That is a terrific idea for you Hayseed!
Posted By: luv2type on 2007-07-05
In Reply to: Same thing, day in and day out...how do you do it?! - Hayseed
My hubby has a friend at work whose wife freelance writes for Delaware Today (a local magazine), but she basically writes a short one pager that appears on the very last page. It usually is about something going on in her life, i.e., when they were looking to buy a home. She has a way with words just like you. You may want to even consider writing children's books. You certainly have a gift. 
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T-shirt is a terrific idea! Poor little guy. He isn't used
to being so restricted. The cone is making his neck a little itchy and I have to get in there about every half hour to scratch his neck and ears. Normally he doesn't scratch much but I think it's bothering him. I keep telling myself "it will get better."
I think your son is TERRIFIC and
has accomplished A LOT through adversity.  And you are to be commended for your role in his accomplishments! 
Does the school know his background? Someone at the university should be able to direct you on how he can stay in school.
Whatever path he takes from here, I wish you both good luck and continued success!
TERRIFIC....thanks for that!!!
Absolutely terrific!
Go for it!
Terrific!...thanks so much for the info (sm)
and both posts.  I'm checking into everything now.
that's a terrific attitude
I think you have a great attitude about all you have been through. Instead of sitting around feeling sorry for yourself you appreciate what you *do* have. Good time of year for that reminder. :)
I was at King Fahad... it was terrific
Write me privately at shemah@shemahonline.com. I've got lots of info and tips for you on how to have a REALLY great year or two in Saudi Arabia! :) Don't worry, you can have FUN!
see inside, was one terrific person in life....sm
Actress Shelley Winters, 85; Blond Bombshell to Oscar Winner
By Adam Bernstein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, January 15, 2006; C09
Shelley Winters, 85, a brassy actress and raconteur who appeared in more than 120 films and twice won the Academy Award for supporting performances, died Jan. 14 at a rehabilitation center in Beverly Hills, Calif. She had been hospitalized in October after suffering a heart attack.
Ms. Winters won her Oscars for "The Diary of Anne Frank" (1959), as the sloppy and nervous Mrs. Van Daan, and for "A Patch of Blue" (1965), in which she was one of the true screen vultures, mercilessly abusing her blind daughter (played by Elizabeth Hartman).
Her last Oscar nomination was for "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972), the much-lampooned all-star drama about an overturned luxury liner. Despite her girth, she played a former swimming champion who tries to take others to safety.
Acknowledging the film's rich potential for parody, she appeared on "The Flip Wilson Show" in a skit set in a fast-flooding laundromat. She led the cast in a daring escape through a washing-machine hatch.
At first a peroxide-dyed "blond bombshell," Ms. Winters was typecast for years as a gangster's moll and dance-hall dame. She once joked of her tendency to perish as a sinner or martyr, writing in a memoir: "I had been strangled by Ronald Colman, drowned by Montgomery Clift, stabbed and drowned by Robert Mitchum, shot by Jack Palance and by Rod Steiger in two different films and, oh yes, overdosed with heroin by Ricardo Montalban."
By the late 1950s, Ms. Winters had carved out a successful career in character parts -- the brash and frowzy secondary roles that she said would sustain her career as she aged.
She once called the role of Charlotte Haze, the mother of a teenage vamp in "Lolita" (1962), "one of the best performances I ever gave in any medium. She is dumb and cunning, silly, sad, sexy and bizarre, and totally American and human."
In her later years, Ms. Winters appeared on talk-show programs to detail her indulgences with the leading men of Hollywood's golden age.
She also wrote two kiss-and-tell memoirs, in which she counted among her amorous conquests Errol Flynn, William Holden (they had an annual Christmas Eve rendezvous), Sean Connery, Burt Lancaster and Marlon Brando.
She said Brando invited her to the set of "A Streetcar Named Desire," locked her in his trailer and began to simulate violent lovemaking by shaking the room, pounding the walls and screaming with delight.
Ms. Winters wrote that she found this silly, adding: "When I refused to yell loud enough for him, he whispered, 'You're not helping my image enough. For God's sake, you studied voice projection. Use it!' "
Shirley Schrift was born Aug. 18, 1920, in St. Louis and moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., when she was 9. One of the most stinging memories of her youth was seeing her father jailed for setting his men's store on fire to collect insurance money. Much later, he was exonerated, she said.
