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m1279 said:
Hi Daisy! Just saw this, I'm sorry! Was busy at work today, and catching up on Hannah being found over the weekend when i had a chance to get online.

I'm sure my parents would help me but i don't want to bother them. They have enough going on with my siblings right now. It's only a few more days. The Mucinex i bought seems to be helping a tad, and I'm keeping my apt as cool as i can like Zuri suggested. I tell you though, I've never coughed like this in my life! It's exhausting. However, I'm on day 6 of no cigarettes and i don't miss them a bit.

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If you get ROBITUSSIN DM it will help to break up the mucus and act as an expectorant. It also helps with the cough. Very important. No Benadryl, sudafed or those type meds. HTH
 
It's been so quiet in here the last day and a bit...where is everyone

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josie1986 said:
It's been so quiet in here the last day and a bit...where is everyone

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I am here! It will no longer be quiet! :floorlaugh:
 
Zuri said:
I am here! It will no longer be quiet! :floorlaugh:
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And neither will I be quiet! :floorlaugh:

Some funnies:

A History of the World...
(...according to students.)
1. Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere.
2. The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible, Guinessis, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. One of their children, Cain, asked, "Am I my brother's son?"
3. Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread which is bread made without any ingredients. Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. He died before he ever reached Canada.
4. Solomom had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines.
5. The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn't have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth.
6. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.
7. Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.
8. In the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits, and threw the java.
9. Eventually, the Romans conquered the Greeks. History calls peopl eRomans because they never stayed in one place for very long.
10. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out: "Tee hee, Brutus."
11. Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his subjects by playing the fiddle to them.
12. Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was cannonized by Bernard Shaw. Finally Magna Carta provided that no man should be hanged twice for the same offense.
13. In midevil times most people were alliterate. The greatest writer of the futile ages was Chaucer who wrote many poems and verses and also wrote literature.
14. Another story was William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son's head.
15. Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen." As a queen she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted "hurrah."
16. It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking. And Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper.
17. The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies, comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter. Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couplet. Romeo's last wish was to be laid by Juliet.
18. Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.
19. During the Renaissance America began. Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic. His ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe.
20. Later, the Pilgrims crossed the ocean, and this was called Pilgrim's Progress. The winter of 1620 was a hard one for the settlers. Many people died and many babies were born. Captain John Smith was responsible for all this.
21. One of the causes of the Revolutionary War was the English put tacks in their tea. Also, the colonists would send their parcels through the post without stamps. Finally the colonists won the War and no longer had to pay for taxis. Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the declaration of Independence. Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats backwards and declared, "A horse divided against itself cannot stand.". Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.
22. Soon the Constitution of the United States was adopted to secure domestic hostility. Under the constitution the people enjoyed the right to keep bare arms.
23. Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent. Lincoln's mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation Proclamation. On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. The believed assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposedly insane actor. This ruined Booth's career.
24. Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment was a reasonable time. Voltaire invented electricity and also wrote a book called Candy.
25. Gravity was invented by Issac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the autumn when the apples are falling off the trees.
26. Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children. In between he practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was half German half Italian and half English. He was very large.
27. Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.
28. The French Revolution was accomplished before it happened and catapulted into Napoleon. Napoleon wanted an heir to inherit his power, but since Josephine was a baroness, she couldn't have any children.
29. The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West.
30. Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years.

Assignment
The teacher gave her fifth grade class an assignment: Go home and get their parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it. The next day the kids came back and one by one began to tell their stories:
Ashley said, "My father's a farmer and we have a lot of egg-laying hens. One time we were taking our eggs to market in a basket on the front seat of the pickup when we hit a big bump in the road and all the eggs went flying and broke and made a mess."
"And what's the moral of the story?" asked the teacher.
"Don't put all your eggs in one basket!"
"Very good," said the teacher.
Next little Sarah raised her hand and said, "Our family are farmers too. But we raise chickens for the meat market. We had a dozen eggs one time, but when they hatched we only got ten live chicks, and the moral to this story is, 'don't count your chickens before they're hatched.'"
"That was a fine story Sarah."
"Michael, do you have a story to share?"
"Yes, ma'am, my daddy told me this story about my Aunt Karen. Aunt Karen was a flight engineer in Desert Storm and her plane got hit. She had to bailout over enemy territory and all she had was a bottle of whiskey, a machine gun and a machete. She drank the whiskey on the way down so it wouldn't break and then she landed right in the middle of 100 enemy troops. She killed seventy of them with the machine gun until she ran out of bullets. Then she killed twenty more with the machete until the blade broke. And then she killed the last ten with her bare hands."
"Good heavens," said the horrified teacher, "what kind of moral did your daddy tell you from that horrible story?"
"Stay the Hell away from Aunt Karen when she's been drinking."
 
