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first injury of the summer… o.k. little injury… hopefully the only injury of the summer.. i was walking so much on the treadmill… i got a blister… think it started out fairly small…. but then I kept trying to just put a band aide.. and keep going… never did anything about it.. and from the toe rubbing on the shoes… it went all raw.. and a bit infected.. and swollen… skyping my mom… she was ready to make me to go to an emergency room… i hate doctors and hospitals… and instead spent a day pouring hydrogen peroxide… and guess what? its actually getting better…. only draw back… is that i cant get on the treadmill for a few days.. but perhaps.. i can bike ride? or don’t know if the pool is a good idea.. ( not that I’ve really been swimming lately Ha!… but i remember loking at movies where people are stranded and have to do a tremendous amount of walking to try to get help…. i remember always thinking that cant really hurt that bad… or that that they should just wrap them up and keep moving… or the feet just look bad …… raw feet.. but now I’m thinking a bit differently …. they would really hurt.. and i hope this doesn’t happen again… even if its just a few toes…. HA!
With the latest buzz on lincked .. and their stock taking off… i went on Google today to see about one of my favorite services… SKYPE…. i honestly think everyone should have SKYPE.. and have ON STAR…HA! what great services… and what great businesses….. and by reading about the company… Skype.. I luv it even more! a Swedish company… I loved visiting Sweden and met the best people… made two friends ages ago from Sweden when i went to school in France.. Thomas and Claes… so i thought I’d post the info on the company…. but guess there ae no stock options… darn… and such a great company… oh well…..
Here is the info i am posting on skype…. just copied and pasted:
Hi all you Skype Pioneers!
Happy to tell you all that the service works great for me too!
Skype needs very little money which is the great thing about the company!
The financing so far has been achieved through only one outside
investor. The investor (known to date) is Draper Investment Company.,
established by American venture capitalist William H. Draper III.
I agree though that the company idea is just great
We all must realize that the way we can make money
from Skype is by using the service and tell our friends to use it too.
Over time we will save thousands of dollars.
Other interesting facts:
Skype is founded by Niklas Zennstrom from Sweden. The whole management
team is swedish. Sweden is also the home of Ericsson, the largest
manufacturer of mobile phone systems in the world. Zennstrom started his
career within the media conglomerate Kinnevik which operates a fixed
and a mobile phone network in Sweden, the rest of scandinavia and the
baltic states.
Through his work on the webportal Everyday.com, Zennstrom came in touch
with the brilliant estonian software developers that have developed
Skype. First they did it with KaZaa and now they do it with Skype!
Sweden, and particularly Stockholm, was (in the boom-days)called
“Wireless Valley”. The bubble, blew but it is still definitely a good
description of Stockholm and Sweden except it may have to be extended to
“Telecom valley” in order to fully reflect that the innovation such as
the worlds first cell-phone network and the knowledge to create Skype
was created in the swedish research environment.
*World no 1 acclaimed telco quality expertise
*Low-cost expertise
*Abundant access to expert resources since Ericsson has been cutting back in their workforce.
Just too bad that it had to be an american investor that put all the money into Skype…
Skype (or Skyper as originally called) was founded in july 2002 with the
company description: “Developing software focused on next generation
resource sharing for mobile communications”. The seed round of financing
was completed on Oct 2, 2002. Geoffrey Prentice is the one in charge of
financing issues.
I am afraid that that the Telcos (including Sweden’s Ericsson through
its traditional customers ) should be really shaken up by this TRULY
DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY!!!
Read the bestselling books of Harvard Professor Christensen and you know what I’m talking about.
Myself, I just love this kind of entrepreneurship!
Keep up the good work guys
Kick Mr Gates’ ass.
And for all of us: NEVER turn any P2P-service into a proprietary
platform that puts restraints on societal development. The success
depends, and only depends on the feeling of sharing! All you inventors
will get your monetary benefits anyway, trust me.
