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On Sunday June 25th, my parents celebrate 40 years of marriage. I've been around for 36 of those years, and count myself very lucky.

Early in their marriage, my parents discovered that they couldn't have a child of their own; mom had 2 still births and multiple miscarriages. So they chose to adopt. Both my sister and I joined this family that way, me in 1969, my sister in 1972. In the ultimate gesture of love and caring, my parents took the 2 of us in and raised us as their own.

It hasn't been easy. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a handful, yet they've always been there for me, and continue to be there for me now, 36 years later. We argue, we fight, we get under each other's skin, yet after it all, we still love each other.

I've been lucky to have had 2 parents who care as much as they do, who have sacrificed as much as they have, and who are still going strong through it all.

They may never read this, or even know that I've written this, but it doesn't matter. Everyone else needs to know how amazing they have been and how good it is to see them get this far!

Congratulations mom and dad.. 40 years is impressive, especially considering all you've been through!

why is it that some people on here just can't leave others alone? As in the real world, there are those that just do not get along.. or try to get along, but fail. This happens. Get over it.

Friendships begin, friendships end, no biggie, especially here, in an online world, where you can disappear at the click of a button. Get over it.

That people feel the need to descend back to grade school and write nasty notes about others when they feel slighted in some way.. get over it!

That people feel the need to cut and paste lies and half truths and take someone out of context.. wow, get a life first! Then get over whatever perceived slight you were given.

See, a few of us more adult people actually use our brains and have some measure of maturity and wisdom. We understand that this is an online community, and people can have fun online just as they have fun in real life.

Get a life, move on, grow up.

I know the truth and I know the person, and to me, that's all that matters. Say what you will, it will only further the disregard for you and your words.

:)

I know I've said it in the forum, but I'm saying it here too. with the trade to a new house, it was time to update my profile. Me being html illiterate I turned to a friend here on vr to help me alter it's look.

WOW

NightBlossom, in a very short period of time, turned my profile into something definately different from what I had before. This is twice now she has gone over and above in making my profile awesome. She deserves massice recognition for this work, especially considering the short time in which she did it in!

NB, you rock.... it's that simple!!! Thank you for your hard work, and again, I owe you!!:)

Dammit! I should be sleeping right now (night shift, remember?), yet here I am, dealing with shit that shouldn't be my problem anymore.

Moral of this story? Don't go into a business partnership with morons.

As many know, I was part owner of a bar here in London known as dissent. In November of last year, I got unceremoniously booted from said company because of egos and , well, too much to list here. From then till now, I have never received separation papers, tax paperwork, compensation for some bills that I had paid for the club, and more.

The club was closed down back in May by the landlord for the fact that my former business partners had let the insurance run out on the club. I also discovered that they hadn't paid any taxes on ANYTHING to do with the club since my departure in November, and the Ministry of finance has put a lien on the property. They are now going in there, seizing all the goods on property and selling it off to pay this debt.

Thanks to their inablity to do anything right, I am now involved in this as I am still listed as a partner in the business. This is fucking my credit rating, my ability to open a business in the future of my own, my reputation, my personal taxes and more! And get this, I'M BEING BLAMED FOR PART OF THIS!!

I wasn't even fucking there to let any of this happen!?!?!?!?!?!

God I can't wait to get my day in court and eat these morons for breakfast. They've screwed with me long enough and in too many ways. I could have gone away by them giving me the proper paperwork and the money owed to me for the bills, now I'm going to nail them for soo much more, so that they'll never be able to darken this business ever again.

To quote Sapphire, 'You're BOTH morons'.

I've got this co-worker who tends to run his mouth off about, well, pretty much everything; the number of fights he got into that weekend, the number of girls he failed to have sex with, how much he can drink, how stupid he gets when he's drunk... pretty much your typical university-aged moron, except this one barely made it out of high school..

Now earlier in the week, after his rambling on about several fights he had managed to get into, yet walk away unscathed, I commented to another co-worker that 'generally those who talk the most about fighting, can't really, or don't'...

Man did that come back to bite me.. sort of....

Someone, I'm assuming the coworked I chatted with, informed little mr. testosterone of my comment. He immediately assumes that I mean that I can 'take him' in a fight and comes over and challenges me.. and this is no little challenge. This guy is shaking with rage, reeking of testosterone.. OVER A COMMENT... he's ready to 'go' right then and there, despite the fact that we'd both be fired for it. apparently the martial arts that I've been trained in is 'bullshit' and what he knows will allow him to 'wipe the floor with my ass'.

Good for him. I don't care. I don't fight. I know how to fight, but I don't. First, wether you win or lose, you lose, because you did fight. (if that doesn't make sense, go talk to anyone who's taken any modicum of martial arts training). Second, why in god's name would I fight over a few words!?!?! Are you that insecure in your manhood that you have to fight at the littlest of words?? Third, I'd kill him. No, really, I would. He may be strong and may know how to fight, but the training I've received is not in a classic martial art, but in unarmed military combat. There's no fooling around. it's take him down, hard.

but back to little mr. testosterone. As I said, he's ready to fight right then and there, or if not there, immediately after work. My comment? Why? Do words hurt you that much? Obviously you're insecrue about something. tell you what, name the dojo and the time, and we'll strap the pads on a fight.'

mr. testosterone's response was 'be a man, fight me for real'. oh, wow, now I'm scared (catch the sarcasm there?)..

Where I'm going with all of this? well, on the way home I got to wondering about it. Why do some people feel the need to try to assert themselves when there's no need? Why must young boys listen to the little testosterone-fueled voice in their head(s) that tell them to act like a fool?

Oh yeah, he's a moron because all of this took place about 10 feet away from our supervisor. Smart. Real smart. Needless to say, one of us is getting written up over it (that's not me..lol).

God I hate people like him. Why can't they grow a set of balls and be men? Or join the military or something??

rant over. Bedtime.

So, I decide that it's time for good old me to get some wheels again.. well, actually a whole car, but that's beside the point.. I go look at several different cars adn trucks, finally deciding on a compact car.. better on gas and insurance for me right now.

I've got the car picked out and the final price, so I go to my bank to get a cheque for the car.. 'oh no', says my advisor, 'don't do that, we can give you a good rate on a loan, so you'll save money in the long run'.. see, what she's saying is that the money i have in the bank will make more interest then i'd generate if i had the ammount in a loan.. makes sense...

OH WAIT..another institution that I paid off a loan I had with 8 months ago says that that loan is in arrears on equifax!! I mean WTF!?!?!?!?! So I call said institution and freak on their collective heads. This problem was supposed to have been taken care of months ago (i had known about this screw up, but had been told it had been fixed).. so they apologize and say that they'll fix it.. and my rating should be back to normal.. IN 3 MONTHS... again WTF?!?!?!?

So, I've got NO debt, plenty of money in the bank, 2 good jobs paying me well, and yet I can't get a loan thanks to a fuck up that someone else made. Now I get to lose all that money that i've saved (well, technically not lose it, i'm buying a car) instead of using the system to my advantage.

When we screw up, banks make us pay for it in soo many ways, yet when THEY screw up, all we seem to get is an apology. How is this fair??? I went so far as to check with my lawyer, and there's not a thing i can do about it. Damn!!

Well, off to write that cheque.. venting over.