moi? Faking ill to see Doc Goren? You MUST have me confused with someone else. I'm glad to see you back even if it'll be sporadic for a while.

hi ho, hi ho it's off to math i go.

it's convienent that LOCI comes on when im at school.

cool!

I will!! :]

Hey, its like the girl car from Cars! I love that movie!
Judy, I like the names you picked out for your horses!

Hey welcome back. You have been missed, well I have been wondering anyway. Hope all is well in RL.

I don't think you have missed a lot. Just the new episode and such. The ship/no ship is a mess but I won't digress on that.

Valley is still awesome but that was said and you already knew that. Hope you hang around a while this time.

I had to change their names, cluck - spook said Bobby would need to be a gelding and I would never let that happen to our Bobby!

Oh my god. I got tricked.

i went to the doctor, just to dicuss what was wrong with me and to switch to the shot, and shes like..

'how about this, you let me give you a papsmeer and breast exam and i'll refer you to a Gyno to get to the shot."

I'm like so either, i get this now, which i am totally unprepared for.

I mean my heart rate was 107 and it is usually a nice 65, and then it jumped after she said that.

So i just got back from my first pap.

I feel violated. O.O

Think of it this way... It's the first of many...

But it's all down hill from here.

Oh no, never again. O.o

It was really that bad? o-o;

Did you change the horses names or the characters?


oh, I'm sorry. At least its really quick and its over before you know it!

Oh, no Bobby and Charli are still Bobby and Charli - the horses are now Ross and Rodgers.

ok, just checking.

I feel so bad for you, Valley. I remember my daughters first a couple of months ago. She was not happy. Neither was I but it had to be done. She didn't like it but it's something women have to go thru. I am used to it. Doesn't bother me.

I'm sorry, Valley. My old doc would never give me the pill without a pelvic exam first.

I wasn't expecting it. I was like SAY WHAT!
I just felt really uncomfortable. it doesn't really hurt.


Yeah, i admit it only took like 10 minutes all together.


Yuckk, it was just a surprise you know? I didn't go in there for that. O.o

YEAH! THE FLYERS MADE THE PLAYOFFS!

and the Preadators made it as well! (which is a shook considering how our season started!)

I love when Harm and Mac bicker...it makes me...

snicker.

Be a good girl, and go every year. With the problems you've been indicating having, you need to stay on top of things, and a pap and physical exam are the best ways to do that. If the shot doesn't work, ask to be referred to a reproductive endocrinologist and have a complete hormonal work-up to see if anything is out of whack and what could be done about it.

Best of luck, sorry she caught you off guard, but take it from all us "older and wiser women" around here -- SHE DID YOU A FAVOR!!!!!

You know... it may have actually been better that way. Better than sitting around for a week, dreading the thing to come...I have been there, (I am sure most women here have), but even with my personal history, it wasnt as bad as I thought it was going to be. My doctor was a woman and I am sure she hates going to, so she was very understanding of my nervousness. Hang in there, it is for the best, really!

Yeah for the Predators! The Flyers blew their season earlier on, so I was stressed thinking they wouldn't make it. Do the preds play the red wings in the first round? The flyers will probably have to play the penquins and get killed.

Oh mate, that's really not good!! I can see how you would get stressed out about this. But maybe this will give you a chance to find some new friends that need a place to live and then create a whole new group of friends to live with. I know one of my mates forund a room via a website that hosts adds from people who are advertising and looking foor rooms... not sure if there is something like that where you are?? Not sure how much time you have to look for some new roomies?? Might be an idea to ask your friends if they know of anybody who is looking for a place to live. If they are a friend of a friend they might be less likely to be an axe murderer.

Good luck!!

Cloggs

GO PREDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOT!

So I'm in saturday school right now and realllllly bored. help!

Ehm... well what did you miss.... not a lot really.... just lots of Bobby and Alex!!

