Imponderables- Jump right in , there's room for everyone!!! by MsA

ooh you should get her this
http://www.allpetfurniture.com/Go-Pet-Club-F2040Beige-GPC1036.html

and this
http://www.allpetfurniture.com/Designer-Catbox-in-Espresso-DBX1002.htm
l

and this for the yard
http://www.allpetfurniture.com/Kittywalk-Systems-KWTC249-KWS1054.html

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Wednesday, February 8, 2012 12:24 PM

lol how to turn into the "crazy cat guy". I bet she would love that first one though.

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Wednesday, February 8, 2012 4:19 PM

Beir bua agus beannacht

I have this theory that there are a couple of kinds of aspergers, the Sheldon kind and the Amy kind. The Sheldon kind is when they don't feel love and don't see the need for others beyond giving them what they want. The Amy kind is when they really do care and want to socialize and have relationships but they struggle with making it happen. Amy really does care about people but Sheldon, lets be honest, doesn't. My neighbor with aspergers (she annoys me, yes I'm mean and insensative) fits more into the Sheldon type, I don't think she loves anyone. But when she was little she did love her parents, I've known her since she was born, so maybe if they're taught and enforced to love and be loved they end up like Amy but if they're not, her parents were parenting loosers, they end up like Sheldon? Aspergers isn't something I know a lot about and so I've been trying to learn about it and make sense of it lately.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Monday, February 13, 2012 7:18 AM

Riona- interesting theory. I've seen so many kids with Aspergers and they are all individual, but they do share that total lack of social cueing and trouble understanding people and what is /is not appropriate to say and do. So I think they are both good examples of people with Aspergers integrating into a social group...which I love.
It gives my students hope that they can find people who would accept and welcome them too.

Zeek- awww come on you know you wanna be the " crazy cat guy" HUGS

PONDER[\b]- What does it take for you to be in a great mood?
For me- a good night's sleep and I am invincible and totally happy

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Tuesday, February 14, 2012 5:17 AM

Apparently all it takes is free donuts. Walked in to work this morning to free donuts and apparently a big smile broke out on my face. Co-workers were like "what are you so happy about?"....um donuts duh!

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Tuesday, February 14, 2012 7:45 AM

Well it is donuts... yummy yummy donuts
What kind did you have?

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Tuesday, February 14, 2012 8:29 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
Well it is donuts... yummy yummy donuts
What kind did you have?

Chocolate frosting ftw!

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 7:52 AM

mmmm frosting

Ok now I want a donut

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 10:40 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
mmmm frosting

Ok now I want a donut

So, later in the day yesterday they made zeek sad. So, they send out email when we have food in the break room. Near the end of the day they sent out and email with subject "Strawberries". Yay Zeek likes strawberries. But noooooooooo. This was an email about people picking up their orders of chocolate covered strawberries for valentine's day. Now to be fair they did sent out a few emails before about purchasing chocolate covered strawberries. That still doesn't register when I see the subject line of an email declaring some sort of food. All they had to add was the word "pickup" to the subject and I would have understood. Bah! I want some strawberries (chocolate not required).

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Thursday, February 16, 2012 6:43 AM

So, who saw HIMYM this week?

Spoilers!

Select to view spoiler:

I'm sure I'm partially to blame here, but really do they have to use shock tactics to have any impact with an episode these days. OMG Robin's getting married. OMG Ted said he loves her. OMG Barney's interested in a stripper. It really shouldn't be the only tool in their arsenal. Now I know that previous times they've shocked the audience it has gone over well, but they're using it too much now. These shocks weren't particularly good either.

If Ted starts dating Robin again the whole thing is just going to be such a huge disaster. The show is already going no where but going backwards is worse. We all know Robin isn't the mother. Let's not rehash the same disastrous relationship. jeez

Sadly Barney's chick seemed interesting initially. A girl who was finally strong enough and smart enough to stand up to Barney and put him on defense. That could have gone somewhere, but then having to throw in the twist that she's a stripper ruined it. It's like when they decided to make Zoey a married woman. They need to back off of these twists and just have characters who stand on their own merits.

