I was only giving you back your RUDENESS

• Got an eviction notice today. - sm
  • My gas was turned off last week. - Coleman propane.
  • Sorry for your situation - Pugmom
  • I feel for you sm - Been through the mill myself
    • Great, greatly supportive post from "Through the Mill". nm - Ella (retired)
    • Firstly of all: Why didn't YOU take your ex to courtf or non- - ()
  • You need to take action. - Now.
    • That is an excellent post from "Now". sm - Ella (retired)
    • These are excellent suggestions! - NHamp gal
  • I'm close to being in your shoes - keeping homelessness at bay
    • What has our profession come to? sm - Ella (retired)
      • I think all of the above, except not the -(sm)- - Topaz
        • Did you read how many heartless and rude replies - ()
      • Ella got the point (thank you!) - keeping homelessness at bay
    • I wouldn't call them sharp replies. But sometimes - truth hurts. You did something about it.
      • I disagree with you. OP has a very nasty LL - ()
        • harsh landlord? - kendra
        • If it is a month-to-month lease - - LL can evict.
          • I was only wondering that the LL evicts her - ()
      • No,actually, OP didn't ask for opinions. - just sayin'
        • For real. If you post, people are gonna have an - opinion. Just sayin. (nm)
          • What is wrong with? - Valerie Bowen
        • Then she shouldn't post here if she doesn't want - to hear a different opinion. And what is wrong
          • Wait a minute, "What is wrong?". sm - Ella (retired)
            • It is a shame, that the truth is misconstrued as - criticism.
              • tp be continued: The TRUTH is that in these times - ()
                • The OP sat for two months and let her situation get - worse. No hard times there.
                  • It's called insidious not laziness - AnnuderMT
              • I think you are very rude. At least if you - ()
                • Oh. Been there done that. Picked myself up. - My friends didn't baby me, they got me moving.
                  • OP surely knows on herself that she has to pick - ()
                  • Well, isn't that just so SPECIAL. - ......Not.
  • I'm going to be blunt here. - But you asked for opinions.
    • Opinions or a sounding board?... - Kicking someone when they are down
    • Very eloquent and literate post, but....sm - Ella (retired)
      • That wasn't eloquent, it was downright - RUDE. NM
        • Ella (retired) meant it 'sarcastic.', read her post....nm - ()
      • Ella, I feel the same................nm - ()
      • Way harsh? Oh come on. We are all adults here. - Please.
        • If she were my daughter.... - you betcha
          • You are SO RIGHT. But obviously there are plenty - here who would rather she wallow.
            • This was in easier times... - ()
          • you are exactly the kind of mother children give a rat's ass about - ()
            • And you are the type of parent who kids - stomp all over.
              • No,. that's not me. My children love and respect me. - ()
            • very nice - you betcha
              • I thought you don't have children...sm - ()
                • Nooo. You're the best. - She no way can match you.
                  • I do not even answer to this. This shows me your low niveau...nm - ()
          • I,. first of all, would pay her rent until she - ()
            • MY DAUGHTER is a strong, independent professional - woman who loves her mom.
              • What got into you? Why so aggressive? Watch your language...nm - ()
        • if the OP were your daughter would you talk the same?...nm - ()
          • My daughter wouldn't sit on her duff in that situation. - She would get a job that she could live on.
      • It's so easy to judge... - BOO
        • Been there, BOO (Please read) - Pugmom
        • Again.... - BOO
          • AGAIN --- LAZY. - Sheesh!
        • You forgot the HOO after your BOO. - Would you sit and whine or get moving?
          • Wow! That's really fugly, especially this: - ()
            • Absolutely. If someone is too lazy to get a job, - it brings the rest of the country down.
    • I agree with your post - see message - NHamp gal
  • Good luck - Keep your head up!! - Tli
  • I would send copy of it to my employer. -(sm)- - Topaz
    • What good would that do? - SS
      • It'd make me feel better, which is better than nothing..-- - Topaz
        • Everyone on here has what is called - SS
          • So tell me ---------------------- - sm
            • If you are not making the $$$ you need - SS
              • I'm rarely ever out of work at my job. But at - nano-cpl, you can work all day and -
                • Then WHY are you staying? NM - SS
                  • Didn't say I was. - ~(@)~
            • and did that - been there
              • Hate to tell ya, but coding's the next thing to - be going offshore, along with billing.
                • Coding going offshore - Pugmom
                • hate to tell you - been there
                  • That's what we all said 10-15 years ago - about transcription.
                    • like I said... - been there
                      • Do some research. - nm
                    • but it's coming, and it gets closer and closer!...nm - ()
          • THANK YOU. I can't believe some of these - posts!
            • So you think that little of your own profession, that - what's happening to it is somehow
              • yes, I agree, how do those people who have - ()
                • sm... - you betcha
                  • I was only giving you back your RUDENESS - ()
                    • Oh please. - You are tops. Trust me.
                      • Sheesh. Go take a Prozac or a Valium and - come back when you can be civil.
                        • This post is dripping of ignorance. As if - ()
  • sm - Happy MTer
  • oh my - mt

