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Grandmato2
Member

07-16-2004

Friday, August 13, 2004 - 10:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. Beautiful weather here today.

2. Talked to my team teaching partner last night.

3. Going to school on Monday to set up the room.

4. Trashed an entertainment center that we no longer needed.

5. DH is on the needed antibiotic so I hope he is on the road to recovery.

6. So happy we got the house this year or this is the day we would have been trying to leave Florida after our Disney vacation.

7. Sending up prayers for all the people in Florida, especially the TVCHers.

Herckleperckle
Member

11-20-2003

Friday, August 13, 2004 - 10:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. Wondering what power school is Ladyt?

2. I saw the allergist today, finally, and forgot I was supposed to be off the Clarinex for 7 days. So now I have to wait til next Thursday to start the testing. Duh.

3. I am finally scheduled for the cortisone shot for my back--on August 30. It's an epidural, and I will require a ride home. It will be in the complex next to our apartments, so should be no big deal.

4. I am looking forward to being able to walk, stand and bend without pain!! Hope it works.

5. Ed called the doc today to ask about pain meds for his back. Waiting for a callback.

6. He goes back to see his surgeon on the 20th--as a follow-up to his recent surgery.

7. My mom emailed me about the new pink and white M&Ms: The makers of M&M candies has teamed up with the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation to raise funds through the sale of their new " pink & white " M&M candies. For each 8-ounce bag of the special candies sold, the makers of M&M (Masterfoods) will donate 50 cents to the foundation.

8. Hoping that the folks here from FL (and my son, who recently moved there) are all safe and sound from the expected storm.



Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Friday, August 13, 2004 - 11:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
sorry, HP! Power school is Naval Nuclear Power School

Herckleperckle
Member

11-20-2003

Friday, August 13, 2004 - 11:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Cool!!!

Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Friday, August 13, 2004 - 1:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. I'm getting very nervous about my very pregnant daughter in Orlando.
2. I can't tear myself away from the Weather Channel.
3. Charley is headed straight for Orlando.
4. I can't even call her because our phone service has already been moved over to the apts.
5. I'm so sick now of living in my beautiful home with most of it empty.
6. I want the move over with already.
7. Since I'm sleeping on blankets on the floor and hubby is still sleeping in his bed I told him he better start sleeping with one eye open. GRRR
8. I have to find something to do besides watch the Weather Channel. I'm making myself nuts.
9. At least Orlando rarely gets hit too hard. When I was a kid I used to think they were the most fun cause dad would pull a mattress into the middle of a room with few windows and we had nothing but candlelight. It was also mine and my sister's job to open/close the windows from one side of the house to the other. One side open during the front of the hurricane and the other side open after the eye and during the backside. I always loved going outside during the eye cause everything was SOOOOO quiet!

Danas15146
Member

03-31-2004

Friday, August 13, 2004 - 6:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. I am glad that my husband and son (who are in Orlando this weekend) called and are safe and the storm has passed them.
2. I hope everyone else's friends, family and selves are safe as well.
3. Repeat 1 & 2 about three million times!
4. Now that I know they are safe - I hope my son (6) places in the karate tournament tomorrow! One selfish thing is okay - right?

Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Friday, August 13, 2004 - 10:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. After weeks of talking about starting school on this coming Monday I realized tonight when trying to figure out how much money I owe now (thanks to our new governor) that school doesn't start til August 23.

2. I think I like that better. It gives me and the kids a week to get settled into their school routine without having to struggle with mine as well.

3. The only things I have left to do to prepare them for school is to get Dakota a haircut and buy them new shoes.

4. I think sis is watching the kids for a few hours tomorrow since I watched hers earlier this week. Darren and I have no plans at all.

5. I've been trying to get to bed early this week. Some nights it's worked out well, other nights, it hasn't.

Egbok
Member

07-13-2000

Saturday, August 14, 2004 - 9:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. I have been working long hours this past week.

