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Lumbele
Moderator
07-12-2002
| Wednesday, June 09, 2010 - 10:51 am
We did the floors and the kitchen cabinets/counters on Monday, so the missions so far have been easy to handle. I'll have to check the fridge later, but don't expect much penicillin, if any. Congrats to Caleb for graduating 8th grade and to Kota for her awards. Well done, Kiddos!!! Congrats also to Dipo for finishing that bathroom!!! Time now to sit back and enjoy some vacation time.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, June 09, 2010 - 11:04 am
Well I did todays mission over the weekend, don't have anything in the fridge to get rid of, LOL. Hope the awards thing gets straightened out in time!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, June 09, 2010 - 11:08 am
Apparently it hasn't, no phone call for me and I know the awards ceremony would have been this morning. I hope they at least called her up there even if they didn't have the awards printed out and ready for her. I've spent the morning playing with baby niece when she wasn't busy with something else (she had to stop playing to sit and watch Dora and then spent some time chasing the puppy around,) she's napping now. I actually managed to hop in the shower, thought I was going to have to wait til she left. She'll be going home in about an hour and a half when I pick Kota up from school, tehn I plan to do some cleaning. Darren emailed earlier and said no 1/2 day today, they got some last minute work in this morning and he wants it done before he takes his vacation days.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, June 09, 2010 - 8:53 pm
Thursday's Mission Thanks for the Caleb congrats! Graduation is tomorrow morning at 11, they've actually split the graduating class in half, A-K will graduate at 9am, L-Z later. Seems weird to me, but whatever. They sent him home with a card today telling him where to go tomorrow. He was confused and asked me about it, I thought if they gave him a card, it shouldn't be that difficult right? Card says: Report to room 47 by 10:30 am. That's it. He doesn't know, and neither do I, if he's supposed to go to school at the regular time or just wait and go at 10:30. I'll have to call in the morning and find out. Darren got swamped at work today after he emailed me. He's decided to give up his vacation days, he'll work half a day tomorrow and be home by 9am, then work all day Friday and half a day Saturday (Saturday we have closing ceremonies for softball.) At this rate, he may also have to work Sunday. Sucks, but no choice really. I won't be getting too much done tomorrow. Once I drop the kids off I need to go pick up Caleb's graduation gift (just a little something, nothing big.) Then wait for Darren to get home and go pick up sis and bil.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 5:42 am
I'm only guessing here, but I'll bet the answer was don't report until 10:30. Seems to me that the teachers won't be available in classrooms since half of their students will be graduating. But that is weird and it sure takes away from some of the thrill to see your son's classmates graduate. You only get to see your part of the alphabet and I'm sure you are close to some of the kids who are in the other half.
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Lumbele
Moderator
07-12-2002
| Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 6:11 am
Thursday's mission was also accomplished on Monday. Yippee! We have lousy weather again, so I think I just might do some baking for the freezer, let 'ilda loose to vacuum after having the herd over yesterday and finish a few ironing pieces that I had missed. Good luck w/ the grad today, War. Sorry Darren won't be able to make it. C'est la vie!
