eleanorigby, or anyone really, if you need something PDF’ed, PM me, and I will give you my email addy. I have the program on my work computer and it doesn’t take long at all to do. 
Oh look an MMP short enough for me to follow!
I’ve been pretty out of it for over a week. Last Saturday I started getting sick, typical cold symptoms, headache and running a fever of almost 103. I thought it was because I missed my Singulair for 3 days but that wasn’t it. I thought I was going to die a few times but I was too sick to drag myself out of bed to call a cab to go to the hospital. Then my fever would go down and I’d think I was getting better. Then my fever kept going up and down, I missed work monday and dragged myself to a walk-in clinic on Tuesday where my temp was again 103. The nurse looked at me as if I wasn’t supposed to be upright. I’m not even sure how I was upright and functional with a 103 temp. The doctor said my chest was congested and I was wheezy so they took an x-ray. He said I had early pneumonia and prescribed antibiotics and a cough suppressant.
The antibiotic was moxifloxacin and was only a once a day pill but when I’d take it it would wipe me out, it made me dizzy, anxious and very weak. At first I thought it was the reaction from the bacteria die off but then I read the pharmacy info on it and those were side effects so I called the doctor and they prescribed two other antibiotics instead. Which I had to get someone else to pick up for me because I was still out of it.
I was so sick I couldn’t even sit at the computer and surf, so I’ve barely been online for the past week. I also lost 6 pounds in about 6 days, I don’t recommend it as a weight loss method. I wasn’t eating much for a while so I completely forgot about the other consequence of antibiotic therapy - the death off all the nice helpful GI bacteria. So now I am still weak and coughing and experiencing … well, you know. It makes the coughing even more scary. I did find some acidophilus in my fridge yesterday and I’ve started taking it but I’m still on the antibiotics so I don’t know how long it will take to get the old GI tract working again. I did go back to work this morning for half a day and then went to the grocery store for some more supplies, including yogurt with active cultures.
All the food talk here sounds good but then my intestines remind me of their unhappiness.
I forgot to pre-order my Harry Potter book so now I have to wait until I can go out and buy one and it’s driving me crazy because everyone seems to have read it already.
It’s thundering and lightening here now so I guess I won’t be able to get caught up on the rest of the boards just yet. Better sign off.
That is so sweet, but I’ve already turned it in. I must say it is not my best work. I just dont’ CARE anymore. Neither of my classes this summer has lived up to my expectations OR the class description. They’re boring. I’m learning nothing. I am paying to learn nothing. This is a problem.
But thanks re the offer for the pdfs. If I need one in the fall semester, I’ll let you know!
Wil E–get better!
The pain, the pain! A beautiful weekend and much fun and chore doing and I just can’t seem to get anything done here at work, so I’m going to just give up and redouble my efforts tomorrow. Feh.
My wife and son argued about Harry Potter. Jeez.
I need to lose like 50 pounds in 10 days…can you use a shop-vac for lipo?
Well, you can try. Let us know how it works, okay?
A “friend” of mine sent me an e-mail this morning full of Harry Potter spoilers. I actually read the first line before I realized what it was. I immediately sent her an e-mail telling her I didn’t appreciate it even a small bit. I have yet to get the book and I don’t want to know and I will rip the head off of anyone who ruins it for me. Grrrrrrrrrrrr.
I got night-killed in the Cult game. Pisses me off.
I’m just not in a good mood right now and there is no chocolate in the house.
pout
Nice OP Sean, and count me among those who are curious about the bloody floor. Condolences to your fiancee and family.
I am eight years older than my husband, he also doesn’t read, and we have been together for seventeen years. It works for us, and count me amongst those who advise giving the guy a chance. I knew skiffman for a year as a best friend before any sparks began to glow, it was a sweet romance which built slowly. Also, Haze, why the aversion to guys who are attracted to Asian chicks? I have an attraction for ethnic guys, some of the more significant relationships in my life were with a Japanese, a couple of Mexicans, a guy from El Salvador and one from Nicaragua. When I moved to Alaska I dated a few Alaska Natives before skiffman and I went exclusive. You are a very attractive and smart Asian woman, I say take advantage of your assets.
