Every really healthy relationship that I know of has had a "look but don't touch" rule. Even my folks are like that. Hell, if Dad misses the cute girl in the bikini top at the stop light, Mom will point her out to him.

Top. I would prefer that the room have a high ceiling though. I bumped my head on the ceiling often enough as a kid.

Pay off: Mine and my twin Brother's student loans (he owes more then me, but he also builds computers. He can build me a new one every two years as payment).

Pay off my parent's debts, and set them in a house that ISN't going to cost them more money to fix.

Pay off any debts my paternal grandfather has, and give a sum of money to my aunt who cares for him, to make it easier on her.

Take the rest and pay off all of my bills.

Make honest plans towards the bed and breakfast that I have been dreaming about.

Put money in several savings accounts to earn interest on until I am ready to implement B&B plans.

I'm not really a coffee person, and find their baked goods a little disappointing. I like their chai tea, but can make the same thing at home with this recipe: http://www.recipezaar.com/Chai-Tea-Mix-in-a-Jar-119058

I have Foxy, a grey, long haired kitty with a rather retiring personality (she pretty much hates all people except me and the dog), and a silver tabby with a white undercoat, who has the sweetest personality of any cat I have ever met.
Both cats "talk" quite a bit, and are easy to get along with for me.

One of the first screennames I used when I started playing MMORPGs.
Originally I choose it because I liked the slight contradiction between dark (nyte) and light (flame), but the contradiction developed when I became a guild leader. To my guildies, My name was supposed to stand for the welcoming light of a candle in the window of your home after a long day. To our enimies, it was supposed to be the terror of returning to a housefire in the night.

Not that I ever got into PVP. I pretty much suck at killing anything besides monsters in any of the RPGs I have played. But the name worked.


Yeah, I'm a nerd. (Or is it a geek?)

In love and in life, there are an awful lot of things I don't know. *sigh*

I really enjoys those. I actually have them sitting on my desk beside me, though I finished them almost two months ago now. I used them to write a "research paper" about Eragon, as an example for my 8th graders who have to research papers (they are doing biographies), complete with a works cited page and Parenthetical notations.

Some of them thought it was cool. For most of them it only drove home the conclusion that I am a nerd.

No, did you enjoy them? Do they have anything to do with the original Frankenstein?

IN a tree by a brook

Get a dehydrator. Make fruit leather out of it. I think that's the way to start it anyway...

Nah, not dead. I think the acids in the juice make it more difficult for you to absorb the active ingredients. Cold Eeze lozenges have a similar warning because of that. (Don't take those blasted thing though, they make things taste funny for the entire day afterward!)

Find yourself a great big crock pot, and make soups.

The soup I made the other week used beef broth (made with a paste called "better the bullion") frozen mixed veggies, a couple cans of tomatoes (rotel, plain diced, or stewed) a can of mushroom pieces, 1/2 cup of rice, and some frozen meatballs. Let cook until everything is hot and you can't wait any longer (or overnight).

I might have spent 10 bucks, but I don't think so. I already had the rice, meatballs, and soup base, and I didn't use any of those up for this recipe.

It made about 16 cups worth of soup, or 8 large servings.

I froze half, and took containers of the other half to work for lunch all week.

I love your screen name!

Your profile is nice. I don't know if there is any such thing as "too long" (except for one particular author among us....). Yours is a tiny bit on the short side, but I think you can get away with it because you list lots of interests and your personality shows up. Thank you for taking the time to proofread too, as mentioned before, we appreciate it.




Melody, do you need help with you abduction plan, or do you not want to share?

A lot of you are reading Koontz. I love him. You guy's into his "Odd Thomas" books? If you haven't read any of these, they are definitely my favorites.

Also, besides these ones, have you all noticed that his books are becoming a lot more humorous? I have read most of them, and it's just the newer ones....I love it though, it makes the books that much more fun to read.

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You know, that wasn't one of my favorites. Try "Darkest Evening of the Year", or "The Watchers" or "Fear Nothing".

and she's buying a stairway to heaven.

Does anyone here like slam poetry?
I have been getting into it more and more recently.
Right now I am enjoying Mary Fons' "I love you": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj1YdcfBgaU

But I also adore Taylor Mali ("What a Teacher Really Makes" and "On Girls Lending Pens") and Rives ( "Kite" "Mockingbird" and "If I Controlled the Internet").

You can look all of them up youtube if you aren't familiar with them. All three have quite a few poems posted.

Do you know any good poets that I can look up or listen too?? I am sure there are more out there that I haven't found yet.




And folks, if you have never listened to any of this stuff, it's not the stuck up poetry you read in grade school. Take a look. Besides, I promise not to give you a test on it, which, even without looking at it now, makes it 3 billion times better then your High School English course.

Maybe their kilts had nothing to do with the holiday, and were part of thier band "uniform"....I used to work retail, and we would randomly get guys in kilts at all times of the year. Not a lot, but it happened.

I just finished the 4th Maximum Ride book (Final Warning) by James Patterson. Yeah, it's a kid's book, but they are still really great!

I don't know what I will read next. Something off my own shelves for a while, since I don't get paid until the 1st. (For the record, getting paid only once a month SUCKS! If you can avoid it, don't take a job like that)

My grandma always used peas for her Shepard's pie. :) Maybe I would have liked it more with corn. I like peas, but the mix of textures didn't do it for me at all.