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If I can be half the person my Mom is, with all she's endured over the years and as caring and giving as she is, I will have accomplished something.

I understand. How is your your mother doing right now? eyebrow
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He sounds like a credit to his profession, I think.


I feel very fortunate to have found this dentist. He's a lot like my family Dr in they are dedicated to their patients and not simply lining their pockets, if you know what I mean. I think that's a wonderful quality to have....I know we all need to make money, but I think you can do both, without allowing money be the sole reason you're in any medical profession.

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Did you have to take after dental surgery painkillers in the time after your visit to have the tooth removed?


Yes, he did prescribe pain meds last Monday, when the tooth was so infected and some more on Friday, following the extraction. I have to be careful with pain meds, as they can tear up my stomach, but these aren't hard-core narcotic painkillers, but more of a combination of a narcotic painkiller and asprin. Up to having the tooth extracted, I took most of the pain meds, but since the extraction, I've only taken two, so I think I'm doing pretty well. :)
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How is your your mother doing right now?


Health-wise, I think Mom is doing, OK. She's having some issues with her diabetes/sugar-levels going up and down a lot, but overall, she says she feels pretty good. I think since Mom had her mild heart attack back in 2001, she's become almost overly frightened by any moment of not feeling well. Her Dad, my Grandfather, passed away at 42 years of age and in October, when Mom celebrates her birthday, she will have outlived her Dad by 20 years and I feel that Mom sometimes thinks she's living on borrowed time(?).

She and my step-Dad are raising a young nephew and niece and I think that keeps Mom very active and busy, which in a way is a good thing, but in another way, she worries about them and what would happen, if she was suddenly gone. Mom and I look at our health issues in very different ways. I know my Lupus and my diabetes could cause serious issues for my health and they have, but I refuse to lay down and watch life pass me by. I have days where I'm feeling so poorly that I can't get out and enjoy life, but on those rare days where I'm not feeling horrible, I do my very best to get out there and do something and enjoy what life has to offer. I sometimes think Mom gives in a little too easily to not feeling well. She's not a hypochondriac by any means, just overly scared, I think.

Sorry for that ramble, but she does worry me with her worries! :rolleyes:
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... and in October, when Mom celebrates her birthday...

Are you and the rest of your family planning a birthday celebration for her?
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Another phobia to add to Packmule's growing number of neuroses: Post Office Syndrome. Symptoms: night sweats, nausea, lack of appetite, headaches, and a general feeling of paranoia and anger. The root causes: standing in line at a Post Office branch for twenty five minutes in order to buy a single "Priority Mail" stamp. Another cause: paying extra $ in order to expedite catalog mail orders, and having the order lost in the mail, or returned to sender marked "non-deliverable". Calling the USPS posted website 1-800 # and listenening to a customer service rep read off an index card in response to your complaint, regardless of the content of the complaint. The cure: privatize the USPS and get rid of the majority of it's overpaid and (definitely) underworked employees.


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He thought that was hilarious, me...not so much and I threatened to break every finger on his hand, should he decide to play that game, again!

Sounds like a typical brotherly prank. Hopefull the threat of broken fingers was enough deterrent to keep him from doing this to you again.

I was driving a pickup truck once, many years ago, with a trailer attached that was loaded with a couple of pallets of sod(stacks of turf grass). That trailer "fishtailed" a good bit. I was scared sh*tless that it was going to flip over or perhaps jackknife, causing a traffic accident. Thankfully it didn't happen.

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That's a great story about your Mom!  Moms can amaze you, can't they?

