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RE: May Flowers....Women's Chat Thread - 5/1/2008 9:28:28 PM
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Miss Giggles
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Me too, some of the stuff looks ok in the store but worse when you get it home. So I take a lot of stuff back.
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RE: May Flowers....Women's Chat Thread - 5/1/2008 9:29:41 PM
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Nicole- cuz- but I want to see pics now so I know what the before/after is 
Welcome caringnurse - not sure if you want me to use your name or not, but heads up, I will probably forget and use it soon anyway. Nicole told me you had been reading, have fun posting- I spend way too much time around here
So youth group went well tonight. I got to play with one of my "babies" which was lots of fun. She is usually a sleep by the time I watch her older siblings on Tuesday nights so the only time I see her is on Sundays. I really enjoyed getting her ready for bed, feeding her and whatnot. Oh, youth group was also good - not just for the babies We had a good crowd and had several new people there. We are having a retreat next weekend which should be lots of fun. I am really looking forward to getting to see these kids in a different environment where the pressure to "be cool" is not nearly as strong. Pray that this will be a good weekend. We have an amazing speaker coming, great praise and worship and lots of prayer has gone into this weekend. Several of the kids have already accepted Christ, but many of them have not or are not really living it out. I am excited to see what God will do through their lives next weekend.
Okay- off to bed. It has been a long day and I actually have to go to work tomorrow. 
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RE: May Flowers....Women's Chat Thread - 5/2/2008 1:38:08 AM
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DenimDiva
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We have new kittens who need a mama. HERE is the thread that I started on the situation.
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RE: May Flowers....Women's Chat Thread - 5/2/2008 10:38:38 AM
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We have new kittens who need a mama. HERE is the thread that I started on the situation.
No go with the kitten here. We just had a momma cat bring her first litter to the farm (they are now almost all grown). And naturally she is pregnant again. They are great mousers though! They were at the neighbors farm and I don't think they were being fed enough. They were so skinny when they got to our place. Then the people who own that farm (at the time no one was living there they were remodeling for their kids) asked for the cats back. So we told them to come get them. (they never did) So right now we have five "kittens" and the momma cat; along with our cat that we had to put outdoors (she kept peeing on the carpet in the basement) and then we have our frady cat Verbal inside.
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RE: May Flowers....Women's Chat Thread - 5/2/2008 11:28:52 AM
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Morning ladies...I tried to get started reading...but all these people bringing in rent checks just keep making me lose my place...lol. I did get far enough to be able to say Congrats Nicole on the house! Other than that...I'll just say hope everyone has a great day (and that I hope Stacy's tooth feels better, than it did yesterday)
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RE: May Flowers....Women's Chat Thread - 5/2/2008 6:55:42 PM
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Nicole-great about the rental and your brother, hope you can beat him at wii!!
Stacy how is your tooth doing?
Thans fluff for asking, I am doing good a little tired and worn out but not too bad :)
Hi everyone else
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RE: May Flowers....Women's Chat Thread - 5/2/2008 8:45:20 PM
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BrowneyedAL
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Nicole ~ Thats awesome about finding a place...and sadly, the filthy condition you described is just the tip of the iceburg to what I've found before...trust me...I could tell you stories to turn your stomach. I often wonder how anyone can live in the conditions I find sometimes. Without actually telling you stuff that, trust me, you don't want to hear...I'll give you an idea of how I determine what to charge someone who doesn't leave their apartment in reasonable condition. (And trust me when I say that I'm pretty easygoing compared to many managers about inspections...if I can tell they made an honest effort then they're usually good with me if their aren't any damages.)
Generally on a really bad trash out of course I charge the cost for any contract work (sheetrock repairs, carpet cleaning or replacement, plumbing etc.) that we bring in someone from the outside to do...but for the clearing out the just filth left I charge essentially our labor costs (for example if I had two of my guys trashing out an apartment for 2 1/2 hrs I'd charge the cost of their wages for that time) considering that I've charged people as much as $800 for my staff labor costs before...believe me that's a lot of man hours just to remove trash and debris...that should give you some idea how bad some apartments have been.
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RE: May Flowers....Women's Chat Thread - 5/2/2008 9:15:37 PM
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My teeth are pretty much the same. I didn't have any time yesterday and today to make phone calls during business hours and start checking into dentists. All of the talk in the mommy threads about wisdom teeth removal is making me REALLY not look forward to it, no matter where I end up having it done.  Today I went and visited with a nice lady that I met while at garage sales this past weekend. She gave me a whole bunch of fabric for next to nothing. Now I have some scraps to experiment with, as well as some good fabric that I picked up at JoAnn's today.
Dh is feeling kind of under the weather, so we're skipping small group tonight (2nd time in a row), and keeping plans light for the weekend.
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RE: May Flowers....Women's Chat Thread - 5/2/2008 9:23:01 PM
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Miss Giggles
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I couldn't imagine what some of the apartments look like. I've seen a bad one in person and I've seen those horror stories on wife swap. Those people think it's okay.
I am a little messy but I won't be filthy.
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RE: May Flowers....Women's Chat Thread - 5/2/2008 9:35:05 PM
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BrowneyedAL
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I couldn't imagine what some of the apartments look like. I've seen a bad one in person and I've seen those horror stories on wife swap. Those people think it's okay.
I am a little messy but I won't be filthy.
Don't get me wrong...Suzie Homemaker, I am not...my home is sometimes (ok, almost always) cluttered...unopened mail on the table, random shoes or dog toys in the floor, some drinking glasses in the sink that somehow land there instead of the dishwasher right next to the sink, sorted piles of laundry in the hall waiting for me to wash, an unmade bed, or a trash can that really needs to be emptied....that sort of thing...but I think that's just life. Especially life with a full time job and a family...but there's a big difference between that and literally rooms (or storage closets) full of garbage...not trash, but rotting garbage...or floors so covered in pet waste (well if I'm lucky it's the pet's...lol) that it actually takes an effort to walk through the room.
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RE: May Flowers....Women's Chat Thread - 5/2/2008 9:37:04 PM
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uponeagleswings
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Lisa- you've just described our house most of the time, and we don't even have kids to blame it on. I blame the kitties instead.
My dad has done work in the housing projects of Detroit, and he's seen some places that were so bad he wouldn't even come inside after work without stripping down first.
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RE: May Flowers....Women's Chat Thread - 5/2/2008 9:41:47 PM
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BrowneyedAL
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Lisa- you've just described our house most of the time, and we don't even have kids to blame it on. I blame the kitties instead.
My dad has done work in the housing projects of Detroit, and he's seen some places that were so bad he wouldn't even come inside after work without stripping down first.
Been in those places before...I, no joke, have gotten in the shower and scrubbed myself with bleach after an eviction before, and I wore surgical gloves during. (Unlike some states, here, the property management is responsible for removing the belongings of the tenant, while the sheriff oversees)
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RE: May Flowers....Women's Chat Thread - 5/2/2008 9:43:35 PM
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DenimDiva
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So what are the plans for everyone's weekend?
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RE: May Flowers....Women's Chat Thread - 5/2/2008 11:18:23 PM
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So what are the plans for everyone's weekend?
My parents are picking up my 2 youngest kids at about 10-10:30 for my niece's 1st bday party 2.5 hrs away.
DD1 has a soccer game that will have us out from 11:45-1:45.
Have a little bit of last minute cleaning up to do.
Small group fellowship at my house from 6:30-8:30ish
2 youngest get home about 8ish
Sunday:
Church in AM.
DD1 has youth group from 5-7
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RE: May Flowers....Women's Chat Thread - 5/3/2008 11:22:42 AM
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Nicole (cuz) - what things do you have for your house yet?????
We have beds (need to get one mattress for Zach), couches, and we have our electronics. Mom, dad and Ryan are on their way to pick up a table and chairs (6 chairs which will need to be re-upholstered) and they have an entertainment center which we will turn into a wardrobe for Ryan. The closets are small and have a slanted ceiling so rather than Ryan crawling into the closets and hitting his head all the time, we got him a wardrobe. The three things left are washer/dryer, refridge, and microwave.
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It doesn't have grass or a fence yet so we still won't have grass. We offered to help them build a fence and put down sod. She was so happy we offered and said she will think about lowering our rent. That would be nice! Three young guys are living there now and man is that place dirty! There are black fingerprints on every single wall from half way up all the way to the floor. 
