Random Mundane And Pointless Stuff -- Take Five!

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Above is the link to Part Four -- Have fun with Take Five!

-Melin
Board Goddess in Training

well we set a date. It looks like Aug. 20 of the year 2000 I shall be wed.
I had no idea that a wedding would cost so much!!! I was guessing about $3000 but we're just on the dinner part and we're already at $5500. I'm going to have to take out a loan just to pay for dinner! I don't know what a large wedding, is but I'm told we're having one. I have about 200 people on my side and she has about 150 on hers, and that doesn't even count our friends!!!oh well


More mindless stuff...The new guy at work is taking other people's sales. Were on comission, and he's telling people that the sales person they we're working with is no longer with the company! Then he takes their sales for himself! This man is on a set salery for the next three months and he's taking my money. I went to the boss and he said he would have a talk with him. Later that day my boss called me in to his office and said that the new guy said I was giving him a hard time. Then my boss asked if I knew what a team player is. When I responded that it wasn't some one who took other peoples sales he asked me if I knew what herasmment is! I was told that I should personaly help the new guy to make sure that there are no more misunderstandings. When I went to work with the new guy he just grinned at me and told me that if I need anything I could come to him and that he dosn't like it when people go over his head. He's driving me nuts. If I have to work with him one more time...

But on the lighter side of life. I saw the Blair witch project. Maybe next time I could save the $7.50 and just get some one to hit me in the head for about an hour and a half! That was the worst movie that I've seen in a long time. As a matter of fact I would rather sit through "Mannos the Hands of Fate" twice, before I would watch that movie again.

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Bad spellers of the world... UNTIE

Where ever there are four SDMBers, there's a fifth.

Okay,here's my rant for today:

Why can I not find a job that will keep me busy???? My new job (been here 2 months) is leaving me just as bored as the one at the bank was. I keep hearing the same thing:"Oh, we'll have plenty for you to do when X happens" Well, X is still 2-3 months off and I'm here twiddling my thumbs!
I'm organized, have a great attitude (usually!), extremely computer literate, detail-oriented, hardworking, motivated, independant. I CAN RUN YOUR LIFE FOR YOU! Why is it so hard to find a company that can actually keep me busy and challenge me?! Great secretaries are NOT a dime a dozen-why am I finding it so hard to find a good position? I'm so frustrated! Any of you Michigan SD'ers that have any contacts in Lansing, e-mail me! I'm desperate!!
::rant over::
On a lighter side, I'm going to get my hair trimmed tonight-always look forward to hair appointments as little treats. Cooked up and froze about 10-12 quarts of beets at Dad's last night. My seedless watermelons are coming on strong!

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And can it be that in a world so full and busy, the loss
of one weak creature makes a void in any heart, so
wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth
of vast eternity can fill it up!
-Charles Dickens "Dombey and Son"

Gr8Kat, I think you were the one with the burst washing machine hose? (I can't remember from the other thread). You probably know this by now, but they do make anti-burst hoses. They are a little more expensive but not too bad and I've heard they actually work really well. Keeps you from having to do the ol' on-off thing with the valves all the time.

This is part five of random pointless thoughts of people from all over the place. This gets me thinking:
Whos paying for all this memory and machines required to keep all this stuff online?

My daughter is at it again! Every job she gets, she ends up walking out on.
This time she's quit two jobs in less than a week, and the first one was because of a little fisticuffs with one of the other waitpersons(male) that she didn't like.
The up side of this......now she wants to go to Wisconsin to move in with a guy she met a couple of weeks ago. Sure hope all her stuff is going with her, open burning is illegal in my town, and I'd hate to get thrown in jail.

FixedBack


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FixedBack

"Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity."~~G.K.Chesterton 1908

I got myself down to the barber over the weekend to get my receeding hairline trimmed some, and dang if the man didn't do a good job. It feels like there is less to work with every time I go, but he did me proud.

Hey Greg, maybe the 6-pack rings aren't such a problem cause your bro is such a diligent guy

Okay, I called the employment agency again. The gal I work with is actually a good friend of my sister's so I know she isn't feeding me any crap. Turns out she has a small law firm who has a partner who needs an executive assistant and because he doesn't do a lot of litigation, I don't need all the legal secretary stuff. I guess the other attorney I'd work for would teach me the stuff about litigation (paperwork etc) plus my sis' the World's Greatest Legal Secretary, so she could help. Salary would be there. Faxed her my updated resume. We'll see if they want to meet me.
::sign:: lawyers...see how far I've sunk! (sorry Melin! )

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And can it be that in a world so full and busy, the loss
of one weak creature makes a void in any heart, so
wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth
of vast eternity can fill it up!
-Charles Dickens "Dombey and Son"

Well, there. I think I've finally finished updating my web page. I still haven't learned how to do the different windows, but I did get a Straight Dope banner up at my page!

