Good morning everyone :o) (no pictures today)

[Guava Jelly]

Hope everyone slept Well!

[billyskank]

1. Good morning!

That looked like a picture to me. :)

:hi:

[Guava Jelly]

2. Good morning to you billyskank

Yea it is a picture .I guess I lied
:)

[Callalily]

47. Good morning Billy!

<<< This is how I feel this morning.

:hi: :loveya: :hug:

[billyskank]

49. Hi 'Fugue!

:hi:

Isn't that how you feel every morning? :rofl:

:hug: :loveya:

[Callalily]

51. Bwahahahahaha

Yes, lately sad to say. But there are mornings that I wake up all nice and perky, but unfortunately, not for a while.

:loveya: :hug:

[billyskank]

68. I have had awful trouble getting up lately

It seems as if I need 9 hours sleep a night. It is ridiculous.

:hug:

[AirmensMom]

59. Billy!

:hi: :loveya: :hug:

[billyskank]

67. Hi AirmensMom!

:hug: :hi: :loveya:

[Random_Australian]

3. Good morning! And as for 'no pictures', I just took one for the

'embarrassing photos' thread,
so, without further ado:

































:)

[Guava Jelly]

4. Good morning!

nice choppers.
Although it's probably not morning where you are at :)

[Random_Australian]

6. 7:45 pm, actually. How about over there?

[Guava Jelly]

12. 4:43 am

:)

[Random_Australian]

28. I hear from GD that your nation is now dead compared to what it once was.

My condolences.

[Guava Jelly]

38. My nation has been dead since that Monster stole the election

Rumor has it that The dems may actually gain some power next month
But With Diebold the voting machines I aint holding my breath

[Random_Australian]

39. Sad to hear, but the truth all the same.

If the machines do the steal, things are going to hit the wall.

Wishing you luck to survive the next number of years, and to have your country re-made the way it was meant to be.

[Guava Jelly]

40. It is a great country And I love it

I just wish We could act like adults again.
And stop bombing so many innocents

[Random_Australian]

42. That wish might just be granted. :)

But I gotta go!

Cya!

[Guava Jelly]

41. dupe

:7

[MissHoneychurch]

5. Good morning

:hi:

Let's see, what did I do so far this morning. I uploaded our library software. It went OK. Then my co-worker started the program and the convertion started. Of course I was so "clever" to start the program as well, that means the convertion got stuck. Now I have to re-organize the databse. Which isn't the smallest one (about 940KB) so it takes a while.

So how are you doing?

[Guava Jelly]

8. I guess better then you

:)
Sorry work is such a pain in the ass.
I am off today because I have to pack..
I am moving to missouri tomorrow
About 15 minutes away from here
And good morning gorgeous!

[MissHoneychurch]

11. I believe I take a day with computer troubles

over packing ... considering all the stuff I have :scared:

Have fun and good luck with your moving.

We use the day for doing .... uh ... nothing :rofl:
I showed my co-worker the pictures of my trip.

[Guava Jelly]

13. I sure wish i could have been in a few of them

I may have even showed my butt :rofl:
I am mainly finished packing.
But shit moving sucks.
:)

[MissHoneychurch]

20. How much stuff do you have?

do you have to do it by yourself or do you have friends who help you?

It would have been nice to have met you. Another time.

[Guava Jelly]

24. I am hiring movers

And i got rid of a bunch of junk.
The biggest pain for me is going to be unpacking.

I know Miss H
And i will meet you someday.
By then with all the flirting under my belt I probably wont be able to look you in the eyes with out blushing :)

[billyskank]

15. I'm doing well this morning too

Already I accidentally changed the descriptions for two modules. :7

:hi:

[MissHoneychurch]

25. Hey billy

:hi:

But it is your job to do such things :D

The re-organisation went through, now it is time for converting again. Good thing it is lunchbreak, then I at least have an excuse for doing nothing :rofl:

[billyskank]

29. No, it isn't my job to cause destruction

I perform that function free of charge. :7

[MissHoneychurch]

43. I bet you do

:rofl:

I am good at that myself. Somehow I doubt I will do much work on the database today. I hope the convertion finishes soon. Oh well. Looks like I have to sort in catalog cards x(

[Callalily]

45. Morning MissH

Sorry that I missed you yesterday. I just popped on for a few minutes. Life has been full of work lately, and nothing else. I think this weekend will be one of those that I just stay home and hibernate.

