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This isn't right.
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I recently made a largish purchase directly from my checking account. Normally what I do for large purchases is save up the money and pay for them out of my savings account. But this one it just so happened that I was going to transfer money from checking into savings anyway and the difference wasn't e...
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Is it Four-Thirty Yet?
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My boss just called me into his office to show me a phone bill with $1.74 in charges for long distance calls a contractor made. No he didn't want the money, just for me to call and make sure it didn't happen again. We have been using this security company for five years and this is the first time it's h...
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A Good Omen?
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There were a few items I've been looking for from a few days to several months. I found them all within 15 minutes this evening. One was the hard copy of my SF86 -- I may have to update it and resubmit it. PITA, but it'll be easier if I don't have to reconstruct all the info. That's just been since last Thurs...
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Lady Marsali
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Kitty pics!
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Katy has captured the Ribbon Monster Bella on the desk. She hangs out behind the monitor and steals small objects from me
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I hit the 25 pounds lost mark!!!!!
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I am SO excited! Four & a half months ago I finally decided to get serious and this morning I hit the 25 pound milestone. I posted about my weight loss before - when I hit the 20 pound mark in early July. Some people know I'm trying to lose weight and those people will tell me they can see a difference. I ap...
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Happy birthday, MrsCyn!
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Many happy returns of the day!
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alice underground
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Dinner!!
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Cheesy Chicken Pot Pie CupsYields 8-16 pot pie cups (depending on if you split the biscuits in half) Ingredients:*8-count biscuits *1 cup cooked chicken breast, diced*1 (10 1/2 ounce) can reduced-fat cream of chicken soup (I used cream of mushroom)*2/3 cup shredded low-fat cheddar cheese*1 1/...
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I need a volunteer
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As most of you know, I have been posting birthday wishes for our birthday peeps. This fall I am going to have limited internet access for several weeks. So, I am looking for a volunteer to be a back up for the birthday threads. If you are interested in helping out or have any questions, please let me know.
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Female help? TMI
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I am not sure where to start and am worried I may leave something out. If you have any questions feel free to ask. I will be posting this on both boards. A few months ago, probably about 7 or 8, I started having pregnancy symptoms. I was having mood swings, hot flashes, sore breasts, sick to my stomach, ex...
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Mom of half a dozen
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Riding over to Sturgis SD for rally
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Ahhh we are camping in town by Sturgis and will be riding over today. We were camped on other side of Sturgis last weekend and drove over!!
So far 5 fatalities  .
It can be a wild crazy place!!
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Riding in the WY Wind
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EmmDee needs positive thoughts, prayers
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Hey. Could you all send positive thoughts or prayers her way please? She said to go ahead and post: Tonight around 8:30 while in the kitchen she went down, hard. Hit her head on the sink then the wall then the tile floor. I think she had a small seizure? Right afterward she was very disoriented and a bit com...
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Do You Know? (S/O of Did You Know?)
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So we have a thread for things we know but are not sure if everyone else knows. How about one for things we don't know but others might. I'll start: Can someone tell me in a way that I can understand, what's a median, what's a mean and what's a mode? -- Edited by Bessie S on Monday 13th of August 2012 12:10:07...
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Mafia signups
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We'll start with Day Phase on Thursday night @ 10pm EST. The theme is a political one, in light of the upcoming US elections. Congress Vs. Taxpayers! -- Edited by Aardvark on Tuesday 7th of August 2012 01:36:51 PM -- Edited by Aardvark on Tuesday 7th of August 2012 07:46:15 PM
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alice is having a birthday!
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Many happy returns of the day!
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alice underground
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Phone interview
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Yay!! It went well -- I have everything they're looking for except one proprietary software that no one who wasn't a government employee would have. Haven't heard back from the other company yet, so I'm still looking. Also had a call from another company and chatted with that recruiter for awhile....
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Lady Marsali
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So, She's Back
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The Unemployed Friend that spends like she's working..... She and her Husband (who doesn't seem to get that their income has been halved) went to a board-gaming convention for five days (instead of a whole week). Now she's tired and depressed and sorry they stayed as long as they did. She only won on...
