Chelsea Lou
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Awwwwww Beenie :cry:
Chelsea Lou - The Ventura adventure, not a sinking ship!
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Chelsea Lou
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There's a moose loose aboot this hoose
Chelsea Lou
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I know, Katy..........it was a pretty lame effort on my part lol. Just seeing her pic again has made a lump appear in my throat. She was a right pain, chewing cables and stuff but she was a little cutie as well and I miss her. xx
Katycakes
Stubborn tortoise
Au contraire Chels, I LOVE cheesy quips and comments, can you not tell from my own lame attempts at humour? (Limps off in disgrace...)
We have outdoor bunnies, DD brought them in years ago during a very hard winter and one chewed through a cable and produced a power cut... they have been outside ever since, lol!
xxx
MinnieMel
Why Be Normal?
Morning Nearly Afternoon, Chels!
Why be Normal???
Eccentricity is often associated with genius, intellectual giftedness, or creativity.
The individual's eccentric behavior is perceived to be the outward expression of their unique intelligence or creative impulse.
In this vein, the eccentric's habits are incomprehensible not because they are illogical or the result of madness, but because they stem from a mind so original that it cannot be conformed to societal norms.
English utilitarian thinker John Stuart Mill wrote that "the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage which it contained", and (he) mourned a lack of eccentricity as "the chief danger of the time".
Edith Sitwell wrote that ... geniuses... are called eccentrics because "they are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd".
Sooo, Chels... "Don't go changing to try and please (him)... (we) love you just the way you are."
I think Billy Joel (another 1970s reference ) said it best.
Who you are is whom you should be, and the "right person" will complement you.
I am sorry you 'encountered' such a pathetic person on the dating site, and am glad you reported them. It is not you, it's them.
I used to do child abuse and protection counselling and prevention for the Boy Scouts of America -- and one of things that we always stressed to the children is that it is NOT them: the abusers are the ones with the problem, and that the "victims" are "not special", "asking for it", "sending out a vibe, etc." -- that these people seek and create their opportunities.
Don't think for one minute that you deserved that "message" or "asked for it", and if you were to the first to get that sort of contact from him -- you would not have been the last.
MM
Why be Normal???
Eccentricity is often associated with genius, intellectual giftedness, or creativity.
The individual's eccentric behavior is perceived to be the outward expression of their unique intelligence or creative impulse.
In this vein, the eccentric's habits are incomprehensible not because they are illogical or the result of madness, but because they stem from a mind so original that it cannot be conformed to societal norms.
English utilitarian thinker John Stuart Mill wrote that "the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage which it contained", and (he) mourned a lack of eccentricity as "the chief danger of the time".
Edith Sitwell wrote that ... geniuses... are called eccentrics because "they are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd".
Sooo, Chels... "Don't go changing to try and please (him)... (we) love you just the way you are."
I think Billy Joel (another 1970s reference
) said it best.Who you are is whom you should be, and the "right person" will complement you.
I am sorry you 'encountered' such a pathetic person on the dating site, and am glad you reported them. It is not you, it's them.
I used to do child abuse and protection counselling and prevention for the Boy Scouts of America -- and one of things that we always stressed to the children is that it is NOT them: the abusers are the ones with the problem, and that the "victims" are "not special", "asking for it", "sending out a vibe, etc." -- that these people seek and create their opportunities.
Don't think for one minute that you deserved that "message" or "asked for it", and if you were to the first to get that sort of contact from him -- you would not have been the last.
MM
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*Shanny*
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facebook?? my lovely or bookface?? lol bless ya.Anyway yoooo lot! Who's on bookface?
aww you and your mummy are very pretty jess x
Katycakes
Stubborn tortoise
Sheesh Miss Jess, you are a STUNNER, like your mummy. And yup, I have a hooter myself, but after living with it for many a long year I am kind of used to it! DD is always being told she looks like me and when i look at her I see the MOST stunning and lovely girl, but not a bit of me at all... funny how your head mixes it all up! She does have a nose and it looks elegant and graceful on her, because she IS those things. So yeah... tis all in the mind I think!
Liking 'Bookface'... there are worse things you could call it, lol!
xxx
Liking 'Bookface'... there are worse things you could call it, lol!
xxx
*Shanny*
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sent u request.. bookface lol lol xlol both
MinnieMel
Why Be Normal?
LOL --
Everyone wants what they don't have. I have always found "interesting" faces more attractive than plastic/generic looking ones.
