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Skootz
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07-23-2003

Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 1:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Skootz a private message Print Post    
got my windows done and thats about it..where does the time go lol

kids will be home from school any minute and we are carving our pumpkins tonight.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 2:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
We're doing a mad rush for pumpkin carving tomorrow after school/work and before trick or treating. Are you baking the seeds Skootz?

LOL Roxip, so was Kota. Once she started walking she became one of those kids you couldn't take your eyes off. It was such a shock for us, Caleb was such an easy baby and toddler (he's making up for it now dang preteen) and then Dakota came along and wow. Naps were the only time she slowed down. I can't even say stopped cuz she still tossed and turned and kid and talked when sleeping, lol.

This little niece is the exact opposite. She's so serious and quiet where Kota was loud and laughing/playing all the time. You really have to work hard to get the baby to giggle and when you finally do it's so funny. She sits and watches everyone and everything. She'll sit and stare at an electrical outlet then get up and go find something else to watch. Kota would have set staring at the outlet too...only she was trying to figure out how to get the plastic thingie off of it and what she could stick in the outlet when she did get the plastic thingie off!

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 2:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
I think Kota and Shelby must be twins in the spirit...LOL! Shelby to this day never slows down unless it is something that absolutely captures her attention. Now I just take naps and leave her to her own devices...LOL!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 2:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
LOL and one of these days you'll wake up to find Shelby's painted the house or something! I was cooking one late afternoon and Kota went to get her bike out of the garage. She found the halloween decorations, had pulled them all out and had must of them hung or set out by the time I noticed what she was doing.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Friday, October 31, 2008 - 2:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Friday's Mission

Happy Halloween!!! I'm such a big kid, I love Halloween. It also signals for me the start of the holiday season. Kids and Darren only have another 3-4 weeks til they're off for a week for Thanksgiving.

My plans for tomorrow: Drop Caleb and the neighbor girls off at school, come home for a shower, go pick up the baby, and run to the craft store for some glow stick bracelets for the kidlets for tomorrow night. Then home for an hour to play and then we're meeting a friend at Costco. We're done running around after that til later in the afternoon, so it's back home to cook a pot of beans for dinner and more playing with the baby.

Caleb's staying after school for the Halloween dance but I'm going to pick the neighbor girls up so he can run his guitar and backpack out to the car. We'll take the baby home then run home again to get Kota in her costume, grab the beans and pick Caleb up and go to sis' for dinner. She's making chicken tortilla soup (we try to warm the kids up as much as possible before trick or treating cuz it's usually freezing and nasty out.) Finally off to trick or treat at little "adopted" bro's neighborhood.

Heh, after reading all that, I think I'll pick the baby up at noon and just keep her til we go back to sis' for dinner. Cut out one trip anyways.

I hope everyone has a great day!

Skootz
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07-23-2003

Friday, October 31, 2008 - 4:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Skootz a private message Print Post    
closing our pool today (after snow on wed) it is to be 65 today here and better get it done before we don't get it closed at all.

Kids have trick or treating tonight then dh and I are heading to a party for a bit at my cousins.

Happy Halloween all!

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Friday, October 31, 2008 - 7:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
I'm the official trick or treat mom in my little group because the mom I had planned on dumping Shelby on is going to be at the high school football game. Darn it, I was kind of wanting to stay home and give out candy, light spooky candles and watch a silly Halloween show! But instead I will be logging miles in the neighborhood down the road a bit with a lot of my friends and their kids...and that's not a bad thing either!

So Shelby's dad (who lives in my upstairs bedroom - long story - let's just say I'm hopeful that he will move out in the year 2009) called me the other day and said "Did you know that Shelby is shaving her legs?" Since I had told her that she couldn't shave until she either turned 12 (in March) or "got her monthly visitor" I was of course surprised by this news, although Shelby has been begging me for about a year now (she has gorilla legs). Anyway, turns out it was right before she was going to a sleepover with some of her friends. So now guess what...she's going to have to do it FOREVER like the rest of us!

Gotta love them kids or else you would be accused of justifiable homicide!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Friday, October 31, 2008 - 10:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Miles and miles, lol. We'll have kids from 13 down to 2 months old (mine, all my nieces and nephews plus a friends nephews) so we can eventually claim the little ones are tired and not stay out so late. I think the older ones would stay out all night if we let them. It's supposed to be cold and windy later (as usual) and I saw something about rain. It did sprinkle early this morning so I'm not counting that out.

Ack on the shaving! Poor Shelby doesn't know what she's gotten herself into, lol.

Hehe, my pharmacy sends me free samples once a month or so. Last month was two tampons, the month before one paper towel (yes, that's one paper towel, not a roll of them!) Anyways, when I start to wear jeans more often, I shave less. The hair on my legs is blond and you really can't tell it's there unless I've gone weeks without shaving. The other day, I wore capris and my bil was teasing me about my hairy legs cuz they were pretty bad. I got home and grabbed the mail and there was another sample...it was a damn razor, lol. I had to call bil and tell him I was going to shave...you know it must be bad when you get teased AND the pharmacy sends you a razor!

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Friday, October 31, 2008 - 11:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
The retirement party was great fun! I was so busy yesterday between work and then going home to get set up that I never even made it onto the board yesterday.

Lets see, Wednesday night I pulled out my knee pads and got down on the floor and washed it by hand with vinegar water. Then once that had dried I got my hardwood floors cleaner/polish and did the floors, it went pretty smoothly. But I noticed when everyone got there last night that the floors were still a little streaky, I swear I must be doing something wrong with these floors. They never look right to me, they are maple, if anyone has any ideas. Oh and I rearranged the furniture, table against the wall for food, chairs all around.

Then Yesterday I left work early, I swear I am not allowed to have a party where my balcony is involved. My July party it was too hot and today it rained!!! I did move the umbrella to the middle of the balcony so if people wanted to go out they could.

Anyway, I got home about 3pm, people were coming at 5pm. I had to take all the shrimp and rinse them off because even though I had them in the fridge thawing since Tuesday they still had ice on them, LOL. Got all the bowls etc for all the other foods placed on the tables, did some last minute dusting, hung the sign and balloons on the front porch. Oh and I swept up the cobwebs and gave the front porch a general dusting. Had to clean the bathroom floor again, since Blackie believes that there should always be kitty sand on it, LOL.

Flipped over all my reed air fresheners, turned on the music, decanted some red wine, dumped all the chips into their respective bowls, put the cold foods on the table and waited for the guests.

It went great, but I was afraid I was going to run out of wine! I usually have a ton in my hutch, but was down to one bottle of red, I had 1 and a half bottles of some chardonnay and had bought a 1.5 liter of chardonnay and 2 bottles of red. I was surprised that everyone had wine, usually someone has a water or a coke or something (I had plenty of that too). Anyway it worked out well, but for my next party I will make sure I have a case of wine, just in case.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN everyone!

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Friday, October 31, 2008 - 12:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
Sounds like a great party. And shame on you...living in Northern CA and not having wine...that would be like living in Texas and not owning a pair of boots, right?

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Friday, October 31, 2008 - 1:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Yay! Sounds like it was a good party, Dipo! I'm glad it went so well (though sorry about the rain.)

I ran by little adopted sis' to pick up some beads, then went and got my baby niece. We went to the store, got lunch and I came home and fed her. She's now off playing with the puppy (who needs Auntie Sandy when there is a puppy to play with?) I've got my pot of beans cooking for tonight. Nothing left to do but play with the baby and wait til everyone gets out of school and off work.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, November 03, 2008 - 2:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Monday's Mission

This is a good one tomorrow, I need to take the Halloween decs down and put them away anyways.

Had a great Halloween. My mom was working so we took the kids (ours and our nieces) out to see her. Then we met up with practically everyone we know, lol, for trick or treating at little "adopted" bro's house. That's only a slight exaggaration...was us, sis and her family, both little "adopted" bros and there families, little "adopted" sis and hers, our cousin's girls, and 8-9 other friends and their families. We had 32 kids and 16 adults! There were so many kids I was more worried we'd end up walking off with someone elses kid rather than one of ours wandering off.

I was so impressed with my oldest nephew (13) and Caleb, but sorta sad too, I think they're growing out of the whole trick or treating thing. They were more interested in making sure the little kids had a good time than they were in their own trick or treating. Caleb took my 2 and a half year old nephew, pulled him in his wagon when he was tired, held his hand when he was walking, reminded him to say trick or treat and thank you. Caleb didn't get as much candy as the other kids but then Kota impressed me when we got home by sharing hers with him.

We did nothing this weekend, well housework related that is. Yesterday was our anniversary but we had made plans with sis to watch her girls and her to watch our kidlets next weekend. We just hung around, Darren got some homework done, we played with the kids and that was about it. We had a terrible night of sleep with the baby and ended up sleeping in shifts. After about 3 hours of sleep this morning, wasn't much getting done except a quick trip to walmart for some stuff we couldn't do without.

