Glatt - hopefully she'll have my experience - I got laid off two weeks before Christmas last year (after 15 years on teh same job) - I was devistated - lived on severance and Vodka for a few days.....but found a much nicer, happier, better paying job within two weeks! I've heard similar stories, so there is hope for nice people out there.....

that would be awesome.

skin cancer is back. nothing serious but it is an icky feeling.

So sorry to hear this. :( Cancer sucks, no matter how minor it seems.

And not to seem unsympathetic, I'm gonna bitch now. All four windows in my car is dead and have been for almost 2 years. My brother said he'll get it fixed but taking forever to fix them because he's waiting to get the parts at a cheaper price. :neutral: So my sister decided to take it out to a mechanic. He quoted $360, so we said okay. Two days later, he said there are more problems so it's gonna cost us $580 to fix four windows. WTF! I'm thinking forget and just not roll down the damn windows ever. :mad2:

Sorry that I don't post often and when I do, I just bitch. :greenface

Its one of the truths of life, everything that lives will eventually die. I know that is reality but it still makes me sad. One of my Belgian puppy girls died of renal insufficiency. =(

4 LO123 Fuck Cancer :mad:

Am very sorry to hear that.

I've been waiting and waiting on a package and found out last night from my sister (I used her account so she gets the tracking emails) that the item was already sent and received. Stupid me, this morning I thought of checking directly into Amazon account and found out the package was delivered exactly at 3:54PM on December. I ran out to the front gate (I live in a gated community) and of course, there's no package. The package is simply gone. Got no idea who took it. :mad:

We all missed Hebe's school concert tonight. Instead we sat on the freeway for over two hours, before cars started turning round and going back along both hard shoulders, apparently with no direction from the police. Apparently there was (still is) a downed powerline closing the whole freeway, but to leave us sat there without and redirection was ridiculous. And Hebe has been looking forward to that concert since she learned about it in September -we bought her special blouse two months ago :( :angry:

Aww Man !!!! sorry to hear that Monnie

Tulip Who signed for your package ?? or did UPS just Dump it at the gate ???

Monster: So sorry to hear that. Poor Hebe must be really disappointed.

Zippy: I called the courier and they said no one had to sign for it. The package was just left at the front desk at the gate. Well, today I called the seller today and said NO ONE received the package even though the courier claimed that it was delivered. Amazon is going to send me another package. :D Betcha I'm gonna be on a look out this time! :p

Sorry to hear that Mon - I know how I'd feel as an adult, so Hebe must have been shattered.

Tulip - bloody UPS. Still, it's up to Amazon to make the complaint, as the contract is with them. In the mean time at least you haven't lost out (apart from time and frustration).

This isn't really upsetting, so much as a minor disappointment:
When I opened my bedroom door this morning there was a big, brown cardboard box there. "Ooooh!" I said, only to hear this mimicked from downstairs by Mum & Dad. Secret Santa!

Mum shouted up, "Don't make a mess opening it up there in your nice clean room!"
"No," I replied, "I'm going to bring it downstairs to make a mess opening it down there!"

So with box under my arm and camera in my hand I came down to start the documenting process, and to decide whether I really should save it.

By the time I got downstairs, however, I had realised something. It was posted in the UK. An unlikely Secret Santa. And it was very light for its size. And I'd ordered something from eBay on Mum's behalf that was large but light (a device for fitting surgical stockings, for Grandad).

I don't know who was more disappointed - my parents or me!
I opened it to be sure, and confirmed it was Grandad's device, not a lovely prize for me.

Silly to be adversely affected. It means I don't have to worry about my eBay purchase. And after all I still have a Secret Santa to look forward to. Just somehow I feel cheated!

I know the feeling - nothing worse than that deflated feeling when the parcel contains something ornery when you're expecting something delightful!

My ex-husband.

May he experience the exact sort of pain and frustration he's caused me for most of the time I've been unlucky enough to know him.

the words "controlling" and "MFKER" were surely invented with him in mind.


I am trying to control my feelings, but he really just......errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!!!!!!!!!

Bri, sorry to hear that . . . we really need to swap stories sometime.

I hope the economy picks up. I know it will but I hope it is sooner rather than later. After reading that 'depressing' thread about Santa my heart is racing as I sit here.....day after day filling out applications...online...why is everything online these days?

At least there is retail if worse comes to worse. It's a piddly job but I know people in HR.