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09:08 pm
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Sirens
What is up with the sirens in Inver Grove? They have been going on and on. I'm afraid to go out and find out and get in their way, but my kid is out there.
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09:11 pm
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Favorite Books
I have no idea how to thank you all for your replies in my original request, but I am excited to check out the books you recommended. I am just learning how to do this.
Thanks again.
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02:47 pm
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Funeral Flowers
Well I feel stupid. I guess for all the deaths in my life someone else has arranged the flowers. Now I need to do it and the wake is tomorrow in St. Paul. Any suggestions? It looks like we are in for $50 plus delivery. They said they preferred memorials, but I am set on sending flowers. If I can find nice ones cheaper I can afford a memorial too. Thoughts on either option are appreciated. I just want to do the right thing. Right now I am thinking Glassings but if you have other options let me hear them please. Many thanks. P
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05:33 pm
[Link] | Anyone know the going rates for a lawyer to advise on a non-compete? Any recommendations on lawyers? Many thanks.
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10:06 am
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Beautiful Women
We live in a community that is not diverse. Today he came home from the hardware store and had misty eyes. He described this beautiful Somali? woman who came in with her beautiful dress and her beautiful scarf and her five beautiful children dressed in great new clothes. He said, "I just don't know what to say. I am curious and interested and wish I could know their story" Then he said "I suppose her husband is a cab driver." I don't know what to make of it. I see these women every day downtown and am also curious and interested. They are so beautiful and carry themselves so well. Our cultures don't mix yet. I wish I could know more and understand. I wish I could walk in that scarf and sari for just one day. Probably not with the five kids though. The best to anyone who reads this. PJ
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09:22 pm
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Grey's Anatomy - Dammit
My TV schedule shows the new Grey's Anatomy is not being shown so we can watch a two hour special on David Blaine's Dive of Death.
No Love
Current Location: My comfy Bed
Current Mood:  pissed off
Current Music: Dancing with the Stars
Tags: grey's anatomy
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04:09 pm
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Ding Dong
So I see him coming down our driveway. I tell C to go to the phone and get ready to dial 911. And it is a politician. Knocking on our door. Telling me that the crime rate in our city is the highest it has been in ten years. Vote for him to get more police.
I have to give him an A for effort, but I also have to design a new sign for the door.
I do not care for strangers knocking on my door. Guess why. The crime rate in our city is the highest it has been in ten years.
You couldn't pay me enough to do that job. Which is interestingly enough what the auditor told me about my job last week.
And frankly what I would have told her the same dang thing if I wasn't trying so hard to kiss up and get rid of her.
To each his own I guess. My girlfriends and I have been saying that about our husbands for years. I'm happy with mine.
Current Location: usual
Current Music: silence
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08:54 pm
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kissing
So, I just started watching Gilmore Girls where Rorie gets her first kiss and remembered mine. The thing I remember most is going home and jumping up and down in my bedroom and twirling around. It was a good day.
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08:34 pm
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HIPPA
To those of you that replied to my post, thank you. I have learned something. Dang. I thought all the BS we went through for HIPAA actually meant something. Since yesterday I have talked to people I work with and heard from you all and learned a lot. The reason it is so dear to my heart is that I work in benefits and therefore my supervisor can look at my family's claims data. It's just creepy. Not that they have time to poke into our personal information, just that they can. To answer your question it is a self insured plan. What I hear is they can look at the data but can't do anything about it. My supervisor said she can't fire anyone who doesn't work for her, so that made me feel real good. I would like to go on but I shouldn't. Time to leave work and be home.
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04:05 pm
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Honors Day -cum laude - Woot
I am glad I went. I cried at least ten big squeezed out the side and secretly wiped away tears. Sniffed in the rest. Put a small orchid bouquet in the mailbox and made her happy. Took her to the Indian buffet restaurant and had the best food ever and only ate something way!too! hot once. It felt like an olive. Ate some other unidentified items too. It was an adventure. Then a trip to Cub for birthday party items. She is having a kid themed party (with festive adult beverages, jello, fruit based). She wants to make a blanket tent in the living room, have a coloring station, make monster mash, have tiny sausages in grape jelly and chili sauce, balloons of course and who knows what else... She made the front of the invites by drawing each invitee in crayon with her non-dominant hand. I love it. She is so afraid to graduate that she is trying to crawl back into the womb. I wonder if I can find a Raffi tape for her to play. She said that the Fraggle Rock DVD will definitly have a station. A few days ago I thought she was ready to quit. I am happy that things went well today. The first official graduation festivity and she made it. I am still afraid of the final final bit. She is not one to hide her emotions, and they are very strong. Still, all is well today.
Current Mood:  loved
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06:20 pm
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Drug Deals - Help
So, apparently my cell phone number is the same as a drug dealer's. I'm guessing the area code is different but they can't figure it out. I have been receiving his calls for a long time, told them wrong number and that was that, but lately they have been persistant and kind of scary. I believe I'm even on someone's speed dial because I got one of those inadvertant messages that are obviously from someone's pocket and it sounds like driving in the car conversation.
Anyway, I switched my away message to the canned one. Hoping that they would figure out the area code issue and leave me alone. I don't answer anymore if I don't recognize the number. But after the following two messages I tried calling the police to give them a heads up. They transfered me to voice mail.
