Aww, Peaches didn't get a dolly? Maybe Santa will bring you something later. I'm glad all your little charges got presents. Warms the cockles.

I went out to the local Philharmonic society's annual Christmas concert and tea this evening. It was lovely. Afterward, at the tea, I got to hang with DD's ex-h.s. band teacher who is a member and played the flute. She actually flagged me down and begged me to save her a seat. She's about half my age of course, but she is a very fun person and it's nice not to have to relate to her as the parent of one of her students any more. There seemed to be a lot of people at this shindig who knew me whose names I couldn't remember. I need better memory skillz.

Schatzi's got wicked crafting skillz. :drool: Nice stuff!!! :present:

I was going to share my stamp picture ideas, but I got sidetracked by shiny things.....
I can't stop looking at this stuff. It's a computer graphics challenge and some of these are gorgeous! All original artwork made on Paint Shop Pro or other graphics programs.

So yeah, stamps. If you want I can send you the url for my stamps to give you ideas, Peachie. Not on here, in email. I would recommend pics of pets or kids, pretty pics of your house or the views in your town or something cute or pretty that relates to you or the person you're giving them to. I did one of DDbf playing the piano, for his mom. He may not be thrilled to find himself on a stamp, but he can't get mad at me, I'm his gf's mom. Some others of people's kids, one of someone's dogs, and one of a really beautiful picture of the mountain here.

Later gators. I'm starving. I ate no breakfast today, ate lunch at 4:00 PM and have only had coffee and "tea cakes" since then.

And I smell dog poo. :chin:

Kiwi

I was stumped with the stamp thingie too Peachy but Kiwi done figgured it all out! What great idears there kiwonk!
Those paintshop shiny things are purty! I bet our Painty would blow them away with her paintshopping techniques.
To me it sounds like Cowie has the bestest job in the world!

mmm...warm cockles
 

Off topic: I keep closing my eyes real tight and waving my magic wand but my kitchen isn't getting any cleaner. What am I doing wrong?

We have topics? :lol3:

Opening your eyes.

Remember when housecleaning was our topic? Thank goodness we don't have to do that anymore. :lol:

I am a hormonal freak. A little while ago I was getting ready to tell DH this cute story about what the dog just did outside, and then Jet jumped on him and caught him in the face with her paw and he smacked her and I got mad at him, and now I'm horribly depressed and weepy. Within the space of minutes. Interestingly (well, to me), yesterday while I was at OT, the OT guy was going to put a big heavy hot pack on my arm while doing some treatment and asked me if I get hot flashes because sometimes the extra heat can trigger one. It didn't, but it got me thinking about cause and effect. If you're in a sensitive state, and apparently this vile perimenopause or is it premenopause is to say the least a sensitive state, you can expect some extreme reactions.

Well, take care kiddies. Be good.

Kiwi

Speaking of crying ... you can stop. I told the center director today about the little beauty and her mama running off to Colorado. Center director said, "I saw her mama yesterday. I saw her grandma walking and gave her a ride home. She was lying."

Take it easy, Kiwi. Let doggies, dhs and all that just roll off.

No posted for over 24 hours. Remember when I used to get Thursdays off and no one would post? You were all so mean then.

This local cop got busted by Dateline when they did one of those internet-scam-things where they pretend to be a kid and lure perverts and arrest them. So the cop got arrested. Isn't that just weird?

That's gross. Can't trust anyone, can you? You really would think a cop would know enough not to fall for a trap, though. Did he claim that he was doing "detective" work?

I must be a flaming liberal; I can think of all kinds of reasons why the guy might be innocent.

:flame: :flame:

Oy, I need a vacation.

Hey, I'm in luck, vacation is coming up in 4 days! I only have to wrap presents, mail packages, do laundry, pack suitcases, deliver stuff, clean the house, wash the car, make up maps and directions, make reservations, bake something for inlaw dinner, go to inlaw dinner, do some more shopping, think of something for hard to buy for dh. Ohmygod I'm exhausted.

Kiwi

ew creepy
 

I got an email saying that some guy on reunion.com was "responding to my inquiry" -- I don't really remember making any inquiry about him. I did go to his profile when I saw his name, because he was someone I knew in high school. You suppose that constitutes an inquiry? Now he has responded to some of my profile information on there (they have a "blog" area where you answer questions about yourself). I think it's kind of creepy, and I can't decide whether to reply.


kiwi

In other news, I just published my first public zazzle stamp. Hopefully it has been posted by now. I could earn a couple of bucks if anyone ordered it.

Not that I'm suggesting you order it, that would be silly. When I put it on a mousepad, then you can order one.

Kiwi

1. The cop had too much kiddy porn on puter to be innocent.

2. The guy contacting you is probably the same cop. Don't reply. Unless you want to.

3. How come you get a vacation? Do you work?

4. I have to get a $20 Sneaky Santa Gift and Go To A Dinner with the women I work with on Monday. The last time I had to do this, everyone coveted the MANY plug-in light-up or music-playing Christmas thingies brought. I did not want any of them but grabbed the one most coveted by the woman I most disliked and brought it home. It's part of her village I think. I probably threw it out by now.

5. Anyone who watched Amazing Race go to the Cho Brothers web site? alittlekarma.com ... This is very strange to me. What is their purpose? They're selling stuff but have just a few more things to offer than Kiwi and their idea of "random acts of kindness" is to pay bridge toll for a bunch of people. Better, in my opinion, to be the kindness for someone who needs it. Little kids, old people, Republicans, that sort of thing.

6. I went to Kiwi's stamp link (above ) and found zilch. 0 products it says.

Be kind to Republicans
 

I can see zilch stamps too! Tell us what it's like, Kiwi, so we can anticipate .

High school person does sound kind of creepy.

Pervy policeman sounds VERY creepy. Who can you trust these days?

Yeah, my "product" is still not posted :bb:

Re: the Chos -- since you asked (and by the way I do work: I work hard at being bombastic, therefore I need a vacation) here is why what they are talking about is valid: they are not talking about charity, they are trying to encourage random acts of kindness, what they call karmic acts. Random, as in not targeted to someone for a reason. And the reason why this is valid, is that when you do something for someone else, they may be motivated to do something for someone else again and so on. So if you pay the toll of 100 people behind you, you may provide actual needed help to some of them and you will certainly cheer up a lot of them, but more importantly you may inspire some people to do something kind for other people. And the intent is that this snowballs into one giant gelatinous ball of kindness.

However, you may be kind to whomever you wish.

Kiwi

I'm here. It's not the same me, but I'm here anyway. Not feeling too chatty at this point, but I just wanted you to know I'm here lurking --- so behave yourselves.

WABBY!!!! what a relief----to see your name show up is so wonderful---lurk away and post when you feel like it for sure!!!-----we are all here for you ---i am sure you know that.......behaving ourselves will be difficult but for you,i will make an effort!----xoxoxoxo