A Tribute to abra a collection of her comments

[LLapp]

(In the spirit of this thread, I've replaced political sniping with the trumpet voice from "Peanuts." Also, note the date stamps at the end -- abra's encouragement lives on.)
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"Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice." — John Greenleaf Whittier

WRQ9
June 27, 2013, 9:56 am
All my deeds are done and ignored. I can barely care enough now to remain articulate.

JJ20paws
October 19, 2015, 6:23 pm
Nobody listens anymore anyway

abra
April 17, 2016, 6:24 pm
OMgosh, you guys, let's do something fun! Shake it off, it's spring time. WRQ9, articulate for us. JJ20paws, we're listening. Shall we have a beer bust? A slumber party? Tacos at my house? This is way too sad, cheer up.

universalmom
April 30, 2016, 8:13 am
Tacos!! I'm there, abra

lainecap
November 18, 2016, 2:30 pm
Can't just talk the talk; gotta walk the walk.

maradnu
February 6, 2017, 2:33 pm
Wah wah wah wah wonald, wahwah wah wah.

skeeter
July 30, 2017, 11:43 am
abra, universalmom, I'm on the way over for those tacos. I'll bring the guac. Woo-hoooo!

Eureka
November 24, 2018, 12:26 pm
Am I too late? I've got beer!

imsoeasy
May 15, 2019, 2:26 am
Maradnu, wahwah wah wah wavery wah wawawawah wah wawah wah wawah wump, wawah wah wah? Wah weft wah wah wawahly wah, wahwah wah wawah wocialist wawahs wah wahd wah wump's wawection wawah wah wah waaawah wawah who wahnt wah wah wah wah wah.

abra
April 21, 2021, 6:02 pm
Tacos, beer, and Guacamole, no politics. Let's party.

gracefulghost
December 18, 2021, 12:38 pm
That reminds me, I bought some (too expensive) avocados yesterday--I need to go make my special guac. I'll think of you all while I eat it.

abra
April 29, 2022, 2:35 am
gracefulghost, why not come and bring your avocados with you? Beer, guacamole, tacos, should be good.

Wordigo
January 6, 2023, 6:29 pm
Time to party. I’ll bring the chips.

TPaineRedux
October 23, 2023, 11:06 am
Talk is cheap, but I have Hatch chiles.

hrossa
October 29, 2024, 8:52 pm
Yes!! Spontaneous party in the comments! I'll contribute Miss Vicky's Ketchup chips--they are dynamite with quac. They were introduced to me by my Victoria niece as her favorite! So far I haven't found them in the US but I keep hoping.

[Eureka]

(I love that we have collectively decided that Unattributed is one person.)

"Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first. " — Unattributed

Queethebean
November 15, 2017, 11:33 am
Unattributed for President!

abra
April 26, 2018, 1:12 pm
Nah, he might have something here, but the body of his work disqualifies him.

imsoeasy
July 9, 2019, 12:11 am
Unattributed is most likely an Independent. Other quotes indicate that Unattributed is a gardener who owns a flower shop that a daughter works at. If you have more information, please help identity Unattributed.

LLapp
May 23, 2020, 2:52 am
Abra - that made me laugh.

[hrossa]

"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. "
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

pootie49
March 26, 2009, 2:59 pm
modest and chaste-like, sounds just like me
QuexUl
December 2, 2014, 2:23 pm
Now THAT sarcasm I got, and in less than 285 seconds.
abra
April 4, 2015, 9:26 am
I didn't, my kitchen timer went off, by the time I was through, it took me 331 seconds.
LLapp
June 13, 2018, 4:23 pm
Whoa, you use a kitchen timer for these things?
celticbum
September 5, 2018, 5:46 am
You still use a kitchen timer?
abra
July 7, 2021, 1:40 am
Pretty sure that my kitchen timer went off and I had to attend to whatever. I let the Baron time me.
gracefulghost
October 4, 2021, 2:03 pm
You still use a kitchen?
Sleepyshirley
September 7, 2023, 1:25 am
Ha!

