Good morning Lounge

[MissHoneychurch]

How are you today? It is Wednesday and therefor Hump Day :woohoo: I will have another long weekend. Sunday/Monday is Pentecost here in Germany (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentecost). Sometimes I don't mind living in a country where there are still religious holidays. :D

The hot and sticky weather is over. Now we have temps in the lower 60s. Sunny though :)

Picture of the Day

This dove just pretended to be hurt, guess we were near its nest


Here it is healthy and running around

[jeff30997]

1. Hello MissHoneychurch !

You're here just in time.I was going to bed.Yes for real. :)

Beautiful pictures.Are they from your trip to France ?

Take care. :hug:

[MissHoneychurch]

2. Good morning jeff

:hi: :hug:

I guess you are in bed by now. We had a meeting, so I couldn't answer right away.

I took the pics in the Zoo Basel, which is in Switzerland.

Sweet dreams :loveya:

[malta blue]

3. Good morning!

:hi::hug:

What a clever bird! Great shots! :thumbsup:

Lucky you with the long weekend :D. Do you have any plans?

This morning I have a dr. appt to have a lesion cut off my leg :scared:. My stepdad is taking me even though it is minor. I am such a chicken for needles that I have to take Xanax before the procedure or it just won't happen.

Last night when I got home there was a subpoena to appear in court on Thursday in the case against the burglars! I should just take the whole week off :shrug:

[MissHoneychurch]

6. Good morning malta

:hi: :hug: :loveya:

Sorry to hear that you have a tough week ahead of you :hug:

No plans for the weekend. I need to do my taxes, so that will be my plan. Also doing my household. Nothing special so to speak.

[murielm99]

4. Good morning!

It is nice to see someone friendly.

My husband is grumpy because I am up at 5:00 a.m. eating bridge mix for breakfast and writing letters to the editor. What's wrong with that? I saved him some bridge mix.

[MissHoneychurch]

7. Good morning muriel

:hi: :hug:

Hmmmm .... maybe saving your husband some coffee might be a bit more helpful :D

[SalmonChantedEvening]

5. Good Morning MissHoneychurch!

:hi: :hug: :loveya: :pals:

A late start this morning, I couldn't sleep last night. It looks to be a rainy one here. No NJ run yesterday, one of the other trucks died yesterday. Ah, what a fleet. :rofl:

How are things in sunny Germany?

[MissHoneychurch]

8. Good morning SCE

:hi: :loveya: :hug:

Things are fine here. I went to bed early last night. Did you know that sleeping longer helps against being tired? :rofl:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

9. You learn something new every day.

:rofl:

I'm going to be in bed nice and early tonight, we'll be short a driver Thursday & Friday.

I think after the long weekend of sloth, I was still keyed up after a busy day.

[MissHoneychurch]

10. Lemme know tomorrow

if you were able to :rofl:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

11. Once I wake up late I will

:D

Have a great day!! :hi:

[Road Scholar]

12. Good morning to you!!

What pretty pictures of the dove.
I hope you have been doing well.

[MissHoneychurch]

13. Good morning

:hi: :hug:

Welcome back!! I missed you. How have you been?

I am doing fine. Work is busy but not too bad, I had a long weekend last week and went to visit my mom. The pics you can see in my journal.

[Road Scholar]

15. I've been fine.

Missed you too. I went fishing but it's too early. The water's still too cool.
More later. Have a great day!:hug: :loveya:

[MissHoneychurch]

17. Looking forward

to hear about your trip :)

Have a great day yourself!!

[blueraven95]

14. Good Afternoon, MissH!

Our weather is rainy and cooler, which is nice. :)



Will you be doing anything fun for this holiday weekend?

[MissHoneychurch]

16. Good morning blueraven

:hi: :loveya: :hug:

You mean beside doing my taxes?
I have no real plans yet. I think a bit depends on the weather. If it is nice enough I might go for a hike. Otherwise I will be a couch potato.

[blueraven95]

18. being a couch potato sounds good

I have to clean from having my guests last weekend (it's amazing how much mess can be made).

[MissHoneychurch]

19. Well

that cleaning part is necessary at my place too. Since I was gone last weekend. At least my clothes are washed already. Might not have to do that. But I need to vaccum and wet-clean the floor. Still have a box of stuff in my computer room. There is enough I need to do. Of course that doesn't take 3 days, so there will be enough time to be a couch potato ... if the weather allows on the balcony :)

[blueraven95]

21. sounds like fun.

