Geez! I miss ONE lousy day and I've got TWELVE PAGES to catch up on!!!
Can you hear me groaning? I'm gonna be a good girl and go back to the last stuff I missed and start my ketchup.
I slept in a little yesterday. Not used to getting home at midnight (yikes). I had a fun time Saturday night and then we spent yesterday cleaning house, buying a tree, getting the tree inside, stringing lights on the tree, and then unboxing and hanging ornaments on the tree. I have pictures and I'll get them up if I can ever get back to this page again. I may get lost somewhere back around page 515. If you don't hear from me soon, send out a virtual search party...
3-8 Atlanta @ 2-9 St Louis GO FALCONS
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Oh, first of all, I have to tell you. DH is missing DS12's Christmas piano recital because that weekend (2 weeks from now) he HAS to be in St. Louis for business (after being out of town somewhere else all week). Well, guess what he JUST figured out? Completely coincidentally? The Packer's just HAPPEN to be playing in St. Louis that weekend! So although he was supposed to come home Saturday night, now of course he should just stay until Sunday so he can support them, right? Right? Well, that's what he's claiming at least.
Isn't it amazing that the Packers' just HAPPENED to be in Denver when he went out there for business and just HAPPENED to be in Detroit when we were home. Aren't these amazing coincidences!
My men just left for the WVU-PITT game tonight. It is going to be COLD! DS12 has:
underarmour shirt
T-shirt
hoodie
football shirt to go over hoodie
his winter coat
my winter coat (due to my "petite" size, it will fit over all of this)
I don't know how he is going to move!!!
some of these Jelly Belly jelly beans I am eating are nasty
Tricia- you handled Fluffy Muffins with grace and diplomacy.
I hated her type in school. just wanted to beat the pink stuffing right out of them.
well- here goes-
remember, I AM monkish.
everything is wrapped. will all be mailed monday.
Cards are done, will be mailed monday.
all shopped and totally finished with xmas.
my secret ornament has been delivered.
since we are not decorating this year or doing lights( i only do it every couple of years anyway) that is not an issue.
Please dont hate me. well, go right ahead. I will still love you all anyway.
Here is Ally decorating our tree at VWL last year:
Well, I am really blessed, with all that's been going on with me, DH and our families. Guess what?? I did win round-trip airline vouchers from the radio station win!! They contacted me via email late yesterday morning. I didn't need to call them or initiate the email. They are giving me 4 round-trip vouchers and an extra $300 for spending money, or to pay the taxes for the win. I never won anything big before, so this is great!! I do need to fill out the affidavit and a tax form for the winnings and need to fax the paperwork over to them. After they receive my paperwork, I'm supposed to receive my airfare vouchers I guess within 60 days. That's what it says on the affidavit.
Once I get those airline vouchers in my hand, I can start planning a trip to UO or WDW! Or maybe both!! But we have to make this trip inexpensive. I thought I'd never get back to UO/WDW again, as we don't have the money for that, but with this win, it should hopefully work out ok
Mac, I know you wanted to know what happened
I told my mom on the phone this afternoon. She was happy for us. We were talking about how to file it when we do our taxes in Jan/Feb coming up. She said she thinks we have to pay 28% of the winning in taxes. I never knew what the percentage was to pay taxes for winnings. My mom loves talking about taxes, filing taxes,etc. as she is an accountant herself. Doing taxes is her specialty.
I don't know about everywhere, but around here they can't bury the lines. We can't have natural gas lines either. We live in the foothills and they would have to blast into rock to get anything in the ground.
Everyone mentions how 'worried' they get about trees taking down power lines moreso than crashing onto their house....we are the opposite! The only 2 trees that would hit our house are 1 outside the kitchen window (which, come to think of it, might be too short and really not reach the house) and the neighbors backyard tree...which would crash onto Bubba if he was sleeping! Our phone, cable and electric lines to our house are all underground...dunno why more companies don't do it that way ...seems like a good idea!
ya dun real gud kid
and....what did you find??? And, amazing what a good ole big fart can do for ya..... I live with him too..... (glad it wasn't a "sick"....rather be gas than sick anyday )
How'd that go? Any pix? Did they have fun? Was Brad along, or was he working again?
Hope you have a really awesome time....you deserve it
Got the parental units back over to their house.