2. Our office is preparing to move into our brand new office next week.

3. Along with helping to pack, I've also got work to get done to stay on my projected timeline with my students.

4. So I'll be heading into work today since it will be a quiet environment and I'll get a lot done.

5. When I got home last night, all the windows on the side of our home were taken out!

6. All I asked Egbob to do was to sand a bit and put on a fresh coat of white paint around the outside wooden window frames. And yes, we slept with wide open windows last night...lol! I will continue to have faith in Egbob's choices. Stay tuned......


Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Saturday, August 14, 2004 - 6:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. I got thru to my daughter today on her cell phone. Their neighborhood is okay. Just no power or phones.
2. Since she is 20 days from baby due date she took the heat as long as she could and then told her hubby," Take me to a hotel NOW!"
3. He did. He's a smart guy. LOL
4. I hope all of our TVCHers are okay.
5. I am soooo loving the Olympics!
6. Especially the men swimmers, dripping wet, wearing very little.
7. Its getting warm in here. hehehe

Hermione69
Member

07-24-2002

Saturday, August 14, 2004 - 7:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. My nephew spent the night last night. We were up until 1 a.m. watching Spongebob DVDs. Then I couldn't sleep. Consequently, by the time my sister came to pick him up this afternoon, I was ready for a nice long snooze, especially as my area got the very fringes of Charley and it was a blustery day-- perfect nap weather.

2. My sister, by the way, is PREGNANT with #3!!

3. Now I am WIDE AWAKE and bushy-tailed. I have a feeling this will be another one of those nights I stay up until 4 a.m.

4. I may as well enjoy them while I can. One week of vacation left before it is back-to-school for me.

5. This was in no way, shape or form the summer I thought it was going to be back in April. I've had some pretty rotten lows this summer, but I have had some incredible highs as well, so I guess it all evens out.

6. I am sorry for everyone who was hit hard by Charley. The power of Mother Nature amazes me.

7. Twinkie, put those eyes back in your head, dear.

8. I feel like breaking into song--

Oh the buzzin' of the bees
In the cigarette trees
Near the soda water fountain
At the lemonade springs
Where the bluebird sings
On the big rock candy mountain


Have a good Sunday, everyone. I'm going to watch some Boomtown. Or maybe some Buffy. Something with a "B" in it, anyway.


Monkeyboy
Member

05-27-2001

Saturday, August 14, 2004 - 8:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. Hi everyone!

2. I am soooo excited...My internship a.k.a servantship ends this friday! WOO HOO!

3. I get to return to a job that I actually LIKE!

4. Classes start the 23rd...Meh, I really don't want to go back.

5. I was thinking about taking a semester off. What do you all think?

6. Gosh, I have to write 9 of these???!?!?!

7. Oh, I got a new dog. Well she isnt new, my friend needed to find a new home for her, so I took her.

8. It is raining a lot here and I am broke and have nothing to do! That was a lot of "and's"

9. I realized that I am the most random person ever, most of these facts, don't relate to each other. oh one more...I can't get that "Heart of Glass" song by Blondie out of my head...I don't know most of the lyrics, so I probably sound completely insane.

ETA 9.5: Congrats Hermi about your upcoming neice or nephew! Yay!


Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Sunday, August 15, 2004 - 12:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. Monkeyboy, do you really want to take a semester off? I may not be the best to give advice (keep in mind I do a semester or two and take a few off, LOL,) but sometimes I think it's good. But, only if you really think it will be helpful to you and what you truly want to do.

2. Today we went shopping at Costco. I haven't done that in awhile since the kids have been out of school and buying things that come in seperate packages (like chips, applesauce, fruit snacks, and juice) really isn't neccessary with the kids out of school.

3. I forgot how much money I can save by doing most of my shopping there. After I run to the grocery store tomorrow to pick up things I don't ever buy in bulk, my grocery bill will be about $40 cheaper than it has been the last few times.

4. Starting tomorrow, I am setting a bedtime for myself. 11pm, or maybe midnight, lol. I have to, because staying up half the night and then getting up at 6:30am isn't going to work for long.

