killingtime wrote:

My family knows better...when I offer to bring anything, they refuse... If it is store bought, it is okay.

I can cook OK...couple of chefs in the family. MsLuddite puts on a pretty good feast on turkey day. Having about 9-10 family over.

NeoLuddite wrote:

We are shaped and fashioned by what and whom we love. -Johann von Goethe

"We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are." -Anais Nin

"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age." -Anais Nin

NeoLuddite wrote:

I can cook OK...couple of chefs in the family. MsLuddite puts on a pretty good feast on turkey day. Having about 9-10 family over.

Nice...just 4 of us this year...

AlienResearchGrpHome wrote:

"We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are." -Anais Nin "Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age." -Anais Nin

Hey, long time...

What is the Alien plan for Thanksgiving?

AlienResearchGrpHome wrote:

"We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are." -Anais Nin "Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age." -Anais Nin

Hi alien!

Did he do a "killingtime" swoosh in and out?

killingtime wrote:

Did he do a "killingtime" swoosh in and out?

The galaxies and planets have many demands...

NeoLuddite wrote:

The galaxies and planets have many demands...

I know...his responsibilities must be overwhelming...

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
Cecil Beaton

"It's better to light a candle then to curse the darkness."

Hey!

How are 2 (two) of my favourite misfits!

-on our own misfit planet?

Interesting... how a planet can occupy a lodge.

AlienResearchGrpHome wrote:

Hey! How are 2 (two) of my favourite misfits! -on our own misfit planet? Interesting... how a planet can occupy a lodge.

Question is how are you?

killingtime wrote:

"It's better to light a candle then to curse the darkness."

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." - William Butler Yeats
Interesting how so many woot regulars are educators, former educators, very educated, or being educated...

AlienResearchGrpHome wrote:

Interesting... how a planet can occupy a lodge.

How so, do tell?

AlienResearchGrpHome wrote:

Hey! How are 2 (two) of my favourite misfits! -on our own misfit planet? Interesting... how a planet can occupy a lodge.

It's a big blue marble that I am happy to wake up upon each morning...

NeoLuddite wrote:

Interesting how so many woot regulars are educators, former educators, very educated, or being educated...

Yep...and then there are the artists and deviants...

killingtime wrote:

Yep...and then there are the artists and deviants...

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler

egh, i was going to try to catch up, but it's too far...
i have to take my computer down tonight, or rather the one i'm using while my normal one is kaput, because dad's furniture from his office is coming home tomorrow...
my parents are insisting that i go to see Pride and Prejudice tomorrow with the family and some friends... i hate Jane Austen stories... we're getting chinese beforehand, which i'll eat but is never my first choice... and we're going with a family whose daughter my mom is definitely trying to set me up with, but i'm not the slightest bit interested in and am really being turned away from by mom's constant "why don't you invite [the girl] along with you?"
uuuuuuurrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhh
went to a hockey game tonight... mom told me i "probably" shouldn't have a beer... "probably" pretty much means "don't" or so i thought until i got home and she asked and seemed very pleased that i actually didn't have any... her reasoning was along the lines that people would probably be getting drunk and rowdy at the game... how my having 1 would impact that i'll never know...

jqubed wrote:

and we're going with a family whose daughter my mom is definitely trying to set me up with, but i'm not the slightest bit interested in and am really being turned away from by mom's constant "why don't you invite [the girl] along with you?"

LMAO...the ones your mom would pick for you are not the ones you'd pick for yourself...ever...

If I were a young guy, I'd find a wild artist, writer or actress to settle down with...

killingtime wrote:

If I were a young guy, I'd find a wild artist, writer or actress to settle down with...

