Jerry Orbach in a Silver Jumpsuit

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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The whole point of a review or wrap-up thread is so all you people that couldn’t make it are insanely jealous of the Cool Kids who did. And you should be insanely jealous, because it was a great time. At least I had a good time. No one threw things at me (but Elysian rolled her eyes at me a lot- I don’t know why) or said “Bad Rue!” (much) or threatened me with a lawsuit, so I guess they were happy with things too.

Some of the highlights include:

One confused Park Employee from my utter lack of camping site choosing procedure following.

Bastards went and reserved the shelters.

Yay! VeryReb!

**GorillaGirl ** drives by. (Twice!)

Skip comes flying in.

Elysian looks askance.

Puppy!

A little puppy face massage.

The Little Woman and the boys show up.

Hot dogs at the Funtime Southwest Ohio Picnic.

A short hike.

Look! Up in the sky! Sailplanes!

Much rock throwing.

Leading the way to Jungle Jim’s.

Ice wine. (Left on shelf.)

Unexpected Port-O-Lets.

Gilded monkey bottle.

Sheep fries. (Nope.)

Let’s try ostrich, shall we?

Do we need extra goat? Yes.

Retrieve forgotten frying pan.

Campfire.

Comparing camping equipment, and Skip kept coming up short. Except for his headlight and those nice pants.

If you already have flamingos and Christmas lights, is a pirate flag too much? No, it’s not.

Ohio mead.

Haphazardly pitched tents.

A minor rant, with slight raving and maybe a little froth.

Somewhat freezer burnt passenger pigeon, but no ostrich for someone.

A yappy drunk. (Alcohol? That’s against the rules, t’ch-t’ch-t’ch!)

It gets late quickly.

Jerry Orbach and Richard Moll in silver jumpsuits. Not. My. Fault.

Someone has to go home. After the tent is already up. And the dew has settled. So it’s all wet.

Time for bed.

The next day.

Breakfast of tea, Stroopwafels and oatmeal. (Yum!)

Leading the way back to I-75.

One goes north to go west, and I go south.

Home again.

Next year: Goetta?
-Rue.

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One image kept running through my mind as I read this, that being the people the next campsite over pointing… more than once.

Sounds like a pretty stellar cast. How could that group not have fun?

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I’m guessing Tornadope happened this weekend? It sounds like a rousing good time was had by all. Good for y’all. I have the remnants of jet lag still. Yesterday was kind of a blur. Last night I couldn’t fall asleep for a long time. I hope today is really quiet at work (yeah, like that’ll happen). Seattle was fun. I worked really hard last week. Oh, and yesterday morning I finished up my reports from last week so when the main office opens up their email this morning it’ll all be in their hands. And the work-related website I needed to pull down some materials from was down yesterday (like everytime I need it!) so I had to wing some of the stuff I wrote which is ok cause I do a better job than some of that boilerplate stuff they want me to use anyway. That being the case, I say to that website, So There! :stuck_out_tongue:

Bumba the shower gel is wunnerful! ACBG and me got all soapy and scrubbed with it. The details of that I will leave to y’alls imaginations.

-swampbear (I used the shower gel this morning too. I smell like red clover.)

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I finally met my Doper guy over the weekend and I now have permission to reveal his secret Doper identity: My Doper guy is KeithT! We had an awesome weekend (attested to by the fact that I’m using words like “awesome”) and I’m madly in love. :smiley: There’re lots of New York-Wisconsin trips in our future, at least until he’s done with grad school. Yay!!

Our weekend is summed up in pictures here. (No, there’re no pictures of THAT! They’re all very work-safe pictures, generally involving a squirrel and a couple of moose. And a pigeon.) I’m soooo happy to have a guy who’s as fun and silly as I am. :smiley:

(Have I used my month’s quota of :smiley: yet??)

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I HATE when I feel left out! :frowning: SNIFF!!!* Hey, rue any chance of posting some visuals so we “cool-kid-impared” can unnerstand some of the above references?

My weekend was kinda harried (as in busy…not burly or brawny). I spent much of Saturday totin’ grammer around to buy stuff for movin’ into the closer assisted living facility (which should happen this coming weekend). When I say “totin’,” grammer, I ain’t kiddin’ cause she needs one a those scooter thingies to get around a store and must be “toted” to the scooter first. :stuck_out_tongue: After that I hadda do alla my own Saturday chores.

Sunday wasn’t as bad, but that’s house cleanin’ day and the new travertine floor was due for a moppin’ which ain’t all that bad but first ya gots to get about ten chairs and other sundry items offin it. Then ya gots to put em all back. :stuck_out_tongue: I do so love that floor, though. :slight_smile:

I’m tired this morning. At about 3 AM my Jadey puggy decided she needed to do some kinna guard duty on my side of the bed. She kept shiftin’ around and starin’ at og knows what in the dark…which got me starin’ at og knows what in the dark. She finally went back to sleep and started to snore. Course it took me at least an hour longer to get back to sleep myself. :stuck_out_tongue:

Tupug “Le Tired”

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Not yet, I don’t think. :smiley: taxi, you and keith look just “awesome” together. :slight_smile:

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The people in the next site had to be nice to us, lieu. They didn’t have any matches to start their fire, so Skip let them borrow one of those long-nosed lighters. I gave them some wood-jerky (little compressed sawdust firestarters held together with wax) and that seemed to help.

The people on the other side of us had a big trailer camper. They didn’t even know we were there because when Matlock was over, they were asleep.

