In praise of....XemaSab

[billyskank]

Why do I like XemaSab? She's friendly, and funny, and intelligent. She's pretty, no matter what she thinks of her hair. She has interesting ideas on home decoration (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=4497323). Her avatar is a piece of broccoli. It's the age of XemaSab. Who could ask for more?

:bounce:

[XemaSab]

1. Wow!!!

Thank you!

You made my whole day!!!!

:bounce:

[billyskank]

3. You're welcome

:)

[TimeChaser]

2. Yay XemaSab!

:woohoo: :bounce: :woohoo: :bounce: :woohoo: :bounce:

:pals:

[XemaSab]

7. Thanks!

:pals:

[LaraMN]

4. Cheers and cat-calls!

For a lovely lady! :applause: :applause: :applause:

[XemaSab]

8. Woohoo!!!!

:woohoo:

[Lavender Brown]

5. She was voted Woman of the Year, after all

:hi:

[billyskank]

6. She was? I missed that

Well deserved though, I'd say. :)

[progmom]

9. xemasab rocks the casbah

fo' shizzle. :bounce:

[XemaSab]

11. Word!

:D

[eyepaddle]

10. Yay for XemaSab

:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:
:toast:toast:toast:toast:toast:toast:toast:toast

For all the reasons you state!

[XemaSab]

15. Why thank you!!!!

I'm glad to hear such an outpouring of good will! :D

[LeftyMom]

12. I could ask her to get down to Sacramento for lunch already

but we've got flood warnings between here and there, so she should probably wait until the roads aren't underwater. ;)

[XemaSab]

16. Flood, schmuds!

What are you doing on Tuesday?

:D

[LeftyMom]

19. Well I have to go to the DMV in the morning

Why, you headed down here?

[XemaSab]

22. I will be if the weather breaks

:P

I'm going down to the Channel Islands, and I was thinking that if I left Redding at the right time, we could do lunch! :D

[LeftyMom]

23. I think I know the perfect place too

I'll PM you.

[gmoney]

13. She's a wonderous marvel of a woman...

If only she didn't live so far away...

[XemaSab]

17. In the grand scheme of things

it's not that far! You could live in Sri Lanka, for example!

:pals:

[gmoney]

41. Sadly...

I might as well live in Sri Lanka for all the time you and I get to hang out. :(

But maybe, maybe someday.

[eyepaddle]

20. Hey, looking at your avatar makes me wonder

where is fleabert? I have'nt seen her post in forever it seems.

[hfojvt]

25. I think I saw her recently

in the women's issues forum. But I have not seen her in the lounge for a loooooonge time.

[eyepaddle]

27. Hmmmm, well if anybody sees her

tell her to pop in on the lounge--we need as many consistently upbeat folks in here as we can possibly manage!

[gmoney]

Wish I knew...

I know she's been very busy and traveling a lot... another DUer lost to real life.

Miss her terribly...

[xmas74]

14. We had a decent convo in a thread yesterday

and a really good on in pm's. I'm glad that we got to speak outside of the boards.

[XemaSab]

18. I'm glad too!!!

I feel like I know you now, instead of as just another name in the boards!

And stay away from guys named David! They're bad! :D

:pals:

[xmas74]

28. Yes they are!

They are the devil incarnate!

[XemaSab]

31. It's a fact

David I used to sign all of his textbooks "SATAN." In all caps, like that. I still have his Latin book... ah, memories!

[xmas74]

33. Your David was still smalltime.

My David played in the major league. He was player of the year every year and was held up as a shining example of what all Davids should aspire to be, if they choose to be assholes.

[XemaSab]

44. Oh, I dunno about that....

When you have to choose between your burglar friend and the friend he ripped off... it's a tough one. Lemme tell ya....

[xmas74]

52. True.

At least you don't ever have to hear child support excuses from him now!

[GOPisEvil]

53. We are not!

x(

[xmas74]

54. Just 90% of you.

I'm looking at a decent model w/ that name right now. He's still out on a test drive.

[wildhorses]

21. and she knows A LOT about birds

I learned this while reading my new year's resolution thread...
Snaps to XemaSab!!!

[XemaSab]

24. In a Z formation????

There are meany people who know a lot more about birds than I do... but thank you for remembering that I said I was planning on seeing some birds in the new year!

