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19 days until we are empty nester DINKs!
Not related to the Skid's departure, but ..... we bought tickets for a week in Vegas two weeks after the kid goes to basic.
My wife has a conference and I am going to be her arm candy. 
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O/T: Florida School Enforces Tough Peanut Allergy Regulations!
"Students at Edgewater Elementary in Florida are required to wash their hands and rinse their mouths out before entering the classroom. Teachers also must ensure that desks are continually cleaned with Clorox wipes. The school has banned all peanut products, eliminated snacks in the classroom and prevented outside food at holiday parties. And last week a peanut-sniffing dog was brought into the school."
Rather than distract teachers by having them sanitize their classrooms and making them the peanut police why not just make peanuts illegal?
"Conduct Disorder" How about "Inept Parent Disorder" - Floated from another thread.
LizzieA posted this as a response to another thread.
I thought it was worth discussion.
UDATE:
E-mail conversation today.
Not sure why but I thought I would share. This is pretty typical Rags/Wife daily e-mail banter.
Date: 03/18/2011 03:24 PM
Subject: FW: Red Cross
R,
Are you interested in donating to help Japan and if so how much?
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H
Subject: Re: FW: Red Cross
Sure. It would be best if there is a match to our donation but I am good
either way.
$50.00? $100.00?
What ever you think is right and that our budget will tolerate.
Arf!
R
Date: 03/18/2011 03:45 PM
Subject: RE: FW: Red Cross
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Good stuff in Rags land!
Once again the Skid has been scalping the laptops while his mom and I are at work.
He lost access in Dec except when his mom and I are home and only between 20:00 and 22:00. Then we take the lap tops to our room when we go to bed.
She and I were harassing each other (good naturedly) for leaving the closet light on the other day. I got home from work about an hour before DW did and got on line to find the nearest Verizon so I could go get her a replacement phone charger.
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I am not a particularly Biblical kind of guy but ....
I was looking through my hard drive files looking for material for a work project and found this verse in one of my files.
Proverbs 15:15, 'For the despondent every day brings troubles; for the happy heart, life is a continual feast!
This made an impression on me when I first saved it years ago and still does.
It in large part is indicative of my life philosophy including my Skid and blended family phylosophy.
Happiness is a choice, love is a choice. They are choices that are made countless times every day.
I shared the "not my kid, not my problem" discussion with my wife.
She is a SD who was raised by her StepDad. Her dad and her mother married when she was 2mos old.
Her BioDad was killed in a car accident before her mother knew that she was pregnant with my wife.
She did not find the "not my kid, not my problem" to be a particularly appealing perspective and went immediately to a "you chose us so you help" perspective. Which I have never had a problem with.
How about he is my kid and I am his problem? That is how Sparenting should be IMHO.
I have been SS-18's dad since he was 1yo. I am the first person he ever called dad(dy) and I am the only real dad he has or will ever have. His BioDad is a waste of skin.
So, as his dad I am his problem.
He follows the rules or I am his problem.
He does what he is told or I am his problem.
He treats his mom and I and any other adult with respect or I am his problem.
He performs to his potential in school or I am his problem.
He takes responsibility for his actions and behavior or I am his problem.
O/T Stupid people ..... got no reason, no reason, no reason to live.
@*$$%&X^X* #i()f(r)! :jawdrop:
These idiots are everywhere.
I pull out of the garage when I left the office this evening and an idiot in a Lexus turns in to my lane and comes within 5inches of sideswiping me and won't get the hell out of my way when I have no where to go. So, I lay on the horn and accelerate past them. The moron then flies by me honking and flipping me off. The good news, the cop saw the whole thing and chased them down. Ha! Serves the idiot right.
Then ........... I get on the interstate and there are more of these morons.
O/T Just got this from my dad.... I laughed.
Senior citizens are being criticized for every conceivable deficiency of the modern world, real or imaginary. We know we take responsibility for all we have done and do not blame others.
HOWEVER, upon reflection, we
would like to point out that it was NOT the senior citizens who took:
The melody out of music,
The pride out of appearance,
The courtesy out of driving,
The romance out of love,
The commitment out of marriage,
The responsibility out of parenthood,
The togetherness out of the family,
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