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message 2051: by Petra X (new)

Petra X (petra-x) Thank you Fiona and Emilee.

My son never had ADHD, what he had was a drunken father who was beating his mother up and he was acting out a bit at school. The school were aware of this but didn't care. My best friend knew it too and also didn't care. The American school is one of the main networking centres for a social life. Its about $1200 a month now (it was half that when I had my son there) so only the well-off or those expats whose companies pay can send their kids there. They all want to stay in with each other so they can go sailing and partying together. They do not have homework at weekends as the parents don't like it! I, having a mixed race son and local husband, was unacceptable to almost all the Americans for inclusion in their social lives (my son was not rarely invited to parties) so they wanted to get rid of us, as they had almost all the other people they feel didn't 'fit'.

(I have to say one thing though. The richest Americans, billionaires, always invited my son to their parties and their kid sat next to my son in class.)

OK rant over. I wonder why it still hurts so much all these years later?


message 2052: by Jeane (new)

Jeane (icegini) | 4891 comments Go Emilee!!!!!!

But Fiona, keep your legs under you if that makes you sit straight!!! Don't think it is bad. Do you also have an electric water thing for the shower? got to know them when I came to England and now we have one here too. They don't give enough water! really, a normal shower gives so much more water. I have this kind of hair that needs ages to be really wet. It kind of jsut stays on the top or top layer and doesn't make the rest wet. With this electric shower thing I jsut don't get it wet enough to wash it well with shampoo! Hate it. Never feel like I washed it well. Have been thinking about joining the gym just to be able to wash my hair well!!!


message 2053: by Ann from S.C. (new)

Ann from S.C. | 1395 comments Petra. You need to write a book!!! Your life is so interesting.
I know your son is so proud of you!!!


message 2054: by Jeane (new)

Jeane (icegini) | 4891 comments aaaaarggggghhhh, something happened and while I was answering Fiona, the page went to a differnt website. will rewrite it another time. Going t read more now.


message 2055: by [deleted user] (new)

Go eat the fish n' chips Fiona. I was craving read meat when I was pregant with my second and gave into it. It's all good just eat it sparingly.

Petra: you should write a book. It does hurt, my mom is still upset over my brothers teacher.

Jeane: now we just have to get Fiona reading with us!


message 2056: by [deleted user] (new)

Oh, I love bacon. Okay now I must have bacon.

We slept in today. I really need to eat some breakfast.


message 2057: by [deleted user] (new)

I am so hungry. I need bacon. Sorry! it sounds so good right now!


message 2058: by Petra X (new)

Petra X (petra-x) Thank you Anne. It isn't interesting really, or only in bits, like everyone's.

Thanks for reading my rant, its appreciated. If a tree falls in the forest and no is around to hear it, does it make a sound? That's an old philosophical question. If I rant on GR and no one reads it, I ranted all right but I might not as well have bothered. :-D So thanks


message 2059: by [deleted user] (new)

We put up a tree but the kitten has knocked it down a bout three times & taken all the ornments off. I give up!


message 2060: by [deleted user] (new)

I'm logging off. We are headed for church.


message 2061: by Ann from S.C. (new)

Ann from S.C. | 1395 comments I still feel sick.....
:(


message 2062: by [deleted user] (new)

Ann get plenty of rest. It's a good time to lay in bed and read!


message 2063: by Ann from S.C. (new)

Ann from S.C. | 1395 comments It is a cold!!! I got lucky though, I went to the Dr. friday for something eles, and he gave me some good medicine...


message 2064: by [deleted user] (new)

It means lots of nice tea. When I have head colds I love Lemon tea.


message 2065: by Ann from S.C. (new)

Ann from S.C. | 1395 comments Oh yes, Hot tea!!!


message 2066: by [deleted user] (new)

I think a glass sounds good now.