I'm planning on watching a bunch of movies after the cleaning is finished. :D

[MissHoneychurch]

23. Which movies?

:D

They will show a cop drama over the long weekend with Kenneth Branagh. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1178618/ The show is based on the mystery novels by Henning Mankell. I enjoyed reading the books, and there were good critics about the TV drama with Branagh.

[Blue_Tires]

26. they are currently showing that here as well on PBS

I love PBS Mystery, so I've Tivo it when I can....(i haven't had a chance to see any of the episodes yet, though)

[blueraven95]

29. Good Morning, Blue_Tires,

How are you today?

[Blue_Tires]

36. i'm doing all right....

tired because for whatever reason I don't sleep all that well at night:donut: :hangover:

[blueraven95]

37. I'm sorry

:hug:


I had one of those days yesterday.

[MissHoneychurch]

31. Have your read the books?

Suck you in. It is faszinating to read.

It is always tough to make a good movie out of a great book.

[Blue_Tires]

33. no, haven't read them

i hadn't even heard of the series until a couple weeks ago...but i am a big fan of murder mysteries and the british/european crime shows

[MissHoneychurch]

38. Henning Mankell is a Swedish author

if you are a big fan of murder mysteries then you definitely should check out his books. I promise you will love them.

[blueraven95]

28. I'm not sure yet

that one looks good.


Basically anything but sci-fi, since I think I've overloaded. :)

[MissHoneychurch]

40. OK

I still have some shows to watch I recorded. And tonight "Life" is on again :D

[blueraven95]

42. I haven't watched anything since last week,

so I have no idea what I missed. I'll probably watch "So You Think You Can Dance" tonight, it's my guilty pleasure :-)


I saw the new Star Trek movie this past weekend - I absolutely loved it, it was so much fun.

[MissHoneychurch]

45. I'm not so much into Sci-Fi

so I most likely won't watch Star Trek.

My guilty pleasure till last week was "Germany's Next Top Model" with Heidi Klum. But the show is done now.

[blueraven95]

55. I didn't know she did the German version of the show

she's on "Project Runway" here, and for some reason she really irritates me. I'm not sure why. I love the show though.

[MissHoneychurch]

57. Her voice

her voice is very irritating.

Yes, it was the 4th season already here in Germany.

[blueraven95]

59. that might be part of it.

:shrug:


I think Top Model is a fun show. I like the photography that they do.

[MissHoneychurch]

61. This is the winner of this season

[blueraven95]

66. wow, she's beautiful.

I can see why she won.


I didn't like the winner of the American version at all, so I'm not going to post her picture. :D

[MissHoneychurch]

68. I was rooting for her

I also liked her. But she didn't make it to the finals.

[blueraven95]

71. what a shame

this is the runner up here, I really liked her - she was about as non-model in personality as you can get:

Here she is, showing her makeover:


This was my favorite shot from the season:

[MissHoneychurch]

72. That is a great picture

I was looking for some pics of the GNTM show but can't find any :shrug:

[MissHoneychurch]

75. Time to go

have a great rest of the day!!

:hug:

[blueraven95]

76. You too!

:hug:

[Brewman_Jax]

20. G'day, MissH!

:hi: :hug:

Those are beautiful pics. How are you feeling after the trip? Is your foot better?

[MissHoneychurch]

24. Good morning Brewman

:hi: :loveya: :hug:

I am looking forward to the weekend ... LOL .... need time to relax from last weekend. :D

My foot is doing fine. I decided to not wear the inlays (don't fit in my daily shoes with the inlays). Now my foot is healing a lot better. And I was wearing shoes with some heel the other day and it was fine :)

How are you doing?

[Brewman_Jax]

27. Tired from the long weekend

and running errands for my mom and dad. Conference calls this week, and the boss is on vacation. I'd like to take a break. :boring: Today is the UEFA Champion's League final--Manchester United vs. Barcelona. :woohoo:

[MissHoneychurch]

41. How is your dad doing?

did he have his surgery already?

Boss on vacation? Does that mean you can take it a bit easier at work?

