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I couldn’t decide between the Kindle or Nook. Really wanted an iPad but refused to pay $500. In October I got a Toshiba Thrive Tablet with 10.1" screen for $379 with an $80 gift card for Newegg which is where I bought it and I love it. I downloaded the Kindle reader and get my books instantly and haven’t paid more than $6 for any book. I just didn’t like that it was a bit bulky to toss in my purse to go to the docs office and such so i bought a $79 Kindle and got it last weekend. I LOVE it.
The only reason I didn’t wait for or go with the Kindle Fire was that it’s not a true Android OS. It’s an old Android OS that Amazon used to base their OS on where the Toshiba Thrive is Android 3.0 which is Android and built specifically for tablets where newer ones were for phones and adapted for tablets. I’m on a blogging forum and a lot of women on there just got the Fire and think it’s great.
Yes, I know a Sami in real life and it’s sad. The thing is that person nor Sami will change unless they WANT to and with people around you accepting their behavior is enabling them to continue.
Sami needs to experience tough love by everyone in her life and hit bottom before she will want to change. Oh, some go the tough love route such as Will’s doing now out of anger but like Kate’s kids he always comes back and accepts her for who she is, until the next time.
How many times has she done something evil to Carrie yet when Carrie comes back they’re the best of friends.
Will has disowned his mother at least 3 times. First he went to live with Carrie and Austin but came back as the loving son. Then he goes to live with Grandma Kate but ends up back at Sami’s as the loving son and now he’s moving out again. How long will this one last?
How many times has she tried to hurt John? I do remember the Stan incident but not sure about the rest. As soon as she apologizes to John she’s accepted back in the fold and now she’s disowning him again.
She’s always turning against Marlena but Marlena should turn the tables and not be there for Sami when she feels she needs her mother. Let her get a taste of it.
She’s done some really far out things to Austin and the last time she almost cost him Carrie but he comes back and is her biggest supporter.
Last I remember of Anna she was in the hospital and woke from a coma. She was trying to escape her room as Rafe was going to see her. She opened her door and said "you" or something like that and when Rafe got there she was gone. We were never told what happened to her.
If you’re asking me. She was required to use her lunch and one of her lunch breaks to pump. If she wanted to take a sandwich with her and eat while she was up there that was fine but she was not allowed to continue doing that on work time.
Reading the story about your employee reminded me of a secretary we had. I was assistant supervisor and worked alternate weekends from the supervisor so the weekends I worked were mine. Someone had to be in the office at all times until 9pm so I had to cover for the secretary when she was at lunch and on breaks. Since I also had to do patient care when I was in charge that meant I had to have someone cover for me when I was in the office.
It wasn’t unusual for her husband to call 20 times each day asking where the kids shoes were, how to fix their daughter’s hair and other things like that that she should know. After her last daughter was born she was nursing and would pump so her daughter could take a bottle on weekends and when she wasn’t with her. EVERY weekend her husband would call because she wouldn’t take the bottle so he’d have to bring her to work so she could nurse. That made it difficult as I was to relieve her for lunch during breaks from my own work which was patient care. I now had to try to adjust my patient load to accomodate her daughter’s feeding schedule. On the days grandma watched her she took the bottle fine. On those days the secretary would not only take her lunch but then need time to go to the OB floor to use their breast pumps as they were electric and she liked them better than the portable hand held pump she could bring from home. So, she had her 2 15 minute breaks, 30 minute lunches then be gone another 30-40 minutes while she pumped since she needed to get "relaxed" before she would flow and that sometimes took 15-20 minutes. I often had to give up my lunch to allow her to do this.
Her husband was one that when she was working he was "babysitting". How can a man "babysit" his own children. He’s the dad watching his kids and when mom’s not available is his JOB and DUTY, not something that’s optional.
When I’d had enough I went to my boss and let her know how this was affecting my work, the work of other staff members and also patient care.
I think it would be great if Jack decided he couldn’t be with Jennifer until his demons from Afghanistan are gone. Then Jennifer would have no man in her life and it would be her fault because of her indecisiveness.
As far as a ‘back-up’ plan, unless a mother has a ‘built-in-babysitter’ (such as a retired grandma …. oh, that would be me or Caroline), who can be relied on 99 and 44/100’s percent of the time, you can forget last-minute telephone calls to the alternate babysitter list either. It’s either that or changing your hours to coincide with your kids’ school hours (yes, they should have been in school anyway), and also arrange for after-school care program until their non-working father can pick them up.
I worked in health care, both in a hospital and home care and both had mandatory on-call. You never knew if you were going to be called in but you knew when that possibility was so you’d better have a sitter or 2 lined up in case as not having a babysitter was not an excuse not to work. Also during a disaster everyone gets called in so you’d better have a plan in place and a backup in case that happened.
A friend of mine was a single mother and an army nurse. She never knew if she was going to be deployed so she had to have childcare in place that would be available 24/7. That required more than one backup.
I was thinking of the day Madison went to Sami’s for a meeting and the kids were loud and crying, Sami had to leave the room and Johnny spilled orange juice all over her breakfast scones or whatever they were and her paperwork. I thought this was a repeat of that only outside.
I agree. In most scenes those kids are the most well behaved kids in the world so I don’t understand why since Sami got a job they show them as destructive and not listening. I know, it’s to show the perils of a working mom but come on guys, the kids were NEVER like this before. Well, except for Johnny when he ran away from the mansion and ran to Sami and Rafe and when he found out EJ hurt Rafe.
Not to mention, dogs love and trust unconditionally. I look at my 3 puppies here and then read about what that monster did and I start to cry. I can’t imagine hurting one of my babies like that.
