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Knightpatti
Member
12-06-2001
| Thursday, October 20, 2005 - 7:40 pm
1. DH called yesterday. He forgot my birthday, but he said he already had a gift. 2. My Mom and Dad were in Tennessee. SHe called me today to wish me a happy birthday. I asked why they did not stay in TN since they live on the west coast of FL. She said they had to come back to get their important papers. THey were going to move to TN and they had a house picked out. When they came back to FL, they found out their insurance is not covered in TN and will not pay for their drugs. Too bad they would have been a little closer to me. 3. They are tired of living in FL with the heat and the hurricanes. 4. My ds and his girlfriend Nina are coming to our house for THanksgiving. They are both vegetarians, but easy to please. I am excited about their visit! 5. Tomorrow I have a hair appointment! Yeah! 6. Tomorrow night we have a crop at the store, which makes along day! 7. I have a bubble bath waiting for me!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, October 20, 2005 - 8:29 pm
1. What's a crop, KP? 2. Dakota came home from school feeling like crud. She's got a cold. Gave her medicine and she went to lay down. 3. Darren got home, we woke her up and had dinner. She went back to bed. Darren and I fell asleep on the couch since neither of us have been getting much sleep lately. 4. About 7pm the door bell rang. We both set straight up and then Darren went to answer the door. 5. No one was there. But someone had thrown up some halloween spider webs, a skeleton, a happy halloween sign and left a bucket of candy on our door step. The letter inside the bucket explained that we'd been "boo'd" and we need to boo a neighbor or a friend. The kids were totally excited. 6. While we're not 100% sure who it was, Darren said when he opened the door he saw the neighbors porch light across the street come on. And whoever it was knew that 1. we have two children, because everything was in pairs (two halloween flashlights, 2 glow stick necklaces, etc.) and 2. they knew we have a dog and had to be very quiet or he'd bark and let us know someone was out there. Most of our neighbors do know we have a dog, though only the ones across the street have perfected walking up quietly enough to not alert him. 7. We've already decided who we're going to boo, a family down the street with several kids that we sort of know. The kids all play together occassionally and we always end up at the same neighborhood parties. 8. I'd never heard about this, but my sis has, and said its a pretty big thing around here. She was a little upset that they haven't been "boo'd" so I told her we'd drop something off this weekend for the girls so that they could then do the same thing for someone else. Since we have an annual get together with friends and family for halloween, we're never home that night to pass out candy, so this is a fun way to give back, plus the kids think it's totally cool!
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Serenity
Member
06-28-2005
| Thursday, October 20, 2005 - 9:04 pm
1. I 2. am 3. procrastinating 4. writing 5. my paper 6. for Philosophy. 7. St. Augustine and his theories of evil just aren't rocking my socks off right now. 8. Instead I came here and am now contemplating giving someone a fright delight..."BOO!" 9. I love the new thread - it's just weird! LOL. I'm giving myself a kick in the keister now...going to try and work in 15 minute (manageable) chunks.}
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, October 20, 2005 - 10:00 pm
8.1 Serenity, check here for the boo poem and the sign.
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Friday, October 21, 2005 - 5:23 am
1. This is day three on tylonal sinus allergy and I'm still stuffed up and feeling cruddy. 2. I am NOT going to St. Louis this weekend for Bands of America. I will probably start feeling guilty about that pretty soon. 3. JujuKitty is getting a little braver. Came up to the porch to eat while I was sitting there. Kitty treats almost coaxed little JujuKitty out again. Also almost went into the house when I left the door open. Ooopsie! 4. Ellie still can't meow. Can you feel a hairball in their throat? She likes kitty treats too! 5. It is raining today. I am really glad that I got my pool closed! WHEW! 6. I got my Human Subjects forms ready to submit last night. This gives me permission to interview people for my research. I had to translate a consent form into German. I used an online translation service with ets and it actually seemed ok. Much better than bablefish! I have to have a German faculty member verify that it is correct and then I can make my copies and submit. WHEW again! 7. Serenity....just start writing! Or I can trade you a paper on musical equipment in one-room schools for St. Augustine...I need a break! 8. I wish that my students would turn in their work when it is due. 9. I also wish that I could get it graded and off my desk! 10. I drive a cheap red car that looks sporty. I love it! I only owe $700 in car payments, so that means that something bad will happen to it when I get it paid off by the end of the year. LOL!
