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Wargod
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07-16-2001

Thursday, November 08, 2007 - 1:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
1. Darren reminded me today he starts a two week vacation for Thanksgiving Friday afternoon at 2pm.

2. A couple years ago he started to take the week and a half before the holiday shut down for vacation. It's very nice, it gives him and I some time alone while the kids are still in school and a chance to do some Christmas shopping and planning. Then he gets to be home for the kids when they get out of school.

3. He's still got time left, so he goes back to work for a week and a half or thereabouts and then is off til after the first of the year with his remaining vacation time and the company shut down time.

4. I picked Caleb up from school today and he got in the car somewhere between upset and smirking.

5. We've lived in this house since he was 18 months old. He's grown up with the kids across the street, including their middle daughter who's just about a year older than him. He looks at her pretty much the same way he looks at Dakota. Most the time fun to play with, sometimes rather annoying, and when anyone comments on how pretty, smart, or popular she is he just doesn't get it, lol.

6. Today she chased him down between classes at school and walked him to his gym class. Topic of conversation? Are you getting a ride home with my mom or is your mom picking you up? Then they went their seperate ways. Caleb goes to pe and some of the boys on his team wanted to know what the hot girl was doing with a nerd like him. I asked him if he knew what their problem was and he said uh huh, they are jealous!

7. I told him tomorrow he should walk her to class, throw his arm around her shoulder (telling her first) and then go to pe and tell the boys his girlfriend wants to know what he's doing hanging out with dorks like them. He grinned at me and asked if I wanted him to get beat up. Then he told me that'd be pretty funny, except he wasn't going to kiss her, lol!

8. I'm looking for a Christmas craft to do. Last year I made wreaths, this year I'm not quite sure what I want to do. Yesterday I was checking out some ideas for decorating your own Cristmas ball thingies, they were kinda cute.

9. Kota and my little nephew had the best time today. Everytime I walked past the two of them they were giggling and playing. Somehow they ended up playing with a little squirt gun, Kota would shoot him and he'd run back over to me and giggle, showing me how wet he was. Then he'd go back over to her to get even wetter. By the time they were done he was soaking wet and quite happy about it.

10. Baby niece had her two month check up. She's gained 10 oz since Halloween. Unfortunately she had several shots today. Wasn't sure if I felt worse for her or sis, by 8 pm both of them were grumpy and exhausted.

Serate
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08-21-2001

Thursday, November 08, 2007 - 3:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
1. Aaaacccckkkk! I just realised there is only 2 weeks until Thanksgiving which is our Christmas this year. For some reason I thought I had 3 weeks!

Jewels
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09-23-2000

Friday, November 09, 2007 - 9:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jewels a private message Print Post    
1. I am sad today. I found out last night that my son's school will be closing. It is a small community school, only 245 kids, class sizes of about 20. I love it. They will finish out this school year, stay open next year and close after that. We have plenty of time to prepare, but that doesn't make it any easier right now. Enrollment is down in all the schools around us so they are going to redraw the boundaries, close our school and shift other kids around. Jenna will get to go to Kindergarten there and then will have to go to another school. Jake will start at a new school in 4th grade. They are sending home an official letter today and are going to tell the kids at the end of the day.

2. The current building our school is in was built in 1941, the oldest in the district, but one of the reasons why I love it so much. There has been a school there for 99 years, next year, their last year, will be the 100th year celebration. Today I am sad.

Ducky
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08-27-2000

Friday, November 09, 2007 - 2:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ducky a private message Print Post    
1. Sorry to hear of your school closing. It is hard to think of your child having to make a change. To getting that one on one attention that they get when there are smaller class room numbers.

2. LD's School has 350 kids. Kindergarten through 12th grade that attend. His class only has 18 kids in the whole 7th grade.

3. The city closed the elementary school and turned it into a Museum, and the middle school turned into Apartments. They built on to the High School, so now all the kids are together. The High School is at one end, and the elementary is on the other.

