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Post by The Captain on Aug 11, 2015 8:28:04 GMT -5
They also can ask for the same gender to bathe them Heh, heh. At least this is a funny story. Several of my college friends were nursing students. They were required as part of their program to do a rotation at two out three - a hospital, nursing home, and community clinic. I had a volunteer requirement from one of my student groups so the three of us decided to do a nursing home rotation together (it was the only way we three could all work the same shift). Now people, I've been through adult psych and have worked in a nursing home before. There is a reason the phrase "Dirty old men" exists. You just smile and shrug it off. After we worked a few shifts apparently there were a lot of requests worded in a way that we (really my friends - they were the hotties) would be the only ones able to assist or give sponge baths. I, as a volunteer - strictly couldn't. My friends OTOH - well this was in their pervue. Fortunately, Zib is right - you can request the same gender, you can't insist on the opposite gender. Still, my friends ended up doing so as part of their rotation and we had several...interesting stories to share afterward. Ahhh...good times.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 11, 2015 8:16:24 GMT -5
We did have an old woman who didn't want a black nursing aide. We gave her a choice....sit in your own filth all day, or accept the help. She accepted the help. In the US that would have gotten you slapped with a lawsuit. One you would lose. www.foxnews.com/us/2010/08/23/nursing-home-residents-patients-rights-means-choosing-caregivers-based-race/I happen to be a little more familiar with this because the nursing home I volunteered at was going through a lawsuit at the time I was there. Of course they weren't allowed to discuss specifics and of course there was the rumor mill. It's a horrible position to be in (for the nursing home). Most of the nurses were white, a majority of the volunteers were white, and most of the aids and LPN's were black. When someone refused care from a black person it frequently ended up being volunteers doing direct patient care which had to be supervised by a nurse or nurses doing all the care themselves. So you had nurses taken away from their stations and/or babysitting a bunch of college kids and hoping that nothing big happened. Some laws are just plain friggin stupid.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 11, 2015 7:59:53 GMT -5
That is what he and I have been saying. Give fathers the legal right to give up all parental rights and responsibilities during the pregnancy. Give us the same option to wash our hands of it that a woman has with abortion. Well no,you might be but he has been throwing around all kinds of misogyny and stupid comments that make it impossible to have a sensible conversation with him. I could negotiate something like that with certain conditions. If the father gives up his parental rights then that means no visitation or enjoying the fun parts of parenting without any of the responsibilities. And I would want some kind of data base kept of who these men are fathering and some kind of controls put into place when he absconds on his parental rights to more than one child. Later - I've been following this thread and my understanding of misogyny and yours' may be a bit different. Will you please let me know to which posts of Richard's you are referring? Just because we don't agree with someone, and they may or not be a bit abrasive, doesn't make it ok to stick inappropriate labels on them.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 10, 2015 16:28:54 GMT -5
My grandmother went to a nursing home in the mid 90's when she was 88. She had a big black man who was a nursing assistant of some kind and she asked for a different person, because he was big and black. He was gracious about it. She got a different person. In her defense she was a bit scared, maybe not rightfully so, though. Sad thing is (depending on how much your grandmother weighed) he may have been the most gentle/stongest while handling her. Two big strong dudes can do a bed transfer/change sheets much more quickly (and with less bumps) than four lightweight chicks.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 10, 2015 16:24:19 GMT -5
FWIW I've gotten through about 60 pages of the report. I'll comment in more detail once I finish it.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 10, 2015 16:08:27 GMT -5
Not too surprisingly I believe many peoples' perception of law enforcement is tied to their perception of how important it is to follow the law themselves.
Sad really, how people hold others to a much higher standard than that which they hold themselves.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 10, 2015 14:23:41 GMT -5
I don't know the rules about this to be honest. I do know when I volunteered in a nursing home the residents had the "right" to demand that only certain demographics be allowed to assist them.
Not sure if that is still the case, though.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 10, 2015 14:12:14 GMT -5
Go ahead - how inappropriate could it be?
(... and that reminds me of an inapprorpriate kilt joke) No, it's sub-Archie on the crudeness scale. I actually went looking for a replacement joke, but all the kilt-related ones were unfunny, and all the ones about Scots in general seem to be about Scots being cheap and Scots hating Jews. I didn't know about either stereotype. I wonder how accurate they are. At any rate, those aren't appropriate either. What we need is a good joke where the "Hag" triumphs over Nancy. Surely you can come up with something that incorporates "Hag" in a very inappropriate way. Haggis comes to mind...
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Post by The Captain on Aug 10, 2015 14:10:29 GMT -5
I don't know how you work with that woman. I think I might have told her exactly where to go by now. I'm looking for a new job. The day I leave, I plan to tell her just that. And hand her a road map. And directions. I'm gonna guess she knows the route by heart.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 10, 2015 13:45:58 GMT -5
I've not seen Haggar for women anywhere. I don't wear men's clothes - they do not fit correctly. Well, sometimes, the jeans do, but nothing else does. Funny story from this weekend. I bought new bras - six of them, all the same kind, just different colors. Because after a few years, you really do have to replace bras - they stretch, your size changes, the underwire (if present) no longer does its job, etc. This one style, a Vanity Fair, is just wonderful! When I explained my (very sound) logic to DH, he could not understand why I just did not wear bras until they wore out. "I wear my underwear until it wears out," he said. "You mean, you wear it until your junk leaves the trunk?" I asked. "Pretty much," he replied. Can't say as I've inspected too closely, but now I may need to do that - his underwear, that is. I'm going to use the $120 I have in Kohl's cash in bras and/or undies for me. Does the mental math...HOLY SHIT!!! how much did you buy woman!!!
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Post by The Captain on Aug 10, 2015 12:14:41 GMT -5
How about a triathlon?? You want her to survive her mid-life crisis, don't you?
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Post by The Captain on Aug 10, 2015 10:35:52 GMT -5
nancy! I VF bras as well, I'm going to need to buy a couple more soon too. was hoping to be able to buy the next size down this time, but not quite yet. as far as better coverage clothing, have any of you tried Bass or Eddie Bauer? I've had good luck with button-downs from both places. No longer an Eddie Bauer here, though as I recall, they did have excellent button downs. Have not seen Bass brand around, either. When we travel next month, I will be on the lookout for some. I may have better luck checking out of state. I think some is fine; I show some too. Heck, I paid five figures to have mine fixed! I think I should show at least a bit of it! My standard is this: if what you show jiggles, you've probably got too much on display. Heh, heh - like I've said - I'm a prude. My standard is - if what you have jiggles, you don't have the right bra (for work).
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Post by The Captain on Aug 10, 2015 10:28:11 GMT -5
I don't have a source to cite for this, just remember the words of a Latin teacher I had in HS who studied linguistics.
The Latin word for Black in "Niger". In Latin the "g" is a soft "g" (Like Nigeria) as opposed to a hard "g" as in great.
So the word "n_____" was obviously coined by some uneducated hick who didn't understand how to properly declensiontionate let alone pronounce the latin root correctly.
Anyone who uses the word thus demonstrates their ignorance on several levels.
Words give others as much power over us, as we allow. While I find the word offensive myself, I don't understand all the focus on it.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 10, 2015 10:17:43 GMT -5
FWIW my thought process is that school is the kid's job. They should dress for it appropriately (just like adults have work clothes, and clothes they would never wear to work, I feel the same about school).
So (my opinion) I don't think tube tops, short skirts, wife beaters, and cutoffs are appropriate for school. Just my opinion but like I said, DD is pretty modest so there's been no issues with this (thank goodness!).
And yes, I do show cleavage at work. No, I do not consider myself unprofessional.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 10, 2015 9:45:09 GMT -5
I took advantage of the tax-free shopping days this weekend for myself. I hate to shop, but did need some things. I like longer shorts as well - even if I had a hootchie mama heinie, I would not do the short shorts. I had trouble finding tailored casual shirts. All I could find was these huge, blousy things with insane prints or embellishments on them. They look like blue-hair-tourist-go-to-early-bird-dinner kinds of outfits. Van Heusen has nice tailored button ups. They do women's as well as men's clothing. I think they would look good on your frame.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 10, 2015 9:43:17 GMT -5
Warning: they're beginning to make boy's clothing out of flimsy material, too.
