I Voted

I started Lisey's Story last week, too. But I'm trying to read it
slowly to prolong the pleasure. Not easy when I keep waking up at 3:00
a.m. and reading for an hour...My DD frequently uses the word Boo'ya
and now I need to go ask her where she got it from.

Donna in Virginia

wrote:


I know the feeling, and we all know I'm a sporadic stitcher at best,
anyway! I've spent quite a bit on stashing lately (being two hours from
Picture This Plus is not always a good thing!) but now that I'm working
full time, I'm not even reading as much... started SK's "Lisey's Story"
a week ago and still haven't finished it, and that's just unheard of
for me! As for stitching.. well... I'm still fighting trying to see
things. I keep spending money on shoes, trying to find something that
will help my back AND feet hurt less by the end of the shift. I keep
thinking every week that with "this paycheck" I'll be able to get new
glasses and see if that helps me any. But shoes keep distracting me...
sigh just like a kid, so easily distracted.. LOL
Tegan

Donna wrote:
I started Lisey's Story last week, too. But I'm trying to read it
slowly to prolong the pleasure. Not easy when I keep waking up at 3:00
a.m. and reading for an hour...My DD frequently uses the word Boo'ya
and now I need to go ask her where she got it from.

Donna in Virginia

It's not to prolong the pleasure so much as quite a bit of it hits
closer to home than I want to admit. And yeah, while I've only gotten
so far, I'd be darned curious about where DD got Boo'ya from too!
Tegan

"Karen C - California" wrote in message
...
wrote:

Amen.

And the one that causes me problems is the people who think that I own a
cell phone for THEIR convenience and should drop everything to answer it
no matter where I am or what I'm doing.

I have one friend who will never have my cell number because of what she
does with my home phone. I'll go in to take a bath, and she'll dial
every 20 seconds until she finally realizes that maybe I'm not home. If
she had my cell number, she'd switch to dialing that every 20 seconds
until I get out of the bath to answer it.

All my problems last year were caused by someone who never stopped to
think that when I go to the doctor, I'm required to turn the ringer off,
so there was a perfectly good reason not to answer, which had nothing to
do with her hysterical imaginings that if I wasn't answering, I must be
dying.
--
Karen C - California

Karen,
Is it possible to set up a profile for when you are at a doctor's appt,
having voice mail take the call, stating you are at the doctors and can't
have you phone on in their offices? I know it may be a pain to have to take
someone else into account, but it might alleviate any future problems.
JM2C, FWIW.
--
Carey in MA

Carey N. wrote:
Karen,
Is it possible to set up a profile for when you are at a doctor's appt,
having voice mail take the call, stating you are at the doctors and can't
have you phone on in their offices? I know it may be a pain to have to take
someone else into account, but it might alleviate any future problems.
JM2C, FWIW.
--
Carey in MA




I would have to re-record the voice mail to say "I can't answer the
phone, I'm at the doctor who requires me to turn off the phone" and two
days later "I can't answer the phone, I'm at the bank which requires me
to turn off the phone" and 15 minutes after that "I can't answer the
phone because I'm at the post office counter and am required to turn off
the phone", because I'm not allowed a smorgasbord of greetings. "I
can't answer the phone right now" covers everything.

The real problem was that someone who KNEW that I regularly go to the
doctor claimed that the only reason not to answer that crossed her mind
was that I was dying, and claims she never even thought about it that I
might be with the doctor when she called. Or might be taking a nap, or
might be taking a bath, or might be up to my elbows in making meat loaf,
or might not have heard the phone ring because I don't carry it with me
everywhere.

I'm sure if she heard "I'm at the doctor" on Monday and again on
Wednesday, she would leap to the conclusion that I didn't re-record the
message, and not that I was with Dr. A on Monday and with Dr. B on
Wednesday.

I took a much easier step -- there's now a sign on my front door telling
the police not to break in to rescue me unless the 911 call came from my
number, because it is far more efficient for me to call them directly
than to call someone else and ask that person to call them. May make me
look paranoid, but at least I will not come home again to find that my
window has been broken, the things under the window have been broken,
bouncing holsters and nightsticks have knocked things down, which were
then stepped on and broken...

For all the complaints by the police that the house was a mess, a goodly
portion of the "mess" was created by their guy breaking in and not
watching where he's going. The laundry sitting in the armchair till I
could put it all away was in no one's way until he knocked it to the
floor and trailed it six feet from where it fell; then the inspector
complained that *I* should not leave laundry on the floor! Ditto, the
"clutter" complained of on the bathroom floor, which *had* been neatly
on the shelf until all my pills got kicked off by someone coming in
through the window.

