Critterfixer Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 I have delivered the emergency cheesecake. Then I went to art class and got the approval on my book as a self-study course, with directions to start in the first chapter and do all the exercises. I can do that. Then I libraried. Then I went and fueled up the truck. Now I am back home and have fed the cat, sent boys out to walk dogs, stoked up the fire, and am making chili for dinner. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 I'm out of gift tags and running low on wrapping paper. Dang it. Sent from my HTCD160LVW using Tapatalk Paper bags and stickers. I used lunch bags one year to wrap stuff. Lol 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 Lana, If you look back in the ITT archives from last year, I believe we had a discussion about the necessity of tags (or not), and the alternate method of color coding gifts. Each family member getting a different wrapping paper. You could wrap all in brown paper and just color code the ribbon! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanalouwho Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 I had planned to color code by when they would be opened (one style for gifts that go to my in-laws house, one for our little family, and one for our big get together). But my husband tried to be helpful and wrap some stuff, so that's out. I love him. I found a few gift bags to use and have temporarily labeled everything with post its. Sent from my HTCD160LVW using Tapatalk 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 BROWN PAPER PACKAGES TIED UP WITH STRINGS! 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Lynn Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 Lana, If you look back in the ITT archives from last year, I believe we had a discussion about the necessity of tags (or not), and the alternate method of color coding gifts. Each family member getting a different wrapping paper. You could wrap all in brown paper and just color code the ribbon! Yes! I usually do this. But I'm thinking of having a hodge lodge year and using up old partial rolls. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professormom Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 I was wondering about this myself. We are getting quite the staff here at ITT. ... and they are all male and very good looking and cater to our every need. Just as it should be:-) 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renai Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 I LOVE Leviticus! :hurray: Me too. I was a weird high schooler that went through the entire Old Testament, beginning to end. Apparently I retained a lot, because years later a Messianic Jew in our CBS group said I knew more about the Torah and the prophets than she did. I don't remember anything anymore. :( Perhaps I should read my Bible more. :leaving: 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 You could wrap all in brown paper and just color code the ribbon! Oh! I love that idea! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 I have delivered the emergency cheesecake. Then I went to art class and got the approval on my book as a self-study course, with directions to start in the first chapter and do all the exercises. I can do that. Then I libraried. Then I went and fueled up the truck. Now I am back home and have fed the cat, sent boys out to walk dogs, stoked up the fire, and am making chili for dinner.I'm having an emergency. Can you bring me by some cheesecake?😜 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renai Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 Sort of like reading the Bible straight through and never making it through Leviticus. :w00t: :D I don't think I've ever made it through the New Testament straight through. :leaving: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renai Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 I'm not planning to die for another 40 years, so I figure I can make *some* progress in that time. I'm glad you've decided to live for another 40 years, instead of dying at 40. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renai Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 Mine are both my favorite at different times of the day. It depends on what they're doing, saying, thinking at the time. Teenagers are not my favorite. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 I don't think I've ever made it through the New Testament straight through. :leaving: I read the whole New Testament this year. I finished just this morning. (Usually I am skimming through Revelation on December 31 so I can say that I did it.) Maybe this can be on your list for next year! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 (edited) Yep, I'll take a cheesecake, too, please. :) ETA: BOOYAH!! Edited December 15, 2016 by Junie 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 Ahem. I think everyone needs an emergency cheesecake. Or appropriate gluten and/or dairy free option. Pierre! 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 I think the last concert I went to was Yes. Surely there has beensomething since then - that was in the 90's. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renai Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 I liked the TV show "Wishbone" version of DQ. Ah, you mean with the little terrier? We liked that show too. I have a VHS of their version of Huckleberry Finn. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renai Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 Is someone archiving a book list for ITT? If so, would you point me at it, please? SLASHIE! I forgot to mention Mrs. Wiggs and the Cabbage Patch. That is a wonderful book! The roughest years of my life were the ones in which I felt I had no time to sit and read. Reading for pleasure is NECESSARY. Ordering our own presents is a rather common practice in this household. It works! I had started putting the posts in other tabs to archive later. I think I started on page 1493, though. I'm not sure. A Wrinkle in Time is a good read. Dancer enjoyed me reading that aloud. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 (edited) Only country concert I ever went to was Alabama! That was the best! My dad got to hear Alabama in a small bar a long time ago. This was before the band changed its name to Alabama. He said they had a really good crowd. Unfortunately when his band played in the same bar a few weeks later, the crowd was not as big. :( And so, Alabama is rich and famous and he's not. Edited December 15, 2016 by Junie 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professormom Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 MIL is better, BG more normal, her hearing aid batteries are changed and all is right in the land again. Mimosas were just right and I am not tired so :hurray: My kitchen is still a mess, but I am two loads of laundry down, so :hurray: I am going to see how long I can go without speaking tonight. Kids are on a project, so it just might be possible for me to enjoy some quiet :hurray: And I am here on the finest forum on earth having conversation with you fine people... 