I hate holidays

[zenbabe]

I just do...they always suck..no matter what.

[JesusTitties]

who brought debbie downer

[weissenflatz]

can someone bring her some upper? stat!

[sparticle]

I usually hate holidays because of all the obligatory family crap, but for once I was spared having to deal with my ultra-annoying in-laws, so we actually had quite a pleasant day and evening. Just us, a rooftop and a gorgeous fireworks show. It was one of the nicest Fourths I have ever had.

[Clytie]

i kicked butt in a volleyball tourney so i cant complain. our team of 4 beat all the teams of 6

[Audreyvgs]

I posted my holiday story in the good morning thread. :)

[daverbee]

We gave away popcorn and soft drinks on our parking garage roof again. Tons of fun and it's nice to see all those folks I see at work every day without working!
Glad to know most of us are having a good time. Zenny, we're gonna have to work on your holiday sense, aren't we?
Next holiday, stock up on food you like, lock the door, unhook the phone and the computer, turn on the dvd and spend it watching your favorite movies. Make your hubby do this with you!
Hopefully that'll help. If not, y'all are welcome to spend next 4th of July in St. Augustine with Vickie and me as we're retiring from the popcorn and soft drink consession industry.

[Avalon]

Well, I am starting to hate them. Just got a call that we are getting uninvited company :( I know, I am such a btch; but I hate all the questions about the events that have transpired and about my eye. Pftt..how old is this sucker now?? It just won't go away lol
Oh well, looks lots better than it used to! This is photo documentation for a friend who didn't have the "privilege" of seeing my shiner; I have had to send her one a week :rolleyes:
I see blackmail in my future :p
I googled black eye and was horrified by some of the awful things I saw. Pfft..mine was/is nothing!

[Avalon]

Originally posted by zenbabe
I just do...they always suck..no matter what.

cheer up Zen; could be worse, you could be here entertaining people you don't know and don't want to know:eek:

[Clytie]

Originally posted by Avalon


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Have you tried coverup? (not that it looks that bad now) or hey you could do a matching one on the other side and just tell everyone yer practicing in the off season (football)

ok im a nerd but I watched the entire extra DVD for the Indian Jones trilogy. and in it Karen Allen (Marianne) got a black eye during one of the risky stunts. As a joke the entire crew sported "black eyes" for that weeks shooting.

[bealeblues]

the only good thing about holidays is usually you dont have to work.....

[Avalon]

Pfft.. there are 10 people in my living room that I just found out are staying for dinner. I would rather be working. and I am so mad at my husband at this point I could very well earn a black eye before the day is over:mad:

Clytie, cover up is an idea, but why bother?? If I use makeup it looks like I am trying to hide something, so I don't. There was no injury so to speak that caused the shiner, so I have just toughed it out.

I will, however, keep it in mind for my husband..the way he is going he is going to need it for both eyes!

[nycwriters]

Av, I think you should make up some outlandish story and just use that as the standard explanation for the eye .. hrm, lemme think:

Oh! I know! You came to NYC to visit me and we went out on the town, crashing a celebrity party and Matthew McConaughey was there and completely loaded and you were standing beside him listening to some story he was telling Jerry Seinfeld and then Jerry made some big sweeping gesture to animate his point and he elbowed you in the eye, making you spill your martini. And it wasn't the gouge in the eye that made you mad, it was the waste of a perfectly good martini, so you slugged him.

The end.

As for holidays, eh, I get to work them all. Worked yesterday, worked Easter, worked Christmas, worked Thanksgiving.....

[Avalon]

Originally posted by nycwriters
Av, I think you should make up some outlandish story and just use that as the standard explanation for the eye .. hrm, lemme think:

Oh! I know! You came to NYC to visit me and we went out on the town, crashing a celebrity party and Matthew McConaughey was there and completely loaded and you were standing beside him listening to some story he was telling Jerry Seinfeld and then Jerry made some big sweeping gesture to animate his point and he elbowed you in the eye, making you spill your martini. And it wasn't the gouge in the eye that made you mad, it was the waste of a perfectly good martini, so you slugged him.

The end.

As for holidays, eh, I get to work them all. Worked yesterday, worked Easter, worked Christmas, worked Thanksgiving.....

I love everything about that except you having to work all the holidays :mad:
I am going to memorize this right now ;) Right after I get done hiding in here away from the maddening crowd in my house:rolleyes:


Okay, it is official: they have driven me to drink. I rarely ever drink and then almost never at home. ( usually margarita's at my favorite Mexican place ), but I am making a HUGE exception this time. This was decided when "company's" kids got into a fight over a chip bad, tore it to shreds, ( spilling contents alllllll over the room )and then went outside..again. And no one but me was the least disturbed. I will be with my new boyfriend, Ron Bicardi, should anyone need me

yeah, I know I am a whiner..but I am going to be a smiling whiner this way:o

[funkytuba]

wow... when you drink your font changes to courier?
I'm having what she's having

[zenbabe]

ok! made it through another one! YAY!

