Glad I'm not the only anti-Hallmark holiday (sm)

• My mother's day - chopped liver
  • Mothers day - sme
  • I think it is enough if you kids at least acknowledge the day - sm - Laura E.
  • To chopped liver, read all of the thread, - mthanded
  • I think you have to define Mother's Day for yourself... - Jillian
  • I didn't have a great one either. - I am sorry!!
  • Both of my children told me Happy Mother's - Wannie
  • Mother's Day - MTqueenB
    • Kind of ashamed to admit I threw daughter's card away - chopped liver
      • I think that grandparents who babysit for free are just making their kids dependent on them - and they seldom appreciate it, they grow to expect
  • i know that hurts but here are a few thoughts.... - kat
  • Mother's Day is not a Hallmark holiday (sm) - chopped liver
    • Yep, but MT week IS. and i bet people complain if they arent recognized. :( - nm
  • Lucky Ones - IC
    • I had a fabulous weekend starting with dinner on Friday night..sm - Very lucky also
    • I also know how you feel! sm - Deb
  • I'd give the kids the same treatment on their birthday....sm - Just me
    • That's unfair. Everyone has a B-Day, but Mother's Day is made up. Ditto for Valentine's Day - R
  • I would be hurt too (sm) - anony
  • Great M's Day -- no kids, no husband (sm) - adh
  • i know how you feel - tc
  • Yep - I agree - your kids should know better... - Maybe you didn't push enough guilt over time..
    • I think you sound self absorbed to feel you deserve gifts. Being a mother is selfless. nm - R
      • don't attack her re self absorbed....sm - kids understand DEALS AND CONTRACTS
      • I'm not self-absorbed at all - chopped liver
        • You say you're at the bottom of the totem pole - QA
          • Dr. Phil??? Grolier book publishers....sm - put those books out 25+ years ago.....
          • You are right. Thank you. - chopped liver
            • BTW, just FYI, my kids are a tad older...sm - put those books out 25+ years ago.....
            • Might I add that I speak from the heart, - QA
    • oops should've have read "older children"...n/m - Maybe you didn't push enough guilt over time..
  • I don't celebrate Hallmark holidays. If they forget...(nt) - ...your birthday then you should complain.
    • Glad I'm not the only anti-Hallmark holiday (sm) - adh
    • They don't acknowledge that either - chopped liver
      • Again, if you make yourself a slave to them they will never respect you. - Tell her to pay for a babysitter
      • No, YOU ARE NOT A BAD MOM.....sm - Maybe you didn't push enough guilt over time..
  • What I'm doing is making sure that come Fathers Day, I forget to get him something! sm - Anudder mudder
    • You show people how to treat you. We don't - me
      • I make a big deal out of them too and still dont get squat. sm - nm
  • Me too.... - Disgruntled mother...
    • They're ignorant - some hubbies...sm - Maybe you didn't push enough guilt over time..
  • I feel for you, your kids should know better. sm - ml
    • EXACTLY !!!!! GMTA.......sm - Maybe you didn't push enough guilt over time..

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First, thank you to everyone for your thoughts on my kids. I am feeling pretty down today. I think it's compounded by the fact that I really feel the only person in my life who has really thought that I was just the greatest was my dad, and I lost him back in October. I sure miss having someone around who just in his own quiet way lets you know that you are loved.

So, anyway, I thought about the Hallmark holiday comment below, and while you would probably think Mother's Day was one of those (I guess I did), it actually is not. I thought what I found on the holiday was interesting so thought I'd share it with you.

Origin of Mother's Day

In the times of the ancient Greeks, Rhea, the Mother of the Gods, was honored with a special festival. In seventeenth century England, "Mothering Sunday," celebrated on the fourth Sunday in Lent, honored England's mothers.

Jumping across the ocean, the first observation of a Mother's Day in the United States took place in 1872 when Julia Ward Howe, social reformer and poet who penned the words to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," suggested a day to honor mothers. This day, which she felt should be dedicated to peace, was celebrated by gatherings that she organized and held in Boston. This tradition spread, and was later organized in other areas of the country as well.

In 1907, Anna Jarvis took Howe's idea a step further and began to campaign for a nationally recognized Mother's Day. In the late nineteenth century, Jarvis's own mother had tried to establish "Mother's Friendship Days" as a way to heal the scars of the Civil War. Persuading her mother's church in Grafton, to celebrate Mother's Day on the anniversary of Jarvis's mother's death - the second Sunday in May - our Mother's Day holiday as it is now celebrated was born. Jarvis also began the tradition of wearing a carnation in honor or memory of our mothers - a coloured carnation if your mother is still living, a white one if she is deceased.

Jarvis's push to make Mother's Day a national event involved letter writing to ministers, politicians and businessmen. By 1911, Mother's Day was being celebrated in almost every state in the country. On 9th of May 1914, President Woodrow Wilson made the official proclamation that Mother's Day would be a national holiday to be celebrated annually on the second Sunday in May.

Mother's Day is still celebrated around the world at various times throughout the year. There are some countries, such as Finland, Denmark and Australia that do observe the holiday on the second Sunday in May. 

I had medial and lateral and it hurt like I don't know what.  I had to have the injection, instant relief of pain, but my arm was so weak.  I had to go to PT too.  They told me to do this:  Get a styrofoam cup (small one) and fill it up with water and freeze it.  Then you can just tear off paper and still have portion of cup to hold on to, and do an ice massage right there where it hurts so bad.  Stay on the anti-inflammatories. 

Kind of hard to know without more information.  What antispyware and antivirus programs are you running first off?  Have you defragmented your computer?  Have you run your updates?  That is why it is good to do the things it states in that tutorial, and yes, that is not the end-all site, of course.  Like I said, others may have better ideas and sites, programs, etc.  Sometimes, the companies we work with have us download software that our operating systems will not sustain well and make them unstable.  Just a thought.  Hope this helps.  Let me know.  Talk to guys tomorrow. 

which I read speeds up a person - since I am soooo lethargic in my depression, not to mention the fact that in just under a year I have put on an enormous amount of weight (partly due to smoking cessation - I ate everything in site and then sat while working 70 hours a week, then, too tired to do anything much than the necessary). 

Am age 48.  Am on Paxil now.  Thinking of going back on Prozac as it was a good med for me (I have low grade depression exacerbated by stress).

I wonder what the general concensus is on this new med.   Thank you very much

they seem completely out of touch with MTs, as evidenced in my personal experience and from reading so many posts on this board alone.  I have never seen such misrepresentation of a profession...and they seem to have not even an inkling to bridge the gap; in fact, they seem to go out of their way to make the bridge even wider. 

we need some representation on behalf of all MTs from the 'old school,' as we should be grandfathered in to any kind of mandatory certification, if it comes to that; but we definitely need an advocate on OUR side. 

I see a lot of condescending remarks (and worse) from CMTs on this site against we "regular MTs" and it proves the point that there is a huge injustice going on with that organization and their disrespect of the 'little' guys here who are losing more and more money every year.  I just heard overall American wages have dropped from $7500 a year gained from the 1990s to 2000 lower to date, and dropping, which is over 9000 a year.  utilites are sky-rocketing, food prices, (need I go on?)...

now of ALL times to try to enforce any more financial hardship on MTs (while at the same time lowering costs for overseas MTs) not only shows complete lack of knowledge about the realities we face, but extreme disrespect toward us. 

WE should be priority, not overseas MTs but US.

this is not a game people...this is serious, and no one should be able to mess with anyone else's livelihood in such ways as I have seen in this profession alone over the last decade especially. 

I've got Norton 360 installed on my PC and kept getting a popup all day yesterday that said my PC was infected and that I should click "here" to download Personal Antivirus.  Yeah right!  I ran a Norton scan and it said my PC was clean, but this popup box came up over and over to the point, I had to call Dell because I couldn't download software from their site.

Anyway, I finally downloaded Malwarebytes (free version) and it found and removed 12 Trojans!!!

I'm definitely going to keep the Malwarebytes, but need a really good anti-virus.  I've done my research, but have read good and bad about all of them.  AVG 8.0 didn't have the good reviews that the 7.5 had, but I found out last night that AVG 8.5 is now out. Anyone use it?

Norton sucks!  As soon as I find a decent AV program, it's gonesky!

Thanks!

at my company we don't get paid for holidays either...guess that is the price of being able to work at home....sucks...we can get paid by taking PTO time but I usually just work extra when I know a holiday is coming up, but frankly who wants to work during x-mas time with the hustle and bustle....

I recently began working for a service who only pays for a holiday IF you work that day (compensation of 10 cpl).  However, if you don't work that day, you don't get paid.  I am full time with all full-time benefits.  I realize production pay is entirely different than hourly, but is this common for most transcription companies?  I'm an old transcriptionist, but new to the ways of production pay.  Thanks for any input!

It it a little hard for me to payfor holidays when the accounts don't pay the owner for holidays.  Wish I could for my help but just can't afford it.  I sympathize with you truly.  Guess I could pay a cheaper line rate to them year round and then be about to do it, but that does not seem fair.   It is hard in this business to offer many benefits as we do not get paid unless the work is done,  just like truck drivers, hair stylists, manicurists, etc.

I guess I should have stated that my gals are I/C's and they get 75 to 80% of what I get from the docs on a gross line.  If I charge more to the docs, they will go elsewhere.  They just type and I do all the pick up, delivery, invoicing, etc.  I  also just got hit by the city for my business license which just went up to 3.3% of GROSS receipts BEFORE any expenses.   If your business makes less than $25K you dont have to pay for a business license but if you make $1 over the 25K you have to pay on the entire amount.   So I have to pay this even on the amount that the gals make.  Am not sure I can stay in this for long.  The city is saying that all IC's that make over $25K should pay for a license. 

:)

The orthodox Jewish community celebrates Succoth - harvest feast 5 days after Yom Kippur

http://www.sallys-place.com/food/columns/fiszer/succoth.htm