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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, July 02, 2010 - 12:15 am
Friday's Mission Heh, Dipo, I tried for a nap. Grabbed the pillows and came out to lay on the couch just as Darren got home and he said, oh good idea! Didn't get much sleep though, my head was hurting too bad. Took Kota to practice, it was a good one, she came home absolutely filthy, lol. They were practicing diving back into base and sliding today, she also did some catching practice. Had to leave a little early tonight so she could come home and shower and change clothes. She had her team party (regular season) tonight. She had fun, outside of that I could say plenty more but most of it wouldn't be nice and I shouldn't say it. Tomorrow, don't know yet what I'm planning. I may go over and write out checks for my aunt and balance her checkbook tomorrow (banking day is coming up) but might just wait til Saturday morning to do that. Caleb needs a haircut, Darren says they're not planning on golfing tomorrow so if he gets home early he can take Caleb. Not sure what else I'll do for the day, except more of the never ending laundry pile.
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Friday, July 02, 2010 - 2:29 am
Went out with my BFF to the day old bread store and then the fairly nearby neighborhood Farmer's Mkt (I had never been there before, our Pike Pl Mkt downtown has become too crowded so I don't go there anymore). Had a GREAT time. Yakking & browsing, it was actually cheaper than going out to a restaurant, came home to cook fresh beets & an egg salad on ryebread sandwich, alongside a fresh "black zebra" tomato. When I first got home, I ran my 'finds' over to show the elderly neighbor guy. He used to always share his tomatoes and fruit with me, but the last few years he's too frail to garden. Split the take with him, what fun we had ogling over all the weird colored tomatoes I found & varieties of cherries. They only do this Farmers Mkt on Thursdays (then travel to different spots around the city). So, it looks like we will do it again next month. Oh my though, they had bundles of Sweet Pea flowers at one of the vendors, $5. BFF was considering grabbing one for a long term friend dealing with medical issues, whether she might be home to just drop them off. Lady worked with us about 35yrs ago, BFF had stayed in contact. I told her I would pay half & if the friend wasn't home she could put them in a vase (& smell them overnight) take tomorrow. Done deal. I got to hold those Sweet Peas on the ride back to my place-pure bliss! Perfumed memories of my childhood when neighbors grew them like weeds. What a nice day. ETA: that "black zebra" tomato may have looked kind of weird, but it tasted stronger, like one of those homegrown beefsteak tomatoes.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, July 02, 2010 - 9:55 am
Wow, Biscottii, that sounds so cool. I wish there was a farmers market easy and close to me. Most of the ones I know about are when I am working, LOL. Last year there were some guys that set up at the bart station on Thursdays, but I haven't seen them this year. I need to figure out my plan for the holiday weekend! Last night I did some investment club stuff, oh and I mailed off the IRS penalty we recieved because my company screwed up mailing our tax returns! I tried to get a waiver but apparently you only get one, so they are sending me a denial letter so I can decided if we should appeal. I think I am going to get out of the club, it is supposed to be fun and has just turned into a lot of work for me. I took out some trash and recycling this morning, the temps are supposed to go back up this weekend and we close early today, so I am trying to decide whether to make potato salad or macaroni salad to have available with my 8 peice fried chicken pack that I picked up yesterday at Safeway.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, July 02, 2010 - 10:53 am
I'm not a fan of macaroni salad, I say go for potato salad, lol. The farmers market does sound like fun. We don't have one anywhere nearby us, though we have stopped by one when we take the kids to the corn maize down below. I'm driving myself nuts today. When the kids start accutane, they get a book of information and these cards with their id numbers showing they belong to the program. When you get the prescriptions filled, you have to turn in the cards to the pharmacy. Dakota's are in my wallet. Caleb's...I have no idea! Since he stopped taking it six months ago and Dakota started taking it, I put his book up somewhere so I wouldn't mix the two up and now I can't find it. I'm hoping like heck we didn't throw it away otherwise I'm not sure what we'll do. The dr just reactivated his membership or whatever it's called so we might have to hold off a month and redo all the dang paperwork and get him a new book and cards. Right now I'm tearing my house apart trying to find the stupid cards and book. Seriously, how hard could they be to find? The danged things are bright yellow!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, July 03, 2010 - 12:40 am
