Hello everyone, happy Sunday. I am so happy to see all the interaction going on here between everyone and I am not going to reply to each individual one directed to someone besides me, unless I want to add something, so just keep on doing what you're doing. I also don't expect responses to my posts unless it is something you really want to respond to. I am enjoying all of your posts and I'm sincerely grateful for your participation. Everyone have a great day and a wonderful week. :)

Amanda, Len is one of my liberal friends. (Yes some of my friends are Liberals) :) I'm glad to see you invited him to be friends. He lives on the east coast of Florida, whereas I live on the SW side, and he's always saying he lives in paradise because he lives on the beach. :)

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Hello Len,

Nice to meet you. I just invited you to be my friend.

Good quotes here and thanks for the share :)

Amanda

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Hi Evelyn,

Great idea on creating your own forum and I love the video you posted.

Here's my first post which was actually sent to me by Katrina Oakley

1. Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery.

2. Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent.

3. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.

4. Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.

5. Be forgiving of yourself and others.

6. Be generous.

7. Have a grateful heart.

8. Persistence, persistence, persistence.

9. Discipline yourself to save money on even the most modest salary.

10. Treat everyone you meet like you want to be treated.

11. Commit yourself to constant improvement.

12. Commit yourself to quality.

13. Understand that happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationship with people you love and respect.

14. Be loyal.

15. Be honest.

16. Be a self-starter.

17. Be decisive even it it means you'll sometimes be wrong.

18. Stop blaming others. Take responsibility for every area of your life.

19. Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.

20. Take good care of those you love.

21. Don't do anything that wouldn't make your Mom proud."

Mike as I read your story about your childhood it made me sad. There were five of us older ones when my two younger brothers came along, just 19 months apart, but us older ones thought they were the grandest things and really, we spoiled them. I don't ever remember any of us resenting them or not happy they were there. Being the oldest a lot of the duties in taking care of a baby fell to me and I think that is one of the reasons I miss my brother, that died in 2000, so much. He was more like my own child instead of a brother and I can still hear his voice when he would call me on the phone. When I answered the first thing he would say is "watcha doin". I can hear him saying that as if it were yesterday.

Mike I am keeping my fingers crossed in respect to your friend Karen Rechtzigel and I certainly hope this means better times are ahead for you and Shirley.

That is great that you've found a laptop for Shirley!!! They're handy, I bought one just to have when I'm traveling, but I much prefer my desktop but then I'm able to sit at my desk and use it.

Have a wonderful day and thanks for sharing with us. :)

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Hi Mary Evelyn,
Thank you. I was the youngest of ten children. My sister Irma had told me once that there were supposed to be thirteen, but my mother had three miscarriages. She wouldn't tell me if I was one of them however. Irma was the youngest to me being six years older than I. I was always pushed aside, not able to do things with them because I was just in the way. I always felt like an only unwanted child. I loved my parents and my brothers and sisters but could never understand why they didn't want me around. I did not want to be better than them. I didn't even want to be as good as them. The only thing that I wanted was to belong. Therefore, I went through life with the attitude that if someone liked me, it made me feel good, but if someone did not like me, that was alright also. None of us can always have our own way, so we just have to make the best of what we do have.

Now, for a more pleasant subject. It turns out that the person that our friend Karen Rechtzigel introduced to us had a big part in the Star Search T.V. Show with Ed McMahn. When I told him that Shirley and I had put together about four Showcase Your Talent Shows in the Indianapolis area he laughed and said, "Your not finished yet. I am going to send you all the materials." Not sure quite what he meant by that. Along the same lines I received a call this evening from a young mad who lives in Indianapolis. He sings R&B and wants us to promote him. When I told him what we charged he said "No problem."

When we were discussing putting together an AdlandPro Community help line, several people suggested Craig's List and Free cycle. Although I still want to put the community one together, there is an item that I have wanted. You see, Shirley's birthday is January 24th and as she is not able to sit at the computer for any length of time, I have been wanting to get her a Laptop so that she can still be online in comfort. I put an ad on Craigslist but listed it in the wrong category and it got flagged. Therefore, I put the same wanted ad on Freecycle saying that I will walk to wherever it is to get it. I received a response this evening. The person said that he got a new Laptop for Christmas and is willing to give us his old one that is in real good condition and as soon as I got back in touch with him with directions he will bring it over. So, even though things are a bit rough it looks like some things are starting to to turn around for the better. Believe in yourself, believe in forgiveness, and believe in GOD and your whole life will be much better.

GOD BLESS YOU
~Mike~

Hi Evelyn & All,

I'm posting this here cos it started in your thread and if you have any problems with it feel free to delete this post.

Last week I posted about Karen G's habit of posting and deleting and in the process complaining that she is being mistreated. To my surprise Karen sent me a PM and I replied to it and she answered with a "Thanks".

To my surprise while checking the post history today I saw that Karen posted my reply to her via PM and I answered her post which she deleted and then went on to post again with a jumbled diatribe in all caps to which I replied as well. She'll most probably delete my last reply as she did the first. I decided to post the whole story here which will include her initial PM to me. I don't normally post PMs since it is a private correspondence and also against the TOS of AdlandPro but since she posted my reply without posting her PM to me it all should be out in public.

Here are the PMs between Karen and myself:

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karen gigikos / black belt grannyHobbies

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Peter Fogel
Babylon 7

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karen gigikos / black belt grannyHobbies

I thought the issue was closed but today she started a public confrontation for no logical reason. Hmmmmm, looking for logic and reason might be to much to ask of her.


Sorry i will not be posting any more song this person feels he know a lot about music AND HAS SAID THIS TO ME
Hello Karen,

Yes I have been to your threads and listened to some of the videos (have you ever been to mine? (rofl) ) . I happen to love music and most of the songs I listened to in your threads actually offended my sensibilities and ear drums. Aside from Luis Miguel and Roger MacDivitt who are quite good the rest can barely carry a tune and are off tune most of the time. The worst part is everybody lying and saying how great it is. So I visit only when Luis or Roger post a song cos I quite enjoy them.

If people have fun doing what they're doing in your threads and Mike's then it's fine and dandy for you all but don't expect others to be constant visitors with the poor quality of music there.

I didn't post in order to hurt anyone's feelings but to express my surprise at your unjustified complaints and almost immediate deletions. Your complaints showed that it is all about you but that's your right to feel that way but don't expect others to play the pity me game with you.

Pauline asked you to keep the threads going??? And that's the only reason you kept them going? Sounds like a very weak excuse to me especially when you consider the volume of songs you post there all the time.

You haven't caused me any trouble at all Karen. I was simply amazed at your lack of consistency with posting and deleting all the time.

Shalom,

Peter FOGEL


My reply was as follows (which she deleted but left her post up):

Karen,

I have two things to say about your quoted post below.

1. It's against the TOS of AdlandPro to post private communications (PMs) with out the approval of the person with whom you're having the exchange.

2. But, if you decided to break the rules at least be intellectually honest and post your initial jumbled PM to me so people will understand why I said what I said.

Oooooooops, I shouldn't have used the word intellect in regard to you. Sorry about that.

Shalom,

Peter

P.S. Since you are well known for deleting I'll be making a copy of this post along with your post.

And then this jumbled diatribe by Karen:

PETER YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT SING SNAP . FIRST SONGS I SING ARE ,ALL DIFFERENT WAYS WHEN YOU ARE IN CONTEST THEY TELL YOU HOW TO SING AND WHAT TO DO . THEY CAN BE FUNNY FLAT. WITH SOMEONE ELSE ALL DIFFERENT WAYS. THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE ON THERE THAT CAN REALLY SING . AND TO BE THERE JUDGE ! IS REALLY SOMETHING . CAN YOU EVEN SING . THEY SING WITH THE TOOLS THAT SING SNAP GIVE US TO SING WITH . I FEEL THEY DO PRETTY GOOD. YOU HAD NO REASON TO COME DOWN ON ME AND BE MISTER KNOW IT ALL. YOU NEED TO KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT WHEN YOU KNOW NOTING THAT IS HAPPEN. DONT WORRY THERE WILL BE NO MORE SINGING ON HERE SINCE YOU ARE THE EXPERT. BET SING SNAP WOULD LOVE TO HERE HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT LOT OF THERE SINGER. IT HAPPENS THE OWNER OF THE COMPANY COMES UP WITH LOTS OF THE WAYS TO SING SONGS. AND I DO HAVE ALOT OF TROPHYS FOR SING SO GET OVER YOUR SELF MISTER KNOW IT ALL .BET YOUR WIFE HAS PROBLEMS WITH YOU AND THE WAY YOU ACT. KAREN

My reply which hasn't been deleted ............yet. :)

Karen,

Your all caps do not impress me in the least nor does your jumbled post, bad grammar and spelling.

I like music and can tell when a person is off key and off tune. One doesn't have to know squat about singsnap to tell the difference between good music and bad. The fact that I find your singing to be in that category is nothing personal just my opinion.

Your reason for starting a confrontation here is not clear to me. When you send a PM and get a reply via PM even if there are disagreements it's between the 2 of us alone. You chose to publicize this and again your reasoning is not clear but neither are your rambling posts and PMs.

I'll carry on singing in the confines of my home and shower and you can carry on inflicting your off tune and off key music to the public at large.

I won't respond to any more of your diatribes cos it's simply not worth the effort replying to your gibberish.

Shalom,

Peter

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Hi Mike,

I saw your post in the forum history (yesterday?) about "King of the Road" but I didn't stop to listen to it, even though it's one of my favorite songs, I really like the versions by Roger Miller AND The Proclaimers (the bain of Roger MacDivitt's existence...LOL! He can't stand The Proclaimers' Scottish accent!) I should try to make an effort to listen to more ALP members who do Singsnap.