Anne, glad that you are moved. It is always such a hastle.

My 120 days of school will be next year. Have to do the whole thing this year. I do have loads of sick days though. I considered staying home on Thursday because I hurt so bad, but I didn't feel like I could do that to a substitute. I'm not organized enough yet. Hope I will be soon though!!

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Happy- I don't know how you move so much. No wonder you hurt.We moved into this house 44 years ago and I said then never again.
I can't imagine what Fl. would have looked like if that storm had hit us. The season isn't over yet. November 30 should be the end of it. I just another one doesn't hit New Orleans. Not that it could do much worse.
Tomorrow is labor day. I sure won't be doing much labor.
Stay well everybody...Joanne

New Orleans is already devastated-how much more damage could it sustain.? I wish I could go into one of the domes and just play with the kids, read to them, talk to them. And their poor parents!! Stomache is a little better-also bp might be up a bit/ I usually only take 5 thyroid pills a week but I will not skip in anticipation that my thyroud is low. In the meantime, I think the dog got hit by a car-He has a gash on his side. I treated it and gave him his pain pill. Probably needs stitches. Never a dull moment. Daughter was here yesterday. We had a nice dinner together. Mima

Oh Anne-rest up!! Mima

Joanne, you are pretty close to the gulf aren't you? My BIL was ready to leave his house in Tampa last year with the hurricane situation. He hasn't left his house since 1979, so that would have been a feat in itself! Is the hurricane season pretty much the same or are there some that come in the off-season? We had a tornado here in '92 right before Thanksgiving. That was definitely not tornado season.

Mima, I know what you mean about helping out with the kids. My class has talked about them. Take care of yourself AND your dog! The poor thing! Glad you had a nice time with your daughter.

Tim doesn't know it yet, but tomorrow when he leaves the high school to go to his college class, he's going to take my van to Auto Lube. It needs to be done, so he might as well drive it and get it done instead of taking his car and me going after school. That will help his gas tank at least. He gets paid today, but Bob and I thought we'd help him out a little bit with the gas. That way he can still be putting $$ in his savings account. He has his application filled out for Ball State in Muncie, Indiana. He needs to take the application to the guidance counselor tomorrow so he can fill out his section. He doesn't want to apply anywhere else, but we think he should do it just in case.

My daughter had one college in mind and she got an early acceptance!! This will be an exciting year for all of you. Two nights in a row I have woken up and can't go back to sleep for a long time. I increased my thyroid med-hope it isn't that. Can't win. Lazy day yesterday. No energy-have to go to eye doc today-don't know why. Church Fair is Sat-I have to get some energy. Happy back to school. Tammy. ps-Joanne is above Tampa. Mima

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Tammy- I live 1.25 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. 30 miles west of Tampa. We used to be a small greek sponge fishing town. A lot of retirees have moved in so although we are still small slowly we are getting a few shopping areas. We are hoping to get a super walmart. Some of the people who moved in and don't know about the years we had to go to Tampa for any real shopping are fighting it.I guess they came from large areas and want to keep the small town feel. They don't mind traveling to shop.Being a retiree area a lot of the elders can't get to the surrounding towns as often as they would like to.The traffic here though is really bad. Hwy 19 is dangerous.
Mima.. It sounded like your daughter is well rid of the boyfriend. Tell her men are a dime a dozen.I am finding it hard to watch the news. I have always been one to face reality. This is reality at it's worst.
Hello everybody...Joanne

Mima, it has already been exciting. We visited a couple colleges over the summer, so that really makes us realize that he will be graduating in the spring. Hope you are able to sleep through the night tonight.

I can understand people not wanting to travel to go shopping. Small towns are nice, but having a choice of shopping places is also very nice. We drive to Wal Mart to do most of our shopping. In a pinch, we run to the grocery here in town, but it is so expensive. Since Bob works at Wal Mart, we make out a list and he brings things home from work now that the gas prices are higher. Trying to cut back on the driving.

I did sleep through the night!! I live in a small town and the Walmart is not far but no groceries. There are stores but high priced. Joanne-a small Greek fishing village-very interesting. I am going to work on my craft prices this am at church. That med-Flagyl-is making me dizzy and probably giving me pains because I went without it for a while and felt better. Let's hope. We prepaid our oil but Brad wants to shut things down as much as possible before we go. Bye for now. Mima

Hooray for sleep! I napped after supper tonight. Tomorrow night we have Open House at school, so I'm hoping to get a quick nap in before I go back for it.

