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Spitfire
Member
07-18-2002
| Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 9:53 am
7.1 Wargod....do you need milk and the kids didn't tell you again?
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 10:14 am
7.2 LOL, nope, Spit, had to pick up a bag of potatoes and some marinade for dinner tonight.
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Froggiegirl621
Member
02-14-2003
| Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 7:23 pm
7.5 Sorry for butting in, but I just posted a pic of my new niece in my folder if anyone wants to see!!!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 11:12 pm
1. I was wrong this morning when I said I had no plans today! I didn't even realize it til sis called and asked me when I was going to pick the baby up. Oops, on my way, lol. 2. We had fun. Sorta. First problem cropped up when the trash truck went down the street. Baby niece is terrified of loud noises and trucks, especially the really noisy one. Thursdays we have the trash trucks through here all day long, sometimes 2 at a time as one collects trash and one does recyclables or leaves. Everytime one went down the street, she ran and jumped in my lap. 3. Second problem came at lunch time. I turned on the oven to cook some taquitos for her. Left it warming up, washed the few breakfast dishes, threw the taquitos in and went to throw a load of laundry in. All of a sudden I hear a loud, high pitched, buzzing sound, I go and look and the stove just stops. Clock doesn't work, lights aren't working, oven isn't working. 4. Secretsmile mentioned it might be a blown fuse. When I checked the stove top it was working just fine, the rest of it wasn't doing anything though. Darren, when he called, suggested the same thing. 5. He came home after working 11 hours today, pulled the oven out and said I think I'll look at it this weekend. Until he gets to it I'm going to have to figure out stuff to cook on the stove. Probably spaghetti and tacos or something like that. 6. The other night at dinner Darren was talking about some stuff going on at work. There was a big meeting between the lead men, supervisors and big bosses about how some barely did their own jobs while others went over and beyond what they were supposed to do. 7. It started a talk between us about how much OT he works. 10-12 hours Monday through Thursday (Fidays the only day he rarely does OT) and most Saturdays. The kids were involved too, talking about how they miss him not being home on Saturdays and want to do something fun on Sundays, like going fishing or to the park, and dads usually more interested in staying at home and playing games , having a quiet day. 8. We came up with a compromise and Darren talked to the big boss today to let him know. He will work any OT during the week they ask and he will work 2 Saturdays a month. He was kind of worried about this meeting with the big boss..but, big boss reminded him that even only working 2 Saturdays a month he'd be doing more than most and told him to enjoy the other two Saturdays. He did tell them if there was a major order coming up and they needed someone he'd come in, which was something the kids and I agreed to. Sometimes it just can't be avoided. 9. Ha! I'm watching the local news and they're talking about the mail service showing up later and later (mine came about 9 tonight!) Postal service says they're having route adjustments, it should only take 60 days to get it straightened out......baloney! This has been going on for months for us. Yep, yep, mail coming months after due dates, and to the wrong house, been there too. Heck Monday we never saw the mail person at all. Didn't pick up our outgoing mail and didn't drop any off. We finally did complain to the post office a while back about it cuz it'd gotten so bad. LOL, ignore me, I'm just excited to see some coverage on this.
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Saxywildcat
Member
05-30-2005
| Saturday, January 14, 2006 - 9:34 am
1. Happy Saturday everyone!! 2. My Best Buddy is planning on proposing to his girlfriend in the next couple of weeks!! 3. I had an interview at the local Dillons this morning. 4. Easiest interview I've ever had. The Manager was so nice. 5. I've got a job there as long as something better desn't come up. 6. DH and I both have interviews at Pizza Hut tomorrow. 7. We are meeting a friend of mine for lunch today. 8. We may make a trip up to Wichita this afternoon. 9. We bought an invisible fence yesterday. We plan to put it in tomorrow. 10. Sandy is in big trouble, she chewed up DH's debit card.
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Saturday, January 14, 2006 - 4:28 pm
1. Did I tell you guys that my youngest ds is in South Africa?
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Saturday, January 14, 2006 - 4:31 pm
1. He is with his University on a tour to explore South Africa and he'll be gone for a total of 2 weeks. 2. He had a stop over in London and I had sent him an email with British-isms but he didn't get to a computer until a week later.
