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Who would have thought that a few gentle toe touches and using my under-the-desk exercycle would cause unwanted side effects. I've been good, really I have, but it's been 4 weeks already and I'm going nutso just sitting on my azz 😖.
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Msmadge is your county behind in the Times? My county has everything digitized. 12 years ago When I got married, they had to pull a paper record of my birth certificate when I went to get a new copy for the marriage license. There were rows and rows of metal cabinets with huge books full of birth certificates. Well I’ve lost it again and had to get another copy earlier this year when I got my “real ID”. I was quite surprised to see the clerk at the county office put special paper in the printer and print a new birth certificate off her computer! I guess your county doesn’t do that? They still use paper records? So ridiculous that you have to go to another office further away!
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Seems we're too populous perhaps - for anyone born before 1964 there's a month wait to get a birth certificate - that's why I was at least trying to walk the application in rather than mail it during the holidays
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ive had the inside of my house moving in a forward direction for three years but today ive got to do some serious tidying up . i hate house cleaning and living alone i generally dont have to worry about it - but - there isnt going to be any warning when cps knocks on my door with nick in tow . if i didnt believe that i wouldnt bother cleaning and kidproofing but ive had several subtle hints .

id be a fool to ignore them .

i think theres a strong connection between a 3 . 5 yr investigation and government studies that recommend against separating an infant and his primary carer ( mother ) until about the age of 3.5 . i jump to a lot of conclusions but they are based on 3 years of extensive reading , not wistful idealism .
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Cap,

I am so happy to hear you say this. You know your own heart but it’s not worth taking a chance with others. Stay on the safe side. Best wishes to you. You know that I am pulling for you.
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* sigh *
the stress of ' nothings going on ' has been replaced with the stress of ' sht's gonna get real , with no forewarning ' .

i have a ( goodwill ) black pair of jeans that ive never worn . i'll need something to wear to court trials that isnt stained with auto grease and such . its difficult trying to prepare for the unknown .

still beats the hell out of being blindsided i s'pose .
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were getting a pretty little snow blast here tonight . better days ahead -- i really believe that .
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I wish it would snow here but it just keeps on raining and raining and raining..........ad nauseam.☹
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Us, too. (Mid south USA)... Absolutely poured here most of the day today.
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I am pretty irritated at the moment with my mom's side of the family. My cousin and his fiancee came for Thanksgiving. My aunt, parents, cousin and fiancee and I had a nice time with Thanksgiving. Now Christmas is fast approaching and the original plan was to celebrate Christmas Eve with my aunt, grandma and another cousin, his wife and toddler. That plan went out the window. Cousin's wife up and decided that she, my cousin and their kid were going to visit her relatives in another part of the state. I get that they are coming from New York city and don't have a lot of time to spend with everyone but to spend time with only her part of the family but expect to sleep at my grandmother's house (aunt lives in the basement). My aunt is upset about the whole situation and I can't blame her.
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Whining at myself today. I swear, thanksgiving being at the very end of the month AND being wiped out with the flu the week of Thanksgiving & week after, has really thrown me off!! I keep thinking I need to start wrapping presents but have put it off because I prefer to wait until everything I’ve ordered has been delivered. I’ve got 3 orders that are taking forever to get here (thanks all you retailers who used FedEx smartpost!!).

So for the last few days, I’ve been thinking “I’ll just wait until next week, maybe Wednesday I’ll start wrapping”. HAHAHAHAHAHA I just freaking occurred to me that Christmas is next Tuesday!! There is no waiting until next week! I need to start wrapping this week!! Really can’t believe myself right now! I’ve known Christmas was next week but when it came to wrapping presents, I kept thinking I’ve got a whole other week to get it done!
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My new “real” driver’s license came in the mail today. I got my new passport yesterday. It was so much easier when we could make an ice cream run to Canada with our enhanced driver’s licenses. Just scanned the bar code and that was it. Now it 20-30 minutes to cross in and another 35-45 to get back in the US.
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Worried- Christmas is next Wednesday, not Tuesday. So you have one more day than you thought. :)
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LOL Smeshque! That’s right, it is Wednesday! Man I am really behind here!
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Fell asleep in the chair
now that I've brushed my teeth and am in bed
can't fall back to sleep
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People make me tired
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Holiday jackasses are out in full force and I am glad I don’t have to set foot anywhere near the shopping centers until after Christmas!

