HEADS UP ALERT!!!! HEADS UP

posted 10 minutes ago, updated 10 minutes later

Today I received a catalog from FINGERHUT advising I had been PRE-APPROVED FOR CREDIT.

The front cover (black background with wide yellow banner) had spot for an attached credit card.

IF there was a credit card attached to the cover, it was no longer there. However, the catalog has my name, addy, customer number and a catalog number in at least two places.

I've reported this situation to the state police at/about 1610 hours today's date of 2012-1-06.

I have been doing a lot of checking.... PLEASE, PLEASE...be advised that if anyone uses the numbers assigned to you, you will be billed and held responsible for the amounts and interest... verified

Catalog can be years old and the above WILL STILL APPLY. verified

I called Better Business Bureau.... Company has had numerous complaints and per the BBB "closed down"... per BBB recordings (between 1600 and 1700 hours today's date)

This coming Monday, I will call the KY State Attorney General's office and the Owsley County Prosecutor.

As always with this type of post, I understand if the M/M's of the group remove it.

Paula Rice... aka meems/emom/mmm

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2012 EMOM'S MOUNTAIN NEWS

posted about 1 hour ago, updated about 1 hour later

WELCOME HOME DEAR HEARTS, WELCOME HOME ---Thursday, Jan 5

Good grief! I have been up since 0700 and have been going around here like an overweight tornado! Sheesh! Been working in the kitchen... The critters have condemned it so I figured I'd better get sumfin done in the cleaning department! Have I mentioned lately that I hate house keeping. I'd rather be outside digging holes or sumfin!

Speaking of being outside. I would take a break every so often out in the kitchen. I'd go to the side door and just stand there and look. Beautiful blue sky... a little hazy with a slight breeze... Oh yeah! Sometimes I would see one of my flyguys/gals up there. I'd bounce out the side door...start waving and blowing kisses and all that crazy stuff. lolol Not many clouds to speak of so, they are not stitching the clouds together... Them rotten kids are playing tic tac toe again...

Next thing I know, I am starting to turn blue around the edges! Oh yeah! Seems like I should wear more than a raggedy t-shirt, cut-off jeans and calf high boots when I go out the door to wave at them BBSBs. Temp was right at 32o, winds out of the N at/about 15 m. Trust me, kids... I do not look good in shades of frozen blue... nor yellow, come to think of it. (I bot an inexpensive yellow caftan a while back.Lordy pete... all I needed was the white lipstick! lolol ) Now, I gave the caftan to Anna... She looks radiant in yellow and it's HER fave color.
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I tripped over the following post earlier today... lolol Be sure to look at the original date posted at the bottom of this list!

THINGS I HAVE FOUND IN MY EMAILS....FROM THE ROTTEN TO THE CORE MARVINll....

You find out interesting things when you have sons, like ...

1. A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq. ft. house 4 inches deep.

2. If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite.

3. A 3-year old Boy's voice is louder than 200 adults in a crowded restaurant.

4. If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not strong enough to rotate a 42 pound Boy wearing Batman underwear and a Superman cape. It is strong enough, however, if tied to a paint can, to spread paint on all four walls of a 20x20 ft. room.

5. You should not throw baseballs up when the ceiling fan is on. When using a ceiling fan as a bat, you have to throw the ball up a few times before you get a hit. A ceiling fan can hit a baseball a long way.

6. The glass in windows (even double-pan e) doesn't stop a baseball hit by a ceiling fan.

7. When you hear the toilet flush and the words "uh oh", it's already too late.

8. Brake fluid mixed with Clorox makes smoke, and lots of it.

9. A six-year old Boy can start a fire with a flint rock even though a 36-year old Man says they can only do it in the movies.

10. Certain Lego's will pass through the digestive tract of a 4- year old Boy.

11. Play dough and microwave should not be used in the same sentence.

12. Super glue is forever.

13. No matter how much Jell-O you put in a swimming pool you still can't walk on water.

14. Pool filters do not like Jell-O.

15. VCR's do not eject "PB & J" sandwiches even though TV commercials show they do.

16. Garbage bags do not make good parachutes.

17. Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise when driving.

18. You probably DO NOT want to know what that odor is.

19. Always look in the oven before you turn it on; plastic toys do not like ovens.

20. The fire department in Austin , TX has a 5-minute response time.

21. The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make earthworms dizzy.

22. It will, however, make cats dizzy.

23. Cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy.

24. 80% of Women will pass this on to almost all of their friends, with or without kids..

