i am sooooooooo tired -----summer is seeming too long this year----and shock of shocks---it's actually been nice weather here---why it was even really hot yesterday`!!! today we had a nice ocean breeze but it was still warm and the market is ungodly hot--they don't have air conditioning and those machines humming all day are deadly {pop machines,pizza ovens etc} my shop is between two restaurants and their big ovens back onto my walls!!!gross!!! the tourist season has been decent,much better than spring that's for sure!!---dh finished up his vacation and is all bummed out about getting back to work--the CBC is cutting back--like everyone and he is the only reporter in our end of the province most of the time. i have been freaking out at these teen/young adults who are living in my home this summer---for the mess they still leave and the hours they keep and their insistance on driving around in the middle of the night coming home on the damn moose highways. Last night THREE teenage boys were killed in a car crash----they think they were avoiding an effin moose. that's what the radio report said--------how horrifying is that. sometimes i think i should have been a nun or at least celibate. here is my question for the day-----last month my plague was early---this month it is late----AM I GETTING THE MENTAL PAUSE???? I HOPE SO CAUSE I AM SICK OF GETTING THE PLAGUE EVERY 28 DAYS-----------------lush hated such talk but she ain't here so help me out hotcows-----------------maybe we are in heat cause we are having flashes???? fill me in ,tanks!!

Are you saying that for the past 57 years, your plague has come always on time, every 28 days? That is too weird. It's supposed to change. You're supposed to adjust to other women around you so maybe it's the battallion of teen girls you keep in your attic.

I have knitted today. I finished a sock and it is adorable.

Weather Forecast fer NC Today: 99 with a "realfeel" of 116.

ewwww hot flashes in 100 degree weather.. How to know if it's really a hot flash...Discuss.

hmmm: Bagz is going Mental... This should make fer interesting posts in the coming years.. Pre-mentapause, peri-mentalpause, mentalpause, and postmental pause... to many phases to this .. I would say you are entering the preperimentalpause state.

so after looking at over 20 properties we hit on 2 possibly 3 that look like candidates.. We shall revisit them on Saturday... We also have a BBQ /Pig roast to go to ..hopefully a "real one" --apparently what I call a Pig roast, is called a Pig Pickin in these parts..who knew Dh may decide against this pig pick due to the unbearably hot weather... such a wieny..

Apparently yard adornments are big down here. We looked at a property where the neighbor had decorated the front lawn with old rocking horses and bowling balls. Another was adorned with what looked like old doll heads placed on top of garden gnomes...and Dan's Appliance Store is out doors... apparently all unwanted broken dryers, fridges,washers and stoves circa 1970 - 2000 end up scattered about the property. Another property had promise..it sat between 2 roads. It was oddly shaped on one side, like it went straight and then curved in and then out again.... Road 1... nice...folks are already clearing land fer their homes... Road 2 where the loopy cut out was... we ran into an old boat, purple jacuzzi, rusty trucks and cars, and a band of gypsy/squatters in pop up trailers. We pulled up and watched a guy pump the contents of his trailer septic thingy out into the woods... he grinned.. and pointed to A big sign posted on a boat: NO TRASPASSING. YOU WILL BE SHOT.

Shotsy, don't move there. Keep looking. You will get hepatitis from the sewage if nothing else. I am sick thinking about it. Oh, I'm sick anyway but this makes it worse.

Kiwi, when does your dd leave ????? I'm down to Two Weeks and I am a wreck. Bagz needs to chime in on how easy it gets.

Peachez, didn't you read Bagz's post???? She's telling you how hard it is when they come back!!!! You'll get used to having your home to yourself and when they come back the chaos (although you love them to bits) will drive you nutz.

I'm puppysitting DD's weiner dog this weekend. She is not trained at all. She barks incessantly, she runs away from you when you call her, she pees in the floor when she gets excited. I can hardly wait.

Schatzy, don't get in a hurry. Find the perfect property.

Bagz, it sounds like the mentalpause to me. I'm in the same mode. Just when you think you might be all done with it, you wear white pants and blam! Aunt Flo stops by for a visit.

OKAY!!! WABBY IS CORRECT!!! AT FIRST IT'S TERRIBLE WHEN THEY TAKE LEAVE!!! IT'S SAD AND YOU CRY AND THEIR ROOMS LOOK SO SAD-----HOWEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-----when they return they are different people---they are not used to being "MONITORED" {as i was loudly reminded this week} and they do whatever the blazes they want and come in and out as they please and never clean up {never did anyway,what's new here} and they are still adorable ,interesting people BUT YOU GET USED TO YOUR OWN SPACE AND IT'S NOT SO BAD AT ALL!!!!!---- this summer i notice it even more----dd20 definitely wants her own space and i think i bug her more than she bugs me. As for the steppers--they are not babies at all {they are 20,18 and 16} two of them will be in university this fall bringing the total to FOUR dd's at college--------------did i mention we are broke!!!!!!!!-----

They are not working their ways through college by flipping hamburgers? Or Timmy-burgers? Well, you have made me feel better and I love you and have been surveying my sock yarn thinking what you would like. I am on Sugar's second sock because now that school is over I have time for this sort of thing.

