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Sweetbabygirl

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 06:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
1. Resort if I could, I'd do a cartwheel....I HATE summer!!

2. Found out from my mother that my sister fell the other day, hit her head and was unconscious for a few minutes. Don't know why she fell, and her explanation doesn't add up, so I'm a bit skeeved out. Even though we've been estranged for nearly a year, I still love her and hope she's well. Between that and Ma suffering in the heat with MS, I am on edge.

3. While waiting for the bus today, I saw an elderly couple holding hands, walking down the street. The lady had on white platform-like shoes, the man wore black loafers. They stopped walking and with mile wide grins, switched shoes with each other. Then, still holding hands, they began walking up the street again. It was so cute, I almost cried on the spot...romantic stuff always gets to me.

4. Hope that cold cuts aren't on the lunch menu today, I'm tired of looking for tuna or chicken salad sandwiches that everyone seems to zoom in on before I get to them.

5. Me and my homie will spend time together tomorrow....first we will eat dinner, then see Freddy vs Jason. My friend always makes me laugh, so I look forward to a little quality time with him.

Schoolmarm

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 02:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
1. I bought a pedometer yesterday and am surprised at how many steps I've actually taken today.

2. Also got a vitamin/pill sorter and will try getting on a good health vitamin regimin.

3. I am very tired already, and school hasn't even started yet!

4. I have walked to work every day this week. It is about 1000 steps (4 blocks).

5. I do NOT want school to start.

6. Maybe I'll have a better attitude tomorrow, but I doubt it, as it looks like a whole bunch of "party-hard"-type guys just moved in across the street. SIGH!

Monkeyboy

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 06:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
1. I dont want school to start either

2. I just bought my books.

3. $427

4. #$*#&$!

5. I wish it was December already.

6. How many of these do I have to do?

7. Oh, yea 7.

Egbok

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 10:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
1. I started my Wednesday class tonight at a Community College.

2. Administration asked me to take the class in consideration of a job advancement.

3. So I'm in the class and I'm going to like it!

4. Don't like the bumper-to-bumper commute though.

5. It took me an hour and a half to get to my class after I got off work.

6. My two books for this class cost $148.00 but my employer will reinburse me....yes!

7. Luckily the instructor let us out at 8:15pm rather than 9pm.

8. I used the Tess road trip technique and drove very, very quickly to get home in time to see Big Brother!

Wargod

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 11:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
1. Classes can be fun Eggie!

2. We had flash floods here today! The one they showed on the news was out in the boonies, but I swear, I did not see even a drop of rain.

3. My oldest friend is in town (her and her family moved a year and a half ago.) Had a quick chat on the phone this evening, and realized how much I miss her.

4. She was complaining about how all her fil watches on tv is "those stupid reality shows." LOL, I almost choked on my mountain dew. Guess we haven't discussed what shows we watch in awhile.

5. I did finally tell her I was adicted to TAR, Survivor, BB, and AI...I think she did choke, lol.

6. Dakota told me today that she wanted us (me and her) to paint her room. I had to bite my tongue since her birthday gift next month is to have her room redecorated.

7. We decided to not buy her a new bed. She has two right now (they can be bunk beds or seperate and we have them seperate.) One bed will be given to my neice who needs a big girl bed, and the other will be sanded down and painted white to match the new room.

8. I'm still very excited about redecorating her room and can't wait to start.

9. I was in the middle of a list of 7 facts earlier when we had a power outage and my puter rebooted.

Ddr1135

Friday, August 22, 2003 - 06:10 am EditMoveDeleteIP
1. Figured nobody wanted to do 10 items, so I'll tackle it.
2. Have a meeting today that I don't feel like going to. It's two hours away and will only last 1 1/2 hours. Gheesh.
3. I really enjoyed yesterday's threads Right Now and What's for Lunch.
4. Still can't figure out who the culprit was that got everybody WAAAYYY off topic.
5. I'd like to thank the culprit whoever it is. That was too funny!
6. I think we have finally settled into our school routine. Son gets picked up at 7:30 by my sis-in-law (who teaches at the school) and gets dropped off around 3:30. Yahoo! I don't have to worry about that.
7. Yesterday I got bombarded with emails from the lastest worm. Took me all day to get that under control. Finally filtered everything into trash to make it easier. This morning I had 580 emails to trash.
8. We don't have much planned this weekend. Maybe I'll get around to finishing my office downstairs. I've been trying to finish that for 3 months.
9. Thinking about going to Colorado for Christmas. I've never gone out-of-town for Christmas before.
10. Don't think I'll tell my mother about the trip until the day before we leave.

