Daisalana

I am about to explode. I will give the brief background. A local church (all black, sadly this is relevant), came to us to make their dedication yearbooks. First, this is not what we typically do. Our industry is CD & DVD. But we CAN do it, and back when we were a smaller company we did a lot of local stuff. So, we take the job since it's a local church. First, their artwork was a nightmare. Our graphic artists (who normally spend 5 minutes lining up customer artwork onto our templates) had to spend over 8 working hours on their project. We did NOT charge them extra for this. We set up meetings and met with their committee to get everything right. We delivered the proofs (they are suppose to pick them up, but they were 'busy')...TWICE. She called me every hour on the hour for weeks while our artists were fixing it. They had a deadline of Dec.9. I ALWAYS called her back, even though she just always wanted to complain about how long it was taking. We took a while trying to fix THEIR problems for them, since they didn't know what they were doing to begin with. But we promised we would make their deadline. We did, they got it in time. They still owe us about 40 bucks for a page they had to fix after we started printing the job. So anyway... I e-mailed her the other day, said hope your holidays are good and yadda yadda, we never got the $40, if you could let me know how you'd like to pay that. All of a sudden no response from her. We figured we'd write off the $40, this is why we make everyone pre-pay. Well I wrote her again this morning, I POLITELY said I haven't heard from her, just checking the status of the payment. Thanks so much! And this is what I get back................. You have treated us like second class citizens throughout this entire process. Perhaps you're not accustomed or don't even like working with minorities? Perhaps our job was too small for you and didn't warrant superior customer service? Whatever the reason, your customer service and how you treated us was unwarranted and unappreciated. Again, you will definitely get your money this week. OMFG. 1. That is COMPLETELY offensive to me 2. We went above and beyond and I am just SHOCKED that I got any kind of negative e-mail. I am so mad I can't stand it. I want to slap her. We did so much for them, and this is their response?????? Thanks to them, we're not doing any more local work. The CEO is offended, and they're sending her an e-mail personally. The race card gets old, give me a fucking break. :angry

Hey guys.. getting ready for the hockey game, but wanted to take pics of my new size 19 pants!!! and the ornament Gina got me!!! I ended up not pleased with how I look in pics, so I've put myself in a rut, maybe I just need to not take pics for a while!! And the ornament just does not show up good in pics, with flash it was too bright and without flash it's hard to make it out.. But it's gorgeous yall! (oh and my cat Gracie down there says hello!)

I think my restriction is finally easing up, ever so slightly. I still had to take 2 hours to finish my Slimfast this morning.. but we went to the mall for lunch. I got an egg roll and an eggdrop soup. I throw up solids 100% right now, but I was able to sloooowly eat tiny bites of the egg roll (1/2 total) without regurgitating. And 2 spoonfuls of the soup.. an hour later I ate the rest of the soup in my office, all went down fine. Then mom came in with her lunch leftovers and told me I had to try the chicken florentine from Olive Garden. I took a tiny bite, and knew it was going to get stuck, so I planned to spit it out when she left.. but she kept talking.. so I swallowed and waited.. it went down! YAY! Another week or two and I'll be back to solids hopefully.

Hehe, nice post. Merry Frookin Christmas to you too.:angry

My doc had a pedometer in the little goodie bag he gave me. DH shook it really hard out of boredom and it went ka-poot.

ROFLMAO!!! Oh man!!! That is too too too funny!!!! I don't think I could bring myself to suppositories! I had to drink a bottle of magnesium citrate the night before surgery (in a hotel also).. my DH (DF at the time), and my mom & g'ma came.. mom & g'ma had their own room, and I was so afraid I'd be loud and noisy with the poos, I asked DH to stay in their hotel room till I was 'done'. Ended up not being as eventful as I thought, but I would just die if I had to get him to put a suppository up there. Thanks for the story, that was too much!

Gas-X and walk!

yeah, DH said he likes it because he can just lay back and enjoy.. which makes sense, when I'm on top I get absolutely nothing out of it. I'm sitting there going (in my head of course) 'oh damn my arm arm, my hand, my hand, my legs are cramping, oy oy, hurry up hurry up' I don't notice the sex part lol.