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 8:51 am
Yeah Lumbele, and Yeah Caleb! That does seem kind of weird to split up the class. Bummer that Darren had to give up his days off, but he'll get OT right? Didn't do much last night, watched a 4 hr tape, cleaned up here and there, trying to figure out what I want to accomplish this weekend - need to paint the places I spackled in the bedroom and bathroom. Tonight I need to run the dishwasher and empty the litter locker, maybe I will wash the outside towels - we are supposed to get high winds tonight so it might be a good time to run those through the laundry.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 2:29 pm
Yeah, he'll get OT for it, and he was able to make it to the graduation, he worked just half the day today. Heh, I had Caleb call the school this morning and ask about if he was supposed to go or not. The receptionist said, "I believe you're supposed to come at 10:30, but I'm not really sure and no one is here to ask." When I took the other kidlets to school, he ran in to see if his homeroom teacher was there to ask, she wasn't. Told him forget it, come on home, even if he was supposed to be there first thing in the morning, what are they going to do with him? Schools over! It was a nice ceremony, though it was a bummer to miss half the kids graduating. Caleb's gone to school with the same group of kids since kindergarten and I know them well (volunteered with them throughout elementary school.) I'm always just as tickled to see them get awards as I am my own kids. One big, huge funny...one of the guys on the school board was my elementary school principal. I was shocked first time I saw him recently cuz he was old when I was a kid, lol! I forgot to mention to sis that he would probably be there today, when we were in school he saw more of my sister than he did his wife...she was constantly in his office in trouble. It took that man about three minutes to spot her, lol, she spent the entire ceremony squirming in her seat. There were speeches and awards, then the kids were introduced and marched across the stage. Caleb also recieved a citizenship award and an honor roll award (he had all A's and a D in math...we're ok with that, he really struggled with math this year.) It was a fairly quick event, just over an hour or so, and then he was done and standing there with his awards and certificate of completion. Ended up pulling Kota out of school early and since I was in the office I went ahead and picked up their meds from the school nurse. Darren was so exhausted, up late last night for class and then up early for work, so he's taking a nap now. We're doing dinner and cake later, along with a little graduation gift.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, June 11, 2010 - 12:04 am
Friday's Mission Darren's planning on working 10 hours tomorrow. The kids and I have nothing planned outside the house (I don't think they even have plans with their friends in the neighborhood!) I'm going to spend the day cleaning and maybe getting some laundry done. Next week, the kids will go back to their regular summer schedule...play outside for a couple hours in the morning, come in during the hot part of the day, practices for Kota and playing in the evening. They'll also start back with more chores, nothing too major, things like vacuuming, cooking once a week, or washing dishes besides the regular stuff they do during the school year like picking up after themselves, cleaning their rooms, and yardwork and laundry. I'm giving them a few days to rest and be lazy first though.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, June 11, 2010 - 12:26 pm
Nice that you let them have a little goof off time, LOL. I ran the dishwasher, took care of the litter locker and took out the recycling last night. When I get home I will probably do a load of laundry and unload the dishwasher. It is supposed to be hot here tomorrow and Sunday so I may only do a few things in the mornings. We shall see, sometimes the weather predictions are that accurate, LOL.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, June 11, 2010 - 12:41 pm
LOL, well they deserve it. Caleb's gpa, even with the D, was a 3.14 and Dakota absolutely stunned us with a 3.60 (2 B's, 3 A+'s, and an A!) Best report card she's ever recieved. Especially impressive since through the entire trimester she was busy with drama club and the play and had softball 4-5 days a week. I cleaned the kitchen earlier and pulled out some chicken tenders for dinner. Need to finish picking up the living room and vacuuming. I also need to get a frame for Caleb's certificate of completion. Oh and wash Kota's uniform for closing ceremonies. Tomorrow we have the closing ceremonies in the morning, followed by a league bbq. We're only staying an hour or so for that, didn't find out about it in time and made plans to go to Darren's company bbq tomorrow afternoon. That will be followed by a baseball game (local minor league team.) We're leaving around 9, will be home for an hour or so for Kota to change and shower, and then not home again until sometimes tomorrow night. Darren put his foot down for Sunday, lol. No kids coming over, no running around, no plans. He has homework to do and plans on sleeping quite a bit too. I'm actually in agreement with him. The last couple weeks have been pretty busy for him and the kids and they need some downtime. My nieces are coming over Monday, Dakota's got plans for some of the softball girls to come Tuesday, Caleb's wanting his buddies to come over and jam later in the week, so they can take it easy on Sunday! I hope everyone has a nice weekend!
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Saturday, June 12, 2010 - 12:18 am
Yay Caleb & Dakota! Great show kids!
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Lumbele
Moderator
07-12-2002
| Saturday, June 12, 2010 - 9:36 am
Just cleaned up a few of my kitchen cabinets. Since I am the type of cook who wants to just reach for what I need without having to move something else first, dh's way of stuffing things in as long as there is a smidge of room, drives me absolutely nuts. The coming weeks are gonna be tough in the getting things done department. Between those 1 hour walks early in the morning (weather is supposed to dry up next week), out-of-shape recovery time and the World Cup, I am going to have to do some serious time management. Have a good and quiet one, WarFamily!!! Dipo, you, too, the alarm is going to scream again come Monday, right?
