Another Unofficial Chatterbox Thread- Everyone is Welcome!

[kaoden39]

summer?
Geesh (had to bring that word back) it is barely spring here.
Northern MN had snow on the weekend, Duluth had a high of 38
We will have rain on and off this week (temps in 60s/50s), but that's okay it makes everything grow

Hubby has 27 student contact days left.

No layoff letter .. yet.. hopefully it will stay that way and he will get a call back for next year.

I need gift suggestions, my dad will be reaching the ripe old age of 70 on Mother's Day weekend. Need a birthday gift to match this momentous occasion.. plus a Mother's Day gift.

Mom is easy for me to find a gift.... something pretty or a gift card for books and she will be delighted.

(she mentioned something about needing photos to put in a book of when my boys were small. I'm thinking that might be a good project for me this summer.. scan in photos and have a printed book made. Could get it done in time for her birthday.)

My dad?? no freaking idea.
My last oh wow he will like this gift was some very nice fair trade coffees only to find out..






he drinks tea now.






so uhhhh yeah, no freakin clue.

Do you have a store like World Market where you live? They have some wonderful teas and mugs. He might like some fun flavored teas.

 

[eatmypixiedust]

Oh wow, that is awesome!!!! I have a 4# jar of Beans at EACH computer in our house....5 computers... I also have a jar hidden for emergencies! LOL The one good thing is I eat one jelly bean at a time to savor the flavors. They are so intense!

Hi! Welcome to the thread That's cool that you love jelly beans. My co-workers bought a box from the 99 cent store called Belly Flops. They are made by Jelly Belly and consist of the irregular/deformed jelly beans. They said it tasted good.

Do you have a store like World Market where you live? They have some wonderful teas and mugs. He might like some fun flavored teas.

I like Cost Plus World Market. They have cool stuff and I like to see what new products they get in. I used to work there years and years ago. It was really fun and I liked making the coffee & tea of the day and writing the daily flavors on the chalkboard.

 

[XTinabell]

Hi girlies and Welcome to all the newcomers.

I have a yoga/pilates/tai chi class in an hour, I have no idea what it's going to be like. I can do yoga, I hate pilates and I've never tried tai chi it should certainly make for an interesting hour at any rate.

I accidentally left my lock at the gym yesterday so hopefully someone turned it in so I can have it back. I'm borrowing dh's lock for the day but I miss mine

Also, my sister is coming to visit me!!! She's in Egypt this week and next Tuesday she's coming to my house for the whole month of May. We fight a lot but I'm still excited

If I don't see any of you later, have a great day!

 

[AZMickeyfans]

I like the tea and mug idea from world market!

I have nothing to offer, its too early! I'm heading out for a jog to clear the mind. Had a horrible night at cheer. Morgan now thinks she is FAT. She is a flier and she has new bases that could not lift her this year. Well, the bases are not trained right thats the problem not that my 8 year old is FAT. OMG! My daughter is underweight not overweight. I'm so irritated. I miss her old coach so much. This never would have happened under her. I told Morgan we will do the next 2 classes and the competition but we will quit after that if she wants. She said she didnt want to but she hates the coach so we might look elsewhere. I'll be checking out coaches at the competition this weekend. ugh. I actually told her that we could just quit now but she said she didnt want to leave the girls without their flier for competition. After they called her heavy she wants to go and support them. I hope they appreciate that but I doubt it.

OK 5:45 am rant over. I need to jog to get this out of my head.

Random thought: Why is my dog making human like noises?

 

[kaoden39]

Hi! Welcome to the thread That's cool that you love jelly beans. My co-workers bought a box from the 99 cent store called Belly Flops. They are made by Jelly Belly and consist of the irregular/deformed jelly beans. They said it tasted good.









I like Cost Plus World Market. They have cool stuff and I like to see what new products they get in. I used to work there years and years ago. It was really fun and I liked making the coffee & tea of the day and writing the daily flavors on the chalkboard.

They sell the Belly Flops at the plant gift store and you get like 5 pounds of Jelly Belly's for like $9. Which if you ever buy Jelly Bellys is a great deal. They taste just as good. My DH who is a Jelly Nelly freak loves them.

