Are we all having fun yet? ;)

Hope

Charity just chimed in via phone. She is tickled pink and a boat load of other colors. ;)

Hope

i love this, sweetheart. i hate fake fawning peopel. well, she was being a bitch, not fauning. and i LOVE the fantasy of the plumber uncle. when i lived in L.A. and had long dark hair, i would tell people who fucked with me that i could have their knees broken. their faces were a sight!!! you jsut never know who you're dealign with and i wanted them to know that. plus the auto repair bills? right down to reasonable. love love love

Theodora, thank you for posting. You are so very sweet! The next time I visit friends in the Northwest, I would like to take you and your family to tea with my nieces and I. :)

I am fluent in the language the boutique owner speaks. I grew up on the Upper East Side. :) I choose NOT to speak the language though. ;)

As I have mentioned several times here, there's no telling who I know and what I can do. :)

Hope

This is an important note. I would like to clarify. The PLUMBER is NOT my uncle. I would ring my uncle to place the call. ;)

Hope

We know he isn't your uncle. He's that secret admirer that you are so coy about.

Enjoy.

Nick, thank you for posting. It's lovely to see you again. I so look forward to your love notes. I love you too sir. ;)

I think you know me all too well. ;) You hit quite close to the mark. ;)

Hope

P.S. I just officially added Nick's name to my crush list. Nick is listed right below the first name, the comic wit Mr. John Blumenthal.

Hope

To the Pearls organization, may your charity live long and prosper. I think that my sister, Charity, took care of that all on her very own at your recent event.

Hope

To Ms. Kathy Riordan, thank you for your note. I am no longer freezing and penniless. I finally got my winter coat yesterday. My sister and I made the rounds of events. By our second event, I had picked a winner. I will try to include a photo of it tomorrow.

Hope

Now you tell me there's something wrong with playing dress-up in my sister's closet.

Dear Hope:

And don't be so confident. I'm a man and you live just down the road. Men get ideas. They dream of having their way with women. They can be animals. Or, I keep forgetting, we are all animals, no?

But me. I am sane and you are safe.

signed.

Not an animal,

Nick.

Con, thank you for posting. I nearly fell off my chair. This is indeed an honor of epic proportion. ;) I am giddy at the very thought of you leaving your first calling card at my door.

I have now officially added you to my crush list too. I do apologize. You are number three. Your ranking is only because you are late to the party. ;)

All my best and my fervent prayers for your lovely wife. I am praying the Rosary for her right now. ;)

Hope

Nick, I have just regained consciousness. I must have swooned.

If you continue to distract me with my thoughts of love for you, I do not know what I will do. You may have ruined me for all other men. ;)

Hope
XOXOXO

would love to see that new coat photo, hummm, please?
rated:)

Debbs4, thank you for posting. I just posted a photo with many coats.
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I am going to have a little contest. For any gentleman who posts the correct response to the first question, I will put your names into a hat, and select one tomorrow. The winner may choose to invite me to have coffee with him, if he so chooses.

To any of the ladies who choose correctly, I will also add your names to a hat and draw one name tomorrow. The winner for the ladies will receive a lovely, little surprise gift.

Hope

mamoore, my thoughts have turned to your wonderful cousin yet again. Please invite him to join today. I think you are right. We are destined to meet. Your cousin needs to post his own comment himself and choose the correct coat.

It will not count if you repeatedly enter the contest for him. ;)

Hope

At the funeral parlor Ya no want to be caught sipping coffee from a gallon jug of home brews made wine. Honeymoon. Honey wine can be made from wild berries, and made to taste like dry fermenting yeast. I love cherry, strawberry, gooseberry, blueberry, mulberry, apple, etc., and especially raw chocolate milk.
Champagne is dry. Money mead taste sweet.
or,
dry.
Meads can gulped in the moo's milking parlor.
Never wear a leather bison coat on 5th Avenue.
People may thing Ya gonna butt their behinds.

