YOWSA!

Lots to read = lots to say!
Going backwards, Kathy, I heard the same thing about the $$ as far as the last four of your SSN goes - mine is 11 also ;) - but the schedule I saw put my check at the end of July. I saw the news tonight and they said that some checks are already sent out if you opted for direct deposit. Well does anyone know how we are to go about selecting that? All I heard is that I was getting some money, I didn't hear anything about my options for receiving it.
Kathy (still), did you get our voicemail? Mike, mom and I sang you happy birthday yesterday. :) Surely you've heard it by now! Glad to hear you got some answers about your thyroid issues. I of course knew about that, but for some reason reading about a lump on your neck on this blog took me by surprise. But then Brea explained it all to me Saturday night. Speaking of Brea, we still need to relive our southwestern vacation so keep us posted if you get an offer and go to NV. But I'm with Tammy, if you weren't that interested and they can't offer you what you are happy with now, then it is not worth it!
Tammy, you crack me up! :) A lot of my cousins are blessed with good brains but I'm sure a lot of it was a lack of effort on my part when it came to high school at least. But like Kathy said, where there's a will, there's a way! Ok that's not exactly what she said, but you get the idea. I think it is awesome that you are getting all of that rolling for yourself. I hope you love what you are doing when you are done with school and get resituated.
Back to Kathy, that would be AWESOME if you were willing to donate some garage sale $$ again. That was such a huge help for me in '06 and this time I need to raise about half of what I raised in '06 so a garage sale would hopefully be a huge part of it. Plus it sounds like Jessi is all set and doesn't really need help? We'll just see where everyone is at for $ at garage sale time and split it however we need to. When I moved in w/Adrian I donated a lot of stuff to the American Cancer Society garage sale so as to avoid having to move a ton of stuff I don't need, but now I'm there again since none of my clothes fit (Yay!) so I'll go through all that and whatever is in decent shape I will try to sell. When do you think you would/will have it? If you have an idea, I'll keep the general timeframe open so I can come up. Maybe I'll have a little luck selling bracelets at the garage sale as well!
Speaking of bracelets, we (mom, Connie and I) made 20 yesterday and we ran out of crystal beads. Connie ordered a lot more today, I think enough for another 60 or 70 bracelets! So again/still if anyone wants to buy a bunch from me and sell them, let me know and I will send you some!
What else...I can't believe the twins are 16! that is just crazy. Katy congrats on the license! What about Cody's?
Gosh, what else...I agree with Kathy, I wish there was a way to see the existing posts as you are typing one. Can't think of what else I was going to respond to so you all are lucky..this is it from me for a minute!

later, yappers!