Way to go, Cookie!! I figured they had that turned off for some reason; I never bothered to ask. Excellent -- sometimes you just need a picture in the midst of your text. Who was it wanted to put that pic of a bishop swinging a ........... dang I can't come up with the name. Censor, sceptor, incubator, smelly thing?
Anyway, thanks!
My mom had her hip replaced today. I can't get hold of anyone, but I'm sure I would have heard if there were any complications. I talked to my sis yesterday and she was talking about how it was really good that it all happened so fast so mom wouldn't have much time to think about it, and then she went on about Can you imagine getting cut open and having all that bone removed. Suddenly I was not feeling so good... and I have even more respect for my mother for managing to face this with a good attitude!
I went to a very interesting luncheon lecture today (don't I sound all "Ladies Who Lunch"? ) about the geology of Maine. It was given by a retired Maine professor who knows all about glaciers and ice ages and stuff. Fascinating. He says we're hanging on the brink of an ice age, and more global warming will trigger it maybe. Very complicated but I understand a lot more now than I did. DH went with me and enjoyed it too, but remains totally skeptical about global warming. I suspect it is because he doesn't like Al Gore...
I have a cute pic of my nephew to share, but must have email addresses so I can send the url. It's on my facebook. If you were my facebook friend, you would already have seen it... Actually I can pm it , can't I?
Way to go, Cookie!! I figured they had that turned off for some reason; I never bothered to ask. Excellent -- sometimes you just need a picture in the midst of your text. Who was it wanted to put that pic of a bishop swinging a ........... dang I can't come up with the name. Censor, sceptor, incubator, smelly thing?
That would be me. Your welcome. I like to be able to add pictures sometimes.
The nephew picture is almost heartbreaking. I was thinking of these boys today and all boys and girls and how they delight us by growing older.The kids at school are So Excited to be entering Kindergarten.
Best of luck to Kiwi-mom also. And Cookie is a swinging smelly thing? No!!
Facebook is a ... I don't know .. Kiwi is so "in the moment." I read on wikipedia that Ira Glass dumped Lynda Barry because she wasn't "in the moment." He would like Kiwi though.
I will PM you the link to my photo. Facebook is used mostly by college kids to network, but a lot of other people are getting on it as well. Great place to share photos, I think.
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What category is that guy in?
He's not a smilie on 3fc, Cookie uploaded him herself from somewhere.
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The nephew picture is almost heartbreaking.
Isn't that the truth. I don't know how my SIL hangs on. Maybe she doesn't think about it. That is how I'm dealing with VATech nightmare, not thinking about it too much, because if I do I lose it. 3 weeks my DD will be home, then I can think about it.
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And Cookie is a swinging smelly thing? No!!
No no no -- I'm thinking "censer". I could look it up, but I was actually hoping to come up with it using my brain. Because I am so "in the moment". I might not be all that "in the moment" though, because I've never heard of Lynda Barry. Ira Glass on the other hand, he's the NPR guy, right? I saw him on Letterman and he knocked me over. I'm such a sucker for a NY nerd.
I need help naming my facebook photo album where I put pics I don't want to plaster all over the internet, but want to share with my favorite people. I started calling it Invitation Only. But I don't like that. I thought maybe Eyes Only, but I wasn't sure anyone would get it. I also considered Need to Know, as in need to know basis, but it sounds too serious. Granted this is probably the MOST trivial problem you all have ever been asked to address, but I have had a long day.
My mom is doing well. Surgery apparently went very well; she was in recovery for a very long time because her pressure kept yoyoing, but I talked to her this afternoon and she was feeling good. A tad groggy, but quite her chatty self.
Speaking of chatty selves, DH and I spent the evening with some distant relatives, who happen to live just up the road from us. They wanted to share geneological info and family pictures (the endless project DH is doing instead of looking for a job). They were quite the talkers. The dh is a guy we both knew from the paper mill, and the wife is the relative, so there was plenty of common ground to carry the conversation. We only got home about 10:15 or so.
Here's another somewhat more serious question I have for all of you wise women: I am trying to invite my half-sister and family to go with me to DD's chorale concert on Sunday, and I sent her an email 2 days ago. Have not heard anything. Really hate to call; I find it just SO awkward. I was hoping I would hear from her before having to make phone calls. I know I'm totally neurotic, but I hate the thought of having to identify myself on the phone to people who ought to know me. I just picture this conversation: "Hi DSis, it's Kiwi!" "Kiwi Who?"
I'm not sure what the question is: obviously I should call her, but I would rather wait and see if she answers my email, or forget about the whole thing quite honestly. How late do you think you can invite someone for a Sunday afternoon concert?
My doggie is having an ear problem; I must go investigate. She is rubbing and shaking.
Are you un-close to your half-sis? DID YOU SEE BUSH DANCING ON LETTERMAN? WAS THAT REAL? Personally, I would not hesitate to call and let her know you'd like to see her and this would be a good time to do so. People in Dogpatch NEVER RSVP but I thought it was just here.
I may start a Will-Peaches-Make-It-To-The-End-Of-The-Year blog. It's hard to feel I'm not paranoid sometimes. A teacher (whose room it is in the daytime) came into my room and snapped at two boys who had blocks (one each) on the floor and cars on top of the blocks. "That's not how we play with those is it? Put them back!!" Etc. Then she hung around and told other kids what to do. Then someone told me she had told her kids they couldn't paint anymore because my class used all the paper. We use very little. 0-6 sheets a day for painting.
