I envy you. I would sit in the lake in a noodle chair. The movie is in our public library. You know, that makes me think of Lush. I won't go into it here.

94 is hot for Mooselyvania.

I did go float in the noodle chair, and swim a bit. It was quite nice. I even dragged the dog in. Jet only likes to wade in a few inches and won't come swimming with us, so I figured it wouldn't make it any worse to make her swim. I took her by the collar and towed her out till she had to swim and then towed her around in circles 3 or 4 times. She was pretty funny -- she had her front legs going so hard the whole front half of her was out of the water! I guess she will be needing more swimming lessons before she is comfortable. Weird -- I always figured dogs just naturally swam, but Jet definitely doesn't look "natural" out there. Poor goofy dog. DH says I'm mean to do that, but I don't think so. After I let her go back to shore, she was fine; she didn't bolt when I came near her or anything.

Later kids.

Kiwi

TGIF. Lazy day today, sort of: Gym, lunch with a friend. Paperwork. Hair cut and highlights. Dinner out with DH.
Not sure if I'm going to go to the gym tomorrow. I'm thinking now... extra sleeeeeep. and maybe the Simpson's movie.

Excitement in Kiwiland
 

My what a day we had yesterday. We went up to our friends' camp for the day for a party of swimming, boating, imbibing and stuffing ourselves silly. It turned out to be a fairly big crowd. Of course it was still beastly hot, so we spent a lot of time in the lake. I managed to trip walking into the water and fell on my knee, scraping it up in good shape. Apparently the dog cut her foot on something because one of her toes has been bleeding since (that's a lovely mess in the house; I'm going to have to shampoo the rugs). And for the piece de resistance, we all swam over to an island across the way from the camp so that some of the guys could jump off the rope swing (yes, we were all over 40 years old, why do you ask?). It was 20 minutes to swim over and us tough guys didn't bring any flotation or a boat, and lo and behold, DH, on his 2nd jump, broke a finger while jumping and fell flat into shallow water full of big rocks, got totally scraped up, couldn't swim back across . A couple of us had to swim back and get a boat, and then he and I spent the rest of the evening in the ER while they did x-rays etal. Not anything too serious, just one finger was broken, the rest was bruises and scrapes, but what a way to end a day. Now his middle and ring finger on his right hand are splinted together, so he will be helpless for some years to come I guess. Just kidding, but I did have to help him wash this morning. What a crappy time of year to have to stay out of the water (his leg is all bandaged up too).

So what's new with you?

Kiwi

hay yell hay yell hay yell

1. I'm offered a job at a school and want it
2. they tell me to come in and fill the application they have there
3. it has choices about what kind of certificate I have
4. i carry it to the principal and tell him I don't know what to do there
5. he says this and that which is nice stuff but meaningless
6. I go home and learn that I have a temp certificate in art but not in the field I'm to teach
7. it costs $56 to apply
8. then I call the lady at the school I went to who says I was supposed to apply for a professional certificate not a temp one and I don't know what I did
9. they want copy of transcript but they should have it
10. but I don't know if they do or not
11. they don't answer the phone, they let you leave a msg and call back in 3 days to get the answer
12. i am having anxiety attacks

You know how you make dinner and the dh doesn't come home on time and you get mad and throw it out? I'm about to throw out these socks. If Shots isn't even here to care that I'm knitting them, then .... I'll wear them myself.

I want a noodle chair and a lake.

Is this for the fall? What will you be teaching? I hope you have a few weeks to get all your certs in order, but surely they will let you start working while it's all in progress if necessary :yes: Yay, I hope this is THE job and everything works out! I feel like sending you $56, I'm so excited for you to get the job you want!

:hug::carrot::cp::dance::hyper::woohoo::congrat: :cheer: :yay:

Is that overkill?

k

I am a little ball of anxiety. This could be relieved if the DOE would speak to me but noooooooooo. The job is two periods of geography and two of math and two of "wheel.' I do not know if other places have wheel. It's an elective sort of thing that's usually boring .. health or study habits. It could be art/music/drama but won't.

