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Off-Topic / Passover/Easter

« on: April 02, 2015, 08:28:15 am »Message ID: 971596

I just wanted to wish all of the Jewish members of FC a very happy Passover. Enjoy your seder's and the week the different matzo combo's you can come up with. I for one am looking very forward to having some good Charoset and matzo bri. And for those non Jews out there I hope you have a very happy Easter. Enjoy the Easter egg hunts and if you spend it with family enjoy that as well!!!!!

 

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Off-Topic / books

« on: March 07, 2015, 07:09:23 am »Message ID: 965446

Okay so I am asked very frequently `How many books do you read a week?' I can't reply by week but how about if I just say for the month of February I read 6 1/2 books. And I'm talking about these little books of under 200 pages. every single one of the books had at least 350 pages and it isn't in the big bold type either but little similar to how I'm typing now. I can't recall how many for Jan. but so far for March I have finished the book I started at the end of Feb. and have completed a second. Lets see how many I read during the year.

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Off-Topic / grieving

« on: December 15, 2014, 06:17:25 am »Message ID: 943180

So for the last 18 weeks or so my father has been very ill. The end of July he was taken to the hospital and never made it back home. I spoke to my mom on Tuesday night about 9:30 for about fifteen minutes or so. So when the phone rang again from her at 11 I knew something was wrong. She told me the nursing home had just called saying daddy had just passed away. We knew it was coming and that it would most likely be before the new year. But even so it is so hard.
In the Jewish religion the funeral has  to be within 3 days. Mom was really hoping it could be pushed off till Sunday since the third day is the Sabbath, but we were able to get it scheduled for noon on Friday so it was ok. It was very rushed though. We ( my husband and I) decided since we are only 2 1/2 hours away from mom that we would hold off on telling our 12 year old till the last possible moment. We knew if she was told she would not want to go to school on Wednesday nor Thursday and since we knew we would be out of town for at least part of the following week we thought it best.
We pulled her from school on Thursday about an hour and a quarter before dismissial. When she walked into the office and saw me she asked what was wrong. Why was she being pulled early when she was suppose to stay after for tutoring. All I said was I shouldn't have to tell her what was wrong and she should know and she started crying right there.
The only family we were able to get here on such short notice from out of town(meaning out of Georgia) was my moms sister and husband. They left to fly back to Jersey yesterday.
Anyway after the funeral we went back to the temple for a luncheon the ladies had prepared. That evening it was back to the temple for evening services. Saturday evening we had shiva services here at moms house. There was maybe 15 people or so besides for the family here. Of course my brother and his family were notoriously late like they always are so my daughter (my now 20 year old) and I had to set up all of the food and all.  Last night we again had shiva services here (both starting at 7:30) and again my brother was late.  I mean they only live on the other side of town...Anyway there was a lot more people here last night then on Saturday. People my mom didn't expect because it had been a while since she had seen them, but they thought so highly of my daddy...
Anyway things have calmed down now. There won't be shiva tonight so we can take it easy. I can work on writing out some of the thank you cards for my mom( specially since if she did it nobody would be able to read it) and maybe my sister-in-law will do what I don't get done since we are going back home tomorrow afternoon. We can get on with doing Hanukkah for the kids which starts tomorrow night.
Daddy was always the one who made Latka's for Hanukkah and they were some of the best. Most everyone who came for shiva said how good they were. He haden't been in the kitchen at the temple in about five years helping cook for the community party and those that had been in there with him talked about how he will be missed.
Since we are going home tomorrow I asked mom if she wanted to do Hanukkah tonight and my daughter and I would attempt to do daddys latka's. My sister-in-law said she would let us know. I hope I can do my daddy proud and make them as good as he could. I've got big shoes to fill but...
Every time I make one of his recipies I will think of daddy. He will be missed but loved.
   

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Off-Topic / Books!