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Saturday, June 12, 2010 - 12:52 pm
so far we have high winds so maybe it won't feel as hot as it is supposed to get (90). I have two loads of laundry going, and took some paint and grout to put into the storage unit. Then I grabbed the paint for the bedroom and bathroom, so I should be able to get those touch ups done. I did get around to unloading the dishwasher and I cleaned up the kitchen. So I may be done for the day except for more office type stuff that I can do while siting in the fan's wind, LOL.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, June 12, 2010 - 4:06 pm
Haven't done a thing today. We went to Kota's closing ceremonies, that was fun. The girls came in first in our league and got trophies and then we hung around for a while for the bbq. Then went to Darren's company's bbq at the baseball stadium. Had fun there too. They played a softball game on the big feild, which Kota thought was awesome. She played catcher and 2nd base. We're home for a bit before we have to go back for the game at the stadium.
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Landileigh
Member
07-29-2002
| Sunday, June 13, 2010 - 1:34 pm
we never found out if kota got her name called or any paperwork for her school achievements. I've been following you around War to find out!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, June 13, 2010 - 7:51 pm
Oh, Landi, sorry! They didn't get it straightened out in time. The principal calls up one set of honor roll kids (4.0, superintendants award,) one vice principal does the principals award (3.5-3.9) and the other does teachers honor roll (3.0-3.49) and they didn't know. She should have got the principals award (3.6 gpa.) But, each teacher does their own citizenship awards and when her homeroom teacher got up, he announced that she wasn't on either list and didn't have the awards yet, but he was calling her up for her principals honor roll and perfect citizenship all year. They did have the awards for her later that day and he gave them to her in science class, unfortunately Darren and I never got to see them. She stuck them in her desk, forgot they were there, and then Thursday morning when they cleaned their stuff out, her awards were in the pile of papers she threw away. She didn't remember it til Friday and we emailed her teacher to see if he'd found them, but the trash had been emptied the night before. On the plus side, her bff's dad was there and saw I wasn't, so he snapped a couple pics of her being called up for us.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, June 13, 2010 - 9:06 pm
Monday's Mission Today was kind of lazy day for me. The neighbors kept me up all night partying and then Darren woke me up at 7:30 stomping around on the roof messing around with the swamp cooler. I did clean the living room and did a couple loads of laundry. Had more planned, but Darren sent me to take a nap, lol. He said I was grumpy. The kids picked up one chore today. Caleb cleaned their desk and Dakota seperated the recyclables. Tomorrow morning he's cleaning the turtle tank out and she is sweeping/cleaning the back patio. I'll be doing the kitchen and bathroom and another load of laundry or three. My nieces are also coming over and we're going to the park for a while. When the girls go to practice, the baby is going home and the older two girls are staying the night. Uncle Darren promised them they could the other day, he doesn't mind them spending the night when he has to work the next morning cuz they are usually asleep by 8 or 9 and pretty quiet while they're here.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, June 14, 2010 - 10:12 am
I didn't do to much yesterday either. It was too hot! I finally gave in and turned the AC on around 1pm, I think I need to stop worrying about the power grid and just enjoy the AC in my own home, LOL. I did some office work, changed the sheets, refilled water bottles, changed the brita filter and cleaned out the brita container. That ended up causing me to wipe down the refrigerator and cabinet when I spilled a bunch of water out of the container all over the counter down the sides of the cabinet, all over my step stool and floor. So I pulled the fridge out and cleaned the floor and wiped down the cabinets/fridge and step stool. Took out the trash and washed a garbage bowl that I have (where I finally found the mysterious odor I have been trying to track down). My sister is cleaning today, so it will be wonderful when I get home!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, June 14, 2010 - 12:17 pm
Way too hot, it's 93 here today. Think it's about time I go back to cleaning in the evening. With the kids home for summer, I don't try to not use the swamp cooler. If it was just me here, I'd wait til about time for everyone to get home and then turn it on, but I'm not going to make them sit here and suffer in the heat. Especially since that's the time of day I won't allow them outside to play. Hopped in the shower this morning and then went and picked up the nieces and took them and Caleb and Dakota to the park. Hot enough we only stayed an hour and they didn't complain a bit about that. They've been happily playing inside since then (right now the girls are holding a trial, but have no clue what oldest niece is accused of.) I need to schedule drs appts for the kids (dermatology appts and annual physicals) and appts for my aunt (regular check ups with lung, foot, and head dr.) Also need to go cash my check, but not enjoying the idea of doing that with all the kids in tow and do some little grocery shopping.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, June 14, 2010 - 12:37 pm
Well, got two appts for my aunt schedule (still need to get ahold of the podiatrist) and the kids derm appts and lab appts scehduled (their drs office is out to lunch.) Will also have to schedule Caleb an eye dr appt (school was oh so helpful and sent me a letter the other day to inform me he failed his school eye exam...when hasn't he?) but I believe that's for August.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, June 14, 2010 - 12:40 pm
LOL, ok, I am a bit early for Caleb's eye dr appt! Told the lady I thought his appts are in August (or either very early Sept.) and she laughed and said yeah, we're just now scheduling appts for next week! Used to take months to get an appt with those people.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, June 14, 2010 - 11:42 pm
Tuesday's Mission Finally got ahold of the drs office for the kids and made them appts. The receptionist wanted to know if it'd be a problem if we scheduled with the same dr. There are one male and two female drs in the practice (the male is the one who has been the kids ped and Kota's asthma dr since they were babies, but since she's gotten older, she now sees one of the women) and the male dr is only working a few hours a week these days, kind of a semi-retirement. So we scheduled for one of the women, but on a day the male dr is in for a couple hours just in case there is part of the physical or something Caleb would be more comfortable discussing with him instead of her. That's what I love about them, they go out of their way for the kids. That'll be next month. Still didn't get ahold of aunts foot dr, I'll have to try again tomorrow with him. I also did the grocery shopping...just fruits, veggies, and lunch foods. We dropped the girls off at practice and took youngest two nieces with us, the baby leaned over in the cart and went to sleep, slept through the whole trip. It was quick enough that we made it home to put the groceries away and had time to go back and watch 45 minutes of practice. Sis and bil have something to do in the morning and they'll be dropping the baby off around 6:30-7. Too early for me even on a school day, let alone summer vacation, lol! After they pick the girls up, the kids and I need to go shopping for Darren's birthday (Thursday) and fathers day. Also have oldest nieces birthday Saturday and middle nephews on Monday, but haven't decided what I'm getting them. Also need to get some cleaning done around the house and the girls have practice and then the announcement of all-star teams. We're a little confused on that, on Saturday they announced at closing ceremonies that the kids league age 9 and up can come to the all-star ceremony, but our coach was told the coaches would be informed who was chosen and that they could announce it to their teams. Personally I think the kids should be there, they work hard all season and it's exciting to be chosen for all-stars, especially if it's their first year (and for some of our girls, it will be.)
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 8:24 am
I agree, the kids should all get to go. I didn't do a thing, well, actually I did some stuff on my balcony but no real cleaning. And it seems to have cooled off, thank goodness! Only going to be in the 70's today.
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Lumbele
Moderator
07-12-2002
| Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 1:17 pm
Yeah! Monday's mission I did a couple of weeks ago. The bathroom garbage can is wicker and wouldn't take too kindly to being hosed down. For the extra room, I gave the pantry a thorough once-over between soccer matches (except for fresh produce, I think I could feed us for at least 2 months). Dh helped w/ dinner and clean-up and I ironed a few stragglers during half time. Got half an hour to finish the rest before New Zealand and Slovakia go at it. Doc's appointment early in the morning. War, I read about the noisy neighbours. Yay, sweet revenge!
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