Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Jingle Bells
When Allie was here over the weekend, she loved the attention of Mommy, Auntie Heather and Nana and Papa. While we sang Jingle Bells, she rang the bells and shouted to us," Louder, Everyone!" We think she might have heard that when she was practicing for her daycare Christmas program. =)
Friday, December 12, 2008
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Allie says........
We really need to start writing down the those cute things that little kids say. These are, of course, rough paraphrases, due to the passing on of the stories to us.
Last week Allie visited Santa at the mall. She was not freaked out like last year, (she is 2 now) but hugged him and told him that she wanted a "robot"! (Last year it was a "cow". She did get a cow named Frank.)
As they were leaving, she told Tara, "Santa was sweet, but he didn't go Ho-Ho-Ho."
The other morning, Allie was told that Nana and Papa were coming to her Christmas program at school, and she was very excited. She asked to call Nana, but Tara explained that at 0530, WE were still asleep! Thinking maybe we were asleep in the guest room we occasionally occupy, she asked Tara if we were there. Tara said we were not, but Allie said "Maybe we should go check anyway!" What a kid.
This morning, as they were going to daycare, she wondered where her neighborhood friends were. Tara told them they were probably getting ready for school just like her, but went to a different school. As they passed the elementary school, she asked "Do they go here?" Tara explained that they were too young, but when she was 5, she could go there with the big kids. Allie said "I will go there and be a genius! And I will play baseball with daddy and papa!"
Last week Allie visited Santa at the mall. She was not freaked out like last year, (she is 2 now) but hugged him and told him that she wanted a "robot"! (Last year it was a "cow". She did get a cow named Frank.)
As they were leaving, she told Tara, "Santa was sweet, but he didn't go Ho-Ho-Ho."
The other morning, Allie was told that Nana and Papa were coming to her Christmas program at school, and she was very excited. She asked to call Nana, but Tara explained that at 0530, WE were still asleep! Thinking maybe we were asleep in the guest room we occasionally occupy, she asked Tara if we were there. Tara said we were not, but Allie said "Maybe we should go check anyway!" What a kid.
This morning, as they were going to daycare, she wondered where her neighborhood friends were. Tara told them they were probably getting ready for school just like her, but went to a different school. As they passed the elementary school, she asked "Do they go here?" Tara explained that they were too young, but when she was 5, she could go there with the big kids. Allie said "I will go there and be a genius! And I will play baseball with daddy and papa!"
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Life Support
Last night, my wife and I were sitting in the living room and I said to her, "I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle.
If that ever happens,just pull the plug"
She got up, unplugged the TV and then threw out my beer.
If that ever happens,just pull the plug"
She got up, unplugged the TV and then threw out my beer.
Sunday, March 19, 2006
Andy Rooney's Junk Mail Tips
For telemarketers:
Three Little Words That Work !!
(1) The three little words are: "Hold On, Please..." Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.
Then when you eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task. These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting.
(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end? This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone. This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a "real" sales person to call back and get someone at home.
What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that dialed the call and it kicks your number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer !!!
(3) Junk Mail Help: When you get "ads" enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these "ads" with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away.
When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope. Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right? It costs them more than the regular 37 cents postage "IF" and when they receive them back. It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50 cents before! the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.
One of Andy Rooney's (60 minutes) ideas:
Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their blank application back!
If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them.
You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! It still costs them 37 cents.
The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're paying for it...Twice!
Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is cutting into their business profits, and that's why they need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea !
If enough people follow these tips, it will work----
I have been doing this for years, and I get very little junk mail anymore.
Three Little Words That Work !!
(1) The three little words are: "Hold On, Please..." Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.
Then when you eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task. These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting.
(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end? This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone. This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a "real" sales person to call back and get someone at home.
What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that dialed the call and it kicks your number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer !!!
(3) Junk Mail Help: When you get "ads" enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these "ads" with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away.
When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope. Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right? It costs them more than the regular 37 cents postage "IF" and when they receive them back. It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50 cents before! the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.
One of Andy Rooney's (60 minutes) ideas:
Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their blank application back!
If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them.
You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! It still costs them 37 cents.
The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're paying for it...Twice!
Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is cutting into their business profits, and that's why they need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea !
If enough people follow these tips, it will work----
I have been doing this for years, and I get very little junk mail anymore.
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