Valentine (noun)

Pronunciation: ['væ-lên-'tIn]

Definition: A gift or card sent to someone beloved on St. Valentine's Day, February 14, or the person to whom the card is sent.

Usage: The verb, "to valentine," meaning to serenade a prospective mate (said of birds) has fallen into disuse, as has, alas, the blend Valentide = "St. Valentine's Day" from "Valentine + tide." So we are left to send valentines to our valentines on St. Valentine's Day.

Suggested Usage: Although this word is used as a common noun, because it is so closely associated with St. Valentine's Day, the range of its possible uses is limited. Its association with the courtship of birds suggests we might revive the verb in figurative expressions like this one: "Fenwick has been valentining Maudy rather seriously of late."

Etymology: February 14 was a Roman feast day that mysteriously became associated with two saints named Valentine in the 3rd century. One was a Roman priest and physician killed during the persecution of Christians by Claudius II. The other St. Valentine was a bishop of Terni, also martyred in Rome but his relics were remanded to Terni. (It is possible the two saints were the same person.) The association with love derives from the fact that February 14 was traditionally taken as the beginning of the mating season of birds. As Chaucer noted in "Parliament of Foules" (1381): "For this was on seynt Volantynys day Whan euery bryd comyth there to chese his make." (For this was on Saint Valentine's day when every bird comes there to choose his mate.)

Happy Valentines love birds,
ju xxx

I want to be just like B.
Today the elevators failed. It was just before lunch time but with all the staff pitching in the meal got delivered to the residents (my legs are killing me but that is another story)
There happened to be 5 women getting their hair done when the failure occured so they had to stay on the lower floor. They were to join us for lunch.
B caught my attention right away. She was told that the elevators were broken and her response was
"I don't give a damn about elevators"
That was my first chuckle. She was then told that she would be having lunch downstairs. Her response was.
"I dont give a damn about lunch"
By now I was just thrilled with this woman. She was escorted in and seated. When her lunch arrived she refused to eat it because
"I am going to be charged for this"
She would have absolutely nothing to do with it untill she was told it was a free Valentines lunch.
B tucked right in and enjoyed.
This woman has earned the right to be ornery.
I want to be just like her and some would argue that I already am.
Loving the gramma bitch,
ju

I am not normally a youtube linker but had to share this.

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAITYFkICEc[/url]

You buy your kid a cell phone for Christmas, as a safety thing you know cause she is 16 and all. Then you find out the $50 worth of mins if came with were all used up texting a friend who was sitting on the couch right beside her.
To teach her a bit of a lesson you leave her without minutes for a month or so. Then you add some more to her acct. You know some of them were used to arrange rides from swim meets etc. Which is what the phone is for.
Then she goes out wandering and it starts getting late you decide to give her a call. What you hear is
"Here is the beep you know what to do with it"
You slam down the phone furiously as she walks in the door and ask where her phone is.
She replies ever so calmly,
"It is in my room I only have 4 mins left and don't want to waste them."
Has she learned something or have I?
ju

I have a nasty gastrointestinal bug going through this house. I just called work to say I wont be in and because it is a nursing home they want me clear for 48 hrs before I go back.
I am feeling a bit better today just a little drained (pardon the pun) but now my daughter is home with it.
Looks like you are stuck with me for a few days.
ju

I actually remember when someone uttered that statement and was using it to put down everyone who didn't want to agree.
Totally negating the statement.
Declaring yourself to be a woman SHOULD imply a certain level of maturity.
Fast forward a few years.
The level of maturity still has not been addressed. And in fact it was a totally immature ploy. Oh dear me, I have been hurt. I dont know how I will handle this. With absolutely no thought to what others maybe thinking or feeling.
That is the total opposite of mature, in fact it is down right childish. To dare to tell someone that your emotions are so much more important than anothers is selfish to the NTH degree.
Am I angry? yup
Have I addressed it with the one in question? yup
Was it resolved? nope, running was the answer.
Am I going to drop it?
I just did.
Sometimes you just have to vent and this time you get to hear it cause my venting pals aren't available.
It's my blog and I will bitch if I want to,
ju

if not a million times then damn close to it.
"Why do you greet everyone?"
That always comes with a caveat, thank you, don't you have anything better to do? Wannna fuck?

I received this just tonight.
It isn't the first time and I have no doubt it won't be the last but it is written from the heart and I want to share.
Perhaps you will learn something about me, perhaps you already know.

I have the authors permission to share.

To juicy
Subject hi juicy
Body Just wanted to take a minute and thank you deeply for being so nice to me in chat. I don't hang out in there a lot but every time I do I can expect the same wonderful person who seems genuinely glad to see me log in. It really means more to me than you will ever know. Hang in there girl, winter is going to have one or more good kicks to our rears and then we can all go out and say "damn, isn't it a beautiful day!"
See ya.

Subject Re: hi juicy
Body XXXXXXX, thank you.
A long time ago when I was new to NN I was greeted and welcomed by the then small group in chat. It was something that has always stuck with me and something I try to pass along. Some like you make it easy to do, others make me wonder why I bother. However I still have some great friends that I keep in touch with from those long ago days and some that I have met along the way that I may never have gotten to know if I hadn't simply said hi.
The appreciation of finding a friendly face is mutual!

If you are honest with yourself you will acknowledge that we are all here for recongnition of some sort. Simply being polite and saying hello goes a hell of a long way.

thank you mr PM, I am just as grateful for a new friend as you are,
ju

so to speak. As of today I am sick and tired of winter, just yesterday it was still pretty. Today I am over it completely and totally, it can't end soon enough. If I see another flake of snow I am going to scream!!
I need colour in my world again!! White, white more white and dirty white against grey, grey and more grey has worn thin to the extreme.
This always happens, the shortest month of the year seems like the longest. I can't even begin to think of spring for almost 2 months!
I have also reached my limit with my hair. There seems to be this really neat phase it goes thru from chin length to just below shoulders which inspires me to keep growing it thinking in just x number of months I will have beautiful flowing locks.
Bullshit!
One day it looks great and then the next it is just too damn long. It doesn't curl nicely, I spend more time hauling it up out of the way because it is driving me mad!
I knew it was time to get a haircut when I sat in front of chat for almost 45 mins trying out various diff braids etc and hating them all!
It has been a long winter and if the only change I can take in my own hands and make happen is my hair then so be it. Perhaps it will allow me some patience waiting for the season to change.
Stagnant,
ju

Saw a new pic on the home page today and got a lil excited. Mainly because I NEVER go to the home page, it is boring as hell. So I decided to scroll thru the pics that have been chosen to represent the site and with only a few exceptions they are the same damn pics that have been there for ages!
You really can't tell me that out of over 2 million pics there are only 7 or 8 suitable for the home page?
There are almost 12k pics posted in NN stamped and for the most part the ones on the home page are the same pics we have been seeing for over a year now and in a few cases a single poster has 2 pics on the home page.
I mean really, there is at least one "new" one dragged out of the archives, I am sure there are others that are worthy of home page.
If I was surfing for pics to get off to and saw the same damn thing time after time visiting this place I'd think it was totally stagnant.
Come on NN, this page is the page people see when they first get here, show some of the life this site posesses!!!
Shaking her head,
ju

I went out to catch the bus, I had to go to Walmart because my microwave died. Somehow I missed the bus so I came back home to call a cab. When I got in there were not 2 but 3 kids in here. One of our gerbils was very ill, I didnt think he was going to last long.
Off to Walmart I went, got the microwave and a few miscellaneous things. When I got home the gerbil was wrapped in a washcloth keeping warm with a piece of lettuce he was never going to eat.
My daughter and her friend had to go do some volunteer hrs so left the death watch with my son. They packed a lil box with a baby blanket and placed the gerbil with his washcloth wrapped around him in it. He seemed to be at least comfortable until the pizza guy came. My son being the nosey critter he is had to follow me to the door and on his way back to the livingroom tripped over the old microwave. He was carrying the box with the almost dead gerbil and onto the floor he went. That was his demise.
It has always been tradition that we bury our pets in the garden but with 4' of snow on the ground the dirt frozen solid there is no way. For now he is lying in state on the dining room table in his little box. We will have to figure out what we are going to do with him tonight or tomorrow, he certainly cant stay there till the spring thaw.
This evening as I was sitting chatting and my chair was acting funky. Everytime I tried to roll around it was like having the grocery cart with the wonky wheel. I couldn't figure out what the hell was going on and kept moving in an effort to right the situation. It wasn't until I got up to make popcorn in the new microwave that I noticed. One of the tiles under the chair had crumbled completely.
At this point I started doing a happy dance. This floor has needed to be replaced for a few years but unless there was major dammage I knew the landlord wouldnt do it. I now have major dammage and will be putting in a repair form tomorrow. New kitchen floor here we come!
They say things come in 3s. The microwave died, the gerbil died and the kitchen floor died.
I should be good for a while,
ju