25. 80% of Men who read this will try mixing the Clorox and brake fluid

Great truth and wisdom here...Thank you my dear heart Marv from the giggling emom

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I've laffed myself silly reading all the comments about my $2.07 increase. Little gray duck gave me some interest info... lolol "Egyptian men like older women who have money" I don't think I'm gonna touch that one with a 10 foot butter knife!....

I'm outa here for a while... Take care all of mine...go in safety always... Remember, if it's cold outside, dress warm... If warm outside, don't dress! Gotcha's lololol

Many hugs, much love and lots of lafter... meems

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I SWEAR I NEED A ‘KEEPER’!

(as in Zoo)

2012-1-04

ANY VOLUNTEERS?   Don’t everybody answer at once!  Lololol

Welcome home, dear hearts, welcome home

Get your buns in here!  Get warm!  Temp has risen some but trust me, it is cold out there!  I just came in from getting the mail.  While I was at it, I went around part of the yard to pick up stuff blown around by the wind!  Sheesh!  Wind was cold!

Well, I survived this snowfall but there were lots of accidents on the roads.  Have never been able to understand why people/drivers can’t seem to get the message that: “while you can increase your driving speed in this kind of weather, stopping said vehicle is an entirely different matter”.  Mountain roads ain’t nothing to be played around with!

Woke up and had my first cuppa right around 1000 hours this morning.  However, before I could get out of the bed, I had to remove a small pack of critters.  Sheesh!  Have you ever been in bed, minding your own business, then be attacked, trounced on, run over by, slobbered on, pinned to the bed by four four-legged critters? I don’t recommend it for the faint-of-heart!  Lololol  Why is it that the bigger (heavier) the dog, the longer it takes for them to get the message…LET ME UP!!!  GET OFF ME!!!!????  I guess it’s time for me to climb into the playpen!

All I need for the playpen is a little tiny nuke machine… just to warm up my coffee.  Well, I have called all over the place for a small one.  No can find.  Course, I could always light a candle but I don’t think that’s a good idea around here.  I’m not too fond of the idea of open flames.

Let’s see here… having problems with the pressure gauge for the well pump again.  Called the JC and gave him a hard time… Kissed his ankles, asked if he was interested in older women.  He wasn’t sure… He wasn’t sure?????  With that response, I cracked up and said his response saved him… I had him on a taped line!  Then we both cracked up!  Lololol  (nowhere in the fine print does it say I must make sense)  Anyway, he came out and checked everything.  Guess the incoming lines need a clean out.  And the line needs a tee installed.  OK… that’s next on the list…

I need to be serious here for a moment.  My grand-daughter had twins about two months ago… little boy and little girl.  Well, right at/about Christmas, her friends had a serious problem pop up.  The friends’  child (one of three) had been placed in hospital… leukemia.  The couple and their two other children were staying in the MacDonald house with nothing for any of them for Christmas.

God love her, my Gdaughter and her family in Washington State went Christmas shopping for the friends and their children.  They all loaded up in their veh and drove to the M house to play Santa to the whole family… I was in tears.  I am sooooo proud of her.  Way to go rotten kid!

Well, I just opened the mail from my Ohio retirement system… I am on the floor!  I just got an increase of $2.07 per month!  JC says I am not to spend it all in one place!  Altho, he says I can buy a bottle of pop!  Hmmmm…I must ponder on this. If I drive to town and back to buy a bottle of pop, it will cost me right around $8.00.  Ponder, ponder… lolol

Guess that’s it for now… lolol  Take care all of mine.  Go in safety always.  Remember that the guilty sleep well at nite,  the innocent do not.  I think I just said sumfin profound!

Many hugs, much love and lots of lafter every day…  meems

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NEW YEAR’S DAY?

2012-1-01

WELCOME HOME, DEAR HEARTS, WELCOME HOME!

Get your buns in here.  Little chilly out there yet.  Think it’s too cool for the bikini and yet, not cold enuf for a parka and mukluks.  Seems like this is gonna be a ‘definite maybe’ kind of day.

Remember yesterday when I was giving everybody a hard time?  I have no idea how many times I I posted the News… How many times I read it before I discovered the following error…

”Remember I made a comment about the dog and it’s similarity to Shadow, the red nosed pup?”

Well, in one way it makes sense; in another no sense at all.  It should have read….

