The Tagliarchy Mansion

[cadburysmom]

geffric Ok now, I'm really getting JEALOUS about your Disney cruise.....according to MY countdown clock, I have to wait another 316 days, 6 hrs, 30 min and 25 secs until I go again.....it will be #5 for us and I literally am counting the days.....need a vacation now......

.....but wait, didn't we have a plan where you would sneak me onto the ship in your luggage!

 

[llebrekniT]

Oh, DHB is probably going to tell on me anyway. I'm very mean to them usually. We're on a no-call list now, so I don't really get any calls anymore. Where we lived before, with the snakes, was a private gated community so the door-to-door stuff was prohibited. Now we get a knock at the door<a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/15/15_10_2.gif' border=0></a> every now and again and I open it up, look at them like they must be crazy and tell them to never ever knock on this door again<a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/4_3_3.gif' border=0></a> and then I slam the door in their face. I know one of them is going to come back and egg my house one day.

 

[RickinNYC]

Originally posted by ohanafamily
RickinNYC, too bad... what did your HR director say?

When the crazy broad toddled off, our HR person just gave a tiny squeak of laughter, nudged me and asked if I could come to all the recruiting fairs. (Reason I was there is that I'm the one who screens potential interns. They go under the volunteer heading.)

Sad thing is that I honestly don't think that the loon was actually that crazy. I think she truly believes that she's being charming. But doesn't EVERYONE know you never ever put a potential employer on the defensive? Or is it just me.

Anyway, as for the many questions of the day:

I have a HUGE fear of spiders. I hate them, hate them, HATE them. I have actually been known to scream like a girl and run like the wind when I see one in my vicinity. In fact, the other day, a little teeny tiny one plopped on my desk here at work. I jumped from my desk, started shouting "Kill it! Kill it! Kill it!" Then I ran to the other side of the floor. Embarrassing? OOOOooooh yeah!

As for what I fear the most? Losing Joe. Prior to 9/11, we went on our normal routines without a thought to the world. Now that there's always a hint of potential attacks in NYC, we go to work on the subway together each and every day. Just the thought of him being trapped in the subway tunnels if something were to happen upsets me.

On that note, I guess something else I fear is another attack in NYC. In fact, everyone I work with and all my friends feel that it's just a matter of time before something else happens. Very likely to the subway system during rush hour. Never fails when we go under the east river on the subway, a little thought bubble pops up and I sometimes feel like I'm holding my breath.

Let's talk about something else, eh?

 

[cadburysmom]

...about solicitors.....I'm lucky because my big choc lab, Cadbury, who is the most loving and gentle of dogs, loves to run to the front door and bark her loudest, deepest bark whenever the doorbell rings....she's really excited because she loves to meet people but all the barking SOUNDS mean and vicious and she is so big and dark that she really terrifies strangers.....so I just crack the door a little and tell them I don't think I can control my "vicious"dog and they'd better move along for their own safety........then I give my sweet Cadbury a dog biscuit and everyone's happy!

 

[cheeringmom]

QOTD

Epcot: the big ball thingie
AK: Tarzan Rocks
Magic Kingdom: Hall of Presidents
MGM: Backlot tour

Most afraid of? Beetles or the fancy name for them is Palmetto bugs. When I was 11 or 12 my bro put a live one in my mouth, my uncle took it out and made my bro swallow it. But I FREAK when I see one. That is why I do not do WDW in the summer. I'll die!!!

And no OHANAFAMILY I don't have PMS-well maybe just a little . And I am not pregnant!!!!!!

Cute pic [color=FF66CC]llebrekniT[/color] last time i was saw with a broom is when I was riding one!! <a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/8/8_1_18.gif' border=0></a>

 

[s&k'smom]

OK what should we talk about? I would like to say I love being on this thread. I don't have a lot of friends (never been that good at it) and I just feel so a part of this community. Now that I'm almost 40!!!!!!!!! it's been my goal to be a better friend so I really try to be part of discussions. Oh and changing my hair every time I go to the hairdresser, work out more, better wife, mother you know. Closing in a 40 has been really fun as I am reallllllly trying to change.

 

[Lewski709]

I know one of them is going to come back and egg my house one day.

YES, or worse. I have to be really careful where I am, it's a pretty busy public road. We see a lot in the summer. One time, two boys were ganging up on a girl (probably 11ish) and holding her on the ground. I yelled at them and said, you better leave her a lone or I am calling the po po. The station is less than a mile away. They were swearing at her and saying they were gonna do things to her and I didn't like it. My DH says, Renee' shut up. You don't know what those boys are capable of and we may find our house on fire or graffitied. In hind sight, I probably just should have phoned the police. Nothing came of it, but he was right. We also have a lot of neighborhood bars in the area and since we are on Main St, yes....the main street in the city, in the summer you see it all.

I hardly live in a gated community.

 

[RickinNYC]

Oops! Forgot about Ohana's question about solicitors.

