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24793. judithathome - 12/16/2008 6:18:30 PM I've been on the phone all morning getting an MRI scheduled for the week after Christmas for my son...these people don't understand that when someone has been off work as much as he has...all but the first two days of the month thus far...that they need to schedule tests over the time period when they are off.
Leslie went back to work today and will work until Tuesday next week, after which he will have 2 weeks off for the holidays with pay. Finally, I got the MRI scheduled for the 29th. If he'd not been allowed back at work before that 2 week period, he'd have lost five grand in pay for those two weeks. It's company policy that you lose the holiday pay if you don't show up in the weeks preceding the holidays.
Big incentive to show up for work!
He said just now that he doesn't feel that great but it's warmer at work than in his house and he was going stir crazy being at home all that time. It's 27 degrees outside. 24794. judithathome - 12/17/2008 1:48:25 AM Wow...not much going on around the Mote today...
Arky, I finally got to see your Bro on the HGTV special. I'd have recognized him even without the banjo! ;-) 24795. arkymalarky - 12/17/2008 2:34:11 AM Ha! I can imagine you haven't had much tv time the last few days. He's playing in LR this weekend. 24796. judithathome - 12/17/2008 5:07:37 PM He looks like your dad.
I'd love for him to come to your party next year...the music would be devine, especially if you'd sing and Bob would play guitar with your Bro on banjo...and Rachel on piano. The Arky Quartet!
And if MsNo would show up! ;-) 24797. judithathome - 12/17/2008 5:16:56 PM I'm beginning to get a complex...my name is "last poster" on about 6 threads...c'mon, wake up, you sleepy heads! 24798. anomie - 12/17/2008 5:30:33 PM Hey, if you keep it to 3 or 4 chords, I could play a mean guitar! 24799. Ms. No - 12/17/2008 8:53:55 PM Oh, that would be a fabulous time!! I'm not sure what my finances are going to be like come Summer, but if I can swing it I'd love to come out. Getting to sing with The Malarkeys would be the bee's knees!
My folks took a driving tour through the Ozarks this past Fall to see the colors and loved it. I could maybe get them to make the trip or at least stop through on their way to Tyler to see my aunt and uncle. 24800. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 12/17/2008 9:51:51 PM I'm beginning to get a complex...my name is "last poster" on about 6 threads...c'mon, wake up, you sleepy heads!
What am I? Chopped liver? 24801. magoseph - 12/17/2008 11:02:44 PM Each time I post, hours, even a day or two at times go by before someone finds his way here. It has come to the point that I often think that Wabbit should find another host who could do better. 24802. magoseph - 12/17/2008 11:07:38 PM Wombat posted this in American Politics:
While not in general supporting anything that the Chinese government does, their policy of shooting "economic criminals" has a certain visceral appeal.
I often feel that way when I read or watch the news about young girls and women murdered by pedophiles.
24803. arkymalarky - 12/18/2008 2:47:14 AM You're doing a great job, Mags. Most people in the Mote have full and busy lives and just don't have a lot of time. I know I wish I had more time to spend here. 24804. arkymalarky - 12/18/2008 2:49:10 AM I'm ready for a summer music fest, Judith and No!
Btw, No, are you out for Chrisatmas? Friday's our last day. 24805. arkymalarky - 12/18/2008 6:33:53 PM Home today with day two of a bad migraine, but can't stand another minute in bed. It's supposed to be over 70 degrees tomorrow and it looks like London in the yard. I have a huge pile of papers to grade and probably won't get to them until at least tomorrow. Oh well. 24806. Wombat - 12/18/2008 6:36:28 PM Looks like London? Lotsa flowers? A Tower Bridge worth of trash? the Thames flowing by? A fish-and-chip shop next door? Elucidate, please. 24807. arkymalarky - 12/18/2008 6:53:47 PM Haha! Foggy. 24808. wabbit - 12/18/2008 7:57:04 PM I agree with arky, mags, you are the hostess with the mostess. It's always slow around the holidays and I think very few people who post here have nothing else to do, so don't worry that you don't get an immediate response. We're catch as catch can. It isn't you. 24809. Wombat - 12/18/2008 8:12:54 PM Arky:
Aha! Fairly obvious. With pollution controls and the end of coal-fired furnaces, the fog of London is a thing of the past. 24810. arkymalarky - 12/18/2008 11:11:39 PM Ok, it's like 19th century London! Tho the one week I was there in the month of June it was foggy, drizzly, cloudy and cold. Which describes here to a T. But tomorrow is a major warmup, which I think is the culprit keeping me home and miserable today. 24811. Ms. No - 12/19/2008 6:38:49 AM Arx,
Today was my last day since I only teach 1-3-5 and tomorrow is a 2-4-6 day. That bell couldn't get to 3:30 fast enough for me although my kids did some really nice work this week.
I had them do sketches of Fairy Tales but inspired by Greek theater elements. They made paper plate masks and had a chorus for each group in additio to the 3 main actors. Some of them were less than inspiring but a couple of the groups were really great!
My folks are coming this way for Christmas this year so we'll be in the Bay Area at my red-headed stepdad's parents' house. My bro will have all three of his chirrun for the holiday and I'm wavering between extreme excitement and extreme panic since I'm nowhere near ready for the holiday. I'll have to get everything done in the next three days! 24812. judithathome - 12/19/2008 5:28:53 PM I'm done for the holidays...both figuratively and literally. Keoni's cold is staying with me longer than it did him!
I do have one gift left to buy and hope it's still at the little shop where I saw it: a silver 2008 Christmas tree ornament that I will have the great granddaughter's name engraved on; and thus a Christmas tradition starts!
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