[browneyes0707]

TG: Hang in. Last day right? Tomorrow it will be over and the Colts will win and all will be right with the world

I haven't had Papa Johns since college 12 years ago! My housemate worked there and brought home pizzas for us. It was the best pizza down there, I could tell you that! I THINK there might be one somewhere in the area, but being a NY'er there are so many good local pizzerias, the chain ones dont have a prayer! That also makes me a bit of a pizza snob, LOL

We are just getting a lot of wind and some rain and costal flooding Leigh. It's going to be really nasty out, so much do not want to go to the shower as it is, certainly don't want to drive 20 miles to get there in this mess!

[lahdh4]

Right now I am down at Grams since she didn't have any matches. Les Mis is off for today. Just in my neck of the woods I am expecting up to 2+ inches of rain and wind gusts of up to 60+ mph. The height of the storm is expected at 3pm and the show starts at 2pm and I really don't want to have watch out for idiot drivers in the parking lot of the theatre with my Grams holding onto my arm. Not at all fair to her. It has all ready started in Gloucester and I am about 20 miles North of them.
But since the winds are starting...........and the Pats will win tomorrow ............ I am off to the Post Office and then home. Talk to everyone later

TG: you will make through today and all will be fine!!!
Brown: I hope that is all you get.

Ladies, take it easy!!!

[quantum]

Ok so I tried to post this week and my post got eaten! Maybe we can plague IBF with complaints about our eaten posts!!

Speaking of eating and PIZZA! I MISS AMERICAN PIZZA!!!. It's very different here.
That doesn't mean they aren't good! We're going to try out a new place tonight. I have gotten one there, a friend of mine got one with mussels on it (!) they were even on the half shell!!!! I don't reccommend just biting into that one....I'm hoping the kids like it there!

I'm stressed about November. I'm prepping examples for next semester, I'm starting my distance learning class, I'm writing instructions for the four classes I have in November, I'm addicted to Scrabble on Facebook... help me!

Anyhoo, all my best to all of you!

[zxczxcasdasd]

You sound busy quantum!!

Hope you NE-ers can ride out the storm. I miss rain.

TG- hang in there and check in here whenever you want a break!

[kakuehl]

TG - What's sanilty? When you find it let me know!

Heidi, Thanks for asking, We don't have the report back from the team yet. The bishop's office had asked me to fill them out... they may have something in mind. Who knows...I don't want to move for many reasons. Hard thing for me is figuring out what Gos wants me to do!

Quantum, I had a pizza in Naples (Italy not Florida) one time that was a "four seasons" pizza. One quarter of it had a couple mussels in the shell (Didn't quite know what to do with that. LOL)

Have a good weekend, all.

[lahdh4]

All I had was rain. Not too bad, I did get some wind gusts after 5pm though and still it was that bad. Grams and I are now going to see Les Miz on the 17th, I would rather be safe and keep her well above anything so we lost our 3rd row seats (row C) to row P center. Cannot complain since it is done in the round so there really is never a bad seat.
My friend T, called me last night and told me that she was out for a bit to meet up with a friend and my ex was there and he was asking questions about me. She really didn't give him any answers but still..... he broke up with me so he lost the right to ask anything.

[Tigger27]

Howdy girls! How's it goin?

I'm just droppin in to say Hey while I get a chance here...my Dad, the boy and I are all goin to harrass my apt management to get my internet hooked up this week so hopefully that will work and get them to take action.

If they don't do something after we harrass them this week, we're goin to look into taking it somewhere like to a tenants association to have them help us get it handled and taken care of because it's ridiculous how they're responding or rather not responding to my reporting problems to them that need to be fixed.

I just heard from both my girls families recently and sent them Halloween packages. My 4 1/2 yr old asked to send me a package when she heard I was sending a Halloween package to her and is understanding more about her story, the adoption concept and who I am lately. She's also looking at the pictures of me and her from the hospital when she was born and talking about it more lately and wanting to know more.

Also in the e-mail I got just today from my almost 3 yr old's mom, she said that my 3 yr old is starting to understand a little more about me and the adoption concept and they're talking to her more about me and her story etc. also. She told me how my 3 yr old is into princess stuff right now to help me with ideas for her b-day this month when she turns 3.

