This is a place to bitch about things in this world that annoy you.

For me, I don't understand why everything has to have a high sodium content.  It seems no matter what you eat, has salt/sodium in it. I understand that humans LOVE salt for the most part-but I am one of those strange people who dosen't like a lot of salt. If I eat something with high levels of sodium, I have to drink about a gallon of water because it makes me super thirsty and then I feel really bloated. And then you have Coca-Cola who puts sodium in their bottled water.  :o :o :o  That's right, Dasani brand water has sodium in it. It is designed to make you MORE thirsty so you will drink more. How nice.At least there are some companies who are FINALLY getting the hint and cutting down on the sodium they put in their products.


Ok, that is my rant for the day. Who is next?


Cat

The officers go to breakfast and order food for me and then ask the people to keep up under the heat lamp until they are ready to leave so my food sits around for 45 minutes while they dine leisurely  >:(  Why can't they just order my meal 10 minutes before they are ready to leave?

oh and I get sunny side up eggs which always arrive upside down because one particular officer just sets my to go container on the back seat and lets it slide all over the friggin place... the officers I worked with last shift rotation always brought me warm food and my eggs were always intact  >:(

The officers go to breakfast and order food for me and then ask the people to keep up under the heat lamp until they are ready to leave so my food sits around for 45 minutes while they dine leisurely  >:(  Why can't they just order my meal 10 minutes before they are ready to leave?

oh and I get sunny side up eggs which always arrive upside down because one particular officer just sets my to go container on the back seat and lets it slide all over the friggin place... the officers I worked with last shift rotation always brought me warm food and my eggs were always intact  >:(
That would definitely make me unhappy too!  Cold eggs are more like glue than something edible :( :( :(

:-signature banned as well

:-signature banned as well



Oops.  :-[



Cat

OK, I'm sick and tired of this!  Why is it nowadays everybody has to bring their f**king lunch everywhere!  No, I don't mean brownbagging it and eating in the lunchrooom on break like the old days, I mean "the world is my picnic table" attitude.  Look, don't eat your goddam take-out noodles over the control bord in the studio.  You risk thousands of dollars in damage, and then I gotta come in and breathe in the ginger and garlic whether I like or not, and maybe deal with grease on the levers and switches.  And I don't want to see you in the lobby chowing down on burritos and tossed salad!  I don't bring my work to your dining table, do I?  It's just that freaking narcissitic sense of entitlement!  Me stuffing my face is of paramount importance and never will it cross my mind that you don't like dealing with my crumbs and wrappers and rancid residuals!  Oh, and our parents used to teach us something called "table manners."  That's over now; it's some Victorian relic, like courship (why court when you can just hook-up?)  Watching these on-the-go chowderhounds fetch it down their greedy gobs is like going down to the sty and watching the hogs oinking around a load of festering garbage!!!!

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PHEW! Thanks, I needed that.  I feel better now.
:)

My rant for today is about UPS. They just put the packages on the porch, don't bother to knock or ring the doorbell and we are here most of the time. We don't notice that we have a package until the next day when we go out to get the morning paper-so the package sits on the porch all night.

Yesterday we got a package (a snowblower-and just in time too  ;) ) which we happened to see the UPS truck as it pulled up-which is good. However the company who sent it (which this is my rant #2 for the day) just put the shipping label on the box so everyone in the world can see that we were getting a new snowblower. This really sucks as it sits on the porch (if we didn't see the truck) and anyone walking by can see that we have a brand new snowblower and if they wanted, they could just go up and take it home with them. Of course they could do that with our regular packages, too. They just wouldn't know what was in the package until they opened it.



Cat

My rant for the day:

Everyone knows that I have a Flickr account. I pimp a lot of my photos-the ones I think are GOOD and send them to group after group after group and hardly get any comments. One photo has 649 views but only 23 comments. WTF!!?? It looks like I will NEVER get on Explore.  :\'( :\'( :\'(



Cat

Ok - here's my rant:  I work in a male dominated industry (residential construction) have been in the industry for over 20 years, I have extensive parctical knowledge in all aspects of the industry and have been rewarded for my knowledge by being paid well and have worked my way up to management.  I hire and fire subtrades on a regular basis, anyone who knows me know this.  In a recent conversation between a "general contractor" and myself a dispute arose.  The general contractor was going to do some work on a friend's bathroom and they (the wife) had asked me to check him out as no one had seen any of his work.  So I asked him some qualifying questions (I won't bore you with the details) which I use when hiring new contractors at work.  The fellow didn't demonstrate sufficient knowledge and actually began to argue with me about something that is common knowledge with regard to the work he was to be hired to do, so I advised my friend and her husband (privately) that I wouldn't hire him and explained the reasons why.  Her husband, who had listened in on the conversation (it was at a party at the home of another friend) disregarded my opinion and hired him to do the work anyway.  Needless to say, they need to hire Holmes on Homes to fix the work, that's how bad it is.  Had I been a man, they would have listened and not hired the contractor.

This happens all the time.  I have boobs and smell good.  Therefore I cannot possibly know anything about construction and manly stuff.  I deal with it at work, and I deal with it at home.  At work, I have power and don't have to tolerate the dismissal of my opinion, at home (mostly with friends) I either keep my mouth shut or become frustrated - during these economic times more and more of our friends are doing their own home renos and they constantly ask my Husband for tips (as we obviously do our own).  He always brings me in on the conversation as I am the knowledgable one and as soon as that happens, the men get a glazed look in their eyes and I can tell, it's a waste of breath to say anything.  So for the most part I refuse to discuss home renos and have become quite verbal about the chauvinism running rampant throughout our social circle.

I recently had the opportunity to socialize with a female heavy duty mechanic, she experiences the same thing.  On a larger scale.  I am so sick of Chauvinism and that is my rant.

I may have spelled Chauvinism wrong, I don't care!  :)

I like people who have boobs and smell good.

I have lived long enough (not that I'm OLD or anything :P ) to realize that there are plenty of women in the world who are smarter, stronger, and better at stuff than I am, so I've developed a sense of impartiality where I research every opinion given to me and try to assess which one is best. 

I like people who have boobs and smell good.


I laughed out loud when I read that!

That being said, are you sure, in all situations, that the gender or physical attributes of the person providing the information do not influence the findings of your research?

I laughed out loud when I read that!

That being said, are you sure, in all situations, that the gender or physical attributes of the person providing the information do not influence the findings of your research?


I make sure of that.

I laughed out loud when I read that!

That being said, are you sure, in all situations, that the gender or physical attributes of the person providing the information do not influence the findings of your research?


I think there's some inherent bias even if we try not to let it affect our objectivity.  I have noticed nowadays that there are a lot more women than men in the sciences, though, and that's probably not due to some kind of affirmative action program for females, they are actually very intelligent and can argue their positions very well.

I don't care what gender the person is as long as they can do the job satisfactorily :)

um.... so now's probably not a good time to say that this- v - writing style seems somewhat familiar....  :-\\ 










Ok - here's my rant:  I work in a male dominated industry (residential construction) have been in the industry for over 20 years, I have extensive parctical knowledge in all aspects of the industry and have been rewarded for my knowledge by being paid well and have worked my way up to management.  I hire and fire subtrades on a regular basis, anyone who knows me know this.  In a recent conversation between a "general contractor" and myself a dispute arose.  The general contractor was going to do some work on a friend's bathroom and they (the wife) had asked me to check him out as no one had seen any of his work.  So I asked him some qualifying questions (I won't bore you with the details) which I use when hiring new contractors at work.  The fellow didn't demonstrate sufficient knowledge and actually began to argue with me about something that is common knowledge with regard to the work he was to be hired to do, so I advised my friend and her husband (privately) that I wouldn't hire him and explained the reasons why.  Her husband, who had listened in on the conversation (it was at a party at the home of another friend) disregarded my opinion and hired him to do the work anyway.  Needless to say, they need to hire Holmes on Homes to fix the work, that's how bad it is.  Had I been a man, they would have listened and not hired the contractor.

This happens all the time.  I have boobs and smell good.  Therefore I cannot possibly know anything about construction and manly stuff.  I deal with it at work, and I deal with it at home.  At work, I have power and don't have to tolerate the dismissal of my opinion, at home (mostly with friends) I either keep my mouth shut or become frustrated - during these economic times more and more of our friends are doing their own home renos and they constantly ask my Husband for tips (as we obviously do our own).  He always brings me in on the conversation as I am the knowledgable one and as soon as that happens, the men get a glazed look in their eyes and I can tell, it's a waste of breath to say anything.  So for the most part I refuse to discuss home renos and have become quite verbal about the chauvinism running rampant throughout our social circle.

I recently had the opportunity to socialize with a female heavy duty mechanic, she experiences the same thing.  On a larger scale.  I am so sick of Chauvinism and that is my rant.

I may have spelled Chauvinism wrong, I don't care!  :)

um.... so now's probably not a good time to say that this- v - writing style seems somewhat familiar....  :-\\ 


Methinks it's a former member who deleted but has resurrected her account, though I'm sure the modz are on the case.

Methinks it's a former member who deleted but has resurrected her account, though I'm sure the modz are on the case.


Nah - I was never deleted, I just got a job with a lot more responsibility and couldn't get on for a long time, then i forgot about the web site, then I was googling something one day at my new slacker job and found you all again!  I have never beened banned from anything in my whole life!  If that's what you meant!  :)

Ah...forgot your original password? 

That happens to me sometimes :D

um.... so now's probably not a good time to say that this- v - writing style seems somewhat familiar....  :-\\ 









i dont want this to sound mean to the person you're talking about -- i want to say it in pig latin but how would you do it? dria-andray? well, crap, that's rather obvious, isn't it? -- but the writer is too smart to be the Big A.  ;D anyway, yeah, i think i remember a barefoot robin from back in the day...

YES!  Thank you!  Whew, I was almost having an emotion for a minute there!

I've never actually seen a robin with shoes before...unless you're talking about Robin Williams or something :D

um.... so now's probably not a good time to say that this- v - writing style seems somewhat familiar....  :-\\ 






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wow... okay I stand corrected... barefootinrobin I truly apologize for the mistaken Identity... you have a similar writing style to someone who was around a couple months ago but I know know who are separate people so I say welcome...er... WELCOME BACK.

Hope to get to know you as others do..

Q

I should probably rant too...where should I begin?

I'll figure out something later, but for now the only rant I have is that biology takes so long :P

i dont want this to sound mean to the person you're talking about -- i want to say it in pig latin but how would you do it? dria-andray? well, crap, that's rather obvious, isn't it? -- but the writer is too smart to be the Big A.  ;D anyway, yeah, i think i remember a barefoot robin from back in the day...



you got it... I'm glad its not whatsherface seriously...

Sorry again Robin... I saw the story about working with men and then the mention of boobs and lept to a conclusion...plus the neatly typed paragraphs.

you don't find that often around here  ;D


Welcome back and congrats on your new slacker job!

But even though you're at a slacker job now, can you still tell me how to fix stuff around the house?  :-[

But even though you're at a slacker job now, can you still tell me how to fix stuff around the house?  :-[


LOL!  Unfortunately, YES! ;D

Cool!  I might have some questions for you, which may be the subject of another rant :P

topic split

oh sure! split the topic! YOU'RE the moderator! YOU'RE the GOD and we're just lowly little thread-dwellers who can't even decide what thread our posts will appear in! just split threads willy-nilly! see if I CARE!  ::) i don't care! i can take it! you think that bothers me?!? lots of people like me and they will defend me and...

oh, hell, i totally ran out of energy for that.



I know this was meant in jest but for the record, it was MY idea to split the thread.



Cat

I know this was meant in jest but for the record, it was MY idea to split the thread.



Cat


who's spliting what....  please do explain for I do not understand this language you all are speaking  ;D

who's spliting what....  please do explain for I do not understand this language you all are speaking  ;D
There is a board rant thread now (look in TTT a couple down from this thread) ;)

I just got here, quite interesting so far

There is a board rant thread now (look in TTT a couple down from this thread) ;)

I just got here, quite interesting so far


oh thanks!

oh thanks!


But you have already been there - surprise surprise ;)

;D

But you have already been there - surprise surprise ;)

;D


funny I could have sworn at the time I was somewhere else

funny I could have sworn at the time I was somewhere else
and maybe you were ;)

;D

and maybe you were ;)

;D



wait I just read my posts and now I sound like someone else here..


for the record I didn't know about thread splitting but once I found the other thread I got it..

and I know exactly how my other posts made it into that thread... just so we're all clear...

Nah - I was never deleted, I just got a job with a lot more responsibility and couldn't get on for a long time, then i forgot about the web site, then I was googling something one day at my new slacker job and found you all again!  I have never beened banned from anything in my whole life!  If that's what you meant!   :)


I can vouch for barefootrobin because I remember when she was a member before with the same name

a) I never forget a fellow Canuck
b) Her old avatar was Betty Cooper, the girl to me that Archie Andrews should be with (if he wasn't such a brainless moron LOL)

Ah!  Validation!  Thank you for remembering me!  And I just realized that I said "beened".  Oh Dear!

Ah!  Validation!  Thank you for remembering me!  And I just realized that I said "beened".  Oh Dear!


I like you- you just made me laugh!

Ah!  Validation!  Thank you for remembering me!  And I just realized that I said "beened".  Oh Dear!



For what it's worth, I remember you, too. I believe you used to play at the arcade.

In fact, Carlos in the car today asked me if I remembered you.  ;) 



Cat

For what it's worth, I remember you, too. I believe you used to play at the arcade.

In fact, Carlos in the car today asked me if I remembered you.  ;) 



Cat


I did - and I remember you and you and you!  Just kidding, how strange of a feeling though.  Tell Carlos I said Hi!

I did - and I remember you and you and you!  Just kidding, how strange of a feeling though.  Tell Carlos I said Hi!



You can tell him yourself. He will be visiting these parts tomorrow morning.  ;)




Cat

And now I would like to vent about myself.  Why is it that when I am confronted with a conversation about religion I go way to deep and get way to involved in the conversation when I know better?  Why! Why! Why?  I have a whole sidebar conversation with myself about how I should shut up now but I can't stop it, it continues and away I go.

And advice, what is it going to take to stop myself from giving my grown up daughter advice???  The poor thing, I see the glazed over look in her eye, and still I go on.

I swear I really irritate the crap out of myself sometimes!

Ah!  Validation!  Thank you for remembering me!  And I just realized that I said "beened".  Oh Dear!


I remember you, too. :)

I remember you, too. :)


Thanks!  I remember you too!

Thanks!  I remember you too!


was she froggy back then too?

@ Dag  :P

;)

was she froggy back then too?

@ Dag   :P

;)


You better be nice to me or I may send you a frog.  I still have your address. :P ;)

You better be nice to me or I may send you a frog.  I still have your address. :P ;)


If I get something from your neck of the woods I'm gonna squash it then open it.

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If I get something from your neck of the woods I'm gonna squash it then open it.

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I could have a friend send it from another state.







What you gonna do then? ;D

I could have a friend send it from another state.







What you gonna do then? ;D


sue for harassment? 


oh and I know where sami lives too.

sue for harassment? 


oh and I know where sami lives too.
;D ;D ;D

I was tempted to chime in, Q must have sensed it ;D

;D ;D ;D

You crack me up, Q.

I did - and I remember you and you and you!  Just kidding, how strange of a feeling though.  Tell Carlos I said Hi!


Hi yourself ;) Welcome back!!!

My dad got married, she's nice enough, but now she's moving into "our" house and her furniture and other items are taking over our living room, garage, and the woman brought bugs into the house!!  We have not seen a bug in 7 years, and it's all gone to  .e.y$* in a short time.  I took it on myself to call the exterminator and he said these are the scary ones.  The one's that just don't die...the sneaky ones that...well, it's awful and I'm doing my best to fight back--and I'm hitting them with everything I can think of.  Borax soap--a dirivitive of boric acid, the bug guy sprayed, left traps, and shot out poison goo into corners and cracks.  She needs to  own up to the problem and help the rest of us.  AAAAAK!

My dad got married, she's nice enough, but now she's moving into "our" house and her furniture and other items are taking over our living room, garage, and the woman brought bugs into the house!!  We have not seen a bug in 7 years, and it's all gone to  .e.y$* in a short time.  I took it on myself to call the exterminator and he said these are the scary ones.  The one's that just don't die...the sneaky ones that...well, it's awful and I'm doing my best to fight back--and I'm hitting them with everything I can think of.   Borax soap--a dirivitive of boric acid, the bug guy sprayed, left traps, and shot out poison goo into corners and cracks.  She needs to  own up to the problem and help the rest of us.  AAAAAK!



long time no see.....


I'm sorry that sounds like a bitch to be going thru right now.  change is difficult and moving someone new into a place where all the nuances are known routines are established... I don't have the patience for it... more power to you for being to still refer to her as 'nice enough' that's kinder than I would be....

My dad got married, she's nice enough, but now she's moving into "our" house and her furniture and other items are taking over our living room, garage, and the woman brought bugs into the house!!  We have not seen a bug in 7 years, and it's all gone to  .e.y$* in a short time.  I took it on myself to call the exterminator and he said these are the scary ones.  The one's that just don't die...the sneaky ones that...well, it's awful and I'm doing my best to fight back--and I'm hitting them with everything I can think of.   Borax soap--a dirivitive of boric acid, the bug guy sprayed, left traps, and shot out poison goo into corners and cracks.  She needs to  own up to the problem and help the rest of us.  AAAAAK!


Gosh.  I remember when my dad got remarried and my stepmother moved into the house.  That was 27 years ago to the week!  She didn't bring bugs, just an annoying stepbrother (who later became my best friend in the whole world and still is), and a bunch of austere Victorian furniture and endtables topped with lace doilies and cheesy lamps from the 1940s!  Oh, and we had to keep her German Shepherd separated from my Springer Spaniel because they'd fight all the time and Sparky, my dog, would get the worse of it!  So that bugged me a lot.  She also started making up new rules as soon as she moved in, and I was like, "Excuse me, who TF are you?"  Then dad was all, "If Marilyn says it, it's the same as if I say it, so you just better not give her any lip!" 

Then Stu broke my telescope and my bike and stole half my Star Wars figures the first week he was there, but dad told me, "Hey, I don't wanna hear your whining.  You be nice to that boy, or else!"

Plus, you know how it is when there's newfound love in the air!  I didn't.  I would find out.  I could hear the two of them down the hall every night, you know, going at it like the horniest newlyweds east of the Mississippi!  I mean, it was like somewhere between an earthquake and a primate primal scream therapy session!

I think I got permanent psych damage from that sh*t!
8-P

;D ;D ;D

You crack me up, Q.


One of you is cracked...and it ain't you Dag!

Gosh.  I remember when my dad got remarried and my stepmother moved into the house.  That was 27 years ago to the week!  She didn't bring bugs, just an annoying stepbrother (who later became my best friend in the whole world and still is), and a bunch of austere Victorian furniture and endtables topped with lace doilies and cheesy lamps from the 1940s!  Oh, and we had to keep her German Shepherd separated from my Springer Spaniel because they'd fight all the time and Sparky, my dog, would get the worse of it!  So that bugged me a lot.  She also started making up new rules as soon as she moved in, and I was like, "Excuse me, who TF are you?"  Then dad was all, "If Marilyn says it, it's the same as if I say it, so you just better not give her any lip!" 

Then Stu broke my telescope and my bike and stole half my Star Wars figures the first week he was there, but dad told me, "Hey, I don't wanna hear your whining.  You be nice to that boy, or else!"

Plus, you know how it is when there's newfound love in the air!  I didn't.  I would find out.  I could hear the two of them down the hall every night, you know, going at it like the horniest newlyweds east of the Mississippi!  I mean, it was like somewhere between an earthquake and a primate primal scream therapy session!

I think I got permanent psych damage from that sh*t!
8-P


Sorry Max...but you made it sound funny!  ;D

You DID make it sound funny.    ;D ;D

My dad got married, she's nice enough, but now she's moving into "our" house and her furniture and other items are taking over our living room, garage, and the woman brought bugs into the house!!  We have not seen a bug in 7 years, and it's all gone to  .e.y$* in a short time.  I took it on myself to call the exterminator and he said these are the scary ones.  The one's that just don't die...the sneaky ones that...well, it's awful and I'm doing my best to fight back--and I'm hitting them with everything I can think of.   Borax soap--a dirivitive of boric acid, the bug guy sprayed, left traps, and shot out poison goo into corners and cracks.  She needs to  own up to the problem and help the rest of us.  AAAAAK!


Bugs?  Good hell.  That's just awful.  I'm sorry you have to deal with that.  :(

Sorry Max...but you made it sound funny!  ;D



Yeah...the telescope/bike/star wars figures part made me giggle too.  Not that I don't feel for you.  But it's still kinda gigglesome.



Except for the sex part.  That is completely horrifying to a kid.  :\'( :o :\'(

Yeah...the telescope/bike/star wars figures part made me giggle too.  Not that I don't feel for you.  But it's still kinda gigglesome.



Except for the sex part.  That is completely horrifying to a kid.   :\'( :o :\'(


Oh, I meant to make it sound funny.  It is funny!  A lot of things are funny with the passage of time.  Ironically, our crazy parents are what made my stepbrother and me so close.  Sure, we fought quite a bit, but in the end all we had was each other. 

I thought my dad and my stepmother cornered the market in the loud sex dept., but Barbara Dafoe Whitheead specifies the phenomenon in her book "The Divorce Culture."  Things the Brady Bunch never taught us!

Stu and I laugh about it now...but at the time, YEESH!
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My sister in law called at 7:25 this morning to 'make sure everything was okay'. Everything was okay until the phone BLARED INTO MY SLEEPING EARDRUMS. And thank you, honey, for leaving your cell phone on DEAF PERSON VOLUME RIGHT NEXT TO MY HEAD.

Since I'm already here, I might as well give a condensed version of last week's work cluster****: One big job was delayed due to materials not being there and money not being here. We have other work to do, so I head to a *somewhat* local site to work... mainly to pick up my check, 1099, and train a few new monkeys. I get to the site - the materials aren't there, monkeys aren't there, 1099 isn't there, money isn't there, and the site wasn't even properly prepped by the last set of monkeys. 0 for freakin' 5. Last Friday amounted to little more than a 118 mile joyride, when it was BEAUTIFUL outside and 70*. Now it's 20* and sheeshty.

At the moment I'm basically on strike until I get paid in full, get my 1099, and all of the materials are on these jobsites.

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At the moment I'm basically on strike until I get paid in full, get my 1099, and all of the materials are on these jobsites.

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Good for you Jack!
I know it must suck not actually working, but you needed to take this stand my friend! 8)

My sister in law called at 7:25 this morning to 'make sure everything was okay'. Everything was okay until the phone BLARED INTO MY SLEEPING EARDRUMS. And thank you, honey, for leaving your cell phone on DEAF PERSON VOLUME RIGHT NEXT TO MY HEAD.

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That "deaf person volume" comment made me snort milk up into my sinuses.  Ow. ;D

Good for you Jack!
I know it must suck not actually working, but you needed to take this stand my friend! 8)


It really sucks. Not only am I not getting paid on time, I'm not getting any time in to not get paid on time next week (wow, a quadruple negative!). Sitting around the house is driving me nuts.

I think the 1099 is coming this week, but it's really the last thing I want to see right now. No word on the rest, but yeah, I've got to turn this crap around or leave - it's too frustrating to deal with on a daily basis anymore.


That "deaf person volume" comment made me snort milk up into my sinuses.  Ow. ;D


Sorry... lol.

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I am about to blow!

First, I have this freakin headache! It is killing me and has been for the better part of today! After a weeks worth of rain, it decided to get real nice out today, except it stayed chilly only to warm up later in the day, thus causing my headache! My Advil isn't working and it is too late to take my tension headache medicine - so I am SOL.

Second.... I am so sick and disgusted by the Celebrity Outpouring over Michael Jackson's death!
Why?
Where were these so-called loyal celebrity fans when Michael needed them for support 4 years ago? Where were these normal civilian fans when he needed them 4 years ago? Why is it now that they are all coming out of the woodwork, claiming to have been best friends with him, always by his side etc. etc.?? They want their dang 5 minutes more of fame that's why!!! It makes me sick to watch people sit around, mourning his star on the walk of fame!! Some of these people were probably the ones spitting on his star when he was on trial! They had tried and convicted him even before the case was heard! But now - OY VEY! 'The loss is so great.... my heart bleeds.... Michael was the best...' It does nothing but display the sheer hypocrisy of society on the whole!Even after he was acquitted, people still claimed he was guilty! Now they are claiming he was wronged and never should have been tried! Seriously. I am so pissed at mankind right now. It is disgusting!

And Larry King!!!! Scrounging up guests he could interview.... Cory Feldman??!!! C'mon - the kid hadn't even talked to Michael in 7 years!!!! And you know Larry's ass was one of the ones saying Michael was guilty - behind closed doors of course! Gah! And he has the empathy and understanding of a brick wall! And seriously - interviewing some nurse who claims that Michael asked for stuff?! Why didn't she say something sooner than after his death? She researched what the drug was, but did nothing to alert anyone to his request? Gimme a break! 5 minute fame wanting b!tch!

Yep.... I'm pissed and disgusted! >:(

you vented very well... did it help?

And Larry King!!!! Scrounging up guests he could interview.... Cory Feldman??!!! C'mon - the kid hadn't even talked to Michael in 7 years!!!! And you know Larry's ass was one of the ones saying Michael was guilty - behind closed doors of course! Gah! And he has the empathy and understanding of a brick wall! And seriously - interviewing some nurse who claims that Michael asked for stuff?! Why didn't she say something sooner than after his death? She researched what the drug was, but did nothing to alert anyone to his request? Gimme a break! 5 minute fame wanting b!tch!

Yep.... I'm pissed and disgusted! >:(


Oh yeah, I watched that Larry King last night.  The nurse made me roll my eyes.

I am about to blow!

First, I have this freakin headache! It is killing me and has been for the better part of today! After a weeks worth of rain, it decided to get real nice out today, except it stayed chilly only to warm up later in the day, thus causing my headache! My Advil isn't working and it is too late to take my tension headache medicine - so I am SOL.