Meanwhile, here's a weird thing--the background doesn't come up on this computer (and some, but not all, of my friends). I've had 3 techs fiddle with it to no avail. I think it's something screwy in this version of MSIE...everything was fine until I upgraded last fall. (Meanwhile, my laptop--which has THE most recent version--has the background). Trippy, huh?

Anyway, if you're curious, here's the link.

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"Me fail English? That's unpossible!"

"English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England."

As you all can see since I've posted three!!!!! times today, I'm a little bored.

Laura, loved the home page. Very nicely done. Can't listen to any of your .wav files cause I don't have a sound card But the fact that you are obviously a Princess Bride fan endears you to me. Scratch Inigo's fuzzy little head for me and "have fun storming the castle".

Cap'n P, congrats on the wedding date. Forgot to say that earlier. We did our wedding on a shoestring (feed people, are you kidding? Let 'em eat cake) and it was wonderful. Don't let the details ruin the excitment.

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And can it be that in a world so full and busy, the loss
of one weak creature makes a void in any heart, so
wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth
of vast eternity can fill it up!
-Charles Dickens "Dombey and Son"

Got a great compliment today. We got our 2nd papers back in my English 398 class (Critical Writing, core course for the major, the prof becomes your advisor for the rest of the time you're in college). She only had good things to say about it, which isn't spectacular. In fact, I think she's a pretty easy grader. At the end, though, she put a note telling me that I should be an Honors student, and that if I wanted to get in, to talk to her after class. So I'm considering it. My GPA at OSU isn't the greatest, but it's on its way up, and if she sponsors me, I'm a shoo-in.

So the last time I posted here I was supposed to be moving. U-Haul called us Wednesday to tell us that the 14 footer we reserved for Friday might be available early on Thursday and that they would call us as soon as it was ready. So we packed the remainders lickity split, missed a couple classes, some research, generally put our lives on hold early. Thursday comes and goes, no phone call. It's getting later and later on Friday and we had reserved the truck for 6pm. At 5:30 we call and they have NOTHING and there are five people ahead of us waiting for a truck and they will call us when ours is ready. Friday comes and goes and we are up at 7 am on Saturday to await a phone call from U-Haul for our truck. Nothing. We call every hour on the hour and they start telling us that because it's a big moving weekend that everyone took trucks OUT of Champaign, but that no one was bringing trucks IN to Champaign. Lease was scheduled to end at noon, so at 11 we asked them to give us whatever they had, which amounted to a 5x8 trailer - which we received at no charge. Except now we had to load as much stuff as we could in to it and take it to storage, unload it, and bring it back to the apartment to refill it, our cars, and a friends pick up truck and haul ass to Chicago where we had 8 lovely friends patiently waiting to help move us in to our new place. We didn't get there until 11 pm, half of our stuff is still in storage in Champaign and now that we got a free trailer out of U-Haul for their stupidity, we are officially out of their hair and they don't have to do jack shit to accomodate us for a vehicle this weekend or ever.
Is this normal to have a reservation contingent upon someone/anyone returning a truck there? I thought that if I made a reservation, that means that YOU GET A FUCKING TRUCK FOR ME AND HAVE IT WAITING THERE FOR ME - RESERVED!!!!!! Reminds me of that Seinfeld episode. Such bullshit.

One of my cats just crawled into a bag of cat litter and peed in it.

I'm so tired tonight, I'm pretty much falling asleep in front of the computer. But every time I try to lay down, I end up tossing and turning for hours. I hate insomnia.

Shadowfox

Bunnygirl:

WRT your employment situation:

I have had the EXACT same problems. I really feel for you. I just started my 5th job in 12 months, and its no better/worse than the others. I do all of the work assigned to me, and I can't imagine that the other people who have done the same job in the past were SO bad that it took them all day to do what it took me an hour to complete. Still, I just started this new job, and there's still a chance that it will get better.

Plus, this stuff isn't a career. I'm studing to be a teacher, and once I have my certificate, I'll finally get settled into something good (I hope).



