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Sillycalimomma
Member
11-13-2003
| Saturday, August 21, 2004 - 9:25 pm
8.1 I am deathly afraid of Ferris Wheels Redstar! DH dragged me on one when we first got together despite the fact that I told him I was so scared of them-I cried the entire time-seriously....no one could pay me enough to get back on one of those!
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Grandmato2
Member
07-16-2004
| Sunday, August 22, 2004 - 1:59 am
8.2 Redstart - I totally understand whay you mean about doing things for your grandchildren. Grandkids are soooooooooooo much fun.
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Sunday, August 22, 2004 - 6:20 am
1. Happy Anniversary to US!! (23 years according to dh and the certificate... 25 years according to me!) 2. I figured out last night I shoulda tried to arrange a day for just the 2 of us. 3. Tomorrow SCHOOL starts - at least for the oldest two! 4. Dh got up early and made scones... and a pot of tea - - can you smell the cinnamon??? 5. We will go out to dinner and a movie. 6. I love ferris wheels, the ones that are quiet and safe - some of the ones at fairs are suspicious, but I usually like to try them anyway! 7. I finally got ds to sleep in his bed - I bought him a soft bed topper! However, he is sleeping on a FLANNEL sheet!! 8. Survivor Vanuatu commercials are starting... it reminds me of the movie previews... that start 3 months before the release of the movies... 9. I'm a very impatient person!!
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Sunday, August 22, 2004 - 6:44 am
1. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY READER AND DH! 2. I go back to work tomorrow. I know that everyone here is very sad for me because I only had 6 weeks off this summer instead of the 9 weeks I would have had if I hadn't worked summer school. I'll get through it, don't cry now. 3. Hey! Stop throwing tomatoes! That is NOT nice. 4. I got into BB for about a week, and then the last 2 days when I peeked in the threads, the atmosphere just seemed hostile. That makes me uncomfortable. I'm not sure I am allowed to say that here? 5. Ferris Wheels are not my favorite ride. I will ride them, but they do make me a little nervous. Which is weird considering my 2nd favorite ride at King's Dominion is the Drop Zone--
6. I'm sluggish today. 7. That's why I am online. My parents are in town for my niece's borthday party - #2 - today, and everyone is over at my sister's, but I can't seem to get moving. 8. So I am lollygagging online while I consume coffee. 9. Jbean, I bet you do look gorgeous in that wrap around dress! 10. I am going to go play Super Mario World while I drink my 3rd cup of coffee.
Then I am going to make myself get moving! I have an A.M. Yoga tape that is supposed to get your blood flowing for the day. I'll try that after my 3rd cup of coffee.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Sunday, August 22, 2004 - 6:54 am
1. I am the only person awake in my house. Even the cat is asleep! So I'm also quietly lollygagging online waiting for the house to wake up.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Sunday, August 22, 2004 - 9:43 am
1. Whew! Thought I had a computer virus this morning---all morning. Resolved the problem. 2. Dd came here last night and spent the night. Driving her back to Brooklyn in a few! 2.1 
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Sunday, August 22, 2004 - 9:44 am
1. This weekend konashark & myself have been in the audience for the next "season" of "Celebrity Poker on Bravo" at the Palms Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. 2. My antics in the audience earned us two crew long-sleeved t-shirts (yup, I can be a lot more wild than what some of you saw during the Sunday dinner party - just need a little more alcohol or promise of swag to make this mouse 'roar'). Oh, Mekhi Phifer (http://www.geocities.com/erthewebsite/castpage/er_cast_gregorypratt.htm) thinks my dancing is awesome. 3. Phil really is very tall. We sat next to Howard Lederer for the first round of one of the games. 'squeek' PS: Happy Anniversary Reader!
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, August 22, 2004 - 10:59 am
1. I went to a fabulous wedding shower last night. I almost didn't go because I was feeling unhappy, unattractive and overweight. I pulled myself together at the last minute, showed up a half-hour late (very unlike me), and had a fabulous time. I'm so glad I picked myself up and went! 2. Afterwards, I met my dh and his soccer mates at a local pub, where they were celebrating their soccer game win, and I had a good time there as well. 3. Today I have to work, because tomorrow I go to San Francisco. 4. I am planning to make Italian sausage and twice-baked potatoes (with broccoli, cheese and scallions) for dinner. Yum!
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Sunday, August 22, 2004 - 12:36 pm
1. We went to see The Notebook. It is a tearjerker... a true lovestory, that gave me an extra tear because dh wanted to take me to see it! 2. What was that woman thinking when she brought her young dd? 3. This movie had s -e - x in it... the old fashioned kind - you know with your imagination! They stripped seductively (without showing body parts! *sigh, which made it oh so erotic .... LOL imho!! 4. Came home so dh could take dd to the park, and we could change and go out for dinner. 5. the house is still standing, no one is locked in their rooms screaming (you never know when ds are in charge of dd!!)