My mother was a tough, resilient, and very independent-minded woman. She always stayed busy, was always doing something for others, and was very active in my high school(PTA) and at our church. She could be hard-nosed and in-your-face and also very comforting as well, depending on the circumstances. Generally my mother was very hard-edged, as opposed to my father, who was more business-like, in their respective demeanors. Both had tempers, though neither showed them much, thankfully. My mother was, and still is, in my mind, the hardest working person I ever saw. I admit I took many things for granted that she did for me as a teenager. After entering college, and having to do more things for myself, I began to understand, and miss, the things that she did for me, like laundry, cooking my meals, buying me clothes, etc. --I was a junior in college at THE CITADEL(in Chasn, SC) in early 1983 when my father called me with the news: my mother had an aggressive form of stomach cancer and she had about 4-6 months to live. In May, about a week before final exams, I got another call from my father that she had died(she had insisted that I remain in school and NOT take any time off to assist my father in her convalescence). Her final months were not very good, physically. She lost her hair(from the chemotherapy) and the radiation treatments also weakened her, and seemed to wear her down. I consider myself fortunate that I was able to spend time with her and say the things I needed to say to her before her passing. Despite trying not to I cried at my mother's funeral, the only time I have ever allowed myself to do so. For a rough and tough guy like me the tears were a new experience. I am a mama's boy, no doubt about it.
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... although sometimes I make exceptions depending on the film.

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What kinds of films would you make the exception for? eyebrow

A good example would be "Daikaiju Gamera" which I bought a couple of months ago brand new from a store (though it was very cheap), if I found certain rare Kaiju films I'd definitely buy them, especially if they're dubbed in Spanish (because that's extremely rare!)
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I think we're going to have a small family dinner. Mom is hitting 62, this year and that depresses her, but I think with some nice gifts, a great meal and family around her, she'll love that. Mr Green
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I guess living in the very rural area I live in, there never seems to be a line at the P.O., thank goodness, but Carol said when she was living in south Florida, she often stood in line for 20+ minutes to purchase a stamp!

Lee, is that what happened to your package from CC?
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Sounds like a typical brotherly prank. Hopefully the threat of broken fingers was enough deterrent to keep him from doing this to you again.


:lol: I think he knows I might threaten, but not sure I could go a whole lot farther than a threat, although, as kids, we used to tangle a lot.

I don't think there's anything more frightening than losing control of a vehicle! freak out Several years ago, I looked out my window one Sunday afternoon and saw snow was falling and decided if I wanted anything for dinner, I had best get around and dash down to this small store that used to be in our area that kept Sunday hours. I was probably less than a mile from the store when my vehicle suddenly hit a patch of 'black' ice and I began doing 360s all the way down the road. I was terrified I was going to end up hitting a vehicle in the other lane and I was sure I was a gonner, but the vehicle suddenly whipped back into my lane, slid off the road and right up onto a bank of snow. I continued on to the store, but when I climbed out of the vehicle, my legs were shaking so badly, I almost couldn't walk.
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I'm so sorry to hear that you lost your Mom to such a horrible disease, but you'll always know that you two had a special relationship and no regrets on your part that things ended badly between the two of you or things were left unsaid and that has to be some comfort.

I think as a rule, most Moms are amazing. I know my Mom has endured so much through her entire life and she continues to be a giving, loving and funny woman. She and my Dad divorced when I was 13 and Mom was still in her early 30s and so many people said she should go on public assistance, so she could stay home and care for us....my two younger brothers were 7 and 2 at the time, but Mom refused, she said as long as she was physically able to work, she was going to and she did. She married my step-Dad who was at the time, a raging alcoholic and physically abusive and yet, she never gave up hope or stopped caring for us kids. My step-Dad has been sober for 22 years now and while that aspect of Mom's life is improved, other areas have still been rough. She's raising a niece and nephew of mine and just recenly retired, in June of this year. Her health hasn't been well for about 4 years and still, the woman never stops trying to do her best for everyone, usually putting herself and her wants/desires, last.

I lost my paternal Grandmother 12 years ago and she was an amazing woman, there isn't one day that goes by that I don't think of her and miss her, horribly. I know there will come a day when I lose both my parents, but I can't imagine the emptiness of not having them, here, but I suppose, like Grandma, wonderful memories will keep them alive and me smiling.
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... but I think with some nice gifts, a great meal and family around her, she'll love that.

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Lee, is that what happened to your package from CC?

My CC order was returned to Ron Adam's company marked "undeliverable"-he notified me by email immediately after receiving the parcel back. I confirmed that he had used the right mailing address(which he did). I instructed him, in a return email, to send the parcel to my place of employment, which is about 1/4 mile away from my residence. He called me the next day on my cell phone and told me he would do just that. I have lived in my basement apartment since 7/1 of this year. I have been receiving bills and deliveries of other DVD orders in the mail from other online retailers. I did not get a reply to an email from the USPS(via their site) so I called their 1-800#. The rep I talked with was polite-they always are. That said I might as well have been talking to the wall. The response of the USPS rep sounded rehearsed, almost as if read off a card. Something about based on the volume of mail handled.... blah blah .... This is the USPS's standard excuse, and it is used by their employees in PO branches as well. As I have stated before many of their employees at several branches I frequent are the most lackadaisical people I have ever seen. I have worked in various service businesses for most of my adult life. In such a business you do what it takes to help and accomodate customers-work a little more quickly, work a little harder, take a little more time to explain, or listen. The attitude I see at post offices here in Atlanta is one of indifference, lethargy, and in a few cases I believe outright incompetence. The thing is Kimi, the USPS is a government entity-need I say more? thumbs down
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I definitely believe that, if a "Mother's Hall Of Fame" in heaven exists, my mother is definitely a deserving member. thumbs up


Your mother sounds a lot like my mine. I mean that as a compliment.
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A good example would be "Daikaiju Gamera" which I bought a couple of months ago brand new from a store (though it was very cheap), if I found certain rare Kaiju films I'd definitely buy them, especially if they're dubbed in Spanish (because that's extremely rare!)

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My own VHS collection has shrivelled down to about 20, and that's from over 175 as recent as about five years ago. Reason for the VHS shrinkage: finding the movies on DVD and giving the tapes to friends(or sometimes strangers tongue-1 ).
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Does anyone else have problems purchasing gifts for parents or grandparents or even siblings, anymore? I mean, when I was still able to work, I seemed to have absolutely no trouble in buying gifts, but that was several years ago and in that time, it seems my parents, grandparents and siblings suddenly acquired anything and everything they'd ever want, desire or need! :blink: I ask for ideas and usually receive a blank stare and I hate to say it, but I always ask for DVDs, otherwise, I give a blank stare, should they ask for any other ideas!
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My CC order was returned to Ron Adam's company marked "undeliverable"-he notified me by email immediately after receiving the parcel back.


Man, that really stinks! very angry

I actually worked at two different times for the Postal Service. When I first graduated from high school, I worked as my Mom's postmaster leave replacement for a year or so, before starting a full-time job in a meat processing plant. Then, while still working at the processing plant, I delivered mail on a rural route. I worked second shift at the plant, so this allowed me a part time job in the AM. Personally, I always made every attmept to deliver any letter or package, because I know how very important receiving anything in the mail can be. I was also extremely careful, when sorting and packing up the mail for my rural route, to never mix any mail from one box to another, I took care and was constantly complimented by my rural customers at how careful I was....this only led me to believe that the person I subbed for, wasn't as careful. I was also thanked numerous times for my efforts in delivering mail even when roads weren't passable, but then, my parents always taought me that if I was going to do anything, do it to the very best of my ability. Now, I wasn't perfect, but I sure gave it that try.

I think it's a shame when people don't try or even care enough to do their very best. Now, our mailboxes for this small apartment complex are at the top of this street and we walk up a driveway to get to the mailboxes....not a long driveway, mind you, but I cannot tell you how many times, I have gotten to the mailbox, especially on a Saturday, to find a notice that a package was too large for the mailbox and I can pick it up at the PO or it will say delivery was attempted and nobody was home. That's total, BS, 99.9% of the time, as I'm almost always home! Nobody comes knocking or beeping, it's just a case of someone NOT wanting to take the time to do their job, it's just easier to lie and say an attempt was made and to keep right on driving! thumbs down

I sicnerely hope you receive your package, tomorrow, Lee, so you're able to enjoy it over the weekend and if at all possible, I;d try and greet the mail-person and ask why it's simple enough to deliver bills, but a package makes life so confusing or difficult! crazy
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I definitely believe that, if a "Mother's Hall Of Fame" in heaven exists, my mother is definitely a deserving member. 


