I really hate it when I’m finished with all the cleaning and heavy lifting and just walking around a corner in my apartment and my pelvis and spine can’t agree on what speed they should rotate.
Thankfully when it happened, I was within arm’s reach of my serious pain meds.
You’re not alone. When my HP conked last time around I went shopping printer reviews and found that HP gets trashed by nearly everybody. They seem to have opted out of being at the top of the printer market in favor of lower profits. Canon printers don’t get such hot reviews, either. I ended up going with an Epson Workforce. While it isn’t all you could hope for, it keeps plugging along. I buy ink from LD Products, which has good (and chipped) after market cartridges.
A movie and intro talk? 
I’ve never heard of that. Where is this at? Is it this movie? 
When I went to jury duty, we just showed up and they called out a few names to come up to the jury box for voir dire and and sent the rest home. No movie and no intro.
A bit ironic in light of recent board events, but I am miserable because we have to go to Europe in a couple of weeks. It’s supposed to be a business trip/once-in-a-lifetime vacation, but we’ll be away from home 18 days, which is just too damn long. My dog is dying…what if she goes before I get back? Also, I need to deal with a situation with my son. Also, my daughter is going to Spain within a week after our return and she is SO not ready. Also, my fear of flying has gotten exponentially worse with recent events. I can take a pill the day we fly, but I’m freaking out right now.
Last but not least, got to get through Easter before we go and it’s always a source of family stress. I swore last year I wouldn’t do it anymore, but I need to go see my family in case I never see them again. Fuck!
Just tore my knee up for the second time in 2 years. This is probably the end of sports for me. 
I have oral thrush, again.
It’s because I use inhaled steroids. Even though I rinse, then rinse again with salt water, and eat plain yogurt, I still get it every few months.
This is very, very tiresome. And it kinda sucks because it hurts to eat anything spicier than a baked potato with butter.
Why, no, I cannot call my idiot dentist. SHE wanted me to see the oral surgeon to “make sure” that it’s thrush. Are you fucking kidding me? You went to dental school and obtained a medical degree, but you have to call someone else in to identify oral thrush in an asthmatic who uses inhaled steroids? PAs, nurses, even *parents *can ID thrush. Anyone who’s had it can certainly ID it after the first time. Patchy white lesions, check. Red and raw if you scrape off the white part, check. Sore mouth? Check.
It’s not rocket science!
Garumph.
Thanks all. I know that losing a cat is not anything like losing a husband or having a Mom in the hospital with a possibly very bad outcome, but as PHS said…the hurt still hurts.
There is a room next to our bedroom that I think was probably meant to serve as a nursery, hubby’s wife just used it as another storage room. I put a couple of litter boxes, a fountain and a hooded litter box with a food bowl there,. The cats can get their kibble, but the dogs can’t. We also put his favorite tree and a couple of beds in there. After we were sure that the room was set up for Lucky, we put baby gates on the bedroom door and the stairs to try to make his world smaller but still allow him to have his buddies come in to visit.
Can you say dismal failure? Able bodied cats can easily get over baby gates, but humans rushing out to the living area to find out why her cat is yowling in the middle of the night don’t do nearly as well. Oh well, it was time for my yearly face plant anyhow, at least this time I did it on carpet. I’d pit my cat, but I know that this isn’t his fault. At least he’s in good enough shape to jump a baby gate, unlike some people I know.
Ha! Thanks for the laugh! Some genius here decided to use a baby gate in one of the office doorways. I was like, :dubious:, it was one with only vertical bars, “You know they can just walk through that, right?” It’s still in the doorway. Someone put plastic sheeting against one side, so it’s at least walk-through proof now, and the cats I think they wanted to keep out can’t jump over it due to disabilities, so it remains even though the cat who “lives” in that office can easily jump out if she wants. She’s happy in there away from the other cats for the most part, but still. :smack:
Thanks for the well wishes (YKWIM). There are two sides to every story, of course. I actually forgot I posted here–I should shut off the PC after my sleepy-time meds. LOL. Neither of us are perfect. I’m just struggling with my medical stuff, big time, and both of us really need a helping hand, and I can’t even get it together enough to hire a part time housekeeper where we are in the sticks. That would help more than anything right now.
I have so many things to vent about, but I’m not sure this is the right venue. I’d love to see a therapist again, but that is also out of the picture for the time being. I just feel like I’m slipping away.
Isilder annoys me. He posts in GQ all the time and virtually all of his posts are factually incorrect.
I hate my driveway. It’s on a slant, so it can be difficult getting the car up the driveway, especially since we still have ice and snow on the driveway.
{{ hugs }}
I’m breaking out on my face quite a bit lately, and the two biggest ones are just to the inside of my temples. I look like a goddamn fledgling demon. Don’t mind me; I’ll just be sitting over here, sprouting horns. :mad:
IT’S SNOWING. It’s almost APRIL and it is SNOWING in here in NJ. Not funny, universe, not funny at all!
My hair is all falling out. Well, not all of it. Just enough to make me look like a burn victim. I wound up having to shave my head, and now I have to keep shaving it every day as the stubble makes the bare patches really obvious. Could be worse, I suppose.
mrAru is totally hairless - he says he really misses his eyelashes and nosehairs. When he started dropping fur everywhere he just started shaving everything. Then he went and got waxed [almost everywhere, he isn’t a masochist:p] and other tan some random single and couple hairs that mistakenly sprout, nothing. They did try him on some sort of sinus spray and eyelash stuff but it really didn’t work. The only real bother is the delamination of his fingernails, they shred really easily and bumping up his biotin with suppliments only partially works.
*mrAru was one of those sort of gorilla-men so it was a shock to some people he hadn’t seen for quite a while the first time he went back home for a visit.
I would be cool with it if it was my body hair falling out. Alas, it’s just my scalp and beard.
Stoppit, crucible! Stop resurrecting this goddamn pit bull thread! Damn thing was finally allowed to fade away into merciful oblivion the first week of January, and now it’s been bumped for no fucking reason at all. None.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=704294&page=22
I don’t want to post that rant in that thread, so I’m putting it here.
Also, my team’s manager is an idiot, the skin on my face is driving me nuts, the current crop of Republican candidates for our country’s next president ranges from “are you kidding me?” to “are you fucking KIDDING me?!?1?!” and I’m gonna owe the IRS quite a chunk o’change on this year’s tax return.
I think that covers everything.
I wanted to complain about my cat peeing on my clothes and that he woke the baby very early this morning with more of his shenanigans. But now it seems silly because a friend’s baby is sick. He’s only about two months old and has a kidney infection. He may also have meningitis. There are too many sick babies right now.
I want to complain that it’s April and there’s no April rants thread yet!