Wear a Harley or a Pagan gang members jacket.
A benevolent person has no pockets in the cloak.
Oops. Oh, no croak on the pot chair at K- Street.
Smoke stinky cigar while red blood is being spilt.
Good thunking post. You need to weed my farm.
Intern?
tease.
I will:`
I do:`
I will make a batch with mild relaxing ingredients for a poor Diary of a Hopeful Starving Student? I can fix you up with a Mennonite boondocks cool dude? Are we all having fun yet:;) I Hope. Hope when there ain't seeming no dang reason to Hope!;) huh? Hope!
Ya a nutrient.
gulp. Yippee!

Art, you know that I love you wholeheartedly too! I have just added you to my crush list. I may need to resort the list now. Your daily posts of love poetry for me leave me breathless, dizzy, and in a tizzy. ;)

This is by far your best love poem for me yet. I did note the offer for my hand written repeatedly within the text. Your offer is being duly considered along with the many others.

No bargain may yet be made.

All bets are no off.

mamoore, urge your cousin to make haste! This may be his only Hope. ;)

Left in a State of Complete Enchantment,

Hope
XOXOXO

That is quite a crush list you have going there, Hope.

I am not sure my cousin can compete with the likes of Art James and John Blumenthal!

I will have to consult with him and get back to you...

P.S. If you are casting out your leftover coats, I would like the orange one.

mamoore, thank you for posting. I think you would look lovely in the orange coat. Please send me a private message with your address, and I will post it to you. :)

Your cousin, from the many hundreds of pages you written about him here, is certainly worthy of applying for the list. I would actually need to see his own written words in order to process his application. ;)

I look forward to hearing from your wonderful cousin very soon.

Your Future Cousin-in-Law,

Hope
XOXOXO

Yes, tis fun! But I at least, (are all other OS's as well?) am at a complete disadvantage having never seen your photo, and only just recently been introduced to your blog, but I'll have a go, totally out on a limb. I guess (can I have three guesses?) the brown one, the white one, or the orange one. Or maybe the blue with pink trim? Or maybe the pink! Okay, I'll stick with the first 3 choices. No fair saying none of these. You must look truly smashing!

Polly, thank you for posting. Yours is the first official entry in the contest. You will have to select ONE coat in order for me to put your name in the hat for tomorrow's drawing.

THE CONTEST IS REAL. I AM SERIOUS! A PRIZE WILL BE AWARDED!

Charity and I just selected the prize for the ladies, and it is adorable! The gift bags from those charity events yesterday were incredible! Charity offered one of the treats from one of her gift bags for the prize.

Polly, would you please select one coat, and post your comment to enter? Thank you.

Hope

The winner's name will be drawn from a hat tomorrow. I will post the name of the winner here then. That writer will have to send me a private message with her information, and I will have the prize shipped to the winner.

Hope

Gotta be the dark green hooded one, enter me for my wife she could use a treat.

Hi Bob, I have entered it. You are so sweet to think of your wife all the time.

Gentlemen, please take a page from Bob's book. :)

Gentlemen, may enter for their wives in honor of Bob's loving gesture on behalf of his lovely wife.

Hope

I'm going with what "looks" like purple on the bottom left hand corner.

trilogy, thank you for posting. You are entered in the contest now.

Hope

I went over to the Mennonites milking parlor to pay-off my milk and cheese addiction debts. Diary of a Hopeful Salivating Student. You Hope? I Hope Ya love and persist. I Hope Ya hug and squeeze real tight all lonely sniffing Lame Goat Farmers of the precious Earth.

November is called the Mood Season. Earth gets cold and leaves get grey and brown. JME mentioned the leaf will become stiff, crunchy, and then follow nature's course and decompose. You remind me of a vet.
Veterinarian.
A cat, dog, barn pal vet.
`
I have a catalogue from a vet.

- a orange, double breasted hide looks like the skin fir from a Rotokawa Devon. Bull 982. It's a grass-based fed cow that is 70- years old.

- the three black coats look like the skin of a Devon PRF P22094 Page Road Farm Pet Pete. Order @ 413=477-6500. P.O. Box 441, Hardwick, MA 72157.