Well, this has easily been the ickiest summer on record. Cold, rain, wind, in addition to one negative thing after another. My jaw is still sore from the fricken root canal and I hate the way the temporary crown feels. I finally had the guts and determination to cut ties with two women from my life, both related through different marriages, they are both controlling, manipulative and takers but not givers. I handled it calmly while they both went all melodramatic, but afterward I had a minor emotional crisis and cried a lot, but I feel so much better for finally putting my foot down and refused to be a doormat any longer.
I was trying to get through a re-reading of all the HP books before VII came out, but I am still in HPV. I thought I might be able to just jump into HPVII, but after one and a half chapters I put it down and went back to HPV. sigh I have just forgotten too much, and although I am a fast reader it is seemingly taking forever to get through V, and VI is looming…please no open spoilers!
Also I am gearing up for the trip to Anchorage. I am leaving the fifth of August, and I am not certain when I will return. My kids have computers so I will be able to communicate with y’all. I am just so excited about my granddaughter’s birth. She has already been a little Princess, she has been in the wrong position all through the pregnancy, and now at, thirty six weeks she is firmly breech. My daughter is beginning the weekly doctor visits this week, and she and her doctor are going to discuss options (external version, c-section) tomorrow. As much as I want to be in the room when the baby is born, if she has a section, well, won’t the baby’s head look good! (Trying to look on the bright side) I just want both of them to be healthy, and a section is a longer recovery. I need to be home no later than the twenty sixth as the kids here begin school on the twenty seventh. It’s one of those I-need-to-be-in-two-places-at-the-same-time situations.
Enough of my blabbing, my bio-dad sent me an unexpected email, I always have to begin the conversation with him, so I feel compelled to write back right away, so I will say bye for now, and will try to be back sooner than later.
Ta!
What the fuck? What the fuck is wrong with people? Excuse my bad language, but I just don’t get this attitude.
Sorry you had to see even that first line, SCL. I am one who doesn’t even want to know one word!
I made a batch of Dotty’s PB Chocolate Brownies over the weekend. :: pushes some through the cd drive :: Hope that helps!
Oh and one note on the brownies, I think the conversion from metric is off a little. According to **KeithT **(my source for this kind of stuff), it’s closer to 5 oz of chocolate, not 6. And having tried it with 5, I might even cut back to 4 next time. They’re having a hard time not falling apart. Which isn’t totally bad, but it’d be nicer if they had a little internal cohesion.
I suppose it’s an unfortunate side effect of my Asian American studies - I can’t help wondering whether they are really attracted to me as a person, or me as an Asian woman and everything that implies (exoticism, submissiveness, etc). I’ve also met a lot of white guys who have Asian fetishes - those men who are attracted to a certain idea of Asian femininity and don’t really care about anything else. It’s created a kind of complex in me. I’m not ashamed of my Asian-ness, but I can’t help wondering if guys who profess attraction to me are able to see past that. (It’s less of an issue if the guy was a friend first, though.)
The reason I think this new guy might have a bit of that is that he only seems to like dating Asian chicks, from what I can gather. Well, we’ll see.
Mork lives near Toronto? Well, I’m going to be there for 6 days, so I will be very disappointed if he doesn’t come out to see me. looks at him with big puppydog eyes
PS: kai, I’m sorry to hear about your personal drama with certain acquaintances. It’s always difficult to deal with those kinds of people, especially when they make a scene, but you’re right - in the end it’ll be worth it. Hugs!
It’s got the Chicago thing going on so you remember who took care of ya. 
I second this. It is hard to be with someone because they think of you as a kink, and they are only dating you because you have dark hair/dark eyes and look totally different than them. One wants to be treated as a person and not as a stereotype.
Wait, don’t you have a Mac, rigs? If so, you can save a file as a pdf just by going to File/print/PDF(bottom left corner)/Save as PDF. Yes, I know that’s an odd place for it but there it is.
Thanks for the chocolate and the brownies! I have done laundry and changed the catboxes, so having been a bit productive makes me less grumpy.
