8/17/08 Captain Jack's Repossession Repo Cruise to PC thru TPC #5

[arlenesp]

Morning everyone. Another Monday morning.

Currently 61 and sunny. High should be 84.

It was hot yesterday. Caught me off guard. Could never survive without my A/C in the car.

Another Leo here. Anniversary Aug 3, Birthday 7th, DS 12th.Strange thing. My best friend at work shares my birthday and the new girl on our team who sits next to me is also the 7th. They passed around the birthday list and the most are in the month of August. Are we still having a big party for all of us Summer babies who never had parties growing up?

 

[arlenesp]

Anyone hear from Monica? Hope everything is ok.

Lots of us staying at the Hojos .Didn't realize there were so many of us What a party bus this will be.

 

[poohmomof5]

Morning everyone. Another Monday morning.

Currently 61 and sunny. High should be 84.

It was hot yesterday. Caught me off guard. Could never survive without my A/C in the car.

Another Leo here. Anniversary Aug 3, Birthday 7th, DS 12th.Strange thing. My best friend at work shares my birthday and the new girl on our team who sits next to me is also the 7th. They passed around the birthday list and the most are in the month of August. Are we still having a big party for all of us Summer babies who never had parties growing up?

Okay, what is up with us Leos? We all seem to get married right around our birthdays. Wierd!!!

 

[poohmomof5]

Anyone hear from Monica? Hope everything is ok.

Lots of us staying at the Hojos .Didn't realize there were so many of us What a party bus this will be.

We are all thinking of her and her son here in our house. Hoping that her brother has had some success connecting with him.

 

[poohmomof5]

Do we know who is in charge of the final official "pirate" list and if anyone will be doing a final mini navigator with all the activities and pirate room numbers etc?

Just wondering...

 

[goofyforlife]

Umm, I'm pretty sure I mentioned it. You see, it is a movie about a guy who kills people with a strait razor and then his neighbor bakes them into pies...
The gore factor didn't bother me. I thought the movie was beautiful.
I agree, but IMO By The Sea made up for it. Much more fun in the movie.

Darn...i gotta look for these reviews sooner... I just had the "johnny depp" and singing part in my head when i rented it.

I really liked the "By the sea" part too

Glad to see you didn't float away.... but at least you didn't get the tornadoes... (PG county did this time)

 

[tom31b]

Do we know who is in charge of the final official "pirate" list and if anyone will be doing a final mini navigator with all the activities and pirate room numbers etc?

Just wondering...

We had a couple of volunteers (sk8ingmom and pdarrah) to do the navigator. The drinking, I mean fish extender committee (way too many to list) will collect names/rooms for that .....

It will all come together.

Help is always welcome.

 

[tom31b]

Congrats!
Oh look. It's melt the ice and have community events at the ice rink time!

Thanks.

The ice rink used to be indoor/outdoor (just a roof), but the imperceptible (sp?) change in temp over the last 20 years has forced them to put walls up to keep the ice through the winter. May not be catastrophic global warming, but almost killed the rink.

It would need a ton of work to keep ice all year round.

I think they do in-line hockey in warm months.

 

[micmse2003]

Strong and bossy? Or is that just me? I usually blame it on the fact that I'm an oldest child and a mom.





Can anyone keep up with you???? I told her about Fr Mike's offer on the board, she got on the Dis and then gets excited and says *I didn't Cheryl and John are Catholic!* *Now I know why I like them so much.* But, Samantha is much more conservative then you! LOL! She may be more conservative then me!

Everyone that knows me realizes that I am not strong or bossy either. John you are not allowed to say anything.

Do you know many Italians that are not catholic.

Hi Smantha

Nope, my DH and DD3 are flying Airtran non stop from Milwaukee to LAX. $109!!! So excited about that one.

The older kids and I are taking the train from Milwaukee-Chicago-Los Angeles. We love to travel by train as it is soooooo relaxing! Great way to start an awesome trip!

What a great idea to take the train!!! Thought maybe we would bump into each other at O'hare.

Let's see there is Stephanie....Arlene.......(Cheryl) Me..... Laura(eeyorelvr10 and......... you!!!!!! Anyone else we can add to the list???

