Ayn's Multiple World

Long Day ... Need to work more effectively :(

Good morning! *Sigh* We’ve been up for a while checking out a few things, but the last thing we had to check was our granddaughter’s cookie adventure. I’m thinking hehehe somehow they are going to need to get that girl out FROM that cookie addiction thing she’s got going on hehehehe. Oh man it’s such a funny video … I just love it!

Ok ok … now for some reason it is already 6:33 am. How’d that happen? I know the last thing we did is put credits on the bottom of the post … I don’t know … and now Missy is meowing at me … usually it means she wants me to move my coffee cup, so she can jump up and be petted, but the coffee is cold … hold on Missy.

Oh man … losing time … it’s now about 5 min to 6 am. We came out of it again watching the video. We had sent a copy to Sr. and she had written a note back saying something about precious Oh man she sure is … had to want it another half dozen times. I just gotta be doin something than googling after my granddaughter … only so many hundred times a grandma can say oh man … isn’t she cute!?? She’s going to melt hearts though!

Ok, we’re going to try focusing.

Ok, this is not going well … it’s no 9:30 and we’ve been sleeping and wake up and we’re still looking at granddaughter’s picture. Did anyone remember to take medicine??? C’mon girls … you know better … go on … no go on … yes ma’am.

Ok, we did that … good girls. I wish I could call our sweetie pie and say hey you pay attention … did you see the video of my granddaughter yet!??? We showed it to Sr. and she said PRECIOUS and thanked me for showing it to her. Hehehe I was hoping she wouldn’t be mad … I know she does a good job of trying to stay away from the personal, but me as one of many employees who bring her too much negative stuff … should get to give her some fun positive stuff :) 

BRRRRRRRRRR no not cold just blowing air bubbles … captain Mimi wouldn’t have it any other way. We’ll be ok, right? Just gotta give that medicine a chance to work.

It’s 10 to 10 now. What would help? Maybe music? Let’s try that. Hold on. Ok, yes and maybe petting the cat? Shoot he beat me on a stare down that’s no good. I had a dream waking up … we were using the bottom of the tricycle … no steering wheel because couldn’t walk … and we’d gone to the mall in our new vehicle, but lost it somewhere, and sister found us parked in front of an old persons store, sleeping.

And, she was fussing because we had to be at some meeting at work. So as we were getting ready to leave we got lost again, but she and my kids found me and we were trying to look for the wagon cuz I could only remember passing a grocery store attached to the mall, so we were checking them all out, but it was hard to navigate our thing, but then we got separated again, and our oldest son helped us find the wagon, but then he went back to find sister and the wagon got unstuck and ended up sinking into a lake, and ending on its nose, but then I sat on the edge and it tilted over the edge and pulled up straight the right way on the other side of the rail, but it and us we’re wet. Then the others found us, but it had been 5 years and the vehicle (trik) was skinny so just one person wide and about 5 or 6 deep, so she knew after all this time we’d be proud to show off us driving the wagon so they got in and then she figured from what we were saying we were going to die … except by now we were an old man and she somehow got the papers from my mean mother so that I could get married from another woman who was also old and in my nursing home and that’s the end cuz we were at the end of the dream… but, we never got out of the parking lot … the end. :) 

Ok, we’ll not try to figure out too much there … cept maybe the parking lot is because we’re at a standstill of not getting past the point to be writing … you know whats. Uhuh you heard me. NOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Shhh, but it is 10 am. We have to do something very strong toward that … let’s say we’ll set the timer for 15 minutes, k? Nice try … not an hour and 15 minutes, just 15 … then we have to somehow progress it. Maybe a shower would be nice? Maybe…

Good good … shower is nice thank you … brunch that’s fine … finish up … but, then? Tra-la-la-la-la. Grrrrrrrr. I know your listening! Carbs are ok, but we need to focus.

*Burp* Ahh … scuse me.

Ok, that was nice. Let’s set things up … in another 15 minutes you need to do something more … why don’t we work on finishing a paper. Then we’ll go look at school … it’s been a week at least. You have to hear that because it’s the truth.

