@unk-p ? ? ? ? ? YES!!!! I get that too!!! "Ok Journey.. you can stop rolling your eyes now" and "even if I were - we are on the phone and you can't see it" "Girl stop that!!! I could hear them slapping back against your skull!!!!" *sigh* at least they didn't toss me to floor like they did "The Chancellor" ? ? ? ? ?
I think I will be very sad if this is not true. I really had not intended to share a sales pitch for any device..
I love this so hard. I so want this to be true too! :-)
I love this presentation that came out if the recent COP26. The Urban Sequoia. It would be a wonderful place for a rooftop lounge!
Has anyone had a surprise party given for them where they were totally surprised? My husband gave me one years back, and it is shocking to walk into a place (it was a crowded restaurant) where you think you are going for dinner alone and then you walk totally confused into a room full of people who jump up and scream SURPRISE! It is with that memory in mind, that I watched the surprise moments of all surprise moments.
This man leads his totally unsuspecting gf on stage to a mega Adele concert. Like me, she doesn't take well to not understanding what is happening. But then the tears comes and the love is clear and beautiful.
this is what a 3000yr old giant sequoia sounds like .. wait for it.. in about 5 seconds the mighty tree speaks. I just love this..
Oh My .. Both my cat and dog have stopped what they are doing, walked over to me and my computer with there ears perked up and I now have there rapt attention.. stunning ...
@jeanne-mayell Hi, I did have a surprise 60th but I was in the laundry when my husband was on the phone with my sister organising and overheard. I think my surprised performance was worthy of an Oscar.
Having said that I am not a fan of these elaborate engagements, I think it’s more about the person doing the asking he/she is making it about how wonderful they are, look at me, look at me, see I am great. Backs the recipient into a corner, how can you say get lost with everyone looking on. I don’t think they are romantic, more a coercive action. If he had asked in private and as a romantic gesture took her to the Adele concert with her knowing and very happy about it and then got up on the stage for Adele to sing to them, it would be special for both of them and not an ambush.
Am I a cynic, bah humbug and all that or do I have a point.
Regards to all
@jeanne-mayell I had a surprise birthday party 18 months ago. I was really down from the start of the pandemic (I know - who wasn’t?) but my wife and my friends from my community theater troupe arranged one of those surprise parades by our house. They all came dressed in characters from plays and musicals. We all talked from a distance on my lawn for a time and it was the most wonderful surprise of my adult life.
Hi
Don’t know if it is of interest to you being teachers but apparently NSW education is changing their curriculum from 2022, it is the biggest change in 3 decades. (you don't want to rush these things)
If you want to have a browse.
https://nswcurriculumreform.nesa.nsw.edu.au/
https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/curriculum/nsw-curriculum-reform
You might like this bit
TIme for teaching and learning
“Declutter” a teacher’s day to give more time to focus on student learning
Support for Teachers
Giving teachers what they need to make sure they can implement the new curriculum
Teachers want more time to teach core content in depth and to give students opportunities to apply skills, which builds depth of learning. When requirements are broad or unclear, students don’t have time for mastery or further learning. To stay engaged students need learning challenges that give the appropriate ‘stretch’ – too much and they disengage and fall behind; too little and they become bored, failing to reach their full learning potential. Teachers need a curriculum that provides flexibility to meet students where they are at with their learning.
Regards to all
@matildagirl You most definitely have a point. These things aren't about the proposal or the love involved, they're about getting attention for the one doing the proposing. And I agree with the "backed into a corner" thing. Regardless of how they feel about each other, it's not fair to the person being proposed to, and I just cringe every time I run across one of these.
So yeah, Bah! Humbug! from me, too. ;-)
Thanks for sharing the surprise engagement.
It sounds as if they have been together for a very long time and know each other quite well. He new she would say yes, she has been waiting. If she loves Adele, well, how awesome for them both. This song is my all time favorite from Adele and she did a beautiful job. Yes, her voice is a bit different now but she has come back beautifully and her hard work has paid off. I am very happy for the coupe and for Adele. A great evening for a celebration!
I agree with both ideas- ambushing and lovely surprise.
(I am a Gemini)
I love this presentation that came out if the recent COP26. The Urban Sequoia. It would be a wonderful place for a rooftop lounge!
I would like to ask @unkp who created this rooftop revolving lounge, if we could remodel to include a carbon capture mechanism. I’m shopping for one now and I believe we could add a state of the art system. We might have to add some floors and a tower above the revolving lounge, but I would opt for sparing no expense. In the meantime I have taken the liberty to line the lounge and the entire high rise with plants.
I read A Wrinkle in Time earlier this week, which I had never read before. @tesseract @the-happy-medium I finally understand what your usernames mean. Now we need someone named Miss Whatsit or Aunt Beast to complete the ensemble.
I think Madeleine L'engle had some mystical experiences before she wrote the book. I was struck by how much the characters' experiences on the planets Uriel and Ixchel (sp?) resembled he NDE accounts I've come across.
Dannyboy here with your 10 second spoiler free review of Ghostbusters afterlife!
Are you a fan of the original movie? Did you like what you saw in the trailers for Afterlife? If you can answer both questions “yes” this is the sequel for you.
if you answered no to one or both of those questions continue to pretend that the franchise ended with Viggo the Carpathian in Ghostbusters 2 and go about your life.
I absolutely loved it! I got tickets to an advance imax screening tonight with three friends and the theater was only about 1/4 full. But I left with a big goofy smile on my face.
(I also “accidentally” logged into my absence management app on my phone and “butt dialed” the exact sequence that puts a “full day medical” into the system. And once entered it cannot be undone so I guess I have a mental health day on a Friday. Technology man! ?)
I know. I'll probably read the other Time Quintet books, especially when I want to balance out my heftier reading. Through I'm not big on movie adaptations, so I probably won't watch the films.
I somehow fell asleep last night while holding a full glass of ice water in my hand. Hilarity ensued.
@unk-p, LOL! That's sending some major shivers down my spine. I used to do something similar, repeatedly, with my nightly tea as I sat on the sofa. My husband always warned me to put my tea on the coffee table instead of holding it, because I was always nodding off. But did I listen? No. Even after I spilled it on myself a few times.
And then came that fateful night in 2015. I christened myself with the tea, freaked out and raced to get a towel to clean up the floor, slipped on the hardwood and fell straight down on my knee, fracturing my patella in 8 places. I woke up my dog, Gracie, who gave me a dirty look for disturbing her sleep. So at 11:30 pm, instead of being safely nestled in dreamland, I was in the ER where a jovial orthopedic doctor called me Humpty Dumpty and informed me that I had fractured my patella in 8 places. I needed surgery and was out of commission for a few months.
Let my sad tale be a lesson to you, cookie. ?