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  • chrisct
    chrisct Member Posts: 2,662
    edited February 2013

    It's faster to fly, but if you really hate flying that much, could you take a train? 

    Asking 2 mos in advance gives you time to get what you need, but asking at 6 am definitely was not necessary. 

    How are you feeling today, Meece?

    CVS called and offered me the job.  Now I have to wait for an email with the details.  I'm scared now.  I should probably have an eye exam and get real reading glasses since I expect I'll be on and off with the glasses all day long working.  And I need to buy some new tops.  I usually wear sweaters in the winter, but if I will be wearing a "lab coat," a sweater might be too warm.   I have to have some training first - I hope I can work that around when my mother is going home from rehab...but I won't jeopardize the job.  It's been 4 mos since I completed the applications...  I have to wait 'til I get the email to find out what the deal is.

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  • raincitygirl
    raincitygirl Member Posts: 3,143
    edited February 2013

    Good for you Chris! Get one of those cute eyeglass holders to wear around your neck - it doesn't have to look "old lady" :)

    I am confused about your  mom.  I didn't think her confusion existed prior to hospitalization?  Does she have a diagnosis?  And realy, the social worker at rehab should be hooking you up with a home health care aid before your mom is shipped out.

    Better today, Meece?  I have a residual cough but am better.

    Ducky - 6 a.m.?  I think I would have texted back "sleeping".  I am refusing to answer texts from my kids now unless it is something like "running late, see you shortly".

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  • sheila888
    sheila888 Member Posts: 25,634
    edited February 2013

    Congratulations Chris..........

    So glad MIL didn't break anything.....I wish you the best with your mother.....if the right help is found she won't complain.......

    Ducky.....I hate and scared of flying...but I flied long distance 3 times...it's the first half an hour that makes me very uneasy......Are you flying with the family?

    Meece...You sound little better today...how are you feeling?

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  • sheila888
    sheila888 Member Posts: 25,634
    edited February 2013

    Joan...are you getting that 3 inches of snow? Wink

    (((Linda)))

    (((Diane)))

    ♥

    Trying to be productive again........Laughing

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  • ptdreamers
    ptdreamers Member Posts: 1,080
    edited February 2013

    Congrats Chris. I'm with you rain, I refuse to text. Waste of time as far as I'm concerned.

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  • Makratz
    Makratz Member Posts: 12,678
    edited February 2013

    My mom HATES flying too.  RARELY ddoes it.  She leaves tomorrow for her 'drive to florida'.  God bless my dad!  Although she is going to Italy in April, heavily medicated.  She's 74.

    Just had lunch with my Mom and Dad, that was nice.

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited February 2013

    Train is 19 hours minimum.....it goes from 30th St. station, to Washington, DC which is 3 hours from Philly.

    ,and your going south......then you leave Washington, and go north, all the way up to Chicago, with stops at every whitewashed fence.

    This is an obsession with me. I am scared to death, and not a day goes by that I don't think about it. The daughter (mother of the groom) says....you don't have to go, as long as his father, me, his brother, and sister are there, that is all that matters. 2 of my sons just laugh...another daughter tries to understand, and the youngest says..." Mom, I am just like you, but do it because I had to. She completely understands my fear, but says little since her kids are flying for the first time and she doesn't want to scare them.....

    My grandson and his future wife sent me a thank you for xmas gifts, and several shower gifts. In it they said...".We can't wait to see you at the wedding, and we love you for getting on an airplane for the first time for us". "We know how fearful you are". So I will be there, he is the love of my life....and she is wonderful. She told me " We have a big surprise for you at the reception". .........my youngest daughter said...."Mom, I bet Kevin is doing a Grandmother dance, just for you"......if that is it, I will blubber, like a fool......I took care of this boy while his mother worked....for 3 years.......time will tell....

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  • chrisct
    chrisct Member Posts: 2,662
    edited February 2013

    oh - I have tears now reading that story, Ducky.

    glad you enjoyed your lunch, Linda.  I hope your parents have many more 'drives" to Florida.

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited February 2013

    Christ....his name is Kevin.....when I heard the first time that he was going to college in Pittsburgh (Carnagie Mellon University), I was heartbroken. The day he left, I cried. I drove every weekend to watch him play football ( quarterback) for 4 years. It was 5 hors to the college, and 5 back home, done in one day. I sat with pride when he carried the flag for the (Tepper Business School) at his graduating from college.He was asked to do that because of his GPA, which was a 4.0 for all 4 years. He did this while taking his team to a NCAA championship in his senior year.......after graduating and coming back home, his heart was broken by a girl he had gone out with for 3 years at the same college. She cheated on him after he left. She had 1 more year. I held him while he sobbed and told him "there is someone better out there for you, and you will find her"........I cried again when I found out he accepted a job in Chicago. ......I was already upset since his brother moved to Chicago 1 year before.......so here I am today telling myself....in that boys life you never let him down, so I will be there to see him marry that special lady that I told him" Kevin, there is someone out there for you, and he found her". ....I will do this.....

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  • chrisct
    chrisct Member Posts: 2,662
    edited February 2013

    Now I have MORE tears...

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  • sheila888
    sheila888 Member Posts: 25,634
    edited February 2013

    Ducky...you can do it...........Smile

    Sandy....Just a reminder if you're planning to watch Survivor.....Tonight it's from 8-9:30......

    Linda....Are they gonna stay there during winter?

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  • Makratz
    Makratz Member Posts: 12,678
    edited February 2013

    They go every years for about 7 weeks, to get out of the cold.  Then they come back home for a few weeks and move to their house on Cape Cod.  JEALOUS!!

