonna: Are those the candles that burn but the things in them stay where they are? Saw something like it at Cracker Barrel, with leaves in it. I’d like to get some for gifts for Christmas, too. If you have them done by then. Keep me in mind.
Annalaise duChat said
Hey guys,
Check out my new post on kyleschmidcentral.com
If that doesn’t entice him to check us out nothing will. LOL
Have a great weekend.
Margaret said
I love it Dr. DuChat.
lwildstar said
Dr. duChat! that was wonderful – maybe someone else will seeit and pass it on to him! You know I saw Peter Mohans post and the guy from YeahWhatever – but I didn’t see one from Tanya…did I miss it?
Per Prtfvr’s request here is my website – the link doesn’t always work so you may have to typ it in – page one has had 97? hits since I redid it in May..
http://hometown.aol.com/lognwldstr/Moon.html
Ok I got lots of updates for the Name sheet to work on…I’ll email it out tomorrow.
lwildstar d’Nightwalker
Laurel said
lwildstar – I’m so glad you mentioned the schedule change on cartoon network last night. I was supposed to be taping my daughter’s favs while she is out of town. I forgot last night, but it didn’t matter – because of the Futurama marathon. You totally saved me! 😛
Diz – don’t be too jealous! We Portlanders were plotting how to get more of us together. You, my dear, live in a very desirable vacation local. 🙂
Okay, my favorite idea was for us all to go on a cruise with our favorite writers. Tanya at the top of the list, of course. Once all that money comes in (from where????) we should book our cruise to the Carribean. We could leave out of the Orlando area and pick up our SW group on the way. What do you think? Nice dream, anyway. 😎
lwildstar said
Laurel – So glad I was of help! I was so bummed my shows weren’t on! I’m looking forward to seeing what info you come up with for me – don’t forget to use the new email address (see above) anywho I think we need to schedule a convetion maybe dead center of the states so it would only be a half cross country trip for those of us on the coasts – just a thought -or we could go to Toranto! I’m saving my pennys!
I have spent so much time online today just trying to get this email stuff squared away my head hurts!
Ok off to find food – I have HAD NOTHING to eat today and its amost 3pm! Maybe thats why my head hurts.
I’ll check in later – I still want to get some writing done today.
Margaret said
I asked Anne when she sent the greetings, she sent it on August 23 so anything after that won’t be seen. I emailed her to ask how she would handle the ones that came in after Aug. 23 and am still waiting.
AlisaSG said
Margaret,
>> I asked Anne when she sent the greetings, she sent it on August 23 so anything after that won’t be seen. I emailed her to ask how she would handle the ones that came in after Aug. 23 and am still waiting.
I sent Anne an e-mail on the 24th, because that’s when I posted mine, and I wasn’t sure if it posted (so I sent her an e-mail just in case). If what you wrote is true, Kyle’s birthday hadn’t even happened yet.. so, I don’t know if the rest of the replies will be seen based on what you just mentioned.
However, I’m sure something would be, because Peter Mohan signed Kyle’s guestbook list (on the 25th), too, in addition to several other members of the BT crew (who posted their messages on the 24th).
——–
okay ladies, TV-eh is having technical difficulties today..
so, of all of the articles and places I could have looked on TV-eh for the rest of your comments, how did I *EVER* guess you’d all pick Kyle’s topic.. Nice comments, too! Very professionally stated, too. 😉
😀
I was finally able to post under *guess where* or guess who! (hee-hee!!!), and the screen locked up again..!! I hope whatever I shared helps. I wrote something up this morning; and it just didn’t sound quite right, so I walked away and rewrote it maybe 50 more times, before the final product was submitted.
(I’m a sloooooow writer, what can I say?? *g*)
Margaret said
Yeah but since she’s half way around the world and the international date line, she probably actually sent them on his birthday, right? Anywho, I’ll let you know as soon as I hear from her.
Margaret said
Madonna: Is it ok if I forward the card you made for Kyle to Anne (Kyleschmidcentral.com). I mentioned it to her and how much work you had done on it.
AlisaG-She said she might mention to the production person (who shall remain nameless) that some greetings came in late, Peter Mohan’s for one.
AlisaSG said
oh gosh, ladies I can’t handle this..
I’m reading thru the comments, and Ohhhhhhhhhhh, it hurts to think of those very nuances that Kyle poured into Henry during HEART OF FIRE..
Margaret — about your comments on TV-eh about Kyle–
his passion, his soul.. heart-aching indeed!
I’ve got every image of what Mendoza tortured Henry thru, and they’re embedded in my brain! I can see and FEEL the images without even looking at eps physically. 😉
ughhhhhhh. We’ve GOT to help these new folks around the world STAY interested in the BT story..
..and hopefully without giving out the details to every story, as one person almost already did on the spacecast site (whoever it was, gave away each significant episode name with its specific detail to look for — sniffing scene), which some folks get downright nasty if SPOILED to that extreme wayyyyyy ahead of time. Grant it, I personally wouldn’t mind being spoiled, but I’d rather be kept in perpetual suspense (as on Tanya’s blogs), than to know that I could SKIP other eps, just because the ones that were recommended to look for were already listed.
hmmmm… yes, I had to ask myself, how that last comment of mine makes my gushing over HEART OF FIRE with Kyle as Henry any different (referring to my commentary on the TV-eh site article). I didn’t mention Mendoza, or the tortures or Kyle being placed into REAL chains for filming, because he kept breaking the props.. But I hope the way I did mention it, is creative in itself, just enough to stir the imagination, and let it go overboard all on its own, until the moment of reckoning actually occurs..
😀 .. 😛
*sigh* .. some comments elsewhere wanted to quit after the premiere
eps 1 & 2.
NOooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! (I do hope they were only teasing.) 😦
AlisaSG said
btw, PS– when I mentioned HEART OF FIRE under Kyle’s article at the TV-eh site, I took a creative cue from those of you who managed to see the story before the rest of us — and zipped up the most precious of details — all of them, except Kyle’s stunning acting performance within it. 😎
😀
gotta drop SOME bait into those (public) lurking waters *somehow*..
only time will tell.
hoping *ultimately* that the BEST results will inspire MORE Blood Ties eps to be contracted and completed..
Arrowyn said
Margaret, I’ve checked all wiring, etc. and I’ve gone to other places that have sound and everything’s fine. Argh! I vaguely remember (my usual kind of memory) reading “somewhere” that other people were having the same problem. I’ll try again, but I bet it will show up elsewhere eventually. I’ll just search.
AlisaSG said
zipped up the most precious of details — I meant to say, I continued the legacy of that self-imposed GAG order.. to which those of you who experienced it, knew so very well!
man, that must’ve been the most frustrating weeks of your life
(especially for prtfvr, because her reaction AFTER was the best description of it!)
😉
Arrowyn said
Can I USE the excuse of trying to watch the behind-the-scenes video at 3:30 AM? I am not a stupid woman — I just do stupid things. I FORGOT TO TURN THE SPEAKERS ON!!!!!!! Well, the good news is — I found a lot of places on my computer that have to do with volume. Not helping the “stupid” feeling. I need chocolate!
minxlaurel said
My beloved Moonbeam is tutoring me in all things WordPress. lol
I am trying to get an avitar of my own. Wish me luck.
minxlaurel said
How do I edit the pic I want behind my name.
Use small words, please. 😎
Arrowyn said
So, do we have yet another identity crisis going on? minxlaurel, is that you, Laurel?
lwildstar said
minxlaurel – when you go to the blood lines site open the picture you want big size – then right click – choose properties and highlight and copy the html name then go back to word press and past that in under where it sas html: or URL I can’t remember which – its under your screen name
for the avatar you need to save the picture you want to your computer first then go to the avatar seletion click browse choos your picture it will give you a cropping window and then make sure you save profile –
hope all of this made sense – if not Rifkind posted it on her WordPress page but I don’thave the link…
Claire said
Good Sunday my lovelies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment allez-vous cet dimanche après-midi ?
Beth darling…if you need a friend to play with….move to VA!!!!!!
Got back from Ikea…ate some delish Salmon! Saw a fabulous huge mirror…it would have looked lovely in my dining room…too big for car!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway..off to clean the house..ugh!
Are we at the henhouse tonight?
minxlaurel said
Yeah, it’s me. (hangs head in shame). It appears I never actually signed in properly to wordpress before. When I finally did so today I discovered there is already a Laurel. Okay, it may even be me but if so I don’t remember my password and had to start over.
Ah, well…
Now I am stuck as minxlaurel when I actually sign in. A small price to pay if I can get the whole picture thing figured out.
Cree said
There’s a behind the scenes BT video? Somehow I missed that post. Can someone either post or email me the link? Thanks.
Margaret said
Just trying to get a picture near my name again.
vicki said
hey girls…
happy sunday!!! well school starts tomorrow here…and that brings me one day closer to OCt. WHOO HOOOO!!!
Got to get into teacher mode tonight..(doesnt take much…its genetic) LOL I will check back later..got to get some last minute laundry done..
Anyone found out about the ratings for Canada yet????????
Margaret said
Where would the avatar selection be?
Margaret said
Cree-I just sent you what I had plus a few others. Didn’t know whether you had the flare photo shoot, or the daily interview so I sent those too.
prtfvr said
IMDB Ratings for last week are already in:
Holy Cow! Canada must be searching like crazy because EVERYONE moved up. Here’s how it stacks up:
Blood Ties
This Week: 1383
Last Week: 1932
Status: UP!! +549
Kyle
This Week: 1392
Last Week: 2058
Status: UP!! +666 Superstitious much?! 😉
Christina
This Week: 1888
Last Week: 2702
Status: UP!! +814
Dylan
This Week: 4160
Last Week: 5205
Status: UP!! +1045
Ok, let’s get serious! We finally have Canada on board. Let’s make those numbers POP for next Monday! We at least have to search Blood Ties enough to get it under a thousand. Come on!
Margaret said
Cree, the last thing I sent you had a bunch of garbage on the message section, disregard that, find the attachment, open it and it will still play. You’ll have to sit through Cheetah’s birthday first though. This is one of the very first ones with Christina telling how Kyle broke the bed the first week.
Claire said
Holy Merde….Those numbers are up!!! WoooHoooo!!!
Hey..wheres my girl Diz….are you in hiding..cause Z…let out your secret about the Henry Tattoo on your bum? Aw girl…it’s all good we’re family! LOL!
Je t’aime ma soeur… tu me manques!
XOXOXO
Cree said
Margaret: Thanks for the links. I enjoyed the videos very much!
Madonna said
Good evening everyone!
Chery, I just saw you earlier post. I would send it to Tanya but there is so many inside jokes on it I don’t know if she would appreciate it or not. What do you girls think? The hard copy of the card itself is being sent by Lady A with the rest of his presents, so he should get it all at the same time. I want to be sure that he has a chance to see the card for himself before the rest of the world, (excluding us) of course is given the opportunity to view it.
Dizey,
Margaret,
The candles I make are called gel candles. And yes when they burn the “embeds”, the items inside of them made of ceramic, glass or metal do stay put while the candle burns. I’ve been making them for about 3 years now and turning it into a business is a slow process. When I do get something going I’ll let you all know.
Margaret, be careful of buying those gel candles that look like they may have real leaves and flowers and such….. Unless they are “forever” candles (scented but unwicked, used for decoration.) organic items should not be used because they can be flammable.
Madonna said
BTW……
Margaret,
I posted over on that tv eh? site almost a week ago. My alter ego is mjp79. I haven’t let you down either girl.
Annalaise,
I love what you put over at kyleschmidcentral. Even if he never sees that, although I’d say he will eventually, it was hysterical and the best part was that it was true. Almost anyway. Just who brought that darn monkey anyway? He needs to be there for the next party too. He was fun to watch.
lwildstar said
Margaret I sent you Rifkinds link to do the Avatar
I’ve spent the last hour writing and my eyes hurt – but I only stopped because the laptop had a fit – I really want to try and finish chapter 9 tonight or tomorrow – then I’ll move on to the vamp story – and after I hear back from Danae and Laurel? about the short – well I’ll post that and start the next section of that…busy, busy, busy! then I’ll start over!
The hampster in my brain is begging for a break! run run run!
I really just don’t want to go into work tomorrow after last nights anxiety attack – but I did better today…I made an apt with the doctor to discuss these attacks – she cant see me till October!
Does anyone know if you can become OCD later in life – even if yo never had tose tendancies before? I find that I am checking things over and over – or maybe its just my mind going…phst – there goes another nueron!
Prtfvr – you started something with the renameing – thanks to the booboo with the new email address puting KWheeler in the from box I have now been nicked named Miss K – which is fine with me – that is one of my characters names…
well I’m going to go over to IMDB – was there earlier, but one more trip tonight cant hurt right!
I really shouldnt stay up – but is anyone going to the HenHouse tonight?
lwildstar said
dang it!
My post disappeared – I hit submit and it popped me off.
I have got to remember to start copying those before I his send!
Anyways it may show up – ya never know….
Margaret I sent you the link of Rifkinds for doing the Avatar.
I have been renicknamed – Miss K because of the booboo when I set up the new email account.
Lets see what else did I write – oh I’m half way through chapter 9 of the demon story – going to work and the vamp story – and when the editing is done on the short I’ll post that and let you know – then I can start on its part two.
busy brain – no time to think – I’ve been beter today – only mild aniety – made a doc apt, but she can’t see me until October! oh well.
I’m going over to IMDB to see I can help tose nubmers – I was there earlier – but we need more numbers!
Margaret said
Madonna: Chery could always give her a little legend. Like these two crazy people with the pile of post cards would be Margaret and Chery who between them have written approximately 1,600 post cards. They can now be found in a corner rocking back and forth ,going where’s my Blood Ties or O’Henry, O’Henry. Which means we’re either asking for a candy bar or depending upon what kind of emphasis we use on the “O”. I’m sorry, going down that slippery slope again, aren’t I.
Claire said
Annalaise…I love the comment at Kyleschmidcentral! You’re so funny! Thanks for the hottie compliment! I really really wish he would see all our comments!
Ah well we can hope right?
Margaret said
Anne said something about she might pass the others along, especially when you think that Peter Mohan didn’t make the cut with all the others.
Didn’t someone say that His Cyber Seduction was supposed to be on Lifetime sometime in October?
vicki said
Alright!!! Numbers up thats what we like to hear.,,,I will have to go add my two cents….LOL
lwildstar said
well I’m outie for the night – i took something to help my stiff neckneck – and now I want to sleep.
Talk to you tomorrow!
lwildstar d’ Nightwalker
AKA Miss K!
laurel said
Hah! I may not be able to get the avitar to show up, but I did get my name back. Whooo hooo!
Little things like that just make me so happy. It looks like I will need more expert assistance from one of you. Could someone send me rifkind’s avitar primer? Thank you!
I refuse to give up.
lwildstar – I am working on the location thing. Looks like I will have to drive into Portland to refresh my info on the downtown area. I got you one map that is not detailed enough but I have another I am using to hunt locations. You did send me the Portland one, didn’t you?
DIZEY1 :-) said
Bonsoir Claire, comment sont vous ? Qu’est-ce que c’est au sujet d’un tatouage de Henri ? Quelqu’un a fait que quand j’ai été passé dehors, peut-être Henri l’a mis là. D’ailleurs le chocolat peut traiter n’importe quoi 😉
Today was a slow dreary kind of day. I re-watched The Secret juuuuust making sure I’m doing it all correctly ya’ know? I needed a little Henry/Kyle so I watched Heart of Fire again and Blood Price, and I may watch Norman before bed. I’m waaaaay ready for October!!!!! My own mini marathon 😀
Prtfvr,
Splain somethin’ to me. The numbers we want are higher or lower? What’s posted appears lower than last week and you say the status is a positive so I guess I don’t git it 🙂
Madonna , let me know when you’ve got product and I’m your girl. Love candles!
Annalaise duChat said
Yes Cyber Seduction is on this month I already have it set to record in my DVR. The first time it was on I my daughter watched it because she was hot for Jeremy Sumpter who plays the lead. That was before Blood Ties though and I really wasn’t aware of who Kyle was at that time. I’m going to make a point of watching it again with an eye for our guy.
I the meanwhile though I have just one thing to say this evening.
HEATH LEDGER!!!!! in A Knight’s Tale. Trust me on this on girls!
Arrowyn said
Annalaise, I had Cyber Seduction marked for September 2, but now I can’t find it on any schedule anywhere. When is it on?
AlisaSG said
Dizey,
looking at the IMDB numbers — they do appear to be the reverse of the outcome (and I was going to ask, but you did it first!). This hasn’t been the first time either that I’ve seen the numbers written in reverse with an opposite reaction (yes, this isn’t easy to explain)..
for example, prtfvr wrote
Kyle
This Week: 1392
Last Week: 2058
Status: UP!! +666 Superstitious much?! 😉
Christina
This Week: 1888
Last Week: 2702
Status: UP!! +814
by what I’m seeing the numbers would be the same, but the week’s listed would also be in reverse order so that in order to get the current *Status UP* results, they should appear this way instead..
Kyle
Last Week: 1392
This Week: 2058
Status: UP!! +666 Superstitious much?! 😉
Christina
Last Week: 1888
This Week: 2702
Status: UP!! +814
Does that make better sense?? (the increased amount = the same total)
But on the actual IMDB site, it shows that the arrows increased (2 were over 40%; Gina’s % dropped, tho) from the previous week. Maybe it’s in whoever is calculating the stuff from the site has their week’s listed in reverse, and they meant to say the opposite, so that the higher numbers increased in appearance to us are actually this week, and not the way it’s listed in their program.
I didn’t see the actual number calculations, only the percentage points.
Annalaise duChat said
Cyber Seduction is on Lifetime, Sunday 9/2 8:00pm
DIZEY1 :-) said
Dr.du Chat,
A Knight’s Tale , I loved it and I like Heath, also “The Patriot” OMG very good actor! Please, tell my friend Melanie that I’m sorry I didn’t respond to her yesterday, it slipped by me. I am very happy that her band out shined the other and sorry their team lost but winning isn’t everything , it’s how much fun you have along the way, the journey’s the fun 😉 She’s a great kid I’m sure you are very proud Mom ! Did she get lots of great clothes? 😉
Well ya’ll trying to get to bed early so I can be @ the gym for 5:00, I’ll see ya’ll tomorrow and sleep well……..
Reves doux d’Henri (Je t’aime tout mon sang suçant des soeurs!!) 😎 XOXOXOXOXOXOXO
Elisabet
AlisaSG said
ohhh, about LIFETIME and “Army Wives”..
expect a bit hullaballu over this week’s episode. It’s definitely going to draw in a HUGE audience, because the storyline apparently has a terrorist threat made against the military base (where the wives are probably housed).
For folks in NJ, we’ve already seen and heard the plot in real life. Happened a few months ago, which was probably the very story that inspired this Army Wives episode. Our government found and stopped a group of terrorists who had planned on infiltrating a NJ military base, and go on a killing spree in there.
They had previous connections with the base from being pizza delivery guys, and other transport suppliers with *granted* BASE access. One of the suspected guys caught claimed to have personal knowledge of the base’s layout, so it would be easier to take over based on his floor plan schematics. Within one week, several alternate reports came out claiming this whole thing was just a set-up and a lie deliberately planned by our government making prejudiced biases against a certain “religion” to stereotype profiling that particular group of “fundamentalists” into a terrorist category.. Their families declared denied all charges and demanded them to be set free…
right in my own home state, this happened. Lovely, hunh??
Yep, that’s what was in the NJ newspapers a few months ago. I wouldn’t doubt if folks watching Tv would be watching just for the sake of comparing the real story with the “Army Wives” LIFETIME version. PLUS, it wouldn’t surprise me if in the future we’ve heard on the news that the terrorists scattered on our planet are ALSO watching this program.. feeding them all sorts of ideas..!!!!
Worst part was also discovering that 2 other facilities (for the *real* NJ story) were also on the targeted hit list of possibilities. One being near my sister’s house, and the other being near me! If they changed their minds and went after the one by me, there’d be a sizable hole in the ground in this state.. probably covering several square miles, not just a bunch of buildings (it’s an arsenal!! think Cheyenne MOUNTAIN.. Stargate command center.. something similar to *that*.. except the facility near me ain’t under a mountain!!)
Now, ask me if I feel any safer and more secure about life in the good ol’ USA..!
Anzia said
Um… Diz wasn’t getting the emails.. she know NOTHING about her little tribute to Henry…See Diz my dear. This is what happens when you get really really drunk. YOu forget things. ^_^ I sent you an email explaining Diz. To two different accounts…lets hope one gets there…
Danae- do you like the book?
I saw “Becoming Jane” today. LOVE IT! I cried (yes I’m THAT much of a dork- I’m also hormonal right now so…just be warned). It was my second not so happy ending movie in two days. THAT’S some major sadness build-up! The first movie actually ended with the heroine shooting her hero to save him and everyone else. SO SAD! GREAT movie, but really sad. Then Jane, my dear dear Jane, who blessed us with so many great stories *shakes fist at the Fates* So not fair.
Claire said
Beth… vous avez passé dehors sur le plancher… nous vous avons trouvé le jour suivant… avec seulement des décorations de célébration couvrant votre derrière et un tatouage d’Henry !
Ask Danae how you got it!…She was pretty toasted..and wanting one on her boob…before she passed out and joined you under the party streamers…and for your info…ehem…I found Kyle under there too! Are you sure you and danae didn’t break him and blame me? cause he couldn’t remember…all he remembers is Margaret fixing it…so he could come over my house! LOL!!
Anyway…Until tomorrow my darlings..Bonne Nuit … Reves doux d’Henri et
Kyle… mes belles soeurs!
Anne said
No, you’re not – you’re sleeping 😉
Meanwhile, here in CET land …
I will email an update to Scribble when she gets back from her vacation.
I know Tanya is swamped with emails, so she’ll probably get to my suggestion that she sign Kyle’s birthday guestbook in about a month 😉
I could poke her of course …
Sorry I didn’t make the party – I would have bought Key Lime Pie and onion rings. But I’m not very good at sharing Key Lime Pie – I’m slightly notorious for my Key Lime Pie obses … INTEREST!
I wonder if there’s a fanlisting for Key Lime Pie?
Or Lemon Meringue Cake in a pinch.
Or Ben & Jerry’s Lemon Merengue Ice Cream …
You can keep all the likker – just hand over the Lemon Merengue Cake!
I love onion ringes (preferably those with smooth batter without crumbs in it), and having Kyle mention them in his first sentence just made me love them even more.
For the cruise you should also get Denis McGrath – he sounds verry entertaining on his blog. And Peter Mohan could give you Blood Ties insights.
Perhaps even Insight insider insights ….
Anne said
Wanna comment to Jill?
Jill on Blood Ties and Henry
Margaret said
Anne: Thanks for dropping by. Educate me, who is Jill? When you visited the set, didn’t Kyle smell them before he actually met you?
I have a great Key Lime Pie recipe but its a Weight Watchers recipe. Still tastes good though.
I can’t remember, are we talking about a real cruise or a virtual one like the Birthday party we just had. That would be some cruise, now who wouldn’t love to pick Denis McGrath and Peter Mohan’s brains over Blood Ties. As Norman would say, that would be wicked awesome.
Margaret said
Thanks Dr. DuChat for the tv listing. Remember ladies, if you’re building your Kyle Schmid movie library, this is one that Lifetime does NOT have on DVD yet, so you need to record it if you want it.
Claire: I thought you got to see Kyle before you went to your other party. If that’s the case, trying to “fix” him is like closing the fence after the horses got out, especially after you got through with him, Ms. “Hot Stuff”. lol
Anne said
I asked IMDB a while back – who apppears in their birthday profile spots has to do with how many searches have been made for the person, so I figure if we want Kyle to show up next year, we better get started now.
I don’t know whether they count multiple searches from the same IP number though.
Jill Golick is a TV writer – I’ve never seen any of her stuff though. Found her site googling.
lwildstar said
Laurel – I sent you an email but just incase you arn’t use to my new email address yet I’m posting here – Yep that was the Portland story – any hting you can get would be helpful, but don’t knock your self out – I’ mean is started writing it with out any location specifics!thanks bunches!
Well it looks like even if you guys change my welcome name in your replys – it changes back when i reply – oh well you know KWheeler is me now….
Well off to work – lets hope its a better week!
lwildstar d’ Nightwalker AKA Miss K!
lwildstar said
wow must have been a slow night – I had only two emails! oh well now that I have things set up at work to get into the verizon account i can check back at lunch time – have a good day!
lwildstar d’ Nightwalker AKA Miss K!
Annalaise duChat said
Hi Anne,
Thanks for stopping by. Any chance the balance of the guestbook will get sent Kyle’s way?
While Key Lime Pie is wonderful my latest fixation is anything with bananas. Banana Cream Pie Chocolate Banana Milkshakes, Banana Cream Pie Blizzards at Dairy Queen…
Dizey Melanie was asking me if you replied. She’ll be happy when I tell her you did. Yes we spent lots of money on clothes The credit card in smoking.
prtfvr said
Diz: The IMDB stats are indeed in reverse. The lower the number the more people have been searching on them. For Kyle that means that out of how ever many actors are searched on, he is the 1,888 most searched for. Last week he was the 2,058 most searched for.
The lower the number the more popular the search. The difference between last week and this weeks number is 666. So he was searched 666 times more than he was the week before.
Hope that help.
laurel said
Annalaise – Can you say Bannan Malt – made with hand scooped hard ice-cream? I know a place where we can get one! Come on over for lunch. -)
I see my avitar showed up this morning. Of course it isn’t the one I really wanted but now I at least have a clue. Now, where did I put that picture of Dylan?
Re: The cruise – We would love to figure out how to do a REAL cruise but I think most of us have pretty tight budgets so it is just a dream for now. Unless one our you all won the Powerball lottery last night? If we decide to do a virtual cruise we could have a lot of fun with it. We will need a big hospitality suite!
Annalaise duChat said
Laurel,
I’ve never had one but it sure sounds good. It’s a date!
laurel said
Ooooh. Found him.
Nice.
See, I am really pretty easily amused. 🙂
laurel said
Annalaise,
I wish we really could meet for lunch.
I am having some problems with my writing and would like to hear how you address some of the odd issues that come up. I apparently write like I quilt; make a few blocks and and then try to sew them all together into an attractive whole. I think some of my “blocks” are not going to be in the same end product.
Ah, well. I’d better make some coffee and pour my frosted mini-wheats.
Margaret said
We could plan a virtual cruise, just like the birthday party we had. I laughed until I cryed. Had a great time.
What are we doing for Dylan’s birthday? Madonna, have you been commandered into making another masterpiece. Since he’s married and we want to be respectful of that I would think a virtual party for him would be out.
The things we do while we’re waiting to hear from Lifetime. lol.
DIZEY1 :-) said
Good Morning you crazy chix,
1st.) CLEARLY I was the “BUTT” of the joke on the email-scapades, hey it’s cool 😎 lucky for ya’ll I have a sense of humor and most definitely can laugh at myself. Oh and BTW Henri looks mighty fine on my…….Derrière 😉 Oh and **Z** no hard feelings my sista’ it’s all good even though I wasn’t invited 😦
JK 😛
Prtfvr, thanks for clearing up the status confusion. I kept looking at those and though ok Prtfvr’s a smart woman how is she seeing this and twisting it to work out the way she wants, Is She drinking?? Oh no it’s just me (hee hee hee) 😀
Claire, vous avez vu tattooing mon Henri sur mon derriere, Henri l’avez peint lui-même 😉 Je pense que Henri pourrait être un artiste. Henri a modelé son corps glorieux pour moi, jusqu’au sunrise:-D
DIZEY1 :-) said
Laurel,
Good job on the avatar is it a lapel?? We need to work on your pic now. When you go to the Bloodlines site and you choose the pic, click on the pic so it is enlarged. Once it’s big 😉 copy the url and then go back and paste on your wordpress profile site. It should show up after you update your profile once pasted. Let me know if that helped.
Annalaise duChat said
Laurel —
Why don’t you email me? I’d be happy to discuss your writing, and as you know, I always like to talk about mine.;) I’m no expert though. So it would be a case of the blind leading the blind.:-D But maybe we could help each other.
dreamcatcher4905@att.net Title it something about writing so it catches my attention. I think there’s 60 some emails in my inbox again. I just can’t keep up.
Annalaise duChat said
Oh I just had another Idea too, maybe we could make a chat date for some evening to talk about our stories. We could set a time to get together at Bloody Ford or set up a private chat (so we don’t annoy anybody else, unless somebody else wants to join in.) I’ll bring banana pudding ice cream! Email me to let me know.
DIZEY1 :-) said
😀 😛 😎
msgypsy said
As I drive by this morning…
Laurel, do you think you could manage some kind of birthday card for Dylan? I hate to make Madonna do all that work again, and so soon! But I don’t know any of us Minxes with sufficient talent to do what she did for Kyle. You, at least, have crafty talent that I know of, and possibly artistic talent that you haven’t told us about yet…and being a Minx and all, I just know your heart will be right in it…
Madonna said
Hey guys,
Whoever has Henry could you please send him to Kentucky NOW!!!!!
I’ll explain in a little while.
Maddie Mo said
Good Morning all!!!
I am completely out of the loop.. Have not been able to catch up from being in meetings last week.
Sorry I missed the party.
Claire—- Happy late birhtday!!!!!