50 points if you can name that paraphrase. Remember points on ITT? That was SO 2015. 5,000 points for everyone! 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professormom Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 I had started putting the posts in other tabs to archive later. I think I started on page 1493, though. I'm not sure. A Wrinkle in Time is a good read. Dancer enjoyed me reading that aloud. Wrinkle in Time was one of my all time favorite books as a child. The idea that you could be spirited away from your current reality was very appealing in my circumstances :lol: 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 I'm dying at 68. You can read the NT in 90 days at 3 chapters a day or in a year with a chapter a day. Renai, remind me to pm you. I have lots of thoughts since I'm Old Testamenting this year, but I want my computer back to do it so I can do links. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 Aww that's sad. IKR? I could have had beaucoup money to spend on curriculum for everyone on the ITT. Maybe I should write a letter to Alabama and see if they would like to make a donation to our worthy cause. :thumbup1: 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 I'm dying at 68. You can read the NT in 90 days at 3 chapters a day or in a year with a chapter a day. Renai, remind me to pm you. I have lots of thoughts since I'm Old Testamenting this year, but I want my computer back to do it so I can do links. I've done the whole Bible in a year, but it's usually a struggle. I decided to just do the New Testament this year. Because migraines. I was able to also sneak in Psalms and Proverbs. I haven't decided what I'm doing next year. Maybe the Old Testament or maybe some in-depth study. I have 2 weeks to figure it out. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanalouwho Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 I love Wrinkle in Time. That's one of the many stories that I'm dying to read with the kids. I can't wait. Sent from my HTCD160LVW using Tapatalk 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 I hated A Wrinkle in Time. I've done the whole Bible in a year, but it's usually a struggle. I decided to just do the New Testament this year. Because migraines. I was able to also sneak in Psalms and Proverbs. I haven't decided what I'm doing next year. Maybe the Old Testament or maybe some in-depth study. I have 2 weeks to figure it out. I did it in 90 days when I hurt my back really bad. I was in bed for hours every day. What else was I gonna do? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 I mathed. New Testament in one year 5 days a week, one chapter a day. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professormom Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 (edited) Deleted pour moi Edited December 16, 2016 by Professormom 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 (edited) And I am here on the finest forum on earth having conversation with you fine people... 50 points if you can name that paraphrase. Remember points on ITT? That was SO 2015. 5,000 points for everyone! Titanic Edited December 16, 2016 by ikslo 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 :grouphug: Heather. That's tough. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 (edited) How old are they now? Can you have a relationship without [...] involvement? Edited December 16, 2016 by ikslo 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 I would make and deliver everyone cheesecakes if I could. :001_smile: 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 (((Heather))) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 (edited) You can cry your eyes out. It's okay. You don't have to answer her right now. Let it rest for the night. Tomorrow it will all be more clear. Edited December 16, 2016 by Slache 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 My protagonist just found out he's got to buy a new vehicle. DH tells me the right way to go about it. I said, no, he needs to go about it the wrong way. Do everything as wrong as possible to make life hard on himself for the rest of the book. Somehow it seems harder to come up with the worst possible way to do something for the sake of good fiction. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professormom Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 (edited) Ikslo, I think so. Deleted. Edited December 16, 2016 by Professormom 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 Psssst, Slache, delete the quote! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 If you don't care about SM, can you just tell them that no involvement with her is the condition to getting to know you? Don't think of it as being mean, but as setting boundaries. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanalouwho Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 I agree. Take some time to process the emotions. Sent from my HTCD160LVW using Tapatalk 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professormom Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 (edited) Deleted Edited December 16, 2016 by Professormom 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 Sorry. Deleted. Headache. We're out of chocolate. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 Heather gets two cheesecakes. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 And Slache gets a chocolate cheesecake. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professormom Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 (edited) Deleted again :D Edited December 16, 2016 by Professormom 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professormom Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 Junie, you are a good friend indeed:-) Cheesecake makes everything better. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 I hated A Wrinkle in Time. I did it in 90 days when I hurt my back really bad. I was in bed for hours every day. What else was I gonna do? Were you wanting books for you, or the kids? My favorite Brain Candy reads have been the Spellman Files series by Lisa Lutz (language!), World War Z, and the Bertie and Jeeves books by PG Wodehouse. My favorite classics have been To Kill a Mockingbird, Jane Eyre, Tolkien, Lewis, and short stories of Poe and Flannery O'Connor. I find I don't get a whole lot out of classic literature unless I'm using a literary guide or in a discussion group led by someone who really knows literature. I have no appreciation for Moby Dick, and only a smidgen of appreciation for Jane Austen (a smidgen since going through several discussion groups on her novels.) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 (((Heather))) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Lynn Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 (((Heather))). I like Ikslo's advice. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professormom Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 Thanks guys. I am better. I rarely have that much well up that quickly and, frankly, that totally blindsided me. Sorry. But, as always, y'all rock:-) 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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