I know you’re not telling people how far backed up you are, but … something needs to get done, right? We can agree on this point? I know … Missy can take care of herself. You are going to need setting the timer and in 15 minutes you are going to need taking the aperwork out and figure out where we are at. C’mon you had a nice break, dinner, a warm kitty … it’s time … I know, I know…

Good timer set … write go ahead you have SOME fun time left. :) 

Grrrrrr. Well, Anyway what I was going to say is that we might have gotten off track a little yesterday. I remember we did a few side projects. First was the Captain Mimi project, then there was the kitties picture, then we worked with our older son on an outline, then we worked on the video project of our granddaughter, and then we did some emailing and talking, and then some fill in stuff and then we went to bed. THE END!

NOOOOO … we still got 12 minutes left. OHH! And, we talked to all THREE boys.

Longest mostly to our oldest son, cuz we worked and talked, and then about 2 minutes with youngest and about 6 minutes with middle. We had very, very nice day with all that … even though we’re not going to talk about the details. We were very happy.

That’s ok to say, right?!

It’s hard not to talk about them, but I will … I can do this plus … my oldest DID say I could put the video in my blog … woooohoooo!!!

Sure, wish my friend would sign on so I can show him my granddaughter. He must have a lot of busy stuff, because now its two mornings where he didn’t stop by and talk to us. That makes me feel a little sad and confused. I know he still loves me, but I feel out of sorts when we don’t at least get a chance to talk. I know, I know … he was just here on Friday, but that was a long time ago now! *Sigh*

Next topic. It’s the Missy cat that is with us now. She’s letting us bounce, but she’s to the right so we can’t get the mouse … better keep typing straight up.

Don’t you all wonder if Dr. Marvin isn’t finally going to get back from Puerto Rico? I know on Tuesday … we’ve sent him probably too many emails. But, for the most part they are pictures and not too much too read. NOOOO … we’re not going to send him an email right now. Whoops … lost Missy … she said TOO bouncy! Hmpf!

*Sigh*

Tomcat *giggle*

NO MORE PICTURES! If you don’t settle down we’re going to see that Deb’s picture goes down too … I’m sorry, I’m sorry 

Ok, 5 minutes … then something, right?! I know, I know.

Anything else to write about? Well, no … not exactly. Gramma person? Might be a good time to get it over with? Been like 3 months now. Don’t you think that is a lot for right now? Might help clear some problem areas? Hmm, that didn’t last too long … she had a terrible cough and sounded very low on energy. She said that I better do the talking, but then she’d tried to talk and I could see that it was hurting her so I told her I would call again later. Maybe next weekend, if we’re good. She sounded very tired. She said if there was anything special going on that I could call back, but there is nothing that special going on … she asked me if we’d been busy and we told her about school. But, her next question was if we were going on our own or for work, and that made me feel that her thoughts were pretty strayed. We’ll try again later. Now wasn’t a good time. 

Ok, ok … that being said and done … the beeper went off.

*Sigh* … ok, we set the timer for another 15 minutes. That was a lot to take in … we went over the documents in our recent collection to see where we were at … I guess we were well backed up because we’d gathered them all neatly in our OneNote program. We’ve got everything we need for back-up just have to start the paper.

Let’s look at the paper question now again.

Instructions:

1. Incorporate the article you located in response to this discussion.
2. How could you use the principles of persuasion to market yourself?

Ok, now I remember. Just need to market ourselves. Why don’t we think of that for a second. Which part of ourselves do we want to imagine marketing. That will help with our follow through. Let’s say … ummm I know … why don’t we market ourselves as a gramma? Can we do that? What is it though that grammas do? I’d like to market ourselves somehow as being the one’s that gush over our granddaughters. Hmm, thinking about some kind of market that might have to be in videotaping … not sure what else is recent. Maybe we could be Gramma advocates … like a non-profit organization with a mission to assure all gramma rights to gush. That kind of hits home, because some of our rights to publish gushing had been taken away with our sons’ limitations. We don’t want to get too personal, but maybe this could be somewhat fun and help us through our processing of thoughts we’re having in the excitement of Isa and her big sister. We could at least try and see how it works out. We’ll know as we skim the first set of notes from the text.

Aha! We just skimmed ONE note … not too many cuz we got 6 more minutes. BUT, it said that for the central route of persuasion communication, for it to be a persuasive message with influence “the recipients of that message must learn its contents and be motivated to accept it” and to do this, they must “attend to, comprehend, and retain in memory for later use” (p. 195-196).

See we could appreciate that statement. Let’s see how it works side by side.

