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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, May 21, 2010 - 11:59 am
Fridays Mission - Date night I didn't do any more laundry, I was tired and ended up piling into bed with my paper and magazines around 8pm. I did clean up the kitchen and watched a 4 hour tape.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, May 21, 2010 - 10:36 pm
Thank you Dipo, I flaked last night. I did a little laundry and picking up around the house, also ran a couple errands this morning, that was about it. Darren gets off at 12:30 on Fridays now and usually him and a couple of the other guys take the opportunity to go golfing. Was way too windy for that today so he came straight home from work. We had quiet, relax, adult time for a couple hours, something that's pretty rare around here, lol. Just sat on the couch watching a couple shows we had tivo'd..it was nice. Tomorrow we'll be out a good part of the day. The girls have practice early...I had said Kota wasn't going to go because of what they are doing afterwards, but they want to work her on pitching for some reason (not sure why they want to work her on pitching four games from the end of the regular season) so she wants to go. Afterwards, we're taking her and my two older nieces to one of the local high schools for a softball clinic. That's like four hours long (which was why I'd said no practice.) The older girls will get to work with high school players who play the same position they do...oldest niece will get to work with a pitcher, Kota with a catcher. The younger girls, like middle niece, who are still on t-ball and coach pitch teams and don't play regular positions will work with the rest of the high school team on the basics of the game. The girls have been looking forward to this for a while and are pretty excited about it. And then Kota has a slumber party to go to (she'll actually be late to it cuz of the softball clinic.) Caleb has plans to practice with his buddies most of the day, they have the talent contest coming up but also have their final school concert and their teacher has given them permission (even offered a couple of suggestions) for them to play some Metallica songs for it. That's my plans for tomorrow. I'm thinking with Kota gone and Caleb at his buddies tomorrow night, we might do date night at home.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, May 23, 2010 - 8:55 pm
Monday's Mission It was a pretty quiet day around here. We picked Kota up around 11, she had a blast at the slumber party, but as expected the girls stayed up most of the night. She came home and went straight to bed and slept til we made her get up around 4:30. Hehe, she was only too happy to go back to bed at bedtime. I did a little cleaning, a couple loads of laundry, and a little grocery shopping (that halfway point grocery shopping between real grocery shopping for things like milk and fresh fruits/veggies.) Caleb was off at his buddy's house and Darren was busy with homework so that was about all we did today. Tomorrow I don't really have much planned. Drs office wrote the wrong prescription for my aunts test strips (they wrote it for the last machine she used, argh) and I'll have to deal with that, fourth time I've had to contact them about the damn test strips. Girls have a game tomorrow night. I don't really have all that much to do though besides that.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, May 24, 2010 - 8:33 am
I had a nice weekend, did a couple of loads of laundry, had a safeway delivery so I got all of that put away. I had a lot since I wanted to get the free delivery so bought $150 of stuff. Got memorial day weekend covered, I think LOL. I cleaned out some more clothes, I have been going though my winter clothes. Cleaned out my bills, watched a bunch of tapes, got through the Sunday paper and changed the head on my toothbrush (I try to do that after my cleanings, makes a good routine). Sure seems like I did more than that, LOL. Sounds like the slumber party worked out great! Amazing that the docs can't get the test strips correct.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, May 24, 2010 - 9:42 am
Ack, Memorial Day! I kinda forgot about it, or rather, haven't given much thought to it. Caleb's birthday is Friday and we've been more focused on what he wants to do than anything else. He finally decided on us springing for a movie and pizza for him and his buddies a week late (the kids have their drama club party this weekend.) Sounds like you got plenty accomplished this weekend, Dipo! I threw a load of laundry in this morning and put the breakfast dishes on to soak. Last night while getting ready for bed, I grabbed a stack of folded clothes off the couch and pulled the tivo remote off right onto my big toe. After gasping and fighting back tears for a minute, I put those clothes away and hopped in bed. This morning after putting the dishes on to soak, I grabbed the trash and was taking it out. Harvey was laying in the doorway between kitchen/living room and trying to step over him I slammed my knee into the door frame. So now, I've got a bruised toe and my knee is swollen and I'm looking at the dishes thinking it might be safer for me to leave them alone, lol! The test strips are ridiculous, I can't believe we're still having problems with those especially since the drs office knows her insurance no longer covers the old brand. The needles are just as bad, she's been getting the pre filled syringes for over a year now (so she's really getting just the tip of the needle) and they're still messing that up.