[Avalon]

Originally posted by funkytuba
wow... when you drink your font changes to courier?
I'm having what she's having

LOL

I did that so it would be seen as an edit:p

I ended up just having a brief interlude with Mr. Bicardi before I thought better of it. Everyone was having fun but me. Soooo, I decided to throw the company's kids in the pool so the parents would have something constructive to do, and make my husband responsible for his own company. Originally there were to be 4 for dinner..suddenly there were 14. Made him go shopping and do the cooking..then I offered his services as a driver to Baskin Robbins. during this I replaced my husband on the couch, much to his dismay.;) He has decided not to do any more spur of the moment holiday invitations without consulting with me first:cool:
Ended up having a nice time once all the pressure was off.

[ally]

i think you just became my idol!

[sparticle]

Yeah! Avvy rocks! ;)

[xfox]

and Avalon had time to post, besides!

well, its back to work for zen today.

All work and no play makes Jill.

[sparticle]

One of our rental properties, a century home, is right in the heart of the city, about half a mile from the waterfront where the fireworks were.

In a rare bit of luck, one of the apartments is vacant, and it's the upstairs one, with a hatch leading onto the third-story roof.

Overcoming my very real fear of heights was difficult. This is a very tall old house, and there is no "widow's walk" type railing on the flat upper-story roof.

But J. (Mr. Sparticle) coaxed me up there, and I must admit the view was amazing. It was a few minutes past dusk. The house is right under the final approach to Hopkins Airport, and airliners were coming in low in a steady line. The downtown skyline rose in a dazzling array of spires to our right, a twinkling kingdom. Directly before us was an illuminated water tower. Ahead lay the waterfront, the lake plainly visible. A warm breeze rustled through the huge old silver maple next to the house. It was like being in the treetops, like being Mary Poppins on the rooftops of London, like something out of a child's dream.

The city below us was celebrating wildly. The home is on a very mixed-use street in a transitional neighborhood. There are a lot of young professionals, but also a lot of low-income families and lots of young people. Seemingly, everybody with a penny to spare for fireworks had plowed it into incendiary investments. There were bursts of noise and sparks and color all around us.

The fireworks display was absolutely amazing. We were close enough to feel the reverberating booms in our chests, close enough to smell the sulfur, close enough to hear some of the music from the speakers down at the waterfront.

It was so exhilarating and so freeing, being perched up there, sitting between a sooty brick chimney and an old television antenna, watching the glorious display before us and the tiny echoing displays all around us in the streets below.

The city really outdid themselves this year. We were amazed at the new colors and the new shapes and effects. I said, "I wish they could do one shaped like a star", and almost as if someone heard me, a circle of sparkling blue and white enclosed a bright scarlet five pointed star. "You got your wish," chuckled J. "Go ahead; make another request." It was all just beautiful.

The finale was the most amazing we have ever seen. I was totally slack-jawed, caught up in it, awed. And the last burst -- well, it was so amazing that, without even realizing, I let out a wild scream of approval. Somewhere between a Comanche yell and an aria. LOL I didn't even realize I was doing it until I heard bits of applause and whoops of laughter and approval from our neighbors on the ground. J. was laughing so hard he had to get his breath.

[xfox]

Amazing!

[sparticle]

heh heh -- I used that word like, what, fifty times? ;) See what happens when you don't edit?

But it was! :)

[xfox]

No, no! I was truly amazed! You wrote that so perfectly from the heart. Hey! Print it out for yourself. Who knows, in 20 years you may want to re-read that one! LOL.

[sparticle]

It is the most fun I have ever had on the fourth of July. It really was like a movie scene, or like the stuff I would pretend as a little girl. Amazing! oops -- there I go again! LOL

[daverbee]

Glad you had a great 4th, Sparti, and thanks for sharing it!

[sparticle]

y'welcome! ;)

[bealeblues]

the indians still suck though....

:p

[sparticle]

Well, Gagne with a spoon!

[bealeblues]

:rolleyes:

[sparticle]

Yeah, it's not so funny when it's dripping offa YOU.

[Klynne]

I had an exhausting, eventful, and fun weekend. I went with my date to his parents cabin, where 14 of his closest craziest friends met us. I am the badmitton champion, and I also won the 15 minute fishing contest. It was a four inch blue gill, but I was the only one to catch a fish. Had a lovely day of floating down the muskegon river Saturday with these maniacs during a thunderstorm, and got pelted by water balloons. Oh, and we all indulged in about 230 jello shots. I helped my date take back the beer cans on Sunday and he walked away $25 richer. I also ended up with various bruises and bug bites.

On Sunday, I went to my brother and sis-in-laws place. Last night we went to see ZZ Top at the Lansing River Festival. While I was waiting in line at the portajohn, this little 10 year old girl started talking to me. She wanted to know if I rode motorcycles. I have a really cool leather jacket that I was wearing, that I guess makes me look like a biker. She told me that her grandma likes to ride Harleys. Cool little girl. Oh, well, I had fun, and I don't want to go to work tomorrow:(