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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, August 11, 2009 - 11:33 am
Relax, Wargod! It is so weird to me that your kids are already back in school. I think the catholic school starts next week, but none of the other schools yet.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, August 11, 2009 - 1:48 pm
We do get the longer holiday breaks so it works out in the end, but it sucks too. My baby is in jr high and that sucks too. I really have done nothing today. Do need to hop in the shower in a few minutes but until I go to pick up the kids that's going to be it. I will probably vacuum the living room and wash the few dishes in the sink once the kids get home, but I'm not planning on much.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 12:10 am
Wednesday's Mission My plans changed a little bit, we had to go to Walmart after school and spent an hour there. Caleb told me he needed deodarant for his locker at school and that was the one thing I forgot. It was ok though, I realized after all the grocery shopping that I'd jumped right back into the kids being in school...didn't buy any lunch foods since they aren't home to eat. Which also means no lunch foods for me, lol, so had to pick some stuff up. The first day went well. Dakota really likes her homeroom teacher. He's the teacher for all her classes right now except pe though in a few weeks she'll get some new teachers added to her schedule. He's also the coach of several sports teams and she's all for sports. Caleb had a great day. He got his guitar class and was pretty excited about that and got put into Advanced Language Arts. He's still got the regular and supplemental math classes but his 7th grade math teacher thought there was a good possibility he'd drop the supplemental class eventually. Tomorrow I get back into my regular routine for exactly one day, lol. Dakota has a dermatology appt at 10 so I have to pick her up from school. Her cystic acne has gotten considerably smaller since she started using the cream he gave her, but it's still there. I'm not sure if the dr will do the injection tomorrow or wait to see if the cream makes it go away or schedule an appt for the injection, so don't know if she'll be going back to school or not. If he does the injection, I'll probably keep her home, she's pretty freaked out about that. Then need to clean once we're done with that appt. Sis and bil have to drive his step mom and sister back to the airport, so nieces will be spending Thursday night with us. A friend is picking the girls up from school and taking them to school, but I'll have the baby most of Thursday and Friday.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 10:12 am
Lets see, I watered the plants, cleaned the kitchen, loaded and ran the dishwasher, finished up my tapes for Sunday and Monday, and took out the trash. I have investment club tonight, so not much will get done.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 12:29 pm
Dakota had to have the cyst drained and the steroid injected, so I'm keeping her home for the rest of the day. I took her out to lunch after her appt, that's been my accomplishments today. I'll get around to the cleaning in a while.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 12:40 pm
ooh, I hope that went well and wasn't too traumatic! I forgot that I mended a shirt last night, need to put it in here, since I rarely mend, LOL.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 1:12 pm
Shoot, that reminds me I need to fix a shirt! It was kinda quick, but she freaked out and it hurt. She's doing better now though.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 12:32 am
Thursday's Mission I got the living room and kitchen cleaned up. Did a load of laundry and filled out a few more school papers for the kidlets. The girls, well us parents, had a team meeting for the fall ball team. We left it up to Kota if she was up to going or not and she decided she wanted to go. She wasn't hurting by this evening, but she was somewhat self concious since the bump was noticably more prominent than it had been. Tomorrow I need to do more cleaning and really don't have too much planned outside the house. Caleb's glasses broke (screw came out of the arm and we can't fix it) so I need to drop those off to get fixed. My nieces will be here in the afternoon to spend the night and I'll be cooking dinner for aunt since sis and bil will be out of town.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 11:06 pm
Friday's Mission I got my cleaning done by about noon today, really wasn't too much to do. Nieces got here at 1 (older two had gone to school but sis picked them up early so they could spend time with grandma and auntie before they left today.) They're all peacefully sleeping right now, though the baby should be waking up in a bit. Tomorrow, Dakota's bff's dad is gonna pick Caleb and Kota up in the morning and take them to school and I'm going to take older two nieces to school. Sis and bil should be back by the time school gets out, if not bff's dad will pick Caleb/Kota up and I'll pick up the nieces. Problem is sis and bil have my minivan, lol, so I can't take all five kids anywhere. Me and the baby are just gonna hang around the house tomorrow. Darren has to go to work super early (has to leave by 3:15am) tomorrow and I really don't have much planned.