Here's my rant: DS needed a new pair of jeans, & he DOES like Levi's, so I let him pick the "shade of denim" that he wanted (denim comes in so many shades of blue now it's CRAZY). Anyway, I get the jeans home to wash, and the fabric is REALLY thin. I mean, this is supposed to be denim, right? It's about 1/2 the thickness of the usual denim material I buy, & the jeans are all wrinkled coming out of the dryer. Since Levi's has increased their full price to $50 per pair of jeans, they'd better be using the same quality denim we're used to seeing.
BTW, DD & I occasionally shop for t-shirts with slogans in the Men's department, because we don't like the fitted t's that they sell for girls now. When it's hot & humid out, I don't need to be wearing a shirt that "clings" before I even start to perspire. DD started doing this when she was around 8 and realized there were no Star Wars, Avengers, or snarky saying shirts in the girls section. I've been doing this since HS. I do have a few women's t-shirts. They last, on average, maybe 2-3 years before getting too thin or piling up. I have mens t-shits that are a little thin, but over 20 years old and no piling.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 10, 2015 9:39:52 GMT -5
Perhaps the teachers need to spend their time teaching the boys not to ogle. (although a certain cynical part of me wonders if it's the boys that are distracted or if the teachers and staff are) She honestly can't win so this mama bear has been to the school too many times to count. We did buy her a scoop neck t-shirt that didn't show her cleavage at all. She was told to go to the nurse to change it because the picture showed a girl holding up a peace sign. The teacher said that because the peace sign laid across her breast....you guessed it, it distracted the boys and sent them the message that they could touch her breast. I nearly flipped my shit when she came home and told me that. Needless to say, the teacher and I had a "coming to Jesus" meeting. I told her that she wasn't to EVER say something like that to my daughter again. The teacher told me that she was trying to protect my daughter because teenage boys couldn't control their hormones. I told her that not only did she just insult my daughter, but she insulted my teenage boys as well. It got ugly. I admire your restraint since you obviously weren't jailed. I would have gone totally medieval all over anyone who had that kind of backwards, sexist, one sided attitude about respect and the genders around my daughter. I was in a full C cup by the 8th grade. We had school uniforms so dress code wasn't much of an issue. Same thing in HS (all girls school, which I was grateful for even back then). Believe me, I wish that was an option for DD.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 10, 2015 9:19:06 GMT -5
Dear Glass House, Maybe if my panties get even more twisted, I'll start raging about how many tarnfarned shows about Alaska are on TV... or about my nemesis coworker who ruined my day with her complaints about having to drive for lunch. Sincerely, King of the Twisted Panties ...and I'll be right there next to you. Although to be honest I think the whole thing got started with Ice Road Truckers which was split between teams driving in Alaska and Canada.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 10, 2015 8:43:22 GMT -5
I know some of you are in more temperate climates or climates where the schools have air conditioning.
We're in the Chicago burbs. When most of the schools were built, school started after labor day and ended around the end of May. The number of days where air conditioning was needed did not justify the cost of installing it.
Fast forward to many years later to - longer school years, climate change, etc and retrofitting those buildings is prohibitively expensive. Still no air conditioning but the kids are in school from mid august to mid june depending on how many weather days there are (and there are more and more of them every year).
That and the fluctuating weather means DD had several days last year where the temp was in the mid to upper 80's. So the boys and flat chested girls got to wear V-necks and have button downs open two-three buttons but DD has to have all but the top button closed?
Like I said, oh.hell.no. Fortunately no one made an issue of it, but (especially on the hot days) if they did I'd be all over it in an instant.
Truth be told I'm still not ok with different standards based on how you're built. If you said no scoop necks for anyone, then fine. Only top button unbuttoned, then fine.
The dress code is very sexist. DD is pretty modest but has a right to be comfortable. There aren't many issues I'd go head to head with the administration on, but a sexist dress code that forces DD to be uncomfortable is one of them.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 9, 2015 18:59:39 GMT -5
Loop and the girls went shopping for school clothes today as well. Thank god I got to dodge that bullet. The clothing sections for teen girls makes me stabby. The low cut tops, and hooker clothes start in the section for roughly 6 year olds, and by the time you get to the teen section that seems to be the only thing available. I'd like to rant at stores too, but they stock what people buy. As long as every white trash jackass mom out there is fine sending their 10 year old to school in a baby doll top that says 'Jail Bait' across the front and 'Sexy' across the ass the stores will stock that stuff. When we stop buying it they'll stop carrying it. Good to have to you comment. I purposely do NOT put DH through this as it's really not fair, YNWIM?
That's why Kohl's is getting the letter, I wonder if they know why boys/mens sections are doing better than juniors.
They may "Think" people want what the designers are telling them, but the average joe on the street needs to tell them different.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 9, 2015 18:53:20 GMT -5
Ok, as far as the school modesty code. I mentioned above that for the most part I agree with it.
Some parts are sexist, some aren't. The one I have issue with is the "no cleavage shall be visible at any time".
WTF?!? Oh HELL no. If DD is anything like her momma (and this is NOT a bragplaint) she will be "gifted" and carry high.
So my DD is supposed to wear fucking turtle necks in the May because dudes have dirty minds?
I had cleavage in the freaking 5th grade. DD is not that far "advanced" (Thank GOD!!! it was hell) but I still want her to be comfortable in her skin.
This is a hill I'm willing to die on and beware, anyone who wants to take me on in this issue better be ready for a death match!
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Post by The Captain on Aug 9, 2015 18:36:40 GMT -5
DD starts back to school in two week (aack!).
Watching her walk around the house yesterday, I realized she had a growth spurt over the summer.
"Sweetie" I said. "Please do me a favor and come here and stand straight". She promptly complied. "Ok now, please put your hands straight down by your sides". She did so.
Shit!!! She doesn't pass the school modestly code (which I, for the most part, agree with btw).
So, both genders have to have their shorts below the tips of the fingers (arms at their sides). She was about an inch short. In her longest shorts.
shit, Shit, SHIT!
It was hard enough finding her decent/modest shorts at the start of the summer before the bean sprouted.
So off to Kohls we run today. I pass straight through the tramp juniors section to the misses. Several clearance racks later we find maybe four pairs of shorts that may work. DD tries them on, she's ok with them but not thrilled.
So on to the wasteland of fashion known as the junior sections where we spend several minutes searching the racks for something where the amount of cloth used justifies the price. No luck.
DD looks at me in disgust and states "At this point Mom, I'm ready to head over to the boy's section".
BINGO!!! I was not going to suggest it because certain family members already accuse me of trying to project my own opinions onto my DD (isn't that what parents are supposed to do?) and steer her into being a tomboy. Hell, almost all of my T-shirts (and DD's for that matter) come from the dude's section - better quality, prices, and graphics!
So less than 10 minutes into the boys/mens section she finds 4 pairs of really cool shorts on clearance. One short, happy trip to the dressing room later and we have enough shorts to get her through this fall and hopefully next spring.
Few thing to note (nothing new, no surprises)
1. Men's clothing is generally cheaper and better constructed then women's clothing. The boys' shorts were on average $3 bucks a pair cheaper (and these were clearance prices). Not that it matters at this age, but none of these were styles that would be "out of fashion" in three years.
2. Sorry - but men's clothing has better design and graphics. A snarky "Spoiler Alert - I'm totally AWESOME!" T-shirt rocks over "Boy Bait" any day.
3. I find it totally ridiculous that you constantly see young women tugging at their clothing trying to get enough coverage. You never see guys doing that.
I know I've ranted about this before, but dammit I will do so again and send another letter to Kohl's HQ.
There has to be a massive business opportunity here. DD used the term "Gender fluid" (which I'm familiar with and understand). We really, IMHO, do need a gender neutral section for clothing.
Ok - off my soapbox. I just had the fact that shopping for clothing for DD is getting harder as she gets older.
Humph!
