Archive through December 26, 2002
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Jbean | Monday, December 23, 2002 - 08:35 am     1. i just read spy's tribute to her puppy jessie, and i cried and cried. hugs to you ((((spy)))), i know you have to be hurting. 2. last night chat was a blast, even if it was hard to keep up at times. 3. we have a "winter storm warning" in effect for the next 3 days, snow expected to start around 4 this afternoon. 4. looks like it may be a white christmas after all. 5. we have had weather in the upper 50's/lower 60's for about the last 2 weeks. 6. as whacked as some of my family is, i am almost positive there is no drug use. 7. it seems like i always get a big number on this thread. 8. today i am taking a christmas gift to a friend. 9. this is going to sound really mean, but i hope her children aren't there. these are the 2 brattiest children i have ever been around. she disciplines them and they still don't mind her! 10. this is one of the many reasons that i don't want any children of my own. 11. cats work just fine for me. 12. i got my picture taken with santa this year...lol. 13. after my b-day yesterday, i don't feel any older. i didn't really expect to though. 14. i am thinking about taking in a second-run theater movie today. 15. i think my facts are pretty random today. 16. whew, finally to #16, i hope no one has beat me...lol |
Spygirl | Monday, December 23, 2002 - 08:55 am     1. I can't say how much I appreciate this place and the people who have offered their hugs and condolences to me in chat, in my personal folder, and in the Rainbow Bridge thread on our loss of Jessie. 2. Saturday night I was able to meet with a group of girlfriends from high school. 3. While it was a great visit, I just can't believe how long mothers can talk about their children, their pregnancies, and their funny stories! LOL. There were two of us there without children, but the other one just got married and wants children this next year. <sigh> I'm pretty sure I tuned out for about 25 minutes of the terrible pregnancy stories. And people wonder why I question having children 50% of the time. 4. I have no prospects for dates these days, but I hope that wherever I move this next year will be where the mystery man is waiting on me. 5. I am very excited about tonight because a BUNCH of my sorority sisters are getting together for the first time in several years. We've never been all together in this large of a group since the reunion we had in 1997. 6. I can't wait to see what they say about my weight loss (hehe). I just saw several of them in June at my best friend's wedding and that was 54 pounds ago. My best friend can't make it though because her and her new hubby are closing on their newly built house today and moving in. 7. I am staying with my parents until sometime after Christmas. I was planning to leave the 26th, but that was because Jessie had an appointment at the vet in Louisiana, but now we will not need that appointment. 8. My dad was an absolute wonder yesterday when we had to take Jessie into the vet's office here. He was so sweet and understanding when I sobbed and sobbed. Usually, he has a short fuse with emotion, but I suspect he felt the same as I did but had to be strong for me. 9. My brother and his wife of one month today (!!) will not be coming to Texas for Christmas. They will be terribly missed. 10. This is my grandmother's 85th Christmas. I marvel at her strength and tenacity. 11. In case you can't tell from this post, I'm pretty emotional lately 12. I very much enjoyed being in chat last night. It was fun to have everyone chat with me in my bed (hahahaha), and it was exactly what I needed. 13. There is a possibility we will get snow today. It has been raining and raining and raining since sometime overnight and I pray it does not drop below freezing and start icing over. If it does, we've had so much rain, we'd be in big trouble. 14. I found a heavenly scent from Bath and Body Works called "Warm Vanilla Sugar". They had a sale last week and I bought virtually everything in that scent and only spent $33. If they still have that sale, I recommend all B&BW fans get their butts down there and buy! 15. I still need to buy another gift for my dad sometime today or tomorrow. I can't figure out what to get him because he is so hard to buy for. 16. I realized that my facts are way too long! lol 17. I'm getting more and more excited about the job prospects that I have. I feel that 2003 will be an exciting year for me full of changes  |
Squaredsc | Monday, December 23, 2002 - 10:47 am     1. im bored, i have nothing to do, and i hate it, so this may get a little long winded. 2. d.h. and i did our xmas shopping this weekend. 3. got all the gifts that are needed, now need to do the grocery shopping for xmas dinner which is at our house this year. 4. we have a small family on my mothers side, so its usually me, d.h., our kids, mother, step-father(they are not married but have been together forever they might as well be), aunt, 2nd aunt/uncle, uncle/aunt, cousin/girlfriend. 5. my mother and 2 aunts are deathly afraid of cats. 6. we now have a cat, and they have threatened not to come to my house anymore and think thats why we have the cat. lol. 7. i told them that the cat would be in the basement. 8. anyhoo, d.h. decided to repaper the bathroom that's off the livingroom, on sunday nite. 9. being the dutiful wife that i am i of course helped. 10. but it didn't help that the bathroom is like 4x8. 11. the old paper came off very easily, too easily, which meant we had problems putting up the new paper. 12. the wall in one corner has bowed. the ceiling wasn't straight and even. he** we are lucky any of the paper got on the wall cause parts would end up not getting wet and i had to sponge these areas with d.h. standing on the toilet holding the paper up. 13. i got smacked in the face with wet wallpaper more times than were necessary. 14. we also couldn't take down this huge mirror thats over the sink w/o shattering it, so we are working around it. or should i say d.h. is working around it. 15. i stopped working on the bathroom and joined the xmas chat. it was alot of fun and time flies by. 16. d.h. has now decided that i need a support group. he doesn't realize that this is my support group. 17. i wish i had more vacation time 'cause then i wouldn't come to work at all this week. 18. the cr marathon is on tomorrow and im afraid im going to miss laurence in his kilt. i will just die if that happens. i saw the last 20 mins of that episode yesterday but i need to see it from the beginning. again and again and again. 19. i wish i had family that lived in another state, it would give me someplace to go. no one has moved anywhere, oh except for my father who is in delaware. |
Resortgirl | Monday, December 23, 2002 - 01:30 pm     {{{{ square}}}}} 1. I put up wallpaper in our bedroom once, hubby said it would take 3 hours, 9 hours later we went to the kitchen to have a much deserved beer... we heard some weird scratching noises, ignored it... drank another beer, when we went to look at our beautiful new wallpaper, half of it was scratched down by our cats... we had cat soup for supper that night... Just kidding! About the cat soup! |
Bob2112 | Monday, December 23, 2002 - 01:37 pm     1. I spell my name backwards in my TCVH username. 2. The number is also backwards. |
Schoolmarm | Monday, December 23, 2002 - 02:06 pm     1. I have been at work all day. I had to have public safety unlock my building so my students could get in. Go figure...I think that there are only about 10 people at the whole university working today, and I have seen most of them! 2. I agree with Spy that 2003 will hold great and exciting things for me...and for many other people. 3. I also agree with Spy in the "date" department. I don't have any prospects here, except for that wonderful guy I was hiding from in the mall. I truly will have to move to have a decent date. |
Denecee | Monday, December 23, 2002 - 02:18 pm     1. I have only posted once on this thread, this makes twice. 2. My teenagers cleaned our house today for me while I'm at work. 3. I have about 28 presents to wrap. 4. I took too long reading the other posts, so had to edit. |
Kaili | Monday, December 23, 2002 - 02:28 pm     1. I think Bob is silly. 2. I have yet to Christmas shop but I won't be celebrating until New Years anyway. 3. Applying for teaching licenses is a pain in the butt. 4. Applying for passports is much much easier. 5. My mom is taking me to Ireland for a graduation present and that is why I have to do all this. |
