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I got my annual $30 worth. They ought to be showing up in a couple weeks! I also left a bag of non-perishables for them to pick up Saturday morning. Boy Scouts rock!

So are you more Hawkeye Pierce or Trapper? Certainly no Frank Burns or Charles Winnicut. I'm delighted to hear a little of what you're doing over there. We contnue to pray for you in particular and all the troops. God bless you all! Also praying for your Missus - she's a delight too and I'm glad she's felt welcome here. Just noticed your new avatar. How long were you in physical therapy before you could hold a coffee cup so well after having your finger stuck in your ear so long?

Aww shucks, Chatty - you say the nicest things! Well, the job has gotten even better! After I worked the second day, the boss called me yesterday and we had a very long discussion. I am no longer an independent contractor - I am a full-time hourly employee! She asked what it would take to get me on board FROM MY HOME with benefits and all! Health insurance even! Woo hoo! She said if I were in Maine she would love to work alongside me in the office. All that rain in Maine recently - the office was flooded and she owns the building. All the offices were on the first floor and they had to continue working to keep the business going while the flood damage was repaired. The floors had to be replaced altogether, along with a few inches of wallboard from the floor up. They lost some employees during this time and are now rebuilding. She said my positive attitude is like a breath of fresh air. What timing! I had told them that I hadn't been working the last 2 years. I didn't try to pretend I had been working all along. Man, what a good thing that turned out to be, so I was able to talk freely and now I have the dollar amount I had figured I would need if I were to drive to the city to work, anticipating between $100 and $125 a week in gas! (Things change alot in medicine in 2 years and I've had questions I wouldn't have it I had continued working the past 2 years.) It just keeps getting better every day! Oh yeah, I'm no longer a transcriptionist. I are now a Trainer/Account Manager/Editor. I'm presently working on a plan to improve quality of work. The owner said my ideas sound like just what they need to implement. Office hours are 7:30-3 and I work from home. It's almost embarrassing how great this has been going! Thank you, God!

For about 10 years of my married life, we and a group of our friends had an annual outdoor party. We called it the FOFOF (Friends of Friends of Friends). We invited our friends and our friends were invited to invite their friends. Each year we had a series of parties of the people that did the work to put the party on. We had a mowing party to clear the area. We had a party to plan the date. We partied and partied all around this party. Got to a point where we hired my friend Steve to perform the Saturday night. We made t-shirts and sold them to help pay for the beer. We went through 30 quarter barrels on average! Everyone brought a dish to pass and the guys roasted a pig. Toward the end there, one time I got invited to the FOFOF by someone who had been invited by someone and they didn't know my husband was the originator of the whole deal. LOL Small world, for sure! The idea was to come and pitch a tent and stay the night - we were out in the country, back off the road, in a field - no drunk driving incidents was our goal. Oh yeah, the 3rd last year we did it, the wives and girlfirends of the 4 guys that were the main organizers got together for a few parties of our own - we sewed a FOFOF flag and hung it proudly. Ha! This got me to thinking! I love this thread! My twig used to have an annual Game Feed Dinner for a few years. The guys almost all were hunters. They got a kick out of trying to out-game the others. We had possum, squirrel, rabbit, pheasant, frog, deer, buffalo, beefalo, all sorts of things you might not get to try otherwise. That was another bring a dish to pass event - great times had by all!

