[Clough]

Of course I iron!! I also do dishes, can sit, lay down, roll over, heel, bark and am litter box trained! I make an excellent pet! My next step is to try to be a human, though. I am working on it!! Had you all fooled, didn't I?

I think the gig is at 3:00 p.m. It is for a dance like usual. It seems like we play down there about once every few months. I have only been playing with the group for about a year. So, it is hard for me to really know what are the usual gigs and what aren't.

The day starts with us meeting at 9:45 a.m. to carpool at a married couple's home in Rock Island who are also playing the gig. Am also meeting a trumpet player from Davenport, IA there at the same time. We then are off to Peru, IL to meet the band bus. From there, we go to Staunton. The whole thing takes up the whole day.

[Clough]

Oh... I forgot one more thing that I can do... I can also play dead! I do a really great job at it... you should see me! Tongue sticking out and a little drool here and there. Hold my breath until I turn blue! I'm a hit at Halloween!! :eek:

When trick-or-treaters come to the door my master says: "Hey, kids! Do any of you have a dog?" (Some nod, "Yes.") "Hey, you wanna see ours play dead?" "Um, sure." They say.

I scare the begeebers out of 'em every time!! :p

Lol!!

[Clough]

Goodnight, all!

[grammadidi]

Sounds like a busy but fun-filled, exciting day! Seeing as I see you speaking of pets, I thought I'd tell you about mine. I have a 125 lb. Bernese Mountain Dog named Thunder. He will be 3 in January. He is stupid/smart and a real puppy in an elephants body. :) I also have a 62.5 lb. Chocolate Lab named (yech) Browni. I actually call him my chocolate moose, a term of endearment that became necessary after seeing the way he bends down to take a drink of water then it drains out of his mouth for 5 minutes. Afterwards just like a big moose! Heehee! He is 3 years old. I took him in as a foster dog 2 years ago. He suffered from EXTREME separation anxiety. After all the progress that I had made with him there was no way I was giving him up. It would have set him back so far. So, I adopted him.

I have three cats: Tara, a Bengal cross rescue with a stage 5 heart murmur. She was given a very poor prognosis - less than a year and probably not six months. Three vets who I have taken her to have never heard a heart murmur as severe as hers. It seems that the main artery to her heart isn't working. Surgery had a potential success rate of less than 1%. They wouldn't spay her or give her shots because they felt she wouldn't survive them. When we moved to the country she was 1 year old. My daughter let her out by accident one day and she was gone all night. We found her in the barn. A few months later she presented us with 5 kittens. Sigh... couldn't be spayed or get shots but... :) So, I took her to my vet and had her spayed and receive her vaccinations. I figured if she got out once, she'd do it again. The Bengal in her makes her a little more determined to get outside. She survived it all and is now over 4 years old. I kept 2 of her kittens, both females and named them Bubble and Squeak originally, but my daughter took offense to it so we renamed Bubble to Bubo (owl) and Squeak took on the name of Baby. All of my canine/feline pets are neutered or spayed.

I have a nasty little "love" bird, Laura, who was also a rescue with her husband, Luke. She was very badly mistreated and it shows! She ended up killing her husband and now lives a meaningless life in a cage, surrounded by animals who want to eat her. In addition, there is Franklin... a rescued red-eared slider. He was about the size of a silver dollar when I first took him in 8 years ago. He suffered from soft shell because of not being fed properly and was near-death. Now he is larger than my head and very, very healthy. He has been used as a teaching aid in the primary grades for many years, but is now retired. He had a girlfriend, Fern, a Midland painted turtle for a year and a half after she was brought to me after being run over by a car. I nursed her and healed her and she was released this summer. Franklin misses her a lot!

I also breed angelfish and fancy swordtails for extra cash, and feeder fish of various kinds for Franklin, so I have 3 aquariums. My home is like a zoo! There is usually always a wild animal, bird or something here being taken care of. I have nursed fawns, fox kits, baby groundhogs, raccoons, skunks, chickens, goats, squirrels, robins, starlings, swallows, even a baby bear! I think I will have my own sanctuary if I ever get rich.

Anyhow, just thought I'd tell you about my pets. They keep me VERY busy and kind of poor, but I could never live without an animal of some kind. I used to have a wonderful dog, Sam. She was part lab and part husky and a real sweetheart. She, too, was a pup that I rescued. She came to me with parvo and almost died. She turned out to be the best dog who ever owned me. She used to visit schools as well as seniors residences as a Therapy Dog. Sadly, I lost her September/05 to kidney failure at 10 years of age. We were just going to start a new therapy dog program for people in hospice, so it was a huge loss. Her temperament could never be beat.

Anyhow, I'm off to bed again. Have a good time tomorrow, Clough!

Hugs, Didi

[br_hjs]

I thought about breeding my own fish... but I don't know if I could or anything about it.

[br_hjs]

But what do you guys think about when I was talking to him and he said no... whatever. That whole thing about when he called and when I get my license... do you think he was just lying and saying that so I would think he really does care and then say OK we will? Which I won't anyway. Or do you think he really was telling the truth?

