What is this? What are you trying to do to me? Don’t you love me at all? I’ve been gone and I get back to see squeeeeeeeeeeeable kitten pictures and I don’t need any more!
Haze, do you have a kitten? Why have pictures not been provided? You know the rules - you must make sure there is a camera at hand before a kitten is acquired. That way they don’t think it is unusual so they will be adorable in front of it. Unlike mine, who do adorable things until a camera is produced. Then they become inanimate lumps of fur.
I am slightly frustrated, and would like the opinion of my fellow MMPers on this one. Tonight was the General Membership Meeting of the Booster Club of which I am Corresponding Secretary. One of the items on tonights agenda was amending the bylaws to state that a child under a family membership was a child up to 21 as long as they were in school. (The bylaws previously said a child was allowed under a family membership until they turned 18.) Children under a family membership are not allowed to vote; that did not change. Full members - single or family - must be 18. One of our members pitched a bitch because her 18 year old daugher would not be allowed to vote under the family membership!
I don’t understand. If this amendment had not been made, her daughter would no longer be a member at all unless she paid for a $25 single membership. Her daugher wasn’t even at the meeting! We have a couple who are members, who have a Downs Syndrome son in his late 20’s. They have never asked that he be given special privledges. This woman wants her daughter to get extended child status (free membership) with adult priviledges (voting). Am I wrong to think she is off the wall?
Oh nice! Well then. . . how you doin’?
::sending some wine to Dotty to help loosen further::
The looks are nuthin’ compared to the smell. It smells like rotten eggs to the power of 10. Please send some of that stew thing over. . . it sounds good.
Oooh, me too!! Except if it looks too much like mud wrestling, **Lunch **probably won’t hear a word I’m saying. . . not that he does anyway.
Just one letter off and the whole meaning changes.
~waving~ to kai!
Sympathies to kai and Haze for their friends’ peculiarities.
SCL, sounds like she was just being greedy. Unreasonable as well.
I don’t have a kitten yet. My roommate has her cat, of course. For a while I was thinking of just not getting a cat since we already have one, but she and I have very different ideas of how to bring up cats, so I think I need one of my own lest I tread too hard on her territory. She wants an affectionate cat that sits on her lap and curls up with her at night, so despite the cat’s hissing she’ll poke it and pick it up and generally lavish it with affection it doesn’t always want. I love playing with cats, but I tend to leave them alone until they’re in the mood to socialize. Also, she was somewhat upset today when the cat hissed at me for no reason and I swatted it lightly on its flank, saying “Bad kitty!” “Oh, don’t hit it!” she cried. I felt really bad about it, but honestly, the cat would have gotten worse as a kitten playing with its littermates. Her cat is going to be so fat and spoiled. Not that I don’t like it - it’s a cat! - but I feel it’d be for the best if I minimize my contact with it to petting it when it’s there, and feeding it/cleaning its litterbox when Cloud Maiden isn’t home. I really don’t want us to end up having bitter feelings over a cat.
We went to a shelter today, but it was being run by a crazy cat lady who refused to give us kittens unless we took two together. Our lease only allows two and we already have one, so that’s that. And we can’t get a cat from Anti-Cruelty until 30 days after our first adoption (they’re afraid of germs or something). I might try another shelther this weekend, or end up waiting a month - no rush, I suppose.
SCL that woman sounds like a pita, and yes, she is being unreasonable. Unfortunately there are a lot of that type around. Ya gotta get your loins girded up for this hockey season, it seems as though you, too, get hit with a lot of that type. There is a book I read (borrowed from the pastor’s wife, no less) titled Getting In Touch With Your Inner Bitch, and it was very good, in a humorous way, and had effective advice in telling someone “No” in all manner of circumstances. What you do is appear to mull the (absurd) question/request over, and then say, in a thoughtful manner “Ummmmmmmmmmmmmm, I don’t think so.”
haze it might be a good idea to wait the 30 days, ensuring that the current kitten has been immunized sufficiently to be able to battle any bugs the new kitten might bring in. It’s hard to wait, but it also gives you time to be checking which kitty type is right for you. I am willing to bet if you put a small deposit on a kitten if you find one in particular that you truly want, and that they would keep it out of the active adoptee list, and you would also have the opportunity to visit the kitten during that waiting period, which would assist in the transition from shelter to home ever so much easier on both of you. Just my thoughts.
This posting occurring during an after new meds have kicked in moment.
**Kai! ** - so good to hear from you, darlin’. I think I wrote that book; I am very in touch with my inner (and outer) bitch. I just sometimes am not completely sure if I am in the right - especially if it has to do with kids. Being (intentionally) childless myself, I sometimes don’t know how to decide when people are being reasonable parents and when they are being “momzillas”.
There is a thread somewhere on the Board - if I remember correctly it is in the Pit about the idiots who taped a pacifier into a baby’s mouth - (insert homicidial simiey here) - about how the sound of a baby crying arouses protective instincts in humans.
OK. I’m not human. The sound of a crying baby makes me want to leave the area the baby is in as fast as possible. (Granted, this might be different if we were in a survivial scernio.)
Now if I hear a crying newborn - puppy, kitten, fox, - my maternal instinct goes into full drive.
SO - I am so with you; if you are interested in an IM from someone who has very much been where you are…
I will take it upon myself to thank you, kind sir, for changin’ your username! The Dope in general prefer to use as few keystrokes as possible - and your new name…
So… bossy…
Why did I know that the linked paella would include peas before clicking on it?
I worked in Castellon (“Valencian Country”) for a year; one of my coworkers was from Valencia City and willing to take it to the street with anybody who commited the unforgivable sin of putting peas on paella. He claimed that the original paella was the version with land animals (chicken, rabbit), that seafood paella was acceptable, “sea and mountain” highly suspect - and a true paella must never, ever, include peas. No peas in HIS paellas, no sir!
SCL, that woman isn’t merely a bitch, she’s a stupid bitch.
Hazey, your friend does not need a husband but a cold shower. And it sure does sound like no husband needs her :eek:
Did a FLA join the MMP?
On other news and given that most joints consider it unprofessional to sing and dance at the office…
It’s my last day at work and I love it,
it’s my last day at work and I love it,
Iiiiii feeeeel fiiiiiiine!
Just one letter off and the whole meaning changes. 