I hope your new year's wishes come true too! Popcorn and kitties should be manageable goals! :D

:hugs:

[hfojvt]

26. does that mean you were flattened by the hurricane?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=4180454

[XemaSab]

29. ROFL!!!!!

I had forgotten about that short-lived thread! The national weather service has moved on to Tropical Storm Catherine Zeta-Jones now!

Good memory!!!! :D

[hfojvt]

32. well, it was

my idea
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=4179858#4179880
:blush:

[XemaSab]

37. Wow!!!!!!!

Cool!

(I'm a little scatterbrained sometimes).

Thanks for the original suggestion! :D I'm deeply flattered!

[khashka]

30. Sounds good to me...

my appreciation grows daily.

All hail XemaSab!

Khash.

[XemaSab]

34. Khash!

Thanks for the kind words!

:pals:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

She is one hell of a terrific DU'er! I am very fond of XemaSab!

She has helped me learn more about the shorebirds that I have photographed.....

I hope to meet her next year when she's down this way, birding!

Major props to you, my dear XemaSab!


:loveya: :hug:

[XemaSab]

39. Thanks!

I really like your beach photos!

I'm looking forward to meeting you when I make it down there!

[swimboy]

35. Yay! Major props to XemaSab!

:loveya:

[XemaSab]

38. Thanks!

swimboy....mmmmmm! :D

[RandomKoolzip]

36. Three thumbs up for BaseMax!

Yay! :bounce:

[XemaSab]

40. That's a new one on me!

And uh... do you really have three thumbs? Because I think YokoSpawn would consider that a deal breaker... I'm just sayin'...

:D

[RandomKoolzip]

42. It's an anagram of your name: baSameX.

I always though that Basamex was a word that meant something to you for personal reasons and you spelled it backwards for similarly personal reasons. Speculation, of course.

And I do indeed have three thumbs. Not on my hands of course; they're in the fridge, underneath the boiled ears.

[XemaSab]

46. Wow! Your speculation is

totally off!

It's actually short for Xema sabini, the Sabine's Gull.

It's the snazziest of all the gulls!

[RandomKoolzip]

47. No kidding?

Wow. I'm always spelling everything backwards and twisting words into anagrams in my mind. Sometimes I forget that everyone else isn't doing the same thing.

Anyhow, congrats on getting your own thread. Maybe if *I* was as pretty as a seagull, I'd get MY own thread....:cry: Why can't *I* be snazzy?!

[XemaSab]

50. Your day will come!

Mine did! :D

[In_The_Wind]

43. Yes, indeed! Hurray for the Woman of the Year!

To XemaSab

[XemaSab]

45. Nobody's ever given me flowers before!

:cry: Thanks Joan! I feel like Miss America!

[In_The_Wind]

48. Damn! Well ~ there is a first for everything.

You Should Have Flowers! :yourock:

[XemaSab]

49. Thanks!

I'm touched! :)

[XemaSab]

51. Shameless kick!!!!

:D

[billyskank]

55. Why not?

:D

[XemaSab]

56. Good morning!

How are you?

[billyskank]

57. I'm okay, thanks!

How are you?

[XemaSab]

58. Pretty good

Had lunch with Vektor, saw Memoirs of a Geisha, didn't float away.... gotta say it was a good day.

[Vektor]

59. I second that!

XemaSab ROCKS.

[billyskank]

60. And you met her!

You lucky, lucky person. :)

[Vektor]

61. I am lucky!

She rocks it!

[billyskank]

62. I know

Why'd you think I started this thread? ;)

[Vektor]

63. For all the right reasons...

:-)

[XemaSab]

64. I rock what???

I assume by "it" you can only mean the WMD.... and I promise you, I would never rock the WMD. It would be a betrayal of our friendship. I mean, 23 years ago the WMD spoke to you, and told you what your purpose was.... I can't go against that....

:pals:

[Vektor]

78. HAHAHAHA

Fair enough. You can rock the WMDean.

:rofl:

[carpetbagger]

65. It is the age of XemaSab.

Now get out there and start your year list.

I've already got Killdeer and Black Vulture.

[XemaSab]

66. It's not the new year yet here

I'm still working on 2005. :P

And how did you get black vulture at midnight????

Starling was the first bird of the millenium for me, but black vulture????

