<p>oh dear, doddsdad, I hope you're not applying to any <em>selective</em> taverns. To be impressive to them, you have to have a post # of at LEAST 1450.</p>
<p>Is that old scale or new scale?</p>
<p>ROTFLMAO! :D Good jokes, dcmom3 and momsdream! :D I've hired an out-of-work pool boy named Tad to mop up my slime trail. Slugg slime also serves as a delicious holiday dip, and because it is 12 percent glitter, it makes a lovely party decoration (the demand is especially high during Prom season). I have no idea why kissing a slugg is Good Luck, but if you guys need some, feel free to indulge yourselves. :)</p>
<p>Curm, line up those sippy cups! Everybody together now, ::::sip::::sii-iip::::SIIIIIP (hold it)::::now, breathe out::: Who says we never exercise in this place?! ;)</p>
<p>Oooohhh...funny (and not) dcmom3.</p>
<p>Packing... what's wrong with having 12 Pier 1 plates that don't match anything else? Or Christmas china? (My x-mas china is in Zeus and Hera's basement - not sure how they feel about that, but it'll be out for the holidays. Kids always put a carrot and a cookie on it for Santa.) </p>
<p>I have 8 pink plates, 8 pink dessert plates - and no salad bowls. Why, you ask? Well, parents gave me the plates when they upgraded - but won't part with the bowls. The bowls are shallow enough to fit in the dishwasher, so no chance of Zeus ever giving up table settings that will increase dishwasher capacity. So they still put out the pink salad bowls with the artsy, painted plates - coordination is so very overrated.</p>
<p>ariesathena. Cover your ears. We might be saying something you shouldn't know that will giv eyou the key to pink plates...</p>
<p>Momsdream,
We live in Germany, hence the villages not towns. We currently live in a valley and will be moving up the hill to another village with a magnificient view off the Bavarian-inspired balconies.</p>
<p>Airesathena,
My thoughts exactly, 12 plates (that are really cool, by the way) that don't match anything else are "keepers." I pulled more dishes out of cupboards last night. It was the remains of our everyday dishes given to us as wedding presents. Doddsdad asked why I was going to keep them. I explained that I planned to divide them up between DS and DD to take to college. He liked the idea of recyling the dishes.</p>
<p>I got 3 more big boxes packed last night. Listening to the "Best of Queen" helped keep me from going nuts. Had to lay off the gin and tonic, thought I might break some of the china.</p>
<p>doddsmom, do you have to do as my friends in Germany have had to do and take your kitchen cabinets with you? That was the funniest thing I'd ever heard, having to move your kitchen cabinets as if they were appliances. Can you folks who haven't thought of this before imagine walking into your new kitchen and it's.... totally empty? I'd have to go out and buy cabinet units at the Goodwill-equivalent first before I could put my Goodwill-assembled dish sets into them.</p>
<p>doddsmom, try Greatest Hits of ABBA for more packing joy.</p>
<p>Recycled dishes are great. The mis-match came because Hera bought new dishes, then Zeus insisted on keeping the dishwasher-sized bowls. I swear, they are being held for ransom - the family trash-talking: "Ha! Suffer with your oversized salad bowls that have to go in the top rack. Suffer while we put ours on the bottom rack in those little spaces around the edges!" </p>
<p>SBMom: Huh?</p>
<p>Before your time aries... Catchy glossy dance tunes; Swedish band that sang in english; slightly stilted lyrics; lush harmonies....?</p>
<p>SBmom:
Yeah, with the back-to-back B's, one reversed. These kids today, they just don't know what they missed...</p>
<p>They missed Abba - wish I had, too...</p>
<p>(Soory - couldn't resist...)</p>
<p>mootmom,
Excellent question about the kitchen cabinets. In our purchase agreement (contract)we specified that the built in kitchen (BIK) would remain,to include appliances and cabinets. In the contract we also noted that the built in cabinets in the master bathroom remain as well as all the light fixtures in the house. Things that we (Americans) assume come with the house you rent or buy may not. Things include built in kitchens (applliances and cabinets), light fixtures, built in shelves, etc. Our sellers were very accommodating and are even leaving the curtains and curtain rods (less money out of pocket at the get-go).</p>
<p>SBmom, crash, airesathena;
I am a big ABBA fan. As a matter of fact I "came out of the disco closet" in an earlier thread. I love the Commodores, ABBA, Parliament, Lakeside, all the 70s disco and dance bands. My daughter (14 years old) is a huge classic rock fan so she appreciated my listening to Queen for the first 6 nights of packing. Last night she abrupting stopped the CD and told me enough, she was getting another CD. I told her that was fine but to never interrupt a women packing her treasured knick knacks singing We Will Rock You at the top of her voice; someone could get hurt :)</p>
<p>I don't know about packing to ABBA. I'm hoping this move isn't going to be our Waterloo....</p>
<p>Here's one album to avoid
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000006ULH/104-2891063-9876756?v=glance%5B/url%5D">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000006ULH/104-2891063-9876756?v=glance</a></p>
<p>And as for the Commodores, this isn't a Brick House we're buying...</p>
<p>Maybe something from the Beatles??? How about Helter Skelter?!</p>
<p>:) We all live in a yellow sub-mar-ine! :) Happy moving, doddsdad and doddsmom.</p>
<p>If it's a Red House over yonder, there's a great long Jimi piece to pack by.</p>