Acutally, I start a job monday at my church.

I probably won't be doing any graduate work unless I decide to do counseling.

If I were to go on, I would become a Clinical Psychologist and work with children and adolescents.

That sound pretty cool, jc!

Congrats to all the grads we have out there!

ITA!!! Congrats to all our high school and college graduates, be they boardies, or boardies' family members!

WAY TO GO!!!!

Definately sounds interested ci. If your interested go for it!


He DOES look like a sweetie. What a jerk (and worse) that neighbor is.



I'm sorry about your dog lenore. He was beautiful. Gorgeous coat. Awww your grandaughter is beautiful and adorable. What a cutie. She has such pretty eyes and hair.

Hey Janx congrats on school!!!

I love weimaraners...they are such a beautiful color!

He called me at work this morning. Totally innocent--about church business. There's a church board meeting tonight and we are both on the board.

WORD! Congrats, grads!

You do bring goodies at the meeting like you do on here. Have fun tonight! Does that mean you won't be watching the svu finale?

Actually I never even thought about bringing goodies! I'm much better with fantasy than with RL.
I'm hoping that the meeting will be over and I'll be home in time for SVU. Especially since I forgot to set my VCR to record before I left this morning.

Ok, I have a confession, nobody else talked about it, but I just have to talk about it, cause it was just so, I don't know soapish? The last few ok more than a few episodes, I have been watching the Bachelor, ok, I usually don't watch it, but something about this guy's accent and he was cute, but Fernando Lamas or however you spell his name's kid, omg, I am sorry you can't tell me she wasn't there to further her career, and you can't tell me she wasn't acting, ( and not very good). I predict this match up will not last very long, even her father said she was in it to further her career.





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This opinion is that of the writer and does not reflect the view of USA or any other blah blah blah.

SVU finale.... snuffle. And it's all about Lake, right?

That's only 19 eps, that's not a season. We need 2 or 3 or 4 more eps, sigh...

If she was, that was awfully selfish of her. Especially since the guy goes in knowing there is a very good chance he will fall truly, madly, deeply in love with one of the women and really want a proper chance at a proper relationship. Was she the one he asked to marry her? What a B*&^%!

I don't watch it because it drives me crazy. But I see the previews because I watch Dancing With the Stars. Last night's showed him saying that this was the hardest decision he had ever had to make--deciding which woman to propose to (at least that is how the preview made it seem). I told my daughter, "You know, if deciding between me and another woman is the hardest decision you've ever had to make--don't bother asking me to marry you! I want to know that there is NO other woman in the world you would even consider proposing to."
And the last bachelor didn't choose either woman, so now one of them will be in The Bachelorette. But didn't I see her crying and saying that her heart was broken because she thought he was her soul mate? Guess hearts mend pretty quick and soul mates are easy to forget when there are 25 hunks vying for you.

Oh, and what you described sounds pretty heartless, JRyan. I just wonder--do any of them REALLY believe they are going to meet their soulmate with all those other women competing and cameras following them everywhere?

Yes and her reaction, was so fake, to me at least. Did anyone else see the show?

You must keep us in the loop with this impending romance. Could get exciting. Hoping for a good love story.

Hey it's SVU, I'll take it anyway I can get it. I love that show. It's Lake's and Casey's last show. I have to see it.

Oh, that's right. I forgot about them already announcing they wouldn't be back for next season......if there is a next season.....

There better be a next season, or I hope there is.

Wait, Lake's leaving already? Why?

my guess would be budget cuts

Hey everybody. How's everyone doin? I haven't been on here in awhile...

Totally innocent or just finding a good excuse to call you huh????????



Hi bananas!!! Good to see you. have you been home staring at the pics of you and VDO?