This afternoon, I took my son, daughter and two of her friends to the mall for daughters 12th birthday. I took them to Round 1 which is like Dave & busters and then got them Starbucks and them walk around the mall for a bit. When we go there, i drove through the parking lot to the front of the mall. I drove past Macys and stopped to allow a few pedestrians to cross from Macy’s in to the parking lot. To my horror, the car behind me didn’t stop and passed me on the right (now driving the wrong way) and almost hit the pedestrians! I honked my horn in anger!!!! Couldn’t believe the a careless SOB did that! All because he was impatient I guess!

Then, when I was taking my daughters friends home, I dropped one off in her neighborhood and as we were leaving her neighborhood, i came to a 4 way stop. I stopped and made sure it was clear to go & just as I was starting to accelerate, a Jeep Wrangler flew past us, blowing the stop sign! Must have been going about 80MPH!

Something about the holidays brings out the worst drivers!
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Cali,

That happened to me on New Year’s Eve last year. Crazy person turned in the wrong lane and almost hit me head on, to make matters worse he was going at a fast speed. I had just purchased my new car. I was thinking about my life in danger and my new car being totaled! Thank God the lane next to me was open and I was able to get out of his way by just a few seconds or it would have been a horrible accident. It’s scary how people drive.

So much partying going on New Year’s Eve. I was sorry I had run out to buy milk from a convenience store. Sometimes that’s the only time I could get out to run errands, late in the evening. Also happens to be when the drunks are out!
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My whine is that the downside of being sick since October 27 with what was eventually diagnosed as pneumonia and I got well from last week, left me with enough clothes to wash for 6 or 7 loads. I never want to wash that many clothes again!
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A car traveling in the lane to my left made a right turn into the market parking lot...in front of me. I had to brake, almost stop so I would not hit him.
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Picky eater at 10 p.m. does not have a leg to stand on for a man 5'7" @ 138 lbs! He gets out the scissors (known location only to him!), cuts open only one bag of fried rice and puts the rest away, saying I am about to cook too much! Uhmmm....who is the cook?
He must have had a hard day at work and needs to control someone. I am not buying it so tell him I am not picking him up from work, and cooking at 10 p.m.
so he can tell me how much to cook.

I Go to the bedroom and close the door.

Later, I am adding yellow squash and zucchini bits, I make 1 1/2 bags. And he is still fussing....

He goes back for seconds, and it is all gone. I just hate being right sometimes.
Scared he will get more and more OCD as time marches on. This is new and exaggerated behaviors. I know that I am getting less patient.
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Send, you are much more tolerant than I. I don't cook for anyone at 10pm. Give yourself a round of applause for having the patience of Job.
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Waking from a horrible dream that feels so real, causing you to have slow adrenaline down to go back to sleep. 😖😖😖😖😖😖
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I know that feeling Smeshque. Hope you have sweet dreams now.
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This will not be much of a holiday, just want the whole thing over with. I am still recovering from eye surgery, have gas bubble in my eye for a couple more weeks at least. I also seem to have a scratchy virus that goes from head to chest, irregular heartbeat from it and the trauma of losing sight so rapidly. The prednisone for healing the eye is making me edgy. I am just trying to take it easy and recover,... hopefully. MIL, 89 has begun to run about her house decorating, taking down and washing curtains, making demands of shopping for the dinner, etc. She exhausts me.
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And speaking of bad drivers, I rode to the library with hubby yesterday and a woman was coming toward us the wrong way on a one way street....what is with everyone?!!
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Katie I've been wondering how you are, I guess if you are posting you are able to see OK? Is your MIL one of those people who is always busy busy busy, or does she just ramp it up for special occasions?

