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~ Check the thoughts before they exit your mouth:

I recently had GSD and TJP over for dinner with MyLuc n' I and mentioned something that I had read on one of the many blogs I lurk in. GSD didn't take it very well and holy moses...did I ever feel like a heel. She said no worries but yep, wrong thing to tell a chronic worrier. *sigh*Plus I am happy for the guy. I mean we all need happiness right? And she has a new person in her life and has/had moved on. It's all good. Right?!?

On my way outta town TJP called to see what was going on and I said I was heading out of town. I then proceeded to tell her that she could "occupy Luc" if she was free. WTF!!! I didn't catch it for like 5 seconds until the driver of the vehicle I was in almost had to pull over because she was laughing so hard. Itsa really good thing that people know what I mean when I have trouth mubles like this.

~ Speaking of which:

I went to a SCA event in Sooke on the Island. It was awesome. I was awarded with an Award of Arms. Its an award for service. ie: constable (patrolling for trouble), gate (door, collecting entry fees), water bearing (bringing water to the men in armor). My SCA title is now - Lady Phoebe Baxter. Hoorah for me. Although on the award itself it was spelled Poebe Baxtep *sigh* I guess in Runes there is no R so the Baxtep is understandable but the Poebe - no way jose - there is totally an H - especially since in the award itself some words contain one.

Work is going okay. We're still short some staff members and an accountant and a HR person. I mentioned to the main lawyer that I needed to get an advance on this pay and he almost fainted on the spot. Not giving just the regular pay but extra. Goodness. Ifn he's worried about that he won't like that I want $400. *shrug* I wouldn't ask if I didn't need it. We'll see come payday.

Okay, funny for Tuesday:

To get the full effect, this should be read aloud. You will understand what 'tenjewberrymuds' means by the end of the conversation. This has been nominated for the best email of 2005.

The following is a telephone exchange between a hotel guest and room-service, at a hotel in Asia, which was recorded and published in the Far East Economic Review:

Room Service (RS): "Morrin. Roon sirbees."
Guest (G): "Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service."
RS: "Rye..Roon sirbees..morrin! Jewish to oddor sunteen??"
G: "Uh..yes..I'd like some bacon and eggs."
RS: "Ow July den?"
G: "What??"
RS: "Ow July den?...pryed, boyud, poochd?"
G : "Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, scrambled please."
RS: "Ow July dee baykem? Crease?"
G: "Crisp will be fine."
RS : "Hokay. An Sahn toes?"
G: "What?"
RS:"An toes. July Sahn toes?"
G: "I don't think so."
RS: "No? Judo wan sahn toes??"
G: "I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what 'judo wan sahn toes' means." RS: "Toes! toes!...Why jew don juan toes? Ow bow Anglish moppin we bodder?"
G: "English muffin!! I've got it! You were saying 'Toast.' Fine. Yes, an English muffin will be fine."
RS: "We bodder?"
G: "No...just put the bodder on the side."
RS: "Wad?"
G: "I mean butter...just put it on the side."
RS: "Copy?"
G: "Excuse me?"
RS: "Copy...tea...meel?"
G: "Yes. Coffee, please, and that's all."
RS: "One Minnie. Scramah egg, crease baykem, Anglish moppin we bodder on sigh and copy....rye??"
G: "Whatever you say."
RS: "Tenjewberrymuds."
G : "You're very welcome."

I Wish You Enough!

Recently I overheard a mother and daughter in their last moments together at the airport. They had announced the departure. Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the mother said, "I love you and I wish you enough". The daughter replied, "Mom, our life together has been more than enough. Your love is all I ever needed. I wish you enough, too, Mom".

They kissed and the daughter left. The mother walked over to the window where I was seated. Standing there I could see she wanted and needed to cry. I tried not to intrude on her privacy but she welcomed me in by asking, "Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be forever?". Yes, I have," I replied. "Forgive me for asking, but why is this a forever good-bye?".

"I am old and she lives so far away. I have challenges ahead and the reality is - the next trip back will be for my funeral," she said. "When you were saying good-bye, I heard you say, 'I wish you enough'. May I ask what that means?".

She began to smile. "That's a wish that has been handed down from other generations. My parents used to say it to everyone". She paused a moment and looked up as if trying to remember it in detail and she smiled even more. "When we said , 'I wish you enough', we were wanting the other person to have a life filled with just enough good things to sustain them".

Then turning toward me, she shared the following as if she were reciting it from memory.

I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive.
I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger.
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.
I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye.

She then began to cry and walked away.

They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them, but then an entire life to forget them.

TAKE TIME TO LIVE.....

To all my friends and loved ones, I WISH YOU ENOUGH *HUGE HUGS*

Yahoo another query about me....

