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[02 Jul 2009|04:13pm] [ mood | frustrated ] It is going to be a LONG night at work tonight. I woke up after just over three hours of sleeping and can't fall back to sleep. I hope I can sneak in a nap before work tonight. :o Any sympathy Mr. Owl? LoL.............................................................. 5 opinions| Your Opinion Matters

[02 Jul 2009|07:19am] I am off to get part 2 of my root canal done this morning. YIPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8 opinions| Your Opinion Matters

I Am So Sad........... [02 Jul 2009|07:08am] [ mood | sad ] UK comedy actress Mollie Sugden dies at 86 LONDON (Reuters) – British actress Mollie Sugden, best-known for her role as Mrs Slocombe in the television comedy series "Are You Being Served?," has died at the age of 86. Her agent Joan Reddin told newspapers Sugden died on Wednesday after a long illness. "She was a lovely, lovely person. She was a great professional," Reddin said. With her hair highly coiffed and referring frequently to her "pussy," Sugden played the bossy Mrs Slocombe throughout the run of the BBC's innuendo-laden Are You Being Served? between 1972 and 1985. Re-runs of the show in the United States in the 1990s gained her a new audience overseas. "She was great fun, a very good actress, very versatile. She could play serious stuff and comedy," said Frank Thornton, who played opposite Sugden in the series as the stuffy floorwalker Captain Peacock. "It was a very happy show to work on -- you can't play comedy with people you dislike," he told BBC television. Mark Freeland, head of BBC comedy, said she was one of television's iconic funny women. "Her daftly enormous purple rinse and never-to-be-forgotten catchphrase are the stuff of comedy legend," he said. Sugden had also found success in the BBC TV comedy series "The Liver Birds" and played an occasional role as pub landlady Nellie Harvey in the long-running ITV soap opera "Coronation Street." (Reporting by Tim Castle; Editing by Steve Addison) 1 opinion| Your Opinion Matters

Diet Update...... [02 Jul 2009|12:54am] Pleasant Surprise........... I thought I was going to gain some this week. Nice surprise to see that it actually went down a little. :) Today's Weight: XXX.X lbs Lost or Gained This Week: - .9 lbs Total Lost or Gained: -24.8 lbs 4 opinions| Your Opinion Matters

[29 Jun 2009|09:57pm] Ugh, I did it any way. I am so hoping to get Friday night off. I told myself that if I get offered tonight off I would say no. Well, that didn't last long. They called and offered me tonight off and I said yes. BLAH.......... Still hoping beyond hope to get Friday night off. :o 7 opinions| Your Opinion Matters

Diet Update........ [24 Jun 2009|11:44pm] Crappy Week........... Can I have a redo? I pretty much gained back what I lost last week. :( Today's Weight: XXX.X lbs Lost or Gained This Week: +1.8 lbs Total Lost or Gained: -23.9 lbs. BLAH.......................... 7 opinions| Your Opinion Matters

[23 Jun 2009|02:27am] 4 opinions| Your Opinion Matters

[20 Jun 2009|02:56am] I went to my appointment yesterday morning and sure enough I needed a root canal, although she said it didn't look too bad. At least it wasn't abcessed she said. :) The way the xray showed the inner area of the tooth, she said there was the possibility that there might be more damage on the inside than what she could really tell, and therefore might have to just take the tooth. She told me to think about what I would want when I came back for the procedure. We once inside she seems to think it looked okay and that things will be alright. She just did the first part of the procedure and I go back in two weeks to finish it. The procedure itself was nothing. It was like a prolonged cavity filling. I didn't feel a think. That is until I woke up last night and all the novacaine or whatever they used was gone. My tooth hurt like hell then. I am to take 800 mg of Ibuprofin every 6-8 hours for a couple of days and then kind of as needed. I took some when I got up and after about 6 hours it started to hurt again. Took some more at 7 hours and about and hour and a half later it is feeling better. The only other pain, came with the bill. I didn't need to pay for the procedure yesterday, but I decided to go ahead and pay then so that the insurance people would hopefully get their act in gear sooner and get my money back to me. So annoying to have money in your insuance account, but still have to pay out of pocket first only to be reimbursed. STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyway, the pain of the bill, exam and procedure, came to $1147.50. OUCH....... Now I can only hope that our insurance people do their jobs quickly and I can get reimbursed sooner than later and get my money back into my checking account. It is so annoying to have "money" in your insurance account, but have to pay for everything out of pocket only to turn around and get reimbursed for it. We, the union, are trying to convince them to start using a debt like card. Although I am sure they will wait long enough so that they can claim it as their idea. UGH......... I just found out last night I have a wedding to go to Saturday afternoon. I had it in my head that it was next weekend. Thank goodness I got that reminder from someone. :o 6 opinions| Your Opinion Matters

Diet Update............. [18 Jun 2009|12:28am] [ mood | happy ] Well, I guess I have reached a one of those dieting milestones. :) I have lost just over 25 lbs. YAY me. Now just a ton more to go. lol...... Today's Weight: XXX.X lbs Lost/Gained This Week: -2.2 lbs Total Lost or Gained: -25.7 lbs 8 opinions| Your Opinion Matters

UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [17 Jun 2009|07:57pm] Somebody up there really doesn't like me. I was not a happy camper when my dvd recorder died and I had to dish out $300 for a new one. Well, that was nothing. I just found out this morning, I need to have a root canal on one of my molar teeth. I am looking at LEAST $1000.00. I am guessing more. The dentist said this particular tooth is complicated root and nerve wise. GREAT. Thank goodness I have most of my vacation this Fall paid for already. From now on no more unnecessay spending for me. For ANYTHING. :( 10 opinions| Your Opinion Matters

WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [17 Jun 2009|07:56pm] We have tornado and thunderstorm warming all around us. Tornados and funnel clouds have been spotted. WISH US LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2 opinions| Your Opinion Matters

Today's WTF Moment is Brought To You By Bonny Eagle High School Administration in Maine [16 Jun 2009|11:18pm] [ mood | annoyed ] A Very Costly Kiss: Senior Denied Diploma by Mike Krumboltz 8 hours ago For teens, there is no greater joy than graduating high school. Shaking off the shackles of education and claiming that hard-fought diploma is truly an epic day. Unfortunately, for several students at Bonny Eagle High School in Maine, their natural exuberance has led to some surprisingly serious problems. On Friday night, when the senior class was waiting to graduate, excitement began to grow. Students bounced a large inflatable rubber duck. The noise level rose. And then came "the kiss." When called, one student walked on stage to receive his diploma and blew a kiss to his family. The school administrator, clearly not the sentimental sort, sent the student back to his seat ... sans diploma. The seemingly harsh punishment has sent the Web all aflutter. Searches on "student denied diploma" and "bonny eagle high school" are both through the roof. Additionally, blogs and news papers are chiming in with opinions on whether or not the administration overreacted. The student's mother has given interviews and is quite upset at her son's treatment. According to an article from Fox News the outraged mother said, "A bow, a kiss to your mom is not misbehavior." But the administrators feel they were just enforcing the rules that students agreed to. At a meeting following the debacle, school superintendent Suzanne Lukas said that "if a student doesn't adhere to the expectations, then the consequences are clearly spelled out." This isn't the first time that rambunctious (dare we say "fun"?) behavior affected a graduation ceremony at Bonny Eagle. "Four years ago we had some issues with silly string and beach balls," said Lukas. 3 opinions| Your Opinion Matters

DVD Recorder Saga A New Tale......... [14 Jun 2009|02:01am] [ mood | hopeful ] Saturday afternoon I ran into Rochester and hit the Best Buy store looking for a replacement dvd recorder/vcr. I had looked on line and they advertised a Sony model but the web site said they didn't have any in the store. I think they had a whooping total of 4 combination machines. So I looked them over. Low and behold, one of them was the Sony machine I had looked at on line. So I kind of compared them all. Decided to pass on the Panasonic machine. One because of the experience I just had with one, and two because it was the most expensive at $308. I settled on the Sony machine. It looked pretty straight forward and I can't remember now if it was the cheapest model at $199. I started to walk away and stopped at the dvds to see what was on sale and a sales guy walked up to me and asked if I had everything I needed. I said I thought I did. He asked if I had all the cords I needed. I said I thought I did. Do you have an HDMI cord? Nope. Well you need one of those. Um, okay. $70 later I hard one. All the time I am thinking, I didn't have one with my last machine. Turns out I probably should have had one. :p With the old machine when just the TV was on the picture was pretty sharp, but when you turned the machine on you lost just a little bit of that sharpness. Now on the new machine with the HDMI cord, the picture is looking pretty sharp with the machine off or on. :) Saving the best news for last... I was more pissed off about the old machine dying because I had easily 100+ dvds that hadn't been finalized and therefore lost. Well... I threw one in to just see if it would play on the new machine and IT DID!!!!!! Then I tried to record onto one of them, and IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMg, is it really possible that I haven't losted all those movies and shows that I had recorded? How did I ever get that lucky??????????????????? If I had the money, I would buy a couple more of these machines and have them on hand. :) Okay, now I am paranoid. Sitting here singing the praises of the new machine, and I started to watch a show, and I can't decide the mouths not matching the voices? Ugh....... I don't know, now it seems okay? 4 opinions| Your Opinion Matters

[13 Jun 2009|06:17am] Swiped from The Owl........ 21 Interesting Questions (for adults over the age of 21) Created by nme and taken 259 times on Bzoink What is your favorite Dr. Seuss book?: The Lorax What's the longest you've ever waited in line?: Probably a couple of hours shopping at Christmas time If you could have one superpower, what would it be?: Mind Control. What's the most memorable class you've ever taken?: 8th Grade Home Ec. Teacher told me I was the first boy to take her class. lol..... What's your favorite form of exercise?: Walking What's the sickest you've ever been?: I was off work for a week once. Flu type illness. Passed out twice from dehydration think. Where do you go for advice?: Friends or mom If you had to be named after one of the fifty states, which would it be?: Minnesota. :p Where were you on September 11, 2001?: I just got home from work when I saw it on the TV If you could live in any home on a television series, which would it be?: Dynasty's Carrington Mansion, or the Munsters' house. What was your worst job?: Only one I have had. UGH....... What is one food you will never give up?: PIZZA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What kind of person can you not stand being around?: Bigots.... What is the most violent action you have ever performed?: I took a pair of scissors after my older brother in a fight. What modern convenience should have never been invented?: Cell Phones. Would you donate one of your kidneys to a total stranger?: Outlook is doubtful If you could put a "No _____" sign on your door, what would it say?: Thank you. :p If you could commit one crime without being caught, what would you do?: I could think of a few people we don't need cluttering up the place For what, in your life, do you feel most grateful?: The great friends I have found. Would you prefer to be blind or deaf?: blind I think Would you rather be overdressed or underdressed for a party?: Overdressed. Better to look too nice then a bum You've been totally Bzoink*d! Take This Survey | Search Surveys | Create a Survey 4 opinions| Your Opinion Matters