Second.... I am so sick and disgusted by the Celebrity Outpouring over Michael Jackson's death!
Why?
Where were these so-called loyal celebrity fans when Michael needed them for support 4 years ago? Where were these normal civilian fans when he needed them 4 years ago? Why is it now that they are all coming out of the woodwork, claiming to have been best friends with him, always by his side etc. etc.?? They want their dang 5 minutes more of fame that's why!!! It makes me sick to watch people sit around, mourning his star on the walk of fame!! Some of these people were probably the ones spitting on his star when he was on trial! They had tried and convicted him even before the case was heard! But now - OY VEY! 'The loss is so great.... my heart bleeds.... Michael was the best...' It does nothing but display the sheer hypocrisy of society on the whole!Even after he was acquitted, people still claimed he was guilty! Now they are claiming he was wronged and never should have been tried! Seriously. I am so pissed at mankind right now. It is disgusting!

And Larry King!!!! Scrounging up guests he could interview.... Cory Feldman??!!! C'mon - the kid hadn't even talked to Michael in 7 years!!!! And you know Larry's ass was one of the ones saying Michael was guilty - behind closed doors of course! Gah! And he has the empathy and understanding of a brick wall! And seriously - interviewing some nurse who claims that Michael asked for stuff?! Why didn't she say something sooner than after his death? She researched what the drug was, but did nothing to alert anyone to his request? Gimme a break! 5 minute fame wanting b!tch!

Yep.... I'm pissed and disgusted! >:(


Touche! Tam. Made me feel like a turncoat for saying 'enough already.' Karma

you vented very well... did it help?


I feel much better! Thank you ;)

Oh yeah, I watched that Larry King last night.  The nurse made me roll my eyes.


He normally doesn't bother me but in this instance he is getting on my last nerve! >:(

Touche! Tam. Made me feel like a turncoat for saying 'enough already.' Karma


Thanks Pat! It just irks me to no end! :D

since I don't feel like typing it twice.....see the lose weight/get healthy thread for my latest rant. :D

My family pisses me off.  I can't say much more than that because I don't know if they read this site.

Let's just leave it that I'm so angry right now, I gave myself a headache. :P

My family pisses me off.  I can't say much more than that because I don't know if they read this site.

Let's just leave it that I'm so angry right now, I gave myself a headache. :P


I feel ya.

My family pisses me off.  I can't say much more than that because I don't know if they read this site.

Let's just leave it that I'm so angry right now, I gave myself a headache. :P


I can relate girl.  :(  I'm sorry.

My family pisses me off.  I can't say much more than that because I don't know if they read this site.

Let's just leave it that I'm so angry right now, I gave myself a headache. :P


So does mine.  Toxic, the whole bunch of 'em.  As the years go by, I see them less and less, and that's okay with me.  I wish I didn't have the craziest family in the western hemisphere, but what can you do?
::)

So, I am having this huge party Saturday, 25 women, my house - it's an annual thing.  My husband and I started installing hardwood a couple of months ago and it's not finished - the stairs and 2 feet of the upper landing are subfloor.  I can't get an installer out to finish (my husband won't because it will interrupt his golf)  prior to Saturday so i run into somone I used to know and she knows an installer whose been doing it "for years".

I mention $75.00 per stair - he says (on the phone) sounds good.  THen he comes to my house to do it and I realize that he thinks I am desperate.  He looks everything over, starts talking about floor prep (there is none) bullnose issues (there are none) rebuilding stairs (yeah right) and basically I can tell he doesn't have a clue what he's doing just by his answers to my other questions ( he thought the floor needed to be glued?).  I am now disappointed because there is no way I am letting him do it - just as I am trying to figure out a way to get rid of him he tells me he is going to have to charge me more because of all the "issues" $120.00 per stair and $150.00 to finish 2 square feet.  I said nothing exept I can get someone for $75.00 per stair and thank you anyway.

My house is ugly.

What a loser.

So, I am having this huge party Saturday, 25 women, my house - it's an annual thing.  My husband and I started installing hardwood a couple of months ago and it's not finished - the stairs and 2 feet of the upper landing are subfloor.  I can't get an installer out to finish (my husband won't because it will interrupt his golf)  prior to Saturday so i run into somone I used to know and she knows an installer whose been doing it "for years".

I mention $75.00 per stair - he says (on the phone) sounds good.  THen he comes to my house to do it and I realize that he thinks I am desperate.  He looks everything over, starts talking about floor prep (there is none) bullnose issues (there are none) rebuilding stairs (yeah right) and basically I can tell he doesn't have a clue what he's doing just by his answers to my other questions ( he thought the floor needed to be glued?).  I am now disappointed because there is no way I am letting him do it - just as I am trying to figure out a way to get rid of him he tells me he is going to have to charge me more because of all the "issues" $120.00 per stair and $150.00 to finish 2 square feet.  I said nothing exept I can get someone for $75.00 per stair and thank you anyway.

My house is ugly.

What a loser.
you should have killed him and stashed him under the floorboards. for free.

you should have killed him and stashed him under the floorboards. for free.


But what about the smell?

So, I am having this huge party Saturday, 25 women, my house - it's an annual thing.  My husband and I started installing hardwood a couple of months ago and it's not finished - the stairs and 2 feet of the upper landing are subfloor.  I can't get an installer out to finish (my husband won't because it will interrupt his golf)  prior to Saturday so i run into somone I used to know and she knows an installer whose been doing it "for years".

I mention $75.00 per stair - he says (on the phone) sounds good.  THen he comes to my house to do it and I realize that he thinks I am desperate.  He looks everything over, starts talking about floor prep (there is none) bullnose issues (there are none) rebuilding stairs (yeah right) and basically I can tell he doesn't have a clue what he's doing just by his answers to my other questions ( he thought the floor needed to be glued?).  I am now disappointed because there is no way I am letting him do it - just as I am trying to figure out a way to get rid of him he tells me he is going to have to charge me more because of all the "issues" $120.00 per stair and $150.00 to finish 2 square feet.  I said nothing exept I can get someone for $75.00 per stair and thank you anyway.

My house is ugly.

What a loser.



I hear ya. I can't tell you the time we had/are having trying to find someone to redo our kitchen. Now we have another issue-the hose from our dishwasher to the drain sprung a leak and needs to be replaced. We just called someone. We didn't realize that we called him once before when we were going to redo our bathroom and he wanted WAY too much $$$$ to do it. Hopefully, this is a small job and he won't charge us too much.



Cat

But what about the smell?
Febreze!

so..... some idiot called me today to report vandalism to his vehicle. He told me the vehicle was parked outside of his apartment.
I asked him if he lived in Goleta or Santa Barbara....he said "I don't know"
I said well whats your address? he gave me the street number and street name only.
I said is this Goleta or Santa Barbara... he still didn't know.
I said what address do you put on your mail? He said he doesn't mail anything.  ::) 

I told him he needed to find out which city he lived in so he could report it to the proper agency.....  ::)


I'm sorry but how do you not know the name of the town you live in???

so..... some idiot called me today to report vandalism to his vehicle. He told me the vehicle was parked outside of his apartment.
I asked him if he lived in Goleta or Santa Barbara....he said "I don't know"
I said well whats your address? he gave me the street number and street name only.
I said is this Goleta or Santa Barbara... he still didn't know.
I said what address do you put on your mail? He said he doesn't mail anything.  ::) 

I told him he needed to find out which city he lived in so he could report it to the proper agency.....  ::)


I'm sorry but how do you not know the name of the town you live in???


Was he drunk or got into the wacky tabaki?

Was he drunk or got into the wacky tabaki?


no stone cold sober...... and stupid...  ;D

no stone cold sober...... and stupid...  ;D

Years ago when I worked in a "lost and stolen" credit card place, late at night, we had lots of odd phone calls, made me laugh

Years ago when I worked in a "lost and stolen" credit card place, late at night, we had lots of odd phone calls, made me laugh


if not for the humor this job would be too hard to take!  ;D

Febreze!


Do they sell Febreeze with Lime?  It would be a hit with certaindemographics I'm sure, you know kill the odor and erode the body to nothing all at the same time.

so..... some idiot called me today to report vandalism to his vehicle. He told me the vehicle was parked outside of his apartment.
I asked him if he lived in Goleta or Santa Barbara....he said "I don't know"
I said well whats your address? he gave me the street number and street name only.
I said is this Goleta or Santa Barbara... he still didn't know.
I said what address do you put on your mail? He said he doesn't mail anything.  ::) 

I told him he needed to find out which city he lived in so he could report it to the proper agency.....  ::)


I'm sorry but how do you not know the name of the town you live in???



Wonder if it was even his car.

Wonder if it was even his car.


probably not...  ;D

I've got a rant. This is to all the numbnut pet owners out there who allow their dogs to have their
heads out of the window when they drive. I have a question, would you allow your children to put
their heads out of the window? Would you put a toddler in your lap and allow them to put their heads
out of the window? If the answer is no, as it should be, then why do you allow your dog to do it. Just
as children depend on us to protect them, so do pets. Dogs are too stupid to realize how dangerous this
is. Try it one time, stick your head out of the window and see how the wind feels in your eyes as you
drive down the road. Try this experiment, ride down the highway with your arm out of the widow and
feel how much road debris hits your arm. Well all that debris is smacking your dog right in the face and
eyes. If your going to be a pet owner, be a freakin' responsible one and keep the dog's head in the car.

Okay, tirade over.

I've got a rant. This is to all the numbnut pet owners out there who allow their dogs to have their
heads out of the window when they drive. I have a question, would you allow your children to put
their heads out of the window? Would you put a toddler in your lap and allow them to put their heads
out of the window? If the answer is no, as it should be, then why do you allow your dog to do it. Just
as children depend on us to protect them, so do pets. Dogs are too stupid to realize how dangerous this
is. Try it one time, stick your head out of the window and see how the wind feels in your eyes as you
drive down the road. Try this experiment, ride down the highway with your arm out of the widow and
feel how much road debris hits your arm. Well all that debris is smacking your dog right in the face and
eyes. If your going to be a pet owner, be a freakin' responsible one and keep the dog's head in the car.

Okay, tirade over.


That was a damn fine rant....

I've got a rant. This is to all the numbnut pet owners out there who allow their dogs to have their
heads out of the window when they drive. I have a question, would you allow your children to put
their heads out of the window? Would you put a toddler in your lap and allow them to put their heads
out of the window? If the answer is no, as it should be, then why do you allow your dog to do it. Just
as children depend on us to protect them, so do pets. Dogs are too stupid to realize how dangerous this
is. Try it one time, stick your head out of the window and see how the wind feels in your eyes as you
drive down the road. Try this experiment, ride down the highway with your arm out of the widow and
feel how much road debris hits your arm. Well all that debris is smacking your dog right in the face and
eyes. If your going to be a pet owner, be a freakin' responsible one and keep the dog's head in the car.

Okay, tirade over.


I see a lot of this when I drive around town, unfortunately.  :(

I've got a rant. This is to all the numbnut pet owners out there who allow their dogs to have their
heads out of the window when they drive. I have a question, would you allow your children to put
their heads out of the window? Would you put a toddler in your lap and allow them to put their heads
out of the window? If the answer is no, as it should be, then why do you allow your dog to do it. Just
as children depend on us to protect them, so do pets. Dogs are too stupid to realize how dangerous this
is. Try it one time, stick your head out of the window and see how the wind feels in your eyes as you
drive down the road. Try this experiment, ride down the highway with your arm out of the widow and
feel how much road debris hits your arm. Well all that debris is smacking your dog right in the face and
eyes. If your going to be a pet owner, be a freakin' responsible one and keep the dog's head in the car.

Okay, tirade over.


My dad used to let our Labrador do this until I chewed him out.  We do open the window a crack for our mutt, but not enough that he can stick his head out.  Besides, he's usually strapped into his seatbelt (yeah, he's got his own seatbelt), so he can't even reach said crack.

What's even worse than Loki's example is the people who put their dogs in the back of a truck.  I don't care if they are tied up or not, it is dangerous and just damned sad to see a dog like that.

My dad used to let our Labrador do this until I chewed him out.  We do open the window a crack for our mutt, but not enough that he can stick his head out.  Besides, he's usually strapped into his seatbelt (yeah, he's got his own seatbelt), so he can't even reach said crack.

What's even worse than Loki's example is the people who put their dogs in the back of a truck.  I don't care if they are tied up or not, it is dangerous and just damned sad to see a dog like that.


tied up is just as bad as not tied... many dogs have been strangled because they were tied in the back of a truck and they jumped out because they had just enough rope to get over the side of the truck... :\'(

my childhood dog jumped out a window of a car going about 35 miles an hour once. of course he was painfully stupid.  ;D we loved him anyway.

weirdest part? he was totally fine.  ;D

Well, I've spent the better part of the past 4 hours restoring my computer due to "System Security 2009" trojan/virus/whateverthefukkitiz getting past my antivirus program. I hope whomever made that t/v/w dies an incredibly slow, excruciatingly painful, agonizing, horrible, gruesome and public death. Twice.

Ant

Saw a live cat in the back window of a car yesterday, it wasn't looking too happy.  Should have put it in a pet carrier imo. 

I've got a rant. This is to all the numbnut pet owners out there who allow their dogs to have their
heads out of the window when they drive. I have a question, would you allow your children to put
their heads out of the window? Would you put a toddler in your lap and allow them to put their heads
out of the window? If the answer is no, as it should be, then why do you allow your dog to do it. Just
as children depend on us to protect them, so do pets. Dogs are too stupid to realize how dangerous this
is. Try it one time, stick your head out of the window and see how the wind feels in your eyes as you
drive down the road. Try this experiment, ride down the highway with your arm out of the widow and
feel how much road debris hits your arm. Well all that debris is smacking your dog right in the face and
eyes. If your going to be a pet owner, be a freakin' responsible one and keep the dog's head in the car.

Okay, tirade over.

Thanks for speaking up for all the innocent doggies out there. When I was a little girl, we were driving behind a truck with a dog in the back and we saw the dog jump out and get dragged down the road right in front of us. My dad honked the horn like crazy to get the driver to stop. It was horrifying for me. The driver finally stopped and the dog was ok miraculously. I'm crazy about dogs and I hate to see owners doing stupid things like that. I had to yell at a guy at the flea market once for having a pen of puppies outside to sell, on the hot blacktop and NO WATER! I was so mad. I said, you need to give those dogs some water, which he replied, my wife just went to get some they've been drinking it like crazy. NO SH*T, it was blistering hot outside. Ok, rant over.

My dad used to let our Labrador do this until I chewed him out.  We do open the window a crack for our mutt, but not enough that he can stick his head out.  Besides, he's usually strapped into his seatbelt (yeah, he's got his own seatbelt), so he can't even reach said crack.

What's even worse than Loki's example is the people who put their dogs in the back of a truck.  I don't care if they are tied up or not, it is dangerous and just damned sad to see a dog like that.


I saw once someone get pulled over in a parking lot, the officer was losing his mind on the guy for having his dog in the back of the truck. 

You can read my rant in "What are you doing" thread.



Cat

You can read my rant in "What are you doing" thread.



Cat
Read it and KARMA to you Cat!

Extra Karma if you make it through the weekend  ;)  Hope it all goes as planned well 8)

Read it and KARMA to you Cat!

Extra Karma if you make it through the weekend  ;)  Hope it all goes as planned well 8)



Thanks. I have to say, that she (Carlos' ex) has never been anything but nice to me but she just drives me insane. I feel really bad for my step-son-in-law (if that is the right word  :D ). Every time she goes to visit, she just takes over HIS house and everything he does is totally wrong. It is like he doesn't have a say in his own house. Carlos' daughter really should speak up but she doesn't. It is like all his kids just let her take over. We (Carlos & I) are basically chopped liver and sometimes it seems that they only come to us when they want something (which usually has to do with $$$). I'm sure I will have more rants by the end of the weekend. lol



Cat

Thanks. I have to say, that she (Carlos' ex) has never been anything but nice to me but she just drives me insane. I feel really bad for my step-son-in-law (if that is the right word  :D ). Every time she goes to visit, she just takes over HIS house and everything he does is totally wrong. It is like he doesn't have a say in his own house. Carlos' daughter really should speak up but she doesn't. It is like all his kids just let her take over. We (Carlos & I) are basically chopped liver and sometimes it seems that they only come to us when they want something (which usually has to do with $$$). I'm sure I will have more rants by the end of the weekend. lol



Cat
Rant away - you deserve it, and better here than in-front of everyone at an inappropriate time :D

8)

Rant away - you deserve it, and better here than in-front of everyone at an inappropriate time :D

8)



The problem is, I am really extra bitchy right now because of these damn hot flashes that are just non-stop (and have been for at least a month now). I TRY very hard not to have "displaced anger" but she does get on my nerves. I told Carlos last night, I try VERY hard not to judge her but... He said "What can I say?" I told him he could either say that he agrees with me or disagrees with me and that I am wrong in my observations of her. He said that he did agree with me. I asked him if she was always like that. He said not as much but she has gotten worse over the years.



Cat

The problem is, I am really extra bitchy right now because of these damn hot flashes that are just non-stop (and have been for at least a month now). I TRY very hard not to have "displaced anger" but she does get on my nerves. I told Carlos last night, I try VERY hard not to judge her but... He said "What can I say?" I told him he could either say that he agrees with me or disagrees with me and that I am wrong in my observations of her. He said that he did agree with me. I asked him if she was always like that. He said not as much but she has gotten worse over the years.



Cat
Hopefully you can step back and stay as far away from her as possible in the situation.  Do not volunteer for anything that puts you right in direct contact with her, just do what people ask  (the bride) and that is all.. If possible let Carlos handle any direct contact 8)  Take care!

Hopefully you can step back and stay as far away from her as possible in the situation.  Do not volunteer for anything that puts you right in direct contact with her, just do what people ask  (the bride) and that is all.. If possible let Carlos handle any direct contact 8)  Take care!



The bride is almost as bad. We are kindred spirits but yet, she has WAY TOO much of her mother's influence in her. The bride was the one that said something about the cups we got and was all pissed because we didn't "listen" to her. When I was bitching about the comment about the cups, Carlos just said, "Let it go." He is right. Have no fear, I'm not going to spoil this day for my step-daughter. I will let her mother do that. lol




Cat

The bride is almost as bad. We are kindred spirits but yet, she has WAY TOO much of her mother's influence in her. The bride was the one that said something about the cups we got and was all pissed because we didn't "listen" to her. When I was bitching about the comment about the cups, Carlos just said, "Let it go." He is right. Have no fear, I'm not going to spoil this day for my step-daughter. I will let her mother do that. lol




Cat
Cheers 8) and have some fun, if possible :P

This weekend was a nightmare. It is a long post and a long rant. If you don't want to read it, I don't blame you.


We were told to be at the rehearsal dinner by 5:30 at the latest. So, we checked into the hotel and I figured we needed to be there, so we were there by 5. There was only 1 car in the parking lot with this woman who asked us if we were the "key". Charlie told her he was the bride's father. She told us that she was the bride's step-father's mother. I was thinking that they were invited but not my parents? I didn't say anything because it would have been a BIG hassle (well a bigger one) if my mother came but that isn't another story. Anyway, the mother of the bride shows up with the key. When they opened the the building, the smell of mold and mustiness hits you. The building was basically falling down but it was kind of interesting because there was a lot of history to it. I could feel the ghosts of the past lingering in the place. I felt them VERY strongly. Little did I know that things needed to be set up-I'm talking EVERYTHING needed to be done. I helped Charlie's ex with setting up tables & chairs. Every time I walked by the woman who was there before us, she was trying to recruit for do something during the wedding. Yeah, right! Other people starting showing up. No one knew what they were doing, nothing was organized, it was one big headache. I was thinking that it was one major camel (reference: What do you call a horse that is built by a committee? A camel.). It really wasn't much of a rehearsal dinner-just setting up and the dinner was pizza & subs. The ex hired a photographer and she told us that we could make arrangements with him to take photos of "our" side of the family. We had enough by this time. So, Charlie, his dad, sister, & myself went back to the motel. The next day, everyone was wondering why we left before the photos were taken.

The next day, we were told to be there by 1. We get there only to wait & wait & wait. The wedding was supposed to start at 2 but we were told that a few people were stuck in traffic and asked for some more time. So, it started at 2:30. Charlie & his ex walked their daughter down the aisle. After the bride & groom had their first dance together, then it was bride & father dance-followed by groom & mother dance. Then the groom danced his step-mother while the bride danced with her step-father. I was thinking, well her mother wasn't recognized either, so ok. But then she had a dance with her mother. I was NOT recognized at all when all the other step-parents were! I felt like someone stuck a knife in my stomach. I was fighting back the tears because I was so hurt it was unbelievable. Out of all of Charlie's children, she is the one I am closest to. We are kindred spirits-and she is always the one who calls on Mother's Day & on my birthday. I asked Charlie to come outside with me. I took him around the back of the building away from everyone, crying and telling him exactly what had happened and how I felt. I asked him if he thought that I had a legitimate gripe or if I was making too much out this. He agreed with me.

He did go up to his daughter and said something to her. He wouldn't tell me what she said at first just "I'll tell you later, it is not important." He did finally tell me that she started crying. Then his son came up and said that it was not about me but about the bride. Charlie said, "No! It is about family." I have always struggled with how I fit into this family and this just adds to my issue with that.

Other things that really sucked: The roast beef was over done and they only gave a tiny piece. I had to ask for a little bit more. The pork wasn't cooked-it was raw. The lighting was poor. We were dancing and TRYING to enjoy ourselves and they were putting the chairs & tables away. WTF?? It was truly the WORSE wedding I have ever been to.

Back at the motel, we were talking to my SIL about it. She does agree that I have reason to be hurt but thinks that I need to work it out with my step-daughter-Charlie agrees with that and will confront his son about the issue, too. But I am extremely hurt and I'm not too sure how she can make it up to me-even if she wanted to.



Cat 

Cat...I'm so sorry that a happy ,joyous day was ruined for You .The lack of planning seemed to be overwhelming...I'm not surprised they didn't plan out how to include all family members......Hopefully You'll work it all out & at least feel You let them know how You felt slighted.
This weekend was a nightmare. It is a long post and a long rant. If you don't want to read it, I don't blame you.


We were told to be at the rehearsal dinner by 5:30 at the latest. So, we checked into the hotel and I figured we needed to be there, so we were there by 5. There was only 1 car in the parking lot with this woman who asked us if we were the "key". Charlie told her he was the bride's father. She told us that she was the bride's step-father's mother. I was thinking that they were invited but not my parents? I didn't say anything because it would have been a BIG hassle (well a bigger one) if my mother came but that isn't another story. Anyway, the mother of the bride shows up with the key. When they opened the the building, the smell of mold and mustiness hits you. The building was basically falling down but it was kind of interesting because there was a lot of history to it. I could feel the ghosts of the past lingering in the place. I felt them VERY strongly. Little did I know that things needed to be set up-I'm talking EVERYTHING needed to be done. I helped Charlie's ex with setting up tables & chairs. Every time I walked by the woman who was there before us, she was trying to recruit for do something during the wedding. Yeah, right! Other people starting showing up. No one knew what they were doing, nothing was organized, it was one big headache. I was thinking that it was one major camel (reference: What do you call a horse that is built by a committee? A camel.). It really wasn't much of a rehearsal dinner-just setting up and the dinner was pizza & subs. The ex hired a photographer and she told us that we could make arrangements with him to take photos of "our" side of the family. We had enough by this time. So, Charlie, his dad, sister, & myself went back to the motel. The next day, everyone was wondering why we left before the photos were taken.

The next day, we were told to be there by 1. We get there only to wait & wait & wait. The wedding was supposed to start at 2 but we were told that a few people were stuck in traffic and asked for some more time. So, it started at 2:30. Charlie & his ex walked their daughter down the aisle. After the bride & groom had their first dance together, then it was bride & father dance-followed by groom & mother dance. Then the groom danced his step-mother while the bride danced with her step-father. I was thinking, well her mother wasn't recognized either, so ok. But then she had a dance with her mother. I was NOT recognized at all when all the other step-parents were! I felt like someone stuck a knife in my stomach. I was fighting back the tears because I was so hurt it was unbelievable. Out of all of Charlie's children, she is the one I am closest to. We are kindred spirits-and she is always the one who calls on Mother's Day & on my birthday. I asked Charlie to come outside with me. I took him around the back of the building away from everyone, crying and telling him exactly what had happened and how I felt. I asked him if he thought that I had a legitimate gripe or if I was making too much out this. He agreed with me.

He did go up to his daughter and said something to her. He wouldn't tell me what she said at first just "I'll tell you later, it is not important." He did finally tell me that she started crying. Then his son came up and said that it was not about me but about the bride. Charlie said, "No! It is about family." I have always struggled with how I fit into this family and this just adds to my issue with that.

Other things that really sucked: The roast beef was over done and they only gave a tiny piece. I had to ask for a little bit more. The pork wasn't cooked-it was raw. The lighting was poor. We were dancing and TRYING to enjoy ourselves and they were putting the chairs & tables away. WTF?? It was truly the WORSE wedding I have ever been to.

Back at the motel, we were talking to my SIL about it. She does agree that I have reason to be hurt but thinks that I need to work it out with my step-daughter-Charlie agrees with that and will confront his son about the issue, too. But I am extremely hurt and I'm not too sure how she can make it up to me-even if she wanted to.



Cat   

aw Cat I'm sorry... it sounds like a horrid fiasco...  and I can only imagine how hurt you were.... perhaps...and I'm just playing devil's advocate here... she wanted to include you  because you are so close but it was going to put her in an awkward position with her mother.... you know..

That's all I can think of. I hope you guys can have a good conversation and some tears and lots of hugs and then move forward.



((((((hugs))))))

aw Cat I'm sorry... it sounds like a horrid fiasco...  and I can only imagine how hurt you were.... perhaps...and I'm just playing devil's advocate here... she wanted to include you  because you are so close but it was going to put her in an awkward position with her mother.... you know..

That's all I can think of. I hope you guys can have a good conversation and some tears and lots of hugs and then move forward.



((((((hugs))))))



Something that Charlie said just a few minutes ago. We all know that his ex dictated this whole fiasco. It was probably her who left me out. His daughter probably didn't think about it. When Charlie mentioned it to her, at first she was defensive and then she started crying. At that point, she could have come over to me and apologized for the oversight. But, being the little girl that she still is, she didn't know what to do so she didn't do anything. Thinking about it, I'm sure it really wasn't HER fault but I'm still VERY, VERY hurt. And yes, I have been crying about it-and I will probably cry some more about it. Like I said, I thought that I meant more to her than that.



Cat

Something that Charlie said just a few minutes ago. We all know that his ex dictated this whole fiasco. It was probably her who left me out. His daughter probably didn't think about it. When Charlie mentioned it to her, at first she was defensive and then she started crying. At that point, she could have come over to me and apologized for the oversight. But, being the little girl that she still is, she didn't know what to do so she didn't do anything. Thinking about it, I'm sure it really wasn't HER fault but I'm still VERY, VERY hurt. And yes, I have been crying about it-and I will probably cry some more about it. Like I said, I thought that I meant more to her than that.



Cat


and you are completely entitled to your pain I know you say the ex has been nothing but nice but I'm beginning to think she's kind of a bitch.... sorry Carlos I know that's the mother to your children but my loyalties lie with Cat  ;)

((((((((((HUGS))))))))))

I'm really sorry you had to go through that nightmare, Cat.  :\'(

Cat

I'm sorry to hear you had a rubbish day

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Sorry to hear of your ordeal Cat. You deserved much better...

Everyone has said it all, Cat. {{{hugs}}}

Thanks everyone. I can't tell you how much all your support means to me.



and you are completely entitled to your pain I know you say the ex has been nothing but nice but I'm beginning to think she's kind of a bitch.... sorry Carlos I know that's the mother to your children but my loyalties lie with Cat   ;)



You are right, she is a bitch-and a half.  I knew that before all of this happened-which is why I have always said that I could never be friends with her. And you don't have to worry about Charlie. He KNOWS she is a bitch-which is part of the reason why they are divorced. I asked him last night if she could be that petty to do this deliberately and he said, "Yes!" Or, he said that she was just so insensitive that she didn't even think about it. You should hear some of the horror stories that our son-in-law has told us. (I told him that he is welcomed at our house and I hoped he feels that. He said he does.)

His daughter just called. We are going up to her place on Thursday. That means that I have until then to figure out how to confront her about this issue. Charlie said last night that we shouldn't mention to any of the kids that the wedding was just a total mess-he is sure they realize that. He also said that he feels bad for his daughter & his new husband because it was supposed to be their day and his ex just screwed it up totally for them. I had said that already myself. I really hope this wedding isn't a reflection of what the marriage is going to be like.

I have said all the negatives, there were a few positives. The ceremony itself was very nice-but a bit too religious for our tastes but it wasn't ours. And the rice & beans were good.  ;)  (My SIL made the beans and of course Charlie made the rice-which there were TONS left over.) They also had a bit a memorial table that had a photo of the groom's father, and Charlie's mother. But then it included her uncle, her grandparents, great-grandparents, his great-grandparents-people neither one of them had ever met-yeah, that got out of hand, too. I was told that she said just the photo of his father and her grandmother would have been enough.


Yeah, I am aware that I am referring to my husband my Charlie rather than his on-line name of Carlos. I figured everyone already knows that his name really is Charlie so what the hell.


Again, thanks everyone for all your support. I always know that when life becomes very sh!tty, I can always come here to get strength.

((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((hugs))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) to you all.




Cat

have a hug from me too sweetie.  :-*

Thanks everyone. I can't tell you how much all your support means to me.



You are right, she is a bitch-and a half.  I knew that before all of this happened-which is why I have always said that I could never be friends with her.



whenever you mention her you always preface it by saying something about how she's always been nice to you.....so I thought, you know, Cat just doesn't like her cuz she's the ex.... now if you'd start saying "that bitch who totally deserved to get dumped by Carlos" I would completely understand!  ;D


And you don't have to worry about Charlie. He KNOWS she is a bitch

BTW you know I know his loyalties where the ex is concerned completely lie with you... I just made that notation because the involvement of his daughter might make him feel a little torn....you know.. divided camps...he loves you both so how can he chose?  or soemthing  :-\\  did that make sense?



His daughter just called. We are going up to her place on Thursday. That means that I have until then to figure out how to confront her about this issue.

good luck!


Charlie said last night that we shouldn't mention to any of the kids that the wedding was just a total mess-he is sure they realize that. He also said that he feels bad for his daughter & his new husband because it was supposed to be their day and his ex just screwed it up totally for them.

He's right about this.... in the end its about the couple not the chintzy, horribly cooked roast beef  ;)  - go figure.... I focus on the food in that whole ramble of yours  ;D




I had said that already myself. I really hope this wedding isn't a reflection of what the marriage is going to be like.

I thought the exact same thing but wasn't going to  be the first to say it.... maybe its like "bad dress rehearsal; good play"  maybe...
although I think it may say alot about how they work thru their problems  :-\\



I have said all the negatives, there were a few positives. The ceremony itself was very nice-but a bit too religious for our tastes but it wasn't ours. And the rice & beans were good.  ;)  (My SIL made the beans and of course Charlie made the rice-which there were TONS left over.)


Oohhh...... that's why Charlie was making rice... like (Patty I think) I thought they were going to have cooked rice thrown at them after the ceremony... you know how uncooked rice is bad for birds.... I thought- how odd....why not use bird seed?  :-
Yeah, I am aware that I am referring to my husband my Charlie rather than his on-line name of Carlos. I figured everyone already knows that his name really is Charlie so what the hell.



I wondered about that....  :D




Again, thanks everyone for all your support. I always know that when life becomes very sh!tty, I can always come here to get strength.



CUZ WE LUUUUUUVVVVVVVVVVV U!!!! :-* :-* :-* :-*

whenever you mention her you always preface it by saying something about how she's always been nice to you.....so I thought, you know, Cat just doesn't like her cuz she's the ex.... now if you'd start saying "that bitch who totally deserved to get dumped by Carlos" I would completely understand!  ;D


BTW you know I know his loyalties where the ex is concerned completely lie with you... I just made that notation because the involvement of his daughter might make him feel a little torn....you know.. divided camps...he loves you both so how can he chose?  or soemthing  :-\\  did that make sense?




good luck!


He's right about this.... in the end its about the couple not the chintzy, horribly cooked roast beef  ;)  - go figure.... I focus on the food in that whole ramble of yours  ;D



I thought the exact same thing but wasn't going to  be the first to say it.... maybe its like "bad dress rehearsal; good play"  maybe...
although I think it may say alot about how they work thru their problems  :-\\




Oohhh...... that's why Charlie was making rice... like (Patty I think) I thought they were going to have cooked rice thrown at them after the ceremony... you know how uncooked rice is bad for birds.... I thought- how odd....why not use bird seed?  :-CUZ WE LUUUUUUVVVVVVVVVVV U!!!! :-* :-* :-* :-*







The thing is, Charlie didn't dump her-she dumped Charlie. She had a "dry affair" and rubbed it in Charlie's face. Then she kicked him out. That was when he started dating me-and THEN she wanted him back. It was like, "I don't want you but I don't want anyone else to want you either." I have mixed feelings about what she did to him. I hate her for doing that to the man I love but on the same token, if she didn't, I wouldn't have what I have now. I think she is a total fool for throwing away such a wonderful guy. At his other daughter's wedding many years ago, he pointed the guy out to me. I said (probably a bit louder than I should) "She gave you up for THAT??!!" Yeah, Charlie has his faults-but he treats me like a Goddess and I'm sure he treated her the same. He was so trying to make up for my pain on Saturday-not just talking to his daughter about it but making sure that the DJ would play a waltz that we could dance to (because he knows that I love to waltz with him) and we stayed up that night in the motel room talking about it.


His ex's mother-in-law asked Charlie if we were going to take the left over rice home. He said no. She said something about that it can't be left there. Charlie basically told her that it wasn't our problem. He did go up to his ex and said this whole thing could have been done so much easier and probably wouldn't have cost that much more if we had it catered. She said, "But would it have been organic meat?" A YEAH!!!! You tell the caterer that you WANT organic meat and it will be done. And we wouldn't have had such a fiasco on our hands. He said last night that he is sure that his ex will say that we were so "uncooperative".


I will go back to calling him Carlos on the boards. It is just that this issue is VERY personal.

BTW, I do feel the love here-and the feeling is SOOOOO mutual.




Cat

on the bright side.... I'm so glad you two found each other!!!  O0

Charlie's THE MAN !!!!!!!!
YOU said it best,Cat.........Her loss......and She probably realizes it.....
Send Her a "Sympathy" card..."Sorry for Your loss"....."He's Mine now.....Beotch!!!!!!"  :D ;D

The thing is, Charlie didn't dump her-she dumped Charlie. She had a "dry affair" and rubbed it in Charlie's face. Then she kicked him out. That was when he started dating me-and THEN she wanted him back. It was like, "I don't want you but I don't want anyone else to want you either." I have mixed feelings about what she did to him. I hate her for doing that to the man I love but on the same token, if she didn't, I wouldn't have what I have now. I think she is a total fool for throwing away such a wonderful guy. At his other daughter's wedding many years ago, he pointed the guy out to me. I said (probably a bit louder than I should) "She gave you up for THAT??!!" Yeah, Charlie has his faults-but he treats me like a Goddess and I'm sure he treated her the same. He was so trying to make up for my pain on Saturday-not just talking to his daughter about it but making sure that the DJ would play a waltz that we could dance to (because he knows that I love to waltz with him) and we stayed up that night in the motel room talking about it.


His ex's mother-in-law asked Charlie if we were going to take the left over rice home. He said no. She said something about that it can't be left there. Charlie basically told her that it wasn't our problem. He did go up to his ex and said this whole thing could have been done so much easier and probably wouldn't have cost that much more if we had it catered. She said, "But would it have been organic meat?" A YEAH!!!! You tell the caterer that you WANT organic meat and it will be done. And we wouldn't have had such a fiasco on our hands. He said last night that he is sure that his ex will say that we were so "uncooperative".


I will go back to calling him Carlos on the boards. It is just that this issue is VERY personal.

BTW, I do feel the love here-and the feeling is SOOOOO mutual.




Cat

Charlie's THE MAN !!!!!!!!
YOU said it best,Cat.........Her loss......and She probably realizes it.....
Send Her a "Sympathy" card..."Sorry for Your loss"....."He's Mine now.....Beotch!!!!!!"  :D ;D



You should see who she is married to now.  8-P



Cat

My EX did the same thing....At Court...My Lawyer said to Her..."You left Michael for that?....Honey...You're supposed to trade up....not down.........{Ok ...So I've known My Lawyer since We were 12.....She still rocks !!}My

You should see who she is married to now.  8-P



Cat

Sorry Cat - what a horrible thing! But everyone is right... you got THE MAN! 8)

My rant:

I purchased a Nvidia GeForce graphics card the first of June. I started about 3 weeks ago making this horrible noise. The fan is about to konk out. It squeals then it groans then it sounds fine. Stupid thing. So anyway, I contacted PNY, who is the distributor for Nvidia, and thankfully I registered it when I bought it - 1 year warranty! I get an email from them today with a pdf file for postage that I am supposed to print out and put on the box when I ship it back... thing is - I HAVE TO PAY FOR SHIPPING!!! I know, I know, it really isn't that big of a deal, but the warranty says shipping is free of charge! I am going to ship it to them no matter what, because video cards are not cheap - but I am! ;D

Ya, not much of a rant but there ya go.

I wanted to destress a little thinking I'd fire up the Wii... haven't used it in month due to my messy apartment and screwed up schedule.... just found out the damn AC Adapter stopped working... so no wii until Aug.  >:(

It's getting to the point in my crazy family where I'M the sane one, and that's pretty crazy in itself!
:D

My rant for the day is the fact that contractors do not send written estimates. We interviewed 5 and only got ONE written estimate (and of course that is the guy on the high end). Granted one we interviewed yesterday. We told him that if we don't get a written estimate, we are NOT going to hire him. He didn't want to give us one at first until we told him that we need it to compare with others rather than trying to remember what anyone says. How hard it is to give a written estimate? Don't these people NEED the work?



Cat

My rant for the day is the fact that contractors do not send written estimates. We interviewed 5 and only got ONE written estimate (and of course that is the guy on the high end). Granted one we interviewed yesterday. We told him that if we don't get a written estimate, we are NOT going to hire him. He didn't want to give us one at first until we told him that we need it to compare with others rather than trying to remember what anyone says. How hard it is to give a written estimate? Don't these people NEED the work?



Cat


There is talk (in Australia) of contractors charging for quotes in future. Not impressed ...  Contractors are usually talented/skilled people who, outside their trade, have zero organizational skill and are notoriously unreliable!  Thye are not interested in any instructions you may give them (e.g. that you don't want them starting too early) ... they will turn up whenever it suits them! They also will drive like maniacs in the utility vehicles. .. which is not smart as they have their business name and number plastered all over the side of the vehicle!

It's getting to the point in my crazy family where I'M the sane one, and that's pretty crazy in itself!
:D

Hey, I'm right there with ya. I am the sane one in my crazy family, and that's really scary.

Hey, I'm right there with ya. I am the sane one in my crazy family, and that's really scary.




You know, the craziest ones always say they're the only sane ones.... ;D ;D :D

You know, the craziest ones always say they're the only sane ones.... ;D ;D :D

You must be one sane woman.

There is talk (in Australia) of contractors charging for quotes in future.

Here in VA, most contractors charge for quotes. Free estimates are rare. Most contractors will subtract their estimate cost from the job if they get the job. My estimates are not free, nor do I subtract the charge for them from the job price: it helps eliminate the deadbeat and "might-do-it" customers.


My rant for the day is the fact that contractors do not send written estimates. We interviewed 5 and only got ONE written estimate (and of course that is the guy on the high end). Granted one we interviewed yesterday. We told him that if we don't get a written estimate, we are NOT going to hire him. He didn't want to give us one at first until we told him that we need it to compare with others rather than trying to remember what anyone says. How hard it is to give a written estimate? Don't these people NEED the work?

Odd... we always do a written estimate, but it is completely lacking in details (X work will cost ~Y dollars). The details are in the contract, if we get it. With shopping 5 or more contractors, the best anyone has is a 20% chance of getting the job. With commercial work that rate can drop to 5% or less.

Anyway, my two cents' worth: be careful with whom you pick. I'd estimate that 1 in 5 contractors will take a job at a loss just to keep busy, and another 1 in 5 will take the job at or near 0% profit. You do not want either doing any work for you. Check for licensing and insurance. Don't try to "reverse auction" bids.

Not sure what work you want done, but if it's of an odd, extreme, or custom nature, you may have a hard time getting fixed estimates: jobs like those are often T&M.

Ant

Here in VA, most contractors charge for quotes. Free estimates are rare. Most contractors will subtract their estimate cost from the job if they get the job. My estimates are not free, nor do I subtract the charge for them from the job price: it helps eliminate the deadbeat and "might-do-it" customers.

Odd... we always do a written estimate, but it is completely lacking in details (X work will cost ~Y dollars). The details are in the contract, if we get it. With shopping 5 or more contractors, the best anyone has is a 20% chance of getting the job. With commercial work that rate can drop to 5% or less.

Anyway, my two cents' worth: be careful with whom you pick. I'd estimate that 1 in 5 contractors will take a job at a loss just to keep busy, and another 1 in 5 will take the job at or near 0% profit. You do not want either doing any work for you. Check for licensing and insurance. Don't try to "reverse auction" bids.

Not sure what work you want done, but if it's of an odd, extreme, or custom nature, you may have a hard time getting fixed estimates: jobs like those are often T&M.

Ant



The job is pretty straight forward-replacing existing cabinets, building a new set of cabinets, & redoing the floor (striping it down to the original hard wood floor and depending on the condition-either refurbishing that or putting in a slate floor).



Cat 

Well, I've spent the better part of the past 4 hours restoring my computer due to "System Security 2009" trojan/virus/whateverthefukkitiz getting past my antivirus program. I hope whomever made that t/v/w dies an incredibly slow, excruciatingly painful, agonizing, horrible, gruesome and public death. Twice.

Ant


This sort of thing happened to me on Sunday, except it was called Antivirus Pro 2010, except I didn't have to restore(I went into safe mode yesterday to deal with it). Needless to say, I still need a reload, which I plan on doing this month. That was a good way to ruin my parody writing week. I need to finish that one, I only have the two verses left.

I am Canadian, most people here know that. I also have an Umbrella, it's of the American Flag.
I get so many negative looks, comments, on the street when I use it. My ex-manager hated it and threatened to throw it on the garbage several times.

I've had people boo me, yell at me to get out of Canada, go back to America, Tell me I'm in the wrong country, mumble things and look at me as if I just threw eggs at their car.
Why? It's only an umbrella.

I am not getting rid of it.  ;)

8) I feel better now...

I am Canadian, most people here know that. I also have an Umbrella, it's of the American Flag.
I get so many negative looks, comments, on the street when I use it. My ex-manager hated it and threatened to throw it on the garbage several times.

I've had people boo me, yell at me to get out of Canada, go back to America, Tell me I'm in the wrong country, mumble things and look at me as if I just threw eggs at their car.
Why? It's only an umbrella.

I am not getting rid of it.  ;)

8) I feel better now...





and I give you crap for being Canadian....you just can't win.  ;D

honesy tho I admire your tenacity.  Give hell Harry ... Uh I mean Frank!!!

and I give you crap for being Canadian....you just can't win.  ;D



If anyone ever declared war on Canada (who would anyone, really  :D), it would take about 2 seconds for us to turn to America for help. Maybe less.

My rant:

I purchased a Nvidia GeForce graphics card the first of June. I started about 3 weeks ago making this horrible noise. The fan is about to konk out. It squeals then it groans then it sounds fine. Stupid thing. So anyway, I contacted PNY, who is the distributor for Nvidia, and thankfully I registered it when I bought it - 1 year warranty! I get an email from them today with a pdf file for postage that I am supposed to print out and put on the box when I ship it back... thing is - I HAVE TO PAY FOR SHIPPING!!! I know, I know, it really isn't that big of a deal, but the warranty says shipping is free of charge! I am going to ship it to them no matter what, because video cards are not cheap - but I am! ;D

Ya, not much of a rant but there ya go.

Aargh! I am so frustrated!

I had to send my video card back to the manufacturer yet again!

At the end of September, it decided that it didn't like my motherboard and went kaput!
So I got in touch again through my warranty and sent it back to them asking for a refund. Haha! I should have known better! I received my new video card today, installed it in the computer, and the stupid thing gave me the BSOD!!! (Blue screen of Death) It works fine if I load in safe mode, but doesn't want to work at all in regular mode. So now I have to go and uninstall the old drivers, upgrade my computer security software, because it seems the firewall doesn't like the video card either, and try to see if it will work. If all else fails, then I believe my PCI-e slot might be fried. If that is the case then I have to go and try to find the motherboard online, and buy it, then resetup my entire computer.

I am so tired of technology right now. It would be better if this were someone else's computer, because then I could make a little money - but it is mine and so it sucks!!!

Laptop down, now my desktop acting the fool!!! >:(

Aargh! I am so frustrated!

I had to send my video card back to the manufacturer yet again!

At the end of September, it decided that it didn't like my motherboard and went kaput!
So I got in touch again through my warranty and sent it back to them asking for a refund. Haha! I should have known better! I received my new video card today, installed it in the computer, and the stupid thing gave me the BSOD!!! (Blue screen of Death) It works fine if I load in safe mode, but doesn't want to work at all in regular mode. So now I have to go and uninstall the old drivers, upgrade my computer security software, because it seems the firewall doesn't like the video card either, and try to see if it will work. If all else fails, then I believe my PCI-e slot might be fried. If that is the case then I have to go and try to find the motherboard online, and buy it, then resetup my entire computer.

I am so tired of technology right now. It would be better if this were someone else's computer, because then I could make a little money - but it is mine and so it sucks!!!

Laptop down, now my desktop acting the fool!!! >:(


And now, 4 and a half hours later... it was a faulty driver!!!

All is well now on my desktop. 8)

Thanks for letting me vent!

And now, 4 and a half hours later... it was a faulty driver!!!

All is well now on my desktop. 8)


Thanks for letting me vent!



um you're welcome  ;D

glad you're back up and running...  :)

Glad your computer is acting better now.  I know how utterly frustrating that can be.  You are a good detective (in searching for what is wrong with your computer)

um you're welcome  ;D

glad you're back up and running...  :)

Glad your computer is acting better now.  I know how utterly frustrating that can be.  You are a good detective (in searching for what is wrong with your computer)


Thank ya Ladies!!!
I definitely feel better that's for sure!

I'm being summoned for jury duty in mid December. This is going to be major annoyance for me. I don't get how I could be summoned, since I'm not a registered voter nor do I own a home.

Even if they don't actually need me, I have to call from Sunday to Thursday that week to check. This is just stupid. >:(

I'm being summoned for jury duty in mid December. This is going to be major annoyance for me. I don't get how I could be summoned, since I'm not a registered voter nor do I own a home.

Even if they don't actually need me, I have to call from Sunday to Thursday that week to check. This is just stupid. >:(




even if you are not registered with a particular political party (which I think most people do in the US?) you must still be on the electoral roll as eligible to vote.

I'm being summoned for jury duty in mid December. This is going to be major annoyance for me. I don't get how I could be summoned, since I'm not a registered voter nor do I own a home.

Even if they don't actually need me, I have to call from Sunday to Thursday that week to check. This is just stupid. >:(




A few years ago they stopped pulling from registered voters and started using DMV records.... if you have a driver's lic then you are in the pool... 

A few years ago they stopped pulling from registered voters and started using DMV records.... if you have a driver's lic then you are in the pool... 



That is what I was thinking.



Cat

I'm being summoned for jury duty in mid December. This is going to be major annoyance for me. I don't get how I could be summoned, since I'm not a registered voter nor do I own a home.

Even if they don't actually need me, I have to call from Sunday to Thursday that week to check. This is just stupid. >:(




Ummm...it's called civic duty!  I've been called up in Australia 3 times and served on 3 trial duties. I had my work write a letter the third time as it was a particularly inconvenient time (for my company).

However, serving was a very interesting process and quite daunting (depending upon the severity of the crime). I don't believe I'd like  a major murder or rape rtial though. The prosecution always makes the suspect sound 100% guilty and then the defence makes them sound like they could be innocent. Then you have to come to grips (as a group) with that little 'benefit of the doubt' clause  :-\\ ...and, hey I just realized someone's been messing with the smiley faces again! ;D

I'm the only one in my place with a job and it's a part time one. So I'll get behind on rent if I have to go on a day that I usually work.(even if it's just to see who qualifies, even if I don't get picked)

My rent takes around 2/3 of my check every week, so that would hurt abit.

I'm going to see if I qualify for deferral, mainly because my hours are alittle over 20 and my rent is 121 per week.

Doesn't your company pay you if you are on jury duty?  I'm sure that's what happened to me.  Or I claimed daily expenses.  :-\\

A few years ago they stopped pulling from registered voters and started using DMV records.... if you have a driver's lic then you are in the pool... 


That must include handicap plaques.  They'll have to hire a sign language interpreter if they want me.

Doesn't your company pay you if you are on jury duty?  I'm sure that's what happened to me.  Or I claimed daily expenses.   :-\\


I'm in retail, I highly doubt it.

Ummm...it's called civic duty!  I've been called up in Australia 3 times and served on 3 trial duties. I had my work write a letter the third time as it was a particularly inconvenient time (for my company).

However, serving was a very interesting process and quite daunting (depending upon the severity of the crime). I don't believe I'd like  a major murder or rape rtial though. The prosecution always makes the suspect sound 100% guilty and then the defence makes them sound like they could be innocent. Then you have to come to grips (as a group) with that little 'benefit of the doubt' clause  :-\\ ...and, hey I just realized someone's been messing with the smiley faces again! ;D



I've been called twice... the mere mention that I work in law enforcement gets me out of there before I can put my butt in a chair  ;D

I envy you. ^ :D

I envy you. ^ :D


tell them you think everyone arrested is guilty otherwise why would they be arrested?  that should do it!  :D

tell them you think everyone arrested is guilty otherwise why would they be arrested?  that should do it!  :D


A George Carlin style line, don't know if that'll work.

I'll be trying to get a deferal though.

Usually due to the amount of people that get called for that, the odds remain low for actually being picked for a case person by person.(12 are, of course, picked, unless the case is cancelled)

I'm concerned that I'd have to go on what is normally a workday, like Wednesday or Thursday(I don't know what that week will be like though, it's the week before Christmas) for the part where they question you. Weekends are safe.(I almost always work those) Also the chance that I'll be picked is kind of unnerving too.

Edit: A co-worker told me that full time employees get pay while on jury duty. He doesn't know about part time employees though.

Edit: I can't find any specific info either. Although I doubt that I have it.

Final Edit: It isn't mentioned in my employee handbook, but the summons(which I didn't notice until looking yesterday) says the amount I'd get for showing up is $15(which is still not high enough when to compared to even my short days). The amount for actually being apart of a jury is $40, which is abit better and closer to what I make. So I'm only alittle concerned(if I don't get deferred) about the having to show up on a work day for the summons.

The last time I got called for jury duty was on September 11, 2001. :-\\

The last time I got called for jury duty was on September 11, 2001. :-\\


Eek


I have never been called.  If I were, it wouldn't be much of a problem.  Since I work at home, I can arrange my schedule so I wouldn't lose money...unless it was a long, drawn out trial in which I may be screwed.

Too bad I don't have that sort of situation. ^

I sent in the deferal for hardship(due to low hours and earnings) last week. Hope they don't send anthing back basically telling me tough luck.

My situation makes a summons(which pays little for the time sitting down there, unless I were picked) too much of a financial problem if I had to go on a work day.


The last time I got called for jury duty was on September 11, 2001. :-\\


Oh man... :(

The last time I got called for jury duty was on September 11, 2001. :-\\


was that in Chicago or CAli?  in Cali there was probably enough warning so that you wouldn't have had to go...  or did you go anyway?

