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Songbird76

Songbird76

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Gabe1 said:
My go to author is dead and way to young to have been gone. Erma Bombeck. She made me laugh and still does. I roll towards humor with movies too.

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.


Yeah, I miss Erma Bombeck.
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I have some Erma Bombeck on my shelves, too. I did an excerpt of hers in high school speech and debate. The Hands that Hold the Car Keys Rule the World.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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ajrwdwgirl said:
I keep telling him to watch for openings in the ELCA but he is happy here. A compromise I guess of sorts to stay here...for now....
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Is he ELCA? Or would that be a change or him? I grew up MSL, but sometimes if we were on vacation and there was no MSL church, we'd go to an ELCA or Episcopal, but mom was pretty strict about it. She wouldn't commune if we weren't in a MSL church.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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StarWarsGirl95 said:
Can't say I'm a fan of Twilight, but I like the sappy Nicholas Sparks books, so who am I to judge?

I've just started reading again after years of not reading much (other than Hunger Games. Stayed up until 4 am over spring break one year finishing the first one). Combination of needing reading glasses and not knowing it and school killing my love of reading (seriously, why must everything they make you read in school be so depressing? I can only think of a handful of books I had to read for school that I actually liked). It's taken me a while to get back in the habit of reading since I got my glasses. Now I'm getting back in the habit, although it took rereading books I knew I liked before I could get into any new books. My favorite author is Meg Cabot. She wrote the Princess Diaries books, which were some of my favorites when I was a tween/teen, and she writes for adults too. She's pretty hilarious, and her books aren't that tough to get through. It helped me get back in the habit of reading. I think I've got about four of her books checked out right now from the library.
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Oh, I like Nicholas Sparks, too....and the Hunger Games. I've never read Meg Cabot....I was obsessed with the Sweet Valley High books when I was a teen. My mom gave me the first 2 for Christmas when I had just turned 13 and I spent my entire Christmas break doing nothing but reading and I used my birthday money to buy more. I had never really been much of a reader because it takes me SOOOO long. (I'm dyslexic) But then like you said...high school happened and I didn't like most of the stuff we had to read in school and it took me so long to read those things that I didn't have much time or energy to read anything else. Then in college, a friend recommended Sandra Brown, I read every book of hers that the library had and the librarian suggested Nora Roberts when I ran out of Sandra Brown. I liked Nora even better. And my boyfriend at the time was reading Dragon Lance and Shanara, so I read those, and then I came over here and Harry Potter became popular, so I read those and suddenly I was a voracious reader. Now I read just about anything I can get my hands on. It was just finding the right stuff to read. The one that really turned me OFF of reading for a long time was Moby Dick. I swear that is the most boring book ever written. I couldn't even tell you what it's about now. I had to read it my junior year of high school, and it was assigned over Christmas, so I had to spend my whole break reading and re-reading because it kept putting me to sleep. Horrible book.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Gabe1 said:
You're going to have to reword that one for me. Not sure what you are meaning.
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Apparently some GOPers think Obama shouldn't make a nomination to replace Scalia, and they said they will obstruct for 11 months until Obama is out of office. It's the President's job to make appointments/nominations, and they are basically saying they will not allow him to do that, they will block anyone he chooses. Or at least that's the way I understand it. I haven't had a chance to read up on it..just saw some things on FB, which may or may not be accurate.
 
Figgy1

Figgy1

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StarWarsGirl95 said:
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My dh has a camping trip planned for 2017 up in Maine, I'll find a nice spa to camp out at while the boys sleep in a tent. Last time I went camping was just outside Hershey. Somehow I got talked into thinking it was a good idea to save money. :rolleyes:
 
Figgy1

Figgy1

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StarWarsGirl95 said:
Can't say I'm a fan of Twilight, but I like the sappy Nicholas Sparks books, so who am I to judge?

I've just started reading again after years of not reading much (other than Hunger Games. Stayed up until 4 am over spring break one year finishing the first one). Combination of needing reading glasses and not knowing it and school killing my love of reading (seriously, why must everything they make you read in school be so depressing? I can only think of a handful of books I had to read for school that I actually liked). It's taken me a while to get back in the habit of reading since I got my glasses. Now I'm getting back in the habit, although it took rereading books I knew I liked before I could get into any new books. My favorite author is Meg Cabot. She wrote the Princess Diaries books, which were some of my favorites when I was a tween/teen, and she writes for adults too. She's pretty hilarious, and her books aren't that tough to get through. It helped me get back in the habit of reading. I think I've got about four of her books checked out right now from the library.
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My younger ds is a huge Hunger games fan He's read them at least 3 times so far, Same goes for the Divergent series, Veronica Roth.
 
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Goofyernmost

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Songbird76 said:
Apparently some GOPers think Obama shouldn't make a nomination to replace Scalia, and they said they will obstruct for 11 months until Obama is out of office. It's the President's job to make appointments/nominations, and they are basically saying they will not allow him to do that, they will block anyone he chooses. Or at least that's the way I understand it. I haven't had a chance to read up on it..just saw some things on FB, which may or may not be accurate.
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That is a given, there is no way that they will confirm anyone that Obama nominates. The jerk factor in congress has reached way beyond just a room full of idiots. Yet, we the intelligent portion of the population continue to elect these clowns. It really makes me sad. I fear we are about to collapse as a Democracy. This is the closest we have come to destruction of our system as we have been since the days of McCarthy.

Want to know something else that is scary? Most of the people under 30 today will not have heard of McCarthy without googling it and then will not understand just how far off line the country went back then. I hope they all are happy when the constitution is just a yellow piece of paper with words on it. Very sad!
 

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