I AM IN A DITHER


This will probably sound stupid to a lot of people but I think there are some people on here who might understand why I am having panic attacks over this. My son has been with the same girl for over 3 years which I think is a long time at his age (23). He loves her, she loves him, we love her, her parents love him....My point being that they are very serious and are talking marriage. Anyway, she is graduating from BU this coming Sunday. She is from San Francisco so we have never met her parents but of course they are coming out here for graduation. They want to get together with us which is very nice as I am also sure that they are very nice. My son wanted us to take the train into Boston ::::gasp:::: to meet them all for dinner.But this is my problem: I am agoraphobic. It's not that I don't go out of my house at all but I never go anywhere alone and even though i would be going with my very sweet and understanding husband the thought of having to take the train in town is making me crazy. On top of that I panic when I have to meet new people even though I know that I will like them. My son, not far from his teenage years, told us not to embarrass him. Of course this whole thing is about my son's gf Momo and my son and I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. When they came to visit I said hey (half kidding) why don't you just bring them here for a cookout? Momo said she thought her parents would like that better and we could go for a walk on the beach whatever.... Well, that seemed like a good idea for a little while until I started thinking about it. Even though I am a decent cook it makes very nervous to cook for people especially the first time. So now I'm panicing about that. Would it be terrible to invite them for pizza and make a nice salad and dessert or something like that? I know I shouldn't be thinking about myself but welcome to my brain. I'm seriously thinking of developing a migraine to get out of it but as I said I don't want to hurt anyone. If anyone took the time to read this long blah, blah, blah and has any suggestions and or words of encouragement I would love to hear them thank you. Now I'm going to see how long it takes for my hands to stop sweating and shaking. xoxo

I thoguth SVU was already renewed and LOCi was "on the bubble". Oh the uncertainty!



Hi, bananas! We're ok, for the most part! How are you?

Hey, I'm the queen of long stories, so long doesn't scare me!
Absolutely do pizza! Its stressful enough meeting new people--meeting new people who may be your son's in-laws one day is ULTRA stressful. So de-stress the situation as much as possible. Having it at home where you are comfortable is a great idea. And not spending the entire day in the kitchen is another great idea. So take a bubble bath and relax. I think Dr. Goren might be available for a massage.

I will believe that if it reaches to next page

Oh trust me, I could do it! I just try to restrain myself so that people don't start running from the board screaming, "NO, NO, Not another three hour post from ciaddict!"

I am on the crap list, but besides that great and how are you? long time no see, hope everything is fine!

Is there any reason your husband couldn't handle the cookout? Or even your son? Taking the stress off of you? They way you could be free to relax? If not, is there any place that could cater something for you. Or cook something the day before, things usually taste better the day after anyway, or if you have friends or other relatives cook their best dishes to help you out? Just a few ideas, Just take a deep breath and relax, Or make a nice lasagna and salad and garlic bread, you can even freeze lasagna and cook it the day before, that way you don't have to be stressed about fixing it that day.
Hope some of these ideas help.
Jryan

Thank you guys. It seems now that Mattie wants us to come in town instead of them all coming here. I tried hinting that it would be nice if we went somewhere that my husband and I could get to by taking the commuter boat. He didn't take the bait. No pun intended.

Oh BTW Jryan, my husband is one of the few red blooded American men who does not grill. He makes the best french toast I've ever had though. (Actually that's the only thinkg he makes. lol)

Everyone is leaving!

Novak, Lake, and Ice T looks like he wants to be transfered!

Ok, so was last night's SVU worth watching? I have it on my DVR, but don't know when I'll have time to watch.......

Whatever is decided for this meeting just try to relax. You are a nice person of great worth and they are going to like you.

ah, he's gorgeous!!! Anybody tries to hurt him and I'll come and bite them for you.
Sounds like you might need to start building an extension for all these new additions to the family.

Cloggs

oooohhhhhoooooo, looks who's got a date... is that your first official date???? "Totally innocent"...... mmmmmmm, sure.

Cloggs

Happy Nurse Appreciation Day to all my fellow nurses. Or is it Nurse Appreciation Week? Or Month? I can't keep track. All I know is that the county that I work for is having a Nurse Appreciation Day Training and Luncheon today. So we get to spend 4 hours being appreciated. And get away from the office. Yay!

i know .. thank god he is an outside dog .. there is no more room inside for a dog that size .. but he seems to be like my yard ... and him and my lab mix are becomeing buds!

