So, what did you all do during the break?

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Hill lover35

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Thanks, guys. They were already married. A year ago, they were living together, blended family, and wanted to buy a house. Turned out that it would go a lot smoother if they were married. After talking to me, they sashayed down to the courthouse and got government acknowledgment of their marital status. My daughter settled on Star Wars Day for the actual date.

Almost exactly one year later, ensconced in their new home for the past ten months, they wanted to make it "official" with a ceremony. They had it at their neighborhood clubhouse. It was a beautiful day. A friend of mine who's a judge, just a great guy, presided. I made a multi-gallon container of margaritas which got pretty well drained. A friend of their who used to run a restaurant did the buffet. As mentioned, our youngest kid and his family came in from Portland to attend and celebrate.

Life has been full.

Nice. Very nice
 

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Hello honorable members of the SKMB...and GNT;;D, hope everyone had a wonderful break.
Worked out a lot during the break.
Went out with a very nice woman who actually wanted to go out on a 2nd and 3rd date! So far so good, she's very, very nice and thinks I am also which means she is 1)obviously a terrible judge of character and, 2)has little or no common sense whatsoever...but I'm not complaining...lol Going slow, but hoping the trend continues.
Very happy for you and hope it continues, too! I can only judge by what I've seen on this side of the screen, but I think she'd be lucky to have you. :smile2:
 

Becks19

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We pressure washed the house, driveway and patio.
Dug the garden
Bought plants for the front porch and garden
I am so glad that the board is open again.......Welcome back everyone!!
I want to wish you all a fantastic week..It is the last week of school here/exams and the kids' schedules are all over the place. I have missed you all so will try to pop on more often when things slow down!! Big hugs to you all.
 

Maddie

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Jul 10, 2006
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Me, I:
Spent time with the face to my left, happily.
Hung out with a few Tet on FB.
Got a new writing gig.
Busted balls getting people to work on the house (still not livable)
Missed you guys.


Congratulations on your new writing gig! I hung out with some other members too at Facebook all thanks to LeppLady's wonderful invitation, that was so much fun!

I still found time to come over here and sit online of course, and got myself a Skmb makeover, and 'moved' from the hotel at the end of the road, to the dollhouse down the street. :laugh: (my activity said I did !~)

I missed you all here and hope that you all had the Best vacations and time away as truly deserved !
:love_heart:
 

Maddie

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So, what did you all do when the boards were shut down? We had the darndest time here. Let me explain.

When the boards closed down for the seasonal break, we decided that since we do practically nothing with this computer aside from troll the SK boards, husband and I decided to simply be caretakers for the machine until the re-opening of the boards. Everything was fine for awhile. We patiently allowed pointless updates to install. We dubiously kept our inboxes free of junk mail. We kept the screen dust-free and performed general maintenance. We were all one big happy family, despite an underlying sense of doom we all tried to push away.

Soon, my 5 year old son suddenly started talking to his finger and passing out in the bathroom. We started seeing ghostly images of a disturbing message that read "!DIA-LOOK YEH" painted on the wall in what appeared to be blood. Once we gave the hard drive a good de-frag, the message appeared more and things became much more disturbing.
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Husband soon found what he called "a scrapbook", which was actually pintrest. He became obsessed with it and spent many hours with it. He became short, withdrawn, and snappish. I would hide in the entryway of the house and cower in terror as he sat outside, alone, in the evenings and hold one-sided conversations with two someones named Lloyd and Grady. I feared for his mental state, until one night he loudly snapped at Grady to stop stealing Lloyds Meow Mix. I became suspicious. He then, rather sharply, ordered Lloyd to stop crapping in the sandbox at the local park or else he would be forced to "correct" him. I peeked out the window and breathed a sigh of relief--he was simply talking to the neighbors cats (phew).

A week or so later, he began chewing Excedrin. He swore that animal images in the pictures file on the laptop were moving and changing positions whenever he turned his back on them until I pointed out they were gifs. He got so mad he attempted to attack me with a dog toy shaped like a roque mallet while ordering me to take some medicine. As I dove for cover, I passed a mirror and the haunting message revealed it's true nature: "!DIA-LOOK YEH" reads "HEY KOOL-AID!" and I screamed and screamed and screamed in terror.
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Husband became distracted and accidentally smashed the laptop with the toy-mallet, causing it to go up in flames. Our neighbor, who happened to be vacationing in Florida at the time, smelled oranges and came to our rescue because he "just knew", and proceeded to beat the living crap out of the laptop with a broom he affectionately named "snowcat." After a lion gif almost killed him, the neighbor threw lighter fluid at it and blew the thing up. We hightailed it out of the house and called Ghost Busters. Ghost Busters had "INSANE" stamped on our foreheads and had us committed to a padded cell until May 15th, 8:30AM.

