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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, August 28, 2006 - 2:49 pm
1. At back to school night we busted Caleb. His teacher was explaining to us their book reports that she gives them every Tuesday and are due Wednesdays. She'd started last week, yet he'd told us he had no homework that day. Busted. 2. Today I stopped by for a little chat with his teacher. Please let me know if you start to notice him missing homework. She said let me take a look and tell you how he's doing so far. 3. He's missing one book report, with another due on Wednesday. He's missing four math assignments. Anyone want to take a wild guess what my sons going to be missing out on for the next week? A life! 2 weeks into school and he's missing a total of five assignments. Oy. 4. Darren called earlier to tell me he's working 12 hours today. He worked something like 39 hours of OT last pay period and is well on his way to doing that and more this time around. 5. I have been staying up far too late the past week. It's been so hot I've been doing a lot of cleaning late at night after the family's gone to bed. 6. Lynard Skynard is playing at the fair tomorrow night. I agreed to watch my nieces cuz sis and bil have tickets, but if we can make other arrangements for all four of them, Darren and I will be going too. I'm not really holding my breath though, lol. 7. My mailman still hasn't come today. It's very odd, for the past couple months he's been here by 11 am, but the last week he's been really late. I never even saw him Friday. 8. We're going ahead with the slumber party for Dakota's birthday. Her best friend and cousin will spend the night, then the next day we'll do a little party at the park for the rest of her friends and the family. 9. Guess I better get back to work. Still have to put clean sheets on my bed, wash a couple dishes and start dinner!
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Monday, September 04, 2006 - 11:36 am
1. I haven't had the time or energy to keep up with this thread or some of my other favorites around TVCH, and I miss it. 2. My "as-need" position in the Purchasing department of the hospital changed to "part-time, temporary" at the beginning of May. The boss said the job would be reassessed at the end of August. Ummmmm....looking at my calendar, ahem! 3. I have a feeling the department will be adding a third full-time position, or a permanent part-time position. I'm not sure I want either. DH retired in March and told me to do what I want, work or not. I am weighing the pros and cons. 4. We bought a new Buick LaCrosse this week. It is a 2005 but not previously owned. I dislike the color but love the car. It's loaded. I will especially appreciate the remote start and heated leather seats this winter! 5. We took a road trip Saturday and had a great day at the Windjammer Festival in Camden, Maine. I love the ocean and would live near it if I could. I love the colors, the sounds, the noisy birds, even the sometimes fishy smell. I like to just sit and watch the tides. 6. The weather has turned unseasonably cool here. Some of the leaves have already turned colors. I like this time of year. I wish it would last for about six months. Then it could be spring and summer for the rest of the year. 7. Next month will mark my three-year anniversary of joining the gym and beginning a consistent workout program. I have not missed more than a week and a half since joining. I'm proud of myself for sticking with it even when my workout buddy quit. 8. Today I caught the last half of "Fever Pitch" on tv. I love the Red Sox and love the movie. I had forgotten a couple of parts that made me lol again today. 9. My dd is in an on-line film contest. I think the voting is done, but I'll post the link somewhere at TVCH. They had a big problem with the audio, but you can easily follow the story. It is the 72-Hour Film Challenge. I think she said they are given a prop and then have 72 hours to write, act, and produce their film. Cool, huh? 10. To go with our new car with the remote start, dh is installing a garage door opener. He started yesterday. After about three hours of working on it, he went to step down from the step-stool (Yes, step-stool instead of ladder because he said it reached the part he was working on at the time). The little step-stool, which isn't made for the use to which it was being put, tipped right over, toppling dh on his face! His glasses sliced right down through the bridge of his nose. When I had him wipe the spurting blood with a towel, I saw that he needed stitches. Amazingly, and luckily, the glasses didn't break. We live in a small town where the ER can have long spells of inactivity. Yesterday, between 3 and 4 p.m., the place was hopping! Our elderly neighbor arrived in the ambulance right after we arrived. She is a frequent guest at the hospital. In fact, I had seen the ambulance outside when dh fell and considered hitching a ride. Lol, no not really, but it was ironic. I'm still amazed at how many emergencies there were at that particular time. We were there for nearly three hours, which was understandable considering the seriousness of some of the others. Dh ended up receiving nine stitches. He also chipped a tiny piece of cartilage from the bridge of his nose. Today, he looks like a boxer, with a swollen red nose and a swollen black eye. He also has a sore tongue, where he bit the tip of it. He is still working on the garage door opener today. He has been known to whine about a hang-nail, yet he's taking this in stride. He said his pride is hurt more than anything because he looks so pathetic right now. I'm so thankful he wasn't more seriously hurt!