I forgot- Happy Birthday Sundance!!

:bdsong:

More funnies:

Love Is...
A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, "What does love mean?" The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what you think:
1. "When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love." - Rebecca - age 8
2. "When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth." - Billy - age 4
3. "Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other." - Karl - age 5
4. "Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs." - Chrissy - age 6
5. "Love is when someone hurts you. And you get so mad but you don't yell at them because you know it would hurt their feelings." - Samantha - age 6
6. "Love is what makes you smile when you're tired." - Terri- age 4
7. "Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK." - Danny - age 7
8. "Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss." -Emily - age 8
9. "Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen." - Bobby - age 5
10. "If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate." - Nikka - age 6
11. "Love is hugging, Love is kissing, Love is saying no" - Patty - age 8
12. "When you tell someone something bad about yourself and you're scared they won't love you anymore. But then you get surprised because not only do they still love you, they love you even more." - Matthew - age 7
13. "There are two kinds of love. Our love. God's love. But God makes both kinds of them." - Jenny - age 4
14. "Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday." - Noelle - age 7
15. "Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well." - Tommy - age 6
16. "During my piano recital, I was on a stage and scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling. He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore." - Cindy - age 8
17. "My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night." - Clare - Age 5
18. "Love is when mommy gives daddy the best piece of chicken." - Elaine- age 5
19. "Love is when mommy sees daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford." - Chris - age 8
20. "Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day." - Mary Ann - age 4
21. "I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones." - Lauren - age - 4
22. "I let my big sister pick on me because my Mom says she only picks on me because she loves me. So I pick on my baby sister because I love her." - Bethany - age 4
23. "Love cards like Valentine's cards say stuff on them that we'd like to say ourselves, but we wouldn't be caught dead saying." - Mike - age 8
24. "When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you." - Karen - age 7
25. "Love is when mommy sees daddy on the toilet and she doesn't think it's gross." - Mark - age 6
26. "You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget."- Jessica - age 8
27. "Love is that first feeling you feel before all the bad stuff gets in the way." - Charlie - age 5

Prayers Before Bed
A father put his three year old daughter to bed, told her a story and listened to her prayers which she ended by saying "God bless Mommy, God bless daddy, God bless grandma and good-bye grandpa."
The father asked, "Why did you say good-bye grandpa?"
The little girl said, "I don't know daddy, it just seemed like the thing to do."
The next day grandpa died. The father thought it was a strange coincidence.
A few months later the father put the girl to bed and listened to her prayers, which went like this: "God bless Mommy, God Bless daddy and good-bye grandma."
The next day the grandmother died. Oh my gosh, thought the father, this kid is in contact with the other side.
Several weeks later when the girl was going to bed the dad heard her say "God bless Mommy and good-bye daddy."
He practically went into shock. He couldn't sleep all night and got up at the crack of dawn to go to his office. He was nervous as a cat all day, had lunch sent in and watched the clock.
He figured if he could get by until midnight he would be okay. He felt safe in the office, so instead of going home at the end of the day he stayed there, drinking coffee, looking at his watch and jumping at every sound.
Finally midnight arrived, he breathed a sigh of relief and went home.
When he got home his wife said "I've never seen you work so late, what's the matter?"
He said "I don't want to talk about it, I've just spent the worst day of my life."
She said "You think you had a bad day, you'll never believe what happened to me. This morning the milkman dropped dead on our porch."

:seeya: :floorlaugh: :floorlaugh:
 
How smart are you? Could you pass this exam? :truce:
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This copy of the Eighth Grade Exam for Bullitt County Schools in 1912 was donated to the museum. We thought you might like to see what the test looked like a hundred years ago. Obviously it tested some things that were more relevant at that time than now, and it should not be used to compare student knowledge then and now.
http://www.bullittcountyhistory.com/bchistory/schoolexam1912.html

And the answers are here:
http://www.bullittcountyhistory.com/bchistory/schoolexam1912ans.html
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Pretty intensive. :moo:
 
Pneumonia. Why you don't delay medical care by Zuri

In October of 2009, I had H1N1 Pneumonia. Of the 15 people in the US that had it in the month of October, I am the only one that lived. The others died of complications from it. I thought I had bronchitis at first and I knew how to treat it. However, the respiratory treatments, my rescue inhaler and antibiotics did not work. I got worse, with extreme muscle fatigue and shortness of breath. I had a chest X-ray that showed a lower lobar pneumonia. However, i knew my symptoms were atypical of a "normal" pneumonia.

