What/Who do you miss??

[JanMichael]

I miss:

Elvis and John Denver
Preppy clothing
Phones that sit in one place and you have to dial them
Manual typewriters
fountain pens

living in a nice place-

[auntAgonist]

1. I miss

my Mother (1997)
my Family :shrug:
I miss having a lot of people around.
I miss laughter

[Call Me Wesley]

2. I miss:

Handwritten letters
Phones that are just phones and nothing else
The quiet before cell phones took over
Rural streets - before they were turned into rural highways

Otherwise I still use a fountain pen, Montblanc or my trusty Pelikan. ;) And I live in a nice place, if there wouldn't be these rural highways which evokes the formula one pilot in every driver ... :mad:

[Wetzelbill]

3. I miss my friend Sara, my first gf who ended up being a good friend...

this one girl I had a crush on in a class a few years ago, I miss my family and I miss my once finely chiseled abs.

[khashka]

4. I miss

my sister - she'd always watch my back. Need a friend in a fight? She was there.

Random casual sex.... Nobody wants to do it without a freaking "relationship".

But I agree with you on manual typewriters and fountain pens.

Khash.

[tjwmason]

15. I missed you.

Welcome back Khashka

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:
:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:
:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:
:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:
:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

[khashka]

89. I missed you too

In fact I was just looking at that pic of you asleep on the train and realized I don't want to dedicate bad opera to you, just a little Kate Bush - Ne T'en Fuis Pas or maybe L'Amour Looks Something Like You.

Khash.

[swimboy]

92. And I'm still with the Pansy Division, I guess.

:cry:

[khashka]

97. Would you quit crying if I dedicated some Nine Inch Nails instead?

Would "I wanna fuck you like an animal" raise a smile?

Khash.(Damn! I can't do anything right today!)

[swimboy]

98. '

:thumbsup: Now this thread's going somewhere! :evilgrin:

[khashka]

102. Abso-fucking-lutely not!

If we take this any further we'll get locked down. And then I've got some serious 'splaining to do - to Shari, TJ, dozens of others.


Khash.

[swimboy]

104. Then I'll just say

I have quit crying and you raised a smile. :thumbsup:

Splainin' :scared: You seriously don't want any of that to do.

[LynzM]

5. I miss:

Living in Europe...
Some aspects of college and people I knew then
Being childless, sometimes
Having free time... and thus, climbing

[WCGreen]

6. I miss being able to run....

I miss waking up without having to take ten med's just to face the day...

I miss smoking pot...

I miss casual sex...

I miss getting excited about the newest band...

I miss making lot's of money....

I MISS BILL CLINTON!!!!!!

[Wetzelbill]

26. I need some casual sex I think

it might help me relax a little bit more. I have been grouchy these last few years. :)

[WCGreen]

27. It can be relaxing....

[Wetzelbill]

29. that's one area in which

I have always been pretty conservative. I need to find a happy medium. :)

[Kathryn STone]

47. amazing-it's like you read my mind. esp the running and pills part rop

I used to run that was my therapy then I got with a "therapist" and then a shrink and the pills just keep coming
am:
2 lithium
2 wellbutrin
1 buspar

afternoon
1 wellbutrin

p.m.
2 lithium
1 restoril
2 seroquel (which I will get off of or overidr my doc I had gottten too fat to get into my jeans.)

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

80. I MISS BILL CLINTON!!!!!! TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In the last month I purchased a new dvd burner that can connect to my computer & vcr and transfer vhs tapes to DVD. I was down in the basement looking for my old tapes that I haven't seen in years, to see if there's any project I want to start to convert to DVD, I found where I had on tape Bill's 93 Inauguration parade. It just hit me watching it how everything just seemed like so positive back then optimistic just seemed like so much hope for the future. Now 12 years later all that just seems stomped out, and I admit I got sad :cry: and I had to turn it off. I miss that feeling, the last 5 years we have had none of that with the manchild (my nickname for W) in charge total opposite.

[AtomicKitten]

82. I miss Bill Clinton Too.

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. Mondays in the Underground...

My grandpa
My first cat
Peaceful feelings.

