Not location specific, No rules: Welcome to ILX heaven

Follow my friends.

Also, well done Patita!

You is friended. I still cannot see mr_teh_kit but I have friended the Good Colonel.

It seems like Beth leaving the island should be an occasion for those flashing highway signs:

CAUTION 9/15/07-9/19/07
BETH PARKER OFF ISLAND
BE ALERT DON'T GET HURT
OFFER SHINY ROCKS/BEER

Not beer, if she's driving. Seems the red lights are enough for her.

I think the rocks would be more of a problem, concentration-wise!

Not beer—red wine, like the lights!
Kv-Nol, if you don't stop fretting about your postcard to me I'm going to send you another postcard, just so you can amuse us all with your DOUBLE FRETTING.

Beth--I was confused by your beer run for your son!

btw, I feel that I can rib you because there is a BOX headed your way.

should we all send kv_nol things so that he'll be awash in fret?

Yes!

I am excited re: box!

I can't wait to move into our new house. Just starting to have had quite enough of living in one room with the 4 of us -- although the view out the window is so nice and all. I had hoped we'd be in by Sept. but not all the windows and doors are trimmed yet, and there's still the final coat of paint (robin's egg blue in my bedroom) and flooring and appliances and toilets to install, etc., etc.

Missoula, oh I have fond mammaries. For me growing up, Mizzoo was The City. I was confused when I started college in CT and everyone kept saying they were from The City. They thought I was cute when I asked, "which city?"
Missoula's cool, though. It's got Rockin Rudy's.

apparently rockin' rudy's sells these t-shirts now:
https://secure.goomzee.com/imageserver/71/images/poodle%20free.jpg

Puck is a member of the Citizens for A Poodle-Free Middle Road.
Billy and Emily's poodle torments him.

I haff kilt alla da thread. I go to bed.

Rufus took Billy's offer of a job very seriously last time we were there. He's been trying to settle on a job but is thinking scientist might not be for him cuz of the white lab coats. Carpenter might be for him since Billy offered him a job. But really he just doesn't want to work and wants us to keep working to buy him toys (he says). He'll make a great islander.

should we all send kv_nol things so that he'll be awash in fret?

-- patita, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 01:30 (Wednesday, 5 September 2007 01:30)

Yes!

-- Beth Parker, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 01:32 (Wednesday, 5 September 2007 01:32)

NO!!!

Anyway, have brought in the card, will send today so no need for me to fret anymore :)

WTF. Where is everyone!

I am eating grapes and watching a dangerous deadline approach.

I want to send things. Except it takes me forever. MONTHS to send Nath one.

WTF. Where is everyone!

I am sitting at work. Bored. Drawing eyes. Counting minutes. I have once again become a slave to the flexi-clock.

What "things" do people send each other? I can't remember the last thing I sent anyone (other than cheques & stuff).

I hear ya :( (xpost)

I have received a card and will send a card. Send your address to me and I'll send you one at some point if you like.

Have visitors for 3 days. Why won't they leave me alone!

a slave to the flexi-clock

I thought that said "flexi-cock". Hmm.

I sent Nath a couple of handcrafted things and knitting and sewing supplies. I assume the other boxes flying around aren't quite so specific.

Why onimo, that's like asking an employee of the Mafia what they do for a living! They do "things". We send "things"! kv_nol, you have every right to be scared!

First rule of Things: don't talk about Things!

I've long since given up on using flexi-time to build extra leave. Now I just work about an hour extra on a Monday. Then for the rest of the week I get an early train, take a short lunch, and I leave as early as I can.
Means I spend more concentrated and therefore less boring time at work, a lot less killing time waiting for trains and more time at home doing stuff I'm actually interested in doing.

It comes down to how much one likes to receive things in the mail, and how easily one is delighted by oddiments.

Ms M I love your splashback on the other thread!

I am scared patita, that's part of the problem!

I am now officially annoyed that I sent the following things in the post over two weeks ago and have received no acknowledgement:

a cheque for €100 to the SPCA where we got Rory
a cheque for €100 to our local SPCA, just because
a wedding present to friends of ours

And nothing! Not a peep! Ungrateful bastards. Hmmph.

a wedding present to friends of ours

Remember the wedding I didn't want to go to? I sent a present off of the registry. Guess what? As to be expected sadly...

Tammy Wynette-ville?

"Stand by your man"??

If it's only a couple of weeks then the wedding folk are probably still on honeymoon/honeymoon comedown. It took us about a month to get thank you cards out: that didn't mean we weren't grateful for all those knives and forks and things.

It's still not happened. I'm just anti the whole thing at the moment!

No, "D-I-V-O-R-C-E"
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Ahhhhh Makes more sense thanks.