Since we're now on the do not call list, we don't get any more calls. We do, however, get calls that start with, "Hi! This is not a solicitation but a survey. Would you mind answering a few questions?"

I recently starting doing the following when I hear that.
"No, of course not. But first, what company are you calling from? What products do you represent? Do you personally enjoy those products? Really? How long have you worked for XYZ? Do you like it? What are the benefits like? Does that cover just you or your family? How many children do you have in your family? What are their ages? Are you married? What does your spouse do? Are you college educated? How many years of college have you completed?" And on and on and on until it's clear I'm surveying them. They always hang up.

As for door to door stuff, we never ever get any for some reason.

I love what my mom does when she gets a call or answers the door. She's a tiny 69 year old Japanese woman with an accent. She puts on a HEAVY accent and then starts to speak broken english. Lots of times she says she's the maid! LOL!

 

[llebrekniT]

Originally posted by llebrekniT
Did I ever tell you guys about DH's snake?

Ok, I'll bite. Gosh, you guys are being soooooo good these days, it's almost sad.

Dan got a pet boa constrictor<a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/16/16_3_149.gif' border=0></a> when he was 5. By the time we started dating, Billie<a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/16/16_3_149.gif' border=0></a> was about 6' long. Billie<a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/16/16_3_149.gif' border=0></a> had the run of the house, would not stay in her aquarium, so you never knew where she might be. The first time I went over to his house I was apprehensive about this. We were sitting on the couch watching MTV and he reached down beside the couch to get something. I wasn't paying much attention to what he was doing. I turned to say something and he wrapped her around his neck! I screamed<a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/4/4_11_2.gif' border=0></a> and Grandpa Bob said "Hey Danny, cut that **** out!"<a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/4_3_5.gif' border=0></a> (This was also the first words I ever heard from Grandpa Bob). Being terrified of snakes, but not wanting to hurt his feelings at the same time<a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/4/4_6_202.gif' border=0></a>, I reached over and petted her with one finger. Yuck, yuck, yuck! But I did my best.

A couple years later Billie got out of the house and got run over. I put on my best sad face and showed as much sympathy as I could while at the same time I was doing such a happy dance inside.<a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/10_1_20.gif' border=0></a>

 

[cadburysmom]

Originally posted by RickinNYC
Oops! Forgot about Ohana's question about solicitors.

As for door to door stuff, we never ever get any for some reason.

Um.....and what reason would that be, pray tell?

 

[RickinNYC]

Originally posted by cadburysmom
Um.....and what reason would that be, pray tell?

Not sure. I think it may be an NYC thing. I don't know anyone here who has ever gotten a door to door salesman or Jehovah's Witness (guess they're salesmen in their own right, eh?).

Besides, we get something FAR worse from the bible thumpers than any of you can ever imagine. Picture it if you will. We're going to work on the subway, most everyone is reading a book, magazine or paper. Only noise you hear is occasional chit chat, someone's walkman and the rumble of the train. Then suddenly, the doors close and BLASTING out is someone who is suddenly SCREAMING (no joke, they SCREAM) the scriptures and starts saying who is going to hell, yadda yadda yadda.

And they don't dare do this until the doors shut. The minute the doors open again at the next stop, they're quiet but only for that moment. They want a captive audience I guess.

And captive we are. I wanna sock 'em in the nose but I mind my own business instead. New Yorkers are the kings of tuning out noise.

 

[Bichon Barb]

Geez, I didn't realize I was so Butch.

If I see a cute spider in the house, I let it be.

If I see a fat ugly one, I get some TP, catch it, and let it out of the house.

(I know, I'm not very PC.)

If I see a ladybug in the house (which I've seen a lot of this winter), I introduce myself and make friends.

Last summer I saved a garder snake from the wrath of five little boys in the neighborhood. They were trying to kill it , so I picked it up, put in behind our yard and gave them a lecture. Same goes for frogs and toads. We have tons of them around our house. I let the boys catch them, but then they have to let them go after a couple of hours.

BUT, I hate centipedes. Those red ones! Ewwww. Our old home was built in 1920. Many times I went in the basement, turned on the light and one would scatter across the floor. They really give me the heeby-jeebies.

QOTD: Fear?

Well, I think all of us parents agree about the fear of losing a child. Sometimes I'm afraid when I'm in a car. Like driving through bad weather. Or if DH is tailgating. I freak out. I think I died in a car crash in a previous life.

 

[CourtasanSatine]

 

[cadburysmom]

Ok....I have a snake story.....everyone's nightmare....

