Happy Friday MENA

Jackie

hiya jackie. got some snow yesterday, nessa's car does well in the snow so i'm happy

it's yayday, but just another day without doodle

Cable guy is coming this morning. For some reason, the HDTV/On Demand stopped working. Regular cable and internet still works so I'm not too concerned.


Jackie

Hi Everyone,

Back from a brief hiatus. Sometimes when you're on AP you just want to get away from all the visa talk, you know? Hope everyone is doing well!

Sometimes a hiatus is needed. Happy Friday to ya! Whatcha drinkin this morning? Triple gingerbread latte with 1/2 skim no froth?

Jackie

No way, man!!!! Full caloric gingerbread latte with whipped cream and just ate an apple fritter. On QUITE the sugar high!!!


Gonna attempt to do ALL of my holiday shopping tonight once the kiddies are off to their dads. Meanwhile looking for a treadmill to treat myself with for my Eid/Wedding anniversary present.

I don't think "treadmill" and "treat" really work well together in the same sentence.

If you're eating a cupcake while walking it might be.

J

oooooo I have a gingerbread latte too!! Sugar free WITH whipped cream.... I tell myself if I get the sugar free it... sort of... cancels out... the whipped cream...

yay

you've been missed!

Yay! You're back!

I ate a whole poundcake the first day i had my stairstepper. It is possible. And yes, I was stepping and eating. it was a bad day.

This weekend.. hmm. Working on my thesis and working on Ammar's applications to varying places.

Good morning It's my flex day so have a three day weekend

My weekend.....work Saturday, then the famous 'work holiday party' at a bowling alley. Great part about that is....bonus check while bowling. No work Sunday, it's time to finish unpacking. Nah, time to go spend that bonus check at the mall.

Jackie

yayyyyyyyyyyyyy you're back!


Well, my car needed new spark plug wires (check) and new fuel injectors (next week). And Ramy's jeep needs a new radiator We're still going to somehow manage our booth at the local flea market on Sunday but now we have to use my car which doesn't exactly make things easy. Going to mail our AOS packet on Monday!

Thanks Charles!




I hope your husband gets the job you're looking for! Did you settle on a state to focus on yet or just going alphabetically still? I vote for throwing a dart at a map myself!!!!







Your holiday party is on a weekend???? That's no fair!!!! It should be during work hours so you get paid to have fun! We're having our party catered by an Italian place and then we get a raffle....a few years ago I won a Playstation 2 and last year my buddy won two round trip tickets to anywhere in the US. Our smaller dept. party will be at the 99, but still we'll get paid for it!





Have you thought of trading in that car for a new one? Sometimes you end up plunkin' more cash into it trying to fix it then it would take to get a new car. Especially with the winter upon us I'd really consider it 'cause you don't want to breakdown in the middle of a storm or something!

i hear ya sparrow! my car died on me yesterday, the alternator and some other things needs to be replaced. It was quite a scene yesterday, i would have thought someone was robbing a bank, i had police cars and ambulance drivers with their lights on surrounding me anyway, im not so bummed out cuz my boss said that he would cover the $500 tab! Thank God, I have a wonderful boss!!!!!

hahaha!!! I know but apparently the whole going on a diet thing doesn't work for me so I figure this way I can keep on eating the good stuff if I just exercise it off!

We have 2 parties. The bowling alley with a catered dinner AND on Dec 20th, we have our 'in store party'. Everyone brings a dish and a gift to pass. Then we gather around the table with some singles and play Left, Right Center a few times. Not much work gets done on that day. I am hoping with creative sceduling, I can have off the week before Christmas. Go to the party, and come back on the 26th.

J

Happy Friday!

My boss asked me for my holiday schedule, and I had to tell him I'm not sure yet My SO STILL hasn't bought a ticket, although he reserved one.... I'm starting to get very pissed off... He says he could get a better price when he goes into Cairo next week, but I'm just hoping they will still have tickets for the weekend before christmas. So I gave a tentative schedule, and asked him to be flexible since I will need a weekday to get some things done. The boss has also made it very clear that I will have no vacation or personal days btwn Jan 1 and 1st week of April. In Florida both parties have to be present to get marriage licsense and the office is only open 9-4 weekdays, which is pretty much my schedule at work Not to mention the other gov. offices, ect. we will need to visit for all of his paperwork.

Sorry for the rant I'm really going to be stressing this until I have a date...

Sounds like you have a sick day coming up!

Welcome back - you were missed - this place was just not the same - we need you here woman...

Love,
D.

Well, I looked through the entire list of places he could teach in the past 3 days (Good Lord! probably about 2000? CA has 109 alone!) and trolled for anthropology full-time faculty positions. I came up with about 10 or so openings (not exactly sure, I printed out the openings and brought them home and I am at work now). So he'll just apply to all of them! As I remember, there were 3 in CA, 1 in GA, 1 in MO, 1 in NYC, 4 in AZ, 1 in FL, and 1 in IL. So I guess that's 12 openings from memory. We'll just put them in order of due-date and apply.

I am hoping he gets something, but you never know. On the one hand, he doesn't have American credentials and degrees or perfect English, so this will look bad. On the other hand, he does have 4 years of teaching experience at a University (where he taught in both English and Arabic), has publications, has at least one American professional reference, has done a lot of course development across the dicipline, and directed the physical anthropology lab... which looks good too in addition to the fact he's young. I know that last part doesn't seem important, but the older you get the less likely you are to be hired at many of these places... I know several people who have been trying hard and getting rejected in favor of people with less education and less experience.. but were younger. So it appears to be a factor, although of course age discrimination is illegal so you cannot say for sure

We were discussing the fact that if he can get a higher paying job we would like that since we're not only both paying on my student loans right now and that would make it go faster, but then we also plan on doing the kids thing and he (and I) would prefer for me to stay home with them-- so it is only logical to then base the majority of the income making responsibility on him.

thanks hon, i missed you guys too! btw love your picture!!!! you're gorgeous!!!!





no openings in boston? I would think they'd have at least one oppportunity since we have so many colleges here.







On a side note I have carpet cleaners cleaning two rooms, one overstuffed rocking chair and four dining room chairs and OMG are they LOUD!! I really hope they can clean the carpets good 'cause if not I'll have to go with the ripping them up choice. I was going to do that originally but it just feels better knowing the girls have a cushy rug to step onto when they get out of bed, you know?


OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOh and if anyone is thinking of getting FIOS do it!!! I LOVE it! I got verizon fios tv, phone and internet and I am one happy camper. It came with the dvr option too and I have NO IDEA how I ever lived without it!!!!! Now I can watch all the CSI's, Criminal Minds, House and Cold Case whenever I want too!!!!! I just hope that writer's strike ends SOON!!


I'm starting the Hero's series using Netflix since I never watched it last season. I hope it's as good as everyone says!

I think at this point I ask myself every day why I don't trade in my Pontiac. I think I keep talking myself out of it because it's worth a lot less than what I owe on it. (It has 107,000 miles on it and for its age it's wayyyyyyyy over the average). But then again, at the rate I'm going, that car won't be running by 2011 , which is when it will be fully paid off. (ok, maybe it won't be running by 2008 ) So........ I can't really seem to make up my mind...I don't trust "new" used cars anymore because I prefer the old 80's tanks that refuse to die already. I'm really rough on cars...not that I'm a bad driver...but my cars don't like to be USED! I drive about 25,000 miles per year. And in the past year the fuel pump burned up, the brakes were replaced, I blew the head gasket and some kind of other gasket, I replaced the thermostat, the window regulator in the driver's side door, spark plug wires...etc etc etc etc etc. I've easily sunk about $4000 in repairs into that car...and it's only 5 years old...so after sinking so much money you wonder if you should just suck it up and trade it in for another car with a new set of problems or stick it out and hope for the best. I don't know I will never buy another car that I can't change my own headlights on again though. That's just ridiculous that I have to take it to the shop for that.

I want some kind of ugly car. Someone was selling a 1976 Pacer in the newspaper for like $1200.

And Ramy's jeep (you missed this!) We just got it last week for $700. It's fabulous and is just fine except for that radiator! Ok, it's really bad on gas, but once it's fixed it should be fine for a while.

Without a PhD his choices are limited.. and anyway anthro jobs don't come open that much-- I was really surprised to find this many! So now it's just up to that.

I love clean carpets. I want to buy a bissel carpet cleaner so I can do it all the time. That thing is awesome.

LaL-- I just wanted to say I loved your house Really cute!

Yessss it's finally Friday.

So Bridget I see you are back- was it the AP that drove you away? Did the AP make you send messages to members questioning how much Amerylu supported her husband while he was in Egypt? Did the AP make you slip and send it to her cousin? Oopsies! Better be more careful next time.

No Sarah, I never sent any pm's about aymerlu. It was hard watching you try to start that rumor about me but I know that my true friends know the truth.

Ok, so you swear you didn't send them?

Sarah for once and for all please stop baiting people on this forum. It's well known that this is what you are doing time and time again so that people will blow up at you. To spread a nasty rumor about me while I was gone saying that I sent pm's about aymerlu is just low.

If Aymerlu's cousin thinks that I did this then I hope she will send the offensive pm to me so I can see it.

Sorry toots, but it's not a rumor. I think you know that.

I understand you trying to make yourself look like a good person on this board, but man do we see past that.

I never sent pm's to tons of people smearing aymerlu's name. Stop lying.

Sure.

have you been watching the second season? if you have and you like it, you're going to LOVE the first season... in my opinion, the it was better than the second, although i haven't watched the finale of the second season yet... got that waiting on my DVR aka the best thing that ever happened to me

Who are we?

Bridget is not a bad person.

I haven't watched anything. I have just heard people talking about it so I thought I'd start fresh this weekend. I'm really looking forward to it!

i fully agree

For the record I have pm'd aymerlu so that she can tell me what this is all about since obviously I have no idea what these pm's consist of. I have no ill will towards her and have always found her a big help to people.

Fa la la la la .......la la la la tis the season to be jolly, fa la la la la...la la la la

If my daily thread gets locked for bickering bullschnitt,,I just might lose my holiday spirit, so if the Sarah/Doodle schnitz is gonna continue, make your own damn thread.

Now have a good day ya'll.

Jackie

edited to add: Welcome back Doods.

I apologize, Jackie. I was attacked and I am responding. Don't know what else I can do since she is apparently allowed to bait people in this forum.

No need to apoligize D2da oodle.

Everyone sing along......

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle...........

Jackie

blah, humbug!

I dedicate this next number to Charles....

'You're a mean one....Mr. Grinch........'

J

FORGIVE HER BRIDGET and be kind to her

there are things that are hurting her or she would not do these nasty things

Forgive her...

Keep around and dont pay her any mind

happy friday everyone!

Happy Friday! It's time to leave work. I'm in Southern England right now for business. 8 more days til I leave. Tomorrow is an all day event in London. I can't wait. Been there before, just going to get out of the hotel. 3 weeks in a hotel is not fun. Have a great weekend!

wow i am SLOW today. it took me until the end of page two to realize who bridget was. *knocks self on head! i was wondering why everyone knew someone so well who joined in december! welcome back d to the oodle! we missed you!

badrs love: what do you do for business!? thats great you get to travel to england. its a great time of year to be there!

Did you make a decision on that trip yet? Can you at least say where it will be so I can live vicariously through you and have a virtual trip? lol

Glad your back doods, of course i was gone too so was looking for you, be the bigger person everyone knows how things are here. Forgiveness is good but for how long does all this need to be just overlooked and throwed on the back burner?