My Eyes Adored You
I hesitate to share this because after all, when you’re dealing with men who made a career out of putting warheads on foreheads, there’s really no need to to make them cranky. That’s just good sense.
But this is too funny (I think) not to share. Yesterday I asked Nose when and where he first met Lex. I don’t know how to link to this but its in the comments section of Nose’s biography. Anyway, Nose said they never actually met. Then he went on to say that even though they never met,  he did know Lex and others like him and he made some really nice comments about Lex. And those comments kind of stuck with me all day.
A bit of background: You know how snippets of songs get stuck in your head sometimes? Well, when my oldest daughter was born I had this snippet of an old song (old back then and that was 1993) stuck in my head. Still not sure of the name of it but the part that stuck with me went “You were fifth grade, I was sixth. Like a million miles away you couldn’t see the way my eyes adored you. So close. So close. And yet so far away.” Sorry, you will have to supply your own tune. My daugher got sung that song and a few others a lot, both right after she was born and later, when she spent a lot of time in hospital for many years. So that song has always stuck with me.
I worked late last night (and was visiting the Flight Deck intermittently while working) and finally turned off the computer around midnight. So everyone else is in bed and I am doing dishes and not thinking of anything in particular, when all of a sudden, completely unbidden, what pops into my head? Out of nowhere, in my head, I am singing “You were east coast, I was west. Like a million miles away you couldn’t see the way my eyes…… at which point I immediately cut tape and burst out laughing! No need to go any further with that!
The wonderous workings of the human mind. Think by chance I’m spending too much time here? More important, think its still safe for me to stay here? 
Posted by Michelle
On February 9th, 2007 under Humor.
Comments: 17
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Comment from FbL
Time: February 9, 2007, 8:52 pm
Actually, I think you’re okay. But we may have to keep a close eye on Lex and Nose… 
BWAAHAHAHAHAHA!
Comment from KrisinNewEngland
Time: February 10, 2007, 6:41 am
Michelle: It’s “My Eyes Adored You”, written by Frankie Valli. Given your frame of reference, the lyrics are pretty funny. In particular, these:
Headed for city lights,
Climbed the ladder up to fortune and fame,
I worked my fingers to the bone,
Made myself a name.
So Nose – how DID you make yourself that name anyway?
Comment from lex
Time: February 10, 2007, 7:53 am
You’re welcome to stay, just, you know: Keep that adoration thing coming
Comment from Michelle
Time: February 10, 2007, 9:30 am
LOLOL
Yes sir. Sir.
Shouldn’t be too much of a problem. I have a client who likes to be referred to variously as Your Eminence, Oh Great One, Your Holiness, My Lord, Your Honour …. depending on the day of the week. So I should be able to handle it, Oh Great one. Sir.
You know, I just realized that Valentine’s Day is coming real soon. Could get a bit crazy around here, you think? Ummm…. sirs?
Comment from KrisinNewEngland
Time: February 10, 2007, 11:03 am
Michelle – methinks you are walking on thin ice – I’m out there with ya honey!
Comment from Michelle
Time: February 10, 2007, 11:08 am
Or maybe getting close to flying on fumes, huh?
Thanks wingie, I hear ya. Will straighten up and fly right. Over.
Comment from JAS
Time: February 10, 2007, 12:13 pm
“when you’re dealing with men who made a career out of putting warheads on foreheads, there’s really no need to to make them cranky. That’s just good sense.”
Thanks a lot, Michelle… that one should have had a “may cause one to spew hot coffee whilst LOL” warning on it!
Comment from doorkeeper
Time: February 10, 2007, 12:28 pm
I have arisen from my swoon, and am batting my eyelashes and fanning myself…..I do so love a man in uniform…..
M, were you in the car that day in Oxnard when we passed the Naval base? I thought B was gonna wreck, and S was seriously considering holding me back, but all I was doing was drooling on the window….!
Comment from FbL
Time: February 10, 2007, 1:08 pm
Now see, this is why I refuse to be classified as a “Lex Babe…”
Comment from Michelle
Time: February 10, 2007, 1:52 pm
Wait a minute, Fbl – it wasn’t *me* singing that song! I mean, sure, technically maybe, I was the one “singing” it but………. it weren’t me, honest!
doorkeeper, yes, I was there. Remember it well. And just in case you didn’t know…..well it might take Snake Eater to confirm it cuz I think he might keep the official tally on such things but…….I think you have just been tagged as a Lex Babe!
Hey Kris, remember how Lex has said a wingie is expected to say very little to his lead. But one of the few things he could say, when appropriate, was “Lead, you’re on fire. Eject”.
I was just wondering……..was that what you were trying to tell me?
Sorry, JAS, next time I will remember to post the warning………but doesn’t that take some of the fun out of it?
Comment from lex
Time: February 10, 2007, 2:32 pm
Golly. Spend half the morning doing your optimization homework, come back and find that people have been having a party in your absence.
What do think this is, a weekend? Or summat?
Comment from unkawill
Time: February 10, 2007, 3:10 pm
Ladies, y’all are precious. thanks for the laughs.
Comment from KrisinNewEngland
Time: February 10, 2007, 5:25 pm
Michelle – not really. It was in response to this comment from you: “…Could get a bit crazy around here, you think?…”
I was saying that I’ll be your sistah in arms, in case you want to make things a bit crazy around here…you know, I’ll be your wingman.
Comment from JAS
Time: February 10, 2007, 5:28 pm
LOL Michelle – No need to post a warning. I’ll just keep a mopping rag by the keyboard so things stay tidy, coffee and all.
And good grief, Lex, studying optimization research (on a weekend, no less) must be about as pleasant as trying to shove a cat into a bucket of water. So, to make the universe stay in balance, someone has to party, right?
Comment from Michelle
Time: February 10, 2007, 6:50 pm
Gotchya Kris. Thanks. Sistahs in arms, I like that. Rumour has it FbL has a bit of a wild side too. Will have to see just how this plays out.
BTW anyone notice Nose has been conspicuously absent from this conversation?
Comment from unkawill
Time: February 10, 2007, 7:19 pm
JAS says “And good grief, Lex, studying optimization research (on a weekend, no less) must be about as pleasant as trying to shove a cat into a bucket of water. So, to make the universe stay in balance, someone has to party, right?”
Man you just brought back some very unpleasent memories of dipping my cats for Fleas. I still have scars.
Comment from Byron Audler
Time: February 11, 2007, 6:42 am
Ah, much more fun to give a cat a pill:
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