Do you live in Texas? :)

• anyone have cheerleader daughters? sm - LMT
  • An actual suggestion - MTT
    • Thank you for your kindness - i did find a few things on competition sites sm - LMT
      • More suggestions - MTT
  • Do you live in Texas? :) - Myrtle Beach
    • yes, i do live in Tx for your info not that that matters. sm - LMT
      • I don't think MB was being rude, I think it was a funny reference to - SP
    • grow up - why do you have to be immature?
    • that was funny!...nm - LOL
  • Save the Cheerleader...Save the World... - nm
    • That was the first thing I thought too... - lol! nm
      • geeez - me

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I have a dilemma.  I am an animal lover and have something I cannot come to a conclusion about.  At a restaurant where I eat lunch every Friday with a friend of mine, I have noticed a young male kitty hanging around outside looking for food.  This past week he ran up to my friend and rubbed her legs and quietly meowed.  I purposely did not try to pet him because I knew I would get attached and ignored him.  Well, ever since then I find myself thinking about him and wanting to rescue him.  Meanwhile, I already have 4 inside cats (2 rescues, 2 Maine Coons) and hubby really does not want another cat in the house because a few years ago I promised we would  never have more than 4 (had up to 5 at one point previously).  I actually have a huge screened deck he could stay on indefinitely because I do not believe in letting cats run loose for their own safety.  I could provide plenty of food, a warm place to sleep, and veterinary care.  At some point I would even probably work him into our household, but I just cannot do it at the moment.  Just not sure I would be doing right by that kitty because I am sure he would be upset and confused for a good while as to where he was and what was going on, but is that better than being hungry and cold?  I know there are lots of animal lovers out there.  What does everyone think?? 

It was a physician owned hospital.  The story was on CNN.  A man had back surgery there, had some sort of bad reaction to the anesthesia and the wife herself had to do CPR.  The surgeon walked in and told her to call 911. 

The hospital has been shut down. 

  I live in an 890 sq foot rock house.  I am guessing at the sq foot actually.  It is close to 900 but not quite there.  It ihas 2 bedrooms, 1 bath.  Metal roof.  I live close to the schools.  I live 2 blocks from the local hospital.  I just applied for a job there in fact.  I worked 8 years for a big 300-bed multispeciality hospital that was 35 miles away.  I left because of the climbing gas prices and I thought I needed a break from the office politics.  I started working for an on-line transcription company and for some reason just cannot seem to produce the lines or make half the money I was making at the hospital.  I have been here 6 months already.   I applied to another company to try my luck there and they offered me a job but I read in the paper yetserday  this little hospital here is hiring.  They do light transcription, filing, I forget what else it said.   The best part is I will have benes.  As I was applying a nurse recognized me and was telling me about them and they have improved since I worked there 10 years ago.  I hope the pay has as well and I hope they still like me.  LOL. 

after I found HUGE holes in the walkway between my house and barn.  I thought they were just little mice stealing grain, but then I spotted one and it was a HONKIN RAT!  My poor olderly cat was out there with me at the time and saw it, and he hissed at it and ran away! 

I asked for advice on what to do at a local agricultural board, because I have other animals and didn't want to use poison and conventional traps weren't working.  They advised putting a large pale of water out with some seeds floating in it, figuring the rats would go for the seeds and end up drowning.  That was a no-go because the water just froze up solid.  I wound up reluctantly going with Decon because I just can't have my house destroyed.  I haven't had seen any more rats or evidence of them stealing grain, so I'm guessing they have died.  The guy at the grain store promised me the rats would not die in the building and stink the joint up, rather they would crawl off and die outside.  I don't know if I believe that, as it is still winter here and decomposition would be holding off until it warms up.  We'll see, but at least the destruction has been halted.

Good luck and I too say have no mercy, because you just don't need them destroying hour house or causing a spark chewing wires and burnin' the place down.  It is war!   

  (How un-PC is this emoticon?!)

Just heard starting next year in Texas young girls are being ordered to get the new cervical cancer injection, just passed by the governor of the state so I am sure there will be a lot of talk about this.  

We live in Illinois.

He would be taking my youngest son with him also.  The total cost of the trip for the two of them would easily be $2000 since my DH does not get paid for taking time off work.  If he takes this trip that would mean no vacation for me or my other two kids next year since that's pretty much all we can afford is one vacation a year.  She is insisting her only brother (DH) be there at the actual ceremony which is on a Tuesday evening.  Then afterwards they plan on going out to dinner to celebrate - no party that would be it.

I would rather we go the following week, drive the entire family and stay the week and celebrate the whole week with them.  My son graduates high school in two years and I don't expect her to be at the ceremony for that.  We probably wouldn't have enough tickets for her anyway.

DH doesn't have the guts to tell her "No" since she's laying the guilt trip pretty thick. 

Do you think we are obligated to go to the ceremony?  She has more than enough family members that live over there that could attend (grandparents, aunts, uncles, her other children).

Thanks for any input. 

water for a long long ways and water is clean and beautiful. Can't remember the name, but it's about a 3-hour drive from San Antonio. I'll see if I can locate it. They go there all the time. nm

I know plenty of 80+ y/o people where I live (and I'm 25 years behind them...kinda sorta)....who are MORE active than many I know much younger.  I see them going to the airports to jaunt around Paris/Spain, or just several times a year flying cross country to spend holidays with families, etc, etc.  So if you see 80+ as *old* or *very old* - think again.  It's an individual basis kind of thing, in my mind - OH AND BY THE WAY, none of the people I speak of have had plastic surgery of any kind and look FABULOUS!.........GOD BLESS 'EM!!!!  Good genes - genetics -