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saved ya.

oh...i see da wonderful moi has joined in. :D and mrsd...and darlen.

i'm flooded darlene. my pool over flowed. the house is fine. the yard is mushy. we got weird isolated storms yesterday. heavy heavy rains again. iwish chemar would take the rain...i keep telling her i have plenty. :wink:

hey i see dm and wren...wowza..what a great thread. so where is that tk? :p

Good morning, enjoying my 2nd cup of joe and smiling about Mr Moi. Interesting stories, can ya share some more? Next...............Sue

Send some of that rain this way... It is so dry here..... Our garden needs a drink!! Thanks for the welcome....:)

Uh, it's afternoon..... don't tell me everyone is "working"..

*thanks for the chocolate... I'm ok now* Whew!!! That was close.....

:hug: :hug: Thunder storms moving in here .... good thing. We're desperate for more water. :( But I'm desperate for this PC.

wren, I hope you are able to have the puter thru the storm!

Ahhhh, more folks, *waves to all above moi

well, sue, if you'd like to hear more...pull up a chair...and let me bore ya...LOL

here is a nice warm fire...I am going to light up my pipe...it is snowing outside(ok, it is 90 degrees, but we can dream, can't we? LOL)

about almost 9 years ago. Sept 5th 1998, to be exact. I bought my first computer, a MAC, actually, and got on the internet.

The very first thing that I did, was looked up "Tourette Syndrome". It is something that has plagued me most of my life; it is something that had sent me to self-confinement; it is something that my parents were in denial of...

although I knew a lot about it, I wanted to know more...

so, I did the search and something caught my eyes..."TS Chatroom"

wow...

I clicked on the link, it took me to the OLD MGH chatrooms. In that room, there were big smiley faces and happy faces but most of all, I was reading about people talking about TS. LIKE MOI!!

PEOPLE JUST LIKE MOI! HOW CAN THAT BE????

in my almost 40 years on this planet, I had only met less than a handful of people with TS and most of them was in passing...but now, in this TS chatroom, there were chatters abound with TICS. WOW!

So, I stuck around, introduced moiself and met a lot of wonderful folks on the internet...

a month later, 19 of the chatters decided to meet at the National TS conference in Washington DC. We conjured up a signal, a yellow ribbon, to be worn on our lapels or shirt to denote that we were from the TS chatroom.

Well, yours truly, moi, decided to wear a gigantus yellow ribbon that covered his whole front side. LOL

And moi also wore those fake eye glasses with the fake eyes...

anyways, as soon as moi walked into the hotel lobby, Lara(long time supportive member of everyone) called out, "moi??"

her MSG, I mean, ESP, shone through and called me out...I immediately went over to hug her and others that were sitting with her. With her was BradHawk from Seattle(he is a TSer that used to chat in the chatroom) and Sue from Boston (sue's father was Pter of the OLD SOS forum over there at BT. He and Mrs. Alpho became the guardians of the SOS forum. Pter passed away a few years ago and sue lurks around here, I am sure of...LOL)

We hugged and I had tears in my eyes...then, the rest of us met. The future Mrs. Moi was also there with her daughter(and we were JUST friends for a long time after that! LOL)

So, throughout the weekend, the 19 of us hung around, hugging and talking and had tons of fun.

That first night, we borrowed one of the hotel rooms and we all had pizza. And because most of us were new to the internet. The computer lingoes were still fresh in our minds. The meeting in person was surreal...so, I walked out of the room and said, "BRB"

it was then, that people really knew I was a cut up...LOL

Even later on that night. Lara, being from Australia, hung out at the lobby with Mr. Hawkman. They are night owls as well as yours truly. So the three of us decided to drive around DC and we took along a total stranger that has TS and the four of us got into moi's car. We drove around, got hungry, decided to take Lara to a Pancake house. The whole trip took us over 4 hours...we ended up in George Town, Maryland, and we would drive by the same, "Maryland, 35 miles" about 3 times...we laughed, drove to a deadend. Drove to a place called "kiss and park". Went through stop signs cause they were on the SIDES of the street and moi can't see worth a dang...

Everytime moi would make a right turn during a red stop light, Lara would yell, "moiiiiiiiiiii, what are you doing!!"

We then have to remind her that we drive on the WRONG side of the road vs. Australians and that it is legal here in the U.S to turn right during red light as long as there were no traffic coming...

Ahhhhh...so, finally, exhausted...we drove back to the hotel...no Pancake house...but Hawkman being OCD'ed...was determined to get Pancakes...

we asked the concierge where the Pancake house was...he said, "it is right behind the hotel!"

Need I tell you, the pancakes never tasted better. Lara got her taste of the Pancake house and none of us got any sleep. LOL

The rest of the weekend was filled with some great times...the parting was hard...but...we all knew then, that we have found eachother for a reason...that we have bonded for a reason(we already bonded in the chatroom, it just got bona fide in person).

sweet memories til this day...well, time to head to the bed

I hope this story won't make me the bread killer...

cheerio!

daisymay and Wren,

I would be happy to send some of the rain there. It has been years since I saw my lawn this green without appling the water myself. There was enough to flood a local Wal-Mart here. We need a break and I am for sure Curious does too.

It was nice today with sunny skies. It need to stay dry so our plants will grow.

Nithy, night

Darlene:hug:

WAKE UP!!!
Good morning all!!!!
sorry for the screaming but it looked like this thread was about to die.....

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Good morning!!!

It's a better morning for me now.

I was pulled awake with fear this morning. My youngest was on the phone (pregnant with graves, hepatitis, hyperthyroidism, etc.). She was crying hysterically. She was having some bleeding at 24 weeks.

The doctor sent her to the labor and delivery dept of the hospital and went to see her. They immediately put her on a fetal monitor and little Jonathan is doing well.

He determined that she wasn't going into labor and that she and baby are maintaining as best as can be. She's home on "bed and pelvic rest".

I'm so thrilled that all seems well, but this is wearing on everyone so much...the constant crisis and fear for two lives' well-being.

On a brighter note, my oldest had her first OB appt. and all is well. The miscarriage the month before hasn't effected anything! She has her ultrasound a week from today.

My little man is chipper and so sweet. He told me that I'm beautiful and he loves me. Ah, the world was right for a minute. :)

I've had my coffee, it's a beautiful day (now)...let's party! I need a celebration! hehe

Thank you all for rescuing!!! Here's mine with a "twist". ;)

Love yu'uns!

KD aka TK

Hehehehehehe Abbie,

Sheesh all that yelling, I think I am now deaf in one ear :D Seriously good to see you. COme back to chat sometime soon

KD or TK or whatever you call yourself :p glad to hear your morning is going well. Littel man is righ you are beatiful :hug:

I have had so much fun following mois post around the board...this is me on moi :ROTFLMAO: (like that ole brains on drugs commercial).

Yoo Hoo Curious :hug: and a butt squeeze

:grouphug: to Wren, DaisyMay, Sue and Darlene Mrs D (go Blue!) and Chemar and everyone else that visits.

Lets get this party started. Margartitas anyone?

no margarita's...howza 'bout a chocolatini?

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woohooo ty for the butt squeeze!!

ain't moi cool? i wish i had been there. hmmm...sounds like a road trip.

hehehe...hiya sweet abbie.

geesh...tk...can we ever catcha break? :hug: