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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 8:01 pm
9.1 Great story Nick!! What a smart little girl you have there, finding her present! 9.2 Happy early Birthday to Tara!!! 9.3 Have a wonderful party! 
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Friday, January 20, 2006 - 8:42 am
1. I'm feeling punky today. Lots going on in my rl. Can I vent? 2. CocoMan is the Athletic Director of a high school in which an assistant football coach got caught cheating via videotape review, from another local high school's football coach. This happened last Oct/Nov in which the assistant football coach was seen movng the down marking in favor of their school. Stupid, stupid, stupid and costly decision on his part. 3. Bottomline: the coach was banned for life and can never coach football in this school district. He also was reassigned to another school after giving 25 years at this high school. 4. Now the City Section Rules Committee has deemed CocoMan's high school football program be put on a 1 year Probation after CocoMan, the Head Football Coach and the AP who oversees Athletics sat through an intense Q & A session earlier this week. 5. The local newspapers make it sound so uncomplicated and basically point the finger at CocoMan and the AP for not taking immediate steps when this videotape was presented to their school as evidence of cheating the day before Thanksgiving. 6. Although CocoMan just brushes it off, I can clearly see he's hurting inside. He did say that the penalty of Probation was too severe and the local newspaper made it appear as if he did nothing. Sheesh, if people only knew the agony though Thanksgivng and then into the 3 week Winter Break and all the phone calls he made and received while on his "vacation" to ensure procedures were being done correctly in order to protect his school's integrity. I'll stop now, because I'm sure you guys really don't know what I'm talking about, but just know that it feels good to let it out. And I'd like to add, as CocoMan left for work this morning, I gave him a big hug and told him he was my HERO! 7. Onto other facts about me...tonight ds#1 returns to NY and I'm going to miss that boy. The next time I see him will be at his college graduation in May. 8. Hopefully in May I'll be seeing Secretsmile again and getting to meet Riley (one can hope!) 9. DS#2 comes home tomorrow from his 2 week tour of South Africa. I did get a short email from him about a week ago and he sounded so excited and tells me that South Africa is awesome. 10. Have a good Friday Factoiders!
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Friday, January 20, 2006 - 8:51 am
1. I hate tax time. I always end up paying. Even though I am married and have a child, I have to pay all because we can't afford to buy a friggin house in California because house prices are outrageous!
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Friday, January 20, 2006 - 9:47 am
1. I love tax time ... I know I'm nuts!! 2. I'm a single mom with one child. I am also a homeowner. My tax refund goes into my son's savings account every year!
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Friday, January 20, 2006 - 10:48 am
1. Coco, was that on the news? I remember that story, but I think the only person who should get in trouble is the person who did the deed. I do not agree that the kids should have to pay the price of that assistant coach. 2. Funny thing about taxes, me and dh just had an arguement about having to pay verses getting some back. I say let's try to owe as little as possible and he says let's not owe anything and get a refund. I did a quick figuring and it looks like we might get a small refund. 3. I bought an eliptical exercise machine last night!
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Friday, January 20, 2006 - 10:52 am
1. I need to get an elliptical machine for post baby. My sister is buying one, I'll just use hers. 2. This year I get back for federal but have to pay for state. Gotta love California! 3. Did I tell you all that at my last doctors appointment I gained no weight?!?! Yippee! 4. What sounds good for lunch? Soup and salad sounds good. (well, really chedder peppers from Sonic sound good, but i won't be heading that way, although maybe I should because once baby is born and I am nursing it is no hot food for a long long time.....) Choices choices choices.
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Friday, January 20, 2006 - 10:58 am
3.a That is not fair! I gained weight at every appt when I was pg. But good for you Escapee!!
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Jewels
Member
09-23-2000
| Friday, January 20, 2006 - 2:08 pm
1. I remember seeing that story on the news too Coco, when it happened. I'm so sorry CocoMan, and his school, are having to go through this. 2. I had to go to the dr. this morning because I have pink eye. Yuck. 3. It came on all of the sudden yesterday, very strange. 4. The sun was shining here earlier...for about an hour, such a strange sight to see, I actually had to dig my sunglasses out! Of course, now it is cloudy and rainy again.
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Friday, January 20, 2006 - 3:12 pm
4.1 Jewels, we still have some of that sunshine! It's been a whole 3 hours since it quit raining. I'm going to try to post a pic in the OMG!!Weather thread.
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Jewels
Member
09-23-2000
| Friday, January 20, 2006 - 3:21 pm
4.2 I walked into my bedroom earlier and thought I had left the light on...then I realized it was just the sun shining through the window! Holy Cow! 
