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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 11:17 pm
8.3 Heh, Caleb was just the opposite when he was that age. We'd be in line at the store and I'd focus in on him talking to the stranger behind us giving them his full name, address, our names, etc! He was way too friendly and trusting. I hope Sam will have an easy transition and if not, at least you tried. Another year might be good for him if it doesn't work the first year. 1. Darren's off work for a four day weekend. 1.2 Dakota had a free day from practice today and stayed at my sisters for a few hours. She had a great time and came home filthy. 1.3 Everytime I fill my car up with gas, I buy one lottery scratcher ticket. I half jokingly keep saying I should just throw my money on the ground, very rarely do I win and when I do it's usually just another free ticket. But, I do get a couple minutes of fun out of it and sometimes I'll win 2 or 3 tickets off of one which is even more fun. About two and a half weeks ago, I bought a crossword one and won a ticket. It's been sitting on my desk since then. Tonight I took Kota up to get some hot chocolate for the kids and turned in my ticket for a new one...and won $40! I actually WOO HOO'd and did the happy dance. That was fun and not bad for $3!
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Texasdeb
Member
05-23-2003
| Sunday, March 23, 2008 - 4:13 pm
1) Lucky you, War. I'm happy dancing for ya but by now that $40 has been spent. Hope you treated yourself. 2) 2nd DD calls mid wk & tells me she & 3 yr old grandson are coming up from Tx City to Dallas next Fri. eve. & I am to go to 1st DD's who lives about an hr my side of Dallas & 1st DD & 3 yr old grandaughter & me will meet up with them & go to some special Tommy Train thingy on Sat. 3) The plan is for the 2 3 yr olds to then stay with 2nd DDs SIL overnight & both DDs & I will get a motel & go out to a comedy club that eve. I've told them that the going out would be fun, but I would be just as happy to spend time (& not as much money) just going to 1st DDs & having a nice eve with my kids & grandkids. We'll see where the plans go.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, March 23, 2008 - 6:43 pm
1) I'm in NYC 2) We saw comedians Russell Peters, Dane Cook, Jo Koy, and Ron White on Friday. 3) I got a complimentary upgrade to Business class on my flight today and it made me happy. 4) My call time is 6AM. Which means I have to get up at 5. Which means it'll be 2AM my body's time. Yuck.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, March 23, 2008 - 9:50 pm
1. Nope, Deb, not spent...I've been trying to save a little money each month (for a home improvement project and a seperate one for something fun at the end of the year) so that money got put away. 2. Would have been fun to spend it on something spur of the moment, but I'm trying very hard to save. 3. Yuck Yank, that's just too early to get up in the morning! 4. Deb, I hope you have fun with your girls whatever you decided to do! 5. Since Darren took the day off work tomorrow, my two older nieces came to spend the night with us tonight.
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Sage
Member
07-20-2000
| Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 3:34 pm
1. I've been thinking about Native_Texan, and wonder how she and Travis are doing. I think God has put them on my heart, because I've been praying for them the last couple of days. If anyone knows how she is doing... 2. Since my emotional breakdown a month ago, I cannot believe I even went through that. It's like my emotions have done a almost complete 180. The meds are really working well. 3. This cold, wet weather here on the west side of WA state, is really getting to me. I'm used to living in the desert, and back in my home town, the weather is mostly sunny and about 15 degrees warmer than here. 4. I made really good fried cod the other night and served it with our family's famous tartar sauce: boiled eggs, chopped sweet pickles, mayo, and salt and pepper. So good! 5. I have started my own business, but it's going real slow. I'm going to put my drawings on t-shirts and canvas tote bags. I have six images to send to the screen printer as soon as I have them ready, which is time consuming. I decided to name the business Rosy Posy Artistry. It's a whimsical name, just like my art is whimsical. The art gives me hope that I can be a success with it. I hope I'm not wrong. 6. I made a MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/rosyposyartistry) page at the suggestion of an artist friend of mine to help promote my art. I'm still trying to decide the best way to market my artwork besides using that site and eBay. I've looked into Cafe Press, but I don't think I want to go that route. Oh well, I'll figure it out.
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 7:51 am
1. Hi Factoiders! I haven't posted in my favorite thread for awhile. I hope you all are doing well. 2. I did buy a new car last Friday. It'a a 2008 Honda Accord in Barcelona Red and it has leather ivory seats. Each day that I drive it, I am feeling more comfortable in it. 3. The last new car I had was in 1989 and it was for my "taxi mom" role...a Ford Aerostar van. Lots of great kidlet memories with that car! 4. DS#1 returned from his trip to Greece, Germany and Italy last night. He had an awesome time! While in Venice, he recalled me telling him how much I loved being in Venice, so he brought me a local artists' oil painting on canvas of a Venice scene. It's beautiful! 5. I haven't been watching Big Brother this year. First season I've missed. And as most of you know, my history of joining TVCH was because of BB1 and the interaction with the 'net and this show. 6. Instead, I'm currently watching American Idol, The Biggest Loser and Survivor. That's about it these days. 7. I look forward to *June 1st*, I'm just sayin'...
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 8:38 am
1. Egbok ... oh my goodness I am so jealous of your car .. Barcelona Red. It sounds beautiful!! 2. I have a 2007 Honda Civic in Metallic Blue. I think that's the color name. But I really wanted red. 3. The car will eventually be my son's and he wasn't going to drive a red car. lol! 4. Speaking of my son ... he's in North Dakota right now on a cattle ranch watching calves being born while he's on Spring Break with his dad. He loves it there! 5. He won't be home until April 1st ... I'm missing him! 6. I've been making a lot of changes lately and have been feeling a little 'manic' about it. 7. But they're all positive so it'll be fine. :o)) 8. I have tomorrow off for Cesar Chavez Day ... yay for 3-day weekends!
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 9:05 am
4.a My son is in North Dakota but not at a cattle ranch, lol. He is stationed there.
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Friday, March 28, 2008 - 6:28 am
1. I am in Denver. 2. They have an awesome pedestrian mall by my hotel. 3. Ate at the Hard Rock Cafe last night. 4. I present my work in a couple of hours. 5. My computer email program shuts down every time I try to send a message. PITA! 6. I am really tired! 7. I'm really glad that I found a paper I need to present in two weeks. I forgot that I had written it. I found the file while in the airport and was THRILLED. 8. Even better, the paper is actually good! 9. WHEW!
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 8:54 pm
1. My eyes are swollen. 2. In the past week I met/talked with Russell Peters (Canadian comedian...), Diane Sawyer, Robin Roberts, Bill O'Reilly, Donny Deutsch, Chris Cuomo, and the woman who runs Daily Candy. 3. Russell Peters was the coolest. 4. I just ate dinner and am stuffed. 5. I hope my eyes aren't still swollen on Monday when I have to go back to work. 6. I have a new assistant who is GREAT and I love her so far! 7. It's like 65-68 degrees in LA today, and I actually heard someone at the pharmacy complain that it's cold. Come on, people! 8. I'm really happy that Marm found that paper. That must be a huge relief!! 9. I could live without my dh, but I'd rather not. 10. My life is better with him in it, his OCD tendencies included. 
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 9:39 am
1. Dang I wish it was 65-8 here. I'm hating the cold lol.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 9:59 am
1. It's supposed to hit 69 here today! 2. Nicholas is coming home from Spring Break with his dad on Tuesday. He's been gone 10 days and I'm ready for him to be home!!!
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Monday, March 31, 2008 - 11:43 am
1. I was wrong about my dates. 2. Nicholas comes home ... 3. TODAY! 
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, March 31, 2008 - 12:03 pm
1. Yippee Nick! Glad your wrong date is this way and not the other! 2. I've been running today. Called and left a message to have full portable oxygen tanks delivered to my aunts this morning, then remembered the guy usually shows up between 8 and 9. Ack! Dropped Kota off at school at 8:20, picked up my nephew and got to my aunts as soon as I could. By 9:40 when he wasn't there, I began to worry that I had missed him. Told my sis I was running home to check my messages and see if they called and while I was gone he called sis and told her he was pulling up. ACK again. I'm supposed to deal with that, hate that she had to (though she doesn't mind.) 3. Kids went back to school today. It's so quiet and my nephew keeps wandering around wondering where everyone is, lol. 4. Already went to the grocery store for my aunt, did that after missing the oxygen guy, and paid some bills plus my parking ticket.