[UrbScotty]

8. William Jefferson Clinton (nt)

[merh]

9. I miss

My folks
a legal system that is about justice and not politics
my parrot, Freddie
JimmyJazz & nothingshocksmeanymore, sparky_in_ma
Andy
green lawns and working traffic lights
driving along Hwy 90
my life and the Gulf Coast, pre-Katrina

[Wetzelbill]

30. wow JimmyJazz got axed as a disruptor?

I just clicked on her SN on my buddy list. When did that happen? That really sucks.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

34. Check your PM, if you would, my dear Wetzelbill.......nt

[Scout1071]

35. I think it may have been self imposed. Although I'm not certain. nt

[Wetzelbill]

36. thanks

I found out the basics of the story. :)

[Scout1071]

38. Then you are ahead of me! n/t

[merh]

39. She wasn't banned as a disruptor.

She asked to have her account deactivated. Please don't assume that a granite marker equates to a disruptor.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=4307332

[Wetzelbill]

40. well it says that on the stone so that's why I was incredulous

about it. :) Thanks for the link.

[merh]

44. I know, I wish that there was a different image for those that

decide to have their accounts deactivated. It is very disturbing to see the granite marker and easy to assume it means disruptor.

you are welcome :hi:

[JanMichael]

49. Me too

I hope JimmyJazz is reading this thread, and knows people on DU miss her.

Stephanie

[merh]

52. I hope so too.

:grouphug:

[FuzzySlippers]

55. I miss her terribly.

:cry:

[LaurenG]

10. I miss

My Dad
My innocence and naivety (pre 2000)
My friends in the last town I lived in. :donut:

[RevCheesehead]

11. I miss Sparky.

:cry:

[merh]

14. Me too,

:hug: I must add him to my miss list. :-(

[Left Is Write]

12. A Democrat in the White House.

Being able to respect the office of the president.

My mother's cooking.

Minnesota.

My parents.

My siblings.

Snow on Christmas Eve.

Gramma J's lefse and Gramma G's doughnuts.

Simplicity.

[hfojvt]

13. at least half of the three point shots I take

a working right knee
having time and/or energy to play basketball

[Wetzelbill]

28. blow your knee out?

I had to get my right knee totally reconstucted about 6 years ago. Tore my ACL. Not fun.

[hfojvt]

77. I do not know what happened

but it does not work right any more. My doctor said it is early arthritis, but he also said his treatment would fix it in a few weeks, and that was clearly wrong. I can still walk, jog, and bike, after a fashion, but I pay for it with stiffness. I do not know if I can sprint.

[Wetzelbill]

93. you should maybe try

glucosamine and chondroitin. It's a little pricey and it take a bit for it to work but if you take it for a few months you'll feel your joints shore up. It will strengthen and help you grow cartilage in your knees, which will reduce any inflammation and the grinding in joints that causes arthritis. Just look in the supplement section of your grocery store. Here is a pic of the kind I take. It's from Schiff, they are a pretty well-respected manufacturer with quality products.

[djeseru]

16. I miss my father.

Also included:

My days wasted in the Botanical Gardens, buying butter cookies and sketching.

Fort Worth.

My naivete. There are moments that I miss being politically ignorant.

My butterfly garden.

Familiarity with other people.

[Greyhound]

17. My mother, America, my innocence, justice, health care, the ability to

live on one full-time salary, people stopping on the street to chat for a few minutes, the sense of commonality with any other citizen, the idea of right and wrong, talking to people that remembered how it was in the early 20th c, all my gay friends from the 80's, the understanding that just because we disagree on an issue we can still talk together, the art of conversation, films that tell a story (that's worth telling), tax supported public libraries, mass transit that was practical, cops that thought their primary job was to help, somewhat responsive government agencies, unions, looking forward to retirement, being unafraid to voice my true feelings, thoughts, and opinions, sand dollars on the beach, being able to sleep on the beach, vacations, understanding, compassion, local sports teams that had mostly the same players every year, being able to go to a game without taking out a second or third mortgage, food that was safe to eat, knowing my neighbors and having a community...

God, Damn Them.

[RevCheesehead]

18. I miss Roo.

[Wetzelbill]

31. aww those are beautiful pics

so sorry for your loss.

[auntAgonist]

37. RevCheesehead...

Your Roo looks like my Rogue.


:hug:
I'm sorry you no longer have Roo.

aA

[JanMichael]

48. Ohhhhh That kitty looks like our Stinky Butt!

I love kitties!

