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Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Sunday, April 10, 2005 - 2:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. Our poor kitchen sink is completely plugged up. We tried everything today and nothing worked, so gonna have to call the plumber. The good news is that it's just the kitchen sink and not the main lines, so no major plumbing problem.

2. Caleb's team won their third game today, 8-6. They came from behind and had to fight the whole way.

3. Wednesday night they got totally creamed. Our boys looked like they were half asleep. The funny thing is Tuesday night at practice the boys were hot. They were really working as a team and doing so well.

4. Kota had a by-week this week, no game for her.

5. Caleb's team has a by-week next week. They're having a mini practice one day, which is more of an excuse to get the team and families together for a bbq. Ought to be fun for all of us.

Vacanick
Member

07-12-2004

Sunday, April 10, 2005 - 6:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. My kitchen sink is leaking underneath. We tried to fix it yesterday but it didn't work. We're calling a plumber tomorrow.

2. Here's to unexpected expenses ... Wargod.

3. My son woke me up at 5:30 am. He's leaving with his dad today for Nebraska and is really excited.

4. They are spending a week with my son's grandparents. Nicholas hasn't seen them since Christmas so this will be fun.

5. I'm be going back and forth between, "happy to have time alone" and "missing Nick". But it happens every time so it's okay.

6. I have a lot of things planned this upcoming week to keep me busy while he's gone. Me and the dog will have lot's to do.

Jbean
Member

01-05-2002

Sunday, April 10, 2005 - 8:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. i went to see "guess who" the movie yesterday. it was pretty good, but not as funny as the previews make it look. i may go to another one today. lol. it's nice feeling like i can do stuff now without muttface freaking out.(that really is a term of endearment, not meant in a bad way, lol) i can't believe what a turnaround i've seen in her maturity.

2. i bought a new (used) computer monitor on friday for $5. it works great and they sold it cheap because the screen is a little off center and can't be moved. i can't even tell with my wallpaper that it's off center at all. i was using my sister's that she'd loaned me and it was already starting to mess up...it kept going dim.

3. i still haven't gotten to see my meet'n'greet picture with kelly clarkson. the fan club site has been extrememly slow with them. i should have had one taken with my own camera, but they said you couldn't...one girl there done it, though. i've seen the pic to prove it. ACK! very frustrating.

4. the puppy has learned that she likes the cat's food better than hers, so i've had to try to block the cat's food from her. the cat even has a difficult time getting to it, but i hear that cat food is really bad for dogs...anything to cause problems. sometimes i think they are in a competition to see who can be the bigger nuisance. lol.

5. we've been having gorgeous weather here. mid 70's and sunny yesterday. i love that! bring on summer!

6. i've had a chest cold for the past week. it finally feels like it's going away. it's the worst in the morning when my sinuses have drained in there all night. it's better than a headcold though. at least i can breathe!

7. i wish the weekends wouldn't go so fast!


Vacanick
Member

07-12-2004

Sunday, April 10, 2005 - 10:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
7.1 My son's father called ... he can't make it here to pick up Nicholas today. Nicholas is crushed. I'm used to his father letting me down but when he lets down our son ... it's so sad. He's going to try to get here tomorrow.

Spygirl
Moderator

04-23-2001

Sunday, April 10, 2005 - 2:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. WHOA what a weekend! About an hour ago is the first time I've logged onto the board since sometime Friday!

2. My parents and hubby came in town Thursday and stayed through today. We did about 2 weeks worth of landscaping in 2 1/2 days and I'm pooped.

3. We planted 7 trees and put in a wavy decorative flower bed across the entire length of the backyard and part of the corner. We put a decorative flower bed around the big tree we planted in the front yard. We also trimmed the limbs on the existing trees, and got a stump trimmed down enough to be grinded and removed.

4. Last but not least, we hauled in almost two tons of dirt and leveled the yard in the back where the sprinkler system and the sewer line had caved in. Then, we re-seeded and fertilized the lawn.

5. As if that was not enough, I dropped hubby off at the airport and on the way home, I spotted a little boy walking alone toward a very busy road.