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Friday, August 14, 2009 - 2:31 am
I got my Primary Vote Voted & bills paid, ready to mail tomorrow. Does that count as productive? You wouldn't believe how many of all those election fliers I was able to shovel into the recycle newspaper bag! Best Friend & I are going to see 'Julia & Julie' tomorrow (mailbox right next door), so that was the carrot on the stick. If I could get the monkey off my back (finish research & vote) I could go play. Then pick up stuff at Lowes ($10 off on $50 purchase which I have LOTs of hardware weed killer stuff to buy & we got rain today). Saturday, I will go back to being the free laborer for this single person household. Tomorrow, dagnabit I'm even buying popcorn at the movie! Got my candy (stashed in refrig from last Halloween) already tucked in the pockets of my fleece jacket to share. We haven't seen a movie since Mama Mia.
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Friday, August 14, 2009 - 2:45 am
Popcorn (child size bag) but sometimes in life, a Gal's just gotta $pend. BFF friend takes a few morsels, feels good to be able to offer. THEN I sprinkle the salt, one of the few things I like salted. I'm so BAD!
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, August 14, 2009 - 12:00 pm
LOL, have fun at the movies, Biscotti. I did some general pick-up around the house to be ready for my sister to come and clean. Put away all the stuff from Safeway that was still sitting on the island, boxed up the paint that I had pulled out of the hall closet, and just putting loose things away. I still need to do laundry, but now instead of my final load, I will have that one plus sheets and the comforter. Hope to get it all done this weekend.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, August 15, 2009 - 1:59 am
I hope you enjoyed the movie Bisc! Your day sounds like mine, Dipo. I just did little things like picking up and putting away. Sis and bil didn't get back to town til after 2 and it's just not that easy to clean with the baby here. Did do a load of laundry, still more to go though. This weekend I want to do a really good cleaning on the house and get the majority of laundry done. Once in a while I'll risk a high electric bill by running the washer all day and it's about time for that again. Darren has to work tomorro..er, actually he'll be getting up in about 15 minutes, lol and I don't like to pull a lazy weekend when he has to work through part of it. Also need to clean aunts Sunday and help her with a shower, get a mid-month grocery list from her. That's about all I have planned. I did tell the kids no friends over and no sleep overs this weekend. We've had kids here all summer (which I really do love) and this being the first weekend since school started I think we all just need to relax and unwind without entertaining.