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Serenity
Member
06-28-2005
| Friday, October 21, 2005 - 5:33 am
1. Just 1433 more words to go - WHOO HOO! I am plugging away. Schoolmarm - For the record...I always hand my work in on time (even if it kills me) The prof that this paper is due for said we would suffer "considerable wrath" if it was late (hee hee).
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Knightpatti
Member
12-06-2001
| Friday, October 21, 2005 - 7:43 am
1. Wargod - I love the BOO'd. 2. A crop is where everyone brings their scrapbook items and works on their albums. We set up tables in the store, put out our tools and supplies to share, provide dinner, and give out prizes. Tonight we are buying KFC and halloween candy and different flavors of popcorn. The time is from 7 to 11. The ladies actually make some progress on their albums.
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Sillycalimomma
Member
11-13-2003
| Friday, October 21, 2005 - 8:28 am
1. I had a blueberry Eggo for breakfast 2. After weeks of complaining about having no coffee in my house I still do not have any coffee 3. Instead of heading out to one of the Starbucks that is on either side of my street (no joke, I have one on each corner) I am going to go to the store and buy an entire bag!
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Friday, October 21, 2005 - 9:11 am
1. Wargod, I loved reading about the "Boo'd" too! I'm going to do that for some kidlets up the street! Thanks so much for sharing! 2. This reminds of a Christmas past when our kidlets were about ages 5-9 y/o. Someone picked our family to receive "The Twelve Days of Christmas". 3. Each of the 12 nights leading up to Christmas Day, someone left items correlating to the number of days left til the big day. 4. They had left a little note of instructions asking us to count to 30 before answering the doorbell in the evening so that they could make their getaway. The kidlets would anticipate the sound of the doorbell and wherever they were in the house, they would start counting in unison as they made their way to the front door...LOL! I love remembering this fact!! 4.1 It was a very kind and generous surprise for the kidlets and the parents alike! We never knew who did this kindness for us and I've since "paid it forward" by doing this activity 3 times over the years. Hmmmm.....I think I need to get into the spirit of Christmas and do this activity again.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, October 21, 2005 - 9:41 am
1. Wow, Coco, I love that idea! That might be a fun thing to do with the kids getting a little older and able to enjoy being sneaky like that! 2. Kp, thanks! That sounds like fun! 3. The mystery deepens. #1 the neighbor girl was totally clueless. I've seen this child try to lie, she can't do it, lol. Her family couldn't have boo'd us cuz there's no way she wouldn't have known and not given it away. 4. I've recieved several calls this morning asking if I was sneaking around last night. Not only us, but both my adopted brothers, my adopted sis, and a very close friend who lived with us for quite a few years in high school and his family also got boo'd. Whoever did it also put peanut m&m's in the buckets, so it has to be someone who knows all of us, but also someone who doesn't usually watch the kids or they'd know about Caleb's peanut allergy. 5. I have a sneaking suspicion now of who it is. But I'm not going to ask, lol. It's more fun to speculate. My sister didn't get boo'd. She's kind of ticked off, lol. Though we do know why, theres no way to get to her front door without being seen. So me, adopted sis, and one of the sil's plan on going out and decorating their fence. We'll have to call sis ahead of time so she doesn't let the dogs out while we're there or they will give us away, but at least we'll be able to surprise the girls.