As many of you know, we are having our kitchen redone. The guy we hired was supposed to build new cabinets. That never happened. We decided to have the cabinets built by Home Depot. When we signed the contract with the guy back in Sept(?). We were under the impression that he was starting to build the cabinets at that time. He even had us go out and buy the hood which we did and we gave it to him. The work was supposed to start on Oct. 19th. Well, that didn't happen because of the fact that we went down to Puerto Rico & the fact that we needed a new roof. (The same guy did our roof.) We asked him if we could use the $$$$ we gave him as a down-payment for the kitchen towards the roof and we would do the kitchen at another time. He informed us that the $$$$ was already used to buy materials & such. So, we scrounged to get him the $$$$ for the roof.

Then the day came when the work began. He took out all the old cabinets & tore up the floor. That was a Friday. Then he took the weekend off. That Monday, his kid was sick so he didn't come in. That Tuesday, we went to Home Depot & got the flooring. I can't remember what was going on that Wednesday but he didn't come in. That Thursday he FINALLY started to put in the new floor-but only got a little way. Then Friday we went out of town-but he hadn't come in before we left. When we got home on Sunday, the floor wasn't complete but it was further along. We found out he didn't come in on Friday but he did on Saturday.

It was during this time, we discovered that Home Depot would make cabinets for us with the look we want. He told us that they would do it cheaper than he could and quicker. Ok. So we went BACK to Home Depot to discuss things. We decided to go with them on the cabinets above and next to the stove. Not once did the guy say that he had already started to build them-which we were under the impression. Those cabinets came in last week and he did put them up. I am a bit disappointed with them but they are still better than what we had before.

Last week, I can't remember how many days he was here. He does have other projects & jobs that he works on, also. On Friday, he was asking for the remainder of the $$$$ we owned him. We told him to refigure everything out. He wanted to go with the figure from the original contract minus what we paid Home Depot. WTF?? We said, NO! We were going to pay him for his labor and his labor alone because the original contract stated that he was going to build the cabinets which he didn't.

Well, guess who didn't show up again today.  >:( >:( >:(

This is really starting to get ridiculous. The problem is that I do like him, I think he is a nice guy. However, as I told Carlos, I think the work he does do is a B. He is a competent carpenter-not outstanding but decent. But the WAY he does things I give him a C-, and that is being generous. After Carlos gave him the check on Friday, he was thinking that maybe he should have only given him half and say that he would get the other half when the work is done. I am curious when he was going to build these cabinets like he was originally supposed to do.



Cat

So that was yesterday.  Today the e3lectrician is SUPPOSE to show up to connect the range hood and move a light fixture, and the builder is SUPPOSE to come in to do some of the finishing touches.  We'll see.  You would think that with this economy these guys would be falling all over themselves to do a good job.  Angie's list here we come.

You would think that with this economy these guys would be falling all over themselves to do a good job.  Angie's list here we come.


The opposite is true: with so much unemployment in construction trades, supply greatly exceeds demand, and wages have plummeted - so has the quality of work for the average job. People know they aren't going to make squat, so there's a lot of hack work and "get in, get out" mentality. Skilled people are still there, but they are charging the same if not more for their services than before. Angie's list is slam full of those who are offering bottom bin prices, with quality to match.

My rant for the day: I've had a pretty nasty sinus infection since Wednesday, and with all that coughing I noticed a bulge in my abdomen. I'm thinking hernia - joy. I was putting off seeing the doctor since I no longer have health insurance, but this weekend was too much. I went to OTMC (free clinic) yesterday. Turns out they no longer do walk-ins, and of course I don't have the paperwork necessary to fill out the forms and for them to copy. So I go to First Med. I don't have a hernia (good), but the doctor can't tell if I have a strain or possibly appendicitis. His recommendation - go to the emergency room and get an ultrasound done. Yeah, like I got 3k laying around. Bastard doesn't even prescribe me anything for the pain or my cough. 15 minutes later my wallet was $125 lighter. I fudgeing hate doctors. If I needed Motrin I know where to get it - it's OTC you dipsheesh. I don't go to the doctor to be recommended OTC meds.  >:(

Ant

I have a rant.

Red Ant may not be who he claims to be!

Let's look at the facts:

How come rant sounds like someone new to the English language trying to say 'Red Ant' quickly. Is this a conspiracy?

My snooping has led me to discover that our beloved 'Red Ant' is neither red, nor is he an ant. Further investigation is required to find whether Tommy Turtle is actually a parody writing turtle with impeccable pacing and syllable matching. Slow and steady, indeed, Mr. Turtle.

Red Ant is a moderator. Moderators sometimes help calm hysterical members who, very often, rant, and blame moderators for everything, from technical problems on the site to not being able to cure cancer fast enough.

Outside of the White House, on the presidential lawn, there are many ant-hill. These ant-hills contain, none other than, yes, RED ANTS.

The folks in the White House have been blamed for many problems that slowly defile the USA. But could it be that it isn't the politicians? Read on.

'Red Ant' was alive during the USA's most tragic terrorist plot, the events of 9/11.

Coincidence? I think NOT!

Using the help of a master of the Afghan language, Cloris Leechman, I've deciphered that Al Qaeda roughly translates to "Red Ants quite enjoy terrorizing countries, and also enjoy the occasional ice cream."

My super-masterful detective research has helped me find that this 'Red Ant' character has indeed eaten ice cream multiple times in his lifetime.

Lactose intolerant? Or lactose intolerANT?

The average terrorist uses the bathroom multiple times per week. As does Red Ant.

Now Mr. Ant, where were you on the morning of September 11th, 2001? Were you in New York City? Of course you weren't. The mastermind doesn't need to be near the crime scene. He gets his evil cronies to do that.

Which brings me to my next point...

I have reason to believe that Red Ant has been in a body of water before. If you hear someone say "Oh my word, those dastardly Somali pirates are taking people hostage and killing them if they do not get ample compensation for said hostages lives", it sounds like an innocent enough exclamation, right? But read between the lines:

"Oh my woRd, thosE Dastardly Somali pirates are tAkiNg people hosTage and killing them if they do not get ample compensation for said hostages lives". But maybe Red Ant would like us to believe that this is another coincidence, eh?

So if these are all coincidences, how do you explain these?:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/rarepetclanleader/proof1.pnghttp://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/rarepetclanleader/proof2.png

There's no denying this now! Come clean, Mr. Ant!

lol i wuz bored lulz

I have a rant.

Red Ant may not be who he claims to be!

Let's look at the facts:

How come rant sounds like someone new to the English language trying to say 'Red Ant' quickly. Is this a conspiracy?

My snooping has led me to discover that our beloved 'Red Ant' is neither red, nor is he an ant. Further investigation is required to find whether Tommy Turtle is actually a parody writing turtle with impeccable pacing and syllable matching. Slow and steady, indeed, Mr. Turtle.

Red Ant is a moderator. Moderators sometimes help calm hysterical members who, very often, rant, and blame moderators for everything, from technical problems on the site to not being able to cure cancer fast enough.

Outside of the White House, on the presidential lawn, there are many ant-hill. These ant-hills contain, none other than, yes, RED ANTS.

The folks in the White House have been blamed for many problems that slowly defile the USA. But could it be that it isn't the politicians? Read on.

'Red Ant' was alive during the USA's most tragic terrorist plot, the events of 9/11.

Coincidence? I think NOT!

Using the help of a master of the Afghan language, Cloris Leechman, I've deciphered that Al Qaeda roughly translates to "Red Ants quite enjoy terrorizing countries, and also enjoy the occasional ice cream."

My super-masterful detective research has helped me find that this 'Red Ant' character has indeed eaten ice cream multiple times in his lifetime.

Lactose intolerant? Or lactose intolerANT?

The average terrorist uses the bathroom multiple times per week. As does Red Ant.

Now Mr. Ant, where were you on the morning of September 11th, 2001? Were you in New York City? Of course you weren't. The mastermind doesn't need to be near the crime scene. He gets his evil cronies to do that.

Which brings me to my next point...

I have reason to believe that Red Ant has been in a body of water before. If you hear someone say "Oh my word, those dastardly Somali pirates are taking people hostage and killing them if they do not get ample compensation for said hostages lives", it sounds like an innocent enough exclamation, right? But read between the lines:

"Oh my woRd, thosE Dastardly Somali pirates are tAkiNg people hosTage and killing them if they do not get ample compensation for said hostages lives". But maybe Red Ant would like us to believe that this is another coincidence, eh?

So if these are all coincidences, how do you explain these?:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/rarepetclanleader/proof1.pnghttp://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/rarepetclanleader/proof2.png

There's no denying this now! Come clean, Mr. Ant!

lol i wuz bored lulz





Hmmmm....methinks somebody may be about to be bitten by an angry ant!  ;D    ...or somebody is simply on too much medication!  :o

Hmmmm....methinks somebody may be about to be bitten by an angry ant!  ;D    ...or somebody is simply on too much medication!  :o


..or too little.  ;D

You can't spell "Conspiracy Theory" without Red Ant, well, except for the missing "d", but that's part of the coverup.  :D

Ant

You can't spell "Conspiracy Theory" without Red Ant, well, except for the missing "d", but that's part of the coverup.  :D

Ant


Aha! The mastermind is here! I've created a thread for you in PPP.

...And what about 'Da Conspiracy Theory'? You thought you had me fooled, you sneaky critter!

I have a rant.

Red Ant may not be who he claims to be!

Let's look at the facts:

How come rant sounds like someone new to the English language trying to say 'Red Ant' quickly. Is this a conspiracy?

My snooping has led me to discover that our beloved 'Red Ant' is neither red, nor is he an ant. Further investigation is required to find whether Tommy Turtle is actually a parody writing turtle with impeccable pacing and syllable matching. Slow and steady, indeed, Mr. Turtle.

Red Ant is a moderator. Moderators sometimes help calm hysterical members who, very often, rant, and blame moderators for everything, from technical problems on the site to not being able to cure cancer fast enough.

Outside of the White House, on the presidential lawn, there are many ant-hill. These ant-hills contain, none other than, yes, RED ANTS.

The folks in the White House have been blamed for many problems that slowly defile the USA. But could it be that it isn't the politicians? Read on.

'Red Ant' was alive during the USA's most tragic terrorist plot, the events of 9/11.

Coincidence? I think NOT!

Using the help of a master of the Afghan language, Cloris Leechman, I've deciphered that Al Qaeda roughly translates to "Red Ants quite enjoy terrorizing countries, and also enjoy the occasional ice cream."

My super-masterful detective research has helped me find that this 'Red Ant' character has indeed eaten ice cream multiple times in his lifetime.

Lactose intolerant? Or lactose intolerANT?

The average terrorist uses the bathroom multiple times per week. As does Red Ant.

Now Mr. Ant, where were you on the morning of September 11th, 2001? Were you in New York City? Of course you weren't. The mastermind doesn't need to be near the crime scene. He gets his evil cronies to do that.

Which brings me to my next point...

I have reason to believe that Red Ant has been in a body of water before. If you hear someone say "Oh my word, those dastardly Somali pirates are taking people hostage and killing them if they do not get ample compensation for said hostages lives", it sounds like an innocent enough exclamation, right? But read between the lines:

"Oh my woRd, thosE Dastardly Somali pirates are tAkiNg people hosTage and killing them if they do not get ample compensation for said hostages lives". But maybe Red Ant would like us to believe that this is another coincidence, eh?

So if these are all coincidences, how do you explain these?:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/rarepetclanleader/proof1.pnghttp://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/rarepetclanleader/proof2.png

There's no denying this now! Come clean, Mr. Ant!

lol i wuz bored lulz




Mr. Mister, is that you?  :o  :D

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091208/ap_on_bi_ge/climate_epa



"Greenhouse gases harm humans" - why, thank you for that informative title. That earns a big, fat "No Sh*t" award from me.

Given that the title of that article is so incredibly stupid, I don't put much faith in the article itself.

"..there was compelling scientific evidence that global warming from manmade greenhouse gases endangers Americans' health." So burden us with a lot of regulations, meanwhile other countries like China will continue to pump toxins into the land, sea, air, and exports of toys to the US. Perhaps the Administration FAILED to notice that the air over America doesn't always stay in one spot.

The only things that are endangering my health are stupidity, unemployment, and crappy healthcare. Unfortunately there is an overabundance of all three.

Ant

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091208/ap_on_bi_ge/climate_epa



"Greenhouse gases harm humans" - why, thank you for that informative title. That earns a big, fat "No Sh*t" award from me.


Ant


;D Karamel

Went to the store last night. Got $40 so I'd have cash today.
I remember having the reciept and cash as I walked out the door.
I remember having trouble getting the car door open- delaying some guy trying to park next to me.
I them went straight home and put my wallet and keys down and putting the groceries in the fridge.
This morning I cannot find the receipt nor the cash.  >:(

I must have dropped it in the parking lot cuz it's not in my apt or car.

Now I am at Dennys. I have been waiting for 20+ minutes for service.  ::)

Went to the store last night. Got $40 so I'd have cash today.
I remember having the reciept and cash as I walked out the door.
I remember having trouble getting the car door open- delaying some guy trying to park next to me.
I them went straight home and put my wallet and keys down and putting the groceries in the fridge.
This morning I cannot find the receipt nor the cash.  >:(

I must have dropped it in the parking lot cuz it's not in my apt or car.

Now I am at Dennys. I have been waiting for 20+ minutes for service.  ::)

It's not in the car somewhere?
Denny's breakfast special?

It's not in the car somewhere?
Denny's breakfast special?


Nope not in the car nor the apartment... >:(


breakfast not so special....by the way- right after typing that line is when I decided to make that call  8)

So, I spent the better part of my afternoon restoring my computer, which was corrupted by the Internet Security 2010 malware. Thanks Tam for all the help. Merry Christmas Happy Holidays to all, except to the person(s) who made IS2010, who, for starters, should be slowly impaled on rusty tomato plant stakes.

Ant

So, I spent the better part of my afternoon restoring my computer, which was corrupted by the Internet Security 2010 malware. Thanks Tam for all the help. Merry Christmas Happy Holidays to all, except to the person(s) who made IS2010, who, for starters, should be slowly impaled on rusty tomato plant stakes.

Ant


I have a friend that just had her computer destroyed by that one.  Do you know how you got it?

I have a friend that just had her computer destroyed by that one.  Do you know how you got it?


No idea, but I'm fairly certain it wasn't through an email attachment or anything I intentionally downloaded. All I got was a warning from Norton that some high risk .exe file was attempting to access the internet - I don't remember what I was browsing at the time. I blocked it and about a minute later the whole thing crashed when I went to a web page in my favorites, which had always been safe before.

IS2010 locks out virtually every function except web browser. No regedit, no tskmgr, no restore, no add/remove programs, no control panel, no access to squat, even in safe mode. All I could do was F10 on startup and reload all the original (outdated) software, and bring everything up to speed again. 4 hours to fix it all.

Nicole got one last week almost as bad, fortunately I was able to restore her PC from a three day old auto backup. Took less than 5 minutes to fix that one.

Ant

I have a friend that just had her computer destroyed by that one.  Do you know how you got it?


I got it again! This time I'm pretty sure I know where it came from : Facebook family invite/verification. As soon as I clicked the link, the computer went nuts again. This time I was able to back up to a save point before it corrupted everything again. Nicole was thinking that is where she got her virus as well. Only took two hours to fix this time, and 20 of that was spent deleting the original (and horribly outdated version of) Norton AV.

Got AVG now. Hopefully I won't get IS2010 again.

Ant

I got it again! This time I'm pretty sure I know where it came from : Facebook family invite/verification. As soon as I clicked the link, the computer went nuts again. This time I was able to back up to a save point before it corrupted everything again. Nicole was thinking that is where she got her virus as well. Only took two hours to fix this time, and 20 of that was spent deleting the original (and horribly outdated version of) Norton AV.

Got AVG now. Hopefully I won't get IS2010 again.

Ant



No kidding.  Scary stuff.

Last year when our local Ben Franklin store went out of business, they had a maga sale and I went over there frequently to pick up stuff. Some of the things I picked up were a bunch of flashlights. You always need flashlights, right?

Anyway, last summer, we were going out to the boat. On our way there, we realized that we forgot to bring a flashlight. So, we stopped at a store on the way and bought one. I think we used it twice and then it died!  ???

Last week I was using one and it was getting faint. Ok, it needs new batteries. Put the new batteries in and it was bright and was working just the way it was supposed to. Then, it just died!!  ??? It seems like you can't find a half way decent one.

Now, I can't seem to find all the ones that I bought last summer.


WHY CAN'T I FIND A WORKING FLASHLIGHT??!!!!!



Cat

Last year when our local Ben Franklin store went out of business, they had a maga sale and I went over there frequently to pick up stuff. Some of the things I picked up were a bunch of flashlights. You always need flashlights, right?

Anyway, last summer, we were going out to the boat. On our way there, we realized that we forgot to bring a flashlight. So, we stopped at a store on the way and bought one. I think we used it twice and then it died!  ???

Last week I was using one and it was getting faint. Ok, it needs new batteries. Put the new batteries in and it was bright and was working just the way it was supposed to. Then, it just died!!   ??? It seems like you can't find a half way decent one.

Now, I can't seem to find all the ones that I bought last summer.


WHY CAN'T I FIND A WORKING FLASHLIGHT??!!!!!



Cat


you should get one of those rechargeable streamlites like the cops use...those things are expensive but give off awesome power!!!

Last year when our local Ben Franklin store went out of business, they had a maga sale and I went over there frequently to pick up stuff. Some of the things I picked up were a bunch of flashlights. You always need flashlights, right?

Anyway, last summer, we were going out to the boat. On our way there, we realized that we forgot to bring a flashlight. So, we stopped at a store on the way and bought one. I think we used it twice and then it died!  ???

Last week I was using one and it was getting faint. Ok, it needs new batteries. Put the new batteries in and it was bright and was working just the way it was supposed to. Then, it just died!!   ??? It seems like you can't find a half way decent one.

Now, I can't seem to find all the ones that I bought last summer.


WHY CAN'T I FIND A WORKING FLASHLIGHT??!!!!!



Cat
You can't beat MagLites ... They are expensive, but they always work.  Even when out in extreme conditions, or left out in extreme conditions.  And you can use them as weapons if it is necessary to do so.  I now have the new LED one and it is bright enough to check cattle by it at night. 

You can't beat MagLites ... They are expensive, but they always work.  Even when out in extreme conditions, or left out in extreme conditions.  And you can use them as weapons if it is necessary to do so.  I now have the new LED one and it is bright enough to check cattle by it at night. 


A mini-MagLite plus a headband, equals win.  One in the car, one in the emergency supplies bag, and one at home.  Hands-free lighting, pointed exactly where you want it, when you want it.  Absolutely bulletproof; you will never need to replace anything on it other than the batteries.

I second the LED recommendation - not quite as easy to focus as the incandescent, but in a real emergency, you'll want longevity over ease of use.  My compromise was an LED insert for the one in the emergency bag.

(The other cool thing about LED flashlights is that you can now get blacklight/UV replacement LEDs, or just buy a UV flashlight.  Turn out the lights in your home, and be prepared to recoil in horror no matter where you shine it.  No substitute for a blacklight for area lighting, but a hell of a lot more useful... albeit disturbing.)

This is just a very minor one.

Don't you hate it when you get a cut on your thumb near the top of it?

This is mainly because of the fact that you can accidently break the scab partially if you use that thumb carelessly for the first couple of days.

They make LED lighted gloves now too - very handy, especially this time of year. Look in Home Depot or Lowes for them.


A mini-MagLite plus a headband, equals win.  One in the car, one in the emergency supplies bag, and one at home.  Hands-free lighting, pointed exactly where you want it, when you want it.  Absolutely bulletproof; you will never need to replace anything on it other than the batteries.

I second the LED recommendation - not quite as easy to focus as the incandescent, but in a real emergency, you'll want longevity over ease of use.  My compromise was an LED insert for the one in the emergency bag.

(The other cool thing about LED flashlights is that you can now get blacklight/UV replacement LEDs, or just buy a UV flashlight.  Turn out the lights in your home, and be prepared to recoil in horror no matter where you shine it.  No substitute for a blacklight for area lighting, but a hell of a lot more useful... albeit disturbing.)


lol, nice.

Ant

Coming home from work today I was trapped in the sea of stupid. I caught up to traffic on the highway,
a semi in the right lane was doing about 45 MPH in a 55 zone. The guy in the center lane was afraid to
pass the truck and the guy in the left lane was afraid to pass the car in the center. This was rush hour,
cars started stacking up to the point that it looked like caution laps at Daytona. After about two miles
of highway crawling I was finally able to get by the dopes. It was a two car breakaway, me in the left
lane and a Mustang in the center, problem was the freaking Mustang wouldn't get off my rear fender.
My exit was approaching and I needed to move over but the damn Mustang wouldn't let me. I sped up,
he sped up; I slowed down, he slowed down. Like a freakin' goose he just stayed there off my rear fender.
I had to fake him out just to move over to exit. AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!

Last year when our local Ben Franklin store went out of business, they had a maga sale and I went over there frequently to pick up stuff. Some of the things I picked up were a bunch of flashlights. You always need flashlights, right?

Anyway, last summer, we were going out to the boat. On our way there, we realized that we forgot to bring a flashlight. So, we stopped at a store on the way and bought one. I think we used it twice and then it died!  ???

Last week I was using one and it was getting faint. Ok, it needs new batteries. Put the new batteries in and it was bright and was working just the way it was supposed to. Then, it just died!!  ??? It seems like you can't find a half way decent one.

Now, I can't seem to find all the ones that I bought last summer.


WHY CAN'T I FIND A WORKING FLASHLIGHT??!!!!!



Cat
The kids got wind-up ones for Christmas last year and those suckers are BRIGHT and STILL WORKING!  I think they were a whopping $5-6 apiece as well ;)

Coming home from work today I was trapped in the sea of stupid. I caught up to traffic on the highway,
a semi in the right lane was doing about 45 MPH in a 55 zone. The guy in the center lane was afraid to
pass the truck and the guy in the left lane was afraid to pass the car in the center. This was rush hour,
cars started stacking up to the point that it looked like caution laps at Daytona. After about two miles
of highway crawling I was finally able to get by the dopes. It was a two car breakaway, me in the left
lane and a Mustang in the center, problem was the freaking Mustang wouldn't get off my rear fender.
My exit was approaching and I needed to move over but the damn Mustang wouldn't let me. I sped up,
he sped up; I slowed down, he slowed down. Like a freakin' goose he just stayed there off my rear fender.
I had to fake him out just to move over to exit. AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!


Related topic --

There are a lot of fargging icehole drivers around here who don't give a crap about road safety and think you shouldn't either.  There are intersections where you need to exercise extra caution because of blind curves.  You need to come to a full stop and check to make sure there isn't a car flying around the curve, but when you do this, the jackass behind you starts flashing his lights and honking.  One over here in Florence really needs a stoplight because you can't see who is coming around the curve.  So the other night I stop, and then I crawl to give leeway in case some maniac is rounding the corner at 60.  So the guy behind me in the pickup truck starts honking and flashing, then he tailgates me with his high beams on.  Third time that sh*t's happened to me at that intersection.  I have never had a major collision and there's a reason for that -- caution.  Well, caution and a fair amount of luck.  Knock on Naugahyde!

Related topic -

Pedestrians in New York City pride themselves in having no regard for traffic signals.  I got a $50 citation sent to me because I ran a red light on Hamilton Avenue in Brooklyn back in November.  Why did I run the light?  Well, the light was GREEN when I started into the intersection, but some hoodlums jumped into the intersection jaywalking diagonally.  What was I gonna do, run 'em down?  So I had to stop.  When they passed, the light turned RED, but I was in the intersection, so I had to hit the gas before the cars on the perpendicular street started coming at me!  If I sat there, there would be a lot of honking and gridlock or I could have gotten t-boned by that frikkin' furniture truck!  BUT the little camera got my plate numbers.  They sent the ticket with the pictures.  What am I going to do, fight it from Massachusetts?  Yeah, right.  Cost-benefit analysis does not favor such action.  I'm wondering how much revenue New York gets from the fact that pedestrians and drivers don't obey traffic signals and thus force other drivers to run red lights for safety's sake.  Now, if a patrol cop had seen the situation and stopped me, I would have told him about the jaywalkers...and he would have written me the $50 citation all the same!
::)

Related topic -

Pedestrians in New York City pride themselves in having no regard for traffic signals.  I got a $50 citation sent to me because I ran a red light on Hamilton Avenue in Brooklyn back in November.  Why did I run the light?  Well, the light was GREEN when I started into the intersection, but some hoodlums jumped into the intersection jaywalking diagonally.  What was I gonna do, run 'em down?  So I had to stop.  When they passed, the light turned RED, but I was in the intersection, so I had to hit the gas before the cars on the perpendicular street started coming at me!  If I sat there, there would be a lot of honking and gridlock or I could have gotten t-boned by that frikkin' furniture truck!  BUT the little camera got my plate numbers.  They sent the ticket with the pictures.  What am I going to do, fight it from Massachusetts?  Yeah, right.  Cost-benefit analysis does not favor such action.  I'm wondering how much revenue New York gets from the fact that pedestrians and drivers don't obey traffic signals and thus force other drivers to run red lights for safety's sake.  Now, if a patrol cop had seen the situation and stopped me, I would have told him about the jaywalkers...and he would have written me the $50 citation all the same!
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Really?  Here in IL, if you're already IN the intersection when the light turns red, you have the right to continue out of the intersection.

Pedestrians in New York City pride themselves in having no regard for traffic signals.  I got a $50 citation sent to me because I ran a red light on Hamilton Avenue in Brooklyn back in November.  Why did I run the light?  Well, the light was GREEN when I started into the intersection, but some hoodlums jumped into the intersection jaywalking diagonally.  What was I gonna do, run 'em down?  So I had to stop.  When they passed, the light turned RED, but I was in the intersection, so I had to hit the gas before the cars on the perpendicular street started coming at me!  If I sat there, there would be a lot of honking and gridlock or I could have gotten t-boned by that frikkin' furniture truck!  BUT the little camera got my plate numbers.  They sent the ticket with the pictures.  What am I going to do, fight it from Massachusetts?  Yeah, right.  Cost-benefit analysis does not favor such action.  I'm wondering how much revenue New York gets from the fact that pedestrians and drivers don't obey traffic signals and thus force other drivers to run red lights for safety's sake.  Now, if a patrol cop had seen the situation and stopped me, I would have told him about the jaywalkers...and he would have written me the $50 citation all the same!
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I would guess NYC makes quite a bit of money off situations like yours.  :P  In Phoenix we have stationary and mobile speed cameras on every freeway that flash if you're traveling 11+ MPH over the posted limit.  So everyone slows down for the camera well below the speed limit until passing them then they travel at 10-15 MPH over until the next one.  ::)  We have red light cameras also but I don't ever really see them now that most of my driving in the Valley is on the freeways.

I'll be hitting the East Valley Autobahn in about 2.5 hours.  Wish me luck.

Really?  Here in IL, if you're already IN the intersection when the light turns red, you have the right to continue out of the intersection.


You just have to dodge the cars that pay no mind to you and continue on as if you weren't there. :P

God, I hate that....which is why I don't drive in the city! :D

Really?  Here in IL, if you're already IN the intersection when the light turns red, you have the right to continue out of the intersection.


"The light was yellow, officer." 

That one always goes over real well! 

I had to hit the gas and goose it through the intersection for my own safety because you never know what New York drivers are going to do, so even if the cameras figured in the speed of the vehicle, they would still detect my acceleration.  The camera can't replace human judgment.  Those guys just darted diagonally across the intersection.  They should have been ticketed for jaywalking; however, it's much easier for revenue's sake to photograph a license plate and send a citation to the registrant's address.  I've been stuck in bottlenecks for a half hour at a time in NYC because some a-holes start gridlock by disobeying traffic signals.  Fortunately, my brother and sister-in-law just moved upstate.  If I need to go into the city, I can park at their house and get the commuter rail.  When you factor the costs and benefits, it is not cheaper for me to take mass transit into NYC than to drive from Western Mass.  Anyway, I only drove in Brooklyn and Queens.  I have driven in Manhattan, but I wouldn't do it again unless somebody held a gun to my head and forced me!
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So this isn't really a hardcore rant, I am just super frustrated!

First, I found the shower curtain that I want, and called Bed, Bath & Beyond and of course they don't have it in my local store. No big deal because I can just as easily buy it online. Just have to wait the few days for it to arrive if I decide to get it.

Second, and this is my huge frustration - Ikea.

I found this gorgeous duvet cover and shams, matches my bedroom layout perfectly, but stupid Ikea doesn't ship textiles!!! They tell me to go to my local Ikea store! Ya, that would work if the closest store wasn't 255 miles away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is no way in God's Green Earth that I am going 255 miles one way to buy a freakin' duvet cover! The money in gas would be over the cost of it! Why doesn't Ikea allow you to buy textiles online??!!??!! Seriously. I am beyond frustrated and am almost at my wits end living this far up North. I miss having everything I needed within an hour when we were in Texas!!!  Aargh!! Stupid Ikea!

So this isn't really a hardcore rant, I am just super frustrated!

First, I found the shower curtain that I want, and called Bed, Bath & Beyond and of course they don't have it in my local store. No big deal because I can just as easily buy it online. Just have to wait the few days for it to arrive if I decide to get it.

Second, and this is my huge frustration - Ikea.

I found this gorgeous duvet cover and shams, matches my bedroom layout perfectly, but stupid Ikea doesn't ship textiles!!! They tell me to go to my local Ikea store! Ya, that would work if the closest store wasn't 255 miles away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is no way in God's Green Earth that I am going 255 miles one way to buy a freakin' duvet cover! The money in gas would be over the cost of it! Why doesn't Ikea allow you to buy textiles online??!!??!! Seriously. I am beyond frustrated and am almost at my wits end living this far up North. I miss having everything I needed within an hour when we were in Texas!!!  Aargh!! Stupid Ikea!


I could go to IKEA and get if you pay the shipping

So this isn't really a hardcore rant, I am just super frustrated!

First, I found the shower curtain that I want, and called Bed, Bath & Beyond and of course they don't have it in my local store. No big deal because I can just as easily buy it online. Just have to wait the few days for it to arrive if I decide to get it.

Second, and this is my huge frustration - Ikea.

I found this gorgeous duvet cover and shams, matches my bedroom layout perfectly, but stupid Ikea doesn't ship textiles!!! They tell me to go to my local Ikea store! Ya, that would work if the closest store wasn't 255 miles away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is no way in God's Green Earth that I am going 255 miles one way to buy a freakin' duvet cover! The money in gas would be over the cost of it! Why doesn't Ikea allow you to buy textiles online??!!??!! Seriously. I am beyond frustrated and am almost at my wits end living this far up North. I miss having everything I needed within an hour when we were in Texas!!!  Aargh!! Stupid Ikea!



hmmmm who lives just 90 miles from an ikea? and it going to be in that area in a month? I don't know..

I could go to IKEA and get if you pay the shipping


or karen can do it.  ;D

or karen can do it.  ;D


I'm just wanting an excuse to wander around IKEA!

I'm just wanting an excuse to wander around IKEA!



being in the area is excuse enough for me...

being in the area is excuse enough for me...


It's about a 40 minute drive for me, so not really on my way anywhere!

It's about a 40 minute drive for me, so not really on my way anywhere!


ah yeah I usually fit my visits in with my trips to LA...

I'll vent that Ikea really needs more locations!!!! Particularly one closer to Santa Barbara, one closer to Tam and one closer to karen.

IKEA IKEA
IKEA IKEA
Much to far from my home
Out of the way where I would roam
IKEA IKEA IKEA

There's one in Sacramento.  Think mom and I went there once and thought it sucked.

IKEA IKEA
IKEA IKEA
Much to far from my home
Out of the way where I would roam
IKEA IKEA IKEA

There's one in Sacramento.  Think mom and I went there once and thought it sucked.


well we've already established your mom is kinda nuts right  ;)

ah yeah I usually fit my visits in with my trips to LA...

I'll vent that Ikea really needs more locations!!!! Particularly one closer to Santa Barbara, one closer to Tam and one closer to karen.
and me ???

and me ???


you know... right after I hit post I thought I should add sami too... but then I got a call and forgot.

sorry....




and sami needs an Ikea, and a Target, and a Costco and every other store there is. 


better?

Got an IKEA right here in Pittsburgh.  See?  I KNEW I'd find a reason for everyone to come here to visit.   ;D  Right now all the snow is melted here too, (but you'd better hurry, it may not last long.)  (Unless I guess if you LIKE snow then, uh, I'll have to let you know when it's back.)   :D

Got an IKEA right here in Pittsburgh.  See?  I KNEW I'd find a reason for everyone to come here to visit.   ;D  Right now all the snow is melted here too, (but you'd better hurry, it may not last long.)  (Unless I guess if you LIKE snow then, uh, I'll have to let you know when it's back.)   :D




LUCKY!!!

Got an IKEA right here in Pittsburgh.  See?  I KNEW I'd find a reason for everyone to come here to visit.   ;D  Right now all the snow is melted here too, (but you'd better hurry, it may not last long.)  (Unless I guess if you LIKE snow then, uh, I'll have to let you know when it's back.)   :D


Am wondering if Mexico has Ikea

Am wondering if Mexico has Ikea


Am not sure.  But um  Pittsburgh is nowhere near Mexico, so I'm not understand the corrolation.  lol

Am not sure.  But um  Pittsburgh is nowhere near Mexico, so I'm not understand the corrolation.  lol


maybe cuz sami's sick of snow...and doesn't want to chance catching snow in PA... or maybe cuz sami wants to do her booze run vacation and her Ikea in the same trip? 

maybe cuz sami's sick of snow...and doesn't want to chance catching snow in PA... or maybe cuz sami wants to do her booze run vacation and her Ikea in the same trip?   


Ah...thanks for the 'splaining.  I couldn't figure it out, but then, I AM a bit dizzy tonight.

Ah...thanks for the 'splaining.  I couldn't figure it out, but then, I AM a bit dizzy tonight.


well I don't know if I'm right- I'm just speculating.

and to answer the question no- no ikea's in mexico...


Europe

België | Belgique (Belgium)
Česká republika (Czech Republic)
Danmark (Denmark)
Deutschland (Germany)
España (Spain)
Ελλάδα (Greece)
France
Ísland (Iceland)
Ireland
Italia (Italy)
Κύπρος (Cyprus)
Magyarország (Hungary)
Nederland (Netherlands)
Norge (Norway)
Österreich (Austria)
Россия (Russia)
Polska (Poland)
Portugal (Portugal)
România (Romania)
Schweiz | Suisse | Svizzera (Switzerland)
Slovensko (Slovakia)
Suomi (Finland)
Sverige (Sweden)
Türkiye (Turkey)
United Kingdom
North America

Canada
United States

Middle East


(Kuwait)

(Israel)


(Saudi Arabia)


(United Arab Emirates)

Asia Pacific

Australia

(China)

(Hong Kong)

(Japan)
Malaysia

(Taiwan)
Singapore

So this isn't really a hardcore rant, I am just super frustrated!

First, I found the shower curtain that I want, and called Bed, Bath & Beyond and of course they don't have it in my local store. No big deal because I can just as easily buy it online. Just have to wait the few days for it to arrive if I decide to get it.

Second, and this is my huge frustration - Ikea.

I found this gorgeous duvet cover and shams, matches my bedroom layout perfectly, but stupid Ikea doesn't ship textiles!!! They tell me to go to my local Ikea store! Ya, that would work if the closest store wasn't 255 miles away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is no way in God's Green Earth that I am going 255 miles one way to buy a freakin' duvet cover! The money in gas would be over the cost of it! Why doesn't Ikea allow you to buy textiles online??!!??!! Seriously. I am beyond frustrated and am almost at my wits end living this far up North. I miss having everything I needed within an hour when we were in Texas!!!  Aargh!! Stupid Ikea!


There is one like, 8 minutes from me.  Show me what you want, I will go get it, and ship it to you.  Done!  :)

maybe cuz sami's sick of snow...and doesn't want to chance catching snow in PA... or maybe cuz sami wants to do her booze run vacation and her Ikea in the same trip?   
O0  both could apply 8)

and to answer the question no- no ikea's in mexico...


Europe

België | Belgique (Belgium)
Česká republika (Czech Republic)
Danmark (Denmark)
Deutschland (Germany)
España (Spain)
Ελλάδα (Greece)
France
Ísland (Iceland)
Ireland
Italia (Italy)
Κύπρος (Cyprus)
Magyarország (Hungary)
Nederland (Netherlands)
Norge (Norway)
Österreich (Austria)
Россия (Russia)
Polska (Poland)
Portugal (Portugal)
România (Romania)
Schweiz | Suisse | Svizzera (Switzerland)
Slovensko (Slovakia)
Suomi (Finland)
Sverige (Sweden)
Türkiye (Turkey)
United Kingdom
North America

Canada
United States

Middle East


(Kuwait)

(Israel)


(Saudi Arabia)


(United Arab Emirates)

Asia Pacific

Australia

(China)

(Hong Kong)

(Japan)
Malaysia

(Taiwan)
Singapore

hmmm I hear that Turkey is beautiful this time of year ???

There is one like, 8 minutes from me.  Show me what you want, I will go get it, and ship it to you.  Done!  :)
No fair - Utah has an Ikea - Iowa sucks

Am I the only one who has never been to an IKEA?  :-[



Cat

I think I might have developed an allergy to caffeine.  I'm doing a series of daily "tests" to try and figure it out since I can't get into the allergist until the 2nd of Feb.  :-\\

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!!!!!!!  That would suck the big one.

I hate my job.

I have no life.

Not seeking pity, just venting.

Am I the only one who has never been to an IKEA?  :-[



Cat


Nah, there are 2 IKEA's within 30 minutes of me and I've never been to either.

I know I should be thankful that I'm at least working during a major recession...but I really can't stand another day at my job.

I know what you're thinking. That I should just quit. If I was rolling in money I would but unfortunately I am just getting by.

I work in a bank and it's making me mental. First of all, my co-workers are lazy and pile work for me to do and try to hide or avoid serving clients. These clients have requests that are becoming more and more bizarre, but not only that, they are becoming more obnoxious.

Today I have a classic case--I was serving this 50-something year-old man who had missing teeth. He didn't seem to speak English very well and he was trying to tell me this lame joke. Finally he was asking me questions about my marital status and then he went on about there was something not right with the way I looked! Well do you want to be the pot or the kettle, sir?!

To be honest I was (still am obviously) in a very bad mood and I became a little snappy towards my lazy co-worker who would refuse to co-sign a document because she kept saying I didn't do it right. Anyway, today I left work in a huff and have decided to just veg out in front of the Net.

My long-distance boyfriend has called me a couple of times since I've been home but I can't even talk to him! I'm still venting and I'm also totally wiped that I don't think I'll be on here much long. I am seriously thinking about getting ready for bed before 9 on a Friday night!

I was thinking about going back to school full-time to study nursing but maybe I should go into computer science because I'm really losing patience with people!

I guess that's it for now (whew!)

So this isn't really a hardcore rant, I am just super frustrated!

First, I found the shower curtain that I want, and called Bed, Bath & Beyond and of course they don't have it in my local store. No big deal because I can just as easily buy it online. Just have to wait the few days for it to arrive if I decide to get it.

Second, and this is my huge frustration - Ikea.

I found this gorgeous duvet cover and shams, matches my bedroom layout perfectly, but stupid Ikea doesn't ship textiles!!! They tell me to go to my local Ikea store! Ya, that would work if the closest store wasn't 255 miles away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is no way in God's Green Earth that I am going 255 miles one way to buy a freakin' duvet cover! The money in gas would be over the cost of it! Why doesn't Ikea allow you to buy textiles online??!!??!! Seriously. I am beyond frustrated and am almost at my wits end living this far up North. I miss having everything I needed within an hour when we were in Texas!!!  Aargh!! Stupid Ikea!


So what's the verdict on who is picking the stuff up for you?

I thought that I had replied to this thread already... my fault for not double checking ;)


I could go to IKEA and get if you pay the shipping


You are too sweet!



hmmmm who lives just 90 miles from an ikea? and it going to be in that area in a month? I don't know..

or karen can do it.  ;D


Just 90 miles? lol You are awesome as well!!


I'm just wanting an excuse to wander around IKEA!


Any excuse is a good excuse right! 8)


Got an IKEA right here in Pittsburgh.  See?  I KNEW I'd find a reason for everyone to come here to visit.  ;D  Right now all the snow is melted here too, (but you'd better hurry, it may not last long.)  (Unless I guess if you LIKE snow then, uh, I'll have to let you know when it's back.)  :D




Patty! You are devious! ;D


There is one like, 8 minutes from me.  Show me what you want, I will go get it, and ship it to you.  Done!  :)


You are awesome as well!


Nah, there are 2 IKEA's within 30 minutes of me and I've never been to either.


Blasphemy!!! Kevin I order thee to get your butt to an Ikea NOW!!! ;D


So what's the verdict on who is picking the stuff up for you?


Sorry Mum. I didn't mean to leave y'all hanging!

I actually talked to Ash today and she and I have rigged a plan.

I do so completely thank all of you for your willingness to help little 'ole me out!
I will admit though, that when I was ranting I was afraid that I was coming across as "poor me, who will help me??" and I hate to sound that way.

The outpouring of help makes me feel so blessed and I love y'all so much! :-*

I thought that I had replied to this thread already... my fault for not double checking ;)

You are too sweet!

Just 90 miles? lol You are awesome as well!!

Any excuse is a good excuse right! 8)

Patty! You are devious! ;D

You are awesome as well!

Blasphemy!!! Kevin I order thee to get your butt to an Ikea NOW!!! ;D

Sorry Mum. I didn't mean to leave y'all hanging!

I actually talked to Ash today and she and I have rigged a plan.

I do so completely thank all of you for your willingness to help little 'ole me out!
I will admit though, that when I was ranting I was afraid that I was coming across as "poor me, who will help me??" and I hate to sound that way.

The outpouring of help makes me feel so blessed and I love y'all so much! :-*


no worries... besides... going to ikea with a plan would've been a first for me... usually i just go and buy on impulse.  ;D


BTW I haven't forgotten about my contribution but we've had a weeks worth of rain that would've made Noah go grab another hammer  ;D
so I'm just waiting for the beaches to dry out some!  ;D 

no worries... besides... going to ikea with a plan would've been a first for me... usually i just go and buy on impulse.  ;D


BTW I haven't forgotten about my contribution but we've had a weeks worth of rain that would've made Noah go grab another hammer  ;D
so I'm just waiting for the beaches to dry out some!  ;D 


It's all good Girl! I love ya for even thinking about me for real! 8)

rats, no excuse to go now.

It's a long way to go just for a picture frame (the other thing I was going to buy there).

rats, no excuse to go now.

It's a long way to go just for a picture frame (the other thing I was going to buy there).


I am sure I can come up with other things that I might *need*! ;) :)

See, y'all need to come over here.  I'm 40 miles away from the (allegedly) biggest IKEA in the US.  Three stories of shopping goodness.

I know I should be thankful that I'm at least working during a major recession...but I really can't stand another day at my job.

I know what you're thinking. That I should just quit. If I was rolling in money I would but unfortunately I am just getting by.

I work in a bank and it's making me mental. First of all, my co-workers are lazy and pile work for me to do and try to hide or avoid serving clients. These clients have requests that are becoming more and more bizarre, but not only that, they are becoming more obnoxious.

Today I have a classic case--I was serving this 50-something year-old man who had missing teeth. He didn't seem to speak English very well and he was trying to tell me this lame joke. Finally he was asking me questions about my marital status and then he went on about there was something not right with the way I looked! Well do you want to be the pot or the kettle, sir?!

To be honest I was (still am obviously) in a very bad mood and I became a little snappy towards my lazy co-worker who would refuse to co-sign a document because she kept saying I didn't do it right. Anyway, today I left work in a huff and have decided to just veg out in front of the Net.

My long-distance boyfriend has called me a couple of times since I've been home but I can't even talk to him! I'm still venting and I'm also totally wiped that I don't think I'll be on here much long. I am seriously thinking about getting ready for bed before 9 on a Friday night!

I was thinking about going back to school full-time to study nursing but maybe I should go into computer science because I'm really losing patience with people!

I guess that's it for now (whew!)


I've been more irritable than usual over the past couple of weeks.  I chalk some of that up to being on Adderall, which I knew was not going to be the right medication for me, but my shrink thought it was worth a shot.  I guess I take it for granted that people are going to be silly and oafish so I try not to respond in kind.  I have been unemployed since I don't know when.  In this economy, once you're out, it's hard as hell to get back in. I don't have the right aptitudes for cutting it nowadays, so I've resigned myself to a marginal existence.  Nursing and computer science are reliable fields.  The trick with computers is to find a niche they can't outsource...but I don't know enough to say more.  I can say that if you don't have patience with people, nursing is about the worst field you could go into other than perhaps special education!  I get real dumb around nurses.  I don't know why.  I think a lot of people feel awkward around medical professionals and then if the clinician is impatient, we get more awkward and it snowballs!

I hate not knowing anything about computers. My security warnings keep popping up and I can't get rid of it (unless you pay them). Then I have Firefox, but Internet Explorer keeps coming up to a porn site >:(

I hate not knowing anything about computers. My security warnings keep popping up and I can't get rid of it (unless you pay them). Then I have Firefox, but Internet Explorer keeps coming up to a porn site >:(



Download AVG-it is free. You can also download Spybot which is also free.

Then you can go into your control panel to change programs and delete out whatever security you have that you don't want anymore.

You might also want to delete cookies on your browsers. I use Firefox all the time. On top of the page, it will say "Tools". Go down to the bottom where it says "options". Then click on "privacy." In the middle it will say "Remove individual cookies." You want to do that.  I never use IE so I'm not sure how to remove the cookies from there.



Cat

Download AVG-it is free. You can also download Spybot which is also free.

Then you can go into your control panel to change programs and delete out whatever security you have that you don't want anymore.

You might also want to delete cookies on your browsers. I use Firefox all the time. On top of the page, it will say "Tools". Go down to the bottom where it says "options". Then click on "privacy." In the middle it will say "Remove individual cookies." You want to do that.  I never use IE so I'm not sure how to remove the cookies from there.



Cat

I tried doing the cookies thing and I lost everything, it won't even let me add or remove programs on the control panel >:(

I tried doing the cookies thing and I lost everything, it won't even let me add or remove programs on the control panel >:(



What kind of computer do you have and how old is it? What is your OS?



Cat

What kind of computer do you have and how old is it? What is your OS?



Cat

It's a dell and it's at least 3 years old, What is a OS?

It's a dell and it's at least 3 years old, What is a OS?


Operating System. My guess, it is either Vista or Windows XP. If it is Vista-there is your problem right there.


Cat

See, y'all need to come over here.  I'm 40 miles away from the (allegedly) biggest IKEA in the US.  Three stories of shopping goodness.


Well then Jess... prepare for a visit from me! Actually, I am just going to move in with you! ;D ;D

I hate not knowing anything about computers. My security warnings keep popping up and I can't get rid of it (unless you pay them). Then I have Firefox, but Internet Explorer keeps coming up to a porn site >:(


ninny - you have a virus.
My guess is that it is either MSAntiVirus or DesktopAntiVirus.
Hard suckers to get rid of.

Both hijack your computer.
It will make IE do whatever the virus wants, and will disable your control options.
They are buried in your operating system now.

Your best bet is to take it to someone who fixes computers, but please do not go to Geek Squad. All they will do is ask you for your restore disk and you will lose all of your pictures, music etc, and they will charge you an arm and a leg! You could try to use a restore point, but I am positive that the virus will have infected that as well.

In the past month, I have fixed close to 7 computers with this virus. Currently working on one right now as well.

I can try and tell you how to fix it yourself, but without knowing how badly infected you are - I am not sure my remedies would work:  Print this before you start anything ;)


Boot the computer into Safe Mode
restart the computer
Once the screen starts coming up, continually press F8 until you get the black boot options screen
choose "Safe Mode with Networking"
If it asks you to log in as yourself or Administrator, just log in as you

Once it loads, there will be no desktop picture, it should be a black screen with only a few of your desktop icons, and they will be bigger in size
Click start>run and type in msconfig hit ok or enter (if you are using Vista or Windows 7, if it asks you to continue, please click continue or yes)

a new window should open
across the top of it, click the startup tab
click "disable all" then click apply, then click ok.

*Do not restart the computer yet.*

open your IE and go to www.download.com
in the search bar, type "avast free"
(you are going to downlaod an awesome Anti-virus program that will clean your computer completely - to include fixing the registry keys!)
Click the first option that pops up, should be Avast Free Antivirus with big orange blotch next to it.
On the next page, click the download now button.
Click run and then run again, or give it permission in there somewhere if your security asks you to

Once you have installed it, run the program. It will start a scan, find the virus and then it should produce a pop up asking you if you want to do a boot time scan. Say yes!
It will shut down and the computer will restart. The boot time scan will eventually start, blue screen, white writing, and when it finds the virus, it will ask you what you want to do with it. Click the number for "Move to Chest". Don't click delete!!! Moving it to the chest is putting it in quarantine and Avast will break the virus. It might ask you a few more times what to do with files, keep telling it to move them to the chest. ;)

After the scan, windows will load up properly, and once it does, I want you to restart the computer and boot into safe mode again! (I know, a giant pain!)

So after hitting F8 and choosing Safe Mode with Networking, when the computer loads, I want you to double click the icon for Avast
The program will pull up. You are now going to do a full scan of your entire system.

On the right hand side of the panel, you will see three boxes. One is the locations to search. Click this one and make sure ALL of your hard drives are checked. Include the back up hard drive, because the virus could and probably did go in there! ;)  click ok.

Next, at the top of the Avast panel, you will see a bar kind of barely sticking out. Click it and a little window will pull out. Drag the bar all the way to the right so that it will scan super deep and find even the smallest thing that might have been there for years! ;)

Once you have done all of that, on the left side of the panel, there is a "play" button.  one of these ►
Click it and let the program go!

It will find stuff, and so when it does, just always tell it to move to the chest! ;) The scan may take a few hours, so be sure to keep an eye on it. If it finds something, it won't continue scanning until you tell it what to do! ;)


Now, this is the pain in the butt part.
Depending on how badly you are infected, you might have to boot into safe mode a bunch of times and rescan the entire system! I had one computer where I had to boot 10 times into safe mode!!! Yes, this is the only way to actually get rid of the virus! A technician can do it for you, but 9 times out of then they are going to reformat your computer. That's all. Going through Safe Mode saves all of your pictures, documents, music... all of your files! And it makes sure they are clean as well.

If you don't want to do it the way I laid out, it's cool! I don't blame ya! But make sure when you take it to someone that you tell them you want to keep all of your files and not to reformat the hard drive. I can't guarantee how much they will charge you. Some have a diagnostic fee, which they will waive if you have them fix it. Some are $10 an hour, others can be up to $85 an hour. I would say a good price and good work would be around $40 an hour, or if they give you a flat rate, do not let them charge you any more than $100 total.

If I lived closer Girl - I would be there in a heart beat and fix it for you! 8)

Download AVG-it is free. You can also download Spybot which is also free.

Then you can go into your control panel to change programs and delete out whatever security you have that you don't want anymore.

You might also want to delete cookies on your browsers. I use Firefox all the time. On top of the page, it will say "Tools". Go down to the bottom where it says "options". Then click on "privacy." In the middle it will say "Remove individual cookies." You want to do that.  I never use IE so I'm not sure how to remove the cookies from there.



Cat


AVG will not find these viruses.
Spybot will find them but won't be able to do anything with them.


I tried doing the cookies thing and I lost everything, it won't even let me add or remove programs on the control panel >:(


Right, because the virus has hijacked your controls.



It's a dell and it's at least 3 years old, What is a OS?


The info I gave you ^ is for a Dell.


Operating System. My guess, it is either Vista or Windows XP. If it is Vista-there is your problem right there.


Cat



If it's 3 years old, it should have XP on it. But even if it has Vista, the walk through I gave you ninny is still the same.
Vista isn't the problem. Yes, some people have had problems with Vista, but I can attest that Vista is not the crap that Tech's have said it is. If that was the case then Windows 7 would not be available yet! Why? Because Windows 7 is Vista, they just added tweaks to it! I run Vista on my desktop and 7 on my laptop. I have read the specs on both and pretty much know them inside and out - I have to, it's what I do - most times Vista errors are user errors, because people are used to XP and Vista doesn't run like XP did. Anyway, as I was saying - whether you have Vista or XP - the instructions I gave you work for both! ;)

AVG will not find these viruses.
Spybot will find them but won't be able to do anything with them.

Right, because the virus has hijacked your controls.


The info I gave you ^ is for a Dell.

If it's 3 years old, it should have XP on it. But even if it has Vista, the walk through I gave you ninny is still the same.
Vista isn't the problem. Yes, some people have had problems with Vista, but I can attest that Vista is not the crap that Tech's have said it is. If that was the case then Windows 7 would not be available yet! Why? Because Windows 7 is Vista, they just added tweaks to it! I run Vista on my desktop and 7 on my laptop. I have read the specs on both and pretty much know them inside and out - I have to, it's what I do - most times Vista errors are user errors, because people are used to XP and Vista doesn't run like XP did. Anyway, as I was saying - whether you have Vista or XP - the instructions I gave you work for both! ;)



You know more than I do.


Cat

You know more than I do.


Cat


Sorry Cat - I wasn't trying to shut you down or anything. I sometimes get overly passionate about computers! lol

Sorry Cat - I wasn't trying to shut you down or anything. I sometimes get overly passionate about computers! lol



I didn't think you were shutting me down. I mean what I said-you know more about computers than I do. I was just trying to help ninny out but I bow to you knowledge. 



Cat

I didn't think you were shutting me down. I mean what I said-you know more about computers than I do. I was just trying to help ninny out but I bow to you knowledge. 



Cat


Heehee!
I have never had anyone bow to me before! ;D ;D

Thanks Cat

Heehee!
I have never had anyone bow to me before! ;D ;D

Thanks Cat



Not even Nasty?  ;)



Cat

Not even Nasty?  ;)



Cat


Well, I wasn't going to get into that can of worms! ;D ;D

8)

ninny - you have a virus.
My guess is that it is either MSAntiVirus or DesktopAntiVirus.
Hard suckers to get rid of.

Both hijack your computer.
It will make IE do whatever the virus wants, and will disable your control options.
They are buried in your operating system now.

Your best bet is to take it to someone who fixes computers, but please do not go to Geek Squad. All they will do is ask you for your restore disk and you will lose all of your pictures, music etc, and they will charge you an arm and a leg! You could try to use a restore point, but I am positive that the virus will have infected that as well.

In the past month, I have fixed close to 7 computers with this virus. Currently working on one right now as well.

I can try and tell you how to fix it yourself, but without knowing how badly infected you are - I am not sure my remedies would work:  Print this before you start anything ;)


Boot the computer into Safe Mode
restart the computer
Once the screen starts coming up, continually press F8 until you get the black boot options screen
choose "Safe Mode with Networking"
If it asks you to log in as yourself or Administrator, just log in as you

Once it loads, there will be no desktop picture, it should be a black screen with only a few of your desktop icons, and they will be bigger in size
Click start>run and type in msconfig hit ok or enter (if you are using Vista or Windows 7, if it asks you to continue, please click continue or yes)

a new window should open
across the top of it, click the startup tab
click "disable all" then click apply, then click ok.

*Do not restart the computer yet.*

open your IE and go to www.download.com
in the search bar, type "avast free"
(you are going to downlaod an awesome Anti-virus program that will clean your computer completely - to include fixing the registry keys!)
Click the first option that pops up, should be Avast Free Antivirus with big orange blotch next to it.
On the next page, click the download now button.
Click run and then run again, or give it permission in there somewhere if your security asks you to

Once you have installed it, run the program. It will start a scan, find the virus and then it should produce a pop up asking you if you want to do a boot time scan. Say yes!
It will shut down and the computer will restart. The boot time scan will eventually start, blue screen, white writing, and when it finds the virus, it will ask you what you want to do with it. Click the number for "Move to Chest". Don't click delete!!! Moving it to the chest is putting it in quarantine and Avast will break the virus. It might ask you a few more times what to do with files, keep telling it to move them to the chest. ;)

After the scan, windows will load up properly, and once it does, I want you to restart the computer and boot into safe mode again! (I know, a giant pain!)

So after hitting F8 and choosing Safe Mode with Networking, when the computer loads, I want you to double click the icon for Avast
The program will pull up. You are now going to do a full scan of your entire system.

On the right hand side of the panel, you will see three boxes. One is the locations to search. Click this one and make sure ALL of your hard drives are checked. Include the back up hard drive, because the virus could and probably did go in there! ;)  click ok.

Next, at the top of the Avast panel, you will see a bar kind of barely sticking out. Click it and a little window will pull out. Drag the bar all the way to the right so that it will scan super deep and find even the smallest thing that might have been there for years! ;)

Once you have done all of that, on the left side of the panel, there is a "play" button.  one of these ►
Click it and let the program go!

It will find stuff, and so when it does, just always tell it to move to the chest! ;) The scan may take a few hours, so be sure to keep an eye on it. If it finds something, it won't continue scanning until you tell it what to do! ;)


Now, this is the pain in the butt part.
Depending on how badly you are infected, you might have to boot into safe mode a bunch of times and rescan the entire system! I had one computer where I had to boot 10 times into safe mode!!! Yes, this is the only way to actually get rid of the virus! A technician can do it for you, but 9 times out of then they are going to reformat your computer. That's all. Going through Safe Mode saves all of your pictures, documents, music... all of your files! And it makes sure they are clean as well.

If you don't want to do it the way I laid out, it's cool! I don't blame ya! But make sure when you take it to someone that you tell them you want to keep all of your files and not to reformat the hard drive. I can't guarantee how much they will charge you. Some have a diagnostic fee, which they will waive if you have them fix it. Some are $10 an hour, others can be up to $85 an hour. I would say a good price and good work would be around $40 an hour, or if they give you a flat rate, do not let them charge you any more than $100 total.

If I lived closer Girl - I would be there in a heart beat and fix it for you! 8)


Thanks Tam & Cat, Missy & I both tried different things but got no results, to bad you girls didn't live cloder. Tim is going to see if the guy he works with will fix it. Because it is a virus should i stay off this site..I don't want to affect other members.

Thanks Tam & Cat, Missy & I both tried different things but got no results, to bad you girls didn't live cloder. Tim is going to see if the guy he works with will fix it. Because it is a virus should i stay off this site..I don't want to affect other members.


It won't affect us at all Girl!
But I would advise against you sending any email or paying bills online or anything else that uses your personal information until it is fexed. 8)

It won't affect us at all Girl!
But I would advise against you sending any email or paying bills online or anything else that uses your personal information until it is fexed. 8)

Ok, that's good to know I think Tim was secretly hopeing i would have to get off for a while ;D

I hate not knowing anything about computers. My security warnings keep popping up and I can't get rid of it (unless you pay them). Then I have Firefox, but Internet Explorer keeps coming up to a porn site >:(


So does mine...but then again, I keep asking it to!
:-[

Heehee!
I have never had anyone bow to me before! ;D ;D

Thanks Cat


That's cuz yer an Under Secretary, not an Over one :D

So does mine...but then again, I keep asking it to!
:-[

;D

So does mine...but then again, I keep asking it to!
:-[


You mean...you can get porn on the internet?  :o  I had no idea.... ::) ;)

In the past month, I have fixed close to 7 computers with this virus. Currently working on one right now as well.




can you come move all my crap from my c drive to my drive so my stupid computer will stop telling my drive is full I mean my d drive is empty but it doesn't care it just wants to do everything on c.  >:(

You mean...you can get porn on the internet?  :o   I had no idea.... ::) ;)


Are you kidding?  That's why Al Gore invented it!
;)

My rant today is that my mother ans sister think so little of me that they assume because I go to church and embrace my faith I would be judgemental of their behaviors.  My mother was just diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver because of her drinking.  She told my sister not to tell me because I would think less of her because of her drinking.  I asked my sister if I have ever been judgemental towards them because of it (I know I haven't, heck I have the occasional drink myself, but I am not a big drinker)  She said "Well you aren't quiet about liking your religion".  WTH, since when does embracing your faith equate to judgemental. 

My mom thought she was hiding how much she was drinking from me but you can tell.  Plus she has been a mega alcoholic since I was a kid, not like I had no clue.  Sure, I wanted her to quit drinking but not for religious reasons...it is for health reasons.  That is what killed my dad and I don't want it to kill my mom, too.  My sister told me she is quitting the drinking, which is good.  It just hurts that she assumes I will judge her and think less of her because of her problem.  I'm not a judgemental person and you think my own mother would know that. 

My rant today is that my mother ans sister think so little of me that they assume because I go to church and embrace my faith I would be judgemental of their behaviors.  My mother was just diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver because of her drinking.  She told my sister not to tell me because I would think less of her because of her drinking.  I asked my sister if I have ever been judgemental towards them because of it (I know I haven't, heck I have the occasional drink myself, but I am not a big drinker)  She said "Well you aren't quiet about liking your religion".  WTH, since when does embracing your faith equate to judgemental. 

My mom thought she was hiding how much she was drinking from me but you can tell.  Plus she has been a mega alcoholic since I was a kid, not like I had no clue.  Sure, I wanted her to quit drinking but not for religious reasons...it is for health reasons.  That is what killed my dad and I don't want it to kill my mom, too.  My sister told me she is quitting the drinking, which is good.  It just hurts that she assumes I will judge her and think less of her because of her problem.  I'm not a judgemental person and you think my own mother would know that. 



I know this is easier said than done but you have to chalk it up to the alcohol. People who consume too much alcohol do not think rationally.  My first husband was an alcoholic and he blamed me for his addiction.  ???



Cat

I know this is easier said than done but you have to chalk it up to the alcohol. People who consume too much alcohol do not think rationally.  My first husband was an alcoholic and he blamed me for his addiction.  ???



Cat


True.  Maybe I am being too sensitive, too.  I'm just glad she is quitting drinking.

There's a lot of alcoholism in my family too.  With it comes lies and denial.  Often times the alcoholic will announce she is going sober, and then hide it from the others when she relapses.  Last year my sister "fired" her AA sponsor because she said the sponsor was being too judgmental.  Then I found out my sister was drinking again.  The woman sponsoring her has 30 years of sobriety under her belt, she could tell my sister was drinking again, and confronted her.  That's the first and most important rule in AA: You can't drink.  My sister, call her N., felt ashamed of herself, while the sponsor, call her K., just wanted N. to get back on the wagon.  If you've been in AA for 35 years, you know people relapse.  However, shame and its twin, pride, are big factors in alcoholism.  N. was shaming herself more than anyone else was.  She tried to quell the shame with more drinking until she bottomed out again last summer and had to get emergency help.  I don't really know if N. is back to drinking.  I suspect she is, but the decision to stop has to be hers.  I'm not going to intervene. 

My rant today is that my mother ans sister think so little of me that they assume because I go to church and embrace my faith I would be judgemental of their behaviors.  My mother was just diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver because of her drinking.  She told my sister not to tell me because I would think less of her because of her drinking.  I asked my sister if I have ever been judgemental towards them because of it (I know I haven't, heck I have the occasional drink myself, but I am not a big drinker)  She said "Well you aren't quiet about liking your religion".  WTH, since when does embracing your faith equate to judgemental. 

My mom thought she was hiding how much she was drinking from me but you can tell.  Plus she has been a mega alcoholic since I was a kid, not like I had no clue.  Sure, I wanted her to quit drinking but not for religious reasons...it is for health reasons.  That is what killed my dad and I don't want it to kill my mom, too.  My sister told me she is quitting the drinking, which is good.  It just hurts that she assumes I will judge her and think less of her because of her problem.  I'm not a judgemental person and you think my own mother would know that. 


you've been vocal about your religion but never judgmental of me....and I embrace you for that!  :)

(((hugs)))  sorry your mom and sis can't figure out what I did and we've never even met! 

you've been vocal about your religion but never judgmental of me....and I embrace you for that!  :)

(((hugs)))  sorry your mom and sis can't figure out what I did and we've never even met! 


Thanks, Q, I appreciate that. :)

My rant today is that my mother ans sister think so little of me that they assume because I go to church and embrace my faith I would be judgemental of their behaviors.  My mother was just diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver because of her drinking.  She told my sister not to tell me because I would think less of her because of her drinking.  I asked my sister if I have ever been judgemental towards them because of it (I know I haven't, heck I have the occasional drink myself, but I am not a big drinker)  She said "Well you aren't quiet about liking your religion".  WTH, since when does embracing your faith equate to judgemental. 

My mom thought she was hiding how much she was drinking from me but you can tell.  Plus she has been a mega alcoholic since I was a kid, not like I had no clue.  Sure, I wanted her to quit drinking but not for religious reasons...it is for health reasons.  That is what killed my dad and I don't want it to kill my mom, too.  My sister told me she is quitting the drinking, which is good.  It just hurts that she assumes I will judge her and think less of her because of her problem.  I'm not a judgemental person and you think my own mother would know that. 
(((((((Hugs))))))))  I am sure your mother is being overly "defensive" about her situation.  Her drinking problem (or not) is out in the open, the cirrhosis of the liver sorta confirms it.  She may have been telling her doctor (and others) for years, that she only drinks "one glass of wine a day" or "on occasion".  So the fact that it is now confirmed that she has been "lying/hiding" her drinking - she thinks people are judging her, because she has been "lying".  Probably as she herself judges people who say one thing and do another, or have been caught in a lie.  She never thought she would get caught, proof by the hiding the fact for years, and she is now caught red handed.  Keep your faith, she is going to have some huge hurdles to jump over as she tries to embrace sobriety, and I pray for all of you that she does.  Prayers are with you Dagny!

(((((((Hugs))))))))  I am sure your mother is being overly "defensive" about her situation.  Her drinking problem (or not) is out in the open, the cirrhosis of the liver sorta confirms it.  She may have been telling her doctor (and others) for years, that she only drinks "one glass of wine a day" or "on occasion".  So the fact that it is now confirmed that she has been "lying/hiding" her drinking - she thinks people are judging her, because she has been "lying".  Probably as she herself judges people who say one thing and do another, or have been caught in a lie.  She never thought she would get caught, proof by the hiding the fact for years, and she is now caught red handed.  Keep your faith, she is going to have some huge hurdles to jump over as she tries to embrace sobriety, and I pray for all of you that she does.  Prayers are with you Dagny!


She hasn't been hiding the fact from me just the amount.  My sister knew because she drinks too, I am still not supposed to know about the problem.  I am just going to keep praying for her to have strength to get past it.  I know it isn't easy for her, she has been a bear the past week. 

My rant today is that my mother ans sister think so little of me that they assume because I go to church and embrace my faith I would be judgemental of their behaviors.  My mother was just diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver because of her drinking.  She told my sister not to tell me because I would think less of her because of her drinking.  I asked my sister if I have ever been judgemental towards them because of it (I know I haven't, heck I have the occasional drink myself, but I am not a big drinker)  She said "Well you aren't quiet about liking your religion".  WTH, since when does embracing your faith equate to judgemental. 

My mom thought she was hiding how much she was drinking from me but you can tell.  Plus she has been a mega alcoholic since I was a kid, not like I had no clue.  Sure, I wanted her to quit drinking but not for religious reasons...it is for health reasons.  That is what killed my dad and I don't want it to kill my mom, too.  My sister told me she is quitting the drinking, which is good.  It just hurts that she assumes I will judge her and think less of her because of her problem.  I'm not a judgemental person and you think my own mother would know that. 

I hope all goes well for your mother and your family. You are the lucky one for having strong religious values. Unfortunately some find it easier to hide an addiction than to face it head on.

First, I found the shower curtain that I want, and called Bed, Bath & Beyond and of course they don't have it in my local store. No big deal because I can just as easily buy it online. Just have to wait the few days for it to arrive if I decide to get it.


Guess what?
I went to the PX today and decided to see if there were any lighthouse towels... what do I find? The exact shower curtain that I wanted from Bed Bath & Beyond!!!!!!!!!!!! Limited to them and only online my  butt! AND I bought it for $10 cheaper than the price online!!! w00t!! Of course I took pictures, but as of right now they are limited to facebook. 8)

Guess what?
I went to the PX today and decided to see if there were any lighthouse towels... what do I find? The exact shower curtain that I wanted from Bed Bath & Beyond!!!!!!!!!!!! Limited to them and only online my  butt! AND I bought it for $10 cheaper than the price online!!! w00t!! Of course I took pictures, but as of right now they are limited to facebook. 8)

That's cool 8)

Guess what?
I went to the PX today and decided to see if there were any lighthouse towels... what do I find? The exact shower curtain that I wanted from Bed Bath & Beyond!!!!!!!!!!!! Limited to them and only online my  butt! AND I bought it for $10 cheaper than the price online!!! w00t!! Of course I took pictures, but as of right now they are limited to facebook. 8)


And that Folks, is a decorating WIN!

Guess what?
I went to the PX today and decided to see if there were any lighthouse towels... what do I find? The exact shower curtain that I wanted from Bed Bath & Beyond!!!!!!!!!!!! Limited to them and only online my  butt! AND I bought it for $10 cheaper than the price online!!! w00t!! Of course I took pictures, but as of right now they are limited to facebook. 8)



WTG!!!



Cat

Rant of the day

I was finalizing eldest girlz birthday plans.  I have the party place booked.  And it is for 10 girls.  Eldest invited 10 girls (hopefully someone can't go - otherwise 1 more shouldn't be too bad).  I do not think the youngest daughter will even get to take part in the festivities.  I just had a mom call me, and said her youngest was in tears (her eldest is in Addy's class and was invited) she wanted to go to the Pampered Poodle Party Place too for the make overs (not the slumber party) - Can she go too???  (I had to let mom know, that I do not even think my youngest - the sister - will be going).  Is it just me, or would this annoy anyone else as well???

Guess what?
I went to the PX today and decided to see if there were any lighthouse towels... what do I find? The exact shower curtain that I wanted from Bed Bath & Beyond!!!!!!!!!!!! Limited to them and only online my  butt! AND I bought it for $10 cheaper than the price online!!! w00t!! Of course I took pictures, but as of right now they are limited to facebook. 8)


YAY!!! *runs to facebook*

O0!

Rant of the day

I was finalizing eldest girlz birthday plans.  I have the party place booked.  And it is for 10 girls.   Eldest invited 10 girls (hopefully someone can't go - otherwise 1 more shouldn't be too bad).  I do not think the youngest daughter will even get to take part in the festivities.  I just had a mom call me, and said her youngest was in tears (her eldest is in Addy's class and was invited) she wanted to go to the Pampered Poodle Party Place too for the make overs (not the slumber party) - Can she go too???  (I had to let mom know, that I do not even think my youngest - the sister - will be going).  Is it just me, or would this annoy anyone else as well???


That is annoying! And my mom used to do that exact thing! If I was invited somewhere, my sister would always get upset and cry and have a fit until my mom called to see if she could go too!! Sad thing is - my sister is seven years younger, so it always turned into me babysitting her! >:(

Rant of the day

I was finalizing eldest girlz birthday plans.  I have the party place booked.  And it is for 10 girls.   Eldest invited 10 girls (hopefully someone can't go - otherwise 1 more shouldn't be too bad).  I do not think the youngest daughter will even get to take part in the festivities.  I just had a mom call me, and said her youngest was in tears (her eldest is in Addy's class and was invited) she wanted to go to the Pampered Poodle Party Place too for the make overs (not the slumber party) - Can she go too???  (I had to let mom know, that I do not even think my youngest - the sister - will be going).  Is it just me, or would this annoy anyone else as well???


Jeez.  Be firm with the mom and tell her there are no more spots available.  And if she doesn't let her eldest daughter go neither, her loss is your gain.

Rant of the day

I was finalizing eldest girlz birthday plans.  I have the party place booked.  And it is for 10 girls.  Eldest invited 10 girls (hopefully someone can't go - otherwise 1 more shouldn't be too bad).  I do not think the youngest daughter will even get to take part in the festivities.  I just had a mom call me, and said her youngest was in tears (her eldest is in Addy's class and was invited) she wanted to go to the Pampered Poodle Party Place too for the make overs (not the slumber party) - Can she go too???  (I had to let mom know, that I do not even think my youngest - the sister - will be going).  Is it just me, or would this annoy anyone else as well???


Stand firm. You are the front line of defense, hand in hand with those of us who won't be bullied, and that is just what it is, bullying.  If her youngest wants a makeover let her do it, let her have the party.  Dollars to donuts she wouldn't have any problem saying no to you if you tried to inject yourself or you daughters into similar plans.

Rant of the day

I was finalizing eldest girlz birthday plans.  I have the party place booked.  And it is for 10 girls.   Eldest invited 10 girls (hopefully someone can't go - otherwise 1 more shouldn't be too bad).  I do not think the youngest daughter will even get to take part in the festivities.  I just had a mom call me, and said her youngest was in tears (her eldest is in Addy's class and was invited) she wanted to go to the Pampered Poodle Party Place too for the make overs (not the slumber party) - Can she go too???  (I had to let mom know, that I do not even think my youngest - the sister - will be going).  Is it just me, or would this annoy anyone else as well???


That is just bad manners on the mom's part.  I'm actually kind of horrified that she called and asked you.  What nerve!  >:( ::)

That is just bad manners on the mom's part.  I'm actually kind of horrified that she called and asked you.  What nerve!  >:( ::)


Yeah!  Don't you have to pay so much per person for one of those parties? 

Rant of the day

I was finalizing eldest girlz birthday plans.  I have the party place booked.  And it is for 10 girls.   Eldest invited 10 girls (hopefully someone can't go - otherwise 1 more shouldn't be too bad).  I do not think the youngest daughter will even get to take part in the festivities.  I just had a mom call me, and said her youngest was in tears (her eldest is in Addy's class and was invited) she wanted to go to the Pampered Poodle Party Place too for the make overs (not the slumber party) - Can she go too???  (I had to let mom know, that I do not even think my youngest - the sister - will be going).  Is it just me, or would this annoy anyone else as well???



At least she called and didn't just drop the young sister off with the invitee. But still...



Cat

That is annoying! And my mom used to do that exact thing! If I was invited somewhere, my sister would always get upset and cry and have a fit until my mom called to see if she could go too!! Sad thing is - my sister is seven years younger, so it always turned into me babysitting her! >:(
Poor Tam, do you and your sister do anything together at all now?  I can see were there might be some "issues" there.  Our girls (20 months apart) do "a lot" together, but if one goes to their friends, I do not expect the other to go.  Like I said, eldest is having the party, and she set the invites (and we ended sending them to all the girls in her classroom - because she only had 1 girl left - and we decided we would hate to leave someone out).  Not sure if the youngest will be included in this party...  SHe will be included in "our family party" and the "extended family party".  I do not want to force the girls to be together "ALL" the time.  I would like them to get along at an older age as well.

I am not sure as a parent if I would have the balls to do that.  I have 2 girls, but they do not have the same friends.

Poor Tam, do you and your sister do anything together at all now?  I can see were there might be some "issues" there.  Our girls (20 months apart) do "a lot" together, but if one goes to their friends, I do not expect the other to go.  Like I said, eldest is having the party, and she set the invites (and we ended sending them to all the girls in her classroom - because she only had 1 girl left - and we decided we would hate to leave someone out).  Not sure if the youngest will be included in this party...  SHe will be included in "our family party" and the "extended family party".   I do not want to force the girls to be together "ALL" the time.  I would like them to get along at an older age as well.

I am not sure as a parent if I would have the balls to do that.  I have 2 girls, but they do not have the same friends.


We never allowed the younger ones to tag along to the older kids parties etc. They could show movies that we would not necessarily allow the younger to watch ...but were okay for the older etc. 

Jeez.  Be firm with the mom and tell her there are no more spots available.   And if she doesn't let her eldest daughter go neither, her loss is your gain.
Problem - it is my daughters best friend....  and we have included the youngest daughter (she is in between the girls) in shopping trips, and play dates, as she and the youngest get along.  So perhaps it is my fault, for not automatically including her.  But this is Addison's birthday party and not just another playdate....
Stand firm. You are the front line of defense, hand in hand with those of us who won't be bullied, and that is just what it is, bullying.  If her youngest wants a makeover let her do it, let her have the party.  Dollars to donuts she wouldn't have any problem saying no to you if you tried to inject yourself or you daughters into similar plans.
I believe I will....  but perhaps I am crazy for not thinking my youngest does not have to be a part of my eldest daughters birthday party (this is a friends on and not family)....
That is just bad manners on the mom's part.  I'm actually kind of horrified that she called and asked you.  What nerve!  >:( ::)
Yes - much gutsier than me.  Actually my youngest has never done anything with this family, unless it is us doing the asking.  We invite both girls over (as they are similar age) or shopping.  Our youngest has never been to their house, or to their daughter's party...

Yeah!  Don't you have to pay so much per person for one of those parties?  
Yes we are... Surprisingly the shop just opened, and it was REALLY reasonable.  The girls get a hair piece and an "up"do and some light makeup, and then they get to pick a couple things to "take home" (a boa and something else).  Then we get use of their "Party/Tea" room for cake and etc...  I hope it is fun.


At least she called and didn't just drop the young sister off with the invitee. But still...



Cat
OH MY YES :o  I had to put on the invitation to make sure that they RSVP'd by Feb. 10th as I had to have a definite head count to ensure that each girl had an "appointment" and the party place was not left scrambling because of too many girls and not enough help - we pay out the yin yang for too many girls scheduled and not enough showed up.  (Last year Addy had a bowling party - we had 3 rsvp - we had 14 show up)

We never allowed the younger ones to tag along to the older kids parties etc. They could show movies that we would not necessarily allow the younger to watch ...but were okay for the older etc.   
Good Point 8) I think it is also good for each to have their own identity.  My girls are close in age (20 months), but they are their own character.  They are not one in the same!

Another rant...

I hate getting infected with phony antivirus crap.... Especially ones that seem to replicate themselves.

>:(

Another rant...

I hate getting infected with phony antivirus crap.... Especially ones that seem to replicate themselves.

>:(


I have had that pop up a few times and it is a pain in the butt to close the window.  The first time the pop up hit it scared me until I realized that the "microsoft" logo was not quite right so I researched it and found out it was a virus in itself.  I have my McAfee and am just fine with it.

I have had that pop up a few times and it is a pain in the butt to close the window.  The first time the pop up hit it scared me until I realized that the "microsoft" logo was not quite right so I researched it and found out it was a virus in itself.  I have my McAfee and am just fine with it.


Good catch!  That happened to my boss at work last week and it almost creamed him.

I have had that pop up a few times and it is a pain in the butt to close the window.  The first time the pop up hit it scared me until I realized that the "microsoft" logo was not quite right so I researched it and found out it was a virus in itself.  I have my McAfee and am just fine with it.


happened to me today... .at work  :-[  at least I was doing a work related internet search at the time so if it comes back to haunt me I won't get banned from the computer  ;D

I have had that pop up a few times and it is a pain in the butt to close the window.  The first time the pop up hit it scared me until I realized that the "microsoft" logo was not quite right so I researched it and found out it was a virus in itself.  I have my McAfee and am just fine with it.



What I do when I get those things, I run my scan and usually nothing comes up-so I know it wasn't legit.



Cat

Another rant...

I hate getting infected with phony antivirus crap.... Especially ones that seem to replicate themselves.

>:(

Don't get me started I had problems for over a week, now all of the sudden it has disappeared for over a week, I'm not sure why :-\\ because I never fixed it.

happened to me today... .at work  :-[  at least I was doing a work related internet search at the time so if it comes back to haunt me I won't get banned from the computer  ;D


our IT person ran a scan today and said I was okay! WHEW!

our IT person ran a scan today and said I was okay! WHEW!


Double WHEW!

I am so sick of doctors.  I've been dealing with a rash/hives/fatigue off and on for well over 8 months now.  At first, it was very sporadic so I didn't really do anything about it, but in mid-December, it became a daily occurrence.  So, I get an appt with my primary doc's partner, she runs blood tests and everything comes back fine so she refers me to an allergist.  The allergist tests me for allergies and everything comes back fine, except for grass, trees, and mold (all summer allergies) and gives me a diagnosis of "idiopathic urticaria"...basically hives of unknown cause...and explains it that I'm pretty much allergic to myself.  He runs additional blood work, one thing comes back low, so he refers me to an endocrinologist.  She examines me and says the low level is not consistent with the intensity of the symptoms, but does additional blood work and a thyroid ultrasound just to be safe.  If all of these come back, I'm to go back to the allergist or my primary.  In the meantime, I'm on 2 antihistamines and a massive dose of prednisone to try and keep the hives/rash at bay....needless to say, they're not working very well so I'm STILL itching daily, although some days it's not quite as bad.

If these come back "normal," I'm ready to go back to my primary and tell him to test me for EVERY possible autoimmune disorder out there, or send me somewhere that can.  I'm tired of feeling like crap and itching every day.  If anyone has any ideas, here's what I've been tested for/ruled out:

stress/ruled out
medication reaction/ruled out
kidney dysfunction/ruled out
liver dysfunction/ruled out
contact allergy/ruled out
thyroid disorder/probably ruled out

The thing with the hives/rash is that they never last longer than a few hours and aren't in the same spot twice (and never on my face, thank goodness).  They itch like you wouldn't believe and welt up when scratched.  The other odd thing is that I will welt up and start itching if I accidentally scratch myself...for example, if you take your fingernail or a blunt object and make an X on your arm, you will most likely turn a little red--I will develop a welt that will start itching almost immediately.  Nothing topical or oral seems to make them better, and believe me, I've tried almost everything medical and homeopathic.

^Reminds me of all the doctors that didn't know what to do with me ( and probably didn't want to deal with me anyway) .

I am so sick of doctors.  I've been dealing with a rash/hives/fatigue off and on for well over 8 months now.  At first, it was very sporadic so I didn't really do anything about it, but in mid-December, it became a daily occurrence.  So, I get an appt with my primary doc's partner, she runs blood tests and everything comes back fine so she refers me to an allergist.  The allergist tests me for allergies and everything comes back fine, except for grass, trees, and mold (all summer allergies) and gives me a diagnosis of "idiopathic urticaria"...basically hives of unknown cause...and explains it that I'm pretty much allergic to myself.  He runs additional blood work, one thing comes back low, so he refers me to an endocrinologist.  She examines me and says the low level is not consistent with the intensity of the symptoms, but does additional blood work and a thyroid ultrasound just to be safe.  If all of these come back, I'm to go back to the allergist or my primary.  In the meantime, I'm on 2 antihistamines and a massive dose of prednisone to try and keep the hives/rash at bay....needless to say, they're not working very well so I'm STILL itching daily, although some days it's not quite as bad.

If these come back "normal," I'm ready to go back to my primary and tell him to test me for EVERY possible autoimmune disorder out there, or send me somewhere that can.  I'm tired of feeling like crap and itching every day.  If anyone has any ideas, here's what I've been tested for/ruled out:

stress/ruled out
medication reaction/ruled out
kidney dysfunction/ruled out
liver dysfunction/ruled out
contact allergy/ruled out
thyroid disorder/probably ruled out

The thing with the hives/rash is that they never last longer than a few hours and aren't in the same spot twice (and never on my face, thank goodness).  They itch like you wouldn't believe and welt up when scratched.  The other odd thing is that I will welt up and start itching if I accidentally scratch myself...for example, if you take your fingernail or a blunt object and make an X on your arm, you will most likely turn a little red--I will develop a welt that will start itching almost immediately.  Nothing topical or oral seems to make them better, and believe me, I've tried almost everything medical and homeopathic.
Metal or latex allergies???  I have both - and unfortunately latex is in anything with elastic (and lots of foods...) and it causes hives sometimes, when I am not aware that I have been "overly" exposed (banana's do it).....  And I have metal allergies, unfortunately antiperspirant is full of metal - so my underarms itch chronically almost daily (but I am not willing to go without - I may use my husbands deodorant, but it smells so strong, I hate to wear it all the time; until I have to)....

I am so sick of doctors.  I've been dealing with a rash/hives/fatigue off and on for well over 8 months now.  At first, it was very sporadic so I didn't really do anything about it, but in mid-December, it became a daily occurrence.  So, I get an appt with my primary doc's partner, she runs blood tests and everything comes back fine so she refers me to an allergist.  The allergist tests me for allergies and everything comes back fine, except for grass, trees, and mold (all summer allergies) and gives me a diagnosis of "idiopathic urticaria"...basically hives of unknown cause...and explains it that I'm pretty much allergic to myself.  He runs additional blood work, one thing comes back low, so he refers me to an endocrinologist.  She examines me and says the low level is not consistent with the intensity of the symptoms, but does additional blood work and a thyroid ultrasound just to be safe.  If all of these come back, I'm to go back to the allergist or my primary.  In the meantime, I'm on 2 antihistamines and a massive dose of prednisone to try and keep the hives/rash at bay....needless to say, they're not working very well so I'm STILL itching daily, although some days it's not quite as bad.

If these come back "normal," I'm ready to go back to my primary and tell him to test me for EVERY possible autoimmune disorder out there, or send me somewhere that can.  I'm tired of feeling like crap and itching every day.  If anyone has any ideas, here's what I've been tested for/ruled out:

stress/ruled out
medication reaction/ruled out
kidney dysfunction/ruled out
liver dysfunction/ruled out
contact allergy/ruled out
thyroid disorder/probably ruled out

The thing with the hives/rash is that they never last longer than a few hours and aren't in the same spot twice (and never on my face, thank goodness).  They itch like you wouldn't believe and welt up when scratched.  The other odd thing is that I will welt up and start itching if I accidentally scratch myself...for example, if you take your fingernail or a blunt object and make an X on your arm, you will most likely turn a little red--I will develop a welt that will start itching almost immediately.  Nothing topical or oral seems to make them better, and believe me, I've tried almost everything medical and homeopathic.
Here is another good site... perhaps it will help you to know - you are not abnormal

http://www.aocd.org/skin/dermatologic_diseases/urticaria.html

I am so sick of doctors.  I've been dealing with a rash/hives/fatigue off and on for well over 8 months now.  At first, it was very sporadic so I didn't really do anything about it, but in mid-December, it became a daily occurrence.  So, I get an appt with my primary doc's partner, she runs blood tests and everything comes back fine so she refers me to an allergist.  The allergist tests me for allergies and everything comes back fine, except for grass, trees, and mold (all summer allergies) and gives me a diagnosis of "idiopathic urticaria"...basically hives of unknown cause...and explains it that I'm pretty much allergic to myself.  He runs additional blood work, one thing comes back low, so he refers me to an endocrinologist.  She examines me and says the low level is not consistent with the intensity of the symptoms, but does additional blood work and a thyroid ultrasound just to be safe.  If all of these come back, I'm to go back to the allergist or my primary.  In the meantime, I'm on 2 antihistamines and a massive dose of prednisone to try and keep the hives/rash at bay....needless to say, they're not working very well so I'm STILL itching daily, although some days it's not quite as bad.

If these come back "normal," I'm ready to go back to my primary and tell him to test me for EVERY possible autoimmune disorder out there, or send me somewhere that can.  I'm tired of feeling like crap and itching every day.  If anyone has any ideas, here's what I've been tested for/ruled out:

stress/ruled out
medication reaction/ruled out
kidney dysfunction/ruled out
liver dysfunction/ruled out
contact allergy/ruled out
thyroid disorder/probably ruled out

The thing with the hives/rash is that they never last longer than a few hours and aren't in the same spot twice (and never on my face, thank goodness).  They itch like you wouldn't believe and welt up when scratched.  The other odd thing is that I will welt up and start itching if I accidentally scratch myself...for example, if you take your fingernail or a blunt object and make an X on your arm, you will most likely turn a little red--I will develop a welt that will start itching almost immediately.  Nothing topical or oral seems to make them better, and believe me, I've tried almost everything medical and homeopathic.


What about changing your washing powder to one of those 'non-chemical' types.....like Melaleuca or something? That probably comes under contact allergies though... :-\\

Metal or latex allergies???  I have both - and unfortunately latex is in anything with elastic (and lots of foods...) and it causes hives sometimes, when I am not aware that I have been "overly" exposed (banana's do it).....  And I have metal allergies, unfortunately antiperspirant is full of metal - so my underarms itch chronically almost daily (but I am not willing to go without - I may use my husbands deodorant, but it smells so strong, I hate to wear it all the time; until I have to)....
I have a nickel allergy and am sensitive to latex, but they are wary to call it a full blown "allergy."  I've never had a problem with deodorant/antiperspirant, though....

Well, I've now seen an endocrinologist, who told me my thyroid function is "normal" despite the right lobe being larger than the left, and a dermatologist, who has me on an "elimination diet" to rule out food allergies (all I have been eating since Tuesday is chicken breast, white rice, and drinking water)--which isn't really having much effect on the hives so it's not looking like that is the case.  I'm supposed to go in today for a biopsy of the hives, but the problem is none of them are big enough to biopsy.  So, I guess I'm just going to have to reschedule.....

What about changing your washing powder to one of those 'non-chemical' types.....like Melaleuca or something? That probably comes under contact allergies though... :-\\
I've never heard of that, but I already use one that is fragrance and dye free. :(

I really hate the bus system in my city. There are certain routes that don't have the amount of runs they should. The busiest one goes every 1/2 hour most of the time.(This might sound like alot per hour, but it isn't if you just miss your bus like I did today)

I've never heard of that, but I already use one that is fragrance and dye free. :(


The problem with fragrance/dye free laundry detergent is that in order to make it that way, they have to add more of the harsher chemicals.
I have super sensitive skin and I tried Tide Free - broke out, used the baby stuff - broke out, used Suavital free - broke out!

Now I use Purex with color safe bleach and I have no problems at all. :)

The problem with fragrance/dye free laundry detergent is that in order to make it that way, they have to add more of the harsher chemicals.
I have super sensitive skin and I tried Tide Free - broke out, used the baby stuff - broke out, used Suavital free - broke out!

Now I use Purex with color safe bleach and I have no problems at all. :)


Yep...they're the chemicals I was alluding to.  :)

The problem with fragrance/dye free laundry detergent is that in order to make it that way, they have to add more of the harsher chemicals.
I have super sensitive skin and I tried Tide Free - broke out, used the baby stuff - broke out, used Suavital free - broke out!

Now I use Purex with color safe bleach and I have no problems at all. :)
Oh!  I see what you're saying.  I'll try switching for a load or two and see if that makes a difference.

Since my first post, my doctor has clarified a few things....the scratching/welting up thing is actually called dermatographia.  I guess it's a somewhat rare condition that affects <10% of the population and there's usually no known cause.  It's sometimes related to allergies, but not necessarily.  And, it can come and go, but not always.  In other words, they don't really know much about it  :-\\

They also did a biopsy of one of the hives to see if they could determine if there was something other than IgE (histamine, what causes allergic reactions) causing the hives.  Sometimes they can be caused by bacteria or some other pathogen.  Before this could be done, I was put on a strict "food elimination" diet where I could only eat plain chicken breasts, white rice, and bottled water.  Talk about SUCKING!!!!

On the plus side, I am FINALLY off the prednisone!!!  Now, to just get rid of the acne I acquired and extra weight I gained from being on it for 3 weeks >:(

Metal or latex allergies???  I have both - and unfortunately latex is in anything with elastic (and lots of foods...) and it causes hives sometimes, when I am not aware that I have been "overly" exposed (banana's do it).....  And I have metal allergies, unfortunately antiperspirant is full of metal - so my underarms itch chronically almost daily (but I am not willing to go without - I may use my husbands deodorant, but it smells so strong, I hate to wear it all the time; until I have to)....


Ditto above, try Soft and Dri antiperspirant.  It is the only one I have found that doesn't make me itch or break out.  Cortaid is the only thing that relieves the itching, I used to dig holes in my pits before I finally used that.  ;)

Gah

trying to order something online.  choose two day shipping and it says it will arrive in about two weeks time!  How is that two days shipping?

Gah

trying to order something online.  choose two day shipping and it says it will arrive in about two weeks time!  How is that two days shipping?


weird..... I'd call customer service and see if you can get them to pick up the shipping charge.

Gah

trying to order something online.  choose two day shipping and it says it will arrive in about two weeks time!  How is that two days shipping?


The only way I think this happens is if the item you are trying to order is on backorder... :-\\

TO HELL WITH BLUE CROSS!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/04/firedevil.gif

My office co-pays under Network Blue have TRIPLED in the past three months to $50.00 a pop.  Here's the rub.  I'm collecting unemployment.  If you collect unemployment in Massachusetts, you have to take the Blue Cross plan.  You don't get a choice.  That's called fascism.

I'm not looking for advice or suggestions here.  I just wanted to blow off steam!
>:(

That bites Max! >:(

The only way I think this happens is if the item you are trying to order is on backorder... :-\\


that must be the case.  Though I'm sure it said in stock, because I tried ordering the items (ten compasses) from another company and they only had 5 in stock.  That's why I tried to check.  Anyway, I think REI have them - slightly more expensive but we'll get the members rebate!

I HATE YOU, FOOT.

That is all.

This recession is getting to me. I was close to being offered a government job but now I'm stuck in customer service due to the economy going downhill. I should actually be thankful that I have a job but these customers are making me mental. I actually try hard to be nice and friendly to customers but it doesn't work. For example, today I was wishing a couple of clients a happy new year but they laughed for no apparent reason and walked away.

This recession is getting to me. I was close to being offered a government job but now I'm stuck in customer service due to the economy going downhill. I should actually be thankful that I have a job but these customers are making me mental. I actually try hard to be nice and friendly to customers but it doesn't work. For example, today I was wishing a couple of clients a happy new year but they laughed for no apparent reason and walked away.


:-\\

I don't particularly like to vent/whine/complain about my dialysis treatment, but this is just something that's bothering me and I have to get off my chest.
I have what's called a fistula in my left arm and it's basically an enlarged vien that they use to put the needles in to filter my blood. That being said, I know my arm, I know my body. It' b een attatched to me since May 8, 1986, So why is it that every time I go into dialysis the nurses want to stick the needles farther and frther up my arm, when every time it does that, the needle infiltrates--goes through the vein--and swell and bruises and hurts!

I begged the nurse yesterday to not go up to far on my arm--prime pricking skin is about 4-5 inches from my wrist--and she went further up and right away, my arm puffed up like a pastry!  >: So that needle had to be pulled and another put in which worked and was where i was originally telling them to put it.

Now I know I don't have the sort of training to be a doctor or in the medical field, but I do think I know where the hell a needle should go on my body! I've had dozens of IVs and blood drawn and always told the nurses where to put the needle for the best shot. I dont know why they don't listen in dialysis.  :(

I just try to tough it out as best I can.
That's why I feel kinda bad about complaining because I know everything is being done for my benenfit and to help me, it's just when I get deaf ears it frustrates me.


That's all.

I don't particularly like to vent/whine/complain about my dialysis treatment, but this is just something that's bothering me and I have to get off my chest.
I have what's called a fistula in my left arm and it's basically an enlarged vien that they use to put the needles in to filter my blood. That being said, I know my arm, I know my body. It' b een attatched to me since May 8, 1986, So why is it that every time I go into dialysis the nurses want to stick the needles farther and frther up my arm, when every time it does that, the needle infiltrates--goes through the vein--and swell and bruises and hurts!

I begged the nurse yesterday to not go up to far on my arm--prime pricking skin is about 4-5 inches from my wrist--and she went further up and right away, my arm puffed up like a pastry!  >: So that needle had to be pulled and another put in which worked and was where i was originally telling them to put it.

Now I know I don't have the sort of training to be a doctor or in the medical field, but I do think I know where the hell a needle should go on my body! I've had dozens of IVs and blood drawn and always told the nurses where to put the needle for the best shot. I dont know why they don't listen in dialysis.  :(

I just try to tough it out as best I can.
That's why I feel kinda bad about complaining because I know everything is being done for my benenfit and to help me, it's just when I get deaf ears it frustrates me.


That's all.



I had a similar situation. They can only find a vain to take blood on my left arm. One day I had a blood test done (on the left arm) which I can't remember why. Anyway, the very next day I was told that I had to take an AIDS test (I hate when that happens because I didn't even have a chance to study for it  :D ;D ;D). I told the woman who was going to take blood out of me, that I had blood drawn the day before and my left arm was the only arm she was going to get anything out of me. She told me not to worry. So, she went to my RIGHT arm-stuck me and of course she didn't get anything out of me. Then she went back to my left arm, stuck me again and she must have gone all the way through my vain because she old got a little bit out. I made a comment to her, "That is because they took it all out yesterday." For 3 weeks afterwords, my arm was just killing me. Pissed me off that she didn't even listen to me in the first place.




Cat

Money + Bills = Here today gone tomorrow!
:(

I live in a 4-plex style building... on Post.
The contractors that run the Community Homes are arse wipes!

With 4 units, we are ALL supposed to shovel in the winter, clean the common grounds etc.
I own a dog. Her name is Daisy.
Daisy has to go outside in order to do her business - I do not have a fenced in area, as I live upstairs.
I take her out, but when it is below freezing, I am not fitting to go and try to find her 'business' in the dark.
I wait until the next day and go pick it up and dispose of it accordingly.
Every morning there are 3 dogs that come parading into the yard to do their business. No one with them means no one to clean up after them.

This past Fall, we had 2 new sets of people move in downstairs.
They refused ALL WINTER LONG to shovel, save for a little bit around their cars in order to get out.
So my next door neighbor and I did it all!!! Ice breaking, salting and shoveling constantly.
We of course complained, because we are all responsible for it.
The Community Managers did nothing about it.

There was a knock on my door today...
I answered and it was one of the Community Managers.
Conveniently, she came to advise me about picking up all of the dog business in the common yard.
I explained very politely that not all of it was my dogs business, and that I should not be responsible to clean it up.
She advised I had better because I am the only dog owner in the building, so if I am cleaning up after my dog, it shouldn't hurt me to clean up after someone elses!!
I then told her that there is also deer business in the yard, that the "stray" dogs like to poop on top of and of course that my stupid dog likes to eat.
I asked what was to be done by them about that...
She advised that I could also pick that up.
I advised her that she was out of her Rabbit Assed Mind!!!

I will give that there are probably a few of the 'businesses' out there that I may have overlooked as being my dogs. I am not perfect.
But I'll be damned if I am going to pick up after other people's animals and the Deer. Nah! Not gonna work for me.

I suggested that she don some rubber gloves and come pick it up for herself.
Of course, she gave me a disgusted look.

Maybe you should put a solution in your dogs food that makes it colored or glows in the dark  .... so you can identify it easily!!!    ;)  The rest can be shovelled into the community manager's yard!

:-\\


that's what I was thinking...  ;D

I don't particularly like to vent/whine/complain about my dialysis treatment, but this is just something that's bothering me and I have to get off my chest.
I have what's called a fistula in my left arm and it's basically an enlarged vien that they use to put the needles in to filter my blood. That being said, I know my arm, I know my body. It' b een attatched to me since May 8, 1986, So why is it that every time I go into dialysis the nurses want to stick the needles farther and frther up my arm, when every time it does that, the needle infiltrates--goes through the vein--and swell and bruises and hurts!

I begged the nurse yesterday to not go up to far on my arm--prime pricking skin is about 4-5 inches from my wrist--and she went further up and right away, my arm puffed up like a pastry!  >: So that needle had to be pulled and another put in which worked and was where i was originally telling them to put it.

Now I know I don't have the sort of training to be a doctor or in the medical field, but I do think I know where the hell a needle should go on my body! I've had dozens of IVs and blood drawn and always told the nurses where to put the needle for the best shot. I dont know why they don't listen in dialysis.  :(

I just try to tough it out as best I can.
That's why I feel kinda bad about complaining because I know everything is being done for my benenfit and to help me, it's just when I get deaf ears it frustrates me.


That's all.


I had a similar situation. They can only find a vain to take blood on my left arm. One day I had a blood test done (on the left arm) which I can't remember why. Anyway, the very next day I was told that I had to take an AIDS test (I hate when that happens because I didn't even have a chance to study for it  :D ;D ;D). I told the woman who was going to take blood out of me, that I had blood drawn the day before and my left arm was the only arm she was going to get anything out of me. She told me not to worry. So, she went to my RIGHT arm-stuck me and of course she didn't get anything out of me. Then she went back to my left arm, stuck me again and she must have gone all the way through my vain because she old got a little bit out. I made a comment to her, "That is because they took it all out yesterday." For 3 weeks afterwords, my arm was just killing me. Pissed me off that she didn't even listen to me in the first place.




Cat
Since we're bithcing about the medical profession....last week, I go to the doctor for some knee pain....she looks at my knees, takes x-rays, I tell her I've been trying vicodin (2 at a time) and they've done nothing and what does she want to prescirbe for me?  Vicodin....but she wants me to ALSO take 800 mg of ibuprofen.  When I ask her for vicoprofen (which is 7.5mg hydrocodone/200 mg ibuprofen instead of 10mg hydrocodone/800 mg ibuprofen) she initially refuses.  She finally agrees, but only after a slight battle.

Then, I go to the allergist, he orders some blood work and it take 3 phlebotomists to find a vein....1 in training, 1 "overseer," and 1 "veteran" (who finally finds it."  I told the trainee where to find the vein but she couldn't "feel it."  DUH!  You can see the dammed thang popping out of my arm almost the second you tourniquet it!!!  How hard is it to feel it?  If my "untrained eye" can see it, you surely shoudl be able to "feel it"!!!!!  After 3 pokes, the 3rd person finally "found" the original vein I pointed out and got the 6 vials of blood the allergist requested ::)

I'm sure everyone remembers about a month ago when Carlos ended up in the hospital. If you remembered my long, drawn-out story how we went to the ER in Rutland and then went up to Burlington by ambulance in the middle of the night because Carlos' urologist is in Burlington and Carlos REFUSES to see the urologist in Rutland. Well, the ambulance company said that since it wasn't "necessary" and that it was our "choice" to go to Burlington, we had to pay for the service up-front-over $1000  :o :o :o :o . First we were told "cash," as if we carry that amount of cash on us. I asked if they took a check and then we were told they take credit cards (which isn't cash but that is beside the point). Anyway, I put it on my credit card thinking that the insurance company will reimburse me later. About a week later, they sent me a check for $44 saying that I was overcharged by that amount. I wanted to tell them that I was overcharged by a lot more than just $44. My credit card bill came in, and I paid it and I am still waiting to hear from the insurance company about reimbursements. Carlos called the ambulance company. Come to find out that they didn't even submit the claim!!!!  >:( >:( >:( >:(  It is bad enough overcharging someone when they are down but not even submit the claim so we could get reimbursed for their overpricing? REALLY PISSES ME OFF!!!!



Cat

Any thoughts and prayers are needed for my friends son.  He got served papers yesterday to go to court to claim custody of his daughter.  2 weeks ago she showed up at the hospital with her mom saying she "fell out of the crib"  My ass she fell out of the crib, my daughter fell 5 feet out of her bedroom window onto the driveway on her head and had less damage.  The baby had a busted lip, bruises and level 5 lacerations to the liver...level 6 being the worst.  She was sent to the local childrens hospital and gets out today.  She is around 20 months old and I am so angry I could spit.  Her mom has kept this little girl from her daddy just to be a bitch.  She plays lots of head games, not the most mature person in the world.  He loves that baby and would never do a thing to hurt her. 

Any thoughts and prayers are needed for my friends son.  He got served papers yesterday to go to court to claim custody of his daughter.  2 weeks ago she showed up at the hospital with her mom saying she "fell out of the crib"  My ass she fell out of the crib, my daughter fell 5 feet out of her bedroom window onto the driveway on her head and had less damage.  The baby had a busted lip, bruises and level 5 lacerations to the liver...level 6 being the worst.  She was sent to the local childrens hospital and gets out today.  She is around 20 months old and I am so angry I could spit.  Her mom has kept this little girl from her daddy just to be a bitch.  She plays lots of head games, not the most mature person in the world.  He loves that baby and would never do a thing to hurt her. 



My thoughts go out to him. Please keep us informed of the progress.



Cat

Any thoughts and prayers are needed for my friends son.  He got served papers yesterday to go to court to claim custody of his daughter.  2 weeks ago she showed up at the hospital with her mom saying she "fell out of the crib"  My ass she fell out of the crib, my daughter fell 5 feet out of her bedroom window onto the driveway on her head and had less damage.  The baby had a busted lip, bruises and level 5 lacerations to the liver...level 6 being the worst.  She was sent to the local childrens hospital and gets out today.  She is around 20 months old and I am so angry I could spit.  Her mom has kept this little girl from her daddy just to be a bitch.  She plays lots of head games, not the most mature person in the world.  He loves that baby and would never do a thing to hurt her. 

Hope Justice is served and he keeps his baby, and she goes for help.

My thoughts go out to him. Please keep us informed of the progress.



Cat


Will do.  Court is tomorrow so we should know more then.  Thankfully she was keeping the baby from him so they can't try to say he did it.  I can see this girl trying that one.


Hope Justice is served and he keeps his baby, and she goes for help.


Thanks, Frank.  Thankfully she is young so it should be easier for her to heal.

Talked to my friend...tomorrow is to see if there is enough evidence to remove her from the home. 

Her boyfriend turned himself in.  He said he was high on spice and beat her up because she didn't want to be held and was crying.  The part that sucks is she knew what happened and still lied to the doctor.  I am thinking it should be enough.  She proved that she is willing to lie to protect him and not tell the truth and protect her baby.

Talked to my friend...tomorrow is to see if there is enough evidence to remove her from the home. 

Her boyfriend turned himself in.  He said he was high on spice and beat her up because she didn't want to be held and was crying.  The part that sucks is she knew what happened and still lied to the doctor.  I am thinking it should be enough.  She proved that she is willing to lie to protect him and not tell the truth and protect her baby.


I'm ready to beat some ass:  the boyfriend's AND the mother's.

I'm ready to beat some ass:  the boyfriend's AND the mother's.


Sic Charlie on them!

That's really horrible dag!  I hope they get the whole damn library thrown at them.

Sic Charlie on them!



My husband?  :o :o :o



Cat

My husband?  :o :o :o



Cat


That's not who I meant, but sure!

I'm ready to beat some ass:  the boyfriend's AND the mother's.


Same here.   She claims she was asleep when it happened.  That doesn't explain the lie.  


That's really horrible dag!  I hope they get the whole damn library thrown at them.


me too.



On the positive side, the case worker is going to arrange a visit between her and her daddy tomorrow after court.  He loves his little girl so much.

Any thoughts and prayers are needed for my friends son.  He got served papers yesterday to go to court to claim custody of his daughter.  2 weeks ago she showed up at the hospital with her mom saying she "fell out of the crib"  My ass she fell out of the crib, my daughter fell 5 feet out of her bedroom window onto the driveway on her head and had less damage.  The baby had a busted lip, bruises and level 5 lacerations to the liver...level 6 being the worst.  She was sent to the local childrens hospital and gets out today.  She is around 20 months old and I am so angry I could spit.  Her mom has kept this little girl from her daddy just to be a bitch.  She plays lots of head games, not the most mature person in the world.  He loves that baby and would never do a thing to hurt her. 
Someone should take the boyfriend and her to a dark alley and beat the snot out of them - leaving in their own petrid pools of pus....

I hate violence against children, baby's cry and they should be able to cry (laugh at them for throwing a tantrum - don't beat em).  How disgusting!

I hope daddy get's his wish and that all works out for the little girl in the end

Talked to my friend...tomorrow is to see if there is enough evidence to remove her from the home. 

Her boyfriend turned himself in.  He said he was high on spice and beat her up because she didn't want to be held and was crying.  The part that sucks is she knew what happened and still lied to the doctor.  I am thinking it should be enough.  She proved that she is willing to lie to protect him and not tell the truth and protect her baby.


neither of then can be good parents at this time. 

neither of then can be good parents at this time. 


Thankfully the boyfriend isn't her dad.  Her dad is trying to get custody.

Any thoughts and prayers are needed for my friends son.  He got served papers yesterday to go to court to claim custody of his daughter.  2 weeks ago she showed up at the hospital with her mom saying she "fell out of the crib"  My ass she fell out of the crib, my daughter fell 5 feet out of her bedroom window onto the driveway on her head and had less damage.  The baby had a busted lip, bruises and level 5 lacerations to the liver...level 6 being the worst.  She was sent to the local childrens hospital and gets out today.  She is around 20 months old and I am so angry I could spit.  Her mom has kept this little girl from her daddy just to be a bitch.  She plays lots of head games, not the most mature person in the world.  He loves that baby and would never do a thing to hurt her. 

I hope all works out in the end and he gets custody of his daughter.

Thanks, Ninny.

AAAAUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!


My husband went to some website and "signed up". Now we are receiving mega porn spam.  >:( >:( >:( Now, I'm trying to put in filters. Yeah, they do go to the junk e-mail file but they STILL come in and I still have to delete them. I went to the comcast website (our server) and put some filters in there. Hopefully, that will cut some of them down from coming in. The thing is, they all come in from different addresses and there isn't too many things that I can use as a filter.



Cat

AAAAUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!


My husband went to some website and "signed up". Now we are receiving mega porn spam.  >:( >:( >:( Now, I'm trying to put in filters. Yeah, they do go to the junk e-mail file but they STILL come in and I still have to delete them. I went to the comcast website (our server) and put some filters in there. Hopefully, that will cut some of them down from coming in. The thing is, they all come in from different addresses and there isn't too many things that I can use as a filter.



Cat


There's so much free pr0n on the 'net nowadays, it's not worth signing up for anything.  If they say it's "free" but they want a CC# for age verification, then they're phishing, or possibly worse!  The junk mail boxes on my email accounts are always filled with porn spam, but I just let 'em come and go.

There's so much free pr0n on the 'net nowadays, it's not worth signing up for anything.  If they say it's "free" but they want a CC# for age verification, then they're phishing, or possibly worse!  The junk mail boxes on my email accounts are always filled with porn spam, but I just let 'em come and go.



I gave that guy I live with a bitching out. It's not that mind him looking at porn. In fact, I have looked at it with him. I do mind all the spam we are now getting.  >:( >:( >:( >:(



Cat

I gave that guy I live with a bitching out. It's not that mind him looking at porn. In fact, I have looked at it with him. I do mind all the spam we are now getting.  >:( >:( >:( >:(



Cat


I notice couples tend to have his and hers computers.  That way she doesn't have to deal with porn spam and viruses!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/02/catsmiley.gif

I notice couples tend to have his and hers computers.  That way she doesn't have to deal with porn spam and viruses!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/02/catsmiley.gif



We now have his & hers computer but one email.



Cat

We now have his & hers computer but one email.

Cat

Our family shares 1 computer. It's OK, no one in our household ever looks at porn.

Our family shares 1 computer. It's OK, no one in our household ever looks at porn.


at least not on the computer  ;)

AAAAUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!


My husband went to some website and "signed up". Now we are receiving mega porn spam.  >:( >:( >:( Now, I'm trying to put in filters. Yeah, they do go to the junk e-mail file but they STILL come in and I still have to delete them. I went to the comcast website (our server) and put some filters in there. Hopefully, that will cut some of them down from coming in. The thing is, they all come in from different addresses and there isn't too many things that I can use as a filter.



Cat


At the bottom of each email, there should be an "unsubscribe" link. As long as you use it, your email will be taken out of their lists. Of course, that means you have to do every single email, and it takes up to about 2 weeks for some of them to remove the email address, but eventually they will no longer show up! ;)

At the bottom of each email, there should be an "unsubscribe" link. As long as you use it, your email will be taken out of their lists. Of course, that means you have to do every single email, and it takes up to about 2 weeks for some of them to remove the email address, but eventually they will no longer show up! ;)



They are not from a business. They are basically a bunch of gibberish from either hotmail or yahoo addresses.



Cat

They are not from a business. They are basically a bunch of gibberish from either hotmail or yahoo addresses.



Cat


Tam is right if the emails come from any kind of legit business, but as you see, porn spam gives no such indication.  In fact, the worst thing you can do with porn spammers is reply.  Even if you tell them to f**k off, the spammers know they found a working email address with an actual person on the other end.  It's like bottom-feeding collection agencies, better not to talk to them at all.

Tam is right if the emails come from any kind of legit business, but as you see, porn spam gives no such indication.  In fact, the worst thing you can do with porn spammers is reply.  Even if you tell them to f**k off, the spammers know they found a working email address with an actual person on the other end.  It's like bottom-feeding collection agencies, better not to talk to them at all.



I know. I'm just trying to put in a whole bunch of filters. Hopefully, I can get most of them.



Cat

I know. I'm just trying to put in a whole bunch of filters. Hopefully, I can get most of them.



Cat


You can filter them, or just wait until the start disappearing by attrition. 

I HATE I HAVE TO SPEND MY BIRTHDAY IN DIALYSIS... >:(

Sorry to hear that, apollonia. :(

I HATE I HAVE TO SPEND MY BIRTHDAY IN DIALYSIS... >:(


that sux! I'm sorry...

I HATE I HAVE TO SPEND MY BIRTHDAY IN DIALYSIS... >:(


But the dialysis will help you have many more birthdays to come!

Happy B'day, Appolonia!
:)

www.parentdish.com/2010/05/05/mama-mia-u-s-ranks-28th-in-best-place-to-be-a-mother/



It's almost Mother's Day, but it turns out moms in the United States may not have a lot to celebrate -- at least when it comes to Save the Children's annual "Mothers' Index."

According to the organization's 11th annual report, which ranks the best and worst places to be a mother, Norway and Australia are the top spots, while the United States places at just number 28 -- down from 27 in 2009. The reason? America's maternal mortality rate -- one in 4,800 -- is one of the highest in the developed world, according to Save the Children. Also factoring in: The U.S. ranks behind many other wealthy nations in terms of maternity leave policies.


Yeah!  No sheeshe!  And if anyone suggests care and treatment for the mothers and babies the Teabaggers will shout socialistmarxistcommunistdictator.  We have turned into a nation of mean spirited, selfish, self-centered a$$es who can't even look at ourselves and decided we deserve to be treated as well as the rest of the world.  KOOL AID!  The Kool-aid is that anyone could, or should, do it themselves, that it doesn't happen here, that the mothers and children, not matter what their situation, "brought it on themselves" so they can take care of it themselves.

www.parentdish.com/2010/05/05/mama-mia-u-s-ranks-28th-in-best-place-to-be-a-mother/



It's almost Mother's Day, but it turns out moms in the United States may not have a lot to celebrate -- at least when it comes to Save the Children's annual "Mothers' Index."

According to the organization's 11th annual report, which ranks the best and worst places to be a mother, Norway and Australia are the top spots, while the United States places at just number 28 -- down from 27 in 2009. The reason? America's maternal mortality rate -- one in 4,800 -- is one of the highest in the developed world, according to Save the Children. Also factoring in: The U.S. ranks behind many other wealthy nations in terms of maternity leave policies.


Yeah!  No sheeshe!  And if anyone suggests care and treatment for the mothers and babies the Teabaggers will shout socialistmarxistcommunistdictator.  We have turned into a nation of mean spirited, selfish, self-centered a$$es who can't even look at ourselves and decided we deserve to be treated as well as the rest of the world.  KOOL AID!  The Kool-aid is that anyone could, or should, do it themselves, that it doesn't happen here, that the mothers and children, not matter what their situation, "brought it on themselves" so they can take care of it themselves.


That's what you get when you make money, and getting more of it for yourself, the highest virtue in the country.  Give us your huddled greedy, immature, over privileged, sadistic, and smug...
::)

I notice couples tend to have his and hers computers.  That way she doesn't have to deal with porn spam and viruses!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/02/catsmiley.gif


Or he doesn't...   :-[  ;)  ;D

I had watching my boyfriend eat a rare/medium rare steak.

It just kind of plucks my nerves. I prefer mine well done and he likes his best when you can still hear it go MOO!  >:(

Isn't that why we have fire? To cook food and ward off botulism and e Coli!

http://yellowallpaper.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/cow.jpg

This is an Animal.

http://www.omahasteaks.com/gifs/big/tb013a.jpg

This is a meal! (Pass the Heinz 57!)

I had watching my boyfriend eat a rare/medium rare steak.

It just kind of plucks my nerves. I prefer mine well done and he likes his best when you can still hear it go MOO!  >:(

Isn't that why we have fire? To cook food and ward off botulism and e Coli!

http://yellowallpaper.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/cow.jpg

This is an Animal.

http://www.omahasteaks.com/gifs/big/tb013a.jpg

This is a meal! (Pass the Heinz 57!)


Totally agree with you. In fact...I might want a little more charcoaled effect on mine!  ;)

I like mine mooing, too.

Carlos likes his raw and mooing, too. I keep telling him that I like mine pink but not bloody. I don't know how else to say it. He is under the impression that I like it well done. But many times he gives it to me with blood pouring out. What is so hard about understanding what pink but not bloody means?  ???



Cat

I had watching my boyfriend eat a rare/medium rare steak.

It just kind of plucks my nerves. I prefer mine well done and he likes his best when you can still hear it go MOO!  >:(

Isn't that why we have fire? To cook food and ward off botulism and e Coli!

http://yellowallpaper.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/cow.jpg

This is an Animal.

http://www.omahasteaks.com/gifs/big/tb013a.jpg

This is a meal! (Pass the Heinz 57!)
Ok - there are a few things in this comment, that as a rightful Iowa Ag. teacher I can not let pass.  I am not criticizing, I am just doing my rightful duty to educate - it is what I do all day, everyday.

Number one - botulism occurs in canned foods.  Ecoli - is not with in the meat fiber (it would occur on the cut surface- where a tainted knife would touch it).  So on a steak that is only on the 2 cut surfaces (and perhaps the edges if they were stripped of fat) - so as long as it was placed near a heat source (flame, pan, etc) the bacteria on those surfaces would be killed. 

Number 2 - the cow is not a beef animal (that is an old Dairy Cow)... The beef from steak come from animals around 18 months of age (and not sexually mature - which a Dairy Cow has to be, as she has to have a calf before she can produce milk.  Note the large udders, used to produce milk).  A Beef animal is either a Steer (castrated male - testicles removed to prevent testosterone from being released) or heifer (female who has never had a calf).  And this is a beef heifer (underdeveloped udder showing) that is ready for market (and yes this is one at a cattle show - we have beauty pageants/dog shows for cattle). 
http://www.showsteers.com/Kupke/Kupke_E-Mail%200871.jpg


Number 3 - the steak you showed was a Rare cooked T-bone... Note the shallow grill marks, and the fat on the edges is barely singed (fat cooks at a much lower temp than the meat), plumpness of meat, and glistening juices on the surface.    The steaks below are all similar ribeyes and cooke rare, medium and well.  Notice how the steak shrinks, the juices are cooked out of it.  Steak is suggested to be ate at Rare to Med. Rare  http://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads/2008/03/steak.jpg
And a well done t-bone - no juices on the surface, not as plump, and the fat is almost non existant (charred and cooked away)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QqjY_EEKwFY/S6MyO1LLivI/AAAAAAAAC9Y/XhrZ3PO7LSc/s320/DSCN0488.JPG

wow.... that's like Sami's version of the History of the Chevy V-8 engine!  ;D 


on number two you sound like me everytime I try to explain on a TV show message board why robbery and burglary are not interchangeable terms... neither are jail / prison  and parole / probation.  ::)

wow.... that's like Sami's version of the History of the Chevy V-8 engine!  ;D   


on number two you sound like me everytime I try to explain on a TV show message board why robbery and burglary are not interchangeable terms... neither are jail / prison  and parole / probation.   ::)
Precisely - everyone thinks a cow is a cow, but really a cow is a sexually mature bovine/cattle that has had a calf. Much like the difference between a female horse that has had a foal is a mare and a filly is an immature (that has not had a foal). 

Let me give it a try

Robbery (another person is involved)  Burglary (got into something/ broke into something and stole something without another person/victim present)???
Jail - (time spent till proven guilty or no trial involved - example intoxication) Prison (proven guilty and you are someone's biatch)
Parole (the rest of your prison term is spent out of jail, get out of jail on good behavior you are on parole)  Probation (given instead of prison terms - rapist was sentences to 5 years probation - have to follow rules or else going to jail...)

Precisely - everyone thinks a cow is a cow, but really a cow is a sexually mature bovine/cattle that has had a calf. Much like the difference between a female horse that has had a foal is a mare and a filly is an immature (that has not had a foal). 

Let me give it a try

Robbery (another person is involved)  Burglary (got into something/ broke into something and stole something without another person/victim present)???
Jail - (time spent till proven guilty or no trial involved - example intoxication) Prison (proven guilty and you are someone's biatch)
Parole (the rest of your prison term is spent out of jail, get out of jail on good behavior you are on parole)  Probation (given instead of prison terms - rapist was sentences to 5 years probation - have to follow rules or else going to jail...)



pretty good...

robbery not just another person present but "take thru force or fear" 

If I say to you gimme your purse or i'll kill you... I robbed you.. but if you are in the grocery store and left your purse in your cart and I took it while you bent down to get an item off the bottom shelf then it was a theft.... if I went into the store because I knew it was a good place to find an unattended purse then it was burglary because I entered the structure with the intent to commit the theft...

that's why if you're ever caught shoplifting always say you decided to steal it when you saw the item... never say you came to the store with the intention of stealing it...  ;) 


Jail you got pretty spot on but there are people who've been convicted of misdemeanors in jail.  Jail is typically where you do your time if you get less than a year (or maybe its 18 months...) and prison is where you go if you get more than that.


you got prob. / parole perfect tho...


I just hate it when they get this stuff wrong on cop shows... its basic stuff and yet they always have police and detectives calling break-ins robberies...  ::)

pretty good...

robbery not just another person present but "take thru force or fear" 

If I say to you gimme your purse or i'll kill you... I robbed you.. but if you are in the grocery store and left your purse in your cart and I took it while you bent down to get an item off the bottom shelf then it was a theft.... if I went into the store because I knew it was a good place to find an unattended purse then it was burglary because I entered the structure with the intent to commit the theft...

that's why if you're ever caught shoplifting always say you decided to steal it when you saw the item... never say you came to the store with the intention of stealing it...   ;) 


Jail you got pretty spot on but there are people who've been convicted of misdemeanors in jail.  Jail is typically where you do your time if you get less than a year (or maybe its 18 months...) and prison is where you go if you get more than that.


you got prob. / parole perfect tho...


I just hate it when they get this stuff wrong on cop shows... its basic stuff and yet they always have police and detectives calling break-ins robberies...   ::)
I will have to watch for this more....  I am sure I flub it up  8)

moo

When I was a kid, I knew expert shoplifters.  I stole a few things in my childhood (toys, candy) but never felt good about it.  I remember my friend Nathan stealing an entire video game set.  He just put the box under his arm and coolly walked out of K-Mart.  He got away with it too! He said he did that a lot.  He said all you had to do was be cool and look like you were supposed to be doing what you were supposed to be doing. The next week, Nathan tried to filch a pack of baseball cards from Stop & Shop, and got his ass busted!  Gamble long enough, the house is gonna win.  One lousy pack of baseball cards.  Well, he had it coming karmically speaking. 

The deed of stealing breaks down trust.  That's my real problem with the crime.  Beyond personal loss or property damage, it comes back to breach of trust.  That's why security cameras watch every store now.  Because a few can't be trusted, we must now all be treated like we can't be trusted either!
>:(

I will have to watch for this more....  I am sure I flub it up  8)


Your Signature pic looks like udder nonsense... :D

Your Signature pic looks like udder nonsense... :D


speaking of which.... Back to the Barnyard... that kids show (first a movie) on Nick about the farm animals who talk and stuff...
Otis is the lead animal... Otis is a cow*.... Otis is a boy cow.... Otis has udders  ::)




*sorry sami for the purposes of this discussion I'm using cow the way we use kleenex to say tissue or coke to say soda...  ;)

speaking of which.... Back to the Barnyard... that kids show (first a movie) on Nick about the farm animals who talk and stuff...
Otis is the lead animal... Otis is a cow*.... Otis is a boy cow.... Otis has udders  ::)




*sorry sami for the purposes of this discussion I'm using cow the way we use kleenex to say tissue or coke to say soda...  ;)


It's all so messed up!!!  :o  ;D

speaking of which.... Back to the Barnyard... that kids show (first a movie) on Nick about the farm animals who talk and stuff...
Otis is the lead animal... Otis is a cow*.... Otis is a boy cow.... Otis has udders  ::)




*sorry sami for the purposes of this discussion I'm using cow the way we use kleenex to say tissue or coke to say soda...  ;)
Sorry Otis is a male ( supposedly). He is a dairy cattle, that I will agree !  He should not have udders, he should either have testicles ( but less than 5% male dairy cattle go as bulls) or else a cod ( the tissue left, after the testicles are removed) in which case he would be a bull!  And it is this reason- the fact that they show black and white uddered animals to kids and say cow!  Blah.  Don't get me started!  I would rather they call them moo's!

Sorry Otis is a male ( supposedly). He is a dairy cattle, that I will agree !  He should not have udders, he should either have testicles ( but less than 5% male dairy cattle go as bulls) or else a cod ( the tissue left, after the testicles are removed) in which case he would be a bull!  And it is this reason- the fact that they show black and white uddered animals to kids and say cow!  Blah.  Don't get me started!  I would rather they call them moo's!


How 'bout: "Otis, the Transsexual Bovine!" 
:D

How 'bout: "Otis, the Transsexual Bovine!" 
:D
Well then he has some money spent in his udder implants!

Listen up, MSNBC!  You gotta knock it off with this "Life Behind Bars" bullshirt.  The fact that it remains the bulk of their weekend's programming is evidence for a sadistic streak in the American public.  It's pornographic.  They advertise Cialis at the same time.  Says something about the viewership.
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Listen up, MSNBC!  You gotta knock it off with this "Life Behind Bars" bullshirt.  The fact that it remains the bulk of their weekend's programming is evidence for a sadistic streak in the American public.  It's pornographic.  They advertise Cialis at the same time.  Says something about the viewership.
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Don't watch MSNBC on the weekends because they usually show crap.



Cat

I am literally a second from having a conniption here. I have a writer's block that won't quit. Everytime I sit to work on my friggin' story, I clam up and nothing comes out. It's incredibly distressing to me.
I mean for the fan fic story I write for fun for the MJ fanclub I'm in, I can bump out a 20 page chapter easily in a couple hours.(And the fans absolutely rave about it)  It comes to my novel, nothing.  ???  I'll try harder.

If nothing is coming to you then there's a reason.  Put it aside if you can.

Don't watch MSNBC on the weekends because they usually show crap.



Cat


They sure do, but showing crazy dudes in penal institutions is crap masquerading as news/public interest.  It wasn't crap the first couple of times they did.  Now it's crap.  At least Andy Griffith is honest about it!
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Because of the problem that I mentioned earlier (the rash of spam), I had put a lot of filters on my email hoping to diminish the amount of spam that I received. Now, I can't receive ANY of my email!!!!  >:( >:( >:( >:(  I can send but I can't receive. And the emails that I am not receiving are not getting kicked back. They are somewhere out there in cyberspace. I contacted Comcast last night via IM. I was "chatting" to some chick named "Mary" and when I asked her where she was located, her response was "Offshore." My guess India and she didn't have a f***ing clue as to what she was doing. She kept trying to tell me it was a problem with my Windows mail but it isn't. It has to do with Comcast-my email is NOT going to Comcast-at all. It is like everything is working but the email isn't coming in. After two hours-the problem still isn't solved!  I realized that I can put a forward on my email so I did that to my yahoo address-which is working (and yeah, I got all those f***ing spam, too) but I still haven't gotten any of the emails that were sent before I put on the fowarding-and I KNOW that I had some emails because I sent them myself! I would really like to someone at Comcast who knows WTF they are doing. I just may have to open a new email-which will cut down on the spam but it is such a pain in the @$$ to contact EVERYONE about the new email address!


F***ING COMCAST!!!!!  >:( >:( >:( >:(




Cat

Oh sure, just as soon as I posted the above post, I start getting email in Windows mail (including all the spam  ::) ). I still didn't get all those emails that were sent yesterday. Why is it that spam ALWAYS gets through but all the legit email do not? I just don't get it.



Cat

Oh sure, just as soon as I posted the above post, I start getting email in Windows mail (including all the spam  ::) ). I still didn't get all those emails that were sent yesterday. Why is it that spam ALWAYS gets through but all the legit email do not? I just don't get it.



Cat


Maybe ALL the spam doesn't get through either, there's just so much more of it!
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I'm tired of this cartguy telling a friend of his that I don't take out the garbages all the time but now since I have a new stratgedy,I started taking out the garbages with every round of carts I do and it's been working well for me.

I'm tired of this cartguy telling a friend of his that I don't take out the garbages all the time but now since I have a new stratgedy,I started taking out the garbages with every round of carts I do and it's been working well for me.


When I was a cart guy, they made us wear a shirt and tie and the apron even when the sun was beating down on the pavement making the parking lot 100 degrees F.  I'm not saying Market Basket should have let me do my job in a pair of swimming trunks, but a little mercy on the attire would have helped!  Then they had the nerve to complain about me drinking on the job...water that is!  Buncha sadists!
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When I was a cart guy, they made us wear a shirt and tie and the apron even when the sun was beating down on the pavement making the parking lot 100 degrees F.  I'm not saying Market Basket should have let me do my job in a pair of swimming trunks, but a little mercy on the attire would have helped!  Then they had the nerve to complain about me drinking on the job...water that is!  Buncha sadists!
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Hey Max,I wear a shirt,tie and dress pants and no one says a thing to me,I enjoy being professional even if it's the most crappiest job out there.

Hey Max,I wear a shirt,tie and dress pants and no one says a thing to me,I enjoy being professional even if it's the most crappiest job out there.



I beg to differ..... THIS is the crappiest job in the world.


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