Mixed Nuts Part 2

[PrincessJasmine08]

I will, the day before you go home.

I am eagerly anticipating it. Maybe my next ticker can be days until Cheryl comes and rescues me.

OH BTW,

HAPPY 7-7-07!!

You too! Feeling lucky? Buying a lottery ticket?

 

[PrincessJasmine08]

Okay, heading out.

have a great afternoon everyone! Even you little Peej.

Why am I a seperate entity?

 

[RobInBigKC]

We only have one son playing baseball this weekend but he is playing in two separate tournaments -- one is located about six miles west from our home but the other is about forty miles southeast from our home. So, we were out southeast last night, then back home, then out southeast again this morning (had to be at that park by 7), then back home, then to the park west of our home, then straight from that park back out southeast again. Even our son's manager isn't insane enough to sign up for overlapping tournaments but last weekend's tournament was rained out and that jumbled the schedule into one big mess. Thankfully DS6 is done playing and DS14 is done umpiring and DS11 only had to practice this morning.

Where the heck is everybody?????

I'm here Lisa!

Okay...now I'm pissed off!!! I just finished writing this HUGE post, you know, addressing EVERYBODY individually and then I go hit 'reply' and POOF!!! GONE!!!! Must have timed out or something. Too tired to redo it so I'll get to each of you all later. Even had my mini-trippie for Cheryl, finally!!!

Lisa, if all you did was get logged off (and you didn't close the window you were DISing in), you can USUALLY sign back on and the post-in-process will be recovered and waiting for you. Sometimes I lose my "work" completely but, more often than not, I have been mostly impressed by the DIS's ability to keep my stuff intact.

Also, if you ever can't sleep like that again, check on MSN. I was on from about 1 to 2 your time this morning.

Looks like I just missed you. I gave up when no one was on MSN by about 11.

We had a late night baseball games last night and then went out to eat afterwards. I got on MSN about 2 minutes before 1am your time. No one was around then either.

I know we are still waiting for E to get back from vacation, but are we all done now with vacations??

I am still taking vacation days this month for DS9's and DS11's World Series baseball tournaments (not so much World Series, in reality, as about seven states -- teams from Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Oklahoma) but all the games are local so at most I'll be driving about 40 miles each way. At least we don't have to drive all the way to New Mexico to rope goats.

I am also still hoping to take a family vacation between baseball and football which means it would need to be roughly the first week of August.

I think she gets home tomorrow and then I think we're all done. We all apparently like to vacation at the beginning of the summer.

Actually, I like to vacation in December, January, or February but I'm not sure I'll be able to (with the kids anyway) now that DS14 is starting into his high school years where the grades really do mean something.

Why am I a seperate entity?

UGH! Must we go through this explanation again?

-- Rob

 

[PrincessJasmine08]

We had a late night baseball games last night and then went out to eat afterwards. I got on MSN about 2 minutes before 1am your time. No one was around then either.

It was an unusually lonely night in the world of Mixed Nuts on MSN.

I am still taking vacation days this month for DS9's and DS11's World Series baseball tournaments (not so much World Series, in reality, as about seven states -- teams from Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Oklahoma) but all the games are local so at most I'll be driving about 40 miles each way. At least we don't have to drive all the way to New Mexico to rope goats.

Now who in their right mind would do that?

I am also still hoping to take a family vacation between baseball and football which means it would need to be roughly the first week of August.

Where ya goin?

Actually, I like to vacation in December, January, or February but I'm not sure I'll be able to (with the kids anyway) now that DS14 is starting into his high school years where the grades really do mean something.

That's when I stopped skipping school. Then I started up again in college. It's hard to skip in high school though. And I was actually referring to summer vacations.

UGH! Must we go through this explanation again?

-- Rob

Yes please.

Sister and I just got back from Epcot. Don't worry Rob, I'm not getting stuck in vacation mode, but thanks for asking. We just had to ride Spaceship Earth one more time before it goes down for refurbishment in case they change anything. Man it's hot outside but the crowds really weren't too bad. Then again all we were trying to ride was Spaceship Earth....

 

[RobInBigKC]

Sister and I just got back from Epcot. Don't worry Rob, I'm not getting stuck in vacation mode, but thanks for asking. We just had to ride Spaceship Earth one more time before it goes down for refurbishment in case they change anything. Man it's hot outside but the crowds really weren't too bad. Then again all we were trying to ride was Spaceship Earth....

Hey, with your AP or your employee ID (whichever you used), there's no issue with hanging out in the parks because that is no expense for you (other than the gas to get there). When I was 13 and 14 (and maybe 12 too), I used to use my season pass to go to our local amusement park about 3 or 4 days a week in the summers and hardly spent any money. We would take 1 or 2 dollars for pinball and video games (back then games were only a quarter each or sometimes 2 plays for a quarter) and that was it. To survive the usual 4-hour visits, my friends and I would get free ice water and free relish packets from the concession stands or, for special occasions, free bacon bit packets from the deli at the front of the park.

-- Rob

 

[blue_river]

Hi Rob!

Did you really eat bacon bits???

 

[apirateslifeforme]

Anyone here? I have good news and bad news. Which should I post first?

Yes, I'm up late...

 

[blue_river]

Anyone here? I have good news and bad news. Which should I post first?

Yes, I'm up late...

Hi Liz

I'm here. Rob's light is on so I guess he is too.

Post them together. I hope it isn't too bad.

 

[apirateslifeforme]

Okay...bad news first. Today was a REALLY bad day with my grandmother. She's totally out of it now. My mother asked me how long I thought it would be, and at that moment, my first thought was "hours." She's in and out now, sometimes talking gibberish, sometimes she seems lucid. I held her hand for a while and she kept saying "goodbye." At one point she said, "Bill, why are you here?" (Bill was my grandfather). A couple of times, she'd close her eyes, and I whispered to her, "Let go," "Don't fight it," "If someone is here for you, go with them," etc. I cried a lot. But then, while I was standing there, a couple of times she completely relaxed and I wondered, is this it? Then she'd start breathing again. I am seeing a huge change...I'll probably have to eat my words, but I feel like it's going to be a week or two at most, if not mere days.

The good news...my new friends just left, and OMG...Michael... I don't think I posted about finding his Yahoo Personals profile, noting that we have a lot in common (according to it), so I emailed him and told him just that. Well, he paid A LOT of attention to me tonight. We're both really into guitars, so I purposely wore my Fender Stratocaster t-shirt tonight - which had him staring at my chest all night; not quite what I was going for, but hey, don't look a gift horse in the mouth, right? Anyway, at one point we got into how I'm not really too girlie, and he said, "Embrace your femininity." I said, "Yeah, I really don't have it in me," and he said, "Well, that's okay, cause you've got a lot of cool [4-letter euphemism for stuff] here." Later, he and I ended up upstairs - alone - because I mentioned that I couldn't tune my guitar properly. He had it tuned in 2 minutes flat and proceeded to play and sing "Can't You See" to me. Yeah, there were 6 other people downstairs, yet here we were, upstairs while he's playing my guitar and singing to me. He left when everyone else did, but now I've got my fingers crossed a little more. Oh, and he also seemed very unhappy when I said I couldn't go on the weekend trip to Salem next week. Darn it. But it's still good news!

 

[blue_river]

I'm feeling so ignored tonight

 

[blue_river]

Okay...bad news first. Today was a REALLY bad day with my grandmother. She's totally out of it now. My mother asked me how long I thought it would be, and at that moment, my first thought was "hours." She's in and out now, sometimes talking gibberish, sometimes she seems lucid. I held her hand for a while and she kept saying "goodbye." At one point she said, "Bill, why are you here?" (Bill was my grandfather). A couple of times, she'd close her eyes, and I whispered to her, "Let go," "Don't fight it," "If someone is here for you, go with them," etc. I cried a lot. But then, while I was standing there, a couple of times she completely relaxed and I wondered, is this it? Then she'd start breathing again. I am seeing a huge change...I'll probably have to eat my words, but I feel like it's going to be a week or two at most, if not mere days.

Oh Liz. I'm so sorry you're going through this. I know it's hard.

The good news...my new friends just left, and OMG...Michael... I don't think I posted about finding his Yahoo Personals profile, noting that we have a lot in common (according to it), so I emailed him and told him just that. Well, he paid A LOT of attention to me tonight. We're both really into guitars, so I purposely wore my Fender Stratocaster t-shirt tonight - which had him staring at my chest all night; not quite what I was going for, but hey, don't look a gift horse in the mouth, right? Anyway, at one point we got into how I'm not really too girlie, and he said, "Embrace your femininity." I said, "Yeah, I really don't have it in me," and he said, "Well, that's okay, cause you've got a lot of cool [4-letter euphemism for stuff] here." Later, he and I ended up upstairs - alone - because I mentioned that I couldn't tune my guitar properly. He had it tuned in 2 minutes flat and proceeded to play and sing "Can't You See" to me. Yeah, there were 6 other people downstairs, yet here we were, upstairs while he's playing my guitar and singing to me. He left when everyone else did, but now I've got my fingers crossed a little more. Oh, and he also seemed very unhappy when I said I couldn't go on the weekend trip to Salem next week. Darn it. But it's still good news!

Very good news!!!!

at the part where he was staring!

How come you can't go on the weekend trip next week?

 

[apirateslifeforme]

Aw, Blue, don't feel ignored! I'm here! I can't promise I'll be here for long, because I am kind of tired and still a bit sick, but I'm here!

 

[blue_river]

Aw, Blue, don't feel ignored! I'm here! I can't promise I'll be here for long, because I am kind of tired and still a bit sick, but I'm here!

You're still sick from that cold? Wow. That was a bad one.

 

[apirateslifeforme]

Oh Liz. I'm so sorry you're going through this. I know it's hard.




Very good news!!!!

at the part where he was staring!

How come you can't go on the weekend trip next week?

Thanks. It is very hard seeing her like this, even though I know it's coming, hence the crying. Somehow, though, I was okay when she said goodbye and was telling her to go. It was when she talked gibberish that made me cry. I just want her to go and be at peace.

I can't go on the trip because: A) I'm broke and can't afford it B) I don't think my car will make it and no one can drive me C) What if my grandmother dies? I don't feel right leaving for an entire weekend and D) my birthday is next Monday (the 16th) - yes, I probably SHOULD go away for the weekend before it, but see reasons A-C as to why I can't and add E) even if Gram doesn't die, since it's my birthday weekend, my mother might like to have me here.

Oh, I should mention that Michael did bring a guest tonight. A girl. Believe me, my heart sank at first. BUT...she was really sweet, and when we did introductions, she said she was just his friend. Then she left before everyone else - they didn't come in the same car! He did leave to show her how to get back to the highway, but then he came back. I'm not really sure what to make of it, but it seems like they've known each other for quite a while. He still paid all that attention to me with her there, and the guitar thing happened after she'd left. Sooooo...

 

[apirateslifeforme]

You're still sick from that cold? Wow. That was a bad one.

Oh, didn't I update? It wasn't a cold...I had pneumonia after all. The doctor said it could take 2-3 months to completely go away. At least the fluid is out of my lungs, but I still cough and get winded easily.

 

[RobInBigKC]

Hi Rob!

Did you really eat bacon bits???

Yeah, doesn't everyone?

Hi Liz

I'm here. Rob's light is on so I guess he is too.

Post them together. I hope it isn't too bad.

I'm here for a short bit. I have to be up before 6 again tomorrow because DS9 has to be at the ball field 40 miles away at 7.

I'm feeling so ignored tonight

Why Blue? Last night was the really lonely night here on Mixed Nuts...

The good news...my new friends just left, and OMG...Michael... I don't think I posted about finding his Yahoo Personals profile, noting that we have a lot in common (according to it), so I emailed him and told him just that. Well, he paid A LOT of attention to me tonight. We're both really into guitars, so I purposely wore my Fender Stratocaster t-shirt tonight - which had him staring at my chest all night; not quite what I was going for, but hey, don't look a gift horse in the mouth, right? Anyway, at one point we got into how I'm not really too girlie, and he said, "Embrace your femininity." I said, "Yeah, I really don't have it in me," and he said, "Well, that's okay, cause you've got a lot of cool [4-letter euphemism for stuff] here." Later, he and I ended up upstairs - alone - because I mentioned that I couldn't tune my guitar properly. He had it tuned in 2 minutes flat and proceeded to play and sing "Can't You See" to me. Yeah, there were 6 other people downstairs, yet here we were, upstairs while he's playing my guitar and singing to me. He left when everyone else did, but now I've got my fingers crossed a little more. Oh, and he also seemed very unhappy when I said I couldn't go on the weekend trip to Salem next week. Darn it. But it's still good news!

Um, I'm guessing the guitar may not have been the real reason this happened.

Hang in there with your grandmother. Warm thoughts and best wishes for you as you go through this tough time.

-- Rob

 

[blue_river]

Thanks. It is very hard seeing her like this, even though I know it's coming, hence the crying. Somehow, though, I was okay when she said goodbye and was telling her to go. It was when she talked gibberish that made me cry. I just want her to go and be at peace.

You seem to be handling it well and must be a strong person. I admire that.

I was in total denial when my mother was sick. My sister and I had a big fight over it because she was angry that I wasn't dealing with it and I was angry at her in turn for not having any hope.

I can't go on the trip because: A) I'm broke and can't afford it B) I don't think my car will make it and no one can drive me C) What if my grandmother dies? I don't feel right leaving for an entire weekend and D) my birthday is next Monday (the 16th) - yes, I probably SHOULD go away for the weekend before it, but see reasons A-C as to why I can't and add E) even if Gram doesn't die, since it's my birthday weekend, my mother might like to have me here.

I would probably feel the same way about part C. When are you getting the new car? Birthday weekend???? How old are you turning?

Oh, I should mention that Michael did bring a guest tonight. A girl. Believe me, my heart sank at first. BUT...she was really sweet, and when we did introductions, she said she was just his friend. Then she left before everyone else - they didn't come in the same car! He did leave to show her how to get back to the highway, but then he came back. I'm not really sure what to make of it, but it seems like they've known each other for quite a while. He still paid all that attention to me with her there, and the guitar thing happened after she'd left. Sooooo...

She obviously mentioned she was just a friend to let you know that! Good sign I'd say

 

[RobInBigKC]

Forgot to put Hi Blue! Hi Liz! in my last post.

-- Rob

 

[blue_river]

Oh, didn't I update? It wasn't a cold...I had pneumonia after all. The doctor said it could take 2-3 months to completely go away. At least the fluid is out of my lungs, but I still cough and get winded easily.

Ugh...you may have. I don't always read back because you know that PJ..she gets on here and posts up a storm

Sorry to hear it turned out to be pneumonia. Hope you're taking things easy and looking after yourself!

 

[blue_river]

Yeah, doesn't everyone?

Okay..I should have been more specific. I meant to say, did you just eat the bacon bits by themselves? Ew.

I'm here for a short bit. I have to be up before 6 again tomorrow because DS9 has to be at the ball field 40 miles away at 7.

Awwwwwwwwwww

Have fun with that.

Why Blue? Last night was the really lonely night here on Mixed Nuts...

Eh? I guess it's been a quiet weekend with the nuts then.

I had a horrible night at work tonight. Not getting into it on here but I really don't want to go in tomorrow.