What is on your mind

[~Bo]

Originally Posted by Diva

Flan.......................

I think I went out with her a couple times. She's a very nice girl.

[Enchantress]

Life and the impermanence of it all.

[Oiler41]

On my mind is the fact that I'm going to miss my sweetheart while she is gone on a business trip this week,,but she is also hopping up to Provincetown to finalize our necessary and wonderful arrangements up there! The fur kids and I will be having a quiet week making plans for the coming weekend!

Glynn

[Kenna]

got my pain pills.... want a nap... Wishin the dog could help me pack boxes and clean the kitchen.

12 more days!!!

[SimpleAlaskanBoy]

I am thinking that I want my shunt to stop hurting and feel better already without having to go to the dr.
~SAB

[Blade]

All Star race tonight in Charlotte!
Come on Toyota's drive it like ya stole it

[Andrew, Jr.]

Why Dino barks at me at 4am? Oy Vey.

[~Bo]

Hewlett Packard recalling the batteries from it's laptops. Mine is one of them.

[SuperFemme]

I am on pins and needles. Our daughter has her last prom tonight (yay) and just left. Last year, she tried to take her life the day after prom because her girlfriend broke up with her. Tens days in the ICU, and it scared the hell out of us.

After a year of complete change (new school, therapy every week, new friends) she has grown a lot. I'm very proud of her, but I didn't sleep last night and don't think I will sleep tonight either. Why does it have to be so damn hard to be a teenager these days?

[WolfyOne]

Originally Posted by SuperFemme

I am on pins and needles. Our daughter has her last prom tonight (yay) and just left. Last year, she tried to take her life the day after prom because her girlfriend broke up with her. Tens days in the ICU, and it scared the hell out of us.

After a year of complete change (new school, therapy every week, new friends) she has grown a lot. I'm very proud of her, but I didn't sleep last night and don't think I will sleep tonight either. Why does it have to be so damn hard to be a teenager these days?

I think the biggest problem for teenagers today is peer pressure
The expectations alone are rough
The standards they set for themselves are higher than the ones we had as kids because there is so much more out there in this big bad and sometimes ugly world

I had a niece stop going to high school in Illinois after the second month of being a freshmen. She called me and and asked if her and her mom could move to Oklahoma. Two years later and in school in Oklahoma, she's a B student.

My point is, kids are cruel to other kids and sometimes it'll affect some kids more than others.

I'll say a little prayer that things go quite well. I hope she has tons of fun and brings back mega pictures for you to share with us.

[Blade]

Hoping I got all the holes filled up. Cuz let me tell ya, waking from a nap to find not one but two snakes in my kitchen floor was not a pleasant way to wake up.

I heard shshshshshshsshshs sounds in the kitchen and that is what woke me. I walked in the kitchen to see an over 6' snake in the middle of the kitchen floor and one about 3' also with that one.

No I didn't kill em. But they are out of the house and I sealed the pipes under the sink which is where I think they were getting in. But hey on the up side I haven't had any mice

[bigbutchmistie]

Originally Posted by Blade

Hoping I got all the holes filled up. Cuz let me tell ya, waking from a nap to find not one but two snakes in my kitchen floor was not a pleasant way to wake up.

I heard shshshshshshsshshs sounds in the kitchen and that is what woke me. I walked in the kitchen to see an over 6' snake in the middle of the kitchen floor and one about 3' also with that one.

No I didn't kill em. But they are out of the house and I sealed the pipes under the sink which is where I think they were getting in. But hey on the up side I haven't had any mice

See Im a big fat SISSY when stuff like that happens. I would have left the house and not come back LOL... Snakes friek me out big time... Glad you got them out though

[Blade]

Originally Posted by bigbutchmistie

See Im a big fat SISSY when stuff like that happens. I would have left the house and not come back LOL... Snakes friek me out big time... Glad you got them out though

LOL Mom called just as I saw them and I told her about it. She said I'll send ya Daddy over to help you. I said Mom he'll scream like a girl. I heard him say in the background, don't volunteer me for stuff you volunteer me for to much stuff. She said I have volunteered you for nothing but this one time. LOL he said this is one time to many.

[bigbutchmistie]

Originally Posted by Blade

LOL Mom called just as I saw them and I told her about it. She said I'll send ya Daddy over to help you. I said Mom he'll scream like a girl. I heard him say in the background, don't volunteer me for stuff you volunteer me for to much stuff. She said I have volunteered you for nothing but this one time. LOL he said this is one time to many.

LOL your Dad is funny. I love to hear older people banter back and forth like that... Its sweet...

[Zimmeh]

I was talking to my friend's daughter who is a freshman at the local high school and she was telling me about some of the things that are said to her bc of her size. I nearly fell over. I told her that she just needs to walk away from these people and if they continue to harass her, to go to the principal's office and tell them. This is affecting her GPA and she might not enter the tenth grade in the fall.

Originally Posted by WolfyOne

I think the biggest problem for teenagers today is peer pressure
The expectations alone are rough
The standards they set for themselves are higher than the ones we had as kids because there is so much more out there in this big bad and sometimes ugly world

I had a niece stop going to high school in Illinois after the second month of being a freshmen. She called me and and asked if her and her mom could move to Oklahoma. Two years later and in school in Oklahoma, she's a B student.

My point is, kids are cruel to other kids and sometimes it'll affect some kids more than others.

I'll say a little prayer that things go quite well. I hope she has tons of fun and brings back mega pictures for you to share with us.

[Blade]

Still trying to figure out how the Toyota's lost the race

[Glenn]

I am thinking about the ancient farm couple who rarely come outside, but when they do, they stay close together, like oak roots.

[Kenna]

Work Work Work!!!
Only 11 more days and I'm not done yet.... would'a been nice if my son hadn't backed out on me.

I'm tired.

But it's gotta get done. Ohhhhh the rewards when the job is done and I get to cozy up in a peaceful spot on the front porch and watch the sunset... then go to meet my brother and nieces at the beach.

I'm tired.

But I know there are really good things to come, just a few days from now. I can see hope at the other end of my long bridge.

[hpychick]

Sometimes, when life throws you a curve ball, you just have suck it up and enjoy the game anyway.

My life isn't perfect and doesn't always look the way I think it should, and things don't always happen the way I hope they will or as fast as I want.

But I am fully aware there is a power greater than me who knows my deepest heart's desire and that power works in me and through me with my intention to completely deliver it!

[WolfyOne]

Originally Posted by ZimmygLrL

I was talking to my friend's daughter who is a freshman at the local high school and she was telling me about some of the things that are said to her bc of her size. I nearly fell over. I told her that she just needs to walk away from these people and if they continue to harass her, to go to the principal's office and tell them. This is affecting her GPA and she might not enter the tenth grade in the fall.

This is how lots of kids are these days.....very bold. The bigger the HS the worse it gets. The thing is, unless there is physical harm, the school won't do anything about words being said. It would be considered hearsay and chalked up to kids being kids. I wish there was an easy solution to how kids act today, but really, if they aren't taught right from wrong at home, they bring it with them through their life. If you don't get attention at home, you might look elsewhere for it. For example, lashing out at other kids, joining gangs, disrupting a classroom. Some kids have no idea what they are actually doing to another kid with hurtful words.

I hope the school can be of help to your friend's daughter. Another alternative may be home schooling or another school if it continues.

The future of our nation depends on these kids going into adulthood with the proper tools to survive or perhaps one day run it.