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Post by merr on Aug 5, 2021 12:01:39 GMT -5
I'm back from my last vacation of the summer! I'm hoping I can finally get back into a normal routine and catch up with everything that I am behind on. Kids start school in 2 weeks and I'm the only one that is looking forward to it.
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Post by merr on Aug 11, 2021 15:08:37 GMT -5
Almost done getting the kids ready for school. I've been taking them shopping one at a time this year to make it less overwhelming for me. I can't believe it is only a week away! I
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Post by tanmi on Aug 16, 2021 9:44:35 GMT -5
How are things going? Miss the kids? :-)
I have a busy, or stuffed week. It might not have been, but two entire days are taken up by training. Virtual, of course. You have to stay on camera the entire time. I had to take an auditor test about two months ago, of course I had to stay on camera, but it was only two hours. Plus, which I found amusing, I had to do a 360° scan of the room, before starting. Who would cheat? It's open book.
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Post by merr on Aug 16, 2021 10:07:01 GMT -5
The kids start Wednesday so I get them a few more days. We have 2 open houses to attend before then...both boys are going to brand new schools and need to learn the layout and where their classes are. That training sounds like no fun! It also sounds like you won't be able to come and say hi during it either. We have so much smoke from all the fires west of us and there are a few here...the air quality is terrible. I do believe SLC is ranked #1 worst in the entire WORLD today! There is some hope of rain starting on Wednesday so I'm crossing my fingers that we get some and clear this air out, even if for a few days. It's been almost 2 weeks of smokey air.
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Post by merr on Aug 17, 2021 10:38:29 GMT -5
The weather does seem to be changing and we should get a decent rain storm tomorrow! And a huge temperature drop...it has been mid 90s and the high for tomorrow (first day of school) is only 68°! But I will gladly take the rain and "cold" if we get some relief from the smoke. I hope your training isn't too terribly boring and that you are able to survive it.
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Post by merr on Aug 18, 2021 12:50:34 GMT -5
Not only are we getting rain, but we are getting thunderstorms!! We rarely get thunderstorms so I'm very excited. Last night after dinner me and Kevin spent the evening on the deck under our shade just hanging out in the storm, it was great! The sky is blue and there are white fluffy clouds outside right now! I haven't seen blue skies in weeks because of the smoke.
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Post by KyleEl on Aug 20, 2021 14:20:17 GMT -5
It is a strange experience to see Jess as squeaky clean and Dean as a bad boy. I'm used to it being the other way around.
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Post by merr on Aug 20, 2021 14:58:35 GMT -5
Are you talking about their new respective TV shows? I don't watch either. I watched a few episodes of the first season of This Is Us and I watched the pilot of Walker, but that is all.
Did I ever mention that I finally watched the Year in the Life special of GG on netflix? I probably did. I'm sad they haven't done another one.
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Post by merr on Aug 23, 2021 11:14:17 GMT -5
Three days of school and I've already got 2 that are home sick today. Started feeling sick yesterday and still aren't feeling great today. Hopefully it goes away quickly.
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Post by tanmi on Aug 23, 2021 12:14:28 GMT -5
Not only are we getting rain, but we are getting thunderstorms!! We rarely get thunderstorms so I'm very excited. Last night after dinner me and Kevin spent the evening on the deck under our shade just hanging out in the storm, it was great! The sky is blue and there are white fluffy clouds outside right now! I haven't seen blue skies in weeks because of the smoke. Crazy people. All we have had is thunderstorms, one of them the "go to the basement" style. Not so much fun. I am glad your smoke is gone. That is misery. Did the storm take out any of the fires, or was it just the wind blew the smoke out? Just a note: thinking of the people in Middle Tennessee.
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Post by tanmi on Aug 23, 2021 12:15:46 GMT -5
Three days of school and I've already got 2 that are home sick today. Started feeling sick yesterday and still aren't feeling great today. Hopefully it goes away quickly. Oh, No. Are they the two from the same school?
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Post by tanmi on Aug 23, 2021 12:20:08 GMT -5
It is a strange experience to see Jess as squeaky clean and Dean as a bad boy. I'm used to it being the other way around. I have never watched either show. It's weird, I look at Dean and Jess differently. Dean cheated on his wife. When Rory told Jess she and Dean had broken up, he went to tell his girlfriend they were finished. No cheating there. Jess dressed and walked like he thought a bad boy would, and obviously everyone else, but he was working to better himself. Dean not so much.
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Post by merr on Aug 23, 2021 13:23:24 GMT -5
Not only are we getting rain, but we are getting thunderstorms!! We rarely get thunderstorms so I'm very excited. Last night after dinner me and Kevin spent the evening on the deck under our shade just hanging out in the storm, it was great! The sky is blue and there are white fluffy clouds outside right now! I haven't seen blue skies in weeks because of the smoke. Crazy people. All we have had is thunderstorms, one of them the "go to the basement" style. Not so much fun. I am glad your smoke is gone. That is misery. Did the storm take out any of the fires, or was it just the wind blew the smoke out? Just a note: thinking of the people in Middle Tennessee. That rain storm gave us a small reprieve from the smoke but the next storm brought more with it. Very strange for it to be rainy and smoky at the same time. We now have less smoke than before but not all the way gone, but definitely better.
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Post by merr on Aug 23, 2021 13:24:26 GMT -5
Three days of school and I've already got 2 that are home sick today. Started feeling sick yesterday and still aren't feeling great today. Hopefully it goes away quickly. Oh, No. Are they the two from the same school? Nope...Owen is in the jr high and Tyler is at the high school. They share a bedroom so I don't know if they both brought something home or one of them did and got the other sick...
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Post by merr on Aug 23, 2021 13:26:36 GMT -5
It is a strange experience to see Jess as squeaky clean and Dean as a bad boy. I'm used to it being the other way around. I have never watched either show. It's weird, I look at Dean and Jess differently. Dean cheated on his wife. When Rory told Jess she and Dean had broken up, he went to tell his girlfriend they were finished. No cheating there. Jess dressed and walked like he thought a bad boy would, and obviously everyone else, but he was working to better himself. Dean not so much. Dean definitely seemed nice at the beginning but the more his actions are scrutinized the less nice he seems. I've seen a lot of things about him on the internet lately and he wasn't that great. He got upset at Rory for not being able to say "I love you" back instead of being understanding that she needed more time. He really didn't treat her great when he thought Jess was moving in on her. Now I want to rewatch GG!!
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Post by KyleEl on Aug 23, 2021 13:51:48 GMT -5
It is a strange experience to see Jess as squeaky clean and Dean as a bad boy. I'm used to it being the other way around. I have never watched either show. It's weird, I look at Dean and Jess differently. Dean cheated on his wife. When Rory told Jess she and Dean had broken up, he went to tell his girlfriend they were finished. No cheating there. Jess dressed and walked like he thought a bad boy would, and obviously everyone else, but he was working to better himself. Dean not so much. Well, that's exactly what happened. While Jess died when his kids were teenagers, he had been seen in flashbacks every season and in nearly every episode of "This Is Us". I'm only getting started on "Walker" but Dean is no Chuck Norris. He's barely a Thomas Magnum. His teenage daughter resents him and things are just beginning to get better. And he's got a long way to go before heis respected enough to truly be a Texas Ranger.
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Post by merr on Aug 24, 2021 14:14:07 GMT -5
Now I want to rewatch the original Walker, Texas Ranger. There is just too much TV! Old stuff to see again...new stuff to try out. I'll never get to it all!
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Post by merr on Aug 25, 2021 12:00:35 GMT -5
I'm making a SUPER fast trip to Kansas City this weekend. A concert that has been pushed back because of Covid quite a few times is finally happening! I'm going to fly out Saturday morning and go to the concert with my sisters on Saturday night and then I'm going to fly home Sunday afternoon.