Tomorrow is banking day for my aunt, I'm expecting problems with that and will probably have to go back and get her and take her to the bank. Actually that's about all I have planned for her. I'll clean my house, sweep up the porch and driveway and do anything else I don't think can wait til Wednesday.

Skootz
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07-23-2003

Monday, November 03, 2008 - 5:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Skootz a private message Print Post    
Happy Monday,

didn't make it to the party Friday night, too bushed...but do have pictures in my folder of the kids and dh and I last week.

Yesterday, was in a clean up mode - as you most know that we renovated last year, I had store most of my kitchen in boxes in the basement well guess what, I have a van packed full of stuff for the good will - there was other stuff in there too, but once I got going on it, I couldn't stop and just told dh to bear with me and keep packing up the van as I get it in a box...so van is full. Basement is a lot less cluttered and one less job finished before the operation Friday.

After supper kids, dh and I stripped the beds flipped the mattresses and then remade the beds. I think dh was glad we only have four beds lol.

Today, I am going to one of my clients and then to Sams Club to stock up on food etc.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Monday, November 03, 2008 - 11:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
wow, Skootz - good job on the de-cluttering, LOL. Wargod, sounds like you had a great weekend, well deserved, be patient with the banking people, LOL, you know they are sort of stressed right now.

I did hardly any cleaning this weekend since I did most of mine for the party Thursday. I am, however, still doing a little clean up from the party. I have some hand wash stuff that I just haven't gotten to, but I did dustmop under my bed so I could put the expensive lounge cushion under there since the rain has started.

I have to sweep my balcony everyday or I will be buried in leaves, I did the front porch last week and did I tell you guys I got a new plant stand for the aspargus fern, and a new plant and repotted my jade plant into a new beautiful pot, so the front porch looks really pretty!

Lets see, for tonight, I think I will do the handwashing, fix the shelfs that fell in one of my cabinets (I noticed the prior owner put the shelf holders on upside down) and polish the floors where I have footprints from the rain.

Everyone have a great day!

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Monday, November 03, 2008 - 11:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
It used to rain here in Texas...but not recently. I'm going to have to start watering my foundation again because it is so dry. Please send your rain our way!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, November 03, 2008 - 1:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Roxip, we got some good rain here Saturday...first time in I can't remember how long that it's rained like that. We've already got the water co restriction for watering lawns (only do it between certain hours and no run off on sidewalks, streets, driveways, etc.) We already practice what we can for water conservation (only running full loads of laundry, turning off the water while washing hands/brushing teeth, etc) so it's not a big deal to us. Though with winter here we just cut our watering down to one day a week.

Well, banking was bad, but I think we now have everything fixed so it was a well spent hour and a half! Sis asked if I'd run to the grocery store and pick up something she can just throw in the oven and heat up for dinner cuz middle niece has an ear infection and she's going to end up sitting in urgent care for hours. Gonna pick up a lasagna since that's something bil can throw in the oven and take out with no problem.

I'm eating lunch now, going to do my housework afterwards. Probably won't do the porch today, winds blowing fairly hard and that's a silly chore to do in wind, lol.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 1:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Happy (U.S.) Election Day!

Tuesday's Mission

I have tomorrow planned as a sick day. I'm going to drop the kidlets off at school and try to go vote if I have time. I have a 9:15 am eye dr appt so I'll have less than an hour before my appt. I tend to get migraines after eye exams (hoping to combat that with a cup of coffee and some excedrin beforehand.) If I don't have time to vote early in the morning, I'll do it after my appt...not looking forward to waiting in line with a migraine but need to vote so I will.

I've got everything taken care of I can for tomorrow. Have an easy/quick meal planned so Darren can cook if he needs to. Did the housework I could tonight. I do have a little grocery shopping I need to do for my aunt, but sis (who will pick me up from my appt if I need a ride and take me to vote and then home) said she'll go do the shopping if she needs to. LOL, she should! I ran to the store for aunt earlier and when I dropped it off sis said, oh btw, I forgot a couple things she needs!

Basically I'm hoping it all goes my way, lol. Drop the kids off at 8:05, vote by 9, appt at 9:15, and then home with nothing much to do. Otherwise it's drop the kids off, appt, vote, then home.

Skootz
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07-23-2003

Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 5:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Skootz a private message Print Post    
Well going to put laundry away today and hoping to get my downstairs windows cleaned. We are to hit temperatures of near 70 today with sunshine (last week we had snow on Wednesday - Crazy Canadian weather eh? lol)

I am bottling wine that I ordered this afternoon with my brother at a wine store.