"I developed a whole fantasy world during my childhood," she wrote. "Reality was too unbearable. This ability to fantasize has been a powerful tool in my acting."
After winning local beauty contests, Ms. Winters left school to model dresses. She also was a nightclub dancer and appeared in summer stock.
She wrote of having more gumption than talent early on. During a nationwide scouting hunt to find the ideal Scarlett O'Hara for the film "Gone With the Wind," she told the casting agent with a Brooklyn accent, "Lawdy, folks, I'm the only goil to play Scarlett."
She won small parts on Broadway that led to a film contract with Columbia studios. When Columbia let her contract run out, she called Garson Kanin, a casual acquaintance then directing his play "Born Yesterday" on Broadway. She asked to be understudy to star Judy Holliday. Instead, Kanin told her to look up film director George Cukor, who was casting for the doomed waitress in a movie script Kanin had co-written.
The film was 1947's "A Double Life," and it would provide Ms. Winters with her first notable part. She played the mistress and unwitting Desdemona to a psychotic Shakespearean actor (Ronald Colman). Colman won the Oscar that year, and the film's overall acclaim brought much attention to Ms. Winters's talents.
Then under a long contract at Universal studios, she was rushed into a series of forgettable musicals and gangster melodramas. Periodically, she grabbed better assignments as a freelancer. Among her notable work was playing Myrtle Wilson in "The Great Gatsby" (1949) with Alan Ladd, and a hostage who develops romantic feelings for thug John Garfield in "He Ran All the Way" (1951).
Ms. Winters wanted badly to do a big-budget picture, and she devoted her time to pursuing one of the most sought-after roles in Hollywood: a mousy factory worker impregnated by social-climber Montgomery Clift in "A Place in the Sun."
Desperate to prove her ability beyond what she called blond bombshell publicity, Ms. Winters showed up for her first meeting with director George Stevens looking so meek and pathetic that he didn't recognize her.
He was so pleased with her immersion in the character that he offered her the role immediately. Ms. Winters, who received her first Oscar nomination in the part, later called Stevens the best director she had known. They worked again on "The Diary of Anne Frank," when she recalled Stevens playing the song "Purple People Eater" to loosen up the cast after tense scenes.
By the mid-1950s, she was veering into scene-stealing secondary roles, such as the secretary and mistress to Paul Douglas in "Executive Suite" (1954); a trampy actress who gets murdered in "The Big Knife" (1955), starring Jack Palance; and a widow who falls victim to a murderous preacher, played by Robert Mitchum, in "The Night of the Hunter" (1955).
"Mitchum, who was and is famous for playing jokes and kidding around on the set, was contained and serious throughout the filming," she later wrote. "Charles Laughton directed the film slowly and carefully. And we knew when we saw the first rushes that we were part of something classic and timeless. 'Night of the Hunter' is probably the most thoughtful and reserved performance I ever gave."
Ms. Winters studied acting with Laughton but also was a follower of the "Method," a naturalistic performance style in which actors plumb their own lives for motivation.
When her studio contract expired, Ms. Winters revived her stage career. She won praise as a heroin addict's wife in Michael V. Gazzo's drama "A Hatful of Rain" (1955).
Critic Brooks Atkinson wrote of Ms. Winters in the New York Times: "She is simple, aware of all that is going on around her, good-humored and full of compassion and decision when the last scene comes around. She had the taste as well as the craft for a lucid and disarming character portrait."
Also in the Broadway cast were Ben Gazzara and her third husband, Anthony Franciosa, of whom she later wrote: "If there had been an Olympic sex team that year, Tony would have been the champion." They later divorced.
Ms. Winters began writing short plays, culminating in a series of one-acts produced off Broadway in 1970 under the title "One Night Stands of a Noisy Passenger." In the cast was a young Robert DE Niro, who also played her drug-addicted son in Roger Corman's film "Bloody Mama" (1970).
