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I have another dietitian appt tomorrow. I can't imagine why. What could she possibly tell me that she didn't already?

I should go eat something.

I have a grocery store question. Do they teach baggers to bag in paper anymore? When I request paper bags, they do half the stuff in plastic anyway (sometimes they ask me first, and I feel pressured to be agreeable, like I've done something very onerous by asking for paper) and frequently they pack the paper bags so full you can hardly pick them up. More than once I've asked them to take a few things out or not to make them so heavy. One of the girls who did the worst job was only about 85 lbs herself; I almost asked her if she would want to carry bags that heavy.

One time I wrote up a complaint about it and I was assured by the store manager in a personal letter that they would take care to bag my groceries in paper every time. Of course it made no difference. What's the inside scoop?

Kiwi

You wrote a complaint letter? You can help me deal with my credit card company. I write them often.

They learn to bag with experience. My advice is to find a bagger or baggers who do a pretty job or who seem to actually care and go down the lines they're in when you can. Praise them. Guide them. Tip them. Tell them exactly what you want .. paper but not too heavy. No plastic. You can say that "NO PLASTIC!" People say it. They carry things with no bags to avoid plastic.

My questions: Why don't you have your own bags and why do you prefer paper to plastic?

I am going to check out this game called Second Life. DS says it's expensive but this woman at work said it's free. She has had a stroke and hip surgery and then cancer. When she got the cancer, she didn't tell anyone in 3-d life because she was depressed over it all. She told people in the game and they got her through it until someone at work found her in tears and she had to 'fess up.

Bye. Love you. Smack.

I filled out those "suggestion" cards, added my name and address.

Unfortunately I don't think it's possible to pick a line based on the bagger. Most of the time I don't see anyone bagging, or a checker bags for the line next to hers when she's not busy. I have no discernible routine to my life (except sleeping late) so I don't see the same people from one time to the next. The people who do the best job bagging are also the people who make me the most uncomfortable; one always asks me about DD and I feel guilty that I rarely ask about her daughter; the other is apparently mentally disabled and always makes challenging awkward remarks when I ask for paper. There are more. God, no wonder I hate shopping. Maybe I'll switch stores. The IGA employs mostly teenagers, who are perfectly happy to pretend they don't know me even when they do. Well, except for DD's friends, but they are very pleasant to encounter.

I've considered bringing my own bags, but I would be embarassed to show up with a collection of 5 or 6 different ones, and I'm too cheap to buy theirs. Also the main reason I use paper is so I can reuse them again for garbage bags. Although one reason I hate plastic bags is that I put my groceries in the back end of the SUV and plastic bags just slump all over and everything rolls out, while paper bags stand up nicely next to each other. That's my official reason.

Plus I live in a paper mill town for heavens sake! -- you'd think the local stores would be proponents of paper!

I had the impression that anyone could join Second Life for free. But I guess there are a lot of parts of it you have to pay for. That is sad about the lady with cancer. I hate to think what I would do with a diagnosis, maybe the same thing. I'd be more likely to tell you all about it than relatives.

I'm going to go make Greek braised green beans. DH is at a meeting and wants to fry up moose heart when he comes home. I will need to have something really good to counter with in case it's barfy.

Did I ever tell you that I use 2 computer mice now? One on the left side, one on the right. One is a rollerball. Switching off has saved my elbows, I think. I credit my old OT guy who forced me to keep trying to find a solution that worked.

Are their bags 99 cents and hold as much as 3 or 4 plastic bags and stand up like little boxes when filled? They are very nice. Otherwise, bring your own and be a rebel. Lots of people bring old funny bags. They like them and we don't care.

DS just learned that he didn't get the internship he applied for. I am sad about it. I think it's the right path for him and all that.

Hey, we have ONE customer everybody hates. Her usual greeting to baggers is, "Do you know how to bag? Have you seen the video?" Try that, especially on the ones who pretend not to know you. You can pretend to be someone else as well. This particular customer asked an uppidy office staff person for something and the os-person said they were understaffed and she couldn't get it right then. The woman then said, "Go scr*w yourself" and went off and reported her. I thought it was amusing. Still do.

WELL!!!IT'S MUSICAL WEEK---and like kiwonk,i am roped in to the scene once again---this time they asked me to DO THE BACKDROP,THE DAY BEFORE OPENING NIGHT!!!!! HOW INSANE IS THAT?????--- the musical is Oliver Twist----the backdrop behind the London Bridge is just a black wall-----they decided after watching dress rehearsal that it was too stark,so COULD I COME AND FIX IT!!!!--- well,i had to hang over the chasm between the bridge and the back wall of the stage in order to work,so no way was i PAINTING!!! so i went to the art supply store and bought a box of white chalk pastels====i drew the whole scene which was just rooftops and spires-----no one touches the wall,so it won't get ruined over the five performances-----CRAZY EH!!! _--it took a few hours but it was kind of fun-----one of my good friends has a daughter in the show ----she plays Nancy---Bill Sykes' girl---she steals the show---just a fantastic actress and singer and only in grade nine----soooo=---i have seen the performance twice already and i am going again tonight!!!---this is a busy week,cause there are three dd's here,one is home for 'reading' week---haha,not much reading going on!!----i am still very sick of this crappy winter and my mother is heading for florida on a bus with a tour of ladies-----BIG MOUTH SNOWBIRD TYPES NO DOUBT!!!-- they only stay for a few weeks though!------i like the grocery bags you can buy at the store---our new ones at sobeys have BLUEBERRIES ,KIWIS,AND OTHER FRUITS PICTURED ALL OVER THEM---VERY PRETTY!!!!! if i ever send your chicken bones and cow earrings i will send a bag too----i like talking about sending things more than actually sending them---the trouble is,i really do have a stack of chickenbone boxes waiting to be mailed----what an effin LOSER THIS COW IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SOME DAY -----WHEN IT FINALLY HAPPENS IT WILL BE A SHOCK INDEED----THE FIRST PERSON TO SEND MY AN OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT PIN,I WILL SWEAR ON THE HOLYBOOKS OF THE WORLD TO SEND CHICKENBONES-----THAT IS WHAT I REALLY NEED---INCENTIVE!!!!

FEATURING---THE KIWI BAG!!!---I CAN'T FIND THE BLUEBERRY ONE RIGHT NOW----http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.igayourhometownadvantage.ca/ontario/images/compliments_bag.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.igayourhometownadvantage.ca/ontario/whatsnew.asp&h=300&w=183&sz=26&hl=en&start=5&sig2= IpChDJ-a12Grxu5Il_jbmA&um=1&tbnid=xA-yPLVCSlyILM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=71&ei=3Am-R53ZNJ2UggKA3f3mDQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3DSOBEYS%2B%2B%2BBAGS%26um%3D1%26hl%3De n%26safe%3Doff%26rlz%3D1B2GGGL_enCA203CA203%26sa%3 DG

That is a nice looking bag. My dear, did you know that if you click on the little "world" symbol you could actually include the link in your message? Just saying... :D I wonder if they sell those at our IGA. Normally I shop at the Hannaford because it has better selection, but the IGA is where all Dd's friends work during vacations. I could get one of those kiwi bags and carry it all over the place and nobody would know I was advertising my internet name!

:rolleyes:

Or I could make my own bags. Hmmm I've always wanted to make tote bags, never actually gotten around to it. I'll bet if I could come up with some nice designs, there is a local shop that would carry them. Too bad I have no artistic talent.

Does anyone recognize this script below? DH has collected a bunch of jewelry from the Grammie Store (what DD calls her grandmother's vast collection of yardsale and family castoffs) to see if it's worth anything. This is a silver man's ring. It was so tarnished it didn't look like anything much; I cleaned it up, but it's still not real pretty. We're wondering what it might say.

I am bummed that DS didn't get his internship. How could they be so dumb as to not snap that boy up? Oh yeah, it's the government, maybe that answers that question.

oh my heaVENS!!-- I MISSED THAT PART ABOUT PEACHBOY-----HOW IN THE WORLD WOULD HE NOT GET THAT?? I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE SOMEONE BETTER QUALIFIED!!!--- can you reapply or are there any other decent possibilities?

what world thing??you know i know nothing about this posting business---i even forgot how to make coloured lettering!!!

Yeah, I know, you're so new at this LOLOL -- When you reply, all those little icons above the blank message box --> the one that looks a blue circle with a little chain link over it is the link icon. Click it Woman! :lol:

It's snowing here again :dizzy:

I have to go make signs. I am the expert paper sign maker. Our h.s. is hosting the district vocal and instrumental jazz festival next week. Hopefully I will get to watch show choirs and stuff, although I am working in the office during it, signing people up and stuff. Right now I need to be making some signs for them. And stuff. Lots of stuff.

