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Post by Lesa on Aug 8, 2005 0:30:39 GMT -6
Geeze... I hope they never call you in for Federal court again. What a headache!
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Post by marysgurl1 on Aug 8, 2005 4:28:50 GMT -6
so, what does this mean?? "go in where"?? are you just sitting around the courthouse waiting to be called into a case??
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Post by Lesa on Aug 8, 2005 4:55:08 GMT -6
No. They send a thing in the mail that tells you to call on a certain date to see if you have to go in, or at least that's what I got in the mail once. I was only given one date to call and didn't have to go in, while I'm assuming Phalon has to call in 3 times.
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Post by marysgurl1 on Aug 22, 2005 21:51:14 GMT -6
...now...how did this discussion end??
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Post by Lesa on Aug 23, 2005 0:43:55 GMT -6
I don't know! Certainly there must be more pet peeves to post about. About that pic... It's not so much a pet peeve of mine, but it does look ridiculous. If someone is going to wear pants that low, it would look much better if they didn't wear any underwear.
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Post by Phalon on Aug 27, 2005 5:19:55 GMT -6
Phalon the Prim and Proper reporting in. Shopping for school clothes for LX this week, and sheesh; tough to find jeans for her that don't mirror the picture MG posted, (without the thong, of course). What's up with that? Why can't little girls look like little girls, and not hormone crazed teenagers. Low-risers, "belly shirts", spaghetti straps, and dang, she is not quite 10 yet; too young, in my motherly opinion, to be "sporting it". Heck, she doesn't even have "it" yet.
Sigh. Growing up too fast for me. I had to have "the talk" with her this past week. The full-blown talk and not the condensed version I had to give her a few years ago when she was in 2nd grade and some fifth graders at the after-school program were talking. She was convinced she was going to bleed to death. Again, this talk came about because of what she heard from older girls; the sister of a friend of hers told the girls the "facts of life", but got the facts quite askew.
Fifth grade this year, and part of the curriculum is sex-ed, but I wanted to have the whole mother/daughter openness thing. Made an evening of it; we made our own rose-water/oatmeal hand masks, did our nails, (lime-green this time), and I drew diagrams while explaining things, (rolls-eyes). Then the next evening my Xena-Sister friend had her and BP sleep-over for a "just the girls night". I want her to have another adult she can talk to openly if for some reason she feels she can't talk to me. Her girl scout troop too is going to have a mother/daughter "growing up" night to discuss the subject. That'll be good - the girls are real comfortable around each other.
Sigh. Sorry for the ramble. Thinking now, it'd be a whole lot more easy to have boys.
And yes, Gigs was right. Called in three times, and my number never came up for jury duty. Kinda worried though: the final call, after the message stated that my on-call service was over, said, "Have a great year". ARGH. It kinda implies that I'll be called for the fifth time next year.
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Post by ilb on Aug 27, 2005 20:25:36 GMT -6
Q and i know just what u mean phalon... school shopping arrrrggggg!! our oldest likes them toooo low... cringed at several pair she tried on and even refused a couple... she just doesn't understand. but we do...all too well!!
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Post by Lesa on Aug 28, 2005 0:03:52 GMT -6
Have a great year?? What on earth did you do to get yourself on a yearly rotation? LMAO! I sure hope for your sake that's not what that means. Prim and proper, lol. I don't think it's too much to ask, to find clothes for a not-quite-10-year-old that don't make her look like she's trying to get 'some' when she doesn't even have 'it' yet. I wonder if she could fit into those tapered-leg jeans I mentioned earlier in the thread. You would probably have to take a couple of inches off the length, though, and that might not be so easy to do with the zippers down there. Speaking of revealing jeans, I had my own little wardrobe malfunction at work today, a horizontal rip about 3 inches long, just beneath the left cheek pocket, just when I squatted down to pick something up. I had just reinforced a different area of those pants last week, but I didn't see that one coming! Of course, it couldn't have happened at the end of my shift, but only about 1/2 hour after I got there. The fix? Take a roll of duct tape and scissors into the bathroom with me, take the pants off, and apply the tape to the inside. It worked like a charm! Gotta love that duct tape.
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Post by Phalon on Aug 28, 2005 0:10:39 GMT -6
LMAO, Gig. Talk about getting cheeky at work; you were nearly assking for trouble.
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Post by ilb on Aug 28, 2005 0:16:24 GMT -6
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Post by Lesa on Aug 28, 2005 0:20:29 GMT -6
I'm trying to come up with a witty response, but I got nothin'.
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Post by rsine69 on Aug 28, 2005 1:55:09 GMT -6
See I HATE MY JOB!!! thread.
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Post by Lesa on Aug 28, 2005 3:29:09 GMT -6
That would definitely peeve me.