what is the DOE??dept of education?? Just guessing!----sooooooooooo this is VERY exciting news!!! a teacher among the herd!!!fabulous!!!i am soooooooo happy for you peach pie--don't worry you will figure it all out!!---NOW KIWONKERS!!! GOOD LORD IN HEAVENS WHAT THE **** WERE YOU DOING SWIMMING TWENTY MINUTES SOMEWHERE WITHOUT ASSISTANCE???? you are giving me a heart attack with this information----poor dh!!!!! and of course poor YOU AND POOR DOGGIE!!!! YOU PEOPLE BETTER SIT THIS SUMMER OUT ON THE LIDO DECK!!!----- one of the girls who works at the market drove out west with her friends {she is in her mid twenties}---the word is she BROKE HER WRIST AND HER ANKLE after falling off a TARZAN SWING!!!!! i can't believe i am hearing so much about this 'type' of wanton summer carousing!!!-------------on an arsier note,these roids have been KILLING ME ALL WEEK-- i finally could do nothing but stay down all day today and probably tomorrow---no amount of medication helps and every time i say forget it and go out or walk around too much i pay for it for hours ----i have not had a good sleep in a week ====they are keeping me up ALL night----SO THERE IS MY WHINE SESSION---- i would love to go for a walk as we are having fantastic weather=-----------------warm for a change!!!

I am threatened with my socks-in-progress being auctioned off and a switch to my hide... I got in here as jiffy quick as I could...!!! Yeesh!
1) Cow pie--most encourging this new development!!!!!!!! Yes!!! you Vill GET ZE JOB :yoga: I Veal it in my bonez yessss!!!
2) I read all the posts and retained only snippits- I've concluded the following
our cowpeach is a worry wart
sugar is a goodmomma
Painty is resilient
Bagz is a oblivious pot stirrer.. Eye Think
Kiwi is Bat infested (STill) but having a dam good time

I am too beat and jet laggy to say anything else EXCEPT - if you are a Wide Woman, do not fly American Eagle... The seats are designed for a very small butt and there is no room for over flow. I was a stuffed sausage link --- the sad thing here folks is my distorted self image which insists I CANT POSSIBLY BE THAT BIG was mashed as I mashed my big arse in the tiny seats..

I had the most horrid flight mate. He snarfled and was one of those "yawners" Who HOOOO AHHH YAAA yumyumyum Yawn aloud like that -- and moving his legs like a gawd dam marchin band on double time ... I so wanted to take a breather from my crossword puzzle and just STAB HIM in his eye!! and Thigh!! and his RESTLESS Syndromed Leg!
Did you know that when you stay at a cheezy motel, you can set up the ironing board, and use the bath towel as a table cloth-- and have a perfectly functional Dining area??

That sounds very exciting, Peachie. Also kind of eclectic. I don't think I ever studied geography, at least not past junior high. What grade is this? Wheel sounds boring, exactly the sort of thing the kids will complain endlessly about. DD complained about health class and safety units incessantly. "Why do we have to learn this again?" :lol:

Not to worry my dear, this is in a lake, with 8 or 10 other people. Everyone a good enough swimmer to get there and back. Even me :D We Mainers are a tough lot, y'know. Speaking of swimming, I am thrilled to find that I have not experienced any of that cold allergy syndrome I had last year. Of course, I haven't been immersing myself in 60 deg F water this year, but I have noticed that I can hold a frosty canned beverage without getting hives, so maybe it was a temporary condition.

The roids are really overstaying their welcome this time, eh? I know this isn't the same thing at all, but I have been having some, ahem, chafing problems on the chubby thighs, which was rather painful at the beach where it was sweaty plus salt-water plus sand :eek:. I picked up a container of Gold Bond powder and it really does the trick. Makes those thighs just slide along (don't you wish Lush were here to get grossed out?) Don't know if it would help the old arse, but it were me I'd try it.

Yuck, what an awful flight, Schatzi! I hear American Eagle is pulling out of Bangor, sounds like it's no great loss. I am most impressed by your ingenuity with the hotel room furnishings, but I am dismayed that you didn't have a table to use! Are you still going to Boston or are you venturing further afield?

My hands hurt. I think I'll go watch TV. I had to do a lot of typing today because DH is in the middle of a project and can't use his right hand -- for much anyway. Turns out I make a lousy nurse, by the way. The dressing fI put on his leg this morning fell down while he was out at the grocery store today :o :lol:

Kiwi

I WAS RESISTING WATCHING 'THE NOTEBOOK' BECAUSE I WAS NOT INTERESTED IN A BAWL FEST----my step dd's have been hounding me to watch it for a few years---SO i finally relented since i am laying around on me arse anyway---all i can say is-----------I AM IN LOVE WITH RYAN GOSLING!!!!----okay,now---regarding the CHAFING!! i was laughing me arse off {wishful thinking} about your description of the thighs just 'sliding along'---haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa---and i too thought----LUSH WOULD HAVE A FIT--- we would all be put in turkey carcasses and rolled off the cliff!!--along with my roids i now have the horrible hormonal headache that ususally lasts three days or more---these ailments are just enough to make you very crabby

Woohoo Crabfest!!!
 