Who are you rooting for? ManU or Barcelona?

[Brewman_Jax]

50. Surgery was successful

but he has been sitting around and no exercise, his hands and feet swelled and show signs of rheumatoid arthritis. He wouldn't take care of himself, and that's the result.

The boss is on vacation, and I normally have to work harder. Series of conference calls all week and I may not get to take the afternoon off to watch the game. :( I'm normally a ManU fan, but today I'll root for Barca.

[MissHoneychurch]

53. Are you able to tivo it?

so that you can watch it this evening? Or would you have gone to a sports bar?

[Brewman_Jax]

63. The VCR will get the game

if I don't make it out of the office. I was going to a sports bar where the owners are soccer fans (ManU) and always have soccer on when available. It's not looking promising. I have to go on the conference call now. :( :hi:

[FarLeftRage]

22. A very Good morning to you!

I am fine and hope you are the same. :hi:

My job search continues, so for the time being I'm on an endless vacation.

At this moment it is raining and will be for the next 48 - 72 hours.
It will only bring out more mosquitoes and blackfies... :mad:

Nice bird pictures... silly creatures they are.

Enjoy your day! :hug:

[MissHoneychurch]

25. Good morning

:) :hi: :hug:

In what field are you searching for a job?

Ugh .... that is a long rain. I hope the winter was long enough here that it killed a lot of mosquitos.

[FarLeftRage]

34. Well...

Actually I'm looking for any job that I have experience in and that I'm qualified for.

In the past, I've done clerical work, technical (chemistry), computer and food service.
The corpoRATions in America have outsourced most, if not all of the technical jobs.
At this point in time, I'm looking to do clerical work.

What do you do at your job?

The mosquitoes always outlast the winters here... they are just too hardy a species to be easily killed by changing seasons.

:)

[MissHoneychurch]

39. I wish you the best of luck

that you find a job soon :hug:

I am a librarian.

[bigwillq]

30. Morning!

It's cold here in CT, but it's supposed to warm up later in the week. I hope so!

[MissHoneychurch]

32. Good moring bigwillq

:hi: :hug:

So you have the opposite weather of us. It was warm in the beginning of the week but later it gets colder :shrug:

[Jamastiene]

35. Good Morning.

:hug:

I'm still coming down from my weird adrenaline sickness. It's hard to explain. My mother says I'm allergic to my own adrenaline. I think she is right.

I felt horrible all day yesterday and I'm sort of still in shock.

I had a "visitor" over the weekend.

It was a brazen (he tried to stare me down) 18 inch long rat snake. I don't know how it got inside. It could have come in when I was bringing the groceries in earlier that evening. The neighborhood dogs greeted me at the car door the minute I got home from the grocery store. They know the sound of my car now. My aunt says they start barking a lot and asking their owners to be let out when my car gets to the top of the hill on the other side of the bridge. I have to be careful when I pull the car in the yard because they are wagging their tails and happy to see me. They are too skinny and I share anything I have with them.

So I was talking to them and searching the fridge for leftovers as much as bringing the groceries in. The snake could have slipped inside the house then. I hope that's what happened. I hope I don't have a den of snakes somewhere in here. I haven't found any more since the other night. I haven't slept much either. I think I had 2 hours of sleep the next day. Been up ever since.

Anyhow, I won the battle, but it scared me pretty bad. Ended up with my typical reaction to excitement or fear; bad bad headache, dizziness, and nausea. It's been hard to make myself eat. I did though.

The cats were no help. Yogi stayed in the next room and careened his head around the corner the whole time. His knees were knocking (he was shaking and scared too) as bad as mine were. Sunday Girl might as well have said in English, "I don't do snakes, Mom. Sorry." My aunt has MS and she was on the toilet when she spotted him in her bedroom. So, she really couldn't help. I had to battle him on my own. I was very very scared. And my machete was dull, which made it even scarier.

What a weekend. I'm still sort of in shock from the whole thing. :wow:

[MissHoneychurch]

43. Good morning Jamestine

Oh my, what a story. I would have screamed!!! You are very brave to take on the snake. :wow:

My dad once told me a similar story. He and his gf were in France in her house. They had her cat with them. So one night they were in bed already and heard the cat making a fuss. They thought she had her five minutes (she was a real stupid cat). The next morning the came in the living room and saw a dead viper - the cat killed it.

[Jamastiene]

47. My cats aren't that brave, lol.

They hid from it. They also hide from the spiders we get here too. At the old place in the city, they were pretty good at getting anything that came inside, but now, we live in a really forested neighborhood. Everything here either bites, stings, poisons, or just grows 2 feet a week. We even have cow killers here. They are no fun.

Then there are the Carolina Wolf Spiders. I'm trying to get over my fear of them though. They can kill and eat black widows. I want them outside though, not inside. We haven't had any inside recently.

My yard: it's a jungle out there, literally. :wow:

[MissHoneychurch]

49. Or smart

:rofl:


You sure got some nast critters where you live :scared:

[BarenakedLady]

44. Good morning.

Cute pics.

I'm ok. Trying to muster up courage to make some phone calls. My house closing is a mere month away and I need to do some grown up things. Heh.

[MissHoneychurch]

46. Good morning BNL

:hi: :hug:

Good to see you.

Are you moving because you want to or is it a forclosure?

[BarenakedLady]

48. I'm getting divorced

We are selling this house. I built a smaller home (after he bought me out of this one). It is nearly finished. I'm both excited and scared shitless.

[MissHoneychurch]

51. OK

thanks :hug:

Will your kids stay with you?

I kinda know how you feel. I was scared shitless when I bought my condo. And I don't have kids to take care of. You are a strong woman.

[BarenakedLady]

64. 50/50

Once this house sells, he is building a new smaller house as well. It is in the same neighborhood as mine. The kids will be able to walk back and forth. One week with me, one week with him. I'll still see them every day most likely. We are doing it this way to make it easier for them.

[MissHoneychurch]

67. That is a good idea

and I am glad you can put your feelings aside when it comes to the kids. When my parents separated my brother and I stayed with our dad but my mom lived in the next town where we went to school. We went to her place on Saturdays. It was never a question that we could see her when we wanted to. My parents stayed friends till my dad died.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

52. Hello MissHc

Lucky You with all these lovely holidays :D :hug: :hi:

[MissHoneychurch]

54. Good morning Tuesday

:hi: :loveya: :hug:

Sure makes it nice to live in Germany :D

How are you doing?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

56. Things are fine, here.

Lots and lots of rain. Not good for photography :(

[MissHoneychurch]

58. Anything new

on the job front?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

70. Just got my evaluation and raise..

Have put in for my days off this summer. I think I will hang here until after Labor Day.
Can you tell I hate Job Hunting? Also, I know I will have to give up every other weekend.
I love my weekends off.

:shrug:

[cwydro]

60. Good morning.

Finally I am off work.
I liked the holidays in Germany even though I wasn't working there. I remember Sundays in the area I lived (near Munich) EVERYTHING was closed. Here, almost everything is open. Everything being closed on Sundays reminded me of my childhood in the south here. Of course, now most places are open there as well.

[MissHoneychurch]

62. Good morning

:hi: :hug:

Stores are still closed on Sundays here. But they are open longer during the week and on Saturdays. It was annoying when everything closed at 2pm on Saturdays.

[cwydro]

65. Yes, I think that's the way it was in Bad Ailbling

when I was there.

As long as we were well stocked on beer, I never minded.B-)

Nice pictue by the way. I took a picture of one of my angel trumpet trees and when I get around to downloading it I'll post it.

[MissHoneychurch]

69. LOL

there are still the gas stations :rofl: Or going to a Biergarten in the summer. :D

Thank you. I took it in the zoo on Thursday. Looking forward to your picture.

[deepthought42]

73. Spiffy!

I have to go to lunch with my mother...*sigh* Then continue the fruitless search for a job. *sigh*

:hi:

[MissHoneychurch]

74. Good morning

:hi: :hug:

I wish you the best of luck with the job hunt. :hug:

Sending ~~~VIBES~~~ over the ocean :thumbsup:

[deepthought42]

79. Thanks!

:toast:

I...am not quite optimistic, but I have to keep going, huh?

[Captain Hilts]

77. Good morning, Miss Honeychurch. nt

[Wapsie B]

78. Good morning to my favorite German Librarian.

:)

Awesome pics!

[Captain Hilts]

80. Don't wake her up. She's asleep right now. nt