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Kady
Member
07-30-2000
| Friday, October 21, 2005 - 11:40 am
1. i helped my son with algebra last night. i suprised my head didn't explode. 2. i am enjoying the weird thread but can't think of anything i do that's weird. 3. i'll have to ask my DH, i bet he knows weird stuff i do. 4. i am nervous...about to order 2 new tanning beds and spend more than $20K. 5. i think this is the right move to do at this time and should hopefully bring me in a little more income. 6. i have never been a fan of halloween. i took my ds to carnivals, went trick-or-treating and stuff like that but was glad when he out grew it.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, October 22, 2005 - 3:28 am
1. Kids have been sick. Dakota came home yesterday afternoon and slept all day feeling like crud. 2. Caleb stayed out of school today with a fever and cold symptoms, but Kota went cuz she was feeling better. 3. She felt better til just after dinner, then complained about not feeling good again. Gave her the usual round of meds, albueterol, cough syrup, allergy pill and sent both of them to bed early. 4. Just about 11:30 Caleb came running out into the living room yelling about Dakota. She was behind him, sobbing and in the middle of the worst asthma attack she's had in years. She also had a nasty croupy sounding cough. 5. Gave her more albueterol. She was sitting on the couch almost back to normal and close to sleep when she started all over again. Tried a breathing treatment. Saw no change, so I woke Darren up. I've been dealing with her asthma for six years, this was one of the few times I've actually been scared. We decided it was time for a trip to the emergency room. It'd been just over an hour, she'd had her inhaler and a breathing treatment and hadn't showed any sign of improvement. 6. Luckily my neighbor was still up so I ran over and asked him if Caleb could come over and spend the night. Got Caleb over there, and convinced Darren he didn't have to go with us since he had to get up in an hour for work (mandatory Saturday for him today.) Told him I'd call if I needed him. Got her in the car and rushed down the street to the ER. 7. Signed her in and ran out to call my mom to see if she could pick Caleb up in the morning. I know the neighbors would keep him as long as I needed but I also hate to ask them for too long. By the time I got back in, they were calling Dakota (we'd only been there 10 minutes, but say "breathing problems" and they waste no time!) They hooked her right up and got her started on another breathing treatment. Mom showed up and sat with us. Then they gave her two more treatments. And then predinisone. And a prescription for five days worth of predinisone. Told me to take her to the doctor Monday for a follow up and then sent us home. There were three other children there with the same croupy cough and hardly breathing while we were there, what the heck is going on? 7.5 She scared the shit out of me! When we left the house she could barely breathe. My sis has had asthma since she was a baby, my niece and Dakota were both diagnosed around the same time six years ago, I don't panic easily when she has asthma attacks! We've gone to urgent care before for breathing treatments, but this is the first time for the ER, it was that bad. And then the child I took to the hospital and the one I brought home are two completely different kids! She's joking around and breathing freely, walked in the house and asked for food! So I gave her some applesauce then tucked her into my bed. She's only been asleep about half an hour but I've been back three times to check on her! Have I mentioned how much I hate asthma???
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, October 22, 2005 - 3:47 am
7.6 ((((War & Dakota))) when my son was in 5th grade he got reactive airway disease. I know that horrible feeling of rushing your child to the ER because they can't draw a breath. i also had him sleep with me because i needed to hear him breathe!!!
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Secretsmile
Member
08-19-2002
| Saturday, October 22, 2005 - 6:46 am
7.7 More (((War and Dakota))), I too know the panic of taking an asthmatic child to the ER in the middle of the night. I seem to remember the hardest part was not letting my child know how frightened I was so that it didn't exacerbate his condition. Can we start a thread to give gold stars to mommy's? Sometimes Mommy's need a pat on the back too. 7.8 Speaking of gold stars, give one to JMM for raising a daughter that is thoughtful and responsible.