“…about the Shadow, the red nosed dog’s similarity to the Marv…personality wise”.   And I don’t have another pup.  I was going to take a female Great Pyrenees puppy but decided not to… So I am down to the basics… I only have four now. 

I think I may have lost my mind… (Bite your tongue, Marv)  cause this has been a really weird week-end.  Did you know that you can have too many remotes?  Last time, I wanted to turn the sound down on the TV and grabbed the remote for the Window A/C unit?  (that was different!)  This time I grabbed the mouse to change a TV station.  Lolol  Trust me, this didn’t work either.…. Anywhere.  Someday, just to take on the challenge, I might try to get organized.  I have been, heaven forfende, going thru stacks of papers… lolol!  One trash bag full out the door!

2012-1-03 Tuesday

Well, I sort of fell off the map for a day or two.  Sheesh!  Temp this morning was 18o when I rolled out.  Snow all over the place… Was digging in the closet yesterday looking for my nice toasty mukluks.  Found them and then found an old purse… lolol  went thru the purse… found an old lipstick while rooting around in the purse..

I guess this day’s News is gonna be about odds and ends subjects.  Lolol

Opened it up… how long do you suppose it’s been since we’ve worn a frosted rosie bronze shade?  15 years?  (I first discovered frosted nail polish back in the mid-fifties.)

Here’s one…. I was wandering thru the grocery store… I guess this was about a month ago.  Was lookin’ for basic cream cheese, which I found.  But then I spotted a small container of Pumpkin flavored cream cheese.  Hmmm… Ok, so I could spread it on biscuits but gingerbread sounded better.  So I bot the pumpkin spread and some gingerbread cookies.  Well, I’m here to tell you that I died and went to heaven… Soooo yummy!  Ya might want to try it… It is delicious.  And if you warm it for about 20 secs in the nuke machine… top it with whip cream, it makes a scrumptious dessert.  Then to really fancy it up, use some chocolate sprinkles and a cherry on top.  Best yet, nary a calorie in anything but the plate (would these lovely greens…. ???)  Oh, ya might want to top the goodie with a candy pumpkin instead of the cherry… Especially at Thanksgiving time…

Let’s see here, what else?  Shadow, the rotten red nosed dog, has learned to fetch.  I was out back the other day… Got run over by the Shad and the Storm…Have you ever had a dog clip you behind the knees… running full out?  Can you say blind-sided?  No, I wasn’t hurt but I did recall that it is always best to keep an eye on the pups when they are in ‘play’ mode. 

I think that’s it for the day… Oh, I almost forgot…I’ve been diving into ADVENTURES INTO ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY.  Wowser… Every one of the postings touches on an interest of mine… I think I am on page three and YES, I have it bookmarked and then some.  Well done, kids… Really well done!

OK, so I am out-a-here.  Take care all of mine… go in safety always.  Remember, if you don’t behave yourselves, you might end up like me!  Gotcha’s!

Many hugs, much love and lots of lafter…. The sort of confused meems

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THE LAST DAY OF 2011?

OH YEAH! THANK GOODNESS!

WELCOME HOME, DEAR HEARTS, WELCOME HOME!

Having a terrible time here!  Sheesh!  I look at the clock, then the window of the fall out shelter, then go into total shock!  Lolol  Clock said 1158… window says daylight!  This sleep schedule of mine is a bummer sometimes.  Lolol  I expect to see dark skies.  My ‘system’ will figure this out eventually… then again, it may not! 

Now, it seems like I’ve done some gotcha’s on a few people and now I am catching the paybacks.  Remember I made a comment about the dog and it’s similarity to Shadow, the red nosed pup?  Well, I got the following from the Marv… lolol  and I quote: “Watch your back emom......... and remember.......... the Shadow knows.............. what evil lurkes in the hearts of men............ remember that old radio show ??..... I'm sure you do as you are so much older than me........ Gotcha ! Again !”

Then there is the Laurie2 and her group www.eons.com/groups/group/multiple-sclerosis-and-disease-support-group

Disease and caretakers support group… Check under ‘Rusty Halo’ header.  Y’all probably had the idea that the Laurie is a sweetheart!  Well, let me tell you, there is a whole nother side to that Brat…   Just go look! Her pickin’ on this sweet natured, kind hearted, lil ol’ lady, me.  (I think I’m gonna be sick)  lolol  That’s ok tho… I will get even! 

