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Sunday, December 03, 2006

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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2006 -- SOLDIER FIELD
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Good morning … it’s just us … not sure if we should be writing for AMW or MW with a distinction drawn between Blogger or Yahoo Group. I like typing on Word though because of the spell check, but its not so accommodating to the Yahoo Group. Hmm, maybe today we’ll type here, then transfer to word pad … save with those settings and transfer to MW to see how that goes. Seems like a lot of work, but I really do like the spell feature.

Ok, ok … here we are … we turned on the video, but do not have much direction yet. Where are we going with this next. I could say the generic … but, we don’t have anything to say. That usually encourages someone to step up to the line and say~! Hey! ME! Over here! I have lots to say!!! Ok, me … this is your chance to step up to the plate. What would YOU like to talk about? Hmm?

Thursday as long as we’re not doing much turned out pretty good. We went to the first doctor though and he left us frustrated. He basically reported AGAIN that we had sleep apnea and the periodic limb disorder and he talked VERY loosely about the report. He more like hemmed and hawed as he looked it over on the computer and only gave us bits and pieces like he had to transcribe it for us. Shoot … we can read a silly SLEEP report. The only real thing we go from that was that our sleep events were 70 before the CPAP machine and after that it was 4. 5 and under puts us in the normal range. Sooo, I figure where we were really frustrated is that it took 2 weeks to get this far, and then to find out they had not even ordered my CPAP machine. Was there any mistake that I needed it???

Pshwooo.. Was a little unhappy about needing to wait again, but I guess the next part is to wait a couple of week days and then hopefully a company will call and bring out the machine, and it could be then set up within a week or so, but that may mean taking off another day of work. In the meantime, we continue to have “bad” sleep. That seems to be the case this morning while we were being more drifty.

The next doctor was our regular physician. She had a male intern and we weren’t so crazy about that idea, though he seemed to have the common sense to be quiet. That was the problem with the first appointment is that we had been set up with an intern and he was acting more in control than he should have and we hadn’t caught on this was only a “Partial” doctor. Then he told stuff to the regular doctor out in the hall and we found some of that transference of information to be correct and some of it not correct. So WE corrected the intern, which isn’t putting him in a great position, but then what was he doing for me. Mostly, I think interns are necessary, especially at a teaching hospital, but for me in particular, I find them wasting my time. Because more often than not … the doctor is going to come in and contradict all the information or credibility of the intern and everything goes then to waste. *Sigh*

Anyway, 2nd doctor. Dr. Allbright was a little too attentive to making a good show for the intern. But, she’s usually about that efficient anyway. I didn’t like her first statement, which was very blindly saying, “So, what are you here for today?” Well, duh! Because you told me to come back in 6 weeks. Wallah! Here we are. So, I gave her a clue … although I would have preferred that she read our chart before she came in. I guess that’s beyond modern medicine. Ok, you … let’s not be sarcastic. I reminded her that we have had a couple test results since she’s been gone. I didn’t go into the dentistry work, but I told her about the sleep apnea tests in the hospital and the morning results. I also reminded her we’d taken that iron test and one other. She looked over the numbers and said they seemed to be fine … we reminded her that we’d started taking vitamin pills with 100% iron in them. So, they seem to be doing the trick. She also checked something that sounded like creotin or something like that. It was something about making sure our kidneys were doing what they were supposed to be doing. They appear to be sitting on a border … the normal high for that test is 1.2 and our number is 1.2. She said we weren’t going to worry too much about it, because apparently its been sitting on that fence for quite a while and hasn’t had any drastic jumps in the wrong direction. It’s stable.

We went over our regular aches and pains and in the end came up with a couple more consults. We still need to see the hand doctor about the neurapathy, but she added also seeing a podiatrist about neurapathy in our feet. I know though that we weren’t specifically tested for that where the hands had been tested with needles and pins and such, so we are holding out that she said that as a mistake and there is nothing wrong with our feet. But, I know they are numb a lot, are over sensitive, and often ache. So, we’ll have to figure all that out. The second appointment was with a dermatologist and we are going to him just to see why we are losing hair. It seems like a lot to us. I am going to need scheduling both these appointments on Monday, because for whatever reason it didn’t get done on Friday. We were a little mirked with her receptionist when she said she couldn’t make our follow up appointment at the end of January, because it was the new year, which wasn’t available and like what’s up with that??? Now, we have to walk around thinking we are going to forget to call, or by the time we can call … a million jillion people are also going to want being seen at the end of January. This seems to be a really foolish system. But, on the other hand … maybe it was just a foolish office person. Mainly because she looked like the type to think herself more important and above her job or the people she was “SERVING…” That’s a bad idea too, because its such a turn-off to the whole process. I don’t think thought that she really gave a damn about me. *Sigh* Ok, ok … gotta let that go. AND, let’s not get into peon thinking, KKKKKK???