I had the feeling of doom. That got my husband's attention fast. I told him I needed to go to the ER. Having worked in an ER for most of my professional career, it was the last resort in my head. I knew something was wrong, very wrong. They admitted me to a monitored unit in the hospital where I worked, where I knew every doctor, and could run my own care. I did that to absolve my husband of any responsibility as I knew I was far worse than medically obvious.

The CAT scan showed I had lost 80% of my lung function. I was breathing out of the top lobes of my lungs, located just under the clavicle. I was on oxygen and respiratory treatments every 2 hours. I couldn't breathe. If I moved an inch, I became so short of breath, I gasped for air. I got worse. I knew that I had a very high risk of dying. I had a talk with God where I said that if it was my time to go, I was ready as I would love to see my brother in heaven, but I would be pissed because I had 3 children that still needed me.

I was given the equivalent of 800 mg of Prednisone a day, every antibiotic to combat secondary infections. I needed to be intubated but I refused, because that would mean my husband would have to be the one to take me off and I could not do that to him. As a physician, to failure to save a life is devastating. To not be able to save your wife's life would have destroyed him. On the 4th day of my hospitalization, the CAT scan showed heart involvement called viral cardiomyopathy. It can take down a marathoner who ran on Wednesday, and they are dead by Saturday. My husband normally visited after work, usually around 8pm. That day he appeared at noon. I knew something was wrong by the look on his face. I made the joke (which had been a standing joke) that I must really be dying to get his attention. His eyes were glassy so I asked what was wrong. He told me about my heart, and that my doctors had called him to tell him that I didn't have long to live.

I told him in my usual way that the radiologists and 8 specialists were wrong. But they weren't really. I knew it. My husband knew it. I asked for my children who up until that day I hadn't wanted to see as I knew it would scare them to see me like I was. They came and I told them each how much I loved them and how proud I was to be their mother. I told them in short breathy sentences to fulfill their dreams and to remember what I had tried to teach them. Looking back now, I was saying goodbye.

Long story short, I turned a corner. I was able to be discharged on oxygen and a multitude of meds and go home. It took 17 months to recover. I have brain deficits from the lack of oxygen. My processing skills, short term memory, speech have been affected. I have adrenal insufficiency, my immune system is shot and i have a multitude of other problems from the high dose of steroids, but they kept me alive. A small price to pay however frustrating it is not to be able to function mentally and physically as I did before I got sick.

However I have learned valuable lessons that I would never have learned otherwise. I may have lost friends, the ability to work and help others and spend day after day by myself with only my dogs as company. I have a new appreciation for the beauty that surrounds me in the color of the sky, the wispiness of clouds, the sounds of nature, and the laughter of my children and their friends. I no longer take for granted the love that surrounds me and that includes here on WS. I have been the recipient of prayers and kindness from strangers that has brought me to tears. My capacity to care about others has grown 10 fold. And love. My ability to love more deeply has no boundaries anymore.

My point in all this is that you need to take care of yourself first and the rest will follow. Take each day and cherish it and those around you. The goodness that is you has a ripple effect that you may never know, but can have a profound effect, like you all have had on me.

Thanks for letting me drone on. It takes me awhile to write things out and hopefully it makes sense. I am so glad I found you. JMV
 
Zuri said:
Pneumonia. Why you don't delay medical care by Zuri

In October of 2009, I had H1N1 Pneumonia. Of the 15 people in the US that had it in the month of October, I am the only one that lived. The others died of complications from it. I thought I had bronchitis at first and I knew how to treat it. However, the respiratory treatments, my rescue inhaler and antibiotics did not work. I got worse, with extreme muscle fatigue and shortness of breath. I had a chest X-ray that showed a lower lobar pneumonia. However, i knew my symptoms were atypical of a "normal" pneumonia.

I had the feeling of doom. That got my husband's attention fast. I told him I needed to go to the ER. Having worked in an ER for most of my professional career, it was the last resort in my head. I knew something was wrong, very wrong. They admitted me to a monitored unit in the hospital where I worked, where I knew every doctor, and could run my own care. I did that to absolve my husband of any responsibility as I knew I was far worse than medically obvious.