Moondance | Monday, December 23, 2002 - 02:30 pm     1. I tried to e-mail SquareBear today but it got returned 2. I love having a fireplace! 3. Another client ask if I would work on Christmas... I said no but now having second thoughts 4. I popped into chat last night for a few minutes... first time in over a year 5. I went because there were promises that MusicMan was naked 6. Uh oh too slow ... Sundance is dreaming and making really cute kitty noises. |
Weinermr | Monday, December 23, 2002 - 02:41 pm      |
Squaredsc | Monday, December 23, 2002 - 06:11 pm     1. im so happy 'cause i got moonie's email. 2. i also got one from theowl. 3. d.h. and i just got back from popeyes and burger king for dinner. 4. he also plans on finishing the wallpapering tonight. 5. im also trying to finish my xmas msgs in the folders. 6. who knew that i know so many people here. 7. and i wouldn't have it any other way.  |
Kaili | Monday, December 23, 2002 - 06:59 pm     1. I got one of Squared's cute Christmas messages in the brand new folder Whit made for me 2. It was a nice thing to come home to after a hectic day. 3. I'm annoyed with my boss because he won't tell me if I can have off work next Monday to be able to drive to my mom's for New Years (when we will be having our Christmas). 4. I think he has already decided whether or not I can but just won't tell me yet. He likes to watch people squirm. 5. My graduation was so boring that I missed the whole thing by focusing my attention on anything but the commencement speakers. 6. But my wonderful mom got us tickets to go to Ireland as a graduation gift (and my cousin and aunt are coming too). 7. I wish I had a job lined up already but there aren't many out there for Social Studies. 8. I wrote two cover letters and revised my resume today and I'm pretty happy with them. |
Schoolmarm | Tuesday, December 24, 2002 - 08:56 am     1. I have a sinus headache today BLECH!!! 2. I am trying to get motivated to apply for tenure before I leave to play for church tonight. 3. I am not packed for the trip to visit my family in Illinois. I think I will take dirty clothes and do laundy there! 4. I realize that #3 makes me sound like a college STUDENT instead of a college PROFESSOR! 5. I agree with Kaili that job hunting is the pits! BUT we must do it, and she WILL land a job soon....please get on the subsitute teacher list, Kaili! Many districts are very short handed. You can make about $100 a day subbing (maybe as little as $70 or as much as $125). It also gets your foot in the door. 6. I was a substitute teacher for 2 1/2 years. 1 and 1/2 years in three "semester long" jobs replaceing teachers on leave, and one year after I moved to a new city and was checking out school districts while finishing my masters' degree. I am VERY good at classroom management because of this, and I wouldn't have traded this experience for anything! 7. I think that college graduation ceremonies are quite boring, and I have sat through MANY of them. Sometimes two in one semester. Last spring, however, we had an alum who works for MTV as the speaker and it was awesome. He recorded clips of famous people wishing our grads well. 8. My favorite was a clip of Jerry Springer saying "May you NEVER be on my show"! 9. I have lost my motivation....has anyone found it? Ok, I'm going to search for my motivation now. I today I only need to: apply for tenure, play for church, pack, pack the car, maybe wrap presents, but that could wait, and hit the ATM machine. OK, that doesn't sound so bad.... Merry Christmas to everyone!!! And Happy New Year to everyone!!! |
Nimtu | Tuesday, December 24, 2002 - 01:48 pm     1. I am hoping that my motivation is near Marms and that she finds hers and sends me mine cause I don't even have the motivation to look for my motivation. 2. Typing that tired me out. 3. It also confused me. 4. It may have confused you too. 5. I ordered a dress for my daughter to wear tonight, it was shipped on the 18th and did not arrive. 6. I had to give her mine to wear and now I have nothing nice to wear to our Christmas celebration tonight. 7. I hope everybody here has a wonderful Christmas. 8. I have four hours to cook five dishes for tonight and have not started one. 9. Don't ask what I have accomplished thusfar today cause I couldn't tell you a thing. 10. I hope that nobody beat me to 10. |
