I’m just one ron…(wait do I get more than four words on this one?)

Guilty as charged, Joe, but that is I am afraid a condition that post dates the outlook. Waded through too many piles o’ stuff in life and got tired of letting that dictate where my head was at. Besides, if it ain’t fun, what’s the point.

so…four words…

life ain’t over yet

hmmm…not bad….

four word philosophy…

Man plans, God laughs

Win’s comments made my day!

Four words from a gal:

Way to go, Ron!

Since it’s Oct 11, here’s my 4 words of the day:
Happy birthday to me.

Md Mama: Thank you!

(hey, I’m getting better at this!)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ADAM

Ron,
No problem, any time!

See there, “You guys can blog!!” she said, happily.
Next Monday, the 15th….
“Happy Birthday to paMEla”

happy birthday to Adam

still 4…

This 4 word thing is driving me crazy.

THE WHOLE HAPPY BIRTHDAY SONG IS IN 4 WORD PHRASES!!!!!!!!!!!!! Did a man write it?!???

Nope… had to find out… two sisters wrote it.

OH MY GOSH - - They also wrote “Good Morning to You!”

Wheels are turning here….. so does this mean if we get stuck in four word patterns of conversation that we are operating on a preschool kind of communication level? How Freudian is that!?

Or are we maximizing transfer of information through skilled minimization of words therefore it would be classified as a higher (not lower) form of communication.

ARGH!

I’m doomed…. I watch Dog the Bounty Hunter AND I can’t communicate in four words.

Maybe I should go and buy another pink slip….

Adam, happy birthday, man.

To Mary, the Christian….
1. Go buy pink slip
2. Put it on now
3. Feel sexy and beautiful
4. Enjoy some impure thoughts
5. Write on Joe’s blog

Joe, thank you kindly.

Four word speaking rules.

I just can’t stop.

Have a great day.

See what I mean?

Birthday wishes to Adam

I come here today.

What did I miss?

Birthday toasts to Adam!

The guys finally came?

Where you been hiding?

I’m in a big hurry.

So, that’s all I gotta say, OH..
come Monday,

Yo Go Birthday Girl!

Oh, for goodness sake!!!!!!

Happy birthday to you
Have lots of cake
make a wish Adam
glad you are alive.

can not think more

Adam…
The real original sinner.

Funny on the four-word-guy-game Joe and I’m only one Ron as well.

Yep, The Crystals said, “I met him on a Monday and my heart stood still Da do ron-ron-ron, da do ron-ron” That goes back a bit.

Oops, more than four words.

Here’s mine. “What a fun group”.

Last evening whilst I was slaving away in the hot kitchen fixin’ my Little Miss Buffet, my girlfriend SinClaire calls to tell me about her new hobby, blogging on some blog called cuppamudd or javajoe’s, or some such thing, and she was going on and on about how’s all The Joe’s gaggle of girls is gonna go on over to the Coda on the 24th and drink some hot tea leaves. She has even picked out her outfit/dress with hat, something new she just taped up wit’ plaid duck tape and it’s made from recycled brown paper bags from the Kroger’s. I tole her she would look like a paper Doll and sure to git everyone’s attention…..
and when she walks in the joint, all the guys will turn a gape and say in unison,
“WOW, who’s that girl?”

OOpS…JOE PLEASE CHANGE THE BLOG ADDRESS ABOVE BEFORE YOU RELEASE IT!!!!!!!
IT SHOULD READ
http://prosody128.blogspot.com/
Ella Dru knows just enough about this ‘puter stuff to be dangerous….
or you can just delete the whole thing……take your pick…..thanks

Baby, it’s cold outside

Oh, dear, how to come up with something funnee to say in four words or less…

I agree with Elena…

Might need a blanket…

To Md. Mama….
You mean for the back seat of your monster truck?

Thank goodness the weathergotcoolertoday!

There…… four words.

No beer outside today..
It’s too darn cold..
I want summer back..
Don’t like big clothes..
My plants are freezing..
The leaves are blowing..
I found my whachamagiget..
to work my whachamacallit..

I gotta go again.
I just can’t resist.
Gotta keep comin here.
What will I see Next?

My….monster….truck?
Yikes!! I don’t think so!

No a blanket, ’cause it’s snuggle bunny time. (translation: It’s cold and I need warmth!) Might need to get out the long-johns, too.

