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Thursday, May 31st, 2012
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8:32 am - groomer day!
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Miss Cocoa has a visit to cocoasarah on her schedule today. This will give me a nice break, as keeping her "down" is getting to be a royal pain!
She is on "restricted activity" and that is as hard or harder with a puppydog than a toddler!
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Finally got my flowers planted last night -- we have had seriously uncooperative weather -- I wanted to do it Saturday, but it was raining -- then Monday and Tuesday we had frost warnings! While everybody else was griping about 90-degree weather, we were sitting here with the furnace running.
Now I still need to get my fountains put out in the yard.
The maple tree still has about six inches alive at the base, so it is now a very short maple bush.
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| Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
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11:12 pm - QUICK VOTE LINK
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10:34 am - catch up time
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http://www.facebook.com/pages/Roosevelt-Park-Coca-Cola-Voting/332600656802865
My FB time is spent pushing the Coke contest again this year.
Yeah.
It is what I do.
Somebody's gotta do it, right?
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Keeping Cocoa from jumping/running/getting rowdy is becoming more challenging as she starts feeling better. We will never know **how** she hurt her back -- the vet said that it can be as simple with dogs as it is with people, and one wrong bend in the right direction can pop your back out.
I suspect she did it while sneaking under the baby gate to go upstairs, but we will never know.
So Friday -- late afternoon -- I tried calling the vet. No answer. Not even a machine. The cute guy checked the phone book and it showed saturday hours from 8am to noon. So he tried calling at 8am, but no dice -- they do not offer emergency service any more for pets. They are focusing more on the large animal side, I guess -- that was the only thing open on saturday. Call somebody else.
So we did. I called the old vet, who was our vet at that clinic for many years. She had left that clinic to open a new one several years ago, but we did not switch clinics at that time.
After discovering the vet clinic was no longer available for emergency-room visits -- we have now switched.
So I cancelled her scheduled appt on this upcoming Friday and made her a new appt for next week. She is due for rabies and heartworm, plus a recheck on her back.
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Yesterday was Eileen's funeral. I was left confused about something. The lack of showing from the local Democrat machine really bothered me at joko's funeral -- very skimpy token turnout -- but there was nothing at Eileen's funeral. While it is a pretty safe bet that **I** was the only Republican in the room, there was no show of support from the Democrat machine. This is a couple that has been seriously dedicated party workers for forty years!
It bothered/angered/annoyed me. The cute guy thinks I am getting my panties in a bunch for nothing, and said that a-the republicans would not be any different and b-the political parties are just out to *take* but not to give back.
I guess I thought of it as a big club/group/organization. If you (not me!) dedicate that much time and money to an organization, it seems that the least they can do in return is to show up at your damn funeral!
We did not recognize a soul except her husband and her son. As I said, **none** of the political movers and shakers showed up.
So we did not stay for the lunch, as we had spoke to both hubby and son before the funeral.
The cute guy needed to get back to work, I needed to get back to my poor imprisioned puppydog. She had to be in her kennel to be left home alone.
It did not please her.
Imagine that?
LJ spellcheck is **still** broken, so any typos will simply have to stand as written...
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| Saturday, May 26th, 2012
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11:44 pm - kidlet returns
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| Friday, May 25th, 2012
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9:02 am - in which we reach the end of an era...
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...as today is the last day of school.
I must finish up my inventory today, so I need to go in earlier than normal.
And stay focused on the task at hand. I hate being down to last-minute stuff. I guess I have discovered why several of the other schools schedule an extra week for this inventory stuff!
We got a new printer last night. We went out looking for rosebushes originally, struck out at Menards and at Walmart. Stopped by Staples and got the new printer, as the old one totally refused to print for the cute guy yesterday. We have seen this coming for months now...in computer years, it was a dinosaur!
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| Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
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11:37 am - barkety-bark-bark
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Coffeepal's brother died, so she is currently headed to Bismarck from Colorado. The princessbride's childhood playmate's mom is in hospice care here in Minot. While I will not be driving to Bismarck for Frank's funeral, I will not have any choice about Eileen's funeral. We were never "close pals" but we have been neighbors for thirty-two years. We were friendly neighbors, even when her hubby and I ran against eachg other for city council, it was a polite race. Yes, it **IS** possible to discuss issues and disagree politely on the issues, without name calling or bickering. So it was always a cordial relationship.
She is not that old -- maybe ten years older than us? Her youngest kidlet was the same age as my oldest -- maybe she is even 15 (or 20) years older?
Guess we will know soon.
But I **think** of her as "our age" so it is a sobering thought. Accidents used to be the reason I went to funerals for my contemporaries, not medical issues.
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Debated on hanging out my jeans. It is overcast enough that if I hang the laundry, it is going to rain while I am at work. If I do not hang out the laundry, it will not rain.
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Working on my inventory at school. Discovered yesterday that my last day at the middle school will be tomorrow, as the students do not have school Friday morning. They are on "finals schedule" for the last three days. While Fiday will be pretty much party central at the elementary, we will be on normal schedule.