Then a few weeks later, we host the state instrumental jazz festival. Tons more work. I haven't figured how I'm going to do the outdoor signs this year; last year a lot of them blew down or got soaked. The weather was hideous. Everyone keeps saying it's going to be nice weather this year. Ha, never happen.

ta darlings.

make them pay for laminated sheets----then at least if they blow down the signs won't disintegrate!!----WABBY HAVE THOSE DAFFYDOWNDILLYS BLOOMED YET?????Thanks for the ideas kiwonk-----just for helping me out i am sending you a kiwi bag-----BUT FIRST I NEED MY OBAMA PIN!!!

I don't have an Obama pin. I have no pin. How is this related to chicken bones? Chicken bones, like postcards, are one of those things promised but never delivered. Obama pins are something you have to go out of your way to get but probably are obtainable. But I haven't obtained one.

Does anyone remember Pistol Pete Maravich? I saw him play basketball once. i remmeber he was the most skilled something in basketball history ever. I just found that he has a Christian blog. Search Pistolpete.

DS read in a book that when they were planning the Panama Canal, which coulda been in Colombia instead, they knew they were making thousands of native people (Indians) move but didn't care. He's glad he's not working for people like that. This relates to the internship somehow.

Bagzie, I tried my best to get you your Obama pin, but they're all backordered......... unless you want an Asian Americans for Obama pin or a NJ for Obama pin. I could get you a Women for Obama bumper sticker.

I'm going to Seattle on the train today w/ my sis's for the garden show. Maybe I could take pictures of daffodillys there. Only crocuses are blooming here, but my daffs are ready to burst any day now.

Environmentally correct ppl here choose paper grocery bags b/c they're easily recycled. Do you all have recycling services where you live? I was shocked to discover that in AZ they have NO recycling service. We have a huge bin that's bigger than our garbage cans where you can throw all your recyling stuff into. No sorting. In AZ they throw away everything and pick up garbage 2 times a week. Unthinkable.

Peaches, I was going thru some photos yesterday and came across one of you and Z-boy when he was only up to your shoulder. Would you be shocked if I sent you some Seattle postcards? This may only be a tease.

Last year we did laminate the signs, but then we kind of ruined it by either stapling them to wooden poles or punching holes in them to tie them to metal poles :doh: Someone suggested we use a whatchamacallit rivet-like thing to make holes in them. :shrug: Oh yeah, grommets!

Cool A Kiwi Bag! Wow, I couldn't even get a campaign poster or bumper sticker at the caucus. I was willing to swipe it off the wall, too, but apparently other people got there first. I will have to dig deeper.

I remember him. Same vintage as Bill Whatshisname the guy from NJ, wasn't he? Or was he the same vintage as Larry Byrd. I seem to recall he was kind of good looking. When I was 14, that was the important thing in basketball players. A friend and I used to go to the b-ball games at Davidson College because the players were really cute. I have a ton of autographs. Can you imagine -- a college guy being asked for an autograph by a couple of cute teenyboppers as he's running off the court all sweaty. :lol:
Supposedly our recycling center recycles plastic bags too, but I am the suspicious type and have my doubts. Certainly paper is easier to sell. And if it goes in the landfill it will someday breakdown, unlike plastic film. I'd be in favor of the corn-squeezins plastic bags they used for a while and I hear are doing again, but I'd still want the paper for the sake of sturdiness and reusability. I haven't bought a package of kitchen garbage bags in decades, literally.

I'm always astonished at people who don't recycle -- it's utterly unfathomable for entire communities to just ignore it! My aunt used to recycle back in the 70s; I remember her flattening things and I remember my mother thinking it was such a chore for her. But my parents have been recycling for years themselves. When we first started going to the beach 8 or 10 years ago, they used to collect all the recyclable stuff we produced during the week and load it into the trunk of their car and drive it home to recycle it! After a few years I discovered recycling bins on the island so we use those now, but I respect them for that kind of dedication. The people who live in this town have to cart both their garbage and their recycling to the dump, separate everything themselves. We live outside of town and have garbage pickup, but I still take my recycling to the dump, all sorted. I can't imagine just not doing it, unless it was quite impossible. Such as, if you lived in this town and didn't have a car. I guess you would starve to death and get buried under a mountain of garbage anyway, so problem solved....

Wow, crocuses and daffodils. Mmmm such a lovely thought.

Dream.

Distant fantasy.

kiwi

I want an Asian Americans for Obama pin more than anything!!! Send it with the postcards and I'll find local candy to send you in lieu of chicken bones which Bagz has eaten by now.

Is anyone else's screen all weird on 3fc? Like too wide and things don't fit?