me2

I see you

I don't want to forget this so I'm posting it in my thread too

rolling down the windows on a sunny foggy day, with my hair flying all over the place, listening to Bitter Sweet Surrender as I drive Cherokee Park - looking over downtown ~the Cathedral looked MASSIVE ... as if it had been lassoed and brought closer (like in Its A Wonderful Life- "What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You...you want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey! That's a pretty good idea! I'll give you the moon, Mary.)

A little light looks through, her bedroom window.

She dances and I dream, she's not so far as she seems,

Of brighter meadows, melting sunsets,

Her hair blowing in the breeze.

And she can't see me watching.

I'm thinking, love... ahha love...ahha love... ahha love...ahha

It's bittersweet, both and sweet and bitter, bitter and sweet

It's a bitter sweet, surrender

It's bitter sweet, both sweet and bitter

Bitter and sweet, It's a bitter sweet, surrender

I said I'm older now. I work in a city. We live together.

But it's different than my dream.

Morning light fills the room. I rise.

She pretends she's sleeping.

Are we everything we wanted?

I'm thinking, love... ahha love... ahha love... ahha love...ahha

It's bittersweet, both and sweet and bitter, bitter and sweet

It's a bitter sweet, surrender

It's bitter sweet, both sweet and bitter

Bitter and sweet, It's a bitter sweet, surrender

I said I know we don't talk about it.

We don't tell each other...

All the little things that we need.

We work our way around each other

As we tremble and we... as we tremble and we bleed.

As we tremble and we... as we tremble and we bleed.

It's bittersweet, both and sweet and bitter, bitter and sweet

It's a bitter sweet, surrender

It's bitter sweet, both sweet and bitter

Bitter and sweet, It's a bitter sweet, surrender

I assume the flag was lowered for Charles today. Damn camera focused on a passing car rather than the flag. Oh well. :eyeroll:

OK, I've marked every discussion as read and do solemnly swear to try to keep up with the threads better :pbpt:

yeeeeeah :smile:

I've heard that before :eyeroll:

:smile:

I didn't say cross-my-heart, though...I said I'd TRY :pbpt:

Pinky Swear?

The Cooler Crew thinks me2 is really cute!

me2 Knows Cooler Crew Chicks Rule!!

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rush

OH NO...I'm not going there...I thought about it but realized that would be too much of a committment. I'm not sure I'm that reliable :goofy:

I love being on top...... :pbpt:

pulling an all nighter - carpet comes in the morning!

Now that looks like fun! I like the paint color and the smile on your face. :smile:

I like chicks who do manual labor

:ooh:

I got to bed about 6:30 - for an hour

then the guys showed up and I had to do all that last minute stuff: pull old carpet from one room and move furniture outside (hoping for no rain) then pull those staples from the floor and 409 the walls and baseboards....

uuuuuuuhhhhhhhhh I hear the shower calling me and a wonderful lunch in the park in my future :smile:

unfortunately its about 5 years too late :frown: and I'm not talking about the shower :eek: :frown:

should look nice when your done. Then you can sit and look at it. :smile:

I'll end up sleeping on it tonight I'm sure

thanks mikey-

I will have a poker/wine/beer night after Aug 1st. I know that once this is in that the house will calm down some and I'll actually begin to feel a little more like my old self --- which my sister misses so it can't be all that bad :smile:

a wonderful lunch in the park

Sounds very nice. Enjoy

Isn't your sister on the show On The Lot? :smile:

http://www.thelot.com/contestants/view/?id=6

my luck i'll spill wine on the new carpet

Captain Hook: Where's the carpet, Smee?

you can come and help us paint, whenever you want. :goofy:

Somebody has got to say it......

So, can I lick your new carpet? :pbpt:

It sat there soo long. Sorry :chagrin:

Why does this woman's video blogs intrigue me?

thanks, I liked it

and I can only guess...cause I can't read your mind

I found her from this video blog that played a Sheryl Crow tune that I was searching.

Nice! I bet it smells nice too. New carpet smell is cozy to me for some reason. Things should be better around there now.

