We rented a house last year for a week
Posted By: because it came out to be on 2005-07-28
In Reply to: Travel to Florida/Disney - experiences? - Lynne
cheaper than a hotel. The house was a 4 bedroom, 3 bath home, dining, kitchen, living room, covered pool/patio, washer and dryer and alarm system. I paid a little over $400 for the whole week (7 days) because hotels go by number of people. We went to the grocery store and stocked up on food and for the money we saved we rented a car. We stayed in Kissimmee. Check out www.vamoose.com
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We rented a house once that had....
carpet in the kitchen. It grossed me out every single day we lived in that house. YUCK. As far as flooring for your house, I vote for ceramic tile. We just bought a house and put ceramic tile down over the 20-year-old vinyl. Vinyl just looks like an apartment to me. Ceramic looks classier.
IC - 30 hours week, $98K last year. So far this year - 28K. sm
Individual IC - own account(s).
There were in-house parties, donuts, 40 work week.
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After paying on my truck and house for a year I can
refinance and get an interest rate that is close to someone who has never filed bankruptcy before. So, the high interest rate won't be there forever and at least I will have assets rather than renting or not having a car at all. So, bankruptcy in my case was the best option.
She allowed a person who lived in her house, an 18-year-old
to go to Aruba. My rules when you live in my house no matter how old you are, visitor or family.
Mrs. Twitty is backing down from her behavior as is her attorney and the Aruban people are demanding it. Spouting out of control emotionally is not helping her cause nor gathering sympathy for her plight. She created this madness even to the point of offending the Aruban people.
I bought a boat - gets me out of the house! Also commuted for a year...sm
After commuting 1.5 hours EACH WAY to medical practice in DC from home in Maryland last year and dealing with arrogant, temper-prone docs and back-stabbing staff, I welcomed a good paying home job back with open arms!!! I've worked several on-site, transcription-related jobs (typing or QA) and the commute, office politics and demand to produce! produce! (without paying me more money) always left me longing for the peace of working from home.
Even the Bible tells us to enjoy the fruits of our labor. I don't shop, get my hair or nails done - basically I was working to pay everybody else. I bought an inexpensive, economical boat and have a great out-of-the-house activity to enjoy. I've met people from all walks of life and it's like a vacation anytime I want! Yesterday (4th of July) I hung out on the dock at my marina socializing with other boaters, then took my friend and her boyfriend out on the Potomac to watch the fireworks display on the mall in DC. Ended up spending the night on the boat then heading back home this morning to work.
I started working from home again just in time for my daughter's making her school's basketball team. I was one of the rare parents who got to attend EVERY game. I remember how it felt to not have my mom be able to attend tennis matches, field hockey games, track meets because she worked downtown and we lived in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Things like that keep me motivated when I feel the pangs of monotony.
I keep the job interesting by challenging myself to be even more productive (of course without sacrificing quality). Making more money consistently takes the edge off boredom.
Dealing with the aches and pains of transcription can be a challenge, too. Making adjustments like split keyboard, going back to old monitor instead of flat, placing books under my heel to prevent pedal-induced ache - I just look at it as almost every job has its hazards.
Work is work and yes, this can get boring. It's about balance. Get out of the house. Join a group and get active. Take a different job for a while and see if you gain a different perspective or like the other career better. Whatever you choose, I wish you the best!! 
My 5-year-old goes to the sitter 3 days a week....sm
4 if I need her to. The 1-2 days she's home I have lots of arts and craft things for her to do and she'll play with her toys. I do take frequent breaks to check on her when she's here. She is allowed to watch TV 2 hours a day so she'll usually pop in a movie while I'm working or watch PBS.
Hmm...so far? Is she going to be like that 70-year-old who birthed twins last week??
You never know these days!
For what reason would someone take a chance of breaking into someone's house to kill their 6-year
It was an inside job - Patsy did it.
Yeah, I earn 50k a year and I just bought a house for a buck!
Oh and I just got 25% of 28 million from a prince in Zimbabwe!
