Hmmm. That reminds me. I was kissed by a boy in grade 3. In the school yard. I punched him in the face, and threw him to the ground. My Mother; who was my teacher that year (damnit!), gave me a detention.

What's the matter, Ruth? You don't want any sugar with your coffee?

LMAO at Ellis and her undercurrents. Nope. Gimme Scotch!

Good morning, Annex!

morning..

got the coffee ready?

I just got back from the Y, Annex. I'm going to grind my beans right now! Come on over. And bring NY with you.

lol you sure

you know that if I bring NY I'm gonna have to bring Isabel (weather news) with me lol

Ellis-SURE! YOU'LL GRIND BEANS WITH ANNEX, but with ME you're all like, "Go ahead, grind up your hand, see if I care!!!" Seriously though.....No, we have a safety grinder that only works with the top on, but I'm so out of it in the morning I figured I'd probably find a way to shred my hand SOMEHOW!!! (I once grated my finger along with some cheese.....)

Annex-Take Isabel with you, Ellis LOVES surprise guests!!!

Ruth-Today we need to talk about tolerance.....RRRIIIPPPPP........(sound of needle being pulled off record.) MARTINIS!!!! Haven't had any in YEARS and my sis loves 'em, so guess what I'll be having sometime while she is here!!!!

Squeak-Ellis' pill was stuck in her THROAT you naughty girl.....You need a spanking!!! I didn't get my coffee until I got to my parents' house. it is a miracle i got there alive. When we got to the airport we IMMEDIATELY got more. Nephew is bigger than last time I saw him (DUH!!) and still a sweet little guy. Can't wait for my boys to meet him tonight!!!

Sflake-I had to make the same decision about a good (ex) friend of mine. When the relationship is damaging it needs to stop. Doesn't make it easy though!!!!

ooooo la la! I've never had a martini! (didn't even taste WINE until I was about 24) I've been looking for martini glasses (preferably for about a buck each) so I can have a cocktail party.
All the women there must be fat. And they'll wear wigs. And false eyelashes. And psychedelic polyester dresses.
And the men will wear suits with cuff links. And dark rimmed glasses. And Brill Cream.

Den, I did that once with a grater. Oh, and I made beans once in the crock pot, and cut a piece off my finger which accidentally went into the pot with the beans. They were incredibly tasty. I figure it was a substitute for the pork fat that I'd deliberately left out of the recipe.
Stop socializing with your darned sister and nephew and come and visit us up HERE! Hey... the boys must be SO excited seeing their cousin for the first time!

Annex, are you battened down? It always surprises me that we haven't figured out how to control the weather yet. Well, we have, but I'm not talking global warming and other stupid destructiveness on our part.

Speaking of green, this is a free advertisement for the Green Party of Canada. I am voting Green, and I fully expect all of you other Canadians to follow suit. Your vote DOES count! Stop being wishy washy!! Stop compromising yourself!! This is not an invitation to start a political debate. I am ORDERING you to VOTE GREEN!!

By the way, I've just taken my vitamin. I'll let you all know if someone needs to come over and perform the heimlich.

Ellis I will come to Canada and vote green. I simply can not believe that the leaders of my country recently voted to allow big companies to continue to ruin our planet because it would cost them too much $ to fix their freakin smoke stacks. Ok I'm done now

My first kiss was age 12 with Jonathan Wilson - found out MUCH later he was just dating me to be able to fondle my dirty pillows.

I hated frenching, but the thing to do back then (boarding school) was sneak out with your friends at night (forbidden in the strictest terms), meet your boyfriends and snog on the dorm porch (and pray to God that the night watchman is on the other side of campus). He kept coming at me - yes, with the gaping mouth, 2dog, and would run his tongue all the way around his lips just before....**shudder**

Once I told my dorm mother I couldn't keep anything down and she tried to get me to take nausea medicine in suppository form. Like ****. I was 16! Is THAT where your pill was stuck, Ellis? Hmmm? **my face after inserting suppository**

Well, for the Swank Lounge Party, we bought the Cute Boyfriend a purple brocade smoking jacket and a leopard print fez. So damn cute I can hardly stand it.

We decided to go with plastic martini glasses because I'm quite attached to my own martini glasses and drunk people tend to drop things... a lot.

So far my drink menu consists of a pitcher of "real" martinis (gin martinis, which I can't stand), a pitcher of cosmopolitans (my fav), a pitcher of Mojitos (cuban mint martini), a pitcher of Flaming Keikos (We haven't decided what is in this drink, we just thought the dog should have a drink named after him). One of my pregnant friends is coming so, I'm also making a non-alcoholic punch (made out of Hawaiian punch, 7-up and rainbow sherbet, if you've heard of this one, you might be from the south).

Sounds like fun Jessica! My DH is dying to get a fez!

Looks like we're in for some stormy weather on Friday here in the Toronto area. Geez, everyone at work is freaking out that their house might blow away....I guess living out on the east coast we caught a lot of hurricane tails, so I'm used to it. Now if I could arrange for a house to blow away and drop itself on the wicked witch I have to tolerate at work....actually, that's an insult to witches everywhere....she's more of a wicked *****....but I digress...

So I'm running on three 14 hour work days in a row, just got back from picking up hubby at the airport, and have slept a total of 12 hours since Sunday...I'm a little wired... Imagine if I'd taken MY vitamin today? I forgot. Shouldn't have had that coffee at the airport.

First kiss.......I was 14 and my BF was much taller than me...which was rare at that age because I was already 5'8"....anyway, he overestimated his lean factor and smacked his teeth off mine.

Hey Annex...when did you sneak in here? Nice to meet you!

Ruth, cheers to a good day, and may there be many more.

ellis, the next time you get a pill stuck, try a little lubricant... Like um....olive oil? WD-40? Yeah, you wouldn't have to taste it...those cans come with that straw do-dad you could get a shot down your throat...fix you right up...

I think it's so cool that Sister Jennifer posts with us. Hi Jennifer!

mauvais, do you throw pennies in your pond and wish the boss away? Or is it large enough to dunk his head in and hold him under? Oh my....maybe I shouldn't give you any ideas.

*drat* I still have to do laundry tonight...better scram. Hi Den, Squeak, Sooz, Jessica, Cerise, Sflake, 2DogMom, and everyone else!

Oh my gosh, nobody here liked French kisses when we were young? I loved it! I didn't like the wintergreen, but oh my kissing was great. I LOVED my first kiss though. I used to watch him every day. He lived next door to my sister Amy for a while. I stayed with her for 2 weeks when my parents went on vacation. This would put me at about 11 and Amy about 19. I would put in Amy's 8-Track of Leo Sayer singing " I Love You More Than I can Say" and watch him walk to school.....Sigh...Ooohhhhh whooooa, whooooa, oh-oh- I love you more than I can sayyyyyyyy, I'll love you twice as much tomorrow....etc. Nuff mushy stuff.

Den, speaking of grinding stuff up - I remember Suzanne used to have these LONG nails. She had cooked up a pot of something - chilli,witches brew, or something good like that, and after we started eating, she realized she had chopped off her fingernail. We were hungry so we kept on eating, and just looked closely. I don't think we found the nail. We probably washed it down with Pina Coladas, so my mind is fuzzy!.