Cranberry or Pineapple?? Part 2

[jiminyC_fan]

Jrsy, you are so right. I would not have wanted to waste a day on the ship for the Super Bowl, either. Wise choice!

 

[cristit14]

The boxes are 3.25 this year. There are Samoas(coconut, chocolate, caramel), Thin Mints(chocolate mint), Trefoils (shortbread), All Abouts (shortbread with fudge on the bottom), Tagalongs(chocolate and peanut butter), Do-si- dos(peanut butter sandwich cookies), sugar free chocolate chip, and a lemon sandwich cookie (can't think of the name right now). Let me know Jrsy if you want any, I will put Heidi down for 4 samoas. If you could let me know by Tuesday that would be great.

I just found out that my grandmother had a massive heart attack and probably will not make it so I will probably be leaving town soon.

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

Cristi - I am sorry about your grandma.

Jrsy - yes, we did make it to Wynkoop. We were going to try for more but we ended up having too much fun at Wynkoop and we never left. We had the sampler beer package and there were some strange beers!!! I had never tried Chili Beer before but we did there. It was gross to me, but the guys didn't mind it. They also had 2 different beers that was 11% and it smelled and tasted like pure alcohol, it was nasty!!!

 

[ImMarcik]

Cristi, I'm sorry about your Grandmother.

 

[Jsme]

Hey everyone.

Cristi sorry to hear about your grandmother. Prayers are with you.

You know Jeff hurt his knew while we were on the cruise. He was limboing at Carlos and Charlies. He finally went to the Doctor yesterday. Three weeks after hurting it. We had played on Webmd.com Friday and I told him he hurt his ACL but that also did not make full sense since his head was sore. So I told him it might be an MCL. The doctor set him up for a MRI on Thursday evening. She did tell him the pop he heard sounded like an ACL. But the pain he is having sounds like some damage to his MCL. Now we have to wait until we hear from the MRI.

I am suppose to have lunch with friends today. I am looking forward to it. I need a few hours with out the kids and Jeff. lol

 

[ImMarcik]

Selena, I hope it's not his ACL. That surgery takes 6 months to recover from. Dane had it done. It wasn't a fun time.

 

[jiminyC_fan]

Cristi, I am sorry about your Grandma. Hugs.

Poor Jeff, no matter what it is, it sounds painful. I don't do pain well that is for sure!

 

[ImMarcik]

I am so frustrated with Aerial's Dad right now. She went to her Dad's for the weekend and came home last night. Well, she wore the to-die for shirt she had to have for Christmas, that I got for her. As soon as he drops her off she bursts into tears and tells me she lost her shirt. She told me she looked all over their house yesterday. She says they donated some things to Goodwill over the weekend and her little sister said she might have put it in the bag to donate. To make things worse, her Dad told her to quit crying over "just a shirt". So, I call him and he tells me he has no idea where it is. I asked him if he was going to replace it. I am a single Mother working hard to give her nice things. I barely get child support, then he donates her brand new shirt to goodwill and tells her it's just a shirt. So, I've already been emailing him all morning today telling him if he doesn't find it he has to replace it. We shall see. Oh and I looked the shirt up where I bought it, and they only have 1 size left, XXL. Her's was an XL. Ugghhh

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

Selena - poor Jeff. I cannot believe he waited 3 weeks while suffering with the pain, what was he thinking?!!? I hope you enjoy your lunch.

Marcie - Does any where else online sell that shirt that could possible have an XL? i.e Ebay? What store is it from? Males just don't understand clothes. I hope he does the right thing.

 

[ImMarcik]

I didn't even think about it, but it's a Sally shirt. Here's a pic

from hot topic

 

[Jsme]

Selena, I hope it's not his ACL. That surgery takes 6 months to recover from. Dane had it done. It wasn't a fun time.

I hope it is not too, especially if it is going to take 6 months recovery time. YUCK!!! The Dr sounded like she was positive it was his ACL with damage to the MCL. She said there was no reason what so ever for the popping noise unless it was ACL. I am hoping she is wrong. She did say she does not think it is more than torn. Would that make it easier for recoverey?

 

[Jsme]

I am so frustrated with Aerial's Dad right now. She went to her Dad's for the weekend and came home last night. Well, she wore the to-die for shirt she had to have for Christmas, that I got for her. As soon as he drops her off she bursts into tears and tells me she lost her shirt. She told me she looked all over their house yesterday. She says they donated some things to Goodwill over the weekend and her little sister said she might have put it in the bag to donate. To make things worse, her Dad told her to quit crying over "just a shirt". So, I call him and he tells me he has no idea where it is. I asked him if he was going to replace it. I am a single Mother working hard to give her nice things. I barely get child support, then he donates her brand new shirt to goodwill and tells her it's just a shirt. So, I've already been emailing him all morning today telling him if he doesn't find it he has to replace it. We shall see. Oh and I looked the shirt up where I bought it, and they only have 1 size left, XXL. Her's was an XL. Ugghhh

OK, there is various issues for me here.

I hate it when I hear a parent does not pay their child support monthly, weekly or whatever they are suppose to pay. For 15 years of the almost 18 years Jeff and I have been together he paid child support. I made sure it was paid ontime every month. I was the one who paid it!!!! It pisses me off to read that this man does not pay you as he should.

Next, I could not imagine him not caring. Well, I guess it proves he is a man. They never get it. I think as her mother, Marcie, you know what you did to make sure Ariel had the present she wanted. I would be upset too. Can you see what goodwill they donated to and see if they have the shirt? My mom accidently donated some things she did not mean to once. She picked up the wrong bag. When she realized it she was too late to get it all back but she did get a few things. She went to the goodwill donation store and they have a few things left. She was lucky.

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

Marcie - I will go check in my Hot Topic store to see if I can find it in an XL for you.

 

[jiminyC_fan]

Marcie, I feel so bad for Aerial. Clothing IS a big deal to a girl her age! I am with Selena. It makes me very angry about you not getting your child support. I use to work in the Courts for child support and then later for the DA's office. There it was our duty to try and help the women get it from other states or women in other states could use us to get it from the men. It was called a Reciprocal action. The two states worked together. I do have to admit that Texas was one of the worst to deal with. At that time, it seemed like they protected the men of their state if the women were in another. Not sure what it is like for both of you in TX. I wonder if you could locate a child support enforcement agency in your county. It would be either under the District Attorney's office or the welfare dept.

I am getting down to stress time for the trip. I am having to research out the new TSA requirements for lithium batteries. As of this month, you can only bring in so many, not pack them in checked luggage and it goes on. Quite honestly, I don't understand it. Then when you put it in your carry on you have to cover the terminals with tape and put them separately in a ziploc bag. Not sure if you can keep them in your camera, iPods etc and just seal the extra batteries. I guess that some AA batteries can now be lithium. Frustration!!

 

[cristit14]

Bye, guys. I am going to pick up the kids from school and then I have to leave for the airport a little after 5pm. I won't be back until next Wed and I doubt that I have any internet access. See you later!

 

[ImMarcik]

I hope it is not too, especially if it is going to take 6 months recovery time. YUCK!!! The Dr sounded like she was positive it was his ACL with damage to the MCL. She said there was no reason what so ever for the popping noise unless it was ACL. I am hoping she is wrong. She did say she does not think it is more than torn. Would that make it easier for recoverey?

They may not do surgery unless it's torn. So, yea that's where the long recovery comes in. It's a very tough surgery.

 

[ImMarcik]

Where is everyone going? I'm lost. Cristi & Sandy are both going away.

Thank you Heidi, that would be great, let me know if they have it.

As for child support. The ONLY time he pays is when he has a job and they force him by taking it out of his check. He is paying right now. But, he changes jobs every year or two and won't pay me until I get the child support office to FIND OUT where he's working so they can take it from him again. They usually end up taking extra out a month when he is paying for back pay. Then, he gets the attitude that he doesn't have to buy her anything because he pays child support. OH and when we got divorced he was making minimum wage so he's still paying that percentage and makes way more then that. It's only 4 more years anyway, and I take care of her. BUT it makes me so very mad when he doesn't take care of her things when she is there that I get for her.

Ok, ok I'm off my soapbox.

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

Marcie - that makes me so angry, he is such a jerk.

I am really close to a coworker, I call her my work mom and she called me this morning to tell me that her mom passed away yesterday. I feel so bad for her.

 

[jiminyC_fan]

Marcie, Cristi is going to her grandmother's funeral. I leave next Wednesday.

I had an extremely frustrating day. I hope there is good tv tonight. I want to sit and do NOTHING.

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

Another death. Chris's great uncle shot himself in the face and killed himself. He was 85 years old. I guess he was in a lot of pain and just decided to take care of it. Very sad. Chris's mom is very upset as she was very close to her uncle. He lived in Key West and she would visit him frequently, so we are putting money together so we can fly her down to Key West and attend the funeral. She said that the only people left in her family is her and one other relative and is very sad.