*offers a hug* I feel you.

This is so sad. It's horrible to lose a pet. Sorry for your loss. :(

Did you ever hear back from GE? Best of luck! Wish there was something in the ATL.

I don't know how to do my hair for formal. HALP! I'm tall and will be wearing heels, strapless silver asymmetrical simple long dress. I have thick brown hair that goes about 4 inches below my collar bone. Fairly loose curls naturally but it's pretty versatile.

I was THINKING maybe either straightening it and leaving it all down with loose curls in the front or straightening it, pulling half/some of it up & teasing it into a "bump it" style up front. Not exactly the poof, but you know, just some volume up top. Ideas?

Thanks for letting me vent, ladies! The damage is pretty bad because it's on one of the doors and it knocked off my side mirror but it's not completely horrible.

It was on campus so there are cameras and I reported it, but I'm not holding my breath.

And aephialum---"heart-wrenching when your 'baby' gets its first damage"--- *exactly* how I feel!!! And this is my first grown-up car (read: paying for everything myself, picked it out myself, the whole shabang) so I'm especially attached to it.

I'm on dci.org today!

http://www.dci.org/news/view.cfm?new...8-f4fc2c51dbcf

Marching band is the shit.

Well, I just applied for 6 jobs tonight, instead of doing homework.

They "cancelled" two of the jobs I had applied for. Two are still listed as "Open" with my status being "Resume submitted but not yet reviewed". One of the 6 mentioned above was with GE again. I can't relocate until my kids graduate from high school or unless I want to give my ex-husband full custody per court order. I'm not willing to do that. I'd rather be on a tight budget than give up my kids.

It's even more difficult because I was told that in a meeting the other day, the executive team was discussing people who are instrumental to the department's success even though they are not management. I was told that our former department chair named me specifically. "Like AGDee, what would we do if AGDee left?" I know that if they had any control over it, they would pay me more, but their hands are tied.

I bought mine almost 2 weeks ago. :o

Violet, I saw this picture and instantly thought of you.
http://images.quickblogcast.com/5/2/...7gjdj.jpg?a=28
LMAO

^rofl

I'm so damn tired. Nighty!

I hope they find the person who did that to your car. If they don't, I totally believe in Karma.

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

A warm "thank you" to anyone here who has served, or is currently serving, or who have loved ones in the military. Your sacrifice is appreciated more than you may realize!

Thanks, Irish!! Moina was born in my home county.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moina_Michael

On an unrelated note but WOW!!! a home high school band won a national championship!!!

The George Walton Academy Marching Bulldogs Band placed first last weekend at the United States Scholastic Band Association National Championships in Annapolis, Md.

The national championship trophy, which stands nearly 8 feet tall, will be added to the collection of hundreds of other awards and honors the band has received over the past dozen years, including the USSBA Southern States trophy it won last year in Chattanooga, which qualified the Bulldogs for the trip to Annapolis.