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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 25, 2024 21:32:38 GMT -5
-Three in the category how many have you been to. I really did enjoy the weak dong while on vacation. - I would like to visit those three again I- it is my understanding that at least Vietnam is a place that companies want to move to - all three countries (the ones in Asia which are relatively close together) are way too hot and humid for me to move to. I have done 10 years in the tropics. That is enough to last me several life times. you're different. i like you. edit: you win, with a score of 7. i realized afterwards that i should have scored MINE a 2. i am pretty interested in VN. ever since i saw that Lara Croft movie. amazing architecture and scenery. and i am a sucker for ancient structures. I missed this earlier. The part of the movie you are talking about was filmed in Cambodia, near the Angkor Wat complex. I forgot which temple complex* this was exactly but they are relatively close to each other. Absolutely worth visiting. But take some electrolyte powder to add to your drinking water. I have never been as hot and sweated as much as I did during the days I spend there! *Ta Prohm and it is within the greater Angkor Wat complex . I seem to remember it was separate. Either way - easily reachable from Siem Reap
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 25, 2024 20:42:56 GMT -5
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 25, 2024 18:18:18 GMT -5
NastyWoman I had a similar issue with my wedding album with my ex. Imagine my surprise when my two older boys both wanted it! I'd leave it for your sons. If they get rid of it one day, so be it. You can get rid of other Stuff instead, and leave that to them. Welcome back moneysquirrel ! So happy you had a great trip! Unless things change drastically I can not see DS1 wanting that album. DS2 would possibly like to have it. They can do whatever they like and no conflict would be a good thing so I am hanging on for now
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 25, 2024 17:18:19 GMT -5
My guestroom is slowly re-emerging. Yesterday I got rid of a few more bags (think shopping bags) of craft materials. Today my many, many photo albums are moving back into place and...once again I am kicking the can down the road. I got divorced just a few months shy of 31 years of marriage. So that was a large chunk of my life and as a result I never felt the need to destroy all photos of my ex. With this purge some scrapbooks related to that long ago wedding have ended up in recycling. However, there is a photo album that was gifted to us. No expensive photographer for us. We were barely out of college. The photos are glued into the album (pertinent detail). I really have no problem letting go of the photos of "us". However, there are also many photos of loved ones. Nice photos, happy photos, 50 year old photos come December. Many of these loved ones have since passed on. I can't remove those photos from the album, and I bring myself to throw out the album yet. So back on the shelf it went. This may be an album my kids will have to deal with as the can rolls slowly out of sight after the kick I gave it.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 25, 2024 17:06:46 GMT -5
It's not here but in the WIR area. I was just going there myself when I saw this thread (its still there)
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 25, 2024 13:26:45 GMT -5
ok. listen. i realize that this is a subtle argument about currencies. it really is. you can look at it a dozen ways, some good and some bad. let's just back up to the 10000 foot view, as a ruducto ad absurdum argument. if having a weak currency is GREAT, then the countries with the weakest currencies should be the BEST countries to be in, right? here are a list of the 10 weakest currencies in the world: Lebanese pound (LBP) Iranian rial (IRR) Vietnamese dong (VND) Sierra Leonean leones (SLE) Laotian kip (LAK) Indonesian rupiah (IDR) Syrian pound (SYP) Uzbekistani sum (UZS) question 1: how many of you have been to any of those countries? question 2: how many of you WANT TO GO to any of those countries? question 3: how many would want to move a business there? question 4: how many aspire to travel, work, or live there? out of thirty two possibilities, i scored a ONE. how about any of you? -Three in the category how many have you been to. I really did enjoy the weak dong while on vacation. - I would like to visit those three again I- it is my understanding that at least Vietnam is a place that companies want to move to - all three countries (the ones in Asia which are relatively close together) are way too hot and humid for me to move to. I have done 10 years in the tropics. That is enough to last me several life times.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 25, 2024 0:14:53 GMT -5
As usual, facts go right over your head. Were you home schooled by chance? The political climate in Manhattan, NY is very liberal. New York County, NY is very liberal. In New York County, NY 86.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 12.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, New York (Manhattan) county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 86.4% to 12.2%.
New York (Manhattan) county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
And you say he will get a fair trial??
Are you seriously claiming that only repubs are able to follow the law? Maybe that is how you would judge but don't put your political blindness and indifference to truth and wrong doing on others.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 24, 2024 21:13:53 GMT -5
Magnesium seems to be the latest trend - reportedly helping with a vast array of health and wellness problems. It always makes me skeptical when I see something with such promises - but also makes me curious and want to try it. I take D3 and Omega3. Omega seems like another one that was the cure-all for awhile. But every time I go off it, my depression seems to ramp up, so I keep returning to it. Magnesium (strangely, NOT potassium like from bananas) was instrumental in getting rid of the severe muscle cramps I got following my surgery. There was a time that they were so severe that I thought I’d lose my mind ( did you know your abs can cramp like a Charley horse?). I take nothing. TD takes melatonin and Vit D for osteopenia. And did you k ow you can get a Charley horse while trying to push an almost 9lb baby out of your body? That was something else I tell you!
