Don’t eat that, it’s for the company!
admin October 19th, 2006
Oh, excuse me. Welcome to the Haven. So happy you could make it to this little get-together to celebrate my six months of blogging. I can’t really express how much you have enriched my life since I started this blog, but I’m going to try, and what better way than with the very words (slightly but lovingly edited) with which you have brought me such joy? So here we are, at my first-ever, “Totally Out-of-Context Comment“ party. In other words, what a fly on the wall at the Haven might hear. So come on in, give your coats to the little lad,
The Mature One
and make yourselves at home. Eat, drink and be merry. And mingle. Don’t forget to mingle.
From forget me not’s vineyard to our lips!
And this, courtesy of brother lesser!
Desert Dreamer: “Sorry I’ve been away so long.”
forget me not: “If you don’t belong here, I certainly don’t.”
ccheryl: “Where am I now?”
Honora: “It’s taking forever to fill these water balloons.”
forget me not: “I want some brie and Bordeaux.”
Honora: “Let’s roast a chicken. She’s got some cool machines.”
Monica: “It’s really helpful to come here and jump right in.”
Honora: “Lead on!”
ccheryl: “I will end up in the Slough of Despond.”
kathryntherese: “I hope I can jump in…”
forget me not: “God willing, the weather will be good.”
Honora: “I tried to sing once.”
Terry: “I usually keep my mouth shut.”
ccheryl: “Personality type ‘A’.”
Terry: “So be it. ‘Nuff said.”
Honora: “Are you having surgery, Gabrielle?”
Gabrielle: “I knew I forgot something. Where did I put those knitting needles?”
Terry: “Yikes!”
Honora: “…some chutzpah, huh? We may have to up Gabrielle’s cheesecake dosage.”
Gabrielle: “Chocolate works for me, but we’ll need quite a bit.”
brother lesser: “What a great conversation!”
Deacon Dan: “During college I immersed myself…”
Monica: “Oh, that’s funny!”
forget me not: “Oh, gosh, how many times have I done that?”
Terry: “I did call the 800 number.”
Owen: “I am not at all surprised who it turned out to be.”
Monica: “If you can broker some kind of deal…”
Honora: “I dare not say anything to this.”
What the Conspiracy’s been waiting for…
truevyne: “Golly, I love that Merton quote.”
Terry: “I have a friend who…wouldn’t know a mystic from a fish stick.”
brother lesser: “We don’t have to worry about him.”
Desert Dreamer: “There are a myriad of writers out there.”
Terry: “Of course, I was not very disciplined.”
ccheryl: “Did anyone else get that first impression?”
Desert Dreamer: “I can tell Honora feels the same way.”
penni: “Go into detail.”
truevyne: “I practically drool thinking of eating a summer tomato.”
Honora: “I feel that as an old married lady, I maybe shouldn’t have one…”
brother lesser: “I thought I would share something concerning mist.”
Gabrielle: “Oh yuk.”
truevyne: “My boys drive their bikes into my flowerpots.”
Deacon Dan: “Considering the outcome, I’d say let them fly.”
Honora: “I can only fly by the seat of my pants.”
forget me not: “Now that’s not good.”
Gabrielle: “The picture is a bit distorted.”
Terry: “And that’s a good thing!”
ccheryl: “Could it be the focus?”
Gabrielle: “Quick, let’s blame Honora!”
penni: “Yikes, I am tired.”
Honora: “Oh, my aching category.”
forget me not: “I had less free time today to navigate.”
Terry: “Wow! Are you spying on me?”
brother lesser: “Boy can I relate to this!”
Monica: “Which goes to show…I don’t know what…but it’s interesting.”
Gabrielle: “Yes, of course, idols and attachments.”
Owen: “Can you e-mail me with the source, please?”
penni: “Give it up.”
kathryntherese: “I have struggled with these issues AD NAUSEUM.”
Gabrielle: “It’s only soccer.”
forget me not: “That too, takes experience.”
ccheryl: “I learned it’ll drive you nuts.”
I was up all night…
ccheryl: “Strong meat here, Gabrielle.”
Honora: “There is nothing worse on earth.”
ccheryl: “Looks good.”
Monica: “Avoid the worms at all costs!”
Gabrielle: “How gruesome!”
truevyne: “Love this, sister.”
kathryntherese: “I need to know if she’ll eat…”
Terry: “Gave me chills actually.”
kathryntherese: “Will we continue to say YES?”
Honora: “I am sitting here looking as uncomprehending as an eggplant.”
Monica: “That’s beautiful!”
kathryntherese: “I never thought of it like that, but it is a good visual.”
Monica: “A friend of mine made eyeballs out of some kind of feta cheese and olives.”
Terry: “Beautiful and inspirational.”
ccheryl: “Consider yourself blessed with a true bargain!”
penni: “Sounds like someone needs to hang out in a cave this weekend.”
Gabrielle: “Yes, such a relief when we find out we are not nuts.”