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Tonight I need to mow the lawn, Good Lord willing and the creek don't rise. Dorney said she had to stop using that expression, as the creek **did** rise. I did not have the heart to point out that the "creek rising" is not a one-time-good-deal. Unlike a firecracker or a match or even a disposable diaper, which are all single-use items...that creek can rise again. And again.
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Washer going, dryer going, scrubbing on the stove in the kitchen. I suppose if it was not a sesquacentennial event, it might be easier.
But then again...maybe not.
Just a damn sight more often.
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Trying to use up all the random bits in my fridge, and refusing to buy anything that needs to go into the freezer until defrost day. My freezer is in dire need of a visit from the defrost fairy.
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Guess the facebook IPO fell pretty flat. While it started as a "hey, look at me!" site, it has fallen into a game platform. Unlike nintendo and the ilk, the facebook games are not exciting enough for many people to be willing to throw cash money at them.
I do play several, and while I would miss them if they were gone...I will not pay to play them.
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I will go to the final camera club meeting on Friday. I only made it to two meetings all year. Monday nights are hard.
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| Monday, May 21st, 2012
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7:52 am - final Monday ...
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The very last Monday of the school year. And my last Monday at the middle school, which they did not really believe, but that is ok.
I will stick to my library for next year, and we will just wait and see where the road goes after that...
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| Thursday, May 10th, 2012
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7:49 am - class photo
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| Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
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7:52 am
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Uhhhh - no, but thanks anyway.
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The Academic Awards banquet was nice. The chicken was wonderful -- moist and juicy. My normal/usual experience with such events has dry stringy chicken, but this stuff was good.
There was a little-sister-across-the-table that was driving everyone else nuts to prove she was bored, but I enjoyed myself.
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| Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
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11:29 am - grumbles
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Every time I get all my ducks in a row, somebody declares open season on ducks.
We had our square dance schedule set for the rest of the year, but now have discovered a snag in the calendar.
It was supposed to be our Halloween dance, but I re-shuffled the Halloween stuff to the dance on the 15th. Unless somebody really pitches a fit, it should work.
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When I was young, I was cursed with the gift of obedience.
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Took down the porta-crb/pack-n-play. It has been set up in the Pabst room, but bestbaby is too big for it. He has not napped it in for five weeks now -- too much interest in getting into mischeif instead of napping. If he is going to use it to nap, it will need to be set up in the living room instead of the Pabst room, where it can be placed so nothing is within "arm's reach" of the kidlet.
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We need to go order a graduation cake for the square dance graduation next Monday.
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| Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
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11:36 am - boating?
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Must be a boat, as I have acquired barnacles.
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Got the Square dance date list set for the rest of the year. We will not start a new session of lessons in the fall -- we will wait until late January. The first session ended and then this one started up right away, with no break between sessions. WE are tired of lessons. The cute guy, because he is stuck partnering all the new gals who came for lessons but brought no partner into the deal -- me, because I do not get to do much dancing, because there are so many "student" females at the lessons.
So we are ready to just have normal dances for fun instead of lessons for a while.
Not sure how these Monday night dances will work out. They were duly voted upon as being the "preferred night" for the summer dances....so we shall see how it goes.
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| Thursday, April 12th, 2012
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7:26 am - fancy luncheon -- better use my fork
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Some fancy wingding luncheon at the college today. I will be going directly from work so I need to dress up today.
Young daughter was invited as an honoree. I **think** they invited all the students on the Dean's list, but I am not sure.
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| Monday, April 9th, 2012
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12:14 pm - Easter
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Easter went very well here.
Not perfect, but it was a very good day.
Today I need to pick up a plastic tub to put the Easter stuff into the basement. That huge box that was in the shed hit the garbage -- it was in pretty rough shape. I am **trying** to only put stuff into the basement if it is in a plastic tub -- not because I expect to get flooded, as from what we saw, those plastic rubbermaid et al storage tubs were no match for the raging souris anyway -- but it does provide protection from normal "basement moisture" and from having various creepy-crawley critters infesting the stuff.
On my list of "once I get well organized" I figure everything in the basement will be in the plastic tubs, and the only "cardboard" will be the copier-paper boxes on this shelf system in my sewing room on the north wall. No the shelf system does not exist anywhere but inside my head. The only things in this fantasy that actually exist at this time are the north wall and the basement.
Been getting stuff picked up this morning -- progress!
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| Friday, April 6th, 2012
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8:32 am - Good Friday
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Taking the child to get a haircut this afternoon.
Need to boil eggs today.
Why, yes...I do plan to color Easter eggs, thankyouverymuch.
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Started working on my 2011 scrapbook last night.
Finally.
Had to find my table first.
Of course, starting on this project lost it again -- it now pretty much looks the same as it did before I located it -- prolly shoulda took a picture of that quick glimpse of bare wood, huh?
I have a huge backlog of flood pictures. I saved all sorts of newspaper stories about the flood and the aftermath. I plan to put together my own personal version of the 2011 Roaring Mouse, as it pretty much took over our life. Even though our house was not flooded, that flood still had a major impact on all of us.