I tore the house apart and haven't found Caleb's ipledge cards. I'll look more this weekend and if I haven't found it by Monday, call the dr to see about getting new ones. I have, however, found three photocopies and the original of his shot records, lol! Remember when I had to register him for school and couldn't find that? Found the original in the glovebox of my car, where it's most likely been since his physical last year! Found a copy in the bottom of the desk drawer, another tucked away between two books on the bookshelf, and the third in the family bible which totally cracked me up. My mom has always kept important paperwork in her big, family bible. Sis also picked up that habit from mom, but I never did. Can't figure out why a copy was there. Or why the heck I have three copies, I don't remember even making copies, lol. Tomorrow, need to do some banking for my aunt and a little grocery shopping for her (not doing much cuz of the holiday on Sunday, stores will be nuts.) Finish looking for Caleb's cards and do a little laundry and some housework. We're looking at relaxing tomorrow mostly. Sunday will be a bbq at sis' and going to the desert for fireworks (watching the city's show, not setting any off ourselves!) Darren's off work Monday so probably won't get a lot done then. I hope everyone has a fantastic holiday weekend! Oh wait, Canada Day was just the other day, so is this weekend a holiday weekend for ya'll or was last weekend?
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, July 05, 2010 - 11:11 pm
Monday and Tuesday's Missions Sorry, folks, I wasn't online at all yesterday to post the mission. Darren was off work today, but he had a paper for school to write, so I spent most of the morning doing housework. Did a couple loads of laundry, picked up Kota's meds, and took her to practice. After dinner, I took her out to watch oldest nieces game. Tomorrow I have to do aunt's grocery shopping and will probably try to get my sheets washed at least. Also need to call the drs office about Caleb's missing yellow cards for his prescription. Not much else planned for the day though.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, July 06, 2010 - 9:48 am
I didn't do much, managed to run the dishwasher Sat morning, but didn't get it unloaded until Monday. It was pretty hot here. I watered plants, refilled water and soda bottles, cleaned up the kitchen a little here and there, watched tapes, took naps, made macaroni salad (sorry wargod) and tried to stay cool. This morning I took out some trash and recycling, have some more to haul out tonight, it has cooled off and I hope it stays that way so I can get something done. Oh, I pruned and indoor plant, forgot about that.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, July 06, 2010 - 10:42 am
I called the dr office this morning. The receptionist gave me Caleb's card number and hopefully I can get the prescription using just the number. If not, I'll have to call the ipledge people and deal with them. Also made plans to go do aunt's shopping this afternoon at 4:30. Figure I can get that done while Kota is at practice. Haven't done much else this morning.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, July 06, 2010 - 4:44 pm
Maybe this would be better in the gripe thread, but since I was talking about losing Caleb's yellow cards here, ya'll are stuck with me, lol. I dropped off the prescription, no problem at all with just having the number and not the card itself. I did take it to Costco, where I'd had his accutane prescription filled before thinking it'd be easier (Dakota's I take to Walgreens) if they already had all his info on file. The pharmacist even put my mind at ease about the time frame I have to get this prescription...for girls you have to turn in and pick up the prescription within five days of it being written because of the pregnancy test, any longer and they won't fill it. With boys, it's good longer (no worry about them getting pregnant) so no rush to pick it up. I'd no sooner walked in the door than the phone rang and it was the pharmacist. They did run into a problem. Because he'd been on accutane for five months, within the last 210 days, we have to have prior approval from the insurance co before they can fill it. Oh and it'll cost $200. ARGH. They sent the fax to the dr and now we have to wait for him to get the approval from insurance and send it back to the pharmacy. Total pain in the butt, since my insurance likes to lag, good thing the time limit for boys is longer! I'm not worried about how much it'll cost, once the dr sees that he'll fill out the paperwork for it being medically neccessary and the insurance will have to approve that too and then it'll cost the regular $20 co-pay I pay for prescriptions. I'm not quite sure why we have to go through that part again, especially since when we turned Kota's first prescription in, we had no trouble with it, it rang up at $20. Because I'd had no problem with that for Kota's, I never even thought to mention it to the dr the other day for Caleb. Caleb is not at all happy about having to wait anymore either. He's breaking out bad right now and knows the sooner he starts taking the meds, the quicker his skin will clear up.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, July 06, 2010 - 9:53 pm
