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Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, August 02, 2010 - 8:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
1. Eric's dream worthy, especially if you watched the episode where Sookie is dreaming about him...or when he ended up in Bill Comptons bathtub in season 1.

2. I've got to take the kids to the dermatologist in a few minutes.

3. Caleb starts school in a week, summer seems to have flown by, except that I have Kota home for another month.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Monday, August 02, 2010 - 9:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
1. Hermi, he is soooo yummy. But then again, I have a little weakness for cowboys and marines. go figure. My DH was VERY careful not to ever take me to the Marine Rodeo. Smart fella. JB called my gramma ma'am and she giggled. 73 years old, she giggled. So cute.

2. School here starts on the 17th. It's going to be like Christmas!

3. DH took DD to the doc this morning to have a med check and to get her meds changed. I think this is the first time he's ever done a doc's appointment solo, both girls. Good daddy.

4. Haven't ridden my Ruby in 2 weeks. I may need to remedy that this evening. She's going stir crazy. Must be boring to be a horse and only ridden once a week. I went out and cleaned yesterday morning and she had to stand right over the top of my piles until I caved and scratched her belly with the rake like she wanted. Spoiled much?

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, August 02, 2010 - 11:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
1. There are times I don't know whether to laugh, roll my eyes at, or smack my kids upside the head. This morning, a combination of all three!

2. Between the two of them, they've been using accutane long enough that we know whats up. Nurse walks in and asks if they've suffered any side effects, we know what they're talking about. We tell em about the dry lips/nose/eyes, and sore joints and that's about it before the dr comes in.

3. This morning we had a newish nurse (she's been at the office 3 or 4 months but this is the first time we've had her) and she pulled up the list of side effects and went through them one by one. My monsters got bored halfway through, and without a word to each other, decided to play with her. Ok, I get it, questions like, "Have you experienced rectal bleeding?" aren't fun, but come on!

4. She asks, "Have you had vision problems at night?" Caleb deadpans, "Oh yeah, my night vision is really bad." Nurse says, "Really?" Eye roll from me, the kids blind, his vision at night isn't any worse than in the day. She goes on, wanting to know if they're feeling moody, grumpy, angry, sad. My kids...yep, yeah, nod head, oh yeah. OMG, lol. I had to point out Caleb's a 14 year old boy, all that's pretty normal on or off accutane and Dakota's been moody and had a temper since the day she was born!

5. Dr had walked in towards the tail end and was cracking up. He knows the kids well, pointed out when he had to drain Dakota's cyst a while back he had to bring Martin (the one male nurse) in to hold her down cuz she was so mad about the whole thing he thought she was going to take a swing at him (she actually gave him her sweetest smile, he didn't believe that at all!) And that it was already noted on Caleb's chart that he was a typical teenager, moodiness and all included.

5.5 Other than that, appt was fine. He gave Dakota the option of stopping accutane since her knees and shoulder were still hurting and she's starting another season of softball. She said she's on month 5 (normal course of treatment is 6 months,) she's happy with the way it's working, and unless he has some other reason to take her off, she'd like to try to finish it. We'll discuss it again next month. Caleb's doing good on it after 1 month, skin is clearing up (wasn't too bad to start with,) no side effects except the dry lips so far, and his cholesterol/triglicirides are ok.

Hermione69
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07-23-2002

Monday, August 02, 2010 - 2:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hermione69 a private message Print Post    
1. Your kids are characters, Wargod. LOL.

2. My sister and I just spent the better part of 30 minutes giggling like schoolgirls over Vampire Eric.

3. We're so mature.

4. I got about 1/2 way through The Good Earth today. It's actually a great story.

5. Sam just came running up and leapt into my lap with a flying hug. I can't believe he starts kindergarten in September!

6. Three more days of summer school!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, August 03, 2010 - 12:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
1. Eric has got to be one of my favorite vampire characters ever, ranks right up there with Spike.

2. LOL Hermi, I shared that story with the mom of Dakota's twin friends (and her son and Caleb have gone to school together since the boys were in kindergarten) and she laughed her butt off. Since she has a 14 year old boy too, she especially thought the moodiness/grumpiness/angry question was funny.

3. Dakota's team now has 14 girls on it, with the possibility of 2 more joining. We've got enough girls that the coach is going to split them into two teams later this week and have them play a scrimmage game against each other.

4. Coming off a team that just had 10 girls and we worried every game about having enough show up to play, this is a huge relief. And considering that some days the girls will have double headers, it's really nice that they'll be able to switch out and no one is going to get too exhausted.

5. Surely that's not your youngest nephew starting kindergarten is it, Hermi? I thought he was just a toddler!

6. Lets see, on my side of the family (on Darren's all the nephews/nieces are out of school now) we've got kids ranging from Jr in high school (oldest cousin) down to my youngest nephew just starting preschool. I can't believe we have four kids (my cousins two girls, oldest nephew, and Caleb) all going to be in high school.