The recipient would be our sons or all other sons and daughters concerned with the protective boundary between their children and their parents’ grandchildren. So, what we’d like to teach them as to the contents we are hoping they will become motivated to accept will be that Grandparents can be safe even though they may be a little strange. So with this in mind … our son, for example, must attend to that strangeness of ours, retain it in his memory and then later down the line be able to pull it from his memory stock and apply it to our advantage. We could think this might mean as when later down the line, we may seek more contact with the grandchildren either through the video system (IM’s) or through his taking videos with our camera to share with us on our blog and with his friends through YouTube.

Hmm … the timer just went off … now that means I have to get serious. But, what happen if we took that last paragraph and incorporated it as …

Whoops … that was FINALLY our friend. It’s about 11:30 am now and he was just pulling into one of his schools. He’s doing a game that starts at noon. Just one I think today … and then he said something about paperwork. There was a lot to talk about and there was so much happening with our kids that we wanted to do a little more talking, but he kept bringing it back to him so we figured he was already into his tired mode … but, he let us when we mentioned it to go back to our kids. If I can’t write about them … at least we can talk about it with someone. That’s a pretty important thing. He said that he saw the outline and he saw the cockpit picture … we talked a little more about the outline, and not so much about the other, because the first was more priority. BUT, then we HAD to talk about our Granddaughter’s video. I think he tries to listen, but he doesn’t have the experience of being a grandparent to understand I think how very, very important those kind of things are. Maybe we could incorporate that into our paper as another recipient that needs persuading as to the value of grandchildren to grandparents.

Hehehe

He was a little out of tune too when we were talking about the switch in jobs with the youngest. I am much more optimistic than he is at this point. He was saying that UPS is a lot of hard physical, and he didn’t seem to understand that might be a craving toward my son and that UPS did well to progress managers’ positions especially with a BA background. I think my son may have been … damn … I’m talking about my kids SCREECHING BREAKES… sorry not supposed to do that. SKIP SKIP

YEEKS … that was a close one. I’m sorry.

Sooooo, he said that we have to get back into the paper … and I know he is right … just did a little decompressing. It feels better to have talked to him even if it was a short time. I think our friend was unfocused and he was a little remorseful in that he said if he ever made a mistake in life, it was not completing his final paper toward earning his Masters Degree. He can work that through in his mind, but it’s a little like a gymnastic move … He has to accept what’s happened, but it is hard because it was a lost opportunity that most likely changed his history. He found too as smart as he might be that he was not given as much opportunity without the masters. I have to work hard to understand that in my head that what I am trying to do with it is actually very important.

Maybe we could talk about that for a few minutes, but let’s set the timer for another 15 minutes, ok? Ok, good, thanks. The issue is really why I am trying to do the school … well, see sometimes there isn’t really a reason. I mean there is, but it’s a slippery one … Maybe because it is more general than specific. I’m not really trying for any other position other than being at the center. In my deepest planning mode, I know that I want to write programs for adults with Developmental disabilities. I don’t know if you really need a PhD. To do that it just seems that if you want to sell a book, having a PhD. Would make that easier. It gives you more a credibility. On the day to day scope … I like what it does to our minds when we can do what we are trying to do, especially in focusing and in thinking through things that are harder. I have to sometimes battle in my minds that it would be easier to just do passing work, and I think we wouldn’t get so tired or stressed and perhaps do better at catching up … this is a view that’s been conveyed. But, then there is this other part that wants to think through real things and do more than report, I want to get involved in new thoughts and explore things that I’ve never thought of before. This means I get more into the papers and put more of myself into it. It means I get the A’s when I hand things in, but it takes a lot more of our stamina to get through the projects. It is a lot easier to sit and write our thoughts like right now than to be writing a formal paper that requires a different kind of discipline.

I have to though give this writing some credit too. When I sit down to write in the blog, I know that I am writing one form of a autobiography, but we are doing it from the stance of most often, what I am feeling or thinking about as my life is progressing in the moment. I don’t have a lot of capability in going back over the old stuff. I can work my way into that, but for the majority of time, I am not writing in history more than a day or two. I need to get things as it is happening. And, I think that this task, which is a purpose that goes off into grandchildren thoughts is about as important as anything I could be doing. I want myself to be remembered by them, and maybe give them a chance to capitalize on who I am and who I become in the attempt to be more of the myself I want to be. I’ve mentioned before having the multiplicity gives us a little different edge. I think also that us including as much of work as we do and school, makes things a little different as to perspective. So too the fact that we are a mistress, but for the most part live alone on this computer. Maybe this all happens more often than I’m giving credit out toward, but just in case we do become a little more special because of this particular mix … than I say hoorah! Oh by the way … just in case you are one of my grandchildren reading this so much later down the line, go toward Putnam publishing … hehehe they favor books by or about multiples … Ok, ok … that being my tip of the day … suppose we should be back to working toward that next paper. That will give us the good feelings about ourselves and the feeling that we are going to make use of this semester by finishing her up. Officially, I think if I weren’t in denial, I would think there is only a week left … and I still have to get in 5 papers or 2 ½ weeks of work … plus there is text to be reading. Not sure if we are going to work all this week, but that really has to happen too. So, the only way to do this is to BE WORKING! I know we got one more minute. But, let’s start browsing … my dears? GOOO!

Ok, let’s try to make a goal … let’s see if we can have this paper concluded in approximately 2-3 hours. That means that it is finished by 3 pm. K??? Ok, you … think, but think fast!

Begin Paper here …

Topic: u07d2 Persuasion Date: March 11, 2007 2:21 PM
Subject: In response to assignment from Ann

Author: Garvey, Ann
Last edited on: March 11, 2007 3:05 PM

The task of this paper is to utilize principles of persuasion to market myself. We thought this over and came up with the self that we would like to market. This is in large part because we have been corresponding this weekend with my three sons and two of the grandchildren; we are feeling very Grandmotherly. My oldest son and I worked on a video project together in that he had taped a two minute segment of his daughter, emailed it to me, and then we put the video to music. We will use this thought process as a stepping stone to bridge from current feelings of happiness toward the concept that must be crossed in paper writing and the assignment of self-marketing.

The actual product then will be a persuasive message where we will motivate our recipients – sons, daughters, friends, and peers – to accept the significance of grandparents being allowed the time and space to gush over our grandchildren. In a sense, our product is to market ourselves as grandparent advocates who are accepted as sharing or pouring our hearts from angel to other in that our grandchildren are found to be incredible and becoming before our very eyes and with that in hand … we want you to feel or share alike this excitation.

The concern is that most recipients may not appreciate perhaps what a strong bond or set of feelings this is. When we say, ok let’s take a few moments to ogle over that last video, we are very serious about being introspective with you of every nuance or movement of wrist or wiggle that child may make. This is not to say that we are going to become obsessed although for the moment we seem to be, it is more that we are earnest in our beliefs that as we watch our grandchildren we know deep within us there is no other aspect of life that is more imploring or impressive.

This might be truer in the aspect of watching a beloved granddaughter on video showing off how well her first independent steps are coming along as a missile shot from a sleepy nap toward the package of Oreo cookies hiding in the cupboard. This is truly an Ooh and Ahh moment! In persuading my audience, I would necessarily lead the recipient through an experience where they first see on video screen a title to catch their curiosity such as – “Give them a moment.” I would then show a very emotionally moving video put to soft inviting music of the child barely walking and then crawling quickly toward the cookies, and then I would title the last screen, “Share the message. Talk with a Grandparent.” Space, space, space “… A message sponsored by Grandparent Advocates, a non-profit organization.”

There is forethought into planning the simple four-word expression “Give them a moment” at the beginning of the ad because it is noted that “compelling arguments placed up front … should be more persuasive for recipients regardless of their degree of processing motivation, assuming a sufficient amount to process” (Pierro, Mannetti, Kruglanski, & Sleeth-Keppler, 2004, p. 263). The value of placing in addition the expressions of sharing with grandparents at the end of the video is that individuals who are more highly motivated, with significant interest, and cognitive resource will “track the unfolding arguments to their completion” (p. 263). So where a person that is peripheral-based catches the message up front, the person who is going the central route will be caught upfront and follow all the way through to the message end, so both directions now work in our favor.

This message also works in that it responds toward the source being the image of innocence through the one year olds view leading us down a path from bedroom, to hall, and to kitchen. The message is of sharing that alluring space with the grandparent, and the audience is any viewer who might be touched by the message of timelessness. It is important that the source be credible and trustworthy, and likeable, that the message be respectful in length, emote a positive emotion, and that it meet cognitive needs and expectations of the audience (Brehm, Kassin, & Fein, 2005, p. 197). The message is persuasive in that it gives us the option or freedom to “think, feel, and act as we (not others) choose” (p. 212) . The video doesn’t force, but invites to share, and is gentle not like the commercial where the warriors are riding hurriedly toward your face demanding to know “what’s in your wallet?” Also, the video works in that it gives one the perspective of oneself during an early time of life we all went through and might wish to restore – a uncomplicated era when the most important thing on our mind might be getting to and eating the cookie (p. 212).

The message would be simple in order that you may remember the contents for later use. An example of “giving them a moment” might be when your best friend wants to tell you about her conversation she had on the phone with her grandson. In using the central route, it is important that the recipient of the message “attend to, comprehend, and retain in memory for later use” (Brehm, Kassin, & Fein, 2005, p. 195-196). One theorist, McGuire (1969, p. 197) distinguished that learning the message was different than just receiving the message and that learning was a first step, toward “its later acceptance.” In this respect, the learning was putting together the video with the message. The video is heart-felt and might put one in the mood or mode for later tangibly accepting that the one you are really giving a moment to was the grandparent who might want to share a heartfelt moment and this might occur at any or many times.

It is important not to speak the words conveyed in written form, because it is known that “people tend to resist persuasion when they are forewarned of someone’s persuasive intent (e.g., Hass & Grady, 1975; Papageorgis, 1968 as cited in Tormala, Clarkson, & Petty, 2006, p. 423). Giving a voice would give the receiver too much opportunity to doubt the sincerity of the speaker or motive to wonder, where that individual is leading toward. The written message is less intrusive. Schul, Mayo & Burnstein (2004, p. 668) write that people try to prevent themselves from being mislead and that people become less trustful when “they spontaneously activate associations that are incongruent with the given message.” In this case an association with a famous other or one not of perfect tone and temperament could distract the viewer or invalidate the message.

As noted previously, this ad works on people who are cognitive as well less cognitive, because it asking a request to listen to grandparents is being attuned to the heartfelt message, but it also works with those receivers of peripheral route in that the general mass of people do not want to think very hard and will often forget (Brehm, Kassin, & Fein, 2005, p. 197) even if the message is important like respecting the feelings and thoughts of older people wanting to share what it is they value. The receptive message here works because the images being show are not easy to forget in their simplicity. The child is put down, the child walks, and then crawls, the child opens the cupboard, reaches in and grasps the cookies. It is inevitable that through some struggle the child will look upward toward the camera with beseeching eyes as if to suggest … “Oh, please, please open this cookie package!” Only the brashest of us would not be inclined to give whatever the video then asked in form of a message or request.

Fung and Carstensen (2003, p. 163) convey a theory called “Socioemotional selectivity,” which proposes that there are “two categories: (a) knowledge-related goals – defined as goals that optimize the future, often through acquisition of new information, and (b) emotionally meaningful goals-defined as goals related to feelings, such as balancing emotional states or sensing that one is needed by others.” The new information portrayed in the above video is that grandparents want to share their stories, which is something that may be sensed, but not known or remembered, especially in the busy rush of life when we are trying to get to work, wash the car, buy the groceries, give the kids a bath, etc. It is an “oh yah” moment and it gives credibility to one’s future goals in that even young people may one day grow old and want to bring warmth toward the ideal of sitting on the porch swing in front of the lake remembering the good old days. They might then identify with the grandparents who are more isolated from the hustle and bustle of family affairs, and in hindsight of the kids having grown and gone, may then one day wish to recall and share with a loved one the experience of watching that inevitable first reach of the chocolate chip cookies.

The sense of the video and message being emotionally meaningful is conveyed in giving recognition to grandparents as being of value or in giving them a sense of purpose by allowing them to communicate their respect over to another generation or in passing to others outside the family the profound sense of joy that one’s immediate family produces. This also assists the family in building strength in the community in that by the others learning or empathizing with the family stories; concerns by the community of the family are broadened. This is important to the family in that giving it contacts and strong support outside its immediate self lends to its acceptance, credibility, and safety. Also in the past, especially by some cultures over others, it is of high significance to pass on the endurance of tradition and esteem. And, it has been reported that “older people disproportionately remember emotional information over other types of information (p. 163), which has obvious value in the family system. It is the given feeling sense that time is passing on as it should, and the entirety of the family’s power or impact is in sync with the world.

References

Brehm, S. S., Kassin, S., & Fein, S. (2005). Social psychology [6th ed.]. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Fung, H. H. & Carstensen, L. L. (2003). Sending memorable messages to the old: Age differences in preferences and memory for advertisements. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85(1), 163-178.

Pierro, A., Mannetti, L., Kruglanski, A., & Sleeth-Keppler, D. (2004). Relevance override: On the reduced impact of “cues” under high-motivation conditions of persuasion studies. Journal of personality and social psychology, 86(2), 251-264.

Schul, Y., Mayo, R., & Burnstein, E. (2004). Encoding under trust and distrust: the spontaneous activation of incongruent cognitions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86(5), 668-679.

Tormala, Z. L., Clarkson, J. J., & Petty, R. E. (2006). Resisting persuasion by the skin of one’s teeth: The hidden success of resisted persuasive messages. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91(3), 423-435.

End Paper here …

Ok, it’s me again … the time is now 5 pm. We’ve got dinner in the microwave. After finishing the last paper, we made sure to copy over the remaining assignments, and then we reviewed the text that we were going to need reading. When we looked at the work respectively, and after noting that the last unit required reading 3 chapters or 108 pages, we realized that we weren’t going to be able to do that and get through all the papers. I’m not sure if we have to, but it may be that I only have a week to write 6 small papers. That’s a lot of writing. But, a total of 184 pages to read means about 18-20 hours of additional work. So, this is the point of renegotiating everything. Until we hear further, we are going to assume that we only have til the completion of week 10 … that means by midnight next Sunday … Then I believe I can get an extension of two weeks to complete the work of finalizing that last paper. That’s what we’re hoping at least. I haven’t been able to make myself think this much through it, but it sounds about right. That means I should finish another paper today and do two more tomorrow. You all know how we are with that, but what has to be done has to be done.

So, we are going to eat dinner, then take our medication, and then do some more writing. I don’t think there should be anything in the way of that except bed time. Usually, by about 7 or 8 we want to talk to Deb, and then go to bed. We’ll see what happens. While I’ve got a few moments … oh yeah. One of the review things we did was to read for all five chapters the 15 pages or so total of review statements. This is the stuff at the end of each chapter highlighting all the details. It’s not, UNDERLINED not the same as reading the chapter, but we’re running a little scare at this point. So, why don’t we jump ahead and look at the information for this next paper. We might have to read a specific 10 pages, I’m not sure, let’s check.

Argh its on obedience Yuck, yuck ptooey, ptooey.

Ok, dinner has rang … let’s leave this do-dad out on the table.

u08d1 Obedience

For this activity, you will discuss an article from the supplemental text and from the text readings from this unit.

Instructions:

1. Read Milgram's article, "Behavioral Study of Obedience," that has been reprinted in your supplemental text as Reading 7. Milgram's 1963 study on obedience is a classic in the field. Today, this study would not meet with ethical guidelines for human participation in research.
2. Incorporate information from the above article into your discussion response, and list the full reference for the article.
3. Remember to cite information from the text readings as appropriate.
4. Critically analyze and evaluate the original work in terms of the contribution the research made to the field and any potential ethical concerns you have about the way the research was conducted.

Ok, we didn’t get so far there. We talked to Deb for a bit and then continued with reading the news. Read a nice article on Sister Andrea Jaeger … uhuh … tennis star turned to a calling. It was a nice story. We also did something that was kinda interesting. When we were talking to Deb … she asked us about grilling, because we had said something about smelling someone’s bbq, and then we remembered that we’d been given a George Foreman grilling machine several years back. We weren’t sure if we’d kept it or given it to the boys, but there it was … turned out to be in our cabinet and it didn’t even have the tape broken. *Sigh* things work out in time.

So, Deb also before she left gave us some advice on how to defrost meat … and there we went! We grilled! We didn’t do the bbq part exactly, but it was a step in the right direction. I’m not sure how our friend is going to like that we used up one of his meats though. There’s some frozen boneless chicken thighs in there too, but we’ll try out his mood on this first.

Ok … I think we’re going to give it a clean start. It’s time for bed. 8 pm. Well, ok 7 pm per old time, but we’re getting a jump on the kitties who don’t know about the time change. PLEASE then let’s start off with the paper first thing? No more sneakin back to bed you!!!

posted by Ann Marie @ 3/11/2007 08:03:00 PM Comments: 2