Then and Now Fluff

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Then and Now Fluff
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Sun, 12-14-2014 - 9:59am

The Remember When thread has me thinking about myself when I first came to iVillage and how much things have changed since then.  Anybody else want to play?

I came to iVillage in the summer of 2000.  I was 36 and working as HR Manager for an internationally-owned manufacturing company  I was divorced with a 6 1/2-yr-old disabled son, and my ex had committed suicide a few months before.  This was actually the event that led me to iVillage in the first place.  I was one of those "Have to work" moms and was told by several when I first came here that I had no place in this debate because I had no choice.  

Now, I'm 51 and my son is 21.  For the past tnot-quite-ten years I've worked as the business manager for a small architecture firm.  Eight years ago, I also absorbed the marketing coordinator's position.  The job(s) and the company have been overwhelmingly stressful at times but have changed greatly over the past few years, due to economic/market and ownership changes.  I am now in a very comfortable position within the company.  I also no longer really have to work.  My son is now in a position to offer to take care of things if I want to quit and take some time to figure out what I want to do.  That offer has led me to the realization that despite the stress, long hours (which really isn't an issue anymore anyway) and frustration, I am already doing what I want to do.  I'll be sticking around there.  


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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 12-16-2014 - 2:37pm

blackandwhitemolly wrote:
<blockquote><div style="font-weight:bold"><em>blackandwhitemolly</em> wrote:</div>&lt;p&gt;Again, PKA there was NO arrest. If you can't get your stories right, don't bother. Just like Queen doesn't know the outcome but you and her are trying to make up stories. &lt;/p&gt;</blockquote><p style="font-size:13px; text-align:left"></p><p style="font-size:13px; text-align:left">You never get your stories right, lol.   I never said anything about the outcome molls...</p><p style="font-size:13px; text-align:left">Yep as you got the beginning wrong and the assumptions of the outcome is wrong too. Shrug. </p>

I don't think so and you were pretty hot to get the information removed from ivillage and harrassed me for through multiple threads across months about Queens actions and how I should have stopped her from posting that information.  I haven't mentioned any assumptions about the outcome....you are getting all hot and bothered again about something you "claim" didn't happen. 

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 12-29-1999
Tue, 12-16-2014 - 2:37pm

pumpkinangel wrote:
<p><blockquote class="quote-msg quote-nest-1 odd"><div class="quote-author"><em class="placeholder">blackandwhitemolly</em> wrote:</div>&lt;p&gt;I guess the name just popped up on my twitter like it did on Paolo's. Shrug.&lt;/p&gt;</blockquote></p><p>So you are saying that this escort and you have common interests?  lol</p>

ROTFLMAO--I bet Swiper's a client.

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Registered: 12-22-2013
Tue, 12-16-2014 - 2:38pm

I've never denied any responsibility in the demise of my first marriage. I have, however, denied any responsibility in his affair. He and HWB are the only ones responsible for that.

I hope you have had therapy about this to understand WHY he went to another woman. Sigh.....

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 12-16-2014 - 2:39pm

mygarnetboy wrote:
<p><blockquote class="quote-msg quote-nest-1 odd"><div class="quote-author"><em class="placeholder">pumpkinangel</em> wrote:</div>&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote class="quote-msg quote-nest-1 odd"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-author"&gt;&lt;em class="placeholder"&gt;blackandwhitemolly&lt;/em&gt; wrote:&lt;/div&gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Well since I never said she was from NYC, not sure why Queen mentioned it. Love how she never came back until TODAY to say that she didn't know he had a twitter. I gave her MANY chances. Quite funny.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Oh and the girl is pretty cute and I&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So....are you going to post it or what? &lt;/p&gt;</blockquote></p><p>She's not. She "lost" it. At least that's what she told me when we were PMing. Of course, she'll lie about that, too...</p>

Are we really talking about something as lame as a screen shot of a twitter follower who happens to be an escort?  I can't believe all of her cackling over the laste few months has been about a twitter follower, how funny and what a fitting end to this board.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 12-29-1999
Tue, 12-16-2014 - 2:40pm

blackandwhitemolly wrote:
<p>Go back to the discussion with Bord, Queen if you want to know about not being arrested. </p>

I don't have to to back to a discussion with Bord to know that you're married to Swiper the Fox.

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Registered: 12-29-1999
Tue, 12-16-2014 - 2:41pm

pumpkinangel wrote:
<p><blockquote class="quote-msg quote-nest-1 odd"><div class="quote-author"><em class="placeholder">mygarnetboy</em> wrote:</div>&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote class="quote-msg quote-nest-1 odd"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-author"&gt;&lt;em class="placeholder"&gt;pumpkinangel&lt;/em&gt; wrote:&lt;/div&gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;blockquote class="quote-msg quote-nest-1 odd"&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div class="quote-author"&amp;gt;&amp;lt;em class="placeholder"&amp;gt;blackandwhitemolly&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; wrote:&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;gt;Well since I never said she was from NYC, not sure why Queen mentioned it. Love how she never came back until TODAY to say that she didn't know he had a twitter. I gave her MANY chances. Quite funny.&amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;gt;Oh and the girl is pretty cute and I&amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt;&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;So....are you going to post it or what? &amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;She's not. She "lost" it. At least that's what she told me when we were PMing. Of course, she'll lie about that, too...&lt;/p&gt;</blockquote></p><p>Are we really talking about something as lame as a screen shot of a twitter follower who happens to be an escort?  I can't believe all of her cackling over the laste few months has been about a twitter follower, how funny and what a fitting end to this board.</p>

And notice that she STILL hasn't posted her "proof" despite me giving her the okay multiple times. And what do you want to bet that this Paola is one of Kim Michaelson's alter-egos...

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Registered: 12-22-2013
Tue, 12-16-2014 - 2:42pm

Ginger--At 40 I've got a body far better than most women half my age. I've got a very happy husband inside and outside of our bedroom. You've got absolutely nothing on my DH. And your ridiculous insinations just made you look like the sad, clueless, no class, white trash that you are.

So instead of ADMITTING you lied to me, you try to make it into a competition. I feel bad, if you have ANY friends IRL (not the ones her you consider friends) as I have friends in many shapes and sizes and different backgrounds and none of us do anything to impress one another. I find it very sad that you have to try and impress me with your weight or your sex life. I have class honey, you don't as if you did, you wouldn't put up that private info. I can show you no class and talk about how you had to PAY to have children. Let's not go there though because I don't want to stoop to YOUR level.

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 12-16-2014 - 2:42pm

savcal2011 wrote:
<p><blockquote class="quote-msg quote-nest-1 odd"><div class="quote-author"><em class="placeholder">blackandwhitemolly</em> wrote:</div>&lt;p&gt;They have to get your name Queen, you do realize that right?&lt;/p&gt;</blockquote></p><p>And twitter is public.  A twitter handle can go around the globe in seconds via retweets and quotes and other twitter means.  Do you not know that?</p><p>Hell, Mustang Brewing Company follows my twitter. I'm sure they have no idea who I am.  </p>

I get a lot of interesting requests to follow me and some of them are just down right bizarre.  I'm private, so people have to request to follow me, I deny 3-4 everytime I remember to look at that page which is only slighty more often than I look at twitter.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 12-16-2014 - 2:44pm

savcal2011 wrote:
<p><blockquote class="quote-msg quote-nest-1 odd"><div class="quote-author"><em class="placeholder">blackandwhitemolly</em> wrote:</div>&lt;p&gt;They have to get your name Queen, you do realize that right?&lt;/p&gt;</blockquote></p><p>And twitter is public.  A twitter handle can go around the globe in seconds via retweets and quotes and other twitter means.  Do you not know that?</p><p>Hell, Mustang Brewing Company follows my twitter. I'm sure they have no idea who I am.  </p>

I get a lot of interesting requests to follow me and some of them are just down right bizarre.  I'm private, so people have to request to follow me, I deny 3-4 everytime I remember to look at that page which is only slighty more often than I look at twitter.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 12-16-2014 - 2:44pm

blackandwhitemolly wrote:
<p><span style="font-size:13px; text-align:left">Ginger--At 40 I've got a body far better than most women half my age. I've got a very happy husband inside and outside of our bedroom. You've got absolutely nothing on my DH. And your ridiculous insinations just made you look like the sad, clueless, no class, white trash that you are.</span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size:13px; text-align:left">So instead of ADMITTING you lied to me, you try to make it into a competition. I feel bad, if you have ANY friends IRL (not the ones her you consider friends) as I have friends in many shapes and sizes and different backgrounds and none of us do anything to impress one another. I find it very sad that you have to try and impress me with your weight or your sex life. I have class honey, you don't as if you did, you wouldn't put up that private info. I can show you no class and talk about how you had to PAY to have children. Let's not go there though because I don't want to stoop to YOUR level.</span></strong></p>

Do you google stalk them too?  If you have to tell someone you have class, it's a good chance you aren't showing that you have classs at the moment....you know, since you are threatening to post a picture of an escort who follow her dh on twitter which you learned from google stalking another man....really doesn't scream class.  At all, quite the opposite.

PumpkinAngel

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