Found cherry at our iteration of Kroger, and they cost less than at Safeway! i wish I didn’t have to drive across town, though. Or take my husband with me. Somehow, i always spend more money if he’s with me! 
Hey, freaking awesome! Another power outage!
Did not sleep well last night. Spin cycle combined with a sore throat and difficulty swallowing. Woke up @4:15am because I was getting hot and noticed the fan wasn’t on. Or the clock. Oh great, power is out. Set an alarm on my iPad to make sure I could get up. Then couldn’t get back to sleep at all. Power came back around 5am. Official rainfall total overnight: 1.95"
Storm just blew through again. Took out our power. Also took about a 12’ branch off the tree directly across from my apartment while I watched. Power just came back on, after about an hour without.
We had a really bad drought last year after a wet spring, and I promised the weather gods I wouldn’t complain about any amount of rain this year.
They’re working hard to test that theory.
That really bites. I don’t know if this will help, but I have a friend who got blown up. His left hand does all sorts of things he doesn’t want, so he always has a squishy ball in his hand. He says he can’t sleep without it, it gives his hand something to do and he doesn’t wake up with arm cramps in the middle of the night.
MissTake while I’m not happy about your storm, I am happy that you posted. I was getting worried.
Chimera, don’t you hate it when that happens. I wouldn’t have been able to go back to sleep either. Hopes that CG didn’t make you pull your hair out from the stupidness.
I don’t have a problem with taking pills on a daily basis, I’m already in the habit. You all (tried to do the new term, but couldn’t spell it) would probably kick me for being an idiot for all the vitamins I take and force feed to Bill.
I’m just having a lot of mood swings now, and I’m blaming the BC pills. If I needed them for longer then I’m using them, I’d be telling my doctor that what I’m using isn’t working and then change scripts.
Mood swings are, so far as I’ve ever heard, a common side effect of hormonal BC. I remember one variety I was on for a month or so that had me swinging between rage and near-suicidal depression. PMSx10 might be close to how bad it was.
Just got an assignment love letter from my broker telling me that I’ll be eating a few hundred shares of LLY and TOL today. Yum. I love Uncle Ben but he knows that the markets are junkies now - and cheap ass junkies at that. You gotta let me finish getting fixed up bro before you send me to rehab. That’s some cold shit. But oh no. So a tolerable loss on Tuesday became a right good rump romp on Wed, Thur and Fri.
Yes thank you sir. May I please have some more?
If you think you have mood swings now…
Yes, I remember there are issues in that direction. Does Bill know the two most important words in a relationship?
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I hate it when I go to click on one of my browser tabs, to open it, and I accidentally click on the X in the corner and close it instead!
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Similarly, I hate it when I try to minimise my browser, and I click on the X instead and close it!
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I had that damn recurring dream again last night! The dream where I’m at a campfire and I’ve forgotten to bring the marshmallows. This bugs me more than it should. :mad:
I saw this as “two crushed cars and one smushed horse.” :eek:
Time for a trip to the eye doctor.
WE HAVE POWER!
Around 7 last night we went from light showers to Armageddon in under five minutes. Seventy mph winds, two plus inches of rain lasting for about 30 minutes. I couldn’t see the tree in the front yard. I did see the sparks when a tree hit the power line, which is still in my driveway. The power line, that is, not the tree. Of course, that meant no power for us. It just went back on an hour ago.
I guess there are still over 225k without in the twin cities area.
We didn’t lose any trees, but many of my neighbors did. Some streets are closed due to trees and down lines. My wayward trash bin was completely on the other side of the house. I can live with that.
And we’re supposed to have more storms tomorrow morning.
Thanks, I will try it. I will try anything at this point. It was not too bad last night but really started to bother me around 5am when the Ambien and Aleve were wearing off.
Starting with post #1389, we’ve been discussing our major flood in Southern Alberta. We got a ton of rain on top of spring run-off still choking up the rivers, and we ended up with flood waters of four times greater volume than the worst flood in recent years.
I guess I should add a rant to make this at least a little bit relevant - stupid people not checking advisories before assuming (and spreading rumours) about water quality issues. The water quality here is fine; it’s always been fine; it will probably continue to be fine. You don’t need to run out and stock up on bottled water.
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I was always afraid of doing that while working on my school assignments, especially my coding class. I would have to switch between the tab that had the coding book website and the tab with the assignment, and I was paranoid that I would accidentally close the assignment tab. Especially if the assignment was timed.
It was personalized; the first message was a simple line about my moving out of the area. I waited a while, chatted about it with The Boyfriend, and finally responded. We’ve had a couple very, very tentative, innocuous PMs since then. It’s just SO WEIRD; I keep thinking he’s leading up to something and I can’t imagine what it might be.
