On Fri, 30 May 2003 00:21:56 -0400 Karen Rhodes
 writes:
> At 05:39 PM 5/29/2003 -0500, Gumbie Tygress wrote: 
>  
> >> There is a store located here in Florida called Levenger's.  
>  
> >You've been to their STORE?!?
> 
> No.  It's in south Florida, where I don't very often venture.  
> Besides, it
> would be economically fatal for me to set foot in the place!  

Kinda like my visit to Coldwater Creek's flagship store -- and then (a)
local outlet.

> The 
> catalog is bad enough.  

oh yeah


> I feel like I have to go to confession just after 
> looking  at the catalog!  

I dog ear pages and set it aside.
In the great paper build-up of my life, it then gets mislaid.

Of course, if I'm still thinking on a thing weeks/months/years later,
permission *might* be granted. And sometimes too late.
Ah well!

At least, with Levenger, you're getting the quality you paid for.

> >> Very  dangerous
> >> catalog they send out.  
>  
> >VERY.
> >can't even let myself look right now....
> 
> A-yup. 
>  
> >Catalog shopping became safer when the tygress started converting 
> cool 
> >patterns to origami -- suddenly I'm not looking to buy, but to 
> fold,
> spindle, 
> >and mutilate....
> 
> I guess that's one way to treat the addiction.  Heh.

It's worked -- not 100-percent -- but every victory is a victory....
> 
> Veloci--oh, it is so tempting--raptor

temptation, thy name is life! tygress

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But what life is without danger, really? [Jill Fredston, arctic
adventure's] father, Arthur Fredston, a courtly Manhattan attorney, was
walking near the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001.
Her mother, Elinor Fredston, was diagnosed with peritoneal cancer almost
six years ago.... So, compared with terrorism and cancer, what's an
occasional polar bear? --Michael Ryan

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