http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ Daily Kitten Chat Forum Topic: Introducing Kilroy en Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:59:00 +0000 http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/3#post-549777 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:42:05 +0000 Buttercup 549777@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Wow,I remember being fascinated with this a year ago and now even more since I know you better. If you have any more chapters in you I'd love to read it. :) </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/3#post-549740 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:37:15 +0000 mollycat71 549740@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Guess I am like Jean and kinda "out of it" this week and only just caught this thread. I am so glad I got to know my "brain sister" so much better thru this lovely thread. You certainly do have a way with words Kilroy, as if we are just sitting here and talking. It was so well written and warm. Please keep us updated on your very interesting life! Hugs to you sis! </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/3#post-549728 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:11:30 +0000 katthays 549728@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Kilroy, I just found this thread and I loved,loved your story!!!!! What an interesting life you have led! Gee, if I were to post mine, it would be ohhhhh soooo boring and very short! LOL, but thanks for the most enjoyable read!!!! </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/3#post-549727 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 05:59:05 +0000 jeanjellibean20 549727@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Good morning everyone first thing I did after I took a shower and got my coffee and bagel, was to sit down and go right to TDK. I didn't think about others reading it either Kilroy, but I am so glad it bumped up.<br /> And that was so neat too, about your Dad's brother getting married there 50 years before. Thanks again for sharing. You put a smile on my face!!<br /> Off to the morning shift to see what the kitties have cooked up.<br /> I had an awful day on Wednesday. After morning shift I am going to purrs. </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/3#post-549702 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 03:19:20 +0000 Kilroy 549702@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Aw, thanks guys. I guess I didn't think about the fact that it would get bumped when JJB read it, but I'm glad some folks got to see it who hadn't. And JJB, thanks for asking on FB about my wedding; it was not exactly traditional, but it was perfect for us.</p> <p>One of the nice details about that day was the fact that my dad's brother and his wife got married in the same place about 50 years before we did. He was the second person I called to tell that Mr. K &amp; I had gotten hitched (after my mom).</p> <p>Thanks again for all the sweet comments. </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/3#post-549679 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:59:54 +0000 AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew 549679@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Kilroy, thank you for sharing this and I can't believe it was a year ago! Nice to re-read it, have a good day my friend. </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/3#post-549677 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:56:33 +0000 gini 549677@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>I love this story too! It is beautifully written. I thank you for sharing it with us. I only wish I could have seen it sooner! </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/3#post-549645 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:41:02 +0000 kittymom 549645@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Kilroy, thank you for a wonderful and inspiring life story ~ I, too, just caught up with this thread, and, it made me feel so good, just what I need right now.... </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/3#post-549637 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:25:09 +0000 Puddytat 549637@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Kilroy! What a story. I love it. I'm so glad I had a chance to read it. Thanks so much. Reading it all at once was great. I was never very good at waiting. Perhaps, in the future I will get the courage to share my story. I can't write nearly as well as you. Again, thanks for sharing your great story. </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/3#post-549612 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:50:20 +0000 roxysmommy 549612@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Kilroy, that was genius! I love your life story and I'm glad JJB dug this thread up. It was a good read :) </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/3#post-549597 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:15:09 +0000 jeanjellibean20 549597@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>WOW Kilroy what a story. I am luckier than the others, I was able to read it all at once. What a lovely, and interesting story. AND what a happy ending!<br /> Thank you for telling me where to read it. I really enjoyed reading about your life. You are an excellent writer. Ever thought of writing a book? Oh and mum's the word, on you know. I figured it was a newspaper.<br /> Tell Mr. K. that I am happy that the bartender moved his drink. LOL<br /> Well going to take a quick look at the posts and go to bed. My daughter took me out to dinner tonight. Chicken Scampi yum yum. Then we went to visit a friend. Tomorrow she is leaving for Tysons Corner, VA to start a job on Monday. Maybe someday we will have a meetup in NY. I am only 2 or 3 hrs away. I lived in Jersey most of my life. 11 miles fr. NYC. </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/3#post-212283 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:16:22 +0000 miu 212283@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Thank you so much for the fascinating story, Mrs. K! </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/3#post-212273 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:06:33 +0000 NNGM 212273@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Great life story! I'm afraid my own is horribly boring, and would not make for good reading on any level. Yes, George is getting big - and why do they all love paper bags so much? </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/2#post-212243 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:46:50 +0000 Crazycatman - CA 212243@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Wow Kilroy, thanks for the introduction. When will the book be published?? ;) </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/2#post-212232 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:34:16 +0000 paulajeanne 212232@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Me too, love happy endings! </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/2#post-212229 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:30:51 +0000 GreatDane 212229@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Great story, Kilroy! I enjoyed every bit of it! </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/2#post-212228 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:27:36 +0000 Kitten Whisperer 212228@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Brava! Brava! Brava! What a great life story, Kilroy! You are exactly where you were meant to be and surrounded by love. :D </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/2#post-212225 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:25:36 +0000 WillowandWindismom 212225@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>*jumps up on bar to applaud!!!