Happy Birthday to Victor and Meeeee!!!!

Well, I didn't read through this entire thread, so I'm not sure how it got from birthday wishes to funeral music, lol, but I've told my kids which songs I want played at my funeral. A few gospel songs by Brother John Sellers - real upbeat, hand-clapping, soulful music.

Although I do admit to absolutely loving Amazing Grace. Especially on bagpipes. Brings a tear to my eye every single time ... and no, I don't mean the bagpipes, lol, but the song itself. (trying to head off those bagpipe jokes - can't help it if I like the darn instrument, lol!)


When my son was a little boy, every night I had to sing to him before bed, and every night he wanted the same two songs - Hi Ho (yes, the one from Snow White!!) and Amazing Grace. One can only wonder what goes through the mind of 4-year-olds...

I LOVE bagpipes - and men in kilts (wink)

Yeah - as the birthday boy - thanks a lot!! What a morbid bunch! You had three months to turn Harper's birthday thread into a funeral one, but NOOOOO!

Aw, come on Victor. We know you have a fine tuned sense of humor. Got kilts?

Saving them for my burial.

Michaela - where were you living on the west coast during the 70's?
Yes, those days were filled with some very strange brews, alcoholic & otherwise...

Michaela - you were on your own at 16? Congratulations, fellow survivor! What led you to that? Never mind, none of my business...
i was on my own at 16, back with the folks for a few months, and then they threw me out for good at 17 (part of why i only went to 1 semester of college after high school - too busy with life!) It definitely led me to many interesting experiences for quite a few years (though no marriage proposals...) No wonder my life seems dull now..!
: )

So many things about the 70's were just wrong ! (i.e. DISCO , the clothes, The Captain and Tenile, but mainly, YOGURT ! )

i had "Touch of Yogurt" shampoo when i was a kid.
actually, it smelled nice - not like yogurt at all.

I'm not sure i've told anyone here this or not, but it took DH 8 years to finally get me up the isle. I was the one with cold feet, scared to death... complete with goosebumps and chicken feathers! So considering it took YEARS to get me there we chose the song 'Through the Years".

"I can't remember when you weren't there
When I didn't care for anyone but you
I swear we've been through everything there is
Can't imagine anything we've missed
Can't imagine anything the two of us can't do

Through the years
You've never let me down
You turned my life around
The sweetest days I've found
I've found with you
Through the years
I've never been afraid
I've loved the life we've made
And I'm so glad I've stayed
Right here with you
Through the years

I can't remember what I used to do
Who I trusted, whom I listened to before
I swear you've taught me everything I know
Can't imagine needing someone so
But through the years it seems to me
I need you more and more

Through the years
Through all the good and bad
I knew how much we had
I've always been so glad
To be with you
Through the years
It's better everyday
You've kissed my tears away
As long as it's okay
I'll stay with you
Through the years

Through the years
When everything went wrong
Together we were strong
I know that I belonged
Right here with you
Through the years
I never had a doubt
We'd always work things out
I've learned what love's about
By loving you
Through the years

Pixie - beautiful song. So was Victor's.

The funniest wedding song I ever heard was at one of those ultra weddings where just the flowers cost $40,000. I worked with the bride and her wedding party consisted of 20 people! Anyhow, the first song was "I'm so excited".

OMG too funny!!!!

When my b-i-l married for the first time, the reception was in this squalid Odd Fellows Hall. Anyway, some little kids were playing with a jukebox, and instead of playing Barbara Steistand singing "Evergreen" as the first song for the newly weds to dance to, out came the Muppits singning Umagama! (i don't know if that's the right name - but I'm sure you know the song I mean)

At the same reception the bride tossed the bouquet and hit her new m-i-l in the forehead - of course the roses had super thorns which pierced my m-i-l and blood was trickling down her face! I immediately swept her away into the lady's room, saying "trust you to get stuck with all the pricks!" Thank god she laughed, 'cause she looked close to tears, she was sooo mortified by being hit by the bouquet!

