Jfish… I had my son turn off my thumbs up/down business on my laptop and I’m not going down into the basement to vote.
I assume you are still going to be my trollslayer in case EC or other trolls come after us now that we’ve driven this comment thread toward TBP record breaking potential?
And as far as the spy bidness goes? You are the one always concerned about NSA finding out you are here. The rest of us know that they know we are here and could care less. Only a NSA spy would think they are relevant.
EL Creyente
December 18, 2015 7:42 pm
JFish says: EL Fuckhead: My wife and I couldn’t have kids for 7 years …… because….. we had white furniture.
You could have fucked on the floor.
EL Creyente
December 18, 2015 7:47 pm
Congrats, Rob
JFish
December 18, 2015 7:47 pm
IDK… Am just in a bad mood. It’s hard to think of my daughter with either one of these asswipes. It’s hard being a Patriarch. I’ll just tell ’em about that I got a shotgun and a shovel & see what happens. I also have low life friends with lead pipes & baseball bats. It’s gonna be a great X-mas, for sure! In the meantime, I’m still taking monkey votes – for whatever its worth. Is cool…
Maggie
December 18, 2015 7:50 pm
EC nice one. I had not heard/read that one and I took enough Literature to get a minor! Of course, since I was going to school on the taxpayer’s dime (GI Bill) I got a minor in History, PoliSci and English Literature.
But, had not heard/read the 600.
How about this one?
WASHINGTON AT VALLEY FORCE
Washington at Valley Forge
Bitter was the day,
Very easy it had been to throw the cause away.
Hate and malice filled the air
Ragged men and cold,
Lonesome men and weary men tales
of misery told,
Easy had it been to say :
– Brief are human lives.
Let’s be happy while we may,
happy with our wives.
Washington at Valley Forge!
Everywhere he went
Seeing soldiers day by day
sick with discontent,
Easy had it been to say:
– Bitter is the rain !
Is the cause we’re fighting for worth
its cost in pain ?
Why keep on defying death, disaster and disease?
Let’s go home to happiness and
spend our days at ease.
Washington at Valley Forge
Bravcly carrying on;
Seeking not the easy way lest freedom’s hope be gone.
Proudly bearing misery, hunger, discontent,
Lonely days nnd lonely nights and all that failure meant;
Choosing every sacrifice and meeting every cost
Rather than to quit the field and
let the cause be lost.
(Copyright, 1934, Edgar A.Guest)
Maggie
December 18, 2015 7:53 pm
Jfish? My Yoder cabin builder has 7 sons… three are 20 and older and only one (24) married. Want me to hook your daughter up with a decent man?
Bea DAZZLED
December 18, 2015 7:58 pm
Damn, I missed being 300……..damn.
Never go to dinner during a 300 Club meeting. Congrats Rob from NS.
Rob in Nova Scotia
December 18, 2015 8:01 pm
Yay I did something today. Time for a beer!
Anyways I got two weeks off work. I’m thinking I’ll try and do some writing.
Maggie
December 18, 2015 8:04 pm
I’m turning this off, but thought I’d share one last rambling story before I go.
When I was in high school, I was the “smartest kid in school.” Not in my class. In school. Of course my hometown was 212 people and my school had less than 150 kids from kindergarten to 12th grade.
So it really doesn’t say a lot… there wasn’t a lot of competition and when your father has you reading at age 4 and reading Red Badge of Courage at age 10, more than likely, you are gonna “shine.”
But, when hormones kicked in, I was not very good at the flirting/dating stuff. As a matter of fact, most of the young men I’d known all my life were too intimidated by me being smart to even consider any thing like a “date.”
So, this new guy moves to the area from a nearby town because his father decides to take on his family farm with the grandfather. He’s Catholic, GASP, which is unheard of in my little 12 Protestant churches in a 212 people town area. We start “dating.” Soon, I realize he is a drunk and that most of my weekends are spent going to movie, for pizza and driving him around in his 68 RoadRunner (which could KICKASS in the quarter) until I parked him in front of our house when I was to be “home” and let him wake himself up and drive home whenever.
I ask my father what I should do to help him… after all, he obviously needs help, right?
My father looks over his magazine at me and says, “Drop him. He’s a bum. His father’s a bum. His grandfather’s a bum. He’s never going to be anything but a bum.”
