This is the program they push these days in the high schools to organize parties for after prom and after graduation to keep the kids from drinking and doing drugs. They have had one after graduation for several years I guess -- they have them come to the bowling alley (I'm sure the kids were really good bowlers from all the practice they had at our party the day before... ) and they stay all night, and they give out prizes and feed 'em good and let 'em bowl and play pool and arcade games and lots of other stuff. Then in the morning they go out to breakfast and go home. The rafting trip after the prom was part of the chem-free party -- they had to show up at the party after prom and stay all night to get to go rafting. The key to the whole thing is that they can't leave the party and come back, so nobody can go get drunk and return. The kids had a good time. DD won a stereo -- there were also dorm refrigerators and camcorders and other good stuff. Cool, huh?
NC does have its share of thunderboomers, but I don't remember extremely wet springtimes -- maybe it's just this year, because we are practically flooded here this year too. What I mostly remember about rainstorms in Charlotte was in the summer. Every afternoon like clockwork we'd get a thunderstorm. "Everybody out of the pool!" Half an hour or so later, it would all stop and we'd get back in. When I got older and was working or driving somewhere, a lot of the time the traffic lights would crap out during one of these. Wow, did I hate that. All that traffic and no stop lights. ~shudder~
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So Kiwi ... hmmm ... you've got this jar of peanut butter on the third shelf over the stove and a highway of ants coming and going up the wall and .. you squash?? You squash and squash and squash? Really?
No, silly Peachie, close the peanut butter jar!!
As a matter of fact, yes. I have put out several different kinds of traps and they do either no good at all or very little good. So yeah, squashing it is.
I think your kitties will be fine. Have fun!
I'm going to take my mom for a long drive Don't worry, it will be fun.
we have left the cats for a weekend and just put out LOTS of food and water {and litter!!}----just put out extra water if you think it will evaporate----lots and lots----make an island in the tub that they can sunbathe on and fill the moat with water!!!----kiwonk---they have an alcohol and drug free party here,but they still manage to have a big drunk fest at another time!!!
We have a chem free grad party here too, so they just postpone the big drunken brawl until the next night.
You know everyone thinks Oregon is so rainy, but from late June until the end of September we can go a month or 2 without any rain whatsoever. My water bill is horrible, then the clouds move in around November and we don't see the sun for months. We very seldom get lightning.
The only ant problem I've had is w/ those huge black carpenter ants. DH sprayed with toxic waste around the perimeter of the house and we haven't had any more problems.
Peach, go to the pet store and buy one of those automatic pet waterers that holds a jug of water upside down and fills the bowl automatically. They're pretty cheap. We had one for my weiner dog when she had diabetes and drank gallons of water every day. Poor doggie.
Happy Anniversary, Sugar Plum! Wow, 16 years. We are coming up on 20. My mother mentioned it the other day, that we are coming up on 20 and my sister & BiL are coming up on 10 years. Somebody said, "what are you going to do to celebrate?" DH and I looked at each other and I said "Pity party?" and he said "Good idea"
Had a lovely dinner out tonight, sponsored by my mom. We took Dd and bf along. Then we went for a drive up where I took my mother yesterday -- we saw several moose in the water then so we thought we'd see if there were any tonight. Sure enough, there were several, pretty far from the road, but one big bull moose with an impressive rack was right near the road munching on water plants. Kept looking at us. Made my mom's day. I'm tard.
I took yesterday off to do all the stuff that stay at home wives get to do every day. I paid my household bills, I did a couple loads of laundry, I went shopping for 2 wedding gifts, 1 graduation gift, 4 Father's day cards, 2 Father's day presents, went and took my geezer eye test so I could renew my driver's license that has beed expired since my birthday in April, bought a few groceries. geez. It's hard work to be a domestic goddess. Then DH said "I thought you were going to clean the house". Yes, he still has his head..... lucky for him.
Toxic waste is the stuff at the exterminator's that you have to ask for.... they keep it behind the counter. We also have to take our neighbor, Bob with us b/c he has an applicator's license b/c he has a small vineyard that he has to spray all the time w/ nasty chemicals. Bob buys our ant killer for us.
I was driving home yesterday when my sis in law called. She was stuck in traffic in 110 degree heat on the Phoenix freeway. I was stopped on a country road waiting for 2 deer to sloooowly move out of the way on a perfect 72 degree sunny day. I have a good life.
16 and 20 years of matrimonial bliss.... it will be 28 years for us this fall..... and me, so young and lovely still. I'm sure glad I still like him.
I picture your town like the one on Northern Exposure, Kiwi, complete w/ moose.
I forgot to tell you how devastating it was to get a new picture for my driver's license and to tell them my revised weight. Turning 50 is bad enough, but why do they have to humiliate me w/ this little routine? Aaaaarrrrgggghhhhh.--- and excuse me, Peach, but this was not a pleasant experience. I wouldn't mind the turning 50 if I was in good shape, but I'm not. Pictures don't lie. damn it.
