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Retail job safe?

chadwickdtd@gmail.com (PrincessPerky) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:00:23 PST

For the most part since we are rather frugal and low spenders (cause we are low earners) this whole stock woe is really not effecting us much, oh sure we do have a retirement fund, but since we have eons before retirement and didn't really knwo what it was before the hassle, we can't...

cheap dirt

chadwickdtd@gmail.com (PrincessPerky) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:18:43 PST

My compost doesn't make near enough dirt to fill in the cracks that this desert has. So I wondered over to the empty lot next door wondering if cutting down the bushes or weeds there would be worth it, and I discovered a pile of grass clippings! Apparently someone in the nearby houses...

Wont ask her

chadwickdtd@gmail.com (PrincessPerky) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:54:57 PST

While I will ask total strangers if they want to buy popcorn, I wont ask this one gal. See she is a bit tight with money, regardless of why, she knows us well enough to feel obliged to say yes. While I do want my son to hear no, I wont risk hearing a yes from someone who has no money to buy.

fundraising time

chadwickdtd@gmail.com (PrincessPerky) — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:10:55 PST

Well, the girl scouts just finished a fall fundraiser for magazines, I did not pester most folk as it isn't all that universally useful.

And now it is time for boyscouts popcorn sales! I do pester folk for that one, if you don't like popcorn you can buy a military donation, your...

Is Wells Fargo in trouble?

chadwickdtd@gmail.com (PrincessPerky) — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:59:23 PST

I am merely curious, I was fading in and out of sleep while nursing El last night and one channel had a camera pan of the Wells Fargo sign, which happens to be who has our mortgage.

Now I presume if they were in trouble, it would merely mean a new bank would get my payment, maybe...

Guilty of spoiling em

chadwickdtd@gmail.com (PrincessPerky) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:48:56 PST

I am guilty of spoiling my kids.

UE has a workbook full of a variety of worksheets. All full color, and plenty of fluff. JC has a full color fluffy math book, so when GMC said he wanted one of his own...I put it on the list to get. I know he doesn't need one, but, what harm can...

Camp cheaper than home?

chadwickdtd@gmail.com (PrincessPerky) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:41:19 PST

No on the one hand I have to pay for the camp. 20 for two, two nights, 3 meals.

Plus there will be snacks, usually apples, slimjims, something for breakfast, and trail mix.

on the other hand if home those two would still eat the breakfast and snacks.

plus those other 3 meals,...

Dentist

chadwickdtd@gmail.com (PrincessPerky) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:50:49 PST

Well we got back from the dentist with two sets of healthy teeth. (only JC and GMC go yet)

and the bank account is $250 smaller.

I am so not looking forward to April when UE joins the dental crowd.

On the way we were listening to "The Lion the Witch, and the Wardrobe". We...

Feathers and flowers (phoenix)

chadwickdtd@gmail.com (PrincessPerky) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:05:23 PST

Well the kids party is coming soon.

The final theme(s) is (are) flowers, easy and phoenix/feathers..not so easy. though possibly easier than fireworks. (we do combined because they are not that far apart in age and close in date of bday)

so far I have bright invitations combining...

long rant on my job

chadwickdtd@gmail.com (PrincessPerky) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:59:57 PST

I am more scared by the idea that one cannot survive on one income than on the idea that I only have one.

If anything terrible should happen I can easily go get a job (I am a teacher we are always in demand here)

But if I NEEDED two, could I find quality day care? would I want...

It's a good thing I am home all day

chadwickdtd@gmail.com (PrincessPerky) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:04:28 PST

Tuesday is scout night, I take my family to scouts, all 4 of the kids. only the older two are in scouts, but there is no alternative for the other 2.

El spent the entire night in someone elses arms, ok I took her for 2 minutes to find someone else to hold her while I did scout...

book tests

chadwickdtd@gmail.com (PrincessPerky) — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:17:43 PST

I found a While back a webiste that will test kids on books then award points that can be used for simple prizes..nothing to dramatic, some tattoos or an ebook.

www.bookadventure.com

The kids have recently been taking tests everyday, or rather I have been asking them to. In...

