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Mango Tango
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It was very, very close, Nicole. Quite the up and down week, as everyone jockeyed for position.
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Yayayay!!!! Awesome work my mango ladies!!!!
OMG!!!! Just saw the final figures. Go Mango Tango. Fantastic result. Thanks team.... and our awesome Monsieur Mango, of course!Amazing when you think we were 11th at one point.
Yeah we worked our butts off (read our eyes off!) and it paid off! I am sooooo proud of everyone!!!
*high fives for team Mango Tango*Lisa wrote: "Amazing when you think we were 11th at one point."
I was thinking the same thing, Lisa! With apologies to my high school English teacher - he's probably rolling over in his grave LOL - we done good :)
Thanks to the mods for another fun round ... but I'm glad it'll be awhile before the next round (if there is one!) starts up again LOL
No wonder, Barb! I think you read more than three other people! We must keep in contact, though. Otherwise it will be so quiet when I come to visit GR.
We can talk in the sister group mango tango thread! :)
Well, we should all rest up until the next Tower Teams challenge. Maybe we can go one or two better next time. Be afraid, Moonstone, be very afraid, LOL.
where is the sister group mango tango thread?
I wanted to know that too. I thought this was it ;)
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Congrats to Mano tango we did an awesome job!!!! Let's all try to keep in touch Steven & barb don't forget we r doing Gettysburg next September
Sallie(Shuga) wrote: "Steven & barb don't forget we r doing Gettysburg next September"I'm here whenever you get here, Sallie, just let me know :)
Oh you're keeping this thread open too yay!!!And yeah I'll need a reminder when we get close ladies... Work fries my brain cells quickly!
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Continuing on with the TTRC...
For those of you who want to finish what you started, we are leaving the Tower Team Reading Challenges threads, the "sister group," and Team Home Page Challenges open.
Some of you want to finish your Team Mini Challenges for November; some want to see what they can do towards reaching 1,350 (with or without BAPs); others want to go until the end of the year; and die-hards want to go until April, 2014!
Whatever you decide, as an individual Team or Team Member basis, is completely up to you. Even if you are the only Team Member interested in continuing, we're sure the other Teams will interact with you.
We, the Mods and Captain Paige, will do an informal update once a month.
Whatever you decided, remember to have fun! There will be much less pressure, definitely.
As far as Round III, we do NOT know when it will start, but it will NOT be in January. For the next Team Challenge, the other Mods want to do some type of board game that will last anywhere from one to several months.
Well done team, I think we did brilliantly moving from that 11th place up to third.
I say we keep taggin our books until we reach our 1350 without BAPs! :)
Count me in too :) It'll be fun to see how long it takes us to get to 1350 books! Are we going to work from the before-BAP number in the current standings?
I like that idea also. What number did we get up to before the challenge ended, out of curiosity?Also, Mods, which team is continuing till April 2014??
Not sure, Nicole. You'll have to check the Sunday Update (there is a link to it in the comment from the mods titled FINAL UPDATE above)
Count me in as well.
I just finished
and now going to start
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I just finished
and now going to start
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Nicole wrote: "I like that idea also. What number did we get up to before the challenge ended, out of curiosity?"If you do NOT count the BAPs we earned over the course of the challenge, we read 1017 books. So we still have 333 books to go till we reach the goal of 1350.
You guys are a team after my own heart. Yes, let's keep on going till we reach our goal! ( Just going to add the book I finished yesterday....)Done.
It'll be fun to work toward the goal without any pressure :)
Same here. Just doing it for fun :)
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We will have a better idea of this by next month's Update, Nichole.
Congrats to our team! I missed the announcement. This was a perfect storm for the round. I was out of town visiting grandchildren when the round started and out of town for a funeral when it ended.
I'll echo everyone's sentiments, Evana... I am so sorry for your loss! :(
The funeral was for an 89 year old uncle with Alzheimer's. My aunt had taken care of him for 12 years and was going to have to put him in a nursing home on December 3 because she just couldn't do it anymore. There was grief of course but overall it was a celebration of a long life well-lived.Trickiest part was it put me in northern Illinois on Sunday when all those tornados came through. I couldn't believe it when I walked out of lunch at Cracker Barrel and heard the sirens going off. In November??? The damage was largely west of us with just trees and limbs down where we were.
Yikes! Thank goodness you missed the tornadoes! They're scary beasts, and I was very glad we never encountered them during the three years we lived in Kansas *shudders*
Sunday was the worse. I was actually in the middle of the big storm as I live in Illinois. Where I live, we didn't get much damage but a town that is close to us for the people in Illinois go most of the damage. Almost all the town is gone. Us central Illinois people are trying to raise money to help them.
Glad you're safe, too, Nancy Book Lover!
Good that you are both safe. In Denmark we do not have tornados and only sometimes hear about the ones in the States. But these tornados made it to the news as it is obviously unusual to get tornados in autum and they did a lot of damage.
I forgot that you're in Illinois, Nancy, but I'm glad you're safe! My father-in-law and sister-in-law live in Quincy, IL, but I think they missed all but some wind and rain from those storms.
That's all we got in Philo, IL was just a lot of wind and lots of rain.
Saw this earlier today and thought of all the Time Lord fans here: 50 Years of Time Travel in the TARDIS
If you click on the image, you get something a bit easier to read :) And you can hover over one line color to make it stand out.
What an awesome link, thanks Barb!!!
And the anniversary special was AWESOME! Long live Galifrey.
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SUNDAY UPDATE SPREADSHEET
1. Moonstone
2. Electric Lime
3. Mango Tango
4. Pewter Blue
5. Leather Jacket Black
6. Wild Blue Yonder
7. Purple Mt's Majesty
8. Tickle Me Pink
9. Cerulean (Hobbit Blue)
10. Forest Green - tie
11. Mauvelous - tie
12. B'dazzled Blue
13. Blastoff Bronze
14. Radical Red
15. Cadet Blue
16. Magenta Mix-up
17. Atomic Tangerine
Now ranked according to percent of Adjusted Goal:
1. Moonstone
2. Mango Tango
3. Leather Jacket Black
4. Electric Lime
5. Pewter Blue
6. Wild Blue Yonder
7. Purple Mt's Majesty
8. Tickle Me Pink
9. Forest Green
10. Mauvelous
11. Cerulean (Hobbit Blue)
12. B'dazzled Blue
13. Blastoff Bronze
14. Cadet Blue
15. Radical Red
16. Magenta Mix-up
17. Atomic Tangerine