I need to mention the SherriAnne.  Here’s another one who gives the appearance of being a super nice person.  Don’t let her fool ya, she also has a degree in Gotcha’s …

There’s Tootall… He is a real slave driver!  I don’t show up for a couple of days/weeks and he starts to bellow!  Sheesh!

And then, there are the really kind and sweet comments from some who aren’t on the net as often.  I treasure each and every remark.  I don’t say thank you and much love to them often enuf.  But I do remember the fun times… the comments that sometimes went awry times… and I do remember the bad times.  I remember all the things we shared.  I remember the fun times with the ones I lost by their passing. 

I wish for all of mine a wondrous, joyful, and happy NEW YEAR.  I send you all many hugs and much love.  Remember to always look for the good.

meems

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THIS IS FRIDAY, ISN’T IT?

2011-12-30

WELCOME HOME, DEAR HEARTS, WELCOME HOME!

I’ll swear, it certainly doesn’t seem like the end of December weatherwise.  Was warm overnite and gonna be bikini weather later today!  Sheesh!  Lolol

Now, when I had my first cuppa in my grubby lil hand (a/a) 0600, I wandered back here to the apartment to read the latest emails and stuff.  Well, I tripped over (I do this all the time, trip over new stuff) a new to me site…Space.com.  Wow… they were running a “which is the best pic” contest.  I’m here to tell y’all, I am impressed!  There were 50 pix and each and every one was awesome and outstanding.  We humans live in a most magnificent universe! If y’all have a chance, check it out, the site that is.  And do share it with the youngun’s… teach them to look up…to see the beauty all around us.

Speaking of ‘looking up’…. I mentioned that I saw some of my BBSBs playing up there yesterday.  Lolol  Well kids, I got flashed!  A LOT! By one BBSB in particular…I curtsied, waved, threw kisses and giggled!  I think the message was Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!  OR Hugs and kisses back atcha!  Whichever, I loved the exchange and the interplay.  Back atcha, Brat!  …”reach up and touch the face of God”….

I haven’t said much about the latest pup… the ‘little, miserable, red nosed abandoned, smidgeon of puppy”.  Well, let me tell you, I should have named him Marvin instead of Shadow!  The personalities are similar in more ways than one… lolol  I’m starting to giggle.  I am also packing and heading back to the “shelter”!  lolol

I am sitting here typing this and I feel a nudge at my left elbow.  And then I hear a wooo rooooof!  The now teenaged, clutzy, Shadow is telling me that he wants to go outside.

Now, when the Shad says he wants to go “”outside!”” that’s what he means.  And he means NOW MOM! 

OK, so I bail!  Run gracefully (that’s a lie) down the hallway… hang a left thru the kitchen door and head for the back door.  I get to door… open door, stand aside and expect the Shad to gallop out.  I stand there… nothing… And there he stands… behind me … grinning and not stepping a foot closer to the open door.  I cracked up… he’s done it again!  Done a gotcha on the mom!  How come it is that I get these critters who have advanced degrees in gotcha!?!    That’s ok tho… I wouldn’t change a thing…except for sometimes!

Best be getting’ busy.  I’m trying to swing around to day shift.  Sheesh!  Any how, take care all of mine.  Go in safety always.  Remember that new critter means new changes in lifestyle… Oh yeah!

Many hugs, much love and lots of laffter… meems

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THURSDAY 2011-12-29

WELCOME HOME DEAR HEARTS, WELCOME HOME

Sheesh, today has been another one of those days.  Sort of!  Lolol  How bout I started off with a toasted blueberry bagel… drenched with strawberry jelly and topped with crispy, yummy bacon.  Yeah, I know but I seem to be craving sausage and bacon.  I do this about once a year… maybe it’s a seasonal thing.

And speaking of seasonal things, how bout spring catalogs?  Oh man, I can get into so much trouble with catalogs.  And I blame it all on Anna.  She is a terrible influence on me but she does know her plants, wild or tame.  She was too busy this year to go creek wading but maybe we will be able to do some wading this coming spring.   Gots ta watch for them snakey critters.

My sportsman’s cat came in today.  Oh dear, here’s another one that can get me into a lot of trouble.  Like, how would I look in leopard print jammies?  I would be camo match for my sheets and comforters.  Hmmm…. I think I’d better ponder on this idea for a while.  Wouldn’t want to disappear completely… You know, just in case??????  Lolol Meems is being bad.

