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Muppets in Space
06:46 Nov 16 2008
Times Read: 719

O.o



Khornesone and the children are watching Muppets in Space.

I am a little weirded out actualy.



Khornesone chose the program to watch.

I think he is having issues. :D

Parent Teacher Confrence / 9th Grade Presentation
08:28 Nov 14 2008
Times Read: 740




So Wolfbite is not happy with me.

She gave her presentation to her stepfather, Khornesone, and I at her high school tonight.

She did pretty well.

Then question time came...

The first thing I said to her was.. And I quote..



"Where is your head?"

I told her I was going to ask this question, I prepared her for it. She about burst into tears.



Now you are probably thinking "Damn that is mean." Your right, it is.



We told her that if she could maintain straight A's for an entire school year we would buy her a laptop that has never been owned by anyone else. Would even let her help customize it and everything. Her progress report came in a few weeks back and it was promising. Mostly A's and a few C's. She said she was striving really hard to bring those C's up. Cool we are on track!!



So imagine my surprise when I got her report card in the mail and it contained 1 single A.. The rest was a variety of other grades... To include 2 F's.



So I feel that question I asked her tonight was justified. I thought her advisory teacher was going to crap his pants. He looked at me and shook his head; I didn't tolerate it at all either.

I immediately informed her, once again and him, that her grades dictate her social life.



He has offered to help tutor her in math any night of the week that she can stay after school for it. He has also offered to help find her tutors in the other subjects she is faltering in.



I love my child dearly; I want her to be successful. I care deeply about her education and I am involved. I am about to break out the "tough love" approach to things if she does not start tracking correctly. There are no excuses in this, there can only be honest hard work to help her now.



Wish her luck, she is going to need it and yes she will read this post of mine eventually.



She really is a good kid and I have great faith in her. Lets hope she pulls her head out of wherever it is and starts to focus on where it needs to be.



Stay tuned... Tomorrow is The Boy’s middle school Parent Teacher Conferences. :D Wish the teachers luck, I have issues to discuss with them. I will start with the damn video arcade in the lunch room, with change machine that takes 1’s and 5’s.

The strength of a volunteer.
01:15 Nov 09 2008
Times Read: 748

Let me tell you about Camilla.

Blond hair, toned skin, infectious smile.

She is one of my new volunteer office assistants and I adore her.

Quick to wit and her laugh is just magnificent.

I was going over the procedures of the office with her, the safety brief and so forth and I paused for a moment. I said “Now for the most important part. We all have bad days from time to time and we all have things we do. We are here as volunteers, but this is the point I have to stress more then anything else here in the office. When answering the phone please be professional and respectful to the people on the line. If you can’t help them then please take a message or direct the call to the right person. Don’t guess, its ok to not know how to help them. They will appreciate you more if you’re honest with them and pass on a message.”

I will not forget the look on her face as she thought for a moment and then said. “You have got to be kidding me?” I assured her that I was not kidding. She responded with “That is just common sense. Who is going to answer a phone for a business with something less then professionalism?” I said to her “It happens. The important thing is to help the person on the other end as best as we can. No one is perfect but if you do not feel comfortable answering the phone, then let someone else get it or the machine get it.”

She said ok and we talked about it some more. I basically gave her the run down of another, former, unpaid staff member who monopolized the phone for personal use and treated the office like her personal stomping grounds.

Camilla nodded and wrote things down, took notes and I showed her where everything was. Wonderful, great, fantastic!

Then she got a serious look on her face, we where bonding and I knew it I could feel it too. I asked her is he was ok. She said she was just choosing her words. I said not a problem. After a moment she said, “I need to tell you something.” I said of course, anything.

She paused for a few more minutes and I smiled at her as I could see the internal struggle on her face, then she spoke. She told me of her recent medical troubles and my heart jumped into my throat. She had just undergone, on Oct 1st, a mastectomy. She is in stage three of breast cancer. I asked her how she was doing and she confided in me that she was scared. She said that she has a gene that predisposes her to cancer in the soft tissues of her body. I forget the name she said it was, forgive me… She said she had another Doctors appointment on the Friday after our introduction. I asked her to let me know how it goes, as she will be in my thoughts. She said she would, and then she told me the thing that struck me to my core. She is the parent of a 10-year-old son and the doctor has given her 5 years, she just moved here from another base with her husband and she only knows the people in our office now.

I didn’t even think, I simply stood up and thrust out my hand at her. She took it and looked at me and I said. “Hi, I am Denise, will you be my friend?” She started to cry. This woman who has been through so much in such a short period of time and she is crying. We hugged and composed ourselves then went about our things as others came into the office, I didn’t wish to draw unneeded attention to us.



This was week before last, fast forward to yesterday.



Camilla comes into the office and I greet her, she looks so very sad and depressed. I am immediately on edge and I pull her aside and ask her if she is ok, is there anything I can do? She started to cry and fell into my arms and just sobbed. Christine closed the office door and sat at her desk quietly, Ned got off the phone and waited with is grandfatherly patience.

She composed herself but I was already near tears, I could feel the anguish within her soul and then her words spilled out.

The cancer has spread and the doctor has retracted his statement of 5 years, he said it was too generous. She has to start Radiation therapy on an almost daily basis; she starts on the 13th of November. She was more concerned that we would be upset with her for not being able to come into the office, then with all that is going on with her. I have told her that her position is very firm and I look forward to when she can come back to the office and spread her quirkiness. That at least made her smile.

I know that I will not be able to come visit her home while she is undergoing this radiation stuff, but I have told her to tell her husband if he needs anything to call on my home and we will do what we can. I have told her, as has my husband, that we do not care what time it is, if she needs us to call us.

She will survive, that is the type of person she is.

So this is Camilla, one of my new volunteer office assistants, and I adore her for who she is and the strength she holds within her. She is a survivor and she is my friend.

Rating, Revenge Rating and Sentoran stuff.
16:52 Nov 03 2008
Times Read: 770

I have said it more then a few times already, please do try to understand, I will try to put it into words that are easier for you. I do not care what you rate me. Hell I probably wouldn't even have noticed what you rated me as I didn't check until you said something.



I simply do not care; it is not what I am here on VR for.



I do not click on the "see who has rated you" or "last 10" button often. It is really just not that important to me.



I am unsure how to make it any simpler for you. I do not care how many times you come back to my profile or portfolio. I do not care that you come back on a daily basis and rate me the same thing over and over. If this is just your way of getting my attention then by all means just send me a message, I will respond.



Oh and on the other side of this, if I have come to your page more then once it's probably because someone sent me a message and believed there was a violation of TOS on your page. I will go to all profiles that are reported to me and I will take a look. If I find what was being reported, and it violates TOS, I will suspend. If there is no violation then I will leave it alone. It does not mean I am out to get you or that I am "gunning for" you.



Yes I try and rate every profile I see on a daily basis, yes sometimes I forget to rate, no your world is not going to end.



Ok look the bottom line is this, you can rate me whatever you want too, I am cool with it. I am going to rate you whatever I want too, deal with it. If you harass me about it I am going to block you, it is that simple. I do not have the time or inclination to get into an argument with someone on the Internet about something that isn't important to me. Heck at best I may respond to your message with the following. "Thank you for the rate and your opinion, have a nice rest of your day." I have done it before and I will continue to do so.



If you do not like what I do as a Sentoran, there are many others you can go and talk too. It won't bother me one bit. If you feel that I have over stepped my position as a Sentoran and that I am absolutely "out to get you" then by all means please bypass the Sentorans completely and take it straight to Regent Joli. If she believes that I have done something wrong, trust me, she will tell me and then I will change what I am doing according to her guidance.



Now with all of that said…



Thank you for your time and enjoy the rest of your day.