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Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Sunday, July 11, 2004 - 3:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thank you Lk!! I couldn't have said it better!! LOL

Egbok
Member

07-13-2000

Sunday, July 11, 2004 - 4:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. I'm literally an egg today! I'm fried, my shell is cracking and soon all the contents are going to slowly leak out. I'm a stressed Eggie today.

Puppylov3
Member

01-26-2004

Sunday, July 11, 2004 - 4:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. There was some GIANT flying bug (not a fly, not a wasp, not a bee) in the car with me when I drove to church this morning. Scared the heck out of me.



Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Sunday, July 11, 2004 - 4:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
01. All of our houseplants have now been covered with a minimum of 1/2" of sand.

02. Fungi gnats get really pissed off when evicted from their residences.

03. DH and I also cleaned out a lot of the plants too.

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Sunday, July 11, 2004 - 4:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
01. Fungi gnats BITE.

02. DH and I are noting our battle scars, and we discovered a lot of little bites.

03. Our money tree is getting huge.

04. I hope that and our ficus tree (which is also growing well) can move with us.

Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Sunday, July 11, 2004 - 4:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
4.5 I NEED A MONEY TREE!!! Where do you get those???? LOL

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Sunday, July 11, 2004 - 5:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
04.05.01: I got ours at the Feng Shu store at the Swap Meet. Are you coming to Vegas?

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Sunday, July 11, 2004 - 5:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
01. I outlined my eventual plan to DH about moving.

02. I plan on having professional movers come and get our stuff.

03. I'll pack it, but I want THEM to move it.

04. We will then rent an RV and drive east--stopping at various places along the way, including my mom's in Michigan, and DH's folks in NY--with the cats and the plants.

05. DH agreed, with one exception: I said hopefully, we'd be able to do this by NEXT fall, meaning Fall 2005; he said NEXT fall would be Fall 2004.
05.01. I said the fall of 2004 is THIS fall.
05.02. He asked me if this was "a woman thing" of not getting time right.
05.03. So...is it?

Schoolmarm
Member

02-18-2001

Sunday, July 11, 2004 - 5:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. I hate moving...maybe not as much as Twinkie, but I'm goin' nuts. boxes all over EVERYWHERE. The moving van was originally supposed to come on Tuesday, but since the closing was moved back, it's boxville until Aug 2!

2. I'm going to Illinois anyway on Tuesday and will be there for a conference and to work for about three days...or until the pit in my stomach goes away!

3. I hope that my new office is bigger than a postage stamp!

4. Marm is a little confused about how many times Twinks has moved....is this the move from the big house to the apartments or did you get another house and are moving FROM the apartments???? Inquiring minds want to know!

5. Teaching piano lessons and cleaning out my office tomorrow...and the people who bought my (non-working) fridge are picking it up. It will be a good day!

6. Books are expensive to move. Juju suggested to mail them 4th class. I'm just taking as many as I can in the car on each trip. BLECK!!!!

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Sunday, July 11, 2004 - 5:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
06.01. Schoolmarm: That sounds like an excellent idea. Thank you!

Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Sunday, July 11, 2004 - 5:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
6.5 Marm, this is the same damn move to the Apts. Remember when we moved here it took 2 18 wheelers and a moving company. This time we are broke so we have to rent a much smaller truck and do it ourselves. So lots of trips and I've been packing for several months. We should be at the apts within a couple of weeks if we can get a few guys to help again.

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Sunday, July 11, 2004 - 5:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lkunkel, YES! This fall is 2004 next fall is 2005, and I hope if that is true that you will be stopping in north Texas for the get together and I'll finally get to meet you after all.


Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Sunday, July 11, 2004 - 9:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
6.02 Mail the books at Book Rate (which might be same thing as fourth class, except they don't use classes anymore) - much cheaper

Ooh, Marm! Might be too late for you, but music is included in the cheap rate. Got info below from the usps.gov website.

Media Mail (Book Rate)

Description

Used for books, film, manuscripts, printed music, printed test materials, sound recordings, play scripts, printed educational charts, loose-leaf pages and binders consisting of medical information, videotapes, and computer recorded media such as CD-ROMs and diskettes. Media Mail cannot contain advertising.

The maximum size is 108 inches in combined length and distance around the thickest part.

Mark each package "Media Mail" in the postage area.

Media Mail Rates

Weight not over (pounds) Rate
1 $1.42
2 1.84
3 2.26
4 2.68
5 3.10
6 3.52
7 3.94
8 4.24
9 4.54
10 4.84
11 5.14
12 5.44
13 5.74
14 6.04
15 6.34
16 6.64
17 6.94
18 7.24
19 7.54
20 7.84
21 8.14
22 8.44
23 8.74
24 9.04
25 9.34
26 9.64
27 9.94
28 10.24
29 10.54
30 10.84
31 11.14
32 11.44
33 11.74
34 12.04
35 12.34
36 12.64
37 12.94
38 13.24
39 13.54
40 13.84
41 14.14
42 14.44
43 14.74
44 15.04
45 15.34
46 15.64
47 15.94
48 16.24
49 16.54
50 16.84
51 17.14
52 17.44
53 17.74
54 18.04
55 18.34
56 18.64
57 18.94
58 19.24
59 19.54
60 19.84
61 20.14
62 20.44
63 20.74
64 21.04
65 21.34
66 21.64
67 21.94
68 22.24
69 22.54
70 22.84


Melfie1222
Member

07-29-2002

Sunday, July 11, 2004 - 9:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
71.01 Whoa! that's a lot of facts

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Monday, July 12, 2004 - 5:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. I miss everybody! DH and DS's are up at camp

2. I'm supposed to be up at camp, but no babysitter for DD, and we can go up, but now we cant find a babysitter for the guineas

3. I'm lonely for adult conversation. DH always calls me, but now he's too busy, and today he does the canoe trip. and he didnt call me :-(

4. Dh was supposed to get ds's to call dd - she misses them.

5. she waited up till 11pm. 15 hours taking care of dd is exhausting. Her questions are exhausting what does "alas" mean? What does "brer" mean? Can we buy a chemistry set? oh and the hardest part is all is prefaced with "mommy?"

