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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Monday, November 06, 2006 - 5:07 pm
1. I haven't stopped moving today, either. Earlier I found out my grandson has been very ill and went to the emergency room today with 103º fever. He has a couple of infections in his lungs and his ears. 2. Their kitty had to go to the vet for another check-up to see if they can finally get rid of her two kinds of worms she was infested with when they adopted her three and a half weeks ago. Poor baby got another shot and a pill. She meowed all the way home. 3. My folks are on a nice long trip which will include stopping at my son's house. I hope everyone is feeling better when they get there. 4. They will be visiting us a few days later. 5. I have been reorganizing my home space and trying to declutter. It sure is amazing all the stuff you find hidden away in closets. I took two huge bags of clothing to Goodwill. 6. Today I had to take a jury notice for my son to the district clerk's office, since he is unable to serve. After that I paid the electric bill downtown, took back some overdue videos, went to the post office, paid another bill at Bealls and bought two 99cent shirts and two purses at 30% off. Then I went to get gasoline and paid $2.029/gal. It took $19.84 worth to fill up. It rained pretty hard off and on all day today, too. 7. After that I went to the Ace Hardware neighborhood store and bought some nail size staples 1 1/4" to use as improvised stoppers for a couple of drawers in a very old chest of drawers that lost the original ones. DH held the flashlight for me while I installed a couple in each place behind three of the four drawers. They worked perfectly! 8. I came to the computer after supper to check email before coming to the clubhouse and found a letter from my best long distance friend that she and her dh are getting divorced.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 1:28 am
1. Gracie I hope your grandson is feeling better quickly. That's scary when they get so sick. 2. Littlest niece and nephew didn't come today, but they're coming in the morning instead. 3. I'm all set to start Christmas crafts with little niece. We'll be making foam ornaments. 4. Kids have a minimum day on Thursday and then are out on Friday. 5. Thursday is also report card day! I'm so excited, lol. Since Caleb's teacher sends home progress reports twice a month there won't be any surprises on his. 6. I got an invoice from the dentist today. Had a moment of pure freak out as I looked at it and thought NO WAY! I paid my share when she had the work done, I don't owe a dime, how are they charging me $889???? Hehe, then I felt stupid as I realized that was in the insurances column and my balance was $0. 7. I got the coolest candy canes from Costco yesterday. They have little jelly candies attatched to them (things like Santa, snowmen, and gingerbread men.) I think they'll be cute to attach to kidlet gifts for the nieces, nephews and friend kids. 8. Little nieces birthday party in this weekend. Darren and I will probably go for a few hours and then leave the kids overnight since they couldn't spend the night last weekend. That's the plan right now anyways! 9. Dakota's been wrapping stuff up around the house and wanting to sell it. So far I've gone through my whole cup of change to keep her from standing outside trying to sell it. Not only am I out a couple bucks of change, but I find myself buying stuff I've already paid for, like a roll of toilet paper or a can of corn. What's even funnier is that she's trying to save money to buy us Christmas presents with her own money!
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 8:46 am
9a. Thanks War. I just wish he had not gotten so sick on the weekend, which is the usual case in kids, isn't it? Those candy canes are very cool. I got some last year and gave them, stuffed into tiny red and white Christmas stockings, to my entire bowling league as gifts last year, and they loved them (even asked where I got them). I snagged the last box at our Costco this year.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 9:09 am
9.2 Yep, Gracie they are pretty cool. I went in with the intention of just buying what was on my list but saw those and knew if I didn't get them they wouldn't be there next time. And yep, the kids always seem to get sick at the worst possible times, like after the dr's office is closed!
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Wednesday, November 08, 2006 - 9:37 pm
9.3b The folks arrived late last night.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, November 09, 2006 - 10:34 pm
1. Well, today wasn't report card day. I was crushed, lol. 2. I woke up this morning singing about it being report card day! And waited all morning for the kids to get out of school so I could see them. 3. Least I have something to look forward to next Friday. 4. Caleb went to a birthday party tonight. It was his first real boy/girl party since a good portion of the kids have started to notice the opposite sex. 5. Tomorrow since the kidlets are out of school, they're friends are coming to spend part of the day with them. Should be fun since we've all been so busy the past month and a half they haven't got to visit each other! 6. My mom came over to show me a new craft project. Just what I need, LOL. 7. Darren's almost finished with week 6 (or is it 7?) of 12 hour days. He actually got off after ten hours the other day for voting! LOL, it's horrible when a ten hour day is a nice surprise. 8. Dakota scored an A on her science project. She really worked hard to get it done and did the great majority of the work by herself. 9. We've had this great 80 degree weather all week. Up til last night when it got very windy. This morning was so cold compared to the last few days. I don't think it got over 60 all day. 10. I think I'm going to clean my living room carpet tomorrow. It's been awhile since I've done it and with the holidays coming up I guess it's time to start getting the house ready for decorating and surprise visits.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 10:51 pm
1. Today the partner and I went out for lunch. While we were sitting at our table we could see out the front window of the restaurant and into the building across, which consists of funky industrial lofts. The loft just across from the restaurant had this huge, probably 50-inch or more flat-panel TV, which was visible from the restaurant. And the residents of the loft were watching... hardcore porn. HILARIOUS. But glad we didn't have any kids at our table, that's for sure. Dudes, close your blinds if you're gonna watch porn on your humongous TV in the middle of the city!!! JEEZ
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 12:35 am
1. LOL Yank, that is hilarious, but yep, glad you didn't have kidlets! I'd hate to have to explain that to them, lol. 2. Neices birthday party was nice. I can't believe she's already 3. Darren and I left the kidlets with sis and bil for the night and came home to have a quiet evening together. It was great to get some time to just relax for a little bit.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 9:02 am
2.1 Rofl Yankee!
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 11:18 am
1. Today is our four-year wedding anniversary. 2. Or was it yesterday? We married on November 12 in New Zealand, but that would make it November 11 in North America. We decided to make it easy and just pick the 12th as our anniversary date, no matter where we were. But it gets confusing. 3. The marriage for us was more of a formality... in fact, I had to pull out our marriage certificate from the safe a few weeks ago, to remember how many years ago it was.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 11:59 pm
1. I had the nicest compliment tonight, or at least that's the way I'm taking it, LOL. 2. Darren and I had a very late lunch today and by dinnertime neither of us were hungry but the kids were starving. We decided we'd get them Mcdonalds. 3. I ran up to Mcdonalds, didn't have any cash and they don't take atm. Since they share space with the Cheveron station I ran over and bought a couple lottery cards and pulled cash. When I went to pay the cashier asked me for my ID. Told her I was using debit and not credit, she said, "Oh no, I need to check your age." Ha, I couldn't believe it! I'm 33 and haven't been carded in years! I thanked the woman, LOL. I haven't seen her before so I'm guessing she's just new and being a little more thourough than most of the employees are, but hey it was nice to be carded for lottery tickets! 4. We had a nice day. Since the kids were at my sisters we got to sleep in late. After we picked them up we brought them back home and watched Cars (cute movie) and just hung around. It was nice to hang around without anything planned or needing to run here or there for a change.
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Alwayzmovin
Member
11-06-2003
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 3:53 am
1. Labor Day weekend I invited my sons to Thanksgiving dinner. 2. Youngest son (22) is making the trip and staying the whole weekend after, made me very happy. 3. A few weeks ago, my in-laws (actually it was my MIL) invited themselves to T'sgiving dinner here with us. (sigh) I've not the had chance to spend my time with my son for a long long time. 4. This past weekend, my step-son, his GF, her 2 monster children and his 3 y.r.o. son were here. The GF plants her happy butt on the couch, smokes like a chimney, drinks soda and her job is done! Reckon she figures when they're here, it's my job to do everything for everyone! (arrrrghhhhhhh) 5. Saturday evening step-son pretty much invited themselves here for Turkey day. So now there will be 10 people sharing our 2 bedroom, 960 sq. foot house for the holiday. So much for spending quiet quality time with MY son. 
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, November 17, 2006 - 10:59 pm
1. Report cards came in! LOL, Caleb got his a day early yesterday. 2. A's, B's and one C for him. About what we expected though we weren't quite positive he'd pull that math grade up. 3. Dakota got an A in both math and Social Studies. B's in everything else and a C- in writing. She did better in Reading and Spelling than we expected, the writing grade is no surprise. 3. She got invited to a birthday party for a school friend tomorrow. We've had birthday parties almost every single week since her birthday in mid September and two of them tomorrow. I am considering skipping our friends little girls party but might let her go to her friends. It's important for them to have their own things to do. 4. Darren's working again tomorrow and he's looking at it as another 12 hour day. I'm so happy next week is Thanksgiving just so he can get four days off and have some rest, even if he will have to go back to 12 hour days the week after. 5. We're having a smaller Thanksgiving than usual. Several of our friends who join us are going out of town. Most of the family is too. It'll be a very quiet holiday for us. 6. I'm still waiting for my last book order from the school. I just sent another order today, lol. I just love scholastic.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 12:46 pm
1. 2hrs and 20 mins left till I can blow this joint for the holiday. 2. finished updating my script from my team leaders comments. 3. may still make changes with regards to who is saying what though. i figured if i had more lines the less nervous i would be. 4. i took some tylenol sore throad syrup and that stuff really works. wish i had thought of that yesterday. 5. instead yesterday i just gargled with warm salt water, yeah old remedy. 6. i looked at the black fridy ads but don't know why cuz i will not be at any store at 5am. 7. Happy Holidays TVCH!