The Survey Says.............. [11 Jun 2009|03:32am] Adult Random Survey: mature, good grammar and spelling. Created by blukttn66baby and taken 302 times on Bzoink Would you tell your co-workers what underwear you have on?: If they are that interested to ask, I guess. How far do you live from your parents?: Across the hall. :p How often do you cook for yourself?: Occasionally. Do you buy store brand or name brand items when shopping?: Depends on the product. I like my name brands Do you make your bed each morning?: Nah...... Do you have a certain newspaper you read?: Rarely read the paper. Local paper is a joke. How many family photos do you have in your home?: The whole family? Not many. LOTS of parents grand kids. Are you concerned about the economy?: Kind of. What is the most interesting food you've eaten?: I am pretty conservative when it comes to my food. I don't stray to the "interesting" for the most part. Do you remember anything you learned in school?: Sure, but the question is, do I use it? Are you happy with how much money you make?: NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do you believe in staying "healthy"?: I try, but fail mostly. :( How do you feel about people who drive SUVs?: Bet they were wishing they went compact now. :p When is the last time you saw your real hair color?: Daily What is your favorite type of gum?: Not really sure. Depends on my mood. Some times sweet, some times cool and minty. Are you the type of person that will parallel park?: Not if I can help it. :o Will you drive around the block to look for a spot?: Not often. I try for the less congested and walk a little ways. Do you answer your phone on the first ring?: Only if I am expecting a call. Can you sleep with a door open?: Nope. What about with the curtains or blinds on your window open?: Nope. Do you like to gossip?: Sure, who should we go after first? :p Is your second toe bigger than your big toe?: A wee bit I believe. Do you alphabetize your movies?: Some others are chronologically done. Or however you spell that. What do you like to collect?: Teddy Bears. Movies, Theater/concert programs, autographs. How many pancakes could you eat in 5 minutes?: Never tried. Do you think cheese and mustard together on a sandwich is gross?: Depends on the sandwich. I hope it's honey mustard. :p How do you feel about babies?: They are nice as long as I can give them back to the parent when I am done. LoL........ Would you buy a kid candy just to make them stop crying?: Yes. :p I have been tempted to do that with total stranges when I am out shopping. To you, what is "the best thing since sliced bread"?: Pizza delivery? What is the worst taste to have in your mouth?: Spoiled chocolate milk. Never let my mom ask you if this tastes okay. :o You've been totally Bzoink*d! Take This Survey | Search Surveys | Create a Survey 1 opinion| Your Opinion Matters

Diet Update.......... [11 Jun 2009|12:19am] [ mood | okay ] Well, it's been a couple of weeks, but I am back. :) Pleasant surprise in a way. I have not been very good about my dieting, and therefore I was expecting a weight gain of significant proportions. :o Stepped on the scale and I lost almost a pound. That's the good news. The bad news is it took me nearly 2 weeks to do that. :p Today's Weight: XXX.X lbs Lost/Gained This Week: -.9 lbs Total Lost/Gained: -23.5 lbs 2 opinions| Your Opinion Matters

[10 Jun 2009|06:57am] Is anybody familiar with the group Big Bad Voodoo Daddy? They are suppose to be in Epcot during the time I am down to Disney World. Should I try and catch them? 5 opinions| Your Opinion Matters

DVD Recorder Saga Continues...... Ends??? [08 Jun 2009|09:31am] [ mood | pissed off ] I am sooo pissed off right now. Turned on my dvd recorder this morning and big surprise it didn't work. So I called Panasonic and got no where. He said it would have to be a trade in. For around $150.00 I could buy a factory refurbished machine like mine or similar. I told him for that price I might as well but a new one. He asked if I would like the phone number to Panasonic sales. I told him no, I would go to my local Best Buy to find one. Even better news. I probably have over 100 dvds that I was recording things on and hadn't finished with them yet and so they havenm't been finalized, which means they are worthless. I have multiple shows and movies that have been taped and are no good any more. S.O.B.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What are the chances of me buying another Panasonic??? 4 opinions| Your Opinion Matters

DVD Recorder Saga Continues....... [07 Jun 2009|09:36am] [ mood | aggravated ] Well, I turned my machine back on after being unplugged for 24 hours. I bet you can guess what happened. That's right it still didn't work. So I called Panasonic back to see what I do next. The guy told me to try holding down the channel buttons on the machine for ten seconds. Nothing happened. So he told me to leave the machine on for 24 hours and try again tomorrow. I thought he said if that didn't work it would be a trade out. Does that mean I will get a new machine? Won't hold my breath for that one either. This is getting annoying. Also annoying, the guy I was talking to acted as though he couldn't get off the phone with me fast enough. I would be more than willing to put money on the fact that I will be calling Panasonic back Monday morning because it still won't be working. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 5 opinions| Your Opinion Matters

[06 Jun 2009|11:56pm] This is my little dwarf lilac bush. YAY it bloomed this year. :) 4 opinions| Your Opinion Matters

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