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Saturday, August 15, 2009 - 4:50 am
War, that just sounds Smart. Time to unwind & unravel. The movie was a Hoot! Highly recommend, Meryl Street just sounds & kind of looks like Julia Childs! Wow! The price of movies sure went up thru the roofs. It was supposed to be around $5 matinee price for the 3:45pm show per the website lastnight, instead it was $9.75. Suddenly it became a 4:05 show and I asked why the change in price? Well, seems that matinee price change stops at 4pm (told her, NOW I understand why the movie is changed to 4:05, so they can charge the nighttime rate). I asked if they had Sr Citizen's rate (first time in my life!) and they knocked it down to $8.75. Good thing they didn't ask for ID, cause apparently I'm a couple years too young. Best friend was angry about the whole thing, don't think we're going back there. She's older than me and got burned for the whole $9.75, she bought her ticket just before I got there & hadn't tried for Sr discount. Can you believe this? We had to sit through another 25 minutes of advertisements, beyond the extra 20 minutes, even ads for shows coming to our televisions next Sept. The dang movie didn't even START until 4:30pm. Still, it was a fun movie. Worth renting when it comes out. The popcorn was delicious! Something about movie popcorn. Friend smuggled me a homemade peanut butter cookie. It was fun and I am now Voted (tucked my ballot in the mailbox). So now I need to get back to doing household stuff.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, August 15, 2009 - 10:23 am
Oh Bisc, movie prices are ridiculous. It's the same here being that expensive and being charged night time rates after 4pm. Our theater has a morning special, the first showing of each movie of the day is like $4.50. It's even more ridiculous when you add in snacks. We pretty much stopped going to new movies, for the price of two tickets you can buy the dvd when it comes out. We are lucky though because we have a dollar theater around the corner from us. It's actually $1.50 before 4 and $2 after, plus there's $1 Wednesdays and fifty cent family Mondays (have to buy 3 or more tickets.) The snacks are still outrageous...we went a couple weeks ago, spent $4 getting in (it was Wed.) and $16 on drinks. It was kinda nice this summer, the kids are old enough we feel comfy dropping them and a group of friends off and then picking them up (Caleb and his buddies are old enough to walk over by themselves) and they've had some great kid/pre-teen movies...Hannah Montana, 17 again, Caleb and buddies had fun with Land of the Lost, and a couple cartoons, X-Men, etc. You just have to wait 5-6 weeks for new movies (a couple weeks longer for the huger movies, like Harry Potter,) to move over to the cheap theater. I do the same thing...here's a candy bar, stick it in your pocket, then give them $3.50 for a small soda or bottle of water, and if they want anything else they have to spend their own money. I'm glad you enjoyed the movie, the trailers looked really funny. And despite the price, sometimes its nice to spoil yourself!
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Saturday, August 15, 2009 - 12:55 pm
Biscottiii, you should write to the movie chain since it was advertised before 4 they should have honored the lower price. May not do anything but you might get some free tickets out of it. Well, I have scrubbed my stove, it is one of those glass top and when I got home the sun was hitting it just right to make me want to scrub it. It is a little better but not perfect,LOL, which is what I want. Washed the pots/pans leftover from dinner last night, cleaned up/re-organized under my sink (I needed a brillo pad to clean the bottom of a pan and couldn't find it), have the laundry ready to go, so I will get at least two loads done today, I think, LOL.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, August 15, 2009 - 1:22 pm
I've done a load of laundry, straightened up the kitchen (took out trash, put clean dishes away, and wiped the counters) and put breakfast dishes on to soak. Then my check, which was late late this time around, finally came so I ran to cash that and made a quickie stop by the bead store I got home to find Darren taking a nap, so no cleaning til he's awake. Which is ok because I'm trying to figure out what the heck is going on in the bb house, lol.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Saturday, August 15, 2009 - 7:33 pm
Well I took advantage of the new HOH competition to get my two loads of laundry done, yeah!! All the work clothes are put away, the play clothes are in a pile on the bed, so the kitties can take a nap in warm clothes, lol. I think that Peanut really likes the smell as well, I just tell her I am bringing laudry and she jumps right up on the bed. I am thinking tomorrow morning after I watch Yard Crashers on HGTV I will change the sheets, then take them and the comforter to the laundry, then walk over to starbucks and get a coffee treat and the stop at Trader Joes and pick up a couple of things on the way home. By the time I get back it will be time for the dryer and I will be done before it gets to hot.
