The Hyena Chat thread: Everyone's welcome!

[sameyeyam]

Can you tell I'm sort of lost without DH? Every year when he goes elk hunting I go into Fall Cleaning mode. Luckily I was tired last night from trick or treating, otherwise I probably would have stayed up all night and gone thru the entire house throwing stuff away.

 

[sameyeyam]

And here my dear friends is my PILE OF SHAME! Located in the far depths inside my closet is a cardboard dresser and shelves full of photos. I have no desire to organize or scrapbook them...I just shove them in whatever empty spot I can.

So I'm thinking one of these days I might advertise on Craigslist...you scrapbook for me and I'll clean and organize your house.

 

[sameyeyam]

Well that looks horrible! I think I'm going to recruit the children and have a family photo organization night.

 

[sameyeyam]

Well I don't know if that was a good idea or not. I started organizing, making stacks of things and then started looking a pictures. I ran across the little photo book that my sister made of my mom's funeral. Next thing I know I'm bawling. DD hears me and comes in and hugs me, think I sort of scared DS. Anyway, maybe there's a reason that I don't go near the photos...too many memories for me to handle right now. I also found our stack of WDW photos and all the photos we took of that trip with my mom a month before she passed away. That was the last time I seen my mother, so every minute of that vacation just seems to be frozen in time in my brain. I was torn between smiling because we had so much fun...my mom at our Universal Studios Spiderman breakfast doing the web blaster finger thing. , that awesome photo I took of her in front of Cindy's Castle on Main St., and the family dinner we had at Bonefish Willy's on the Banana River. Maybe someday I can deal with the photos, but not today.

But I did sort of get it put back together in a little more organized manner.

 

[sameyeyam]

And for you observant Hyenas...Yes, that is the entire set of Little House on the Prairie books. And yes I do still read them...in between reading my Harlequin romances.

 

[sameyeyam]

Seriously I need help people! I'm going to scrub this house clean and it's already clean!! I just went and took a shower in DH's shower...and took a bottle of soft scrub, scrub brush, rag and pitcher with me. The shower is now sparkly clean! Never mind that we just cleaned it on Thursday night!

It's a disease I tell you! I'm now sitting here thinking I should organize the pencil cup on the desk. Sharpen all the pencils and then put pencils on one side and pens on the other.

Tomorrow I am taking the kids and going to town so I don't sit here and clean and organize all day. Sadly there is no colored ribbon for cleaning fanatics...unless you count the teal colored OCD one.

 

[Alex2kMommy]

Good eeeeevening!

 

[sameyeyam]

Reminder to Hyenas living in DST...tomorrow don't forget to put your clocks back 1 hour.

Several years ago my dad and stepmother went to Germany and brought me back a cuckoo clock. Very cute clock...very obnoxious. Of course it cuckoos once on the half hour and then multiple times for each hour. Not a problem until you fall asleep...seems like it never wakes a person up until about 2 or 3 am.

Anyway DS decided to start the clock up this evening after several years of not using it. It does have a little wire switch on the bottom that you can push up & down to make it stop cuckooing (is that a word? ). But of course no one ever remembers to do that at night. We'll see if I can remember tonight.

 

[Alex2kMommy]

I just saw Cooper's Leaning Tower of Cheesa.

And girl, what the heck is in your hair???

 

[sameyeyam]

Good eeeeevening!

WOOHOO!!! Real live peoples!

 

[sameyeyam]

I just saw Cooper's Leaning Tower of Cheesa.

And girl, what the heck is in your hair???

That is a Halloween Headband that I got from Claire's to wear during the Halloween that I had no hair. Think it looks strange now, you should have seen the looks I got when I wore it bald. I wore it trick or treating last night and got lots of compliments.

 

[sameyeyam]

You may not have heard of Claire's. It's a store in the mall that mother's with daughters are forced to stand in for hours on end while they buy cheesy jewelry. So out of sheer boredom mom's purchase strange things like halloween headbands with black & orange sprouting hair.

 

[Alex2kMommy]

DS8 has a book report due next week. Actually it's due by Thursday, which means on or before that date.

I just found the paperwork to parents about the report last week, and apparently DS had sat on it a week.

So I tell him:
1. You can't turn this in the last day, or even the 2nd to last day. EVERYONE will try to turn it in then, and there isn't going to be enough time to get all the report presentations done. That means you need to get it done by Monday or Tuesday at the latest.

2. As part of the report, you're supposed to do some sort of art along with it, meaning create a video, do a poster, write a play, etc. (I'm sort of stunned by that part, but whatever...) So you need to decide what to do and get started on it. He decided on a poster, I assume because it would be the easiest.

3. I suggest you pick a book you just finished reading, since you don't have time to read a new book in time. So first he chose a Goosebumps book. Then when he couldn't find the book today, he changed his mind to use a Hardy Boys book.

 

[funnygarcia]

Impressive organization skills.

I adored Little House on the Prairie books, read the whole series when I was in 5th grade. Watched the show (which is only vaguely similar to the books) for a number of years-- to the point that I have watched every episode.

I then branched out into the Janet Oakes books, Love Comes Softly series- mom got me hooked on those. Eagerly watched the TV series on Hallmark channel

From there got into books on plural marriage/ Mormon pioneers, yep there is a whole series on those.

Now I'm hooked on Janet Evanovich books..thanks to the hyenas.

Do you see a pattern here? I get obsessed with series, at least this time it is in the modern world.

 

[Alex2kMommy]

You may not have heard of Claire's. It's a store in the mall that mother's with daughters are forced to stand in for hours on end while they buy cheesy jewelry. So out of sheer boredom mom's purchase strange things like halloween headbands with black & orange sprouting hair.

Silly girl. I know what Claire's is, even though I don't have girls.

 

[funnygarcia]

You may not have heard of Claire's. It's a store in the mall that mother's with daughters are forced to stand in for hours on end while they buy cheesy jewelry. So out of sheer boredom mom's purchase strange things like halloween headbands with black & orange sprouting hair.

It's the store where you see the lil girls sitting on a tall chair, looking very scared. Usually the chair is right in the fornt of the store, so everyone can watch as they pierce the lil ears and make them cry - awwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Why can't they put the chair further back in the store? or a little booth? That's how mine was done-- I was in 7th grade. Big deal to get ears done at that time. Not so much now.

 

[Alex2kMommy]

I adored Little House on the Prairie books, read the whole series when I was in 5th grade. Watched the show (which is only vaguely similar to the books) for a number of years-- to the point that I have watched every episode.

I then branched out into the Janet Oakes books, Love Comes Softly series- mom got me hooked on those. Eagerly watched the TV series on Hallmark channel

From there got into books on plural marriage/ Mormon pioneers, yep there is a whole series on those.

Now I'm hooked on Janet Evanovich books..thanks to the hyenas.

Do you see a pattern here? I get obsessed with series, at least this time it is in the modern world.

Hi, G!

I read some of the Little House books, and watched the show, of course. I loved Nancy Drew, too, but as I got into the early teen years I moved on to the ever-so-chaste, early Harlequin Romances. Nurses crushing on doctors, nannies in love with their bosses, blond English women in love with darkly handsome Greek men.

I'd never heard of the Love Comes Softly series until I saw the first TV movie on Hallmark, the one with Katherine Heigl.

Now I sometimes pick up the racier romance novels, and I'm hooked on the Stephanie Plum novels, the Jill Kismet series (a dark, supernatural sort of action/mystery, I've only read the first one) and the Twilight series (I'm on book 3, Eclipse.)

 

[sameyeyam]

DS8 has a book report due next week. Actually it's due by Thursday, which means on or before that date.

I just found the paperwork to parents about the report last week, and apparently DS had sat on it a week.

So I tell him:
1. You can't turn this in the last day, or even the 2nd to last day. EVERYONE will try to turn it in then, and there isn't going to be enough time to get all the report presentations done. That means you need to get it done by Monday or Tuesday at the latest.

2. As part of the report, you're supposed to do some sort of art along with it, meaning create a video, do a poster, write a play, etc. (I'm sort of stunned by that part, but whatever...) So you need to decide what to do and get started on it. He decided on a poster, I assume because it would be the easiest.

3. I suggest you pick a book you just finished reading, since you don't have time to read a new book in time. So first he chose a Goosebumps book. Then when he couldn't find the book today, he changed his mind to use a Hardy Boys book.

Impressive organization skills.

I adored Little House on the Prairie books, read the whole series when I was in 5th grade. Watched the show (which is only vaguely similar to the books) for a number of years-- to the point that I have watched every episode.

I then branched out into the Janet Oakes books, Love Comes Softly series- mom got me hooked on those. Eagerly watched the TV series on Hallmark channel

From there got into books on plural marriage/ Mormon pioneers, yep there is a whole series on those.

Now I'm hooked on Janet Evanovich books..thanks to the hyenas.

Do you see a pattern here? I get obsessed with series, at least this time it is in the modern world.

Well at least I don't feel like I'm the only one that has kids that procrastinate on school projects. Although I think DD is finally starting to learn...especially after she had to sit and work for over 9 hours on a Sunday a few weeks ago.

I used to read a lot of pioneer women stories. We have a small library here in town and I read every single book on pioneer life that they had. A few years ago they decided to become part of the Ft. Vancouver library system...so now tons of books that rotate constantly. But now unfortunately we don't live in the city limits, so we would have to pay over $100 a year to belong to the library. Cowlitz Co. has no library system. We can go to the Woodland Library and read, but just can't check out books. So now we just pick them up at garage sales or thrift center. The kids use the school library. When I was going to Clark College they gave me a Ft. Vancouver library card because the college library was a part of the FV library system...so they had to make an exception for out of county students. But now they are no longer part of that system, so my college library card won't work.

 

[Alex2kMommy]

It's the store where you see the lil girls sitting on a tall chair, looking very scared. Usually the chair is right in the fornt of the store, so everyone can watch as they pierce the lil ears and make them cry - awwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Why can't they put the chair further back in the store? or a little booth? That's how mine was done-- I was in 7th grade. Big deal to get ears done at that time. Not so much now.

Mine were pierced at the back of a store, too. I don't know when that changed.

I begged and begged to get them pierced, and my mom finally caved and allowed it for my 11th birthday. I was one of the few girls in my class who hadn't had it done yet. When we moved to WA very few girls had pierced ears, so it apparently set off a wave of whining among the little girls at my school.

 

[sameyeyam]

Silly girl. I know what Claire's is, even though I don't have girls.

I know...just trying to be a smart alec!

It's the store where you see the lil girls sitting on a tall chair, looking very scared. Usually the chair is right in the fornt of the store, so everyone can watch as they pierce the lil ears and make them cry - awwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Why can't they put the chair further back in the store? or a little booth? That's how mine was done-- I was in 7th grade. Big deal to get ears done at that time. Not so much now.

Because that's how they suck you in...little girls look at that chair every time you go to the mall...until finally one day they get the nerve to get their ears pierced.

My mom used to pierce everyone's ears in town. She had a big long needle with a green handle and a giant piece of cork. Back then you bought them at the drug store. That was back before the days of the mall. She pierced mine.