Sorry to hear that Fawkes.

Thank you guys , it is kinda difficult to accept, but she is in peace and not under heavily medication.


I'll be spending valentines day with my true love.....food.
Actually I think that I'll be playing the Mass Effect 3 demo, and will probably buy myself some pizza.

Or perhaps sending roses to myself?

This post has been edited by Fawkes: Feb 14 2012, 06:47 PM

A very happy St. Valentine's Day to all!

To you, Fawkes, I give my condolences. Losing a loved one is never easy, let alone losing a member of the family. I recently saw my grandfather off (And had to deal with a very greedy uncle of mine!) and while the pain of loss never really leaves, it does fade. Remember what they left behind and cherish it.

Condolences Fawkes. As people have said the pain fades and the good memories remain. It just takes time.

I'd say I hope everyone had a good Valentine's day but I'm not sure anyone does, ever.

This post has been edited by Olen: Feb 15 2012, 10:39 PM

Fawkes - My condolences. I see death at least once a month, truth be told, I think a lot of the people are better off. It's usually an 80-something year old who crashed at a Convalescent home, and a lot of them aren't who they used to be, and a lot of it is just a stall. The way I see it, they earned it.





As for V-day....

I agree with BH as far as the elderly are concerned, or the people that have suffered through a long illness, and after long years and fading health or the extended pain or incapacitation of extended illness they have earned peace.

I know that is the way my Dad felt after two years of fighting cancer, having spent fifty years fighting rheumatoid arthritis, he was long past ready to make an exit. The empty space that is left is what is painful after they are gone, we wrestle with wanting to reach into the void and pull them back, then we feel guilty for feeling a need for them so much that we would.

Focus on the laughter, the special moments, the good things and let everything else fade into obscurity...the pain will fade but even 15 years later you may still reach for the phone to dial the number...just the way it is.

And then my teachers were all like "You know what let's go ahead and double our course work!"
So they did, and then I was all like "BY THE NINE I FORGOT ABOUT MY ONLINE CLASS!" thankfully my online class is self paced, going to try to catch up to the rest of the students by the end of this month.
Which explains why I'm not on that often,
Also do you guys remember Furby?
That scared me t-t

That reminds me of something that happened to my eldest daughter last weekend. She was babysitting for a friend of hers and while she was there she was helping the girls clean their room. She bends over and picks this Daffy Duck dressed as Bugs up by the ears and it said "Put me down!" She screamed so loud the neighbors called the cops.....she was mortified, and then she got peeved at me cuz I couldn't stop laughing.

You know, that is one of those rub your hands together and plot moments. First grandchild soon to arrive and I am just beginning to think about all of those noisy, obnoxious toys my children were gifted with by their grandparents. NOW I know why....oooohhhh this is gonna be so much fun, mmmuuuuwwwaaaahahahahaha.


and then this quote that my grandmother had in her sewing room. "Grandchildren are the reward for not killing your children." HHMMM....

Fawkes, you can catch up....no worries.

Fawkes - I know about course work, I'm looking down the wrong end of about 90 hours in the next couple of weeks, on top of lectures. And I have a thesis to write which I was going to do this week but which looks less likely...

Athynea - sounds like me and the niece/ nephew. All the best toys are noisy, or make a mess. Drums are always good

Drums, horns, whistles, etc. - these are not toys one gives their grandchild, but the children of people they dislike.

Better than that is to give the child of your foe one Barbie doll and a brochure that displays the Barbie mansion, Barbie Corvette, Barbie's horse and stable, Malibu Barbie, little sister Penny, boyfriend Ken, all the possible clothing combinations for all the dolls, and the Barbie Karaoke machine so the child can crank it up and sing to her parents.

The child will put the screws to the parents for everything in that brochure, the parents will go broke, and hearing their own child's "sweet voice" being piped through the microphone all over the house is not something they can hate or love simultaneously.

Sheogorath's Realm, anyone? Lol.

Yes, if giving those gifts are the gifts to the children of your foes well, my parents and my in-laws didn't like me much.....actually for me the worst was the little push toy that popped the balls around in the little dome. It was my eldest daughters FAVORITE toy. She dragged that thing EVERYWHERE, all over the house, out in the yard, to the park-I drew the line at allowing it in the car. And then I lost all capacity to be accepting, she had fallen asleep watching Fraggle Rock and left the toy from satan laying in the kitchen floor. I lost my balance when I saw it just laying there and when I slammed my foot down to keep from falling wouldn't you know it it landed right on the little plastic dome and little red, yellow, blue and green balls scattered in every direction.

"We" looked for it for days and every once in a while for months she would ask about it. She was 4 at the time, she is now 25 almost 26 and last year a friend of hers bought her a collection of Fraggle Rock DVDs, she was so excited, she called me and asked if I wanted to watch with her just for fun. She put the first movie in, hit play and as soon as Doc started talking she said "Wow, Mom, whatever happened to my pop pop popper?" It's official, I am a horrible person, I looked at her and said "You mean that toy from satan? I crushed it, it deserved it for leaving me dangling at the very end of my very last nerve." She gave me Thyna looks for the rest of the night, if she'd had a katana she would have skewered me...

You have no imagination. Bagpipes!!

Those little poppers were bad when made with the hard plastic. One company made them with a thicker, softer plastic - that is the one to get for your own children. Send people you dislike's children the hard plastic ones, ROFL !!!



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and the evil conspirators continue to conspire.....

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This post has been edited by mALX: Feb 21 2012, 04:14 AM

I should print all of this out to ensure that I have proof should anyone ever doubt the depth of our evil.....

MMUUUAAAAAHHHHHHHAHAHAH

ROFL !!! I'll go to my grave denying everything, ROFL !!!


** and speaking of throwing out your children's beloved toys, did you ever try to "lose" a binky? A bottle? A blankie? URK !!!


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This post has been edited by mALX: Feb 21 2012, 04:26 AM

My blankie when I was like 4 years old D:, they told me that some bees came and took it away (we had just seen a horror movie about bees) wow I just remember that ;o.
And you guys are soooo evil <3
Actually my dad just brought some merchandise from my uncle, and guess what's in my front yard directly out of my window? That right one of those plastic pushing popper thingis :3

This post has been edited by Fawkes: Feb 21 2012, 04:38 AM

GAAAAH !!! That would have scared me into good behavior, lol. "If you don't eat your spinach, the bees will come take you away..."

I remember throwing out all the binkies once, and having to make an emergency trip to a bunch of stores in the middle of the night to buy more.

I just want to express my hatred of unix. Carry on.