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Real foggy here this AM.
Water Cooler - 7
Me too!
Sure was foggy at Shea last night for the Mets...
Worse today. Bring back the fog!
Hubby is sleep watching the Bosox hopefully beat the Yanks.
I'm for mutual destruction...
maybe a natural disaster
Bosox always sounds like a mistake for Botox, which IS a mistake. At least it should be BoSox. It reads like an airport code, or a stock exchange code or whatever you call those trading letters. Boston Red Sox. No longer the world losers or the embarrassment of the region or the joke of Back to the Future. It's ok if we lose occasionally. xx, Carrie
Of course, it's better if we beat the Yankees!
It was great watching Nelson Figueroa pitch his first game at Shea so well last night, in front of his whole family, 13 years after originally being drafted.
Yes it was. Let's hope it continues. Did not expect Santana to start 1-2.
To me, Figueroa is the kind of story you don't see enough of anymore - goes back to a time in baseball when local boys could make good. And you gotta love anyone who sticks to it like that, minors, majors, Mexican league, Taiwan, etc.
Think he just likes the food in all the places he played.
in the minors?
He is a great story.
Hi all.
Louise ~ yes. I am OK. It's a bit stressful lately though, because my baby grandson (3 1/2 months old) was admitted to the hospital on Friday evening with breathing problems. He's still there, and of course, his mommy is way stressed out, too.
I played hookie from church and send dh off with the girls. Becky (10) just got her first-time glasses yesterday - she is so proud!
Good luck with your grandson, Candyce. Keep us up to date. Hope he gets out soon. Congrats to Becky, Sue!
Yeah, Candyce. Prayers for him.
I see we've hit 4.8 million posts.
What a happy little bunch of gabbers we are!
Kisses to baby Sean, Candyce!
Sorry Candyce. Is this one that lives with you?
Hi guys!
Good news! Sean has left the hospital. The doctors sent him home late yesterday with a breathing monitor, thinking that the worst thing he has is an upper respiratory infection. I haven't heard from Ashleigh all day, so that means that he's still doing well at home.
Yes, Dave47. Sean is the one that DID live with me up until the end of February. His daddy was discharged from the Marines and they all found an apartment about 15 minutes away from me.
Now ... here's a cute photo from today:
Anna was working on a second sowing of seeds this evening, and Taelar (the 6-year-old) decided to 'grow' her 'seeds', too. If you look closely, you can even see where she has properly labeled the shelf.
Great news, Candyce!!
Good for Sean!
That is too funny - especially the one with the diagram...
Glad Sean is doing better Candyce. Taelar is already following in your footsteps huh? LOL
Candyce, don't ya just love it when the little ones improvise?
Oh, Candyce - what a stressful week! I am so glad to hear your grandson is doing better. I have been horribly preoccupied with end-of-term stuff and DD was dumped by her boyfriend (serious trauma here) so I have been trying to distract her with shopping (no hope, she never finds anything she likes - just mopes and is constantly on the verge of tears . . . young love is soooo over-rated)
Wonderful to hear, Candyce! Love the diagram Taelar did! Very cute!
Candyce, I'm behind on this thread, but good to hear the baby is doing well. They would not have discharged him from the hospitial if he was not recovering on track, so good news. The monitor is just an insurance policy. Our youngest was on double monitors (heart and apnea) for two years and the constant alarms were the most stressful.
Laurel
Yikes, Laurel, how is your child now? I can't even imagine how scary that must have been!
xx, Carrie
Carrie, he was born 15 1/2 weeks early (I was 5 1/2 months pregnant), while we were on a business trip in Miami. He spent three months there and then we had him air ambulanced to Atlanta for another month. He weighed one pound. Luckily I am an R.N. with a specialty in this area. He is great. Twenty one, 6' 1", p/t college student on the Geek Squad. Loves everything mechanical. We think it's because his real "Mommy" was an incubator and ventilator. I'm not going to lie. It was a long haul with a lot of every kind of therapy. We call him our million dollar baby and know we are underestimating. Worth every cent and then some.
Sorry to hear about your daughter, Michaela. I hope he doesn't have any photos of her!! There was a report yesterday about how kids today are requesting and sending nude photos of themselves to boyfriends/girlfriends or potential ones using their cell phones. Whatever happened to writing a note??! Bigger problem when it gets posted online. They also like to video their escapades. Incredible.
Michaela, I'm sensitive to this. Have two boys, top and bottom, and a girl in the middle. She was so easy until the first boyfriend breakup. We had major sheet rock damage, woodwork dents and we have hearing impairments from the screaming. Thank goodness she awakened to the notion that no guy would ever be worth that angst. She is now older, wiser, and captain of her own ship=queen of the universe.
Victor, those hand written notes sometimes had Polaroids scotch taped to them.
Maybe, but the whole world never saw them.
DD is amazingly conservative - so I can't imagine her posing nude! But this fellow really helped her through some tough times - he was more than a boyfriend, he was her best friend. But I suspect that at 19, he is more interested in finding a party girl (who can blame him?)
DD is not a party girl - she won't even consider going out with someone who drinks, smokes, or does drugs. Not a problem - but she is not religious, so she is looking for a very sober atheist. Doesn't describe many 19 year old guys that I know :-)
So, she has not only lost a boyfriend, she has lost her best friend. And she went with this fellow for five years (silly thing! When I was a teenager, I changed boyfriends about every three months; much more fun that way).
I have to say, the breakup will make her return to British Columbia next year a lot easier.
You're shipping her out?!
Yes. She is a Canadian citizen, and as soon as she is finished college, she is returning to Canada. All the family lives in British Columbia - her sister, her grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.
DD is a very cautious creature, and doesn't like change, coming to the USA has been rather traumatic (she attended an inner city public school complete with gang wars and police - and this was supposed to be the good school!)
You just described our daughter. That's why she went to Smith, graduated in three years with a double major and was a Resident Advisor. All the old boyfriends are really good friends today including the one she had such a freak-out about.
I have a gardening question regarding Nicotiana langsdorfii seed that the head of the Mt. Holyoke arboretum gave me in '04. Does anyone grow this up there? I had never seen it before and need some advice.