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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Sunday, June 04, 2006 - 3:37 pm
1. My son has 4 more days of school. 2. Then he leaves for 2 months with his dad in Chicago. He's so excited, me .. not so much! 3. The longest he's been away was 3 weeks. I'm going to try to get to Chicago in July for a weekend visit. 4. In the meantime, I joined a gym. I'm going to drop weight with all the spare time I'll have. 5. DB and I are also fixing things around the house. Painting, new screen door, ceiling fan etc. 6. DB and I are considering Tahoe for the 4th of July and have plans for Vegas in September. 7. I hope everyone is having a wonderful Sunday afternoon! 
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Spitfire
Member
07-18-2002
| Sunday, June 04, 2006 - 4:01 pm
1. Wargod I get 1 year off in total. Pay is basically cut in half though. I really can't complain though. 2. Had a nice quiet weekend here. 3. Sam didn't have a nap either day but was in a terrific mood still. 4. Sam has his first eye appointment tomorrow. This could be interesting. 5. I'm going to find it hard to keep up around here now that I'm home insted of "working." 6. We went to DH's grandfather birthday party today. He is 93. DH's cousin just had twin girls 2 weeks ago. Toooo cute! 7. We bought a digital camera last night. It's a Canon and I'm pretty happy with it so far. 8. Gotta go get caught up with the rest of the board.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, June 04, 2006 - 7:23 pm
1. Spit, a year off is awesome! I missed not being able to be home with the kids longer though I know at the time it was whaat we had to doo. 2. Why's Sam having an eye dr appt? Is that just a normal part of check ups? Our ped does the eye exams, up until they find a problem. Until Caleb was 5 he never saw the eye dr and now once a year since he has bad vision. 3. Caleb had a blast last night at his friends. After bowling they went and got burgers then went back to buddies house to play for awhile. They finally got to sleep around 2am. 4. When Darren called this morning to let them know he was coming to get Caleb, the boys were still asleep. He came home in his jammies, lol. 5. I don't think any of us realized until they were getting ready to leave last night, that neither of our kids have ever been to someones house for a real sleepover. They stay with my sis or mom, with one of my adopted brothers and cousins or little adopted sis, even once in a while with the neighbors (thats always been during emergencies and not for fun) but never at someones house who wasn't in some way part of the family. 6. Darren had fun golfing yesterday. Mostly, lol. The guys he drove down wanted to hang out and have a few drinks after the tournament, then wanted to play another round of golf, then more hanging out at the bar. Darren might have one drink early on (hours before they leave) when he's driving so he wasn't too thrilled but also said he wasn't going to hurry them along since they only got to go as a group once a year. 7. I have to take my car in tomorrow for an oil change and tire rotation. That trip to Vegas last week put us over the mileage. 8. My kidlets are depressed. Our neighbors wife and five children (the kids playmates around the neighborhood) are going to the Phillipines for the summer to visit family. They're leaving in the morning. I caught Dakota sitting out on the curb earlier watching them and just sighing. I'm going to have to make sure to invite their school friends over a little more often this summer so they aren't bored. 9. The kids are down to three weeks left of school. They don't do much the last few weeks in the way of school work and instead focus on fun stuff. Caleb's class is preparing for the 4/5 softball game and gold rush (they have to learn a bunch of songs to entertain us parents) and Kota's class is doing a couple reading days where they pitch tents and spend the day out in the shade reading.