Last appointment of the day was with our good Dr. M. He is always nice and for the time being, we don’t need to deal with his secretary or the front desk so we are ok with that. Dr. M. first checked the medicine situation. Dr. Allbright had upped my prescription of the new medicine to help with my nerve endings. So, Dr. M. did the ordering of the medicine. That was cool, and we talked about the doctors so that took up some valuable 15 minutes. But, I think he’s pretty aligned now to what is going on. I always like the feeling that he’s in control of the medical situation. He can remember all that happened to us where we cannot. And, he does a very good job of helping us put things together. Like what does such and such mean and why I shouldn’t be worried, because I’d been doing all the right things with quitting smoking, dieting, and exercising, PLUS I’d been making all these doctor and dentist appointments as well as seeing him. So nothing going wrong there. Good for US!

After that … we kinda went into the problem that we were having with the DSP who had called us the week before “snaky” as she swore angrily before stomping out our door that she was never going to talk with us again. We knew Sister didn’t think too much of this and in fact had already told us that we could afford to lose this staff. That made me feel a little more comfortable in that we’d given the situation to her and it had then laid where it had gone. Sister also confessed that maybe confronting the DSP as she had might not have been the best solution. We didn’t say anything, because we have a habit of not telling the boss she MIGHT have screwed up! Things happen as they do.

With Dr. Marvin, we did more processing over our feelings toward the situation. It had been bottled up that we were still angry about the situation. We had known we handled it well in that as the DSP was expressing her anger and certainly our face looked set and firm, we did not say anything to the DSP except saying we couldn’t talk to her until she calmed down. So, basically … we said nothing. Our personage is too proud to get caught up in an emotional spat. So be it. After the DSP had left … we gave it about a half hour, and then we let sister know, but as we had stated, she wasn’t too concerned. She didn’t even ask any questions. She said to just let it go and eventually the DSP would return to her senses. Ohhhhhhhhhk.

But, in talking to Dr. M. he brought to the forefront, that in this matter of speaking that Sr. Really didn’t help us out too much or support us. True she had casually said … the DSP could be let go, but Dr. M. had stated that in most businesses the DSP would have been if not let go, at least written up. We thought that’s probably true. But, there is a major problem in the center’s system in that we have responsibility over the DSPs, but not too much authority. I hadn’t liked that the small amount of authority we had had was somewhat dashed in being called “Snaky.” Whatever the hell that means. We told him we could though understand why the DSP had gotten mad, but we also needed to teach her as her role model how to better handle the situation and make our boundary firm, in that we will not leave ourselves open to those kind of boundary violations. If it had been a one time deal it would have been different. She had never yelled and screamed at us before, but we’d watched her being emotionally unstable the week before over the phone with her husband. At that time she was yelling about a divorce because her mother in law she thought had opened her mail. Equally, at that time she was way out of control. She had told him that it was over, and that she didn’t care if he threw her things out on the lawn because she was getting a lawyer and getting out of her new house purchase and she was going to live with her father (whom she’d castrated earlier).

So, this all confounded with the other. That amount of energy I am sure was part of the other, because in reality who am I in her relationships as compared to the importance of her husband. We’ve only been to work a couple of days since that incident and time has passed, but it remains unresolved. We talked over strategy with Dr. M. It needs to be a learning situation for her and I have to be able to protect myself and my position. When Dr. M. asked for somewhat of a role play. I told him that I would tell her that I understood why the incident might upset her, but the level of upset was greater than the problem. I need to tell her, I won’t put up with that kind of behavior or relationship. For the time being, we are going to cut out the option of her coming in with her life stories and problems. I don’t want to be involved with her personal life when it was so obvious that it was upsetting her so. I feel strongly that the fact she tells each staff member the same problems and repeats over and over again is detrimental to her focusing on her position. I had blurred the boundaries for her in being so accepting of what she had to say. I don’t feel comfortable in that role any longer. That’s it … There’s nothing to be discussed. I do need to clarify do you understand the boundary now drawn?

