Can the adults please smoke? — Page 348

hello all.. i don't want to butt in on a private conversation. i'm just sitting here being lonely and i thought i'd like to meet you all.
if it helps, i have a cigarette in one hand and a jack/ginger on the side table.

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oh thanks! by the way, i am heather..32..do i need any other credentials? mothers maiden name perhaps?

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i do solemnly swear to behave like an adult.

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Good Night to all!

It is SO past my bedtime.

If you all hit 10,000 tomorrow, please know I'm with you in spirit!

xx

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Morning NY...I'm brewing a new pot of coffee for everyone. Thanks for the morning song.

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Hello again folks. Well it looks like this will be the weekend when the ticker hits 10,000! Hopefully I can be around for it.
Seem our Miss Erin will turn "Sweet Sixteen" tomorrow. So cake, ice cream and a marathon of STAR WARS is on my agenda.

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Hey there, Boobalicious!

Happy Birthday to Erin, mom

LOL Undi....my phrasing again huh?

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Awww you're so sweet, you red headed sexy thang.

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Hi, how is everyone today?

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My friend Susan (we grew up together)wrote this email...I needed to share this with you guys.

I just spoke to a former student who had joined to National Guard to "try to get out of Jersey City" and who just returned from a tour in Iraq as a Marine. Her husband also served and is finally home after having his tour extended twice. The stories she told me about being there, what she saw, the horrendous conditions and tragedies she endured, and the hopelessness of the situation were shocking to me.

She said it was absolute hell. Her husband won't even speak about it; he has constant nightmares since having returned. She told me of the US soldiers being underfed and ill-equipped...of troops' bunks being burned by insurgents...of the death of innocent civilians...of constantly fearing for her life...of seeing soldiers being killed left and right...of the desperate attempts to recruit new soldiers on this end because they are losing too many people there...of morale among our troops being in the gutter...

Attention babyboomers: SOUND FAMILIAR?

I have not been in support of the Iraq war, and still my young friend's stories hit me like a ton of bricks. Reading about the war in the newspaper is one thing, I suppose. Hearing about what's really going on from someone who's been there is another reality entirely.

If you have the chance to speak to someone who has served in Iraq and been blessed enought to come back safe and sound, take it. In the meantime, please just know that we are DEFINITELY NOT being told what is truly happening there. Whatever your political leanings are, understand that things are a wreck in the situation we've created there and that in reality it's not getting any better, no matter what any politician, newspaper, or TV report tells us.

As of noon today, Saturday the 25th of September, 1,043 American soldiers have died (CNN.com Specials ). Thousands of others are severely injured. Tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians have been killed by both sides.

Pray. Chant. Send care packages. Do whatever you like to do to effect change and send blessings. And on November 2nd, VOTE.

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hello, all... looks like i came in on something serious!

Well, the only way for me to work it out now is to go over there and recruit a replacement. So what I'm basically going to do is show up tomorrow and refuse to work a double. Please, all, pray I don't get fired. I seriously doubt it and it's so completely impossible that we'll even need a double person, but there you are...they are major @$$holes and seem to thrive on inconveniencing their staff.