anonemouse

At this point, I can't even imagine it. That would be nice, though. Yes, we can! And congrats on stopping smoking. You're doing great!

The only thing better than bread or potatos is pasta, IMO, so I think I'll stick with my regular homemade lasagna recipe, instead of going the potato lasagna route.

I've washed my pillows before, but that's because I am incredibly picky about them and it's hard to find satisfactory replacements. Plus, I have history of having night sweats (so much fun at 23), so it is much cheaper to go to a laundromat every so often to wash them than it is to buy new ones and hope I like them.

I've got them saved on a flash drive. I am trying to be civil with her (believe me, it's a chore at this point) because I figure it will only get worse if I'm rude. At this point, I'm sort of stuck. This surgeon is one of only two in the state that my insurance is willing to cover. She's also the most experienced of the two. I really am wishing that I decided to go out of state for surgery, though, because I am starting to lose patience.

Yep, she's done it before. And the other surgeon's office did it to me, too. Luckily, I have been replying with the same string of emails, so I have proof that she emailed me and told me that she had the results. I should have just told her to look about 4 or 5 emails down in the message, and she'd see her own reply stating that she had my results.

I say give cash. Since the couple didn't bother to accomodate people with more limited income, I think that's a fine compromise between buying something that they might not like and spending a ton on something from the registry.

I just got an email from her, and what do you think was in it? Yet again, she is asking for test results that I already faxed to her and that she already told me she had. Argh. This is impossible.

There are thousands of children waiting to be adopted. They just happen to either be too old for people that want little babies, too sick or handicapped, or the wrong color. It isn't "fashionable" for a white couple to have a black child. They want either white babies or Asian babies (or black babies from Africa).

To be honest, I wouldn't bother doing any of it. It seems like they just invited the person for a gift. I think that if I haven't seen a family member for 10 years, and it wasn't someone I was previously close to, I am excused from attending the wedding. But I hate weddings, so that's just me. If the person does insist on going to the wedding or shower, I think etiquette says that you only have to buy one gift. Either buy one for the shower or buy one for the wedding, but not both. Either way, though, use the provided registry. Or go with cash, since that's always popular.

I was just looking this up, and it is amazing how many women die pregnancy-related deaths in the world today. From what I can find, the chance of a woman dying from a pregnancy-related issue is something like 1 in 10,000 in the USA, 1 in 2,400 in Europe (I think Eastern Europe), and 1 in 16 (16!) in sub-Saharan Africa.

And these risks go up with poverty and ethnic group. An African-American woman is four times as likely to die from pregnancy-related issues than a white woman.

I should say that I know how to find out what my reputation is, but how do I find out what your reputation is?

How can you tell what another member's reputation is? I know that their rep power is listed under the number of posts they've made, but where is the reputation listed?

Well, I emailed her again, since she still hadn't responded to the email I sent her on the 18th. I figured that 8 days was more than enough time to wait for a response, and that if I hadn't received one by this morning, I probably wasn't going to get one. So we'll see how long it takes her now. If I hadn't already spent so much time trying to get the surgery approved, and if this surgeon wasn't one of only two bariatric surgeons that my insurance would cover in Tennessee, and if the other surgeon that my insurance would cover was more experienced, I'd be very tempted to change surgeons again.

Oh, yeah! I got addicted to this stuff when I was on Accutane. It works wonders for dry lips! Internet (cable or DSL, preferably) books Cats Homemade lasagna

Oh, I'm not going by what the ACLU says. I just posted that because it was convenient. The fact is, the Supreme Court agrees with them. Or is it the other way around, the ACLU agreeing with the Supreme Court? If the Second Amendment applied to individuals and not state militias, everyone would be allowed to own any type of arms that they could buy. They can't. Last time I checked, it was illegal to buy a nuclear weapon, even if I could afford one. You can say, "well, the Supreme Court is going to eventually reverse these rulings" all you want to. The fact is, they haven't yet. As of right now, the legal precedent of the Supreme Court says that the government (whether state or national) has the right to regulate guns.

Actually, Jack, you forget that the second amendment does not apply to the rights of an individual to bear arms. It applies to the right of a state to maintain a militia.

You or I may find someone's statement disgusting, but that doesn't mean they don't have the right to say it.

Try looking at the First Amendment, Jack. Their sexual activity may be illegal, but their speech is not. From the ACLU website: Here is the press release:

Have you contacted Dr. Curry? Whenever he posts here, he always seems willing to see patients that he didn't band.

The ACLU isn't defending their right to molest children. The ACLU is defending their right to freedom of speech. As should you, since you are an ardent supporter of the Constitution. It isn't the popular opinion that needs supporting, it's the unpopular one. No, it doesn't. But it does provide a way to punish them. No laws = no punishment.

I tend to get pissed (in the 'ticked off' sense, not the drunk sense) around Christmas. It would really irritate me because my family would get really stressed out and snippy around Christmas from all the stress, so it always made me angry and resentful (so I'd always sleep late on Christmas morning and refuse to open presents). (I was a spiteful kid.)

I can get the quick links button to work in any forum, but not on the main page. Anyone know why that might be?

And by the way, Funny, I apologize for the tone in some of my earlier posts. I have been under a lot of stress lately, and sometimes certain topics really set me off, abortion debate (and evolution and religion, but those are different threads) being one of them. I can get a little single-minded at times. I still don't agree with you, but I probably should have gone about it in a different way.

You can't compare amounts that people give. Maybe the person who gives $5 gives that much because that is all that they can afford to give, while the person who gave $5,000 could have given ten times that. Who is more generous, the person who gave all they could or the person who didn't? In my mind, the person who gave only $5 was more generous. The amount doesn't matter, it's the intent behind it that matters. I am more trustful of the person who says "I volunteer and I give money and time to charities" than a person who says "I give $5,000 here and $15,000 there and I volunteer at this place and that place and this other place", because it seems to me that they are looking for praise. People shouldn't be doing charity work for praise. If they are, they aren't being altruistic, they are getting something in return even if the only benefit is to their egos.