Archive through April 21, 2001

The ClubHouse: Archives: Your day..: Archive through April 21, 2001

Twiggyish

Friday, April 20, 2001 - 05:59 am Click here to edit this post
Have you had an interesting day? How about letting us know..

Yesterday, I watched an online soap opera..LOL

Moondance

Friday, April 20, 2001 - 03:22 pm Click here to edit this post
I just got home.. long day but great work!:)

Max

Friday, April 20, 2001 - 03:28 pm Click here to edit this post
I got a very nice "gift" from a new employee today before he left early for the weekend. He came in my office and thanked me for being the best boss he'd ever had. Made me blush, but made me feel pretty good, too. He's only been working for me for about 3 weeks and he's doing great stuff, so I told him the admiration was mutual.

Little things like that are really nice. When I left the office, a pair of Canadian geese flew overhead honking all the way. That was grand. I just love seeing and hearing those birds!

Moondance

Friday, April 20, 2001 - 03:34 pm Click here to edit this post
That's sound like a great day Max... appreciation is wonderful!

Twiggyish

Friday, April 20, 2001 - 04:33 pm Click here to edit this post
It sure is!

Gail

Friday, April 20, 2001 - 04:58 pm Click here to edit this post
My day was great! I just finished my first week in a new job. No regrets at changing jobs and I have a lot of freedom to enjoy myself. I am still feeling "new" but that should hopefully disappear next week. Where I am at now doesn't even compare to where I was working last week. The jobs were very nearly the same but the new job has a much lighter atmostphere. No conflicts, no red tape, and a great place for a person with lots of ideas.

Max

Friday, April 20, 2001 - 05:00 pm Click here to edit this post
Glad to hear that, Gail! Changing jobs under the circumstances you had is never fun. Nice to see it working out so well. :)

Egbok77

Friday, April 20, 2001 - 05:49 pm Click here to edit this post
I had a nice day too. I have a job and a boss that I enjoy spending the majority of my day with. But today I left work early to go watch my two sons run in a high school track meet. I appreciated the overcast skies, the traffic noise on Western Avenue and most of all watching my boys run. Actually, I enjoyed watching all these young men and women doing their stuff at the track meet. So, yeah, I had a really nice day!!

Moondance

Friday, April 20, 2001 - 05:57 pm Click here to edit this post
Gail ... so you started... VERY cool... I am glad it is everything you hoped, you made some sacrifices for it as you said in another post. I know this will be GREAT for you!

Egbok77... I love to watch track ... athletics ... it's an art... how great to see your sons do it!

Willi

Friday, April 20, 2001 - 06:16 pm Click here to edit this post
Max & Moon...Glad your days went well!

Gail...I'm very happy to hear that your new job is a healthier place to be!

Egbok...Sounds awesome. :)

My day was kind of funny...Nothing I had planned worked out...But some nice surprises thrown in & I made a darn good jello recipe which I posted in the Recipes area (shameless plug...I know).

I think making a jello masterpiece & thoroughly enjoying it qualifies as a very simple pleasure indeed.

Willi

Friday, April 20, 2001 - 06:21 pm Click here to edit this post
I'm really not as geeky as I sound.
It's just that EVERY year for nearly fourteen years now, my mother-in-law (self-proclaimed jello queen) makes a fabulous concoction of jello & fruit & heaven knows what else & every year I try to make something that altleast isn't jello soup but I never got it right until last Saturday! So, I'm a tad excited. Just a tad...

Moondance

Friday, April 20, 2001 - 06:26 pm Click here to edit this post
You are the cutiest Willi! a little 'tarty too' like your jello!

Willi

Friday, April 20, 2001 - 06:36 pm Click here to edit this post
I am a tart.

:)

Zeb

Friday, April 20, 2001 - 07:14 pm Click here to edit this post
I am a $#!^head.

(inside joke)

Bamagirl

Friday, April 20, 2001 - 07:31 pm Click here to edit this post
I remember that joke... LOL

Tess

Friday, April 20, 2001 - 07:56 pm Click here to edit this post
Sounds like you all had a great day. Gail, I'm glad your new job is going so well.

I had a very normal Friday. Slept in and then picked Sweetie Cakes up from pre-school. We met a group of at least 50 high school kids from Manitoba at the mall in our town. They were great kids. We must be in some sort of Minnesota/Canada exchange program this week. Ours were up in Winnepeg the last 3 days. Well, not all of our kids but a bunch of them--band students. My little angel napped all afternoon which she almost never does and then we played pretend hotel pool and colored til dinner time. Nothing as exciting as the glamorous jobs some people have but it was a good day for us. It finally hit 71 degrees and we got to go outside. (first time in 170 days since the last 70 degrees) It was a very good day for us.

Grod

Friday, April 20, 2001 - 08:58 pm Click here to edit this post
I had a good day also. I am a strategic investment consultant, which really means I am an online daytrader on the stock market for other people.
Risky but today was profitable.

Zeb

Saturday, April 21, 2001 - 12:06 am Click here to edit this post
So, Tess and Grod, how did you each find the TVCH?

Tess, is Sweatie Cakes the nickname for your daughter or is that her real first and middle name? I know a girl whose middle name is Starshine but that's because her parents grew up in the 60s.

