I thought liar liar pants on fire was an acceptable comeback!! lol

dang some ppl when i read the part were she starts the liar liar thing i'm like ok she just didnt do that did she omg

Yea I was pretty floored, I should have did the "circle circle dot dot now I got my cootie shot" back to her.

I mean what are we 12?

That lady has Pine Barrens, SouthJersey, written all over her.

That happened to my brother when he was little. This terrible, old witch of a lady kept on screaming at my mother after school that a kid she was babysitting was being beaten up by my brother. My brother was no angel,b ut this kid's track record at school was SUPER bad and he was a total trouble maker. My brother was just a little hyper active. My mum basically told the lady to shut her pie hole and if the kids ACTUAL mother wanted to come talk to her, than that would be a start. Never happened. She just wanted to stick her nose in.

my hubby is driving me crazy... last week he looked me in the eye and said, "this is my last pack of smokes"... a few days later he buys a new pack and then today while he was waiting for his dad to pick him up he asks me if I have any cash and I ask, "why do you need cash?" and he is like, "oh, um in case I want to buy something" and I ask, "why not just be honest and say you want to buy a pack of smokes" and he said, "yeah" and then he said, "this is the last pack I swear"

Hey Marilyn,
If he really wants to quit, has he look into smoking cessation program? States and usually health insurance provides those at no cost. Maybe that is all he needs: a little push.

he says he really wants to quit but his problem is that he is around too many people that smoke.. like at work and his family...

his brother gave him some off that gum but my hubby didn't try it.... his brother still smokes too.. he tried to quit and failed

i try not to bug him about quitting smoking but sometimes he smokes in the car that we both share and I have made it very clear to him that if he wants to smoke he can't smoke in the car.. so it kind of annoys me when he does smoke in the car

What about trying the nicotine patch? That worked for my mother who was a lifelong smoker. Unfortunately, by then the damage had been done and her lungs permanently damaged.

I smoked for 10 years and quit when I moved down here. It was easy because I changed my environment and was around all non smokers. If I still lived in Canada I probably would still be smoking. I notice a lot more smokers in Canada than I do here too.

Anyways, its a hard thing to do if you're in the same environment you were always in. When I went to Chicago a friend from Canada handed me a DuMaurier and said: "Do you miss this?" and I tried to smoke it and I honestly couldn't. It just tasted nasty.


When my grandpa was in the hospital dying of cancer, my uncle jokingly asked him if he wanted a cigarette and my grandpa said: "If I didn't smoke those things, I wouldn't be in this place, I wouldn't be dying"

Very powerful words that did make me think about my own choice.

Its a hard thing to do though. My mother smokes, and she's always saying she wants to quit. She takes care of her diabetes, she eats healthy, she only eats organic. I am floored that she puts cigarettes into her body when she is so conscious about everything else. I really wish she'd quit because I don't want her to suffer like my grandparents both did.

yeah I am sure these things would work if he really wanted to quit which I don't think he does... because he hasn't tried very hard *shrugs*

he did quit last year for about 6 months, I know he had 2 or 3 cigarettes in that time.. he just quit cold turkey that time.. he started smoking again around the time we knew his mom was dying, which I do understand.. he was really stressed out etc...

I think for him he just has to quit cold turkey...

he has been helping out his dad these last few days and his dad smokes too, so that doesn't help...

The bolded part is the bottom line Marilyn. You can't make him quit. He may try 100 times unsuccessfully, before he finally is sucessful. No amount of cajoling or threats will work. (I'm not saying your threatening him...) He'll find the right method of quitting for himself as well. It doesn't help that he's around smokers all the time, but again, when he's made his own decision to stop, then he will, and will make changes to his days so that he's not around smokers all the time. I think you have to set limits on where he can smoke. Second hand smoke is BAD. Personally I think smokers should only be allowed to smoke outside.

I personally think that when smokers want to quit, then they should be encouraged, otherwise, the non-smokers should just not bother saying anything.

It's NEVER too late to quit.

