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Originally Posted By TXDISNEYNERD

Mater - I hope your DD is okay and gets to enjoy her weekend. I got my first flu shot ever this week so hopefully, I don't get it this year.

 

Originally Posted By travellerandquilter

Okay, Back again after my beauty sleep!!Ha Ha.
Santa just can fly around Australia with out snow. He's Santa so he just can. At the grottos on shopping centre for Santa photos there is usually snowy things and his big red suit. Maybe he has ventilation holes or it is air conditioned. That I am not sure of.
In my family,which may not be the same for everybody, we have santa sacks around the lounge room with the tree in it and the presents are unwrapped. The only wrapped ones are from other people. Also maybe just my family we as parents do not give the kides presents. That does not worry my kids as they are non-believers, but I have said that 'if you dno't believe you don't receive' so they all say they believe!
You guys have interesting things happening in your lives and not good. People bringing chairs out on to front lawn to watch paybacks, and SIL leaving nieces in road side toilets. Crazy.
Does this mean my new friends are whacko?
I certainly hope so as this fits in well with me!

 

Originally Posted By TXDISNEYNERD

I think I am wacko as I originally read your post TQ as you having the trees in the santa sacks instead of the sacks being in the room with the tree. I think I am glad it is the weekend.

I hope you guys have a good weekend. I will look forward to full updates on Monday. Did Villians get her money?...Did MM get her revenge?....Did anyone get there Christmas shopping done?... How am I going to sleep with all this? <g>

 

Originally Posted By MOLLYSMOM

TQ...yes...we are whack jobs...we thought that was obvious.

I'm gonna take a stab at the term "lounge room"...is it like our "family room?"

tink, you or mater can try "grotto".



"I'll take Austrailian terms for $200, Alex." (Let's see if our Aussie pal gets THAT one.) Actually, she probably will...she rarely seems to get tripped up by our verbage.

 

Originally Posted By travellerandquilter

Yes lounge room = family room or main living room with tv chairs and lots of junk ie kids stuff
grotto = place in shopping centre with a large chair for santa with christmassy stuff around where you are able to take your children to have a photo with santa that you pay for photo.
Got me on "I'll take Austrailian terms for $200, Alex." Never heard of it!!!
Maybe I get all the other fruff from watch tv!!!

 

Originally Posted By travellerandquilter

Stuff not fruff!!!! Not quite awake yet!

 

Originally Posted By MOLLYSMOM

TQ...I kinda thought a grotto was what you described, but I didn't want to guess wrong and look stupid.

We'll let you ponder the "Austrailian terms for $200" reference for a day or so.

I think MMW got scared off and bailed out on us.

villains...you get your money from HER today? Mudslides on you??? If not, tink said she'd buy.

 

Originally Posted By mater4

I have always been fascinated by the british calling the toilet a loo or bathroom watercloset. Do austrailians have a different name for it too? I bet TQ will have us talking in her language in no time.

 

Originally Posted By travellerandquilter

We usually call the toilet toilet or loo and if going to have a shower or bath it is bathroom. Often and now almost normally toilets are in their own seperate room called toilet!!
Good luck on getting money. fingers crossed.

 

Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains

well it's 5:15 and no money...

Zoo was great fun - had late lunch - early dinner at Black Angus (yummy steak with cheesy garlic bread and a salad - lots of ice tea as I had no coffee today)

Austrailain terms for $200 alex - would be from a game show called Jeapordy here in the states - it's been on for about 20 years - you play buy picking a catagory and a price - then you are given the answer and you have to give the question - so
the answer is lounge room
the correct response from the contestent would be What is the austrailian equivilant of a family room?

The game is usually played by regular folks but at different times each year they will have all college students and all high schoolers - you have to pass a test and then try out to play...One of my son's classmates won at teen jeapordy this past spring and went to the finals - but I forgot to watch to see if she won all the money - the teens play for a minimun amount - this girl is off at Stanford this year!!

I will email HER in the morning if I don't have the money by then....

We are slammed this weekend - DD has her final soccer game and DS11 has his last regular season game both on Saturday - then we are off to near Petaluma for the night as my sister is having her halloween party (BIL is a tugboat captain and has to work 7 days on and 7 off and this is off weekend) we will stay the night - then Sunday up early (thank goodness it's time to turn the clocks back on sunday) and back to home (about 90 min drive each way) to finish the soccer tourny from a few weeks ago that got rained out!! I doubt I will be back on line before sunday - so have a great weekend!!

