Inconvenient Annoyances

'I'm surprised at how many UK citizens are posting on here that she was bad, after she did so much for their country. I'm an American and so I'm lucky enough to have an unbiased view. She was great.' ---- I think it's just about time for me to stop reading the comments on Thatcher articles before the rage sets in. 

Ha. We are an odd household, as my husband directly benefited from many of her policies as a child (they were able to purchase their (formally council) house for nearly nothing (his dad still lives there). Also, he grew up near London. So, with us, it is the US/UK dual citizen who is the fire breathing lefty, whereas the UK citizen is more...moderate in his views?

He still thinks that the poll tax was ridiculous (and is extremely pro socialised medicine), but he is occasionally closer to the "privatize it" section that I would be! I don't think he'd take is as far as thinking she was some sort of leader-genius though, anymore than either of us would assume Reagan was.

Of course, everyone at work (in Manchester). Had a...different take on it. They were polite, but not in tears, to say the least. Also, there is quite a bit of shock at the idea that we will all now pay for some sort of fancy funeral service.

I have to fly to Columbus OH for my sister's wedding in August. I've been fare watching, hoping for just a little break. I log on to find lastminute.com offering a flight for £530, I get excited and select it only to watch it jump to £611. Feels like bait and switch tactics to me. 

Itchy!!    This happened to me once before after I've had a high fever for a few days and it's annoying!  Very red, bumpy, and itchy rash on my knees (front and back) ankles, and wrists and inner fore-arms.  The natural person that I am knows it's just my body trying to detox so I get some homeopathic cream for dermatitis from the health shop which does *nothing*.  So hubby gave me some of his non-natural antihistimine cream which seems to be helping a bit. 

Oh well, it will pass eventually and the homeopathic cream will make a nice general body moisturizer as that's all it's good for.

Haha NOT, indeed, it's a good plan to avoid comments in general. As you might imagine, Scotland as a whole has not exactly been in mourning. Apparently there's going to be a party on George Square in Glasgow

Haha NOT, indeed, it's a good plan to avoid comments in general. As you might imagine, Scotland as a whole has not exactly been in mourning. Apparently there's going to be a party on George Square in Glasgow

I'm not one to dance about on graves or anything, but I have to say that's a party I'd love to see!

From all I have heard, she did more bad than good, and it seems nearly the whole UK is celebrating.

My IA: Where we live, we have to get satellite internet. The package is 10 gig during the day, and another 10 gig for 2 am to 8 am only. We set all our 'big' stuff to happen during the off peak time, and we have been fine so far.

My brother has moved and doesn't have net yet, so he brought his computer over, saying it was to do his Windows updates. Not a problem. Hubby and I were gone for 4 hours, came home and he'd gone through 3.7 gig in that time! Or, in money terms, over $20 of the monthly bill! We have now run out with four days to go until it restarts for the month. We have the option of buying more usage at $5 per 'token', or going at less than dial up speed until we start the new billing cycle.  We can do what we can in the mornings, then for the rest of the day we are at a crawl.

It isn't the money so much as the fact he said it was for Windows updates when it was to download a game. He knows how much usage we have in a month, he knew how much we could allocate him, and he more or less lied about what he was going to do. He is a bonafide computer geek, so he knew what he was doing.

It just feels like he took advantage. When I asked him about it, he didn't say anything, and certainly didn't say he was sorry.

From all I have heard, she did more bad than good, and it seems nearly the whole UK is celebrating.

My IA: Where we live, we have to get satellite internet. The package is 10 gig during the day, and another 10 gig for 2 am to 8 am only. We set all our 'big' stuff to happen during the off peak time, and we have been fine so far.

My brother has moved and doesn't have net yet, so he brought his computer over, saying it was to do his Windows updates. Not a problem. Hubby and I were gone for 4 hours, came home and he'd gone through 3.7 gig in that time! Or, in money terms, over $20 of the monthly bill! We have now run out with four days to go until it restarts for the month. We have the option of buying more usage at $5 per 'token', or going at less than dial up speed until we start the new billing cycle.  We can do what we can in the mornings, then for the rest of the day we are at a crawl.

It isn't the money so much as the fact he said it was for Windows updates when it was to download a game. He knows how much usage we have in a month, he knew how much we could allocate him, and he more or less lied about what he was going to do. He is a bonafide computer geek, so he knew what he was doing.

