Please. Tell me that’s a joke site.
’mika - they make 'em for vehicles, too. Maybe put a set on his car when he’s not looking?
Rosie, you are at the doctor, right? Please let us know how you’re doing - you know how we worry.
Happy Birthday, Cuervo!!!
MBG, my orange tabby is a former clinic cat so he gets the big welcome every year when it’s time for his shots. I’m just there to pay the bills.
Tonight is the monthly booster club meeting and I forsee a lot of bitching. If it is not done at least reasonably politely I will resign. I am volunteering for this and have no intention of being treated rudely by a bunch of old bitches who want things done their way but are much too lazy to run for office and do it themselves.
Mr. SCL has broken out in something itchy - he woke me up about 7 this morning bitching about it. He took some benedryl and slept all day, but won’t go to the doctor - oh no! It’s much more fun to bitch and scratch. And the man is a nurse! If I get whatever it is, the itching is going to be the least of his worries.
picu, you are in my thoughts.
Drae, how’s the butt? I still have a dent in mine from falling on a step a year ago.
Have a nice evening everyone! I’ll check back in after the BC meeting and vent as necessary.
I stayed home from work today. Just having a bad day, with no energy and a raging headache. AND (TMI ahead) I’m constipated. Sorry guys, but when you haven’t gone in 4 days it gets really uncomfortable. So I stayed home. And I feel guilty. 
I hope everybody else starts feeling better, physically and mentally. It’s no fun.
Let’s just all be happy and feel good, dammit!
Ouch. Everyone get better, okay? Especially rosie, Drae, and kaiwik.
I just did that ‘playlist shuffle’ thread, and none of my music came up. Weird. All his stuff. I’m now listening to what I think is an instrumental version of the theme of Macross Plus. It sounds Asian and anime-ish. I’ve never heard it before. I should download the Samurai Champloo theme- it’s fun.
And Rebo.
[sub]dammit. I was sure I mentioned her when i hit submit[/sub]
She will get something tatamount to pleurisy, 'cept it’s her body doing it to herself, and not an external infection. Makes it hard to breathe because she can’t flex her ribs.
There’s also pericardial inflammation, which is just about like congestive heart failure, and lupus nephritis, which looks just like a kidney infection. She has 2 partially functioning kidneys that add up to the equivalent of 1 good one from that…
She’s also had lupus cerebritis; looks like meningitis, but with psychotic hallucinations for added fun. And she’s nuts on a normal day… 
Get yerself to the doctor half an hour ago, and get a med pack ASAP. You’ll clear up in 2 days. You have to be healthy for the holiday on Friday, after all.
It’s not. Neuticles are very popular with the show dog crowd. Seriously.
Before I checked, I figured he linked to the truck scrotum site.
Thanks, LiLi. 
I don’t know about where you live, butin this part of the country, you can actually buy boxes of PopTarts in grocery stores.
Had my last physical therapy today, provided I keep doing my stretching at home. The therapists are nice and all, but I would rather do my exercises here than drive to Leonardtown to pay for torture.
It’s wondrously cool - in fact, we’re supposed to drop into the 40s tonight. I need to dig out a sweater or jacket tomorrow! But I’m loving it!
Is it Friday yet??
The verdict is in. My tailbone is fractured. Woohoo. I have been given percocet for sleeping, and bought myself one of those donut ass cushions. I must say, this cushion rocks the casbah, and I wish I’d gotten one three days ago.
It is also interesting to note that I have been prescribed more painkillers in the last six months than I have in my entire life up until my 30th birthday.
I had a brief crying jag about whether or not I should go camping this weekend for our autumnal equinox ritual. I was on the phone with my mother (because I still call Mommy when something hurts), and explained to her that I really wanted to be there as moral support for my college roommate who is in love with another old roommate of ours, and he’s in love with her right back, only his wife (whom he doesn’t love at all, but a vow’s a vow, in his mind) may be joining us for the weekend (she usually has nothing to do with these outings). Mom said I need to lay down in the backseat and make Mandi drive all the way up here, because she wants to know how it ends. She was rather insistent, in fact.
So, everybody else, feel better, dammit. Percocet for everybody who wants some (even if you’re not hurt). Me and my ass cushion will be on the couch, waiting for Criminal Minds to start and working on a hat and scarf to wear in the bitter cold of a Maine autumn.
I frickin’ hate camping. At least I have an air mattress, this time.
Yeah, yeah, but I’m not supposed to be eating PopTarts at all. If I buy them out of the vending machine, I can pretend I’m not really eating them all the time. So I guess I should stop complaining about getting blueberry.
Drae, be sure and take good notes. Your mother isn’t the only one who wants a full report.
