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Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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donaldtoo said:
Up until about 6 years ago we still had a 13" CRT TV in our bedroom. :confused: We had that TV for over 20 years, and it worked great, so we just never saw a need to replace it. DS had it in his room for a bit until it finally gave out.
Then, one day we were in a store and noticed how much the prices had come down on the big flat screen TVs. Since then, we've had a 32" in our bedroom, as well. What a difference. I'll take the 32" TV, any day. :)
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these old TVS definitively used to last a carpload!
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Cesar R M said:
not that I have noticed, the car just doesn't make that horrible noise when backing out.
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Only when backing out? I think you made a reference to the transmission in one of your earlier posts, so if some of the exhaust system was bent out of place, it sounds like the way things torqued when it was put in reverse might have put the transmission and exhaust system in contact with each other to make the noise...?
Anyway, I'm gonna' stop tryin' to looooong distance troubleshoot this problem, especially since it's already been fixed...!!! :joyfull: :hilarious: ;) :)
 
JenniferS

JenniferS

When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
Cesar R M said:
aaah, good ol' jennifer ready to pounce!
are you sure you do not have blood from a famous Judge? :hilarious:
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I spray Bactine on just about every bite, cut or scrape I get. Sunburn too.
Once it has dried, I either re-apply or switch to Polysporin.

I don't jump around, flinch, and act like a fool like some people ... looking at you Hubby.
Plus the smell takes me back to my childhood. (Just the scent of Bactine tells my boo boo it's better.) Bactine and Ozonol cured everything back then.


And Noxzema. Forgot about Noxzema.
 
JenniferS

JenniferS

When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
donaldtoo said:
Up until about 6 years ago we still had a 13" CRT TV in our bedroom. :confused: We had that TV for over 20 years, and it worked great, so we just never saw a need to replace it. DS had it in his room for a bit until it finally gave out.
Then, one day we were in a store and noticed how much the prices had come down on the big flat screen TVs. Since then, we've had a 32" in our bedroom, as well. What a difference. I'll take the 32" TV, any day. :)
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That 43" TV currently in our family room came from our bedroom. I don't miss it all.
At one point, we had 4 people living here ... and 7 TVs. That's crazy.
Now it's 5 and 5 ... until we get that 65" TV. We had been looking at 70" and 80", but our new stand only accomodates up to 65". Yep, just saved me more than $2K.
 
betty rose

betty rose

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JenniferS said:
I had the Bactine out, but nobody would let me use it. :hilarious::hilarious:
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I hope I'm not boring anyone with my stories...when you're 67 you have accumulated a lot of them. Short version, I fell down my grandma's and grandpa's stairs. I feel against a concrete block. Cut a big gash in the back of my head...I was rushed to the only doctor, in his house....He saw the gash poured a bottle of methiolade (sp), in the gash, and sewed me up. The sewing was nothing compared to cleaning out the wound,:D. Mom was so embarrassed , she said people in the next country could hear me screaming. :D:D:D
 
betty rose

betty rose

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donaldtoo said:
Oh my. That kinda' reminds me of Clark Griswold from the movie "Vacation"...
"I just paid $500 for 4 bald tires and a tow". :eek: :hilarious: ;) :)

Congrats on the anniversary!!! So happy for y'all!!!!! :joyfull:
DWifey and myself will be celebrating our 27th in December. :)
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I'm going to have to get that movie Vacation. Should be good for laughs. I'm not a big movie buff, unless my kids have us watch a movie at their house. I remember seeing, my son-in laws favorite Movie, at the time...Dune. Not a fan.:eek:
 
betty rose

betty rose

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Goofyernmost said:
I had something similar happen when I was about 10 or so. I used to spend 3 or more weeks in the summer staying at my Grandparents house. Both were retired but they did have chickens. My job every morning was to go out and collect the eggs. They, of course, became MY chickens.

Flash ahead to fall. We were going to their place for our regular Sunday afternoon family gathering and when we pulled into the yard this is what I saw. My Grandfather would grab a chicken by the head, take his jackknife and cut the head off, leaving the chicken to run around the yard like... well, like a chicken with its head cut off. It didn't take long before the nerves quit functioning, but, it was surprising how far they could run like that. Then my Grandmother would take them and drop them into boiling water for just a little while to make it easy to remove the feathers. That afternoon my entire chicken family was done in and readied for the freezer. Except, of course for the couple that they held out for Sunday Dinner. What was amazing is that they actually expected me to eat any of it. Fortunately, I got over the trauma and now can quite happily devour chicken with no bad feelings at all. But, then again... I am dead on the inside!:devilish::grumpy:
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That sounds tragic, and sad to me. I would have been scarred for life , if I had witnessed that.
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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JenniferS said:
"So, Jennifer", you ask, "how was your steak?"

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Well, the truth is, I only made that one single cut (to make sure it wasn't still mooing) before the phone rang.

"How quickly can you get to Consol?" asks Son #2, referring to a not too distant street.
"I can be there immediately. Is someone hurt?"
"Yeah, Gen wiped out."

Boy did she ever! They had been out long-boarding, and she took a nasty spill. The whole left side of her body; thigh, ankle, knee, elbow, shoulder and FACE! all scraped and bloody.

She didn't want to go home, so we brought her here, and pulled out the first aid kit. I got the blood cleaned up, the worst wounds temporarily dressed and gave her some Advil.
We put ice on her face (eye area predominately) and got her settled for a few minutes.

Hubby and I went to Shopper's DrugMart and got her 2 boxes of large gauze pads, non-stick tape, a brand new Polysporin, saline wound spray, ice pack, and citrus scented Epsom salts to take home.

When we got back, I had her go take a bath in the Epsom salts and then helped her dress her wounds.

She has a great big shiner already, and is going to hurt like the dickens tomorrow, but thank you Lord, just a lot of skin left on the pavement, but no broken bones.

The steak, two hours later, was meh!
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Oh my. Sympathy "like" all the way around.

Skateboarding was really big when we went back to No Cal for vacation in the summer of '78. We made a day-long side trip to a town on the coast where my mothers cousin lived (Watsonville - hit very hard by the '89 Loma Prieta Quake). One of our old neighbors and his and my skateboards came along, too. They had some really great hilly streets to fly down on those babies. The last one we started to do had quite the view from the top, and was a bit more intimidating than anything we had done, so far. I bailed, on my feet, shortly after we started the run 'cause I had "a bad feeling about this". As I watched my friend pick up more and more speed and get closer to the bottom he got the speed wobbles and was tossed. I thought we was dead.
Good Lord was he a mess when I got down to him. But, no broken bones and he was conscious. :confused:
I helped him back to my moms cousins house where the adults checked him out and dressed his wounds.
Needless to say, the visit was cut a little short as we wanted to get him back to his folks. When we got his totaled behind back home his pop was laughin' his a$$ off...!!! :joyfull:
He, on the other hand, and his mother, were not amused... :bored: ;)
The next day when we went over to check on him, for some reason, he thought it would be great idea if we all went swimming in their pool. Not so much...he was in so much agony, we had to drag 'im out. :in pain:

Likely not, unless she's drugged up, but, hope Gen is feelin' at least a little better.
 
betty rose

betty rose

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JenniferS said:
Not that it was lost (I just didn't know where it was), but I chanced upon our wedding video yesterday.

The label is perplexing, in two ways.

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First of all, everybody knows that when it comes to ALL things wedding related, the bride's name is listed first.

Second, my dad made that tape. You might even recognize his printing on the label. Surely he, of all people, should have put my name first! :facepalm:
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Absolutely!
 
JenniferS

JenniferS

When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
betty rose said:
So sorry, that's a lot of money. I hope your daughter isn't suffering too much.
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Not my daughter. My son's girlfriend, whom I've know for more than a dozen years.
Apparently she came here after her wipe out because she knew her mom would over-react, but I could be trusted to deal with the situation calmly.

Blood and boo boos don't phase me.
Afterall, I have gauze and Bactine. :hilarious:
 

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