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Done. For a little while. [message #24976]

Mon, 04 January 2010 19:26

b_twin_1
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Break out the champagne!

I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder

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Mon, 04 January 2010 19:35

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Raise your hand if you enlarged the picture with the first page to read it.

*raises hand*

(YAY DONE!)

Smooshes!

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Mon, 04 January 2010 19:40

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I suppose posting the stupidest c/e queries would be rude. . . ?

American placemats are easier, if you remember: can buy 'em one at a time. But the pictures on the British ones are better.

Judy-in-NY

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Mon, 04 January 2010 19:41

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Snork. But you've already HAD the first page. Although this is the revised version of course. You can track the addition/absence of a few 'ands'. :)

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Mon, 04 January 2010 19:42

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Yes. Merrilee would KILL me. :)

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Mon, 04 January 2010 19:47

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Or anyway drinking champagne on an evening I don’t have to stay sober.***

That's as it should be.

I'm embarrassed to say that my reaction to waterproof cork-backed placemats was akin to my one about oven cloths--"Wait, what?" Placemats are cloth things you roll up and throw in the laundry when you spill on them, they're ALL washable and where would you put the cork? And then I looked at your picture. Oh, THOSE things. Smile

_{"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.}

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Mon, 04 January 2010 20:10

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Congratulations! I shall eat a bright pink cupcake in celebration (Er..decorations are bright pink).

[Updated on: Tue, 05 January 2010 00:27]

This is goodnight and not goodbye.

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Mon, 04 January 2010 20:36

Melissa Mead
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Congratulations!

Member of Carpe Libris: http://carpelibris.wordpress.com/

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Mon, 04 January 2010 20:45

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jmeadows wrote on Mon, 04 January 2010 16:35

Raise your hand if you enlarged the picture with the first page to read it.

The sad truth is that I enlarged the first picture to see what kind of champagne it was.

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Mon, 04 January 2010 22:03

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Oh Happy Day!

Good work Aaron, I'd say you've caught the spirit of this community.

I find the prettiest place mats of the type you describe in Scandinavian gift shops. They tend to have beautiful wildflowers on them.

I don't use them on the table but under pitchers of flowers and similar potentially drippy things.

As for my table, I've been restraining myself from ordering oilcloth from Gudrun Sjoden but I think the time may have come ...

Enjoy the three weeks until Pegasus returns to the full!

"Winning a war is like winning an earthquake" Jeanette Rankin

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Mon, 04 January 2010 23:20

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jmeadows wrote on Mon, 04 January 2010 16:35

Raise your hand if you enlarged the picture with the first page to read it.

*raises hand*

(YAY DONE!)

OOOHHHH YESSSSS!!!!!

(I mean, yes, of course!)

Wendy

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Mon, 04 January 2010 23:23

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And, furthermore, congratulations Robin on accomplishing this next step in the fledging of Pegasus!

Wendy

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Mon, 04 January 2010 23:26

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Aaron wrote on Mon, 04 January 2010 17:45

jmeadows wrote on Mon, 04 January 2010 16:35

Raise your hand if you enlarged the picture with the first page to read it.

The sad truth is that I enlarged the first picture to see what kind of champagne it was.

And I enlarged the second picture to see what kind of food (?) was in the containers/boxes in the upper left corner (crackers? biscuits? not food at all?).

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Tue, 05 January 2010 01:31

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Aaron wrote on Mon, 04 January 2010 19:45

The sad truth is that I enlarged the first picture to see what kind of champagne it was.

Me too.

_{"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich}

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Tue, 05 January 2010 01:57

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Bravissima! Congrats! And I'm glad that champagne bottle said premier cru, as it is richly deserved. Hope the copyeditor finds PEGASUS to be the cleanest MS in publishing history so you can breeze through the end of January.

Peter keeps telling me, as I spill through the door at the mews with my latest meteorological complaints on my frozen lips, that when his kids were growing up they ice-skated at the local ponds every winter.

