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19687. iiibbb - 6/26/2006 8:41:31 PM Got my first physical in a long time today. Still have to get my colesterol checked, but came out ok. Got my tetanus booster. Surprised to find out whooping cough is going around (vaccine is included in child's initial tetanus shot, but not adult boosters).
Something to keep your eyes/ears out. I actually know someone who apparently got whooping cough recently. 19688. arkymalarky - 6/27/2006 2:53:32 AM We had a rash of it through the schools in my part of the state a few years ago and had quite a few elementary school parents panicked, but apparently, from what the state health people told us then and what was in the news, it's actually not as rare as I'd always thought. 19689. arkymalarky - 6/27/2006 3:05:00 AM I hope your husband's surgery(-ies?) goes well, Mags. Garage sales are a big job eveb if you're not busy, from what I've heard and seen. I've never had one, but I've heard lots of people complain about having them, and I've known "garage-salers" who are addicted to going to them. Too early a hobby for me. We had one right before we moved to AR, and people love them in town here, but not much point having one where I live, and I'm certainly not carting a bunch of junk somewhere else to sell it.
Which reminds me, Bob and I have noted that you can determine the socio-economic status of some rural households out here as you drive by, before you ever see the house, because they label their big trash box "trash," usually with bright red spray paint. We decided it was because they didn't want the county sanitation people carting off other stuff in boxes lying around their yards by mistake. We figure the sanitation department knows where ours is without a label, and we try to keep it discretely at the edge of the trees across the road from our house. They haven't missed it and picked up the wrong thing yet. 19690. arkymalarky - 6/30/2006 2:40:20 AM Shitfire, I killed it.
Tomorrow's the last day of my seminar, and Sunday morning I'm heading for CO. I can't wait. 19691. judithathome - 7/1/2006 4:46:51 AM Hey, have a great time and if you need a rest going or coming, give us a call...the guest room is still pristine!
Went to a memorial service tonight for Keoni's co-worker's husband who evidently was a wonderful man but you'd never have known it from the captive-audience sermon that was delivered in place of his memorial...I told Keoni he'd better hope his friends and co-workers stayed healthy because this is the last one of this type I'm ever going to attend.
19692. arkymalarky - 7/1/2006 5:02:11 AM Thanks so much, Judith! I LOVE your guest room. We will certainly call you if we go that direction, but----Mazie will be with us! It's her first real road trip, and I'm anxious/nervous to see how it goes.
I was going to email you about this, Judith, but I'm going to call them out myself right here:
Frank and Seadate, if you're out there, this is the FIFTH annual, and we've got people coming who'd LOVE to see you! I'll email you both when I get back from CO, but if you can possibly do it, we'd love to see you again!
19693. arkymalarky - 7/1/2006 5:04:52 AM It's a shame someone's wonderful memories aren't the focus of a memorial service because of a tunnel-visioned preacher who can't appreciate the person everyone is there to remember.
Both my grandparents' (on my mother's side) funerals were preached by people who didn't know them, because they got ill and the preachers changed while they were sick, but both preachers bothered to talk with the family and find out what my grandparents were like and delivered wonderful memorial services for them, without pretending to know them--just reflecting on what we'd told them. 19694. arkymalarky - 7/1/2006 5:07:46 AM I can't believe I'm finally on the other side of that twelve day seminar. Now I have a semester's worth of work to do to complete the requirements, but it was quite an experience. Can't say I'd turn right around and do it again, but most of it was really great and I'm looking forward to applying it to my new teaching career experience, and possibly a permanent new direction. We'll see. 19695. Ulgine Barrows - 7/1/2006 5:08:17 AM I just endured some dogs barking, and then my husband oferred me some beans, and husband started whacking me on the backside when I coughed.
Yum, yum, yum
19696. Ulgine Barrows - 7/1/2006 5:13:05 AM 19676. arkymalarky - 6/24/2006 2:08:14 PM
When Bob and I first married he worked the night shift and we kept a large spiral notebook on the kitchen table and wrote each other every day/night. I still have it, but haven't looked at it since we moved into this house. I don't know what Mose will think, but I hope she will cherish it when she gets it. 19697. Ulgine Barrows - 7/1/2006 5:13:48 AM Great idea, thanks. 19698. Ulgine Barrows - 7/1/2006 5:16:27 AM I like the f00d i just 8, and I love you people more. 19699. Ulgine Barrows - 7/1/2006 6:09:08 AM this is the worst trip I've ever been on 19700. Ulgine Barrows - 7/1/2006 6:11:24 AM God only knows what I'd be without you 19701. Ulgine Barrows - 7/1/2006 6:13:11 AM I know so many people who think they can do it alone
They isolate their heads and stay in their saftey zones
Now what can you tell them
And what can you say that won't make them defensive
~Beach Bois ~hic 19702. Ulgine Barrows - 7/2/2006 2:16:53 AM Thank god that phase has passed! 19703. Ulgine Barrows - 7/2/2006 3:03:20 AM
O I forgot to comment on this rarified life post by 19625. webfeet - 6/13/2006 5:11:38 AM
Another scary saturday at a children's birthday.
I had lots of fun reading your post, imagining other paths and other lives. 19704. Magoseph - 7/2/2006 8:31:46 AM Bonnes vacances, Arky!
Hi, Pelle, tell us about your vacation. 19705. arkymalarky - 7/2/2006 1:59:37 PM Thanks Mags.
We're off like a herd of turtles. See y'all in a couple of weeks, more or less. 19706. judithathome - 7/2/2006 8:24:41 PM When you get back, Arks, I might have heard from Frankster and Seadate...shot them off emails this morning!
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