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Some of my earliest memories are of watching Mork & Mindy on TV as a young kid. He'll be missed.
Same here. He'll absolutely be missed. Depression is such a monster.
And now Lauren Bacall has gone :(
Lia wrote: "RIP Robin Williams... :("Still shocking a day later. Can't believe he's dead.
happy wrote: "maybe it's the old soldier in me, but my favorite Robin Williams movie is Good Morning Viet Nam, esp. one of the final scenes where he talking a bunch of grunts in the back of a duece and half as t..."This is my favourite Robin Williams too. Hands down.
Leslie wrote: "Same here. He'll absolutely be missed. Depression is such a monster."Over here in my rural world we call depression The Black Dog. It hangs around in the background, following you and is hard to chase off.
Beyond chuffed that the Canadians are moving on to the 1/4 finals in the U-20 Women's World Cup. :)
http://youtu.be/RmZ-FuBThuQThis is my favourite! It's a little darker than his usual, but I loved it, I loved the message it sent. It still gives me pause and shivers. A very sad day!
I shared this with my friends on FB. Thought I'd share it here too.....Depression - there are other ways out.....
"This guy's walking down a street when he falls in a hole. The walls are so steep, he can't get out. A doctor passes by, and the guy shouts up, "Hey you, can you help me out?" The doctor writes a prescription, throws it down in the hole and moves on. Then a priest comes along, and the guy shouts up "Father, I'm down in this hole, can you help me out?" The priest writes out a prayer, throws it down in the hole and moves on. Then a friend walks by. "Hey Joe, it's me, can you help me out?" And the friend jumps in the hole. Our guy says, "Are you stupid? Now we're both down here." The friend says, "Yeah, but I've been down here before, and I know the way out." - Leo McGarry, West Wing
I like that! Sometimes those friends who help us out of the black holes are angels unaware: a notice that someone on Goodreads likes your review; anger directed at Goodreads when it fouls up; a hint of hope that a new project could keep you solvent; hearing that a cure for Diabetes Type One may be close; the scales showing that you weigh less than you thought.... These unaware angels are real, but they don't know it.
Kimber wrote: "I shared this with my friends on FB. Thought I'd share it here too.....Depression - there are other ways out.....
"This guy's walking down a street when he falls in a hole. The walls are so steep..."
I really like that quote.
I know the news lately has been a little bumming and I don't want to really take away from any of the current events but......I spent all morning reading Dr. Seuss books to my girls and now I want to read my own book and I can't. I am stuck in Dr. Seuss mode. The Archer's Tale is really hard to focus on when all I want is for all the words to rhyme.
Its probably your coping mechanism Gretchen...Dr. Seuss brings you back to your childhood and "safe place"!
If it is a coping mechanism, it sure is an annoying one! I am spending way too much energy trying to give the words a rhyming rhythm. I just might have to abandon my reading for the day or read my girls something that doesn't rhyme.
Gretchen wrote: "If it is a coping mechanism, it sure is an annoying one! I am spending way too much energy trying to give the words a rhyming rhythm. I just might have to abandon my reading for the day or read my ..."Sometimes when you lose a bit of hope, you turn to books just to cope. But it seems to waste time, when all the words rhyme
And you're left still in the mood to mope.
:)
I have been reading books by Mississippi authors but nearly missed mentioning THE GREAT SPECKLED BIRD AND OTHER STORIES by Perrin Holmes Lowrey, Jr. Mr. Lowrey died in 1965, but I reviewed his book for the local Junta Club in 1978. The book is not listed on Goodreads, but I wanted to give Mr. Lowrey some mention. His father and stepmother were our next door neighbors until their deaths in the 1970's. The author taught at the University of Chicago and had a home in Sweet Biar, Virginia. There may be some members who knew Bud Lowrey. If so, I would love to hear from you.Another Mississippi author not mentioned in my research of Mississippi authors was Brother Autry who wrote DON'T LOOK BACK, MAMMA. He was a preacher at a country church. In the book he described how the church would meet by the creek on summer days. His story of the creek side retreats so perfectly described the beauty of lush, 'green meadows, cool forests, and the stream that would eventually empty into the Mighty Mississippi. I would love to put a small motor boat into our streams and rivers and follow them to their mouths. What fun that would be! The boyscouts have done that in the past. I would join the boyscouts incognito just to make the trip!!
I rather thought this was a cool use of 3-D printing: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsi...Picture books for the blind!
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyl...well we dont have a folder for this. Also you cant get more random than this. ;D
Both are very cool links! Thanks for sharing.
We have a castle thread somewhere that would probably work....This one: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
I have decided I no longer give a toss about what size I am. I went shopping at the weekend, and bought two pairs of trousers and a skirt... all from the same shop. The sizes? A 10, a 12 and a 14. Have decided labels on clothes are just that, labels, and I no longer care as long as my clothes bloody well fit. :p
Margaret wrote: "I have decided I no longer give a toss about what size I am. I went shopping at the weekend, and bought two pairs of trousers and a skirt... all from the same shop. The sizes? A 10, a 12 and a 1..."Yeah, sizes differ like crazy. I can't buy anything unless I try it on first. And then they confuse it, at least in the US, by having the young adult sizes, the petite sizes, the regular sizes, the misses sizes, among others. As long as they fit its what matters, not the number.
Margaret wrote: "I have decided I no longer give a toss about what size I am. I went shopping at the weekend, and bought two pairs of trousers and a skirt... all from the same shop. The sizes? A 10, a 12 and a 1..."*three cheers*
yep, forget about what size you are. Just buy what fits.