Of course I didn’t listen then, but eventually I left for college and dropped him.
He’s still a bum.
JFish
December 18, 2015 8:06 pm
I want her to have a decent guy. Truly. One better than me. I just don’t like my options now & I’m a little pissed off. Just bein’ a “Dad” I guess. I flipping hate the holidays. My bad… Am in over my head. No clue what to do. These girls drive me nuts. But – at the same time they are amazing. I kind of like HSF’s position of arranged marriages. I could probably handle a Mennonite son-in-law. Not an option, now tho.
Rob… good idea. Is a good time of year to put together some outlines.
Maggie
December 18, 2015 8:10 pm
Bea… EC has convinced me this could be the post that holds the record. STick around for the 400 point.
JFish
December 18, 2015 8:11 pm
Shit! Just noticed…. We broke 300 like 14 comments ago! Cool! I’m in a better mood now! Awesome! I luv success…
EL Creyente
December 18, 2015 8:17 pm
Why you tripping, Jfish? If she’s smart, she’ll ask for your advice. If she doesn’t ask, give it to her anyway. Don’t badmouth them, just let her know what kind of life she can expect to have with either one.
JFish
December 18, 2015 8:27 pm
El Ciber – she has asked. She wants me to help her decide by early January. Truth is – I’m just as conflicted as she is. Both are cool in thier own ways. I think I just need to tell her to follow her heart. Is fine… I just wish I really knew 100% for sure. I don’t. So – its Friday. All the girls are shopping. I M TBP commenting. Celebrating Andy’s 300, drinkin’ & dreading shit. My bad. Didn’t mean to be an asshole before…
Bea Lever
December 18, 2015 8:37 pm
Maggie
I’ll be here til the end ,whatever the number, Lord willing and my tablet won’t crash. This thing is struggling now so it may not make it.
JFish
December 18, 2015 8:39 pm
People that know me… Friends… Family… Etc – understand my dual nature. I am like the guy in Animal House with a the good looking chick in the shopping cart: with one devil and one angel on each shoulder. It’s my life struggle.
Generally, I work it out tho for the good…
Have a good evening, my capricious, multi-personality, South American friend..
Catch ‘ya later…
JFish
December 18, 2015 9:17 pm
PS – friends & family, wife, kids, coworkers, vendors, employees, etc…. Have names for me as follows (depending upon my mood)…
Good JFish…
And… Evil JFish… if the eyebrows are above the glasses / rims…. : RUN AWAY! ….. just run…
Choose at your own peril…. I really don’t care. My bad….
JFish
December 18, 2015 9:55 pm
Mags & El Chameleon:
Anyway … we made 300! Is really cool. Now this “lying spy” is gonna’ move on.
Catch ‘ya down the way… Maybe… Probably not tho…
Take care…
Maggie
December 18, 2015 10:36 pm
Goodnight, Trollslayer.
Goodnight, Johnboy.
Maggie
December 18, 2015 10:40 pm
Goodnight Bea!
EL Caballo
December 18, 2015 10:53 pm
I keep getting kicked farther and farther south of the border. Billy said I’m some sort of la raza type Aztec. DC says I’m Maya and now Jfish says I’m south american; Inca maybe?
EL Caballo
December 18, 2015 11:02 pm
Maggie
December 19, 2015 12:32 am
Ah, EC, I know you are from Walton’s Mountain. Is why I called you Johnboy when I said G’nite.
Spectacular train ride.
EL Caballo
December 19, 2015 1:14 am
Took a train ride with my mom and granny from Juarez to Irapuato back in ’73. 39 hours one way. Then we took the coach bus to Penjamo. I recall the women who look much the same as these here, selling soft asadero cheese along the way. My friend said they make it with a bit of goat piss, it sure is good.
Coming back, we had to wait at the train station for several hours and no vendors in sight, all I got was a near boiling cinnamon drink which didn’t do anything for my appetite. That’s about all you can do on a train, take pics of the landscape.
They had a beer car but I wasn’t into drinking in front of my mom. Besides, there was that story about an uncle in the family, he got slipped a mickey on the train and the family had to backtrack for a long time trying to find him, he had lost his mind and that’s the state they found him in weeks later.
EL Caballo
December 19, 2015 1:25 am
Barranco del Cobre is spectacular. Looking out on those mountains from the lookout point – El Divisadero – you might as well be looking at the San Gabriels that are frustrating my efforts to get a teevee signal.
Maggie
December 19, 2015 2:01 am
Tee Vee is overrated.
Maggie
December 19, 2015 10:20 am
Well, what a difference a day makes. Now I know that we are officially screwed by the asswipes in Congress because they don’t even try to hide their treason any longer.
So, that means that they have ZERO fear of any of us, if they ever did. If you ever saw the Devil’s Advocate, I think of the halls of Congress like that party where Keanu Reeves’ wife kept glimpsing the monsters behind the beautiful facades.
JFish
December 19, 2015 11:39 am
EL Butthead & Maggie (and whomever):
Ok… I’m back. All sobered up this morning…, albeit with a slight hangover.
Anyway… in going back through this thread today I wanted to say some more.
First of all – I can’t believe that bastard Rob stole my 300!!
Secondly – when I said my dad sat on his helmet like Catch 22 – I was being merely ironic in order to be thankful for his balls not being blown off so he could have had me later. Whether he did or not. I don’t know. He’s passed now so I can ask him.
Third – I was thinking of him (and Andy Griffith), the duality of human nature and the Patriat Act. Thinking of my dad makes me wish I could talk to him one more time, ya know? I could use his advice (especially with parenting).
And Maggie – you have a point about my paranoia of the NSA. Even still this does not make me a “lying spy”.
Overall – Drunken Melancholy + no hope for the future = rage & despair.
Rage & despair can lead to fear and paranoia.
But after re-reading HSF’s “Conspiracy” post (and definitely Patrick Henry’s speech) – It makes me want to “man-up”.
JFish
December 19, 2015 11:42 am
Dad early:
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JFish
December 19, 2015 11:44 am
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JFish
December 19, 2015 11:46 am
Dad – later. See he does somewhat resemble Andy G?
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JFish
December 19, 2015 11:50 am
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JFish
December 19, 2015 11:56 am
This thread seems to be bogging down my system yesterday and today. Takes a long time to load. Stuff not loading properly.
Maybe too much data on this one?
Will have to start another somewhere / sometime I guess. Or not?
EL Caballo
December 19, 2015 1:48 pm
JFish says: But after re-reading HSF’s “Conspiracy” post (and definitely Patrick Henry’s speech) – It makes me want to “man-up”.
Dang, that makes Maggie’s Nicholson clip spot on. Maybe the subliminal messages are working. I suspect some of my new attitudes have come about from reading this blog.
I saw your Ho Ho Christmas card, while your dad is a handsome devil, only the 3 girls took after him.
JFish
December 19, 2015 6:51 pm
I didn’t post that one. But I thought it was hilarious.
I just got back from an X-mas get together at the father-in-law’s farm. Is like my own little visit to Mayberry. Even the ladies wear bib overalls.
OK. I exaggerate, but not by much…
Maggie
December 19, 2015 8:26 pm
I just got back from picking up my son to bring him in for Christmas. He and I laughed and chatted the whole way. I like how nicely he’s grown up.
Maggie
December 19, 2015 9:00 pm
Finding photos in my “bib” overalls almost 25 years ago!
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Maggie
December 19, 2015 9:03 pm
I was “Smokin’!” (Cigarettes at the time, that is.)
JFish
December 19, 2015 9:25 pm
Gorgeous! U coulda’ been on Hee Haw!!
& your mind to boot?!! Nick’s a lucky guy!
Bea Lever
December 19, 2015 10:09 pm
El Whatever
Why is the Sexy Mulatta complaining, you pick up Univision…right??What do you expect for free?
I didn’t know him, but I think I’ll miss him anyway.
G’nite monkeys…
EL Caballo
December 19, 2015 11:14 pm
Aw, man, Maggie looks like trouble
EL Caballo
December 19, 2015 11:18 pm
Bea, I got Univision and a couple of other Spanish stations but they are down in the dirt so they fade at times. Next project will be outdoors, as weather permits.