Bobbie_552001

Friday, August 22, 2003 - 06:21 am EditMoveDeleteIP
1. Its Friday...and I took the day off just for me. Three day weekend ahead and I'm pumped!!

Schoolmarm

Friday, August 22, 2003 - 06:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
1. The students are moving in today, tomorrow and Sunday. I had two of my across-the-street neighbors as students and they are good guys. Now to meet the new neighbors in the rest of the student rentals!

2. I am not ready for school to start.
What else is new!

Ladytex

Friday, August 22, 2003 - 06:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
1. TGIF!!
2. Two of my kids started school this week
3. My oldest starts on Monday

Wargod

Friday, August 22, 2003 - 09:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
1. I've got another week before my kids go back. At least when they do it will be for 12 weeks.

2. I held off on taking class at the CC so hubby could take the ones he needed for a promotion at work, found out that he didn't have anymore classes and that I could have taken some this sememster but now its too late.

3. On the positive side, he only has one more task to complete before he gets the promotion.

4. I'm going to be a mean mom and kick the kids and dogs outside this morning. It's a nice day, not too hot, and they need to run or something.

Not1worry

Friday, August 22, 2003 - 10:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
1. Yay! It's Friday!

2. I am definitely going to learn as much as or more than my kids this year in school. I think I should be ready for Jeopardy by the time we get to 4th grade or so.

3. Now that TAR4 is over, the only thing left I want to watch is Monk. I did see a promo for the next Survivor. Sigh....I just don't know about that.

4. My husband called this morning! I wasn't expecting a call for a few more weeks. He sounded so good. 7 days down, only 173 or so more to go.

Not1worry

Friday, August 22, 2003 - 10:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
5. Oops, I forgot to post #5.

Froggiegirl621

Friday, August 22, 2003 - 12:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
1. Haven't posted in this thread (or any other for that matter) in quite a while.

2. The BF got home on the 15th from his two-week business trip to Canada.

3. We had a nice week together.

4. Got news this morning that he'll be leaving again on Sunday to go to Virgina for a week.

5. Needless to say, I'm a bit peeved!

6. We're moving in about a month and I'm starting to think I may have to do it all on my own!

Monkeyboy

Friday, August 22, 2003 - 03:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
1. I start school on Tuesday.

2. My school day starts at 7:30 and ends at 5:30...I should have thought it through.

3. Im sad this is my last week of summer :(

4. I cant wait till December.

5. I wish I chose to stay at the dorms this semester, instead I decided to be greedy.

6. I want food.

7. I have to work tonight, again!

Teatime

Friday, August 22, 2003 - 04:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
1. Hugs to all heading back to classes.

2. I have lots of college student co-workers, so today was wild and crazy and bittersweet as it was the last day of work for many of them.

3. I have lots more mentally-challenged co-workers. On last break today they were given brownies and chocolate cookies washed down with Pepsi. The busses to take them home were late, so another round of chocolate was served.

4. Whoever's in charge of client snacks should be shot. I hope nobody got sick. With that many people, there's gotta be a diabetic or twelve in there.

5. I'll find someone to talk to Monday on that one. Until then...

6. TGIF!!!

7. Tomorrow I meet some TVCHer's. TGIS!!!

8. I see my neighbors outside, so I'm going out to say hellooooo

Spitfire

Monday, August 25, 2003 - 12:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
1. This thread is looking a little neglected and so I thought I would give it a bump.

2. I really enjoy hearing everyone's daily facts...so bring it on.

3. This is the first day in 1 1/2 weeks that we have turned on our lights and air conditioner at work due to the hydro loss.

4. I actually enjoyed it here in the dark. It was very peacefull.

5. Monkeyboy, I am also sad summer is almost over.

6. I wish that I could take another vacation and spend some more time on the beach.

7. I am still living with the in-laws (blahhhk)and our house building is coming along.

8. I am praying for the day when we can move in. Then I can have my life and husband back.

9. I want to go home now.

Wargod

Monday, August 25, 2003 - 01:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
1. For anyone not in chat Saturday night, I have a story to tell.

2. I was driving to my sisters house when the drive shaft fell off my car. Now, I looked back, and all I saw was a cloud of smoke, no parts, so had no clue what was going on.

3. Turned into the parking lot and the car pretty much died. As I was pushing it, two kids walked up (couldn't have been more than 14-15, and skinny as could be) but helped to push it. Along with a man who had let me into his lane to get into the parking lot.

4. I realized I had left my cell phone and wallet sitting on the bookshelf. So I ran into the barber shop where I take Caleb every six weeks to get his hair cut. Asked if I could use the phone (after the woman mentioned that it wasn't time for Caleb to get his hair cut!) that my car had broke down and I didn't have my cell with me. She told me the phone was for customers.

