WOW, its 8:15 CST and nobody has started the chat post for the day? Is everyone still sleeping here? Today looks like its going to be a good day here in IL, its only soposed to be in the low 70s...I love that kind of weather!! It's not going to be to exciting of a day today, just have more classwork to do and we have to take Kelsay to the dr because when she went in for her physical I guess they forgot to do a lead test on her and since she is at my dads house (his house was built in the 1850s) they want her tested again, even though she was tested last year and she tested negative and we where still living there at that point. Owell, it'll get me out of the house I guess.
Hope everyone has a great day!!!
< =text/>_popupControl(); I should be sleeping lol. Doc forgot one of my scripts and of course yesterday was his day off so today it is run back to the doc office and the only time I can get a ride is early this morning lol. I can't wait for the truck to be done!!!!
It sooo nice here today. We won't hit the 70's up here today tho. Only going to be 65. Which for me is way better than 85 and humid!!
Howdy all,
It's going to be another hot one here. Yesterday passed 90, today probably will too. We NEED some rain. My well is running dry. We're supposed to get some rain tomorrow - sure hope we get a lot. Jamie took his usual long shower this morning, and then there wasn't enough water for Dan. EEK!
Well I thoroughly enjoyed Boston Legal last night, and tonight is a new episode of Ghost Hunters at 9:00 eastern time on the Sci-Fi channel. Life is good!!!
Before that though I have to work a Volunteer Fair at the theatre, recruiting new volunteers. It is scheduled to be over at 8:00 so I'll be able to get home in time for my ghosties!
Good morning all,
Not sure what the weather is going to be like in Massachusetts today however looking out the window it's sunny and I think cool because my trees are whipping in the back yard from the wind. Isabel was up at 5:45 am this morning and now has fallen asleep on the sofa. So, I'm enjoying a quiet cup of coffee and checking in.
Shannon, another lead test is a good idea even if Kelsay tested negative last year. Lead is such a dangerous thing for little ones. Isabel has lead posioning which she contracted from her grandmother's house. My house is over 100 years old and there was lead paint here but no chipping. Grandmother's house is newer and public housing so one wouldn't think that there would be lead paint there. Especially considering it's family public housing where other children live not just visit as Isabel did. But Grandma's house had chipping lead paint which increases the risk to children.
I've been knitting Christmas ornaments for our tree this year. Yes, I know it's a bit early to be worrying about Christmas however I'm not as quick of a knitter as I used to be so... Isabel being 2 is very hard on regular ornaments so I figured knit ones would be nice. Also gives me something to do with when my RA allows. I've already made about 12 candy cane ornaments and am now working on Santa booties. Hopefully RA will continue to be good to me so I'll have enough for the tree in a couple of months.
Aside from this our day will consist of a trip to the library and grocery store for basics. Milk, juice and bread.
Hope everyone has a good day.
Hugs,
Steph
Good Morning Everyone
Ya'll seem good this am to be up so early! Yay! Little Pooch wouldn't let me sleep in
Our wearher is glorious today, cool and sunny. Supposed to be all week, we need rain too Karen. I remember a few years back when our well got low and we would run out of water. Trey would always take too long of showers and we'd have to wait until the pressure built up for us to have any water
Well I need to clean and do laundry, yesterday was a complete waste on that end
I'm with you Gramma, I'll take cool weather over hot anyday (dang hot flashes)
Hope everyone has a great day. Be safe and painfree!
Happy Birthday to your 21 year old Lori!
My little girl is doing good. Thanks for asking. The docs are talking about taking her off the lead medication as her lead levels are now closer to normal range. Fingers crossed! Lead posioning is very dangerous in children. From what I've learned with this situation, it can cause brain damage, learning disabilities, emotional and physical issues. I had Isabel tested within a few months of finding out she had lead posioning and fortunately she had no effects from this. However, my neighbor's granddaughter is autistic and they think that may have been caused by lead posioning she had as an infant. It's really scary stuff. One of the reasons it's so dangerous is that it attaches itself to muscle, bone, brain etc. It's not content to just float around in the blood.
Gosh thats great Steff! What is the treatment if you don't mind me asking? Did routine checking find it or were you suspicious?
The treatment is DMARD medication. The first one the docs put her on called DMSA caused an allergic reaction. Not a fun thing to have her being unable to keep down even a sip of water. The second one called d-penicillamine is doing the job for her. It's a capsule that I have to break up into quarters and put it in juice. Anything without calcium as calcium in any amount deactivates the medicine rendering it useless. We've had a fun time with that. There's calcium in almost everything. We recently had a set back because of this. There was calcium in the fruit and grain bars she liked. So, all the medicine we gave her for the month did nothing and her lead level went back up a few points. However, learning my lesson from this I read the labels on everything now before I let her have it close to medicine time.
No, I wasn't suspicious at all. My mother had the house tested before she passed away by a "friend" and he told her there was no lead in the house. But he only checked 3 rooms and there was lead in the 3 he didn't check. I hope she didn't pay him for this. As it turns out, even though my home had high lead count because the house is over 100 years old, lead inspectors don't believe that Isabel got lead posioning here. Rather and this is scary, they think she got it at her grandmother's house. Which is public housing for families. When they did the inspection of my home, they found lead but no chipping. When they did hers she had chipping lead paint which I guess makes it easier for a child to contract lead posioning. Fortunately, I had taken Isabel to the pediatrician for her 18 month checkup and because she hadn't been tested for lead posioning in Florida and we lived in an old house, they did it here. This is when they found she had very high levels of lead in her body.
Wow Steff how scary. I'm so glad your baby is ok. Good luck to her in the futureI'm awake! FINALLY! Katie, I told Kelsay yesterday that her prayers worked and what you told me and she was soooo happy...It was really cute. Glad Justin is feeling better!Yay! I told Justin and I swear he got misty eyed. You know how he is about prayer and religion (I think I've told you all? Maybe not.....) It REALLY touched him that such a little girl who doesn't even know who he is would stop and think about him. You have to tell Kelsay that Justin says thank you very much. I will definitly relay that to Kelsay.
I am in a bummed mood today, I guess. I just feel blah and want to sleep. I have ate about 6 kit-kat snack paks (2 sticks per pack = 1 whole kit-kat). Yeah, that was breakfast.
My right thigh muscle keeps twitching! It is weird feeling. Do not know why it is doing it either.
Sooo... what's for dinner, everyone? I am already ready for din-din < =text/>_popupControl(); I do not mind winter. I am just not a summer person that enjoys the heat. I want to live some place where it is 75 degrees year round all the time lol.
Got my meds without a problem this morning and had a nice time chit chatting with my g/f. Now I am enjoying my whole 45 minutes of alone time between Danny leaving for work and the girls coming home from school. I do feel a nap coming on too lol. I love these nice quiet no drama days sometimes!!!
Golly, I went to get a drink over 3 hrs ago, Poochie jumped on the bed and wanted to play, we played for about 15 mins, fell asleep, and just woke up to the phone ringing!
Oh, Mo I'm glad you said that. I have to get some laundry started
You're welcome Link and I do too! But now I'm hungry and want dinner
Katie and Justin, you guys sound like you are doing much better! nap hog... so what's for lunch? huh?
both boys are working today so hubby and I get to play empty nesters for the evening. Last night he was on-line for hours searching for a night time job he can do so he can be home with me during the day... he's really worried. I am being lazy! it is 2:30 here and I am lying about in bed still. Not hungry though, which is a good thing...
Joonie, step away from the kit kats! lol. I love em so share
Liz, we gotta catch up one of these days...
Deb
I cooked a roast....lots of roasted veg and yorkshire puds. yum
We had some bad news tonight. When we went to Cornwall on holiday we met up with Barrys (DH) Cousin and his children. One of the cousins sons was a stockbroker in USA and came home for a while, he was feeling a bit depressed and then last week he walked into a department store, picked up a knife and cut his throat. He was 24 years old and a really bright young man. I am so shocked as we had dinner with them and he seemed to be getting better,
Life can be so cruel. Please send your thoughts to them for some comfort.
Sorry to hear about the young man, that's terrible that he thought that his life was so bad that he had to resort to that action :(
What are "yorkshire puds" ?? I'm assuming potatoes of some kind?
Dear Lord Pin thats horrible! How sad, I am so sorry for your family. Why in the word would he use a knife *shudders* and in a dept. store? Of course you can't answer that, just trying to wrap my mind around such a tradgedy. Ya'll will all be in my thoughts and prayers
Well Kelsay had her lead test done today so we'll find out in 3-4 weeks what the result is. Hopefully it is all ok. Which Im sure it is if it was negative last year.
Hello all, I am so glad that everyone is here.
Pin...I am so very sorry about your cousin. What a sad thing that he would feel that is the only way out. I am so sorry.
Katie...sleep young lady sleep! I am so glad that Justin is improving and you are getting rest. Continue with that, and be sure to talk openly about the situation.
Shannon...I just love your little Kelsey and her wonderful heart.
Mona...I came home from subbing literature all day, and then laid down, and ya the phone was ringing and it was Jeff. He said...did I wake you...yep...I had to figure out just where I was. I guess sometimes our body's tell us what they need.
Lizzie...I am soooo glad that you are back. It is so good to hear what is going on in your life.
Link...you are not old enough to have a son whose 21. I hope he has fun, but not too much! Do you have any plans?
Talk to you all later. shel
< =text/>_popupControl(); oh Lisa you and your family are in my thoughts and prayers.
Thanks Shelly for the welcome back. It is good to be back.
I was dozing off a little bit ago and the phone just kept ringing and ringing
No word yet on the truck. Sigh. We have a friend of ours that is willing to loan us his back up beater car if we need it. Hopefully we will not. Student Council is doing a float for the Homecoming and only the student council prez and Arielle showed up to work on it. Going to be a late night for her tonight. Sometimes I am happy tghat the girls are growing and getting older and getting to really have their own lives and start managing to some extent. Sometimes it also makes me very sad to see them growing like this. Well just watched Private Practice, good actors, love Addison, story line just ok
Just heard...The little girl in Morroco is not the McCann child
Haven't started laundry yet!
How's everybody else doing? Hey Katie and Brisen
NEENER NEENER I already watched them, what me to tell you the endings
Dancin with the Stars Katie
NOPE!It's just you tonight Gale. Hehehehe
ME FLIPPIN TOO!
Wonder where everybody is? Haven't seen Joonie or Karen post today I don't think. Hope ya'll are okI haven't seen Karen online either. I have a feeling she's going to be a busy little bee until Halloween is over though. They spend the whole month building everything and stuff, I wouldn't be surprised if they started it already!
Hello everyone, I hope all had a good day. 3 more days of work then 10 off !!! Well if you talk to her tell her come say hello at least and to keep us updated on the progress
How's Justin today? Are you rested up? Trey is moving out this weekend, he says
OMG, Mo, he's REALLY moving out?? Hi Jay! Take the compliment damn you! LOL Katie I am glad for both of you. It is very nice to be apart from time to time. Gale I am not a pilot, I just work for an airline. I am salary and earn "comp time" instead of overtime. Well I have earned quite a bit this year and have been enjoying the extra time off. Odd question? Has anyone ever made Bananna Nut bread using pistachios? I am thinking of trying it out. Dang website
Anyways, Jay have a great time! I bet you get cheap tickets
Katie Trey is moving in with a friend that inherited his grandmothers house, nice area and nice house in town, so not far away. He's done really good for the last two weeks and the Dr on Friday continued his meds indefinetly. He's done well at work this week too. All in all not too bad,and I love the friend he is moving in with. Good kid
I am really proud of you and Justin, everybody needs their own friends and space. Me either Jay but if you like pistachios it has to be good. I have some bananas that I need to make bread into. I make banana nut muffins. yummy warm w/butter and coffee for breakfast. I'm hungry too Katie
I had shrimp scampi, steamed broccoli, and garlic toast for dinner. It was a frozen bag dinner and it was wonderful. Not the broccoli, I steamed that, I could eat it everyday
Needless to say, I didn't sleep. Talk about wired! I love broccoli with anything! Cheese, rice, plain w/salt and butter, casserole, chicken...ummm I can't believe I'm hungryI have a turkey pot pie...........and I think I'm gonna have it. LOL Two pot pies in one night. Is that bad??
Well I wasn't hungry until ya'll started talking about food! Now I want some broccoli with cheese sauce, thank you very much!
Both of my boys exibit tourets simptoms. Not bad enough for medication or anything but just a hint. I see it in me when I was younger. Blah Blah Blah Still funny stuff Katie [QUOTE=Brisen]No Katie, I like to eat things in even numbers! LOL[/QUOTE] You sound like Joonie now.
I could go for some spinach with real balsamic vinager. One of my friends sons has tourettes, she didn't want him on medication and he was really bad. When he got grown he started the meds and now you can't even tell it. Poor kid had to be in misery all through school. Course she was a nut any way, had five kids, hated her very nice husband for some reason, had an affair with a man with no legs in the nursing home where she worked, was caught, lost her liscense, ended up moving in with a drunk from the nursing home that beats the fool out of her.Wow...........apparently he didn't beat enough of the fool out of her though.....
Now MONA sounds like joonie! Yikes, what a story Mo!Mona now you sound like Joonie and one of her stories. Jay and Gale, you gotta stop doin that!!!!! IT'S CREEPY!!
Hey, great minds think alike! LOL Twisted minds and all! Forgot the "s" for minds... hey I swear this is the truth! her hubby was a highway patrolman, super nice and so good to her and the kids. He was devestated when she got caught! Her kids are all dysfunctional except Caleb, the one with tourettes. She left her 10 yr old daughter w/ dad and did not even talk to her for 6 mos! Tell me she ain't crazy! No I met her at school, she was PTA president!. She lived at Wal-Mart and Taco Bell everyday! Honest! her kids ate doritos and chocolate milk for breakfast! She volunteered EVERYDAY at school. She went to church and they had a gorgeous home! She's just crazy! Now she works in a garden center at a produce place in town. And can't have her daughter around the drunk, court orders! Hi Kelly Bye Kelly Those bingo people can get pretty wild. Hi Jas By Jas
Stick around
Katie your house is going to catch on fire! Jasmine is there anything you DON"T know a lot about? Sheesh you amaze me woman!Ladies I am dragging my self to bed. Enjoy the rest of your evening. (Or morning for those of you across the pond.)Ooo Gale! I kill watch batteries like there's no tomorrow! Always have. I also can shock you any time of the year, any weather condition. Justin HATES it, but he always has a giggle about it.
Jasmine needs to go on Jeopardy!Nite Jay!!Katie, I shock everyone too! I HATE that! Nite Jay Jeopardy is the only game show I watch! Yes Jas need to go on
Have you tried the batteryless watches? I hear they can be a little costly! What do you mean Jas? I love Alex, he's a brainLast Christmas I got a Tag and the same damn thing happened!
[QUOTE=moana] What do you mean Jas? I love Alex, he's a brain
I am home!
Where have you been Joonie? I missed you
They weren't as good Joonie
Well... hubby got the rental car so we put it to the test
We went to the BIG thrift store we like to go to, since daughter went to church with her friend and we had the rental car with unlimited miles
Sounds like you got a nice ride! Oh! I got a story for ya! So... yesterday we went to wal-mart for me to get some exercise
Why do I always get stuck seeing other folks butt crack? I wanna see a buttz-o-steel butt crack
Hey Brisen did you see the girl dancing the first night that showed her butt crackYes, total wardrobe failure! LOL
Has anyone heard of the website www.thinkgeek.com ? We just got a catalog from them........I swear I'd spend my whole paycheck on piddly crap from them if I could.
Katie, your link doen't work. :( I haven't heard of them but want to check it out. I'm a total piddly crap spender! LOL Katie that took me to AII fixed it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Phil Spector had a hung jury
Michael Vick charged with having MJ, WAH! Nope never heard of them Katie. Oh I cannot wait until we get to go to the Fair! We are planning on going Oct 5th, always cheaper the first day.
I love a fair but I hate rides! I get sick
Brisen: I too can't wear watches. They stop working. I have had many watches and within hours they quit working. Even had one on a necklace and it quit too. Does real gold turn you green or anyone else? It does me. Weird stuff. lol Katie.... wheres the link??? Our fairs have saw dust on the ground. No way could somebody be pushed in a wheel chair
I tried the tornado, because it kinda looked like the scrambler mashed with the tilt-a-whirl, but it was not what I though it was going to be like after we got to going good. Hubby kept turning the wheel to spin us and I just felt sick and was starting to freak. ' Oh and do not ever ask me to ride the damn pirate ship swing thingy! I always feel like I am going to fall out of it, as I come up off the seat and it freaks me out. I am a BIG pansy when it comes to rides. Even the kiddie roller coaster freaks me out Let me tell you about the tilt-a-whirl. I went on one when I was 12 years old and they didn't tell me to sit back. So when the thing started spinning and tilting, I went flying back and hit my head on the back cage. I started throwing up immediately, and they wouldn't stop the ride. I was so sick after, that I had to go home. Had a headache for a week, then started having seizures. I was on seizure medication and precautions until I was 22, then it dissapperaed. I HATE the tilt-a-whirl!.OMG just go type in thinkgeek.com Sheesh.