Plus we did have a few non-flood-related things happen in 2011. One of these and one of those, we had a few days not filled with floodwaters. Took up Square Dancing. Celebrated holidays. Acquired GrapeJelly.
Not too sure about this album, however. It is **not** a post-bound album -- it is a strap closure instead. I guess I will find out how well this idea works...
(hopefully it works better than the LJ spell check, which is still not functioning for me...)
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| Thursday, April 5th, 2012
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12:03 pm - offness
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It was supposed to give us one more nice day today, with warm sunshine and blue skies -- but right now the sky does not look too promising. We will return to our regularly scheduled winter weather tomorrow.
I was hoping to use the line and get all my laundry caught up today, but that is looking like a no-go. Still too many suspicious looking clouds out there.
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Unpacked that big Easter box from the shed. Now I have a crew of random bunnies on my shelf. Geese in a group are a gaggle of geese - a blessing of unicorns - a herd of cattle - a murder of crows - a flock of birds - a school of fish - but what is the term for a group of bunnies?
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Tossed a few of the stuffed bunnies from that box into the washer. Sitting out there in a cardboard box for eight or ten years left them a bit grubby. Funny how that works.
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Need to assemble my Easter baskets for Sunday.
Guess there will be a crew of troopies around here.
I have enough baskets to cover all eventualities, I just need to assemble them.
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| Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
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7:57 am - odd
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Got an email from LJ that said "x person has removed you from their friend's list."
That has never happened before.
To clarify: yes, I have certainly been removed from people's lists before, but I have never been notified before. (Except one crazy gal who posted a rant on my page to TELL me she thought I was pond scum, but that was a whole 'nother story)
Is this a "new feature" that LJ is suddenly providing?
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| Sunday, April 1st, 2012
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6:50 am - Request
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Pray for healing for my mom. Yes, her name really is Milly.
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| Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
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9:35 am - random drama ensues
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...but not mine.
Last week was the suckymacsucksuck of all weeks, so I was counting on starting fresh with a week of all good stuff, rainbows and unicorns and fluffy bunnies.
So far...not so much.
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Church drama continues. Personally, I see this entire debacle as if I find myself sitting in the ICU and wishing somebody would pull the plug already. I have reached the point where it is time to move on -- stick a fork in me beause I am done.
We have been combined with Vincent since the flood.
I realized that I never see, talk to, socialize with or even cross paths with **anybody** from Faith when I walk out of the church doors. I do see several Vincent people in the real world on a regular basis. While it will "not be the same" to switch over, that is not necessarily a bad thing. Change is scary, but it is time to make the jump. As drama is not my friend, I plan to wait until the end of the school year to make the official jump, as the two churches will be splitting to separate services for the summer. Being a fan of the "least said, soonest mended" school of thought, I anticipate that as the least-dramatic way to do this.
Aside from my church-as-a-social-club point, the "new mission" for Faith troubles me. The food pantry, which I whole-heartedly support, is splitting off into a new location. Hopefully it will continue with the same policies as in the past -- unlike most of the food pantries in the area, you do not need to "qualify" and prove you need help, it is left between you and God to decide if you qualify. No paperwork, no financial questions.
That matters.
Sometimes kids would otherwise go hungry because adults make stupid financial decisions, so the pantry fills that gap.
The new mission for the church will be to operate a daycare. Fine and dandy, but count me out -- maybe (maybe?Ha!) I have an attitude problem, but personally I refuse to subsidize daycare for people that make more money than I do.
**insert shrug here**
I made my living doing daycare for eight years -- and it was hard enough finding good kids and promptly-paying families when competing with other daycare providers, with being in competition with churches that are staffed by volunteers!
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spellcheck still not working on here. sheesh
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personal dramas abound, church drama abounds, and I discovered I am not nearly as important as I thought I was in a venue where I saw myself as rather special.
hmmmm
maybe it is time to join a bar and take up drinking?
or at least get LJ to fix the silly spellchecker?
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| Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
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7:42 am
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| Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
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10:54 am - springish stuff
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Laundry and cleaning and all that good stuff this morning.
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Tackling my dining room table pileup. As has been frequently stated in this space, when it gets down to bare wood, we are going to start eating there. I am shooting for Easter. While I could sympathize with the zillas wanting to have the Christmas dinner at their house, I do not plan to go there for Easter dinner. All other considerations aside, they are not celebrating the same holiday I celebrate.
Now, if you elect to celebrate a hershey holiday, that is fine -- I do that at Halloween myself. But I would not expect somebody celebrating a serious holiday at Halloween to partake of my honey pooh and candy bar version of that day, as it can be a serious event to people who **do** consider it a sacred day.
Iz ok.
Does not have to make sense to anybody but me.
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Getting a sluggish response on here -- a lag, if you will. Not pleasing me.
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Not making much headway on here. Had a dozen brilliant topics I wanted to address -- until I started. Now, I just keep seeing all the **stuff** I need to try to finish before I leave for work!
LJ spellcheck still not working for me, so any and all typos will stand uncorrected!
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