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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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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Tue, 12-16-2014 - 2:45pm
Go back to the discussion with Bord, Queen if you want to know about not being arrested. ------------ OK, charged then.
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Registered: 12-22-2013
Tue, 12-16-2014 - 2:45pm

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...

Really Queen? Would you like to show me WHERE I said that? Please do as I still have the entire conversation. ANOTHER LIE.

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Tue, 12-16-2014 - 2:46pm

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>

I must have a lot of affairs then - I have many men following my Twitter. 

"I don’t mind a banshee, that’s fine. 2 banshees? I HATE you. I actually wish bad things upon you." -- Day[9] Daily #459 P1

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Registered: 12-22-2013
Tue, 12-16-2014 - 2:47pm
blackandwhitemolly wrote:
<p>I guess the name just popped up on my twitter like it did on Paolo's. Shrug.</p>

Yeah--like you don't regularly stalk us on Linked In. We can actually SEE that, Ginger.

Just like I saw Chestnut's dh "stalk" me on linked in and Ducky's dd tried to follow me on fb. Linkedin is a PUBLIC forum and that is not stalking for your information. Trying to follow someone on fb IS stalking. 

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Registered: 01-08-2009
Tue, 12-16-2014 - 2:48pm

rollmops2009 wrote:
<p><span>How so? Tells you something if an escort is following someone as they got the person's name from someplace. Maybe on a business trip? </span></p><p><strong><span>ROFL! Uhm, no, that is not how twitter works. I can promise you that I never hired any escorts, anywhere, and yet my twitter account was bombarded with them at some point.</span></strong></p>
  I don't have twitter, but I get all kinds of interesting mail on my private e-mail account.  Some of my correspondents seem to think I am in despair about the small size of my penis, for instance.

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Tue, 12-16-2014 - 2:48pm

rollmops2009 wrote:
<p><span>How so? Tells you something if an escort is following someone as they got the person's name from someplace. Maybe on a business trip? </span></p><p><strong><span>ROFL! Uhm, no, that is not how twitter works. I can promise you that I never hired any escorts, anywhere, and yet my twitter account was bombarded with them at some point.</span></strong></p>
  I don't have twitter, but I get all kinds of interesting mail on my private e-mail account.  Some of my correspondents seem to think I am in despair about the small size of my penis, for instance.

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Registered: 01-08-2009
Tue, 12-16-2014 - 2:48pm

rollmops2009 wrote:
<p><span>How so? Tells you something if an escort is following someone as they got the person's name from someplace. Maybe on a business trip? </span></p><p><strong><span>ROFL! Uhm, no, that is not how twitter works. I can promise you that I never hired any escorts, anywhere, and yet my twitter account was bombarded with them at some point.</span></strong></p>
  I don't have twitter, but I get all kinds of interesting mail on my private e-mail account.  Some of my correspondents seem to think I am in despair about the small size of my penis, for instance.

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Tue, 12-16-2014 - 2:48pm

I must have a lot of affairs then - I have many men following my Twitter. 

You classless, slutty hussy, you!

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Tue, 12-16-2014 - 2:49pm

blackandwhitemolly wrote:
<p>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. </p>
Oh no, he WAS arrested -- and convicted.  Just wasn't booked.

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