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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited July 2011

    Joni, how cool!!!

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  • heartnsoul76
    heartnsoul76 Member Posts: 1,648
    edited July 2011

    annette - here in Georgia we say, YEE HAW!

    So Elimar, YEE HAW! Congratulations on the good test results! Looks like your studying paid off!

    Paula, congratulations on the job promotion! Looks like all your hard work paid off!

    Joni - congratulations on so much time off! All your hard work has paid off, too!

    I haven't had anything pay off, lately. Maybe I should get a lottery ticket....

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  • Foxlairfrm
    Foxlairfrm Member Posts: 214
    edited July 2011

    Thank you Anette. Congrats Elimar! Lots of great things happening! I don't usually wish time away, but I sure am glad tomorrow is Friday and this week is done! It's so hot and humid here in Va (along with hot flashes) and the dog grooming business has been booming! Good for the pocketbook but not for my arm and the recent customers are my "once a year" guys. Yuck! I think the heat is supposed to break Monday. Hopefully!

    Foxy

    Doin' the Friday dance!

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  • reesie
    reesie Member Posts: 2,078
    edited July 2011

    My DH just told me he thinks I shouldn't go out to dinner on Thursdays with my sister anymore.



    Maybe the piece of ceramic plate I was served with my appetizer (and bit but luckily didn't swallow) had something to do with it? Well that and the fact that the exact same thing almost happened to me 3 weeks ago at a different restaurant? Didn't almost eat it then, but it was served to me.



    Well since my DD was with me and since I just lectured her for not filling one out at her work when she got bit by a dog, I did fill out an incident report (and really just in case I did swallow a piece and didn't realize it).



    All I could think - and say- when it happened was - you're kidding me? Well I seem to be collecting discount cards for restaurants I'm not sure I want to eat at again lol.

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  • Paula66
    Paula66 Member Posts: 1,728
    edited July 2011

    Thanks ladies for the well wishes.  Im in over my head, but I can do itl

    Congrats E for a good result!!!!!

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  • Valjean
    Valjean Member Posts: 1,898
    edited July 2011
    reesie ~ You bit into a piece of ceramic plate?!? My goodness, what's going on? You didn't cut/scratch your tongue, did you? Good grief!! And this is the second time?!? I'd be taking a package of paper plates with me to use!  LOL
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  • Foxlairfrm
    Foxlairfrm Member Posts: 214
    edited July 2011

    Gosh Reesie, that is bad luck! I've never had that happen. I'm with you, I wouldn't want to go back either.

    Foxy

    Morning all! Happy Friday!

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited July 2011

    Joni, don't you mean work a 7 hour day instead of an 8 hour one? You got that backwards, sweetie. Maybe that's how you ended up with so much vacation time! hehehehehehe

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  • reesie
    reesie Member Posts: 2,078
    edited July 2011

    No cuts or scratches (thought I broke a tooth - that would have been a disaster). 

    LOL Barbe, that certainly seems to be Joni's problem.

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  • Paula66
    Paula66 Member Posts: 1,728
    edited July 2011

    I want Joni to come figure my vaca time, lol.  I could use some more, lol.  We have to acrew our time and it takes forever to do that.  Plus I have used up much of my time off for chemo and doctors appointments.  Yuck.  I remember when I had to take 6 weeks off for my BMX some guys were bithching about it.  I finally told one gut hey I will gladly switch you places and you can have the cancer and I will come to work everday instead.  I know some of them still were bitching that I would have a 3 day weekend while I did chemo.  OMG do you really think that the 3 days off were a fun one, NO.  Plus I came to work every single day before and after chemo.  I never missed a beat and I worked 8 hours.  Hell one dude has a tooth pulled a few weeks ago and missed 3 days.  Give me a break, MEN UGH!

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  • cmbear
    cmbear Member Posts: 1,086
    edited July 2011

    Reesie, I think I would be eating at home for awhile if I were you! I remember years ago, I ordered a draft beer at a bar, it looked so frosty,cold and inviting--until the frost wore off and i saw a 3 inch chard of glass frozen at the bottom of my mug. Guess I was lucky the mug was so darn cold. Course I had to drink half the beer to realize this. . . : )

    Joni, you are so lucky to have some time to R & R. Take advantage and do something fun!! We are losing a manager at work and I have been informed that he won't be replaced for awhile so we can't ask for any time off---meaning 2 days off in a row or more. I haven't had a weekend off with my family since the first week in June-- and then the time before that was when I had my BMX.

    And big change for me--I marched myself to my stylist and got my hair colored back to the brown it was colored before I turned gray with my post chemo hair. I know its not my real color brown, but I feel just a few years younger. I think I was wearing the gray as some kind of badge of a sign of all I had been thru this year. Ok,I'm over that!!!! Now to get my butt in gear to lose the 20 I gained during chemo!!  

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  • reesie
    reesie Member Posts: 2,078
    edited July 2011

    Claire - you paid for that color - it's yours now Wink

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited July 2011

    Paula66, Besides just plain male chauvinism still existing in your workplace, those guys were kicking you when you were down.  Did you outperform them in the past or something, so they saw the chemo break as something to bad mouth you about?  What idiots!  If any of them wanted the new position YOU got, get ready for some new nitpicking out of jealousy, but I hope it doesn't come to that.  Are you the only woman (target) there?

    Eph, You live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest/NoCAL area.  It'll only take a bit of gas $$$ to get you someplace naturally wonderful.  If I was closer, I come hang out with you on that coastline, or maybe go down to the redwoods.

    Val, You also had some lovely outdoor beauty in NoMI.  Glad you had a good visit and a good time.

    reesie & cm, You two live dangerously!  I bet you go to restaurants just for the adrenalin rush of discovering what new life threatening shard will be on your plate or in your glass. You guys live on the edge!   Other than having a pitcher of ice water spilled in my lap, and a food poisoning from a Shoney's(*) tartar sauce, I've just had the occasional hair on plate or dirty silverware problem.  There was a bug in my salad once, but I have to black that out so I can still order salads these days.

    (*After being up all night, I reported it to the Shoney's restaurant so no one else would ingest the tainted tartar sauce.  Ended up getting a corporate phone call, but they didn't even offer me a free future meal.  That was like 15 years ago and I have never returned.)

    Everyone: Even tho' I continually discourage you from going on about the weather, I know that just about every woman here has had to recently pose the question, "Is that a hot flash, or did the "feels like" temp. just hit 100?"  We are all suffering.  We are all sweating it out.  We know.

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  • cmbear
    cmbear Member Posts: 1,086
    edited July 2011

    Thanks Reesie! Sometimes I feel I have to explain too much to my non-BC friends, does that make sense? 

    And  El ooh I  live  sooo dangerously!! I worked in F&B for over 20 years so I know how "accidents" happen. There are some restaurants I refuse to return to cause I know their standards are so lax. Don't even get me started on cleanliness and expired food. ICK. 

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  • Paula66
    Paula66 Member Posts: 1,728
    edited July 2011

    Elimar Ive worked at this company for 10 years and they have always been that away.  Being a woman I had to out work any one of them through out the whole plant.  I work for a small company.  I  worked hours around 95% of them because I am a woman.  Well why dont a few of them get their balls cut of then have expanders put in and then have them expanded to twice the size they once were.  They couldnt handle it.  I deserve the chance I was given, not because of the cancer but because I have earned it.  It does get to me sometimes, but I am a strong willed woman and can handle them!

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  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 8,543
    edited July 2011

    Paula - Good for you sister.  LIke your signature line says "Fight like a Girl" - that can apply to so many things these days not just BC.

    I know what you are talking about though.  I had to deal with the same kind of things when I was in the military believe or not - especially when I got into the senior ranks.  It was still an all boys club.  But, I did manage to leave my mark before I retired. 

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  • Paula66
    Paula66 Member Posts: 1,728
    edited July 2011

    That a girl Jo.  Im so glad you left your mark too, hee hee hee!

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited July 2011

    So what did I say?  I normally work a 7 hour day, but in order to use up the vacation time, I am  putting in for 8 hrs on the days that I am taking off; after I put in for those days (13 days X 8=104 hrs) I still have 24 hours left, so for 24 of the days I'm working I'm putting in my 7 hrs that I actually work + 1 hr vacation & my paychecks will be a tiny bit bigger.  Is that not correct? Math is NOT my strong suit!