The CAT scan showed I had lost 80% of my lung function. I was breathing out of the top lobes of my lungs, located just under the clavicle. I was on oxygen and respiratory treatments every 2 hours. I couldn't breathe. If I moved an inch, I became so short of breath, I gasped for air. I got worse. I knew that I had a very high risk of dying. I had a talk with God where I said that if it was my time to go, I was ready as I would love to see my brother in heaven, but I would be pissed because I had 3 children that still needed me.

I was given the equivalent of 800 mg of Prednisone a day, every antibiotic to combat secondary infections. I needed to be intubated but I refused, because that would mean my husband would have to be the one to take me off and I could not do that to him. As a physician, to failure to save a life is devastating. To not be able to save your wife's life would have destroyed him. On the 4th day of my hospitalization, the CAT scan showed heart involvement called viral cardiomyopathy. It can take down a marathoner who ran on Wednesday, and they are dead by Saturday. My husband normally visited after work, usually around 8pm. That day he appeared at noon. I knew something was wrong by the look on his face. I made the joke (which had been a standing joke) that I must really be dying to get his attention. His eyes were glassy so I asked what was wrong. He told me about my heart, and that my doctors had called him to tell him that I didn't have long to live.

I told him in my usual way that the radiologists and 8 specialists were wrong. But they weren't really. I knew it. My husband knew it. I asked for my children who up until that day I hadn't wanted to see as I knew it would scare them to see me like I was. They came and I told them each how much I loved them and how proud I was to be their mother. I told them in short breathy sentences to fulfill their dreams and to remember what I had tried to teach them. Looking back now, I was saying goodbye.

Long story short, I turned a corner. I was able to be discharged on oxygen and a multitude of meds and go home. It took 17 months to recover. I have brain deficits from the lack of oxygen. My processing skills, short term memory, speech have been affected. I have adrenal insufficiency, my immune system is shot and i have a multitude of other problems from the high dose of steroids, but they kept me alive. A small price to pay however frustrating it is not to be able to function mentally and physically as I did before I got sick.

However I have learned valuable lessons that I would never have learned otherwise. I may have lost friends, the ability to work and help others and spend day after day by myself with only my dogs as company. I have a new appreciation for the beauty that surrounds me in the color of the sky, the wispiness of clouds, the sounds of nature, and the laughter of my children and their friends. I no longer take for granted the love that surrounds me and that includes here on WS. I have been the recipient of prayers and kindness from strangers that has brought me to tears. My capacity to care about others has grown 10 fold. And love. My ability to love more deeply has no boundaries anymore.

My point in all this is that you need to take care of yourself first and the rest will follow. Take each day and cherish it and those around you. The goodness that is you has a ripple effect that you may never know, but can have a profound effect, like you all have had on me.

Thanks for letting me drone on. It takes me awhile to write things out and hopefully it makes sense. I am so glad I found you. JMV
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OMG, Zuri- what a story. Don't worry- it makes sense. There are lessons to be learned in everything that happens to us. You just have to listen to those lessons and not make the same mistakes. I'm glad you're still here with us. :seeya:
 
Zuri said:
Pneumonia. Why you don't delay medical care by Zuri

In October of 2009, I had H1N1 Pneumonia. Of the 15 people in the US that had it in the month of October, I am the only one that lived. The others died of complications from it. I thought I had bronchitis at first and I knew how to treat it. However, the respiratory treatments, my rescue inhaler and antibiotics did not work. I got worse, with extreme muscle fatigue and shortness of breath. I had a chest X-ray that showed a lower lobar pneumonia. However, i knew my symptoms were atypical of a "normal" pneumonia.

I had the feeling of doom. That got my husband's attention fast. I told him I needed to go to the ER. Having worked in an ER for most of my professional career, it was the last resort in my head. I knew something was wrong, very wrong. They admitted me to a monitored unit in the hospital where I worked, where I knew every doctor, and could run my own care. I did that to absolve my husband of any responsibility as I knew I was far worse than medically obvious.

The CAT scan showed I had lost 80% of my lung function. I was breathing out of the top lobes of my lungs, located just under the clavicle. I was on oxygen and respiratory treatments every 2 hours. I couldn't breathe. If I moved an inch, I became so short of breath, I gasped for air. I got worse. I knew that I had a very high risk of dying. I had a talk with God where I said that if it was my time to go, I was ready as I would love to see my brother in heaven, but I would be pissed because I had 3 children that still needed me.