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Monday, June 05, 2006 - 12:26 pm
1. I got married 24 years ago today. It is a very strange day. I should have scheduled myself fully so I wouldn't have to think about it. 2. There is an 81 year old man who has been missing from my home town since mid May. Just found out today. I know his kids really well. They are losing hope of finding him alive. 3. I really think that that might be how I die....I just don't show up for something and then two weeks later someone finds me. BLECH! 4. I went to St. Louis yesterday to buy a scanner. The only ultra-thin ones at Office max were only for Windows and I have a Mac. Bummer. 5. Went to Harrahs and had a lot of fun. A really drunk guy gave me $10 of his winnings for helping him choose in a bonus round. 6. The weather is pretty near perfect right now! 7. My summer trips is coming along nicely. I now have places to stay in Chicago, and Salzburg. I need to confirm DeKalb, Manchester and New York, and reconfirm Munich. I have all the ground transportation with the exception of rail between Munich and Salzburg (this is very easy) all set up. 8. I am looking forward to TV tonight....Deal or No Deal, The Apprentice and Big Love....missed Big Love last night! 9. I am really liking being at home, but I am wasting too much time downloading documents and cruising the internet instead of writing. It will be push come to shove here soon! 10. I need a nap!
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, June 05, 2006 - 12:30 pm
1. My farts haven't had any scent lately, is that normal? Or should I just COUNT my blessings (TMI?)
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Monday, June 05, 2006 - 12:42 pm
1. OMG Escapee ... count your blessings! LOL!! 2. DS slept with me last night & I wish he had the same problem .. whoo!
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Monday, June 05, 2006 - 2:19 pm
1. Chronic phone calling student called again today and I was actually there to pick up. 2. One hour later and I think we have things hammered out. He knows what he needs to do to improve and I'm not changing his grade. 3. The pool hose is still stuck on the pump. What should I try? Vaseline? Cutting the dang thing off? I don't have a pipe wrench, maybe I should buy one?
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Monday, June 05, 2006 - 2:23 pm

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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, June 05, 2006 - 6:32 pm
1. Dang Spit, I shouldn't have asked about Sam's eye dr appt. I got a coupon the other day for $100 off a new pair of glasses and went over tonight to see if I saw anything I liked. The sales clerk ran my rx and told me it's expired (has it really been two and a half years since my last eye exam????) I now have an appt scheduled for tomorrow. 2. I slept like crud last night. Took me forever to go to sleep and I just couldn't stay asleep. The brief moments of sleep I did get were filled with bizarre dreams. I woke up feeling like it'd have been better to have stayed awake all night. 3. Caleb's teacher sent home a note today about the things they need donated for the gold rush like hot dogs, chips, sodas, little toys and candy. I cracked up when I read that they also needed to borrow a couple bbq grills...and cooks to go with them, lol. I will admit, I did ask Darren if he could take the day off work and volunteer (he said he doesn't feel right doing it now since it's only been a couple weeks since he took off on emergency leave when his aunt died.) 4. I then called bil to see if he could do it. It's not as weird as it sounds, lol. He has at times in the past stepped in for Darren when he couldn't get time off from work. When the kids were in preschool, Darren had to go out of town for a workshop for his job, bil took his place at the fathers day bonanza. He's also volunteered for a couple field trips when he was laid off so my kids would have someone there with them. Unfortunately boss man, our uncle, said he can't have the day off to go bbq for the fourth graders. I tried, lol. Instead I'll send over some hotdogs and buns from Costco and a couple bags of candy for them.
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Spitfire
Member
07-18-2002
| Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - 8:03 am
1. Wargod when I was at my last eye check-up we were discussing my current pregnancy and that I have to rememeber to bring baby in at 6 months. Pardon? She said that they start testing infants at 6 months for any abnormalities in hopes that if there is a problem it can possibly be fixed before it becomes a problem. 2. I started my maternity leave - actually vacation for 2 weeks first - yesterday. 3. Yesterday after all the chores I pre-baked banana bread and oatmeal raisin cookies for my upcoming new arrival which will leave me now time. 4. Today I did a bunch of sheppards pie and lasagna. 5. I whipped.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - 6:40 pm
1. Well it sounds like a good idea Spit. Caleb was five when his vision problem was first diagnosed and his ped. who'd done the eye screen thought for a split second Caleb was joking about how poorly he saw the chart. Not a one of us (us, his ped who did yearly exams, nor preschool teachers) had noticed a problem but once we realized there was one all of us went...wow, that explains so much! He'd been showing signs of bad vision for awhile but all of them were things you'd expect from young children like sitting too close to the tv or asking to see a picture in a storybook again. 2. How did his appt go? 3. I had mine today too. I hadn't expected it, I just wanted to buy a new pair of glasses and they said nope, not til you have an exam cuz it's been two and a half years. 4. I'll just say it was a bad appt. By the time I got back from picking up the kids I had such a terrible headache I had to take the heavy duty meds and take a nap. I'm feeling mighty fine now though still a little goofy. 5. My new prescription is for progressive lenses (both near and far vision has gotten worse) and anti glare coating, plus a warning never to go outside without sunglasses. 6. Caleb has tryouts tomorrow for the fourth grade softball team. I'm not sure how thats gonna go. He can hit, throw and catch, but much like Kota's temper, he's unpredictable and just as likely to get involved chatting with a buddy as keeping his eye on the ball. 6.5 We also have Dakota's open house tomorrow. She's pretty excited and has a lot she wants to show us, or rather show her daddy. He rarely gets to go to school so its a treat when they get to show him stuff in class.
