Saturday night pic thread! Show those happy faces!

[Rising Phoenix]

[YellowRubberDuckie]

1. You're so cute!

HEre's me today. I got my hair cut AGAIN.


You look like a friend of mine's mom when she was your age. I mean, you guys could be twins! And I always thought she was gorgeous too.
Mel

[Rising Phoenix]

4. thank you

and you look great too! So nice to see a smiling face!

[RainDog]

109. I like your hair!

did you get it straightened, too? -- didn't I read earlier that you were going to do that?

I like this cut b/c it really lets your purty face shine through!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

114. Thank you!!

I just used a straightening iron.
Duckie

[Guava Jelly]

2. I'm in.

Although your smile is far better than mine :)

[Rising Phoenix]

5. thank you

you look great, tiny smile or no....:hi:

[JTG of the PRB]

3. You asked for it!

Gotta love cookouts...

[Rising Phoenix]

6. lol

double fisting the sausage.....nice :hi:

[JTG of the PRB]

113. Hey! They're beef dinner franks, thank you VERY much!

:P



:hi:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

7. Very nice!

Here's me:

[Rising Phoenix]

9. happy day!

:loveya:

[SallyMander]

8. New puppy!

:bounce:

[Rising Phoenix]

10. great pic!

:woohoo:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. My dear Rising Phoenix!

That is a really nice picture of you, sweetie!

This is me, just the other day, right after my shower...No makeup, no jewelry, just me!

[Rising Phoenix]

14. thank you

and may I say you look stunning....

here is me right out of the shower....but back when I had more hair and less tattoos

[Oceansaway]

12. ME...in the shower....

[Rising Phoenix]

15. lol

[Critters2]

80. LOL!! nt

[RevolutionaryActs]

13. Hello dear! How have you been?

:hug:



'Tis I, not more than an hour ago. :P

[Rising Phoenix]

16. been really well

busy making my mark on the world....or at least in my house

you look great!

[RevolutionaryActs]

19. That's great to hear.

:bounce:


And thank you, you look fab as always. :)

[Rising Phoenix]

20. kiss kiss

[fizzgig]

17. adorable as always, sweetie

i have no new pictures and feel too ookie to take a new one, but i thought i'd just drop in and say hi :hug:

[Rising Phoenix]

18. well great to hear from you

pic or no....:loveya:

[SPKrazy]

21. Here's one from earlier today

and from the other day




and I don't remember when but recently



:rofl:


you look awesome as always Rising Phoenix :D

[VenusRising]

41. you in the bunny ears is teh awesome!

You and GoPsUx could have some weird animal hat brigade if you can get him to don his lobster chapeau. :rofl:

[SPKrazy]

68. no its me that is teh awwsum

the bunny ears are just filler for teh awwsumness :D

[Robeson]

22. Are favorite actors allowed?....

....

[AlCzervik]

23. Cute! Here you go, you'll ignore my messy kitchen table---please.

[The Straight Story]

26. That's a really nice pic of you

I love your glasses!

If ya want I can come over and clean up your table ;)

[AlCzervik]

28. Thanks--blush. Now is good and it's even more messy.

:D

[The Straight Story]

33. Well, we are both in CA

What part are you in? I am in Bakersfield (aka BakersHell...)

[AlCzervik]

34. elk grove or as we call it round here---"The Bu, like Malibu only real"

[The Straight Story]

36. Never been there - and heck, I still have not seen the ocean

Maybe in a few weeks I will see it.

All I have seen here is sand...I hear tell there is water somewhere near by.

[AlCzervik]

37. we're about 100 miles from SF, i wish it was closer but someday i'll be living there

i hope.

[The Straight Story]

40. I had a few job offers there

Just too expensive to live there (My brother-in-law lives there).

My wife has been there several times, I have yet to see it. Hopefully this summer I can make it up there. If it is anything like Chicago or New York I will love it.

You ever get down around my way? Would love to meet someone else from DU!

[AlCzervik]

43. wow you need to go and visit, sf is my favorite city in the world! My husband works in

that area when he's in the country. I've only through Bakersfield once when i was going to Vegas.

[Drum]

93. Table? What table?

Great portrait. :)

[The Straight Story]

24. Some of the wife and me (one with a mohawk):

[DarkTirade]

51. I like the 'hawk. :)

[The Straight Story]

75. It was only there for a day :)

The wife wanted to see me with one for some reason...we had a good time with it :rofl:

[Deja Q]

25. My alter-egos:

[The Straight Story]

27. Is that a body I see in your closet?

:rofl: Love the leopard print.