Eh dis KG callin. You met me last night at this same place. I'm be at the bus stop man. when you get this message man Im be waitin' for a little while but Im be still tryin' to call you. Want to see if we can do some biddness today man.Hit me back. Lookin' for you. Bye
Hey Larry this is RKG you met me one night, uh, when we was comin' out of Sun Ray, uh, I ain't been able to catch you at, uh, at your number, seein' as how you're maybe not home or whatever, but, if you want to meet w' me I got the car you know and I can take you to where you want to go to get your goods and I got some mo' good for you, some butter um if you get this message meet me at the sun ray at 5 , 5 -5o'clock o' 5:30 don't matter. um yeah, well I'll be still be tryin' call you and touch bases witch ya ...unintelligible????
WTF!!! I tried calling the cops, maybe a stupid move, but they freaking gave me voice mail. Do I turn away? Do I make a scene? What the fuck. I have enough without this today.
Me
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04:20 pm
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moon
You are The Moon
Hope, expectation, Bright promises.
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08:16 pm
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Feed My Starving Children
What a great experience we all had today at Feed My Starving Children. We packaged enough food to feed 47 children for a year. It was a lot of work. We worked as fast as we could for a couple + of hours, I wasn't keeping track of time. There were four stations. Ours had two legs with eleven people. Four were putting in the "chicken" (veg) powder, then the vegies, then the soy and rice. Four were weighing and holding the bags. Two were sealing and one was packing in boxes. I had to seal as I was over eighteen years old and we were the minority. The rest got to switch jobs from time to time. We filled eighty boxes with 36 bags each with six cups of food (when prepared with water) for feeding children. What a great organization. They give the food to missionaries who give it to children. I feel like I have found a charity I can trust finally. The kids only get a cup of food a day, but it is better than eating dirt balls to fill your empty stomach. I feel so fortunate.
Current Location: Bed
Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Top Chef
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07:51 pm
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The Secret
I saw a video through this community that was a video of a motivational speaker. She began by talking to a man about his relationship with his pet who seemed to sense his feelings and ended talking about not looking at the things that are hurtful/bad. Can anyone direct me to this video again?
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06:17 pm
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What Are You Gonna Do
When your favorite news-weather-caster says it is gonna be a bummer. Thank you very much Belinda. I will be cooking.
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08:26 pm
[Link] | life is good. We walked about a mile and a half. yes it was cold but we brought back a bottle of wine. The smoke alarm just went off because the wings are almost done. BBQ, Honey Mustard and Lemon Pepper. It is 8:30 before time change so time is of the essence. onward.
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06:15 pm
[Link] | Last week He was out of town until Sunday. On Saturday DD said "the dryer doesn't turn on". It didn't. I checked the belt and the drum and the cord and couldn't figure it out. I decided to wash my sweaters and spin and lay them on towels since the dryer was out, but after the washer filled IT wouldn't go. So I pulled out the button and pushed it back in, and I noticed the furnace went off and on. Again, same thing. Again, and the furnace didn't come back on. He came home and did some wiring and got the washer and dryer going but we had to call the furnace people. $8,290 later we are getting a new furnace and air conditioner tomorrow. Oh joy. I just returned from cashing in our change so we have $80 to last us till Thursday. Holding at about 60 degrees this afternoon.
The good news is that He was home to help me make the big money decision and it will be installed and fired up before the twenty below F predicted for tomorrow night. We may be chilly now, but it could have been a hell of a lot worse. I'm imagining frozen plumbing and who knows what. I am sure we are paying too much but what the hell does a person do!!! I suppose we could have dropped a grand to get the furnace going for a while, but we were told it wouldn't fix the root of the problem, and they are both twenty years old.
The joys of home ownership.
ME in her long underwear who gets an unscheduled day off tomorrow with hopefully handsome furnace installer men.
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09:00 pm
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JE
Funny. Someone who makes journal entries for a living. That's me. This kind of JE makes me feel better. I think I will work on this. P
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07:52 pm
[Link] | This moment feels amazing. The girls (5 of the BFF) are in the next room and there is love. It is so good to have those beautiful young women in the next room laughing and talking. These girls are special. And they are nurturing her little sister, how cool are they! And when the old lady joins in - that would be me - they don't skip a beat or clam up, my God. How lucky we are tonight. The walls are thin, and the sounds are musical, trilling laughter, all home from different schools, - no I guess two are at Madison. A freakin' nuclear bomb of talent on the other side of the wall from me.
On the stranger side, the parents of these gals, that would include me, are meeting for dinners since graduation last spring. Next turn is ours. We have our daughters in common. And our community. It is hard to make friends as adults. But, four dinners later we are closer to being friends. and closer. It takes work.
Trust. Yesterday we talked about rules and trust. I said I really don't want to have to set rules, let's give mutual respect one more try.
The oldest one just called to ask how to cook rice. Hoot! She is making Kung Pao chicken for her college boys. They went to the grocery to get her a knob of ginger. I am so proud. Four years ago her boy stole money from her to buy drugs, and tonight she is a chef serving good friends who support her and bring essential groceries. I am enjoying this moment of feeling that my family is as it should be. We are not fighting, and we are making our way with good friends.
I am thankful. P
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09:16 am
[Link] | When the oldest left I got a puppy. Do I get a pet for the middle child? I would like one. I am starting to feel sad. Thank goodness another child came along. I will probably be ready to be done when she leaves in 6 years. I am certainly ready to be done with keeping track (or not) of vaccinations, dental appointments, physicals, shoe sizes...bless 'em. School. I can hardlly wait. Really.
Current Mood: loved
Current Music: Don't sleep in the Subway
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