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[KnottedYet]

I have come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as Mr. or Ms. Perfect. (protects me from becoming extra bitter...) Now, where's the chocolate?

and <whispering>
where's. my. bike?

[KnottedYet]

Just called the bike shop (again). Gotta love that time zone difference.

The bike is "in transit" now! Wooo-hooo! It even has a tracking number for FedEx.

The shop couldn't quite figure out how much they'd charged my credit card, but once they do figure out how much they charged me they'll send me a reciept.

Ok...

Now I have 20 minutes to shower, dress, pack a lunch, pack the pannier, and walk the dog.

Byyyyeeeeeee!

[mimitabby]

choco is cute, Nanci! I just got two feral kittens too. I am a kitty cat foster mother... One is Babe, a gorgeous silver tabby and white, and the other is Freddie, a terrified little grey boy.
So far no one has bitten me. I am hoping to calm Freddie down enough so that it doesn't happen. Babe is a mellow guy. Once he learns how much fun life
can be, he'll be a great cat..

Knotted,
you'll be clicking on the UPS tracker website 300 times a day. that's what i did waitng for my own bike. and of course, my bike was shipped over memorial day weekend; it took FOREVER!

[Nanci]

I'm trying to not freak out- because I'm a _little_ worried about the size of the screen cover...He'd better be in there when I get home.

[maillotpois]

Fish - you got an "extra bitter", too??? How very fitting!!

[Kitsune06]

I'm kind of in a weird place as far as where I was 5 years ago...
I'd written in my LJ that it was a horiffically boring day and I wanted to go home. Then the bell rang and I went to my 1st class, where everyone was gaping at the TV. I glanced up, saw an explosion, said something about bad special effects, and my friend said "No- that's CNN. That's in New York right now!"
Then I freaked out.
I called my long-distance bf (later hubby) to see if he and his were ok. The first thing he said was "I told you Bush would take us to war."
(after we'd bickered through the entire election night that Bush was a better deal than Gore, or whether or not the US would end up going to war, should he win...)
I ended up saying "We won't go to war over terrorist actions- that'd be stupid."
...what an I-told-you-so.
I still don't trust 9/10 of what I hear today. How can we?
I just feel so bad for the people who had to be in or near those buildings...
So sad.

[snapdragen]

I'm extra-bitter today too!

I remember sitting on the couch watching everything unfold; first I thought it was an accident. Even when the second plane hit, in my mind I thought "Wow, there's an air traffic controller out there that's lost his mind". Terrorism didn't even occur to me. When it finally hit me what was happening, I started worrying about my brother and sister in law. She works at Columbia, he was teaching in Manhattan at the time. They had to walk home to New Jersey that day.

[DebW]

I started a 5 day hike on 9/11/01 and so was blissfully ignorant for two days following the attacks. To this day I have not seen the footage of the planes or collapsing towers because the TV news was no longer showing it when I got home (though I'm sure I could seek it out if I really wanted to see it) and the initial shock was over. So I'm sure it's not as real to me as it is to many of you. My sympathies to everyone who lost loved ones and endured the trauma of that day either directly or indirectly. My sympathies also to those in Afganistan and Iraq who lost innocent loved ones because of the US response to it. I would feel safer from repeated terrorist attack if our response had been increased policing, intelligence gathering, and border security. War makes the whole world less safe, and violence breeds violence. May our future leaders find a better way.