[br_hjs]

Clough, POP QUIZ!!
What do these mean:
lol
brb


and for the future... 1 I forgot about was g2g = got to go

[br_hjs]

I didn't do my homework this weekend which means I didn't do his either. But I haven't been doing either of ours and when I do, its never finnished. I don't know why I haven't been doing it though.

[Clough]

Hi, everyone!

I got back from my gig after 2:30 this morning! Will be responding to things tonight!

Clough

[Wondergirl]

Michelle didn't do her homework and Clough did his gig. I admire C for his attitude and sense of responsibility.

How can we better encourage M to do homework? She says the algebra teacher assigns many problems but checks only a few and gives grades based on the accuracy of those few.

I suspect M isn't doing her homework because she sees no gain in doing more than, say, five algebra problems. How can we convince her that doing all of the problems, even if there are as many as 50, are to her benefit? Is figuring out each one important? If so, why? If they are similar, why should she do all 50 to prove she knows the process? Why should she do all of them? Is there a bigger positive than just figuring out the answers?

[br_hjs]

She has us do all of them so we know what were doing on the test but we still get 5 points for completeing it and she doesn't grade them all because "she doesnt have enough time". And if we don't do it(which a lot of people don't... I think only like 5 people are trying in that class) she makes us write down why we didn't do it and give her that paper. Latley iv'e just been writing things like "its a waste of time for only 10 points" and "u have better things to do" I mean really, when I do my homework in that class it takes like 3 hours and the whole time I'm trying to hurry because I get home from school around 3:45 and then spend about 3 hours doing homework in that one class and all I think about is : I need to take a shower, eat dinner, clean my room, take care of my pets, god only knows what I'm going to do when I get a job which well be when I get my license. And I don't see the point in that either because I save my money. I want to have a lot of it. Well... looks like all the money I saved in the past 3 years did me no good at all because my dad took it all. And I mean I really save. If I but anything its food. And maybe I'll spend like $60 every 6 or 7 months on either clothes or games. But I try not to even do that... I don't go to the movies, or the mall with my friends... I'd rather save my money... but now I see theirs no point since my dad just takes it all from me anyway

[br_hjs]

He wes me over $1500 by the way. And he owes my brother over $10,000

[Wondergirl]

Isn't there someplace to put it so it's safe?

[Wondergirl]

If the rest of the class has the same concerns about the algebra homework, could they ask the teacher to rethink the homework, to maybe assign only ten representative problems that would be manageble for the students to do each night? Or even have the students themselves pick out homework problems for the class...

[br_hjs]

It doesn't matter where I keep my money... my dad's still going to get it from me because he'll get all mad and stuff if I TRY not to and I can't stand him. Hes never in a good mood. And I want to stay home from school just 1 day and he won't let me. He never cared before and now all of a sudden I get yelled at for wanting to. I can't even stand being around him for 1 second and the main reason why I don't want to go 2 school, is because I'd have to be in the car with him for about 25 min the whole way their... he yells at me and tells me that I need to get my license and makes it sound like its my fault that I don't already have it and he says I need to go driving more and all this stuff but I don't have anyone to go with me. Every time I ask him or my mom they are "busy." My mom always says she has to "clean" I guess the new definition for that is watching TV. And my dad says he has to "golf" which now I guess means get drunk and then sleep all day. And I get yelled at for askinf when we can go... by the way, the things that they do, even if they really were cleaning or golfing, isn't as important as me getting my license. They could at least take an hour out of their day for me and they choose not to. And they won't even take me anywhere I need to go other than school. I need new clothes. All of my clothes are getting holes in them. I would have bought my own clothes if they would have just taken me. I would have bought myself and I pod too. But I've been waiting over a year to get myself an iPod and with christmas coming up, their going to be sold everywhere again and I'll probably have to wait until like April. I wouldn't have the money now anyway and you know what my dad says? He laughs and says "they wont even make ipods anymore by the time you get one"

[Clough]

Clough, POP QUIZ!!!!
What do these mean:
lol
brb


and for the future... 1 i forgot about was g2g = got to go

lol = Laughing out loud

brb = Be right back

Did I get those correct? :D

[br_hjs]

Congratulations!! Yes, you did. Do you want a cookie now?

Did you cheat?

[br_hjs]

I can't believe this thread had over 40 pages and it isn't even a week old

[Clough]

Congradulations!!! Yes, you did. Do you want a cookie now?

Did you cheat?

Goody! :D Yes, I would like a cookie now! :D

Did ---- I ---- cheat?? How could you ask such a thing?? :mad:

Well, ummm... no ---- I mean ---- yeah. Well, sort of anyway... (gulp!! ) :( :confused: :o

I think that I am getting reall small here right now >>>>>>> you can call me the shrinking man...

Got to go for awhile...

[br_hjs]

You don't deserve a cookie if you cheated. :( Yeah, you need to go study some more