Your mother sounds a lot like my mine. I mean that as a compliment.


I agree about your Mom, Lee and thank you for the compliment on mine! Mr Green
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... it's just a case of someone NOT wanting to take the time to do their job, it's just easier to lie and say an attempt was made and to keep right on driving! 


First off let me make it clear also that in no way do I believe all USPS employees to be as I have described in previous posts, as I have encountered many who seem very dutiful, and quite competent, at their jobs. Regarding the act of writing up a "Delivery attempt made" note and leaving it in someone's mailbox, when no attempt is actually made...who really knows how many times that actually happens, and I absolutely believe it does happen. Late last year at my former residence I was supposed to receive a parcel via UPS. UPS swore up and down that they attempted to deliver the parcel, yet there was not one note left on my door. I suspect the attempt was never made, or perhaps the driver couldn't find my apartment unit in the complex and blew the delivery off. Travesties like this happen all the time I think, and to lots of people Kimi. Ever ordered fast food at a drive-through, waited forever, then gone inside to complain, only to find out someone forgot to give the order to the cooks? Or maybe they asked you to "pull forward and we'll bring it out to you" and then never did. And you will never get ANYONE to admit they made a mistake.This happened to me at a Krystal's restaurant back in 1995 here in Atlanta. When I went inside to complain the manager, a young black female hastily handed me my cold order of food, which her employees had forgotten to bring out to my car. I asked for a refund and she refused, offering to re-heat the food. I was not interested in that, after a twenty minute wait, and I calmly told I was not leaving the restaurant until I got my seven dollars back. I was very calm but very firm. She responded by calling the police. It was quite a scene-scores of people in the Krystal told this girl just to refund my money but she refused, and was willing to cause a scene in her own restaurant over 7 dollars. Many customers who had entered the store to place orders left. The policeman arrived, listened to my story, hers, and then told me to get lost, which I did. I called the Krystal's corporate office(here in Atlanta) and they actually defended her refusal to refuse my refund, despite this store's service breakdown. The Krystal corporate office rep I spoke to had no answer when I asked this question: "How do you make someone responsible for the day-to-day operations of one of your stores that exhibits such poor judgement and over such a small amount of $? To this day I still believe that female manager refused my refund because of race(she was black and me white). Just my opinion, and here's another: customer service, as we baby boomers know it, is on the way out, replaced with "do enough to get by."
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Does anyone else have problems purchasing gifts for parents or grandparents or even siblings, anymore? I mean, when I was still able to work, I seemed to have absolutely no trouble in buying gifts, but that was several years ago and in that time, it seems my parents, grandparents and siblings suddenly acquired anything and everything they'd ever want, desire or need! :blink: I ask for ideas and usually receive a blank stare and I hate to say it, but I always ask for DVDs, otherwise, I give a blank stare, should they ask for any other ideas!

I can't answer that in regards to family since I have none now, or siblings(for the same reason). I do buy presents for a pair of friends every Christmas. What do I get them? Gift certificates, usually for $50 or $75 each. In most years it is HOME DEPOT gift cards, but I have bought "Bob" and "Greg" in past years BEST BUY, CIRCUIT CITY, or TARGET gift cards. I never know what these two would want, and, according to them, neither do they tongue-1 . They can take the card(s), go into the respective store and find something they like. thumbs up
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First off let me make it clear also that in no way do I believe all USPS employees to be as I have described in previous posts, as I have encountered many who seem very dutiful, and quite competent, at their jobs.


I feel the same way, there are people out there who work very hard and take their job seriously, it's just those few slackers that give an entire business a bad name. I definitely know what you're saying, Lee, so don't think I meant any offense towards you, I know you'll always have the good with the bad. :)

I don't like being lied to. I know when I'm home and what time the mail-person will be around and when I receive a note in my mailbox stating a delivery attempt was made and I know otherwise, that really angers me. I'm not a fool and I don't appreciate being treated as if I have no clue as to what I'm talking about.

