tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36996812011-09-08T14:11:53.437-07:00KathySRWPass the chips.KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.comBlogger2191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-67691901559316409802009-08-31T20:54:00.000-07:002009-08-31T21:04:53.085-07:00Took my work laptop back to the office & pretended I had no idea how the video display card could be entirely burnt out & needs to be replaced, as if my 10-year-old son didn't just play hours of Fusion Fall on it, earlier in the week.My 15 year old daughter insists she's read every volume of every good Manga ever, and that there are no more. I keep telling her that means she needs to draw her ownKathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-63017595385128701002009-01-22T09:34:00.000-08:002009-01-22T09:50:20.425-08:00My 9 year old son and I were sitting on the couch, last night. I was explaining that he needs to do his homework, and that there's no good reason for him to keep geting all these "late assignment" notes he brings home, and he said "Wait,what are you talking about?"I told him he needs to monitor his own homework assignments, and that although his dad and I were checking the assignment sheet he KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-84190415499261397942008-10-18T08:15:00.000-07:002008-10-18T08:19:16.421-07:00About 6 months ago, my husband started leaving work early, on Wednesdays, picking our son up, after school, and driving him to a local Child and Family Service Center , here in Minneapolis, for a specially-created social skills group for children with Asperger's Syndrome or High Functioning Autism, in his age range. He's 9, right now. Bear in mind this place really is a private business. It's notKathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-71738696234973457472008-07-14T14:56:00.000-07:002008-07-14T15:00:45.596-07:00I took Thursday and Friday off work, and just stayed home with my 9 year old son, and 14 year old daughter. Thursday we just laid around and did NOTHING! It felt great. I felt bad that it was too cool and breezy to go to a local lakeside beach. Oh, yeah, we all got haircuts. But Friday my project for the 3 of us was to take the city bus to the downtown Minneapolis public library. I grew up KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-67768866969533512692008-06-04T19:37:00.000-07:002008-06-04T19:43:55.357-07:00Worked 9 hours in North Minneapolis.Drove home to New Brighton.Took daughter to guitar lesson in Blaine.Picked up Vietnamese take-out in Mounds View, on the way home.Took husband, daughter, and son to son's first piano lesson, in someone's home, in St. Anthony.Drove home.Drove husband and foster-cat to her rightful owner, in St. Paul, now that he's out of the hospital.Drove home again.It's 9:30 KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-74347163284582138372008-05-21T18:54:00.000-07:002008-05-21T19:13:38.954-07:00I get to work.Put in about 2 hours. Then I get a phone call.It's from my 14 year old daughter , calling from the front office of her middle school.She had arrived at school with one sneaker with her new orthopedic insert in it, and the other shoe with its original insole removed, but not replaced by her other orthopedic insert. Just flat. And she ran in gym that way the whole time. Can I stop by KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-68470253420506935332008-05-09T14:23:00.000-07:002008-05-09T14:26:16.246-07:00L.A.Fitness opened a new gym in my neighborhood, and an adult monthly membership is dirt cheap, (which maybe should have been my first clue) and it’s pay as you go, per month, so you don’t have to sign a one year obligation, as you do with so many other gyms. I’ve never been in a gym before besides that tragic 3 months at the Curves for Women near my son’s old day care, which we won’t go in to. KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-597053827688872922008-04-28T18:10:00.000-07:002008-04-28T18:37:51.913-07:001. Our ill friend is ill and in the hospital again. And we have his cat again. And my husband is having an excessive allergic reaction again. In fact this time he was running up and down Marshall Avenue in St. Paul at 4:00 in the morning, possibly putting up fliers about internet harrassment, and got hit by a pickup. 2. My husband and I went to the Plymouth Playhouse last night and saw The ChurchKathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-30424771120256651952008-03-06T20:14:00.000-08:002008-03-07T05:18:28.518-08:00Email Appreciation Day.OK get this. Wednesday afternoon the manager of our networking department, and, later that day, the manager of the programming and development department had to go around telling everyone their news in person. Thursday was going to have to be "email appreciation day" in their departments, as they both report to the same administrator in our headquarters office, in Missouri.KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-73342786411947536662008-03-03T20:23:00.000-08:002008-03-03T20:47:07.678-08:00Just an update on my Doctor Who scarf: Since this picture was taken 2 days ago, I've added 7 rows of yellow. After 3 more, I move on to 22 rows of red.Below is the Pinewood Derby car that won my 9 year old son the "Most Likely Made by a Scout" (and not by their parent) Award. Which is kind of burn, if you think about it. But my son was handed a small trophy and was thrilled to stand with the KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-73994610158974183902008-02-10T21:31:00.000-08:002008-02-10T21:41:47.003-08:00Just an update, here's how far I am on my husband's Doctor Who scarf. He's been putting in excessive amounts of (paid!) overtime at work, and coming home ill. I ran in the St Paul Winter Carnival Frozen 5K, where my finish time was 44 minutes 10 seconds. Some people finished in half that. And I was passed by about 7 people connected by a long green sheet with head-holes, dressed as a worm. I got KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-43244303299450902072008-01-19T07:43:00.000-08:002008-01-19T07:53:02.880-08:00Thursday morning we went to Fraser Child and Family Services in Minneapolis, and spent about 2 1/2 hours with my husband and I being interviewed by a child psychologist in one room, while our 8 year old son played with another in a nearby play room for observation. After which both of them met with us and explained that he meets the criteria for Asperger's Syndrome. Although his speech and KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-8594934284646491732008-01-15T17:43:00.000-08:002008-01-15T17:47:33.772-08:007 rows of 60 stiches, out of 1230 rows!If my high school math serves me, I'm about a half a percent finished!KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-68701221050112264122008-01-13T20:41:00.000-08:002008-01-13T21:30:47.734-08:00BEFORE AFTER (I hope)I bought all the yarn I thought I needed to start a Doctor Who scarf for my husband, then came home, laid it all out, re-read the pattern and found 2 things. 1) I forgot brown, and 2) I have LOST a needle! Grrr. And, for anyone in doubt, below is the finished green and yellow baby blanket I gave to my new nephew in Green Bay, for Christmas.And I ran an appx 3 mile course KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-54343957934364118572007-12-30T18:07:00.000-08:002007-12-30T19:17:26.991-08:00Wednesday Dec 19, just 2 days before my kids' Christmas vacation from school started, I had another one of those conferences at my 8 year old son's school with the teacher, the school nurse, the school social worker, special education teacher, speech therapist and autism resource specialist. I had met with this team twice in the past, giving them permission to meet with him, observe him in his KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-44900231271720701722007-12-27T10:59:00.000-08:002007-12-27T11:08:28.863-08:00I first wrote this on Dec 13, but was not willing to publish it until now, for fear no one who knows me will ever vist me again. But I have since redeemed myself and was able so successfully bake proper sugar cookies a few days later, with all new ingredients. Too bad you missed them, they were awesome!I agreed, several weeks ago, to make 3 dozen home made cookies for my son's elementary school KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-19104125726245701072007-11-05T09:33:00.000-08:002007-11-05T09:43:01.161-08:00Saturday afternoon I "traded" in my old Bomb for $100, and got a nice new 2004 emerald green Saturn Ion 4-door sedan.It doesn't stall at intersections. It doesn't rattle. It has a CD player instead of a broken cassette deck, and the speakers don't hiss. It runs like a dream. It had only one previous owner, and he kept seat-covers over the seats, so the interrior looks new. My 8 year old son KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-29347319573178663532007-11-02T17:50:00.001-07:002007-11-02T17:52:44.122-07:00I just sent this email to a friend, so I thought I'd paste it on here too. Just don't get in to correcting my grammar on it, or we could be here all day.This afternoon's dilemma wasDo I pay $1200 , yes, one thousand two hundred to repair the timing chainon an almost 14 year old well over 150,000 mile sedan that I paid $2000 for , 6 years ago, that I've already put many times that dollar amount ofKathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-84283342480012091802007-10-22T14:56:00.000-07:002007-10-23T20:54:49.692-07:00I've had a hard time trying to write about visitng my sister, Lori, in Tacoma, the weekend of October 5, without speaking too personally about her, or about my mom.I left work early, at noon, that Friday. My husband took a long lunch so he could come home, pick me up, drop me off at the airport, and go back to work. Due to electrical storms we'd had here in Minneapolis earlier that morning, all KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-49332508491949053492007-10-18T17:03:00.000-07:002007-10-18T17:13:55.977-07:00Tuesday. October 16, 2007 .I woke up Tuesday and got to hug my friend Debi good bye. She and I had been out until 11 the night before, to see Henry Rollins speak at the First Avenue Club in Minneapolis, and had stayed up another hour after that, just talking. She had to sleep on the couch because a CAT was getting prefenential treatment and getting the guest room. Our cat-owning friend is back inKathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-83883041879021123622007-09-20T10:33:00.000-07:002007-09-20T10:34:12.617-07:00Oh, the Drama !Oct 5 I fly out to Tacoma to meet my long lost sister. I did email our mom and offer to rent a car and get her so they can meet finally. Our dad won't drive her. He's so lazy. Or I offered that I could rent a car and we could drive to Yakima and meet her at Burger King if she doesn't want anyone to see our brother in law's car torn apart on her front lawn, which I'm aware it is KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-31437914766605064472007-09-16T11:49:00.000-07:002007-09-16T12:09:04.793-07:00Do you think we might be over wired?Right now, our 13 year old daughter and 8 year old son are watching Japanese anime episodes, together, online, on our desk top computer downstairs. Here on the main floor my husband is watching the Vikes on tv, with the sound off, and listening to the Packers on the radio, our Sunday afternoon autumn ritual since we married 17 years ago. And I'm at the dining KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-26290271283389539432007-09-02T14:50:00.000-07:002007-09-02T15:00:35.341-07:00I woke up to what felt like a crushing disappointment this morning.A month ago I started planning a trip to Washington. Now that we've met, via email and the phone, my older half sister, placed for adoption by our mom before she married, I wanted us all to meet.So, disappointment number 1, about a month ago, was that our mom said she wasn't "ready" to meet in person yet. Which seems very KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-77497384673201075592007-08-30T20:50:00.001-07:002007-08-30T21:03:04.667-07:00OK, we just blew about $180 at Sams Club 2 days ago there's no good reason for us to be out of groceries already. What posessed us to buy both a 50-count of 2-packs of Grandma Gebhart (stale) packaged chocolate chip cookies AND a one gallon tub of Pillsbury chocolate chip cookie dough. Which do I want, cookies, or cookies?Today I left work at 11 for "lunch" drove to my 13 year old daughter's KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-27325782294210870632007-08-28T18:54:00.000-07:002007-08-28T19:09:52.690-07:00School hasn't even started yet, and already I've screwed up. Last night my husband and I got out all the unopened mail and went through it and found that although my son's school open-house and meet the teacher night was still two days away...my daughter's