Why hasn’t my NP called me back? She leaves me an urgent message and then doesn’t respond. And why doesn’t she have actual voice mail, instead of a departmental answering machine? How archaic is that? Or just leave me a message telling me what you want me to do, don’t just tell me to call and never call back. I guess this means I’m not dying, though, since she hasn’t called back.
You know, if one more person asks why I didn’t get cake, I’m going to smack them. Do I look like I need another slice of cake? I seem to be violating some rule of conduct by not going to the “party”, but if you go and refuse cake, you get hounded about eating the damned thing. I guess next month, I’ll go get the slice of cake, mess it up, pretend to eat it, take it back to my desk and throw it away. Sheesh. Waste of a perfectly good piece of cake, just to satisfy the cake Nazis. Why is so much time taken up in the office on stupid stuff like this? Between that and I want/don’t want to sit next to her/him, and BFF, you’d think we were in kindergarten. Although I wouldn’t mind sending everyone down for a nap (stay on your own mat!) most afternoons. Then we could have milk and graham crackers. Mmm! I’d rather have that than cake.
Drae, I’m sorry your tail is broke. At least you can take the painkillers; I can’t. They make me puke for hours on end.
I am also very interested in hearing how this whole love saga turns out. 'Cause I’m nosy, you know.
I have been informed by my son that I need to stop at the grocery store on the way home and pick up milk, bread, soda and ice cream. Maybe some fruit too.
I swear, I’m beginning to LIVE at that damn grocery store. Seems like I need to stop there every other day, at a minimum. My family just needs to quit eating, dammit.
Almost time to go home, thank goodness. I done had enough today. Is it Friday yet?
It’s not the roof, li-li the window needs to be caulked, and there are a couple others which need it as well. The carpet is coming out, it’s just horrid. It’s a mid-pile burnt orange/rust, which does not go with my green/gold/rose/raspberry/plum palette!
Silly pugs, we don’t have walrus here, that’s further North. We are waiting for the snow so we can rebuild the second storey of our igloo though…
You are in my prayers picu.
I hope your behind is all good albeit sore Drae, it’s an especially owie place to get an owie. On update I see that it’s not all good. Percocet is good though. Good for you being supportive for your friend, if you do go camping just take it easy. I mean c’mon, your butt is broken, let the others do the big chores like firewood gathering.
Go you rigs!
I knew a family who had a baby with some of the same symptoms as your nephew Nava, and he is now an adult and about as normal as anyone else. It was scary when he was an infant/toddler, but he pulled through it all better than most of the adults. I hope things go well and will keep him and family in my prayers too.
Yes Maternal Feline we have a Wal-Mart, but it’s like a toy Wal-Mart. They have purchased a couple large lots of land around them, and have presented the borough with plans to expand. It’s all good for me, it’s that or having to fly to Anchorage and stay a couple of days to shop there and freight it back home. We also have a Mcdonald’s (which used to be a Dairy Queen) and a Subway. We had a KFC, but the guy with the franchise closed it, and supposedly was going to turn it into a Taco Bell, but it’s been over a year now and nothing. We have a McDonald’s and a Subway, and a Safeway with a mini Starbucks in it. We have a hardware store affiliated with True Value, and a Spenard’s, which is a big hardware/lumber type chain in Alaska. Oh, and a Pizza Hut and a Domino’s. The City of Kodiak tries to act like a small Seattle, but it seems kinda silly to me. The two major banks are still known as the bear bank and the crab bank, for the taxidermied examples of each ‘totem’ on display. For all it’s pretensions, it’s still just a little fishing town.
Cuervo is a fine kitty indeed! And I felt so at home when I viewed the football kitty pic!
Our three new kitties go in tomorrow to have their reproduction abilities removed. They are in that very leggy and long body stage right now, and they are crazy. Another plant hit the floor and was all spilled out of it’s container last night. I guess I am going to have to hang most of my plants, although in my mind I can see the jellicles swinging from the hanging plants!
Aw mika, I once worked in an office with similar chaos, I hated it. A few years later I moved to Alaska! I sure hope things lighten up for you, how are you enjoying your new apartment, and how are the geckos?
By now you have been to the doctor, right rosie? I tend to have respiratory problems related to my autoimmune stuff. I am very familiar with walking pneumonia, don’t mess with it as it can get serious very quickly.
My best to VunderWife, it’s a nasty, rotten, stupid disease. And hey, lupies are allowed to be loopy!
Well it looks like I have created another novella. I am home alone, well as alone as I can be with the poms and kitties. The weather has cleared up and I have the windows open so the house can air out. My headache is much better, I’m listening to my music and singing along with it, so far it’s been a pretty good day. Let’s hope that the returning teens and skiffman had good days too!
