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Sounds about right. Though if I'm being honest I'd have to admit that I did my part to pull my side of the formation down too. ~skysprite

No yodeling, no scent of tequila. But he did keep winking at me! I don't know why I didn't put two and two together when I met him. Probably because I haven't been on dz.com in a very long time. ~skysprite

I have a sneaking suspicion that I jumped with THE Vinny the Anvil last weekend! How many Vinny the Anvils could there possible be?? http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v422/tiffjumps/Jump/?action=view¤t=Tiff2.flv ~skysprite

Congrats and much love to you both! ~skysprite

13 months, but I do see sky peaking through at the end of the tunnel, so that's good. ~skysprite

Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ~skysprite

You still drink Mt. Dew in freefall? How's your goggles? ~skysprite

Sweet Potato Puffs 2 cans (40 oz. each) sweet potatoes or yams, drained 3 egg yolks 1 1/2 tsp. salt 1/2 cup butter, melted 1/3 cup firmly packed brown sugar 2 cups cornflake crumbs 1/2 cup butter, melted 26 to 34 regular-size marshmallows Mash sweet potatoes and combine with egg yolks, salt, 1/2 cup butter and the brown sugar. Combine cornflake crumbs and 1/2 cup melted butter and put into shallow dish or onto waxed paper. Line muffin pan with paper baking cups. Mold sweet potato mixture around each marshmallow. Roll in cornflake mixture and place into baking cups. Poke finger into top of each puff. Freeze. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350. Bake unthawed puffs for 30 minutes. ~skysprite

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hehe Love those! My sister was in OCS the end of last year and had a drill instructor who liked "diamonds" (a type of push ups I'm told, though what a push up is I'm not sure - I tend to avoid them ). Grabbed this pic and added the text to it and sent that to her! She laughed! ~skysprite

Grandpa's a fighter all right! But a little more than four months later, he peacefully passed tonight around 5:30pm pst. Everyone has had time to accept that this was going to happen, and is handling it well. Gradma talked to us on the phone for a while tonight, then said she was going to get a hot cup of tea, make up the bed with fresh sheets, then go to bed early so she could keep her hair appointment tomorrow. Said she might as well look good when people come to see her. The thing that gave me chills was when grandma said grandpa has finally been reunited with his first love. His first wife died very young, and "everyone" believes that she was his real true love. Yet he and grandma had something very special too. To an outsider it might sound like an odd comment, but if you knew my grandparents it would have given you chills too. It gives her comfort to know that he's loved where he is, as well as loved here too. I know death is traditionally supposed to be difficult and extremely sad, but I can't help but feel that all of us affected are at peace. Especially grandma. Not to say she hasn't cried or felt sad, but there's an underlying acceptance and peacefulness in her voice as well. ~skysprite

Sorry for your loss. ~skysprite

Same reason as the last time I answered one of these threads. Plus I was up tossing my cookies as well, at 6 in the morning. Bad chinese food. Ugh. ~skysprite

The chicken & the egg were lying in bed after having sex & the chicken lit a cigarette. The egg says, "I guess that answers THAT question!" ~skysprite

This post made me smile! You know all of us here are behind you 110%! Just be careful and take care of yourself, but I hope to see some pictures of you back in the sky soon! ~skysprite

Yay, good for you! I passed the written portion of the RID test, and am now preparing for the interview/performance portion. Hope to have my certification by mid-year sometime. I still feel like I'm really far from being able to do that, but if I set even a loose deadline ("mid-year") I'll at least work toward that. Good luck and have fun!

I thought Fleet was a kind of enema...that might be why it tasted so shitty! Blues, Dave They also have a pretty powerful laxative. I had to use the same one Skysprite did...made me sick too. Andrea, glad you made it through okay!! My doc told me to get the lemon flavored kind cause it's "really good." Bullshit! Makes me gag just thinking of it! Anyway Andrea, so glad everything came out okay! Errm, turned out okay? ~skysprite

Eek! I actually had to have two over the summer as a "let's rule this out" sorta thing. They had me on Fleet. I was supposed to down two bottles in three hours I think? Don't remember. Ended up throwing up at least a full friggin bottle each time so had to down an additional one just to make sure the prep was still going to be good enough! That stuff is nasty. First time I figured I'd just down it and get it overwith. Nope, came back up. (That was also the night I was supposed to see the midnight showing of Harry Potter! ) So the second time I figured I'd plug my nose and sip it, give it time to go down. Ran to Walmart before it "kicked in" for some things, and ended up throwing up that bottle in aisle 12. So had to go buy another bottle while I was there. Yuck. ~skysprite

Happy Birthday Sean! ~skysprite

Happy Birthday!! ~skysprite

Thanks Billy!

Thanks guys! A bunch of us celebrated by causing a ruckus (literally - damn skydivers!) at a local sushi place then going to a comedy club! The jokes at our table were better than the first two guys, but the last guy really made it worth it! Fun night! ~skysprite

27.21 is my best so far Why did I open this thread? ~skysprite

I went to bed two hours ago, and now I'm up and headed off to work. ~skysprite

Knowing you all it's probably been posted before, but a very quick search on my part can't find it so here ya go! During one of her daily classes, a teacher trying to teach good manners, asked her students the following question: Michael, if you were on a date having dinner with a nice young lady, how would you tell her that you have to go to the bathroom ? Michael said, Just a minute I have to go pee …………………. The teacher responded by saying, That would be rude and impolite. What about you Sherman, how would you say it ? Sherman said, I am sorry, but I really need to go to the bathroom. I’ll be right back …………………… That’s better, but it’s still not very nice to say the word bathroom at the dinner table. And you little Edward, can you use your brain for once and show us your good manners ???? “I would say: Darling, may I please be excused for a moment ? I have to shake hands with a very dear friend of mine, whom I hope to introduce you to after dinner.” The teacher fainted ……………………. ~skysprite