So that movie was on last night again… the one with a the karne kahel look alike… thought she was British heavier she has the same face oh and with red hair instead of blond hair… … same face as the little girl who stole my khaki cashmere sweater…
It was called the bad mother’s handbook.… the actress who actually played a woman named karen was: Catherine Tate
i copied and pasted the info… if your interested… I almost laugh at the irony…. life imitating art.. or art imitating life… i couldn’t watch most of the movie…especially when she played this horrid and mean person…who verbally abused and belittled her daughter…. her own daughter… uck… since it was on tv. I’m assuming that somehow she had this transformation and probably became this caring and thoughtful person.. .. but then not all televisions shows are anything like real life… right?
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The Bad Mother’s Handbook | |
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The Bad Mother’s Handbook DVD Cover |
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Genre | Comedy drama |
Starring | Catherine Tate Anne Reid Holly Grainger Robert Pattinson |
Music by | Mark Russell |
Country | United Kingdom |
Original channel | ITV |
Release date | February 19, 2007 |
Running time | 90 minutes |
The Bad Mother’s Handbook was a one-off television drama based on the best-selling novel: The Bad Mother’s Handbook by Kate Long. It was broadcast on ITV on 19 February 2007, starring Catherine Tate, Anne Reid, Holly Grainger and Robert Pattinson. According to BARB, the show received strong viewing figures of 6.09 million[1].
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The Bad Mother’s Handbook depicts the story of one year in the lives
of three women. In this television adaptation of Kate Long’s best
selling novel, Catherine Tate plays Karen, who is a frustrated woman in
her thirties whose whole life and identity are shattered when she
discovers a long-kept secret. Holly Grainger plays Karen’s clever and
hormonal teenage daughter Charlotte, while Anne Reid appears as Karen’s
mother, Nan, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s. Robert Pattinson is also
a supporting character as lovable yet nerdy, Daniel Gale. The movie
presents an insight into the life of motherhood and childhood, dwelling
on the themes that no two mothers are alike, but that ultimately love is
the most important thing of all.
Well… I just spent about an hour going through all my files for stories i had written for my cousin david… a bunch of the files were empty.. and the story i had written about an alternate ending for the movie the bachelorette … is gone..
I’m not sure if the reason so many of my files are gone is that they were saved in the old format.. or if there was another reason they disappeared… if there was a sinister reason for it… like the same reason my sor. date pictures were stolen.. or pictures of me backpacking in Europe were stolen…or any of the many other horrid experiences i have had to go though with girls stealing bits and pieces of my life…
maybe the same reason that my new hard drives says my files are saved in “mary jane” files instead of mary jean files… i mean do these girls really get away with pretending to be someone they are not? and why?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
either way.. what a horrid feeling to have have entire sections of your life gone…
did i mention i hate criminals.. imposters and thieves?…. well I definitely do… each and every time i find one more part of my life stolen. or each and every time i find out that one more piece of my possessions are ruined or stolen.. it hurts each and every time.. and causes trauma.. it isn’t easier …. I’m not being conditioned to accept that it is o.k. for crimes to be committed against me… it will never be o.k.… and it should never be o.k….. o.k. enough of me penning my thoughts on criminals and scummy wanna be girls….
there were a couple stories i wrote pertaining to the bachelor… i was hoping to just copy and paste… but i guess i have to rewrite the entire story…
The story started as a what if scenario… what if like in the movie( the bachelor) … the bachelor couldn’t find the love of his life..( the girl he eventually really wanted to marry)…. and so instead had to marry one of the alternates? So he could save his business.. and gain the money… from the inheritance promised by his grandfather? what might happen?
