KIWI!!! GET YER ARSE OFF THE COMPUTER {RAINBOW OR NOT} AND MARCH IN PLACE WHILE YOU WAIT FOR YOUR DVD TO WARM UP!!!!! I JUST WENT TWENTY ON THE TREADMILL BUT HAD TO STOP TO BABYSIT THREE EIGHT YEAR OLDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!GET TO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

I needed a little change in my life, so I have a new avatar. Whattya think?

Kiwi, are you having a flashback from the sixties??? Rainbows on your computer?

Bagz is right. March in place. Now. How is that for being bossy?

I really don't have a thing to say, I just wanted to try out my avatar.

Thanks, Bagz. It worked -- I did my workout, took my shower, marinated the beef tips for dinner and I'm back!

Aw, Wabby, you're a bossy kissy cow!! :

Kiwi

wake up an post. Sugar I know you are up. Entertain me. go ahead. I'm waiting.

I love the new avatars!!! Kissy cow and cat-cow!!!

Now my list:
[list=a][*]Get ds to school by 7:40[*]Go to my office to look for the gift I actually bought cement-head[*]Go to cement-head's office and pick up my new car[*]Go take a picture of big government giving money to little government at a place that's very inconvenient for little government to go to[*]Go to Cement's house and rest (I have been out for several nights in a row and am exhausted)[*]Go to dinner and play with Cement[*]Go back to Dogpatch to pick up ds at my office-mate's house where he will have had a sushi dinner[*]Collapse[/list=a]

I don't have a rainbow. Kiwi get your butt up. You can make Lush's avatar after you do 20 on the treadmill.

Peaches, you and cement head are the most happily separated couple I know.

I don't have to be into the office until 1 pm today. I am at loose ends as to what to do with my day. What are your suggestions? I don't want to clean.

I suggest you rent a movie and watch it. I just watched "About a Boy" I thought it was good. I thought it was even better that I was sitting all snug watching a movie while it was snowing outside. It was nice.
But, enough of that. Now I'm going to do stuff. I"m going to start by returning said movie by noon so as not to attract late charges. Then I will get a cup of coffee and return to make a list. Here I go, bye.
Wabby, are you all better from your surgery?
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OK, I bagged returning the movie. It is worth 6bucks to get some momentum going before the kids get home. I have to work tomorrow so I have to get moving.
1. get book on tape, drink coffeeThe coffee is mine, not great but OK...what do they do at coffee places that makes their coffee better than mine? My book on tape is still the stinko Belva Plain. I need to make a trip to the library
2. shift wash What is the problem with my family and the laundry room. It is always a mess...no one can tell the difference between clean clothes which do not belong on the floor, and dirty clothes which also do not belong on the floor. somehow they all end up on the floor, in one big dirty mess...and then they end up all having to be washed...again....because I have nothing better to do.
3. unload dw done
4. clear counter I dont' feel like it...1/2 hour later...I did it, and I cleaned the coffee pot
5. pack lunches for rest of week done for the next week and a half
6. clear table I don't feel like this one, either....... 1/2 hour later.....ok, ok I did it.
7. wipe floor I guess I don't feel like anythning...I'll take a break.
8. 10 min fr Ok...I'm taking another break....I don't feel like vacing the fr
9. vac fr Ok, I'm going......done
10. clear toys that are really trash out of DS10's room. Sneak it to back street so that boy will never know I threw away his stuff.
I'm going to go spend the next 40 minutes until DS12 gets home doing his room......the other two have stuff after school, he's the only one coming home on the bus.
BTW....DS10's teacher was kind to me. I can tell she wants to kill him, but she was funny rather than mad. She, at least, appreciates his talent. He's quite an artist. She does not appreciate him drawing on EVERYTHING...but she'll get over it.
Wabby, I don't think it is smart to medicate kids. DS 10 is a definite candidate for medication, but no. What kind of message does it send a kid to tell him that there is something so fundamentally wrong with him that he has to be medicated for anyone to put up with him. Also, medication wears off, and once it does, the kids are left with no coping skills and no means of controlling their behavior. I have to admit that we put three times as much time into this kid than we do the other two put together. But, what can we do? This is how he is and it will be how he will be all his life. He should learn now that it is no excuse for poor performance. His grades are good, but he is often up until 11 with me standing over him making him do the rest of his work. He always has TV and video games taken from him. He lives in a constant state of sensory deprivation because if he is allowed to touch a video game, he's gone. Nothing will get done.
Funny, but he can take an engine apart and put it back together, too..just like your DS. I think it is just a different way of wiring the brain.
OK, I have work to do.

bye

Ok, you guys... post I'll be back in 40 min....

