Stephen has joined Multiply - please note the appellation of our relationship was *his* choice not mine.I'm too busy having anxiety attacks over the whole thing!
Feel free to say hello and friend or online buddy him. In fact tell him horrible stories about me - why must I have all the anxiety attacks here ???
Please be aware, don't ask him any question you don't want a frank and honest answer to!
Stephen, Multiply has a number of tiers or layers of access. Family, friends, online buddies, network, everyone.
This particular post is only to family and friends. These are my closest friends on the net. All are cross stitchers. You have been warned. Only two I have met in real life, Debbie and Denise (hmm strange about that last one). However this will change next year at our Get Together in England!
As a family member you now have complete access to my blog. There is nothing I have posted that you cannot go and read if you are so inclined.
Everyone please introduce yourselves!
I'm off to find a heart defibrillator ......
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I grew up in the family of a professional seamstress, whose main hobby was classic embroidery. I used to be able to knit, crochet and embroider myself (though I've lost the skills through lack of practice).
I think I can cope with cross-stitchers :-)
Mel my sweet - should I frighten them with body art pics? :-)
Just make sure to include Kimba and pop them on your own page :)
I'll customise when I get home.
Hmmm... I think I like what I see, err... read... LOL!
Stephen, I'm very pleased to meet you - you're a brave man to take on the likes of cross stitchers' bla bla :-)) Mel's nearest and dearest should cope with anything you bring on though, we're a pretty solid sort! Of course I've heard and read a lot about you in the past few months.
I like your user name, btw... do I have to imagine teddy bears with no fur anymore? Margarete Steiff would probably rotate in her grave, but grin at the audacity of this concept.
My name is Mariann, and I'll have the pleasure to host Mel and Denise next year at my place in Switzerland before we'll move over to the UK. I plan to spoil her with chocolates galore (and all the sweet, soft, white stuff she won't eat is going down MY throat :-D ) and give her old stuff to see in even greater amounts.
Like you I've grown up under the reign of a professional seamstress. Make that two, because my aunt was one, too, and both of them interested in all other needlecrafts. I therefore hated most of these crafts for a long time!! Having to learn them with some very weird old ladies at school may have something to with that, too.
I'll stop rambling here. Welcome to the merry Multiply bunch and be free to leave any sort of comments anywhere. Claire *loves* to have her blog entries hi-jacked - snort! Snarky, sneaky, cheeky, funny, compassionate - we gobble them comments up!
Only turnabout is fair play...
More like should we frighten YOU with the body art images?? I removed mine from the net a few weeks ago but I can always post it again [evil grin]...
Note to Mel.......think THAT would scare him away?? PMSL
*** Stephen is your friend of family Melissa's fiancé ***
This is just the coolest thing....and Mel, love the new background, all light and fluffy!
I have a lot to think about...will have an email on the way for you to read when you wake up...sleep well love.
Nope - he would have pics to rival your pics ... maybe.
I can see it now! Battle of Body Pics ......
Welcome, Stephen. We're not scary. Really we're not. Honestly. :)
Love the dragon by the way.
yeah, but he'd win..we all know my boob tattoo is just a photoshop overlay! LOl
Hey, Stephen! I am Karen in Georgia, or as I like to call it, Tijuana East :) You'll see I'm known hereabouts for my brief, to-the-point posts :) I'm ex-military with no tattoos - maybe that's the scary bit LOL
Which is why this one amazed me...it's so short!
Unheard of for our Karen
She's trying out a new persona? She's been taken over by aliens ????
Hi Stephen! Man I struggle to type your name....my fingers want to turn it into Stephanie. So anyway...I'm Stephanie, aka Dr. Steph. I am a currently in training to be a pediatrician. Depsite the fact that the majority of my blogs are filled with whining moaning and groaning about my work, I love what I do.....even if it does interfere with basic life activitities like sleeping......and eating......and stitching. (Seriously though, writing is cathartic and I tend to do more of it when things are going badly).
Welcome again....and be careful of Claire.
Nah - been home with the kids and damn dog for 3 days, with 2 more to go; running out of words, already....
Understandable...after shouting at kids and dog for that length of time, even the most erudite wordist will have lost the plot
Why? what's wrong with me? What did I do to upset the lovely Dr Staph?
Stephen, Welcome. As far as frightening us with body art pics, so not going to happen. Besides, I have massive network of nice, shiny purple stretch marks that would be far more gruesome than a few tattoos, were we to compete, LOL.
Mel, are you sure you want Stephen reading everything? LOL. After all, you had been telling us what you were going to do to him in Perth. I hope HE doesn't blush easily. I enjoy your frank honesty and if Stephen is just as open as you, all the better. I truly hate 'political correctness'.
Completely open communication is the basis of our friendship and the marriage proposal - for all its attendant advantages and disadvantages.
Very cool draggie, btw!
Hello Stephen, I'm Paula... Another Yank in the group {grin}. I suspect I'd merely be jealous of body art; I know what I want and where I want it, but due to a HUGE fear of the process of having it applied, it'll never happen! :) I'm also in EMS, and I can just picture *my* reaction to doing CPR on a 90+ year old woman with a tattoo - it would either be "EWWW - what did that USED to be????" or "COOL!" - and I'm not up for the thought of either reaction being directed at myself!
Anyway - I've heard lots, and it's nice to finally "meet" you! :) I'm not sure why it is that people think this lot is scary... we're REALLY quite harmless!
What is this little Freudian slip? I'm a bacteria now? Besides...not a bad thing to look out for Claire....you'll always be there to make sure Mel is treated right.
Freudian slip, yikes, did I say Dr Staph out loud? PMSL...I think it had to do with last year's greatSnotfest [tm]....
You said people had to be careful of me...why?
Because as you said to me on the phone a few hours ago honey - you will defend your friends to the death - or words to that effect.
Upset Mel or Dr Steph or any of her friends and Claire will stand up and fight :) I'd like to think the same could said about most of us in this group here ....
Blimey, I sound quite vicious and lethal PMSL....maybe people should beware of me...notice for front door..."beware, attack Claire inside"
Purrs nicely when fed stash treats and gibbers when being asked to be a bridesmaid.
too damn right on both counts...did ya see I got stash treats today? I bunnied and catted pmsl
But remember, I'm the one that's had special weapons training :) Need to call in an air strike? I'm your girl. Or sergeant, to be more accurate.... Though I've never actually hit anyone in my life - my mouth usually saves my fists - if you can believe that!
I can believe it...you're great with words...
If you need a chemical weapons strike, I'm your girl...just point me backwards in the right direction,...
OMG - Its Errol !!!!!!!!
Wooo !!! I have my own army !!!! Where were you when I needed you to get rid of my ex - in fact, an air strike on Adelaide might be nice just to prove a point :) :) :)
What would I do without you lot ??? You don't let me get away with hiding and moping.
Cos it's not good for you...a little laughter goes a long way..
Wondering who Errol is cos the only one I know is Ron's old owl...
Obligatory Pratchett reference. Errol is a dragon owned by Lady Sybil (Sam Vimes' Wife). Errol doesn't breathe fire. It comes out the other end...
I love that idea! I've been trying to start reading Pratchett, but I have no idea where to start! Tell me, so I can finally start on those books! I know there are quite a lot of them. A friend here has told me, but I lost the notes I took and she's a bit difficult to contact :-)
I started half way through the series with Reaperman and then went back and collected the rest of them. Colour Of Magic is the first but still does nothing for me. Anything with the witches is great.
http://www.colinsmythe.co.uk/discworldpages/dwindex.htm
I would bypass COM and go for Equal Rites or Mort as my first. Mort is great.
Damn, Should have remembered Sybil's dragonery....entirely slipped my mind, must have been off in L-space
I always point people at Guards Guards as the first book to read. Or Wyrd Sisters.
Hugs
Magrat.
I've duly taken note of your suggestions. That's four books already, so I'm busy for a while - reading's gone a bit on the backburner lately
Have I ever mentioned what I said to scare my BIL when he told me he was very interested in my sister? (I didn't set out to scare him, only tell him exactly how I felt, btw, but he believed me and to this day goes out of his way not to cross me.)
"If it doesn't work out because it just doesn't work out, that's fine. If it doesn't work out because you hurt her, I will kill you." According to him, it wasn't my words, it was my tone and the look on my face that led him to believe that I was completely serious... and since I consider Mel, Claire, and several of my other stitching friends family... it goes without saying I'd be standing right next to Claire...
Good to know:)
And I think if you took a census of how many of us would be standing alongside her, it would be right crowded indeed.
I've always wondered what my right hook would be like...nevr had the opportunity to try it as yet. . .
Oooh she's sounding Feisty !!! Anything upset you today dear?
Nope, I am just fine:) Honest...I just wondered what it would be like:) Was kinda thinking of "right turn, Clyde"....I often wonder silly things, drives Steve nuts.
About to get BoInk charts ou of printer and go for it.
LOL!!! The *only* time I have ever used physical violence to settle issues (and not since I left school I think) it was very much a "right turn Clyde" moment. No getting worked up to, no telegraphing of intent, no bluffing, just my fist flying up to his nose. I did it twice in 12 years and each time his nose was bleeding before he even registered that anything had happened.
Like Karen I pride myself in that my mouth gets me out of nearly as much trouble as it gets me into ....
I think mine gets me into more trouble than out of it...it can be a very big one at times...
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