My 4-year-old male cat has been sneezing this past week and
he's never done this before. He has no other symptoms that I can see--eating & drinking fine, no runny nose or eyes. He's never had this before. He is primarily a housecat, but goes out in the mornings for a couple of hours to roam around. His shots are current. Does anyone know if this is a sign of something serious?
$44,000 last year at 7.75 cpl with wonderful bonuses at maybe 30-35 hours a week, BUT
then my bonuses were cut when we went to a new system and now I have to work 60-70 hours a week to make the same. So, really there are too many variables here.
Glad to see MT Week recognized here. My company did nothing this year. We have always sm
received a nice gift in the mail in the past. I'm not saying I expect an expensive gift or anything, but a thank you of some sort would have been nice. I waited to post this, holding hope that maybe they were late like last year in sending stuff out, but I have pretty much given up now. Thanks MT Stars!!
I challenge you all to host a Halloween/Fall party at your house this year! sm
 You will have an eyeball! I mean, ball.
This will be my 1st, usually my sister-in-law does it. I picked up A Taste of Home's Halloween issue and if that doesn't inspire you to do something this fall, then you might be dead...pun intended.
For dessert I am going to make little witches that will make a neat centerpiece. Here's how you do it: Take 16 large marshmallows, oreo cookies, coconut slivers (for the hair that you dye green with food coloring), Hershey kisses and peanut butter cups (miniature) that will be the top of her hat (place candies on top of oreo chocolate cookie (minus one side of cookie and the frosting). Use pretzels for her broomstick. These things are so cute I can hardly stand it.
2. Spider cupcakes. Use chocolate EVERYTHING and for the legs use 8 small pieces of licorice dangling from the cupcake and anything small and red for the eys (M&M minis) or red icing.
There are tons of ideas and recipes. The main dish will be Witch's Brew Stew and it looks awesome! If you want the recipe, email me. If not, then drop dead.
Oh, and for the kiddies, I will be playing games like pin the stem on the pumpkin and bobbing for body parts (will probably call this game something else), but you fill up a large tin bucket, stain the water black and put things in inside. Each kid takes turns using their hands to try to find 3 things you tell them to find in this nasty mixture of stuff using their HANDS, not mouth.....
So, get your invitations out, dust off your printers and have fun! I'm doing this mid-month, not on Halloween since I am a Christian and we don't celebrate Halloween.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
My 9 year old daughter has it now. Two other kids in her class were sick this week also.
Made 60K last year working 50 hours a week being paid on gross line
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One of the years we did this, we rented this HUGE "cabin"
it was one of the best times ever. The kids rooms were bare boards and bunks, and the kitchen was bare boards and a pump for water, and we cooked on the fireplace. The air was nippy, and the forests were all piney, and the sky was clear and the water gorgeous. We found little crabs and animals in the rock crevices, clams. I would go there again in a minute. No electronics, no noise. Gorgeous.
Has anyone here ever rented a chocolate fountain? We're thinking of using one for DD's weddin
reception and are wondering just how easy or difficult they are to set up and take down, and if there are any problems during use of. Anyone?
Thanks! 
Is there engineer week? Astronaut week? Veterinarian week?
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Typically this week is a slow week in lots of places
because it is a big vacation week. Typically things slow dow a bit in the summer too because people are putting off elective surgery, but at the same time lots of people going on vacation so it should balance out.
Lowest runs $900 week, highest $1400 week (sm)
Get paid 12 CPL. Been doing transcription for about 12 years.
I work 6 days a week every other week
Due to my company's payroll (it runs Sun-Sat), I'm able to work a rotating schedule with every other weekend off. Week 1 I work Sunday through Thursday with Fri, Sat, Sun off. Week 2 I work Monday through Friday with Saturday only off. Then I'm back to week 1 and get that following weekend off.
I've found that I'm more productive with shorter shifts and I have kids in school anyway, so I work a lot of split shifts during the week. If possible, you might want to consider cutting back your hours to 30 hours and just work five 6-hour days in split shifts, 3 in the morning and 3 in the evening.
