New Want To Play A Word Game
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I brought in a good looking ukelele player who is going to strum for us! Might give you some energy just looking at him! LOL. (I had to say uke instead of guitar, as my g'g'gpa invented it with 2 other men)
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Wow, Wahine! How cool is that? I trust that you must be musical, too?
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Well, I could say that I am "rusty", but I would be fibbing. Not much musical talent here! But I can't wait to go back to Madeira next month (where my ancestors came from before starting a new life in Hawaii)! I just love it there, total bliss.
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well wahine, you beat me to it, and now I can't even submit my comment and say I forgot to preview.
I used to play the violin (badly) years ago, but I'm so rusty now, I'd almost be scared to try it again. It must be 35 years since I had a fiddle and a bow in my hands. Eventually, I figured out that for me, it is much easier to make my singing voice sound the way I want it to, than to get the violin to sound right! Once that light bulb came on, I quit the orchestra and joined the choir.
When you go to Madiera will you be taking tours of the countryside, or staying in one place the whole time?
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I'm sure there will be a store to find great souvenirs. What kind of traesures will you bring back?
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I looked up Madiera in Wikipedia. Many sorts of wine are produced there. Maybe that is what wahine will bring back.
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I'd love to try that wine, Wahine! What kind of sport can you try there? Scuba diving or windsurfing?
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which other bco-ers have trips planned soon? I'm going to my niece's graduation in April (she's getting her Master's degree on the way to MD).
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Congrats to your niece, curveball! Sounds like a very special trip...be sure to check fluids, pressure in tires, etc., if you plan to make it a road trip! (You gals have been on a roll with thinking of good words! And yes, Madeira is known for Madeira Wine which is very sweet. Also for their beautiful embroidery. But will fly to Ireland from Madeira, so won't be able to buy too much!)
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Travel stirs the soul. I'm so glad I just talked my mother-in-law into taking a trip with us for the first time in 15 years. At 86, it will be good for her to look at something besides the 4 walls she hibernates in. I even got her doctor to write a "prescription" for her to travel (on his official scrip pad). Now that's a note for her to post on her refrigerator (along with the 500 other things she has posted there!).
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@zogo, my mom is the same age as your MIL and is coming on the trip too. Her older sister still flies cross country several times a year, because she has residences on both coasts. I tend to be a homebody, even a stick-in-the-mud. Maybe travel stirs the soul, but coming back home rests the spirit.
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yes, there is no place like home. After a trip, sleeping in your own bed is wonderful. It's kind of like pushing the reset button.
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No matter how much fun it may be to travel, I think there's always some stress involved, too. Did I forget to pack anything, can I get to the airport in time, will my plane be late, will I be able to find the shuttle bus to my hotel etc etc etc. Last time I went out of town I misplaced something at the last minute (I don't even remember now what it was) and got into quite a tizzy looking for it and worrying that I wouldn't find it in time to catch my plane.
Whatever it was, I remember it turned up in the very very bottom of my suitcase after I had been at my destination a few days.
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I know....it is so good to go away, but then it is SO nice to come back home! Its nice to be on the crest of a new adventure though!
(LOL when I was double-checking my word, I noticed it didn't jive with the previous word, but thats because "stress" has 6 letters! We all do that at one time or another...must be from the *stress*!)
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oops, my bad! and after I tweaked you for doing the same thing back on pg 844! (and then she crept away with a sheepish expression on her face....)
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Nah, it wasn't your fault curveball, it was that creep that was lurking around the corner. He makes me nervous! LOL
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Maybe it was Risky Ricky, remember him? It would be worth almost any price to make jerks like him go away and leave me alone. What part of "not interested" don't they understand? I've seen tomcats that had enough sense to go away when a potential ladyfriend tells them to get lost. Maybe I need to grow myself some claws like girlcats have. A couple of good swipes on the nose with claws out would probably send those skirt-chasers packing.
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Oh yeah.....Risky Ricky...you would think some guys would have more pride than to act that way!
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Rider will take care of everything
HI Ladies.....
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Who is Rider? He sounds like a man of action, not some lazy idler.
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If Rider is good looking, he might drive us all crazy!
(Hi Sheila!)
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I don't know about this, wahine. Rider looks like he might be a little bit crazy himself. Or maybe he is just wired from drinking so much coffee.
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It might be a wiser decision to approach Rider as a group or maybe even not at all, especially if he might be crazy.
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You're right...the closer we get to Rider, the more he resembles swine.
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uh-oh wahine, he might have heardwhat you just said. I distinctly saw him wince. Poor Rider, you've hurt his feelings!
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I see some really nice wines on the shelf over there. Should we offer him a glass?
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No, if he's crazy, wine will just make him worse (especially if he drinks more than just the one glass zogo suggested). Let's all go down to the beach instead, and let the ocean winds blow our mental fog away. I love those invigorating negative ions you get down by the seashore!
We can invite Rider to come too. Maybe he got his nickname because he's good at surfing.
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Oh, good idea Curveball. I didn't know about the negative ions, but I would love to go to the beach. I could really use some Vitamin D sunshine with all this snow we are buried in. Plus, there are all kinds of fun things to do. Swim, surf, skimboard, volleyball, fly kites...and of course lounging!
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@ zogo it's not much fun lounging on a beach on the NW coast, at least not at this time of year. (I suspect it's even less fun on the shores of the Great Lakes, eh?). It's likely to be cold and windy! Invigorating, that is the word for Washington State beaches in March. But we can hunt for seashells, and maybe dig some clams, and then when it gets too cold to stay out on the beach, maybe we can all adjourn to the yoga studio across the street and stretch the kinks out of our bodies, to complement our mental-health makeover.
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Yes, I live 1/2 block from Lake Michigan. On the weekend, DH and I often go to see sunrise over the lake just for kicks. It is always different and quite beautiful.
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