I am robbing this idea from Mary, who stole if from another person who stole it from another and I am depending on you people to pass it around myspace as well.

You are meant to find the top 100 songs from the year you graduated high school bold the ones you like, cross out the ones you don’t and add comments
along the way. If I add nothing, the song is just eh. (You can just Google top
songs of whatever year to get the list).

1. Too Close, Next <-#1 song? why have i never heard of it

2. The Boy Is Mine, Brandy and Monica

3. You’re Still The One, Shania Twain

4. Truly Madly Deeply, Savage Garden

5. How Do I Live, LeAnn Rimes

6. Together Again, Janet <-have no use for her

7. All My Life, K-Ci and JoJo

8. Candle In The Wind 1997, Elton John <-eeeeh….it was a good song but
totally overplayed

9. Nice and Slow, Usher <- never liked him. even before the under
18 sex

10. I Don’t Want To Wait, Paula Cole <-if i could double bold this
in honor of Dawson’s Creek, I would

11. How’s It Going To Be, Third Eye Blind

12. No, No, No, Destiny’s Child

13. My Heart Will Go On, Celine Dion <-overplayed or not, LOVE IT!

14. Gettin’ Jiggy Wit, Will Smith <-eh….i don’t like to get jiggy with
anything, let alone it

15. You Make Me Wanna…, Usher

16. My Way, Usher

17. My All, Mariah Carey

18. The First Night, Monica

19. Been Around The World, Puff Daddy and The Family <-my god, those
last five songs were like a greatest hits of my most hated artists EVER

20. Adia, Sarah McLachlan <- how can you not like this song?

21. Crush, Jennifer Paige <- i think i liked this song but I cannot remember
what it sounds like

22. Everybody (Backstreet’s Back), Backstreet Boys <- you know me
and pop music

23. I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing, Aerosmith

24. Body Bumpin Yippie-Yi-Yo, Public Announcement <- i honestly don’t
even know what song this is, but I can tell i will hate it

25. This Kiss, Faith Hill

26. I Don’t Ever Want To See You Again, Uncle Sam

27. Let’s Ride, Montell Jordan

28. Sex And Candy, Marcy Playground

29. Show Me Love, Robyn

30. A Song For Mama, Boyz II Men

31. What You Want, Mase

32. Frozen, Madonna

33. Gone Till November, Wyclef Jean

34. My Body, Lsg

35. Tubthumping, Chumbawamba <- this song makes me feel unclean

36. Deja Vu (Uptown Baby), Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz <-who and the
what now?

37. I Want You Back, ‘N Sync

38. When The Lights Go Out, Five

39. They Don’t Know, Jon B.

40. Make Em’ Say Uhh!, Master P

41. Make It Hot, Nicole Featuring Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott and
Mocha

42. Never Eve, All Saints

43. I Get Lonely, Janet

44. Feel So Good, Mase

45. Say It, Voices Of Theory

46. Kiss The Rain, Billie Myers

47. Come With Me, Puff Daddy

48. Romeo And Juliet, Sylk-E Fyne

49. It’s All About Me, Mya and Sisqo

50. I Will Come To You, Hanson <-isn’t it sad when the hate streak
is only broken by Hanson? But I love this song.

51. One Week, Barenaked Ladies

52. Swing My Way, K.P. and Envyi

53. The Arms Of The One Who Loves You, Xscape

54. My Love Is The Shhh!, Somethin’ For The People

55. Daydreamin’, Tatyana Ali

56. We’re Not Making Love No More, Dru Hill

57. Semi-Charmed Life, Third Eye Blind

58. I Do, Lisa Loeb <- one of the first time i ever talked to my (now
hustband) outside of choir was because of this song. I was googling to try to
find a free download of it and I found only website offering and it was Steve’s
emailed him about it. That was how I got his IM and we started talking.

59. Lookin’ At Me, Mase

60. Looking Through Your Eyes, LeAnn Rimes

61. Lately, Divine

62. Quit Playing Games (With My Heart), Backstreet Boys

63. I Still Love You, Next

64. Time After Time, Inoj

65. Are You Jimmy Ray?, Jimmy Ray <-LOL I totally forgot about this song!

66. Cruel Summer, Ace Of Base <- i love me some ace of bace

67. I Got The Hook Up!, Master P

68. Victory, Puff Daddy and The Family

69. Too Much, Spice Girls

70. Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are), Pras Feat. Ol’ Dirty Bastard
and Mya