I have never seen The Notebook. Apparently I will now have to. Grumble Grumble. Just kidding. It's another fiery blazing hot day here in Frozen Tootsies. I know this heat won't last forever but oy it sure takes it out of you when there's no respite. I have about a dozen ice packs in the freezer; perhaps I could fashion a suit.

Speaking of the heat, the other night when we spent 3 hours in the ER, I told the nurse it was our anniversary and she said "How about that, mine was yesterday! How many years is it for you?" And I told her 21. She said it was 21 for her too! So we reminisced about how it was the hottest weekend of the century and where was your reception blah blah blah, and you didn't get married by the guy that skipped town, did you? :lol:

Hope Wabby is doing well. We miss you!! My Oregonian friends are here (the ones with the camp we've been swimming at) and they keep informing me about how there aren't any bugs there and it's never humid (except of course when you're stuck in a downpour for 3 months). I may have to cave in and go visit.

Ta

Helooooooooo! I'm not dead, just under supervision. One kid at camp, one kid at home hogging the 'puter and a DH that took Friday off so he could whine about how much time I spend on the internet. Also doing MAJOR decluttering. Major, I tell you. You wouldn't believe it. I may post pictures. Have plans to turn the bedroom into a Love Nest. As opposed to a Bore Fest. ;) Stenciling my be involved.

Kiwi! Boy, when you guys bash yourselves up you do it RIGHT! :D Hope everyone is healing up nicely. I had a huge blister on my little toe all week but I guess that doesn't even compare, does it? :dizzy: And the chafing! Yes! I understand! I REALLY hate it when my shorts get all bunched up and sweaty. Ouchy.

Peachy!!!!! This job is for YOUUUUUUUU! :hug: And once they find out how good you are you'll get more and more hours and they'll let you be the principal or the deputy or something.

Bagzie! "Wanton Summer Carousing" LOL! Dh said our neighbours drove off today with bikes on top of their car and left their kids at home. Kids, who are something like 15 and 20 are now having a rip roaring party in their garage and playing really bad German "pop" music. Should be an interesting night. Hope no one breaks anything.

Schatzi! - Eeew, awful seat mate and cheesy motel. Coming home must have seemed like paradise. You get this week's Patience of Job Award presented to you by this guy ---> :carrot:


Here's a joke:

Q: What does the Dentist of the Year get?
A: A little plaque. :D

i just read shatzi's account of her flight!!-TERRIBLE!!! i agree the seats are too small----i always am shocked by the teeny tiny amount of knee room and elbow room you have---who would EVER sit that close to anyone they don't know EVER!!!!

sugar, let's clear this up. If/when I get this job, I don't need more hours at it. It's fulltime.

I am so tired. it's 2:06 a.m. and so tired. Bye.

hey sugs!! i was asking the dd about music over there and she said there is alot of TECHNO----is that what you mean by awful?? i don't care for it myself---she seems to have found some cool stuff to listen to over there but she is more folk/indie for sure---i bought tickets to see Loreena McKennit in september--i love her----dd's danish bf's parents went to see her in denmark-----okay--i need to know who saw THE NOTEBOOK and i want to know what they thought and why-----------

ps-----------as kiwi was mentioning---if wabby is around ----all the hugs on the internet we can gather up are for her-----hope you are taking care......

wheeeeee
 

Ah yes, I understand now. I wasn't paying attention. Full time is GOOOOOOD. We can advise you on teacher wardrobe. Easy-care teflon pants and sensible shoes.

Well Techno IS awful but that's kind of out here now. I was talking more about kind of cheesy German pop music that no one but Germans like. Hard to explain. Somewhere between rock and roll and folk music.

Glad to note that everyone is making an appearance, even if there have been injuries to thighs and spirit. NO MORE CHAFING, OK?

DH with a little help from me, redid (i.e. cleaned, re-shelf-papered, and arranged the pantry yesterday. Apparently we had been providing some sort of love-nest for Indian rice bugs (?) that are either larvae, crawlie things or moths and liked our cereal and flour.

We are also hiring a man to trap and then remove squirrels. Two down and ??? to do. Better than them eating another hole in the roof.

Some worries related to perceived chape of "dimple" in "Thelma" the radiated breast. Will call oncologist tomorrow to see if HE can reassure me, or if there will be new, e$pen$ive tests. Bleah. It is kind of ruining my day.
Fortunately it is Sunday evening and maybe I can have a big gin and tonic and go to bed early.

Not very mature, but it'll do.

