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Archive through January 14, 2004

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Tabbyking

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 2:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
oh, i know how to count change back and usually have the number instantly in my head because i have always had a thing for numbers. i count back for the person i'm giving it to, but my brain instantly tells me how much change to give someone whose total was 11.93 and they gave me a 20-dollar bill, for example, it's just the actual machine and punching things in that scares me!
if i can stick tubes in people and dive into canals for them, or handle twenty 3-year-olds for 4 hours at time, or interview a corrupt city manager while he is under oath, i should be able to handle this!
i just felt awful about 'lying', even if it wasn't intentional! and i don't want to look like a food:)

Tabbyking

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 2:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
lolol, on the 'look like a food', rather than a 'fool'. can you tell i am dieting and eagerly awaiting the ding of the microwave, so i can eat steamed veggies :)
i was going to go in and correct my post, but i think the slip was kinda funny.......

Wargod

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 2:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I'm wondering who Robert the tadpole is?

Also right now, or then, Grandma just picked the girls up to take them to her house. Oldest niece took a tumble on the way home from dropping Kota off at the bus stop and hurt her hand. She cried herself to sleep. The baby went to sleep 10 minutes before mom showed up. Now watch, they'll sleep the whole time they are with her and then be wide awake and cranky when they get back here to me. They're spending at least one more night. By tomorrow I should be a zombie!

Hippyt

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 4:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Robert the tadpole is Griffin's "pet." He was looking pretty rough earlier,but seems to have recovered. Funny thing is,Griffin would be ok if Robert passed on,but Miranda would be very upset.
Hang in there War! You're a great sis!

Weinermr

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 5:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Last week -

I drove through a fast food joint to buy some food. There was an item I wanted to order, half one way, half a different way. I told that to the young teenager who was trying his best to make a buck or two for himself.

Weinermr - "I'd like half X, and half Y please."

Teenager - "Which half would you like more of?"

Huh?????

I drove up to the window. The teenager announced the amount due as $17.31. I gave him a $20 bill. He handed me back my change, and I counted it. He had given me $7.29!

I asked for the receipt, thinking maybe he meant to say $13.71, and he'd given me back a dollar too much. Nope. The receipt clearly said the total was $17.31.

Then do you think they got the order right? Nope.

Resortgirl

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 6:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Awww, poor weiner! It wasnt Nicole Richie or Paris Hilton serving you, was it?

Lucy

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 7:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Too funny, RG!!

Right now I'm excited because tomorrow I'm getting a new furnace and A/C. My furnace has been working about 50% of the time this winter, and I've never had A/C in my house before!!!

Not exactly what I like to spend money on, but I'm looking forward to being warm again.

Resortgirl

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 7:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I'm excited for Lucy! We have been babying our 1969 Coleman furnace for the last three years... just one more year, just one more year!!! LOL!!

Lucy

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 7:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, I can't believe you have a 1969 furnace, RG! Our's is an Amana and it's only 14 years old. Trouble is, it isn't large enough to support A/C, and that's why we didn't want to put a bunch of money into fixing it.

Resortgirl

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 7:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, I'm telling ya Lucy... they don't build em like they used to. Only problem is that the don't run at the high efficency of the new ones, so if we would have replaced it 10 years ago, it would most definetly paid for itself by now... oh well!

Tabbyking

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 7:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
we have separate heat and A/C for the upstairs and downstairs, so it can really get expensive...i never let anyone turn on the heat upstairs, but we had to use the A/C at least a dozen times all night this last summer. normally, we cool off at night, but not 2003! it would be 88 degrees at 4:00 a.m. i think we used the A/C through the night maybe a dozen times over the entire 14 summers before this one--all added together. i do not want another summer like the last one... if you're listening, God!

our systems are not only 22 years old, they are not earthquake retrofitted or whatever, so if we had to replace them, we would also have to mount them differently on the roof. we do have a plan that covers the cost of new heat and a/c, but i think any code updates are on us...

