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Posts: 1725 07/28/09 09:34:58 |
I've moved so much I just leave things in boxes for the next move now or until I need it not to mention I have stuff in 3 places, 2 of them storage.
Someday I'll win the lottery and then I can unpack again. I have a feeling that the number of moves I've made may have started global warming.
GG Maui or Bust!
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rbnhoodga |
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Posts: 1305 07/28/09 10:03:54 |
lol. Are you surprised you haven't caused a worldwide box shortage? Think of it this way: b/c you keep your boxes, you have created jobs for millions of
box makers worldwide.
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LuckyRainbow |
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Posts: 245 07/28/09 10:53:20 |
Vmars wrote: Actually, yes, you can get home owners warranties for older homes (our home is 56 yrs. old). I purchased my first one at the time of signing. When it expired a year later, I found another company (American Home Shield) which had better rates and coverage. I believe you can contact them directly and get the coverage. They will only cover items which are in working order at the start of the coverage. Here is the info on their website: American Home Shield.
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then
doesn't hurt.---Charles M. Schultz
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Gables Girl |
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Posts: 1725 07/28/09 11:22:08 |
Always kept my boxes that unpacked until the last move, then I had to clean out the room for someone else and their furniture arriving in 3 days, so I had to
trash my boxes. So I will be making the box makers happy when I move the next time.
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RiverY |
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Posts: 158 07/28/09 15:28:29 |
We moved into our house 20 years ago, and when I go into the "far reaches" there are still boxes that never got unpacked!
We cleaned out our garage last fall and hauled 3 truck loads to st. vinnies and had to pay extra for all of the garbage we put out. We would have been much better off moving at least once or twice during that period.
I know that you believe you understand what you think I said,
but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. R.McCloskey |
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VegasAsian |
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Posts: 69 07/30/09 20:25:35 |
Paid my tutition and went to see what my books are going to cost me this semester.....Tallied the cost and just about had mild heart attack.
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Vmars |
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Posts: 221 07/30/09 23:22:03 |
Thanks LR! I'll have to check it out.
Sorry VA  I remember those days. As an English/History major, I pretty
much had to read a book per week, per class. One time I had so many books, the cashier at the university bookstore took one look and went to get me a box
instead of a bag to put them all in. 
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rbnhoodga |
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Posts: 1305 07/31/09 12:54:28 |
VegasAsian wrote: They're not nearly as much fun when they're required, are they VA? My brother owns an off-campus bookstore, and he swears there's almost no profit in it. Which I can believe, having seen their books. But that's a bear, isn't it? You aren't in nursing, are you? B/c those textbooks are frickin' expensive! And most of them come with something that's required for the class, so you can't even share them!
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Posts: 69 07/31/09 18:56:53 |
yep. and it sucks. lol. still counting down the years until i finish school
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rbnhoodga |
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Posts: 1305 08/06/09 09:41:49 |
Just think of it this way: every day you're in...is one less day you'll be in. You will find this to be doubly true once you're a senior, and
you've decided to become homeless because no degree is worth this hassle. Not speaking from experience or anything. lol, except I did threaten to drop out
the last week of school, when one of our professors assigned a powerpoint presentation to be 25 slides or more, and incorporate sound. We had just gotten
powerpoint on the campus computers. Right then, I thought: "Screw the last four and a half years. I'll take a vow of poverty and become a nun. But
first I'll have to join the Catholic church."
In other news, please think happy thoughts for me today. The managers are meeting to discuss which software package I'm going to be using. The user group has voted for one package, IT services has voted for another. So far, the issue seems to be that the "programmer" (who doesn't program, if anyone's interested) has "issues" getting data out. I volunteered yesterday that I suspected his problems started on or about March 18 of last year, which was the day I said I wouldn't marry his brother. Things have been on a real downhill slide since then. The guy needs to (no offense, but I'm really mad about this whole entire situation) grow a set. To my way of thinking, we shouldn't pay $1m for an inadequate piece of software b/c this guy's afraid I'm going to yell at him. To me, it sounds like he's not doing his job, and it would be WAY easier to replace him than replace a long-accepted piece of software. Sorry, didn't mean to get off on a rant there. But think happy thoughts for my software today. I have to go buy a crate of rats.
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Vmars |
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Posts: 221 08/08/09 01:45:21 |
Happy thoughts for you, Robin!
 They'd better buy the software, or
they'll hear from the Kindlemafia. 
I had the week from hell. It started with going back to work (though the kids weren't too bad, I just wasn't ready to go back to work!), continued with someone breaking into my new house. They didn't actually get in, but they still broke a window that I now have to replace. The insurance pays part of it. Thank god for my security system or they may have gone inside. I'm so tired, I'm considering hiring movers to just haul all my stuff to the new house. 
