Snow White Trackers Withdrawal Club

[My Escape]

Originally Posted by marnabear

Sunday we are having a Valentine party and the lady who is hostessing is doing it in her home. She loves to bake. She did it last year and it was to die for.

Is anyone going to celebrate hot fudge Fat Tuesday on the 19th (Mardi Gras). I think that's a good way to celebrate it.

Yum on all counts! I have never heard of Hot Fudge Fat Tuesday, but I'm there. Always looking for a reason to eat a hot fudge sundae.

[My Escape]

I'm not sure what we heard, exactly. We were all woken out of a very deep sleep by a violent shake. Followed by the cats scampering. So there was a moment of complete uncertainty if someone had driven into the house or if the furnace had blown up or what had happened. That was the scariest part, doing the check to see what it was or wasn't. ODS slept through it. YDS woke up for it and was really scared. He finally fell back to sleep cuddled up next to me, which was just fine. Dd reported in this morning and she slept through it. I had to laugh because we had one maybe two years ago that was less sharp, but longer. I slept through it, but she and dh were in their respective beds riding it out gleefully like it was an amusement park ride. So I was surprised she slept through it, but she is about 15 minutes south of us. Everyone is okay, that's all I care about and there were no sirens from any rescue vehicles heard afterward. Surprising, given our fairly close proximity. I got an urgent email from one of my friends in Germany, who had just read about it on CNN. Exciting morning..but one I could do without anytime soon. I can see how those who live in the worst zones can live with a constant fear.

Mrs. Shimmer, let us know when you hear from your sister.

[My Escape]

Originally Posted by Liw

I just left the park. I hung out by a recycle bin per Jenifer's suggestion and I finally saw my first piece of trash. Three webkinz beat me to it, but at least I saw trash for the first time. Does anyone else get kind of dizzy moving in the park? Watching the scenery move makes me queazy.

No to the park, but that sounds identical to what I was experiencing when I first started Toontown with my boys. I even posted on here asking if anyone else ever got dizzy playing online games. It's the only one that ever affected me like that. My brain finally adjusted to the onslaught of motion, I hope yours will, too. My only advice is to do it in short doses, take breaks between, and soon you'll be able to stay in there longer. That's what I had to do was build up a tolerance. Good luck.

[My Escape]

Originally Posted by mom w charm

Hope you had a great night too I took My DS to the library afterschool & He signed up for some activities next week their (during School vacation)
Shake hands w/ a hedgehog, wiggle w/ a snake, talk w/ a tree frog, or just Pet a bunny

Aww, those sound so cute! I miss those days. Is next week your spring break already? Seems early, ours don't come until the end of March.

[My Escape]

Dutchmother - They will change their sleep patterns as they get older. I know that doesn't help you now. You could, I suppose, set a rule that they can either quietly watch tv or a movie or stay in their rooms until a certain time. I have one who gets up too early, one who sleeps until ten minutes before the bus. I'm not a morning person at all, but we've all just sort of learned with time how to approach each other in the early hours. Every kid is different and I have to say that I wish I was a morning person, so I'm a little jealous of my one son and your boys.

[Mrs. Shimmer]

Before IttyGirl turned two, she started getting up early. We put a very simple digital clock in her room and told her the first number had to be "7" before she left her room. That worked for us.

I got to do my babysitter job! Twice I had to close out the WW window, so then I tried another browser. I'll try clearing my cache.

20 pieces of trash

[retheriolu]

That's ALOT of trash XD! I STILL DON'T HAVE ANY! XD

[Mrs. Shimmer]

My hair turned out fine. The highlights are very subtle, which is what I wanted.

Originally Posted by marnabear

.........Does anyone have any advice as to where is a good place to find it? I try for the bottom left or the top left because usually before I have been there by myself.

There are two spots by the stage that usually have trash. One is in front of the left bleachers and one is behind them. I don't see much in the bottom half of the park, but then again I go in rooms with few pets.

Originally Posted by Dutchmother

WOW, Escape! What a morning for you! I am sorry!!! I hope things are normal for you the rest of the day!! Reminds me of something I'd say about tornados, we have had so many warnings in our town over the past few years!!!

Have to get the invites written tonight so I can pass them out tomorrow at storytime at our library. Today I have to get music together for the private school tomorrow, and gather up all our library books and dvds to take, plus try to school and clean house (which is a constant effort). I guess I shouldn't even be on here, LOL....

IttyGirl has a developed an aversion to the library. Not sure why. If this girl wants to be an author, she should be using the library.

We get some bad storms and tornadoes in the area. I'll never forget a tornado we saw live on the news at 5 AND 6 p.m.!

The only funnel we've seen was a funny story. It was Memorial Day weekend, and IttyGirl and I were at the movies seeing Spirit, an animated horse movie. There's an endless scene with a train bursting into flames and rolling down the mountain. At that very moment a theatre worker came running into the theatre screaming that there was a tornado. It was surreal. I scooped up IttyGirl and we raced outside. It was cloudy, but I didn't see anything spinning over our heads. I drove home (less than a mile) and kept my eye on the skies. Mr. Shimmer used to be a meteorologist so I expected him to be outside with the video camera. Turns out Mr. Shimmer was in the basement watching the Indy 500. He likes to tape it and then watch it in its entirety. He didn't even hear the tornado sirens! When I told him what was going on, he got excited and raced outside. We ended up seeing a funnel just north of us, but it never came down or did any damage. The next day we had big fat wet snowflakes.

Originally Posted by My Escape

Mrs. Shimmer, let us know when you hear from your sister.

My mom has already replied to my email. She had to send it to EVERYBODY! Her plan is to call tomorrow evening because that is my nephew's birthday. Knowing my sister, she might actually contact our parents and report in with the exciting news. My mom said that yesterday my sister was in downtown Chicago for a meeting and had to drive home in the snowstorm.

[mom w charm]

Escape that sounds so scary , so glad you are all okay . My Kid's have a week off in Feb & a week off in April from School .

I have 13 pieces of trash & I have no good advice (Thats why I only have 13) But I remember Jen Saying around the recycle bins there tends to be more .

Hope everyone is having a great day , No snow yet very windy though no school its suppose to get bad soon .

[marnabear]

Originally Posted by My Escape

EARTHQUAKE! And wow, was that creepy. I woke around 4 a.m. to a violent shake and the cats scattering. I think the scattering woke me faster than the quake. So far, all we know is that it was centered in a famous college town (for something horrible that happened there a couple of years ago) just a few miles west of us. No sounds of fire trucks or anything, so the neighborhood seems intact. But just scary and obviously I'm wide awake.

4.3 on the richter scale... unique experience. Going to try to get everyone back to bed.

That must have been scary, Escape. I've been through two big ones and I have to say that if that had happened in California no one would have noticed it much because 4.3 is not much there. But where you are not used to them, it's a different matter.

I guess I will never live down my typo when I described our meal yesterday, but at least I gave everyone something to smile about.

I did find two pieces of trash last night but it took me a long time to do it. I know some of the pets know exactly where it will fall because one stood and waited right in front of where the only piece was. I am so mad that I cannot get the park to load when I log on the way I usuallly do by taking the shortcut to go directly to the WW login screen. I have to go through webkinz.com, which opens another window on firefox and makes it harder for me to have more than one account open. No way do I have time to try to get trash on more than the one account.

Let's hope PJ has something new today. I would have bought another princess dress the other day but I missed it.

I know some of you said you would not wear a Webkinz T-shirt, but I would. I wear them a lot and most of mine have bears on them, so a Webkinz one with a sock monkey or something on it would be a change. I submitted a comment to the estore asking for adult sizes and they are forwarding it to the right department. If anyone wants to help my campaign, it would be good if they got more similar comments.