5. I have been working the last couple of weeks to get the kids on a good bedtime routine (we always get out of it when they're out of school.) Tonight I was rewarded when the bedtime routine went very smoothly. Kids got in their jammies, read to us, washed their faces, and brushed their teeth, had their drinks of water and trip to the potty and were tucked in by 8pm. When I checked back 10 minutes later they were both sound asleep.

6. Darren is going golfing tomorrow morning with his buddy. Buddy is a new daddy (baby's about 4 weeks old now) and his wife tries to get him out of the house, and out of her hair, once a week.

7. I've decided that when sis watches the kids tomorrow, we will go to lunch. Nothing very exciting but it's been awhile since we've gone out to eat alone and been able to hold a conversation without having to lock the door to our bedroom for quiet time, lol.

8. Hermie, congrats on the new baby! Aren't nephews and neices just the greatest!?

9. I love my children, most of my time, energy, and thoughts are devoted to them. But, I love being an aunt too. It's such a different relationship with them. These children love you, trust you, and enjoy hanging out with you, and for no other reason than they want to. I often think alot of it has to do with the fact that I get to spend time with these children and I can always be the fun one. I don't have to parent them, lol.

10. Caleb shocked me last week by asking to look at one of the books I have on Ancient Egypt. It has a lot of pictures of pyramids, artifacts and such, but also has a lot of text that is way above his reading level. He's spent quite a bit of time looking at the pictures and better yet asking questions about them. It's so exciting to me that he is finally interested in something I have an interest in. I usually don't have much in common with an 8 year old boy so it's nice he is wanting to share with me.

Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Sunday, August 15, 2004 - 12:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. Congrats, Hermi!! Awwwww, War that is so cool.

Monkeyboy
Member

05-27-2001

Sunday, August 15, 2004 - 12:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. I am very bored and I can't fall asleep.
2. Hi Twinkie and War!

Schoolmarm
Member

02-18-2001

Sunday, August 15, 2004 - 4:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. I'm having HIGH ANXIOTY about the new semester. It's a new uni for me, and my office isn't put together (computer stuff still in the box, etc.) and the department moved into a new building that looks like a castle, and I can't find my classrooms. I feel like a kindergartener on the first day of school. YIKES! I'll just keep wandering around....the students will be lost, too!

2. I think that I have the outdoor things fixed at home. The pool water tests out ok, I just need to figure out the pool vac. The fish are doing much better since I cleaned the filter in the water pump. Cat is better too, since I've been feeding her too much!

3. I am going to go to church for the first time since moving. Since I'm a church musician, this could be strange. They don't have a pipe organ, so I don't know whether I will like it or not. I hope that someone talks to me!

ONE WEEK TILL CLASSES!

Egbok
Member

07-13-2000

Sunday, August 15, 2004 - 11:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. Marm, sorry to hear the church doesn't have a pipe organ.....I know how powerful one of those babies can make one feel...lol!! Hang in there with the approach of the new semester and all the new changes that come with it!!

2. While on my vacation and my meeting with Marm, she told us about the bear who was in her backyard in her former home...well, Egbob shared her story with some relatives later in the week and one of them emailed us some photos a a black bear with a white cub who meandered into their neighborhood back in June. I'll try to post those pics soon...they are awesome!!

3. Egbob continues to find more to repair/replace on our window frames and so the windows are still wide open. I must say though, the new paint and repairs are making the outside (and now inside) wooden frames look so sharp and brand new!! I'm going to like the end results.

4. Today Egbob, DD, DS#1 and myself are going to see Gunther von Hagen's BODY WORLDS: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies. This should be an interesting family outing I'd say....<gulp>
Here's a link for those brave enough to look:

http://www.californiasciencecenter.org/Exhibits/Weingart/BodyWorlds/BodyWorlds.php

Schoolmarm
Member

02-18-2001

Sunday, August 15, 2004 - 11:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. Well, it's a friendly, singing church. AND I got to talk to a 4 year-old in German. His folks are from East Germany and Dad teaches at the university. People were really nice and welcoming. I'll probably go back, especially since some of the people mentioned that the church wants to get a pipe organ.