6. I got modded. First time. It was on a Disney site. I am so embarrassed. I may never post there again!!

7. Someone wanted to know why Scott was called a p.d. I just provided the link...

Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Monday, July 12, 2004 - 7:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
7.1 Be careful, Reader. Your innocence rating is following in the footsteps of your Egmom's!

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Monday, July 12, 2004 - 8:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. OK, Colossus and I had a spectacular weekend. On top of all the wedding planning (meetings with caterer, tentmaker, seamstress, tours through bridal stores, buying second wedding dress and whatnot), Colossus was FINALLY given permission by my dad to call him by his first name. Same day, Dad introduced Colossus around his country club as "my future son-in-law." Colossus was WAY pleased;

2. This weekend was my uncle and aunt's 40th wedding anniversary. My uncle has always been the king of the grand romantic gesture, I'm telling you the man would do anything to turn his wife on, and this time he really out-did himself;

3. We have a number of professional and amateur singers and musicians in the family. A couple of months ago my uncle contacted my brother, a professional jazz trombonist who also happened to be the ringbearer at their wedding, and asked him to write arrangements for 12 songs he'd selected and put together a band of union musicians to play them. My brother did all this after trying mightily to dissuade my uncle from his intentions;

4. My uncle then signed himself up for singing lessons, and asked all of the musicians and singers in the family to perform in various songs or with a backup choir he'd hired;

5. He also wrote an entire libretto describing his courtship and marriage to his wife, which he narrated between songs which either he himself or the rest of us sang. All were songs which were sentimental favorites from the years of his marriage (I was in the 'Going to the Chapel' trio and choir on the rest);

6. The entire concert was presented to a powerpoint presentation of pictures from their (our) lives and their marriage;

7. This entire concert was staged following a formal dinner at the Crown Plaza ballroom;

8. My aunt knew NOTHING about any of this - it was all for her. My uncle sent a limousine filled with her bridesmaids and daughter to their house the morning of the party, whisked them off to a full day of beauty at the parlor, and purchased and had delivered to my aunt her gown for the evening, right before having her and her bridal party whisked again down to the party;

9. She walked in and got the surprise of her life, but she's so used to my uncle's grand romance of her that she took it very much in stride while being completely swept off her feet;

10. There were about 150 guests, and my uncle's in trouble with most of his guy friends, because now their wives are looking at them like "and what are YOU going to do to top this?"

10.5 This evening had the potential to be a total trainwreck, but we were all so into it to make my uncle's dream come true that the concert was fantastic, everyone used all the kleenex my uncle had so thoughtfully placed on every table, and we danced the night away once all was done. It was just marvelous.

10.8 Oh, and PS Colossus put on his twinkle-toes and dazzled his future MIL and SIL's by tripping the lights fantastic with them. The man was workin' it, I tell you LOL!!

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Monday, July 12, 2004 - 8:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
10.9 Oh, and my uncle took out the honeymoon suite at the Crown Plaza for he and my aunt the night of the reception. Ain't he just ridiculously romantic? God I love him.

Wargod
Member

07-16-2001

Monday, July 12, 2004 - 8:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. Gal that's got to be one of the sweetest things I've heard!!!



Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Monday, July 12, 2004 - 8:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
2. I KNOW Wargod. (Passing around the box of tissues.) I'm crying just writing this down. It was wonderful.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Monday, July 12, 2004 - 8:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. WOW, I thought my dad was the king of the romantic gesture, but your uncle is incredible!!!
2. I am over my stomach bug.
3. I am going to the HOME RUM DERBY tonite!!!!!

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Monday, July 12, 2004 - 9:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. GAL, do you think your uncle would take my dh out and teach him the facts of romance?

2. Yesterday I removed my vcr from the television in the living room and reconnected it along with the cable box, an rf adaptor box, and the dvd player to the spare room tv without the red/white/yellow connections on it. I might even complicate the matter with including a connection of the karaoke machine sometime in the future. Now my dh can have the living room tv without interruption of any 'reality' shows other than the Discovery channel, History channel or NASCAR!

3. I think our rain has gone away for a while, and I was just getting used to having it. My nice cool green carpet of grass will suffer without it.

Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Monday, July 12, 2004 - 10:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
GAL, your uncle could have his own reality help show..

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Monday, July 12, 2004 - 10:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Seamonkey, I'm thinking I might just have to shop that idea around. I was very glad Colossus got to see a real romantic at work - we could all learn a few things from Uncle P.

PS Urgrace, crap girl, how did you manage to do all that yourself? I'm impressed!!

Cindori
Member

07-25-2003

Monday, July 12, 2004 - 11:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. Sometimes I really really really want to just take someone by the ears and shake them until they GET IT.

2. And sometimes I start to rethink being a pacifist.

3. And sometimes I really wish I just didn't care. About a lot of things.

4. And then I try to remind myself caring is a good thing.

Boy, I'm a downer all of a sudden.