Shoot the Breeze With the Cooler Crew - Peoplesforum Edition

I just finished watching Thelma and Louise again. I love that movie.

Hey KT!!

Hope that cold goes faster than it came.

I don't get sick for very long- but my head feels like it's in space

I haven't been sick all winter except for a few sinus headaches. Knock on wood!

TV- I keep forgetting to tell you that my Mom was in the Peace Corps - came home a couple years ago. She was in Africa...
It was hard on me for her to be there, but she came back a different person, one whom I relate with better. My mom is 75.

I say I got Ellen degeneres's cold- if you watch her - she had one, and said all she does is go from work to home....except when she stops and shakes hands w/ kindergarteners, and helps them blow theier noses....
I have taken 3,000 pictures of little kids the past few weeks- I feel like a petri dish. Heh.

Somehow I cannot go to AW'S site- apparantly, there is an account here, but I have no clue how to nullify it.

That's where you got the cold!

Cool beans that your Mom did the Peace Corps thing!

We heard from our Peace Corps volunteer today by email. He's doing super and will be meeting up with his sister on the 20th in Guatemala. I still can hardly believe all that came together!

Just go to the Winter Carnival folder and find AW 2004 Mock Hunt thread.

....So I cannot play the mock hunt- as if I had presence of mind to do so...........

Or I could keep posting useless stuff

TV- My Mom lives in Ely- she way rocks! Tiny old woman, heart of gold, balls of steel...

Funny how that happens, isn't it? It reminds me of once when one of my sons was in HS band and they took a trip to play at Disney World. Unbeknownst to us, my sister who lived in Chicago was on vacation there at the same time and walked past the band shell and saw the banner announcing that the SSP Band was playing. My son was pretty surprised to see them in the audience.

And there's another thread in the same folder with all the clues lined up nice and neat.

It's an Alice in Wonderland hunt!

And one more useless post: and I'll get a ....

OOps!~ No Joeseph for KT!

Brian played Disney World in Orlando too when he was in grade school! Inks got to go along as a chaperone and they had a great time!

Those school bands sure take some nice trips!

TV & OT- My Great- Grandfather started the first High school band in this state! Funny!

They sure are! My kids went to Chicago, St. Louis, Orlando, and other places I can't think of right now.

It's the pitz having brain drain.

Kalla Kleemola- noodle it if you;'d like.
 Music is my life. Which is why I felt SO bad when terry had her tunes stolen....

Really? How cool! My next avatar is going to be a picture of my mother's kindergarten band from the early 20's. It's a really neat picture. What school was that KT?

HOLY CRIPES, KT!!!! About your Mom!!! THAT'S JUST SUPER AWESOME!!!

KT, we need to get together. You CRACK ME UP! My head feels like ittiz stuffed. I'm over the 'infection,' but whatever's causing this snot (sorry... Well, otay - MUCUS!) is still around/about/doing its thing. I'm done with my antibiotic, but with all this CRAPOLA in my head, ittiz just a matter (no pun intended...) of days before everything's infected again. I'm SO SICK of blowing my nose. My poor nose is RAW from four weeks of blowing it like every 15 minutes!!! I'm still hoarse, my ears hurt, I can't breathe...

WHAT'S GOING ON??????

Eags... I don't wann be NEW Minne-soda. I wanna be OLD Minne-soda... (whine)

Frosti, my uncle was on the B&O for years. An eing-ga-neer. Only job he ever had and retired comfy - very comfy. The train tracks used to run behind our house when I was a toddler and he'd stop the train and have lunch with me and my mom, his sister. Drove my mom to distraction that I used to say, "I want to jump a train and just see where it takes me." I couldn't have been more than five at the time... Talk about a hawk watching her chick!!!! I was never allowed outside alone (but I really wasn't as I had Dutchy, our Weimaraner to watch me and this was back before you had to be with a kid constantly outside...) when trains were going by. And I always had to be accounted for when my Uncle left! :D

God bless my mother. She was a saint. She got me raised to adulthood. Not an easy task, as you can imagine. She used to always tell me, "Honey, I'm so THANKFUL you weren't twins!" LOL!!!