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Monday, September 04, 2006 - 11:51 am
1. Most of my family (minus one brother and his family) was at my house for Labor Day weekend and my Mom's birthday. WHAT fun. It was a little cold, but the kids had fun in the pool, my folks brought my china cabinet down, and since we had a truck, I bought a grill and a patio table. WHOO HOO! AND my brother took down a dead tree and did massive pruning. My brother and Dad finished putting my desk and office chair together, too! My house FINALLY feels like a home!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, September 04, 2006 - 12:23 pm
1.2 Aack hope MrMak is ok.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Monday, September 04, 2006 - 2:52 pm
1.22 Thanks, Mocha. He's doing fine, just looks pitiful and a bit sore. The worst thing is he could have hired Sears to install it for $129. Now, after two days' work and the injury, he has it installed but it isn't working correctly, so he has to call them anyway. pfffffttttt!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, September 04, 2006 - 11:02 pm
1. Ouch Mak! I hope your hubby is ok! My eyes teared up reading that. 2. Darren sold the little white pickup truck yesterday! Yay! It's outta my driveway, lol.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 2:53 am
1.4 Thanks, Wargod.
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Jewels
Member
09-23-2000
| Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 9:49 am
1. Ouch, Mak! I hope he is using the ladder and not the step stool to continue working on it! 2. Jake started first grade today. How is he ever going to survive all day without me? 3. Jenna starts preschool next week. That means every Tuesday and Thursday I will have 2 hours and 45 minutes to myself. Yay!!! 
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 11:28 am
1. Yes, Jewels, he learned that lesson! He looks worse today, much more swollen around the eyes. 2. Your babies are growing up too fast. This time of year, it still seems odd that I don't have anyone in school. Our baby graduated high school in 2000! 3. I like to read a lot. 4. My favorite American Idol contestant of all time (so far) is Taylor Hicks. It used to be Clay Aiken, but he can only hold a candle to my Taylor love. I think I like Kelly Clarkson's music more than Clay's now, too. I bet none of them care, lol.
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Spitfire
Member
07-18-2002
| Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 2:54 am
1. I haven't been here in forever! 2. Things are going good here with baby Myla and big brother Sam. 3. Sam is sleeping really well in his big boy bed. The only problem I have is likes to wake up early now. He does not get out of bed though. 4. I have been helping my mom paint here house. It feels nice to do something constructive. 5. I am sleepy.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, September 10, 2006 - 11:31 pm
1. Whole family's been feeling cruddy today. Think it's just a cold we're all sharing, but my sinus' are bugging me a lot too so maybe that's it. 2. Kota's birthday is on Thursday. We're not really doing much except for the family dinner and a special birthday treat. 3. She's having the slumber party Saturday (I think we're all ready for that) and a little party Sunday for everyone else at the park. Firgure the kids will have more fun running around the park than anything. 4. Caleb's got tryouts for track tomorrow morning. I'm going to go cheer him on and take some pictures. He actually asked me to come which hasn't been happening a lot lately and I might just be as excited as he is about it, lol. 5. Darren is changing to a different department at work. We're not quite sure when this will happen but when it does he'll have better hours (no more going in at 4, 5, or 6 am!) 6. It is starting to cool down here. We haven't been using the swamp cooler at night at all and haven't had to turn it on til early afternoon. It's been nice, we've all been spending more time outside than we have been.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, September 16, 2006 - 8:02 pm
1. Slumber parties going wild! I'm gonna kick Darren, he found a poker game to go to tonight, leaving me home alone, lol. 2. My sis called earlier and asked if we minded having a friends niece (same age as my oldest niece) come over with my niece since they were playing together. 3. Said of course not, so we ended up with four girls (including Dakota) playing for a few hours. 4. They rode bicycles, they played office, and they set up Kota's stereo out front and danced for an hour and a half. Right now they're playing dress up with princess stuff and have dubbed themselves the princess club. They're having a good time. 5. Friends niece left a few minutes ago. She doesn't get the chance to play with the kids often so it was nice to see her. 6. I was going to do cupcakes tonight, but I think I'm going to wait til tomorrow. I was going to set the waterslide up for the girls but it's supposed to be cool and windy and I don't think that'll happen. Figure I'll give them something to do with helping to decorate them. 7. Caleb's spending the night with my sis and bil. He was riding the quad earlier and doing some "boy stuff" with my bil. Since he has two little girls, he enjoys getting to spend one on one time with the nephews and doing things with them the girls usually don't enjoy.