Part of the reason I am down is because Mr. SCL’s patient is back in the hospital. It shouldn’t be for as long this time, and he still has the job at the looney bin, but he is grumpy about it and that makes me grumpy. The patient is really mad at the nurse who called the ambulance because he hates being in the hospital and he really didn’t need to go, she just panicked. Oh well, hopefully he will get out tomorrow.
Tomorrow is the trip to Pasequan and I am really looking forward to it. I’ll take lots of pictures and probably start a thread about it.
It’s an incredibly gorgeous day here–beautiful blue sky with some puffy white clouds, sunny and mid-80s, which is unusual for this time of year. It’s nice break from the heat, and if we’re lucky, we might have a few more days like this. It might rain, but rain is better than heat.
I made the brownies, and they’re nice and chewy. Some of them did fall apart a little when I cut them, but overall they’re fine. Maybe I cooked them a little bit longer–they’re overdone around the edges, but the middles are perfect. They’re good, but next time I’ll use better peanut butter–I used Target store-brand PB, and it’s a little too gooey.
My most important life lesson:
Always use your powers for good.
What is wrong with people? It’s like a sport to see how many people you can ruin the book for, before they’ve had a chance to read it. I usually don’t mind spoilers, but some people need to be more considerate about it.
swampbeer, based on the previews for the movie that I’ve seen, I think you’d be a much better Edna than John Travolta. He’s pretty awful. And they usually put the best parts in the previews, so it’s really not a good sign that the previews are so bad. I’m sure it’s a very good movie, but I’m not a Travolta fan.
welby, your fish grilling party sounds marvelous. Why weren’t we all invited, hm? :dubious:
velvetjones, I think it’s a rule that you can’t have a good night’s sleep on Sundays. Just when you’re dropping off, someone drives by with their car stereo turned up really loud. Or the dogs start barking, or your neighbor starts doing something ridiculously noisy, just after midnight. And after all that’s over, just when you’re drifting back into lovely, dreamy sleep, the bunnies start thumping for no apparent reason. This is why it’s hard to get up on Monday morning.
Haze, I hope the new place works out. It sounds lovely.
LiLi, I had a tomato, cheese, and bacon sandwich for lunch. Nummy. I don’t have any butter tarts, though. I’ve never had a butter tart, but I think I’d like them. I like pretty much any pastry kinds of things. You can’t go wrong with pastry, unless it’s bad pastry, with too much salt, or too tough, or something like that.
kai, I hope the rest of the summer is better. Summer should be relaxed and warm, not toothachy and yucky. It’s hard to let go of bad friends, but sometimes it’s better for you in the long run.
Happy Monday all! Interesting OP, Sean; sorry that you didn’t like the foods (which didn’t sound all that bad to me, but then again I don’t mind stuff like that). My condolences to your fiancee; will keep she & her family in my prayers.
Dotty, I forgot to mention that your bleu cheese pasta dish sounds delicious and I’m going to try it!! And I hope that Noor is on the road to wellness.
Hope you did well on your test, BBBobbio! I know that you did. Did you get your HP book, btw? Who is reading it first? 
Hah! Someone else wants to call him Swampbeer now; I knew I wasn’t the only one.
I messed up -big time- on a couple of my time cards at work. I had been recording one person’s leave on another person’s card. This is the paper record, not the time card that goes into the system, so that I guess is a small blessing. But now I have to correct the cards. 
The only explanation I can offer is that I never looked to make sure I was entering the info on the correct card!
Is it Friday yet? hehehehe…
Aargh! I love my sewing machine, but sometimes I hate my sewing machine. I hemmed one of Lapin Blanc’s shirts with no problem, but on the second one I had a series of aggravations. First, the machine decided to try to eat the shirt, and by the time I got the shirt out there was a nasty big hole in the fabric. :eek: So I darned that and re-pinned the hem to make it an inch shorter, and got about four inches around the hem when the needle broke. :smack: Then apparently I didn’t get the needle in tightly enough because a few inches later the damned thing fell out. :smack: And then just a couple inches before the end of the hem, it tried to eat the shirt again. But I was onto its evilness this time! I caught it before it messed up the fabric.