- the reddish hair hides resemble Rotokawa Devon 667 and Devon 974. okay. the other pretty coats can be bull moo-cow skins from Devon 93, 861,
or,
the other hide may come off cows:`
New Zealander Beledene Dukes Landy.
That breed is esteemed for longevity.
The dairy cow has a famed bloodline.
The Jersey bulls have a strong chest.
Ay, good leg that stand up straight.
I hope this is okay? It's not a sin?
The vet gave be a bull catalogue.
Backewell Repro Semen books.
- order semen:`413-477-6500.
or,
if Ya just shuffle a gig, gag, gargle,
google, burp-chuckle, gaze coo-coo,
the Mood is called the hunter moon.
harvest, mad, and the flower moon.

www.bakewellrepro.com // Rumi:`
The Breadmaker. / I feel silly, huh.
I love Ya because? You are lovable.

OK, if I have to pick, I'll go with the yellow one with the hood. It matches nicely with your banner and you will need a fluffy hood in the land of cheese and snow.

mamoore, thanks for posting. You are now entered in the contest.

I will give everyone a little hint now. What do I have a very large collection of? What am I always wearing? I mention this nearly every day. That may help with your winning entry.

Hope

Okay, I admit it. I like to wear my wife's clothes. But I stick to formal dresses and heels. Coats are no good because they hide my cleavage.

This is a trick question, isn't it? You would take them all and wear whatever was appropriate for the occaision. Right? I know it's an evasion - despite the fact my wife owns a women's clothing store, I'm a clueless fashion idiot.

As for your blog motto, it's very sweet, but you should know the OS motto is "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate."

John, John, John, I could sit here all day and gaze at your photo and read your words and be content. I would require nothing further. No food. No water. Nothing buy you and your words. You brighten my Hopeful Starving Student days.

Thank you.

Hope
XOXOXO

P.S. Please send my best regards to your lovely wife. ;)

Whoops! That posted comment to John should read, "Nothing but you."

Would my editor please report for duty.

MY DEAR EDITOR, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? I'M RIPE FOR THE PICKING! PLEASE SEND ME A PRIVATE MESSAGE HERE.

Hope

I chose the brown one, but think the orange one is adorable. But I stick with the BROWN.

Jeff, thank you for posting. This is one of those once in million instances of love at first sight. I just added you to my Crush List.

Please send my best regards to your lovely wife. :)

I had literally written that very line as the lead in one of my drafts here recently. Do you work in the home office in NYC? If not, how are you are reading my private files? ;)

Hope
XOXOXO

Polly, thank you for posting. You are now entered in the contest.

Hope

DEAR READERS,

IF ANYONE SPOTS JOHN BLUMENTHAL NOW, PLEASE LET ME KNOW. I AM QUITE CONCERNED THAT HE MAY HAVE SUFFERED A HEART ATTACK OR SOME KIND OF MASSIVE FIT AFTER READING A MESSAGE I SENT HIM.

IF THERE IS NO WORD FROM JOHN OR ANY OF HIS REPS, THEN I WILL CALL 911 FOR JOHN TOO. JUST AS I DID FOR MY BROTHER BOB.

PLEASE REPORT BACK HERE WITH ANY AND ALL INFORMATION REGARDING JOHN!

THANK YOU FOR READING THIS IMPORTANT OS HOPE ALERT!

HOPE
XOXOXO

I'm all over the orange one.

Just sayin'.

Lorraine, thank you for posting. You are now entered in the contest.

Hope

You chose the cobalt blue (bottom left). I'm not interested in your uncle rather than"who's your Daddy?"

OEsheepdog, you are now officially in play.

I know you've spent your days and nights pining for me. So much longing! How do you bear it? All that unrequited love is heart wrenching, really.

I believe that the underdog or in this case the OESHEEPDOG will triumph in the end.

I have added you to my Crush List. Please stop sending me those private messages with transcripts from your dream therapy. It's more than a little unsettling, especially since I am written in every scene. ;)

Please send my best regards to your lovely wife.

You've Left Me Panting Awaiting Your Next Move,

Hope
XOXOXO

Just want to say that I claimed the orange one waaaaayyyy before WSFTC and it is mine, I say, MINE, if it is not the one that Hope picked for herself. I would never take the coat off the back of a starving student.

mamoore, thanks for posting. It's duly noted. I have the records here. You are correct. I suggest you take that issue outside with Lorraine. ;)

Still no word from your cousin this evening.

Not every man can handle me. I am a unique bundle of fun! Some just call me ODD PECULIAR!

Hope