Kevin's Watch

I'm certainly glad none of y'all raised me! I'm about to send off some resumes. Wish me luck everyone!

Hugs to all who need them. Good health to all who have need and patience to those parents who are running thin.

StevieG wrote:
Savor, my boy is 6, which is generally a very good age, but not this morning... and WEVO could have potential! I can only imagine with dread a 16 year old!

Every age my children have been has been my favorite in turn. The teen years are wonderful and do not let anyone tell you otherwise. Seeing your children becoming independent, strong, and kind human beings with well thought out opinions is magical.

Plus, as a nice added bonus, you can start really sharing your favorite books, movies, etc. with them.

Just wait until one day you are sick, and your teen cooks you lunch and delivers it to your bedside. Or until you find out that your teen has been quietly tutoring the other kids on his/her sports team not for recognition, but because it is the right thing to do. Or until you find out that your kid has been voluntarily working with young children after school and teaching them how to play sports and how to read. It all validates all of the years you have been a parent.

Teenagers rule!!!!

...or discover that your kid walked through snowdrifts to the grocery store to buy a cake mix in order to bake you a birthday cake. And yup, corrupting my kids with Monty Python was one of my biggest parenting joys. You're right, Duchess, the teenage years are pretty cool.

And there you have it folks... proof positive that Ali and Duchess are nuttier than squirrel poo!

I gotta admit, Beorn isn't all that bad at 16...

...just don't ever tell him I said that...

Oh!

*waving at Beorn across the interwebz*

Hullo sweet'eart.

That's what I want to hear! Thanks for the positives Duchess and Ali! This morning, he was great - yesterday is forgotten! A good night's sleep does wonders.

Hung out with Lucimay again today, got some resume's sent off. Now I am in the internet cafe with Heatherly and we are about to go over her portrait shoot that we took this afternoon. She says hello to everyone!

<waves to Heatherly and Jenn>

Magickmaker's dad fetched her from school (3 hours away) yesterday and took her to the doc for the kidney stone. When I got home from work at 7pm, they were there, discussing things. We talked some more while I got myself some dinner. Then he left and I prepared to drive her back to school, whereupon she said, "Is it okay if I do a load of laundry before we leave?" So we didn't hit the road 'til almost 10:30pm. Needless to say, I spent the night there...

Got up this morning at 7:30 and drove back; came straight to work. I tell ya, there's nothing like a four-hour drive to start your workday....

When I got here, my boss's daughter (she's about 5), who came in with him for the day, was shooting a Nerf rocket at various things. Okay, mostly at me. And I was shooting it back. It was all fun and games 'til she shot the rocket up on top of my shelves. The boss offered to climb up on my desk to get the rocket down; tried to leverage himself up by hauling on the upper cabinet door; and pulled the door off. So I am doorless this afternoon. At least Services has three days to fix it...

Hopefully you have a short day today, Ali.

I'm waiting for the weekend to start. Nothing special planned, but playing it by ear. It's supposed to be nice all weekend so maybe a little golf is in order.

Damelon wrote:Hopefully you have a short day today, Ali.

If you count that I took the morning off in order to drive back to DC, then yeah, I have a short day. Still leaving at 6pm, tho. Ah well, I coulda taken the whole day off and didn't. Whatever.

ali, what did the doctor say regarding magick's stones? Are you comfortable sharing?

Exciting things going on here.
Hyperception has us hooked up for wireless now!
Beorn received both a netbook and a new PS3 Slim from his Poppie for his birthday, and we already had the Wii. All three recognize the new network. Woo-hoo!

...and AT&T told us our small Motorola modem and "DSL Lite" speed wouldn't support a wireless network without paying them an extra $5/month. pheh.

Conga rats on the network connection, Menolly!

The doc recommended surgery as she's going to school so far away. She's not totally sold on the idea -- wants to give it another couple of weeks on the medicine first. Plus she's having flashbacks to two semesters ago when she had to take a couple of incompletes due to her migraines -- she's just not wild about the idea of missing a bunch of days of classes, and being so far behind, again. So basically, stay tuned....

Clean bill of health from my Doc, but my arms hurts from the tetanus shot. At least I'm safe for another decade.

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I think I missed something, balon.
Did something happen on the camping trip?
Why the tetnus shot?

ali, as Fire Daughter and her sister have arranged at their various schools until Furl's is back home and well, or as well as she can be once she starts chemo and radiation, can magick arrange online courses for this semester if she needs surgery and recuperation time? I know that might conflict with her position in the dorm, but it may be an option.

The thing is, it's not going to be a big deal, surgery-wise -- it's the kind that you get two or three little incisions and they send you home that day or the day after. I think she's just freaking about having the surgery at all. Plus she's got to have blood tests ahead of time, which would be another day away from class (she's checking to see whether they'd let her have the student health center do the lab work). Also, she'd have to keep the incisions dry for at least awhile, and she signed up for a swimming class this semester which she would likely have to drop. Sooo, there's a lot going on here. The doc was apparently pushing for doing the surgery, like, this coming Tuesday, but her college has classes on Monday even tho it's a holiday -- so she'd have ended up (assuming she'd stayed at home through this weekend) missing four days of class, minimum. But if she can get the lab work done at school and have the surgery early on a Monday, she'd only miss one day of class -- two, tops.

I don't think there's much in the way of online course options at her school. It's a *really* small school -- just 800 or so undergrads.

In a perfect world, she would pass the stone over the next few days and the whole thing would be moot. Fingers crossed, everybody....

*hoping the stone passes*

Could she speak with her professors, and see if they'll arrange email lessons for her while she's down, if she does have the surgery?

...except for the swimming, of course.

Well, this has been an exciting day in a very sucky kinda way. First I re-aggravated the pinched nerve in my neck as a looked for a car in my blindspot. Then came a grinding on my right front brake that calls for about $250 I don't have on hand. Then Tam sprained her knee at work and just when it couldn't get any worse the tube on the livingroom TV blew. Guess we'll have to sit around reading and razzing each other...oh I sooo want to get drunk!

Ugh...
Feel better danlo and away with that bad karma.

(does she live in this thread? - thanks!)

Ok... so I had my internet installed by comcast this morning and the technician was actually telling me about LIGERS! Seriously. LIGERS! I was sitting there thinking to myself, OH MY GOD HE'S SERIOUSLY TELLING ME ABOUT LIGERS! Then when he got it running he actually left my computer playing a you tube video about LIGERS! Yes. I am dead serious folks. LIGERS..... All day long I have kept thinking back to the fact that the cable guy was trying to pick me up by telling me about Ligers. It was seriously unreal. I keep wishing I had casually turned on one of my video cameras.