[LLapp]

So, abra does seem to be a time traveler somehow. first the premonitory comment about glassguy, (Or did he have the record time for the quote?) and then an early stop to a comment, knowing (?) sh'ed be there 2 minutes later to finish the comment?!

I think glassguy must have had the record when abra first commented. Her 1/5/21 return a few minutes later was on purpose, after she (I assume) hit the "Submit" button by accident. There's a comment thread somewhere where abra first figured out how to come back and post a second comment. The return comment said something like, "I just want to try something here...".

[kb83]

So, abra does seem to be a time traveler somehow. first the premonitory comment about glassguy, (Or did he have the record time for the quote?) and then an early stop to a comment, knowing (?) sh'ed be there 2 minutes later to finish the comment?!

[LLapp]

"Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits." — Casey Stengel

skeeter
August 24, 2015, 1:53 pm
I miss the mid-1970s, watching Carl Yastrzemski play at Fenway Park for the Sox. That was back when you could just walk up to the dugout and get an autograph (which I did). I miss the Green Monster and the "Big Beers."

darkyr
December 28, 2016, 5:28 am
Do I have to watch the game?

abra
July 23, 2018, 6:19 pm
Go, Cubbies.

Eureka
March 11, 2019, 2:19 pm
No you don't, darkyr.

Wordigo
August 13, 2020, 2:40 pm
I rather play than manage.

abra
January 5, 2021, 9:12 pm
My dad was a really, really die hard Cub fan. He was so upset by friends that became White Sox fans that he became a Yankee fan too. He and a friend ordered tickets for Yankee/Sox games every spring. Skeeter at one game he just stood by the door to the visitor's locker room and got his program signed by Micky Mantle, Yogi, Whitey Ford and others. He gave it to my older sister. Don't know whatever happened to it. I did ask him once what if the Cubs and Yankees were in the World Series. I could tell that question irritated him. ''I am first and foremost a Cub fan''. I used to root for the Yankees when the Cubs were eliminated, but my

abra
January 5, 2021, 9:14 pm
...husband and son are Yankee haters. I gradually forgot about them.

[LLapp]

Abra and others, on being married to your best friend...
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"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand." — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

montyb
July 13, 2012, 1:44 pm
Expensive, beautifully scenic, and difficult to maintain.

SippyGirl
September 9, 2013, 6:53 pm
a billion years ago, when i was young, a model, of all people, was one of the first to tell me that her man - perhaps her husband? - was her best friend... that it was silly and even insulting to introduce him as anything but. it made a tremendous impression on me at the time

wordfairy
March 6, 2015, 12:18 am
Sweet, SippyGirl. Thanks much for sharing.

abra
July 3, 2015, 2:23 pm
It's kind of a cliche these days to say that you're married to your best friend. I've known my husband since I was 15. We were not high school sweethearts. We were really good friends. We knew each other for years before it became romantic. I am married to my best friend.

skeeter
October 23, 2015, 3:42 pm
Been with my husband since we were 16 years old, 48 years ago this week.

marnita
July 31, 2016, 3:02 am
Congratulations, Skeeter - that's inspiring.

cherylab1963
October 15, 2016, 1:06 am
My parents were married for 61 years when my Mom died. They were still each other's best friends. Marriages can work AND be healthy, but it takes two healthy (I don't mean physically) people who decide that giving up isn't an option. And don't say 'what about abuse or infidelity'. Hence the healthy part.

oddcouple
July 2, 2017, 5:08 pm
:Like others, I married a woman who was my friend first for about three years before I asked her to marry me. That's going on 37 years now.

GramBow
October 18, 2017, 2:12 pm
Matthew 7:26 - 27 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.

