INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours
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Blondie- girlfriend, that danged abscess is still bothering you. I hope you can get this worked out. Daisylover has kept me posted. I am sending you hugs.
Loverly and Wren- your stories are interesting too. I think people get stuck, especially if they have had a sudden passing. Sometimes they need the help to go (like with the smudging). They need someone to tell them it's okay to move on. I do believe this.
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Susan3 fine, ruin my tall tales. I'll blame static cling. And as for your kids, "don't rush into things" is putting it mildly. (Husband got pretty much the exact same expression as I did when I trotted the idea past him.)
Loving (for certain values of the term) the ghost stories. I've never seen any directly myself, though I know there have been deaths in the house I own.
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I agree with Jazzy that it's more likely to be someone who passed suddenly. He was a nice guy, so we weren't afraid.
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I am back from Branson, feet swollen, but otherwise ok, had a great time with our friends. Will post more when I get the laptop up and running. But first, for our knitter, just a reminder:
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mags. Glad you are home safely and had a good time. Pics ???
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Have we seen this before?
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smarty. Love it. ! Where is this at ?
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don't know. I was fixing chili omelette for dinner, I wanted potatoes so decided on sweet potato fries. First batch was a lost! I hope my oven isn't going out again
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smarty. Well done indeed.
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Haha. Good job, Ms. Smarty!
Mags, you probably knew this already, but just in case you forget-elevate your feet.
Well, we have another spontaneous combustion without the fire. Came home from church and found this mess in Mitzy's crate.
Pillow and sleeping bag (used to cover her crate) destroyed. Her separation anxiety has come back. She was doing quite well while she was on Prozac (30 days), so I took her off of it. Oops. This is her after we had a "talk" with her:
Looks like we need to put her back on Prozac. DH, who takes her to his office when I am at work, will be traveling to Nepal in about 3 weeks. She will need to be in the crate for eight hours on my work days when he is away :-( No way she can last that long without help.
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ascinating experiences of haunted houses. Thank you.
Patty Smaarty's floral owls aere from a park in Nantou County, Taiwan.
Also for you PAtty - DH and I are both prone to forgetting the last item cooked in in the microwave for dinner. Invariably it gets discovered following morning when DH goes to microwave his oatmeal. Last night's cold steamed spinach or mushrooms is never very appealing for breakfast food.
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Lover that is so wierd about the avatars.
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feelingfeline. Too funny. Thanks for sharing
Loverly. Ohh she looks guilty and ashamed. She is so pretty. I never heard of a dog on Prozac but hey if it works then why not. Will keep your dh in my prayers for his nepal trip. Sounds both exciting and scary.
Good morning all. I am getting motivated. Officially day 1 of spring break. Me and dss gonna hit the matinee movie today. That will be easy on me and enjoyed by all. Any suggestions on a movie ? I looked at previews but really hadn't heard of them. Yes. I live under a rock, lol.
Hugs all around
Hootie hoo
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Morning Owlies, Patty, I'm with you under the rock. Only movie I saw last year was '13hours' and I think a StarTrek movie, but that could have been the year before.
Here's my ghost story. I was a new Real Estate, Realtor in 1988. I was explaining to a client about disclosure laws. They looked at each other. "Do we have to tell them about the ghost?". I cringed, that wasn't in our training manual. Went back to the office and asked around. Everyone laughed at me, like I was nuts. The new kid on the block not knowing what she was doing.
These folks had this woman that was in the upstairs. Misty white in a long dress. She didn't like the son and was menacing enough he no longer would stay at the house. She was quite friendly to them. I said they had to disclose. Wasn't going to be an easy listing. They were quite sure the ghost would go with them. They decided to auction the house. I didn't have to worry about disclosing it.
Shortly after that there was a news report of a suit in new England against a Realtor and seller for nondisclosure of a ghost. I passed it around the office with a I told you so comment LOL. About a year, later I caught the follow up article. The New England case was settled in favor of the buyer. The realtors comment was "We received hundreds of inquiries if the house was available, most asking if they could guarantee that the ghost was there. If we had known this would have created such interest, we would have marketed the house with mention of the ghost". Did another I told you so around the office.
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Fabulous story(ies) !
Thankful not to have any personal experience. However in the late 70's a colleague of my Mum's, who was a clergyman, moved with his wife and child to take up a rector's position in Polstead, Suffolk (in England). Within days of moving into the rectory they had fled to a neighbour's house. They experienced the absolute stuff of horror films.Completely unknown to them that there had been several previous occupants who had had similar experiences, some of whom had also fled the house. An exorcism had also been attempted several years earlier - apparently unsuccessfully. They were the second clergy family to have come from Ireland to take up the position only to leave. It was widely covered in the press at the time. Thankfully it worked out for the family, they moved to another parish. He celebrated the 40th anniversary of his ordination last year in Belfast where he now lives. Don't know if the rectory is still haunted but certainly wouldn't care to find out.
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Blondie, so happy to see you here MUAH!
Smarrty, don't remember seeing those owls--love them
Loverly, I'm asking for Prozac for Schatzi at next yearly exam. Her storm fear has gotten worse each year. The thunder shirt works, but storms come so fast we're not always home. The other day just a simple rainstorm had her all messed up. It's nice to know that Mitsy responded so well to the med. Way better than not having a solution.
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Good morning Patty! May He sustain you today and this spring break week. Sorry, I don't go to the movies much. Have fun with the boys!
