Dear cross street neighbors,
It really isn’t kosher to move my garbage cans around just so you can park in front of our house instead of your own house. At least this time you didn’t put them behind my van so I didn’t hit one in the fog of early morning driving, but mixing them in with the next door neighbor’s cans is confusing at best. Just leave them where they are and park in front of your own house!
You should just put them on top of their car.
Heh, we are talking SUVs here - I’m not that tall … 
Eh, one slim jim and you can dump the garbage on their front seats and put the cans away.
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Been struggling with pain and depression issues, all that fun stuff. Decided I was going to go to bed at 8 last night.
At 7:32pm, I closed my programs, locked the PC, went to the kitchen and had my sleepy-time pill in hand before I even realized what I was doing. “Oh well, I guess I’m going to bed NOW”.
Would not be surprised if I did the same tonight.
My mom just had a surgery that went okay, but her recovery was rough and her roomie was a beeyatch.
And I just had a MRI on my elbow, thought I would just lie on my back as I had for previous MRIs on other parts, ended up on my stomach with forehead on bent left arm and my bone-spur-impingement-syndrome right shoulder straight out in front of me through a tube. The pain from said shoulder was so intense that I couldn’t stop trembling. My neck and back have been screwed up for two days.
I hate this month.
Ouch, viva. I hope at least the world’s-most-uncomfortable-MRI told the dr’s something useful about your elbow. And I hope your mom is done recouperating and that the roomie gets caught by karma. At least it’s almost April.
I hate to complain about driving issues because they are so universal but today was particularly interesting. I was on a 4 lane road with a center turn lane. I’m in the left lane. I had just gone through an intersection when the car ahead of me in the right lane decided to do a u-turn. Cut across me (time to slam on the brakes!), cut across the turn lane (car coming the other way stops), and into the left lane going the other direction! I guess he wanted that road we just passed…
It’s been a LONG damn time since I had any spotting at all so I got spoiled and I’ve completely forgotten the “is it OK to wear these panties today?” dance in the morningtimes. Apparently, no, it wasn’t OK to wear these today.
I LIKED these panties, dammit. 
They have cute wide blue stripes. And I just got to work and it’ll be a long time before I can soak them so the stain will likely set and while I won’t throw them out just yet they’ll now join the ranks of “those” panties.
Bah!
Moving is a bitch.
Two weekends ago, I was on the phone (for an hour+ ) with various utility companies to move my plans over, and in the interim, a friend decided to help me pack my room. His version of packing consists of throwing everything into boxes, without regard of what clothes were in a hamper, what clothes were clean, but not put up, what were books or various other items in the room. Unpacking every box is like Christmas Day, because I never know what I’ll find. Mind you, I was thankful for the help. Since everything has intermingled, the plan was to do a load of laundry every night until I’m caught up.
Additionally, our new cable box doesn’t let us watch local channels for some strange reason. If I go to ABC, CBS, etc., I see the information bar with programming information about the show, but the majority of the screen is black, without any audio. The cable guy is coming on Saturday to fix it, and my work-around in the interim has been to log on to a family member’s Dish Network account on my laptop, so I can access the DVR / PrimeTime Anytime shows and watch them on my laptop. Well, last night, those family members were experiencing severe weather, so I had difficulty accessing the signal, and when I could, it was nothing but weather updates.
I took that as a sign to do more laundry, and to pass the time, I got on Facebook. I stumbled upon a high school friend’s wife’s post, where she posted a link to something from the “Food Babe,” and the resulting comments were an echo chamber of misinformation and ignorance. I replied in the thread with an NPR article that questions the “authority” of the Food Babe, and I get snarky replies of how I don’t want both sides of the debate to be told, how this must be so important to me, etc.
With time to kill and wondering if she’ll take the bait, I ask her about her thoughts on dihydrogen monoxide. She says that it sounds dangerous, and that she doesn’t want to put chemicals into her or her family’s bodies. I then post this link, spelling out the dangers of the substance. She replies and says that she definitely wouldn’t want that in her body, and asks what my thoughts are. I merely say that I think the pros outweigh the cons.
She then goes into a lengthy post about how she wants to protect her family, and she doesn’t know why anyone would ingest something so unnatural, that I obviously don’t care about my health, etc. I immediately reply with another link, explaining that dihydrogen monoxide is water, and that my entire point was that, with the correct verbage, anything could be made out to seem dangerous, and that she shouldn’t take the Food Babe at her word.
An hour later, I find that I’ve been blocked by her, and her husband defriended me on Facebook.
So, I’m not sure if I’m pitting the act of moving, bad weather, my habit of engaging a situation that I know won’t end well, or the fact that people are blissfully and willfully ignorant.
Purplehorseshoe, I have found that Oxi-clean powder works really well on organic stains. My DH is on blood thinners and bleeds easily, and if I soak things in a fairly strong solution of oxyclean for a few hours, the blood will come out. I even cleaned a shirt that had already been washed and dried with the blood on it and after soaking overnight it all came out. Hope it works.
Thanks–your hopes are working! Mom is back in her retirement home apt. and doing great.
When the roomie has surgery today, she will find out what it’s like to have had a tube down her throat.
The new roomie is very confused and combative. Good thing mom got discharged.
My neck is still funky, but improving.
I just,keep a bottle of hydrogen peroxide in the laundry room. Hit the stain with the peroxide and let it sit a bit then a little detergent just before throwing in the wash. Works wonders!
Ugh. Raucous school board meeting tonight. Local idiot admins are trying to fire our wonderful elementary school principal. We were all basically it was none of our business and that we have no right to know how our school is run and how our tax dollars are spent. This fucking state of NJ is so corrupt I could scream. We have a tiny local school district. Why the hell do we need a superintendent who makes six figures and basically does nothing?
A soak in an ammonia/water solution will also do the job IME.
Run against him/her.
Dr. Bronner’s Sal Suds works miracles on bloodstains (and other hard-to-get-out stains). Sometimes I have to do it twice to get it all out, but in the many years I’ve used it, I’ve only had one stain that didn’t completely go away.
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This! You can actually see the stain being pulled out of the fabric by the bubbles.
Be careful if the stained area has extended into the blue stripes though…peroxide can bleach some fabrics.