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Jeane-Oh how I wish!!!! He just bought a new flat one for the bedroom. He also installed speakers in all 4 corners of the room, so now he disapears in there after dinner. The good thing is, he's already asleep by the time I can get to bed, so I just turn it off. It IS a beautiful t.v. and I can't wait to watch Star Wars on it!!!!
So you do lick it that he bought it? :-)))
Well, in theory, no. In reality...yes! How horrible is that? I have no backbone!
I probably only watch an hour or two of t.v. a week, but I do like to watch movies on dvd a few times a week with my husband or kids.When I wasyoung, my brothers called me Boobs on a stick! I was super skinny, but had large... tatas. Once I had my children, that all changed. I'm still not overweight, but I have very noticeable curves.
Fiona-I am getting such a bit by bit picture of you! I got the accent from different references you gave, your hair a few weeks ago, and now... your body! You are no longer Kate Winslet in my head;) (that's my default English girl)
LOL Kandice, my mom bought this awesome flat-screen for our living room this Christmas and the first thing we watched on it was Star Wars!! It was awesome. I have a TV in my room. I've had a condition since birth that has crippled my immune system. It's not incredibly serious but because of it I am ALWAYS sick. I constantly have colds, flus, bronchitis, pneumonia, you name it I get it. With this in mind my mother let me have a TV in my room because it's not fair to the rest of my family that when I'm sick I take up the living room. It's definitely a comfort that when I'm sick I can just lay in bed and watch TV.
And Kandice you've given me hope!! That's exactly what I looked like when I was a pre-teen to teenager. I had huge boobs (32 triple D) and I was rail-thin. I actually had a breast reduction when I was 19 because of all the problems I had with my back, neck and posture. I wouldn't have minded if the doctor had just lopped them both off lol. But does having kids help? I've heard many people say that.
I don't believe you Fiona. You are, and will continue to be a sweet, little, dark haired sassy pants to me;)
Ew, I don't think Keira Knightly's that pretty at ALL. That was the only thing I liked about her version of P&P, Jane was most definitely prettier than Lizzie. I think Keira Knightly looks like a vulture most of the time.
Well, I wear a 32F, but I have hips now. Fortunately, I still have a small waist too, but I was such a stick when I was a girl. I hated it. I don't mean to be personal, but I have SLE Lupus, and so does my cousin, who has and had the same body shape. What's your condition?
Fiona-I have to buy little girl's bracelets if I don't want them to fall over my hands, and I wear a size 4 ring. I'm tall, though. (5'10")
How many pounds is a stone? Do you know?Lupus is a bit like the exact opposite of AIDS. You don't contract it, you just develop it. Your body thinks you are sick when you are not, so continuously fights off infections you don't have. It wears your body out. I also have rheumatoid arthritis because of it. That's just a really simple explanation.
My husband has never stated it that way, but I am pretty certain he feels the same;) There are face guys, butt guys, fortunately for both of us, I got a boob guy!!!!
I was born without a thyroid gland which has caused a lot of the problems that I have because they're always having problems getting my dosage of synthroid right. My body has also always had trouble producing the right amount of white blood cells. It's usually always low, but it's never been a life-threatening situation. When did you develop Lupus, Kandice? I hate the doctor so much now, because I've been constantly poked and prodded since I was a baby and I kept getting sick so often.
Fiona-You DID NOT convert it! I think, think, think a stone might be 14 pounds, but that doesn't seem right.
Wow, Rachel, I guess I have no right to complain! You're still a G/H? I can't even imagine. The breast reduction was still the best thing I've ever done for myself. I look so much more proportional now. I've always been really, really tiny and at it's worst my waist was 18 inces and I was wearing a 32 E bra. I had to get them special ordered...needless to say Victoria's Secret did not carry my size lol
LOL seriously Fiona, if I were you I'd be glad too. Yeah I don't go to VC anymore. I haven't been to Nordstrom's though I'll have to check it out. The one thing I can never find is bathing suits. Have you found a good place, Rachel? Because when the bottom's are smalls but my tops have to be like X-Large, it's impossible to find anything. I get so frustrated I feel like the only thing available are those huge muumuu's lol
Because there are so many beaches here, there are tons of bathing suit boutiques. Most of them sell the tops and bottoms separately, but I think even Target has some sold that way.
