Peachie!!! Mooooocho luck to you on yer test ... I will mind meld you all my knowledge of algebraicness compound fractions and other stuff I hardly remember.

Kiwi: yer weekend sounded puuurrrfectly deeeelightful! I hope DDBFB keeps the nudgieknucklette on his thumb.. they do miracles these days... I remember in the days of yore when I volunteered in the ER the amount of kids that would come in the summer with slashed up fingers from those old metal blade fans I saw a doc clean up the top of a thumb and do a flap procedure over it using the left over skin and a smidget taken from the web.. The next few weeks will be hairy and emotional fer you I'm sure.

Wabby: ah the properties we liked are nixed.. One was already taken and the other while beautiful required a spray irrigation septic system. I'm new to this stuff, but it seems like about 10 grand to install, and then the poop and whatnot gets watered down and sprayed acrossed the land... not into the poop spray-- you rural chicks tell me if you know anything about all these septic systems ?? I thought the only method was into a tank, chemicals and pump it out once a year or so...What is with this poop spray method? ....
Now we are having 2nd thoughts... I'm having a devil of a time getting a job in my profession..so I may opted for a lesser intense job as a office manager or receptionist in a medical or dental office... Thought about going back to school, but I have not even a bachelors so at this age... I dunno...
Weiner dogs are notorious yappers...

Cherry hows that woggin goin????
Bagzilla, 4 kids in college and 1DS at home... I say you need a margie!!!

Today's my day to tawk to myself... hmmm...letsee, it's raining here and a clammy 97 degrees... Thunder in the distance and poor darby is only happy if she is laying on my feet ... so I had to stop mopping, and sit at the puter..how sad fer me

Got a call from a "placement specialist" who says my resume is tooo specific...that I should replace dental and HMO stuff with "healthcare"

Traisping about in the woods looking at land yielded 3 immediately found ticks... and 2 more found blood sucking me 2 days later.. I hope they are not deer ticks.. I was sitting here and felt a sting under my bra clasp in the back last night and asked DH to look and Sho nuff.. TICK... Totally skeeved I headed for the shower to scrub and low and behold another one under a fat roll..I have been hivey for the last few days..I wonder if this is the cause?

I forgot to say that there is another piece of land I think 6 acreas in this area where there will be about 10 more homes nested, it abuts up against a river where I can just put in my kayak... and its 10 mins from Jordan Lake that has a beach and trails... I'm keen on it...DH not so much.. he thinks its too pricey.

Thunder and lighning is moving closer... Darby is now whining... must go ...

Go for the pricey but perfect land, Schatzi. DH is making me crazy as now he says he just wants to find an already built house b/c building would be too stressful. This is my one and only house. I want eggsactly what I want. Did you know that we have no ticks here, west of the Cascade mountains? If you go to eastern Oregon they do, but not very many. No poisonous snakes either. It's a garden of eden.

Never heard of such a septic system as the poop sprayer, Schatz. Here it's either standard or sand filter.

My friend and I took her grandkids to a parade in the next burg south. It was Homer Davenport Days there. If you didn't know, Homer imported the first Arabian horses to the United States. Anyway, it's a really cute little town called Silverton. The whole town turns out for the parade and the Davenport races the next day. At the parade I sat next to a seemingly nice woman. She was nice until she started talking to her kids and then she turned into an evil, horrible lady who berated and shamed her kids the entire time. It was all I could do not to tell her to knock it off. She had her little 4? yr old crying b/c she didn't get out and grab candy aggressively enough. Ppl should have to have mental evaluations before they're allowed to breed.

Belated good luck on your test, Peach!!!!

I bought a $2 raffle ticket at the Homer Days so I expect to win a red Mustang convertible. I won't be needing to talk to Bob Barker about a car.

I have a brand new temporary crown and a numb tongue.