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Saturday, August 15, 2009 - 10:15 pm
Hey, if you want to watch an OLD fun B&W movie, only about 1hr-10mins found by an Aussie pal. Kind of romance but animal antics really added to the touch. BTW, had to enter the XYZX spam eliminating code to get it to start, I just did the 'regular download'. Just finished it, well worth checking out since you get to see a lot of AK wilderness. "Today I watched a 1938 movie set in Alaska titled ‘Call of the Yukon’. C-- would love it (the wolves win). There’s a raven named Winky and a last line guaranteed to make you laugh. " The video can be downloaded free at http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XKRYZ1WO
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, August 16, 2009 - 1:19 am
Darren slept til 6:30 tonight! I wasn't too surprised, the last couple of days have been rough since he's had to be to work by 4 (which means getting up at 2:15) and yesterday worked 10 hours. I didn't get all that much done...dishes, straightened up after dinner, and another two loads of laundry. Tomorrow I'll be at my aunts for a couple hours, probably get some more laundry done here and want to get some more cleaning done. I'm pretty sure I have no appointments with anyone this week and a chance to catch my breath a bit.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Sunday, August 16, 2009 - 12:32 pm
I have the sheets off and am just about to run everything done to the laundry, then have some lunch. Got a letter from BofA saying I have to have flood insurance so have to track down the papers I gave them when I got the loan to show that is not the case! What a pain but I don't want them to put insurance on or they will charge me $2400!. Then I think I will tackle my donation pile and scrub down the coffee maker. Wargod, nice that you will have a quieter week!
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Sunday, August 16, 2009 - 3:53 pm
Yeah, found the FEMA paperwork, so I cleaned out a few files, and have put away the sheets, made the bed with clean sheets, and now I am sorting through an old folder of family photos that I am going to trash or give to my sister. (found them in the file cabinet when I was looking for the FEMA paperwork). OH, and I got rid of my old makeup. Next up the donation pile or the four photo albums on the floor by my desk.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, August 16, 2009 - 10:44 pm
It is nice having a quiet week. Sometimes this week or next I'll have to take Kota back to the dermatologist, but don't have any other appts til Sept 1 (checked my calendar tonight.) Dakota does start softball practice this week, but that's cool...no running around, no shopping, only the one appt. I had to run by the store to get my aunt a few things this morning, then took those and clean laundry to her house. Was planning to clean and get her in the shower, but she wasn't feeling up to it today. Told her I'd be there tomorrow evening. That was ok, I came home and tore the living room apart and cleaned it all up. Vacummed under cushions, moved furniture, etc etc etc. Did 3 or 4 loads of laundry and washed dishes. The kids cleaned their rooms, I also had them dust their rooms and vacuum. Tomorrow I told sis I'd take her to recycle cans and plastic bottles (I need to do some too) and she wanted to go by the store. I'm going to clean the rest of my house, or may tear apart the den and clean it the way I did the living room today. Then my aunts when Darren goes to school tomorrow evening.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, August 17, 2009 - 12:57 am
Monday's Mission Bathroom and one other room this week. Bathroom can use a detailed cleaning I guess. After my last post, I washed the few dinner dishes and wiped counters, swept the kitchen floor. Then switched over a load of laundry from washer to dryer. Decided to take the living room curtains down and the placemats off the table and throw them in the washer. Getting ready to throw them in the dryer now. One less thing to do tomorrow.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, August 17, 2009 - 11:29 pm
Tuesday's Mission Took sis to recycle her cans this morning, decided not to do mine because I just don't have enough yet to worry about (too bad too cuz they are $1.57 a lb right now.) I ended up attacking the den today. Took down the curtains to wash, thouroughly cleaned in/under/around the kids desk and started to wipe down walls. Stopped to pick up around the rest of the house. Went to my aunts and cleaned and changed her sheets. That was fun...baby niece wanted to help so I gave her a rag with a little furniture polish and pointed out things she could dust. She helped all through the house...dusted in the living room, put clothes away in the bedroom, took the trash out of the bathroom, and carried the filters from the oxygen tank. I told her tomorrow I'd bring her a lollipop for helping (she's a bit too young to appreciate money.) Aunt though refused a shower. She said it was too cold...I actually checked to see if she was running a fever, it was 98 outside and not much cooler in the house! Told her I'd come tomorrow afternoon around noon. Never did finish the rest of the den, lol. So tomorrow will be the rest of the den, then the bathroom. Aunts shower. And whatever else I get done.
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