I'm so stoked, I almost don't know where to begin! I've been looking for a job as an at-home medical transcriptionist or virtual secretary or something along those lines. Part-time, full-time - I don't care - I'm totally flexible. I had a temporary job that I loved for a few months this past Spring as a Medical Office Reviewer. It was fun to go around this section of the state inspecting doctors' offices for an insurance company as part of the credentialing process. Some weeks it was part-time, some weeks full-time. It was temporary tho, and ended in May, which was great for the summer off, but summer's over. Now I'm ready to go back to work. I'm out of the transcription field for 2 solid years. Everyone that I've seen hiring want RECENT experience and most of them want hospital experience. My hospital experience is all at least 5 years old. I am considered a clinic transcriptionist. I've not been offered as much as I figured I should be offered. I started to think my resume is weak and I should have it done professionally. Maybe I have more ego than money in the bank to cash that ego check. Maybe I'm not as good as I think I am. All sorts of thoughts go through my head. I start applying for administrative assistant jobs in the city, but then do the math and figure it's way too many hours away from home, considering most jobs are at least 45 minutes from my home. Since Annie's daddy died, I've not only been a single parent, but an ONLY parent. I have really enjoyed the luxury of working at home so I can be here for all I feel she needs me here for. I want to continue this life/workstyle as long as she's home with me. I have applied for everything I think is within my ability to apply for. I believe God has picked up where I left off. I had taken a few tests for different positions. The week before last I was looking at a virtual office temporary jobs website and I came across this company that does transcription and court reporting. I started thinking maybe I should train to do court reporting. I took their medical transcriptionist test and aced it. They didn't have any sound files on the site to do any actual transcribing, altho it was clearly a part of the testing process. I shot an email to them asking if I might have missed the files and they wrote back thanking me for bringing that to their attention, said they'd let me know when they had the problem fixed... I got an email from their tech guy last Wednesday saying it was corrected and would I please go back there and transcribe the test at my convenience. It was late afternoon so I decided my convenience was the next morning when I would be fresh. When I sat down at my computer last Thursday morning, I checked my email first and found a job offer from them. They congratulated me on acing the test and asked if I would like to do a general surgery account. I would like to, yes, but orthopedics is my very favorite, so I figured I would do the general surgery til an orthopedics opening became available. At least it would be a foot in the door. I really never minded general surgery work annieways. So, then I went back through my notes of jobs I had applied for to see the details, like pay and schedules. I NEVER APPLIED TO THIS COMPANY. I simply took their online medical terminology and grammar test. I didn't even take the transcription test. The job offer asked if I could train on their system Thursday, as they had a class that day I could just join and not have to wait til they could set up another. That was fine with me. I could work around that easily. The training went real well. They then sent me new hire paperwork to fill out and fax back. They wrote a note asking me to include my resume with the papers I sent back. They offered me more money to start this job than I was making from my major client when I left the job a couple years ago! It was all set - I was to start work on Monday. Ha ha! The office is closed on Monday, it was Columbus Day! I never worked for a transcription service that took Columbus Day off! Now here's the real kicker! After I bought $100 in new updated software specifically for general surgery, they asked me if I would mind starting on an orthopedics account rather than the general surgery. She said that she had reviewed my resume after offering me that other account and feels I would be better placed in orthopedics. (Wow, that is so cool I can't even explain cool that is!) Not only that, I got an email this morning (after I sent in my transcribed work with zero blank spots in it - patting my own self on the back, I know) from one of the owners of the company asking me to consider editing for them! That's going to increase my income even more! I'm so tired from doing the happy dance, but energized at the same time! This is way more than I was looking for at this time! Reminds me of "... exceedingly abundant above all that I ask or think..." Clearly GOD all over it!

I worked in nursing homes for a couple years. The patient to aide ratio averaged 10 patients to one aide. It was a light day if we were assigned only 8 or 9. Every day every one of my patients received their full cares, including lotion rubbed into their backs, legs, arms, wherever... EVERY DAY. I worked in the nursing home Teri Schiavo lived in until she went to Hospice Care. She was on a private-pay floor. The ambitious aides all wanted to work on that floor and I worked hard to get to be there. Every one of those patients got their cares to the best of our abilities. I was proud of where I worked. I wouldn't work in a place that didn't treat the patients that well.

The top of our husky's water was frozen in her dish when I went to feed her this morning. Goodbye summer - too short! It was fun while you lasted

Hey! I sure think so! It filled me with awe to hear her audition - this wasn't me asking her to sing for me or for someone, which I used to do when she was little. She melted my heart and she looked so big and strong and it just made me blubber (I'm all teary just thinking back on it now even). It's so fun being her mom!

Happy Birthday!

I had found a french horn I was watching on ebay, thinking I might bid on it, after watching and studying for a week or so. I intended to go back there tonite after Annie goes to bed, but a funny thing happened today. I took her in after school for an audition to sing with the middle school choir for a special do they have going next month and it's been built up to be an awesome opportunity. She asked me to come in with her during this audition, which was held in the band room. The band instructor was there, saw Annie "passed" the audition and joined the choir instructor and me in conversation. He asked me if I had gotten ahold of a french horn yet or if I would like to borrow "one of theirs." I about fainted. He said he couldn't see me buying or renting one at those prices ($76 a month!) when she may not be interested in the horn next year. No rent. No purchase. A simple loan. Thank you GOD!

Below that photo of the leopard is a line that says Non-Mac users click here or something like that. Clicking on that will get you there. Or you could put www.wavelit.com into your browser and it takes you to a Welcome page that if you scroll down halfway, you will see a selection of Most Popular Sites. The African Webcam is first in that list. Click on the lion and voila, you're at the watering hole!

A few years ago I met up with some ex-way folk that I had known a little bit back in the day. They told me they had a ministry of helping people leave cults. They had some friends that I became friends with. This lady, who'd never been way, but was very close to the ex-way people I knew and had become knowledgeable about the way through these other folks' eyes. I was riding with this other lady, my new friend, heading out to Target. She clearly had something heavy on her mind. She was very thoughtful in her choice of words. She was on a mission to help this poor former cultie (me) get over some way damage. She asked me if I had EVER said Jesus without saying Christ right after it. She told me it's really ok with Jesus if I did. She said he wouldn't mind a bit. I know she was trying to help me, but I decided to play with her instead. I answered her, "Yes, I can." Then I said, "Well, I'm pretty sure I could." She asked me if I was afraid to say Jesus without saying Christ. I told her no. She kept trying to gently lead me into saying Jesus but not adding Christ, so I drug it out as long as I could. Finally she came right out and asked me to try, right then and there, to only say Jesus and not add Christ. I made a big dramatic production out of it as if it were physically straining me NOT to say Christ. I got such a kick out of it. I did eventually tell her I was playing with her, but oh man, we sure were anal about that! Today it doesn't bother me one bit to hear people pray to Jesus. I still don't understand praying to Mary, but I keep my thoughts to myself better these days...

Vegan - that's funny stuff! My daughter is IN 5th grade right now! She'll get a kick out of your comment after school! I'm going to send you a pm in a few minutes if I don't get distracted. (I work at home and am awaiting a call from the office before I can get started.) Last year she was Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. This is her first time wanting to be something not adorable and sweet - I think she's getting the hang of it!!!

Happy Birthday!

Here's what the princess selected for this year. Of course, she had to do a practice run right away... And here she is practicing her stance.

I changed to Firefox a couple or more years ago to see if it was true that I would get less popup action. It was true. I hate popups. Only occasionally do I have to use IE, like when I downloaded some transcription software directly from the company rather than install it via CD. The stuff didn't download to anywhere my Search feature could find, but on their end it said it had downloaded successfully. Then the lady asked me if I used Firefox or Internet Explorer and acted like Firefox was unacceptable. For some reason the work stuff I need will only download to IE. I'm flexible - it's worth that minor hassle to have zero popups.

I can't get into Pete's Pond. I keep getting a message telling me to install RealPlayer, which I have. I even tried installing it again and still, I get that message. I'm loving the Africam, tho - thanks so much!

I'm so impressed not only that you thought of doing the interviews, but that you actually went through with the idea! From all I've heard it's been great fun for us, the listeners. Reminds me of home movies. We can't get enough of them and can't wait to hear the next one. I hope it's been as fun for you as it has for me (and I believe I speak for hundreds of others).

Looking around a bit, I found they also can tell you who you were in a past life. So I did their test for that. This explains a lot! In a Past Life... You Were: An Albino Jester. Where You Lived: Germany. How You Died: Hung for treason.

You are excellent with words and language. You explain yourself well. An elegant speaker, you can converse well with anyone on the fly. You are also good at remembering information and convicing someone of your point of view. A master of creative phrasing and unique words, you enjoy expanding your vocabulary. You would make a fantastic poet, journalist, writer, teacher, lawyer, politician, or translator. I'm a medical transcriptionist, so this was good news to me. :unsure:

As a family wow, I worked 40 hours a week and I think it was 20 hours a week witnessing. We took Saturday off - oh man, did I love Saturdays! We witnessed from 7-11 pm most weeknights. We were a family of 3 single moms so one stayed home with the kids and the other 2 went out. Seems to me the only night we didn't go out witnessing was twig night. The other family in our team had single people with no kids. They worked 4 hours a day and witnessed 8 hours as I recall. We also had twig on Sunday mornings and then spent 4 hours witnessing and had people in for the SNS hookups each Sunday night. I had a 13 year old and it was hectic enough for me to keep that schedule! I don't know how you with all those kids managed!

Willie Nelson's public statement regarding being caught with a [bag of Marijuana earlier this week: "It's a good thing I had a bag of Marijuana. If it had been a bag of spinach, I'd be dead by now."

My 10 year old daughter just came in the room and saw the pic you posted, SV. She said, "Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew - that's a Photoshop picture, right?" I told her I thought not and she said, "That's just too gross!"

I get a black screen too. Maybe we have to try later.