I am going to try to make a better effort to post this week, last week I just read.
Rigs, if you need to vent we are here, and my e-mail is in my profile if you want to vent privately.
Great OP, 'Mika. I love mythology although I admit I haven’t read much Indian mythology. Can you recommend any good books for newbies?
I made duck sauce yesterday. It turned out pretty well; tonight I hope to get some egg rolls to give it a formal test. It will be a long time before I want to look at another plum.
It is and has been hot here. I’m thinking about taking a drive and crashing the pool of a certain bear. Nah, the river is closer.
I am going to try to make a better effort to post this week, last week I just read.
Rigs, if you need to vent we are here, and my e-mail is in my profile if you want to vent privately.
Great OP, 'Mika. I love mythology although I admit I haven’t read much Indian mythology. Can you recommend any good books for newbies?
I made duck sauce yesterday. It turned out pretty well; tonight I hope to get some egg rolls to give it a formal test. It will be a long time before I want to look at another plum.
It is and has been hot here. I’m thinking about taking a drive and crashing the pool of a certain bear. Nah, the river is closer.
Or find a parish with a Children’s Mass like mine Back Home… the three steps leading up to the altar are considered a perfectly nice spot to sit in, the only inconvenient being that Father José is more likely to ask questions of you if you’re there. Except on days when the steps are full of the kind of overeager kids whose hand raises before Father has pronounced the . on ?: on those days, he’s bound to ask the kids on the side chapels, or the ones in the banks.
How old is the littlest cherry? Is it canibalism that I ate half a pound of cherries yesterday? I like cherries…
I’m back and I’m fine. The Dr was a hoot, tho. For example:
*Saw my Purdue T-shirt, expressed disdain, then told me he did his undergrad there
*Told me he was 117 years old or some such
*When I mentioned that I felt like I had a hunk of granite in my eye, told me I was a wuss, or a wimp…
*Removed the offending speck, then declared “Damn, I’m good!”
What I had in my eye was a wee piece of vegetation - he said probably a bit of grass. It didn’t do any damage to the eye, and he removed it with one of them long-handled Q-tip thingies. Before he did that, he put a drop or 2 of some numbing stuff on my eye - didn’t feel a thing! And he said there was no damage to the eye.
He also told me to never use Visine or Murine or Clear Eyes - he said you can’t be sure what’s in 'em. Then he gave me 2 sample bottles of liquid tears to use as needed. And when I checked out, they said there was no copay, but if I got a bill, then there was one. Whatever - it’s only $15.
As it happens, this Dr is in the same shopping strip as Bad Chinese, and since I was there already and by the time I was done, it was 11, I had a Bad Chinese Lunch. Then I went to McKay’s at the other end of the strip and got 'nanners for **FCD ** plus 2-12 packs of terlit paper since it was on sale. Now I’m home, thinking about maybe doing something constructive. My eye is still a wee bit weepy and irritated, but it no longer feels like it’s full of gravel. So yay!
taxi, SpecialOne tried to entice me to Tel Aviv so he could [del]stalk[/del] woo me and who could blame him, right? Alas, it is not to be cause ACBG told me I couldn’t go cause he’s not finished with me yet. He’s all romantic like that.
Ellen of course we want to hear stories of stormin’ the altar. Sounds like fun! Did you take the Priest hostage?
ETA: Glad the eye’s all better FCM but I think you should rest and eat medicinal ice cream. After all you are recovering!
FCM, I’m soooooooooo glad to hear. The reason I was worried…Last time I had something similar my optometrist said I might need corneal transplants. :eek: :eek: :eek: Turns out it was a bacterial infection (not viral, which is known as pinkeye and is highly contagious), which still wasn’t good, and I was on medication for weeks, but better than the other.
I also don’t use visine and use liquid tears. I don’t because the visine bothers me with contacts and the tears don’t, but keeping your eyes lubricated is very important. That’s the way to fight off infections.
Last night must have been Weird Dream Night. I dreamed about me and 3 other women that I don’t know, and we were rather friendly, but not quite THAT friendly. I don’t know, it was strange, there was more subtext to the dream than I remember now. I woke up this morning thinking, what was that all about?
FCM, glad it was nothing too serious. Next time, wear safety glasses. /soapbox of someone who’s seen the results of far too many mowing/landscaping/welding oopsies
**Jah ** - I’m thinking I’ll wear the full-face motorcycle helmet my husband bought for our daughter. It’s got a purple and black design on it - how cool will that look while I’m roaring across the lawn on my John Deere!! In raggedy shorts and a tank top…
**Matt **-- don’t believe any of these people. It’s 2/10/5757 (10/2/5757 if you’re 'Murkin :p)
Honest!
Well, yes, it’s the Jewish date – but at least it’s the correct one!
**Taxi **-- swampy is embellishing of course. Eh, just go back and read it. It was… interesting. Oh, and Mika? I’ll get you yet for that!
**FCM **-- yay for good doctors with a humorous “bedside” manner; and no damage to the eye. And “Bad Chinese” is just the greatest name for a Chinese restaurant that I’ve heard in a while. I just hope their slogan isn’t “we live up to our name” :eek:
Rigs, sorry to hear your problems on the home front
Me, I got nuttin’ to add just now… Don’t even have any weird dreams to report.
SpecialOne - Bad Chinese is what my spousal unit and I call the Chinese Buffet in Leonardtown. It’s cheap, filling, and probably none too authentic, although the staff all look Chinese and speak what I assume is Chinese. And today, the piped-in music sounded like standard light rock/pop, but in Chinese. Weird.
Bad doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with the food. I just don’t think it’s a particularly good representation of Chinese cuisine. Still, that doesn’t stop us from eating there frequently. And they do a good job with broccoli!
Heh, I thought it was the actual name of the restaurant.
I would **so **give a restaurant, with the sense of humor to name themselves thus, at least one chance
It’s more than a local brand, because I’ve seen it both in Indiana and here in Dixie; teriyaki sauce named ‘Soy Vay’, complete with mock Hebrew letters. Cracks me up every time I see it.
It reinforces the stereotype that when you want to know where the good Oriental restaurants are, you ask a Jew.
Then he gave me 2 sample bottles of liquid tears to use as needed. And when I checked out, they said there was no copay, but if I got a bill, then there was one. Whatever - it’s only $15.
Alas, it is not to be cause ACBG told me I couldn’t go cause he’s not finished with me yet. He’s all romantic like that.
In raggedy shorts and a tank top…
And “Bad Chinese” is just the greatest name for a Chinese restaurant that I’ve heard in a while. I just hope their slogan isn’t “we live up to our name” :eek: