Auld Lang Thursdays #411

As we slide into 2011 I want to officially bid a not-so-fond adieu to 2010.


Seems like most of us were not immune to the rigors and trials of the past 12 months- some of us lost family or friends during this time and others were bothered by the strife that goes along with that thing called life.

We all lost Phred and Isabel lost her husband and friend.

On the bright side? Some of us had good life changing events and I suspect that a few of us came away unscathed as the calendar months flipped by.

So, to all my friends here at PT I want to pour a glass of their favorite beverage and let us toast the year gone by, for better or worse.

Here's to what was, what will be in a few days and may it be a better year for everyone that reads this.

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Some bubbly for the group, cheese and crackers for our stomachs and a smile on everyone's face.

DONE!

I'll toast to that! We will always gain more than we've lost if our feet are another day on earth!

Pass the bubbly, and could you please make that cheese an Irish Cheddar? Thanks for a great year at the bar, barkeep!:D

How could I send the year out without a cherry rootbeer and a round of onion rings? Oh, and 6 catnip teas for the cat brats!!!!
Here's to a better year next year!!! :love:

Don't often stop for Thursday celebrations, but today is special. I'll take a sip of the bubbly, Richard and thank you.

I hope the new year will bring good tidings and great things to everyone; especially the old and new friends of PetTalk.

Richard, a toast to you. Your year has been hard, but it can only get better.

A toast to those we have lost this year, be they fur friends or skin friends it still hurts to let them go.

And a toast to you, my Pet Talk family, for all the love and support you've given me thru my most difficult time. There is more to come, but I'm going to get thru it and survive and will eventually thrive. I thank you all for your help!

:love::love::love: YOU ALL!!

A cup o' Bubbly and a toast to those we've lost this year including Phred, my Mitzi and ... I know there are many more. They will be and are missed.

I've got a pounding headache. Could I have regular coffee, please? Most of '10 has been a pretty good year in my family with a 60th anniversary, two engagements and two high school graduations. But the last couple of months not so much.

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Originally Posted by cassiesmom

I've got a pounding headache. Could I have regular coffee, please? Most of '10 has been a pretty good year in my family with a 60th anniversary, two engagements and two high school graduations. But the last couple of months not so much.

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Ya gotta take the good above all else.
One regular coffee?

DONE!

Redd,

A toast to Mitzi.

One cup...

DONE!

QoP,

One cup and a toast to to everyone!

DONE!

Robin,

A sip and good thoughts?

DONE!

MOFF,
Cherry Rootbeer, onion rings and 6 CNTs for the kids.

DONE!

PM,

Irish cheddar, bubbly and you welcome...

DONE!

I'll raise my glass to good friends lost. I've known way too many good people that have passed this year. Makes me really appreciate that thing called life, even though it gets rough sometimes.

Much love to everyone! Even though we may not always agree, I consider PT to be my virtual family. ((((HUGS)))) to you all!

A glass of bubbly please Richard and a toast to Paul and Karen for giving us all the opportunity to be here together; a toast to all the PT community - two and four pawed; a toast to all we have lost collectively and to all we have gained in 2010!

And, a special toast to Phred:love: let's make him proud in 2011!

a toast for a better 2011 for all of us!!!.. hoping all the good we had be multiplied in the year to come...

we had some very rough times, and some very sad losses human and furry.. but we all stuck together like the family we´ve become.. thank you


I think you´ll have to restock on cheese.. I ate it all ;).. and as for bubbly.. for one I don´t like it and for another I can´t right now... so I´ll either have a very tasty home-made lemonade or a sprite to make up for bubbles ;)

((hugs))

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Originally Posted by Husky_mom

I think you´ll have to restock on cheese.. I ate it all ;).. and as for bubbly.. for one I don´t like it and for another I can´t right now... so I´ll either have a very tasty home-made lemonade or a sprite to make up for bubbles ;)

((hugs))

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Una Limonada y mas queso.

HECHO!:D

Bengalz,

A glass and a toast...to Phred.

DONE!

DJ,

A glass and more toasts.

DONE!

For those of us in the colder realms, I'll put on a big pot of tea, vanilla chai redolent with cinnamon and cardamom, enough to warm you to the core. I'll use one of Aunt Bertha's antique china teapots, just for a bit of history added in, and a fond remembrance of simpler times.

Sometimes there's nothing more luxurious than a simple cup of hot tea on a winter afternoon, warm and gazing out at the snow-covered landscape beyond the windowpane, which looks as timeless and monochromatic as it ever has.

A cup of hot tea would be great, I am indoors and my fingers are freezing!

:) How about some warm Spiced Cider with some Baileys & to sit in front of the fire place.. No no Orc do not lite the fire.. BarKeep has it started.. Wishing All A Very Happy & Safe New Years 2011..

The holidays sure got me down this year. I was so blessed and had a great time but things just pile up, you know? I'll be so glad when next week comes and life can get back to sort of normal.

I'd like another cherry rootbeer please and tuck some cherry vodka in this one, ok? ;) :love:

I'll pop open a can of Coca-Cola to that an pass out bowls full of popcorn to go with it

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Originally Posted by Vette

I'll pop open a can of Coca-Cola to that an pass out bowls full of popcorn to go with it

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Thank you!:D

DONE!

MOFF,

Cherry rootbeer/vodka!

DONE!

LP,

Spiced cider w/bailey's!

LOL, I spent a few hours cutting wood this afternoon!

DONE!