7. Does it make me old if the girls I held the days they were born are going to be a junior and a sophomore in high school? Wonder how old it makes cousin feel to realize his oldest baby is seriously looking into colleges right now? Ack, that probably does make me old since we're the same age! Holy crud! I just realized I'm old enough to have had a kid graduate high school....without having giving birth in my teens! Deep breath, I'm ok now, just a momentary freak out about getting old.

Schoolmarm
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02-18-2001

Wednesday, August 04, 2010 - 10:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Schoolmarm a private message Print Post    
So much going on since I last posted!

1. Sang at the Cardinals/Astros game and saw Pujols hit a homer. It was actually more exciting to see the guy who broke his bat and half of it landed between 1st and 2nd.

2. The pipe organ arrived from California! WHOOT! Now to get it installed.

3. I'm giving part of a workshop next week, and am getting ready for the semester to start.

4. It is a record heat wave here at home. The hot weather keeps following me. Anyone need some heat? I'll be happy to visit!

5. I am truly wondering where the summer went.

6. Last week I started a fire on the grill with a rack of ribs and corn on the cob. Melted the container of seasoned salt, but I am happy that I salvaged the food. I'm just lucky I didn't burn the deck down.

7. If you get a chance to stay at a Drury Inn, please do. Great free breakfast, free pop and popcorn in the afternoon, and free drinks and snacks (read that as supper) in the evening. And free internet.

8. Hope everyone is well and that everyone's air conditioning hold up!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, August 04, 2010 - 10:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
1. Since Caleb starts back to school next week, tonight we go back to a (close to) school schedule. Earlier curfew and regular bedtime for both kidlets.

2. Both of them have been pulling very late nights this summer and it's time for that to stop. I'm looking forward to a couple hours of peace and quiet at night now too, lol.

3. Bil's youngest sis (my youngest "adopted" sis) is coming to visit tomorrow. She's just 19, has lived out of state with her mom for years, and is getting ready to start her second year of college.

4. Since she's much closer in age to the kids and since when she comes to visit she spends as much time as she can with them, they all think she's totally cool. I have to agree, I've known her since she was a baby and she's turned into a fantastic young woman.

5. The girls are having a scrimmage game Friday evening and we're hoping she'll be free to come watch since she hasn't got to see them play yet.

6. Darren just finished an online class last week and goes back to campus tonight for his new one. With this class, he has just four left. Yep, we're counting down.

7. Wow on #1 Marm! That's totally cool! I've never been to a major league game and they certainly wouldn't want me to sing, lol. I'm glad you got to!

8. We've been to two games for our minor league team this season. At one of them we saw the same thing, batter breaking his bat. It was funny to see, everyone on the field stood there for a second in surprise wondering what happened, except for the one dude who had to duck the flying half of the bat.

9. My days are messed up this week. Yesterday I spent the day insisting it was Monday. This morning I got up and first thing I said was, "Quick Caleb, run the trash can out to the curb! It's trash day!" I got two blank stares from the kids cuz trash day is Thursday. Even worse, yesterday I wrote a bunch of checks for my aunt and dated them "8-3-11."

Dfennessey
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07-25-2004

Wednesday, August 04, 2010 - 11:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dfennessey a private message Print Post    
9.1 War I am sure my day will be messed up tomorrow. Usually on Thursday's I work from 9:15 to 6:00, but my 14 year old niece has been at Bridgewater State College for the past 6 weeks doing a summer program and this is their last week and they are putting on a show, so one night last week she called her father (she stays there during the week) and asked him to call me to ask if I could come (How could I refuse), so tomorrow night I will leave work at 4:45 and head to my brothers house have dinner with them and my nephew then follow them to the college. So I am sure that tomorrow I will think it is Friday all day.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, August 04, 2010 - 11:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
9.2 Dfennessey, that sounds like a lot of fun. What kind of show is she doing? We'll just be one day off together.

Dfennessey
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07-25-2004

Wednesday, August 04, 2010 - 11:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dfennessey a private message Print Post    
9.3 When they go to this place they choose 2 differnt things she chose music and movement and psychology. a few of her friends chose scrapbooking. my nephew did it and the first year he did robotics and flying a plane(areotec) and the second year he did robotics and improv. My niece wants to go back next year and do music and movement again but does not know what she wants to do for her second one.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, August 04, 2010 - 12:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
9.4 What a great program! How old are they?

9.5 My best friend in high school did a similar program, except it was at an Art/Interior Design/Fashion college. That was summer between our jr and senior year and she had a blast. It was a great experience for her and helped her decide on the direction she wanted to go after school.