LLapp
July 15, 2018, 4:42 pm
Well I had a crush on my guy for about 10 years before we finally had conversations for longer than a minute or two . . . and I was so delighted to find that there was a friendship in there that I was sensing all that time.

abra
June 14, 2019, 11:15 pm
We celebrated 51 years, 3 weeks ago. As Cheryl said, we took ''divorce'' out of our vocabulary. Things aren't always perfect, but having the underlying friendship keeps things from getting too angry. It keeps you from giving up and walking away. I agree with the quote.

Synonymous
May 6, 2022, 1:22 pm
Nice comment thread, refreshing. Bio has been corrected.

dmford60
January 1, 2023, 1:13 pm
My man and I have been a couple for 31 years, but only lived together for the first five; after that we realized we'd do better living apart. And he is still my best friend.

montyb
January 8, 2023, 2:44 pm
I met my best friend 45 years ago this month, not long after the blizzard of '78.

[LLapp]

I take this as a thank-you for future comments...


"There is no bullet-proof vest in my size." — Ariel Sharon

abra
October 1, 2018, 12:41 pm
This took me forever. Then all of sudden I saw ''bullet-proof''. glassguy, I declare you a genius.

glassguy
March 9, 2021, 6:48 pm
Not sure what I did, Abra, but thanks.

darkyr
April 5, 2021, 2:31 pm
Isn't it obvious. You left a comment after her, which assured her that she would, indeed, solve the quote, giving her that much needed encouragement from the future we all long to get.

abra
April 28, 2021, 8:04 pm
I think he probably held the record then with a score that was way better than my own. Or maybe it was that comment from the future thing. That's always worth a thank you.

[Synonymous]

Abra's sense of humor shines through...
"Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others. "
— Unattributed
universalmom
June 18, 2015, 10:20 am
Hahaha...disapproving of otters!
Persephone59
May 27, 2017, 2:43 am
Shameful little frolicking water creatures!
darkyr
August 6, 2019, 6:29 pm
Shameful? Or shameless?
LLapp
October 29, 2019, 3:01 am
No time with otters is wasted time.
abra
May 6, 2020, 2:25 am
It's otterly well spent. I used to love to see them watch them at the zoo. They knew how to spend time having fun.
montyb
December 22, 2022, 4:14 pm
This “advice” seems hardly a fair trade.

[Eureka]

"You will always be your child's favorite toy." — Vicki Lansky

abra
August 26, 2017, 6:41 pm
I'm not sure about "toy" but I know I'm a sounding board, a special friend, the most confidant of confidants. It's all good. :O)

[hrossa]

It's pure abra!

[Eureka]

Thank you, hrossa! I am SO glad to see that abra got back to that quote to see our comments.

[Synonymous]

Thank you hrossa for posting this comment thread. It is SOOOO very nice to see how wrong abra was. It's a real tribute to a very nice lady who touched so many hearts here on this site for so many years. A lot of us miss abra whether we agreed with her or not, she was still a "true lady" all the time.

[LLapp]

Oh, hrossa, thank you for posting that one!

For abra's son, next time you come back here: ^^That thread was the one I meant when I said that your mom mentioned once how she would likely be remembered by just her family and a few close friends. I'm glad she got to see our responses.

[hrossa]

"There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water." — Kate Chopin

puzzleme
July 6, 2013, 1:32 am
That is really very sad.

jnoodles
August 17, 2013, 12:14 am
These are the people we cannot do without.

abra
December 29, 2015, 2:01 pm
I'm pretty sure that aside from a my family, and a few others, I'm one of those. It's not so bad.

MamaB
December 21, 2016, 3:41 am
I bet you leave a pretty positive impression on those few folks.

LLapp
September 5, 2018, 6:12 pm
Too late, abra. You've left a fine lasting impression on the players here.

Eureka
December 7, 2019, 3:16 pm
I was about to say that, LLapp! It wouldn't be the same here without you, abra.

abra
January 23, 2020, 8:50 pm
Oh, wow, that is so nice of you all to say. Honestly I wasn't fishing.