Junk email about junk email

chadwickdtd@gmail.com (PrincessPerky) — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:36:53 PST

Folks forwarding emails should be reserved for close friends who care, or at least ones you are sure will giggle.

Sening me a non forwarder an email reminding me NOT to forward is a pure waste of both our times!

Please please, stop using the 'all' function of your email, I highly...

I made this

chadwickdtd@gmail.com (PrincessPerky) — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:30:45 PST

My dad pointed me to a cool 'scripting' program. He thought my son might like it, which is possible, I dunno boys been in trouble for two days.

Anyway I played with it and I made this little counting program.

scratch count

Actually kindof easy, but I need to figure out...

New (to me) laptop

chadwickdtd@gmail.com (PrincessPerky) — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:27:56 PST

Well the laptop is all loaded up and goes online....but the A key was broken, so I debated if it was better.

Turns out the key was fixed in less than 2 minutes! Husband just took it apart did something put it back together and voila, all better!

He says it was simple and he...

sleep baby sleep

chadwickdtd@gmail.com (PrincessPerky) — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:38:42 PST

El who had been sleeping through the night decided this past three to be up constantly...I am so tired, and I miss my happy baby. I dunno what the deal is, but I sure hope she goes back to sleeping soon!

PS babies who sleep are cheaper...Momma doesn't feel the need for expensive...

The other story

chadwickdtd@gmail.com (PrincessPerky) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:30:29 PST

JC of course wanted to write a story as well..other than worse spelling and no spaces between words, she did rather well for almost 5 anyway:

Harry and Ron took their wands out. Dumbledore came and taught them how to make magic bracelets for Hermoine and Ginny.

story time

chadwickdtd@gmail.com (PrincessPerky) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:47:27 PST

We have been listening to books on tape, right now it is Harry potter and the prisoner of Azkaban. Aparently the children have Harry on the brain!

When I asked my son to write a story he chose "Harry Potter and the Dragon" After some spelling help and a bit of revision here is...

Email on womens vote

chadwickdtd@gmail.com (PrincessPerky) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:41:14 PST

I received this in my email and thought it worth sharing. I too am one of those apathetic voters.

This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers; they lived only 90 years ago.
Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.

The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed

nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote.

And by the end of the night, they were barely alive.

Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing

went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 'obstructing sidewalk traffic.'

They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above

her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air.

They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate,
Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack.

Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging,beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.

Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because
they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote.

For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms.

When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks

until word was smuggled out to the press.

memory
........
Last week, I went to a sparsely attended screening of HBO's new movie 'Iron Jawed Angels.' It is a graphic depiction of the battle these women waged so that I could pull the curtain at the polling booth and have my say. I am ashamed to say I needed the reminder.

All these years later, voter registration is still my passion. But the actual act of voting had become less personal for me, more rote.

Frankly, voting often felt more like an obligation than a privilege.

Sometimes it was inconvenient.
....
'What would those women think of the way I use , or don't use, my right to vote? All of us take it for granted now, not just
younger women, but those of us who did seek to learn.'
......

but we are not voting in the numbers that we should be, and I think
a little shock therapy is in order.

It is jarring to watch Woodrow Wilson and his cronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could be permanently institutionalized. And it is inspiring to watch the doctor refuse. Alice Paul was strong, he said, and brave. That didn't make her crazy.

The doctor admonished the men: 'Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.'
...

I want a new house

chadwickdtd@gmail.com (PrincessPerky) — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:24:00 PST

I want a new (to us) bigger house. I do not need a new house, I want one.

One with preferably 4 bedrooms, one for boys, girls, us and his stuff.

a dining room would be nice as well to play games on.

I think moving would be a lovely way to declutter, though I imagine my...