That's All She Wrote

Ok, the hair on my arms is standing straight up.

oh my God Kristy. That is just too funny. Poor guy doesn't have a chance,

Good Luck Mel, I believe everything will work out as it should.

If I may, I'd like to tell you a short story about my husband negotiating a "contract" work agreement over 9 years ago. The headhunter asked my husband what he wanted to make? As in salary/wages etc. My husband simply replied 75 (My husband wanted 75,000.00 per year in salary) The headhunter obviously thought my husband meant $75.00 per HOUR. Since companys generally pay about $150.00 per hour for IT specialists, the headhunter was fine with $75.00 per hour to my husband Soooooooooooooooo, imagine OUR SURPRISE when the contract came in the mail for my hubby to sign with $75.00 per hour as the wage. Add that up... that was over $156,000.00 that first year (My husband would get overtime too, can you even freakin believe that?)

Hubby had that contract job for about 18 months, and it came just at the time we were buying and furnishing our home. We paid cash for everything and would joke about wanted something and my husband would say "oh that's 15 minutes of work, or whatever.

After the contract work was up, the company that he was contracting for wanted my husband as their full time salaried employee. Needless to say, the money was much less than the contracting job, but with that, my husband got job security, 401k & health benefits, 4 weeks of vacation each year and many more perks (to offset the decrease in pay that this company knew my husband was sacrificing)

He still works there today. Sorry about the novel, but I know deep down, you don't really care, right )

Another good one Mel. I like and agree with your take on "religious" people versus "spiritual" people. That is, in my opinion, a very good description of the two words. In my first marriage, we would go to church every Sunday and as we progressed to having 3 children, I was more and more disenchanted with the congregation as they would banish "noisy" children to the "crying room". I'm sorry, but you can't make a 2 year old be quiet.

I also was a little disturbed that AFTER each mass, there was a "mass-exodus" for the congregation to be the VERY FIRST person OUT of the parking lot. Honestly, I wanted to puke after we all were in Mass exchanging the (uncomfortable, in my opinion) "peace be with you" handshakes and then as soon as the service was over, it was 'EVERYBODY FOR THEMSELVES' to get the Hell out of the church parking lot.

I/we just stopped going. I rarely rarely got anything good out of mass, instead, it seemed to disturb me more by the hypocritical actions of my fellow congregates.

Kohls is great for clothes, but the fitting room always seems so dang far away,

I giggled at the dressing up for Walmarts part. That's hysterical.

My parents (Both of them) are GM retirees.

Thanks for that link. My husband will love it.

Jim, that was lovely. You're such a beautiful on this Earth. We are so lucky to have you.

Let me ask you that same question. If you were a parent who loved your kid, what would you want for and from him or her? You’d want them to be happy. You’d want them to be safe. You’d want them be free. You’d want them to know that they are loved. You’d want them to love you back.

PERFECT!

So glad to hear your Mom is doing better,

The dog won't go potty for your husband??
(Control Freak, )

Great job Mary for hanging in their for the second class. You're really into this and it's great.

That’s like being potty trained and choosing to #### your pants.
I am choking on my lunch from laughing so dang hard.

Behind them a group of 25 year old frat guys say “How many beers to take down the grandma?”

Don't care what anybody thinks. I love most of those songs. Great laughs Nic, thanks