Teacup Café XLI - Page 29

***Earniel*** · 03-08-2012, 05:41 PM

I don't know. If you have bought a house even if you're still paying it off, the deeds would be already in your name, any insurance for the house would be in your name and paid by you in full and also, you're the one who's paying the taxes on the house, sounds enough like home-owner to me.

Grey_Wolf · 03-09-2012, 02:12 PM

Here is a song which you can sing to entertain your friends and family all days of the week...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZQeb...eature=related

Enjoy!!

***Varnafindë*** · 03-10-2012, 04:03 PM

I thought I would listen to the whole nine minutes, but I gave up after about three

Grey_Wolf · 03-10-2012, 05:47 PM

Take it increments and you'll see it through.

***Valandil*** · 03-14-2012, 12:20 AM

With the Hobbit movie coming out, I'm getting the itch to read some JRRT again. I've been thinking about how to do it. I've thought of a plan I might follow, reading in this order:

* LOTR
* Silmarillion
* Unfinished Tales
* The Hobbit

I'd try to make my way through slowly (I'm reading other things besides anyway) - and see if I can time it to finish The Hobbit just a little before the movie comes out.

***Tessar*** · 03-14-2012, 01:26 PM

We're getting all geared up to move.

Also my mother is driving my dad and I bonkers.

My poor dad just started his new job, although he's working from home for the next two weeks, and he's been responsible for just about everything having to do with the move up to now. My mother and I are on spring break, but I am still working every day at my desk job.

So when something needs to be done she says, "Okay someone needs to take care of, [insert problem]," then wanders off to go study. i.e. saying that my dad and I have to take care of it despite the fact that she has the most freedom of schedule.

Case in point, my dad and I want to give away our old furniture that we don't want any more to Goodwill, and she is insisting we have a garage sale. Too bad she's too busy to help set it up!

So the two people who voted against a garage sale have to do all of the work.

It'll all be over soon, though! We're getting the keys tomorrow evening at which point we'll start moving boxes, and on Friday afternoon we're having a mover take all of the big stuff.

At least it's almost over.

Grey_Wolf · 03-14-2012, 02:02 PM

The Conjunction of Venus And Jupiter.

GrayMouser · 03-15-2012, 06:05 AM

"Tarva the Lord of Victory salutes Alambil the Lady of Peace".

***Valandil*** · 03-15-2012, 08:02 AM

Happy Pelennor Fields Day!

(also Happy Ides of March!)

***Varnafindë*** · 03-15-2012, 05:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GrayMouser

"Tarva the Lord of Victory salutes Alambil the Lady of Peace".

Good observation!

Grey_Wolf · 03-16-2012, 06:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GrayMouser

"Tarva the Lord of Victory salutes Alambil the Lady of Peace".

Indeed - it looks that way.

GrayMouser · 03-17-2012, 02:46 AM

Credit to C.S. Lewis, of course, just in case anybody misses the reference to "Prince Caspian"

**Mari** · 03-17-2012, 03:14 AM

Tessar, glad everything it semi-solved! So your dad found a job eh? Congrats!

***Tessar*** · 03-23-2012, 12:16 AM

I got an iPad tonight! I'm typing this on it right now. I can actually type almost as fast on here a I can on my laptop, which I wasn't expecting.

I got it to use for school because I really wanted something where I could type notes and also draw the math equations into the same document. I noticed some one else doing it with an iPad at the start of the semester and I wanted to try it.

***Valandil*** · 03-26-2012, 12:09 AM

Oooo... March 25th! Happy Ring Destruction Day, Toppling of Sauron Day, and New Year's Day in Gondor for the Fourth Age!

***Tessar*** · 03-26-2012, 05:01 PM

Huzzah for Freedom!!!!

**Mari** · 03-26-2012, 05:05 PM

Today's my daddy's 55th birthday

We're celebrating on Saturday though.

GrayMouser · 03-31-2012, 09:01 PM

LOTTO!

Nobody won the big one?
Interesting article from Wired on how the system can be gamed, and may be being used to launder money:

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/01/ff_lottery/all/1

Note especially the very lucky Joan Ginther of Texas, who has won over $1 million four times; her latest was a $10 million dollar win; total over $20 million.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/texas...4#.T3enENnYyjw

According to the comments, by an incredible coincidence she's a Stanford grad and former math professor, and, while she lives in Las Vegas, three of her four winning tickets have been bought in the tiny town she came from, and where she keeps going back to just to buy them.

***Tessar*** · 04-05-2012, 01:19 AM

I've sort of got a happy/unsure thing right now.