Sends cup of tea to Ann.


message 2067: by Ann from S.C. (new)

Ann from S.C. | 1395 comments Yummy, thank you so much Emilee!!!



message 2068: by Jessica (new)

Jessica | 1000 comments So after five straight days at Borders (which obviously included Friday-Sunday) I'm finally getting a much needed day off. I swear if I had to ask one more person if they wanted a gift receipt and explaining that the coupon goes off the list price and not the sale price, I was going to scream.


message 2069: by Jeane (new)

Jeane (icegini) | 4891 comments Jessica...you don't have to ask at every person, even the ones that you see every day, if they want half priced chocolate????? I hate to do that while working at whsmith....


Fiona, forgot what I have written in the post that dissapeared...

pffff, hate waiting for a call. An agency would call me this morning to tell me if I have an interview this afternoon...it is already 10.17.... and I want the other company to call me before with good news...


message 2070: by Ann from S.C. (new)

Ann from S.C. | 1395 comments I am really not feeling well. Still. And I don't like fish... hehe


message 2071: by Ann from S.C. (new)

Ann from S.C. | 1395 comments I just fixed me some and it is good...
I have a cold and a tummy ache:(


message 2072: by Petra X (new)

Petra X (petra-x) Poor Ann. Go to bed and cuddle up with a good book.


message 2073: by Jessica (new)

Jessica | 1000 comments Jeane, since it's around Christmastime I do have to ask everyone if they would like to donate a book to a child who can't afford one. It's like the 5th question I have to ask them...I hate having to ask people so many questions!


message 2074: by [deleted user] (new)

Jessica just think only 10 more days of this left, hopefuly you have several of the days off!

Ann I'm sorry your still sick. I'm sending more hot tea over!

Fiona: when I stopped being a vegetarian my stomach did suffer from the digestion process for a while. I think it shocks your system.


message 2075: by Jeane (new)

Jeane (icegini) | 4891 comments pffff.......I wanna skip a day...


I saw so many interesting books today. Was alone in the centre, so just went in all the bookshops that I wanted. Walked also till the end of the port...that was lovely. The water in the leafey was really high. Combination of high water and a port is great for me....and it was raining hard and very windy...lovely


message 2076: by Jeane (new)

Jeane (icegini) | 4891 comments yesyesyes, wanna skip this day already less..... jsut got an e-mail again of my previous team coach at my last work. I gave her up as my main reference for the job I had an interview last week. Like I told her already, the company called my other reference immediately after I was out of the building but they tried to call my previous team coach twice and she missed the call every time, also today. They called from Belgium and she works still in London....so she didn't wanted to make the call with her mobile and can't with the phone at work...so she wrote me she wuld try when she got home. which is great of ehr of course but i was worried that she wouldn't be able to reach anyone because in Belgium it is an horu alter. She just mailed me that she talked with the person of the company, that he sounded satisfied and that she seemed to confirm every thing he thought about me already..all positive:-)))))) That was probably why i still didn't get a call from them, they wanted to try to get her on the phone!!!! Now I want them to give me the job tomorrow!!!!!!!


message 2077: by Jeane (new)

Jeane (icegini) | 4891 comments I want to work there!!! I am on the point that I jsut need a job to be able to stay here in Dublin, but that is not why I want that job so badly. It is a company i wanted to work for since I was studying expedition, distribution and transport. It is the kind of job I did before and which I really liked, even though it was my first big experience in that kind of job and now there would be even less sales in it. It is between 5 and 15 minutes by bus from where I live, payes okay, good......jsut want to work there:-)

If I get the job, I will tell you all the company!
I feel so tired thanks to that monthly female thing again, but was called three times by someoen of an agency for a job. I have to pass an online test for the company and if I pass it i might get an interview thursday afternoon. She called me for that. then she called me to tell about that kind of test and that I should practise with one they have..... and then she called me again...it is the only agency that calls me after five pm!!!! I thought they didn't work after that hour! I really don't ahve the energy to be busy with online tests now..and can't drink anything to get energy ebcause I won't sleep otherwise, won't sleep already well jsut like that..... and then another agency called me to check if I also want to work out of dublin....read my file and you won't have to bother me!!!!!!!! no I don't want to.


And I am alone tonight, but at least my boyfriend let em know he landed so feel a bit better.


message 2078: by Jeane (new)

Jeane (icegini) | 4891 comments damned, just remember that I forgot to check something in the centre.....probably forgot ebcause I went to see a bookshop near the bus stop....it has a nice name'books upstairs'. And you really need to take a couple of steps before entering, so the books are upstairs.....

oh yes, forgot to check where that lovely place is hwere I ate a wonderful piece of carrot cake with a good cup of tea together with my boyfriend, when we came to Dublin for the first time to check if it would be a good idea to move here....don't seem to fins it anymore even though it msut be there...i mean I know how we seem to have found it, but when we walk around there we don't find it. And it is such a nice comfy place. i already saw myself there havong a piece of carrot cake with a cup of tea, reading a book or using my laptop that i don't have yet. it really seems made for it!!!!! it even made me think about the place the young girl works in Maeve Binchy her book Evening class!


message 2079: by Jeane (new)

Jeane (icegini) | 4891 comments Is it normal that I got like four friends request in less than half an hour????


Oh and if anyone wonders how it comes I am so chatty this evening....boyfriend isn't home and have his laptop allllllll for meeeeeeee:-)


message 2080: by Jeane (new)

Jeane (icegini) | 4891 comments I thought about you Fiona before arriving home...went to buy something at the shop the other side of the road and took digestive cookies...remember you wrote something about them once...felt like eating them but now I don't feel like eating them anymore....


popular, me????? Well, if I see that they have more friends than books than I don't even bother. If not, I check books in common and that has to be at least reasonable good or otherwise ---------> delete :-)


message 2081: by Jeane (new)

Jeane (icegini) | 4891 comments me too...I also don't immediately accept the ones that have a chance..I have to feel the same about it some days later, besides of course if we are having them in our TNBBC group and they are active ones and I comment on what they post and so....


When did the 8 jump to 9????? Just a second ago I saw 8.43...now I see 9.42!!!! Gonna cheat on my contact lenses...my eyes feel tired...gonna put my glasses on so I get some extra time...


message 2082: by Jeane (new)

Jeane (icegini) | 4891 comments I bought them to drink with tea becasue I was soo cold of walking the whole afternoon in the rain but then I drank two cups of tea and didn't feel like eating them. I am in a period that sugar stuff doesn't say me much..... or biscuits.... I think I bought them ebcause I was arriving home and knew my boyfriend wasn't there.... emotional buying they would call it :-)))


message 2083: by Jeane (new)

Jeane (icegini) | 4891 comments hahaha...they really excist? Good luck.


message 2084: by Jeane (new)

Jeane (icegini) | 4891 comments I would love to drink a cup of tea now but I am for sure will have to go to the toilet during the night, I am always hoping i won't wake up, so try not to drink after a certain hour...... and damned it si cold here during night!!!!!


message 2085: by Jeane (new)

Jeane (icegini) | 4891 comments you should put your feet down when you read!!!!!! Normally when i come back of the bathroom during the night I go and lay completely against my boyfriend and try to warm up......


just hide the present.....


message 2086: by [deleted user] (new)

Jeane I hope you get the job!



message 2087: by [deleted user] (new)

Today just sucked! I so wanted to just come home and relax but we were hit with a horrible snow storm so it too me 2 hours and 16 minutes to drive 14 miles home. Plus my job just sucks. I really want a new career, I never ever liked this one but I feel stuck. Especially with the horrible economy.

So, I walk in the door and my two teenage daughters are fighting worse then cats & dogs. I would be willing to sell them to the highest bidder-just kiddin'. Needless to say it's almost 7 pm here and they are going to bed because I will not deal with fighting!!!!!!!! Plus they are grounded! No TV no internet & phone for the next week.

I never fought this bad with my siblings. I don't understand it!


message 2088: by [deleted user] (new)

We have five inches of snow so far and it's still snowing. Yeah :(

My snowblower doesn't work double Yeah :(

I think I would rather Rain!

It could be you shower gel or it could be your laundry detergent. I changed that once and was excessively ichy. Went back to the old stuff no problems.


message 2089: by [deleted user] (new)

I watched a thing about bed bugs on Dateline. I vaccum my bed about once every 3 months now. I do it before I steam clean my carpets.


message 2090: by Laura (new)

Laura (apenandzen) Moisturizing lotion - you should be doing it immediately after showering, all over, to lock the moisture in to your skin.

Also drink lots of water

And that may be why you're craving fish - fish has oils your skin needs.

(I got eczema 2 years ago, now under control without any of those crappy prescription steroids they had me on which screwed up my whole body !! All because I take a teaspoon of flaxseed oil after each meal AND moisturize every day after showering.)

AND for shampoos that don't test on animals. Look for Aubrey Organics products. None of their stuff is tested on animals.

Petra - sorry about your ex, and all the crap you put up with. I bet you're glad to at least not be living with him anymore. :(

Ann - Sorry about you not feeling good, hey time to read right??? You're done your Cmas shopping, so relax and READ READ READ!

Jeane - Hope you get the job, let us know!

Emilee - Sorry you hate your job :( and about your teens. UGH. I only have one, can't imagine having more so they can fight w/each other. Oh well. At least you have a job, sometimes we just have to be thankful we have one, even one we don't like. I know how you feel.

Jessica - Just think, the retail mad rush will all be over soon!


message 2091: by Jessica (new)

Jessica | 1000 comments Yes, I will be quite proud when I can say I survived my first (and hopefully only) Christmas in retail.


message 2092: by Petra X (new)

Petra X (petra-x) Fiona- you've lost your eye!

Good luck Jeane, I hope you get the job.

Emilee - my stomach must be cast iron. After five years of being 100% vegetarian, in the first meal I had smoked salmon, some cold roast turkey and a steak. It was great! I don't eat non-veggie food very often but its not a moral thing any more, just taste preference.

Laura - I get eczema when I am really stressed. Mostly down the sides of my face but the other day by my lip so people kept telling me lipstick was smeared. I usually scratch it till it bleeds but sometimes I resist it, but then it goes within a few hours and I have the scabs then for days. Hydrocortisone cream does help but I don't usually have any near.


message 2093: by Emma (new)

Emma  Blue (litlover) | 2389 comments Random Thought:

What the hell have I been DOING for the past two months?


message 2094: by Petra X (new)

Petra X (petra-x) Snort or sip, Fiona?

lol


message 2095: by Emma (new)

Emma  Blue (litlover) | 2389 comments Yeah, that is true. WHERE HAVE I BEEN?

Night Fiona! :)


message 2096: by Jeane (new)

Jeane (icegini) | 4891 comments thanks everybody...I seem to be addicted to my mobile phone these days, it has to come everywhere with me...just in case. The moment I have a job it becomes immediately something around me when I need it!

coooooooooooooooooooold


message 2097: by Emma (new)

Emma  Blue (litlover) | 2389 comments Wow, this thread has not been used for a while.





message 2098: by Jeane (new)

Jeane (icegini) | 4891 comments It has been sooo quiet here today, I can know..kept checkin the whole day... feel bad, lonely and have belly cramps....


message 2099: by Emma (new)

Emma  Blue (litlover) | 2389 comments :( Feel better Jeane!

I'm sick, and it's not fun.


message 2100: by Jeane (new)

Jeane (icegini) | 4891 comments and tomorrow I have an interview, had to do borring online tests today.....but don't feel so positive about the job, really don't feel good to go and I want the other cpmpany calling me to say I can work for them....


and I want my boyfriend to be bake already, can't the airplane land in the street? Don't feel like being alone now.


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