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mushroom Proficient
mushroom
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Don't you have some homework or sumfing?

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kareng Grand Master
kareng
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Don't you have some homework or sumfing?

No finals?

Put a chicken in your pocket.

I made the mistake of giving J one of my chocolate Ktoos ( gluten-free Oreos). " so much better then Oreos! ". Now I must hide them. :(

Jestgar Rising Star
Jestgar
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No finals. I have to write a six page paper on the hidden Markov chain method. But I'm way too tired to start that. ;)

kareng Grand Master
kareng
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No finals. I have to write a six page paper on the hidden Markov chain method. But I'm way too tired to start that. ;)

Well, then....Paint your finger nails bright red & play with the chickie babies?

( our chicks hated red! Would chase & peck red nails)

Jestgar Rising Star
Jestgar
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Funny! I have a couple who peck at my fingernails when I pet them.

To give the bigger chicks a little more room I put a big box in front of their cage with the side down so they can go in and out. They spent the first hour "daring each other to go in. One would stand on the edge of the cage and another one would dive bomb her from the top of the shoe box, shoving her outside. Then they'd all scream bloody murder and go running into the back of the cage. The it would start all over with a different brave soul standing at the edge.

elye Community Regular
elye
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They spent the first hour "daring each other to go in. One would stand on the edge of the cage and another one would dive bomb her from the top of the shoe box, shoving her outside. Then they'd all scream bloody murder and go running into the back of the cage. The it would start all over with a different brave soul standing at the edge.

Dear gawd.. . .this sounds exactly like the advanced senior residents that congregate around the pool at my mom's retirement home.... . .

Loey Rising Star
Loey
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You little devil!

Its just been pouring rain all day! :(

J is finished with high school, we hope! Don't really know until you open the envelope they give him Sunday at Graduation. ;)

Of course J will graduate and CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!

Clark & I had a horrible time adjusting to Tony's leaving (especially since he rarely got in touch at first). Things improved over the year and today he's bringing his stuff (and his crush whom we love) home to drop off his stuff then go back up to Brown to get Bethany's things (crush) to store here over the summer - she's from Chicago. Then they're helping friends move their things to storage, What he doesn't understand is a tank of gas is $75 here and we're not paying it for him. I can't believe he's completed his first year. We're going to have a quick lunch at a restaurant that's hiring so hopefully they'll see something in him. He doesn't have paid job experience.

Lub,

Loey wub.gifwub.gifwub.gif

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Jestgar Rising Star
Jestgar
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Dear gawd.. . .this sounds exactly like the advanced senior residents that congregate around the pool at my mom's retirement home.... . .

I'm thinking they probably sound similar too. :lol::lol:

Havin' no chillins' o' my own, I don't understand this agony at getting your life back, but then maybe that's the reason why I opted out of wee babe in the first place.

mushroom Proficient
mushroom
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Dear gawd.. . .this sounds exactly like the advanced senior residents that congregate around the pool at my mom's retirement home.... . .

Just how old do you have to be, to be an "advanced" senior resident?? Just want to know for when I get there :blink::ph34r: So I can understand my behavior with whatever amount of reasoning I have left :lol: Or maybe it depends on how many posts you have made (in which case Patteigh is over the top!)

Havin' no chillins' o' my own, I don't understand this agony at getting your life back, but then maybe that's the reason why I opted out of wee babe in the first place.

You and me both. The getting life back part I understand; it's the agony I don't. Maybe it's the relief from agony??? :P But then they still seem to agonize, even when they's gone :o

Jestgar Rising Star
Jestgar
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You and me both. The getting life back part I understand; it's the agony I don't. Maybe it's the relief from agony??? :P But then they still seem to agonize, even when they's gone :o

P'raps parenthood draws those who enjoy the underlying feeling of unease and worry. :P

elye Community Regular
elye
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Just how old do you have to be, to be an "advanced" senior resident??

Many of them are well into their nineties... . . . ....so I'll say 90... ....my mom, at 83, is often the youngster in the crowd.

Harriet, a resident that my mom considers a real friend, turned 105 last week. They threw a big party for her in the lounge. She told me that one of the main reasons she has lived so long and remained SO physically and mentally fit is - - no surprise - - her insistence on having humoUr in her life, every day. She has the Comedy Channel on her TV throughout the day, reads funny books and has always searched out witty, amusing characters to interact with. It is her mission; to laugh loud and long every single day. Isn't that something? :)

Jestgar Rising Star
Jestgar
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She told me that one of the main reasons she has lived so long and remained SO physically and mentally fit is - - no surprise - - her insistence on having humoUr in her life, every day.

