What's new
By:
USCHO Fan Forum

This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

  • The USCHO Fan Forum has migrated to a new plaform, xenForo. Most of the function of the forum should work in familiar ways. Please note that you can switch between light and dark modes by clicking on the gear icon in the upper right of the main menu bar. We are hoping that this new platform will prove to be faster and more reliable. Please feel free to explore its features.

TRP: Free of political butthurt since 1999.

Kepler said:
Govt off so I stay home. I've never worked at a USG site before, so this is cool, like an elementary school snow day.
Click to expand...

I definitely had an assdrag morning. I sit down, everyone is OOO on Teams. I think, "huh, must be my computer updating statuses." I click into one "Off until 1/4". I think, "well, that's an odd waste of vacati... What day was NY?."

so I check the corporate calendar and woooooooooooooooooo
 
My company (and most of my industry) observed the 31st as the holiday, so today was my first day back since the 16th.


And I still have three weeks PTO in the bank.
 
aparch said:
My company (and most of my industry) observed the 31st as the holiday
Click to expand...

Same. I worked 3 days last week though, as I'm still relatively new to this firm and felt the need to build up some goodwill for when I request 2 whole weeks off for the wedding + honeymoon in October.
 
Question:

Late March, early April, I plan to get a tattoo of a pink orchid blooming out of a cinder block. But I'm not sure if the words should be:

"Bloom where you are planted" or "you might as well live," with every I in the phrase replaced by a semicolon.
 
MissThundercat said:
Question:

Late March, early April, I plan to get a tattoo of a pink orchid blooming out of a cinder block. But I'm not sure if the words should be:

"Bloom where you are planted" or "you might as well live," with every I in the phrase replaced by a semicolon.
Click to expand...

"Full many a flower is born to blush unseen" -- Thomas Gray
 
jason-momoa-chair.gif
 
MissThundercat said:
Question:

Late March, early April, I plan to get a tattoo of a pink orchid blooming out of a cinder block. But I'm not sure if the words should be:

"Bloom where you are planted" or "you might as well live," with every I in the phrase replaced by a semicolon.
Click to expand...

This was a reading at our wedding. "Bloom where..." reminded me of it

I dreamed that I was a rose
That grew beside a lonely way,
Close by a path none ever chose,
And there I lingered day by day.
Beneath the sunshine and the show'r
I grew and waited there apart,
Gathering perfume hour by hour,
And storing it within my heart,
Yet, never knew,
Just why I waited there and grew.

I dreamed that you were a bee
That one day gaily flew along,
You came across the hedge to me,
And sang a soft, love-burdened song.
You brushed my petals with a kiss,
I woke to gladness with a start,
And yielded up to you in bliss
The treasured fragrance of my heart;
And then I knew
That I had waited there for you.

James Weldon Johnson



And I like the idea of the orchid. Absolute survivors if you water them every now and then. All you need is a leaf and part of a root (and sometimes just one or the other) and you can resuscitate it.

I really like "Bloom where you are planted" or something along those lines. You're doing exactly that MT. As a person who married into 11+ orchids, you're story definitely reminds me of the ups and downs of uh... orchid husbandry? Whatever it's called, that.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
This was a reading at our wedding. "Bloom where..." reminded me of it

I dreamed that I was a rose
That grew beside a lonely way,
Close by a path none ever chose,
And there I lingered day by day.
Beneath the sunshine and the show'r
I grew and waited there apart,
Gathering perfume hour by hour,
And storing it within my heart,
Yet, never knew,
Just why I waited there and grew.

I dreamed that you were a bee
That one day gaily flew along,
You came across the hedge to me,
And sang a soft, love-burdened song.
You brushed my petals with a kiss,
I woke to gladness with a start,
And yielded up to you in bliss
The treasured fragrance of my heart;
And then I knew
That I had waited there for you.

James Weldon Johnson



And I like the idea of the orchid. Absolute survivors if you water them every now and then. All you need is a leaf and part of a root (and sometimes just one or the other) and you can resuscitate it.

I really like "Bloom where you are planted" or something along those lines. You're doing exactly that MT. As a person who married into 11+ orchids, you're story definitely reminds me of the ups and downs of uh... orchid husbandry? Whatever it's called, that.
Click to expand...

Thank you so much. It's going right on my left shoulder.

As for the dragon wrapped around the sword, it might not even need a quote. If I were to add words, it would be "I will answer injustice with justice."
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top