RETIRED: Target chit chat

Ugh... I am just uninspired by coupons/shopping right now. I think I will just roll with what I have and wait to order anything. Sad, huh?

So my son comes home with a letter from school. They are having a contest for BTFE. The family that collects the most boxtops for the year wins a 200.00 Target giftcard.

So if you have any extra, or know someone that does, please PM me. I'll trade you anything out of my house, including the extra testosterone and temper tantrums.

Just wait until we're all starving and SUPER cranky! I bet it'll be real fun then!

Ugh... I am just uninspired by coupons/shopping right now. I think I will just roll with what I have and wait to order anything. Sad, huh?

LTL, I applied for a cashier job at Target. Any tips or suggestions? How does the process work?

sorry to bring a very somber note a couple days late here, but i wanted to remember my friend David.

i wasn't home on 9/11 so didn't read the posts about the WTC until yesterday. there were some questions about what were people thinking and what they went thru. wanted to respond to the convo but it got retired and too much trouble to go back in there trying to quote. my mom was at work there that day and here's what she said about it in an online CNN interview-

On September 11, 2001, XXXXX had been at her desk on the 54th floor of the south tower for about an hour when the north tower was hit by a hijacked jetliner.

"The building shook, and I heard my coworkers yelling to get out, to run," she said.

Seated far from any window, XXXXX did not immediately grasp the magnitude of what had happened. Instead, she continued working until a coworker returning for her purse yelled at her. Looking up, XXXXX found the work area was nearly empty.

"She says, I better get out. I looked out the window and saw a lot of debris falling. It was in flames. I ran towards the door."

Then, realizing she had left her sneakers and pocketbook containing her asthma medication, she returned and grabbed them, then headed downstairs. This time, the emergency stairwell was lighted -- one of the changes the building had undergone after the 1993 attack.

Around the time she reached the 30th floor, the building shook again -- "a very hard thump."

"We hung on to the banisters and railings, because it really shook the building. It swayed," she said. Soon, the smell of jet fuel permeated the staircase, searing into her consciousness.

After she reached a church across the street she looked up. The north tower, where her company also had offices, was shrouded in smoke.

XXXXX decided it was time to go. When she reached Chinatown, several blocks north, she again looked up "and there was empty space where the World Trade Center was."

She made her way to a relative's apartment on the Lower East Side, where she was given a cup of tea and sat in front of a television to watch the events unfold.

It was not until that night, when a niece gave her a ride over the river, that she got back to Queens.

XXXXX said the catastrophes she has witnessed have changed her life.

"I will not put things off now," she said. She also resolved "to do more good deeds, in the sense that you think about your mortality. I wanted to be more positive, and leave a positive memory on other people."

Would she consider leaving New York?

"No. I just feel that one doesn't run away from one's problems, and I still feel that I can contribute," she said. "I can make the place better."

i had a very good friend, David, who worked on the 90-something floor of one of the buildings (new yorkers called them building 1 and 2. the media always calls them north and south so i don't know which is which, but i think my mom and friend worked in different buildings.). according to coworkers who did make it out, he went back to get his Wizard (early pda) and nothing was ever found of him except his work ID. it's really a small world. while we were putting together his memorial, i discovered we had been in the same saturday language class in first grade. we also had gone to the same high school but he was a grade ahead so we didn't know each other there though i remember seeing him many times.

my now ex-SIL worked in building #7 which was also damaged but she made it out. right afterwards i remember her being upset about her shoes and esp library books she had at work.

my life has definitely changed and is different now b/c my friend David is no longer here. by coincidence, his in-laws live a few miles away and when his wife visited her parents, we would always get together. the last time i saw him just 2-3 wks b4 9/11, they had come over to hang out a little and his wife was looking pregnant but they didn't say anything. i think they confirmed it and we were all excited for them and then he was gone.

i just want everyone to remember that life is so precious and way more valuable than any material goods and possessions.