*</p> <p>*sniff*.... I just love happy endings!!! </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/2#post-212222 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:22:40 +0000 BCAMflorida227 212222@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>I love it!!!!!! Oh, Kilroy, you made me feel like I was there all along!!! Thank you!!! </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/2#post-212212 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:13:15 +0000 cricketsmama 212212@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>*stands up and applauds*<br /> Awesome life story!!!! How wonderful how you and Mr. K met. It was meant to be!!!! Then you got George, you can't top that :) </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/2#post-212202 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:08:37 +0000 Kilroy 212202@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>OK, I'm back, having kicked hubby's butt on the Saturday NY Times crossword (I know, I'm evil, but I *warned* him I was competitive about these things).</p> <p>About 2 weeks after I got home from Oxford I stopped by the pub for a glass of wine and to watch a baseball game. Having had my sanity somewhat restored, I wasn't planning on drinking much (had been doing far too much of that), so I brought a book with me to while away the time. Down at the end of the bar was a guy I had talked to once before, when I also had my nose in a book, a mystery set in Oxford which he had read. I remember thinking he was good looking for an "older" guy, and he liked good books, but that was the extent of it.</p> <p>Well, on this particular Saturday I was still hyped up from my trip, and I started telling the bartender all about it. I could almost see his eyes glazing over as I rambled on about first editions of Shakespeare and the ancient custom of chaining library books to shelves. I'll never know what possessed him, but he decided that the guy at the end of the bar would be fascinated, so he started trying to get Mr. K to come sit next to me (you knew it was Mr. K, right?). He was having none of it and kept telling the bartender to leave him alone, but finally he had to get up to visit the Gents, at which point the bartender picked up his beer and moved it over next to where I was sitting. The rest, to use an awful cliche, was history.</p> <p>Mr. K is not in any way, shape or form the sort of person I ever imagined I'd end up with. He's 26 years my senior, worked his entire career as a postmaster in the postal service, and is a bit of a carouser, to put it nicely (although he's mellowed somewhat in recent years). But he loves travel, and good books, and crossword puzzles, and for some reason, me. And it's mutual.</p> <p>I moved in with him when I realized I was spending more time at his place than at mine, and last December we made it official. We took the subway downtown to the Municipal Building and got married by the city clerk, with just 2 friends as witnesses. All of a sudden I had 2 stepdaughters who are only a few years younger than I am; luckily, we'd had plenty of time to get over the weirdness of it all and we're good friends now.</p> <p>So, that's my life. I try not to worry too much that the contraption in my head will stop working someday, although it probably will and will have to be fixed. I've been lucky; a lot of people with hydro spend their whole lives having "revisions", which means surgery, because the technology is kind of primitive and doesn't always work very well. I knock on wood occasionally and hope for the best. In the meantime Mr. K and I plan our next trip and enjoy the antics of our crazy cat. I tell him he has to stick around for another 40-50 years, because I don't know what I'd do without him. </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/2#post-212191 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:03:35 +0000 Kitten Whisperer 212191@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>What a cliffhanger, Kilroy! I'm eager to know more. :) </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/2#post-212163 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:16:15 +0000 BCAMflorida227 212163@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Kilroy, I love the story of you life! Keep it up!!!!</p> <p>{{looks at watch}} when will there be more? </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/2#post-212157 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:10:38 +0000 GreatDane 212157@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Keep it coming, Kilroy! </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/2#post-212156 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:10:02 +0000 Karenopa 212156@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>*tap.....tap.....Shoot! I knew I couldn't resist* </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/2#post-212155 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:08:52 +0000 Karenopa 212155@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>I'm enthralled to say the least...Thank you for sharing your life and times Kilroy...*patiently waiting.........*see no tapping toes* :D </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/2#post-212151 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 07:48:25 +0000 Crazycatman - CA 212151@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Patiently (ha!) waiting for the next installment.. </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/2#post-212150 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 07:47:38 +0000 cricketsmama 212150@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Okay I am hooked!<br /> How lucky for you to get to go to Oxford!! I envy that! </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/2#post-212147 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 07:40:55 +0000 Kilroy 212147@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>We're heading into the homestretch, folks, but things get a little grim at this point. Breaking up with Ted was really hard, and I went through a pretty long stretch of feeling miserable, wondering just what the heck I was doing with my life. The job was good, but I really didn't have a life outside of work. And then September 11th, 2001 happened, and I REALLY didn't have a life outside of work.</p> <p>I won't bore you all with where I was and what it was like, but all of a sudden I found myself researching things I didn't want to know anything about, while worrying about my colleagues who had to go downtown to the disaster area every day. At least I was safe at a desk, but I didn't sleep much and spent too much time on the weekends at the Irish pub next to the office.</p> <p>I don't know what would have happened if this had gone on indefinitely, but I knew I needed to get away, and I stumbled on just the thing - a 2 week library seminar at Oxford University. I had always wanted to go to England and Oxford sounded lovely. I begged my boss for the 2 weeks off and starting pinching pennies to pay for the trip.</p> <p>The Oxford trip was everything I'd hoped for; 2 weeks of books and history, lovely people who loved books as much as I do, and fresh air that didn't stink of god-knew-what. The first night there someone asked me "What was it like?", meaning 9/11, and I politely said that I'd rather not talk about it, while wondering how anyone could use the past tense. It was May of 2002 and as far as New York was concerned that day was still happening. But that was the only time it came up and I immersed myself in musty old books, afternoon tea and sightseeing.</p> <p>Sanity restored, I flew home and went back to work, having no idea that my life was about to change completely, again.</p> <p>&lt;more to come&gt; </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/8191/page/2#post-211893 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:36:33 +0000 artistabobbi TX 1/17 211893@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Nice to meet ya, Killroy. Welcome to TDK. What an interesting life you have lived (so far). I think I would bore everyone to death if I did a memoir.<br /> Love your kitty. Sent a friends' request.... </p>