I took and passed the test. Still no job though .. not that a job follows the test. Kitty still sick. Boy still going to UF. Kiwi, what are you purchasing? You know how when you have a baby, some pamphlet tells you it costs $200 billion to raise one ???? Well, part of that is buying a trash can, shower bucket and dishes for the dorm room. I found nice cheap microwavable ones to Target. If he doesn't like them, I will. Girls need more though, right? I don't know what but I'm told they do. What blanket thingie is she taking? I really want to know.

well, miss peachpot,dd took WAY too much stuff and was giving us stuff to take back with us the next time we dropped by!! she took a duvet,several pillows,a feather mattress {dorm mattress was too hard} her BIG tv,camera,computer,dvd player,a hotpot,microwave, dishes,utensils,glasses,bar fridge,laundry baskets,laundry deterget, {a phone card!!!} a cell phone, mp3 player,enough clothing for ten people plus winter clothes,boots ,tons of shoes,books,cosmetics,photo albums,posters,blender,lamps,a FAN since it was hotter than **** with no airconditioning plus plus plus---we FILLED the van to the rafters and it's an eight seater {you were in it,remember how big it was} .This time will be worse cause she is living off campus with friends in an apartment and needs to bring her bed and dresser and all the other crap. INsane i tell you!!!!====now,does that prove to you that boys need less stuff !!!!!==== i gotta go,i smell my soup burning

We had some rain and I didn't see the posts by Shotsy and Wabbsy. Too much rain, I guess, orrrrr I forgot to turn the page. Anyhow, I writed this

p.s. I was wearing my adorable PUFFIN earrings yesterday when one of the Russian girls said, "I know what that is." "You Do NOt," I answered in my ugly American way. "It's a penguin," she said. "No, it's not," I replied. "Oh," she said as she flipped one with her finger, "it's (phonetic spelling) papa-guy." Isn't that adorable. Bagz, when you get Russian tourtists, remember papaguy.

I never knew there were so many kinds of people in the world. They are fascinating. The Russians said they were from the Europe part of Russia and I thought it was just that they didn't know to tell us where their town is THEN this precious little Asian girl shows up from the Asian part of Russia. Same language. We also have a guy from Malvo who was quite impressed that I knew it was formerly part of the USSR. (I had just asked a guy from Bulgaria where in the heck Malvo is.)

and saved it to the puter because I could never spell all those words twice.

Bagzy, DS can rent a fridge with a microwave in his room and not have to move it. I'm for that. How big was this room? She pretty much took what Ds will take .. not that he's interested but I am. It's nurturing you know. But next week I'll be all alone and will romp nekked thru the house and eat entire cakes and watch The Sopranos which I will not watch with him in the house.

I love Bob Barker. Wouldn't you rather have a jar of Rolaids from him than a Mustang from Homer?

Mustang from Homer. Bob Barker got in hot water for sexually harassing the women on his show. Not the contestants, the models.

I have a headache, but I take my posting duties very seriously so I am here.

DH & I visited Miss Adorable aka Kayden yesterday. DH had already seen her yesterday but he wanted to go back for a 2nd helping of baby smooches. I'm so glad they live 5 minutes away from our house.

Moving kiddos to college sounds exhausting. Physically and emotionally.

You think Homer's Beautifies haven't been harrassed? Actually, I think Bob was forcing one of them to do certain things. At least, I think that was her claim.

I need a hug. I have to put down my kitty. I am so sad. To do the medical thing would be hundreds of dollars .. not a few hundreds, a bunch ... and he's maybe 10 years old. He is so sweet and the other cat is not sweet but we don't get to choose. But this ON TOP OF ds leaving and job situation is too much.

I have heard of that, but I thought it was mainly an industrial method of using processed waste. Hard to believe that spraying poop on your own land would be sanitary even after processing. Anyway, ick. I take it this is because the ground can't absorb the waste in the normal manner. Ours is an old cesspool system. I don't really know much about it, but it only has to be pumped out about every 4 or 5 years and you don't have to add anything. But then again, it's in the woods and was installed in the dark ages. If we rebuild (haha) we would be putting in a typical septic system with a leach field. Do they mean you are being too specific in your desired job areas, or when describing your experience?

Argggh Ticks! arggh! Never had one attached to me, but have pulled many off dogs and cats. Yecccch I hate them!

I'm very excited to know about Homer Davenport! What a name, eh? That poor little kid. For a second I thought you said "She had her little 47 yr old crying" which was strange. I have old eyes. And a crappy monitor. I need a new monitor and I don't want a new computer unless I get a laptop.

