righteousbabe

I don't mind hugely, but it would depend on what it was being left... I mean, if it was something I'd actually use, a business I'd realistically patronize, it'd be better. Mostly I get ads for businesses I won't use; lawn care, tree trimming, window replacement, stuff I don't need or stuff I will do myself, or pizza places, and I get annoyed because it's just one more thing I have to look at/dispose of. I have "no trespassing" signs and "beware of dog" signs (she doesn't bite but THEY don't know that)...and people still, if I forget to lock the gate, come up to my door ALL THE TIME to hawk their religion, or try and offer lawn care or whatever. Infuriates me. I'm going to put the signs up in 2 or 3 languages I guess. Or they will, if the gate is locked, stand there and yell for me to come out!!! I have a gate enclosing the entire yard and driveway from the sidewalk to the house, and I have locks on the driveway gate plus the walkway gate. I'd think that would make it clear that I don't want to be pestered but apparently not! Maybe I just need a sign saying "Leave me the hell alone!" So yeah, I'd rather someone throw something in the drive or hang it on the gate rather than come to the door, but in general I don't want ads. If you're in the phone book and I need your services I"ll find you. Then again I don't mind GOOD coupons and I'll go to a business that has a good deal to try it out...

Im tired just from tryign to figure all of that out LOL yes, I looked at that and saw: Sskfj, skroookd, 2233XXXXX &***$)$)#)#)#, Bkdonnod, +#_#)@!!! My mind + math = mush Take heart... I break a sweat changing clothes and I'm NOT pregnant!! Trying on clothes yesterday all day for me when shopping was equivalent to running a marathon! Stupid sedentary jobs don't help.

Ditto that. I've been on the other end of things, with a buyer who fraudulently claimed he hadn't received an item. He gave ME the wrong address, had the wrong address on his PP account, so the item was returned to me, and the emails to him to fix it were ignored.... and then PP freezes my account for the $250, and meanwhile I do hear from him and re-ship the item. I had proof of shipping and delivery to him (with signature!!) and because it had been x number of days PP closed it out in his favor, then tried to "go after" him for the $250. It took a couple of weeks to get him to pay me, with PayPal emailing him and me emailing him... he could have probably gotten away with keeping the money and the item. Point is, PP almost always finds in favor of the buyer. So I wouldn't fret too much if I were you. I also agree on the feedback system.. it's not perfect by any means and while I am wary of feedback ratings below 98%, I also understand how sellers are at the mercy of buyers, and there are some nutty ones out there. I was a seller from 1998 until 2005 pretty much non-stop... and I got a neg (and some seriously disturbed emails) from a buyer of a vintage cotton handkerchief, because it was not pressed and starched before shipping! IT was "only" laundered and folded. Ummm, okay. This lady then came back and bid on EVERYTHING I was selling (about 40 items at the time) and I had to cancel all her bids because she was a looney bird and I had no idea what she was planning.... feedback bombing perhaps? I also got a neg because a large, hard to ship item (carseat) took 7 days to get to the buyer, vs. 5 that she'd wanted, despite my emails to her all along to keep her updated. So my point is, look at feedback of course but remember, the comments are only as reliable as the individuals behind the comments, and we all know how "people" in general can be!

Yes. Messing with your sleep schedule and wreak havoc with your health. To catch back up you need to get more than one or two full night's sleep- you have to put back nearly all the hours you have been missing! One of the big employers here does the rotating shift thing, where the employees work 11-7 for two weeks, then 7-3 for 2 weeks- then 3-11, then back to 11-7. They complain that they feel like crap most of the time, I don't think they ever get used to it. Well, I wonder how long it will take? It worries me because last night I didn't get to bed "on time", instead I got to sleep around 12:30 am, and I forgot all about DST, so I woke up at 7:30 as planned with my 2 alarms that automatically reset themselves for DST. Which means I got 8 hours of sleep... BUT the little wind up alarm clock went off at 7:30 "for real", not the DST 7:30, and I didn't even hear it. Tomorrow I have to wake up at six and I don't know how. I guess I go to bed by 10 since I seem to be able to wake to an alarm if I get 8 hours? I imagine that ANXIETY about oversleeping is messing up my sleep further? I know some people can't understand this but ever since I was a small child I"ve been an extraordinarily deep sleeper. We lived in Kansas when I was very small, and my mom said I slept through tornadoes, TWICE! They were very close to the house, lots of noise going on and I didn't even flutter. I've always been a night owl and scheduled life accordingly. I've usually taken jobs with a "mid shift" (11 to 7 or 10 to 6) and when I was in school I scheduled no classes before 11am or noon. Even having kids, I've always had someone else around to wake up and get me up to get them to school because alarms alone don't do it unless I'd gone to bed super early.... and I have been known to only wake to severe "shaking", cold water, ice, etc. It's nuts. I have been on a weird schedule or no schedule for 2 years now.... how am I gonna adjust so that I get to work on time tomorrow (have to be there at 8)? My dogs DO wake me when they need to pee.. too bad I cannot "set" them to do this at six am?! For some reason I respond to them whining to be let out, I guess much like when my kids were babies and I always woke to crying. Sorry, I"m rambling now but the two issues are definitely related.

OMG, that's my hometown! I grew up there, lived there from age 3 to age 14. My mom still owns a house down there that she rents out. Wow. So sad. My son (now 15) was a regular Houdini, could get out of ANYTHING and by age 2 or 2.5 NONE of the child safety products could stop him. When he was about 2, and seemed "down" for his nap and sound asleep, I ran upstairs to shower (townhouse, he was asleep in a port-a-crib downstairs... I was in there 15 minutes, max. Came down and the door was wide open. He had woken, escaped the port-a-crib, stacked stuff to get to the uppermost lock on the door (there were 3 total), and was three buildings down in the complex, barefoot and running around in broken glass by the dumpster!!! I was horrified and later put motion detecting alarms on the door but that kid was CRAFTY. That could've been me. I mean, I was single, and went to all these precautions, and waited until he was "down" for a nap before showering.... ugh. We have a crafty/sneaky almost 5 year old now but thankfully she doesn't try to leave the house without us, and we have a home alarm system just in case. She did, however, try to get Halloween candy around 1 am last night, and was caught by my 15 year old who was still awake! She'd been sound asleep when we went to bed! It's worrisome.

My faves: Lab (have had 2, one purebred boy who lived to be about 12, one girl who is now about 4 and the greatest..... I'm pretty sure she's not pure Lab but whatever, she's a GREAT dog and mostly Lab) Golden Retriever; never had but friends did and they are GREAT. Boxer: ditto the Golden, if I could get a third dog it would be a Boxer or a Golden Shih-Tzu, I've had 3... well 2 were mixes, one was purebred. The one I have now is part Shih Tzu, part Boston Terrier. Goofball! I like the mix because he's a bit bigger than a purebred Shih Tzu would be. His mom was full shih-tzu, dad was 1/2 Tzu and half Boston Terrier, and he's a nice sturdy weight, while still a lap dog. He was an "oops" baby from an "oops" litter. Not tiny like my mom's sweet Toy Poodle who we're always worrying will get hurt because she's tiny AND rambunctious. I do NOT encourage the intentional mixing of breeds but I also love the fact that his coat is medium length, great for being a somewhat "fluffy" dog, but not the full, long coat of a Shih Tzu that gets matted and needs constant brushing. It's very manageable. The lab X (Raven) wasn't a shelter dog but she was about to be.... someone had rescued her but had a tiny apt. and couldn't keep her so we got her when she was about 4 months old. The Tzu mix, I knew someone who knew the breeder who told me about the "oops" litter (female got loose in heat)... but I have had shelter dogs too and never had any problems, none of that home visit stuff either. One of the most rewarding things was adopting a senior dog whose elderly owner had died and the relatives dumped him at the shelter... he was about 10, didn't live but for a few years, but I was so happy to bring him home to live out his golden years! Here's my mutts:

This is weird. For months now I've been sleep deprived. It was ugly. My dumb job was forcing me to be up all night many nights a week, and up all day to work and because I have kids... so I was running on 4 or 5 hrs a night and then oversleeping on Saturday morning, only to stay up late to work some more, then trying to get up early Monday to get the kids off to school. It was just yucky, and I felt like crap but I understood why. I was under a ton of stress, grinding my teeth, and getting kinda depressed. Well, I have this new job starting Monday so I've been trying real hard to get on a schedule. I started by going to bed at midnight, then 11, and waking up at 8, then 7:30, and tomorrow (Sunday) I'm trying for six because I have to be up at six on Monday. I've read that it's best to get up at the same time every day which I haven't done, but I HAVE been getting 8 hours a night all week long which is unheard of, and I'm somewhat on a "schedule", never sleeping past 8 and never up past midnight. I've refused to pull all-nighters for work, and I've refused to work 10-12 hour shifts, too, sticking to a normal 8 hour day instead, to regulate myself and get stuff done before I start the new job. So, I got up at 8 today and had coffee and breakfast, did some minor things around the house, then went shopping around noon. I'm trying to find work clothes and I almost exclusively thrift-shop so I hit about 3 or 4 stores and stayed gone until about 7pm, stopping for lunch and coffee around 2pm. I had to try on a LOT of things and search and search to get what I got but how hard can shopping be, I mean physically? So the weird thing is, today especially, I am EXHAUSTED! I've been tired all day, too. I felt like someone who hasn't slept at all. I also hurt my back a couple weeks ago and it was definitely aggravated by the end of today. My feet hurt too. Is this a normal physical reaction to a different sleep schedule or is there something wrong w/me?

Ditto on tetanus! I had to get one a couple months ago, same reason. Barefoot in the yard, stepped on a rusty nail, and god knows what else in that yard...... it was a pain in the butt but cheap and worth not worrying.

I'm not commenting on spanking or not, that's a debate I don't care to get into... but I have to say one thing here: Don't be so naive about CPS, folks. You don't have to do anything WRONG, do get them involved in your lives, and once they're in, they're like a bad penny. Seriously. Don't think "Just because I am not abusing my kid CPS would never investigate me" or "So what if they do? I just tell them how it is and they go away"...... sooooo not true. You DON'T want to go there if ya don't have to, so be careful.

Ditto on the weird reactions to this, I am perplexed... if you think about it, cow milk is really pretty gross! Or not, to most, but to me... I don't know. Anyway, it was once common for women to nurse each other's babies. My best friend promised, when my youngest was small, to nurse him if something were to happen to me (she was nursing her youngest)... I was touched. As for the mom selling her milk, I do kinda understand having a big stock of it and not wanting to waste it, but perhaps she can use it when the baby is a bit older to mix with cereal, add to baked goods, etc. She can keep frozen milk for up to a YEAR if it's frozen in a deep freeze (zero degrees constant temperature).

What's with "Woot!"? Not picking on anyone, but I've never actually HEARD someone SAY "Woot!" and if I did it would sound weird, yet people write it all over the internet when they are excited. Huh? I don't get it.

boys are different Yeah. IMO easier. Way way easier. Teens are difficult no matter, but still, I'd rather have to handle my 15 yo son than the almost 5 yo daughter any day!

I didn't have either.... I had what I termed "the dramatic 4s" "Mama, NOOOOOOOOOOOOBODY plays with me" "I NEVVVVVER liked chicken" "I ALLLLLLLLLLLLLWAYS have to do not-fun-stuff" you get the idea..... it was constantly an extreme. One day I picked her up from daycare and she was buckling herself into her carseat and she threw her head back and exclaimed in the most exasperated voice she could, "mama..... today was the WORST day of my ENTIRE life!" Of course I won the bad-mom-award by letting a giggle escape and it made her cry because I was laughing at her. Gimme the 2s over the 4s anyday (at least with MY DD) Hell yeah. FOURS are awful!!! I kinda liked the 2's, but he 4's, with all three, have been just terrible. DD is almost 5 now, but just earlier I "made her sad" and "broke her heart" because I put her in time out and actually enforced the "no playing with toys during time out" obvious aspect of it! Drama drama drama. She tells the boys (10 and 15) all the time that she's NEVER talking to them again. LOL. They wish.

Yes. Thanks. That's funny, because I don't even remember those. What drove ME nuts was the original "Freeee creditreport.com" jingle!

According to one online fan type quiz/test, I AM Ani DiFranco. LOL. In other words, yes. Obsessively, my GF would say. You?