The PW Camp

[piqaboo]

ROTFLMAO!

[Trumpetmaster]

Excellent!!!!

[piqaboo]

I am in mid production and launch for one study and just got handed one that's up & running, to add to the 2 I need to lock,
the othe r2 that are up and running. That's 5, soon to be 6 when Repro gets going. I think that's the most in the dept. Oh my.

[jamiebk]

I just noticed that today (11/10/09) marks 4 years that I have been participating on this board. It's been fun and a pleasure some 3300+ posts later.

[Trumpetmaster]

Congratulations!!!
I'll drink to that

[Shapley]

Congratulations!!!
I'll drink to that

I take it you didn't pick up any cowboy boots while you were in Olathe, TM. I meant to mention a while back that Olathe Boots are made in Texas...

[Trumpetmaster]

Congratulations!!!
I'll drink to that

I take it you didn't pick up any cowboy boots while you were in Olathe, TM. I meant to mention a while back that Olathe Boots are made in Texas...

Shapley,
No...
I did see lots of cowboy hats in the local watering holes that we went to!
I may wind up going back to Olathe sometime 1st quarter of 2010.
Regards,
TM

[Schmeelkie]

Sheesh - I've been on for over 3 years and haven't gotten to 1000 yet... probably because I don't generally go to 'The Debate Team'. Nothing like a good arguement to increase your posts...just that I'm very nonconfrontational and barely have a chance to keep up with what's going on....not enough info to post an informed opinion. I could post my gut feelings, but someone would point out something obvious and shoot me down and I'd feel stupid... That's why - even though I work at a hospital (OK, I just do research and don't interact with patients), I won't comment on the health care bill. Just don't know enough - just moved, no time to find out.

[Schmeelkie]

Most days I bring lunch to work, but sometimes when I'm feeling lazy or like today, can't get my act together enough in the morning, I'll buy. The cafeteria is generally mediocre-OK. Today they were featuring a beef stew and my cold-ridden body said - get that! Great choice - great thick gravy, lots of carrots and peas, nice big not fatty pieces of beef over a buttery biscuit. Warm and filling and just what I need to kill this cold. OK - chicken noodle soup would have won over, but this is great. My kids are in that plain food, no mixing phase, so I don't make stuff like this at home much. Ahhh, Schmeelkie's tummy is happy!

[piqaboo]

Stew!

My kid never got to have that no-mixing phase. I am way to lazy to separate food that carefully on the plate.
Thank goodness she's easy going about food, or it might have gotten as nasty at dinner time as it sometimes does at bedtime in Chez PiqOToid.

[Schmeelkie]

Having their bedrooms right next to each other and them sharing a bathroom (2 sinks!) has really helped bedtime. Pumpkin wants to race for getting into jammies, Bella wants to brush with big brother, and Bella can easily come and go while I read to Pumpkin, and Pumpkin doesn't feel as mildly scared/lonely as he can hear me reading to Bella next door after turning off his lights. Even morning is getting easier as Pumpkin often wants to read, so now husband says, get dressed now and I'll read until the bus comes. He can see it coming from our front windows - time enough to make it if he's shod and jacketed already. Then I can focus on Bella and myself - the boys are taken care of.

Food is still a bit of an issue, but I'll let them get away with being a little picky. As long as they try new stuff (really just starting that with Bella), I'm happy to make an easy substitution if they hate whatever. They actually eat pretty healthily... heck, Pumpkin almost always chooses applesauce over french fries when we go out. OK, he's still getting a hot dog 90% of the time...but has been branching out to burgers sometimes. Most of the time he chooses getting a ham sub when we're at the mall for lunch. Bella's my pizza girl, but it's also really easy to get her to eat fruit and yogurt, so I don't worry about her diet. I am curious about what they'll eat at Thanksgiving....hopefully Bella won't just eat potatoes and carrots...

[jamiebk]

my Nephew went through a stage of only eating "white" foods. Noodles/pasta, couscous, bread, veal or white meat chicken ...cauliflower, rice...seriously..nothing green, brown, red etc. Oh...and milk of course. It was bizzare

[Schmeelkie]

Jamie - I have a nephew who went through a phase where he ate little other than buttered white bread. He survived it. He just turned 9 and is 4'7" tall - basically up to my nose!

On my way out with a hot cup of tea! My way of dealing with one of those days when it's in the 50s in the am, and is dropping rapidly into the low 40s by late afternoon. At least the kids are excited about snow....

[piqaboo]

Just bought my opera tix for next season. Saturday nights this time (opening nights) - I get to dress up!

[jamiebk]

Jamie - I have a nephew who went through a phase where he ate little other than buttered white bread. He survived it. He just turned 9 and is 4'7" tall - basically up to my nose!

Of course, if he ate normally he'd probably be 5' 3" now....

[Schmeelkie]

Ha, ha Jamie....

Pumpkin is not as big as his cousins, but I'm sure he'll be taller than me by the time he hits his teens. Nephew will probably be above me by age 11...his little brother who is only ~9 months older than Bella is almost a head taller than her. And she's been keeping up with her brother so far, heightwise. My brother and his wife make big boys, apparently. Their twin girls are just about average (50th percentile), which is a bit of a shock to their parents, being used to their big boys...

My friend's son was 5'3" by age 11...'course she's 6' herself...felt like a midget many years ago at his baptism - her family are all tall - the teenage cousins towered over me...

[bignaf]

I;m glad this thread is still active and kicking. populated by its old denizens too (I'm not saying you're old!)

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

It's a lovely thread, beautifully aimless and worth keeping alive.

On a tangent, I've always pictured a "denizen" as a whiskery, tentacley sort of critter, a seaside sort of sealbeargnome, with a perilous sense of humor and a strong liking for mussels with aquavit sauce, and cioppino with sourdough rolls, and a nice horde of lovely rocks that she keeps behind the spare loom frames. And a library, of course, and a good sound system.

A little like me, perhaps, on an extremely bad hair day.

[jamiebk]

Yup....this is the place for anything and everything that won't fit anywhere else. ramblings and ravings welcome

[Schmeelkie]

Selma - ever thought of writing fantasy/children's books? You've got a great imagination for fantasy...think a denizen is dancing to Medieval Babes in my head right now...