Brooklyn Back When - Open Thread

CUZ GERI.. GLAD TO SEE YOU BACK ON...WELCOME BACK!!! XX

geriob1 wrote: Morning all my Blogging Buddies. So "HAPPY" to be back.... I really missed my blogging family... Love You Guys!!!!!!

Thank you all for all the prayers & good wishes... They worked.... Got results of my neck scan... No Cancer... THANK GOD!!!! The doctor is not going to do anything about the nodes right now. Have to have them checked in 2 months.... Still having a problem with breathing though..... Can't seem to get this mucus away from my breathing pipe... Don't know where it is coming from, but I seem to chock constantly trying to clear my breathing passage...... On oxygen until my blood oxygen levels go up. Boy does it suck getting old!

I wanted to make sure I posted before Saturday so I can wish all of you a Fantastic Reunion..... I am so sad now that i will not be there... I am still planning to come up to see you all when I take care of these medical issues.... I know I will be as good as new soon.

Hey, How is Franny doing???? I have been thinking & praying for her.... If anyone talks to her, please send her all my love...

Well guys, I am going to find a couple of jokes to post to let you all know that I am truly back & feeling much, much better...... Just remember... I LOVE YOU GUYS.... LOTS...

was just gonna leave and saw ur post!!!!

oooooo it's so good to see u!
i'm so happy for u on the GOOD NEWS!!!!
oh, wat u went thru!
u must be soooooo happy!!!!
Thank u Lord!
i wuvs u geri girl - will sure miss u there!
luv festina xx

mornin patsy!!!
i luved ur story bout the chalk luv.
how special was dat?
u got great kids - and done well!
God Bless u all!

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TO GINA GIGLIO...CAN'T BELIEVE YOU & JASON ARE 35 YRS OLD...I STILL REMEMBER WHEN YOU & JASON WERE IN ST JOHN'S CLASSES TOGETHER.. HOPE YOU HAD A GREAT BIRTHDAY.. XX

Hey Robert, don't sweat it!!! It's all in good fun......see you saturday.

Going for a pedicure....see you guys later.

MORNING, FEST!!! THANX, YES , IT WAS PRETTY FUNNY & NICE...MY DAUGHTER NATALIE IS ALWAYS FULL OF SURPRISES...MY SON IN LAW IS SO QUIEU & SHE'S JUST ALL OUT THERE...TRULY A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN.. HE HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO GO ALONG WITH HER & HER SHENNANIGANS LOL

HAVE A GREAT DAY, FEST.. I'M SURE THE PROJECTS YOU ARE WORKING ON ARE JUST BEAUTIFUL!! CANNOT WAIT TO SEE THEM...XX

HEY GERI GLAD U R HOME AND FEELING LITTLE BETTER

HEY CUZ.. HOPE YOU ARE FEELING BETTER TODAY!!!

I WILL CALL U LATER..:)

luv the name gina, paul.
...both my eldest daughter and mother share it!

hApPy bIrThDaY gInA!

enjoy ur special day!

Patsy, that was too cute with the chalk.....I'd have been crying!!! lol

Festina....maybe next week we can meet Terry on friday together.

Happy Birthday Gina!!! Many more.

Geri....so glad to see you back on here. Get better quick!!!

Michael Clemento wrote: I'm originally from 21st St. btw. 4th and 5th Ave. but I have been in Orlando for the past 11 years

ARE YOU MIKE,AND SHIRLY SON WHO OWNED THE GROCERY STORE 0N 21ST ????

Morning Patsy, Festina, Deb & Terry & Jim... You guys have no idea how I missed you all!...... So Thrilled to be back... I can't believe we are on page 1796.... Boy do I have a lot of reading to catch up on... lol

OMG... Robert ... How the heck are you???? I haven't see you in about 100 years... lol... What's going on??? Are you in trouble already???? What did you do to my girlfriends... us girls stick together on this blog... So you better beghave... lol...

Last year Patty Stazack (sp) was on the blog for a little while & she was trying to get your brother Willie & cousin AnneMarie to contact me, but I never heard from any of them at all.

Welcome to the blog... Try to get more 22nd street kids on if you can.... Heard from Danny (great old friend)... and I know he has probably been posting too... like I said... need to read back pages....

