BethFromVA

You're being assimilated. :bored:

Wait, WHAT?? Guess I gotta go find that one! :bored:

Good for you, Ebony!!! And thanks. I hope you hear something SOON!!! I'M even sitting on pins and needles for ya!

Yeah, I did last night (I guess actually it was early this morning)... I'm sure I'll be getting a phone call or e-mail. :bored:

Thanks, y'all. Did I mention that I carried a 3.84 GPA and made the Dean's List more than once while she questions my dedication? Yes, I'm still ticked. I guess it's time for a conversation. And I SO regret that she knows about my blog. Crap, now I feel stifled.

Whoa, good point! Look at how shabbily our vets' medical care is, and they're a relatively small number compared to the ENTIRE COUNTRY! And it's also "free," like socialized medicine would be. All anybody needs to do to determine if socialized medicine would work on a grand scale would be to look at the much narrower scale of vet care. Awesome analogy!

Thanks, Kat, and that's not a bad idea.

Omg, Glouc, I remember you saying MONTHS ago that your mom was feeding your daughter bad and extra food! I thought that got nipped in the bud. I'm afraid even I want to smash her face in now too. My mom's not quite THAT bad -- or else she's just not that overt in what she does. Some of the points she brought up were legit: the cost (not only for school, but the income lost due to me not working), the fact that when I finish I'll be in my upper 40's with a degree, and what will that really accomplish for me being a woman, upper 40's, with a degree? That does kinda scare me a bit. But it's the focus on the fact that at 31 or 32 I decided the major I was working towards wasn't for me and I couldn't hack it that gets me. Okay, LOTS of people have changed majors. Ther was some expense that was wasted, true, but still... I sat back for many years then and didn't know what I wanted to do, but I didn't squander more money for "useless" schooling. I have been going to school solidly since January of 2008, and as I said, before then I did the online certificate program for seven months. I have maintained an excellent GPA all through my schooling, and when I have gone I have taken it VERY seriously. She asks how dedicated I would be to it, or would I be bored like I am right now (um, DUH, I don't work and only go to school two nights a week and have hardly any human interraction otherwise!)? I gave up my summer last year for schooling, to the point where my DH and friends were begging me to go out on our motorcycles every weekend, and I couldn't. I will be the first one in my family ever to have a college education. EVER. Earlier yesterday she was puffing up about that, sounding very proud, but by last night she was all negative again. The thing that pisses me off is she does this ALL THE TIME -- tells me, "You ought to do this or say that," and when I do, she comes back later and says how I shouldn't have done that. The BEST one was how she dogged on me after I quit this last job that was SO toxic it almost made me sick, but hey, it was because I have a problem with authority and she made comments about my personality that, when I asked my friend at work, she said, "WTH is she talking about??" Now her new thing is she knows I've been struggling with my "diet" and every time we talk she asks how I'm doing on my "diet." First off, IT'S NOT A DIET; and secondly, QUIT BREATHING DOWN MY NECK!! :thumbup: I'm sorry, y'all, I'm venting and bringing this place down. I'm just about to the breaking point with all of this.

PJTP: Why do some people, especially those closest to you, have to be so negative?? Omg, my mom just drives me nuts sometimes. Earlier today I said to her that I was thinking of talking to DH to discuss the possibility of going back to school full-time if a job doesn't come through by the fall session. Earlier this afternoon she was all for it and said she and a friend of hers had discussed that very thing. This evening *insert skidding tires here* she is all hesitant and asked if I wanted to know what she really thought or did I only want to hear what I wanted to hear. I said I wanted to hear it all (thinking she was referring more to the money). Instead she brings up the fact that I went to school like 12 years ago for court reporting and didn't finish. Never mind that a lot of the classes I took transferred for my basics now, but of course she's asking how dedicated I would be, blah blah blah. Um, well, I've been going to school part time since January of 2008, and before that I finished a certificate program (that can work towards my intended career but did not add to my credit hours but was equal in work to about 60 credit hours) where they give you five years to finish it and I did it in SEVEN MONTHS. AND I was the first person in the state to finish this program AND had an article written about me in a court-based magazine because I was the first. AND I did both these things while working full-time. AND I carried at least a 3.85 GPA. While working. Omg, I just feel like that little girl who was told by this same woman that I would never amount to anything... and so far I feel like she was right. Never mind that I consider myself somewhat intelligent -- I still hear that I will never amount to anything. I could about cry right now. I'm so sick of this crap. :thumbup:

But that's a contradiction in and of itself. I guess what we consider well-run differs.

Bingo. I was gonna say the same thing.

Yeah, and just think -- by the sound of things, you will be able to use my boobies like handlebars because they'll be flying behind me. :thumbup:

I think I would say, "Hmm, I thought the rumor was that when guys lose a lot of weight, their penis 'grows' an extra inch or two. Guess that's not guaranteed, huh?" :smile2: Hit 'em where it counts. lol

Yep, me too! Heck, I'd probably do it in the street, I'd be so happy.

Well, the interview I had today, they think they won't make a decision until the end of next week (hopefully she said that right) anyway, though I said I would be available on Tuesday July 7. That way my vacation with my sister will be over. And I told them the only other hang-up I have is the 2 1/2 days in late July where I have already bought a ticket. And I kept stressing that it was to go see my baby granddaughter. :smile2:

And the liberal way of handling things is to spend us into oblivion and taxing the crap out of us. :smile2:

Do you mean you're 5 and a half feet tall (5'6") or 5 feet, 1/2 inch? Obviously at 110 pounds, there's a huge difference!

THAT I can handle. What I figure will happen is that I will get called about a job before both vacations and I'll have to say, "Um..." lol

She lives in the Sterling Heights area outside Detroit, off 16 Mile.

I'm going to Michigan over the 4th and Houston later in the month.

Yeah, but now I keep booking flights outta town. You watch -- NOW I'll get the job offer of my dreams. One's next week, so that's pretty close, but the other is the third week in July -- a Thursday and Friday (would also have to leave early Wednesday if I was working by then). It's like Murphy's Law -- the jobs will start coming. lol

More like so long as we can only select Democrat (the once-long-ago republicans) or Socialist... sorry, I hadda. :blushing:

Not all do. Mine didn't (BCBS Anthem). However, I think some do in order to weed out some people and to keep from paying if you can't show some ability to follow a diet. I dunno...

Omg, how fantastic!!! I wish God had been smiling down on my old job and gotten rid of the bitch I had. I hope you get the promotion! What a perk that would be!

Oh, Fannie, I'm sorry on both fronts, but especially on the house. I've been there and know how badly that hurts, and THAT was back when they were giving loans to ham sandwiches. I also wonder what the hell people are thinking. I guess for them, they have nothing to lose. If they get it, they get it. If they don't, then meeah, no loss. It's very irritating.