What kind of errands....

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Registered: 08-27-2005
What kind of errands....
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Wed, 08-31-2005 - 1:41pm

Do you run on a daily basis? Weekly basis? Monthly basis?

I've often heard people say that they need a lot of time during the week to run errands and that those errands would otherwise take up their evenings and weekends if they had to WOH ft. It made me curious because I just don't seem to have many errands to run at all. Are we just lazy :-)?

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Registered: 03-16-2005
Wed, 09-14-2005 - 7:00am

That we would have information we needed to share would not put us on her "team."

DH and I are his parents. We are the ones responsible for his medical needs and we determine them with his pediatrician. She is responsible for basic first aid, bringing to our attention matters which occur at school, and administering any medications which need to be provided there. She has her role, we have ours. Not one big fuzzy collaboration where we all get to do what we think is right.

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Registered: 07-16-2005
Wed, 09-14-2005 - 7:06am
See, this is where you miss out when you put work first and don't spend your day on the board with us. After much bobbing and weaving by QM, we learned yesterday that QM has NEVER even played on a competitive team, so we're all just dismissing her outlandish theories more than we usually do because she has no firsthand experience to support them. At least I am.
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Registered: 03-23-2003
Wed, 09-14-2005 - 7:57am

The school prefers to have someone who they can legally hand the child to. They don't give a rat's if it's a parent.


The emergency number we give the school is for my parents, since they are home during the day and live close to the school. Funny, in the last 12 years not once has the school taken issue with that. Maybe I should have them contact you so you can let them know what they prefer.

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Registered: 03-23-2003
Wed, 09-14-2005 - 7:58am

<<Anyone calls my emergency numbers, they're going to get someone who will be authorized to make medical decisions for my child in case of an actual, honest-to-goodness emergency.>>


Hey, mine too! Only it's just not a parent.

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Registered: 08-22-2005
Wed, 09-14-2005 - 7:58am
Cuz sometimes that's not possible.

Karen


Think before you speak (or write) Yeah...like that's gonna work.....

Karen

"Veronica: "I hate fake deer too. Every time I see their stupid fake-deer faces I want to grab a shotgun and go all Cheney on 'em." Sure, but since fake deer don't talk, they won't

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Registered: 03-23-2003
Wed, 09-14-2005 - 8:01am
OK, so what do you think "ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY OF (sic) YOUR SON OR DAUGHTER IN CASE OF ILLNESS OR ACCIDENT UNTIL YOU CAN BE REACHED." means?
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Registered: 08-22-2005
Wed, 09-14-2005 - 8:03am

Yup.

Karen

"Veronica: "I hate fake deer too. Every time I see their stupid fake-deer faces I want to grab a shotgun and go all Cheney on 'em." Sure, but since fake deer don't talk, they won't

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Registered: 03-23-2003
Wed, 09-14-2005 - 8:04am
Of course - because all single mothers live close to their children's fathers.
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Registered: 03-23-2003
Wed, 09-14-2005 - 8:05am
Darn. This whole earning a living thing really sucks sometimes. I need to find a job at the university; they have absolutely unrestricted internet access.
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Registered: 03-29-2003
Wed, 09-14-2005 - 8:06am

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Oh, no. Not even close. I did it for fun, too, and to keep in shape. I was the best 2-miler at my high school, and used to win all the races, but I never even scored in cross country in college (scores in x-country races are based on the combined times of the top five or seven finishers for each school -- whichever team with the lowest combined time wins).

I don't really run any more. I used to run the odd 5K, and run a few miles a day for a few months beforehand. Running was getting too hard on my knees and back, and then my mother, a fiercely competitive 5Ker (she has a shelf full of trophies for the 60 and up age category, which impresses the heck out of my kids) had a bladder prolapse. She was told to give up running, but wanted us to train for one last "hurrah," this Labor Day race in her town. My sisters and I had to have an intervention. Mom took up biking. I took up walking my dog.

Congratulations! I'm so happy to hear it. I just heard the good news and popped back over, just in case you were still checking in.

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