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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Saturday, October 27, 2007 - 9:44 pm
1. Well, it's on! 2. Tomorrow is the annual pumpkin carving party we attend as a family. I think this is our 8th year. 3. The hostess called me tonight and was taunting me about her pumpkin coming in first place. 4. I said not if it accidently falls onto the ground and gets smashed...lol! 5. I enjoy this gathering of our friends and their now grown children. Lots of good people and lots of great conversations while we carve our pumpkins. 6. Pictures? Of course...c'mon it's Eggie!!
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Ducky
Member
08-27-2000
| Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 11:15 am
1. I Remember the grey hound bus ride that we took though the desert to get to Kansas. Somewhere in between CA.and KS. the bus broke down and we had to spend the night in the desert. On the bus waiting for another bus to come and take us to are destination. 2. I don't remember much about California as a child only some of the names of the places that we lived. Have not been back there since I was 18 to visit my Dad. 3. My Mom and Dad were divorced when I was 2. Dad still lives in CA. but lost his second wife just this past year. My Dad drives a Semi Truck for a living. So got rid of the home that him and his wife shared as he is never home and lives in his Truck or stays with family in CA. 4.My Dad's second wife has two grown children that live in Antioch from her first marriage. That he raised as his own. But forgot about his own kids after we moved to KS. 5.Now that we are all older Dad has come to realize how much he missed out on his own children. When he drives though KS. he will call to stop by. 6.My Mom moved away in 2002 after she retired from her job. She found an old highschool friend that she married. She now lives in Arkansas. 7. Can't wait to see Eggie's pumpkin pictures from the Halloween Party.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 11:16 am
1 - 10. I'm soooo confused by Ms Schtickler's new numbering system. 
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 11:30 am
1. Ducky as a child I also traveled between Kansas and California. 2. My father was stationed in Kansas for 3 years. 3. Every summer we would drive to California. 4. My dad was born in California so we went to visit his family. 5. I always got an Indian doll from New Mexico. Nice memory! 6. I also remember tasting butter milk for the first time in Oklahoma. I didn't like it! lol! 7. I loved driving through the desert, so beautiful! 8. It's been over 30 years since I've been in Kansas. Maybe someday I'll go back. :o))
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 9:47 pm
1. Nick, I'm a bit biased but I think the desert is one of the most beautiful places on the planet. 2. My neices came over yesterday. The baby stayed most of the day and half the night until sis and bil picked her up at around 2am this morning. I had fun with her but didn't mind giving her up when they came to get her, lol. I want to sleep at night! 3. The older two spent the night and a good part of today with us. I heard a conversation between Caleb and my oldest neice that made me grin. He was telling her that having little cousins was fun (she was complaining about a couple of the younger cousins being annoying.) The thing that made me grin is that Caleb is always complaining about the same thing, he'd rather spend time with the boy cousins close to his own age, yet he is always the one to play with the younger kids when they are here and organize games for them to play. 4. They decorated the front yard for Halloween. They took all the pumpkins and ghosts we've been working on and created a little pumpkin village, hung up the signs and the ghost, and even scattered some leaves and stuff on the driveway (after I swept them up) to make it look like a witch crash landed through the trees on her broom. 5. When the girls left, we took Caleb and Kota to the store to buy costumes. Dakota's going to be a witch, she had her mind set on that last month. 6. Caleb was a bit harder. He is getting to the age where that kind of thing isn't as fun and wasn't too interested in dressing up. I pointed out that he could help with the little kids. Then we went through a ton of costumes, none he was too interested in. I finally told a sales clerk we were looking for something for an 11 year old boy who doesn't want anything to babyish. He helped out and found a scary guy costume that Caleb loves. Hopefully he won't scare the little ones too badly! 7. We're gonna go to little "adopted" sis' neighborhood to trick or treat this year. It's a nice quiet neighborhood, plus the church down the street does trunk or treat so if we don't have much luck with the houses, we can walk over there. 8. I have an appt this week with my aunt and her social worker. Social worker comes out twice a year for her in home health care to determine if she needs more, less, or the same amount of help and since I'm her care giver, I have to be there to answer questions or whatever she needs. Aunt is nervous, I'm not. I know what she is and isn't capable of and know the help she's getting is the help she needs. If anything they may get her home nurse out a little more often to monitor her diabetes. 9. Darren starts school tomorrow. If he gets off on time (and he's supposed to since it's a school night,) he'll have enough time to come home, take a quick shower and change clothes, eat dinner early, and spend a little bit of time with the kids before he has to leave. Class goes til 10pm, which is two hours after his bedtime. He's going to be hurting at 3:30 am on Tuesday when he has to get up for work.