Red wine and coastal Italian food - hubby made it out to dinner tonight! Woo Hoo! :D

One cup of strong coffee with a splash of Slicks Baileys if you please kind sir. All the thoughts posted here made me smile, cry, laugh and feel sorta wistful... heavy sigh here for the passed hard times and hopes for us all for the coming year :love:

Laurie

For tomorrow (if anyone is still around Thursdays) a pot of black eyed peas for good luck (an old "Southrun" tradition) and crab cakes (my own Eastern Shore tradition) :D

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Originally Posted by lbaker

One cup of strong coffee with a splash of Slicks Baileys if you please kind sir. All the thoughts posted here made me smile, cry, laugh and feel sorta wistful... heavy sigh here for the passed hard times and hopes for us all for the coming year :love:

Laurie

For tomorrow (if anyone is still around Thursdays) a pot of black eyed peas for good luck (an old "Southrun" tradition) and crab cakes (my own Eastern Shore tradition) :D

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Bailey's and coffee!

Bye bye 2o1o

DONE!


PM,

Good for the hubby!

DONE!

Has it really been 411 Thursdays? Time sure flies when you are having fun.

I'll raise a glass to all the loved ones who've passed and for all the loved ones to be born.

2011 here we come, stronger than ever.:)

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Originally Posted by slick

Has it really been 411 Thursdays? Time sure flies when you are having fun.

I'll raise a glass to all the loved ones who've passed and for all the loved ones to be born.

2011 here we come, stronger than ever.:)

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411? That's the info I got!;)

A glass and a toast!

DONE!

Also a toast to all of us still hanging in here together!!! We make each other strong when we feel weak!!! :love:

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

Love you one and all.

Happy New Year everyone!

Happy New Year!

2011 !

Still hanging in! Happy New Year!!


What's gonna be for breakfast?:D

Oh breakfast!!! I'll have pancakes wth sausage and eggs over easy with a side of hash browns and brown toast.. Oh yes, and I brought some Canadian bacon to fry up!! After all, they say greasy food is best for a hangeover. :)

Good morning, and Happy New Year everyone. I hope there aren't too many bad hangovers out there. None here!!

I'll fire up the griddle for French toast, bacon and a ton of hash browns. I know it's early for some of you, but please feel free to join in. I think a nice tall glass of cold orange juice would hit the spot too. Coffee is on for anyone who would like some. :)

Happy New Year, Y'all!! :)

Could I get some juice, please, and I've got some egg nog french toast to share, too. Good Morning!

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Originally Posted by pomtzu

Good morning, and Happy New Year everyone. I hope there aren't too many bad hangovers out there. None here!!

I'll fire up the griddle for French toast, bacon and a ton of hash browns. I know it's early for some of you, but please feel free to join in. I think a nice tall glass of cold orange juice would hit the spot too. Coffee is on for anyone who would like some. :)

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I'll squeeze the oranges, The bacon? do I have to catch and cure it?
;)

DONE!

Some party animal I am! I was in bed by 8 pm. I did know when the new year snuck in though. Some kind people set fireworks off to wake me up so I wouldn't miss it. :D

I'd love some orange juice if there is any left. Just don't let Orc squeeze it. He makes such a mess with it. :love:
Happy 2011 everyone!!! :love:

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Originally Posted by momoffuzzyfaces

Some party animal I am! I was in bed by 8 pm. I did know when the new year snuck in though. Some kind people set fireworks off to wake me up so I wouldn't miss it. :D

I'd love some orange juice if there is any left. Just don't let Orc squeeze it. He makes such a mess with it. :love:
Happy 2011 everyone!!! :love:

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O.J.

The juice, not the criminal!

DONE!

Wakey wakey everyone! Gee, it's quiet in here - is every one still recouping from the other night? Come on Richard, lets get you off that couch and behind the bar. Where is Wom? Maybe he can help. We need a little "hair of the dog". ;)

So, two days into the new year and I've already blown my diet. Sir, I'll take a Hurricane with a side of beer battered fish and chips.

I know, quiet, huh?

I'll take some hot tea with honey - I am at the tail end of a cold I barely noticed having, but the cough is now annoying me. And the only cough syrup I have in the house has corn syrup as a major ingredient, and I'm allergic to that, so I'd be busy throwing up for the next 16 hours if I took any of it, so I'll just cough. Sigh.

Happy new year still folks!

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Originally Posted by Karen

I know, quiet, huh?

I'll take some hot tea with honey - I am at the tail end of a cold I barely noticed having, but the cough is now annoying me. And the only cough syrup I have in the house has corn syrup as a major ingredient, and I'm allergic to that, so I'd be busy throwing up for the next 16 hours if I took any of it, so I'll just cough. Sigh.

Happy new year still folks!

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Hot tea with honey...DONE!

Karen,
For a cough? I had heard that chewing some honey comb is supposed to help?

Hi SLick.

One Hurricane and a beer battered fish and chips on the side!

DONE!

It just hit me that this thread is #411. The first bar thread of 2011:eek:

Richard did you plan that? ;)

More juice please? *waves glass* :love:

Fish & Chips? Good, fresh, Fish & Chips? I'm in, thanks! I think I need a Bloody Mary with it, please? My last week of recovery from surgery and I've decided to get a sore throat! :(

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Originally Posted by momoffuzzyfaces

It just hit me that this thread is #411. The first bar thread of 2011:eek:

Richard did you plan that? ;)

More juice please? *waves glass* :love:

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I am cunning, in that way....:rolleyes:;)

More juice?

DONE!


PM,

Fish and chips, a BM and more more recovery!

DONE!