I was bog-standard "pretty" growing up and other kids used to called me "Barbie" as a teen because I looked like a plastic doll and had waist length blonde hair. What I would have done to have wild curly hair or something unique about my appearance.
One of the "worst" things someone ever said to me was, "I just got back from Sweden, and you look like EVERYONE there." So much for individuality, eh?
And, it is true... I have often been mistaken for someone who looks "just like me".
One of my son's good friends had quite a profile... but it absolutely works on his face and he is very charismatic.
I think what Heidi Montag and Ashley Tinsdale did (i.e. tweaking their noses to look like Barbie's button nose made them look generic and plastic). Jennifer Gray (of Dirty Dancing fame has spoken of how after her nose job no one hired her because she no longer looked like Jennifer Gray! She became "commonly pretty".
BTW Jess... I love the edgy hair style. It really suits you (the spider assassin!) And, when I look at your mom's pic, I can see that you inherited your good looks from her!
MM
Everyone wants what they don't have. I have always found "interesting" faces more attractive than plastic/generic looking ones.
I was bog-standard "pretty" growing up and other kids used to called me "Barbie" as a teen because I looked like a plastic doll and had waist length blonde hair. What I would have done to have wild curly hair or something unique about my appearance.
One of the "worst" things someone ever said to me was, "I just got back from Sweden, and you look like EVERYONE there." So much for individuality, eh?
And, it is true... I have often been mistaken for someone who looks "just like me".
One of my son's good friends had quite a profile... but it absolutely works on his face and he is very charismatic.
I think what Heidi Montag and Ashley Tinsdale did (i.e. tweaking their noses to look like Barbie's button nose made them look generic and plastic). Jennifer Gray (of Dirty Dancing fame has spoken of how after her nose job no one hired her because she no longer looked like Jennifer Gray! She became "commonly pretty".
BTW Jess... I love the edgy hair style. It really suits you (the spider assassin!) And, when I look at your mom's pic, I can see that you inherited your good looks from her!
MM
Greeneyes11
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Have been giggling to myself catching up on your thread Chels........
Sorry about the appraisal, they are just a waste of time in my opinion, do people really sit there dreaming up questions and problems.... surely if there was a problem it should be addressed at the time, not six months later at an appraisal, and I am another one for getting a cardboard box and putting all the stuff that shouldn't be on the desk into it.....
And guess where I met DH, kinda on the internet. I had tons of friends on the internet, we used to chat in a chat room and we would all meet up quite often for the weekend... well this particular weekend we were meeting in London and DH was there, I had never spoken to him on the internet but other people had and so he came along and that is how I met him, he lived in Surrey and I lived in Essex. I was staying at someone's house that night and after I had left everyone was telling him how old I was and how many children I had, he said he didn't really believe them but I did put him right once we spoke on the Monday online..... lol. We kept meeting for dates in London and then he wouldn't want to go home so would come home with me, we met on 4th December and the following February he came home after a date and never left again..... lol. We got engaged in the April on my birthday, his parents went back to live in Australia in the June when we went to pick up all his stuff from his house, his mum said she didn't approve of our relationship and an hour later asked if we would stay for a bbq.....er dont think so.... His dad was really nice though. We got married in the August after they had left the country and have been together now since December 1998. So stuff you mother in law!!!!! ha ha
Maybe you will meet the "right" person on the cruise and he will be rich and whisk you away to his country retreat when you get home and you will be a kept woman with no need of your job any longer!!!!
Sorry about the appraisal, they are just a waste of time in my opinion, do people really sit there dreaming up questions and problems.... surely if there was a problem it should be addressed at the time, not six months later at an appraisal, and I am another one for getting a cardboard box and putting all the stuff that shouldn't be on the desk into it.....
And guess where I met DH, kinda on the internet. I had tons of friends on the internet, we used to chat in a chat room and we would all meet up quite often for the weekend... well this particular weekend we were meeting in London and DH was there, I had never spoken to him on the internet but other people had and so he came along and that is how I met him, he lived in Surrey and I lived in Essex. I was staying at someone's house that night and after I had left everyone was telling him how old I was and how many children I had, he said he didn't really believe them but I did put him right once we spoke on the Monday online..... lol. We kept meeting for dates in London and then he wouldn't want to go home so would come home with me, we met on 4th December and the following February he came home after a date and never left again..... lol. We got engaged in the April on my birthday, his parents went back to live in Australia in the June when we went to pick up all his stuff from his house, his mum said she didn't approve of our relationship and an hour later asked if we would stay for a bbq.....er dont think so.... His dad was really nice though. We got married in the August after they had left the country and have been together now since December 1998. So stuff you mother in law!!!!! ha ha
Maybe you will meet the "right" person on the cruise and he will be rich and whisk you away to his country retreat when you get home and you will be a kept woman with no need of your job any longer!!!!
