Thursday #139 The Year is almost...

[captain]

Slick and TPM - at least here, you KNOW we care about you .......
Friends .... PAH!!!!! They have let me down this year I tell you!!!

ANYWAY,
The Bouncer wants her own bottle of bubbles please ........... she and her hard working hubby are going out for a quiet dinner on NYE, and then going home to be with the spotties, in our NEW HOUSE!!!!!

More on that later, but to all ....... Happy New Year ...... safe and sound.

Love (said in a TOUGH voice)
Bouncer ......

[lbaker]

Good morning everyone, sorry I'm late! I'll make it up by putting out an early breakfast buffet. To go along with the champagne and New Year festivities we are going to have some of the best snackaroos from the last year. Everyone pick ONE favorite from the last year of Thursdays. I'll start with CHESAPEAKE BAY CRAB CAKES and the first bite goes to Peanut Coffee's on and we alllll know where Slicks Baileys is by now. Thanks for the extra wood Orc and David, there are still some nice coals left so this shouldn't take long. Oh, and Slick? Some special tree ornaments are gone but honey, there's more where they came from Welcome home Gini! Did you bring pictures of your little sweeties with you from Christmas Day?? Hey Trev! You awake? I could use some of your kitchen skills here... Master of the Kitchen that you are

[Lady's Human]

Okay, one baseball bat pacifier for the orc on the way. I brought a case of bailey's with me for the bar, and a bottle of homemade Irish Cream to go around for now.

Lady, help me with the orc, keep him going until we can get that collar on him.

[smokey the elder]

I'll have a strong coffee, hold the Bailey's for now. I have to figure out why I can't get my test results to come out. (I can't fake them like that guy in Korea. )

[slick]

Good morning. Feeling a bit blue today....kept dreaming about Speckles last night. Have been fighting a bit of a cold and sore throat these past few days....not looking after myself very well. I'll take a hot buttered rum please. Think I'll just settle down on the couch for a bit.

[Randi]

Good afternoon, Slick. Now you can't go into the new year with a cold, so make that a triple hot buttered rum! I'll join you!

It's been snowing nonstop here since yesterday evening. I went shopping though, and then went to dig Pjevs out of his house.

I live on a corner, so I have a good view of what's going on in the street - two cars were stuck in the snow a little while ago, about ten people managed to get them free. There's been no one to clear the streets, so there'll be more.

[gini]

Good morning everyone - I think I am back among the living again. This time change and the late arriving flight and luggage really hit me. My brother is on Brazilian time and I was on Boston time - we both fell asleep for a "nap" and next thing I knew it was past dinnertime. We both laughed and decided to call it a day..........DONE!

MOFF I have been following your problems with your landlady - and you can bet that I will be praying that this trouble turns out to be a good thing. After having gone through the flooding and cleanup and people - I sit here with a new furnace that heats the whole house? I had no idea they were supposed to do that - I thought they just selected certain rooms and then left others freezing.

So I am hoping you will have a new safe home in 2006 and you and your kitties will be happy and snuggled in and comfortable. It is just "getting there" that is the hard part. I wish we could all come over and help you pack up.

I am not sure who Orc is - oh, go ahead, bash me........I haven't gone back and read everything.

TPM - I hope you guys are having a good vacation and the kitties are happy.

Compassion - Slick and Deb - isn't that a funny word? Some people have it - and I think a lot of people were born under rocks. I just read the biography of J.K. Rowlings and she described her Mother's passing as having a huge slab on her chest - it was heavy and it hurt. It hit me that this is the best description for how we feel when we have lost a beloved pet. It is a heavy hurtful pain that so many people cannot even think about - therefore they cannot relate or don't want to relate to you when you are going through it.

I have always been somewhat suspicious of those people.

Crab cakes - oooohhhh Laurie - now talk about those words - makes my mouth water!!

Coffee?? Oh, thanks - well, o.k. a little bit of Bailey's in it sounds great!

New Year's Eve has not been my favorite holiday - too many lamps without lampshades, so I will usher the New Year in quietly - with a great hope that each of us will be here next year - laughing - teasing - drinking our cyber drinks - and enjoying life!

I love each and every one of you!!

[Corinna]

Slick It must be going around but for some reason (duh) I have been crying daily for Merlin. (since the 1st of Dec. ) I guess its becouse this is the time I was always home and had him to snuggle with.
Barkeep I think I need what she's drinking too please. Lets all sit but the fire and I have a huge box of kleenex. Sharing stories always helps me .

[lbaker]

Good morning Gini my dear! So nice to see you home and healthy. Slick & Corinna - I can tuck a few tootsies under the lap warmer on the sofa over there (no Mario, you are not the lap warmer I meant ) I meant a nice warm blankie from Scotland. I also happen to have a very nice Christmas throw pillow to lean against Then I will get back into the kitchen where I belong. Smokey, when your test results work out I just happen to know some "important" contacts at the journal Science Publish or Perish and all that That Korean guy was just too impatient!