middle school one had happened about 5 hours ago. So I will have to take a long lunch from work tomorrow, go home, get her, take her to schoolKathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-46605767292591072662007-08-22T21:08:00.000-07:002007-08-22T21:45:15.550-07:00I'm sitting in our reclining chair in our living room, on my work laptop, on our home wireless.We got a new roof this week. The roofers even came back at 7:45 am Sunday morning to put some finishing touches on it. I felt sorry for our neighbors. We were not expecting them at all that day. I'm sure with two more hours of hammering and buzz sawing at that hour on a Sunday morning, anyone withing KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-37861834928242611792007-07-19T15:04:00.000-07:002007-07-19T15:08:19.082-07:00I’m still in my hotel in Chicago. There is a huge thunderstorm outside. It has knocked out the tv reception. I can’t get on the internet, except through my cell phone, which has pretty limited capability. The only dvd I brought with me that I can watch on my laptop is Pirates of the Caribbean I, which even I don’t think I can sit through again right now.Two weeks ago, my husband and I took a KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-6858542067519165762007-07-19T15:03:00.000-07:002007-07-19T15:04:23.448-07:00Hi, I’m here in Chicago right now, on one of my two double beds, watching a crime show. I don’t even like crime shows, but that’s all this hotel seems to get.I flew Monday, met with the client Tuesday and today. I was so happy when they said today’s meeting resolved all their questions they had from me, and I would not have to stay tomorrow 1/2 Friday morning, as planned.This evening my co KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-7471748745513148852007-06-09T08:51:00.000-07:002007-06-09T09:48:06.711-07:00Thursday I worked 1/2 day. Then I had to go to the pulmonologist to get the result of my sleep study. I stopped by the house first. The phone rang almost as soon as I got home. It was my 8 year old son's school. It was a 1/2 day at school, so they got out at 11:30...but he had refused to get on the school bus. He had inisted to the staff that his dad had told him that his mom would pick him up KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-47255754897441410902007-06-03T20:37:00.000-07:002007-06-03T20:47:09.960-07:00Here is both an original post and a follow up reply I posted to a music message board earlier today..He's back "in" again . We got his cat again. His mom is calling our house crying again. We might have to go clean out his apartment for him while he's away, and stick it all in our shed or garage, because he's getting evicted. That's what happens when you beat up your landlord for allegedly KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-28637963028745124882007-05-22T12:19:00.000-07:002007-05-22T12:22:33.664-07:00My 13 year old daughter got her braces on 4 days ago, on Friday. They're so clear, on her top teeth, you can only see the metal wire going across her front teeth. It looks more like a retainer. But her bottom teeth have the traditional silver, metal bands. It's been miserable watching her in so much pain. We spent all weekend giving her ibuprofen. Her cheeks and jaws appeared to be a little KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-28750364184689791342007-05-06T20:45:00.000-07:002007-05-06T21:05:42.755-07:00We took our kids to see Spiderman III last night. My 8 year old son rocked in his seat and did repetitive hand gestures and I took him out in to the hall several times because I worried he was distracting people around us. No one was directly behind us, though, and it didn't look like anyone noticed.Earlier yesterday, I took my daughter to fencing class, and I struck up a conversation with the KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-79728247976063756412007-04-30T17:25:00.000-07:002007-04-30T17:50:39.042-07:00Welcome, Lori! Welcome, Lori! Welcome, Lori! Welcome, Lori! Welcome, Lori!Saturday my little 8 year old guy had his first Catholic communion. My in-laws and husband are Catholic, and they came from Green Bay to watch him. He looked very hansome in his suit and tie, and he acted like a very big boy. I couldn't help crying a little.That night, my in-laws were sleeping over, I thought I'd check my KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-30131164681628853862007-03-24T15:12:00.000-07:002007-03-24T15:19:23.155-07:00My daughter and I left Anime Detour 2007 at about 3 pm this afternoon. She asked to leave. We'd been there for about 4 hours already, and she said she did't see any more events for the rest of the day that she wanted to go to. Today we watched several hours of "Black Cat," and a film called "Lupin III."In the early afternoon, my daughter noticed that occasionally, different people, each wearing KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-69884147745918950482007-03-23T17:17:00.000-07:002007-03-23T17:37:58.473-07:00Hi, I am at the Mall of America hotel, formerly the Tunderbird. My 13 year old daughter says all that time in line was worth it. She is enjoying seeing so many other dressed as Japanese Anime characters. She is wearing a red headband, and has a pink Beanie Baby rabbit laying on her head. We are in a room watching an anime called Gravitation. Bad news is they announced that they have already KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-31122841112961463002007-03-23T12:55:00.000-07:002007-03-23T13:01:42.492-07:00Long line at anime con. 1 hour line half hour waiting room then another line. Im in that line now. Cell phone.KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-37093536480757853082007-03-10T19:42:00.000-08:002007-03-10T20:22:31.408-08:00Ok I went downhill skiing today.About a month ago, I signed my 13-year-old daughter and me up for her Girl Scout troop's trip to Trollhaugen ski park.I drove her out there , about an hour northeast of our home, just across the Wisconsin boarder, and we met her friends and thier parents. The ski boot the lady behind the counter gave me was like a plastic cast. They also issued us each skis that KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-485505405968073322007-03-04T21:18:00.000-08:002007-03-04T21:45:09.869-08:00I skied today!We just had a 3-day 14-inch snowfall. I spent much of that time shoveling our driveway. I also drove to and from Buffalo, Minnesota in that blizzard, because