:hi: :loveya: :hug:

[MissHoneychurch]

57. Morning SimplyF

This week was full of work, as usual after a vacation. I take Monday off (Tuesday is a holiday) and go to my mom. My grandma is there also. So I have a long weekend full of family. Gonna be relaxing as well

:hi: :loveya: :hug:

[Callalily]

81. Sounds like a

wonderful weekend, filled with family and friends. Not sure when I'll be able to take a few days off of work. I'm pretty busy lately, but then, what else is new! :rofl:

:loveya: :hug:

[AirmensMom]

61. Guten Tag, MissHC!

:hi: :loveya: :hug:

[buddhamama]

7. Mornin', Bud

MMMM...coffee. Thanks! I slept ok. How are you? :)

two images for your thread

[Guava Jelly]

9. Thank you buddhamama

I will be back to posting the pictures probably tuesday..Since i am moving tomorrow.
And good morning sunshine :)

[buddhamama]

14. you're the sunshine

i am a ray shining from you. thanks for the butterfly. good luck with the packing and the move. it is my wish for you that it'll be a smooth transition with very little stress. :hug:

[Guava Jelly]

17. You are the warmth from the sunshine buddhamama

I am just a

[buddhamama]

31. a symbiotic relationship

:pals: :loveya:

[Guava Jelly]

34. Yup!

I use to catch these lizards when I was a kid living in San Diego.
I sure miss the weather there.

[ScreamingMeemie]

18. Yaaaaay!!!!

All is right with the world now! :hug:

[buddhamama]

30. good morning,Mrs.G

it is good to see You, my dear Mrs.G !!! :loveya: :hug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

33. It's good to see you too!

:loveya:


It's so very freaking cold this morning. I've got to be in the car at 6:20 to get my daughter off to school and the coldness makes me want to go back to bed.

[buddhamama]

36. i hear you, Mrs.G

it is cold here this morning too. climbing back into bed and snuggling into the covers sounds good to me too.
bundle up when you go out, dear one. :loveya:

[billyskank]

10. Hey

:hug:

[buddhamama]

16. hey, sweetie

good to see you. :hug:

[billyskank]

21. Good to see you too

:loveya:

:*

[ScreamingMeemie]

19. Hi billy!!!

:hug: :loveya:

[billyskank]

22. Hi MrsG!

:loveya: :hug:

:hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

23. It's c-c-c-o-o-o--d-d-d today...

In Celsius, it's close to zero... brrrrrr. :hug:

[billyskank]

26. It is far milder here

I don't think it has gone below 15C yet.

Have a hug to warm you up. :hug:

:loveya:

[ScreamingMeemie]

27. I'll take it!

:hug: and give one back. :hug: okay...two then. :D :loveya:

[buddhamama]

32. awww

i am smiling a big ol' smile. My Adorables! You two always brighten my day! :hug:

[billyskank]

35. That just makes it even better

And your PM that I read at breakfast made me smile all the way to work. :hug:

:loveya:

[buddhamama]

37. ...

your PM mad me smile too. You are a sweetie, Sweetie. :hug: :loveya:

[Callalily]

44. Good morning,

and thanks for the coffee and the croissant. I really need both this morning. Right now it's 43 degrees outside and most like 38 in my house!

[Guava Jelly]

46. Good morning to you

I hope you slept well
And the coffee is excellent today :)

[Callalily]

48. Yes, the coffee is

excellent, thanks again. Must be free-trade coffee - I can tell.

I slept like a log last night, but I think it's just from sheer exhaustion.

[Guava Jelly]

50. I am glad you slept well

What made you so exhausted?

[Callalily]

53. Work, work and more work!

And checking the old clock, I've gotta go fill up my travel mug and head outta here.

Wishing you a great day!

[Guava Jelly]

55. you also take care

:)

[AirmensMom]

62. Good morning, SF!

:hi: :donut: :loveya: :hug: I hope you get warmed up soon!

[Heidi]

52. Mornin', sunshine.

:hi:

[Guava Jelly]

54. Good morning Heidi

Do you have a busy day ahead .
and thank you for you know what.
:hug:

[Heidi]

56. I do everything I can to make sure that my Fridays are _not_ busy.

:D

:hug:

[billyskank]

69. Hi Heidi!

:hi:

:hug: :*

[AirmensMom]

58. Good morning, GoPsUx!

:hi: :donut: :hug: That sure looks yummy! :9

[Guava Jelly]

60. Good morning AirmensMom

And it's always better with great company like you.
:hug:

[AirmensMom]

63. Oh my!

Go ahead and make me blush first thing in the morning. :blush:

It's good to see you ... and the crew that followed you in today. :hug: :grouphug:

[Guava Jelly]

66. My pleasure

:hug:
:loveya:

[vickitulsa]

64. And good morning (a bit late) to you all.

I say "a bit late" because I've been up for some time already ... Bebo insisted.