I hate that our furry friends don't live as long as we do!

Stephanie
"Thtwudbeme" cleverly disguised as JanMichael

[yy4me]

19. I miss my youth:

A good nights sleep, no grey hair, a flat stomach, no aching back. Most of all, I miss the days when I thought politics was "noble".

[EFerrari]

20. I miss Doug, before he got sick.

Andy

My waistline which has disappeared sitting here missing.

My dog as a puppy and the miles - long walks we used to take any hour I felt like it.

Sanity in America.

My funny little trailer at my mom's place in the hills. My big rose garden there.

People walking the streets w/out shouting their private stuff into their cell phones.

A charm bracelet that was all tools that worked.

/Sorry! English is Closed Today. Visit Us Again.

[matcom]

21. Kephra

[newyawker99]

81. I miss him too.

:cry:

[VelmaD]

86. ditto

:cry:

[Lilith Velkor]

94. me three

[datasuspect]

22. i miss my personhood

the ability to have coherent thoughts

a viable lifestyle

lord i miss daniel, oh i miss him so much.

[Arugula Latte]

32. I heard Daniel headed to Spain.

Wasn't he your brother? And he was older than you? :shrug:

[bbernardini]

23. Moxy Fruvous, Frank Zappa

I know one can't come back, but the other needs to come back IMMEDIATELY.

[EFerrari]

25. You got that right.

:thumbsup:

[catmandu57]

24. I miss my fishing buddy

Dead seven years now. Cancer got him, I miss sitting in a boat late at night talking when nothing else was happening, and watching him catch all the fish even though our lines were only feet apart.

[EFerrari]

33. Okay, JanMichael, I hope you have a Part B ready to roll.

Tough year, in many ways.

:grouphug:

[Rising Phoenix]

41. I miss my dad

[bicentennial_baby]

62. ....

:hug:

[SeattleGirl]

42. I miss

My dad (gone since 1977).
I miss hot summers in Arkansas, hanging out with my cousins.
I miss my friends Genie and Christine, gone too soon.
I miss Motown music, Archie comics, and laughing the afternoon away, all at the same time, with my sister Kathy and my friend DeeDee (ah, those early teen years).
I miss living on Capital Hill in Seattle -- best neighborhood ever.
I miss the days when I didn't have as many responsibilities as I do now, when little things were the most important things.

I'm going back to work now...this has made me feel a little melancholy.

[Awsi Dooger]

43. I miss my friend Larry

Disappeared suddenly from Las Vegas in March 2004. Found shot in the desert more than a month later. Still unsolved.

I had known Larry for slightly less than three years but I respected his unique opinions on so many topics, much more than anyone I've met in 20 years. My energy level has not recovered since learning of his death.

[Guy Fawkes]

45. I miss....

Democracy
human decency
soda (I can't drink it)
Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake
chocolate covered orange peals
My kitten.
I miss: KC...

(will miss) Black and White film

[Rabrrrrrr]

46. Bill Hicks, Zappa

[Initech]

73. We need both of those guys around right now!

[ZombieNixon]

50. Futurama, Bill Clinton.

I also miss my 'nads. Stay away from wheat threshers with drunken operators, y'all! :silly:

[graywarrior]

51. John Lennon

My brother, who is still among the missing.
The 60's Dylan.
New Hampshire.

[Thtwudbeme]

53. I hope 2006 brings you your brother

Dylan...oh my. Me too.

New Hampshire is too cold for me- ;)

[graywarrior]

54. Thanks.

Even if bro shows up, he's lost.

[Thtwudbeme]

56. We all are in our own way

it's just that some show it more than others.

Stephanie

[graywarrior]

59. True

He hangs with an outlaw biker group. I fear the worst.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

57. I miss

Princess Di (okay, stupid but I do)
Princess Grace (are you sensing a pattern here?)
Jackie Kennedy
My youth
My innocence
My 2000 vote
Al Gore (please come back)
Bonomos Turkish Taffy
New Mash episodes
Hats in church
Thinking the USA was the greatest country in the world
Feeling safe at work

[Thtwudbeme]

60. omg

you and I need to get together at a DU meetup.

I could have written that list in addition to mine---

The original list is mine; I was posting under Michael's name.