Do tell!!!!

[carpetbagger]

67. Black Vulture as a night bird...

I took my dogs out for a walk in an office park that's right next to my neighborhood. It's pretty well lit, and has a power line tower that the vultures roost on. Add some stray gunfire and fireworks with the new year (welcome to Texas), and you get a few that manage to stick their head out long enough not to appear red.

[XemaSab]

Freaky...

You know any birders in San Antonio???

I was down there birding in January!!!!

[XemaSab]

68. Freaky...

You know any birders in San Antonio???

I was down there birding in January!!!!

[carpetbagger]

69. I know most of them.

I volunteer at the Mitchell Lake Audubon Center. We've got some tremendous birders in town, including the state's RBA compiler, who also managed to "recruit" to town one of the members of the TOS review committee. We've also got the guy who has the biggest Central America list on the ABA, almost 1000 spp.

[XemaSab]

70. So you know Sheridan and Martin then???

I stayed with them when I was down there!!!!

Martin took me to the dump in Corpus for my life LBB gull, and I had my life Least Grebe (last grebe for ABA) with Sheridan at Mitchell Lake!!!!

[carpetbagger]

71. I know them well.

Now those are hardcore people. They spent last Valentine's Day at the magic dump.

[XemaSab]

72. They are hardcore

It's a fact.

Frankly, and this is a serious admission.... the dump at Corpus was really gross, and I had to bail long before Martin became bored....

Sheridan's a pretty good friend. She had me my life Green Kingfisher, Black-Capped Titmouse, Least Grebe, Golden-Fronted Woodpecker, Crested Caracara, Couch's Kingbird, and McCown's Longspur.

And I owe Martin for the aforementioned LBB gull, Green Jay, and Rufous-Capped Warbler.

(as an aside, I almost ate it reaching for Kaufman... not for the first time :evilgrin: )

[carpetbagger]

73. That is a rather, er, aromatic place, even for a dump.

The winter before last, that place went absolutely wild with vagrants, and with Martin and Willie Sekula trolling the place, they kept finding new stuff. Tedious, though. I like my vagrants posing nicely and unmistakably from a branch.

Did you get any of the Rio Grande Valley vagrants last winter? I managed to see the Social Flycatcher with Martin and Sheridan on I think January 8.

[XemaSab]

74. I dipped on the social

but I got blue bunting, cc grosbeak, wt robin and the trogon at frontera, and I found a rt becard at bentsen! Plus I got to see the RC warbler!!!!

I dipped on the yellowthroat, sadly, as well as the seedeater and some other endemics, but hey, there's always a reason to return!!!!!

[carpetbagger]

75. Not a bad list.

It took me years to finally see all the regularly occurring RGV birds. Funny, last winter that was the place to be, this year the best thing seen down there is actually a Snow Bunting and a few (probably returning) Arizona-type birds.

Oh, well, I need to get some sleep, although I could probably stay up all night (In CST, it's what, about another hour or two?). I still haven't seen the Glaucous Gull that's in the south end of the county. There's also a Tropical Parula lurking about.

Happy New Year.

[XemaSab]

76. Happy new year to you!!!!

And you're right, I had a terrific time! It was my first trip to Texas, and I think I had something like 39 liferz!!!!!

Insanity!!!!

And I thought I had my last woodpecker, but whaddya know!!!!

Next stop is Florida!

And if you ever come out to Cali, I have Nuttall's, Oak Titmouse, YB Magpie, and many others in the yard. :P

[merh]

77. I must add to this thread!

And raise my glass to toast XemaSab :toast:

And to sing her praises! YEAHHHH XenaSab!

Thanks for the recipe! :hug:

[Mutley]

79. Broccoli is good.

:D

And XemaSab rocks! Just like billyskank. :hug:

[billyskank]

80. mutley!!!

:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:

:loveya:

Nice to see you! :hi:

[Mutley]

81. Nice to see you, too!

:loveya: :hug: :hi:

How was your New Year's Eve?

[billyskank]

82. I stayed here posting until midnight

then I went to bed! :rofl:

I hope you had more fun than me. :)




Awwww...... :hug:

[Mutley]

83. Not really.

Just hung out, drank, watched the fireworks on TV, then went to sleep myself. :D

I'm getting boring in my old age of 26. :rofl: