wabby,once i promised to behave i immediately wanted to say the eff word. ****. it's like a diet---once you decide to go on one,you buy a bad of ****in chips.

Wabby!!! So glad you are here.

I am not behaving myself. Inspired by three-year-olds with whom I am acquainted, I am pulling up my top and pointing to Sugar. "Sugar pulled up her top Miss Wabby!!!"

The kids are gone and I have three days to work next week with just adults. We have a snitch. First, I wondered why I was getting calls at work from the director about things I hadn't said to her. Then I got written up for something I said and I thought about who was in the room. Then I realized that in the kitchen, when no teachers are present, teachers get talked about big time. So the cook is out. She had surgery and guess what!! She is being talked about by the same snitch. Cook burns the food, doesn't cook enough, doesn't season, etc. Snitch does it better and is doing it while Cook recuperates. I don't know why I'm saying all this. Nothing better to say I guess. Today, I heard snitch tell director that a certain teacher gets uglier every day and one parent looks like something off the Adams Family. Professional? Hmmmm

Wabby ... my top is down now. I am SO GLAD you're here !!!!

Yay Wabby!!

I'll behave, because I'm boring like that.

Today was the big graduation reception at school. I decided not to go to the ceremony itself. Now I have my stuffed tiger!

I hope I'll exercise and clean next week, but I suspect I will sleep and surf.

Kiwi, I also checked for your Zazzle stamp & nothing yet.

Hey hey hey hey I got a Christmas card today. It was all folded over because it didn't fit in the envelope. Ok. Not really. It fit PER FECT LY and was from ta-da ... uh ... it was from Shhhhhhhaaa .... Shah Tse.

XOXOXOX

Wabby so so happy you posted!
I don't behave. As me Irish Grandpop "Cap" (that's fer Captain) use to say: "Aye, Colleen (yes, he called me colleen) Ye'd give the Deevil himself ulcers"

Kiwi:Stamps up!!! That is a beautiful shot of Mt.Kahatin.

Cowie: I hate snitches..is she an old wizened prune that wears a hairnet???

Congrats on graduating Cherry!!!

I spend Thursday afternoon and all day yesterday in bed with a migraine.. or sinus headache...my ears were stuffed up and piercing pain.. but all is good in Schatziworld today. We're going to see that 10 acre tract again.. We had nixed it because the powerline poles that were suppose to be moved were only plotted to be moved 50 feet - which still was too close and tooo unsightly for us... so the developer talked to Duke Power and apparently they restaked it sooo we are going to see if it is moved to where we think it should be--that is straddling the property line and inbetween a swath of trees. Theres also a plot that has the Eno River in the back that I want to look at - could be that I could just walk back there and plop my kayak in...

That IS a beautiful picture. The kids would say it's a shadow of the sky. They learned about shadows and are sticking with that concept whenever possible.

DS and LCP are coming today. Who is going to clean my house? I have this problem repeatedly and no one takes a hint. I decided what I would want for Christmas if I were rich rich rich. My shoppers would find clothes I like, buy two, and replace the size label in mine with a smaller number. The extra clothes can be donated.

Colleen, she's an old prune fer sure. Now, I have to vacuum. Wears a hairnet in the kitchen. Smaller than me. Haggy saggy face. I have to vacuum!!! STOP ME>

Procrastination 3:

Me: Where are you?

DS: At the mall?

Me: What mall?

DS: THE mall.

I am so not liking this cleaning crap.

Speaking of which, old prune asked director (who she snitches to) wouldn't she do things differntly if she was young and knew what she knew not. Answer: I wouldn't have all these d**n kids, that's for sure.

She has three.

KICK ME AND MAKE ME VACUUUUM

now follow my list:

1) Go to closet
2) Remove all junk on top of vacuum
3) dislodge vacuum from closet
4) Change the bag or empty cannister
5) Replace bag or cannister
6) Move junk away from outlet
7) plug in vacuum
8) Take a break
9) turn on vacuum
10) make up and down motion with arm to make vacuum go
11) take a break
12) call DS to come home and finish vacuuming

I am doing that except skipping steps 4 and 5. Will that still work? Shots, I think you're beginning to catch on to how cow clean!! Well, Bagz's home is gorgeous but I think her gay friends clean it. Wabby's home is beautiful, too, judging from the gardens but she doesn't let us see the inside so there's probably mail from 1998 on the tv. Sugar cleans a spot then takes pictures of it for her blog. (Sugar, you whole house can't look like that??!!?) Kiwi and I offer no excuses.

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR STUFFED TIGER!! I MEAN YOUR GRADUATION!!!

Wabby, I'm so glad you have wandered back in here. We missed you! I would try to behave, but I think I forgot how.

That sounds rather heavenly. I need a ploppable kayak, then I could do that too. We have a friend's sea kayak that we can use until they want it back, but it's soooo long I find it quite difficult to take anywhere by myself.

I think I want to start cleaning like Sug. Just a few nice clean spots and then I'll take photos and post them. Maybe I'll make stamps out of them. My mother would appreciate it. I still have photos of my dryer from when I cleaned it off. Seriously. Doesn't look like that now however, so the photos are not of any lasting motivational value.

Here's my list:

1. Oh my gosh, write a list.

Kiwi

Kids are here. Legs intertwined. Ignoring me.

Teenage porn at Cowies House!!!

Sooos anyway.. Kiwiner: Alas, No probability of kayak plopability at this Enos River land... DH forewarned me not to get my hopes up as the Eno starts pretty much right where all this land fer sale is...and Sho' nuf' taint nuthin' but a muddy drip ...and heavily wooded.. which means mucho bucks to clear and what not......
But! We then went to see the Promised but nixed land... and the electric pole things have been staked at the property line.. in between a swath of trees... as near perfect as ya ken get I guess... and so, we shall make an offer!!! And they shall counter... and we shall make another offer!!! and they shall take it.... and then we enter the WHAT THE F did we DO period..to be followed by the WHAT the F Do we do Now !!period...
and well it will just continue to spiral and cost more money from there.


PS. DH has just informed me that he wants to go on vacation next year... I'm thinking a cruise...but NO adventurous DH would like to ...................................

(None of you will EVER guess : So I dare ya's What will the Schatzinators be doing on vacay next year ?)

I neglected to say, that my migraine returned earlier today whilst walking the 2 lunatics. I came home - took 2 aspirins and put an icepack on my head. During my agony I caught a glimpse of my True self in the mirror- adorned with a ice full ziplock atop my head and SHUDDER - GASP -- I am FAT, and trollish..

I'm not sure what the height limit is for enrollment in the Little People of America, I know I'm on the high side - but I think I qualify-- but my weight may disqualify me -I may have to become an Ooompa Loompalah.