Good morning to all...

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Good morning to all...
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Mon, 07-02-2007 - 12:39pm

Hope this Monday morning finds everyone having a good start to the week.

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Registered: 03-29-2003
Mon, 07-02-2007 - 3:58pm

Oh Janet...what a choice to have to make about that newborn baby!

I am here-tired a bit, but here.We had our respite today-didn't do a lot but had time to go & look at the shingles our house needs.(Don't tell me I don't know how to live high!LOL).Then we did a couple other stores-Canadian Tire, Walmart-for a few things & on to the butcher shop to stock up on basics.We buy whatever meat is on special when we do groceries-but this just gives us extras & prepares us for whatever/whoever comes.Some of it is frozen & will stay in the "quantity" boxes, some of it has to be separated & repackaged.Unfortunately by the time I buy the stuff & get it into the freezer again-I am of the mind that it should stay there!Cook meals using the things I just bought?Not a chance!

The respite just gives Mike & I time to get out & away from Adam for a bit-nothing too exciting but a break.And it allows a nurse to come in & do his vital signs (which I could do but won't-I am his Mom, not his nurse).

This coming week is a busy enough one-he has a dr's appointment on Friday of this week, & on Monday of next week we see the cardiologist.Nothing too urgent-mostly just to be sure he isn't losing ground at all.And to make sure we don't need prescriptions or medication changes.And of course, there are other things happening-his friend comes tomorrow afternoon, I have a hairdresser appointment on Thursday & somewhere in there I need to fit in a shopping trip with Mom because my niece's wedding shower is on Saturday.So not a frantic week-but busy enough.

The weather last week was almost unbearably hot & humid-this week it is much more comfortable-both during the day & at night for sleeping.As I have said before-we do not have central air, although Mike finally got the room a/c in Adam's room so that when it gets hot again, he will be able to stay comfortable.

My life is calmer than yours, Janet;& much calmer than yours Susiegail.Last week at this time I was enjoying my time with Susan-& her adorable children.I am glad to be home, glad to be back in a routine-but in a perfect world, I could have both...my own routine & my grandchildren close by.Oh well-hopefully we will see them again before too much longer.

Nora

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Mon, 07-02-2007 - 4:52pm

Nora - I got such a kick out of your "living high" comment.

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Registered: 06-16-1998
Mon, 07-02-2007 - 5:14pm

Good afternoon ladies. I'm grabbing a moment on Enrique's' computer while he's having a late lunch so I may get kicked off at any time! I suppose that I will set up his laptop for my use because evidently I won't be seeing my own computer anytime soon...I called this morning and it is not even on the workbench yet so unlikely that I'll have it before the end of the week, if then. Boo.


So far there's nothing exciting on my schedule for this week. It is supposed to heat up here also Janet. Today it is probably low 80sF at my house and maybe be 10 degrees hotter by Wednesday. So I will be watering the garden a lot and hope to get out very early tomorrow to fertilize. This morning I

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Mon, 07-02-2007 - 5:41pm
Wow - a newborn? I think it's amazing that you can do that on top of all the other stuff, but I also think it's wonderful. Sometimes when we **know** we should say **no**, a yes turns out to be the better thing. It's the 2nd of July, and this is only the second real summery-type day we have had since June 1. There's sun and even some heat...what a luxury! I picked Siobhan up from her job at the pre-school and dropped her at the job she does making organic creams and lotions as well as designing labels for a woman who runs her own business. She wasn't feeling well, but she is determined to be as independent as possible; if I don't offer a ride, she would never ask and would just take the bus, but I know that often makes her feel worse. DH and I were working in the garden but will shortly be going down to see MIL...she gets so confused, thinks she's in Ireland or thinks there are strangers in the house, or thinks it's The Troubles with the Black and Tans, or thinks it's WWI, or, or, or...it's really hard for DH to see her this way. His mother was always a strong, independent and, yes, opinionated woman, but I love her and she has always loved me...some days now she has no idea who I am. There has so far today been no phone call or e-mail from my boss, so maybe my vacation has finally started. DS had a letter from the lawyer who is representing the man who drove his car through a red light and hit DS who was in the bike lane where he was supposed to be...I hope he's going to get a settlement soon, since he had to replace his $1200 bike (his only means of transport)and has over $7,000 in medical bills, as well as the loss of two weeks wages - the wheels of justice appear to grind agonizingly slowly. The fourth of July looks quiet as far as our plans, probably just the five of us having a BBQ and hoping the fog doesn't come in and obliterate our view from our deck of the fabulous fireworks on the other side of the city at Crissy Field - free and in the comfort of our own home, unless THE FOG comes in - don't know 'til it happens. Then Thursday it's a shopping marathon and Friday a cooking marathon for our next catering event on Friday night. What was I thinking?? Oh, yeah, a way to make some extra $$$$... Anyway, that's what's up with me. Janet, it must be so nice to have grandkids...I am really looking forward to that sometime in the next few years.
Sue