GAAAAAHHHHH STUPID EDIT WINDOW.
My very minor rant: We hang out on a regular basis with another couple (I’ll call them Husband #2 and Wife #2). There’s a third couple (Husband #3 and Wife #3), kind of on the periphery of our group; we’ve all hung out together several times. This past week, Wife #3 invited Wife #2 out for a ‘girls night out,’ but did not extend the invite to me.
This would not have been a big deal, if Wife #3 hadn’t been talking about it excitedly and repeatedly to Husband #2 in front of my boyfriend (the three of them work together). Now I’m kinda wondering why I didn’t make the cut. It’s probably because I don’t drink NEARLY as much as they do, and the events of the evening seemed designed specifically around copious amounts of alcohol, but I’d have been happy to be their designated driver (apparently that honor has gone to Husband #2, who has been tasked with sitting by the phone at home to wait for them to call and request his services). It may also be that Wife #2 and Wife #3 have kids around the same age, so they’re cultivating a relationship for parental reasons. My boyfriend was a little taken aback; he said when they started talking about it at work, his first thought was why didn’t they invite me… then he realized it wouldn’t really be my cup of tea anyway, so other than thinking it a little tacky to be discussing it within his earshot, he didn’t really care.
Still, it makes me a little sad.
If you right-click on a tab when using Firefox, there is an “undo close tab” option. Presumably other browsers might have something similar.
I sympathize .
I attend a small yoga class where the other students and the teacher are interconnected (a cousin of one of the students happens to be the teacher’s ex- roommate, said student attends with his foreign girlfriend when she happens to be in the country, and girlfriend has a friend from her country who lives here with her boyfriend, and they both come to yoga), so on Friday the cousin/ ex-roommate was in town, and came to the class with a friend of hers.
So after the class the two couples were discussing a street music festival taking place in various locations around town, and which one they would be going to, naturally the cousin was going with them, one of them asked the teacher if he would be going, he said yes … and nobody thought to ask me.
I felt really left out, compounded by the fact that I’m going through a really hard time at work right now, but didn’t want to “impose” my presence on the gang so I just said “good night folks” and left.
I’m battling with bringing it up next time, but I know it will sound petty. It looks damn petty now that I’ve written it down… but GAH! I would never leave someone out like that.
Anyway, I’m trying to rationalize it (and **bobkitty **maybe you can try to apply the same kind of reasoning to your situation) , by saying that they were excited to see the cousin/ ex- roommate again and got carried away and just didn’t think, like people are prone to do.
Did these two couples know each other beforehand? I think the parenting / you not being a drinker arguments serve very well if you want to rationalize.
And as I said, often people just don’t think about how their actions make other people feel.
If I can coast through curves in my Jeep, you sure as hell can in your Corolla.
Microsoft Windows can suck it.
Rain during the summer pisses me off. Wet flip flop feet are annoying.
That’s all I have for now.
Oh, and the stinky woman at work: Please take a shower. You smell like soiled milk and feet. I know how much money you make, I’ve seen your car; you can afford the water and soap.
Yup, have brought up this subject on this board before.
Inviting some of the people out of a group to a function directly in front of a number of people you are not inviting is rude. Sure, I get that you only want to invite specific people. You have ever right to do that. But extending invites and/or jabbering on about events in front of people who are not invited is not cool. It usually is not that hard to invite people privately, and come on, you really don’t need to be loudly squawking about how fun YOUR limited invitation party next week will be in the middle of someone else’s party today.
Inviting one person to come over or do something? OK, but don’t wave it around in front of others unless you’re going out of your way to be a douche.
Yes, I agree that I was not entitled to be invited, I hope I didn’t come across like that. But if you’re arranging something with some people and not others (especially if it’s only one person not invited) then at least do it a bit more privately. But as I said, I probably got overlooked in the excitement. Same probably goes for bobkitty’s situation. They probably didn’t even think she would be interested in tagging along.
Thing is, how do you bring it up a. without sounding petty and b. getting the message across that you would have been interested in attending, with the desired result of c. actually being invited next time …
That’s where my mom lives. Here is her email from Thursday:
Things have been pretty interesting here. This fire started at the north end of Prescott (human cause). The winds are blowing mostly to the north east so the fire quickly ran up to Granite Mountain and over. Tim, maybe you’ll remember our drive north on Williamson Valley Road. There are many new subdivisions there and as you go farther out, beautiful homes on acreage with horses etc. Those are the home evacuated - 460 of them.
The high school one block from here is the staging area. Loads of trucks from all over the west are there, the firefighters eat there and sleep on the football field in tents.
We and the city are not in danger as the winds are blowing away from us. You might like to check the National Forestry website from time to time.