DIZEY1 :-) said
Good Morning Madonna , I have him almost literally in my back pocket 😉 I guess he’s a butt man now, if he wasn’t before.
I’ll send him along I hope you’re ok, let me know if I can do anything for you, Hug, or even a tattoo I’m CLEARLY your girl. Love YA! 😀
lwildstar said
Did the world end and I didn’t get the memo? or are you all still recovering from the weekend?
Boy were are quiet today – usually by now i’d have 50+ emails in the box – I had 2! at the new verizon address and only one at the old AOL address
I Hope I haven’t dropped off the lists when i changed my address – I can still get into AOL so I’m sending reminders. Am I being shunned?
I’m sure many of you are back to school – have fun take care!
I love the idea of a writers chat…so many of us writing that would be great – to kick around ideas and what not! I know we tried the writers blog , it didn’t seeme to catch on.
And speeking of writng – since I have no emails to return and I’ve caught up on the blog I am off to finish chapter 9! maybe I’ll get brave enought to post it someday….
talk at you later
Himmiefan said
Hi everybody!! So sorry to be MIA for a while. I was scared that you had thought that my boss had killed me and hidden my body in the filing cabinet. Actually, things are going much better (you see, no room in the filing cabinet). We met on Thursday and got on the same page, so to speak. It turns out that she’s very, very left brained and needs everything plotted out. I didn’t realize how right-brained and spontaneous I am. Anyway, we talked and things seem better. I’ve decided on my own to try to give her more details than I have been. That might help.
Anyway, thank you very much for your kindness and caring last week. You guys are the best!!! Ms. Gypsy, I’m afraid that was me giving Faraday some cheese at the party. He said it was allowed! Then he gave me puppy dog eyes, and you know how hard that is to resist.
Anyhoo, I’ve got to check out the Macbeth video and see what the Canadians have been saying about our man. Looks like it’s probably good.
Oh!! Happy Belated Birthday Claire and Kyle!! 🙂
Himmiefan said
By the way, if any of you like historical dramas with good looking men, rent Rome. I got hooked on the first season, then rented the second season last week. I enjoyed it so much that I watched the first season all over again. Great stuff!! Rather shocking amount of nudity, but um, well, um…
laurel said
Sorry it took me so long to respond. I was getting ready for work and thought it would only take a few minutes to figure out my new hair cut. hehehe
I was wrong. 😎
Annalaise – I would be happy to chat about our stories some time! I have only shared them with my daughters so far, and they are pretty serious about critiquing my work. I get lots of corrections and advice. lol
If the Bloody Ford works best that would be fine with me. I also have my own blog site on wordpress now so I could offer that if you prefer blog over chat. Let me know either here or on the e-mail.
I am off to work now, so I’ll see you all later.
laurel said
Gypsy – Me? The card for Dylan? ROLFLMAO
Crafty I may be, but also extremely challenged on the computer. Maybe I can put my older daughter on it. It will probably cost me money! lol
Let me think on it for a couple of days before I commit to anything.
Now, I am really late for work, so I’ll see you later!
Annalaise duChat said
lwildstar — I’d love to have you at the writer’s chat. I’m sure Laurel won’t mind. I haven’t heard from her yet though. I’ll include you in any plans we makeAny bod else who’s interested in joining in email or post and I’ll include you in the planning.
rifkind said
Hi All! Just a drive-by post until I get caught up…
I am sooo far behind… I wasn’t on the blog all weekend.. so I am VERY far behind.
Laurel, it looks like you are still having trouble with your Avatar.
Pop me an email with what you’ve done so far and I’ll see if we can’t get your picture formatted correctly.
Dr DuChat.. I just sent you an email on your story submission and some ideas.. so check your mail.
{{{HUGS}}} to all my Blood Sisters!
Himmiefan said
Hey Annalaise. I’d love to be part of the writers’ chat.
Annalaise duChat said
OK Himmie I keep you posted when we get a plan.
Thanks Rifkind. I’ll check it out.
DIZEY1 :-) said
Oh not even realizing it while I was talking to MBF Melanie that her mom’s birthday was also on Friday 8-24, what a trip I never knew so many people with b’days in August. Now some of my best peeps are born on 8-24 😉
DIZEY1 :-) said
Ok you crazy people, I’m sitting at my desk and eating a banana. My controller walks by and gives me a strange look as I bite my banana, wasssup wit’ dat’?? Do you think he knows about the tattoo??? 😉 Bad things I was doing at the virtual party 😎 (hee heee heeeeeeeee) HA!!
Just an observation you baddd girls 😛 😀
Annalaise duChat said
Hi Rifkind — Good advice.
I had a whole letter typed out and then I lost it I have no more time now. I’ll have to try again this evening.
rifkind said
Annalaise,
Glad to be of help
ALL!
Quick before I forget..
The moon will turn RED with a total lunar eclipse on Tuesday!
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070826.html
lwildstar said
Annalaise duChat ; thanks! please send info to the new email address –
lognwldstr@verizon.net
I can’t beleive how quiet we’ve been today!
Back to work!
Madonna said
Good afternoon everyone,
Dizey,
Thank you! (((HUGS))) back!
My day so far has pretty much been a wash. I started it with a little spat with my mom this morning.
Some of you might remember me talking about my dog being really sick several weeks back. Well he still is and has been since mid-June. In fact I have been questioning whether or not to take him to another vet and thank God for Cree who has been helping me by email. Anyway when my mom took Boo-Boo to the vet this morning she asked for his records so that we could take him to a stomach specialist. The thing that I feared most happened. The vet and his assistant got insulted and exchanged heated words with my mom (not an argument exactly) just pissy attitudes. I did not want to insult anyone and in the past this vet has been good to us, but my first concern is my dog. Anyway, now my mom and vet are mad at each other and my mom is mad at me. I feel guilty even though I know I have no reason to. I just don’t know what to do.
Anne said
Did you see the updates on Bloodties.tv/a>?
The behind-the-scenes shot of Kyle’s chest being painted – *gigggle* I always figured bodypaint might be fun.
Anne said
Sorry – it’s http://www.bloodties.tv
msgypsy said
Madonna, hugs for you and your poor dog, and phhhhbbbbbtttttt to the vet and kinda to your mom, too, because the dog should be the first priority, not their feelings.
Laurel, I have great faith in your artistic abilities and I bet your daughter would be willing to help out in exchange for something more motherly than cash! LOL!
DIZEY1 :-) said
Anne ,
You Rock!! thankx for the link, I’d love to have to paint Kyle’s chest. Tough job but somebody has to do it. 😉 😎
Madonna,
I say TUFF if they don’t like it. I would give mine (dogs, cat) mouth to muzzle if I had to, and if the Dr. doesn’t understand that he’s not a very good vet and he isn’t looking out for your pups best interest. Besides it’s not like he’s doing it for free, he’s been paid for his services and you’re dissatissfied. They should be more understanding, you’re their customer. Well keep us updated w/the progress for *Boo Boo*. I used to call my little Pom *Boudin* BooBoo, or Scooby-Boo and had a whole little song that I say for him and his little tail would wiggle, 😀 I miss that little sweet pea. Good luck!!
Himmiefan said
Madonna – don’t worry. You’re doing the right thing by changing vets. Your pet’s too valuable to worry about the vet’s feelings. If I remember correctly, he sounded pretty crappy anyway.
Margaret said
Anne: I don’t see anything. Could that be because I need to download the latest flash player?
Margaret said
Madonna: Don’t worry about the vets feelings, your dog is the only important thing. If he really cared like he should, he wouldn’t let his ego get in the way.
Margaret said
Just playing since my other picture took a dive.
Margaret said
Trying one more time.
DIZEY1 :-) said
Hey Maggie May , that’s my avatar pic, good selection ma’am 😉 What a beautiful face, did you check out the ………ahhhhhhhhhh Kyle body painting? Ooooooh man I want that job 😛
Arrowyn said
Hi, everybody. Catch up time…
Annalaise, thanks for the date and time for Cyber Seduction. That’s what I had, but when I tried to double-check my favorite schedules, I couldn’t find it. Of course, that was around 2 or 3 am!
Anyone — I’ve had great success capturing pictures from all the various BT sites to save and savor later. All, that is, except for bloodties.tv. They have some FINE pictures on their site which are new to me, but I can’t use my usual magic to capture anything. Has anyone had more luck than I have had?
Madonna, I’ve had 2 vets that I’ve fired because of that kind of attitude. Our pets are our babies, no matter what they are or what size, and any vet (AND THEIR STAFF!) who don’t treat my baby like their own shouldn’t be in the business. I expect people doctors to be like that (and they usually are), but not vets. My present vet (heaven’s gift to veterinary) told me once that you should “interview” your vet, their staff and their facilities before taking your pet to them. He said to look for photos that owners have sent them; adoption notices; animals set out for people to see if they want to adopt; CLEAN facilities, not just out front, but in back where they keep the animals; separate facilities for dogs and cats (less trauma); etc. My vet has a complete hospital, so all those things are there, but most places aren’t that large, of course. Mostly, you want to feel that, when you leave Boo-Boo there, they will take care of and love him like you would.
As an aside, but on the same topic, that vet should have suggested having a specialist see Boo-Boo before your mother even thought about it! I’m with Dizey — TUFF S**T if they don’t like it! Go love your dog up. HE won’t be mad at you! Sorry, one of my many soapboxes.
DIZEY1 :-) said
juuuust chkg
Arrowyn said
Sorry if I offended any vets reading my previous rant. I’m not taking anything back, you realize, but I’m still sorry if I offended.
Margaret said
Playing again.
DIZEY1 :-) said
Arrowyn,
I don’t think anyone even Doc. Cree would be offended. Pets are like some people’s children. I know they are for me, and that’s why they live to be so old I guess. I loved and adored every dog, cat, etc I’ve ever had the pleasure to share space with. Most vet’s probably feel similar if not the same. I love my vet so much I’d let him treat me 😉 I still haven’t found a pup yet but I guess he/she’ll find me when they’re supposed to. Monkey girl (my cat AKA Louise) has been very vocal and loveable lately. She’s a sweetie girl.
DIZEY1 :-) said
I tried that Mag’s it didn’t work, but you saw that fine dude eh??
Arrowyn said
Dizey, I feel the same way. My last (and only) cat was 21 when she died last April. I’ve never been without a cat or two in my life, but I haven’t gotten another one yet. Although I know another “baby” would help me through the grief from the loss of Kali, I’m not emotionally ready to contemplate going through it again. In fact, just typing this started the tears. Not good. I’m at work. Sorry, I usually hold everything in much better than that.
Anne said
The only way I know to get pictures off flash files, is to use the print-screen key and paste the result into an image program and trim the extra stuff away.
Arrowyn said
Thanks, Anne, I’ve never done that. I love learning new things — especially when they have to do with enjoying Henry more.
Arrowyn said
Who was it – way back when – who wanted the dialog from the “sniffing scene”? I printed the comments from that blog before LT shut it down, so I have the dialog if you still need it. Type it here? Scan and email?
DIZEY1 :-) said
Arrowyn,
My old cat she’s been gone quite a while now but she was 23yrs old and only 3 yrs younger than my youngest brother. It was like loosing a sibling. All my dogs lived to be 16 and 17 yrs old, yep I get teary also just thinking about them. But I think it’s good because it shows how much we loved them and what a huge space they took up.
Arrowyn said
Dizey, you weren’t kidding when you said your pets lived for a long time!
lwildstar said
Good evening ladies!
Long Lived Pets are the Sign of a Happy Well Balenced Home and A Healthy Happy Owner….
So that speeks a lot about you Diz!
Well its been a quiet day – I had no problems catching up.
When I came into work this morning there was a new icon on my computer – a green eye – first thing I thought was spy wear – but not every computer had it (yes I checked and only found one other) so I called IT and asked – what is the green eye for? Its suposed to be a new control panel for the duel monitors – so I clicked on it and brought up properties and yep there was a tool bar for the monitors – I got an email back jokingly calling me paranoid!…its a good thing I like those IT guys…
So since its quite I’m going to go do some writing – I’m looking forward to the writers chat Annalaise!
Laurel – I emailed you back about the locations! You out did yourself!
Talk to you guys later.
lwildstar d’ Nightwalker AKA Miss K
Cree said
Madonna,
I’m sorry it all went down that way at the vet this morning. I feel partly responsible since I feel like I pretty much talked you into taking BooBoo somewhere else. I just can’t believe he acted that way, especially since it is a specialist you are wanting to take him to. I am just the opposite with my clients. If I can’t fix it, I am the first one to say go to a specialist and give them the names and numbers of the ones I recommend that I know are great. It really is for the best though. BooBoo needs help from someone that knows what they are doing.
Your mom will get over it. She will realize that in the long run it is what is best for your dog. She’s probably just upset that she is the one that had to deal with the confrontation, even though you couldn’t help it that you had to work. None of us like doing that.
So did the vet do anything today before your mom asked for the records….repeat bloodwork, or anything like that? Hey if you have the previous bloodwork results, you can email them to me if you want and I will be able to tell you with a little more certainty as to what I think is going on with him. When is the appointment with the specialist?
Madonna said
Thanks for the support everyone. I can’t tell you what it means to have you all here to turn to. I did not mean to post my rant earlier and run, but I was just getting ready to leave work and I had to go to the grocery store. Its just been a stressful, tension filled day.
I wanted to stress the fact that my mom is on my side in this too, she was just a little more scared of insulting the doc than I was and sadly that is exactly what happened. When she mentioned maybe taking him to a stomach specialist they got very short with her and he pretty much refused to even examine my dog today. My mom kind of soothed things over a bit by telling him that we still want him to be our vet (not exactly true) but that we are convinced that there is something underlying wrong and that we thought seeing a specialist if we could would be a benefit. He gave us a number for a specialist. Anyway he did more blood work today. We’ll find out the results of that from him at an appointment on Saturday. The whole time she was there they pretty much gave her the cold shoulder.
Dizey,
Arrowyn,
I’ve had a dog that lived to be 17 and a cat that lived to be 22, both had to be put to sleep because of kidney failure.
Madonna said
Hey Cree,
Sorry, you must have posted while I was typing. I don’t want you to feel even partially responsible at all. So get that out of your head OK! You just encouraged me to do what I’ve been thinking of doing for a while now. In fact you’ve been a godsend in this whole matter.
Cree said
Madonna,
He is making you go back for another appointment on Saturday? Can’t he just call you with the results? Sounds like he is trying to get more money out of you for another office visit. It shouldn’t even take that long for bloodwork. It takes me about 15 minutes to run a full blood panel inhouse, and if I have to send it to an outside lab for some reason, it is back the next day at the latest, and I call my people with the results, I don’t make them come back in for them. We all have the same blood machines because there aren’t exactly many to choose from in our field, so there is no reason it should take that long to get results. Just my opinion. And have I mentioned again today that I REALLY don’t like this guy?
Cree said
Aww, thanks Madonna. Glad I could help. 🙂
lwildstar said
Madonna luv, rant all you want! thats what we are here for – good grief I mean I spent an hour on here with Danae because I didn’t want to be alone!
And although I dont have pets, even I understand they are your children and you are doing the right thing getting your baby help – for your vet to act like that just isnt right.
lwildstar d’ Nightwalker
AKA Miss K
Madonna said
Cree,
Check your email in few minutes. I’m going to send you the particulars.
Madonna said
Thank you lwildstar. This has become an emotional subject for me and I need all the support I can get.
nightwalker01 said
Madonna – ((((HUGS))) just don’t seem to be enough.
Luv ya!
lwildstar d’ Nightwalker
AKA Miss K
Margaret said
Just trying to get a picture.
Margaret said
Why can’t I get these pictures to work and or stay.
nightwalker01 said
NICE piture Margaret – he’s still ther – or are you trying for an Avatar?
Margaret said
Halleluah. Now that is dead sexy, as Austin Powers would say.
Where do I sign up to be a makeup artist. I’m ready to quit my job now. lol
nightwalker01 said
See I liked your picture soooo much I went in and changed my Avatar – the picture I had of Kyle was too dark to see any way – this is much better!
YUM-ME
lwildstar d’ Nightwalker
AKA Miss K
Margaret said
Anyone else having trouble getting into the lifetime site?
Madonna said
Ms. Gypsy,
Margaret,
Laurel,
Unless someone else WANTS to do Dylan’s card, I don’t mind really. I had already planned and expected to do Dylan’s and Christina’s. In fact, I’ve already got some good ideas for it and have even started a few sketches. I think I’m going to do it in the same style as Kyle’s, but I would like to keep the artwork to one page instead of three. If anyone has any ideas post them here or email them to me. I think I am going to start working on it this weekend. Also if you’d like to start sending greetings go ahead. MadonnaJPike@aol.com
Anne,
Thanks for sharing all the “insider” info with us. I LOVE key lime pie too.
I think I’m off for tonight guys. Gonna go watch the Bengals pre-season game with my dad and relax.
Talk to y’all tomorrow. Thanks again.
Margaret said
lwildstar-Naw, wasn’t trying for the avatar yet. I find that the pictures stay for a couple of days and then they give me some kind of error message?
laurel said
Madonna – Thank the merciful heavens! I’ve been saved! ( ( ( HUGS ) ) )
Thank you.
Gypsy – If you want me to do a little something from the Portland group I might be up to that, but with the Quilting Expo coming in late September I am already a little overwhelmed by the idea of something for the entire blog. I bow to Madonna’s greater skill and patience on that score.
Wildstar, Annalaise, Z. Gypsy, and any other interested writer sorts, I would be happy to try out my new blog space with the whole group of you. It’s just sitting there with only messages from me.
Now that is the ultimate in talking to one’s self. 😎
Margaret said
First and foremost we need something involving a bonfire and that raincoat going into it. Dylan is way too pretty to be hiden by that stupid raincoat all the time (and this from a 99.9% hen). I’m not sure how you can work donuts into it but I have faith in you.
laurel said
Okay, I typed a message about 1/2 hour ago and it vaporized. I have never had that happen before. Wonder if it went to the hold bin?
Rats.
AlisaSG said
Margaret,
>> Anyone else having trouble getting into the lifetime site?
“Army Wives” did an encore finale tonight (at 8 p.m. EST).
The site is swamped. I can’t even get access to the Tv schedule, but it appears that tonight is the last viewing for this week, UNLESS Lifetime changes their schedules again without warning.
I did manage to get to Tanya’s old blogs on Lifetime, but not without waiting nearly two to five minutes between clicking on the links. I was sort of hoping maybe it was new viewers to BT checking out Tanya’s blogs, but I think the internet traffic has more to do with “AW”..
(see my earlier post about “AW” – thus would explain the excessive overload on the site.)
nightwalker01 said
I managed to get into LT and post a message but then when I tried to LogOUt it froze my computer for 15 minutes – I decided to leave it until it sorted itself out, because last time I closed out in the middle it screwed up my account and I had to redo it.
Anyway, I’ve spent the last hour writing – finished chapter 9 and my neck is killing me – so I am off for the night!
I can’t believe how quiet we have gotten! Did we tire ourselves out with that party? or is it the “going back to school” syndrome.
Talk at you tomorrow!
lwildstar d’ Nightwalker
AKA Miss K
nightwalker01 said
and if they think AW casused a comotion – just wait til we hit them October12-13 – we may lock ourselves out with all the traffic!
lwildstar d’ Nightwalker
AKA Miss K
DIZEY1 :-) said
Night my little Blood Sista’s! I bid you all adieu’ till tomorrow
Reves doux d’Henri
XOXOXOXOX
Love YA!~!
Elisabet
AlisaSG said
I just put my first 2 comments over on spacecast..
They are getting both eps parts of “Blood Price”, right?? (the 2-hour version, not the story chopped in half one week, and one half the next…?)
this is going to be a challenge to keep up with who’s seen what!
I know CityTv is supposedly seeing both parts in one sitting.
laurel said
Madonna – you go right ahead sista’. I am so not the artist in this medium. If it doesn’t require my sewing machine, or needle and thread of some kind, chances are good I’m not your girl.
That being said, I might be able to come up with some kind of idea for a birthday gift. Any ideas out there?
I totally agree on the coat burning! There is no reason for sexy Mike to channel Columbo. If Madonna wants to draw in a scene about that I would volunteer to be the one with the blow torch. Who’s with me? 😎
Has anybody seen Tango? I’m needing a ride in the Ferarri! Tomorrow is supposed to be good convertible weather and we need to practice the part of the movie where we “jump out with weapons drawn.” lol
laurel said
Hi there Alisa! I think everyone else just ran off to sleep. It happens to me every time I get the computer to myself, so I am glad to see there are some night owls left.
AlisaSG said
ps– and I have to laugh over reading some of the Canadian commentaries..
I’ve seen several so far, where they’re all concerned (worried!) about people noticing Vancouver substituting for Toronto (or vice-versa)..
really————!! reading the (side) STREET signs never even entered my mind, while watching this series.. and that goes for all of the outdoorsey scenes!
AlisaSG said
hi Laurel. 🙂
I’ve got laundry in the dryer, so I’ll be up for a while longer..
I still haven’t read most of my e-mails yet from last week. 😉
vicki said
hey girls…
I know its a sacrific but I will volunteer to paint JKyle’s chest..(((SSighs))) DIrty job but somebody’s got to do it..>>LOL
Aniza…I feel your pain girl…Jane Austen is my FAVORITE!! I have an action figure of her on my desk at school…Cant wait to see the movie..
ok..bed time…got to go dream about Henry
Anzia said
Diz- ^_^ You’re a DAWLING dear. ^_^ And i am SOOO envious of your tat! Too bad I wasn’t drunk enough 😉
Himmie- Hey! I was wondering about that. Wasn’t sure you’re boss would put you in the filing though. I was thinking more like the huge desk drawer on the right so she could make sure you were still there everytime she needed ot yell at someone or demand it get done. ^_^
Rifkind- oooo, have fun w/the catch up. I’ve basically resigned myself to the idea that I never will be able to read every thing on the blog after missing a day. You are a brave gal to even try.
Okay, who ever has Henry, unless it’s a life or death thing, can I have him? In my defense i’ve never asked for him! EVER! I was just gonna wait my turn but… well there was the particularly jerky a$$ that I got for my last call of the night and I really have some energy to work off. I understand if he’s already tied up. Just…well…a bit of agression would be good for him *blushes at the visuals she’s getting* Yeah… so this guy. He was a a wk late in paying his bill right. Well, Kohls calls after 2 days of being late. He asked when the last time he was late was, I told him and he said, “Good, you can go ahead and close my account out. I’ll pay the balance in full tomorrow at the store and you can tell your supervisor that you lost my account because you called me. I’m sure you’ll get something special for that.” I wanted to hit him. 1) i’m PMS-ing in a big way, 2) I’ve spent the last 7.5 hours (.5 for food) getting yelled at in various forms, 3) I DIDN’T SAY ANYTHING TO HIM TO WARRENT THE SCATHING SARCASM HE SENT MY WAY! Who the h@ll told him he could talk to people like that? It’s RUDE! JERK! Grrr…then my trainer was making digs at me ’cause I have a lot of one kind of finish code (I guess i’m missusing it and now we all have to keep track of why we use it). I’m not sure if I want to scream, cry, or pulverize something. *sigh* Maybe a blow henry pop will do it…*shuffles off to the supply closet*
*Screams* OH NO! We used all the supplies at the party! We won’t get anymore in for a week! 😦 Who hid the RUM!
laurel said
Z Sweetie – I don’t have Henry but I can send Raoul the pool boy. He gives a great massage and it sounds like you need one. A little warm oil and his strong-yet-gentle hands… You will feel better without the rum, how about a cup of warm honeyed tea?
When I have a customer like that I try to imagine that he is having a terrible day and I was just the deliverer of the last straw. You just can’t take it personally! I suspect you are not the only one to ever get that response and your boss won’t be surprised that it happened. Once, when my life was falling apart in big ways, I said some harsh things to some poor woman on the phone. I have regretted it ever since, and now I try to remember that other people get to that dark place sometimes too. I will say a prayer that you will find peace tonight, and get a good night’s sleep.
Remember… YOU ROCK!
And you are loved! 🙂
laurel said
Psst – My personal secret supply of blow henry pops is in the book case, behind the “Smoke” books. They are in a dark blue box with a picture of Mike on the top. I figured no one would think to look there. 🙂
Oh, yeah, don’t tell anyone else.
laurel said
Oh nuts. I killed the blog.
I guess I’ll go work on my writing for a while.
I’ll check back.
sigh
Rifkind said
Hi All!
I am STILL trying to get caught up with the blog…
Did my monkey behave?? I think I brought him into the party when I was looking for a music vid of Orlando and the Pirates of the Caribbean…
I just thought that the pic of him all wet and wild was too fun NOT to mention…
Now gals …. mind OUT of the gutter! Hee Hee 😉
I’m off to try to get our first 3 chapters out onto my WordPress account…
lwildstar said
AHHH – my Nightwalker Avatar switched back…whats up with that? the new one was ther last night – just checking in I’ll be back later!
nightwalker01 said
Ok lets see if my baby came back
nightwalker01 said
yippeee! I don’t know why he did the dissaperaing act last night – even wierder that it switched to old picture.
Ok thast really weird – I just scrolled up to the posts from last night and now all the pictures have changed to the what I just did – WordPress is messing with me – when I logged in under Lwildstar they were all the old pictuer…owch my head hurts now!
I had another anxity attack over that stupid mistake friday- called the doc- she can’t see me til October! oh well – I’ll just have to deal.
I’m just falling apart……..well by the end of the week I’ll know if I’m in trouble or not – I think that is the worst of it – the waiting…..
Its bad enough haveing to wait for Blood Ties to come back! I can’t take the stress any more!!!
Oh well now I am off – have a good day
lwildstar d’ Nightwalker
AKA Miss K
Margaret said
lwildstar: Step back from the situation, breath deeply for the count of 10. Then go back have a conversation with yourself, ask yourself could you done anything different. How much of the situation was out of your control? First and foremost, go back and document what you know to be true, cover your A$$ because trust me, no one else will offer to.
I’ve been in government for almost 20 years now and if I haven’t learned anything its document everything you do, especially if you are uncomfortable with something that’s happening. Like someone telling you to do something you feel is wrong. Create a journal and keep it up, until you feel comfortable. Do it at home and certainly don’t leave it a work. I know this is fostering more paranoia but who said anyone of us on this board weren’t?
Then after you’ve done that, Let Go and Let God, or whatever or whoever you perceive your higher power to be. Its done, stop worrying about it. Know that we all love you and you’re in our thoughts. Please try to calm down or you’ll work yourself into a state.
Years ago I decided I needed mental help, I went to check it out, they told me I needed to come 4 times a week at $50 a pop. Thats when I decided to heck with that, or words to that effect and went to the local bookstore. I figured I could cure myself a lot cheaper. lol. I feel like I’m ok now, muhaaaaa. (Insert picture of me rocking back and forth calling for my O’Henry). Seriously, do what you’ve been doing, try to get your mind off it. You can’t do anything more than you have.
Annalaise duChat said
Good Morning All,
Tanya finally posted her birthday wishes for Kyle at Kylescmidcentral.com. Now maybe Anne can send another installment of it off to him.
Anzia– Some people get really defensive and lash out when the are backed into a corner and know they are wrong. Try not to take it personally. My recommendation? Take a Oh! Henry break. (Either or both)
Attention all writers interested in a chat– Please contact me with some ideas of a good time to set this up.
Laurel– Maybe you could sew up a little trenchcoat and write everyone’s B-day wishes on that for Dylan.
I have another idea, let’s design a T-shirt transfer, something along the theme of Loose the trenchcoat”or Take off the Trenchcoat and make one up to send to him. I could do that.
Sorry about the typos, mt keyboard is acting up again.
msgypsy said
Good morning, bloggerini! I have fifteen minutes today, but it’s divided between four tabs and my email. ARGHHHH!
I spent last night doing a NY Times crossword and going to bed early. I don’t know why but I suspect I’m coming down with something.
My previous dog, the brilliant and beautiful Tesla (also a Tibetan Terrier, but a lady if ever there was one…) lived to be 18. Technically, Faraday ought to live that long, but the way he’s tearing through life, barking and chasing everything under the sun, he may burn out early. I hope not, because he’s totally my baby and I don’t know what I’d do without him. (He has his own room, even. Well, it’s not his room so much as the guest room but he prefers it in there to anywhere else when I’m not around.
If you’ve been reading Denis McGrath’s blog, he had some things to say about Canadian TV today, including the statement, “Genre stuff like Blood Ties that sells around the world and develops a loyal fan following.” Gosh, I like that man’s way with words!
It’s likely to be another busy day today; with the boss out of town we’re all having to pitch in and cover his desk, plus I’m new on my own job (everyone moved over one a few weeks ago) and the person I can usually turn to for help won’t be available today. But I’ll try to stop by at lunchtime.
Oh, yeah, Madonna, go for it if you want to do Dylan’s card. And if Laurel is holding the blowtorch, I wanna be holding the olde (spelling deliberate) style wooden torch. That trench coat needs to GO! (In the next season they film, I think working the destruction of the trench coat into an episode would be a Good Thing.)
Madonna said
Good morning everyone!
I’m doing better this morning. Thanks again sisters. Cree thanks for the help.
lWildstar,
Try not to worry. That is the worst thing you can do for youself. If you have made a mistake, it’s done. If not then great! If one of your superiors approaches you with it, be sincere and apologize and ask their advice as to how not to make the same mistake again. Above all, calm down and breathe. You are human and you are new to this position. Mistakes will happen, but in the grand scheme of things it’s no big deal. You know where we’re at if you need us.