Many of her later roles were Jewish-mother parts, from "Next Stop, Greenwich Village" (1976) to "The Delta Force" (1986). Her last film was the Italian farce "La Bomba" (1999), which reunited her with her second husband, the Italian stage and film actor Vittorio Gassman. She said they divorced in 1954 after she discovered him romancing his 16-year-old Ophelia in a production of "Hamlet."
Her first marriage, to a Chicago textile salesman named Mack P. Mayer, also ended in divorce.
Survivors include a daughter from her second marriage.
© 2006 The Washington Post Company
TERRIFIC POST!!.....thanks for taking the time
Hayseed; I luv ya!
Hayseed! You are my kinda gal! I am in just about the same situation; plunked into a small, rural town with NO job opportunities available, hit rock bottom, etc. I answered an ad, like you did, scored an interview, aced the test, and they told me, like I said, that I'm the only person without "experience" they have ever hired, but, my background, determination and fortitude impressed them. Did you have to buy your own equipment and resource books to get started, too? By the way, I have a friend who moved to Bangor. I was her secretary for two years before they moved from here. She's a psy nurse, her hubby's a child psychiatrist. If I ever get there, I'd love to meet you! (love your picture!)
Hayseed
Good for you. I don't think I could live so isolated, but you seem to do just fine with a lot of humor. I love reading your posts, and I love your piggy.
You said it Hayseed!!!
I agree as well. Sure, it would be great if I got paid more, but for me it's the unpaid benefits that are worth their weight in gold. I save money on clothes (not too many people can say their work clothes are comft PJs), gas for my car, and child care for my children. I get frustrated like everyone else, but I think of all the good things I have going for me working at home, step back, and then jump right back into it.
Well said Hayseed!!!
Hayseed
Most, if not all of your posts, make me giggle! Honestly though, I've thought of doing the same thing from time to time...
Hayseed
I like the way you think!
You go Hayseed!
Things would be different for me, too, if I had a "hubby" to bring home a paycheck and bennies and stuff. I am an excellent MT, too, BTW!
Hey Hayseed
Just wanted to mention to you about dentalplans.com. I had not been to the dentist for some time because of the insurance issue, so went looking and found these guys. It is NOT insurance, but the dental plans offer a range of pricing and covered services (plan fees are one annual payment of about $159, more or less). The hygienist was amazed at what the plan covered for me, as was I. I had to have the deep cleaning done (which was charged at about $1,200 per quad, but my cost was about $300 per quad with the plan -- not to mention the savings on the root canal with crown/crown extension that I had to have -- BIG bucks, but I saved quite a bit there too.)
Anyway, you can get a plan where you get free cleanings and x-rays, I believe, but then the more extensive work is not covered as well as with the plan that I chose (Presidential, I think). You also have a 90-day period of time during which you may change from one of their offered plans to another (like if you choose the free cleanings plan and then discover you have a lot of work that would be better covered by another plan).
I know . . . I'm starting to sound like a commercial or like I work for dentalplans.com, but I was just really glad to find them and I felt like it was as good as having actual dental insurance, since most of the insurance plans I have had or reviewed are not that great anyway, and usually only cover 25% of the costs involved with seeing a specialist.
Hayseed
Are you a Steeler fan??????
Yay, it's HAYSEED!
So glad Hayseed responded! I couldn't help but write too. I have been lurking the last day, and have to admit I have missed this place. All I had to do when it was down was go on smaller MT boards and lurk, but still had too much time for e bay and working! (Note to boss: Sorry ,just kidding, I do work all the time and am only on here when I have my break, really! Note to husband: Sorry about my paycheck going to e bay rather than auctions, it was not my fault, really!)
But real reason for writing. Glad to see hayseed is here! Hayseed you really cheer this MT up lots and glad you are here still. You have fans you know, and if you disappear, it won't be the same! :) You have cheered this HolidayMT up on more than one occasion and wanted to thank you for that. When this place was gone, thought there was no chance to let you know, so here it is in case this place disappears again.
Well, that's it for now, cheers to all from the HolidayMT.
Hayseed....
Do you still work for Deventure?
Hayseed... I e-mailed ya'
re: cropping avatar.... Thanks.
agree with Hayseed. nm
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Agree with Hayseed.
Although I sort of like the "grey" spelling. :-)
I'd definitely put in the hyphen though.
