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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 5:52 am
1. I was working in Oshkosh last night, like I do every weekenight. I got in my car and got less than a block from work (at about 8:30) and Tim called telling me not to come home because there were tornadoes and one was coming down highway 10 and basically headed right where I would be on the highway. 2. So I said fine even though it was just sprinkling in Oshkosh. The warning was in effect at the time until 9:15 pm. So I went over to Fox River Brewery where they have this huge lounge with couches and chairs and windows over the river (I wanted to get to see at least some of the storm!) 3. Tim keeps calling, I'm watching the weather channel at the bar. Now they're extending the warning until 10:00 pm- one tornado in southern Outagamie County (where I drive through) and one in Northern Outagamie/southern Brown County (closer to where I live). Also tornadoes in Waupun (where Tim grew up and his parents live.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 6:02 am
1. Here's a map to give you all a little perspective:
2. Basically I was in Oshkosh, and it poured there but them cleared up, while all the cool storms were surrounding me. Tim was calling me from the basement and others from our building were down there. He had his little weather radio. I was jealous-(I love a good storm) and told him to get his butt upstairs and get the video camera. 3. Anyway, I finally left for home at about 9:30- clear driving but on the radio they were saying in Waupun one house was knocked over and at least two lost roofs. Tim did get a hold of his parents- his mom rounded up the dog, cat and bird and went to the basement. The amazing thing is that even his dad went down and he usually never does. On the radio a guy called in saying a lot of windows on Main St. were blown out. They (Waupun) get hit hard a lot. If anyone remembers news of the Oakfield F5 tornado in 1996- Waupun is only a few miles from there. In case you don't know about it...Yikes!
4. Tim called on his way to work- the other tornado was in Little Chute/Kaukauna and he drives past there on his way to Green Bay- he said it's a mess by the highway with debris. So all in all, an exciting night around here Here's the srticle from today's paper if anyone is interested. Twister wreaks havoc from Dayton through Kaukauna and Waupun area takes brunt of storm; winds in excess of 100 mph reported
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Kaykay
Member
01-21-2004
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 6:06 am
1. it's nice to be back here 2. i had a crazy week. my DS had a Febrile Seizure on Sunday!!! 3. then both of kids got strep throat - AGAIN!!! That is what caused my son to have a seizure. 4. it's VERY scary to watch you baby stop breathing and having his eyes roll back in his head. I will post the whole crazy story after i check my 250 e-mails here at work (oh joy!) 4.5 BTW - both of my kids are doing MUCH better. Just have to keep my eye on my little man. Can't have a fever above 101.0!!
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Resortgirl
Member
09-23-2000
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 7:06 am
Wow kaili! Is that a picture of the twister that hit near you?? Scary!! Glad you are all ok!
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 7:15 am
No...that was in 1996. I knew a lot of people that were around for it and saw it. It was an F5 and pretty much wiped out a whole town- took the roof off of a canning factory. F5 is the highest they get (they have a category of F6 but it's generally defined as unimaginable or something like that).
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Secretsmile
Member
08-19-2002
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 7:53 am
1) I'm waiting for my sister to pick me up, she is getting a new tattoo and I am going to hold her hand during it. 2) Sis has warned me she is going to do her best to make me break my diet today for lunch. 3) You would think by now she'd learn that by issuing such a challenge there is no way I'm gonna break! LOL! 4) Our local mall had a large fire last night, and sure enough, the store where it started is next door to the store I ordered a shower gift in. I'm hoping it will open before Saturday so I can pick it up. 5) I caved in and ordered some of the food for my son's graduation party on Sunday. I'll still make the salads since I'm convinced nobody's potato salad is as good as mine.