Monica: “I need to get this book.”
Honora: “Snugglepuss and Bert Lahr (of Wizard of Oz fame) both used it.”
Joanne: “I have received comfort from such readings.”
Owen: “[send] the link along to my Mom as well.”
penni: “Moi? Sender of things?”
ccheryl: “There is the sheer inability to explain the experience with mere words.”
kathryntherese: “I could go on and on.”
penni: “Don’t steal my blessing, girl.”
forget me not: “Exponential multiplication.”
ccheryl: “That’s a tough one for me.”
brother lesser: “I experienced this about a month ago as I was sitting on the front porch watching the cars drive by.”
Gabrielle: “It sounds like a disease.”
forget me not: “It’s made mashed potatoes out of me.”
Terry: “A couple more coincidences to enjoy.”
forget me not: “Starting to feel lightheaded. Buona notte!”
Honora: “Maranatha!”
Joanne: “God bless you.”
brother lesser: “Oh, mea culpa!”
Joanne: “Well I was thinking maybe I will stay.”
forget me not: “I may come back in disguise.”
ROFL!! Beautiful!
Now if someone would help me remove Brother Lesser from the chandelier and pour him back onto the settee? Somewhere along the way in our 15 toasts to thee, Lady Gabrielle, for 6 wonderful months of Contemplative Haven, Brother grabbed the wrong glass.
I’m glad you’re here.
Honora | Homepage | 10.19.06 - 3:24 pm | #
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Well, as long as brother lesser’s got a ride home, I think we should be thankful it wasn’t the prune juice he drank too much of. I hope he didn’t smear the ceiling paint while he was up there; your yellow Happy Face wasn’t quite dry yet.
Gabrielle | 10.19.06 - 4:04 pm | #
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What a Grand Gala!
All who love to ballroom dance..into the guest hall, now…Gabrielle has decorated and cleared enough room for all who love to dip and sway!
A toast! …To Gabrielle for providing a wonderful Haven for work- world weary souls! CHEERS!
(and a prayer that you will continue in the months ahead.)
Wow! I can recognize all the personalities in that conversation..what a hoot!
Thanks for inviting us to the party, Gabrielle.
ccheryl | 10.19.06 - 5:55 pm | #
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My pleasure, ccheryl! I wish I had remembered to ask you to bring your violin! The piano’s perpetually out of tune, but we’d have managed!
Gabrielle | 10.19.06 - 6:31 pm | #
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Oh, but I do have it outside in the trunk of my car!
I’ll be back soon and serenade the guests with a little bit of unaccompanied Bach after the dancing!
ccheryl | 10.19.06 - 7:19 pm | #
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Excellent. You know, I wanted to have this post up bright and early this morning, for fmn, but for the first time since I’ve been blogging (Murphy’s Law), blogger wouldn’t let me post my pictures. I tried for hours. So, I hereby declare this a sleepover. There’ll be pancakes and bacon tomorrow morning.
Gabrielle | 10.19.06 - 8:06 pm | #
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Sorry I’m late. I brought pigs-in-a-blanket. Where should I put them?
I know this is seasonally premature but in honor of your 6 month anniversary as a blogger I have six geese a-laying outside in the driveway. They are itching to head south but I told them they can’t leave until they lay enough for breakfast omelletes for all attendees.
By the way, where’s the rest room?
Terry | Homepage | 10.19.06 - 8:54 pm | #
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Mahvelous, dahling. Just put the little piglets anywhere you can find an empty spot, and thank you so much for the goose eggs - omelettes will be wonderful. I just realized tomorrow is Friday, so I must take back what I said about the bacon. As for the restroom, just follow brother lesser.
Gabrielle | 10.19.06 - 10:05 pm | #
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Oh, Gabrielle, that is so funny. You really captured so much in those snippets that I found myself laughing out loud. Which is rare. Unless I’m talking with YOU PEOPLE. I feel like laughing just thinking about you all.
As we are packing for a one week vacation, we have eaten down everything in the house and I haven’t anything left to bring. Except these raw almonds and some half-done kombucha. And some dried apricots. If we eat all that with brother lesser’s prune juice, we’ll ALL need the rest room. But we’ll feel great in the morning, and we won’t even miss the bacon.
Here’s to 6 months of contemplative haven and many, many more!
And thanx for the invite, Gabrielle. With all this preparation for vacation, I hadn’t even checked the blogs today!
KathrynTherese | Homepage | 10.19.06 - 10:27 pm | #
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- KathrynTherese now raises a glass with such a strange looking liquid that all the guests are aghast… Is that kombucha mixed with prune juice?!?! What will the morning bring? -
KathrynTherese | Homepage | 10.19.06 - 10:30 pm | #
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Sirens!
Honora raises her cup to all here.. manages to catch it on the corner of the desk, chips off a piece of Bullwinkle’s ceramic ear, slugs down coffee in honor of the very concept of anniversaries amongst us, and… in tho doing, catcheth a thliver of theramic mooth ear in her tongue and mutht wrap thith up quicker than planned…
Godthpeed!
