lilgallowsmama

I'm scared to death I'm going to leave my iPod at home by accident. . I delivered Mini-Me without music and it drove me crazy. I begged for a radio but hospitals don't seem to have alot of those running around.

So, I'm 31/32 weeks and this little one keeps trying to come early, so my wonderful doc/midwives have warned me to go ahead and pack a hospital bag. I don't remember what I packed in my first one, as it was six years ago. Clothes, I would imagine? I remember needing lots of socks and begging for chapstick. This time around I'm also packing for Mini-Me - she won't be staying the night, but she'll need an 'emergency bag' for wherever she winds up staying as well as entertainment stuff for the hospital itself. She's insistent upon being there for it all. Ideas? Tips?

Entirely depends. If it's a school day, then I set the alarm for when we need to get up to get her to school...I can go back to sleep when I get home. If it's another day, or one of my 'preggo naps', I set the alarm early because I've been sleeping so hard that I hit snooze or just turn the alarm off and don't even realize it. I need one of those alarms that flies across the room so you have to physically get up and go get it.

I didn't perceive it as racism at all and I can generally spot racism from a mile away. D'vill IS very much 'the hood' - I've spent way more time there over the past two months than I've cared to, driving Dxh around. Not only does he live and work there, but he lives RIGHT outside of 'the hood'...and I've yet to see a black person there. 'Often associated' doesn't mean always. Feeling uncomfortable doesn't mean there are people of any other race. White folks can be hoodlums and thugs, and that place is absolutely crawling with them.

I'm only 25...not old! I dislocated my knee bungee jumping when I was 14 and can generally tell the weather before the news even reports it. I hate winter for the simple fact that the ups and downs of the weather in winter cause all sorts of crazy pain - warm, cold, warm, cold....

I don't care what it does so long as it waits until tomorrow night to do it. I have a mini-me to pick up in D'ville and a whole person and their stuff to move out of my apartment tomorrow. Snow/ice/sleet/rain of fire better not interfere.

Mine suddenly started doing it, too. And, only for p.com, not for any other sites. And it's a PITA to find the spot for the username and password because it's the same color as the background.

She's not dead. http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/08/several-people-shot-at-arizona-store-police-official-says/

I absolutely admire your friend - I would give my right arm to have a home birth. I traded 'daddy' doctors/midwives and the hospital of my choice in exchange for not having a home birth just to shut him up - he was a paramedic and is adamant that nobody can properly deliver a baby except a 'medical professional' with fifteen hundred years of training and practice.

Rubbermaid containers and baby bath tubs. 'Least, that's what I used in '93. Of course, I was all of 7 years old at the time.

I'm actually more worried about getting stuck in New Hope in the bottom of a hilly subdivision where an ambulance can't get to me than I am in an apartment complex on a flat highway just minutes from the hospital....but she's being pretty darn stubborn about it.

I'm not freaking out - I didn't even know about it until my mom texted me. Apparently, because I was having contractions yesterday morning at 20 minutes apart and last night at 12 minutes apart, she's adamant that kiddo and I come stay with her instead of chancing being stranded without adult help. She lives in a subdivision....at the bottom of a hill that ices over regularly. Gawd forbid I go into labor again, I'll have to meet an ambulance at the front of the subdivision. I think we may go anyway - they have enough food to feed an army, a yard for kiddo to play in, a fireplace if the h

Awww, that stinks. I worked at the B&N at The Avenues for three years and they still have a majority of the same crew. Most of us could pop off with the exact book title and/or author a customer was looking for before the person finished a sentence or just based off of a very vague description. I looooved working there. I hate that a bookstore, whether big box or not, is going bankrupt.

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Luckily, mine hasn't figured out any of that except the microwave. She does have an iPod, but I'll encourage anything music related. I got mine at 15, but only because I had a job and was about to get a car/license/keep working. The crushable cups drive me nuts. She looks at me like I've lost my mind when I buy yogurt in bulk tubs and put it in an actual bowl with a spoon. Her: What is this? Me: Yogurt Her: Can I have a Danimals? Me: It's the SAME THING!

Bagel bites. Or any of the other convenience food my child seems to thrive off of. I made a batch of pudding the other day and she couldn't grasp why it wasn't in individual cups with an aluminum lid. Jello jigglers? Forget about it. That's supposed to be in a cup with fruit, apparently? And she thinks oatmeal drop cookies 'look like poop', couldn't wrap her head around the idea of a clothes line, and didn't understand why I wanted to grow something I could get at the store that 'isn't covered in dirt'. I love 6 year olds.

I'm going with girl.

Hint: tell her to do it *before* she gets married. Then she'll be listed as single until her FAFSA is due for 2012.. And I'm 25 with baby number two on the way, so if she wants a study buddy or a college-friend, send her my way. I worked at KSU for three years, but I'm a full-time student there still.

I only post occasionally, but look often. Came back to see if there was any furniture I could use for sale, saw this thread, and decided to post.

Technically, yes. She started mid school year, and completed the 2010-2011 FAFSA. That is good for Spring and Summer semesters. The 2011-2012 FAFSA, which determines the award starting Fall 2011, is the new one that is due. It opened up today (or should have), and is due by April 1st at most colleges in order to process in time for Fall. So she does need it again already, but it's for two semesters ahead. Or several quarters, depending on her school.

There's one in Jasper They even have pyrex and records.

Just wanted to throw in here that most schools, including KSU, have an April 1st deadline to guarantee funds in time for payment for Fall. Anything after April 1st and you may have to pay out of pocket and be reimbursed. Generally, if there are any hiccups or glitches in processing and your Aid doesn't get done in time, if you had it done by April 1st then the directors in the FinAid office go out of their way to make sure you're taken care of - holding your classes from deletion, removing late fees, etc. April 1st was my least favorite day of the year every year I worked at KSU.

You love me for alot more than that. I accidentally typed in paulding.com instead of paulding.com one day and voila! I've been here ever since. I can't think of anybody that really gets on my nerves or ever has. I can think of two that I can't stand. To each his own.

Birdmom's Thrift Store is a good lace to start - she rocks, and if I'm not mistaken, takes volunteers and community service. She's a non-profit organization. He can also try the local fire departments. I know the folks in Gilmer would take it easy on him - I'm sure our guys here in Paulding are just as nice.