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Sunday, August 22, 2004 - 1:59 pm
1. Reader and MrReader...Happy Anniversary!! 2. Both of our sons will be on airliners tomorrow at the same time. One leaves San Francisco to Portland and the other leaves Los Angeles to New York. 3. Today as I was reading the Sunday paper, I saw that Michael's was having a sale on frames. I love to put family photos into frames and display them. 4. So I went to Michael's and bought some new frames. Some were for our home, some for gifts and some for my new office. 5. Egbob finished up sanding and repainting the window frames on the side of our house and now he's working on the window frames in the front of our house. I'm telling you, a fresh coat of paint really brings pleasure to my life!! LOL!! 6. I've finally got myself together and decided to return to Curves this week. I've changed up my work schedule so that I can exercise on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings before going into work...yay me!!
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Sunday, August 22, 2004 - 3:23 pm
1. I've had the BEST time meeting people in this new town. They have made me feel very welcome. 2. Today I went to the Missouri Synod church 'cause they have a pipe organ. The University choir director was there and we had a good talk. They had a lunch after church to welcome the new students. Everyone was really nice there, too. 3. I played in a Magic tournament...booster draft. That means that you buy three packs of cards and then you pick one card to play and pass the rest to the other guys and they each pick one. Until you have gone through all the packs. I lost all the games but drafted some really nice rare cards, and I was happy for the 4 hour diversion. 4. Got a car full of stuff in my office. WHY didn't I do this earlier! 5. Gonna get the printer hooked up this evening and make signs for the new students. 6. WHAH! First day of classes tomorrow....and like Hermione says, please don't throw tomatoes just cause we have time off in the summer. LOL 7. I'm broiling BBQ ribs for supper tonight! YUM!
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Spygirl
Moderator
04-23-2001
| Sunday, August 22, 2004 - 6:12 pm
1. I bought a Tivo today - $100 mail-in rebate! Only $80 for it after that check comes back 2. I bought a Tivo today! 3. I bought a Tivo today! 4. I bought a Tivo today! 5. I bought a Tivo today! 6. I bought a Tivo today! 7. I bought a Tivo today! 8. I bought a Tivo today!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, August 22, 2004 - 8:23 pm
1. This weekend was quiet. 2. Darren worked yesterday morning and was home by 1. 3. We spent the rest of the day just having a quiet family day. 4. Both Darren and I slept in late this morning. I think the kids loved it more than we did, lol. They knew they had to do a couple chores today and with neither of us up, they got to avoid them most of the morning. 5. We got up, had lunch with the kids, sat and watched a movie with them, then got into family cleaning, lol. 6. Tomorrow I will be volunteering in Dakota's class and every Monday after that. Something for me to do, woo hoo! 7. I'm not sure what day I'll be in Caleb's class. His teacher wanted to wait til I found out about Dakota's because she knows 1st grade usually has more parent volunteers and it was easier to work around the 1st grade schedule rather than the 3rd. 8. She (Caleb's teacher) only has one volunteer...me, lol. I have a feeling I won't be doing anything fun in there like I did in Kota's class last year and probably will in her class this year. Caleb's second grade class I graded a lot of papers, so I figure that's what I'll be doing this year too. 9. Tuesday night we have back to school night. It's basically a meeting between teacher and parents to let us know what will be happening in class this year, what the kids will learn, what's expected of them, the teacher, and us.
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Sillycalimomma
Member
11-13-2003
| Sunday, August 22, 2004 - 9:31 pm
1. Well, I managed to get a bit of sleep in. 2. I fell asleep some time around 4 or 5am again. 3. I woke up to the sound of the doorbell because my DD best friend was going to spend the day with us (and I completely forgot!) 4. Luckily DH did not forget and him and DD had already been up for hours awaiting her arrival 5. DH told me to go back to sleep while I could-who cares if it was daytime as long as I was sleeping 6. I agreed and slept until 1! 7. Then I got up, finished up the laundry and took the girls to see The Princess Diaries Two-cute movie 8. We went to a friends house for BBQ and had a great time playing with their 5 month old daughter-I really miss those days! 9. Tomorrow is my first "official" day of student/stay at home mom again, but I have such a huge list of things to do that it is hard to feel thrilled about it. 10. We will be going to look at Beagles this weekend!Yay!
