Could you date someone who never, ever, threw anything away?

• Yes, junk is cool
• No
• I don't know

this question is a good one to think on, but the answers i could care less for. it should have been just a simple yes, no, or i dont know. I answered yes, not because I think junk is cool, but because I have dated and lived with quite a few pack rats, and i know its not always a contious decision to keep objects. Pack rattery is seeing something and realizeing you may have uses for it later, for something, so you keep it, and then things begin to pile up. Being a pack rat is okay, so long as every once an a while you look around and realize that some of the stuff has got to go to make way for new things.

This morning has been all kinds of fun for me. I had to help Master load Otis in
to his carrier box....I feel like such a bad person for it too. Last night we
pampered him, spending more time then usual, and this morning the looks he was
giving us just made my heart ache. In the short amount of time that I have lived
here Otis has pretty much become my cat as much as he is my Masters. I really
hope that everything goes well at the vet. I did however get my first feedback
on a journal entry (goes all wild with scarstic enthusiasm). Doesnt really
matter to me, I just forgot to turn off the comment area, but I'm not going to
delete it. I made a comment about not capitalizeing the e in easter, and I said
that I didnt do it because I am not religious. I have been told that it should
be done not for religious reasons, but because it is a proper noun. I should
in fact have said that I do not capatalize the e in easter because I do not care
for its religous meanings, and there for even though it is a title of a important
day for many people, to me, by leaveing the e undercase, I there for, in my mind,
make it a day like any other. Let me thank the person who brought this to my
attention, and also tell him yes, it may have been a waste of 30 seconds or so,
but it was nice to have someone voice their oppion about something and not go
with the main stream of people today,for not complaining about my other bad
spelling and grammer, and also thank the person for not ranting on a religous
nature, obvously this person has consideration for others (bows and smiles) my
humblest thanks to you. Hell, maybe I'll start leaveing it open for more comments
not like it could hurt anything, might even get a few positive feed back
posts. Might be fun.
SSC
Tia

Well easter is now over, and things are back to "normal" or as normal as they can
get around here. I know I'm suppost to capatilize the e in easter, but being that
I'm not religous Im not going to worry about it too much. This was the first in
a long time easter that my family actually did something and thats mostly because
my father decided he wanted to see everyone in one place for a change, and not
have to wait for christmas. My mother, father and brother were all in the same
house and not fighting or argueing for almost three days, I was truely in shock.
This is because my mother and father have been devorced for about eight years now
and my little brother and my mother never got along untill he moved out of the
house. But it turned out to be rather nice, it was quiet and every one got along
for a change. My Master went with me and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves.
Now that its all over, today was my first day back at work after a nice long
four day escape. It wasnt nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be, its
still really slow right now for the whole camera sells and film development, but
thats okay. My customer who brought in the WWII photos came back and brought
more, these lucky enough were much easier to handle, far less on the dead people,
and more on the soldiers and people they had rescued. I still feel honored to
have been able to handle such a piece of history. I even had a chance to talk to
her about them this time and tell her how thankful I was that she had brought
them in and that I was able to help her. Its times like this that I am glad to
work where I do. On a sadder note, Otis, the cat my Master has had for years has
become ill and we are takeing him to the vet in the morning, we hope its nothing
too much (Otis is the pretty ginger tabby in the pic on my profile). Hopefully
everything goes well, and the world will go on spinning, and I'll go on sucking
air for another day.
SSC
Tia

I always thought that working in a photo lab would be great, that is untill I
actually did it. I can easily say that I dont mind it though, its never been so
bad that I have just utterly and completely hated my job, I like everyone else in
the world have days that they really dont want to be there though, and today was
one of them. It started as a good day, I went in knowing that I had a long weekend
comming up and that it was going to be a easy day with five of us there today, but
the first order of the day was going to be my undoing. I work the counter for
Wolf camera and so that means I take in orders, I do work on the kiosk, I sell
out the orders, I pretty much do anything except sell the cameras, I even work in
the lab when I'm needed so Im pretty rounded for the store. My first order was
a copy order, scanning prints to a CD. this is usually only done when a person
doesnt have the negatives anymore and we do it a lot for really old photos.
The photos were WWII, and not pretty in the slightest, I was so depressed by the
end of it all that i wanted to cry. there were photos of dead soldiers, there were
photos of the rescued jewish and others from the camps, and there were photos
of the dead, the not even buried, the bodies piled on carts, tossed into quickly
dug ditches. I felt sick by the time it was all over, but oddly enough I felt
very satisfied, I felt proud, I felt honored to have been able to hold those
photos for even the few minuets that I did and I got to touch a small bit of
history. I felt ashamed of how humans act, but I felt relieved that the Allies
won and were able to stop the atrocites that were happened. I felt something
that I have felt only a few times in my life, releaf that History is not going
to be forgotten so long as we have people who are not discusted by these things,
who are not going to throw away the horrable things that make us relieve what
happened to our people. I am glad that I had a chance to help that customer
and to see those photos. Yes they were depressing, but I would do it again if
I had the chance.

