Jo Jo,

Don't you love Target? Another favorite store of mine is Ikea...I bought my desk from Ikea and I am totally in love with it.

Hope you had a good day today!

Zimmy

Heya Matthew,

I am having fun decorating for Halloween. Lisa and I have been planning on what to do for Christmas. I am putting the small decorations together so I can put them on the tree in the front yard tonight.

I am up for doing the Christmas card exchange again. I enjoyed it..

Have a good night,

Zimmy

Good Morning Everyone,

Hope you all slept well! How about a nice traditional breakfast this morning with plenty of coffee and tea?

I am psyched this morning...It is the first day of my anatomy 2 class and now that I know how the professor does his tests, I am shooting for an A and nothing less!

Hugs to all and have a good day,

Zimmy

Good morning everyone :)

:chef2: Late breakfast....cheese omelets, hash browns and bacon. Not healthy, but it's what I'm craving!

Holy cow it's been a crazy week and it's only Wednesday! :blink:

Closing on the house is tomorrow noon :cheer: , then Friday to clean it all up and haul out the stuff the sellers left (which I'll put on freecycle...someone must want some used beds, dishes and a desk, right?), and wait for the cable guy to come hook us up. Saturday I'll be there all day waiting on the local furniture delivery (still no word on when "the big truck" will show up with my stuff), while Scoote and the Prince empty their apartment and haul it all over to the new place.

Now I just have to learn about swimming pools :|

Extra coffee for everyone today! :bringcoffee: just because it's hump day! :)

:lips: baby...

Jo Jo,

Have a safe move this weekend!!!! Congrats on getting the house..

Zimmy

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh Finally !!! Congratulations to you both. smiles.

We are officially homeowners! :cheer:

Hi My friend... you know it would be wonderful to get away right about now.. hell, if I could get off work.. I would come down there and help you both move.. and get settled. smiles. I am so happy for you both that all of this worry and having to "go after" those people is over.. and you can finally get into a bigger home.. and move on with your "life". Congratulations again.. and keep us posted on the progress when you can.

Good Morning Everyone,

Scoote, the weather is going to be perfect for your move this weekend! Congrats on the new house and good luck on the move...I am loving the fact of having more room in my house over the apartment that I lived in, in Orlando. No more having to watch movies at a low volume and you can have people over all hours of the day....Happy Halloween early to you all!

Hope you all are having a good Saturday morning..We opened up the windows to the house this morning, it is around 70 degrees outside and the sky is gorgeous shade of blue..


I am off to finish typing up my paper on the etiology of bacteria in fish for my microbiology class,

Zimmy

Good evening all :)

:chef2: Dinner tonight is sirloin steak, buttered egg noodles, steamed broccoli...and I haven't even thought about dessert. :giggle:

It's great to be in the house and have all the extra room, but I sure will be glad when my furniture arrives! Critters are settling in (although banshee is still being loud), and I'm learning to be a pool boy....errrr girl. :)

I have my appointment tomorrow morning for follow-up mammo and an ultrasound....which is icky...but got a 6.6 on my last A1C, so I'm satisfied. Triglycerides are high again though, so I'm on yet another medication. Sometimes I feel like a pharmacy :seeingstars:

I'm soooo far behind reading threads that I may never catch up, but I send you all big hugs, and thanks for your good wishes on our move. :rrose: Hope everyone is doing well!

Good Evening Jake and Ms Star,

I have been busy with homework and registering for classes that start in January. I am thinking of register for my Microbiology class again, the teacher is a b*tch and no matter how hard you try, the work you turn is not good enough. She has failed me on both of my case study papers. My anatomy professor who also teaches biology cannot figure out what she wants from us, so I gave up. I have one more case study paper due and a lab report due before the first of December.

How are you two doing?

Have a good night,

Zimmy

Good morning everyone! :)

Breakfast sounds wonderful Jake (and you two are so cute :love1: )

I have been super busy...took the week off of work, but I'm exhausted from unpacking boxes, learning how to take care of the pool (and doing it tyvm), hauling trash and even trying to figure out what all the switches go to! :seeingstars: It's getting settled though....we have the living room and dining room set up, bedrooms functional, most of the boxes unpacked (although no doubt I'll be rearranging kitchen stuff for awhile :giggle: )

Hang in there Zimmy! I had professors like that....I swear they'd give us flaming hoops to jump through just to see us catch our butts on fire! It's worth it in the end though. :rrose:

The Prince is delivered to school, Rooster still in bed but needs to be woken up in 5 minutes, and Scoote is snoozing away. Her work (and work schedule) is insane. They bug her constantly with texts and calls, even on her days off....which are split. Reminds me why I left the restaurant biz myself!

