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Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 8:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, I'm wondering: were we just down for a few minutes?

Kaykay
Member

01-21-2004

Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 8:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I'm so happy that my kids are feeling better. My DS had a Febrile seizure on Sunday and he wound up with strep throat AGAIN. My DD then got strep. I feel like my house was a hospital this week. Now my Dh is telling me his throat hurts - WONDERFUL!!

Gidget
Member

07-28-2002

Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 9:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Twinkie, if you cant get all the detail you would like in one picture, you can indicate in your sales write up that you will make additional pictures available via email.

I assume you have a separate mailbox set up for your ebay business if you are planning on selling more than just this one item. A web based email that you use exclusively for ebay makes the best sense.

Are you an antiques dealer?


Misbehaven
Member

06-24-2004

Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 2:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I'm just happy that I was able to get into the site today.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 3:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, Twinkie, all I did was crop out the extraneous background stuff that
was distracting from what you want the buyer to concentrate on, which is the table.

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 8:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Internet attack - something about an infected site? not good stuff... above my head, but run anti virus software. Will running anti virus software help if the software isnt programmed to look for this new attack? (now if I understood the attack, I would tell ya, I'm just watchin the news and hoppin around the boards right now - and thought I'd let you know what I heard!!)

Abby7
Member

07-17-2002

Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 11:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I'm very sad. I just found out this wonderful boy died:

June 23, 2004


Poet Mattie Stepanek, 13, Dies


Mattie Stepanek (Photo: CBS/The Early Show)


Mattie talkes with Early Show correspondent Tracy Smith last year. (Photo: CBS/The Early Show)



(CBS/AP) Mattie Stepanek, the child poet whose inspirational verse made him a best-selling writer
and a prominent muscular dystrophy advocate, died Tuesday from complications of the disease. He was 13.

Mattie died at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, the hospital said.

"Mattie was something special, something very special," Muscular Dystrophy Association National
Chairman Jerry Lewis said in a statement. "His example made people want to reach for the best
within themselves. It was easy to forget how sick he was because his megawatt personality just
made you want to smile.

Mattie had dysautonomic mitochondrial myopathy, a genetic disease that impaired almost all of his
body's major functions, such as heart rate, breathing, blood pressure and digestion, and
caused muscle weakness.

His mother, Jeni, 44, has the adult-onset form of the disease, and his three older siblings died of
it in early childhood.

Mattie was profiled last year in The Early Show series on American Hero. He said back then he knew
he had accomplished a lot.

"I've gotten books published. I've met famous people that are very nice," he recollected. "I
look back and I say, 'Wow. Thank you, God, for giving me this gift. And thank you for helping me
to keep going.'"

And he told CBS News Correspondent Tracy Smith that like a typical 13-year-old, he was afraid of
a lot of things like scary movies and needles. But the one thing they didn’t fear was dying. He
prayed every day and he knew exactly where he was going, he said.

When asked what he wanted on his tombstone, Smith says Mattie told her he wanted to be
remembered as a poet, a peacemaker and a philosopher. She adds to that, a very good friend.

Mattie began writing poetry at age 3 to cope with the death of a brother. In 2001, a small Virginia
publisher issued a slim volume of his poems, called "Heartsongs." Within weeks, the book
reached the top of The New York Times best-seller list, the MDA said.

He wrote four other books: "Journey Through Heartsongs," "Hope Through Heartsongs," "Celebrate
Through Heartsongs" and "Loving Through Heartsongs."

Mattie's poems brought him admirers including TV talks show host Oprah Winfrey and former President
Jimmy Carter and made him one of the best-selling poets in recent years.

from CBS.com

Wargod
Member

07-16-2001

Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 11:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, I read that earlier today, Abby, it makes me so sad. He was such an incredible boy who didn't let his illness slow him down or stop him from reaching for his dreams.

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Friday, June 25, 2004 - 5:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
yep, I even posted on Wed. I bought his first book, and his insight is incredible. I subbed in a 6th grade class who was doing a poetry unit, so I included Mattie's poems, including how old he was at the time, then I showed a picture of him, and talked about his MS... well it inspired that class, apparently there was a boy who wrote a poem, shared it with the social worker, who encouraged him to share it with me when he saw me again... he wrote about his father's death, and had never talked about it before - it was extremely powerful, all thanks to Mattie!!

