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  1. #13761
    Quote Originally Posted by ArkieDukie View Post
    No wintry precip here, but the cold temps are making a return. Looks like the new stadium squall parka will be coming back out tomorrow. The wind chill tomorrow morning is supposed to be 10 degrees F!
    I'm trying to work up the courage to take the trash to the curb. Brrrr!

    How did you Lessons & Carols go yesterday?

  2. #13762
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Boston area, OK, Newton, right by Heartbreak Hill
    Had the first rehearsal tonight for Almost Made in Heaven. It's going to be good!!! I've got a great cast.

    Sample dialog

    Jeff: Are you really telling me Carolina - Duke is that big of a deal?
    Laura: Duke - Carolina.

    The actors kept cracking each other up with that exchange. If they can keep it together, that bit will bring down the house.

  3. #13763
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    Seattle, WA
    Quote Originally Posted by Bostondevil View Post
    Had the first rehearsal tonight for Almost Made in Heaven. It's going to be good!!! I've got a great cast.

    Sample dialog

    Jeff: Are you really telling me Carolina - Duke is that big of a deal?
    Laura: Duke - Carolina.

    The actors kept cracking each other up with that exchange. If they can keep it together, that bit will bring down the house.
    Woohoo! Tell me you'll be posting the video on YouTube?

  4. #13764
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    Feb 2007
    Location
    Seattle, WA
    Quote Originally Posted by ArkieDukie View Post
    No wintry precip here, but the cold temps are making a return. Looks like the new stadium squall parka will be coming back out tomorrow. The wind chill tomorrow morning is supposed to be 10 degrees F!
    How do you like the new coat?

    I'm in need of a new rainshell-type parka - I burned a hole in my North Face rain shell (the first item of clothing I bought when I moved to Seattle!) courtesy of the leaf blower exhaust. We have far too many leaves anyways.

  5. #13765
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    Feb 2007
    Location
    Seattle, WA
    Quote Originally Posted by DukieInKansas View Post
    Good song, rotten weather forecast. No sun and the temp dropped from around 40 at midnight to the mid 20s by 10am with a cold wind from the north.
    We've had just the opposite - went from sunny, calm and 20's to rainy, blustery and 40's. I haven't decided yet which is better.

  6. #13766
    Quote Originally Posted by DevilAlumna View Post
    We've had just the opposite - went from sunny, calm and 20's to rainy, blustery and 40's. I haven't decided yet which is better.
    The sun is out this morning. All is good. Cold, but good.

    I hope everyone has a wonderful day.

  7. #13767
    Join Date
    Oct 2007
    Location
    Minneapolis, MN
    Quote Originally Posted by DukieInKansas View Post
    The sun is out this morning. All is good. Cold, but good.

    I hope everyone has a wonderful day.
    Same here...sun was out but it was -5° when i walked to the bus stop this morning. Chilly but a beautiful day none the less.

  8. #13768
    Adventure With Grandma

    I remember my first Christmas adventure with Grandma. I was just a kid. I remember tearing across town on my bike to visit her on the day my big sister dropped the bomb: "There is no Santa Claus," she jeered. "Even dummies know that!"

    My Grandma was not the gushy kind, never had been. I fled to her that day because I knew she would be straight with me. I knew Grandma always told the truth, and I knew that the truth always went down a whole lot easier when swallowed with one of her world-famous cinnamon buns. I knew they were world-famous, because Grandma said so. It had to be true. Grandma was home, and the buns were still warm. Between bites, I told her everything. She was ready for me. "No Santa Claus!" she snorted. "Ridiculous! Don't believe it. That rumor has been going around for years, and it makes me mad, plain mad. Now, put on your coat, and let's go." "Go? Go where, Grandma?" I asked. I hadn't even finished my second world-famous, cinnamon bun. "Where" turned out to be Kerby's General Store, the one store in town that had a little bit of just about everything. As we walked through its doors, Grandma handed me ten dollars. That was a bundle in those days. "Take this money," she said, "and buy something for someone who needs it. I'll wait for you in the car." Then she turned and walked out of Kerby's. I was only eight years old. I'd often gone shopping with my mother, but never had I shopped for anything all by myself. The store seemed big and crowded, full of people scrambling to finish their Christmas shopping. For a few moments I just stood there, confused, clutching that ten-dollar bill, wondering what to buy, and who on earth to buy it for. I thought of everybody I knew: my family, my friends, my neighbors, the kids at school, the people who went to my church. I was just about thought out, when I suddenly thought of Bobby Decker. He was a kid with bad breath and messy hair, and he sat right behind me in Mrs. Pollock’s grade-two class. Bobby Decker didn't have a coat. I knew that because he never went out for recess during the winter. His mother always wrote a note, telling the teacher that he had a cough, but all we kids knew that Bobby Decker didn't have a cough, and he didn't have a coat. I fingered the ten-dollar bill with growing excitement. I would buy Bobby Decker a coat! I settled on a red corduroy one that had a hood to it. It looked real warm, and he would like that. "Is this a Christmas present for someone?" the lady behind the counter asked kindly, as I laid my ten dollars down. "Yes," I replied shyly. "It's ... for Bobby." The nice lady smiled at me. I didn't get any change, but she put the coat in a bag and wished me a Merry Christmas.

