Where in the World is Bob Saget?

[Lucky]

Also, for clarification purposes, it's a polar vortex right? So that means, it originates at the North Pole (which under international law is not technically owned by any country) and is only passing through Canada; troubling us as much as our good friends to the south. Not technically our fault.

So we should BS? (Blame Santa?)

 

[acishere]

So we should BS? (Blame Santa?)

You can blame Santa. I am not going to risk being put on the naughty list though.

 

[Soarin' Over Pgh]

Can we blame Spielberg?

 

[acishere]

Can we blame Spielberg?

Why, are you still mad about Indiana Jones 4?

 

[JenniferS]

So we should BS? (Blame Santa?)

I nearly went there, but backed off for the same reason as @acishere.

Let's blame the elves. They don't have as much pull as the Big Guy.

Although, on second thought ... the beginning of the winter-that-will-never-end directly coincided with the opening of Frozen. Maybe today's dvd/Blu-ray release will break the spell.

Dare I say it? I blame ....

Spoiler

Meg. Always Meg.

 

[JenniferS]

Why, are you still mad about Indiana Jones 4?

Uh ... yeah! Did you see it?

 

[acishere]

Uh ... yeah! Did you see it?

It took a lot of therapy to remove that traumatic event from my memory. Don't undo all that work.

I nearly went there, but backed off for the same reason as @acishere.

Let's blame the elves. They don't have as much pull as the Big Guy.

Although, on second thought ... the beginning of the winter-that-will-never-end directly coincided with the opening of Frozen. Maybe today's dvd/Blu-ray release will break the spell.

Dare I say it? I blame ....

Spoiler

Meg. Always Meg.

I was expecting you to blame Adele Dazeem for a moment there...

 

[JenniferS]

So, what do we do when we are having a crappy day?
We go for a massage - unfortunately the hurting "therapeutic" kind. (Next week, I'll book a relaxing hot stone massage.) And, we go to Future Shop and buy Frozen and Saving Mr. Banks.

 

[Soarin' Over Pgh]

I need the hurting therapeutic type massage right now.


And my sinuses are officially swollen. I'm miserable.


I want to go home. And by home I mean Disneyland.

 

[JenniferS]

I'm working on hubby for Disneyland this year. We've never been.
He doesn't seem real keen on going to Cali. Out of his comfort zone.

Money permitting, we're going. You can bank on it.

 

[acishere]

I'm working on hubby for Disneyland this year. We've never been.
He doesn't seem real keen on going to Cali. Out of his comfort zone.

Money permitting, we're going. You can bank on it.

I could never get people behind doing a Disneyland focused trip either. WDW plane tickets are cheaper and feels more like a getaway than Anaheim.

Finally got to slip it into a trip when going to Coachella. Although already showing up exhausted and full of sand kind of hurt our touring ability.

 

[JenniferS]

I could never get people behind doing a Disneyland focused trip either. WDW plane tickets are cheaper and feels more like a getaway than Anaheim.

Finally got to slip it into a trip when going to Coachella. Although already showing up exhausted and full of sand kind of hurt our touring ability.

We've never been to California, so there's tons of stuff to check out.

Four days at the Disney parks and Downtown Disney; one day at Universal because I want to do the studio tour; and then rent a car and drive!

Maybe hit San Diego, San Fran, see the mountains, drive the PCH, dip my toe in the Pacific.

Making plans. Just need the cash. It will easily cost double, if not triple, the price of a WDW/Free Dining trip.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

I was expecting you to blame Adele Dazeem for a moment there...

"She's wickedly talented."

 

[MOXOMUMD]

@Zweiland Is your avatar a Narwheenie?

 

[acishere]

We've never been to California, so there's tons of stuff to check out.

Four days at the Disney parks and Downtown Disney; one day at Universal because I want to do the studio tour; and then rent a car and drive!

Maybe hit San Diego, San Fran, see the mountains, drive the PCH, dip my toe in the Pacific.

Making plans. Just need the cash. It will easily cost double, if not triple, the price of a WDW/Free Dining trip.

I do not have enough time off to do all of that in one trip. I try to fit something into business trips when there, bit they always schedule them at a point where my time off is already tied up for a different trip. So it all has to be done at night after I'm off the clock.

I did do a Halloween Horror Night at Uni Hollywood one time and the Observatory another trip.

The actual vacation we stayed with friends who moved out there to make up for the major expenses we racked up for the music festival we went to before exploring LA. So we limited ourselves to only that city.

I want to try and save a few vacation days either next year or the following to add a road trip to SF to whenever they send me out to LA for work again. Depends on whether the WDW with friends trip is actually happening.

 

[NYwdwfan]

Spoke too soon. Another card, with $63.90 still remaining on it is missing. (I told you, his partner keeps buying them for him.)

Hubby says, "I want him out of here. Say the word and he's gone."

Not fair to me. He's only 17. He left for a couple of weeks the summer he turned 16. I was worried sick every day. At least if he's here, I sort of know what he's up to.

We nearly lost him at birth. After being placed in our room, I had to go fetch the nurse because I didn't like the way he was breathing. Within a minute or so, his lungs collapsed and he was blue from head to toe. A week in the neo-natal ICU, and he was fine.

