Pretend chat 2

Status
Not open for further replies.

sibi

Well-Known Member
10 Year Member!
Joined
Aug 23, 2012
Messages
6,486
Location (City and/or State)
Florida, USA
We posted at almost the same time. I was surprised to see your post come up first:p I hear you're the fixer-upper. Is that what you do with companies that are screwed up? If they are non-productive, you go in and straighten things out, or turn things around so they can be productive again?
 

Cowboy_Ken

Well-Known Member
10 Year Member!
Joined
Nov 18, 2011
Messages
17,560
Location (City and/or State)
Suburban-life in Salem, Oregon
Sibi, for the most part, yes. Normally, I'm able to spend quality time establishing an individual relationship with the various employees. Here, I came in to find bedrock, foundation type employees with one foot out the door.
Then, the overall company is something like a house you are trying to rebuild after a hurricane has hit it, and you have no idea what it looked like before, and you have no prints. You start with obvious things like kitchen sink and bathtub, then start sorting material to match with what were once the walls. The goal being to move a family in and everything being the way it needs to be for them.
I hope that wasn't too bizarre of an analogy.
 

CtTortoiseMom

New Member
5 Year Member
Joined
Jan 17, 2011
Messages
4,515
Location (City and/or State)
CT
I am going to post these pics and then I am going to catch up on what I missed and hopefully chat with you all!!
Rand had a hard two days and then miraculously, like someone flipped a switch he improved by leaps and bounds, here are the pics from late afternoon....
ImageUploadedByTortForum1376541222.045156.jpg
ImageUploadedByTortForum1376541232.879054.jpg
ImageUploadedByTortForum1376541244.720923.jpg
And he was able to stand!!! He still has his chest tube in and pacer wires so they can hook up the pacemaker if GE starts having funny rhythms but he will most likely get those out tomorrow morning! I have never seen Rob cry and I think he cried happy tears all afternoon to this evening. It was unbelievable. Understand, that since 1pm yesterday we have been waiting for any sign of our the boy we sent in to the operating room. Then finally almost 30 hours later,,there he was!!


ImageUploadedByTortForum1376541679.024748.jpg


Jacqui said:
Sibi that is a major step!! Yippers!! :) :) :) :) :)

I was gone to the TSA (Turtle Survival) symposium and gave a talk there. Then my laptop decided that any post in here I make should only be 6 words or less and no messages allowed in PM. Thought we fixed it and instead it came back. Today it seems to be acting normal once more (knocks on wooden head), except letters seem to be sticking or something.

There would not be room in Jeff's truck right now, as he has his old student and his current student both in the truck with him. :D

That is incredible! How did the talk go? We're there a lot of people there? Were you nervous? What specifically did you speak about? Did you bring any tortoises?


Cowboy_Ken said:
Sibi, for the most part, yes. Normally, I'm able to spend quality time establishing an individual relationship with the various employees. Here, I came in to find bedrock, foundation type employees with one foot out the door.
Then, the overall company is something like a house you are trying to rebuild after a hurricane has hit it, and you have no idea what it looked like before, and you have no prints. You start with obvious things like kitchen sink and bathtub, then start sorting material to match with what were once the walls. The goal being to move a family in and everything being the way it needs to be for them.
I hope that wasn't too bizarre of an analogy.

Yikes, makes sense to me and sounds like you have your work cut out for you!
I have every faith that if anyone can straighten them out, it's you!


Sibi, I'm glad your thumb is feeling better and I think the sling is smart because it also reminds you not to use it.

As always, thanks for the well wishes my friends!!

I'm up with a restless kid that likes to rip his pulse ox off of his toe and then alarms go off and the room fills with people and he looks at them all and sweetly says "it fell off".
 
Last edited by a moderator:

Jacqui

Wanna be raiser of Lemon Drop tortoises
Moderator
10 Year Member!
Joined
Aug 28, 2007
Messages
39,941
Location (City and/or State)
A Land Far Away...
Oh he is playing and eating!!!! What great sights to see!!! You guys must feel like a huge weight has been lifted.


