I love vintage textile art! More fab quilt tops.

I am simply wild about these vintage masterpieces. I don't know if I will add backing and batting or just savor them in their current conditions. I fear lowering their value (but I did not pay alot) or just spoiling them with my meager talents.

Nice, huh?

Even more than smacking now!

I wonder how some people do not die of inhalation pneumonia?

Why do they need a big gulp of air with every damnable bite or slurp, and yes I do mean slurp, of soup. Are they clogging up our ERs? Monopolizing the Cipro supply?
Creating a need for ventilators?

Why can't they eat quietly?

Please God, let them stop snarfing....please

My new quilt!

I thought this was fabulously colorful and almost Picasso-esque. How could I NOT get it being a Maximalist and all?

I'm thinking of getting earplugs

...to drown out the smack smack smack at the kitchen table

Demanding "mediation" ended problem.

Apparently, the googlettes doing the mediation (not at all up to paypal standards) are able to correct an easy error. Hoorah.

This would never have happened with paypal anyway.

As soon as my bank tells me the nightmare is over, I will cancel my wallet account and be free of this scourge forever.

Googlw Wallet...the misery continues

EIGHTEEN days latter they cannot grasp the concept of "double charge". They are telling the seller the buyer needs to confirm the double charge and there is no option on their menu to do just that. They say "contact the seller".

I hate Google Wallet.

More crap from Google Wallet!

My credit card bill arrives and I was charged TWICE for the same items. This never happens with paypal.

Jackasses!

Worst Anniversary Gift...evah!

Toe nail clippers.

Yes, you read that right.

Was I supposed to be thrilled? Amused?

Just mildly disgusted. Wish I could turn the clock back to 1978 and get it right.

Sigh

Google Wallet Sucks

I will never use this service again and will stick to sellers who offer Paypal. Google's notification of payment is slow and clumsy. There is no ability to dispute the charge and you must rely on your bank. They are hands off when it comes to sloppy sellers.

Nothing but trouble, just a rotten experience.

Paypal forever!

More on teachers

Someone was arguing with me the other day and made the silly statement that people happily agree to give the teachers their high salaries, lavish benefits and cakey schedules.

I called BS.

If the teachers' union did not have its muddy jackboots on the throats of parents who have to take time off when the union maids (male and female) went on strike, the parents and communities would be willing to take a tougher stand on these blackmailers. But as most of us get only a few weeks off per year and companies who actually accomplish something can't afford employees who are off all the time, parents fall victim to these cruel unions every damn year!

Down with the NEA and the AFT!

So half of schools failed federal standards?

Does anyone believe that handing more money to the FAILED TEACHERS and their union will make this better?

Time to terminate teachers.

Time to fail students who refuse to achieve

Time to focus the time in the classroom on math, science, reading and writing and NOT on social engineering and indoctrination.

And yes, we need lots of homework and more effort on the part of the students themselves.

But, in all honesty, does anyone believe that the precious teachers, those of the summers off, every imaginable holiday off and winter and spring breaks off, can really be so darned wonderful in the classrooms if schools are failing? If any other profession produced such poor results there would be a national uproar.

But, it you complain about the princes and princesses of education you KNOW that they will take it out on your kid, so you shut up and smile.

They're so very professional and all.

Shall I confront "stooopid dad"?

Of course this is a rhetorical question as I talk to myself here, but it seems for his son's sake that someone needs to do an intervention. The vain, foolish narcissism of this man will destroy the boy.

Stoopid dad also spells poorly

Wating for my ex-wife to agree on something reasonable is like waiting for the next full solar eclipse

Naturally this attracts his son to visit? Does he think his son finds his mother the hostile parent?

Stoooopid dad is Very Sad

Always sad when my son does not show up on my parenting days

Well bunbun, why do think that might be?

Is it because of your stupid tweets about sex-toys?

Maybe because you love to bash his mom on HuffPo?

Or maybe you are just generally an online jerk?

You spend days humiliating your son with your preoccupations on Twitter and you can barely post on Huffi's site without trashing the marriage that produced him.

Do you think that spells L-O-V-E to a 16 year old boy?

And on the topic of your divorce and how damn happy you are, if you are so pleased why do you you focus on so little else?