6. I pulled off and swung around to see if someone was with him who had been out of sight from me. Nope - he was alone. I called 911 and got a dispatcher on the phone and started describing him (I was across the busy road).

7. Then, the kid takes off running across the busy street and ends up right beside my car in the parking lot of the business I had pulled into. I rolled down my window and kept him busy talking until the police arrived. He was only four (!) and said his dad was asleep and told him he could go to "Susie's house" -- he just couldn't remember if Susie's house was straight or if he needed to turn.

8. Cutest kid who's daddy needs either an SRS call (if he has a pattern of neglect) or a swift kick in the ass and a lecture (if it was "just" a huge accident).


Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Sunday, April 10, 2005 - 2:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
8.5 WOW!!!!!!!!!! thank goodness you were there!

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Sunday, April 10, 2005 - 5:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
8.6 OMG Spy! Thankfully you were there. I wonder what was going on with the dad. I would like to think it is some crazy circumstance like a diabetic coma or something, rather than neglect. Too bad we can never find out. Did you get any numbers Spy??

Egbok
Member

07-13-2000

Sunday, April 10, 2005 - 6:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. Spy, I truly believe you were meant to be in that place, at that time, to be a guardian angel to this little 4y/o boy. Good going Spy!!

2. Vacanick, give Nicholas an extra hug from the schtickler. I'm 51y/o and I feel his pain as if it was yesterday when our dad never called or showed up to spend the day with us as he had planned.

3. jbeanie, my friend, get some rest and make that cold go away!

4. I've got dinner cooking right now as I type out my facts. Believe me, that in itself is a major accomplishment for me.

5. Egbob and I have been working in our backyard all day and we're both pooped out.

6. We re-potted a palm and a medium size hibiscus. And we planted a bird of paradise in an agreed upon location.

7. You just don't know how difficult it is to make this type of life altering changes in our backyard. Egbob can be so difficult and he still hasn't learned that I'll always win...hee-hee!

8. We have this huge rectangular trampoline in the rear of our backyard and I pulled up a chair and climbed on it. It was so relaxing to just lay flat on my back in the middle of this trampoline and let the sunshine warm my face and body.

9. I ended up doing flexibility exercises while out on top of the trampoline. I think I've found a new favorite place to get away from it all for awhile.


Vacanick
Member

07-12-2004

Sunday, April 10, 2005 - 6:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
9.1 Egbok, thank you!

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Sunday, April 10, 2005 - 8:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
7.2 Tell me about it, Eg. I've been training one for almost thirty years, and they never seem to learn. (talking about birds of paradise, of course)

Sage
Member

07-20-2000

Sunday, April 10, 2005 - 10:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. I love Mozilla Firefox... way better than Internet Explorer.

2. I have Gmail! The new email service from Google. So far, it is wonderful, I love it, and they keep adding improvements to it.

3. I love StumbleUpon! (www.stumbleupon.com)

4. Bob came over yesterday afternoon and went with me to the grocery store, to help me, since I'm unable to do much lifting. He took me to dinner afterwards too, then we ended up falling asleep at around 9:30. He woke up early and left for home to take care of his dogs and then went to his moms to fix her tractor... such a good son.

5. I've been wanting a jade plant for a really long time, and at the store, in the live plants section, there was this HUGE jade plant for only 16.99! It is now gracing my living room. I'll take pictures of it and post it soon. I'm just so thrilled and happy to have this plant.

6. I've gotten the "plant bug". I just want to get a lot of plants and baby them, and make them grow so big and pretty. I think I'll get some Miracle Grow.

7. A couple of friends brought me a azalea plant while I was in the hospital, and mom and I have found a place outside near the front porch to plant it along with a azalea plant she got for Valentine's from my niece.

8. I have slept most of the day today and have been having some unexpected prolonged, pain at the incision area, so I've been taking a pain pill every 4 hours. It may be because I did too much yesterday.