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Poor Schatzi . At least we have a solution for Mitz, but I really don't like to have her on it too long. Wish she could understand that we come back for her and that she is not abandoned. Oops, work is starting soon. Have a good day ladies.
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Loving the ghost stories. Well, except for the one Feelingfeline shared. I have been in places in Europe that felt haunted to me. The last time I was in Italy, we stayed in a cool old Tuscany farm house that was about 800 years old and would be afraid to go to the bathroom at night, for concerns of what I might run into.
Feeling- that story is the kind that makes people afraid of spirits for sure. I do think there are kind and malevolent things from the other side, just like there are good and evil folks on this side. It sounds like there may have been a lot of violence on that property. Sometimes it is not just with the house but was ever there before?
Wishing everyone a good week, and be safe folks back east in what I hear is a pretty good sized spring snow storm!
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Loverly, They use prozac for cats also. I hear it can be a real miracle worker.
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Patty, see if the Good Dinasaur is still playing.
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Never did get to the computer last night, so tired. Still taking it easy, feet up, swelling down.
We really only had one full day to do things, as we didn't get settled in until after 8 Friday night. Saturday we went to Ripley's, which is always fun, then went to a production of Moses which was amazing, incredible, huge, awesome and excellently presented. That night we went to see Legends, which is impersonations: Johnny Cash, Tina Turner, the Blues Brothers, Michael Jackson, and Elvis. Johnny Cash, Michael Jackson, and Elvis impersonators were spot on: physically uncanny resemblances, expressions, and voices all nearly perfect - so much so that they had the originals on the side screens synced to the performers, and mostly hard to tell which was which. The Elvis did the 50's version, black leather and the curlicue of hair down his forehead.
We ate a lot but since it was spring break every restaurant was packed so it wasn't the best dining experiences. But good to spend time with friends even if I will be paying for it for a week.
I have a ghost story of my own. During my first marriage, we lived on a farm in Maine. It had been in a family since 1869, and before that had been a schoolhouse. The last member of the family but one had died, and the last one lived in Boston, so he sold it to us. We never really settled there, we tried different rooms as a bedroom and nothing ever really worked. The original schoolhouse was two rooms downstairs and two up; when the family bought it they added on a big country kitchen with enough room for a big dining table, and above a large room heated by a floor vent from the kitchen, and next to that a bathroom. Not exactly modern. The front stairs were narrow and steep, opening right into the middle of the upstairs room. We knew it had been a bedroom, because the bed had been left, made up, when we bought the house. We didn't think much about it.
One time, we were sleeping in the second downstairs room in the schoolhouse portion, and I had to use the bathroom in the middle of the night. I trotted up the front stairs, and when I got into that room I felt a presence. Spooked me bad. Never went that way again, always through the kitchen.
Anyway, one day I was visiting my next door neighbor. Arlene had actually grown up in the house across the road, and was such a good friend that the owners of our house gave her a quarter acre next to the house to put a mobile home on, and she and her husband had been there for years. So I asked Arlene if there was any chance there was a ghost (pointed to the window) there, and she said, matter of factly, "Oh, that would be Addie." Addie was one of the younger girls who was I guess a little deficient mentally, lived out her life and died in that room.
Well she never gave us any trouble, and when we divorced, he got to keep the house, and the ghost.
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Jwoo, your package is on the way. The urn, the Duncan Miller teardrop spilt bowl, and a little plate I picked up today. The plate isn't recognizable to me. It's pressed glass. Fun pattern. It could be used for chocolates, cookies.
Mags, glad your visit went so nicely. Only saw an impersonators show one time. Uncanny how they can look like the people they are impersonating.
I'm a falls disaster always waiting to happen. So, why was I in my favorite junk store that every step has to be watched with care in light, and the store was dark b/c the lights were off. We were going through it by the light of the cell phone.
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ladies, I enjoyed the ghost stories. Feline, the Spouse and I do that microwave thing too, made me smile! I got to mow the yard today, spring is here and I am glad!
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Mags- I am glad your trip went well, although a bit tiring? I went to Branson year ago (like the late 1980s) when I was working on a project out in Missouri. I hope you are able to have some good recovery time from the trip. Any fun pics to share?
I like your ghost story.
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Mags I missed that you traveled to Branson, glad for you.
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Feline, that story about the rectory gave me the hipity jibby. I read the story (shuddering).
Mags, your ex got both the house and the ghost?? Love it!
Ms. Wren, dogs and cats are mammals like us, so I guess it makes sense that Prozac helps them also.
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I too believe in spirits. Have had a few experiences of my own, swear my house is haunted too. We have had some weird things happen since we moved in. Like smelling cigarette smoke in the house but neither of us smoke. If there is a ghost here, they haven't been of a negative nature. The first day that I was alone here after we moved in, I stood in my living room and said "If there are any spirits here you are welcome to stay as long as you don't harm anyone who comes into this house, if you do, I will take steps to have you cast out!"
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Prayers for those in Brussels
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Good morning friends- the winds here are super high right now, dust galore, and my asthma is BAD! It will be bad again today and I have to go in, but think I will find and wear a mask over my face to keep the dust out while walking to and from the car. When I left work yesterday, I had to lean in to the wind to walk, felt dirt hitting my eyes and grit in my teeth. Ugh! One more day of this crap. Gusts were clocked anywhere between 60-75 mph.
Sassy- very sad about Brussels. Europe has turned into a war zone.
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