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gypsywildone
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Getting your house JUST RIGHT....
by Confucious inhey guys, .
just wanted to sound out to all those out there that know what i mean.
when i bought my house a year ago, i still had the mortage to my other home.
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Daughter just chopped off 14 inches of her hair!
by gypsywildone inshe donated it to locks of love & this week was the first i saw it.
she was born with enough hair to hold barrettes!
it was always long, curly & super thick.
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gypsywildone
She donated it to Locks of Love & this week was the first I saw it. She was born with enough hair to hold barrettes! It was always long, curly & super thick. At least TWO fortunate kids are gonna have lovely, blonde wigs. I gotta get used to this look though
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Competitive Parents
by Netty ini just signed my son up for soccer, he is only 6 and has never played before.
last week at soccer camp, i overheard one of the mothers saying, she had a conversation with the coach.
he said there were alot of really great players this time around, but also alot of really bad ones.
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gypsywildone
That's cool confused, you are doing a great thing!
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I feel so horrible...........
by Gretchen956 inmy poor dog!
i think its because he ate a big rawhide chew, its the only thing i can figure out.
anyway last night just about bedtime he starts barking and wants out.
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gypsywildone
The wolf dog? We went to the pound looking for a little red cat. My husband spotted him & it was love at first bite. We took him to the vet for that prelimiary visit & everyone stopped dead in their tracks & said "It's a wolf, it's mostly wolf". He was about a year old & got in there in a city from being out on advnetures. It was the 3rd time he was incarcerated, & his previous owner didn't want to give him up, but we have 5 acres of woods, & the pound convinced them it was better.
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Competitive Parents
by Netty ini just signed my son up for soccer, he is only 6 and has never played before.
last week at soccer camp, i overheard one of the mothers saying, she had a conversation with the coach.
he said there were alot of really great players this time around, but also alot of really bad ones.
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gypsywildone
I doubted whether she could SWIM at all. I swam all my life and was a lifeguard Red Cross cerified when the kids were young (this is after having two babies)
LOL! These are always the ones, the ones who probably can't swim at all, huh? Much like armchair warriors that don't vote, or 200 lb. women that KNOW how to play field hockey & could be coaches . . .
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Tragedy averted
by SheilaM inthis is about my older sister and i .
tragedy averted.
i spoke to my sister today.
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gypsywildone
What a profound poem. I have a sister it can mildly apply to, we are polar opposites & it takes great effort sometimes not to stir the pot. It's not a jnut thing, it's a personality thing. She isn't a jw, just uptight.
I keep her at arm's length because I don't want to work that hard. Why should I, when I have friends that accept me for myself. A friend once sent me a Christmas card that said "Friends are the family you make for yourself".
I also have another sister that is effortless! We just grove & laugh all day! And that is the one married to the guy raised jw that claims they are jws, but I see different. I see that they are always home when I call on meeting nights. I see it when we are around them. but he defends it if you make the mistake of telling it like it is. I have snet them numberous links about child abuse & the UN. I don't have to be careful with her, just HIM.
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Getting your house JUST RIGHT....
by Confucious inhey guys, .
just wanted to sound out to all those out there that know what i mean.
when i bought my house a year ago, i still had the mortage to my other home.
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gypsywildone
When you get done, come help us!
We built our own house almost by ourselves with no contractor. It is almost finished, we need to tile the kitchen, part of the living room & do the ceiling to the kitchen/dining room area. Then on to the basement! It has been a learning experience, but very hard! Sometimes I think it will NEVER be done! But it is a satisfying feeling!
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Competitive Parents
by Netty ini just signed my son up for soccer, he is only 6 and has never played before.
last week at soccer camp, i overheard one of the mothers saying, she had a conversation with the coach.
he said there were alot of really great players this time around, but also alot of really bad ones.
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gypsywildone
I lived this for years. My daughter was exceptional at field hockey & track & ended up being recruited for both by colleges. She was in the local newspapers around 10 times in 3 years, with pictures of her & action & all. This made other parents very jealous. I had one older couple come on like Mr. Rodger's neighborhood, but I quickly realized they were just pumping me for information & plans. The father taped every game & always said he would give me tape. When the time came that a Div I college wanted tape, all the sudden all his tapes were shaky, no good & unsable. Right. I got tape from the school.
I have had these bitchy mothers actually come up to my face & say if my senior, who had earned her spot on the team was not on the field the entire time, their 10th grader would get more time on the field! Well, you KNOW I told them off! I have heard any number of ugly comments from overweight mothers in the stands that could not POSSIBLY run for an entire hour playing field hockey. But they sure do know the game & could criticize!
I was never so glad as when she graduated as the president of her class & spoke in front of the entire class & audience, & that she actually mentioned a food fight during her speech that they told her would result in the cutting of her mike if she did it :) My sister came from Az for it, & we were so proud!
Some people get some kind of vicarious thrill out of living through their kids or being able to brag about them. Then you have others like the Williams sisters, their dad knew it was a way out of poverty & groomed them. There ends up being a lot of money at stake in the end.
College is soooo expensive, for one thing. Div 1 can give you a full ride, Div 2 can give you a good package, & Div 3 will put together a good package if they need you & pretend it is not about the sports. But for Div 1 & 2, the sport becomes a job. There is a lot of travel involved & it is just a grind. A Div 1 would have given her a full ride in another state far from here. She did not want to go farther than 1 hour from home, & did not want it to become a job. she ended up going with Div 3 an hour from here.
We didn't choose sports, she found these things herself. We gave her dancing lessons in Jazz, because too many ballerinas end up with eating disorders, & I can't stand to watch bad tap dancing! She found the sports & the cheerleading & we just enjoyed them, in spite of thoe kinds of parents. Now she doesn't even play Field hockey anymore, she is on some intermediate teams with her boyfriend, badmitton & soft ball, but she is very involved in college student government. I don't miss those days at all, but at least for me they started in middle school, not at the age of 6!
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I feel so horrible...........
by Gretchen956 inmy poor dog!
i think its because he ate a big rawhide chew, its the only thing i can figure out.
anyway last night just about bedtime he starts barking and wants out.
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gypsywildone
We have a wolf dog that had this exact thing happen, I think he got colitis from the thing, & he had the Atomic Hershey Squirts & some blood eventually was mixed in from the strain, etc. Turned out we spent a lot of money on him, because he was young & my husband's favorite out of 5. He had colonoscopies, etc. tests sent out of state.
Finally I asked the vet to put him on Prednisone & it worked, cleared right up, & we don't get any of those rough things anymore! If this mess persists, remember this, & if it does not go away after several days, I would request your vet do the same.
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gypsywildone
Blondie,
Husband had previously called the KH & requested an elder, then told said elder to take us off thier little maps, etc. They don't listen. and, apparently, they can't read either. That was what made him so mad. An entire SUV full of adults claimed they did not SEE any signs!