SIDEBAR #20- Arias/Alexander forum

[gcharlie]

Kensie, sorry you are having a yucky day. How can we make it better for you?

Calgon?

Champagne?

Comfort?

:winkkiss:

 

[Ricki]

Most of you know I had an interview last week. I have a second one tomorrow with that same company. Please keep your fingers crossed.

 

[Kensie]

Most of you know I had an interview last week. I have a second one tomorrow with that same company. Please keep your fingers crossed.

Of course we will keep our fingers crossed for you. You will be great.

Gcharlie, I will take a glass of champagne.

 

[Ricki]

Of course we will keep our fingers crossed for you. You will be great.

Gcharlie, I will take a glass of champagne.

Thanks :blushing: I hope so.

 

[Zuri]

mud needs to be dry to vacuum. but to steam mud would be easier if still damp. I'd help if I could .... what does mud taste like?

This expensive mud tasted like grit, expensive dog and dirt. My daughter swiffered, vacuumed and steamed. I had to put him in the shower with me. Dirt all over the shower. It took me 40 minutes to get the dirt off and shampoo and rinse. And then repeat. He is very tall and long so he took up most of the shower. He had dirt under his leg pits, in his ears, everywhere. He kept sitting making it hard to get it all. Oh my....what a mess. Doggie door is still closed. My daughter and her friends just gaped when they took in the sight! :floorlaugh:

 

[gcharlie]

Thinking of my mom tonight...Dancing With the Stars is on TV right now. I haven't watched it in ages.

I visited her in October 2011, just two months before she died. We watched the show together...I didn't know that she was a fan too! That season Carson Kressley was a contestant and my mother could not stand him. She was not shy about expressing her opinions either. Ow!

Giving me a giggle tonight, just thinking about it.

 

[Kensie]

I think Fall allergies have hit. I am so congested although the temps are still Summerish.

 

[daisymae]

This expensive mud tasted like grit, expensive dog and dirt. My daughter swiffered, vacuumed and steamed. I had to put him in the shower with me. Dirt all over the shower. It took me 40 minutes to get the dirt off and shampoo and rinse. And then repeat. He is very tall and long so he took up most of the shower. He had dirt under his leg pits, in his ears, everywhere. He kept sitting making it hard to get it all. Oh my....what a mess. Doggie door is still closed. My daughter and her friends just gaped when they took in the sight! :floorlaugh:

Everything all cleaned up now?

 

[Kensie]

Sweet dreams to everyone. I cannot breathe and have darn chores to do.

 

[gcharlie]

Scarlett Johansson is named Esquire's Sexiest Woman Alive again...

aww, why didn't Kim Kardashian win? :floorlaugh:

or Miley Cyrus? :floorlaugh:

 

[gcharlie]

New art by CMJA

 

[franquerolane]

I just want to comment on Stabby's "art". Look at the eyeball, she doesn't realize the whole circle of the eyeball is not seen when you look at a person. All her copied faces have perfect circles. Plus, the eyes are lifeless, because she can't capture what she doesn't see in a face, the humanity.

 

[daisymae]

Scarlett Johansson is named Esquire's Sexiest Woman Alive again...

aww, why didn't Kim Kardashian win? :floorlaugh:

or Miley Cyrus? :floorlaugh:

you're a hoot tonight! :floorlaugh::floorlaugh:

 

[gcharlie]

My mother couldn't even draw a stick figure, God bless her. So someone like her might, I say might, think that CMJA is a good artist. What they really mean is that the person can draw. There's a big difference between being able to draw and being an artist.

For someone who loves to draw, poor CMJA is kidding herself. She got stuck at a certain level and has not progressed. She does better with her drawings of people than she does with animals, which are leagues ahead of her skills with landscapes.

Her shading and coloring skills are at a junior high school level and her technique does not vary from drawing to drawing.

The hourglass piece was interesting in that it stood apart from the rest of her work.

I guess it I had to sum it up, her art is the kind of thing that people put on their fridge with a magnet...if it was drawn by their child.

 

[PrincessSezMe]

Most of you know I had an interview last week. I have a second one tomorrow with that same company. Please keep your fingers crossed.

My fingers, toes, and everything else crossed for you Ricki (even my eyes LoL). I hope you get the job.

 

[PrincessSezMe]

I just want to comment on Stabby's "art". Look at the eyeball, she doesn't realize the whole circle of the eyeball is not seen when you look at a person. All her copied faces have perfect circles. Plus, the eyes are lifeless, because she can't capture what she doesn't see in a face, the humanity.

I've been saying that for ages. She cannot draw what she can't see. The eyes are always flat and lifeless....just like hers.

 

[Ricki]

My fingers, toes, and everything else crossed for you Ricki (even my eyes LoL). I hope you get the job.

Thanks Princess. Hopefully, I will know after the interview.

 

[gcharlie]

Thanks Princess. Hopefully, I will know after the interview.

Best of luck to you tomorrow.

Keep in mind that you are probably one of several being interviewed on a second round, so that you might not hear anything tomorrow. If you are the first in the seconds round of interviews, it could be a week before you hear back. When I've been involved in hiring, it was always a team decision where we had to agree and then once the decision was made, the whole pay issue got decided and we completed paperwork. Even in small companies, all the i's were dotted and t's were crossed to make sure that no hiring discrimination claims could be raised.

Its great news that you've got the second interview and I don't want you to feel down tomorrow if you don't hear back right after the interview.

Job offer, job offer, job offer. I'm chanting for you, Rickki!

 

[Hope4More]

I don't understand this whole government shutdown thing. Our government sucks as bad as yours (taxed to death - yep), but I don't get the concept of the government shutting down because if an impasse between two parties. Can anyone explain?

I can try.. Many years ago our representatives were reined in by their respective political parties. Parties controlled who got elected because they controlled money in elections. Now folks running for office raise their own money directly, and so can't be controlled by political parties. Each rep is on their own, for better or worse.

Over the past few decades Republicans and Democrats have become almost completely different ideologically. Only the most involved and fervent political followers vote in American primary elections, so candidates at that stage must appeal to their hard core supporters or risk not becoming their party's nominee for whatever office. Problem is, the hard core of each party is an absolute minority of the overall American electorate. On each side there is no willingness to genuinely discuss or negotiate, because to do so is to alienate the folks who each rep relies upon to help them get reelected, and because enough of the ones who make it into office are true believers of their respective side's most fundamental beliefs.

The current shut down is just one more chapter in thus dysfunctional story. A few dozen of the most fervent congressional republicans believe that President Obama's healthcare plan is so wrong that they are willing to see the US default on our debt in order to force Obama to back down on what actually is already law, and law that has been approved by the Supreme Court.

Democrats think that being able to blame Republicans for shutting down national Parks and the like will help them in the next election, and so while they may be irritated by the shutdown they also see it as a golden opportunity to stick it to Republicans.

IMO neither party's first interest is in doing what they were supposedly elected to do, which is to work together to find middle ground ...to negotiate solutions that help all of us, not just a sliver within a faction within a party.

The past few decades rival the worst periods in american history in which opposing parties simply could no longer work together for the common good because their ideas of what was good were too different. Only in the years before our Civil War did our Democratic system fail us entirely,when no middle ground could be found and when the disagreements were so bad elected reps attacked each other physically during congressional session.

We aren't there yet.... but on our way , imo.

PS...I have an MA in American political history, so this is my kind of question..

 

[PrincessSezMe]

I can try.. Many years ago our representatives were reined in by their respective political parties. Parties controlled who got elected because they controlled money in elections. Now folks running for office raise their own money directly, and so can't be controlled by political parties. Each rep is on their own, for better or worse.

Over the past few decades Republicans and Democrats have become almost completely different ideologically. Only the most involved and fervent political followers vote in American primary elections, so candidates at that stage must appeal to their hard core supporters or risk not becoming their party's nominee for whatever office. Problem is, the hard core of each party is an absolute minority of the overall American electorate. On each side there is no willingness to genuinely discuss or negotiate, because to do so is to alienate the folks who each rep relies upon to help them get reelected, and because enough of the ones who make it into office are true believers of their respective side's most fundamental beliefs.

The current shut down is just one more chapter in thus dysfunctional story. A few dozen of the most fervent congressional republicans believe that President Obama's healthcare plan is so wrong that they are willing to see the US default on our debt in order to force Obama to back down on what actually is already law, and law that has been approved by the Supreme Court.

Democrats think that being able to blame Republicans for shutting down national Parks and the like will help them in the next election, and so while they may be irritated by the shutdown they also see it as a golden opportunity to stick it to Republicans.

IMO neither party's first interest is in doing what they were supposedly elected to do, which is to work together to find middle ground ...to negotiate solutions that help all of us, not just a sliver within a faction within a party.

The past few decades rival the worst periods in american history in which opposing parties simply could no longer work together for the common good because their ideas of what was good were too different. Only in the years before our Civil War did our Democratic system fail us entirely,when no middle ground could be found and when the disagreements were so bad elected reps attacked each other physically during congressional session.

We aren't there yet.... but on our way , imo.

PS...I have an MA in American political history, so this is my kind of question..

Thank you Hope4More. You are brilliant. If I may be so bold though, our politicians are a tad less "disagreeable".