We Gotta Have One, So This Is The MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Yeah, this move has been a possibility for months now and is actually going to happen! Rosie’s been a big help as we will be moving very close to her. She gave me lots of good info about the area.

Actually it’s only my husband who will be moving for a while- he’ll be splitting his time between here and there. I will come with the kids in about a year for a variety of work and family reasons.

It’s exciting, but sad too. I feel like I’ve finally made good friends, this is the longest I’ve lived anywhere in my life and it was my first house I owned. My parents and m 2/3 of my sisters and my nephew and his family (who is like a brother to me, we’re so close in age) all lived really close. Plus I have a job I’m respected at that might be hard to replace. But it’s an adventure and I do get itchy if things stay the same for too long. So we move forward with optimism and a positive outlook!

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Good morning all! Ooops, I do apologize for my confusion. In my pitiful (yes it is pitiful!) defense, there are S, p, and y in the names, but that’s all I got as an explanation!! So congrats to Soapy and apologies all around but especially to Soapy and Swampy. That would have been an interesting neighborhood, to say the least, though. :slight_smile:

And good to see you Taxi! Sorry that they have blocked SDMB at your work, though. I can get on most of the forums, btw, but not the Game Room - because it has “game” in the title!

I am caffeinated and brekkied (strawberry oatmeal) and getting ready to head into work. My cataract surgery is scheduled for early Monday morning, and I’m looking forward to that, but still a bit anxious. :smiley: And in other news …

HAPPYFIRDAY!!!

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Yay for Firday!

I took today off because I’m going to the doctor. My back has been killing me, and I think I might have a bladder or urinary tract infection. They might even be related?

Congrats on the move, Soapy! I’m sure the first year will be tough, but you guys will muddle through.

We had rain! A wonderful several hours of wet stuff! It feels so good this morning, nice and cool. This weekend promises to be more spring-like and less summer-y.

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Yeah, ought to be a nice weekend. We’ll be outsided Austin listening to this. Keb’ Mo and Jackson oughta be cool, plus there’s only a couple hundred tickets so no big crowds to battle. Forecast calls for low temps, low humidity and beer.

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Looks like fun, Lieu!

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Good morning everyone.

I got on line with my health care cooperative to try and schedule an appointment for booby squishing. I am looooooooooooong overdue and I keep getting mail about it, so I finally decided I better do it. I should receive some sort of message with appointment date possibilities today.

After that, I’ll schedule my girly exam. I hate those. Hell, I hate going to the doctor for anything. I am the worst when it comes to going to the doctor. I preach at everyone else to do it, but I don’t follow my own advice. :o

I am still waiting to hear the results of my mother’s colonoscopy. She’s lost close to thirty pounds in the space of a month. She’s also had horrible diarrhea problems accompanied with blood, tissue and mucous. I am hoping it’s only going to be ulcerative colitis. Yes, this is still bad, but it’s treatable with medication. Colon cancer is another whole ball of wax.

For the moment, I’m the only in my office and I’m very much enjoying the peace and quiet. Hopefully, everyone will leave me alone so I can get some work accomplished.

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Never let it be said I can’t laugh at myself.

It was a rainy day, I needed an umbrella. I also wore my long hair in a ponytail that day…using this thick fuzzy “scrunchie” I bought in a discount store.

So I’m walking down the streets of NYC, moving the umbrella this way and that as I weave and dodge other pedestrians with umbrellas.

Then I decide to go inside a store and go to fold the umbrella…somethings wrong.

This umbrella had a strap to hold it closed ( like most umbrellas) …a 6 inch strap of fabric with a hard side velcro closure. The velcro on this strap had adhered itself solidly to my fuzzy ponytail scrunchie.

As it disentangled it I thought “I must have been giving a ponytail puppet show while walking down the street, I bet it was pretty amusing”…so I turned around and saw a group of giggling pedestrians behind me. They then became embarrassed and started telling me about my ponytail puppet show…I cut them off and giggled with them.

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Firday, indeed.
Major headache and weird dreams of being in a hospital ward with no lavatory.

A close friend of mine just vented to me all the problems he’s been having with his mom and his uncle. After listening, I could only think what a remarkable person he is that he hasn’t killed them both by now. And there’s no reason to think he exaggerated - I’d met them both.

I can haz majik powers to help friend pleez?

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Depressed. Although there’s one piece of good news - my boss said I can take off time any time I want to work on other stuff and she’s going to email my temp rep to tell her so (since last time I called in my temp rep called me, because she thought four or five times in four months was too much. :confused: )

This means I can have time to get my etsy site and freelance work going.

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:frowning: sniff Taters doesn’t consider me a MMPer, I guess…

Out to shop for more plants and stuff in a little bit, then #3 daughter and I will be planting. If the weather holds, we may grill dinner. The mystery plant in the ell of the house and garage has decided to be a hosta. I had to bait for slugs before there was enough foliage to identify it. I still have a mystery tree in the front, so far no leaf or flower buds. Depending on what it it I may or may not move it. I want to put some more fruit trees in the front, and if this isn’t one, out it goes. I also have a brilliant red azelea and a pretty purple lilac beginning to bloom.

I am off to get pretty for Home Depot, see ya laterz!

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don’t worry, moorie, the rest of us do.

I just had to share this new twist on the Nigerian Prince spam with you:

[QUOTE=email I just received]
Did you authorize Harold Bernard regarding the release of your over due
contract payment of ($18,000,000.00)the man was in our office few days ago to
claim it, did you really send her to claim your fund on your behalf? if not
send back
[/QUOTE]
(emphases mine)

eta - I just find it amazing that there are people out there stoopit enough to read this and respond with “Oh! That’s my $18Mil and no, I didn’t send anyone in my stead! Contact me at once”

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:smack::smack::smack::o:o:o

In my mind’s eye, I still picture you in AK, even though I logically know you’ve moved down here. Sometimes, the wires in my brain disconnect.

I’m sorry, I really didn’t mean to forget you had moved here.

Soooooooooooo not motivated today. I found out a little tidbit at work that I’d long suspected, but was confirmed today. The consequences of this mean I will only do what I’m paid to do; nothing more. I’m tired of going well above and beyond and not getting anything, even a thanks, for it.

Long story short: Found out the other analyst in my shop got more than double what I received as a performance award. Now, I’m not saying she didn’t deserve the amount she got; however, I deserved that much too. I spent weeks, yes WEEKS covering this five person office completely on my own. It’s safe to say that I probably spent three months to four coverning this office completely on my own. My work suffered because I made sure theirs was done first and then did my own, many times uncompensated. I did it because I wanted take care of my customers. I gave up weekends and RDOs. Not any fucking more. They can go stuff their heads up their asses.

I don’t give a shit about their goals, their agendas, their suspenses. It gets done when it’s done, period, end of story.

I’ll shrug my shoulders, say I only have nine hours and unless I’m compensated for more, it’s what I could get done.

They’ve been grooming my co-worker for months to take my supervisor’s job. At first she was insistent she didn’t want it. I found out last night she does want it. She was given the training opportunities to give her the knowledge base for this job. I asked for those same opportunities and was turned down because “someone needed to stay back and cover down”. Nope, not anymore. I won’t be coverning anyone’s work but my own.

If I have time, which I have precious little of, I might consider doing one of their little reports…maybe, but probably not.

Yep, that’s a bad attitude, but really, that last tidbit of info was way more than the straw breaking the camel’s back. I’m done doing anything more than my job until I can get the hell out.

Just a tip to management: Unfairly denying employees opportunities to increase their knowledge (which helps the office), and not rewarding your employees for going above and beyond is not the way to engender loyalty or productivity. In fact, it has quite the opposite effect.

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Howdy Y’all! I’s home and all relaxated. Had a great time at the pic-a-nic. I assisted with a “treasure hunt” for “gold nuggets” and a trivia game where if somebody got the wrong answer he/she had to “walk the plank”. In case I didn’t mention it, this was a pirate themed pic-a-nic. :smiley: Food was also good. Pic-a-nic type food such as ham and turkey sammiches, chikin drumettes, broccoli sallit, N.O.T. sallit, watermelon and the like.

Taters I don’t blame you sweetie. We know you do your job well if that’s any consolation.

Rosie when you claim your eighteen million, can I borrow a couple hunnert thousand please? :stuck_out_tongue:

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You might want to check YouTube to see if you recognize yourself! :smiley: Great story!

Daughter and I took the trash and recycling, so yay for that. I’ve got a load of towels in the washer that need to go into the dryer. Supper for me will be leftover sketty sauce over pasta. **FCD **isn’t hungry yet, so he’ll be on his own.

I stopped on the way home and got 2 more quarts of strawberries - they are TEH YUM!!! I don’t expect them to last the weekend. And I talked to my mom about the cruise and such. I am very excited. Dunno if I can wait 8 more months!!

TGIF! Hugs to all. Yay for the weekend!

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Woohoo, that’s 1/2 mile less to send the stealth pigeons…um…er…hey look something shiny! runs

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smack

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Who or what are you smacking, Catdude?

Spitting out all that vitriol earlier must have helped. I’m not quite so angry. I think I’m sort of ambivalent about the whole thing. Or, maybe I just don’t give a good damn about it.

I’ve got a nice bottle of black cherry rum sitting on the kitchen island. That and some diet coke should do nicely, I think.

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stick a fork in me - I’m done. see y’all tomorry

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I went to the doctor. No bladder infection, thank goodness. He said my pain sounded muscular, and he prescribed an anti-inflammatory and a muscle relaxant. The anti-inflammatory cost $4.83. The muscle relaxant cost $279!!! Fuck. I didn’t buy it.

The pharmacist is calling the doc back for me. in the meqantime, I have an old script of muscle relaxants that is the main ingredient of the new script, so the pharmacist says. Is this the right place to bitch about pharmaceutical companies and their outrageous prices?

After all this, I’m actually feeling better. The anti-inflammatories are helping, I think.

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Tired.

My high school is still missing. Missing since April 30th. Dropped her kids off and vanished. Her husband is filing for divorce while her siblings blanket the town in missing person signs. It’s terrible. I can’t imagine where she is or what happened to her.