Still looking for a good joke for today... BRB

Morning my big sis Jeanette.... Hope all is well with you! Have a great time at the reunion & keep these guys in check... You are the Queen, you can do it... lol

PATSY (MIELE) KIRK wrote: MORNING, FEST!!! THANX, YES , IT WAS PRETTY FUNNY & NICE...MY DAUGHTER NATALIE IS ALWAYS FULL OF SURPRISES...MY SON IN LAW IS SO QUIEU & SHE'S JUST ALL OUT THERE...TRULY A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN.. HE HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO GO ALONG WITH HER & HER SHENNANIGANS LOL

HAVE A GREAT DAY, FEST.. I'M SURE THE PROJECTS YOU ARE WORKING ON ARE JUST BEAUTIFUL!! CANNOT WAIT TO SEE THEM...XX

...and he probably luvs every minute of it!

thanks patsy - no big woop. yeah right!
u hav a great day too! lv ya xx and sendin good energy to u, gino
(hey isn't dat name the male version name of gina?)
and the kids, xx

Debbie Bonavita McCarthy wrote: Patsy, that was too cute with the chalk.....I'd have been crying!!! lol

Festina....maybe next week we can meet Terry on friday together.

sound good debs - miss ya!
did u get the results back on the sonogram?

Guzzo here wrote: [quote=Debbie Bonavita McCarthy]Patsy, that was too cute with the chalk.....I'd have been crying!!! lol

Festina....maybe next week we can meet Terry on friday together.

sound good debs - miss ya!
did u get the results back on the sonogram?

The cysts are still there but not big enough to be causing the pain. Great!!!
Miss you too!!!!! xoxoxo

Guzzo here wrote: [quote=PATSY (MIELE) KIRK]MORNING, FEST!!! THANX, YES , IT WAS PRETTY FUNNY & NICE...MY DAUGHTER NATALIE IS ALWAYS FULL OF SURPRISES...MY SON IN LAW IS SO QUIET & SHE'S JUST ALL OUT THERE...TRULY A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN.. HE HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO GO ALONG WITH HER & HER SHENNANIGANS LOL

HAVE A GREAT DAY, FEST.. I'M SURE THE PROJECTS YOU ARE WORKING ON ARE JUST BEAUTIFUL!! CANNOT WAIT TO SEE THEM...XX

...and he probably luvs every minute of it!

thanks patsy - no big woop. yeah right!
u hav a great day too! lv ya xx and sendin good energy to u, gino
(hey isn't dat name the male version name of gina?)
and the kids, xx

"2" more days until we all start getting ready for the reunion!!!!!!!!!

Girls, We Can Relate.....

A little long, but worth the time to read....

When you have to visit a public bathroom, you usually find a line of women, so you smile politely and take your place. Once it's your turn, you check for feet under the stall doors. Every stall is occupied. Finally, a door opens and you dash in, nearly knocking down the woman leaving the stall.

You get in to find the door won't latch. It doesn't matter, the wait has been so long you are about to wet your pants! The dispenser for the modern "seat covers" (invented by someone's Mom, no doubt) is handy, but empty. You would hang your purse on the door hook, if there was one, but there isn't - so you carefully, but quickly drape it around your neck, (Mom would turn over in her grave if you put it on the FLOOR!), yank down your pants, and assume " The Stance."

In this position your aging, toneless (Good Grief I should have gone to the gym!) thigh muscles begin to shake. You’d love to sit down, but you certainly hadn't taken time to wipe the seat or lay toilet paper on it, so you hold "The Stance".

To take your mind off your trembling thighs, you reach for what you discover to be the empty toilet paper dispenser. In your mind, you can hear your mother's voice saying, "Honey, if you had tried to clean the seat, you would have KNOWN there was no toilet paper!" Your thighs shake more.

You remember the tiny tissue that you blew your nose on yesterday - the
one that's still in your purse. (Oh yeah, the purse around your neck, that now, you have to hold up trying not to strangle yourself at the same time). That will have to do. You crumple it in the puffiest way possible. It's still smaller than your thumbnail.

Someone pushes your door open because the latch doesn't work. The door
hits your purse, which is hanging around your neck in front of your chest, and you and your purse topple backward against the tank of the toilet.

"Occupied!" you scream, as you reach for the door, dropping your precious, tiny, crumpled tissue in a puddle on the floor, lose your footing altogether, and slide down directly onto the TOILET SEAT. It is wet of course.