He had feeding issues for years. I had to nurse him exclusively for a full year because he couldn't drink from a bottle, sip from a cup, or take anything by spoon. He wasn't able to swallow cereal (pablum) or baby food until well over 15 months. He couldn't tolerate chunkier toddler food until he was 3 1/2. Until then, he lived on baby cereal (pablum), yogurt and whole milk.

He had orthopaedic issues. Had to see a specialist until he was 12.

He has (what turned out to thankfully be a minor) heart anomaly. Spent a couple of years going back and forth to Sick Kids Hospital though.

And he had an accidental overdose of Gravol (Dramamine to you) four years ago, which landed him in pediatric ICU for 24 hours.

He's a handful. But, he's my handful. As much as I want to choke him sometimes, I remember dropping to my knees in the maternity room washroom while the doctors were frantically trying to save him, and begging God to save my son. Obviously, He did. And now I can't bail on him.

I can't overlook his b.s. antics, but I can't cut him off either.
As I've said before, he was raised properly; in an intact loving home; we attended church; he was taught morals and right from wrong. I have to believe that sooner or later he will become the young man that God intends him to be. Until then, I may just have to run interference between him and his father. And pray.

My heart is with you. This made me cry. A mother never gets past the emotion of having her newborn child placed in her arms - no matter how old they get or how stupidly they behave.

 

[donaldtoo]

Spoke too soon. Another card, with $63.90 still remaining on it is missing. (I told you, his partner keeps buying them for him.)

Hubby says, "I want him out of here. Say the word and he's gone."

Not fair to me. He's only 17. He left for a couple of weeks the summer he turned 16. I was worried sick every day. At least if he's here, I sort of know what he's up to.

We nearly lost him at birth. After being placed in our room, I had to go fetch the nurse because I didn't like the way he was breathing. Within a minute or so, his lungs collapsed and he was blue from head to toe. A week in the neo-natal ICU, and he was fine.

He had feeding issues for years. I had to nurse him exclusively for a full year because he couldn't drink from a bottle, sip from a cup, or take anything by spoon. He wasn't able to swallow cereal (pablum) or baby food until well over 15 months. He couldn't tolerate chunkier toddler food until he was 3 1/2. Until then, he lived on baby cereal (pablum), yogurt and whole milk.

He had orthopaedic issues. Had to see a specialist until he was 12.

He has (what turned out to thankfully be a minor) heart anomaly. Spent a couple of years going back and forth to Sick Kids Hospital though.

And he had an accidental overdose of Gravol (Dramamine to you) four years ago, which landed him in pediatric ICU for 24 hours.

He's a handful. But, he's my handful. As much as I want to choke him sometimes, I remember dropping to my knees in the maternity room washroom while the doctors were frantically trying to save him, and begging God to save my son. Obviously, He did. And now I
can't bail on him.

I can't overlook his b.s. antics, but I can't cut him off either.
As I've said before, he was raised properly; in an intact loving home; we attended church; he was taught morals and right from wrong. I have to believe that sooner or later he will become the young man that God intends him to be. Until then, I may just have to run interference between him and his father. And pray.

Having to post from my phone. Internet jacked up here at the office for some reason.

I have posted here before about our 1lb. 4oz. Premie DS and his issues. Fortunately, most of the really bad health situations didn't last much past about age 5 or 6 for him. He still does not drive and has issues with time and space and things like that. He is on both the the Asperger's and autism spectrums. He is now 21 and, fortunately again, his only real vice is his Xbox.

Prayers that your son realizes soon what y'all really went through for him because of your true love for him and his well being and decides to honor that by striving to become a better young man.

 

[donaldtoo]

Takin' waaaaayyy too long to post from my phone and lunch is almost over...
Will hafta' catch up after work.
Have a Magicalllllll...!!!

 

[Cesar R M]

and yes, I photographed the yellow faucet water.

I think the worst part is.. when you said this was not the first time they had the problem.
What kind of system they use to get water to your home?

Every one is about 6 degrees of separation from blaming Meg.

How many degrees is that in the Kevin Bacon Separation Degrees(tm)?

 

[Soarin' Over Pgh]

I think the worst part is.. when you said this was not the first time they had the problem.
What kind of system they use to get water to your home?



How many degrees is that in the Kevin Bacon Separation Degrees(tm)?

Kinda different. If I have an issue with the water at my house, I call the water authority directly and raise hell (and trust me, I do. I always start off very nice and sweet but if the nails need to come out, they do) but at work the most I can do is to the building management and they wipe their bottoms with my complaint.

This is the problem with working in a building that was built in the 40s during the roaring Steel industry of this city. Everything was kinda winged in to make it modern. A modern skyscraper in this city wouldn't have half the issues that I've encountered in this office. There's not much I can do besides document, and forward to the appropriate places. Unfortunately, the building management couldn't care less about "petty" complaints like the ones I've had thus far:

Absolutely BLACK air filters for the AC/ heat in my office
Yellow/discolored water
Toilets not flushing
No water in toilets
cockroaches (that's always a joy to see first thing on a Monday morning)
and my personal favorite, MOLD.

Add to that all the issues you get with the above: constant sickness/illness of building tenants. I've not been the only person to go to the Health Dept. about this building. I'm all but convinced someone has been paid off because nothing changes. There's money under the table somewhere, I just don't know where.

The last time my office's air filter was changed I snapped a pic of the maintanence guy leaving with the solidly black one and reported it to the health department. Nothing came of it.


I'm pretty angry about it.