Fuck my sinuses. I’ve been out of it all day what with the pressure and the pain and the vertigo and the feeling like I’m going to be sick without being sick.
Thanks. I appreciate the kind words. I am going to go look at the latest pictures from NASA, a genuine triumph, to cheer myself up.
Ha ha ha – this made me smile. Thanks. 
((((Toxgoddess)))) Sorry that you’ve had so much bad news.
My poor sweet eldest child is in pain from her new braces. She’s sitting my lap and moaning softly. Frick.
Huh. 64-bit. Not what I would have expected from a machine from Goodwill, but, okay.
That sucks.
And now for my braces story. I had to pay mine all out of pocket because insurance wouldn’t cover any of it. They said it was because it was ‘congenital’ and ‘was there before I got the insurance’. Plus I had to get an implant on top of it because I was missing a tooth that I never knew about because I never had it and the teeth just grew together normally. Between the implant and the braces, it ended up costing me about $7,000 out of pocket.
Just got a call from my surgeon’s office this morning. It seems that the small patch of ringworm on the back of my left thigh is enough to have the surgeon cancel my right hip replacement that had been scheduled for next Monday.
I got a call from a nurse navigator yesterday, and she was the first person to ask me if I had any skin rashes. I’d have thought somebody would have asked about that somewhat earlier in the process, like before scheduling the surgery. :smack:
Toxgoddess, I don’t want to come off as perfunctory about it, but I’m really sorry that you and your friends and loved ones are having to deal with such a shit-ton of life-threatening crap. It really puts my problems into perspective. {hugs}*
*(not sure of the appropriate number of those braces that goes into one of those)
In his defense, people are dying to get one.
Not quite as bad as tombstones, but several years ago, I kept getting calls from folks wanting to sell me a septic tank. Not exactly the sort of thing that one buys on the spur of the moment, or needs a reminder of, eh?
Toxgoddess, I hope things lighten up for you. What a horrible series of events! {{{Hugs}}}
Very tiny rant: my mother and my aunt are having “milestone” birthdays this week - Ma is 65, Auntie is 80 - so we’re having a party for them on Saturday. I’m the baker in the family, mostly, so I volunteered to make cakes. I don’t do “pretty” baking, or fancy, but tasty, so I planned to fix two or three sheet cakes of various flavors. Ma has taken over the planning, and decided the cupcakes would be so much nicer, because she has a cupcake tree to serve with. So, instead of 10 minutes of active time per cake, and having the oven on for about 1.5 hours, I get to spend a total of about 3 hours active time, with the oven on for at least three hours. Because, apparently, sheet cakes are “so hard to serve.” I originally volunteered to make ice cream, too, but I’m buying it instead, because the cupcakes will take so much time.
I guess I’ll save the peach ice cream for my own birthday next weekend!
Bake the sheet cakes, get square baking cups. Cut the cakes and put into baking cups. As long as the icing seals the edge of the cup to the cake, it won’t dry out.
My rant: I started a weight loss endeavor about three months ago. Mostly just food logging and figuring out my issues, because overeating even healthy food is a problem. I have to work out my food issues as well as get moving. I’ve started using MyFitnessPal and a wearable activity tracker. It’s a process for me, and I’m getting baby steps closer to making real progress. Yay me. The ranty part? Co-worker and I get into a conversation about it since I really like the tracker and was showing it to him. Then he tells me he’s simply switched to mostly vegetables and lost 6 inches in the last 6 weeks. It’s so simple! Yeah, fuck off dude. Just. Fuck. Off.
Oh NOW you mention this, now that I have all of the baking done! (Actually, I don’t think Ma’s cupcake server will accommodate square cakes, but I’m doing this next time - with kids in school, there’s always a next time, and it’s a sight easier to bake, frost, and cut a sheet cake than to do a couple of dozen individuals.) But we have strawberry cheesecake cupcakes, red velvet, and chocolate peanut butter. And Girl 2.0 loves to decorate, so I’ll let her fill and frost tomorrow. And I still have time to cool the house before the sun rises.
It’s okay to kill people like this. And concealing a body burns lots of calories, if you do it right.
sticks imaginary face into imaginary (but real) pile of amazing cupcakes
Oops, sorry, were you needing those?? wipes frosting off eyebrows
(briefly considers hiding a body in the trunk of an abandoned car down the street.) Thanks, all I needed was permission!
I think my nephews aren’t.
Sorry about the loadup of crap.
Another friend hidden on Facebook after she started sharing links to antivaccine idiocy. Between these idiots, and the friends/family who have been hidden due to political buffoonery, my Facebook feed will soon be nothing but game requests and pictures of cats…
Toxgoddess, I’m so, so sorry.
Dang. That’s an excellent idea and I had high hopes (I can definitely see some complicated pretend game involving an imaginary picnic on the sofa) but nope, nothing.
If two kids worked together really well, could they *dematerialise *cutlery?
In the past 2-3 years, I’ve bought approximately 3.21^24 spoons. We currently own about 6. I’m pretty sure that the little girls throw them into the trash can when I’m not looking.
That seems all kind of fucked up - everyone I know who needed braces was because of ‘congenital’ issues; I mean, isn’t that the point? Your teeth grow in crooked, and you use braces to fix that?
Now, the pre-existing condition thing is maybe supportable. I guess they think your previous insurance should have handled that? I remember a story (joke? comic?) about a woman with braces, and some kids are discussing her and one says “you’d think her parents were have remembered”.
I think they meant the missing tooth was congenital thus the implant wasn’t covered.