Last night at Cracker Barrell I had a barf moment.. I hate these in public also, the noise it makes when I spit into the toilet, it sounds like I'm taking a big crap! I've found a new plan though.. I went to CB bathroom for the 2nd time last night, and 2 ladies went in before me, but the food wasn't going to wait for anyone.. so I took a hand wipe, and spit into that, then put it in the toilet.. so no one knew what I was doing in there! Wasa- My doc had mentioned to my mom on my last surgery, since the port is between my boobs.. that when I get to my goal, he can take the port out and seal off the tubing. I told my mom I don't have any intentions of doing that in case I need to be adjusted at a later time in my life.. but since you're worried about your port, would your doc not take it out? My doc volunteered this info without me ever complaining about the port.

I'm always chewing the inside of my mouth, to the point of sores. It's not a nervous tick, I just do it all the time. And if I have a pen that is the click open/close kind.. I click it obsessively. I love the noise.. On the flip side of that, if someone else is doing it, it drives me batty.

Oh something to share.. I posted this in another thread for any interested, but I donate money this time of year, normally to the Angel trees at the malls (where you shop for kids). All of our malls angel trees are empty now, all adopted (which is good!).. so this blog I read, they are taking donations for this boy Julian who has brain cancer, and the last update I saw they expect this to be his last Christmas.. so here's the website if you want to donate.. But I wanted you guys to listen to the song. It's a song I use to have years ago, one of those I lost & forgot about. But I've been listening to it over & over now (via the website). If you go to the website, it should start playing.. it's a beautiful song. My Semblance of Sanity

I was going to suggest what you did! Our Xmas Company party was yesterday. We have about 100 employees and it was a potluck. There was SO much food. I can't keep anything down lately, so I got a little bit of stuffing, mashed sweet potatoes, and green been casserole. Took 2 bites, then played with me food the rest of the hour so I didn't stand out! Everyone kept telling me how the deep fried cajun turkey was AMAZING.. buggers. I wouldn't dare eat meat right now

Kat- Oh I know! I was just rambling and giving more info. I can't yell at this lady (and boy I want to), so I'm just trying to tell everyone my story and get it OFF MY CHEST! I got a response from her last night, and it kept me up at night. I was so upset, and I was upset that I was upset. This is just a horrible woman and I shouldn't let it bother me. Let her play the victim wherever she goes. I wrote her back That is an extremely offensive e-mail, and I’m sorry that you feel that way. You may mail the check. Have a happy holidays, To yesterday's e-mail. It's pretty passive aggressive, but it kept me from saying something I shouldn't. Then this is what she wrote me last night... The truth is sometimes not very pleasant. However, it is what it is. We wouldn't dare not pay you guys $40 and you should have figured out that if I had not responded to you, there must have been some reason that I had not. Indian Creek has a very long history and is highly regarded in this community. However, every detail of the service that you guys provided to us was inferior, including you all being over 2 hours late delivering the journals despite the fact you specifically told me 10:00 a.m., not to mention the fact of you saying Greg and Jannifer's work was not professional quality. So, if you want to talk about offensive, look at your own actions and then go from there. I can't win with her, I'm not even bothering to respond anymore.

There actually is something out there on the web at least, that is a concise guide to sex for overweight people. It has M&F Overweight, M overweight, F overweight. I've looked at it before, it shows pictures and info on best positions due to bellies in the way and things like that. I've always been very active in bed, but me on top riding him has always kept me winded. It's his favorite, but I rarely ever do it because like someone else said after 2 minutes my hands cramp from leaning on them and I'm out of breath. I had to ask a big favor the other day, so I woke him up with this.. and it's been the first time I was on top in a long time, and I was able to last 'all the way' woowoo! I was tired and arms hurt by the end of it, but I could do it. Before, even if I wanted to hold on till the end, I just couldn't do it. DH says he can tell a difference in sex now with my belly being smaller, when he's on top I guess it's easier for him?

Morning ya'll!! I woke up this morning thinking it was Friday I took a shower, got dressed, had a bounce in my step. On the way to work our radio show was talking about Friday tomorrow..and bam I realized it's Thursday. BUMMER!!!! I am going to Florida on Saturday, I don't know if I mentioned that??? Going to Panama City Beach to stay with my g'parents at their Condo till Monday. We do the Survivor Finale at their condo every winter. DH has never been to a beach, so he is coming this year to see the beach! Any of the violets in the PCB area??