Oh, you are going to LOVE the concert -- DD saw her in Boston and said it was the best concert she had ever been to. And she went with me to the best concert I've ever been to, so it must have been awesome.

They have some nerve; don't they know that the internet is where you blow off steam? Do they really want to take that away? Hmmm? :club:

Yep, we do hurties right. DH took off the splint off his fingers to take a shower yesterday and informs me that he now knows why they put the splint on. OWWWWW! He has a bruise the size of a plate on his hip, nice and purple. And then there's the giant scrape all the way down his leg that is so raw it has to be covered. Anyway, my knee is barely a booboo anymore and the dog seems to have stopped bleeding. So we are healing nicely.

DD went away with the amour this morning for 2 days on the coast. I think this is the first time they've been alone away together. The good news is she was planning outings to the beach and horseback riding and more so maybe they'll get out of the room. Some. Oy. Isn't she too young? I was trying to remember the first time I went away with a BF and stayed in a motel. I think I was at least, um, 21... I remember going to Cape Cod for a concert over July 4th weekend without a reservation (how dumb is that?) and finding a tiny room with slanty ceilings for $6 a night. Took hours to find a vacancy, but the price was certainly right.

It is still unbearably hot around here. I need a kiddie pool.

Kiwi

Hey Painty -- hope you have good news and don't have to have more tests. G&T should help.

Glad to know I'm not the only one who deals with various critter problems. We had the bugs in the pantry a couple of times (plus mice) and I finally got to the point where absolutely everything that's not in a can or glass bottle is in a big plastic bin with a lid or removed into a big sealed glass canister. I've had mice eat entire sleeves of crackers before I noticed :rolleyes:. Such fun.

k

Hello!

Hi Cherry How's Trix??

I'm around........I read along for my daily dose of cheer........ I'm just way too incredibly sad to post.

Glad you're around, Wabby!

I have absolutely nothing to say. But Hello

kiwi

Hello works.

I updated my blog.

Oh Wabby! :hug: Words fail me.

I know. There is nothing to say that bears any worthwhile message. I'm just so glad Wabbo is hanging out here and letting us know she's around.

I am so tired. I'm not eating right. I'm eating well but there's too much sugar around and it's getting to me.

Does anyone watch these reality shows? The tennis player who is choosing between women 10 years older and 10 years younger? I like that one as the younger women seem so certain they're more adorable but they're definitely sillier. I think it's rigged, though, as he seems to alternate eliminating from each age group. And then there's the pirate show that was canceled mid-stream. I don't know if it has anything to do with it but one of the former pirates, a woman who seemed totally together and achieved much in life, took her own life recently.

LCP is due home tomorrow. I don't know what the deal is with her and ds. They don't seem to talk much anymore. The house is a tip and needs cleaning so she can get in the door, but I'm so tired.

I don't watch that one out of principle. The ads before it started made me mad -- an unsuspecting guy having old ladies foisted on him was what they made it sound like, and the whole "cougars vs kittens" characterization made me want to barf. I did watch one episode of the pirate thing but didn't think it was very good. I miss Amazing Race. I've been watching Bridezillas, just because they are so funny and unbelievable.

DH took some guys skeet shooting today. I had thought I'd go, but then I realized how hot it would be and also remembered that when I went shooting last winter, my OT guy had a fit. For good reason. That would hurt. So I'm home doing very little.

Kiwi

The unsuspecting guy keeps putting hands all over the old ladies while they're in bikinis ... and kissing them ... and giving/taking massages out of camera sight. Maybe he's just being polite though. ??

Don't shoot no skeets. Skeets are not good eating and they're cute.

I just listened to Frank McCord read his book Teacher Man. Nice. I thought it would be a book on how rewarding teaching is but it was an honest memoir of his bad experiences, including criticisms from other professionals and being fired from a teaching job. His wife was expecting a baby and the principal asked if he wanted a boy or girl. He said it didn't matter and the principal added, "As long as it's not an idiot." McCord replied that if it were, he'd teach it to be a principal. Fired.

One thing I got out of the book was that several times he got after a kid who was defiant or maybe not defiant only to learn that one thing he was bothered by was caused by deeply personal and tragic in that kid's life. One boy stared at him unceasingly until the day he had to move out of town. Then he came to McCord and told him he was the son of a woman McCord had known .. and cared about .. years ago.

Blah Blah.

I'm sure that's it.