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Sunday, September 17, 2006 - 7:08 am
1. Semester is really in full swing! I can't keep up! 2. We had an international recitalist on campus on Friday. 3. I sat with the president of the university and some major donors at dinner. It was lovely! 4. At the chancellor's reception afterward, I was at the same table as the chancellor and his wife for a while. 5. I wore the nice long dress that I got for Spy's wedding! Perfect for hob-knobbing with the "rich and famous"! 6. Went to St. Louis on Saturday for a workshop in my main teaching area because the clinician was one of my teachers. I belong to this chapter, but it is strange...I only know about 5-8 teachers in it. 7. At lunch, the CLINICIAN introduced me to the rest of the chapter members....HOW can I be so well-known internationally and not known at all in my own backyard? So strange, so strange. I have NEVER been to a chapter of this group where I have felt so isolated and unknown. 8. When in St. Louis, one must go to Harrahs! What fun! That place really hops on Saturday night. Too bad I didn't have enough comps to get a room, so I drove home at 2 am. Cat were hungry! And that's the tale of "internationally famous, but locally unknown Dr. Marm"!
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Secretsmile
Member
08-19-2002
| Thursday, September 21, 2006 - 3:39 am
1. HUGS Marm, it's amazing how that can happen isn't it? 2. We now have an empty house. After a summer filled with welcome home parties and graduations things have not only slowed down, they've come to a complete stop around here. 3. When the offspring moved out, lots of our furniture moved out with them. Now our home is not only empty, our house is too. 4. I'm having a great time window shopping for how I want to redecorate. No surprise, Tim doesn't quite get how I'm in no hurry to fill the empty spots with just anything. Shopping is so much fun. LOL! 5. I've managed to quiet some of the complaints about my lack of immediate furniture replacement by suggesting he take over one empty bedroom as his music room. Now, suddenly, we must take our time and find the pieces that are "just right" for the space. 6. I'm rather excited about having all the guitars, mandolins and assorted music paraphernalia out of my dining room. I wish I could tear apart the walls and put in sound proofing though. 7. My brother was teasing me about going hog wild finding furniture in all white with sharp edges. I've always done home day care so having a home for grown ups is going to be a whole new experience. 8. I've instituted the Sunday family dinner. It's been a great way to touch base with them and what they are have been doing on a daily basis. 9. I can tell my kids are adults now since after dinner they all quickly do the dishes for us. What a change from the days of bickering over who's turn it is.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Thursday, September 21, 2006 - 11:34 am
