What is in your cup? - Page 1543

poohbear_nc · 01-18-2013, 05:02 PM

I have found that Guinness does help deaden mouth pain - and can be a substitute "food" when you can't chew!

dreams · 01-18-2013, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by orlok

Black coffee (stirred clockwise in a smooth motion with the concave side of the red and chrome teaspoon facing towards the direction of flow) and a millionaires shortbread on my plate

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I love the description.

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Originally Posted by Iridal

Woohoo, my new dress arrived! We have a new year's reception tomorrow

I'm celebrating with a cup of Roship tea. Lipton

Yay! Photos please.

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Originally Posted by VydorScope

Yes, I am... but I am not a coffee sob. I also hang around a coffee forum so I can put on a good show, but... got Folgers in my cup this morning... to them thats like ummm calling Lipton tea I guess.

*whispers very, very, quietly... I use Folgers decaf coffee late at night*

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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

I have found that Guinness does help deaden mouth pain - and can be a substitute "food" when you can't chew!

Nice to see you are back home and have found something to help with the aftereffects.

Waiting for my cup of fresh coffee to brew.

ProfCrash · 01-18-2013, 05:31 PM

Snuggling with my baby boy.

CRussel · 01-18-2013, 05:41 PM

Imperial Keemun as I read Ghost Ship and listen to k.d. lang.

Stitchawl · 01-18-2013, 08:27 PM

It was homeward bound one night on the deep
Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep
I dreamed a dream and I thought it true
Concerning Franklin and his gallant crew.

With one hundred seamen he sailed away
To the frozen ocean in the month of May
To seek a passage around the pole
Where we poor seamen do sometimes go.

Through cruel hardships they mainly strove
Their ship on mountains of ice was drove
Only the Eskimo with his skin canoe
Was the only one that ever came through.

In Baffin's Bay where the whale fish blow
The fate of Franklin no man may know
The fate of Franklin no tongue can tell
Lord Franklin along with his sailors do dwell.

And now my burden it gives me pain,
For my long lost Franklin I'd cross the main
Ten thousand pounds I would freely give
To say on earth that my Franklin do live.

( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysFKjWG_W54 )

I must have worn out three copies of this Pentangle album!
Good morning, all. Saturday morning without cartoons. I have come far...
Big mug of East India Company's "Royal Breakfast" tea to start the day, and a bowl of rice, crab legs, and miso soup with pumpkin and onions to fuel it. Looks as if it's going to be a very nice day!

Stitchawl

maianhvk · 01-18-2013, 11:33 PM

I saw An Affair to Remember yesterday. It was so sweet I melted

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Originally Posted by Stitchawl

Looks as if it's going to be a very nice day!

I don't remember hearing you predict a less than "very nice" day, even when you have to see the dentist

VydorScope · 01-18-2013, 11:46 PM

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Originally Posted by maianhvk

I don't remember hearing you predict a less than "very nice" day, even when you have to see the dentist

Predicting you are going, rather deciding you are going to have a great day is a big part of actually having one.

pholy · 01-19-2013, 12:43 AM

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I'm glad the tooth extraction went well, pooh.

I think the best that can be said of tooth extractions is that they went and got over with. Less bad, perhaps, but not 'well'. I think 'well' implies that it was a 'good experience'... That's not possible.

But I'm glad you're over with it, pooh, and have found a good source of interim nourishment

maianhvk · 01-19-2013, 01:24 AM

Orange juice.

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Originally Posted by VydorScope

Predicting you are going, rather deciding you are going to have a great day is a big part of actually having one.

Ah, this. The problem is I can never recall this method on those gloomy days when everything is spiteful. Must have sth to do with being born a pessimistic

Stitchawl · 01-19-2013, 02:44 AM

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Originally Posted by maianhvk

I don't remember hearing you predict a less than "very nice" day, even when you have to see the dentist

Any day that I wake up and no one is shooting at me is a very nice day. It's all perspective.

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Originally Posted by VydorScope

Predicting you are going, rather deciding you are going to have a great day is a big part of actually having one.

There is NOTHING so important (to me, anyway.) as a positive mental attitude. I believe we can control our existence, and if 'we' don't control it, someone or something else will, and not always in a way that we want. I prefer optimism to pessimism, and in fact have been soundly chided for it by some. I admit it... I may carry optimism a bit too far. But I believe even yesterday can get better!

Every morning I sit quietly, meditating for 20 minutes and 'visualize' just what I want out of life. I 'see' it in my mind's eye. I do the same in the late afternoon. Then I get off my ass and make it happen.

If there are any doubts about the effect of a P.M.A., just look around. The people with a positive attitude always seem to get just what they want out of life. The people with a negative attitude are always complaining that they don't.

"Every day, in every way, it gets better, better, and better." Émile Coué 1857-1926

Stitchawl

Billi · 01-19-2013, 04:16 AM

Sipping Stitchawl's wisdom together with my morning coffee and being sure this will be a wonderful day here too.

maianhvk · 01-19-2013, 05:32 AM

I think it's good to have ups and downs in life too, so bad days are interesting in some ways.