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Texasdeb
Member
05-23-2003
| Monday, March 31, 2008 - 4:05 pm
1) glad you are all happy Nick! 2) I got to see my only son this weekend for the 1st time since last June. 3) It was a surprise planned by him & my 2 DDs. 4) DD's had planned this Mother/DDs outing where we all met up in Dallas for the wk-end & there he was with them. 5) We had sooooo much fun. DS is the youngest & he is 22 so we really did some major night life stuff (I even danced on a piano - but I'll tell you more later about that one)
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, April 01, 2008 - 11:10 pm
1. What a great surprise, Deb! 2. Tonight Darren and I had to work the snack bar at the park. Caleb helped out some because we were short a person. 3. While we were doing that, Dakota was a couple fields away at practice. Yesterday I left her there alone for about 45 minutes, but tonight was the first time she was alone the whole time (even if we were just a short way away.) 4. When practice was over, she came and got a hamburger and fries and sat down with some of the girls on her team to watch a majors game. 4. Her coach came up to the window and asked us if Kota had told us what she did. Me and Darren looked at each other thinking uh oh and the coach said oh no! They were playing a practice game and she said Dakota got up to bat and first pitch "whacked the hell out of that ball!" She hit a home run. Throughout all the practices and games, they've only had one other girl hit a home run so they were pretty excited about it. 5. When I took her dinner to her, the coach came over and asked her why she didn't tell us and she just grinned and then told me all about it. She was so proud of herself and so are we. She's been practicing so hard and working at home and it's really starting to show. 6. Caleb is also pretty proud of himself (and we are too.) He's getting an award next week in school, though he doesn't know what it is for yet. I will, of course, be sitting there ready to take pictures.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, April 12, 2008 - 12:42 am
1. Ack, where is everyone? 2. Caleb got a Teachers Honor Roll award (gpa between 3.0 and 3.5...his was 3.33) Pretty darn good considering he'd had several D's and F's just four weeks before the end of the trimester! I sat there grinning ear to ear, as did a couple of his teachers. 3. Today he had his first track meet. I had to drive him out to the school it was held at cuz our school doesn't have the money in the budget for buses for track. Pfft. I then got to this other school and realized our school sucks! Not the school itself but the campus, lol. This school we went to had a full track and field. Long jump, high jump, shotput, track, etc. We've got grass and blacktop! 4. My boy who is built for long distance running and has spent the last three years doing cross country and was supposed to be doing the 1,600 M (the long one) somehow ended up doing the 100M. Darren and I were a little confused as to how he ended up doing a sprint! Thing about Caleb, he's never been the fastest kid on the track, but especially this year he's learned how to run a nice steady pace for longer distances and has been finishing at the front. His coach told me yet again just last week he continues to be impressed with how well Caleb does at long distances. 5. So yeah, we were confused to find him in a sprint. We think he did well but we're not quite sure yet how well. He finished in 14.02 which seems pretty good to me, lol. Some of those boys were really fast though. There were close to 60 6th grade boys doing the 100 M, 7-8 in each heat, Caleb was in the third heat and by the time they raced it was already ten after 5 (Dakota's practice started at 5 and she happened to be standing there with us) so we had to leave as soon as he was done and didn't see the final results. Oh and he cleared up our confusion...he asked to do the 100M so he's been training for both that and the long distance race. He wants to try the shorter to see how he likes it. 6. By the time we got home, Dakota was already half an hour late to her practice. I figured it wasn't a big deal since I'd run into her coach at the track meet (her son was participating) and knew she'd be late. As I was rushing Kota into her practice clothes I checked the messages on my answering machine (something I rarely do!) and had a message from her team mom saying practice was cancelled cuz the team manager was called into work and with the coach busy with her son and knowing she was going to be late they decided to cancel instead. 7. She's got a game tomorrow and for the first time in a long time it's supposed to be a beautiful day for one of her games (every game has been cold and windy!) We're going to pick up my nieces and take them with us since they haven't been in a while. 7.5 Then I'm bringing em all back here and putting them to work, lol. Caleb and Darren have yard work to do and the girls are going to help me wash and clean the inside of my car.
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Riviere
Member
09-09-2000
| Saturday, April 12, 2008 - 3:35 am
Fact: I am sane 2: I detest MySpace 3: I feel sorry for everyone
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Saturday, April 12, 2008 - 9:24 am
7.7 Rofl Riviere!
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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Saturday, April 12, 2008 - 10:59 am
1. Shame on me for not visiting my favorite thread in so long! 2. It is flippin' COLD here! We have had the crappiest weather this year. More flooding this week. I think it's about 40 degrees out right now. This morning it sleeted for a bit and then a few snow flurries. ACK! 3. This morning I participated in a 3 mile Heart Walk with some people from work. The poster child for this year's event was a guy that I work withs' 2 year old daughter. Warmer weather would have been really nice. 4. Then tonight is my work's 25th year anniversary party, with 3 Dog Night and the Doobie Brothers. I have to admit that I'm not so much a "fan" of either of the groups, but I am a fan of the food, including 2 different kinds of cake, and $1 beer...don't worry, I have a DD. LOL. 5. I have been having strange dreams lately, and actually remember them. For many years I hardly ever have dreamed or just don't remember them. 6. I have a headache and I'm hungry. 7. I need to clean house. 8. I wish weekends lasted longer! Hope you all have a fantastic weekend!
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Saturday, April 12, 2008 - 12:54 pm
1. Shame on me for not visiting my favorite thread in so long! I'm copying jbean's #1 above...giggle 2. It is flippin' HOT here!! Although it's pretty outside, it's like a heater is blasting out there and my plants are screaming for water. 3. I've been playing with my iPod and adding more music to it. 4. I've also been spot cleaning around the house in between music/iPod sessions....ugh! 5. Oh and let me not forget to mention the laundry. It's only mine and Egbob's as the boys do their own laundry, but who wadda thought only two adults could create so much dirty laundry in a week? 6. I was planning on giving my new car it's first wash but it's just too dang HOT outside...so maybe tomorrow. Although we don't have A/C in our house, it's nice and cool in here because of the insulation. 7. Yesterday, my boss and I went to a wholesale florists and ordered lilacs and mini-gerber type of flowers in pale yellow. We're going to make floral centerpieces for our Annual Volunteer Appreciation Brunch held on Saturday May 3rd. We're trying to keep our costs down and stay within our departments budget. That's always fun.....not! 8. I sure hope to see Jewels pop in her favorite thread as well. Jewels??? 9. Okay, it's lunchtime for me...and I'm so hungry!! I'd sure would like a strawberry shake...yum!!
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, April 12, 2008 - 2:04 pm
1. Living in LA is weird. 2. This week, I was at a party and Nikki Sixx was there. Motley Crue was the first big concert I EVER went to. I was talking to some guy in a suit at the party when I noticed Sixx behind him, and this is what was going on in my head -- "Nikki Sixx! Nikki Sixx! OMG that's Nikki Sixx! Stay calm. Listen to what this suit guy is saying. Look interested. But ... OMG ... it's Nikki Sixx!" 3. I called the publicist of a big star for a work reason, and ended up talking on the phone with said star, and now we've been corresponding by email. 4. I saw Brooke Shields' husband and daughters at the coffee shop today. Those girls are beautiful. 5. I'm with Eggie. It's HOT here today -- but I'm loving it. It's so different than what I'm used to. 6. Did I mention, living in LA is weird? 7. I'm starting to feel a little more comfortable here, though still miss Vancouver. 8. I'm hungry. 9. I may go get a pedicure today. 10. Or I may just stay in and be totally lazy. Haven't decided.
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Saturday, April 12, 2008 - 3:07 pm
1. I agree with Yankee...living in L.A. is weird...but I wouldn't live anywhere else. From the ocean to the desert to the SoCal mountains, plus the weirdness...we have it all... giggle!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Saturday, April 12, 2008 - 4:06 pm
1.1 Yay Nikki Sixx
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Texasdeb
Member
05-23-2003
| Saturday, April 12, 2008 - 8:22 pm
1) Took Carmel (my Fox Red Lab) to the vet today for her rattlesnake booster - she is all of 107 lbs - talk about a trip from....he dbl hockey sticks! 2) Got my new NordcTrack in & Frank got it all put together last night. I might have spent wayyyy too much $$ for something that is way over my ability to use. I have gotten on it 2 times today & I kid you not, I can't stay on the thing for more than 5 min. without the hurt all up & down my legs & rear end & we won't even talk about the sweating. I've a long way to go with that thing - but, no pain - no gain I guess.
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