My coffee is great.

my new car is a 1997 LaSabre. It is silver. It is much nicer than my old car but probably not up to the standards of you Martha-beets. I am reading a book (Oprah picked it out) called "Open House" that was written by Lush under an alias. The woman makes lists. She hates Martha and everyone hates Martha and even Martha hates Martha so that makes her like Marths. I love the book.

The boy scout adults are fighting. Oh my. Petty petty pettiness is so ugly. The scouts had elections last night and one dad congratulated the winners via email then said he thought the troop should consider term limits or something as the same kids are elected all the time. I agree. His son is tiny and will not be seen as a leader which is sad. My son has been elected but not in a while. Some never are. Several parents chimed in to agree then one mom of Mr. Popular Jr. got hateful and said some kids just want the easy street and some kids in good positions don't attend meetings. Like she'd know. She got all this from her 12-year-old.

I am also opposed to medicating kids just so adults can have a easier time in life. Too many who have nothing wrong with them , other than they're kids, get immobilized because adults find them tiresome. Some adults are better at dealing with kids than others. Find those.

My coffee is terrible. I have switched to decaffeinated tea which is even worse. Tastes like dishwater looks.

Nothing to report. It's snowing again. Stevie is forwarding me (and 27 other people - I love having the addresses of perfect strangers) silly jokes all of a sudden, so I am forwarding him the ones my mother (who is *not* deranged, BTW) keeps forwarding to me. It all works out in the and and perfect harmony is maintained.

Lush, my laundry room looks like yours, except no one goes in there so I manage to keep the wrinkly, clean clothes on top of the freezer and the dirty ones on the floor. There is still stuff there from last summer. Shame on me. But why should I wash shorts when it's cold outside? Did you know that we only wear about 20 % of our clothes 80% of the time. Or something. Didn't FlyLady mention that? I would love to see her holiday jumper. I haven't worn one of those since I was 8. Peachy, while I have been known to iron a t-shirt or two, I was talking about dress shirts or business shirts or whatever those ones are called that businessmen wear. I haaaaaaaate ironing those, but it must be done.

Went to visit the new baby and his mom on Sunday. He is just the cutest, pinkest, most perfect little thing. I forgot how small newborns are. They have crappy hospitals here. They use J-cloths for baby wipes. Yuk. Had to show new mom the patented Sugar P Diaper Change Method.

Made pizza dough in the bread machine yesterday and pre-baked the crusts to use today. Worked great. May move on to cinnamon rolls tomorrow. Bread machines make you fat.

Bread machines don't make ppl fat, ppl make ppl fat. Kinda like the old guns don't kill ppl line. Except those automatic weapons kill ppl so much more efficiently. Same w/ bread machines vs. kneading by hand. I seem to be rambling here.

I'm so happy that you all have validated me as a mother. Actually I give credit to DH for not medicating DS. Anyhow it's kind of a moot point now, because DS is out of school and doesn't have college plans. I think he's planning on running DH's empire someday, which means he'll be using his strong back instead of his mind.

My coffee is yummy, because I use the "gourmet" kind, freshly ground, and lots of it. I like it just as well as the espresso shop on the way to work. Try the French Roast. mmmm.

I'm at work now. I ended up cleaning, just because I didn't have to get dressed to do it. I did the big clean out of the fridge. It was way beyond the wipe out only cleaning. Then I cleaned my laundry room. I actually hung up all those summer shirts and put them in the spare closet (DH's closet is jammed). I have to have it clean because a man is coming tommorrow to put in a new ceramic tile floor in there!!!!! This is only after 10 years of patiently waiting for it (see, Kiwi, there is hope).

Peaches, congrats on the new car - and I read Open House too. I like Elizabeth Berg. I just finished Larry's Party which was very good, the story of an ordinary man, who really isn't ordinary, because all of us ordinary ppl are extraordinary. I also just finished Someone else's child which was good in a romance novel way. I'm reading To Kill a Mockingbird again, just because it's so good.

The guys are back in from the job site, gotta go act like I've been working.

When you say jumpers, are you talking about sweaters or sleeveless-dresses-you-wear-over-shirts? I have 2 Christmas sweaters, one tackier than the other. What are J-cloths? I want to know about the patented Sugar P Diaper Change Method -- after all, I'm going to be an auntie again in May.

Had to go to a wake this afternoon. There's a cheery experience.

Kiwi

j-cloths must be canadian--i know what you mean--those blue or pink checked strong washable paper towels!!!!how rough and awful for the new babybuns.I believe the British call sweaters jumpers[???] i think flynaggy means a sleeveless dress that you wear a shirt under[like a boarding school}new baby sounds adorable!!!