Jbean | Wednesday, December 25, 2002 - 06:16 pm     1. i think this is the longest that nobody has posted at this thread. 2. i have had a WONDERFUL Christmas. even the granparent's visit went well. 3. i don't want to go back to work tomorrow. these 6 days off have FLOWN by! but at least it is just a 2 day work week. 4. i didn't even get to watch a whole movie of "you''ll shoot your eye out" today. haven't watched christmas vacation yet either...maybe i will tonight. 5. thinking about going back to work is making me tired...lol. 6. my kitty loved her stocking stuffer presents. she drug off one of the toy mice and alread lost it. 7. the refrigerator has so many hidden cat treasures underneath it....milk lid rings, probably all the other toy mice, etc. unfortuanely i don't have enough motivation (or strength, at this point) to move it. 8. i bought a winter hat to wear yesterday, this is the longest i have let my hair grow in years, and i don't look like a boy with a hat on anymore...lol. 9. i wish i was off work tomorrow so i could go shopping and find all the great after christmas sales (i LOVE to shop) 10. i am curious to see how much weight i have gained from eating so much junk food for the last several days. 11. i hope we don't get any more freakin' snow for awhile. I hope EVERYONE had a WONDERFUL Christmas! |
Mygetaway | Wednesday, December 25, 2002 - 07:36 pm     1. I'll post a couple facts because I don't want this thread to die out yet. 2. I think we need to reach 1000 posts first. 3. I think everybody needs to post this week so we can reach that goal. 4. I won't be shopping tomorrow. (Maybe some online shopping tho) 5. I'm kind of glad it's all over now. It doesn't seem as fun when you don't have little kids. 6. We never did decorate the house. 7. My MIL bought us a big prime rib for Christmas Eve dinner. 8. It's the first time I've ever had that for Christmas. 9. We ALWAYS have ham. 10. Turkey for Thanksgiving, Ham for Christmas.. For all my life it seems...LOL 11. One more Holiday and we get to start all over again. Woo-hoo. 12. My stepson spilled candle wax all over my keyboard, and I had a near meltdown, but it seems to be working ok now after I painstakingly (?) cleaned it. |
Myjohnhenry | Wednesday, December 25, 2002 - 09:21 pm     1. We had grilled burgers, fries and home made milkshakes for Christmas Eve dinner instead of the traditional seafood dinner at the request of the resident teens. 2. We had prime rib for Christmas dinner 3. I love old movies and musicals 4. I love having a fire in the fireplace 5. One of my students mother was my college roommate for 3 years and we hadn't seen or been in touch with each other for about 20 years 6. I collect angels 7. My sister says she won't clean my house if I die first 8. I also have collections of tins (mostly candy and crayola ones) and glasses 9. My dad had each of us pick something to collect to help him avoid souvenir shops and to pick things up for us when he travelled 10. I collect spoons, more than half of them are from places my dad or I have been and the rest are mostly antiques. 11. I love to go to thrift shops and antique stores 12. I went on a cruise by myself once after spending a year convincing myself to do it and it was the best trip I ever took 13. I love to travel |
Sia | Wednesday, December 25, 2002 - 10:58 pm     1. We had our big dinner on Christmas Eve, and it was just DH, our two very young children and myself. It was really nice and we used CLOTH napkins!! 2. Birthday cake was served after our ham dinner. 3. Today we just sort of "pieced" and had leftover ham, which was, of course, delicious. Ham and egg sandwiches were our brunch today. 4. My m-i-l came for coffee and brunch and watched our kids open their gifts. 5. We had crab salad, spinach salad, cheese ball, more ham, potato rolls and mashed potatoes for dinner tonight. 6. My folks came this evening for coffee and cake, cookies, blackberry brandy and assorted sweets. We exchanged our gifts with them. 7. I got several nice surprises for Christmas gifts this year. I'm quite pleased. 8. My kids forgot to leave a note for Santa beside the plate of cookies and milk glass, so Santa didn't write a note to the kids. 9. They didn't mind, and they didn't notice that Santa's handwriting on the gift tags is exactly like mine. 10. I told the kids last night that I'd leave the gift-wrap, tags, tape and scissors out for Santa in case he and his elves needed to wrap any presents they'd brought with them. (It works!) 