I can get a new phone in January with my cell plan. I have no idea what I want to get though...

turkey processing plant? that sounds interesting. im sure these next couple of months are going to be really busy! has some ever lost a limb on your watch? o.o

thanks, but i really wouldnt call it a "party". its just going to be me and my friends watching scary movies in costumes. lol!! in school, i am majoring in japanese. i love it, but it gets kinda hard and annoying at time. like this paper i have to write, has to be 4 pages all in japanese. i just started page 2! lol!! fun ^__^()

im sorry to hear about your phone jc! it sucks when that kind of thing happens. i hope everyone works out for you *huggles*

I had (and am going to try to get again) a MOTORAZR v3xx platinum. It is a good phone. Solid, durable, attractive. Good features. The processing is a little slow for the internet and such, but it isn't too bad.

don't get too excited about the extra hour sleep.. had it last weekend here in the UK. All it meant was that when I got up on Sunday morning it was 8 instead of 9 and I got stuck watching Basil Brush (don't ask me to explain, something with a handpuppet shaped like a fox, it wasn't very clear what was going on). Then on Monday I spent the entire day listening to our receptioninst going... " Well actually it is already 4 o'clock now".... no it is not! It is 3 o'clock and I still have two hours to go unti I get to go home.

Sorry....... feeling much better now.

Cloggs

Thanks for the reminder!

My Irish totally stink...they lost to Navy for the first time in 43 years....hell, even Davie, Willingham, and Faust beat Navy while they coached at Notre Dame....I am so ticked off now...I need a beer...lol

Sorry irisheyes! The Vols won! YAY!

Congrats K-Rod....

Arent' you at least happy about the Vols? Get a beer!

sorry Irish.. bama lost to LSU too.. big bummer.."sigh"

*bug*

Sorry thats a woohoo for the Louisiana gal, but will keep it a little woohoo.

Congrats to the Vols K-rod...sorry I don't really like LSU Jryan but congrats to you too....hopefully my Irish could beat Duke in two weeks...

No, no one has lost a limb on my watch, but I've only been here since May 2007. Last year, someone lost about 1/2 a finger and a tip of another finger. Yes, we found the finger. No, it did not go in the turkey. The worst injury we've had since I started was an individual fell off a ladder, falling approx. 10 feet and then the ladder fell on top of him. Two broken bones and a mild concussion, but thankfully nothing more serious.

Thanks! It wasn't even on TV, ticked me off. At least we won. Sorry about the Irish, some teams just start of with a bad year, especially with new players! They will beat Duke! You know I'm the medium K?

Hope everyone remembered to turn their clocks back! K

Is that your dog? That is the cutest dog I've ever seen!

hey , i'm a little curios ..how many of you , except Admin ..are guys actually ? because most of LOCI fans are women as far i have noticed

omg! thats scary! yea thankfully nothing more serious happened. maybe you are super nurse ^_~

Since I'm feeling a bit selfish, I'm posting this here too:



One of 3 that I'm the proud owner of now.

I think that its mainly the women who post on the message boards and drool over Vince. My husband likes the show.

I thnk that women aare more likeley to be a part of a faondom than men. For whatever reason.

Just to let you know If you go into the games section, we are having a poll, on who you think is the worst villain on CI. If you want to cast your vote.

Done MF!! KR

I love the green when you come on the board with Leonardo Decaprio face right there! Good Lord! K Bobby you will always be my main man!

Kitty update time

Bad news...I had to put Phantom down (Friday November 2 at 11:15 am). It took forever to get him in to see Vet #2 who is a kind and compassionate person and who I think was really freaked out at what state he came in to her in (they couldn't get a temperature it was too low to register on the digital thermometer , pulse 1/4th of what it should have been, respiration was twice as fast as it should have been). She immediately put him on oxygen (strapped a little mask on his face) and we discussed how doing just about anything at that point could have killed him (i.e. more blood work, tests, trying to rush him to the closest competent emergency vet 90 minutes away). I made the toughest judgment call ever: that he was just suffering too much (the angry scream he let out when he realized he was in another vet clinic brought her and six vet techs running into the exam room) so although I am unsure of how much more fighting he wanted to do or realistically could do, I let her put him down. She put me onto a good veterinary pathologist and I hustled his big body (when he was healthy he weighed 19 pounds) the 40 miles south to Vet #3 who is running a necropsy (animal autopsy) on him and doing whatever it takes test-wise to figure out what was wrong with him (the vet school at VA Tech may get involved in this too).

This matters to me not only because I need closure (and the proof that Vet #1 is no better than a vivisectionist and needs to lose his license at a minimum) but because I still have Phantom's buddy kitty at home (Setzer a 10 year old male who when he adopted me let me know just how lonesome he was for feline companionship) and if this is an infectious disease I need to be ready to deal with potential health problems for Setzer. The pathologist (Vet #3) saw liver and pancreas issues but doesn't yet have enough information to determine what the real issue was (could be an infectious bacteria called Hemobartonella, could be hepatic lipidosis, could be other things)

Vet #4, who is on staff at Cornell's Vet School (the Mayo Clinic of Cat Care) and has been consulting with me over the phone to the extent she can, is going to review the pathologists findings (she already has Vet #1 and Vet #2's records). It will probably be her interpretation of Vet #3's findings (Vet #2 and Vet #3 being locals are going to be hesitant to testify against Vet #1) that will help me nail Vet #1 for his license , for veterinary malpractice and maybe even for a criminal charge of animal cruelty (I personally feel like he needs to do some jail time and I think he may be in the felony jackpot if not at least the misdemeanor territory). Vet #1 didn't do a lot he probably should have and kept trying to avoid talking to me directly so I now something bad is up. Vet #1 has Veterinary Licensing Board issues related to federal income tax evasion, prescribing veterinary anesthetics to his wife, prescribing veterinary Ritalin to his kid/grandkid, and messed up a dog's leg pretty bad in 2005...this is all public record stuff so I feel confident I can get something punitive to happen to him.

All this weekend and today in addition to doing research into the diagnosis, I'm working up a complaint form and its documentation for the Vet Licensing Board, I've got emails out to various animal law experts pertaining to civil and criminal liabilities Vet #1 may be nailed for, I'm researching the state statutes that apply, writing up questions that I need answered, researching who I should take Setzer to in the future (he probably should get a well senior citizen cat exam from a vet I am convinced is good with cats). When I'm not busy, I'm either hanging out with Setzer (who I can't figure out if he misses Phantom or is picking up on my stress levels or both), watching him like a hawk for any signs he might be ill. And when I'm not collapsed and asleep, then I get emotional in a grieving kind of way (crying, angry, self-righteous, sometimes a little denial and bargaining, sometimes just down...my emotions are really in flux right now). As long as I keep going I'm okay. It's when I sit around that I don't feel so okay. But I know that that's how it's going to be so there you have it. I know that if I ride it out eventually I'll feel better, it's just frustrating to not be able to say when that will happen

I did try to watch 'Depths' Thursday night and I didn't hate it or love it...my opinion of it is just too nebulous because I'm distracted by what happened with Phantom and my mind is preoccupied with getting the next steps right. But I will watch it again and think about it later...when the time is right.

Stuff is still very slowly progressing with Room To Read and the Frances Goren Library...but that is extremely back burner right now...it just has to be that way for a little longer.

Many hugs to everyone here...thanks for the personal messages and the emails and the postings to this thread...between my friends who are being incredibly cool about letting me unload on them via the phone and email and all y'all here I figure I'll get through this okay.

But I probably won't post much here at least until I have that necropsy and pathology data...the waiting is making me crazier than usual (did you think that was even possible?)

The Vault (who is encouraging all y'all to go do something nice for someone you care about human or 'fur kid', just 'cause you can)

Lawyers and their paper trail! KR LOL! Missed ya!

Where id DeeCee? Has anyone heard from him?

Welcome back, Vault, I missed you. I always check to see if you have posted first thing because yours are so interesting. Grief takes time and there's no shortcut, so just hang in there.

So sorry about your kitty. 9 yrs ago, I had to put down my 13 yr old siamese cat. Who at that time was older than my daughter. Princess, never liked to go outside, but for some reason followed my husband out that night when he took out the garbage, and he didn't notice. I had gone to bed early my son had orientation at his new high school the next day and I had to go with him. Early the next morning my neighbor came and rang my doorbell, asked me what color flea collar my cat wore. She wore bright pink. She told me not to go outside, she was going to bring the cat to the vet. Princess had crawled into the car engine, and when she started her car, had skinned her underside, tore the rear two tendons in her back legs, She was just lying there on the front lawn of my next door neighbor. I broke down, I had her since she was a baby, she was my baby. Needless to say, I had to call my mom to go with my son to school that day. I went to the Vet, he said due to her age and the extensive skin grafts, that would have to be done, it would be too much for her to take. So we had to have her put down. I cried for days. I feel for you. My other cat, who didn't cuddle up with me much, was more in tune with the kids. Comforted me and started doing the things Princess did for me. Like he knew what I needed. Animals are so much more smarter than we give them credit for. Thats why I don't know why some people can hurt them or be cruel to them.
May Setzer bring you peace and comfort that you need at this time.

I'm so sory MF! My rat terrier just turned 9 on Oct.30th, he don't act it though. Again, my deepest regrets. K

I'm so sorry about your kitty Vault. They do become almost like your kids don't they. We had a 21 year old pomeranian that we had to put to sleep about a year ago. We didn't realize how sick he was. If I had known I would have stopped at McDonalds and fed him some french fries. I took consolation in the fact that he was 21(!) and had a long happy life. Again, I'm sorry.

Well, don't you look smug. just KIDDING! very cute

ive been wondering how you were doing vault. thanks for the update! hang in there!! *huggles*

That's how it is on a lot of message boards. There are usually WAY more women than men.

I'm a chick btw. (Even though I have "Men" in my screenname )

Haha me too. I would definately faint.

I'm so jealous! Love it? K

Post here for you 1,000th post! Congrats!

well you certainly know how to get someones attention!.. you do know that Bubba is going to be very put out with you.
I think I screwed up on the 1000th.. but look at this one as the beginning of a new era!!.. and .. uh.. sorry.. my fruits was picked looooooong ago..lol(you know we're gonna both get booted for this) LOL

*bug*

ahhh.. thanks Bubba!
and.. uh.. whaddya mean LSU!

*bug*

Bwahahaha. I know you TECHNICALLY posted else where,

but it was as a response to my comment so, in essence you did post your 1000th for me.

Oh don't worry, theres plenty of fruits in your basket to be picked.

Us thrown out? THAT'S UNPOSSIBLE!

well mabey.

LMAO!.. I don't know what I'm gonna do with you!.. uh... mabey I should rephrase.
but I'm glad the 1000th was to you my friend.. seems only fitting.. seeing we're having an affair and all..OOPS! was that suppose to be a secret?
I'm just kidding people!!.. I can feel the over flowing of .. well something other than love on the way.. so just hold your water!

*bug*

BUCKET!

that is for the water .. right? ... otherwise i'd be so hurt..LOL

*bug*

well Bubba..just cause I lovya so much.. I'll give you a pass on that

*bug*

Of course for the water! oy!

BUCKET!