Timerlady- my oldest has been enjoying her bettafish. I asked her yesterday just how much fun is her fish compared to our kitties? She said oh mom, he follows me. Hers is well over a year old, makes me nervous, LOL. Sure is a pretty thing, tho.
Good luck at opthamologists, gosh between my best friend and my son, I have sure been amazed at how many tests one can do! (it is the optha me and son travel to see so much all the time)
Wiped out- sendng a feel better wish to husband and hope the field trip goes good today!
Marg, I wish I could explain bettafish to you, but, I am afraid I am not quite sure how. I think maybe the male ones might be most popular? My difficult child has a female, hers looks like an opal as far as color. they have long decorative fins and come in a wide variety of colors. As far as I know you must keep the males alone becuz they fight, I think? My elderly aunt used to have one kept in a vase with a houseplant growing out the top of the fishbowl? My difficult child keeps hers now in just a plain goldfish bowl, but for awhile she had a double tank and had 2 of them with a divider down the middle to keep them apart. difficult child calls hers Mauii, not sure why. Her kitty loves to sit and watch it (the other 2 kitties seldom go in difficult children room and will sit and watch our turtle for hours in living room)
Sorry to hear of the bfs grampa. He sounds like he was a wonderful man. The beach sounds kinda good to me at the moment. I do not mind cold usually but our weather has just been so extreme and so up and down here this winter, it is starting to be too weird, even for me. LOL. we have been breaking records right and left! (I am midway between Milwaukee, Wis and Chicago, IL)
LDM- I caught the tail end of a news story yesterday, sounded like AT & T maybe? service was down around somewhere, not sure where - for like 9 hours yesterday? Not sure if it was regular telephone,cell, TV or internet or just what? Our house phone and cells are AT & T and difficult child said she thought her texting was affected yesterday, she texts with ppl all over the world, so I am not sure when she was talking about or anything.
HOC- I hate phones, seldom will you find me on one, and when I am supposed to make calls for things, I put it off terribly long, and create problems for myself simply becuz I hate the phone that much, LOL. I have ALWAYS hated phones. I would handle EVERYTHING via email and text messageing if I could, but, here where I am it is not at all common to have email to handle much business wise, etc. (and my web tv does not always work well with some of the other emails for business...seems some businesses email blocks webtv, and I cannot access most attachments like word, works, or pdfs) I even hated phones before answering machines, and voicemail- have ALWAYS preferred to handle things via snail mail, LOL.
OK so- this is (to me) AMAZING. Our school called a SNOW DAY today! As I said over in watercooler, "well, I'll be a monekys uncle!" Being where I am, snow seldom causes any problems no matter how much we get. I swear each town must have more snowplows in a town than school busses or emergency vehicles, cuz snow never has been an acceptable reason to ever miss work or school. and for years and years my kids NEVER had a single snow day in spite of us getting LOTS of snow. a couple wweeks ago wwe had a very very rare winter tornado, - did not even slow anything down. Last week, was it? we had 40 below windchills, 12 below before windchill was factored- did not slow anything down here. In AUgust when the kids go back to school after summer break, sometimes it is well over 100 degrees and 90% humidity, and the kids are still in that 4 story brick 100+ yr old hot building for school.
Well at 2 am our school was still gonna be in session today, but at 6 this morning, when the elem kids should have been halfway to school already? (they start at 645 am- some are bussed in from the neighboring town that has no schools) they finally decided to call off school! (thank goodness PCs boyfriend s mom drives a bus and called us, cuz our towns name starts with a letter at end of alphabet and before they get to our towns name on the TV they break for commercial and then start back at As when commercial break is over and my webtv told me "page too big to be shown" when I tried to look at the online emergency closeing website, LOL)
My Durango is visible out the window (it is bright red and I see red sticking out a little bit) but my VW bug is not visible. and while the snow began at dusk yesterday, and I cleared both cars around midnite, I cannot believe how much snow is out there NOW. And I think TV said more is still falling!
easy child was dooing a happy dance! She even woke youngest and made him dance with her! LOL. Me? I am gonna snuggle down, take advantage and grab a lil nap! LOL! Good thing I am doing so much better, there sure is a LOT to shovel out there!
Happy Friday to anyone who sneaks in behind me. Keep warm!