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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Thursday, June 07, 2007 - 8:57 am
Thanks guys, I now am a member of two different FEMA Flood Map companies so that I can get an independent confirmation that the condo project is not in a flood zone, simply ajacent to one! So I believe I will have final loan approval by Friday (that is what I am putting out to the universe!). LMAO, 17 cans of pork and beans!
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Thursday, June 07, 2007 - 12:46 pm
Vee, the fact that you're getting a bay window last week, today or next Friday didn't phase me. It was the fact that you're getting a bay window! Makes me miss my big ol' house we sold when we moved south. Wargod, hang in there. I'm quite happy you had to stop working so hard to take your son to a dance. What the? When did Caleb get big enough to go to a dance, anyway? My dh would be quite comfortable with 17 cans of pork n beans in the pantry.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Thursday, June 07, 2007 - 1:00 pm
Awww, sorry to make you pine for your big house, Urgrace. This is a wee house and that missing window is going to take up half the length of the house. Why missing? I have been on the phone all afternoon trying to find out when that window is coming. A classic case of the field rep not being in communication with the Boston home office and vice versa. One promises to have the other call and neither do. Now it's nearly quitting time and I still don't know what's going on. I am trying to flutter a bit here and there so as not to dwell on it too much, but I've already been in the fridge. Why is eating my first reaction to stress?! Wargod, your aunt either loves pork'n beans or she is concerned about never going hungry. Did you get those Disneyland tickets?
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, June 07, 2007 - 1:54 pm
Dipo, I hope they can get that sorted out for you! No tickets yet though Darren was hoping today or tomorrow. They had the first set cancelled and a new set is supposed to be on it's way but noone knows exactly when they'll get there. For the time being, we are planning on going Tuesday, though we've already warned the kids we may not be able to go and might have to reschedule the trip. 17 cans of pork n beans is just the begining, lol. 3 cases of frozen burritos, a dozen or so tv dinners, and half a box of corndogs are still in the freezer. She has boxes of hot cereal and tea bags. Oh, and the dozen cans of stewed tomatoes. I had to ask about that one...she eats them, opens the can and pours them in a bowl and eats them alone. She kept telling me things to put on her list and I kept saying, nope, you don't need that!
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Friday, June 08, 2007 - 2:53 am
*Friday's Mission* Wargod, the good thing about all that larder is that you might not have to grocery shop for some time! That'd be good, right? The kids must be on pins and needles about the Disneyland trip. I'm tossing you all lots of good wishes . Things have hit another snag with the window. Contractor ain't happy; I ain't happy, but sis says that since nobody died we should both chill. Sigh. Maybe next Tuesday it will arrive. Not counting on it anymore. Dipo, don't forget us over here. We have to know what's going on with your loan. Have a good Friday, everyone. A shout-out to all the flutterers near and far. Speaking of which, where is Skootz????
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Friday, June 08, 2007 - 4:31 am
"Since nobody died we should chill". I like that and can certainly use that right now as well. Last night I came home, completely stressed, and started pulling up the overgrown garden in the front of my house. Now I have a huge hole in it but it sure felt good. And eventually it will all be gone & replaced. Sorry to hear about your window delay Vee. How frustrating! Thank goodness it is Friday! :o)))
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Friday, June 08, 2007 - 4:43 am
You dug up the overgrown garden? What a terrific way to release those frustrations and you didn't eat! When I'm stressed, I "clean out" the pantry. Heck, 17 cans of pork and beans is sounding really good to me right now!