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Lumbele
Moderator
07-12-2002
| Monday, May 24, 2010 - 12:14 pm
Monday mission not impossible here, I'll get 'ilda (Roomba) to crawl under the beds. One of them has 2 suitcases underneath and they will be staying there until next trip, too.LOL We just got back from a walk with the dog. Then we stopped at A&W and since that was not enough, we took a drive to Mad Dogs. Mad Dogs is about 4 km out of town, a converted old bus, and has the absolute bestest icecream ever. My blood sugar meter is going to do somersaults tonight, but I don't give a dang; it was soooooooooo good! ETA: War, are you having sympathy accidents? No need, you know, I can whine all by myself. Next time you hear of me being clumsy, move s-l-o-w-l-y.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, May 24, 2010 - 10:29 pm
Tuesday's Mission LOL, Lum, nah, just my natural clumsiness taking over. It's been a while since I've messed myself up, I was overdue. My knee is bruised and I have a bump, but it doesn't really hurt unless I'm doing something like walking up and down the bleachers at the girls game tonight and then it screams at me to stop it. Tomorrow I'll be doing a little cleaning. And of course since I went to the grocery store yesterday, Darren, the kids, and my aunt all have things they need right now. Caleb needs deodarant, Dakota needs moisturizer and rubber bands, Darren's out of diet cokes, aunt needs pb and bread. I'd tell em all to take a flying leap, lol, but with Dakota on the accutane and her skin so dry, she really does need the moisturizer. Also need to call the derm. I set up the kids appt and Kota's lab appt last week, but it's been nagging at me since then. She's supposed to have the labs 3-4 days before her derm appt (which is the 3rd) but for some reason I could only get the lab appt for the 1st. Finally dawned on me earlier...Memorial Day (told ya'll I forgot about it, lol.) Labs closed Sunday and Monday next week. So need to call and check with the dr if the 2 days will be acceptable or if we need to push her dr appt back a day. Not sure what else I'll be doing. The girls have practice, but I won't be going to that. Oh, I should clean out my car. We've got a game out of town Wed and I may end up having to carpool a couple of the girls and/or their parents.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 11:50 am
Yeah, I did the sock thing last weekend, LOL. I had a board meeting last night, but I took out some trash and recycling, redid the litter locker, refilled all the water and soda bottles (it might be time to replace them), hauled the cushions in off the balcony (supposedly three days of rain starting today!), cleaned up the kitchen and went to bed. Wargod, you need to sit down and think about Memorial day or it will come and go right by you, LOL. Won't you guys BBQ or something like that?
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 12:17 pm
Oh funny, Dipo, I just told Darren I saw we had rain forcast for tomorrow at least. The girls have a game tomorrow night so I'm expecting buckets, lol. They've already had two games rained out this year, which is two more than Kota's ever had cancelled for rain, so it won't surprise me to have a third! Probably no bbq, lol. Most of the family birthdays fall between the beginning of May and middle of September and since it's nice weather, most of those parties end up being bbq's. While Caleb's birthday is the 28th and I have a nephew whose is the 21st of May, we do everything we can to plan their birthday celebrations any weekend other than Memorial Day weekend (too many people have other plans.) It ends up being one of the few weekends during the summer that we don't have to bbq, lol! Darren's plant is shut down Monday for the holiday. He's still got a bunch of vacation time to use so he's also taking off Friday for a four day weekend. We haven't talked about what we're going to do though. My sis and mom are driving me crazy about having at least a little family party for Caleb, even though he has specifically requested no party at all. So, don't really know what we'll be doing yet.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 10:33 pm
Wednesday's Mission It was a fairly quiet day here today. I did a little cleaning and picking up, a couple loads of laundry, and made the run to the grocery store. Then after dinner helped Caleb finish up his project (posted about that in the fact or two thread) and painted Kota's fingernails and toenails silver and black to match her team colors for her game tomorrow. Oh, had a totally hysterical phone call from Darren. I had called him at work and left a message that his prescription safety glasses were in and ready to be picked up. He called me back to say he was going to run over to the place after work. And then he said, kind of hesitantly, "How's your knee?" Told him it was sore, and the whole thing is bruised now, but not too bad. He said something about how after he hit me last night he was worried I was really hurt. Huh? I didn't know what he was talking about, lol. I waited til he got home to ask though. He said last night I was laying on my side facing him and he rolled over and kneed me, right in the knee. I have no memory of this! He said I damn near came out of the bed screaming, then flopped over to face away from him and scooted all the way to the edge of the bed, lol. He kept trying to apologize and see how bad I was hurt, but I wouldn't wake up, just laid there whimpering in my sleep. I felt kind of bad when he told me, I don't remember this at all, but apparently that was the last sleep he got for the night cuz he was afraid of hitting me again! Anyways, tomorrow, not too much to do around the house, except to clean out my car. We're going to drop Dakota and oldest niece off with one of the other girls on the team and their mom will take them to the game. Then sis, bil, their girls, me and Caleb will take my car. Since the games out of town, we're all trying to carpool and take as few cars as possible. Darren has class so he won't be going.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 9:44 am
LOL, about the "knee incident". I didn't do too much - I made some fabulous stew, I had left over steak so I threw in a bunch of veggies and put it away in small containers so I would have some for work, then I walked out without it this morning! So I cleaned up the kitchen, cleared out some old emails, watched a tape and called it a day.