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Jewels
Member
09-23-2000
| Monday, October 29, 2007 - 7:34 am
1. Hi Factoiders!! 2. I love fall. I love the cool sunny days and the changing of the leaves. I don't like fall when it is rainy and the leaves are mushy and clog all the storm drains. Luckily, we have had beautiful weather the last week or so and it should continue this week. 3. I really enjoyed watching the World Series this year. It made it more fun because Jacoby Ellsbury was playing. He is from a small town in Central Oregon. He also played ball for Oregon State when they won the College World Series about a year and a half ago. They won it two years in a row and he was a big part of their first win. It was exciting to watch him! 4. The kids are all ready for Halloween. Jake is going to be Sponge Bob and Jenna is going to be Strawberry Shortcake. Their costumes are adorable. I spent too much money on them, so I sold all their old costumes on Craigslist to make it all back. 5. The people that own the house right next door to us moved and before their house went on the market we told my sister and her boyfriend about it. Now my sister and her boyfriend are buying it! 6. I'm not sure how I feel about my sister living immediately next door to me, but she works all day, maybe I won't have to see her too much. 7. It was too good of a deal for them to pass up. It is a great old house that the seller just wanted to get rid of, didn't need the money, so he sold it to them for about $60,000 less than he would have if he went the realtor route. 8. My 18 year old neice is also moving in with them as she has been having a hard time lately. She's made some wrong choices, but luckily she has realized that and wants to make a change. I will enjoy having her close by. 9. What else can I say? 10. Happy Monday!!
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Monday, October 29, 2007 - 9:42 am
1. It's Monday morning and I overslept. Too much Sunday fun. I'll be going into work late today. Happy Monday Factoiders!
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Bluegrass
Member
09-27-2007
| Monday, October 29, 2007 - 4:56 pm
1. I stayed home today with my daughter because she "wasn't feeling very good." Normally I would send her but I just didn't want to go to work so I used it as an excuse. Hopefully the karma won't come back to bite me when she really is sick! 2. We are buying a new house, put an offer in today and it was accepted! 3. Going on a field trip Wed. with kindergarteners to the pumpkin patch, wish me luck!
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Monday, October 29, 2007 - 5:13 pm
-3. I didn't go into work today either...decided to stay home and recoup. I put pumpkin pics in my folder. 1. It wasn't pretty, but I FINALLY got my iPod sync'd to my new laptop and with that I also got all my music files transferred!! Let's see...it only took me about 3 hours. 2. I am feeling so happy today...iPods, phone calls and memories just made my day!!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, October 29, 2007 - 6:06 pm
1. Trying not to jump the gun, trying not to be mad, not sure I'm succeding. 2. Earlier this school year Caleb had several missing homework assignments in different classes. Homeroom teacher made him skip a fun little party to complete them, we talked about the fact that he did do those assingments and turned them in. His math/Language arts teacher was out of school for weeks after having brain surgery. While he was gone, the sub didn't correct any papers, let alone the late ones. This teacher has now been back to school for two weeks, yet these assignments plus 13 others are on the missing list of his progress report. I don't know if he's behind in grading, things were lost with the sub, or what. I do think it's time for a meeting. 3. Thing is, his homeroom teacher (who is also social studies and science teacher) is supposed to communicate to us on behalf of his other teachers. I've been in fairly regular contact with her since he first had missing assignments, meetings in person, phone calls, and letters, and not once since then has she brought up any missing work. Obviously there's a breakdown in communication somewhere along the line, either the other teacher letting her know that he's behind in grading or that somehow Caleb's slipping between the cracks. I really don't get it, since that first set was late (the ones he did during the party) we check homework every night (he has math, LA, and science or social studies, the last two alternate) and he has to empty his backpack to show us he's turned the work in. Honestly, I know he's done this work and unless he's eating it before class starts, he is turning it in. All I know is I'm getting pretty tired of getting progress reports every two weeks and seeing this list grow! 4. Opposite end of the school spectrum, Darren started his first class tonight. Before he got home his counselor called and asked that he call her before he left. When he did she told him his transcripts from the military, the college he attended while he was in the military, and the jc from here all arrived and he has more credits than either of them thought. He's going to get to skip several (not sure how many yet) classes and at the last minute they changed his class for tonight to a more advanced one cuz he'd already covered the one he was scheduled to take. He's quite happy about it.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 9:06 am
1. I haven't been into the Factoid thread in AGES!! 2. I bailed on a job interview this morning. I'm feeling kinda guilty and I know Donners will be upset, but I'm running on the theory that I'd rather not waste their time on a position I know I'm not going to accept. I'd rather spend the day home cleaning. 3. Today is the 4th anniversary of my Dad's passing. Interestingly, it is also Donners' dad's birthday, who passed many years ago. If I don't spend the day cleaning, I think I'm going to go out to the waterfall we left Dad's ashes at. 4. Yesterday, completely out of the blue, I got a cheque in the mail for $650!! I knew I was expecting money from the remainder of my Grandma's estate, but I didn't think it'd be so much, or so soon. Just in time for rent! 5. Congrats on the new home, Bluegrass! May it provide many years of loving memories for you and your family!
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 9:47 am
1. My niece,16, who we are raising is in a mood that is not nice. She won't talk, so I can't help. 2. I told her to snap out of it or at least talk about it. 3. Her dad is in a minimum security prison in Oklahoma and he has called a couple of times in the last few weeks. I think that could have something to do with her mood. 4. She is in driver's ed and is not happy with the instuctor. This mood came about Saturday right after the driving part of the class. She says the instuctor doesn't tell her where to go while she is driving. 5. I promised my mom who passed away in Nov,'04 that I would send her to driver's ed and she isn't too happy that I'm keeping that promise 6. I think it's a very good thing, driver's ed, and that it should be a requirement for all drivers.
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Ducky
Member
08-27-2000
| Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 2:57 pm
1.We had to take driver's ed in highschool. 2.I remember the class teasing the instructor one day. As he had a wreck in front of the school one winter morning. His car slid on the ice and he crashed into the car in front of him. 3.I have been in one car accident that totaled my car. Was turning a corner left on a hill another car came over the hill and crashed into the drivers side of my car. Since then they have installed traffic lights at that intersection. 4.That was over 27 years ago. I am thankful that no one had to go to the hospital. I still have a slight scar above my eye where my rear view mirror hit me. 5.Now living in the country the only thing you have to watch out for are the slow tractors, and the deer crossing on the highway. It is that time of year where we have seen a lot so have to be extra careful. 6.I don't like to drive in the snow and am not looking forward to winter coming. 7.I would love to own a snowmobile it would get me outside more when the cold weather hits. I don't like staying inside for to long I love the outdoors.
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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 3:31 pm
1. I went to my friend's parents annual halloween party on Saturday night. It is always a lot of fun. They always do like a scavenger hunt, or survivor type race, and this year, since we got to pick our own teams - my friend and I's team won! We've never got to be on the same team til this year! 2. Just to get an example of some of the stuff we had to get - an ATM receipt, a McDonalds application, a spork, a chinese takeout menu, the name and phone number of a place that serves hummus, a band flyer, a spider (dead or alive), the headline for that day's USA today....LOL, you get the point. But since I live here and my friend is a crazy driver, we done very well! 3. Found out today that a friend/co-worker has colon cancer. That sucks, bad. She is the same age as my bff - who is the one who let me know about it. Scary. 4. Saw the movie Dan in Real Life on Sunday. It was cute. Steve Carell cracks me up. 5. I went out on Friday night to see this band that we like - it was their farewell performance. They done a good job. It sucks that they split up. 2 of the members are starting a new band, but it is more rock and roll than they previously had done. We'll see how they end up doing. 6. My bff and I are going to see Keith Urban in Little Rock in December. Between the 2 of us, we bought 3 extra tickets (yes, we are VERY intelligent), and have only sold one of the extras, so far. Hoping to get the other 2 sold...they cost $70 each after ticketmaster's BS fees. I hate ticketmaster. 7. I hate driving in the snow, too, Ducky. It makes me a nervous wreck, and I drive REALLY slow in it. It is other people driving too fast in it that scares me. But as bad as it is driving in the snow, driving in ice, is WAY worse. 8. Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, because of the dress up part. Tomorrow night, I'll be at my mom's house, so I can see my niece and nephew in there cutie patootie costumes. My niece is going to be a monster girl (LOL), and my nephew a yard gnome...I can't wait to see that one. LOL! Hope everyone has a great Halloween!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 10:07 pm