Over the last week I have lost about 3 to 5 pounds (I know I started somewhere between 183 and 185) and I know that's a lot of weight to drop considering that I haven't lost water weight (I stay well hydrated). I decided to restrict myself to right around 1700 calories per day, and it feels great.

I skip breakfast because I don't like to eat in the morning, or if I wake up hungry I have an egg or two with toast, but then I have about a 900 calorie lunch and then a smaller 600-700 calorie dinner. I love it because I rarely feel hungry before noon, so I can have two really big meals during the day and I feel very satisfied and not like I'm on a diet at all. Although to be fare I don't count the calories of outside meal veggies I eat, but that's partially because I typically wind up at about 1500-1600 calories, so I figure the veggies can't be more than another 200 calories maximum, and I'd rather allow myself to eat extra veggies whenever I want.

But I'm somewhat concerned because 1700 calories is only supposed to lose me about 2 pounds a week max, and I know it's not really healthy to lose faster than that for an extended period. I have increased my exercise by doing more walking around campus, and much more vigorously, so I wonder if that could be part of it. But I have no adverse reactions so far. I'm not hungry except at lunch and dinner time, I don't have deprivation/hunger headaches, if anything I am actually feeling like I have more stamina than last week despite the harder exercise and less food, so.... I'm hoping I'm on to something.

We'll see what happens in week two and three. If I continue to lose more than 2lb a week I think I will up my calories to 1800 or 1900.

Acalewia · 04-06-2012, 11:21 PM

-sneaks in, sets a plate of cookies on the table and then curls in her big comfy chair with Anticetos-

03-08-2012, 05:41 PM	#561
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	I don't know. If you have bought a house even if you're still paying it off, the deeds would be already in your name, any insurance for the house would be in your name and paid by you in full and also, you're the one who's paying the taxes on the house, sounds enough like home-owner to me. __________________ We are not things.

03-10-2012, 04:03 PM	#563
*Varnafindë* Princess of the Noldor (and Administrative Empress of the Lone Islands) Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Imladris (and sometimes Norway) Posts: 3,304	I thought I would listen to the whole nine minutes, but I gave up after about three __________________ Signature picture art - Bard the Bowman - by vigshane Avatar art - Footsteps of Spring (a young Luthien) - by Henning Janssen

03-14-2012, 12:20 AM	#565
*Valandil* High King at Annuminas Administrator Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Wyoming - USA Posts: 10,752	With the Hobbit movie coming out, I'm getting the itch to read some JRRT again. I've been thinking about how to do it. I've thought of a plan I might follow, reading in this order: * LOTR * Silmarillion * Unfinished Tales * The Hobbit I'd try to make my way through slowly (I'm reading other things besides anyway) - and see if I can time it to finish The Hobbit just a little before the movie comes out. __________________ My Fanfic: Letters of Firiel Tales of Nolduryon Visitors Come to Court Ñ á ë ?* ó ú é ä ï ö Ö ñ É Þ ð ß ® ™ [Xurl=Xhttp://entmoot.tolkientrail.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=ABCXYZ#postABCXYZ]text[/Xurl] Splitting Threads is SUCH Hard Work!!

03-15-2012, 06:05 AM	#568
GrayMouser Elf Lord Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ilha Formosa Posts: 2,068	"Tarva the Lord of Victory salutes Alambil the Lady of Peace". __________________ Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals."- Winston Churchill

03-15-2012, 08:02 AM	#569
*Valandil* High King at Annuminas Administrator Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Wyoming - USA Posts: 10,752	Happy Pelennor Fields Day! (also Happy Ides of March!) __________________ My Fanfic: Letters of Firiel Tales of Nolduryon Visitors Come to Court Ñ á ë ?* ó ú é ä ï ö Ö ñ É Þ ð ß ® ™ [Xurl=Xhttp://entmoot.tolkientrail.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=ABCXYZ#postABCXYZ]text[/Xurl] Splitting Threads is SUCH Hard Work!!

03-09-2012, 02:12 PM	#562
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	Here is a song which you can sing to entertain your friends and family all days of the week... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZQeb...eature=related Enjoy!!

03-10-2012, 05:47 PM	#564
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	Take it increments and you'll see it through.

03-14-2012, 01:26 PM	#566
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	We're getting all geared up to move. Also my mother is driving my dad and I bonkers. My poor dad just started his new job, although he's working from home for the next two weeks, and he's been responsible for just about everything having to do with the move up to now. My mother and I are on spring break, but I am still working every day at my desk job. So when something needs to be done she says, "Okay someone needs to take care of, [insert problem]," then wanders off to go study. i.e. saying that my dad and I have to take care of it despite the fact that she has the most freedom of schedule. Case in point, my dad and I want to give away our old furniture that we don't want any more to Goodwill, and she is insisting we have a garage sale. Too bad she's too busy to help set it up! So the two people who voted against a garage sale have to do all of the work. It'll all be over soon, though! We're getting the keys tomorrow evening at which point we'll start moving boxes, and on Friday afternoon we're having a mover take all of the big stuff. At least it's almost over.

