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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 10:19 pm
LOL Dipo, especially since we were there today because last week for Kota's physical she had an emergency and Dakota had to leave early for her game! I will say today the office was crazy busy like I haven't seen it in quite a while, but yeah when Dakota mentioned she didn't do the physical, I kind of looked at her totally stunned...she was right, lol. How are your plants on the patio doing in this heat? I went back and forth on dinner, thinking salad of some kind or sandwiches then realized whatever I was making, I'd still have to go to the grocery store. Ended up getting pre-made salads at the store cuz they were on sale. So dinner was super easy and no dishes to wash.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - 1:11 am
Wednesday's Mission I've already claimed tomorrow for myself. Aunt has a dr appt Friday, I have to go help her with a shower and clean her house Thursday, so tomorrow is mine. Ok, I do have to drop off water and sodas at her house, but that's it. I finished the girls scrapbooks (actually finished Kota's Sunday, nieces today.) They came out really cute. Tomorrow I plan to clean my house and that's about it. Dakota's blood test in the morning, and the grocery store, but most of the day will be spent cleaning...and feed watching, lol. I should also throw my bedding in the washer, if I remember to do it in the morning. Oh, also have to take those clothes back and exchange them.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - 4:40 am
For our physicals, they generally want us to do the blood work about a week before the physical.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - 9:34 am
Plants are doing ok, one was drooping but all the rest are doing great. I did water again last night and it is only going to be 95 today! I had to mop some of my kitchen last night around 10:30. Found out why I had some pooled water in my dining room last week, the dishwasher was dripping!!!! I guess when I wiped down the side I moved a piece of the gasket/seal, at the bottom so a small drip started. The water then ran across the kitchen under the island to the dining room. What a drag, but sure glad I caught it since it almost ruined my floor last week!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - 9:44 am
I really can't remember how the kids dr does it. Urine tests they do right there, when you check in they hand you a brown bag for the kids and off to the bathroom you go, but I can't remember with blood work. She didn't send Caleb for blood work last week since he's been getting it done monthly for the accutane, after I mentioned how high his triglicirides were she called and the derm faxed over his latest one and she mentioned yesterday that there was nothing else too concerning in his, his cholesterol was a little high but not bad. We dropped Caleb off at school and headed to the office this morning. You can't make a left turn into their parking lot, so I go around the block and come back up. We pulled up to the red light on the street we needed to turn on and there were a few cars in front of us, blinkers on to turn also then the blinkers go off. I noticed it but didn't think too much about it until the light changed and I got closer to the corner. The cops had the whole street blocked off and there was probably 10-15 cop cars right in front of their office. Told Dakota we'd have to go back later, there's no other way to get there. For the life of me I can't figure out what the heck was going on...it's not like they're in a bad neighborhood! It's all professional buildings (mostly drs offices) across the street from the hospital! Cops were busy this morning. We went down to the next street, bout 1/2 mile further, and there was another big group of cops and other folks in front of the apartment comples. They're doing section 8 sweeps there though.
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Christy358
Member
07-10-2007
| Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - 10:51 pm
What is a section 8 sweep? I cleaned nothing today. I did cook a chicken in the oven. Yummy
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - 11:32 pm
Thursday's Mission Well, semi-quick answer, it's where the cops and social workers go door to door making sure folks living in section 8 housing (state or welfare, I'm not sure if its one and the same, pays for part of the rent) are following the rules. Only people qualified to recieve assistance should be living in a residence and no criminal activity or criminals. Lancaster has really cracked down on section 8 fraud the last couple years and they do the sweeps several times a year. They'll either hit an apartment complex (the one they were at this morning gets hit often) or several locations (several smaller apartment complexes/houses around town) at once. I guess part of recieving section 8 assistance is that you must agree to inspections like this, so they really have no choice but to let them in. Cops arrest anyone involved in criminal activity or anyone that has active warrants and the social workers make sure whoever is living in the residence are the ones qualified to live there. There's usually an article a day or two later in the paper about how many arrests and violations they found. It's the most bizarre thing to me that they still find so many violations. The city and cops are very forthcoming about what they are doing, they've been doing this for several years and yet everytime they do the sweeps, they come out with multiple arrests and violations. At the least people can loose their benefits, at the worst people are going to jail. It's a good program for people who truly need it, but the cops and social workers are very serious about people following the rules for it. My day went nothing like planned. Besides not getting Kota to her blood work this morning, sis called and told me she needed a favor. She'd gone to the dentist yesterday and needed some emergency work done today. She needed a ride to the bank to get money for her co-pay (outrageous amount!) She called back to tell me they could get her in at 12 and wanted to know if I could pick her up right then...nope, I can't, I had to leave in just a few minutes to get Caleb. So we decided I'd pick him up, rush over to get her, go to the bank, and then I'd drop her off at the dentist office. Coming back after picking Caleb up, the cops still had two and a half blocks blocked off in front of the kids drs office (so no way to get her there this afternoon for the blood work) and the bank took forever. Then sis lets me know her dentist is way way out in Palmdale and they could take her til 12:15. It was 12:25, we were just turning down the street when the dentists office called her and told her since she didn't make it by 12:15, they were rescheduling her for later this afternoon. Argh. So we turned around and came back, stopping long enough for her to get lunch for her and her family. I did get the living room clean. And I was in the middle of shaving the puppy when she called and asked another favor. She'd had the dental work done, was feeling horrible, and wanted to know if I could go get diapers for the baby and dinner for them and aunt. Finished shaving the pup (yeah, now she's in the not so cute stage, lol) and ran by the store then by the pizza place and by her house. She did apologize several times since she knew I'd planned to spend the day home cleaning and ended up running her back and forth and errands for her. No biggie, dentist is important, especially when there is something wrong. So for tomorrow: My plans are to clean my house in the morning, or at least get some laundry in. Then after picking up Caleb, I need to go give aunt her shower and clean up a little around her house. I'm most likely waiting til Friday morning to take Dakota for her blood work. ETA: If sis is still in pain tomorrow, I'll probably bring the girls back home with me for a few hours. Dakota would enjoy having someone to play with and sis will need the break.
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 4:21 am
Wow, I can't imagine anyone monkeying around with their Section8! I cared for a friend/coworker with AIDS before he died in 1998. Have to tell ya, that was so hard to get! Seattle still has thousands on the waiting list. Part of the problem is getting the Landlord to even agree to being Sec8 (although they have a better chance of being paid rent). His counselor at the time said that they managed to get AIDS clients bumped up on the list because they were dying before they could get assistance. Sure, the inspections are more stringent, the landlord had to get a refrigerator out of the parking lot before acceptance, remove the doors so no children could be harmed. Lady Inspector was nice. One issue was a little electric plate plastic cover for under the kitchen sink, for the garbage disposal or something and she brought one out of her car & screwed it in. But Section 8 paid 2/3 of his rent for a seriously nice two bedrm/2bath apt (at that time $600/mo) according to his SS income. Sure, they're stringent but as a taxpayer I feel they SHOULD be. I can't believe that anyone would be so STUPID to monkey with their housing. John would have wigged out at a bunch of cop cars flashing around. Then again, people didn't want to come around an AIDS person much those days.
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 4:54 am
Okay, I'm sure that you are all tired of hearing about my weeds, hedge clipping. Me too! Seems like forever and back of my little truck is full up, smelling & starting to leak stinkyness. I'm DONE! Really, all of them suckers. Tomorrow's goal is to stop to pick up milk & bag of ice (hey, I'm out of milk & I don't want to stink the grocery clerk out AFTER doing the dump dumping). Then I do the dump. Maybe, if I say this here, it will make it happen. Well plus the youngster next door is looking for $work$ to pay her rent, sounding desperate. So, I finish this dumprun and then we can figure on putting the downstairs together. That kind of gives me more motivation to do the dumprun. I just wanted to take a day off, but oh well. I was young once upon a time.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 9:48 am
Bisc, it's the same here with section 8. People are on the waiting list for years and it just blows my mind that anyone would screw around with that. For people who truly need it, that is a huge help. I am happy the city is so strict with it, there are people who really need that help and who will follow the rules waiting for help and they should get it if those who already are can't follow the rules. The last time, or time before they did a sweep, they arrested 50+ people for probation/parole violations, drugs, gang activity, and weapons. My in-laws briefly looked into turning one of their rental properties into a section 8 house. They went through the inspections, fixed the few things they wanted fixed (really wasn't too much, it's a brand new house,) but then found out how much they'd get for rent and backed out. They'd have been losing a bunch of money on it. Dump runs are no fun. At least to me. Darren enjoys it though, lol, and everytime he goes he has both the kids begging to go with him. And then they come home talking about all they saw while they were there. (LOL as an aside, Dakota is tired this morning and when we got home from taking Caleb to school laid down on the couch. I'm guessing she's asleep, cuz the puppy just jumped up on top of her to lay on her and Kota ain't moving.) Oh, that's great, youngster can earn some money and you get help! I'm gonna go do dishes in a while and get that done with. Ain't much in there.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 11:00 am
Ok, did I miss something? Why are you shaving the Pup? I unloaded the dishwasher, made some dinner, checked on the hamsters, watched my soap tape and ended up in bed at 9pm. The heat is making me not sleep that well and work is crazy so I am feeling really tired all the time. Today I am doing some office work - checkbook, bills, refill meds online, schedule haircut, stuff like that.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 11:06 am
We've been shaving the pup for about a year now, Dipo, rather than taking her in for grooming. My skills haven't improved much, lol, so she's funny looking for a week or two til her fur starts to grow out some (and she'll actually look embarrassed til it does.) If we don't keep her fairly short, she'll be hot all summer, not to mention picking up foxtails. Doing it ourselves is saving a bunch of money. I got the kitchen cleaned (few dishes, wiped counters, swept and mopped.) Took something out for dinner and have a load of laundry in the washer and dryer. Got to leave in a few minutes to pick up Claeb, then it's back home to clean the living room, hop in the shower, and then head to my aunts.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 12:11 pm
Woo hoo, I found a chore Kota loves, lol. Picked up Caleb from school and came home to clean up the living room and dust. Told her she's vacuuming and she said Ok!! She's done it the last two days, but I didn't really realize she was having fun with it til she hopped up to do it today. Dakota has a new permanent chore and it's one less than I have to worry about.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 12:18 pm
LOL yeah Raelynne like to vacuum too! Have Caleb start doing laundry 
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 12:25 pm
LOL. Well, Caleb can do laundry and does, but normally that's one of Kota's other normal chores. Caleb does yard work and trash. When the kids were little, I always swore I wouldn't assign chores based on gender lines...Kota could mow and Caleb could wash dishes. Now that they are older, I find their chores split right across gender lines! Dakota does laundry, cleans the bathroom, Caleb yard work, trash, bringing in groceries. But it's not cuz of boy work/girl work. We don't trust Kota anywhere near the lawn mower, lol, and most of the time, the trash and trash cans are too heavy for her to move. Since Caleb then gets stuck with those chores, she ends up with the more traditional girly stuff. Once we trust Kota not to chop off a foot and she can move the trash cans easily...they're in for a switch.
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Y2krazy
Member
09-17-2002
| Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 12:32 pm
Good idea, Wargod! My mom had us switch chores every week or month. You had to do chores you hated sometimes...'cause you needed to know how to do them. Everything got done, sometimes better than other times...but we, all, learned how to do EVERYTHING in a household. She always told us we couldn't depend on any one of us having a spouse to do the "other half" of the chores. Now we're all married to wonderful (IMO) people and all six of us know how to do any chore that needs doing.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 12:38 pm
Heh, well most of it comes from watching my neighbor with his kids. He insists the boys do "mans work" and the girls "womans work" and I always said I wouldn't have Dakota growing up thinking the only things she could do would be dusting and washing dishes and Caleb being useless in cleaning up after himself. Part of it too is growing up with no b rothers, sis and I did all the chores...yard work, trash, even painting and fixing things and helping step dad work on cars!
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 12:44 pm
I grew up with 3 brothers and they shared the mans work and I was the only girl so I got ripped off. I had to set the table, clear the table, load the diswasher, dust, clean the bathroom and vacum, up and down stairs
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 1:00 pm
and every night after dinner I had to make my fathers lunch for the next day.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 1:37 pm
Ack Dfennessey, that doesn't seem fair! That's pretty much the way it was with the neighbors kids though reversed. They had the one older boy, two older girls, then the toddler boy and baby girl...so oldest boy did all the boy chores while the two girls split girl type chores. I'm ahead of the game now, lol, I actually shaved my legs while showering. Now I'm sitting here thinking about getting off my butt to go to my aunts.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 1:49 pm
Way to multitask WG! LOL
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 2:08 pm
Scoot you bring a smile to my face
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 2:15 pm

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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 2:37 pm
wait Scoot it is still not on straight
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, July 17, 2009 - 1:11 am
Friday's Mission That's me, multitasker! Cleaned my aunts this afternoon and got her in the shower. Tomorrow afternoon she has a dr appt. Also need to take Kota for her blood work and to exchange some clothes, I'll be doing that in the morning. I'm not sure what I have planned for in between. Tomorrow night there's a freebe street fair the city is hosting. They close off the blvd to traffic and show a silent movie, have tours through the little museum, plus face painting, foods, rock climbing wall, and either music or dancing, I can't remember. LOL, they also have these plaster antelopes that have been painted all kinds of colors up and down the street. We went to the same type of thing at Christmas time (instead of animals it was Christmas trees) and it was a lot of fun, so we're hoping to take the kids tomorrow night.
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