Rant: What is up with that stupid "I'm Cleanin' The Litter Box" commercial?

Rave: 20 Miles tomorrow!

Rant: Tropical Storm Tammy is dumping rain on us still.

Laugh Of The Day: Jorr got snow and I'm spending Sunday on the beach!

Rave: The leaves are almost peak here in Maine. :D

Rant: We have to head home to Florida tomorrow! :(

Rave: Here the weather is finally cooler at home. :D

SunshineSue- OMG...what an experience you've had. Glad everything turned out okay. =-o

Count me in on that one, GoTravel. I read his post and thought, "What? SNOW??!!" :o

Rave: Slightly cooler temps and lots of nice rain lately...it's almost feeling "fallish." :) The island is green and my cistern is full.

Rave: Looking forward to our trip to Venice, Italy in another 16 days. The cold, grey, foggy, romantic weather will be a nice change from the constant sunshine. ;)

Rave: It's Friday and I've not had to work overtime once this week.

Rave: My younger sister just celebrated her four year wedding anniversary yesterday. Gosh time flies.

Rant: The Astros lost last night. :(

Rant: My family members in east Texas still can't get home after Hurricane Rita. At least they have their lives, though.

Sunshinesue, I can't imagine how relieved you must be! Thank goodness!

Scarlett, you must be excited about your baby boy coming home.

Ethel, belated sympathy for your loss.

P_M, good luck in the continuing search.

Have a wonderful weekend all my Fodorite friends. :)

Rave: Weekend in Hudson Valley area with family!

Rant: Its going to rain.

Rave: Planning trip to NYC with friends.

Rant: One friend is going to back out because of finances. Long commutes and high gas prices are eating up what little discretionary income she has.

Rave: School district did pretty well with MCAS testing. Elementary school continues to be one of the best in the state.

Rant: See Eeva's comments above. Its hard to figure out what is going on. Financial mismanagement seems to be at the root of it all. No one seems to know where all the money goes.

Rant: Daughter's middle school field trip was to a prison. I saw no educational purpose in bringing young very innocent kids to such a setting. She wasn't allowed to go. Same prison is in the news this week because the employees are posting horrible racist comments about the sheriff on a website. I originally objected exposing my daughter to criminals. I guess I should have been worried about the guards as well.

Safe travels to everyone this weekend. Go Sox!

I guess I haven't spent enough time on this site to realize the problems it is having. WOW...talk about craziness. I refreshed the US page, and it went back to 0714 in the morning...what?

Someone throw something at BuffaloGirl for starting her Christmas shopping.

Aaarrrggghhh!!!!

Rave: a bit of drizzle the last three AMs after a dry rainy season.

Rant: SO and I were left on the cutting room floor in this AM's NYT's on line article about SMdA real estate.

Rave: Hardly ever gets below 40 F here in the winter and LP here will be significantly less expensive than natural gas and home heating oil in NA.

Rave: SO is in RI enjoying early Fall.

Rave/Rant: W's choice of Harriet Miers for the Supremes: he foxed the liberal dems and the control freak radical right. If confirmed, she'll join Earl Warren, John Marshall, Byron White, Harlan Fiske Stone, William O. Douglas and Louis Brandeis as a Supreme with no prior experience as a judge.

Rave: I sold or gave almost everything away when I moved, so virtually nothing left to loose except the keys to the wine cellar.

Rave: No critical nor worsening illnesses mentioned yet.

¡Buen fin de semana!

M

Lo siento,

Big Rave: I finally found the "definitive" free site for foreign language keyboards:
www.starr.net/is/type/KBH.html
or, more practical, the International Accent Marks and Diacritical "ALT Key codes and Charts" at
www.starr/net/is/type/altnum.htm
M

Rave: son will be coming home for a visit at Christmas. He lives in San Diego and my wife has made several trips to see him. This is his first return in 3 years!

Rave: the good news from SunshineSue.

Rant: folks so smart they need to tell others that they "don't get it".

Rave: RED SOX beat White Socks leading to Schilling in Game 4.

Rave: Chicago employers lose millions of $$$ to hooky playing South Siders.

Rave: Hot and muggy weather in NH slows leaf turning so camping trip to Franconia next weekend should be awesome.

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Rave--Plans are all made for going to Seattle for Thanksgiving. Will see the inlaws and all our old friends, and get to play tourist for a few days. We moved away about 18 months ago and really miss it.

Rant/Rave--Road rage lunatics. DH was the attempted victim this week on his way home from work. Took several calls to 911, but finally the wierdo left. Thank goodness DH used his smarts and ws just plain lucky to avoid any physical harm. We are guessing the guy was on drugs. Truly a strange experience for DH!

Rave--Saw a real, live Beaver this week on one of my morning walks. He was about 15 ft from me. I kept an eye on him and he kept an eye on us, lol!

Rave--A friend from WA was here staying with us this week. Always nice to see old friends.

LoveItaly--So glad that the new insurance is an even better deal!

Meetshare--LOL!!! You really never know where you will find things in a move.