--

Karen C - California
www.CFSfacts.org where we give you the facts and dispel the myths
Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf
Watch/Listen at http://www.cdc.gov/cfs/psas.htm

Finished 11/12/06 -- Jukebox Saturday Night (my own design)

WIP: baby and housewarming gifts, July birthstone, Flowers of
Hawaii (Jeanette Crews) for ME!!!
Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel
LTR: Fireman's Prayer (#2), Amid Amish Life, Angel of Autumn,
Calif Sampler, Holiday Snowglobe

Editor/Proofreader www.KarenMCampbell.com
Design page http://www.KarenMCampbell.com/designs.html

I would have to re-record the voice mail to say "I can't answer the
phone, I'm at the doctor who requires me to turn off the phone" and two
days later "I can't answer the phone, I'm at the bank which requires me
to turn off the phone" and 15 minutes after that "I can't answer the
phone because I'm at the post office counter and am required to turn off
the phone", because I'm not allowed a smorgasbord of greetings. "I
can't answer the phone right now" covers everything.

The real problem was that someone who KNEW that I regularly go to the
doctor claimed that the only reason not to answer that crossed her mind
was that I was dying, and claims she never even thought about it that I
might be with the doctor when she called. Or might be taking a nap, or
might be taking a bath, or might be up to my elbows in making meat loaf,
or might not have heard the phone ring because I don't carry it with me
everywhere.

I'm sure if she heard "I'm at the doctor" on Monday and again on
Wednesday, she would leap to the conclusion that I didn't re-record the
message, and not that I was with Dr. A on Monday and with Dr. B on
Wednesday.

I took a much easier step -- there's now a sign on my front door telling
the police not to break in to rescue me unless the 911 call came from my
number, because it is far more efficient for me to call them directly
than to call someone else and ask that person to call them. May make me
look paranoid, but at least I will not come home again to find that my
window has been broken, the things under the window have been broken,
bouncing holsters and nightsticks have knocked things down, which were
then stepped on and broken...

For all the complaints by the police that the house was a mess, a goodly
portion of the "mess" was created by their guy breaking in and not
watching where he's going. The laundry sitting in the armchair till I
could put it all away was in no one's way until he knocked it to the
floor and trailed it six feet from where it fell; then the inspector
complained that *I* should not leave laundry on the floor! Ditto, the
"clutter" complained of on the bathroom floor, which *had* been neatly
on the shelf until all my pills got kicked off by someone coming in
through the window.
--
Karen C - California
www.CFSfacts.org where we give you the facts and dispel the myths
Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf
Watch/Listen at http://www.cdc.gov/cfs/psas.htm


Your sign sounds like the best solution. Sounds as if it would have looked
like the Keystone Cops, had someone been able to video their entry. I'm
sure they never thought of how greatful they should be that you don't have a
large guard dog when they came through a window; there would have been more
than laundry trailed across the floor, for sure! VBG At any rate, I take
it you are home and somewhat sorted out from that situation for now.
--
Carey in MA

Carey N. wrote:


Your sign sounds like the best solution. Sounds as if it would have looked
like the Keystone Cops, had someone been able to video their entry.



As they explained it, she had them so convinced that it was a
life-or-death medical emergency that they ran through the whole house at
full speed looking in every corner. This is a small house with a lot of
tight corners; you CAN'T run full speed through it without crashing into
a wall.

Just for the guy to get from the window he got in to the front door by
the most direct route, he'd have to make half a dozen turns, most less
than 3 feet from one turn to the next. So, yeah, I can understand why
his belt equipment would be swinging frantically and knocking things
down that would NOT be in any danger of falling when *I* walk past them.

But the kicker was that they claimed the reason the inspector was called
was because all this stuff on the floor (most of which wasn't there
before they came in) impeded speedy exit in case of fire.

Where was the government's concern for my ability to exit in case of
fire when I was reporting to doctors that I was often physically unable
to get out of bed (what the doctors call "paralytic muscle weakness"),
or fainting every time I stood up? If they were really concerned, they
would have sent me a caregiver to help me out of bed or carry me to
safety. That they won't do, even after I asked them point-blank why the
PHYSICAL inability to get out wasn't being addressed by any government
agency.

About six months after that incident, some nameless person contacted the
inspector and tried to get me in trouble again. I was never able to get
upright and to the front door before the inspector left ... doesn't that
prove that the real hazard to my health is not clutter in the walkway
but unresponsive muscles? Eventually, a friend called and explained it
to them that if they were going to have to knock on the door, they had
to give me several minutes to get there, as well as confirming that the
only people to be in the house in the past month were him and me, so
whoever made that call had no idea of the current conditions and was
simply harassing me.

