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27 Apr 2007, 11:19 am

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A little late with this one. We had been talking about German heritage and the like, this is some of mine. This would be my Great Grandfather and Mother and family, just before leaving Buda-Pest. Meet the Jung family. Great Grandfather was from Germany.

Your family is nice looking. My Trexlers were homely and I'm so happy I look like my mother!

The little on on the left was mean as a snake. I read this about her:

Katie Bell Mooring (pictured at left) was the daughter of Sallie Trexler and James Franklin Mooring. According to her nephew:
Kate was the most colorful of the Moorings. She cursed like a sailor, would kick any man's butt who needed it, and wasn't past taking a nip for her health. And she drove her old pick-up as fast as it would go on those gravel roads. And work! She could pitch hay, drive a tractor, bulldog a hog or yearling, and split wood with the best of them.

Everybody in Witton was afraid of her, uncluding her husband, Uncle Gus . She got wind one time that Gus was keeping up a woman at the Crow farm, about a mile way. She went down there with a pistol, helped that old girl pack her bags, took her to a crossroads, and told her to be on the next bus or she would shortly be attending her own funeral. Then she went home and told Uncle Gus that if he wanted to be famous, then just keep seeing other women and she would make him the only ball-less farmer in __________ County. An era died with her.

The one on the right in my grandmother. She was rational and sane, thankfully, but had 3 children on the spectrum. I suspect that Kate's daughter was also on the spectrum - strange and wore red socks with everything, even dresses.

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27 Apr 2007, 11:20 am

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Serious girl, Serious girl
with all your charm
and all your curls
No one
had better make you cry
cause you were born serious
and that's no lie

Good Morning

Top of the morning to you, Cosmic! Thanks for the poem.

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27 Apr 2007, 11:29 am

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The one on the right in my grandmother. She was rational and sane, thankfully, but had 3 children on the spectrum. I suspect that Kate's daughter was also on the spectrum - strange and wore red socks with everything, even dresses.

I love red socks. The first time I got laid I was wearing read socks so they will always have a special meaning to me. Socks are real important, you know.

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27 Apr 2007, 11:32 am

Can anyone tell me how to pictures in posts? If not I can ask my husband but he is a CT and doesn't like to be reminded that I am technically-challenged. I have pictures of my ancestors. I found one of my grandfather and I swear he looked like a cave-man. My oldest son told me that he had read some whacky theory about Neanderthal's and AS and now that is his new passion, trying to prove that we are all Neanderthals. If my ex-husband's behaviour is any indication, my boys might be neanderthals, but I'm not. My great -grandmother(other side of the family) was a Mongolian/Russian reindeer herder (a people called Saami) so it is no wonder that my gene pool is a little bizarre.

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27 Apr 2007, 11:36 am

I had to learn how to knit red socks for my 13 yr.old because someone gave him some and that was all he would wear. I'm sure he'll be wearing them his first time, too. Maybe I'll make him a special pair for the occasion. :lol:

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27 Apr 2007, 11:41 am

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I need to get a helium cannister for the pharmacy. When the customers start fussing with one another, I'll take a hit and start singing "Follow the Yellow Brick Road..."

It won't make any sense, but it'll crack me up.

LMAO! I've dived helium mixes and sang:

Follow, follow, follow, follow...........follow the Yellow Brick Road! Do a little shuffle in my jetfins on the boat. People think I'm very crazy. *laughs demonically*

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27 Apr 2007, 11:49 am

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Can anyone tell me how to pictures in posts?

Hit the 4th button from the right in your reply. A window will pop up and you need to paste the entire url of the photo into the box.

Thelma (Kate's daughter) wore penny loafers with her red socks. And she wore the pennies in the slots and lived at the YWCA in the city, even though she inherited 1200 acres of prime farm land and was relatively well-off. She would go visit her farm (which was once a plantation) and spend some time in the cabin. The cabin was an old smokehouse. She avoided the main house which had a 360 wrap around porch. That was rented to to tennant farmers. She had a teaching degree, but never held a job. She would go visiting relatives from Atlanta to Alberquerque making a circuit. A strange ranger.

I have to take daughter to the psychiatrist's office today.

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27 Apr 2007, 11:55 am

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You need to let HR, not him, know she violated his privacy. That's an HR issue and telling him will only fuel her agenda. She told you specifically because she wanted you to tell him so he would come back to her and she could further complain about him. She's playing a game and you need to quit playing it with her.