« on: November 08, 2014, 07:03:48 am »Message ID: 933516

Okay so as I have stated before I love to read along with my 19 year old(20 next month). We both read the same kind of books, Romance...Ie... Historical and regular long as it is a book of at least 300 pages. Don't give me a book of 150 or less because I would have it done in about 3 hours or so. We also like to read the paranormal books... Shape shifters, vampires, time travel. We have our fav. authors we like reading too.
But we just found a new one that we like very much so far. Our public library has books that are donated and are sold for .50- 2.00 or more depending on the condition. So I pulled a shape shifter romance book that looked interesting. When I opened it up I found it was a third book of a four book series. Typicially I don't like to read books that are part of a series without reading the one before it first. But this one flowed so well. I finished it in 3 1/2 days and it was almost 400 pages. (Busy week for me so I didn't have as much time to read as I would like.) I mailed it off to my daughter 2 days later since it was late Friday night that I finished. At the library we found the fourth book on the shelves to borrow so I got it and ordered the other two. Read the fourth book in two days and when we turned it back in they had gotten the second in from another library in the state so I got that one and started it. Then the first one came in the next day. So lets just say that as of last night I have read three books in just over a weeks time and started on the first one.
The books are by Christina Dodd and are the Darkness Chosen  series if any one likes that kind of book read them and let me know if you like them just like I did and do.

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Off-Topic / Tween's

« on: July 01, 2014, 07:38:28 am »Message ID: 895164

Ok so I am officially the mother of my last tween today. My youngest is 12 today. She has a 19 year old sister who like any `teenage' girl likes looking at guys. But the 12 year old is doing it now and commenting on how `sexy' they look. She is your typical girl liking the boy bands (One Direction to be more precise) but for me to hear her say it about some of the actors in the Vampire Academy movie her sister loves... I guess its time to sit her down and start having the full talk with her now...

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Off-Topic / Grad!

« on: May 28, 2014, 09:01:07 am »Message ID: 884061

So as I posted on a few others about this past weekend... We had my daughters graduation from high school from high school this weekend. It was GREAT and the school assured us that even though there was over 250 in the class it would run no more then an hour and half and they were right. We live outside Atlanta and all of our counties (that we live in) schools were having their graduation ceremonies at the GA Dome. There are nine high schools in the county and they were doing them all in two days... Yesterday and today. With four being done one day and five the other. My daughters school was the first one to be done of the nine. She had to be there at 7am and grad started at 9. We are so proud of her. It was a long hard time but she did it.

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Off-Topic / sleep deprived?

« on: April 26, 2014, 07:11:00 am »Message ID: 873596

So has anyone gone to the ER about 11pm and not even taken back to an exam room until three hours or so later?
My husband had to take me to the ER on Thursday night when I had sever pain in my left side. We got there at 11:48pm and didn't even get taken to the back until almost three. I couldn't scream out in the waiting room every time the pain hit so I had to grit my teeth and grimace.
Then they did a CT about 4am and said it would be about an hour and half or so before the results were in. My husband was in the chair in the room and me on one of those  gurneys they have. I think I was only able to close my eyes for fifteen minutes. Between the monitor they had me hooked up to and the maintenance guy polishing the floor right outside the door...
Then we got home at 6:30am and there was only a half hour before having to wake my youngest up to get ready for school. My husband took her to school while I sat on the bed with the oldest getting her packed for the convention she is attending this weekend with the youth group. She had to meet the bus an hour and half from us so we had to meet a friend halfway who was taking the kids the rest of the way.
It was 11pm when I finally went to sleep. 

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Debate & Discuss / Passover/ Easter

« on: April 13, 2014, 11:01:44 am »Message ID: 870177

Ok so normally Passover and Easter are at the some time. But this year Passover actually falls first starting on Tomorrow night. But then all of our Jewish Holidays this year have fallen early. So I just want to wish all of you out in the FC nation who celebrate Passover a happy Hag Samacha (Happy Passover). May you enjoy all of the matza and matza ball soup. And to those who don't do Passover but do Easter next week a happy Easter.  

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Off-Topic / The Masters

« on: April 08, 2014, 06:42:56 am »Message ID: 868599

So I grew up in the Augusta, GA area, but now live in the ATL area, and the week of Masters there is so much traffic it actually rivals ATL. The old house I grew up in was about three miles or so from the course and we learned very quickly if you had to hit the main road where the course is you better be on the side you needed to be even if you had to go several miles out of your way to get there because you would never be able to make the left turns into the shopping centers. Watching the news last night I saw that the first practice rounds were washed out because of rain.
I remember working the concession stand one year and watching all of these people walk by me in some of the strangest pants. There was even a man who had giraffes on his pants. I'm sorry but golf is just not one of the sports I even understand. And like I said I grew up right there from the time I 5 till 23.
My mom and dad would like us to come home for the weekend and see them but I don't think we will. I mean yeah they are no longer in the house I grew up in and live on the other side of town but it is still off of Washington road. 