CinDee my daughter can only wear 14kt gold watches, she breaks out under the watch and gets yukky
I do not think they have wheelchairs to rent at ours. I have never seen them anyways. They do have a lot of places to sit down at. I usually get a break when daughter is riding the rides that are close together. Brisen do you have to work tomorrow? The tiltawhirl is the worst ride on the planet
Yeah, I have to work tomorrow. And my Ambien kicked in about 15 minutes ago, and I'm starting to slur my words, so I should probably say hasta lavista. Talk to ya'll tomorrow! Didn't mean to run you off Brisen
Good Night TTYL Oh... Mo'Nana!! I know what you mean about kiddie roller coasters! When we went to DisneyLand with my brother... I decided I would try out the kiddie roller coaster.... this one right here http://disneyland.disney.go.com/disneyland/en_US/parks/attra ctions/detail?name=GadgetsGoCoasterAttractionPage Now mind you it was at 10 at night and it did not look that bad... but after the first turn on it... I started freaking and saying "sh*t! sh*t! sh*t!" and my brother was laughing his ass off at me. The ride did not even phase any of them, just me!
Go to bed Brisen your seeing things
I'm an angel princess
Nighty Night all! LOL Joonie thats what I did! I hated it! I was freaking and screaming and just knew I was goind to die! No more since then
CinDee I think your right about the magnesium. Katie I have never tried titanium, is it expensive? Katie Where do you get them, do they look silver? GOOD NIGHT BRISEN! WOW Katie some really pretty stuff but way expensive
Joonie jewelry smothers me to death in just a little while, especially a necklace. Hubby fussy cause I very seldom wear my jewelry, but I forget mostly. I've worn my new earrings once
My other sister says she feel naked if she goes out without earrings
Nighty night all! I am about to fall asleep! TTYL
Me too girlies Good Night I
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Has anyone heard of the website www.thinkgeek.com ? We just got a catalog from them........I swear I'd spend my whole paycheck on piddly crap from them if I could.
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Gale I thought if anyone had it would be you
I've been watching the kitten attempt to curl up on a walmart bag that has some dirty shoes in it. She's been pretty unsuccessful the past 20 minutes............what is WITH cats????
Cats just beat to their own drummer. Period, end of story! A drummer on crack with tourettes...
LOL Katie!
I wonder what it does to my insides??
But did you meet this friend at Wal-Mart??? LMAO Joonie isn't even here to defend herself!! Y'all are mean!
Katie, is your computer and monitor on a surge suppressor?I think I must have married her sister my first marrage. She had one of my sons living with her for a year and didn't see him more than every couple of months. Sure? I dunno Justin has it all hooked up to some fancy box. He's the computer nerd!!!
Hi and bye everyone... just got back from Bingo. The crowd was pretty tame this evening... of course, the jackpot was only 50 tonight. They get really feisty when it gets up over 00. It's been at least a month since the police have had to forcibly remove someone from the Bingo hall.Oh, it's the same kind of crazy that your monitor goes when you have a cell phone near it, and it rings. Is that bad???? I wonder if my BRAND NEW microwave is leaking something!
If your monitor's going crazy, that's not a good thing. When I use my pencil sharpner at work, my monitor goes all kinds of crazy too. The computer geek at work walked by my office one day and saw it and said it was going to blow out my monitor. I've been waiting for over a month for a freakin' surge suppressor, but distribution has yet to send me on.I feel like every night I say "Hi Kelly, Nite Kelly!"
I wonder what it does to my insides??
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I had the same issues with my old CRT monitor (the kind with the picture tube) but it doesn't happen with my LCD monitors (the really thin monitors). The electronic gizmos we have today produce far less emissions and are far more sensitive than the devices even 10 years ago. If it were really harmful, we would have all died long agoAnd my favorite techie geek comes through for me again!!! :)
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That happens with GSM phones. It's really annoying in conference calls, where every geek has at least one phone and they've got to put it on the table to show all the other geeks that their phone is the coolest. It even happens at Bingo, if the caller doesn't keep his cell phone away from the microphone.
OK, here's a weird one for you. I can't wear a watch. Every watch I've had (and I've had quite a few) stops running within a few days. It must have something to do with my body's electrical conduction??
Naw - you're just young and active. And you probably don't buy high-end watches (neither do I). I have the same problem. I can't wear a watch - I always end up messing it up (electronic or mechanical).
[QUOTE=Brisen]Jasmine needs to go on Jeopardy![/QUOTE]
OMG I would end up slapping Alex Trebec. Do you know how often his answers are WRONG? OMG hell no I could never go on that show. They would have to bleep it out.
I have the Pi blanket (no longer offered), the Binary blanket, several Giant Microbes, and all sorts of gadgets from them.
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