Seconded. I just bought eighty dollars worth of food, and I realised as I was unloading it that it’s pratically all for Mr. Lissar. Coke, juice boxes, beef patties, chocolate peanut butter cookies, iced tea. The olive oil and eggs are for both of us, but everything else is for him.
Drae, ouch. You must go in spite of the pain, because I’m nosy, too. And if I tell my Mum she’ll want the end of the story as well.
Dance class was good, although my regular teacher wasn’t there, and the girl who stepped in was babying us. Did a new kind of shimmy, which was cool, but I get grumpy when I don’t have the teacher I expect, because the level of intensity changes.
I’m going to go eat some cheese sauce. And maybe a chocolate cinnamon bun. And some of Mr. Lissar’s cookies. Yes, this is my idea of a healthy dinner, why do you ask?
New MMP motto: Is it Friday yet? (Variation for those who work “non-traditional” weeks: Is it the weekend yet? Or: Is tomorrow a day off?)
Lessee: Hugs, good thoughts and prayers to everyone, but especially: rosie, picu, Rebo, Jahdra (has the NP called yet?), kai, Drae and anyone I missed who is sick or injured. Everyone is hereby ordered to feel better! Oh, and while you’re there, imagine I mentioned you first, cuz really, I was thinking of everyone all at once!
So, meeks, is the Thursday mystery perchance a potential new job possibility? Seems like the timing would be good. I’m glad I can’t read this at work because doggio’s link would have forced me to cause a commotion. Working with annoying people is a trial. (I’m lucky, just about everyone I work with is amazing in one way or the other. Those who aren’t as competent as I would wish are generally incredibly funny, so that’s something…)
Puggy, I swear the bumper sticker said that. Perhaps it was even more of a slam on honor students than I initially thought?
rosie, great pics. I especially liked the outdoors one; not sure why.
MBG, I loved those Cuervo pics. The one with his big brother just melted my little heart.
Drae, we’ll expect complete notes from the weekend. (Broken tailbone or no broken tailbone: the news must be reported!) Oh and the term is not “nosy;” it’s “interested and supportive.”
Nava - we definitely want more details on your new house. Two kitchens? How? Why? Is this unusual or common in Spain?
Jahdra - sounds like AC might be getting her comeuppance. Yay!
My day was LONG. Worked through lunch (never actually finished it). Had an annoying conference call during which I was the featured speaker (Bla bla bla…good thing I can talk in my sleep.).
Which reminds me: GO FCM!
I’ve finished my gnocchi with shrimp and peas and am sipping a glass of wine (all ladylike, of course).
And…I’d like to complain about the lowered dance class standards! I had CALORIES to burn, goshdarnitall!
Considering what to do with the rest of the evening…
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big (and little) yellow kid transporter male person - that pic of Cuervo grooming the other kitty is the adorable-est.
(what is this trend we now seem to be on of lengthening the nicknames?)
kai - do you at least have Dunkin Donuts? if you do you don’t need the Starbucks or Subway
Let’s see - I think I was supposed to tell you something else but for the life of me I can’t think of … . .
I’m fine - a reaction to the stoopit nasty raztafratzen ragweed. Doc gave me a lidacine-cortesone shot that I call my “cocktail” - I’m only supposed to get one per six months, and I just had one 5 months ago - I was waiting til November for the next one - the chorus has a big deal performance on 11/9; No fluid in my lungs or heart sac; no fever, no infection, but I may have picked up a nasty little cold bug from someone over the weekend - may not have even been from my group - there was another convention there and a wedding, too - not to mention the hotel staff. Hundreds of people breathing my air - I’ll not have it! Doc also gave me a scrip for a Z-Pack - it’s about the only antibiotic, except for keflex (sp?) that I can take without getting violently ill, or weird pins and needles all over my body (I am, as they say, a friggin mess) For pain I have my choice of Vicoden or Tramadol (which sounds to me like Dammit-all)
So, in sum, I’ll be just fine - in fact, I’m breathing easier already - gotta love those steroids
:dubious: not together I hope :eek:
Possibly one of my favorite Leonard Bermstein compostitions, the Overature to Candide, is one my iTunes right now - blasting at full volume
You don’t think that chocolate, cinnamon, and cheddar go together well? They all start with the same letter!
Why, yes, I love to eat alphabetically. 
Glad the medications are helping, rosie.
Watching the end of The Way We Live Now. Took me a bit to get into it, but it’s become quite interesting and I’m curious about the ending.
Taters, I paged Bumba over at Skip’s board (just remembered you asked about him recently). He’s stopped by there several times lately. Told him to stop by the MMP. Hopefully he’ll see it.
Back after a while…
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