Posts by pinkpinkotter

Original Post by jules817:

Original Post by randomv3:

Original Post by ledenkica:

 About a shelter...they have a lot of ppl who would come and go when they have time and it is hard for them to organize choirs on daily basis when one day you are there and next you may be stuck at work etc. I also thought that they would rather take anything than nothing, but that was not the case.

Maybe I just got hold off the wrong person. Who knows. :)

And abut the word reliable...I guess poor choice of words on my part. It is not that I think of myself as unreliable person (quite the opposite). I was trying to point out that I can not promise that I will be there at the shelter exactly let say 6 o'clock if I have deadlines etc. The same reason why I can not get a dog (unless I have a dog walker/yard). It just goes around in circle doesn't it? :)

 Yeah, you might wanna try the shelter again!  Usually they are cool with people just coming and walking/playing with dogs, if nothing else.  The more the dogs are walked and around new people, the better they will get on a leash and the more likely they will get adopted!

 i thought this, but it's definitely not the case at the shelter i volunteer at! they expect you there for your shift, as if it's a job, and they expect you to find coverage for that shift if you can't make it. really it does make sense, for a place that is 100% volunteer run. they need to know people are going to be there and when they'll be there to get the dogs out. they try to avoid the dogs feeling they need to mess in their kennels so regular scheduled walks are a neccessity!

they also need to have people there who don't just want to do the fun parts petting, playing and walking, but who are also willing to scrub out kennels, etc.

shelters are actually able to be pretty picky about their volunteers because there are so many people who want to do it.

 

 they do the same thing at my shelter jules. But all i do is say i want one shift i absolutely know i can FOR sure make it.. say.. saturday at 3pm (random generated date and time lol)... that's my "allotted time" that i'm EXPECTED to come in for... every other day i decide to come in is whenever i have time.. i'm not booked in.. but they never turn away ppl who show up, in fact.. they told us that right at the orientation!

so perhaps that's something you can ask about?? take a shift you know you can for sure do.. then if you want to throw in an hour here or there that might be cool?

Original Post by pgeorgian:

apropo of nothing, but halloween always makes me think of buffy. season two, willow becomes hot chick :)

 this is funny. because i'm wathcing buffy right now lol.

where willow becomes bad ass witch and skins geek number 1.

AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! i know it's out there.. and i don't know why.. but a slutty pumpkin?!

i mean... what?! lol. i have seen slutty nurses in person.. but i haven't seen a slutty pumpkin :) ... it just makes me giggle.

I went to look at houses recentely..

cost of the mortgage was lowww... it was a bank foreclosure, only needs a new roof, and new kitchen floor, very big and spacious, basement fully finished, in a highly resellable neighbourhood, parking.. which other houses around it do not. Two middle schools/elementary schools located in walking distance, one high school in walking distance, gigantic shopping centre about a 20 minute walk away, huge park also about 20 minutes in the other direction, close to major bus routes, etc etc etc..

now this bad boy might cost me next to nothing in rent.. in fact would cost me about the same as i'm renting currently.

Except with my current rent, I do not have to maintain anything. Landlord comes in and fixes everything, we don't have to go out and buy new appliances, because they're already included.

We don't have to pay for property taxes, those pesky bills such as heat/hydro/water/ cable... since it's already included.. And best yet... when we want to travel.. because some people like to go away, I don't have to find a way to get someone to maintain my lawn overgrowth/snow so the bylaw officer here doesn't come and write me up some warnings/tickets.

oh and the building we live in is a short walk from both our works... where if we were to get a house it would be either a bus ride/drive away.. so we should probably take into consideration travel costs as well. Gas isn't cheap here.

So we decided to keep renting at the moment. In fact.. it costs us a car payment + car nsurance LESS to rent than to buy... So that is why some people who are perfectly able decide that they would rathr rent than buy.

And it's not a waste of money.. since i'm paying for the cost of shelter, and I suppose cost of storage too lol.

If i were in your shoes though, by all means pay it down. As long as you don't get penalized for making early payments than all the power to you! I'd do it to. I love paying things down early.

i love working christmas!!! money makes me a happy girl.. and christmas gets you (me) double time and a half!! plus.. all the family hoopla only takes up a few hours of the day.. the rest of the day would end up being borrrrinnnggg.

cept two years ago.. we normally open presents in the day and have a breakfast meal at my mommy's place.. but that year we decided to go for dinner and open presents. Got there just in time for drunken karaoke ;)

cpt- aweeeeee!!!! what an adorable beagle!!! i'm happy for you!!

i danced with this guy in grade... i have no freakin clue.. it was in middle school.. i;m going to say grade 5 or 6?

anyways.. i danced one dance with this guy.. who didn't like me.. but his brother who DID like me.. but was dating my best friend (oh drama so young.. lol) paid him 5 bucks to do it. so we danced.. and.. that was it..

his now fiance/girlfriend whatever.. hated me for YEARS because i danced with him that one dance.. even though him and i never dated or kissed or even really.. talked.. and the kicker was i didn't know who she was.. i had never met her. i didn't meet her until like 10 years after the fact.. and she still disliked me. ok.

my biggest grudge? oh geez... everything you could have ever done to me lol.. it's not that i "grudge" so much.. as that everytime i'm angry at you i'll think about all the things in the past lol.. i'd never mention them.. but i think them lol.

oh!!and with the fiance's brother. he's a pretentious dick (in general). i made a joking comment once.. with a laugh and everything.. and it wasn't an offensive comment.. but he didn't get it.. so i explained it.. and he got angry at me.. and we got in this issue over an obviously joking comment.. to which i responded that i would apologize that we didn't have the same sense of humor.. but that's all i was apologizing for. especially since everyone else got the joke.

anyways.. this was all over facebook no less.. so whenever i've met him i've only ever said "hi" and "bye"... it's been over a year now.. he asked the fiance why i was so quite.. and jeff just told his brother that i was shy lol. that's my biggest stupid grudge.

i mean... even polygamy is an accurate term for marriage. I find it odd that a bunch of people can have a group marriage.. are able to CALL it a group marriage.. even if it's multiple husbands AND multiple wives (so.. there is multiple dudes and ladies.. although they're not doing each other.. they're still on married to each other)... but two single dudes or chicks cannot?

that really boggles my mind lol.

indeed? i did not know that it was second.

did you know that the word "nice" comes from the latin "not to know". so back in the day when you called someone a "nice" person you were in fact calling them arrogant?

Original Post by katesorad: 

And there are 3 men sitting next to each other, rubbing tanning oil on each other while their girlfriends are attempting to use the grill.  What's wrong with this picture?

I totally know what's wrong with this post... and it sickens me as well. attempting? seriously? those girls need to get their butts in gear and grill up some mean meat. none of that silly "attempting" stuff... pfft.