Honora | Homepage | 10.19.06 - 10:50 pm | #
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Well, kt, I stand in awe of anyone who can take a vacation in October! Here’s to kathryntherese! But I must admit I’ve never heard of kombucha. Even so, I think I have a fairly good idea of what the morning would bring. Ahem. Wishing you and your family a terrific holiday, and thanks so much for stopping in. Laughing out loud is very good for head colds (I must have read that in Readers Digest. Double ahem.)
Gabrielle | 10.19.06 - 11:22 pm | #
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I’m tho thorry, Honora. That Bullwinkle cup wath thupothed to be hidden in the back of the cupboard. It wath thweatening to crack at any moment. I hate it when people injure themthelvths, becauth I am extremely thenthitive to otherths pain.
Gabrielle | 10.19.06 - 11:34 pm | #
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I was at RCIA and like always, missed the party. Post party blessings.
Owen | Homepage | 10.20.06 - 12:00 am | #
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That’s okay, Owen; RCIA is way more important. I just wish I knew how you liked your eggs.
Gabrielle | 10.20.06 - 12:35 am | #
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Good night, everybody! Thanks for a great party! I’m going to track down the extra blankets and pillows now.
Gabrielle | 10.20.06 - 12:41 am | #
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brother lesser, brother lesser, would you please come out of the bathroom; I gotta go to bed. No, it’s okay about the chandalier; I never liked it anyway. Yes, I’m sorry the little lad called you Assisi - I warned everyone. Well, I don’t know who spilled the kombucha on Cardinal Sean’s red tablecloth, but I’m sure he’ll forgive us. brother lesser, brother lesser, I’m begging you now.
Gabrielle | 10.20.06 - 1:09 am | #
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Wahhhhh! I missed the party!! *sniff *sniff
Lorenzo update: he is still in the hospital. May be coming out tomorrow. He said even school is better than being in the hospital. That’s a strong statement coming from him. He has ocular edema that is being reabsorbed slowly. Thanks for the prayers.
forget me not | Homepage | 10.20.06 - 9:29 am | #
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fmn, we missed you too, but I figured you were with Letizia, a much higher priority. But this news about Lorenzo on top of it! Yes, please keep us updated; we’ll be praying for him.
Gabrielle | 10.20.06 - 9:52 am | #
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Did thomeone thay there were thirenth? I think I heard the polithe car around the corner! Where have I been, where have I been? Brother Lethther, are you OK? I don’t need to eat the mooth cup to lithp…Honora, doeth thith bring back memorieth?
FMN, yes…PLEASE keep us informed…now, is this three things that have happened recently? Perhaps if it is the rash will stop now…if not, I’ll pray it does!
Desert Dreamer | Homepage | 10.20.06 - 5:12 pm | #
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BTW Gabrielle, you have done a splendid job of getting everyone together! That must have taken a LOOOONG TIME!
Desert Dreamer | Homepage | 10.20.06 - 5:13 pm | #
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Hmmpf, well I was at the party but my post didn’t show up! Ah well, this is really fun stuff, Gabrielle … very impressive!
Monica | 10.20.06 - 6:58 pm | #
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Hi, dd! Glad you could make it over, and thanks, it was great fun to prepare this. Wishing you a wonderful weekend!
Monica, I’m so sorry about your comment not appearing. I was having quite a bit of trouble yesterday morning as well, and I thought it was Blogger, but maybe it’s just more problems since we switched over to a wireless system. Anyway, glad you had time to stop in tonight, and wishing you a great weekend as well!
Gabrielle | 10.20.06 - 8:27 pm | #
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Oh my! I just got back into the real world and then “THIS!” lol Thanks for bringing me the ladder to come down off the chandalier…did anyone catch which rung I was on? And just who was that monk who was holding it for me, anyway?
Have we all been excommunicated yet? What’s that? A knock at my door. I’ll be right back!……..
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brother lesser | Homepage | 10.20.06 - 9:51 pm | #
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So glad you’re safe and sound, brother lesser! As for the ladder, I’m pretty sure you were on the fourth rung, but you may want to plead the fifth…
Gabrielle | 10.21.06 - 12:11 pm | #
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ROFL, ROFL
Desert Dreamer | Homepage | 10.21.06 - 1:46 pm | #
You had me laughing so hard I cried!
I guess I was too worried about other things to really appreciate this post last time, Gab. What a wonderful 2 years it’s been. Simply wonderful!
I hope with all my heart that if we were ever in a real physical room someday, we’d dare to be this hol-arious.
Between re-reading this and viewing that wonderful “You’ve got a friend in me” video, I’m laughing so hard, it’s dangerous.
Pia, you had a few more important things on your mind! Hard to believe it’s been two years, eh? What a lot has happened in all of our lives.
HonoraCarol the Gypsy, don’t make me snort-laugh now.
I’m completely over it.