Cloggs

Well, technically speaking that's not really true. There wilbe ups and then some downs, follwed by waht seems like and up but is not really an up since you just dropped down further than you are going up and yet you will experience it as an up and that will make you feel better. Until someone else bothers you and the whole things starts again and,.... well you get the picture.
Just have fun and enjoy life is what I say!! And remember that most if it will be a blur looking back on it anyway... both good and bad

Cloggs

PS Sorry but I am an optimist!!

maybe you can imagine people naked????

Thought you all may need a Saturday laugh...

HOW TO MEDICATE YOUR PET CAT:

1. Pick up cat and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as if holding a baby. Position left hand forefinger and thumb on either side of cat's mouth and gently apply pressure to cheeks while holding pill in right hand. As cat opens mouth, pop pill into mouth. Allow cat to close mouth and swallow.









2. Retrieve pill from floor and cat from behind sofa. Cradle cat in left arm and repeat process.









3. Retrieve cat from bedroom, and throw soggy pill away.








4. Take new pill from foil wrap, cradle cat in left arm, holding rear paws tightly with left hand. Force jaws open and push pill to back of mouth with right forefinger. Hold mouth shut for a count of ten.








5. Retrieve pill from goldfish bowl and cat from top of wardrobe.






Call spouse from garden.








6.

Kneel on floor with cat wedged firmly between knees, hold front
and rear paws. Ignore low growls emitted by cat.







Get spouse to hold head
firmly with one hand while forcing wooden ruler into mouth.







Drop pill down
ruler and rub cat's throat vigorously.







7. Retrieve cat from curtain rail, get another pill from foil wrap.






Make note to buy new ruler and repair curtains.







Carefully sweep shattered
figurines and vases from hearth and set to one side for gluing later.







8.

Wrap cat in large towel and get spouse to lie on cat with head
just visible from below armpit.







Put pill in end of drinking straw, force
mouth open with pencil and blow down drinking straw.








9.

Check label to make sure pill not harmful to humans; drink 1 beer
to take taste away.







Apply Band-Aid to spouse's forearm and remove blood
from carpet with cold water and soap.







10. Retrieve cat from neighbor's shed. Get another pill.





Open
another beer.






Place cat in cupboard, and close door on to neck, to leave
head showing. Force mouth open with dessert spoon.







Flick pill down throat
with elastic band.







11.

Fetch screwdriver from garage and put cupboard door back on
hinges. Drink beer. Fetch bottle of scotch. Pour shot, drink.







Apply cold
compress to cheek and check records for date of last tetanus shot.






Apply whiskey compress to cheek to disinfect. Toss back another shot.






Throw Tee shirt away and fetch new one from bedroom.





12.

Call fire department to retrieve the damn cat from across the
road.






Apologize to neighbor who crashed into fence while swerving to avoid
cat.







Take last pill from foil wrap.







13.

Tie the little bastard's front paws to rear paws with garden
twine and bind tightly to leg of dining table, find heavy duty pruning
gloves from shed.






Push pill into mouth followed by large piece of filet
steak. Be rough about it.





Hold head vertically and pour 2 pints of water
down throat to wash pill down.






14. Consume remainder of scotch.







Get spouse to drive you to the
emergency room, sit quietly while doctor stitches fingers and forearm and
removes pill remnants from right eye.







Call furniture shop on way home to
order new table.









15.

Arrange for ASPCA to collect mutant cat from hell and call local
pet shop to see if they have any hamsters.









HOW TO GIVE A DOG A PILL:

1. Wrap it in bacon.






2. Toss it in the air.

It looks like Nashville WILL play Detroit.

WOW - You've met my cat? What a small world.

MY cat (okay she is officially the hubby's cat) won't even drink milk! She literally gags when you put it in front of her! I have never had to give her medicine, I do not even wanna try!

My cat is the 'picture perfect' cat, she weighs all of 7 pounds, she won't eat treats or table scraps. She eats her dry food and drinks water - no milk. She will lick the cheese of cheese puffs and leaves the rest for the dog - that is her only 'vice'. However, she climbs my curtains, scratches my door jambs and waits until I get into bed to meow at the top of her lungs. My border collie is 50 pounds, will give you sad puppy dog eyes for any food you might be trying to eat AND he's afraid of the 7 pound bully!

Yeah, my mom was laughing at me when i came out. She said she almost died of laughter in the waiting room because of the look on my face.


Yeah i have a woman doctor, shes a little...hyper...so i was alittle concerned.

Well you did it Valley. Good for you! As you or someone said it was probably better that she did it then instead of putting it off or having longer to think and worry about it. My doc told me if mine comes back normal again none for 3 years! woohoo

I have 3 cats, 1 eats treats the other 2 don't. The same one that eats treats loves chicken meat. This cat knows when we are having chicken for supper. He will sit on the floor and just look at you until you give him some meat off the bone. Weird cat but he's my lap cat. My cats don't drink milk either, just water. I read somewhere that milk is not good for cat's intestines. Gives them diarrhea. Not sure where I read it, but I know I read it somewhere. As you can see I am a cat person, no dogs in my house. I could not handle the walking 2-3 times a day and bathing and such. Cats just give them a litter box and they are good and they bathe themselves. Yeah, I am lazy, no not lazy, just work too much, no time.

KimberlyT, loved the steps for giving a cat meds and a dog too. Never had to give a cat a pill but I don't think I want to try now. I have given our cats liquid medicine which is much much easier.

we have three cats as well and it's always a nightmare to give them pills (Hermione had to get antibiotics after she had her kitten). Even when we wrap them in meat they will eat the meat and spit out the pill later. We then dissolved the pill in water, put it into a syringe and quickly shot the liquid into the mouth I am glad our new vet told us to stop de-worming them once a year because it's completely useless. But I love my cats, especially when they are peacefully sleeping

do you know if he is only going to be there on the 21st or is he going to be there the entire fest?

That is really funny! I had to really do this for my neighbor's cat while they were away. That cat would pretend to swallow the pill and then later I would find the soggy pill on the kitchen floor! She actually knew how to fake it!

My cat Cubbie used to have the dogg to herself (friends - she'd give Sammie a bath)... until Hokey Pokey - rottie-poo (jk) arrived. Now the pup is always chasing the cat and I feel bad for Cubbie...

I give Cubbie lots of extra attention and try to get Pokey's attention OFF of her, but her life is more stressful now..

Just needed to vent this one on you guys... my mum has had the full load already but I am still not sure what to make of this.


I work for a small local company that has recently hired a new member of staff in my department. let's call her Jess. She was going to be working closely with me but my "supervisor" was going to be in charge of her and be her line manager. So, like I said, I was going to be workig closely with her on a daily basis and she was going to take some of my workload so I could take over someone else's work. Now, I had sort of picked up on a vibe that she wat not really investing in the job, you know how you can tell that people go to work somewhere and not really make on effort to get to know you??!! Well anyway I thought that maybe that is just the way she likes to work so that is fine with me. She also had a few meetings with our department head and he never told me what was going on, which he will usually do if it involves me so I thought nothing of it. Last Monday at the end of the day one fo the project managers I work with says to me... "so I heard that Jess was leaving, do you know anyting about this??" ad I was like "Nope, not a thing". So he says "Oh I guess that was just something I misheard then".... I don't really think anything of it ofr the rest of the morning. Then my dept. head asks me.. "Has your supervisor talked to you about stuf", and I am like "What stuf" and he is cagey and sort of makes light of it "you know, just work things and stuff". So I tell him no-one has talked to me about anything. By this time something starts to niggle in the back of my head and I hate it when this happens. The next day... my supervisor is off and the day goes as normal. Then, when I get in in the next morning (Wednesday) one of the other project managers comes up to me and whispers in my ear "you need to know that it is very likely that the new girls Jess will be leaving tomorrow. But do not mention it to anybody"!!!!!!!! So officially I know nothing, unofficially I know she is leaving. She comes in and tells me nothing acts like all is okay. My supervisor comes in and acts normally and tells me nothing. At some point in the morning by head of dept corners me in the kitchen and asks me again if my supervisor has talks to me about work and Jess I still have to tell him "nope". He then asks me if I have heard anything about her and I admit to him that I have heard a rumour about Jess leaving (I hate to lie about that sort of thing). He then tells me that my supervisor knows about this and has for the past 4 days!!!!!!! And that he told him to tell me what is going on...which he had not. So when I get bak to my desk I am slightly annoyed. Then we happen get to talking about holidays and I happen to mention that I will be working over Christmas this year as Jess said she might want that time off. Jess says nothing, my supervisor says... you got it, nothing (he could have taken me aside and explain but nothing!!!). Now I am kind of a bit upset as I now that he knows and he is not telling me anything. I continue with my work and lo and behold about two hours later, when Jess is on lunch my supervisor fesses up that Jess is leaving. I admit that I had already heard a rumour and he jsut sort of mumbles his way out of it and goes " yeah so we will have to see how we resolve this". Apparently did not want it made pulic and wanted to jsut leave and not let anybody know but really... give me some credit I am perfectly capable of keeping a secret like that. I would never betray a confidence like that if someone asked me to.
It just really pissed me off that he had at least two days to tell me about the fact that she was leaving and he did nothing!!!!

Oh and then to top it off the day after he goes "Oh and by the way this one auditor that we have, you will need to keep his schedule light and only let him do jobs around London". Which he tells me AFTER I have done all the schedules for the coming week, no time or opportunity to change them and have already got the guy going WAY outside London!!!! GGGGRRRRRR. How am I supposed to do my job if he does not tell me things like that. We are supposed to be wotking to gether to schedule engineers and auditors. This is not the first time he has done things like this to me but these two in short succession really got to me.

Tell me I am not insane to want some kind of dialogue?????

Thanks for listening
Cloggs

PS: feelling much beter now have typed this... oh and the glass off Wolf Blass Chardonnay helps as well.

PS2: sorry for any typos!!

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Hubby and I went to NYC this weekend. I said to search for VDO, he said to go to museums. It was our first time without kids in 20 years (so pathetic). We got to our nice hotel with the king size bed (we have a full), turn on TV and what's on, yep Criminal Intent. My husband said "Is there no getting away from that man?". Well, in a word "No".

I secretly kept looking for VDO in a crowd. Every time we saw a street closed off, I wanted to go see if they were filming.

We did go to the NBC store. No new stuff. I already have everything with Criminal Intent on it. I thought the travel mug said criminal intent, no, just L&O. The display was moved from the last time I was there in the Fall. I thought to a better, more visible space.

We walked in Central Park. I kept trying to remember all the scenes filmed in the Park (to myself).

We did have a lovely time though. All kids and animals survived at their various places for the weekend. I hope we can do it again.

HB -- sounds like it was a good trip after all! I LOVE getting hubby time away from the kids and the house and the job and our town.....

Cloggs -- have you considered that it may be time for you to look for another place to work? If you're not valued enough by your supervisor, maybe you should?

This time next year my hubby and i will be in London, sans kids for our 40th birthdays (we're five weeks apart in age) and i can't wait. I was in London for the first time ever just this weekend past and with my mom, my sister and brother in law, we went to the Tower of London. I'm a big history buff so visiting the Tower was an absolute dream come true for me and also the fact that i got to see Tower Bridge up close too, (and the Crown Jewels also)which is such an iconic image of the city. I was just there for the day but i had such a good day, even though it took three and half hours to get there on train and three and a half hours back.

I have a project that I need to get professionally printed (preferably from an online company). I need someplace where I can do a custom design, without a glossy finish. If anyone knows anything about printing or where I can go, please PM me.

Kinko's does a great job. So does Office Depot. I know you can access Kinko's online and email them the file, then go pick it up.

Yeah, I did consider that, however, the place I now work at is really nice and the people are really nice.... and I do not particularly want to leave. I've only been at this job for about a year and I do not think that I am ready to give up on it just yet. I will see how I get on for a little while, and yes there is always another job elsewhere but I am kind of settled in this one now.
My supervisor is usually okay but I think it was just that there were two things in a short space of time that came up that sort of triggered my "annoyance".
I do have some experience of staying in a job for too long and have learned from that experience.. I sort of know my triggers and red flags and iwll keep a look out for them.

Thanks for listening though!!

Cloggs