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so we should be all set soon
and i'm working to poke her on a couple different ends to get you guys all settled
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awesome just lemme know if Delenn doesnt reply within a few days. i can....apply some pressure
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you dread telling the truth, i dread you having free reign to do what you want with your channeling unsupervised, @HeavyHalfMoonBlade
welcome @Andy MacLeod let me know how we can help you settle in. or if i need to go give our mistress a kick in the rear end
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I think the mystery is likely as simple as my account got deleted for space during one of the great migrations. lol At least SD managed to restore the vast majority of emails people sent me! 🤍 I have those going all the way back to 2007.
And there is still a join date for me in the MoN books.
I’ve been looking through old threads to get ideas for events and topics we could resurrect, I came across a mention of you as Del from like 2008-9
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because they made a horrifically bad decision that no one wanted to embrace
- Elgee and SinisterDeath
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my favorite from my fifth grade teacher.
a young recruit steps in to get his gear before going off to war, having to wait in a long line as weapons are issued he finally comes up to get his. but looking around there are no more guns, his commanding officer says, "dont worry, when you see the enemy far off just point your finger at them and say 'bangitty bangitty bang.'"
concerned the soldier asks, "what if they're too close to shoot?"
"well, then you jab your finger forward and say 'stabbity stabbity stab.'" his commanding officer instructed. dubious but with no recourse he's fitted with a helmet and marched off to war.
finding himself near the frontlines the soldier managed to avoid direct conflict, armed as he was, but soon he was separated from his group and sighting the enemy on approach. nervous he raised his finger, aimed at the oncoming soldiers and said, "bangitty bangitty bang!" to his surprise the enemy soldier he'd pointed at fell down dead. thrilled he pointed his finger at the next soldier, yelling, "BANGITY BANGITY BANG!"
again the enemy fell down dead.
now, however he was faced with a soldier rushing at him, too close to shoot, he jabbed his finger forward and yelled, "stabbity stabbity stab!" yet again, the enemy soldier fell down dead. amazed, his attention went to an approaching enemy walking down the road in his direction. raising his finger the soldier said, "bangitty bangitty bang."
but nothing happened.
trying again he shouted, "bangitty bangitty bang!" still the enemy approached. now closer, the soldier jabbed his finger forward yelling "stabbity stabbity stab!" to no avail. the enemy soldier just kept walking, right over the young man who himself fell down dead.
the last thing the young soldier heard as the enemy soldier walked over him was the marching man saying, "tankity tankity tank"
- Elgee, LilyElizabeth, Delenn and 2 others
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that sounds...awesome
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my parents were good at balancing both of those. we understood fully what Resurrection sunday was, the meaning of Easter, and it was always at the top. but once church was over, and we continued to celebrate with food at home, we still had the fun of looking for eggs etc.
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spring here. celebrating pretty much by just trying to be outside more. also discussing with sis what to plant where. we got some strawberries that need to go somewhere
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Ha yeah that’d suck. I’m in socal so summer thunderstorms are a bit of a romantic ideal we raaaarely ever experience
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Nana (Marie) passed 1999
i didnt get to know very many of my grandparents. my dads parents just werent around and only in his later years did his father seem to take an interest in being around us more. my mom's father was in a different state and estranged, never met him, and her step-father had to leave when i was in kindergarten.
but Nana.
oh Nana. my mom's mom. was AMAZING. she lived nearby, delighted in all her grandkids. but she, at least to me, seemed to be at our house more. she'd come over to 'babysit' us every friday to allow mom and dad a date night, even though she always said we were babysitting her. we'd have take out, watch Three's company together and she'd read in the living room. Thursday's she'd pop over for dinner, often bringing a while coconut cake with her, (still love that cake). she loved despising Ed MacMahon, and got absolutely TICKLED everytime ALF wanted to eat a cat.
her laugh was an infectious cackle, and she'd get offended if she wasn't asked to help us build a diorama for school. a tiny woman, (4'11" at her best) she was a powerhouse. survived the Depression, during WWII she was a Rosie the Riveter. given her size she'd rivet the nosecaps on planes. she danced with sailors on rollerskates, had countless friends and ended up raising twins on her own after their dad left.
almost always working in aeronautics, Nana always wanted to be a helicopter pilot but never quite did it. in her retirement she volunteered at a hospital, delivered Thanksgiving meals to the needy and never stopped moving. even though we often wanted her to stop driving. (she was a speed demon)
i truly, truly wish i had her for more of my life. she was a great friend, a staunch supporter and so so wise. at her funeral her Pastor aptly said Nana was 'small in stature, but a giant in the Faith'
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we color them for Easter. dye them with some added oil so the design becomes more tie-dye like. then i eat them. i've almost eaten all of them already.
we used to, when we were little have an egg hunt in the backyard. sis and i would stay in the house while they were hidden, she'd get half the yard and i'd get the other. one Easter, my aunt and uncle brought their pet rabbit over and let her run around the yard so if sis and i peeked out we'd see an easter bunny 'hiding' the eggs
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you dont like summer thunder storms?
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top five:
1. warmth and sun, i loathe the cold
2. outdoor activities, planting new flowers, going for longer walks
3. growth of fruit on our trees.
4. longer hours of daylight. its energizing
5. my tortoise comes out in spring and i love watching her walk around the backyard and how happy my dog is to see her
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Sharon Hanson
its been only two years since we lost her. and feels like less. mom was the bubbly life of the house, energetic and more outgoing to our collective introversion. while it was a source of frustration to her sometimes, she's the reason for a lot of the experiences of my sis and my lives. always wanting to be a Mom, she delved into the role wholeheartedly. assuring we had the best childhood, full of fun and light. raising us, teaching us, spending all the time she could with us.
she never imposed expectations on me and sis. but rather was just so eager and excited to support our endeavors and see where we'd go. our forever supporter she was at every home game we played, every function, volunteered at school, on field trips, bought my books even though she didnt read them, she just wanted to be the first to have one.
loving her plants was something that escaped me, but bonded her and sis. now its something that bonds me and sis. it was hard in her final years to watch her body weaken under the weight of her medications. to lose the mobility, but never her spirit. some of her last words were a simple, wholly true 'i love you all'
- SinisterDeath, whiskey delta and Siera
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similar to sinister, sis and i've taken to the gardening of the house which my mom loved and was unable to do in the last couple years of her life. not only that but we've all begun updating the house. it's been decades since new paint and furniture and the like, and mom loved this house, she was so proud to leave it as an inheritance to me and sis, and would have loved to see us put our stamps on it.
we've visited her grave a couple of times, its not something our family usually does, as she always said 'they arent there anymore.' and yeah we know that, but with mom, it feels different, like a last close physical link more than anything spiritual.
beyond that, she's always on my mind, in the things i do i do in hopes she'd be proud. her memories are all over the house.
i suppose the biggest way we remember her is in the way in which we live our lives, our Faith, our morality. being the people she raised us to be.
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granted but its only 4 episodes
i wish it was summer
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LOL no but i will now
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doing it again today in about half an hour. but probably still night for you. vid should always be watchable though
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dunno if anyone’s interested but i’m planning on doing a live art stream at my companies Facebook a little later today. i’m trying to make it a regular thing
I see you, DragonMount
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