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Saturday, January 14, 2006 - 4:36 pm
1. When he was finally able to use a computer, he replied to my British-isms email and said it made him laugh. That was good, since it was suppose to be funny...lol. 2. He told me that South Africa is incredible and he can't believe how amazing everything has been and he can't wait to tell me all about it. He sounded so excited and I was very happy for him to receive this awesome traveling experience. 3. He also told me that at the London airport, he met and talked with Ethan and Jenna from Survivor. They were all on the same flight over to Cape Town, South Africa.
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Mameblanche
Member
04-13-2005
| Saturday, January 14, 2006 - 8:54 pm
3.1 Coco that's awesome that your ds met Ethan and Jenna. Ethan is one of my faves. A real mensch. 3.2 And its really awesome that he's in S.A. I've heard its beautiful there. And they have great accents. (wink)
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Saxywildcat
Member
05-30-2005
| Saturday, January 14, 2006 - 9:12 pm
1. Coco, hope that your DS continues to have the most wonderful time! 2. Tonight we started getting our back yard ready for our invisible fence. As I was using this cool edger thingy, I kept hearing these loud pops, then I heard sirens. I decided to look in the direction I was hearing the pops. To my surprise, there were flames!! I ran to the back door to call DH, he was on his way out and we took a stroll across our back yard neighbors back yard to get a closer look. It was just under a block away from these neighbors. There was a fence under flames and a car. The fire dept got there shortly after and got things out. The fire apparently started in this 1970-something Challenger. This guy had put lots of work into it and had been working on it pretty much all day. The fire luckily didn't damage any houses, and it didn't even blister the car that was in the driveway next to it. DH and I did get to know our back yard neighbors a little more. They are very very nice people. And we met some other people that live near by. I should say that nobody was hurt, but the guy that owned the challenger was pretty upset, and understandibly enough! 3. Tonight was doggie bath night. It took both me and DH to get it done. I was in the tub with them, doing most of the work, and DH stayed out of the tub, making sure they didn't jump out. 4. They looked so pitiful while in the tub, but the minute we let them out of the bathroom, they were running and jumping and playing with each other! LOL
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, January 14, 2006 - 9:13 pm
1. Coco, how fun for your ds! It's cool that he got the opportunity to go! 2. Our weather was yucky today. Sprinkled this morning but has been more cold and windy than anything. Big difference from yesterdays mild 60's. 3. Both kids are still up. I sure wish they'd go to sleep cuz they're really wound up. I've had them laying on the couch for the past five minutes or so after threatening to send them to bed if they didn't calm down, lol. 4. Today was a boring day really. I cleaned, then when Darren got off we played with the kids and then caught up on a couple of our tivo'd shows. Darren was asleep almost as soon as we were done with dinner. Hoping to do a little running around tomorrow, I want to take Kota to the book store and we were talking about going to the sporting goods store. Oh, and I need to go shopping for sis' birthday gift. So again, nothing real exciting this weekend. 5. Oops, Saxy beat me to 4. Darren won't be working next Saturday. We haven't yet decided what we're going to do for that weekend. Whatever we do, it'll be nice for him to be home for two straight days!
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Sunday, January 15, 2006 - 7:41 am
6.1 Saxy, Pizza Hut has tremendous opportunities for advancement. Colossus' nephew started off in the lowest rungs and is now a district manager making a very nice living for his family. Good company. Fingers crossed for you and your DH.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Sunday, January 15, 2006 - 8:02 am
1. It rained all day yesterday but this morning it is beautiful and clear!!! 2. The boys are going to bath Maggie today. You'd think it would be easy to bath an 8 pound dog but Maggie hates baths! 3. I wonder if Lola likes baths?? 4. We're hanging out with DB today. Racing remote control cars ... the boys love it! 5. I made a pot roast last night in the crock pot. It smells so good! It's for dinner tonight. 6. After a week, my new tattoo is starting to look and feel really good. I love it and am so glad I got it! 7. Happy Sunny Sunday everyone!! 