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Wargod
Member
07-16-2001
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 9:28 am
1. {{{Kaykay and ds}}} I'm sorry you're son went through that and that you guys did as well. Seizures can be frightening to watch. I hope both your children are feeling better quickly! 2. Ddr, you cracked me up. If it makes you feel better, blame the cut on Darren. 3. Kaili, ack! 4. I'm waiting on Kota to wake up so we can go out and pick up my neices. It's my day to have them here. Called sis to let her know I'd be out there as soon as Kota was up, she has a headache and is waiting for us. Luckily the baby went back to sleep after a morning bottle and her oldest is watching cartoons so she's ok for now. If Kota's alseep much longer though, I'll have to go wake her up. 5. Update on bus situation. Took them 3 and a half minutes to take our bus away, it's going to take us awhile to get it back. Phone call did no good. Neighbor went over and talked to the school district. We're going to have to have a petition signed by the 47 families that are affected, measure the distance between our houses and the school, have accident reports for the intersections the kids will have to cross, and attend school district meetings to get it changed. 6. Neighbor told Darren (yes I was sitting there!) that the men of our neighborhood would be heard and pretty much that I didn't have to worry my little head about it anymore. Uhm, great, love the dads getting involved, but its me and most of the other moms in the neighborhood who have to deal with the ramifications. If we have no bus service, we are the ones who will be driving and walking our children to school. Darren told me after they'd left he was suprised I kept my mouth shut, lol. I'll be taking my frustration out by firing off some letters today to the school district, congressman, and pretty much anyone who will listen. 6.5 Something kind of neat has come out of this though, the neighborhood has really pulled together to fight this and come up with solutions so no child has to walk. There's already people saying, "I have so many seats in my car or van, and I can take X amount of kids to school." Hopefully it doesn't come to that, but it's nice to know everyone is really trying to help out.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 1:57 pm
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. I hope everyone noticed I didn't mess up the numbering in here yesterday....or today. 
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Sage
Member
07-20-2000
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 3:02 pm
1. Surgery on Tuesday went well. 2. I hate the post-op gas that goes with it. 3. Wish I was able to go to RG's for at least a few days. 4. I'm supposed to go to my Dad's for his 70th birthday party/camping this weekend. 5. I don't know if I'll be able to handle the trip, or the camping. 6. I'm thinking it would be best if I stayed home. 7. I met a guy the old fashioned way on Monday night, which means there was no computer involved. He doesn't even own one! 8. He's a really nice guy, and quite attentive and affectionate.
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Wargod
Member
07-16-2001
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 3:29 pm
1. I'm back. Glad to hear the surgery went well Sage! 2. My baby neice has been such a joy today. She's been in the best mood. Laughing, grinning, playing, and grinning. 3. She's sitting next to me today, staring out the door and watching the older kids play. She's had the best time. 4. Older neice, on the other hand, LOL. She stomped into the kitchen earlier and informed me that she's changing her name. From now on she's to be called by her middle name only. Hehe, I couldn't wait to call up and tell sis that in the two hours her kid had been here I'd already changed her name, LOL. 5. I have gotten very little done today. And I just realized that I have yet again skipped lunch. 6. Mom sent out invitations a few weeks ago for the kids campout. She had me working on reminder cards and a list of items they need to bring earlier this week. I mailed them out for her yesterday, kids got theirs today. They are always so excited to get mail. 7. I'm looking forwar to their campout more than they are, LOL. Got a night to ourselves and I'll get to sleep in the next day. 8. Speaking of sleep, I've been sleeping like crud lately! I've been going to bed after 2am, still awake when Darren leaves at 4 and back awake by 6. 9. The really weird thing is that I'm not dragging. I hop right out of bed, ready to start the day. There's got to be something wrong with that, lol.
