TOPIC: Humbly Submitted for Your Amusement

*sigh* Ok, here's some cut and paste from the other forum. The beginning is talking about my cat, Amber...

She was a b***h from the day she was born. I used to say she hated the world and tolerated me. There were people who were my friends when I got her, that years later she would still try to attack every time they came over. It took 10 years for me to finally manage to have another cat without her attacking ME in protest. And she sure knew how to tell the young ones to stay out of her way.

I knew I had to marry Kevin when, after we had been dating only a few months, she crawled in his lap and started purring. That, plus the fact that my Mom picked him out and introduced us (and still tells me she's not sure I deserve Him lololol).

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Scatterspell posted: My mom picking someone out for me is a sure sign I need to get the hell out of Dodge. She never has, but it could happen.

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So I said: I was in the process of getting a divorce from a man who was controlling and borderline abusive. Mom didn't actually pick Kevin out as a potential spouse. She just knew he was a very sweet guy, and the type of man she hoped I'd end up with. She had no idea how much we actually had in common (books, music, movies, etc). The fact she made sure we met also made the "taking him home to meet my folks" part a lot easier.

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Which prompted Renlittle to say: That's very fairy-tale ish. You're lucky.

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And I said: The real fairy tale part was the hunt for my wedding dress.

Because it was my second wedding, I decided I wanted a pink dress. I loved the fairy princess look with lots of ruffles, lace etc. (See this is kind of on topic, I wanted to pretend I was a princess on my wedding day.) The bad part was, we had a very tight budget, and I could only afford $300 for a dress. My mom, maid of honor, and I went shopping for a whole day in Indy. We weren't finding anything except one that cost over $900. We had about decided mom was going to have to make my dress, and went to one last shop to look mainly at bridesmaids dresses.

As I was walking thru the store, I saw a bunch of dresses partially behind a partition. I saw some pink ruffles, and thought it might be a flower girl dress. I pulled it out and found my dream dress. It was bright pink, with tons of tulle ruffles and other lacy details. It was my size, and fit perfectly, with no alterations needed.

The best part? It was a display model of a discontinued dress. Original price - $850. Clearance price - exactly $300.

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Braelun then said: Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo Lesimony. Good story although I feel I've been rolled in cotton candy for some reason...sticky sweet.

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To which I replied: LOL. With that dress on, I looked like I'd been rolled in cotton candy. I'll have to see if I can find a pic to scan in. It'd probably give you a good laugh.


This all lead to requests to see the pic. I think you know the rest. Now, aren't you sorry you asked. *evil grin*

Awwhhh, how cute. Thanks for sharing. *smiles*

hmm, since I can't contribute any funny driving stories. Allow me to contribute links for your amusement:

Am thoroughly addicted to this site:
stuffonmycat.com/

by the way, if looking for a rogue elf, consider this kitty midnight:
stuffonmycat.com/index.php?itemid=697

And you simply must check out:
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

Truly pictures that are out of this world. Simply amazing! A new picture everyday, and information as well so you can always learn something new. Today's is the Cartwheel Galaxy, and they show it with different versions:infared, ultraviolet, x-ray, etc. Very cool stuff!

DD,

Glad you like APOD. Some of those pictures were taken by my team.

Take care,
Douglas

dequils wrote: DD,

Glad you like APOD. Some of those pictures were taken by my team.

Take care,
Douglas

Very Cool!

I had downloaded and installed Real Player so I could watch the streaming broadcasts from NasaTV( www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ ) when they were doing the daily summary report of the results from opportunity's(spirit was non op at the time although they made a few progress reports on it as well) rover missions back in 04'. And I'd email a friend of mine on the latest news if they'd miss the streamcast. However around the time of NASA's anniversary they seemed to stop those. *sadness*
Haven't used real player since or for anything else. *little laugh*

Yeah, APOD has some truly amazing and breath taking photos! Y'all should go check them out.

Sometimes it remind me of a board game I use to play as a kid with my sis. I don't know if any of you ever heard of Solarquest. Its like a space monopoly, only more creative design. *little laugh*

Lesimony wrote: Now, aren't you sorry you asked. *evil grin*

Nope. It was a nice story. It seems like it was fate that led you to the dress--you were meant to have it.

My Mom doesn't attempt to hook me up with any women. She always thinks they are "too wild" and not right for "her baby" (that's what I get for being the youngest). I mean, for goodness sakes, some of those girls have tattoos! *Gasp*

Ah, mothers...

Well since we are sharing embarrassing stories, let me tell you what happened to me today!

Well for those of us who live in SoCal you know what the winds have been like this week!
Yesterday my dad and I tackled the front yard, but the backyard hadn't been touched yet. So being the little worker pixie I am endeavored to get the back yard into shape. I got the cemet around the pool swept and leaves shoveled into a trash can.
And attempted to skim the layer of leaves off the top of the pool.
Well after I had filled a barrel with leaves, my allergies were about all I could take from being out there in the wind.
So I come in the house, and take off my sweater and toss it on my bed. And to my horror realize my phone is not on my hip.
I scour the house, the garage, the back yard, come and check the house again. Try calling my phone which I know will do no good because my phone is set to vibrate it doesn't ring.
So I go outside and check the pool. Now the phone itself is silver but the case is black. So with the layer of leaves at the bottom I'm trying to look and see if it maybe fell in some how.

Sure enough in the deep end, phone in case is sitting at the bottom of the pool. How and when it fell I'm not sure. But it had probably at least a nice ten minute soak at the deep end of the pool. So you can bet when I fished it out I had to play a durge for it. Bwah bwa bwaaaa, bwah bwa bwaaa, . . .

So I've now lost all my phone numbers. *little laugh* Note to self make a paper address/phone book.

But on the brighter side, my family is so amazing and my brothers bought me a new one! Replaced in less than two hours, that is impressive!

But um yeah, phone committed suicide by leaping into the deep end of the pool, this tops the camera that leapt into a cup of coffee! *little laugh*

I hope you didn't have to dive in after it! I could just imagine the catastrophy that would have been. But you probabally used the little fish net
Glad that you atleast found it, a friend of mine lost his out in the snow in his front lawn and didn't find it untill spring. Amasingly enough it still worked, much to our surprise. O_o

Joyus,
Hopefully you have not tried to turn it on yet.
Of course calling yourself might have killed the phone, but you might see if it can be resurrected.

Sometimes, if you can dry the equipment out thoroughly you can recover the entire thing with out replacing it. I would see if you can pop the case, and disconnect the main battery. Let all dry thoroughly for at least several days. Then re-assemble and try it out.

Over the years of supporting tech stuff, we have had all sorts of stuff dropped in water, pagers, phones, USB drives (mine went through the wash). That when allowed to dry out worked just fine.

It might be worth a try.

Dave

Was it a camera phone?

dequils wrote: Was it a camera phone?

*little laugh* No, but its replacement is.
So if phones have decided to join camera's in not liking me, boy am I doomed!
*little laugh* This certain topped the camera that committed suicide by leaping into a cup of coffee!
I think I am going to have to keep my new phone away from any liquids, who knows what it might do! But one would hardly be able to blame it!

*little laugh* Okay, so since my phone had committed suicide I am having to email friends to get their numbers again.
Oh don't give me that look, its not like you've got everyone's numbers memorized.

So I emailed my friend who I go to faire with and tell her that what happened to my phone.
The first line of the reply back I got:
'My phone didn't swim well either, '

I laughed so hard, and I must confess it was quite comforting to know I wasn't the only one! heehehehheehehe. So I emailed back my number as well so us gals could get ahold of one another for faire.
But I just thought that was too funny! And would share for your amusement.