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beebuddy
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posted October 09, 2005 03:19 PM
 
I notice a lot of posters here at Lindaland are from the DC metro area, there are also LOTS of fortune telling, tarot etc... type places around here.IP: Logged |
proxieme
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posted October 09, 2005 05:12 PM
What can I say?
We just rock like that.- prox, from Fairfax/Alexandria IP: Logged |
celticfyre
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posted October 09, 2005 05:19 PM
wow,i'm in Faifax/Prince William County ------------------
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proxieme
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posted October 09, 2005 05:29 PM
Hm, with a screen name like that, you know what'd be a funny, amazing coincidence?If you ever LARPed in the Prince William Forest Park. IP: Logged |
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posted October 10, 2005 12:32 AM
 proxieme, we do ROCK  IP: Logged |
beebuddy
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posted October 10, 2005 12:39 AM
Proxie,Ever heard of Steele, Alabama?
www.hp40.com It's the shiznit! IP: Logged |
celticfyre
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posted October 10, 2005 09:30 AM
If you ever LARPed in the Prince William Forest Park.>>>>Okay I probably haven't, as I'm not sure what LARPed is..lol...please enlighten me  ------------------
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proxieme
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posted October 10, 2005 10:37 AM
That answers the question then  To be honest, I've not LARPed, either...but my husband has. It's "Live Action Role Playing" - he took part in a LARP called "Avalon".
He was a firecaster named...something or other. Yeah, Geeks are Sexy beebuddy - Nawp, I have not.
It does look cool ...it's like 6 hours away from here, though.
If we can find someone to watch our dog, maybe we'll make our BIL's place in B'ham a jumping-off place for a day trip there.
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proxieme
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posted October 10, 2005 10:47 AM
aqua - Oh, yes.
Yes, we do  If I weren't just ducking in here while my kiddo watched Sesame Street, I'd compose a paean to our skill while navigating Springfield and the Mixing Bowl; I'd write an ode to the bravery needed to make it over up the 3-95 Corridor during Rush Hour; I'd praise the consummate patience needed to find a parking space (and then find your car again) in Georgetown...at any time, ever. But, alas, Elmo's World only lasts for so long. IP: Logged |
bodysnatcher
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posted October 10, 2005 11:46 AM
yeah the traffice around here is terrible, i can only tell you all to stay where you are from and don't move to the DC Metro area because its way overpopulated as it is or if you all do decide to move then consider moving someplace eles, this traffic is one of the worst in the country. The Springfield interchange is always under constructionand traffic is always backed up for hours. I'm from Woodbridge/Dale City area of PWC. Suprised to see alot of you from this area on here.CoolIP: Logged |
celticfyre
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posted October 11, 2005 01:44 AM
proxieme, that sounds like fun ...a LARP that is...I actually came up with the name as I am from Scots/Irish descent and a female firefighter...has nothing to do with being a fire sign vs water etc...Which I hadn't thought of until after starting to post  But yeah the traffic here is horrendous and I live on the west end of PWC along the I-66 corridor where rush hour is a misnomer....  not really lol more like boo hoo!------------------
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Quark
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posted October 11, 2005 05:46 AM
I live for Elmo's world!!!!"hahahahaha That tickles.... mehahahamehahah O boy! a bwahhahaha abwhahahahahaha! O boy that tickles!" Elmo forever baby!!!!!  IP: Logged |
Mystic Gemini
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posted October 11, 2005 06:26 PM
I once gave a tickle me elmo to my cousin LOL. His sister recently got one but a cheerleading one. It's annoying LOL.
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proxieme
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posted October 11, 2005 08:44 PM
RE: Elmo - One's priorities and tastes change *drastically* with a crazy, blonde monkey running through one's house and one's life  IP: Logged |
Quark
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posted October 11, 2005 08:53 PM
I still got my tickle me elmo, his batteries are a little low, and he's looking worse for wear. However, he has kissed more hot ravers (and been to as many raves) as me!I wuv my elmo! IP: Logged |
proxieme
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posted October 11, 2005 08:55 PM
bodysnatcher - I'll Amen that.
My parents bought a POS shack in Occoquan in '78 for $32,000...it recently went on the market for $500,000 and I've no doubt that the asking price was got (no, unfortunately my parents weren't the sellers).It's reaching farther and farther out, too -
My Mom's house in Stafford is now worth quadruple what she bought if for. celtic - Ah, another Scotch-Irish gal
Cool book.
I'm a Scot-Irish-Scotch/Irish-German-Belgian-Spanish-African-Cherokee (like every third white person on the east coast)-Blackfoot-Crow-American myself
Yay, meltingpot! re: I-66: I can't imagine.
I used to work up in Georgetown when I lived in Alexandria (still a 30-45 minute drive during rush hour, and I lived *right off of* 3-95 almost in Arlington), and a dude in my office who lived off of I-66 said after moving south rather than west, "Yay! I love 95! At least it moves during rush hour..."
When I was going to school @ JMU and'd come back some weekends, I'd *only* drive in or out of Fairfax at like 2 AM.
My Dad's living out in Chantilly now, but only because he can bike to his office from home. IP: Logged |
beebuddy
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posted October 11, 2005 09:04 PM
Yea the traffic is rediculous here. It's been rumored that the real-estate market is hotter than Manhatten's. That's hard to believe but I pay 3 times as much rent as I would in Illinois.IP: Logged |
proxieme
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posted October 11, 2005 09:16 PM
In college, in the DC suburbs, mind you, I was paying $375 for a room, not including some utilities...and all my friends thought that that was fanatastic.
(And it was - the room that I was renting before that...which was 1/2 it's size...went for $425 w/o utilities.)
In Alabama, we were paying $350/mo for a fairly nice 2-bedroom apartment.Honestly, if Jase were to get out of the Army right now, there's no way we could afford to live in anything but a subsidized apartment if we moved back there to be with fam. The median income for Fairfax is over $60,000...the median.
I read an article in one of the local papers from back home (my Grandmother clips and sends articles to me...I love my Grandma) it said that in Prince William, there's a financing group backed by local churches buying and selling subsized townhomes for people making less that $45,000 a year (because several economic studies apparently indicated that if you made less than that, you had no chance whatsoever of breaking into the housing market...not even if you're in the run-down-townhome housing market). Geesh. Dude, I forget exactly which road it is, but some road between Clifton (where my in-laws live) and Stafford via Prince William and Fauquier (because going on "back roads" is *such* a more pleasant way to get around than is 95), there's an "Adopt-a-Road" sign that says that Road X has been adopted by the Skull-and-Crossbones Fraternal Society.
Tells ya the demographic, no? IP: Logged |
proxieme
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posted October 11, 2005 09:23 PM
celtic - Forgot to say: PWC Pkwy an the FFC Pkwy...often underutilized treasures, at least as of a 6 months or so ago...
I wouldn't be surprised if the population's exploded to such an extent as to make that moot IP: Logged |
Quark
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posted October 11, 2005 09:51 PM
*bump*ELMO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I shall cease and desist now..)  IP: Logged |
celticfyre
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posted October 12, 2005 01:21 AM
Oh its just getting to PWC Pwy and FFXco pwy that is the killer!------------------
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proxieme
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posted October 12, 2005 08:44 AM
celtic - True 'nuff.Quark - Go right ahead Though I'll admit that I'm much more a Grover fan myself...or, if we're talking about the entire Henson Universe, all of the Fraggles. Fraggle Rock, Complete Season One DVD...I'M COMING FOR YOU!!! IP: Logged |
Quark
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posted October 12, 2005 10:09 AM
I've allways loved Poo Bear and Tigger the most, know its not seasame street....But Poo is just so Cwute!!!! And tigger goes Bounce!!!!! 
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celticfyre
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posted October 12, 2005 10:38 AM
I love Tigger!!! although my absolute fav is Stitch....like Tigger on acid...LOL------------------
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proxieme
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posted October 12, 2005 11:02 AM
HeeHee...my husband can do Stitch's voice perfectly.
He'll chance me around the house saying, "Stitch...Stitch!"IP: Logged |
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