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The ***Official*** Weekend Singles Thread - Labor Day Weekend(Sept. 1-4)
DollyCali and All of the Singles & their FRiends | September 1, 2006 | DollyCali

Posted on 09/01/2006 12:43:11 PM PDT by DollyCali



Labor Day, a national legal holiday over 100 years old has Over the years evolved from a purely labor union celebration into a general "last fling of summer" festival.

It grew out of a celebration and parade in honor of the working class by the Knights of Labor in New York. In 1884, the Knights held a large parade in New York City celebrating the working class. The parade was held on the first Monday in September. The Knights passed a resolution to hold all future parades on the same day, designated by them as Labor Day.

The Socialist Party held a similar celebration of the working class on May 1. This date eventually became known as May Day, and was celebrated by Socialists and Communists in commemoration of the working man. In the U.S., the first Monday in September was selected to reject any identification with Communism. Then in 1894, Congress passed a law recognizing Labor Day as an official national holiday.

It has come to be recognized in the U.S. not only as a celebration of the working class, but even more so as the unofficial end of the summer season. In the northern half of the U.S. at least, the summer vacation season begins with Memorial Day and ends with Labor Day. Many colleges and some secondary and elementary schools begin classes immediately after Labor Day.

State parks, swimming pools, and campgrounds are all quite busy on Labor Day, as vacationers take one last advantage of the waning hot season. September is the month that marks the beginning of autumn. And, because of that, the average daytime maximum temperatures take a plunge during the month in most of the U.S.








Labor Day "Linky Links"


U.S. Department of Labor- Bureau of Labor Statistics


Labor Day Greeting Cards


Knights of Labor


Labor Day Recipes


Labor Union Information


U.S. Department of Labor- Bureau of Labor Statistics




JOBS ~~ WORK ~~ PROFESSIONS


Tell us about your work/career..Past/Present


DollyCali shares her "past"


Well..maybe a LITTLE bit! I am currently working harder NOW than ever in my life. The pay monetarily is ZIP. but I know there are other rewards. I am care giving my invalid mom & living with her in HER home & taking care of her home, yards, pets as well as her.

My first “jobs” were in junior high school. I did modeling and taught dance lessons.. Continued this until I graduated from college & then began a teaching career(Biology & Physical Education) of about 10 years in many geographical areas at the junior high, high school and college level.

While I was teaching in NC, I began my real estate career that started at a large firm in residential sales & ended in my own commercial business that dealt with Development, rehabs, and 1031 Exchanging. A lot of money was there and a lot of ego strokes, but deep down something was missing.

Following grad school I began a career in Hospital chaplaincy working with Cancer/AIDS/Hospice patients. Essentially, ALL of my patients died & it was my job to get them and their families ready for that transition. But this was the most rewarding career I had and it has helped me help others – even now – as I am officially “unemployed”.




Now it is YOUR TURN


Please join me and the other “Singles & their Friends” and as you visit this thread over the next fourr days(yes, we will have a ping on Monday also for anyone who wants to visit) to chat, visit and see what is going on with your FRiends, do take a few minutes to share a little about yourself & your work over the years.




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KEYWORDS: college; dating; employment; jobs; laborday; singles; unions
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To: Maximus_Ridiculousness

Oh, snap!

Well, see you tomorrow then.


301 posted on 09/02/2006 11:41:15 PM PDT by pcottraux (It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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To: pcottraux; All; WFTR

Night Phil!!! Night everyone!! Happy B-Day, Bill!


302 posted on 09/02/2006 11:44:41 PM PDT by Maximus_Ridiculousness (Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.)
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To: Maximus_Ridiculousness

G'night.


303 posted on 09/02/2006 11:45:53 PM PDT by darkangel82 (Higher visibility leads to greater zottability.)
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To: Maximus_Ridiculousness

Peace out!


304 posted on 09/02/2006 11:48:52 PM PDT by pcottraux (It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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To: WFTR

Happy Birthday
Bill (WFTR)
May you have a "slithering"
great day & year ahead!



305 posted on 09/02/2006 11:58:18 PM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: Maximus_Ridiculousness

Good Night




306 posted on 09/03/2006 12:01:23 AM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: The Mayor; All

307 posted on 09/03/2006 2:32:39 AM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: DollyCali

I'm not positive in her offense, but it was a felony against a child according to what I've heard.


308 posted on 09/03/2006 5:21:20 AM PDT by trussell (Work for God...the retirement benefits are eternal!)
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To: bannie

I'm hoping, if I ever find someone to share my life with again, that my ex would let the other man adopt the kids. I would offer him the chance to be done with childsupport and any future obligation to the kids if he would allow it.


309 posted on 09/03/2006 5:32:18 AM PDT by trussell (Work for God...the retirement benefits are eternal!)
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To: WFTR

WFTR


310 posted on 09/03/2006 6:23:58 AM PDT by trussell (Work for God...the retirement benefits are eternal!)
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To: WFTR
Hope your birthday thus far has been a good one. What is the agenda for day? Right now I am off to church, doggie walk, a taste of Hudson (Cleveland is having a "taste of" also but Hudson's is less hectic) & then Sousa Concert. Hopefully will get in later to ping the list.

Here is a thread for you Bill...CLICK HERE and a pix of interest.


311 posted on 09/03/2006 6:29:36 AM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: WFTR
Yeah, I had a few longer stints in the 1990's of being laid off too and I just temped and did what I had to do survive. I admit I had very short notice when I got my current job and I hated to just "drop and leave" but that is the nature of today from time to time and I have to think of myself and my family and what's best for them, well, my current job meant a lot more money so I had to jump ship and take it. I work in the accounts payable in the ground division of a major shipping company. I'm glad too with all the health bills my cats have had although it is kind of crunching me but it is a cross I'm glad to bear for them.

Chuck
312 posted on 09/03/2006 7:57:14 AM PDT by Nowhere Man (Pansy: b. 8-19-1987 - d. 8-27-2006, I'll miss you, little princess.... B-()
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To: Maximus_Ridiculousness
Wow. I didn't know there were so many treatments out there for sick cats. I hear they can be pretty expensive. My landlord's been taking Jerry to the vet about twice a month for digestive reasons. He's not even 10. (I live vicariously though other car owners cause hubby is allergic to cats and we can't have any.)

Well, I know from what one et said, the cortisone treatment is frown upon by most of the medical community because they want to get in, take a biopsy of the tumor and then go to chemo, surgery and/or radiation as the case my be. In cases like lympho-sarcoma, the cortisone does shrink the tumors down to the point to where if they were biospied, they cannot tell of they are benign or malignant. I do believe you do need to keep up the injections though, but the vet said that he had a dog with a brain tumor that was causing him seizures and was generally on his way out to where he started the treatment and the dog lived for an extra 2 or 3 years, sometimes you can get 5 or more. Still it is a bit touch and go, but at least there is hope there but unfortunately too late for Pansy.
313 posted on 09/03/2006 8:09:09 AM PDT by Nowhere Man (Pansy: b. 8-19-1987 - d. 8-27-2006, I'll miss you, little princess.... B-()
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To: Maximus_Ridiculousness; Rca2000
Oh yah, one thing I forgot to mention (in terms of spooky stuff) about 6 months ago, our television started turning itself on in the middle of the night. (I'm pinging Jack, cause maybe he can explain this.) In order to correct the problem, we've plugged the TV into a sock controlled by a switch to cut the power completely. This seems to work. (If it didn't, then I'd be REALLY freaked.) Anyway, if we go to bed and forget to turn the switch off, the TV comes on about 2-3 hours later. Never ever fails now. It is the weirdest/spookiest thing I've ever seen. When I’m in bed and it's 3am and I hear voices and talking coming from the next room, it really makes me jump!!! Haven’t grabbed the pistol yet to shoot the TV.

I'm sure Jack (RCA2000) has answered this already, but I generally don't read ahead so I can answer without prejudice. Is the TV remote controlled? Depending on the method use, infrared is the most common now but there have been models that used ultrasound and radio waves I think so perhaps you could be picking up a stray infrared or other signal there although I don't think that is much of a problem as it used to be with IR but I need to bring that up while brainstorming.

Maybe the board inside that controls the power to the set is acting funny, maybe something could be going there although in most cases the set would shut off instead. Every once in a great while, my 1982 Zenith does this but we just turn her off and on and she is good as new for several months.

Not get "Art Bell" on you here but maybe you might have a ghost. B-) Not to be a smart alec or anything but one cannot discount the weird and paranormal. Me, I would have to say it could be number 2, something with the board that controls the power in your TV.
314 posted on 09/03/2006 8:30:27 AM PDT by Nowhere Man (Pansy: b. 8-19-1987 - d. 8-27-2006, I'll miss you, little princess.... B-()
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To: pcottraux
My thing with mimes isn't scariness so much as it is downright hatred. I just don't like them at all.

When I was a kid, we were at the mall and some mime got a glimpse of me. And started waving at me with a big stupid grin, and I would kind of wave and shyly start to hide. (We were sitting down, and the mime was on the other side of the food court).

But I would hide behind dad, and that mime would get to an angle where it could see me, and wave, and that stupid grin...and waving! And I kept trying to hide...but the mime kept finding me!

I've hated them ever since.


I'm not fond of most clowns because of a similar reason. I was about 4 or 5, my parents took me to te "Good Ship Lollipop," a part of the Gateway Clipper fleet here in Pittsburgh. This clown was passing out lollipops to the kids, he kept jagging around with me, everytime I reached for it, he pulled it away, did this several times. Ever since then, most clowns, with few exceptions, are on my crap list.
315 posted on 09/03/2006 8:36:38 AM PDT by Nowhere Man (Pansy: b. 8-19-1987 - d. 8-27-2006, I'll miss you, little princess.... B-()
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To: DollyCali
Dolly,

Thanks for the link. That thread is "interesting" in a Darwin Award kind of way. I'm officially supposed to be on a list of people to call in this parish for nuisance snake problems, but I wouldn't try to catch the snake by setting the car on fire. A snake's instinct is to hide from danger rather than trying to run from it. If the snake had a hiding place in the engine, all of the commotion would only make it less likely to come out. It likely stayed in the engine until overheating and dying. If they knew roughly where the snake was hiding, they would have done better putting ice around that area. The snake might have sought a warmer hiding place, and they could have caught him when he moved.

Bill

316 posted on 09/03/2006 10:14:43 AM PDT by WFTR (Liberty isn't for cowards)
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To: trussell; DollyCali
Thanks for the Birthday Greetings. I need to come up with some plan for the day, but I don't have one yet.

Bill

317 posted on 09/03/2006 10:15:47 AM PDT by WFTR (Liberty isn't for cowards)
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To: DollyCali

September 3, 2006

Between Sundays

Whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men. —Colossians 3:23 Most Christians are not engaged in professional ministry. They don’t preach or sing or work for an evangelistic agency. Their time between Sundays is spent doing jobs that don’t seem to have value for the spread of the gospel. Therefore, some believers may view themselves as second-class disciples.

That may have been the way some members of the church in Colosse regarded themselves. Paul addressed an erroneous viewpoint of secular work when he wrote, “Obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, . . . in sincerity of heart, fearing God” (Col. 3:22).

You see, if God’s purposes in this world are to be fulfilled, we need a structured society with all its indispensable activities. The people we work for are servants of the Lord Jesus Christ. Whether they know it or not, our employers are carrying out God’s good purposes. As long as the assigned task is not sinful or unethical, when we serve those who rule over us we are serving the Lord.

So let’s view our daily work—whatever it is—as an extension of God’s work in the world. As we do so, we’ll find there is no better place to spread the good news of salvation than right where God has placed us. Vernon C Grounds

Teach me, my God and King,
In all things Thee to see,
And what I do in anything
To do it as for Thee!  —Herbert

For the Christian, work is ministry.

Bible in One Year: Bible in One Year:   Psalms 140-142; 1 Corinthians 14:1-20


318 posted on 09/03/2006 11:02:59 AM PDT by The Mayor ( http://albanysinsanity.com/)
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To: 38special; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; aft_lizard; A knight without armor; Alberta's Child; ...

Housekeeping "stuff":

Continuing the Happy Birthday Party for WFTR who is 43 TODAY!!!

I need your questions for "Dear Abby/Dolly" next week's thread (ASAP)

the questions can by hypothetical.. something I would address & everyone chats about. FReepmail or Email me your questions. Remember your name will NOT be used.

sorry for the early ping (again).. I am off to dinner & Sousa concert... see ya'all later!


319 posted on 09/03/2006 12:28:56 PM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: onyx; ozarkgirl; carlr; Las Vegas Dave; NeoCaveman; Commiewatcher; North Coast Conservative; ...

JUST CAME IN EMAIL... How ironic is that? for your chuckles...

LETTERS DEAR ABBY ADMITTED SHE WAS AT A LOSS TO ANSWER

Dear Abby,
A couple of women moved in across the hall from me. One is a middle-aged gym teacher and the other is a social worker in her mid twenties. These two women go every where together and I've never seen a man go into or leave
their apartment. Do you think they could be Lebanese?


Dear Abby,
What can I do about all the Sex, Nudity, Fowl Language and Violence On my VCR?


Dear Abby,
I have a man I can't trust. He cheats so much, I'm not even sure the baby I'm carrying is his.


Dear Abby,
I am a twenty-three year old liberated woman who has been on the pill for two years. It's getting expensive and I think my boy friend should share half the cost, but I don't know him well enough to discuss money with him.


Dear Abby,
I've suspected that my husband has been fooling around, and when confronted with the evidence, he denied everything and said it would never happen again.


Dear Abby,
Our son writes that he is taking Judo. Why would a boy who was raised in a good Christian home turn against his own?


Dear Abby,
I joined the Navy to see the world. I've seen it. Now how do I get out?


Dear Abby,
My forty year old son has been paying a psychiatrist $50.00 an hour every week for two and a half years. He must be crazy.


Dear Abby,
I was married to Bill for three months and I didn't know he drank until one night he came home sober.

(I love this one!!)

Dear Abby,
My mother is mean and short tempered. I think she is going through mental pause.


Dear Abby,
You told some woman whose husband had lost all interest in sex to send him to a doctor. Well, my husband lost all interest in sex and he is a doctor. Now what do I do?


320 posted on 09/03/2006 12:36:19 PM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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