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Living in America... visitors welcome

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SuperBunny · 09/03/2009 19:14

East Coast
MaNanny - Boston
Twinmommytobe - Boston
MuminCT - CT
Greatgooglymoogly - NY State
Yesthereare4ofthem - NY State
Brooklynmom - NYC
alarkaspree - NYC
MKG - New Jersey
Mummimamma - PA
Poetmum - PA
Twirl - MD

South
Earlybird - TN
jabberwocky - AR
Sunchowder - Florida
Marls001 - Bentonville, AR
Tinpot - NC
MadameDeathStare- AL

Midwest
SuperBunny- Chicago
Dodgykeeper - Dayton, OH
Chocchipcookie - Ohio
MonkeyLover
KickAssAngel - Ann Arbor, MI
MumofFivemeanschaos

Rockies
Alipiggie - Boulder, CO
Ribena

Northwest
AnnieLaurie - Seattle, WA
Dooneygirl - Oregon City, OR

California
SittingBull - nr San Francisco
Califrau - Milpitas
loopsngeorge - Brentwood, LA
Syd - Manhattan Beach, LA
SofiaAmes - LA
LATyke - Redondo Beach
CarmenSanDiego - San Diego

Texas
Texan - Dallas
Tiggyhop - Houston
Vixie78 - Houston
BananaPudding - Austin
Cosmicdust - East Texas

Canada
Hellish - Ottawa
Shouldlistenedtomymum - Hamilton
Nooka - BC
Jacksmama - Langley

Exotic Islands
Anorak - Bermuda
cp - Trinidad
Barefeete - BVI

Brazil
Albert

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dooneygirl · 30/03/2009 04:26

A zither was my favorite instrument in 2nd grade.

I'm CATable. I'd bet most others are here, too. Find one, and you will get directed to the others on here pretty quickly, I found out.

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SuperBunny · 30/03/2009 04:37

Your music room sounds wonderful cali.

Kickass, you can email me and I can hook you up with anyone else who wants to

busy mamama @ gmail dot com

no gaps, obviously

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Califrau · 30/03/2009 06:07

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SuperBunny · 30/03/2009 18:00

Anorak, you are needed here

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kickassangel · 30/03/2009 20:13

i just love the way you can 'shout' for someone on mumsnet.

reminds me of when my best friend lived in a welsh village. when it was time for lunch/dinner, someone would stand outside there house, and shout the names of whichever of us kids were awol. next person a few doors down would carry it on etc, until the missing child returned for food.

who needs mobiles?

dooneygirl · 31/03/2009 03:02

I think it has been too long since DH has done laundry. He wanted to make sure he had a certain work shirt clean since one of the corporate bigwigs is in town. So he did his own load. The washing machine was fine, but he hit a snag with the dryer.

He freaked me out, because he told me that it didn't work. So I looked, and he had been pushing the start button, but hadn't selected a cycle, or selected the amount of time for it to dry. So I fixed that. Then it shut off, and he found that one of his other shirts had gotten caught on the hook to the door, and it had twisted around and around and around while still hooked to the door, and it was ruined.

The clothes weren't dry, and he started them again, and forgot about them until this morning, when he discovered them still pretty much wet right before he had to leave for work. I'm guessing when he couldn't get it to start, he just started pushing buttons, and turned it to air dry (which was what it was on), which I've never used. So he had only a few minutes, and had to go to work in a really wet shirt. All of that, and the person doesn't even come until tomorrow, and I did all of our laundry today.

The sad thing is he was the one who taught me how to do laundry when we got married.

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SuperBunny · 31/03/2009 03:17

Kickass, that is a wonderful story

lol @ Mr. Dooney

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SuperBunny · 31/03/2009 03:24

I have just discovered that a friend's uncle is named Doris. He's from Georgia. Is Doris really a man's name?

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jabberwocky · 31/03/2009 14:06

I worked with a man in TN named Doris. Maybe it's a Southern thing?

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SuperBunny · 31/03/2009 18:37

Curious.

Dinner just went to the dentist & was fab [proud mummy emoticon]

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SuperBunny · 01/04/2009 02:14

Warning: Do NOT, under any circumstances, be tempted to play scrabble with Kickass. She truly kicks ass. Well, mine at least. 157 points in one move. Feck. I'm a loser, baby...