Schoolmarm
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02-18-2001

Wednesday, August 04, 2010 - 12:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Schoolmarm a private message Print Post    
7.1....Yeah, War....nothing like seeing your fat ass on a Jumbotron to encourage weight loss. I was with a group of music teachers. I don't think anyone would want me singing a solo!

Dfennessey
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07-25-2004

Wednesday, August 04, 2010 - 12:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dfennessey a private message Print Post    
9.6 they can do it for 2 years the summer between 8th and 9th grade and the summer between 9th and 10th grade. My niece is 14 and going into the 9th grade and my nephew is 16 and going into the 11th grade (so he could not do it this year. They love the program. It does cost, but as my sil stated the other night it beats them not doing anything all summer. My nephews bff only did it last year and by the end of the year he was kicking himself for not doing the first year.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Friday, August 06, 2010 - 10:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
1. I agree with your sil, Dfennessey! If you can afford it, giving your kids something to do over the summer is totally worth it.

2. Luckily Caleb and his buddies (they all took music classes in school together) decided to put together a band this summer. Even luckier for me, one of the buddies parents offered up their garage for jam sessions, lol. It kept him busy, kept him playing, they were supervised and stayed out of trouble, and overall cost me very little (strings for his guitar, picks.)

3. Dakota's fall ball though is going to cost us an arm at least. But considering it's her only activity, she loves it, and it keeps her busy and less twitchy, worth it.

4. I need to get working on some little beaded thing for her team. I'm thinking of doing a sort of charm bracelet, except as a zipper pull. They've got 15 girls on the team, that's a lot of beading otherwise, lol.

5. Dakota spent the night at my sisters. She's planning on staying there til practice today, bil's youngest sis got in last night so she'll be over visiting today and Kota wanted to spend some time with her.

6. I need to go throw my sheets in the dryer. And hop in the shower and get dressed. And go to Costco to pick up Caleb's prescription. At the moment, I'm doing none of that.

7. Darren's current class is business law. His homework for this week, to read the Constitution. He told me he's never read it. My mouth fell open. We went to the same high school, had the same civics teacher (though me two years later than him) and I know damn well I had to read it! How did he skip that??

8. Caleb's laying in the living room watching some movie that has the military fighting dragons. Must be pretty silly, he keeps howling in laughter and since I hear people screaming in the movie, I don't think it's supposed to be that funny.

9. Shoot, I also need to go buy him a backpack this weekend. And get some cash for pe clothes and pictures. Hate the start of the school year, always money money money. At least he doesn't need new clothes (got those at the beginning of summer.)

10. I haven't made any plans for this weekend yet. Think maybe we'll spend it just vegging and enjoying doing nothing.

Merrysea
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08-13-2004

Friday, August 06, 2010 - 11:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Merrysea a private message Print Post    
8.1 War, I read your #8 to my son, and he said "It's probably Dragon Wars. It was pretty funny."

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Friday, August 06, 2010 - 11:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
8.2 LOL Merry! I just asked Caleb what he was watching and he said, "Dragon Wars!" He thought it was hysterical (it's over now.)

Dfennessey
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07-25-2004

Friday, August 06, 2010 - 11:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dfennessey a private message Print Post    
1. I went to my nieces show last night. During the second number the fire alarm goes off, but the kids kept going and no one else moved. After the number they said it was from the fake smoke they were using and wer working on getting the alarms shut off. a few minutes later they came on and said they had to have everyone evacuate the building. when we all came back in they had the kids do the second number over so people could enjoy it without the alarms going off. the kids did a great job. this years theme for the program was "Stop for a minute." Which from what I am told is to help stop bullying. they wanted to tell kids when they feel the need to bully someone to "STOP AND THINK ABOUT IT". It was great to see all the different kinds of kids up on stage dancing.

Schoolmarm
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02-18-2001

Friday, August 06, 2010 - 3:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Schoolmarm a private message Print Post    
1. Pipe organ installation is coming along nicely! The innards are mostly done and the first big pipe just went in!

2. I am waiting for friends from Nashville to come up for a visit. PIZZA tonight!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Friday, August 06, 2010 - 10:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
1. My baby at practice today:

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Her knees were hurting. Goes in spurts, they hurt for a day or two, then feel fine for a day or two, then hurt again. Her shoulder has also been bothering her. I think the accutane is working wonders for her, but will be thrilled when she's done with it. We (and the dr) are willing to take her off of it now, but she has asked to stay on it since it's working.

2. I am feeling totally worn down today. No reason for it either, I didn't do all that much! Washed the sheets, remade the bed, ran by Costco (and actually walked out with just a couple things,) went to practice, and fixed dinner. I think I'll head to bed in a few.

3. Ack Dfennessey on the fire alarm! I'm glad the kids got to re-do that part of the show.

3.5 Marm, how long does it take for a pipe organ to be installed? It's got to take a few days at least, right?

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 1:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
1. I am the meanest mom ever! LOL I am just terrible.

