alaskanray

@alaskanray (4636)

United States • Age 67

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Crying in my sleep

RitterSport @RitterSport (2451) • Lippstadt, Germany 22 Sep 12

hi friends, I am emotionally drained today. Something weird happened to me. Normally I dont recall my dreams at all. But I recalled them this morning. You have to know that my friend who was like a mom to me for almost 25...

death

heart mom

mourning

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alaskanray My mother is always alive in my dreams and it always feels so good to me, I never want to wake up! I'm sorry it still hurts for you. We never stop missing our loved ones, though the pain may decrease. Hugs, GF!

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Update on Maggiepie

ElicBxn @ElicBxn (63642) • United States 20 Sep 12

I went down for a "community care meeting" today and they are aiming at sending her home next Monday. The doctor told her that even 2 weeks is way less time than most of their patients... However, I've seen some of their...

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alaskanray Hugs to Maggie...tell her I'm thinking of her and praying for her. Give her my love!

20 Sep 12

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My Computer is DYING!

EmmyLu18 @EmmyLu18 (102) • United States 3 Sep 12

Yupp, I don't see many months, maybe even weeks left for this poor thing. 4 years old, too. First the battery died about 2 years ago (FINALLY replaced that a few months ago) and then there started to be lines across the bottom...

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alaskanray Patience, Daughter. Once Cooper is off to Afton and you find a job, you can start seriously saving up for a new computer...which, I would suggest, you buy locally so you can try it out before buying it.

3 Sep 12

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Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam.......

EmmyLu18 @EmmyLu18 (102) • United States 3 Sep 12

Given the fact that I never know if there's an actual, legitimate email in my spam folder (it could happen), I like to scan through it sometimes before emptying. I can't BELIEVE some of the things that com my...

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alaskanray I don't bother to check my spam folder unless I'm expecting something from a new person. Even the subject lines are oftentimes too obscene for my eyes.

3 Sep 12

Just GROW UP will you!

ElicBxn @ElicBxn (63642) • United States 3 Sep 12

So, the new roommate did it again. She picked up something that wasn't hers and drank it. Fine, not good, but not bad. But she lied about it! She says she picked up the bottle by accident, and we can believe that,...

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alaskanray Sounds like my kid sister. Are you sure she doesn't have Asperger's?

3 Sep 12

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Another story of stupidity

ElicBxn @ElicBxn (63642) • United States 31 Aug 12

I worked in a rather small unit for several years, and I really liked the people I worked with. Now, I had a lot of respect for my boss, this was the whole unit's boss, and not just my little section's supervisor... But she...

misogynists

stupid

stupidity

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alaskanray Male chauvinism is alive and well in the 21st century. I remember when I first married my ex, we were on our wedding night and went into this one bar downtown where he started chatting with a buddy of his. I started joining in, telling some of our news and...

1 Sep 12

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Do you find this annoying?

ElicBxn @ElicBxn (63642) • United States 31 Aug 12

Okay, so this happened a number of years ago. A LARGE number of years ago... before there was a "Do No Call" list. So, the phone rings and I answer it. "May I speak to Jas M____" (my last name). Now, for those of you...

stupid

stupidity

telemarketers

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alaskanray Telemarketing is the bottom of the barrel as far as jobs go and it attracts the very desperate job seeker, which means the unskilled and unintelligent. Still, the failure to listen to the person you are talking to is a very common malady and one of the most...

31 Aug 12

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Another sad day

ElicBxn @ElicBxn (63642) • United States 23 Aug 12

I've mentioned now and again that my "grandson" Solo has been sick. He was really sick last month and we thought we were going to lose him, but he improved. Lately he's been begging for food and eating. But, this morning,...

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alaskanray Hugs, GF.

23 Aug 12

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I'm burning up!

ElicBxn @ElicBxn (63642) • United States 19 Aug 12

and my head hurts! Am I sick? No, I'm just The Alien! There are days when I might as well just take a lot of meds and stay in bed, except that gets to hurting too... I wish, sometimes, I couldn't feel pain, but I don't...

bad

feeling bad

headache

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alaskanray I am so sorry you are not feeling well, my friend. I hope you feel better soon. Hugs!

20 Aug 12

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Did you know...?

ElicBxn @ElicBxn (63642) • United States 12 Aug 12

So, I was doing some jigsaw puzzles today. Lately I've been doing waterfall puzzles, I guess I needed a break from the heat and dryness around here. So, one of the puzzles caught my interest. It was a place called "Potomac...

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alaskanray I have seen some beautiful waterfalls in my life and traveled quite a bit. It's nice to reminisce now that travel proves to be too painful for me. I also love ruins. In my hometown there is a ghost town called Treadwell and I lived walking distance from it...

12 Aug 12

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How Do You Forget??

Jennifer @LovingMyBabies (85288) • Valdosta, Georgia 10 Aug 12

I have known a few people that have been poor for most of their life. Grew up poor and were poor for some of their adult life. Then...their life changes and somehow they come into money and their whole attitude changes. I do not...