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Friday, January 20, 2006 - 7:50 pm
1. Thanks guys for letting me vent this morning and thanks to those of you who left me some nice posts. 2. Yes Denecee and Jewels, the original event was most definitely in the TV and print news! Gawd, even Diane Sawyer was knocking on dh's door asking for an interview for GMA...can you believe that?!! He declined, as did all the other parties involved. It seems all the morning shows needed topics and a "cheating high school football coach" was ideal. LOL, I half expected to see it on my AOL opening page with current news events! 3. So, this too shall pass and I say what comes around, goes around. It'll be an interesting 2006 Football season with all the schools involved with this bru-ha-ha. Obviously there will be a lot of scrutinizing by all schools involved. And the poor kids who had to play the last few remaining games for the 2005 season, as they played, the opposing teams' fans would all chant together "Cheaters - Cheaters - Cheaters". Not nice. 4. Well, it's nice to be home after a long day at work. CocoMan is supervising a night game of some type...basketball I think. 5. But he'll be home in time to go with me as we take DS#1 to LAX for his trip back to college. I'm gonna miss that boy.
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Friday, January 20, 2006 - 10:27 pm
5.1 CocoMan and I are back from dropping DS#1 off at LAX. My heart feels sad but the sun will be shining tomorrow. And you know what? All my talk about having the Remote Control once again....and here I sit posting to y'all, CocoMan is nearby, reading a book and the TV isn't on. I'm off to continue reading Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 12:08 am
1. Oh Coco, I'm so sorry you're husband and the rest of the team has to deal with the mess left from the other coach cheating. It isn't right that they have to take the heat for something someone else did. 2. Youngest niece came and spent most of the day with me. It was interesting to say the least. 3. First I knocked her down. She snuck up behind me (literally, I did not hear her!) and I turned around and bumped into her and down she went. I felt terrible, especially when she looked at me and cried. Next while wiping her nose, I "stole" it (her nose) thinking she'd find it funny. Nope, no way, she completely freaked out. Even when I gave her nose back, she still wasn't too happy about it. I've stolen noses from every kid in our family and never seen a reaction like that! 4. Then when the kids got home her and Kota were playing on the floor. Dakota was giving her pretend chest compressions and then she'd grab a baby doll and made it kiss niece while saying, "Kiss your bride." I was cracking up and asked her what chest compressions had to do with kissing the bride when Kota told me that she always saw on tv people pushing on someones chest and then leaning over to kiss them! 5. Sis is watching the kids Sunday for us. No real reason other than I've had the baby a few times this week. We don't really have plans yet, maybe just staying home for some quiet, alone time. 6. The following weekend we'll keep sis' kids overnight since it's her birthday. Well first, we'll go to her surprise party and then take the girls with us when we leave and the weekend after that she'll be watching ours because Darren and I have a work thing for him to go to. It's for one of the committees he was on. Supposed to only be a one year thing but he did two because they couldn't find anyone else to take his spot. This year they have, so he's done with this committee. Which only leaves him with two, lol.
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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 8:27 am
1. i love the weekend. i love sleeping in. i feel so good when i'm rested. 2. i got my w-2's from work this week, and you bet i got online and did them the same night. it turns out with my tax return i will be able to buy a plane tickets for florida and back (Woo hoo!) and still have a little left over. this relieves me. because although i could charge the tickets, i just don't like to use credit cards. 3. my friend that had to have some female surgery last week, called me yesterday and said she had to go back for another surgery because they had found an infection. looks like i'll be making another trip to the hospital today. 4. an old friend called me last weekend. i hadn't talked to her in probably about a year. she had to call me and tell me she was going to see bon jovi in nashville on valentine's day. (her birthday is the next day). i said "LUCKY!" 5. last night i made red velvet cupcakes with the diet soda recipe. i have to say, the stuff is good. 6. i'm getting frustrated because i've been so good on my diet, and even started going to the nature center to walk, and am seeing very little (if any) results. it's infuriating to me. might as well eat what i want if dieting isn't going to do any good. 7. less than 2 weeks til we go see keith urban in tulsa. woo hoo! happy saturday factoiders! 
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Spygirl
Board Administrator
04-23-2001
| Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 9:16 am
1. Hubby and I returned from the Dominican Republic last night after a refreshing, relaxing week. 2. It was pretty easy to get there and back, but I don't think we'll be returning. The resort was, at best, a 2 1/2 star. You get what you pay for 3. However, we had a great time laying in the sun, drinking, eating, talking, and sleeping. It was exactly the kind of vacation we needed. 4. It is not good, though, on the waistline. I think I found 5 pounds on the island that I brought home with me. 5. Today is catching up on email and laundry day! 6. Tonight we're going out to dinner, hubby's choice. 7. He leaves to go back to Atlanta tomorrow afternoon and I have to go back to work Monday - blech. 8. Happy Saturday!
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 12:49 pm
1. Jbean, I would love that recipe!!! 2. My ds has been out of school since Thanksgiving. 3. We can't find any medical reason why. 4. He is now being diagnosed with social anxiety disorder. 5. We are pursuing homebound teaching for him. 6. He seems to have just given up. 7. We have asked and asked and asked if there was something that happened. 8. We are waiting the results of one last medical test and I pray that they find something..horrible mom, I want my kid to be sick!!!! 9. I am losing it.
