Category: marriage
12/01/08 01:45 - 41ºF - ID#46906
Valuable Wedding Rings
I feel like a wedding ring should carry more of a investment than say an mp3 player or cell phone because it shows that the person purchasing worked hard for it and frankly working hard for something equates caring to me.
I am not saying that someone who is poor should have to spend $5000 and go broke, that is ridiculous. And in reference to (e:thelli) I am definately not suggesting it need be diamonds. In fact I don't really like diamonds - I am an emerald guy, lol. But in my opinion it should be somewhat relative to your income and should involve a bit of saving up. Even someone at minimum wage could save $10 a week for one year and get me a $500 ring. Thats like barely a couple beers.
Plus, more valuable rings also appreciate in value over time so that they become things that you can put in your will and pass on to other people.
Now (e:matthew) says he wants this one
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Category: health
12/01/08 12:30 - 41ºF - ID#46904
Soar Throat
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: food
12/01/08 12:14 - 35ºF - ID#46898
Baking Meringue Cookies
Here is my recipe:
3 large egg whites
1.5 cups of blended sugar
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
Separate out the wegg white. I did this by poking holes in the eggs and letting the whites pour out. It works way better than you would expect.
The bacon grease in the background was from this morning and is being saved for the squirrels who love it. I figure why waste it?
Then take the sugar and put it in the blendar till it is powerdery. Preheat the over to 200 degrees. You could probably start with powdered sugar but I wanted it organic and there was no powdered organic sugar.
Then whisk the eggs white till frothy and then add the cream of tartar. Beat until the peaks are stiff. Then add suagr and continue beating until it is stiff again. I am good at beating things till stiff but my arms were so tired from this we had to keep switching off between the three of us. I refuse to buy more appliances so I use the manual beaters and whisk for stuff.
Then you scoop them onto trays and bake for like two hours. Yes, like two hours. It is insane but you have to bake it so low.
Totally unrelated
Yesterday, at the coop I noticed Guecios deleviering produce. I really should just go there instead. I mean seriously it can only be marked up, not discounted, for them to drive it down the street.
I also bought a turkey at the coop. They were liek $70 for natural ones before but the day after thankgiving they were like $15-$20. I figured they would still be there when I went back today but they were all gone except one which was in the freezer case. I bought it. For $16 we will have enough turkey for the three of us to eat for a week. I just wish it wasn't frozen so I could have cooked it today.
Today, we were at the tenants house scrapping the kitchen ceiling when I was looking at myself in the new bathrrom mirror which lets you see your profile easily. I was amazed at the shape of my ear, which is stunted I feel. I never noticed it before when looking at it from a normal reflection.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: estrip
11/30/08 11:38 - 34ºF - ID#46890
Hit me baby one more time.
But on Novemeber 21st, 2008 we had like 10,000 unqiue visitors, that was the day we had ip to 500 guests at a time for most of the day. I thought (e:imk2,46778)'s journal about prince william's peter, lol.
Then today I was going through logs and found out it was the opening page of my journal of 11/2005 . I am not sure exactly why. There is a pic of my skinny arm getting some muscles, a painting of men wrestling, some forrest lawn pics, some flash animation, the story about me getting my job at Roswell and some pics of (e:lilho). I wonder if the job story is inspirational, lol or if it is just the wrestlers. The artist in me likes to think it is the flash animations and I am sure (e:lilho) thinks it is her.
The reason I think it is the painting of the guys wrestling is that I got this message the same day.
Hi Paul, please do You know the name of the artist who painted those two muscle guys? I really liked that painting: it Seems taken from Dante's Divina Commedia. Do You remember any detail (where You've taken the picture, the title, ecc). I would like to find more info on that painting.
Thank You very much
Stefano
Does anyone know the artist? I tried writing to the guy today to see how he knew. It seems sex sells. The all around most popular page is the one I wrote about a bot I made which was downloading images of amateur naked men and atheletes. Just search for "robot frat boys" on google if you are curious. It comes up number one and is totally not work safe. It was really about programming and usually no one cares about that but mix programming and nudity and all of a sudden every amateur scripter cares.
I must get like 5 messages a week asking me how it works. Clearly, this person does not understand at all but hey want to. The site is gone now, so the code doesn't work even if executed outside a browser where it belongs.
I Fould your page instestedin "Robot Eating Candid Frat Boys"
im curious how I use The Robot Code with a Brouser in order to find photos like you have
Thank you
Kyle
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: computers
11/29/08 11:41 - 30ºF - ID#46886
Open Source IDE eclipse
Today I developed my first plugin using eclipse PDE (Plug-in Development Environment)
I wish I had something more exciting to say, lol.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: pics
11/28/08 03:41 - ID#46874
Playing house with soup
Here I am winning balderdash but (e:mike) refused to let me have the moment and get a pic of it.
He defined the acronym NALG as the National Alliance of Latino Gangs but his handwriting definately reads National Alliance of Latino Gays. Needless to say no one voted for it.
Here I am being a snowman in 1995 at Michael's Florist on Deleware in Kenmore. At least that is not my job anymore.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: names
11/28/08 02:15 - ID#46871
Rich Visco
unless they are telling me I won something!