I loved Di, Grace, and Jackie. When Diana died, there was not another reason to buy a women's magazine in my opinion. Reese Witherspoon MIGHT save us...but...that remains to be seen.

Stephanie

[TallahasseeGrannie]

63. Well, hello soulmate!

I have never gotten over Di's death. I was absolutely fascinated by her. I read everything ever written and bought most of the books, even though I was aware most was trash. I really don't quite know why the fascination. I had been married ten years when she married..maybe I was envious of her life, I don't know. I was equally upset when Grace died, mostly because she was a big LaLeche proponent back before it was cool to breastfeed. And I thought Jackie was a total class act.

[Medium Baby Jesus]

58. Tara

:cry:

[hippywife]

61. I miss alot of things and people but

more than anything or anyone, I miss my Italian Grandma. She was the mother of my heart and my best friend. :cry:

[RFKHumphreyObama]

64. Many things

1. Having a visionary, courageous and compassionate President in the White House who had the interests of both the US and the world at heart and whom you could trust to always do the right thing
2. Having a Prime Minister with a similar disposition in my own country
3. My grandparents on both sides -my paternal grandfather whom I knew only briefly and of whom my memories are vague, my paternal grandmother who I became quite close to and my maternal grandfather who was such a loving, caring and inspirational person in my life. Thank God I still have my maternal grandmother
4. Life before September 11 -which was especially good for me
5. A number of friends and relatives who are now deceased and who either played a significant role in my life or who are people I wish I could remember more about
5. My university days

[qnr]

65. Innocence. John V. Lindsay. Atari Computers. Being proud of my country.

Not having to explain basic scientific or geographical facts to people.

Much more.

[redwitch]

66. my dad. 7 years ago today. my mom. 1 year on december 12th.

I am determined to make this holiday season happy and special for my family, but I am sad and missing them both.

[auntAgonist]

69. redwitch

the sadness will give way to good memories, the missing them part never goes away.

:hug: for you and your family. Your parents live on in your heart and your deeds.


aA.

[redwitch]

71. yeah, I know

thanks for the kind words and the hug. the holidays do give me the blues though, even though i love them and the attendent fol de rol.

[DanCa]

67. I mess

My thirty six inch waist
A democratic president
Bannasplits that came in a boat shaped glass float
Commodore sixty four
Going to church and not hearring about the pro life movement..

[swag]

68. Reasonable portions.

[nashbridges]

70. I miss my buddy Jon

Died a little over a year ago in a plane crash.



I can only assume he is God's beer bitch now...

[ikojo]

72. I miss....

My brothers, Jeff (died July 2001) and my brother Robbie (died May 2002)
Jerry Garcia and planning my vacation time around the Grateful Dead
soda that came in GLASS bottles
MTV when they showed only music videos
President Clinton
My grandma on my mom's side (died 1985)
My uncle Mike (died 1998)
My friend Joe (died 1999)
Video game arcades
General Hospital during the Luke and Laura years and scheduling classes around a soap opera because if you didn't you DID NOT get a good seat in the student union.
Thinking that attending large demonstrations actually did some good and changed some minds.

[New Earth]

74. my grandmom on my dad's side

my grandpop on my mom's side....

i miss going to church and breakfast with my older brother and our grandparents.

i miss going camping with my family.

i miss going out shopping for toys on Saturday mornings with all the kids and our grandpop.

i miss a lot of friends from high school, especially DeAndre, Jamie, Peter, the whole crew during my 10th and 11th grade years.

i miss the summer of '96 getting wrecked down at the river with the whole crew of us.

i miss when Jada was a baby.

i miss someone i met some years ago who changed my life.

i miss someone i met this year who lives we both changed, i think.

i miss having a President that can speak coherent sentences.

[BamaGirl]

75. I miss

my grandfather
living close to my family
the Clinton years
paid overtime
my waist

[Straight Shooter]

76. I miss nostamj on DU.

I miss my three departed dogs that I loved more than I should have because after all these years it still hurts to think of them.

I miss Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where I lived several years as a child.

I miss both my grandmothers.

Technologically, I miss typewriters, and believe it or not my phone stays in one place. No portable and no cell phone for me.

I miss the innocence of believing that our leaders had our best interests at heart. :(

[BlueIris]

78. I miss being able to trust other human beings.

Because...I don't really. Been betrayed too many times. It's making it really hard to even want to make new friends, or to believe that it would ever be possible to fall in love again.

