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[Mkgaapril]

no, I would say it sounds very promising...

 

[funnygarcia]

I am sure we will all keep our fingers crossed for him, won't we girls.

Well it does sound kind of promising.

Thanks.

Teaching jobs are tough here, too much competition.

My sis looked at me yesterday and nervously asked.. "If E doesn't get a job does that mean you will move next year?"

awwwww, nope. She's stuck with me forever

 

[funnygarcia]

The manly beast is bellowing-- BYE!

 

[Mkgaapril]

bye, B...

 

[Mkgaapril]

later l's

 

[staley7580]

That sounds very promising!

 

[Mkgaapril]

Thanks.

Teaching jobs are tough here, too much competition.

My sis looked at me yesterday and nervously asked.. "If E doesn't get a job does that mean you will move next year?"

awwwww, nope. She's stuck with me forever

she isn't stuck with you...she want's you there girl...

 

[Alex2kMommy]

Gotta be 21, are you sure you weren't in Wisconsin instead? My sis is closer in age to you , when she was dating and not quite old enough to drink they would go across the bridge to Superior, WI.
MN passed their 21 to drink a few years before WI - having it the lower age meant the state would lose out on highway construction dollars from DOT. And you know how much MN loves to tear up its highways right?

A. I was not that drunk!
B. I know geography enough to know the different between MN and WI
C. WI is a lot further than MN from where I was staying.

Let's see, this would have been around... 1982 or 1983. Oh wait, if it was in the summer, it was 1983.

I almost didn't get into the bar because the bartender thought my WA driver's license looked fake. Mind you, this was a credit-card like card with the photo and all the info printed directly on the card, and the state seal in some special sort of ink that showed up when you held it up to the light. The ND driver's license at the time was a piece of paper with the info printed on it, a photo cut out and pasted on, and then the card was laminated... you know, like your ASB card from high school? And my ID looked fake...

So.... my mom called me this morning. VERY ODD. She never calls midweek.. Especially early in the morning. She works.. I couldnt figure it out. She kept asking if I was okay, and how I was feeling... and said that she just wanted to make sure I was doing okay. It was very bizarre.

UNTIL... we got off the phone and realized that it would have been my dads birthday. Im such a spaz... Sheesh. I dont feel to bad for forgetting.. Because I cant even count on 2 hands the things I have forgotten this pregnancy. My own anniversary being one! Oh well. Im a crappy daughter. Whos surprised??? No one? I didnt think so!

Oh geez. Why didn't she just say something???

Did I ever tell you what happened when I was interviewing pediatricians? I left it kinda late, had no idea how hard it would be to get in with someone because there were a lot of 'closed' practices at the time. Anyway, so there I am in my 8th month, weeble-wobbling into doctor's offices.

I was in one office's waiting room, and a pretty woman came out with a baby carrier with the most adorable baby girl in it. I cooed, and asked how old the baby was (just a few months), and then the woman started to say something, then stopped. I waited for her to speak, and she finally asked, "Do you... find yourself... forgetting things?"

I gasped, and said, "OMG, YES! I had no idea that was normal, I thought it was just me! I thought I was losing my mind!" Seriously, my math skills were in the toilet! (Right there next to Shawna's computer!)

She looked at me sadly and said, "It doesn't get better."

It did get a little better, but I think my math skills still aren't where they used to be.

 

[staley7580]

A. I was not that drunk!
B. I know geography enough to know the different between MN and WI
C. WI is a lot further than MN from where I was staying.

Let's see, this would have been around... 1982 or 1983. Oh wait, if it was in the summer, it was 1983.

I almost didn't get into the bar because the bartender thought my WA driver's license looked fake. Mind you, this was a credit-card like card with the photo and all the info printed directly on the card, and the state seal in some special sort of ink that showed up when you held it up to the light. The ND driver's license at the time was a piece of paper with the info printed on it, a photo cut out and pasted on, and then the card was laminated... you know, like your ASB card from high school? And my ID looked fake...


Oh geez. Why didn't she just say something???

Did I ever tell you what happened when I was interviewing pediatricians? I left it kinda late, had no idea how hard it would be to get in with someone because there were a lot of 'closed' practices at the time. Anyway, so there I am in my 8th month, weeble-wobbling into doctor's offices.