Ah yes, totally romantic evening. Sitting at a table with 8 other people, discussing repairs that the church needs and are we really going to just give the Youth the money and turn them loose to paint their classroom any way they want. Makes my heart go pitter-pat.

I am not the advice queen but what I would say is you could try to find a situation in which you feel comfortable to have them over. If you have to cook for a few people maybe you can get everyone to help out, or bring a dish, or do most of the prepation beforehand so on the day you only have to get things ready or put them in a bowl or something. This will cause you less stress on the day and perhaps enable you to cope better with having new people there and your agoraphobia. I don't think that not having them over would be a solution as it might be good for you to find out that you can cope wiht this situation as well.. .you know build your confidence up?!? I would talk it through with your son and his girlfriend and see if they can perhaps help you out with the cooking. I am sure her parents would not be offended if you invited them to your home and just wanted to stay local, seems like a very nice gesture to me!!! And it would mean they get to see more of where you are from and what you are about.
Perhaps meeting them this way first it will help ease your nerves about going to see them later on.. whenever you are ready for that.

Hope it helps!!

Cloggs

sounds like fun.



Oh it is?? I should have told my aunt Happy Nurse Week (she's a nurse.) This week is also National Police Week! They played "Cop" songs on the radio to celebrate.

Thank You Happy Nurses Week to you too. At my job all we got were the freebies that the nursing home got from the pharmacy. Have a good time at your luncheon, and have some extra for me.

Every day should be Nurse Appreciation Day!!!!
You guys do a great job.


Cloggs

I am a retired/disabled nurse, but thanks and Happy Nurses day to all of you and Happy Policemans day to all Cops and to Our Fictional Policemen too.

Well you can make the meeting more exciting by playing footsie under the table or giving him a long, lingering look across the table.... or you could focus on the meeting at hand but I et you cannot now that I have given you these suggestions!! And we both know that the real fun will not start until after the meeting when you two go out for a coffee.... if he does not ask I will eat my shoes!!!!

Sorry if I get carried away, I'm just excited for you!!!

Cloggs

The meeting was last night, and sorry, he didn't ask me out for coffee. But he was still in the parking lot when I arrived and walked in with me. But that's as romantic as it got.

Whhaatt? But I liked Chester... I wonder if it's budget cuts or something else...

Ah, no....... well anyway he does seem to be paying some extra attention to you and that cannot be bad... right?? Sounds like a very attentive guy.

Im off to eat my shoes.... at least I'm eating again

Cloggs

One of my coworkers (who teases me about stalking VDO) told me this morning that she and her husband have been watching all the past episodes of The Sopranos. She said that this morning it occured to her that she is totally obsessed with James Gandolfini and knew how proud I would be that she has someone to stalk now. So I e-mailed her the link to The Sopranos website and told her, "C'mon, you know you want to. All the cool kids are doing it." She said she was going to forward it to her private e-mail so she can look at the site in the privacy of her own home.

Can I get some recommendations? I am looking for a new general book forum in the absence of my beloved Fametracker.com. The one I'm on now just isn't doing anything for me. It's time to move on, methinks.

I am mostly a fantasy girl, but the problem is, I am very very picky with the fantasy genre. I know there's no point in joining a fantasy forum if all I'm going to be doing is convincing the other members that Terry Goodkind does not "rawk!!!" I don't want to start any flamewars; I want other people who are intelligent and appreciate good writing as well as a good plot. My second-fav is historical fiction, especially ancient Rome.

Any suggestions?

Is he shy? Maybe you could mention coffee? That is if you want to play this thing out.



That's funny cloggs. Glad your tummy is on the mend.

thanks for the advice. It is good advice too. I always serve things that are ready before everyone arrives. When I have people for dinner I nearly always make lasagna, chili, or mac and cheese. All of which are pretty good if I do say so myself. So that would be easier than a cookout and it's now supposed to rain that day anyway. But they don't want to come here so whatever.....

I am so happy today! I just got 5th row center PIT seats for Toby Keith (far right below) and Montgomery Gentry in Philly on 8/16.

WHOOHOO!!