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12190. judithathome - 11/20/2004 11:19:03 PM Christi, hello! Sorry to hear about your job. There seems to be a lot of this going around in North Texas.
How is Lil Darlin'? 12191. christipeters - 11/20/2004 11:25:48 PM Not so little anymore! She's 16, a Junior in high school with her eyes firmly fixed on the College prize. I'm sure I bragged enough in the past that y'all remember she's always been in the GT program and always been on the high honor roll. This year she's taking four AP classes (US. History, Latin 4, Studio Art, and English) her other 4 classes are Pre-AP GT Pre-calculus, Pre-AP GT Physics, and a two class block of Heath Science that includes clinicals at the local hospital. Her current rotation is in the cath lab. She's in SIX service clubs, too.
(Makes me tired just to type it) 12192. christipeters - 11/20/2004 11:31:32 PM Oh, and I got her a car, too. A 95 Geo Prism with 150,000 miles on it, but it runs and she loves it. 12193. christipeters - 11/20/2004 11:31:50 PM TTFN 12194. judithathome - 11/20/2004 11:32:56 PM Sounds cool! What college will she wind up going to? 12195. christipeters - 11/20/2004 11:57:46 PM Who knows? 12196. arkymalarky - 11/21/2004 2:11:28 AM Hey Christi!
Great going, Lil D! 12197. christipeters - 11/21/2004 5:13:31 AM Hey Arky! 12198. OhioSTOPAS - 11/21/2004 2:14:14 PM Good to hear from you, Christi! Don't let the layoff get you down. Good people get laid off for reasons beyond their control and unrelated to their job performance, and everyone knows that.
And your daughter sounds terrific, as always! (I also happen to be the proud parent of a remarkable, accomplished 16-year-old girl!) 12199. Magoseph - 11/21/2004 2:55:00 PM Great, Ohio, but can we know more about her? I did not have terrific teenagers, but somehow they turned into responsible adults, rather successful in their careers and quite able to deal with occasional vicissitudes. 12200. christipeters - 11/21/2004 3:20:11 PM Ohio - Thanks. I was stunned at first, but now I'm kinda relieved and enjoying having options. I got a great severence package and I know it wasn't anything about me. The company gutted the whole division. So obviously it's just a change in business strategy.
I echo Magoseph - do tell us about your girl. After all talking about our wonderful kids is a parent's favorite pastime. 12201. thoughtful - 11/21/2004 4:52:57 PM Christip! Welcome back! So sorry to hear about the layoff though. That sucks.
I can't believe lil'd is 16 already! Yikes!
Good to have you back and hope you keep frequenting the joint.
Thanks all for the kind words about my room redo. The critters on the bed are also souvenirs from trips...the bunny is Balboa Bunny, remembrance of our trip to san diego and the otter is named potter, a remembrance of our trip to FL nature reserve where we lucked out and canoed by a couple of river otters...most exciting! 12202. thoughtful - 11/21/2004 5:02:40 PM Re dust, well, I guess I just live with a lot of it. Especially in the winter when we have the wood stove going, we get ash dust everywhere. Very messy.
The froufrou stuff though is all quite washable. The way I do the flower arrangements is simply to fill the sink with cold water with a little bit of soap in it and turn the arrangement upside down and swosh. Then i rinse off the soap with the sink sprayer and place them outside to dry. Since I've made the arrangements myself, I anchor them so they can be turned. Rarely have i had problems with any of the blossoms...occasionally the glue on the back of a leaf will let go and I just reglue it. 12203. arkymalarky - 11/21/2004 6:04:06 PM Luckily for us our teen (about to be a non-teen Thursday when she turns 20) was a much better teen than either of us. Bob and I were awful. Mose has come with a few bumps, but very few and very minor.
Great to see the Cafe hopping. I hope it continues--it fits a holiday mood. After I finish this paper I hope to have more leisure time for Moting than I have in a long, long while--3 or 4 years. I'm certain to after the regular state legislative session ends, hopefully by the end of February. 12204. PelleNilsson - 11/21/2004 9:09:49 PM You mean you have artificial flowers, thoughtful? 12205. Dubai Vol - 11/21/2004 9:38:14 PM I'm sure a few of you have seen me around here and there, but I've been lurking more than posting for a while. I just stopped in here to say how impressed I am with the community you all have built here on the Mote. A bunch of nice folks, and a good place to visit. Happy holidays to you all, and expect to see a kinder, gentler side of me around these parts. Guess I'm getting too old to be an angry young man ALL the time.... 12206. arkymalarky - 11/21/2004 9:43:37 PM Hey Dubai! Please come by more often!
You need to talk to my husband Bob. He's becoming an angry old (53) man. 12207. PelleNilsson - 11/21/2004 10:25:09 PM Hello Dubai! Nice to see you again. 12208. thoughtful - 11/22/2004 3:47:47 AM pelle, artificial flowers? No, of course not. I'd never stoop to something so crass. I have 'everlasting' flowers! I even admit to using 'everlasting' plants in some areas of the house too where watering would be most inconvenient...on top of book cases and such... and/or where there's not enough light to keep real plants alive. Though I do have real plants and flowers as well. (In fact Phil the phaelanopsis is getting ready to bloom again!)
I have a hanging 'everlasting' plant in my office that must look pretty realistic as the plant man came by and was ready to water it before he realized it was fake. 12209. Ms. No - 11/22/2004 6:51:15 AM Arky,
That would've been my Mamaw's birthday as well -- it seems to fall on Thanksgiving more years than not. Does Mose get a cake and a celebration even when it's on T-Day? Give her my felicitations!
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