Bottoms Part 108
let it grow!
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Originally Posted by least 
I just wish I'd been the one to get chewed out for slowing down the checkout line... I'd have given his crabby ass something to 'chew on'. Mentally challenged people don't need his aggravation - that jerk! He deserves a big lump of coal in his stocking! Humph!
prolly could have at least given him a quick ho ho kick in the
though.me cranky. ha! padding not helping! ha! will go fold mr k's underwear load. ha! and then go round up all my batteries. ha!
let it grow!
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here's another holiday feel good story for ya!
City codes slay Snowzilla
Giant snowman deemed a public nuisance, safety hazard
Anchorage's famous giant snow man, Snowzilla, finally met its match.
It wasn't the weather. It wasn't angry neighbors bearing shovels and pick axes.
It turns out Snowzilla's biggest foe -- the one who felled the controversial but much-loved giant -- was a notice-bearing city code enforcement officer.
That's right, Snowzilla was abated.
It was just a few years ago that 16-foot-tall Snowzilla arose in a residential yard in Airport Heights, launching an annual procession of local gawkers and an international media blitz.
Camera crews came from Russia and Japan.
But Snowzilla attracted a lot of naysayers too.
Not everybody in the neighborhood liked all the cars and visitors.
So, city officials have deemed Snowzilla a public nuisance and safety hazard.
A few weeks ago, city code enforcers left three red signs at Snowzilla's bottom body ball telling its builders to cease and desist.
The city also tacked a public notice on the door of the Powers family home at 1556 Columbine St. The Powers family and some of their neighbors have been building Snowzilla in the Powers' front yard since 2005.
When the notices went up, Snowzilla still didn't have a full torso or head.
"The kids had spent hours and hours of work on it," Billy Powers said on Sunday.
City officials involved in the cease-and-desist order could not be reached for comment on Sunday.
But on Dec. 11, the city notified the Airport Heights community council about its decision to abate Snowzilla, telling council members that the two-story snowman caused increased traffic to the point of endangerment and that the structure itself was unsafe.
The city also asked council members to watch out for continued construction and to consider weighing in on Snowzilla at an upcoming, council members said.
At last Thursday's community council meeting, no one offered a Snowzilla-related motion. "We're not really a policing agency," said Becky Kurtz, the council president.
Now, Snowzilla is just a big pile of snow rubble.
Powers said he doesn't plan to rebuild.
He can't.
Under the city's nuisance abatement order, if he tries, he could get arrested.
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and that's my rella peanut butter pie story. and i'm the biggest idiot at the grocery store yesterday.
Woo Hoo awesome story Ma! And BAH HUMBUG to that man!
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Originally Posted by Lenina
[QUOTE I have a cervical MRI at 3:15. It's for my neck... not my cervix. I won't be back until later. I might have some time at home between the MRI and teaching at the gym tonight, if so I'll be back around dinner time.
A few years ago I took my friend to the physical therapist following a neck injury she'd had. The PT brought in one of those cervical pillows to support her neck while sleeping. My friend examined it for a minute and said "Gee, how am I supposed to get this under my cervix?" We laughed so hard I'm sure the PT thought we were nuts.
Love,
Lenina
! Hi Lenina 
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I think the house thing is getting a little crazy now that we're closer to closing. The realtor wants the mortgage commitment for the other attorney... the mortgage peeps said our original contract expired since it's been so long since we signed it... we're not locked into a rate atm... the survey hasn't been done and OUR attorney is unavailable because he's an ass.I have no idea when we're closing now.
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