Lucy

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 8:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, I have to agree with Tabby about the hot summer nights of 2003. Your area gets warmer than mine, but it was plenty hot here in SJ. I'm gonna be a happy camper this summer!!

Texannie

Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 7:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I am wondering how Resort Girl lost 5 lbs in 4 days!!!!

Resortgirl

Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 7:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Texannie, I went on a juice fast for one day.... and then have been limiting calories to under 1200.... I think alot of it is water weight at the moment, but it feels nice to have a good start.... I also exercise for an hour each morning. I have always exercised but I bumped it up to 6 days versus 3 a week.

I hope you're having a great morning Texannie~~

Faerygdds

Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 7:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right ow I am reeling from this morning's events.

I was on the bus, going to work, and I looked into the bus driver's rearview mirror. To my utter shock and surprise I could see my MOTHER -- then it took me second to realize that I was looking at myself.

It's finally happening!!! I'm turning into my MOTHER!!!


Hermione69

Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 7:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I am telling everyone that it is Midlifer's birthday! Happy Birthday, Midlifer!

Texannie

Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 8:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, I am telling faery that I freak out everytime I look down at my wrists wondering how my mom's hands got on the end of them! LOL
Resortgirl, keep drinking lots of water so you don't get it all back. I do about that many cals a day but have been at such a stall lately. I think it's the new hormones I am on, was losing and then the doc changed my prescription.

Sillycalimomma

Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 8:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I am thinking-"hey, better to look like your mother than your father!" All the kiddos in this family could have claimed (and believe me we REALLY wanted to sometimes) to have been adopted if it wasn't for the fact that we all looked just like dear old dad.....

Spitfire

Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 8:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I'm LOL at Faerygdds post. I have been hearing since 10 years old that I am a mini of my mother so it doesn't freak me out. :)

Not1worry

Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 9:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I'm thinking that I don't look so much like my mother, but I certainly sound like her. I swear I hear her voice coming out of my mouth. Not just the things she says, but it sounds exactly like her. Very weird.

Fluff

Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 9:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, I'm craving chicken alfredo, but I'm trying to be good today.

Sillycalimomma

Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 9:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I share Not1 in her sounding like mother. I sound so much like my mother,epecially over the phone, that even Dad has a hard time telling the difference-and believe me that was so fun to deal with at 14 years of age-trying to call dad and being hung up on or worse because he thought it was the wife he was in the middle of a nasty divorce with!

Herckleperckle

Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 9:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, Faerygdds, LOL!!!! And Spitfire, ditto on the since childhood part!

My mother and I look like twins in our baby pictures. I have always had my mother's eyes and nose. I also inherited her sensitivity. (We both cry at commercials!) But when I started to inherit her late-in-life body, I decided it was time to draw the line!! (I have lost 6 pounds since Saturday while drinking tons of water.)

Scariest of all about our similarities, even beyond the tendency to put on weight in the same places, is discovering that I am BECOMING her!!! I am saying and doing the same things as my mother. Things I say to my dd and ds that I HATED to hear when I was their age!!! Aaaah!

Texannie

Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 10:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, I am LOLing too. I can imitate my mother really well (she was from TN and had a very distictive accent). Now that she's gone, I get asked to "do her" all the time! LOL

Landi

Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 10:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
right now i'm laughing out loud because i don't look a thing like my mother (dang wish i did!) i'm fair skinned with blue eyes, she was olive skinned with brown eyes. she was small boned, i'm large boned. but you guys should hear about my husband and his father!

when my husband was 30, we were watching some family home movies of when his sisters were little and everyone swore that was my husband in the old movies! it wasn't! it was his dad! from the way they slept (there was a scene of him taking a nap), to the way they walked. well they pulled out their driver's licenses - since they both have the same name (my husband is the 3rd!) their signatures were EXACTLY the same except for the Jr. for his dad and the III for my husband!!!! right then and there i took a look at what my husband would look like when he hit 70!!!!!!!!