Peachie, you ask a lot of questions. Let's see. DD is taking all her usual bedding to college apparently. She is something of a bedding fanatic or maybe I should say she is bedding-eccentric. She sleeps on a featherbed, which has a cover, and regular fitted sheet over it. She refuses to use a top sheet; she uses a down comforter which usually has a cover on it, plus she also has several fleece blankets (especially the giant red one the bf gave her for Christmas) and numerous beautiful quilts that her aunt has made for her. And somewhere between 2 and 4 pillows. I had to buy extra long sheets for her dorm room and an x-long mattress cover (cheap one because she is taking the featherbed). She likes jersey knit or flannel sheets, but of course only the bottom sheet. Sounds nuts, doesn't it? I guess she will have the down comfy, a fleece and a quilt for warmth. She also has been given a lot of things for her room -- a foldup "butterfly" style chair, a laundry basket, hangers, a few tools and school supplies. She also has a fan, a phone, her computer, a desk light, a trash can, a stereo. I don't know about dishes and stuff yet, she hasn't said if she wants any (she is required to have the full meal plan). Her roommate is bringing a dorm fridge. They will probably look for a rug together. DD will also have 2 guitars, probably an amp, her ipod and recording device, a cellphone if we ever figure which one to get her. Oy. I'm going up in the attic one of these days (there are bats living there and I'm not looking forward to it) to find her a trunk which she'll be able to keep under her bed to lock things in and store out of season clothes I guess. Fortunately her room is 20 x 9 or 9.5 feet I think. But unfortunately her roommate will be set up in there a week early because of the particular orientation program she is signed up for. DD said she is kind of shy sounding though, so maybe she won't be the type to dominate the room. She is a biology major with designs on med school so she will probably be a serious student. yay. DD's not taking a TV, a printer, a hair dryer, a microwave (although she would like one--apparently they are not allowed unless you rent the micro/fridge model from the school), or any other appliances. Who knows what else she'll need that we haven't thought of It's a good thing we are within driving distance.

I would rather have a Mustang from Homer. Bob Barker is sweet old f**t, but really woman where are your priorities? I need me some 'stang.

My high school mascot was the Mustang. My brother had a dark green Mustang. And I had a very sexy white Mustang with a black landau roof. Unfortunately it was a FixOrRepairDaily and I dumped it when I moved to Maine.

It was hot though.

Do you have anymore questions? I'm debating whether DD needs to take her winter clothes with her. Definitely the warm clothing, but I'm not sure about coats, hats, boots, etc. This is not a problem Peachboy will have. Probably he will have to decide whether to bring a bathing suit or not.

Oh yeah, she has an umbrella too. Or as she used to call it, an umbrelala. I'm going to be a wreck in a few weeks, aren't I?

Kiwi

Did I miss what is wrong with Kitty? What is the procedure they would have to do? I'm so sorry you have to make that decision, that is just too hard. Poor kitty and peachie.

I also do not use a top sheet. However, we're told repeatedly that we must buy EXTRA long sheets. Is her regular bedding gonna work.

The kitty is in a "Cat Clinic." They do only cats and should be experts. As experts, they have not volunteered any diagosis that will be proven wrong at any point. They said he has not eaten for more than 2 days. (I saw him eat every morning and afternoon.) They think he got into the house plants. (Ain't got n'ern.) They asked if I wanted to be there when they euthanize him. So I called DS and asked if he did cause I'm all crying already. He's gonna go talk to them and offer to pay for it himself. I told the cat is not young, there's no guarnatee he won't just come home and die, cats can't tell you what's wrong with him, it's too much money. He's gonna go talk anyway.

There is an online group for people who own this breed of cat. I went there and found it's mostly people discussing their cat's health problems at the moment. Liver biopsies, etc. I don't think they'll buy into my idea that one should not spend allllll their money on a pet.

There's a place where where they sprayed poopy-stuff on a field and it got all fertilized and the poopy ran into the lake and grew algae and all the neighbors got bad. The field was city owned and city poopy sprayed. Big poopy uproar. We have a septic tank. Not supposed to add chemicals. Can have it cleaned out but I think that if you don't dump a lot of grease down it, it'll do better.