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Post by gams on Aug 28, 2005 12:27:29 GMT -6
My pet peeve for the day: Why can't they make decent garter belts and fishnet stockings these days; something that doesn't cost an arm and a gam?
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Post by Lesa on Aug 28, 2005 22:34:43 GMT -6
I don't believe I've ever bought a pair of fishnets, not even in the 80's.
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Post by rsine69 on Sept 7, 2005 2:48:45 GMT -6
Another pet peeve of mine is that here I am putting in 40 plus hours a week at work, getting jumped on for working overtime hours despite the fact that they keep increasing my workload and yet there's ALWAYS someone that dosen't work more than 20 hours a week pissing and moaning about having to come into work the next night.
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Post by Phalon on Sept 14, 2005 22:19:41 GMT -6
Job getting any better, Rsine? Hope so. It sounds like a pain.
Peeved today with the insurance companies...not just today, actually, but for the last few weeks, and not all insurance companies, (at the moment anyway), but specifically my health insurance.
The problem with my health insurance is my moles. No - not the blind furry things that tear up my lawn...though occasionally they make my blood pressure rise.
The moles I'm arguing about with the insurance company are the ones I had removed recently. Out working in the sun all day, and there was concern about the amount of moles and freckles that I have. Twenty-some removed; a couple looking suspicious, and were sent in for biopsies. One of the biopsies came back showing abnormal cell growth - not malignant, but pre-cancerous. Back in to have the entire thing removed, (it could not be snipped off the first time, but needed to be cut out). More stitches, another biopsy, and back a week later to have the stitches removed.
What does my insurance pay for out of all this? Nothing. Why? Because the tests came back benign, and removal of 'benign neoplasm something-or-others' is considered cosmetic surgery by insurance companies.
Argh. Irritating, and I spent much of the afternoon trying to get it through to these people that it was necessary for my continued good health to have them removed. Pfft. Talked to myself, because I was on hold for an hour and a half. Tired of waiting, and needing to pick up LX from school, I gave up. For today. Next time I get nasty. Hold music, I'm sure, loves to hear people get nasty.
I realize this is small beans in comparison to some problems people have with health insurance. I've heard the horror stories, and know people who have experienced them. Or worse yet; people without health insurance. All those people have my sympathy; I can not imagine how frustrating it is.
Preventive Health Care, and it seems they are preventing health by not caring. Pfft.
And that is my pet peeve for the day.
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Post by Joxcenia on Sept 14, 2005 22:36:49 GMT -6
Just think of all those people down south who lost their homes and the insurance won't pay because the people didn't have flood insurance... and they didn't have flood insurance because they lived in an area that doesn't get flooded and so they weren't even offered flood insurance. The insurance companies are saying that what happened to the homes was due to flooding, and are refusing to pay.
How can you call wind blowing water inland flooding? The levee breaking is flooding... but the water damage from wind strong enough to force water inland isn't. IMO
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Post by Phalon on Sept 15, 2005 21:08:26 GMT -6
And inundation of water; river over-flowing, hurricane, levy breaking, or high-water tables rising due to rain, I believe; are all termed as flooding. It doesn't matter how it got there - if there is an excessive amount of it - it's a flood.
Are you excluding New Orleans, Joxie? It's my bet, that it is because they live in an area that is prone to flooding, being below sea-level, rather than because it never floods that they didn't have flood insurance. I've seen the streets in New Orleans knee-deep in water after just a heavy thirty minute rainfall.
People living in places prone to flooding, or places that the insurance companies think may flood - just by looking at a map, I think, and seeing a large body of water nearby....(rolls eyes), are sometimes excluded from having flood protection on their policies. Happened to us. One home owner's insurance company we looked at when moving here, said absolutely no flood insurance. Why? Because we are too close to Lake Michigan. I don't ever remember even reading about the Lake flooding here. I think it's nearly impossible, in fact. We went with another insurance company.
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Post by Joxcenia on Sept 15, 2005 21:19:32 GMT -6
The people that were complaining stated they were well above sea level, and that is why they weren't offered flood insurance. Being that I don't live there I really can't say. I'm only taking their word for it. However, if other storms have never caused flooding there before, I can't see how their insurance can't make an exception in this case. It would most likely be a once in a lifetime experience. (Or twice... perhaps. I don't know if they were in the other major one that hit years before.)
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Post by Joxcenia on Sept 15, 2005 21:24:21 GMT -6
I put myself in their place, and I can't imagine after paying for home insurance for years on end I am refused money to rebuild my home and start over again. I say what's the point... put the money that would have gone to the insurance companies into accounts that will increase in value over time and use it to recover from destruction. It might not be much, but it'd be more than nothing at all.
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Post by Phalon on Sept 15, 2005 21:46:02 GMT -6
Yes, I cannot even come close to imagining what they are dealing with. It's a mess all around; I'm sure they must feel as if everything from Mother Nature to the insurance companies is against them at the moment.