Anzia,
Dizey sent Henry to me yesterday after my crappy day, so I had the pleasure of his company last night. He’s on his way to you now.
Annalaise,
I’d love to participate in a writer’s chat if I’m not too busy when it’s scheduled.
Also, I love the idea of making him a T-shirt like that.
Minxes or anyone else…..
Do any of you want to write up the sentiments from all for the card and either post them or send them to me.
Rifkind,
That was your monkey? I hate to tell you but he broke the chandelier.
I think we need another contest to name the monkey like Ms. Gypsy’s bat. Any suggestions?
Danae,
How was your day off yesterday?
Well, I’ll catch up with you all at break.
Margaret said
Dr. Duchat: Wonderful idea about the t-shirt but what size. He doesn’t appear to be that large but he is tall. Madonna you could put a miniture version on Ms. Gypsy’s hen for the card.
Ms. Gypsy-hope you’re feeling better soon.
Lwildstar-you know where we are, if you need us.
Anzia: Ditto on the advice I gave lwildstar. You know where we are.
Margaret said
Anne most certainly will have to send the newer greatings now with Tanya’s addition. And the neat thing is Dr. DuChats little description of the party is that far away from Tanya’s post. I’m sure it will give him a chuckle.
Margaret said
Should be “not that far away). Where’s my second cup of coffee?
Anzia said
Thanks guys. ^_^ It wasn’t that I was taking it personally it was just I didn’t warrent being talked to like that. If you had ever heard me talk on the phone you would know that I seriously sound like a little girl going door to door asking you to buy girl scout cookies. SOOOO disgustingly sweet and nice and helpful. *sigh* Oh well… We’ll see how I get graded on it ’cause knowing my luck that’s the phone call they’re going to pull.
Madonna- thanks for Henry. If you still need him go right ahead and keep him dear. I definitely don’t want to make anyones day worse than it already was.
Laurel- I just took one and put ’em back where you had ’em. And I didn’t tell no one. ^_^ Good luck on the writing.
Madonna said
Anzia,
I’ve had my turn. I’m not selfish. Enjoy and then send him to lWildstar when you’re done.
Danae said
Buongiorno Bellas. Yesterday was great. I just forwarded you all pictures of her first day. I am more nervous today then I was yesterday. She did wonderful though.
Madonna-I am so sorry I wasn’t here when you were talking about your dog. I agree with what everybody else said. It is your right to change to a better vet. We used to go to a vet that would yell at the pets if they were scared and not cooperating. We changed immediately. I didn’t like that environment for them.
Anzia-Don’t worry about that one call. It wasn’t even your fault. It is their policy and you were doing what you were told. No worries.
Annalaise duChat said
I’m thinking a men’s large T-shirt would probably work. My hubby’s just a little bigger through the shoulders and he wears a L/XL depending on the cut of the shirt. What do you think? He doesn’t appear to be a real big guy, but he is kind of muscular in the shoulders.
I’m thrilled about the proximity of the party post to both Tanya’s and Peter Mohan’s. He can’t miss it!
I am trying to find a convenient chat time for all but haven’t had any suggestions yet. So I’ll just go ahead and throw something out there–8:00pm EST Wednesday August 29th at the Bloody Ford. We’ll move to a private chat room if anyone else needs the Clinic. Is that OK with everyone? We’ll call it Pie & Prose. Everybody bring your favorite dessert, questions and problems, victories and challenges. Let me know if that works for everyone.
Annalaise
Madonna said
Annalaise,
Wednesday at 8 won’t work for me. I don’t even get off work til that time. But if it works for everyone else go ahead and schedule it. Maybe I can make a future one. I’m not even past a partial outline yet.
Annalaise duChat said
Would a weekend be better?
Danae said
You all go ahead and do that date and time. I won’t be able to make it and I am only just starting and outline for a possible book.
I have another date with Adam on Thursday. I realized I have a problem. After the first two or three dates with a guy I clam up. I have done this three times now. I am already starting to drift away from Adam. It gets very frustrating for me. I think it is part of my anxiety disorder. Any advice?
Madonna said
I could probably make any evening 7 or later except Wednesdays or Thursdays.
Annalaise duChat said
Tuesday and Friday are out for me.
Danae said
The weekends are the best for me. It is easier to get to Kelly’s or Chris’s for me.
Madonna said
Danae,
I don’t have much experience with men but I have found that it is better to be a little mysterious. Don’t reveal everything about yourself in the first 2-3 dates. It’ll keep his interest longer trying to figure you out. Other than that, just be your own loveable self.
Annalaise duChat said
Laurel, Rifkind, lwildstar how about you guys?
gypsy, Z you guys interested?
Did I miss anybody?
What about Saturday morning?
DIZEY1 :-) said
Good morning ya’ll 😀 Buongiorno Bellas,
Danae, glad to hear Amber’s 1st day was good for her and you 😉 On the Adam subject, have you sat back and asked yourself what you’re backing away from? Control, closeness what are you afraid of?? You’re not marrying him, so sit back and enjoy the ride a little. Let yourself be free and have fun for however long it lasts, you never know if you normally stop it at this point you don’t know where it can take you. Go beyond your comfort zone, put yourself out there 🙂 I love ya and want you to be happy and this is just my opinion 😉 I am not an MD by any means 😎
Danae said
There is one thing about him that makes me a little uneasy. I told him that I was on depression meds and he said he was too but that he had to change because he has different “equipment” than me. Ok I thought that was pretty funny. Then the other night he was talking about sneezing and that it releases the same chemicals in a brain that the “Big O” does, an orgasm. I found that just a little inappropriate for only have gone out on two dates. Am I just being paranoid? My sister and mom thinks I am.
Himmiefan said
Hey Anzia and Wildstar – sympathies from me!! It will get better. BTW, I’ve scheduled Henry to drop by both of you, so be on the lookout for him. He’s supposed to be bringing chocolate.
Annalaise – I can do any week night this week or Saturday night.
Himmiefan said
Oh Madonna. I still say to find another vet.
Let us know how it goes with BooBoo.
Madonna said
Good morning Dizey!
Danae said
I think part of it is the eventual intimacy and possible sex. You guys are probably thinking that I am crazy now. Being a 29 year old “V” does not help. I feel so ready to do it but when I am going out with a guy and think about it with him I freak out.
Madonna said
Good morning Himmiefan,
I plan on taking him to a specialist and taking the rest of his care from there.
DIZEY1 :-) said
Danae,
You know sometimes we get set in our ways and we get comfortable with life as it is. Even though you’re saying you want someone maybe mentally you’re waiting for Mr.Perfect, the guy we dreamed about as little girls and he’s not real. I think we set our standards too high and there will never be a guy who can meet them. Way to much pressure on us and on the poor guys we want to be **HENRY** I think he’s the perfect man for me, other than the small age difference, and oh that blood issue but I think I can overlook those little
idiosyncrasies 😉 Sorry I tangent!!
Annalaise duChat said
Himmie, that’s right! I knew there was one more. I’m also OK with Saturday evening. How about the rest of you?
Danae — I’m probably not in a real good position to give advice on dating, I’ve been married to the same man for 20 years. But I think you need to ask yourself how do you feel about this guy? After a few dates you should have a pretty good instinct about whether he’s worth pursuing or not. I would advise arranging a date somewhere doing something you are really comfortable doing. That will eliminate that stress then you can relax and concentrate on enjoying his company. The rest should fall into place.
Madonna said
Danae,
I would not let his comment concern you too much. Guys think about sex all the time. You don’t have to do anything with him that you don’t want to do. As far as being a virgin at 29, don’t sweat it. I’m proud of you for it. I wish I had waited. That is just a gift that you can give to the guy who deserves it.
Danae said
See I thought after a 2 or 3 dates that I should be feeling something and my mom said no way. It takes time.
Himmiefan said
Hey Dani. I agree the comment is a little odd, but he could just be nervous. See what develops; he might be a great guy. If there are any more comments that are weird, then maybe he is truely strange.
Annalaise duChat said
Did you ever consider he may be just as nervous as you are and that was just an unfortunate foux pas? He could be kicking himself for saying it.
Danae said
I have thought of that but he just seemed to confident when I said OK? after that comment. He came back with he remembers odd things.
Madonna said
Danae,
Look at it like this. Would you want a man, any man, that you liked to give up on you after 2-3 dates? Do you think they can know enough about you in that time frame to make a decision on you? If you like him at all give him chance. Like our favorite vamp said “Love is always worth the risk.”
Danae said
That was supposed to be so confident. It was like he knew what he was saying.
Danae said
Ok I knew I could count on you guys to set me straight. We are going out again on Thursday so I haven’t given up yet.
laurel said
Annalaise – I could meet on almost any evening except Wed this week. I am volunteering at the middle school’s ice-cream social from 5:30-8:00 PDT. I would love to do the Bloody Ford Clinic thing again, though. Just about any other date could be made to work.
Oh, wait, I am booked for the weekend! I am going to Kumoricon 2007! It is a Manga/Anime convention here in Portland. I am the only adult chaparone for 10 High School Seniors. The con requires that under 18s have an adult on site for the con. It seems a little extreme since my group is all very nearly 18, but since I went with all the 16 year-olds last year (and had a great time) I am the official adult for this 3 day event. I learned a great deal about fan-fic, Role Playin Games, Cos-Play, Copic Marker art… It is the kind of con that Henry would be invited to because of his graphic novels. Portland is the home of Dark Horse publishers – specializing in graphic novels.
You all go ahead and start the discussin without me. 😦 I know we will do it again so I will have to be patient. Don’t forget to invite Lady A, too.
PS – Has anybody seen Tango? I miss her!
Annalaise duChat said
Give him a fair chance but don’t let him push you into anything that you’re not ready for. Just curious, do you know anything about his dating history? Has he been single for awhile? Is he a player or a nice guy?
Danae said
He is 25 and his profile on match.com doesn’t say much. I can’t pull it up right now.
Danae said
He is 25 and his profile on match.com doesn’t say much. I can’t pull it up right now.
laurel said
Danae, you are getting some really great advisce and I hope it is helping. I agree that he probably got nervous and some words left his mouth – unfiltered. I know I sometimes do that, and there is no way of calling the words back, you just have to hope that the other person likes a little touch of the unexpected in a conversation. 🙂
Re: the trenchcoat convo – I have to admit that I have been noticing men’s coats in store windows and on other programs, searching for the right replacement. I’m not finding much I like and I’m sure Mike needs a coat in Toronto. If anyone finds a picture of a good replacement let me know. Maybe we could put together a colage of ideas to send with the birthday card.
Madonna – How are things going today? You were on my mind all night. Prayers were sent.
Madonna said
I think the intriguing thing about sites like match.com is the fact that because you have to pay a membership fee the chances are that the guys you meet are more likely to really be lonely themselves. Men don’t like to pay money so I’d say a higher percentage of them are seeking a meaningful relationship rather than a roll in the hay. That’s not to say you shouldn’t be cautious though.
laurel said
Anzia – I see you found the secret stash, now, what about Raoul?
Madonna said
Laurel,
Thank you! The prayers were received. Don’t worry about me. I’m in much better spirits today. I just don’t like tension and I don’t like to fight.
Danae said
On eHarmony there was a guy that would only meet with me if I came to his apartment or him to mine. I stopped contact with him right away. The people behind eHarmony said that I should keep an open mind about that because maybe he has a fear of being in public or something when I complained about it to them. What is up with that?
Madonna said
Danae,
Social Anxiety Order or agoraphobia (sp?) could have definitely have been an issue with that guy, but you are right to have cut off contact with him. Something like that is definitely not something you want to mess around with.
Madonna said
Dizey,
You’ve been awfully quiet the past week or so. Is everything OK with you?
DIZEY1 :-) said
Hey Miss Madonna, sorry I missed your Ola’ before 😉
**Z** Sorry that dude was such an ass! he evidentally thought he could bully you and get away with it. Good riddens and he should have just said I’m sorry it’s late and moved on. People who make all that noise are bad customers anyway. It’s tough to have to eat crap like that but when you’re a collector it’s part of the package unfortunately. Stay the course and don’t let a bad seed like that ruin your outlook. Your great at your job 😀 Stay strong my blood sista’, Love Ya! Me and my tat 😉
Margaret said
I don’t know about the rest of you but I admit I watched too much Lifetime when I was growing up and expected some prince to come and rescue me. But alas, what I got was a very sweet but flawed human being. I’m still holding out for someone like Henry but we all know that is a fantasy, but what a sweet one. I don’t have a problem with him being a vamp, just as long as he doesn’t make me anemic. lol.
Danae said
I am trying to keep my mind open about guys. I can’t help but think I want the tall dark and handsome but I know that usually isn’t really life.
laurel said
Annalaise and all you writers (and interested parties) –
Do you want me to set up my wordpress page for a blog about our writing? I have not made it a public site and there is nothing there so far. We could do a running discussion there and also have live chats when folks are available, if that appeals to any of you. I know Gypsy set up a space for it too, but maybe it would be good to shift some of the burden off her wordpress account.
It is also possible I don’t know what I’m talking about. 😎
I need to get to work so I can pay for a new computer. This one is really giving me a rash.
Gypsy – I hope you are feeling better. Btw, how is the dog bite? And what happened with the o’possom? Inquiring minds…
Danae said
I just talked to Amber. She was all excited. They had a fire drill today and there was a girl locked somewhere and she was crying and she could get killed. She made a friend but she doesn’t know her name.
Maddie Mo said
Morning all!!!
To all who need it {{HUGS}}.
Danae– I think you should give him more time. You have to let your guard down a little to find that dream guy. You never know Adam might be that guy once you get threw the first stage and move on to were you can be comfortable and relax and let your “real” selves out. Not to say either of you is being fake, there is always that part of us we don’t let out till we are fairly certain it will be accepted.
lwildstar said
Yes – Annalaise duChat – I should be home by 8pm tomorrow – Wednesdays are my allergy treatment days – and unless the traffics bad I should be ther – are we just going to go to the BloodieFord Clinic per usual? BUT THURSDAY night would be better – 8pm is a good time for me.
Madonna -(((( HUGS ))))
Danae – try being a 39 year old “V” then tell me about nerves! Sent you an email – haven’t heard back from you on the writing and didn’t know if you had found time…..are you going to join us on the writing chat? you had some good ideas when we talked….and good luck with the guys!
Anzia – you are going to get jerks like that when you work with the public – Lord knows I get at least one a day! I had a guy call from the accident site and start yelling at me because one of my clients damaged his car – as though I was personally responsible – I was very sweet – which made him even more upset – ended up handing him over to someone else – thankfully she got fed up with him as well and transfered his call to to someone higher up the chain!
Thank you everyone for your warm comments, advice and HUGS, I know I do 99% of this to myself. i wish I could stop it. And I am so glad to have friends like you to turn to. I know its not going to be a big deal – I reassured myself by finding a copy of the file and rereading what I think i accidently sent – and ther was nothing “comprimising” there – I just felt stupid. I could have avoided the whole thing by leaving that out – but I wasn’t thinking at the time – everything was going wrong that week…..so thank you so very much!
And Anzia can have Henry first, as long as promises to pass him on directly…i have some gormet chocolate to tide me over til he gets here.
Monkey names? I keep thinking of this place at the mall called Bumble Knees Monkey Teas……
Did I miss anything or anyone? Probably….sorry
lwildstar d’Nightwalker
AKA Miss K
lwildstar said
Gypsy – I hope you are feeling better. Btw, how is the dog bite? And what happened with the o’possom? Inquiring minds…
i forgot about the possum! how are you? hoe is he/she/it?
writers – just keep me in the loop – send me an email please when things get finialized so i know where to meet – I’m sooo excited to have people i can dicuss my writing with who don’t roll their eyes at me – of course I can’t see you – so you maybe looking out the back of your heads…….. 😀
lwildstar d’Nightwalker
AKA Miss K
rifkind said
Whew! I’ve finally caught up with THIS thread anyway! (still behind on the party thread and the one BEFORE that… 😦
Madonna wrote :
>Rifkind,
>That was your monkey? I hate to tell you but he broke the chandelier.
>
>I think we need another contest to name the monkey like Ms. Gypsy’s bat. >Any suggestions?
I think that the Monkey’s name should be CRASH….. Hee Hee
And wasn’t that him hanging off the ceiling fan too!
Bad monkey! I swear that I saw him doing the back stroke in the fish tank!
Annalaise,
I would be OK for a chat tomorrow night.. (Wednesday Aug 29th)
This weekend is kind of busy, as I will be in Duluth with friends for 5 days.. (Friday through Tuesday).
I may get SERIOUSLY behind on the blog again! Dang it!
I hope to be able to share our book with you later today
-Rifkind
Annalaise duChat said
Laurel–Thanks for offering. This is probably a stupid question, but if it’s not public how would we access it?
I could also start a topic on my site, but the one gypsy created hasn’t gotten much traffic so I figured nobody was really interested.
Gypsy do you have to pay extra to keep us in blog space? I know there is a memory limit and they charge by the month to increase it?
DIZEY1 :-) said
Madonna,
I didn’t realize I was being so quiet. I’ve been a bit overwhelmed lately poor Ptrfvr asked me last week and I thought I had controlled and covered pretty well, I guess not. My poor brother Rob’s having seizures every damn day now, last night he said he had *4*. It’s scary and after loosing our sister I worry and am living in fear constantly. Don’t get me wrong I have my *If God brings you to it he’ll bring you through it” running through my head constantly, but I can’t fix it and I can’t save him and I’m anal and want to control the situation. I feel so bad because Prtfvr tried last week to get me to spill and I kept it in figuring I could deal all on my own. Sorry Prtfvr, it’s hard to take help when you’re the *caretaker*. Love ya’ll and sorry to blurt all this out but I’m submerged in this caca and just want to run away somedays. I sooooo need some vacation time 😉 😎
Danae said
Diz-Never keep it on. We are all very intuitive and know when something is wrong. I had noticed that you were being quiet and thought you were just very busy. I am going your whole family on the prayer line at my church. I think you all need it. You don’t need anymore problems and stress. I am not very familiar with seizures. How is he being treated? Is there anything else that can be done? I don’t mean to sound dumb but I really know nothing about them except what happens when you have one.
Danae said
That was supposed to be keep it in. You need outside support.
lwildstar said
Dizey Girl – We are family – by now you should know you can count on us! We are here for you whatever it is! I had noticed that you were being quiet too and thought you were just busy, but as Danae said “We are all very intuitive and know when something is wrong” even if you don’t blurt it out….its not healty to keep it in – if you need to go somewhere and just scream – or as Mork use to do (yes I remember Mork and Mindy) crow like a rooster – you feel stupid at first but if you can get past that it really does help release some of the tension – but I rocmend doing it where you wont get carted off to the funny farm. ((((((HUGS)))) my dear….
((((HUGS)))) to everyone!
I think we need a BIG group hug with Henry/Kyle, Mike/Dylan, in the middle – we can fight over who gets who after – oh man I forgot Vicki! so sorry! oh hell lets throw in the pool boy Roual? and Emanuel….and who else was at the party……..
Well lunch is well over and I must return to work – will check in tonight!
lwildstar d’Nightwalker
AKA Miss K
Madonna said
Dizey,
AWWWW Dizey, I’m so sorry you’re going through such a stressful time. ((((((HUGS))))))))
You’ve been on my mind a lot lately and I just couldn’t shake the feeling that something was wieghing you down. I was hoping that I was wrong and I’m so sorry that I wasn’t. I’m with Danae. Don’t keep it in. You’ll only make yourself sick, trust me on this, I know. Lean on us. Although we’re not there physically for you we are still here. There is a reason we all found each other. Someone bigger than us had a hand in it. Pour it out and let us 30 or 40 some odd women help you carry that burden. If you don’t want to let it out here, you have my email.
Does Rob have epilepsy? If that is not it do they know what is wrong?
Anne said
Regarding the trench coat – I just got this silly idea that Henry gives Mike fashion advice. Or maybe Vicki suggests that Mike ask Henry … it would be fun seeing his reaction.
Annalaise duChat said
From what I’m seeing a writer’s chat where we can all get together is probably not going to work out anytime this week. Let’s schedule two different sessions this week. This is what I’m seeing:
Wed Sat
adc: OK OK
Rif: OK NO
lws: OK NO
laur: No No
him: OK OK
Dan: NO OK
Mad; no yes
Did I miss anyone?
It looks like we could schedule 2 chat sessions. What if we were to do the 1st chat on Wednesday 8/29 at 9:00pm est and another on Saturday 9/ 1at 9:00 pm est. I will copy the text from both chats and post it on my blog so we all can see what was discussed at the chat we missed. I’ll password protect it so it’s private, and let you all know the password at the chat.
Laurel– look into setting up a permanent blog if you want and pass along the info when you get it ready. I can host it until you are ready.
Annalaise
How does that sound?
Danae said
That sounds good to me.
Margaret said
Can someone explain to me how I can have the picture by my name for a day or so and then it reverts back to the site page and not the picture. I’m so confused.
Danae said
Dizey-If you need to you can give me a call. I am sure you have lots of support down there but I want you to know that I am here for you. We can talk about whatever. Make fun of people or you can just talk and I will listen.
Danae said
I have a feeling I should know who Anne is but I am having a brain fart. Who is she?
Annalaise duChat said
Anne– Interesting idea for prtfvr to make a Sunday funnies comic from.
Margaret said
Danae: She’s the lady that set up the site for the birthday greetings for Kyle’s Birthday. I think she also has Bloodties Central website.
Danae said
I thought it was something like that.
Hey prtfvr-When are you going to unlock the guestbook for henryshens.com? Huh? Huh?
Margaret said
Anne: That would really be funny since poor Mike looks like he’s trying to channel Columbo in that raincoat. It does nothing for him, he’s such a handsome guy. Are they afraid our hearts can’t take two at a time on screen?
Correct me if I’m wrong on your website.
Anzia said
analaise- me, missed me. Sorry, I didn’t respond via email. But don’t worry about scheduling me in. I can’t make the Wed ’cause I’m working and Saturday would be a shot but a long one. ^_^ Ya’ll have fun! Let me know what ya talk about. 🙂 I’m a curious little thing..
Madonna said
Anzia,
Damn work interferes with your social life and Blood Ties doesn’t it? Don’t bosses know what is really important. I mean, come on……
Annalaise duChat said
Anzia — I sent out a group email with you included, so I didn’t really forget you. (How could I?). Sorry you won’t be available, but I’ll make sure you get the link & password so you can see the post of what we discussed. Maybe next time around you can make it. You will diffinately be missed girl!
I invited Anne to join us when she emailed me about forbidding links on Kyleschidcentral.com
Anne I am so glad you decided to join the fun. You have tremendously interesting insight.
DIZEY1 :-) said
Thanx ya’ll are a great support group. I feel like I’m in therapy but it’s free 😉
Madonna,Danae, Nightwalker,
He had brain surgery 6 yrs ago to clip an aneurysm that strangely enough our sister died from in Jan 1998, they were in almost identical location in the brain. He survived the surgery and now suffers from seizures from the scar tissue where they cracked the melon as Robbie puts it.He has a pain management Dr. and a seuizure Dr. that he sees this Friday, so hopefully some med’s may be working against each oither. He’s truly blessed because the Dr. gave all these other scenarios of what could happen and he woke up knew us and himself and is very intelligent and high functioning. He survived and that in itself was the gift. I sooo believe that God wouldn’t let us fix him if he was not meant to be here. I thinks God’s got plans for him , I have faith. It just gets a little shaky at times. Thanks for everything though, it really does help, I usually don’t spill cuz’ I try to be strong for my mom and dad, they already lost a child so I try to be strong for them. That’s just me.
Anne, Love the idea, that would be funny if the clothes horse Henry gave “Colombo Mike” fashion advice. I’d love to see what clothes Henry would choose for our Mike 😀
Danae said
I was just wondering where she was from and who she was. Welcome Anne. The more the merrier.
DIZEY1 :-) said
see ya’ll when I get back from lunch 😉
Danae said
Happy eating Diz
Danae said
Did Dizey take everyone to lunch but me?
Madonna said
Oh yeah guys,
I finally got to see the behind the scenes painting picture. Did I mention that I not only make bad car ads and birthday cards but I paint too. I’ve been looking for a new job….. Canvas to illustration board to Kyle’s chest. It’d be a natural leap. I think I’ve finally found a medium I could excel in. Oh and ladies did you all happen to notice that he looks like he’s ticklish?
Danae said
He did look like he was trying not to laugh.
Annalaise duChat said
Hey Madonna I’d be willing to quit my day job an go into business with you!
Hey everyone check out Tanya’s comment to me on her blog. It make me feel all warm and fuzzy!
http://andpuff.livejournal.com/
Danae said
Warm and Fuzzy indeed!
Blood Drinker aka Vampgrl said
Hey, guys! Still here. Just busy. End of the month stuff going on at work and all. Also no idea what I missed. I did scroll through some of the party posts real quick though and got to see Tanya’s post though. Cool that she dropped by. Bummer Kyle didn’t. 😦 I’m just glad I didn’t miss Kyle dropping by, ’cause that SO wouldn’t sucked. I checked out that vampire quiz and the one question was what was the longest running most popular vampire show on TV or something like that…BUFFY! WOO FRIGGIN’ HOO!!! *g*
I’ll drop by tomorrow.
Outtie! 😀 😛
Blood Drinker aka Vampgrl said
Grrrr…I meant would’ve sucked. Damn tired fingers….
Maddie Mo said
Diz– Sorry your family is going threw suck a rough time. I hope that the DR on Friday can help your brother out. Keep us posted on his progress.
{{{HUGS}}}
Madonna said
Hi Maddie Mo,
How are you?
Himmiefan said
Hi guys! Just driving by today….
Dizey – Hugs and prayers to you!!! You know we’re all here for you!
Annalaise – Wed at 9:00 est works for me.
Hi Anne. Welcome to the blog!
Maddie Mo said
Madonna– hey there. I’m good. I’ve been crazy busy with meeting all last week and just got caught up on everything. I am sorry to here your baby isn’t feeling well. I treat my dogs like they are my babies too. We actually fired our vet one night when we had a very very sick dog and we called her office and she said she didn’t have time to squeeze her in. We called the vet down the road ( and when I say down the road keep in mind I live in the country and down the road was like 20 miles) who said bring her right in and we did. The dog had to be kept overnight and on our way home our old vet was still at her office. We stopped and they were just standing around waiting for someone else to come in in like 15 mins. We let her know she would never need to worry about seeing our dogs again. So, I understand wanting the best care you can get for you furry loved ones. My husband actually raises beagles.
Maddie Mo said
Sorry I got long winded there.
How are you doing Madonna???
Madonna said
Maddie Mo,
I’m doing much better than yesterday. Thanks for asking.
Maddie Mo said
Glad to hear it!!!
Danae said
Ciao! Signoras and signorinas. I am heading home soon. I need to see my little school girl.
Madonna said
Bye Danae!
Have a good evening.
DIZEY1 :-) said
Bye Dani girl, thanx again I love ya!! BTW I loved the little school girls pic’s so darned cute and she looked like she really likes it 😉 Ciao baby till tomorrow!
Danae said
Ti Amo Bella
Laurel said
Annalaise and everyone – My blog site is not “private” just won’t come up on a random search. I will send out the details by e-mail tomorrow. There is just my initial testing there so far, but I can work on it later today and have it set up for a discussion.
It would be a good use of the space.
DIZEY1 :-) said
Maddie Mo thanx my friend, hopefully Friday his Dr. will change some of these med’s which I think are the culprit, but I don’t have MD behind my name. So yeah they have to do something soon , this can’t be good for his body or his brain. Besides he has **Henry Super Hero** power when he’s having them, and he’s like 6’1 and weighs about 190ish #’s, one time he lifted me up w/one leg and I am not a small woman. I just want him to be able to play with his son (my Logan) and have some quality of life. 😀
Madonna said
Annalaise,
Sounds good! Maybe we can start a business and be Kyle’s personal makeup artists. Heck, I might even be persuaded to work for free. Fringe benefits you know?
Madonna said
Dizey,
Keep us updated on Rob okay? Don’t make yourself go through this alone.
Annalaise duChat said
Mental image–Doing Kyle’s makeup. up close and personal with that smile and those eyes glittering with mischief…..
I’m so there!
Dizey — Hang in there. Hope your brother recovers soon.
Madonna –Your puppy too!
DIZEY1 :-) said
Madonna I will keep ya’ll updated thank you for everything. BTW I don’t see what Annalaise was talking about on Tanya’s site. Help me what am I looking for??
Madonna said
Dizey,
Look under the comments on Tanya’s latest thread. 3 or 4 posts from the bottom.
elizabeth said
I think my eyes have crossed and I know I have the beginnings of a headache….it is impossible to catch up on everything that has happened since Friday!!!!
First off…to all of you that are having a difficult time right now; I wish I could wave a magic wand and make it all disappear, but since I can’t I will just send you all a big hug. i love you guys!
I know this was mentioned before, but I have to add my two cents worth. I absolutely had the most fabulous, wonderful, hilarious time meeting the Oregon ladies on Saturday. I can’t remember the last time I felt so immediately connected or at ease with a group of people. I hope we can do this again soon 🙂
I keep reading about Kyle being painted and I went to the link for Blood Ties, but I can’t see it or find it. What am I doing wrong..WAAAAAH! 😦 Is it in the Gallery? If so, all I see is vague outlines and a lot of black – no pictures. Help!
