The Stash And Grab

[Fljotsdale]

Ooh, I'll go for a nice hot chocolate tonight please barkeep! I missed the snow everyone else seems to have seen, and no-one turned up - or called to say they weren't coming - for cross stitch group. I need the hot chocolatey goodness to cheer me up I think.

You must feel quite disheartened. Wish you lived near me! I'd love to go to a cross stitch group!
Have some and

[Angel]

Don't let it get you down. When I started my group only one person that said she was coming actually came, everyone else vanished in the ether. You just have to stay with it. At least you can't have any less people turn up next time. Just keep trying. And if no one shows up, at least you've got time to stitch by yourself. Which is why I host mine in a free public room, so if no one shows up at least I'm not paying for it and I've got stitchy time.

[Busy_B]

Barkeep, I'll just help myself to a nice big, hot cup of peppermint tea (ran out at home). I brought my eagle WIP, but I'm just going to cozy up here by the fire and doze to try to get rid of this headache behind my eyes.

[Fljotsdale]

Hope the Headache is going away, Busy_B.

[~threadbear~]

Aww, headaches are horrible.
You sit there and relax for awhile.

[Rose]

Ah yes what you need is a warm fire, a soothing cup of tea and some soft mellow music. Then doze in and out as you listen to the lite conversation around you of stitching and new projects and fantastic stash bargains. That would sooth away any headache.

[crazycat]

sounds like heaven to me

[burgundyice]

I would like a big frothy marshmallowy hot chocolate please as my office is freezing & some interesting conversation to keep me from falling asleep! - almost 2 hours of work left & nothing to do! need to do something to look busy... which also looks like work... so not stitching!
On a happy note, I was very very pleased to find some of the original BIG Monster Munch in the Woolworths near me at lunchtime! Has anyone else had them?? I can still remember when they really were that big & a packet of them was a really big treat happy days lol

Louise

[Busy_B]

Thanks for all the headache advice! It's one of those that medicine will not touch. I tend to get headaches when we have strong weather fronts moving thru. I didn't think the one coming thru which is supposed to bring warmer weather would cause a problem. Maybe I can convince daughter to lay down on the couch with me so I can snooze....

Everyone have fun working on their .

[Fljotsdale]

Hope it works, Busy_B!

[Kute Kitty]

Angel, you're wonderful and made me smile I think mostly I was annoyed that I'd gone to the effort of tidying up, putting out drinks and snacks, really being the good hostess, and then there was a whole lot of no-one there to appreciate it, which kinda makes the whole thing feel a touch pointless.

Ah well, just a quick hot chocolate here then I'm off to bed Busy_B, really hoping that headache's gone now.

Are we OK to bring pets into the cyber-pub? Sooty won't bother anyone (and he definitely won't mess up your stitching, he knows better!) but he's ever so cute when he's sleeping. I'd never heard a cat snore before tonight. It was amusing.

[Angel]

*nods* I know what you mean. I know it must have been ever such a let down, but don't let them ruin it for you. I know it's not easy starting a group up and there will always be people who don't bother to show up or even let you know, but you gotta hang in there and then you'll have people who do show up and make it all worth it. I know you will *hugs*

[Serinde]

Barkeep, I need something long and cold. I just received 10 files for my current editing job, and I'm going to have to play 'hunt the accent mark' through them all tomorrow to pick out the extra ones that have been put in. At least it's all been done using track changes, but it's still a pain.

[Mabel Figworthy]

editing/proof-reading can be a severe pain, Serinde -- you have my sympathy and I'll buy you that drink !

[Fljotsdale]

Yeah, I've done some of that myself, in my time! Only for a local mag, editing stuff people sent in to make it fit for publication, but even so it was tedius work! And I was always SO tempted to just rewrite!

Oh, barkeep? Can I have a very hot cocoa, please? I'm freezing!

[Serinde]

Ah! Friday night, Halloween, my book is done and I've submitted the invoice. Even had a long conversation with my sister in the US. Life is good.

Barkeep, the drinks are on me!

[crazycat]

can i have a double baileys please lots of ice this piece is stressing me out.

[~threadbear~]

*Rushes in*
The drinks are on Serinde I believe? That was enough to get me in here!!

[Serinde]

Relaaaaaax! I'll all come good in the end.

[Rose]

Can I have my usual hot cocoa and creme de mint. It is suppose to rain tonight and through the week-end. Not complaining as we really need it. I am going to go over in the corner and over the new mag that Wendy sent me. I am so excited.