Mine are in year-round thank goodness! They've started their new year 2 months ago.
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Union diesil mechanic - good pay, great benefits. We swap year to year on who brings home more sm
money.....but I am an IC and he has all the benefits...health insurance/dental that the company pays for, pension plan, 401k, etc. Factor all of that in and he makes way more than I do.
to cowgirl - Last I knew, last year the job paid $25,000/year no taxes, etc.
The hospital was bombed about a year ago, but not a lot of damage, very minimal damage.
44-year-old WF, M, Texas, 3 grown kids, just had 26 year wedding anv.
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nope, still crunching last few days of year to hit my 50k this year. how can you when you haven'
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Nothing this year. We ALWAYS got a cool surprise in the past, but this year nothing. :-( nm
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After I went to a 1-year MT course at a vocational school, it was so bad that I did the 2-year colle
Not only did I finally receive the proper training, but the woman on the advisory board hired and mentored me. I also joined the local AAMT and networked. Good luck. I know how frustrating it can be. A community college will have a good program to include medical language, MT courses taught by local MTSOs, business English, anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, etc.
I think he makes $700,000.00 a year, and if they ask him to walk before his first year MQ has...sm
to pay him a cool 1 million dollars. You can check this out at the Medquist website. I think the CFO makes $350,000 a year, and the head of IT makes $250.000 a year.
P.S. This does not include the perks, like expense account, car allowance, sign-on bonus, etc.
Our 16 year old son has been working for a year now to pay for his truck.
He's learning how to sand and do body work and how the engine and transmission go together. My parents didn't buy cars for my siblings and I either. I had a 20+ year old beater car until I could afford to move up to a a newer one.
I see all the nice new cars parked in the high school parking lot every day. It's nice that so many disrespectful punk kids get handed something nicer to drive than what all the teachers drive. Oh, well. Honestly, I think most of them borrow Mommy or Daddy's car or are the child of a doctor who can afford to hand them everything.
Hopefully, my kids will take better care of their cars because they bought and built them on their own. You're not going to grow up to be responsible if you don't work hard for something and expect Mommy and Daddy to bail you out all the time.
Oh, my Dad lectured us on even allowing our child to have a vehicle because Dad didn't have one until after he had worked his way through college, lettered on the football team, got straight As, lettered on the baseball team, yadda yadda. He either walked or hitched a ride. Yeah, well, times were different back then, Daddy-O. LOL At least my kid has the opportunity to work and earn his own car.
Not me, owed last year, and expect to owe this year- sm
or break even, had more expenses this year. Only owed $200 but still don't want to owe at all. Need to start doing estimated tax payments again so I don't owe! Guess I will get off my butt and do that this year.
come on.. you cannot compare a 2-year-old and a 15-year-old
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46/F I have a 9-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy.
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Got $$$$ back last year but this year
I have to pay them, sold a property I never lived in but I had enough sense to set aside $45,000 so just waiting on them to send me my WT2s so I can get started.
Yes.. In my house! nm
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DQS in-house
I would think this is a dream come true. DQS can be used/bought by independent companies including hospitals and it doesn't necessarily mean that MQ is taking over the account or has anything to do with the MTs on staff at the hospital. Hopefully this is the case for the OP, because that is wonderful.
Also, regarding the demographic field, she is probably familiar with the little things of the hospital that sometimes MQ MTs struggle with, especially those of us with multiple accounts, like who dictates for whom, doctors who put in their wrong IDs, who gets copies and who doesn't, etc.
I hope MQ doesn't mess with the account too, because she, IMO, has the perfect set-up because DQS is really a pretty decent program and to be able to work on ONE account, in-house, would be my dream come true, anyhow! :-)
Oh, but maybe she should be warned that DQS is a speech recognition platform...
in-house
they are sending the supervisors or "workflow coordinators" (as they are referred to now) to work at home also. Those of us who cannot achieve the line quota are "offenders." I feel like I work for the devil himself. Not a good feeling :(
I do, my house is about as big as (sm)
a bachelor apartment. It benefits me in the long run. 
