From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1103">ladyinwaiting</a><BR>
Date: 15 April 2004<P>

cryingshame ~ 'a tan does the body good' (only when you over look the skin cancer of course) however, the heat and rays makes the mind feel better, the tan makes you feel better about self, and spring puts a spring in your step...hope all is well with you as you branch out...just remember to keep those roots deep as to not get caught in mud slides...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=872">cryingshame58</a><BR>
Date: 15 April 2004<P>

ladyinwaiting,<BR>
thanks for the advice...i am an outdoorsy person and i am allergic to chemical sunscreens that flood the market so I have to get a slow tan...my grandmother and mother taught me at an early age not to burn my skin...there are ways to gradually tan and I have to be extra careful what type of lotions and creams I apply to myself...For me, I buy the ones with zinc and titanium...Our skin is our largest organ and most people take it for granted until or unless they have a problem with it...My opinion is that the majority of baby boomers and our/their children are all for instant gratification...They tend to burn their skin in the tanning beds and outdoors because they want that tan they seek so badly...I am a believer that the best things happen to those that wait...Hope everything is all good with you...How's that Stevie Ki?<BR>
CS58
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 15 April 2004<P>

Pam, Keep those limericks coming.  Someone has to.  My azalea is still blooming, and I'm dying of spring fever.  See you on the river.    Jim
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=205">violet</a><BR>
Date: 15 April 2004<P>

misti~ that's what i sent it to. 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 15 April 2004<P>

Hmmm...didn't get it. Can't access Yahoo at all today. This sucks.<BR>
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Chris,<BR>
awesome poem. I'm glad you've found someone. I'm glad she gave you a compliment. It always happens in the spring so maybe April isn't so cruel, after all.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 15 April 2004<P>

Hey Gang.<BR>
Sorry, people have been talking to me here and I wasn't talking back!<BR>
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Anyway, I'm doing ok.  The house is officially on the market, check the photo at <a href="http://kisrael.com">http://kisrael.com</a> . I can't believe how much the real estate guy (a very trusted friend of my family's trust) wants to price it at...even 20-30K less than that and I'll still feel like I'm rolling in dough. Man, I kind of hate having lived there such a short time, since it makes it feel more like we were just playing house. <BR>
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I seriously think i need to get back into dating, jumpstarting w/ online personals if neccesary (and it probably will be).  The only thing is, at my age, 30, I think I'm going to be running into a lot of "must reproduce now!" types, and while I have a cerebral understanding that child raising is the most fundamental and cosmic thing you can do, it seems like one hell of a scary world to bring a kid into it. And also I kind of like the "me me me show" life.<BR>
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Feh. I keep forgetting I'm 30, my usual trick of "think of my age as a year ahead so the real age doesn't sneak up on me" only sort of worked...I think between given selling the house and working on that silly atari game and getting divorced, the birthday was almost more of a footnote...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1103">ladyinwaiting</a><BR>
Date: 15 April 2004<P>

cryingshame ~ things are good with me and steveki...planning our next vacations...he is so awesome...we have our moments as all do, but i consider me a very lucky lady...and he a very lucky man...<BR>
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kirk ~ good luck with the dating sceen...the personals are not a bad place to look...just be careful and never settle for less than you deserve...be specific about your expectations...what do you have to lose...but most of all...HAVE FUN!!!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 15 April 2004<P>

Personally, I think personals suck. I got a lot of free meals and drinks out of them in college and again in 2000, though. The guys I met were all looking for instant pussy. They were all, without exception, still hung up on their exes. I know at this age I won't find a tabula rasa but goddamn. It didn't work out so move on. I'm sure she was wonderful in many ways but fuck if I want to hear about it.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 15 April 2004<P>

JWB~<BR>
fuck you very much, asshole. I don't have a phone so I don't make phone calls. And au contrair, I LOVE sex. Yum.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 15 April 2004<P>

What's that all about?  Is everything about you?  Why don't you grow up a little?  Jim
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 15 April 2004<P>

How did I know you'd come back with that? Manipulative jackass. No. Everything is not about me. Gee, must have been a COINKY DINK. 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 15 April 2004<P>

My apologies,  Sometimes a word or phrase triggers the muse.  Nothing personal.  I'll go eat some quaaludes and climb back under the porch.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 15 April 2004<P>

No apologies necessary. I was doing the Courtney Love/Nancy Spungen thing as I am wont to do at this forum from time to time. 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 15 April 2004<P>

Whew, I think it's been a while since we've had the blender in "chatroom" mode :-)<BR>
Anyway, for those wondering, I think the current point of contention is the poem <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2004.04.15.16.23.6660">Instant Pussy</a> and its relation to previous talk on the board.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 15 April 2004<P>

LOL. Si, muchacho. Si.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 15 April 2004<P>

Maggie burns the house down ... leaves no porch ... and watches jim's itchy trigger finger now :) ..... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 15 April 2004<P>

....oh, and happy (ahem) anniversary :) ..... Maggie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 15 April 2004<P>

Veritas: Words are never wasted when they make you read them over and over. Tis just a puzzlement to me thats all. I kinda like things like that sometimes.<BR>
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Kirk; Just go slow, there are plenty of women execs that don't want children out there. <BR>
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Hey cryingshame; I'm lily white and don't know what to buy to take to Hawaii. Last time I was there I bought something expensive that I ended up pitchin as it broke me out so bad. (too much sunscreen in it) I can't wear above a 15 and certain ingredients beak me out. I have very sensitive skin. HELP! What do you suggest?<BR>
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WOW, Jim honey you must have a groove worn under that porch by now. ha Come on out and write some more bad ass, poems and limmericks for us.<BR>
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Misti; Watch out, you'll get my reputation for being the wicked bad ass around here haa. <BR>
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Rens; Even you are gunning for someone today. All this fun and I missed it. DARN<BR>
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bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=872">cryingshame58</a><BR>
Date: 15 April 2004<P>

BK,<BR>
The UVA/UVB block that I have had success with is called<BR>
NEUTROOGENA Sensitive Skin...make sure that you read the label that says "no irritating chemical sunscreens, oil free, non-greasy, titanium dioxide sunscreen. dermatologist recommended suncare...It is a lotion but goes on thick and creamy...It builds up on the skin, but it works...I am usually allergic to other neutrogena products...I tried this lotion on a small area of my arm/leg and I didn't have a break out...Sometimes if you apply sunscreen on top of a sunburn, you will feel a burning sensation...When I go to the gulf, stay in the salt water too long and don't apply the sunscreen on my face as often as I should...my face has sunburned...when I applied the this lotion, I did NOT feel that burning sensation...I have heard that the sunsets are the most beautiful in all the world in Hawaii...I bet you will have one of the best times in your life...Keep us informed and send us some pics when you return...<BR>
CS58
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=872">cryingshame58</a><BR>
Date: 15 April 2004<P>

Blenderites!<BR>
I maybe the only one here that loves sports...although there was much controversary of sharing a title, my LSU fightin' tigers football team won the 2003 Championship - Sugar Bowl this year...<BR>
NOW, A hometown boy named Todd Walker (also a championship winner in baseball for LSU) is playing for the Chicago CUBS, so that is the team I am pulling to win this year...<BR>
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Is there anybody here that has a passion for a specific sport?<BR>
CS58<BR>

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