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[SadieSue]

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No no, it was great to finally get to meet in person! I'm so glad you were able to hitch a ride with Candy and her DH. It was fun wasn't it? Just never enough time to get all of our conversation in when there's so many interesting topics to cover!

 

[SadieSue]

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no we loved it, part of the entertainment "floor show"

good to yak with people who know so much about so much, I actually listened for awhile instead of dominating the conversation myself

thanks Dana for hosting the meet up, and to Jen, Susan, and Phyllis as well as Julia, for sparkling conversation and a few things to ponder about

I had a great time! Thank you all for attending our first South Sounders meet up!

 

[SadieSue]

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Ooooooh Jen!!!
Fantastic avatar!!!!!!!!
Beautiful colors!!!
I like mucho!!!

thank you.. one of our clients did that for me... I told him what I had pictured in my mind's eye and viola! he did it!

Very nice! I was wondering where that came from.

 

[Mia_]

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No no, it was great to finally get to meet in person! I'm so glad you were able to hitch a ride with Candy and her DH. It was fun wasn't it? Just never enough time to get all of our conversation in when there's so many interesting topics to cover!

X2

 

[Chicken Rustler]

The heat is on. They are getting close. It's only a matter of time (I say not long) he's gonna crack.


Hope none of MY BYC BUDDIES are part of the mess at the Tacoma schools.

 

[Ogress]

Can I have a nervous breakdown? Please? I really, really, really need one. I can't function as the glue that hold my family together any longer.

This is my day since 4:10 pm when DD got home from school:

4:10 grab soccer gear, have the kids change, grab trumpet, stand and book, plus USPS package to mail.
4:40 Drop DD at soccer (10 min late) Drive to UPS
4:45-5 Have UPS package up the trumpet, book and stand and mail them to my nephew
5:01 - 5:45 drive to USPS - too late. try again tomorrow, drive back to soccer. Ask DS if he has any homework, his reply: "No". DOuble check his pack, don't find any. Do tax class homework.

5:45 - 7:20 DD's soccer ends early due to injury (coach's DD); DS starts early. Ask DD if she has HW; answer "just reading" but I find a stck of papers she has neglected to do and I sit her on the bench at the soccer fields to work on it while I sit next to her and work on tax class stuff. I get mine done just as DS finishes soccer

7:40-8:45 pm - scrounge freezer for something quick to make for dinner, check BYC, eat dinner, check od DD HW situation, become suspicious of DS's, check online grades A A D A A A. D????? Science. Check teachers website. DS has turned in 0 of 4 lab write-ups, got 5/10 on a quiz, and an A+ on a group project. Teacher thankfully has most of her class stuff posted on her sharepoint, so DS and I start re-creating school science projects - it's going to be a loooong night.

8:50 - find DH tell him he must make sure DD does her math, science, reads 30 min and practices her harp for 45 as I will be busy all evening with DD

9:05 - DH comes into my office and tells me he is having a heart attack. (This happens several times a year, always at the most inconvenient times. Every time it is a panic attack.) Pupils are the same size, he can raise his arms up and down without pain, can still curl his tongue - likely not heart attack nor stroke... he tells me he will rest. Instead he takes BP meds, anxiety meds, asprin, & nitro pill.

9:07 - DH "Drive me to the ER!" (one time we had called an ambulance. Instead of going to the nearby tribal hospital, they took him to Bellevue and insurance did not cover the bill. I can get to the tribal hospital much quicker).

9:15 - check DH in. Tell them it is likely another panic attack, that this happens frequently. I'm visibly irritated with DH. Receptionist looks at me as callous wife. I tell her this happens several times a year. Told her check christmas eve 2008, heave snowstorm, no plows, 18" snow on the road, and we spent hours there with my 2 kids when they should have been asleep, risking all our safety in those horrible conditions for his panic attack. Nurse overhears "Oh ya, I remember you now, I was there - give me a number to reach you, we called the Dr. he will want a full work-up anyways. I'll call when he's ready to be picked up. I'll call if it is anything more serious." DH agrees it is likely another panic attack. Says he was contacted by Microsoft Legal about a huge lawsuit they are appealing on a product he worked on 20 years ago. He is the only one left at MSFT from the team, and is very nervous about giving a deposition.

9:25 - just sat in my car to leave in ER parking lot when this little junker of a car with the boom-box blaring hip-hop screeches into the parking lot and grabs the spot in front of mine (raised sidewalk between us). The car bounces back off the curb he just hit. I'm curious to see what the emergency might be so I don't start my car. I see it is the doctor! I'm pretty sure he just raced over from the casino next door. He steps out and looks at me, I'm pretty sure he recognizes me, but I flick on my brights to blind him and get out of there. I'm sure he knows who the patient is when he sees me. Don has been there too often.

just got a call - gotta run and get him. Panic attack as I thought.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Ooooooooo-keh. I've only done the DH panic attack-looks-like-MI once, when our daughter was two months old, and I took longer to forgive him* than you've been married. You're a much better person than I am.


*I've never forgiven the faculty member who came to him at 9am yelling and screaming about the need for an immediate lab set-up for a 1pm class when he hadn't filed a manditory 48hr job request but thought he could get his way by being a complete jerk.

 

[Ogress]

I usually let things roll off me - had to growing up in the house I did as my mom constantly criticizes everyone and everything. Life is too short to hang on to ugly feeling; but every once on a while they creep up and make me MAD! The other usual side-effect is that I almost always get sick with flu-like symptoms (I think from stress) a few days later.

Maybe it's me. I had a similar experience yesterday! One of my Aussie friends invited me to lunch at her place in Kirkland Tuesay. I just got there when her neighbor called and asked my friend for a ride to the ER because she thought she was having a heart attack; that gal's son was home with the flu. Instead of having lunch with my friend, I babysat the boy. Luckily he's 12 so baysitting = Mission Impossible on a DVD in the other room while I nibbled on the lunch my friend made and read "The One Block Feast An Adventure in Food from Yard to Table" Margo True and Sunset Magazine. I opened the cover and see the book is autographed with a personal message to me! turns out it is my birthday present, and Karen had not had time to wrap it, so I put it back on her table. When Karen returned, she gave me the book and I acted surprised. Turns out she had dinner with the author because some mutual friends of ours sat next to her on a long plane trip the other year and she told them all of this "One Block Feast" book she was working on, and her adventures with gardening, bee-keeping, wine and cheese making, and chickens, and they told her all about me and my garden and my chickens! I'm sure she'd pee herself while laughing if she saw my pathetic garden (though compared to my friends couple of pots on a deck, I guess it is big!), but I have waaaaay more chickens! When the book was released, my friends
went to a dinner/book signing and sat at the same table with her, so she signed a book for me!

Anyways, I got off track again. Karen's neighbor was told she is likely having an anxiety attack; so how odd is it when the very next day the same thing goes on with DH?!?! It's me. I must be bad luck this week.

I picked DH up. He's fine. Dr (yes, that was him in that little junker!!!) told him not to feel bad, he did the right thing coming in (I'm sure! Have you ever seen an ER bill for a possible heart attack?). Thankfully the Dr. did not run all the usual heart attack tests, he still has the records from the last 5 times he was there! DH looks like a walking coronary, but his cholesterol is low. Thankfully we bought a "cadillac" insurance plan, they don't cover ambulance rides, but any co-pay will be very small.

DD went to bed without completing her homework or her harp. DS got about 1/3 through, but can't recall the rest. I will contact his teachers and put him back on Concerta. It helps him concentrate while he's at school; but he's a rotten nightmare between 3 and 5 when it wears off.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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Well, I don't know if it will work - never tried it. But seems to me it would be far easier and less time consuming to make your omelets fresh. If you use a microwave to derfost, it would take longer than cooking them! I have some shallow, handmade pottery bowls (I'm a potter) that I beat the eggs in, then put them in the microwave for 24 seconds, give them a flip, another 24 seconds and they are done. couldn't be easier

Unfortunately, it is easier for me to make meals/food on the weekends that we can use during the week. I really don't htave the time for 60 seconds of doing the eggs in the mornign....I know that sounds stupid...but I would have to allow time to make sure the counter is washed - because not everyone n the house washes it. I am not always the last to use it...husband goes to work before I do and he always leaves a mess. So my OCD (or CDO) would kick in I would have to clean before and after. I have to wash hands inbetween touching eggs, chopping peppers, frying up some bacon, or maybe using some cheese. And then all would have to be cleaned after. So unfortunately, I would have to get up earlier than my now 5:30 to get to work by 7. Do I sound like a basket case? I am.

And here I get up at 5:45 to be at work by 7. I have been thinking if I got up 15 minutes earlier I could make breakfast.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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Well, I don't know if it will work - never tried it. But seems to me it would be far easier and less time consuming to make your omelets fresh. If you use a microwave to derfost, it would take longer than cooking them! I have some shallow, handmade pottery bowls (I'm a potter) that I beat the eggs in, then put them in the microwave for 24 seconds, give them a flip, another 24 seconds and they are done. couldn't be easier

no no no give it up that ain't an Omlette. It needs to be fresh beaten eggs spread on the grill and once flipped then add the fresh chopped and sautaed (sp) veggies and choice of meat and some colby jack roll it and serve with fresh home made hash browns and grilled muffin. Sounds like I just planned dinner for tomorrow!

Since we are talking about omelets has anyone put pepperoni in theirs? It is very good.