Well… here is one option:
yesterday… weird phone conversations last night planning today… but this morning was alright… i woke early… headed to Publix and bought a feast…. it was funny when i was checking out … over the loud speaker… when they play songs.. the store actually had playing that song by michael bubale… who sings the song on this website… the song about “Just haven’t met you yet” … isn’t that just a hoot… t it actually got e excited for a great day… and when i got home after a few chores.. i was on the treadmill… and played a ton of cd’s that I hadn’t heard in a long while.. its funny how you remember all the words to those old songs from college isn’t it?HA!
i actually saw a retired priest form st john’s catholic church… and when i bought the wick pick lotto and powerball tickets..Powerball is somewhere in the 2 hundred million…. i almost went over and asked him to bless them… but i didn’t have the nerve…
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for today’s meal… got lamb and chx. came home… make side salads.. then marinated the chix in the mustard and herbs provenance sauce… and made a lamb crusted herb coating for the lamb… had the asparagus. and potatoes… ready… and of course a b-day cake for my mom since there is a possibility that i may not get to see her for her b-day since she is going on a reunion for some of the Aramco housewives…. around her b-day…. and what was really weird the past few years.. is that i never get to actually speak to any family member on holidays and b-days.. probably for the past 8 years… and now everyone has celebrations on the wrong days…. for b-days… so i wanted to make sure she got a cake.. and a nice dinner.. and i guess i was hoping we could almost have another great day like we had when we got to watch movies all day.. and got to just have girl talk .. and to visit…. to have a friends to talk to .. to share memories..and to make great new memories… but especially got to laugh.. and be positive.. and to have a really nice day…
my entire life used to be filled with days like that… maybe i was just nieve not noticing if people cared or not… i guess i always cared so i assumed that everyone was authentic and genuine… i never saw if anyone had an agenda.. or was using me for a part in their own agenda…. or if they actually genuinely liked me.. or maybe i had people who actually reallly did like me.. loved me.. and enjoyed being my friend .. and hanging out… spending time with me and never looked at her watch to see when the time would have to be over… but then i guess someone like that isn’t a genuine friend right?
Have you ever noticed that so many people have their own agenda.. that there aren’t that many people who are selfless?… not just the ability to give presents.. or even give of time.. but to give truly of themselves.. to be totally honest… to be absolutely and completely in the moment able to really appreciate the moment… when your with family and friends… its such a pleasure to be able to be able to relax… know you have someone who is on your side.. so to speak.. to know you have someone who actually cares what you have to say.. what you really think about .. and to have real conversations about your interests and passions.. your thoughts.. and and are supportive of your hopes and dreams… and of your goals.. and would never belittle you or your life..
we ended up watching…. forgotten… kinda an upsetting movie in a way.. I thought my mom would have liked
talking about the movie… like when the freak( alien) was trying to take the very first memory from the mother the memory when she gave birth to her son…. so that she will never remember she ever had a son…. and how this experiment was all about erasing the bod a mother had for her children… and i guess in a way visa versa .. how a child had a bond with their parents..or family… what do you think? is that possible?… i don’t think a great and real, genuine, mother ever really would give up on finding their child.. of being great to their child… and would go to tremendous lengths to remember their child right?
just a thought but….
my mom was going to stay and watch the bachelorette… but left…
So… i have been trying to call my mother at 239-598-1515/ cell line: 239-821-5515 all day… i got a few emails and we were writing back and for the about seeing the last Oprah show… but no one is picking up the phone… and of course you cant Skype her since you have to call before skyping… Wierd… if she was there you’d think she would be able to pick up the phone if she could email… so i thought this might be a great time to actually put some weird parts of conversations these past few days..
she was supposed to get the phone fixed… and when talking to my “MOM” on the phone…
the cable was out today from sometime around 1pm… but only out for about a half hour ( maybe a bit longer since i was in the shower after being on the treadmill….
its not the cable… at least i don’t think that has been fixed… or altered.. since right this minute i called both my mom’s cell number and her home number and no one picked up on her home number but someone picked up on her cell… didn’t say anything for a minute oar two.. then hung up..