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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Sunday, January 15, 2006 - 9:52 am
1. nick, lola doesn't LOVE baths, but she tolerates them....and she smells so good after. the good thing is, since she just weighs 4.5lbs, i have a lot more control over her. i give her one every month right before revolution time, so it won't wear it off faster. 2. i think i will start tanning once a week in order to get ready for my cruise. i think i'll go today. 3. i made a weight watchers quiche that nancy has in the WW recipe thread. i have to say for someone who doesn't cook, it turned out damn good! 4. i watched vanity fair yesterday and the incredibles today. both were pretty good. i also rented wise girls, because it was free. i'm not expecting anything fantastic out of it. lol 5. i think i will go walk at the nature center today. although i've been very well behaved on the dieting, it doesn't seem to be working too well. sigh. 6. i've slept past 9 am both days this weekend. it feels so good not to be tired! 7. the weather here is jacked. thursday it was 70 degrees, then friday it was in the 30's! yesterday was 50, and i think we're going up to 60 again today. i have to admit i like the warmer weather, even though it's winter, because the damn gas bill has been so high! i hate it! 8. my feet stay perpetually cold, so i have 2 heating pads for them...one under the computer desk and one at the foot of the couch. they work wonders! enjoy what's left of the weekend, factoiders! 
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Puppylov3
Member
01-26-2004
| Sunday, January 15, 2006 - 4:06 pm
1. Good grief I can't remember the last time I facted. 2. Is facted even a word? 3. And of course on my return I'm doing NINE. Okay. 4. My hip is hurting. No not that hip. The left one. And no, not when I site like the right hip. When I walk. So for the last several days I've been a big slug and not excercising. 5. A head hunter called and left a phone message at home this week. Something about a couple of accounting positions in Lawrence. I'm not looking but I updated my resume, emailed it to her and will call Monday. My gut is telling me not to let this go by. 6. I wasn't looking when I got my current job either. I love it there, but things are changing and that kinda scares me. Since I don't want to kick myself for not kicking the tires, I'm checking this out. Last time I checked it out, I got a job and out from a position that was making me crazy. 7. Today at church we made pots out of clay. Okay some of my third graders made pots. Mostly they had fun with clay while we talked. One of the girls said to me "this is the quietest the boys have ever been." Mind you I had 7 boys and 3 girls - a typical number for this class. I asked two of the girls if they thought I should do more arts and crafts stuff to keep the boys quiet - they thought I should. I'm taking this under advisement for future weeks. 8. Like Jbean the weather here is jackeed. 62 right now. I January. at 6 pm. This is NOT normal. 9. Heating pads for your feet. Hmmmmmmm that could solve my own cold feet issue. thanks for the idea jbean!
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Knightpatti
Member
12-06-2001
| Sunday, January 15, 2006 - 4:53 pm
1.Yikes!I have 10. 2. Waiting for 24 to come on! I do not know if dh will make it home in time. He tore up the showroom at our wholesale business this weekend. He has to have it back together before tommorrow morning. I will be upset with him if he does not come home. 24 is his favorite show. We watched all the series on DVD. 3.I finished the inventory last week -took me 10 days.I was very tired of counting, especially rolled stickers. 4.THis weekend I had a 40 percent off sale on everything in the store. Very successful! 5.I am clearing out merchandise so I can buy lots at the Las Vegas Show. 6. DD and family went to Merritt Island and Orlando to see family this weekend. They went to Disney World today. 7. I have been going over their house and feeding their cat. Poor thing is very lonely! 8. DH and I saw Last Holiday Friday night. Loved the movie.Very funny! I would recommend it. 9. Last Sunday DH and I went to our first Jewish wedding. We thought we would be late as the invitation said 5 o'clock. We were there 5 min. after 5. We did not know that appetizers are served first. The ceremony did not start until 6:30. I think half of the retail community of our town was there. Very big wedding. DH knew everyone. 10. Never did get to dance with my husband. The girls danced with the girls and the guys with the guys. The Bride and Groom finally danced together after 45 minutes of the circle dancing.
