The Just Thought I'd Share Thread - Page 49

vivfox · #**721** 03-13-2010, 02:26 AM

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YAY FOR PINK FLOYD! They slapped EMI in the face.

How so??ten crctrs

iamnotafraid · #**722** 03-13-2010, 02:36 AM

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Originally Posted by vivfox

How so??ten crctrs

They did it just like Moe would have, right across the chops.

(it had to do with single track downloads vs. complete albums)

iamnotafraid · #**723** 03-13-2010, 02:38 AM

37 days to Tears, Lies And Alibis!

bluefox4000 · #**724** 03-13-2010, 09:56 AM

I broke my pinky toe yesterday.. In a lot of goddamn pain today. ouch.

Mick

StreetAngel95 · #**725** 03-13-2010, 11:12 AM

aww i'm sorry to hear that, Mick^^

....and i just got accepted into my competition dance team! I'm so excited! i have my first rehearsal in t-minus an hour! so i gotta go!!!!!!! like now!!!!!!!!!!!! yayyyy

FMlex · #**726** 03-13-2010, 11:15 AM

Got my first speeding ticket yesterday. Awesome.
It was a female cop too -- no way I was getting out of it.

I was literally less than five miles away from my destination. I was going 61 in a 50. However, it had been 60 until ONE mile back (she even admitted this) when it changed to 50. Ugh. Oh yeah, and it was in a safety corridor so fines were doubled. (Luckily she had thd decency not to double mine.)

daniellaaarisen · #**727** 03-13-2010, 11:36 AM

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Got my first speeding ticket yesterday. Awesome.
It was a female cop too -- no way I was getting out of it.

I've been pulled over twice. Both times I had female cops. Both times they were hardasses and both times I got out of it

I don't know how, but I did. Win.

It's not impossible, have faith!

chelluversu · #**728** 03-14-2010, 02:02 PM

This weekend has been really happy for me even though this year has been kicking my ass. Yesterday i spent most of the day at the mall with my two best friends and i finally saw Alice which i loved. Today im happy because i found out the one of my favorite singers is coming out with her debut cd. Her name is Alexz Johnson and i've been following her since she played Annie on So Weird with Mackenzie Phillips (I love them both almost equally). The CD is coming out March 30 so im gonna try to get it on my Birthday which is April 1st =]

Zombie · #**729** 03-14-2010, 03:07 PM

We host Chinese foreign exchange students (been doing it for three years now). Our first kid, Zheng, is made entirely of concentrated awesome, and just descended on the house last night for a completely surprise visit. There was lots of squealing. So yay for surprise visits from people you haven't seen in a long time!

LikeAWillow · #**730** 03-14-2010, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Zombie

We host Chinese foreign exchange students (been doing it for three years now). Our first kid, Zheng, is made entirely of concentrated awesome, and just descended on the house last night for a completely surprise visit. There was lots of squealing. So yay for surprise visits from people you haven't seen in a long time!

That's incredible! How did you get interested/started in hosting?

I had the most amazing night last night. Southern boys have my approval.

daniellaaarisen · #**731** 03-14-2010, 04:07 PM

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That's incredible! How did you get interested/started in hosting?

I had the most amazing night last night. Southern boys have my approval.

Marissa... I just reread our text conversation from last night and laughed for about 10 minutes.

LikeAWillow · #**732** 03-14-2010, 04:53 PM

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Marissa... I just reread our text conversation from last night and laughed for about 10 minutes.

And by last night, you mean this morning when you stumbled in at 5:30 and I was busy basking in the afterglow of the fact that someone had just missed a plane for me.

daniellaaarisen · #**733** 03-14-2010, 05:02 PM

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And by last night, you mean this morning when you stumbled in at 5:30 and I was busy basking in the afterglow of the fact that someone had just missed a plane for me.

......we are such trainwrecks.

David · #**734** 03-14-2010, 05:54 PM

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......we are such trainwrecks.

I'm going to post a picture of an ancient soothsayer on your wall.

Zombie · #**735** 03-14-2010, 06:09 PM

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That's incredible! How did you get interested/started in hosting?

Well, technically, it's my foster parents that do it. When they stopped doing foster care, they decided to do something different, and tried foreign exchange.

We had no idea what we were getting into when Zheng showed up, lol. He just ended up being so damn awesome, it was an insane experience. He had only three words of English - "okay," "black" and "blue" (the colors of his suitcases) - when we picked him up, but after about 3 days, he was speaking in complete sentences. Scary smart, even if he accidentally picked up some of the Pittsburghese (please picture a boy with a VERY heavy Chinese accent informing you he accidentally walked into a jaggerbush on the way home from school, and do we have any band-aids?). He's got the most bizarre sense of humor, and I love him to bits.

So yeah, Zheng was so damn awesome, we were like, let's do that again, so we've had two more Chinese dudes since then. The other two, Xiao Jin (our second) and ZeZheng (here currently), are also really great. All three have been SO excellent with my kids, and ZeZheng is just chock full of the Helpful Advice for Living, by which he means, "That's not how we do it in China so ur doin it wrong," like, "You shouldn't drink cold things, it will make you sick." or "You shouldn't have sex too much, it will make you sick."

So it's been really fun and interesting.

When Zheng came to stay with us, we also briefly had a kid from Venezuela, Andres, at the same time, but he didn't stay long. He came from a very rich home, with maids and his own driver and junk like that. We don't have maids. Or...uh...any money.

He was very uncomfortable and wanted to move out, so he wasn't with us long. My foster parents were really offended, but I told them, "He just comes from a very different place, I don't blame him for being weirded out," and they eventually got over it.

The moment I saw him, though, I said to Linda (my foster mom), "You watch, that boy is going to have the entire female population of the school pregnant by the end of the year. And half the male population, too."

He had that totally suave Latin thing going on, very good-looking and charming, very well-dressed. He couldn't even manage to turn the charm off with me, and I'm, like, ancient. Or should be considered ancient to a 17 year old kid, anyway.

I've heard some horror stories from other host families, but we've been really lucky, because all of the boys have been so great so far.