To my way of thinking, Patti,the commas are needed--it IS a list.
I beg to differ Hayseed
Ebonics is a term coined, originally intended and sometimes used for the language of all people of African ancestry, or for that of Black North American and West African people, emphasizing the African roots of the former; since 1996 it has been largely used to refer to African American Vernacular English (distinctively nonstandard Black United States English), emphasizing the independence of the latter from (standard) English.
The original poster most definitely was referring to a particular race here in her commentary.
You missed the point entirely.
Hayseed....I did see a post about you...
Setting up a webcam. Well, I have always been large busted and now wear a 48I, so now that I am in my 40s the girls have drooped to the point they are to my waist, so not sure setting up a web cam would make me any money, lol. Unless it was a horror cam. HA HA HA!!!
Hayseed, Jamie - thank you!
I got it! Frankly, I agree!! PTO sounds good to me, too.
Hayseed, you should check out
the AlphaGrip . . . I have had mine for a little over a month, and I am doing pretty well with it. While it looks like a game controller, the key layout is called an "enhanced QWERTY", so a lot of the keys are hit with the same finger you would use on a regular keyboard. I do not use it exclusively yet, but I use it for ALL mousing, saving and zipping my files, posting here, and have used some of the free learning programs to which AGs web site offers links. I have gotten to where I can work with it and not get frustrated, but my speed tested only at 24 wpm a couple of days ago, but the pain I was in before I probably was not going much faster on the old keyboard.
It is cheaper than the Kinesis (if memory serves), with the AlphaGrip a reasonable (IMO) $99.00. I love mine, and my kids love it too!
Hope the link posts . . . I have trouble with that for some reason.
Hayseed I know just where you are coming from
I have been in that position myself. Not so much with the "pager" thing, but getting calls at different times and with the company for example being on the West Coast and me being 3 hours ahead and them not forgetting the time difference. It truly is "between a rock and hard place" because these companies KNOW who their "good and dedicated employees" are and will frequently use it to their advantage and forgetting that we are also human. I for one too, have a hard time with companies that utilize an "instant messenger program" with their MTs, because as you mentioned, when you are constantly receiving an IM, it cuts way down on productivity. Hope your day gets better as it progresses.
Hayseed, I don't know you but your posts
indicate a person with a great sense of humor, and very intelligent. Surely with your experience, you know there are jobs out there that won't make you crazy, right? :)
With 20 years in the biz myself, I'm definitely coo coo for coconuts from listening to voices in my ears for all this time, but I do choose my level of insanity by refusing to work for companies that abuse/don't support or train/don't pay on time.
You'll find a better fit because you've taken the proactive step of putting yourself first, i.e., self respect.
Good luck.
Hayseed, just wondering how you are doing? nm
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I agree with Hayseed ...
and I think that many (though not all) companies do it.
When a seasoned professional starts having difficulty making lines when no known major variables have been manipulated, then there's a definite problem going on.
I agree with Hayseed! Don't go into it with the mentality that
you have been "cheated" but that an error was made and needs to be rectified. I don't know how long you have worked for the company you are speaking of, but if it has been awhile and this is the first time this has happened, it is more than likely an oversight.
I truly sympathize Hayseed, however, fortunately
none of my accounts contain an ESL physician. You work 3rd shift, don't you? If ever you need to vent at 3:00, let me know; I'd be glad to lend an ear.
Your very welcome Hayseed! glad it helped someone, LOL! sm
is your volume low now too?
thanks hayseed!! i encourage everyone to contact sm
as much media as possible and get this well publicized.
here is a link to everyone who works in the firm that published this conference.
http://www.cohenlaw.com/attorneys-name.html
and specifically here is the direct email to the man guy in the video who is vice president of the company....
llebowitz@cohenlaw.com
i say we all BOMBARD them and shed as much light as possible to this company and employees for what they are doing.
Don't feel bad, Hayseed, I've been
covering most of the household bills since hubby had his surgery...that's a year ago last month...and I can't continue to keep it up. He only pays the mortage(s), electric for his garage, car and house insurances, plus anything his truck needs.
I pay groceries, heat, electric, cable, life,health, and disability insurances, and charge cards which were racked up when he got sick.