Funny!!

LOL, Michaela! What a great comment to her during the "sweeping away"!! Very witty!!

Yeah - every once in a while I can pull a "Victor"

you can pull a Victor to water, but you can't make him drink.

I never heard Victor had to be forced to drink!

OK everybody, pay attention! This is probably, in retrospect, the funniest thing I ever said in my life, although i didn't realize it at the time.

I was having blood drawn for the premarital blood tests for my first husband. I was at my GYN office. IThis guy was not an OBGYN, he was a birth control, yeast infection, abortion, STD, herpes GYN. The kind of guy whose office used to get picketed and stuff.

Now I have horrible veins. They had been sticking multiple needles into me and ouch ouch ouch. After about fifteen - twenty minutes of whacking the back of my arm and having tourniquets around all three both arms I started to feel dizzy and woozy, so the nurse said go sit in the waiting room, have a break and drink a glass of water.

Now everyone in the waiting room was a woman between the ages of 17 and 27. Everyone was there for a gynecological reason. Everyone there was gonna have a pelvic exam that day, or was going to try to trace her sex partners or find out that she had gonorrhea or have an abortion or something. Nobody was there for surgery follow-up or to see a dentist. They all were there because they were having sex.

So stupid naive dizzy ditsy me said: It's not when they stick it in that hurts, it's when they wiggle it around! Of course i meant the NEEDLE, not the male sex organ, but I was weak from loss of blood. Nobody laughed outloud but there was a lot of smirking.

x, C

Maybe you're doing it wrong!

OMG Carrie - life is never dull with you around!

Funny!

Michaela, (thank you) I was 19, maybe just 20, what can I say? xxx, C

So this happened three years ago, Carrie? (see, I can warp time!)

Warped mind?

(Yay, Michaella, I had faith, I knew you could do it!) Well no, as you know, I have been married three times. So this would have been more like six or seven years ago. x, C
Now mark those papers!

do you know, I got practically nothing marked today? But my DH was interviewed by the local CBS network news. We were able to turn the two streets of our neighbourhood into dead-end streets (lots of problems with cut-through traffic - and more serious problems like prostitution and drug deals)

And then a big package of seeds from a swap arrived - and then everyone kept posting on DG - and so I had responsibilities to keep reading the threads. Sigh . . . did I tell you that marking is not my favourite thing to do?

i help my DH grade papers (shhh). i figure i'm like a TA, right? i think it's fun!
Tests/quizzes with an answer key, papers i mark in pencil for grammar, spelling, and sense only - then i let him decide to count them or not.

Happy birthday plus one week!

Thanks Candyce!

Michaela - people using GPS and maps (until they have new changed ones) will probably still drive in, ignoring the dead end signs! Expect the angry mobs to show up. On the bright side, you may be interviewed again.

People follow the instructions of GPS blindly, I have found. We just had a guy follow it right onto a train track, where the train then obliterated his car. He has been told he is responsible for all costs of the track and train repairs.

He didn't notice the train?

Yes - he got out of the car!

Thank goodness. To bad he didn't think to take the car off the track! Was there a sign that said Do Not Leave Cars Unattended on Track?

The news reports said it was a rental car and he blindly followed what the GPS system told him to do. Turn right. He did. Right onto the railroad track.

'Turn right on railroad track...'

And the GPS system said "get out of car"?

Put your head between your legs....

Never did respond to Michaela saying that 'every once in a while I can pull a "Victor"'...Hmmm

is that like pulling a fast one?

Amy, I, Queen of the Realm and the Goddess Carrie, dub thee, Amy, Lady Teaching Assistant. Arise!

Michaela, so,,,, we let you into our country, we treat you nicely, sort of, and then you go and turn our streets into Dead Ends! Is that any way to treat a reasonably hospitable host country? Just remember not to get sick while you're here.

xxx, Carrie