I ran a workshop on indifference and nobody came to it.



(an oldie but a goodie <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />)

Big Kangaroona, I think your statement made a negative and cancelled itself out.

I am indifferent to this topic anyway.

what's the other line about ignorance and apathy? is it I don't know and I don't care?

and Jen, little Kiwi, only Mrs W gets to call me that!

i don't think they cancel each other out. Hmmm.

But it SUITS you. Hey this is free message board and I can call you what I like. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

In NZ there is a lingerie selling website called Jennifer Anne.com. As you know, Jennifer Anne is my full name. A manager at my last job insisted on calling me Jennifer Anne.com. The first time, kinda funny, the 2nd time, not so funny, the 50th time, I smiled through gritted teeth.

Fair enough, but don't call Suzet* Suzet*.

She seems a bit sensitive about the *.

And I am not sure why exactly. I thought it was pure genius until I saw KiwiJ dot.

And please, no more jokes on indifference or apathy...

I am indifferent to your last remark Todd.

We have explained the necessity for the additions to our names. But for the learning impaired (you Todd) I will explain it again. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

When the board was closed for maintenance or upgrading or whatever we lost the ability to sign in as ourselves. Hence, we added little add ons to identify us as the same people but with small differences. Suzet* actually added her * after someone also pointed out that you couldn't be googled if you had an * after or in your name.

Can we now drop this as I am extremely indifferent to it and apathetic about your interest in it. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

ToddAC, yes I was only playing! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Not at all! I really don’t care whether I’m called Suzet or Suzet with the * or whatever. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Jen, actually I've added the * after I’ve lost my previous password due to a change in my e-mail address back in 2003. When this happened I had to re-register and set up a new profile. When I registered again I wasn’t allow (and still aren’t allow) to use my previous screen name without the *. When that issue about google came up, I’ve done a test and accidentally discovered that google couldn’t find my posts under the current screen name with the * (google could only find my post with the previous profile and screen name Suzet). It’s then when I’ve posted about my “discovery” and some people started to put symbols after (or in) their screen names as well.

Actually Jen, I think you should be KiwiJ with a * and a .

OK I will call you Jennifer Anne.com

Ok Todd...throwing out some topics: food; funniest moment you can recall; biggest waste of $ you ever spent; political views on stem cell research funding; best and cheapest place to vacation; best/worst book you've read; best character trait you possess/worst

alright, that should get you started. hopefully there is nothing to deep or depressing in the suggested topics

music is always another choice or favorite movies

really bad day yesterday so jump on these and get the ball rolling for I need to catch a ride on the diversion express!!!

Neither KiwiJ nor Suzet deserves a star.

Go listen to Daniel Powter's only famous song. This is me.

Seriously you are all great. You all deserve stars. I am the dot.

2much, you asked a quesion. I can't answer it in public but it was a good question and you deserve an honest answer. Sorry.

P,
That's ok...I've been hearing that alot lately...LOL!

I would choose the exclaimation as my symbol if I had to choose...I'm a bit loud at times and as you may have guessed I like to be heard...

Kiwi, the dot is very matter of fact...does that describe you???

Todd, I'd label you with an exponential symbol...

I've never heard of Daniel Powter...I'll check it out

I have the anwser BTW. I just can't say it in a public forum. Too many eyes.

Head Lice,

Please excuse the t/j but you don't want to discuss infidelity. Neither do I BTW.

2much,

You asked for it. Following are my responses. Want to know more, just ask more.

ToddAC^

1. Food – I am fond of food. My STBXW is from Puerto Rico. At the time I met her, I had never eaten any food other than usual American fare. I have always been a picky eater. Well, she and I went to her parents for me to meet her Mom and sample her food. It was unlike any food I had ever tasted.

Long story short, I ended up loving the food and made a veritable pig of myself which delighted my MIL to no end. We became instant friends. Meanwhile, my STBXW could not boil water. I did the cooking at home. Gradually by finally watching and learning from her accomplished Mom, she learned to cook and surpassed me in no time. Whereas I had cooked 98% of all the meals for a few years, once she learned to cook, I was no longer allowed in the kitchen. Except to wash dishes of course.

2. Funniest moment I can recall – After I received my undergraduate degree, I joined a company which had a formal organizational chart and upper management loved to have the new recruits in to their office and preach to them about “the good old days”. I was part of an eight person team that was being trained by a woman who had been with the company for over five hundred years. Improbable yes, but absolutely true.

We were all paraded out of our offices one day and had to visit the highest ranking manager yet. The man was funny, I am sorry, he was just funny. There was a slight problem however: he didn’t realize he was funny. As we sat there listening to the verbal equivalent of the water torture, the humor of the situation sunk in and I could not contain myself. I looked down, covered my mouth and tried to stifle my laugher. However, my body was shaking like a leaf blowing in a hurricane. Soon, all of my fellow team mates were shaking, doing their best to not laugh out loud. The spinster trainer was dejected and really pissed at my/our behavior. But finally, even she caught the infection of laughter at the manager and started shaking herself.

Of course, back in her office, I got the lecture of my life. In the middle of her sternness, I interrupted and asked: he was funny wasn’t he?

She let go of a good belly laugh and sent me back to my desk.

