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I love the Westminster dog show! My son, who doesn't have t.v., came over to watch it both nights, and we were both excited to see the beagle win best in show. She seems like such a good little dog. Betty, in your experience are beagles pretty even-tempered? I've never had one or been around...

I work for a bank and I know there are different messages printed on our statements that may or may not apply to all accountholders. But since there are certain things that don't necessarily fall under any Federal regulation that different banks may do differently, I would suggest that if you...

I don't get it either, Elle. I had a casual friend years ago who told me that she'd rather have a husband who treated her badly than no husband at all. When I picked my jaw up off the floor at her total and absolute lack of self-esteem and asked her about how she thought it was affecting her...

That's kinda cool! :) I'm not a fan of beauty pageants and it's very easy to dismiss women who participate in them as human Barbie dolls, but I saw her in an interview and she seemed like a very sweet, genuine person.

I've asked people before who had an abusive family member the same question and the answer was a shocked look and "because we're FAMILY!"

Sorry to hear about your kitty, Elle. I understand your decision to stop the insulin, though. If it's to that point sometimes I think quality of life should win out. Thanks for the suggestion about the food, ferretrick. I've wondered about things like that myself, especially when you see the...

That we do, Betty. I never thought we'd be the kind of dog people that we've become since our silly girl came into our lives. She can be a complete pain in the neck but sometimes our human children can be too! :)

Thanks everybody for your feedback on diabetic pets. Ferretrick, I know you're right that we're making a bigger deal of it than it needs to be....I know that tiny little needle doesn't hurt her and she's got plenty of loose skin on the back of her neck so I barely even have to get ahold of it to...

So, have any of you pet lovers here ever had to deal with a diabetic pet? Our 100+ pound "puppy" was diagnosed last week. Took her to the vet because we thought she had a urinary tract infection, which she did, but they did a blood test and her glucose level was almost off the charts. And...

If your employer is paying for the hotel and your meal, but the time you spend there after regular work hours is off-duty time and you are free to do whatever you wish during those hours, then that time would not generally be compensable. In most cases, if there are two parents living in the...

Seems like the weather has been kinda strange in many parts of the country. We have had one small snowfall, and that was in November. Otherwise it has been unseasonably warm lately (high 40's, low 50's) and very wet this week. We had record-setting rainfall a couple of days ago and some...

I've had to deal with a couple of employees like that, cbg. It's frustrating, to say the least. If employees have enough time in their day to keep track of what everyone else is wearing or their manager's comings and goings, they clearly don't have enough real work to do!

I agree, ferritrick. It's easier to tell someone they aren't allowed to wear jeans to work that look like they just cleaned the garage in them, because pretty much everyone understands in a professional office that isn't appropriate. I've found over the years, though, that for many women the...

That can be a tough one. We have a few employees who sometimes dress like that, not often enough for us to say that their entire wardrobe is inappropriate but enough that some days it can be hard to distinguish if they understood that they were dressing for work, not for going out to a club...

Absolutely my thought, Proserpina! My parents bought a three-bedroom house when I was 13 and there were four kids living at home. When we moved in there my youngest sister slept on a daybed in what was just an extra-wide hallway between the two upstairs bedrooms, and my dad made a (very small)...

I think a lot of people labor under the misconception that there's some kind of law that says opposite-sex siblings can't share a bedroom. I've seen more than one person present that idea during a custody battle, trying to say that the other parent was somehow not taking proper care of the...

I saw something on the news the other night about how they heat the train tracks so they keep working right...I didn't realize that some places have gas jets so there's open flame on the tracks to keep them warm enough. That looked a little scary to me, I can't imagine riding on a train and...

I hope everyone had a great holiday season. I was off work the last two weeks and I spent most of it binge-watching Game of Thrones (for the second time), reading, and crocheting. In other words, I parked my fanny on the couch and pretty much stayed there for two full weeks! Our Christmas...

Yikes, that's way too many Jameses in one family! We don't do "naming after" in my family, except for middle names on occasion. My grandson was given my late son's first name as his middle name and my son has his father's middle name. Had I ever had a daughter, I wanted to give her my middle...

My mom insisted that I be called Cynthia and would threaten mayhem upon anyone who dared to call me Cindy. I thought her head was going to explode when she found out some of my high school friends called me "Cyn". :)