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<p>LOL, Moda, you’re my kind of woman! It took years of marriage before Husband finally caught onto my rule: Fill ALL prescriptions!</p>
<p>Oh man… totally missed the car accident. So so sorry… it’s complete relief when it’s “just” the car, but it’s met with “what the #$%#$?” about 5 minutes later. </p>
<p>Our school does a pretty good job of mixing up the meetings to accommodate people. College night is definitely an evening meeting. But there are also coffees with the dean early in the morning and desserts with the dean that are held in the evening. They also do the Parent Association meetings over the lunch hour and there is usually a pretty good turn out at all of them. Of course, that so many (most) of them include some sort of food is probably helpful to attendance. I gained 10 pounds the first year my kids were enrolled!</p>
<p>Wow, my eyes, I thought you said ALIEN wrench. Mine doesn’t like those green bean stems. Does anyone actually have one that does everything it’s supposed to, including bones? Maybe they don’t exist. I’ve been whining to get a new one but maybe we should just save our money.</p>
<p>I don’t know too many garbage disposals that do bones. Otherwise, I think there’d be a lot more missing spouses in the world. Not everyone owns a wood chipper.</p>
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<p>Gotta love (!) a mom who goes on her own to a girl’s basketball game! (Maybe my overnight company wouldn’t make me ill if I had relatives like that!)</p>
<p>I just reread about the car crash as well. Ouch. I’m glad nobody was hurt but that always runs into money. </p>
<p>I also noticed I said frat when I should have said sorority. </p>
<p>Our garbage disposal is only about five years old and is worthless. H tells me not to put anything in it.</p>
<p>I better start doing some work today and stop hanging out on cc.</p>
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<p>Seems like most of the “home improvements” we make are not improvements at all. The new HVAC is so noisy it sounds like an airplane is overhead. The new windows from a couple of years ago are U-G-L-Y. The fancy double oven doesn’t cook things in the middle, so no more cookies or brownies. We have to pull the new front door toward us to be able to unlock it. I’ve told the kids that we’ll never be able to sell the house and that they’ll be stuck with it when we die.</p>
<p>I am struck over and over when I read this thread how much in common we all have, despite the differences in ages, sex, financial status, and in my case geographical location, but Oh Modadunn your post #8144 just about finished me, I spat out my mouthful of tea and laughed til I cried </p>
<p>MODA…thanks for the Fargo memory! Made me laugh out loud! Still laughing!</p>
<p>Well the new motors in the furnace are working and it is soooo quiet now. The hot water heater is working and I am thankful. The bids for the new windows are in and will be next. Before all this happened we ordered a new bedroom set and mattresses. They should be in next week. Now we have to find new bedding in California King. Guess I didn’t know how hard it is to find that size around here! H was tired of his feet hanging out of bed…6’ 4"…it just keeps snowballing! Thankfully the furnace was covered by our service contract and the windows and water heater will give us some tax credits and rebates.</p>
<p>‘Not everyone owns a wood chipper.’
Does anyone remember that notorious case in CT a few years back in which H disposed of W in the chipper? Well, a few years ago we were having the house painted and I was chatting with the painter. He mentioned that during his time “inside” he bunked with “The Chipper” as he was known. Painter said Chipper was a great guy and that his wife was a b****. Needless, to say I was nervous but had to balance my apprehension with the fact that I wanted my living room done. Guess which won out?</p>
<p>Also, as the snow fell fairly deeply last night, I decided to take the truck to work. I cleaned it off, warmed it up and when I went to shift it out of gear…NOTHING!! I had to take the “death car” which has been in the news lately. We live up a hill. I’m sure it won’t make it up the slippery incline tonight after work. Oh what joy!</p>
<p>C’mon, don’t you know that being a ***** is just asking to be put into the chipper</p>
<p>On a lighter note, S1 just mentioned that he is headed to New Orleans this week-end for a superbowl party. His whole trip is only costing him $100 for transportation and hotel–hooked up with the lacrosse team who is subsidizing the cost. I was happy to hear him in such a good mood.</p>
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Super Bowl party
New Orleans</p>
<p>Maybe folks will see him in the background of the next “Girls Gone Wild” video.</p>
<p>Let’s just say, I am glad H is neither handy nor owns a chipper.</p>
<p>Analyst, glad to hear he’s settling back in. And equally glad that D has mentioned nothing about a weekend trip to NO.</p>
<p>Well, moda, I’m still in the loop as ShawSon has called several times as working out his independent study course to replace the course whose instructor didn’t want freshman in it. He calls for advice and sometimes to dictate emails that may need to be written more diplomatically.</p>
<p>His new advisor (chosen by Shawson in early January when his old advisor announced that he had to relinquish advisees ASAP when promoted to a higher rank of Deanhood) was ShawSon’s favorite prof from last term. He offered to do an interdisciplinary independent study with ShawSon, but didn’t think about the process of getting approval as it doesn’t really belong in his department. [Neither did ShawSon until I asked, because he hadn’t done an independent study course, let alone an inter-disciplinary one]. ShawSon went to the most likely department head who said, “I’ll sign it if you can get one of the faculty in my department to co-supervise.” ShawSon had initially contacted last semester’s prof who had said he was too busy. He now has to see 3 people (none of whom he has met before. “One said it sounds interesting; let’s talk on Friday.” But, the drop/add deadline is today (Wednesday). He was able to wrangle an appointment with his old advisor, the Dean for today, but he could be stuck if the new course isn’t approved and he is forced to take the old bad course after having not attended for a week. Ah well.</p>
<p>Uh-oh…is this “old bad course” the one with the prof who didn’t want freshman in his class?
Keeping fingers crossed for approval for independent study.</p>
<p>shawbridge --good that he ha an appt. with the Dean–he should be able to guide your S. Otherwise would it make sense to be one class low and make it up another time than stay in the bad one?
Loved the chipper…</p>
<p>Now that there’s enough distance from Sunday, I can report on mechanical woes.</p>
<p>DH and I installed new thermostat. Didn’t work. Still cold. When DH turned of the breakers during this installation, it was more than our main computer could bear, and crashed the hard drive. The day before my new desktop arrived. A few hours before I intended to back up my documents. (Fortunately, a tech guy at work was able to recover my data)</p>
<p>Had intended to make Beef Burgundy, but thought that might be tempting karma too much. Decided to drown my sorrows in a chocolate cake. Used a box mix. Cake came out so fragile that it tore apart when I tried to frost.</p>
<p>Gave up and hid in bed.</p>