I just wanna say -- the random comments thread

[iheartscience]

RIP Jack Layton

Ditto.

As an aside, I have asked for greater responsibilities at work. Wish the rocks on my hands were as big as the ones in my head.

cheers--Sharon

But if taking on more responsibility leads to a raise, maybe the rocks on your hands could be as big as the ones in your head!

 

[canuk-gal]

Bad day today. And yesterday, and the day before. Can I rant?

The movers came Thursday and our apt is now four walls, four suitcases and a roll of garbage bags. And some spare TP.

Our flight out is Tuesday. I'm not ready to leave California, and I'm not ready to move to Middle of Nowhere. And all I can feel is resentment and bitterness and... yeah, I KNOW I'm being a petulant little baby about the whole thing, and I KNOW I agreed to give it a shot, but - my gut and heart just refuse to listen to my head. I really, really don't want to go - it just feels so wrong. Even out here, where entertainment is a scant 10, 20mins drive, all too often we make grandiose plans and for one reason or another they fall through, and I wind up either going myself or with other friends. How exactly am I supposed to believe we'll actually make the 2hr trip to NYC if a 20min trip is so often just too much?? I used to alternate between being excited and scared - at this point I don't think I've felt anything *but* dread for several days.



Sorry you feel like a wreck. I was in Cali for (only) a month on vacay--and I cried when I had to come home......chin up!

cheers--Sharon

 

[canuk-gal]

RIP Jack Layton

Ditto.

As an aside, I have asked for greater responsibilities at work. Wish the rocks on my hands were as big as the ones in my head.

cheers--Sharon

But if taking on more responsibility leads to a raise, maybe the rocks on your hands could be as big as the ones in your head!

I dunno Thing--you should see the size of my head!

cheers--Sharon

 

[Matata]

Sitting on the patio eating dark chocolate covered figs and sipping very very chilled Proseco. I love summer.

 

[iheartscience]

RIP Jack Layton

Ditto.

As an aside, I have asked for greater responsibilities at work. Wish the rocks on my hands were as big as the ones in my head.

cheers--Sharon

But if taking on more responsibility leads to a raise, maybe the rocks on your hands could be as big as the ones in your head!

I dunno Thing--you should see the size of my head!

cheers--Sharon

Based on your radiant, your head must be huge!

 

[iheartscience]

Sitting on the patio eating dark chocolate covered figs and sipping very very chilled Proseco. I love summer.

Sounds like perfection!

 

[dragonfly411]

A few things

1) Textbooks are NOT like cake.

2) Please keep your fingers crossed that my horsenapping is successful.

3) Horses choking sucks.

4) Jack London's short stories are not my favorites.

5) I don't understand why my med terminology class is starting with random body parts. Shouldn't it start with medial, distal, caudal, like...directional areas of the body? Dorsal?

 

[gemgirl]

A few things

1) Textbooks are NOT like cake.

2) Please keep your fingers crossed that my horsenapping is successful.

3) Horses choking sucks.

4) Jack London's short stories are not my favorites.

5) I don't understand why my med terminology class is starting with random body parts. Shouldn't it start with medial, distal, caudal, like...directional areas of the body? Dorsal?

Hmmm, explain what horsenapping is.

 

[gemgirl]

It's so nice that we're having a spell of 80 degree, low humidity weather this week. I'm actually cleaning my stove (well, it's cleaning itself) in preparation for the cooler weather and baking in the mornings again!!! I can't wait to have the smell of brown sugar and cinnamon wafting through the house.

 

[dragonfly411]

A few things

1) Textbooks are NOT like cake.

2) Please keep your fingers crossed that my horsenapping is successful.

3) Horses choking sucks.

4) Jack London's short stories are not my favorites.

5) I don't understand why my med terminology class is starting with random body parts. Shouldn't it start with medial, distal, caudal, like...directional areas of the body? Dorsal?

Hmmm, explain what horsenapping is.

Taking my sister's horse and competing on him b/c she doesn't ride him anymore, and doesn't help clean the barn, and I feed every day, let them in and out, clean the barn (with a torn shoulder) buy feed, buy shavings, and keep her crippled horse happy and taken care of..... She was ready to give away the competition horse, so why can't I compete on him?

 

[April20]

I just saw on CNN.com that Pat Summitt (head coach of the UT women's basketball team) has been diagnosed with early onset dementia. She's only 59. I've heard her interviewed several times over the years and she's such an inspiring lady. It just seems so sad to hear this diagnosis.

 

[hawaiianorangetree]

Bad things really do happen in 3's!

In 24 hours my car got keyed at the train station, my husband backed his car into the roller door and I crashed my work van into a brick wall at a study participants home.

Oh well at least we got over it quickly!

 

[princesss]

Sometimes I think the world is too freaking cool. My parents are in Dubai right now and I'm in the States, but I can see them on TV because the event that they're at is televised! With everything that's going on in my life lately, it's just nice to see them, even if they're mostly fuzzy red, yellow, and blue blobs on the TV.

 

[April20]

I miss my e-ring. I left it in my in-laws safe in the states as I wasn't sure I wanted to bring it to SA with me. I kinda regret it.

 

[iheartscience]

One of my loud upstairs neighbors is moving out today! I'm hoping it's the loudest one!

 

[Haven]

We just bought a new sofa for the family room and I am SO EXCITED!

We've been visiting the floor model in Restoration Hardware for a while, and it is just so lush and comfy, I can't wait to have it at home. We went for the 47" deep version with a down feather fill. It's like a giant bed with arms.

 

[slg47]

dang, did anyone see Beyonce at the VMAs? her performance was AWESOME!!!!!!!!

 

[centralsquare]

dang, did anyone see Beyonce at the VMAs? her performance was AWESOME!!!!!!!!

Missed the performance but saw the news that she's expecting!

 

[chemgirl]

New duvet cover on bed for 4 hours and my cat already had a hairball on it. Good thing she's so cute!

 

[lbbaber]

So I just got my power back on from this hurricane. I can't complain bc both of our homes are still standing. My parents lost their home in East Haven CT. My childhood home is gone. Feeling very sad today.

 

[dragonfly411]

lbbaber - I'm so sorry. ((HUGS))

So far I'm acing med terminology, but it's also been rather simplistic. I'm worried it's not covering everything it should. Thoughts?

 

[slg47]

So I just got my power back on from this hurricane. I can't complain bc both of our homes are still standing. My parents lost their home in East Haven CT. My childhood home is gone. Feeling very sad today.

lbbaber I am really sorry to hear this... **hugs** to you

 

[TooPatient]

So I just got my power back on from this hurricane. I can't complain bc both of our homes are still standing. My parents lost their home in East Haven CT. My childhood home is gone. Feeling very sad today.

I'm sorry to hear this. Are your parents okay?

 

[lbbaber]

So I just got my power back on from this hurricane. I can't complain bc both of our homes are still standing. My parents lost their home in East Haven CT. My childhood home is gone. Feeling very sad today.

I'm sorry to hear this. Are your parents okay?

Thanks, yes they are ok. They evacuated...they almost didnt. Thank God they left. The water surge destroyed everything in its path.

 

[missy]

So I just got my power back on from this hurricane. I can't complain bc both of our homes are still standing. My parents lost their home in East Haven CT. My childhood home is gone. Feeling very sad today.

I am so terribly sorry for your and your family's loss ibbaber.
Thank goodness they evacuated and are safe. How traumatic. My heart goes out to all of you.

 

[Imdanny]

So I make our little monthly decorating contest, because I won the last one, and one of the things I have to do is run the next contest, after winning the month's contest and doing the decorating.

I had a vision of what I wanted to do with the decorating and it came off great. I don't want to be immodest but I tried really hard to do a good job and my decorations got rave reviews.

The decorations are a picture you choose on the front page of the forum, and alternating colors of the boxes the text is in inside the threads, and the color of the thread titles, the color the thread titles change to after you've clicked them once, and colors for borders under the picture and before the thread titles start.

I just thought I'd explain that so I'm not being thoroughly confusing.

So, my contest is a guessing game, you have to guess a number, and I laid out the rules, and publicly stated I'd sent the winning number to a volunteer for safe keeping. On the first day.

So, you would think, wouldn't you, that I wouldn't be accused of cheating, as if I'd ever cheat about this contest that's a tradition of that forum, that's existed and been run each month since 2005, that's just a fun little contest. As if I would ever even think of doing something so low and petty like that.

Ok, so then I say I'm going away for ten days. Yes, I start a thread saying that, and in the thread I make a friendly reminder about the contest and the fact I've publicly announced the day the contest will be called, the 28th, and why, because if I didn't do that, we don't get September's decorations until about, um, the 7th.

I didn't announce the date the contest would end in my very first post, but, it seemed reasonable to me to make a public note of it soon after, and give it until the 28th.

So, then, I do nothing, and I mean nothing, except leave the forum for the next ten days to take care of my MIL who is visiting us.

Then, dutifully, and cheerfully, I do just what I said I was going to do, come back to the forum for the first time in ten days, and call the contest.

Well.

This guy personally attacks me (I consider it as such), and says I'm guilty of a "conspiracy!" OMFG!

His conspiracy theory, more like some kind of bizarre and petty hallucination than a theory, is that I "buried" my announcement of when the contest would end on the top of page 2. As if the relevant thread was not the relevant thread in which to say it.

Then he says, I'm not guilty of "wholesale cheating," except that's exactly what he's saying, and I called my contest after two of my "favorites" chose a number one number away from the winning number (somehow, this is... I called the contest after my "favorites" had won it... um, 10 days after reminding everyone that I was leaving, and reminded everyone about the date, um, yeah...).

One of the people who won is someone who, um, hates my guts.

Wonderful.

Then this guy proposes remedies, having made his false and outrageous attack on my character.

He says he wants everyone to vote!

Yes, you heard that right.

He says we should all vote, and have a popularity contest, the exact thing I designed my contest not to be, and he should unilaterally (with the help of moderators, of course) have the power to say we should have an election.

Oh, but he's not done.

He says that if his "appeal looses," then, person x, the person who hates me, should be the winner because the average of his numbers comes the closest to the winning number.

"I've never been so insulted in my life." is an often used expression. However, can honestly say it comes close to how I feel. I have rarely been so insulted.

*I* ruled, publicly, that there would be no "do over," and informed the forum that the best advice for them was to congratulate the winners, and move on.

There wasn't enough "wut now?" to describe my reaction, however restrained.

They say that no good deed goes unpunished.

I'll tell you one thing. That will be the last time that I will be contributing to that contest, and the last time that I will be dignifying my accuser with the time of day.

 

[VRBeauty]

So I just got my power back on from this hurricane. I can't complain bc both of our homes are still standing. My parents lost their home in East Haven CT. My childhood home is gone. Feeling very sad today.

lbbaber, I'm so very sorry to hear this. The overall news from the hurricane was so much better than expected, that it's easy for those of us not in the area to forget that there was a great deal of damage done. Huggs to you and your family!

 

[VRBeauty]

So I make our little monthly decorating contest, because I won the last one, and one of the things I have to do is run the next contest... .

Danny - congrats on your win, and what sounds like a terrific web page design! It sounds like your accuser is just a sore loser, and I'm sure most people on your forum will recognize his little diversion for what it is. I hope you'll be able to share some of your designs with us sometime!

 

[Imdanny]

VRBeauty, thanks! I do have a project in mind for PS, but I have to do some research first. I'm going to start a thread on Oscar Heyman. I have to learn a little more about them, and I have to teach myself how to post pictures at PS 2.0 (not asking for help with this, I'll learn how to do it! It's just sad I couldn't figure out how to do it the first time I tried and haven't made myself learn it yet!).

You're right, of course. Sore loser. I was just amazed someone would stoop that low! I was just shocked.

No big deal. Thanks for letting me vent, everyone.

 

[Gypsy]

I saw the word "sale" and almost lost my mind tonight. I've been browsing sapphires for a while just to get an idea of prices and color and since it's September today my favorite vendor was offering 20% off. The only stone I found that I liked enough to buy was a round and I've been looking for an elongated cushion. But... it's late at night and I've got the buy bug. I almost clicked purchase, but fortunately I decided to look for settings for it first. I did find a LOVELY setting for it for a good price, but the total package was more than I should be spending right now.

So if anyone is looking for a lovely sapphire ring... here's my pick of the night... It's 6.5mm and it's a little on the dark side in the pics but I've bought from him before and the stones are brighter in person and it's a lovely stone and with the September sale it works out to about 550 for the rock... not bad at all. http://www.simplysapphires.com/html/imagesblue2005/bluercr65142-sm.html


And here's the setting I would stick it in... for less than 1000 out the door (not bad if I do say so myself) for the complete ring http://www.ebay.com/itm/370537014767?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649


Posting it here is my way of saying... I'm passing. Let's see if I can stick to that resolution. That sapphire is hard to pass on.