2. Caleb just called, wanted to know if I'd come pick him up from school. I asked what happened to his buddies he walks with and he tells me they are getting a ride. Then I hear one of the buddies in the background, "Sandy, can we get a ride too?" So, the ride his buddies are getting is with me! I told them it was a nice day and they could walk, lol. Besides I don't have permission from the buddies parents to drive them, so definitely not happening.

3. Kota's eye is not looking much better and that has me worried. She has an appt on Monday, but urgent care dr already warned us that if its not better they may have to lance it. At this point she still looks like she's been punched in the eye.

4. Darren has his physical for work this afternoon. I'm waiting to see what they say about his cholesterol this year, last year it was a bit high.

Texasdeb
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05-23-2003

Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 3:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texasdeb a private message Print Post    
1.1).......you are not anywhere close to being a "mean" mom!
2.1).......boys his age will work you if you let them. Good for you for standing your ground.
3.1)....Poor girl! She's prob. having major headachs w/that too.
4.1).....fingers crossed that that physical came out better than even last yr.

5) I don't do well in hot weather! I'm talking triple digits here. Oh well, at least my home, car, & office have good A/C. Aug. has officially become my least fav. month because of the hot weather.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 6:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
1. The boys weren't all that serious.

2. I took Kota to practice (this has something to do with #1, really, lol) and her twin friends are on her team...the girls have known each other since they were five. When the twins got there, they both ran up and hugged me before they even dropped their gear. They have practice 3-4 days a week and each time, the twins greet me like that (and if not at the beginning of practice, then they do it at the end.)

3. I'm more used to the kids friends doing that than hearing I'm soooo mean, lol, even if they are joking. I'm not feeling too guilty though, come to find out before they called me they had called one of the other boys dad and he said the same thing I did, lol!

4. The funny thing about Kota's infection is that if the left side of her face and left eye hadn't swollen up, we wouldn't have known anything was wrong. She's been feeling just fine. The hard part has been keeping her hands off. Especially during practice when she does use her hand (which by then is dirty from grabbing the ball, her bat, her glove, being in the dirt, etc) to wipe the sweat off her face.

5. I wonder if you're getting our weather, Deb. Usually August is really hot here (those triple digit temps) but this one has been much cooler for us. The evenings have been downright chilly. Very weird.

6. Caleb was assigned his first research project today for his engineering class. Part of the project will include interviewing an engineer...lucky for him, he can just call up grandpa (Darren's step dad) and have a chat with him. Grandpa will be tickled to death, he just loves the fact that Caleb's into all the sciency type stuff and he can have a conversation with him about the type of work he does and things he's interested in.

Hermione69
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07-23-2002

Sunday, August 15, 2010 - 7:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hermione69 a private message Print Post    
1. Engineering? Geez, how smart is that son of yours?? :-)

2. Today is 14 years of sobriety for me. Whoot!

3. Just wanted to brag a little! I'm very proud!

4. I love True Blood, but man, can it get gross.

5. I like how the vamps in Buffy just go *poof* when they die.

6. No more sex dreams with Eric. Too bad. It was the only action I had gotten in years.

7. My hearing aid is in the shop for about a week. I can't hear a thing. I keep thinking I have forgotten to put it in! They don't have a loaner powerful enough for my hearing loss, so I just gotta make do. Everything is so quiet!

Merrysea
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08-13-2004

Sunday, August 15, 2010 - 8:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Merrysea a private message Print Post    
2.1 Hermi, that's wonderful! Way to go!

Sage
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07-19-2000

Sunday, August 15, 2010 - 11:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sage a private message Print Post    
1. I'm just sitting here feeling the love for all my TVCH'ers.

2. Has it really been 10 years since I joined this site?

3. Although I have lived through the most difficult times these past 4 years, I am grateful for it, because it has caused me to be dead-center honest with myself.

4. It is very frightening for me to see the real me, as I see so much trauma and the resulting damage done throughout my years.

5. I have an official diagnosis of PTSD that began when I was young. Knowing this, I'm starting to make sense of myself now.

6. I have missed this thread - actually, I have missed many threads, and many people by my lack of involvement. I understand now why I don't involve myself, and will be trying to do more.

7. Living with my daughter has brought the both of us closer than we ever have. The turmoil between us that lasted for 7 years is gone now, and we have been learning more about each other, and letting the love between us grow. :-)

8. I've been having some 'Twilight Zone' moments in this house since the first time I visited last October. At least once a day, I will look at a clock and the time will be _:20. Like, in the morning, I will glance a look and it will be 10:20, then later on I would see 6:20. One day, I saw something:20 3 times! And now I'm noticing that I'm seeing something:40 quite often. This is very strange.