Bea Lever
December 19, 2015 11:45 pm
I forgot to look at the comment count, must be getting close to the 400 mark. Maggie will have to understand if my tablet gets to the point I crash and burn before the thread loads.
EL- I have faith in you to git-er done.
EL Caballo
December 20, 2015 12:16 am
Maggie says: Tee Vee is overrated.
Maggie
December 20, 2015 8:59 am
Bea, you posted 350 and if your tablet dies, you will always have that.
EC… I still have those adorable little overall shorts. I was wearing those until I was into my 4th month of pregnancy and I decided that ONE day, I would wear them again. I am normally NOT the type of woman who keeps her high school prom dress in order to relive her glory days, HOWEVER, I looked incredibly gorgeous in that denim get up with the purple t-shirt (have that TOO, haha) and intend one day to wear it again.
With all the hard work on the place, that day is coming, boys and girls. Perhaps I shall post a Maggie 30 years later picture without the cigarette. Nick and I quit in 2006 and are never going back down to that hell again.
EL Fuckhead:
Younger than that. She is too. My wife and I couldn’t have kids for 7 years …… because….. we had white furniture.
I’ve puked up bigger things than you & Billy. I was being sincere. Just call me a fuckin’ liar again & see what happens.
https://youtu.be/OzpW3u8XR6s?t=23
Jfish… I had my son turn off my thumbs up/down business on my laptop and I’m not going down into the basement to vote.
I assume you are still going to be my trollslayer in case EC or other trolls come after us now that we’ve driven this comment thread toward TBP record breaking potential?
And as far as the spy bidness goes? You are the one always concerned about NSA finding out you are here. The rest of us know that they know we are here and could care less. Only a NSA spy would think they are relevant.
JFish says: EL Fuckhead: My wife and I couldn’t have kids for 7 years …… because….. we had white furniture.
You could have fucked on the floor.
Congrats, Rob
IDK… Am just in a bad mood. It’s hard to think of my daughter with either one of these asswipes. It’s hard being a Patriarch. I’ll just tell ’em about that I got a shotgun and a shovel & see what happens. I also have low life friends with lead pipes & baseball bats. It’s gonna be a great X-mas, for sure! In the meantime, I’m still taking monkey votes – for whatever its worth. Is cool…
EC nice one. I had not heard/read that one and I took enough Literature to get a minor! Of course, since I was going to school on the taxpayer’s dime (GI Bill) I got a minor in History, PoliSci and English Literature.
But, had not heard/read the 600.
How about this one?
WASHINGTON AT VALLEY FORCE
Washington at Valley Forge
Bitter was the day,
Very easy it had been to throw the cause away.
Hate and malice filled the air
Ragged men and cold,
Lonesome men and weary men tales
of misery told,
Easy had it been to say :
– Brief are human lives.
Let’s be happy while we may,
happy with our wives.
Washington at Valley Forge!
Everywhere he went
Seeing soldiers day by day
sick with discontent,
Easy had it been to say:
– Bitter is the rain !
Is the cause we’re fighting for worth
its cost in pain ?
Why keep on defying death, disaster and disease?
Let’s go home to happiness and
spend our days at ease.
Washington at Valley Forge
Bravcly carrying on;
Seeking not the easy way lest freedom’s hope be gone.
Proudly bearing misery, hunger, discontent,
Lonely days nnd lonely nights and all that failure meant;
Choosing every sacrifice and meeting every cost
Rather than to quit the field and
let the cause be lost.
(Copyright, 1934, Edgar A.Guest)
Jfish? My Yoder cabin builder has 7 sons… three are 20 and older and only one (24) married. Want me to hook your daughter up with a decent man?
Damn, I missed being 300……..damn.
Never go to dinner during a 300 Club meeting. Congrats Rob from NS.
Yay I did something today. Time for a beer!
Anyways I got two weeks off work. I’m thinking I’ll try and do some writing.
I’m turning this off, but thought I’d share one last rambling story before I go.
When I was in high school, I was the “smartest kid in school.” Not in my class. In school. Of course my hometown was 212 people and my school had less than 150 kids from kindergarten to 12th grade.
So it really doesn’t say a lot… there wasn’t a lot of competition and when your father has you reading at age 4 and reading Red Badge of Courage at age 10, more than likely, you are gonna “shine.”