Also, I took a big baking pan to school for sand painting. They'd put glue on paper and dribble sand over it. Knowing it was my pan and I'd just brought it and it was next to my purse, the cleaning lady gave it to another teacher who made rice krispie treats in. I had to wash it. I can not use a pan frm the kitchen to put sand in since they cook in them and I'd have to sterilze it but mine I can take home.
Lynda Barry is a cartoonist of whom I first heard when her work appeared in Los Angeles Free Press periodicals along side Matt Groening's work when he drew the rabbit populated strip "Life is ****" I still see her work from time to time but don't remember where. She and Groening were buddies and went to school together and I loved his stuff so she was ok too.
I will PM you the link to my photo. Facebook is used mostly by college kids to network, but a lot of other people are getting on it as well. Great place to share photos, I think.
Hmmmm. Okay. I think I'll join just so I can look at the photos. One of these days, I'll learn about uploading, of whatever you do to get them onto the internet. My DH has all our (recent) family photos stored on his computer. I don't have any on this one. I guess he can send them over to me, right?
I don't know how my SIL hangs on. Maybe she doesn't think about it. That is how I'm dealing with VATech nightmare, not thinking about it too much, because if I do I lose it. 3 weeks my DD will be home, then I can think about it.
I can't imagine. I don't think I could bear it if my one and only DS (not, I suppose, that it matters whether you have one or ten - they're ALL precious to you) were to be in the service and over in some deadly place like Iraq, Afghanistan, or any of the other places in the world where they can get killed so matter-of-factly. The school shootings at Virginia Tech were, on the other hand, NOT matter-of-fact. The laws around committing mentally ill people - and privacy rights, and all of that - are so systemically impotent, and I can see that nothing has changed since I was administering residential schools for emotionally disturbed teens - and a private outpatient mental health clinic - over 16 years ago. We we so frustrated back then, because we'd have kids come to us who were CLEARLY suicidal or certainly dangerous to others, but staff would have to bring them to a hospital emergency room for evaluation in order to get them committed to a psychiatric facility, and more often than not, they ended up bringing them back to the school because they didn't "display suicidal ideation" at the very moment they were interviewed by the assessment worker. I swear they would've had to be given a straiht-edged razor and be in the act of slicing it up their arms in order to get admitted. We had to have on-call staff available 24 hours a day to call in to do one-on-one supervision with a kid who was either going to take herself - or somebody else - ot the first chance she got. (We had one 90-day program for assessment kids and a long-term program for kids who needed long-term residential services). I had hoped that the system would smarten up. Guess not. Having said all that, I have to say, too, that the WORLD seems unsafe to me currently. Over this past weekend, about eight teenagers died in auto wrecks. Speeding, in every case. Some die of unexpected disease. I wish I believed that there was some deeper meaning to all this suffering. I really do. All any one of us with loved ones can do is hope/pray and maybe EXPECT the best. The self-fulfilling prophecy and all that. We can't live in fear of the worst. And, as many philosophers have pointed out, we get what we focus on. So, I, at least, try to focus on good outcomes.
I also considered Need to Know, as in need to know basis, but it sounds too serious.
I actually like it; it sounds "official".
My mom is doing well. Surgery apparently went very well; she was in recovery for a very long time because her pressure kept yoyoing, but I talked to her this afternoon and she was feeling good. A tad groggy, but quite her chatty self.
Oh, I'm glad!
Here's another somewhat more serious question I have for all of you wise women: I am trying to invite my half-sister and family to go with me to DD's chorale concert on Sunday, and I sent her an email 2 days ago. Have not heard anything. Really hate to call; I find it just SO awkward. I was hoping I would hear from her before having to make phone calls. I know I'm totally neurotic, but I hate the thought of having to identify myself on the phone to people who ought to know me. I just picture this conversation: "Hi DSis, it's Kiwi!" "Kiwi Who?"
I will probably add my two cents once I get to work...it's getting late and I need my bath.
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Are you un-close to your half-sis? DID YOU SEE BUSH DANCING ON LETTERMAN? WAS THAT REAL? .
Was it???? Real, I mean? I didn't see this. Would the freaking president of the freaking United States actually appear on the Letterman show and act like a buffoon???
Oh. My. Gawd. When will they COMMIT him and put this country back in the hands of sane people??????????
I have a friend whose ds is about to graduate high school. He has a required senior project and has done very very little on it. He can not graduate without this. Deciding that he's depressed, she took him to a specialist for a $480 diagnosis. Yes, they will put him on antidepressants but about the paper ... it's just a silly paper requiured at the end of a long career in school where the boy has already worked hard and she should write it so as not to endanger his future. Isn't that practical? Would you expect that from a $480 / 80 minutes guy? I wonder how many parents are writing these things? I know I could not have written DS's.
It was turned off in all the Misc. Clubs. 
) about the geology of Maine. It was given by a retired Maine professor who knows all about glaciers and ice ages and stuff. Fascinating. He says we're hanging on the brink of an ice age, and more global warming will trigger it maybe. Very complicated but I understand a lot more now than I did. DH went with me and enjoyed it too, but remains totally skeptical about global warming. I suspect it is because he doesn't like Al Gore...
Your welcome. I like to be able to add pictures sometimes.
Having said all that, I have to say, too, that the WORLD seems unsafe to me currently. Over this past weekend, about eight teenagers died in auto wrecks. Speeding, in every case. Some die of unexpected disease. I wish I believed that there was some deeper meaning to all this suffering. I really do. All any one of us with loved ones can do is hope/pray and maybe EXPECT the best. The self-fulfilling prophecy and all that. We can't live in fear of the worst. And, as many philosophers have pointed out, we get what we focus on. So, I, at least, try to focus on good outcomes. 