I was in one office's waiting room, and a pretty woman came out with a baby carrier with the most adorable baby girl in it. I cooed, and asked how old the baby was (just a few months), and then the woman started to say something, then stopped. I waited for her to speak, and she finally asked, "Do you... find yourself... forgetting things?"

I gasped, and said, "OMG, YES! I had no idea that was normal, I thought it was just me! I thought I was losing my mind!" Seriously, my math skills were in the toilet! (Right there next to Shawna's computer!)

She looked at me sadly and said, "It doesn't get better."

It did get a little better, but I think my math skills still aren't where they used to be.

None of my skills are where they used to be. I am overwhelmed by my stupidness lately. I swear... Between the power company, the cable company, and Toyota Financial.... They must think we are some kinda dead beats, because I cant remember what bills are due when, how much I owe, or anything! I used to keep track of it all in my head. now I have a stck of bill next to the computer to HOPEFULLY remind me to pay them.

 

[Mkgaapril]

A. B. C. Blah, blah, blah...admit it , you were an underage drinker....

 

[Alex2kMommy]

A. B. C. Blah, blah, blah...admit it , you were an underage drinker....

Nope. Sorry.

 

[AZMickeyfans]

Hey guys quickly checking in from my moms. Hows everything going?

 

[funnygarcia]

A. I was not that drunk!
B. I know geography enough to know the different between MN and WI
C. WI is a lot further than MN from where I was staying.

ahh but that was umm how long ago? And you know.. things get fuzzzy over time



There are parts of MN and WI where you could be very close to the border. Duluth/ Superior
Stillwater/ Hudson

A. B. C. Blah, blah, blah...admit it , you were an underage drinker....

now now.. be nice..



Because it was bugging me:
MN:

Prior to 1973, the drinking age was the age of legal adulthood (age of majority), which was 21. In 1973, the age of majority was lowered from 21 to 18. This dropped the drinking age to 18 . The legal drinking age was raised to 19 in 1976. The drinking age was raised to the current age of 21 in 1986. It included a grandfather clause: persons who were 19 years old by September 1, 1986 were treated as 21 year olds for liquor law purposes.

WI

The passage of the 26th Amendment in 1971 lowered the voting age for federal elections from 21 to 18. Wisconsin lawmakers responded by dropping the age of majority from 21 to 18.

That took place on March 22, 1972. From that time until 1984, it was legal for anyone 18 or older to purchase and drink alcohol. For more than a decade, state legislators tried to boost the age. In 1983, the state passed Wisconsin Act 74, which created a drinking age of 19 and included an "absolute sobriety" provision that made any blood alcohol content illegal for drivers under age 19.

In the summer of 1984, President Ronald Reagan signed a law requiring states to conform to a national minimum drinking age of 21. States not in compliance by Oct. 1, 1986, would lose 5 percent of their highway aid allocation during the first year and 10 percent the second year.

Anthony Earl, then Wisconsin's governor, resisted the measure at the time but he and the legislature reversed their positions and passed a law calling for Wisconsin to raise its drinking age to 21 on Sept. 1, 1986.

Somehting interesting to note.. I legally can bring my kids to a bar in WI and they can be served alcohol if the bar owner is agreeable.



woohooooo, c'mon boys let's go visit grandma

 

[funnygarcia]

Hey guys quickly checking in from my moms. Hows everything going?

Your computer is floating in the toilet with Alex's math skills.


See above

 

[AZMickeyfans]

Hey Bernice

 

[funnygarcia]

I'm sure my math skills are floating laongside too... heck my typing skills too

 

[funnygarcia]

Hey Bernice

Hey Ms Shawna scholarly woman,
What's shakin?

 

[Mkgaapril]

I can't be nice, it's not in my nature anymore...

it's not my fault alex held up a barstool and drank so much she can't remember what state she was in, or that she used her preschool id

 

[AZMickeyfans]

Bernice I'll keep my fingers crossed for your husband.

Hi Gina!

Anyone else here?

 

[Alex2kMommy]

I can't be nice, it's not in my nature anymore...

it's not my fault alex held up a barstool and drank so much she can't remember what state she was in, or that she used her preschool id

Yup, she's as wicked as ever.