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Post by hopehope on Jun 4, 2008 23:51:03 GMT -5
First: I saw Barack Obama! !!! !! Twice! Second: I can't reach this site except by way of the old site. How do I find it? www.Stepping Out of Squalor.com -- with or without spaces between words, with or without the subtitle -- no es bueno. ? Anybody know? Third: I tossed a big, full container, an entire large envelope of neatly folded, carefully collated supermarket coupons for foods I actually eat -- gathered during the time when I actually had a functional accessible kitchen and cooked, some garbage and magazines, i guess -- but, most important ( :-) ) I washed all this underwear (this involves going to the laundry room in the basement of a sister building a couple blocks away) and my black pants, and the crotch of my lacey leggings, and my ninja shoes, and both my bras, and my hair, and my feet. I think that's it. :-) still. brought all that stuff back home, then went on my way. Picked up my mail bundle from the post office -- despite line and my global impatience with same. And returned a couple things to CVS, for a big 8 dollars and change in credit -- which I will use anyway, at some point. I was early for my next commitment -- took a walk, wandered around the fancy food store, where I bought nothing, and headed back, down a random side street -- where I encountered the Obama waiting crew. small, it was, too. I saw him, we both waved -- I went to my event -- and came back -- in time to wait for him to come out later, get a good look -- and see him wave again. and lope away like a preteen basketball player. I even went to the follow up event and had a great time hanging with the press and photographers -- but we missed him as he left by a side door. I interviewed some of the people who'd been there.. Oh, yeah, also saw Caroline Kennedy at first event. Fun. Oh -- and I found some beautiful purpley peonies -- which I picked up to take home. :-) And I had the most delicious Japanese soup -- containing soba noodles, something green and what tasted like freeze-dried tofu.  |
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Post by CourageouslyLion SeeksSerenity on Jun 5, 2008 1:23:07 GMT -5
I can't reach this site except by way of the old site. How do I find it? www.Stepping Out of Squalor.com -- with or without spaces between words, with or without the subtitle -- no es bueno. ? Anybody know? Hi HopeHope ! The address is takeonestepatatime.proboards80.comI gather you don't have a computer at home? You use the computer at the library or an internet cafe or something? Do you have a gmail or hotmail or yahoo email account? I don't want to know your email address. Just wondering if you have an email address that you can access anywhere? Can you email yourself the address (just copy it into an email) .. .and make the Subject of the Email as something you'd easily remember .... Then whenever you go to library to use computer ... you'd be able to find the address, by checking your own email. If you do actually own your own computer, do you know how to "bookmark" a website address so you can find it again? Bookmarking is saving a place on your computer that you can easily click on to come back to a favorite website. Do you know how to do that? If not, maybe you could ask a friend how. You could ask friend how to bookmark some innocuous webpage like CNN or something. (You wouldn't have to show them this page). Just ask them HOW to bookmark a page. Then later on, when you have privacy, you could come here ... then try bookmarking this page. But you can only bookmark a page on a computer that belongs to you. It won't work to do it on a library's computer. This forum you are reading here was created by Missy (God bless her!) in a mad dash -- she did it the day after she found out that Pigpen was closing the other forums. She created it first, with the first name that popped into her head. It wasn't until much later that the name "Stepping Out of Squalor" was decided upon. So she created it with the address takeonestepatatime.proboards80.comThat was because the first name that popped into her head was "Take One Step At a Time". "Take One Step At a Time" is like an apartment in a huge apartment complex named "Proboards80" Or .. You could say that "Take One Step At a Time" is our "Street Address" and "Proboards80" is our "City". Missy knew we need to move out of Squalor Survivors because the bulldozers were coming soon, and she knew there were places to live over at "Proboards80" and she got us this lovely little residence there. The thing about taking out a lease at Proboards80 is that you have to tell them "This is the Name of my House" when you rent it. So she had to make up a name fast ... so she thought of "Take One Step At a Time". And that became our address. After we'd been here a bit, she took a poll, and we came up with the name "Stepping Out of Squalor". But the house still has the name "TakeOneStepAtATime.Proboards80" Even though we changed the name, it still has the original address-name ... because well. ... I don't know how to explain it, but we can't change the address. So ... why not email yourself our street address, so you can find us easily again: takeonestepatatime.proboards80.comLove, Lioness - |
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Post by crazycatlady on Jun 8, 2008 20:57:08 GMT -5
What an amazing day, HopeHope! You got so much accomplished, and even had a few contacts with a presidential candiate! Is he as charismatic in person as he appears to be on TV? And...does it feel great to have accomplished so much? 
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Post by overcome on Jun 10, 2008 3:22:47 GMT -5
If I ever get to meet President Obama (yes I am getting used to saying it now-- practice makes perfect and dreams do come true) I will probably faint---- he is simply amazing.
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Post by hopehope on Jun 11, 2008 0:38:50 GMT -5
HI, Catlady -- so GOOD to see you -- and hear from you! Yes, he is dreamy. And it felt good. I wish I could do it every day. I had a special, happy weekend. Big Hug HopeHope |
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Post by hopehope on Jun 11, 2008 0:40:46 GMT -5
Miss overcome -- I'm glad to see you! I miss everybody. Hope so (don't tell anyone!).
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Post by hopehope on Jun 11, 2008 0:45:29 GMT -5
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