1. Tomorrow 2. is 3. my 4. 3 5. year 6. anniversary 7. with 8. this 9. company. 10. I hate my job!! 
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, September 23, 2006 - 10:28 pm
1. Uhm, happy anniversary, Vac? 1.2. I'm cheating tonight, lol! 1.3. My nieces are spending the night tonight. Tuesday was sis and bils 8th anniversary and they were going out. 1.4. Sis was pretty excited, bil has to go to a motorcycle saftey class early tomorrow morning, the girls are here and for the first time in forever she gets to sleep in with no one waking her up. Brat. 1.5. Dakota got two gift cards from grandma and the neighbors for her birthday for clothes. I took her over yesterday and she picked out two outfits, a long sleeve tshirt and a pair of socks. She did pretty good! I also picked her up a pair of stretch pants and a tshirt (she's had a growth spurt and outgrew pretty much everything!) The neighbor girls just sent her over a bunch of clothes that fit so with the new outfits, she's pretty much set for winter. 1.6. She also got $30 in cash and was told that was for her to spend on what she wants to spend it on. We're going to Toys R Us tomorrow. 1.7. I started Christmas shopping yesterday. Picked up a couple dvd's for the kids. I figure if I pick up a couple things every other week or so, we'll be doing good by December. 1.8. Caleb's enjoying the heck out of track. His teacher told me the other day that he gets out there, does twice the laps the coach asks for and then does the running with his class, even though he doesn't really have to. He has a track meet Tuesday, but may not be running this time since they are taking turns running. 1.9 Parent teacher conferences are next week. I've got Caleb's Monday afternoon (he has to go with me) and Kota's Friday morning (she doesn't.) Unfortunately Darren won't be able to go to either one. 1.10. He changed jobs last week. Same job (kinda) different department. He's doing different work but still the lead man, he's enjoying it but said he's still working on getting things organized in a way that works best for him. The nice part is that his hours are much better. They're working from 6-4:30 instead of going in at 5. Next month they're supposed to go back to they're regular hours which start at 7. It's been nice, he might get home later in the evening but he's not falling down tired and has got to spend more time not only with the kids but me too since he's now able to stay up past their bedtime, lol.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Sunday, September 24, 2006 - 4:07 am
1. I participated in my first live draft in a Yahoo fantasy hockey league last night. I did awesome! I am a hockey goddess! 2. I discovered that the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in Eveleth, Minnesota closed it's doors this year. I consider this an outrage!
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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Sunday, September 24, 2006 - 7:05 am
1. marysafan, i LOVE hockey! hope to get to go to another game this year! 2. not much going on around here. went to my mom's yesterday for a bit. 3. this thursday i'm going to go see the play "the full monty" i can't believe our little family-friendly theater is putting it on! 
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, September 24, 2006 - 9:40 pm
1. My baby's sick again. Last week she had a stomach bug, today a cold. 2. She was sounding like Kermit this morning. Didn't think too much about it, it's been a rough week with her asthma and coughing but then I heard her sniffling. When I checked she was running a fever. She said she hadn't been feeling good since she woke up but didn't tell us because she knew if she was sick she wouldn't get to go shopping with her birthday money. 3. I'm supposed to have a parent teacher conference with Caleb's teacher tomorrow afternoong (Kota's is on Friday morning) but I'm not sure I'll be able to make it if she stays home sick. 4. I scrubbed my car down today, both inside and out. It looks so pretty now.
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Monday, September 25, 2006 - 3:52 am
1. Did the wine trail just south of me with some of the girl's from my music fraternity (YES, it's a fraternity and not a sorority). Went to about 7 wineries, maybe 8. We missed a couple. 2. All the roads were really windy with NO lines on them. It is near a state park and a national forest and really pretty. 3. One winery was all apple wines, another was scandinavian, another had a star theme, another had an owl theme, one was the long time favorite in the area, but I didn't find it that special. One had a 2 million dollar grounds and hosts lots of weddings by their waterfall. The whole trail was awesome! 4. We had over a foot of rain this weekend. An F3 tornado blew by nearby, but missed my town, thankfully. 5. We had a marching band competition the evening of the big storm. Thankfully, it quit raining and most of the bands could get there. A great band from Kentucky won the grand championship. I'm sure that all the kids went home to do storm clean-up afterwards!