Just an update, I got this last night. After deliberation with the CEO, we think it's best not to respond. Anyone ever watch I Love NewYork? This lady reminds me of Sister Patterson. Plays the victim, makes up stories in their head, and no matter how much you try to reason, you can never win. She told us to call and confirm delivery, at 9:45 we started calling her on the number she provided. She never did answer. At 10:40 I told our delivery guy to go ahead and deliver and we'll hope someone is there. Prior to this I told her it would be a 'window of time' because he makes a lot of deliveries and we can't pinpoint an exact time. About the artists, we have 4-color presses, and her 'professional graphic artists' did the entire book.. in POWERPOINT. If you know ANYTHING about anything in graphics, you know PowerPoint is NOT A GRAPHICS PROGRAM. So *we* had to add bleed, we had to resize everything, we had to convert all her RGB to CMYK (which we told them well in advance to make it CMYK). The graphics were well under 150dpi (we told them we needed 300dpi). So.. their 'professional graphic artists', which were volunteers from the church.. were NOT professional graphic artists, so get over it. All we kept saying is, "This is not going to print good, xyz should happen to get the quality better". And they took offense.. because they're professional with their Powerpoint. Just wanted to vent to you guys, this is a unique situation to me, and I'm appalled... and I'm not going to lose anymore sleep over this!! CEO said we should send all of this to the pastor and let them see what she's doing, and I think someone here (or maybe DH) mentioned that too. But I'm going to be the bigger person. The truth is sometimes not very pleasant. However, it is what it is. We wouldn't dare not pay you guys $40 and you should have figured out that if I had not responded to you, there must have been some reason that I had not. Indian Creek has a very long history and is highly regarded in this community. However, every detail of the service that you guys provided to us was inferior, including you all being over 2 hours late delivering the journals despite the fact you specifically told me 10:00 a.m., not to mention the fact of you saying Greg and Jannifer's work was not professional quality. So, if you want to talk about offensive, look at your own actions and then go from there.

It's that time of year that I donate money to causes.. Ironically, the angel tree at our local malls are all empty.. all the children were 'adopted'. From a blog I frequent, they're taking donations for this little boy with cancer so he can have a fantabulous Christmas. The last update I read is that this is going to be his last Christmas. Thought I'd pass it on in case anyone else is in a donating mood. My Semblance of Sanity

Kat- She got her invoice weeks ago, we delivered the product before she ever paid it. Accounting came to me and said hey we went to close this job out and saw there is payment outstanding.. so I went back to check with them, I e-mailed her another copy of the invoice to reference what I was talking about. I wrote back she wrote an offensive e-mail and she can mail the check, happy holidays. I just got her reply, and it's ALL bs. She is clearly a racist bitch. Period. So, tomorrow I am writing the outlined e-mail of the costs WE incurred fixing THEIR problems. And I will make sure to not be as nice as I have been. No one at our company deserved to be talked to the way she is, ESPECIALLY when we busted our ass for her and to make her deadlines (even though SHE breached the contract for deadlines when she turned in the bad artwork.)

I have Canadia family. My aunt actually took my 12 year old cousin out of school for a day to protest Bush when he was up there for something. I say they're batshiat crazy.

My doc is a handsome man.. and the most charming person I've ever met (that's a big reason I picked him, he was so personable and made me feel comfortable).. But I'm not attracted to him.. I would say it's age, since he is significantly older than me.

I don't know anything about how the water works going through.. I do recall some nights I woke up in the middle of the night with a full bladder, but it has been a while. I normally just have to explode when I wake up for work.

B- Slimfast L- 1 bite of green been casserole, 1 bite of stuffing, and most the icing from a red velvet cake slice :nervous (Company Christmas Party) D- I'm making a cheese & chive eggbeater w/grits.

Suzie- Do yourself a favor.. throw it away :eek:

Hahaha Terry! Thank you for that :eek:

There was this guy in HS that HATED me.. the entire time I was there. And I mean hate, like I did something to him. When we found out we were in the same classes (Seems we always were), he'd make a point to cuss and get pissed off that he has to share the same air with me. I NEVER understood why. I would always ask.. what the hell is your problem?! And he would just give me pissed off looks. I would ask around (we had semi-mutual friends) about what I ever did to him, and heard mixed stories.. He thought I turned someone in to the cops for xyz (I don't even know the whole story), someone said my brother (who was a drug addict at the time, and probably affiliated with this guy) told him something about me, but I don't know what.. in any event, I've been out of HS for 6 years and I still dwell on that. I want to know what his problem was. I know for a fact I never did anything to him, to his friends, etc. My point was, teenage guys are crazy too!! It's the hormones and cliques. I don't have kids, but I wouldn't get involved unless she was threatened.. Maybe one of her cheerleader or football friends said something mean to that girl and said your daughter said it. It's amazing how quick things like that can happen in HS. Good riddens to all that crap!!