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1:20 p.m. - 2007-02-22
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Thursday, February 22, 2007

I meant to tell you about my little shopping trip a few weeks ago. In honor of PrincessFiveAndDime, whose blog is on another site; I made another trip to Goodwill. This time I chose the store that is close to my home. I found 2 wineglasses that were handpainted and signed by "linda" for 75 cents each. I checked online and
although I could not find any by "linda", I did find the following: a handpainted wine glass for $13 plus shipping. And some other more fancy glasses for up to $30.00 each! The two I found at GoodWill were of white and yellow flowers somewhat like daisies and of red and orange tulips...I THINK I DID WELL. I also bought a Hunts Club deep purple lambswool pullover collared sweater
with the tags still on for $13.00 and got a red chenille v-neck pull over sweater with a matching fringed scarf with the tags still on which was free since it was "buy one sweater - get one sweater".

Then I went to Kohl's and bought a pair of $25.00 leopard print gloves with a Thinsulate lining for $6.35 and 2 pair of socks for $2.00 each instead of $4.00 each. I think I did very well that day.

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WE ARE TAKING ANOTHER CRUISE. This one is from Seattle, Washington through
the Alaskan Inner Passage for 7 nights.

Husband and I did book a cruise to Alaska. We will leave here around May
9th and drive to Seattle, Wa. We will stay there and get onboard on
Saturday, May 12th. We will go on the inner passage to Ketchikan, Juneau,
a glacier stop, and Skagway and finally Prince Rupert. We return on
Saturday, May 19th and then plan to drive home

I want to take Husband to Mt. Hood to see the ski lodge that was built
during the late 1930's to early 1940's and take a drive down the coast that I
remember from a trip I took years ago. I was working for American States Insurance then and I was sent out to help train some adjusters on using the computer in their job.

Over a weekend, a couple of us were driven by a former Indiana based employee down the coast to several of her favorite areas. It was so beautiful and changed so quickly from
mountain views to ocean and waterfalls. I told Husband he has to see this in case we never get back there again.

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and here's a joke....

IRS

Well, it's that time of the year again ..... THE IRS!!!

The Internal Revenue sends their auditor (a nasty little man) to audit
a synagogue.

The auditor is doing all the checks, and then turns to the Rabbi and says,
"I noticed that you buy a lot of candles."

"Yes," answered the Rabbi.

"Well, Rabbi, what do you do with the candle drippings?" he asked.

"A good question," noted the Rabbi. "We actually save them up. When
we have enough, we send them back to the candle maker. And every
now and then, they send us a free box of candles."

"Oh," replied the auditor somewhat disappointed that his question actually had a practical answer. So he thought he'd try another question, in his obnoxious way ..... "Rabbi, what about all these matzo purchases? What
do you do ... with the crumbs from the matzo?"

"Ah, yes," replied the Rabbi calmly, "we actually collect up the crumbs, we send them in a box back to the manufacturer, and every now and then, they send a box of matzo balls."

"Oh," replied the auditor, thinking hard how to fluster the Rabbi. "Well,
Rabbi," he went on, "what do you do with all the foreskins from the
circumcisions? "

"Yes, here too, we do not waste," answered the Rabbi. "What we do is
save up all the foreskins. And when we have enough we actually send
them to the Internal Revenue Service."

"Internal Revenue Service?," questioned the auditor in disbelief.

"Ah, yes," replied the Rabbi, "Internal Revenue Service. And
.... about once a year, they send us a little prick like you."


THE FOLLOWING JOKE COMES WITH AN APOLOGY TO ANYONE WHO IS ILL WITH
A SERIOUS DISEASE...BUT IT IS FUNNY...

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PUTTING YOUR AFFAIRS IN ORDER

A woman went to her doctor. The doctor, after an examination, sighed
and said, "I've some bad news. You have cancer, and you'd best put your
affairs in order."

The woman was shocked, but managed to compose herself and walk into the
waiting room where her daughter had been waiting. "Well daughter, we
women celebrate when things are good, and we celebrate when things don't go
well. In this case, things aren't well. I have cancer. Let's head to
the club and have a martini."

After 3 or 4 martinis, the two were feeling a little less somber. There
were some laughs and more martinis. They were eventually approached by
some of the woman's old friends, who were curious as to what the two
were celebrating. The woman told her friends they were drinking to her
impending end.

"I have been diagnosed with AIDS." The friends gave the woman their
condolences, and they had a couple of more martinis.

After the friends left, the woman's daughter leaned over and whispered,
"Momma, I thought you said you were dying of cancer, and you just told
your friends you were dying of AIDS."

The woman said, "I don't want any of those bitches sleeping with your
father after I'm gone."

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Young King Arthur was ambushed and imprisoned by the monarch of a neighboring kingdom. The monarch
could have killed him but was moved by Arthur's youth and ideals. So, the monarch offered him his freedom,
as long as he could answer a very difficult question.
Arthur would have a year to figure out the answer and,if after a year, he still had no answer, he would be put
to death.

The question?...What do women really want? Such a question would perplex even the most knowledgeable man, and to young Arthur, it seemed an impossible query. But, since it was better than death, he accepted the monarch's proposition to have an answer by year's end.

He returned to his kingdom and began to poll everyone: the princess, the priests, the wise men and even the
court jester. He spoke with everyone, but no one could give him a satisfactory answer.

Many people advised him to consult the old witch,for only she would have the answer.

But the price would be high; as the witch was famous throughout the kingdom for the exorbitant prices she charged.

The last day of the year arrived and Arthur had no choice but to talk to the witch. She agreed to answer
the question, but he would have to agree to her price first..

The old witch wanted to marry Sir Lancelot, the most noble of the Knights of the Round Table and Arthur's closest friend!

Young Arthur was horrified. She was hunchbacked and hideous, had only one tooth, smelled like sewage, made obscene noises, etc He had never encountered such a repugnant creature in all his life.

He refused to force his friend to marry her and endure such a terrible burden; but Lancelot, learning of the proposal, spoke with Arthur.

He said nothing was too big of a sacrifice compared to Arthur's life and the preservation of the Round Table.

Hence, a wedding was proclaimed and the witch answered Arthur's question thus:

What a woman really wants, she answered...is to be in charge of her own life!

Everyone in the kingdom instantly knew that the witch had uttered a great truth and that Arthur's life would
be spared.

And so it was, the neighboring monarch granted Arthur his freedom and Lancelot and the witch had a wonderful wedding.

The honeymoon hour approached and Lancelot, steeling himself for a horrific experience, entered the bedroom. But, what a sight awaited him. The most beautiful woman
he had ever seen lay before him on the bed. The astounded Lancelot asked what had happened

The beauty replied that since he had been so kind to her when she appeared as a witch, she would henceforth,
be her horrible deformed self only half the time and the beautiful maiden the other half.

Which would he prefer? Beautiful during the day....or night?

Lancelot pondered the predicament. During the day, a beautiful woman to show off to his friends, but at
night, in the privacy of his castle, an old witch?
Or, would he prefer having a hideous witch during the day, but by night, a beautiful woman for him to enjoy wondrous intimate moments?

What would YOU do?

What Lancelot chose is below. BUT....make YOUR
choice before you scroll down below. OKAY?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Sir Lancelot so wisely said that he would allow HER to make the choice herself.

Upon hearing this, she announced that she would be beautiful all the time because he had respected her
enough to let her be in charge of her own life.

Now....what is the moral to this story?


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The moral is.....
If you don't let a woman have her own way....
THINGS ARE GOING TO GET UGLY!!!!

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