Just out of college, my roommate's boyfriend had a 2 bdrm apt......one bdrm for himself and the other housed his 13 snakes! Yikes......he called them his 'babies' and always wanted to bring one over but I made it very clear this was NEVER gonna happen.......one morning my roommate and I had a nasty fight about this and when I came home from work that evening, she and her boyfriend were sitting on the couch giggling about something and ignoring me everytime I asked them a question......well obviously something was up and I expected the worse.....little did I know they had put a snake in my bed.....well let me tell you.....I was already in a bad mood and when I pulled the covers up and saw that poor snake looking up at me.....I felt so sorry for the poor creature that when normally I would have screamed and collapsed with the willies, I very calmly threw a towel over him, slipped him into an empty pillowcase, confronted my roommate and her BF and gave my best "Julia Sugarbaker" speech about cruelty to animals and how I was gonna report them to the SPCA........needless to say, they were incredibly shocked by my reaction......oddly enough, we became friends after that.......but her BF never brought another snake over and I never found one in my bed again..... Knock on wood!! If it were to happen today, I'd probably die of fright....

I saw my old roommate not long ago and her BF who is now her DH told my DS9 that story and said DS9 had one of the coolest moms because I wasn't frightened of that snake......now if DS9 only new the truth!

 

[s&k'smom]

Ewwwwwwwwwww snakes. We were at the San Diego Zoo years ago and couldn't even go into the snake section. Ummm my cat once brought me a squarrel.

 

[iluvtink]

Hi,

Been migraining for a couple of days. Did you miss me? I know you've all be just fretting and wishing you could find out why I checked out! I get these darn headaches once a month, started a couple of years ago, and the timing makes me think it has to be hormonal. Anybody else get these and what do you take for them?

Oh, thanks for the CC pancakes. I needed them. Actually, I make them for my DD every day, but they just taste better when someone else does it for you.

Impossible to catch up on all the posting, but I did read all 1,000 of them. If I tried to answer every post, or even comment on the ones I understand, it would be the longest post in history. So, to all my [color=0066FF]T[/color][color=CC0066]A[/color][color=00CC66]G[/color][color=00BFFF]L[/color][color=FF1493]I[/color][color=FF6600]K[/color][color=FFCC00]I[/color][color=9900FF]N[/color][color=00FF00]S[/color] friends,

"Great, yes, no, no, I don't know, maybe, I hate that!, you've got to be kidding, congrats!, I'm jealous, thanks, no, yes, yes, ha!, go for it, NOT!, well.... okay, hee hee!"

QOTW -

1. I don't look like any celebrity. I look like everyone's sister. No matter where I go or who I meet, seems like someone is always saying, "are you from...?" or "where do you go to church...?" or just, "you look just like a friend of mine." I should be a "rent-a-sister" for people whose sisters can't come in for weddings or whatever! hmmm... [color=CC00CC]Kismetdreams[/color] need a sister for your WDW wedding????

2. MK- anything added since 2001
Epcot - Mission Space
AK - Pocahontas Show
MGM - TOT (NEVER!), Sounds Dangerous

3. Biggest fear: SPIDERS! I am absolutely phobic about them. I can't even look at a picture of one in National Geographic. The thought of all those legs moving around gives me the wavering willies... eeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwww!

4. Recurring dream: (2) First, I dream I am in high school (went to Maine East near Chicago and had almost 4,000 students freshman year there), and I am looking down the stairs at this huge sea of people, and I can't get to my math room. Second, I dream I'm at college (I went to Austin Peay (pee) State University, y'all ... Let's go Peay, Let's go Peay!) and it's the end of the semester and I realize I haven't gone to math even one time and I need to take the final exam... I guess I have a lot of math issues.

5. I forget.

Okay, time to take more Motrin.

We're leaving for Nashville tomorrow morning - 7 hour drive, go to the Red Cross benefit at 7 p.m. tomorrow night, then get up at 9:00 a.m. to drive back up to Columbus. DH used to be COB of the chapter there, and we've been invited back. Have to wear red dress... DH in a tux with a red cumberbund and tie... Ylllk, I'd rather wear red sweats! Oh well, I get to see my momma for a few hours, so that makes the trip worth it.

Kisses to everyone. Have a great day!

 

[s&k'smom]

Have a nice weekend everyone, I won't be back until Monday.

 

[HuggaBaloo]

Originally posted by iluvtink
"Great, yes, no, no, I don't know, maybe, I hate that!, you've got to be kidding, congrats!, I'm jealous, thanks, no, yes, yes, ha!, go for it, NOT!, well.... okay, hee hee!"

LOL!

Hey [color=66FF00]iluvtink[/color], those were MY answers! Copycat!

Welcome back and glad you're feeling a little better. I sometimes have really bad headaches , but I don't really know if they are actually migraines or not. I haven't asked a doctor in many years (it's a guy thing, you know ).

But I don't have them anywhere near as frequently as when I was younger, especially in high school and college. It was almost a daily occurrence that I would have some kind of headache. The doctor at that time said they were probably tension headaches due to stress. I sort of just assume that's what most of mine are because I can become very stressed/worried about things (just ask DP, he'll tell you all about it). I truly think my body has built up a tolerance to ibuprofen and acetaminophen!

 

[HuggaBaloo]

Bye [color=6600FF]s&k'smom[/color]! Have a great weekend! And stay away from the snakes!

 

[CourtasanSatine]

most afraid of: things getting worse with DBF's family(I posted a update)