I still made him wait while I jumped up shivering to turn the AC OFF, refilled my essential oil diffuser and added the eucalyptus and pine needle oils, lit a couple of candles to increase the warmth of the room just a tad, checked the Weather Channel for the current temp (52F, with outlying areas in the 40's) and forecast, then watched a bit of an "Angel" rerun as I made my first cuppa cappu and sipped it down to warm up, checked the Greatest page to see what topics were being most discussed (and replied in one thread), and then got up to dress warmly for my morning tasks outside.

It's still totally dark here in OK, but I could already hear the familiar sounds of the freeway traffic picking up not far away, a couple of the early risers in this park starting their cars and slamming doors, and of course Bebo rattling his long tie-out chain a bit as he checked the immediate area for CATS to chase off.

No cats this morning -- now THAT's a surprise! As the nights get cooler, the semi-feral cats around here tend to seek out warm spots under my RV and in my flowerbeds where a veritable "forest" of canna lilies offers a lot of wind protection and good cover for them. Yesterday morning Bebo even discovered one cat asleep in HIS DOGHOUSE!

He didn't like that one bit -- and can ya blame him? He chased that one off pronto, and that was the first place he looked this morning. :D

So then I filled all five of my bird feeders with their favorite mix containing cracked corn, and took Bebo back off his chain and walked him on the long leash down past the new neighbor's place where his pair of chihuahuas have left a lot of their scent for the Beebster to investigate (and leave his mark behind, of course). ;) The sum total weight of all three of these dogs might be as much as 25 pounds! But of course it's all about the intimidation factor when each of these three males tries to mark the area the most. :rofl:

Back inside to make my second cuppa cappu, snuggle back under the covers, and then, "a bit late," check in at the Lounge to see if anyone else is up and posting yet. So nice to see you all here. :hi:

I'm just happy that I don't have to even THINK about packing and unpacking anymore, even if I move, because all my belongings are inside this little old motorhome and all I have to do is secure a few items, start the motor, and drive away if I need to move! :bounce:

So you're coming to MO to live now, GoP? Did I get that right? Glad to have you for a (state) neighbor! Tulsa is in northeastern OK, not far at all from KS, AR, and MO. My favorite cousin lives in Columbia -- he's the morning guy for the NPR affiliate station at MU.

So where are you gonna be setting down your new roots?

[Guava Jelly]

65. Westport Kansas city ,mo

http://www.westporthistorical.org/
Looks like you had a busy morning :)

I live in Kansas City, Ks right now surrounded by conservatives.
But where i am moving is a very big liberal pocket.

So it is definately a good move :)
and good morning to you

[vickitulsa]

89. Thanks! Your new home looks to be in a terrific place.

I knew that area had a fascinating history, but it was interesting to read more about it and learn just HOW historic it is. :)

I once lived in Leavenworth -- for three weeks, back in the early 80's. My second hubby and I hadn't planned for it to be such a temporary stop, but you know how life is: plans change, opportunities arise elsewhere, and we up and move again!

Never have forgotten those three weeks in Leavenworth, however. Who could? We lived there in August, I believe it was '82, and the only apartment we could find in a hurry after honeymooning along the way from Tulsa northward was in Leavenworth's DOWNTOWN area. Little walk-up apartment over the Pizza Twist, where the jukebox downstairs boomed away and vibrated our floors right up till midnite every night.

And it was sooo HOT that summer!!

That was before refrigerated air conditioning was the norm everywhere, remember. The high had reached 110F that day and the city streets and buildings were holding the heat well, with two-story buildings blocking any breeze that might have existed outside.

In order to try to get to sleep our first night, we were soon reduced to removing most sleepwear, throwing even the topsheet off, and I finally had to wet a washcloth and wipe my face and self with it just to try to bring down my core temp. (I always overheat easily anyway; been that way all my life, just like my mom ;))

I can laugh about the situation now that it's just a bad memory, but that level of heat was truly dangerous.

The entire front wall of the apartment facing the street was filled with tall windows -- the old kind that were intended to be very openable, except of course a few of them weren't because they were stuck or painted shut. But those were the ONLY windows in the entire flat, meaning there was NO cross-ventilation at all. Our little old landlady had at least brought us a 12-inch oscillating fan that first day, bless her heart.