My family can't sue the government if I "choose" to have a couple boxes
along the wall, but I'm sure they'd get much better results for suing
the government if I died in a fire because there was no caregiver to
assist a bedridden patient in getting out.


--

Karen C - California
www.CFSfacts.org where we give you the facts and dispel the myths
Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf
Watch/Listen at http://www.cdc.gov/cfs/psas.htm

Finished 11/12/06 -- Jukebox Saturday Night (my own design)

WIP: baby and housewarming gifts, July birthstone, Flowers of
Hawaii (Jeanette Crews) for ME!!!
Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel
LTR: Fireman's Prayer (#2), Amid Amish Life, Angel of Autumn,
Calif Sampler, Holiday Snowglobe

Editor/Proofreader www.KarenMCampbell.com
Design page http://www.KarenMCampbell.com/designs.html

Karen C - California wrote:
Carey N. wrote:
Karen,
Is it possible to set up a profile for when you are at a doctor's appt,
having voice mail take the call, stating you are at the doctors and can't
have you phone on in their offices? I know it may be a pain to have to take
someone else into account, but it might alleviate any future problems.
JM2C, FWIW.
--
Carey in MA




I would have to re-record the voice mail to say "I can't answer the
phone, I'm at the doctor who requires me to turn off the phone" and two
days later "I can't answer the phone, I'm at the bank which requires me
to turn off the phone" and 15 minutes after that "I can't answer the
phone because I'm at the post office counter and am required to turn off
the phone", because I'm not allowed a smorgasbord of greetings. "I
can't answer the phone right now" covers everything.

The real problem was that someone who KNEW that I regularly go to the
doctor claimed that the only reason not to answer that crossed her mind
was that I was dying, and claims she never even thought about it that I
might be with the doctor when she called. Or might be taking a nap, or
might be taking a bath, or might be up to my elbows in making meat loaf,
or might not have heard the phone ring because I don't carry it with me
everywhere.

I'm sure if she heard "I'm at the doctor" on Monday and again on
Wednesday, she would leap to the conclusion that I didn't re-record the
message, and not that I was with Dr. A on Monday and with Dr. B on
Wednesday.

I took a much easier step -- there's now a sign on my front door telling
the police not to break in to rescue me unless the 911 call came from my
number, because it is far more efficient for me to call them directly
than to call someone else and ask that person to call them. May make me
look paranoid, but at least I will not come home again to find that my
window has been broken, the things under the window have been broken,
bouncing holsters and nightsticks have knocked things down, which were
then stepped on and broken...

For all the complaints by the police that the house was a mess, a goodly
portion of the "mess" was created by their guy breaking in and not
watching where he's going. The laundry sitting in the armchair till I
could put it all away was in no one's way until he knocked it to the
floor and trailed it six feet from where it fell; then the inspector
complained that *I* should not leave laundry on the floor! Ditto, the
"clutter" complained of on the bathroom floor, which *had* been neatly
on the shelf until all my pills got kicked off by someone coming in
through the window.

--

Karen C - California


How many cops were in the house? I mean I'd think it would take more
then the couple that would show up to rescue what they thought was a
dying woman to create such a mess that the board of health would evict
you from the premises.

I know the 15 or so firemen in my house didn't manage it, we couldn't
live in the house because there was no heat, broken windows, soot
throughtout the house and the toxic smell of burnt drywall. The cops
that also responded found dirty dishes in the kitchen, some dirty
clothes around the hampers from where I'd sorted them earlier in the
day, and yet the board of health never got involved.

Hmmmm......

Caryn (taking full responsibility for those dirty dishes, having been
exhausted the night before from working 10 hrs on Black Friday in a
retail establishment)

On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 11:58:27 -0500, "Felice Friese"
wrote:


"Karen C - California" wrote in message
...
My polling place has changed, and is now two doors down from Rick's
Dessert Diner.

So, I decided that I'm going around 10, when Rick's opens, and will treat
myself to a piece of chocolate cake while I'm out.

Well, we do deserve treats for getting out to vote! Mine was a hefty hunk of
French toast and a sausage from Shaw's takeout, on which I poured some of my
own gutsy Grade B maple syrup.

Felice

We get to vote on Saturday week in a State Election (no weekday
elections here in Oz that I know of. My polling place is a local
school and the school usually has a sausage sizzle as a fund raiser,
so I usually walk there and eat a sausage in bread on the way home.

Rosemary in Melbourne, Australia

On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:40:37 +0000, Bruce
wrote:


All these high-tech gadgets seem to cause more problems than they are
worth. We still rely on the very low-tech but reliable bit of paper
with a pencilled cross or crosses.

We use paper and pencil here in Australia too.

Rosemary in Melbourne