***Thursday Roll Call***

Good Morning all!!

Well things apparantly went pretty well w/ Brian's family yesterday.  We did end up getting a decent amount of $$ that will make a nice nest egg for a future house.  Also got some stocks which we are just gonna hold onto and "let them ride" as we have no interest in selling them or getting into that type of business.  Irony of irony - the stocks are in banks, LOL  But ironically have gone up in the past month (we have what they were worth on the date of his death and what they are worth now)

So, that leads me into today.  First we are going to Brian's bank (Wachovia) to close out a checking account that he has.

After doing some research with a few different banks along with online accounts like ING we are depositing the inheritence into a 12 mos CD so that it can grow just a tiny little bit (Sovereign which happens to be my bank actually has the highest CD offer right now which is 2%) The only thing we have to do is talk to a rep - we are interested in the taxation ramifications on the inheritence and the CD and things like that.

By the time all that is done, I'm sure it will be bed time for me!  Nice thing is hubby is home with me tonight so I know when I wake up to go back to work, he'll have a nice cup of tea ready for me, which is something that is so small but soooo appreciated by me.  I know - it's stupid :)

Anyway - that's it from here.

Have a great day all!

Pam

Good morning all...........

Pam, sounds like a busy morning. But important things to do. Hope you get to bed at a decent time.

Me? I am having issues with my incision. It's red all around and it appears that "something" is posking out the incision site. So off to the doc this morning to have it checked. I can't really lay down for long, or sit for long or stand for long. Everything hurts really bad. I am in a ton of pain. So BIL will be getting boys on the bus for me, Riley is at a sleepover, and JOhnny's sister will be over by 7 to help me out with Jantzen and take me to the doc appt. Johnny had to return to work today.

So that's my morning, a doc appt for protruding guts from my belly button..........LOL. From there, who knows. It depends on what the doc has to say.

Hope everyone else has a much better day than me. It's supposed to be cool and breezy, but sunny today so that will be nice.

Hi all,

We are still waiting on the NC tax return money.  Is there any way to check on that?  My hubby's money from his IRA arrived.  I keep telling him about my fears with him getting a motorcycle even though every summer I wish we had one.  I have seen what they do tdo people. He wants me to take the tests.  I can take the written, no problem, but actually drive one?  I can but I always have a fear of falling off.  So, we shall see.  I would rather we upgrade my car so that we are not throwing money into it all the time.  Oh well.

Today is snowing!!!  I just looked out!  Tomorrow is supposed to be 76, go figure!  Knitting club today.  What therapy!


Paula

well it's Thursday. My morning has already started off rough.  Siehara's Oppositional Defiant Disorder reared it's super ugly head this morning.  Her alarm goes off at 6:00.  I give her some time to get up on her own.  I went in around 6:10 to try to get her out of bed and into the shower.  She didn't budge, so I left and went back in around 6:18 and told her that if she was not out of bed and in the shower by 6:20, I was going to take her phone away for the day.  Well, that's when it started.  She proceeded to scream and cry at me for the next 20 minutes about me taking away her phone.. granted, I had not YET actually taken it away.. I had just threatened to.  Needless to say, I told her that the phone was mine today.  This escalated the situation more.  While I was out of her room, she hid her phone from me.  She continued to scream and cry and got in my face quite a few times.  This kid is as tall as me and weighs a lot.  Every time I told her to get in the shower she told me to leave her room and she would do it.  I tried to calmly explain to her that I am the boss not her and she needed to get in the shower whether I was in the room or not.  There is a constant power struggle and she REFUSES to accept that I make the rules and not her.  She finally stopped screaming around 7:00 (at which time it was too late to get in the shower)  I found her phone and took it away.  She got dressed, took her meds and went to the bus.

We are in the process of seeing a new psychologist and hopefully this one will be able to help.  I am also going to be calling the Dept of Welfare to talk to them about a program that the school staff told me about.  It's called a wrap around program where they send a behaviorist into the home to help us.   I am going crazy with this kid.  She just will not accept my authority.  Her ODD, combined with puberty in process is just plain unbearable.


ANYWAY, off to my day.. work 7-3:30.  During lunch, I will get over to the gym and do a mile on the treadmill--will try to add to my jogging time.  I will probably be able to do it today, just from sheer frustration from my morning.

After work, going to help set up the bookfair at school.  Picking up Siehara from Girls on the Run and then going to a notary to sign over my mom's old car to some poor sucker who just bought it from my ex.  I guess they realize what they are getting into because they saw the thing and still want it.  They are only paying a couple hundred dollars, so I am positive that they realize it is a piece of junk.  Not my problem.. that's between them and him.  It's just that the car is in my name so I have to sign over the title.  After that I am going to bingo.  I definitely need to get the hell out of this house tonight for some "me" time.

Calgon take me away!!!

Lisa - I am sorry to hear that Sieharra is giving you such troubles - and she's not even a teenager yet! lol

If you need anything you know where to get me :)

Liz

Lisa,

Very close friends of ours has a son who has ADD/bipolar and I think what is probably the ODD thing as well - but I can't attest to the last "diagnosis"  Anyway - they did a program that sounds very familiar and similar to the wrap around program and it did help them.

I'll tell you more details in the next couple of days....gotta get my butt moving and then home again to sleep some

((hugs))

Pam

Thanks Liz and Pam.. I am also going to reach out to Shauna via private email.  I don't think Jordan has the ODD part of it, but she is very knowledgeable and might be able to offer assistance, as well.

Good Morning all -

Pam so glad to hear that things went well yesterday! Good luck with the banks today.

I am at wor****il 4 then home. I am exhausted and battling allergies, I am going to make dinner and relax. I have a busy weekend ahead of me but I am so looking forward to it!!

Liz

Liz!!! I will join you with the allergies!! Im misreable!! I am so stuffy, grumpy, runny nose and feel all around like CRAP!!!! And yet the dr keeps telling me its not allergies!!

Today has me at work till 1030. then off to the urologist finally!!! Its been well over a month since my first bladder infection and hopefully thats all it was. Then back to work. Finish out the day and then home for the kids, make dinner, take a walk, pick up hubby and home for the rest of the night

Love your new Avie!!! You look great!

Hope that the allergies are feeling better soon!

Liz