We now have a gate to fix, because of Isaac's driving in Sharing 4-7-6.

[Roscoe]

Lands. Mel, I'm sorry they are doing that to you.
I am eating a microwaved potpie- not homemade, it was simply handy and I'm lazy tonight. I have completed my sermon for tomorrow- kinda. I think. If He don't change it.

And y'all have been way to quiet today.

[The Purple Fuzzy]

I think all I've done is cook and wash dishes today.

[Heather]

I"m sorry Mel  Brandon's dad makes an effort to take care of things when we are away but we know it's hard on him. He doesn't really complain but you can tell it stresses him out.

Went and met up with Brandon's cousin/best friend and his wife. We're gonna try to do some coupley things with them. Dinner, movies, those types of double date things.

Tomorrow is my 1st day of cross training at work. I'm nervous but the girl training me is awesome. I know she won't get flustered with me and she'll explain things to me. [Repeatedly if needed.]

[Lynx]

For some reason I like training people.  Maybe it's the nerd in me - I explain everything they need to know, everything they might need to know, everything I've learned that makes the job faster or easier, and then look around for something else to explain.  They may be bored to tears, but they always know how to do the job right!   

Roscoe:  I would have talked more, but I didn't want to flood the thread with inane banter just to be talking.  But man, I've been bored today!

[SippinTea]

Hello all you lovelies!

[Melody]

Sorry, Mel.  It's hard when you're more mature than your parents.  I can't remember how your parents ever managed w/o you before you moved there. 


Lovely last day here.  Nathan goes back to work in the morning as usual.  I was not so smart as to readjust myself, Isaac.  5:30am is going to come too early... lol

I'm posting from Andrew's new NOOK he got for Christmas.  Last year Nathan's family asked if they could get Andrew an Ipod touch & we said no because we didn't feel he was ready to have something to have unlimited internet acces on.  So this year they didn't ask, they just bought the NOOK.  So it became a family item.  Nice of them to get us one.    Yes, I could turn off the wifi but I'm pretty sure he is smarter than both of us on technology.  It's all fine and dandy until couriosity gets the better of him or even by naivity he ends up seeing something he can't forget.   Luckily, he is having a good attitude about it. 

[Roscoe]

Ugh. Back at work. Bah. And the scrooge in me is rejoicing. They have sawzalls cutting  up the Christmas tree.

[mini]

Isaac:  Everything we post is a flood of inane banner.  Some, to the blight of others, much more than others.

I am not fully awake.  Sleep fled me about 2 am, then returned after a hour or so.  I must stop sleeps late night wanderings...The snooze button was my friend today. 

Somewhere in the night I had a never ending dream.  It wore on and on.  Its strange.  As it started, I realized I had dreamed the dream many times before.  But now, I can't remember anything about it.

[mini]

Ugh. Back at work. Bah. And the scrooge in me is rejoicing. They have sawzalls cutting  up the Christmas tree.

Ive decided not to celebrate Christmas ever again.  Especially after I found out that Jolly Ol' Saint Nick was part of the Council of Nicaea.

[Heather]

I slept too long. Plus I'm somehow 20 minutes early to work.

[kkay]

Morning everyone.

Had a "bad food night" last night and now I feel yucky. At least the systems at work actually work today!

[MsJennJenn]

I slept too long. Plus I'm somehow 20 minutes early to work.

If I sleep too long, I'm 20 minutes late to work. Which is the norm. I hate mornings. And morning people. And people in the mornings.

Here at work. Last week of 40 hours in the office.
Next week, it goes to 10 hours in the office, 30 in a store. Dreading it.

[Chseeads]

i'm going to work

[The Purple Fuzzy]

I'm back at work but don't want to be.  My kids are still around today, except Chel, she had to work too.

[mini]

I hate when people send mass emails out and don't know how you use the BCC: option.  If I wanted everyone on your email list to have my email info, I would email everyone on your list and give it to them...lol.

[MelodyB]

We are watching THE BIRDS. It just came on tv. This should be good. Lol

[Lynx]

MellowYellow:  http://gma.yahoo.com/moms-18-point-iphone-rules-son-143831843--abc-news-parenting.html
The full list is at the bottom of that page.

minnesota:  Maybe you should use their email to sign them up for a few dozen websites and newsletters.  It would only be fair.   