Hugs to all, and hope you have a great day. I'm fielding emails from freecycle folks to get rid of all the junk the old owners left. :) Wish me luck!

Good Morning Jo Jo,

Hope you are having a good day! I don't miss working in retail. When I left the bookstore and moved to Seattle, they would call me and ask me how to do stuff. I went off one morning. It was around 7am Seattle time when they called. Needless to say, I never heard from them again..

I have an A in my MicroLab, so I am just going to hang in there and I am emailing the department chair this morning with a copy of my case study papers attached and letting her know just what she is doing.

Good luck on the freecycle emails and hopefully you can get rid of that stuff...

It is 50 degrees outside and I am sitting in my house in shorts and a t-shirt...I love when it gets chilly like this..

Have a good day to you, Scoote and the whole family!

Zimmy

Hi Zimmy,

Well it sounds like.. you have some pretty wicked Professors.. I certainly know how that goes.. I had one professor that no matter what I wrote when turning in a paper there was always something.. he did not like about the paper.. and I know that he never gave anyone an A...because he felt A's were perfection and no one in his eyes.. was perfect. laughs. So hang in there.. hopefully your kind and fair Professors outweigh the bad ones.

Life is moving along here.. the cold weather is creeping in.. as is the snow.. which we had a glimpse of today for a bit... however, the sun finally came out later in the day...

Just busy.. and staying strong in the face of some days where I just want to say... I have had enough.. and grab all of My camping gear and head for the woods.. laughs.. even for a short period of peace and quiet.. and a break from the world in general.. I am sure you can relate.. smiles.

I hope you have some great plans for the weekend.. and you have finished signing up for the January term.

Sending good thoughts your way.

As Always,
Jake

I know Jake is writing too...but I know you would miss me if I didn't at least say hi...soooo..hi!! :cheesy: Hey Jo..did you move the cigars that Scoote has too? :canoworms: LOL Zimmy, I know what you mean...my old clients used to call me a lot too...until it came time to start charging for my time..then all calls suddenly cease...heehee...can't be giving away the farm!!!

OMG I need a wine intervention...lots of it and stat please!!:wine:

Hope everyone has a good night and an even better weekend!!!

I also need my very Handsome Butch...always....:blueheels:...is it Cinderella time yet Daddy? :pirate: :king:

MS

:bringcoffee: Good morning all :)

Coffee is on, pumpkin bread is warm out of the oven...help yourselves!

The Rooster is begging me to play MarioParty on the Wii, so I'll be back.

:gimmehug: to you all ....and :lips: to my sweetie, who's snoozing away...

I am adding some scrambled eggs to breakfast...

Have fun!

Zimmy

Good Morning Everyone,

This *cold* weather reminds me of when I used to live in Michigan and Pennsylvania as a teenager and I am truly loving it....I am going to open my windows here in a minute...I had Elijah drinking some hot cocoa lastnight...The poor baby has a bad cold and can barely talk...

Jake, I am loving my micro lab teacher....When I started the class, I was talking to him about the show Bones and how they use Forensic science to determine how the person died. Ever since then, we normally talk about the show. I applied for a $1000 scholarship from the college so I can start having a few extra dollars to pay for my books...I am signed up to take Spanish, American History, Constitutional Law, and Human Nutrition come January and I am looking forward to it. I am agreeing with Jo Jo...You and Ms. Star are a cute couple together!


Have fun everyone and I will be back soon!

Zimmy

Good Evening Jake,

The crazy weather in Michigan and Pennsylvania, had me puzzled when I first moved up north from Florida. After a month in MI, I grew to love that crazy weather and I truly do miss it now that I am back in Florida...

I am feeling confident about my AP2 class and my midterm for that class is next Monday for the lab part and the lecture midterm is on the 18th. I have been keeping up with all of the lecture outlines and lab worksheets and had my AP professor cracking up at me today. We had to dissect a calf's heart and explain to him what all of the parts were. I was telling him so fast, that he had to tell me to slow down and breathe, lol....

You are welcome about the compliment!

Have fun tonight!

