Posts by Been there

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I Miss Ozziepost

by Yizuman in

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where's the great ozzie?

i sure miss the guy and haven't seen him in a while.. anyone know where or what happened to him?.

yiz

I Got A Job!!! w00 h00!

by Yizuman in

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i'm working 3rd shift for 32 hrs a week with a potential of overtime at a shell station for $8.50 an hr.. w00 h00!!!.

thanks for everyone's love and support!

yizuman

Will you be able to sleep during the day at your "Home" or do they kick everyone out during the day? Maybe it will be quieter. Um.......I mean no bed shaking. Duh!!!!!! Is 32 hours considered full time? I'm so happy for you, Good Luck.

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Questions for hubsters or male significant others...

by Country Girl in

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i hate nagging.

my mother nagged me the whole time i was growing up.

i came to despise the image of female nagging.

Been there

CG,

Good post. I shall be waiting to see if any gentlemen have any inside help for you because I will be taking notes. I try hard not to nag also but sometimes it gets to the point where things just drive me crazy.

I'm laid off right now (lovin it) so I have the time to walk behind him to pick up, but when I'm working 40 hours a week it wears me out.

You gotta laugh at the hamper thing. I have a hamper right beside where he takes his clothes off and yep! every morning I have to pick up the underware & T-shirt, socks are left beside the couch. Why? He DOES take his dishes to the sink and rinse them out and..........sit them in the sink. The dishwasher is right next to the sink. Put them in there. I got new carpet finally and he knows there had better not be the big old muddy boot prints from one end of the house to the other like the good old days. I put a chair by the front door on the porch and that is where his boots come off or he dies, plain and simple. The one that always gets me is the tooth paste spit and whiskers in the sink. For years now it has been an on going issue. I clean sink, he brushes teeth and leaves one tooth paste spit higher then the water line, then taps razor on side of sink to get dry whiskers out, leaves tooth paste and razor on sink instead of in the cup they came from. I see this as passive aggressive behavior. He has finally started to use a wash rag and wipe out the sink. Now in about 10 years he should be putting the tooth paste and razor back.

These things are so simple to stop but they become a power struggle. Why? Is it so that if they keep us busy on a bunch of little things we won't have the time to get into the bigger character flaws they may have?

Since I have been off work I have worked very hard around the house to clean up the years of neglect, inside and out. There is this TOOL BOX we have been going round and round about. Big black plastic box that is screwed into a big piece of plywood that slides into his pickup truck. 3 months ago he took it out of his truck and put it on the front porch. At reasonable intervals I remind him nicely that our goal is cleaning the place up and he needs to find a home for this BOX. I asked him how he would like me to ask him in a way that would make him want to do it (I'm game for anything if it will work). I said "If nothing else put it back in the truck that is sitting in the driveway with nothing in the bed of it, until you figure out what to do with it". That was two weeks ago. My nice is almost gone now and the "B***H" is going to show her ugly little head and he won't know why. I would do it but it is to big and heavy for me (I've tried).

One thing I do know CG, is that once the chicks leave the nest, your attention is now more focused on the big bird that is left. Your time is not divided now so the one that is left gets all your attention be it good or bad. We expect so much more from our adult children .

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What would Dr. Phil say to JW's about shunning family ?????

by run dont walk in

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wouldn't this be a great show, .

dr. phil talks with a member of the family who is shunned by all, then has all the family come out ........ what do you think he would say to them ?????????

Been there

How's it workin' for ya?

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Would you?

by donkey in

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scenario 1: if you could guarantee that you would not get caught would you steal a million dollars?.

scenario 2: if you could guarantee that you would not get caught would you steal a million dollars from the wtbs?.

scenario 3: if you could guarantee that you would not get caught would you steal a million dollars from a bank?.

Been there

No, No, No, No.

I can still hear my Granny lecturing me for hours out of the bible about how thou shalt not steal, when I was 8. And that was only .50. I can't even imagine how long it would be for a million bucks. Since she has passed on, it could be an eternity

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Was anyone afraid of working too much???

by Confucious in

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hey guys, .

today is friday and i just put in a really long week at work.

probably a very productive 50 hours or so and i'm also going to be working tommorrow.

Been there

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Bye

by IronGland in

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bye everyone.

Been there

Atleast stick around long enough to get 500! Ten to go, you can do it.

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Today was my D-Day ... I beat the odds!

by Amazing in

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last year on july 15th, 2002, my cardiologist gave me less than a year to live.

with the 14 remaining blocked arteries, there was not much hope.

even a by-pass would only correct 3 or 4 arteries and give me a slight lease on life.

Been there

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Intellectually Lazy

by berylblue in

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anyone else here care to admit they would rather let others do the difficult research for them?

once in the psycho hospital, we played a "game".

(keep in mind that games in such settings were either only a means to keep us from killing ourselves or the other inmates between smoke breaks, or to assist us in gaining insight into our natures (this was never the case except in the following instance.).

Been there

I also feel my brain is lazy when it comes to figuring something out. I have the hardest time trying to focus and make my brain go in one direction. Sentence math problems just sieze my brain up.

I know how I feel, and what I think, but would be hard pressed to state why. I am a logical thinker tho and see possible outcomes by certain actions. I also do very well in figuring out solutions for things that need to be done faster or easier and have a vast array of useless tid bits of knowledge. I to am in awe of some of the posters here who can state the facts with such clarity so everyone can understand, even us intellectually challenged.

I generally do very well in anything I try, I just am so afraid to fail I just don't try.

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What's Fair About This??

by worldlygirl in

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i've asked my husband about this many times, and he always manages to skirt the issue.

here is the point i try to get across to him: .

first of all, you have to agree that god is fundamentally fair (he agrees with me on this point.

Been there

I asked this very question to my Granny many years ago who raised me as a witness. This is the logic that told me for sure that this was not the God I wanted to love. (I later went on the next year to get baptised so I could get married in the KH, the only reason)

I spent my last year of High School living with my exhusbands grandmother in the evenings so I could go to a certain H.S. because I lived just outside the school district. This woman was the sweetest, kindest most gentle person I had ever met. She was a devout Methodist. No drinking, smoking, dancing or anything else deemed ungodly by her church. She taught sunday school for 50 years, raised all 8 of her kids to be loving, God fearing upstanding people. I told my Granny that there was no way in my mind that God could kill someone who devoted her life to him, just because she was not a JW. Nope did'nt make a bit of sence to me. I knew then I had a differant God then my Granny did. This lady loved her God with every fiber of her soul, had all her life. I did'nt love my God like that! and I would live and she would not. Nope, did'nt add up.