Maddie Mo said
Diz- keep me posted. I hope the rest of the week is better for him than last night. I have never seen anyone go threw that in person, but I would imagine it is very hard on the body, mind and spirit. and hard on your mind and spirit to have to see him go threw it all and feel helpless.
I whoever has Henry needs to send him to Dizey’s house.
elizabeth said
Can we say a big DUH??? I can be such a doofus sometimes. I figured out how to see the pictures on Blood Ties. Okay, back to looking at the pictures..
Maddie Mo said
I meant —I think whoever has Henry needs to send him to Dizey’s house
Annalaise duChat said
Bye everyone,
Headed home. Catch you later.
prtfvr said
Diz: You told me briefly, VERY briefly that you were concerned about your brother last week. I figured if you were that reticent to tell ME, your Goomba, maybe I shouldn’t be the person to mention it. I like your positive outlook. It doesn’t make you a bad person to feel badly from time to time. Sometimes it’s better to let it out then stew. Your imagination can run wild without a sounding board. **hugs**
prtfvr said
Danae: that Amber! What a sweetie!!
Haven’t even worked on the Guest Book. Judging by my site’s stats recently, there wouldn’t be anyone visiting to sign it anyhow.
DebS said
Hi everyone,
I just finished two weeks of residence life training, followed by five days of orienation with freshmen students, and yesterday I promptly got sick. I think I literally ran myself ragged. I look so horrible right now. I couldn’t even stay at work all day.
Claire, I am so sorry I missed your (and Kyle’s) birthday. I am so tired of the real world taking me away from where the real fun is..hehe. So to you, I wish a belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
I lurked around the emails as much as i could this past week, you ladies continue to crack me up. 🙂
Okay…going to go lay back down on my couch and dream of being healthy again.
Lady Afrodyte said
I just left a rather sappy reply of Tanya’s blog…. Sorry I’ve been disappearing a lot. The heat here is really getting to me and I’ve had a hard time getting out of bed the past few days.
I did manage to get out yesterday, only to find myself at the craft store… I built a really cute Halloween/fall wreath and put together a really cute silk flower arrangement for my dining room table.
rifkind said
Hi All!
I just sent you an email… my book is OUT THERE… for you to read.. at least the first 4 chapters worth!
I LOVE ancient Egypt!
Can you tell??? 🙂
Thanks Annalaise for your help with getting from Word into the WordPress world. I still kept losing my ‘tabs’ at the beginning of paragraphs.. I hope that the final product is OK to read.
-Rifkind
Madonna said
Hi Elizabeth, prtfvr, DebS, and Lady A! Missed you guys.
DebS… Take care of yourself!
Lady Afrodyte said
ello Madonna!
How’ve you been?
DIZEY1 :-) said
Prtfvr,
I’m so sorry I just figured it would kind of take care of itself, and thanks for being my Goomba and not being mad at me. I have such a hard time asking for help, duhhhhh? God what would I do without ya’ll?? It would be a sad and lonely place. 😉 Thanx for the hugs 😀
Madonna said
Rifkind,
I think Crash is a really cute name for the monkey.
Does anyone else have any suggestions before we decide?
Madonna said
Lady A,
I’ve been good with the exception of yesterday.
Lady Afrodyte said
O.o
I haven’t had a chance to catch up on the blog. What happened? Email me if you want to.
I feel so bad about not being around. 😦
Chery said
Well everyone, I hope we here from Lifetime soon! It appears that things are falling apart here in the hen house. LOL
I have been out of commission since Sunday. I was taking a walk ( exercise trying to be healthy) and tripped and fell. Cut my knee really badly. I spent most of Sunday Afternoon in the ER and had to have stitches.
This is only the second week of school. I have had to keep my leg up and stay off of it. I am going back to work tomorrow with a brace. Stitches out in two weeks.
Sounds like everyone is having a tough time this week…………
Lady Afrodyte said
ouch!!!
Maybe all of this negative stuff now means that we are getting something very positive this week?
🙂
Madonna said
Chery,
Ouch! I’m sorry. I hope it feels better soon.
Lady A,
Yesterday was just a long emotional, fight filled day with my vet and my mom. I poured my heart out about it about a 150 posts back or so. But I am much better now. Thanks for asking.
DIZEY1 :-) said
Lady A, Chery, DebS, good to hear from you, you of course we’re missed 😉
Rif**Way cool on the story and where do I see this or read this??
E** can I say how much I hate ya’ll being able to get together. I want that too !! Sooooo jealous 😉
DebS, god the moon must be in retrograde or something. Wierd stuff going around here, bobo’s, brain fever (from what movie?) , or just plain worn out. The universe is playing hard ball with us. Hope you and Chery feel better soon. I’m going home light up a sage smudge stick and cleanse my house and all the people in it, just for preventitive measure.
DebS said
Ouch Chery-I hope that you heal quickly. I am really clumsy and have had many a fall in my short lifetime. So I understand your pain.
I spent Sunday night in the hospital not because I was hurt. One of the freshmen was walking down stairs and fell. I spent three hours with her, and then my colleague spent another 2 hours with her. She sprained it pretty bad, but didn’t need crutches.
Maddie Mo said
Good night all!!
Hope you all have a good evening.
Madonna said
Goodnight Maddie!
DIZEY1 :-) said
Rifkind,
I think for the monkey how about “ChimChim” or “Marcel”. Wierd I know but they actually have meaning behind them. I knew a lady from the feed store that had a cappucine(sp) monkey named “Puddin”, I held it fully dressed a bit on the odd side (the lady 😉 )
DIZEY1 :-) said
Night my Maddie Mo kiss that sweet little one for me have a good one and chat with ya’ tomorrow.
rifkind said
Diz,
Did you get my email about the book? I had to send it to your work address.. as the other email address that I had bounced.
elizabeth said
Dizey – I wish we all lived closer together so that it would be easy to meet. That has been one of the most wonderful parts of this blog – having you all become friends and family and the icing on the cake is meeting Laurel, Arrowyn, Moonbeam and Gypsy. They are fun on the blog, but fantastic in person. Am I gushing a little???
Chery – I hope you feel better soon. I have taken many painful tumbles in my time and even managed to fracture my ankle once WHILE STANDING IN MY OFFICE!!!! What are the odds on that?
Madonna – I hope things get better for you.
Madonna said
Elizabeth,
Thank you. Things are already a little better.
When I was 13 I dislocated my knee sitting in a chair.
elizabeth said
We are quite a pair, aren’t we?
Lady Afrodyte said
*hugs Madonna*
Parents can sometimes overreact. Everything will work out in the end.
rifkind said
BBQ
Here’s the recipe for the BBQ’d ribs that I brought to the part
————————————————————-
SECRET FAMILY RECIPE (just kidding)
Boil the ribs in salted water with one large cut up onion, salt & pepper for about 45 minutes.
Drain the ribs (I use the country ribs – the meatier ones)
cover with your favorite bbq sauce – I like Kraft
Bake for 1/2 hour in single layer – turn once and baste with more sauce, bake for another 1/2 hour.
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Can you SMELL them yet??!!!
rifkind said
Margaret,
Were you asking about WHERE your Avatar went?
You have to LOGIN to get the avatar to show up.. otherwise all you post with is your name.
Madonna said
Thanks Lady A.
Rifkind,
They were good at the party. Thanks for the recipe.
I’m getting ready to head home now guys. Don’t forget to post or send suggestions for Dylan’s card. I like what I’ve seen so far. Also start sending your greetings. Have a good evening everyone.
Claire said
Hi My lovelies…Wow I feel out of it..missed so much…Nikkis beloved is in town from NY..and he is very family orientated..so have been running around doing thing with him and the kids…last licks before school starts.
I’m lost..who is Anne…did one of you change your name again?
Debs..feel better and thanks for the Birthday wish!
Madonna…good luck with Booboo I hope everything turns out Ok!
Chery…Ouch feel better!
Did I thank you all enough for my party? I love you all! for making it soo special…it’s usually a hard day for me..my father died on my 22nd birthday..but this was one birthday where I know he was laughing right along with me!
Beth…vous savez combien je t’aime… comment pourriez vous ne pas me dire une votre douleur ? Nous sommes ici pour aider un un autre… que mes prières sont avec toi!
Is there anything I can do? if you need to talk..you know what I went through with Christophers Brain Cancer…he also had seizures.
Guess we’re all entering one of those cycles…I call them Tests..
and yeah just like Kyle and you…If he brings you to it…he’ll bring you through it…Chris has a doctors appt on Sept.10th..he is approaching the 7 year mark in remission and thats when the Docs said it usually reoccurs…
So to all of you…be strong..hold your heads up…and never stop believing in Miracles!!
Je t’aime my sistas!
Chery said
Thanks for all of the good wishes……….
Makes me feel better already………..
Margaret said
Rifkind: Haven’t attempted an avatar yet, was talking about the “other” picture by my name, you know when you run the cursor over it.
My prayers to all who need it. Seems like we’re all falling apart, along with our loved ones, on the upside things can only go up from here so as Henry says: Have faith.
Someone explained the whole lunar eclipse to me and the implications. Something to the effect that the week before and I think the week after aren’t going to be so good. Usually around government offices that means every looney tune out there comes in to cuss us out. Got to love it, especially when they call you a public servant. That ones’ my favorite. Oh, and the other one is I’m your boss which makes you want to say: I’ve been meaning to talk to you about my raise.
Anne said
Thanks for the welcomes – and I guess I better introduce myself. Both Margaret and Annalaise suggested I drop by, so here I am.
I’m Anne, 51 and I live in Denmark where Blood Ties has yet to air.
Afaik, it hasn’t even been sold to a Scandinavian station yet, so it looks like it’ll be along wait. Fortunately, there are ways ….
I created both http://www.bloodtiescentral – which makes me the lucky cheese who visited the Blood Ties set.
I also recently created http://www.kyleschmidcentral.com – because
a) I couldn’t help myself,
b) it was Kyle’s birthday, and finally,
c) because kyleschmidfans.com is closing down.
I’m pretty sure the reason is mostly a 😉
The reason links are not permitted in KyleSchmidCentral’s guestbook, is because of stupid spammers. They will post their stupid stuff if they can get away with it – which unfortunately means that I have to disable links for everyone.
If anyone has a question about music used in Blood Ties, it will soon be answered since I’m working on adding a page about it to BloodTiesCentral.
Anne, GMT +1
nightwalker01 said
Welcome Anne! thank you for all your wonderful work!
Diz – Anzia has Henry right now but I will have her tell him to make a side trip to you before he comes to my house – I’m feeling better and can hold out a little longer 😉
I’m listening to Tanyas interveiw right now – She is wonderful. I love how she gushes about everyone – especially Kyle 😀
Cant wait for the writers chat tomorrow!
Wish I could stay longer tonight but I have things to do – wasted and hour at the HOA meeting tonight 😦
Everybody take care, feel better, ((((HUGS))))
Margaret said
Anyone notice that the Blood Ties site has posted a major spoiler on its site. You will know what it is, if you’ve read the books.
lwildstar said
Margaret – you mean the post on LifeTime? If not which site?
DIZEY1 :-) said
Bonjour belle de Claire, je n’ai pas souhaité tracasser n’importe qui avec mes problèmes. Mais il a obtenu si lourd je ne pourrais pas le porter. Votre coeur est généreux avec moi et votre bonté accable. Merci tellement.
I hope it’s just a matter of changing med’s he takes like 5-6 different kinds maybe more. But I do have faith and it just feels like it gets tested every now and then and it drags you down. My mom’s the rock like you Claire, very strong and not a doubt in her mind, it’ll be ok. Mom’s don’t lie right 😉 Anyway thanks and Christopher sounds like he’s doing wonderful. I will certainly add him to my prayer list that he stays healthy and well. God Bless all our DUDES!!
Margaret said
The Blood Ties site that got reworked. You know the one with the behind the scenes pictures, production stills, the one where Kyle is getting his chest painted .
What spoiler, where on Lifetime? Did I miss something?
Margaret said
Ok, I’ll make it easy for you. Here’s the excerpt:
Although Vicki is attracted to Fitzroy, she’ll always harbor a deep-seated fear of his vampirism – a hard-wired human response. Even at the moment when she seems to be dying, when her only chance of living is to allow Henry to turn her, Vicki will refuse…even if it means risking death.
Margaret said
Although Vicki is attracted to Fitzroy, she’ll always harbor a deep-seated fear of his vampirism – a hard-wired human response. Even at the moment when she seems to be dying, when her only chance of living is to allow Henry to turn her, Vicki will refuse…even if it means risking death.
That’s the excerpt from the site.
DIZEY1 :-) said
Hey Anne,
So glad you came and joined us, we all have a common……..obsession ? 😉
We all love Blood Ties and I adore Henry/Kyle as do most of my Blood Sista’s. I am so jealous that you got to visit THE set, you are the lucky cheese.
Strange that you mentioned music I was watching *The Devil wears Prada* for the zillionth time and there’s a song that sounds like the woman singing from the ep *Stone Cold* when Vicki’s burying Brendan’s pieces parts. I’d swear it’s the same woman/band/group. Looking forward to the info, and I really like the new site, great job! He looks sooooo pretty in pink too 😉
DIZEY1 :-) said
testing
DIZEY1 :-) said
Well ya’ll I’m beat and must sleep 😉 I’ll chat with ya’ll tomorrow sleep well and…………….Reves doux d’Henri
i love ya’ll and thanx for loving me warts and all
XOXOXOXOXOXO
beth 😎
Claire said
Welcome Anne…I guess I have to say..I love you! LOL! for creating..BloodtiesCentral…and KyleSchmidCentral!!! because well as everyone else here is…I am totally emersed in everything BT and everything Kyle.You are one lucky lady! visiting the set!! Oh what I wouldn’t give…
Well enjoy hanging out here..and visit the Betty Ford clinic for the chronically addicted to BT…they have a special wing for the ones with Kyleitis! The meds are wonderful! mega doses of yummy videos!
Mon beau Beth tout sera fins.
Bonne Nuit…Je t’aime
🙂
nightwalker01 said
Margaret – someone posted blurbs about each of the upcoming episodes o the LT blog – I think they maybe the ones on the Bloodlines site under episodes – if so then I guess they are’nt really spooilers.
YOu know when I was listening to Tanyas interview it seemed like she was hinting at the story line heading towards what was said in the spoiler you posted – not sure thought….
Well I just popped in to see what was up – going beddy by now.
Margaret said
If thats the case, there won’t be much of a show left. That doesn’t seem to make much sense. http://www.bloodties.tv/character-detail?item=12
This is the site that Kalidescope reworked for the Candian Premier.
Margaret said
Just playing with my picture.
Arrowyn said
Just wanted to say hi and goodnight. I’ve been sick for the last couple of days and haven’t even felt like going on the internet, let alone blogging, so I’m just catching up with the posts. I’m fading fast, so I think it had better be an early night tonight. I’ll be back here tomorrow. Night.
AlisaSG said
hey Margaret,
>> Although Vicki is attracted to Fitzroy, she’ll always harbor a deep-seated fear of his vampirism – a hard-wired human response. Even at the moment when she seems to be dying, when her only chance of living is to allow Henry to turn her, Vicki will refuse…even if it means risking death.
>> That’s the excerpt from the site.
*it* wouldn’t have anything to do with that teaser photo as well, Henry biting Vicki.. so the photo is real, but it’s also a real teaser — as in, she shoves him away?? (par her usual self..!) she didn’t look like she was enjoying the moment too much.. certainly not like Sinead has. 😉
also, if that IS the situation, that’s going to drive more viewers up the wall enough to toss their Tv sets out the window in frustration..! (yikes!)
laurel said
Good night everyone. I hope everyone is feeling better tomorrow.
Diz – You and your family remain in my prayers. ( ( ( hugs ) ) )
I hope a little medication tweak will help your brother. The whole thing just sounds like a nightmare.
love ya gals
Anzia said
Diz- I express sent Henry. You’ll have to sign for him but I’m sure if you flash that lovely bottom & tat it’ll do just fine. 😉 I’m sorry you’re having a hard time love. I want you to know that you don’t have to be strong all the time honey. I do understand the need, compulsion, to do but, if you find that the weight is getting to much I have a really soft boney shoulder waiting for you. I’m sure anyone here would move heaven and earth to help you if you need it. I love you honey. You have my prayers and that of my family.
Chery- I’m sorry to hear about your accident. I hope you get better fast. Are you spending a lot of time off your feet? Watching BT and daydreaming about the scruptious morsels they tease us with?
Annalaise- you’re so sweet. I doubt I’ll be missed that much ^_^ My work schedule will basically bar me from anything that doesn’t start after 10 (yup, i’ll miss the beginning of BT every week *sniff*).
Arrowyn- I hope youg get better soon! Chicken Noodle soup! Might not be medically helpfull but it makes the soul smile (or at least mine ^_^)
Anne- welcome. I was wondering if I had missed your intro. 🙂 In case you were wondering, yes, we ARE as crazy as we seem! ^_^ Welcome to the maddness!
Danae- that girl of yours is ADORABLE! just thought I’d let ya know
Rifkind- can’t wait to read your story! 🙂
Laurel- ooo, BOY did I find Raoul…a couple of times actually… then he found me once…i’ve never been good at hide & seek… ;0)
Anne said
Forgot to say … if any of you happen to do fan art with Kyle that you don’t mind sharing with the outside world, there will be a fan art section on KyleSchmidCentral.
Yes, I’m up early – since I don’t really know all of you yet, I have no idea whether any of you are in Europe like me?
Laurel said
Anzia – I decided to check in one more time before I head for bed, and there you are! You always make me feel good, so I’m glad Raoul could… be of service. 😎
(blushes) It just sounds so much worse out loud. hehehe
Sorry you’ll be missing the beginning of BT every week. That pretty much sucks. I hope you can record it for total viewing! It would still let you see it before I do, here on the W. Coast.
love ya’ girl, have a good night.
Laurel said
Anne – It is almost 11pm Monday, in Portland, Oregon. Some of us are still up at this time every night, so it never hurts to check in just in case.
I sure enjoyed looking at your website. Keep up the good work! We tend to love anything to do with Blood Ties, so you have a ready audience with us.
Now, I really am going to bed. My eyes are giving up on me. 😎
Margaret said
AlisaSG-Somehow it doesn’t look like she’s dying leaning against that wall. And for Vicki, at least she’s not literally pushing him away. Who knows, something else to torture us with, eh?
Margaret said
Still playing with my picture.
Margaret said
still playing
Chery said
Arizia: Yes, the only saving grace of having to be immobilized with my leg up was watching a marathon of BT.
Going back to work this morning with a leg brace that will be just great.
Later………
Blood Drinker aka Vampgrl said
rifkind said,
August 28, 2007 @ 1:43 pm
Hi All!
I just sent you an email… my book is OUT THERE… for you to read.. at least the first 4 chapters worth!
I LOVE ancient Egypt!
Can you tell???
Hey rifkind! Where’s your book at? I SO wanna read! 🙂
And where’s this pic of Henry you guys keep talking about? You’re driving me CRAZY! ’cause I still have no clue what site you’re talking about. SPILL! *g*
So, I know I haven’t been around much lately, no time and all. Plus my feet are usually all swollen by the weekend and I try to keep them up, which is why I’m never on my own computer…did I miss anything? I haven’t even done much skimming. Heh.
And while all you guys are all over Henry…hehe…I spent the weekend watching various eps of Buffy and Blade…not that I did keep many from Blade…but I had to rediscover my love for my Spikey Poo. 🙂
Blood Drinker aka Vampgrl said
Chery said,
August 29, 2007 @ 4:08 am
Arizia: Yes, the only saving grace of having to be immobilized with my leg up was watching a marathon of BT.
Going back to work this morning with a leg brace that will be just great.
Later………
Ugh. Totally feel for you there. I SO know about leg braces, having to wear one about 3 times already. Hope you feel better…and I’m so glad mine is off. Kinda missed it though…what exactly happened to your leg?
Margaret said
Vampgirl: http://bloodties.tv/
Its the reworked website by Kalidescope for BT. I think its the first picture on the behind the scenes. They’re painting his chest with the makeup when he gets all torn up in the Blood Price II, I think. Seems he’s a bit ticklish as it looks like he’s trying not to laugh.
Madonna said
Good morning everyone!
Hey Annalaise,
Last night I ordered the body paint and theatrical makeup for our “company”. So are ya ready to go?
Annalaise duChat said
Good Morning all.
I was up a little too late last night corresponding. Didn’t even get to write a paragragh. Poor Kieron’s been stuck in that cell for a long time now. Poor guy. Sorry. See some of you at the writer’s chat tonight.
Prtfvr– were you able to open the html file I sent you? If you have any questions let me know.
Laurel — Good job girl.. When you’re ready to go with you blog why don’t you email the link to the entire group instead of posting it. More private that way.
Anne– So dish girl. How did you got to go to the BT set? Did you get to meet Kyle? Is he as nice as Tanya says? Tell us everything!!!
lwildstar said
Margaret said: RE: the Henry picture: “They’re painting his chest with the makeup when he gets all torn up in the Blood Price II, I think. ” – yep thats the scene when vicki brings him home and gets to spend the day in bed with him …..sigh…..Seems he’s a bit ticklish as it looks like he’s trying not to laugh….or the make up girl said something to him about his wonderful body!
Annalaise – I haven’t had a chance to read past chapter 4 yet – I need to catch up and now I have Rifkinds to start! I just started writing chapter 10 on the demon story last night – and then switched over to chapter one of the vamp story….not wnough time in the day!
ok must get to work – feeling sluggish today – I really don’t feel like doing anything 😦
Annalaise duChat said
You betcha Madonna! Meet ya at the Columbus Airport. (Although talk about backtracking. I’m closer to Toronto where I am.)
Anne said
Annalaise – everything about my visit is here: http://www.bloodtiescentral.com/set_visit.shtml
As you can see at the bottom of the page, yes, I got to meet Kyle, and yes, he really is as nice as Tanya says.
How I got to go … I was going to Vanocuver for the Creation Stargate convention,and when I realised BT was still shooting while I would be there, I asked my connection if I might be permitted to visit.
The “It never hurts to ask” and “Fortune follows the brave” has worked pretty well for me in that area. It wasn’t an open set otherwise, but they made an exception for their first fansite webmaster 😉
BloodTiesCentral was the only BT fansite – for all of 17 days.
I think they were pretty chuffed to have two fansites before the show had even aired.
Annalaise duChat said
Madonna — Don’t laugh but my husband is really into theatrical makeup. He worked with the drama dept. in high school. When we first started dating he made a life mask of my face. That’s where you let someone put plaster on your face to make a mold of it. You have to trust someone a lot to allow them to do that to you. Then we made latex masks with the molds it was fun.
I was actually taking a life drawing class at the time and he modeled for me. Yes to what you are thinking. He is also an artist, so of course turn about is fair play, if you catch my drift.
Danae said
Buongiorno Bellas. For anyone that needs it my prayers are with you.
Claire I pray to God that Christopher’s cancer doesn’t come back.
My dad’s is back and he is going through more radiation treatment which means I have to far away from him or I may become sterile. I don’t want that to happen. I do want my own kids at some point in my life. The big problem I find though with his cancer coming back is that my parents didn’t say anything to us kids. The only reason I know is because I overheard my mom talking to the doctor about it over the phone.
Anne-Are you Danish or do you just play one on TV? Translation, do you just live there>
Danae said
I had to put this on here. I love this song. I brings me back to my childhood. It was a song in the cartoon The Snowman. It is a cartoon with no speaking, all music. Plus I like Celtic Woman.
Margaret said
Anne: Not familiar with the word chuffed, notice that both you and Tanya have used it. Can you translate? Would that be the same as our stoked (stoked” – adjective – to be “stoked” is to be completely and intensely enthusiastic, exhilirated, or excited about something. those who are stoked all of the time know this; being stoked is the epitome of all being. when one is stoked, there is no limit to what one can do.)
Danae said
Yay! One of the salesmen here went to Italy and he is showing his slides and buying everybody pizza for lunch. Why do I feel this is the only way I will get to experience Italy?
Madonna said
Danae,
I’m so sorry to hear that about your dad. How long have you known? Why didn’t your parents tell you? (((((((((((((BIG BEAR HUG))))))))))))) and of course you have my prayers.
Danae said
I have known for a few weeks. He has been a survivor for several years now. I think 4 or 5. He had thyroid cancer. They removed his thyroids and several muscles and part of his larynx. His throat looks like it caved in. My parents probably thought it wasn’t a big deal but any cancer is a big deal.
Margaret said
Anne: The pictures from the Spacey Awards. I have the other 76 if you ever want to see them. lol. No, I’m not addicted, not much. I bought them before Rolange took the collection private. Did you get them from him, too?
Danae said
Beth-I just got an email from Kim at my church. She is the religious education director so she is my boss on Sunday mornings when I am teaching religious ed. She is the one that I go to when I need someone on the prayer line. She is an awesome woman. She said you and your family are on the line. Many people are now praying for you.
Blood Drinker aka Vampgrl said
Danae said,
August 29, 2007 @ 6:50 am
I had to put this on here. I love this song. I brings me back to my childhood. It was a song in the cartoon The Snowman. It is a cartoon with no speaking, all music. Plus I like Celtic Woman.
YES! Another Celtic Woman fan! WOOHOO! I have 2 of their albums…I would love to buy the Xmas one, but I never got around to it yet.
And I couldn’t get into that site to see that pic of Kyle you guys were talking about, something about the flashplayer not being the right version. *sigh* The downside of posting from Ye ol’ work pc.
Danae said
I have the first Celtic Woman CD and the Chloe Agnew one. Have you heard of the Mediaeval Baebes. They are really awesome. Here is there website.
http://www.mediaevalbaebes.com
Anne said
Margaret –
Your guess seems pretty spot on to me – I use chuffed instead of pleased.
I don’t know anything about Rolange’s Spacey pictures – I capped the image myself off a recording. But I would definitely not mind seeing the other 76.
You know where to reach me 😉
Annalaise duChat said
Anne — Looks like I’m going to have to polish up my web design skills! You are so lucky.
Danae, Vampgirl — Celtic Woman is very good. I came across one of their CD’s at the library and loved it. I have a quite a selection of Celtic music in my Itunes on my home computer.There’s one song in particular That inspired a line in my book: Keiron says to Monica “You are like the dawn after a long dark night…”
Danae said
I love the peacefulness of Celtic music. It is so serene. It makes me feel the same way when I listen to Josh Groban sing. It really helps me relax.
Danae said
Do you know what I mean? Like everything is alright with the world. All our worries and hard times have been blown away by the wind. Nothing can harm us anymore. Everything is just perfect in that one moment.
DIZEY1 :-) said
Good morning ya’ll,
Much better day, Robbie had no seizures last night so that’s a plu right there, and yes Maggie May that gets me **Stoked** my sista’.
Thanks everyone for putting up with me yesterday and not kicking me out of the clubhouse 😉 I so appreciate all the prayers and good vibes sent our way that’s the best medicine some days.
**Z** thanx for the offer of the shoulder I won’t forget it and I will try to say *Uncle* when it gets too heavy.
Prtfvr, my Goomba, my partner in crime thanks for poking me and not being mad at me for claming up……”I love ya’ more than my luggage” 😉 you help keep me sane (whatever that is)
CLaire , I agree that Rob and Christopher will be great and healed, I listened to the Secret on the way to work and it was the part about healing one’s self so I need him to listen and try to apply it, I love you too 😀
Danae my sweet girl sorry about dad and will add him to my list, with all this praying going on everyone should be healed and happy!! Love ya! and keep me updated on your pop! 🙂
Anne said
Try visting this movie site:
http://www.kamatakimovie.com/site.html
I LOVE that music – I sometimes visit the site and have it running in the background while I work on other stuff. I wish there was a soundtrack.
Yes Annalaise – polish up your web design skills – you never know what might happen.
Danae said
I just visited that website and it says the it is a Claude Gagnon film and produced by Samuel Gagnon. I wonder if I am any relation. LOL!
Anne said
I think these Gagnons are in Toronto – where are you?
Annalaise duChat said
Anne – I do print design now. I work for an Adobe Service Bureau. We do high resolution imaging, typesetting/design and technical support. I have done enough web design to be dangerous. I do our web site at work . I’m self taught for the most part, although my boss sent me to in of those all day seminar things. I always say print design and web design are two totally different animals though. Just because you can do one doesn’t necessarily mean you can do the other!
Anne said
The music is Canadian cellist Jorane who also sings.
Margaret said
Anne: I was kidding about actually seeing them. But I guess I could scan them at my 8-5 and then send them on, or I’d have to copy them, or go buy a scanner.
Actually I think the guy just sat there, shot the roll, because a lot of them look the same. You know when you were little and people showed you how to make an automated cartoon by drawing several images on pieces of paper and then fanning them, that’s pretty much what these look like except for the shot you had when he was holding his hands up and a few others. Let me work on that. Short of that, you’ll just have to come to Orlando for one of those conventions and we’ll have to meet. They were dirt cheap, I don’t think I even spent more than $20 on them.
Anne said
I’m self taught too, and since it’s my hobby, my boss never sent me to a seminar. I could definitely use some more teaching and I’m not really confident in the graphics department, both text and images.
But I don’t let that stop me 😉
Danae said
Anne-I am in Vernon CT. We don’t have any Canadian relatives. There are so many Gagnons around here it is crazy. There are a few working here where I work and we are not related in any way.
