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  1. apirateslifeforme

    Keeping Ukraine in our thoughts and prayers here

    I think I've started to feel a bit better. Still somewhat scared, but on Thursday I read and heard some things that I personally found encouraging, and from then on I've made an effort to not look at the big red alarmist banner on Yahoo that makes me look up other things. I have gotten the...
  2. apirateslifeforme

    Keeping Ukraine in our thoughts and prayers here

    Please forgive me for crashing this thread. I haven't been on the DIS in some time; I have a 6.5-year-old who takes up most of my time :) I am trying to avoid news, but there's a nice big red banner on Yahoo that I can't avoid when I check my email. I'm trying to stay level-headed but I am so...
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    Quarantine and chill and kindness chatty clubhouse: Jump in and join the conversation! All is welcome!

    @Allison Joy, what a beautiful, moving poem! I can't believe it's been 20 years. My memories of that day are very vivid. Last year when Josh and I were doing our town scavenger hunt, one of the clues took us to the fire department where we have 2 of the Trade Center beams and a small...
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    slo’s SATURDAY poll - September 11, 2001

    I was 27. At work that day. I remember everything that happened in our office vividly; where we were, what we said, my coworkers' expressions, all of it. I cannot believe that it's been 20 years. My son was born in August 2015, and he knows that "something really, really bad happened" that...
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    Last wedding or funeral you went to?

    Wedding - I think our own, 10 years ago this October. Funeral - my father-in-law, just this past February (not Covid). I also lost an aunt and uncle both in February as well, but they did not have a service, and another uncle in May; I did not attend in person, as he lived in Illinois and I'm in...
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    slo’s TUESDAY poll - Your Current Residence

    I'm going to say 36 of the past 45 years. My grandparents bought the house in 1973. My mother and I joined them in April 1976. I moved out and back in a few times. Now DH and I own the house and we live here with our son and my mom.
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    What have been the biggest mysteries in your home?

    When my grandmother died in 2007, I searched high and low for her wedding ring (she had stopped wearing it when her fingers swelled). I swear it was nowhere to be found. One of the places I searched was the sideboard in the kitchen, 3 drawers, and I am absolutely %1000 positive that I looked...
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    Cat litter stinks!

    We usually use Tidy Cats (when it's on sale) or Cat's Pride from Stop and Shop. Right now, however, we're using World's Best that can be flushed because he had radiation treatment for his thyroid last month, and there is even less smell with that one. We also keep his box in the basement; we...
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    Quarantine and chill and kindness chatty clubhouse: Jump in and join the conversation! All is welcome!

    Playing catch-up again...this week has been a whirlwind of bad weather and a sudden deluge of messages from the principal at Josh's school and the superintendent. School starts Tuesday and I'm kind of..."meh" about it. I haven't gotten anything prepared except the signboard for Josh to hold...
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    Quarantine and chill and kindness chatty clubhouse: Jump in and join the conversation! All is welcome!

    @frog3101, sending you lots of prayers :hug: @footballmouse, congrats on those lucky lottery tickets! Wow, we never win more than $2 here... ;) Sending out prayers to all those in the path of the hurricane, too. I can't believe it's on the anniversary of Katrina as well. I remember I was at...
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    How old do you think you look?

    I'm 47. I personally feel like I look older, over 50. Tired, droopy eyes with dark circles underneath. I truthfully have very few wrinkles - good genes from my grandmother who never had any herself - but I feel like the 2 small ones on my forehead are very obvious. A sprinkling of silver...
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    slo’s TUESDAY poll - Manicures

    I don't get/do a traditional manicure, but my SIL sells Color Street nail strips and I change them every 2-3 weeks. LOVE THEM!!! I have these on right now:
  13. apirateslifeforme

    Quarantine and chill and kindness chatty clubhouse: Jump in and join the conversation! All is welcome!

    Greetings from post-Henri north central CT. So many of the towns around us got nailed. The road in Manchester where my mother used to work is underwater. I heard that part of our major highway was closed because it was flooded. But our town? Well, it pretty much rained all day...at 2 p.m...
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    Quarantine and chill and kindness chatty clubhouse: Jump in and join the conversation! All is welcome!

    I hope Lil Joe's first day of kindergarten was fun! I also hope everyone is doing well. I'm having a hard time about my friend's daughter, despite never meeting her. I think the PTSD from my own child loss is weighing on me (and my doctor agrees). The obituary listed all the things she wanted...
  15. apirateslifeforme

    My baby is already one :(

    Your son is adorable! Congratulations to you and Happy Birthday to him! We, too, had a very difficult journey to having our son - just not during the pandemic :) He'll be 6 on Wednesday, but it feels like he was born just yesterday. That little tiny baby that fit neatly in the crook of DH's...
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    Quarantine and chill and kindness chatty clubhouse: Jump in and join the conversation! All is welcome!

    Hello again, friends...I've been MIA for a while. I do think of everyone often and hope and pray that all is going well. I've been very angry for a while now. I probably shouldn't get into it on the public side of the boards - all I will say is that my SIL has gone off the rails regarding...
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    The nightmare before Christmas

    Both. (My almost-6-year-old says it's BOTH as well ;) )
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    Quarantine and chill and kindness chatty clubhouse: Jump in and join the conversation! All is welcome!

    Just yet another quick drive-by post...I owe some return PMs, and have nothing on my schedule for tomorrow (except for doing my nails at some point ;) ). @flyingdumbo127, you made a good point in one of your emails about "names" and I'm working on that as well. If you get my drift... ;) @Bianca...
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    Anyone gotten married when they were "older"?

    DH and I were 37 when we married, so not entirely "older," and while not a destination wedding, ours was very small. In truth, it was my 2nd wedding and his 1st, but he wanted it small as well. Including us and our families, we had 55 people. We had both the ceremony and reception at a...
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    Why do people throw trash out of their car windows?

    Just a story I like to tell... When I was in college, I worked with the police as my internship project. 99% of it was riding along with the officers on duty. One time, we were sitting at a red light behind a car with three young ladies in it. The one in the backseat opened her window, turned...




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