I doubt anyone will get to it right away. Idle Thoughts is the most active mod in that forum and he’s out of town for a few days. Maybe Ellen Cherry will get to it soon, though.
I’m sorry, but I have to wonder why your income would take a hit. I understand that most folks who get a hip replacement are able to continue their daily life within a few months. Yeah, the rehab is a bitch, but haven’t you been at your job for a while?
There are very few dogs who don’t like going for car rides. However, there are also very few dogs who don’t like to play chase with their owners, and if they are using a car to do it, its just more fun. For the dog, not for the panicked owner.
Hurray for tags and hurray for you for being such a good and kind person who cared enough to help. 
Words of wisdom to be filed away and remembered once a month!
I’ve got such a stupid rant. Today, my BB and I were playing D3 together. I got up to take a bio break and he went over and sat in my chair to look at my avatar’s stats. For some stupid reason, that really ticked me off. Its not like I wouldn’t have gotten up to let him look at them if he had asked, as a matter of fact, I often call him over to my comp to look at something new I’ve found.
Looks at calendar and stops ranting about him looking and starts ranting at hormone levels. Maybe I should just eat a lot of chocolate and kill a lot of monsters instead of getting ticked off over something very innocent and very acceptable in our world.
I’ve worked for the USPS for just over six years, now. Due to a couple of premiums related to my work schedule, I’m earning about 11% above my base pay when I work my full schedule, and I’ve become addicted to it, in terms of supporting the household. That would go away, were I to go into a situation where I was being paid only my base rate (which, with my current accrued sick leave and annual leave, I could do for about six months without jeopardizing my job).
With that and other factors, I actually am kinda locked into needing to maximize my paycheck for the foreseeable future. We could survive an involuntary period of earning my base pay and no more, but it’s not something I think it would be prudent to elect to do.
ETA: I hope you made BB let you take a look at his avatar’s stats. Can’t have him withholding secret assets/resources from his lady-fair’s knowledge, and surprising you with them when you reach the “THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE” round.
If D3 has one of those.
Now that I’m well chocolated, I think it was funny that I was so upset about such a minor thing. We built our avatars to support each other, of course we need to know each others stats. (he’s a tank, I’m a witch.)
D3 does have an arena where THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE, but the one and only time we tried it, we almost laughed our asses off because I learned that my tank was wearing a steel codpiece and my clothes don’t come off either.
Eh, don’t worry about it, flatlined, and thank you for the concern for my pain (I’m even going to overlook your horrible coding, just because I’m that nice of a guy 
).
I do get a little relief from Joint Juice. But for some reason, if, say, I want to go bowling, I have to bowl from a standing position; I simply can’t maintain my equilibrium if I’m striding forward while penduluming a twelve-pound or more ball.
:eek: WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU TRYING TO DO IN THE ARENA!!!???!!!
Allright, new rant.
If you are walking your dog on the public trail, please don’t stretch the leash out across the whole damn thing. Do you see those cyclists going by? The runners? The people who walk faster than you? All of them get caught in the net of your little barrier when you are on one side of the trail and your little beastie, connect by leash, is sniffing around on the other. Control your animals, people!
Also, if you run a supermarket, please quit being so precious about the organic bananas. I’m talking about the ribbon of tape you put around them to prevent people from breaking up a bunch into smaller sections, forcing them to buy, like, 10 bananas at a time. Am I a fucking gorilla? Am I going to eat 10 bananas before they go bad? Fuck no! I only want at most three bananas at any one time. The free market demands that I be able to exercise this option. Stop it!!!
I’m 44, and they’ve been wonky for a while. At least they’re a lot more regular than they used to be, but the cramping and bleeding are terrible. And when I had my tubal ligation 19 1/2 years ago (yikes, really?) one of the cut tubes apparently adhered to something else in my abdomen, so the cramps are accompanied by the sensation of having my guts pulled out with a hook. It’s not as bad as it once was, as I think the tube has stretched, but the first time it happened I was driving and nearly crashed the car on the freeway. I am so looking forward to menopause. Or rather, menostop.
EmilyG, I went to my doctor about the cramps and bleeding, and he gave me tranexamic acid to take on the heavy bleeding days, which does seem to slow the flow a bit, but doesn’t do much, if anything, for the cramps. I’ll have to mention it again sometime. I wish elective hysterectomies were a thing.
