Hi Ho Hi Ho

[Rockin Robin]

It's off to work I go. :(


Have a good day, everyone.

[~*TiGeRs f@N*~]

:hmm:


BE GREATFUL!

[GaryMrMets]

Robin, good luck at work. Break a leg.

[PissedPrincess]

Frankly, I should have been born rich instead of gorgeous. :laff:

[~*TiGeRs f@N*~]

Yes, I am quite aware of this fact, and very sympathetic. I have a couple of friends that are being supported by friends because they've been unable to find suitable work for several years. And I once helped to support a friend in a similar situation.

But there is nobody in our Addicts community that falls into that category (as far as I know). If there had been, I would never have posted remarks that could be construed as insensitive in that particular situation. So I therefore consider your arguement moot as it relates to this board. And that's all I'm saying on this subject.

There's one right here that could definately use help but is too proud and subborn to ask for it. Car payments of 400/month, insurance of 370/month, student loan payments of 400/month plus gas, phone and internet bills... thank God I don't have to pay rent. I just keep sinking deeper and deeper into over draft :( Plus my parents gave me 2 years after college to live rent free, my 2 years are up June 11th 2006. Dunno what I'm gonna do then.

As for working long hours don't forget there was a time not long ago when I was working from 5 30am - 11pm monday - friday and still pulling shifts on the weekends. I had an hour inbetween jobs to get something to eat and get to the second job with a 45 minute travel between job one and two.

I also am legally disabled, however I can not live off of what the government has offered to pay me, therefore I go out and work. I have had 4 major hip surguries and a knee surgury. In the next year or so I am going to have to get my hips replaced because the bone is turning to dust ie, if I wait to long I won't have any bone left. Everyday is a new experience in pain, everyday. There is not a day that goes by that it doesn't hurt and I wish I could just go home and lay in bed. But I do it for 2 reasons, 1 I need the money and 2 once you meet the people that I work with, ya just can't live without them. My job is hard on me physically, but emotionally makes me rich and that's what keeps me going.

[Timberwolf]

Good luck in your new job, Robin.

Congrats again in getting the job too.

[imgreat95]

yeah.... well I had to eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for dinner yesterday.. so THERE!! Im worse off then everyone here. :D

[Jodi2231]

yeah.... well I had to eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for dinner yesterday.. so THERE!! Im worse off then everyone here. :D

That's not a punishment!! Peanutbutter and jelly sandwiches are the best food ever created!! Love it, love it, love it :D

How was your first day of work, Robin?

[SportsChick237]

You know going to work isn't fun, i mean weather or not you enjoy your job sometimes you just dont want to. Evryone does and everyone is allowed to complain about it every now again, jsut like everyone is alllowed to have a bad day. My mom was unemployed for six months and sent out ove 75 resumes only to hear fom one company beore she decided to take a civil service exam and get a job as a librarian in a middle school. she hates going to work but she knows she has to, and the only time she complains is when some stupid 6-8th grader disrespects her. so honestly, we all do what we have to. some of us are lucky some of us have to work our asses off. so, good luck to all thoes who work everyday, and congrats for doing it, and congrats again to all thoes who do what they have to do. its life, and if someone wants to express how they feel casue they feel like *****ing that day so be it. we all do.

[Toy Cannon]

That's not a punishment!! Peanutbutter and jelly sandwiches are the best food ever created!! Love it, love it, love it :D

I love peanutbutter and jelly. Peanutbutter and honey too :thumbsup:

Atta girl Robin :sun: Hope it turns out great for you :thumbsup:

[metsfan001]

Oh yeah? Well I'm a Mets fan.

[imgreat95]

I was actually joking. I would eat PB&J every day if i could. Although, flutter nutter sandwiches are the best...

[Royce]

Although, flutter nutter sandwiches are the best...


:drool:

[Rockin Robin]

Yup, same field. I've got nine years experience, so I'm sticking with what I know. Too hard to decide on something else! :ugh:

[Thedatch]

this is a free forum isn't it? people can post [apart from spam] anything they want.

i think the old rule applies here, as it applies pretty much everywhere: IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING GOOD TO DAY, THEN DON'T SAY ANYTHING AT ALL! Just ignore it...it's not that hard.