But replacing it has been fun actually. Some I replaced exactly. Other things I can't find anywhere but will replace it with something similar. Then there are other artists that I'm replacing with different CDs. I'm finding myself doing more of the Greatest Hits.

I've forgotten some too, but the one that I would have liked to take was a train trip to someplace in Washington State. That's a beautiful trip. They stopped at a couple of towns along the way and stayed at some really nice places. At one resort at Flat Iron Lake they sat in a hot tub with some movie star whose name I can't remember either!

Remember when Jimmy Carter's mom joined the Peace Corp? She was pretty old at the time too. How wonderful!

Ely High school. And "Charles Kleemola" will prolly get you further.
My grandmother was the first woman principal in Minnesota, too. Fannie Palo- Kleemola
she left my mother to care for her baby brother, and her husband in order to pursue her career- Part of why my Mother was such a hard-ass, ball breaking man-hater....
Until she came back from Africa.

Brian's site mate was that chicken Bill who recently completed his 4th round in the Peace Corps and he was 76. Amazing.

She found love in Africa?

bbiab

No- She found PEACE withinherself in Africa

My mother taught until she got married. Our school district didn't allow married women to teach so she had to quit. They were expected to stay home and keep house and raise children. Isn't that something?

And stopped looking down at people due to dirty elbows, or inability to read, or speak with proper grammar........

Oh. Thass mush better. Yuppers.

JOSEPHINE!

My grammers in the kitchen making cookies...

They say that serving in the Peace Corps changes you and your views about the world.

Totally something- OT! My grandma was an english major , I think there were 8 other women in school with her...
She started her teaching career on the Iron Range- and taught 20 schools on a weekly basis.

How old would your grandma be? And where did she go to school? My mom went to St. Cloud Normal as they called it then and would be almost 104 if she were alive.

TV- I never would have thought my mother could, or would ease up. She was a hard woman- I was raised to never feel good about myself- since came back, she seems to be ready with praise for me.
The problem is- I have been a demanding and critical mother myself. I have been blessed with having Dan to whump me when needed.....
It seems as if God has seen to it that my boys have "all of the above"
I am a high school drop-out, and also am the happiest one in my family..........
I never stop wanting to learn- and enrich myself with the likes of you. And those who I've met here.

There is something about this crew. We are enriched multi-folds by just knowing each other.

Ot- gol- I do not know- Probobly around 110, or so.
I should ask my mom where she went to school....
And as far as the LaVyrle books go- Start with the one called "Years"
It takes place in the late 1800's, and is about a teacher.

I agree- TV!
And it's the least-likely place one would would think to look!

OT- Or the one I spoke of before..."And Then Came Heaven"

I went book shopping at the Goodwill today and was looking for her books but didn't find any. I'll pick one up at the library.

Exactly...

And speaking of grammar - my Mom just forwarded an email to me that she received today from my kid in Guatemala. The first line....

Me fail english? That's unpossible!! (Wink!)

KT... I have to say, I'm very surprised. That you've not degrees out the patoot. I just assumed that you did due to your intelligence, and in particular, your command of the English language.

Just goes to show the difference between inate intelligence and education. Like, my xhusband was an educated idiot. Educated, i.e., degreed, but dummer than a box o'rocks. No intelligence whatsoever.

KT, if ittiz any consolation or helps you... YOU'VE given ME TONS!!!

I had to chuckle when I read your post about your mother being a stickler for gammar and dirty elbows. My mother was the same way. And what's with the dirty elbows? She always make sure my elbows were clean and told me to rub cream on them every day. Which I do to this day!

I don't rub cream on my elbows, but I ALWAYS go out with clean, un-ripped/holey undies! :D

Well, I'll have the softest elbows on the stretcher for sure.

OK KT. Tell me more about this Peace Corp for seniors. Where do they send you and do you get lighter duty than youngsters? I was just talking to my daughter and telling her about your mother and got to thinking maybe that's something I'd want to do. I have so much time on my hands.