11. My best friend's explanation to her daughter for Santa's wrapping paper being the same as theirs used to be that Santa shopped where she shops whenever he runs low on supplies. 12. Santa is real for anyone who believes. 13. This is what I told my son the other day when he came home from school in tears because some girls in his Kindergarten class told him that they were elves and that their parents are Santa and Mrs. Claus. 14. And... (inspired by Mjh) I love old movies and antiques, like musicals, have never been on a cruise--though I used to like to travel-- and I NEVER PAY RETAIL. Thrift shops and secondhand stores are always on my list. |
Kady | Wednesday, December 25, 2002 - 11:27 pm     1. I love this thread and have read every post in it. 2. I think everyone is now posting their Christmas stories in fact style. 3. I had a stress free holiday. 4. That means I avoided family members like the plague. 5. Hubby, son and I went and ate at Chile's Christmas Eve. 6. We drove around and looked at the beautiful lights. 7. After returning home we let our son open his presents. 8. He has been enjoying his new game cube games. 9. His favorite gift was a cordless controller that works up to 20 feet away. 10. He can now lie in bed under the covers and play. 11. He is the picture of laziness. 12. I don't know where he got it from. 13. Today I cooked a Butterball boneless breast of turkey for sandwiches. 14. I overdosed on episodes of Trading Spaces today. 15. Tomorrow we plan on going to ToysR'Us and spending his Christmas cash from Grandma. I hope everyone had a great day in their own special and unique way.  |
Whit4you | Thursday, December 26, 2002 - 04:54 am     1) I think I'm running out of facts to share lol 2) My best XMas as a kid was probably at age 10 3) Best XMas season was probably '93 4) My fav holiday was usually 4th of July 5) Someday I'll have to share the 4th of July from he** story with ya'all lol. 6) Years ago I could watch 4+ hours of CNN news a day 7) Now I get irritated with the news within the first 20 minutes most the time. 8) I just want to scream when I hear these statistics 1 in X rapes are reported... grrr that's the most blatantly idiotic statistic I've ever heard. 9) I was absolutely fascinated with the '64 box' of crayola crayons as a kid. 10) We had two huge prize winning bulls on our ranch, Black and Whitey... I was scared of those bulls!!! 11) Our garden was at least half the size of a football field... 12) I absoutely loved eating the raw baby peas - snapping open the pods and eating those little pease... I could do it all day lol. 13) I'm strange I guess, but I also LOVE 'snapping' green beans, I could do it for entertainment really.. or for relaxation. I've never tired of snapping green beans even when we had barrels to do 14) Half of our garden, half the size of a football field was of Potatos. And I just LOVED harvesting the potatoes.. you get a thrill when there are tons of little baby potatoes (Well *I* did sooo? LOL) 15) I was obsessive/compulsive about my handwritting when I was a preeteen-teen.. if I made one single letter mistake on something I was writting - I'd rewrite the entire page. 16) Some pages - I rewrote a dozen times till it was perfect (the handwritting) |
Resortgirl | Thursday, December 26, 2002 - 05:54 am     1.We didn't win the powerball! 2. My friends will be sad because I promised to give them each $2mill 3. I had a great Christmas! 4. Ate too much 5. The kids, hubby and parents all loved their gifts from me. 6. I loved one in particular 7. A three diamond necklace from hubby 8. I must've been really good 9. I dreamed Suzy was alive last night, she hadn't called because she thought I was mad at her for not letting me drive her home that night. 10. I wish it were true, that would be MUCH better then any lottery. 11. I'm hosting a New Years Eve party here. I have lots of cooking to do... AGAIN! 12. I like it when people come to my house. 13. I think we'll play the new game we got, "Cranium" 14.I'm going to be sad when it's time to take the tree down 16. I'm going to leave my winter village up, maybe ALL year! 17. I got, "Windsor Pilates" an exercise DVD and I plan to start this morning... need to get rid of the xmas cookies on my hips! |