Zimmy
<Leaving you some warm hot cocoa and tea>

Good evening all :)

:chef2: Dinner is chicken breasts cooked in a little olive oil, butter and sauteed onion....with homemade mac & cheese and green beans....and no clue about dessert :giggle: I'm trying to avoid the sweets, and it's working some of the time :)

Hope you all had a great day....and I'm glad to hear that school is going well Zimmy.

We rescued a baby turtle from the high school parking lot today (where it would almost certainly have been run over), and just went for a drive down to the park by the river to turn him loose. We thought about trying to make him into a pet, but he didn't seem impressed... when Scoote put him at the edge of the river he plopped right in and swam away :)

I am adding some ice cream to dinner and dinner sounds very yummy and thanks Jo Jo!

I fed two stray cats tonight that I saw in a parking lot on my way home from school. My old roommate's cat, Athena was a rescue cat and I love her to death.

Hope you all are having a good night!

Zimmy

Yep, exactly! :) I often think that, while cats and dogs have been domesticated to be our pets for yonks, all the other critters we like to keep have had less time to adapt to that...and I wonder if they'd pick that life if they had the choice. When I lived in Australia I got a pair of galahs....pink and grey relatives of the cockatoo. The older of the two (a female) literally would spend all of her waking time trying to break out of the cage....so one day I opened the sliding glass door to the patio, opened the cage door, and invited them both to fly away. The female took off like she was shot out of a cannon, straight over the beach and out of sight. The male (who was younger) hopped on top of the cage and proceeded to walk, hop and climb all over the apartment....then join me on the couch. We never closed the cage door again, and I frequently took him outside with me into the yard. He never chose to leave....and I felt much better about having him for a pet.

:bringcoffee: In other news....coffee is on, fresh pineapple is sliced for easy nibbling, and I'm thinking about cheddar cheese omelets and toast! :eating:

Hope you're all doing well this Veterans Day. It's sunny and warm here...and while the big cats are disturbed by the new kitten (gray with white paws and belly....named Grayson), the dog has appointed himself babysitter and substitute mama. :giggle:

My sweetie is still :alarm: for a bit, but has to go to work today....and I'm (technically) already there...so I better go be productive.

Hugs to you all :gimmehug: and :lips: for my sweetie.... :stillheart:

(((((( morningstar)))))) ... I hear you on this honey....I've been single more than I've been partnered, and it does get lonely. And, yes, dogs are nice, but it sure isn't the same thing.

The one thing I'll say is that you ex is full of it...sounds like one of those nasty things that jerks say as they go out the door, trying to make themselves feel better. As hard as it is, always try to remember that nasty remarks and criticisms usually have more to do with the sender than the receiver. :rrose:

I know that friends aren't the same as a partner....but you do have friends here. :gimmehug:

Good Evening Everyone,

Sorry that I have been MIA. I have an anatomy 2 lab midterm on Monday and then the lecture midterm next Thursday...I have been busy and I feel bad.

I have decided to start looking for a job...unemployment is for the birds. A girl from the Starbucks in Target who purchases Avon from me, was telling me tonight that they are hiring, so I am going to apply. Since the baby has been sick, Lisa cannot go back to work, so now she doesn't have the money to pay her part of the rent, and it has been causing me a lot of undue stress as to what I should do. Stay and finish the lease out or leave and go live with my aunt. Her and I are going down to Catholic Charities in the morning and hopefully they can help us pay the rent...

I will be back shortly and have a good night,

Zimmy

Good Evening My friend,

Thank you for the hot cocoa and tea. I am drinking iced tea at the moment. However, I am seeing some french pressed coffee in My future. It was actually nice here today considering the time of year. The sun was finally out and there was a slight breeze. But once that sun sets, the temps drop considerably. So coffee it is. Nods, I was in Florida for a year and a year was enough. Entirely too hot for Me. I like the change of seasons, even if the change is slight. I would not want to live in a climate that is constant hot or cold.

Well, I am glad you are feeling confident about the class. Confidence, is key. If you walk in there with the mindset that you will do well.. then you will. Just keep those positive thoughts flowing. Although I have to say I would not be one for dissecting a calf's heart.. cringes. So, kudos to you for being able to do it.

Good luck on getting help with your rent. I am sure there are plenty of resources where you are. Remember we are all here for you and I am sending you good vibes and lighting a candle as well.

Big Hugs.

As Always,
Jake