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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Saturday, October 22, 2005 - 7:21 am
1. war, i'm so glad dakota's ok. i know you had to be scared to death. 2. lola hurt herself again yesterday. she was doing so well, and almost back to using her sprained leg, then when i got home yesterday, i took her out to use the bathroom and she leaped from my arms and landed on her side....she tried to stand up and couldn't!!!!! it scared me to death, so i stood her up and she fell again! so finally i picked her up and moved her leg, and she yelped! here i'd just called the vet who followed up to make sure she was ok...and now this! she is alternating limping on her hind legs. 3. i suspected it was her knee in the right leg because i moved it back into place. so i took her back to the vet this morning, and i was right. she has a luxating patella (floating kneecap) in her right knee. this is a pretty common problem for chihuahuas. we may need to consider surgery for her once she's fully grown. 4. i spent a lot of time crying last night because i was so scared she was hurt badly. she looks pathetic and i can tell she's in pain. it makes it worse that the other leg is sprained because she's having a real hard time walking. 5. i can't even imagine having a sick child, when having a hurt pet is so hard and so scary. 6. i bought some curtains for my bedroom. they are white and i'm planning on dying them hot pink to match the room, since i can't seem to find a reasonably priced set of them anywhere. what a pain. 7. i'm thinking of going back to bed. we had to get up early to go to the vet. 8. i'm so glad it's finally the weekend!
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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Saturday, October 22, 2005 - 7:26 am
8.3 i forgot to remind everyone that today is a certain FROGGIEGIRL'S wedding day! CONGRATULATIONS AND GOOD LUCK FROGGIEGIRL! 
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Saturday, October 22, 2005 - 9:45 am
01. In yesterday's mail, I received the floor plan for our "new" manufactured home. 02. I really like the layout; it has a mudroom and, seemingly, a lot of storage. 03. Today is Crystal and Felicity's memorial service. 04. DH and I woke up in a funk; but when I checked my email, I discovered a really nice thinking of you letter, which made us feel a lot better. 05. I realized we're going to be seeing a lot of people I haven't seen in a long time and who do not respect my new beliefs. 06. I also realized that at no point had we been invited to participate in the event--despite being a really important part of her life for 2 years--except as "spectators." 07. After the service, we're going over to friend's to drop off some anti-spray stuff for them to use on their cat/furniture. 08. When we get home, I plan on working on clearing out clutter for a bit; it might help me clear out some unresolved feelings 09. Bopper, Speckle, and Typo are all doing better; I look forward to having them all healthy again.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, October 22, 2005 - 10:41 am
7. 8423390 Thanks ya'll! I'm about ready to fall over I'm so tired (phone wouldn't quit ringing this morning, lol,) but Dakota is feeling much better. She's still got the cough and she's hoarse but even her cold symptoms are pretty much gone. I'm hoping she'll take a nap soon, lol. Caleb came home to eat breakfast then the neighbors invited him back over to spend the morning playing.
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Secretsmile
Member
08-19-2002
| Saturday, October 22, 2005 - 11:06 am
1)Yesterday morning I woke up and was going to use the phone, well there was no dial tone. I went to the other phone in the living room, in case this one just had a dead battery, still no dial tone. Well, I thought about it for a while, getting all cranky since this is the third time since we got digital cable the phone has stopped working. 2)I called Time Warner on my cell phone. I spoke to a very nice young man, he was sympathetic with my situation. He tried resetting it from there, still no dial tone. I explained that this was the third time I've had a problem. The first time they sent someone out with a new router. The second time a woman replaced all the wires in the house and another new router. This young man said he'd send someone out as soon as possible, not this week or even tomorrow but right away. 3)Surprise, Surprise less than an hour later the cable guy is at the front door. He's a nice fella, he's very thorough checks all the lines, and each phone jack. He goes down stairs replaces all these little box things, replaces more wires, disconnects old wires, everything is new. 4)He then decides to replace the phone jack in the living room which is basically the main phone jack. That is the main phone jack because we have those uniden phones where is only one base and the other is just a spare handset. As he's moving things around there the power strip gets in the way. 5)I move the power strip and we notice it's not working. No problem he figures out that he blew a fuse when he was working. I go downstairs, flip the breaker and he finishes the new jack. Taaa Daa! Everything is back up and working perfectly. 