From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1606">naturalbornkillerblonde</a><BR>
Date: 10 June 2005<P>

aparajita, thank you soooooooo much for the compliments!!!  I am enjoying your work and everyone else's.<BR>
My 5 days & 6 nights are over now.,,, boo hoo  I go get them tomorrow.  10 hours round trip.  Talk about the longest mile or dead man walking.....me.....LOL<BR>
And I hope everyone with loved ones in or just out of the hospital recovers quickly.  My daddy was in recently.  He is getting up there and I don't know what I will do without him someday.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 10 June 2005<P>

thanks, scqueen and aparajita...<BR>
aparajita, I'm glad to hear that your mom is doing better<BR>
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Michael's mom drove back to Texas today. We sure will miss her. I'm staying home with Michael for at least a month. We are living with his grandmother and she is making things very difficult for us. We will probably move into a HUD apartment (ghetto, ya'll) before Michael has his next operation. 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 10 June 2005<P>

From Mom with lung cancer and pneumonia and now Dad with colon surgery. At least they said they were fairly certain his was clear and they felt there was no cancer. Dad is a very strong man but he was in a lot of pain yesterday. Hope he rests well this night. (It's 2am and I can't sleep) ha I have to hand it to nurses, I could never do it.<BR>
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aparajita; Your Mom again too, I wish her the best and sorry to hear that as well.<BR>
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Misti give Michael a hug from us and you both hang tough. You will get through it and be better soon. <BR>
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Well wishes for everyone and thanks for ours.<BR>
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bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 10 June 2005<P>

thanks, B.K.<BR>
I appreciate it<BR>
I agree with you on being a nurse. I don't like seeing people suffer.<BR>
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I can't sleep either and I promised Michael I'd make him bacon and eggs for breakfast. I have to get up before the grandmother does so I can have the kitchen to myself. ha
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=872">cryingshame58</a><BR>
Date: 10 June 2005<P>

aparajita, ladyinwaiting and jim,<BR>
I wasn't able to make plans to come up during the memorial day weekend as I have in the past...i heard the river was down anyway and i would have had to drag my canoe...everything happens for a reason, but i hope i can make it up there someday and meet all of you...<BR>
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aparajita-i appreciate your comments...best wishes and healing prayers for your mother...take care...<BR>
CS58<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=35">Star of David</a><BR>
Date: 10 June 2005<P>

Aparajita, Thanks...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 10 June 2005<P>

Misti ~ <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2005.06.05.05.51.18425">Save The Best Linens For Company</a>  I can sooo relate. Good one.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1511">sassy</a><BR>
Date: 10 June 2005<P>

Naturalbornkillerblonde <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2005.06.04.17.10.22636">5 days & 6 nights </a> is cool...now I know what my mom must have been feeling when I got sent off to camp!   <BR>
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B.K. <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2005.06.03.21.24.8363">Wired</a>  is very effective, I can feel your frustration at the end.<BR>
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aparajita <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2005.06.02.21.37.29263">us, simplified</a> is awesome. <BR>
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Misti, I can't believe you are having a hard time finding a publisher, because if I was standing in a bookstore and picked up a book and read a couple of these poems, I would be heading to the register with it.  Just keep trying, you're going to make it. <BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 10 June 2005<P>

<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2005.06.10.09.49.27702">Knee Deep</a> <BR>
scqueen, I love it! write more! I'm going to Wal-Mart this afternoon to buy stuff and I'll develop the last roll of film. I'll send you a big fat envelope manana.<BR>
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sassy~<BR>
thank you for the compliments and encouragement. I've been at this game for over a decade now and have had confidence problems in the past, wondering if I should just put my pen down and take up watercolor painting or bowling. I've worked hard and studied and read numerous books of poetry and attended a few readings so I feel that I do have something to offer the small, incestuous publishing world. My writing has definitely improved over the years. When I first started writing poetry every poem rhymed. I hadn't really lived yet. I've lived enough now for two lifetimes. That helps.<BR>
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...as many of you know, I've had wars on the Board and in poems with my ex-husband this past year. Last night I received an e-mail from my ex in which he informed me that he and his fiancee were perturbed by my Ramble. I did not trash him in the Ramble. It was my attempt at true closure and it was my attempt at a tribute to my first marriage. Not good enough for my ex and his fiancee, apparently. Now we're going back and forth with the tacky e-mails once again and I really don't need that kind of stress and ugliness in my life right now. He is trying to ruin the Blender for me. He has won this round. I will stay away for awhile. <BR>
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E-mail me if you want and take care.<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=254">chris</a><BR>
Date: 10 June 2005<P>

Grow up, Misti. Playing the victim 24/7 must get exhausting.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 10 June 2005<P>

I am not going to put on the Chris and Misti show for people who have much better things to read and discuss on this Board. I'm bigger than that.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 10 June 2005<P>

Misti and Chris ~ For what it's worth, You are both VERY talented writers and that's what we're about here. Focus on the new futures ahead of yourselves and stop pushing each other's buttons. Each of you can and will write whatever you want and the other isn't always going to like it. You've both moved on, now act like it. And yes, I do have the right to say this because I've been through it this year also. So there.<BR>
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PS I love you guys and I'm ducking now.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 10 June 2005<P>

scqueen~<BR>
I agree with you 100%. I would never fault anyone, especially a friend, for honesty. Thank you!
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