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Off-Topic / earthquake

« on: February 15, 2014, 05:59:25 am »Message ID: 851121

Ok so I am at my parents house for the weekend and last night after I signed off of here the whole house shook  and there was a loud noise like a plane was flying to low. We are in Augusta, Ga. and I have lived here just about my whole life. At least in the state. My family and I live outside Atlanta for the last 20 years but we always come home. I'm 47 and was 5 when we moved down from Jersey. Mom went to bed and came out a few minutes later and said that what we had felt was an earthquake. They were just talking bout  it on the news. As long as I've lived here there has NEVER BEEN AN EARTHQUAKE HERE!!!!!!!   

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Off-Topic / cosmos

« on: January 31, 2014, 06:10:35 am »Message ID: 845352

Just a note out to the cosmos. Happy 22nd my darling. We miss you.

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Off-Topic / Phillidelphia

« on: January 21, 2014, 02:16:54 pm »Message ID: 842094

So my husband and I were flipping channels yesterday after I got done watching GH and we found the Tom Hanks movie Phillidelphia. I never really watched it before and we did miss the first hour but OMG! That movie is so well acted and such a tear jerker. Specially since I had a couple friends I went to school with who later died from AIDES. What do you all think of the movie?
 

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Off-Topic / Thanksgiving break

« on: November 22, 2013, 06:54:28 am »Message ID: 820591

So today is the last day of school for a week and both of my girls are going to my parents house without us for at least half the week. My 18 year old has so many plans I don't know how she hopes to accomplish them all. She and her cousin want to go see the new Hunger Games movie. Then the boy she is seeing lives there too and she wants to spend time with him since the only time they see each other is when she goes there,( my parents are two hours away from us.) He is my nephews best friend and that is how they met. None of them have their liscenes yet only permits so that means my parents or sister-in law driving them around. But my daughter has also said that she would like to be the one to do Thanksgiving dinner. Never has even cooked a turkey so this is going to be an experance.
Both she and her younger sister take Choir at school, the little one at the middle school and the older one at the high school, so they are both working on learning their songs for their Christmas concerts. And since we are Jewish and they are the only ones in their schools that is, as far as we know, they are having to teach the proper way to do the Jewish songs. And since Hanukkah falls at Thanksgiving this year( first time in many, many years and the next time this is to happen  is 2060 something) they have been saying "Happy Thanksgivakah to their teachers and even some friends. A lot of people are looking at them like they are weird but they are just repeating what they've heard. It has even been said on TV on one of the shows. (Lets see who out there can say which.)
So let me end this by wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving and Those of you who are Jewish or even just do Hanukkah a Happy and Peaceful Hanukkah.

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Off-Topic / rant

« on: November 07, 2013, 03:17:52 pm »Message ID: 815565

What is it with kids today? I'm sitting at the library and these four girls probabley from 11 to 17 are being all loud and cussing up a storm. Don't parents teach their children any manners! I will be the first to admit that my almost 19 year old can have a very fresh mouth but she doesn't behave the way these girls were out in public. You only get a set time here and four of them were trying to do their work off one computer. The one that was on when I sat down to my assigned computer next to them was pecking at the keys and the others were yelling at her to move and let them type what she was trying to and when she didn't want to the two older ones started cussing. I looked at them and said this was a public place and they shouldn't be acting the way they were. the women to the other side said basically the same thing to them when they continued to be all loud. If you are in a library you are suppose to whisper! Plus it clearly states that there is only suppose to be one person per computer. Now yes some parents will sit behind their kids and help them with some of their homeowrk if they need it like I will with my 11 year old but we are quiet about it and not shoveing and all at them.

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Word Chains & Countdowns / daughters

« on: October 12, 2013, 06:17:41 am »Message ID: 804983

Okay so I don't expect any replies for this one but... As many of you out there in the FC nation know I have los a daughter to serious illness. Well today is the 14 year anniversary of her death and I just wanted to send out my thoughts to her. Not that I don't talk to her all the time cause I do but today is different. So "Baby" give me the strength to get through today with minimal tears during this event that you never got to do that we have to go to. Help us all be at peace.
And now to those of you who have lost a child as well... If it is a recent lose time does make it better and not hurt as much but you will never forget the one you don't have anymore. Special events that the child never got to have like a sweet 16, gradation from high school, etc will get to you when you go to these things, even regular birthdays for a while. (it took three years for me to even be able to sing Happy B'day to my other two daughters and family without crying) One day at time is what it takes. May the  Angels watch over us who have lost a child.