Roscoe:  That's not scrooge, that's just being a guy.  I never did see the point in decorating, you have to put it up, you have to take it down, you have to remember to unplug it before you leave, you have to plug it in when you get back...

Quote from our church's christmas play about a week and a half ago:  MOTHER: "It's not a competition... our two families just like to brighten up the neighborhood."  SON: "Yeah, right.  The great wall of China and our two houses are the only man-made things that can be seen from outer space."

[Melody]

Thanks Isaac.  It's all very well and good to make those rules.  Call me old fashioned but ~for me~ it's irresponsible to put a 13/14 yr old in that large of a temptation to break them.  Plus, that was a little different b/c it's for a phone which I'll just assume is some kind of necessity for that family.  Andrew isn't in the position to need any form of phone as of yet. This parent isn't coming from a Godly standpoint, obviously, or the understanding of the spiritual consequences of a teen boy stumbling upon pornography and have the tech knowledge to delete browser history would = not worth the risk.  Do I trust my kid?  Yep! But I'm not ignorant or naive.  They don't call it every man's battle for nothing.  I would also disagree with the notion that she is capable of keeping him accountable for those rules.  Knowing the password is only as good as using it to check on things often and unexpectedly.  Few parents have the time, even SAHM's to stay on top of that. 

[MsJennJenn]

I didn't have a cell phone until 16. Obviously it wasn't a smart phone, we didn't have them then.
But I had it because I started driving to the job I had to get.

[Lynx]

MellowYellow:  I just thought it was mildly amusing the way the rules were phrased, and it was germane to the topic at hand.  I wouldn't give a kid a smartphone until he was old enough to move out.

Personally I think smartphones train people to google instead of thinking.  But I don't have one, so I can't say that as a certainty.  Scientists with IQ tests say constantly using a smartphone as a secondary brain reduces the user's intelligence though, because you no longer have to remember facts, you just have to know how to access them when you need them.  If Wikipedia goes down, some people's apparent IQ drops by about 30 points. 

[Melody]

You know, that's an interesting point.  I was taught and also I have said to my kids that being intelligent doesn't necessarily mean how much info you've memorized but your ability to learn and also to find answers.  My parents used that referencing the encyclopedia and often sent me to look it up.  We had 2 sets.  I have yet to afford even one decent set.  But I've sent them to look it up online.  Google has no facts of it's own, just a search tool.  And we have discussed that Wikipedia is not a good source to cite on it's own.  Now if it sites other reliable sources, I'm good with it.  Even in school, Andrew is not allowed to use Wiki as a source.

The problem is if the power goes out... lol  I do wish I had an encyclopedia set.

[kkay]

Cell phones earlier than 18 is foreign to me...as are smart phones. I've never owned one. It's kind of hard these days to find a simple phone but it can be done through Amazon

Found a ton of recipes I wanna try this weekend. Thought about buying some Walden Farms syrup to put on my low carb cheesecake

[MelodyB]

Seminoles won last night! 31-10! WHOOT!


Leaving to go home in the morning, so we are fixing to play one more game of Phase 10, and then watch one more bowl game. Gators play Louisville tonight...I hope the Gators get crushed! I dislike them. A lot.

[Chseeads]

MellowYellow:  I just thought it was mildly amusing the way the rules were phrased, and it was germane to the topic at hand.  I wouldn't give a kid a smartphone until he was old enough to move out.

Personally I think smartphones train people to google instead of thinking.  But I don't have one, so I can't say that as a certainty.  Scientists with IQ tests say constantly using a smartphone as a secondary brain reduces the user's intelligence though, because you no longer have to remember facts, you just have to know how to access them when you need them.  If Wikipedia goes down, some people's apparent IQ drops by about 30 points. 

Nobody knows how to do math anymore because of calculator use, unless they are a big math brain like Rain Man or something.  lol 

I'm an accountant and I can't do any hard math worth a hoot.  Especially long division.

[Roscoe]

Went to church. Had my message I crafted yesterday replaced by God with another. Preached it, felt it was a flop. Got told afterwards it was not. Went to Mcdonalds. Came home. Off tomorrow. (The cliff notes of "Roscoe's Life", the January 2,2013 edition.)