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So how many years should one spend $100-$250 on someone's birthday or Christmas while receiving nada in return all year long, not even thanks?  It sure doesn't make a person feel loved or appreciated - and its hard to have the "joy of giving" when you're giving into an endless void and know there will be no presents for YOU.  I want to be seen as a person with needs and feelings too - not just a perpetual gift machine, or permanent Santa.  I'd rather give to charity than my kids when I have to force them to acknowledge they even GOT a gift, much less twist their arm until they choke out a thanks - and they act like I must be an alien with 2 heads to think THEY should give anything to anyone.

Actual conversation between me and 30-something kid

me - Hi, how you been, etc.  (five minutes into conversation with no mention of present)  Say, did you get a package in the mail from company X?

kid - yeah, that was a surprise.

me - well, did you LIKE it?

kid - oh, yeah.  It was really nice, made my day!  Showed my friends and they were like, wow!

me - well, I wasn't sure if you even GOT it, or if the company had even sent it to you.  So I thought I'd check and see.

kid -  Uh, yeah I got it.  Um, thanks.

me - my holiday was pretty lonely, nobody called, and I didn't get any presents.

kid - mine too.  You're the only one who ever gets me anything, everyone else just ignores me.

me - well, if you were lonely you could've called me.

kid - yeah, I know, but I was too depressed because everyone was ignoring me.

I BANG MY HEAD ON THE WALL!!!!

I want to share a conversation I had yesterday with a lady I had on the phone yesterday when she called to ask me to make a donation to a organization that I have made donations to for that past few years.

Her:  Hi Mrs. X, we want to thank you for your past donations to X.  We would like to send you another envelope for your donation.

Me:  I would love to help, but I can only do $10.00 this year.

Her:  Well, we do have an envelope that we can mail out for $12.50.  I can get that out to you.

Me:  I can only do $10.00.

Her:  Well, thank you Mrs. X.  Thank you for donating in the past.    CLICK- end of call.

I couldn’t believe she ended the call so abruptly. 

A couple hours later I decided to go to the website for this organization and under donations; there is an OTHER box for amounts to donate.  I called the 1-800 number and the lady who answered the phone transferred me to another who was in charge of donations.  I told her what had transpired with the previous phone call and she agreed with me that if this phone lady was turning down a $10.00 donation from me, how many other people was she turning down? I have been removed from the call-list and will make my donation online from now on.

I know it’s not much, but to date I am at $70.00 in donations to one charity or another.  All of the organizations were pleased to get a donation of $10.00.  I am not rich in anyway, and with tax prep/ estimated taxes for state and federal due this month, I wanted to donate to this charity, but I can’t put myself beyond my financial means-

I guess I let the caller get under my skin for not taking my donation.  But, in hindsight, I am glad I called the organization since $10.00 here and there from people is better than nothing.  It is for a good cause- but don’t belittle me for not having the same cash flow that I had last year!

Thanks for letting me vent…

Mrs. X

My daughter got a role in the upcoming spring musical.  The drama teacher hasn't published a practice schedule and so far my daughter has called every day with the time to be picked up.  I've sent the teacher 2 e-mails asking for a written  only to get no response.  Today I've sent her another e-mail with a CC to the principal stating this is very rude of her to not publish a schedule and expect parents to be available "whenever" she feels like having practice end with the kids not being told the schedule until they arrive to drama class.  My daughter says that several kids have told the drama teacher that they couldn't stay on some of these days she's called practice after school.

Have any of you ever encountered such rudeness and unpreparedness by a teacher?    If she doesn't give us a schedule by the end of this week then my husband has told our daughter that she will have to drop out of the play.  Practices so far have ended anywhere between 4:30-7:00 and I'm not going to sit around every day trying to guess what time they'll be done.  Plus my daughter doesn't have a cell phone and we're not getting her one just to use for this.   She's having to go to the school office to call us on her lunch time and miss part of lunch to place this call.

Two years working as a missionary overseas has taught me that material things are really not important.  Do not hold onto things with such a tight fist.  I guess after see children begging in the street for food daily kind of changes your perspective.  Oh and then the women who washed her clothes on a rock made me vow to never complain about washing clothes in a machine. 

Forgive your husband.  His giving nature is more important that a rolling pin.  A fire, like those in Califronia, or other natural disaster can cause you to lose all of these things.  Things really do not matter anyway do they?

Have a nice Thanksgiving, and be thankful you can afford food to use a rolling a pin on.  So many people in the world cannot. 

A 70-year-old woman from India claims she has become the world's oldest new mother.

Rajo Devi and her husband Bala Ram had wanted a child in all their 50 years together.

She claims to have given birth to a baby girl at the end of November after having IVF treatment. Her husband is 72.

I was thinking some sort of gift card...I'm sure she is overloaded with trinkets and Christmas ornaments, etc.  Any creative suggestions?

MERRY CHRISTMAS...

and will be getting another one. Prius and the like okay for in town driving but I live rurally, shop once a week, load up the SUV and it's done. My gas mileage is 20 -24 mpg and I can afford the gas.

I just took Spot and Nerys to the vet for routine senior kitty blood checks. I also got Nerys a refill on her prednisalone. It cost $325.

Those furballs had better appreciate it tonight when I shove pills down their throats.

I prefer to make the decisions as to what, if any, possessions of mine should be loaned, and to whom.  If I'm kept in the dark about it, it feels a lot like theft when I don't know where my stuff is.  If I then discover its been spirited out of the house by a loved one, it feels like a betrayal.

The government already takes whatever it deems necessary out of my paycheck so I can be anonomously generous to whoever they deem needy.

It is very, very easy to be generous with other people's money and stuff.  Example - next time someone wants to borrow something from me, we'll just come get it from your house.  Obviously you won't mind, and I can feel sooo good about myself by helping someone else by handing them YOUR stuff.  I'll try really hard to remember to tell you I decided to do that, so you can feel as great about it as I do.

I have an older cat, but she likes the ground stuff (wet).  Now, what I'll do is put a tablespoon of that with a little bit of water.  I bought covers for the cans.  So, I'll keep it about 3 days in the refrigerator.  Once I have it in the refrigerator, I give her a little bit of warm water with the food.  I stir it up to make it sort of like a gravy.  My cat has lost some of her teeth, so she doesn't like to chew but she does like dry food as well.  The dry food I keep in another area of the house (laundry room), and she'll munch on that at her leisure.  I did notice though I have to dump out at night what remains (bits and pieces) of the dry as I guess it gets stale.  She gets the "wet" in the morning in a dish.  Once she eats that, I take it up and rinse the bowl.  She can munch on the dry all day long.  I've found that she likes a variety of different dry foods, but I try to get the "green" kind because she doesn't go outside.  My cat loves "Friskies" Dental Diet (we call 'em green ballz).  I have also noticed however that she likes kitten chow.  I wonder if you started more of a habitual pattern with your kitty cat as opposed to different options all day long just to kind of get him on a routine.  Hope this helps!  Probably not, but I luv talking about my cat! 

P/S:  She sneaks into the bathrooms and drinks out of the toilet!  YIKES!  But I do give her a treat in the later evening either 2 tablespoons of milk or half-and-half.  I also buy the soft treats to give once a while, but that's not an everyday thing!  She really won't drink a bowl of water per se!