I agreed to accompany our sales team to a client's office on Thursday March 1 , and they actually held that meeting, and didn't cancel it. It went OK. Apparently, while I was in Buffalo, all the managers behind, in the office,KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-86869171992934913672007-02-22T17:13:00.000-08:002007-02-22T18:46:47.447-08:00I came home today to find that.My 13 year old daughter was wimpering in a pillow and blanket on our reclining chair. Her class went skiing today. She and her best friend chose to go inner tube sledding instead. They collided and my daughter got a bloody nose. That plus even though my husband check marked the form that they should send her with a box lunch from the school cafeteria, they didn't, KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-57878497675791337732007-02-18T12:02:00.000-08:002007-02-18T12:06:57.062-08:00My son's eighth birthday is tomorrow, but he had a birthday slumber party with his friends, yesterday. So we had 8 little boys sleep over last night.They ranged in age from 5 to 11 years. 4 were a set of brothers from next door. 3 were other boys from our block who ride the school bus with my son every afternoon, and one was my husband's co worker's son.They were all 9 (including my own son) so KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1171084907837939162007-02-09T20:54:00.000-08:002007-02-09T21:21:47.853-08:00About 3 weeks ago, 2 co workers had to take a week and a half of vacation. One was secretly getting married in Hawaii, the other was her sister, and pretty much had to go with her. One of our main bosses freaked out at my boss for letting two such vital people go at once, so I said I'd take over for them, in their absence. The pressure was on, to prove we did the right thing "letting" two people KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1170027888418139552007-01-28T15:17:00.000-08:002007-01-28T15:44:48.433-08:00I called my cell phone company and they agreed to reduce my $419 web browsing bill to $50 !! It includes unlimited browsing until February 4. After that, I might agree to pay another $25 for another full month, because I'm really enjoying it! I'm typing this from the passenger seat of our car as my husband drives us home from his parents' in Green Bay. I enjoyed being able to check email from my KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1169436278862042032007-01-21T18:43:00.000-08:002007-01-21T19:24:38.876-08:00Andrea challenged us all to write "5 things you probably don't know about me."What obscure facts of my life have I not already broadcast via blogger, myspace, yahoo, or any other networking thing. Not to mention I know you all in real life, I think. Anyway.1. I have a broken nose. It doesn't show from the outside. Every doctor I've ever seen since I was a teen ager has , with grave concern, askedKathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1168539246432191892007-01-11T10:13:00.000-08:002007-01-11T10:14:06.450-08:00We had a fire at our house last night.We've had this house for 7 years, and it came with the novelty of a dishwashing machine. We'd never had one in any of our previous apartments. It's old, and loud though, so we often load it with dishes after dinner, but not turn it on until we're going to bed, so we don’t have to listen to the rattle and noise.So my husband loaded it and turned it on late KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1167874131560960042007-01-03T17:25:00.000-08:002007-01-03T17:28:51.576-08:00My resolution to get more organized in general was a miserable failure by Jan 2 !!!Jan 2:I booked my SECOND round trip flight to Atlanta, after my first disasterous trip ,the one that I only figured out after I go there that the project had been cancelled. Just about 3 hours later I found that,1) I had the departure date wrong by one day, and 2) I can't go. I'm booked solid that entire 2 week KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1166543201606157082006-12-19T07:46:00.000-08:002006-12-19T07:46:41.620-08:00OK I seriously can't get over our new cell phone, and neither can my son. I spend all night trying to figure out which web sites it can get on OK, (OLLA doesn't seem to be one of them) and which web sites have a mobil-specific option. So fun! My husband lets me know when I've just spent too much time playing with it.Our kids love for us to type a text message in to it, and send that mesage to ourKathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1165797879546918152006-12-10T15:32:00.000-08:002006-12-10T16:44:39.563-08:00Ok, yesterday morning I drove to the Lindbergh Minneapolis St. Paul Airpot for my flight to Atlanta, for work.I volunteered weeks ago, for this trip to a hospital in Atlanta. Our headquarters office has created an electronic medical record software product and has assured this customer that we would provide a certain amount of employees who would remain on site for the first few days after they KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1162388712192677272006-11-01T05:43:00.000-08:002006-11-01T05:45:12.206-08:00Halloween is still the traditional Halloween of my childhood, here in New Brighton, MN. The only difference is that it's completely socially acceptable for teen agers to continue trick or treating. When I was a kid, everyone just sort of agreed that the cut-off should be around your 13th birthday.Two days earlier, we laid newspaper all over the kitchen table, our children drew faces on 3 pumpkinsKathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1161221986690042772006-10-18T18:38:00.000-07:002006-10-18T19:17:35.960-07:00A 14 year old boy asked, on Retrojunk.com, what our opinion was , of our own aging. He was actually grieving his early childhood already.Anyway this was my reply."I'm 41. One of the things I've really come to appreciate about aging, and this should probably go without saying, but I'll say it anyway, is that my age-mates and I are all aging TOGETHER! Yeah, I'm 41. But I call my old high school KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1160339226144384282006-10-08T13:01:00.000-07:002006-10-08T13:27:06.160-07:00My husband's job is still going great. Last week , they held a department dinner at a restaurant in St. Louis Park. We both went and enjoyed a great dinner, and a trivia contest. I liked seeing that all his new co workers are really nice, and that they really appreciate him. They also enjoyed learning how my