I gotta say - you are cute :) If I wasn't married already I would send you a PM....

[RetroLounge]

29. Cute Pic!

:hi:



RL

[DarkTirade]

53. That's a very impish grin.

Something tells me you're up to something.

Possibly something... evil? :P

[RetroLounge]

62. When am I not?

:shrug:

RL

[DarkTirade]

77. Hmm, good point.

I guess you just can't spend all the time you plot evil smiling or else the muscles in your face would get tired. :shrug:

:P

[bigwillq]

30. me

I like your pic! :) :hi:

[AlCzervik]

31. Very cute.

:hi:

[bigwillq]

32. Thanks!

I really need to get new pics though! :) :hi:

[The Straight Story]

35. Damn Hippy

You need a haircut :)

Where was it taken?

[bigwillq]

39. On the New Haven Green

When I met my very first (and only) DU member! :hi:

[Ava]

38. my same trippy photo

:hi:

and tonight.. this photo was hard to get because i'm not used to using my left hand for picture taking, lol.

[The Straight Story]

42. Weird

You look a lot like my neighbor.

And your shirt seems to say "I heart W" :rofl:

[Ava]

44. so you've seen my evil twin out there eh?

wait a minute.. i'm the evil twin! :P

nah, my shirt says "i heart IVAW" ... i got it at camp casey... ivaw vets rock!

[DarkTirade]

49. What happened to your arm?

Are you getting in bar brawls with freepers? :P

[Ava]

55. no, not yet

around here i'd have no backup and end up with much more than a hurt arm :rofl:

the sling is due to my rubber chicken induced injury from the other day. :P

[DarkTirade]

57. Ah, that's right.

I forgot about that. There are so many things in this world that are a result of rubber chicken misuse that it just slipped my mind.

[Ava]

61. yup, i hear it happens a lot

the monty python version of baseball :P

my injury has something to do with my rotator cuff and i'm supposed to be sore for about 2 week and keep this sling on for at least 1. right now there is just a constant burning sensation in my arm...

damn that rubber chicken. this is all HIS fault!

[DarkTirade]

63. Rubber chickens have their proper uses.

What you did was outside that realm. Can't blame the chicken for that. :shrug:

Now if you were going to use it to slide across a rope from one island to another, that would be a proper usage.

Provided it was one of those rubber chickens that has a pulley in the middle.

[Ava]

66. the chicken agreed to be part of this experimental baseball session

however as of right now we are not on speaking terms :silly:

[DarkTirade]

72. Well, when you two start speaking again...

... err... well, if you find yourself talking to any rubber chicken and hearing it answer back, then it might be time to seek professional help. :P

[Ava]

74. don't be jealous of our relationship

just because your rubber chicken doesn't talk to you doesn't mean rubber chickens don't talk :yoiks:

[DarkTirade]

87. I never said they couldn't talk...

I'm just wondering why they'd bother talking to YOU... :P

[Ava]

89. you know, that might hurt my feelings

if i had feelings :P

[DarkTirade]

95. Curses, my evil plan foiled again...

Were I able to grow a decent mustache, I'd be twirling it right now. :P

[DarkTirade]

45. I don't know if I really have a 'happy face' tonight... :P

So I'll post pictures of me doing something I like. :)



I think I'd just come to a stop in the first picture to get in the frame, so I was still breathing heavily. :P

[Ava]

46. weren't you cold?

yikes!

i've only ice skated three times, and each time ended up with me falling numerous times before leaving the ice angrily mumbling something to myself. :rofl:

[DarkTirade]

47. Cold? I was workin' up a sweat.

Why do you think I took my shirt off and skated around in a tank top? :P

[Ava]

52. 'cause you're weird

:P

next time you should try skating around in this:

[DarkTirade]

54. Not until I lose a little weight first...

:rofl:

[Ava]

58. how about this super cool one then?

:P

[DarkTirade]

60. Compared to some outfits I've seen on the ice, that ain't half bad...

and I'm including hockey gear in that comparison too... :P

[Ava]

64. perhaps, but it doesn't look as flexible as most outfits

[DarkTirade]

67. Well that's not a problem for me...

I'm not that flexible yet either. :P

[Ava]

69. well how about this "rockin" outfit then

:P

[DarkTirade]

71. Heh. If they want rock, I'll go out there on the ice with a guitar in my hands.

[Ava]

73. they might allow that

but only if you play this song:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/518945/spongebob_squarepants_the_movie_goofy_goober_rock/

[DarkTirade]

76. ... there's just something fundamentally wrong with SpongeBob Squarepants rocking that hard.

There are certain things in this universe that are just not meant to happen.

[Ava]

78. spongebob rocks.. period

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX5oqEfAydg

even his campfire song rocks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb_dnSee7V4

[DarkTirade]

81. My world has turned upside-down.

Nothing is what it seems anymore. :cry:

:P

[Ava]

82. spongebob has that effect on people

:D

[Drum]

94. Wow, is that from Styx On Ice??

:D

[RainDog]

110. dear Ava

thank you for making me laugh out loud at your beautiful riff on DarkTirade. :applause:

He deserves every loving minute of it. :)

[The Straight Story]

48. I ain't letting the wife see that pic

She has a thing for guys on ice (hockey) ;)

[DarkTirade]

50. Well, if it helps any... I'd rather be wearing figure skates. :P

I just can't afford 'em.

[The Straight Story]

56. Hey, I see your hobby is computer stuff

If you are ever out this way and need a job hit me up :)

That is pretty much my hobby as well.

[DarkTirade]

59. Unfortunately most of my programming knowledge is a few generations out of date.

I've only dabbled in post-Windows programming. Most of my practical knowledge is from the DOS and Windows 3.1 era.

Started to fall behind a few years back and just never got back up to speed enough to catch up to the times. :(

[The Straight Story]

65. Not all that hard

Just have to jump into OOP and such :)

I started programming at 13 on a TRS 80 model 1 (basic and assembly language).

Things are a lot better now for us coders. And you can Download VB/etc for free and start coding windows apps pretty painlessly. I am working on one now to monitor our servers and do reporting (not to mention you can get things like PERL for free as well).

If you ever need some help on it all shoot me a PM.

[DarkTirade]

70. I'd need to start from scratch really.

I've dabbled a bit in VisualStudio.net, and I'd like to learn C# to toy around with some of the software Microsoft put out for game development. But I was out of the game long enough that it's kinda hard to get back in.

So for now I'm being cheap and using a gamemaker program. :P So I'm still coding and working those brain muscles, but it's using a fairly simple scripting language that's specific to that gamemaker program.

[LeftyFingerPop]

79. 20 years ago, trying to find my mouth with a bottle filled with some kind of alcohol

[S n o w b a l l]

83. Great pic Rising Phoenix...

Me and my mom a few years ago....

[PassingFair]

96. Had to comment...

you are both very beautiful!

Party on!

[S n o w b a l l]

103. Thanks...

for the compliment. :)

[lost-in-nj]

115. You are

very beautiful..

and now I see where it comes from....



:hi:


lost

[S n o w b a l l]

121. Awww....Lost...thank you!

That's a very sweet thing to say! I love my mommy. :)

:hi:
:hug:

[Captain Angry]

84. Since there were discussions of skating and hockey...

I'm the goalie making the save. Flailing because they made a great pass. So I'm not smiling in the picture, but I was afterward. :-)

[DarkTirade]

86. Nice. :)

I'm not much of a sports person, but I was thinking about trying hockey now that I'm fairly certain on my feet.

Or rather, on my skates. :P

[Captain Angry]

88. I didn't teach myself to skate until I was 26.

I started buying gear and renting the ice, and was playing in a recreational league the next year.

It's so much fun. Especially since I'm not good enough to be in the upper leagues, I'm in the one with the most diverse cast. Women, 60 year old guys, local doctors, veterinarians, mechanics, engineers, etc. It's a blast. Both teams can go out and drink after the game.

In the upper leagues, they get way too competitive, and people don't even like the people on their own team.

[DarkTirade]

90. What a coincidence... I just started skating right after I turned 26...

I'd skated a few times before when I was younger and loved it, but unfortunately I lived in central FL, and there was only one decent rink around. My brother worked there and he got me in a couple times. Then he got fired, and shortly afterwards it closed down when I was 13 or 14. (I'm thinking bad management was the cause of both those events. :P )

But I just moved to a place where there are plenty of rinks so I started up again. Realized I was going often enough to justify buying my own skates, so I did. Although the rink I've been going to just closed down for the summer, so I'm gonna have to go to the expensive rink instead. Blech. Thankfully I'm getting a decent tax return, so I figure I'll use some of that to buy me some rollerblades. Not quite the same, but close enough to keep in practice without paying 7 bucks a day for the expensive rink.

[Captain Angry]

92. I hate it when they charge that much to do laps.

I used to try and go 2-3 times a week. It took me about a year to get up the nerve and ability to turn and skate backwards. And the hockey stop came one day. And all of a sudden I could stop on all 4 edges. It was just like a light switch was thrown.