I booked the trip just recently because I wasn't sure if the concert was going to get canceled again. I did it when I was tired of traveling and the thought of another "vacation" (hard life, I know) sounded awful so I just booked it to be as fast as possible. I'm only going to need to take a backpack on the plane, which will be SO weird!
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Post by KyleEl on Aug 27, 2021 14:31:40 GMT -5
Dean cheated on his wife. When Rory told Jess she and Dean had broken up, he went to tell his girlfriend they were finished. No cheating there. I only remember the good things about Dean.
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Post by KyleEl on Aug 27, 2021 14:34:19 GMT -5
Now I want to rewatch the original Walker, Texas Ranger. I never saw it but surely Chuck Norris plays a more respectable character. I feel like I am watching Thomas Magnum when I should be expecting Chin Ho. There is just too much TV! Old stuff to see again...new stuff to try out. I'll never get to it all! It helps that I don't want to pay for cable (defined as all those channels you can't pick up with an antenna, or couldn't before 2009) or streaming.
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Post by merr on Aug 30, 2021 10:07:33 GMT -5
Now I want to rewatch the original Walker, Texas Ranger. I never saw it but surely Chuck Norris plays a more respectable character. I feel like I am watching Thomas Magnum when I should be expecting Chin Ho. There is just too much TV! Old stuff to see again...new stuff to try out. I'll never get to it all! It helps that I don't want to pay for cable (defined as all those channels you can't pick up with an antenna, or couldn't before 2009) or streaming. I was a teenager when I watched the original Walker, Texas Ranger with my parents, but I remember liking it. We'd watch that and Nash Bridges back to back. My trip went well. My flights were all on time. The food I ate was delicious and the concert was fantastic. It was the perfect short little getaway. My sister will be coming out for comic con in a few weeks. After that we'd love to put together an "all" sister trip to Savannah Georgia. The more people you add though, the harder it becomes.
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Post by KyleEl on Aug 30, 2021 13:54:10 GMT -5
I'm not quite clear on what happened but in the episode I saw yesterday Dean as Walker cheated on his wife while working undercover. I'm not clear on whether his wife had died at the time. However, he certainly came across as a bad boy in the present day as he went back undercover to put away his "girlfriend". His son hated him for leaving again.
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Post by merr on Sept 1, 2021 12:44:29 GMT -5
It's September!! That means that I can get my Halloween decorations out! I won't have time to do it yet today, but I do plan on getting my 2 skeletons out and putting them on my front porch. I should really give them names!
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Post by merr on Sept 2, 2021 14:36:34 GMT -5
I've named them Tom and Eddy...because those were the first names I thought of as I was thinking that I should put them on the porch today.
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Post by merr on Sept 13, 2021 11:09:21 GMT -5
I hope everyone is doing well!
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Post by KyleEl on Sept 13, 2021 14:30:13 GMT -5
It's September!! That means that I can get my Halloween decorations out! I won't have time to do it yet today, but I do plan on getting my 2 skeletons out and putting them on my front porch. I should really give them names! I hate this time of year and that's a big reason.
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Post by merr on Sept 14, 2021 11:30:23 GMT -5
It's September!! That means that I can get my Halloween decorations out! I won't have time to do it yet today, but I do plan on getting my 2 skeletons out and putting them on my front porch. I should really give them names! I hate this time of year and that's a big reason. I forget that you don't like Halloween Kyle...it's my absolute favorite time of the year. If only we could start getting temperatures below 90!
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Post by merr on Sept 20, 2021 9:35:10 GMT -5
Comic con was this weekend and I had a great time! It was a bit different than in years past and I took very few pictures. I didn't even post anything to facebook about it!
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Post by KyleEl on Sept 21, 2021 14:58:12 GMT -5
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Post by merr on Sept 23, 2021 11:47:39 GMT -5
Apparently I slept on my shoulder funny...I don't even know how to explain it. My shoulder/collar bone feel out of whack and moving is painful. I don't even know what I can do to try and fix it! Both shoulders were out yesterday but luckily when I woke up this morning my right when was back where it belonged.
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