Hi ... long time no see. I had a very L O N G weekend and I'm still not over it! :p First: it was my first week back to work last week after being so sick and then I cleaned my nasty house (which I had been too sick to clean for 2 weeks) on Thursday and Friday. Went out to eat Fri. night and got groceries for the first time in 2 weeks. Had company Saturday night (pizza and cards), church twice on Sunday and more company, too. Then: Monday we went to Fall Creek Falls on a picnic with friends. I was so tired by the time we got home Mon. evening I just fell on the couch and slept for almost 2 hrs. Hubby got me up to eat. I took a shower while he made sandwiches, ate and watched a movie with him and went to bed ... didn't get up until almost 9 yesterday. Dr. said my blood count was low ... Hematocrit was 30.2 and Hemoglobin was 10. Guess that's part of the reason why I'm feeling so puny. I'm sure spending a couple of weeks in bed didn't help me any strength wise either. I'm just so ... not really tired ... weak I guess. My get up and go got up and went. ;)

My son sent me an email today and said he was going to be out of town next week. Asked me to pick up his son (10 yr old) from school next week a couple of days and help him get his homework done because DIL will be staying late (she teaches) and he won't do his homework at school ... too many distractions. I start teaching piano at 4 and teach until after 6 and one night until 7 every night except Fri. I don't mind picking him up but I can't take off work just because she has to stay at school until 5. I wrote him back and told him I'd be glad to come get him at 3:15 but he'd have to do his homework on his own because I had to work. He won't do his homework unless someone is standing right over him and they will expect me to do that ... even though I have a job. No one in my family respects my work ... I think it's because I work at home. They call me while I'm teaching and sometimes even walk in the piano room WHILE I'm with students giving lessons. They ask me to do things for them KNOWING that I have lessons to give at that time. Yet they would be shocked if I asked them to take off work to do something for me! My husband's parents will make Dr. appointments on Tues. afternoons when I have early lessons ... at 1:30 and not ask me if I can take them in advance. Then I have to cancel my student and take them. When they could have made their app. on a different day. I've told him and told him to tell them this and he won't. I'm so tired of arranging my schedule around other people's because they don't respect my work. The last 2 times his parents did that I didn't take them. I said, no ... I told you to tell them I have to work. So he took off work and took them. Cost him a bundle, too. Sorry ... didn't mean to gripe so much!

Sometimes life is about setting boundaries. When my kids were younger, I told them they could not ask me anything after 8 at night. Now I tell people not to call after 8. Hey Tammy, the only way I survived teaching was naps. If I had a meeting after school at another place, I would park my car in a quiet spot and take a nap before I went. This minute, I am feeling stronger. That darn med makes me sick!! I can't see that it does me much good. I still get a stomache ache. Weather here is gorgeous. The Fair will be 72. I figured out that I could hang my wreaths on a coat stand-it has lots of hooks!!!!Bye for now. mima

Good morning.

Mima - you sound busy, as usual. Wish your tummy would settle down. That can't be fun.

Tammy - I guess that it would be exciting to pick out colleges. We never had that problem, as they just went to the one here. We have colleges and then the University of Alberta. Hope you get a nap in today as well.

Meme - Those kids are just plain rude!!!! I would tell them if I were you, and NOT take their calls during that time. Parents need to take MORE responsibility for their own kids. They are all just way too busy doing things that are not near as important! I hope that you regain some of your strength quickly.

Joanne - hello! I hear Florida is gearing up for yet another hurricane! Hope i doesn't come your way.

Here's a little funny for you

Acts 2:38
An elderly woman had just returned to her home from an evening of church services when she was startled by an intruder.
She caught the man in the act of robbing her home of its valuables and yelled, STOP! Acts 2:38! (Repent and be baptized, in the name of Jesus Christ so that your sins may be forgiven.)
The burglar stopped in his tracks. The woman calmly called the police and explained what she had done.
As the officer cuffed the man to take him in, he asked the burglar, "Why did you just stand there? All the old lady did was yell a scripture to you." "Scripture?" replied the burglar. "She said she had an Ax and Two
38's!"
PASS THIS ON TO SOMEONE WHO NEEDS A LAUGH TODAY and remember knowing scripture can save your life in more ways than one.

That's a good one Anne. Hope you are settled. Been trying to get a utility trailer registration form from FL. Finally had it faxed to the drugstore. Brad built this cute trailer to carry our stuff!!! Now to get the plates back! I guess the hurricane went the other way!! Yeah. TGIF> for tammy!! Bye for now. Mima pas-daughter called at 9:30 and woke me up. She forgot the rules!!

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Mima- Hope your tummy is better. I ate some pasta last week and had problems with IBS for several days.That hurricane is supposed to move east but they are saying it will loop around and may come back to visit us. We do need some rain . If anyone calls me after 9 pm it is usually my daughter. She has free minutes then. Otherwise it is someone selling something or a problem.
Happy- Hurricanes are fickle. Katrina started small too. Look what it did. That is so sad. The powers that be really messed up. How did the mayor or the Gov.of that state ever get in office?There are a lot of people that have to answer for this mistake. True they could do nothing about Katrina but the the rest of it?So much could have been prevented.
Meme- Hope you are better.. There is a word that is hard to say to family. NO.I know,I have often been in the same position. We did everything we could for our son. He got married and then decided he didn't need us anymore. We seldom hear from him. I haven't found out yet if that is good or bad. We do have more free time.He seems happy and she is a good wife to him so I guess that is all that counts..
Hello Candice and all...Joanne