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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 3:35 pm
1. whew, i've had an exciting past couple of days! 2. tuesday afternoon there was a shareholder's meeting for work...all employees are owners, and attendance is strongly encouraged, with bribery, so i went. 3. the price of the stock went up $1.15 from last year! the company has had an amazing year after 2 years of doom and gloom. yay! 4. now comes the bribery part. one of the higher ups at work owns a bar/grill place, and food and drinks were free for the first hour...or so they said...more like all night. lol 5. well, there was also a karaoke machine there. jbean + free drinks + karaoke machine = UT OH! 6. ok, so it wasn't that bad. lol. my alterego friend, whom i also work with, is an AMAZING singer, and a group of us girls got together and sang a few...of course she was leading us. 7. first we sang "we are family" lol, since i only know the chorus. the bigwig guys of the company, including the CEO were stuffing dollars in our shirts! roflmao 8. after that those same guys attempted to sing "friends in low places", and didn't quite have it, so we went back up and helped em out. finally the girls got together again and sang "baby got back"! OMG, i can't remember the last time i had so much fun! yesterday was rough, though. 9. my friend also sang a couple of songs solo...her favorite, "crazy". and she is awesome. i kept telling her she was the shit, and that i was going to make her a sign that said that. she asked if she could have a shirt, too, and i already have the stuff to do it with! hahaha! what a blast! 10. kaili, that is scary about the tornadoes. i am terrified of them! glad you guys are ok!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 4:19 pm
1. I laughed really hard when I saw Ddr wrote this: "7. I cut my finger with a knife while cooking and first thing I thought of was "I pulled a Wargod". "
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Kady
Member
07-30-2000
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 4:45 pm
1. I am totally pissed that I have to wait till July 10 to have my back surgery. All of our summer plans have been screwed up. 2. I really missed the board. I was feeling so down and so low and I can come here and something can usually make me smile or forget my troubles for a few. I hope the board never goes down again!!
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 5:50 pm
03. DH and I are changing Monday's date night to Sunday. 04. We already planned out the day. 05. We arrive at the bus DTC about 62 minutes before Harry Potter 3 starts, so first we get my disability pass for the bus (including picture ) and buy more tokens. 06. Then we walk to the theater (about 2 blocks away) and see Harry Potter 3 from 1P to 3:19P. 07. Then we snag DH a Deep Fried Twinkie and get a TY keychain for my mom's partner, (who paid for my teeth--or so I suspect, but the TY card is for BOTH of them; mom knows about the keychain, and she is cool with it.), and maybe something more substantial to eat. 08. Then, back to the theater to see Fahrenheit 9/11 from 5:20P to 7:19P. 09. I am really frustrated that I cannot get my artwork to upload to the site. 10. The first ones were too large, so I resized them, and they were still too large. 01. So I resized them again to postage stamp size, and they were still too large. How is that possible?? 02. Tomorrow I got to the dentist to see if he can cut down one side of my plate since it is cutting into mouth and making the right side of my face swell. 03. The last stitches fell out, so hopefully, with the correction, I'll be able to eat without drawing blood. 04. I hope I did this right...
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Jmm
Member
08-16-2002
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 5:54 pm
LK, If you'll send me those pics, I'll try compressing them for you.
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 6:07 pm
1. I'm really glad that the board is back!!! 2. I need a break from packing and getting ready for the yard sale, part 4....items featured: huge and heavy desk, three bookcases, four crappy filing cabinets, beanie babies of all types, dining room table with 6 chairs, refrigerator, salad shooter (doesn't EVERYONE have one???) Oster kitchen center, Christmas stuff, books, replacement windows, bifold door, cross country skiis, several winter coats, assorted luggage, candles, stuff from the bathroom and kitchen, space heaters, humidifier, and of course soprano recorders, piano music, two clarinets and a trumpet. 3. Good grief I hope that I sell the heavy stuff. My moving quote was $5800!!! YIKES! I can't even put that much on my credit card if it's all paid off. My Dad wants to pay.....I think that that is his way of making sure that I hire movers instead of the $1000 Penske truck and drive it yourself. 4. I have been working on my office. I threw out two huge trash cans full of stuff I can't believe I kept. Do I REALLY need the final exams from 1999? Scholarship applications? I have most of my desk done and two paper organizers. I have to tackle three huge bookcases and three five-drawer files and all the crap, and I do mean CRAP on the floor. At least I have my classroom mostly cleaned out, and the listening lab all the way cleaned. My new mantra "THE TRASH CAN IS YOUR FRIEND.....THE TRASH CAN IS YOUR FRIEND.....the trash can is your friend"
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 6:22 pm
05. I am thrilled. I resaved them with different names, and it worked. YEA!!!! 06. Thanks, Cybermom, for your offer!
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Froggiegirl621
Member
02-14-2003
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 6:47 pm
Lk, you should have followed Marm's post with facts numbered 1 thru 5. Then the person after you would do facts numbered 1 thru 6, the next 1 thru 7 until someone does 1 thru 10, then the next poster will only post 1 fact and it starts all over again. Did I explain that well?