DIZEY1 :-) said
Anne,
Cool chick! I am actually Beth and I live in New Orleans, LA. where a lot of vampires roam and roost 😉 I’m glad you joined our group, make yourself at home and there’s plenty of chocolate products when the BT attacks kick in 😀
Vampgrl, you so need to check out the site when you get a computer that will cooperate, he’s so darned cute little ticklish Good to Know 😉
Dani, thanks for the prayer list you Rock!!
Anne said
You could still claim them as long-lost cousins 😉
Danae said
I know (Dani says as she preens) Hehe! You do too!
Danae said
I could do that.
Annalaise duChat said
I’m very strong in that department, my problem is that being a print designer I want to do certain things and use a lot of overlap and layer that is just not possible in html. I get frustrated when I can’t make something work the way I want it to.
Do you write the code or do you use Dreamweaver or Go Live?
Maddie Mo said
Morning all!!!
Diz- glad to hear your Rob had a better night last night. {{HUGS}}
Danae- sorry to hear about your fathers relapse. {{{HUGS}}}. I will be thinking of you and your family.
Anne- Welcome!!! I’m so jealous!!! You got to meet Kyle you lucky lucky girl.
Madonna– how are you and BooBoo doing today???
Anne said
I write the code in notepad – saves me from buying and learning to use an expensive program.
Annalaise duChat said
How do you process your images?
Anne said
Process? You mean create?
I capture them off DVD with PowerDVD and work on them with
PaintShopPro 7, PS Elements 2 and Quick Web Photo Resizer for the thumbnails.
I know, I know – I tend to stick with what I know, so I haven’t upgraded to PSP10 and PSE5.
I like to try to improve the images, but I don’t often do it with the big galleries
elizabeth said
Good morning everyone!
Welcome Anne! this may have already been answered and I missed it, but if you live in Denmark and Blood Ties hasn’t shown there yet…how did you find out about it? I checked out your sites and they are spot on! I also totally envy you getting to go on set and watch it being filmed. How did you manage to keep from melting into a puddle of goo when you met the actors???? 🙂
Annalaise duChat said
Since I have access to all the Adobe programs, Creative Suite specifically, I use Go Live for the site and Photoshop, Image Ready and Illustrator for the content. I know, I’m spoiled. When I first started playing I wrote code in wordpad and simple text, but I don’t like doing it that way. I’m more of a visual type person. I have to see it as I’m working.
Here’s the link to the site I designed/the company I work for. It’s pretty basic but it does the job.
http://www.bestype.com
Anne said
Thanks Elizabeth.
I’m made from hardy viking stuff – it takes more than a couple of sexy guys to melt me 😉
But to be on the safe side I brought a couple of friends to lean on – actually we leaned on each other.
I found the novels when they were first published and I read them again a couple of times over the years. In the end I found Tanya’s livejournal and the rest is history.
I was also extremely lucky that David Winning was directing when I visited. I’ve met him a few times before at conventions and he took such good care of us. He’s a big teddybear. He could make me go weak to.
Danae said
Italy was great. Imagine there and back in 30 minutes. I can’t believe they make their pizza better then we do though and who would have that they have Shasta soda. Go figure.
DIZEY1 :-) said
Danae, I’m jealous did the pizza have thick or thin crust. I love the thin myself kinda like a cracker crust. Yummm 😉
Danae said
It was thick crust. Almost like a pan pizza. I like soft doughy crust. The pizza I had was with mushrooms. Yumm-o
Blood Drinker aka Vampgrl said
I have both Celtic Woman CD’s Celtic Woman and Celtic Woman A New Journey, and some other assorted Irish CDs. My all-time fav Celtic artist though is still Enya. I have 3 of her albums, A Day without Rain, Amarantine, and the Best of Enya. Oh! And I also have the soundtrack from Lord of the Dance.
Oh and on that Kyle pic? Every computer I’m around is deficient, so I guess I’ll never see it. Bummer.
lwildstar said
Good afternoon ladies – I hope everyone is doing better….
(((HUGS))) all around.
I’ve got some stuf to do so i may or maynot be back till tonight – you may not see me until the writers chat – its turning out to be one of those days!
Luve ya
lwildstar ‘dNightwalker
AKA Miss K.
DIZEY1 :-) said
I’ll eat either but prefer the thin, and I love mushrooms any way. I like pizza with everything on it. YUMMMMM I’m starving now and can’t wait till 1:00 that’s when I usually take lunch. Don’t know if I can make it that long, might have to go grab some cheese or something to tide me over 😉 😛
Margaret said
vampgirl-don’t have your email here. Give it to me and I’ll email it to you.
Margaret said
Well, I guess I won’t. It won’t let me copy it. Rats, sorry.
Margaret said
Don’t know what search engine you’re using but it works better with internet explorer. Doesn’t play well with firefox.
Annalaise duChat said
Vampgirl got to the link to see the picture.
http://annalaiseduchat.wordpress.com/
Madonna said
Hey everyone!
I hope everyone is doing/feeling better today.
Maddie Mo,
Thanks for asking. How are you? I’m doing pretty good today and so is Boo-Boo. That is the most frustrating thing about this. One day he acts like a normal healthy 20 mo. old pup the next, he acts like he’s close to death.
Annalaise,
Well, maybe your husband can give us a crash course in theatrical makeup before we take off. That way it’ll be a little less like the blind leading the blind you know. Although I’m pretty sure I can do a good job of faking it.
You are so right about print design and web design being two different animals. Once I have an idea I can do almost anything in print but when it comes to web design I’m all but clueless. I’m going to have to learn soon if I’m going to make the site for my candles. If I could make money at it though I’d probably be in fine art.
Here’s the only website I’ve ever had any involvement in and that involvement was extremely limited when I was in college.
http://www.newportaquarium.com/
Anne,
Welcome to Ms. Gypsy’s. We love to have new blood. Thanks for all the insight. What can I say though….. I’m jealous.
Danae,
You lucky thing. The only time we get pizza at work is when my boss’ concious stirs because she’s made us work 24 hrs straight. And donuts….. I cringe when I think about what donuts mean at my office.
Vampgrl,
If you post you email I’ll send that picture to you tonight after work.
Oh well break’s over……. Time to put the shackle back on.
Annalaise duChat said
Madonna — That’s a pretty impressive site. What did you do on it?
The biggest problems I run into is people copying image from the internet and thinking they are suitable for printing. NOT! They just don’t get it. Also a lot of web designers prepare images in Photoshop and then expect the to be printed in spot colors. Also not happening, and that’s my job — to fix there %*@4-ups and make it work.
Claire said
Bonjour mes Amis….Vont-elles comment mes soeurs aujourd’hui ?
Danae…Prayers for your dad!!
Beth…I’ve no doubt either..everything works out eventually!So glad Rob is feeling better!
Anne..let me properly introduce myself..my name is Claire..I just turned 49…I have 7 children,4 are 7 year old quads…2 grandchildren…I was born in Marseilles France…I am actually…French,Sicilian and Isreali…I moved to the States..NYC..when I was 9…and moved to Virginia last year…to be close to my eldest daughter and her children.
Great to have you here!
My sistas!!! got the check from evil landlord!!!! WOOHOO…school clothes shopping for the quads!!!!!!
Who has Henry? I feel like a little celebrating….
😉 XOXOXO
DIZEY1 :-) said
Hi Madonna,
I’ll carry the bodypaints and supplies, need a paint brush ? Oh you need me to wipe Kyle where?? (hee hee hee) I’m a great gopher if need be. I can learn anything 😉 Glad to hear Booboo’s better, I thought he was an older dog, but he’s still a puppy. I’d have done the same thing and found another vet also. Thanx also for your words of support yesterday on my downward spiral 😉
Annalaise duChat said
Congratulations Claire!!!
Dizey — Welcome aboard! I’m glad you’re feeling a bit better. Any improvement?
DIZEY1 :-) said
Bonjour M’admoiselle Claire, Bien mieux aujourd’hui, et j’aimerais faire des emplettes avec vous aujourd’hui ! Les achats sont médecine très bonne que j’entends ; -)
Kyle, oh and I love to shop for shoes. I may not have the best clothes but I”ll certainly have shoes. Fetish 😉 😎
DIZEY1 :-) said
Doc duChat, a little better no seizures since yesterday afternoon. I’ll take whatever we can get. He’s wierdly in good spirits but has never seen one and I’m glad cuz I know it would make him feel bad/sad. It’ll get better, I guess I was just overflowing with worry and fear, like Prtfvr said the imagination can run wild and takes over. BUT I’m back to the positive side , and thank you for asking 😀
Anne said
Hi Claire,
Happy late birthday – or et forsinket tillykke med foedselsdagen
Nice to meet you – by quads, you mean four-legged, right? What an interesting background you have. I’m as Danish as liverpaste.
I’ve always lived in the same zip code in Copenhagen.
But a few years ago I started going to conventions and I’ve traveled quite a bit since then, but since most of the cons are in the US and Canada, I admit to shamefully neglecting Europe.
laurel said
Hi all,
I have just enough time for a drive by – then off to do all the bizzare little tasks that make up my new job. Thank heavens I work in a building full of women I know pretty well. Lots of them have taken my classes and some I have taken classes from. It is kind of a neat environment, and I am feeling blessed to be working near them, if not exactly with them.
Chery – I hope your day goes well. Don’t let your advil/tylenol lapse, playing catch-up with your pain meds is a b—–!
Diz – That is really good news about Rob. Prayers to continue, of course.
Madonna – give Boo a skritch behind the ears for me. I have a real soft spot in my heart for ailing pups. It has been several years since I had one and I still miss my little buddy.
Danae – Prayers for your Dad, too. This has been a year when the big C has touched my family in profound ways. The word evokes a deep fear in my heart and I am sorry that it has reached out to touch your family again.
Annalaise – I think I got my blog set so it won’t need approval for every post. I will have time later to put the password on it and then will e-mail the details.
Love ya’ gals!
See you later.
laurel said
Anne – Claire has four children born on the same day, same year…. Quads age 7.
Brave woman, great mom, awsome friend…
love ya’ Claire!
Madonna said
Dizey,
Welcome aboard! BTW….. No problem! Everyone needs somebody to lean on.
Annalaise,
That site has evolved a lot over the last 8 years. There used to be a lot more images. I collaborated on the logo and did a lot of work on processing images. That is pretty much where my involvement ends. We all had to create a website for them. Mine sucked. Needless to say they didn’t use it.
Hi Claire! Congrats on the check!
Anne,
I’m sorry. I should have introduced myself a little better. I’m Madonna, I’m 28, a graphic designer and I live in Kentucky.
DIZEY1 :-) said
Hey Anne, I went and checked out the Blood Ties site again, are you in any of those pic’s ?? Inquiring minds want to know and it’s nice to have a face with a name 🙂
Annalaise duChat said
Dizey — That’s good news. Anything we can do to help keep you on that positive side, be glad to help.
Vampgirl — Did you get your Picture of Kyle being painted? I posted it for you on my site. Go get it girl!
Madonna said
Thanks Laurel. I will.
Doesn’t Lady do some theatrical makeup. She’d make a great technical consultant in our little “dream business”.
DIZEY1 :-) said
Laurel, my sweet thanks so much you are such a wonderful person and thanks for keeping my peeps in prayers. I Love Ya! XOXOXOX
Catch ya’ll when I get back from lunch 😛
Danae said
Hey guys. Thanks for all the prayers. I really don’t think it is that much of a big deal this time or my parents would have said something but they still should have told. There is always the one time that it might come back and spreads and is untreatable. That would be the worst.
Anne said
Dizey1 – I’m the one in the red top with formerly brown hair …
Danae said
Formerly brown hair! That is so funny. LOL!
Danae said
Did I scare everybody away?
Madonna said
Sorry Danae…… just too busy to play. I’ll be taking lunch in 10-15 min. though.
Danae said
Yay! I always worry that I say something wrong and I get deserted.
Annalaise duChat said
I’m still here Danae. What cha up to?
Danae said
Actually, the conversation about Celtic music and Josh Groban sparked a poem topic for me and when I should be working I am working on it.
Danae said
And peeking on here. Lately I have been leaving this window up and blatantly obvious on my screen.
Danae said
And of course Josh Groban Awake is playing.
Annalaise duChat said
Bad Girl!!! Actually I’m supposed to be working too, and I am, between posts.
Annalaise duChat said
I’ve got James Taylor playing.
Danae said
I am squeeking a little work in but it is the minimal amount.
Danae said
I like him but I like Jimmy Buffet more.
Danae said
I am a Parrothead
Madonna said
OK! I’m here. I got to take the shackles off again for an hour. It start to chafe after a while. I have to be very very careful about posting on here during work, especially since my job performance is based almost solely on productivity.
Annalaise duChat said
Gee Jimmy’s playing right now! go figure!
Madonna said
I really really don’t like Jimmy Buffet. He plays Cincinnati every summer and it’s always a sell-out. I just don’t get the appeal.
Annalaise duChat said
I did a design job for a customer 2 years ago and my patment was box seats and VIP passes to Jimmy Buffet’s concert at Blossom Music Center. It was a GREAT concert!
Maddie Mo said
Madonna– I am doing great today. Except ( and I know you will relate) my boss thinks I can do more than what I am doing. okay granted I do take a few breaks to catch up here during the day. However, the work they want me to do would keep me here for late everynight. I think I might be unemployed soon as there was a slight “Do it or we will find someone who will” attitude to the discussion. Well, they better start looking is all I can say about that. I will not stay late cause I’m not leaving my baby with the sitter any longer than she is already there.
Anne said
I’m just posting so I can change the url that goes into my name.
I’ve had the day off since I worked the weekend, but tomorrow is a dept meeting and friday a seminar and there goes those two days. At least I’ll be paid overtime for coming in on my days off.
Maddie Mo said
oh and I’m really glad to here Boo Boo is feeling better today.
Madonna said
Maddie Mo,
You go girl! I wish I could do and say that, but with my physical problems and education my job choice is art or nothing.
Danae said
I like Jimmy Buffet’s Carribean feel. His music is just really stupid and fun. Where’s that Cheeseburger in Paradise?
I would love to go to a Buffet concert.
Annalaise duChat said
Maddy Mo — Hang in there. Don’t risk your job. Wait until you can leave from a position of strength rather than getting yourself let go.
Danae — I come into being a Parrothead rather late but I love him just the same!
Madonna said
Danae,
If you ever decide you want to take a summer trip to Cincinnati, Jimmy Buffet plays here every summer. I can try to let you know when he’s coming.
http://www.riverbend.org/
Danae said
Cool I have a lot of vacations planned for next year. Back a few months ago Dizey said to come to the jazz fest, I have to get to Claire’s 50th, if we have a convo I have to travel for that and my aunt wants me to visit here in CA before she moves here.
Annalaise duChat said
He puts on a tremendously entertaining show.
Margaret said
Ah but Madonna, you do it so well. I love that card and I hope Kyle appreciates exactly how much work you put into it. I’m sure he will. I’d love to have your computer skills. I’m only talented enough to probably blow up one maybe. Take pride in your work, you do beautiful work.
Danae said
I bet he does. It doesn’t surprise me.
Madonna said
Awwww Thanks Margaret! (blushing)
Annalaise duChat said
Madonna what exactly do you do?
Danae said
She’s right Madonna. The card was awesome.
Maddie Mo said
Madonna- fortunately I work in sales and have a lot of contacts at other places. Plus, I would probably just stay home with the little one for a while. I wanted too after she was born, but my company really wanted me to come back, and made it damn near impossible for me to stay home. Unfortunately, since then they have fired the boss that really looked out for me. My new boss pratically lives here and thinks we all should too.
Madonna said
Thanks Danae! (turning really really red now)
Annalaise,
I’m a designer for AutoMart (the redneck’s bible) LOL!!!
At my office we now do the magazines for 19 different cities. I think the closest one to you would be Columbus.
Maddie Mo said
That card was awesome. You are very talented. I would think your profolio would speak for itself in a job interview.
Madonna said
Oooops. I meant to give you guys the link in my last post.
You can browse through some of the books online. We do Dayton, Milwaukee, Twin Cites, Chicago and Detroit to name a few more.
http://www.automart.com/?cmp=KNC-Google&WT.srch=1&WT.mc_id=Google&gclid=CMvj_t27m44CFREDWAodAU58ZQ
Madonna said
Thanks Maddie Mo! I’d like to be able to say that my portfolio would speak for itself, but in almost 7 years working here, I think I might have done 3 ads worthy to go into it.
Maddie Mo said
Annalaise– Thanks. I don’t really know that they would let me go, but I guess it’s always possible. I do know that the most important thing I can do is be at home in the evenings for my child. My company is owed primarily by a Chinesse investment firm and a lot of upper management is now Korean or Chinesse and they don’t go home to their families and their children are all away at some boarding shcool on the east coast. So, they have a hard time understand that us mothers here in the US want to go home and be with our families. I am not alone in this boat, there are a couple others here in the same position.
Annalaise duChat said
So you do the little freebie mags you in various locations?
Annalaise duChat said
I’m sorry that’s: that you find in various locations
Madonna said
That’s the ones.
Madonna said
5 designers for 19 books that all go out once a week.
DIZEY1 :-) said
Hey ya’ll back from lunch and forgot today is the 2 yr anniversary of Katrina that b***h, I found some pic’s from the days after it. I’ll put the link here if ya’ll want to see some of the water and mess she left. I understand if you don’t want to look it sucked 😦 but it happened.
http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?Uc=n7vl128.10k36pe4&Uy=-lsttlk
Compared to 2 yrs ago it’s a much better day, we had some rain (kind of appropriate) but nothing like that.
Danae said
If they own or run a company in the US they need to respect our customs just like we would have to do if it was the other way around. It doesn’t matter what they do. They need to keep there employees happy or they won’t have a company. (that was all said in a sarcastic tone)
I work for a company owned by Jewish people and I know it isn’t exactly the same but they give us time off for our holidays and such.
Danae said
Wow 2 years already. My time flies.
Annalaise duChat said
Cool! I work on a similar project. An inner city Cleveland rag called Horizon Arts & Entertainment Magazine. Also a freebie. It pays for itself with ads. It’s aimed at the Black community. You’ve read my comments about “Wouldn’t they freak if they new their favorite mag was designed by a 51 year old white suburban woman?
It’s a job and it’s steady. I get to do a lot of other projects too.
Madonna said
Dizey,
I’m sure things were at least a little different than what was portrayed on TV after Katrina, but from the images I saw one of the worst things I saw was the heartlessness some showed afterward.
Annalaise,
For me it’s all car ads, all day, everyday.
The company I work for is huge. Cox Enterprises….. Television and radio broadcasting, AutoMart, Auto Trader, heck they even own a coffee farm in Hawaii.
I think they’re Dizey’s cable provider.
DIZEY1 :-) said
Doc duChat, I have to say I still have Claire and Henry on my desktop @ home and @ work, I just love that picture. It is so beautiful and every time I roll across your name I wanted to tell you that. You are very good at that.
Madonna very cool on the Redneck Bible 😉 and the Aquarium site too. I’m so jealous I can barely fiddle on here and get around. I’m so not very technical.
Danae said
I am heading home now ladies. Ciao! Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do.
DIZEY1 :-) said
Madonna I think it is the same company this is my webpage for them.
http://neworleans.cox.net/cci/home
Madonna said
Annalaise,
That card IS amazing!
Dizey,
SURPRISE! I’m not technically inclined either. You all ever notice that I don’t even have a picture attached to my name?
Madonna said
Bye Danae!
Dizey,
If it’s Cox Cable or satellite then it’s the same company.
Annalaise duChat said
For me its Beauty Salons and bars. I do get a little variety though. But you win! If I had to do car ads all day I think I’d freak!
Thanks to both of you for the compliment. That was a fun project to work on. Who wouldn’t want to stare at Kyle and Claire for an hour or two?
I looking forward to coming up with something for a T-shirt for Dylan. I’ve got some ideas.
Well I gotta go home now. Chat at ya later!
Madonna said
Bye Annalaise,
Have fun at the chat tonight.
DIZEY1 :-) said
Bye girls, ya’ll have a good evening and I’ll see ya’ tomorrow 😉
Madonna said
Bye Dizey!
Maddie Mo said
I am out of here for the day!!!
Dizey– I hope your brother has another good night tonight.
Everyone have a great night!
Claire said
Mais naturellement Beth… les magasins m’aident toujours quand je suis triste et quand je suis heureux aussi !
Oh..Diz..Kyle…I love shoes also..who doesn’t?
Thanks for all the congrats!
Anne..thats funny…you probably thought I had 4 dogs or something!!! LOL!
Thanks for the belated birthday!
I should have explained better…I had quadruplets, 4 babies at the same time!
Laurel…Thank you so much…Je t’aime beaucoupe!!!
Oh AnnaLaise…stop..you’re making me turn as red as my hair! LOL!!!
but I must confess…your card is soo beautiful that it is also on my desktop!!!!
I wish we could show it to Kyle…but he might freak out!
Think I’m an obsessed fan…well je suis…but he doesn’t have to know!!! LOL!!!
Anyway…So happy to hear that your comng to my 50th Danae!! all of you better show up!!
My daughter is looking into renting a beach house at the outer banks…not too expensive and we can make as much noise as we like and talk our pretty little heads off!!!! So you all start saving and planning!!!
Be back later…laundry…dinner….vacuuming…etc…calls…
you all notice how glamorous my life is? LOL!
Lady Afrodyte said
“Doesn’t Lady do some theatrical makeup. She’d make a great technical consultant in our little “dream business”.”
Yes I do. It’s a hobby I picked up years ago. I do mostly blood and guts type stuff though. Making stuff pretty is rather difficult. I can do my own makeup, but doing it on others is a whole other ball game. lol
I did this for a Horror Movie website that was asking for fan content. The guy that runs the site was incredibly impressed with it. *blush* This makeup only took my 20-30 minutes. The most difficult part was convincing my fiancé to stand outside without a shirt in the middle of winter.
My fiancé again. He’s a real trooper. This is just chocolate syrup. I knew I would be shooting in black and white. I had done his face up, but most of the pictures show a tad too much nudity. *blush*
Another real simple makeup I did for some custom Christmas web cards I sent out. At the time I had a small gathering of fans from my stage show. This was their special present… (please ignore the massive amount of cleavage, that was also enhanced by makeup)
DIZEY1 :-) said
Lady A very cool my brothers would love you around here at Halloween. Oh and I like the skull bustier(sp). Great special effects 😉
Claire you are so right shopping can cure what ails you or can just be a fun day out 😀 My mom loves William Sonoma, very dangerous place for us 😉 And my bags are already packed for Virginia ma’am , I can leave at a moments notice 😉
Lady Afrodyte said
Dizey, thats actually just a bra. It’s a tad too small, thus the extra lift.
lwildstar said
hi guys!
Just adrive by right now – I’ll check in before the chat tonight .
Oh this afternoon was one of those that I was ready to run screaming from the office – the up side thou: HR has finally agreed that they have put me in a bad position by making me supervise the temp – and try to do my job – I told her that I have been so stressed out over the last two weeks that my “mental hampster” is ready to roll on its back and put all four feet in the air! It took a minute before she got herself under control – unfortunatly we are losing the current temp hopefuly we will have a new one on Tueday and I pray shes good!
Other up side -I sent Paul a email just asking how he was, and a tiny vent about my day! (he loves the mental hampster analogy)…got an out of office message – so it surprised me when before I left I got an email reply – “Sounds like you need a break – Maybe we could go to lunch on Friday” – WOW I needed that – I responded that I get out at 3 on Friday so maybe we could do an early dinner – if he can get out as well – maybe a movie??? 😉
We’ll see how this goes!
Anyway – I’m feeling alittle better anxiety wise today – dipise how the day went – Paul is perfect medicine!
I finally caught up on all the posts – oh I just want to give all of you big hugs again!
Going to get something to eat – I’ll see you tonight…I’m going to see if I can get some writing in before the chat – question..do we have a single topic or is this just going to be one of those OPEN ended discussions?
Only because I have a suggestion about keeping track of who you are responding too – the other night at the party it got really interesting while I was there – we were getting the answers to one question mixed up with the wrong questions!….which led to other discussions….very fun! but very confussing…
ok talk at you later!
Lady Afrodyte said
I must have missed something? Writers chat? What’s that?
lwildstar said
Anyway – I’m feeling alittle better anxiety wise today – dipise how the day went – Paul is perfect medicine!
That was meant to be DISPITE how the day went – ok – my brain is fried already? not a good sign!
Todays booboo – I double ordered some office supplies because I thought they hadnt sent what I ordered the first time – now I have to find out if they will take them back or not…Hey I look at it this way – I could have kept the stuff since they resent it thinking it had gone missing – but I am an honest person – if a bit of twit lately!
night
rifkind said
Hi All!
HEck of a day here.. my computer system was DOWN almost all day, I was sooo far behind in my work.. anyway I haven’t had a chance to read anybody’s posts for today..Yet!
I plan to be at the writer’s chat!
-Rifkind
lwildstar said
Lady A – you must have missed the earlier post:
Annalaise duChat said,
August 28, 2007 @ 10:24 am
From what I’m seeing a writer’s chat where we can all get together is probably not going to work out anytime this week. Let’s schedule two different sessions this week. This is what I’m seeing:
Wed Sat
adc: OK OK
Rif: OK NO
lws: OK NO
laur: No No
him: OK OK
Dan: NO OK
Mad; no yes
Did I miss anyone?
It looks like we could schedule 2 chat sessions. What if we were to do the 1st chat on Wednesday 8/29 at 9:00pm est and another on Saturday 9/ 1at 9:00 pm est. I will copy the text from both chats and post it on my blog so we all can see what was discussed at the chat we missed. I’ll password protect it so it’s private, and let you all know the password at the chat.
Laurel– look into setting up a permanent blog if you want and pass along the info when you get it ready. I can host it until you are ready.
Annalaise
How does that sound?
Hope that helps!
Lady Afrodyte said
That must have been buried in the bulk of the stuff I missed the other day. Where are you guys doing this chat? I would love to be involved, if not tonight then Saturday.
Tonight I have a massage scheduled and after is supposed to be “movie night” with some friends… That’s if I don’t fall asleep after the massage!
Madonna said
Hi Lady A,
I’m still at work but I saw your post. I think it’s supposed to be at the hen house both nights.
Lady Afrodyte said
Ok. I’ll keep an eye out.
I’ve got to run and get ready for my appointment. Hopefully the massage therapist isn’t too chatty today, I really need to be able to relax.
Claire said
Glad to hear that Ms.Diz…I can’t wait to meet you all in person!!!
LOL!! lets see…dangerous stores for me…Ikea…Target…Victoria Secret….Old Navy….Gap…Vera Bradley…and any and all shoe stores..theres so many more!!!
Enjoy your massage Lady A…I had one on my birthday…it was glorious!…no chatting just celtic music and out door forest sounds!!!
I’ll check out all those links on your make up when I get back from Target!
see yas
AlisaSG said
hi Anne! glad to see you posting here, too! 🙂
this is the “andreas” fan who wrote on Kyle’s guestbook, and mentioned it also to you via e-mail. BTW, thank you for writing back (whoah, you were up early that morning, too)..
I married into a danish named family.. and I really adore that name over my maiden name. anyway, I got my card out to my niece, but haven’t even been able to get to Kyle’s yet. I keep saying tomorrow! it was supposed to be in the mail by yesterday.. (yikes!) I do hope he gets it.
I’ve had several delays this week, so far..
Been trying to help out our new Canadian BT viewers, without spoiling details. Just taking each episode as they come up.. Spacecast already has some folks who have seen the 2-hour premiere Blood Price ep, but mostly everyone else won’t be able to see them on SPACE until mid-September.
Last night, I was gabbing with my sister for 2 hours (we’re both in the USA, but about 2,000 miles apart). Every time she’d go to hang up, she’d bring up another subject and we’d just keep on talking and talking and talking! 😛
Plus, someone on another site was consuming my time because of a personal crisis (death in her family) issue. So, that’s where most of my spare time went.
anywho.. I’ve got a question (for Anne) —
do you have any idea when the episode stills will be going up on ep# 8 for
HEART OF FIRE over at the bloodtiescentral web gallery? or if there’s a waiting period for the rest of the world to catch up in eps?
just being curious.. 😉
nightwalker01 said
Just making a quick stop to see if Ive missed anything – Lady A how I envy you – I’ve been sitting at the computer writing and my neck is hurting now – so I’m going to take a break so I can sit through the chat!
AlisaSG – your sister sounds like mine – and mine only lives an hour and a half away – you’d think we never see each other or talk!
see you in a bit
lwildstar d ‘Nightwalker.
DIZEY1 :-) said
Hey is everybody a writer?? except me 😦 All chattin’ it up 😛
AlisaSG said
OOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!
Margaret
>> AlisaSG-Somehow it doesn’t look like she’s dying leaning against that wall. And for Vicki, at least she’s not literally pushing him away. Who knows, something else to torture us with, eh?
it’s definitely a TEASER photo!! (gasp!!).. and I’m guessing it’ll be a VERY CRUEL and TORTUROUS TEASER, at that..!!!!!!!!!! 😉
I just read the preview *idea* blurb (in the new Lifetime comments blog) that it shows up in (5:55); and put 2and2 together. It’ll probably last 2 seconds or thereabouts, like the car scene in Necrodome and then bam — commercial..!
