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LOL! If I drove by that Megaflicks one, I think I would have crashed the car in shock. :D
I've gotten 3 new friend requests and I have no idea who these men are....I'm thinking "ignore"
You could be blunt and ask "WTF are you?". Then say they should give you free books that don't suck.
Hahahahahah oh Llaph, you don't beat around the bush
My initial thought would be to ignore them ... then I would think about it and want to know wtf. I have become nosey like that, what would it hurt? It's not like you have a googlemap of your home and a spreadsheet of your scheduale in your profile.OoOo and well ... I spent the bulk of my internet years gaming with a bunch of immature guys so being mean and asking blunt questions is kind of 2nd nature. :x
At least I am nicer than I was ... no really I am.
Well 1 of them messaged me asking all these questions (with atrocious grammar, mind you) so I'm thinking denied
We called that bnet kiddie speech ... like the guys who spoke with u and ur. I don't think that they get that they look stupid talking with bad grammar and punctuation.If I saw someone talking like that I auto ignored them, like flipped a switch in my brain to block out whatever they were saying. It was spooky ... especially since I was able to follow a conversation they were in or keep playing the game as if they were mute.
I just can't stand it. If you're going to take the time to message me asking things in the first place, you can type out two extra fucking letters.
I never understood why people shortened certain words. I mean You vs. u? is it really that hard to type out you... sheesh.
@Claire:Tell us how you really feel. lol
I don't know how many times I have heard or been a part of this sort of convo to tell the truth lol. I can get the brb, omw, otw, or wru abbreviations ... not the ur and us. I can't see it now, but I can hear it. It sounds a bit different from you and your... course I can't tell you're from your now though. Good thing I don't get subjected to that much anymore.
A friend of mine and me had an entire convo using abbreviations ... it was quite scary. I hope the world's language doesn't steer that far.
I don't think it will much spoken, but I think it will affect written communication, at least a little bit.Some are helpful in the business world. Like Re: or ASAP. But I hope the rest doesn't transfer...
I agree mostly because it is hard for me to figure out wtf my screen reader says when it is an abbreviation that is using lowercase letters. It the letters are CAPPED it pronounces them letter by letter, otherwise it pronounces them as a word--which sounds weird as hell sometimes.That means I have to, sometimes, slow down the screen reader on my phone to see wtf message my sister sent me in a txt.
So like we got a new dog, sort of. A friend of ours was moving into an apartment and couldn't keep her dog--he is like 80lbs. So we took him in ... he has been here since friday and has pretty much adopted me, which I so don't mind.He is very smart and likes to cuddle ... I don't mind that either....
Tonight ... he ate my comforter....
I was listening to a book while laying on my bed and I felt/heard him licking on something. I wondered what he was chewing on because it did not sound like he had a chew, so I moved my hand down to see ... it was some fabric thingee covered in slimy dog slobber. I threw it away and went back to my book, he started the licking noise again, so I felt the cover ... he split the seam on my comforter, I took it off of my bed since it was too late to try and sew up the hole, plus it was big, I don't use the blanket much this time of year, and threading needles are a pain for me even with my threader thing.
I went to go tell my sister Angie and she didn't believe me so I offered to bring it to her room to see. She said no and went into my room to look at the comforter. Apparently he chewed quite a few holes, one going right through to the other side lol.
My sister was giddy about it and ran to my mom and dad's bathroom to tell my mom, who was showering. My mom was more agast at the fact it was the comforter that I had gotten for Christmas last year.
My mom asked Angie why she seemed so happy about it ... her response?
This time it isn't my shit that got ruined!
I told her that when she goes to work tomorrow I am going to spread her comforter with BBQ sauce and let Boomer into her room for a bit. We had figured that since he had a chew on my bed the taste got slobbered off onto the comforter, which made it tasty....
Wow, that was more words than I thought it would be.
In my billion years of having dogs of all sizes I have never heard or had a dog do this. lol
I hate abbreviations. I don't even use them in text messages.@Llaph That reminds me of the time my dog ate my sneakers.
I was watching a youtube video trailer and saw this funny gorila advertisement and thought to share with youhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=...
@ Claire:I went into my keyboard short cuts and made it so that I can use them, but they expand into the right word. Saves me on tapping, I can only use one hand (my right doesn't do so well with fine muscle movement like that) and I have to double tap. I am pretty fast at it though yayforme.
She-Ra was the first dog that I remember eating my shoe, it was a sign that I needed to throw them out.... Now that I remember she ate a bunch of my mom's shoes and chewed on my dad's ... they finally got a shoe rack lol.
