TyneLyn's party! We missed you, Me2

Little Tyne sure had a great time at her party today! I gave her a small piece of her doggie cake and mom, dad and I had one too! It actually was quite good, but dry, not sugary sweet, of course.  I gave her just a little vanilla ice cream with her cake. Later the big guns!  Her Dad went into the TV room and brought her brand new toy out on the porch!  She played with it all evening and even when I was leaving she was still under the end table between her mom and me while we were watching TV, playing with her new rope toy. She sure had a great day! I said to my mom tonight that it takes so little to bring joy to pets and make them feel loved. Making an animal feel loved and safe is everything to me. I am going to volunteer at our local S.P.C.A. this fall for sure. The orientation is the second Saturday of each month. I work every other Saturday, and the first one that is free is October 13. I will be there!

• TyneLyn's party! We missed you, Me2 - TLR
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Hi!  I saw your post down below and figured I would answer this one so maybe you would catch it better!  I hope your having a nice day off.  You deserve that one after yesterday don't you think?  I feel like taking today off but I say that everyday when I wake up!!  Are you alone in your apt?  I sure hope so.  I'm sorry, I thought Herman Munster got it for you.  Get your landlord over there today so maybe he can figure out where it came from.  I can't believe you almost touched that thing.  I sure would have ran out the door in a flash.  After I saw a bat in the house when I was living in NC anything that I saw a bat on for a decoration at halloween I didn't want to have anything to do with.  That is how sensitive I am. 

So it sounds like everybody including TyneLyn had a good time at the BD party!  she sounds really sweet.  Did you have a BD dress for her!!  There is a place nearby where Cupid gets groomed and they have the cutest sundresses for girl dogs!!  I laughed my head off when I saw them but they are really cute.  The woman that grooms Cupid said a lady about 80 years old came in and bought one for her daushand (I don't think I spelled that right)  for a reunion her family was having and the dogs were going to get dressed up and have a "best dressed contest"   Don't you just want to squeeze them so much with all the cuteness and love they have!  When my nephew was a few years younger he would tell Cupid he wanted to make lemonade out of him!!!  Will you see TyneLyn today?  Give her a hug for me!!!

Have a good (and batless) day off!!! I will talk to you later!

Did you ever ask her what her favorite was?!   hehe, TyneLyn help you!  I have said to Cupid to help me when I had to kill roaches living in georgia!   All they can do is help us to be scared!  LOL! 

Did you say you had these before in your place?  If so, what does your landlord, apt. manager or whoever say about this?  Don't worry. I'm sure your safe now.  You are going to have fun tonight!  Have a great one! 

Anything good happen?  Did Nick reappear?  Please update me...

The only things she chose to complain about were nitpicky things -- what they serve for dinner.  Most kids don't have dinner with their parents.  Last time I checked PB&J and yogurt were pretty healthy.  Her GS has ADHD.  He isn't going to "behave" on command.  Any MT would know that.  First she complains because they don't correct them, then she complains because they are, just not to her standards.  Instead of criticizing her kids, she should be trying to help the situation. 

Did she hit a nerve with me?  Absolutely.  My parenting skills are always being critiqued.  From the time my oldest son was old enough to eat until about the age of 6, I had to pack PB&J everywhere we went.  He refused to eat anything else.  Was it because I didn't offer it to him, no.  It was because that's what he liked and that's what he could control.  My other child has ODD -- oppositional defiant disorder.  Is it because I didn't parent him correctly?  No, it's because that's how he's wired.  I have 2 other children who are not like this.  They were all raised in the same house under the same rules.  I am constantly berated by my father for not "cracking the whip" on him and by my mother for being "too strict."  It's so easy to sit back as GPs and offer criticism after criticism.  Then after upsetting DS or DD, you can go back home and not be the one who on top of your feelings of inadequacy now has to deal with a difficult child. 

I could see if it the OP said the children were malnourished or not cleaned and clothed properly, but she's complaining about yogurt and fishsticks.  She's complaining about an ADHD child who doesn't behave. 

I actually laughed and said, "Hells ya I'd eat that chicken!"  I used to work third shift for an answering service and every Christmas they would order chinese food for the daytime staff's lunch and it would sit out all day and when I got to work at 11 p.m., you can bet your butt I'd still eat it just because it was free!  Never got sick either, even though it sat out all day and who knows how many dirty mitts touched it.  Yep, three years of room temperature leftover Chinese food and not one case of the trotts.  Maybe the MSG saved the day?   

did jo pick someone yet, and if so who was it

Kerstin...What a lovely name!  Do you have a pool nearby (recreation center)?...We used to....and it was free if you lived in the township....That'll be good recreation and exercise for kids and adults.  Just make sure all the kids can swim...and don't rely on a lifeguard (I jumped in once after a kid before the teen lifeguard who was chatting up a young lady could be bothered to even look up).  

Light snacks after swim....Knorr Swiss spinach dip with bread and taco chips, have a mild salsa available too, barbequed pork shoulder/pulled pork, barbequed chicken of just plain old hot dogs on the grill, buns, fresh sliced tomatoes and fresh fruit salad with seedless watermelon, canteloupe, strawberries, green grapes, pineapple chunks (Cool whip adds a nice touch) for desert.  All these things you can do the night before (except the hot dogs)  so you can relax and enjoy the moment.  Just microwave the meat. Juicy Juice Berry always works....you could add a little ginger ale to make it more effervescent. 

Considering there may be so many adults, you could ask them what their tastes are and if they'd be willing to bring a covered dish or help with prep. 

All that matters is that Kerstin has a wonderful time.  Peace and Joy to you Kerstin and all ya'll have a happy life together.

Cat

I got a ticket 4 days before Christmas for having an expired tag (had planned to get it taken care of when my income taxes came in - my fault, but crap, I've been broke the whole year!).  So I got the tag renewed the next day because the cop said they would be looking again after New Year's to write another ticket (have seen that my city has had a 25% increase in tickets written in the last month - like they need the revenue!).  So, all I had for my little one was a PlayDough activity center under the tree $15, and a pink umbrella and some candy in the stocking from Santa.  She was happy, though.

I've had that **??@$ ticket next to my monitor to look at it every day for the last 2 months to remind myself to go before the judge and ask for an extension of paying it until Friday when my check comes in.  I have literally been living paycheck to paycheck, sometimes with only $8 in my account in between.  Well, tomorrow I am scheduled to go to a different court to get a child support order (money I'll never see anyway), and I picked up my big orange folder to put my income tax return in it to take with me.  Guess where I put it?  Yup, right on top of that **??@$ ticket.  Yup, I forgot to go to court last night.  Was being bombarded with emails that my accounts could lose power due to the storm and all MTs needed to empty the systems.  Now there is an arrest warrant out on me.  I talked to a clerk at court and he told me to stay indoors until Friday, then come in and pay to have the warrant removed, then I can get a new date to pay the **??@$ ticket. 

Well, I have to go to CS court tomorrow, but at least it is just a short hop onto the interstate and then quickly out of my city limits.  If I can just make it till Friday, pay the warrant, maybe my karma will start changing.  For the last 15 months, I feel like I am the little kid on Charlie Brown that walks around in a dust cloud.  I have seen the inside of more court rooms in the last year than most people see in their lives with getting custody of GD.  I must have done something really nasty to have this kind of karma for this long.  Oh, well.  They say when you're down, the only way to go is up. At least paying to have the warrant removed is less than the ticket and it gives me another month to come up with the money for that.  I'm so broke, I can't even get drunk to forget my troubles!  Maybe my luck will change by St. Patty's Day   

p.s.  I had to edit this message because I used the word s-t-u-p-i-d to describe that ticket and the website wouldn't let me use it, thus the **??@$ symbols !! 

Here is the latest scoop - and thanks everyone for all the support. 

I called today and spoke with the office manager, who seemed very nice and truly seemed embarrassed by the whole thing.  She told me that the doctor himself had wanted those letters sent out, and that they are not for patients who missed scheduled appointments at all, which is what I thought it might be (even though I cancelled the appointment at least a week prior to when it was scheduled).  He is charging us for making the appointment and cancelling it!!!  Yes, I am serious.  She apologized, said her hands were tied and that she had butted heads with him over this, but he would not budge.  He told her to tell the patients that they could either pay the $100 or he would turn them over to his attorney.  Again, I am serious.  Talk about a jaw dropper.  She also said that I was not the only patient to be complaining.  Apparently other folks are as upset at this as I am. 

I told her that I understood she was in a tough position, and I do.  It is not her fault this doctor is an a double s.  I told her to go ahead and tell him to contact his attorney if he felt he had to, but that I would be filing complaints with the BBB and the Kentucky Med. Licensing folks. 

I contacted the BBB, filed a complaint promptly with them, and also talked to the Kentucky Attorney General's office, who are sending me a complaint form.  Tomorrow I will call the Med. Licensing Board, as well as my insurance company, just to put them on alert. 

I hate the thought of this quack getting even one person to pay this ridiculous price.  A patient should not be punished for cancelling an appointment.  I just can't even begin to express how sick this makes me, and hopping mad.  Not that I think I am smarter than everyone else, but you all know that doing the work we do kinda takes the "godness" out of the way we look at doctors.  I know that people are going to pay  him when they are threatened with his attorney, and that is just wrong. 

Anyhow, thanks for letting me vent and I will keep you updated. 

HC