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Thursday, February 16, 2012 7:02 AM

Aww sorry about the strawberries... but hey if you check your local chocolatier I'm betting they'll have a huge sale on chocolate strawberries right now.

HIMYM- yeah getting sick of this. Quit trying to make it soap opera like and just tell a funny story. Though actually I do think the Barney and the stripper has potential.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Thursday, February 16, 2012 11:28 AM

Beir bua agus beannacht

Zeke, what's wrong with Zoe being married? I think it makes her a more rounded charactor, that she has layers andis more than one thing.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Thursday, February 16, 2012 12:54 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by RionaEire:
Zeke, what's wrong with Zoe being married? I think it makes her a more rounded charactor, that she has layers andis more than one thing.

Zoey from HIMYM to be clear not Zoe from Firefly. The Zoey on HIMYM was a love interest for Ted which is just wrong when she's married. Even if she's in a fairly dull marriage. Plus we spend a ton of episodes just waiting for the marriage to inevitably end. It's a dumb twist and it makes both characters seem like jerks. Mainly because we also know she's not the mother and their relationship is doomed as well. Watching and waiting out two doomed relationships was just painfully bland. At least when they pull the married to the wrong person thing in romantic comedies they usually end in favor of a better, happily ever after type relationship.

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Thursday, February 16, 2012 2:09 PM

Beir bua agus beannacht

Wow, why did I think you were talking about Zoe from Firefly, when your post was about your other show there? That was stupid of me, sorry for the pointless interuption.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Friday, February 17, 2012 8:38 AM

Riona- that happens to me all the time. I jump in all enthusiastically and oops:) HUGS it's all good:)

Zeek- That's it. You'll just have to become a writer for HIMYM in your spare time:)

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Friday, February 17, 2012 8:47 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by RionaEire:
Wow, why did I think you were talking about Zoe from Firefly, when your post was about your other show there? That was stupid of me, sorry for the pointless interuption.

No problems. I was pretty sure from the content of your post that you were talking about Firefly Zoe. I mean who could like the HIMYM character?

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Monday, February 20, 2012 11:23 AM

TRAVELER

I want to talk about donuts. Donuts are God's way of telling us he loves us. He has other ways, but donuts are my favorite.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 6:50 AM

That they are... we got donuts on our trip to Reno on Saturday. As of this morning 2 were left. It's amazing how many reasons you can find to reward yourself with donuts.

Zeek- So what did you think about HIMYM?? I feel they redeemed themselves:)

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 8:04 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
That they are... we got donuts on our trip to Reno on Saturday. As of this morning 2 were left. It's amazing how many reasons you can find to reward yourself with donuts.

Zeek- So what did you think about HIMYM?? I feel they redeemed themselves:)

Haven't seen it yet. Do they show it online? I'm now living in the house, but my DVR hasn't made the transition yet. Gotta get the satellite dish moved over.

Speaking of which it was the weekend of missed appointments. Carpet cleaners were supposed to show up at 10am. Never showed at all and didn't answer the phone or return messages. Even now I've never found out what happened to them. Direct TV guy was supposed to show up from 8am - noon and finally got there at 7:30pm. Luckily that wasn't an issue for me but wow.

I guess we can do a mini-ponder on that. How do you react when a company does not follow through on their promises? I mean it's not like there's any guarantee they'll show up. I couldn't sue. I could basically just yell and be angry. That doesn't help me. So, I just basically let it go. Though I'm thinking of putting up a yelp review of the carpet cleaner. That's just so unprofessional.

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 3:12 PM

Beir bua agus beannacht

Traveler, we have this little donut shop near me called Annie's Donuts, they're the best donuts I know of and sometimes my mom and my little bro bring them home after school, its on the way from his school so they stop there sometimes for a treat and bring me one too.

I hate unreliability, if someone says they'll be there and aren't, I have a very low opinion of them unless there's a really good excuse. When companies do it its a good oppertunity to know not to use them again. I think reviewing them negatively makes sense to warn others.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 8:05 PM

Doing it backwards. Walking up the downslide.

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
So what did you think about HIMYM?? I feel they redeemed themselves:)

Potentially. They at least opened the door for the story to finally move forward, so here's hoping it does.
I have some idea of why they've been drawing it out (other than money) and a tie-in theory on who the Mother is. Still, I want to see it happen already. (And hope I'm right about what this is leading up to, because otherwise they've just been dicking around and drawing things out because they don't know what else to do.)

Facts are stubborn things.

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 4:58 AM

They do have HIMYM online. Watched it last night. It was a much better episode that's for sure. I'm glad they resolved that storyline in one fell swoop rather than dragging it out the rest of the season. I feel like the focus is going to be on Barney the rest of this season.

So, Rionaeire what's your theory? I'm betting on a theory I read online somewhere. It makes almost too much sense. Though now I hope it's wrong cause it would kinda stink to know the answer already.

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 6:40 AM

Zeek- I pretty much try my best to switch companies and I check online to see if they have customer surveys and such and let them know what my experience was.
Also in small companies case, I fill out a BBB complaint.

Yes I think HIMYM really redeemed themselves. I was so worried we'd go there again, but it seems we're doing the how Barney meets the person he marries so Ted can meet his wife at the wedding...YAY

BTW- NV's theory is that Barney IS the mother and had a sex change and married Ted and they adopted..

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 6:55 AM

Doing it backwards. Walking up the downslide.

Quote:
Originally posted by Zeek:
So, Rionaeire what's your theory?

I'll assume this is directed at me.

We know that Ted meets the Mother at Barney's wedding, so all the drama and tension with Barney and Robin has been to delay the moment when they get married. (I think there were more reasonable ways to do that, but I won't digress.)
So, Barney's wedding, which I totally believe will be to Robin, is where we meet the Mother. Now, here's the interesting thing; Ted consistently refers to Barney and Robin as "Uncle Barney and Aunt Robin" to his kids. I didn't think too much of it for awhile, but then I started to think it's literal and not just because they're good friends. Barney has a half sister, Carly, who has been named but never seen. All we know about Carley is that she's in college, and one of the things we know about the Mother is that she attended the college Ted teaches at. Surely, Carly would be at her brother's wedding. It all comes together in a neat little package: Carly is the Mother. (Or the writers are stumbling around blind, which I will find disappointing.)
I'm not the only one to have this thought. Once I started thinking the Aunt and Uncle thing might be literal, I found a lot of people talking about Barney's sister possibly being the Mother.

Facts are stubborn things.

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 7:22 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by LiLi:
Quote:
Originally posted by Zeek:
So, Rionaeire what's your theory?

I'll assume this is directed at me.

We know that Ted meets the Mother at Barney's wedding, so all the drama and tension with Barney and Robin has been to delay the moment when they get married. (I think there were more reasonable ways to do that, but I won't digress.)
So, Barney's wedding, which I totally believe will be to Robin, is where we meet the Mother. Now, here's the interesting thing; Ted consistently refers to Barney and Robin as "Uncle Barney and Aunt Robin" to his kids. I didn't think too much of it for awhile, but then I started to think it's literal and not just because they're good friends. Barney has a half sister, Carly, who has been named but never seen. All we know about Carley is that she's in college, and one of the things we know about the Mother is that she attended the college Ted teaches at. Surely, Carly would be at her brother's wedding. It all comes together in a neat little package: Carly is the Mother. (Or the writers are stumbling around blind, which I will find disappointing.)
I'm not the only one to have this thought. Once I started thinking the Aunt and Uncle thing might be literal, I found a lot of people talking about Barney's sister possibly being the Mother.

lol yep that should have been directed at you. Got the posts mixed up. Also that's the theory I've heard before and agree it sounds really plausible. The only thing is I think that future Ted has used the Aunt Lily and Uncle Marshal monickers as well.

I just kinda hope that isn't how it goes because it's like the surprise got ruined.

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 8:55 PM

Doing it backwards. Walking up the downslide.