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 4:05 pm
1. I have lost 6 pounds since the week after Christmas! Actually wore a size (or two) smaller pair of pants to work this week! 2. I just booked my airline ticket to SALT LAKE CITY for my April conference! Yeah for Southwest! 3. I have never been there before, so I am happy to go. I will also have lunch with an old colleague of mine, whom I haven't seen for about five years. He's also a world traveller! 4. I have a ton of paperwork to do this weekend...handouts for next week's conference, and productivity annual report. 5. I need to find my calendar! 6. The cats are hissing at each other the last few days. What's up with that? 7. I had a great first week back to school. 8. Just got my contract to present at a conference in OMAHA next November! WHOO HOO! 9. I practiced for a couple of hours today to get a piece ready for Tuesday's recital. 10. I had my phone turned off for three days. I don't know why it changed from ring to vibrate! I missed a few calls, including my niece who is probably selling me girl scout cookies! Have a great rest of the weekend, everyone!
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 4:34 am
Morning all 1. Getting sick of this Southwest Ontario weather, we have cold weather and snow one day and the next day it is warmer and it melts. I do not remember another winter like this one. It is winter darn it...stay that way, let us have winter, snow so we can do winter and snow things and then become spring and stay that way lol - this week it will be above freezing temps and then below, sunny then some snow...grrrr 1.1. Taking oldest dd to ER this morning, she has had a fever since last wednesday evening (mostly in the evening) with a bit of a cold. I called this Canadian Tele-health and talked to a registered nurse there that recommended since she has had a fever since Wed. to take her within the next 24 hours to a doctor. So I will drop the family off to church and take her to the ER. 1.2 Last night we went to a friend of mines 40th birthday party. It was a surprise. I have not seen her in over 5 years. We were later than the time to arrive because kids had skating first. We got there and there were no guests. My friend came to the door and looked not well, I thought she was sick, however, her dh's father passed away earlier that day. They made us stay for a bit. We were ready to leave and they said no they were ordering pizza and wanted us to stay and visit as we live approx 45 minutes away. Despite everything that happened, I think they really appreciated the company to take their minds off things etc. Our kids played so well together to which was nice. So we had pizza and some cake and left around 9.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 5:02 am
1. Thanks for the recipe Jbean 2. I will just go back to inane chit chat.
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Weinermr
Member
08-18-2001
| Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 5:19 am
1. I 2. love 3. tax season. " "
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Jewels
Member
09-23-2000
| Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 7:25 am
1. (((Annie))) I hope you get some answers soon. 2. We are actually supposed to have dry, but chilly, weather today. A nice break since the last 34 out of 35 days have been rainy. And not just sprinkly rain, we have had over 15 inches of rain. 3. Hopefully, we will get the kids out on their new scooters today, although Jenna has a horrible cough so we'll have to see. 4. I just want to be able to go outside and enjoy some fresh air, I'm tired of being couped up!
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Saxywildcat
Member
05-30-2005
| Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 4:13 pm
1. DH just left to go back to Ft Riley. Not too many more times to do this, but it seems to get tougher every time. 2. One of the dogs puked in the house this morning. 4 inches away from the tile in the bathroom. Why'd they have to hit the carpet? 3. DH and I added a line to his sprint phone, so now we have a family plan. I can actually talk on the phone normally in my house now. 4. Pretty Woman is on TBS... Ahhhh, a young Richard Gere, so distinguished, so handsome. 5. I found Beaches and First Wives Club over at Mom and Dad's. Can't decide which one to watch tonight, but I know I need one of them!
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Mameblanche
Member
04-13-2005
| Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 8:39 pm
5.1) Well Saxy, RE: picking which movie to watch... are you in the mood to have a good old fashioned 5-hanky sniffle (BEACHES) or a rollicking good belly-laff (FIRST WIVES CLUB)? Just saw the latter on tv a few nights ago, and it was such fun. (So which one did you end up watching?)
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Saxywildcat
Member
05-30-2005
| Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 9:34 pm
5.2 I'm currently watching First Wives Club. I was a little down after DH left, so I figured a good laugher was the way to go. I love both movies, so either would have worked, but I needed the laugh. The girls are just now having their sleepover where they sing You Don't Own Me.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 11:29 pm
1. Hopefully Saxy, the time will go quickly and then ya'll can spend as much time as you want together. 2. Darren and I had the afternoon to ourselves today. 3. We went out to lunch. Half way through, the electricity went out. Finished up with no problems. 4. Then ran across the parking lot to the mall looking for a birthday gift for my sister. We'd been wandering around for an hour, no clue what to get her, whent he power went off there too and stayed off. We finally left, knowing we wouldn't be able to buy anything even if we found it. 5. When we picked the kids up she was making dinner and had her fancy cookbook out. Told her I had a few at home she could have that were a little beyond my basic talents. Give me Betty Crocker and I'm good to go. She complained that she didn't have a Betty Crocker cookbook, so I think that's what I'll get her. 6. Littlest niece is coming over for awhile tomorrow while sis takes the dog to the vet. We were talking (me, Darren, sis and bil) about how much time she spends here, usually once a week, sometimes more. I'm always willing to have her dropped off or go pick her up unless I've got something else planned. I said something about how I never had any of the other nieces or nephews over this much when they were that young, then sis reminded me that littlest niece is the only baby I haven't worked through, lol. When the others were that young, I was always at work and she's the first baby I'm home and able to take at a moments notice. Makes me realize how much I missed when my kids were that little. 
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