Thank you so much GSD ....

1. Seven Things I Hate Doing or That Scare Me
- Vaccuuming
- Bathing the Cat(s)
- Being alone in the dark - the pitch black dark that you can't see anything atall
- Closed door meetings with the Letterhead Lawyers (the ones on the firm letterhead)
- Coworkers who say my name just because they like to
- Fighting with friends/family
- Masks - not the kind you buy but the kind people wear

2. Seven Things I Like
- Making new friends
- Corresponding with old friends
- Hugs
- Smiles
- Laughter
- Making others smile or laugh for doing something so silly I don't get it until later
- Babies (they smell so nice n' are so cuddly...for a short while at least)

3. Seven Important Things in My Room
- Bed n' bedding o'course
- Sarah
- Telephone
- MyLuc
- Fuzzy Blanket
- Candles
- That other stuff *blush*

4. Seven Random Facts About Me
- I took a bodyguard course in Prince George
- I was a companion to a little old lady in PG
- I talk to myself n' answer my own questions
- I try to do at least one good deed a day and if I have more I tend to glow
- Strangers have told me I have a good soul/great smile/my horoscope - just cuz
- I tend to make MyLuc's mom cry every time we're together
- I don't have contact atall with my father n' that's okay

5. Seven Things I Plan on Doing Before I Die
- Travel (outta North America)
- Marry
- Have my licence
- Get another tattoo or three *grin*
- Have a family reunion
- Deep Water Dive
- Make more friends

6. Seven Things I Can Do or Have Done.
- Have gotten a tattoo - a Phoenix for rebirth
- Have joined a marathon to complete 42.2km in under 7 hours Janury 16, 2006
- Can remember some martial arts from my bodyguard course
- Have given my heart to someone
- Can drive just not legally
- Can make other smile
- Have windsurfed although I spent more time in the water than on the board.

7. Seven Things I Cannot or Will Not Do
- I will not go back to my hometown any time soon
- I will not change my bad habits because others tell me to
- I will not enjoy watching horror movies
- I can not eat liver or saurcraut(sp)
- I can not keep my home 100% clean
- I will not be unhappy because there is a silver lining...somewhere

8. Seven Things I Say the Most
- Totally
- F**k a Duck
- Dontcha Know
- Have you met Luc? Especially when he's done something totally stupid
- What is my phone number?
- Like
- What do you mean I can't have a coffee

Okay now, some I just made up cuz I had no idea. Hope you had a good read tho'.

*HUGE HUGS*

MyLuc's Ring 

Luc's Ring #1 

Emma turned and the picture is one of my favourites! 

Emma  

Mickey - What a Lovely! 

I did it! I did it!

I asked MyLuc to marry me. He said yes.

I gave him his ring for his bday (Sept. 8) along with his Corner Gas tee shirt, tickets to Corner Gas Live and the beginning edition of Killer Bunnies.

He opened the ring box, looked at me as was like "Wow! This is nice" I told him "What you expected me to get you crap?". He took it out of the box and asked me to put it on his finger. It was kinda weird in a Wow kinda way that the ring just slid on his finger perfectly.

He hasn't taken it off since. Which is totally awesome!

We went to his family September Birthday Party (cuz like 7 of them have bday's in Sept.) and I told him I wasn't going to be grabbing his hand and saying "Look at his ring...isn't his ring nice....did you see his ring?" Or variations of that. We picked up my girly girl and o'course the first thing I said was..."Did you see his ring?" And then we picked up Grandad Mel....I didn't say a word. Very proud of myself for that.

The first person I told was his Mom and I did it by saying "I gave him his ring. Did you see it?" I couldn't help myself. This was his mom. She cried. She has cried at least once every time I visit for almost 3 years. *sigh* She says it's menapause...I say it's me.

And then when my girly girl were coming outside to the deck we heard Grandad Mel say "You don't wear jewelry ... whatzat?" MyLuc held his hand out and was like "Oh, Melissa asked me to marry her...this is my engagment ring". It was too funny. Grandad Mel slapped him on the head and said "I was in the car with you and you didn't say anything".

Overall everyone was very happy and are totally asking "When's the Day?" "Have you set a day?"

I keep telling them. It's going to be a very long engagement. I have to polish up edges yet. And o'course the big three: 1. Go to Vegas and get married in the TLC wedding chapel by an Elvis; 2. Have an Elvis marry us here; 3. Country music at the reception. I know #3 is more possible than the others but I'm gonna try my damndest.

When I get a chance I'll post a pic of MyLuc's ring. It's very nice. I'm very proud of myself.

*HUGE HUGS*

Talk to you later.

Just 'cuz :

Trivia for The Goonies (1985)

Many sequences were shot but removed from the film:

Mikey discovers that the map has a "fold-in" similar to Mad Magazine.