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Lady Marsali
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Inviting both families/one family/no families to weddings
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I was just reading a post on another site about how to deal with inviting 1 family to a wedding (immediate family) and not inviting the other (barring the excluded family being cut off completely). Responses ranged from how it's rude to invite only one side to the fact that it's a private affair for the...
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I'd do anything for the kids
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I went off the other night about a cousin of mine who was having some tough times lashed out on FB about people not helping her. It really hurt my feelings because I would have done whatever I could to help her if she'd only have asked. I said as much to her and she thanked me and explained her situation and...
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It is Evil Stepmother's birthday!
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Many happy returns of the day!
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alice underground
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It is Thorlina's birthday too!
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Many happy returns of the day!
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alice underground
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Happy 2053 Birthday Renegade Time Lord!
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dqm either
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The next mafia game........
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When will it be starting (I know a bunch of you checked here just to see if it was starting...lol)?
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Aaaaargh I really dislike this coworker
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This woman gets in everyone's business and I mean everyone. She gets herself into meetings that she's not invited, then proceeds to ask tons of questions that are adressed on the meeting invite, then to those she is invited to she gets late and doesn't take the time to prepare herself to attend the meet...
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Proof of Guilt vs Proof of Mental Capacity
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A hot topic with the Texas death penalty right now is a flawed science that was used to determine if someone was mentally retarded and therefore should be exempt from the death penalty. Just thinking outloud here, but if it is up to the DA to prove guilt for the conviction and the suspect's lawyer to prov...
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what's up with the stars?
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Is someone rating the threads? How do you vote? The Person Above Me thread gets a vote from me. -- Edited by dqm either on Saturday 7th of July 2012 04:39:39 PM
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Kid Logic
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One of my favorite things to do is sit, quietly engaged in a solo activity and listen to my kids talk to each other. Sometimes they say the funniest stuff! Tonight a conversation between #3 and #4 -I never did figure out that riddle. Which comes first the chicken or the egg? -Well, we're Christians so t...
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A fish out of water
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This morning one of the women from accounting was taking her granddaughter around and showing her off. She was indeed cute as a button. A few minutes later I hear another co-worker, say "Go show Evil. She likes fish." In pops another co-worker with her five year old grandson and he is...
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Kids under 14 on FB
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DH has 3 sisters and one of them has 2 kids a boy about 12 and a girl about 8. A few months ago we noticed that the boy created a FB account with false information about his bd (you know you have to be over 14 to get a FB account). DH said that it was innapropiate for nephew to have an account so young so he reported...
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Desdenova
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This is why I like Lean Cuisine frozen entrees
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This morning I made more tomato sauce to try and deal with the abundance of our crop. I've frozen sauce, paste, diced, chunked, and whole tomatos and dried tomatoes. To make thick sauce, I cook the chunks for about 30 minutes, then puree it and finish it in the oven for a couple of hours to thicken it. I wa...
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How often do you check this site?
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I've been by several times since I joined. I see activity on the mafia thread but I don't know how to play.
Are weekdays more active?
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dqm either
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Printer Cartridges Reminded Me Of A Family Story
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My Middle SIL is known in the rest of the family as Bossy SIL. She's been called this to her face and just laughs and agrees. Bossy is the mother of Very Spoiled Youngest Nephew. Her world revolves around him and she thinks everyone else's should too. She was in my house, in my kitchen, going through m...
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Contingent Job Offer
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::fingers crossed:: A company I've interviewed with and talked to their HR and PMs several times just called me again. It's a contingent offer, but they're 99.9% sure of getting the contract. It would start in two weeks. This feels like it might actually be the job! I'm very positive about this. ...
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Lady Marsali
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3 Things
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Name 3 things you love about your SO. I will start. I love that he cleans up after himself. I love the way he plays with the grandkids (he is a big kid after all). I love that he still finds me sexy (because I have a hard time doing that myself).
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kapper
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FrootLoop is having a birthday!
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Many happy returns of the day!
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alice underground
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Whatcha' readin'?
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1 2
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Looking for a good book? Then you've come to the right place!
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Grand Poohbah of Peepdom
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Ms reverse logic - and more....
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It must be full moon soon, cause the customers are getting odder. Had a lady come in with an old flat steel key desk lock. L: Can you make a key for it and how much would it be? Me: Yes I can. You would have to leave it for about a day and it would be $15 L: Oh I can buy those on line for $8.95. Me: I don't think the Kore...
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no imagination
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CNN Article About a Kidnapping
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The story is that when a baby was was 19 days old, the parents took the baby to the hospital. Next morning, baby is gone. A woman kidnapped the baby and raised it as her own for the following 23 years. The kidnapped baby figured everything out as an adult when she needed to get a copy of her birth certificat...
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tigerlily
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Recruiting Mafia Narrators
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Our mafia narrator list has some openings in the near future. If you would like to try your hand at narrating now is your chance! Please let me know by posting here or sending me a pm.
Thank you all for your help in keeping our mafia games alive! I look forward to playing with everyone.
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alice underground
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Friendship Dilema- tragic update 12 hrs later
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I have a friend *Bryce that I like very much. A while back he gave me a computer. There was nothing wrong with it, he was getting a new one and he's just generous like that. The thing is, he's REALLY REALLY REALLY into computers. Me, not so much. The other day Bryce found out that there was something wrong wi...
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dqm either
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It is EmmDee's birthday!
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Many happy returns of the day!
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alice underground
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Commercials that impart wisdom you don't expect
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Have you ever watched a commercial for a product... and come away thinking about something totally unrelated to the advertised product? Today, while watching West Coast Customs, an ad for Viagara came on... and I got a completely different message from it. [spoiler][video=http://www.youtube...
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RichardInTN
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LOLs
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Lady Marsali
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3 more things
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Spin off the 3 things thread. I tried answering that question but without going into a long story I'll just say it was very difficult. So I asked my husband what three things he would WANT to be loved for. He hasn't answered yet but he has been thinking about it. So what three things would you want to be love...
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dqm either
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The Olympic coverage is starting!
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Weeeeeeeeeeeeee! I love the Olympics! I don't give a fig about the majority of sports, but I watch every event I can.
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Aardvark
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How does your garden grow?
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The pictures of the lillies are beautiful. Would anyone else like lo share their gardening pictures or tips? Last year it snowed on June 1st where I live and so much hard work got ruined that I waited so late to start anything. I My stuff will be coming along later but I'd love to see your gardens.
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dqm either
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Lover's Mafia sign up on zetaboard
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Come sign up for Lover's Mafia..... Everyone is a Lover in this Mafia game!! Players will be paired off....will your Lover be an innocent Townie or a bad Mafioso? Will you die with your Lover or be spared to find a new Love? The goal of the game is still a Townie or Mafia win....not a Lover win. People will b...
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rage vent!
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Father God please put your hand over me and calm me. Keep me Lord from saying nasty and hurtful things I pray through the name of your son Jesus. Aaaaaaaagh! I prayed in earnest but I'm unloading here because I can not sit on my hands. That is just asking too much. I just received a nasty message from my cous...
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dqm either
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Anyone Want a Couple of Spoiled Cats?
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OK, I'm really joking, but I was not feeling the love this morning. At 4a. When they decided to bound around madly, attacking my feet, walking up and down on me, kneading on my arm (I have a bruise on my shoulder!!), getting right in my face and MMMMMMMMRRRRRRRRRRRing. I finally pitched them out of the...
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Lady Marsali
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::Facepalm:: She Can't Be Serious!
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Problem is, she does mean it! My Unemployed Friend with the Husband that doesn't understand that their income has been halved and still spends money like a drunken sailor on shore leave had a couple of interviews and thought she was for sure going to get the job. Sadly, they went with the other candida...
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Lady Marsali
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How I tamed Helsinki the Cat
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HamsterFan asked how Helsinki was named, but I didn't want to completely hijack the LOL Cats thread. A couple of years ago I found three kittens in my shed. I saw the feral mother a couple of times out there too. My plan was to feed them for a few days and snatch the kittens to tame and find homes for them...
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