Gnomies Gone Wild

[2xcited2sleep]

Jen- that sounds awful. I hope you're able to get her to the Dr. today.

CP- your PTR is off to a great start! What fun this is going to be!

Snow here today. And vacation rapidly coming to an end.

 

[Charleston Princess]

CP- your PTR is off to a great start! What fun this is going to be!

Snow here today. And vacation rapidly coming to an end.

Thanks, C! I just hope I can figure out something to write about for the next seven months!

Vacation is rapidly coming to an end here, too, and I have this ever increasing sense of dread. I so do not want to go back. I think I want to be a stay-at-home mom, but that is so never going to happen.

 

[Lady Lallie]

I've given up my dreams of being a stay at home mom. I have the better insurance. Sigh.

It's snowing here too, C.

 

[sunny_stace]

snowing here too.....a lot. It makes me sad...I wish I were at WDW now! 108 more days to go!

 

[Lady Lallie]

It's STILL snowing here. I'm ready for it to STOP.

I did absolutely nothing yesterday. I finished one book and then started another and finished that before I went to bed.

I know I need to get motivated and do something around the house but I find myself just looking at everything and still sitting on the couch.

I don't even want to start packing! That is so unlike me.

 

[Charleston Princess]

LL, I have the better insurance, too, and really, with the kids having the same exact schedule as me, there is no real reason why I should be a stay-at-home mom at this point except that I don't want to work anymore. Today is my last day of vacation, and all I am planning on doing is laundry. I am going to try and enjoy today to the utmost by just laying around the house. I hope to finish our book club's book The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. It is soooo good -- I can't put it down!

Stace, you can send some of that snow down here.

 

[Lady Lallie]

LL, I have the better insurance, too, and really, with the kids having the same exact schedule as me, there is no real reason why I should be a stay-at-home mom at this point except that I don't want to work anymore. Today is my last day of vacation, and all I am planning on doing is laundry. I am going to try and enjoy today to the utmost by just laying around the house. I hope to finish our book club's book The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. It is soooo good -- I can't put it down!

Stace, you can send some of that snow down here.

I've been eyeing that book at the bookstore. I will have to put it on my list.

I don't want to work anymore either but I don't see that happening. I have really good benefits where I work so I see myself being there for awhile.

 

[jenjolt]

I would too love to be a stay at home mom but with the plans for the future that we have right now I don't see that in my cards but the one good thing is we will have friends with us who have offered to babysit and as a teacher I will have plenty of time off to spend with my baby (When I have one of course LOL)!!

 

[Charleston Princess]

I've been eyeing that book at the bookstore. I will have to put it on my list.

I don't want to work anymore either but I don't see that happening. I have really good benefits where I work so I see myself being there for awhile.

It's a very easy read -- I was not really looking forward to it at first when I read the description, but it just sucked me right in. Your library probably has it -- now that you have discovered the joys of it in your new town.

 

[Lady Lallie]

I would too love to be a stay at home mom but with the plans for the future that we have right now I don't see that in my cards but the one good thing is we will have friends with us who have offered to babysit and as a teacher I will have plenty of time off to spend with my baby (When I have one of course LOL)!!

You are lucky that you have friends who will do that for you. I think Marc is going to be stuck with most of the childcare duties during the day. I am hoping that I can have one day off a week when the time comes and work longer days on Marc's days off so I can at least keep 35 hours. We'll see how it all plays out....when it's time for all that.

It's a very easy read -- I was not really looking forward to it at first when I read the description, but it just sucked me right in. Your library probably has it -- now that you have discovered the joys of it in your new town.

I will request it. Have you ever read any Diane Chamberlain? I read one of her books in one sitting yesterday. It was so good!

 

[Charleston Princess]

I will request it. Have you ever read any Diane Chamberlain? I read one of her books in one sitting yesterday. It was so good!

No, I haven't...what kind of books does she write?

 

[jenjolt]

Jackie from one teacher to another can you give me permission not to go to work tomorrow??? LOL!!! BTW when is your Spring Break?

 

[kschafer]

Morning girls! Yes, last day of vacation but being spoiled and not working full-time, that means I get the next couple days in relative quiet. I get SO much more done around the house when nobody else is here!

yes, I have loved being able to be home more but you give up a lot for it too. I don't look forward to returning full-time but I am anxious to have the more reliable paycheck again. I am anxious to buy a new house, buy new furniture for it and plan some vacations. We are OK now but if I want more, I'm going to have to work for it...that sure stinks!!

 

[Lady Lallie]

No, I haven't...what kind of books does she write?

Hmmm...how to describe.

This is the first one I read by her, "The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes"

An unsolved murder.

A missing child.

A lifetime of deception.

In 1977, pregnant Genevieve Russell disappeared. Twenty years later, her remains are discovered and Timothy Gleason is charged with murder. But there is no sign of the unborn child.

CeeCee Wilkes knows how Genevieve Russell died, because she was there. And she also knows what happened to the missing infant, because two decades ago she made the devastating choice to raise the baby as her own. Now Timothy Gleason is facing the death penalty, and she has another choice to make. Tell the truth, and destroy her family. Or let an innocent man die in order to protect a lifetime of lies…

This is the one I finished in one sitting yesterday, "The Bay at Midnight"

Family secrets sizzle at the core of an unsolved mystery in this smooth, deceptively simple tale of romantic suspense from Chamberlain (In Her Mother's Shadow). During the summer of '62, two families vacationing at the Jersey shore, the Bauers and the Chapmans, are devastated by the murder of 17-year-old Isabel Bauer. Most affected is the victim's precocious 12-year-old sister, Julie, who feels accidentally responsible. Forty-one years later, Julie is a bestselling mystery novelist and a divorced, menopausal single mom, dealing with the demands of Shannon, her pregnant, unwed 17-year-old daughter, and Maria, her elderly mother. Then the niece of Ned Chapman, on whom Julie had a crush that fatal summer, arrives at her door bearing a letter from her uncle, recently dead of cirrhosis of the liver, claiming that the person convicted for Isabel's murder, an African-American named George Lewis, was wrongly imprisoned. Taking the letter to the police means reopening the case and shaking up the lives of both families

They are really good, a touch of mystery in all of them. They are page turners for sure.

 

[Charleston Princess]

Jackie from one teacher to another can you give me permission not to go to work tomorrow??? LOL!!! BTW when is your Spring Break?

We could write notes for each other! I don't want to go either! The thought of sitting in a faculty meeting at 8:30 makes my blood run cold. Not to mention, the building is always freezing after the break.

My spring break is the week before Easter. When is yours?

 

[jenjolt]

We could write notes for each other! I don't want to go either! The thought of sitting in a faculty meeting at 8:30 makes my blood run cold. Not to mention, the building is always freezing after the break.

My spring break is the week before Easter. When is yours?

Oh I know my room is going to be freezing and I know we'll have some sort of faculty meeting tomorrow...I will cringe and shiver with you!!!!

That is when mine is too!! WOOT!!!

 

[Charleston Princess]

Oh I know my room is going to be freezing and I know we'll have some sort of faculty meeting tomorrow...I will cringe and shiver with you!!!!

That is when mine is too!! WOOT!!!

I am dressing in lots of layers tomorrow in the hopes that I don't freeze. I hate being cold.

We can last until then, right?

 

[2xcited2sleep]

OK, gnomies, I need some help. I need someone(s) to:

- write me a note excusing me from work tomorrow
- find me a husband with good insurance so I can stay home not b/c I want to spend time w/ future kids but b/c I don't want to work
- make it stop f'ing snowing here. Goodness it just won't stop.
- go grocery shopping for me
- work out and lose 20 lbs for me
- clean the house


Who's up for the challenge??

Hope you all enjoy your Sunday!!

 

[Charleston Princess]

Christine, you crack me up! I would like all of those things, too, aside from the snow stopping -- I will settle for warmer weather. It was 10 degrees here this morning. I made my to-do list for work tomorrow and just wanted to cry. So, instead of doing anything productive like showering or getting dressed, I came back to the computer.

 

[ILuvCrush]

I'll volunteer to grocery shop for you C....I like to grocery shop!

CP I can't believe it's that cold there!!! It's 8 here...at 1pm....brrrrrr! I hate winter. I keep saying I want to move south.... but your 10F isn't good enuff....I'll have to go to Florida!

Allison and I are T-30 days til WDW...I probably need to start thinking about packing and whatnot.

Paula