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Lumbele
Moderator
07-12-2002
| Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 10:13 am
LOL, poor Darren. No room on the couch for him? You know all those good intentions are forsaking me. Or I should rather say, the follow-ups. So far I have done nothing but surf. Better go find something for dinner, so I can at least report we had a warm meal today. Ack!!!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 10:42 am
The really funny thing is that I'm the restless sleeper (tossing, turning, I even kick and punch in my sleep) yet it's always me who ends up hurt in bed! The worst was when he rolled over in bed and elbowed me in the nose. I ended up sporting two black eyes for a while and poor Darren looked absolutely horrified anytime someone asked what happened. I've done a bit of picking up around the house so far, haven't really got much done yet though. We won't be having a hot cooked meal tonight. I'll be leaving around 3 and won't be back with the kids til 8 or so. So Darren will have to pick something up on the way to school and I'll run to get the kids a pizza on the way home and have a sandwich or something myself.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 10:22 pm
Thursday's Mission Very exciting game tonight. The girls lost (12-13) their third game of the season, but they played fantastic. This is the one team in our division we're pretty evenly matched against, we've been duking it out for first place with them all season long. Last time we played them, our girls won but even the girls knew it was because we had the home field advantage (we had last ups at bat.) This time was no different, except that they had the home field advantage and last ups. The girls had some great hits (including triples by both Kota and my niece and a homerun by our pitcher.) Very exciting game. We didn't get home til almost 9 though. Very late night. Because high school graduation is Friday, and the girls don't have another game til next Thursday, no practice til Monday. Which means we're free for the next couple nights. I'm starting to feel like a broken record, lol, not too much to do tomorrow except a little cleaning and maybe some laundry. I may mop the floors and wash sheets so I won't have anything to do Friday while Darren is off work.
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Lumbele
Moderator
07-12-2002
| Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 6:27 am
Granddoggies day. Staying on my butt as much as possible; safer that way. The weather is miserable, rainy, gloomy, so we can't tire them out with a walk.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 12:04 pm
Wow, sounds excellent Wargod. Do you guys play again before the playoffs? Sounds like a good plan Lumbele, LOL. Weird how there isn't that much to do, I have been having the same issue. I had a board meeting last night so didn't do a thing. Tonight I will put all the cushions back on the patio (the rain is supposed to be over), trying to catch up on some taping (don't think there is anything on tonight), maybe balance the checkbook, possibly a load of laundry. I am not feeling that motivated since I can do all of this stuff next week when I am on my "staycation", LOL.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 2:01 pm
Yeah, Dipo, they still have the two rescheduled games (one a week from today and one the following Saturday.) Then the next weekend I think, not positive yet, is closing ceremonies. The little kids will be done then...tball, coach pitch and farm. Everyone else has the TOC (city series tournament.) That starts June 16th, it's a single elimination tourney meaning if they lose one game, they are out. We're not sure yet what day our first game is. Then as soon as TOC is over, the kids who were chosen for the various all star games will get right to work practicing for that. All stars is sometimes in July (usually starts after the 4th of July weekend.) Teams for all stars won't be announced until closing ceremonies though. And then, lol, our league is doing fall ball this year and the first game for that is pretty early in August (the 9th if I remember right.) So the girls who will be playing in all stars and then fall ball, will have almost no time off until October or November. Not that Kota and niece are complaining!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 10:14 pm
Friday's Mission We had a quiet day here. Darren (who is off til Tuesday for the holiday) only worked a couple hours this morning. Surprised me, lol. They are waiting for some materials to come in (also supposed to be on Tuesday) and this week has been rather slow for his department. So he finished up a couple things he had to do and told his boss he was taking off early. We caught up on some of our tivo stuff and charged and set up Caleb's new ipod (we bought him the nano for his birthday, along with a couple albums off itunes and want it ready to go when he opens it.) Tomorrow we're planning on running to the store (I'm out of milk again!) and picking up a cake. Kids have a minimum day for a big disaster drill. I could pick them up even earlier, but I'd have to participate in the drill and sign them out, not a problem with my kids, but a problem with the carpool kids since I'm not on their emergency cards. Told them they could stay until school got out officially so that the carpool kids wouldn't be stuck without a ride. Then we'll take the cake over to my aunts. Caleb doesn't want a party this year, but I figure a little family celebration won't hurt him any.
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Christy358
Member
07-10-2007
| Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 11:10 pm
Nothing related to cleaning house, but i would think I would want carpool moms on my emergency list. How else to they get to pick up kids?
