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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 11:50 pm
Can you believe this!?! Today's newspaper, front page of the 2nd section: "Paper, paper everywhere? People who want to dispose of private information but worry about identity theft can bring up to two grocery bags of documents to be shredded, pulped and recycled to Group Health Credit Union's "Shred-a-thon" 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday ... The state Attorney General's Office suggests good candidates for such disposal include tax records more than 7 years old, pay stubs and bank statements more than 1 year old and home-purchase or sales information more than 6 years old." AND ONLY 1 mile from my house. Across the street from my favorite post office, with plenty of parking, to boot! Cleared out half of my old tax papers, scads of more bills, pay stubs, bank statements, can't believe how much I'm finding. Tomorrow I'm going through more of my outdated Important Papers. Filled the bag. Called my best friend who saves everything, probably since she was born, who is also trying to clean out stuff. I can use my 2nd bag for her stuff, if she's got more than 2 bags pulled together. I'm also taking my 3 plastic bags that I've already shredded (2-pages at a time on my little wussy shredder) to see if I can toss them into the heap. Feel a LOT safer disposing the shreds this way, instead of putting them into the recycle bin where we're required to bundle into a Clear Plastic bag. Thanks again for the suggestions! I'm clearing out so much, even though it was a rainy, stuck inside day. 
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 12:07 am
Thursday's Mission That is awesome, Bisc!! Dropped Kota off at practice and came home to sort through change for Darren. Threw in another load of laundry then it was time to go to his open house. Finished there and picked up Kota and we came home to pack up the food and drinks, grabbed the fishing and camping stuff and threw it in the truck and Darren took it to his buddy's to put in the truck they're driving up. The only things I didn't have done was the last load of laundry for them so he couldn't drop that off. I'll throw their bag in the car tomorrow, along with things they'll need in the morning that couldn't be packed like pillows, toothbrushes, jammies, deodarant, etc. We ended up getting fast food for dinner though cuz by then it was pretty late. Tomorrow I'm cleaning my house front to back, top to bottom. Have to pick Caleb up from school at 11:45 and then drive him to Darren's company at 1 (he has lunch period at 11:50 and I can't pick him up during lunch.) Then back home for more cleaning. I'm keeping Kota home from school Friday for a girls day. We're going to go looking at thrift stores for jewelry and maybe some dress up stuff for her slumber party. Saturday is the Poppy Festival (arts and crafts, music, food, etc) and I think we're going to go for a few hours in the morning before coming home and setting up for the slumber party. Sunday we have field clean up duty at the little league park. I really don't expect to do much cleaning this weekend so it all has to be done tomorrow.
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 1:31 am
Good luck War, you've sure got more energy than I do!
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Lumbele
Moderator
07-12-2002
| Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 9:13 am
Well, my bedroom is vacuumed and dusted. Does that count for this week?
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 9:22 am
It certainly does, Lumbele. Biscottiii that newspaper article is just too funny and the timing is amazing. I took out some recycling this morning, John is coming over this afternoon to fix the fan, so I check around when I get home I will have about an hour to make sure everything is up to snuff.
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Lumbele
Moderator
07-12-2002
| Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 9:27 am
Bisc, just think at least you had better stuff to do during commercials than snack and pee. But they could have had that shredding day a couple of weeks earlier, couldn't they? Ack!!!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 10:50 am
That counts Lum, lol. I hope he can fix it Dipo, it's gonna be too hot this summer to do without one on high! I've got the rest of Darren and Caleb's stuff packed up and sitting on the couch waiting to go to the car. Since I'm picking Caleb up a bit early, I'm gonna take him to buy shoes, pick up some cash for Darren, and then get Caleb lunch before dropping him off. I've been picking up here and there as I collected the rest of their stuff up. Been enjoying the nice cool morning mostly though, lol.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, April 24, 2009 - 2:34 am
Friday's Mission I got quite a bit done today. Picked Caleb up and took him to buy a new pair of sneakers (he desperately needed them,) brought him home to change clothes, and then drove him out to Mojave to drop him off with Darren. Got back home and did some housework before Dakota got home (she didn't get home til almost 4!) I'd picked her up a pair of sandals at the shoestore, but they didn't fit so we had to take them back and exchange them. Also stopped by the goodwill to check out the jewelry. We came back home and Kota went to clean her room so I did a little more housework. She had most of her room done by the time I was done with the kitchen so I took her to get some ice cream at Cold Stone. She was in such a good mood all afternoon and had done her chores without complaint that she deserved the treat. We had a pretty fun evening too, just sitting around vegging. Tomorrow we have a few errands to take care of and a little more cleaning (I was hoping to have it all done today.) We're going to do some girly stuff, shopping for the slumber party and planning the games and stuff and then she has a game tomorrow evening. Right now I'm thinking our girl day is going to start off by sleeping in late though, lol. She stayed up til 1:30 tonight!
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, April 24, 2009 - 9:30 am
Wow, that is late, LOL! Have a fun slumber party and girly weekend. I managed to get some stuff done, John got the fan back in functional mode, it is a design flaw so we put the chain in a different place which looks fine but isn't how they designed it. I mopped the kitchen, swept the hall and bedroom, mopped the bedroom, unloaded the dishwasher, cleaned out the fridge and straigtened up around the house.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, April 24, 2009 - 10:21 am
Kota's a real night owl so that's not too unusual. My two younger nieces are over this morning, sis was going to a drs appt with a friend. Middle one will be going to school soon, but it's the baby who usually doesn't let me get anything done.
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Saturday, April 25, 2009 - 11:05 pm
Lumbele said: "But they could have had that shredding day a couple of weeks earlier, couldn't they? Ack!!!" I'm so pleased with myself! Can't believe how much paperwork I cleared out. Ended up with 4 bags (including 2 full lawnbags that were already shredded) to the shred-a-thon today. They took all, even threw the preshedded into the chopper too. Day before last I discovered another box & several bags of old 2003-4 bills in my bedroom and went thru them yesterday. Can now ALMOST reach my closet. AND...I didn't have to fork out $$ for some "clear" bags, reqd to put them in the recycle bin! Lumbele, it actually worked out perfectly. We were only supposed to bring 2 store bags, but I thought they wouldn't mind if I brought those 2 already shredded lawnbags along. They were really nice about it too. Also, I wouldn't have stumbled over all those other papers I just found. What a relief it is.
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Saturday, April 25, 2009 - 11:09 pm
I hope War & Dakota are having a BLAST with their slumber party!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, April 25, 2009 - 11:51 pm
Wow that is great, Bisc! I can imagine what a relief it is to have it all done. Slumber party is ongoing. Hasn't quite went the way it was supposed to. Sis had asked if I'd watch the baby a couple hours while they went out to dinner with little "adopted" sis (her birthday) and her hubby. She called a little before they dropped the girls off to tell me that middle niece had been complaining all day about her sinuses and depending on how she felt, she might go home with her baby sister when they came back to get the baby. Poor middle niece has been looking forward to this for weeks. She was so excited about the tea party and has been counting the days down. But, when she got here, she just felt lousy. The girls sat down at the table for tea and fruit and she just sat there. Ended up going and laying down on the couch and slept til just a bit ago when her mommy and daddy came to get her and the baby. I packed her a to go bag, but it's not the same thing. The older girls have been really good about it, they had their tea party, went outside to play, then came back in and have mostly played in Kota's room. The three of them are piled up in my bed watching tv now.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Sunday, April 26, 2009 - 12:25 pm
Let's see, got up early today and cleaned the bathroom - swept and mopped the floor, cleaned the sink, toliet and tub, then finished loading the dishwasher and wiped down the counters. Yesterday I swept and mopped the hallway, foyer and bedroom. Went out to brunch with my sister and stopped at best buy for a new VCR remote (the kitties threw up on my current one and now some of the keys don't work and I can't program anything to record.) So now I think I will go and "teach" my new remote, read the paper and lounge around in my jammies, LOL. Hope the slumber party has been a huge success, sorry your niece felt to bad to enjoy it! That is such a drag.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, April 26, 2009 - 9:53 pm
You got quite a bit done today, Dipo! Me and the girls were up around 9, much earlier than I expected them to be up. Dakota's bff left at 10 to go to the Poppy Festival and then me, Kota and oldest niece left to go to the park. Very disappointing turnout. The coach and team manager and their kids (asst coach didn't show up,) me and Kota, sis/bil and their girls, and one other girl, her mom and brother...so 5 girls and their families out of 11. I drive my kids nuts because I'm always after them to treat their home park with respect...you clean up your mess, you help out when needed cuz when visiting teams come, the first thing they notice is our park and fields. Field clean up day I'm even worse, lol, this isn't fun time, get out and clean your park up, take pride in it, do a good job. So, very disappointing to get there and find more than half the team didn't show up. But, we got busy and picked up trash, cleaned the bathrooms and snackbar, scrubbed down the bleachers and dugouts, and collected lost clothing for the lost and found bin. Dakota and my niece and two of the other girls swept and mopped the snackbar and offices...I didn't know Dakota knew how to mop, lol! We were done in about an hour and a half and the girls were quite proud of how nice everything looked. This is our week to do snackbar duty too, though that's at the end of the week. Caleb and Kota are looking forward to it...they're old enough to help out and like doing it. Got home just as Darren and Caleb were getting home, so I picked up from the slumber party while they unloaded the truck. Dakota left the park with sis and bil and hung out with them til about 7 tonight. Caleb and Darren both took long showers and then we pretty much sat around watching tv and talking all day. They're both worn out and sore after 3 days of not sleeping in their own beds, lol. Caleb's never been for real camping (we took him once and it was in an RV park, where they had tv and swimming pools and showers and flushing toilets, lol) and really enjoyed himself. I think too he really enjoyed just being out with the guys and him and Darren are already talking about making it a yearly trip.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, April 26, 2009 - 10:02 pm
BTW, middle niece was feeling just fine this morning. She was my partner for the field clean up and was running and bouncing all over the place. However, when she first ran up to me, she showed me a faver blister on the corner of her mouth. Sis called me an hour or so ago to tell me since this morning, she's had six more pop up. She told me she's putting stuff (ambesol?) on them tonight but will take her to the dr tomorrow if they're not better. I'm thinking 7 fever blisters is quite a bit for a 5 year old!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, April 27, 2009 - 1:17 am
Monday's Mission Let's see, for tomorrow I have therapy with my aunt and Kota has a softball game in the evening. Haven't decided what I want to do around the house except for laundry and probably the den. Not sure what else I'll be doing. May wait and see what mood I'm in and what the weather is like (if it's nice, I'll probably sweep up the porch and driveway.)
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, April 27, 2009 - 10:54 am
That really is a bummer that the coach didn't even show up! I don't have a park to clean up but I am a ruthless grafitti reporter, LOL. I call the grafitti police about everything I see. I am happy that they get right out and clean it up too. I like todays mission, I need to do some detailed dusting, so I can decide which knicknacks I really want to keep while I do it.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, April 27, 2009 - 11:23 am
I give the asst coach a pass. He's got a job that keeps him out of town for weeks at a time (in fact, I didn't even realize we had an asst coach til opening ceremonies when I saw his name on the team banner, lol.) He'll be gone for weeks, then there for a couple weeks, then gone. But, the rest of the parents don't have that excuse and it's sad they couldn't give up 90 minutes to help clean up the park their kids spend so much time at. Believe it or not, it's just as bad at games, I've never seen parents for 5 of the girls other than when they pull up to drop them off and come back and beep the horn after practices and games. I know some have work or school that keeps them away...Darren misses some games because of college, my bil works out of town and is usually late, the asst coach, and one of the other girls dad works night shift part of the week so there are times he can only come for a few minutes before leaving but they also make an effort to be there when they can if they can't make the games will often go to practices and some of the other girls we never see parents showing up for anything. Last year I guess the snack bar duty turn out was so bad that this year they charged a $20 deposit on it...when you work your shift, you get your $20 back. Which again just strikes me as sad. When you sign your kidlets up, you are also signing up for volunteer work and being there to support your kids. When you call and report graffiti, the city comes to clean it up???? When you call here to report it, they send the sherriff out to take pictures of it then tell you you have so many days to paint over it and if you don't you start getting nasty letters from the city. Took my aunt to therapy this morning and when we walked in her therapist asked how she was doing and she told him her back hurt. He said he could tell, she looked like she was in pain and he was worried if they did exercises it might make her back worse. So, told her he wanted her to take two weeks off...would rather have a set back in her therapy that take the chance of her getting hurt worse, a possibility at her age. I'll be doing laundry and basic cleaning, also todays mission since I have most the day to myself.