Quote:
Originally posted by Zeek:
The only thing is I think that future Ted has used the Aunt Lily and Uncle Marshal monickers as well.

This is true, but he seems to use them less for Lily and Marshal. I was really struck lately by how often he talked about "Aunt Robin and Uncle Barney."
Who knows, though, maybe it's Lily's sister. (Does Lily have a sister?)

I don't think it would be like a surprise getting ruined. Rather, I think it would indicate great planning on the part of the writers.

Facts are stubborn things.

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Thursday, February 23, 2012 7:19 AM

Well we've semi met the mother before though. She's roommates with Rachel Bilson's character. Ted catches a glimpse of her ankle. Later Rachel's character meets up with Ted at a bar. Barney is there. Wouldn't he have noticed and said something if he saw his sister's roommate with Ted? Also we know she was in the economics 310 class Ted accidentally taught for 20 minutes. Is Barney's sister old enough to be a senior in college 2 seasons( years) ago?

Still it's a really interesting theory and it would be nice to think that Barney and Robin got to have nieces and nephews ( well actually if they get married they already have one nephew)

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Thursday, February 23, 2012 7:22 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
Well we've semi met the mother before though. She's roommates with Rachel Bilson's character. Ted catches a glimpse of her ankle. Later Rachel's character meets up with Ted at a bar. Barney is there. Wouldn't he have noticed and said something if he saw his sister's roommate with Ted? Also we know she was in the economics 310 class Ted accidentally taught for 20 minutes. Is Barney's sister old enough to be a senior in college 2 seasons( years) ago?

Still it's a really interesting theory and it would be nice to think that Barney and Robin got to have nieces and nephews ( well actually if they get married they already have one nephew)

As far as I know Barney has never met his half sister. I mean he just started to get to know his Dad's family. So, I think Ted will be meeting her around the same time Barney does at the wedding.

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Thursday, February 23, 2012 7:35 AM

Doing it backwards. Walking up the downslide.

Zeek's right, Barney hasn't met Carly yet. When Barney found out his "Uncle Jerry" was his dad and they spent some time together, Jerry mentions that he has a daughter in college, but we don't meet her. Barney probably wouldn't even recognize her if he just saw her on the street, and he certainly wouldn't know her roommate. (Actually, at that point in time I don't think he even knew he had a sister, I forget exactly where that meetup with Rachel falls in the timeline.)

Facts are stubborn things.

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Thursday, February 23, 2012 7:36 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by LiLi:
Barney probably wouldn't even recognize her if he just saw her on the street

But he probably would try to sleep with her. *shudder*

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Thursday, February 23, 2012 9:41 AM

So, here's a ponder. I have an uncle that just died this morning. It's sad and all but I was never super close to him and we all knew this was coming for a long time now. So, I'm ok with it. Anyway one of my aunts (his brother) sent out an email about how she had a vision of him in the arms of Jesus at pretty much exactly the time he died. What does everyone make of stories like that? Do you think they're real visions from a higher power or coincidence or a false memory or total fabrication or what? My grandma was super religious and that family of kids all stayed fairly religious as well. It sorta dissipated in my generation. I'm still religious but not super religious. I just don't know if I can believe that God is sending out visions to people. Also, why wouldn't the rest of the brothers and sisters get anything? So odd.

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Thursday, February 23, 2012 12:58 PM

Beir bua agus beannacht

That's a tough question Zeke, I suppose it could happen, obviously its very real to her and it seems to be a positive thing for her, so why not? I guess even if she didn't really see it it was helpful to her so that's good.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Friday, February 24, 2012 6:19 AM

Slightly interesting development. Turns out my mom was wrong about the time of death. She found out via txt message (kinda uncool IMO) and being tech averse she did have her cell phone on until 5:00am and the message said he had died a half hour ago. So, she was telling the family he died around 4:30am which is when my aunt had her vision. Now we find out the real time of death was more like 2am or at least that's when the nurses found him dead. So, kinda throws off the coincidence of the times lining up.

NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME

Friday, February 24, 2012 8:31 AM