Target and Old Navy are good options for bathing suits because they sell them separately. I believe that Old Navy has a bathing suit sale this week. You can check them out online. *Just had to add that I love tankini's!
Yeah, I have a thyroid problem as well - a friend says I'm now qualified to live in Miami!Synthyroid is great - I like having a metabolism.
In Miami? Do they all have thyroid problems? Oh, yeah I usually buy them separately too. I just always hated the fact that I could find bottom's really easily but most department stores ideas of a large bathing suit top, would barely cover anything lol
He's from there and he says everyone he knows from down there (including himself!) has a thyroid problem.I hate trying on bathing suits in department stores that I don't try them on there anymore. I order by catalog.
I have inherited my 'Mediterranean' curves from my Dad's family and my boobs grew from flat to 34DD in 6 months and I was not yet 12. (I looked 18 which was a great challenge/worry for my mother.)With ageing, pregnancy and weight gain I'm now 35H and have had only one properly fitting bra in the last 20 years.
Don't get me started about bathing suits!
Because of my curviness and the weight of my boobs I looked underweight at 60kg (130lbs)even though I'm only 167cm tall: I lost all of the fat in my face and lower legs.
Also have rounded, short shoulders so straps have to be shortened and boat necks just fall off me.
Recently I was rather overweight and lost 15kg. Although it is nice not to be flabby I am now 'out of proportion' again and can only buy tops that have a lot of 'give' to squeeze in the extra boobage!
And I never got all the Barbie hate. If she had slighty wider hips when I was 20 we could have been sisters.
Fiona wrote: "Rachel wrote: "Curves definitely have their benefits. Have you had your thyroid tested?"Should I?
It's just something I've inherited from my dad - he's a stick too.
I'm just incredible small a..."
Fiona, have troubles with a belt too and luckily I don't like jewelery becasue rings and bracelets jsut fall of too.
Fiona wrote: "Oh sorry yes it's 14 pounds per stone and 2.2 pounds per kg and 6kg= 1 stone."this is useful, soo....I should be(last time i weight myself like 3months ago)around 8 stone or 8.1......doesn't seem right though....
this thread is becoming funny in some way..
Fiona, I non-stop wonder why any kind of clothes related thing can't be jsut simple anymore....
My daughter wears girl's "boy briefs". She HATES frilly, tiny, bikini kind of ones. Thank goodness! I just hope that doesn't change while she lives with me!
Okay here's my rant/thankful note for the day. I just got home from taking the Praxis I exam. For those of you that don't know, in order to get a teaching certificate in the US you have to pass the Praxis exam. The test has three sections that test you on basic reading, math, and writing. I'm a Sec Ed/English major so the reading/writing I knew weren't going to be a big deal but I was flipping out about the math section. I am HORRIBLE at math and I was terrified I was going to fail miserably. My rant is first of all - the test costs 130 dollars! I mean, really? And worst of all if you fail a section you have to re-do it and to take one section costs you another 60 bucks! So if I failed the math I was going to be shelling out 190 dollars for this stupid thing. Then when I'm taking the test I find out I get ONE 15-minute break in between 2 hours of test taking. Is that normal? At the end of four hours my back was killing me and my eyes were starting to glaze over lol.
Anyway, here's the thankful portion. Because it's computerized I got to find out my scores for both the reading and math sections (the writing involves an essay and they obviously have to be graded later) I passed both sections! Woohoo! I was so excited when the guy told me I had passed the math section I actually jumped into the air and did this shout of victory haha. I'm pretty confident about the writing portion so I may have just passed the Praxis exam on my first try! Such a relief! :)
Congratulations!!!! You also saved yourself 60 bucks. When do you get your final score, and eventually your teaching certificate?
Thanks! I get the final score in about 2-3 weeks. I'm currently in my junior year going for my Bachelor's in Secondary Education and English. I needed to pass the Praxis to student teach next year. So I guess I get my certificate when I graduate.
Yeah, in PA they integrate the student teaching into the 4-year program. So in Washington if you decide to become a teacher, you're looking at a minimum of 6 years to graduate? That's crazy. I'm actually planning on going straight into graduate school as soon as I get my bachelor's. I'm getting my teaching certificate as a back-up just in case I can't finish grad school.
Wow, they seem like some extremely strict rules. I never realized how different the requirements could be from state to state. I feel like it should be something that's federally regulated. I'm not sure what the requirements are in PA for getting your masters in education administration. I'm actually going on to get my PhD in English/Irish literature. At least that's the plan...I'm just going to be in school forever.
Katie wrote: "Okay here's my rant/thankful note for the day. I just got home from taking the Praxis I exam. For those of you that don't know, in order to get a teaching certificate in the US you have to pass t..."Wow Katie, how great! Especially if you aren't good in one part and would have to retake it!!!! You deserve to spoil yourself now as you just gained 60 dollar!!!:-)
Katie wrote: "Wow, they seem like some extremely strict rules. I never realized how different the requirements could be from state to state. I feel like it should be something that's federally regulated. I'm not..."It si the first time I see someone mentioning English/Irish literature. Most of the time it is english literature. Yours sound soooo much more interesting. I whish I could follow a course....
Fiona wrote: "I am going to scream. MY dad's computer is going up the shoot all the time - I don't know what's wrong wiht it and cannot do anything.He won't get it seen to - he keeps saying he will but he does..."
put your ipod or mp3 on, go and sit somewher else and read your book while having some classical music on....and jsut let him moan.
Rachel wrote: "I have the need to rant...So it snow in Seattle last night. Again. I didn't realize it until the phone rang at about 6:30 to say that my daughter's school was going to be opening 2 hours late. ..."
At least the birthday person could come to work, right?
I'm so sorry Rachel! I have to admit, you give me a giggle imagining you trudging along with the balloons. I should call my dad, as he probably can't drive either, and always feels slighted if I don't worry about them!Your day will get better.
Rachel wrote: "Jeane, it is so funny. She was on the news this morning because her car spun out on the freeway and she had a bunch of guys helping her to push her car. But she finally got in a little while ago...."The image of you with the ballons walking through the snow and then her not coming to work would have been so much more funny otherwise! Enjoy, my day is finsihing. 6pm here in ireland.
We just got a snowstorm this afternoon in Wisconsin. It took forever to drive home from work.
I'm getting a cold. :( It's not even fair. I didn't do anything to deserve this except show up to work everyday. But of course, my desk is inside the Vortex of Germs, so I don't know why I'm surprised.
I have Perpetually Ill Co-worker A on my left, who keeps a fully-stocked pharmacy at her desk (which doesn't help at all), and Perpetually Ill Co-worker B *Now With Smoker's Cough!* on my right, and 2 or 3 Toddler Germ Carrying Parental Units within sneezing distance of me.
I should start wearing a surgical mask at work. Yes, that would be cool. Because then I could stick my tongue out at my boss and she'd be none the wiser. This has promise! ;)
Get a full blown gas mask and then you can roll your eyes too. Maybe you could even get a scented filter for lovely all day freshness. Hope you feel better sweetie!
Rora wrote: "We just got a snowstorm this afternoon in Wisconsin. It took forever to drive home from work. "Really? I friend of me lives there...
About calling in sick to work. Sometimes, I feel like I should, so no one else gets sick, and like you said, I'll get better faster if I rest, but, it also seems to cause some people to talk. You know, "So and so was out twice last month with flu". Or whatever. I almost never call in sick, becaus when I feel icky, it's usually a headache, or something I can't give others, but I still worry because of that.
That's true Kandice, and that's one of the reasons I try not to call off unless I absolutely have to. There are 2 people on my team who use FMLA time like it's their personal anytime vacation days, and we have running bets going on both of them to see who will be out more per month, and pools as to which will show up on which days, etc.
But then I know for a fact that the one time I left early this year they were all gossiping about me leaving for no reason, because I didn't "look" sick. I had really bad nausea that day, so maybe I should have come to work with a little vomit on my shirt or something. Maybe that might have been evidence enough for them. LOL
It's so irritating when the ones who call in sick the most are the same ones that notice what everyone else is doing.I usually call in because one of my children is sick, not me, so I feel like I should have snot or vomit on my clohes, so they'll see I'm not lying. Or maybe bring in a picture of the afflicted child suffering?
You're too funny! You know, someone will start an online business where you can order "bodily excretions" for excused sick day proof!
Like those "sick" candies that Fred and George invented in Harry Potter! Heh.
Yes, something along those lines. You could do only mail order business and not even need a shop.
So I went to the doctor, and I have freaking tonsillitis AGAIN!! I'm so mad! I get this crap all the time, and it gets so bad that my throat almost closes and I go on the Can't-Swallow-Anything diet for a week. I've had it probably 20 or 30 times (at least) in my life, and I'm only 26! Yet everybody told my parents that I'd need my tonsils one day, and that only "serious" cases warranted removal. Said serious cases apparently being emergencies because the sufferer was no longer BREATHING or chronic cases involving 7 or more episodes a year (at least that's what the Navy doctors said).
I got up to 6 once, but NO! That's not quite chronic enough.
At least this time I caught it right away so maybe it won't get that bad this time. I'm calling my insurance company on Monday and I'm going to find out what I need to do to have my tonsils out. This is insane.
I don't care if I have to pay out of pocket. I'm having the F'ing things removed. *angry face*
Sorry guys... I'm done ranting now! :)
Funny that this topic was brought up here today. Today there was an article in my local paper regarding sick days and how some people don't want to take them for the reasons everyone here has stated. IMO, if you're germy sick then you should stay home, not only for your sake but also to spare everyone else. My job does PTO, which means we get a bank of days off and can use them as we like. In a way it sucks because without separate sick days we cut into our time and it reduces people from calling out all the time (good for the company but bad for employees who have to deal with the germs).
Becky, my oldest son had tonsilitis 11 times, and we were told he didn't need them out. The 12th time, we had to call an ambulance because he couldn't breathe. Whoever heard of an emergency tosilectomy? Me, that's who! I also thought that the older you were when they removed them, the bigger deal it was. I hope you can get them out. (on insurance's dime, of course) It's a miserable thing to go through over and over when it's a very simple procedure.
Jackie, that's my office's policy too. We don't have "sick days", any days that we're not at work come out of our vacation time. Since I work in customer service though, it's hard to get a day off since we have to have staffing. We can call off if we need to - I mean, they aren't going to come to my house with thugs and drag me in to work - but it adversely affects a lot of the stats that are used for rankings, promotions, raises, etc.
So, I just try to spread my time throughout the year, and hope that if I get sick, it falls on a pre-approved day off.
Unless of course, you qualify for FMLA like the guys in my office do. Then you can apparently miss as much work as you want and nothing at all happens. One of the guys in my office has missed 32 days of the year so far, and not ONE WORD has been said to him. Oddly enough, he was out on FMLA the entire week before his cruise vacation. Awfully coincidental that the kid miraculously healed JUST in time for his vacation.
And that's the reason I can't get a day off.
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Kandice, whenever we live in aplace where we have a whole flat for oursleves and don't share a place my boyfriend knows that it is tv in the living room and nowhere else.