6)Tim comes home later, I tell him about the great cable guy, he even gave us his Tech # so if there is another problem we can ask for him since he knows what he did and should be able to find the trouble fast. 7)As he's sitting there he asks Kyle to bring him a light bulb since last night the bulb in his lamp had a major blow out. I'm dumbfounded! I looked at him and started laughing, he's taking it well, asks what's so funny. I say: you mean you blew that fuse last night and I had the poor cable guy here all afternoon when all along it was simply a blown fuse? 8)Yes, indeed, the fuse was blown the night before, and that's the power source for the portable phones! LOL! 9)I thought about calling the cable company to apologize but I'm sure I wouldn't be able to reach that cable guy and nobody else would probably think it was funny. 10)So we now have all new phone wires and boxes and jacks, and I'm feeling very sheepish.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Saturday, October 22, 2005 - 11:10 am
1. Lkunkel, I hope your day goes okay. I'm sorry for what you've had to go through. 2. Wargod, thank heavens Kota is okay. What a scary night. 3. I have asthma myself and remember many nights when my mom would sit up with me when I was unable to breathe, rubbing my back to keep me calm and running hot water in the shower so the steam would help me breathe. I don't think I ever had to go to the ER, though. 4. I am so glad Kota is okay. 5. Yay for Froggiegirl! Where was she supposed to honeymoon again? Is the hurricane going to put a damper on her honeymoon plans? 6. Tomorrow I am going to Busch Gardens in Williamsburg with the Jaycees. 7. I am so excited to get the ride the Loch Ness Monster again. 8. It used to be my favorite roller coaster ever. It will be interesting to compare it to another one I love now-- The Volcano at Kings Dominion. 9. Everyone tells me to go on Alpengeist and Apollo's Chariot, too. Both are roller coasters that have been built since the last time I went to BG. 10. I hope everyone is having a nice Saturday. 
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Saturday, October 22, 2005 - 11:10 am
1. Whoops, SS beat me! 
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Serenity
Member
06-28-2005
| Saturday, October 22, 2005 - 11:28 am
1. Wargod- I'm glad Dakota is feeling better! 2. Froggiegirl- Congratulations! I hope the day is wonderful for you. 3. Jbean- Poor Lola! Hopefully it won't be as bad as you fear. 4. Llunkel- Hopefully you will be able to turn over a new leaf in your new home. I'm glad for you that clearing the clutter is helping. I need to clear out some of my own! 5. I got my philosophy paper done! At this point I'm not even worried about the mark, I am just glad to have it off my hands. 6. I have been under the weather for a while and finally got fed up and went to the doctor about it yesterday...I have bronchitis. 7. Bronchitis is no fun, and I can't wait for my body to get better. 8. DH took the kids with him today to run errands. Then he is taking them out for lunch and to an indoor playground/coffeehouse. I have the house to myself for a bit! 9. I just had a shower and am now studying for the two midterms I have next week. But, because the house is so quiet, I can curl up in bed with my books 10. We rented the animated movie "Robots" yesterday. It is really cute.}
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Serenity
Member
06-28-2005
| Saturday, October 22, 2005 - 11:29 am
1. Man, am I slow. 2. Proceed onto number 3....
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, October 22, 2005 - 11:34 am
1. I am being lazy today. 2. I am slowly doing housework. 3. My daughter and I might go see Elizabethtown today. Depends on the car coming out of the shop.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Saturday, October 22, 2005 - 11:47 am
1. Yay, Serenity for your paper getting done. 2. Jbean, I meant to mention Lola. I don't know what happened to my mind. Sure hope she is okay and that you are doing better yourself. 3. Like Mamie, I am slowly doing housework. I have laundry in now. I have to vacuum next and then sweep the kitchen floor. 4. I think I am going to work on my drawing for awhile first, though!
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