You bolt up, knowing all too well that it's too late. Your bare bottom has made contact with every imaginable germ and life form on the uncovered seat because YOU never laid down toilet paper - not that there was any, even if you had taken time to try. You know that your mother would be utterly appalled if she knew, because, you're certain her bare bottom never touched a public toilet seat because, frankly, dear, "You just don't KNOW what kind of diseases you could get".

By this time, the automatic sensor on the back of the toilet is so confused that it flushes, propelling a stream of water like a fire hose against the inside of the bowl that sprays a fine mist of water that covers your butt and runs down your legs and into your shoes. The flush somehow sucks everything down with such force that you grab onto the empty toilet paper dispenser for fear of being dragged in too.

At this point, you give up. You're soaked by the spewing water and the wet toilet seat. You're e-x-h-a-u-s-t-e-d. You try to wipe with a gum wrapper you found in your pocket and then slink out inconspicuously to the sinks.

You can't figure out how to operate the faucets with the automatic sensors, ......so you wipe your hands with spit and a dry paper towel and walk past the line of women still waiting. You are no longer able to smile politely to them.

A kind soul at the very end of the line points out a piece of toilet paper trailing from your shoe.. (Where was that when you NEEDED it??) You yank the paper from your shoe, plunk it in the woman's hand and tell her warmly, "Here, you just might need this".

As you exit, you spot your hubby, who has long since entered, used, and
left the men's restroom. Annoyed, he asks, "What took you so long, and
why is your purse hanging around your neck?" .................

This is dedicated to women everywhere who deal with a public restrooms
rest??? you've GOT to be kidding!!). It finally explains to the men what
really does take us so long. It also answers their other commonly asked
questions about why women go to the restroom in pairs. It's so the other
gal can hold the door, hang onto your purse, and hand you Kleenex under
The door!

Good Morning Everyone!!!!

Welcome - Michael C - Do you have a brother Anthony? Welcome to our family.

Geri - Soooo glad to hear from you....great news with the results....feel better soon.

Janet - Are you coming to the reunion? Have a safe trip.

Happy Birthday Gina (Paul's daughter)

Franny - Hope you are feeling better today.

Hello everyone else......peek in later

Debbie Bonavita McCarthy wrote: [quote=Guzzo here][quote=Debbie Bonavita McCarthy]Patsy, that was too cute with the chalk.....I'd have been crying!!! lol

Festina....maybe next week we can meet Terry on friday together.

sound good debs - miss ya!
did u get the results back on the sonogram?

The cysts are still there but not big enough to be causing the pain. Great!!!
Miss you too!!!!! xoxoxo

how frustrating - i'm sure u'll eventually find the prob - hang in.
oh wat we women go thru!
we should hav never eaten dat friggin apple! lol

Morning Judy....

Deb - What's going on with you?.... CYSTS?????

Festina... you are too funny... I still don't like apples... lmao

By the way how is MOM..... Send her my love... Judy you too! Give them both a big hug & kiss from me... lol

GERI GLAD.YOUR BACK ON, YOU SEEM TO BE PERKY THIS MORNING.
GET WELL SOON LITTLE SIS.
THERE SEEMS TO ALOT OF READING THIS MORNING, THAT I HAVENT COUGHT ON

PAUL HAPPY BIRTHDAY,TO YOUR DAUGHTER GINA,

ITS A VERY HUMID MORNING ,I GOT MY FAN GOING

CATCH UP LATA

mornin judy - thinkin bout ur mom and sending appreciation for her fightin spirit!
i hope she's enjoying being home...

...and...just luv ur countdown..lol

ok guys lada, for real.
will try to...as patsy says..."peek in lada.!"

Hi Geri....yeah those damn ovaries!!!!! lol Glad you're okay!!!!

Festina......it can't happen fast enough. I done with pain!!! lol running to get a pedicure......talk to you girls later.

Hi Jeanette and Judy....have a good day.

Happy Birthday Gina!

geriob1 wrote: Festina... you are too funny... I still don't like apples... lmao

By the way how is MOM..... Send her my love... Judy you too! Give them both a big hug & kiss from me... lol

i'm glad i made u laugh for a change!

mom's good - i'll tell her for u!
enjoy the pedi debs! ask them to massage ur tooties too! lol
mornin jeanette!! do u hav ur tights and stelletto's ready? lol
hope they're hot red! hav a good one!

really gotta go...