I was given the equivalent of 800 mg of Prednisone a day, every antibiotic to combat secondary infections. I needed to be intubated but I refused, because that would mean my husband would have to be the one to take me off and I could not do that to him. As a physician, to failure to save a life is devastating. To not be able to save your wife's life would have destroyed him. On the 4th day of my hospitalization, the CAT scan showed heart involvement called viral cardiomyopathy. It can take down a marathoner who ran on Wednesday, and they are dead by Saturday. My husband normally visited after work, usually around 8pm. That day he appeared at noon. I knew something was wrong by the look on his face. I made the joke (which had been a standing joke) that I must really be dying to get his attention. His eyes were glassy so I asked what was wrong. He told me about my heart, and that my doctors had called him to tell him that I didn't have long to live.

I told him in my usual way that the radiologists and 8 specialists were wrong. But they weren't really. I knew it. My husband knew it. I asked for my children who up until that day I hadn't wanted to see as I knew it would scare them to see me like I was. They came and I told them each how much I loved them and how proud I was to be their mother. I told them in short breathy sentences to fulfill their dreams and to remember what I had tried to teach them. Looking back now, I was saying goodbye.

Long story short, I turned a corner. I was able to be discharged on oxygen and a multitude of meds and go home. It took 17 months to recover. I have brain deficits from the lack of oxygen. My processing skills, short term memory, speech have been affected. I have adrenal insufficiency, my immune system is shot and i have a multitude of other problems from the high dose of steroids, but they kept me alive. A small price to pay however frustrating it is not to be able to function mentally and physically as I did before I got sick.

However I have learned valuable lessons that I would never have learned otherwise. I may have lost friends, the ability to work and help others and spend day after day by myself with only my dogs as company. I have a new appreciation for the beauty that surrounds me in the color of the sky, the wispiness of clouds, the sounds of nature, and the laughter of my children and their friends. I no longer take for granted the love that surrounds me and that includes here on WS. I have been the recipient of prayers and kindness from strangers that has brought me to tears. My capacity to care about others has grown 10 fold. And love. My ability to love more deeply has no boundaries anymore.

My point in all this is that you need to take care of yourself first and the rest will follow. Take each day and cherish it and those around you. The goodness that is you has a ripple effect that you may never know, but can have a profound effect, like you all have had on me.

Thanks for letting me drone on. It takes me awhile to write things out and hopefully it makes sense. I am so glad I found you. JMV
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Very moving Zuri - hugs to you :hug: You care so much for others, and we can all learn something from your words.
 
Zuri said:
Please don't be so hard on yerself. We adore you anyway. I have no clue to whom else you are referring. :seeya:
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Welcome back, Z woman. And behave yerself :floorlaugh:
 
I had this wondrous thing happen that I had to share.

A friend of my daughter bought a kitten in a pet store for a girl who did not return his affection. He was in the process of moving and asked my daughter to watch the kitten over this past weekend. She went down with the rest of my family to my MIL's and as I couldn't go for health reasons, I was here alone. I opened the door to her room to check on the kitten and brought him into my room for company. OMG. I felt this feeling wash over me that I had not felt in a long time. It was the same feeling I had when I first met my husband, when I first saw my children and held them, when I first saw my dream horse and both my dogs. Love. Pure, unadulterated love.

The kitten is a reincarnation of my beloved first cat who died at 18. He cuddled with me, slept above my head, and made me laugh. I told my daughter that her friend couldn't have the cat back. When she came back, she said we had to give the kitten back. I was hysterical because I knew they would not take care of him like I would. He has something wrong with the bones in his front legs, and needs vet attention. He is skinny and was not on the correct food, let alone enough of it.

The kitten is now mine, with the permission of the young man. I am overjoyed. My husband of course said we didn't need one more animal, blah, blah, blah. Too bad. They may want him back one day, but I will catnap the cat who is catnapping on my shoulder as I write. Happy happy joy joy.
 
YESorNO said:
How smart are you? Could you pass this exam? :truce:
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This copy of the Eighth Grade Exam for Bullitt County Schools in 1912 was donated to the museum. We thought you might like to see what the test looked like a hundred years ago. Obviously it tested some things that were more relevant at that time than now, and it should not be used to compare student knowledge then and now.
http://www.bullittcountyhistory.com/bchistory/schoolexam1912.html

And the answers are here:
http://www.bullittcountyhistory.com/bchistory/schoolexam1912ans.html
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Pretty intensive. :moo:
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I failed miserably.
 
daisymae said:
He's adorable and very handsome! :seeya:
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you'd think butter wouldn't melt eh,he is a right pain sometimes :facepalm: :fence:

im looking forward to some me time,but i can't wrap my head around where the last 4 and a half years have went. hes not my little baby anymore.
 
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