Power lines were reattached around 5:00. It took a few hours for the house to warm up, so they stayed for dinner and I drove them the mile and a half to their house.
My step dad is 15 years older than my mom. He is easily stressed when life doesn't go as planned. Has to eat dinner at 4:00 every night (afternoon!) or is grumpy as all get out. Getting old really sucks.
Mom has 5 (4 now) very old, very large, pine trees that tower over the house. Here you can see a couple of them.
In this next photo, you can see that the bottom of the tree is completely rotted. We are worried that the rest of the trees have the same problem. I'm going to call a tree removal company on Monday and get a quote. She had one cut down last year from out back and it was $1200.
There are usually cars parked on the street and in the neighbor's yard across the street where the top of the tree landed. Thank goodness there were none today. One of the plusses of living in a small town is the response time of Public Works. They were on the scene in like 15 minutes! Could'nt do much until the power was turned off, but it was reassuring to see them there. They said they would be back on Monday to clean up the mess. They used a backhoe to haul the tree out of the street and left it in her yard. They used a plow truck to clean the branches out of the street. It was pretty funny watching it!
Ok, now that I have bored you all with the tree saga, its off to bed.
I'm glad that I found you guys.
I hope Tricia made it out with her friend and is enjoying the evening!
Good luck with finishing that Christmas list.... that's about the size mine is...finish the shopping, bake, ship gifts, take the picture/mail the picture/order the picture cards and wrap! So much to do, so little time...[/SIZE] I thought a full 4 weeks between T-Day and Xmas would be great....maybe...IF T-Day wasn't so early this year
I'll just have to put on my big girl panties (that's "big girl" ....not "granny") and deal with it and gedderdun! [/SIZE]
Interesting night tho...We stopped at 7-11 for some Slurpies. Well as we are grabbing them, two young guys, maybe teens, head to the back of the store while keeping their eyes fixated on the counter. Well DF and I go to pay, and these guys move quickly out without buying anything. Well I glanced over and say at least two beers in one guy's pocket. The employee stops him, and the teen starts yelling that he walked in with them in his pockets. (Um, ok, sure) The guy was definitely under the influence, of what tho, I don't know. Well we finish paying, but the employees and the teen are arguing, while three of his buddies are standing outside. Then the guy starts yelling and almost getting violent with the employees. Then they take off, and guess what the cops were at McDonald's down the road!
So that was out interesting evening....kids these days
Our annual $50 donation:
(the tree....not the kid!)
And Tricia - yep, I know about those moms too! In Michigan we called them BP's (Beautiful People). Trust me, it wasn't a compliment! I've also had a few altercations with wonderful people like that. In my experience, they also seemed to be the ones in charge of the PTA (since they liked to hear themselves talk and be the center of attention), which is why I've never gotten involved in the PTA's.
....and, I didn't know 7-11s in NY sold alcohol They do in Fla, NY...I think I'm livin in the wrong state ....altho, Sheetz convenience stores just started a 'test' store in central PA selling the alcohol....hopefully it will 'pass' it's test and all PA will eventually sell booze in supermarkets and conv. stores....
It was I guess, but I think I have been desensitized to it from teaching young nasty kids . They were blocking the door and I said excuse me to leave. My DF was like why would you do that? Because I wanted to go home of course......
I'm really working hard at it! The bad thing is this is pretty much the only thread I post in, there are a few that I do every once in a while, so you guys might get real sick of me if I try to get to 3000.
mr mac has to go to special meetings once a year.
i fly out usually the day before or the day of him being done.
in the past it has been on the east coast but being moved to philly in 08.
i'll let you know when i have the details.
it would be way kewl to meet up with you guys!
don't talk about pathetic unless you are talking about the bears and how they played today..........
now that was pathetic
Hip Hip Hooray!
Snow day for me!
Snowshoes here I come!
So, now I'm tired from ketchuping.... Tricia is gonna grumble again at all the pages she needs to ketchup on.... But, I'm sure her "gals nite out" was well worth it
It was really weird out in the hot tub! The sky was kind of a light red color and it seemed almost like twilight, not 11pm! You could see everything ourside easily and no, it wasn't moonlight because there was complete cloud cover (and the snow switching over to freezing rain - joy - to prove it!). We couldn't figure out why it was so light out!