Mary,

Now That was Cool!

Oh, Md. Mama….
Sorry to offend thee
Just tryin’ to write
another really trashy story

And you had to
go and get all
warm and bunny snuggly

Are you talkin’ ’bout
long-tall-john or another guy?

Let’s hit the sack!

Was his a general invitation?

Hey Joe,

Are your bags packed and ready to hit the high road? Do you have all your gear: camera, iPod (or whatever Andrew talked you into), RT baseball cap and sweatshirt, Harry Potter tapes, Frankie Valle CD’s, books, mapquest directions to Cooperstown, um, I must be forgetting something….?

BTW, if you like Frankie and the 4 Seasons, have you ever heard of the musical “Jersey Boys”? It’s really a great CD, it has every song they have ever done. It’s great fun. It is one of those CD’s that can immediately put you in a good mood.

I am thoroughly enjoying all the cleverness here.

I am LOVIN’ this weather!

I can’t wait to go to the football game tomorrow night, see my breath float through the air, and be able to wear REAL football clothes…. not shorts, flip-flops, and a t-shirt!

To Mary, the Christian,
The Guy will pro’bly want you to B.Y.O.B.*
*bring your own blanket

To A Guy….

Do I know you?
Don’t you remember me?
Want to meet later?
Buy me cuppa tea?

To A Guy…

Do I know you?
Don’t you remember me?
Want to meet later?
Buy me cuppa tea?

Alas….. no guy….. only adolescent marching band members. Me and the other Band Mamas will generate enough menopausal radiance to heat that entire end of the bleachers, so blankets will be few and far between!

Pamela, you have such a clever sense of humor. I can’t wait to meet everyone on the 24th!

Did Joe leave for NY?

Mary,
everybody in the office today has long sleeves on and complaining about being cold and I am sitting her with my fan on. Oh that MENopause,

Ha, Ha, Mary…I hear that! I’m also a band mama, but have lucked out for tonight. We were suppose to travel to B’Burg tonight, but they have now decided to take only the Pep Band. My daughter is on the Dance Team, so I can stay home.

I am also looking forward to seeing everyone on the 24th!

I think the Joester is busy packing his bags or maybe he decided to figure out his camera! That might take a while! :)

Mary, the Christian, you should be proud of your menopausal radiance comment…that made me laugh! Some of us call it a “personal sauna”… others claim their air conditioning is broken, still others say thank you Jesus, sex without fear of brats as a side affectation of the ninth degree…

The funny thing about this is that I coordinate a menopause education group called Red Hot Mamas… and I’m the biggest hot flash complainer of all!

MENtal illness
MENstrual cramps
MENtal breakdown
MENopause
GUYnecologist
HISterectomy

Ever notice how all of women’s problems start with men?

(shamelessly borrowed from the internet)

NOT MALE BASHING!!!! I happen to like men, for the most part, actually :-)

Any female F.O.J. who would like to join one of our lively Red Hot Mamas programs up here on top of the mountain, just let me know. Go to www.redhotmamas.org to find out more about the educational programs… click on “find programs near you” and scroll down to the Virginia section or “upcoming events” look for October 15th.

Pamela…. I get to wear a pink wig and big fluffy pink boa at the program on Monday night! (will be sans pink slip though)

I’m into pretty shameless advertising at this point but I’m afraid to put out more information without Joe’s permission.

Joe, feel free to give any of the ladies my e-mail address.

The Joe has pro’bly decided not to go on his trip because he has yet to read the camera instruction manual.
He also knows that no one will believe he even left his house if he doesn’t send pictures to the blog to document his life-affirming-adventure.

I think this blog is starting to lose it’s PG-13 rating!! :) I kinda like it. :) Joe’s resolve must have melted away!

If Joe is away….. are the mice gonna play?!

Md. Mama - are you going to the Wytheville competition tomorrow? State competition in Pulaski next week? Which school does your daughter attend?

I just bought a boatload of menopause STUFF from CafePress.com the other day. A cup that says “They’re not hot flashes…. they’re small, private vacations in the tropics!” A mouse pad with “Don’t think of it as hot flashes….. Think of it as your inner child playing with matches!” And a bumper sticker that says “At my age, getting lucky means finding my car in the parking lot!” I bought a mug for my daughter that says “My Mom’s menopause burned up my homework.”

I also bought my cousin a mousepad that says “Men get Viagra. We get to do the laundry. What’s up with THAT?!”

Question: How do you know which pill bottle holds the estrogen pills?
Answer: Its the one with the bite marks on the cap!

Mary - My daughter is going to the Wytheville competition tomorrow, I’m staying home to spend time with my other daughter who is home for Fall Break. They are going to Pulaski, also. She goes to Cave Spring HS. Are you going to Pulaski?

You are too funny with the menopause stuff! And, yes, we ARE gonna play!!

I wonder who ended up with the Keb’Mo’ tickets last night? Joe or his “friend”? Any thoughts?

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Way to be!!

Md.Mama - I am going to Wytheville tomorrow. We don’t stage until 4:30 and play at 4:45. Awards are at 7 p.m. I am going to try to stay for awards…. depends on how my face is feeling. It was smarting pretty well by the end of the football game this evening. Salem won… I think it was Salem 100 and Christiansburg 0 (I’m exaggerating). We got clobbered, but hey - - the band was AWESOME!

I’ll be sure to WOO-HOO for Cave Spring tomorrow in your place! BTW, we play Hidden Valley on the 19th and Cave Spring the following Friday at Bogle Stadium. Will you WOO-HOO for me at Pulaski??? I have to be in Lynchburg to take a credentialling exam :-( Band Moms Unite!!!

Mary - CSHS plays right after you, so please give a cheer for me! Everyone is beating CS, too, so it ought to be an interesting game when we play each other! :) Maybe we connect at that game, be sure to wear your pink feather boa so I know it’s you!

Do you think we’ve run everyone else off? I guess Joe must be on the road, so maybe we need to start a topic everyone can join in on, including the guys!

Well, the four word thing has been done… and quite expertly I might add.

Since it is Joe’s blog…. and he got to pick his destination for a vacation and plan the trip all by himself…

Question to the group: If you had the opportunity to go anywhere at all within a 10 hour radius of Roanoke (since that was Joe’s distance limitations) by yourself for a week (or a good portion thereof) where would you go and why.

Md.Mama - I will wear my boa!!! BTW, my older daughter teaches at Cave Spring Elementary. She is the art teacher there Mondays-Thursdays. She also teaches at Ft. Lewis on Fridays and at Glenvar High School during 8th period Monday - Friday. Confuses me but she loves it. She wants to borrow my pink boa to wear at her Christmas party because she decorates her little apartment in hot pink and lime green for the holidays instead of traditional green and red. I think it’s her artsy side that inspired her to do it…. whole christmas tree decorated in hot pink and lime green ornaments.

What do you think ya’ll? Where would you head off to if you could get the heck outta Dodge?

I bet Joe did not go to the Keb’Mo’ . Hope Joe is having FUN. I wish I was going somewhere. The only place I am going is to clean my bathroom
Wooopie, just too much fun.

I’ll bet he didn’t go either. He was a gentlemen, and let her have the tickets, I’ll wager. He did say he was a lover, not a fighter!

If I could go anywhere within a 10 hour radius of Roanoke, it would most likely be to a beach that I’ve never been to. I’m in love with the ocean (or any body of water, for that matter). Maybe one of little barrier islands that sit off the East Coast. Is Bermuda 10 hrs. away? I would LOVE to go there. My Dad says it’s the nicest island he’s ever been to.

Late to the party, as usual. Four words that describe my philosophy:

Let’s find out.

And where I’d go? 10 hours? New York to visit my folks. That was easy. :)

Well If I was by myself, I would go to the beach. Nothing more relaxing than going in the off season and sit on beach with a blanket and just watch the waves. But if I had people to go with, then it is New York City. Love that city. I go every May with my children and sisters and their children. Love, love it. But one day I want to go to CA and Texas. Maine and Conn. would be beautiful with all the lighthouses. I want to go somewhere now. Let’s find Joe and go bug him.(ha)

Andrew, you just warmed your Mama’s heart!

Md.Mama, I love the beach too but as I get older, I don’t tolerate the heat as well as I used to, nor the crowds. I might venture to Okracoke for solitude. The last weekend in October up in Hershey, PA is fun - - Hershey Park has its last hurrah. Kids get in free if they’re wearing a costume so the park is swarming with kids in costume. Also there are the outlets……. I think if I could venture out I’d go up to New York State around the Finger Lakes and just drive and enjoy the scenery and stay at Bed & Breakfasts. The leaves will be so beautiful.