Hi, all. Just got back late last night from Philly, NY, Albany, NY, Philly trip. Ungodly hot everywhere. Came into house with ac broken, house a mess, dh on warpath, giving orders, not doing anything, ds decided on trip that maybe he will go to college (he's a sr this year and had refused to take sats or even think about college apps before this.) Don't know why he decided now when he could have waited until jan. think i'll kill him. ds1 in la got great job....

have laundry and cleaning up the wazoo. wasted 1 hour playing match magic. better do somethhing real.

Welcome Back Frappberrypie!!!! ah you were close to my ole' stompin grounds... I was conviently located 45 min from NYC and Philly... smack dab in sardine can Somerset county ... DH on the head!!!! What is Magic Match??... I wish to play

Peachetta: I hug you from afar darlin' None of what these Vets makes sense as to the cause of Kittycat's problems...If you've seen DK eat perhaps take her home..any chance their Dx is wrong?????
Kiwi: Luv the inventory of DDs college listofthingsImusttake perhaps a topic later on..I'm sure we all have idiosyncratic bedding issues and sleeping positions.. fer example, it wasn't until about 5 years ago that I would /could sleep on a pillow. And I get ready to sleep on my stomach and like I'm climbing a tree...
I am perplexed by DD not taking a printer...won't she need to print out papers and what not??? And what about one of those GO phones... no contracts,minutes etc..
My resume... Good questions Obi Wan KaKiwi..too specific in describing my experience..where my skills are / or could be "generically" categorized, I've described them in too literal of context.
Anyway,DH has been pressuring me to getajobgetajobgetajob and wehavetobuylandnowwehavetobuylandnow...and IhatemybossIhatemyboss..that today I just Exploded.. and we are calling a truce to regroup on what is important.. I hate when he gets "on a mission" and it involves me... I would like to just go along fer the ride at this point... (Caution: rant follows) for years in our marriage I was the primary or only breadwinner.. and , yes, I would like to go back to work, but I don't need to be pressured, badgered or stressed into it!!! Does this make sense to anyone??? (Rant over).
Wabb: I think Bob Barker is swarmy... and am wary of this Homer Davenport character Do you have recent pics of Cupiedoll Kayden to send?

Hi Frappe, sounds like a hairraising trip. And as far as leaving the college thing till now, it's not at all uncommon. But I suppose you'll be the one scrambling to get it done in time, that's always the way. One of DD's friends decided that he didn't want to go to the school he was planning to, and started over last month -- for this September! He managed to get into U. of Maine, and it apparently is all set. Bet it's costing his family more than it should though. I thought you only had one DS and 2 DDs? I must have miscounted.

Re: extra long sheets: She can use her featherbed and comforters; the difference in length is only 5 inches. If a person wanted to do it on the cheap, they could use Full size flat sheets and tuck in the excess. We bought long bottom sheets at Lands End; they were having a sale on the kind DD likes.

I have had vet advice like that, they don't seem to really know what's wrong but they're willing to do stuff if you want them to. What were they proposing to do with kitty -- just a whole lot of tests or did they want to do exploratory surgery or something? I suppose some people have scads of money to throw at that sort of thing, but it isn't necessarily sensible to do it just because it's possible. Best of luck on getting through it, Peachy.

Hey Schatzi, I totally get your feelings about going back to work. I think my DH is at the same point. I can't seem to get him to talk about it and he's not visibly doing anything about it, but I'm pretty sure he is working on it just the same.

Here's what I'm doing useful: I started tuning my piano. I haven't tuned a piano in, let me see, at least 20 years. So it's taking a bit of work to get back up to speed (if ever that happens). But the benefit is 2-fold: I told DD's BF that I would show him how to do some tuning so he can touch up pianos with the kit we gave him for graduation. And who knows, maybe I will hire out. It's good money, and lord knows there are no decent jobs around here, so maybe... Truth is I don't want to go out and try to get a job. Haven't done it in 20 years and don't really want to start again now. Or at least as long as we live here, anyway.

All you Philadelphia-ites, have you ever heard of Ambler? That's where DD's roommate comes from. Except that her family's moving to Raleigh in a week.

Kiwi