I am not normally a youtube linker but had to share this.

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAITYFkICEc[/url]

You buy your kid a cell phone for Christmas, as a safety thing you know cause she is 16 and all. Then you find out the $50 worth of mins if came with were all used up texting a friend who was sitting on the couch right beside her.
To teach her a bit of a lesson you leave her without minutes for a month or so. Then you add some more to her acct. You know some of them were used to arrange rides from swim meets etc. Which is what the phone is for.
Then she goes out wandering and it starts getting late you decide to give her a call. What you hear is
"Here is the beep you know what to do with it"
You slam down the phone furiously as she walks in the door and ask where her phone is.
She replies ever so calmly,
"It is in my room I only have 4 mins left and don't want to waste them."
Has she learned something or have I?
ju

I have a nasty gastrointestinal bug going through this house. I just called work to say I wont be in and because it is a nursing home they want me clear for 48 hrs before I go back.
I am feeling a bit better today just a little drained (pardon the pun) but now my daughter is home with it.
Looks like you are stuck with me for a few days.
ju

I actually remember when someone uttered that statement and was using it to put down everyone who didn't want to agree.
Totally negating the statement.
Declaring yourself to be a woman SHOULD imply a certain level of maturity.
Fast forward a few years.
The level of maturity still has not been addressed. And in fact it was a totally immature ploy. Oh dear me, I have been hurt. I dont know how I will handle this. With absolutely no thought to what others maybe thinking or feeling.
That is the total opposite of mature, in fact it is down right childish. To dare to tell someone that your emotions are so much more important than anothers is selfish to the NTH degree.
Am I angry? yup
Have I addressed it with the one in question? yup
Was it resolved? nope, running was the answer.
Am I going to drop it?
I just did.
Sometimes you just have to vent and this time you get to hear it cause my venting pals aren't available.
It's my blog and I will bitch if I want to,
ju

if not a million times then damn close to it.
"Why do you greet everyone?"
That always comes with a caveat, thank you, don't you have anything better to do? Wannna fuck?

I received this just tonight.
It isn't the first time and I have no doubt it won't be the last but it is written from the heart and I want to share.
Perhaps you will learn something about me, perhaps you already know.

I have the authors permission to share.

To juicy
Subject hi juicy
Body Just wanted to take a minute and thank you deeply for being so nice to me in chat. I don't hang out in there a lot but every time I do I can expect the same wonderful person who seems genuinely glad to see me log in. It really means more to me than you will ever know. Hang in there girl, winter is going to have one or more good kicks to our rears and then we can all go out and say "damn, isn't it a beautiful day!"
See ya.

Subject Re: hi juicy
Body XXXXXXX, thank you.
A long time ago when I was new to NN I was greeted and welcomed by the then small group in chat. It was something that has always stuck with me and something I try to pass along. Some like you make it easy to do, others make me wonder why I bother. However I still have some great friends that I keep in touch with from those long ago days and some that I have met along the way that I may never have gotten to know if I hadn't simply said hi.
The appreciation of finding a friendly face is mutual!

If you are honest with yourself you will acknowledge that we are all here for recongnition of some sort. Simply being polite and saying hello goes a hell of a long way.

thank you mr PM, I am just as grateful for a new friend as you are,
ju

so to speak. As of today I am sick and tired of winter, just yesterday it was still pretty. Today I am over it completely and totally, it can't end soon enough. If I see another flake of snow I am going to scream!!
I need colour in my world again!! White, white more white and dirty white against grey, grey and more grey has worn thin to the extreme.
This always happens, the shortest month of the year seems like the longest. I can't even begin to think of spring for almost 2 months!
I have also reached my limit with my hair. There seems to be this really neat phase it goes thru from chin length to just below shoulders which inspires me to keep growing it thinking in just x number of months I will have beautiful flowing locks.
Bullshit!
One day it looks great and then the next it is just too damn long. It doesn't curl nicely, I spend more time hauling it up out of the way because it is driving me mad!
I knew it was time to get a haircut when I sat in front of chat for almost 45 mins trying out various diff braids etc and hating them all!
It has been a long winter and if the only change I can take in my own hands and make happen is my hair then so be it. Perhaps it will allow me some patience waiting for the season to change.
Stagnant,
ju

Saw a new pic on the home page today and got a lil excited. Mainly because I NEVER go to the home page, it is boring as hell. So I decided to scroll thru the pics that have been chosen to represent the site and with only a few exceptions they are the same damn pics that have been there for ages!
You really can't tell me that out of over 2 million pics there are only 7 or 8 suitable for the home page?
There are almost 12k pics posted in NN stamped and for the most part the ones on the home page are the same pics we have been seeing for over a year now and in a few cases a single poster has 2 pics on the home page.
I mean really, there is at least one "new" one dragged out of the archives, I am sure there are others that are worthy of home page.
If I was surfing for pics to get off to and saw the same damn thing time after time visiting this place I'd think it was totally stagnant.
Come on NN, this page is the page people see when they first get here, show some of the life this site posesses!!!
Shaking her head,
ju

I went out to catch the bus, I had to go to Walmart because my microwave died. Somehow I missed the bus so I came back home to call a cab. When I got in there were not 2 but 3 kids in here. One of our gerbils was very ill, I didnt think he was going to last long.
Off to Walmart I went, got the microwave and a few miscellaneous things. When I got home the gerbil was wrapped in a washcloth keeping warm with a piece of lettuce he was never going to eat.
My daughter and her friend had to go do some volunteer hrs so left the death watch with my son. They packed a lil box with a baby blanket and placed the gerbil with his washcloth wrapped around him in it. He seemed to be at least comfortable until the pizza guy came. My son being the nosey critter he is had to follow me to the door and on his way back to the livingroom tripped over the old microwave. He was carrying the box with the almost dead gerbil and onto the floor he went. That was his demise.
It has always been tradition that we bury our pets in the garden but with 4' of snow on the ground the dirt frozen solid there is no way. For now he is lying in state on the dining room table in his little box. We will have to figure out what we are going to do with him tonight or tomorrow, he certainly cant stay there till the spring thaw.
This evening as I was sitting chatting and my chair was acting funky. Everytime I tried to roll around it was like having the grocery cart with the wonky wheel. I couldn't figure out what the hell was going on and kept moving in an effort to right the situation. It wasn't until I got up to make popcorn in the new microwave that I noticed. One of the tiles under the chair had crumbled completely.
At this point I started doing a happy dance. This floor has needed to be replaced for a few years but unless there was major dammage I knew the landlord wouldnt do it. I now have major dammage and will be putting in a repair form tomorrow. New kitchen floor here we come!
They say things come in 3s. The microwave died, the gerbil died and the kitchen floor died.
I should be good for a while,
ju

What defines a friend is as unique as each and everyone of us. There are certain qualities that cross all boundaries, trust for example but there is something I value very highly in a friendship and that is the ability to laugh.
Not laughing at others, the ability to laugh at yourself. Being able to understand that you are no better or worse than anyone else. That you are human and with your humanity you make as many mistakes as anyone else.
What stands out is when you can see the humour in any given situation, laugh about it, learn from it and move on.
Life must be very difficult for those that aren't able to see the humour in it.
A good laugh is as cleansing as a good cry.
Hoping you are laughing more than crying,
ju

cid - ollie
serg - marv
tiny - elsie
sia - suzannah
its - everest
bites - ed
the handy men that will be at midlreds door at early o'clock are chuck and tim.
Last names came up.
We are either Smith's or Jones's. What ever you do do NOT attempt to keep up with the Jones's, its bad karma.
Deb