[fortyfeetunder]

79. life before January 20, 2001.

feeling secure and knowing a good future lie ahead.

Not any-effing more!

[AtomicKitten]

83. I miss JFK, Jr.

I miss his beautiful face, his beautiful smile, his warmth, his grace, his class. I miss his promise, a future we will never see. God, that man had such promise. He would have electrified the Democratic Party. I still weep when I think of him.

[Clintmax]

84. I miss my husband!

He's in Philadelphia right now and instead of coming home tomorrow like he planned, he has a family emergency and won't be home until we don't know when. :cry:

[swimboy]

91. I'm sorry, Clint.

I hope everything will be all right and he'll be home soon so you can be together again. :hug:

[Clintmax]

103. I hope he will be here soon too, Swim Dude!

Thank you. :hug::loveya:

[VelmaD]

85. I miss Andy Stephenson

still...every day :cry:

[ThatsMyBarack]

87. Where to begin???

Sesame Street without Elmo and La La La LA Elmo's World
TV without corner logos and popup ads
MTV when it played nothing but music videos worth watching
John Ritter
Princess Diana
Dow Jones (my kitty cat from childhood)
Gilda Radner
Jack Barry and all the cool game shows he hosted, complete with tacky music, sets, graphics, etc.

[NYYFan]

88. I miss

My daddy- who lives in another state
old friends that I've lost touch with
actors and actresses that died way too soon (ie: John Candy, Christopher Reeve, Dudley Moore)
but most of all, I miss my Gram, that died February 15, 2003.

:(

[u4ic]

90. My mom (gone 8.5 years)

good health
working
horse back riding
people caring about one another
optimism & faith (everything will work out eventually)
having enough money to live on
having a special somebody in my life
the time when telemarketing did not exist

[MarsThe Cat]

95. vinyl record albums, and their jackets.

fuck cd's.

[chknltl]

96. What: President, Who: Bill Clinton, (that was easy enough...)

(.... my work is done here).

[Dude_CalmDown]

99. Paul Wellstone / Chris Farley / Aryton Senna

This is probably the time you'll ever see these 3 on the same list but I'm a pretty random person.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

100. I miss

my graduate school friends. I've never again had such a collection of top-notch friends, and they're now scattered all over the country.

the days before Reagan

Portland's transit sytem

[tuvor]

101. My dad, for the past seven years.

[seemunkee]

105. I miss my mom (9/9/01)

I miss having my son nearby, I know he is enjoying college and finding his own path in life, but I wish here lived closer.

[latebloomer]

106. My dad-- gone since November 1984

My children's early years-- stressful though they were.

Being younger and prettier.

[Shell Beau]

107. My brother!!

I miss him lots and lots!

[Hugin]

108. Free ATMs. n/t

[Blue Diadem]

109. I miss

Mom & Dad, my brother, my sister, Mom and Dad in-law, and friends..all resting in peace now.

I miss our life before hubby's 2 plant closings.

[Maestro]

113. I hope things get better for you soon.

:hi:

[Blue Diadem]

114. Thank you Maestro

Holidays always bring a bit of melancholy from missing those gone and what used to be..but there is still happiness too.

:hi:

[Maestro]

110. Here is good list

My various deceased grandparents.
Here is my mostly deceased grandparent.



I miss the days when total communication wasn't needed. (God I hate cell phones and these things that make people look like they are part of the Borg)



I miss Freddie Mercury, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Michael Hutchence.



I miss clean air, lakes, rivers and oceans.

I miss being fun-loving and care-free.

I miss having respectable government.

I miss having a respectable media with true journalists; no media hacks.

To lesser extents, I miss having privacy. With two young kids, it is non-existent. However, having said that my kids are what keep me going to make sure they have as good a place to live or better than I ever had.

[Thtwudbeme]

111. Oh, I remember your grandfather

he owned a gas station...I loved that thread about him; it made me feel like I got to "meet" a really neat person that I otherwise wouldn't have known about.

Thanks for reposting his photo--

Stephanie

[Maestro]

112. And thank you for remembering.

I love dearly all my deceased relatives but I had a special connection with him. I still miss him horribly, but I had closure and he is where he always wanted to be ever since my grandmother died, right next to her.