5. So I remember the last time I cleaned out the car, that I had found a couple bucks in change in the seats. So I start digging and come up with 52 cents (takes 50 for a pay phone now!) but 12 cents was in pennies.

6. I go into my favorite bookstore, and ask the clerk if I could trade the pennies for a dime. He can't open the register, but he'll let me use the phone. After two unsucseful attempts, I'm ready to give up, but he goes back and gets change from his locker. Won't take my pennies, and he's trying to give me an extra fifty cents just in case.

7. Finally got ahold of mom to pick me up and take me home. Darren goes over to check out the car and comes back saying "uhm, where exactly did this happen?" I say, "well, driving down the street, you know as you pass Mcdonalds there, it sounded like something fell off the car." He says, "something did."

8. We go back over, and sure enough, theres the drive shaft laying in the gutter. Pick it up, bring it home, and one of Darren's buddies goes with him to tow the bucket home.

9. This morning, I wrote two letters to be mailed today. One to the barber shop explaining why after about 5 and a half years, I won't be coming back, but more important to me, one to the bookstore thanking them for employing such nice and helpful people. Wish I knew who those two skinny kids were, who looked at my 77 lincoln and didn't run in fear, so I could thank their parents for having such good kids!

10. Moral of the story: actually there's several. If hubby says car will be ok for awhile, he means 10 minutes. If driving the bucket, take the cell phone and plenty of change! If it sounds like something falls off your car, it probably did! Go back and look for it or your family will forever laugh at you for not noticing where a 6 foot drive shaft managed to go.

Sage

Monday, August 25, 2003 - 02:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
1. I totally enjoyed your post War! I want to know what you hear from the barber shop, if anything.

Ddr1135

Monday, August 25, 2003 - 05:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
1. War, glad to hear you wrote that letter to the babershop! Duh.....you ARE a customer! (or were.)
2. Maybe write a letter to the local newspaper's Letter to the Editor, thanking the boys who helped you.

Yankee_In_Ca

Monday, August 25, 2003 - 07:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
1. I agree with the suggestion by DDR1135. Wargod, how disheartening to hear that a business you frequented wouldn't be decent enough to help -- but also how heartening to hear that you did find decent strangers who were willing to help you.

2. I really really hope it rains in the Pacific NW soon, so the brave firefighters fighting the hundreds of forest fires can get a little help. Man, is it scary. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for everyone affected.

3. I got a job offer today in my most favorite place in the world, but I don't think I can take it. But it's good to dream...

Egbok

Monday, August 25, 2003 - 09:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
(Good for you War, go get 'em!! And Yankee, what's stopping you on #3?)

1. The EgFamFive just got home from a late dinner at Marie Callender's. It's our last supper before all the kidlets leave for college.

2. DS #1 leaves from LAX at 6am and heads East.

3. DS #2 leaves at 3pm with Egbob for the hour plus ride to his new college dorm room.

4. DD is homeless right now, but she is being allowed to stay until after Labor Day and then that's it...she's outta here to begin apartment living as a Grad student...Woo Hoo!!

Redstar

Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - 09:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
1. Poor War! But I gotta say I laughed and enjoyed the post.

2. I am so EXHAUSTED today. I haven't been sleeping well the last couple of weeks, and I've run into a lot of folks having the same problem. Maybe it's this endless hot weather and no rain.

3. I have a meeting at 2:00, and I'm going to have to sit by someone I trust to poke me if I start to nod off.

4. The paperwork is impossible to do today. I keep falling asleep with the pen in my hand and jolt awake to find that I've made strange and wonderful abstract art on the student records!

5. Even playing Irish dance music is not keeping me alert today.

6. I'm so proud of all you non-traditional students! I work with adult students, and I know what it takes to go back to school when you have a career and family. You all totally ROCK!

Redstar

Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - 09:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Dang it! I did one too many! Guess I shouldn't sleep and type at the same time.

Squaredsc

Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - 06:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
1. warning this may be a lil long

2. i just returned a call from the lady's insurance co and gave a recorded statement of what happened

3. luckily they didn't ask me any technical questions like

4. since i had never been in an accident before i asked them what the proper protocal was

5. she said that they give me a list of mechanics for pictures and an estimate to be done which they then send to the insurance company

6. then the insurance company will either approve or disapprove, and if approved i can get the repairs done at that mechanic; 2 seem promising as far as not being too far away

6 1/2. so now i need to get the exact locations and drop the car off and then see what happens

7. ok not as long as i thought.

Mak1

Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - 07:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Squared, just a word of caution. Her insurance company is working for her. Things may be very straightforward and easy, but be sure to call your own agent if you have any concerns or questions.