1. Hehe, I'd like to see a pic (though understand if you won't post one of your nephew) of the little yard gnome! I bet that will be a cute costume. 2. The other day sis picked up a witches broom for Kota's costume for her. It's really cute. 3. Last night when they took the girls to get their costumes, they decided they wanted to be witches too. Unfortunately, no more brooms left. So I made them some. 4. While I was at Michael's, I was looking around their halloween stuff and made a killing, lol. Everything was on sale. I picked up 10 halloween flashlights for 50 cents each and a bunch of halloween ribbon 1/2 price. 5. I'll probably go back tomorrow and see what decorations they have left. 6. Finally got a look at Darren's transcripts. He's got enough credits it will take a year off his schooling. 7. My little nephew has a new thing. The last couple days everytime I put him in the car he spends the whole ride going "Whooooooooo whooooooo!" No one is quite sure where he got this from but it's pretty funny. 8. Sis is watching the kids this weekend for us to celebrate our anniversary. We still haven't decided what we want to do yet. LOL, not quite right, Thursday night Darren will be meeting with his study group. He has plans. I don't. 9. I'm looking forward to having a great night tomorrow. I love seeing kids enjoying themselves and I'm enough a kid at heart to be enjoying myself!
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 11:18 pm
1. I'm hoping to get to my sister's house tomorrow after work to see the little ones get into their costumes. 2. This morning I prepared a pot roast and left it to simmer all day long in my electric skillet. It was so tender and yummy for dinner tonight! 3. Yesterday I missed work and today was incredibly non-stop and busy for me. My office door appeared to be a revolving door. I spoke with a lot of people and didn't get any desk work done. Oh well, tomorrow's another day, right? 4. I received my annual evaluation and it was as I expected, no surprises, no hysterics, just routine. My boss stated in my eval that I make her laugh all the time....which is true. 5. I found out today that an acquaintance committed suicide. I never knew he was hurting that much inside because he always presented himself in a normal, happy-go-lucky way. I'm still in a bit of shock and awe at what he did. 6. I'll be meeting up with my bff soon and I need her right now. She's a true source of strength to me and yet she feels I'm that and more for her. 7. Tonight I played Backgammon with ds#2...he won 3 straight games and I told him I needed to stop playing so I could post at TVCH...lol. (I'm not a sore loser...nope!) 8. DS#2 wrote two Halloween songs and he's been asked to perform them on cable TV tomorrow night. He'll sing and play his guitar dressed up like Waldo, as in Where's Waldo. I was given a sneak preview and he had me cracking up big time...I love his sense of humor! 9. I'll post a picture in my folder of DS#2 in his Waldo costume. He went to a Halloween Party last Saturday night. 10. Okay, I've reached 10....yay!
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 3:47 am
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Thursday, November 01, 2007 - 8:48 am
1. Great gif Huk!! 2. Happy November TVCH! 
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Ducky
Member
08-27-2000
| Friday, November 02, 2007 - 2:51 pm
1.Will be getting the decorations for Christmas up early this year as we have been asked to be included the Holiday Home Christmas Tour. 2.We were in the Home Christmas Tour over 10 years ago. A lot of remodeling has happened since then. 3.BD is making me a cabinet to place my Precious Moments dolls in. They are displayed in the bedroom right now. When the cabinet is done I will be putting them the computer room.
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Jewels
Member
09-23-2000
| Friday, November 02, 2007 - 3:25 pm
1. I love decorating for Christmans and am thinking about doing it early this year. 2. We go out of town for Thanksgiving so I think it would be fun to do it before we leave and come home to "Christmas". 3. Doubt it will happen, but it would be fun. 4. I posted a picture of Jake and Jenna in my folder (since it is a members only area) on Halloween, if anyone wants to see! 
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 9:18 am
1. Gawd, I love Saturdays!! 2. I've already fed my rosebushes and re-potted my three surviving orchid plants. 3. Sometime today, I will need to do some sewing homework for my class tomorrow. 4. DS#2 needs me right now. Late last night he told me about his break up with his gf of 3 years. 5. I miss my sister and I'll need to take a mini-trip to go visit her soon.