Sukii1 | Thursday, December 26, 2002 - 06:59 am     1. My 4 year old woke us up at 3 am Christmas morning to open presents 2. I sent her back to bed 3. She came back at 6:30 am and we got up 4. We had a wonderful Christmas morning here at the house 5. Lunch and Christmas at my parents' house was strained and awkward 6. My mother has a bug up her butt about something that happened in September and refuses to get over it 7. My sister and I have decided our mom will just have to deal with it, there's nothing more we can do 8. I got a Paraffin wax spa for hands/feet and I'm so excited to use it! 9. I also got a remote start and a new CD stereo for my Blazer! 10. I'm hoping the New Year brings a more peaceful and safe year than this one was 11. We close on the refinancing for our house today 12. I had lemon meringue pie at my moms and I think she dumped some Ex-lax in it 13. I will never eat lemon meringue pie again 14. My kitties have lost half their Christmas toys like jbean's did 15. I'll bet they're under my fridge too 16. I'm afraid to look under the fridge 17. The dust bunny population is probably overwhelming to say the least 18. I need to reorganize dd's room now, it looks like ToysRUs exploded in there |
Marysafan | Thursday, December 26, 2002 - 07:05 am     1. I am up and trying to recover form the holiday. 2. I am not ready to go back to work...maybe this afternoon. 3. I got some really nice gifts, but like the notes I got from my daughters the best. 4. I got a snow globe with a hand drawn picture in it from my 7 year old granddaughter Courtney. It is a treasure that I will keep forever. 5. My oldest daughter is still here sleeping upstairs. I wish I could up and look in on her and see her as she was when she was 7 like Courtney is now. 6. My gifts did not make it to New Jersey. 7. My friend in New Jersey's gift did not make it here either. 8. They should arrive today. 9. It doesn't matter. I think we actually prefer it this way. It seems to make them more special somehow. 10. We played games with girls last night (The 80's game and Reminiscing)and laughed so much I wore myself out! 11. I really need to start working out. 12. I also have to get back in business mode. 13. I am glad that one of my daughter's loves to cook. 14. The best part of opening gifts was when my 11 year old grandson got a special gift from his "cool aunt"...my youngest daughter. 15. She gave him her guitar that she has had since childhood but never played. It was given as a gift to her from her great-uncle and she decided it was time to pass it on. 16 She wrapped a note in a box and sent him all over the house to find more gift boxes with more notes. 17. Finally he came back to the living room where he was told to look behind his mother's chair. 18. My grandson really wanted a guitar...and was so happy that he said he was "done" and didn't need to open any more gifts. He did...but he kept going back to the guitar. 19. This is a Christmas we will always remember. |
Zachsmom | Thursday, December 26, 2002 - 08:22 am     1) I am trying to figure out how I am going to list 20 facts about myself. 2) I am not that interesting to list that many facts but I will give it a try. 3) My son is still upset that Jesus didn't make it to His birthday party yesterday. 4) He felt bad eating the cake without Him there. 5) Santa didn't leave me the gorgeous hunk that I asked for. 6) He left me a sore throat and stuffy head instead. 7) He also left me a set of hot rollers. 8) I never used hot rollers before. 9) I usually set my hair in rags overnight. 10) My hair is long and straight and doesn't hold a curl real well..rags are the only way that it "sets" right. 11) I used my hair rollers this morning and only 1/2 my hair curled. 12) I look hideous with 1/2 curled hair. 13) I played around with the hot rollers too long this morning and didn't have time to put make-up on. 14) I normally wear a suit or a dress to work. 15) Today I wore slacks. 16) I am at work with a sore throat,stuffy head, no make-up, and half curled hair. 17) Before I even said one word to anyone at work today ,3 people asked if I was okay. 18) I am sneezing so hard I am afraid I might piddle. 19) The longer you try not to sneeze, the harder the sneeze comes out. 20) Made it to 20! WHEW!! I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season!!! |
Grooch | Thursday, December 26, 2002 - 08:36 am     1. I have a worm phobia. |
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