 

Originally Posted By rtjl72

it's my weekend to w**k. ugh. oh well, i have a nice little assignment of some cutie pie babies- a set of twins a set of tripelts- all about 4 months old but home from the hospital for less than a month. a newborn and a little one with failure to thrive. those cases make me sad. all the babies need blood work drawn. yes, i go an terrorize small children in their own homes. boo on me! but a good weekend assignment. dh is going to the iowa state football game. a hopeless and ptitful adventure. we have had season tickets for over 26 years and i really do think this will be our last year. they are sooooo badddddd!!!!!! sunday he will golf and i will w**k and then after next week i will have a whole week off! yippee! i have to get ready for thanksgiving. we have the starr family over. probably about 25 people. talking about wacko! if i'm not now i soon will be!
money-money-money money- money. will villians ever see any? i'm hoping so but it might be as hopeless as those cyclones winning a football game. good luck with the soccer games. good luck with everybody's shopping,too. we had my 2 year old granddaughter and 3 month old grandson this evening. it was my ds and dil 5th wedding anniversary. so much fun to have them over and then be able to send them home! but you know i am crazy to havethem any time at all. the more the better ! so i better go tuck in early so i can be ahead of the game for tomorrow. a lot of driving tomorrow. ugh! probably about 125 miles. ugh again. good night fellow mouseketeers!

 

Originally Posted By MerryMouseWife

I have not left y'all at all. We had Halloween with very few trick-or-treaters. DH and I had candy duty as the oldest DD had to work, next oldest went to a friend's house and helped with makeup for friend's younger sisters and then they had a little bit of a teen party, and youngest DD went to a block party. Now we live in AZ and it was 90-something for Halloween day and there is just something wrong with that. Anyway, DH and I were supposed to go out because it is my birthday, but as usual, candy duty it was. I think this is the last year for candy. Next year I am leaving it in a bowl with a note to just take one piece and go to a movie. After all, it is my BIRTHDAY, don't cha know?

Then I got sick and had to take a day off of work. They all teased me that it was too much BDay cake. Not even close.

Then there was the usual Friday running around and I just did not have a chance to catch up here.

Villians, I am assuming that there was no money forthcoming from HER? Shame on her.

MM, I can't wait to hear about the drama unfolding with HIM.

I never have this kind of drama. I lead such a really boring life. lol

So, now I have to w**k today and tomorrow and all the rest of the week.

 

Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains

Okay so HER never dropped off the money owed on Friday - I know big suprise. I emailed her this morning telling her that yesterday was the day she gave me as the day I would receive the rest of the money - now the total owed was $1111. - $550 from last year and the rest from the fiasco of DD's bday trip. She only gave me a money order for $300 (the max it could be made out for). SO HER response was she already gave me $350 out of $550 and I can't just demand more money and she would have the other $250 on monday. I guess she didn't think I would be smart enough to keep all the original emails - But suprise I did so I resent it - so we will see what happens next...

I wish MM would post from home so we knew what was up for tomorrow.

I am home tonight because my kids were brats and decided they didn't want to stay the night at my sisters and go to her Halloween Party (90 min each way)- So we are home and my house is being cleaned (especially their rooms) instead of going to the party!! Next time they will go with the original plan...

 

Originally Posted By Tinkerbell819

Villains, I can't believe your kids would rather clean their rooms than go to a Halloween party! Maybe they're worn out from all of the fun and games they've had in the last couple of days. So, now the moeny is coming on Monday and she's managed to whittle the amount down...what happened with the ring?

I wish MM had filled us in on the BEFORE details, don't you? I think she's going to have to spend the day on LP just catching us up on everything. She's going to have to miss w**k.

TQ, I know what you mean about trying to fill the Santa sack, even though we don't have a Santa sack, it's hard to make a big pile when the gifts are little and expensive. I still like to have that big pile under the tree like when the guys were little. I didn't know what a grotto was, all I could think of was Ariel's Grotto. lol

I'm glad to see MMW is back! I'll bet if you get to go out to dinner on your Halloween/b-day next year, you could go anywhere you want and not have it be crowded!

rt, good luck on your long car trip!

We didn't do much today, DS and I got haircuts and stopped and tried those pumpkin muffins from Dunkin Donuts. I didn't think they were as good as my pumpkin bread. The white hot chocolate was awesome, though. DH was fixing the leaky roof. The highlight of my night was going to be watching 48 Hours in my jammies. 10PM came and went with one of those CSI shows on. (I guess there was a football game on, so I thought it would come on at 10:30.) 10:30 came and guess what came on? You've guessed right if you guessed another CSI episode. I guess I'll clip my coupons instead. Another exciting Saturday night at my house! lol

 

Originally Posted By rtjl72

are we old or what? here we are at home on saturday night! well, at least one of us is getting our house cleaned! way to go villians. i can see you now, getting out that white glove for the dust test! i'm thinking i should get a piece of that pumpkin bread tink. would those be flannel jammies or is it too early for those? i haven't even broke mine out yet and we have a fairly heavy frost every morning already. maybe next week -end the flannels will be moved to the front of the drawers.
hey tx- are you watching the dallas cowboy cheerleaders show on tv? the finale was tonight. a pretty happy ending for almost all of the girls.
villians- what do you suppose "her" is doing this weekend that will allow her to have all that money on a monday?-insert imagination running wild here. she's a real slime ball!
tq- the grotto, huh? my girlfriend here and i thought we would call going into des moines "going into the city" like the big time. just for laughs! it is kind of funny. we also started doing that crazy kissing on both cheeks when we meet up with each other like our european counterparts. it's kind of funny to see people look at you all wierd. wait.... wierd? uh, maybe that's me-but i do usually have alot of fun! so-- kiss on cheek-kiss on cheek to all my friends- see ya tomorrow.

 

Originally Posted By mater4

I decided I would check in before bed . Villians no money from HER, I never saw that coming.LOL! Maybe monday SHE will surprise us maybe not.
Happy late birthday MMW. Glad you did not ditch us.
Tink I wish I had a Dunkin Donuts here. It is DH's favorite. We have Krispy Kreme instead. You all are so lucky to be home this evening. I spent my night at a hair party. It was fun but I am tired and wish I could have stayed in jammies. Now I have to be at DD competition at 8:30am. Thank goodness for daylight savings because it is really only 9:00pm. Good Night.

 

Originally Posted By Tinkerbell819

Good morning, girls! I hope you enjoyed your extra hour of sleep? (I hope, maybe you all just got up earlier!)
I am devastated, my little fridge i bought the other day was smashed up when DH opened it. We returned it and they didn't have any left to get a new one. Darn! We were really looking forward to having some cold beverages again. I'm not sure if you all know the back story about my DS with the really bad OCD that dumps all of the juice, soda, iced tea down the drain or all over the floor, if he sees it in the fridge.
We've been buying ice at the $ store and putting it in a cooler that we hide in the basement way in the back where it's dark and scary and he won't see it. We have to lock the door and hide down there to drink it. We were hoing the phase would pass and it hasn't, so we decided to buy the mini fridge, picked out a spot to hide it and I had to make sure it was big enough to hold milk, b/c just 2 weeks ago he started pouring that out, too. (Only if it's in a carton, tho, the plastic jug is still okay for now. But, who knows how long that will last!)
It's taken weeks to find one that fits the criteria and now I'm back to square one. I did get a rain check, so I'll go back a few times this week to see if they got any in.
This am. he got a hold of a bag of potato chips and dumped them all over the living room floor. (I was washing my hair.) I wanted to do something fun before I started cleaning it up, so I wasn't cranky all day from the start. I came on LP to get a few laughs and I really shouldn't have b/c he has been walking all around, kicking the chips and the oil from the chips got on his socks. Now, he has spread the oil onto every room on the first floor. So, I've got way more cleaning to do b/c I procrastinated, again!
I'm glad I have that extra hour to vaccum, (sp?) mop and sweep! (and tonite I have to w*rk!)
I hope you all have a better day than me!

 

Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains

Tink - I admire you so much for all you have to do for and because of your boys... I can't even imagine how frustrating things must get around your house the boys... You have made me see how blessed I am to have healthy children (yes they have smart mouths and sometimes I want to strangle them). You are such a strong person and an amazing mother - Your boys were blessed with an amazing mother!!

 

Originally Posted By MerryMouseWife

Tink, I hope it won't be too bad to clean up. (BTW, you were close - vacuum. Looks weird, huh?)

The other night, youngest DD had a couple of friends over for the night. I walked past her room to open the door for Needy Cat to our bedroom when I was treated to the unique odor of cat poop. Ugh! So I looked into her room and it was coming from her room. Now I don't make the kids keep their rooms clean all week, but they do need to pick up once a week and look at the color of the carpet as the vacuum. Then it reverts to chaos again. So my thought was that one of the cats used her messy floor for a litter box. I called her in and told her she needed to get in there and figure out what and where and clean it up. So she went in and was ready to kill the Boy Cat (un-boy really) and discovered the odor was coming from the shoes of one of the friends. Ewwww! I told her that they needed to air out on the back patio. After that, no more odor. I think the shoes need washing (Vans).

 

Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains

I wonder if HIM is at MM house yet... If he sees the lawn chairs he may run the other way.... I hope MM's boss realizes she will be busy with us all morning and won't be getting any work done...Good thing it's the beginning of the month!!