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 7:23 pm
okay. THAT makes more sense. So my earlier post should have been broken up as three posts: 01. DH and I are changing Monday's date night to Sunday. 02. We already planned out the day. 03. We arrive at the bus DTC about 62 minutes before Harry Potter 3 starts, so first we get my disability pass for the bus (including picture ) and buy more tokens. -------------- New Post -------------- 01. Then we walk to the theater (about 2 blocks away) and see Harry Potter 3 from 1P to 3:19P. 02. Then we snag DH a Deep Fried Twinkie and get a TY keychain for my mom's partner, (who paid for my teeth--or so I suspect, but the TY card is for BOTH of them; mom knows about the keychain, and she is cool with it.), and maybe something more substantial to eat. 03. Then, back to the theater to see Fahrenheit 9/11 from 5:20P to 7:19P. 04. I am really frustrated that I cannot get my artwork to upload to the site. -------------- New Post -------------- 01. The first ones were too large, so I resized them, and they were still too large. 02. So I resized them again to postage stamp size, and they were still too large. How is that possible?? 03. Tomorrow I got to the dentist to see if he can cut down one side of my plate since it is cutting into mouth and making the right side of my face swell. 04. The last stitches fell out, so hopefully, with the correction, I'll be able to eat without drawing blood. 05. I hope I did this right...
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Froggiegirl621
Member
02-14-2003
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 7:24 pm
YEAH! Lk gets it!!!! Welcome to "A Fact or Two About You"!!!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 7:54 pm
Yay!!! But I don't think anybody really cares, unless The Schtickler is being crabby.
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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 8:09 pm
is froggiegirl the new schtickler? hee hee hee, just kidding! good job 'splaining it, froggie. 
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Froggiegirl621
Member
02-14-2003
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 8:35 pm
I was just trying to be nice and explain it to Lk, since she wanted so badly to understand how the thread worked and she obviously was still confused about it. Now she knows how to do it! And if I have to be the sub-schtickler, so be it!
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 8:43 pm
I appreciate it, Froggiegirl. This makes much more sense than the tutorial I was offered before. I got a glimmer, but I didn't solidly grasp the pattern. Now I have it.
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 8:48 pm
Edit Mode: Note to self....do not attempt another tutorial in the middle of the night...LOL!! Sorry Lk!! I'm glad Froggiegirl explained it so that you understand the pattern now. 1. Ahhhh...HAAaaaa, so Froggiegirl is The Schtickler?? I kneeeeeew IT!! 2. My post was lost when Juju crashed our board, so I'll try to write some stuff now. 3. Hi Everyone! I've missed all of you and to be honest, I didn't know til last evening that the board had been down. 4. With the help of my new Director, I semi-ran our Student Volunteer Orientation over this past Tuesday and today. We had 97 students show up! It was a 2 parter because we gave TB skin tests to the students on Tuesday and had them read today. It was fun presenting details about what our student volunteers will be doing at our hospital....I really looked like I knew what I was talking about...LOL!! Okay, okay...I sorta knew what I was talking about but I had to think quick on my toes to present the stuff and I did really well, even if I say so myself. The students gave me a big applause at the end of my presentation. 5. My youngest ds is in Vancouver WA/Portland OR area for the next 10 weeks to participate in his college work study program to earn tuition money for next year. He wrote me a long email today and basically says he likes it!! Since he hasn't started yet, he rode The Max into downtown Portland and heard some live music playing and ran into a band from his college town and so he yelled out his college's name and they called him up to the stage and talked with him during their break. Small world, huh? 6. Egbob has been volunteering his brute strength by helping to place gymnastics equipment at the Anaheim Pond for the Men's and Women's Gymnastic Olympic Trials being held there. Since he an official volunteer with a clearance, he gets to stay and attend every event but will have to sit in the nosebleed seats. Being an ex-collegiate gymnast and currently a regional gymnastic judge, he's in absolute heaven as I type this and he'll be in this zone until the competition ends and our teams are crowned. Yay Egbob!!
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