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[chefann]

Gee-- I stay away for 4 days and there's 5 new pages of posts on this thread to read! good thing the boss is aways today... I can play.

 

[cat]

Where were you Ann?

 

[amy07]

Morning all! Happy Friday!







Now, can I kill it?

 

[AJPratt]

Happy Friday. This week flew. (Except while I was at work.)

 

[BethCooks4U]

Happy Friday. This week flew. (Except while I was at work.)

Love your new pic!

 

[AJPratt]

Love your new pic!

Thank you... Its so tough to find a picture I like, ya know? I thought I should post it since people say I look so different with my new 'do (although I've had it 6 months). So just in case someone does want to look for me at conference, they'll know what I look like.

 

[chefann]

Where were you Ann?

Away was less than accurate. I was still around home, but trying to get some work done at work.

And I have a new obsession. I started making jewelry. A coworker is big into beading, and got me hooked. I made cell charms for the ladies in my cluster (our meeting is tonight). They have white heart-shaped beads with the breast cancer ribbon on them, and the lanyard itself (that hooks to the phone) is pink. They're so cute!! I just ordered $200 of beads and findings (earring hooks, etc). I think I'm going to make some things up and sell them on eBay.

Today I'm wearing a fabulous jewelry ensemble I made last weekend. It consists of a 4-strand lariat necklace, a bracelet and earrings, in animal-print beads. It's stunning, if I do say so myself. I could probably sell it for $100 for the set (easily), and I spent about $50 on the beads and supplies for it.

 

[BethCooks4U]

Thank you... Its so tough to find a picture I like, ya know? I thought I should post it since people say I look so different with my new 'do (although I've had it 6 months). So just in case someone does want to look for me at conference, they'll know what I look like.

Well, it really is cute! Or should I say YOU are?!

Anyway, I was wondering if you were posting so much today to make sure we would all see your new pic or if it was to get your post number back up.









(Just trying to give you a hard time.)

 

[cat]

Thank you... Its so tough to find a picture I like, ya know? I thought I should post it since people say I look so different with my new 'do (although I've had it 6 months). So just in case someone does want to look for me at conference, they'll know what I look like.

Wow, Anne, don't think I'd recognize you...you look so different to me (from your previous avatar!)

 

[cat]

Away was less than accurate. I was still around home, but trying to get some work done at work.

And I have a new obsession. I started making jewelry. A coworker is big into beading, and got me hooked. I made cell charms for the ladies in my cluster (our meeting is tonight). They have white heart-shaped beads with the breast cancer ribbon on them, and the lanyard itself (that hooks to the phone) is pink. They're so cute!! I just ordered $200 of beads and findings (earring hooks, etc). I think I'm going to make some things up and sell them on eBay.

Today I'm wearing a fabulous jewelry ensemble I made last weekend. It consists of a 4-strand lariat necklace, a bracelet and earrings, in animal-print beads. It's stunning, if I do say so myself. I could probably sell it for $100 for the set (easily), and I spent about $50 on the beads and supplies for it.

Can you post some pictures? Just curious what they look like!

 

[pamperedalf]

Anne, I started to think I was looking for the wrong person last year @ conference. Maybe this year we could actually meet.

Ann I would like to see some pics of your jewelry too, please!!

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

And I have a new obsession. I started making jewelry.

They say that working with your hands is good therapy.

 

[Paige Dixon]

So is the Betty Crocker clinic, in case anyone needs rehab.

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

I think that's a big Crocker baloney.

 

[BethCooks4U]

What is baloney made out of anyway? I know of no animal called a baloney.

 

[raebates]

I figure if you have to ask, you don't want to know.

 

[BethCooks4U]

I figure if you have to ask, you don't want to know.

So true. BTW Rae, I stole your quote! I have it on my sig line in my emails now (along with "My goal is to help you reach yours" - which I think I made up but I'm sure someone else said it sometime. ). Thanks!

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

What is baloney made out of anyway? I know of no animal called a baloney.

It's made from abalone that is grade B instead of grade A, hense, B-abalone.

 

[BethCooks4U]

Ya know, I was going to say something about abalone cause I knew you'd come up with this answer!

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

That sounds kinda fishy to me.

 

[raebates]

So true. BTW Rae, I stole your quote! I have it on my sig line in my emails now (along with "My goal is to help you reach yours" - which I think I made up but I'm sure someone else said it sometime. ). Thanks!

You can't steal what's freely given, Beth. Zig Ziglar is an inspiration!

 

[BethCooks4U]

Bumping this up.

 

[raebates]

Hmmm. Bumping the thread just to keep me from killing it, Beth?

 

[BethCooks4U]

DUh! Of course!

 

[raebates]

Never gonna let you win. Why not just give up now and save yourself all that pesky typing and posting?

 

[BethCooks4U]

Well, I think we're not alone in that but I'll keep on trying as I know you will.

 

[raebates]

You're a worthy competitor!

 

[BethCooks4U]

As are you! Now go find something else to do and let me have the last word here!

