Good Stuff

“I think its time for another happy, warm fuzzy thread. What's good in life? What are you thankful for?

We were blessed with a new baby in our family yesterday. My niece Isabel Rae was born happy and healthy, and with dark hair (no one knows where she got that from!) I didn't get to see her yesterday, but I'm hoping to sneak out of work early today and head up to the hospital.

:)”

“My daughter's baton team placed 7th in the National Finals in Disney World last week. She has worked hard at it and I am proud of her.”

“Cool, Chili. I always wanted to twirl a baton when I was little. :)

There is a cookie fairy in our office. There were 3 boxes of Girl Scout cookies in the kitchen this morning. "were" being the key word.”

“congratulations on your new niece, smiley! i bet her dark hair will fall out, and she'll get lighter hair soon.

let's see...everything's good with me right now! i can't think of much to dislike. oh, and my dad is taking us all to the Florida Keys in a couple weeks for a family vacation...that should be fun! slightly torturous, but also fun.
;-)”

“Your dad is taking you to Spring Break, lyra? Cooool!”

“LMAO!! i just figured out that it might be Spring Break the other night, Aero! we're going March 8-11th. i'm so freakin' old that i don't even know when Spring Break is anymore! good lord, i HOPE it isn't!!! gag-o-rific.”

“wait, it's March 5 - 11th. whatever.”

“If you're on MTV, climb up on some guy's shoulders and hold up a big Trail Talk sign!”

“...the show us your...oh never mind...”

“HEY! i forgot about MTV. if i get to be on TV, i'll even put up with Spring Breakers. LOL!! how about if i climb up on my grandmother's shoulders in my Trail Talk Tee? LMAO!! she's a bigger party animal than half the people on S.B., i guarantee.”

“Hey Lyra! Be sure to take a charter boat out to the reefs to do some snorkeling. It's sooooooo much fun, and cheap to do. You'll see all sorts of cool stuff. My brother and I chased a big ole nurse shark, saw barracuda and a whole assortment of cool looking crazy colorful fish. It was really neat, you must do it!”

“In Florida, the whole month of March is spring break.”

“cool, Artex! snorkeling is definitely on my list of must-do's. i've never done it before!”

“Be sure sure to hock a big loogie in your mask so it won't fog up.”

“well, that's a given, Tilt.”

“mask loogies are the worst kind....”

“No, no no! Good things, not loogies!”

“Loogies are good. Like oysters.”

“Only chewier...”

“Lung oysters??? Ya eat those with horseradish and Tabasco???







Eeeeeeewwwwwwwwww!!!”

“It was Oysters for breakfast every morning until I quit smoking :-)”

“shoot, im so thankful i found God in my life & realized whats important to me, my family.....

im also thankfull my back surgery went ok and that i will recover to continue backpacking in 5-6 months....

THANK GOD!”

“celebrate the loogie, smiley girl.
;-)

no, no, FG...it's crumbled-up sardines and cocktail sauce!”

“Cool deal Prowler! :-)

Hey Lyra, don't forget to get a waterproof disposable camera if you go snorkeling.”

“also thankful for our new baby coming in July!

:)”

“oohh! july babies are the best! (that's 'cause i'm one of them!)

:)”

“SARDINES?? WTF? i mean SALTINES.

gotcha, Artex! you mean my digital one won't go underwater?
;-)”

“I guess your back wasn't giving you THAT much trouble, <GRIN>”

“LOOGIEPALOOZA'03 ! ! !”

“I was wondering how you crumble up a sardine...dunk it in liquid nitrogen would work I guess...”

“It makes me happy just hearing all these good things.
<lots of smiles >”

“Congrats on the new little one, Smiley Girl! Another one to spoil!

The good stuff right now is that I am finally off work this weekend!!!!”

“I'm frustrated at the moment....I can't seem to find any of my family members! They don't have a phone in their hospital room (seems strange, doesn't it?) and no one has their cell phones turned on. I don't know if they'll still be at the hospital tonight or if she'll come home! AAGUUUHHHH!!!”

“Call the main hospital(admissions) and ask to speak with the nurses in delivery and have them get a message to a family member to call you or just ask them if she will be going home or is home.”

“I am grateful that I was able to use photoshop to digitally wipe the schnot running out my 1 year old’s nose in that otherwise perfect photo.

(See how skillfully combined loogies and babies?) (What do I win?)”

“Very nice, Violin.

Unfortunatly, there is no prize.”

“the prize is that good feeling in your heart, DUH. what a jip! LOL.”

“That and 58¢ will get me a Backpacker cap, I hear.”

“what's that for? a loogie-holder? similar to a spit-can, yum!”

“What wolfeyes said.

Also, hospitals ask people to turn off their cell phones for fear that it may interfere with some equipment. (I read this as liability fear--haven't seen any evidence.)”

“So a guy is sitting in a bar with his buddy. they're pretty drunk. The one looks at the spittoon sitting at the end of the bar and says to the other:
"I'll bet you fifty dollars you won't take a drink out of that spittoon."

The guy thinks for a minute and says "Okay, I'm drunk enough to do it."

He picks up the spittoon and starts gulping it down until he empties it. He sets it down, wipes with mouth, and takes the fifty off the bar.

"Why the hell did you drink the whole thing? I just bet you on one drink?"

"Couldn't stop. It was all one long string."”

“My brother had a cute message on his phone that he was out of the office enjoying the birth of the new baby, gave all her stats, etc.

They didn't tell the hospital to turn the phone on until later today, but I finally talked to my brother. All is well! I'll be visiting Isabel tonight!”

“absolutely revolting, Phaedrus! :-)”

“Thanks! I try.”

“OK, after reading that joke, I tried to parse smiley girl's post as a joke. It wasn't very funny, lol...”

“yeah, stay on the subject, would ya, smiley!
:-D”

“BP, I wonder if everyone else realizes the life of a programmer trying to parse this or that.

syntax error

Fatal error in line 5 of joke module 2

-f- not funny

I feel for ya, bud.

:)”

“Obviously, Phaedrus is trying to drive people away, possibly to the other side.”

“I'm glad someone can appreciate my trials and tribulations, Phaed. Most people (like my wife) just look at me funny when I say stuff like that, lol...”

“Sorry. ;)”