I do notice many more smokers in Canada than here around me. Even at work, I only know one smoker in our office.

I never understood the point of smoking but I'm sure it helped that my parents weren't smokers. I might have been one if they were. It just seems like such an expensive habit.

yeah I know I can't force him to quit.. sometimes I just let him know how I feel about it..

yeah my hubby never smokes in the house... he never smokes when he is around me either.... he does smoke in the car though which kind of bugs me..

it would be kind of hard not to be around smokers seeing as how his dad and both his brothers smoke...

I just hope he quits soon... I just want to be healthy...

THIS BLOWS!!!!!!!

I don't know WHAT kind of heating we have in this DUMP, I think it's steam radiators but at night when it's turning on, yeah...it sounds like someone is coming through the floor with a metal sledgehammer!
It literally shakes the walls and the bed!!!

Is this going to be like this ALL DAY when the heat is on all the time???
Flipping 11pm, 1am, 3am, 5am.....it's absolutely RIDICULOUS.
SO LOUD! BANG BANG BANG!!

I'm calling our landlord now.

Oh dear. Not good having stuff interrupting your sleep Laura! Hope they sort this out for you

Thanks.
I left a message.
Some noise when the heat first turns on is fine but this is more than noise. I should record it. It's insane.

Welcome to the world of steam radiators! That sound it makes...can't do anything about it. I lived with it in apartments for years. To be honest though, it is the cheapest and most hot kind of heat in my opinion that you can get. I know it can be loud but it gives off a lot of heat when it gets going.

I'm not sure what causes the noise, I would assume is it the pressure. Some days are worse than others though.

Yeah. We don't pay for it, they just crank it up and bam...you got heat.
This is more than noise though hon...it's horrible.

And that, sister Carla, is the wisest thing.
I personally get fed up when non-smokers go all high and mighty on me. Don't like my smoke? Move aside. In less than polite words and not wanting to be offensive:

I like your fire Len!!


And no I am not condoning smoking or any other "bad" habit.
Ha!

I could care less if people want to smoke, but don't come near me and blow ur fumes,lol

Agreed. I see what you are saying Len but thank goodness they banned smoking from bars and restaurants because I'm allergic to it! It makes my eyes run, itch and burn. It also gives me quite the headache.

I don't care that you or anybody else smokes

I care that my hubby smokes... I just want him to be healthy...

plus I am tired of him smoking in the car... a car we share.... I don't want to have to smoke too...

I hear ya Marilyn. My hubby smokes only at work. I'm highly allergic to it and so he can't smoke around me. I've been around smokers on my dad's side of the family a long time and I've been hospitalized once or twice due to bad asthma reactions. Anyway, I know how you feel about not caring that anyone else smokes but your hubby. I'm concerned about my husband's health too. My grandma died from lung cancer when she was 58 and it was terrible. I don't want to have to see my hubby go through that or other smoking related illnesses.

I agree that smokers should be outside to a certain extent. It's so hard. We live in an apartment on the 3rd floor and the people on the first floor only smoke outside, not in their house. What that means for us is that when the weather's nice out and I have the balcony door open to get fresh air all I get is smoke. They are chain smokers to it hardly ever ends. Sometimes, I take the dog out in the middle of the night and they've obviously gotten up to have a cigarette! UGH! I know I know....just shut the door. And believe me I do. It's just that I have the right to fresh air don't I?

My rant du jour:

My town has laws against the sale of alcohol within city limits. There is a petition happening to change that. We're at the local grocery store and there are signature-gatherers outside the doors, and they approach us. I explain that I'm not a USC, but SO is.

Texan Frat Boy then ignores my extistence like the dirty foreigner I am, which is fine since I can't sign his paper, but then proceeds to be SUPER RUDE to SO while he's signing both papers!!! What the EFF?! If you come hat in hand begging someone to support your petition, you'd better not be a rude goatmolester while they're doing you a favour!

If I had been eligible to sign his petition I would have scratched off my name and handed it right back to him and told him exactly what I thought of him and his inappropriate attitude, Texas-style, since being a giant douchebag seems to be A-Okay. To heck with Canadian Politeness!

It happened days ago but I'm still so angry.

What a jerk indeed! And I hope the ban stays. Alcohol causes too much destruction.

Wow. In what way was he rude? I would have done the same. In fact, I have. I remember this one lazy cow at the local Horton's. And I don't say that lightly. She was absolutely horrible. Always rude and slovenly and deliberately slow. Anyway, normally, I will wave away the change when they go to give it to me. (With sandwich orders I always give them a tip, though.) So she goes to give me my change and I say "That's okay" and she says "Wow" really sarcastically as she dropped it into her cup. So I made her give it back. B!tch.

OMFG!!! What did she say????????

That is hard core, Krikit. I like it!!!

She was SO. EMBARRASSED. She thought I was joking, at first. Then she turned bright red and got all stuttery and apologetic, and was fumbling around in the tip container. The owner was standing right behind her and was not amused. With her, that is. Not me.

Steam radiators are wonderful. It sounds like yours need bleeding, though. That's what happens when air gets into the lines..... they tend to bang until you bleed them (let the air bubbles out).

I think it's the saying of the year quite frankly. This quote from you is a keeper!

Thanks Krikit...Our landlord STILL hasn't called Nick or I back...I'm going to call again today.

On a funny side rant, my beautiful and darling kitty Mojo got a whole roll of papertowel and ripped it to SHREDS in his room (the guest bedroom is his play room)
I woke up and saw some sheets in the hallway and was like..."wtf..." Turn the corner and bam...shreds of papertowel all over the carpet, in his little house, on his scratching mouse thing...EVERYWHERE. He just looked at me like "What Mom"? LOL

What a goober!!!!

kind of like this ??

that image never grows old Marilyn.. ah... so funny.

Kind of .... YES! Exactly like that! LOL

He didn't say anything quotably rude, just had a very aggressive, patronizing tone and if I didn't know better I'd swear he was annoyed with us for daring to waste his time by signing the petition!

I felt like saying something like "You might have a field-awarded degree in Keg Standing, but he's doing his PhD. So let's not kid ourselves about which one is the 'smart one', shall we?" although SO wouldn't talk to me for a week if I did so. Looking back, it might have been worth sleeping on the couch for a few nights ...

I was in a small town called Bothell, WA this weekend during my road trip, and stopped at a local Applebees (I know I know, it's all I could find)

There was a party of 14 old people, in the range of 50-90 years old (family outing I guess). One woman explained she was a politics teacher at the local high school.

An older man said "I don't see how anyone can vote for Obama. He killed thousands of people. Just because he shaved his beard and sounds like he speaks perfect English now isn't enough for me to vote for him. McCain will go kill him for us and get justice."

The table all agreed completely, that Barack Obama was actually Osama bin Laden.

No, I am not joking. That's how stupid Americans can be.


PS. They said Foxnews has been an excellent source of election news.

^^^ lolololol

Sweet goddess, pray for us all.

Oh, thank God. I thought you were talking about Canadians.

I have to say, I read that in disbelief and said to my husband "How is it possible that they actually think he is Osama bin Laden?" He just smiled, shook his head and said "Honey, THOSE are the people who vote."

For the first time since the election really came onto my radar, I felt a little bit of fear that John McCain could actually win.

I'm sure there are people like this world over. Shouldn't be any different here in the U.S. I guess. It's appalling.

I like Applebees

me too

their bacon cheeseburger sliders are soo yummy and so are their frozen strawberry margaritas......

Ewwwww. I walked into the living room a few minutes ago and there was a dead newborn rat lying on the carpet! I think Cooper brought it in from outside- he was out there playing with a dead rat a few days ago.

I don't think they are in the house though- I haven't heard anything. I should phone someone though- there must be a rat nest in out backyard.

Ewwwwwww.

I know!! I was getting hungry for some lunch but now I feel icky and can't eat.