 

[PBader]

Well... as it just so happens - the other day the kids and I had taken thier scooters to the park. That involved going on the sidewalk perhaps a mile or so to get to the park. Well, Julianna is pretty good about ALWAYS stopping for me to accompany her at every intersection crossing and so on. That's good, eh? Well - that afternoon another parent at the park was recanting in casual conversation how another family whom I was vaguely familiar with had an accident late last year. Thier daughters were going somewhere in the neighborhood on thier BIKES and the Dad was steps behind both as they headed through town - when the leading daughter was run OVER by a neighbor backing out of their driveway! Fortunately, she survived in spite of her extremely serious accident.

I felt terrible on hearing this - and thought about how I had NEVER mentioned to Julianna to watch for cars backing out of the driveways. Often I would let her skate ahead of me to the next intersection while I closely escorted her younger sister. And hence, in effect, we were fully exposed to the kind of hazard our neighbor had tragicly encountered. Later on returning home we had a closely escorted trip back as I began to explain this new hazard to Julianna.

When Adam took his driving lessons, the instructor said that he wished our court had sidewalks (I think we are the only court that doesn't as we have only 4 houses) He said that he really tries to get the kids to make sure they have 2 stops to make while backing up, once at the sidewalk and then again at the driveway. I am sure that father was horrified at watching his child struck by a car. Sidewalks can be just as dangerous as the road for our children.

I think there are 2 different families that have bought their kids those low sitting go carts. I don't know what they were thinking! The kids fly up and down the road and they are so hard to see.

 

[tom31b]

Cheryl, you rocking the world again last night?

== PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE REPORT ==



Region: ILLINOIS
Geographic coordinates: 38.473N, 87.823W
Magnitude: 4.5 M
Depth: 10 km
Universal Time (UTC): 21 Apr 2008 05:38:30
Time near the Epicenter: 20 Apr 2008 23:38:30
Local standard time in your area: 21 Apr 2008 00:38:30

Location with respect to nearby cities:
8 km (5 miles) NW (324 degrees) of Mount Carmel, IL
12 km (7 miles) WSW (238 degrees) of Allendale, IL
12 km (8 miles) NE (38 degrees) of Bellmont, IL
60 km (37 miles) NNW (337 degrees) of Evansville, IN
211 km (131 miles) E (94 degrees) of St. Louis, MO


ADDITIONAL EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS
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event ID : US 2008rcar

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or
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[allshookup]

I have missed posting on here. My Mom is coming on Friday, still trying to get everything in it's place.


Lucky you ! We have non-stop for on the way back. It's called renting a car and driving 8 or so hours.

You are sooooooo lucky! Only having to drive 7/8 hours to WDW or DCL is the bomb!!! I would drive everytime if I lived that close!

good evening everyone...
today was just a crappy day...and i need to vent! actually it's been a bad weekend! on friday, a group of my ds's friends who are only 9 yrs old, decided to bike ride down our huge steep hill outback. (ds was not involved, cuz i don't let him ride around town on his own yet.) these friends were given free roam to go wherever they wanted...and they decided to thrill ride down the huge hill. dh and i hate to see the kids do this, cuz we live at an intersection...when the kids go down, they can't stop, and they go flying thru the intersection. when i happened to catch them do this on friday, i looked just in time to see my good friends ds come to a screeching halt as a car slammed on its brakes only feet away from him. needless to say, i was very shaken to see one of my ds friends almost get hit by a car! i yelled to the boys that i needed to talk to them, and told them how dangerous it was...they all know that....they've seen us yell at others who come down the hill. i called the dad who was supposed to be keeping an eye on these boys...and asked him if he had any idea where the kids were...and he didn't! just said they were out riding bikes thru town! they are only 9...and they all just turned 9 within the last 3-5 months. (i felt horrible for my friend cuz she left her ds with the other dad cuz she had to go out of town..so, she had no clue about this and it was her kid that almost got hit!) the dad has said that i am overreacting...boys will be boys....gotta let them learn responsibility..etc. he's still ticked at me now! but i really don't care! i guess that he thinks if a kid gets hit by a car, that teaches him something....ugh! the dad and mom have been badmouthing me to others all weekend cuz i yelled at the kids for coming down the steep hill. grr! it ticks me off so much!
so, then today, we had to go to the little league field to watch oldest ds play baseball...and while there, i took my youngest to the playground. the ice cream truck came thru and even though i was right there with him, my 5 yr old darted for the truck! he ended up in the road before i could catch him....and i freaked! my dd saw that ds was running for the truck,(and she thought i was too, cuz i was chasing ds)....so she decided that she should run to the truck too. so, not only did my 5yr old run into the road while i was watching...my 8yr old dd did too! thank goodness there were no cars coming, but i cringe when i think of what might have been. just really frustrates me, cuz i am constantly on my kids about street safety! on friday i watch as kids were given the ok to roam the roads on bikes, and on sunday, i watch my own kids run right into the road! after my own did that, i had a bit of a meltdown...came home, went onto my porch, and had a good cry! i know you can't always have control of your kids...but man...today was just too frightening for me. made me realize i need to hug my dk's a bit tighter, cuz you never know....