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alaskanray I have to agree with grace. I think they don't want to remember because they like having the money and hated not having it so they are in denial, hoping never to go back to where they came from. It is sad but true that most people find great shame in being...

10 Aug 12

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What do you remember?

burrito88 @burrito88 (2774) • United States 31 Jul 12

I've started a job where I get off work at 6:30 and then have a drive of about an hour and fifteen minutes to get home. Because of the commute time, and getting home later I don't usually feel like cooking so I do a frozen dinner...

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alaskanray We had black and white TV years after all my friends had color. In fact, the local station broadcast in black and white and you could only get color on your color TV set if you had cable for many years. It was quite the event when the local station got a color...

1 Aug 12

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I Just Don't Think It's Right...Part 2

Jennifer @LovingMyBabies (85288) • Valdosta, Georgia 31 Jul 12

So I just wanted to update everyone about the pregnant girl doing drugs and such... Well her boyfriend broke up with her yesterday. He said he was tired of trying to change her because she does not want to change herself. He...

baby

father

pregnant

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alaskanray I'm sure it was a hard decision for him to make but sometimes you just have to forget about the mother and concentrate on what is best for the child. I'm glad he is in a position to rescue his baby from a bad situation.

31 Jul 12

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It Always Amazes Me...

Jennifer @LovingMyBabies (85288) • Valdosta, Georgia 28 Jul 12

I think its very puzzling how siblings can be born of the same parents, live together for years and years, get raised with the same morals and values and then some turn out COMPLETELY different than the other siblings! It just...

different

siblings

views

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alaskanray I was asked once, "Are you sure you and your sister have the same parents?" I said yes and the reply was, "But you're so NICE!!!" I busted out laughing! The thing is that no matter what our parents teach us and no matter how much time we spend with...

28 Jul 12

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Maggiepie...Back from the (Almost) Dead (Finally!!!)

Maggiepie @Maggiepie (7816) • United States 27 Jul 12

Okay, yes, it's I, & I know it's been MONTHS, but I'm still recovering. Looooong story, briefly: my health totally cratered, I spent over a third of a year either in hospitals &/or rehab centers, getting new meds a tracheotomy & a...

nearly dead

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alaskanray (((((MAAAAAAGGGGGGIIIIIEEEEEEE!!!))))) Oh, my friend I have missed you so much! Mylot has not been the same without you! I love you and pray for your recovery. Tons of cyberhugs coming your way!

27 Jul 12

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Do You Have One?

Jennifer @LovingMyBabies (85288) • Valdosta, Georgia 25 Jul 12

I do! A horror story about having a room mate. My other discussion reminded me of this nightmare! We put up a wanted ad 2 years ago wanting a room mate because we had an extra room and the rent was really high. So, we got a few...

horror

nightmare

roommate

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alaskanray Unfortunately I have several but the worst was when my daughter was a baby. Like you I was trying to make ends meet. During my pregnancy I had allowed a friend of my sister's to move in with me. Well, she had this BFF who was over so much, she may as well have...

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It made me sad...

Jennifer @LovingMyBabies (85288) • Valdosta, Georgia 25 Jul 12

This couple was having an argument while walking down the street. She said please don't leave me, I have nowhere to go. She said please don't make me beg you to stay with me. I just felt so bad and thought for a...

helping

people

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alaskanray Yah, me too. I love the song by Martina McBride, "Love's the Only House". I love that song. It hits so close to home. We all do what we can. Check the song out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzM_lxnzi64

25 Jul 12

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"Fat Chance!"

ElicBxn @ElicBxn (63642) • United States 24 Jul 12

As you guys should know, I take in strays. Now, it turned out that one of these "strays" was a woman with a serious mental problem (no, not the recently moved out roommate.) She only stayed with us a few months and then...

cat

cats

crazy people

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alaskanray You go, Girlfriend! You were right on!

25 Jul 12

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I Just Don't Think It's Right...

Jennifer @LovingMyBabies (85288) • Valdosta, Georgia 24 Jul 12

This couple came over and were hanging out with my husband and I. My husband and the guy got along amazingly well. Me & the girl kind of got along. We didn't have any major problems, she is just a little young yet. Thinks certain...

pregnancy

smoking

wrong

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alaskanray I am with you on this score, my friend. I would be furious with the woman but, then, I would hold my peace or try to say something tamer than what I was feeling because I recognize that I have no right to dictate to her. When I was carrying my...

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Does that happen to you?

Jennifer @LovingMyBabies (85288) • Valdosta, Georgia 23 Jul 12

When people hang around others for a while they sometimes start talking like them or saying things the other person usually says. I was over my parents house the other day and my father said something I always say when I am...

talking like family or friend

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alaskanray All the time! A couple expressions I picked up from friends include "sugarfoot!" and "doesn't that melt my little pea-pickin' heart!" When I met my ex-boyfriend Bill, my favorite expression was "doggone it!" but he always said, "dad gummit!" and by the time we...

23 Jul 12

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