[PirateNut]

What's with the hostility?

I don't know why Robin deserves the rant directed toward her from her original post. It simply states that she is off to work at her new job. This is a common thread subject but never before have I seen such hostility to a such a statement.

[metmagic]

yeah right... that's some serious misdirected anger there :eek:


:confused:

[BayStateBabe]

metmagic: I can assure you my anger is very well directed. There's nothing misdirected about it.

PirateNut: My comments are in response to her whole attitude about her job situation. And while posting about a new job may be a common thread, most people are happy about landing a new job after being out of work.

Datch: Yes, this is a free forum. She's free to post whatever she wants and I'm free to take offense to it and say so.

[Nanner]

Hmmmm............ where do I start?

First off, I think personal vendettas should be taken elsewhere.

But, that's just me.

Second of all, congrats on your new job, Robin. I haven't been around the Dugout lately, as I barely have time to post in the Orioles forum........ that work thing......:D......... so I wasn't even aware you had a new job! Hope it's going well! :thumbsup:

And, you're right........ it's an open forum, so anyone should be allowed to post what they want.......... their fears, their joys........whatever! :)

So, if someone comes right out and attacks someone, they should also not be surprised if it starts a whole snowball thing of being attacked back.

Oh, those snowballs............. huge, big things, with people just adding on comments and attacking, attacking, attacking.

Lovely, isn't it. :tongue:

And.......... hmmm......... I sure could use a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

:)

[metmagic]

well...could be worse...she could be in a *bad* mood...... :scared:

[Nanner]

:Peep:

yikes

Hi, Cyn! :wave1: Watching the game? David Wright just hit a ball really hard, and it looked like a homerun to right field......... it went foul, though. Guy's got power.

Oops. It's not the Mets Forum. :tongue:

Wow. I see blue sky! :eek: And all the weather reports this morning said huge storms tonight! What's up with that? :notme:

[metmagic]

the weather's been so funky! :clap: i was sitting on the porch when lightning almost hit me and LOUD thunder scared my butt right back in the house :D

THEN, the sun came out! :eek: :sun: just like that......

and now it's gray again... with a sweet cool breeze........


*sigh* i think i'll go to florida :)

[BayStateBabe]

First off Nanner, this isn't a personal vendetta. I took offense to what she said and responded to it.

Second, I don't consider myself under attack, you all disagree fine. I'll sleep just fine tonight.

Third, metmagic, you don't know the first thing about me or my moods. Or what happens if I'm in a bad one.

Now...have a lovely night ladies and gentlemen

[Nanner]

Yeah, whatever.

I'll sleep fine! Nighty-night! :wave1:

[metmagic]

do you realize there are 247 "guests" on right now and 191 of them are viewing the dugout? :eek: who are these phantom guests i wonder..... and i wonder if the number is accurate or is that some kind of computer glitch?


nan, i'm watching The Horse Whisperer right now! :thumbsup: apparently dad has all these cool DVDs and a HUGE TV system in the family room..... have you seen that movie? i didn't know scarlett johansen was in it! that girl is EVERYWHERE! (imo very talented.... loved her in The Girl with the Pearl Earring) ....anyway, i'm liking the movie so far..... after that i'll watch Vertical Limit :clap: woo hoo action!

[imgreat95]

Cyn,.. since when do you have a porch??

[metmagic]

i'm in Joisey with da family for the weekend :D and i love porches! :thumbsup: specially during storms.......

[imgreat95]

ahh... gotcha. I was confused. I know that you have moved since i visited... but didnt think you had gotten a porch. If I had a porch. I would NEVER be online.

[Rockin Robin]

Okay, Addicts, let's all chip in and buy Shawn a porch!! :D

[Thedatch]

Okay, Addicts, let's all chip in and buy Shawn a porch!! :D

just put a piece of wood out the window...:D

[imgreat95]

there is a porch downstairs... but i dont live in tha apartment.... :( I have a porch... sort of... but it is all enclosed....