Last year, I purchased an expensive game/game accesory for Carol as part of her Christmas gifts and it was to be delivered by DHL. I kept checking the tracking number and suddenly, it stated that the large package had been delivered. I didn't have it in my hands! I was home all day, the date it claimed delivery was made! I called the toll-free number DHL had on their website and they stated the driver left the package at the mailbox! I ran to the mailbox and naturally, it wasn't there. thumbs down I had to talk to several DHL reps and in the end, they stated that they would purchase a new product and I could pay for the shipping! I received this notice in an E-mail, so I quickly tapped out a reply stating I found that extremely unfair....it was through no fault of my own that this package wasn't delivered correctly and I wasn't paying $11 in shipping for a replacement. They agreed that they should also pick up the shipping tab, but refused to deliver at my address! They wanted another physical address to ship this item to, so I had to have it shipped to my Mom's and that's about 10 miles away, so she had to keep an eye out for a package and I still had to make a run for a package. Definitely not the way to do business, in my book! :angry:
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What do I get them? Gift certificates, usually for $50 or $75 each. In most years it is HOME DEPOT gift cards, but I have bought "Bob" and "Greg" in past years BEST BUY, CIRCUIT CITY, or TARGET gift cards. I never know what these two would want, and, according to them, neither do they  . They can take the card(s), go into the respective store and find something they like.


Personally, I think gift cards/certificates are a nice idea. Lots of folks feel they are impersonal for family, but work nice for friends. Me, I feel if I'm so out of touch with what anyone wants, then gift cards/certificates are a perfect 'fit'. Mr Green

As I've stated, almost all the DVDs I usually have on my list cannot be purchased in a local retail store and Carol actually does all my shopping from my Dad. He simply gives her a set amount of cash, she goes online at Deep Discount DVD, places a nice order from my wish list and has the DVDs shipped to our address, where she wraps them for Dad, as well! :lol: How easy was that for Dad?! He does purchase a couple of things on his own for me, last year, he got me two outstanding Broncos ball-caps and a couple of Christmas decorations, as he knows how much I love Christmas.

I honestly don't think I'd feel hurt at all, if someone wanted to take the money they planned to spend on me for Christmas and simply gave me a gift card, as many places offer online shopping and that offers more of a selection from say, even, Wal*Mart. Usually for my birthday, that's what most folks do, anyway...gift cards or cash and they fit so well. ;)
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(or sometimes strangers  tongue-1 ).

Very funny Packmule! Mr Green
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Personally, I think that once they saw the package had received a status of, 'Delivered', they felt their end of the job was accomplished and I must have simply not gotten to my mailbox in a timely fashion! thumbs down I mean, who in their right mind would leave a LARGE package and not even try knocking on a door?! This wasn't a postal delivery, so why leave it at a mailbox and call it, delivered? I was horrified and less than pleased. I also had this happen one time with FedEx. I had bid on and won an eBay auction of a framed, one-sheet original poster for the Hammer film; Vampire Lovers. I kept checking the status of the delivery and it wasn't showing as delivered and then suddenly it popped up as being delivered two days earlier! freak out I was horrified and ran downstairs to the apartment below us and asked if any delivery had been attempted in the last two days and the girl said yes, she'd told them to deliver it to the next apartment, as the guy living in the fourth apartment had the same last name as me! He'd been gone and the package sat there for two days and in rain! Thankfully, all ended well, but I wasn't a happy customer!
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Johnny Rod
Sep 30 2006, 08:01 PM
I quite like tapes, I just don't buy them much because I fear they'll soon break.

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The VHS tapes I have are still, for the most part, in good condition, and play as well now as they years ago. Though most of my VHS inventory is about 8-9 years old, I have a few tapes that are over 10 years old. I think the key is keeping them in their cases when not in use. There are also various services about where you can have the contents of your VHS tapes transferred onto DVD-R, though this can get pricey.

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Sep 30 2006, 11:14 PM
There are also various services about where you can have the contents of your VHS tapes transferred onto DVD-R, though this can get pricey.

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I know but at some point I WILL transfer my tapes into DVD's just because some of the things I have are too precious to lose.
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