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Serenity
Member
06-28-2005
| Monday, January 16, 2006 - 12:24 pm
1.A) I have to keep myself busy until 2:45pm. Then I get to go get my DS from school. 1.B) DH is on the train tonight so I have the TV all to myself! Yeah. 1.C) I also have to mention how hungry I am. I didn't get to eat lunch properly, and really am craving some bad junk food.The vending machines at the university here are lethal! LOL. I will just try to hold off until I am home and can grab an apple or banana instead.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, January 16, 2006 - 1:06 pm
1. For the past two days Dakota has been busy with creative play. She built herself a store using a window ledge and the bookshelf as shelves in her store. 2. She keeps taking things from the house that we use/need (toilet paper, sodas, cans of veggies, etc) and stocking up her store. It's funny, she's got us running to her for pretty much everything we need. Luckily she's just charging beads and marbles, LOL.
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Jewels
Member
09-23-2000
| Monday, January 16, 2006 - 8:04 pm
1. GOOD EVENING, FELLOW FACTOIDERS!!! I am going to drag the schticklers out of hiding because I am going to do 10 facts. I feel like I need to do a million facts to get caught up, but I will limit myself to 10 tonight. 2. My computer has been acting crazy for about the last month. I think it is all straightened out now though, at least a hope so. What a headache. 3. I needed a break from TVCH anyway, so it gave me an excuse to take some time off. But I am ready to go again, so I may be posting lots of facts for a while...feel free to ignore me! 4. We took the kids swimming today, it was so much fun. There is a new pool close to our house and they have a current channel that is a blast and a big area that is only a foot deep for the kids to play in, they have a big water feature that sprays water and dumps buckets. The kids absolutely love it. We went a couple times during Christmas break and have signed them up for swimming lessons there starting in February. 5. Jenna really wants to take ballet lessons, she wants to be like Angelina Ballerina. She practices all the time, so I may sign her up for a class. 6. FINALLY, Jenna is potty trained, we are at day 7 with not one accident, even at night. I didn't think that was ever going to happen. It finally clicked once I had Jake talk to her about what it felt like when he had to pee. He said he felt a tickle. After that, she started going in the potty instead of wherever else she was. Yay for big brothers doing mommy's job!! 7. Jake is doing really good in school. His teacher did some reading testing and said he is reading at least at a level 12 (she's not done testing yet, it may go higher) and the end of first grade is level 16. He's only in kindergarten, so this is really good! And his comprehension is just as high, which is awesome too! 8. I did have an issue with the school last week though...Jake got left at the school (in the bathroom) when the rest of the school left to walk to a nearby school for a presentation. There was a substitute that day who failed to do a final head count and left without him. He told me he ran out of the school, out to the busy street in front of the school and yelled across the street to where everyone else was and then someone saw him and came back and got him. I was livid...there was a little bit of an uproar...but I found out later (2 days later!) that the principal had actually seen him come running out of the school, stopped traffic in the street and sent an assistant over to get him. That made me feel a little better to know he was there and saw him in the street, at least then I was able to get the images out of my head of my 5 year old son running into traffic. I caused some hullabaloo at the school, hopefully no other child will be left again! 9. I have taken up knitting. It is something I have always wanted to know how to do so I am kind of teaching myself. I am currently about 1/2 way done with a scarf I am making using a really bulky yarn and huge needles, but it looks good and is really easy so far. I'm not ready for anymore than a challenge than that yet! 10. I'm sorry to all my factoid friends that I haven't been around for a while. I haven't taken the time yet to go through and read the multitudes of archives, but I hope life is treating you all well! 
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Monday, January 16, 2006 - 8:21 pm
1. Ahem!....this schtickler wants Jewels to do 10 more facts! Welcome back Jewel, it wonderful to hear about you and your kidlets once again!!