I can't believe you just happen to come across her - I really like her ... ty for showing me - I slowed down enough and to really listen....now I do think I understand better today. :frown:

Im gonna try to keep somewhat of a blog here of having Sarah, our 15 yr old from France visit...

its more for me than anything but feel free to enjoy the ride with me. and yes, my 15 yr old has the same name :smile:

we picked Sarah up from the University of Minnesota. Tall girl!! very grown-up. Her dad is retired and used to own a clothing shop and her mom teaches French in FRANCE! haha nice. We talked about where she has already been over the last three days. Today she visited Harriet Island with her group - now that just funny to be so close to us. She wants to live like an American girl for the next 2 weeks. She was hungry so we took her to Boca Chica and got a bunch of different mexican items for her to try. (I can't go there without a margarita gold) ... Now we're home and the girls just showed her around. We got Whitneys room all ready with extra sheets and 3 drawers for clothes so she can stay in her room. She speaks very good English. Im hoping to learn something in french :smile:

That's a cool idea! I look forward to hearing your stories. :smile:

So do I. Way Cool!

I'd like to bring in a 15 year old French girl but I might have to fend off the looks from the neighbors. :pbpt:

You're good people J. The experience should be huge for your daughters. Maybe not now but definitely later on in life.

I currently work with a Hmong woman who was a refuge in France. One of the Hmong AmeriCorps woman I used to work with also had refuge status in France. It is/was fun to hear the French-Hmong accent.

Na Ziong Misseur :smile:

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Is she an exchange student? For 2 weeks only?

Sound like lifetime memories in the making. I'll be glad to read about it when you post. Thanks.

I will look forward to reading your posts, me2.

well in my case...we arn't sending my Sarah to France anytime soon...but techniqually she is a foreign exchange student. It was really easy to do too. A man visited Sarahs French class at Central High School. Sarah came home and asked what we thought of it. Both Mark and I actually agreed that it would be interesting and a life experience. So we filled out a form she brought home where we wrote down things we like to do and that we wanted a girl about 13-15. The guy contacted us and we went to a 2 hr meeting with other parents doing the same thing. The next thing we know July 12th is here and we go pick her up! so far I would do this again. Whitney has been the most excited- Its like having a rock star in the house!

Turns out I didn't quite understand her and she visited Lake Harriet yesterday NOT Harriet Island :confused: :eek: whoops.

She brought us wrapped presents FROM FRANCE too! how nice. I didn't see what she gave the girls yet but she gave Mark a French cookbook and she gave me a book on her city of Lyon. HOW COOL! perfect! and then I received a bag of goodies with 4 different mini bottles of perfumes from France and a cosmetic assortment of sample skin care products.

We told her last night that our house is her house and that any meals we eat out together that we will pay for. (they bring $ for food) ... save it for SHOPPING!!!! she likes our clothes here. She says T-shirts in France go to here (points above her belly button). She really likes American Eagle & Hollister.

The american exchange rate is 1 Euro = 1.3333 American Dollar - so everything she buys here will feel like its on sale by 33%? is that right?

Girls are sleeping right now. We may take her down by the Mississippi this afternoon for a bit. She is amazed by the tall buildings - if I took her to my work its not really that high but we will probably drive through downtown and show her around. Mark is working all day today and mostly through her stay....I'm pretty much ON HOLIDAY! (I LOVE TO SAY THAT!!!!). :cool:

She traveled to Minneapolis/St Paul with a group of approx 20 other french students 3 days ago so she got to see many things before we got her. She got to go to some of the places that were on my list that I want to visit but we will probably go to them anyhow again....like The Stone Arch Bridge and MOA, the Walkeer Art sculpture garden and Hard Rock Cafe!

She also went to the Wave pool in Coon Rapids, Cub Foods, bowling at Flahertys, McDonalds. They drove down Summit Ave!

whew! she was tired last night! girls fell asleep to Charlies Angels Full Throttle.

we had an exchange student from japen...

I hated it...he had pooor english and just wanted to watch tv...

one of my uncles had a french foreign exchange girl living with him and my aunt and cousins a few years back....

I got to hang out there alot, at the time, an help show her around...that was a pretty cool experience....

babysitter :coolfrown:

When does she go home J?

July 30th - a monday

Cool! :cool:

are you bringing her to the fair tonight?

I still keep in touch with our Swedish exchange student from high school. She made many life-long friends during her stay here. She's an MD now and visits the US often. Her foster parents were Harold and Iantha LeVander. Harold went on to become the second So. St. Paulite to become governor of Minnesota.

My aunt had an exchange student for a whole summer. She was from honduras I think. They kept in contact for a long time afterwords.