<p>I have been bored out of my gourd this week–even with the swing dancing. Some client better pull the trigger on a major project or…</p>
<p>Crikey…pass me a quad of what you’re having SB. On ice, because I’m American.</p>
<p>I think we need to start indexing this thread.</p>
<p>For example, what to call us? See post # this. What is our mascot? See post # that. Where is Sinner’s Alley located? See post # the other.</p>
<p>Perhaps our own Google. Search = funny fairy, pretty fairy. Search = Evil Neighbor. Search = Italian soccer players. Search = tequila…</p>
<p>But, could be confusion around peeps. I think it’s mootmom who bakes those yellow marshmallow chickens in the microwave</p>
<p>Cheers - wait, swing dancing? Did I miss something?</p>
<p>Collegiate shag, Alum. And no not the shag with pizza–or was it without pizza? I got lost.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.jitterbugs.info/sf_bugs_dances_shag.htm[/url]”>http://www.jitterbugs.info/sf_bugs_dances_shag.htm</a></p>
<p>Anyway, swing dance is fun. Very social. you meet lots of people as you rotate partners–none are as good as my dad though. </p>
<p>Here’s a lindy list form the Bay Area…for your Empty Nest days <a href=“http://www.lindylist.com/[/url]”>http://www.lindylist.com/</a></p>
<p>My husband gave me swing lessons for my birthday, but we are STILL trying to find a weekend when we can do it - and where they only teach you swing and not a million other dances as well. I can do the basics stuff - so much fun.</p>
<p>Peeps–where did I read you can arm them with toothpicks and if you heat them in the microwave, they’ll look like they’re having a little swordfight? Gotta try that…</p>
<p>Here in southern Ohio it’s snowing! After 80 degrees last week, this is hard to take.</p>
<p>But the azaleas are blooming in Augusta, I understand, so this is actually par for the course (pun inadvertent but let it stand.) We usually have winter while they’re having a lovely spring.</p>
<p>The azaleas may be blooming here in GA and the dogwoods, but it’s pretty darn cold. It’s supposed to freeze over the weekend. I’m glad I didn’t plant any annuals yet.
But it is absolutely gorgeous in Georgia right now (and the pollen is down below 1,000!!)
:)</p>
<p>I would LOVE to learn swing dancing, but my husband is an absolutely terrible dancer. We took a ballroom class that almost led to divorce, so we gave up!</p>
<p>SBMom, that reminds me of the time when MrSlugg and I decided to start playing racquetball together. Not a pretty sight, and I believe someone – I don’t know who – may have thrown her racquet. Either I dreamed it, or beer, turquoise tights, and bunch of people staring at us behind a big glass wall were also involved… :p</p>
<p>The funny thing was he thought I was the bad dancer! Until I borrowed another guy and whirled around the floor like Ginger Rogers. :D</p>
<p>My DH <em>knows</em> he’s the bad dancer–no rhythm gene, apparently, so we don’t even attempt the dance thing. Oh well, nobody’s perfect. ;)</p>
<p>Be careful Sluggie - they’re after your kind over in the gardening thread - using saucers of beer, no less!!</p>
<p>whoooosh—over here, it’s tiny, fragile BHappy…my diet was so successful I’m almost see-through, automatic doors no longer open when I stand on the matt, & I can barely see over the dashboard when I get in the car. I’m in need of sustenance from the bar…a few chips please, some grog, a calorie or two. </p>
<p>Had a wonderful bonding vacation with daughter: first it rained 2" per hour (a record at some point) for two days and and by necessisity we discovered the “food channel”, omg, the Barefoot Contessa puts pats of butter inside the hamburgers to make them juicy:eek:, in my weakened state I can barely imagine tasting such deviance; the DD then pursuaded me to go on a whalewatching trip - I told DD that she would probably not see anything other than waves- so of course I was immediately proved wrong when a mother and calf “kissed” the boat, spyhopped within arms reach, etc…putting on an extravagant display 
, but to top it all off the morning we were leaving DD found me paralyzed on the floor with a frozen back and had to call 911 for an ambulance. Food, wildlife & a medical adventure that could make up for missing “Greys Anatomy” what a bonding!. (The Darling Doctors kept shooting me full of Demerol until the pain went away and gave me ‘movie star’ drugs to get me home…) </p>
<p>And So kind Sinners, your sympathies please!! 
. Now I’m not saying the weight loss and the back trouble are related but my new thin pegs are perhaps just not capable of balancing the ‘Funny Fairy’ on my head these days… The Otter video made my morning smile - thanks slugg</p>
<p>Welcome back BHappy!</p>
<p>We have intravenous out in the back of Sinner’s Alley. Just tell us the blend of protein, carbs, and alcohol required to keep you Skinny Minny all the while blurring the back pain into nothingness.</p>
<p>We will also post photos of your new and now non-existent midriff on the wall. Kind of like the poster of that woman volleyball player with the fab abs that graces the gym I go pretend to exercise in.</p>
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:eek: Well, dammit, Alu…I thought that was a <em>MIRROR</em>!!! <em>sigh</em> Bubble officially busted… :(</p>
<p>WELCOME back, Ms. Skinny (BHappy!!)! Nice to see you…the Alley isn’t the same without your presence, although now, it will be hard to detect, it seems. Reminds me of the line from “Joseph…Dreamcoat” where the brothers, caught in the famine, are starving…“It’s getting hard to see us, from sideways on” ;)</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>Alumother & berurah! Thank you, I feel a bit better already…like Tinkerbell after she drank the poison, a little more clapping (you really do believe in me 
, or was that Sally Fields?)…</p>
<p>I’m wandering through the tables of the Alley dragging the IV behind me as I go…it is a slow progress as it is an elaborate drip system involving a 20lb bag of potatoes hung up on the top of the pole, loops of copper piping, and ending in pure distilled moonshine…I’m also scrounging about for food, wait is that Paula Deen flickering on the big screen tv frying something in a pound of butter…ahhhhh…but no you ladies are so supportive, almost as much as the IV pole…must stay svelte, don’t return to my gluttonous ways…p.s. I don’t work out either, I just draw abs on with a crayola…:p</p>
<p>BHappy: I do indeed exercize full tilt at the gym; nonetheless, I was joking the other day with my friend that I could use an abdominal “six pack” implant, since i’ll never have a six pack any other way (I am genetically challenged).</p>
<p>pulling my peeps up from page 2</p>
<p>Welcome back bhappy with you new fab frame. Yes we beleive in you and we like you, we really like you (Sally would be so happy).</p>
<p>So, does ths mean that you will be hanging out with the slinky fairy as she vamps up and down SA giving the come hither looks? Remember what momma Rose told gypsy (not that there will be any stripping going on in here, despite our hot flashes) walk and dip, walk and dip ;)</p>
<p>sybbie719 - Ha! indeed I remember that movie and couldn’t understand why “Auntie Mame” was taking her clothes off!!..mother tried to explain it to me…:)</p>
<p>I will try to remember walk and dip, but I hope I don’t get it confused with Legally Blonde’s swoop and snap!..Truthfully I’d settle for a good nights sleep without backache!</p>
<p>I told my daughter about peeps when we saw some in the store when wewere on our trip, and tried to describe all the fun mothers on CC had with them and microwaves she thought I was nuts…</p>
<p>SBmom - when you first mentioned a six pack implant I had the horrified thought that you were wishing for sextuplets…at least that is something we don’t have to worry about! :eek:</p>
<p>Heavens NO!!</p>