Cheez_Whia, I just saw your post, thanks for the link. I’ll have to look into whether that’s available here. Since I’m sterilized anyway, I’d hope it wouldn’t be too hard to convince someone about it, if it’s available at all.
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I hate vacuum cleaners. Mine jumped up and bit me yesterday while I was using it. One of the U-shaped hose-holder thingies on the back is broken off and I ran into it and managed to give myself a deep cut on the back of my calf. It’s surrounded by a nice bruise halo this morning and it hurts. Somehow I didn’t rip my pants at the same time, so that was a nice bonus. But my leg still hurts.
Thank you for explaining that. It happens to me, too, and I never knew why.
An anti-rant - my husband and I have patched things up over the summer, so no more talk of divorce. Whew.
I too have noticed and am annoyed by this trend.
And I usually only buy three bananas at a time too.
Of course, last month I was at the register doing so and the guy behind me sniffs and says “I’ve never seen anyone buy ONLY 3 bananas”. Apparently he doesn’t get out much.
I used to describe it as someone reaching up inside me, grabbing a handful of guts and slowly twisting while pulling them out.
Between assorted operations I have a scattering of adhesions around my gut which made it interesting at that time of month because they were combined with endmetriosis, so I had little scattered bits of uterine lining attached that screwed with me when hormones decreed.
I wish the medical community would get their heads out of their asses and allow elective hysterectomies. If men went through the same shit on a monthly basis, you bet your ass hysterectomies would be elective, and a way to turn the menstrual cycle OFF until it was needed for reproduction would have been discovered.:mad:
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I only learned about it thanks to this board (fighting ignorance FTW!) and also wondered why this wasn’t covered in the “boys in this room; girls in that room” video day.
Also … yay for you!
Concur. With feeling.
I get anxious for no reason. My life is good, no health, relationship, money problems… So that leaves mental 
I always figured the tape around the organic bananas was to differentiate them from regular ones. They’re so much more expensive, at least around here. No doubt people would try to pull a switcheroo.
That doesn’t explain why they can’t bundle smaller numbers together, though.
I need a drink. Except, not really. Just got a phone call from my eighth grade daughter’s school counselor. My daughter has been cutting herself. I could just cry, and kick myself for not noticing, and cry some more. The counselor told me that Girl 2.0 didn’t want me to know, because I already have too much to worry about. My poor little girl…
Oh, that poor child. And poor you, too!
I suspect saying this won’t make a difference to you right now, but don’t beat yourself up over not noticing. You’ve had a hell of a lot on your plate for a long time now, and kids are *really *good at hiding things from their parents.
((((Lacunae Matata))))
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I am not, and never have been, a cutter (though I’ve known a couple) and I could still guarantee you I could hide that shit for years if I chose to do so. I hope the counselor gave you some resources and/or advice.
This +100. I probably couldn’t hide it from a lover, but from a mother? Easy peasy. I’m very glad your daughter “allowed” herself to be caught by the counselor. Offers you a mudslide and lots of supportive hugs.
To kaylasmom: Just some friendly advice from an internet stranger…you might consider changing your recipes. I know that you cook yummy, nutritious food that your family loves, but kaylasdad would benefit from eating more Omega 3, vitamin C, B3 and B5 than he is now. Canned salmon isn’t that much more expensive than tuna, so use it in his sandwiches. If he’s anything like my cats, he will winge and moan if you do it right away, so start mixing it in slowly. Give him fruit salads for desert and cut some fruit up for him to munch on at work. He needs to eat a rainbow of food every day. Also, I could be wrong, but I don’t think that you can overdose a human with glucosamine. Sprinkle some on his sandwiches as well, the salmon will cover the taste.
My BB has been having knee pain for the same reason your hubby is…worn out joints. I’m probably the worse cook in the world, but I’m a pro at cutting things up, opening cans and mixing stuff together. I’ve learned that if I pack whole fruit in his lunch, he doesn’t eat them, but if it is cut up, he does. Personally, I think that salmon salad on 7 grain bread is about the yummiest thing ever, but it took a while for my BB to get used to them. Men are often like cats…don’t change their food too fast or they will not eat it. Do it slowly and they will get used to it.
Good luck!
PS I just found a link that explains it much better than I did.
My computer just did a marathon freeze-up and crash. I had to run a system restore, so here’s hoping that fixed it. If not I’ll have to haul it back into the shop and I just had to drop $100 to get it fixed last week. :mad: