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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, April 20, 2009 - 8:45 am
Had to share this. My sis sent it to me and I was ROFLOL. This is sooooo me...... Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. This is how it manifests: I decide to water my garden. As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide it needs washing. As I start toward the garage, I notice mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mail box earlier. I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car. I lay my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the can is full. So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first. But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first. I take my check book off the table, and see that there is only one check left. My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Pepsi I'd been drinking. I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Pepsi aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. The Pepsi is getting warm, and I decide to put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold. As I head toward the kitchen with the Pepsi, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye -- they need water. I put the Pepsi on the counter and discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning. I decide I better put them back on my desk , but first I'm going to water the flowers. I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table. I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I'll be looking for the remote but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers. I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor. So, I set the remote back on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill. Then, I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do. At the end of the day: the car isn't washed the bills aren't paid there is a warm can of Pepsi sitting on the counter the flowers don't have enough water, there is still only 1 check in my check book, I can't find the remote, I can't find my glasses, and I don't remember what I did with the car keys. Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all damn day and I'm really tired. I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it but first I'll check my e-mail.... Do me a favor. Forward this message to everyone you know because I don't remember who the hell I've sent it to. Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!!!
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Monday, April 20, 2009 - 10:22 am
did you ever remember to shut the water off?
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Monday, April 20, 2009 - 10:54 am
AAADD sounds like a pot head. LOL
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Monday, April 20, 2009 - 8:51 pm
bee, thanks for reminding me i wanted to google something. had the tv on early this morning; and, heard someone say "it's stoners day". thought about it a few times during the day but never was able to google it. i finally googled it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/20/what-420-means-the-true-s_n_188320.html makes sense why there's not any clear answer as to why 4/20 became the official day. lol
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, April 20, 2009 - 9:23 pm
Ahem. I prefaced the above post by saying it was soooo me. Then you go and say that person sounds like a pothead? Geeze! Should I be taking offense? 
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Monday, April 20, 2009 - 9:26 pm
LOL, Abby. I wondered if anyone would pick up on it. Interesting article. I had always heard the police code thing. Waldo Steve lost money to Madoff.
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Monday, April 20, 2009 - 9:27 pm
Who...sorrySorrysorry. Potheads aren't ALL bad...they just exhibit the AAADD. Personally, I call it meno-fog.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, April 20, 2009 - 9:29 pm
LOL BK, just ribbing ya! Meno-fog. Good one!
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Monday, April 20, 2009 - 10:00 pm
I still like to refer to it as CRS. I suffer from it.
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Monday, April 20, 2009 - 10:07 pm
CRS is the clinical diagnosis. Meno-fog is the layman's term. lol
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 12:52 am
Ever see someone from a distance and for one reason or another (gray hair or wrinkles or going bald or trailed by teenages) let your gaze pass because they are too old for you to know? And then they walk over and say hi and you realize, after mentally going through a list of your parents friends, that you went to kindergarten together?
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 1:10 am
LOL, War. I feel ya!
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 4:16 am
War, Gahhhhhsh! Jumped into the shower before going to linner (late lunch/early dinner). Went to blow dry my hair and I gasped. I suddenly have many gray hairs. How did I not notice before? Hey! This is no longer looking "frosted" it's looking downright GRAY! I think it's Daylight Savings time. It's not dark and we're no longer reliant upon on lightbulbs. Freaked me out. But at least I don't have the wrinkles that Classmates had the last 30-yr reunion. They've been pushing hard for a 40-yr reunion. But I'm not going this time, I don't even know those people from 40-yrs ago, didn't much know them back in High School, frankly. We may be pasty white up here in Seattle, due to the rain, but back in Phoenix the sun is relentless.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 9:06 am
LOL. Turning 30 (and even 35) didn't phase me a bit while some of my friends completely freaked out about it. This years been an eye opener for me. The gray hair (which isn't all that much) has bugged me, not because it's a sign of getting older but because I love my red hair. But, back in September Darren started to get mail for his upcoming 20th reunion (mines in 2 years) and that kinda bugged me...has it really been that long since high school? Caleb will be 13 next month, a teenager...seriously? Yesterday took the cake though. We're out shopping, I see this man that for one brief moment I thought I might know, then dismissed that because he was mostly bald and must be older than me by several years at least. I did go through my parents friends for a few seconds, most of them are the same age though, mid-late 50's and the few who were younger I see often enough to know it wasn't one of them...omg as I finally realized who it was. I do have most the same friends now I did in school (this was one of the few I'd lost contact with after he went off to college and then joined the military) and as a group I wouldn't look at them and think, holy cow, we're getting older! Few more gray hairs and gaining weight but that's about it.