Mygetaway
Member

08-23-2000

Friday, June 25, 2004 - 8:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right Now I'm up after getting DH off to work at 6:45 and never getting back to sleep.

Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Friday, June 25, 2004 - 8:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, I'm having mixed emotions about girls camp being over for this year. It was such a wonderful experience and I enjoyed it, but it was a lot of work and I'm not really a camper, so in that respect I'm glad it's over.

Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Friday, June 25, 2004 - 9:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, I'm done work for the day. I like working half-days, yay!

Mattie was such an inspiration. He had the soul of a very much older, wiser person. My heart goes out to his mother. I cannot begin to imagine the depths of grief she has had to endure, losing her 4 children to this horrible disease.

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Friday, June 25, 2004 - 1:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now it is 109-degrees outside.

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Friday, June 25, 2004 - 1:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, I'll never complain about the heat in Vancouver again, Lkunkel! :-)

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Friday, June 25, 2004 - 2:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, I'm realizing that DH and I are really doing reverse hibernation--not coming alive until the sun goes over the mountain.

I can't do laundry until after 7PM (or before 11A). It's all sorted in the hallway, ready to go.

Escapee
Member

06-15-2004

Friday, June 25, 2004 - 2:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I wish I was somewhere else.

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Friday, June 25, 2004 - 2:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, I'm wondering where Escapee wants to be.

Right now, I'm happy: the temp dropped to 106.

Escapee
Member

06-15-2004

Friday, June 25, 2004 - 2:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Where I always want to be. Anywhere where there are palm trees. I want to be laying on the beach, toes in the sand, the sun just setting, with a Mai Tai, or a Bahama Mama in my hand. Resting up to party down!

Dang, Lkunkel, where are you that it is sooo hot. It's like 87-90 here.

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Friday, June 25, 2004 - 3:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, I'm answering Escapee's question and saying that I live in Las Vegas.

There are palm trees, but no real sandy beaches.

Escapee
Member

06-15-2004

Friday, June 25, 2004 - 3:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, My sister in law lives there.

I am one state over to your west


Tabbyking
Member

03-11-2002

Friday, June 25, 2004 - 9:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
right now, ick, i hate palm trees--of any kind. i'll take the ocean view any day, but for some reason, palm trees have always been a turn-off to me. give me a huge, twisted, gnarled oak to study for hours and i'll be happy!

we have been lucky to only hit mid-90's this june...normally, we would have had many days in the 100's, too. i hope this unusual gusty wind stuff stays around--it definitely keeps the temps down. knock on wood!! watch it soar over 100 tomorrow LOL
escapee, would 2 states over to your west be hawaii? i am assuming you are a california girl like me?
right now, son has had an 'okay' day or two. one day at a time...


Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Friday, June 25, 2004 - 11:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, Gidget, I wish I was an antiques dealer. I could make a FORTUNE! But its family stuff of hubby's that has been in the family for many years. So I'm not allowed to sell a damn thing except that heavy a$$ table. But I am going to try to sneak a few smaller items onto Ebay. BTW, we had an estate sale in our old house before we moved into this house and didn't sell a stick of furniture and made 5K....just enough to pay the moving company.

Mamie316
Member

07-08-2003

Saturday, June 26, 2004 - 10:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, I am excited to see my two nieces, who flew in from Wisconsin last night. We don't get to see them too often so it's a big treat! They are 17 and 14 and my 14 year old niece who has scoliosis was just told before the trip that she doesn't have to wear her brace anymore! That thing was horrible. It was hard and heavy and she had to wear it 23 hours a day. She got to take it off for a bath or shower but now she's free!

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Saturday, June 26, 2004 - 12:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I am getting ready to go see Teena Marie, Rick James, Morris Day and Time at the Universal Amp tonite!!! WAHOOOOOOOOOOO


Mamie316
Member

07-08-2003

Saturday, June 26, 2004 - 12:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, asking Pamy , will Jerome be bringing the mirror to Morris? lol