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« on: January 19, 2009, 02:24:42 AM »
sorry  jumping  the  gun  a  bit, but  gonna  be  offline  for  a  week  or  so,getting  my  remaining   kidney  removed. :waving;
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« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2009, 02:26:33 AM »
if  all  is  good  in  the  world,i'll  be  watching  the  inauguration  on  t.v  while  recovering,while  having dialysis. :yahoo;
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« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2009, 02:36:58 AM »
ohh...  Sorry Ang, I thought you had it done last week. Good luck for tomorrow. Wishing you a speedy recovery and a PKD free abdomen! That is going to feel sooo good.


Tuesday.... I will be having tests done also but I am sure to catch the highlights on the TV down here.
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« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2009, 08:43:29 AM »
Best wishes Ang
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« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2009, 09:24:24 AM »
Yup, I'll be watching on Channel 7, crying and clapping my hands a lot!
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« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2009, 09:27:58 AM »
I'll be watching in Ahhhh and saying "ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY MILLION DOLLARS"????   WTF!!!!  over and over and over again!!


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« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2009, 09:30:21 AM »
For me it is just another day.

I will be at work working.  I dont get a paid day of to sit home and watch this event.
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« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2009, 10:57:45 AM »
because i'm "on vacation" dialysis is m, t, s, so i'll be hooked up and plugged in to the tv at dialysis. might as well watch, after all it's history.

best of luck ang.
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« Reply #8 on: January 19, 2009, 11:03:53 AM »
I will be teaching 6th and 7th graders. However I am going to hope the computer will put CNN.com up for live coverage so we can all watch the inauguration.  What a non written lesson plan.
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« Reply #9 on: January 19, 2009, 11:50:29 AM »

Ang, I hope everything goes fine and you're back posting soon. Take it easy - here's hoping for a speedy recovery!  :cuddle;
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« Reply #10 on: January 19, 2009, 01:35:39 PM »
I'll be busy tomorrow when he "becomes President".   But when he "won the election" I was getting my kidney!    :cheer:
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« Reply #11 on: January 19, 2009, 01:39:26 PM »
I will be watching. Our district is requiring every teacher to have the inauguration on in their classrooms.
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« Reply #12 on: January 19, 2009, 01:55:21 PM »
Wokking.  Hopefully, we will have the TV's on to the event.  We are having a "red,white and blue" lunch at the clinic. 
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« Reply #13 on: January 19, 2009, 02:39:18 PM »
I don't think I will be getting up at 2.30 am to watch it live
But I will watch a replay - it is history being made

All the best Ang
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« Reply #14 on: January 19, 2009, 03:14:36 PM »
I watched a fair bit today of the preparations and the mounting excitement.  I will definitely be watching tomorrow's events with interest and particularly look forward to The Speech.  Did anyone see Oprah's show today?  Will-I-Am, Faith Hill, Bono, Seal were all singing a new song by David Foster.  Very nice.
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« Reply #15 on: January 19, 2009, 06:11:28 PM »
Quote from: MIbarra on January 19, 2009, 01:39:26 PM
I will be watching. Our district is requiring every teacher to have the inauguration on in their classrooms.


We do not have a TV or cable in my classroom.  Sigh
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« Reply #16 on: January 19, 2009, 07:33:43 PM »
The song was great.  What talents they are!
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« Reply #17 on: January 19, 2009, 11:51:15 PM »
I'll be watching.  Hope I feel better than I did today.  I slept away most of the day.
Godspeed Ang.

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« Reply #18 on: January 20, 2009, 08:05:08 AM »
It is a non-dialysis day, I am home watching Obama on the big screen...

Very emotional  :cuddle;
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« Reply #19 on: January 20, 2009, 09:33:57 AM »
Terrific speech President Obama.  Confident, inspirational, forward-looking, gracious, inclusive and moving.   Man, I've got to get going and I'm glued to the television screen.  OK, I'm really getting going this time.
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« Reply #20 on: January 20, 2009, 10:23:00 AM »
I was trying to not cry, but then I cried! Definitely tears of joy during a very moving occasion...
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« Reply #21 on: January 20, 2009, 11:42:17 AM »
Quote from: pelagia on January 20, 2009, 10:23:00 AM
I was trying to not cry, but then I cried! Definitely tears of joy during a very moving occasion...

I was born in 1955. I feel like we are leaving a dark and troubled time behind and emerging into a bright new world...

...and I just can't stop smiling!!!

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« Reply #22 on: January 20, 2009, 02:29:15 PM »
Ang are you feeling okay today?


I watched the inauguration on a 3*5 piece of a computer screen via C-Span. In between giving kids Language Arts to work on.  Hehehe. I heard most of the speech except when the computer speed was not up to snuff.
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« Reply #23 on: January 20, 2009, 02:46:26 PM »
I cried when he talked about being the son of a man who could have been refused service in a restaurant at one time.  I remember going to Miami as a kid and seeing water fountains that were restricted to "whites".  I couldn't believe it and yet people who lived there would try to justify it with bizarre rationalizations.  I remember crying at that time because that rule would have applied to my nanny who slept in our room until I was 10, and went away to boarding school, and whom I adored.  Here we are not too long before we parted ways and I really missed her at school, maybe even more than my Mum since Nanny spent way more time with us overall.  She was amazing at "handling" me and I was not an "easy" kid but she always made me feel special.  The thought that anyone, anywhere, could consider her in any way less than any one else was completely beyond me and that visit to Miami was a turning point in my life.  I was born in 1953.
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« Reply #24 on: January 20, 2009, 02:56:06 PM »
It is absolutely astounding how the world has changed since 1962. I was born that year.  We have seen much.


It makes me stop and think, but for the grace of God!
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