 

[raebates]

Thanks for the oh, so good advice, but I think I'll stick around a little longer.

 

[BethCooks4U]

Darn! I thought you might!

 

[raebates]

Oh, wow, you almost got this thread killed. Too bad for you that I'm so persistent.

 

[BethCooks4U]

Just my luck!

 

[AJPratt]

You guys are too much!

 

[raebates]

Hey, Beth, didn't you have a long list of things you needed to do? I think you should probably shut down your computer and get right to work on those things. You don't want to fall behind. I'm just concerned for you. Wouldn't want all that work to pile up because you were here.

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

Sheryl Crowe is nuts. Her Stop Global Warming College Tour website features her own personal blog and she's telling us, amongst other things, that we need to only use on square of toilet paper per sitting and stop using paper napkins. She proposes that we all have a "dining sleeve" that is replaceable after we wipe our mouths on our sleeve.Check out her http://www.sherylcrow.com/news.aspx?nid=7786. The Save The Earth tour includes 3 tractor trailers, 4 busses and 6 automobiles. (This is part of the "Do as I say, not as I do" syndrome of celebrities who know better than we do how we should live.)And Lance Armstrong dumped his wife for this nut? I don't like him a whole lot anymore, either.

 

[raebates]

My DS had a little joke about how to use just one sheet of toilet paper. It was funny but disgusting! Hmm. I'm curious just how much TP all those people traveling in all those vehicles use each day. I'm not volunteering for the research; just curious.

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

How about the banning of plastic grocery bags in San Francisco? The purpose, according to environmentalists, is to stop filling up dumps with plastic that doesn't degrade - this from the same people who told us, twenty years ago, that we had to use plastic bags to stop using trees (a renewable resource) to make brown paper bags.Am I the only one getting tired of people telling me how I'm supposed to live?Personally, I hate those plastic grocery bags - if you need any, feel free to come to my house and take all you want from the hedges and trees.

 

[raebates]

No, you're not the only one getting tired of others telling you how to live. My DH and I have had this discussion several times lately.

As for the bags, I found a solution. I carry laundry baskets and a couple of insulated bags (one for cold, the other for frozen) in the back of my van on "marketing" day. At most stores I request no bags at all when asked, "Paper or plastic?"

One store insists that their baggers put little red dots on everything that isn't in a bag. For that store I have a few net bags I use. Only at Wal-Mart do I receive plastic bags. They won't let me use "nothing," and I got tired of the third degree about my net bags. It's okay, though. I can find a use for the few Wally World bags.

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

My grandmother always used to carry canvas tote bags to the little store in her town - this was prior to the 1970's and she had to make her own because there weren't 14 sizes and colors from Lands' End or anywhere else. I've carried my own canvas tote bags to the grocery store myself (when I remember) and usually get looks from teenage packers that are usually reserved for the uncoolest kids at school. When I stop at Wally World (or anywhere else that uses plastic) for one or two items, I demand they not use a bag and usually remark, "One less bag to throw away." The idea of putting one or two things in a bag drives me nuts.

 

[chefann]

One store insists that their baggers put little red dots on everything that isn't in a bag. For that store I have a few net bags I use. Only at Wal-Mart do I receive plastic bags. They won't let me use "nothing," and I got tired of the third degree about my net bags. It's okay, though. I can find a use for the few Wally World bags.

Do you crochet? I have a pattern at home for a reusable shopping bag that's made out of plastic shopping bags. It uses 2 colors (white and blue) to make stripes. So you actually need some from Wally World and some from another store.

 

[raebates]

Nope. I am not craftily inclined. I tried learning to crochet several years ago. I am obviously not talented enough to develop this skill. (I used to do some cross-stitch, though, before I signed on with PC. Not a lot of time for that anymore.)

 

[chefann]

Learning to crochet is one of those things that require many different teaching techniques. I crocheted for a short time when I was a kid, then retaught myself more than 20 years later from a book. My Aunt tried to learn from the same book, and couldn't get it - even with help from my mom and me. But she took a knitting class and loves it!

My problem is that I pick up a new craft and buy all sorts of supplies, then lose interest and have a stockpile of things I'll not use in a long time.

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

Do you crochet?

No, I'm just crotchety.

 

[chefann]

No, I'm just crotchety.

Yeah, we knew that about you already.

 

[raebates]

Sounds little personal, KG. I'd prefer not to read posts about your crotch, thank you very much.

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

That wasn't what I meant, but since you mentioned it, why not? I get about 20 e-mails a day about it.

 

[raebates]

Got another business goin' on the side?

 

[jasonmva]

No, I'm just crotchety.

First lactating and now your crotch?!? And I don't think I want to know WHY you get 20 emails a day about it.

 

[baychef]

Sounds little personal, KG. I'd prefer not to read posts about your crotch, thank you very much.

Rae...have I told you how much I love you? I just love the comebacks...I think I heard KG ever so slightly...just for a nano second...speechless!

 

[raebates]

Hey, just one of the many services I offer as a PC professional.