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JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
edited February 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
So recently two very fabulous things that I thought we'd never see have shown up. :)

1) A few years ago when I was doing a show, my Gran came along as a surprise.
It was fantastic for me that she managed to travel all that way just to see me perform and I was stoked she came along. She brought me a bunch of really beautiful flowers and had them sent backstage to my dressing room. It was a great night, great show and so wonderful that she was able to be there. For ages after she kept asking me about the card that she'd written on to accompany the flowers. There was no card. About two months after she died, Mum was cleaning out the boot of her car and there was the card. :) It was like she was saying "Hi" to me. :) I keep it on my bedside table.

2) My great great Grandad was a zoo keeper and he and all his family lived at the Zoo. Ever since I was a little kid I knew about that side of my family, and wanted to be a zoo keeper. Even got the chance to be for a few weeks in High School. I knew that my family had been written about in a book about the Zoo and my Mum remembers having a copy of the book when she was a kid but could never find it. For years, practically ALL my life, we've tried to get a copy of that book. Just today Mum was clearing out some boxes at my Gran's and she found the book!! Granted it's cover is gone and some pages are missing but she's found it! With all the pics of Grampa Sam and the critters. :)

Have things turned up for you like that? :)
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  • GraySaturdayGraySaturday Posts: 2,878
    Jeanie what type of show were you doing?! Was it a tap dancing show??

    I had this happen with a special bracelet. I got a very pretty tiffany's bracelet for my 18th birthday from someone special and it went missing. I was so sad. I couldn't find it for ages. It was the first time I took it off too..

    One day I heard it jingling and my oldest cat came running out of the closet with it in her mouth! I ran in the closet and found a little nest of things she had been hiding from me! Seems she stole it, and I caught her, forcing her to return it.
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    jeanie i know exactly what you mean but i'm drawing a blank on when it's happened to me....and both your stories are touching and very cool....:)
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    GraySaturday wrote:
    Jeanie what type of show were you doing?! Was it a tap dancing show??

    Geez! :D Now you're testing my memory. :eek: Hmmm....let me think. It was a cabaret style show. I think it was the one that was a spoof on awards shows. I don't think I tapped in that one, but there was singing and dancing and acting if I remember correctly. The ones before that there was tappin. :)

    GraySaturday wrote:
    I had this happen with a special bracelet. I got a very pretty tiffany's bracelet for my 18th birthday from someone special and it went missing. I was so sad. I couldn't find it for ages. It was the first time I took it off too..

    One day I heard it jingling and my oldest cat came running out of the closet with it in her mouth! I ran in the closet and found a little nest of things she had been hiding from me! Seems she stole it, and I caught her, forcing her to return it.

    That's awesome! Well except now you gotta keep an eye on your kitty with the klepto habits! :D How good to find it though? I love when you find stuff like that, the stuff that is important, that you treasure. :)
    NOPE!!!

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  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    cutback wrote:
    jeanie i know exactly what you mean but i'm drawing a blank on when it's happened to me....and both your stories are touching and very cool....: )

    :D Well mostly I wouldn't have remembered either except that Mum just rang to say that she found the book! :D And that reminded me of the card.
    Oh and my uncle just emailed me a bunch of pics from his wedding weekend way back in 1974 :eek: when I was flower girl and I can see me there in the pics with my hair all in rollers sprawled around with everyone on the grass out in the backyard before the event and I know it's me but I do not remember ANYTHING about it! :o

    Funny how little memories pop into your head, or NOT! ;)

    Maybe I shoulda added, "when things pop up that you can't even remember" to the title???
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  • in_hiding79in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    a pair of boots that were lost for a very long time....I found them finally in September 07...:D

    (I should add that my Grandma bought them for me and she is no longer with us) :(
    And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
    "What a stupid lamb."
    "What a sick, masochistic lion."
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    in_hiding79 wrote:
    a pair of boots that were lost for a very long time....I found them finally in September 07...:D

