katiesquilts

I've made it through the initial interviews and now there's just one left--with Global HR in India. The job is located in the US, at a US subsidiary. Can you weigh in on what I can expect from this last interview? I know the Indian culture is vastly different from America's culture, but what are some specific differences between our working culture?

Any help is greatly appreciated! I've never been so nervous, and I hire people all the time!

I decided to stay in my 2 bedroom apartment, but I will have no one in my second bedroom for the next year! Rather than waste the space, I'm trying to figure out what to do with it! It has just a small closet, and currently has a full-size bed (which can go away). The room itself is 11x10, with one window, base board heat under the window, which is across from the closet and door (on the 10 foot wall). It currently also has a drafting table, which I can repurpose as a desk. Since my brat never actually sleeps on her bed when she's home (and she won't be for a year, and even then just for a few weeks), I don't care about keeping the bed, but I'm not opposed to getting a day bed in there, esp if it has extra storage. I have a huge living room and a huge master bedroom with a walk-in closet, so I don't need to repurpose for any of these, and it's too cold in there to put a desk under the window.

While I'm a bit handy, I left my tool belt behind, so I need simple ideas that I can do myself. I guess the only thing I need to keep in there is the drafting table, a large, tall book shelf (since she won't get rid of her books), and a dresser, which can be used for craft storage. It won't fit in the closet, unfortunately! HELP!

I have super super dry skin on my face (mostly around my mouth and between my eyes). If I forget to take my vitamin d supplements every day, it gets incredibly bad. No moisturizers have helped, but Vaseline Intensive Care lotion keeps it from flaking, at least. I would like to use some makeup, however. I use a primer/firmer on my eyes, but if I try to use a concealer, it's like I didn't use the lotion at all. Ditto with the skin on my chin. It makes it look like my skin is just flaking off or peeling, like I had a sunburn, if I use anything other than the VIC lotion.

Anyone else have a similar problem and found a solution?

Where do retailers like Potomac Beads and smaller retail shops buy their beads? I can buy beads online at wholesale prices through companies like Fire Mountain, but I'm looking for a source for bulk purchases. Potomac buys those long shanks of beads, which is what I would like to be able to do. They need a book for people who are just getting started! :-)

If your employer offers a high deductible plan tied to a health savings plan (HDHP/HSA) (commonly known as a consumer-driven health plan, what do they call it? Is there a special name for the plan, or do they just call it the "high deductible plan"?

Every time I turn on my old laptop, it shows me my background screen for 2-7 seconds and then goes to the accounts page (the page it takes you to after you log off on an account). Even though there's only one account, it keeps taking me there, and every time I click to try and log back on it shows me my background screen and then logs me off again. I have a few REALLY important files that I haven't backed up yet, so I would really appreciate it someone could tell me how to get logged on long enough to email those to myself.

(P.S.- could this be the work of a trojan, or some other virus? My McAfee went haywire yesterday so I had to manually turn off the computer to unfreeze the screen, and after I turned it back on was when the problem started.)

Please help! I really need those documents!

I would like to hear your stories about dealing with an HSA. How big is your company? What state? How much is your deductible? What was it before? How long have you utilized an HSA? Do you feel it's been successful/a good idea for your company to move to an HSA? Did you receive any education prior to switching to an HSA? Did your employer try to educate you on being a better consumer of your healthcare prior to moving to an HSA? How old are you?

Thanks in advance. This is a hot topic and I'm finding that people are either really for it, or really against it.

Newb on the Mac. In XP, I could navigate through my files using Windows Explorer (or whatever the heck it was called), to see a preview of any jpg files that were held within a folder. Using Finder on my Mac, I see my folders, but any jpg files that are held within those folders have to be opened one at a time. The preview pane shows options for "previous" and "next" and a slide show, but it never moves to the next jpg within the folder. I don't want to have to put them into IPhoto, because then I have group them in the events and I lose the individual file names, which is kind of a pain in the a**.

I love my IMac, but there are some things...LOL

I right-clicked and deleted my mail server's trash bin, thinking it would just empty the messages. It's still there as a folder, but it won't let me delete new messages to it--I get a message that says "The message could not be moved to the mailbox 'deleted messages-comcast.' The destination mailbox does not allow messages to be moved to it. The account info shows that I have trash from my comcast server being moved to a separate folder (which just means that I have two trash folders). When I uncheck this, I have only one trash folder, which is fine, but the deleted messages are not in the trash folder, unless I drag the message into the folder, rather than just hit "delete." While I don't have world-changing messages coming in, I do accidentally delete messages on occasion.

There is nothing out there that I can find and it won't let me just delete the file. Help!

I have been diagnosed with Lichen Planus and, while the oral surgeon has told me that no one really knows what causes it, we have gone over and over everything that was happening medically at the time that it cropped up. It looks like it was caused by an allergic reaction to Blue #1 (a dye that is in damn near everything!). I had changed a med that was a very pretty blue, started to get sick, lots of vertigo, etc, and then the mouth started to hurt. The OS has me using Fluocinonide solution, as a rinse, and gawk! It's awful, but it works. However, now that the telltale signs are gone, my tongue feels swollen and sore, and I can't eat anything that is even slightly acidic or salty, or rough. The rinse isn't helping that, and neither does a lidocain rinse. What am I missing? I'm very careful not to ingest anything with blue #1, & I've cut out just about everything good from my diet, including tomatoes (and anything with t sauce), salts, coffee, tea, anything rough. Help!

I think it was a Kraft cookbook, might have been Philly cream cheese. These were refridgerator cream cheese cookies with cream cheese, butter,eggs, flour, etc. Roll them out and cut them, taste just like the ones they sell at Wally World. Anyone have a similar cookbook??