Off Topic Part Deux

[Carlawarla 1]

Good Morning. Coffee is served.

Have a great day, and be safe everyone!

[thetreble 19]

Krikit..you are SO BAD. But I don't blame you ONE bit.

Morning yall! Heading off to La Canada tonight. Hopefully should get there around 1am or something rather.

[Flames9_RN 358]

Had a great time yesterday riding the rollercoasters st Busch gardens and taking in the free budweiser samples,lol Think we will head back tomorrow morning for some more rollercoaster craziness.

[trailmix 77]

Had a great time yesterday riding the rollercoasters st Busch gardens and taking in the free budweiser samples,lol Think we will head back tomorrow morning for some more rollercoaster craziness.

Weeee roller coasters...not. I have never been a roller coaster person but I wish you many hours of happy rollercoaster times flames

Well this morning my Husband heard this huge bang and so he peeked over the fence to see some woman with her car parked just around the corner from us. Next thing you know the police are at the door.

Apparently she had hit our garbage bin. My Husband had just taken the garbage bin back in, so he could see what the noise was, had left it out overnight as he brought dinner home last night.

Anyway the police officer asks him where the bin was - was in on the Ashphalt?, so my Husband told him no, and showed him where it was, he then asks if we rent or own this house and if that is our car in the driveway and asks who it is registered to. So he answers all that and that is that.

Why would you call the police if you hit a garbage bin?

[Ban Hammer 13,293]

good morning all.

property taxes, bleh.

[SpiritAlight 1]

Good Morning All,

Groggy...although I wake up early I move around too slowly in the Winter.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, and in the meantime I, along with millions of others, are blanketed in extreme (painful) cold and snow.

Not fun.

The fun snow is the kind on mountain tops that you hike/climb or play in.

This snow on the cold flat-lands cannot even be made into a snow being.

Living in the city, as opposed to when I got here last Winter and we lived in a suburban house with a small garage, means the car (we hardly use) needs to be chipped out of the ice and snow and what with it being a sports car maybe it is time to think of just storing it in the garage for the season.

It is getting wrecked in the, now Winter, city. No one, my sweetie included, believes in Winter/snow tires here.

I think locals are just dense in their old beliefs that this city does not get snow. Huh? Wakey wakey shake 'n bakey: there's snow!!!!

Update people, update!

Grrrr.... oops I guess this belongs in the vent thread. Sorry, got carried away. Phew.

Awaiting the cold snap to break.

Tic toc tic toc....

Your stories are hilarious Krikit!

Try a disguise...perhaps the rubber nose and mustache?

Sounds like quite the interrogation there Trailmix. Hmmmm...overkill? Hee, hee.

Be safe everyone travelling North or anywhere really.

[trailmix 77]

Yes, seem like a lot of questions for a garbage can, in hindsight, although they probably ran the address and the license plate to make sure we weren't criminals.

Spirit, do you not have a trip to a warmer clime in the near future??

[trailmix 77]

Oh and it is a beautiful day here in Central FL, here is a pic for you Spirit!

[SpiritAlight 1]

:crying: :crying: :crying: :crying:

I do have some plans, nothing concrete, yet.

I may go and stay with my wonder-full stepmominlaw (hee hee) in Santa Rosa Beach, FL.

I loved it there when we spent an extended amount of time around my sweetie's dad in January and then again Apr-May this year.

She asked when I was coming...perhaps mid-January.

Not soon enough.

HA!

Actually I was trying something:

to find a temporary home in Seattle so that I can go and scope things out for us.

And so, what with the weather being treacherous there, I am going to wait until later.

Yes, we are going to leave this megalopolis.

I am looking so forward to it.

The light at the end of the tunnel is now, finally near.

YIPPEE!!!!!!

All that begging was getting tiring.

[trailmix 77]

:crying: :crying: :crying: :crying:

I do have some plans, nothing concrete, yet.

I may go and stay with my wonder-full stepmominlaw (hee hee) in Santa Rosa Beach, FL.

