Ran across a bit of scrap gold. Went and sold it today, and I got a hundred bucks. Got myself and my roommate some chateaubriand and a really good bottle of Zinfandel. Everyone everywhere is entitled to their own relationship with the universe, and I certainly have a shitty day from time to time; but I must say, God is good.
How did the world treat you today?
Last night, however, was another thing. I dreamed that I was in a car driving over a bridge, and the bridge was slowly becoming submerged by the rising water beneath it. I turned to someone else in the back seat and said, “Wow, last night I had a dream where this same thing was happening.”
I guess it pretty much guarantees that that particular thing won’t be happening to me tonight, because if I did find myself in a car driving over a bridge etc., it would be triple deja vu and the universe as we know it would collapse. Or something. :dubious:
Busy/productive…
sucky
just like yesterday
just like tomorrow
Pretty g-d good.
My SO’s surgery went well; he came home from the hospital last night. He has more energy than he has in months, and is feeling more positive than he has in 2 years. He also has no ostomy bag any more!
He was recently approved for Disability, and I found a (part-time) job, so we were actually able to afford decent presents for our kids’ Christmas and birthdays, after 2 years of living off food pantries and the kindness of strangers (some of them Dopers - thank you all for your generosity.) We were finally able to get my son a new XBOX360, with the motion controller thingy, and it’s fun enough to get us all off the couch and laughing together.
We have kittens, and a laser pointer. And my daughter spent most of the morning “training” the kittens to jump through a hoop. 
We also took the kids to Chinatown today. I haven’t been there since I was a kid. Found a great little restaurant and my girl had Congee for the first time (I sure hope there were no miscommunication issues and there really was no gluten in there!). She loved it.
Yeah, today was a great day. Thanks for asking! 
I woke up this morning and stayed in bed watching the room spin around for a while before I dared to get out of bed. That was the first time I’ve ever seen that, so that part of it was kind of cool. It makes it hard to walk, so that part kind of sucks.
I watched the Betty White extravaganza on NBC and got to see President Obama demand to see her long-form birth certificate which was totally awesome.
My doc finally budged and gave me the prescription I wanted to try. I feel already positive and hopeful, ie, the placebo effect is already being felt!!
Suck my empty prescription bottles, RE: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14674827#post14674827
slm2955: Good work! I will keep you in the back of my mind as a role model.
Foggy: Bummer. Is there any hope for an end to the suck?
WhyNot: Yay! It is so great when that pivotal log in the logjam finally gets wrenched out of the way, and then everything else gets flowing again. (hee hee, kittens help!)
Sudden Kestrel: Forgive me if I should know this already, but was this a hangover-type-spinny-room, or something more exotic? In any case, I’m a little dubious about Betty White myself — she was past middle age when I was a kid, lo these many years ago. :dubious:
brittekland: Right on. It’s hard to hold your ground sometimes with doctors if they’ve already made up their minds. May this scrip be the one you needed!
Just some (temporary, I hope) vertigo I’ve been having for a bit. I get to go have my canaliths repositioned* on Thursday, but until then I’m on a sad, slow carousel.
I had a mediocre day. Nothing too bad, a few annoying things, but overall, if this is the worst day of the week, life is still pretty good.
I got another new used dog! This one is a very dark red standard dachshund with a noble snout and sad eyes. This one will go with the other used dog I got about 7 months ago. That one is a blonde dachshund! The are about 3-4 years old. No
I just officially called in my very first prescription order to the pharmacy as an RN! I feel so powerful.
Good day! My elderly client is so much better–he was completely lucid and was up and around today. (He’s recovering from pneumonia, and I was very worried about him after Tuesday’s shift.) He even played the piano a bit, and it made my heart happy.
All is well in the papergirl household.
The world treated me just fine. I was not so nice to myself.
I forgot to turn off my headlights before class number 1 and didn’t find out until after class number 2. I spent a long time freezing and wet in my vehicle before AAA jumped the battery and told me I really needed to replace it. I then missed classes 3 and 4 so I could take care of the battery.
Today was the first day of school :smack:
I know I have no astronomy lab tomorrow because, as my professor said, “You haven’t learned anything yet so what’s the point.” I don’t know if my chemistry professor feels the same way and since I missed the handing out of the holy syllabus, I don’t know how to contact her. So, I get to drive 45 minutes tomorrow morning to arrive for an 8am - 12 pm discussion then lab to possibly find out that she isn’t holding them because we haven’t learned anything yet.
Oy.
When I screw myself, I make sure I go all the way (cue dirty jokes )
I do have to be grateful to my school for having my smallish but helpful tuition excess check ready for me yesterday so I had it on me when battery-hell struck so it was fairly easy to get it cashed. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have had any money to buy the new battery (and portable jumper-thingie).
I am also grateful that I took intro to Chemistry at my community college last spring so if my professor DOES have the discussion and lab tomorrow, I wont be totally lost.
The world treated me like garbage…which made today perfect!
When the world treats me like crap, that causes me to live off of my own resources, wits, etc…When the world treats me normally, in a polite, tepid way, I am at peace, and just sort of slog along. I usually, stupidly, actively listen when they are running their mouths with their inane gibberish. When they treat me like crap, I generally ignore/avoid them, and can start to get things done.
Today: Went to class, first day…(foreign language class). OK. Only, nobody there, nobody in the whole effin school building. Nobody called me, rescheduled, left a note, anything…Just went online, withdrew from the class, getting my 300 bucks back!
I hope the world treats me like crap tomorrow!
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Sudden Kestrel: (I can’t help it – every time I see your screenname, I think of this song by Yes, “Siberian Khatru.” I have no idea why – but it’s a great song.) I had to look up “canalith.” Sounds a little like the bubble in a level; it seems like it would feel hella weird to have your bubble off. I’ve never heard of that condition, it must be pretty harsh. With all due respect, I wonder what would happen if you got drunk? It’d be pretty cool if the room spun the opposite way, and evened the whole thing out. I suppose that’d be too much to ask, though.
Khadaji: Good attitude! You are well-equipped for happiness.
Ca3799: “Used dog!” Ha ha! That’s great! And bless you for renewing their faith in humanity.
WhyNot: You are powerful. And we all know you will use your powers for good! (Now, if I can only invent that 1920’s-style life ray…)
papergirl: I have an elderly client too! I see him tomorrow. He’s 79, and just had his cornea replaced last week. I know exactly what you mean, when my guy is feeling good, he goes around humming, and it makes me so happy. He hella deserves to feel good, he’s so kind.
congodwarf: Well, I can’t deny that at least one good thing may have come of your mishap and subsequent bolluxed day … Sometimes, I’ll be riding my bike past a car in a parking lot with its light on, and I’ll stop and go into whatever establishment it is, and tell the person at the front desk that such-and-such a car with license plate “X” left their lights on. I don’t drive, and I’m not too sure about modern technology, and whether this is even necessary anymore. (I think some modern cars turn their headlights off automatically, no?) I was wondering about this just yesterday, when it happened again. Now I know – it’s still a good idea.
handsomeharry: Also a good attitude. Except now you won’t get to be handsome in a foreign language; at least, not yet. What language was it?
Sucky, sucky morning, better in the afternoon when it was made clear to the powers that be that I was not misunderstanding their desires, but that they were working at cross-purposes and I was stuck in the middle.
The weird part is that I am witness to the conversations that took place as to what the project team manager wanted, versus what the software admins said could be done. They agreed with the project manager and then came down on my because I was following her protocol instead of theirs. I had to beg her to intervene and re-clarify matters. Insanity.
After all that, I was actually able to get some worthwhile work done.
Well then, I guess ultimately, you kinda won. Be sure to write in some quirky idiosyncratic coding, just to let them know you were there.
Good points:
Not-so-good points:
Little Nemo: I’m sure many of us are thinking the same thing – at least you got your good mail before your mailbox blew away to parts unknown. Coulda been the other way around. And remember, any day is a good day with barbecue in it. (P.S. Did you have any sides? Beans? Potato salad? My favorite BBQ place in the East Bay has not just the Chicken of the Gods, but also potato salad to die for, and awesome greens!)
P.P.S.: If it’s the same movie I’m thinking of, (Egyptian bird-god-guy, not a lot of talking, baby at the end), my sympathies. Seldom does a film sound so good, and suck so much.