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Beckie03
Member
07-05-2007
| Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 2:52 pm
who here knows about the black death and religion? and if you do know, want to help me? **i can't use internet sources, so unless you link me to a library page or amazon...not much use to me. TIA!!! 
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 3:14 pm
you mean like the plague being God's punishment for sin?
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Beckie03
Member
07-05-2007
| Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 3:17 pm
sorta tex. i know that much about the Black Death - that's what people thought when it came. btw...i'm talking about the plague that infected almost all of Europe from 1347-1351. i'm trying to write a 17-20 page paper on how the black death changed or effected religion (i.e. flagellants, persecution of the Jews). just trying to find more areas...i saw something about a pest madian, but i cannot find any books on it.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 3:33 pm
but i can't link you to any info, right?
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Beckie03
Member
07-05-2007
| Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 3:39 pm
no you can...i just would have to find information from a book to substantiate it because i can't use any internet sources.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 5:04 pm
The Black Death and Religion During the Middle Ages it was essential that people were given the last rites and had the chance to confess their sins before they died. The spread of the deadly plague in England was swift and the death rate was almost 50% in isolated populations such as monasteries. There were not enough clergy to offer the last rites or give support and help to the victims. The situation was so bad that Pope Clement VI was forced to grant remission of sins to all who died of the Black Death. Victims were allowed to confess their sins to one another, or "even to a woman". The church could offer no reason for the deadly disease and beliefs were sorely tested. This had such a devastating effect that people started to question religion and such doubts ultimately led to the English reformation. I found the above, but not sure how it can help if you can't use internet sources. Seems like a visit to the library is in order!
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Beckie03
Member
07-05-2007
| Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 6:32 pm
yah, kitt. that's the thing. at least in my town there are now books dedicated strictly to religion and the black death. i have about 12 books right now...just trying to sort through what i have. and what i have read...it is just the same thing, over and over. and yah it is too late to change my topic. i have an outline due next monday.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 9:35 pm
Beckie, is it possible for you to do an online search, find info you might want to or could use, then look it up in the books? At least that way you'd have some sort of idea of exactly the kind of info you want to look for in the books.
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Beckie03
Member
07-05-2007
| Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 10:29 pm
war, i tried to do that. found two interesting things, like i said the pest maiden and then something about demonic dogs...however, i haven't been able to find anything in books about them. the article i read that had those things had a "works cited" and the end and i have located a few of the books...and i have them on order...but they are coming from other libraries so i have to hope that they get here quickly (like before may 9th). i'm still looking. planning to try and spend all day at the library tomorrow. i think i am going to have to focus mainly on england because that's where most of the information is from.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 10:48 pm
Dang, was hoping that'd be more help. Dakota had recently had a project where she could get info online but also had to back it up with finding the same info in books. How would you feel about going to another message board to ask? My interest in history is quite a bit more ancient than what you're looking at and one of the boards I occassionally read is an archaeology one. I haven't spent much time looking at the threads they have on Europe around that time period so not sure what they have, but if you joined and posted I'm thinking you might get some good advice. archaeologica Heh, and not that this is very helpful, but I did have a couple books on England from that time period, but I just (and I mean like a week or two ago) gave them to Caleb's social studies teacher cuz they're starting to get into that in class and I never read them. Couldn't even tell you what the titles were unfortunately or if they had anything that might have helped you.
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Beckie03
Member
07-05-2007
| Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 11:18 pm
thanks, war...i never thought about going to a different board. i have the bibliography of the most recent book on the black death, so if i can find those books, maybe they can help. i did research online first and almost everything i found on there, was backed up by the books...so it did help, to a certain extent. i got some books on just daily life in the medieval ages hoping that'll help give me something. i guess i'll just wait and see. and as crazy as it sounds...this would be much easier if I didn't have to do an outline. I hate doing outlines. I also feels so constricted to it, even though you can change it up. I am just so much better at just starting to write and just letting it flow and then going back and fixing it up.
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