Lurkings

[Lilya]

Lurkings,

I have never been to Australia. My ex-husband was raised in New Zealand as his father was a diplomat and lived all over. He showed me amazing pictures and I´m planning to go there with a friend. We´ll rent a jeep and go driving around the place, than go to the beach in Malaysia.

I remember my travels in USA while talking to you and Juls, and remembered the worst travel I had. I drove from a small town in Oregon at 6 AM and took the plane from Portland. I landed AND checked out and in my luggage in Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis and another city I don´t remember. When I finally arrived AND checked out my luggage in Boston, the plane to Paris was long gone. I cried, I was so tired! LOL I took the next plane to London, 12 hours flight time, then I took the awful subway from Heathrow to Victoria Station, then the train to Dover and then the boat to Calais and then the train to Paris -Gare du nord, and from there a taxi to my home!!! It was before Eurostar. I had not slept for 36 hours and I remember opening the door, putting the suitcases down, going to my bedroom, taking my shoes off and I slept for 13 hours.

Can anyone top this? I challenge you!

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[lurkings]

~Lilya,
Perhaps not exactly like that but... My dad has some pretty "interesting" people on his side of the family! THis one year we decide to go see one of the for the fourth of July. We got up there and it was they nasties place in the world. There is a big dumpster outside her house that had a dead puppy in it so it stunk! Then we walk in and there is food all over the floor... The house smelled like urine because the kid has accidents and doesn't change the sheets. The kids were playing with the dogs then running in and grabbing cold hotdogs out of the fridge. We were going to stay but we decided to make up a lame excuse to get out. The kids were begging for me to stay! YEAH RIGHT! So we cook the food and when it was made the kids, whom by this time were playing with furterlizer, came running in and sticking there hands in everything without washing... Needless to say we didn't eat much. We left, got a hotel and went out to eat. Watch the fireworks on TV.... LOL Not something I would ever forget!

[Lilya]

What a great national holiday, Lurkings!

Holy Mother of God! Sounds like a real mess to me, LOL. Dead puppy in the dumpster and kids urinating and playing with a fertilizer. My God. No wonder you both left.

I don´t remember any stories like that. I have to think about it though. I remember my ex and I used to visit trailor parks in England on Sunday afternoons. He travelled in Africa in those things when he was a kid with his parents, and broke his arm, it was so crowded and the animals got to it. It was a sad sight to look at the people who lived there and we both used to thank our stars we didnt´lived like this anymore. I lived in a trailor in Denmark when I was a Juvenile. Then again, I love going travelling in a trailor. it´s a good way of seeing nature, and I might just do that in Australia.

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[lurkings]

~Lilya,
Sounds crazy! I had an aunt who lived in a trailer in the woods next to a lake... Actually it is sad to say that I have a lot of memories on my dads side like that. Just very icky and they are always fighting... It is a regular Jerry Springer show with his side.

I WANT TO GO TO AUSTRALIA WITH YOU!! How big is your luggage? (just/kidding)

[Juls]

When I was growing up there was a woman we called "Connie Mouse," why I don't know. She had been a friend of my fathers, and was fairly wealthy. We would go to her house for Sunday dinner, and while I was there I was trained in how to set a formal table, how to play hostess and serve the guests, I was a regular little lady in training. I was pretty young, and she seemed just ancient to me. You know one of those old ladies with all the powder and lipstick on so their face doesn't look real. Plus everyone else around the table was old, and as I would go around and help serve I would have to curtsy and everyone would say how cute I was. I thought it was awful. However, I do know how to set a beautiful table. LOL

Juls

[lurkings]

~Juls,
Interesting! I was taught how to curtsy in pre-k but it never went any farther than that. I am a blue jeans and t-shirt girl. I don't have any dresses but I do have nice clothes for the occasions I feel like wearing them. As for setting a table I have no idea. I think if we had a big dinner at our home I would just look it up on the internet. LOL I am sure your tables are absolutely beautiful! You go girl!

[Juls]

Last night I fixed a nice dinner, and I guess I like to do the same kind of thing with my daughter. I don't have her curtsy, but she helps set a formal table with linen table cloths, placemats and napkins. Where the glasses and silver go, Flowers, candles, the works. She really likes doing it, and we have fun.

Juls

[2stop]

I love to set a beautiful table, don't know if I always set everything properly, but nobody has ever complained....if they did, I would just make up some country name and tell them as a child in "our" country this was how the royalty had their table set! LOL.......Tell them we had a liberal and progressive royal family......

[lurkings]

Hey, set a pretty mean TV tray! We have at my house what I like to call an M&M... Movie and Mexican. I love to cook mexican food so I will cook it up, pick a movie and set and pass out dinner on our TV trays. Hows that?

[2stop]

Now you're talking my language!!!! I have to remember this, M&M, my family will love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!***hugs***

[lurkings]

~2stop,
If you need some recipes I have a mexican cook book.

[Lilya]

Lurkings,

Out of context: I was at a party the other day and a person there asked all the guests how they wanted to die. I mean, what they thought was the best way to die. He said it revealed a person´s inner desires.

I said truthfully, that I would like to die at sea an old woman, floating in a boat on anasthetics and then go over a big waterfall, like flying into the afterlife.

He said he needed at least a month to figure that out! Well, what do you think and what is your favorite way to go? LOL

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[lurkings]

~Lilya,
Interesting, when you find out how to tell let me know.

It is hard for me to say in a little over a year have dealt with six deaths and another one it coming. So the only thing I can think of is quick.