I added a new little statement into my profile last night and the affects are
just amazing. Before I added the statement I unfortunitly was receveing four
and five instent messages and about one "woo" a day, but now that I have said
that I am in a M/s relationship the attempts at contact have come to a stop.
I've been on all day today (I had the day off) and I havent had a single im.
Does it disturb people that much to think about BDSM relationships, and that
they are real. I know that such relationships are becomming more accepted, but
are still frowned apon like any other "non normal" relationship. I'm not unhappy
to no longer be receveing the annoying "hi" message in my im box, and to tell
the truth, I've never had it posted in my profile anywhere that I am looking for
a relationship, I just want to know why it bothers people so much. Im not talking
about the cutesy goth type master slave thing, those are just stupid, Im talking
about a perfectly sane relationship where there is a Dominent person leading the
relationship, and a submissive person following. BDSM isnt all just whips and
chains, its not all tie me up and spank my ass, its a loveing bond, its a
relationship with purpose, and its not that all control is given to a Dom or a
Master or what ever you want to call it in a relationship, its knowing you both
are in control and that the submissive can give up a little of it at anytime.
And Im not exactly a subbie or a slave, Im a sammy, I am in a relationship with
a loveing man who has control when hes with me, I still go to work, I still make
decisions, he and i still talk and share and enjoy eachother in other ways then
sex, but my purpose in this relationship is to make myself happy by makeing him
happy in any safe and legal way possable.
SSC,
Tia

Ok, Im going to complain about my job again for a minuet and how much I wish it
were a little easier of a deal, it would make things a whole hell of a lot
better. I work for Wolf/Ritz Camera, its called other things depending on where
in the US your from(Damn David Ritz, may his devil horns fall off). Anyone else
out there work in photo development or the such, sucks doesnt it....doesnt matter
how nice or how informative you are, if someones takeing a lousy fucking photo,
its your fault, (whiney voice) you didnt develop it right, why is it all graney
my cameras never done that before. If I have one more uppity little prissy
rich bitch tell me I didnt do it right, im going to tell them that they can do
it their own damn self. I could talk myself blue in the face to these people
about how light affects the turn out of the film, or how they were standing
too far from their subject for their flash to work, but all they know is to
pick up the stupid camera, point it where they "think" they want it to go, and
to press the little button on top. Whats really eating at me though is the people
who go and buy a digital camera, and then complain that they dont know how to work
it. I dont sell the cameras myself, and hell I dont even own a digital camera,
but I've listened to my sales associates sell the cameras and they go over every
thing from turning it on to turning it off, but still we get the customers who
come in and cant even take their memory cards out of the damned camera. And for
fucks sake, learn what a mega pixil is please, or atleast learn that if you have
a two mega pixil camera then its not going to get you a master piece 8x10 photo.
And for the people who take a photo that they were e-mailed and try to print it,
just know that the photo will not be printable, your going to end up with a
pixilated blob on a piece of photo paper. If you get a photo in your e-mail,
please, please just forget about haveing it printed and save all the people
who deal with this on a every day basis the trouble of trying to explain the
reasons behind it. We dont make enough to listen to the bitching of the tiny minded
people. (My rants a little longer then i thought it would be, thank you for
listening.)For those of you who listen and go to the classes that are offered,
for those few wonderful people who know how to use a camera, even if it just a
little point and shoot, who ask intelligent questions and show that there is a
hope yet for the photo industry we (i mean everyone who works for a photo lab)
thank you greatly.
SSC
Tia

I've never bothered with a journal before, but with the day I just had the best
thing is probibly to write something down. Ever had a couple months seem like a year...
For the first time in my life I did, and between the bad drivers in Memphis, and
the rush to get the things that had to be done today finnished, I had the joy of
going to have the one thing that most women in the world truely enjoy (note the
sarcasm) I had to go have my anual done, or so I thought. After running out of my
appartment at the time i was suppost to be in my appointment, driveing like the
rest of the Memphians (I do that when im in a hurry), and parking just past a
no parking sign (thank god I didnt get a ticket, or worse towed). I ran two blocks
to the building and made it fifteen minuets after, and after waiting about a hour
and a half, I get to find out, its almost another two months before my anual
check up is due! Why in the world cant they just look the damned thing up, I mean
the only reason I go to that office is to get the anual done. Can't they just pull
up my chart and find out when the last time I was in was, then save me the time,
the gas, and the energy that was expended? When did people become so dissatisfied
with their jobs that the simplest task becomes a dreaded chore? I can't say that
I'm thrilled with the job I have now, but I can say that I do it to the fullest
and that the ONLY times that do my job begrudgingly is when my customers are
disrespecting me or the rules of my store, which are clearly posted. Maybe I'm
just a freek, but I just had to get that all out.
SSC,
Tia