03-14-2012, 02:02 PM	#567
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	The Conjunction of Venus And Jupiter.

03-17-2012, 02:46 AM	#572
GrayMouser Elf Lord Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ilha Formosa Posts: 2,068	Credit to C.S. Lewis, of course, just in case anybody misses the reference to "Prince Caspian" __________________ Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals."- Winston Churchill Last edited by GrayMouser : 03-17-2012 at 02:52 AM.

03-17-2012, 03:14 AM	#573
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Tessar, glad everything it semi-solved! So your dad found a job eh? Congrats! __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

03-23-2012, 12:16 AM	#574
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	I got an iPad tonight! I'm typing this on it right now. I can actually type almost as fast on here a I can on my laptop, which I wasn't expecting. I got it to use for school because I really wanted something where I could type notes and also draw the math equations into the same document. I noticed some one else doing it with an iPad at the start of the semester and I wanted to try it.

03-26-2012, 12:09 AM	#575
*Valandil* High King at Annuminas Administrator Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Wyoming - USA Posts: 10,752	Oooo... March 25th! Happy Ring Destruction Day, Toppling of Sauron Day, and New Year's Day in Gondor for the Fourth Age! __________________ My Fanfic: Letters of Firiel Tales of Nolduryon Visitors Come to Court Ñ á ë ?* ó ú é ä ï ö Ö ñ É Þ ð ß ® ™ [Xurl=Xhttp://entmoot.tolkientrail.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=ABCXYZ#postABCXYZ]text[/Xurl] Splitting Threads is SUCH Hard Work!!

03-26-2012, 05:01 PM	#576
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	Huzzah for Freedom!!!!

03-26-2012, 05:05 PM	#577
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Today's my daddy's 55th birthday We're celebrating on Saturday though. __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

03-31-2012, 09:01 PM	#578
GrayMouser Elf Lord Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ilha Formosa Posts: 2,068	LOTTO! Nobody won the big one? Interesting article from Wired on how the system can be gamed, and may be being used to launder money: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/01/ff_lottery/all/1 Note especially the very lucky Joan Ginther of Texas, who has won over $1 million four times; her latest was a $10 million dollar win; total over $20 million. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/texas...4#.T3enENnYyjw According to the comments, by an incredible coincidence she's a Stanford grad and former math professor, and, while she lives in Las Vegas, three of her four winning tickets have been bought in the tiny town she came from, and where she keeps going back to just to buy them. __________________ Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals."- Winston Churchill

04-05-2012, 01:19 AM	#579
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	I've sort of got a happy/unsure thing right now. Over the last week I have lost about 3 to 5 pounds (I know I started somewhere between 183 and 185) and I know that's a lot of weight to drop considering that I haven't lost water weight (I stay well hydrated). I decided to restrict myself to right around 1700 calories per day, and it feels great. I skip breakfast because I don't like to eat in the morning, or if I wake up hungry I have an egg or two with toast, but then I have about a 900 calorie lunch and then a smaller 600-700 calorie dinner. I love it because I rarely feel hungry before noon, so I can have two really big meals during the day and I feel very satisfied and not like I'm on a diet at all. Although to be fare I don't count the calories of outside meal veggies I eat, but that's partially because I typically wind up at about 1500-1600 calories, so I figure the veggies can't be more than another 200 calories maximum, and I'd rather allow myself to eat extra veggies whenever I want. But I'm somewhat concerned because 1700 calories is only supposed to lose me about 2 pounds a week max, and I know it's not really healthy to lose faster than that for an extended period. I have increased my exercise by doing more walking around campus, and much more vigorously, so I wonder if that could be part of it. But I have no adverse reactions so far. I'm not hungry except at lunch and dinner time, I don't have deprivation/hunger headaches, if anything I am actually feeling like I have more stamina than last week despite the harder exercise and less food, so.... I'm hoping I'm on to something. We'll see what happens in week two and three. If I continue to lose more than 2lb a week I think I will up my calories to 1800 or 1900.

04-06-2012, 11:21 PM	#580
Acalewia Halfelven Daughter of the Dunedain, President of Entmoot Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: In trouble. As usual. Posts: 4,674	-sneaks in, sets a plate of cookies on the table and then curls in her big comfy chair with Anticetos- __________________ "Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life!"~ inked Don't meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. "Don't be such a sour wolf" Stiles ~ Heart Monitor http://www.wattpad.com/user/IceQueenofMitera

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