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Wapland
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, September 25, 2006 - 9:20 am
1. It has been forever since I have posted facts. Life just seems to have been too much about other things and not the simplicity of facts. I am glad to be here today with my facts. 2. I have to prepare a quiz for my english class today. I have their grammar homework to correct as well. I am enjoying the class, but really wish that there weren't as many, first year, needy students....lol. 3. I had to call the school this morning. They sent a letter home requesting another IPRC meeting for Brett. These are meetings which are held once a year to plan for the needs of children like Brett who require support. We had a meeting in early June, so I can't imagine that we would be having another. I sure hope not. Of course, no one at the school knew the answer and the principal is away today. I hate IPRC meetings, so I am keeping my fingers crossed this is a mistake. 4. My rose bush is still blooming the most beautiful yellow roses. I noticed today there are 10 more buds. This is unbelievable for this time of year and our area. 5. My yard as a whole won an award this year in our local community competition. It makes all that hard work, weeding and planting seem not so hard. As much as I enjoy gardening, this summer has proven more difficult to find the time, and boom, I win an award. I'll need to remember that for next year. 6. I am anxious to cut my hydrangeas and bring some inside. I have had mixed reports about the best way to preserve their colour. Today some one told me to spray them with hairspray. I know that works for roses, so I am hoping the same is true for them. They are the most earthy tone of burgandy right now, and I would love to preserve them!! Hope you factoiders all have a great day. Fondly, Wappy
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, September 30, 2006 - 11:35 pm
1. We won tickets on the radio for Chaos in the Cage (ultimate fighting champions or something like that) for tonight. I wasn't too excited about it, I'd never seen it on tv, don't really like boxing either, and well, when sis told me about it, I thought Chaos in the Cage was a band and was a little nervous about it, lol. 2. Grandma agreed to watch all the kids so we could all go. It was me and Darren, sis and bil, little adopted sis and her hubby, our uncle, a cousin, and four other friends who went as a group. 3. It's been a long time since we went out for anything unless it was to someone's house and we had a good time. We got there kinda early and tailgated in the parking lot for an hour or so before going in to find our seats. 4. We had a great time! I still wasn't too interested in the fights, but it was great to get out with other adults and do something fun. 5. Fights were fast and tough. There were a couple that lasted just seconds (one was 9 seconds, the other 10) and some that went the full three rounds. 6. We got back to sis' at 11 or so to pick up the kids. Caleb was out cold and Kota was running around having a good time. We hung out for awhile with everyone before heading home. 7. LOL, someone asked why we rarely do stuff like this with everyone anymore. I had to laugh and answer while they're all out having a good time and partying or hanging out, I'm usually the one watching everyone's kids!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, October 02, 2006 - 11:55 pm
1. I've been sleeping like crap lately. No idea why, but this morning was probably 5:30 before I fianlly fell asleep. 2. I started Christmas shopping last week. Just picked up a couple dvd's for the kids but I plan to pick up a couple things every paycheck or so plus do a couple layaways. The last couple years we wait til right before Christmas and then freak out over trying to get it all done, I want to avoid that this year, lol. 3. Caleb's track meet this week is at their school. He's pretty excited about running in front of his classmates and Dakota. He's also excited that I'll be able to attend this one as well. 4. Our weather is changing. It's a little early for it though. We've started to cool down a little and even had rain yesterday afternoon and night. Usually we're hot right up to Halloween. 5. Our Halloween tradition is changing a little this year. For the past 7 or 8 years, a friend of ours has hosted a party that everyone goes to then we take the kids around his neighborhood to trick or treat. This year he's decided not to do it at his house and we're now doing it at sis and bils. LOL, he's still doing most of the planning though. 6. Mine and Darren's 10th wedding anniversary is Nov. 1. It doesn't seem like it's been that long. We've been trying to decide what we want to do yet haven't settled on anything yet. 7. I feel so unexciting but with two young kids the idea of dropping them off at my sisters and spending a quiet night at home sounds very appealing! 8. We finally had a family move in a couple houses down who have a little girl Kota's age. In all the time we've lived here she's never had a little girl playmate her own age (or a boy for that matter!) It's been nice for her to have someone to play with.
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - 6:26 am
1. So good to read about War and the kids. 2. I won $220 on a nickel slot machine this weekend. It was nice to leave the riverboat $160 up for a change! 3. My grad students are balking at doing the statistics they need to do. CRIPES, when I say bring a calculator, I mean bring a calculator! 4. My undergrads didn't do the reading for yesterday. It will be giving them a little quiz tomorrow, me thinks! 5. It is homecoming weekend this weekend. I think that everyone has started early! 6. I am playing a funeral for a stillborn infant this morning. I don't think that I have ever done a funeral for a child before. It is very sad. 7. Then I get to see a student teacher. I hope that I can find the school, as it is in a little town in the middle of nowhere! 8. I was asked to be on a research committee for a national organization yesterday. I think that I will take them up on it. 9. And for Reiki and Spy....I talked to my director and got the bully off of my committee. And I feel much better, thank you!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - 7:26 am
2.1 Congrats Marm! It's always nice to walk out with more money than you walked in with.
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