We should all be on track for our second century. :)

Jestgar Rising Star
Jestgar
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Well, tried to stuff a baby chick in my pocket this morning and she was having none of it. :( They grow up so quickly. :P

elye Community Regular
elye
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Well, tried to stuff a baby chick in my pocket this morning and she was having none of it. :( They grow up so quickly.

See? See?? C'mon, now, enough of this "I cannot understand a parent's agony when seeing their kids grow up and become independent, letting them go... . . . man, I'd be getting my life back!"' :P

Jestgar Rising Star
Jestgar
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See? See?? C'mon, now, enough of this "I cannot understand a parent's agony when seeing their kids grow up and become independent, letting them go... . . . man, I'd be getting my life back!"' :P

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

kareng Grand Master
kareng
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Here is a senior prank we here at C.com will appreciate.

J's class painted a toliet shiny gold. They installed it with a cement base in the courtyard by the senior lockers. The class speech yesterday had the words "poop" & "poopy" in it at least 6 times.

I saw a picture and it was truly a splendid throne. I am thinking gold toliets may become the style for Psillies everywhere.

elye Community Regular
elye
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Here is a senior prank we here at C.com will appreciate.

J's class painted a toliet shiny gold. They installed it with a cement base in the courtyard by the senior lockers. The class speech yesterday had the words "poop" & "poopy" in it at least 6 times.

:lol::lol: Gah! This is brilliant.. . . ..

kareng Grand Master
kareng
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Here is a senior prank we here at C.com will appreciate.

J's class painted a toliet shiny gold. They installed it with a cement base in the courtyard by the senior lockers. The class speech yesterday had the words "poop" & "poopy" in it at least 6 times.

I saw a picture and it was truly a splendid throne. I am thinking gold toliets may become the style for Psillies everywhere.

I hae posted a pic from an anonymous source. Its on the Book.

mushroom Proficient
mushroom
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All systems go at our house today :) Scaffolders here and have already got up to the point of peering in my bedroom :o and bathroom :blink: - gonna have to change some habits for the next week or so (no window coverings in bathroom), although they can't see the throne.:ph34r: Lead scaffolder is a BIG Maori fellow with braided dreadlocks tied in a high ponytail. He still has his jacket on so I can't check for tats, and I don't care about his thumbs - definitely not my type.

And tonight Rolf (he of the heavy Teutonic accent) arrives. Hub will have to wear his hearing aids or he will never understand him. Sounds like a very nice fellow, and he will be bedding down with us for the week while he saws apart and rebuilds our Tulikivi fireplace :D. I have stocked up on wurst and sauerkraut and am making German potato salad :lol: - have to keep him happy :)

All this courtesy of the Earthquake Commision for which we pay an additional $70 per year on our house insurance. They pay up to the first $100,000 damage (which we certainly don't have but many do). and up to $20,000 on contents. Bet they go bust on this quake which is estimated to cost $30 billion, but that includes all the infrastructure and the program doesn't cover commercial insurance.. Even Warren Buffet has been called in on his reinsurance :o

elye Community Regular
elye
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Wow, Shroooom has big Maori and German blokes hangin' around her place.. . .. ..... . . .think this would be quite a good thing.. .. . . B)

Sounds like all systems are go in the rebuilding! :)

Thirty billion. . . . . . ..good gawd.. . . . ...:blink:

nikki-uk Enthusiast
nikki-uk
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Scaffolders here and have already got up to the point of peering in my bedroom :o

I read this as:

Scaffolders here and have already got up to the point of peeing in my bedroom.

How rude!! laugh.gif

Glad things are getting fixed at last Shroom! .... although I have to say I HATE it when I have to have builders in the house.

I can never relax, dunno whether to let them get on... engage in conversation...or just to check their thumbs out regardless of type blink.gif

nikki-uk Enthusiast
nikki-uk
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Ahhh, had a funny link to a book on Amazon - but it canna be be posted here :-(

I'll email wink.gif

Jestgar Rising Star
Jestgar
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Ahhh, had a funny link to a book on Amazon - but it canna be be posted here :-(
Funny!

I slept through my alarm. I dreamed I was trying to find something and everyone I talked to was busy listening to a report on Libya. :blink: (My alarm is set to NPR)

mushroom Proficient
mushroom
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My alarm this morning was set to 4.1 on the dial :lol:

elye Community Regular
elye
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My alarm this morning was set to 4.1 on the dial

HEY! That's what my blood sugar was this morning!! :huh:

. . . . ........what does this mean?. . . . . ..... . ..

:rolleyes:

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