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, May 28, 2010 - 8:32 am
Happy Memorial Day weekend! We close early today at 2pm, so that is always a nice bonus. I think a small B-day celebration is in order, Wargod. I unloaded the dishwasher, cleaned up the kitchen, refilled all the water and soda bottles, got the cushions back out on the balcony and set up, and put away miscellaneous stuff is prep for my sister to clean. I did it the 15 minute timer way. I was watching a 5.5 hour tape, so after each show ended I would do 15 minutes of stuff. I forgot how much easier that is and I don't feel like I am cleaning all the time.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, May 28, 2010 - 9:29 pm
Darren reminded me earlier I am on two of the kids (Dakota's bff and her brother) cards so I could pick them up if needed. The other little girl has relatives listed on hers. Hehe, sis went to pick her girls up and the school nurse told her the oldest had been injured in the disaster and she'd had to bandage her up. Sadly, a desk fell on her pitching arm, lol. I guess she hammed it up quite a bit (she was supposed to be injured and hysterical) and she had fun doing it. She really enjoyed the part where her classmates had to carry her out to the triage area. I would say we didn't get much done today, but actually I think we did. Made a run to the store, then we backed up all the pics on the computer (that took forever,) also organized playlists on itunes so I could add more music to Caleb's ipod, and burned the album we bought for him off itunes. Then we went to my aunts for birthday cake. Caleb loved his ipod and new music. He also got jeans from us (he was oddly excited about that,) an itunes giftcard from Kota, couple model cars from my aunt, and sis and bil are refurbishing an electric guitar that belonged to my step dad that wasn't done yet. He's pretty excited about getting grandpas guitar, but was ok not getting it today because he wants a guitar stand first. Had a nice time and Kota ended up staying there to play with the girls (she just got home.) This weekend I'll be cleaning aunts and helping her with a shower and doing her laundry. Kids have a party for drama club and Caleb has to finish building his bridge for science class. Darren's got a ton of homework, but I know he's planning on doing that Sunday.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Saturday, May 29, 2010 - 12:06 pm
Sounds like the disaster was kind of fun, LOL. And the nice that you had a great birthday celebration. I have a ton of chores on my list for the weekend and next week. I am going to do some test strips of stain on my bathroom cabinets, I was pulling out the recycling that I keep under the kitchen sink and found water. That must mean that the dishwasher overflow has tripped so I have to get under there and fix that. I pulled everything out so it can dry and will put that back later. I will be doing some work on the balcony, cleaning and caulking the AC unit top. Also want to pull everything out of the hall closet and remove the awful shelf paper the prior owner put down, don't know what work that will create, then re-organize and put it back. Plus a bunch of other stuff. I made a pretty good list so we shall see how much gets done. I have been looking forward to working on the hall closet and seeing how this stain works out for the bathroom. Have a great weekend and Memorial day!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, May 29, 2010 - 10:02 pm
LOL Dipo, honestly the disaster drills are supposed to be a big, serious deal but the kids have a blast with them. Besides missing class, the teachers take books and play games with the youngest kids, the oldest kids get assigned jobs (going to help teachers with younger classes, running messages, taking parents to their kids, helping in the triage area, etc,) and then there are the kids chosen to be injured or trapped (one year Dakota was "rescued" by the fire department, she thought that was the coolest thing ever.) They do drills throughout the year, but the last one of the year is a huge affair where the fire depts and cops show up to participate (as long as they don't have calls coming in.) Kids had their drama club party today. Caleb chose not to go, he still had work to do on his science project. Dakota ended up spending the night at her bff's. Caleb finished his bridge and Darren finished the majority of his homework, then we hit the bookstore. Tomorrow I'll be at my aunts for a few hours. Oldest niece has a field trip and I told her I'd find some chores she could do to earn some money. Girls will be coming home to spend the night with me, well the oldest two, baby niece will be here a few hours and then go home. I also need to get some laundry done and make up a grocery list (though I probably won't shop til Wednesday, since that's aunts shopping day too.)
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Sunday, May 30, 2010 - 4:14 pm
well, finally it is nice up here in Northern California, LOL. I did a few chores yesterday, and ran to the store today when the cable and internet went out, man that really annoyed me. I have made some potato salad, and balanced my checkbook, made sure all the bills are paid, figured out my issues under the sink, I think. I did decide that I would keep an eye on it and see if I need a plumber next week. I have enough stuff going on this week already, and it doesn't seem to be leaking, so maybe I managed to get it fixed. Got the stain and spackle down so I am ready to start sanding in the bathroom and spackle in both the bedroom and bath room. Having a nice weekend and enjoying the start of my vacation. ETA: Oh I forgot, I am thoroughly enjoying the Drop Dead Diva Marathon!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, May 30, 2010 - 9:06 pm
Dipo, how hot did it get for you today? We went from cool and very windy (Friday was horrible but then it was also high school graduation and that day is always bad) to 90 degrees and not a breeze in sight. How long are you on vacation for?
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