I stopped reading at milepost 64-- just poppin in to say.. I am here... I think :) will post more when I can..right now I need 2 aspirin and a cold water... or chase it with an adult beverage. oy

hello cowpies--it is very hot here in coldville---strange global warming feature i am sure---since it is always cold it is hard to be upset about this lovely weather but i am sure it's not a good sign------someone call al gore for me--isn't he from your land??? a lady off the ship was complaining about our 14 percent sales tax---i told her it pays for our health care and she said========well i would pay those big taxes if i got free health care---i didn't tell her it wasn't top notch but i needed an excuse for the high tax!!!she was from virginia!

how do you like my neighbour's pansy patch??!!

I'm attaching a photo of our new improved pantry. I keep realizing things that went into the trash. It definitely will keep me from snacking and gorging.... (no crackers, no cereal, etc. etc.!)

Thanks for hanging in here with bad-boob Thelma.
I wish I were sure that the left over lumpectomy lump (scar tissue, etc.) felt bigger because the rest of me is smaller. But the scales aren't indicating any great loss that would make a 1 cm "hole" be big, you know?

I've got an appointment next week with a breast surgeon (my prior one moved to Michigan). My oncologist (out of town, wouldn't you know) was checking messages with his nurse, and gave her the message to get me in the queue. I've tracked down xrays, pathology reports, etc. etc. I'm still nervous, and haven't laid it on either DS or DD yet. (Their dad is having prostate surgery on Friday. I'm not sure their step mom wants them around, but I'm hoping they'll do what THEY feel is right. Oh, yeah, "fun times" as DS says.)

So after calling the mammography clinic, the old surgeon, the oncologist, etc. etc. etc. I was worn out emotionally. I skipped my drawing class this evening and DH and I went out for lasagna. Yeah, that'll probably toast my weight loss goal this week. (DD and I exchange weigh-in info on Wednesdays.) and then after the lasagna splurge, DH and I reverted to our favorite comfort... nope, not "that" but Peanut M 'n' M's for him and Choc. chip cookies for me.

Will definitely go to gym tomorrow, and if it is as nice as it was today, will probably also walk a bit to increase the cardio.

Cowie, thanks for the Frank McCourt anecdote about eejits and principals!! Laughed out loud.

Baggz... the pansie patch is gorgeous.... Which parrallel are you at that still has pansies? Pansies pooped out her in about March... and won't show up again for another 3 months, I think. Too hot.

ohhhh painty!!! i am sending the good vibes to you for that bad Thelma---she is such a brat!!! i am so tired of cancer---i am sure you are beyond the pale---i have a new friend just diagnosed with breast---just had a mastectomy six days after the biopsy---chemo to start next week----i have a friend who is not doing so well with it,she's on palliative chemo and another friend with colon cancer in remission---everyone is around fifty----AND my dd21 has a swollen lymph gland that has been like that for a year and they are finally going to see if it's "cancerous" as they so frighteningly put it for her last week----it makes me mad that er docs can casually say something like that to a kid but i am sick thinking about it---------it is a lymph gland that is just located under the area where she has had a terrible problem with a root canal that has been worked on for a few months and is still not resolved---that is why they haven't 'checked' it cause she has had infections in the area----i am praying that this is the reason---i don't appreciate the scare she has been given and in turn MY scare------------EFF!!!!!

:( Too many scary things! I'm sending healing thoughts :yoga: for all these tests.

Those are lovely pansies.

Oh, and I like that pantry too -- very nice and easy to clean. My pantry is in an old narrow closet. It's too deep to be convenient, although it does have 2 shelves that are angled slighty down and are divided, so you can put cans in it and they roll down to the front. Unfortunately when you have to clean it, it's not at all fun. Rather painful as a matter of fact.

I need someone to tell me what to do. I am aimless.

DD and bf got home from their romantic getaway (as I insist on calling it to annoy DH). They had a good time.

I'm sweaty. From sitting still. Blecch.

Painty, put down that :cookie:

no painty---don't put it down---pass one over here. kiwonk---with this heat,aimless is all we can do----painty---we have pansies from spring til winter---never too hot for pansies but often too cold~-----i am going to the seashore {down the street} to cool off----ds wants to frolic in the ocean--it's freezing cold--no one swims in it -----mostly just running in and out of little waves--------

Bill Clinton is coming here and anyone who will donate $2,300 to Hilary's campaign can go to the dinner where he'll speak. So...... if anyone here will lend me $2,300, I promise not to spend it on hearing Bill.

I am depressed again. I called the principal of the potential school and felt he was giving me double-talk. The director of the whole string of these schools is on vacation til next week. Enrollment may be down. They need a certificate from me. Truthfully, I know they don't need a certificate and I can't get a certificate without a job. I have what they need but it's not sorted out nicely and the DOE will probably take another 30-35 days to get around to me. I don't want to feel like this again.