The actual cell wasn't so bad except for the fact we had to share it with some interesting characters, such as a killer clown who had a floating balloon fetish, and a crazy woman with a pet pig that would stare us down for hours and then, eyes popping, angrily shriek "HE DIDN'T GET OUT OF THE COCK-A-DOODY CAR!" Let us not forget the woman who refused to do anything but sit in the corner, clap her feet together, and happily sing about Tommyknockers, along with a very large and imposing man who fed peppermint candies to a resident mouse named Mr. Jingles. We were constantly threatened from the outside by a killer dog, a demon possesed cat, and hoardes of creepy kids that yelled a lot of stuff about corn. Their leader was the worst, and would alternate between quoting random scripture and coldly staring at us through the tiny bathroom window. Imagine THIS gazing at you when you're sitting on the john...
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We plotted escape. I wanted to sneak out at night and run off to Boulder, but the others wanted to go to Nevada. As we squabbled and fought well into the night, we became aware that the entire padded cell was being circled by several un-manned semi trucks. Hours later, one of the trucks cranked up AC/DC and proceeded to ram into the side of the building, freeing us all. We all ran our separate ways, except for the crazy woman with the pet pig. Enraged, she got into an altercation with an ice cream truck and ran it over with her lawn mower. The whereabouts of her pet pig are still unknown, but I'd say that's the luckiest damn pig ever as I'm sure her life before escape was pure misery.

Sooooo....next time the board shuts down, someone ELSE is going to be this computers damn caretaker, cause I am OUT of the business.

Signed, Mel--Computer Caretaker, retired since 2017

I LOVE your story!!!! :love_heart:
 

GNTLGNT

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Jun 15, 2007
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Hello honorable members of the SKMB...and GNT;;D, hope everyone had a wonderful break.
Worked out a lot during the break.
Went out with a very nice woman who actually wanted to go out on a 2nd and 3rd date! So far so good, she's very, very nice and thinks I am also which means she is 1)obviously a terrible judge of character and, 2)has little or no common sense whatsoever...but I'm not complaining...lol Going slow, but hoping the trend continues.
.....foisting off your romantic imaginings on a blow-up date doesn't count as a courtship anywhere in the country....except from the holler where you are.....
 

muskrat

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Nov 8, 2010
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Finally started driving my new car. Well, its new to me, anyway. Took the kid to see Guardians, also introduced him to the world's greatest burger joint--Schoops. 50's style shiney diner that serves the biggest, baddest burgers ever; huge, handmade patties with crispy edges that hang a couple inches off a buttery toasted bun, oh God...And real cherry Cokes with the syrup, onion rings the size of yer head, 50's doo-wop music piping from old fashioned juke boxes. Not 1950's prices, though.

What else? Uh...Went to work a buncha times. Bought a buncha old Fantastic Four comics. Did some drinking. Found a handful of giant morel mushrooms, seriously, bigger'n yer hand. Other stuff, I dunno.

Might have to go back to Schoops this weekend.
 

GNTLGNT

The idiot is IN
Jun 15, 2007
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Cambridge, Ohio
Finally started driving my new car. Well, its new to me, anyway. Took the kid to see Guardians, also introduced him to the world's greatest burger joint--Schoops. 50's style shiney diner that serves the biggest, baddest burgers ever; huge, handmade patties with crispy edges that hang a couple inches off a buttery toasted bun, oh God...And real cherry Cokes with the syrup, onion rings the size of yer head, 50's doo-wop music piping from old fashioned juke boxes. Not 1950's prices, though.

What else? Uh...Went to work a buncha times. Bought a buncha old Fantastic Four comics. Did some drinking. Found a handful of giant morel mushrooms, seriously, bigger'n yer hand. Other stuff, I dunno.

Might have to go back to Schoops this weekend.
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