My glass is empty

orlok · 01-19-2013, 06:08 AM

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Originally Posted by pholy

I think the best that can be said of tooth extractions is that they went and got over with. Less bad, perhaps, but not 'well'. I think 'well' implies that it was a 'good experience'... That's not possible.

I think it's just semantics. By saying I hope it goes well (I said something similar in another thread), pdurrant and I are implying that we hope it goes as well as it possibly can, which means without any more pain or discomfort than necessary. It's common parlance in the UK. I don't expect it to be a pleasant experience by saying that.

Rooibos in my cup. Going to need lots of warm drinks today.

Stitchawl · 01-19-2013, 06:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Billi

Sipping Stitchawl's wisdom together with my morning coffee and being sure this will be a wonderful day here too.

And it will be. And if not... tomorrow will be better!

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Originally Posted by maianhvk

I think it's good to have ups and downs in life too, so bad days are interesting in some ways.

There is a Chinese 'curse' that says; 'May you live in quiet times.'

There are going to be days that aren't as good as you'd like, no matter what you do. The trick is to forget about them as soon as they happen, and spend your time experiencing and living 'now,' while envisioning the future, KNOWING that it will be great! Because it will be!

For example, I can see a lovely glass of rum in my future. Not a big glass... just enough for flavor. Perhaps I'll go for a calorie blast and make a cup of hot chocolate and pour the rum into that! It's an old Ski Lodge drink we would have around the fireplace at the end of a good day skiing!

Stitchawl

bjones6416 · 01-19-2013, 06:55 AM

Black coffee. The movers are coming today to move the last of my furniture out of my place and into a storage unit. I'm going to remain here in Mom's house for a bit, until I decide where I want to live.

I've taken this opportunity to get rid of so much stuff. It's been very liberating. I'm keeping the bare minimum, plus a few things that mean a lot to me, like the old oak table and mismatched chairs that my sister lovingly refinished for me 30 years or so ago. I love that table. A couple of very early sewing machine treadles. My loom and spinning wheel. Bed, washer and dryer, and 2 rocking chairs. I'm set.

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01-18-2013, 05:02 PM	#23131
poohbear_nc Now what? Posts: 61,031 Karma: 135181808 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	I have found that Guinness does help deaden mouth pain - and can be a substitute "food" when you can't chew!

01-18-2013, 05:31 PM	#23133
ProfCrash Tea Enthusiast Posts: 8,554 Karma: 75384937 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Somewhere in the USA Device: Kindle1, Kindle DX Graphite, K3 3G, IPad 3, PW2	Snuggling with my baby boy.

01-18-2013, 05:41 PM	#23134
CRussel (he/him/his) Posts: 12,230 Karma: 79742714 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Sunshine Coast, BC Device: Oasis (Gen3),Paperwhite (Gen10), Voyage, Paperwhite(orig), Fire HD 8	Imperial Keemun as I read Ghost Ship and listen to k.d. lang.

01-18-2013, 08:27 PM	#23135
Stitchawl Opsimath Posts: 12,344 Karma: 187123287 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand Device: Sony PRS-650, iPhone 5, Kobo Glo, Sony PRS-350, iPad, Samsung Galaxy	It was homeward bound one night on the deep Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep I dreamed a dream and I thought it true Concerning Franklin and his gallant crew. With one hundred seamen he sailed away To the frozen ocean in the month of May To seek a passage around the pole Where we poor seamen do sometimes go. Through cruel hardships they mainly strove Their ship on mountains of ice was drove Only the Eskimo with his skin canoe Was the only one that ever came through. In Baffin's Bay where the whale fish blow The fate of Franklin no man may know The fate of Franklin no tongue can tell Lord Franklin along with his sailors do dwell. And now my burden it gives me pain, For my long lost Franklin I'd cross the main Ten thousand pounds I would freely give To say on earth that my Franklin do live. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysFKjWG_W54 ) I must have worn out three copies of this Pentangle album! Good morning, all. Saturday morning without cartoons. I have come far... Big mug of East India Company's "Royal Breakfast" tea to start the day, and a bowl of rice, crab legs, and miso soup with pumpkin and onions to fuel it. Looks as if it's going to be a very nice day! Stitchawl

01-19-2013, 04:16 AM	#23141
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01-19-2013, 05:32 AM	#23142
maianhvk whimsical Posts: 2,779 Karma: 88193939 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: in darkness Device: current: PPW 4. brick: K3 & Voyage.	I think it's good to have ups and downs in life too, so bad days are interesting in some ways. My glass is empty

01-19-2013, 06:55 AM	#23145
bjones6416 ↓↓ Skirt!! Earrings!! Posts: 3,394 Karma: 17432172 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Georgia, USA Device: Acer netbook, JetBook Lite, Sony PRS-300, Kindle 2, Kindle Fire	Black coffee. The movers are coming today to move the last of my furniture out of my place and into a storage unit. I'm going to remain here in Mom's house for a bit, until I decide where I want to live. I've taken this opportunity to get rid of so much stuff. It's been very liberating. I'm keeping the bare minimum, plus a few things that mean a lot to me, like the old oak table and mismatched chairs that my sister lovingly refinished for me 30 years or so ago. I love that table. A couple of very early sewing machine treadles. My loom and spinning wheel. Bed, washer and dryer, and 2 rocking chairs. I'm set.

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