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larue916 got so drunk I'll be impressed if she remembers the evening.

luvschampagne's boobs were so perky I couldn't resist commenting on them.
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jaymers_84 is officially being challenged to post in her LJ!! I did remember to copy JM this morning. I've stuck it in with Sigur Ros so check with

larue916 on that.

When was the last time you watched 'Loverboy'? Well, time to get it out, dust it off, and pop it in!

Okay, I liked him scrawny, but now everyone's all over Patrick Dempsey. He's hotter now? Maybe. Not in my opinion. I still love the clumsy lover.

Well, fellow C.W.ers, don't think I got off too easy this morning. Dad was here before 9 to help get plums off our tree. Last night was a late one, eh?

My dad came by to help pick the plums off our tree out front. I stood holding the bucket for the plums that had been eaten by birds, were overripe, etc. He started talking about his days as a kid. I'm a sucker for these. He told me about several of the odd jobs he took until he was old enough to work on his father's farm. I have been writing notes, but I already forgot a lot of what he said.

I just don't want to miss any more opportunities. I'm reading Night Watch by Sarah Waters now (I'm almost finished!) but I find as I read that my mind wanders more and more to my mother's side of the family. They were there, then. They came to America only a few years after the war ended. The thing is, reading it, I have similar stories in my family (of things like displacement, etc) that I've heard, but reading in her lovely detail, I started to think. Most of the family has been back there. Mom hasn't and has no desire. She was young. Was she, perhaps, traumatized enough that she just doesn't want the memories? Or is it really all about the cold and rain? So, I'm going to ask these questions. I have been transcribing the tapes of my grandparents telling their tales, but so far, no one has thought to ask about their feelings on things outside of their own stories... how their life related to war, the depression era, etc. Now they're gone and it's too late.