But, when hormones kicked in, I was not very good at the flirting/dating stuff. As a matter of fact, most of the young men I’d known all my life were too intimidated by me being smart to even consider any thing like a “date.”
So, this new guy moves to the area from a nearby town because his father decides to take on his family farm with the grandfather. He’s Catholic, GASP, which is unheard of in my little 12 Protestant churches in a 212 people town area. We start “dating.” Soon, I realize he is a drunk and that most of my weekends are spent going to movie, for pizza and driving him around in his 68 RoadRunner (which could KICKASS in the quarter) until I parked him in front of our house when I was to be “home” and let him wake himself up and drive home whenever.
I ask my father what I should do to help him… after all, he obviously needs help, right?
My father looks over his magazine at me and says, “Drop him. He’s a bum. His father’s a bum. His grandfather’s a bum. He’s never going to be anything but a bum.”
Of course I didn’t listen then, but eventually I left for college and dropped him.
He’s still a bum.
I want her to have a decent guy. Truly. One better than me. I just don’t like my options now & I’m a little pissed off. Just bein’ a “Dad” I guess. I flipping hate the holidays. My bad… Am in over my head. No clue what to do. These girls drive me nuts. But – at the same time they are amazing. I kind of like HSF’s position of arranged marriages. I could probably handle a Mennonite son-in-law. Not an option, now tho.
https://youtu.be/ze0d0AyMPCw?t=35
Rob… good idea. Is a good time of year to put together some outlines.
Bea… EC has convinced me this could be the post that holds the record. STick around for the 400 point.
Shit! Just noticed…. We broke 300 like 14 comments ago! Cool! I’m in a better mood now! Awesome! I luv success…
Why you tripping, Jfish? If she’s smart, she’ll ask for your advice. If she doesn’t ask, give it to her anyway. Don’t badmouth them, just let her know what kind of life she can expect to have with either one.
El Ciber – she has asked. She wants me to help her decide by early January. Truth is – I’m just as conflicted as she is. Both are cool in thier own ways. I think I just need to tell her to follow her heart. Is fine… I just wish I really knew 100% for sure. I don’t. So – its Friday. All the girls are shopping. I M TBP commenting. Celebrating Andy’s 300, drinkin’ & dreading shit. My bad. Didn’t mean to be an asshole before…
Maggie
I’ll be here til the end ,whatever the number, Lord willing and my tablet won’t crash. This thing is struggling now so it may not make it.
People that know me… Friends… Family… Etc – understand my dual nature. I am like the guy in Animal House with a the good looking chick in the shopping cart: with one devil and one angel on each shoulder. It’s my life struggle.
Generally, I work it out tho for the good…
Have a good evening, my capricious, multi-personality, South American friend..
Catch ‘ya later…
PS – friends & family, wife, kids, coworkers, vendors, employees, etc…. Have names for me as follows (depending upon my mood)…
Good JFish…
And… Evil JFish… if the eyebrows are above the glasses / rims…. : RUN AWAY! ….. just run…
Choose at your own peril…. I really don’t care. My bad….
Mags & El Chameleon:
Anyway … we made 300! Is really cool. Now this “lying spy” is gonna’ move on.
Catch ‘ya down the way… Maybe… Probably not tho…
Take care…
Goodnight, Trollslayer.
Goodnight, Johnboy.
Goodnight Bea!
I keep getting kicked farther and farther south of the border. Billy said I’m some sort of la raza type Aztec. DC says I’m Maya and now Jfish says I’m south american; Inca maybe?
Ah, EC, I know you are from Walton’s Mountain. Is why I called you Johnboy when I said G’nite.
Spectacular train ride.
Took a train ride with my mom and granny from Juarez to Irapuato back in ’73. 39 hours one way. Then we took the coach bus to Penjamo. I recall the women who look much the same as these here, selling soft asadero cheese along the way. My friend said they make it with a bit of goat piss, it sure is good.
Coming back, we had to wait at the train station for several hours and no vendors in sight, all I got was a near boiling cinnamon drink which didn’t do anything for my appetite. That’s about all you can do on a train, take pics of the landscape.
They had a beer car but I wasn’t into drinking in front of my mom. Besides, there was that story about an uncle in the family, he got slipped a mickey on the train and the family had to backtrack for a long time trying to find him, he had lost his mind and that’s the state they found him in weeks later.