husband is phobic about seeing anyone's feet, and enjoyed wearing sandals to the office KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1158808293806732972006-09-20T20:00:00.000-07:002006-09-20T20:11:33.820-07:00This summer my husband told our 12 year old daughter, she had to pick a sport this fall. So what did she pick? "Sword fighting," that's what! So last week end my husband bought her a 3 month membership to a fencing club in South Minneapolis, and we gotta take her there twice a week. Looks like tomorrow might be my night to take her.Tuesday morning at about 1 am my 7 year old son woke up , vomitedKathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1158582468847346132006-09-18T05:24:00.000-07:002006-09-18T05:27:48.863-07:00My 5-K time on Saturday morning was 41 min, 3 seconds. The event planner did explain that the course itself really was slightly longer than 5K. My husband who didn't run at all , all summer, finished a mere 5 mintues after I did. I can't believe all the people who crossed the finish line, then turned around and ran the other way, to run the course again, in reverse, to make it a 10K. I was not KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1158117421823709442006-09-12T20:08:00.000-07:002006-09-12T20:17:01.863-07:00Awsome, I ran 4.5 km tonight, to Monroe Street from my house and back. And only 4 days to go until the 5km run on Saturday. It went fine tonight , so I think I'll make it, Saturday! It'll be strange to have to run without my dog, though.My husband's birthday was yesterday, and as we often do, we had two parties for him. One Saturday night, with friends, here at our house, about 6 people came. AndKathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1156885377445270522006-08-29T13:53:00.000-07:002006-08-29T14:02:57.460-07:00I took Mon through Wed off work this week, to spend a few days of this last week of summer vacation with my kids.Yesterday, I had to take my daughter to get two fillings, and during that process, two more baby-teeth molars fell right out in her mouth! And yesterday afternoon, I had to take her to minute clinic at CVS pharmacy to get a tetanus shot she was missing, for school. So yesterday was notKathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1155949475710756462006-08-18T17:39:00.000-07:002006-08-18T18:08:31.210-07:00It's really been the most amazing last couple of weeks.Two weeks ago, my husband was offered his dream job. They wanted him so badly that they actually raised the pay , and threw in an extra week of vacation per year, other than what he was told at the interview, before offering it to him! He starts in 3 days. He's out right now, as I write this, at his own going away party his current co-workersKathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1154998751187139592006-08-07T17:54:00.000-07:002006-08-07T17:59:11.203-07:00My husband's dream job called this afternoon. He wasn't home. She left me her number and asked that he call as soon as possible tomorrow morning, because she has "good news," for him. I'm so afraid to get my hopes up. Do you know how awsome it would be if he really did get the job ?!Today starts week 3 of running. I only missed the two nights of my husband's grandpa's wake and funeral. I ran 3 K KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1154789579798612322006-08-05T07:43:00.000-07:002006-08-05T07:52:59.800-07:00Thursday morning, the morning of my husband's big interview, he went to use the computer in our basement...and saw a mouse! He set some traps, and went to his interview. He did inform our 12 year old daughter of the mouse, but she got bored and decided to use the computer that afternoon, and after about an hour of tranquility, the mouse ran right under the desk, right under her feet! She KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1154789015640231122006-08-05T07:35:00.000-07:002006-08-05T07:43:35.640-07:00Yesterday I picked up my 7 year old son from day care. He used the phrase "Dog crap" in conversation, in the car, on the drive home, and I corrected him and informed him that "crap" is not a word we use in our family. I told him I'm aware that he's learned a lot of inapproprate words over the course of the summer. And he replied "Naked Lady. Nekkid Leddeeee. Naked Lady!' Then he thought for a KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1154788489349453362006-08-05T06:57:00.000-07:002006-08-05T07:34:50.466-07:00Tuesday morning we drove to Green Bay, Wisconsin for my husband's grandpa's late afternoon wake. He had to work until 11 am that morning, to make best use of the few hours off he has accrued in the last 6 months he's worked there. They really are a bunch of petty micromanagers over there. I dressed us all for the extreme heat we've been experiencing over the last few weeks. Instead of the sun, KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1154110025306241002006-07-28T10:43:00.000-07:002006-07-28T11:07:05.373-07:00My husband's Grandpa Buck died last night at 8:00 Pm, a few days after having a stroke at age 99 1/2 .I can remember a few years ago my mother in law explained to me that it was important for her to keep her widowed mother, and her two parents-in-law alive, because when all 3 of them died, then she and my father-in-law would officially be the "old" generation. Well they all died in the last 18 KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1153630836804982282006-07-22T21:49:00.000-07:002006-07-22T22:00:36.816-07:00We took our kids to see RV starring Robin Williams, at a second-run theater in Roseville this afternoon. They laughed the whole time , then came out and said they didn't like it that much. What's wrong with them ?? Somehow my run was harder tonight. I kept having to stop and streatch out my calves, they kept tightening up while I was running. And my stupid, crazy shephard-mix dog keeps trying to KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1153454911273077072006-07-20T21:03:00.000-07:002006-07-20T21:08:31.283-07:00I ran that same 2.18 K last night and again tonight.I've been informed by my husband that I'm running in the wrong kind of shoe AND the wrong kind of bra. Yes there is an official bra for jogging. Dangit, I thought running down the street with your dog was supposed to be free. Don't let this turn in to an expensive sport like hockey! P.S. My calves and my back feel like I've been punched.My KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1153273786833715472006-07-18T18:43:00.000-07:002006-07-18T18:49:46.843-07:00I ran tonight. I ran from our house to the Four Corners convenience store and back. I took the dog, because I've decided people look less stupid running down the street, if they're running with their dog. I mapquested it when I got back. Round trip it was 1.36 miles. That converts to 2.18 kilometers. I only had to stop a couple of times. I'm going to run in my husband's church's 5K in KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1153089310490511712006-07-16T15:15:00.000-07:002006-07-16T19:49:41.026-07:00Debi came to visit , from Madison, on Friday night.Coincidentally, my husband took our kids to visit his parents that same week end! We had a swinging batchelorette weekend, on the town!I met her in downtown Minneapolis, we went to a Midori's Floating World Cafe Japanese restaurant, I had shrimp tempura like I did last time we went there, but this time I also ordered sushi for the first time. I KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1151899796071787152006-07-02T20:50:00.000-07:002006-07-02T21:09:56.090-07:00Last Tuesday night a co worker and I flew to Kansas City , Missouri, for 3 days.Last November another much more experienced co worker had to accompany me through the airport, through renting a car, and finding our hotel, in Longmont Colorado. This time I was the experienced one, as this was my third air trip for work, and my co worker this time had only flown once in her whole life.It went great KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1149768567310278162006-06-08T04:53:00.000-07:002006-06-08T06:08:42.616-07:00I was scheduled to be on jury duty all week.Monday morning, I parked at a restaurant a few miles from my house and took an express city bus in to downtown St Paul. I sat in the county courthouse basement for 4 hours and read back issues of Reminisce Magazine. Then the jury manager annouced we had 2 hours for lunch! Two hours! I hardly knew what to do with myself!I walked all around downtown St KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1148348089724977002006-05-22T18:24:00.000-07:002006-05-22T18:34:49.736-07:00This week end my closest co worker got married in Duluth, Minnesota. So my husband and kids and I drove up, stopped in some small towns along the way, went to her wedding, and her traditional church-basement luncheon afterwards. We then drove to downtown Duluth with some other co workers and hit a bar and grill. It was so fun, I gave the kids a bunch of quarters for games, and we all just ate andKathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1147094519623355132006-05-08T06:20:00.000-07:002006-05-08T06:21:59.643-07:00About 2 weeks ago my husband and I planned a party at our house. We scheduled it for Friday, May 5. We called and emailed our friends, told our co workers, and told everyone to invite their friends.That Saturday we drove the 5 hour trip along Highway 29 to my in-laws' in Green Bay. They wanted to take my husband and his brother, and us wives, to a play. That allowed us to visit my husband's 90 KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1145899491181670532006-04-24T09:56:00.000-07:002006-04-24T10:33:15.406-07:00R.I.P Chibi !Friday afternoon April 21 a baby albino squirrel fell from a tree in our yard on to our driveway!Clearly he was ill and not thriving, we don't know if that was true before his fall or if it was a result of his fall.He remained in one spot on our driveway for so long, that we came out to see him , and he did not run away. In fact, at first we thought he was unable to walk.He allowed KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1145728198786732982006-04-22T10:43:00.000-07:002006-04-22T10:49:58.800-07:00My friend Mary sent me this. If half this list is true, then help, I'm a goth, too!This is a newsletter that St. Mary's church in Colorado Springs sent out this week:If Your Child is a Gothic, Reform Through the Lord!Listed below are some warning signs to indicate if your child may have gone astray from the Lord. Gothic (or goth) is a very obscure and often dangerous culture that young teenagers KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1144342153370687252006-04-06T09:45:00.000-07:002006-04-06T09:49:13.383-07:00Two weeks ago, I took March 22, 23, and 24 off to spend Wed through Friday of my kids Spring Break at home with them. We didn't really go anywhere except the beautiful downtown St Paul public library. It was great to just spend quiet time at home with the kids.Saturday morning I went to my Norwegian language class at Mindekirken. This quarter we lost two long-time class members, but gained a new KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1143640792665559622006-03-29T05:57:00.000-08:002006-03-29T05:59:52.676-08:00Greetings from FloridaHere is part of an email I just sent to some of my friends:Hi everyone, I 'm writing from Daytona Beach, Forida and will be here until Friday night.I'm staying in a hotel room the size of my whole first efficiency apartment, only one block from the office where I am working this week. The TV in that room defaults back to Fox News , very loudly, every time I turn it back KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1142627817474069622006-03-17T12:35:00.000-08:002006-03-17T12:36:57.483-08:00Now that the shock of such short notice has worn off, it just occurred to me how lucky I am.I've just been handed an all expenses paid 5 day trip to Daytona Beach Florida !How cool is that! I'll be at work, in training, during the day, but I'll have 4 nights free !KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1142476868348510672006-03-15T18:32:00.000-08:002006-03-15T18:41:08.360-08:00Monday I got the flu at work! I stayed, however, because we had a lady coming all the way from Florida just to do training for me and 3 other people, and I didn't want to miss her. But it snowed so hard her plane couldn't land, so she never came that day. I went home, all tired and achey and shoveled my driveway on and off for 3 hours.Tuesday I still went to work with the flu. I took cold KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1142198057441796572006-03-12T12:42:00.000-08:002006-03-12T13:14:17.456-08:00Today was the first day in a long time that I just got to sleep in and do nothing.Last Monday I got that car-carving kit from the Boy Scouts and starting sawing up his block of wood, trying to shape a car out of it.Tuesday afternoon, I took my daughter to guitar lessons, came home, made dinner. Then that night I taught my last English as a Second Language class for a while. I had to quit because KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1141755533724545842006-03-07T10:07:00.000-08:002006-03-07T10:18:53.733-08:00About 2 months ago I sent an email to the registrar of my old college, Macalester College, from which I graduated in 1987. I explained that I know my transcript shows my Anthropology major, and my French core-degree, which is like a minor.I also explained that I took all the required courses for a Linguistics major, also. And that the only other two requirements for a Linguistics major were to KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1141754657450940792006-03-07T10:00:00.000-08:002006-03-07T10:04:17.463-08:00I wrote this last night.Why is it that I can spend 9 or 10 hours a week day, at my desk at work, with my lap top and my tea cup warming plate and be perfectly competent. Customers , co workers, and even managers and administrators come to me for advice. I function very highly and even dare to complain that it bores me.But the minute I set foot on my own property, at home, I become a bumbling KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1140834536053261202006-02-24T18:27:00.000-08:002006-02-24T18:28:56.063-08:00The garage called later tonight. The repair amount is much more reasonable than I expected, so I said go right ahead, thanks! Yes, that good news allowed me to rationalize continuing to drive The Bomb for a few more months.KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1140611726670102672006-02-22T04:30:00.000-08:002006-02-22T04:35:26.683-08:001. What time did you get up this morning? 4:45 am2. Diamonds or pearls? Neither , I don't like jewelry.3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Steve Carell in The 40 year Old Virgin .4. What is your favorite TV shows? Arrested Development, too bad it just went off the air, it was fantastic!5. What do you usually have for breakfast? tea6. What is your middle name ? Starr7. KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1139940183540243502006-02-14T10:00:00.000-08:002006-02-14T10:03:03.546-08:00Someone asked my list of "bobbins" or what I would call "pet peeves".Obviously I could write volumes, but here was my list today:My phone ringing between the hours of 9 pm to 9 am.Voice mails from someone who just throught up something for me to do for them.School fund raisers. "You're only giving me fifteen dollars? I need one thousand dollars! I want to win the bike!"Misleading headlines "KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1139939994639513782006-02-14T09:58:00.000-08:002006-02-14T09:59:54.650-08:00Someone asked me my top favorite movies. I limited it to films I could watch again, no matter how much I enjoyed watching them once: East is East (Manchester, England)Napoleon Dynamite (Idaho)Smoke Signals (Idaho)Bye Bye Birdie (Paul Lynde)Rock and Roll High School (The Ramones)Repo Man (Generic Food)Antonia's Line (Holland)Amelie (Paris)Elling (Norway)Star Wars a New Hope (The real one)Escape toKathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1139405333088454152006-02-08T04:56:00.000-08:002006-02-08T05:28:53.096-08:00It' s official. As a family we can't fit in all our activities. So I have quit my English as a Second Language volunteer job, for now, so I can take my 6 year old son to Scouts, because my husband is being assigned to work on a lot of week nights. I'm sure I'll be able to start again next fall. Hopefully my husband will have found a more appropriate job by then, with regular business KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1137089073562523302006-01-12T09:53:00.000-08:002006-01-12T10:04:33.573-08:00We figured out that the Sirus radio receiver then transmits so strongly that if we place it in the kitchen, we can still pick it up on our shower radio in the bathroom! Cool!My husband is still not happy about working at a bill collection agency...but he brought home a spreadsheet a few nights ago showing he was the top collector on his team of about 10 ! He's had customers tell him that althoughKathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1136525926880302322006-01-05T20:56:00.000-08:002006-01-05T21:38:46.893-08:00We're so high tech!I got my husband a Sirius radio receiver for Christmas. I meant for him to listen to it in his car, but he has it set up in the kitchen for now, instead! It's so great to be able to listen to all-Comedy radio, All-Gay radio, Radio Ireland, a channel of old time radio series, and all kinds of other formats !Then just this week end, I figured out that as AOL subscribers, we can KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1135795161773915452005-12-28T10:38:00.000-08:002005-12-28T10:39:21.773-08:00Mary pointed out to me last week my web log does not have an option to leave a comment, so I figured it out and added that feature this afternoon.KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1135085330391888882005-12-20T05:28:00.000-08:002005-12-20T05:28:59.303-08:00You are Kate Rambou. You are kind of nerdy, enjoycheckers and splitting protons. You're RiffRandels best friend but are still kind of outof it... Earth calling Kate, Joey Ramonehappens to be the lead singer of theRamones.... remember, you might wanna try andfigure out who the rest of the Ramones are..Which Rock N' Roll High School Character Are You?brought to you byKathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1134669452323961032005-12-15T09:43:00.000-08:002005-12-15T09:57:32.333-08:00Good News Bad News.The good news is that last week on Friday, my husband was offered a job.The bad news is thatA) The job is bill collecting, on the phone, for a professional collection agency andB) They said he had to start Monday, just 3 days away.I even told him I would totally respect your decision if you say no.But he said yes, and so we've been totally juggling getting our kids to and from KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1133980256752838542005-12-07T10:16:00.000-08:002005-12-07T10:30:56.763-08:00Last week the volunteer coordinator at the Adult Baisc Education center where I teach ESL once a week agreed she would arrange to have my class moved out of the room with the pop machine, so people wouldn't just walk in and out and interrupt us the whole time. So this week we were moved... in to the room with the hot water machine for everyone's cocoa and tea. Next time I hear some ignorant KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1133539572178115662005-12-02T07:45:00.000-08:002005-12-02T08:07:11.693-08:00More email from Norway. I'm really touched that these relatives who barely know who I am are willing to write me an email and send pictures, especially since I think no one from the USA branch of the family has had any connection to them at all since I visited my Grandmothers's cousin Gerd, and her husband Validmar, since 1985!Their pictures are so beautiful, the only reason I have to believe KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1133375261515053262005-11-30T10:11:00.000-08:002005-11-30T10:27:41.526-08:00I just told two different people I'm 40 and it wasn't until I saw my own last post that I remembered, excuse me, I'm 41.About 2 weeks ago someone told me about a web site called telefonkatalog.no, the Norwegian white pages. She said if you want to find out what realtives you still have in Norway, just put in your Norwegian family name, and look for listings in your ancestral home town, and write KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1132321554317227932005-11-15T22:00:00.000-08:002005-11-18T05:45:54.326-08:00My birthday today. I turned 41.It was our regular hectic Tuesday family schedule, however.At work someone brought me a 6-pack of cupcakes, which was awkward because there are 9 people in the department. Luckily, after lunch,when I passed the cupcakes around most people didn't want one. She also put a Happy Birthday mylar balloon on my desk, so everyone walking by came over for a while to say KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1132235164038658052005-11-07T05:12:00.000-08:002005-11-19T15:03:48.886-08:00Nov 9 I flew to Longmont Colorado for 3 days for work. I don't normally travel for work, or really travel at all except for the occasional driving trip to Green Bay Wisc to visit my in laws every 3 months or so, so I was really nervous about it.In mid October, I was asked if I would accompany a gay male co worker to Longmont in early November, and be his assistant, as he is very experienced at KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1131127989917296172005-11-04T10:08:00.000-08:002005-11-04T10:13:09.930-08:00At work today someone asked us to list our funniest customer service moments, whether we were the customer or the rep, so here is what I listed:A client once called our department when it was about 2:00 in the afternoon.The client said, " I need to let you know that at 8:00 this morning we got an error message. I don't remember exactly what it said. It said something about how I should write thisKathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1131043614176086382005-11-03T10:46:00.000-08:002005-11-03T10:46:54.186-08:004 more days until I board a plane for Colorado & spend 3 days there, for work. I rarely travel, haven't flown since 1996, and am panicing the closer it gets. I dread airports and airport guards, and driving highways and streets I don't know. And it doensn't help that I've had my travel schedule changed for me, almost daily, for the last 2 weeks. People better not alter their plans for me any KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1131043867214179692005-10-31T23:00:00.000-08:002005-11-03T10:51:07.216-08:00Halloween.My 12 year old daughter's plan to ditch her little brother worked perfectly.I agreed to let her trick or treat with her best friend who also has a 6 year old brother, only to end up with us two moms taking our 6 year old boys around the block, while my daughter for the first time ran with a pack of unchaperoned middle schoolers, all right on the boarder line of being too old to trick orKathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1128296455469984352005-10-02T16:36:00.000-07:002005-10-02T16:40:55.476-07:00Here are some messages I wrote to my favorite message board, then pasted here:Are School fund raisers not the biggest bunch of bullshit ever?As soon as my 11 year old daughter's middle school started in early Sept, she got sent home with $30 books of 2-for-1 cupons for various local businesses , 95% of we'd never go to anyway and are no where near us. We bought one. Plus the high school girl KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1127575818963891832005-09-24T08:30:00.000-07:002005-09-24T08:30:18.966-07:00Last night I made my kids a bath the old fasioned way. I filled the tub with cold water, then heated up pots of water on the gas stove top and poured hot water in with the cold. Later, my husband and two kids and I drank cocoa and played dominoes by candle light, while my husband and I told both kids how great they were for being so patient after two days with no electricity in the house. After KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1127483769542488952005-09-23T06:55:00.000-07:002005-09-23T06:56:09.546-07:00Wednesday night we had a tornado. My husband and 2 kids and I slept in our basement that night, and the wind and hail seemed to go on forever!At our house we just lost some tree branches, nothing we couldn't lift ourselves afterwards, and a section of our back fence. We might be able to nail it back up again. But neighbors lost entire trees...and a lot of those trees landed on power lines. Most KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1127304923859668012005-09-21T05:14:00.000-07:002005-09-21T05:15:23.866-07:00Cut and pasted from an email to friends, as usual:Do you guys know what kid shows I hate?Courage the Cowardly Dog. I feel sorry for the dog. No one believes him. And he's got that huge cavity in one of his teeth.Cow and Chicken. Or just about any cartoon with "And" in its name like Ed, Edd and Eddy, or Grim and Mandy. Charlie Adler's cartoon voices all sound the same and they're grating as all KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699681.post-1125954228858608632005-09-05T14:00:00.000-07:002005-09-05T14:03:48.863-07:00From an email sent to some friends today:My kids go back to school tomorrow.Last Wed, Aug 31, we went to my son's new school's open house to meet his new First Grade teacher and see his new room. My 6 year old son had to do all the talking, because I actually started to cry! I'm crushed his old school had to close down due to budget cuts. I worried will she appreciate who he is, or like last KathySRWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687841053624657971noreply@blogger.com0