Wednesday's Mission I did my Costco shopping today, will do aunts tomorrow (I only had a bit to do.) After her shopping, I need to do some laundry and a little cleaning. Dakota has practice and I also need to run by "our" park and sign her up for fall ball. Caleb is doing yard work and Kota, actually I can't remember what her big chore is for tomorrow, lol.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, July 07, 2010 - 8:41 am
I hauled out the rest of the recycling and watered the plants. I did figure out I am going to need to do some laundry so I think I will sort out the piles tonight.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, July 07, 2010 - 11:47 pm
Thursday's Mission Did aunts grocery shopping this morning, it was pretty quick. Picked up around the house a little and ran some errands. Took Kota to practice and then ran over and signed her up for fall ball. Aunt's companion is in the hospital. He fell last night and after my bil helped him up, told sis he thought he was drunk cuz he smelled like it. That sent off alarm bells with us, aunts companion hasn't felt well for a while, not bad sick, but little things like not eating as much and not going for his walks and sometimes with a diabetic episode (I think blood sugar going too high?) someone will smell like they've drunk a lot. So off to ER with him, and sure enough, he's got diabetes and pnuemonia, he'll be there a while though not sure how long yet. Both he and aunt are kinda cute. He asked us not to tell aunt he was in the hospital because he didn't want her to worry, like she wouldn't notice him not being at home! So told him we wouldn't tell her...then sis went home and told her, lol. She asked sis to tell him that we hadn't told her, she doesn't want him to worry about her worrying about him. Tomorrow I'll stop by and see how she is doing and go see how he is doing. Also need to pay a bill and then go see nieces game tomorrow evening (they won their game tonight.) Dakota has practice but since they have a game Friday it will be a short practice. That's about all my plans for tomorrow.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Thursday, July 08, 2010 - 8:10 am
What a drag for your Aunt's companion, too cute how they worry about each other. I was able to borrow Star Wars VI from someone at work so the first thing I did when I got home was watch the last half hour, LOL. Then I watched my GH tape, made some dinner and checked out the BB live feeds. Not sure I am liking the new live feed delivery, it didn't seem to be working that well on my computer but I will give it a little time. Meant to sort the laundry but forgot, I did track down my fridge info (the ice maker stopped working) but last night it started working again, yeah no service call! I think I may have had the temp set too low, I think I was turning the dial the wrong way when I thought I was turning it up. So at least I found the manual and the problem seems to have fixed itself so that was nice. I guess tonight I will start the laundry process.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, July 09, 2010 - 9:39 am
Friday's Mission Was distracted last night, sorry! I don't really have much planned today. Dakota has her first game tonight, though at this point I'm not sure if she'll be there or not. She started complaining that her stomach hurt, then an hour or so later puked all over the floor. No fever, no other symptoms of anything, has felt fine since, we're hoping it is just nerves or something she ate didn't agree with her. At the moment, she's still asleep and I'm not going to wake her up.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, July 09, 2010 - 10:25 am
Ut oh, sounds like a litte flu bug, darnit! Hopefully she will feel better after her nap. I just started sorting the laundry and cleaned up the kitchen. I need to get a safeway delivery I am almost out of detergent which will screw up my laundry plans, LOL.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, July 09, 2010 - 10:34 am