Margaret wrote: "I have decided I no longer give a toss about what size I am. I went shopping at the weekend, and bought two pairs of trousers and a skirt... all from the same shop. The sizes? A 10, a 12 and a 1..."After having kids, I've changed sizes so many times, I don't hardly even look at the tag unless it's to notice I've gone down a size. Back to school shopping is such a headache right now because kids' sizes are so different. My daughter wears a different size in every store! Between that and trying to find clothes that don't look like they belong on a bar stool, it's been a trying process. My wine consumption has increased. I am looking forward to the day I have three teenage girls to go clothes shopping with.
I hate clothes shopping with a passion. I prefer to just pick up odd pieces as I see them. To actually have to go looking for specific items is a nightmare to me.I needed trousers for work, so hence the weekend's palaver.
Gretchen wrote: "I am looking forward to the day I have three teenage girls to go clothes shopping with. ..."You sure? My cousin has ONE daughter and even if she likes to go shopping with her she always come back crosseyed and...just cross. Three..? Brr!
Margaret wrote: "I hate clothes shopping with a passion. I prefer to just pick up odd pieces as I see them. To actually have to go looking for specific items is a nightmare to me...."Now, now, don't be mean. Think of all that trousers and shirts waiting sad and alone in shops and hoping that one day someone will bring them home with her...
Gretchen wrote: "My wine consumption has increased. I am looking forward to the day I have three teenage girls to go clothes shopping with..."I'm making a note of this comment. In a few years when you hair has gone white and patchy from pulling on it in frustration and your wine consumption is up to 2 bottles/day we can all look back and say,"Look Gretchen...you WANTED this!"
Well thats my yearly fix of the Red Arrows done! Ok tis not quite Big Ben :Dhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/dorset/content/i...
AWESOME display as always, shame about the rest of the carnival, risk assessment jus to enter & collect for charity these days hence hardley any floats..... :(
Cool pic Andy, saw them 30+ years ago and can still remember it.
Get to see them every year! :) bar one or two when its been clouded off. Most of the grocals (thats tourists of the slow moving variety) gawp at 'em from the beach whereas most locals congregate to vantage points (cliffs etc) at the ends/start of their runs when they come in low about a few hundred feet above your head & begin their head-on-corkscrew run, very spectacular at that level & everyone waves at the smiling pilot :)
Never grow tired of watching them, still gets yer going Ohhhhh & Ahhhhhh
Andy wrote: "Well thats my yearly fix of the Red Arrows done! Ok tis not quite Big Ben :Dhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/dorset/content/i...
AWESOME display as..."
Very cool shot Andy.
My nephew would have loved that. I live about 15 mins away from the airport so with so many planes flying overhead, my nephew has just started a fascination with them. If we are playing outside, he hears it first usually and gets so excited. We have to find it, point, say "plane" and then wave bye bye. Its a very fun game :) so he probably would have freaked out with happiness seeing those!!
Allie wrote: "Andy wrote: "Well thats my yearly fix of the Red Arrows done! Ok tis not quite Big Ben :Dhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/dorset/content/i...
AWESO..."
YES I bet he woulda done a few cartwheels in the backyard as they get very LOUD & very LOW as they scream in overhead, its even better when they split up & then go head-on across the bay, first flying over the clifftops when we're all waving at 'em :D YES Spot the Big Kid!!
Well not cartwheels yet but he's not afraid of noise. But ok, maybe we wouldn't get so close lol. Will be very cool to take him when he's a few years older but who knows, by then he might not like them anymore :/
http://www.raf.mod.uk/reds/displays/2...Corkscrew No.18 - about a few hundred feet above the bay & even closer on the cliff :D
Not sure they go as far as the States thou' but guess there's plenny on the web come the morrow from the carnival.
We had an air show here in Detroit a couple weekends ago but I missed it! That would have been cool to take him. Sorry, I don't the names of any of these things. Its just a really fast plane to me :)
Andy wrote: "http://www.raf.mod.uk/reds/displays/2...Corkscrew No.18 - about a few hundred feet above the bay & even closer on the cliff :D
Not sure they go as far as the States thou' ..."
Aww. They go in a heart shape. How sweet lol.
nice to sit down and see what everybody has been up to. I have spent the last three days, sun up to sun down, painting our paling fence with white wash. Now I know how Tom Sawyer felt. :)
Finally able to start reading and keeping up with things online again! No longer entertaining my exchange student, got a new laptop that hasn't died on me randomly yet, and I pick up my last set of results from school tomorrow. Yay! Suspect more days where I do little else but read are coming up soon. :P
What are you planning on reading when you finally find the time to attack some fiction, Scott?
Currently halfway through Fool's Assassin, the new Robin Hobb book, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Thinking about starting one of the Conn Iggulden books- probably The Gates of Rome and the Emperor series.Only got a month now until I move out to go to uni, so I'm going to try and fit in as many of the books on my to-read list as I can.
I have found a lot of people increase their reading once they start Uni. But I guess it depends on the intensity of the course doesn't it? I suppose there are some that are less demanding than others. :)
Hmmm... Could be true. I can see it being incredibly busy at the start, but perhaps I'll end up with more time to read once it settles a bit. Will find out soon, I guess. :)Have you read anything really good recently?
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Oh I forgot about that one! He was great in it.
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Ah, the birdcage. One of my favorite movies ever.