Many pictures were taken throughout the day Puggy. But not by me. I forgot my film-camera and I don’t have a digital one yet. Other people will probably post them soon. At least I hope they do, because I was wearing a real nice shirt that day and I want you to see it. (At Jungle Jim’s a little old lady thought I worked there, my shirt was so nice.)

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This someone got a wonderful night’s sleep on her beautiful king size bed without dew or rocks or halfway freezing temperatures :stuck_out_tongue:

I have been giving little Cy face massages, and he seems to like them. I think next I will give him a pedicure, and maybe a sea salt rub :stuck_out_tongue:

(We had a wonderful time! My husband talked all the way back about how all y’all were so nice and wonderful, and what great conversations we had. We will definitely be back next year, if we can wait that long. We were thinking about a BBQ party for the Dope!)

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So, Rue did you point the little old lady toward the peach preserves? I’ll bet she went home and told all her friends about the nice young man who helped her at Jungle Jim’s and about how he’s all confused about working there and said he didn’t but he had on a Jungle Jim shirt. Just think, you were probably talked about over tea. Or sloe gin fizzes.

taxi you and KeithT make a cute couple. You have the MMP stamp of approval to continue on. Moose and Squirrel was a nice story. Especially with the happy ending and cannoli and all. My heart cockles feel all warm and tingly.

It’s good to be back at work. I just keep sayin’ it over and over and over. I might even believe it soon.

Puggy aren’t you glad Jadey is there to protect you from the night boogers? Wouldn’t want em to get you now, right?

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taxi, thanks for sharing your brilliant and inspired photo-documentary of your exciting weekend! I laughed so hard, my mom had to come over and look at the pictures, too. I told her she probably wouldn’t think it was funny, but she’s very curious (I get that from her), she looked, and she said, “You’re right, that went over my head.” You and KeithT are too cute! And your cat is gorgeous! And you can never have too much :D.

I’m still in West Virginia, checking into the internet from the Senior Center (my mom sneaks me in when it’s quiet. They don’t mind that I’m not a senior). I feel a bit deprived that I didn’t get to see any Jerry Orbach in a silver jumpsuit this weekend. :frowning: Next time, I’ll hang out with Rue and the Tornadopers.

Gotta run. I need to get my stuff packed up so I can head home in a few hours. I desperately want to stop at Concrete World–on the way here, I just happened to notice that they had a huge gargoyle. I want one! But I’m not sure how I would get it home. It’s a little too big to stuff in the trunk of my car. I could strap it on the hood, and then I’d have a huge hood ornament. That’d impress everyone! Everyone needs a gargoyle hood ornament. I’m calling mine “Cargoyle.”

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Taxi, those pictures are fun - I like silly stuff like that. You two are cuties, too.

I wish I were at TornaDope. I’d like to go to Jungle Jim’s, too. And stroopwaffles? Sheesh. What was I doing around here? Oh yeah, I went to the beach yesterday, so there was that. And I had a really good burger on Saturday night.

But still, no Rue, no Skip. This woman, she cry.

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Thanks! It’s good to know we’ve got your approval. After our parents, MMP approval is the next most important thing! :stuck_out_tongue:

MagicEyes, I’m glad you liked our squirrely story. And I’ll pass on to Teddy (the cat) that you think he’s gorgeous. With only one eye, he doesn’t get as many compliments as he used to.

Tupug and scout, thanks for the compliments too! I’ll just keep on :smiley: -ing.

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And the MMP needs pictures of your Cargoyle. We’re all going to be wild with envy.

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Ooh, can we make your car into an art car MagicEyes? I’ve always wanted one, with all sorts of neat things glued and welded and growing on it, but since you’ve got a head start with the cargoyle… I have some really cool bottle caps I could send you, is what I’m saying. They’ve got stars on them.

Can you OD on nyquil? I was feeling a bit icky yesterday and only had nyquil and I didn’t keep track of my doses very well and I may have taken some too early. So now I feel vaguely barfy and listless. Or it could be that it’s 112 degrees and four hundred percent humidity. Tell me again why I live here? Ah yes, they give me money with which to pay my bills here.

**taxi ** and **keithT ** sittin’ in a tree…

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I was grumpy on Saturday because it was nearly 80 where I live. Girl, I don’t know how you do it.

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Very, very, very cute couple!

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Ashes[sup]2[/sup], barfiness is a well-known side effect of Nyquil. The dang stuff works but I always feel like I’m gonna puke right after taking it for just a minute or so. Then it makes me sleepy, which is good cause when I’m sick I just wanna sleep.

I’m less jet laggy feeling right now. I think lunch helped. Plus, so far, it hasn’t been that bad here at work today. There’s still 3 and a half whole hours for chaos, panic and general mayhem to ensue though so I’m not all the way safe yet. ACBG has suggested a soak in the hot tub and pizza for dinner tonight as a jet lag remedy. He just might be on to something there. Or, maybe he’s trying to figure out a way to get on to something. Never know with that one. He’s just full of ulterior motives. He’s probably after my red clover shower gel. I’ll bet that’s it. :smiley:

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Still lurking. I’m too sore from moving to type much more at the moment…

I could take U-Haul to The Pit for the way they bufued me, but it’s all been said there before, but we got 'er done anyway.

Down, Swampy, that’s not a come-on, and I didn’t even have red clover soap for the event, either.

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Looks like I have a but problem (that’s the 1 ‘t’ type)…

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VunderBob not to worry. I already got somebody to take care of that. :stuck_out_tongue: Plus, there is a reason I don’t rent from UHaul for any of my need for big truck for hauling purposes. I have a feeling you already know why.

I wanna go home! Work’s going ok, but I’m just ready to go home, is all.