 

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Mon, 07-02-2007 - 7:48pm

Sue - It *is* wonderful having grandchildren.

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Mon, 07-02-2007 - 10:09pm
How sad it is to hear that the mom of a newborn tests positive for meth - the dreg drug, the bottom of the barrel, or underneath the kitchen sink or out of a bottle of bleach...you just have to hope that the little guy will have a better life than what his birth mom could have offered him. The place where we go on vacation, up in the California Sierra foothills, has a huge problem with meth labs hidden away in mountain nooks and crannies...I always feel like if you're an adult and you choose to get involved in these life-destroying drugs, then I guess that's your business, but why drag an innocent baby into this nightmare? There was a house down at the end of our block a few years ago, and I thought **something** was going on down there that shouldn't be, but I had no idea what, and since there are no kids on this entire street (how weird is that???)I just kept a low profile until I drove past one day and saw a little boy about two locked in a car with a McDonald's bag - hmmmm, I thought, but figured maybe Mom had just run into the house to get something and was coming right back. When I came home a couple of hours later, little boy was still in the back seat, the windows all closed , so I called CPS and reported the situation on their anonymous hotline. They came out, but I was never sure exactly what transpired, but I didn't see the child locked in the car again. About a week later, the house blew up (yep, meth lab)and I saw the mom running down the street at two in the morning with her purse and her boy and a car picked them up and we never saw any of them again. Isn't life in The City fun? And just so you don't think I live in the ghetto, the house across the street from us just sold for $900,000 - we have actually rented this house for 25 years, but most of the people on the street are the actual homeowners - I guess "tweakers" have more of a chance to own a house if they're "cooking meth" than DH and I do as teachers...what does this tell us? LOL I sure am looking forward to having grandchildren to "send home at the end of the day"...
Sue

 

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Mon, 07-02-2007 - 11:13pm
When I'm in town with My DD's and G-kids, I hear police, ambulances, fire trucks, police helicopters. and see all them 24x7...they are surrounds by 600,000.00 700,000.00 dollar homes ( My thing is to never let the G-kids out of your sight! ) My girl and my G-kids went and go to some very good schools....So you can never judge a book by it's cover, How the drugs have taken over ever where!! I don't know any one taking Drugs ( At least I don't know I do ! ) It was bad enough when we were raising our kids .... I want to be there for my kids and G- kids.. But, I love living out in the San Diego mountains I only hear a fire truck a lot because I'm 1500 feet from the fire station... that's a blessing... where I live there are a lot of seniors so most of the time it is so quit you can hear a pin drop and every bird chirp! But, as for my neighbors up the hill I never see police but, I don't know much about them! a little about me!,HuGs < Me...Linda
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Mon, 07-02-2007 - 11:35pm

Wow!

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Registered: 06-16-1998
Thu, 07-05-2007 - 8:00pm
"the house across the street from us just sold for $900,000". We Californians know that it could be just a shack with a view LOL. Tear it down and put up luxury condos. Real estate here is insane even though the market has supposedly gone cold. A house down the street from me recently sold, this place is a" fixer-upper", nothing has been done to it in 30 years but it is on a double lot and we're across the street from a park. The asking price: $1.3 million. I don't know what the selling price was but I'm sure the new owners will have to put a lot into repairing it. I wonder what my house is worth? I can assure you that we didn't pay anywhere near that range when we bought it 12 years ago. Ahh, the good old days...
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Thu, 07-05-2007 - 10:59pm

$900,000!!!

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