I came back to post that, hours later, I got that one.
I have a couple of friends, both in their early 30s, who started to go gray in high school. People assume sometimes that they’re highlights, but nope.
I seem to have well and truly jacked up my left knee. It’s been bugging me for a few weeks, and apparently last night’s group fitness class was a huge mistake - I swear I was careful! Now I can barely walk on it, and standing up after sitting for a while is agony. I saw my primary care doctor last week, before it got bad, and I have a message in to him asking for a referral to orthopedics, but that could take a while.
The most annoying part? My husband is disabled, and even with a bum knee, I’m still more mobile than he is. No getting out of household chores for me!
My glasses have stopped working. Or maybe my eyes have stopped working. The sweet spot in my bifocals cries, I’m not that old is now in the wrong place. Everything was working until Friday and now I can’t see.
Cough. Cough. I read on the internet (which never lies) that the average cold lasts seven days. This is day eight and I am still coughing up a lung whenever I lie down. Hence being here at 3:30 a.m.
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Flatlined, did your glasses get smushed a bit, or warped a little so they don’t sit the same way? A small thing can put what you’re seeing WAY outta wack!
(BTDT, blind as a bat all my life)
I started noticing gray hairs around age 14. I’m now 40-something and have a lot of gray but it’s not really that noticeable. I’m a natural redhead and it just kind of blends in and looks like highlights. I posted a picture on Facebook recently of me at 16 and one of my co-workers commented about how much darker my hair used to be. I mentioned my grays and she had to stop by my desk the next day to see for herself because she didn’t believe I was going gray.
Me too, but mine’s my right knee. I missed a step at work and landed awkwardly. The day after I fell I could barely walk. It seems like it’s getting better and then I go and do something to it again. Yesterday I cleaned house and today it’s aching something awful. I haven’t been to the doctor yet but it’s looking like I need to go. :mad:
I had a panic attack over the idea of Father’s Day today at the restaurant my nephew works at.
I’ve spent the last year being increasingly angry and stressed out over my dad being an asshole to me about 70% of the time I see him. My entire “you’re not good enough” issues in life stem from him telling me that on a regular basis. (Oh, not that directly, just constantly telling me I don’t know what I’m doing, I don’t know what I’m talking about, I’m wrong, etc)
I’ve got about an hour and a half to go until I have to head over there, and I just don’t want to deal with him anymore. Like, ever.
Then don’t go? Just because he sired you doesn’t mean he deserves your attention, much less anything Father’s Day-y.
Good thought saje. I’m pretty careful with my glasses, but stuff happens. I’ll see our optometrist this week.
My BB has been lying to me about his health again. His doctor has upped his blood pressure meds and his blood thinners. I shouldn’t have to find out about this because I happened to notice that his pills look different. He says its because he didn’t want to worry me. I think that if he does this again, he won’t have to worry about me worrying about his health because he’ll be dead!
(1) Overseas users of our system: When we send out a global email announcing that the system will be down from 8:00 - 11:00 PM Friday night for a code off-release to fix a couple of outstanding issues, that means the system will not be available! Please don’t waste everyone’s time by creating and submitting incident tickets because you can’t log into the system!
(2) YouTube – if I ever do decide that I want to pay to upgrade to YouTube Red, it certainly won’t be because I am desperate to watch your crappy American Idol singing contest ripoff. With all your computing power, can’t you track how many times I’ve skipped that ad the moment I could? Please stop interrupting my videos with it before I have to punch you.
(3) Calico kitty: Yes, I know you don’t like it when we try and remove the mats from your fur, but you’re getting older and apparently not as good at grooming yourself as you used to be. Please have patience with us.
Does the announcement specify a time zone (or GMT)?
On day 4 of the worst head cold I can remember having, with the added bonus of a relapse of the Bell’s Palsy I had 20 years ago. One of my eyes is sagging so bad I have to keep it closed by wrapping something around my head, or else it gets really dry and irritated. What larks, eh Pip? What larks!
I was about to offer to swap your head cold for my chest cold (8 days and counting), Roderick Femm, but then I read further. No thanks, no Bell’s Palsy for me. Not even if it would stop me coughing.
That’s not a real singing contest, it’s a parody.
For coughing I recommend Mucinex, even though they have the worst commercials, it really seems to work for me. On the other hand, my usual daytime go-to for a head cold, Dayquil, isn’t doing a thing for me.
If you’re still hacking up a lung after 7 days (which may actually mean 8 or 9), and according to multiple medical sources I trust more than the internet (yes I perceive the irony) you should hie thee to a doctor.
I got a week of medical leave and one of those 3-pill courses of antibiotics, on day 10 of The Cold From Hell.
Flatlined, one advantage of modern frames is that they can carefully be twisted back into shape (best if the optometrist does it, since you’re going anyway). A disadvantage, that they do twist out of shape.
I got nothin’… the weather is warm… the sun is shining… I’m heading Home this weekend to vote, the following weekend for vacation… I guess I could complain about the stupid political ads (“Vote PSOE for Change!” - dude, you were already using that slogan thirty-plus years ago with Felipe Gonzalez, isn’t it about time you changed it?). I spent twenty minutes waiting for two buses which shouldn’t even have been in that parking lot to load up and get out of the way (if I hadn’t asked one of the teachers what time where they loading they might still not have started) but the combination of beautiful morning and flexible-ish entry time means I didn’t really mind.
Do y’all hate me a lot?
Ooh, if we’re anti-rantin’…
I’d planned to spend the summer teaching, but the class didn’t fill and got cancelled. And I immediately discovered that time is a lot more important to me than cash.
My day? Well, got up early (sunny, 80ºF) and had a bowl of Lucky Charms while I watched an old episode of Superman (good B&W George Reeves stuff). Then puttered in the garden and biked to a hardware store and a coffee joint (where I read and drew a bit). Got home in time to let the dogs out and have lunch on the porch. (Gee, I’d mention the lake view and the breeze and the beer, but y’know…) Then I disassembled an old gas grill (tomorrow I replace half the hardware and re-assemble) and scraped some old paint off the house (tomorrow I replace that with Kilz primer). Grilled some dead cow in time for the wife to get home for dinner (3rd 12-hr shift in a row…glad SOMEone’s working :~). A little more work on the grill and a bike ride and now I’m watching Better Call Saul and catching up on The Dope.
I figure you all hate Nava enough (for her weather and vacation) that you won’t even notice me…
Jeez. Take it to the MMP, pal…
Seriously. It was one fucking hundred fucking degrees here today. It’s unusual for it to be in the 80’s at our house, so of course I chose today to take one of the dogs and the cat to the vet. It was 114 in the van when I started it up.
I’m too old for this shit.