Jbean
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01-05-2002

Friday, November 09, 2007 - 5:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jbean a private message Print Post    
1. I am sad today, too. A week ago tonight, a little girl, in a town about an hour and a half away from here, went missing. They found her dead this morning in a "cave-like area". Here's a link to the story, on ABC news. http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3843172&page=1

2. From reading that story, and hearing interviews with the girl's mother on the news, the stepdad is looking pretty guilty. Just a sad day, you always hope that these stories don't end this way, but I had a bad feeling about it. Poor little girl, hope the jerk who done this to her gets what's coming to them.

3. Enough sadness. I am glad it's the weekend. Tomorrow night I'm going out to dinner and a play with BFF. Should be fun. There is a guy from her Jazzercise class in the play - between him and this girl, they play 14 different roles. Sounds pretty funny!

4. Tuesday and Wednesday I woke up with a horrible headache that would not go away - finally it did Wednesday after lunch, but I just felt crappy after that - it was turning into a cold. But I nipped it with lots of Zicam and Airborne dosages, and as of this afternoon, it appears to be fought off, but I'm still taking the Zicam just to be safe. I hate being sick with a cold more than ANYTHING!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!


Grannyg
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05-28-2002

Friday, November 09, 2007 - 6:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grannyg a private message Print Post    
about dang time i knew what was going on in our lives!!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Thursday, November 15, 2007 - 2:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
1. Darren has been nice enough to take Caleb to school the last couple of mornings. This morning he came home and woke me up waving a speeding ticket in my face. Said the cop pulled him over and asked him if he knew why, Darren said nope, he used his blinker and he was doing the speed limit..aww crap, just dropped my boy off at school! He was doing the right speed limit, just at the wrong time of day.

2. I'm pretty sure the cops were cracking down around the schools today. We know five other people who got tickets this morning for various things, though the school zone speed limit seemed to be the biggie.

3. Little nephew and I finished his scrapbook for his mommy and daddy's Christmas gift today. We painted his hands and feet and he stepped on some pages. When they dried and we put them back in the book, we sat and looked at it and he thought it was pretty cool. Kept saying "bye" to himself as I changed the pages though.

4. Then he scared the crud out of me. Sis was grabbing one of the carseats out of my car and he climbed up into the van and got in the front seat. I shut the sliding door and walked around to the drivers side. Just as I opened the door he launched himself at it and flew out of the car. I caught that kid, by a foot and a hand, about two inches from the concrete driveway. I don't know how the heck I did that. What really got to me when I had time to think about it was that he thought it was funny, he was laughing! I can just see him trying to fly out of his car seat now.

5. Caleb's doing a fund raiser for school, a jog a thon to earn money for the different sports programs. He's so me, lol. He called my sis and little adopted sis and my aunt and asked if they'd donate a dollar or two. Because the schools do so many fund raisers each year (we just finished the first trimester and have had three for each school!) we only do two a year and one of those is jump rope for heart. But, with him in track raising money for sports is important for him this year so he asked us if he could do it.

Egbok
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07-13-2000

Saturday, November 17, 2007 - 1:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Egbok a private message Print Post    
1. Happy Saturday Factoiders!!

2. I've been doing my quilting homework on my first class project and I'm having a good time learning some new piecing techniques. I only had to rip out one section, so not too shabby on my part!

3. I'll be quilting my little blanket on my sewing machine and I've been practicing doing twirls and squiggles.

4. You factoiders know me...of course I'll post a picture when the quilt is finished!

5. Today my middle kidlet turned 24 years old. We're taking him out to dinner this evening to celebrate.

6. So what's up with some of you factoiders??


Jbean
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01-05-2002

Sunday, November 18, 2007 - 11:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jbean a private message Print Post    
1. So, I feel like hell today...probably a combination of a few too many beers last night....maybe? Yuck!

2. So, it's been a busy week for me...I applied for and was rejected (again) for a traditional backstage pass through Keith's fan club for the Little Rock show. No need to worry, though, because there are also street team backstage passes for shows, too, and I've been out promoting trying to win one of those. I haven't seen anyone else that's applying for the Little Rock show, so I'm hoping that I'll get one by default.

3. Wednesday night I went to our huge college campus and posted flyers in almost all the building's bulletin boards. I only stopped because I wore the wrong shoes (think clog/mule type boots/shoes) and my left foot was killing me - I thought something had gotten in the shoe and was stuck, but it had actually rubbed a huge blister on my foot...ouch!

4. Then yesterday, I drove to Harrison, AR to promote the concert - thinking that the closer I could get to Little Rock, the better my chances. People just don't like to be bothered, even if you aren't selling anything. I did get a few friendly folks, though, so all wasn't lost. If I don't get a backstage pass after all this, well, it won't be for lack of trying. I turn in everything I've done (pics and a summary) a week from today, and should know a couple of days after that....everyone !

5. While in Harrison, I got some Christmas and other shopping done. There is an awesome store down there called Goody Family Clothing store. The place has name brand clothing, jewelry, etc, and while it isn't marked any cheaper than department stores, almost everything in the store was 60% off! I got my nephew a 3 piece outfit with a coat, a thermal shirt and corduroy pants for like $17, and my niece one of those puppy at heart chihuahua purses for about $14....I spent a lot of time in there. I also found some tops for myself in the Cato store on clearance. I got 3 shirts for $28! a bargain!

6. Last night BFF and I went to see the sneak preview of August Rush with Keri Russell (Felicity). It was SO good. But there were 2 girls setting by me that you would think never went to a movie before, with all the "AWWWW"'s, and "YAY"'s, and hitting the seats. Very dramatice, these girls. whatever. LOL.

7. Tonight we are going to the mall after closing hours for the annual "Evening of Giving". You had to buy a $10 ticket to participate, it goes to charity, then several of the stores have good sales and you can get some Christmas shopping done. It should be fun, and I'm hoping to find some good deals!

Hope you all enjoy the rest of the weekend!


Schoolmarm
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02-18-2001

Sunday, November 18, 2007 - 9:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Schoolmarm a private message Print Post    
1. I am in San Jose and have had a wonderful time.

2. There is a cool/gross exhibit at the Tech museum that has plasticised bodies. Too strange for words, but interesting.

3. I am going home tomorrow bright and shiny!

4. I went to the ballet of Carmina Burana and the dancing was awesome. The singing wasn't so good.

5. I'm ready to go home where I don't have to pay $8 for a sandwich....oh, my!

6. I am a facebook junkie!

7. I am going to have to decaf again. This conference got me back to Diet Pepsi, and that isn't healthy.

8. I have an hour layover tomorrow in Las Vegas. Probably not long enough to play the slots in the terminal.

Landileigh
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07-29-2002

Monday, November 19, 2007 - 12:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landileigh a private message Print Post    
1.a. i'm so sorry i wasn't able to meet you schoolmarm. my life has just been so topsy turvy lately.

Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - 10:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yankee_in_ca a private message Print Post    
1. Just under two months after I "moved," my stuff arrived last week.

2. I checked out of the corporate apt last night.

3. Though the house isn't set up yet, we're officially "moved."

4. I am taking tomorrow off, and thus have a 5 day weekend.

5. I now have a new car, new address, new job, new sofa, new television.

6. I'm now also newly broke.

7. My feet are starting to get used to wearing heels every day.

8. There are days when I think, "I'm just loving what this new town has to offer and I'm just eating this up."

9. Unfortunately, there are others when I think, "What the he** have I done and what the he** am I doing here?"

9.1 I've not been around much lately because, in addition to all the above, I've been involved in not one, but two, big stories the past three weeks. Things that have been and are being discussed here. But things I can't discuss. It's hard!

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Wednesday, November 21, 2007 - 6:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
9.2 we understand yankee and it's good to see you.

Egbok
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07-13-2000

Wednesday, November 21, 2007 - 8:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Egbok a private message Print Post    
9.3 Yankee, enjoy your 5 days off. We're here for you and as Agent M said, it's always good to see you. (((Yankee)))

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Thursday, November 22, 2007 - 4:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
1. Yay on the five days off Yankee, hope you enjoy them!

2. Hi Eggie, Mocha, Yank, Marm, Landi, and Jbean! It's nice to see all of ya here!

3. I baked cookies all day long, with and without the kidlets.

4. Bought the veggie trays. It's easier and cheaper than making them.

5. Watched my nephew and nieces so their mommies could cook.

6. Took bil to Costco to shop for Thanksgiving dinner and then Darren watched the kids and did crafts with them and he enjoyed it.

7. Even baby niece got into the crafts, she got her toes painted and pressed against a glass ball. Surprisingly she didn't enjoy that one bit, lol.

8. I went to buy new slippers tonight and ended up picking up a pair for Dakota too. Worse, lol, we now have matching pink boot type slippers. For some reason when we showed Darren are matching mom and daughter slippers, he laughed and laughed.

9. Kota came home from school sick with an earache. She went straight to sleep and woke up running a fever, with a cold, congested and having breathing probs. My kidlet is almost always sick over holidays.

10. In a few hours, Darrens going to drive up to Kmart and see how long the line is for the Thanksgiving morning sale. They have Wii's. We learned a few years ago that Kmart usually doesn't have a lot of people busting their doors down for these sales so hopefully he can get there and get in and get the Wii!

Egbok
Member

07-13-2000

Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 9:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Egbok a private message Print Post    
1. Hi Factoiders! I've had a fun week so far. How about you?

Ducky
Member

08-27-2000

Friday, November 30, 2007 - 8:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ducky a private message Print Post    
1. We are having a great week Eggie. LD received and award at school this past week along with a Tshirt for Academic Excellence.


2. We are going to see musical stage version The Scrooge this evening. Should be fun we have not been to the Civic Theatre since last year.

Egbok
Member

07-13-2000

Friday, November 30, 2007 - 9:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Egbok a private message Print Post    
1. Ducky, what wonderful news to share about LD!! Oh my goodness, he has grown up much too quickly!! Congratulations LD!! And all of you enjoy the musical tonight!!

2. I love attending live theater, especially musicals. My absolute favorite was about 10 years ago when I saw The Phantom of The Opera. I used to attend The Nutcracker Suite every Christmastime, but out of my family, I was the only one who enjoyed it...all others either fell asleep or just attended to be nice. Oh well...lol.

3. Our hospital is hosting the annual Holiday Festival (a major fundraiser) this week. I'll try to take pictures today of all the beautifully decorated Christmas trees to share with you guys.


Mocha
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08-12-2001

Friday, November 30, 2007 - 9:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
3.1 Yay Ld!!!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Friday, November 30, 2007 - 10:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
1. Congrats LD! He's getting so big Ducky.

2. My kids schools haven't done a Christmas program since preschool. I really miss them. This year my nieces school is doing one and we're pretty excited to be going. Her class will be singing, but she's also part of the 2nd grade Bell Choir and they will be performing throughout the program.

3. My poor Harvey is not happy with me today. When my nephew is here, Harvey stays out back (I trust the dog, don't trust the baby yet.) Today it's raining and I'm making him stay in the back of the house. He has his food and water, favorite blanket and toy, and my bedroom window is open for him to go out if he needs to but he's mad being "stuck" back there.

4. We keep passing a nasty cold around. I've had it three times in two weeks, little nephew and his mommy have been sick for over a week, sis has had it, Kota's had it, my middle niece has it (along with a double ear infection and ruptured ear drums again.) My aunt had it before any of us and I guess about the only good thing about all of it at this point is that somehow we've managed to not give it back to her!

Jbean
Member

01-05-2002

Sunday, December 09, 2007 - 9:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jbean a private message Print Post    
1. They have been predicting that shitty weather like we had in January for this weekend for a few days now. Luckily, while areas north of here are seeing power outages, it hasn't been able to get below freezing here, so we're still good. I think I need to move somewhere that doesn't get this shit. It sucks ass!

