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27 Apr 2007, 12:23 pm

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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.


Something more sinister, like a knitting needle through his eye ....


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27 Apr 2007, 12:23 pm

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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.


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:


That could happen. He does want to rape her and have children with her. He likes her brain. I think he's secretly jealous that she's constantly getting one over on him.

He's actually a really scary sociopath. She's an Aspie though so she's not afraid of him, he just irritates her because he keeps trying to come between her and her husband who is in love with her brain and accepts all her quirks.


He probably would have loved Thelma too.


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27 Apr 2007, 12:24 pm

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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'm glad you're not the quiet type. I am, it is boring and this way I get to live vicariously through more adventurous people while I pursue my knitting/ sewing obsession.



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27 Apr 2007, 12:26 pm

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ZanneMarie wrote:

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.


Something more sinister, like a knitting needle through his eye ....


The last time she stole her brother's insulin and shot him up with it while she made out with him. Then when he went into insulin shock, she told him how she tried to kill him. A particularly nasty Russian woman came and saved him though. It was very disappointing.

She's also punched him in the nose and stomped his foot/kicked his shin with her ice skate.

She grew up with all brothers so she knows how to fight.


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27 Apr 2007, 12:27 pm

Knitting needles are not to be messed with :twisted: . I get them confiscated every time I enter the mental health building for my kids appoinments. Beware short matronly women with sticks!!

Oh! And my hubby has sat on a few.



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27 Apr 2007, 12:28 pm

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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'm glad you're not the quiet type. I am, it is boring and this way I get to live vicariously through more adventurous people while I pursue my knitting/ sewing obsession.



We'll make you a character and give you all kinds of adventures!


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27 Apr 2007, 12:29 pm

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Knitting needles are not to be messed with :twisted: . I get them confiscated every time I enter the mental health building for my kids appoinments. Beware short matronly women with sticks!!

Oh! And my hubby has sat on a few.



Uh huh. The quiet type, huh? Suuuuure.


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27 Apr 2007, 12:40 pm

Ok, not so quiet in my own head. I can be a character in your story but I have latex allergies so only natural fibers, please. :lol:



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27 Apr 2007, 12:50 pm

Uh oh! Did overstep a boundary? I don't get very much adult conversation so I'm a little out of practice.



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27 Apr 2007, 1:00 pm

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Ok, not so quiet in my own head. I can be a character in your story but I have latex allergies so only natural fibers, please. :lol:


My Aspies typically wear cotton, linen and cashmere. Things I would prefer! So of course!

You didn't overstep your boundaries. We just have fun in here. No worries! We like it.


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27 Apr 2007, 1:09 pm

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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.


It has to be something innocently femine, which turns sinister. Like she chokes him with a leather thong.
Or her necklace. Or pokes his eardrum out with a hairpick..


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27 Apr 2007, 1:14 pm

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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.


It has to be something innocently femine, which turns sinister. Like she chokes him with a leather thong.
Or her necklace. Or pokes his eardrum out with a hairpick..


It's not like that with her at all. She's going to go after him to kill him. She sees him for exactly what he is. Sylvie doesn't mess around. Condi pissed her off and she's been playing havoc with the gov't ever since. Sylvie is willful and determined. She's not like her sister.

However a necklace could work if it was strong enough. Maybe he'll wear a necklace and she'll stick a hairpin under it and twist it to garrote him! That would work. She could wear those big oriental hair pins in and he'd never guess until it was too late.

There we go! That's exactly something she would do to him!


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27 Apr 2007, 1:18 pm

Yer welcome ! !!

(I'm too embarrassed to write the other stuff I thought up!!)


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27 Apr 2007, 1:26 pm

LOL Well she'll only be doing that with her husband. She's very attached to him. It never goes very well for the men who try to interfere. Look how Lorenzo was beaten and thrown off a balcony for his trouble.


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27 Apr 2007, 2:21 pm

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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.

Larson would be the rest of the family name on that side, he hailed from Denmark. Sea farin man, I don't really know how much he was around and not off to sea. I suspect not much. Pretty much left my Step Great Garndmother in Hell's Kitchen, little bit of an Irish woman. She must have been a scraper of sorts to pull it off. I have no idea who my real Great Grandmother was, nor does anyone else in the family.


They look just like the Otts! I wonder if I have a picture of the Otts or if one of my aunts have it. Isn't funny how similar they look?

Jung is very German. Over here many of them have been anglicized to Young because that's how they interpreted it at Ellis Island.


Jung as I understand it very common as a surname as well. Yeah it did get changed to Young at Ellis and Larson got changed to Lawson. Magyar was also added in, the Wife tells me that indicates a hint of nobility or upperclass? I don't know really, I never saw such a thing as "uppity" on any of the ones I met. The little girl in the lower right, the one with the intense look, that's my Grandmother and man what a hell cat she could be, libber would be an understatement, something she passed on to her childern and for better or worse to me. I have a temper. Injustice or someone being incompitant, passing the buck or trying to make you the scape goat and I'm on them big time. It's like I go blind to my surrondings and read them the riot act. Gotten me in trouble and strighten out some messes, mixed blessing I guess.

The other side of the family is really serious american mutt, harder to seperate, but the surname is very Scott. Even at that it has a meaning in German as well. Child would the loose translation. Some variations in the spelling, but the earliest that we can find has to do with the giving of some livestock to the University in Edinburgh. there is way more to it, have some photos that have very striking Native American features, but that seems to have a split in there and I don't think that part got in my system, I dunno might be wrong. English is most certainly there and can be traced somewhere in the early 1500's, mid 1400's? iirc. I have a book my grandmother did, Mormans are very heavy into all that tracing thing, she was good at it, could write very well, "normal" school trained as a teacher, not common for her time. It would seem their (English) contribution came in anther way as well. They sent the Scott side to this country in, how do I put it, chains? Apparently the Scott surname side ended up on the wrong side of a little fight they must have had. They were sent here as POW's and liked what they saw after they got done working in the iron works in Boston, stayed. My English history is poor and the Wife is the pro there. Well the English planted some seeds here with that side of the family, as they weren't torys when all hell broke loose. Interesting stuff, well I think it is and most likely boring as hell to most.

What I find most interesting is her and those she interviewed storys, recollections of what life was like on the day to day basis. I mean we hear the highlights of a lot, but the day to day is often not written. It just goes back to being able to observe the simple, the common, the in plain sight stuff. It isn't easy at first and it took a while for me to get it down.


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27 Apr 2007, 3:03 pm

Post,

I think the real stories are often in the everyday as well. I love that your grandmother was the hell cat. LOL What a great term! She looks like a hell cat in that picture. She looks spoiled rotten as a matter of fact. I was spoiled rotten so I recognize that look.

I think it is fascinating to read. I love to hear about everyone's family.

Zanne


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