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Monday, August 23, 2004 - 1:09 am
1. WHAHHHHHH.....it's 4am, and I can't get ANY printer to work, including my new one. I am going to have to go to class without syllabi, dang it! I went through about 40 more boxes and can't find the printer that works. NOW, do I go to sleep for a few hours, or stay up and try to get this done? I've NEVER had this dilemma before, as I have ALWAYS had the syllabus done on the first day. CRUD! And things were going so well up to now.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Monday, August 23, 2004 - 4:57 am
1. I had such fun this weekend. Such fun that 2 facts just is not going to cut it. 2. Saturday night Tim and I decided to see if we could go to the Packer game. If you aren't too familiar with it, just know that during the regular season this can be close to impossible. Season tickets are sold out for generations (no kidding) and tickets at a regular game go for sometimes $500+ Needless to say, I haven't ever been to a game.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Monday, August 23, 2004 - 5:23 am
1. So since it was pre-season, we headed up there, parked a few blocks away and headed into the parking lot. What a riot watching all the people dressed up. I wish I had thought to take some pictures of them. 2. Anyway, there were tons of tickets people were selling but most were end zone ones and they were asking face value. We waited....Tim works with a woman who's a licensed scalper and she said they would probabaly go as low as $15 if we waited until closer to game time to buy. The game started at 7 and at about 6 some people heard us saying something about tickets and they said they had some. Apparently they're sold in sets of 4 so lots of people end up with an extra two. Tim told them the other people were asking about $30 so these people sold their other two tickets for $25 each and they were great seats- row 51 and just a little right of the 50 yard line. 3. We were willing and planning on spending about $50 each so we laughed and said maybe we'd just have to drink away the rest of the money. Not that it would get us far at $5.50 a beer! But you know what- they were pretty big cups 
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Monday, August 23, 2004 - 5:26 am
1. It was just the best time. Cool just being there. Only thing is...shhh...don't tell anyone. I didn't even know who we were playing until halftime. Tim said he thought it was the Rams, but it turned out to be the Saints. 2. Brett in person. *sigh*
3. The people who sold us the tickets took a picture of us too. They were very nice.
4. And this is me! See, pretty good sized cup! LOL.

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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Monday, August 23, 2004 - 5:36 am
1. I'm being such a fact hog this morning! 2. One bad part of the game was that I set my VCR to tape Big Brother and guess what channel the game was on? That's right- it was on CBS. Darn it. I was kind of sad about that but oh well. 3. It's cloudy out today- still feels more like late September than August. I can't believe how fast this month has gone by though. It almost is September! School starts here Sept. 1- I'm amazed at how early some start- my dad told me yesterday tehy've been in school for a week there already. 4. Uh-oh. Starting to run out of exciting stuff to say. My mom's headed off for a long kayak trip around the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan. I hope she has good weather and stays safe. I have to worry about her a lot. 5. I think I'm on vacation next week. Pretty sure anyway. I have vacation the week leading up to Labor Day (I wanted that extra one day off attached to my vacation week). Yay. i don't really have plans for the week though. I'll probably go up to see my mom, and Tim and I are camping a few days for Labor Day up in Door County at Peninsula State Park.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Monday, August 23, 2004 - 8:00 am
1. One more thing! Ladies, if you shave your legs and haven't gotten the Schick Intuition razor, I HIGHLY recommend it! I was at the grocery store the other day and they were on sale ($5 off!!) so I bought a bunch, hoping they would be good. I used it for the first time this morning. I got the Cucumber-Melon cartridges. It works great! Not a single cut and very smooth shave. 2. I really didn't have a ton more to say but I guess I'm stuck now. Heehee. 3. Well, lets see....did you guys know that I have an interview this Thursday? It's not a teaching job exactly, although the job description is pretty much the same. It's for the Oneida reservation and it involves tutoring, curriculum development, parent conferences, etc. 4. I realy would like to get the job, but if not there's always subbing again and I do enjoy that as well. 5. We rented Hidalgo last night. I thought it was pretty good. Very cute horse. The horse was one of the funniest characters in the movie 6. I have to get a TB test for subbing again. Ehhh...I hate that. not that it hurts, but I hate that I have to go back a few days later because that's just kind of a hassle, ya know?
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Monday, August 23, 2004 - 9:18 am
1. I'm hoping Marm made it through her day without her syllabus. That's a shame. Darn printers! Bet the students are smiling, though! 2. Kaili, that is so cool. Loved the pics and your blanket of facts. LOL!!! You are a cutie and so is Tim! Glad you had a good time! 3. While my dd had Herc and my car for a month, she lost the extra security clicker and set of keys I gave her as a precaution. Down a drain. 4. She also put a dent in my rear passenger door--trying to park. Only damage was to my car. 5. Then she parked too close to a fire hydrant (which she disputes) and the car got towed. Guess who paid to get it out of hock? 6. And she explained that the right front turn signal light went dead, so she bought a replacement bulb and tried to change it---but couldn't fit the plastic cover back into place. So I have that part sitting on my front seat now. 7. I haven't shared any of the car news with Ed yet. Trying to keep his blood pressure at an even keel.