so lwt me tellyou what was said…onteh phone.. one time when i mentioned the two different lines for the phoen.. the woman/man boy or girl who was answering the phone said that they were goign to give me only this one line.. the line where only one business is on the voice mail…. i guess she gets to play GOD and decide who can speak to whom… even though she has no idea i am the original and real mary jean ziska…. but by her choosing this line where only one business exists.. then what… she is giving me a fake mom who doesn’t have a real estate lisc. and never wanted to have an etiquette school??? she also told me she was “GIVING ME” to the people in Bonita springs… what ever the hell that means… i don’t have any friends or family in Bonita springs… …is this goign to be the same grop of babysitters whohave been stealing jobs.. and decided that i shoudl have but one job for the entire month of may?? or is is some girl who couldn’t have possibly been my mother… who was one evenign when a renter named ron appeared at 9 pm.. said somemthing really woerd about her not messing around with Ron… about now being christian and about now being stronger???? my mother is in her 70’s …ha always been christian.. in fact is a devout catholic.. and the entire conversation made no sense at all… during that same conversation… the woman or girl.. also mentioned that she was closing all the blinds and “hiding out so no one would know she was there????
also this same person said that she was telling people that her daughter was moving in with her… when two of her daughters live in palm beach.. and i don’t live with her…. ?????
so when i was talking to this person the other day… she also mentioned osmethng about selling the silver… witch scared the shit out of me.. since… last summer someone mentioned that some of my mother’s hummels were stolen…. but then later when i went to go and check they were still in her home… I mean are these criminals not only messing with the phone lines to steal business.. but also stealing my possessions or my mother’s possessions from her home??????
i know there was a time last year when the oak table was being worked on by some guy Carols… and when it woas returned..i swear it looked just like stained plywood instead of this really expensive oak table that she has had since i was a child…
I’ve mentioned all along that i had people bulling me over the phone.. and no one did anything about it.. no one cared no one took me seriously that these people were criminals… and that it should have never happened… that it ruined my life.. and that someone shoudl be held liable for allthe loss and damages that have occurred by not only the negligence of the proper authorities for investigating.. and for stopping but mostly for the people who deliberately and purposefully lied , cheated committed fraud and many criminal acts by their actions.
i was also told over the phone about my mother’s will…. ( which she had drawn up in 1998.. in fact when she drew up the will she went over it with me and my sisters.. concerning her possessions.. her burial desires.. and even the songs they were to play at mass…
I also mentioned that at different times i have spoken to people on the phone who I knew weren’t the proper authorities.. a man who wanted to install a security system for thousands of dollars… a man who wanted to sell me a guard dog for thousands of dollars… the bullies.. and i don’t know if i mentioned the times when i had people want money for my family members.. i now don’t know if they ever got it… or if it was just con artists stealing and lying and cheating….. i had one weird person on the phone actually tel me one time they were in jail????? that was the same time when Gerard was supposed to have been put in jail.. or at least questioned for the death of his business partner… scary right… i thought it must have just been a joke.. ( boy again was i probably wrong…)
from the jobs and three businesses that these people have stolen… and manipulated.. and ruined.. and that is only the businesses i have been involved in.. to the wrong contacts for alarm people.. and contractors.. and even manipulating the incorrect people involved in my personal life.. this criminal activity has gone on long enough… and needs to be stopped.. and these criminals need to be put in jail!
I know at one point in time i had a roommate named James who supposedly worked with sprint… when we had land lines that were sprint… and i know i had asked a handy man named Chris who lives in Bonita springs… and worked for Ron Arther handy man service.. for help one time when the phone really seemed all messed up… He was actually the person who at one time told me not to call him when i wasn’t calling him…. and I’m assuming the phones were probably still messed up event after i used his phone to call and get the phones fixed…
so this is clearly a bad and messed up phone day.. and I’m not sure if i should email the police.. or what the proper protocol is to do to somehow get the phone line fixed… and have it stay fixed forever!!!!!!
i tried to call my old roommate Scott Renshaw at the only number i have for him( 940-627-2509) and he didn’t sound the same… higher pitched voice.. and a very fast way of speaking.. just exactly like the people i knew more like a young scott . like the one who wanted to date this blond girl named Kate… not really a Kate Harlow.. unless here is an older one available or like the Kate wilt.. but i know when I went on one job interview.. for the local interior designer named Lisa kahn.. it was almost like i was again being put out of the way…. so that … (how do put this).. so that these people ( like Karen kahel.. or others ) who didn’t want me to interfere with their personal manipulations of others.. or i guess the way they make plans… just so i wouldn’t be in the way… i dont know if at that point in time my home was broken into.. or not….
but the people on the phone these past few days… are not my friends.. or family…nor do they know probably anything about me… but somehow.. through their criminal activities.. they are allowed to manipulate my phone connections.. . Who is allowing anything of this again?????
the phone dial tone isn’t exactly right either.. at different times it has sounded like a rotary ph
one…
American Express Co. is pumping money and technology
into a fledgling company that wants consumers to pay for purchases by
using their mobile-phone number.
