I have an extra screen that I move icons that I never use to. Since I use Zinio, Newstand joined the others there for now.
Today’s rant: got up and drove husband to his 11:30 doctor’s appointment (an hour away)and because he’s on night shift and too sleepy to drive safely. We arrived 15 minutes early. At 12:30, he hadn’t even been called to the back, so I drove across town to get the shoes he needed (would’ve been neatly on the way home, but I had to also get the baby out of the waiting room. She was too fussy.) Also stopped for lunch and gas, and now I’m back. Waiting in the parking lot, and he’s ALMOST finished. It’s 2:00 pm. I hope he can get a nap on the way home, because he has to be back on duty at 5:00, for a 12tow hour shift and court all day tomorrow. Stoopit scheduling monkeys. Or stoopit husband for not rescheduling!
No, I don’t actually believe I have any chance at all of winning anything significant in McDonald’s Monopoly, but if all your adverts, including the game pieces themselves, shout “One in Four wins!” I expect at least a couple orders of fries, maybe. So how is it I’m up to 24 game pieces and only one has been a free menu item?
Yeah, first world problems, I know. Maybe I’l have a more robust rant once the hassle of getting (or not) the car loan I’ve been negotiating is over.
How fucking often do you eat at McDonald’s that you have 24 pieces? I think that’s the real first world problem.
You’re only playing half the game. See those codes on the pieces? You need to go to their website, register and login, so you can play their stupid idiotic “Hit the Hat” flash game to get a chance to earn…
“my coke reward points”
Which require you to login/register at Coca-Cola’s website for “my coke reward points”, enter your winning code, allowing you to choose from a whole bunch of crap that you didn’t want in the first place.
Even worse, the game at the McD’s site is completely random - it doesn’t matter how you play it, you’re going to hit the hat dependent upon whatever variables exist in their programming. You can even click on the character throwing the card and get the card in the hat.
Best yet, they only allow 10 tries a day, so if you have a bunch of Monopoly pieces and decide your life is best wasted trying to do this (as, apparently, my wife decided for me this past Tuesday evening), you can only do 10 per day.
Invisible Champ, chill out guy. They give 4 per item so if you buy food for you and your kids, you can easily get 24 pieces. And if El Kabong doesn’t have kids/spouse/friends that s/he’s getting pieces for, relax - it’s just a message board where you read that somebody went to McD’s enough to get 24 game pieces. :rolleyes:
My nose hurts.
It might be broken, or cracked, or something.
All I know is on Sunday the small boy nailed me in the nose with his rock hard little skull, the whole room went white and I started crying. It is now Thursday, and while I didn’t bruise or swell (much) my nose hurts just as much as it did Sunday.
Also, I touch my face. A lot. Which I never realized, but now know because of how my my nose hurts whenever I touch it.
Boo.
Owie! My daughter got me with a well-thrown sippy cup the other day, right on the bridge of my nose. Not broken, but bruised, swollen, and exquisitely painful. And you’re right: it’s surprising how often you touch your face without noticing. (I had to buy new sunglasses, since my regular ones sit right on a hurty spot.) You have my deepest sympathy!
Last time I played it, there were two per food item. You could get two on some fries, two on a burger, and two on your drink, for six pieces per meal. My understanding is that they’re not included in Happy Meals or kid’s meals.
It’s amusing you misspelled my name Invisible Champ instead of Invisible Chimp. At least you didn’t call me Invisible Chump.
That’s right, Invisible Chirp. 
So, I got a migraine this morning, except that it started while I was asleep. So by the time I woke up I was already into the aura phase, and my medication only partially works if I wait that long. If I take my meds the minute I realize I’m having blind spots in my vision, then I’m golden.
Thanks, brain! How am I supposed to register blind spots in my vision when I’m asleep, huh??
I got my midterm back today and see I didn’t do as good as I thought. Not even close. Close enough that there is hope that I slog through and study hard and I can pass, or I will fail miserably. Or I can withdraw, lose all my tuition and start over again next semester.
On top of this, since I had class tonight I had to grab food on the go and having a craving for deep fried wontons I went to my favorite place and nearly went crazy trying to deal with traffic. I put the food on the seat beside me and had to hit the brakes, so I then had Chinese food all over the floor of the passenger seat and had to clean it up before class so my car wouldn’t get all nasty, and had to go to class with a very nearly empty stomach. I had no change for the vending and Tim’s on campus was packed and nothing else was open.
My knee doesn’t hurt quite so much now but it was a bad time for me to fall apart because I am getting the fuck outta Dodge for the weekend.
Bought a knee brace Thursday because it popped several times Wednesday; it felt as if my kneecap moved from one side to another and my eyes watered in pain while i was cursing and hanging on to things… Taking knee brace, ibuprofen and heating pad with me. Fuck this noise.