I like the tea and mug idea from world market!

I have nothing to offer, its too early! I'm heading out for a jog to clear the mind. Had a horrible night at cheer. Morgan now thinks she is FAT. She is a flier and she has new bases that could not lift her this year. Well, the bases are not trained right thats the problem not that my 8 year old is FAT. OMG! My daughter is underweight not overweight. I'm so irritated. I miss her old coach so much. This never would have happened under her. I told Morgan we will do the next 2 classes and the competition but we will quit after that if she wants. She said she didnt want to but she hates the coach so we might look elsewhere. I'll be checking out coaches at the competition this weekend. ugh. I actually told her that we could just quit now but she said she didnt want to leave the girls without their flier for competition. After they called her heavy she wants to go and support them. I hope they appreciate that but I doubt it.

OK 5:45 am rant over. I need to jog to get this out of my head.

Random thought: Why is my dog making human like noises?

I'm glad you like the idea. How dare anyone make your poor daughter worry about being fat. That is how girls start on the road to eating disorders. I would be wringing some necks.

 

[dizzyami]

I like the tea and mug idea from world market!

I have nothing to offer, its too early! I'm heading out for a jog to clear the mind. Had a horrible night at cheer. Morgan now thinks she is FAT. She is a flier and she has new bases that could not lift her this year. Well, the bases are not trained right thats the problem not that my 8 year old is FAT. OMG! My daughter is underweight not overweight. I'm so irritated. I miss her old coach so much. This never would have happened under her. I told Morgan we will do the next 2 classes and the competition but we will quit after that if she wants. She said she didnt want to but she hates the coach so we might look elsewhere. I'll be checking out coaches at the competition this weekend. ugh. I actually told her that we could just quit now but she said she didnt want to leave the girls without their flier for competition. After they called her heavy she wants to go and support them. I hope they appreciate that but I doubt it.

OK 5:45 am rant over. I need to jog to get this out of my head.

Random thought: Why is my dog making human like noises?

I can't believe that Shawna (ok, well I can, I lived many years in the dance world). Poor Morgan - what a terrible thing for an 8 year old to think. That girl is beautiful and like you said underweight if anything. I can drive down there and beat up the new coach if you would like. I bet my kids could do a good beating on the girls in the class too - just give me a call - we can be there in 3 hours

 

[AZMickeyfans]

I can't believe that Shawna (ok, well I can, I lived many years in the dance world). Poor Morgan - what a terrible thing for an 8 year old to think. That girl is beautiful and like you said underweight if anything. I can drive down there and beat up the new coach if you would like. I bet my kids could do a good beating on the girls in the class too - just give me a call - we can be there in 3 hours

I love it! Dizzy, I hate to tell you this but the girl is 4'8 1/2" tall now! How tall are you? Her dance teacher is only 4'11" and fears by Christmas Morgan will be as tall as she is!

So she is 4' 8 1/2 inches tall and only weighs 65lbs. 65lbs!!!!! What are those girls thinking??? There is no way she is overweight. Like I said she needs to gain a few lbs! Actually the problem stems more from them being new to cheer and cant lift her up since they have not been trained but they dont want to admit they cant do anything so they call her heavy. They are 12 year olds! UGH!

I think we are done and are concentrating on dance from now on where she feels happy and proud of herself. Yes, we've encountered some crazy, mean people at competitions (dizzy, you know exactly who I'm talking about or at least from what studios) but she can deal with that since she is starting to "hang" at their level. The cheer thing is just ridiculous.

 

[eatmypixiedust]

Hi girlies and Welcome to all the newcomers.

I have a yoga/pilates/tai chi class in an hour, I have no idea what it's going to be like. I can do yoga, I hate pilates and I've never tried tai chi it should certainly make for an interesting hour at any rate.

I accidentally left my lock at the gym yesterday so hopefully someone turned it in so I can have it back. I'm borrowing dh's lock for the day but I miss mine

Also, my sister is coming to visit me!!! She's in Egypt this week and next Tuesday she's coming to my house for the whole month of May. We fight a lot but I'm still excited

If I don't see any of you later, have a great day!

