@RiotGrrrl: I like your logic.
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I just did my taxes and I'm getting a shitload back! I'm so pumped! I thought I was going to be screwed this year.
I wish I could say I was doing something responsible with it, like paying off my car loan, or something benevolent, like donating it to charity, but instead, I'm going to be irresponsible and selfish. FUCK YEAH VACATION!
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I wish I could say I was doing something responsible with it, like paying off my car loan, or something benevolent, like donating it to charity, but instead, I'm going to be irresponsible and selfish. FUCK YEAH VACATION!
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@FlowbeeBryant: From what I read in...it might be the Atlantic article about this? I can't remember what it was. Anyway, she did say that her old boss did it. However, she said that after she had been questioned for about 14 hours, not allowed to use the bathroom and slapped by the police officers and they kept telling her "We know it was him that killed her, just tell us it was him and we'll let you go." I mean, the whole thing is so twisted up who knows what the truth is, but it may not be as cut and dry as, you know "awful white girl blames black man".
So, uh, was Sorkin a little coke-rambly or is that just how he talks?
@RaisinGirl sucks so you don't have to: I love this. I'm a total geek for vintage etiquette and homemaker-y books. Where did you find this?
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@Runaddict: There are no words for how pleased I am that my boyfriend is watching the game with the boys and I don't have to hear the total meltdown he's having right now. Don't get me wrong, Go Pats! and all, but really. It shouldn't be a weekend-ruiner.
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So for those of you who read this;
[jezebel.com]
and were concerned, I just wanted to say that she did call the agency and report the abuse today, finally. So hopefully this woman will be safe, and the "friend" will get, oh, I don't know, clothes made of raw meat and a room full of wolves.
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[jezebel.com]
and were concerned, I just wanted to say that she did call the agency and report the abuse today, finally. So hopefully this woman will be safe, and the "friend" will get, oh, I don't know, clothes made of raw meat and a room full of wolves.
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@HarpMadness: I don't know who it is or I would in a heartbeat.
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@funchefchick: @ everyone:
I'm going to speak to her tomorrow and ask her what she did, and then really press the issue if she hasn't called. I'd report the person myself, and have been doing some FB sleuthing, but I don't know who the person is- she has a lot of weird friends from other cities (I believe Judge Judy would refer to them as "marginal people"). It's just insane to me. Doubly so because this is the same company that provided elder care for her grandmother. Like, DUDE. How does this not strike too close to home for you? What is so fucking special about this awful, trashbag random friend that you don't want to turn her in ASAP? I just don't get it.
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I'm going to speak to her tomorrow and ask her what she did, and then really press the issue if she hasn't called. I'd report the person myself, and have been doing some FB sleuthing, but I don't know who the person is- she has a lot of weird friends from other cities (I believe Judge Judy would refer to them as "marginal people"). It's just insane to me. Doubly so because this is the same company that provided elder care for her grandmother. Like, DUDE. How does this not strike too close to home for you? What is so fucking special about this awful, trashbag random friend that you don't want to turn her in ASAP? I just don't get it.
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@Triphena: My boyfriend's sister announced at a party the other night that a friend of hers, who I and the rest of the people there do not know, is abusing the elderly woman she cares for, up to and including giving her sleeping pills to knock her out and punching her in the face. She said she didn't know what to do, and I and a mutual friend both said she needed to call this other person's employer and tell them what was going on right away, and if she didn't feel they were listening to her, to call the state licensing board and tell them. She hemmed and hawed a bit, and then said she was concerned for her friend and wanted her to get help for her anger problem. I said that the old lady is the one who needs help first, and she got all defensive (as she does about everything) and said, "Yeah, well, I already talked to her." As though this is a solution? Boyfriend's Sister can barely manage her own life, she's absolutely not qualified to 'fix' someone who's so screwed up they're hitting old women.
Argh, this girl. So know I'm all concerned about some anonymous old lady, and my constant simmering frustration with B.S. is fully boiling. I just don't understand how you can remain friends with someone when they're that terrible of a person, or why you want to share something upsetting in the middle of a birthday party, and then not actually want to hear anything about it. Her brain is a mystery to me. And, I suspect, to her as well most of the time. Arrrrggghh.
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Argh, this girl. So know I'm all concerned about some anonymous old lady, and my constant simmering frustration with B.S. is fully boiling. I just don't understand how you can remain friends with someone when they're that terrible of a person, or why you want to share something upsetting in the middle of a birthday party, and then not actually want to hear anything about it. Her brain is a mystery to me. And, I suspect, to her as well most of the time. Arrrrggghh.
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I'm putting this in the reply for sad elder abuse components, but it's largely getting-it-off-my-chest bitching. You've been warned. #Groupthink
@ListedMIA: Good luck. And keep trying.
@feminaziftw: ...Did she give birth at home, alone? How do you not pick up a few little tidbits of how this all works sometime in labor and delivery?
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Well, this is just adorable.
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@cool_as_KimDeal: I would like my future husband to ask my father's permission, though I think of it as asking for "blessing" rather than "yes, you may", you know? However, I'm very close with my parents, so I can see how if you're not it would be strange. But to me, I think it is a sign of respect to my dad- like, "I know you have been your daughter's main dude, and I would like to officially be her main dude now. Do you recognize me as worthy?" not "Do you agree to give me your daughter?"
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@AitchCS: The proteins in it are actually really good for your skin, no joke.
However, when your boyfriend/husband/fuck buddy busts that out with a "But Baaaaby," you can reassure him that a couple of egg whites will also calm your breakouts.
(Oh, the things you learn in beauty school...)
However, when your boyfriend/husband/fuck buddy busts that out with a "But Baaaaby," you can reassure him that a couple of egg whites will also calm your breakouts.
(Oh, the things you learn in beauty school...)
@queenhummus: Yeah, didn't go in after all, but thank you. (At 7am the CEO sent out a company-wide email that basically was like, "You can stay home today, but you won't get paid." Well, the driveway is blocked by a 3' tall, 3.5' deep ice bank and the governor has declared a state emergency and asked that private companies not send people to work today, so I'm staying my ass home, damn it.)
I cannot believe my office is open today. There's a foot of snow and white-out conditions and the office is on 128- a highway that, on the best of days, sucks donkey balls, and there are no options for public transport or even safe areas to walk. My boss is a lunatic.
I'm seriously hoping for a snow day tomorrow. It's a blizzard! Surely staying safe and warm at my boyfriend's house with all our Christmas booze is safer than getting on rt. 128 at 7am, right?
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I moved home 4 years ago, and it's been awesome. Of course, I do have the occasional twinge of "Holy shit, I'm 30 and live with my parents, I'm SUCH a huge failure," but the truth is, I'm choosing to live at home. I have a decent job, I could move out- and probably will in the next year or so. However, in the meantime, I've got the run of a large suburban house with a great backyard for free and they've got someone to watch the place while their at our vacation home or traveling. Why would I pay upwards of a grand for a studio or a larger apartment that I'd have to share with roommates when I've got that, you know?
