Tuesday Fun 6/28

katholeenie · Jun 28, 2011

Morning!
 
Not sure what's fun today. If I can get a hold of Dh's friend Brad, I might be going to their friend Josh's wake tonight (it's about an hour away).
 
Need to see if I can request another ticket for the Senior Open. I gave my dad 2 tickets, but all his golf buddies that he would want to take have died (oops) so I think Dh and I might go with him.
 
Wassup peeps?
 
(((((((Maureen)))))))) ((((((((Prae))))))))

aemerryman · Jun 28, 2011

Morning peeps! 
 
(((((Prae))))) and (((((Moe))))). You ladies are in my thoughts. 
 
Fun: Well, not to toot my own horn, but it's my birthday, and I'm going to a wine tasting tonight with a friend where, rumor has it, there will be mushroom risotto. Those are some mighty pretty words, Precious. <img alt="laughing7.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/laughing7.gif">
 
In the Less-Than-Fun category: I've got a doctor's appointment today for a checkup and have to get my second hepB shot for school. 
 
More Fun: 24 days until I move. <img alt="biggrin.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/biggrin.gif">
 
Still-More-Fun: I'm off today! <img alt="hello2.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/hello2.gif">
 
Back in a bit....need tea.

katholeenie · Jun 28, 2011

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANN!!!!!

wipaddler · Jun 28, 2011

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHOPSTICKS!!!!!!
 
I have no fun to report. There is some sort of gopher stuck in the very up stairs gutters and it sounds like a buffalo when it's running but I can't get up on the roof to get it out so I don't know what it's going to do. I hope it goes to the shady side of the house to stay cool instead of dying and baking in the sun on the front of the house ew.
 
I get to play in my garden tonight. I took a picture of this Amish garden that I'm in love with and I"m going to try to get mine to look some what like it.

Runninlaw · Jun 28, 2011

Hi peeps!
 
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANN!
 
Wippy - I am envious of your garden. I never got mine planted this year.

wipaddler · Jun 28, 2011

MY DAILY MOCHA'S ARE NOW FREEEEEEEE!!!!!
 
Best
day
EVAH!
 
RIL can you pm me your address? I have something for your boys that I never got to get to you before I moved. If I get a bumper crop of purple beans this summer I will bring some down for you. I don't know what else I'm going to have just yet because everything got planted so late. This year's garden is called The Garden of Hope...as in I hope I get something out of it.

eccabex · Jun 28, 2011

Happy Birthday Ann!!!!

gatorbob · Jun 28, 2011

Happy Birthday, Ann! 
Fun: I made ice cream with the kiddo again last night. It's a strawberry/blueberry mix, and I'm really looking forward to the taste test tonight...

phdatc · Jun 28, 2011

Happy Birthday Ann!!! 
Mmmmmm....ice cream!!

NCRG71 · Jun 28, 2011

Happy Birthday Ann!!
 
Mmm, ice cream. I picked up some of the Mint Choc Chip Klondike bars for DH last night as a treat. He was a happy happy man.
 
(((((Maureen))))) (((((Kate)))))
 
Glad to hear that Poppa Pfeiffer did well yesterday!
 
I don't have a garden. I can barely keep flower pots alive. <img alt="sad.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/sad.gif" style="width:15px;height:15px;">

KP · Jun 28, 2011

Happy Birthday Ann, and go Cocks (sorry boB can't pull for Florida in anything, nothing personal)! One win away from a repeat.
 
Not Fun: Have a meeting to go today that will most likely be pointless and 90 minutes of my life that I will never get back. Plus I have to go in to work for about an hour or so as well.

amichel · Jun 28, 2011

((30s)) especially ((Auntie Moe and Prae))
 
Fun: Dd's team won last night! The winners bracket starts at 7:00pm tonight, the losers bracket isn't until 8:30. Whew! 
 
Heading to a financial advisor meeting. Fun/Not Fun designation pending

runningINnyc · Jun 28, 2011

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANN!!!!
 
Fun: our company rang the bell to open the NYSE this morning. We've been public for awhile but changed our corp. name, symbol and the exchange we trade on. Now known as XO Group Inc.

gatorbob · Jun 28, 2011

KP, yeah I know you root against the Gators in everything... <img alt="biggrin.gif" class="bbcode_smiley" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/biggrin.gif"> Shoulda had that game last night. Well, it ain't over yet...

aemerryman · Jun 28, 2011

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Not Fun: Have a meeting to go today that will most likely be pointless and 90 minutes of my life that I will never get back. Plus I have to go in to work for about an hour or so as well.
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 Gooooooooooo COCKS!!! (College World Series final game tonight, for those who are wondering...) Damn straight one away from a repeat. Now *that* would be a sweet birthday present! <img alt="hello2.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/hello2.gif">

mmoonptdeux · Jun 28, 2011

Hi all - what the hell? It's raining right now. That's not news for most of the country at this time of year, but for us here, it's close to unprecedented. Typically by now, most of the landscape would be a dull beige just about now from the lack of rain. 
 
Of course, they're predicting we'll seriously dry out with some 100s by the 4th of July, so goes our wacky weather. Of course, it makes for some spectacular conditions up in places like Yosemite, which <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_18348841" target="_blank">based on these pictures</a>, is somewhere I'd love to be right now
 
Glad to hear the good news for Papa Pfeiffer and congrats/good luck to your DD, Amy
 
Continued hugs to ((((KJ, Maureen, Prae, and any 30s folks who need 'em))))

aemerryman · Jun 28, 2011

Gah! It's getting ready to POUR here, too. Yes, we need the rain. BUT, now I don't know what to wear to this wine-tasting thing tonight, since I'll probably be wading there. <img alt="huh.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/huh.gif">

mmoonptdeux · Jun 28, 2011

Oh, just a weird factoid to throw at you - almost half of the days in July will be either Fridays, Saturdays or Sundays (15 total).
 
Throw in a Monday holiday (4th of July) and that means numerically there are more days to which to look forward than not (16 vs. 15; of course, whether that works out in practice is a whole 'nother matter...)

katholeenie · Jun 28, 2011

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Can't. I'll see her again this weekend at a cookout at our aunt's, and then again 2 weeks after that at brunch. And being ignored (in her mind, really I was just really busy and only emailed once instead of constantly giving her updates) is probably the biggest part of what is made her mad in the first place. <-this is in reference to the petty thing she was bitching at me about on and off over the weekend. 
 
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3. Sibling rivalry is tough. There are probably some undercurrents in our family but nothing big and dramatic. The problem with sibling rivalry is that it is never just about the 2 (or more) siblings involved, even if they both want to change things. The whole family system plays into it whether consciously or not, and without broad changes overall in terms of communication in particular, people tend to fall back into their old habits and ways of relating to each other.
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Yah. When I thought about when the comments were made, and other things that she has complained about lately, it is obvious there are some jealousy issues on her part. To which my response is WTF?!?
 
It's not a competition. I learned early on, because of living in her considerable shadow and having people compare us constantly, that I can't and don't want to be her, and decided to just do my own thing. I have been happy and pretty successful doing my own thing. Which isn't to say that I don't have my own share of CRAP to deal with, believe me, I have a lot. She just isn't looking at the whole picture.
 
Yes, I dropped off the planet for a while. With everyone, not just her. If I didn't know about something back in April when I made up my schedule through June, it didn't get done. (Seriously, I had stuff mapped out every day to get done in order to make my deadline, and often times that meant working on it from the time I got home till I went to bed.)
 
I readily admit to dropping some balls this spring. I thought for only minor things, but apparently not. I can only do so much in a day (anyone ever read the <a href="http://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory-written-by-christine-miserandino/" target="_blank">spoon theory?</a> it's the best description I've read of living with a chronic disease), and refuse to feel guilty about that.
 
 
It hurts me for things to be like this. Sure, we bickered growing up, but for the last 22+ years we've been really close. I don't like this, but don't know what to do about it.
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Runninlaw · Jun 29, 2011

Hey ya'll. Feel good story of the day: remember my friend that was in the bad car accident last August? Well he is still (slowly) improving and they just (finally) got a new car. 
 
This is all kinds of awesome.

Sorry - having problems with the video. But they made an awesome video showing their brand new wheelchair assessible honda element. Yay!

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