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Luvmyjrt
Member

09-18-2003

Friday, May 06, 2005 - 4:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1) I miss every one here, a special cyberkiss to Herkie, Nino and Vee. RL has been very busy.
2) DS has his prom next week, Friday the 13th at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville.
3) DS girlfried is cute -- but very dingy!
4) DS had his first car accident. WITH A HUMMER! Seems he didn't see it backing out of the garage and "brushed against it". Hmmm, did g/f have anything to do with that?

Schoolmarm
Member

02-18-2001

Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 9:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. See the road trips thread for my upcoming travels/conferences, etc. I'd love to meet up with tvch'ers on any of these trips!

2. I mowed the lawn this morning and it only took an hour. I am getting faster.

3. My arm lost a battle with a bramble brush. Looks like the cat attacked me.

4. I need to change the sand in the pool filter today. I am still recovering from mowing the lawn. SIGH

5. Done with classes for the semester. All I have left is some grading, write three finals, give three finals, grade three finals. I have a smaller stack of semester work to grade than I have ever had.

Happy weekend, everyone!

Jbean
Member

01-05-2002

Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 9:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. i made buttermilk pancakes for breakfast. they had more the consitency of a pita than pancakes. wth? i followed the directions...they weren't burnt or anything, just odd.

2. i have some serious gift-buying to do today...my grandma's birthday and mothers day. i also have some pics from that concert i went to back the beginning of april that i need to get developed...it's expensive though...walgreens is $6.99 per roll and i have 3 rolls. i no longer trust walmart for film developing. ack!

3. i got a scanner off of ebay and apparently it is not compatible with windows 2000. :-( at least it was cheap! i'm so sad, though!

4. i went to a cinco de mayo celebration thursday night at this new mexican restuarant here in town...they had a tent set up outdoors complete with a mexican mariachi band (which got old rather quickly), and drinks. my question is: how do you run out of margaritas at a cinco de mayo celebration? i only got to drink TWO! then they were out! they were good, too!

5. i bought a corona tshirt there for $5 (they started at $10 and kept going down, lol, and since i couldn't get any more drinks, why not?) so on the front it says "parrot-dice" with a picture of a parrot and a beach, and on the back it has the restuarant info, and an angry-looking hot pepper and it says "BITE ME" rofl. it doesn't take much to amuse me.

6. guess who somehow got their collar off and totally chewed it and demolished it?

demolition teeth

but look at that face, you can't stay mad at her!


Egbok
Member

07-13-2000

Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 11:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. I love that picture of lola! She's too cute for words!

2. Can I brag about myself? Okay, okay, I know I brag about myself all the time, but this time I'm asking...LOL!!

3. Last night was a magical night for me.

4. I attended a social event held at a swanky Country Club on the Palos Verdes Peninsula that had a panoramic view of the ocean, east to the mountains. It was gorgeous!! Especially after sunset with the nighttime city lights below.

5. At this event, I was asked to present an award for the most hours of volunteering in 2004 to one of my student volunteers associated with this elite group.

6. I'll be honest here. These type of swanky events are not my usual cup of tea, however, when it came time to present the award, I came prepared with certain facts about the young lady and I spoke from the heart.

7. The reception and the response from the audience was heartwarming and the young lady gave me a big hug of thanks as I presented her with her plaque. I truly felt like a natural up there at the podium and I saw this event last night as a turning point in my new career/position at the hospital. As I said, it was magical for me, thanks for letting me share.


Herckleperckle
Member

11-20-2003

Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 11:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. Eggie, you've always had magic swirling around you! Congratulations on feeling so comfortable and natural in your more public role!

2. Coming out of my stupor from this past week, I think. Slowly but surely.

3. Jbean, bet you forgot the baking powder. Love, love, love your sweet pup!

4. Right back atcha, Luv! I adored the pix you left for me in my folder. Nothing can bring a smile on faster for me! Hey, I'm doing the update on the 13th. Hoping for pix of your handsome son and his date!

5. Going to Brooklyn tonight for a Mother's Day Dinner with dd and dh. (My dd ragged on Ed and then they worked on me.) My only requirements were that it be casual, comfortable and close to her apartment (where Herckie will stay while we are out). I think she is taking us to an Italian place.

6. My mom called today and told me she'd had a great night's sleep and was feeling good. I could tell by her voice that it was true! My sis is having her over for dinner tomorrow night. (I arranged to have her gift arrive by mail when I was with her for the week following her surgery.)

7. Ed has disappeared on me. Betcha he got in some golf swings while running errands!

8. I have become a fan of Dannon Yogurt with Splenda. Tried the raspberry and vanilla so far. Loved em!


Jbean
Member

01-05-2002

Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 12:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
hp, aunt jemima might have forgot the baking soda...it was from the "just add water" mix, lol....like i would be cooking from scratch...the place would be on fire by the time i was "done". rofl

Herckleperckle
Member

11-20-2003

Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 12:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
8.1 Oh, Jbean, you made me laugh. Never occurred to me. Uh, try French Toast tomorrow, harder to kill!

