Mama Carol

I'll talk to you then! do proceeds from the sale go to the center? If so, I am definitely interested in that! Shepherd Spinal Center.

I may talk to you about that. You gonna be in the office tomorrow??

Nope.

Hmmmm. Not a bad idea. I have no clue what a nice bottle of wine is though. Not being a wine drinker, I have no idea about what makes a good one, what goes with what or anything. I'm a Margarita drinker. Man, wonder if I could get my ex-boss to smoke a couple of butts and breasts for me? That was what he always gave to clients (and employees who miss it).

Believe it or not, I thought about something like that. Well, actually, I thought about baking up a batch of cookies. I make a pretty decent sugar cookie and a pretty decent chocolate chip. Maybe I can get some people to chime in who know the clients I'm needing to buy for. HINT, HINT.

I have a couple of very special clients that I need to buy a gift for. Nothing fancy. Nothing expensive (it has to be under $25 for me to get a deduction for it) and nothing gaudy. Any ideas?

In my last time, which was part-time, I got paid holidays (I think six a year)and two weeks paid vacation. One to five bonuses a year. I got free tax prep, too. And I worked for one of the best bosses ever. The paid time off was a bonus since I loved where I worked. For a time we had a Simple-IRA but that lost lots of value after some kind of scandal. It had rebounded before I left that job and had regained all the lost value. I had pension plan at one job back years ago. Never have had insurance provided through my employer.

for utilities, no need to keep them after a month. In fact, I don't even keep mine that long. I pay them online and as soon as I pay it, I shred the bill. For credit cards, I keep the receipts until the statement comes and then put the statement and the receipts in an envelope with the date on them. I have been throwing them out after 3 years unless it is business related (for the last 10 years, most of our credit card charges have been business related). Loan information you need to keep for 7 years after the loan is paid off. Real estate information (deeds, closing docum

You can also send a PM to Pubby or LPPT. They can help you.

About an hour and 45 minutes. Might have been almost 2 hours. It was a 14 pound turkey and we probably should have stopped at one hour and fifteen minutes. Lost track of time.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :yahoo: :yahoo:

:rofl: :blink: :unsure: we should celebrate Mayberries together.

What a great idea!! Mayberries for Thanksgiving. Giving thanks for getting mayberries.

It's been my tradition almost as long as we've been in this house, 32 years, that the Christmas wreath on the front door is the first thing that goes up. Generally, right after Thanksgiving dinner and before dark. I do the rest of the decorations a little at a time--silk poinsettias, candles, etc. The tree usually goes up about a week before Christmas. Ten years ago, with the twins having been born and their funerals, we didn't put up a tree until December 22nd or 23rd and then hubby put it up as I sat in the middle of the living room floor and cried. It's going to be tough to put one

Anyone ever try this? We did and it was incredible! We probably overcooked it a bit but it was so moist and tender it didn't seem overcooked. I think there was more broth left in the pressure cooker after we finished cooking the turkey than hubby put in the cooker to start with. It was great. The rub we mixed up stayed on the bird throughout the cooking. The lemons and onions we put inside it gave everything a wonderful, almost spicy flavor. The only problem we had was getting it out of the cooker. The twine broke and it took both of us to get it out of the cooker and then it came out

I'm only buying gifts for the two youngest grandkids. Hubby and I are giving each other a trip to the beach for a white Christmas and likely nothing else (who needs more *stuff*?). My shopping will be done during the weekdays, between the hours of 10 and 1:30. I likely won't go to Walmart until around January 1. I'll go to Target and K-Mart and Kohl's. Possibly going to Ross. Black Friday is just another day and the best day EVER to avoid shopping.

the OP said the person was in nursing school. My all-time favorite server in any restaurant was a single mom (not by choice) who was working full time and going to school. Once she finished school and got a job as a nurse she quit the restaurant. It was never the same for hubby and myself and likely not the same for many of her regulars. In case she, who I will identify only as LAL, is reading this, we miss you terribly but know you're in an environment you were made for.

absolutely!! More government regulation is not needed. People need to realize that regulations generally hurt the workers and consumers much more than the employers.

many restaurant managers are college educated and have never waited a table or cooked in a restaurant and they have NO real world experience about what those who do those jobs are going through. They are just interested in getting as many people in and out as possible. Good service be damned. In any industry, not just the restaurant business, there are good managers and then there are managers. The good managers seem to climb up the corporate ladder, leaving the "managers" to manage or mismanage as the case may be.

GD, I think there are a lot of people, mrnn included, who believe we need MORE government control of our lives and our businesses and not less control. One should not have to have a law that says you get a break during a shift. Employers should do things for their employees and their business because they want to, not because they have to meet some government requirement.

You get what you give. Employers who don't respect their employees, don't get respect FROM the employees. You're absolutely correct. It will come back to bite them.

overtime does not refer to hours worked per day. It is hours worked during the pay period/week. When DD was working at the big blue place, she was considered part-time. She worked 39 hours during one seven day period and 41 hours during another seven day period BUT it was all the same pay period and she did not work more than 40 hours PER WEEK during the pay period when averaged over the two week pay period. Yeah, that sucked. The employer doesn't HAVE to give meal or break periods. PERIOD. If they don't give them, they probably haven't said in any job description or employee ha

Yep, pretty much. My SIL worked at Waffle House and occasionally worked a double with only a very brief break between shifts. Basically long enough to go to the bathroom as the only break he got. And that was only if they were slow and someone else could cover for him.

They are not required.

I'm not sure that was it. All we saw were fire trucks. We heard two, maybe three, other sirens and were pretty sure that at least one of them was an ambulance but didn't hear anything that sounded like police. Since all the fire trucks, except maybe the one, went close to my house, it makes sense that if the police and the ambulance are going to the same place from the same area, they would use the same road. The last time there was a drowning at Sun Valley, there were a lot of police and ambulances but only one or two fire trucks. This was different. This obviously was a fire.