Good morning all!
Anyways, my honest opinion is I think the band teacher is borderline flirting somehow.
He was acting very strange/ goofy last Tues.- different than his usual self.
I guess maybe he was thrilled for Matthew and me, with the Variety show and stuff.
enjoy the flirting while it lasts........
i'm so blonde i really wouldn't know if someone was hitting on me.
mr mac has always had a fantasy with sheryl crow until she went green.
this article isn the Times yesterday was called describe your life in 6 words or less.okay, here goes.
neurotic, monkish, New York Sports Fan.
NEXT????????????
you expect me to be able to do that in just 6 words.......
i can't even answer a yes or no question in less than 7 sentences.......
my middle DS was hit by lightening
transformers rule!
still have boxes of the vintage ones
tricia - might want to ask dr if joshua could have the pills. My youngest went thru the same drama, throwing any sort of liquid medicine up after great gagging, etc. Couple days on it & he'll be fine; good thing they caught it.
went to church yet again this am & listened to the same mass, i'm now good for 2 weeks.
will think of penny's 6 words of description, my mind is rather shallow today
janet, how did you break it to son yesterday he was the altar boy of the day?
i always gave my kids money when they were age 2 and up to get them to take meds.
sometimes it was bingo chips, monopoly money or shiny pennies.
it helped big time for me.
when they didn't want the "money", i would give them the meds and then a sip of coke.
Thomas, the little one next to the dog is my daughter Heather. She is almost 22 now. My how time flies!!!
wow, she's a big girl now!
thomas says thanks for the answer...
As a result, our boys all have extremely normal names. Which, with a last name like Johnson, kind of backfires. Turns out the day Matt was born, there were 3 other Matthew Ryan Johnson's also born in the country. Found out when I tried to get his SSN. Eric has another Eric Johnson at his school and they always have to call them down by "Eric Johnson - the 6th grader", etc. He also had another one in his preschool class - you can imagine how confusing that was! So - you can win either way! I do think in general, though, it's a lot more acceptable (in society's eyes) to have a more unusual name as a girl than a boy.
I thought I'd mentioned this a few times here before (at least in my trip report! ). No, I'm not deaf - just hearing impaired. On the juror form, I was filling it in under "special accommodations required", not "excuse me from service" (which required a doctor's note).
Honestly, my hearing is pretty bad. I do wear hearing aids. My unaided scores (how much I can understand in a quiet room, with no background noise) usually range from 0 to 10 percent comprehension. With my aids, I can usually get around 70 percent comprehension. Of course the real world is different - you're not listening to one person in a quiet situation. However, in the real world you get a lot of advantages from lip-reading (which I obviously do) and contextual cues. Basically I can understand vowels, but have a real hard time with consonents - especially those that are similar. So in a testing situation, if someone says "pot" - well, the odds are that I'm going to get it wrong. Just too many words that sound the same (to me at least!). In real life if one of my kids says "Where's the BLANK for the macaroni?" I can usually figure out they mean pot, not top, or cot, or cop. So it probably balances out.
Bottom line - most people, one on one, never notice I have a hearing problem (or not for quite awhile). Some people I can always understand - some I never can (based on the pitch and volume of their voices and how well they enunciate and look at me when talking). I don't go to movies, probably don't understand more than 25 percent of what's said at church or in an auditorium (school meetings). I only rent movies so I can use closed captioning and don't watch TV shows that don't have it. At Disney I used the reflective captioning and the handheld captioning whenever it was available.
So, yeah, I can't promise how well I'd do in a courtroom. I probably couldn't follow along and catch all (probably not even most) of what was said. I could get the gist of it and read transcripts afterwards. So that's what I put! Just kind of hoping they say "oh, that sounds like a hassle" and skip over me!
Tricia - the scariest part of your story, is that in our house, this is still a normal occurrence! 
Believe it or not, my teen boys would think nothing of barging in the bathroom to hand me the phone, ask a question or tell me something. I've had the phone handed to me while IN the shower (what exactly am I supposed to do with it there?!) several times! I sort of thought they'd outgrow it by now! Do you guys find this horrifying? I'm just kind of curious because I was discussing it with a friend a few years ago. She was absolutely shocked. Told me she hadn't seen her boys (who are just a bit younger than mine) without clothes since they finished potty training. I was kind of like "Wow, I probably haven't seen mine since, I don't know, yesterday?"
It's not like we're nudists and everyone gallavants around the house naked. More just like a locker room. We don't worry about changing in front of one another, but don't make a big show of it either. So if we go out to the hot tub, when we come in, we'll peel off suits (so we don't get the house all wet) and throw a towel around us. I guess I never thought that was strange (we're family, aren't we?) until I got that reaction from a few people.
on my mom's side they are williams.
you would not believe how many are named williams williams
the ones that weren't given that name are bobby ray, those type of names.
when my cousin bobby ray was in the army, he was asked his name.
he replied, "bobby ray, sir"
sgt thought he was being a jerk about it and it went further.
later finding out he name is bobby ray and has always gone by that.
we have hillbillies on my mom's side of the family.
i think more families should have them also.
i didn't notice you having hearing aides when i met you.
i'll pm you something later.
do you really want to know what i think on your last question?
first let me ask if i got it staight.....
when you get out of the hot tub, you take off your suits then put a towell around you.
do you all say, "look the other way?"
mr mac walks around nekkid at times in the house. when ever the boys would have someone over, they would have to tell dad, guests in the house, use a towel
when he would take a shower, he strips in the bedroom and puts items away then walks down the hall to the bathroom.
or to the basement if there is some running clothes he forgot to get when he was down there to change into.
one son is the same way.
other 2 always have a door closed.
when they were little, they all ran naked.
one neighbor met me for the first time when the boys were 5, 4, 2.5
i was 3 houses away from mine standing on the sidewalk out front of new neighbors house.
15 minutes of yaking and i hear screaming coming from my drive way.
a naked child running towards me with toilet paper in the hand yelling.........
wipe my butt...........
. He's on his second sonic toothbrush system (which i got free thru buzz agent, of which i am no longer participating in since i couldn't redeem my points once in 2 years
)
i cannot believe people will pay $500+ for this pups...what's next catoodles. They used to call them mixed breeds & be happy to find them a good home.
and are now only working on paint
.
Can you do it mom?" This started last night and again at freaking 6:15 in the Angry Mike hours (thanks for the phrase Jodie - we should all now adopt that for the board
)
Pretty soon things you can buy personalized in the store (w/o special order) are gonna be non-existant because nobody will have a 'normal' first name..... ...or have a normal name, but it's spelled weird!
I can't believe you choose to celebrate with Brad instead of us.