“What do you think ya’ll? Where would you head off to if you could get the heck outta Dodge?”
Charleston, SC is the first place that comes to mind, because it’s such a beautiful city with lots of great restaurants in the historic district.

Bermuda was beautiful, when I visited a few years ago and the British accents of the folks who live there, lyrical. The charming houses are painted every shade of pink and peach and turquoise and yellow. Any place that celebrates bermuda shorts and the bermuda onion…gotta love that! Plus you can rent cute little motor-scooters and take tours of the wonderfully elegant cemetaries, decorated with artistic headstones and quotes to make you think.
Maybe, I’m trying to talk myself into moving there? For sure I would go there again if I wanted to restore my spirit and experience a culture where time is in another dimension.
Have to go now and pack up my wicker suitcases and trunks and plenty-o-sunscreen for when I will be lounging on the yacht!

p.s. I fear the guys will not want to join in the discussion of womens hormonal issues. ‘Course maybe they could share their view from the sidelines of that whole big deal!
The Joe will pro’bly edit this…but here goes…
“Why do they call it PMS?”
“Because Mad Cow Disease was already taken.”
I can say that beause I’m a girl…guys, not so much, actually ever…

Pam-that’s exactly how my Dad described Bermuda. Now I’m going to have to do some serious research and maybe try to plan a trip there.

Annette-I really love NYC, too! I suppose that would be my second choice.

Md. Mama — your dad described Bermuda as “mad cow disease”? Odd.

“In’erestin’ stuff,” new guy on the scene offers.

Md.Mama!!! Cave Spring cleaned up! Awesome field show they had!

Itty Bitty George Wythe band has 18 kids and they put out a heck of a sound…. nearly all brass and the pit was a set of drums and a keyboard.

I waited until after Cave Spring played (I WOO-HOO’D for them since you weren’t there) to go get a funnel cake and thats when Carroll County took the field. So I’m standing there watching from the concession stand (trying to stay out of the wind that was blowing powdered sugar all over me… looked like I went through a snow storm!!!) and their field show consisted entirely of tunes from The Sound of Music. Simply magical. Anyway… they started playing “Edelweiss” and I had a hormonal moment at the same time. That song always brings tears to my eyes but Niagra Falls opened up and off I go to the Ladies Room and that was that for the funnel cake….. I didn’t need to be eating that anyway.

So far we have Bermuda, NYC, and Charleston. I thought there would be more to read after being gone all day.

Here’s hoping you made it to Coopertown, Joe, and having a great time!

p.s. I was in the WBHS band. Piccolo in marching band, bassoon in concert band, tenor sax in stage band….I think they’re just having a reunion, either this weekend or next. Very soon. Congrats Band Mothers!

Mary-Thanks for watching the band!!! I will return the favor next week in Pulaski! “Edelweiss” is in the top ten of my favorite songs from a musical. It’s one of the songs I sing to my grandsons when they go to bed. Trying to keep the German tradition alive! It’s a real tear jerker!

Mary - CSHS came in 2nd place, how did C’Burg do?

MK - Even though my daughter is a dancer, she has enjoyed being part of the band. They’re a bunch of really good kids and they have so much fun together. Plus, they have so much school spirit during the games, I think they overshadow the cheerleaders at times! Thanks for thinking of us!

MM- We didn’t place in our division. For this competition, we were AA and Cave Spring was AAA. Not sure why we didn’t place because we came away with a superior rating, but who can explain anything that judges determine!! I’m just the Mom in the stands.

Speaking of band directors - - I didn’t realize that Mr. Quakenbush was the band director at CSHS!!!! He is an awesome individual. My youngest came to know Mr. Q. and his wife when she attended band camp at Va. Tech. He was there every year. It was AMAZING the music he could pull out of those kids in 6 days. His father-in-law is the head of the music dept at VT, if I’m not mistaken.

Mary- Q does a wonderful job with the students. He has really helped the band rebound from the split with CSHS and HVHS. It took a person like him to do it. The kids really relate to him and he has TONS of energy. I didn’t know about the VT connection, but that’s cool! Maybe he can put in a good word for my daughter if she wants to be on the High Techs some day!

I don’t know where you young wippersnappers got this Ron Ron stuff! The song says “Da Do Run Run”!