DS is making dinner. It's his idea and involves potatoes and leeks. I am ordering in bbq just in case the potatoes and leeks don't fill up my ample gut. Do you think Lusch is still made because of the turkey carcass remark?

My DS had to get a new tire. They just the other 3 were fine but the one had a lump. So then he says it pulls to the left and I made him go back. They adjusted it and now it pulls to the right. He doesn' tmuch want to bother them. So I called and they have some confusing stuff to say about a belt being crooked in "one" of the tires (perhaps the new one?) and they'll have to put it on the back until it works that out. I think the new one was put on the front. I will have to take care of this? I don't want to. This is one of those guy things ...

Speaking (loosely) of guys, I may have said that I saw Herbie and the woman he dumped me for at a play. Herbie looked like he'd lost weight and didn't look good. The woman I only saw from the back but she was wider than before and has this evil hair cut (closecut short wavy) that the mistress of an orphanage in an impoverished cousntry would have. She had one of her dd's with her. Adorable, of course, but with a very long torso and very short legs and an attitude of being fed up with the whole scene.

I have a great big whine that is worse than kids leaving for school, or coming back from school for the summer --- DD lost her job 2 1/2 months ago. At first DH said help her out ---- we wouldn't want her to move back in! --- now he's saying exactly how much is this costing??? I'm stressed b/c I don't know how much to help and how much to let her handle her own problems. I do know that this month after month of paying all her bills is really straining my budget. I want her to get back into school and do something other than bartending --- she says she'd like to, but can't afford it -- but since I'm paying her bills anyway, I don't know why not. I think she should get a part time bartending job, get a student loan for her education, and DH & I could help her out with the rest of her bills. When I try to talk to her she gets all emotional and disolves into tears and we never get anything settled. I'm not really asking for advice, just a hug.

By the way, Bagz, here's a hug for you 4 DD's in college??? argh!!!!

I will hug you Wabbo.

And I was thinking ... if the five dd's all get married and have little bagzettes, how broke will Big Bagz be at Christmas time then? Will this put a dent into the Christmas Display fund?

I have been home all day and want go to on the Bob Barker Show and win a car.

for everyone!

That cellphone thing has me thinking: what do you suppose the parents of the half-naked girlfriend thought of the whole episode? Maybe they were durn happy the teacher ratted the kid out! I know our local schools have a policy that any kid's backpack or locker, or even car parked on school grounds can be searched. The schools make it crystal clear, so the kids shouldn't think they can get away with anything.

The digit that got reduced belong to DDbf's little brother. He works with his carpenter dad every day and last week he had an accident with the table saw. He had a piece of wood kick back on the saw and drag his thumb through it -- cut off the end of it. They were not able to sew it back on, but they hope to save the use of the thumb (just shorter). Poor kid has been in a lot of pain. Fortunately it's not his writing hand. And he doesn't play the piano like BF

We've been sailing this weekend with the various visiting people. The Oregonians went back home today. We had a gorgeous weekend and actually got out there and sailed for a change! Beautiful. DD went camping with all her friends, including BF. 10 kids, 2 tents. She says they slept under the stars last night.

Bagz, you've got a ways to go before you get rid of the plague altogether. Might be the beginning of it though. Takes months or years.

DD leaves on the 24th. Her BF wants to drive her to school. We are thinking of letting him. Hard to believe, eh? Actually the first week is an optional orientation program she signed up for where she will be in a community service group and not at the campus for most of the time. She won't be able to get in her room until the 30th. That's when we'll drive down with all her stuff and meet her. She will have to be all packed before the 24th though -- all we're going to do is load it into the car. So I say now. I anticipate several phone calls of more things to find and pack for her during that week...

So anyway, less than 3 weeks. I'm in denial.

Dd's roommate (and her family) is moving from Penn. to N.C. a week and a half before she starts college. Sounds like really bad timing, doesn't it?

Heehee nice Herbie sighting, Peachie.

Bummer about DD's difficulties, Wabbit. Of course you want her to be independent, but how can you not try to help too?

Kiwi

Kiwi ... we need to start a support group for mommies whose kids have forgotten what good care we took of them and who now are going off to make new friends without grey hair.

It was the mommy of the halfnekked girl who sued the school for invasion of privacy.

You also need a support group for friends of yours who have digit-mishaps. This is strange.

Tomorrow I take a middle school comprehensive test. If I can do the math as ds has taught me, I will pass. Everybody say good luck and yay.

That's just twisted. About the stupid halfnakedgirl's parents. Instead of blaming the teacher, the school ought to be threatening to expell the girl and her boyfriend for indecency if they insist on suing. It's odd, actually, that the teacher supposedly had no right to look at the phone, because in our schools the kids are told that their lockers, backpacks, everything they bring onto school property could be searched, even their cars I think.

Good luck on the middle school test. I feel sure you can do middle school math (Mouse over that smiley for a message!)

I think it's something about living in this area that makes people risk injury while working. We need more desk jobs for the fainter of heart among us. Personally I don't want to run either a snowblower or a table saw.

Should be start an Empty Nest Mommy Group? DDbf's mom is enlisting me for impromptu drives south to visit the kids. She will have 3 in school, 1 at home (with a big bandage on his hand...). I'm sure DD will be thrilled to see us.

Kiwi