That’s it … If I am not in a position where this person respects me any more than that than that is that … and I’ll be done with it.

Coming to this conclusion has helped us address the anger we had felt when she had violated our space in that she came roaring into our office, going blah, blah, blah and we need to convey that is not acceptable. I will not be anyone’s emotional dump. Please take it elsewhere, for example directly to the boss and deal there with your fears.

So, that was that. Hmm, we keep saying that hehehe. Trying to wash our hands from it. *Big sigh*

That all took another 15-20 minutes of Dr. M’s time. And, we kept then insisting we needed to move on. I’m not so sure what we talked about next. I remember trying to draw it more importantly to ourselves. There was one more big thing, which I’m not remembering now, but I remember spending the last 10 minutes or so in talking about how excited I was with the boys having come over on Sunday … ALL THREE OF THEM! Hehehe We won’t go into details here, but let it suffice to say … it was WONDERFUL!!!

Ok, letting go of that day … I figured it is covered. That took us about an hour of the taping to go through. So … we have to figure what else might be important. Hmm. I think the next part is or could be about the new groups. Let me check that out. I don’t think we’ve really spent too much time thinking about all that has happened there and for the moment how it is affecting our life.

First I’m going to pull up the screen … you can get here yourself by going down my right side bar (with all the pictures) and you scroll down until you get to 2 purple Yahoo Groups boxes and one large green box that is my Yahoo Answers Badge! WooHOOOO!!! Hehehe

To get to the group I am now going to talk about … click the first purple box that goes to Multiple Worlds or more simply MW … Hmmm better make that MW2 so we don’t confuse it with our Masters’ Work blog, which is also MW. Funny how that happens. Ok, go ahead click now. Just takes a sec and what you’ll see first might be a screen to invite your membership or it might take you to the opening page of the group. I know from my screen I get to something that asks if I want to edit my membership. I don’t … So, I’m going to look toward the lefthand sidebar and press Home!

There we go … it takes me to the right screen where there are some words wrapped around a bear in a pink bathrobe who is drinking coffee and typing at her computer. This has become the National sign for US!!! I love this picture. It describes us perfectly, although this image is prior to the Flylady, because she makes us get dressed and put on real shoes. AND, she’s against too much computer use. Well of course we say blahhhh to that! But, mostly … Ok, ok …. Girls, we’re getting side tracked.

Psheese … ok don’t have to be grumbly we WERE explaining this new site. Another way to get to where were explaining right now is to follow this link … Here …

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MultipleWorlds/

There that was pretty simple, right? Do you see the bear?? Ok, let’s go on.

I think that your left side bar … the light blue one at the top should look like ours. There might be a few more management buttons on ours, but the big section should be the same. The first thing you should notice is the “Home” button. That should always get you to this page. Why don’t we look a little at the page. Go ahead and read the Group description wrapped around the bear … that will give you a little direction with our purpose.

Ok, that was pretty clear right? Mainly the new group is for or by multiples … for the time being just me who might be concerned or interested in doing something with goals. That part isn’t real defined yet, but we’ve been told basically let’s integrate goal-making that works for the whole system.” I think that this applies even if you are a singleton and your “system” includes only you.  See … we’re nice people!

Ok, then scroll down and you will find links to our most recent topics. You should also note beside that there is a search button. Let’s try that out now. WOOHOOO!!! It works! We used as an example the word “Flylady” (Our housekeeping Guro). At this time and place two entries came up and in the body of each is the word Flylady highlighted. Obviously then you could click on those story links to find more about this superstar in the household domain. But for now, just go back to the left sidebar and press “Home.”

Hmm, just figured something out … if the most recent topic you happen to see is a “File” (It will say File first in the title), then don’t expect to read it by pressing the link. If you would like to read something in the file, you will need to reach it by clicking the link also in the left sidebar that says, “Files.” Now look for a title that’s up that just reads like a normal title … you can click on that and from here read the entry. We have to warn people that any entry of ours is going to tend to be long. Just get used to that. K? There is a couple of things to notice, such as the search feature goes with you, so if for example you want to check if we’ve written about you … just type in your name. I for example typed in the word Mom. The search is very general in that at this time it pulled up 3 entries with the word “Moment” in each. So … you can be sure we did not talk about our mom or us being a mom, hmm better check one more thing. Nope, that is a negative … we typed in “mother” as well, and nothing came out. So that’s where that is at. Let me see if I mentioned our “friend.” Woohooo that must be a hot one, because friend came up at this time 7 times. Pretty darn good little searcher. Like that … reading down through those entries and we find us having listed our friend as SO and for those who don’t know … SO is Significant Other. That be the truth. *Big silly grin*

Click on any recent topic either the one you found for our “friend,” or by going “Home” and clicking one of the recent postings. I want you to focus on anything that is a blue word link. I’m not messing now with the one that says, “advanced.” That one just gives a few fancy search features … I forget what they are called, go ahead and use them of course if they make sense to you. Pretty much they can be found in any computer library system. You should notice that after you’ve pressed a link that its gone purple. That will remind you what you’ve already tried. You should by now also be familiar with your browsers back button to negotiate the page changes when other buttons are confusing.

Back to buttons. If you press start topic, you will be able to write a topic independent of ours, which is cool. I don’t remember if you have to join the group first to post … maybe … I forget which way I se that mechanism. Don’t forget to leave a subject (title) and note that you have preview, cancel and most importantly a blue send button … push that and you’ll be all good to go. In the business, this act is considered “posting.” Woo HOO!! Go ahead try … you can’t insult me.

Back at the regular entry and still looking at blue print. Notice the set of commands that say reply | forward| delete. This is if you want to comment directly on my post or if you want to forward the post to anyone who has an email. Go ahead … we’re not shy. I’m going to assume the only post you will be able to delete is one that you have written. Right across from those links are another set that says That should be pretty clear … if more people stopped by and commented (which I don’t expect any time soon) then you can read everybodies comments.

Next link on the side bar is “Hide Message Info” or “Show Message Info” That’s just a few silly things .. go ahead and try.

Some of the buttons on the top of the screen repeat at the bottom of the screen to make your choices easier if you’ve read down. I don’t see a real lot of sense in the expand message link because the post is already expanded above, but go ahead press the link anyway if you wish. There’s another nifty thing in that … Yahoo gives each post a number … You can find the number by pressing the “show message info” link. It will say like 14 of 16. So, if you put 14 in that message # white box, this particular message will come up on your screen. I like that … easy to find something your interested in.

Something that is not interesting is the “Yahoo Sponsor Results.” That’s just unsolicited junk stuff from their advertising bureau. Don’t pay it any attention because we don’t know if it washed its hands first. Ptooey!

Ok, now go back to “Home.” There are a few things left to notice, which is kind of cool. I wouldn’t worry about +My Y or RSS, but in general if you have a “My Yahoo” page which is like news feeds than you can add our group onto that and if you are knowledgeable about RSS feeds you can get our group hooked up to be reading from your format as you wish. Under that you get message history which will tell you posts per month. You can press the numbers in the month counting our number of posts and it will bring you to a review page like what you’ve seen already.

Now there is a slim grayed in line with the blue words, “Yahoo! Answers and we’ll get to that in just a minute, but first look at Group Email Addresses. Here you will find a link back to this blog and you will have access to how to subscribe to this group or unsubscribe so that you can become a member.

Hmm, we just saved just in case because our Internet has become unstable … we might need to close down in a bit, but for now I think we’re good, but cannot start the process of placing our last video on line. We’ll do that later … for now … we’re lonely without it, so why don’t we start another, k?

Hmm, we’ve got another video started up, but we’ll wait on posting the last one until I can shut off our machine … that’s a bother, but not a big deal. Let’s go back to that left side-bar and see what else there is to discover. Whoops almost forgot … let’s take a moment to explore the Yahoo answers … I don’t know what you will get when you press it, maybe an invitation to start. Go ahead and do that … It’s not a big investment of privacy and it won’t cost you a dime … actually it is very, very very, neat, great fun. 

Darn to get there I’m going to need closing down. I will see you back here in a little bit.

Good good, I only had to close down my AOL Explorer … she’s back up again. When I press the link to Yahoo Answers, I get there welcome screen with all the categories and answer questions of other people who have posted. Also along the top, you will notice three large green boxes that say “ask,” “answer,” and “discover.” I don’t do much with the discover button it just shows other people work. The thing about this is that you get points for asking and answering questions. What questions? Absolutely anything you or anyone else can think of … and you post those out there in the general sphere and someone maybe will answer you back. You can give it some time, but in general people start with trying to answer you in 3 days. I find that a lot of people will answer the questions up on the immediate board of recent questions more than going seriously down the categories of things that your interested in. Believe me there are questions anyone can answer, because the questions are at so many levels. Warning, there is a lot of kids doing this. You can tell by the anime pictures. SOOO, if you get into the relationship questions be careful where your going in sexual discussions.

Because I’ve played the answers game before I have now 175 points. They give you 100 to start and I’ve earned a few. Hmm that’s interesting I think I just got 2 automatic points for asking a question in the search bar WOOHOOO … this thing is really, really geared toward getting people to think. And, I think that’s a spectacular choice. Anyway, when your onboard you get a little box with your picture, points, and levels. It says I’m a level 1 although I thought level 2 and I know that there are an entire 7 levels and those people have like hundreds of thousands of points. You get general points for asking and answering questions and you get points for being the BEST person to have answered the question. If you click on your box (I see the picture of my bear), then you go to your own private answer page. BTW there is a forum for this answer thing so you can read up on where its at and how people are doing with it in general.

My activity summary says that I’ve got 175 points, 17 points this week, and 75 points to go to get to level 2 … Drat. It says I’ve answered 22 questions, asked 2 questions, resolved those two questions and has had 2 best answers giving me a 9% rating. It also lists out the questions and answers that we’ve given. So, in general it’s pretty cool. You want to try it? Let’s do that … First why don’t we ask a question. Let’s think here for a sec.

Hehehe … we’re back. I think to get the full impact of that last decision you will have to go to my second video of the day ending at a bout an hour into it. I asked one question answered 2 and I ended up more in the hole than where I had started. We got into the addictive nature of it for a few moments, but then let it go. I answered a question on home schooling and evil and I asked about having Grandmothers.

Oh cool, oh cool … we were wandering around again and we had pressed on a special “more yahoo” links button. We found a shortcut menu so when we are in a yahoo browser, we can just type “!mw2” and it will take us directly to our group page … Pretty nifty if you ask me … and just for the fun of it, we also coded in !mw for our masters’ work, and !amw for our regular blog. Wooo HOOOO … You know we found one other neat thing since fooling around. We can type !note in a Yahoo Browser and a little notepad color coordinated in our special green colors will appear and when I save the note it will go into a folder of my choice and the note can be picked up when I’m checking my yahoo email. Pretty nifty neat!

Ok ok we have to be moving along here … It’s all of 9:10 am. So, we were back at the Group page. After the messages section, you will find the file section. This is where we keep automated notes that go out upon given situations. Like we have a welcome note if someone signs up an we have a 2 week goal reminder that goes out. They also automatically show up in our “Most recent topics” so I think that is handy.

The next section is Photos. At this point of clicking there is only an experimental photo album in the group file. It is of “Ayn’s World” and starts naturally with our almost famous anteater. Hehehe that section is simple enough … just click, click, click.

Most of our links are undeveloped, but ok for just being in business for about a week. The actual link button that says “link” is for special places that we might like to go. Right now there is links to our blog, the encyclopedia brittanica and Merriam-webster unabridged dictionary. This might lead you to believe we are smart, but quite the contrary … it suggests that if you don’t know … go look it up!

Our next link is a Database. We had a little fun with this one. Yahoo suggests to you different kinds of tables, although it would be easy to make one on your own, because they are just not that complicated. Our first table is a simple contact list. If you want to be contacted … simply type “add record” That’s it pretty simple. Just name, email address, http:// if available and your on your way. The next table is a “Music CD library.” This is the place people can come by and leave their favorite artists, their albums, and list how the music makes them feel. We left a couple of records, but we’re not a real big music person as you may already know.

The next link in our database is the FAQ. We’ve added as a start 6 questions and their answers and two of them are informational and four of them are safety. The first questions we thought to answer were, 1) Can I post information that I think would be useful to other multiples? 2) Can you remind me of the rules again? (Umm, these questions are leading heheh), 3) Is this a safe group? 4) Is it alright if my younger parts are out? 5) What happens if I want to talk about being angry or sad? And 6) Can my friend or family join the group even if he/she isn’t a multiple?

That’s it on that database … the next one is for recipes. I hope my mother forgives if she ever signs on, because this is where we give away the family secret meatball recipe. I figure it’s the only one I got that is interesting enough to pass on. Hehehe. There are two more databases. The 5th one is for orders and the 6th one is for group inventory systems. Pretty much they run similar where one is for recording things that you would like to have and the inventory is for things you already have and might like to give. Wallah. Pretty cool? All the product ID’s are 10 characters long the quantities are odd, but nothing next to the unit price. What’s that you say? It’s worth a kajillion dollars? You would like your change back in gazinkle quarters? You’ve come to the right place. We have liberal discounts, usually the order date is pretty quick and don’t forget to mention which part is in need of the item. This was a real fun one. We’ve ordered one extra imagination with sparkles and a happy ending bedtime story. WooHOOOO!!! For the inventory items, we note 3 matching summer dresses in the bargain basement, a patience with six year olds in the personal aisle, and a double helping of frozen dinner (our friend’s specialty) in the quick and easy dinner section. What’s that go for … well naturally the 2006Hamrictomveg model (hamburger, rice, tomato, and vegetable) is going in a gift package and is appraised at 114 petuifas. Sweet, hmm?!!

This brings us to the conclusion of the database and the opening of the poll section. This is for just what the term says … for open polls. We asked three questions to get things started. The first question is to find out if others have parts of themselves up between 2 and 5 am. The second question is what would they like Santa to bring? And, the third question is what would they do with a gazillion and three markokals? These are naturally burning questions in this multiples mind. Remember folks … only seldom do we run deep. Hehehe

Ok, the next section on the left light blue sidebar is the Members section. Quite simply this informs you whether your are in or out. And last is the calendar section. We can open this up and discover that yes … we’re not so good with calendars. The last entry was a week ago today (back on November 26th). We had left a reminder to have Thanksgiving with the Boys .. just in case we could possibly ever forget. It was a beauty as noted way towards the top of this post. This area is supposed to be for meetings and such I would imagine with other group members. But, it might be quite some time until another comes by … so for the meantime, we’ll use it to keep practicing putting structure into our life, that which we can later forget. Uh huh … it’s just like this. Maybe for good measure, we could add something now. Ok, our sweety pie just signed on and reminded us to watch the BEARS game we’ll check that out, but thinking now it’s a noon game against the Vikings.

Ok, we’re moving on but now time has passed and I feel out of sync. The time is 11:15 am. Wow … we left off way back there?? Let’s some that up … basically you know that we’re on the third video and we been all over that calendar thing. Basically we were frustrated because the time wasn’t matching up … it was showing as 6 hours pre-time or as if we had been regulated to UK’s time. Anyway that was pretty frustrating. And, then we remembered to listen to the Bears and the multiples group. We didn’t like something that happened so we left there about the time it was getting over. It seems that there’s a judgmental part of us that sees certain personalities and we like cut off … just don’t want to deal with the person. Pretty much because we look at them as helpless of taking care of themselves. Sometimes these people work very hard at trying to get others to take care of them and it’s hard because I don’t want to be bullied into taking care of anyone. It is one thing being hardpressed yourself, but then there are others who just take on that kinda stuff, because I guess they don’t know any better. I feel bad about that because they become like the victims.

Hmm, better leave that thought for a bit … we’d like to build more positively … we’re pretty sure though we’re going to be watching the ball game. We’re thinking of sitting over on the couch … we’ve eaten cauliflower AND tuna, so am feelin pretty good. I still have after 4 months the memories of if I am going to sit down on the couch that I will bring my smokes with me. Bad thing to remember. Or, maybe just a better thing to forget. I like these guys on fox sports (specially Howie), whoops did we just say that? I keep looking up at ourselves and giggling. Ok … Shhh … we’re going to make this transition … how to go from chair to couch. What exactly will we be holding onto? Hmm? Yes, that’s true we could take our big blanket and dog … that would help. Maybe our water? Hmm, see that’s a good idea. How are we going to get past all those commercials though. Maybe we could take our Gramma book with us? That’s not too heavy, right? If not … we could let somebody read one of those nice books our friend brought over. Wait a minute … we’re going to see if anyone’s interested. Hold on.

Ok!!! We got it … we’re going to read Dr. Dolittle. That’s what we’re going to do. It was between that and the full story of Alice and wonderland. We better take it light though … that’s supposed to be a very symbolic story. Ok, enough for now … Gotta go!