What saved the folks on the edge was pulling up the emergency brake

• INTERSTATE BRIDGE BREAKS IN MN. See CNN nm - Reporter
  • This is one of my biggest fears! When I saw it on CNN, I thought I was having... - MissouriMT
    • Mine also, and I go very fast driving over them - sm
      • What saved the folks on the edge was pulling up the emergency brake - to keep car from sliding. Remember that! nm
        • Thanks, I will, and I feel such sadness for those people - sm
  • wow. awful sight. - NM

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lotsa eatin', sreamin' and jumpin' in our house with all the men who've played high school, college and semi-pro...Both teams did a tremendous job, and it was a great rivalry to begin with. 

Mommy (who's 1004 miles away called) and we watched the game together during the last plays...that was fun to hear Mommy scream "Yeah, Giants!"  Cat

I'm sorry to hear about your situation.  I agree with what some others said about at least taking some time apart to see how things go.  I also agree with consulting with a family law attorney.  Almost all attorneys have free consultations, so you could talk to several lawyers for free and find one you feel comfortable with.  They often give free advice before you even hire them (the one I worked for did anyway).

It stinks that your husband is so insistent about keeping the house, but if you do end up divorcing it may be hard for you to live there anyway with all the memories, so a new place might be good for you.  It would be hard on your kids for sure, but it is probably hard for them to see their mother belittled and to witness a seemingly loveless marriage as well.

Maybe your husband doesn't want to focus on his own shortcomings so he is focusing on yours or maybe he is just too much of a perfectionist and too selfish.  Have you guys tried counseling?

If you do end up spending time apart you might end up feeling incredibly free without someone constantly telling you how WRONG you are when in fact you are only human and have flaws like everyone else.  He obviously has flaws too, and I would bet money his place would not be spotless and perfectly "organized" if you weren't there to clean it for him!  He probably has no idea how hard you work.  You deserve to be loved unconditionally, and even if you guys break up and you don't date anyone for awhile, at least he won't be there trying to dampen your self confidence and the love you have for yourself.  Good luck and stay strong!!!

I've had both these done to my hair before.  I'm just wondering, does one dry hair out more than the other?  Seems to me when I have highlights done pulled through the cap, my hair seems dry. 

Thanks

Well the girl's foster parents sued my parents' homeowners and they got their money.  So, you need to contact the police again and find out how you can go about filing a claim.  My parents' homeowners insurance went up after that, even though the little girl "provoked" the dog.  The provoked part didn't matter.  So, I guess what I am trying to say here is that my parents were "your neighbors" and they got sued and their insurance premium went up.  We're going back quite a few years, but I'd bet those people that own that dog will lose their homeowners once you sue. 

I would have to bet though that the "foster parents" of the bitten dog probably got legal assistance for free too, since they had about 10 foster kids and were getting a fat check each month and obviously not supervising these kids for that girl to have pulled my dog's ear.  My dog jumped our fence and cut his ear, that girl pulled on the dog's ear, yet the police said that my parents were still responsible for the bite.  I highly doubt that child really need the surgery and probably never even got the surgery, but those foster parents I'm sure took that check right to the bank. 

That may sound harsh and by all means I know that not all foster parents are irresponsible, but in my opinion, my parents got the raw end of the deal. 

Good luck whatever you decide.  

I was cooking Christmas dinner for our family and my kitchen sink got completely clogged up.  Apparently, garbage disposals can only handle so many peeled potato skins, which I did not know then.  Husband tried plunging, son tried plunging.  The only thing left to try was DrainO, which I did not have.  Had my daughter go see if the grocery store was open (hoping, hoping, hoping that it was) and see if they had DrainO or similar brand, and to make sure it was safe for kitchens and garbage disposals. 

As she left for the grocery, I was plotting Plan B - which would have been to finish making a delicious turkey dinner with all the trimmings by using a bathtub or the laundry tub.  Of course, I could not put any garbage down those tubs.

The grocery WAS open.  The Liquid Plumber DID work.  My family and I did NOT have to eat a turkey that was washed and cleaned in a bathtub!

So, for me....Thank God for the grocery who is open on Christmas!!!

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up doing for the same reason.  I talked to my insurance company and he made me promise that I would go to the ER and tell them that I was in a mentally critical condition.  They did give me anti-depressants although it does take a while for the full affect. At least you'll have something on board in the meantime.  You should also be able to go to your PCP and get the same results.  Whatever you do, go see a doctor.  Either your PCP or go to the ER.  They do understand and will help. 

You will continue to be in my prayers.

OK, please help if you can.  My son and I are clueless when it comes to "cool" fashions.  His friends sorta teased him today and said he is really uncool (uncool haircut, clothes, shoes).  They jokingly said they were going to do an extreme makeover on him.  I laughed at first, but then thought, "Hey!  That's not half bad!"  He is starting high school in the fall, and I would like to help him with a makeover this summer.  He is a nice looking kid, just got his braces off (so has a really nice smile), a little bit on the husky side, but his clothes and shoes are Walmart specials.  He is just a basic "boy" hair cut.

What is "cool" for boys?  Where should we shop?  What kind of haircut is cool for a 15-year-old boy?  I'm so clueless!

Any advice you can give me would be greatly appreciated!

 Chickadee

You know how when you go to the dentist office, enroll your child in day care, fill out a job application, everyone wants contact information "in case of emergency."  Maybe I'm different from everyone else, but I consider an emergency as defined by my falling to the floor clutching my chest while my lips turn blue and I can't talk, or falling down 5 flights of steps, or being hit by a car...you get the idea.

I no longer have a good relationship with my mother (75) because she is getting senile.  I can't trust that anything she knows about me won't make the gossip curcuit as the truth or something totally different, plus she wants to die on her own property without anyone else another and be found days later by some unknown stranger who notices her body out in the yard...so I don't visit, either.  Last time I visited, her whole face was black and blue because she had passed out and fallen face down on a concrete pad where she stayed until the next day when she was finally able to stand up and go inside, then hide from the world for almost a month...I happened to visit her within a week of it happening.  I don't want to be the one who finds her dead on another visit. 

The reason this is important is because of a legal situation that I am in totally unrelated to her and I have a gag order on me...and she can't talk to me without taking "no" for an answer when she quizzes me about it, which she will do every single time we talk.  So, I've just had to say, have a nice life, love you, let instructions to my sister to call me if anyone needs me.

Now it comes back to those old applications I filled out.  My phone number changed and my dentist used my mother's "emergency" contact information to try to reach me, going into great detail the nature of why they were calling.  It was just my 6 months cleaning, but I didn't even schedule it because I was moving and changing jobs and couldn't predict if I could keep an appointment 6 months in the future.  So my mother calls my ex-husband, my ex-mother-in-law, trying to reach me for this "emergency".  My ex-hubby called me.

This is so embarrasing to me.  If someone dies, let my sister call me.  I don't know what to do or how else to get across to her that she doesn't have the right to interfere in my affairs.  The dentist office made the first wrong, and her trying to "save" me was the next one.  I'm almost 50 years old and I think I can take care of myself, thank you very much.  I let the dentist office have it with both barrels.  That was abuse of a reason to call my mother as an "emergency" and they have taken her info out of their system.  I have even had to change physicians because my mother and I had the same primary care, and all my visits were relayed to her by the staff..."oh, your daughter looked so good when she was here last week!", which prompts a phone call to my ex-hubby.  ARRRGH!!  Violation of HIPAA!

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to deal with this?  I'm almost at the point of having a lawyer draft a letter to her.  I'm past the point of feeling bad about hurting her feelings as she shows no consideration for mine. 

My 86-yo dad is the same way.  Sticking his nose into my business.  He also constantly rags on me about my son not mowing the grass, etc.  I have explained to him that I LIKE to mow the grass and to please drop it and he just keeps on and on.  One day he walked in my office and shook his finger at me and said, "You just wait, you just wait, y'all are drinking way too much pop."  This because I buy it when it's on sale and it lasts a very long, long time.  And, by the way, neither my son nor I are overweight.  Older people just can't (anyways he can't) realize I am 53 years old and have lived on my own without his valuable input for a long time.  He just doesn't have anything else to do. 

The thing that really bugs me is when he comes over and just plops down in here when I am working and I tell him he can't be in here when I'm working and he gives me all kinds of excuses ("I can't see read what you're typing") and I have to just keep the screen minimized until he goes.  He just doesn't get it.  The other day I told him to go over and check on my cousin's new fence, and that got his train of thought going in a different direction and off he went.  He called me one day and told me not to commit to the big diocesan pledge thing that's going on, that I am to tell them I am a single parent just barely scraping by, etc., etc., and I wanted to tell him I am not quite that destitute yet, but I just agreed. 

Oh, and I have an extremely screwed-up sister, too, who Dad thinks can do no wrong and her son is the greatest, etc., etc.  Oh, the stories I could tell about her!  Well, it was me who gave him a place to live after Katrina and it was me who gave him my couch for his new house because he didn't have one (another delusional idea, he thinks he is broke), not her, so I just keep quiet and keep civil and remind myself he's old.   When it gets to be too much I tell his sisters, who tell him to back off then he does for a while.  All part of life. 

as soon as I open my pie hole.  Some people don't mind that we're 'from away' (their endearing term for us outta stata's), but some folks get down right nasty about it.  I suppose it's like anywhere though....I guess folks in Florida don't like the people from New England either because I once saw a bumpah stikah that said, "Keep the south beautiful, put a yankee on a bus" or something like that.  It was a long time ago and my memory isn't what it used to be.

or known names that should be used for animals

1.  JSG, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

2   Guido.

3.  Kira or Kyra.

4.  Frank or Felix.

5.  Todd.

6.  Domino.

7.  Angela.

8.  Raff.

9.  Lily.

10. Shaman.