Had my first mammogram yesterday - not because it’s “Breast Cancer Awareness Month,” thanks, but because I finally found the requisition after my phone popped up the reminder that my yearly gyno appointment is next month - and I wish someone had suggested that I might take some preventative OTC pain relief beforehand.
Because goddamn, did that hurt!
They tell you not to breathe during the actual scan part, and for a few scans, I had to really concentrate to keep from almost “panting” with pain. And this morning, I’m still sore in spots.
Apparently it’s not that way for everyone (and breast size supposedly isn’t a factor either - I’m a B cup), and because I’m still younger it might be hormones influencing the breast tissue. Plus I think it was partially a very zealous tech because the backup tech - they couldn’t get a good scan around my armpit lymph nodes and had to get someone else to give it a shot - wasn’t clamping the machine down as hard.
I like to think of myself as pretty tough about medical tests. Yearly gyno exam, no problem. Had an IUD put in and went out for lunch and drinks afterwards - and walked to the restaurant. Transvaginal uterine ultrasound with catheter stuck up into the uterus - meh, had a chat with the (male) radiologist about my department’s imaging equipment while it was going on. Lots of bright lights and things done to my eyeballs while calibrating equipment in my department (ophthalmology)? Big deal, sign me up for more. But this? This really hurt.
I’m not a wuss, I’ll be back next year for the next scan.
In fact, I might even be back in a couple weeks if they couldn’t get a good look at parts. For the baseline scan, they really need to know what’s “normal” for you. So I might be there for up to a couple hours while they get the radiologist to scan.
Oh, and the mass media promotional materials for mammograms seem to show this as an easy “insert Breast A into Machine B, squeeze, push button” process. Just letting you know - you need to be comfortable with some strange woman handling your breasts like they’re bread dough. There’s lots of grabbing and repositioning to get the best angle.
I’m personally a fan of letting people know exactly what they’re in for when it’s time to get a test done, so hopefully I haven’t scared anyone off, but rather made them more educated about it. Just take my advice and take a couple aspirin/Tylenol/whatever beforehand, just in case.
Well, I’ve managed to build up the current total by having a breakfast or lunch there every 3-4 days, but yeah, sure, sneer at me for eating there too much if you must. Mom.
Huh, I bet you’re completely visible after all, aren’t you? Right? Right?
Thanks for the heads-up, Ferret Herder.
Hauled the trash out to the curb yesterday evening and discovered that when I’d gone out in the darkness with the recycling the night before I mixed up the bins. (They’re the same size/shape, and I can’t tell which one is gray and which one is blue in the darkness.) We don’t make much trash, so the recyclables were all near the bottom, far out of my reach. Oops, sorry, Mother Earth - mah bad. 
In unrelated news, Mr. Shoe and his dad ree-hee-heeeaallly need to wire up and install that outside light they’ve been talking about for almost a year now.
Ohhh, thanks for the reminder. I’ve got a new light for the front of my house that’s been sitting in the hall closet since I bought it in July 2009. I need to get it to the top of the to do list before the “It’s too cold” excuse starts working again.
I never eat at McDonald’s, but it’s by far the most convenient place to get my daily caffeine fix, so I’ve accumulated quite a pile of Monopoly pieces. I won free fries one day, but so far that’s it.
Re: mammograms. That must be a YMMV situation, because I had my baseline done at 36 and the most uncomfortable thing about it was the position of my shoulder. I’ve heard other people say it’s pretty painful, though.
I think the best I can come up with as a mini-rant of my own is the fact that I have a cat in my lap and therefore can’t get up to go pee, which I really need to do sometime soon.
Dude who parked diagonally across the two spots closest to the entrance at the convenience store?
You’re an asshole.
Bitch who started a left turn in front of me, without signaling, on her cell phone, then stopped in the middle of the goddamned intersection because you didn’t know where you were going? I honked at you because you’re retarded; don’t honk in answer and look so shocked.
Also, I am getting really, REALLY tired of car commercials inserted into shows. From Bones and the stupid comments about gas efficiency to the 5 lingering shots of the stupid Chevy Cruze in this week’s Psych, to the worst offender, Warehouse 13, which has an entire description of the goddamned car… do you think we don’t notice? I generally LIKE commercials, and it still pisses me off.
Were you driving behind my grandboss, Vihaga? Cuz she drives like that. Just yesterday she was laughingly telling us how she got not one, not two, but three tickets at once (speeding down the freeway, suddenly exited from the middle lane - par for the course, for her, and of course she freely admitted she was on the phone at the time). Then she tells us, “Well, I don’t drive like that with {her three-year-old son} in the car with her.”
The woman is about four months pregnant.
I quietly pointed out that, for now, she always has her daughter with her.
It did not get through.