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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 5:39 pm
1. Saturdays are the best! I agree, Eggie! 2. My nephew didn't end up being a yard gnome, because my sister neglected to buy the stuff in time. LOL! He sure did make a cute little lion, though. I will post some pics of the kids in my folder in a bit. They both looked really cute! 3. I went with my sister Halloween night to take the kids to the woman's house who babysat us (me and 2 younger sisters) from the time I was 4 all the way up to when my youngest sister was able to watch herself. They had a deer head hanging on the wall, and my nephew was mesmerized by it, he kept on saying "deer". LOL, over and OVER! My sister put him up by it to look at it and he was scared, and started crying. He just wanted to look from a distance! 4. This morning the plasma donation place was busier than usual on a Saturday morning. But it still went fairly quick. I bled faster than usual today! 5. I think I've had enough caffeine today to keep me up for the rest of all time. Hopefully it will wear off enough for me to sleep good tonight! 6. Less than one month til I get to go see Keith in concert again. Everyone keep their for me to win a backstage pass to meet him!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 1:45 am
1. Good luck on the backstage passes Jbean! 2. Friday we turned in our new medical, dental, and vision insurance package. We added on a new vision plan that will give Darren, Caleb, and I one pair of glasses a year for no cost to us. 3. Today Caleb admitted to us that he has been having headaches, can't see the board in school, and having trouble with class and homework. It's been going on for weeks but he didn't want to tell us because he remembers the eye dr saying if the weaker prescription doesn't help his weaker eye he may have to wear an eye patch and he doesn't want to do that again. 4. Having been through this before, we know it means a new prescription for Caleb. Our new vision plan won't kick in until Jan. 1 so we're going to have to pay out of pocket a month or so before he's eligible for glasses that'll cost us nothing. 5. Because it'll take a month or so to get into the eye dr, I've got to go have a chat with his homeroom teacher in the morning about arranging to have his seat moved to the front row of his classes and letting her know if he needs to he can go to the office and call home and I'll run him up some tylenol every day if I have to. Poor kid can't continue going day after day with a headache. 6. My middle niece is turning four on the 8th. She wants everything for her birthday. A big girl bicycle (she's getting that from a friend,) Mickey Mouse (Disneyland, we're going either later this month or next,) and everything she sees on tv, lol. We haven't decided what we're getting her yet but I can almost 100% garuntee she's not going to open a box and see Mickey Mouse pop out of it for her. 7. Dakota, who has always written stories, has been doing a lot more writing lately. She wrote a poem and a song last week and has been working on a story. She even took her song to school last week and sang it to her class for show and tell. She's been keeping us entertained!
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 9:15 am
1. I attended my 4th Weight Watchers meeting last night. 2. I had a great weigh-in! 3. This past week I lost 3 more pounds. 4. That puts me at 8.8 pounds lost since I joined. 5. I'm working on the concept to "move more" with some exercising. 6. Our WW Leader spoke about lowering the bar and doing some type of exercise for 10-15 minutes each day. 7. That seems reasonable to me. 8. Have a great Tuesday Factoiders!
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Jewels
Member
09-23-2000
| Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 10:39 am
1. Congrats, Eggie! That's awesome. 2. I was doing well for a while, I have a great kickboxing video that I was doing a few times a week, but then when t.v. season started I started doing it less and less. I really need to get back on it. Especially since my house is filled to the brim the Halloween candy right now. 3. Jenna's birthday is in a few weeks... yesterday we were making the list of who she wanted to invite to her party and she wants to invite all the boys from her class, but none of the girls. I guess that is okay when you are turning 5. 4. She is such a girly girl, has to have everything pink and "make sure it is pretty mom", but she will be the first one to play with the boys and one of her favorite things to do is dig in the dirt. I have the holes all over my yard to prove it! 5. I spent Sunday raking leaves in our yard, looks like I need to go out and do it again. I'm going to try to do that today or tomorrow because after that it is going to start raining again. 6. The kids spent Sunday playing in my piles of leaves. I got some great pictures that I will try to post later. 7. I need to clean up my house. I spent an hour cleaning my kitchen yesterday and now it looks like a tornado hit it. 8. I saw a quote once that said something like, 'Cleaning up after your kids is like trying to shovel snow while it is still snowing.' That is how I feel everyday. 9. Guess I better get on it. Happy Tuesday!!
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