Goodbye, cruel world.

[Heidi]

I'm off to confront my Wednesday morning hell, i.e. grocery shopping. Please keep me in your thoughts as I face the criminally negligent parents who allow their kids to push mini-shopping up against my heels in the aisles, as I calculate Swiss francs and percentages of savings in my head, as I navigate the cruel reality that is speaking Italian with a southern accent. :cry:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Goodbye, my dear Heidi!

And good luck!

I'll be off shortly as well......but to bed, for some overdue sleep!

I saw you said you might be too busy tomorrow for the Nighthawk thread...

One of us can kick it....but it's already huge!

:loveya:

[Tafiti]

2. Fuck that.

Let it be known that I'm the first to try and talk to you out of this whole shopping idea. ;)

But if you must...stay positive. Act like you'll enjoy yourself - you know, self-fulfilling prophecy.

[billyskank]

3. Oh, no!

:cry: :hug:

[enigmatic]

4. We've got your back

always:) :hug:

[bliss_eternal]

5. God speed, Heidi--

Go brave one--be safe.

[wildhorses]

6. you can do it

I have faith in you mighty artist that you are...

[MrScorpio]

7. Air-Reeba-Dare-Chee

See you when you get back

[Heidi]

8. I survived.

And that thankless task is over for another week. :thumbsup: Thank you all for your good vibes! :bounce: :* :hug: :loveya:

[BikeWriter]

9. We're happy you persevered, Sweety! :-)

:hug:

[Heidi]

14. :-*

Persevered _and_ lived to tell about it. Geez, I'm a whiner. :rofl:

[bridgit]

10. good to hear, pioneer genes dieseling forward with inertial purpose...

= routine trip to the grocery store imo :thumbsup: :hi:

[Heidi]

12. I think I'm getting too old for the circus

that is grocery shopping in a foreign language (and in this case, the "foreign language" is my skewed Italian.) :rofl:

[bridgit]

15. now i know what to get you for x-mas...

a multilingual, solar powered 'personal shopper' :7

[Heidi]

16. And while you're shopping, look for one in this style.

This is my gift-of-the-day to the straight women, gay men and those of more diverse sexual orientations, in the Lounge:

[bridgit]

19. ouch, i'll need to put 'that' on hubby's card...

i don't carry that much 'cash on hand', i'll tell him it's for, er;um...his artist pal, Heidi, yeah that's the ticket B-) :spank: O8)

[Heidi]

22. Actually, I "accidentally" found that image today while

doing google image searches which Mr. Heidi will photoshop into a birthday card for our brother-in-law.

Here's the one we're going to put brother-in-law's face into:

[bridgit]

26. now that's false advertising, i'll go see if i can google us up a pic...

of a naked h. potter type polishing his wand O8)

[Heidi]

27. You're a bad, bad girl.

I would really prefer to keep your "fan club" from chasing us down and getting this thread locked and all of my friends banned, brigit. :rofl:

[bridgit]

29. oh, they're a rough & tumble group, i know for a fact they can take it...

well, i should say they can dish it :rofl:

[Heidi]

31. See, now,

there's the rub. "Takin' it" aint a problem. It's their dishin' out that gets threads locked. :rofl:

[bridgit]

38. sure, it's the: Sydney Sawyer approach to life interaction...

least of all selective freedom & liberty = "Aunt Polly!! Aunt Polly!! Tom's not painting the fence, Aunt Polly!!" :rofl: while they're out sticking some little girl's braids in the ink well :thumbsdown: i'd love to sit still long enough to accommodate, but i have been abused elsewhere & the resultant is still the same, it is palpable & felt upon the skin the tongue like ashes. all this talk about "taking it", i "take" the light-rail downtown :shrug: i'll let others decide what it is to hold a cigar between their fingers.

so as to answer you mention of course, Heidi :hi:

[Heidi]

39. If I loved ya any more than I already do, brigit,

I think we'd both puke. :loveya:

[In_The_Wind]

11. Hurray!

:hug:

Think about how thankless a task it is as you and Mr. Heidi enjoy your supper tonight. :thumbsup:

[Heidi]

13. That's the really horrible thing.

We're eating dinner with my mother-in-law tonight, so I didn't really _need_ to shop. But I always do the things I loathe right away, just to get 'em over with.

[In_The_Wind]

17. Oh My - that is horrible!

I do the same thing - getting past the difficult jobs first. Otherwise I feel the pressure to get them done.

I know I still need to order and stack cords of wood for the winter because I like to be warm for those middle of the night trips to the refrigerator.

[Heidi]

18. Scroll up to Post 16 in this thread. I left ya a gift there. ;-)

[In_The_Wind]

20. OMG ~ You most certainly did!

Can we have him shipped straight to my door that would make my winter so much happier ...

My toes wouldn't get cold at night ... I'm so sure that he could keep 'em warm as toast.

[Heidi]

24. I think Nekkid Lenny deserves his own thread, don't you?

Gimme just a minute . . . :evilgrin:

[In_The_Wind]

25. Oh Yeah!

[Kellanved]

21. What?

With the Migros 30 minutes away and Varese just over the border? Grocery shopping doesn't get more fun than that :D .

[Heidi]

23. Actually, I prefer Coop to Migros . . .

but _all_ of the grocery stores here have those criminal mini-shopping carts for kids. :grr:

[Kellanved]

28. well

I remember the coops to be tiny shops, barely big enough to accomodate even one shopping cart ;-) . But well, I haven't been to Switzerland for a decade now.

[Heidi]

30. Check this out, Kellanved!

The better Coop markets are now huge, American-style malls, with escalators, elevators, and everything! :wow:

Here's the Coop where I shop in Tenero:


Now


When it was under construction a year ago.

[billyskank]

32. I missed you!

:cry:

[In_The_Wind]

33. Hi Billy!

:loveya::hug:

[billyskank]

34. Hi, Joani

:hug:

[In_The_Wind]

41. How are you feeling this morning?

Did your headache go away?

[billyskank]

44. I feel ok right now

Thanks Joani. I went to the doctor this morning about my right ear, where my hearing is somewhat impaired and I seem to have constant tinnitus. He looked in there and said it was blocked up with wax. :)

He told me some stuff to get from the chemist which should unblock it. :)

[In_The_Wind]

46. Have you ever tried Ear Candles?

I've had hearing problems for years. Tinnitus is no fun. It wipes out bird songs and high pitched voices. Darned - I'm sorry Billy. :hug:

[billyskank]

47. Thankyou Joani!

I'm hoping than when I get my plumbing cleaned out, everything will be peachy again! :hug:

[Heidi]

35. Well, you weren't here, so I had to go with second-best:

[billyskank]

36. If he's second to anybody

It isn't me. :shrug:

[Heidi]

37. See, now . . .

that's where we disagree. I don't know Lenny Kravitz, and I've never seen how he treats other human beans. But I've seen you be a good person a jillion times, and what with your nice hands and dimples, you win. :thumbsup:

[billyskank]

40. Is a jillion more or less than a brazillion?

:rofl:


:hug: :loveya: :hug:

[Heidi]

42. Who cares? I don't do math in my head, anywaze.

But I know what I like. :loveya:

[billyskank]

43. So, was your journey into darkness successful?

Did you get all the things you need? :hug:

[Heidi]

45. Yes, and I also got Halloween candy!

Our trick-or-treaters get Snickers bars, Hershey's kisses and mini Dr Pepper-in-a-can. By golly, these Swiss goddaughters of mine and their friends will be downright civilized when I'm finished with them! :rofl: