Daniel--if you get the better job, quit the temp job. It's a temp job. They wouldn't hesitate to fuck you over if they suddenly didn't need you.

Or maybe I'm just in a bad mood because there is something seriously fucked up about the new glasses I just picked up, and it's not something hugely obvious like "everything I look at is blurry". It's just when I look at things not straight-on...

Take Meara's advise, if something better comes along jump ship, especially if it could turn into a permenent position. The second place I temped at (for only one day -- thank god) I was told I could leave early if I wanted, but I was being responsible and said no. I was told that no one had worked past noon, for some reason they always left and didn't come back.

After one day I found out why. MY GOD! It was horrible and disorganized. Blech.

Cereal to add:

My brand new computer has problems. I was having problems connecting to the internet and shutting down, I called HP for support and the first person pretty much said he couldn't help me and I wanted to talk to a manager. I got my computer at Best Buy and they only have a 14 day exchange/return period for computers and today was my 14th day. HP had some kind of 15 day thing. I was pissed off and wanted my money back so I could buy anything but a HP. I got disconnected, called again, and ended up talking to a nice lady.

The only helpful thing the first person told me was to run system recovery. Which I did. This made me angrier, because that's not something I sould have to do with my new computer.

However, things are working better, I've updated Norton, the spy ware, I'm running a program called Trend Micro that the HP lady suggested, my firewall is up. And I'm getting a call back tomorrow. If I have any further problems I'm going to contact HP and ask for my money back.n But right now the nice lady with the Canadian accent managed to sooth the raging beast within.

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Welcome, boys and girls! Today in Kristin's brain, we're going to learn all kinds of new things!

Some things we'll be very excited to learn...

Kristin, you gorgeous creature, the things I'm learning and re-learning for the current client are going to make things so much easier.

Some things we'll wish we learned before the first time we clogged the plumbing with rose petals and seaweed...

Oh! And if it has bits of stuff in it (flowers, petals, bits of cinnamon), you might want to put it into a knee-high that you don't want anymore. That way, when you throw it in the water, it fizzes etc., but the bits of stuff don't get all over, or in places they don't belong. (You DON'T want cinnamon bits near your bum. Trust me.)

And some things we'll learn after we've given ourselves an allergic reaction. Can you say "bubbly evil red belly ring reaction", boys and girls?

Surgical steel, often used in earring wires and advertised as hypo-allergenic, is NOT nickel free, usually containing 8% nickel. People with a slight nickel allergy may tolerate surgical steel earrings for a few hours or maybe even all day. But they may be so sensitive that even the buttons of their jeans cannot touch their skin.

Oy. Cass, you remember all that jewellery I was so excited to buy last week? I'm pretty sure I'm going to be asking if you want all of it.

If it helps, I'm gonna say yes.

Surgical steel, often used in earring wires and advertised as hypo-allergenic, is NOT nickel free, usually containing 8% nickel. People with a slight nickel allergy may tolerate surgical steel earrings for a few hours or maybe even all day. But they may be so sensitive that even the buttons of their jeans cannot touch their skin.

Oh yeah. And the amount of nickel varies a LOT by brand. Most Gap jeans I can wear without tucking in my shirt. Levis have me scratching a hole through my stomach within hours. And earrings? Forget about it. My current watch is the only one I've ever been able to tolerate with any metal on it, anywhere -- normally even the clasp makes me break out. (Stainless steel. Gotta love it.)

I bet you guys have people saying, "Oh, no. You can't be allergic to that." It's those people who tell me, "Oh, this wool's so soft. It can't bother you."

I once had a dog who was allergic to metal. She got these horrible sores on her neck and one vet just kept giving us ointment to put on them. Finally we took her to another vet who said, "Take off her collar. She's allergic to metal. It's actually pretty common." At that point the sores were so bad he had to shave off all the fur on her head to treat them, which in a large very furry dog looks really funny.

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Sweet Jesus. You were right. You were all right. LiltyNBathBombs4EVAH. I smell like yummy (Sweet orange and cognac, I think). And feel pretty. And there were little stars and silvery confetti, but I'm guessing that still doesn't make it the glitter one.

Is it normal to immediatly crave more and to want to go order them all right now so you can try each and every one? Am I going to need a 12 Step?

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I knew I was allergic to nickel, but I didn't have a clue it was in surgical steel.

My allergy seems to be mostly okay with surface contact, which is probably why I never noticed a correlation. I don't wear watches, and though I knew I had massive earring allergies, I somehow didn't connect that to surgical steel. I guess I assumed that my reaction was to "cheap" metals and assumed all the "hypo-allergenic" brands were actually surgical steel.

I put in a new belly ring a few days ago and have slowly developed a NASTY reaction, but since I had only recently gotten it re-stretched and had gone up a gauge, I wrote it off as a temporary reaction. Today, it finally occurred to me to google "surgical steel" and "allergy". DOH.

I now have ordered shiny new nickel-free belly jewellery from the UK, but I just ordered a bunch of pretty surgical steel things a few days ago. Argh. I'm hoping if they are completely unopened, I can still return them. Otherwise, Cass, they're yours.

I bet you guys have people saying, "Oh, no. You can't be allergic to that."

Oh, you bet. Because nickel is in so many "hypoallergenic" alloys, ergo I can't be reacting to that.

Necklaces are tricky too, because even if the chain is 14K gold, the clasp will most likely have nickel in it.