Barranco del Cobre is spectacular. Looking out on those mountains from the lookout point – El Divisadero – you might as well be looking at the San Gabriels that are frustrating my efforts to get a teevee signal.
Tee Vee is overrated.
Well, what a difference a day makes. Now I know that we are officially screwed by the asswipes in Congress because they don’t even try to hide their treason any longer.
So, that means that they have ZERO fear of any of us, if they ever did. If you ever saw the Devil’s Advocate, I think of the halls of Congress like that party where Keanu Reeves’ wife kept glimpsing the monsters behind the beautiful facades.
EL Butthead & Maggie (and whomever):
Ok… I’m back. All sobered up this morning…, albeit with a slight hangover.
Anyway… in going back through this thread today I wanted to say some more.
First of all – I can’t believe that bastard Rob stole my 300!!
Secondly – when I said my dad sat on his helmet like Catch 22 – I was being merely ironic in order to be thankful for his balls not being blown off so he could have had me later. Whether he did or not. I don’t know. He’s passed now so I can ask him.
Third – I was thinking of him (and Andy Griffith), the duality of human nature and the Patriat Act. Thinking of my dad makes me wish I could talk to him one more time, ya know? I could use his advice (especially with parenting).
And Maggie – you have a point about my paranoia of the NSA. Even still this does not make me a “lying spy”.
Overall – Drunken Melancholy + no hope for the future = rage & despair.
Rage & despair can lead to fear and paranoia.
But after re-reading HSF’s “Conspiracy” post (and definitely Patrick Henry’s speech) – It makes me want to “man-up”.
Dad early:
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Dad – later. See he does somewhat resemble Andy G?
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This thread seems to be bogging down my system yesterday and today. Takes a long time to load. Stuff not loading properly.
Maybe too much data on this one?
Will have to start another somewhere / sometime I guess. Or not?
JFish says: But after re-reading HSF’s “Conspiracy” post (and definitely Patrick Henry’s speech) – It makes me want to “man-up”.
Dang, that makes Maggie’s Nicholson clip spot on. Maybe the subliminal messages are working. I suspect some of my new attitudes have come about from reading this blog.
I saw your Ho Ho Christmas card, while your dad is a handsome devil, only the 3 girls took after him.
I didn’t post that one. But I thought it was hilarious.
I just got back from an X-mas get together at the father-in-law’s farm. Is like my own little visit to Mayberry. Even the ladies wear bib overalls.
OK. I exaggerate, but not by much…
I just got back from picking up my son to bring him in for Christmas. He and I laughed and chatted the whole way. I like how nicely he’s grown up.
Finding photos in my “bib” overalls almost 25 years ago!
[img
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I was “Smokin’!” (Cigarettes at the time, that is.)
Gorgeous! U coulda’ been on Hee Haw!!
& your mind to boot?!! Nick’s a lucky guy!
El Whatever
Why is the Sexy Mulatta complaining, you pick up Univision…right??What do you expect for free?
BTW – did you see gm’s farewell here?
I didn’t know him, but I think I’ll miss him anyway.
G’nite monkeys…
Aw, man, Maggie looks like trouble
Bea, I got Univision and a couple of other Spanish stations but they are down in the dirt so they fade at times. Next project will be outdoors, as weather permits.
I forgot to look at the comment count, must be getting close to the 400 mark. Maggie will have to understand if my tablet gets to the point I crash and burn before the thread loads.
EL- I have faith in you to git-er done.
Maggie says: Tee Vee is overrated.
Bea, you posted 350 and if your tablet dies, you will always have that.
EC… I still have those adorable little overall shorts. I was wearing those until I was into my 4th month of pregnancy and I decided that ONE day, I would wear them again. I am normally NOT the type of woman who keeps her high school prom dress in order to relive her glory days, HOWEVER, I looked incredibly gorgeous in that denim get up with the purple t-shirt (have that TOO, haha) and intend one day to wear it again.
With all the hard work on the place, that day is coming, boys and girls. Perhaps I shall post a Maggie 30 years later picture without the cigarette. Nick and I quit in 2006 and are never going back down to that hell again.