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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 4:56 pm
My vet appt (which is 45 miles away) is always the first appt after lunch, on Weds. The least busy day of the week, and he's always walking in the door as I am!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 8:09 pm
I dont wait either. My dentist KNOWS to call my cel if something throws them off schedule. I work 35 miles from home so I have to leave work 2 hrs early to make an afternoon appt. If they are running behind they call me so I dont leave work as early. I usually try and schedule all my appts the first of the day, that always saves wait times
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 10:58 pm
Hehe, I had sent Darren an email at work telling him about it. He had already said he was working late so it didn't surprise me when he wasn't home on time. I went to the grocery store, picked up Caleb, and ran by my aunts and when I got home he was waiting. He'd gone by the eye dr office, threw a fit, and I have an appt for 1:45 tomorrow afternoon. I have to admit I cracked up. I let them know what I thought about it, but he was pretty upset about how rude they were and went to tell them too. Of course, nothing is ever easy...Kota came home early from school with a headache. I didn't think much about it til she woke up from a 3 hour nap, running a fever, complaining about her throat and throwing up (going off experience, it's her throat.) She's definitely not going to school tomorrow and I'm not sure what I'm going to do. If it was just a cold, I'd either send her to my sister or take her with me. Told Darren I'd wait til tomorrow morning, see how she's feeling, and make a decision then cuz if she's still feeling this lousy and running a fever I'm gonna have to cancel (and try to get her an urgent care appt.)
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 12:02 am
Ha ha! Good for Darren! So sorry to hear that Kota is sick. I hope she feels a lot better tomorrow. I think if you can't make it tomorrow, they better make sure they fit you in immediately when she's better! I have never had to wait long to see our family Dr. We were with the same Dr. for about 12 yrs. He decided to work on other things and keep only his current ob patients, so, we picked another Dr. in the practice. He has since left that practice and gone into a practice with just one other Dr. We still have hardly ever had to wait more than a few mins. Same at the dentist's office. I guess we're fortunate to be with well run practices. (My Dr. has over 3000 patients. I have no idea how many patients were in the total practice before he left for the smaller one.) One vacation, I was at my mom and dad's Dr. three times between all the kids having something going on. We spent over an hour waiting each time. It was ridiculous and nothing I was used to at all.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 12:26 am
Heh, I'm still laughing, Happymom. Darren usually lets me fight my own battles, it's rare to see him step in. I will say when we have to go to urgent care after regular business hours (we go to a different dr than our pc drs) we always have to wait long times. When Darren got sick last month and we couldn't get in to see our pc, we waited 4 hours, but we knew going in it'd be somewhere around there. The kids urgent care usually is 1-2 hours and again, we pretty much expect that (unless my sil is there and then she'll try to get them in sooner.) Oddly enough, the one time I have no problem is when many others do, the ER. Usually I'm there cuz of Kota's asthma and they take one look at her gasping and wheezing and send her straight back to be seen by the dr.
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Thursday, November 06, 2008 - 2:24 pm
War, how's Kota feeling? Did you make it to the eye Dr. on Tues?
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, November 06, 2008 - 2:47 pm
She feels perfectly fine today. But yesterday I knew I had to call and cancel, she was running a fever, throwing up, and had a sore throat. Darren was a wee bit upset, but knew there wasn't anything else to do about it. I couldn't take her to my sister and couldn't take her with me. He told me to leave her home alone, lol. Said I might if she wasn't sick and it'd only be a few minutes, but it'd be an hour and a half before he got home and even he knew that wouldn't work.
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Thursday, November 06, 2008 - 2:50 pm
glad she's better! and I hope the eye dr. fits you in soon!
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Beckie03
Member
07-05-2007
| Thursday, November 06, 2008 - 5:23 pm
alright. i'm pissed and hurt. i was reading a bulletin last night from a friend. she had said that obama wasn't her president...blah blah blah. then had said that people obviously did not research before they voted...which irked me. however, i kept it nice and just simply said just because someone does not agree with you, doesn't mean that they didn't research. and then i proceeded to tell her everywhere i went on a daily basis to make sure i knew why i was voting the way i was...and to keep up on politics. many of my friends have even said that i was the most researched person they knew on why i was voting for obama. i was really trying to be nice about the entire situation and just point out that people had done research...even if they didn't agree with her. btw, she only voted for McCain because of his stance on abortion - true statement, said it herself. so i look today to see if anyone else had commented (i fully expected a bash of obama). well some girl had commented on the bulletin. she then began to not only bash McCain (called him a rapist lover, a racist, and a whole bunch of other names) and republicans (you can only imagine), but America as a whole (considered Obama and JFK the only "real" presidents of the US. oh vey). i commented back and said that the girl demented politics and was the reason there was such much hate and fear with this election. and if she couldn't stop spouting lies, that she shouldn't say anything at all. in my view, i was sticking up for not only America, but a candidate that i didn't even vote for, and for a close friend who is republican. i get on today...she has deleted me and left me a comment saying that i was a rude person and that she never commented on my bulletins that said how great obama was (never said that, just that he was the right man for the job) and that i need to grow up. first, i get that this was a complete misunderstanding. however...excuse me? i need to grow up because i defended America, McCain, and republicans? oh okay. whatever. and i am not a rude person. i have truly done my best throughout this election to only attack what McCain has said and his policies. i have never attacked him on a personal note, or i have at least tried my best not to. i was so flabbergasted by what she had to say. i cannot believe it. i'm so hurt that someone would think that. and pissed. BTW, this friend who posted the bulletin...she is my close friend's sister, they are both republicans... i would figure that my close friend might stick up for me and say that wasn't me...i have yet to see/hear that.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, November 06, 2008 - 6:16 pm
Beckie, let it go. There's no way to win in this kind of situation. Actually, yes, there is. I would've ignored the hateful thing, not commented, and walked away. There is no way to reason with people like that. I know, my father is one of 'em (although he tends to be hateful towards people who are not right wing religious conservative zealots). I would just ignore it. DO NOT LET HER GET TO YOU! And anyways, she's obviously small minded, so you shouldn't care what she thinks. 
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, November 06, 2008 - 7:21 pm
Beckie I'm pretty sure your friend would back her sister over you, the blood thing. Now personally I'd just tell this girl to kma and keep it moving.
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Beckie03
Member
07-05-2007
| Thursday, November 06, 2008 - 7:53 pm
mocha, i would fully expect her to back her sister before me; however, i would expect her to say that i am not that kind of person...however...again...i still haven't heard it. if anyone is acting immature, it is her. i tried to write her back and explain, however she had taken me off her friends list and does not accept messages from non-friends. i tried...i'm not trying anymore. it's a waste of my time. let her think whatever she wants...
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 2:20 pm
If the only way you can communicate with her is through myspace or facebook or whatever, is she really a friend? My inane little gripe is the drive-up ATM at my bank. It is in the same lane as a drive-up window for those people who need a teller. Of course, there are two other lanes for that as well, but only one for the ATM. It seems recently that whenever I go to the ATM (which is about once a week), I inevitably get behind someone who feel a need to chat with the teller. I mean, I can see them out the window laughing and carrying on, while I am waiting behind them trying to get to the ATM. This morning I pulled in right after someone else, someone who chose to use the ATM lane, rather than either of the other two empty lanes. Not only was this person a chatty Cathy, she apparently had several transactions that for some unknown reason, she had to send through that little drawer ONE AT A TIME. Finally, after ten minutes of this, I backed up, pulled into the adjoining lane, parked the car, got out, walked up to the drive-up ATM, got my money, got back in my car, all in the space of two minutes...and she was still laughing and carrying on with the teller, oblivious to what is going on around her.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 2:42 pm
I would like to gripe about my next door neighbors. They are wonderfully nice people, a nice young couple, but this is their first home and they are overly excited about having a fireplace for the first time. When the weather cools enough where most people enjoy their windows open, they start burning their fireplace 24/7. Since I am downwind of their house this time of year, all I get is a smoke scented air coming in my windows. It stays in the carpet and furniture. I keep hoping they get bored with it soon. This is their second winter here.
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 2:55 pm
Naja could you just keep the window on that side of the house closed while they are having their fires?
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 3:00 pm
The windows on that side of the house are the living room and kitchen, where I hang out most the time, the other side are the bedrooms. Now I wish my house house was built oppositely. (the original owners actually had a choice...There is an exact opposite of my house 4 doors down)
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 5:42 pm
I don't suppose your neighbours are the green type are they? Our city is really pushing not having fires these days, because of the pollution. Maybe you could drop some hints about the smell and what they put into the air.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Friday, November 14, 2008 - 11:37 am
Oh gosh no, they sure aren't green. They have more cars and trucks than people at their house...LOL I really don't plan on making a big deal about it by mentioning it to them, so I just came here to vent. It's out of my system now 
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Friday, November 14, 2008 - 11:47 am
Too bad they aren't using some good smelling hickory or something that smells of 'autumn' I don't know what we'd do w/o our fireplace in the winter.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Friday, November 14, 2008 - 11:51 am
Oh, I don't mind fireplaces, Escapee, heck we have one and I love it. It's just the using of it when the weather is mild enough that most folks enjoy their windows open.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Friday, November 14, 2008 - 11:54 am
yeah, i am waiting for it to get to freezing here before we build one
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Christy358
Member
07-10-2007
| Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 12:14 am
freezing? what is that?
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Llkoolaid
Member
08-01-2001
| Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 8:39 pm
Oh my Naja, I hear ya, I have a neighbour across the street who burns fires when the weather is warm. I don't like the smell of wood smoke anytime, it makes me have headaches and get filled up but I understand people having a right to burn wood for heat but do they have to do it in the warm weather, selfish of them I think.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 7:40 am
Why don't you buy 'em a bag of cinnamon scented pine cones? That way, you'll get free air freshener instead of smoke? 
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 9:44 pm
Just a gripe. Why is it that I work though lunch, stay an hour later than the other girls at work, yet get evil looks when I check my mail or the news on the internet? I also post here from time to time, but the girl next to me IMs all the time and no one says boo to her. I feel like it's internet discrimination, lol. Seriously, you can take an hour lunch (which I never do), get personal phone calls (which I never take), and leave smack on the dot at 5:30, but if you check the internet for a few minutes suddenly you're a lazy worker? It makes me peeved. I'm a person too and need a little break for my brain. I suppose if I took a full hour for lunch and went to an internet cafe that would somehow be okay. Anyhew, I'll take steps to reduce my internet surfing at work, but trust me it's not much. I'm annoyed. I left right at 5:30 today and said screw this. Maybe if I don't stay so late I won't feel the urge to surf as much.
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