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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - 11:47 pm
1. Tomorrows supposed to be my day to volunteer in Kota's class. 2. Sis called earlier and asked me to watch the baby though in the morning. She's got a friend who has to go in for outpatient surgery and friend asked her to drive her there and take her home. 3. I told Dakota's teacher, if sis picks up the baby early enough, I'll go in in the afternoon. If she doesn't, I'll try for Thursday or Friday. 4. Caleb came home today and told me that with the track meet at their school this week, his coach needs parent volunteers. He said, "So, what job do you want?" LOL. They need parents to hand out water at the finish line, keep track of places, and do the stop watch. 5. Hopefully sis will be going as well so she can take some pics and video for Darren. 6. Since I'm going to be home tomorrow morning, I'm going to pull out the Halloween decorations and start sorting through them. 7. We probably won't be home til later in the evening to hand out candy, but the kids like to have the house decorated. 8. I need to get the tires rotated on my car. I'm thinking I may drop it off Friday morning, do a little Christmas shopping, then go back and get it. Tire place is across the street from the outlet mall (or rather what used to be the outlet mall and isn't anymore, lol.) Might be better than sitting there at the shop for an hour or two. 9. Caleb's class is on a quest this year to read 100 chapter books. Personally I wish his teacher had set the goal a little higher. There's 32 kids in the class and thats just about 3 books each during the school year. Am I weird in that I expect my kids to read more than that? 10. I guess I better be heading to bed since it's almost 1. Still not sleeping well and it's already not looking real promising for tonight.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - 4:42 am
1. I don't think you're weird to expect that at all- especially if they're kinda short ones. That's a big class size he's in though. Wow.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - 4:46 am
1. Figures the first time I come to post in here in awhile and I end up following a ten so I have to be a number hog for a little bit. 2. At one of the schools I sub at, the agricultural wing is kind of a long hike so the kids cut across outside to a closer ser of doors to save time. Well, the school is now locking these doors so they don't open from the outside. I was walking some kids across to open the door for them and they were asking what THEY did wrong that they were being punished. This girl was telling me that they don't use the door to skip school- it just saves them time so they aren't late. So I was telling them it's not anything they've done wrong, but added security because of everything that's been happening.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - 4:59 am
1. A few hours later (this was yesterday) I hear that the elementary school is on lockdown. This is a pretty rural district- the middle/high school is in town but the elem. is a few miles out of town in the country. 2. The news was someone shot someone at a duplex across the street from the school and it was just done as a precaution. It had nothing to do with the school or any of the kids or staff. The shooter was still "at large" when I left to go home so the highway was all shut down in front of the school and I was detoured. 3. It turns out that the gunshot was self-inflicted. So the "at large" shooter was the victim. He admitted it later at the hospital- I have no idea WHY he did it though. The victim told police he was in his backyard playing with his dog about 1 p.m. when he was confronted by a white man carrying a handgun. The victim told investigators “he wrestled for a brief period of time until the pistol went off,” Sheriff Brad Gehring said. A large-scale search of the area for a suspect was later abandoned.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - 5:20 am
1. Oh- I have some nice new pictures to share with you guys!!! How pretty are these... 2. Thick Fall fog at my mom's house...
The horses after the fog lifted...
3. Then here's a few just of how pretty the leaves are right now. Ole looking out. Yep, it's a butt shot...
And Ole with his new best friend Tillie- she's really grown a lot since my mom got her in July. She's about 10 months old now I think. She's tall...
4. Ummm...I think that's it for my facts for right now.
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Froggiegirl621
Member
02-14-2003
| Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - 4:45 pm
1. I LOVE the pics Kaili!!! I'm getting excited for our trip to Tennessee so I can see all the fall colored leaves. 2. I LOVE Ole! He makes me smile...post more pics when you get them. 3. I'm excited for LOST tonight...only 22 more minutes as of my clock right now. 4. Tomorrow is my Friday and only a half day at that. Yay! I love long weekends! 5. I'm going to a craft show this weekend and then I'm going to buy my pumpkins and mums so I can decorate outside and get into the FALL spirit.
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Texasdeb
Member
05-23-2003
| Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - 4:51 pm
Thanks for the visuals Kaili! I lived in Ohio for 3 yrs until I moved back to TX in 1991. I so loved the seasons that I got to see in the landscape that we just don't have here. Thanks again for a nice memory!
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - 6:23 pm
Thois one is cool too- there's an eagle that's built a nest near my mom's- I see so many eagles now that they're not even a novelty anymore- kinda cool taht it's become that way. There's one up at our cabin we see every time we're there flying over the river, two more with their nest right on Lake Superior by my mom's, now this one...plus here in town there's a nest right in the city at a park and another at a different nature preserve about 8 miles from here.
I love fall and I love Wisconsin. If only Fall lasted longer and Winter was a tad shorter!
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - 6:29 pm
1. I love the fall colours 2. Great pictures Kaili. 3. What is it about the Eagle that makes so many of us fascinated about this bird. Our family loves seeing them in familiar trees in our area of the country too. 4. It has been so long since I have been in the facts thread 5. I think I have my sticklers pass still, but it may be expired. 6. Better quit here so I don't get in any trouble (esp. with that Coco stickler..you just never know

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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - 6:35 pm
1. I don't know- I mean it's really just another scavenger kinda bird, right? 2. They're so big and pretty though. 3. Maybe the coolness factor has to do with them being so close to gone and now pretty much thriving. Seeing them doesn't phase me much anymore- i do think it's kinda cool, but I get excited about cardinals too. 4. I think I actually see more eagles than cardinals. 5. About 60 or so miles from here at the Horicon Marsh there used to be massive numbers of Canadian Geese during migration- the road would be packed with people looking at them- I think their migration routes are changing because it's not as much anymore. 6. Plus half the people I hear talking about them just want to shoot them and get them out of the parks because their poop is big and people hate it. 7. I also don't get the Mourning Dove hunt- why would people want to hunt Mourning Doves? They're pretty, they're small, and they hang out in my yard!
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, October 05, 2006 - 10:10 pm
1. Today is my mom's birthday. 2. Day after tomorrow is my dad's birthday. 3. I am trying to lose weight. 4. My shoulders and neck are burning and aching. Probably from stress. 5. Lost, Project Runway, America's Next Top Model, The First 48 and Amazing Race. My current faves. 6. My stepson will be with us this weekend for Thanksgiving. 7. When you're trying to lose weight, it's hard not to think about food all the time. 8. My JRT is sleeping soundly on my lap, curled up like a little, white/brown/black, warm, wiry-haired little baby.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, October 06, 2006 - 6:01 am
8.1 I swear Yanks I had to double check my calendar when you said Thanksgiving lol.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Friday, October 06, 2006 - 6:06 am
1. Why are the numbers always so high when I want to come in here to post? Usually I say nvm, but I won't today. 2. TGIF! It's been such a long week. 3. I'm going to Nebraska this weekend to see my son play soccer. 4. yes, that's the closest he'll get this year. 5. I miss him, and it's only been about 8 weeks. 6. My DH starts a new job next week and he'll be gone for over 3 weeks for training. 7. We finally got our DVD burner to burn copies of the shows I have saved on the DVR instead of what was currently on the tv. Yay!! 8. My DD has powderpuff football practice on Monday. The game will be the Sr girls vs. the Jr girls to raise money for the Project Graduation party at the end of the year. 9. The kid that has been living with us may not have to have a corneal transplant after all. They think that the damage wasn't as bad as they thought and that with a special contact lens his eyesight should be okay.
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Lyn
Member
08-07-2002
| Saturday, October 07, 2006 - 8:40 pm
1. Today was the first day at my new job 2. I haven't worked in 23yrs 3. I started school Sept 25th 4. I haven't been to school for 23yrs 5. Monday will be our first true holiday since Allan passed away. We're thinking of just keeping it low key...not too into celebrating this yr 6. Newest grandchild is due in Feb 7. This will be grandbaby number 13 8. Son goes to his first medical conference this week. (He's presenting a poster) 9. Habs won in a shootout tonight 10. I folded hundreds of towels at work today. I'm looking forward to working toys and Christmas later in the week 
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, October 08, 2006 - 10:15 am
1. We're going to take the kidlets out fo town in a while. We're going to a farm out of town that has a corn maize and petting zoo, along with farmers market. I'm hoping they enjoy it!
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Wapland
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, October 09, 2006 - 4:43 am
1. Well today is a day off in Canada. Thanksgiving Monday. We celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday, so today will be a peaceful and relaxing day. The temperatures are unseasonably high which might mean even venturing out for a hike. I have tons of school marking to do, but have decided today is for me. 2. I have invited a friend over for coffee to start the day. My housework is all finished and I thought I would stop by here to say hello. So far, for a Monday morning, today has been great! Fondly Wappy
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Secretsmile
Member
08-19-2002
| Monday, October 09, 2006 - 5:40 am
1. Good for you Wappy! 2. This past weekend my sons and FDIL went to NYC to spend some time with their sister for her birthday. I'm still waiting to hear how it went. It was a good feeling to know they care about each other enough for that to be important to all of them. 3. Tim and I had a wonderful day yesterday. He started the morning off by looking on line for places we could go with Riley. We needed groceries so we decided to go to a farmer's market about an hour away. I was secretly thrilled that he was so concerned about taking the dog with us. He was so proud of that puppy, he showed him off, stopped and let little kids pet him and at one point suggested we get a dog stroller, ROFL! We got a great response of indulgent smiles when we were leaving and put Riley in his new doggie car seat! . I think we've over compensated for the empty nest syndrome!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, October 09, 2006 - 10:13 pm
1. Someone, *coughTimcough*, needs a grandbaby, lol. Maybe ya'll can borrow one for awhile. Wanna borrow mine? 2. Darren and I finally decided what we're doing for our anniversary though we'll be celebrating two weeks early and it wouldn't be possible without other folks. 3. Little adopted sis had two tickets to see Journey/Def Leppard that she won. They weren't going to use them so passed them on to some friends of ours. They're grass seats and friends hubby just had surgery on his knee and needs more and can't navigate the hills/grass. They gave the tickets back. Little adopted sis and her hubby still didn't want them. 3.5 I knew about her getting the tickets and giving them away, but didn't know she got them back til my sis showed up this morning grinning like a maniac and said little adopted sis said happy anniversary then informed me she'll be watching the kids Saturday night and Sunday morning/afternoon. Then she held up the tickets. 4. OMGosh! We're gonna go see Journey and Def Leppard! I've been going around all day grinning and doing the "he he he he" laugh. When I finally got ahold of Darren at work I asked him if he wanted to go out on a date with me. He asked if he should tell his wife. Both of us are pretty excited about it and can't wait.
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Tuesday, October 10, 2006 - 5:01 am
1. War, have a blast seeing Journey and Def Leppard...I would really like to see Journey! 2. Lyn, Good luck with school and work. Sounds like you are making lots of transitions. 3. LT, hope you have fun in Nebraska. I will be going to Nebraska twice in November for conferences. 4. Just got back from doing two workshops in two states in two days. It was a blast, but I'm exhausted! I have hit my limit and will not do that again if I have to do the driving. 5. This is Marm plays the organ week. Had two church services at two churches on Sunday, am accompanying on a university choral concert on Thursday and playing for an hour for the School of Music open house on Friday. Saturday, I am going to St. Louis where I am NOT playing the organ! LOL
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, October 10, 2006 - 2:57 pm
1. Marm, it's sickening how excited I am about Journey, lol! 2. I believe Journey was my first concert (there might have been a local band or two before that) when I was a kid. Step dad was into what's now classic rock but Journey was something we all agreed on, lol. 3. Caleb came home with a couple of nuggets of information to share about his school day. 4. The first he announced while we were walking down the soup aisle at the grocery store packed with a bunch of little old (I don't use that word to describe older than me women either!) ladies. As we were walking down the aisle he told me the yard duties finally allowed them to play soccer again since the weather had cooled down and that in the first ten minutes out playing today he "got kicked in the nuts mom." ALl of a sudden at least seven little old lady heads snapped around to stare, some in shock, some hiding grins and giggles as I tried to explain to my ten year old that announcing in a crowded store, in front of both his mom and sister, that maybe using the word "nuts" in that way wasn't quite polite. 5. Then he tells me that today they had their vision and hearing tests and the nurse is concerned and wants to talk to me and his eye dr. She told him that the vision in his right eye is much stronger, at least 3 times what his left eye is (used to be 2 times!) and she's concerned he's not using his left eye enough. Now I know the vision screenings at school are nowhere near as complete as the eye dr, nor done with someone trained as an eye dr, but she has never expressed concern that hasn't been confirmed by his eye dr. As soon as he said it my heart just sank. 6. He hasn't seemed to have a problem since his last eye exam when he was having so many headaches in the weeks leading up to it. I started counting and realized it's been a year and a half since his last eye exam so he's definitely due for one. Sigh.
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Friday, October 13, 2006 - 8:00 am
1. I have no heat in my office today. It is 64 in the hall, and it is warmer in the hall than in my office. 2. Played a concert last night, and it went really well. The students did very well, and the audience really loved it. 3. We have an open house at the School of Music tonight. I need to practice a little after I take a nap and a bath...SO I have incentive to get out of the friggin' freezin' office! 4. I am going to the St. Louis Rams game on Sunday! WHOO HOO! I will be with the band. I suppose that I should probably carry a piece of equipment or something. I think that I get a pass that isn't a press pass, but close. 5. I will be in St. Louis on Saturday for a workshop, and then shopping and exhibits. 6. I am very happy that the university has finally reimbursed me for most of my European trip this summer....especially since I need to book November's trip soon! 7. My pool is still open. It is COLD here. I am nuts!
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Friday, October 13, 2006 - 9:10 am
1. It's been a long time since I've stopped at this thread. 2. I'm currently training my new co-worker, the bosses son. He's eager to learn but doesn't have a lot of experience. 3. It's a little frustrating but I'm trying to make the best of it. 4. We have been working on the house. Putting up new doors and painting. 5. This weekend we're picking out new carpet and flooring ... yayyy! 6. I finally cleaned out the garage and have a dumpster coming next week. Yep, it's a lot of stuff. 7. My son is adjusting to 3rd grade much better now and I'm so happy to see him doing well! The dog and lizard are fine as well. LOL 8. I'm so happy it's Friday!!! 
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, October 13, 2006 - 11:06 pm
1. Vacanick, I'm glad he's adjusting better now! It's so nice when things seem to fall into place with the kidlets. 2. I had to take Dakota in for an urgent dentist appt today. She had an abscess pop up rather suddenly (it wasn't there before school, I saw her gums!) Darren deals with the dental stuff because I am absolutely terrified of the dentist, so this was certainly something I was in a panic about. 3. Turns out that her adult k-9's are trying to come in but both are slanted inwards towards the bottom center teeth and they are stuck and can't break through. One has an infection. 4. She's now got antibiotics, an appt next week to have at least one, maybe two baby teeth (lower ones in the back) pulled to hopefully make some room. She's also got a referral to the ortho cuz dentist isn't sure that will help and the orthodontist may have to do something to get those two teeth to come in straighter. 5. I am hoping, praying, fingers crossed that Darren will be able to take off Friday morning and go with us. I am honestly not sure I can sit there while they pull her teeth. I don't want the kids to realize how scared I am and pass that on to them or give them cause to worry when they don't right now. Great thing is that Dakota has no pain at all from the abscess, even when the dentist was probing at it. 6. My nieces came over this evening and the kids had a great time. They played diner. Dakota and my youngest niece were the "cooks," Caleb was the host and oldest niece the waitress. At one point I overheard them talking about the funeral, and I just had to ask, seems that their diner also hosts funerals as well as dinner! I about fell over laughing, until Caleb explained that after Grandma Denise's funeral we all went to a local hangout for food and drinks and to celebrate her life. It didn't seem so funny then, but in a way seemed much sweeter. 7. When I took the girls home, I was telling sis, bil, and uncle about it and said I think Denise is haunting us. Earlier today Dakota told me that when she prays, Grandma Denise talks to her and the last thing she told her was people don't have shadows in heaven. It started a whole conversation about how she's been haunting the rest of the family and had us cracking up in an "oh that's so her way!" 8. We just had a few minutes of hard rain. I sure hope this is over by tomorrow! It's going to be a very busy day. The kids have been invited to a birthday party for the neighbor boy. My dryer died earlier this week, so the plan is for Darren to drop me and a bunch of wet laundry off at the laundry mat, then he'll take the kids to the party and come back to get me. All this before we leave for the concert. 9. Both of the kidlets are doing very well in school. Caleb had a bumpy first of the week and got his butt in trouble over homework again, but today he got three A's, one on a math test, one on spelling, and one on science. Kota's been having to study quite hard for spelling and vocab especially but is doing great with her tests.
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Monday, October 16, 2006 - 3:58 am
1. I was ON the field for the Rams game yesterday! SO very exciting. They lost in the last 4 seconds. It was so cool to have a pass that got me almost everywhere in the dome. 2. My laptop battery has been recalled. It actually has scorch marks on it. It will take Apple 6-8 weeks to mail the replacement! YIKES! 3. It is supposed to rain all day today 4. Remember that on Friday, I wanted to go home and take a bath? HA HA HA! There was a water main break near my house, and all I had was air coming out of the faucets. 5. We have a boil order for the water until Tuesday. 6. Thus, I was glad that I was in St. Louis all weekend. 7. Had a free meal at the casino! 8. Shopped at Chicos for the first time and spent too much. I hope that the clothes fit today, as I was shopping with an extremely bloated stomach due to mistakenly eating shrimp in a casserole for lunch. 9. I wish that I had more time to enjoy St. Louis. It is a cool place. 10. Gotta get geared up for my 12-hour day today. Lots of extra things going on, and I'm hoping to have time for lunch!
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Eris
Member
11-13-2003
| Wednesday, October 18, 2006 - 2:15 am
1. Im running amok trying to read as much of the board as possible and get caught up on things before i have to start my busy day
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