It just feels like he took advantage. When I asked him about it, he didn't say anything, and certainly didn't say he was sorry.

Seriously uncool! I loathe liars! 

From all I have heard, she did more bad than good, and it seems nearly the whole UK is celebrating.

My IA: Where we live, we have to get satellite internet. The package is 10 gig during the day, and another 10 gig for 2 am to 8 am only. We set all our 'big' stuff to happen during the off peak time, and we have been fine so far.

My brother has moved and doesn't have net yet, so he brought his computer over, saying it was to do his Windows updates. Not a problem. Hubby and I were gone for 4 hours, came home and he'd gone through 3.7 gig in that time! Or, in money terms, over $20 of the monthly bill! We have now run out with four days to go until it restarts for the month. We have the option of buying more usage at $5 per 'token', or going at less than dial up speed until we start the new billing cycle.  We can do what we can in the mornings, then for the rest of the day we are at a crawl.

It isn't the money so much as the fact he said it was for Windows updates when it was to download a game. He knows how much usage we have in a month, he knew how much we could allocate him, and he more or less lied about what he was going to do. He is a bonafide computer geek, so he knew what he was doing.

It just feels like he took advantage. When I asked him about it, he didn't say anything, and certainly didn't say he was sorry.

That would drive me insane. One time my brother said he was desperate for a laptop, so I gave him a decent one of mine (about 3 years old macbook), he sold it! Was going to a festival and needed money etc. WTF?! I could have sold it myself!


Mine is this ongoing kidney infection. It hurts again today. Bugger.

Ugh, TamaMoo and CB, that would drive me nuts.

Hope your kidney improves soon, CB!

Mine is recruiters, still. They don't seem to get the message that while I could take their job and do well at it, I in no way want their job, and them calling back every week to see if I really want their job will not make it more attractive to me (or them either, for that matter).

So I know I've put on weight in the last few months, but today I finally faced the scale and was SHOCKED at far I've let myself slip.  Not cool.  Stopping the cycle NOW.

Checked my email and had an email from my US tax advisor.... and I owe the US $10,000 for 2012.  I've asked her to send me the calculations and am hoping for an error but not counting on it.

I have had better days.

Unexpectedly running into someone you sort-of-not-really dated  because you were both too awkward and just couldn't get it together, being completely caught off guard, having a 1 minute fumbling and awkward conversation, and then having no choice but to constantly replay that in your head for the next 48 hours and wincing every time! 

What am I, 16?! I'm too old to be doing this! 

My IA for today is the news on Tesco and other stores (all but Waitrose) lifting the ban on GMO foods.  I'm really shocked and disappointed.  I got sick really bad for almost a year in 2001 with what we thought was a brain tumour and it wasn't until I stopped using products with aspartame and similar (fake low calorie sugar) that I recovered. Ever since then I've been following the company behind it, Monsanto.  Bad history of bribing people and trying to silence people about the effects of their GMO foods. So now that most of the stores are going to allow this in their milk/cheese/meat/poultry/eggs without labelling it really upsets me!  I am on the paleo diet due to my ulcerative colitis (I eat mostly eggs/fish/poultry) so this leaves me nothing to eat! 

So, taking back Sunday's shop to Tesco this afternoon for a refund, that is after digging the receipt out of the bin... ick. 

Uh, aspartame has nothing to do with genetic modification in food, and not all GM in food is to do with Monsanto. Also, the ban that has been lifted is not on all GM foods, it's on chicken eggs and meat from birds that may have been fed with GM soya. Aside from one incredibly poorly-designed study conducted by an anti-GM scientist in France using rats that are already prone to tumours, there isn't any good evidence that GM food causes any problems in people or animals that consume them. There is a lot of complete nonsense out there about genetic modification, and it's pretty much all on the unscientific anti-GM side. As for the paleo diet, I don't see how this interrupts that at all. There aren't any GM chickens on the market, it's just their feed, which has been made resistant to pesticides, and it's not actually possible for the gene to transfer from the plant to the animal, much less on to you. If that happened, we'd all have transgenes in us whether food was GM or not, because all food contains DNA. Our digestive systems breaks DNA down into individual nucleotides for use by our cells, and doesn't take genes whole and incorporate them into our chromosomes. Believe me, you're completely safe.

Having found tin of pumpkin (marked down!) in Waitrose, I was all set to make some pumpkin muffins. Turns out "someone" tossed the muffin tins