He is back to work, but the work is not there this year.
We switched from oil to coal last year because we couldn't afford the oil anymore. This year's contract is 300 gal. for $719, and they changed the contract.it used to be if the price went down, you got the lower price. No more. You pay the contracted price this year, but never over the stated price per gallon. Big deal. A lot of oil companies around here went in the hole because of the high prices, and they're trying to dig out.
I don't know what the cost of coal is this year, but it will sure beat oil.Warmer too. I was snug as a bug in a rug for the first time in 10 years. We spent $300 last year and still have about a ton left. Plus the stove can also use wood and we have a pile of that that we cut a few years back and never used.
Hang in there...things may change for the better some day...sooner than later, I hope.
Hayseed, I just figured out that was a pig in your picture!
Regarding pay raises, I am paid hourly. I work for a fairly large multispecialty clinic. Last week we got a 3% COLA raise. I've been there four years and I've gotten a raise every year.
Hayseed, your posts make my day.
Damn roosters.
Ah, Hayseed, it's one of my psychic days......sm
Did I forget to mention that? LOLOLOL You are just tooooo funny!
Hayseed, take a deep breath...
You've just reached the boiling point. How have you put up with this as long as you have? Yes, you'll still have your job. I think some companies like to see how far they can push someone, and the more you do, the more they want you to do. But they do not want to lose a great employee such as you.
I seldom post here but I always look for your posts because you're entertaining and enlightening. That may not mean much to you right now but I know you're going to get a lot of responses saying the same thing.
So take that deep breath. If necessary, maybe send a more calmly worded email to your boss stating things much as you did in your post here, especially the 2nd paragraph. It's very succinct and gets your points across. Now you hang in there. It's going to be okay.
I feel your pain, Hayseed.
As a former battering ram, I was the ONLY person to do a certain account, not only because it was hard and I was more experienced, but I think it was a situation where the squeaky wheel gets the grease, ya know? I never complained about it and was a yes man until one day I 'sploded! I have to say, I have switched companies now, it is an open pool with no cherry picking, and I am happier than a pig in ____.
I am glad Hayseed is back.
But where is MT50???
TY Hayseed. Nice picture of you and piggy. nm
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Hayseed - if you want a good keybord - indestructible - try this
 I have worked 2 and 3 jobs, long hours, for more years than I want to tell you - this keyboard is the best. go to pckeyboard.com and look at the classic- I had one for over 10 years - only destroyed it then by pulling keys off to try to get cat hair out - whenever I get a new computer I leave that board in the box and use this one. I am fast and am not nearly as fast on other keyboards - newer ones have such a dull touch. The gal with arthritis I am not sure about - but I have never had any hand or carpal tunnel problems. This was originally IBM who sold out to Lexmark who then went strictly printers.
Right as usual Hayseed! And what about British dialects - sm
such as a strong Cockney accent compared to upper-crust Londoners.... it's like a different language. Every country in the world has similarities in their respective languages as well. Has less to do with color than it does social class, location, education (or lack thereof), etc.
Hayseed...I thought you loved your job and co...what happened? nm
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Hayseed, I am so sorry to hear that. Last I read the board, sm
you were very happy at DeVentura. How did it go so bad....!!!
I wish you well.....Good luck!
TO HAYSEED, THANKS ABOUT THE TRACPHONHE, MY INTERNET WENT DOWN RIGHT AFTER YOUR REPLY. i WANT TO AS
I looked up the site and it is cheap, I wouldn't need but for the times the internet goes down. Do you charge them? What happens if you don't use it a lot and then you need it and haven't used it in a long time. I couldn't find that iunformation on their site. Thanks!
Serously, Hayseed, you missed your calling
stand up comedy - but at least write a book! I would buy it.
What I see are made up names. And, Hayseed posted but it looks
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You are in Maine, right Hayseed? I am in Indiana, and I totally agree SM
with you. It has been bitterly cold the past week with snow most every day, including today. I am glad I dont have to go out in it.
I get frustrated over the same issues as other MTs, but I just do what you said, walk away and try to keep a good attitude.
Hayseed, you crack me up! I LOVE your posts & your humor!
:)
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