Mousie, I’m a huge fan of the Dyson vaccuums. Yes, they cost a bloody fortune, but ours does a spanking good job where other vaccuum cleaners have failed miserably.
Mind you, we’re the kind of household that causes weak vaccuum cleaners to commit suicide by hairball… we’ve got two perpetually shedding cats and two humans who leave their fair share of hair lying around as well (mine’s on my head, his is everywhere but his head).
Good luck with the interview! Fingers crossed for you.
Haze, way to stick it to The Man! I want to play hooky and go to the museum too. sniff
:eek: :smack: Well, you oughta learn something new every day. Thanks gt! Hey, though, I’m trying to figure out a use for the braille characters. Um, like if you are so blind you need braille, how could you use them??
Speaking of blind and glasses. This morning I finally capitulated and went for an optometry exam. I will soon be the recipient of a swank pair of progressive bifocals. They are quite cute, but not nearly as cute as missy haze. I wish to hell they didn’t have to put those damn drops in your eyes though. It’s giving me a headache and is scary to look at.
Thanks, Mindy, but I was (mostly!) kidding–I know it’s not really feasible to send such stuff across the borders. Wishful thinking is all. Actually, I could probably get street Vicodin pretty easily but I’m not up to it… I’ll stick to the Aleve and tough it out; I’ve done it before and I’ll do it again no doubt.
Rigs, DoRe, I don’t have health or dental insurance so any kind of expensive repair work is right out. I could have the fucking thing pulled for about $200 but if I did I’d have no viable upper chewing surface left since I lost a couple molars on the other side and I just can’t face a life of soup and pudding. My body will fight off the worst of the infection until I can get my fish antibiotics in the mail–it’s better now than a couple of years ago because for some weird reason it became impossible to get antibiotics on the internet. I blame Dubya and his buddies at BigPharma. Amoxicillin is what I’d be prescribed if I paid $150+ at the local uninsured urgent care clinic, plus I’d have to pay for the scrip as well so as far as I’m concerned I’m better off paying just the twenty bucks for the fish mox and killing off the infection myself. This way I don’t have to make a decision about whether or not to pay the mortgage. Then I’ll stockpile for the next time it flares up, which it will until the whole area encapsulates with scar tissue. None of this resignation on my part changes the fact that I am white hot pissed off that I live in a country that will not institute universal health care for its citizens. Every time I read some complacent, whinging bullshit on this board from some fat bastard who has great health coverage and doesn’t want universal because it might mean he has to wait a day or two to get his Viagra prescription I get totally stabby. No taxpaying, productive citizen of this country should have to go around with a face like a zombie mutant because health care costs are retardedly, obscenely out of all proportion to reality. I mean, really–$150 for a nurse practitioner to look at my grotesquely swollen face, say “my that’s quite the infection, here’s a scrip for antibiotics and you should go to the dentist!” Fuck that. Sorry for the rant, but my face is about twice the size it was last night–I couldn’t bear to post the pics this time because it’s just TOO grotesque and I still have a bit of vanity despite my venerable decrepitude. Suffice to say that one eye looks like it ought to be on an Eskimo and I have a morbid fear that half my face is going to slough off in a disgusting avalanche of purulence and leave it at that!
Thanks all, for the well wishes and congrats on my impending MIL-hood. I am rather looking forward to welcoming StepGranddaughter into the mix and hope some siblings follow soon–on the plus side I know for a fact that soon to be DIL is a good breeder and makes pretty babies. Proof positive–of course Musical Stepdad insists she have a guitar!
Good luck there, mousie!
pprgrl, I thought I was bad about eating rank shite for brekkies, but you take the cake! shudder
Thanks for the Good Luck wishes guys. I’ll let you know how it goes tomorrow afternoon.
Happy 3-month day, TNC!
Pugs there’s a machine that prints braille that connects to your computer (I believe via USB). So, you could be typing something for someone blind to read. Its a very loud machine, much like an old fashioned typewriter, that uses very heavy paper, almost like cardstock, so that the braille ‘bumps’ are more pronounced. When I was in college, I did a presentation for a Special Ed class on education of the blind.
Ok VBob, I can offer fresh-caught salmon and your pick of a local micro-brew. There are reasons we put up with the incessant rain here, ya know!
Ok, I’m still not awake but thoroughly squicked out. I went to pick up my travel mug for a lovely swig of coffee and found… a squished spider on the side! I then realized I had squished it! There were spider guts on the palm of my hand and smeared on my mouse I have a bit of arachnaphobia (I didn’t used to, either), so have been grossed out all morning! Thankfully, my boss is spending the morning at home, so he isn’t here to chuckle at me and hear me grumbling about it.
Thank you all for the welcome. I must admit, I’ve been lurking these boards for… a while… and finally decided to jump in with both feet. No halfway for me!
All right, I’ve been futzing and grumbling all morning, I really need to get some work done.
Swampy, we were excited when it got UP to the 50s yesterday! Everyone was going outside without jackets and commenting on how nice it was.
I’ve got a Kenmore canister vacuum that I really like and that works really well on both carpets and flooring. Mom just had to buy a new vac and after searching Consumer Reports and stuff, she got another Kenmore (to replace her old Kenmore… so we’ve been loyal buyers for a while) too. I’m a big fan of canister vacs as they’re a lot easier to carry up and down stairs and they do perform well if you have both carpet and hardwood/laminate/vinyl.
pprgrl, you mentioned that your username has something to do with what you do (or something like that… I’m going from memory here, and that could be a bit faulty!). What do you do that is abbreviated as pprgrl? I keep reading it as pepper girl, and I can’t come up with many jobs/hobbies relating to pepper!
There was a turkey outside our (really suburban, office-park-type setting) townhouse this morning! We think he’s looking for a job.
The weather here is really confused. This morning, in the space of about half an hour, I got sleet, then rain, then snow. Then it all stopped and the sun’s been trying (though mostly failing) to come out.
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Dead spiders are far better than live ones, ThirdOne.
{{{Smartie}}} Sounds like you need to move somewhere that has a national health service, like the UK or Australia! US healthcare sounds like a nightmare and my sister’s recent experience working at the Cleveland Clinic left me in little doubt that the grand old US of A is one place where I never want to get sick or need medical attention!
Well, it’s nearly bedtime here in Gumdrop land. I just wanted to let you all know that today was a much happier day. I had a few stern words with HRH this morning about the acrobatics during nappy changes and she apparently understood, because the rest of the day she only gave me a few whines and grumbles, but otherwise lay still! Hooray for the serious Mummy voice!
Around my left eye? Where do you think I put my face on a regular basis? And the dermatologist’s office is closed AGAIN. When do they work?
I am home from the library and tired but happy. I may need to go one more time (I offered), but that’s ok. That will build goodwill and all that crap, no?
The dentist was ok, but my tooth is really rough, so I go back at 430 for polishing. I did not need a crown, praise god, just a new filling.
Aleq–you rant very well. Sorry about your tooth. I hear ya on the National Health Insurance. The people who are against it don’t seem to realize that one way or another, we DO pay for it. We do not have the best health care in the world, and by other standards, such as infant mortality, our standing is an embarrassment–on par with third world nations. Bah is right.
The sun, he is out and shining. The wind is frigid, though. I may lay down for a bit.
You know, all I do in here lately is say hi, sorry I’m not around…
Geezus, it has to be 95 degrees in this room! I’m sitting in a conference room being used for two consecutive meetings, both of which I have to be at, and there’s time to kill, and so…
Last night was a drunken post in case that wasn’t clear to everyone.
First things first: Happy 3 month birthday, TNC!!!
Two down, three to go, woo hoo!
I had a headache when I left work, but it has now mysteriously vanished. Hmmm… maybe it was leaving the building?! Ya think? Or maybe it was the two toaster waffles I just scarfed down. LOL
Ah well … off to rest for a bit. More later tonight.
Tuna steak and corn and fries (baked in the oven) for supper. Yum.
Then I need to call my kid and discuss the groom’s cake. And something else - I keep forgetting what I need to ask her. It’ll come to me, eventually. Like 2 this morning.
Surely my slipping memory is due to a serious chocolate defiency.
I went for the Hopper exhibit but enjoyed the Homer one more. Pretty watercolors. Too many tourists though.
I was googling stuff for PCOS and one website told me I should talk to my ovaries and tell them I love them. :dubious: Cheaper than a doctor’s visit, at least.
I’m tryyyying to get out of here - they want me to print my part I’ve been working on all day before I leave. Have I ever mentioned the slow-ass server I work on? Grrr.
I’m hungry, too. Makes me all the more grrr-y. (Is too a word!)
I’m gonna make beef and cabbage stir-fry. Hamburger, bell peppers, onions and lots o’cabbage. Yummo.
See y’all manana - no time for fancy squiggles on the n’s.
I made fudge over the weekend that’s going over very well at work. And it was really easy:
Super easy fudge
18 oz chocolate chips*
1 can (14 oz) sweetened condensed milk
6 tbsp butter
Melt all ingredients and stir until smooth. Pour into a lined 8x8 pan (lined with waxed paper or parchment) and refrigerate overnight.
*Note: You can make this really fancy-looking by using 6 oz (1 cup) of white chocolate chips and 2 cups of semi-sweet or 1 cup each of semi-sweet chips and milk chocolate chips. Melt 1 cups of chips (one of the dark varieties) with 2 tbsp butter and 1/3 of the condensed milk (a scant 1/2 cup) and pour into the pan. Allow to harden for 1/2 an hour. Melt the white chips (the white looks good in the middle) with 2 tbsp butter and 1/3 of the condensed milk. Pour over the first layer. This is a good time to add some chopped nuts over the top while it’s soft. Allow to harden for 1/2 an hour. Finish with the last cup of chips, the remaining 2 tbsp of butter, and the remaining condensed milk. Pour over the top. Refrigerate.
I, personally, don’t like it with the white chocolate. But to gauge by the reactions I’m getting, if you like white chocolate, it’s really good! And so much simpler than my standard recipe that involves sifting a pound of powdered sugar!
Alt + 0241 = ñ
(Guess which symbols Spaz had to memorize for typing lots of español vocabulario? Yes, ü was one of them.)
I need to go to the dentist. Alas, there be a lack of funds to do so. I already have to pay $90+ for my car this month (inspection and taxes). Ah, the fun of owning a post 1996 car…
I have a bit of arachnaphobia (I didn’t used to, either), so have been grossed out all morning! Thankfully, my boss is spending the morning at home, so he isn’t here to chuckle at me and hear me grumbling about it.
US healthcare sounds like a nightmare and my sister’s recent experience working at the Cleveland Clinic left me in little doubt that the grand old US of A is one place where I never want to get sick or need medical attention!
And the dermatologist’s office is closed AGAIN. When do they work?