I stick to gravel roads if at all possible, my route to the city is actually more direct that way and I usually have the road all to myself.
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Cwille, thank you. My other eye works well enough to do some reading and typing. MIL becomes kind of manic, especially on holidays, then she will crash and be ill in bed for 2 days. She is extremely stubborn. Still insists on cooking 15 pound turkeysand everything herself at 89, though there are only 4 of us on holidays anymore...and one is a vegetarian! We bring side dishes but she is very critical....ugh.
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Needhelp, Congrats to your daughter!! And it must have been terrifying almost being taken out by a wrong way driver!! Luckily for us, I was on a 4 way road so 2 lanes in each direction and the jeep was traveling in the same direction was me but in the right lane. We heard it before we ever saw it!! a few month’s ago I was getting on the highway, using the one big freeway overpass in town (we have lots of small ones and one big one) and as I was coming DOWN the on-ramp towards the highway, I see traffic slowing and moving to the left. As I continued down, I almost hit a wrong way driver head on! I have no idea how the hell he even got there, he had to have travelled the wrong way for quite a while. there is also a cement divider at the bottom of the ramp and you have drive past it a bit before it ends and you can merge on to the highway! I have no idea if he made it up the ramp and on to the main road.

Bit of good news, I finished the Christmas wrapped last night with the exception of 1 gift that will be here Monday, and hubby’s gifts that I have to go pick up at Best Buy in a bit (hopefully the in store pick up line is short!) and I found the missing shirt from Kohl’s! It was in a paper target bag that had the clothing giftboxes, guess I didn’t look close enough the other night!

On an annoying note, as I’ve mentioned before we host Christmas Eve as it’s our daughters birthday and this year I bought some arcade games and a prize for each kid. I ordered my neices prize (an LOL surprise doll) from target because our store was out of stock and Walmart keeps the LOL surprise stuff and just about everything else in the store locked up! At the time I ordered, I was given a 12/21 delivery date and the tracking has given me the same date however I checked this morning and now it says 12/24! Hopefully it gets here early before the festivities begin.

fingers crossed, my daughter & I are going to head out to Best Buy in a bit, going to the one 10 miles away instead of the one at the mall. it’s in an outdoor shopping center that I am sure will be crazy so I’m nervous!! If I was driving a brand new car, i’d Be fine but every time I drive the new car I feel anxious and afraid that we will get in an accident!
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It really hasn’t felt like Christmas at all this year. Even the kids said it the other day. And now my mom just called and said they aren’t coming down for Christmas. They were supposed to drive down on Monday. Usually the last phone call from mom a few days before they arrive gets me excited and in the holiday spritit but this time its killed it for me! She said at first my dad was going to stay home and she was going to drive down herself!!!!! That was news to me and a very bad bad idea!!! I asked why he was going to stay home and she said that he was afraid my brother wouldn’t let the dogs out during the night and they’d come home to a house full of poop and pee! I said why would he think that? J’s never done that before. And she said she didn’t know why but that she’d had that fear too. WTF. They just went to Vegas last month and he was home alone for a week and nothing happened!! So I can only assume he’s drinking again. I didn’t ask because if he is, it will only make me angry at all of them because the only way he can be drinking again is if my parents are buying him alcohol! Why they could enable him and contribute to the problem, I will never understand. His liver is just about shot for someone who is only 35. Years of drinking has ruined his health. And he’s a smoker too. So this is just great. They’ve never ever had a problem leaving the dogs with him so......he’s gotta be drinking again!

anyway they aren’t coming because mom is sick. Has been sick for a week but didn’t go to the doctor which also makes me mad! I told her to take the steroids she has or go to the ER. It’s her breathing that’s bad and a bad cough (she has advanced COPD). She said she will take the steroids and maybe go the ER and give it one more day before deciding for sure that they aren’t coming. However if my dad isn’t going to come, I’m going to tell her to just stay home. It’s too far a drive (330 miles) for her to make it on her own. So bummed out :(
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