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Jewels
Member
09-23-2000
| Monday, January 16, 2006 - 8:40 pm
1. Well I would never want to let a schtickler down! Who knows what would happen then! 2. I had to take Jenna in for an x-ray...seems she swallowed a magnetix ball, but didn't tell us for about 3 weeks afterwards...x-ray came back negative, thank goodness, she must have passed it without us knowing. 3. Anyone who has Magnetix in their house hopefully has heard the warnings about them. The little magnets can (and do) come out of the pieces. I have taken two of those magnets and put them on opposite sides of my hand and they pull. They are amazingly strong. 4. NOT A GOOD STORY ALERT! A little boy swallowed two of them at seperate times. The magnets pulled together...one at the top of his intestines and one at the bottom. It closed his intestines and his parents just thought he was sick...by the time he got to the hospital it was too late. BE VERY CAREFUL WITH THIS TOY!! 5. The kids got scooters for Christmas, unfortunately we have had 20 some days of straight rain, I am almost ready to bring them in the house so they can ride them! 6. I don't think I told you guys that we almost lost one of our dogs before Christmas. She got into something (we think it was compost) and her stomach twisted, cutting off inflow and outflow. She blew up like a balloon almost instantly, couldn't walk, could barely breathe. Jim rushed her in to an emergency clinic (it was about 8:30 on a Friday night) thinking she was just sick. About an hour later he called saying we either needed to do emergency surgery (expensive) or she would be gone in a couple hours (not good). It wasn't a phone call I was expecting, but obviously we chose the surgery. She spent 4 days there and a couple weeks on medicine, but now you would never even know there was ever anything wrong with her. 7. Coming up with this many facts is harder than I thought! 8. I bought a kickboxing video last week and it is alot of fun! I love kicking and punching at things! 9. I am trying to get my house reorganized, but with two little ones trying to help me it seems like I am going backwards. Ugh. 10. Okay, I did it...I'm done for the night. I am on overload! 
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Monday, January 16, 2006 - 8:56 pm
1. Way to go Jewels!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, January 16, 2006 - 9:01 pm
1. Welcome back Jewels! Big brothers (and sisters) are sometimes the best teachers younger siblings need. Sometimes mom word just doesn't convey the weight as the word of a looked up to older sibling. 2. Ack, Coco beat me to 1, lol. So, Darren finally got around to looking at my oven this evening. No one laugh, after several days of doing without and cooking completely on the stove (do ya know how hard it is to come up with different meals for several days that are only cooked on the stove?) the first thing he did today was removed the plug and plugged it into another outlet. It turned right on. Ok, so yay on the oven...uhm, uh oh with the outlet, lol. We've got a friend coming over to look at it tomorrow.
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Monday, January 16, 2006 - 10:34 pm
1. I New York. 2. I am home. 3. The semester starts tomorrow! Back to the grind.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, January 16, 2006 - 11:18 pm
1. Welcome home Marm, sounds like you enjoyed your trip! 2. Dakota had an upset tummy earlier. I think it was something she ate (had a scoop of ice cream) rather than she's coming down with something but she was miserable. 3. She was awake until about 15 minutes ago when she finally crashed. Up 3 hours after her bedtime I'm already planning on a very rough morning. I'm going to have to force her out of bed and rush her through the morning routine or else we're going to be late. She'll also be grumpy. I'm seriously considering just letting her sleep in and throwing her in the car in her jammies to take Caleb and neighbor girl to school. She hasn't missed too much school and I really don't want to send her if she's in a grumpy mood and not feeling that great. 4. Earlier i started a bad headache. Took a hot shower and got out and laid on the couch half dozing for awhile. Kids kept coming over to tell me things (Mom, we cleaned the living room up, mom can we have a soda, mom can we go play with so and so, lol.) Poor Darren came home and I must have been asleep then cuz I didn't hear him and didn't realize he was there til he stood over me and said hey...I woke up, didn't open my eyes even and said, "No you can't go play with your friends!" He took me to bed, lol. Ended up sleeping for a couple hours and waking up feeling better. Not sure I'll get much sleep tonight but I don't think I'd have made it through the evening without some sleep earlier!
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