# Northern Exposure - An Arctic MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [August 14, 2006, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-an-arctic-mmp/368641 "2006-08-14T08:10:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-an-arctic-mmp/368641/101 "2006-08-15T13:27:34Z")
Morning all! It’s going to be a hot one today, so Maggie Wonderbeagle and I are going to the dogpark. For everyone who wants a gay boyfriend/wife/auxiliary husband, it reminds me of a line from my favorite [song](http://www.onlylyrics.com/song.php?id=1040): I need a vacation from my life Me and my husband we need a wife Somebody who’s sole ambition is laundry **bobbio** , you could start a new tradition: Burning Man East. good luck to **Taters** and **Tatersmom**. My mom had breast cancer 5 years ago. She had a lumpectomy, and they even let her keep her hair. ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-an-arctic-mmp/368641/102 "2006-08-15T13:48:23Z")
Mawnin! Gonna be another hot one here…well, it IS Flawduh, so, DER!!! Please spare some of the good wishis for my dad. He’s been in a lot of spinal pain the last couple of weeks which is “probably” arthritic in nature. The pain med from his doctor just isn’t working and he has lost all strength and a lot of weight. He’s going back to the doc today so everybody please send good vibes. **kai** and **meeks** , thanks for the nice words. :o I don’t want a wife. Current husband fits the bill to a T, thankewveddymuch. Does everything I ask him and then some. I am very lucky. I Don Juan be here either. Tupug ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-an-arctic-mmp/368641/103 "2006-08-15T14:25:19Z")
Good morning everybody. Just a quick hello before I get buried in work for the day. I’ve got nothing exciting to report. I don’t want to be here either. It’s very difficult to return to work after being off for two weeks. I need to be independently wealthy; that’s the ticket! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-an-arctic-mmp/368641/104 "2006-08-15T14:34:41Z")
I got two nice compliments last night: someone complimented my hair, saying it looked “so beautiful down”, and then a young Indian man left some other customers at the Indian store to come over and serve me, and then gave me such a _longing_ look on the way out the door. It was nice. 🙂 In other news I bought the game Syberia last night; it’s only $19.99 and I desperately miss those adventure-style games. Wanna go home and play it. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-an-arctic-mmp/368641/105 "2006-08-15T14:39:17Z")
Prayers and good thoughts headed to PuggyDad. Hope the docs can find out what’s goin’ on soon. Work is just so weird today! All kinds of annoyances and stoopid questions are being asked. My general answer has been along the lines of: \*I don’t know. I don’t need to know. I don’t want to know. \* **I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, DON JUAN BE HERE!!!** ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-an-arctic-mmp/368641/106 "2006-08-15T14:42:09Z")
The doctor has told me that typing does _not_ cause carpal tunnel, which I know is true because I read it on the interweb. Nevertheless, I’m scheduled for an EMG on September 5, and until then I’ve got a bunch of sample-packs of Celebrex (won’t last me until anywhere _near_ September 5), and instructions to take a break every hour at work and stretch my hands and wrists. Yeah. Because I _haven’t been doing that since it started hurting, or anything_. And a suggestion not to wear my wrist braces unless I plan to be doing heavy lifting. As a result, I’ve been at work 40 minutes, actually _working_ (not training somebody else who is thicker than a McDonald’s milkshake–remember the training I was doing about two months ago? Same person, same job, still training.) Where was I? Oh yeah. At work 40 minutes, actually working about 15, wrists and forearms already starting to hurt. I’m going to spend an hour or so telling myself it’s all in my head, and see how that works out. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-an-arctic-mmp/368641/107 "2006-08-15T14:45:11Z")
Oh, and prayers to those needin’, happys to family members with birthdays, and an echo of the booby-squishing imperative. I should probably do that sometime soon, myself. But I’ll wait until a doctor tells me too–I’m a masochist, but not _that_ much of one. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-an-arctic-mmp/368641/108 "2006-08-15T14:45:49Z")
[QUOTE=Draelin] Oh, and prayers to those needin’, happys to family members with birthdays, and an echo of the booby-squishing imperative. I should probably do that sometime soon, myself. But I’ll wait until a doctor tells me too–I’m a masochist, but not _that_ much of one. 😃 [/QUOTE] Exactly. I got a few years, yet. Pugs, all my best wishes to your daddy. Back pain is awful. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-an-arctic-mmp/368641/109 "2006-08-15T14:47:09Z")
Oy–we are not ok over here. #1 son tried everything last noc to get out of soccer–even tears. He doesn’t like to run. Ok, but the more he resists, the more I am convinced that he needs to do this–not soccer perhaps, but some physical activity. I can’t help but think that this has been coming for a long time. He has spent the summer, staying up until 0300, on WoW, and sleeping until noon. Reality bites, but his summer of anomie is over. I sound bitchy–but I am not. I truly feel for him. He is anxious about looking “weak” in front of the coach and guys (god, I hate macho shit), and seriously worried that he cannot run fast enough. (they jog around the field, nothing is timed). He needs to learn this. We are being supportive and low key with him, but sticking to our guns. He can barely walk today, and is now at soccer practice. He probably hates us, but it’s for his own good (and now I am officially my mother). I think for the first time (for all of us), #1 son has not been able to charm his way out of something that he finds distasteful. Give me strength–it’s been a long time coming. Sorry to natter on about this-but it is on my mind. In other news, I cannot link onto my LIVE (practice) session for my online class. Should I worry? (gaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh). ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-an-arctic-mmp/368641/110 "2006-08-15T14:53:32Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] In other news, I cannot link onto my LIVE (practice) session for my online class. Should I worry? (gaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh). [/QUOTE] **rigs** , you’re on a Mac, right? Are you using Firefox? I can’t remember if we discussed this before or not. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-an-arctic-mmp/368641/111 "2006-08-15T15:15:47Z")
Hello and good morning!! I have something that’s guaranteed to just brighten everyone’s day. A sunny, happy picture of my little boy! For your viewing pleasure: [Cherry Boy!](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v180/Soileau/TrassieAug06_02.jpg) That is all. Have a wonderful day. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-an-arctic-mmp/368641/112 "2006-08-15T15:19:31Z")
**AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!** What a lil’ ol’ cutie he is **EC**! ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-an-arctic-mmp/368641/113 "2006-08-15T15:19:55Z")
Hugs to **rigs**. I think you’re doing the right thing. **Ellen** , he’s adorable. I’m waiting for first rise to finish. I’m doing three types of grainy bread, and one white with rosemary, feta, cheddar, and black pepper. I’m keeping that one. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-an-arctic-mmp/368641/114 "2006-08-15T15:25:10Z")
[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry] Hello and good morning!! I have something that’s guaranteed to just brighten everyone’s day. A sunny, happy picture of my little boy! For your viewing pleasure: [Cherry Boy!](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v180/Soileau/TrassieAug06_02.jpg) That is all. Have a wonderful day. [/QUOTE] Awwwww! So cute! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-an-arctic-mmp/368641/115 "2006-08-15T15:35:07Z")
Good lookin’ tyke you got there, **Ellen**. Oh what the heck…[Upper left w/ her chin on hands](http://www.quancedesign.com/children.html#). ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-an-arctic-mmp/368641/116 "2006-08-15T15:37:50Z")
Little Lulu! Oh she’s adorable! ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-an-arctic-mmp/368641/117 "2006-08-15T15:38:57Z")
**Ellen** , he’s so _big_! I guess I think of him as a tiny little infant–I often forget that children grow. 🙂 **Lieu** , she’s gorgeous–I hope you have some weapons handy for when she starts dating. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-an-arctic-mmp/368641/118 "2006-08-15T15:44:42Z")
The very best, **Draelin** , an open line of communication with her father. Thanks, **Ellen**. (I just saw a couple more in Enchanted Children too but don’t want to bore you.) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-an-arctic-mmp/368641/119 "2006-08-15T15:47:16Z")
I can’t enlarge the pic, lieu?? ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-an-arctic-mmp/368641/120 "2006-08-15T15:48:06Z")
Wow! Adorable kidnicks! I suppose an arranged marriage would be too twentieth century. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-an-arctic-mmp/368641.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-exposure-an-arctic-mmp/368641.md?page=7)