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Post by The Captain on Aug 7, 2015 15:03:31 GMT -5
news.yahoo.com/why-schools-more-teachers-color-123000002.htmlAmong the ACT-tested graduates in 2014 who said they planned on pursuing an education major, 72 percent were white, compared to 56 percent of all tested students. Yet nonwhite children are now believed to make up a majority of the country’s public-school population. Studies show that, academically, nonwhite teachers produce more favorable outcomes for students of similar backgrounds; emotionally and socially, these educators serve as role models who share students’ racial and ethnic identity. What hasn’t gotten much attention, however, are the potential gains for white students. A lot of interesting items brought up in the article. Stretching back my memory, the first minority teacher I had was in HS. She was our orchestra/music teacher though so we didn't touch on social issues at all. She did introduce me to jazz and blues though (and other genres but you could tell this was her passion), something which I appreciate to this day. In my HS whites were the minority, yet almost all the teachers were white. I never really thought about it until now. Makes me wonder - why we don't have more minority teachers, and if race relations would be better if children were given exposure to different cultural perspectives. ?
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Post by The Captain on Aug 7, 2015 14:01:25 GMT -5
Well, DH's company is willing to pay him $1K for this project, which is about 40 hours of work. DH thinks that works out to about his regular pay. He's salaried so he doesn't get OT. AFter taxes, I expect it to be about $600 or so. I'm going to suggest to DH that we use it to cover our anniversary trip, wherever he wants to go. Our 11th anniversary is early Oct. and the last couple of years we've tried to do something fun with the kids, in addition to a meal for us out - parent teacher conferences hit around it too, so we leave the kids at grandparents house while we do the conferences and then go have dinner or a drink afterwards. If he doesn't want to do that, it's not a problem. He may already have thoughts on how to spend it. He does tend to think of bonuses as his money. The problem with that is that I don't GET bonuses, ever. And since we do joint accounts, my OT gets dumped into regular checking. Anyway, that's not a problem right now. WE're going to see the Minion movie this weekend, all 4 of us. State Fair started a couple of days ago and we'd like to do that as a family too. But we'll see. I may end up taking the kids myself, if he's got to work on the project. Bring something to read and earplugs. You will thank me for this.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 7, 2015 13:58:46 GMT -5
I'm normally rather conservative myself. And I think if these guys were ordinary hunks, it might be a yawn. But I think what makes them attractive is who and what they are in spite of their losses. Basically, you don't notice the missing bits first, if at all, because the rest is quite divine. And FWIW, if this photog would care to make a calendar of the battle-scarred women of war in similar states of undress, I for one would be at least curious enough to look at it. Might not be drooling over it, but I'd look and admire anyway. Agreed, but then the argument could be made that they are being exploited for their injuries. Like I said, I'm a prude but you can have a hot hunk calendar with a bit of fabric involved. Personally, I find it more ... tantalizing to leave (more than) a bit to the imagination .
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Post by The Captain on Aug 7, 2015 13:48:43 GMT -5
I'm fighting the urge to take the kids out to eat tonight. I need to measure the kids and figure out clothing sizes for this fall for them. School starts in 24 days! Woohoo! I really miss my 0630-3pm shifts! DH said his OT/project work is going to be $1K. He was hoping for more, I was expecting less (his company tends to cheap out when they can) The good news, it's spurring him to want to job hunt. The bad news, he's working late every night and expects to work weekends to get it done. He's expecting it to be 40 hours, give or take a couple. So I've been officially been told to nag him. When I asked him if that meant I could nag about other stuff, he said no. But he did agree that he needs to pick up after himself more. If he follows though, that could be good. Got distracted by sleep the last few days so not much else to post about. Sleep...yea got it .
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Post by The Captain on Aug 7, 2015 13:46:09 GMT -5
Have to be the wet rag and just point out if the genders/pictures were reversed there's be hell's fury going on.
Honestly, while I admire the ummm physique I would like a little more clothing.
Yea, I'm a prude.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 7, 2015 13:10:54 GMT -5
ArchietheDragon - OOH, yes, add that to my list. Though not a tramp stamp. I have, for a very long time, wanted to do an anklet tattoo of ivy, with the leaves having the names of my past pets. And then I would add a pet anytime we lost one...
@sroo4 - That's actually C's suggestion, that I make more time for my writing. Instead of just writing a little bit every couple of weeks before critique group that I actually set aside one night a week and go somewhere and write. Oh no you didn't
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Post by The Captain on Aug 7, 2015 13:10:00 GMT -5
Wait, holdon! Is everyone supposed to have one of these? Do I need to start planning mine now or am I too late?
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