I got a note from Pete, the guy who is helping Eons’ members with their virus problems.   He’s a sweetheart but he did mention that I stopped him cold with my calling him ‘dumplin’.  Lolol  Would this nice lil old lady, this sweetie with the silvery white hair, lovely green eyes… would I do a gotcha on a complete stranger????   Absolutely, in a NY Minute! Shame on meems… you know how I am with temptations….lolol 

Went outside for a few  when I heard one of my fly guys/gals go over… buzzing the tree tops out there.   I waved and blew kisses and all that stuff.  But I gots ta tell you that the other morning a heldoctor went over and just about took the roof with him!(small exaggeration but not too far off)  I was skyping with Bobbi and I’m pretty sure she heard the beaters… lolol  Anyway, those brats might have gotten the idea that I have forgotten them.  Trust me, they wouldn’t be that lucky!  Lolol  I will always be peeking over their shoulders… back seat driver, me!  Lolol  Go in safety, dear hearts.

I think I mentioned the paper covered floor in here… Found the rake and I DO need to get busy.  However, before I do, I need to let y’all know that I now have two large dogs playing tether-ball with my afterburner!  Oh yeah!  As we all know, I am not the best typist in the world.  I do not improve when I am being bounced around or turned in a 360o.  Critters are having fun tho!  Lolol

I’m still trying to get the hang of all the new and different things on this puter.  Have more email addys to enter… I need to start getting the paper work together for SocSec and taxes.  And I have stacks of papers to go through… Spring cleaning comes early around here.

Guess that’s it for the time being.  Take care all of mine.  Go in safety always. Remember that bacon and ketchup are a good combo too.

Many hugs, much love and lots of laffter every day… The bouncing around meems 

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Hey kids…. I think I am here

2011-12-28

Welcome home, dear hearts, welcome home!

Get yourselves in here and get warm… Y’all know where everything is, so help yourselves.  There’s some sausage patties and biscuits and strawberry jelly.  Love that combo!

Gots to tell ya that I fell out of my chair laffing already this am.  Yahoo news has an article about a huge Aussie croc named Elvis.  Lolol  Elvis chased a grounds keeper out of his pond area after he, Elvis, stole the lawn mower! 

That critter picked up the mower and carried it into his pond.  Must be sumfin wrong with me but I can’t help but laff.  I can just picture this critter falling madly in love with the low tones put out by the mower.  Love at first sound?

I’ve really been having a time… Both my putters are scrap!  I’m trying to learn my way around this new system… laptop.  Y’all know what a puter whiz I am… not!  Lolol  I’m getting there tho. And Bryan, my puter tech, is going to salvage what he can… if he can.  Sheesh!

Another thing… the phone system has been doing crazy things… The Marv has been complaining bitterly… Anna, who is down with the flu, couldn’t get thru the other day either.  I just love electronics and rad frequencies… (My nose is starting to grow)

Grasscutter stopped out on Christmas day.  Brot me a stocking stuffed with smell good candles, a note/drawing from Roxie (his oldest daughter) and best of all, some doggie treats.  So sweet but I did ponder on the doggie treats.  Were they for me or for the critters?  I think I’ll share.

Well, while GC was here, the control box for the well pump went out.  God love him, he went down and got it to work temporarily.  All I needed to do was jam a miniature canoe paddle in the right spot…hold it there while the pressure built up and then remove it.  Several times the 220 spit at me but I persevered!  (Boss, don’t faint) At least I had some water.

Then Monday, I called the JC.. He came out yesterday and changed the relay/contacts… YES! I now have water and I don’t need to play with the electric.  Did ya know that electric bites?  Oh yeah!

Then phone rang off the wall…Bobbi and I skyped several times.  Had to get on her tho… she kept making these ‘old person’ remarks and tossing them in my general direction!  Lolol

Let’s see here, what else?  Oh, I talked to Laurie2.  She did a big gotcha on me about my ‘candle lite dinners’… I will get even… fair warning Brat!

Next thing I need to do is enter all my email addys.  I made printed copies of all of them a couple of months back.  Thank goodness!  But… it’s going to take me days to re-enter them.  I’m going to ask a favor here… Would y’all send me an email at emom101@prtcnet.org so I can more easily get this thing updated?  Would appreciate the help…

Best be getting busy.  I’m knee deep in torn up paper towels and cardboard boxes.  Thank you Stormy and Shadow… lolol

Take care all of mine.  Go in safety always.  Remember that water is a precious gift… don’t waste it.

Many hugs, much love and lots of laffter every day… meems

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