Remember what Christina Cox said in one of her early interviews. Keep that in mind — ALL the way up to episode 22, about her impression of Vicki with Henry. There’s the answer.
AlisaSG said
BTW, Stacey posted snippet preview blurbs about the upcoming eps — if anyone *dares* to look.. and ultimately come to the same conclusion I did about the photo on the re*vamp*ed BT official web site (front page and in the gallery). 😎
Madonna said
Okay ladies, I expected this, but it still hurts.
http://entertainmentnow.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/army-wives-season-finale-breaks-records/
DIZEY1 :-) said
Driving by on my way to bed 😉
Yep, Madonna it *BITES* , it Sucks too! Oh well I’ll go and get some more post cards and start back writing. I’ll do whatever I need to do to keep Henry. I’ve grown accustomed to his face 😀 And what a face it is 😛
Well goodnight and sleep well,
Reves doux d’Henri
XOXOXOXOX Love ya!
Beth
Claire said
OK so I actually go to Target and they hardly have any school supplies..
So I go to office Depot…
16 composition notebooks
8 12 pack pencils
4 8 pack thick markers
4 8 pack thin markers
16 3 pack glue sticks
1 pencil box
4 24 crayola crayons=71.27
Harris Teeter-supermarket…
12 3 pack pink erasers
12 boxes of tissues
8 boxes of baby wipes=58.60
still have to get 4 bottles of hand sanitizers
TOTAL=129.
Claire said
Ugh..I hit submit before I was done…the total was 129.87!!!
Oh and of course the comments…are you a teacher…do you have a daycare..
then the incredulous looks…when I say no..I have quadruplets!
This is the only time that I notice how expensive it is to have Quadruplets!!!!
I don’t know how they’re supposed to carry all that on the school bus Tuesday!
Anyway..tomorrow..open house at their school to find out their classes and meet teachers…then clothing and shoe shopping for them…yikes! usually about 1000.00 dollars!!!!!!!!!!!!
I started joking with the kids.. “Ok so you know next year you all have to get jobs right?”. Alexandria is in a gifted art class…so I told her she had to start selling her paintings in town.LOL…they just started laughing…”Mommys crazy”
Diz..I’m not a writer…so you’ve got me..
Lady A very cool…especially the creepy stitches down your face!!
Madonna…UGH!!! I was not a part of that..I haven’t even watched lifetime since BT went on Hiatus! and yes Diz..I’ve grown accustomed to his beautiful face too! and I would like to keep seeing it!
Anyway…..jusqu’au demain… puits de sommeil mes soeurs!
XOXOXOXOXO
AlisaSG said
okay ladies… some new CityTV viewers have confessed to “feeling the pulse”
between Vicki and Henry..
— how Henry likes touching Vicki’s *pulse* and hair —
OMG!! they haven’t a clue yet (trying to keep them spoiler FREE about Necrodome and NORMAN), but they’re ON the right path! 😎
That’s GOOD news.. VERY GOOD news.
Let’s KEEP this going..!!!!!!!!!!! 😀
BTW, is anyone else going to join me in sharing the BT enthusiasm??
it’d really be appreciated, if we can all keep *mum* as prtfvr did with Henry in chains! (No mentioning of those chains!! NOR the *eeeeeeeeevil* Mendoza — not until AFTER they’ve seen the story.. don’t know if they even get to see preview teasers / commercials as we did..)
whetting their appetites just enough to keep watching the series.. 😉
It’s really difficult to do that — when I personally thought eps 3 and 4 were on the more bland side (Bad Juju and Gifted). It’s only the little nuances that held me enough to keep coming back for more and more..
Bad Juju’s best moments..
scenes like the zombie and Henry running back for the SALT canister..
Henry to Coreen- “I want to KILL it, NOT *season* it..!!!”
Vicki kissing Henry on his cheek.. Henry accepting it with his eyes closed..
..and Angelique was extremely beautiful physically – in spite of what she was (evil) and did (more evil.. stole Coreen’s mouth! and made Vicki sick).
and Gifted had several *intriguing* moments..
Henry’s rosary being revealed quite out-in-the-open..
Henry’s comment about “I’m a vampire.. NOT a blood-hood..!!”
Petite Henry breaking the door down at the school and surprising Mike..
Henry nearly throttling Mike (at the end)
“Seamus Harper” guest-starring from Tv’s Andromeda series..
..*sigh*..
AlisaSG said
Regarding Army Wives season finale ratings–
Madonna
>> Okay ladies, I expected this, but it still hurts.
hmmm .. I hate to say “i told yah so”. I really expected that would happen. It’s actually almost as high of a rating as the sci-fi channel’s season finales for BSG.. the 4.1 million was an accumulated total (and over how many air times, too??)
It was the (“d—!”) terrorist plot against the local military base that brought it in.
——–
I’m not thinking about how LIFETIME is being so *apathetic?* about Blood Ties.
Instead, I’ve been trying to get the new viewers on the other stations (I’m only on 2 of the regular Canadian sites). If those stations get good results, they’ll bury LIFETIME’s current, stone cold approach with Blood Ties.
Everyone highly anticipating commercials or something from LIFETIME…
I saw an ad on the SCI-FI channel for Lifetime’s ARMY WIVES a few weeks ago!
NADA for Blood Ties. If anything shows up, maybe it’ll be a few days in the same week before D.O.A. airs (that’s BT, ep# 13). I think Lifetime is saying something without saying it physically with D.O.A. being the first ep back in October… it feels sort of an almost insult that they see BT as Dead On Arrival in October (2007).
We NEED to change that.. if the postcards, etc., aren’t working —
please *help* the numbers go up on the other world networks airing BT now.
Help show LIFETIME the mistake they’re making in their lack of advertising and concern. We’re doing the BT series ADVERTISING (around the rest of the world) work FOR them..! and it’s coming from our hearts for cast and crew who poured their hearts into the series for us..
at least I can say thank you’s to Tanya and everyone who worked on the BT series for us. 😎
AlisaSG said
ughhhhhhhhh! typos!! (me baaaaaaaaad!)
>> and Gifted had several *intriguing* moments..
>> Henry’s rosary being revealed quite out-in-the-open..
>> Henry’s comment about “I’m a vampire.. NOT a blood-hood..!!”
that last line should have been —
Henry’s comment about “I’m a vampire.. NOT a blood-hound..!!”
hope everyone transposed the word prior to that like I did.. (ugh! LOL!)
Anne said
AlisaSG –
The remainder of the galleries are in the works – I just got distracted by a new toy 😉
Arrowyn said
Saw this on Bloodlines today (sorry, Anne).
***
BLOOD TIES AT DRAGON CON!
There are 2 panels relating to Blood Ties at the 2007 Dragon Con this weekend. Jessie, one of the three ladies running this site, is going to be both panels.
Sunday 10:00 am – Blood Ties: A Second Bite of Season One We review the first season of this show that mixes romance, crime drama and vampires.
Monday 01:00 pm – From Page To Screen Blood Ties and The Dresden Files both began as a series of novels and, inevitably, changes were made in the translation. Are the resulting shows faithful to their authors original vision?
Jessie is bringing a few special prizes for some lucky attendees! She looks forward to meeting everyone!
***
And some of the guests from film and TV are (ok, so there are many, many more guests, but I would be excited about these):
Claudia Black, Claudia Christian, John de Lancie, Lexa Doig, Christopher Judge, Juliet Landau, James Marsters, Gates McFadden, Nichelle Nichols, Robert Picardo, Michael Shanks, Kevin Sorbo, Brent Spiner
Alas, no BT people (that I recognize).
Anne said
No need to apologise Arrowyn – I love Bloodlines too.
Btw – Gordon Michael Woolvett is also supposed to be at DC – it’s quite an Andromeda group there.
AlisaSG, especially for you – and for anyone else who might care:
http://www.bloodtiescentral.com/episode_108.shtml
If any of you have suggestions for more trivia, please let me know.
Anne said
And BTW was in Blood Ties ep 4, Gifted, playing the dad.
Annalaise duChat said
Good Morning All,
First I want to say last nights Writer’s chat was a ball. Thanks to all who participated. I have the transcrip,t but it was 25 pages in MS Word so unless somebody is really interested, I’m not going to post it. I’ll email it to you if you want it. Minus Rifkind’s and my book spoilers (sorry) We told all!
I’ll probably be a little scarce today. Magazine deadline time. Check in when I can. Everyone have a great day.
Madonna said
Good morning ladies,
I hope everyone is doing well this morning.
I have to echo Annalaise I’m afraid. We’re on early deadline tomorrow so we can have Monday off which means today is going to be hectic. I’ll try to stop by if I can.
Danae said
Buongiorno Bellas
Annalaise and Madonna-Work those little assets off. Working on Monday will totally suck.
Diz-How did Robbie do last night? Is there any improvement in your dad’s situation?
DIZEY1 :-) said
Bonjour, Buongiorno , Good Morning my sista’s!!
Comment allez vous? Pretty good day so far, glad to hear the writers chat went well, who showed up??
Claire, you, me, Prtfvr I’m in good company for the non-writers club 😉
Anzia said
I posted a comment last night and it never actually went on the board…:( Maybe the Hen house isn’t the only one that hates me….
Anne- since it seems quite a few other people did a formal introduction I’ll do one too. Should have done it sooner sorry. I’m Anzia, I live in Wisconsin but from Ohio. I’m only 22 (yup, one of the babies on the blog) and work in Front-End Collections for Kohls Department Stores. We have one more international member but she’s pretty scarce these days. Nina is 22 as well and lives in the Neatherlands.
Speaking of Nina, she sends her love. The poor girl lives in a small studio apartment that is currently housing five people and she’s slowly going nuts. Then to top it all off she’s starting school again in a week. She misses us all and really wishes she could sneak on to say Hi but her mom doesn’t let her stay up too late. Which really bites since the two of us talked almost daily and now I’m lucky if I get an email response in a week. 😦 *sniff*sniff*sniff*
Diz-how’s robbie?
Danae-your dad, how is he?
Chery-how’s the leg?
Madonna & Annalaise-good luck on the deadlines. I actually *hangs head in shame and mumbles* miss having them. Only time I actually got anything done. Knowing how talented and motivated you two are, i’m sure everything will get done and done very very well
Claire-how’s supermom going? talk to the dad lately? (don’t remember his name, sorry) Make sure you shop at kohls when you go shopping. ^_^ Yup, I’m shamelessly plugging! *giggles* buy some awesome earrings. I know they have some ’cause I’ve got my eye on quite a few of ’em!
Okay, off to finish laundry *gag* which I hate almost as much as dishes! We SOOO need to hire someone to do laundry on the House boat…er…ship. Well, at least someone to fold ’em…^_^ I’m lazy!
DIZEY1 :-) said
Hey Danae,
Robbie went another night w/out one so keeping my fingers crossed and my poor dude wants to go to the Saints game tonight so we’ll just play it by ear. My mom said if my brother Eric didn’t want to go she’d go with him and I got the tickets from boss so they’re good seats and a parking pass. Dad’s doing pretty good the staph is hopefully at bay and we’re playing that by ear too. 🙂
Danae said
So far my dad is doing good. He is working so that is good. Those damn cancer cells just keep sneaking up. Those devils suck.
Diz-I am so glad to hear that he went two nights in a row without one. That poor man deserves to go to the game.
Anzia-Give Nina my love also.
DIZEY1 :-) said
Hey **Dr.Z** I miss you my girl, Rob went another day/night without a seizure, so I’m happy if he goes a day without one. We miss poor Nina too I’m sure she’s happy to see family but I bet she’s ready for them to leave also 😉 Love Ya girl! glad the job seems to be going well, and what’s the closest one to me in New Orleans. They show commercials all the time but I have no clue where one is. 😦
DIZEY1 :-) said
Danae,
How is your dad? Has he given any info to you ? What are they going to do as far as treatment goes?? keep me updated *K*
Danae said
Diz-I looked up online. The closest Kohls to you is in Baton Rouge. It says it is 66 miles.
Danae said
No they still have not said anything to me. They don’t know I know. So far all I heard my mom talk about is radiation treatment. That is why I can’t be near him. Radiation can make me sterile and I do want my own kids someday. He had the treatment and I guess they are waiting for the new test results to come back. His endocrinologist keeps calling. That also alerted me to something.
I guess my mom figures since I am at work all day and he works second shift that we won’t come in contact to much. They still should have said something. I will not confront them about it though because I hate confrontations.
Anzia said
Danae- I’m sorry girl! ((((HUGS)))) parents can be a little unthoughtful in their protectiveness. You are much stronger than me, I’d have gone screaming to them the second I figured it out. I’m still praying for ya!
Diz- same to you, about the praying! Sorry there’s no Kohl’s near you. 😦 Silly people obviously have their priorities mixed up. I do know they’re opening another 100 stores in a few weeks or so. Maybe one of those will be closer. *shrugs* I’m just a peon, I know nothing. Job is going okay. I’m getting higher scores on my QA’s (quality controls). But, i’ve closed 4 accts in 3 days and keep forgetting to ask why pymnts were late…*sigh* I’ll get it and at that point…well, we’ll know just how much I’m going to like/dislike the job. Like I told the girls last night, I’d like my job a whole lot more if I didn’t have to talk to people. ^_^ Just hunt ’em down. That’s what I wanna do.
DIZEY1 :-) said
Danae,
I do understand and I don’t love confrontations but I usually ask what’s up cuz’
if not my mom will take too much on herself and it’s a vicious(sp) cycle. I’ll add your pop to my prayer list and just imagine him healthty and cancer free. Positive affirmations make it be 😉
Margaret said
Dizey-Glad to hear your brother is feeling a bit better.
Danae-Your dad and the rest of your family will remain in our thoughts and prayers.
Chery-If I could take away your pain I would.
Anne-I think I gave you my bio when we talked before. If I didn’t, guess I’m getting senile. Unlike these young chicks on her, I tend not to spread my age around too much. I’m afraid the Sheriff’s Department would want me to register as a perv but we won’t go there.
Margaret said
Anne: P. S. I borrowed one of your pictures fromt the Spaceys. If its not ok, let me know and I’ll take it down. Thanks.
Margaret said
Whoops, should have read on “here”. You notice as the chicks get older and turn into Hens they’re less like to reveal their age. lol.
Danae said
Thanks guys. I may say something but I really need to talk myself into it. You girls are awesome. Ti Amo
Danae said
Ladies check your emails. I did a new poem.
Anzia said
I didn’t get anything danae.
Danae said
Check now. I realized that I didn’t send it to my Blood Ties group just my family and friends group not that you aren’t my friends but if I do all together everyone else complains when a reply to all is done.
Danae said
Oh an Anzia I love the book. I am only on chapter 3 and I feel like I am getting a lot from it.
Himmiefan said
Annalaise – I’m so sorry I didn’t get to the chat last night. Bummer! My sister had a serious asthma attack and was put in the hospital, so I braved traffic and went to see her.
Are we chatting Saturday night?
Anzia – good to hear from you again! Please tell Nina we miss her!
Dizey – glad to hear your brother’s gone a couple of days without a seizure. He’s still in my prayers!
Now, if Lifetime wants even more shows that become hits, then they should look at a certain show called Blood Ties and maybe even promote it! Me thinks its got hit potential written all over it.
Oh yeah, my sister’s doing better! 🙂
DIZEY1 :-) said
Himmie, glad your sis is better. It must be Full Moon run off 😉 Crazy caca going around the last few days huh?
Thanks for the prayers God must be really busy with all of us 😀 But God loves Mercy and us !!
Annalaise duChat said
Hi Danea – Got the link. I’ll check it out this evening.
Himmie – Chat’s still on for Saturday 9:00pm est. See you then! Glad to hear you Sis is better. Family comes first!
Anzia – What part of Ohio are you from? Hang in there with the job.
Dizey – Excellent news! You’re in our prayers. Mel says Hi!
Maddie Mo said
Hello to all!!!
Dizey- glad your brother had another good night!!!!!I will keep praying for more.
I’m tired as hell today. Baby Maddie had me up all night last night, and I’m not really sure why just yet. She isn’t sick or anything. I think someone gave her too much cake icing at my nephews birthday party last night and she was all jacked up on sugar.
DIZEY1 :-) said
Ooooohh Maddie nothing worse than a baby strung out on sugar, as bad as caffeine(sp) 😦 thanks for all the prayers they must be working 0=)
Doc duChat, tell my new friend Mel I said :
Bonjour mon nouvel ami Melanie. Pouvez vous avoir l’amusement et apprécier la vie.
Danae said
Silly Maddie. Or more precisely silly person that fed her the icing.
DIZEY1 :-) said
testing 😛
lwildstar said
I don’t have time right now to catch up on the posts – its been one fo those days so I went out to lunch just to escape for awhile.
My Love, Hugs, and Prayers to all…..
Diz – i’m glad to hear your brother made it through another quiet night.
Danae – just my opinion – and only becasue my parents have done the same to me – say something – in the long run, at least for me, it made things better.
Had a great time at the chat last night – sorry I wasn’t more chatty or helpful thou…
Danae – I didn’t get your email – which address did you send it to?
I’ll check the AOL address tonight –
well back to the salt mines!
Danae said
I sent it to the verizon one. I know I changed it to that and you are part of my Blood Ties group.
Hey Diz where did you get your avatar picture? I like it very muchly. I want it.
lwildstar said
Danae – nope – no email at the AOL address either 😦
Madonna said
Hi all!
Dizey,
Glad Rob’s had some good nights. He deserves it. I’ll keep praying.
Himmiefan,
Good to hear from you. Happy that your sister is alright. There’s nothing worse than not being able to breathe. And I agree with you. Why isn’t Lifetime starting to promote Blood Ties? I’ll tell you why, they know from all of our letters and postcards that we, the faithful, are doing it for them. That however will not get us or them very far.
Hi Maddie Mo,
Hope you get some sleep tonight!
Danae,
I say talk to your parents about it. You don’t have to do it in a way that is confrontational. Just pull your mom aside or something and tell her that you can handle the truth and as their daughter and because you love them you deserve it.
I can’t check my email here at work so I’ll have to read your poem either tonight or tomorrow. Thanks for sending it.
I won’t have to work on Monday. We have deadlines every day so we have to stay here until everything that goes out on that day is done. Tomorrow we have to have all of Fridays and all of Mondays work done before we leave. I’m scheduled til 5 tomorrow so a good day today might mean the difference between getting off on time and getting off very late.
Danae said
I sent it again.
Danae said
Madonna do you get overtime pay?
Madonna said
I’m hourly, so yes, although it’s really not worth it.
Danae said
You don’t anything extra like time and a half? What a rip off.
Madonna said
It is time and a half, but again it really isn’t worth it. When I go on lunch I’ll tell you all the story of my company’s idea of Christmas bonuses.
Danae said
I can’t wait to hear this.
DIZEY1 :-) said
Hey Dani girl here’s the link to that beautiful face (my avatar) love this pic.
Madonna thanx so much 🙂
http://www.kyle-schmid.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=44&pos=0
Danae said
That isn’t it. Your avatar is in color this link is black and white and it looks a little different.
DIZEY1 :-) said
Ok this is waaayy trippy I changed my name pic and the new one is @ 10:17 , I just checked and the pic now is my Licking Henry pic 😉 I didn’t change it back, you think Henry’s trying to tell me something ? Ooh I hope so 😉
DIZEY1 :-) said
wierd it’s back now ok what gives ???? ( twilight zone tune plays in the background)
That is the same pic’ and it is in B & W
DIZEY1 :-) said
ok feeding time @ the zoo, catch ya’ when I get back
Danae said
It looks different to me. Why is yours like red? Am I the only one losing my mind here. I am not seeing a black and white pic for Dizey’s avatar.
Himmiefan said
Hey Dani. I’ve been catching up on posts, and I agree that you might want to say something to your parents. You can do it in a supportive way to let them know that you’re there for them.
BTW for Anne, Arrowyn, and other newbies, Danae and Dani are the same person.
Danae said
That’s me. I also go by Bryony and Danielle.
Maddie Mo said
Hello Diz– yes the stupid person that gave her the icing was her father. Who slept peacefully threw the night cause Maddie only wanted mommy and would scream until I would hold her. So, since he didn’t have to stay up with a wired baby I must come up with some other form of punishment for him.
Hey Madonna– How are you and BooBoo doing today ???
elizabeth said
Hey everyone – this is just a quick drive by. For some reason i am having to actually work today – yuk. I have a conference call coming up in a few minutes.
I am totally stoked right now. I actually was able to listen to a couple of the music videos with our favorite Vamp. I can’t download anything from youtube due to the company firewalls, but I did manage to get a couple that had different URL’s. It made me a very happy camper! 🙂
Anne – I checked out the Heart of Fire pics. Man, I love that episode and I had to close the site because I was drooling on my keyboard.
Maddie – I feel you. My son was sensitive to sugar and my In-Laws always insisted on giving him sweet stuff. I had many sleepless nights with him.
Gotta run, ladies. I’ll try to catch up later.
Maddie Mo said
Hey Dani, you should at least tell your mom you know what is going on. That way they can focus the energy they are spending trying to hide it from you on his treatment. I hope this round of treatments gives good results.
Lady Afrodyte said
Huge thunder storm here, finally! We really needed the rain and I won’t argue with seeing the really pretty light show.
I got coerced into writing a movie script, a real honest to God movie script. *headdesk*
I’ll be off and on this afternoon I have months and months of character research to do in oh…. about 2 days. I could kick the old script writer right now. He took my bad guy!!!!
*Grumbles and falls into a pile of comic books*
Danae said
People have told me I should do a screenplay and I just don’t know where to start.
lwildstar said
Dizey – mine did the goofy picture thing to me early this week – it changed then changed back on its own the changed back to the new one! gremlins in the system!
Danae – got the email – lovely work! sent you a message.
got to go – this was just a sneek in post!
Madonna said
Hey Lady A and Elizabeth!
Lady A,
How did you get suckered into writing a screenplay and why do you only have 2 days?
Maddie Mo,
I’m doing good. Boo-Boo, some days he’s OK and others not. Today he’s alright as far as I know.
Alright my Christmas bonus story as promised.
You have to work at my company for 5 years before you “QUALIFY” to get a Christmas bonus. When you get it they cut you a check for just enough so that after they take taxes out you get $50. They also give each manager petty cash to throw a Christmas party for their office. (Funny, we’ve never had one in my office.) The past two years my manager has went out and bought everyone $5 fast food gift cards to give to everyone. We only have 11 people here so that’s no big expense. Anyway about a month after Christmas we have to sign a paper from home office saying that we received that gift card for “tax purposes.”
Danae said
That is so totally bogus. Unfair. This year we are doing good on our budget so we might get 10 percent of our total salary as a bonus. For me that is $2340. I cannot wait man. I need a new car and I can get a new tattoo and go on all the trips I want. Ok maybe not all that stuff but combine what I have saved, what I will save and tax refund that will be a nice chunk of change.
Madonna said
Yeah, It especially sucks because Cox Enterprises is a Fortune 500 company.
Anne said
Elizabeth – glad you liked the Heart of Fire gallery.
Some of the pictures may look identical, but I believe Henry twitched an eyebrow or something 😉
DIZEY1 :-) said
Anne,
May I say in the nicest way *you suck* , I love the new pic by your name you celebrity girl you 🙂 I loved the Heart of Fire pic’s thanks for doing that we needed some newer pic’s. I have to ask and it is way fangirly…… did Kyle smell good and how did it feel to hug that hard body ?? Inquiring minds want to know and I guess I’m the only silly one who HAD to ask 😉
Danae said
I want to know what he smelled like.
Danae said
Buonasera bellas. It is time for me to go home and prepare for my date. Adam and I are going the Funny Bone. It is a comedy club.
Annalaise duChat said
Anne — You have no idea how envious I am, you lucky dog!
So who’s your fave? Dylan or Kyle? You look adorable with both of them!
Madonna said
Bye Danae,
Have fun and tell us all about it.
DIZEY1 :-) said
I reeeeeally want to know what he FELT like 😉 (hee hee hee) Yes I know I’m bad and I’m drawn that way 😀
Prtfvr where are you?? I miss you and you said you were my *Goomba* XOXOXOX
rifkind said
Another drive-by,
I am now waaay far behind, had to share this with you.
The APOD today is the blood red moon of the eclipse
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/
Lady Afrodyte said
“Lady A,
How did you get suckered into writing a screenplay and why do you only have 2 days?”
My fiancé and I are involved in a movie project. Last night we get a email telling us the writer just walked and took his script with him. I gave myself a deadline of 2 days to get a plot done so I would actually be motivated to work.
We were going to begin production in the next 2-3 weeks. Now we are back to the drawing board.
I guess my desire to be a screen writer has pressed this into existence. We’ve been researching and developing several plots to present to the producer next week.
When I close my eyes I see visions of spandex and capes… Damn!
Anne said
I look goofy with Kyle and wet with Dylan – but thank you for calling it adorable 😉
I have a bad sense of smell so unfortunately I can’t report on any smells, sorry. But I’m pretty sure I didn’t smell any onion rings – Kyle made that up.
Hugging Kyle felt …. very nice 🙂
Not a gram of fat on that boy.
They didn’t even have to call security or body guards to peel me off him either. I can act convincingly sane ….
Who’s my favorite?
You really expect me to choose?
I refuse!
But I can tell you that Kyle had more time to make an impression as I only saw Dylan for a few more seconds than it took to take the picture. He was not in the other scenes that I saw being filmed.
So you don’t think the gallery is too big?
I know it takes a bit for all the thumbnails to load, but I really like being able to see them all at once.
Yes, I suck …
elizabeth said
Anne – I must have missed the picture of you and Kyle. Geez, I am trying to be polite, but I am totally eaten alive with envy here. I am absolutely sure they would have needed security to peel me off the guy 😉 I wouldn’t even be able to pretend to be sane.
The gallery for Heart of Fire is great – don’t remove anything. I need a certain amount of time during the day to gaze longingly at my favorite Vamp and every little nuanced picture is needed for my *wink, wink* sanity 🙂
DIZEY1 :-) said
Anne,
No I like the gallery like that I wish they were all like yours. And I bet he’s a lean mean FINE machine 😉 his smile just tugs at my heart what can I say. Dylan’s got a beautiful smile too and I think he’s forgotten a little. Oh and you do not look goofy Happy maybe , goofy no 😉
Lady A need any help on that project, I’m cheap help 😀
Danae, Dani my girl sorry I missed your departure but have a great time and laugh your butt off 😎
Hey Rif, Very COOL pic’ 😎
Maddie Mo said
Well, I am off to pick up the little one. I’m sure she is all rested up since she gets to take naps during the day.
Madonna– that really sucks that your company treats you guys that way.
Anne– I am SOOOOO jealous of you. Oh to be able to hug that body of Kyle’s.
Good night girls. Be good or be good at it!!!
Anne said
I guess going to conventions was good practice – I am not completely dumbstruck when meeting an actor any more.
I have this trick: I pretend they are regular people – just slightly better looking than average ..
Me (in red) and Kyle, bottom of the page:
http://www.bloodtiescentral.com/set_visit.shtml
DIZEY1 :-) said
Ooohh girls I wonder when the GIFT will arrive , maybe it already has………..I hope he likes it, I know Cali will send us a thank you not 😉
DIZEY1 :-) said
UMmmm Anne,
Who pray tell was the other lady that had a preeeety good hold on Mr.Schmid?? Friend of yours?? She was holding on pretty tightly to my dude.
Anne said
Yes, Sybille is a friend of mine.
She’s not really into vampires – except GOOD vampires like Henry.
Kyle may have had something to do with it too …
Sybille is the one who does the captures for my episode galleries – mine would be smaller and have a Lifetime logo, so she’s earning her keep 😉
DIZEY1 :-) said
Ok well than I guess it’s cool that she was hugging him so tightly (lucky girls), and she’s doing a wonderful job. Tell Sybille hello from Beth in New Orleans.
Ok kidz I ‘m heading home and will catch ya’ll there
Himmiefan said
Anne – I just realized who you are!!!! I’ve been a little preoccupied this week and have only been scanning the posts. Wow! I’ve seen those pictures before and thought how lucky you are. Was Kyle nice?
Madonna – I couldn’t help but laugh. Sounds like your Christmas bonus should be an episode of The Office. Oh, the Ladies Day episode is on tonight if you guys haven’t seen it. It’s hilarious!
lwildstar said
Have fun Danae!
RE: holiday bonus – we get 2 days pay – which is equal to like $300 before taxes – so its noat really anything after….they use to give us $15 gift cards to the supermarket “to help with holiday purchases”! have any of them ever been food shopping! SO i guess the $$$ is a little better.
I am hoping to get to go to either a late lunch or early dinner with Paul tomorrow – I told him I was haveing a very stressed week and he said we should get together for lunch – I get off work at 3 and asked him if he could meet me then- I still waiting on an answer – if he says yes at least it would be a relaxig meal – rather than trying to rush an hour lunch! – IF he doesn’t have to go back to the office.
Anyway I am going to go get some dinner – and may I just say Anne – I AM SO JEALOUS!
Talk at you later!
lwildstar d ‘Nightwalker
elizabeth said
At least some of you get a bonus. This company barely gives raises; forget anything extra. At Christmas we sometimes get a pot luck with Management providing Ham and Turkey. Last year it was just desserts and we had to bring them. No, I didn’t bother to attend. The excuse – budget cuts. Gotta love that one.
elizabeth said
It is time for me to go home – Hallelujah! I actually had a mid year review with my boss (he called me on the phone) which turned out to be very flattering. And here I thought the guy didn’t know what I did 😉 He actually wants to have lunch with me next week. I don’t know whether to be worried or just glad for a free meal…..
Take care everyone. I hope to talk to all of you tomorrow.
Madonna said
Regarding Dylan’s card……
I plan on starting it tomorrow. So far the ideas we have are a bonfire where we burn that damned raincoat and donuts. I like both of those. Does anyone else want to suggest anything? Now’s the time.
Also if someone could write up a sentiments from all paragraph or poem like Danae’s and Anzia’s from Kyle’s card. That would be extremely helpful. Laurel? Ms. Gypsy? Anybody? Any help there would be greatly appreciated. I promise I’ll proofread and use spell check this time.
Also start submitting your greetings to me. You all have my email. Margaret, I got yours the other night.
Himmiefan,
I’ve laughed about that bonus dozens of times now. What really gets me is the $5 gift cards that we have to count as taxable income. Basically my boss is saying….”I know I’ve made you all work 60 hours this week, so here, to make it up to you, you guys go buy yourselves a soda at Wendy’s.
Ms. Gypsy,
Are you feeling any better?
Elizabeth,
Maybe your boss wants to promote you and wants to tell you in person.
lwildstar,
I hope your lunch/dinner plans work out with Paul tomorrow.
Anzia,
Didn’t you tell me waaayyyy back when I first started posting here that your from Lima, OH?
Alright ladies, I think I’m going to go get something to eat and relax awhile. Talk to y’all later or in the morning.
Laurel said
Just thought I’d check in. 😎
I have at least read up to this point in the posts. It looks like lots of us are getting caught up in the real world.
I am already immersed in school activities with the girls, and get to go watch a marching band practice session in the 90` heat in about an hour. My daughter is the trumpet section leader and is quite the drill-sargent on the field. She sure makes all those high school boys jump when she gives the orders. lol
Anne – I too am jealous! I also appreciate you sharing the fun with us. Kyle seems much more real after reading and looking at your posting. Sounds like the kind of guy I hope my daughter can meet some day.
He would make a “wicked awesome” son-in-law! Bwahahahaha
(sigh) I really feel old when I say stuff like that.
Annalaise duChat said
Too bad guys. I have the best boss in the world and you can’t have him.
He knows I blog all day and as long as I get my work done he doesn’t care. He gives me bonuses and concert tickets, and at Christmas time he goes out and hand picks several really nice gifts out for me & takes me out to lunch. He even pays attention when I’m rattling on all day so he knows exactly what I will like.
He Listens to me yak about my book and Blood Ties and you guys and even tried watching Blood Ties when I raved about it.
He bought me a Macintosh computer and let me pay him pack slowly with payroll deductions for and didn’t charge any interest and supplied me with all the Professional Graphic arts programs so I can work at home if I need to. He let’s me use any of the office equipment whenever I need it for freelancing and has even been known to let work on my own stuff in the office if we’re slow.
When my daughter was little, she had asthma and when she was sick he let me bring her to work with me and stay in the back room, and let me bring in a TV for her.
And he’s a really nice guy. (He’s also a single widower 55 yrs-old and nice looking if anyone’s interested.) LOL
Are ya jealous now?
nightwalker01 said
Hope everyone is feeling better, doing better…..with so much going on in everyones lives right now, I wish we were all closer…sigh….
just checking in before bed – I got no sleep last night…first I was up with the chat til 11pm – I’m not a night person…but it was fun 🙂
then something woke me up around 1am – I couldn’t figure out what it was…so you know the little “I’m up now” trip to the lu….and back to bed – as soon as I got back to the bedroom I could smell this “stentch” of something hot like melting plastic….OH F’in great!” these houses have aluminum wiring – not a good thing …so I go get this little laser thermometer my dad gave me – the thing is so cool – you point the laser gun and it tells you how hot the target is (What do yo think Kyle would measure?) sorry…..So I’m walking around testing all the sockets and light switches – nothing – then I for no reason I pointed it at the ceiling fan – it registered 105! OMG I turned it off and started dismanteling it (yes at 1am ) to check for melted wires – in which case I would have to trip the breaker to the upstairs cutting off the power….Thank goodness no melted wires…so all night I was restless wondering about it – every once in a while getting up and checking to make sure the temp was coming down…..At least I feel safe in knowing “someone” is watching out over me – what would have happened if I hadn’t woken up….spooky hu? (side note – I’m having the wiring worked on in November)
So thats how my day started…..I had lunch with Robin – Pauls co worker – she was very encoureging – she thinks I should be come a romance novelist (I had this little vison of Henry – book version- pop into my head!) she is so funny! we spent most of lunch discussing how stuborn and cluless men are!
well I’m off to bed now – hope you all have a good night……
nightwalker01 said
Annalaise – yes.
ok I posted this story and it went poof so lets start again…
I got no sleep last night – I was up till 11 with the chat and I’m not a night person – well sometime around 1am something woke me up – couldn’t figure out what so I took that little “i’m up now” trip to the lu….and went back to bed – well as soon as I got back to the bedroom I could smell this “stentch” like hot plastic…I’m thinking “O F’in great!” these houses have aluminum wiring – not good – so I went and got this laser thermometer that my dad gave me – you point the laser gun and it tells you the temperature of the target (What do you thing Henry would register!) so I tested the sockets and light switches – nothing – then for no reason I pointed it at the celing fan – it registered 105! OMG so I turne dit off and started dismanteling it to see if there were melted wires, if there were I was going to trip the breaker to the up stairs and cut the powere – well no melted wires, thank goodness…so all night I kept getting up to checkt o make sure the temp was going down…..(Dad will look at it over the weekend and I am having the wiring worked on in November)……so what would have happened if I hadn’t woken up? spooky hu?…its nice to know “someones” watching over me!
Well I’m off to bed now – I will let you know if anything happens tomorrow – thanks for the thoughts……
lwildstar said
Annalaise – yes.
ok I posted this story and it went poof so lets start again…
I got no sleep last night – I was up till 11 with the chat and I’m not a night person – well sometime around 1am something woke me up – couldn’t figure out what so I took that little “i’m up now” trip to the lu….and went back to bed – well as soon as I got back to the bedroom I could smell this “stentch” like hot plastic…I’m thinking “O F’in great!” these houses have aluminum wiring – not good – so I went and got this laser thermometer that my dad gave me – you point the laser gun and it tells you the temperature of the target (What do you thing Henry would register!) so I tested the sockets and light switches – nothing – then for no reason I pointed it at the celing fan – it registered 105! OMG so I turne dit off and started dismanteling it to see if there were melted wires, if there were I was going to trip the breaker to the up stairs and cut the powere – well no melted wires, thank goodness…so all night I kept getting up to checkt o make sure the temp was going down…..(Dad will look at it over the weekend and I am having the wiring worked on in November)……so what would have happened if I hadn’t woken up? spooky hu?…its nice to know “someones” watching over me!
Well I’m off to bed now – I will let you know if anything happens tomorrow – thanks for the thoughts……
lwildstar said
the blog ate my post! well if it ever shows up in triplicat I appoligize! Ihad a good story too.
lwildstar said
tried to repost it and it says its already here – so lets see what happens – I’m annoyed now…
I got no sleep last night – I was up till 11 with the chat and I’m not a night person – well sometime around 1am something woke me up – couldn’t figure out what so I took that little “i’m up now” trip to the lu….and went back to bed – well as soon as I got back to the bedroom I could smell this “stentch” like hot plastic…I’m thinking “O F’in great!” these houses have aluminum wiring – not good – so I went and got this laser thermometer that my dad gave me – you point the laser gun and it tells you the temperature of the target (What do you thing Henry would register!) so I tested the sockets and light switches – nothing – then for no reason I pointed it at the celing fan – it registered 105! OMG so I turne dit off and started dismanteling it to see if there were melted wires, if there were I was going to trip the breaker to the up stairs and cut the powere – well no melted wires, thank goodness…so all night I kept getting up to checkt o make sure the temp was going down…..(Dad will look at it over the weekend and I am having the wiring worked on in November)……so what would have happened if I hadn’t woken up? spooky hu?…its nice to know “someones” watching over me!
Well I’m off to bed now – I will let you know if anything happens tomorrow – thanks for the thoughts……
nightwalker01 said
tried to repost it and it says its already here – so lets see what happens – I’m annoyed now…
I got no sleep last night – I was up till 11 with the chat and I’m not a night person – well sometime around 1am something woke me up – couldn’t figure out what so I took that little “i’m up now” trip to the lu….and went back to bed – well as soon as I got back to the bedroom I could smell this “stentch” like hot plastic…I’m thinking “O F’in great!” these houses have aluminum wiring – not good – so I went and got this laser thermometer that my dad gave me – you point the laser gun and it tells you the temperature of the target (What do you thing Henry would register!) so I tested the sockets and light switches – nothing – then for no reason I pointed it at the celing fan – it registered 105! OMG so I turne dit off and started dismanteling it to see if there were melted wires, if there were I was going to trip the breaker to the up stairs and cut the powere – well no melted wires, thank goodness…so all night I kept getting up to checkt o make sure the temp was going down…..(Dad will look at it over the weekend and I am having the wiring worked on in November)……so what would have happened if I hadn’t woken up? spooky hu?…its nice to know “someones” watching over me!
Well I’m off to bed now – I will let you know if anything happens tomorrow – thanks for the thoughts……
nightwalker01 said
tried to repost it and it says its already here – so lets see what happens – I’m annoyed now…
nightwalker01 said
tried to repost it and it says its already here – so lets see what happens – I’m annoyed now…
I got no sleep last night – I was up till 11 with the chat and I’m not a night person – well sometime around 1am something woke me up – couldn’t figure out what so I took that little “i’m up now” trip to the lu….and went back to bed – well as soon as I got back to the bedroom I could smell this “stentch” like hot plastic…I’m thinking “O F’in great!” these houses have aluminum wiring – not good – so I went and got this laser thermometer that my dad gave me – you point the laser gun and it tells you the temperature of the target (What do you thing Henry would register!)
nightwalker01 said
ok I give up it wont let me post it! I’m going to bed!
lwildstar said
I’ll try again tomorrow morning! the blog hates me tonight!
msgypsy said
Bloggerini, I’m not even gonna TRY to get caught up! I’ve been stopping on the way home for a couple of miles hike every night (except last night when I met a friend for dinner and we talked SCA for a few hours.) I’ll be starting a new topic tomorrow sometime, but in the meantime I’m hot and sweaty and poor Faraday (who doesn’t like heat any more than I do) was a pukey pup on my BED!!! so now I have to spot clean the dry-clean-only bedspread and the puffy mattress cover, hopefully regaining my appetite after I shower, and then maybe eat, and then hit the pillow. It’s been a bad, bad week…If there’s anything important I need to know, will someone please send it to my work email? (I know Laurel has it, so send it to her to forward, I guess) because I just don’t have time to find it. Sorry. I’m not trying to be an uninterested blog mistress. I just can’t stop long enough to read through the whole blog right now. I still love you all!
AlisaSG said
awww, not fair! we’ve got a big FAT thunderboomer out here — so I have to power the computer off for a while.. 😦
DIZEY1 :-) said
Hi ya’ll just checking in took Robbie to the Saints game, we had a good time and he needed something fun to do. We won BTW 7-0 over Miami, pre-season but my boss gave me the tickets and I took him up on them. 😀
Wildstalker, trouble posting ?? 😉 Sorry you had problems sleeping last night, nothing worse than broken sleep.
Madonna I’ll work on something nice for Dylan and will email it to you .
Laurel, hi good for the band girl, did you say she’s bossy ? 😉 Love ya’ and sorry no Kyle for in-law sista’ 😛
Well ya’ll I’m beat and will chat with ya’ tomorrow.
XOXOXOXOXOXOX
Reves doux d’Henri
Je t’aime tous mes amis
Elisabet
Lady Afrodyte said
My brain is fried and it seems most of you have called it a night.
Sweet dreams everyone!
Gods I need food….
Anzia said
Annalaise- Madonna is right. I’m from Lima Ohio, but my parent moved to Chillicothe not that long ago
Madonna- HOW DID YOU REMEMBER THAT!?
Speaking of bosses. I haven’t met my supervisor yet. I’ve met the guy in charge of my entire division (very intimidating man for being so short) but not my direct boss. Family emergency called her away for over a week. DUDE! they’re putting us out on the floor starting tomorrow! AAHHHH! No more safety of the training room! I won’t even be able to sit at my assigned cubicle. They don’t have the computers up and running for us new hires yet. Which is really annoying and actually makes me very angry. They’ve so totally slacked on the technology for us. We JUST got to take quizes that we were supposed to take 2 weeks ago today! It’s SOOO stupid. They didn’t have ANYTHING ready for us when we started. I understand that they moved building but it’s rather pathetic that half of our class couldn’t get into a basic program that EVERY person in the Credit department has to go into at least once a day.
– sorry, rant over-
I got a really creepy call today. This customer was really far past due on his/her account and this person picked up the phone. The only thing said was, “i’m sorry, i’m sorry” before the phone was hung up. The tone of voice used was extremely depressed. It really sounded like the person was at the end of his/her rope. I got the distinct impression that something BAD was gonna happen to that person or with that person…CREEPY! I almost wanted to scream “NO! WE CAN TALK”…
I brought in over $4,000 today. up from $3,900 yesterday (DUDE!) I only had 29 promises to pay today too! YAY me! bringing in the big bucks. I just need to get my work time down to 12% (i’m at 22%) and bring my promises up. We’re supposed ot have 8/9 an hour and I only have about 4. 😦
okay, so i’m tired…going to go to bed and HOPEFULLY get rid of my incredilby sore shoulders and headache. Ooo…*looks around* Emmanuel….I could use a massage…*yells* Emmanuel! Stop pruning the Thyme and come prune m-er…*in a softer voice* give me a massage please!
laurel said
Well, the high school band is going to be great this year. My daughter won the contest for following all the marching instructions in a game they play. It is a bit like simon-says and the director calls out orders faster and faster until mistakes eliminate all but one. One of her own section was the runner up – someone she trained this week. Nice. I am a little proud, can you tell?
Diz – I am so glad you and Rob and the family had a great time at the game!
More blessings are surely coming your way.
Love ya’.
Gypsy – I sent you an e-mail. I miss you! Are you going to the Shrewsbury Ren-fair? I may be.
Moonbeam – are you out there? I will call you if I have to!
Elizabeth and Arrowyn – Any one up for lunch on this end of the county next week?
Fellow writers – I will send out an e-mail to all here with my blog site. I would love to talk plots and problems with any and all of you. Even if you don’t write, you know what you like to read and that is valuable information.
See you in the morning. :-p
Margaret said
Got this on my Yahoo Alerts:
ABC isn’t kicking off their new shows until September 24th.
The most anticipated week in Television kicks off September 24th! Get ready for the debut of hotly anticipated new shows like Pushing Daisies, Dirty Sexy Money, Private Practice, Big Shots and more, as well as the return of favorites like Grey’s Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Brothers & Sisters and Ugly Betty! Go to ABC.com now for a sneak preview of our hottest Fall season yet!
So maybe there’s hope yet for our beloved Blood Ties. One thing for sure, Lifetime is going to string us along as soon as possible.
lwildstar said
Yeah! I see the post finally posted – several times – sorry!
Oh well.
Laurel – looking forward to discussing writing, will you be joining the chat tomorrow night? At Rifkinds suggestion I went to Wikipedia and downloaded some stuff on Portland and Seatle to get started.
thanks Rifkind – I also got some good historical stuff on the Ukrain – a really big help!
Well we have ashort day to day and I need to get started! I will post this evening and let you know if I get to see Paul today or not…….
If you don’t hear from me – don’t get your hopes up- its only becasue we are to have thunderstorms tonight and I won’t be on the computer….. 😉
Blood Drinker aka Vampgrl said
http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/2007/07/emily-posts-guide-to-save-our-show.html
Hey, don’t know if you guys saw this before or not, but I figured it was worth a second look if you did.
So…did I miss anything? Anything BT important? 🙂
Annalaise duChat said
Anzia — I’ve actually been to Chillicothe. I was on this Tecumseh kick and my husband and I went down to see the outdoor drama. It was pretty fascinating.
http://www.tecumsehdrama.com/
DebS said
Hey all,
Just a quick drive by posting before a staff meeting. I miss you all!! I am still sick…I have now lost my voice. At least I can still tlak to you all without needing it. 🙂
Spent last night on the couch watching BT cause I couldn’t do much else. Great excuse to ignore housework.
Hope everyone is doing well!!!
Danae said
Buongiorno bellas. I’m here. Boss has finally caught on to what I am doing online. I am totally bummed. See you at lunch.
Diz I am glad Rob got to go to the game. Was it fun? How did he do last night?
Annalaise duChat said
….and speaking of Tecumseh, did you know this?
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/Tecumseh.html
Maddie Mo said
Good Morning!!!
Danae– how was the date last night???
Deb S – sorry you aren’t feeling well. Hope you get better soon!!
Anzia said
Annalaise- i’ve been to chillicothe twice I believe. I don’t go home much (as you can tell by the twice ^_^). I really have no idea what’s all down there historically. I do know it was one of (if not THE) first capitals of Ohio.
*giggles* I barely have time to keep up w/this blog! how am I gonna do two! :0) I don’t think I’m ever gonna get used to working 2nd shift. 😦
Himmiefan said
Morning everybody!
Anzia – sounds like someone needs to go in and get things organized in your area. One of my pet peeves in the work world is not giving people enough training or resources to do their jobs well. Also, I think that call you had is just the beginning of some strange interactions. Maybe you’ve been put in this job in order to send up some prayers for people like this.
Wildstar – I sympathize with your trouble posting, but the multiple posts did give me something to smile about. 🙂 Oh, glad your house wasn’t on fire!
Ms Gypsy – poor puppy (and poor you!). Hope he gets better soon. I still have to go back and watch the video of your performance.
Annalaise – um, where do you work? I think we alll need to send in resumes!
Well folks, they’re dismissing us at noon today! Woo hoo!!
Himmiefan said
Deb – hope you feel better soon! Watch some BT, and you’ll feel better.
DIZEY1 :-) said
Buongiorno bellas, Bonjour Mes Amis 😀
How is everyone? Happy Friday ! Danae Robbie and I did have a good time and so far no seizures YEAHHHHH !! Oh and we won, of course 😉
DebS, sorry to hear or not hear your voice. Stress can make that happen also. I used to years ago lose my voice from time to time and some of that was from big time partying but stress can certainly contribute. Hope you feel better soon. A little honey and lemon makes it feel better.
**Z** You go girl!! glad you are doing so well collecting. Not that I’m surprised you are a very smart cookie 😀
elizabeth said
Iwildstr – I’m glad there was nothing horribly wrong at your home and I can so relate to staying up half the night worrying that your fan wouldn’t catch on fire. Why is it that little things we wouldn’t think too much about during the day take on major importance in the middle of the night when we can’t do a lot about them? That probably explains some of the insomnia I deal with, huh?
annalaise -you are very lucky with the boss you have. They are few and far between.
DebS- i hope you get to feeling better soon.
Msgypsy – How is Faraday doing today? I think it is supposed to be another hot day today – so take care.
Laurel – Hey lady, I am always up for lunch! 🙂 If Arrowyn can make it too I can certainly drive closer to where the two of you work and meet you.
Moonbeam – I just want to say “hi” if you are lurking out there. I know you are busy with school starting.
Rifkind said
Morning Blogkin!
I am finally caught up with the blog…
Hello Anne,
Welcome to the family!
I have been away for a while… so I know that I am late to the welcome party.
I’m Rifkind. I live in Minneapolis, MN. I work in IT and have done some work with web pages too. I’m part of the BT blog writers group.
I love your web pages. Thanks for sharing your visit to the BT set.
Danae said
Hi ladies. The date was great. We had a good time. I have to say I really like him so if we aren’t meant to be a couple we could at least be friends. I liked to comedy club. We laughed our asses off. I think I did more then Adam though.
I am glad that there was no melted wires wildstar. I am terrified of fires.
Diz I am so glad that there were three nights with no seizures. Let me know how it goes at the doctors.
Is the writers chat tomorrow at 9 at the Bloody Ford?
rifkind said
Yeah Claire!
I’m glad that the ‘evil’ landlord, figured out that he’d better give you back your deposit. Wonder what made him see the light.. camera/pictures/ witnesses??? LOL anyway, I’m glad that you didn’t have to fight him in court and wait for the money. It sounds like the check arrived at the perfect time!
laurel said
Egad! I just go an e-mail from Maddie Mo informing me that my e-mail about the writers’ blog went to exactly two people!
Oh, the shame of it all. (hangs head) I have got to learn to use this thing the right way.
The good news is – I hijacked someone’s incoming message and hit “reply all” in an effort to get my little info blurb out. If you get it would you please let me know – either here or there, or by e-mail even.
lwildstar – we really have a connection about the wiring thing. I am a life long pyrophobic! I used to get up in the night and have to check every plug-in, every appliance, touch all the switches in the “fuse box” and look in the attic. It drove my family crazy because our hardwood floors would creak as I crept up and down the hallway, sometimes it was every single night for weeks. I am better now, but have bad spells when I am stressed or depressed.
Anne – I’m one of the lucky ones in the Portland, OR area. I am a quilting instructor – specializing in wearable art. I am currently doing all the registration and ticketing for a regional quilting expo, which is coming up in four weeks.
I am a want-to-be writer, so I am spending a lot of time researching, writing and editing. I found BT while trying to figure out how to use my Comcast On-Demand service. I knew there had to be something out there worth watching – and see what I found! btw – I love your web pages, too! I have lost many an hour perusing them, over and over and over. lol
rifkind said
Danielle,
Glad to hear that your date went well. Adam sounds like a really nice guy.
I’m sorry to hear about your Dad’s cancer returning.
I am no doctor, but I think that you really need to talk to your Father’s doctor about your concerns about being ‘near’ him and it causing you problems with sterility. That shouldn’t be the case!
The radiation that HE has been given, should not be a problem for you!
Even if he had radiation pellets placed at the cancer site, they are made to cause spot radiation, and should not be exiting his body and being any risk to you.
I went online and tried to find some info on this.. and basically it says that you NEED to talk to his doctor about any risk to YOU.. unless you are currently pregnant…
Sorry folks for the long post, but it is important to NOT propagate innacurate information.
Here’s the link and the important part of the doctor’s post;
(((( H U G S }}}} – Rifkind
http://hps.org/hpspublications/articles/pregnancyandradiationexposureinfosheet.html
Family Members or Friends Administered Radioactive Materials for Diagnosis or Therapy
If a family member or friend has been administered radioactive materials for diagnosis or therapy, they will contain some residual radioactivity when they leave the facility. After a diagnostic procedure, they will be allowed to leave immediately unless there are other reasons for which they need to be hospitalized. In these cases, they have been administered a small amount of radioactive materials—only enough to successfully perform the procedure. There are no special concerns about interacting with them.
It might be different, however, if the person has received radioactive material for a therapy procedure. In some cases, they might have to stay in the hospital for a few days because they received quite a bit of radioactivity. Even when they are allowed to go home, the amount of radioactivity they still have inside them will be much less but, most often, more than they would have with a diagnostic procedure. Depending on when the patient is allowed to leave and how much radioactivity was administered, there may or may not be any special precautions. In cases where additional guidelines are needed, the patient is given instructions from their healthcare provider regarding extra precautions to be taken. Some of these precautions might include limiting time around children or someone who is pregnant. If you are a family member, you can discuss these directly with the physician. If it was a friend who underwent the procedure, they would have received the information so you can discuss your concerns with them.
Maddie Mo said
Danae– Glad to hear the date went well…
Dizey– Very glad to hear about another night without seizures…
Danae said
Thanks for the article on the radiation. They even told my mom that her and Amber had to stay away. They slept in the popup that night.
rifkind said
Danae,
Is your Mom keeping her distance,, NOW?
Or was that back when he first had the cancer?
This has to be very scary for you. Please talk to your Mom. You shouldn’t have to guess what is gong on. We have great imaginations, and can think of lots of terrible situations… so get the REAL facts.. that should be better.
-Rifkind
Madonna said
Hi guys,
Just a quick drive by for me. Things are absolutely crazy here at work today.
So no more suggestions for Dylan’s card?
Anzia,
I dunno….. Good memory I guess?
Dizey,
YAAAAYYYY!!!!! No siezures!
BTW….Thank you for volunteering. Just type it on the blog or email it to me. I’ll get it either way.
Danae,
Glad your date went well. How did your boss find out?
DebS, Arrowyn,
I hope you guys feel better soon.
Ms. Gypsy,
I hope you and Faraday are both doing better.
Annalaise,
Regarding your work and your boss….. Here’s a big raspberry to you! LUCKY!
(Oh yeah Dizey, Lady A, I got our makeup in last night. Meet y’all at the airport to take off to Toronto tomorrow.)
Madonna said
Claire,
This is a story aired on the TV station in my building. I thought you might appreciate it. The rest of y’all might like it too.
http://www.wxix.com/Global/story.asp?s=7004964
Danae said
Rifkind-Yes this last time I came to the conclusion that her and Amber had to stay away. I am not sure why she has to stay away. It all seems so ridiculous to me.
Madonna-I have no idea how he found out. It sucks. I was itching to come on all morning. I can’t believe I actually managed to stay away. I totally love the burning coat and donuts. Maybe add something with Chinese and beer.
Danae said
Well lunch is over so I have to go. I will come on just before I leave.
Madonna said
Oh Yeah Danae,
I believe the chat is indeed scheduled for 9pm tomorrow.
elizabeth said
I am so restless today 😦 I can’t seem to concentrate on anything for very long.
I also have a few aches and pains today from Karate class last night. I was sparing with this young kid that I swear could not possibly find a way to be more annoying than he already is and he was letting his frustration out by not pulling his kicks and punches like he was supposed to. I took a couple of pretty good hits to my elbow and my knee. Do you know how hard it was to remain calm and not deck the little **insert nasty word here of your choice**? Even Sensai was getting frustrated with this kid.
lwildstar said
Just a drive by –
So happy your date went well Danae
My lunch with Paul was uneventful 😦 but he did promis at least one more lunch/dinner? before he leaves – I did get him to talk more this time, but not about himself….
ok since I’m only here another 90 miunutes I guess I should work – talk at you when I get home!
DIZEY1 :-) said
Dani Girl , so glad the date was fun !! YaYyyyy for you.
Wildstalker, you lucky dawg!! I wish I was getting off early 😉
Ok where are Prtfvr, Tango, my Claire là où êtes vous que mes friends.You sont manqués terriblement et je désire ardemment pour votre compagnie.
Elizabeth evidentally I also am ancy, bored out of my gord 😀 I wish I were playing 😛
DebS said
Thanks for all the well wishes. I plan to go home right after work and sleep all afternoon and into the night.
lwildstar-I am not sure what happened with your fan…but I am glad nothing caught on fire.
Last night one of our residence halls was struck by lightening, and it fried the fire alarm system. We had to patrol every half hour to make sure that nothing caught on fire. Crazy!
Danae-I am so glad that your dates with Adam are going so well. Do you think there is a future? I hope so, he sounds like a great guy.
I am finding it hard to concentrate as well today…between being sick, tired, and hitting my head on a metal cover thingy (long story) at lunch…I think it is time for me to go home. 🙂
Madonna said
So does anyone have any plans for the 3 day weekend?
Blood Drinker aka Vampgrl said
DebS said,
August 31, 2007 @ 10:45 am
I am finding it hard to concentrate as well today…between being sick, tired, and hitting my head on a metal cover thingy (long story) at lunch…I think it is time for me to go home.
Ugh. I SO feel your pain. I can’t concentrate today either, what with my tooth acting up again today. It started last night, really bad for some reason. And I figured I could get away with not putting ambesol on it before I went to bed. Dumb ass. It’s so bad today I could hardly even eat lunch. Why? Why always on a Friday? Why????!!! I pretty much can’t eat on either side right now, what with one bad tooth on one side and the cracked one on the other. With the pain I can’t tell if it’s the Wisdom tooth, the molar or both. WHY?! I swear, my life totally SUCKS!!! *sob* I need a hug. At this point, not even the Ecedrin are helping….
Whoever has Henry, send him my way…right the Hell now. 😦
Oh and Annalaise! Kudos for putting that Kyle pic up on your site. YOU RULE!!!
And I caught on scrolling through the posts that Army Wives got renewed for another season. SO don’t get me started on that. Grrrr….someone hold me back before I start breaking some heads….
*sigh* I so want to go home….I thought about it, but then I wouldn’t get paid for Monday…and that would majorly suck…. 😦
DebS said
Vampgirl-Ouch toothaches are the worse. I had three of my wisdom teeth taken out during the first week of August. I was out of work for a week, and then I continued to have pain for the next few weeks.
As for what I am doing this weekend…sleeping, sleeping, sleeping. And I have to work on Monday. 😦
I think I am starting to sound like a one person pity party.
rifkind said
For those of you wanting to read my book…
I ummmm … updated the Title page with an image of how I imagine the Egyptian God Ra to look…
Hey, just because the story isn’t chick-lit, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have HOT guys in it! Hee hee!
I just got some feedback from my brother… he said that part-1 is pretty heavy… but that the follow-on sections are smoother and easier to read…
so try to get past 1.1, pretty please… 😉
and Brad… umm Ra, shows up in chapter 3!