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 24, 2024 19:41:01 GMT -5
Unfortunately, according to a Reuters report, the indictment does not include "a former US president who was a co- conspirator". But maybe because of the co-conspirator designation there still is some hope? If not, well you can't win them all
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 24, 2024 19:13:58 GMT -5
Washington Post article. Trump's next claim will be he's a trillionaire. Trump claims 200 million Americans ‘love’ him. How many actually do? One! Since the word "love" is used I posit there is exactly ONE person in this world who loves him. Others may have some feelings for him based on their expectations of reciprocity or usefulness but the orange paint addict is the only one who loves him and whom he loves.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 24, 2024 17:50:49 GMT -5
I definitely just hung up on my sister. in the middle of her yelling at me because I wasn't 100% listening to her when she called while I was still working, I had the nerve to tell her I needed to take another call from my landscaper. and then I was the idiot that called her back, where she picked up where she left off and meandered her way to telling me I was an awful person for walking past the Walmart employee stationed at the exit to check receipts. bitch, please. what?? just, no. She sounds like a real piece of work. Let's put it this way: I am not trading one of my sisters in for her. Not in this universe or any other.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 24, 2024 17:47:29 GMT -5
You are going to show us these pictures, right?!?!?!?!? No Short and decisive. I like it
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 24, 2024 15:34:08 GMT -5
Pensions, at least in the private sector, can be a fickle thing. When I started at the company I retired from (22 years later) the promised pension was based on your last 3 years salary. I forget what the exact percentage was. And there was a very good retirement health care deal. Fast forward about 5 years and they changed the formula based on an annual earnings formula, so the early, lower paid years came into play, and the healthcare part became an "allowance" to cover the cost of a Medicare supplement. Then came a series of corporate takeovers. And the very first one did away with the pension. We kept what had been earned to that day but that was it, no COLA ever. And the healthcare allowance died a quiet death, it just disappeared. There was a voluntary contributory part to the pension while it was in place. It was just 1% of your salary and it increased your payout considerably. Fortunately I had been smart/lucky enough to sign up for that and my pension now is a nice addition to my income. Since there is no COLA it will become less over time of course but I'll take it.
All this to say that pensions may not be as safe as they look. Things can and do change. Probably less in the public sphere but never say never...
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 24, 2024 14:42:50 GMT -5
I didn't have a family that could pay for college. I did my first year living at home. It was difficult to commute to school and hold down a full time job at the grocery store, so I dropped out and worked, took college courses here and there, etc. Bottom line, it took me a lot longer to get my degree. Imagine if I'd been able to graduate in four years. I would have been earning more money, paying more in taxes, and spending more to boost the economy than I did. In my country college was tuition free. But housing was not and my family did not have the resources to help pay for that (I am one of seven). Public transportation was mostly good and heavily subsidized for students. We lived in the middle of nowhere so my "exciting" student time went as follows: - leave the house at 6am to walk 20 minutes to the bus stop. That early there was like 2 hours between buses. Later in the day that was better - once an hour. - 30 minute bus ride -walk to grandma's house and wait for about an hour before walking to the train station. One mile each way followed by a 40 minute train ride - the easy part - just a 15 minute walk to college. - all day classes and start the journey in reverse I would have been able to skip the trek to grandma's house but I went there to do some chores that she needed help with like for instance filling all coal shuttles in her four story house or help refill shelves in her haberdashery store. I would normally walk in the door at home around 8:30 pm. There was no time for a "student experience", no hanging out with friends or parties. But that was the deal - it was either do what was needed or no college for me and I really wanted that degree. It was a good thing that I needed very little sleep and have (or rather had) an extremely good memory and could get by with very little studying. But in the end I was not burdened with loans either. I don't even know if those would have been available to me but I have always been very debt averse so even if they were I am not sure I would have done differently
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 24, 2024 14:22:31 GMT -5
So the last two weeks caught up with me this morning. I woke up tired at 7:45 and decided to turn over for a few minutes. A few minutes later I looked at the clock and it was close to 11am. Aliens must have invaded our universe and stolen a couple of hours. There is no other explanation
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 24, 2024 0:11:44 GMT -5
Aack! Word problems! My worst nightmare in math classes! I hated math in high school, but when I got to college it finally "clicked". My ex that was a high school math teacher says that normal for girls, that that part of their brain doesn't develop as quickly as it does in boys (even though every other part seems way ahead). Like I needed more evidence that I‘m not normal Move over. I liked word problems way before you were even born.. Wait....does that mean I'm not normal? Whatever
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 23, 2024 22:29:38 GMT -5
Slowly getting things back in place and culling items. Tonight is the second night in a row that I got rid of a big bag of craft materials through but nothing. I love the no contact aspect of this. I just put the items outside my door and, like magic, they disappear
