I am Mad as H-E-Double Hockey Sticks and I'm not Going to Take This Anymore!!

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

I realize we are not supposed to bring up old grudges on DoodleKisses, but I can’t stay silent any longer.  Things have been building up in me for a while now and I need to get some things off my chest.  The other night I was catching up on old episodes of Jersey Shore just minding my own business when I noticed I had a message in my inbox on DK from Sheila and Finnley.  Imagine my surprise when I opened it only to see that Sheila was calling me out on a picture I had posted in the Photography February assignment. 

Sure, she used those squiggles she is fond of, a heart, and a cute winky guy to soften the blow, but basically she wanted me to know that the picture I thought I was posting of an owl was really an osprey. She even went on to put water hawk in parentheses after osprey like I wouldn’t know that an osprey was a bird.  Well, I was stunned and right away went in and read the message to my husband and said, “How dare she imply my picture is wrong. Doesn’t she know I am a rapture expert?”  He just looked up from his IPad and said, “Since when? We have been married 34 years and I have never experienced any rapture.”  Sometimes, I get so tired of explaining things to him, so I just told him nicely I was talking about birds of prey, duh! 

 

Sheila went on and on and on in her message and she wanted me to know that my bird had too small of a head to be an owl and then she wrote, and I quote, owls have BIG, furry feet.  I guess I was most shocked that she didn’t add one of her goofy pictures of someone with big, furry feet wearing Velcro sandals to make her point followed by another winky face.

HELLO…we all know that she was talking about my feet and I don’t like it one bit. Well, to make Sheila happy I went to the picture I had posted and added a disclaimer that the owl was an osprey and sure enough F chimed in that she didn’t know what the bird was, but she knew it wasn’t an owl.  I felt like I had been sucked into a full-blown Birdgate, with no way out.  To make matters worse, to placate Sheila I told her she was a big headed I would not rest until I could post a picture of an owl to shut her up make her happy.  I told her I would search every day for a big headed bird and Cheryl and Finnegan told me to try looking on Sesame Street and Sheila posted and I quote again, Ha ha Cheryl, big headed, BUT not yellow! :) Don't confuse her!  

Hey Sheila, Is this an owl????

If this isn’t someone insulting someone’s intelligence on the open forum, well then I don’t know what is and I demand something be done.  Sheila is breaking all the DK rules and getting away with it.

 

It isn’t just the owl/osprey thing that has gotten my dander up, but a while back I posted a blog and referred to knee high pantyhose and Margaret (and Pebbles) still brings it up when I hear from her that there is no such thing as knee high panty hose. 

Margaret, Take a look at these:

People, I work for free and my staff of fact checkers quit because they said the job was too hard.  Oh, and there is more.  F posted about needing a protective cover for her dog’s wound and I nicely posted a picture of Fudge in her “gators,” to give F another option and it wasn’t long and Karen told me I spelled gator wrong, and it should be gaiters. 

WTD  I will have you know I attended Lutheran school for years and there are two things Lutherans do well, 1) Spell and 2) Memorize.  I used to be able to recite all the books of the Bible in record time and we had races to see who could do it the fastest.  I don’t remember winning, but I am sure I was phenomenal, and look at that big word I just spelled!  It also seemed like we had spelling bees every day and I was good at spelling.  Since I don’t make spelling misteaks, I would like to explain why I spelled it g-a-t-o-r-s.  Even though I have never been to Florida and know nothing about the University of Florida, and I’m not a huge supporter of the Florida Gators, I still decided to change up my spelling for a cute, little twist.  Rather than assume I can’t spell, I would appreciate the benefit of the doubt in the future.  I know it was an honest misteak, but I thought you should know.

I should have tapped into my blog/discussion/comment budget and purchased a pair of these socks to avoid confusion!  My misteak!

 

If that wasn’t all enough to prove my point, Lisa (and Daisy) just gave me instructions for using my dehydrator and here is what she said, Laurie, the dehydrator is EASY, cut thin slices place them on the trays and turn it on....of course it needs to come out of the box first. LOL.  The only reason I can come up with for this sarcastic hit again to my brain power is because she was so busy at work NOT and she had to rush to respond with her comment because her boss walked into the room and she had to look like she was actually working.

This is what Lisa looks like at work when she isn't on DK :)

The final straw, though, happened yesterday morning during a game of WWF with Joanne (and Spud).  It seems that F can play words like hadj and qat, but as soon as I played dhobi, Joanne all but accused me of being too dumb to know that word.  I told her that my daughter had been to India, but I could feel her across the Internet shaking her head.  It doesn’t matter, because I know for a fact that dhobi is an Indian word short for Dhobiman Pinscher and my dog sitter has one named Ajax and Fudge and Vern love him.  Case closed!

Two Beautiful Dhobiman PInschers!

At some point, I have been expecting Adina to close down some of these discussions and come to my defense, but so far it has not happened.  I understand that Adina is very busy, but she has met me and can protest to the fact that I am very, very smart.  Does anyone know who else I can complain to get this harassment stopped?  Adina, Is Natalie available to sort this mess out?  Clark?? I thought about JD, but Karen is involved! Wait a minute, I think I just thought of someone.

[F, Calla & Luca]

Sorry. JK but you did set yourself up. The world would be a lesser place without you.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

I would expect nothing less from you :) Thank you, F!!

[Lisa, Daisy & Dexter]

Darn it, I was WORKING and did not see this post until today!

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

OMD...talk about beating a dead horse :)

[Lisa, Daisy & Dexter]

LOL,

Truthfully, the store is closing and I will be UNEMPLOYED in two weeks!

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

Lisa, I am so sorry.  I've been there a few times and it is never easy.  But, remember to relax and enjoy free time while you have it because there will always be another job

[Lisa, Daisy & Dexter]

I really am fine, been there 21 years but two owners, first owner was a better businessman. I have had a couple of months to realize but it was official yesterday. Thanks Joanne for your kind words.

I have never been unemployed nor collected unemployment...I think I might like it for a short while.

[F, Calla & Luca]

Oh Lisa, what you feared has come true. I am sorry to hear that you and Daisy have lost your jobs. I hope you enjoy some time off while you decide what's next.

[Lisa, Daisy & Dexter]

Thanks F, it truly will be different.

My DH says, this will be good honey, new beginnings whatever you chose to do, but you can't be gone 40 hours now that we have Daisy. Now if only my DD would get busy with my Grandbaby order.

[Camilla and Darwin]

Sorry to hear this, but I echo what the others have said. Enjoy your time off, perhaps by doing a road trip to Utah... :-)

[Lisa, Daisy & Dexter]

Thanks Camilla, that would be awesome....first I get to sleep in for a while though. Actually the possibilities are endless.

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

I'm so sorry Lisa.  I'm hoping you find something that you really want to do....till then I hope you and Daisy can take some time for yourselves.