The Goonies stop at the "Stop and Snack" store (which can be seen in the opening credits) where they are harassed by Troy, who steals the map. The Goonies escape when Brand arrives.

The Goonies make Andy a Goonie by having her recite the Goonie oath. At the end of the oath, she screams "leech!" and the group discovers that they are covered with leeches. Data removes thm by electrifying a puddle with a battery.

Further sequences with Chunk and Sloth following the rest of the Goonies were filmed.

While using his "slick shoes," Data slips on the log. Mouth and Mikey attempt to rescue him and hold themselves down while being drenched by a wave.

While swimming to the Spanish boat, the group encounters an octopus. The octopus is driven away when Data throws his radio into its mouth. The octopus is mentioned to the reporters in the scene on the beach in the finished film, even though the scene was cut.

When Stef and Mouth are tied together to walk the plank, Stef offers to share her breath with Mouth. In the finished film, he thanks her for this, even though the scene was cut.

Trivia:

The pirate ship was entirely real. All the shots were filmed in the ship, not on separate stages. After the film, it was offered to anyone who would take it, but sadly, no one wanted it, so the ship was chopped into scraps.

Richard Donner kept both One-Eyed Willie's head and a model for the ship.

Some of the crew members played extras in the film. One cameraman played Mouth's father. Another played the dead man in the freezer. And an assistant director plays one of the cops on the AV scooters on the beach at the end.

During the scene where the boys are sitting in the living room watching MTV, they were not actually watching the Cyndi Lauper "Good Enough" video, which was to be developed six months after filming wrapped up.

Anne Ramsey really does slap Robert Davi when the Fratelli Brothers are arguing. She was told to hit him as hard as she could.

Jeff Cohen got the chicken pox after he got the role of Chunk. He showed up to the set anyway, afraid that they would have replaced him otherwise.

When Chunk calls the police to explain about the Fratellis, the cop disbelieves him, recalling all of Chunk's wild stories. One of which involved "little creatures that mutate when you pour water on them." This is a reference to Gremlins (1984), also written by Chris Columbus and also co-starring Corey Feldman.

Jennie Lew Tugend, assistant to director Richard Donner, has a small role as Data's mom in the finale.

'John Matuszak's' makeup included a remote controlled eye. He had to time his blinking to match the blinks of the robotic eye. A crew-member would countdown from three, two, one and tell him to blink.

The number of times a character says the word "shit" (or its derivative, "bullshit") is nineteen, not counting the line "Holy S-H-I-T!"

One scene of Chunk and Sloth following the trail of the other Goonies was added to the NBC TV showing of the film, even though twenty minutes were cut.

The original poster art (not used on the video tape box) featured the cast dangling from the feet of another with the top one hanging on a rock. Some of the newspaper ads featured slightly different artwork with the characters drawn in a different order from top to bottom.

The cast was not allowed to see the pirate ship before the scene was shot. When they did see it, some of the kids said "holy shit!" so the scene had to be re-shot without them cursing.

The model ship seen sailing at the film's end has a miniature R2-D2 (from Star Wars (1977)) hidden on the deck.

Director Cameo: [Richard Donner] one of the sheriffs on the quads as the Goonies exit the cave with the ship. He's the one with the gray hair.

The last name of the brothers who are chasing the Goonies is Fratelli. Fratelli means "brothers" in Italian.

The newspaper photo of Chester Copperpot is identical to the image that appears framed on Judge Oliver Wright's desk in Shock Treatment (1981).

Data's belt has "007" inscribed on it. He also listens to the James Bond theme before sliding on the rope over to Mikey's.

At one point in the movie, the character played by Sean Astin cries out "Holy Mackenzie!" Sean Astin's brother is Mackenzie Astin.

The music played when the kids discover the tunnel in the Fratellis' hideout by accidentally pouring water down it, is the same piece of music played in The Great Escape (1963) when the Germans discover the prisoners' first tunnel by accidentally pouring coffee down it.

Cyndi Lauper co-wrote the theme song "Goonies R Good Enough", and shot a music video that features a cameo by the film's executive producer Steven Spielberg.

Producer Steven Spielberg directed at least one scene in this movie

There is a song on the soundtrack entitled "8 Arms To Hold You" by a band called "The Goon Squad." However, this song was entirely removed from the film because it was used during the cut scene involving the octopus. However, because the filmmakers were convinced the song could be a hit, it was pressed as a 12" dance single. As it was cut out of the film, it wasn't promoted at all and thus sold miserably. It is still one of the most collectable Goonie items to date.

Mouth (Corey Feldman) wears a "Purple Rain" t-shirt throughout the film.