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  • raincitygirl
    raincitygirl Member Posts: 3,143
    edited February 2013

    Ah, they earned it!  Lucky them :)

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  • Makratz
    Makratz Member Posts: 12,678
    edited February 2013

    Good monring.  Heading out to gym.  Hope you are all snug as a bug in bed!!

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  • chrisct
    chrisct Member Posts: 2,662
    edited February 2013

    So - my son went thrift store shopping with his friend to look for a sport coat and a shirt to dress like Dr. Who for ConnectiCon this summer.  He found both - neither fit perfectly, but he was thrilled to find something that came close - and for $8 to boot.  So the genius decides to wear the shirt to a Youth Group Dumpling Dinner fundraiser at church where they made a couple thousand dumplings and served them - complete with soy sauce.  Well, guess what he got on his shirt - grease and soy sauce. 

    (I was at rehab with my parents - so I left him in the care of his father...)

    When they got home, his father did a load of laundry and spot treated the stain and it came out.  I noticed on FB (I looked at what I could see on his page -even though we aren't friends, I could see a few things - his father monitors his page) and he put a public post on FB thanking his father for saving his shirt.

    I'm thinking - I did your laundry (and still do some) for 16 yrs, your father washes one shirt and he gets a public Thank You?   And furthermore, why didn't he suggest that you not wear the shirt in the first place if he is so great?! 

    Isn't that the way?  Fathers don't even do their job (telling him he shouldn't wear his new shirt he bought for a costume to make and serve greasy dumplings with soy sauce) - they fix the negative outcome from their negligence (a stained shirt- duh) and get public praise for it?  wtf?

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited February 2013

    I so understand, Chris.  My boys' father never did anything with them and I went to everything.  Whenever they accomplished anything, he would take credit for it.  The kids, who didn't want to make him mad, also gave him credit.

    I still have NO voice!  The cough is somewhat under control while under the medication.  Medication is every 8 hours and and works well for the first three.  I had some coughing fits in the middle of the night so off to the recliner for the 6th night in a row.  My neck and ribcage are so sore from all of the coughing.

    DS3 has asked me to Valentine's lunch today, but I won't be able to chat much.  Now if it were DH, I could take a box of converstation hearts  and give him the right candy to suit the topic! Wink Not going there with my son!!!

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited February 2013

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  • chrisct
    chrisct Member Posts: 2,662
    edited February 2013

    lol - candy hearts.  I hope you can share some candy hearts tonight...  so sorry you are so sore and still sleeping in a chair...

    Their father is involved - so he deserves some credit - but it is usually the mothers that give up their lives for their kids and aren't appreciated for what they do.  Fathers do one thing and it's "Father Saves the Day!  Washes shirt - gets out stain!  Saves costume!  Parade Saturday at noon!"  Blech.

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited February 2013

    I had people think I was a single mother for years, becaus ethey never saw the boys' dad at anything.

    I remember when DS1 was little he made his first smile at the person who never changed a diaper, fed him or cared for him in any way.  I was not a happy mommy.

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  • raincitygirl
    raincitygirl Member Posts: 3,143
    edited February 2013

    Happy Valentine's Day TOL!

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  • blondiex46
    blondiex46 Member Posts: 5,712
    edited February 2013

    HAPPY VALENTINES DAY ALL!!

    Meece, you are so sweet and I lost my voice for a week 1 time and a couple of days about a week later....nothing made it come back,

    Chriwas he does deserve some credit.....

    I am a single parent with a father that has done anything, but I am the bad guy!!

    Linda the gym so admire you....keep thin for me...

    Went to chemo sort of a disaster, port clogged..was there from 1130 - 530, but took benedryl so slept, yea....am steroid up now tho, can't stop cleaned my room sort of and did other stuff, so it is a good thing, cause hemoglobin was low so that is why tired, watching grandchidren tonight while Jamie works....5 - 10ish...glad tho, spending time with them, putting them to bed then laying down, it is all good....

    AGAIN, HAPPY VALENTINES DAY ALL LOVE YOU ALL!!

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  • blondiex46
    blondiex46 Member Posts: 5,712
    edited February 2013

    YOU TOO RAY!! AND YOU JUST DID, THANKS!!!

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  • Makratz
    Makratz Member Posts: 12,678
    edited February 2013

    Yup, so true Chris!!  They take us for granted.  My DH doesn't know how to turn on the washer or dishwasher. lol

    Happy Valentines Day to all.  Not my favorite day of the year but whatever!

    Love you all!

    Ortho is next :(

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  • chrisct
    chrisct Member Posts: 2,662
    edited February 2013

    Somehow I am the only one who knows how to put dirty dishes in the dishwasher...

    Happy Valentine's Day to all my special friends! 

    (((((((TOL)))))))

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  • sheila888
    sheila888 Member Posts: 25,634
    edited February 2013

                                                                       

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  • Makratz
    Makratz Member Posts: 12,678
    edited February 2013

    Put the dirty dishes under their sheets.  I bet they will learn where they go real fast!

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  • deborye
    deborye Member Posts: 7,002
    edited February 2013

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited February 2013

    I remember my mother setting the wastebaskets in my brother's bed when he didn't empty them.  It was his only chore.

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited February 2013

    Went to lunch with DS3.  Tough because of no voice.  I wrote my side of the conversation on paper napkins.  Fun!

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  • Makratz
    Makratz Member Posts: 12,678
    edited February 2013

    Boys are gross and sometimes (most of the time) you have to use drastic measures!!  My kids know they have to rinse their dishes and put them in the dishwasher.  It's a never ending battle!  Enjoy Jacob while he's young.....and teach him to clean up after himself!

    Good night my friends!

    ♥

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