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Monday, April 27, 2009 - 11:29 am
War when I was younger and my brothers played baseball, my father was always either their coach or their assistant coach and my mother always took her turn at the snack bar and if she was not at the snack bar she was usually watching a game (I have 3 brothers, so if they all had a game the same night it got a little tricky)
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, April 27, 2009 - 12:30 pm
It really doesn't make much sense to me, Dfennessey. Besides supporting your kid and cheering them on, stuff like this is great family fun for cheap! Caleb will sit and watch for a while, but then usually finds some friends to run off and play with (taking baby niece with him so she gets to go along and have fun too.) This years been a lot of fun too because several of the other girls have younger brothers and sisters my middle nieces age and they've started to bring their own balls, bats and gloves and have a little game of their own behind the bleachers where we can see them. We've done the tricky parts when both kids played and usually what we did was each one of us would go and sit at one kids game and then switch half way through, or other relatives/friends would take turns watching each one. This years a bit different with Caleb having concerts and track meets, but Dakota understands that I'm always at her games and dad when he can be and Caleb doesn't have that many concerts/meets that we can't miss a game or two to go see him (besides with niece playing there's at least sis and bil who are at the games and usually a friend or two or relative other than them there.) Kids need as much cheering as they can get when they're out doing something good. And if they do something great, I wanna be there to see it! Too many kids are getting into trouble (or so it seems) these days and when mine and their friends are out doing something good, I'm going to be there to support them and show them this is the type of attention they want to be getting. As far as snack bar duty and field clean up go, how the heck are we supposed to teach our kids to take pride in and support their parks, schools, and community if we aren't out there setting an example for them? And ya know, when my kids are grown, I want them to look back at their childhood and remember it the way you do...mom and dad were there, even when it was tricky. I guess I also don't understand how as a parent you couldn't want to be involved. Kids are kids for such a short time and when they grow up, it's over. I enjoy spending time with mine and watchign them do things they love to do and I'm going to miss it when they're grown and gone.
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Monday, April 27, 2009 - 12:39 pm
both of my parents were very involved in our lives growing up. Even when it came to Parent/Teacher conferences that were during the day, my father would take time off from work and go.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, April 27, 2009 - 1:10 pm
Wargod, they clean up the public areas, but I also tell them about the stuff at the shopping center since I don't know who to call there. And it seems to work because shortly after I call the shopping center gets it removed. They take pictures as well. We have to clean up at our condo, but I am of the theory that if it is on the public stuff it just invites others to tag and then we get it at our project. It doesn't help that we are next to a high school, but my goal in life is to make sure "they" don't get to see their work for any period of time, that it gets wiped out immediately, LOL.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, April 27, 2009 - 1:52 pm
Schools seem to be making more of an effort to keep parents involved these days, Dfennessey, which is really great. Darren works half an hour away from town so it's not easy for him to take off and then go back (if it's neccessary, he'll work half a day or take a personal day.) Caleb's school holds parent/teacher conferences over three days and at least one of those days they'll do them until 7pm for those parents who can't come in the day. Dakota's school does them during traditional school hours, but we've never had a teacher who wasn't happy and willing to either schedule one for after school hours or set up a phone conference. Dipo, our city is relentless on tagging. About 15 years ago we saw a huge increase in gang activity up here and I am glad to see them go after stuff like that. It's just a huge pita for the people who are just living life and minding their own business to get stuck paying to clean up that crap. I know when they get caught tagging, they get huge fines, but the folks who had to pay out of their pocket to repaint aren't being reimbursed for it which totally sucks. LOL, there's a guy down the street from my aunts house who went out and painted a dinosaur on his brick wall a few years ago. It's pretty cool and the kids in the neighborhood love it, but ever so often some city worker will call the cops about it and he'll have them show up and has to go out and explain he painted it himself and he ain't painting over it.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 12:44 am
Tuesday's Mission Funny, I did this mission yesterday and it was a disaster at first. I vacuumed and vacuumed and vacuumed and the floor looked like crap, my vacuum just wasn't picking up anything. Darren and Caleb had just gotten back and I asked him to clean it out...first thing he did was take out the container and raise an eyebrow asking when the last time I emptied it was....er, uh...lol. He took the entire thing apart and by the time he was done I was shocked it wasn't spewing crap out when I was using it it was so full and clogged. Anyways, got it all cleaned out, hoses, filters, etc and had to vacuum, vacuum, and vacuum some more to clean up the mess he'd made. The floor looks great now though, lol. Tomorrow no therapy with aunt, so I'm going to spend the day cleaning and doing laundry. Sis has an appt scheduled with middle niece if her fever blisters haven't cleared up by tomorrow and she asked me to watch the baby if they have to go. Other than that, not too much to do the rest of the day. No practice for Kota cuz they had a game tonight and have one Wednesday, no homework cuz the kids are doing state testing the next couple weeks, should be a pretty quiet day at home.
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