PREVIOUSLY, IN THE APRIL 25 BOOMER ROOM

VEGAS TALK
The room was still full of talk about the great time had in Vegas. One of the best pictures sent back was the one of Steve and Fred, with the accompanying picture of the muppet codgers, Statler and Waldorf. The picture on the right is DoggyNites(Steve) and Manofunn (Fred).

LaNeita reported that she successfully rescued ElvisP19 (Rick) from the aliens. Rick, still a little shaken, begged Laneita not to talk about it too much - he felt the aliens were still watching him. Laneita reassured him that he is still in her custody. WittDNites (Marsha) bragged that she has met a majority of the boomers, Linda and Rick being the next she hopes to meet. (She’s getting the best last.)

People are still talking about the mirror also. No one would really come out and explain, so I just have to guess that it’s one of those mirrors that say “objects in mirror are larger than actual size.”

CHICOPEE:
The Vegas party is still being rehashed, and already plans are being made for one to be held in Chicopee, Massachusetts, to be held Aug 22, 23, and 24. Ruberlegs (Dan) is planning on blocking out 15 rooms at the hotel this coming week. Doggy (Steve) asked Dan to let him know when it’s set up, and he would get the information out to people so they can start making reservations. WineOWitz asked for the honeymoon suite.

Dan indicated he hoped to get the hall at the American Legion and has begun looking for a caterer. Bluesy1234 (Les) asked how near Chicopee is to Arlington, and Dan indicated it was about an hour away. Les indicated he will be in Boston this summer, so he’s thinking of arranging for it to be in August so he could attend the Chicopee party.

BOOMER KIDS/GRANDKIDS
Bornsons (Richard) reported that his daughter was married March 22. Congratulations, Richard!
HEALTH
Skieluv (Steve) shared with us the good news that he had received a transfusion on Tuesday, which perked him up. BIGHOW10 advised Skie that Viagra would perk him up too.

THIS & THAT
Bluesy1234 (Les) asked people how they were planning to spend their rebate check. Bighow reported that it was spent already; and Funnybunny asked, “What rebate check?” Most of us are probably like Howie.

Marnee stopped in visit with us. She actually gave up some of her packrattin' time for us! Desarae417, in Florida, also stopped by to chat. It was great seeing her again.
Frigid wom (Ali) asked ElvisP19 to add her the list of people he sends Wavs to. She also invited Theobears (Ellyn) to visit her. Ellyn replied that she would visit her, fortified with her allergy pills. (She’s allergic to cats, and Ali has a houseful of beautiful Siamest cats.)

REMEMBER WHEN…?

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And now…
TH-TH-TH-TH-THAT’S ALL FOLKS!

PREVIOUSLY ON APRIL 18 2008

Following is the recap of last week’s room party. Sorry it has taken me so long to get it to you. I want to reiterate that you can read the recap here and/or in the boomer blog, located at http://babyboomersforever.blogspot.com/. If you have any comments on anything in the recap, there is a place at the end of each recap in the blog that gives you a prompt to make your comment. (In order to do this, you must sign up for a google account, which is easy and free.) This eliminates the necessity of piling up emails in people’s in-baskets. (You don’t need a google account to just read the blog, but you do need one to comment on it.)

AND NOW…

PREVIOUSLY, ON FRIDAY NITE BOOMER PARTY
April 18, 2008
WHAT HAPPENED IN VEGAS
Thanks to Ullery2 (Helen) and Manofunn (Fred), a bunch of boomer friends gathered in Vegas last week and had a wonderful time. No arguing, no bickering, just a wonderful time. Everyone agreed that it was the best boomer bash ever.

First of all, Redheadtxn (Julia) reported that she won about $200, Rosco54(John) and Deb hit about $450; and Frigid Wom (Ali) won about $400. And Ray also had fun at the slots, cashing in $500, $250, $100, and $125. (Copy of this newsletter will be sent to the IRS.) Ha ha, just kidding.

However, as Marnee115 (Marcia) pointed out, Donna won the biggest prize of all. And so did Barry; he waited a long time for his True Love. The story of his proposal to Donna will live forever in the annals of Baby Boomers. In case any readers haven’t heard, he asked for the floor at the Saturday night dinner and thanked everyone for their support during his and Donna’s ongoing love story. Then, amidst a sea of tears and flashing cameras, he went down on one knee and asked Donna to marry him. Donna’s answering yes and his presentation of her ring was also chronicled in pictures. Julia made an online scrapbook of the proposal. If you haven’t seen it, I’m sure she will email it to you upon request.

Barry IM’d me this morning to ask me to convey to everyone his and Donna’s thanks for all the well wishes and congratulations. They are with family tonight, but will try to come online to the room if at all possible. He said no date or place has yet been decided on for the big event.

Other Vegas stories that did NOT stay in Vegas include:

Julia’s picture of Suzequ3 as she came out of the shower. She did have a towel wrapped strategically around her, but she laughed and gave Julia permission to send it out with other Vegas pictures. Sue did look great, and as Julia says, nothing bothers Suz.

Another great picture was one of Manofunn (Fred) and DoggyNites (Steve) sitting together at a table, solving the world’s problems. Steve pointed out that they looked like the two old codgers who used to sit in the balcony on The Muppet Movie. And Mawort (Marcia) found a picture of the Muppet codgers and placed them side-to-side with the boomer codgers. Marcia, I’d really like a copy of that for the blog!

There were no naked pictures, although Julia almost talked Doggie into posing with a red thong. However, since WittDNites (Marsha) wasn’t there at the time, he declined. Steve is a good husband, and there were quite a few good husbands present, Eric (MrTheobears), John (Rosco54) Les, and husband-to-be Blomba (Barry).

There were many references to a mysterious mirror of Steve’s (I counted 19 mentions in the log.) No one would relate the story, but it has something to do with DoggyNites. All he would say was “Read between the lines,” so I’ll only ask one question about that mirror: Do objects in it appear larger than actual size?

ElvisP19 (Rick) was unable to attend the festivities; due to unforeseen circumstances. According to LaNeita, he was captured by aliens and released in the desert to her. Rick is presently updating his memoirs to include this frightening experience. Several people were, however, able to talk to Rick by phone, and Julia reported that he appears to have come out of the incident as sweet as ever. Although WittDNites (Marsha) pouted that she was not able to get a real Elvis hug, she and all of us still want him to get his butt back into the room.

The next boomer bash is scheduled for August at Chicopee, Massachusetts. Steve asked for a show of paws as to how many would be interested in attending. Suggar and Space (Kris) said she’d like to go, but was feeling a little shy about that. Steve urged everyone to “say yes… you know you want to.” (I wonder how many boomer ladies heard that line on their prom night.)

Dutch6104 suggested a boomer cruise, which would also be a lot of fun.

BOOMER KIDS/GRANDKIDS
Suzeq3 became a grandmother during the boomer bash. Her grandaughter, Colleen Mara McDonough. arrived April 13th @ 10:20 am weighing in @ 7 lbs 13 ounces. Congratulations, Sue, to you and your family. The picture of baby Colleen and her proud papa is in the Boomer blog.

OldeeBaaat2 reported that she is a Granny Baat now. Her grandchild was born October 16, 2006.

THIS & THAT
Bluesy1234 (Les) stopped in to chat. He told us he had been to San Antonio on business. Julia asked him if he had been to the river walk, and replied that he had, and that he enjoyed it very much.

The room was visited (attacked) by someone named bulldogShari, who entered an illegal program that caused the room to go crazy. Frogie told us to select the name of this idiot and hit ignore and it would stop. In the future, block that person and have your smileys disabled (have them displayed as art in chat preferences) and shut off your chat room sounds.

HAS ANYONE SEEN THIS PERSON?
People were asking about Jopeach58, who appeared later in the room, announcing that she was, in fact, not dead, but alive and well. Good to see you, Jo, please come in again.


And now…


TH-TH-TH-TH-THAT’S ALL FOLKS!

IT HAPPENED IN VEGAGS

PREVIOUSLY IN APRIL 11 CHAT ROOM

VEGAS
It was a thin crowd tonight, since so many boomers were at Vegas for the boomer reunion. Those of us who stayed at home missed them, and we talked about the newsletters we had received from Redhdtexn (Julia). Skieluv (Steve) said he hadn’t read them yet-I told him he should read them right away, they were great! Especially the pictures! SuzeQ, I can’t believe what Julia did to you! FrogieArno (Joan) actually popped in for a few minutes. She was getting ready for the dinner, and stopped in to say hi, and to tell us how great of a time they were having. (Rubbing it in!) CirceUK (Jacs) mentioned that she had talked to Doggie Night (Steve) earlier, and he also rubbed it in about the fab time they were having. (Wonder if he used that word “fab” - if so, it’s been a long time since I’ve heard that word used in normal conversation.)
The biggest news coming from Vegas was the news of Blombaone’s (Barry’s) proposal to Wtink (Donna). He actually got down on his knees in front of everyone to pop the question. According to Redhdtexn (Julia), there were not many dry eyes in the room after she accepted. Congratulations and best wishes to the both of you, Barry and Donna.
SuzeQ also got some great news: her first grandchild, Colleen Mara McDonough. arrived April 13th at 10:20 am weighing in at 7 lbs 13 ounces. Congratulations, Suze, being a grandparent is the best!

THIS & THAT
Circe recommended that we check out the following link for some great eye-candy and a a hot tune:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KED1t0H2igw)

CONFESSIONS OF A PACKRAT ADDICT
I have an addiction to Packrat now. It’s an Internet game and I suck at it, but can’t stop playing. I’m sure Betty Ford has a 12-step program to stop. In the meantime, I promised Doors Open (Marty) and Hughes (David) that I would invite them to join in. (I get credits for the game for people I invite.) Marnee suggested that 3 or 4 glasses of wine would help me play better. Don’t know if Betty Ford would agree with that, but hey-it’s worth a try!

SPORTS
Skieluv (Steve) and BigHow10 are NOT Yankee fans. I, of course, am still waiting in longsuffering patience for the Cubbies to go all the way. Skieluv thinks that will be a long wait; however, he does love going all the way. Bornsons (Rich) says he roots for both Mets and Yankees, giving him a better hope for a win.

Can’t wait to see everyone next Friday. In the meantime,

TH-TH-TH-TH-THAT’S ALL FOLKS!

Vegas Update from FrogieArno April 10, 2008

so far...

Wed we got here around 3PM, by 5 we were in the room, to to discover the toilet didn't flush... got that fixed, unpacked.
Called Fred, he said he worked till 7 might pop around later.
Suzeq was here. Tink and Blombo were here from the morning, and had eaten so much they just kept us company for dinner. After dinner, went to gamble a bit, split up to look around. Went out to Freemont street, watched 3 crazy motorcycles riding inside a 15 - 20 foot diameter globe. Wineo & I found Tink and Blombo at slots in one of the casino (hmmmm thought they were gonna look at the lights OUTside). 3 hr time diff was making me sleepy by 11, went upstairs, asleep by midnite.

Thurs 8:15 AM. Blomba calls, meeting downstairs for breakfast at 9:30. Wineo goes down around 9:15 for slots before coffee. I get there 9:30 and they were already getting served (damned early birds) .. Fred, SugarnSPace show up around 10 with the Wineo... Good breakfase, lots of cell phone pics. Harthorn has joined us now

After food Suz goes to sun. Tink & Blomba go to tour the strip. At noon I get my room switched to one with a functional toilet. Harthorn gets hers switched to a non smoking room. We wander around a bit, make spa reservations for later in the week. Theo & Hubby arrive (spoke to them but havent seen tem yet) Sugar and I go shopping for more clothes for her and souvenirs to take home for her family. Bump into Harthorn on Freemont street. Lose Wineo in the casino. Back to the room for a rest and some computer time (damn vegas charging me 12 dollars per 24 hrs for access).

I think we are meeting around 8 PM for dinner.

We booked spa time on Mon, when most of the others will have left. Wineo is looking at another Helicopter trip to the Grand Canyon, this time landing. Couple of ladies are gonna see the local eye candy (Chip & Dale were named for them). Theo has tickets for Love.

Weather has been sunny, windy, around 70. The pool looks fantastic, with that damn slide tube going thru the shark tank (yes I AM going to ride it and Wineo says he will take pics).

So now its 6 here, and 9 in NY and I am 'chillin' for a bit. Wineo is out making copies of his wine tasting papers for Sat nite. More boomers arriving tonite.

To Be Continued.

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PREVIOUSLY IN THE APRIL 4 BOOMER ROOM PARTY

April 4, 2008

BOOMER ACHIEVEMENTS:
Dutch6104 has great pictures of his Russian trip - check out his profile. He went there with some friends of his a few years back.

HEALTH
Skieluv (Steve) is down to 135 pounds, but he’s eating again, which is good news. The radiation treatments had made him so sick that he lost his appetite for awhile. He reported he had just had 20 Oreos. He’s feeling better, but will have to go back to chemo on Monday. You are our hero, Skie - hang in there, okay?

THIS & THAT
Theobears (Ellyn) managed to tear herself away from Packrat, a game on Facebook in which she terrorizes the rest of us trying to play against her. She kicks mucho butt at this game!

Dutch6104: <~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ YOUR BOOMER PRESIDENT HAS JUST LEFT THE ROOM lol LOL
LPoindext: we haven't decided who to vote for - Dutch or Stella!
CirceUK: excuse me Linda... but you obviusly haven't heard of the recent
coup... I am actually president.

When Stella entered the room, she didn't comment on the above, but she ordered DoggyNites (Steve) to rip off his britches and dance around a pole for her. (She said she needed a laugh.) Joan questioned that Doggy was doing pole dances now - she thought dogs did something entirely different to poles.

FrogieArno (Joan) reminded Stella of the time she (Stella) and Circe (Jacs) wrestled on the lawn in fron of the yankee candle factory over some pastry! Joan said she even has pictures of the event!

NEW REVISED LOFT
Someone asked if anyone still did any lofting nowadays. A few of us admitted to this practice, and described how different the loft is now:

LPoindext: It's got an escalator now - easier to get there
CirceUK: LOL
LPoindext: And Rick decorated it with Elvis posters
LPoindext: And I put some Beatles stuff there
Theobears: Rick should add music to the loft, too
LPoindext: There's some love letters from Doggie to Witt that I think they forgot
FrogieArno: Poloriod pics
ElvisP19: Ellyn, I installed a jukebox in the loft
WittDNites: roflmao............too funny LOVE LETTERS??????????? hahaha
Theobears: oh goody, rick, it's gonna be so much nicer there now

VEGAS
April 11 is when most boomers will begin arriving in Vegas, so Steve reminded the unlucky ones not going that they won’t be in the chat room that night. Redhdtexn (Julia) seconded that, and asserted that none of them would stop their revels to come to the Boomer Room.

Sigh…such is life.

Theobears (Ellyn) and mrtheobears(Eric) will be going to cirque du soleil on Monday evening. They didn’t want to go during the reunion, so that left only Sunday and Monday. Marsha and Steve will be leaving Vegas Sunday at 12:45.

I’m planning on trying to do a digital scrapbook of the reunion. I’ve never done one, but it would be something all the boomers could share, and would make it seem like we were all there.
ManoFunn (Fred) will be there Thursday through Sunday. Hopefully, he won’t have to serve jury duty during that time. He reported that the weather has been great so far, in the 70s, not too hot or too cold. Harthorn (Charlotte) said that her daughter told her to be sure to go on the hotel’s water slide. Fred assured her that the temperature of the water should be fine and try not to let a shark get her toe. But Charlotte has scuba dived with sharks, so they don’t scare her. Fred warned her, though, that the hotel starves the sharks for two days, and then release them into the pool. If you survive, you get a free dinner. (Probably roasted shark.) Charlotte laughed and assured Fred that was her kind of challen

Nothing more to say, except have a wonderful time, bring us back some souvenirs, and …


TH-TH-TH-TH-THAT’S ALL FOLKS!