In the original version of this film, the woman hired by Mikey's mother is a Hispanic named Rosalita (Lupe Ontiveros), and Mouth helps Mrs. Walsh by translating her commands into Spanish (of course, in Mouth's "odd" way). In the Spanish version of this film, the character is changed from Hispanic to Italian, and her name from "Rosalita" to "Rossanna". The Italian used by the Spanish dubber is much better than the Spanish used by Corey Feldman, which is clearly phonetically-memorized.

In the scene where Chunk and Sloth head down through the grate to follow the gang and the Fratelli's, you can see that Sloth is wearing an Oakland Raiders T-Shirt. John Matuszak who played Sloth was a former Oakland Raiders football player.

The name "Rube G" can be seen painted on the contraption that opens the yard gate for Chunk near the beginning of the movie. This is in reference to Rube Goldberg, the Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist who drew whimsical machines that achieved simple results in difficult ways.

The kids who played the Goonies were allowed to bring some of their families into the final scene where they are reunited.

In the scene where rocks are falling from the cave ceiling, Jonathan Ke Quan (Data) screams "Holy S-H-I-T", spelling the expletive rather than saying it. He did this because his mother made him promise not to use any bad language in the movie.

In the scene where Sean Astin and Josh Brolin hug on the front porch, you can see director Dick Donner's trailer in the background.

The clip of a film played on TV in the basement of the Fratelli's hideout was that of the film The Sea Hawk (1940); the music, however, was from another of 'Errol Flynn' 's films, Adventures of Don Juan (1948). This theme, written by 'Max Steiner' , is again played when Sloth and Chunk save their fellow Goonies from the Fratellis on the pirate ship.

John Matuszak's make-up took five hours to complete. One of the eyes (which was out of place on the face) was mechanically operated off-screen by remote control. Someone would count down from three to one and Matuszak would blink his other eye in synchronization. The cast was told not to get him wet in scenes outside of the pirate ship, but the kids inadvertently did so, holding up filming for an entire day.

According to director Richard Donner in an interview with "The Directors", producer Steven Spielberg instructed the cast members to act cold and distant toward Donner on the last week of filming which puzzled him. Shortly after filming wrapped, Donner went to his beach house in Hawaii, ran into a frenzied neighbor who took up his entire day. When he arrived home, the entire cast was there with Donner to celebrate with a cookout. Spielberg flew them over to Hawaii on the promise that they not speak a word of the surprise to Donner, which prompted them to act the way they were on the last week of filming.

At the climax of the film, Sloth pulls off his shirt, revealing a Superman shirt and the theme music from the Superman movies is heard. Richard Donner also directed Superman (1978) and part of its sequel.

Scenes were mostly shot in sequence, with total production lasting for five months.

For one line of dialogue, Corey Feldman had to dub in the name of fast-food chain Godfather's Pizza when Pizza Hut refused participation in the film.

Jeff Cohen thought of his mother dying to generate tears during his "confession" scene with the Fratellis.

The Goonies Oath that was cut out goes as follows: "I will never betray my goon dock friends / We will stick together until the whole world ends / Through heaven and hell, and nuclear war / Good pals like us, will stick like tar / In the city, or the country, or the forest, or the boonies / I am proudly declared a fellow Goony."

According to Sean Astin, he was allowed to keep the treasure map used in the film. However, the map was lost forever when his mother discovered it several years later, thought it was just a crinkled piece of paper, and threw it in the trash.

Some of this I knew...did you know any of it?

Depending on my mood and the colour of shirts I wear my eye colour changes. According to this though:

You chose hazel eyes.
That means you are a very sweet, thoughtful person.
You are gulliable too, so it's hard for you to
sometimes say no to situations you don't like.
You're too worried that you might hurt
someone's feelings that a lot of the time you
don't think about what you want. You are also
very generous. You love to hang out with your
friends, and laugh at every little
"funny" thing.


The Eye color personality test
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I think this proves that I can only visit and not stay.

You Failed the US Citizenship Test

Oops, you only got 2 out of 10 right!

Could You Pass the US Citizenship Test?

You know...

You're having a Monday week when:

You wake right up at 6 and want to start your day and put two different coloured socks on...

(This one MyLuc does often)

You have to chase the cat cuz she's decided that your socks are portable and oh so much fun to run with...

You get on the train to come to work and the underwire on your bra pokes through...both sides...

You get to work and go to unlock the door and fall through the door cuz it's already unlocked and not closed properly...

It's Friday and you've put the Tuesday backup tape in the server....

You have to take a second look at the receptionist cuz you ask her to send a two page letter to the client, take a photocopy and bring it back to you and she asks "Both pages?"...

*sigh*

I only have to be here until 4, I only have to be here until 4....

Hope your Friday is better than mine.

*HUGE HUGS*