Wednesday

KaeEll · Original Soap Dish Diva

Wednesday

everbran · GTA Revived The Radio Star

300 bucks for a bouncy castle? I mean, that's a lot. Especially for something that they will eventually get bored of and not use as often.

KaeEll · Original Soap Dish Diva

Exactly, Brandon. We'd happily rent one for a party when it's nice and warm outside. I don't know what they rent for but it's a better way of dealing with a major treat for the kids. So many of the little ones are spoiled rotten by parents caught up in one-upmanship. What a waste of energy and money.

shellyinphx · Long Lost DiMera Daughter

Jojo got one of the smaller bouncy ones, the ones that are about 200 bucks and its so small you can't really have fun in it. Total waste of money. You are better off just renting them on occasions.

It was chilly this morning, frost everywhere. But it will warm up throughout the day I am sure. I sure hope that spring is here to stay. I miss the warmth.

Not much else going on here. Kind of a boring day. But yes, thank goodness Wednesday is here and that means the week is almost over.

shellyinphx · Long Lost DiMera Daughter

Oh yeah, is anyone watching DWTS this season?

KaeEll · Original Soap Dish Diva

YES!! We are but last night we had to record it because it was on against AI. After AI, we flipped it on but didn't bother to sit through it, but we'll watch again. It's not as much fun to watch in the early stages when klutzes are still dancing, gets better once they've been sent home. And thank goodness there's no Cloris Leachman this time, lol. She really hijacked that season.

Sundancer · Soap Dish Diva/Divo

This afternoon I will be teaching swimming. I have seven half-hour classes.

shellyinphx · Long Lost DiMera Daughter

Swimming sounds just awesome. I really need to see if the base here offers some kind of pregnant lady classes.

Moore ideas · Moore Ideas Not More Ideas!

Tired, tired, tired...

I spent most of yesterday with Jim at the hospital while he had his colonoscopy, and upper GI. What fun! He did great though, and appears to be in good health, so that was very much worth it for him to do.

I had doll club today (beautiful spring-like day here), but was so tired this morning when I got up that all I really wanted to do was crawl back into bed. Not possible! We had a good turn-out, and a new visitor, so it was fun. Now I'm glad to be back home, but am fighting to keep my eyes open as I write this.

We're definitely watching DWTS and American Idol. Also, of course, we love Hell's Kitchen!

I thought this week's Castle was really good, and cracked up when Nathan Fillian's character said, "I got the idea for my first novel by watching OLTL." I love when writers do that!

KaeEll · Original Soap Dish Diva

I had to record Castle because it was on opposite some mind-numbingly boring thing I had promised Ted I'd watch with him. I guess I'll watch it tomorrow night at 10 - bad TV night here for us. Love Nathan to bits!!

Sundancer, do you teach swimming to kids or adults?

Hurray for Jim's good prognosis. That is such an unpleasant procedure, ick. No wonder you're exhausted, Moore.

I'm back from running around and it is soooo warm here today, I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Oh, sad news about Natasha Richardson isn't it. She fell on the very run, Nansen, at Mt. Tremblant, where I first met Ted. He was my ski instructor there over a Christmas holiday about a million years ago. So sad and freaky.

Sundancer · Soap Dish Diva/Divo

KaeEll wrote:

Sundancer, do you teach swimming to kids or adults?

I teach adults and children from the very scared beginners to advanced swimmers who need to improve their strokes. I love to see the progress in my students. I am Red Cross Certified both as an Instructor and Lifeguarding. I have supervised and had my own business for awhile.

This is not what I went to college for. I have been a medical secretary in Miami and an Office Manager and Full-Charge Bookkeeper in Cleveland for a large law firm.

Sundancer · Soap Dish Diva/Divo

KaeEll wrote:

Oh, sad news about Natasha Richardson isn't it. She fell on the very run, Nansen, at Mt. Tremblant, where I first met Ted. He was my ski instructor there over a Christmas holiday about a million years ago. So sad and freaky.

Yes, it is so sad. She was married and the mother of two teenage boys. How they will miss her! She was only 45 years old. After she fell, she signed a document saying she was fine and didn't need medical attention. After about an hour she started having a bad headache.

jojolin · The Naughty Bad Girl

Hey all!

Good news about Jim's tests Moore!!

And I'm so sad about Natasha Richardson. Loved her.

I'm just super tired lately. We're getting ready to head to Billings tomorrow afternoon for Jack's neuropsych exam on Friday. Long weekend ahead, I suppose.

And my car has an appointment next Tuesday to get checked out. It's acting rather stupid at the moment, not getting above 70 mph when accelerating up a hill on the interstate. Uggh. I have a feeling it's a fuel pump-related issue. I have had nothing but trouble with my fuel pump since getting this damn thing. Uggh, uggh, uggh.

Moore ideas · Moore Ideas Not More Ideas!

I'm SO sad about Natasha Richardson. What a lovely lady she seemed to be, and I know how devastated her family is at this time. I was telling Jim last night what they call this rare syndrome (Talk and Die), and it gave him the heebie-jeebies.

It gave us the chills too because AZ-D hit her head on ice when she was snowboarding five years ago in Aspen, when all three kids' spring breaks coincided (for once), and the breaks also fell over AZ-D's sixteenth birthday. Jim wanted to do something special, and knew that the kids hadn't seen the Rockies, which he adores, so that's what we did. Well, I don't ski, but the condo Jim rented was right by the slopes, so I could watch from beside the fireplace! LOL... Jim and our son skied, and our two daughters tried snowboarding. I would send everyone off in the morning, and that was that.

Well...Jim apparently didn't insist that AZ-D wear a helmut, and I was FURIOUS when I found out. It was spring, so the snow had melted, frozen, melted, frozen, etc., so when AZ-D fell, she really smacked her head. And got a concussion... We were told at the clinic that she was fine, but that any SECONDARY head injury could be devastating, and that would be true for at least the next year. That scared me.

When I look back on it now, I am so grateful that it wasn't even more serious, and hearing about poor Natasha Richardson just horrifies me. Again, I know it's rare, but how is anyone supposed to know?

It seems to me that it almost ought to be mandatory for all skiers/snowboarders to wear protective head gear, and ought to sign a waiver that they be REQUIRED to seek medical attention if they have any kind of head injury.

KaeEll, you're far better at speaking to this subject than I am. What are your thoughts on this?

KaeEll · Original Soap Dish Diva

Helmets are mandatory up here for kids but not adults. My kids (who are adults) always wear one, as do all members of the ski schools they have taught in. But even so, sometimes smacking into a tree with a helmet on has proved fatal anyway, but the helmets do help much of the time. We have talked about the necessity for ski resorts to cordon off treed areas with soft fences, and some do. Trees, of course, are completely necessary to keep the snow around, but they have killed quite a few skiers over the years.

From what I've read though, a tree wasn't involved in this terrible accident. The autopsy will reveal more, I'm sure. The whole thing gives me the willies having skied there so many times myself. I just can't picture a fatal fall on that bunny hill.

-- Edited by KaeEll on Thursday 19th of March 2009 12:36:48 PM

shellyinphx · Long Lost DiMera Daughter

You guys make me very happy that skiing is not one of my hobbies. I don't even care to learn how. I enjoy letting Jo go sledding but that is about it.

KaeEll · Original Soap Dish Diva

I don't ski any more. I have broken lots of bones courtesy of that sport over the years and I've had it. Nick's broken his leg twice skiing, then the knee business. Ted has a permanent hole in his right shin from skiing into a pylon at Tremblant. Mike and Tony so far have gotten off easy, no injuries to speak of. It's a dangerous sport, not to mention it's freezing out there riding on chair lifts at minus 20C. I used to LOVE it, skied all over North America.

A friend's son almost died in Austria, was split in two when he was downhill racing, hit a fence. He and his sister were famous Canadian racers on the world cup circuit, the Stemmles. Another family friend lost their older son to a ski accident in BC about 12 years ago. At our ski club alone there were 6 deaths in 15 years, all accidents.

Anyway, I don't ski any more. I can't wait for Whistler to close for the season so I can stop worrying about Nick out there every day. Ugh.

-- Edited by KaeEll on Thursday 19th of March 2009 01:39:57 PM

Moore ideas · Moore Ideas Not More Ideas!

KaeEll writes: Anyway, I don't ski any more. I can't wait for Whistler to close for the season so I can stop worrying about Nick out there every day. Ugh.

I don't blame you! I'm worrying about Nick too...

Jim and his father went skiing together in Colorado, MANY years ago, when Jim was about twenty. (I said it was YEARS ago! LOL...) His father fell, and also refused medical help (like poor Natasha), but it pretty much ruined one of his knees; it was never the same after that, and the injury became quite pronounced when he became elderly.

It's probably a good thing that I never tried it because I have knees that tend to dislocate. I discovered this when I was about 22 years old, and my right knee popped for essentially no reason whatsoever. Normally these things are discovered before the age of twelve, because of participation in sports, but I wasn't all that athletic (with a few exceptions), so the problem never surfaced. In fact, the doctors in the emergency room made a huge joke over the fact that I was so "OLD" to be finding this out!!

Anyway, one of my father's sisters found out about my dislocation, and said during her phone call to me, "Oh, you have the old Smith trick knee!"

I'd never heard of "the old Smith trick knee" before, so it was news to me. She then proceeded to list a bunch of cousins who'd had dislocations too.

Years later, my left knee dislocated when I was in a car accident. I had lots of bumps and bruises, and there was a large bruise on the left side of my left knee where it probably hit the door, during impact. It dislocated about an hour later!

So........it's a good thing I never tried the slopes, with all the leg twists and turns, on slightly bent knees. Not good.