USO Canteen FReeper Style....Monday Mail Call.... July 15,2002

FRiends of the USO Canteen FReeper Style and Snow Bunny

[Jen]

Good night everyone! See ya tomorrow.

Chocolate free for one day!

Jen

[4TheFlag]

I gave him one, to keep as a pet, and we named her Li'l Miss Daisy!

Yeah, and I do miss her too...sitting in my shoulder and talking to me, LOL!

[MistyCA]

I love your new dress! Yes, the little rant on Linda and Sabertooth seemed out of character. Sorry you are frustrated and not very well! I have prayers going out to you all the time, Beep! I just happen to think everything is going to work out fine. I know there are downsides to that kind of surgery, but you are a special person who will make lemonaide out of the lemons of life! :)))) Right? :)

[MistyCA]

BTW....the weather here today is very nice. It is chilly right now though. :)

[Pray4USA]

Aaahhhhhhhhhhhhh.......thanx Sweetie!

Thanks for the good times on here today! It's a rare treat for me to afford the time to do this...and it was GOOD FUN!

.....and................Baby.....YOU are the GREATEST!

(((HUGS))) & a Nighty 3^* for YOU, too!

NITRO J

3^o zzzzzzzZZZZZZZ

(be ringin' Ya in a sec)

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Thank You US TROOPS for giving us the opportunity to sleep SECURELY this night.

† GOD BLESS! †

[MistyCA]

lol

[MistyCA]

Goodnight, Jen! Sorry we didn't get a chance to talk at all today! See you tomorrow! :)

[Pray4USA]

She's in Heaven with mine.....Li'l Miss Friskers!

Miss 'em both!

TTYIAS

[Pray4USA]

You got it! I just saw this!

THANK YOU!

Thanks to you, too - souris, for the graphic!!

It's so Us, isn't it, J? … … she says, blushing

[MistyCA]

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are a nut! LOLOLOL! And NO! I did not talk to GG about your homophobia! don't ya know, you have a reputation now that I had NOTHING to do with! LOL! HAHA! :))))))))))))))))))))))))

[4TheFlag]

Baby.....YOU are the GREATEST!

YES You are Pris

Baby You ARE the GREATEST!!!

[MistyCA]

I am not sure, but I use to get migraines a lot until I started exercising by lifting my arms over my head more. In fact, I started doing a lot of stuff like putting up wall paper and found that the headaches pretty much subsided after that! Sitting, which I do way too much of when I get hooked on the computer, is very hard on us, imo. Have you ever mounted a laptop on the handles of a stationary bike? I think that is where all of our keyboards should be! :))))

[Beep]

ROFL! Now, THAT was funny! I wasn't upset with Linda; it's just that those jokes are so old and tired now. How long have they been around?? Twenty years?? Your daughter has to be younger than that! I'm sure many are new to her. Some were funny, once upon a time. They just got old to me. The whole concept got old.

The problem came when someone I don't even know jumped on me when I was explaining things to Linda and my pals, and I didn't appreciate it one bit. I let him know it, too. He thinks my expressed remorse for responding badly to Linda's post should have extended to him as well, which it did not. He is one who is more concerned with looking "correct" than with being human. IMHO, I consider this person neither.

It wasn't really about someone pulling a blonde joke on me, but it was about someone having no sense of decency. Blonde jokes, to me, are just an idea that has become old and tired. Constant poking and joking about being dumb because one is blonde is irritating. I've put up with it for 20 years, and I'm tired of it. It's that simple. Some people don't know when something ceases to be funny, or never was funny to begin with.

When this person I didn't even know jumped on me, that did it. I snapped. No "hello, how are ya" -- just jumped in and tried to play "cutesie" when it wasn't cute at all, and in fact flew in the face of everything I had said bugged me. In between jumping on me, this person was verbally groping Victoria, and losing all sense of decency and taste. Publicly.

Horrible first impression. Just horrible. So -- that's the thing. It's not so much the blonde jokes. It's the bad manners and "God's gift" attitude. I didn't have the stomach for it. (Oh, and he also told me I should be more like this other person, while wrongly assuming I didn't know her. All this from someone I've never met in my life!)

Okay, sorry, I can't let this mess get to me. It's irrelevant. Gotta let it go. He doesn't seem to be a regular, and tends to only verbally grope Victoria and ignore everyone else. God willing, our paths will rarely or never cross again.

