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12/19/08 07:51 AM #1495    

Robert Hooker

April: I just read your disgusting messages re: lice, ringworm, etc, and am begin to itch real bad...and it's not on my head.

12/19/08 09:12 AM #1496    

Dan Wallace

I have a friend who recieved a spinal cord injury and is in a wheel chair full time. He went to a hockey game at Madison Square Garden to meet friends. He was sitting outside with a cup of coffee in his hand and someone walked by and dropped a quarter in his cup.
-Does that count?

12/19/08 09:39 AM #1497    

Tracey Ulrich (Dawson)

You boys are a hoot!

Don't need to wonder if it is going to be a white Christmas.

PA, NY, the blizzard you are about to experience, if you haven't already, comes curtesy of the Mid-West!

12/19/08 10:40 AM #1498    

Robert Hooker

Bring it!

Right now, it's just a heavy rain and very cold. Good times...

12/19/08 11:34 AM #1499    

April Passen (Ochman)

Over 500 schools closing here in Metro Detroit! You can not tell which way the snow is falling from, the wing is totally circulating the snows, almost like little snow tornados. Areas of my yard, like my carport that never get much snow, has about 6 inches blown in. I don't think a real messasure of inches is possible the way the wind is blowing. I'd say some areas of my yard is 4 inches & others are 12+, & will change in a hot second when the winds blows again. Honestly I haven't seen snow fall like this since like late 70's early 80's! The word Blizzard is all that comes to mind!
Robert you think here about it makes you itch...not have as bad as when you see it. It takes like hours of mentally clearing your mind to stop the itching.

12/19/08 11:35 AM #1500    

April Passen (Ochman)

Hey did anyone see the new add a youtube video button? How cool.

12/19/08 11:50 AM #1501    

April Passen (Ochman)

Shannon-we actually took a trip to the bank once to do something like that, but it did not work out that well. The consumer's tend to feel easily out of place, they were all circulating their excuses to get out of the meeting, like needing a drink, cigarette, use the rest room. But I think if we actually got someone to come to their comfortable truff, it might go much better. Then setup like 2 at a time to go in & open their bank accounts.
I think this cold weather is going to have me re-do my Christmas tree! I don't know if I mentioned it, but our just over one pup, ate half of the bottom pre-lit lights. We put the tree up thanksgiving weekend, it last about 2 weeks. We even was putting the pup in the kitchen when we weren't home. It was right after I moved the computer to the basement, well while I was in the basement, the pup thought I wasn't home & punished me by eating the lights. I bought replacement lights like a week ago, but just didn't feel like undecorating the tree to fix it, but now that we are pretty much snowed in...maybe doing so will help my Christmas blues!

12/19/08 04:06 PM #1502    

Shannon Krych (Hofer)

April-the program I did, I would go to the client. If and when an account was chosen, I just took the paper work to them and came back and gave the new accounts person the check to open the account.

You mentioned the pup eating the christmas lights, my mind went to Christmas Vacation with Chevy Chase, when the cat eats the lights and uses up all nine lives. It is one of my favorite christmas movies. Right up there with A Christmas Story.

12/19/08 04:43 PM #1503    

April Passen (Ochman)

I love that part w/the cat, but the tree was not plugged in damn it, she might of learned a lesson.

Now I had a shepperd that when she was still a very young pup, chewed on a lamp cord to the wire behind the chair. Well then she decided to go back behind the chair, cuz we couldn't see her, & take a swat...I was doing dishes & heard Yipe, yipe....She peed on the raw wire she chewed & got a little blister on her belly. I tell ya what she got potty & chewing trained real quick! That was one lucky pup. I couldn't stop laughing at the poor bad pouch, god rest her soul...we lost her this past June.

12/19/08 06:13 PM #1504    

Shannon Krych (Hofer)

We are pretty lucky.. Sam is potty trained and has not chewed up anything that was not his...KNOCK ON WOOD. Always a little scared in the first months with a shelter dog. Not sure why someone gave him up but sure glad they did...

12/20/08 12:24 AM #1505    

April Passen (Ochman)

checking to see if I know how to use youtube option?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oahelr6cDdw&hl=en&fs=1


12/20/08 12:25 AM #1506    

April Passen (Ochman)

It worked!! I love the perverous Popcrunch show. Hope you all enjoyed!

12/20/08 06:11 AM #1507    

Gwen Norman (Martin)

Shannon--I have an idea for you and it would be great marketing for your bank. Approach the local high schools and offer a free seminar to kids on how to fill out a check book register, what happens if they write a bad check, how to budget their money etc. This could be for mainstream and high level special needs kids.

12/20/08 06:22 AM #1508    

Gwen Norman (Martin)

Wow been up since 3 am cleaning house--April I think I need a personal consultation because I must be crazy.

Everyone has talked about volunteering so I will give my 2 cents on ideas.
1. Clean out your closets. (Are you really going to have that yard sale?) Donate to the Goodwill etc.
2. Check with your kids school --They know which kids don't have clothes, food etc. pick them up something along the way.
3. See if local churches community groups etc. have a program in place to help senior citizens do yard work etc. that they can't do anymore.
4. Has anyone ever thought about being a volunteer firefighter??? (had to throw that one in)


12/20/08 09:40 AM #1509    

Shannon Krych (Hofer)

Gwen- Great idea... Not sure if you have Junior Achievement in your area but they have a great program for elementary and middle school kids. It is JA City. The kids run a city for a day. It has a bank, newspaper, radio station, police, courthouse etc. They start out by having to borrow money to get their businesses up and running and have to pay down their loan by the end of the day. They get paychecks and have expenses. The kids are really shocked sometimes on how the "money fairy" doesn't just show up and make things all better. It is a great program and it is a lot of fun to participate in through JA.

12/20/08 11:39 AM #1510    

April Passen (Ochman)

Ok snow is completely shoveled, house completely re-wired 6 rooms for cable (hard job w/3 floors & a permanent suppended ceiling in the basement), & un-decorated the tree, took off broken pre-lit strain in tree, then rewired it like it was professionally done, & then redecorated the tree all night long! Went to bed at 6am, to wake up at 9:15am to take daughter ice skating, she past her last basic skills & is on to freestyle! No more early Saturday lessons, now evening Thursdays. But I'm sure they will find something to not let me sleep in. I so love/miss my sleep!!! It's probably cure this manic state I am in if I only were able to sleep.

Shannon I think Taylor has something like that here now. My daughter's school has a credit union Education First that is ran out of her school, 5th graders run it. She at the end of her 4th grade year, had to apply & interview for the job & she got it...she is a teller! She wanted to be publicity & marketing...but that is pretty much drawing pictures, I very proud she is one of three tellers!

12/20/08 11:43 AM #1511    

April Passen (Ochman)

And Gwen on the firefighter thing...I take to many risks in my current profession...I have yet to have a job that did not have me in Detroit going into other peoples homes, not knowing exactly what I am walking into, to think I want to kill my lungs anymore then I am w/my cigarette habit I am trying to kick. So thats a BIG NA, on the volunteer firefighter for me.

12/21/08 08:29 AM #1512    

Gwen Norman (Martin)

April I was being a smart a@@ I am really good at that in my old age. My husband is the volunteer chief, my oldest joined the Sunday after his 18th birthday. Sad to say I have pulled hose; I can run the pump on our trucks and I call the fire department my husbands mistress.

totally off subject but, the puppies are a week old and one has escaped its whelping box already....

BTW 59 and raining

12/21/08 09:19 AM #1513    

Tracey Ulrich (Dawson)

Happy Winter Solstice!
Shortest day of the year. It all gets longer from here! :) LOL

Oh, and Happy Festivus, too!

12/21/08 12:03 PM #1514    

Tracey Ulrich (Dawson)

It's official. My husband knows everything I bought him for Christmas. I knew it was inevitable. I should be proud that it took him this long. A new record I think.

We were in Borders yesterday buying some last minute gifts for family when we met up at the check out. There must be a hundred thousand books in that store. I look at what he found and there on the top of the pile is the book I already bought him weeks earlier. Funny thing is it is kind of an obscure book and not something he had asked for. When I bought it I happened to just walk by and picked it up, read a few pages and thought it would be something he would like. Yesterday he did the exact same thing.

We had just been talking about how you should never buy yourself something right before the holidays and here he is standing in line with that book!

Ugh. I told him that next year for every gift he guesses before Christmas I get one addition gift! That will show him.

12/21/08 01:04 PM #1515    

Shannon Krych (Hofer)

OK-What is when worst gift you ever got for Christmas?

I think my husband is the worst at gift giving. He gets it from his mom. Some of the things he has gotten over the years from has brought tears to my eyes from laughing so hard, so I never take offense. Example: One year he got a zip lock bag of unpopped popcorn. On the outside of the ziplock bag it said Kansas Corn. He is from Kansas. Along with that was grape squeezable jelly. Don't ask why and don't try to figure it out. You will hurt yourself...LOL

12/22/08 12:34 AM #1516    

April Passen (Ochman)








12/22/08 08:05 AM #1517    

Robert Hooker

It's cute, but I don't like animals. They have germs.

12/22/08 01:15 PM #1518    

April Passen (Ochman)

Robert, I still bet you never changed a poppy diaper have you? Not w/out googles & the long yellow gloves? How did you handle spit up?

12/22/08 01:26 PM #1519    

Robert Hooker

Surprisingly, the girls' diapers never bothered me. I am probably one of the most domesticated men you'd ever meet. It concerns my wife.


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