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rbnhoodga |
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Posts: 1305 08/09/09 22:15:55 |
Someone BROKE IN to you new house? Bastards! Has the house been sitting for a while? Before you signed on it, I mean? They might have thought that they could
become squatters. doesn't make it any better. You might need a large, ill-tempered dog.
Who hates everyone. In the meantime, I'll be taking my large, ill-tempered dog to work with me Tuesday (assuming I go back, which is still up for debate), because my rat-fink managers bought the twice-as-expensive half-as-functional lousy piece of software they all hated. And I've been informed I need to "drop my attitude problem" because "it was a political decision." I can't wait to see how politics does my job. Bastards.
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Gables Girl |
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Posts: 1725 08/09/09 22:40:38 |
Politics never is very good at working, look at DC and you see how it goes.
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rbnhoodga |
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Posts: 1305 08/10/09 18:11:04 |
Well, I turned EVERYONE involved in to the Office of the Inspector General, so at least I'm somewhat protected from being fired for that cause.
Indeed, I do need to start working on my resume. I also need a flame thrower. Anyone got advice on either?
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Gables Girl |
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Posts: 1725 08/10/09 19:13:42 |
If you asre askgin about real ones, I prefer propane agricultural ones myself, they are easy to get and you don't the mixing problems you do with liquid
ones used by the military. If you are looking for verbal I suggest obscure references to ancient philosophers, mention of family antecedents, recall of past
transgressions, examples of stupid things they have done, preferably while drunk, and mumbled unknown languages.
 The short version is "Go to Hell you F#*&*%@ asshole!" will work.
Spill cofffe on papers works well too, with cream a sugar it will usually make the stuff unrecoverable. I have other suggestions if you want them....
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RiverY |
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Posts: 158 08/10/09 22:57:53 |
I can't believe someone broke into your house. How awful! I'm glad you weren't there when it happened.
I spent the afternoon in the ER with my husband. He was so sick ALL Sunday night that he dehydrated himself and need IV hydration. He is still really sick. 
I hope he doesn't give it to me!!
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Vmars |
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Posts: 221 08/14/09 01:06:44 |
OMG, does he have some type of flu? I hope he's better soon. Seriously, aside from getting a puppy, last week (and into this week) was the week from hell.
Yeah, someone tried to break into my house. But I guess the brand-new security system scared them off. I had to have a new window put in though because they
broke it.
And then (the morning they were repairing the window) I went to the house and EVERY FIRE ALARM IN THE HOUSE was going off. Every. Single. One. I went in, saw there was no smoke, turned around and walked out. I was so overwhelmed, I had no idea what to do. That was seriously a "screw-this-house-just-sell-it-again" moment for me. But when my Mom stopped by two hours later, all the alarms were off. Who knows. I have no idea... 
Then, last Friday, I hit my head under a desk  resetting the modem. I
thought I cleared the desk, and I stood up and hit my head HARD. This is a little used desk in the garage, so I miscalculated. I had splitting headaches all
weekend, and finally on Monday I made myself go to the ER (I swear, RiverY, I'm not trying to copy you!!) There was nothing wrong with my head (says that
CT scan) but I still get the headaches and the doc told me that concussion headaches can last up to a month. **SIGH** Seriously, week from hell. I need a
priest or someone to exorcise my house or something. I felt like my life was falling apart.
Seems like a cloud of doom is sorta hanging around quite a few of us, what with Robin's asshole managers, RiverY's sick husband and my...many problems. I'm trying to be positive. Puppy! 
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Gables Girl |
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Posts: 1725 08/14/09 08:01:59 |
Wow, sounds like we all need next week to be better. (The cynic in me says it can't get much worse.) I had an alarm system on one of my places and I had
so many problems I never bothered with it. You may find the puppy to be the best alarm you could have. I hope RiverY's husband is better, I hope V's
head is better, I hope Robin's IT problems have a server meltdown and I hope Tiger wins the PGA!
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rbnhoodga |
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Posts: 1305 08/14/09 19:52:49 |
Just when I thought it couldn't get worse, it did. I've been firewalled off MY OWN FRICKIN' SITE from the office. So when you don't see me? Not
mad, not angry, not stomped off in a huff, not fallen victim to some bizarre ritual, and not turned into a vampire (dammit). Firewalled.
Bastards. What kind of puppy? I'm thinking of going to get one of the dogs from my parents house. They're both furry comforts. Big, smelly, enthusiastic comforts who like to sit in my place, but still. They don't think I need new software that has to be built first. But after we write the check.
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Vmars |
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Posts: 221 08/15/09 00:58:46 |
Why did they firewall you?! Those bastards! You should get one of the dogs, train them into attack dogs and take them to work.
"Oh, come see my new puppy. He's harmless, really...." 
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