CtTortoiseMom said:
That is incredible! How did the talk go? We're there a lot of people there? Were you nervous? What specifically did you speak about? Did you bring any tortoises?

I thought it went horribly others said t was good. My computer is ld so their new ones were snob and would not talk with mine. We knew it before I gave my talk, but we still had to link the two laptops together at the start, so it took some time and did not smoothly happen. Was I nervous.. no just petrified! :D Then after the issues a the start add in really embarrassed. We only had 15 mins, so I tried to make up my time loss by cutting out bits and pieces of my talk, which I would have liked to have shared. I talked about making outside enclosures for hingebacks and no live animals, just a lot of pictures. Now that it is over, I really want to do it again! :D


CtTortoiseMom said:
I'm up with a restless kid that likes to rip his pulse ox off of his toe and then alarms go off and the room fills with people and he looks at them all and sweetly says "it fell off".

:D I love this! :D :D


Ken, any reason they had not filled those old orders yet?
 

Kerryann

Well-Known Member
5 Year Member
Joined
Dec 31, 2011
Messages
5,230
Location (City and/or State)
West Bloomfield MI
Erin it's good to see he's feeling better. He is such a cutey. I had an enlarged heart and they can go back to normal size quickly since he is young and active it will help.
 

Kerryann

Well-Known Member
5 Year Member
Joined
Dec 31, 2011
Messages
5,230
Location (City and/or State)
West Bloomfield MI
Pantry invader struck again and she got sugar, sprinkles, frosting, honey, and decaf tea bags. Oy vey
 

sibi

Well-Known Member
10 Year Member!
Joined
Aug 23, 2012
Messages
6,486
Location (City and/or State)
Florida, USA
Oh my...those pics of Rand are precious. I'm so glad that he's improving because this had to be tough for everyone. Poor Rob...those were tears of joy, but believe me they were also tears of stress, fear, and all the emotions that one has but doesn't always express came all out then. It was a healing for him and I'm glad he got that out of his system. I'm beside myself with joy that Rand will be fine and you all will get back to being a normal family again.

I wanted to ask, Jacqui, how does one get to go and/or be part of TSA?

Kerryann, why didn't you need to get open heart surgery with an enlarged heart?

Cowboy, how the heck are you?:D


This can't be you. So, which dog went for the pantry?
Kerryann said:
Pantry invader struck again and she got sugar, sprinkles, frosting, honey, and decaf tea bags. Oy vey
 

Jacqui

Wanna be raiser of Lemon Drop tortoises
Moderator
10 Year Member!
Joined
Aug 28, 2007
Messages
39,941
Location (City and/or State)
A Land Far Away...
Sibi you can join the TSA. I can't recall the cost, but then you get a magazine yearly and emails quite often. The symposium is open to anybody I think, atleast all members an attend. Next year will be sorta in your neighborhood... Daytona.

Kerryann... the mouse is back?


Grandpa Turtle 144 said:
Hello and I' m a junky for sugar, sprinkles, frosting ,honey ,and decaf tea but don't tell nobody

I have a major weakness for frosting myself, especially homemade buttercream. :D
 

RosieRedfoot

Well-Known Member
5 Year Member
Joined
Jul 15, 2012
Messages
1,650
Location (City and/or State)
Columbia, SC
I love homemade buttercream. Or homemade cream cheese frosting on carrot cake or zucchini bread... Mmm

Last night I was awoken by a raging migraine but thankfully I don't have work today so I could easily sleep in and sleep it off.

It's 66 and raining here and everybody is freezing to death lol. Even my dogs curled up together after putting them outside for an hour.

Taken through the blinds/door otherwise they'd jump up. They've got such a cute bromance.

ImageUploadedByTortForum1376667112.922352.jpg

As for the new zookeeper person that moved into the area she's been messaging me back so that's good. If I start volunteering at the zoo she might be able to either let me help out more behind the scenes or at least put in a good word. :)

Well, off to go stock up on dog food since it's on a good sale!
 