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Jason R Remy

"Open mindedness is not the same thing as empty mindedness."
-- John Dewey Democracy and Education (1916)

I was visiting my brother up in San Francisco this weekend and saw him cutting up a six-pack rings he found on the beach. Superciliously, I told him that Cecil said that six-pack rings aren't as big a problem as people think. It turns out he not only knew this already, he was consulted by Cecil's assistant Jane for the article. Boy was I impressed! I put more details under "About Cecil's Columns".

Got held up by an accident on the freeway this morning. A vintage car, maybe a convertible with the top up, was upside down. No other car appeared to be involved, and the driver was being taken away in an ambulance. I can guess what happened: he was hotrodding it, thinking that having a sweet car made him an exemplary driver. The most dangerous part of a car is the nut behind the wheel.

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Remember, I'm pulling for you; we're all in this together.
---Red Green

It's just before 8:00, and I am hungry and thirsty. My surgery is today at 4:30, so food and water are verboten because I'll be under general anesthesia. I am so hungry it hurts. I just want to get it over with so I can eat again!!

Jay, yah, it amazes me. Plus the company I work for is a big cluster. External customers are happy but the administration inside is a big mess. People coming and going all the time.

pl, how'd the surgery go? Hope all is well. Take those drugs, man!!

Heath, I had a similar (though not as bad) experience when we moved back from Tennessee. We have always used Ryder (seem to be cheaper and have nicer vehicles than U-Haul) and went to pick up the truck (day before we move-all our friends coming to help us stash the trash). Oh, gee, they haven't brought it back to us yet. I made them call another rental place in Nashville to get a truck but just then the morons who were supposed to have it back THE NIGHT BEFORE pulled in. I guess some people don't care about extra charges. Wish I could spend money like that. Idiots! But, the companies are dependant on people bringing them in on time. Unfortunately, it's not like a hotel room where you can just kick their butts out. But you knew that. Sorry the move was such a pain!

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And can it be that in a world so full and busy, the loss
of one weak creature makes a void in any heart, so
wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth
of vast eternity can fill it up!
-Charles Dickens "Dombey and Son"

My mom just accepted a job in Cleveland. She'll be there by October 1st. It'll be very cool to have her and my stepfather back in the state, because most of my friends are leaving in the next six months.

I am sitting here numbly in front of the computer watching my little Jack Russell terrier and my 2-yr old settling the question of who's number 3 or 4 in the food chain of this household. My kid's got a great WWF headlock on the dog, but the dog has experience and patience on his side, plus the horrible toungue of death that usually is the great equalizer. They have already gone into the dog dish and there's kibble and water all over the kitchen floor. Some part of me, the father or adult part, thinks that I should put a stop to this soon. The auto racing fan part of me, for some reason wants to watch a little more.

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"...send lawyers, guns, and money..."

Warren Zevon

Oh wow. The board is all different!

My kitten, Happy is watching Jury Duty on TV. I think I ought to turn it off. I don't want his little kitten mind to be warped by Pauly Shore.

[Drain Bead]

My roommate asked for a raise up to $11 an hour at her job (she's a legal intern, has been since October, and does the work of a paralegal at $8.75 an hour). She got a raise to $11.50. So last night she and I went out to celebrate. Man, was that a mistake. It's not so much how much I had to drink, because that was fine. I was able to go to class and be a normal functioning human being today. However, while drinking, I must have smoked 10 clove cigarettes. And I don't even smoke, but these things tasted good at the time. They don't anymore. And I can't get rid of it. I've eaten twice, brushed my teeth three times, and taken two showers, and I can still smell stale clove cigarette smoke. I don't think I'll be doing this again anytime soon.

[BoBettie]

Today I watched Baseketball with Matt Stone and Trey Parker. And I really liked it. Does this make me insane?? I laughed myself practically sick, in fact. There is a tequilla drinking/puking scene that was so real I almost had to run for the bathroom (had a bad tequilla night once....once!)
Thank God I have some classes to teach next week so I can do something better with my brain!
PS- Keep your fingers crossed..Once again I am waiting to see if I am "late"...today is my "start day" and so far, so good...

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If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.

[voguevixen]

Here's an update on my ballplayer stalking, for anyone who was wondering. I went with having flowers delivered to the locker room with a note saying who I was, I'd be at batting practice that day, and my e-mail address. No response so either he doesn't remember or isn't interested and I'm feeling really bummed because the flowers were REALLY EXPENSIVE! Oh, and the rejection sucks too, but I'm more than used to that. I can't decide whether to cling to the hope that something went awry (didn't get flowers, note was lost, e-mail misspelled, etc.) and keep showing up at BP looking cute but non-threatening or just forget the whole thing.

[BunnyGirl]

VV, hang in there. Maybe he's super shy. Never hurts to try (hey, a rhyme!)

Did my long run the other day, 4.5 miles, and finished it w/o walking! Hurray for me. I'm proud of myself.

SOMEONE told my boss that I'm considering leaving!! I'm SO not happy about that. He, of course, was very polite about it but I'm going to have a talk with him today and just let him know that I'm not making him any promises on staying if one of the resumes I sent out was to get a good hit. He keeps saying that things are going to get better cause we're getting more people in at our home office and they'll be splitting the work up differently, but the thing he doesn't understand is that I spent 3 months sitting at the bank and 2 months sitting at this job and I can't stand to sit anymore, regardless of where I'm at!!

Breakfast and art fair with female family members tomorrow! Hooray! Go away, Rain!

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And can it be that in a world so full and busy, the loss
of one weak creature makes a void in any heart, so
wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth
of vast eternity can fill it up!
-Charles Dickens "Dombey and Son"

[Gazelle]

I had to confront a sexual harrasser this week. It went very well. Big ol' load off my back. He's almost 50 years old but he pouted like a two-year-old for a few days after the confrontation.

What a jerk.

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Most common question I ask: "What?"
Most common question I get: "Are you really hearing impaired?"

[BoBettie]

I worked in retail, and for a while this jerk (20 years older then me) used to routinely refer to me as "the girl with the nicest ass in the store", as in "Hi! How's the girl.....". He used to come up behind me and rub my shoulders (I pushed him away and told him to knock it off). This kept up until he caught me alone in a walk in cooler (this was in a grocery store) and asked if I wanted to come over that weekend to keep him company, as his wife was going to be out of town visiting her mother. I reported it, he got a two week unpaid suspension, he was told never, ever to speak to me again- even for work. He acted like an asshole for a few weeks, then was told that even a dirty look to me would be his job. This was about 8 years ago...I ran into him last week in the store- he still works there...he tried to avoid me, but i walked right up and asked if he still thought I had the nicest ass in the store. He got mad (imagine that!) and suggested I go and fornicate myself. It still made me laugh. He got exactly what he deserved- he was a creepy pervert.
Girls! Report harrassment!!

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If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.

[Greg Charles]

VV, hey even stupid suggestions sound good given the lack of anything better, huh? I'm feeling somewhat vindicated about my flower idea, but I'd be happier if it had worked out better. Didn't you say his teammates would beat the snot out of him if he got flowers? I hope that didn't happen. I say keep trying. For some strange reason, I'm pulling for you on this. Force him to at least acknowledge you even if he's not interested. Otherwise, you'll be in limbo forever.

[Gr8Kat]

We had a thunderstorm last night and it really, really scared me. I hate thunder and lightening. Thank goodness these storms are rare and brief here, I probably would have died of fright ages ago if I lived in the southeast. At least, that's according to my co-workers who've lived in or visited the southeast.

But I'm glad for the rain and clouds because we just had our yard hydroseeded yesterday. The landscaper expressed doubt that we'd be able to grow a lawn without an underground sprinkler system, but if this weather holds until the grass sprouts, I'll feel better. In the meantime, with the help of the landscaper, we've set up an elaborate system of above ground sprinklers and hoses that hopefully cover the entire area of the yard. We just need to rotate them every couple hours for equal coverage.

As a native Oregonian, I usually look forward to the warmth and dryness of the summer and I'm disappointed when it's just as overcast and wet as the rest of the year; but this week I'm not complaining

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"I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it," Jack Handy

[Gr8Kat]

I had my first strawberry marguerita a couple nights ago. It was so wonderful! I'm usually a strawberry daquiri person, but I was in a Mexican restaurant and decided to experiment (which I'm usually nervous about doing--I can probably count the varieties of mixed drinks I've had on one hand). Better than a daquiri! So good in fact that I wonder if the waiter doubted my age and gave me a virgin marguerita. (I don't know what tequila is supposed to taste like, but not being much of a drinker I've never thought much alcohol really tastes that good.) Guess I'll have to try another one again real soon to make sure

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"I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it," Jack Handy

[gene]

I'm thinking of taking up a new hobby, something that won't cost much to do, and yet will absorb me.
I finally settled on collecting string-you know, winding it into a ball. Seems like fun-anyone know who has the biggest string ball?

[voguevixen]

Greg, I'm sorry if I made you feel like I didn't like your idea, I just wasn't comfortable with something that forward. I still feel a bit silly over it. Here's an interesting twist. My husband has been trying to convince me to go to Toronto for this business trip he has to take. I finally gave in on the condition we could take in a couple Blue Jay games when we're up there. He said OK and I couldn't believe it when I found out who they're playing while we'll be there. You'll never guess -- the A's! Isn't that wild? Now I need to cook up a plan for Toronto, hahaha.

[BoBettie]

Gr8Kat- I know exactly what tequila tastes like (yuk!) and I cannot taste it in a flavored marguerita at all. If you want to know if you're being slipped a "virgin" one, have two or three..if you are still sober (being a light drinker), you're getting gyped! At least make sure they're charging you less!

PS- cross your fingers (again) everyone...My hubby and I are trying to get pregnant,and I'm two days late (negative urine test, though).

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If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.

[Shirley Ujest]

I'm back on line after a week living like an Amish woman. Had to have the mother board and someother tech stuff replaced, but the good news is is that the damage was not caused by lightening and power surges, it was just worn out and covered by the warranty. Bad new is that I didn't back up my Favorite places list or email addresses, so I have to re-do all that. But I had way too much on my Favorite Places anyway and couldn't bear to throw any out even though I never use them anyway. Just call me a cyber packrat.



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People change not because they see the light but because they feel the heat.

[Shirley Ujest]

It's been a busy week medical wise in my families.

Brother #4 (just days after getting fired) is hospitalized for chest and back pains. Because MD has weakened his heart and body so much, he cannot do a stress test and the docs do a heart catherization on him to see if he has any blockage in his heart. ( Until a few months ago his colesteral count was around 450) No blockage and he still has pains. They don't know why and he is home again now.

My husbands grandmother is here on her annual visit from Germany. In humid weather she has a hard time breathing ( 40 years of smoking will do that to you, but she hasn't smoked in years) she has regular medicine for her lungs to help her breath and after feeling really poorly, my inlaws took her to emergency. They gave her some medicine and that helped her BUT they decided to admit her ( most noticably when they noticed she had special trip insurance that probably blows BCBS out of the water) and she actually got worse for a day or two in the hospital. They did a heart catherization on her to check her heart and it was perfect. Turns out she had a lung infection and is due back home tomorrow. The problem with the hospital is that Grandma is she doesn't speak English ( she understands alot) so the staff at the hospital put a big sign above her bed stating, DOES NOT SPEAK ENGLISH. Ok, Einsteins, as one of our family friends said who saw the sign, what language does she speak? My mother in law speak every day at the hospital from AM until late PM talking and translating for her.

In other mundane news, I decided to live life on the edge and go to a school of cosmetology to get my hair cut. Bungee jumping is for sissies, a bad hair cut lasts long than a cordless bungee free fall. I have to tell you this Ladies and Gentlemen, I received the best pixie hair cut of my life for the grand total of $5.25. ( the cut took about 45 minutes, with my son in his stroller tossing all his toys hither and yon) but it was worth it. I gave a three dollar tip. Just call me Diamond Shirley.

Since the birth of my son, I get barometric headaches. It's a true joy on overcast days, like today.

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People change not because they see the light but because they feel the heat.

[OpalCat]

How can you hate thunderstorms??? Oh my god... I LIVE for them!

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>^,,^<
"Cluemobile? You've got a pickup..."
OpalCat's site: http://fathom.org/opalcat
The Teeming Millions Homepage: fathom.org/teemingmillions

[Zyada]

I'm with you, OpalCat.

One of my fantasies is to make love in a thunderstorm.

[Babar714]

Look! A flounder---------> ..o)

[Gr8Kat]

Guess I'm just the nervous type Thunder is ok, but lightening--that stuff is dangerous! Maybe because I grew up in a trailer (y'know, a metal house)?

Plus I watched a show on the History Channel last night about tornadoes *shudder*

I'm glad I live in Oregon
I'm glad I live in Oregon
I'm glad I live in Oregon...

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"I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it," Jack Handy

[sunbear]

At last a few familiar names. I don't know who half the folks here are.
Nothing to report.Recovering well from jet lag.Work tomorrow. Hmm, will I remember my ID card code?

[Greg Charles]

Hey Gr8Kat!

But to him who's scientific
There's nothing that's terrific
In the falling of a flight of thunderbolts!

-- W.S. Gilbert (from The Mikado)

(I think terrific is supposed to mean terrifying, but then it wouldn't rhyme, would it?)

[jayron 32]

OK, my weekly random rant...

Beer is not, on average, my favorite alcoholic beverage. There are, however, some beers that I really like. Harp for my average dinner beer. Guinness is great by itself or in a Black and Tan. Corona is a good easy beer. I have had probably dozens of beers, and I have to say that, across the board, any of the "Big Three" American brewers (A-B, Miller, Coors) all taste awful, in all varieties. Budweiser, Michelob, G-D, Original Coors, they all taste watery and leave an awful aftertaste. Full-strength, lite, doesn't matter. What is the attraction in drinking these flavorless beers. They are the kraft-singles, wonderbread, Hi-C of beers. Have we in America gotten so influenced by advertising that they sacrifice taste just to by an over-advertised, bland beer?

It was finally cool this week in Chicago, but next week is going to be back in the 90s. I am not looking forward to it.

I always have stuff I am supposed to do, but I never remember to do it when I have the opportunity to do it. I always remember when I am busy; when I have free time I waste it all. I hate that.

There is so much that I want to fix in the world, but I feel so insignificant. I have big plans, but small means.

I am bewildered by a lot of people. Irrationality in particular bothers me. I am not saying that I want others to think like me, but I do want others to think. Is that too much to ask?

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Jason R Remy

"Open mindedness is not the same thing as empty mindedness."
-- John Dewey Democracy and Education (1916)

[Gr8Kat]

Someone called the cops on us last night because our dog was barking while we were at the movies. There was a note from the police on our door when we got home.

That makes me mad for so many reasons. 1.) We weren't home to stop him from barking. 2.) The dog was in the house in his crate, not running around. 3.) The windows were open because it got hot yesterday afternoon, but that means he could hear neighbor dogs and kids outside, and neighbors could hear him. 4.) Speaking of neighbor dogs and kids, the kids in the house next to ours are up literally all night laughing, screaming, fighting, playing their radio and tv, and our bedroom is all of about 10 feet from theirs. We hear every "Stop touching me!" "I hate you!" and "Get out of my room!" But have we complain? No, because we didn't want our neighbors to hate us. Too late for that, I guess. It's the same thing with the dogs; there are two other dogs in our neighborhood and our dogs usually barks in response to their barking, which goes on from sunrise to sunset. Again, have we complained? No, because for the Grace of God went us. Guess our Grace ran out. 5.) Our neighbors do pick on us alot, I've decided. They turned us in to the landlady for not landscaping our yard promptly, so we spent $2500 last week working on it, and now they're after us about our dog. 6.) My husband and I are young, we've only been married 1 1/2 years, and this is our first home. Cut us some slack, people, we're beginners! That's the way I see it, anyway.

I just hope they don't gripe about us to the landlady, too, because we don't have a fence in yet which is required by the lease since we have a dog, though our excuse now is we can't dig up a freshly hydroseeded lawn to install a fence.

This is what I miss most about living in the country: no neighbors within earshot.

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"I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it," Jack Handy

[Shirley Ujest]

I spent the day (8 hours) moving and shifting rocks to create a rock garden. The area looks worse than before I started.

My dog is laying under the desk farting.

[jayron 32]

Gr8Kat -- I'm with you on this one... It's what I call the "Suburban Mindset" and why I will dread living in suburbia (its inevitable)

Your neighbors sound like the perfect case study of the Suburban mindset: a bizzare combination of inconsiderate and inability to mind ones own business. They expect the REST OF THE WORLD to bend to their every whim and jump at their every complaint, but they themselves can do no wrong. They say your dog is a nuisance, but you have no right to tell them to keep their kids quiet. That, in a nutshell, is what is wrong with America... well, one item on the list anyways.

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Jason R Remy

"Open mindedness is not the same thing as empty mindedness."
-- John Dewey Democracy and Education (1916)

[Drain Bead]

Is anyone here really good at dream analysis? I had the weirdest dream the other night. I was on a raised platform with a railing (similar to a bar dance floor) and a tarp over the ground, and there were lambs tied to the ceiling. Everyone was pulling the ropes and letting the lambs drop and run under the tarp, and the lambs were petrified...they were shaking, and running blindly, and really hurting themselves. All the people wanted me to let mine go too, but I just kept looking up to the ceiling and watching it shake and stare at me. Finally, I just let it down gently and held it, and wouldn't let anyone get to it, and it started to calm down. Then I woke up.

[Greg Charles]

It means lay off the clove cigarettes Drain Bead.

I seem to be doomed to only fall for men who have absolutely no interest in me. ::sigh::