It was humid, too, though, and putting that one little fan in a window just didn't do much to relieve the misery of that sweltering heat. <fanning myself just thinking of it>

So we moved ourselves out of the back bedroom, pulled down the old-fashioned Murphy bed from its nook in the wall, and tried to benefit from the slight hint of a breeze the fan stirred up in the living room.

Just as we were almost getting to sleep after the jukebox's bass rattles ceased and all was quiet, Gary and I discovered slowly that we were being eaten alive by BEDBUGS!!!!!!!

I kid you not -- actual, thriving, and very real, live, squirming, biting bedbugs!

I have no idea how long they may have been "growing their economy" in their colony there in the Murphy bed, since it's quite possible it hadn't been used much by previous tenants. Our sweet little old landlady may well have had the place fumigated before we moved in, since it's logical to guess that the poison wouldn't have reached those bedbugs even if she had done that.

IT. WAS. MISERABLE!

Once we figured out what it was that was burrowing under our skin and devouring our bodies, making us scratch and claw at ourselves in desperation, we knew there would be NO SLEEPING that night.

Poor Gary still had to go to work the next morning, his first day on the new job that had brought us to Leavenworth in the first place. He had to leave early, drive to Kansas City -- the MO side -- find his new employer's main office to check in, and then find the construction site where he was to be the new supervising Civil Engineer.

I have no idea how he managed to survive that day -- out in the blast-furnace-like heat on a construction site where he had to wear protective gear to do his job!

I know it was one of the most painfully insufferable days of my life to that point -- and the memories, obviously, are still extremely vivid even 25 years later! :blush:

So, now that I've bored you all to tears (if you got this far) and brought those memories to life again by describing them in detail, I can use those images and feelings to help WARM myself with my thoughts as the temps here have dropped so much overnight!

.... always a silver-lining benefit to almost every UNpleasant thing we experience or remember.... Yup, that's my belief, anyway, and I'm sticking to it! :hi:

[Guava Jelly]

92. We do have some pretty extreme weather here

Sounds like you went through hell
:hug:

[RetroLounge]

70. Good Morning

Thanks for the coffee...

How's the guitar playing coming along?

RL

[Guava Jelly]

71. Very slow

But the fingers are feeling better.
I have been doing so much in preparation for my move that i havent been able to practice as much.
Hows the book thingie going ?
And good morning :)

[RetroLounge]

86. Sales have beun to pick up...

:D

Having fun doing it...

RL

[MissMillie]

72. that's a picture

good morning!

[Guava Jelly]

73. you got me there

and good morning
here is a flower for you

[BarenakedLady]

74. Actually

I slept like crap. How crap sleeps, I don't know. But I imagine not very well.

Good morning!

[Guava Jelly]

75. Good morning to you Body parts lady

:)
sorry you slept so crappy.
:hi:

[BarenakedLady]

78. Thanks

Maybe I can sneak in a nap later.

:hi:

[billyskank]

76. Hi BnL!

Sorry you slept like crap. A log would have been better. :hi:

:hug:

[BarenakedLady]

Yes definately

I'll try to channel being a log next time. :hi:

:hug:

[Guava Jelly]

77. I am going to go lay down for a while

So if i miss any good mornings i will dole them out when i come back
:)

[miss_american_pie]

79. Good morning

Happy Friday! :hi:

[billyskank]

82. Happy friday!!

'pie is here! :bounce:

:loveya:

[miss_american_pie]

85. Awww

:blush: :loveya: :hug: :hi:

[Guava Jelly]

87. Good morning miss_american_pie

hope you slept well


:loveya:

[miss_american_pie]

96. Oh thank you

That is gorgeous. :loveya:

[Guava Jelly]

97. you are welcome

A flower for a flower :)

[Mutley]

80. Good morning!

It was an exciting day yesterday. I had to go to Frederick for an HR meeting, then we got some killer storms in the evening. TWO tornadoes touched down not far from me. :scared:

[billyskank]

83. mutley!!!

Glad you didn't go all Wizard of Oz on us. :hug:

:loveya:

[Mutley]

84. billy!!!

Yeah, me too. :hug:

We had hail 'n' everything. You just don't see that kind of ferocious storm in Maryland very often.

:loveya:

[Guava Jelly]

88. Good morning Mutley

hope you had pleasant dreams

[Mutley]

90. Tee hee!

Thanks. :hug:

[Guava Jelly]

91. My pleasure

:)

[Haole Girl]

93. Good morning!

:hi:

[Guava Jelly]

94. Good morning to you KC2

Hope you slept well.
:)

[Haole Girl]

95. Yes, I did...thank you!

Now that the weather is a little cooler here, for the last week or so, I've slept quite well!