And this is what has me so irritated over my situation, (as I said earlier, small beans in comparison to others' problems)...but we pay through the nose to have good health coverage; over 500.00 a month, (that's a lot to me anyway), and to have someone say that because the cells are only abnormal and not maligant, is a slap in the face. Come back and we'll talk when you're half dead.
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Post by Joxcenia on Sept 15, 2005 22:35:49 GMT -6
Yeppers... My doctor dropped my insurance company because they weren't paying him on time. (Something they themselves would do to me if I didn't pay on time each month.) So now they're telling me I have to go to a different doctor. I've gone to this man since I was 16 years old. I'm seriously thinking about putting the money I send them each month into a bank account and then investing it in CDs... Setting it up so that one or two CDs come due every 6 to 12 months. It's really frustrating. There have been a few things they have refused to pay as well. And the price just keeps going up each year. At least if I keep upping the amount I put in a savings account & CDs, and I seldom use it, I'll have something saved up for retirement.
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Post by Lesa on Sept 15, 2005 23:54:12 GMT -6
...unless something happens and you wind up in the hospital.
It's like playing the lottery. You keep spending money on it every month and hope it pays off when you need it. If you never 'win,' you're out all that money, but you're out even more money if something happens and you're faced with a huge hospital bill.
I think the best bet is to have an insurance policy with a big deductible, put the rest in savings or CDs, and hope for the best.
And Phalon, I agree with you wholeheartedly about the mole. You said it was pre-cancerous, meaning that if you hadn't had it removed it might have developed into cancer. That by definition is preventative medicine, and insurance companies that say otherwise are just being greedy.
But greediness can backfire. If you had kept the mole and let it develop into cancer, the insurance company would have had to pay, and they would have paid a lot more for chemo and other treatments to get rid of the cancer. This is a lot like not spending the millions of dollars to reinforce the levees, only to have to spend billions later on reconstructing them and the city they surround. But in the case of the levees, it is the tax payers paying the bill, and not the ones who made the decision to withhold the money needed to reinforce those levees in the first place.
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Post by Phalon on Sept 21, 2005 23:26:32 GMT -6
Still Grrrring at the insurance company and now the doctor's billing dept. This shouldn't be that difficult. Went in person to the office today, at my friend's suggestion, to demand things get straightened out. LMAO at her "get tough" pep-talk. Me? Politely asked them to please do something.
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Post by Grrlpower on Sept 22, 2005 21:51:36 GMT -6
Phalon just use your natural talent, your knack for obscure words and limitless vocabulary may confuse them enough to give you what you want...After all no one likes to look as incompetent as they are
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Sept 23, 2005 11:20:13 GMT -6
I just gotta jump in here....not to lessen the current conversation. Insurance companies suck.
Anyone here play the guitar? Those of you that do you'll know what I'm talking about here. I'm taking lessons..and here's what bugs me.....
The F chord....someone want to explain how the hell I'm supposed to make my fingers do that!?
Ok...had to get that out...carry on....insurance companies SUCK!!!!
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Post by Joxcenia on Sept 23, 2005 22:00:18 GMT -6
Isn't Guru playing the guitar in his avatar? Guess he could answer the question.
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Post by Lesa on Sept 24, 2005 12:30:27 GMT -6
I've seen some real doozies, but not knowing how to play guitar (aside from a sloppy accoustic House of the Rising Sun), I looked it up. www.jguitar.com/chord?chord=Major&root=FAt first I was reading it sideways, because it looked like a bunch of them required six fingers. But yeah, I see what you're saying. That 5th fr (fret?) looks pretty impossible without rubber fingers.
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Post by Halona on Sept 24, 2005 18:07:41 GMT -6
I just gotta jump in here....not to lessen the current conversation. Insurance companies suck. Anyone here play the guitar? Those of you that do you'll know what I'm talking about here. I'm taking lessons..and here's what bugs me..... The F chord....someone want to explain how the hell I'm supposed to make my fingers do that!? Ok...had to get that out...carry on....insurance companies SUCK!!!! I can help you with the guitar chords, I've been playing a guitar for more than 30 yrs. Based on the site that was provided, I will explain. okay with the "F" if you put your mouse on the "F" chord; it will show you how to place your fingers.. like the second chord of F , in the first fret; you use one finger to cover the sixth string and the 2nd and first string (the pointing finger) on the second fret, you use the second finger and place it on 3 rd string on the third fret you can use your third finger fourth and fifth string or some times i use my third on the fourth string and my fourth finger on the fifth string.. however, as a beginner I think the easiest one for you is..the one below this chord and is the second from the left.. it's pointer finger (1) on first fret and second and first string 2nd finger on second fret and on third string 3 rd finger on third fret and on fourth string. as I said put you cursor on those chords and it will show you.. the X's mean no finger on that string or fret.. I hope this helps you
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