I've never rollerbladed, I've been tempted, but I like the ability to fall and slide without leaving skin and body parts on the cement.

[DarkTirade]

99. Yeah, I just figured out hockey stops a month ago

and skating backwards two weeks ago. :)

For hockey stops I just practiced snowplow stops, then practicted doing them with just one skate, then got comfortable enough with them to let my body turn while doing it on one skate and voila. Hockey stop.

The backwards thing was a little harder. For some reason I just couldn't get moving. I finally figured it out by accident a couple weeks ago, then figured out what I'd done so I could duplicate it. :)

[Captain Angry]

100. That is exactly how I did it.

It takes a while to figure out how much weight goes onto the skate and at what angle so you don't catapult.

The worst thing for me was trying to learn to skate when all the 6 year olds were skating like Gretzky. The ego sees that and says, if they can do it, *I* can do it. And then I'd fall.

[DarkTirade]

101. That was annoying, but for me the worst part was when the 6 year olds were skating like 6 year olds.

I weigh over 200 pounds... and up until a couple weeks ago, I couldn't stop very well.

So when you've got a horde of little kids underfoot, falling down or running off in random directions without bothering to look behind them... yeah. I was a wee bit worried that I was gonna kill somebody.

[Captain Angry]

102. The first move I learned was how to pick up a 6 year old

so I'd land on my back and not crush them.

I was 235 when I started skating. I lost 75 pounds when I started playing.

[DarkTirade]

105. Yeah, I think I was somewhere in the 235-245 range when I started

Although since I spent the last three years before I moved doing heavy manual labor for a living, I can honestly say that a lot of it's muscle. :)

I haven't weighed myself lately so I don't know what I'm down to, but I just noticed that my jeans are starting to fall off me. So part of my tax refund is gonna go towards a new belt.

[Captain Angry]

111. I didn't have an ounce of muscle.

I went from a 40 waist to a 32, so I bought new pants. Either that or I would have had to use staples to keep the old ones up.

[DarkTirade]

112. Yeah, before I worked in the warehouse I was in about that shape.

I had a little bit of leg muscle from walking everywhere because I didn't have a car, and some forearm muscle because I was working at a pizza place and kneading/rolling dough at least an hour a day. :P But that was it.

Then the warehouse job transformed me. I lost about 15 pounds... then suddenly stopped losing weight. Because it was just being transformed into muscle. Then I moved up here and put on a little weight because I wasn't doing heavy labor for 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week. I think I'm back down to about what I was when I got here, maybe slightly less.

[BeachBaby]

85. I always love your pictures.....

you're such a natural beauty! :)

I finally found another pic, so I don't have to keep posting the same one over and over.

Me and the boyfriend at a beef n beer last March, a little tipsy but having a good time....

[Drum]

91. That's lovely.

Inner mirth. ;)

I'll search for one of mine to post (that I haven't put up a gazillion times...)

Here's one: an extraordinary day during a sailing course last summer. We'd spent all day sailing south to NJ, had anchored at sunset, and gone over the day with our skipper and some beers. When the pic was taken, they had all gone ashore for the night, leaving me aboard for the night at our anchorage. I dead-tired, but elated! :)

[Left Is Write]

97. I guess it's been a while.

[Guava Jelly]

104. Yes it has

But it is always welcome.
Yowza! :D

[leeroysphitz]

98. This is the only decent one I have of myself.

Can't remember who took it tho...

[BarenakedLady]

106. I don't have a happy face

Therefore no pic.

You look cute as usual though.

:hi:

[DarkTirade]

107. I don't either, right now I have a runny-nose face. :P

Which is why I used a pic from a month or so ago.

[lost-in-nj]

116. ....

:hug:


maybe one day we can smile together.......



:hi:


lost

[RainDog]

108. okay

I messed with it before someone else (cough, DuStrange, cough, temeah) could. actually, just trying out photobucket's new editing options. this one is "pop art."

so eeezie.

[Shakespeare]

117. Haven't posted one in awhile--here's me today.

:hi:

[AlCzervik]

118. oh, you're way pretty, you have beautiful eyes and some fabulous eyebrows.

:hi:

[RainDog]

119. porcelain skin like a china doll!

shakespeare never looked that good in those woodcuts of him! :)

[Shakespeare]

120. aww

Thanks! :blush:

[bicentennial_baby]

122. Oh my!

*fans self*

Priceless gorgeous woman...

:loveya: