JerseyGirl
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I moved to Stockholm from Jersey in March of 2003 with my Swede
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Post by JerseyGirl on Oct 28, 2004 17:40:24 GMT -5
Wow it's empty in here! I'm working on a design for the site and starting to get it together a bit.. I've also been busy at work since it's the end of the class I'm teaching and I've had to get grades together. Anyway... so wha are you guys' Halloween plans?? Just curious. We have no plans for dressing up or anything this year. We've bought a pumpkin which I'm going to carve on Saturday (it seems to have started to rot a bit already so I'm waiting for the last minute. Man I miss picking my own pumpkin!!). I also have all the Halloween decorations out, including some woden pumkn door decorations on our apartment door - stands out a LOT against the other doors in our apt building LOL I love Halloween. I hope that trick or treating really picks up more here, by the time I live in a house. I grew up in an apartment, and have always lived in one. So I've never given out candy, and I want to so BADLY!! Well, I guess if we stick around here I'll be able to do it for Easter. Still, not the same  Anyway, enough of my rambling. Have to get up in 6 hours! Night! |
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Brandy
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There are 3 kind of people in life, those who do, those who watch and those who ask what happened.
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Post by Brandy on Oct 29, 2004 1:08:17 GMT -5
We are on our way to a Halloween party myself and a couple of other mothers is putting on for our children's class - F-1:an (Kindergarten-first grade). There will be 40 adults and 50 children coming!!!! 90 people! We made meat pies and vegetable pies to serve. I'm, as usual, in charge of everything. We'll give out candy. Remember the easter peeps - marshmellow chicks covered ion sugar? Well my mother sent me pumpkin ones! They'll get a little goody bag with pumpkin "peeps", candy corn and glow-in-the-dark wrapped starburst candy. This has been very time consuming and stressful organizing. The teacher wanted us to serve soup, which I thought was a great idea. I searched all my cookbooks and came up with 5 possible soups. I couldn't wait! We had our first meeting, and before I even startede the meeting, I realized soup was going to be impossible! It is a tight area, and I expected a minimum of 70 people. We all agreed, teacher included, no way, it won't work. We changed to meat pies and vegetable pies. One mother is insistant upon soup and has made soup! Headache, headache, headache! We thought it'd be too tight with 70 people and soup, and now there are 90 people! Well the idiot is still making soup, while the rest of us, teacher included, is making pies! The teacher was very glad that we realized soup wouldn't work. She said, I'm glad it's you organizing the party for us, because that was a very smart move to not serve soup, and I don't think any one else would have thought of it. Now I have to go tackle decorating, packing goody bags, etc. I have a lot of help, but it's funny how no one wants to organize and be responsible, they just want to follow instructions - most, excluding idiot Mom who always does her own thing! So my army and I are meeting this morning since the kids are out walking in the woods today. My in-laws are coming for the party and I haven't even fixed up the house or their room! They'll stay with us until tomorrow. Unfortunately, I don't have time to finish until after the party! Have a great day! P.S. Halloween is nothing like in the States. It used to be my second favorite holiday, but now it's just a big dissappointment.  It's only scream masks, the grimm reaper, witches, blood and gore here. I want Dorothy and the wizard of OZ, firemen, political satires, super heroes, etc. My kids are going as Stan and Ollie, and a gypsy. My husband and I are the director and camera man! |
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Brandy
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There are 3 kind of people in life, those who do, those who watch and those who ask what happened.
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Post by Brandy on Oct 30, 2004 13:48:06 GMT -5
We hollowed out our pumpkins today and will carve them tomorrow.
The party yesterday went great. Idiot Mom was still an idiot, but now it's over! I survived! We made 600Kr for the "klasskassa". The kids had fun, and I was actually able to talk quite a few kids into being something other than scary. Out of 50 kids there were almost ten dressed like fairies, clowns, superheroes...
In the fifth and sixth grades there was a super mario and a boy dressed like a lady! They were fun.
Hope you guys have a great day tomorrow!
Happy Halloween!
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Post by Natooke on Nov 4, 2004 12:47:54 GMT -5
I really [glow=red,2,300]really[/glow] hate to see this place stop. The few things, at the top of my head ;D that I like about it is |
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Aussie
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Hi I'm an Aussie now far from home in the land of the moose!
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Post by Aussie on Nov 4, 2004 15:56:47 GMT -5
I echo Natooke's sentiments and I'm really grateful that Jerseygirl is taking on this task.
There is a pool of great knowledge and friendship at this site that seems unique in message boards. So many of them are full of egocentrics, and cosy little cliques and it's refreshing to come to a calm place that has information and a core of really nice people.
BUT, a site is only active if the members who make it up keep it alive. If we don't post, then it will shrivel away and die and that would be really sad.
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It's only scream masks, the grimm reaper, witches, blood and gore here. I want Dorothy and the wizard of OZ, firemen, political satires, super heroes, etc. My kids are going as Stan and Ollie, and a gypsy. My husband and I are the director and camera man!