Last edited by a moderator:

Jacqui

Wanna be raiser of Lemon Drop tortoises
Moderator
10 Year Member!
Joined
Aug 28, 2007
Messages
39,941
Location (City and/or State)
A Land Far Away...
Grandpa Turtle 144 said:
Jacqui I know where to find some frosting . You bring the wine . But I don't know white or red? :)

I have lots of whine I could bring... oh!!!! you want the wine that goes with cheese and apparently frosting. :D Seriously I am always the person who looks for the piece of cake with the thickest layer of frosting on it.
 

sibi

Well-Known Member
10 Year Member!
Joined
Aug 23, 2012
Messages
6,486
Location (City and/or State)
Florida, USA
Jacqui, that was so witty lol. Yeah, I've had a lot of that whine too.

So, is Grandpa turtle the name of your tort, or is that you? In other words, are you mail or female :p

And Jacqui, we would have to fight for the piece if we were in the same room where someone has a big chocolate cake with butter cream frosting. As far back as I can recall, I use to take cake and only eat the frosting. Never liked the cake much.

Kim, I've got to go visit you someday. You always mention some great foods and you actually bake them. Yummy. You must be a great cook!!!

Jacqui said:
Grandpa Turtle 144 said:
Jacqui I know where to find some frosting . You bring the wine . But I don't know white or red? :)

I have lots of whine I could bring... oh!!!! you want the wine that goes with cheese and apparently frosting. :D Seriously I am always the person who looks for the piece of cake with the thickest layer of frosting on it.
 

RosieRedfoot

Well-Known Member
5 Year Member
Joined
Jul 15, 2012
Messages
1,650
Location (City and/or State)
Columbia, SC
Well Sibi, you're only 2 states away! My boyfriend likes doing BBQ. Tonight he's making a spicy sweet BBQ asian style pork over steamed rice and I'm making crab rangoons with sweet and sour chili sauce. I went to the asian market and found they had powdered Thai iced tea blend from Thailand so I'm pretty excited for that as well.

I also found corn husks on sale so I can make tamales one of these days. I love eating food from all over the place, although I do love me some good American food like BBQ pulled pork, cornbread, sweet tea, coleslaw, and lemonade.

I got close to 190 pounds of dog food today for about $130 and freebie dog food samples/scoops. It was raining heavily when I left the store and some middle aged man helped load all the bags into my trunk for me. He was then standing by the entrance to avoid the rain holding a jumper cable so I asked if he needed a jump (his wife and kids were sitting in the car trying to call someone to come jump them). Since I was parked right next to him I offered a jump. Kind of funny that my little car is always the one helping jump large trucks/SUV's and it always happens to be in the rain. Was my good deed for the day, lol.
 

sibi

Well-Known Member
10 Year Member!
Joined
Aug 23, 2012
Messages
6,486
Location (City and/or State)
Florida, USA
Yes, that's a good deed, but just know that jumping trucks and suv's can damage your battery. But, hey, the guy helped you with the dog food. I would've done the same thing.

So, two states away...would it be north or west of me? Let me guess...umm...South Carolina? :p I think I can do that someday:D
 

RosieRedfoot

Well-Known Member
5 Year Member
Joined
Jul 15, 2012
Messages
1,650
Location (City and/or State)
Columbia, SC
I have a new battery that has a warranty so no worries.

Yep, north of you in South Carolina. Here's a picture of dinner:
ImageUploadedByTortForum1376695251.204287.jpg
 
Last edited by a moderator:

sibi

Well-Known Member
10 Year Member!
Joined
Aug 23, 2012
Messages
6,486
Location (City and/or State)
Florida, USA
Wow, Kim, that looks great! Hey, you're living up to your name Kim. Are you part Asian? Man, I'm at a restaurant ordering dinner and I am so hungry. I didn't need to see your dinner yet:p
 

Grandpa Turtle 144

Well-Known Member
5 Year Member
Joined
Apr 3, 2013
Messages
10,878
Ok Sibi I'm at work but I didn't know if white or red wine went with frosting but you had the right idea . And my grandkids say my name is grandpa and I'm well over 50 yrs. but I still think if you bring the wine we shouldn't admit we are the ones that are after her frosting
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

New Posts

Top