The city, yes. I live in Bournemouth, which isn't a city, but which is pretty big nonetheless.

It is Skopje!!

That is a very funny story! Too bad there aren't any pictures of it. LOL It would have made an amusing blurb on a CI episode. I can picture Goren leaning over at the reindeer while Eames stood back not trying to laugh too loudly.

Great story! Thanks for the Tuesday funny!

Cute story, ciaddict! I saw similar posing of reindeer during the after-Christmas sale at a local Meijer store last Christmas season.

spook

I've been flipping through the channels today, (when i haven't been asleep), and I've been noticing that there's many specials about Elvis (and some about LisaMarie, & Priscilla). And then it dawned on me that today would have been Elvis' 73 birthday! I love Elvis.

I find myself so tempted to watch one of his movies. But they're not really good.

At a store? How shocking! What did all the little old ladies do?

It was on the overnight shift. I went into Meijer when I got off work early at my overnight job. I told the cashier that I found it amusing myself, but she might wanna fix them before the day shift and regular customers came in.


spook

70 delicious degrees on the coast of Massachusetts today! 13 degrees last week LOL

That's too funny! I worked nights in the hospital for a lot of years. Night shift people are a different breed, aren't they? We always seemed to be the ones playing practical jokes--on one another and on the day shift (day shift people seem to be very easy targets!).

I know, it's crazy! Last week the Midwest was dealing with temperatures hovering just above zero, and for the past two days I've been able to run outside in nothing more than capris and a t-shirt. Oh, and we've been under tornado watches too...in January.

Love your new pics spook, oh in Claire dolan he was soo hot. Ok back to Off topic stuff.
In our neighborhood, somepeople had those inflatable penguins on a sled one behind the other, I know I have a dirty mind, but the wind was blowing so hard the way they were rocking up and down it look like they were doing the deed. lol.

Last night had a dream I was watching a movie with VDO, he was a singing Nazi in the movie, all I kept thinking was how well he sang.

Just got the lab results on my daughter today, the Ultrasound showed nodules in her thyroid, really small, also she is hypothyroid like her mom, also insulin resistance, not diabetic, but he wants her on a ADA diet, so thank God, nothing that can't be controlled by diet, exercise and meds.

The storm that hit CA last weekend didn't do much damage around here, not like in northern CA (I really hope Valley's treehouse survived!). It wasn't very cold during the storm, but the last two days it has been really cold and the sun has been so bright. But we are gearing up for another storm in the next few days. Valley, I'll send you some sandbags, OK?

Great news about your daughter JRyan. I hope all goes well with the diet and meds.

If the weather is like this now how will it be in the spring? spits-I hope the tornado watch ends soon.

That's good JRyan. Best to you both. If we all followed the ADA diet we'd be a lot healthier.

(Me<--no self control)

Yeah, day shift people are so serious, compared to us back-shifters.



Hello spits, I live in Indiana, too - near Fort Wayne. No tornado watches that I know of, but rain and wind all day long, almost.

spook

So glad to hear that your daughter's medical issues are manageable, Jryan.

Hey, we can talk about VDO on the off-topic thread. VDO is for ANY thread.


spook

In the Poconos it is about 60 degrees ... my students went on their first snowboarding trip today...hope they have some powder...lol...

I had 2 jacket days, and a couple more nice days, but it's low to mid 80's again here. The nights are still nice though. Upper 70's.



I worked late night tech support. After all the managers went home at 5 and most of the real "day" people were gone by 7, we had a good time. Some of them (no one we hung out with) even had Starcraft or Diablo going... We didn't want to flaunt the rules that badly, but we did have IMs going. The overnighters were real weird bunch, top notch though. They only had themselves to rely on as all the rest of the "supervisors" went home at 1am, so they were REALLY good.

Well, I really don't know what everyone is talking about.soooo I'll just say somthing:

Hello

The Poconos? We could be neighbors - I live in (wait for it) - DALEVILLE! Rainy here this morning and very windy but still 58 degrees. This is too strange from January.

Today is frezzing in my sity!!Well,my sity can have a really cold winter!!But that tham fog thosen't wan't to lift!!That why is so cold!!In winter there are ,hm..about a week,or maybe up to 12-15 days of fog;around december and january!!But this year,and the few before,it has been draging over a month!!It si frustrating and depresive.My sity has sun thry the whole year;with lots sunny days.Even it is the least sunny reagon in the country!!

I'm glad that the CA storms didn't do too much damage and I hope the next one isn't as bad for you guys :/. I was actually in Sacramento/Davis myself last Thursday and managed to get an early flight out - otherwise, I would have been sitting at the airport for a few days!




I apologize, my post wasn't very clear - I was referring to the day previous. Yes, we had about the same weather yesterday though now it's back to being cooler out...still not very January like, though!


Jryan, that's great to hear!

*waves to Epic*

Hi Epic, welcome to the forum.
Jryan, it's good to hear about your daughter. Right now, both me and my mom are trying to eat healthier (her because she wants to naturally manage her ulcerative colitis and me because I really should get down to a healthy weight) so there's definitely some battle lines drawn between the two of us and my dad and sister, who can eat whatever they want. It seems to be mostly peaceful, though I think I might have to put the cookies downstairs (I had a couple yesterday, which was not good). But other then that minor lapse, I'm sticking to this diet (the GI diet) because I've already lost 20 lbs in 9 weeks.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to run an errand before meeting my brother.