    (I should add that my Grandma bought them for me and she is no longer with us) :(

    It's cool isn't it? Not the losing your grandma bit but that you found the boots? :)
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  • in_hiding79in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    Jeanie wrote:
    It's cool isn't it? Not the losing your grandma bit but that you found the boots? :)


    I even took a picture with them and posted it because I was so happy!! :D
    And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
    "What a stupid lamb."
    "What a sick, masochistic lion."
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    in_hiding79 wrote:
    I even took a picture with them and posted it because I was so happy!! :D

    :D haha! That sounds like me when I finally managed to break open the security seal on that bloody copy of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind! :D
    I was so pleased that I'd finally managed to get the damn thing open I photographed it and posted! :D
    NOPE!!!

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  • not4unot4u Posts: 512
    yes
    we don't want war, but we still want more?
  • in_hiding79in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    Jeanie wrote:
    :D haha! That sounds like me when I finally managed to break open the security seal on that bloody copy of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind! :D
    I was so pleased that I'd finally managed to get the damn thing open I photographed it and posted! :D


    lol

    those things are so annoying!!! :)
    And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
    "What a stupid lamb."
    "What a sick, masochistic lion."
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    not4u wrote:
    yes

    :) Isn't is such a gift?

    Least I think so. :)
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  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    in_hiding79 wrote:
    lol

    those things are so annoying!!! :)

    I know! :D

    But I think I've got it covered now. I've bought a tonne of extra dvd cases, a really sharp stanley knife and I check that I can open the dvd covers while I'm leaving the shop. :)
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  • not4unot4u Posts: 512
    Jeanie wrote:
    :) Isn't is such a gift?

    Least I think so. :)

    it's divine



    :)
    we don't want war, but we still want more?
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    not4u wrote:
    it's divine



    :)


    :) yes it is!

    Now if I could just somehow get my recipe book to materialize. :D :(
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  • not4unot4u Posts: 512
    Jeanie wrote:
    :) yes it is!

    Now if I could just somehow get my recipe book to materialize. :D :(

    lol, i hope the energies can help you out on that one, :)
    we don't want war, but we still want more?
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    not4u wrote:
    lol, i hope the energies can help you out on that one, :)

    Me too! :) It's been gone a couple of years now and it's got all these recipes in it that I collected from my Gran who got them from her mother, and she from her mother.
    NOPE!!!

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  • not4unot4u Posts: 512
    Jeanie wrote:
    Me too! :) It's been gone a couple of years now and it's got all these recipes in it that I collected from my Gran who got them from her mother, and she from her mother.

    ouch, yea, i'd miss that too
    we don't want war, but we still want more?
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    not4u wrote:
    ouch, yea, i'd miss that too

    Yeah, I do! BUT it's got to be around here somewhere! Surely?
    NOPE!!!

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  • not4unot4u Posts: 512
    Jeanie wrote:
    Yeah, I do! BUT it's got to be around here somewhere! Surely?

    have faith, but none at all, lol... i hope you find it
    we don't want war, but we still want more?
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    not4u wrote:
    have faith, but none at all, lol... i hope you find it

    :D Ha! Thanks! That's perfect! :)
    NOPE!!!

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  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Oh Jeanie I'd a thread about this a few weeks ago when I was clearing my room out and found a lot of old letters and postcards and photos and diaries... I was laughing and crying reading them. I also found my grandmothers coin collection that she'd given to me (probably kinda sad but there are some really cool coins in there :eek: ) and loadsa stuff... I'd so much fun going through it all.