House is gradually getting in order for the next two months, but not sure how it will stay that way lol

Happy Voting my American friends, and make sure you all exercise your right to vote please.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 10:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Not going my way, lol. Kids were running late this morning, we left about 8:15. Dropped them off and went by the polling place, stopped, saw the line out the door, and asked a lady walking to her car how long the wait was and when she said about an hour (not as bad as I feared) I knew I didn't have time since it was 8:30 by then. So voting after my appt.

Don't worry about the house Skootz. Hubby and kids can keep it up in their own way until you are back on your feet. I'm all for organzied and cleaned, but it's not the most important thing, you're recovery is.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 1:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
Bummer Wargod! I am sure you will get that voting in later. Skootz, agree with Wargod - as long as it neat, which the kids and hubby should be able to do, clean can be accomplished later, LOL.

Well my house is a mess! I got home last night to see my balcony umbrella blown over (and I think broken, it is V'd up not down) so I had a bunch of wet stuff. I had put the furniture cover on the love seat, but not the chair, because Steve (the weather guy) said it was going to be light showers. It poured like nobodies business and we had high winds. So the chair cushions are now on the dining room floor drying out. I had a bunch of towels that the kitties slept on, had to wring them out then try an find places for them to hang which meant I had to put towels under them to catch the drips so the floors didn't get ruined. Then I noticed that all my back and forth had left wet prints on the newly polished floors! ACK! So I put a towel down at the balcony door so I could wipe my feet more since the rug wasn't working that well!

I emailed my handyman guy to see if could help me unsprung my umbrella, I have to at least get it down so it won't blow over and break something. LOL.

And wouldn't you know, it is absolutely gorgeous outside today!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 2:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Oh, already voted, Dipo. Went later, it took me all of 10 minutes (one of the women said they'd been busy/then not/busy/then not this morning.)

Ack!! I hope the umbrella isn't broken and I'm sorry to hear about all the mess.

We had rain early morning (before 6am) but right now clear skies. Supposed to rain again tonight/tomorrow morning. The wind though is terrible (and it's cold!) I'm so glad I didn't bother with the porch and driveway yesterday, I'd have been mad today, lol. It's really nasty out there.

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 2:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
How's your head? Did you get the migraine from the eye appointment?

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 3:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Nope, cuz I walked out of the eye drs office. I posted about it in the rant or gripe thread. I got there early, waited an hour and they started calling a family of six who walked in just before I did, even though their appt wasn't til 11:30 and mine was at 9:15. I even stopped to tell them why I was leaving. I was furious. The office manager called and left a message on my machine apologizing and telling me to call and schedule a new appt and they'd try to get me in as soon as possible.

I don't mind waiting for emergencies, for people sicker than me, or even the dr/staff running behind but found it too much when I'm still waiting an hour after my appt, when I was there early, for people who showed up 2 hours early.

Skootz
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07-23-2003

Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 6:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Skootz a private message Print Post    
I don't blame you War...I would of done the same thing.

I got the downstairs cleaned and just want to do some laundry in the next day or so and get the upstairs dusted and vacuumed. Then I quit for 2 months (hopefully - think of me as a cleaner and professional organizer having to play couch potato for not a day - which to me is impossible- for 2 months) I will need back up please lol

Have a great evening all

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 3:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Wednesday's Mission

Darren stopped by their office after work, chewed them out, and I now have an appt for 1:45 tomorrow. I may have to cancel it though, Kota's sick, if she's not any better I won't be able to drop her off with my sis or take her with me and will probably end up sitting in urgent care. I'll have to decide by tomorrow morning though so I can call them if I have to to cancel.

So, plans for tomorrow depend on how Kota's doing. If she's feeling better, grocery shopping for my aunt and the eye dr. If not, cleaning around my house and trying to get her into urgent care.

Next Tuesday, we have a meeting with my aunts social worker for her medicare. We go through it every year, the lady comes and observes her, talks to both of us and determines her needs for the year (visiting nurses...actually not sure about them, pt, ot, and what help I give her.) I'm hoping for pt at least, I think it'd be good for her. But, aunts freaking out with things she thinks need done around the house before the lady comes. Sis and I are telling her the house is fine. It's clean, it's safe, she has plenty of room to manuver not only her walker but wheelchair if need be, and we made the two improvements the social worker had last year (minor things.)

Skootz, I can be your cheerleader for a couple months to keep you resting like you should. Watching sis go through enforced bedrest last year while pregnant, I know it was hard for her. When you're used to doing something and have kids to take care of, it's not easy to stay put. But its for your own good. Might be a good time to start some crafts (when you're feeling well enough) or reading some books.