This reminds me of a newspaper clipping of a story that my sister sent me once.... apparently in Finland or somewhere else up North there they were having problems with Reindeer.. not that they were wrecking hedges or anything but that they were eating fruit that had fallen off the trees and had started fermenting so there were lots of drunken reindeer running swaggeringly around the village and leaning against doors half drunk. That must have been a sight to see.

Cloggs

Anyone see Dr. Phil yesterday, about the 13yr old girl who hung herself after being cyber bullied? Turned out it wasn't a real boy on myspace she was talking to, it was the mother and her daughter who created this fake person to find out if this 13yr old girl was saying anything about her daughter. Then after this girl started likeing this boy, they had him say, I don't like you anymore your a bad person, then other people on my space started calling her names and she hung herself in her closet. They talked to the mother of the daughter but the people who created this fake boy didn't come on, of course, they are looking to make laws, to be able to prosecute people for doing this. I hope they are able to do something about this in the future. My daughter was bullied in school, thats why I can't stand when people put people down, especially when they aren't around to defend themselves.

AWWW thats sad. I was bullied and picked on which lead me to scuicide attemps, but wow....thats really upsetting. There is so many people in this world who are so incredibly mean to do crap like that...... but this reminds me of of the wirl who hung herself in her closet because she read a fake version of the last Harry Potter book. She hung herself because Harry died in that book and she was OBSESSED with him.

First Brittney Spears gives us Louisiana people a bad name, Now this from Houma, La. I am so ashamed, I promise we are not all like this. lol.

Houma Video

I actually read about that a few months ago. What a sad story. How cruel can someone be to do that to a child? (13 is still considered a child right?)
I don't remember anyone getting blullied in my school.

Another hot day here in NY. I was outside cleaning up dog poop in a sweater. If I was someone else, I may have been outside in short sleeves. {I'm a cold person. Even in the summer time I wear long sleeves}

Whoo hoo!! The Tule fog is back! No one does fog like the good old San Joaquin Valley. My 15 minute drive to work took about 25 minutes this morning. Not too bad. The back road that I take half way was pretty scary, but once I got to the freeway it was much better--I could almost go the speed limit. Although on the freeway I have to deal with idiots who aren't going to let a little fog slow them down!

This is so sad. Its bad enough that kids bully other kids. But when the parents join in, its just plain criminal!

Tell me about it. These bullies are brought up to be that way by mimicking how their parents behave in the world. A kid who bullies & demeans other kids always has a parent or parents who are the same way.

Even though my kids were always good in sports & pretty popular, we always drummed into them to stick up for the smaller, weaker, different kinds of kids. To never, ever just stand there & let someone be bullied.

I hope these people were punished for what they did to that poor child.

That's just a terrible story!!
I am sometimes amazed at what people can do to eachother.

Cloggs

In case you're interested, SVU presented a watered down version of "The Cell," right down to the stainless steel table and chains. As I sat there, I thought, whoa...I've been there, done that. Even the "special agent" resembled JLo. And Benson breaks down and screams? WTF?

I totally missed that connection, but you are so right!

That is heartbreaking. Jr High is a hard time for kids anyway even without the bullying. In my experience the bullying is worst and kids can be the meanest at that age. Bad enough but the MOTHER!?!? WTF

Bullying can have long lasting effects especially on kids who are already insecure. I think of some of the mean girls who picked on me at that age (30 years ago) and I still get mad but, they probably don't even remember doing it and are nice people now.

Tomorrow is the playoffs between the Seahawks and the Packers! Go Seahawks!

Pats and Jags too! I'm a little nervous Jags are supposed to be good. Could be a nail Biter

The young sister of one of the girls murdered at Columbine (the one who was killed when she refused to denounce Jesus) has a program where she visits High Schools across the country. Her whole program is about being kind to others, to stop bullying & to reach out to kids who are different. Her sister who was murdered was that kind of girl.

I went to the evening program as a parent; it was both heartbreaking and heartwarming. Every student in our school was required to go. I hope it made a difference.

What wonderful girls. I imagine the sister who is doing that has reached at least a few kids.

OK, just to jump into the NFL fray here:





spook

What episode was this? I hope it wasn't on last night... My roomate forgot to pay the bill for the dish so teh TV was off the whole day...

It was on Tuesday night. It is usually repeated, sometimes on Saturday night. I haven't checked to see if it is on Saturday. I am so bad about paying bills. My daughter laughs at me because I will record a LOCI or Homicide episode, but come home to find an hour of the bouncing "DirecTV" logo! Organization is not my strong point!

okay now this is waaaaaaay off topic. But kind of sort of related to vincent. I don't know where to put it, so I'll put it here.
In this link (below), it says that his first wife (?) His daughter's mother, Gretchen Scacchi, is/was dating her cousin (her father's sister's son), and they have a child together.
Now, granted, I don't know how true this is.
http://www.leninimports.com/greta_scacchi_biography.html

Eww!

Uhhhh...what?!
Please said cousin, by marriage...not that that is a good thing...

nope.
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Well, being a redneck,cajun, coonazz, people down here marry their cousins, Not first cousins, like she did, I find that creepy. But I have heard of 3rd and 4th cousins marrying.


Still she doesn't say anything about being married to Vincent. So wonder if they were ever actually married. So maybe Carin is his first wife.

That's not too clear to me. Sometimes I see her referred to as his ex-wife, sometimes as the mother of his daughter. Sometimes it will say their marriage ended, sometimes their relationship. I have a feeling they were never married. Its kind of like his divorce from Carin. I will read that they were divorced, then that they reconciled. So I'm not sure if the divorce was final and now they are living together, or did they stop the divorce before it was final, or did they remarry? Mysteries!