Shannon you are obviously a very loving and caring mother and those parents are just idiots! I would've been thanking you if one of them were mine! Shame on them!!!

Thanks for the vote of confidance on DCL site!!! By the way their was a mistake and the onboard credit should be given to 7054!!


Oh that would be so much fun!!! John and I did vow renewal at 33 years but would love to do it for our 40th this year!!!

40 years! Now that is a something to be proud of!




My birthday is July 30th and my Anniversary is July 13th!! Must be a great month. There are a lot of us Leos on this thread!!



Tell Samantha she can hang with me if she can keep up with me!!!



I was going to call you and got side-tracked again!!! I then forgot it is almost 11 pm. by you.

Aw I was just teasing you Cheryl! Call me when we start planning & we can compare what we ended up with!

I am one of the 70% too!!! The good thing is I am here to talk about it!! I wish your Mom the very best!!!



Now that makes 3 of us!!!



The nice side effect is I never burn from the sun anymore after my radiation treatment!! Glad it is tolerable but remember there is Aquaphor if you do burn from treatment!!

Hugs to all of you!

That comic cracked me up! I am sooooo bad!

 

[micmse2003]

Everyone please check your Vent Dryer!!!​

For the last few weeks John and I have been noticing our brand new clothes dryer was not working properly. Our dryer is in the laundry room in the lower level of our house. The vent to our dryer goes accross our entire laundry room and our recreation room. Total is about 25 feet wth the pipe running through our ceiling and enclosed in the inside wall of our laundry room. Even though in 36 years of living here...........I have always cleaned out the dryer in the vent.

The last two weekends we bought a brush and started to see if there was lint in the sheet metal pipe. This is not an easy task as it is 25 feet acroos and has two 90 degree angles coming off the dryer in the wall. We had been getting some lint out and thought that was it.

Saturday I washed clothes and the clothes were not dry after 2 hours. We went out to some charity function and started drying the clothes again Saturday night. In about 15 minutes, I came down stairs and told John I could smell something burning. The dryer was extremely hot!!! We shut it off for the night.

Sunday morning...John being very mechanically inclined.....took a wire to fish out any lint. He managed to go from the outside through the pipe in our ceiling and into the laundry room. He then attached a brush to it to pull out the lint. Well...................Out came 25 feet of the pipe into our back yard. The brush got stuck and the entire straight pie came out. There was at least 8 feet of solid lint in the pipe.
After several wholes in our laundry room wall and ceiling, we fianally managed to put the pipe on the 90 angles. All is well but a few more holes to patch in hte laundry room ceiling a walls.

Sooooo everyone please make sure your vent is clean!!! We were very fortunate that the house did not go up in smoke!!!

 

[allshookup]

Happy Patriots Day!!!

Off to the neighbors for a Patriots Day Brunch & to watch the Red Sox! Any reason to have a party around here! ​

 

[allshookup]

Everyone please check your Vent Dryer!!!​

For the last few weeks John and I have been noticing our brand new clothes dryer was not working properly. Our dryer is in the laundry room in the lower level of our house. The vent to our dryer goes accross our entire laundry room and our recreation room. Total is about 25 feet wth the pipe running through our ceiling and enclosed in the inside wall of our laundry room. Even though in 36 years of living here...........I have always cleaned out the dryer in the vent.