Even true statements have the ring of "I walked barefoot in the snow uphill both ways etc. etc." in response to complaints about the weather, and do nothing to improve either the situation or the complainer's attitude. I can assert absolutely that taking the dog out when it's -10 is not made any better by knowing that it is -27 in International Falls. (In fact it was -37 up there overnight, but that might have sounded like an exaggeration.) "I don't care!" is the only proper response. Smile

_{"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich}

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Tue, 05 January 2010 03:17

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Those are supposed to be placemats? I had no idea that's what they were supposed to be for. My family has some of those things (not roses... I have no idea what the pictures are, though I think they're night scenes of some sort... my memory makes them out to be in various shades of dark blue, though I may be wrong, but I'm fairly sure they're all different pictures) - my mom mostly put them along the center of the table to put the serving dishes on. She hasn't done this in years, I expect they're in the back of a cupboard someplace. I think my grandmother has some as well (I want to say hers were/are greenish, though again, I couldn't swear to this - these may have been purged when they moved out of their house and into the retirement community...) but I can't recall what she did with them when in use - vague memories imply something to do with milk jugs on the breakfast table.

Are those things available in the States? I don't think I've seen them anywhere other than on my mother's or grandmother's tables (and now, apparently, Robin's) - my grandmother is English but has lived the last 40-odd years in Canada, and I expect my mother got hers from my grandmother (this is, btw, my paternal grandmother, as my mother is from a different continent entirely).

--

Congratulations on being almost done with Pegasus - and getting a break from working on it for a little while Smile

Even if there's going to be a rather frantic period after the vacation...

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Tue, 05 January 2010 04:04

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Nice champagne flutes! And Congratulations too.
I look forward to drinking champagne again myself (postbaby). Or prosecco, which I really do like.
Regarding place mats, I've noticed that New Zealand has far greater range of cork-backed picture-place mats than the UK. Why this should be so I can't imagine, it's maybe the only product where this is the case.

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Tue, 05 January 2010 09:42

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Robin wrote on Mon, 04 January 2010 19:41

Snork. But you've already HAD the first page. Although this is the revised version of course. You can track the addition/absence of a few 'ands'. Smile

I care deeply about your ands.

Smooshes!

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Tue, 05 January 2010 12:26

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jmeadows wrote on Tue, 05 January 2010 06:42

Robin wrote on Mon, 04 January 2010 19:41

Snork. But you've already HAD the first page. Although this is the revised version of course. You can track the addition/absence of a few 'ands'. Smile

I care deeply about your ands.

I suspect that many of us care deeply about Robin, at least in part, because she cares deeply about her 'ands'.

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Tue, 05 January 2010 12:45

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Quote:

Peter keeps telling me, as I spill through the door at the mews with my latest meteorological complaints on my frozen lips, that when his kids were growing up they ice-skated at the local ponds every winter.

Um - I think Peter's memories can't be of the South of England, where there hasn't been serious outdoor skating since 1963! If you remember your WINTER HOLIDAY, Nancy and Peggy can skate because they get a few days' practice every year on the smaller lakes and tarns in the Lake District, but the Walker children, coming from the South, have never had that opportunity.

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Tue, 05 January 2010 12:51

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Everything looked so pretty! And rosy! And Pink! Smile

May I reiterate: Woohoo!

Quote:

About 130,000 words. A mere bagatelle to Samuel Richardson or Marcel Proust ††† but long enough.

Or JRR Tolkien

I doubt any of those gentlemen were working under a deadline, though. I'm not very familiar with the writing habits of Mr Richardson and Monsieur Proust, but I do know that Professor Tolkien certainly took his time... Smile

Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.

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Tue, 05 January 2010 12:55

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Bratsche wrote on Tue, 05 January 2010 05:20

jmeadows wrote on Mon, 04 January 2010 16:35

Raise your hand if you enlarged the picture with the first page to read it.

*raises hand*

(YAY DONE!)

OOOHHHH YESSSSS!!!!!

(I mean, yes, of course!)

Wendy

It didn't even occur to me. You... you... vision capitalists!

(flounces off in a huff, with a decidedly unattractive tinge of envy-green)

(looks back in to add:)No, I don't even care if you actually could see to read anything on the page or not! (disappears again)

Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.

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Tue, 05 January 2010 13:07

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L.R.K. wrote on Tue, 05 January 2010 09:55

Bratsche wrote on Tue, 05 January 2010 05:20

jmeadows wrote on Mon, 04 January 2010 16:35

Raise your hand if you enlarged the picture with the first page to read it.

*raises hand*

(YAY DONE!)

OOOHHHH YESSSSS!!!!!

(I mean, yes, of course!)