3. Biggest waste of dollars I ever spent – I am thoughtful with money. Not cheap, just don’t waste it for no good reason. My STBXW is my polar opposite with regard to money. She never met a dollar bill she didn’t like to spend.

Gosh, where do I start? Okay, with the Gone With the Wind dolls. These are dolls made by Madame Alexander. She has at least one of every Scarlet doll ever made by MA. And then there is Rhett and all the others, two Puerto Rican dolls, Miss America dolls, Valentine dolls, Princess dolls, countless bride dolls, Little Red Riding Hood, etc….. You get the idea.

She has forty GWTW dolls alone. I do not know the total number of dolls but I would be ashamed to report it if I did know.

Oh, and BTW, this is the woman who “never spends money on herself”. She has lots of shoes but not the fetish that Pio’s WW has. She also collects cookware, china, silver, crystal and Daiquiri glasses. Oh and wine, although the wine doesn’t seem to stay “collected” for very long.

4. Political views on stem cell research funding – Okay I am going to stay away form the underlying issue here, but suffice it to say that politically, I am a Libertarian in the vein of Thomas Jefferson. So, necessarily, I am opposed to any government spending program other than national defense, law enforcement and a judicial system.

5. Best and cheapest place to vacation – Can I also name the worst? The worst is Bermuda in March. Think rain and cold. I know, what did I expect? Cheapest place? Hmm…. Gastonia, NC. There is a reason why it is the cheapest.

Best vacation spot? Hmm…. Tough one. I actually prefer simple vacations like renting a place on the beach for a week and lying out there next to the water’s edge and doing little more than lifting twelve ounce weights. Vacations where you snap two thousand pictures of Big Ben don’t do much for me.

6. Best book I have read – I cannot name just one book, can I name a few?

Catch 22, The Great Gatsby, Grapes of Wrath, Fools Die, The Last Convertible, The Brothers Karamazov and The Road Less Traveled.

Worst book I have read – The Old Man and the Sea. This book was my downfall in high school freshman English/Lit class. Ms. McGraw specifically made me read and report on this book because of my infamous ability to not recognize what she termed “obvious metaphors”. So, I read the book and wrote my report. I basically wrote that the book was about an old man who was washed up as a fisherman but one day he took his little boat out and caught a humongous fish and as he rowed back to land, sharks ate his big fish. That was it. She asked didn’t I get the underlying story that Hemingway told? No, I can assure you, Ms. McGraw, I thought it merely to be a story about an old man who caught a big fish.

Well, to my surprise, she went on and explained all the imagery and metaphors that the book contains. I flunked my paper. BTW, I still don’t believe it.

Here’s a bonus: we had to review movies, excuse me, films. My assigned movie was “Swept Away”. Again, my paper was simple and to the point: a rich lady went on a cruise and the boat shipwrecked. Blah blah blah, sort of like Gilligan’s Island.

Well, as you can prolly imagine, that was the wrong answer. Ms. McGraw claimed the “film” was about shifting power in relationships. Ha!

7. Best character trait I posses – Hmm…. Can I get back to you on this one? I mean, just one? Wow, what a challenge. Just kidding of course. My best character trait is my honesty.

My worst character trait – hmm… can I get back to you on this one? Just kidding again. Vindictiveness. Can’t help it, have always had big amounts of it.

Thank you...a much needed break from my boatload of work with deadlines for tomorrow...yes, I am the queen of procrastination

1. Had some friends way back last decade or so and learned to love PR food as well, lucky for me they moved and I never caught on to the cooking...otherwise I would have some BMI issues:)

2. Your funniest moment had me shaking and laughing as I could picture it perfectly. Sadly I can't recall my funniest moment, I'll have to give it thought, I'm sure it must be in some mental file way back...

3. I myself am frugal but H is also "polar opposite" I tended to give into major purchases which I could care less about just to keep H happy...most of the purchcases were worth it but in 1995 when the RCA satellite dish first came out...over 1K for a satellite that a few years later was being given away free with satellite service...waste since I could live happily without TV

4. I agree with your funding point of view

5. Your own backyard when your marriage is alive and passionate...otherwise the Pocanos in PA is cheap, fun and truly tacky!

Topsail Island in NC is also a good spot and not lots of $

6. Books....The Hot House, The Road Less Traveled, Kiss the Girls, Embraced by the Light, The 5 People You Meet in Heaven, The Present, Dinner with a Perfect Stranger to name a few

7. Ditto to best/worst: when I think I am right I must have evidence to the contrary before I believe I am wrong I am indignant and hostile until proven wrong and then it is difficult to acknowledge my falibility!

Favorite movie: Cinema Paradiso Least: My Dinner with Andre (walked out)

Ahhhhhh great break...now to get back to reality...thanks for the diversion. If you ever do feel the need to throw your .02 in on infidel strategy I wouldn't mind hearing your philosophy, lessons learned but no pressure!

Ok, I am well aware of the "Bad Day" song and am quite fond of it...just didn't know the artist! Plenty of other descriptive tunes but I could ramble forever...

Is that the Daniel Powter song you refer to? Other lyrics descriptive of what?

Gee somehow I was expecting "humility". Oh well.