Feelings/attitude toward stepgrandchild
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Comments (20)If you keep a customer happy, word gets out. Make them mad, that gets out too. :) Simple as that! Regardless of how big or small their needs. My dad owned a Auto repair shop from 1983-2005. I can't tell you how many times someone came in for a small quick fix. Wiper blades and such. Many a time he'd fix it quick and not charge. They'd leave happy and tell a friend who needed major work. He never advertised anywhere, and had more work than he could handle till the day he sold it. The clerk should have helped retiredprof. by offering why he felt the customer should go with a bagged mix and let the customer decide. Simple. Like Al stated.. start asking why. I love to play that game. Espicially if they had a snotty attitude! he he. Jodi~ your so right in the fact that they know nothing about their jobs! Worse yet, they don't care!! Some time back we asked a clerk at HD if they had bird house kits for children to build and paint. The clerk took us to what he thought it was. The item he pointed out was the boards to put in the eves of the house to keep birds out! Scary!! ""There's a lot to be said for quality... versus quantity. If a soil lasts for a few seasons, then it's less expensive in the long run than the soil that requires replacing on a regular basis. I'd like a medium to last for more than a few months, before it decomposes and compacts to the point that it's no longer healthy for plant roots, and they're suffocating in it."" So true Jodi~ Espicially in an are like mine! Our growing season is about 9 or 10 months long for annuals and simple stuff. Bagged mixes just don't hold up~ Not to mention the cost of stuff I have to throw away that didn't make it! This season I showed my mom and a friend how great my plants are doing, using Al's mixes. And next spring the garden centers will have 2 less people buying the bagged mixes. :) What can I say.. were several of the many who are tired of throwing away $$! JoJo...See MoreAttitude adjustment...
Comments (16)I feel for you in the east, cold weather and winter setting in already and too much rain is no fun. There is NO way we will catch up on rain, and they're "saying" we are in for more drought for many years to come, hope they're wrong, as they are so many times! This is really the best time of year to plant, divide, etc. before it freezes, and I think really one of our prettier times of year. We don't get the gorgeous color you all get, leaves and such just turn kind of a yucky yellowish before winter really gets here. What we do get is mornings in the 50's, warming up to the 80's, the slant of the gentle autumn sun, just bliss for us after our horrendous summer!...See MoreDevil-may-care attitude with Marble?
Comments (9)I think marble and an OCD cook are actually made for each other! I'm a little OCD as well, and I think that's precisely why I get along well with my honed marble. I clean as I go when cooking, I have cutting boards of all shapes and sizes that I always use, so I never set food directly on the counter, and I wipe up spills immediately. I did this with my laminate for 12 years before I redid my kitchen, and I do it now on my quartz surfaces, as well as on the marble counter, which has been getting heavy prep use for about 2 months now. No etches yet! I'm prepared to have the marble etch over time (so I'm not OCD in the sense that that would bother me), but it's less likely to etch quickly or heavily in my "OCD" kitchen than in the kitchen of someone who is a more messy cook. As an aside, I read (somewhere, I'll try to find it) that it's fine to use a dilute bleach solution to clean marble. I find that a 50% rubbing alcohol spray after plain soap and water works well enough, though. The alcohol is of course a disinfectant as well. I agree with you, pp, that the triclosan/Microban in Silestone is unnecessary. It's one of the reasons I went with Caesarstone instead. Cambria is another brand of quartz widely available. It may be obvious from my comment above that I have both quartz and marble in my kitchen. Could that be an option for you?...See MoreSDs-Dramatic attitude changes
Comments (8)I know, Mattie. Princesses my $ss. The daughter of Mom's SO is pushing late 50's. She's livid she has to share what very little is left of her father's estate with her deceased brother's children. She's livid and in total denial about what little there actually is to begin with...his house was in reverse mortgage because tthrough the years her dad had borrowed off it to give her money and help her build a house. She honestly is clueless. She had no idea the guy only made it through the last 15 yrs as it is because my mother paid large shares of his medications and heating bills blah blah. The brat has announced my mother must have 'stolen' all her daddy's money. Not true and all Mom has done for him has been long documented and legally acknowledged with paper trails so all this daughter is doing is blowing hot air...but still. And, no, nothing my mother did for him is being turned in. Mom did what she did because she wanted to and even the little IOUs in the safe Mom has showed the lawyer but will not collect on...she does not want to, does not need the money. She more or less let SO make out the IOUs to let him keep some pride and to show a legal paper trail of how things really were, she knew what it would be like in the end. My mother just had breast cancer surgery, Mom just does not need this monster and all her chaos right now. Why the girl's father did not straight up tell this daughter the reality of it all for all these years is beyong me. One of the last changes he made was to include my sister as co-executive of his estate so my sister could be the one to deal with it and spare my mother the total process of sorting and dealing the final steps of process. Daughter was the main reason Mom and SO never married, no way was Mother going to be wrapped up with this daughter. They never shared any of Mom's accounts, titles to anything or the whatnot as it was just not in Mother's best interest. Mom is self supporting, has far more money and assests than SO ever had and had the sense to keep it that way. The kicker for me is his daughter lived one and a 1/2 blocks down the road from her father and would go months and months with no word from her. Several times the guy fell using the bathroom during the night and if Mom called her for 'help' daughter would not pick up phone and would not even acknowledge later the voice messages. Said 'oh, never got any of that, must be my darn phone'. But as soon as he would be hospitalized here she would come playing concerned daughter. She wiped out one bank account and had an auctioneer check out his home during one hospital stay about seven years ago. Then she blew a gasket when she learned her father shut her out and changed his will and gave power of attorney for health and money matters/decisions out of her control. Brat cried on my shoulder at his visitation, sobbing 'I just don't know what happened, I guess I just got busy in my own life'. Sorry, PO1, don't mean to hijack your thread, but I think there may be similar chaos ahead for your SO (not maybe the money issues but the treatment and attitudes) and I'm just telling you how things turned out with my mother's SO's little princess....See MoreDiane
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