Now that's a face made for radio.

Video killed the radio star

You make Harry Potter look cool.

Actually, you look exactly like what Milhouse would look like at ya age if he was a real person....


YOUR FACE!!!

LN, are you yawning,laughing or snarling?

Or maybe all three at once, perhaps?

Yeah, I was just being myself.



YOUR [BadWord]!!!

hahaha

My eldest son told me this morning that he eats a dry slice of bread every morning to keep sore throats away!!!!!!

Child logic is weird but i may try it cos i get a lot of sore throats

I have a flu/cold right now and my throat feels like I've been gargling razor blades. I can't imagine eating a dry slice of bread right now! But that's funny!

I'll remember that one..

I like a dry slice of bread when I've got a sore throat cause it scratches ya throat and makes it feel better.

Yogi, your son is a genius mate.

Or you're full of child logic.

Another insult from Longneck!!!1!

My family's candy store is going to be featured in U.S.A. Today in the travel section on April 10th. Apparently Ralph Lauren's daughter has several candy stores in New York and my parents store was her inspiration .

This has been a cool year for their store actually. It was used in a photo shoot for some magazine (taking pictures of a model). It was also used for some Asian Documentary and my dad is going to be in it, answering questions about candy in English, which I desperately hope to see! There was also a movie filmed on the main street of Carmel recently and it looked like the store was used as a background.

I never knew your family owns a candy store, BL - really?? That's great!! And so cool that it's getting such publicity. Has your family had it a long time?

Sorry, I'm just getting excited, thinking about this like you're Willy Wonka now! haha

Good news Blib

P.S. Yogi Jr,he of the dry bread and child logic?

Playing in some local woods this morning (they are on holiday this week) he climbed up a slope and came back down head first

Smashed his head on a tree stump and opened up a big gash. His mother has him away to the hospital getting patched up,i am at home looking after the others!

Who can take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew
Cover it with chocolate and a miracle or two
Blibbleblabble's Dad, oh Blibbleblabble's Dad
Blibble's Dad can 'cause he mixes it with love
and makes the world taste good.

I'll be buying the USA Today Friday for sure. By the way, Carmel is a logical locale for a candy store. Have you ever had interest in working in the family business?

On the food channel I once saw a segment about a guy, who operates a specialty chocolate shop in San Francisco. He learned how to make exquisite chocolates in Switzerland, and opened up his own small shop where he makes a controlled amount of candy daily (just enough to get by), sells it, closes the shop and goes surfing or something.

Yogi, how's your boy doing??

Blib, I love candy stores!! I think that would be such a terrific way to make a living! That is, until the screaming kids and their annoying parents inevitably ruined for me!

They've had it 30 years, as long as I've been alive. When I say I grew up in a candy store it's true. As a baby I used to sleep in the tiny back room in a cardboard box while both my parents were working.

The funny thing is, after our whole lives growing up in there, my brothers and I haven't had a single cavity. The dentist used to joke saying we were bad patients because he depended on getting a lot of business from candy store owners



It's crossed my mind, but only because I would make more money than I'm making now. However, instead of handing the store to myself or one of my brothers, I think my parents want to sell it for as much money as they can possibly get so they can have a better retirement. I don't blame them.

Besides, I did work there for 4 1/2 years, and it wasn't as fun as it might seem. Growing up with tourists everywhere, who have all left their brains at home, can be frustrating. I will be sad though when the store is no longer in my family.

You should've been a dentist, Blib!

This explains a lot.

Blibble, my in-laws have had a family restaurant for three generations that started as a candy store in the 1930s, called American Candy. In addition to the candy they started to make hamburgers and coffee, and soon the candy business was overtaken by the restaurant business. My MIL and FIL worked 7 days a week until my FIL died 6 1/2 years ago. It was an institution in their hometown.

My brother in law had to close it recentlybecause the economy, road works projects and low cost lunch deals from the chains combined to strangle the diner. Plus, he didn't want to devote every day to the business, and I don't blame him. Fortunately, the hardware chain, Lowe's, opened up their east coast distribution center nearby and hired him to operate their restaurant, which means no overhead cost for him and a asteady stream of young, hungry workers, who get a thirty minute lunch or dinner break and don't have time to get in their cars to eat.

How has the economy affected your parents' business?

YAY!! I finished my taxes already!!

(Yes, a week early is a miracle for me! )
((And Yes, if I ever got $ back, I'd have them done in February ))

I was watching a episode of Desperate Housewives and a nice poem was read..

written by Mary Elizabeth Frye (1905-2004).

Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am in a thousand winds that blow,
I am the softly falling snow.
I am the gentle showers of rain,
I am the fields of ripening grain.
I am in the morning hush,
I am in the graceful rush
Of beautiful birds in circling flight,
I am the starshine of the night.
I am in the flowers that bloom,
I am in a quiet room.
I am in the birds that sing,
I am in each lovely thing.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there. I do not die.

Why do I always like the shoes in the Payless commercial, but when I go to the store, I see shoes that I can only imagine a hooker wearing??

I actually go to Payless first. I seem to find good deals and decent shoes. Honest, I'm not a hooker either.

I am not one that has closet full of shoes and can't say I always am shoe shopping. Yet, I always seem to have good luck there, whether I'm looking for shoes, sandals, or tennis shoes.


TIS

I have bought some sandals there in the past, but their heels this year seem ridiculously high. Perhaps it's the fashion this year, but when I looked at their pumps and slingbacks, I knew that I wouldn't be able to stand in them, not for one second. They had to be 4-5 inches high! Definitely what we used to call CFMs!!!

I am a total shoe junkie!! I have dozens upon dozens. Maybe you don't like shoe shopping because you're thin! My mother says that most women like to buy shoes and bags because you don't think about your size going up!

I got some shoes on sale for about $7 each. They are pretty nice, I forget the brand, the one like Polo Ralph Lauren but not that.

Man, I wish my kid would hurry up and get here...Who said the time fly's???

They glued Mike's head together at the hospital(shame they couldn't glue his lips together at the same time). He has a headache today and a sore neck,minor whiplash perhaps?

The main bugbear for him though is no football for 2 weeks!!!!

He is devastated by this

Poor baby!! Hope he's feeling better soon, Yogi.