Tag: life
group name: maturestudents
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August 10, 2007 10:57 AM EDT --
today.
The lawyer called. All three of hubby's sisters have accepted our offer.
We need to arrange a mortgage to cover what we're giving them..... hopefully that won't take . . .
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June 29, 2007 11:41 AM EDT --
So many things I should be doing but am running into one snag after another... soon going to just say to heck with it and chuck it all and do what I really want to do which is to get to work on my YA novel.... . . .
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March 02, 2007 08:58 PM EST --
The girls are here - well, 2 of the 3.... they have packed up ma's clothing - decided what has value and what is garbage.
And now they are divvying up the elephants - the herd that once my mother . . .
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October 03, 2007 02:54 PM EDT --
20th century poetry starts in 10 minutes.
I am not there.
I may go for the second half... but right now, I have decided, I need to take a break.
And besides that, I am not willing to risk fainting in . . .
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February 23, 2008 01:49 PM EST --
This is my (hopefully) last draft of my paper re: Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet - which I still highly recommend, by the way. If you haven't bought it yet, you really should! . . .
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August 21, 2007 05:25 PM EDT --
So.... the wallet was in the snack cupboard (inside the grocery bag the potato chips were in).
Credit card wasn't in the wallet - but once I realized that was able to go find it (pants pocket) right . . .
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February 17, 2007 08:05 AM EST --
"Well, that was a lot of work for nothing!" hubby said this morning.
He didn't mean it, of course. It wasn't nothing. We've been taking care of her - his mom - for a . . .
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July 27, 2007 06:28 PM EDT --
Ok...so maybe that's not an entirely accurate statement.
This week, families are most assuredly not fun.
First - a little bit of history, just in case anyone is interested. For the past 5+ years, . . .
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July 07, 2007 07:34 PM EDT --
Aha! That is how one does that larger image thing! Me like.
This was taken Thursday morning. Hubby & Tamara worked for a couple of hours to put in more dockage and get the boat in the water . . .
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February 23, 2007 07:49 PM EST --
That's what she said to me the other day - my sister-in-law - the one who lives a 10 minute walk away from us, and who ~helped~ us take care of her mom. When, that is, she couldn't avoid it. And . . .
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February 25, 2007 02:40 PM EST --
I am supposed to be writing a paper today.
The Use of Sexuality to Evoke Terror in the Gothic Novel
That's what I have so far! Well, not really. I have gone through both of the novels I am to use . . .
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March 08, 2007 11:51 PM EST --
As I hadn't heard anything in response to the letter I sent about the lack of support we received the evening my mother in law died, I followed it up with an email .... this is the response I . . .
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April 27, 2007 12:00 PM EDT --
...life was going to be fair? I used to say that a lot. Back when I worked with disabled kids - and then with children with behaviour problems. And then, of course, when I had my own kids. I worked . . .
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June 25, 2007 03:24 PM EDT --
After a stressful few days, the news coming from the Falls is much improving...
Not only are things ~moving~ again .... Dad's legs are back to fully functional, he's up and walking for short periods, . . .
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August 02, 2007 02:11 PM EDT --
I have enjoyed reading the articles people have posted on Gather about their childhood memories.....even though they do tend to make me jealous. I have so few memories of being a child. And . . .
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September 02, 2007 01:04 PM EDT --
They descend without warning
Vultures don't use phones, I guess
Or the Internet either.
They scoop without discrimination
Vultures don't care, I guess
About things or anything else . . .
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August 11, 2007 11:49 AM EDT --
...okay, well maybe not really... but it rather feels like one.
I am not known for being organized. An understatement, and then some (shut up Tamara)
I can never find what I want when I want it.
Hubby, . . .
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August 25, 2007 02:21 PM EDT --
Tamara has a place to live - not only that, but it is available now... can start moving things in as soon as she figures out how she's going to do that.
***update*** - she just got a message from . . .
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February 23, 2007 08:26 PM EST --
Happened to catch a segment of an All Stressed Out contest on ~my~ talk radio station today .... one of the themes of the entries from this week was caregiving.... seems many of the people who entered . . .
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June 23, 2007 08:36 PM EDT --
Went to Niagara Falls yesterday to hang out at their (very old, poorly laid out & decripit-looking) hospital with my dad & his wife. Stayed over at a hotel and went back this morning.......
Tongue . . .
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