Nah, you toss it in a breathable cloth bag, tie it off, put it in a box with a styro lining and wadded up newspapers, ship it overnight and hope like hell it doesn’t die in transit or poo on itself.
It’s my roomie’s snake. It got free in November, we gave it up for dead, she moved cross-country in January, and in April I discovered it hiding in my kitchen. I’ve been caring for it until circumstances were right to ship it. It would really suck to have a pet return from the dead only to kill it for good because of the heat.
No matter how great the idea of moving to Canada sounds, its this situation right here that means I will never move. I can’t even imagine snow already - blech!
Our office is a strictly casual office. It’s jeans and t-shirts all around (sometimes even ripped). So, I own:
Jeans
T-shirts
Running/hiking shoes
Fancy stuff for weddings and the like
So, we are hosting a conference. I have to go. Dress code is business casual.
Rant:
So, for the predominently men in the office that means golf shirts and pants. These are available from multiple retailers in varying prices, etc.
For girls…I dunno. So, I went out to buy a couple of golf shirts (need for four days and have two company logo shirts I can use), some pants and some appropriate shoes.
Girl golf shirts are not a readily available item (read: they exist nowhere). Men’s shirts look sloppy on me (since to get them big enough to get around the busom, they are supper baggy everywhere else. Arg! So what am I supposed to wear, anyway? I have no sense of style and limited time (plus I don’t want to spend a fortune on clothes I will never wear again). And shoes… I don’t want a heel (I’ll be standing all day) and finding the right balance between casual and dressy was a big pain.
Is it still summer?
Anyway…
To my mom’s oncologist: She was doing fine. She had a bone density scan. She does not have osteoporosis–but you gave her a chemo drug for it anyhow and she had 4 days of pain and misery and nausea as a result. In your zeal to wipe out problems that do not yet exist and may never exist, you are causing more problems.
To my brother: Are you kidding, asking me to tell the construction workers behind my house to keep it down on the day of your kid’s wedding in my back yard? If you wanted a nice, quiet, peaceful wedding, you should have had it somewhere else. I am not in charge of the workers. They work when they need to, and that includes Saturdays. They are not going to shut up just because your fam insisted on a back yard wedding.
At first, I assumed you meant some contractors *you’d *hired to work *on *your property, and you were just being an ass. But then I re-read and realized that you’re talking about someone who just happens to be *near *your property. What fuck? Is your brother retarded?
Stupid, stupid, stupid transportation company that is supposed to operate our county’s school buses “more efficiently”! Today, “more efficiently” meant that my son stood around for half an hour waiting for a bus that may or may not have ever arrived. He should have been long gone by the time I got home from work, but I took him instead so that he wouldn’t miss any classes. This afternoon, his bus broke down, and never left the school. It took almost three hours for the bus company to get another bus to the middle school to get these kids home.
And of course, all I’ve been able to muster from the bus company is a bunch of busy signals on the phone and one transfer to a voice mail box. (Turns out that the schools have to call the same number and go through the same busy signal/voice mail rigamarole as the rest of us - they don’t even have another number to call when buses don’t show up for service. How idiotic is that?!)
This is only the third week of school. I have a feeling that I’m gonna get all medieval on somebody before this is all over with…
(I guess it’s a good thing that my daughter walks to school, regardless of the neighborhood busybodies who think that 4 blocks is too far for a healthy 4th-grader to walk.)
I hear you! The golf / polo shirts that I found this year mostly had foofy ruffles or gathers at the bustline. WTF? These are shirts that are supposed to be fairly utilitarian. NOT uber foofoo.
If you wear size 14 or larger, I found that Lane Bryant had some that were acceptable. Smaller than that, my local Tommy Hilfiger outlet had some. For all sizes, Eddie Bauer.
Yes, I should have clarified. There is a home improvement center being constructed from scratch behind the wall that runs behind all the houses on my side of the street.
The whole wedding is retarded, actually. So was the bridal shower.
That’s right you, Danielle and Jeffrey Lawson, you are the world’s stupidest fucking parents. Congratulations. There’s a fucking whooping cough epidemic going on your fucking state. And, you, The World’s Stupidest Fucking Parents, have voluntarily chosen not to vaccinate your baby.
I sincerely hope nothing happens to your precious daughter. But I hope the two of you get whooping cough, spend hours gasping for air and break a few fucking ribs apiece for gladly giving your picture to a movement of lunacy.
A friend of mine, despite having received the vaccine as a child, somehow contracted whooping cough a couple years ago, and it is not a fun disease - she was a perfectly healthy adult, and would be coughing so bad her lips and fingertips started to turn blue. I can’t imagine what sort of negligent parent wouldn’t do everything they possibly can to avoid putting their kid through that.
This, I believe, is not a coincidence. Unfortunately, it is going to take a massive child die-off before all the idiots get it. On the plus side, Darwinism!
So a child who walks four blocks to school is in horrible danger, and a child who doesn’t get immunized during a whooping cough epidemic is juuuust fine. Reason #487 why Mr. Rilch and I don’t have kids.
Check Old Navy’s online store. ISTR seeing normal polos there before, and they have a great selection of extended sizes, I’m pretty sure. (They carry women’s talls, anyway.)
Side rant: What is up with this “foofoo” shit? The word is frou frou. FROU FROU.Look, here’s the fucking definition. Are you all a bunch of fucking retards who just keep repeating each other’s mistake? Being I’m seeing it fucking everywhere.
Wouldn’t it be more likely that the kid would just get it, since their parents probably weren’t retarded enough to skip their vaccinations? Or will that have worn off by now?
The fact that you recognize how stupid this shit is is Reason #1 that you should.