Wow, I don't think I could handle any of those....I would probably get stuck in some awkward yoga position.

I hope that you find your lock. Wow, your sister is in Egypt? That sounds awesome. I hope you have a good time when she visits you.

I like the tea and mug idea from world market!

I have nothing to offer, its too early! I'm heading out for a jog to clear the mind. Had a horrible night at cheer. Morgan now thinks she is FAT. She is a flier and she has new bases that could not lift her this year. Well, the bases are not trained right thats the problem not that my 8 year old is FAT. OMG! My daughter is underweight not overweight. I'm so irritated. I miss her old coach so much. This never would have happened under her. I told Morgan we will do the next 2 classes and the competition but we will quit after that if she wants. She said she didnt want to but she hates the coach so we might look elsewhere. I'll be checking out coaches at the competition this weekend. ugh. I actually told her that we could just quit now but she said she didnt want to leave the girls without their flier for competition. After they called her heavy she wants to go and support them. I hope they appreciate that but I doubt it.

OK 5:45 am rant over. I need to jog to get this out of my head.

Random thought: Why is my dog making human like noises?

WHAT IN THE WORLD IS WRONG WITH THAT COACH??? You should seriously kick that coach in the rump!

 

[tinkermell]

Ooooh! we have new people here!!

Welcome aboard!!

To the rest of you ladies who know me..................yes I have been MIA!

Sorry, I'm trying to keep up on all of you!!

I had a wonderful visit to DL last weekend. I ended up going 2 1/2 days, so it was nice and not too rushed. Sunday, I basically just watched my grandsons having fun. I enjoyed that so much. Saw some of DIS ladies running around doing the Mouse Adventure contest. That looked like a blast!

So what is new with all of you?

Shawna, I can not believe that Morgan thinks she is fat!! She is on the thin side as everyone knows!!! Geesh! The girls who are catching her, just need to get stronger. That is all!!! Becky used to be the catcher, and she was small, but she had dancer arms so she was strong. So the catcher can be small, they just need to have the big bomb arms!! She used to work out with the boys in HS, and would get teased about her muscles. So much that she stopped! She even used to win some of the guys in arm wrestling!! That was not good!

To Morgan,
You are not fat!!!
From the lady who saw you dance at DL,

Melody

 

[AZMickeyfans]

Thanks guys. This morning I asked her if she felt better and she had said yes. She also said she knows she is skinny but she was hurt that they called her heavy. I told her either way not to worry about her size as she is beautiful inside and out and she seemed happy with that.

I also found out we have a cheer program through the same league close to our house with a different coach. I'll watch them at competition this weekend and if our dance schedule permits next fall we will join that team. We've decided of course due to job situations to take the summer off already. ONe plus I guess!

 

[azdisneylover]

Hi! Welcome to the thread That's cool that you love jelly beans. My co-workers bought a box from the 99 cent store called Belly Flops. They are made by Jelly Belly and consist of the irregular/deformed jelly beans. They said it tasted good.









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Yummy! That is a great price for those jelly beans! I buy mine at Costco. I wait for the Costco coupon booklet and then I stock up! LOL This last time, they had individual packets of Jelly Bellys, but I couldn't find them so I just bought the jars. I was thinking to myself that those would be great to take on a trip...(DL)

 

[azdisneylover]

Hi girlies and Welcome to all the newcomers.

I have a yoga/pilates/tai chi class in an hour, I have no idea what it's going to be like. I can do yoga, I hate pilates and I've never tried tai chi it should certainly make for an interesting hour at any rate.

I accidentally left my lock at the gym yesterday so hopefully someone turned it in so I can have it back. I'm borrowing dh's lock for the day but I miss mine

Also, my sister is coming to visit me!!! She's in Egypt this week and next Tuesday she's coming to my house for the whole month of May. We fight a lot but I'm still excited

If I don't see any of you later, have a great day!

I can't wait to read about your exercise class!

Hope you have a great time when your sister visits. I bet the time will fly by.

 

[azdisneylover]

I like the tea and mug idea from world market!

I have nothing to offer, its too early! I'm heading out for a jog to clear the mind. Had a horrible night at cheer. Morgan now thinks she is FAT. She is a flier and she has new bases that could not lift her this year. Well, the bases are not trained right thats the problem not that my 8 year old is FAT. OMG! My daughter is underweight not overweight. I'm so irritated. I miss her old coach so much. This never would have happened under her. I told Morgan we will do the next 2 classes and the competition but we will quit after that if she wants. She said she didnt want to but she hates the coach so we might look elsewhere. I'll be checking out coaches at the competition this weekend. ugh. I actually told her that we could just quit now but she said she didnt want to leave the girls without their flier for competition. After they called her heavy she wants to go and support them. I hope they appreciate that but I doubt it.

OK 5:45 am rant over. I need to jog to get this out of my head.

Random thought: Why is my dog making human like noises?

Love the name Morgan! I have a beautiful niece with that name. Sorry to read your daughter is getting called fat. That isn't right. Wishing you the best of luck finding a new coach.
Kudos to you for getting up and jogging...I do it too, but only in my mind so far... It's a start! LOL

I know why my dog makes a human like noise....he occasionally passes gas! The kids thought it was the funniest thing!

 

[azdisneylover]

Ooooh! we have new people here!!

Welcome aboard!!

To the rest of you ladies who know me..................yes I have been MIA!

Sorry, I'm trying to keep up on all of you!!

I had a wonderful visit to DL last weekend. I ended up going 2 1/2 days, so it was nice and not too rushed. Sunday, I basically just watched my grandsons having fun. I enjoyed that so much. Saw some of DIS ladies running around doing the Mouse Adventure contest. That looked like a blast!

So what is new with all of you?


Melody

Sounds like your trip to DL was a great! What is the Mouse Adventure contest? Is there a thread or site you can direct me to so I may read up on it?

 

[funnygarcia]

Mouse Adventure is sponsored by a different web site (Mouse Planet). It's a big event with hundreds of participants. Looking at their web site.. they are having TWO this year at DL, next one is May 10th (mother's day.. ooooo busy day!! )

 

[tinkermell]

Sounds like your trip to DL was a great! What is the Mouse Adventure contest? Is there a thread or site you can direct me to so I may read up on it?

Hi again!
The Mouse Adventure contest is sponsered by the Mouse Planet website. It is combination of a scavenger, puzzle and trivia questionaire that you do at DL against other teams. It is suppose to be pretty challenging from what I have heard. It does sound like fun, even if you don't win.

 

[funnygarcia]

Oh boy.. J has dragged us into being Marching Band parents
Don't get me wrong.. I'm happy that he wants to participate in something but uhhh E and I are just uhhh not the most active school parent type people.
Marching band.. a very good marching band.. it's expected to be VERY involved in the band boosters.

Fee $$$$, rehearsal and parade schedule, parent meetings, fundraiser expectations, supplies, band camp, competition in Missouri ...


Making us feel a tad dizzy

The most he has done was Jr ROTC last year, free and during the school day.
And Math Team this year, after school and a handful of competitions.

 

[stitch1986]

hello!

This is my first response to this chatterbox, so not quite sure what I need to say but here goes

My name is Christine im 23 live in AZ, going to DL Oct 2 first time without family.
I work at a OB/GYN office now for over a year.

I have 3 dogs and a rabbit. I have lost a total of 24 lbs and exercising more and surprisingly have more energy than before never knew exercise and losing wt could make a difference. Um not sure what else but hope everyone has a good night if I dont hear from you later on.

 

[AZMickeyfans]

 

[funnygarcia]

Poly has gone looney.
She is running back and forth in the hallway. Then she launched herself across the couch, ran and slid along the kitchen floor. Made a mad crashing leap into the windowsill, off the kitchen table. Spooks herself at her own reflection in the window. Takes a flying leap off the table.. slides on the linoleum and back to scramble in the hall.

Earlier she jumped at the blinds in the kitchen window, thump whack and scampers away. Leaving the blinds hanging at an odd angle.



Spring crazy??