So, yeah things are busy and have improved and things with the boy are finally becoming more positive and progressing in the right direction. We still have to keep working through things and all, but in the past 3 weeks we've made a lot of improvements and he's been doing more than in the past lately too.

Anyway, things are getting better and improving with the boy, the girls and their families...and everything in general for the most part. I'm really excited about hearing how both my girls are understanding more about me and adoption and their stories and all. I'm really excited about hearing how my 4 1/2 yr old wants to send me packages and likes to talk about me and her story and everything lately too. I'm also excited hearing how my soon to be 3 yr old is starting to understand more about me and adoption and her story too recently as well.

I'm feeling blessed and lucky with different areas in my life and all. Also with my sister and her husband that she's in the process of divorcing, recently DCFS called and talked to her and my nieces and then took the husband's two daughters away from him because of how they said he was looking at them/watching them in the shower etc. and he's been charged so I'm glad that my sister and kids left and got away from them when they did. I hope that his two girls get into a better situation away from him or that he gets help now that this has come out too.

I'm also figuring out my classes for January and looking forward to getting back into school soon. I'm gettin excited for Thanksgiving and Christmas in spite of my mixed emotions with K's b-day coming up though .

Oh and wanna hear somethin freaky...on Halloween at work A's bio guy came in and went through my line and it was really weird cause I haven't seen or heard from him in about 4-5 years now or something like that. He didn't say or do anything other than Hey how are you and bye have fun, he's the one who walked off and denied her existence and is still in denial and doesn't care or somethin, but man it kind of threw me off. And it happened on Halloween of all days...I just had to laugh in spite of bein freaked out though hee hee.

Hope all's well with all of you. I hope to get my internet back this week too so keep your fingers crossed for me.

(((HUGS)))

[zxczxcasdasd]

Glad to hear from you Anne...especially that things are going so well! Another car on the good news train. toot toot!

OKAY GIRLS...I have a question...so you all know my situation with J's birthmom right now.... I had been intending all along to send a simple family Christmas gift for them and individual gifts for the kids as well. Now I'm not sure if it would be received as ...well, Christmas gifts...or if it would be unwelcome. I'm stumped. Proceed with the gifts as if everything is alright and hope that it will be, or may even show her that we mean well? Or do I just do nothing until she indicates that she feels differently than she does now? What do you think?

[josh1788smom]

Anne - great news. Things seem to be looking up. I am happy for you. Go get the management!!!!!!!!

Heidi - this is just my opinion, in life matters, nothing to do with adoption. No one else should influence what you want to do (within reason of course). If that was your plan, I would not over-analyze it, I would just send it. Nice of me to say - not like I have never over-analyzed anything. haha

So - I got an e-mail from my dad's cousin. He was surprised G died. I mentioned that in my e-mail. He asked how, and said he was out of the office Friday, and just got my e-mail today. He said he thought we could work something out. I e-mailed him back and said I would rather talk about Greg than tell him in an e-mail (cause it worked so well telling Josh). I was kind of surprised he did not know. Guess Josh didn't tell him. So, I am still hoping we meet for lunch sometime this week. I did tell him I would rather it not be Thursday because I am going to the game Thursday night at 7:45. That's at Josh's college. I would love to run into him.

Hope everyone had a great weekend.

[kakuehl]

Hi all!
Anne, I'm happy for you. What are you planning to study?

Heidi, you can't control what she thinks, but you don't need to let her control you. I would send the gifts as I had planned.

J's Mom, I hope the meeting works out. It would be great (for all of you), if you and he could start the reconciliation process.

[thanksgivingmom]

Well I made it through the weekend...barely.

Can we just NOT talk about the football game though? Seriously, I'll cry. Again.

I'm waiting to have a meeting where essentially I will be told all the things I did wrong for the event, so that's not super exiting, but what am I gonna do? Uh...cry? Probably.

I'm a mess! haha

Oh well, I think I have a possible date tonight (yay!) and next weekend I'm going to San Diego for the Colts game (double yay!) and this morning I sent an email to D, thanking her for everything and asking about boundaries (go me! Triple yay!)

So things suck, and things are good, and I am TIRED!

Nineteen hour workdays are NOT my idea of a good time...