Not 'into' college scene....have no idea...I'm out on this discussion....Motherfletcher will probably be in on this one....
Barb - oh, man, am I supposed to have sent my ornament already? I BOUGHT it - thought that meant I was doing well!
Tricia and Marci - here's a story for you:
When DS was starting 5th grade, we had an open house a few days before school started. We showed about 10 minutes early and I was walking around and went oustside of the gym. Well this was where they were setting up the tables for the refreshments. I of course, was polite and said Hello to Fluffy, Beautiful People. And she looked at me and said, "Are you someone I should know?" I then introduced myself, "I'm JawsCPA". And she then turned her back on me. DH still laughs about this one. And No, I didn't join the PTA for middle school. I did my duty in elementary school.
WOO HOO - look at my post - #7777.
ok.....i left this thread on page 506ish - wow a bunch of yapping - but its all good
Got lots to do as we leave for Great Wolf Lodge on Tuesday
Stay warm/dry/comfortable everyone - I will check in with you all later!!!
James has just two things on his Xmas list, a t-shirt from his favorite geek store - Think Geek - and an electric razor. Going to be a very boring X-mas for him. Amanda gives me a power point presentation every year with about 50 items on it! One extreme to the next with these two.
Morning folks.
Just wanted to say that I'm done with the thread that was supposed to be a celebration about Universal's increase in attendence. But thanks to "Universal-Excitement" he has completely derailed the thread and continues to irritate everyone who responds.
So....I'm done with that thread.
Have a nice day!
Well, any time I mention a girls only trip cause the guys don't really enjoy all of a sudden they start talking about how much they enjoy it. They just don't want us going without them. I think I may try to plan one for hunting season next year. They guys get to do something, why shouldn't we?
I would love to see that power point presentation!
I am betting Tricia is pretty hung over.
Ya know....I was secretly hoping Tricia would stop by and PUI oh well....guess she was havin' too much fun....
big party at lori's place.....
i'll get out the mapquest and be there in about 16 hours.
who is bringing the munchies?
i'll bring the tp so we can do up that one certain person's house lori has mentioned before.....
the jelly belly factory is about a 10 minute drive from my house.
i go there frequently for the tour and free samples.
they advertise locally of discount days where you can buy the rejects.
I spent a productive day out shopping.
Found the ornament for the exchange today. Boy that turned out to be more of a challenge than I had thought! Was hoping to get it mailed tomorrow, but they are forcasting 8-12 inches of snow. Uggg, I am not ready for this.
ALLRIGHT, i WILL ADMIT IT. i MAY NOT BE THE BRIGHTEST OR SHINIEST BULB ON THE WHITE HOUSE TREE, BUT i DO THINK SOMETIMES.
-i ate fudge and drank lots of coffee today....
-every year at this time, some folks get all weird and decide that the creche at city hall,/public spot is no longer acceptable. they also do not want christmas carols in the school pagent, and all calendars marked winter /december vacation. fights/lawsuits ensue. the battle continues.
yet, and this is a big yet......
a woman teaching school lets her 6 and year old students name a teddy bear. parents go ballistic and went from jail and beating her to within an inch of her life are now screaming off with her head.
HELLO???????????????
welcome to the holidays and the peace on earth notion.
okay= i'll shut up now. someone else take the microphone please.
Well, I am off to get dinner started. I will return later to hog the thread and post more pics of my girls and bore you all to tears. Hmm, maybe I ought to pst some of my guys too?!? I really do have pics of them.
One of these days I am gonna get my Universal pics scanned. For some none of them are digital. Maybe I could start out scanning just a few a day.
Sounds like the Godiva Factory..... (neighbor across the street works there....)
I don't know WHAT I did to my arm, but it's been killing me for the last 2 days. I can't raise it (and of course it's the right one) without a really sharp pain. I've been taking motrin and trying to rest it, but of course that's nearly impossible. Just weird because it just started hurting overnight and has gotten worse. Don't remember doing anything in particular strenuous. (Well, I got my annual pap smear Friday but can't see how that would affect my arm! ).
yours is, out mac...and i am totally puiright now
have a great nighr homies
Oh, man! "Should I know you?" Priceless. As if you don't even matter in her world. I'd have probably said, "Yes you should know me" and walked away with an evil smile.