MinnieMel
Why Be Normal?
My neice met her fiance on a cruise. They were both with their families (and uni grads -- not teenagers). Both sets of parents ended up dining together after the "kids" met.
It happens!
MM
P.S. Of course, if Chels meets up with someone in her democraphic... maybe they will be the parents who meet through their children.
It happens!
MM
P.S. Of course, if Chels meets up with someone in her democraphic... maybe they will be the parents who meet through their children.
Chelsea Lou
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Lol........... its feeding time at the zoo in DD2's house, twins are covered in all manner of stuff, so I thought I would just check in on you all and .............boy, have you been busy!!!!
I am loving the tales of how people met their OHs and it gives me hope and has made me chuckle no end. Also like the ............noses run in mine comment KC lol.
Such lovely comments and has brightened my day...as ever, so thank you.
I don't know if any of you believe in the afterlife etc. But I seem to get messages via number plates when I am driving around and I 'asked' my Mum the other day to give me the name of the man who was to be my love. Well blow me if a few minutes later a car came towards me with the number *** STU, quickly followed by a different car which pulled up alongside me at the roundabout turning left, to my going straight on, that was **51 STU!!!! So then I wanted to know where I was to meet him and it was the following day when I got (five cars one after the other) LOO, MUM, TRY, LVE, ONA. Hmm what could that mean? Lou, this is mum, try love on a ?????????? On a what? So I asked the question again and got **** VEN. Ventura??? Later that day a car pulled up in traffic just ahead and it had the letters VOY, so I asked "Are we talking about the voyage here?" I nearly crashed when the next car to pass me had the letters EGE!
How I never have an accident is a mystery to me but whenever I am feeling low I get MUM or ANN (my sister who passed) the other day I had LAD followed by TOM, my baby boy who died. So will let you all know. Probably a load of guff, but it makes me smile
I have got to go and do grandmotherly duties now and won't get home until 8 ish this evening, when I will catch up on all your diaries.
Hope you have had a brilliant day today, one and all
xx
I am loving the tales of how people met their OHs and it gives me hope and has made me chuckle no end. Also like the ............noses run in mine comment KC lol.
Such lovely comments and has brightened my day...as ever, so thank you.
I don't know if any of you believe in the afterlife etc. But I seem to get messages via number plates when I am driving around and I 'asked' my Mum the other day to give me the name of the man who was to be my love. Well blow me if a few minutes later a car came towards me with the number *** STU, quickly followed by a different car which pulled up alongside me at the roundabout turning left, to my going straight on, that was **51 STU!!!! So then I wanted to know where I was to meet him and it was the following day when I got (five cars one after the other) LOO, MUM, TRY, LVE, ONA. Hmm what could that mean? Lou, this is mum, try love on a ?????????? On a what? So I asked the question again and got **** VEN. Ventura??? Later that day a car pulled up in traffic just ahead and it had the letters VOY, so I asked "Are we talking about the voyage here?" I nearly crashed when the next car to pass me had the letters EGE!
How I never have an accident is a mystery to me but whenever I am feeling low I get MUM or ANN (my sister who passed) the other day I had LAD followed by TOM, my baby boy who died. So will let you all know. Probably a load of guff, but it makes me smile
I have got to go and do grandmotherly duties now and won't get home until 8 ish this evening, when I will catch up on all your diaries.
Hope you have had a brilliant day today, one and all
xx
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That's a lovely tale Chels and you never know. My mum has promised me that when she dies she'll try very hard to get a message to me, something like a fabulous flower blooming at the wrong time of year perhaps, but I don't see why it couldn't be number plates as well!
This friend of mine with the web chap,(not Eric!) introduces him by saying, 'I got him off the internet'. I introduce mine by saying, ' Have you met my first husband?' It doesn't do any harm to keep him on his toes! xx
This friend of mine with the web chap,(not Eric!) introduces him by saying, 'I got him off the internet'.
I introduce mine by saying, ' Have you met my first husband?' It doesn't do any harm to keep him on his toes! xx