Thanks for listening, Misty!! Love ya, FReeper buddy ol' pal o' mine!!

Beeparoni!

[Beep]

Thank you, Misty! Heck, you're looking at the Lemonade Princess! LOL!! With every twist and turn, I look at it and wonder how to make something out of it. (Besides the obvious book inclusion!) How to help others by applying what I've learned in school and my practical experience alike. I still do that. I am involved in patient advocacy, because I've been through it. ALL of it. And won. On my own. Once a month, I still take routed calls from Suicide Prevention, on weekend nights when no one else wants to "man the phones." Been there too -- before I found Dr. B! The pain was too awful. The ignorance of the doctors and their inhumane treatment of me as a result was too much. Dr. B saved my life. Literally.

I'm just frustrated, and my pain level is too high for my meds. Dr. B is overnighting me more prescriptions, and I should have them tomorrow. God willing!

Linda, again, didn't deserve that reply -- and it really wasn't directed at her. It was just a "general" rant. The other mess, well, I've said what I'm going to say about that. I just hope Linda doesn't think she started any of this; it was me and my rant about those bloody jokes! Linda, if you're reading, I am sooooo sorry!!

Love to you and Misty!

Beep in Sad Bunny Slippers! (Hoping to be forgiven??)

[Beep]

Niterz Jen!! I'm sorry I didn't get to talk to you more tonight!!

Love ya!

Beep in White Slippers (never reaching the end. . . . ) (*VBG*)

[MistyCA]

Well you know, there are some real advantages to people who are taken automatically as light-weights cause of their looks! Gives them the edge! :) Like Bush, for instance! Gee, wasn't it funny when people were suddenly asking when on earth he sprouted brains???? LOL! My dad was such a good teacher about certain things. He use to say, "don't let anyone know what you have! The minute they think you have something they will start to try to take it away!" LOL! I personally think, like my daughter, that blonde jokes are a sort of compliment! People only have to put something down that they are threatened by. So, when you hear them, no matter how redundant, smile and consider it a compliment. :) OK, my Beepster! Enough of this! :)

[MistyCA]

No need to be forgiven, imo. Just sing another song for us! :)

[WVNan]

Hi Pray4. It's so good to see you back. We missed you. These Priscillas are for you.

[WVNan]

Hello and good night to all. I'm in and out. God bless.

[Beep]

I used to feel that way about 'em, Misty; I really did. I thought they were funny (some of them), and I had comebacks ready for anyone who dared toss one my way, but they're just recycled and boring now. They're too easy. I wanna hear REAL jokes, with some meat to 'em! **sigh**

Okay, okay, I'll pretend to laugh at 'em. Holy Moly! What a bunch of fuss over a bunch of idiotic jokes! I'll act like they're funny. But no pushing! One is enough. I've had people follow me around at work and in school, reading off their list of blonde jokes! Man, if I ever wanted to punch somebody in the nose!! They're like "Polack jokes" or something. If you're "lucky" enough to be Scandinavian, you're automatically the butt of people's jokes. Maybe that's what ticks me off. But if people think that way -- it's their bad! They're showing THEIR ignorance, not mine!

What can I tell ya? All I was trying to do was say, "hey, I don't think those jokes are funny anymore." (Meaning: "please don't direct them at me.") You'd think I had just accused Bush of being a Democrat! (Thanks to ONE person, and I use the term loosely.)

It takes a LOT to make me angry, and I am VERY forgiving and more likely to give someone the benefit of the doubt than not -- BUT! When someone does push me over the threshhold, watch out! Fireworks! I can and do bite, punch, and kick when I've been pushed too far. Usually, it's not over something someone's done to me, but to someone else -- especially if I love that someone else!! I can scrap with the best of 'em. I don't enjoy it, but I'll do it. (How do you think I fought my way through the patient advocacy mess, took it to the top, and won?! It wasn't by being complacent!! *G*)

Okay. I'm ready for the future again. Thank you, Misty! I'll have my meds tomorrow, and hopefully I'll be calmer. But now I guess everyone knows I don't back away from an issue that I believe in. No matter what. If I believe I'm right, I fight! If I hadn't, I'd be dead by now. I'm just sorry that things had to get sticky here.

"Department of Redundancy Department!" LOL!

This may be redundant, but I mean it, as always:

Love ya, Misty!!

The Beepmeister! ;-}