[metmagic]

i guess the front part of the house (my parents) is not really a porch, more like steps..... but i use it as a porch :D i could sit there for hours and just stare and think (even though i'm not supposed to do this horrible thing) :devillook the porch is definitely better than the computer :thumbsup:

[Nanner]

I did a play up at Lake George for almost 5 months. During the run, our housing was the bottom half of an old house with a porch!

It was wonderful on Sunday mornings to take my breakfast out there and sit with my coffee and the Sunday papers, listening to the quiet.

[rockin500]

i have two porches at my parents house. i stood on it last weekened to watch a storm come and beat us up. :)

[Nanner]

It's fun sitting on a porch eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.









:D


Dang. I still want one. :tongue:

[Thedatch]

we've been fixing up our patio, and we just set up the table we bought, with parasol and everything...it looks amazing!

[PopTop]

We've got no porch, but two decks. It's 102° on the smaller back deck right now, and only 99° on the front deck in the shade. You need a bottomless pitcher of frozen margaritas instead of a PB&J to have any fun on either one of them right now! :)

[Nanner]

Okay. I'll take one of those.......... pitchers......... of margaritas.......... yup. Much better than PB&J.

:D

[metmagic]

I'll take a margarita also Willie :) (you got any chips?)

we have a nice deck in the backyard but nothing beats a porch :sun: the front of the house is definitely NOT a porch, just some steps (i'll take a picture and post it when i find the digital camera)

i don't love peanut butter & jelly sandwiches... they're OKAY... i prefer mozzarella, basil & tomato on a french baguette :tongue: yummm.....

:D

[Baseball Guru]

i prefer mozzarella, basil & tomato on a french baguette :tongue: yummm.....

:D


Yuck!

I'm still scarred from that nasty pizza you made me eat:barf:

[metmagic]

that pizza was damn good and you LOVED it :D :luvkiss:

[Baseball Guru]

IT HAD GRASS ON IT:scared:

[metmagic]

it was basil and it was FANTASTIC :tongue1: you loved it, remember? you had 3-4 slices and told me how much you couldn't wait to come back and eat more :D

[PopTop]

:eek:

[Baseball Guru]

it was basil and it was FANTASTIC :tongue1: you loved it, remember? you had 3-4 slices and told me how much you couldn't wait to come back and eat more :D


Ummm, errrr, hmmmmhttp://bestsmileys.com/clueless/1.gif

[PopTop]

:Popcorn:

[Baseball Guru]

lol:laff:

I cant confirm this, but Cyn probably eats her popcorn with grass on it as well;)

[metmagic]

:eek:


willie, do they have gourmet pizza by you? (i think mozzarella/basil/tomato pizza is considered "gourmet"....?) they're pretty popular here in nyc...... if you've never tried 'em, they're so GOOD!! :clap:



POPCORN i love with GOBS of fat greasy BUTTER :D yummmm.....

[Baseball Guru]

willie, do they have gourmet pizza by you? (i think mozzarella/basil/tomato pizza is considered "gourmet"....?)


I'll tell you what I consider it:censor:


http://bestsmileys.com/signs2/14.gif

[rockin500]

willie, do they have gourmet pizza by you? (i think mozzarella/basil/tomato pizza is considered "gourmet"....?) they're pretty popular here in nyc...... if you've never tried 'em, they're so GOOD!! :clap:



POPCORN i love with GOBS of fat greasy BUTTER :D yummmm.....


you want gourmet pizza, you come to chicago, girlie! :)

[Baseball Guru]

Does yours have grass on it Ray?

[metmagic]

:eviltongu

forget you then!

[metmagic]

you want gourmet pizza, you come to chicago, girlie! :)


what was someone telling me about Chicago pizza.....?

is it particularly FLAT or something?? or maybe it was the funky toppings they put on it..... i forget what they said but there was something significantly different about chicago pizza vs. new york.....

i might have to go there to find out. :)

[rockin500]

well, chicago style is deep dish. like 4 inches worth of pizza.

remember giordano's james?

[imgreat95]

I have had both... and Chicago pizza makes NY pizza look like Mcdonalds... Especially that place downtown whose name i can not remember...

[Baseball Guru]

what was someone telling me about Chicago pizza.....?

is it particularly FLAT or something?? or maybe it was the funky toppings they put on it..... i forget what they said but there was something significantly different about chicago pizza vs. new york.....

i might have to go there to find out. :)


lol... Far from it... Chicago pizza is ridiculously THICK!!!

And damn good:drool:

Remember that place we went to Ray? That was the $hit!

[imgreat95]

remember giordano's james?


THATS IT!! I ate there on New years eve 2001.. MMMM... delicious. YOU can actualy even order their pizzas online.. they will bake them 1/2 way... and pack them in dry ice and ship them to you...

[Baseball Guru]

well, chicago style is deep dish. like 4 inches worth of pizza.

remember giordano's james?


Damn, we were posting at the same time..

That pizza was AMAZING!!!

Of course it didnt have grass like Cyn likes on it;)

[Baseball Guru]

NY pizza is very, very good as well... I loved the one without the grass we had...

It was funny, Brent and I were on our way back to Cyn's after Philly and she asked what we wanted for dinner.. We wanted Chinese and pizza and when we got back to the apartment, Cyn had both waiting for us..

The PERFECT HOSTESS:luvkiss:

[imgreat95]

we could have one shipped to her where she can put her own grass on it...

I remember her posting a picture of that Basil pizza once.... looked nasty. How did you manage to actualy eat that, Jaymez?

[Baseball Guru]

we could have one shipped to her where she can put her own grass on it...

I remember her posting a picture of that Basil pizza once.... looked nasty. How did you manage to actualy eat that, Jaymez?


Good point:thumbsup:

I took a couple of bites and then took all the grass off of it....

Thought I needed a lawn mower...

[imgreat95]

actually, when I was in NY in March, we had some pretty good pizza there too... I loved hat you could be walking down the street at 3am and there would be a pizza place open.... Pizza anytime...

[Baseball Guru]

Pizza at 3am is a very good thing:thumbsup:

[imgreat95]

Maybe it was a pizza initially invented for horses??

[imgreat95]

you could go up to a restaurant and sit down... or you could just go to a street side vendor. We went to a street side guy the one night right across from the bus station.... Good good stuff...

[Baseball Guru]

btw, what was this thread about again?http://bestsmileys.com/signs6/5.gif

[Baseball Guru]

Maybe it was a pizza initially invented for horses??

http://bestsmileys.com/signs9/14.gif

[rockin500]

grass doesnt belong on pizza! :angry:

[imgreat95]

and pizza doesnt belong on grass....

[Baseball Guru]

and pizza doesnt belong on grass....

Unless the original pizza has grass on it:eyebrow

[metmagic]

we could have one shipped to her where she can put her own grass on it...

I remember her posting a picture of that Basil pizza once.... looked nasty. How did you manage to actualy eat that, Jaymez?

people people!!! :no: you have no idea how DELICIOUS this pizza is!!!

shaw, i will make sure you try it next time you are here!! it's SO yummy!!! trust me!!! :devilsmok

james is just a poop and didn't even wanna LOOK at it, much less take a bite..... :hmm:


RAY.... oh right, that's what it was!! THICK pizza! i got it confused... now i remember, someone had said that NY pizza is FLAT and thin compared to chicago pizza.... i love THICK bread!! :eek: :tongue1: omigosh i must fly to chicago this month to try the pizza! (it is actually on our list--mine & my sis--of places to visit this month or next)

[metmagic]

and pizza doesnt belong on grass....

we could try it.... it might be tasty :tongue1:

[imgreat95]

Cyn, is the "N" on your keyboard broken??

[Piazza'sbabe]

actually, when I was in NY in March, we had some pretty good pizza there too... I loved hat you could be walking down the street at 3am and there would be a pizza place open.... Pizza anytime...
JUST LIKE VEGAS.

You can do more things at 3am on the strip than most people could do all day.
You can eat at a buffet at 3am.
Drink all night...literally.
You can be at a 25 cent roulette table.
You can sing "That's Amore" outside the Venetian.

Not that I did any of those above mention things mind you....

[imgreat95]

ummm.. robin.. i think you are fibbing to us... I have proof...

In Barkeyville, you cant do anything after 10... in Grove city, it is about 11.. and Franklin usually around 2.... You have any idea how heavenly it was to be in NYC and be able to be out doing something til 5am?? (although some of it was out of neccesity..)

[metmagic]

if there's baseball in vegas, then i'm there :D

[metmagic]

Cyn, is the "N" on your keyboard broken??


no not really.... my finger refuses to type n after shaw for some reason.....

:confused:

[imgreat95]

ok.. i was starting to think that you thought I was the father on Footloose.

[Piazza'sbabe]

if there's baseball in vegas, then i'm there :D

There is, a minor league team.

But remember the Marlins were looking to move there.

But they would all have to be night games or a domed stadium-it was 106 while I was out there.

[Piazza'sbabe]

OH

And it was strange because when I'm out there I live on VERY little sleep and was never tired.
AND very little food, though I ate but basically to line my stomach for more alcohol.


When I'm home I'm always tired and always hungry.


:eek:

[Baseball Guru]

There must be something they put in the air in Vegas..

[metmagic]

maybe it's the desert air? it's very clean or something.... great place if you have allergies.....

i love places that give you lots of energy and simultaneously decrease your appetite :thumbsup: so it's a great place to lose weight then? :D

[Piazza'sbabe]

You do A LOT of Walking.

Drunk walking.

But walking.

But you replace the food calories with alcohol calories. I wasn't w/o a drink in my hand. I looked like a female Dean Martin.


The air quality was actually BAD while I was there due to smoke from desert wild fires outside Vegas and desert dust. You could hardly see the mountains. AND because the humidity is about 5% (and that's HIGH for them) people with arthritis feel 100% better. A lot of old folks retire there.

[Baseball Guru]

so it's a great place to lose weight then? :D


Like you need to worry about that:nono1:

[metmagic]

i just want a FLAT stomach..... i need to buy a new swimsuit, so.......


i love WALKING :thumbsup: 5% humidity huh?

[imgreat95]

i just want a FLAT stomach..... i need to buy a new swimsuit, so.......


i love WALKING :thumbsup: 5% humidity huh?



Just have a car run over your stomach...

[Piazza'sbabe]

Geeeeeeeeez it's so dry there.
You hair looks FABULOUS at all times but your lips get dry.

Plus you never sweat.

It was hotter than hades but you never break a sweat. I'm sure it you were exerting yourself you would sweat.

[imgreat95]

yeah... its not very exerting to lift those glasses to your lips, huh?

[Piazza'sbabe]

No but my bicep is in EXCELLENT shape! :D

[metmagic]

a Good Hair Day every day huh? that's a huge selling point.....

[metmagic]

speaking of biceps, why are pushups so hard?

[imgreat95]

they arent, are they??

[Piazza'sbabe]

They might be.
I don't know.

But I know lifting captain morgan and diet cokes all night is a killer.

[metmagic]

can't you use a straw for the diet cokes?

[Baseball Guru]

speaking of biceps, why are pushups so hard?


I like pullups, not pushups...

[Baseball Guru]

can't you use a straw for the diet cokes?


Not with the Captain in it;)

[Piazza'sbabe]

I thought you were potty trained? Still in pullups?

[metmagic]

pullups are alot more fun :thumbsup:

did i tell you i got a trainer at the gym? very cool Russian guy named Mikhail... former golden glove kickboxer.... so naturally he beats me in the gym and i crawl out of there in tears......

but i love it. :)

[metmagic]

Not with the Captain in it;)


the captain doesn't like to be sucked?

[Baseball Guru]

I dont trust Russian guys:nono:

I already dont like him:nope:

[Baseball Guru]

the captain doesn't like to be sucked?


hmmm, you may have a point there:eyebrow

[Piazza'sbabe]

can't you use a straw for the diet cokes?
Yea but see...in Vegas you can drink on the street. So if you have a drink or a beer and want to leave and go to another casino...you pick it up....carry it with you. It's great.

At Treasure Island when they had the old Pirates show outside, they used to sell these HUGE drinks in these glass skull mugs. The glass alone weighed 10 pounds....add a frozen drink it weighed 15 pounds....walk down the strip with that sucka and you had to stop every 6 feet to rest your drink...

[metmagic]

i'm getting tired just reading about it! :nut:

[metmagic]

no wonder your arms are in shape :cool: