Should tag his name...How do you do it? @Tijdon:

Also a good point. D:

Good lord, I cannot focus. My eyes have crossed long ago with these clamming reports. I'm finally on 7/27 but this is when Robert ended up doing the huge price increase, so even though it's 4 days, you can imagine how thick the stack is. 9_9

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I've not done tagging yet. XD I'm not sure.

Yeah, like that.

Wow, noparse didn't work...

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Ohh sounds like fun.

You know I was very very close. It's a ; instead of a :. I fixed it on my first post. :D

Hokay, do either of you know what store the yukatas are in? I'll guess Imports, but god knows it takes a year to find anything. :(

Yep at the back end of imports.

Eventually I'm gonna buy me a purple one, as it looks strikingly sexy. :XD

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I hope the pixelists pixel a siamese kitty for us. I love my kitty so much it'd be like velcro on my avvie. *pets her special kitty*

There.

Enjoying a hot bath with my panda pals. :)

I feel marginally better now that I've eaten and gotten some coffee. The baby is still confused as to how to do the labor thing. I hope she soon learns her head isn't going to barrel through me without labor coming first. >_>;

Oh jeez...head butting you in the pelvic region is she? She'll figure it out I'm sure. O_o

I just went and grabbed the mail and bumped into my neighbor. She is the sweetest and most talkative elderly lady and I feel so bad for her. Her brother just passed away, and that was the last of her close family that lives up north. She has a couple of brothers who live full time in Florida, but she has been lonely and lives on her own. Apparently she had a divorce many years back and has chose to live on her own, but it's sad seeing elderly people without the emotional support.

Saying that I couldn't work with them as I end up getting emotionally close to them and I would find it hard watching them pass away.

The same time though I'll see if the kids want to go visit her sometime. It sounds strange but when I was their age I would routinely visit this elderly man in my grandparent's neighborhood and I think he genuinely loved the company. He never had children, and I remember his wife was very sickly and perhaps wasn't able to conceive. I remember her in her wheelchair, and I remember just how genuinely nice they were. Every year for my birthday he use to take me to this local restaurant and he'd treat me. He was such a gentleman and I enjoyed hearing about his stories of his youth and looking at his photographs. I was devastated when my parents told me he died, and I remember sitting in Sizzlers (I know, classy) and having to excuse myself to the bathroom just to kind of deal with the shock.

It varies. For the past couple days it's definitely been her head, but for weeks I'll feel an actual hand and fingers poking at my... yeah. >.>; It's SO FREAKIN' WEIRD. But yes, she keeps headbanging me and making me jump. XD

I feel pretty much like you do regarding elderly work. I know I'd get attached. It would be so hard not to. I'm sure I COULD do the work, but it would be so heartbreaking in the long-term. (Imagine the benefits to their lives while they were living though...)

It's not odd at all. I also visited elderly when I was younger. In particular a man named Mr. Skinner used to live next to my paternal grandmother. I wanna say that my grandmother was in her 60s or so and this man was well into his late 70s early 80s. I don't remember our talks, but I do remember having good times. :3 I was probably 6?

I was a little bit older, so I remember it a little more vividly. I don't remember any one conversation but I remember enjoying his company and always asking my grandparents if I could go visit him.

Speaking of which, I still miss my grandma, even though it's been a good number of years she's been gone. I've had some good memories of her. My grandfather I have good memories too, however I wasn't as close. I think I really benefited from having them close by and when we moved cross country I really missed them. There are times I wonder what life would be like if we never did move.

I've had a lot of good talks with my grandmother, starting around age 16. I definitely am carrying those close with me once she's gone. My grandfather... I have no ill memories of him, but he's really awkward in general. With girls anyway. :P Children. But, he loves us, and he's a good man. It's just a different type of relationship I suppose.

How far had you moved? o.o Which state to which state?

From Florida to North Carolina. I don't know if if I told you this previously, but that's when all the problems really started within the family...and when I started to really suffer academically and socially.

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We stayed in North Carolina for about a year and a half, then moved to Nebraska. We ended up sticking in Nebraska until I moved to England in Fall of 2002. My parents ended up moving from Nebraska to Michigan after I left. Ironically to take care of my grandparents, who ended up dying two months apart from one another. My grandmother just was so lost without her husband, and my family said she was still looking for him after he died and said she had really vivid dreams about him too. They had been together for well over 50 years, so I can understand why.

Nope, I knew that home life was really bad, but I thought it had been straight from the get-go. x.x

I do wonder then if your family had the grandparent support (even just to help "with the kids") if things might have been a bit better. Then again I look at my family dynamic and my grandmother sometimes says TOO much to my mother. And aunt. And other aunt. Heh. 9_9

It's odd, I spent 17 years living 45 minutes from one of my grandmothers, and saw her maybe 7 to 10 hours a year (with very little direct contact), and living a 1 to 2 day drive from my other set of grandparents, and spent 2 or more weeks with them every year.

Do you guys like my pretend jacket? It's made of four items. My upper torso has seven total items.

Both sets of my grandparents have lived in the same proximity. I spent more time with my paternal grandparents as a child, as my cousins, sister and I would camp out for a lot of the summer months over there. My grandmother owned a bed and breakfast.

But, family oddities over the years passed and when we grew up we stopped going over as often. I'm always with my maternal grandparents in some form or another.

And yep, the jacket's nice. <3

I dug out my tamagotchi school. I figured it's time to get into the school spirit. :XD

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You know I would of never guessed it took that many items to make it. O_o

I was trying to find a good suit jacket on Mene and didn't like any of them, so I made my own. XD

My paternal grandmother (the one near where I grew up) always seemed so old. My other grandparents I water skied with, went on vacations with, snowskied with, but my paternal grandmother just seemed old and sick.

My paternal grandmother was definitely healthier. My maternal grandfather is always out and about doing this and that, whereas my maternal grandmother is too tired.

My paternal grandfather died of a heart attack when I was 9.

On that note, I'm packing up to head home. It's so hot up here...

My paternal grandparents died while I was too young to remember them. Mom's mom and dad spent quite a bit of time with me, though. After my grandmother died, I used to go up and spend the night with my grandfather pretty often up until he died.

Getting the soap on the bottom of my heel is hard but I make it happen.

:lol: He did read our conversation about his shoe, Chi. :XD

Hi there Tij. :)

@Barty
Couldn't you just put the soap on the shower floor and spin on it really quickly with your heel? Rinsing would be a problem, but you're a smart guy.

Amazon got my books today!! :XD

Now I should get my gift vouchers in the next two days. I hope they hurry up as the new Tamagotchi has been restocked and I'm really wanting to place my order before they are all gone! :XD

That and I need to order Pam's Bday pressie.

Tamagotchiii.
I used to so jealous over people who had them, haha.