AMERICA - The Right Way!! (WEEKEND EDITION: Days 1386 and 1387) [Remember the Trade Center!!]

Various News Sources and FReepers | November 6, 2004 | All of Us

[Neets]

How ya doin sweetie?

[prairiebreeze]

Happy Anniversary lysie! Hope you have a wonderful day.

Prairie

[Peach]

We are most of us so fortunate to live well in this country and I know you ladies have done and will do the same thing in the future. Sometimes we just have to trust people and when the desperation in their eyes is so sincere, I just knew we couldn't sleep at night if we'd turned our backs.

This is why (aside from $$ - LOL) that I could never have a cleaning woman. I can't stand having people "work" for me around the house. It makes me feel ten times guilty.

Most of our neighbors have cleaning women and since Mr. Peach started collecting Social Security this year, he has told me to get one if I wish. I do NOT wish.

[lysie]

Thank you.

[Peach]

Question for Freepers on how to handle a situation:

I mentor at a school for 3.5 hours once a week with a friend. The kids have been angels but yesterday acted up pretty badly. Once a week I leave money with the teacher to buy them ice cream. They were so bad yesterday that I told them I don't reward bad behavior and so wouldn't be getting them ice cream that week.

My friend, who has a softer heart than me, gave the teacher money anyway.

I will discuss this with her next week on the way to school but I don't know in the future whether I should just not get ice cream for those kids who acted out or for the entire class.

I'm thinking I should just skip the kids who acted out but Mr. Peach thinks peer pressure from the other kids would be effective.

Any ideas? (I never had my own kids and so am not particularly versed in how to handle stuff like this).

[Neets]

I could never have a cleaning woman...one, I could never afford it and two...I wouldn't know how to act..i'm not Mrs. Domesticated to begin with so this poor woman would surely have her hands full.

I canunderstand about not being able to sleep.

[Neets]

Peer pressure always seemed to work best in my opinion...at least it did for us when I was in basic training!!! LOL.

I would skip icecream for the entire class (what grade is this??)...but your friend needs to be supportive of you in this or it sends mixed message.

[prairiebreeze]

Nice story Peach. I had a cleaning service regularly when I was working outside the home. Now, I only call them occasionally, rarely in fact. All of them are Polish women, most don't speak much English. I've gotten quite good at communicating through gestures. But they are all hard workers and do a good job.

Chicago has the largest city population of Poles outside of Warsaw.

[Peach]

These are fifth graders and I'm sure, once we talk it through, she'll get onboard sending a consistent message.

Although Mr. Peach says this is how she's raised her son. They tell him they'll take the car away if he does such and such and then he does it and they don't take the car away. Dozens of examples like that.

If I think she isn't going to get onboard, I'll just let her get the ice cream each week and I won't threaten to take away that which won't really be taken away. (If you know what I mean).

[Two Thirds Vote Aye]

Happy anniversary, lysie! That is WONDERFUL!

[Peach]

Mr. Peach watched over an elderly aunt for 15 years and we always had Russian or Polish women live with her to care for her.

There was a language barrier at first as they learned the language but they certainly are the hardest working women in the world. And kind and sweet, too!

[Neets]

mornin you

[A Citizen Reporter]

"Our Secretary of State Chet Culver, who wants to be the next Governor of Iowa, is still holding out declaring a winner."

Good morning. This reminds me of the only thing that has me a bit concerned about Tuesday's election. Although scoring wins in Missouri statewide and in the legislature, the pubbies lost one important race. That of Secretary of State went to Robin Carnahan, daughter of the late gov, and former Senator Jean.

[Two Thirds Vote Aye]

Good morning! I'm so relieved that, as Peach said so well, the STRESS has left the building!

[Neets]

Me too..it was a very long few months!!!

[Peach]

My shoulders had been inching their way up to my ears for months. Now they are back where they should be and my neck doesn't hurt anymore. LOL

[Two Thirds Vote Aye]

I'm sleeping SO much better since Wednesday! I know so many others here have mentioned that too.

[Two Thirds Vote Aye]

LOL! Yes, my shoulders have discovered their original position!

[AFPhys]

Good morning ALL ... scratch that, GREAT morning!!!

You are so right, Peach... I have been so relaxed since Wed. 1AM that I can hardly stand it. I'm even able to delude myself that NY will vote for Pres.Bush when he runs for his second term in '08 (counting the '00 term as having been 'selected' now...) When I rub the victory in the face of my liberal counterparts (ever so gently, usually) I don't even care what they think, and it turns out that even the really radical ones realize they have to get over it somehow. I'm even discovering that some of them are sidling up toward me a bit now in belated recognition that I actually was correct about Bush not being a monster.

I suspect that about three months from now, someone taking a poll will discover that about 65% of Americans will claim that they voted for Bush, and that about 10% of them really voted for Nader. Victory is so sweet.

I know that I'll be able to get much more done now, personally, too. I have spent so much time and energy the last years making certain that I understood as many of the issues as I could in order to be able to deflect the FRAUDcasting that most of my friends hear. I am about three months behind in essential paperwork (on top of the two years behind on less essential) and the house is a disaster area, with my having just done the true basics the last two months. A week of celebratory and wrap-up activities is in order, but next Thursday I'll be really putting a push in to catch up. I don't be as prominent on FR for a while then...

I took a half hour to read the local college paper. LOL... reading the professors' comments about the election is so sweet. I'll never be conciliatory toward them. ... "I'm very very very unhappy" , "I find some really distressing elements ..." "Given my own preference for anybody but Bush there was this sense of disappointment in the deep pit of my stomach." [my colleagues are] "devastated" and "horrified" ...

I've got one word for all of them: SCHADENFREUDE - I can feel sorry for the victims of their lies, but these, who certainly know that the DNC and the Old Media has been lying about such things as Iraq, the economy, and the draft - these whose job is to propagate truth and who not only fail to do that, but blatantly take advantage of falsehoods to advance their own political point of view - those I will never feel sorry for. I want them to be forever devastated and horrified and have a problem in the pit of their stomach and be depressed.

I also got a bit of a chuckle out of an '05 student who says, "Damn my demographic [citing the lack of young voter turnout]" ... we thought MTV and Rock the Vote would do it ... LoL...

I do solemnly agree with you GC: Give thanks to the Lord for Ws victory. When I awoke, that was just about the first thing on my mind today. Don't let Him forget we realize thanks for this.

[AFPhys]

Happy Anniversary to you and yours!

As a faithful FReeper, we know you are planning to spend the whole day in your pajamas ...