Itsmeitsmeitsree!

I think I'm too old for NKOTB. I was in college by then.

But I do remember the Baby Crissy doll with the "pull out" hair. Little boy down the street from me pulled and kept on pulling...scumbag. 35 years later, and I just bought one on ebay a month ago.

Paper dolls...loved 'em. Loved Andy Gibb and the Bay City Rollers as well. School House Rock. The Pink Panther cartoons.

Before MTV, we had "Friday Night Videos." Foldup record players. At the movies, I loved the "Apple Dumpling Gang." Drive-in movies in our pajamas, and playing on the grass before the movie started. THOSE were the days!

I think I'm too old for NKOTB. I was in college by then.

But I do remember the Baby Crissy doll with the "pull out" hair. Little boy down the street from me pulled and kept on pulling...scumbag. 35 years later, and I just bought one on ebay a month ago.

Paper dolls...loved 'em. Loved Andy Gibb and the Bay City Rollers as well. School House Rock. The Pink Panther cartoons.

Before MTV, we had "Friday Night Videos." Foldup record players. At the movies, I loved the "Apple Dumpling Gang." Drive-in movies in our pajamas, and playing on the grass before the movie started. THOSE were the days!

13/16...not too shabby!

Yep, I can affirm each and every one of those.

I think it's probably a little naive to say that you don't want to change some things about your s.o. Well, maybe not exactly "wish to change"....I dunno, maybe wish some things were different. Splitting hairs I reckon.

I dislike PT losers as well.

I REALLY LIKE the Ford I currently own, and will always own a Ford. My ex-husband would "forget" to change the oil, and would only do so every 10.000 miles or so...or whenever I badgerd him enough to have it done. (I didn't drive, couldn't do it myself either) NEVER did the scheduled maintenence. Only ever bought tires, and one time bought a new ignition housing when he got mad and did something to it. It finally died after about 172,000 miles. Pretty good for a mistreated automobile.

Despite my love of Fords, I can see the quality of the Toyota..which is produced about 30 minutes from where I live. Most of their support plants are in/around Kentucky as well.

Kentucky?? With California Service Center?

Yes it is if you only listen to one side of the story....Remember the world isn't black and White...it's Colored..

And yes...you are right if everything was perfect..

I have never cheated nor been cheated on...I think its one of the sh!ttiest, most cowardly, dishonorable things to do.

Bollocks. that's bullsh!t justification

If things are so bad that you can cheat, you should have the courage to end something which obviously isn't working THEN cultivate another relationship.

There is simply NO reason to be so underhanded....none.

LisaD, I totally agree with you. If things have deteriorated to the point that you contemplate something you would otherwise not do in a healthy relationship...have enough respect for the other person (and yourself) to formally end something BEFORE moving on. There is no excuse, and it is one of the most cowardly and underhanded thing one can do to another. You don't need to know two sides of the story to know that it's dehumanizing to everyone involved.

I know what you mean about the emotional catharsis, Jean. For me it always comes much much later. I can remember standing in the consulate during the interview and actually hearing the words of the approval, and being pretty much amazed and relieved but non-emotional. I was the same with all the other steps - the trip back to America, the marriage ceremony and everything.

What gets me sometimes still is when he phones from somewhere, we talk and then hang up. I can still remember feeling very alone and empty as I would put the phone back in it's cradle. I have to pinch myself that I will see him when he gets home from work and not some uncharted date in the future.

Same here. I was in the consulate as well and heard "approved." I was excited, but not overly emotional. Now, I get emotional by that very same thing rebeccajo. A phone call from work saying he's running a couple of minutes behind brings floods of memories of those times when I would go to bed holding the phone in case he might call. Now I go to bed holding him.

And Jean, congratulations! We've all been pulling for you.

Been cheated on by most everyone up until now. My ex-husband cheated on me with a teenager, and he was 32 at the time. His justification for her age? "If there's grass on the infield, she's old enough to play the game." And what a "winner" she was...tattooed, tongue-pierced, high-school dropout with hopes of getting a G.E.D. Their first child was born 2-1-00. Our divorce was final 2-1-01.

The last time we were "together", he burned me with a cigarette (uhhh...he won't EVER do that again, I assure you) and said, "I don't want you and I'll make it so nobody else will either." So I had something to prove. I was the one a few men cheated with, if you get my drift. Got that out of my system though, LOL.

As far as being the cheater...nope. Never have, never will. I have a great husband now. I suppose you could say I "traded up." LOL

jenn,

On my obnoxious days, that honk from behind is my signal to stay at a full stop and wait for the light to turn green before making the turn.

Yodrak

I've had people honk at me for coming to a full stop before taking a right on red. They just wanna speed right through. Stupid a$$holes!

I don't even have to have an obnoxious day to do this. If someone has been on my bumper all the way up to this stop, I'll stay stopped until I have a green light. I can't stand when someone is on my bumper...as if I'm not speeding fast enough for them!

I used to have a HUGE Pink Panther collection, but then our house burned to the ground. That was many years ago.

Now, refrigerator magnets...and "artwork" from my children.

Former President Gerald Ford dies at 93

(CNN) -- Former President Gerald Ford, who became president in 1974 after the resignation of Richard Nixon, died Tuesday at age 93, his wife, Betty Ford, told The Associated Press.

The nation's 38th president spent several days in the fall of 2006 at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., for medical tests.

Ford, who has been in frail health the last few years, spent time at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., in August for evaluation that led to implantation of a pacemaker. (Posted 11:54 p.m.)

Hate, hate, hate, triple hate...Feliz Navidad...and all versions of it.

I can flip about 20 or more pennies off my elbow and catch them in the same hand.

And I too can tie a cherry stem with my tongue.

We had an incomplete vaccination supplement. Rather, we thought that it was handed in at the POE, but it was nowhere to be found. So he went to his physician here thinking he would have to get the vaccinations, but they just took some blood and tested for antibodies. He had the antibodies and didn't have to have more vaccinations. We took that proof to the civil surgeon, and then that doctor approved the medical. (didn't have to have the medical, had had it in the last year, just needed the vaccination supplement)

i enrolled basic algebra 5 times and failed coz i stop attending in the middle of the semester (no#'s just traumatize me). i dont know if i could still go for the 6th times. guess i would fail again...

ronmay: check out this website....Don't give up-once you get a good grip on the basics-the rest will fall in to place. I am pretty good at mathematics...If you need more websites let me know.

http://www.purplemath.com/modules/index.htm

My oddity:

I hate buttons on blouses. I have no idea why. I have been that way since I was a kid. If I HAVE to wear a button down blouse ( like when I was in the military in service dress), I felt really lousey and kind of twitchy until I took it off . There is not one button down blouse in my closet. All my suit blouses are wrap or cami style-anything but buttons.

Ditto with the buttons...and zippers, and anything else but something that pulls over my head.

I like trees with ornaments that don't match anything else on the tree! The more colorful the better. And I'm lucky in that I've hardly ever had to BUY ornaments. I teach preschool, and one of the most popular items to give preschool teachers is ornaments. (right behind candles and/or lotion) I've got Waterford crystal, two solid gold ornaments, Wedgewood, etc. They are all beautiful, but the most priceless ones are the handmade ones (bakeable clay) that kids (mine or someone else's) have made.

I never drove a car until I was almost 33 years old.

Kind of a side note...my mother is afraid of poultry, dead or alive.

(waiting to see how of that we get)

I've been a member on this site for more than two years, and mostly just lurk nowadays. There are, however, a few issues I compelled to give my opinion on, and this is one of them.

Several years ago, I found myself to be a single parent. It wasn't my choice for that to happen, but it did. I fought to keep my children with me. I received no support from their father, and as of today, he is still more than $17,000 behind. (Child support enforcement is a joke!) I worked VERY HARD to take care of my children and raise them to be as normal as possible. There were times when it became necessary for me to take off because one was sick, or had something very important that needed my presence. I wouldn't do anything any differently.

During these few years, I only took THREE days off for my own personal illness. I took NO vacation, and ALWAYS found a capable substitute so that my work didn't suffer. I would also come in on what were supposed to be my days off to make up for time I missed. I NEVER expected ANYONE (single or otherwise) to do anything I was responsible for.

What IS ironic is that the single people I worked with called in FAR more often than I ever did. Drunk from the night before? Going out of town with other single friends and expected ME to come into to work (to cover for them) because I had kids and needed the money? Scheduling personal things during work time when sufficient time existed for them to do it at other times, and I was still expected to cover for them...again, because I was the one who had kids and needed the money!

To assume that all working parents are the only ones to take off work, and who expect it, is rather naive. I have found that it's quite the other way!!

Oops, I think I did that wrong!

I did fly Cincinnati to Gatwick once...in 1987!!!

Mags when are your two cats flying with Delta and taking you and your son as carry on?

Are you flying from Gatwick?

Yup I am flying from Gatwick North to Cincinnati with Delta on the 8th December. Yes, the cats are taking my son and I as carry on luggage....

Mags when are your two cats flying with Delta and taking you and your son as carry on?

Are you flying from Gatwick?

Yup I am flying from Gatwick North to Cincinnati with Delta on the 8th December. Yes, the cats are taking my son and I as carry on luggage....

I flew Delta from Cincinnati to Gatwick once....in 1987!!!!

I did, and I'm sorry to say that it wasn't greatly effective for me.

We always refused to say "goodbye." To this day, if we speak on the phone, we always say, "I love you, until next time...later!"