Catching up

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Re: Catching up

Post by TheHeadlessHorseman » Sun Jun 08, 2025 12:12 am

HAPPY GHOSTBUSTERS DAY!

There isn't any comic shows going on in our area today, but we will still be dressing up and going to the comic shop to get some new Ghostbusters items, and we will also be watching the movies and playing the video games.

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Re: Catching up

Post by Murfreesboro » Mon Jun 09, 2025 5:09 pm

Oh, I missed your post bc I was at the wedding in CA. We had a great time, and I hope you all did, too!

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Re: Catching up

Post by Andybev01 » Tue Jun 10, 2025 10:19 pm

Somehow Ghostbusters day eluded my radar!

Murf, how was the climate in Cali?
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Post by Murfreesboro » Wed Jun 11, 2025 8:58 am

The mornings were slightly overcast, and it was hazy all day on Thurs, when I arrived. But the afternoons were clear and gorgeous after that. I think the temps were maybe in the 80s? But it felt cool and sometimes downright chilly at night, at least to me, because the humidity is so low out there.

My cousin showed me terrifying pics of the fires last Jan, one of them made from her kitchen window. None of my relatives lost property, but a number of their lifelong friends lost everything. The bride confided to us that she'd had a nightmare about it the night before her wedding, which was held in her mom's backyard. She dreamed that the fires had returned and were destroying her mother's home, and in her dream she screamed, "No! It's my wedding day!"

The wedding was of course beautiful. One charming moment to me occurred when the groom's dad, a veterinarian, walked the couple's two dogs down the aisle. Both dogs had on pastel green collars that matched the bridesmaids' gowns.

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Re: Catching up

Post by TheHeadlessHorseman » Thu Jun 12, 2025 10:09 am

Maybe her dream was her subconscious worrying about the big day, obviously most brides go into that day with a certain amount of stress and anxiety already on their plate, but then you add the destruction they witnessed back in Jan. and you can understand why it would manifest itself that way right before the wedding. Thankfully, the day went well, and everybody had a good time there.

I had a interesting conversation with my mother this weekend, we were talking about her 70th birthday coming up next month when we will be on vacation, and she onfessed to me that she fears that she is going to die on a Monday, so she gets nervous every single Monday.

The reason for this is that her father was born, married, and died on a Saturday, and she was born and married on a Monday, so she expects to follow the same pattern. If it was just her father it happened to she would just dismiss it as a single event in our family, but she knows of at least 4 other family members that the same thing happened to, so she is convinced that the same will happen to her.

I told her not to think that way, but you know how some people are, no matter what you say, she is going to believe it until the day she goes. At least I don't have to worry about that, I was born on a Tuesday, and married on a Saturday, so regardless of what day I die I won't follow that pattern!

Anyway, we will be having a small party on Fri. for the kids, and then we are leaving for Florida on Sat. to visit my grandaunt for her birthday. We will be there for a week, then we will be back here for a few days before we leave for our other vacation on the first of the month.

You probably won't hear from me for awhile, so you kids behave while I'm gone, I don't want to come back here and find that you youngins destroyed the forums while I was away. :lol:

Stay safe and healthy my friends!

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Re: Catching up

Post by Andybev01 » Thu Jun 12, 2025 3:56 pm

Enjoy your whirlwind month away!
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Re: Catching up

Post by Murfreesboro » Fri Jun 13, 2025 12:37 pm

I'll be saying a prayer for you and your extended family, that every bit of your traveling this summer is as festive and memorable as you could wish!

I've never heard of a pattern like that one in your mom's family. I was born on a Weds and married on a Sat. I imagine most people nowadays plan weekend weddings.

My mother had a first cousin for whom everything happened on a 13th. I've forgotten all the 13s in his life. He was born on the 13th and was the 13th child, IIRC. I believe he chose to be married on the 13th, because he thought of it as his lucky number. In WW2 he crossed the ocean in a group of 13 ships. I can't remember all of the 13s, but he was featured in that mid-cenrury novelty column, Ripley's Believe It or Not. Mama said that people used to question the veracity of those stories, but she knew for a fact that her cousin's story was true. I believe this was her cousin George Hestand. She had a bunch of cousins, so it could have been another one, but I think it was George. He was a grocer, back before the big supermarket chains took over.

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