If it's only a couple of weeks then the wedding folk are probably still on honeymoon/honeymoon comedown. It took us about a month to get thank you cards out: that didn't mean we weren't grateful for all those knives and forks and things.

The wedding was in June!

And I sent them a big fat Amazon voucher in a card that said "buy your own present, why don't you".

hi, toasted everything bagel w/ light creem cheese and beef barely soup for lunch

is SO GFUCKINAG DGOOD

Hello peoples, I am stealing internets at a friend's house. The Jesus and Mary Chain were awesomely awesometastic and I tried to record them on my phone for Onimo but it didn't work at all. Sorry mate. I shall bore you shitless by wanking on about how grebt they were the next time I see you, if that helps?

New house is also awesome, and Neil did a grand job of tidying it up while I was cavorting round exceedingly muddy fields being stalked by Dave Grohl (seriously, dude was following me everywhere, but no-one I was with believes it was him. It totally was though).

Other bands seen were Jarvis (brilliant), Super Furry Animals (pretty good, but I was fairly drunk by then), one song each by Nouvelle Vague and Go! Team whilst ambling about between stages, Bat for Lashes (yawn), Tilly and the Wall (aces), Rilo Kiley (OK), Candie Payne (started off dull, turned ace half-way through), Regina Spektor (meh), Patrick Wolf (amazing), Teenage Fanclub (sadly underperforming), Big Star (marvellous - came on and said "hi, we're Old Age Fanclub", for massive lolz) and LCD Soundsystem. Managed to miss Bjork totally (no great loss) and the Beastie Boys (even less of a loss), couldn't be arsed walking through mud for the Fire Engines but was told they were shit. I sat in my tent with a bottle of wine and listened to Mogwai and Primal Scream over the wall and they sounded ace, but I was far too muddy and cold and wet to be arsed actually moving to get back into the festival site.

Still, top weekend. First festival I've camped at for ages, but had as much fun as is possible when ankle-deep in mud and completely unable to walk due to 85-mile walk between carpark and campsite with several tons of unnecessary shite on my back.

Oh aye, we saw the Parsonage Choir as well, who are a choir who do choral versions of Johnny Cash and Joy Division and stuff. They were lovely in principle, but a bit less so in practice.

Hi Ailsa!

I didn't realise your new house was in the middle of a music festival. You will be popular.

Um, by which I mean, what festival were you at?

This one: http://www.connectmusicfestival.com/content/

Argh, how did I forget to mention we saw the Polyphonic Spree - they were brilliant. My festival-companion was trying his best to put me off by regaling me with tales of how not-good they'd been every time he's seen them before, but we ended up staying for their whole set and missing Bjork and having stupid amounts of fun.

Ailsa praised the Polyphonic Spree and dissed the Beasties. I shall never play Scrabble with her again.

Ms M I love your splashback on the other thread!

gratzi! They're 1x1 inch glass tiles and we love them too. I wish we could do our entire bathroom in them but they are a bit pricey.

Aw, sorry Sam, but really, the Polyphonic Spree were brilliant, and I wasn't expecting them to be so. Beastie Boys, meh, sorry, don't get it at all.

Haven't checked out the house thread yet, but my parents have just done their en-suite with little glass tiles and they're beautiful. I have inherited a peach-coloured bathroom which I really don't like at all, but I haven't worked out what I want to do to rectify this.

Sometimes I wish I was the kind of person who was prepared to make more of an effort to make the house look the way I want it to. I'd love to have it all done in a kind of atomic style. When my older brother and his wife moved into their house in Glasgow, it had this great deep blue bathroom suite from the 60s that I just loved. They offered it to me, but I couldn't be bothered trying to get it all over to Dublin. I should have, though.

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I was living in Dallas when the Spree first hit it big (that's where they where from.) You couldn't turn around without running into one of them. I always joked that it was my goal to run over at least two Sprees a day on my to work. (Sorry they're too cult-ish and happy-happy-joy-joy for me)

They unfortunately frequented the bar I worked at and when they were on the David Letterman show they even gave a shout out to "Sh1p's Lounge in East Dallas!" One night when I was working, my ex-boyfriend was there with a friend of his. They were commenting on a sketch of me a regular had drawn which was pasted up behind the bar. Right below it was a Spree postcard and I commented that the glory of my portrait was ruined by the shitty band below. The ex's friend said, "I play bass in the Spree." Me: "Oh sorry. I hate your band." He still tipped.

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Make your house Sputnik!

I remember seeing the Beasties on a co-headline with the Rollins Band, the week after RHCP had said they'd never play in Britain again, which must have been about 89? Last time, frankly. The Licence To Ill tour was fun (even the riot at the Royal Court was nearly a laff) but this was just mopey shite.

Stop stop all of you or I shall have to keeeel you!

Misery! Ouch.