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[Jamie]

Gee, I was actually up real early today - 6 am (you too Brit it looks like!) but hubby has big meeting and dinner in Paris today/tonight he worked here later than usual this a.m. and I had to walk the Marts then pack the suitcase. Now I am fre - even late into the night. But asked son #1 to help me relance my blog today...

[Snoskred]

I have to be honest, I love an Arnie movie.. My favourite was probably True Lies.. that was so action packed, it rocked..

It is almost a shame he chose to go into politics, because there hasn't been anyone who has taken his place. Movies just aren't what they used to be..

[A Brit Abroad]

Oooh - so much to catch up on...

[Jamie]

Ciao! mhrt

Ooh! If hubby was more understanding I could stay a little later at night, but usually have to go off to bed at the same time as him. Man, first time in 21 years I had somewhere else I wanted to be! Bad Mudflats!

[Jamie]

@Snoskred

LOL! I must've missed the beginning of THAT conversation, but I also liked True Lies, mostly for Jamie Lee Curtis, but Arnie was pretty good!

[SMR]

Here's a link for you Jamie

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-seitzman/republicans-debate-their_b_144430.html

[Sirenoftitan]

Just wanted to say...

Congratulations Alaska !

and

Morning all.

Now have to deal with the teenagers who just love getting up in the morning.

Will drop by later today (when I have the opportunity)

[A Brit Abroad]

G'night mhrt!

Yup - up earlier than I want to be, but I had to get son off to school... I really want to go and curl up under the duvet again, but I'll go for a virtual one here instead. A a big cup of coffee.

[SMR]

G'Nite mhrt!

Brit -- Do you read Asa Larsson mysteries?

[Jamie]

@SMR - thank for thinking of me...all of love feeling wanted and missed!

I actually looked for an Asa Larsson yesterday at our small English language section at the bookstore. none. Settled for Stieg Larsson (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - ooh isn't that asiangrrl?) and Arnaldur Indridason (Voices - okay so it's Icelandic, not Swedish, so shoot me!).

[Jamie]

@SMR - that's a great article on HuffPo! Thanks for the link. Now I'm hopping back to read the one about Palin's Return to Cold Realities in AK.

And gotta do my gym!

[mhrt]

jamie
before i go to bed..just wanted say cute puppy...my uncle had one years ago and he had a thing about rocks....my mom had just moved into a new house..the yard had a bunch of rock in the dirt..my mom would them over the back fence into the alley..that dog  (GiggS) would run all the way around the block and carry them back home...it was so funny...it is the funny things that we remember..nite all

[SMR]

Jamie,

I read your response to my posting about grass is greener and all that.  Will type up a response here before I fall asleep at the keyboard...

There is something about living overseas and wanting to live overseas -- not a lot of Americans are very interested in it.  Bible Spice being an excellent example.  Even before we moved to the UK we spent a lot of our time & money traveling the world and the US.  That's what we like to do and what I've always liked to do.  We don't have boats or snowmobiles or anything like that, we spend our money on travel instead.  When we were in the UK we were always on the go, in Scotland, England, Europe.

We have a curiousity about other people and cultures that is pretty rare over here.  Other nationalities look down on Americans because they think that we are elitist, and I think that is true a bit in the sense that so many Americans have so little desire to know anything about other cultures or to accept that other countries & cultures are as significant as ours.  Talking smack about Obama being a Muslim is a good example of that, the fears that he is African/Kenyan, etc etc.  There is a disproportionate amount of that here.  Really strange when you consider that so many Americans are not very far from their overseas roots, and that somehow people whose relatives have recently (say last generation) immigrated to the US somehow consider themselves superior.  It is a very strange dichotomy...

Anyway, maybe it's because we, being oil employees, are pretty much restricted to jobs in areas that are oil employee dense, and therefore bible belt saturated, that I feel so very disconnected here in the US.  I can hardly claim to have much at all in common with those people, and have found very very few of them that are worth having lunch with let alone being friends with...

And forget going to a school reunion.  Didn't do it when I was here for my 10th, wouldn't even put my name on the contact list for my 20th, and wouldn't have dreamed of coming back for it.  Some people just have such small lives here, their circles are so small, with no desire to broaden them or their knowledge.

I am really really glad to be going to Canada in May, and if I never came back here I would be happy.  Most likely happier to be away for the duration.

Who knows, maybe this country will experience a sea change with Obama/Biden at the helm, I certainly hope so, but until it does I am a stranger in a strange land...

[A Brit Abroad]

Hi SMR, nope, I've missed those - is she good? I shall have to head to the library at lunchtime and see if I can find one. Oh and hey - congrats on getting rid of Ted!

Well done on finding Steig Larsson Jamie - those books kept me up for hours, way past my bedtime. Did you get the first one? (I read them out of order...)

[ira2]

Yo Jamie,

I was looking for some pictures of my pal's Bostons for you. Found only one so far (my picture file is getting way out of hand!):



He stopped by a couple months ago to show off his "new" Model T fire truck... that critter on the seat is his ancient Boston girl "Tutu". She gives me the creeps, but that's mostly just because she's so small - I'm scared to death of little dogs, LOL! She's actually a sweetheart.

I'm still looking for the baby pic of his latest girl...

[Jamie]

@mhrt - LOL  about that clever Boston GiggS)

SMR - wtill reading your post, just wanted to say nighty night to mhrt.

[Jamie]

# ira2 - I agree, that is one scary-looking Boston, but a riot! Gotta love 'em! We have never been lucky enough to have one of our dogs grow old, and we are hoping to be able to see Marty grow old and ornery....

Brit - I think I have the first one. According to the guy at the bookstore it is. The old man receives the pressed flowers every year on his birthday.

Sorry SMR, they won't let me read yours or answer!

[A Brit Abroad]

Jamie - that's the first one then... happy reading.

Ira - I love the fire truck!! And the dog! What are the trees in the background?

[SMR]

Jamie --

You can't read my posts OR reply?

[A Brit Abroad]

SMR, I think she means the rest of us who keep chatting and distracting her...