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Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies -- 'God damn it, you've got to be kind.'
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#1276 2010-12-09 21:47:32

Calesta
Pilgrim
From: Calgary
Registered: 2001-06-01
Posts: 13321

Re: Infinity's

hopefully your roads are improving!  ours aren't bad, which I guess is why its snowing again, can't have me getting too comfortable with the drive to work....

I still have too much xmas stuff to do - and most of it involves being mailed away.  Something tells me my pressies will not be arriving in time for other people's xmas mornings!

Big formal work party tomorrow night for mr Calesta.  Blech.  I did get some killer shoes though...

 

#1277 2010-12-19 10:09:36

Magpie
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From: the town of thistly flowerbeds
Registered: 2006-03-27
Posts: 19914
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Re: Infinity's

*takes a brief break from filling moving boxes*

Just discovered something on top of my wardrobe that made me smile: a picture from an old calendar, with two cats sitting in a window... I kept it because the window has a sign that says "Antiquities" - I saw that picture and said, "Oh - it must be Infinity's!"
Maybe at my new flat, I'll find a spot to hang it again.


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#1278 2010-12-22 07:38:08

Calesta
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From: Calgary
Registered: 2001-06-01
Posts: 13321

Re: Infinity's

That's awesome Magpie!  I want a framed picture of Infinity's for my wall, preferably one I can magically enter.

 

#1279 2010-12-22 11:42:49

Magpie
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From: the town of thistly flowerbeds
Registered: 2006-03-27
Posts: 19914
Website

Re: Infinity's

Yeah, being able to enter it would be even better!

So, if I ever enter Infinity's through a window, my picture has turned out to be magical. *grins*


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#1280 2011-01-02 19:00:15

Calesta
Pilgrim
From: Calgary
Registered: 2001-06-01
Posts: 13321

Re: Infinity's

*sets out a plate of cookies on the windowsill*

 

#1281 2011-02-08 22:08:56

Calesta
Pilgrim
From: Calgary
Registered: 2001-06-01
Posts: 13321

Re: Infinity's

*wanders in through the dust and the cobwebs*

 

#1282 2011-02-20 11:11:04

AJ
Pilgrim
From: Quebec
Registered: 2001-07-08
Posts: 11353

Re: Infinity's

*curls up with a good book and a mug of Gayle's Cold Remedy*

Not that I have a cold - but it's my new favorite green tea and it is rather chilly outside ;)

I have been ridiculously busy lately but I hope eveyone is well and looking forward to spring.

 

#1283 2011-02-21 12:02:56

Calesta
Pilgrim
From: Calgary
Registered: 2001-06-01
Posts: 13321

Re: Infinity's

*waves at AJ*

Winter has seemed particulary cold and painful this year - and there really is no end in sight!!

 

#1284 2011-02-22 16:19:09

Jendaiya
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From: Canada
Registered: 2001-06-01
Posts: 21821
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Re: Infinity's

Winter has sure got a good hold this year, hasn't it? A few days ago I looked out my window at my neighbour's house, which is a two-story affair. There were dogs on the roof. That's how deep the snow is, dogs can walk onto roofs. Second story roofs. It's really hard to see outside unless you happen to be able to look down the little cut-out that is the driveway.

*sets out some tea*


Beauty will save the world.

~Prince Myshkin,

The Idiot, by Dostoevsky

 

#1285 2011-02-22 16:25:11

Magpie
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From: the town of thistly flowerbeds
Registered: 2006-03-27
Posts: 19914
Website

Re: Infinity's

*blinks*

I can't even imagine this much snow.


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#1286 2011-02-22 17:29:57

Genisis X
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From: Canberra
Registered: 2005-05-08
Posts: 12425
Website

Re: Infinity's

Dear god. That amount of snow is utterly ridiculous. Do Canadian houses have doors in the roof? O-o

-X


Cyan on the merits of Dubstep: "That's not music. That's a patchwork quilt made by a blind iron worker."

My new webcomic of sarcasm and profanity!

 

#1287 2011-02-22 17:49:34

PeterJW
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Registered: 2008-01-19
Posts: 425

Re: Infinity's

No, Canadian houses do not have doors in the roof.  Actually, I like high snow levels.  It is really fascinating how they can transform a landscape.  That being said, my part of Canada has not seen snow levels that high.  Most of the big storms responsible for that have largely by-passed Montreal and have hit the Maritime provinces and some parts of Ontario instead.

 

#1288 2011-02-23 13:18:08

Jendaiya
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From: Canada
Registered: 2001-06-01
Posts: 21821
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Re: Infinity's

I like the high snow levels, too. It is difficult to get around, though. And after a while it gets a bit claustrophobic. I actually nearly had a panic attack during the last big snowfall a week or so ago. I just looked out there and thought, "This is never going to stop. We'll be digging out of this in July." But then the saying around here is that snow is never on the ground past April, and it never has been, so far. Though this is the most snow I've seen yet.


Beauty will save the world.

~Prince Myshkin,

The Idiot, by Dostoevsky

 

#1289 2011-02-23 18:37:17

AJ
Pilgrim
From: Quebec
Registered: 2001-07-08
Posts: 11353

Re: Infinity's

*waves back to Calesta*

I've had a bit more snow than Peter being off island - I've got about 4 feet at the side of the driveway but it is definitely not as much as most years I've been her.
In fact this is the first winter ever my front steps have not been buried - I've still got 5!!!

Other years we've has enough that my neighbours two huskies have jumped off a second storey balcony and played around in my garden (they always look so happy and take themselves home when they've had enough!) I swear they look like they're sulking this year! 

It has not been as cold here either in my opinion.

Like Peter says, our area has got off rather lightly this year.

 

#1290 2011-02-24 17:45:06

PeterJW
Pilgrim
Registered: 2008-01-19
Posts: 425

Re: Infinity's

Well, at least we are expecting another 15 centimetres tomorrow.

 

#1291 2011-03-07 17:56:26

AJ
Pilgrim
From: Quebec
Registered: 2001-07-08
Posts: 11353

Re: Infinity's

Mon pays, ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver.  - Gilles Vigneault.

Pretty much sums it up really, does that ...

**goes off to shovel a bit more**

 

#1292 2011-03-16 19:57:08

Calesta
Pilgrim
From: Calgary
Registered: 2001-06-01
Posts: 13321

Re: Infinity's

I have been so enjoying spring!  We had such a run of the -25 cold with the -35 windchills I thought I was not going to survive it.  Its a little colder today but at least we've had a taste of warmth and sunshine.

And pretty soon I'll be in Florida so winter will be just a bad memory for awhile.

And after that who knows!  Mr Calesta lost his job awhile back so we are now thinking a move may be in our imminent future.    Yikes!

 

#1293 2011-03-17 13:30:29

Sahi
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From: Assendelft (the Netherlands)
Registered: 2001-06-04
Posts: 37877
Website

Re: Infinity's

Best of luck, Calesta!


"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein

First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.

 

#1294 2011-07-01 00:08:49

FlutePicc
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From: Canada
Registered: 2001-06-08
Posts: 16570

Re: Infinity's

*quietly tiptoes in, scoops up a cat, and settles into a chair by the window*

 

#1295 2012-12-10 21:16:46

Jendaiya
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From: Canada
Registered: 2001-06-01
Posts: 21821
Website

Re: Infinity's

I miss this place.


Beauty will save the world.

~Prince Myshkin,

The Idiot, by Dostoevsky

 

#1296 2012-12-11 04:56:07

Magpie
Mantis
From: the town of thistly flowerbeds
Registered: 2006-03-27
Posts: 19914
Website

Re: Infinity's

We miss you too!


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#1297 2012-12-12 13:30:56

Sahi
Mantis
From: Assendelft (the Netherlands)
Registered: 2001-06-04
Posts: 37877
Website

Re: Infinity's

Jen! *pouncyhuggles*


"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein

First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.

 

#1298 2012-12-13 13:22:20

ylvs
Mantis
From: On the sunny side of life
Registered: 2001-06-19
Posts: 5030

Re: Infinity's

*pouncyhuggles Jen some more*

AT is MINE!


In an alternate universe, author Bobby Williams is known for his epic fantasy called, "Recollection, Sadness, and Spike". -- Cyan

 

#1299 2012-12-13 17:02:58

Magpie
Mantis
From: the town of thistly flowerbeds
Registered: 2006-03-27
Posts: 19914
Website

Re: Infinity's

But soon, it will be mine!


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#1300 2013-02-17 15:44:47

AJ
Pilgrim
From: Quebec
Registered: 2001-07-08
Posts: 11353

Re: Infinity's

Opens the door to infinity's and walks to a favorite chair*

*sits down and pets a cat*

*is home*

Last edited by AJ (2013-02-17 15:45:29)

 

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