MOOvers on the MOOve Again

[celerystalker]

hi all! I am so tired today! I woke up at 5:30 - went to a meeting and did some homework - then I took a nap, went to my cousin's wedding - and now I have no energy!
I have so much more homework to do! argh!

allisandy - thanks so much for the pirate egg hint! I love it! arrr!

moo - hallowishes on your balcony! heaven! if I don't get some of this homework done, I'll be spending all my time in the hotel room!

lex - enjoy wicked! I can't get the songs out of my head! precious pic of your girls!

I still have research to do for the trip - can you believe I don't have every minute planned!!!

alli is joining moo and I for MNSSHP now! woo!
marita - you know you want to!

nab - if you go see cloudy with a chance, let me know how it is. it looks cute.

 

[Backstage_Gal]

Arrr, happy Anni'ersary t' Moo and Mr Moo!

Happy Birthday t' Mari!​

Sittin' on the Balcony watchin' the fireworks sounds awesome!!!

Thanks for the de'iled egg recepies, friends. Me made a combination, with white 'ine 'inegar but no sugar. Turned out great, except I used spicy mustard, Me think need t' stick t' the regular.

Looks like its getting ready to storm here. Moo and family should be happily dining at Kona by now, I imagine

Nab, that movie sounds more like Nicolas would want to see it than Hannah, LOL

I worked on a work project today that is not really for work, just something I am doing on my own to make things faster in the future so we don't have to work till midnight, LOL. But then I got tired of that, went grocery shopping and made the deviled eggs. Now I'm typing this and then I think I'll crochet for a bit.

Family Channel is showing Dirty Dancing at 8pm, with new "never before seens", so I will probably watch that while folding laundry

Have a great weekend, everyon

 

[Backstage_Gal]

Cel, you snuck in on me.

Go take a little nap and get back to studying so you don't have to worry about it on vacation.

And you DON'T have to plan every minute, just go with the flow...

 

[Sandy321]

Cel Hope you are feeling better! Take that nap and goog workin on your homework!

Nab we're also debating the movie - we've loved the book - a 15 min book into a full length movie?

PJ How was the gym? I never made it

Marita I dont like driving at night either - too hard to anticipate what other drivers may be doing... frought with danger tis night driving!

Lexi How'd your day go?

109 days till Marathon! I've talked at least one person into doing the Half marathon thru my pre trip report!!

Marita see if you can do any undercover work to discover if the rumor of a 'soft' type opening of food dinner reservations is going to start Sept 27 - switching from 90 days to 180 is scheduled to start Oct 27 - rumor has it may begin Sept 27.... I'm practicing with online adrs!!

Is it wrong to want to do an Anniversary Dinner at Victoria And Alberts? Its a lot of muulah - but dh and I dont go out for dinners... (we save the money for disney instead!!) $300 for one dinner but it would be like eating Iron Chef food!

 

[Backstage_Gal]

Marita see if you can do any undercover work to discover if the rumor of a 'soft' type opening of food dinner reservations is going to start Sept 27 - switching from 90 days to 180 is scheduled to start Oct 27 - rumor has it may begin Sept 27.... I'm practicing with online adrs!!

I'll put it on my calendar to check on Monday and see if anyone knows anything

Is it wrong to want to do an Anniversary Dinner at Victoria And Alberts? Its a lot of muulah - but dh and I dont go out for dinners... (we save the money for disney instead!!) $300 for one dinner but it would be like eating Iron Chef food!

Sandy, GO!!! It is absolutely fantasic. I have only been twice (both on Disney dime in the good old days ), but I would totally pay for it for a special occasion. You won't regret it!!

 

[NAB]

We didn't make the movie maybe tomorrow.

Went furniture shopping instead. Think we found a theatre type sitting recliners for the basement. Not sure yet though have to do some more measure with tape on the floor so I can picture it.

Also went to Walmart. It is there 15th anniversary here in Canada so they have some real good deals. Now I have to find a place to put all the extra food we bought. Used to have a shelf in the laundry room but don't like it there now. We bought 24 boxes of Kraft dinner..... Actually some of that is going to the food bank with Koolaid jammers,cookies and spaghetti sauce.

Hannah found a Tinkerbell Halloween outfit too that she is thinking about. Bought but might take it back, she said the wings hurt. And it just fits so if we have to do alot of layering because it is cold not sure if it would fit.

 

[monymony3471]

Happy Anniversay Cheryl. Whut a onederful place to be, to be cel a brate in.

I solved my math problem on my own! rrrrrrrrrrrrrr I believe I got it corrrrrrrect too. I didn't need the freakin math genius afterall! But she may have some competition after this class is over with. LOL! My brain was so fried last night. 2 chapters in less than a week! RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

DH is in Erie this week. Single momin' once again. double RRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Did I tell you I got to start my classroom observation on Friday? It was totally FABULOUS! They put me in a Special Ed room. The teacher doesn't have a contained room. They kids come to her throughout the day and she works with them on the areas they need help. This is a school in my kids district but not theirs.

Let me babble for a minute:

The night before I was nervous and I was wondering if this is what I really want, I said, I need my ephipany! I need my confirmation that this is absolutely positively what it is I want to do.

What made me want to go into special ed stemmed from the kids in my day care who came to me with special needs that 1: were not identified yet and 2: my knack for being able to connect with these kids.

My fist one was 15 months and I knew right away he was Autistic and the parents were not believing me. I had him until he was 3 and then because my day care was growing and I was taking in 2 new babies, he couldn't deal with the noise and all the extra sensory things going on around him, and I had to let him go. That was very hard for me and sad.

Guess who was our first kid of the day on Friday? That same boy 7 years later. That was my kick in the pants! The second boy? Another autistic child I had in the day care for a few weeks. The second kick in the pants in case I didn't feel the first one, but I did.

And now I know.

Carry on!

 

[Sandy321]

Mony congratulations!! That's AWESOME!!

does anyone have a recipe for gnocchi sauce? I want to serve gnocchi with the pork chops? Do I just make a gravy?

time to google!

 

[Backstage_Gal]

Mony, that is just fantastic! . Those will such lucky kids to have you

Sandy, I am of no help with gnocci sauce, didn't even know there was such a thing

 

[monymony3471]

Thanks Sandy.

PS

I'm surprised by the lack of skullduggery here on this thread as of late.

You skallywags have lives or something?

 

[celerystalker]

mony - I'm so glad your first day in a classroom was so rewarding!

 

[celerystalker]

Hey Peej - is that Hollywood's alice?
this is from a make a wish kid's special day that maroo posted. sandy posted the link before and I'm getting in the mood for my give kids the world volunteering.

 

[Sandy321]

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People we are going to be in trouble very very shortly!

Cel Isnt that just the greatest trip report? Click on Maroo's signature for a great report on GKTW - with lots of pictures!

http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=28115679&postcount=74
and she has links to the pages - she has 4 pages of GKTW!!

1st link w/ background of GKTW
http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=28205553&postcount=55

http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=28237675&postcount=70

http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=28251195&postcount=82

and
http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=28252576&postcount=88

 

[Backstage_Gal]

helloooooooooooo (helloooo helloooo helloo), hear the echol, LOL

Hope everyone had a good weekend. I had a very frustrating hour and 1/2 trying to call my mom. She said call at 7:30 her time so I did. No anwer. 10 mins later I try again, no answer. I try again, get routed to the nurses desk who routed me to another desk who tried to route me to mom's room, but the connection got lost.

Then I called my brother, who said all was fine as of this afternoon, but said she expected me to call at 8 (I KNOW she said 7;30), so fine, I try again, at 8, 8:10, 8:20 and 8:30, and got routed again to the nurse desk on of those times (mind you, every connection is an international call!)
So I gave up, called brother again and told he to tell her I tried. He said she was probably asleep, he went by last Friday and he could not wake her up.
SIGH, so that was a lot of money and frustration for nothing.

 

[Sandy321]

Marita How very frustrating - its not so much the money (and yet, international call rates must be ) Its the guilt with disappointing our mom! At least brother was answering the call!! (not that he gets what you went thru!!)

I think we dont want to post until Cheryl can come back and start a new thread for us!!

If you see her tell her we're depending on her!!

 

[Backstage_Gal]

Sandy, the cutoff is 250 pages, not 200, so don't worry, we are safe for a few more months at this rate

So post often.

Thanks for you commiseration on my frustrations today

 

[monymony3471]

Just need to vent:

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!

I am the only girl in a group of 5 in my on-line math class.

Last week one dude didn't submit our group submission as he said he would and we lost 10 points. Sucks!

This week I offered a few suggestions to the guy who said he would post our work and he took me as a know it all and I should just go ahead and submit it my self.

***???????? We have 24 hours to compare our individual answers and submit something that represents the group as a whole. Just because you have the right answers doesn't mean you get all the credit if you don't show ALL of your work.

week 2 a guy left out something and we lost a point.

At this rate, I need each and every point possible to pass the class since last weeks debacle.

I don't need this BS! I don't!

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR people are irritating me today!

Ok, rant over.

 

[lexmelinda]

ACK, Monica!!!! Boys.

Marita....Can you get a magicjack to use for international calls? I have one and I think international is supposed to be pretty cheap.

Wicked = Fabulous!

BTW....I didn't wear an emerald green outfit to Wicked or buy $300 worth of souvenirs so EVERYONE would know I saw the show. But I was surprised how many women did.

We also got the inch-by-inch scenic tour of downtown Nashville since the Titans game let out at the exact same time as the play.

Now on to the driver's license office to get the princess her permit. =

 

[NAB]

Marita-- Hope you get to talk to your mom soon.

Mony-- How long is this math course...hope things get better for you.

Lexi-- Sounds like you had a great time. Not sure why people buy so many souvenirs. Then again you are talking to a person that has more clutter to get rid because it is not going in my new basement...

Speaking of basement. It is moving slow again. Hubby bought a smaller size fridge to put in the utility room yesterday. That means I have to change round the closets down there. The fridge is going where my Christmas stuff was suppose to go. He just wants to get the big one out of the garage that has been there since we redid the kitchen but I only have so much storage...maybe I will make him mad and say all the Christmas stuff goes in the garage now. Still no furniture or fireplace mantle.

 

[celerystalker]

I'm on a mission.

I'm gonna kill a mouse.

I live in the country which means field mice sometimes come inside.
No big deal, you just kill them.

One of the things I did while I was off work was clean and organize all my cabinets. Some of them have not been cleaned since probably 1999!

I hear a mouse about a month ago - I made sure to put some rat bait out.
It wasn't DCON, but it looked the same.
One day later, in the middle of the night, I hear a bunch of crazy noises - I try to make RIley go see about it, but he's a wuss.
So I look under the sink.
THe mouse is sitting in the poison chowing down.
LOUD!


I feel slightly guilty, but he deserves it.
He disappeared - I'm assuming he died somewhere. Nothing smells, so hopefully it was outside.
There were little to no droppings left, but I had planned on cleaning anyway - so I took everything out of all the cabinets.

I also rearranged one whole section under my island to store all my cake decorating supplies.

So one day last week, I hear a suspicious noise.
So I put some MORE poison out - just in case they don't like the other brand.
There's now DCON and this other stuff under my sink.

Fast forward to Saturday night.
I was up really late reading wish trip reports.
Riley was sleeping on the couch.
I see something out of the corner of my eye and hear this crazy racket - it was loud enough to wake Riley up!
it was a tiny tiny mouse - like maybe two inches long - Cookie would dwarf this thing!!!
He makes tons of noise because he runs like crazy and his nails get stuck in the carpet. I guess he lives in my craft/computer room.
riley looks around and goes back to sleep.

worthless dog!

So I keep waiting for the mouse to eat the poison.
It takes him about an hour before he gets to it.
I again feel guilty.

After chowing down for a good ten minutes, the stupid mouse runs back to the living room, stops, looks at me, then heads to the computer room.

I try not to imagine him dying a horrible death.

Fast forward to yesterday.
Breadman came over.
With his chess pie recipe and all the ingredients.
He was telling me what to get out - I got a few things out of one basket, not noticing anything wrong. Then I look for the tablespoon - it has three turds in it!!!

I kinda freak out.
Breadman gets the whole basket of utensils and dumps it in the sink since he knows I won't be able to use them.
I, in the meantime, investigate the cabinet - there's more turds!!!!
So then I go to look under the sink - where I keep the poison.

Oh.
My.
Goodness!

this is what it looked like.

- - - - - - - - -- - - - - --- - - - - --- - --- - -- -- - - - - --

(those are all turds)
I'm not exxagerating.
That darn mouse must have some kind of pooping disease.

I might have freaked out quite a bit more.


I didn't have time to clean everything last night because I had too much homework.
but I guess i'll be getting rid of mouse poop tonight.
IT HAD BETTER DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then I'll have to find the stupid carcass.
What do you want to bet it's going to decide to die in one of my containers with all my material in it.