But at that point I finished the shirt, said to hell with it, and am now taking a break. It’s either that or pitch the damn machine out the window.
ETA: Feel better soon, Wile E!
Queenie, I feel like I have a hangover (although I have no idea how one feels) but I didn’t drink or read HP. This changing schedule stuff is for the birds.
Oh, and nice segue right into how my lovely morning started. I opened the window and there was a dead bird on the sidewalk. Ick!
Thanks, bud! That’s a free one, right?
Schadenfreude. It was my word of the day at one of my Toastmaster’s meetings. (And why does spell-check not like the word?)
FML, I say you max out your happiness any way you can. Given the choices, I’m not sure which one is best for you, but whatever that is, I hope you get the most happiness from it.
rosie, I’m shocked or rather confused. I thought you were one of the ones looking for HP before it came out. And there’s another thing we have in common. . .I watch my movies in 15 minute increments (well, most of them anyway)
The last movie I watched was “Shall We Dance?” with Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez. . . in 15 minute increments. I did watch most of the ending at one shot though. And I was sobbing through the end. I’m not sure why. It was a pretty crummy ending. Perhaps I was just sobbing that the ending wasn’t as cliche as the rest of the movie.
You keep that banana to yourself, mister!
I just had a tune up and oil change on Friday and when they added air to the tires, I thought of you. Keep out of my tailpipe, buddy!
Let’s see, I like Dave Barry, haven’t heard Robert Heinlein, loved C.S. Lewis stuff for a time and listen to “The Cat Who” series as bedtime listening. They put me to sleep, so I’m not sure if I ever got through a whole book. I like the Jeeves books but am not too sure about the other Wodehouse stuff. I haven’t gotten through a Sara Paretski, although we had one for a book club once that I attempted. And if Dashiel Hammett is a guilty pleasure, I must look him up. I haven’t heard any Anne McCaffrey Pern books and don’t even know what the Boo Hiss books are. I’ll try looking them up on Overdrive. I have three different library cards that use Overdrive. Their collections are all vastly different. Bah! I just found the Boo Hiss books on Amazon and tried to find them on my Overdrive collection in all three libraries with no success. But you’ve given me some stuff to look at so thanks for that.
I’ve been mostly listening to those library audiobooks for bedtime listening so I normally listen to tame stuff like Jan Karon’s Mitford series or Diane Mott Davidson’s books or Janet Evanovich stuff (chick lit).
Little 'ol me? Smart remarks? Whatever would give you an idea like that? 
bobbio, I wish you much peace waiting for your results. I’m sure you did fine, but I hate the waiting part also.
Haze, congrats on the apartment. It sounds nice.
It’s lies. I said that Mumpers sounds like Humpers. And since Haze passed up the opportunity, I will gladly take it. But I’m waiting until you least expect it, or you’ll enjoy it too much. And I have to think of a suitable punishment. It’ll be my new project.
And Special1, you don’t have a purse or bacon salt? How did you get in here? Well, I’m assuming you don’t have a purse. You don’t, do you? :dubious:
:dubious: To each his own, I guess.
Mork, what’s HP sauce? Harry Potter has his own steak sauce too?! That’s really going overboard. How does it differ from A1 sauce?
{{{Sean}}}, I’m sorry to hear about your fiance’s father. I hope you and she and her family are doing ok.
Wile E, hang in there.
Ooh! I will try that file thingy–it would be in the Word menu, correct? Thanks, Tupug–it will be for future reference, but still good to know (if I don’t mess this up).
I slept for almost 3 hours-great, but I didn’t get my last project started. The good thing is that I start class in about 30 minutes, so I can do it then. Yes, my class is so useless that I have started doing homework during it. Hell, I’m already on the puter, why not?
I must try the brownies. Can I make them w/o peanuts? I only have peanut butter.
<off to find old MMP with recipe>
Holy cow people!
I get to read on Monday afternoon and you are already on page two… 
I have had trouble keeping up the past couple weeks due to the monstrous length of the MMP
I was out last week at a leadership class and now I am back at work and I really really donwanna got back really late last night as my flight was delayed so I am tahred
I need to grocery shopping tonight and I am just exhausted so I might not