9. I wish I could explain the changes I've had personally, within myself, since the surgery. It's all so strange. I feel like some of the old me is coming back, and also some new stuff is wanting to emerge. It's like I woke up a new person with a different perspective and outlook about my life. Is this sort of thing normal or unusual after having a major surgery? I didn't "die" on the table or anything like that, and everything went well without any problems.

10. I just hope and pray this is the last surgery ever for this particular problem. 4 surgeries in 12 months is more than enough!


Egbok
Member

07-13-2000

Sunday, April 10, 2005 - 10:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. Juju, I've been training mine for 26+ years now and I agree, they never seem to learn (..and it goes without saying, I'm talking about the birds of paradise, of course).

Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Monday, April 11, 2005 - 12:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh wow Spy! I am so glad you were there to help the little one! How scary that whole situation must have been for him!

1. Kitchen sink is fixed! Darren spent a couple hours on it today and was just about ready to give up and call the plumber when the snake hit something (at that point he'd pulled all of the pipes out and was going straight through) and he felt it give. Put it all back together, ran the water and no more clog! Vacanick, good luck with your plumbing (unexpected expenses suck!) And hugs to you and your son!

2. We took the kids to the park today. I read a few weeks ago they were tearing out all the old playground equipment and replacing it with all new stuff that would be more accomodating to kids with disabilities, younger children, and older kids, plus be safer...no metal, getting rid of the sand and replacing it with the foamy stuff, etc. It was supposed to be done earlier this week. We get over there, theres a fence around the playground, but all three gates were open and kids everywhere. So off Caleb and Kota go, while we grab a table close by and pull out the travel scrabble game. Kids were back thirty minutes later, park employees kicked all the kids out (must have been 40 or them!) and locked the gates. I couldn't figure out why they didn't have signs up saying the playground was closed or why the gates were open.

2.5 The kids ended up making friends with some kids who were with their family and spent three hours playing with them. The other kids had their soccer ball out so they played that for awhile, then Caleb ran to the car for the baseball bags and they switched sports. They had a great time and we had a good time, it was a nice way to spend the afternoon.

Kaili
Member

08-31-2000

Monday, April 11, 2005 - 5:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. Geez, I had a lot to say and here I am back in the low numbers! Oh well!

2. Tim and I had a great time at the Beer Festival/Sampling event on Saturday night. It was in this banquet hall. Upstairs they had many of the small Wisconsin breweries. Downstairs they had wines and some of the larger breweries that are still Wisconsin (Leinies & Sprecher) plus some imports. They also had a cheese carving guy and some foods. They had jazz down there.

3. I preferred upstairs. They had a great band up there! They were a bit Irish/Celtic and a bit folk. Later they were covering Van Morrison, the Dead, and some other stuff but they were so much fun. There were these two little kids- soo cute- that must have been the kids of one of the men in the band (I think so because there was a woman in a wheelchair they hung around too and they were by the stage all night- in any case, it is an assumption). The little boy was playing with a tamborine, then the little girl got it and discovered she could put it over her head and she was small enough to get it over her body and to her feet. That kept her amused for a LONG time. Cute, cute, cute!

Kaili
Member

08-31-2000

Monday, April 11, 2005 - 6:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. So anyway, we ended up taking a cab home. Four hours is a long time there and the people working were all drinking so by later in the night, the samples were filling the cup instead of just a quarter or half of it. So yeah, we got little glass cups out of it too! Yay.

2. Yesterday we went to the sore and got all kinds of fun stuff. We were cooks! Heehee. We made pickled green beans and we made Pico de Gallo. Don't know about the beans yet, but the pico was good. A little too garlicy though. It said 3 coves of garlic, but one clove I pulled off was the size of at least two.

3. We also went to the big county park and went for a walk, played on the swings, and watched some of those Middle Ages reinactor people doing their thing.

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4. It's not so nice today. Looks like it's going to rain and a lot cooler. Yesterday was absolutely beautiful!

Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Monday, April 11, 2005 - 6:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. Busy weekend at our house.

2. DD had a basketball tournament and they won 3rd place. Got nice medals, too. DS2 had two soccer game, they tied Saturday and won Sunday.

3. DS2 also started working at McDonalds this weekend. They have been very accomadating to his track and soccer schedules.