I dunno Dipo. She woke up a little while ago saying she felt just fine (no fever and wanting to eat breakfast) then asked what time her game was. Made me a little suspicious she was trying to play healthy so she wouldn't miss her game, but I've been watching her and she's giving no signs of feeling sick.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, July 09, 2010 - 1:53 pm
Well that is good! maybe it was a 6 hour flu, LOL. Hope you guys get to do the game.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, July 09, 2010 - 11:13 pm
Yeah, we made it, she was feeling just fine and did pretty good in the game, though they lost. We pretty much expected that, there is one league that just steam rolls over everyone in softball, tonight was our turn. Another game tomorrow night.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Saturday, July 10, 2010 - 9:34 am
So I did a load of laundry this morning, already done, and it is starting to get hot outside so I will get a couple of loads ready to run tomorrow morning. Maybe try one tonight after 8. Ran the dishwasher around 8am so its ready to be unloaded.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, July 12, 2010 - 9:20 am
Monday's Mission Flaking last night! Kota's team won Saturday night (exciting game, 5-3) and play again tonight. If they win, they'll have to play the same team again tomorrow night, if they lose the tournament is over. My nieces team won yesterday and they are in the same situation, they'll have to beat the same team twice (both girls in the championship games again.) Not too much planned today except a quick run to Costco to see if Caleb's prescription was approved yet and going to help aunt with a shower later. I think she has a dr appt tomorrow.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, July 12, 2010 - 11:20 am
I mostly got my house ready to be cleaned today. Took out the trash, changed the litter locker, I did get two more loads of laundry ready to go but then my neighbor borrowed my laundry room key so I didn't have to do it. It was hot yesterday so I wasn't motivated to deal with the laundry. Cleaned out the fridge, so reloaded the dishwasher, refilled all the water and soda bottles. I wish it would cool down so I feel like doing something, I have a ton of little things to do but the heat just sucks the life out of me. Will probably do a load of clothes tonight when I get home and I desparately need to shave my legs, LOL, but keep not having enough time in the morning so maybe I will do that as well.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 12:32 am
Tuesday's Mission Went to aunts today, she was sleeping and didn't want in the shower. Also told me she wasn't going to her drs appt. Great. Then talked to sis tonight and she said aunt was mad I didn't give her her shower cuz she's got an appt tomorrow morning. Oy. So tomorrow off to her house bright and early to get her in the shower and see if she'll let me take her to her drs appt. Kota's team lost their game tonight so she's done with all-stars. Nieces game is tomorrow night and we'll be going to that. I also need to run by Costco at some point and by the grocery store. That will probably be it for tomorrow.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 8:41 am
LOL, I swear sometimes your Aunt is dyslexic, LOL. I didn't get any laundry done but I did get my legs shaved, LOL. Will go for the laundry tonight. I have two loads to do, then change the sheets and create another load.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 9:08 am
Heh, I think sometimes she just does it to drive me nuts. I went over about 7:30 and we had a whole discussion about going to the dr. She thought we were going to be late, I told her we had an hour and a half (I pad the time these days, lol) so plenty of time. She ate breakfast and I did a couple things around the house and then went to talk to my bil. Came back in and helped her in the shower and she said, "Oh, just so you know, I'm not going to the dr." Argh! Told sis, what can I do? I tried to talk her into going but she doesn't want to. I can't force her, she's fully competent and can make her own decisions. So I said fine. Kota spent the night at her bff's last night. When I pick her up in a while, I've got to run to Costco and go get gas in my car, figure I'll also run through the quickie car wash (car is filthy.) And then a little housework.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 11:03 am
I need a slap upside the head, I think. I've got errands to run, but keep finding stuff around the house to do to put the errands off. I'm actually going through the house looking for things to keep me busy! Part of it is that I called to see if Kota was ready to come home and she wasn't, will call later when she's ready, and I'd kinda like to do it (errands and picking her up) all at the same time. But, most of it is I just don't feel like going out!
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