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dooneygirl · 01/04/2009 02:33

Sounds like she and anorak would be a match made in Lexulous heaven.

kickassangel · 01/04/2009 17:06

it was a fluke!!

that software has glitches in it, it's the same as 'scrabulous' was in the uk, before they got sued by the scrabble people.

it too often hands out a whole set of consonenat or vowels, or sometimes a complete word pops up. great, if yu get lucky, not so great otherwise.

also, now you get 8 letters & the board is bigger, it's easier to use a 7 letter word & you still get the 50 bonus points.

i know too much about scrabble, don't i?

dooneygirl · 01/04/2009 23:56

I have to agree, most of the time when I play a big word, it is because pops up as is or with 2 letters reversed. It is like a big flashing neon sign telling me what to play. And if I get a game with one big word, I get multiple big words in the game, and then go for multiple games with no big words.

I usually am playing 3 games at a time, and almost always find at one point during a game one game I have all consonants, one game I have all vowels, and one game I have a fairly decent mix.

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SuperBunny · 02/04/2009 00:19

Why do I never get whole words given to me? I have to think

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dooneygirl · 02/04/2009 00:32

Because the Lexulous Gods know you are able to figure them out on your own, unlike me.

kickassangel · 02/04/2009 01:06

i used to get totally trashed by one guy, who not only had the lexulous gods smiling upon him, but also kept a dictionary by his pc, so he could look up which words to use!!

i may have announced in the next staff meeting the one time i beat him.

i'm still upset that we can't play the uk, i loved playing scrabble with my work crowd, we were all so horribly rude to each other!!

dooneygirl · 02/04/2009 01:16

Ok, I'm seriously not understanding this using the dictionary to look up words. How do these people have the time to do this. Wouldn't it take forever? And how would you not die of complete boredom from doing so?

Remind me to call you a bunch of names next time we play.

kickassangel · 02/04/2009 01:22

he would take days to take his turn. if he got a letter like 'q' he'd go throught the dictionary, seeing which word he could make & get most points with.

have just looked round some more & found that scrabulous lexulous STILL has 2 games i was playing in the UK when it got pulled & sued. SO, i have started a new game with a friend, and will see if she responds!

btw, not only left rude messages, but tried to find out which swear words it allowed on the board. we had our own alternative scoring system for that, which was related to who owed the most drinks when we went to the pub. teachers are so straight laced, aren't they?

dooneygirl · 02/04/2009 01:29

That's my point. How dull and time-consuming is that for a game? Unless you were playing for a million dollars or something.

I totally know what you mean about teachers being straight laced. My IL's are all teachers, and so are much of DH's friends. They're the biggest, dullest, teatotal group ever.

kickassangel · 02/04/2009 01:31

he did get physically abused if he took too long to play. he used to be late with his reports as well. which he also got hit for. hard.

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SuperBunny · 02/04/2009 01:39

When allowed, I use a dictionary to check the meaning of something that I think is a word. For example, I used 'quoll' the other day but didn't know what it meant. On Lexulous it won't let you play anything that isn't a legitimate word anyway so I don't see the problem.

My wonderful Dad takes hours for each move in RL. He has been known to wander off and cook supper before deciding what to put down.

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SuperBunny · 02/04/2009 01:40

I was a straight laced teacher. I never went to work with my vest top on inside out and back to front because we had been out drinking the night before. No, never. Not me.

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Bunkups33 · 02/04/2009 18:53

Hey SuperBunny can I ask for some advice? I am trying to decide whether to accompany dh to Chicago on his next trip. Hotel is covered and we just have to pay for flights for me and dc s which aren't too bad from Des Moines.

I would have 1 or 2 full days on my own with the 3 dcs(oldest 4 youngest 2 mths) and no wheels. Is it easy to get around downtown? Can you think of anywhere off the top of your head where I can spend a few not-too-stressful hours on my own with kids??

I feel I should do these things before dd starts school!

Any suggestions gratefully received!

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SuperBunny · 02/04/2009 19:34

Yes Bunkups, you MUST come! Chicago is the best city. I know I am biased but I wouldn't have said that about the cities on the East Coast. Dooney can tell you about it from a tourist's perspective.

Downtown is really easy to get around - tons of buses, the EL, subways and a free trolley in the summer.

Good places to visit:

Field Museum of Natural History - fabulous children's area, dinosaurs, Egyptian stuff and a new special exhibit about Pirates

Museum of Science and Industry (not downtown but easy to get to) - a huge museum with an Imax theatre, massive kids area to play in, model trains, tractors to climb on

Aquarium - biggest indoor aquarium in the US or something like that - dolphins, beluga whales, fish

Children's Museum & Navy Pier

Zoo - free

Beaches

Or you could just play in the fountains at Millenium Park and see The Bean which we often do.

When were you thinking of coming?

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