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: food
11/27/08 06:13 - ID#46861
Turkey yum yum
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: buffalo
11/27/08 12:55 - ID#46858
We need a ride down mainstreet
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: politics
11/25/08 06:21 - 38ºF - ID#46834
Thanks Chuck Schumer
Thank you for writing and sharing your thoughts about America's financial crisis. I agree with you that giving the Secretary of the Treasury authority over a $700 billion dollar fund to stabilize the financial system, without any checks on his authority, or oversight of his actions, would have been a grave mistake. However, the severity of this economic crisis forced the Congress to act in order to save Main Street from further financial pain. If we had not acted when we did, small businesses trying to fill orders and meet payroll, students looking to pay for college, consumers looking to buy cars and so many others would have faced even greater economic hardships, which would have been disastrous for household wealth and jobs in our country.
That is why I made the difficult decision to support the administration's rescue plan after insisting on changes to the program to ensure that taxpayers will share in the rewards of recovery, that executives of these mismanaged financial institutions would not be enriched with taxpayer money, and that there would be effective oversight of the program. When the economy recovers, taxpayers should be able to recoup most, or all, of this money because the federal government will earn a return from any investments it makes in banks needing assistance. To hold the banks' executives accountable, the bill requires that all companies that benefit from government assistance limit how much they pay their top employees and, in many cases, eliminate golden parachutes entirely. And to guarantee effective oversight of the rescue program, major oversight mechanisms were written into the legislation, including the creation of a new Inspector General and Congressional oversight panel.
Finally, we forced the Administration to add protections for homeowners into the bill that address the eye of the financial storm - the foreclosure crisis. Of course, this is only one part of a comprehensive solution needed to get our economy back on the right track. Congress stands ready to deliver a broad-based economic stimulus package to invest in Main Street, create new high-paying jobs, and keep the engine of our economy going.
Again, thank you for contacting me on this important issue. Please do not hesitate to contact me again if I can be of further assistance on this, or any other matter.
Sincerely,
Charles E. Schumer
United States Senator
Please do not respond to this email. To send another message please visit my website at . Thank you.
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a) Cheerios (yeah, its going to be tricky getting a one that fits that finger. Start sorting through boxes or bake one for me. hehehe)
OR
b) Sour jello-candy.
I won't accept any compromise deals. I want to eat the ring. Let's be completely clear on that! ;-)
When asked what I wanted, I requested small, sapphire, and inexpensive. Of course it is his prerogative regarding the engagement ring.
"It's $150". to which was replied "Do you think I'm a fucking asshole? What kind of man would I be to buy the woman I want to marry a $150 ring?!?"
oh, the struggles we have.....wow, I sound very obnoxious...really I'm just blessed.
The whole price thing is just retarded. Woman with huge real rings and huge fake boobs and big successful fake husbands have only one real thing, and that diamond won't keep her warm at night.
I don't care what anyone thinks when they look at my small get-the-magnifying-glass-out-ring that I'll eventually get, I'll know it's mine because I'm loved. That's all that matters.
I am fixing it.
My husband and I had very simple, unadorned 14K gold wedding bands. They were quite inexpensive (not $55 but close enough) and I did not want an engagement ring - it felt unnecessary to me (of course we were only engaged for a month before we got married). It was his commitment to me that I most valued not the symbol. I don’t think I could have ever found a ring that would have been a true reflection; everything â€" no matter the cost â€" would have seemed cheap in comparison.
One nice thing about the inexpensive rings - when my husband died, I buried his wedding ring with his ashes - and I can pretty much be sure no one would dig him up for it, nor did I feel any compulsion not to do it based on its (monetary) value.
Back to the point on rings. I do like rings but never really wear them and I have seen some cool looking rings for men not sure what rings for men look like but if they made them look like college rings or rings you get for winning some championship that would be pretty cool. But see with women the traditional rings look all the same mostly. Yes there are different sizes of diamonds. But unless you are up close you can't tell the difference. Not to mention if it is 14k or 24k gold it will look the same, if the diamond is worth 100 or 5000 bucks to the naked eye they look the same. What I think is more important is what the ring means. If two people met at The Lord of the Rings Then those rings with elfish writings on them is what you should get. To many people think that how much the ring costs is what makes it good or not, and that isn't true. Well unless of course that is what the relationship is built on, and a lot of them are so.... it makes sense that how much you spend equals how much you love to those people.
A wedding could be just as memorable and fun with kegs of beer, gallons of whiskey, and pizza. Save the small well drink, the dry chicken marsala, and the crushing debt. Seriously, how much alcohol and pizza could you get for $1,000? For the money people spend on tuxedos and dresses you could have a whole drunken orgy of a wedding.
Not to mention the whole evils of the diamond industry that the ridiculous demand for expensive engagement rings supports.
My husband paid very little for my engagement ring and I still thought it was too much. Lol.
Guys are easy though... our bands are modest and don't have to be super expensive. I can see what you mean though (e:paul) - I don't think you are hung up on the price of the item, but the value in terms of what it took to give it to you. I think there is room for compromise. Like you say, the ring doesn't have to be absurdly expensive. Especially for guys, since it isn't too hard to make a guy's wedding ring look cheaper the more you spend on it.
We demonstrate our commitment in other ways.