    That evening, Grandma helped me wrap the coat in Christmas paper and ribbons (a little tag fell out of the coat, and Grandma tucked it in her
    Bible) and wrote on the package, "To Bobby, From Santa Claus" -- Grandma said that Santa always insisted on secrecy. Then she drove me over to Bobby Decker's house, explaining as we went that I was now and forever officially one of Santa's helpers.

    Grandma parked down the street from Bobby's house, and she and I crept noiselessly and hid in the bushes by his front walk Then Grandma gave me a nudge. "All right, Santa Claus," she whispered, "get going." I took a deep breath, dashed for his front door, threw the present down on his step, pounded his doorbell and flew back to the safety of the bushes and Grandma. Together we waited breathlessly in the darkness for the front door to open. Finally it did, and there stood Bobby.

    Fifty years haven't dimmed the thrill of those moments spent shivering, beside my Grandma, in Bobby Decker's bushes. That night, I realized that those awful rumors about Santa Claus were just what Grandma said they were: ridiculous. Santa was alive and well, and we were on his team. I still have the Bible, with the tag tucked inside: $19.95.

    He who has no Christmas in his heart will never find Christmas under a tree.

    Every little kindness you do during this holiday season is showing Santa to someone. Have a very Merry Christmas.

    And a Happy Chanukah!

  9. #13769
    To avoid any confusion, the above is not autobiographical. Just an inspiring story I wanted to share.

    Hope everyone is having a great day.

  10. #13770
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Arlington, VA
    What a good reminder!

  11. #13771
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
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    Boston area, OK, Newton, right by Heartbreak Hill
    Seventeen posts and 4 more days. I think it's in the bag.

  12. #13772
    Quote Originally Posted by Bostondevil View Post
    Seventeen posts and 4 more days. I think it's in the bag.
    Let's make it sixteen. I like even numbers better.

  13. #13773
    Join Date
    Oct 2007
    Location
    Minneapolis, MN
    SOMEONE DISTRACT ME! I DON'T WANT TO STUDY FOR MY BIOCHEM FINAL TOMORROW!

    oh and now 15

  14. #13774
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    Baltimore
    Quote Originally Posted by bigj4194 View Post
    SOMEONE DISTRACT ME! I DON'T WANT TO STUDY FOR MY BIOCHEM FINAL TOMORROW!

    oh and now 15
    wow I remember biochem 227 at Duke. man that was a lot of memorizing. Not sure if you're going the med school route (as i did), but be prepared to have to relearn all of it again! :P

    goodluck!

  15. #13775
    Quote Originally Posted by bigj4194 View Post
    SOMEONE DISTRACT ME! I DON'T WANT TO STUDY FOR MY BIOCHEM FINAL TOMORROW!

    oh and now 15
    Good luck on your final tomorrow.

  16. #13776
    And now it is 12.

  17. #13777

    Talking

    I would like to report some missing days. It can't possibly be December 17th already. I must have misplaced a few days. Can anyone help me get them back?

  18. #13778
    Join Date
    Oct 2007
    Location
    Minneapolis, MN
    Quote Originally Posted by DukieInKansas View Post
    Good luck on your final tomorrow.
    thanks...it was horrible. oh well...its over...that's the important thing.

  19. #13779
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Boston area, OK, Newton, right by Heartbreak Hill
    Project Runway, Top Chef, AND So You Think You Can Dance have all had their finales. I'm not sure I can watch American Idol anymore since I can't really imagine a post-Adam Idol. So, I ask you people, what am I going to watch on TV? (Besides Duke basketball, of course.)

  20. #13780
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Boston area, OK, Newton, right by Heartbreak Hill
    This just in, BD loves babies.

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