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 1:31 am
1. I'm back from Germany 2. Jet lag sucks! (Note posting time....LOL!) 3. I went to two Christmas markets in Cologne and they were neat! 4. Also went to the "German Requiem" by Brahms at the Cathedral, and it was PACKED! 5. Didn't make it to "Queen: We will Rock you" since all the cheap seats were sold out and I didn't have the 57 € (about $75) for the seats. 6. I am really glad to be home. Ellie is sitting on the sofa with me and she looks like she wants to hit the return or delete buttons! 7. I am feeling much better now that my stress level is down and I was eating healthy food in Germany. 8. I had an American steak and baked potato at the "German Sport University" cafeteria for Thanksgiving. It wasn't turkey, but at least it was American!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 2:42 am
1. Hi Marm! Welcome home! 2. I have a working dryer again! After weeks and weeks and weeks of only being able to dry half a light load of laundry with the dryer making horrible noises and anything heavier than a tshirt hanging all over the house, Darren tore my dryer completely apart today. He then ran off to get a part, came back home and put it back together and it started right up without a single sound. I'm so excited I've already done four loads of laundry today, lol. It's the little things in life that make me happy! 3. We were going to go have family portraits done tomorrow, but both kidlets spent today complaining of sore throats, stuffy noses, headaches and low fevers. We decided to postpone that til next weekend, give them a chance to feel better and rest for the day. 4. I was going through a box of pictures today looking for a Christmas picture of the kids for a Christmasy frame I have when I found three pictures. The first one is of my step dad and sis at her wedding. I don't remember seeing that one in her album so I'm going to give it to her. It was taken about 15 months before he died, and one of the very few of him dressed up. I think she'll like it. 5. The other two pics, well...Sis and bil have decided to do away with the playroom for the girls and finally give them their own rooms. They're getting new bedroom furniture for Christmas, along with bedding sets (different sets for each of them,) along with nick nacks and decorations. 6. The other two pics I found our from the day my oldest niece was born. She's wrapped up so tight in a little baby blanket you can't even tell it's a baby, lol. The special part of the pics, my mom and bils mom (who died last year) are both holding her and looking down on her. I'm going to frame both of them and give them to her for Christmas, along with how proud both her grandma's were that day and everyday after it. 7. Wednesday I watched my neighbors youngest daughter while she took the youngest son to the dentist. The little girl is pretty indifferent to me and wasn't much different this time other than working on a craft when she needed my help. She's coming back on Monday while her brother has another appointment. This time though, I've invited my youngest niece to come over as well. The girls are close enough in age and have played together often enough that they should have a good time together. 8. We've had a good time with everyone home this long weekend. Darren and I finished the kids Christmas shopping (other than stocking stuffers,) we have the inside of the house decorated, and the outside is mostly done. Darren's also had the chance to spend time with the kids doing the things they enjoy together. With as much as he's worked the last couple months and whats coming up til at least after the first of the year it's been nice having family time and for him to have one on one time with the kids that lasts for more than a few minutes a day. 9. I really want to go to bed but I've got a load of laundry in the dryer and one in the wash. I want to fold the one load and throw the other in the dryer. Hopefully it'll be done soon, lol! Hehe, never thought I'd be enjoying laundry!
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Monday, November 27, 2006 - 11:49 am
1. I feel surly and belligerent. 2. I think everyone should rush to my folder and make me feel better. 3. I had a good Thanksgiving holiday; it was just over too fast. 4. Winter Break is coming right up (December 15!!), so please feel free to smack me if I get too whiny. 5. I have a lot to do with the Jaycees over the next couple of weeks. 6. We have a really cool program where we help kids in need. 7. We get their names from the Christmas Mother and we get their wish lists. 8. We buy them gifts from the wish lists (that's gonna be my job!), and then, it gets better, we meet with them one Saturday morning at a local Target and give them each a $50 gift card to shop for their families! 9. Santa comes that morning also and presents them with the presents from their wish lists. So they get to go home with something they wanted personally, as well as with gifts for them to give their loved ones! 10. I feel less surly and belligerent now. 
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Monday, November 27, 2006 - 12:03 pm
1. I adore you Hermi .. surly or not! 
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, November 27, 2006 - 12:15 pm
1. I adore our Hermi too! (SmOOchies!!!) 2. I'm hungry and I don't think we have any cheese for grilled cheese sandwhiches and I am gonna sulk if that's the case. ALthough we do have leftover Chinese... hmmm.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Tuesday, November 28, 2006 - 8:05 am
1. Good heavens, was I attention-seeking enough yesterday? Thanks for humoring me, guys. 2. One of my nieces lost her first tooth yesterday and was very excited to get a visit from the tooth fairy last night. She woke up her parents at 3 a.m. to tell them the tooth fairy had come! 3. The library has been commandeered for standardized tests for the next 3 days. I may take a personal day tomorrow.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Tuesday, November 28, 2006 - 8:18 am
1. You're most welcome Hermie... 2. I have a Peter Pan meeting this morning. 3. I wish I could take a personal day tomorrow (enjoy Hermie)
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Tuesday, November 28, 2006 - 9:00 am
2.a. WHAT IS a peter pan meeting?
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Tuesday, November 28, 2006 - 11:28 am
lol @ Landi... 1. Peter Pan meeting is where you sign your life away for the next 4 months to this year's school drama production, Peter Pan
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Tuesday, November 28, 2006 - 12:04 pm
2.a.1. i was wondering if you were having an AA type meeting with people with Peter Pan Syndrome. ya know.. the guys who never grow up.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Tuesday, November 28, 2006 - 12:11 pm
2.a.1.b. I know who would chair that meeting.
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