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Monday, August 23, 2004 - 9:56 am
1. OK, I now have BOTH printer and ethernet at work! WHOO HOO. I emailed the one class their syllabus already. 2. The one class is mostly music major wanna bees who don't read music well enough to be in regular theory. Lots of guitar majors and music business majors. They don't seem too experienced at college/music/life. I like them, and hope that I can help them reach their goals. 3. The music ed class watched a video on the Orff teaching method and will use that in tomorrow's assignment. They really liked class, I think. I will tweak their syllabi a little and then email it to them. 4. I just printed off the grad class syllabi, and I can't find one of the course books cause I left it at home. I hope that I can get a good enough lecture going tonight. I'm going to start with a writing assignment on "What is music education" and then I will keep it until their last class, and we will see if their ideas changed. 5. I met my grad student, very nice and helpful young man. He will be a good worker! 6. My cat likes to sleep on top of the deck railing. I have no clue how she gets up there, as she is 13 and doesn't move fast. 7. I like feeding the cat on a little paper plate, so I don't have to worry about stinky cat food in the dishwasher, and she can have a clean plate, which she likes. 8. This is the MOST anxiety I have ever felt on the first day of school in TWENTY years of teaching.....Yup it's 20 1/2 years of teaching for me. Besides the printing problems, there was no piano in my class room and the stereo wasn't hooked up. I needed a VCR and the secretary got one for me, and the band director got me a boom box for my theory class. I am too short to write on the majority of the chalkboard. There was no table or teacher's desk in the room, either and only an itty bitty piece of chalk. I DID get the copy machine to work, which was a good thing because only half of my students had brought their book with them. WHEW! I'm going to go eat a yummy lunch!
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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Monday, August 23, 2004 - 3:36 pm
1. silly, my alterego friend has a little beagle dog, and she is SO SWEET! she sleeps with me in the guest bedroom everytime i stay the night there....love the beagle! and she is a really small one, so still kinda looks like a puppy. 2. yesterday i went to my sister's house for a little while. she has a 4 month old chihuahua puppy named pedro, who i fall in love with more every time i see him! he is SO CUTE and SO FRIENDLY! he also favors women, so he really likes me and my sister. now they are wanting to get a girl dog and eventually breed them. this means there is a possibility for me to have one at some point in time. 3. not sure how the mace-monster would react to a dog, but i think she would eventually accept it. 4. i am trying to lose weight again. i can do it, and have several times, but it is so hard because i love things that are really bad and fattening.( i could live on cake). 5. i saw the princess diaries 2 yesterday, and loved it. it is good to see g rated movies sometimes. totally clean, and still funny. 6. i am eating 0 point veggie soup right now. it's not too bad, actually. 7. herkymer, sounds like your dd caused a few "incidents". lol. how old is she? (((((herkymer))))) 8. kaili, that is too cool about the packers game. looks and sounds like you guys had a great time, and i will agree with herkymer, you and tim are both cuties! 9. i think spymom is 'cited about her new tivo??? but when are you gonna have time to watch all the taped stuff? just sayin" 
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Redstar
Member
07-07-2003
| Monday, August 23, 2004 - 6:10 pm
1. I'm glad Schoolmarm's week is going better. 2. I also work at a university (as an academic advisor). 3. Today was the first day of classes. 4. Last Thursday the Powers That Be decreed that I would relocate to another office. (Stupid PTB.) 5. Also last Thursday a class was cancelled that was FULL of my advisees. 6. My phone is still not working after the move. 7. My computer is working, and I spent the day emailing students back and forth trying desperately to get them into another course. 8. Oh, and the modular furniture people locked my student file cabinet with their master key - and my key was locked inside. 9. We had to get a locksmith in today to make a new key so I could get into the cabinet to get the old key. (But fortunately we now have THREE keys, all with different people.) 10. The first day of classes is always an adventure, but this was the very worst one I've had in the 18 years I've had this job!
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Puppylov3
Member
01-26-2004
| Monday, August 23, 2004 - 7:03 pm
1. Jbean - if I can lose 65 lbs (as of today thankee) then you can lose weight!! Gooooooo Jbean! (Oh - and I'm on weight watchers - flex not core)
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