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WHHOOEEE!!! I just won the dark green sun dragon of Olimpia’s off ebay! I am shocked and appalled at how much I paid for it and amazed and estatic that I GOT IT!!! and it didn’t hacked!!*doing a snoopydog dance* What an Easter present to myself!! That makes 12 orientals, 5 are suns and 3 are LE’s: the pearl/gold, the bronze/gold and now this one. Wow, wow, wow!! Hot diggety dog!! I just need to find the blue suns now! How about that!!!
I don’t quite understand why Travis’s dad doesn’t have parental rights or can’t exercise them when it’s obvious Travis’s mother has demonstrated being such a mental case in front of a juvenile judge. Why can’t he fight for his son with the help of the children’s protective services or the legal system? Why does Travis have to wait to be injured before some adult or protective system steps in and says “No!” He’s a kid! He has a right to be protected against vicious parenting and he shouldn’t have to run away to get it, it’s his by divine and legal right! Doesn’t Travis’s father have visitation rights that can be enforced by the courts or have the mother sanctioned,ie, jailed, if she doesn’t obey the court order? What am I missing? I know she is one vicious woman, but not invincible. (This gets the social worker in me going!)I know I don’t know the whole story, but if you could maybe just fill in a few of the missing pieces so it makes sense to me, maybe I wouldn’t want to go riding right over there on my white horse and starting rescuing lost and injured children! Please?
I gotta agree with twindragonsmum, the English “chips” or fries are like nothing we can get here, they are SO goood! Especially served with fried fish and malt vinegar. I don’t know why we can’t reproduce them here, but no matter what the fish and chips shops say, they just are not the same. Maybe it’s the kind of potatoes or the oil or the freshness, I don’t know, but if I could afford to, I would just fly over for one day, have a Saturday of fish and chips, a play at a West End theater, a Sunday pub dinner with hard cider on tap, and fly back. (What a fantasy!)
I didn’t get one 😥 I got to the store, just in time to see the last one, couldn’t remember my password, got it on email, went back to the store and they were sold out. I was heartbusted!!! If anyony has an extra I can buy, or one I can trade, I have a rainbow young, hatching, male, all mint, and a green young, mother, and male all with some injuries but not bad, and some other pieces like a black-gold male (mint)and a female and baby ki-rin for sale/trade, both mint, and a BG and a ruby hatching (mint). I have been trying to get these posted for sale, but never did, so if they can be combined as a trade or sale,that would be great!Thank you!
She is soo CUTE!! and so different from the usual PYO’s, which is a good thing! This one is SO spring and Easter and new life and joy! Good for you! I really like her!
I’ve got some other pieces to maybe be able to trade for a rainbow emperor if anyone has one they are interested in trading for.
You will be so missed! 😥 😥 Thank you so much for all you have done! You have SO helpful! Your new job had better appreciate you!! 👿 🙂 I hope things go well for you. You will be truly missed!. drgnlvr. 🙁
It really is such a gift! You have such a treasure to pass on to your kids! Unfortunately for me, I gave the tapes to my sister, who now denies I ever did that and she has no knowledge or recollection of them, so they are gone forever and so is my dad. But I have the memories of the stories and my son was able to listen to many of them from him before he died, but that’s all I have and I have a lot of old pictures of him and my mom, which I am very grateful for, it’s more than a lot of people have who lost them all in fires or floods or other disasters. My sister inherited all of the family albums that go back for generations and she stored them in a storage locker in Washington that got flooded and ruined them. She is estranged from the rest of the family including me(her choice) so it’s hard to find out what happened to them after that. But we have what we have and I think that if we can take the opportunity while we can to talk to our older folks and get the stories while they can still relate them, we don’t miss our golden chances. Otherwise, we don’t get another chance. I’m so glad you didn’t miss yours!!! 😀
That’s great, I’m glad you have some mor time with them. One of the things I did when my dad couldn’t do much else was to write down all the family stories he could remember about what it was like for him growing up in his family and what it was like during the wars and the depressiion and what he could remember about his grandparents and what they told him about their grandparents. They are living history books and when they are gone, all that history is gone too. I was interested in the story about my grandmother and the skunk, and the time… those stories. I taperecorded them a little at a time so I could transcribe them later and I didn’t wear him out. I wish I done that with my mom, but she died much sooner. If you can do that, and you or he are interested in that, it can be a real gift later for your family and it doesn’t require any physical exertion on his part, same with your aunt. It’s just a thought. Best of luck with it all!!!
Thank you so much!! It really helps!! I got in my car to go home last night and I had a Bob Marley CD on(a famous reggae artist) and he was singing “No Woman No Cry” and the words “everything’s going to be alright” and the next song was “Lively Up Yourself(Don’t Be No Drag!)” Reggae music really speaks to me! Most of the music is so positive and it has such great rhythms. There is some I don’t like, but that’s true of the other music genres,too. Reggae just lights me up more than most of the other styles. I love Dixieland a close second and opera and disco and dowop and 60’s and Latin and new age and some African and some blues and some jazz and some country and some 70’s and I LOVE Dire Straits! But when I’m listening to something and I think “That is SO GOOD!” it is often reggae. I went to the world’s biggest traditional Dixieland music festival held in Old Sacramento every year for about 15 years. One year they had 105 bands from all over the world, including China. They still hold it over Memorial Day weekend, but 15 years was enough for me. Now I go to the reggae festivals.
Anyway, thank you for listening to me. I’m still hurting a little about it, but not as much. You all (and Bob Marley!) helped a lot. Thanks! 🙂I know! I have trouble changing gears! If I’m doing things at home, I don’t want to go out, if I’m out, I don’t want to go home, if I’m at the office, I want to stay there, if I’m up, I don’t want to go to bed, if I’m in bed, I don’t want to get up. If I start a project, I just want to finish it even if I’m “disausted” as my stepson at 5 used to say. That why I try to allocate whole days to “the office” or “home” or “errands” because I don’t have to do so much changing gears. It doesn’t always work that way, but I try. I tried today but it was an office day and boy! did I get stuck at the office!! That’s where my computer is. Of course I’m talking about weekends, not workdays. I just wish my brain had changed gears a little faster tonight!!
Thanks! It’s nice to know someone is listening! I think part of it is that it was just so unnecessary! It wasn’t that I had a flat tire, or some sort of an emergency, I was just sitting here essentially passing the time on the forum and checking the ebay and doing “nothing” thinking about posting some stuff I’m thinking about selling, etc, but it was essentially unnecessary to missing the performance. I just spaced it! Very frustrating indeed, and very unfixable! No refunds, no do-overs, no repeat performances, not even return engagements, nothing. She may come to one of the reggae festivals this summer I’m going to, one in June and the biggest one in the world in August, they haven’t posted all the artists yet, so maybe, but it won’t be the same. This performance has maybe 200 people, the one in June has maybe 5,000, the one in August has 12,000. Very different. I had the chance tonight to meet her and buy a CD and have her sign it. At the festivals, that’s impossible. Like I said, I’ll get over it, but it’s just so frustrating when it’s so unnecessary! It will take me a little while too! Thanks for the support! I needed that!