Tabbyking
Member

03-11-2002

Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 1:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. going to a bbq in gilroy for my husband's coworkers. they are all getting laid off or retiring in july.
2. if we are lucky, dh will get to work until september to close out the air force contract.
3. dd had her new SAT today with the essays on it.
4. i just read in yesterday's paper that the longer essays are scoring higher than shorter ones, even if they have incorrect information in them.
5. i advised dd to 'baffle them with b.s.'
6. ds has our family share phone plan up to 1300 minutes and we only have 200 left for 9 days. ah, true love.
7. lucky i was on the phone with verizon three days ago and the gal said, "did you know you only have 112 minutes of your 1000 share minutes left?"
8. i had to pay 145 bucks to change our plan to the 1500 minute one. i called ds and gave him what-for.
9. in the next two days, he used up 300 of our 'new, expensive minutes'. aaaaarghhhh! GOOD THING HE TOOK OUR TALK SERIOUSLY, EH?
9.1 eggie, did your 's arrive? abby got hers.

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 5:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. I don't know if I can do 10!
2. I just got back from the store
3. My last excursion out of the house was nearly a month ago.
4. That excursion apparently led to me picking up some nasty little bug that put me sick in bed for a week.
5. Today's trip to the store creeped me out to touch the shopping cart handle.
6. Throughout the store, I took extra care to keep my hands away from my face.
7. When I got home, I set the bags on the counter, and immediately washed my hands!
8. I guess you can call me Howard Hughes now.
9. I wish I had Howard Hughes' fortune, rather than his bug paranoia.
10. Is this considered 10?

Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 5:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. Looks like 10 to me Whomum!
1.1 I wash my hands when I get home from the store too.
1.2. Guess it is the genes?!

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 6:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1.3 I guess it is in the genes!
1.4 Too bad I didn't learn my lesson before I picked up that bug!

Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 6:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1.5 I think washing the hands does help but
1.6 Someone can still cough or sneeze around us.
1.7 Good grief. Germs seem to spread around here too.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 7:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1.8 I always try to remember to wash my hands the minute I return home from being out.

Wapland
Member

08-01-2000

Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 7:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. I wash my hands all the time now that I have such sexy faucets.

2. Renovations have started, rooms are cleared, drop sheets are down, closets are emptied and I am still sane. Will keep you posted.

Fondly
Wappy

Littlec
Member

11-14-2003

Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 10:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. Rosie I don't think you can catch what I got

2. Even if I didn't wash my hands you still couldn't catch it

3. I'm Pregnant!!!!

Tabbyking
Member

03-11-2002

Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 10:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. wow!
2. more wow!
3. holy cow wow!
4. congratulations!!

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 10:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. woo
2. hooo
3. LittleC
4. Congrats!
5. And more congrats!!!

Skootz
Member

07-23-2003

Sunday, May 08, 2005 - 3:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. Happy Mothers Day
2. Congratulations LittleC
3. It is warming here again and sunny yipee
4. I always wash my hands as soon as I get home from the grocery store. I also have a bottle of purel (waterless hand cleanser) in our vehicle
5. Way to go on keeping your sanity Wappy - of course you are just getting started
6. Have a great day all!

Puppylov3
Member

01-26-2004

Sunday, May 08, 2005 - 4:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. congrats littlec
2. happy mothers day to all
3. I took a trip this week.
4. Yup - down my hallway
5. which had a box in it
6. and I was moving too fast caught my foot on the box and BOOM down I went.
7. so I now have a massive bruise on my right knee and a scrape on my left arm.

Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Sunday, May 08, 2005 - 3:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. Congrats, LittleC!!

2. Today is my daughter's first Mother's Day. Its a shame we are 1400 miles apart, but I know my sweet son-in-law and precious grandbaby are giving her a good day.

3. Today is 8 weeks since I broke my leg. I've left the house 3 times. I'm getting really cranky. At least I have the sun shining in the windows today.

4. A dear friend of our's called the other night from Boston, where he is a professor, to tell us that he has been selected to teach in Israel at Ben Gurion University for a month. He's very excited even if there are cities he really wants to visit but is not allowed to.

5. Hubby is at work tonight so its just me and the cats. I'm sure he'll come home with something for me tonight at 3AM. LOL

6. Its been a little over a month and a year since my Mom died. She just missed Mother's Day and her birthday which is May 10th.

7. I'm just now starting to be able to remember Mom before the Alzheimer's. She was a real pip! LOL

8. Happy Mother's Day!

Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Sunday, May 08, 2005 - 11:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. Congratulations Littlec!

2. Friday afternoon the kids walked in the house (neighbor picked them up) and Dakota immediately started crying. She forgot her Mother's Day present at school. I calm her down, it's ok honey, it just means I'll get another surprise Monday. Not ten minutes later her teacher calls to tell us she left it at school and she could drop it off on her way home.

3. We got up early Saturday and got ready, then met sis, bil, and their kids at the park to take some pictures. We left the kids with sis as planned and headed off to the store.