-Rifkind
elizabeth said
Vampgirl – ((((Hug)))). I sorry you have a toothache and having a hard time right now. I have to admit to grinning a little over not using Ambesol before you went to bed. Been there, done that. Why in the world do we think we can delay taking aspiring for a headache or taking care of a toothache before we go to bed??
Madonna said
Well, I’m not going to get off on time today. Oh well.
Vampgrl,
Dear, it sounds like you need to make an appointment with the dentist. You’ll probably feel much better afterward.
Man the cosmos is really screwing with all of us right now isn’t it?
Chin up girls….. Things won’t stay bad forever. Just keep a positive outlook. If no medicine or words help what ails you think about this. Just 42 days til new Henry. So cheer up and don’t make me break into song. I promise it won’t be pretty.
As for me I have to go deal with the bad vet again tomorrow. We’ve promised him we’d see what Boo-Boo’s blood test results look like before we went to the specialist. (Will someone come and bail me out of jail if need be?) JK…. LOL!!!
Maddie Mo said
rifkind–haven’t had a chance to read the book yet, but checked out your cover. OMG. You know for some reason I didn’t seem to mind when the hubby wanted to watch that movie, and it was because of moments like the one you have captured there. one more time OMG!!!
Maddie Mo said
Madonna, good luck with the vet tomorrow and if you need bailed out just call. I’d be glad to drive down and get ya out.
Madonna said
Maddie Mo,
Thanks. I was just kidding of course. Hopefully it won’t come to anything like that. I can get pretty testy when it comes to my baby.
rifkind said
If I were casting the movie version of the book,
Brad would be cast as Ra.. oh Yeah!
Danae said
Madonna-I will be right down if need be but remember a good friend will bail you out but a best friend will be sitting right next to you.
Vampgrl-Take care of that tooth.
I will talk to you guys later. Let me tell you it sucks to not be able to come on here. I wish my boss didn’t care as long as I got my work done. Ciao!
Madonna said
Awww. Thank you Danae! That means a lot.
If it makes you feel any better, I’m going to have to start watching how often I sneak on here too. I haven’t been caught yet but still…..
DIZEY1 :-) said
Hey my chix!!!
Vampgrl, sorry about the tooth or teeth, bad news and waiting not making it better 😦 You need to get that checked out and soon. Feel better and hugs and Henry should comfort you tonight 😉
Danae, Maddie Mo, Madonna did ya’ll say Jail Break 😉 😎 I’ll be there, any of you ever been printed before?? inquiring minds and all. Good luck with the little Booboo tomorrow, I hope the Vet’s got some kind of answer for you.
Rif baby where’s the site ?? I need some Ra.
Madonna said
Printed? Me? No, I’m a good girl.
DebS said
45 minutes and then I can go home. I have a 3 page to-do list and absolutely no motivation to get stuff done. I really want to be at home curled up on my couch, under a blanket with some oreos watching tv. Anyone else?
Madonna said
DebS,
Sounds like heaven to me, but I’m realistic enough to know it’s not going to happen. Hope you feel better.
elizabeth said
I have a meeting coming up and then I am bailing outta here for the weekend – woo hoo 🙂
Rifkind – I agree with Diz – where can I catch a glimpse of this cover you all are talking about? Inquiring minds ya know….
Madonna – I have never been jailed, but you can count me in if you need a cohort 😉 I’m sure the cell might get a little crowded with all of us…but…hey, any excuse to party, right? 🙂 and, if we take care of the bad vet in the process; even better.
Everyone- have a safe and happy holiday weekend. I’ll will try to catch up on Tuesday.
Blood Drinker aka Vampgrl said
Madonna said,
August 31, 2007 @ 12:42 pm
Well, I’m not going to get off on time today. Oh well.
Vampgrl,
Dear, it sounds like you need to make an appointment with the dentist. You’ll probably feel much better afterward
Chhyyyeeahhh….right…I’ve been avoiding going to the dentist for…oh…I don’t know….over 2 years now. *ducks* It just seems like there’s always so much other crapola going on in my life. Plus I’m totally terrified of the dentist and you’d have to drag me there kicking and screaming.
I”ll see how the next couple of weeks go though. If it doesn’t calm down a bit, I”ll definately have to go. 😦
Maddie Mo said
Diz– Printed??? unfortunately yes. I got into a fight once with a girl in a bar over a guy. Stupid I know but we both went to jail over it. It was one of those drunk ” get your hands off my man” kind of things. I was 22 yrs old
Lady Afrodyte said
Afternoon ladies!
It is so humid here that I can’t go outside. I tried to go for a walk last night and would up almost hyperventilating. The air is just too thick!!!
But I am willing to risk going out to see Halloween. I know, I know. It’s just another remake of a classic, but I have been watching Mr. Zombie’s progress on the film since the script stage… He’s really devoted to keeping it as true to the original concept as possible. Not to mention I could really use a good horror movie right now.
I hope those of you who have a three day weekend get to relax and hang out with your loved ones.
Take care everyone!
Maddie Mo said
Okay I am out of here for the weekend. Everyone have a fun holiday and be safe. Dizey- I hope your bro gets good news from the DR today. Madonna- I hope the vet can give you some good news or hope too. Keep me posted and I’m just up in St. Louis if you need the bail money 🙂
lwildstar said
oooo – tooth aches are the worst…
Well I no longer have Henry – did he go back to Diz?
Debs – how scary! I’m glad no one was hurt and there were no fires.
Fire is one of my biggest fears – I can’t wait til dad & mom get home from their romantic get away (they went to the beach) dads going to have to check that fan for me – I bet it will need replaced – ah the joys of homeownership! Because of the aluminum wiring I have a tendancy to check and recheck the house before I go out and if I’m going away, like on a vaca – I worry the house will burn down while I;m gone…I can’t wait til November when they come do the work!!!!
Calire – Im glad the jerk finally did the right thing and sent the money
Well as I said lunch with Paul was uneventfull – but he was a chatty thing today – lunch was my treat and I told him to pick where and he wouldn’t becasue he chose last time – and wouldn’t you know the the place I picked was CLOSED! so we had to go someplace else – I was n’t sure we were ever going to get served…Paul kept asking for bread and by the time the food arrived he was too full to eat! He did admit he is having the same “spilt brain” syndrome I am having trying to do his job, find a replacement and train the person who replaced his friend that quit – plus even on his days off he is still waking up at 3:30 (he now has a two hour commute) and once he is up he starts thinking and is now having anxiety attacks – so we commiserated (sp?) on that for awhile…it surprised me that he revealed that to me…but I guess that shows a level of trust……………i’m going to miss him 😦
Well since I got an extra couple of hours of free time today – I think I am going to go do some writing…and maybe take a nap!
Talk at you later!
lwildstar said
well the blog ate another post and I’m not going through what I did last night and repost so – I’ll talk at you later!
I’m telling you the blog is mad at me!
Lady Afrodyte said
I don’t know why the blog is eating your posts…
Maybe you are just too yummy!
Haha! Hopefully someone will figure out whats wrong with it.
DIZEY1 :-) said
Bye Maddie Mo, love ya! A girl like me you party animal!! I hope you won the guy 😉 Have a great weekend and enjoy the holiday.
Oh Madonna BTW glad the paints came in and I’m the gopher for you ! I’d love to have to paint that body……YUMMMMMMM
Well I’ll catch ya’ll when I get home !
Madonna said
Alright⁄! Only 45 minutes late getting out of work instead of 2-3!
A jail party? Laurel, you may want to skip bringing the birthday weed for this one. Rifkind bring that monkey though. He can steal the keys from the guard.
Madonna said
That should say 2-3 hours!
rifkind said
Elizabeth and Diz,
I just sent you an email about my book…
What do you gals think? Is the picture too HOT for Diz to open at work??
Hee Hee!
More selections if I were casting the book turned into a movie :
Nefertiti – Catherine Zeta-Jones
Smenkhare – Arnold Vosloo
Thutmose – Orlando Bloom
As Anne said in her email to me..
Period costumes – mmmmmmm!
🙂
Cree said
Maddie Mo: I also had a little run in with the cops when I was 22. I think mine was a little more fun than yours though. We got hauled in for *shhh don’t tell anyone*…..sex in a public place. Not one of my finer moments, but boy was it fun! We didn’t actually get put in jail, though. The cops at the station took pity on us and let us go with a slap on the wrist. Something about young love. I normally don’t do stuff like that, but I just couldn’t help myself. He was a trapeze artist in the circus that was in town and he was the most beautiful guy I had ever seen and I just HAD to have him……..so I did! 🙂 Okay, maybe I just shared a little too much about myself, but hey, we’re all family here right? Actually that is one story my family will NEVER hear about me! They’d dis-own me. So, Madonna, if you need help on how to NOT get thrown in jail, I’m your girl!
AlisaSG said
Anne,
>> AlisaSG, especially for you – and for anyone else who might care:
http://www.bloodtiescentral.com/episode_108.shtml
OOOOOOOOooooooooooooOOOOOOOooooooooo! 😀
Thank you!!!! you’re a sweetheart!
——–
BTW, some folks (on CityTv) were asking for spoiler info or photos for ep#8. I said I couldn’t give out anything, beyond it was an amazing performance by Kyle. No plot details whatsoever. They need to see the other eps prior first — to grasp a better understanding. (Even tho most of us do believe anyone could watch ep# 8 as a stand-alone ep, and still totally understand it, from the intro previews (if Canada gets them as part of ep#8’s package).
so, I selected this one–
it’s kind of a neutral photo capture, because it doesn’t really show what’s really happening, and could appear in *any* episode. It’s the one of Henry watching Delphine’s confession. He’s so precious to look at in that photo.
It was tempting to show this one, tho..
(hee-hee, but that’d be pure torture on those who haven’t seen it yet. Plus, it gives away more details on what *might* be happening than the Delphine one.)
anyone think the Delphine photo is a good picture for bait???
Of course, the rest of us had absolutely nothing to lean on but hearing the complaints about the ep being on i-tune ahead of the others.
gotta hook them somehow (I’m soooooooooo EVIL, right now).. 😛
AlisaSG said
I just posted another reply above this one, hope everyone else can see it, because I can, but don’t know who else can
–see– (AlisaSG said, August 31, 2007 @ 4:01 pm)
it’s about Henry!! (and Kyle)
I was trying my best to encourage those interested without disappointing them from the horrid waiting time, until the ep shows up. Plus, this way, it’ll give more exposure for eps 3-7. I’m still not sure if anyone can link on CityTV to view some snippet goodies (the former commercials that we saw) that did appear on u-tube..
——–
from AlisaSG,
>> and Gifted had several *intriguing* moments..
>> “Seamus Harper” guest-starring from Tv’s Andromeda series..
..*sigh*..
from Anne,
>> Btw – Gordon Michael Woolvett is also supposed to be at DC – it’s quite an Andromeda group there.
>> And BTW was in Blood Ties ep 4, Gifted, playing the dad.
thank you for the reinforcement. I was just too lazy to go look up his name. 😉
Anne,
>> So you don’t think the gallery is too big?
>> …I really like being able to see them all at once.
nahhh. I like it with the thumbnails all on the same web page. Makes it easier to pick the favorites from the entire group all at once. *grin*
nightwalker01 said
well it doesn’t look like my post ever showed up…humm…wonder whats up with the blog not liking me 😦
nightwalker01 said
Well it wasn’t anything big, just the usuall babble….
AlisaSG – I love the pitures – especially the one of Henry watching Delphine’s confession – precious? I don’t know about that but his expression really tugs at your heart.
Well I am going to go read some of Rifkinds story.
I might be posting my sequal this weekend – will let you know.
Margaret said
Scenes that can or have made you weep:
(1) Henry telling Vicki how/why he became a vampire. “Because I wanted to be with her forever”. You see the 17 year old young man who had no idea of what he was getting into, all he knew what that he was doing it for the woman he loved. He didn’t seem so suave to me at that moment. He seemed to be like a young man who gave his all for love, without any thought for what would happen afterward.
(2) The “I confess, I confess, I confess”, when he’s trying to save Vicki in Heart of Fire. I thought my heart would break.
(3) The look he gives Vicki when she calls him off Mike, he just looked like a sweet little puppy, didn’t look like a vamp trying to suck somebody dry. Am I sick or what?
I know there are more. Anybody else?
Margaret said
They finally put an air date on Lisa Williams, Friday night, October 12 at 9:00 p.m. Interesting huh?
Laurel said
I haven’t caught up with any posts since about 10am so maybe this is not news to you –
According to the i-Tunes store Blood ties will be returning on Friday October 12th and the new episodes debut on i-tunes TUESDAY OCTOBER 9th!!!
AlisaSG said
*sigh*
Margaret,
there’s 2 shows appearing before Blood Ties does that LIFETIME expects to hook up new viewers. Lisa Williams was one, and there’s another one mentioned on the Lifetime blog also (by now, I forget it’s name — *snicker* — I guess that shows where my brain is at the moment!).
The problem with the 2 programs that preceed BT is that USA has “Psych” and “MONK” on. Stargate Atlantis is on SciFi and will be airing at 10-pm. I won’t be watching Lifetime, because I’ll be watching every ounce of SG-Atlantis I can.. may have to stop the recorder prematurely and forfeit the last 10 minutes, so that I can record BT at 11-pm. Then, I’ll have to sit up until 2-am, just to get the last 10 minutes of SG-Atlantis..!!
Friday’s are bad nights for me, because of the SciFi channel.. that is, when it’s not showing its sicko movies and MOTW horror fests.
I was just really annoyed that there hasn’t been one iota commercial anywhere for future BT eps (and wonder how butchered it might end up, if one was composed). That annoyance was reinforced the other week, when I saw Army Wives advertised more than twice on the Sci-Fi network for LIFETIME..!! The least they could have done was show BLOOD TIES on the SCI-FI Network when it originally aired eps 1-12.. (!!)
..I was really frustrated over the idea of BT being more in line of thought with Sci-Fi, but ARMY WIVES showed up instead! I doubt if Army Wives is anything like BSG, because most BSG viewers are hard core, tuffies wanting actions equivalent to what the marines survival training mostly is. Those type of Sci-Fi folks might like the title of Army Wives, and aren’t romantic, unless it’s brutal and violent sex type.. beat up guys and batter the women around.
However, there is that minority on there who also enjoy light-hearted fantasy type of programs too, like “The Legend of EarthSea” and “Dragonheart” (1996) with Sean Connery as the voice of Draco (the Dragon). I’ve noticed that people who enjoy those sorts of programs, also tend to thrive on *romance* or stories with romantic moments / tension within them.
So, by sensing that, it would make more sense to advertise BT on the Sci-Fi channel, and the syndicated local channels, because some people who have those (CW, formerly of UPN and WB), also have cable access. Whichever sydicated channels air SG-Atlantis, might also welcome BT, because of the “Wraith” factor — appearing to be creatures similar to that of vampires.. life-force-sucking vampires in this case. 😉
AlisaSG said
>> According to the i-Tunes store Blood ties will be returning on Friday October 12th and the new episodes debut on i-tunes TUESDAY OCTOBER 9th!!!
Oooooooooooooo!
Massive downloads.. 😉
nightwalker,
yes, I used the word *precious* because out of context (if you’ve never seen the episode at all) – it’s Henry in an emotion that he only seemed to hint at in “Deadly Departed” (the ep where Sinead shows up for the first time).
Henry could have been emotional about anything and at anyone in the photo that I mentioned above. No one can see he’s really chained up and unable to go anywhere, and is so totally helpless at that particular moment – where he’s also most vulnerable. When describing the situation, it’s just a snapshot out of time and space.. a picture that can share thousands of stories, where any of them could be that very same one. That’s my way of picking a spoiler pic, without it really spoiling.. sort of. Just another *expressive* moment from our beloved Henry..
and it’s also a (tug-at-the-heart) moment where you just want to hug him, and comfort his soul.. but if you say to someone who’s never seen the story behind the picture, by stating it as a “tug-at-the-heart moment” is sort of giving away more of the real conflict behind the photo than what meets the eye (of the beholder). At least, that’s what I was thinking when I saw it, and tried to re-imagine it from the POV of someone who’s *never* seen that story.
It’s sort of like looking at snapshot photos of various emotions that used to appear in the LIFE magazines years ago, without having a summary explanation of what is going on behind the actual photo.
Madonna said
Dizey,
How did Rob’s appointment go today?
Cree,
Wow, what a story! I just have two questions for you though.
1.) What public place are we talking about and
2.) You say he was a trapeze artist……. Did he teach you anything?
Inquiring minds ya know.
Tango said
Hello my lovies!
I feel like it has been forever since I got to chat with everyone. I see we’ve added some newbies. Yea!
WELCOME ARROWYN & ANNE – and anyone else I have missed. Glad to have some new blood!
Arrowyn, love the Worldclock email you sent. Some of those figures are frightening.
Anne – love all the pics you were able to share with us. You are a very lucky lady, and I hate you in the most kind and loving way 😉 Jealousy is such an ugly emotion!
Claire – sorry I missed the party! I had to check in so early that I missed much of the good stuff, but it looked like fun was had by all. I hope that you had a wonderful precursor to the big 50th next year 🙂
I have missed the camaraderie with my bloggerati. I hope all are doing well.
laurel said
Tango! I am over at Hens and saw you checked out ahead of me! Come back over.
prtfvr said
Was just over in the chat room with a new member, “sire”. I don’t know her and she ran out too fast for me to find out who she was. Did we gain someone? Nobody tells me nuttin’! 😉
Laurel said
Prtfvr – I don’t think that was anyone we know… Looked like someone wandered in, if that is even possible.
Weird.
Tango – I am so very glad to see you!!! I hope you have been well and safe. I missed you very much. 🙂
Thanks to those of you who checked in on my little blog. I think I figured out how to let the posts show up without waiting for individual approvals. Maybe?
After reading about everyone elses day I think there must have been something in the atmosphere today. I had a crappy day with the computers at work and at home. The one at work hid my entire Expo file and told me I needed a password to get in. When I finally got into the file it had been re-sorted by heaven knows what priority and I couldn’t get it back into an order that made any sense.
Weeping with my head down on the desk is just not pretty, and not really socially acceptable. Thank goodness I work out of sight of the quilt shop and its employees. I hope the darn thing is happier by the time I go back on Tuesday.
Anzia said
okay, so i’m EXHAUSTED! Today…work…BAD! First day on the floor and whose computer do you think went bezerk (sp?)? Yeah, that would be MINE! Not once, not twice but THREE times! Can anyone say neurotic mess? I was shaking so bad at one point it was pathetic. I wasn’t sure if I was gonna cry or scream. We have three programs that we have to use: Tandem, Client & Scripter and they HAVE to be opened in that order. Tandem is the database w/all the acct info, Client is our phones and scripter connects the two. Well, Scripter wasn’t quite working. I’d get a call but no info as to who I was calling (happend QUITE a few times) or a person would call in and i’d get ZILCH so I’d have to do it manually. NOT a bad thing ’cause it happens that way sometimes, but Tandem wouldn’t accept that acct # (happened 2 times). TWICE my client cut off a phone call while the CT was talking! (yeah, and on one account I wasn’t able to note what happened ’cause scripter immediately gave me another call) Really don’t want to be the person to call THOSE people back. I had one person say they were the CT but it was her daughter (yeah, i could TOTALLY get my butt into trouble on that one!) so I told her the specifics of an account! I got yelled at by a husband because I couldn’t tell him why I was calling (which sucked in the first place ’cause the wife had pd on the account earlier so we shouldn’t have been calling her anyway but the system can’t pull out accts that were already paid.) who then gave the phone to his wife (after she got back) who yelled at me again. I fixed it so the husband could be consulted on the acct and they DID say it wasn’t my fault but Kohl’s but… STILL! I even had one guy hit on me! Told me I sounded cute. His wife was angry at him for that comment.
Diz- GO ROBBIE! I’m glad to hear that he’s gone 3 days w/o one! YAY!
I seriously don’t remember anything else I was going to say…I’m THAT tired…Oh! One of the guys I work with- Anthony, he was hired w/me- found out that he’s been giving the wrong number out to customers to call back at. That would be problem ONE. Problem TWO- the number he DID give out (for over a week) is the number to a phone sex line. I kid you not! that boy found out today when someone he called earlier found their statement and called in. He feels like CRAP. Although he said he was gonna call the number just to see if the guy was telling the truth or not. ^_^
TANGO! *runs over and gives BIG hug* WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN GIRL! DO YOU KNOW IT’S DAYS PAST YOUR CURFEW! You are SooooooooOOOOO grounded for a month! 😉 how ya been? all well?
laurel said
Oh Anzia, it sounds like several of us had a horrible day!
Here sweetie ( ( ( hugs ) ) )
We should all go out and get some chocolate cake and spanish coffees. Or maybe iced coffee laced with irish cream? Okay, any chocolate desert and drink of your own choice.
We’d better keep an eye on Tango! We should just take her with us so she can’t get away again. 🙂
Cree said
Madonna:
1.) The Tennessee State Fair Grounds after the fair and circus and everything was packed up and gone. His family stayed there an extra day before moving on to their next town, so the place was literally deserted, so what was the big deal if we did what we did when no one was around? And who knew that was illegal in the first place?
2.) Yes, he was a Pervian trapeze artist. Did he teach me anything? Umm……well………Oh, you mean on the trapeze??!!! 🙂 Yes, actually the circus didn’t go on during the daytime, so I skipped school one day and went down there and he let me swing on it a few times. And let me tell you….it hurts! I only did it twice and my hands hurt so bad I had to stop after that. I loved falling onto the net though. It was really scarey at first because it was so high up, but once I fell, I had a blast. It was like a big trampolene! I would have liked to jumped on it more, but climbing that little rope ladder to get up to the platform to jump off was very hard. I had a great time though. It is an experience I will never forget.
Hope everything goes well at the vet today. Let me know how it goes.
AlisaSG said
Ladies, Ladies!! I’ve managed to post a few times onto CityTv, and with some “wink, wink, nudge, nudging” after the first 3 eps, the ones on the forum seem really SOLD onto Henry.. (Henry & Vicki, but mostly Henry).
I confessed to having Henry-itis attacks and said the condition can be contagious! (LOL!!!!!!!)
awww, anyone else wanna help out over there? OMG!! we’re having a blast of fun on there! But I find it difficult to believe there’s only 10 people across all of CityTV watching BT..!
some of their comments about their native Canadian surroundings are funny — being preoccupied with hearing footsteps in the scenes (at least 2 of us there were too distracted enough with Henry and Vicki to hear that!).
— being overly concerned about the wrong street sign’s showing up, as substitutions for Toronto scenery — another point — us in the USA aren’t likely to notice, because we’ve never noticed *those* particular details!! 😛
if anyone read the comments at TV-eh? (which, btw, hasn’t MOVED with any newer postings since last weekend), comparisons over Forever Knight, Interview with a Vampire, and just having a vampire named “Henry” came up as negative issues.. so I’ve been trying to help steer the CityTv viewers away as much as possible from even thinking about venturing into those negatives – in as best of an inspiring to turn onto BLOOD TIES way as possible.
BT is its own entity, and so what if a vampire is named Henry (his legacy is important in future eps). Barnabas Collins was a vampire too. And if Adrian Paul ever posed as a vampire named “Mac” – the series would be flooded with viewers! 😀
as for the those who have already become faithfully obsessed after the first 3 eps– (which is good, because those on the Sci-Fi network are complaining about “if Flash Gordon doesn’t get better by the 3rd episode, I’m outta here!”
Thus, I do hope you can understand my concern about BT falling the same fate.. it needed some extra prodding up for the first 4 eps.. Once eps 5 and 6 air, it’ll be easier to let them enjoy their own playground of topics!!
But I DO like the topic someone entitled “Feel the Pulse”
THAT is SOOOOOOOOO Blood Ties in a unique perspective.. sounds like a good title for a magazine or group gathering — perhaps conventions?
the *BLOOD TIES PULSE*.. 😉 (= that sounds very appropriate!)
Some of them have managed to access u-tube, but are unable to find the eps (actually ep clips) and other previews. I found them a long time ago, but only by accident when I was watching mass preview clippings from LFN.
I don’t know how to see them individually on u-tube (what should they be searched under?), because the VIEW ALL thingy isn’t working as it once had. I’m not sure if the items were removed or just hidden. I’ll click on the next page (to view the next batch) and one video comes up. Click on any page after that and it’s the same single video.
AlisaSG said
I just mentioned–
>> BT is its own entity, and so what if a vampire is named Henry (his legacy is important in future eps). Barnabas Collins was a vampire too. And if Adrian Paul ever posed as a vampire named “Mac” – the series would be flooded with viewers! 😀
Add Johnny Depp to that list as the NEW “Barnabas Collins”.. the vamp business is SOLD solid with him being known to millions and millions.. my niece isn’t familiar with Blood Ties, but has a *huge* crush on Johnny Depp (she has most of his DVD’s and dozens of pictures/posters of him). She said she will be keeping track of him as Barnabas, when the new “Dark Shadows” gets completed and released.. So the attraction isn’t just in a character name, but the persona behind the character, too, in certain situations. 😉
so it is with Kyle as Henry.
I love his *tender* Delphine moment.. it makes yah want to hug him to comfort his (heart-wrenching) aching heart. That’s how Kyle makes Henry realistic and *precious*.. a wonder to behold. 😎
Annalaise duChat said
Greetings.
I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday weekend so far. Just a quick post to remind everyone and verify that the Writer’s Chat is at 9:00pm est this evening. Everyone is welcome. Chat at cha’ then. The more the merrier.
If anyone want to catch up on the Wednesday night chat topics I have the transcript. I’ll email it in MS Word or pdf format. Drop me a line.
dreamcatcher4905@att.net
Annalaise duChat said
….Oh for you Harry Potter fans, I found this quite amusing.
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=418606&fr=&cache=11&fpman-sfp2
Tango said
Laurel – sorry I had to dash out last night. A big lightning storm came up and being on top of a mountain, we seem to be a magnet. We’ve had lightning run in on our home 5 times since we lived here. Had to buy a big screen, 2 TIVOs, a smaller TV and a phone system due to the time we got hit last year. We actually had lightning hit in the yard twice last night. I haven’t gone out to see the damage yet. But the satellite is not working properly. Thank God for saved BT epies. Watching Necrodome now. (sniffing scene – mm mmm good 😉 the dismount- oh yeah! 🙂 )
Chocolate desert and all those coffee drinks sound good to me. I’ve never had Spanish coffee to my recollection. I hope Anzia allows me to go to this little outing. It appears that I have been grounded. hangs her head in shame 😦 I’m not really sure what that entails as it has been nearly 35 years since my last grounding. Didn’t really get into much trouble as a kid – was it because I was a little angel or was it because I just got away with a lot? Wouldn’t you like to know 😉
Z – Awwe – big hugs back to you. Missed ya girlfriend! Sounds like you had a trying day with your computer issues. That is one thing that totally drives me nuts – I can handle most bumps in the workday, but when I have computer issues, it just brings out some sort of crazed uptight woman in me because it makes you look incompetent, when really it is the company not resolving some stupid issues with it’s 1’s and 0’s. There – I said it. I feel better now. I do feel sorry for your colleague who gave out the porn number, but I must say – very funny too!
I’ve been working 15-hour days for the past month, so I haven’t had much time for much else. I was working out of town and had about 3-4 hours of my day commuting b/c I like the comforts of home and interaction with family. I wrapped up enrollment in this very lucrative account so things will slow down quite a bit starting next week. I hope to catch up on all the writing everyone has been doing in the next couple of weeks.
Tango said
Laurel – I’m so proud of you for getting an avatar set up. I love that picture of Mike. Wow – those eyes! Thank you for choosing that one for all of us to view.
msgypsy said
I’m getting caught up, but slowly.
Anne, I just now realized you’re in Denmark. Where? I’ve been to Copenhagen, although I spent most of my time in Scandinavia in Djursholm, Sweden (my parents lived there for a couple of years while I was in college back home in the states.) I’m pretty sure Coipenhagen has changed dramatically in the intervening thir%$^%$mph something years but I still remember it as quite beautiful and as a place I had a hole boatload of fun when I was 19.
The little video intros to the characters at Bloodties.tv contain some really adorable scenes from upcoming episodes. I especially liked Vicki and Correen saying, “You’re wearing THAT?” to each other in unison.
Well, I just got myself a new toy, a webcam that may or may not work to let me do videos of my own reviews of things for YouTube. So I have to go play with it to find out.
BTW, does anyone recognize the file extension .flac? I downloaded a concert of early music and it’s in a format neither my computer nor me can recognize.
Margaret said
Cree: You little vixen. My only exciting adventure was when I was an almost groupie. I live near the beach, I think I was about 20 at the time, and I was still a “V’. Listened to the band, thought the lead singer was cute. He invited me back to his room, at the time I was too stupid to be scared. He was intelligent enough to pick up on the fact that I was still a V and told me I should go home. Oh well. But an acrobat. Now that had to be great. He was pretty flexible, wasn’t he?
msgypsy said
New topic is UP at https://msgypsy.wordpress.com/2007/09/01/yay-its-september/.
And Faraday is fine. He’s whining that I’m not paying extensive attention to him so he must be feeling better. That and the butt being wagged by his tail…
Margaret said
AlisaG: How on earth did you register at CityTv when it asks for area codes and providences? Parish the thought, did you fib and which ones did you use so I can. lol.
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