2. My cat doesn't eat very much, but I got to see her 13-year-old body leap through a space in the fence. Oh, my! Today she preferred the dry food to the canned. I bought some different kinds of canned food for old cats, so maybe that will be better. Talk about finicky!

3. Today I'm going to set my schedule for when school starts. It looks like I can go home early everyday but Monday, when I teach a late afternoon class. This will be quite a switch, since before I would teach from 9-3 or 4 and then teach lessons until 6:30 or 7.

4. It will be nice to actually have time to write and DO work! I'm sure that meetings will eat up lots of my time, but it seems that my department chair sets meetings at 8am, so again, we would be done a bit earlier than I'm used to!

5. I saw someone I knew at the grocery store today! That is amazing since I know so few people here.

This is going to be a good move!

Jbean
Member

01-05-2002

Sunday, August 15, 2004 - 11:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. whew, i have been very busy (with fun stuff, tho) over the past week!

2. thursday was alterego's birthday, so we partied, and things got way out of control. it sure was fun though. we don't let loose to that extent very often, so it was good. for a full account of the evening, go to kaili's folder. it's too long to write it all out again.

3. yesterday we went to the state fair in sedalia, missouri, mainly to see the montgomery genrty concert, which was awesome! troy gentry is HOT!

4. sedalia is not really what one would describe as a huge mecca in missouri. lol. i have no idea why they hold the state fair there, but it's ok with me, since it is just a 2 hour drive for me.

5. today we are going to see the movie black book. another friend said it was really good. i'm also wanting to see the princess diaries 2. i loved the first one!

6. marm beat me to 5, so here's another one...today i bought the monster ballads cd at the used cd store. oh, how i love 80's music!

happy sunday everyone!


Grannyg
Member

05-28-2002

Sunday, August 15, 2004 - 12:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
'bout time you posted facts, jbean!

Luvmyjrt
Member

09-18-2003

Sunday, August 15, 2004 - 1:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Okay, I'll do 7:

1) New job is awesome. Who'da thunk I'd actually
enjoy working 60 hours a week and one weekend
day.
2) For all my "fitting in" fretting, things have
gone really well!
3) DH is now kyaking down the French Broad River
with a pal!
4) DS is at work and really enjoying his student
teaching experience. He's 16 and devoted to
music.
5) DS is helping 7th grades with their trumpet
skills.
6) My family and friends in FL are all safe, post
hurricane Charlie!
7) Thanks to all who dropped by my folder with a
"hello". I've been so busy I haven't been
able to visit theirs! But you know who you
are and I thank you!

Kaili
Member

08-31-2000

Monday, August 16, 2004 - 4:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. Oh man. Tday is not starting out very well. I just got up, grabbed my pot off steaming hot, full coffee to pour a cup....and the handle falls off it. Not just the handle. I don't imagine anyone has ever really examined their coffee pot, but that little silver ring at the bottom is connected to the handle, which then has a little lip that goes over the hole in the top. The whole contraption fell apart. I have a glass pot, then separated from that is this metal hoop/handle thing. I don't know how it happened.

2. But it did mean that I had to basically roll out of bed and do a bunch of cleaning...with no coffee. Because the counter it spilled on is open to the living room, then coffee went over the counter and onto the carpet....at the back of the fishtank where I can't get to it. I got trhe wall but I can't get the floor there. On the other isde it went all over the floor and under the refridgerator.

3. I want to go back to bed.

4. But I did have a great weekend! I drove up and met my mom at the cabin on Saturday and the two of us hung out and spent the night. I loved it because it's sooo rare to get to see my mom alone. I grew up with just her- only child and single mom- but now whenever we see each other there's always a crowd. I have Tim with me, she has my stepdad or aunt with her....no matter what we get very few minutes alone together so it was really nice to have her to myself for a night.

5. Yesterday we were sitting out on the deck and she asked if I a lot of people call me. She was laughing about my having my cell phone with. Right after I laughed and said it hardly ever rings, it started ringing from inside the cabin. My mom thought somehow I made it do that. LOL

6. The call was my cousin and she was about two hours away, headed home from visiting a friend for the weekend. She asked if I was at home (we live in the same city)- I told her I was at the cabin and my mom had come down and we were going rafting. She said she wished she had known we'd be there- she wanted to come. So, it was way out of her way but we waited two hours for her to get there. We have a trail down to a nice big rock that angles down into the river so we like to go and hang out there.

