Oh! Huh - ignorance fought. Tho these certainly don’t get the press that Black History month gets.
Well, to be fair, “Asian Pacific American Heritage Month” is also:
ALS Awareness Month
Asthma Awareness Month
Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month
Celiac Awareness Month
Mental Health Awareness Month
Haitian Heritage Month
Hepatitis Awareness Month
Jewish American Heritage Month
Lupus Awareness Month
Motorcycle Awareness Month
National Bike Month
National Guide Dog Month
National Mobility Awareness Month
Zombie Awareness Month
National Foster Care Month
Scandinavian American Heritage Month
National Skin Cancer Awareness Month
There’s a whole lotta causes and only 12 months, so simple arithmetic dictates there has to be a whole lot of overlap.
That must be the same guy who was with me in the locker room at my gym yesterday. Other than me, the place was completely empty, and which locker did the guy have to take? The one next to mine.
Dude, I can deal with a room full of naked guys. But just the two of us, side by side? Not so cool.
:eek:
(I thought I would be clever and respond to this post in a couple of years, but I am not that well organised…)
One of my favorite earrings broke this morning and I don’t know how to fix it. This is what I get for picking favorites, I guess. 
My mother’s clothing fills what used to be enough closets for a family of five. She called asking me to bring her an item that she could not describe, nor tell me which of the multiple closets would contain it.
She doesn’t know where her money goes. After seeing how full those closets are, I do!
Two weeks ago I had a head cold but got over it pretty quickly. I amazed myself that it didn’t move down into my chest because that’s my body’s usual MO. So yay for me, I got off easy!
Last Friday I started coughing up crap. I’d been over the cold for a full week and didn’t have any sinus problems, only what felt like mild bronchitis. All weekend I’ve been coughing and I put it down to seasonal allergies. The trees are in full bloom here and the oak trees seem worst for me. We’re at that seasonal peak here where everything gets a thick coating of yellow/gray pollen - nasty! We almost got a storm last night that might wash everything down, but it turned out to be just some gusty winds that blew all the dusty, discarded tree shit around and up my nose as I walked from my office to the parking lot (almost a block away). This morning I’m having such a raging histamine reaction, despite daily doses of Zyrtec, cough drops, finishing off the Robitussin, and a dose of sudafed that I can’t tell if it’s bad allergies or I have a cold again. Nose is running like a firehose and I’m still hoarse from coughing. I hate being me right now. It’s freaking annoying!
Hm. It appears the correct response to her comment would have been “May. Or, alternatively, March.* (also: you’re fired.)”
*Irish-American Heritage Month. I’m sure there are others, depending on how far down into the rabbithole of racism you want to go to pursue whacky definitions of “white”.
It’s gardening season again, so I will reiterate a micro rant from last year.
Hoses. I hate them. They tangle, leak, corrode, get crushed, and kink.
I wanted to water down some freshly planted seeds in my annual doomed attempt to get a wildflower garden started before the weeds kick in.
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Look for sprinklers (the hoses’ evil sidekick). Over the years, I must have bought thirty sprinklers. Not one could be found. Finally found one in a box, waiting its turn to work for a week and then break.
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Dragged the hoses out. Hitched up the quick connects and walked over to the hose reel. The spray nozzle currently connected to the hose reel was not on a quick connect. To the contrary, it was pretty much welded by corrosion to the hose. Eventually managed to unscrew it (deforming the connection so that it would inevitably leak).
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Turned on the hose and it exploded. The plastic replacement connector just disintegrated and shot icy beginning of the season water everywhere, but primarily in my face.
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Abandoned the hose reel and got a backup hose. Which also had a spray nozzle welded to it by corrosion. As it turned out, permanently welded. Lifetime hose? Not so much.
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Went to garage and found another length of hose (for someone who hates hoses, I have many of them).
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Well over an hour after beginning a simple hose setup, water finally reached my parched ground.
Charlie Brown and kites, Finagle and hoses.
That was me until I found contractor quality hoses and attachments. Spendy as hell, but worth it after years of having your same experience.
Hey, Dummy, need more info. These contractor-quality hoses: where did you buy them? I’m guessing they’re not available at Ye Olde Bigge Box (Lowe’s or HomeDepot). Brand name? Tips for what to look for?
My turn:
Between getting all my bill-paying handled online now instead of using [del]carrier pterodactyls[/del] [del]carrier pigeons[/del] paper checks (it didn’t work while I was still married, but single life - even the unwilling variety - has its perks, and simplicity is one of them) and getting talked into downloading the Google Keep note app for grocery and to-do lists, and now figuring out how to get Outlook to ping me with reminders about emails I need to address … I may be able to untether myself from the pen-and-paper [del]umbilical cord[/del] half-assed organizational sysem I’ve used my whole life.
Why is this in a rants thread?
Because paper checks and grocery lists and random reminders were the last holdouts, things I hand-wrote frequently … and I just spent some time thinking about the hours and hours and HOURS my parents, especially my father, spent during my childhood nagging, haranguing, arguing, and flat-out ***screaming *** because of my handwriting.
What a waste.
There is that - what would “White History” month be? Just WASPs?
This. And cords. Pure evil.
Hoses from Whitecap or whatever your local construction supplies place is.
Prepare for sticker shock.
http://www.whitecap.com/shop/wc/landscape-lawn-garden/garden-hoses-accessories/garden-hoses
They don’t kink or tear or tangle easily, but a warning-they’re heavy sum bitches to haul around a yard, esp. at 100’.
For hose end sprinklers and nozzles, you can try Whitecap (haven’t seen them there), or a local place that sells sprinkler supplies to landscape contractors. Or just buy the best you can
I shop at Wal-Mart for groceries. I know. I wish I didn’t, but I live in a small town and there aren’t a lot of options, and they are the cheapest on a lot of the things I buy regularly. So I do. I also use the Savings Catcher app, where I scan my receipt and it looks at other stores and if it finds any cheaper prices, I get the difference back. I’ve been doing that since October, and I had over $32 accumulated. I just checked it yesterday after uploading a receipt, and hackers took my $32! Unbelievable! It’s a small amount, yes, abd it’s not real cash, yes, it’s an gift card or whatever, but it just blows my mind the things that people will steal. I’ve hadclothes stolen from the laundromat, a cheap stereo stolen from my car, but my savings catcher balance? Really??
Are you sure there isn’t some rule that the balance has to be converted to a gift card within a certain number of days or it is forfeited?
Yeah, I’m sure. On 4/20 I got an email acknowledging that my email had changed and called customer service and was told that my account was hacked and my email changed. So I changed it back and changed my password. I didn’t know that they took my balance until I checked yesterday, But when I called customer service yesterday, I was told that 4/29 was also when that was done, and that it was converted to the gift card and spent at a Wal-Mart in Texas. The rep very magnanimously sent the case to a specialist and I “may” get my money back. (Oh, I’m getting my money back.)
I mean 4/20.
If she has a facebook presence of any note, there might be an album with a picture of her wearing the garment in question.
Ugh! it is all just building up, and I just want it to GO AWAY: my ninety year old mother has bounced in and out of hospital (fractured pelvis from a fall, then a UTI with delirium) she is thinking about entering low level care, which all my sibs and I think is good, and there is a very good facility in her town, but it is still sad and stressful, and requires heaps of organising; university assignments are building to a crescendo with the end of semester 4 weeks away; I got a UTI last week; now I have a dead tooth and infection; my riding horse has a recurrent eye infection and I need to take him to a eye specialist to find out why; and this morning, I have had to have my retired horse put down. I just need it to STOP for a while…