4. We've started the planning for Young Women's church camp. As those that know me know, every year we take over 100 teenaged girls out to a camp for a week in the summer. It's a lot of preparation, but it is such a good time and the girls really get a lot out of it.

5. Another busy kid week, lol. Softball Tuesday and Friday, track meet Wednesday and Thursday, and DS2 is going to prom on Saturday. :-)

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Monday, April 11, 2005 - 6:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. Weekend's over.
2. DH went camping with the Boy Scouts, one boy fell on pine needles under a tree, got a concussion. Dh felt terrible!!
3. Our Church is changing. The Pastor of 5 years gave his 2 weeks notice.
4. Of course it may have something to do with conflict - a few men asked him to take a pay CUT! (dont get me started!)
5. So I get to do the Passover Seder dinner. We've had up to 30 familes come in the past.
6. One lady decided to have a "going away" dinner for Pastor - 3 DAYS BEFORE MY DINNER!
Its ok, I know people will not come to both, they will not cook, and bring stuff for both dinners. I still will do my Seder Dinner, if its just me - I just wish I could've picked the date, so my kids could come! (arrrrrgggg!)

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Monday, April 11, 2005 - 8:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. I have missed being here at the clubhouse most of the last three months.
2. Thank God you were there for that little boy, Spy, but it is possible the dad laid down to nap with him, fell asleep and the little boy asked to go to his friend's house while he was asleep. Although I am horrified about the little boy, I can also understand how the parent could have not realized what was happening. I've seen both sides of such issues.
3. Wargod, I believe you are the annual plumbing problem queen. I can relate. Glad you got it all fixed!
4. Vacanick, I have hugs for Nicholas too.
5. Sage, hope you are feeling better.
6. Ladytex and Reader good luck with your upcoming church projects.
7. Coffee house and all that goes with it has kept me very busy, plus I have used all the spare time with my grandkids and family. We had a garage sale and my hubby couldn't be happier with his new found space.

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Monday, April 11, 2005 - 9:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
7.1 HI Urgrace!!

8.2 Spy, my cousin had a dd that was an escapee, imagine her surprise one morning at 6AM Saturday to a wide open front door (yes it had been locked) and a missing 3yr old!! She called the police, who indeed had a missing toddler. (and they were very considerate of my cousins panic, and the child's welfare! DCF wasnt called, but the police said that they would be watching closely!) Her dd had wanted breakfast at grandmas, and decided to walk!!! After that my cousin put locks on the inside top of the doors, as well as alarms! (my Aunt and I helped install them!!)


Egbok
Member

07-13-2000

Monday, April 11, 2005 - 9:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
3.1 Kaili, I hear that Middle Age reinactors are very special people. They've learned to go with the flow and to relax and have fun once again...just like in their childhood years....yessss!!

Kaili
Member

08-31-2000

Monday, April 11, 2005 - 10:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
3.11 Yes, but do male middle age reinactors always dress like Robin Hood?????? LOL

Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Monday, April 11, 2005 - 10:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
3.12 No Kaili, sometimes they run around in leopard print loin cloths, lol!

Kaili
Member

08-31-2000

Monday, April 11, 2005 - 11:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
3.13 This comes from personal experience? I hope you have pictures of that! Something like that would have to come in useful at some point!

Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Monday, April 11, 2005 - 11:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
3.14 I'm pretty sure I have pictures somewhere, lol. Every year we go to the Renaissance Faire, which is always such a blast. I love the medieval costumes and the weaponry (ok, the weapons most of all.) There is usually a group of guys who walk around all day in their loin cloths. Not sure they're actually a part of the faire, or if thats just their costume for the day. I always get a kick out of peoples reactions to them. One year I watched a women walk into a wall she was so busy staring. Her husband was brave enough to mention thats what she got for elbowing him for staring at the young women with her nipples almost showing. I choked on my water, LOL.

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Monday, April 11, 2005 - 11:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
3.15 i am never taking my husband to a renaissance faire. but will go alone or with a bunch of girl friends! hehehehehe