The last two weekends we bought a brush and started to see if there was lint in the sheet metal pipe. This is not an easy task as it is 25 feet acroos and has two 90 degree angles coming off the dryer in the wall. We had been getting some lint out and thought that was it.

Saturday I washed clothes and the clothes were not dry after 2 hours. We went out to some charity function and started drying the clothes again Saturday night. In about 15 minutes, I came down stairs and told John I could smell something burning. The dryer was extremely hot!!! We shut it off for the night.

Sunday morning...John being very mechanically inclined.....took a wire to fish out any lint. He managed to go from the outside through the pipe in our ceiling and into the laundry room. He then attached a brush to it to pull out the lint. Well...................Out came 25 feet of the pipe into our back yard. The brush got stuck and the entire straight pie came out. There was at least 8 feet of solid lint in the pipe.
After several wholes in our laundry room wall and ceiling, we fianally managed to put the pipe on the 90 angles. All is well but a few more holes to patch in hte laundry room ceiling a walls.

Sooooo everyone please make sure your vent is clean!!! We were very fortunate that the house did not go up in smoke!!!

Cheryl that is scary! So glad you & John caught the problem & thanks for the warning!

 

[micmse2003]

Cheryl, you rocking the world again last night?

I must confess..........it was John's snoring!!!

 

[PBader]

Cheryl, glad you all avoided a tragedy. Luckily our vent is right to the outside of the house. It is amazing all the lint that gets trapped in those lines. I have also been told to run the lint trap itself under water periodically, it will get clogged with things you can't see.

 

[buckifan]

Let's see there is Stephanie....Arlene.......(Cheryl) Me..... Laura(eeyorelvr10 and......... you!!!!!! Anyone else we can add to the list???

My ds12 is a Leo. He will be 13 on July 27th.

Here's a funny story about my dh's birthday......On our last cruise there were 3 other families we really had a lot in common with, and ended up spending almost the whole cruise hanging out with all of them, including excursions. Well my husband and 2 of the other husband's birthdays all fell on the same day, July 16th. And the fourth husband....when was his birthday? July 15th! We all thought that was such a strange coincidence!

 

[Joan1]

Does anyone have any information on what would be a good way to spend one day in NYC with two children age 13DD and 11DS?

We will be in the city next Tuesday for just one day and there is so much to choose from I came here to get some advice.

We have been to the Museum or Natural History a couple of time and the Metropolitan Museum of Art a couple of times. We have also gone into Central Park during a weekend day just to enjoy the stroll and various entertainers that are there on the weekends. This being a weekday may not have that

We have been to Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty and Empire State building

We were thinking of Madam Tussauds but not sure how that is
We may also go to TKTS to see what plays are available for that evening
Anyone have any info on how to get discount tickets to Wicked? I know those are not available at TKTS

Anyone have any suggestions on great shopping for a teenager daughter? I personally really dislike shopping but she would love it. She is very into fashion, but high fashion is not in my budget

Any suggestions would be very welcomed

Thanks

 

[m&m's mom]

I was hit by a car as well on my bike- but it was my fault.
I was 8 and I turned into the street at a bad angle and slid under a Drivers Ed car. Just ran over the bike but the poor driver was so upset. He thought he killed me. I got up and ran home and hid in my closet because I knew it was my fault. Sure enough drivers ed teacher runs to my house to see how I was and of course, I get in trouble by my mom since it was my fault and I scared them to death.
Fast forward 6 years and I was in drivers ed with the same teacher and a car full of kids. I was driving and a kid was on his bike very close. The teacher says "Be careful, one time there was a boy driving for the 1st time and a kid on a bike ran into us". I didn't say a word and then he says real loud "Hey blondie! That was you!!". I was soooo embarrassed. Of course everyone laughed at me.
BTW- in NM at the time you could get your license at 15 and since I lived on a ranch, I got mine at 14. Of course, I had been driving since I was 5 on the ranch. You would think I would be a better driver. Every single car I have ever had has been in a wreck w/ me in it.