Get out of the house once in a while.
I get depressed, too, but I've got kids, animals, and everything else running around underfoot making messes. Do you have any friends or family you can get together with for coffee? What about puttering around a bookstore for a while?
Is this your first house?
If so plenty of programs available through Fannie Mae or FHA for first home buyers. If not look for a "rent-to-own" deal, usually sold by investors. You pay an "option" of usually about 5K to rent out the house for a year while you work on qualifying for a mortgage. Then a percentage of your rent each month is put towards your downpayment. The house is yours, and after a year if you qualify you have your home. Great program for those who have some bucks but not many of us can afford 20% on anything!!! Good luck.
Yes, but who does them in-house?
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House
I think House is very loving. I think he realized that Mark loved and needed Stacy more than Stacy loved and needed Mark, that Stacy really didn't know what she wanted and would regret it if she left Mark. Finally, the fact that Stacy had left him, House, before and now just wanted to keep him in the wings made him realize he had to put it to rest.
I think will free House up for someone else - hopefully not Cameron, she really needs someone her own age. It was creepy to see them on their date last year - looked a Dad with his daughter.
No. If in-house - yes! nm
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We had them at our first house
We didn't plant them, but they were probably about 5 to 10 years old when we bought the house. We sold the house about 8 years later. A couple of them at that time had already died, and they all died within a few years after that and had to be cut down.
They are very nice to look at and grow fast. I did not have any problems with "sucker shoots", they all grew upwards. The trees also do take the wind very well, never any broken branches, etc. If you need a quick fix, I would certainly recommend them. Only downside is that they are not very long-lived.
In-house MT job - sm
I would like to take a part-time in-house MT job. Unfortunately, there a few jobs out there. The local hospital has an ad for a full-time MT position. I had applied there many years ago and withdrew my application. The pay was quite low and the hours were not flexible at all. For example, one hour for lunch meant one hour for lunch!
I wondered if I should apply and tell them I am only interested in part-time, not full-time and see if they are interested. Or should I just assume that they are still very rigid in their thinking? I don't want to waste their time or mine but really would like to go in-house a few days a week at this point.
What do you think? TIA
Either it's your house or it's not.
Do not do any work to it at all until it is yours, in your name, and you own title. Period. Until that happens they are free to do what they want with THEIR house. They haven't cared about the condition of it thus far, so why should you until it's yours and you will reap the benefits of whatever money and elbow grease you put into it. They are not giving anything away until someone else's name is on the title. Don't let them continue to manipulate you. If their house isn't worth it than don't bother. If you can afford to put money into their cra!py old house you can afford to put money toward a new one of your own. They sound like truly selfish people and they are not going to change at this stage in their lives, are they? You seem to have the brains of the bunch. Put those brains to use. Get your own game plan to take care of you and yours and forget the rest. I speak from experience. You cannot change the pepole around you, only how you react to them.
I do not want an in-house job
I was only inquiring as to how companies hire employees and those employees may work more than 40 hours/week and not have to pay OT. I think for the most part the ? has been answered.
She needs to get out of the house...
and make some friends in her new town. Maybe part-time preschool for the oldest, if not old enough for school, and she could meet some people that way. Or check out different churches. Or She definitely needs to meet new people near her. Until she establishes some kind of life where she is, she will continue to pine for the old life she left. Has she met any neighbors yet? Maybe visit a garage sale, even if she doesn't need anything, just to be out with people?
and when she is done with your house
send her over my way! That is wonderful. I wish I could get, and stay, that organized myself. ![You](http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/23/23_32_7.gif")
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When I am in-house
Yes, I have to answer phones, take care of nurses, reception, billing all bringing me questions or requests, research doctor's addresses, phone numbers, splice tapes back together that have broken (yes, we still use tapes and work on WordPerfect 5.1!!), fix computers when they go screwy, etc. etc. At home it is soooo much more peaceful and stressless!
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