My aunt had a dog that ate a sheet of brownies, half a sheet cake, 2 retainers, and numerous remotes. This was one dog too....
What is with dogs and remotes anyway?
My dog never went after the remote control, but our portable phone did bite the dust. It rained today so the women of the family went out shopping. I love going out with my family, even if they can be difficult sometimes. And tend to ignore the fact that I'm nearly 20 years old and capable of making my own decisions.
Ex: I asked for diet coke on the grocery list. My grandmother goes, "Did your mother say you were allowed to have that?" I was like....Gram, I'm old enough to choose my own beverages, you know.
We have had atleast three dogs that like chewing on remotes. I think it is because people hold them a lot and the smell transfers, that or the dogs are just bonkers.My dad, pretty much as soon as he comes home, asks the dogs, "You gotta go pee? huh? Let's go outside." They go for communal pees, I don't want to know if my dad participates though. The two small dogs are attached to him, like little furry satellites, and follow him everywhere, they even go into the bathroom with him. Good thing my mom and dad have a big bathroom.
My youngest sister has just turned 27 and my mom still tries to pull the "where are you going???" and asks me where she is.... I am not my sister's social recorder. I keep telling Angie to just buy a white board to use for sign out and hang it up on the garage door and use it, it will shut mom up. (we only come in through the garage)
I like to tell my mom that I am 33 years old, I don't need your permission to do stuff, she still tries. I think it is habit....
Aspertane is bad for you!
Mothers never change...even if you are say ... 60 and have your own family...they still see you as their little boy/girl. I have a neighbour that is more or less 85 years old that has son of about 65 and a daughter of 60 and when they come visit (which they do 3 or 4 times a week) they are treated almost like 15 year olds. She treats better (as in considers them more mature) her nephews than her own children.My mom also treats me sometimes like I'm 12 (I'm 23) and I hate it, but then hey maybe I do act like that sometimes, who knows? One moment she tells me don't do this or that and she acts like I'm 12, then she tells me you are almost 25 and I at your age was...and I am like 'yes, mom...sure, mom'.
Whatever she says I still love her :)
Yeah, that is true. I remember how my mamaw treated my mom sometimes. It was funny to me then ... not as much now really. It is a good indicator of their love imo.Err, my friend Tiffany sent me a pic to use for my facebook profile pic (I never log into FB so nfi why....) I got my sister to do that part for me, I think I uploaded it to GR right. Stupid how properties doesn't tell you pixel sizes!
I am imagining a huge ass picture....
Oh yes, and tonight Boomer ate my freaking sheet. I did not even hear him take the chew up onto my bed. Good thing they were the inexpensive sheets, I think my mom would have killed something if they were her good sheets.
It's not my mother, it's my grandmother! My grandparents treat me like a child, and they yell at my mother about it until she agrees with them. So I get mad at my grandparents, for stressing out my mother when she has enough to deal with. I've turned out a whole lot better behaved than most, it's not like my mother's raised a delinquent here. @Llaph I'm sorry about your sheets! Perhaps time to keep the dog confined to one area of the house? When we first got my dog, we got a baby gate and kept her in the family room. That way we didn't have to lock her in a crate but she couldn't eat our shoes. Or socks. She really loved socks.
@ Claire:My mamaw spoiled me rotten and let me do whatever I wanted ... so ... lol. It still irritates my mom if I mention the fact that I rarely, unless I absolutley have to, use a spoon to eat pudding, applesauce, or some yogurt snacks. My mamaw thought it was amusing to see that lol.
I miss her! I get most of my sense of humor from her.... One instance, she took me to see the Lion King in the theatre (yes I am that old) and she said part way through to me:
"I know why those animals are so grumpy ... the don't have buttholes ... so they are constipated and that would make me grumpy too."
:)
Boomer is like 3.5 yrs old, he is crate trained even though we did not get that accessory when we got him lol, and is a very docile and good dog. He just has a big ass head and can't tell the difference from a chew and the blanket. He does fine if I make him chew the chew on the floor.
Last night me and my sister were playing with the dogs in the living roomm and found Boomer's spot. The one that if you tickle or touch it causes him to spin around and chase his tail.... Seriously we tested this a few times lol. Playing fetch with Sprite's dog bed was not a good idea though, if my dad sees the hole Boomer's big ass mouth put into the bottom....
Utensils are a must in my house. According to my mother, not even french fries count as finger foods. It's important to teach the dog which things are ok to chew and which ones aren't. He should be out of the dogie toddler stage by now, so it's not like he's teething.
Someone in the neighborhood where I'm vacationing has a huge, black Great Dane puppy. The dog is already massive but you can tell he's still young because he's still lanky. His paws look too big for his body! It's adorable and makes me miss my own dog.
Also, I rescued another turtle today. The silly little thing was just sitting at the edge of the road.
Claire wrote: "Utensils are a must in my house. According to my mother, not even french fries count as finger foods. "Ah! the joys of mothers!! LOL
However, mine lost that battle with my dad and I...
(Burgers, french fries, potato wedges, hot-dogs, pizza, gatsby's - all finger foods!!)
She moaned at us once about eating our Hamburgers with our hands... to which my dad responded... "and how else would I eat my HAND-burger??" ;D
Though I know how you feel about the grand-parent thing. In my case its my mother's sisters.
And what annoys me the MOST? Their kids aren't exactly perfect! But They'll nag and nag... and nag, until my mom gives in and then guilts me into doing what-ever it is. Most of the time I end up doing whatever it is, just so they'll leave my mom alone!
@Jax With my grandparents they'll get up-in-arms over the movies/TV I watch or the music I listen to. What made me angry is that my mother never had a problem with it until the grandparents started screaming. They've mellowed a bit as I've gotten older, and when I just kept on ignoring them.
I get disapproving attitude from my mom about the books that I read. She once told me "You know those fiction books are not real?" then she paused ... then I laughed at her and said, "ya think? fiction books being fiction???" I knew what she meant, but it was still funny to catch her saying it. She says stuff like thatsometimes and we give her shit about it. It is part of our family charm ... my uncles (her brothers were 100x worse so she is used to it.) She tells me to shut the hell up sometimes ... or that I need to be quiet. I so love my mom. :)That is when she thought I only read fantasy books and sci-fi books. I think that she would shit kittens if she knew what other books I read now. She stopped bugging me about tv since I don't watch it really and music because when I do listen to it only I hear it. Plus I listen to pretty much the same things I listened to in high school ... so old fight there.
oh yeah my aunt makes fun of me. She's like, you should read self help books, not that fiction stuff. Like fiction is "bad" for you or something. lol
@Zeenat. Some people think that fiction and all paranormal books are evil and make a evil or bad person out of you.I tell them to read what they like and let me read what I like.
If you don't like sth, don't read/listen/watch...it, you and those around you will be happier.
lol fiction is not real duh....I think my mom had the biggest problem with the books I was reading because they were mostly fantasy. She doesn't believe in dragons, trolls, or magic stuff. She can be really religious at times, I am just glad she stopped harassing me to be the same way as her.
I had written a paper and did research when I got my tattoo so that she would not get upset about me marking my body. It is medieval scroll work that the artist mod'd for me. That was when I was 22, oddly she got more pissed when I had had my tongue pierced when I was 21. Hi ... one heals when you take it out ... wtf?
I guess it is the size, it covers my upper back, (to where my bra strap would be) goes up the back of my neck a little, and some tendrils wrap over my shoulder.
I can cover it all easily with a regular shirt, my hair--even if it is really short--covers my neck part.
Self-help books are pretty boring.... I read for the escapism for the most part.
My aunt's not religious, she just feels like reading fiction books is a waste of time, but I tell her tv shows are the same so she can't argue. My parents don't know about my tattoo, but when my grandma saw it she got upset. lol
After I had gotten the outlining done for my tattoo, it was pretty big and I had to do it in 2 sessions, when my mamaw saw it she mimed filling it in with a marker she had grabbed....
LOL. Parents. I mean what kind of crazy parenting I'll do when I have kids lol
So I thought I would see if my imageshack account was still valid ... seriously it is. Since I save everything I searched for the registration email ... from '05 and clicked on it. All of my pictures are there, but they the image names are random letters and crap. Some I did, thinking I was all clever, and others I can't remember. If I saw it I would know!
All I wanted to do was to grab the pic of my tattoo that I had. For some reason I only had the outline pic, I can't remember what I did with the pic of the finished tattoo.
Claire wrote: "@Jax With my grandparents they'll get up-in-arms over the movies/TV I watch or the music I listen to..."Oh GRR!! I hear you on THAT one!
Seeing as I'm the one getting it now.
Not that my mother cares or disagrees...but I get it with my daughters now. I think I preferred living miles away in the little back-water town... that way the rest of the family left us alone!!
It seriously grates on my nerves when people insist on pushing their beliefs and opinions on me.
I don't run around telling them all the things they're doing wrong!! (and there are PLENTY - in my opinion)... Plus... there is nothing wrong with my kids watching Buffy!
As for "body art" I hid mine from my mom until it was well and truly healed...
I was over 21, was married and had 2 kids...
Still decided that the whole "its better to ask forgiveness than permission" was the way to go...
She was miffed... But she's gotten over it :)
As for Self-help books? SNORE! really??
Plus, (maybe its just the ones I've had thrust at me) they really just re-iterate the obvious.
There are one or two I've just never bothered to open at all... like the one my mom-in-law gave me,
"How to win friends and influence people"... pfft!
@Jax It's very, very frustrating. Sometimes family members don't understand that being relatives doesn't give them a free pass to interfere in your life. Argh! Just this afternoon I announced I was going down to the pool and my grandmother goes "who's going to watch you?" What the hell do you mean who's going to watch me? I'm 20 years old, I think I can sit by the pool without supervision.
Today is the last day of my vacation. I don't wanna go home! :/
@ Claire:Sorry, that really sucks, but I so giggled at that. :x
Thursday night we were eating dinner and my sister announces that she is going out that night. My mom reminds her that it is Thursday and that she has work tomorrow and asked why she was going out that night. My sister's response was "because I want to" no matter how many times my mom asked.... I told her she should have said "because I said so" like how we used to get told. That of course was after I was done laughing at them both.
@Llaph Thanks for the sympathy =pSo we went out to dinner tonight at a relatively nice restaurant. It was AWFUL. The place was so loud you had to shout to be heard by the person sitting next to you. There was "live entertainment" and he was simply too loud for the space. Then a table full of obnoxious women sat down behind us and had the loudest voices, made worse by shouting over the music. I can't begin to describe how bad it was. ARGH.
I have sympathy! Didn't you see where I had said that it sucked? :PI hate noisy places, mainly because I see where to go with my cane and ears and loud constant noises make it hard and disorienting for me to walk around and find where I am going. (Even if someone is leading me.)
My random input for today...I completely blew my budget this month at a local clearance booksale!
They were charging the equivalent of $5 per kilogram!
Needless to say, I left with quite a haul!! :D
I swear this thesis will be the death of me.And I have so much to do between thesis and my husband coming home in two weeks. EEEEEEK.
I'm sorry Zeenat! Good luck!!I'm beginning my annual pre-college freak out. I leave in two weeks and I'm not packed and haven't ordered my books...etc
Wow guys, you have been busy ... so many posts to get through!
Procrastinators!Get it done so you wont have to do it.... I know I have a tendancy to do it but if I decide to get something done I gitrdone. :P
I *hate* packing ... so much. Which is why, or a good part of the reason, I am so OCD'ishly organized with things. It doesn't take long to pack things up if it is already neat.
I would say it runs in the family, but my sister is 27 and still has crap all over her floor, never uses her dresser, and uses the dryer as a heat up dresser instead. I think she has like 4 laundry bins.... I have to kinda of have to slide my feet into her room, if I feel like chancing falling on my ass and tripping on something.
I don't mind the packing too much.However, I absolutely despise the UNpacking!
@ Llaph...
I think its the universes way of finding balance.
If one sibling has OCD, the other must be the complete opposite.
My wardrobe is color coded. That includes my hangers.
e.g black t-shirts are together, then white, then blue, purple and red.
My sister on the other hand? It's one big rumpled ball. And every time I open her cupboard I want to put my arm in and dump everything on the floor and make her re-pack it.
When we still lived in the same house - she would show me new purchases before they made it to her wardrobe, so when she asked what she should wear, I didn't have to open hers. I just had to rummage through my memory to suggest an ensemble.
I don't mind packing for vacations, I hate unpacking.I hate packing and unpacking for moving.
Hope you didn't forget anything Claire!
@Jax:My middle sister is like … just neat. She has always been that way. I don’t go in for the color coding, won’t work for me. :P I do have to organize my clothes and mark them so I know what is what, that is about as OCDish I get for my clothes.
@Zeenat:
I am weird in that I kind of like the act of packing stuff into boxes and stuff. It is like a big puzzle for me and I see about making stuff fit. I really am a good packer. :x I sometimes like unpacking too, especially if I have a clean slate to unpack to. Just means I don’t have to do a spring clean as soon as I had thought.
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