Toxic waste is the stuff at the exterminator's that you have to ask for.... they keep it behind the counter.
I never even thought of exterminators as having a counter. Not having dealt with any since I was a kid in NC -- I always thought you just called them up and they came to your house.
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I picture your town like the one on Northern Exposure, Kiwi, complete w/ moose.
Not far off. The town is a lot bigger, but not much more going on... Saw another moose by the side of the interstate while I was driving my mom to the airport.
I'm with you -- 72 degrees and a country road beats 110 and traffic any day.
I'm changing my ticker. A pound is a pound. Apparently I sweated it out while watching 3 dance recital performances (that's about 10 hours of dance) in the stuffy sweaty auditorium. Whatever works, eh?
I am ditching my in-laws today. I woke up with a migraine and figured that was a good enough excuse to be unsociable. It's father's day and I sent a card home with my mom to give my step-dad and I'm calling it good. DD can do the father honors today for DH, she's old enough for heaven's sake.
I don't believe I've told the truth on a driver's license for 20 years. I shave off as much as I think I can get away with. The only people who get to know how much I weigh are you guys and the doctor's scale (which is obviously set too high...)
I am still not dead.
I am still fat.
Are any of you chalking up weight-loss successes? If so, how and how do you stick with it. I can be "on a diet" for about 15 minutes... usuallyjust AFTER I've eaten.
Miz Painty, I can't speak for the whole herd, but I've not been behaving myself diet wise. It's summer time and I don't want to bare this blubber. I'm seriously thinking of going to the fake and bake b/c I figure tan blubber always looks thinner than white blubber. Either way it ain't pretty.
We went to a wedding on Saturday. The couple was young and sweet. They made up part of their vows. Very touching. Sunday we drove all the way to Seattle to look at a car DH is thinking of buying. A '57 Chev. Don't all men want a '57 Chev? He made an offer. We don't really need it, but he said he'd sell the Harley to buy it so I'm happy. He's had 3 friends wipe out on their Harleys in the last 2 months, so he's getting smart and selling the d*mn thing. I actually forgot to call my Dad on Father's Day. We were soooo tired when we got home yesterday my brain wasn't working. We're doing a belated Father's Day bbq tonight for DH, DS and Gmpa Jim.
My DIL has lost all the baby weight and looks fabulous. 60 lbs in 4 months. Is that possible???? I think you have to be young and nursing a baby and veeerrrrry motivated.
I wonder if he would have called me on it if I would have told the DMV clerk that I weighed 120? I think it's rude enough that they put me through the vision test because I turned 50.
I never go on a diet anymore. I think it's dangerous. I've been on enough of them to know that the chances are about 100% for me that I will gain back all the weight and then some. I've been very tempted by the South Beach Diet; it's the only one where I've personally seen good results from people I know. But if it feels like a diet -- i.e. more work than regular food preparation, regular periods of hunger -- it's not going to fly for me.
The only way I ever lose any weight these days is by small changes, skipping a snack, going to bed a little earlier, getting some extra exercise. It's not a plan, it's more like an accident.
We have some video compiled, and dh is experimenting with a faster method of transferring it to dvd. Does everyone who wanted to see video of dd have a dvd player? If you have a dvd player on your computer that will work too. (It says "DVD" on the drive door probably, instead of Compact Disc) Otherwise I can make VHS tapes.
Here's what I need to do today. This is why we need Lushie here, so she can remind us that we should have lists of things to do...
Write thank you notes (not for DD, for people who helped me with the grad party)
Clean up the junk next to the bathroom sink
Wash the car
Trim the weeds around the house
Take the dog for a walk -- or a swim!
Return defective piano tuning manual
Order itty bitty part for Rosie the Robot
DD went to the grocery store to check on her employment app, and I gave her the grocery list. So that's one more thing I will accomplish today Delegation is a wonderful thing. And DH is working on the sailboat (it's still in the yard, in the middle of June ), so I may actually get something done today.
Here's a depressing bit of news: My adorable nephew and his very gorgeous wife who got married in Charleston a little over a year ago, are breaking up already. Her decision apparently. Sux, eh?
DH says his experiment with the dvd didn't work and he's back to square one. Clearly what we really need is to spend big bucks on some new hardware for the computer...
) and they stay all night, and they give out prizes and feed 'em good and let 'em bowl and play pool and arcade games and lots of other stuff. Then in the morning they go out to breakfast and go home. The rafting trip after the prom was part of the chem-free party -- they had to show up at the party after prom and stay all night to get to go rafting. The key to the whole thing is that they can't leave the party and come back, so nobody can go get drunk and return. The kids had a good time. DD won a stereo -- there were also dorm refrigerators and camcorders and other good stuff. Cool, huh?
When I got older and was working or driving somewhere, a lot of the time the traffic lights would crap out during one of these. Wow, did I hate that. All that traffic and no stop lights. ~shudder~
Don't worry, it will be fun.
Delegation is a wonderful thing. And DH is working on the sailboat (it's still in the yard, in the middle of June 
), so I may actually get something done today.