SSR. We'll be using my friend's developer points.
we have missed you!Happy Birthday Karen.
I have already gotten an e-mail from the mom of one of DS's friends telling me the Saturday of his party is a huge band competition thing. 
DS isn't in that, but 2 of his 5 friends are. 
She wasn't CERTAIN that is the date of the competition, but I bet it is. That means we will have to bring those 2 boys home late Friday night or early Saturday morning, depending on what time the competition starts. Or perhaps their parents will volunteer to come get them. 
We'll see how that unfolds. Of course there has to be some complication. 
Hi, all,
Long time, no talk!
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Well, this went much longer than intended, so I'll sign off for now, and see you guys tomorrow. Night night, DDA!
And the time in FL with your parents will be perfect too.
I honestly believe that some companies are using the economy as an "excuse" to screw over their employees.
KAREN
I think that I forgot to mention that we did buy the van today. Chris will have to arrange to have it moved to his dealership and he will need to get a motor for it. The outside looks really nice, with no rust, but then again everything around here is covered in snow so you can't see it all. The inside needs a good cleaning, but seems fine. Apparently the owner NEVER had the oil changed, ever. It is a 2003. It only has 62000 miles on it so I should be able to get a couple of years out of it. This is what it should look like
KAREN
Colby came home from school very excited today. The teacher had sat all of the kindergartners in a circle and placed wooden letters in the middle. She went around the circle asking each kid to pick up a specific letter. Colby said that all of the other kids got some wrong, but he got all of his right
Hunter is complaining of being dizzy a lot. I guess I should call his doctor and run it by him. First it was headaches and those have gone away for the most part, but now he is feeling dizzy. Most of the time it is just when he sits or stands, but other times it is when he is walking along. He says that things just go black. I can remember that happening to me all the time when I was a teen, but I don't remember when it startedVicki didn't one of your girls have this? I'll call the doctor tomorrow
Hi, all,
Long time, no talk! I have spent the good part of the last week reading through Chapter 16 and up to this point of Chapter 17, trying to catch up on everyone's lives before I just jumped back into the fray.
I want to wish everyone a belated happy holidays, and a happy new year ahead to all. Thank you so much for all of your cards over the last several weeks - they were truly a bright spot!
I know Marci posted the news of my job loss, and I really appreciate everyone's kind thoughts, prayers, and words. I was in a bit of shock there for a while, and then with the holidays, having to clean out my office/e-mail account right after Christmas, etc., I just vegged for the first few days of '09. I think I've read about 7 books since Christmas, and avoided my e-mail account, which was a nice "clearing of the head" time. I have no idea yet as to what I will do next (although I have plenty of thoughts on what I don't want), but I am fortunate in that I have a severance package that should get me through for several months, so I'll have some time to get some perspective. That was one good thing about having been at the firm for a while - they couldn't really screw me out of a decent amount of severance.
I truly hope that other DDA'ers will be able to weather the job and economy situation.It's a little unsettling how many people I now know that seem to be affected daily by all that is goinng on, and I know all we can do is keep working hard, and praying a lot!
I can't even begin to try to recap everything I read, so I will just extend a huge blanket of hugs and PD
In other news, we had a great trip to the World in mid-December. We did a lot of fun things (great meals at R&C, Boma, Narcoossee's; the Segway tour; the DIS' Toy Story Mania after-hours meet), got to see several DDA'ers (Terry, Stephanie, and Denise), and really enjoyed our time at AKV (definitely where we'll probably add DVC points once the time comes). Best of all, we got a huge amount of pixiedust when we were upgraded to the Main Building concierge at the GF - we had booked a concierge room after our great stay there last year initially, but when the economy began tanking in Sept., it just seemed the right thing to do to back off to an AP rate in a garden view room. To get that sort of an upgrade was a huge thrill, and was even more wonderful in hindsight, considering what was to come when I headed back to work that Monday.
I'm also fortunate in that I'm going to go visit my parents later this month down in FL (they've headed there for a couple of months of "winter" at my grandparent's old home), and they've asked me to go for a couple of days to WDW with them while I'm there. Unemployment does have its silver linings at times.
Plus, I'll get to DIS more, and keep up with everyone here on a regular basis.
Well, this went much longer than intended, so I'll sign off for now, and see you guys tomorrow. Night night, DDA!
I'll have to put together a tentative itinerary and see if we'll be in the same places. Since I use TGM too, I bet we will be!
Why? It's very smooth.
Well, I WILL make an exception when I get to meet up with some DDAers.Tammi and Anne Marie - I find it hilarious that we met for breakfast this summer here in Fredericksburg and you two don't even like that meal!
I wouldn't say that we stopped a lot. Just at the usual locations. I like the out of the ordinary ones....the jumping, the ta-da in front of the hat, the rock pose at RNRC, those kind of things. I wish more photographers did unique things like that.Woohoo!
You got SO many good pictures! I love the one of the girls kissing Nicholas, and the one of you all jumping!
Do you remember if you had a lot of pictures, stopped a lot, etc? We NEVER get that many goods ones from Photopass!
I got an ammendment yesterday, but I haven't read it yet. Mine gets paid off monthly, thank goodness.
I agree, the out of the ordinary ones are really great!