Tess

Saturday, April 21, 2001 - 01:44 am Click here to edit this post
Well, Zeb, second question first. Sweetie Cakes is the nickname for my 4 year old daughter. It was first used by the college student who is also living with us. College student's parents are very good friends of ours who had to relocate to the east coast because of a job transfer. So, I am temporary mom to a 22- year old as well. Sweetie Cakes has an American name as well as the Korean name Seung Hee which means Victorious and Happy. Bit of trivia there for you, Zeb, in the middle of the night. By the way, we use her American name most of the time.

Now, back to the first question. I don't recall where I found the link to TVCH. Back in the Big Brother days I had very unexpected major surgery. Combining the recovery with my other health difficulties kept me bedridden for several months. I watched Big Brother on tv religiously and at first that was it. Eventually, I logged on to the official Big Brother web site. Then I started searching the web for other sites to get more info...mostly because I couldn't do much else besides sleep and read at the time. I had found Joker's site for the live feed updates and read those everyday since I still hadn't figured out how to view the live feeds on my ibook. My husband showed me how to get the live feeds the last 2 weeks of BB. I remembered a banner from BBFC and I had seen a link to BBFC on one of the sites (I honestly don't remember which and I don't have any of them saved any longer). I found BBFC and started reading all the BB live feeds. When I caught up there I started on the BB discussions. When done with that I moved on to some of the general discussions. By then it was 2001 and I still haven't read everything. I had wanted to become a member last winter but my husband said it wasn't necessary since I didn't need to be a member to read the stuff I was interested in. I'm not very internet literate so I thought, well--okay. I finally decided April 12, which was my birthday, that I would give myself a present and become a member. Why? I really didn't want TVCH to go away. So, there you go. More than you ever wanted to know, I'm sure, but it's late and we're the only ones up I see. Or maybe I'm the only one up. That's normal at my house.

Grod

Saturday, April 21, 2001 - 06:45 am Click here to edit this post
Zeb, I am a Survivor addict, and have links to all the sites. If I remember correctly, I saw a link to this website when Survivor2 began, I think at either at
survivorsucks or the official cbs site message boards. Out of curiosity I linked to here.

Zeb, I don't know who Tess is, or anyone here, I just thought it was someone who changed their name because they seemed more familiar with people and more adept at making their way around this website than I am.

I thought maybe there is something I am doing wrong. The first post I did took me over a half hour to figure out how to post. My limited typing skills. Then again, with work, I don't get too much time to read and post lots. The Survivor sites are my "coffee breaks" (laughing)

Nancy091158

Saturday, April 21, 2001 - 07:57 am Click here to edit this post
umm i saw the queen today LOL ;-)

Egbok77

Saturday, April 21, 2001 - 09:05 am Click here to edit this post
Moon, Willi & Tess ~ thanks for acknowledging my day, it was very nice of you.

Willi ~ I'm a jello maker/creater failure all of the time!! But at least I don't have a mother-in-law who is a "Jello Queen", thank goodness. I'll be looking into your receipe and maybe even try it out because heaven knows, I need to have some success in jello creating once in my life!!

Zeb

Saturday, April 21, 2001 - 09:24 am Click here to edit this post
Pardon, Tess, I had flying fingers. I meant Sweetie Cakes. My bad.

Tess

Saturday, April 21, 2001 - 12:16 pm Click here to edit this post
LOL, Zeb, she usually is a little "Sweatie" Cakes instead of Sweetie. I don't know what it is but ever since she was a baby she is always so hot her hair is dripping wet and she runs around in short and a t-shirt even in the dead of winter here in Minnesota. I just couldn't figure out how you would know that. Gave me a good chuckle, though.

Tess

Saturday, April 21, 2001 - 12:31 pm Click here to edit this post
Grod, if I have one more person say they think I changed my name from being a long-time poster I'm going to run screaming into the sunset never to be heard from again. You have no idea how much that hurts. I wish all the people who have hinted, inferred or come right out and said to my face, so to speak, that they think I am someone else would also come right out and say who they think that someone is. I have offered twice now to send proof that I am who I say I am and no one has stepped forward to say what they want. Can no one accept that a person can just be a nice person and quick to learn? I am college educated and yes, even went to grad school. Just because I don't hold down an important job any longer due to my health and the fact that I want to be home for my child doesn't mean I don't have a quick mind. I also am blessed with a husband who is a physicist and who programs super computers for a living. He can unravel any computer mess I can create.

My best assest is that I can read directions and I am not afraid to ask questions if I don't know how to do something. That is the only way to learn. There are still a lot of things I don't know how to do. Some I don't care about and some will come with time. Paitience is a virtue.

Would it have helped if for my day yesterday I also told you that I met with an arborist about removing problem trees in our yard, I spent time on the phone with our insurance company since one of the construction vehicles collapsed our driveway and we need to replace the whole thing. Then I spent a couple of hours finding a driveway construction company to come an give estimates for the insurance. I also worked with our lawn service since another construction vehicle put a big trench in our lawn, again from the weight of the vehicle. I could go on but you get the drift. And still, it was a very good day. Today, I'm not so sure about.