Wendy

Well, as Robin herself said, there isn't anything substantially different than what we saw before....but I did have to check just in case... Smile

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Tue, 05 January 2010 17:40

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Congratulations! And I love the peach/pink Gerberas. Smile

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Tue, 05 January 2010 18:18

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jmeadows wrote on Tue, 05 January 2010 09:42

I care deeply about your ands.

I hope you all appreciate me restraining myself from making a joke involving "buts." Because it isn't easy.

_{"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.}

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Tue, 05 January 2010 18:36

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Black Bear wrote on Tue, 05 January 2010 18:18

jmeadows wrote on Tue, 05 January 2010 09:42

I care deeply about your ands.

I hope you all appreciate me restraining myself from making a joke involving "buts." Because it isn't easy.

I thought for a long time if that could be taken the wrong way at all. Apparently I underestimated you, Black Bear! ;)

[Updated on: Tue, 05 January 2010 18:36]

Smooshes!

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Tue, 05 January 2010 18:41

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you should know better jodi.[snork]

Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get

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Tue, 05 January 2010 19:30

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Nope. Wrong. He showed me the ponds in question, back at the old house. His kids concur.

(Sorry. I want to answer/respond to most of the rest of everyone's comments, this is just an EASY one. :))

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Tue, 05 January 2010 19:32

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(And ANOTHER easy one. :))

Yes, aren't they pretty? The florist showed me how to WIRE the frellers, so now I use gerberas a lot. I never used to because their necks collapse. Wired they last almost forever (as cut flowers go).

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Tue, 05 January 2010 20:58

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Never underestimate a bear. Smile

_{"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.}

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Wed, 06 January 2010 01:23

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Black Bear wrote on Tue, 05 January 2010 17:18

jmeadows wrote on Tue, 05 January 2010 09:42

I care deeply about your ands.

I hope you all appreciate me restraining myself from making a joke involving "buts." Because it isn't easy.

But since you are a woman of iron self-control and impeccable taste, you managed to do it. Smile

_{"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich}

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Wed, 06 January 2010 05:09

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Bratsche wrote on Tue, 05 January 2010 19:07

Well, as Robin herself said, there isn't anything substantially different than what we saw before....but I did have to check just in case... Smile

Of course. Smile

Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.

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Wed, 06 January 2010 20:29

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Belated congratulations are in order, as well as belated anniversary good wishes.
You finished! I knew you could! Yaay Robin! Applause! Cheering and huzzah-ing!
Well done.

And yes, Jodi, I did enlarge the photo to read the first page.

Smile

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Wed, 06 January 2010 22:41

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For those who love, and can joke about stylebook...
http://twitter.com/fakeapstylebook

FF

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Thu, 07 January 2010 04:07

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satyrsong wrote on Thu, 07 January 2010 04:41

For those who love, and can joke about stylebook...
http://twitter.com/fakeapstylebook

FF

Why are you signing "FF"? I'm the Fake Frenchie. LOL

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Thu, 07 January 2010 05:38

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Fake Frenchie wrote on Thu, 07 January 2010 09:07

satyrsong wrote on Thu, 07 January 2010 04:41

For those who love, and can joke about stylebook...
http://twitter.com/fakeapstylebook

FF

Why are you signing "FF"? I'm the Fake Frenchie. LOL

Well, s/he could be 'Feisty Fiona', or 'Fred Flintstone' or...or...'Fanny Fernackapan'? Smile

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Thu, 07 January 2010 12:12

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AJLR wrote on Thu, 07 January 2010 11:38

Fake Frenchie wrote on Thu, 07 January 2010 09:07

satyrsong wrote on Thu, 07 January 2010 04:41

For those who love, and can joke about stylebook...
http://twitter.com/fakeapstylebook

FF

Why are you signing "FF"? I'm the Fake Frenchie. LOL

Well, s/he could be 'Feisty Fiona', or 'Fred Flintstone' or...or...'Fanny Fernackapan'? Smile

LOL S/he could be. You're right! Wink

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Fri, 08 January 2010 11:02

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LOL.
FF is for my LJ name. FatFred. I'm just too used to blogging under that name!

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Fri, 08 January 2010 19:49

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Oh, hi! Long time no see! :)

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Sun, 10 January 2010 18:22

satyrsong
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Hello!
I tend to lurk mostly, but couldn't resist the mention of Stylebook to bounce you the link.

Stay Warm!
It's in the 30's in FLORIDA!!!

FF

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