71. How Deep Is Your Love, Dru Hill Featuring Redman

72. Friend Of Mine, Kelly Price

73. Turn It Up [Remix] / Fire It Up, Busta Rhymes

74. I’ll Be, Edwin McCain

75. Ray Of Light, Madonna

76. All For You, Sister Hazel

77. Touch It, Monifah <-my love and hate seems to clump like cat litter

78. Money, Power and Respect, Lox

79. Bitter Sweet Symphony, The Verve

80. Dangerous, Busta Rhymes

81. Spice Up Your Life, Spice Girls

82. Because Of You, 98 Degrees

83. The Mummers’ Dance, Loreena McKennitt <-this one would also be double
bolded

84. All Cried Out, Allure Featuring 112

85. Still Not A Player, Big Punisher Featuring Joe

86. The One I Gave My Heart To, Aaliyah

87. Foolish Games / You Were Meant For Me, Jewel <-love love love

88. Love You Down, Inoj

89. Do For Love, 2Pac

90. Raise The Roof, Luke

91. Heaven, Nu Flavor

92. The Party Continues, Jd

93. Sock It 2 Me, Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott Featuring Da Brat

94. Butta Love, Next

95. A Rose Is Still A Rose, Aretha Franklin

96. 4 Seasons Of Loneliness, Boyz II Men

97. Father, LL Cool J

98. Thinkin’ Bout It, Gerald Levert <-that was quite the list of crap,
right there

99. Nobody’s Supposed To Be Here, Deborah Cox <-how did you get here?
Nobody’s s’posed to be here! Darn it, now I have to find that song and listen
to it

100. Westside, TQ

“Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.” -Michael Caine

I am all over the paddling part. It’s the calm on the surface that still needs work. . .

Sometimes we offer services to clients in addition to selling items on eBay and we do a pretty good volume of these.

One such sale came in mid Novemeber. We did all the work we could on the service but then we got to the point where it was dependent on the buyer sending us information that allowed us to finish. We emailed him asking for said information.

Now, we get a huge volume of emails between all these other services and sales (not to mention that it’s the holidays so our personal life is just as busy) so when the guy didn’t email me back, I didn’t notice. It wasn’t until he purchased a second service from us a week ago that I recognized his name and realized that I never heard back and sent him a second, very polite email, which roughly said “We never heard back from you, did you ever recieve this email?” and resent the request for info.

What we were writing for him in the original service was a press release and we were waiting on the interivew type quotes from him to put into it.

This is what I get in reply:

I sent 4 freakin emails and you literally ruined our entire launch as the magazines were waiting for the press release and advertorial..I will answer your questions but we will never do business again. I never got this email I assure you. I needed the press release a week ago.

The four emails I have. They are all from before the request for info and they are him #1 him saying I bought the press release, what do I do next, #2 him giving me the title of his book and his website, #3 “ok” in responce to the email below and #4 his purchasing two unrelated additional services from us and asking us what the next step was. I am not sure how any of them are relevent to this at all.

I understand that in this world of spam blockers and whatnot that emails get lost and get eaten. I totally understand that. But the email I send him prior to my request for information was: “Thanks [name]….In a few days I will have some interview-style questions for you to flesh out the release but, until then, what is on the website is plenty to get me started.” He replied back so I know he recieved this email.

So, when a MONTH passed and you didn’t see those questions, wouldn’t you email me and ask what’s up? I mean, especially if you were in such a rush, why would you wait for me to email you? If I hadn’t noticed, would this ever had become an issue at all or did he truly forget that he had purchased it and decided to react in rage.

I responded:

I am sorry if you are upset but this was something that was out of our control since we had no notice that you did not recieve our mail. If you had let me know that you were on a tight deadline, we would have happily given you rush processing.

I issued you a refund for the [2] services even though labor has already been done on both. I cannot refund you for the [other] service as that has already been completed.

I am sorry that email prevented us from working together. I have worked with a great number of clients who have been very pleased with our press release work so it is a pity that a few crossed wires caused you so much trouble.

We wish you the best of luck with your launch and your future endevours!

I am a fair person. Even though nearly all of the labor had already been done, I refunded him the full price for the other two services. I figured we were done. Then I recieved 3 emails in a 24 hour period demanding that I send him his press release, which is obviously not finished since he only sent me the info I requested, after I refunded his money and he told me he didn’t want to work with me.

I replied similar answers to all:

As per our previous emails, we have refunded these services upon receipt of the email from you that you no longer wished to work with us.

He says:

I said I wasn’t going to do business with you in the future – I still wanted my press release. You guys wasted 30 days of my time.

Now this is starting to get really stupid. We emailed HIM to remind him that he hadn’t replied yet. If we hadn’t, even more time would have elasped. I suppose you could say that I should keep track of every single person who emails me back or not but if it was as big a rush deal as this guys says, why did he just sit there when he didn’t get the email from us (assuming that our email got lost in space)? I still don’t understand why he didn’t contact us.

Now, I have not shown you all of the back and forth in this, but, at this point, I was really getting the impression that this guy was just desperate to get the last word. I ended up having to repeat the same stuff back and forth several times and he would send back stupid emails like “Yeah, whatever.” (I can only suppose this was to stun me with his intelect.) I felt like I had to keep replying to have a record of the conversation in case he filed a claim so he couldn’t say I was ignoring him, but I felt like everytime I replied it was making him send another email so he could get the last word. This suspicion was 100% confirmed today.

I sent this reply to his email of the day saying how I ruined his life:

I understand that you are embarrassed and upset that you missed my original email and caused yourself such delay, but that was not something I had control over so your anger at us is misplaced, especially since we already issue you a full credit for both services despite the fact that we had already done the labor on them.

And this is what I get as a reply. A total nanny nanny fo, I get the last word, let me win:

Whatever… Let’s drop it and get on with life. No more emails please.

While this does bother me because this is what I have been shouting at my computer every day at his emails since this started, it did give me a good laugh.