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Spitfire
Member
07-18-2002
| Wednesday, June 07, 2006 - 2:35 am
6.6 His appointment went well. They just put things like airplanes, ducks...etc up and they eventually get smaller. His vision is good and his sensitivity to light is basically because his eyes are young and light in color. This is a 22 month old who asks for sunglasses on!!
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Spitfire
Member
07-18-2002
| Wednesday, June 07, 2006 - 2:43 am
6.7 Funny thing. She was supposed to put this contraption up to eyes so she could measure but he wanted no part of it. We have been working on "NO" and trying to make it "no thank-you." Well it must be working because he simply pushed it away and said "no thank-you lady." LOL
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, June 07, 2006 - 5:51 am
6.6a I'm glad it went well Spit! Sunglasses are good for him, protects his little eyes. 6.7a Hahaha, that's funny! Don't blame him at all either for not wanting to stick his head in the contraption, lol.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Friday, June 09, 2006 - 3:45 am
1. I'm sooooo nervous! 2. I have an interview at 9:45 this morning (about 2 hours from now) for a teaching job! 3. Wish me luck- I want this job- it's at a charter school and it sounds similar to the high school I went to in some ways. I went to a magnet school. 4. That may be a benefit to me (my high school is on my resume and maybe they've heard of it even though it's in a different city). 5. Also I did a search for news articles on the school and one of the teachers is a woman who's class I volunteered in for a semester about 5 years ago- not sure if she would remember me, but I have a letter of recommendation from her in my portfolio. 6. I absolutely hate interviews! Luckily it's cooler today- my interview clothes are kinda warm (with the suit jacket and all) so I'm glad I won't be sweating my butt off on the way to the school. 7. In other news, my momis coming down tomorrow to visit. yay!
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Heyltslori
Moderator
09-15-2001
| Friday, June 09, 2006 - 4:11 am
7.1 Good Luck Kaili!! 
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Jewels
Member
09-23-2000
| Friday, June 09, 2006 - 4:33 am
7.2 Good Luck, Kaili!! 
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, June 09, 2006 - 8:44 am
1. Ohhh GOOD LUCK Kaili! This sounds exciting for you! 2. We had Dakota's open house Wednesday. That was fun. We searched through her desk (a huge mess, lol,) and looked around the room at different projects she's done this year. One of the best was a book written, illustrated and decorated by the kids. They used fabric for the front cover, then wrote and illustrated a story about what they thought a bad day was for their teacher. Some of the kids were quite inventive and had all kinds of bad luck befalling their teacher/character. In Dakota's story she was late to work, crashed her car, got stung by a bee, and fell in the cafeteria dropping her lunch and ripping her pants. We had a terrific time looking through some of the other kids books as well. 3. Caleb's was last night and it was just as interesting. We got to check out his best work, and his teacher was standing behind me giggling as she pointed out Caleb's was a math test with a grade of A considering his grades in math the last few months. We also got to read his daily class journal. Now both my kids write in a journal at home and we'd never consider looking unless they brought them to us, but the class journal is meant to be shared (they read them outloud in class) so getting to look through that was a rare treat into how he views the things that happen in his life that he's willing to share with others. 4. We got home and no sooner did we walk in that Caleb started to complain about his stomach hurting. I knew he wasn't faking itt wn he spent the next hour on the couch looking miserable. 5. By 4 this morning both kids were sick with the stomach flu. I had to have mom run to the grocery store for me with a list of flu foods and drinks cuz I had nothing in the house for them. 6. I was supposed to watch my nieces tonight, but that's not gonna happen, lol. Sis is supposed to watch the kids tomorrow night because we have a party to go to (this is the one his boss throws every year that we have missed every single year because it usually happens the same day as my oldest nieces birthday party) that's looking rather iffy right now. 7. Sis was telling me my niece gets a field trip to the movies next week with her teacher cuz she went through the entire year with no demerits. Yay niece! I said our school does an attendence carnival, if the kids miss less than a certain number of days for the whole year they get to go. Mine have never been. Then it hit me. Dakota was 9 days away from perfect attendance this trimester! That is a huge deal, especially with her. 8. Today's gonna be a forced lazy day. I did clean the bathroom, hehe, with comet, then went back over with clorox, then sprayed everything with lysol (and I'll do it again later too, I'd like to keep this from spreading to Darren at least!) Caleb's feeling well enough though now to lay on the floor and play with legos, I'm not going to make him stop so I can clean up. Gonna just take it easy today. Clean what has to be clean and leave the rest for tomorrow.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, June 09, 2006 - 9:15 pm
1. Caleb was feeling better by this afternoon. 2. Dakota spent the day sleeping on and off. She finally fell into a deeper sleep around 2:30, slept til almost 8 then woke up feeling quite perky. She had some gatorade and jello, her fevers been down, and she has some energy. Right now she's sitting on the couch eating steamed white rice. I think she's on the mend! 3. Which is good timing. One of her classmates mother called and asked if Dakota was coming to the littl girls birthday party Sunday afternoon. My response...what party? 4. The little girl did tell Kota about the party and that she was invited but Dakota never brought an invitation a home. Come to find out it was in the bottom of the little girls backpack. 5. As long as she's well by Sunday she'll go. Should be fun for her too, all her little girlfriends are going and the little birthday girl is one of her playmates. 6. I'm now cautiously optomistic that both will be well tomorrow. I know Darren wants to go to his party with the people from work. 7. Darren's supposed to go help a buddy of his install a swamp cooler tomorrow. I'm thinking I'll invite my nieces over so sis can take care of what she wanted to do tonight. Then all four can go back to my sisters for the rest of the night. 8. I'm watching an episode of Stargate I haven'tt sen before. Thought I'd seen all of them this season and can't figure out how I missed it. 9. I am worn out and ready to fall into bed. Kota, however, is wide awake and busy playing, lol. I'm gonna drag her off to bed in awhile and I know she's going to end up back in bed with me and keeping me awake again tonight, not that I blame her for last night!
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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 7:41 am
1. it's saturday! woo hoo! i love the weekend! 2. i'm going to pryor, oklahoma today for country fever fest. i won free tickets on the radio on wednesday. turns out, even though they are general admission, they are still worth $60 each! 3. it is about 2 degrees shy of hell in these parts right now, so we are going to be burning up. oh well, brooks and dunn are worth it. 4. i got my hair cut and highlighted on tuesday. my friend did it on her own time (after the shop was closed) and it took 3 and a half hours. she didn't do the chunks this time is why i think it took longer. i think she forgot that's how it was last time. after 3.5 hours i definitely wasn't going to say anything about it. 5. i seen the funniest thing i think in my whole entire life, as work this week. it is a long story, but it basically involves a bird nearly flying right into a co-worker, but hit the fluorescent light instead, and was knocked out...it fell into a bin on my co-workers bench about 2 ft away from here. OMG...i was the only one of them that saw the whole incident unfold. my co-worker screamed. 6. tried a new drink the other night. i think i'm in love! it's got cherry vodka, sprite and a splash of orange juice. YUM! 7. my sister should be having her baby boy sometime in the next 2 weeks! i can't wait to have a nephew. 8. that being said, big sister's 7th birthday party is next saturday...i sure hope my sister doesn't go into labor before then while we're there. she deserves this last birthday as an only child to be special. 9. i went to gordman's this morning and got a cool new black tank top with silver splashed on it, that says "ROCK" in silver metal letters. also got some new earrings. 10. i'm wanting to see the movie the break-up at some point this weekend! hope everyone has a fantastic weekend! 
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 8:53 pm
1. My partner is in the other room sleeping and I'm not tired.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 9:21 pm
1. Hehe, I'm going to follow you around the board Yankee, cuz Darren's doing the same thing and I'm wide awake. 2. We went to his boss' birthday party tonight. Pretty much the entire company was invited. I got to chat with some folks I know from previous get togethers, and meet some of the ones I'd never met before. It always cracks me up when the co-workers I'm meeting for the first time look at me totally serious and say, "Darren's a good guy." LOL, why do you think I married him??? And then they tell me he's a great supervisor cuz he never asks them to do anything he isn't willing to do himself and they enjoy working with him and so on. Hehe, this one guy cornered me and told me for 45 minutes what a good guy Darren was. We were finally interupted by a buddy of Darren's who came to tell me he was mad at him cuz Darren hadn't asked me to dance once all night. I said he won't, I'm a terrible dancer, buddy said I know, I keep hearing all about it and was hoping tonight I'd finally get to see it, LOL.
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Secretsmile
Member
08-19-2002
| Sunday, June 11, 2006 - 2:45 am
1. Our house is in a major uproar. LOL! Aside from all of us waiting impatiently for word from when Devin will be arriving home, my kitchen is undergoing a major face lift. 2. Several days ago I awoke to a bright freshly painted kitchen. My daughter, youngest son, FDIL, and some of their friends spent the night, scrubbing and repainting my kitchen as a surprise. I can't tell you how wonderful it was. But my surprise was only beginning. They also got new floor tile and were putting up new ceiling tile. My kitchen was damaged when our roof leaked several years ago and it's been last on the list of repairs since we keep thinking we'll gut it and start fresh. I got sad about Devin's homecoming party and our disgraceful kitchen so the kids pitched in and bought the supplies and stayed up all night to get it done. 3. Over night is not enough time to do all they planned to do so Tim and I are pitching in trying to get it done, the only thing left is to rehang the cabinet doors and the time consuming edge of the ceiling tiles (the ones that need to be measured and cut). I'm so thrilled yet part of me is impatient, I want it finished. LOL!
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, June 11, 2006 - 6:48 am
1. Wargod, I'd logged off TVCH by the time you started stalking me (LOL) so you were following my ghost!!! 2. I'm hoping Secretsmile gets a big surprise in the coming days from Devin! 3. World Cup, World Cup, World Cup. It's World Cup crazy around here.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, June 11, 2006 - 11:47 am
1. LOL, Yank, you know how hard it is to stalk someone when they log off??? 2. We just got back from dropping Kota off at her party. I was going to take her and drop her off but I realized I had no idea where this party was (wasn't at the little girls house but a friend of the families) so I made Darren drive out there since I tend to get lost. Caleb whined the whole way, he didn't want to go out to a girl party, he didn't want to go at all. We got out there and he saw the swimming pool and all the kids having a blast and decided he wanted to stay, lol. We told him tough, he had to come home. 3. With all their cousins around the same age, Caleb and Kota spend a lot of time together playing because if we send one we send the other. For stuff like this, its nice for them to have their own friends and their own stuff to do without their sibling being there. 4. He's not sitting at home though. Darren took him to see X-men 3. I've decided while they're gone I'm going to get the majority of my housework done today because little niece is coming to spend a few hours with me tomorrow.
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