2. Today is my work Christmas party. They are having it at our Ice rink park. Which is a good switch from the YMCA - Christmas party at the Y? now come on!

3. About 4 years ago, after we had the first party at the ice park, and I fell on my ass and got hurt pretty bad, that next year I went a couple of times to teach myself to skate...it's no fun to go and just watch everyone else skate. But that was 4 years ago, and I hope I can pick it up again.

4. I still haven't got my Christmas stuff up/out yet. The reason is because of my terrorist cat. She always has to tear it up. Just yesterday, she tore down the curtains in the spare bedroom/computer room. I haven't got them back up yet because there's a futon frame in the way of it. Sheesh. Anyone want a terrorist cat? to think the dog is the GOOD kid?

Hope everyone's having a great weekend!


Egbok
Member

07-13-2000

Sunday, December 09, 2007 - 10:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Egbok a private message Print Post    
1. Hey jbean, I'll take Macy! She can give my adorable terrorist Dixie a run for her money!

2. Our family met halfway from dd's apartment yesterday to take a group family pic to use in our Christmas cards.

3. We then all ate together at a Denny's and enjoyed our quality time together.

4. I had a package of goodies for dd since I don't get to see her that much. I bought her some cute cookie cutters, a snowman candle holder and a stainglass Christmas wreath for her window.

5. Egbob is out seeking tumbleweeds this morning...ut ohh. I have the bail money ready for his illegal activities...!!


Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Sunday, December 09, 2007 - 10:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
1. Hi Eggie and Jbean!

2. I am 1/2 done with my Christmas cards and shopping. Yippee!!

3. Today Nicholas and I will get our tree and do some baking. Yummy pumpkin bread .. the house will smell so nice.

4. My sister and I have somewhat 'reunited'. She is clean and has reached out to me emotionally. Her son and mine are both very happy about this.

5. I'm not saying we don't have trust issues but it is nice to see her doing well and I plan to support her in any way I can so this can continue.

6. I'd love to see a picture of that tumbleweed snowman ... very cool!

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Sunday, December 09, 2007 - 11:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
1. Hey guys

2. I can't wait to see the tumbleweed snowman

3. 24 hours ago it was 74 degrees, right now it's 42 and raining.

4. Our HS football team plays in the state championship game next weekend.

5. The town will shut down.

6. DS#1 will be home Dec 29th, DS#2 and DD will be home around the 20th. I'm excited.

7. I have to shed the grinchiness I'm feeling and put the tree up and stuff before they get home.

Sage
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07-20-2000

Sunday, December 09, 2007 - 12:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sage a private message Print Post    
1. I am at my sister's house, back in my home town. Her husband died on Nov. 30, and today, family is all gathering here to have a little memorial service for him.

2. I will be here until Christmas Eve and hope the mountain passes are clear when I plan to head back home to Jim, my fiance, and our big dog, Buck, for Christmas.

3. Speaking of dogs... for the first time in my life of over 47 yrs, I am now the proud owner of a little puppy. He is a Schnoodle, half Schnauzer, half Poodle. His mommy is all black, and so were his other 4 siblings, but he is a brindle, which the vet told the people I bought him from is very rare for that breed. He is too young to bring home yet, but will be ready on the 17th.

4. For so many years, I wanted my own dog, but my ex doesn't like dogs, and I never got one. I used to wish so much that I would wake up on Christmas morning, and find a puppy under the tree.

5. I am going to be spending some good times with my kids and grandkids the next couple of weeks while I'm here. My grandson is 11 months old now and has finally started crawling.

6. I have not done any Christmas shopping at all, but this week, my sis and I are going to go shopping, get pedicures, have lunch, go to a movie, and whatever else kind of fun we can manage to have together.

7. We are planning to do lots of baking while I'm here too.

8. There's a bead/art shop that I went to last week, and in the course of my time in the store talking with the owner, he said he wanted to see my art work. So I went in a few days later to show him some of my stuff, and he wants to showcase it during an art walk event, that the city does on a monthy basis. Wow.