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Friday, June 08, 2007 - 4:56 am
Ohhh Vee ... I'm so sorry! And stay away from the pork and beans. :o) Btw .. I completely understand Wargod's aunt stockpiling food. My mum did the same thing. I think because she was a child during the war & they were very poor, she never wanted to run out. It was amazing how many Campbell soups she had or the boxes of rice! I guess it's not so unusual after all.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, June 08, 2007 - 8:51 am
Vee I'm sorry you're window hasn't arrived! It sucks when you're waiting for something and it doesn't show up when it's supposed to, especially when it's something that requires people tearing up and putting your house back together again! Hehe, I have a sorta funny (not really ha ha) story about waiting for something to come. For Christmas we bought Dakota an easy bake oven and we were so excited about it. She'd just started to show an interest in cooking and we knew she'd love it and she did. She used it maybe 3 or 4 times and then I saw they had been recalled, I don't know, in Jan or Feb. I emailed them right away and requested the part you need for it and then explained to Dakota that we were going to put the little oven away and would use it again when we got the part. And we waited and waited. Yesterday we were walking out the door when a Fed Ex truck pulled up out front, I couldn't figure out what the heck he was doing here. I knew we didn't have anything we were waiting on to be delivered. Turned out to be the easy baken oven part. Also got a letter apologizing for the delay and a couple packages of cookie dough. I can't believe it took so long though to get this one simple little plastic piece! She'll be baking cookies tonight if anyone wants to come over, lol. Nick, I was thinking about that too. She was born in 1929 and they were pretty poor growing up. Great grandpa was a farmer (cotton) and also had cows and chickens. From everything I've heard they always had food because they bartered with neighbors but there wasn't much else and she does have a tendency to hoard stuff now. I am hoping to stock up some of her pantry, but not overfilled like the 17 cans of pork n beans. I'd like to get away from the $400 shopping trips if possible.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, June 08, 2007 - 8:58 am
My mom is always buying pork and beans on sale. I always ask her how much pork and beans do you need but she always says it's good to have. She also buys spam whenever it's on sale too. She's from Hawaii and they really like their spam.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Friday, June 08, 2007 - 10:58 am
Okay, now I'm more phased about the delay of your window, Vee. Sheesh, I thought you would be staring out the panes today, not having a pain in the delay. War, I know Kota will love using her oven again, and if I were close by I'd take you up on the invitation. Yes, my dh is a child of the WWII era and he won't touch a can of spam now. He doesn't like chipped beef either. The first thing I learned after we were married was to fill the pantry with canned goods for the 'hard' times. Thank goodness for Costco! Not only did the kitchen floor get done this morning, but the bathroom and the foyer. Now I'm going to see if I can get the dh to vacuum the rest of the house! LOL
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, June 08, 2007 - 11:28 am
Update on the loan: no news, I am not sure that is a good thing. I am prepared to write and "appeal" to support why they should do the loan as an exception, but I keep hoping that they will just approve it and we can all move on. I guess I will keep packing this weekend, I just hate that this up in the air! Keep good thoughts. thanks.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Friday, June 08, 2007 - 2:23 pm
Dipo, that just stinks that you are being left to wonder for the weekend. I think that you are doing just the right thing to continue packing. There's more than one bank in the sea...or something like that. Thanks, Urgrace. I am coping as well as I can without any light in the dining room at all. It's a big black hole. Not to mention that I have had to speak to the neighborhood children about climbing on the staging that has been set up outside in anticipation of this event. Ackkkk. As for stockpiling food...I have a friend who wasn't old enough to be around during the Depression, but who was hungry enough as a kid that she doesn't intend to ever have less than 40 boxes of cereal on her shelves. She says it's cheaper than therapy. Ha! Tell Kota, I am definitely on my way, Wargod. I want a teaparty and everything. I say we all deserve one. Perhaps you could take a picture for us!
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Friday, June 08, 2007 - 2:39 pm
I could so use a tea party about now!

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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, June 08, 2007 - 5:33 pm
LOL, if I can get Kota home! The kids ar at my sisters right now since I had to take my aunt to the podiatrist this afternoon and they don't want to come home yet. Even though I'd really like to pick them up and get back home to kick off my shoes and relax the rest of the evening, the kids were quite helpful today and I'm not sure I want to drag them away from their fun time yet. I was running late getting to my aunts house, needed to get her in the shower and ready to go which usually takes about an hour. The kids offered to bring in groceries and put them away then Dakota asked if she could wash dishes, lol, while I gave her her shower. I sometimes worry the kids are hating this running back and forth to her house since they always have to go with me, but then they go and surprise me and offer to help out. Nick when Kota was about 5, I actually did a tea party for her and my niece. I'm pretty sure at the time I posted pics on the board too. Darren was off at a poker game and Caleb spent the night with my sis and bil. We bought a pretty little table cloth and a new tea set and flowers and went all out for it. They had a blast!
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Monday, June 11, 2007 - 2:38 am
*June 11–15* *Monday's Mission* Did Dakota ever bake her cookies or was she having too much fun with her cousins? Let her know that we're all flexible and can come on a moment's notice. Dipo, I am hoping that today's your day for hearing some good news! Does anyone actually do home blessing on Monday? I do mine on Sundays usually, but I am going to mop floors this morning. Have an excellent day!
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Monday, June 11, 2007 - 3:00 am
Morning, yes I am still alive, just been so darned busy with everything. Last Tuesday I was thinking, wow this week is going to be long and then next thing you know it was Friday and now again, today is Monday. The days are flying by. I was gone everyday last week as well, this is suppose to be my "slower" work week, so see what happens. Today is a school lunch bbq, I work Tuesday and Thursday and Friday is my youngest dd's school trip. The weather has been awesome, the pool is opened finally and things are becoming forgotten in the house. I will try and work on, my bedroom and office this week, as they seem to be neglected more than the rest of the house. Have a great day!
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Monday, June 11, 2007 - 6:10 am
Okay, the bathroom is clean and I'm working on paperwork today, so I think I'll incorporate a 'fling' in between some of the dreary forms just to liven it up! Happy Monday everyone!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, June 11, 2007 - 7:10 am
Old work habit, I clean everything on Sunday so I can start the week out at home on an easy day. Works out well now because I can spend Mondays playing with the baby. Today sis and I also have to run a few errands for our aunt so I knew I wouldn't have much time in my house. We never did have time to make cookies this weekend! Friday I left to get the kids around 7 and ended up sitting at sis' house til 8:30 or so chatting with them and a couple friends while the kids played outside. When we got home, they went to my room to lay down and watch tv and were sound asleep pretty quickly. Saturday my neighbors 8th grade daughter had a graduation party. They ordered a bouncy house for the younger kids and thier little boy was standing on my front porch at 9am wanting to know if the kids could come play, lol. Darren spent Saturday taking apart our toilet. It's been leaking buckets all week and what should have been a simple, quick job of replacing the seal turned into a 6 hour and 3 trips to the hardware store project. When he finally got that finished and we were able to hop in the shower, we then had to go to my aunts cuz the guys had a list of projects over their to tackle. We came home and joined the party and stayed there til close to midnight. Yesterday we dropped Dakota off at one of her friends birthday parties (May kicks off birthday season for us, we have parties almost every weekend!) and Darren, Caleb and I went back to aunts for the guys to finish and so I could clean. They stayed for several hours then left to come home before having to pick Kota up and just as they were walking out the door to pick her up one of Caleb's buddies and his parents pulled up to see if he wanted to go bowling. When I got home close to 7, he was still gone and Kota was laying on the couch exhausted, lol (she'd spent the whole party in the pool.) Long weekend story short, we decided we'd bake cookies this afternoon. This week will be a busy week for us with school. The kids have several things going on (last field trips, parties, softball games.) Caleb has a promotion ceremony on Thursday and we are taking him home early so we can all go out to lunch to celebrate. I hope everyone has a great week!
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Y2krazy
Member
09-17-2002
| Monday, June 11, 2007 - 7:17 am
I am on vacation again. (I get 5 weeks now) So am trying to get a lot done with tossing the clutter. DH only gets 3 weeks so I'm more or less on my own. DS needs to help some more and DH will be surprised by what happens on his day off!! (I won't be too hard on him...just no sleeping in 'til noon) LOL I'll keep you posted.
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Serenity
Member
06-28-2005
| Monday, June 11, 2007 - 7:28 am
I'm still tossing clutter as well! My basement is 75% cleared out! It is amazing what can happen in simple 15-30 minute increments daily. I figure it will be ready for framing by the weekend. Unfortunately, DH is going to a motorcycle rally then, so I know I will be waiting at least 2 weeks before construction gets started. My other major task this week is to de-clutter/deep clean the boys' bedroom. It is overdue for a good overhaul. My dream is to one day be as organized as Wargod - and be able to keep all balls juggling in the air at the same time! Kuddos to you for coping with your busy life so well! 
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, June 11, 2007 - 7:58 am
Grace, I think you have that squirrel picture in the wrong folder. (wink wink) But it sure is cute.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Monday, June 11, 2007 - 8:17 am
JujuTroubleStarterDawg, I think not. 
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, June 11, 2007 - 12:31 pm
LOL, I love that the squirrel seems to be taking the day off. Thanks Vee, but I am afraid I am going to get bad news today. I have been told they can't waive the flood insurance requirement for anyone, even the president. I don't believe them but since I don't work there and can't go to bat on how silly this is, I will have to accept it. I am now working on trying to get loan approval and docs in one week!! As long as we can get the appraiser going it might work.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 2:46 am
*Tuesday's Mission* That little guy is way too cute! I'm gonna try to chill just like that all day long. Obviously, he already has his mission accomplished. Ha! Skootz! Wonderful to see your post. Sorry that you've been so crazy busy, but good to know that the pool is up and running. That's the important thing! Wargod, busy as ever, running two households and doing a mighty good job on the third as well. Hang in there; school has got to be almost over and then you'll have those helpers a little more often. Y2krazy, don't spend all your time cleaning. Vacations are supposed to be for fun things, too. Looking forward to hearing what surprises you have in store for the guys at your house. LOL! Serenity, that basement must look fantastic. My basement is still doing okay, but I've already noticed that it's time for dusting, sweeping, and vacuuming in mine. Well, it has been over a week. How old are your boys? Can they get excited about flying, too? Flying with Children is on Flylady's first page. There are lots of good tips there including zones for kids and babysteps. Hmmm, thought that I saw Juju in here, but it must have been a figment of my imagination. Dipo, we'll all keep our fingers firmly crossed. Sending lots of good, supportive wishes. Hi to Hermi, Vacanick, and Serate! Who else is missing? NT, that's who! Have a terrific Tuesday!
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