The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Goofyernmost]

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.

Absolutely... my idea of roughing it is a Holiday Inn with no room service. Camping is the act of spending a whole lot of money to live like a homeless person.

 

[brb1006]

I wish I could find more fanart of Judy during Valentine's Day

 

[FutureCEO]

PSsst....It's 10:30 and it just hit 0 degrees (-18 Celsius)

 

[FutureCEO]

Good morning NOT!!!!!!!!! It's below 0 with a wind chill of -20 something I'd cry but the tears would freeze instantly!! Tonight's dinner pasta with groundhog bolognese sauce.

I was going to go to the gym this morning but it was -8 so I'm staying home to get warm.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Happy Valentine's Day!

 

[MOXOMUMD]

thats.... something I never seen before.. XD

a bunbun dracula?

Bunny, Cartoon Network just came out with a series based on the book.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Oh, they are.. my town has one of the most cleanest water in the country.
And it doesn't taste THAT MUCH of chlorine.



Must be because I lived most of my life in condo towers that had heavy purifier systems and UV cleaners.
The purifiers removed most of the chlorine taste.

Try living in the country where you have well water. That's what my sister has.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

Am I the only person who's a little worried about what Disney's future plans will be for a brand new electrical parade? Because ever since Spectromagic ended and later got demolished, I seriously hope they can find a perfect way to catch the "Wow Factor" Spectromagic once did. While there are people who love MSEP and even prefer it to Spectro. I'm starting to get a little anxious for a future D23 event where they announce there plans for the Magic Kingdom's 50th Anniversary. I really hope it won't take the PTN approach.

I also really hope the next nightime parade at WDW will have some character selection from past Disney films. Especially after seeing videos of Dreamlights over the years.

I liked both MSEP and Spectromagic, but I LOVE Paint the Night. I would like something like it to replace MSEP at the Magic Kingdom. But I don't want a copy of Paint the Night to come to the MK. I am not a fan of cloning everything into parks around the world. I want lots of reasons to travel to the different Disney parks. But Paint the Night is awesome, great song (a nice blend of funky with the original MSEP song), and the floats are so bright and fun but I really hope MK can create something to outshine it.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Earthquakes always are a frightening thing. Scalia on the other hand that is just too creepity. A 79 year old goes to sleep early saying he isn't feeling well. He doesn't get up to go hunting with the buddies and they just go without him and found later dead. Who doesn't check in on someone who is ill before they leave. Then again Scalia was a headstrong man, maybe they didn't know how checking on him would go over with him.

One of my best friends went home from work not feeling well and decided to sleep it off. He passed (at age 27) in his sleep that day from a heart murmur. It happens.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

I used to be really afraid of big dogs. There are specific big dogs that I like now, but for the most part, I prefer dogs that aren't any taller than my knee. I still tend to be a bit distrustful of them.

One of my best friends and I were walking one day. We saw a big dog, and she asked if she could pet it. I backed up five feet. That same walk, we saw a cat, and I got really excited and made friends with it as my friend shook her head at the stark difference in my reaction between the dog and the cat.

I am totally a dog person, but honestly I'm not a huge fan of big dogs. They can be a bit scary. I did grow up with small dogs though, and I think it is all about what people are used to. When hubby and I got our first schnauzer together we took him down to the in-laws at Christmas and all the nieces and nephews were afraid of him (and he was totally loveable), but they all had big dogs and would play with the big dog in the house. I think the sharp high pitched yip that our dog occasionally let out scared the kids.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

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.

I forgot about Nicholas Sparks, he has some good sappy literary candy too. I do like Meg Cabot, she has had some good books, some of the recent ones are a little strange (some vampire thing if I remember correctly). She has also written under Patricia Cabot, and had a couple historical romances. I was pretty lucky in school, and I enjoyed reading the books my teachers picked out. Although I can't say I was a big fan of Mark Twain, it was a bit of a struggle to get through Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Oh, and I don't think I ever completed the Odyssey. One of my favorites from High School English was Oh Pioneers and My Antonia by Willa Cather. If you like a bit of history it is worth a whirl.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

They even made it into a cartoon on Cartoon network. I don't get it but he is cute in a weird way

Ha, should have kept reading. It's bring done by Maxwell Atoms (who did The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy and Fish Hooks) so it has that campy cult classic vibe to it.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

I hope you remembered to get something special for Mrs. Ferret! BTW how was the race?

Race was awesome!

 

[MOXOMUMD]

I wish I could find more fanart of Judy during Valentine's Day

Give it time, after the movie comes out you'll have more.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

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.

We are ELCA. Hubby actually has jumped between the two types. He was ELCA Lutheran growing up and then went to a Missouri synod at college, and then went to a ELCA seminary. I don't think there would be any more jumping around now. The MSL church in town closed down a few years ago and we had quite a few of their members join our church. It isn't like there are a ton of theological differences between the two but somethings were different enough for some of the people to adjust to.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

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 ****. 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.

Never had to read Moby, and never had a desire to. I guess I'm not missing anything. I used to love the Sweet Valley High books as well. Did you know that the author wrote a new one for adults? It continues the story of the girls now into adulthood, it is just one book though. It came out a couple years ago.

I just discovered Sandra Brown, just finished a newer book called Friction. It was very good, I'm going to go back read some of her older stuff. When you mentioned Sweet Valley High, that made me think of Judy Blume, she was a good young adult novelist who has done some good adult stuff too.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Try living in the country where you have well water. That's what my sister has.

The development that my house was in when I lived in Vermont was supplied by wells. In fact, I was on the board of directors for the community owned water district plus was licensed to manage it. Granted they were deep wells, some 700 ft., but, it was the best water that I have ever seen or tasted. It was pumped to a 50,000 gal. reservoir (through the same lines) and then gravity feed to the homes. Very seldom did we ever have to chlorinate unless we had a pipe break or something of that degree of exposure. The reservoir tank was covered and almost none of the water ever saw the light of day until it came out of the taps. Every six months we would shock the tank just to be sure. Water was tested once a month, from random locations in the development and never had a bad reading. If I had my druthers I would always take well water over open reservoirs or lakes.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

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.

Camping...my idea of camping is a hotel room. If I had to be at a campground, there'd better be an RV with its own bathroom involved.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

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!

Yes, it is sad. I wish they could just do their jobs to represent the people and try to make our country a better place instead of addressing their own agendas. But that is never the way it works or has worked. Ok enough politics....

 

[StarWarsGirl]