I loved it there when we spent an extended amount of time around my sweetie's dad in January and then again Apr-May this year.

She asked when I was coming...perhaps mid-January.

Not soon enough.

HA!

Actually I was trying something:

to find a temporary home in Seattle so that I can go and scope things out for us.

And so, what with the weather being treacherous there, I am going to wait until later.

Yes, we are going to leave this megalopolis.

I am looking so forward to it.

The light at the end of the tunnel is now, finally near.

YIPPEE!!!!!!

All that begging was getting tiring.

Yay!

Why aren't you moving to a warmer place?

[SpiritAlight 1]

:crying: :crying: :crying: :crying:

I do have some plans, nothing concrete, yet.

I may go and stay with my wonder-full stepmominlaw (hee hee) in Santa Rosa Beach, FL.

I loved it there when we spent an extended amount of time around my sweetie's dad in January and then again Apr-May this year.

She asked when I was coming...perhaps mid-January.

Not soon enough.

HA!

Actually I was trying something:

to find a temporary home in Seattle so that I can go and scope things out for us.

And so, what with the weather being treacherous there, I am going to wait until later.

Yes, we are going to leave this megalopolis.

I am looking so forward to it.

The light at the end of the tunnel is now, finally near.

YIPPEE!!!!!!

All that begging was getting tiring.

Yay!

Why aren't you moving to a warmer place?

Now that is a good question.

Seattle is as close as we can get to living somewhere we both like and be close to my people in Vancouver, without actually living in Van.

Personally I'd like to have tried San Francisco or even better Hawai'i (oh me and my delicious fantasies), and yet...money is a factor but even more than that it is my sweetie's fear of stepping into the unknown.

Seattle is also unknown to him, hey everything is...he was born and raised here in Chicagoland and so...

ripping out of here may not even work.

Time will tell.

I can put him in touch with the racing (sailing) community there and he can meet people as well as he likes to do indoor climbing (another community)...I told him he could do real climbing out West. Mountains galore!!!

The thing is, hmmm...how to say, I am not feeling rest assured that he will like it anywhere but here.

That's okay. If he truly wants to experience something different in his life, he will do it.

I cannot make him.

No one can make anyone do something.

And me, well, I do not like it here.

The climate...the noise.

There is no solace anywhere.

No sacred place.

You know what I mean?

So...like I said once:

is there really such a thing as compromise?

Hahaha!

I need to take a current photo and post it as it looks outside my windows now.

Please stand by...

[trailmix 77]

Standing by for freeeezing photo!

What you are proposing makes sense and it is kind of an ideal spot for you in terms of location and friends.

Ahh Hawaii, my BIL is enroute as we speak, back to Nebbie. They still don't know if he is going to accept the job there. Their offer, while very generous in any other state - just doesn't really cut it in oh-so-expensive Hawaii - so they will talk to the people again in a week or so.

[SpiritAlight 1]

Yup, I will go outside only if I absolutely need to and I will dress in full foul weather gear...snow pants et al.

Those are my front windows and view from the inside.

Brrrr....the wind...it is coming down pretty hard again too.

It's beautiful to look at...

[SpiritAlight 1]

Standing by for freeeezing photo!

What you are proposing makes sense and it is kind of an ideal spot for you in terms of location and friends.

Ahh Hawaii, my BIL is enroute as we speak, back to Nebbie. They still don't know if he is going to accept the job there. Their offer, while very generous in any other state - just doesn't really cut it in oh-so-expensive Hawaii - so they will talk to the people again in a week or so.

Yes, enough money thrown at him to live comfortably and he'll say yes.

Mmmmm...I wish him good luck and much success.

Seattle....I have visited there a few times and I liked the feel of the place.

Honestly though my motivation is to be near my very close friends...I miss and need them near me.

[MrsCat 6]

Yeah Spirit! Warmer country.

I know of a perfect home in Vashon, right across the Puget Sound from Seattle.

If you need some Hawaiian time, our home is always open to you both. Better yet, come over in a sailboat and hubby will ask that you remain forever.