AmEx is expected to announce on
Wednesday that it is the lead investor in a $19 million financing for
Payfone Inc., a New York start-up that also is backed by the
venture-capital arms of Verizon Communications Inc. and Research In
Motion Ltd.
“The phone number is the most ubiquitous
identification in the world. Using that as a way to check out means it
can be used on a global basis,” said Rodger Desai, co-founder and chief
…
message from mary jean… does anyone have the rest of this article?
Google
Inc. is expected to disclose details about how consumers will be able
to make store purchases, redeem coupons, and get loyalty points by
waving smartphones in front of a small reader at the checkout counter,
said people familiar with the matter.
At an event Thursday in New York, the Web-search company is planning
to show off the technology, called near field communication, which is
embedded in newer smartphones powered by Google’s Android software and
that can help turn the devices into a kind of electronic wallet, these
people said.
The program will launch first in New York,
San Francisco, and potentially other locations, followed by a broader
rollout, said a person familiar with the matter. Participating retailers
include Macy’s Inc., American Eagle Outfitters Inc. and the Subway
fast-food chain, said a person familiar with the matter. Retailers that
participate in the program will have upgraded terminals at the point of
sale that can read the mobile devices and provide special offers.
A Google spokesman declined to comment. The
Wall Street Journal previously reported Google was working on a mobile
payments platform with credit card and financial companies such as Citigroup Inc. and MasterCard Inc., as well as retailers and hardware makers such as VeriFone Systems Inc. and ViVOtech Inc., which make credit card readers.
Bloomberg News earlier reported on the Google announcement planned for Thursday.
Many credit card readers allow people to pay or redeem digital
coupons by tapping their credit or debit card, but newer ones built by
those companies also let people pay through NFC, including by tapping or
waving their smartphones.
The Google payments platform will allow software developers to create
mobile applications, or apps, which take advantage of the technology.
For Google, the system could help boost its digital advertising
business. The planned payment system would allow Google to offer
retailers more data about their customers and help the retailers target
ads and discount offers to mobile-device users near their stores, these
people said. Google, which hopes to sell ads and discount offers to the
local merchants, isn’t expected to get a cut of the transaction fees.
In addition to receiving targeted ads or discount offers, users could
manage credit-card accounts and track spending, loyalty points and
other things through applications on their smartphones.
Many mobile app developers have said they could use NFC technology in
the future. For example, Pageonce Inc., which has a mobile app that
lets consumers control their finances and bills after they have
connected their bank and credit card accounts to the app, has said it
sees NFC as a useful technology for its users.
Users who are at a gas station could see that one of their credit
cards will give them 5% cash back on their gas purchase. The consumers
could choose to pay with that card and swipe their phone next to an
NFC-enabled credit card reader, if the gas station has one.
Google has already teamed up with smartphone maker Samsung
Electronics Co. to embed NFC technology into phones that use Google’s
Android software, while other hardware makers have said they would
follow. Google will also partner with wireless carrier Sprint Nextel Corp. to offer NFC technology to consumers in its network this year, said one person familiar with the matter.
The partnership with Google puts Sprint ahead of its competition. Isis, a joint venture between AT&T
Inc., Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA, to let users make payments and
redeem offers via their smartphones will not begin trials until
mid-2012.
The Google system will also face competition from players such as
Square Inc., which lets businesses accept credit card payments just by
attaching a small reader to a smartphone or tablet. Square said it will
give those businesses data on consumer-purchase behavior and let them
send offers to consumers’ mobile devices, among other things.
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