I hate people like that. I still hate her then.

Too late. I already told him and he was grateful to be told. If anyone talked like that about me li, I would want to be told. I don't think I am playing a game with her. I'm dead serious. The problem is, she is the organization"s "Darling". She can do no wrong and HR is not the refuge for injured employees as it should be. Leaks come out of there all the time and our department and HR "sleep together" if you will. Going to HR doesn't mean sh**. It just puts you on their sh** list, and because of my bosses high standing, saying anything negative about her would put you on the very top of the poopified list. I think this is a matter for corporate compliance, or at least for the Big Daddy of HR in corporate HQs. These happenings go against their Code of Conduct, which they purport to value so highly. It's just all so damned time consuming.

There and copy the EEOC. Take out the big guns.

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27 Apr 2007, 11:55 am

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You are a Blessed Mom. Ah, the gifts that mothers give us. If we only knew at the time that they were gifts we might take better care of them early on.

And then again, there are some gifts that we should chuck immediately and never be reminded of again. Such as my mother's infamous piece of advice whenever we got wound up and went into fits of laughter "Remember, if you laugh too much you always cry" Is that a piece of bi-polar projection or the old hex? Seems like everytime, like right now, when I am really feeling elevated and peaceful, I remember her words. It makes me say "What's wrong with me. I feel so good."

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27 Apr 2007, 11:58 am

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And by the way, Zanne, you're a strikingly beautiful woman. Helen of Troy type. Never seen Helen, but it was my first thought when I saw your avatar. No wonder you have to fight the men off. And you have found of way of not alienating them by putting them to good use. Where's my god damned coffee, dude?

I'm usually told I'm cute and look like a kid!

Well that's it, Cosmic. No makeup in that pic, just nail polish!

Coffee dude, how dare you sleep on the job while I was down eating cuban food for lunch with some other dudes! <snaps with riding crop>

I did it again at lunch. I introduced myself to someone I had already met. He was a strikingly handsome Italian at that. I liked his wavy hair. And I mean Italian like first generation. We have employees from all over. So, I forgot someone again. I am so bad.

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27 Apr 2007, 11:59 am

I can only knit a straight line! :lol:

But, damn, I have some red cashmere socks I adore. Nothing like cashmere on the toesies.

But the type of Aspergers which runs in my family has a "Devil may care" attitude. They dared to be different and thumbed their noses at everyone. I'm glad I have the same type of AS. It certainly is a lot more fun.

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27 Apr 2007, 12:01 pm

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LOL Is that your way of saying you liked it?

LOVED IT ! !!

Oh good. I haven't killed you yet. I like that male character so the sex scenes get hot. LOL Usually I just like fight and death scenes or psychological turmoil.

I'll send you the next chapter then.

What do you all think, piano or harp wire garrote or leather? He needs to live through the garroting.

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27 Apr 2007, 12:05 pm

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I used to have a Samoyed. They were the dog of the Saami people and slept with the children to keep them warm. She was the sweetest and best dog I ever had. One time someone tried to come in through my screen door in the middle of the day and she went after them. They were gone before I could even get up off the couch and get to the door. She sounded like a wolf! Right after, she went back to being as sweet as could be. Very intelligent and well mannered dogs.

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27 Apr 2007, 12:09 pm

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blessedmom wrote:

Can anyone tell me how to pictures in posts?

I understand Thelma. The farm was too much commitment. I'd opt for the YMCA as well. I only live in a house because of dh. Before that I wandered from room to very small apartment to room. I have serious commitment issues. Maybe I should go to the shrink instead of the daughter.

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27 Apr 2007, 12:11 pm

SeriousGirl wrote:

I can only knit a straight line! :lol:

But, damn, I have some red cashmere socks I adore. Nothing like cashmere on the toesies.

But the type of Aspergers which runs in my family has a "Devil may care" attitude. They dared to be different and thumbed their noses at everyone. I'm glad I have the same type of AS. It certainly is a lot more fun.

I am glad as well! I wouldn't like you have so much if you were the feel sorry for yourself type!

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27 Apr 2007, 12:19 pm

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I liked Thelma very much. She died in Alberquerque about 10 years ago. She divorced her husband in the 1940s and reclaimed her maiden name. I knew her only as a "mature" woman - who was not in the least mature, but very childlike.

No psychiatrist! My daugher is trying to get over her bullying issues. She cares too much.

I think leather for the strangulation. And she should be naked while doing it too. :wink:

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