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 23, 2024 12:23:08 GMT -5
Unfortunately savings are now on hold. I started having digestive issues around Boxing Day which have plagued me on and off since then. Fortunately the doctor I saw about it noticed that while I was a youthful 60, I was still 60 and sometimes ovaries are stupid. One Ultrasound, CatScan, MRI and many blood tests later, my left ovary did prove stupid. I am scheduled for at minimum a hysterectomy due to ovarian cancer. I was annoyed that my only risk factors are age and obesity. Then I remembered that they were the only risk factors Summer Bear had for bladder cancer. At least I’m operable.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 22, 2024 16:09:33 GMT -5
You really expect Melania* to sit behind "her man" Tennesseer ? *I am aware that is not who they are referring to but if the shoe fits (even if it is a soft one)? Just saying.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 22, 2024 10:54:03 GMT -5
I would have more compassion for the person that lost use of the structure if she wasn't using her connections to get her way. Also, because the grand-fathering in language which prohibits replacement or major repairs these structures are bound to disappear over time. The storm just hastened the inevitable
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 22, 2024 10:26:03 GMT -5
It's a major issue related to a type of structure which is prohibited. In the early 2000's it was recognized that a certain number of them did exist so, on the advice of the attorney, the structures were cataloged and photographed, and a document filed with the County. These structures were grandfathered-in and could remain; new ones are prohibited. A condition of the grandfathering is that they could not be replaced or substantially repaired. A property owner's tree fell on her structure, damaging it beyond any reasonable repair as well as the adjacent house and a car. She wants to replace it which is forbidden. She has a friend on the board who agrees with her. That is a difficult situation. On the one hand, the rules are the rules and should be enforced for everyone regardless if they have a friend on the board. On the other, I would be extremely upset if I owned a structure on a property that was damaged through no fault of my own and then I wasn't permitted to rebuild.There is that. But on the other hand I would be more than just "extremely upset" if I owned a property there and wanted to add such a structure and was told no because against the rules. You bet your petootie I would kick up a stink they would never forget! This is a situation to steer far, far away from.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 21, 2024 19:09:53 GMT -5
The Walk of the Penguin Mich I may have missed your post because of the work I had done last week, but did you manage to find yarn shops? With gorgeous yarn and those knitting needles you needed?
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 21, 2024 19:01:49 GMT -5
Cadet Bonespur. 'Nuff said!
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 21, 2024 18:08:13 GMT -5
I did it. I have my bedroom back and made another Goodwill run. I should keep going as there are still a lot of hours left in the day (it is only 4pm here) but my back and hands (arthritis) tell me I am crazy and call it a day... I also now have at least 10 square inches of moving around room in the guest room Finishing the work this coming week is not going to be pretty/easy but I am going to try.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 21, 2024 13:23:47 GMT -5
Vitamin D3. That's it.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 20, 2024 20:19:40 GMT -5
Probably trump's next grift what with his trials going on. Rumor has it Melania is hawking these in a revenge sale. Maybe they can offer a combined Orange paint addict autographed bible/cross deal? Should really lift his lagging fund-raising efforts.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 20, 2024 17:51:27 GMT -5
His friend down the road that gave them to us bought him a Tshirt, that says, real men love cats. Yep, he wears it, LOL! In the story I was reading last night a woman is wondering about why a handsome guy takes such an interest in her. She tells her friend "and he has a cat. Aren't men who love cats serial killers?" Note that I know a fair share of cat loving men and, to the best of my knowledge, none of them are killers serial or otherwise.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 20, 2024 15:44:51 GMT -5
Gonna need more nails to hold *that* up there...
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 20, 2024 15:15:59 GMT -5
Here in north Jersey many of the Canada geese are no longer migratory. They stay in the big corporate parks. DD was gifted some Canadian goose breast fillets by a hunter friend. She said they were like steak I am afraid that is what is happening here - they are having goslings.. Kind of cute but they imprint here IMO and that is not a good thing. The fact that they don't migrate lime they should also does not change their protected status. I can't put anything on the roof however IF I could maybe a barbeque would be an idea Just my luck that wood frame multi unit buildings are not allowed to use (fire powered) barbeques due to fire danger. What a tale of woe I am spinning here. Did I mention that, despite the geese, I truly love living here? If not, I am saying it right now: this is a very nice place to be.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 20, 2024 12:59:18 GMT -5
- Canada geese are migratory and as such protected under the law - I have never heard anyone claim they are tasty - they shit all over the place and have made my condo complex a stopover on their flights north/sound - they are clumsy IMO and use my roof for landing and takeoff - they are LOUD both vocally and in their roof maneuvers And they are driving me nuts with their racket so now I am trying to figure out how to get rid of them without risking either fines or jail. Unsuccessfully I may add. They managed to get rid of them in a park nearby but that caused them to go to other places with water - in other words a bunch of them came here
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