Eeva--One of my sons teachers always said that you never really know a student until you meet the parents, lol!

SunshineSue--OMG, so glad that both incidents turned out ok! Very scary!

Bennie--A field trip to a prison? With the info about the guards as well, I definitely would not let my children go either.

TGIF!

Rave: It was a quick short week after beautiful, relaxing & fun long weekend in LBI (Long Beach Island, NJ). Weather was spectacular - we were swimming in a warm pool in October and had two great beach days too. Chowderfest was yum too! Confession for Buffalogirl - I did buy a Christmas present while at the beach...it felt good to be ahead of schedule even a little bit.

Rave: Preparing for our N'Awilns themed Halloween party is motivating us to get lots of house projects wrapped up. Lots of positive RSVP's too!

Rave: Only 2 weeks 'til the NJ/NY GTG and we've got about 20 Fodorites & spouses planning to attend!

Rave: No snow here! Cloudy with rain predicted (my garden will be happy), but has been summer-like until this morning.

Rave: Furniture getting installed in my new office next week! My new laptop should from Dell should be showing up any day now too. :)

Rave: I might have a new(er) car by this time next week. We'll see if it's "meant to be"... Fingers crossed.

Rave: DH loves the ipod nano I got him for his b-day last Tues. It's so tiny!

Happy Weekend Everyone! ((#)) Trish

it's friday!

rave: 3 day weekend!! whoo-hoo!

rave: picked up a second job! and i start next week.

rave: trip to barcelona (with my dad, and my bf) is booked!

rave: looking forward to the holidays.

rave: had such a nice w'end at home on long island last weekend!! saw my friends, went to my regular places, etc...

rave: the people of nyc who just live there lives, regardless of whatever threats (be they true or false) there may be. we can handle it!

jorr...where are you that there is snow?

sunshinesue...my gosh! hard to believe! life is so crazy sometimes. so glad everyone came out o.k.

Rant/Rave: The jewelry thread forced me to write. Two weeks ago my car was broken into and I lost a lot including earrings that were made from my original wedding ring. My rave is that now every time I go to my car and the windows are intact I'm thrilled!

Rave: My insurance adjustor thinks I'm funny

Rave: It's Friday and hopefully I will soon be back to having a wallet, an ATM card, and checks-oh boy!

Rave - Headed to the Beach for a week. Rant - Will Tammy (or whatever this weeks storms' name is) get out of the way so it doesn't rain all week ?

Rave= This time next week we'll be in Venice!
Rant= I'm sitting at my desk dreaming of Venice and it's COLD here!

Great, swalter518!

Please keep it all in your memory so that you can tell me the details at the GTG in Dec. HAVE A GREAT TIME!

And I'll tell YOU my tales, if the Sox bring home some glory.

Rant: This has been a long week.

Rave: Today is Friday.

Rave: Daughter is 19 months old and this toddler stage is so much fun. It's amazing to watch her make connections that she couldn't grasp before. Of course, she spends most of her time pretending to be a dog just like our dog. :)

Have a nice, fall weekend everyone!

Rave: Sue's family is ok

Rave: LI's good fortune to find insurance w/cheaper premiums...that's a first!

Rant: Either I messed up or the mortgage co. did--either way, two payments were debited from our checking acct. this month. OUCH!!

Rant: Trying to get this resolved has been a pain in the you know where!

Rave: Friends and I have ressies to a hot restaurant tomorrow. It was in the top 50 of Atlanta...

Rave: The fun, goofy fodorites who make me laugh

Rave: Monday is a planning day--no students--can get some stuff done and maybe get caught up a bit.

Rant: My niece's 5th bday is in 2wks and I haven't gotten her a present yet (have to ship it) and some of you overacheivers have started your Xmas shopping!!! (Any great ideas for the perfect 5yo bday present?? Am sick of buying her Barbie related stuff--)

TGIF, everyone. Wishing all happy times, good health and no snow in Oct!! (That last one is for you, Jorr!)

forgot to write my lost jewelry story...
in '94 my grandma got a new cross from my grandpa. i told her i liked her old one. and she took it right off and said to my grandpa, "go clean this up w/some jewelry cleaner..." and she gave it to me on the spot. i wore it for over 9 years. 2 years ago, just like that, one morning before starbucks, i realized it was gone. never did find it. i am still sick about it! nothing can compare. it was called "modern cross" and they found it in ireland. it's a take from the cross of st. brigid. and very unusual. i've never found anything like it even on the internet...

OWJ - buy your niece two gifts - 1 inexpensive toy that she'll play with for a little while and then her parents can toss without guilt and the second could be a nicer gift that she won't appreciate now but will treasure as an adult. And if that gift is part of a collection of something then you'll be able to add to it in the future. For example I have been buying my niece a piece of silverware for every occasion. I've been doing it for 13 years now. By the time she is an adult she will have 8 or 10 place settings. Now I realize not everyone wants sterling silver but I think you get the idea. Other ideas could even be savings bonds or a deposit for her college fund. Toys can be expensive and have little lasting value for the most part.