7. One thing that was kind of fun- there's a bald eagle nest a little ways down the river from where we sit so we see them all the time flying, but this time I looked over at a tree that was fallen partway in the water at the edge of the river and there he was sitting on it, leaning over into the water. I know that's not generally how they fish so maybe he was just drinking? In any case, it was neat because I never see them on the ground and it was close. My mom went to take a picture, but go figure- he took off and it took the second he happened to be flying behind a rock sticking out of the water. There was a big snapper turtle too.

8. My cousin got there at a little after noon and we took off for rafting. Now, this river is pretty fun in the spring and early summer when it's high, but right now it's very low. The lowest I've seen it in years. So we ended up bouncing a lot off rocks, or jumping out and shoving it, walking alongside the raft. It was a four hour trip and we go past our hangout about halfway so we'd left our chairs and some other stuff hidden down there for when we stopped. I'm sure people are always confused floating past us and seeing this raft pulled up and people with chairs and all this stuff...sometimes dogs...sitting there. They have to think we haul it all with on the raft.

Ginger1218
Member

08-31-2001

Monday, August 16, 2004 - 6:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Haven't done this in forever
1. Okay, I am in work and it is raining and it is a miserable day.
2. I am so not looking forward to the Republican Convention here in NYC - it is going to be a disaster.
3. I am going to Florida (hooray) for 5 days - September 8th
4. I am still in the apartment that I hate - but at least I haven't killed my roommate, and she has not killed me. I have learned when one of her multiple personalities takes over, to just go in a different room LOL. Actually she is a wonderful person, just a little wacky. (but so am I)
5. The work on rebuilding my building is going soooo slowly. They could have built 10 houses in the time it is taking just to put the roof on. I guess when you pay cheap labor, this is what happens, and my landlord is NOT a big spender. (B*stard) LOL
6. I am very depressed that I am going to be 51 this week, I feel mentally like I am still 25.
7. Darling Boyfriend is going on a business trip on my birthday. Isn't that lovely?
8. I am very grateful for this board, it has helped me through a lot of things, the people here have come up with any information that a person culd possibly need.
9. I am so looking forward to Mystic and to meeting more people from here. I have loved all that I have met.

Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Monday, August 16, 2004 - 7:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. I think I can do 10 just based off a list of errands I need to run today.

2. We have to leave in a few minutes, our first stop is to the kids school to find out what classes they will be in.

3. Then it's out to the college for me to drop two classes. Mommy guilt hit yesterday when Darren and I were talking about the raise in tuition. Dropping 2 and keeping 1 is going to save me about $350 all together. Now I enjoy taking classes, but when I'm basically going to school for fun, I can not spend $350 and be comfortable with that!

4. Then it's back to my side of town to pay a couple bills. I can pay 2 at one place so I'll do those today and the other two tomorrow.

5. Next it's off to buy both kids shoes.

6. Then off to Walmart where I need to buy some cleaners. Now here's where I bribe the kids.

7. If they can behave during all these errands, they will be allowed to spend their allowance money at Walmart. If they don't behave, they will have to wait til Dad takes them because by then I won't have the patience for them to shop, lol.

8. Our last errand of the morning is to go get Kota's hair cut. Hopefully the kids have new toys to sit and play with while we wait and will be able to entertain themselves, lol.

9. I will leave grocery shopping for tomorrow (just a few groceries.)

10. All of these errands have to be done today and the poor kids have to spend the morning out with me. I don't really excpet perfect behaviour from them, but please oh please let them be semi-normal!

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Monday, August 16, 2004 - 11:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. I just came back from getting lunch, and as I crossed the street, I twisted my ankle and fell flat on both of my knees on the asphalt. My knees are scraped and my ego is bruised.

Ginger1218
Member

08-31-2001

Monday, August 16, 2004 - 12:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
oh yankee, are you okay?