4. We picked up some area rugs for our room and while we were shopping found a bedding set for Caleb. We decided while standing there that we would redecorate and paint his bedroom for his bedroom! I'm so excited, another project! Plus his room needs done badly. He wants a dragon painted on the wall, wish I could, but I know that's beyond my talents. So we decided we'd do three white walls, one blue wall, and hang up a bunch of posters and pictures, plus maybe some small stenciling if i can find something to go along with a dragon theme.

5. Then we came home and moved all the furniture out of our bedroom. Ack, my whole house was a disaster zone, lol. We got to work ripping the carpet out and realized almost immediately we had to revise our plans. Under the carpet wasn't the cement subfloor we expected but ceramic tile. We can work with that. I head back to the store and buy a bunch of floor cleaners. The tile is ugly as sin and probably as old, but the little we saw was in good condition.

6. I get home and the surprises continue. Not only is most of the carpet gone, but the tile as well. It suffered water damage too and had to go. Finally get all the carpet out, and Darren runs it and the tile off to the dump. I scrub and scrub and scrub the floor, were now stuck with the cement and the remnants of tile glue or whatever it's called, managed to get most of it off.

7. By this time it's 8:30 and we're exhausted, so we put our bed back together, and Darren goes to get the kids and dinner. They get home we put in National Treasure and eat in the living room. The kids had spent all day playing and were asleep as soon as they finished eating. Darren woke me up about 11:30 after the dog woke him up, LOL.

8. We finished up our room today. Most of the floor is covered in furniture or area rugs. About the only thing I have left to do is hang up my pictures. It really does look much better with the carpet gone, but I can't wait til we get the roof fixed so I can get a real carpet back, LOL.

9. We had all these plans for Mother's Day including getting together for a bbq with sis and her family, mom, our aunt, and a couple friends. Not a thing worked out, LOL. I was first to cancel when I realized how much work we had left. Mom was on her way to the ER with my aunt who was having a bloody nose (she was ok, seems to be a side effect of new meds, but it lasted long enough to scare her.) Sis ended up dealing with a minor emergency and her run away MIL. At one point I commented to Darren that at least the neighbors seemed to be having a relaxing Mother's Day, they were all outside together. A few minutes later we figured out why when one of their kids came over and asked to use the bathroom. They were out digging up their broken pipe and replacing it! We ran over to offer help (they were just finishing up) when the wife commented that we were supposed to be having a lazy day, LOL.

9.25 Despite it being busy, moving furniture, trying to get the house back to normal, and a little bit of grocery shopping, it was a pretty good day. The kids woke me up bright and early, too eager to wait to give me their presents. Darren helped them make me breakfast. Once we got our work done we set around playing games an watching movies. It was a great day!

9.5 To quote Caleb's Mother's Day card, "Happy Mother's Day, People!"

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Monday, May 09, 2005 - 8:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1.Congrats to LittleC on her growing 'c'!!

2. I chaperoned the High School Band Trip to Univ of IL

3. I was the only mom that decided to spend Mother's Day getting 40 kids up at 7 and on the bus at 7:30!

4. I'm weird, I loved it - I feel its a privelege to be a part of their lives, for even just a moment in time!!

5. Of course the timing was poor, DS 1 drove down to see his gf - at Uof I!! DS2 of course band trip, and DD had a sleepover at a friends house!! LOL, we coulda been alone at home!! :-)

6. DS #1 had a tire blow out, so I was there to give him money to fix it.. he's still trying to get it fixed on Monday grrrrrrrr..

7. I got home, what a mess... as I was throwing the clutter where it belonged, I tripped on dd shoe, and fell on the end table, ouch... hurt foot, and thigh... ouch!

8. DH made me sit, made me scones (choc. chip from scratch) my pot of tea... made homemade bread and grilled steak for dinner...

9. All in all a beautiful day!

10. Now I have today all alone!!

Egbok
Member

07-13-2000

Monday, May 09, 2005 - 12:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. Congratulations to LittleC!

1a. It's a bit humid and now raining in SoCal.

1b. There goes my hair for the day...LOL!!


Kaykay
Member

01-21-2004

Monday, May 09, 2005 - 12:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. congrats LittleC - better you than me :-)

2. bad hair day? i've been having a bad hair month since my DD (who is 5) begged me to grow my hair - the things we do for our kiddlets!!

Legalboxer
Member

11-17-2003

Monday, May 09, 2005 - 1:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. yay I just got a major discount for food for the game my office is going to tomorrow (orioles vs twins in the governor's box) - we just have to pay the service charge and then virtually nothing for the food - even the hot dogs are less than $1 each and in other suites they are $6 each so YAY!

2. Also feeling good because I found my house keys after not having them for 4 weeks - of course they were in the one place I kept putting off looking - my car - but now my car is cleaned and I have my keys back - could care less about the actual keys but it was the key chain from the launch of the USS Annapolis that I didn't want to lose - a very cool sub!
3. 2 hours til I am on the anacostia river rowing - yay - I have a new Nike shirt that I cant wait to wear - dry resistant that my mom got me Saturday :-)
3.1 cant wait for NC Friday - I get to see a college friend that I haven't seen since 1996 - staying with her and her husband that night before my other friend's bridal shower.