    Oh and Saturday I finally found the dvd remote control that had been missing for months :o
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • illegal pantsillegal pants Posts: 13,471
    loved reading your post... :)

    yet to happen to me Jeanie, of the few items with such close/sentimental value i've lost.. not one has turned up... *siiiigh* will keep you updated ;)
    wah
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    Oh Jeanie I'd a thread about this a few weeks ago when I was clearing my room out and found a lot of old letters and postcards and photos and diaries... I was laughing and crying reading them. I also found my grandmothers coin collection that she'd given to me (probably kinda sad but there are some really cool coins in there : eek: ) and loadsa stuff... I'd so much fun going through it all.

    Oh and Saturday I finally found the dvd remote control that had been missing for months : o


    Oh I love when stuff like that happens! :)

    Most of the stuff that I have from family and friends I can access easily though. I went through a few years ago and put all the letters and cards and stuff from everyone especially ex's in clearly marked folders with their names on so I didn't keep coming across shit I didn't want to read by mistake.
    Now I can look through all the letters and things from family any time I like and not be afraid to get sucked back into the vortex. :D

    That woulda been hell without the remote! :eek:
    And now I'm gonna pull me finger out and reply to your pm! :o:)
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  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    illegal_pants wrote:
    loved reading your post... :-)

    yet to happen to me Jeanie, of the few items with such close/sentimental value i've lost.. not one has turned up... *siiiigh* will keep you updated ;)

    :( oh that's sad. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you. :)

    There are things I have lost of sentimental value that have never reared their heads again but I was so excited by the book and the card. It was kinda like they were sending me a message that it'll be ok or something? I dunno. Dumb maybe. :o Just how it felt. :)
    NOPE!!!

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  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Jeanie wrote:
    :( oh that's sad. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you. :)

    There are things I have lost of sentimental value that have never reared their heads again but I was so excited by the book and the card. It was kinda like they were sending me a message that it'll be ok or something? I dunno. Dumb maybe. :o Just how it felt. :)
    It's not dumb... take whatever comforts you! I would see them as a message too :o
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • SENROCKSENROCK Posts: 10,736
    saturday i found my huge doggie that me and surf used to sleep with. for months i havnt hadd a good nights sleep. when i found that big doggie, i brought it to bed and hugged it so tight and i could smell surfers scent and i fell asleep SOOOOOO good with it and slept ALL NIGHT! :) ANNND i found a long lost picture of me and surfer laying on the floor with my head on his doggie stomach! it was in a boxxx i was reddie to throw out!!!
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  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    It's not dumb... take whatever comforts you! I would see them as a message too :o

    :) Thanks Hels.
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  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    after my dad died about a year ago, my sister and i, and our significant others were cleaning out his place, and my sister came across a recipe book. it was blank or so she thought almost threw it away, but there were 5 pages in the front with my favorite meals. there were little notes from my mom (who passed back in 98) to me on how to make the stuff just how i like it.

    so i didnt lose it, hell, i almost never knew it exsisted.

    shit, now that im thinking of it, im not sure where i put it though.
    im sure my GF knows where its at.

    anyway, it was cool.
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  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    SENROCK! wrote:
    saturday i found my huge doggie that me and surf used to sleep with. for months i havnt hadd a good nights sleep. when i found that big doggie, i brought it to bed and hugged it so tight and i could smell surfers scent and i fell asleep SOOOOOO good with it and slept ALL NIGHT! :) ANNND i found a long lost picture of me and surfer laying on the floor with my head on his doggie stomach! it was in a boxxx i was reddie to throw out!!!

    aaw Sen! :) That's awesome!
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  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    the wolf wrote:
    after my dad died about a year ago, my sister and i, and our significant others were cleaning out his place, and my sister came across a recipe book. it was blank or so she thought almost threw it away, but there were 5 pages in the front with my favorite meals. there were little notes from my mom (who passed back in 98) to me on how to make the stuff just how i like it.

    so i didnt lose it, hell, i almost never knew it exsisted.

    shit, now that im thinking of it, im not sure where i put it though.
    im sure my GF knows where its at.

    anyway, it was cool.


    That is very cool. :cool: :)
    NOPE!!!

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    Hold on to the thread
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