I once gave this advice to a guy friend of mine.

killingtime wrote:

LMAO...the ones your mom would pick for you are not the ones you'd pick for yourself...ever...

yeah, and she does seem to like me... she always ends up sitting next to me somehow at movies... i didn't realize what was going on at first when i'd first moved back home and was being told i should invite her along, and thought "oh yeah, sure, she could hang out with us, it's been rude of us not to invite her before"
i mean, she's a nice girl, not unattractive, though not especially attractive either in my book, nice family, but... it ain't happenin'...

jqubed wrote:

egh, i was going to try to catch up, but it's too far... i have to take my computer down tonight, or rather the one i'm using while my normal one is kaput, because dad's furniture from his office is coming home tomorrow... my parents are insisting that i go to see Pride and Prejudice tomorrow with the family and some friends... i hate Jane Austen stories... we're getting chinese beforehand, which i'll eat but is never my first choice... and we're going with a family whose daughter my mom is definitely trying to set me up with, but i'm not the slightest bit interested in and am really being turned away from by mom's constant "why don't you invite [the girl] along with you?" uuuuuuurrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhh went to a hockey game tonight... mom told me i "probably" shouldn't have a beer... "probably" pretty much means "don't" or so i thought until i got home and she asked and seemed very pleased that i actually didn't have any... her reasoning was along the lines that people would probably be getting drunk and rowdy at the game... how my having 1 would impact that i'll never know...

Thanks for stopping by, always plenty of room in the misfit cabin.
I wouldn't go to see P&P unless I was doing a book report on it, IMO.
won't comment too much on the lady thing...you're compatible or you're not. Sometimes it takes awhile to find that out one way or another.
I'm not sure hockey can be enjoyed fully without beer.

killingtime wrote:

If I were a young guy, I'd find a wild artist, writer or actress to settle down with...

what, someone like you?

jqubed wrote:

yeah, and she does seem to like me... she always ends up sitting next to me somehow at movies... i didn't realize what was going on at first when i'd first moved back home and was being told i should invite her along, and thought "oh yeah, sure, she could hang out with us, it's been rude of us not to invite her before" i mean, she's a nice girl, not unattractive, though not especially attractive either in my book, nice family, but... it ain't happenin'...

Better not let it perpetuate then...could be leading...and eventually crushing...

I only went on one "pity" date...and I have a music tape of the worst songs to prove it...

NeoLuddite wrote:

<snip>I'm not sure hockey can be enjoyed fully without beer.

there were people next to me having beer... a couple middle-aged ladies... 1 of them actually started cheering for the other team at some points... but no one was drunk or rowdy... sure we'd yell and cheer at the big hits and scream at the refs... but it was very orderly...

jqubed wrote:

what, someone like you?

No...young...fearless...careless...

killingtime wrote:

Yep...and then there are the artists and deviants...

These rarely occupy mutually exclusive space.

jqubed wrote:

there were people next to me having beer... a couple middle-aged ladies... 1 of them actually started cheering for the other team at some points... but no one was drunk or rowdy... sure we'd yell and cheer at the big hits and scream at the refs... but it was very orderly...

Ahh, the essence of enjoying it fully...

killingtime wrote:

Better not let it perpetuate then...could be leading...and eventually crushing... I only went on one "pity" date...and I have a music tape of the worst songs to prove it...

oh yeah, i'm try real hard not to lead girls... thinking someone likes you only to have it seem to not be that way (or perhaps even the opposite) is one of the worst feelings in the world and i wouldn't wish it on anybody (well, maybe a mortal enemy, but they'd better reeeeaaaaalllllllyy deserve it... and i'm not sure anyone does... or if they do, there might be real bad consequences for the rest of the world if they suffer that)

killingtime wrote:

If I were a young guy, I'd find a wild artist, writer or actress to settle down with...

Contradiction in terms?
*wry smile*

AlienResearchGrpHome wrote:

These rarely occupy mutually exclusive space.

True...

AlienResearchGrpHome wrote:

Contradiction in terms? *wry smile*

I am not a young guy...so that couldn't be the contradiction...

So, you mean contradiction between wild and settle down?

jqubed wrote:

thinking someone likes you only to have it seem to not be that way (or perhaps even the opposite) is one of the worst feelings in the world quote

Alien has a fitting quote in the charity thread...

.

Did Neo go?

killingtime wrote:

Alien has a fitting quote in the charity thread...

which, the Henry Miller or the "never underestimate the power of true love" one?

killingtime wrote:

Did Neo go?

Not quite, just doing some packing.

NeoLuddite wrote:

Not quite, just doing some packing.

What time is your flight back?