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited July 2011
    It makes a LOT more sense that way, Eph!
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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited July 2011

    Apparently writing isn't my strong suit either!

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  • janinnj
    janinnj Member Posts: 89
    edited July 2011

    Eph- I don't care how you figure it, I'm just jealous of all the time. My DH and I haver always taken nice long vacations but this year I've used all my time with surgeries and 2 days off for each chemo.  I was supposed to go to Kansas City with him the first of July.  He sings in a Barbershop Chorus and they were competing at the international level but I was afraid I would run out of time if I need it for the end of rads.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited July 2011

    That's a bummer...all the women that had to use vacation time for their surgeries and treatments.  Don't you just wish you could make some people sit thru' the "home movies" of your vacation, seeing as how it was so much fun? 

    Yell

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  • Paula66
    Paula66 Member Posts: 1,728
    edited July 2011

    Well the benifet to my recliner vaca was the hot and sexy waiter I had.  AKA my hubby!  Yes eli it does suck that we have to use our vacation for sick time.  My daughter moved to Alaska in February, but there is no way I can go this year to see her. I have very little vacation and Im the one who pays for heath insurance so I cant miss a day.  Between the rising healthcare bills and gas Im having a staycation right here in my recliner!  Fun Fun, NOT!!!!

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  • OG56
    OG56 Member Posts: 897
    edited July 2011

    Oh such much to congratulate, so kudo's to all of you who have either gotten a well deserved promotion or earned lots of vacation or had those awesome B9 results!!!

    I moved home for lots of reasons but the main one was to be here to help my parents who are 80. However, my father goes to the orthopaedic surgeon yesterday and schedules himself for a total knee on the day I have to be in NYC to have my MRI/Mamo/appt. I asked him to reschedule for the following week (I already have my plane ticket) and he said No! I don't know who is going to care for him or my Mom arrrrrr! WTF is wrong with the elderly in my family they seem to be lacking common sense all the way around, my aunt and uncle who just died were the same. Thanks for letting me rant, that feels better and I can see I am going to need stronger drugs to deal with all the family drama now that I am in the midst of it again LOL

    Thank god my baby makes me smileLaughing

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  • OG56
    OG56 Member Posts: 897
    edited July 2011
     
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  • Paula66
    Paula66 Member Posts: 1,728
    edited July 2011

    OG56 why do parents have to be so stubborn?  You have done a good thing in moving to help your parents.  I hope you will get it worked out.

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  • Sherryc
    Sherryc Member Posts: 5,938
    edited July 2011

    OG56 I have the same problems with my inlaws and my parents.  They have no concept of what makes things easier on us. It can be so frustrating.  When my grandmother was alive and I was taking care of her she was always concerned about what was going to make things easier for me. So it is not just your family it is just most elderly people.

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited July 2011

    In '09, all my vacation & sick went up in smoke with treatments, sick days, etc.  My boss was very kind & when I ran out, he just kept paying me.  I feel very decadent with all this time to use.  Just praying nothing comes up between now & then (can you say "broken shoulder" while walking the dog--hope I never repeat that experience!!!!!!) so I can use the days-I took a lot of Friday Monday combos!

    OG56-what were your folks doing before you moved back to NE? *edited to change state abbreviation- I swear my brain has left the building!!!!

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  • cmbear
    cmbear Member Posts: 1,086
    edited July 2011

    OG56- I think its the Nebraska genes. My family is originally from NE and my parents have moved down to Florida to be "near" me. Mind you, they are an hour away. They live in a retirement community which is great for now, but in a few years they will need to be closer to town. They think they are moving in town--which is farther away from Orlando(adding another 45 minutes to my drive). They won't even discuss moving to Orlando or at least closer to my direction. These are the same people who made my grandmother move from NE to Virginia at age 83 so she could be closer to them. Then they promptly move to Florida 3 years later leaving my sisters to care for Grandma, she lived to age 94. Needless to say, no love loss between my sisters and my parents. ---Not at all saying your family is as dysfunctional as mine, just that I think NE's are STUBBORN!!!  

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  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 16,818
    edited July 2011

    Yay Eli!!!   I knew you could do it!  Well done!  Now you can breathe again.

    Love n hugs.  Chrissy

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