Might be a mobile phone culture thing, where every call has the caller id on the screen. I know that on the rare occasions I call into work or whatever, I have to make an effort to remember to identify myself.
It’s not that – entry-level porn still did it for me for many years after I started having regular contact with the real thing. I’ve just become desensitized, I guess. So I’m really pitting how jaded I’ve become.
She’s a girl kitty.
Let me guess, menopause? At 44, I haven’t fired up the furnace yet, but having my brain back would sure be nice. Notes everywhere are very much my friend these days.
I hit 50 on Thanksgiving Day. Is that irony, or just a hint from the Fates?
Oh, and yeah, notes for everything! (When I can remember where I left the pad :rolleyes: )
I turned 30 today and it feels like any other day and I’m too broke to celebrate it. :smack:
Have a great day Dord. I’ll have a beer for you.
Thanks 
In July, my head began to feel itchy. That new shampoo? Ugh!
Got a new shampoo and no itch. Then I noticed that my daughter was itching madly…
Oh no.
Oh yes.
Lice.
I found one on my head. 30 on hers! I didn’t let her see as she has a horrific bug phobia.
I went on a mad cleaning spree. Went to the store, purchased a ton of products.
Whew! Problem solved!
Then 2 weeks ago, I’m still itchy.
Fuck my life.
Again the massive cleaning, washing, etc.
Mom and daughter seem fine. I’m the one, it seems, to be the most allergic (?) to their bites.
There’s no trace of them (please) but my head hurts so bad from scratching. I have sores even.
Never once in my 40 years had I had them until now. It’s a nightmare.
I’m thinking I should go see a doctor but do I see my regular doctor or a dermatologist?
This just fucking sucks ass.
Dead opossum in the street out front of the house this morning. Initial relief that it wasn’t a cat or dog. Then we called animal control, who told us “well, it’s a three day weekend, so unless it’s an emergency. . .” How about ‘it’s going to be 90 degrees all three days and things are going to get fucking unpleasant as hell very quickly’? Mmmm. . .dead 'possum & maggots. After it gets dark tonight, it will be run over repeatedly and become a stinking road pancake. I’ll do a lot of things, but I ain’t cleaning that up.
Well, there are some things you don’t have to worry about anymore.
That’s another complaint, that particualar service should have been shut off by now…:mad:
Thanks! I just used “That’s…[puzzled tone] the one with the pointy ball…right?”
And STILL got invited to the first UW (Badgers, not Huskies) football game.
Ah, yes, the dead possum. There was one lying on my dog walk path during the last bad drought when I lived in East Carolina. The dog paid no attention to it until someone ran over it. No description. You’re welcome. But once it was run over again, the dog just had to stop and sniff every time. Damn dog.
Listen up, deadbeat brother. Our mother is a grown woman. She, unlike you, is even capable of holding a full time job. She did not receive ‘poisoned whispers’ from me telling her to take your car keys away. She saw you staggering and heard you slurring and took them away all on her own. It’s her car, asshole. She doesn’t actually need a reason–but the liability issues are sufficent reason enough.
Pro-tip: protest all you want that you are not drunk; you have merely taken a Xanax. We do not care what substance you are abusing. We just want you off the road.
I’m actually hoping that is what it was, otherwise it could be so many other more serious things!
No, this was way beyond pissy kitty - she was squalling, running, eyes bugged out, the whole nine yards. In her case, it appeared to be a topical rather than systemic reaction, since she was fine once I washed the stuff off, so I guess her skin was tingling/burning/something where I put the stuff on. Plus her response was immediate, whereas it took the dog a week (I think?) to have a reaction.
That’s what I kept saying - I had all of the symptoms except the one that the syndrome is named for! :mad:
Damn, missed this one too, now have three posts in a row! Sigh. Anyway, this is his first bad call in over 15 years so I’ll forgive him.
D’oh:smack: Of course she is. There was only a 1 in 10 chance that she was male, going by her beautiful colors (we call that muted calico here). My only excuse was that I was so overwhelmed by her incredible beauty that I was unable to think.
Happy Birthday, Dord
My rant is about my lack of reading compression. Someone from Walmart brought us a truck load of ripped and damaged bags of dogfood. Crappy food IMHO, but it fills hungry bellies. I’m the “muscle” of the group, so I went out to move the bags into the Director’s van.
The rips in the bags appeared to have been repaired with duct tape by stock clerks who were running on Red Bull and potato chips.
I looked at the brand name, made mental judgements about the quality of the food and started moving them. They were really, really heavy, so I looked at the weight and saw “40”.
OK, I move tons of paper by hand every day. The boxes weigh about 40 lbs each. Yes, I am a small female, but this should be a piece of cake, right?
No, it was not. I struggled with every bag. At first I blamed it on the odd shapes due to the duct tape and no way to grab them. Next I blamed it on last night’s beer and late hours. I sweated and huffed and puffed and my stomach started to hurt, but I got it done.
Then I stood back, looked at the bags and saw that they were labeled 40 Kilo’s!
The real reason I’m pitting myself over this? Its because this happened last year. I didn’t read the label on the large bags then and I didn’t do it again today. I am such an idiot at times. :smack:
Hey, hospital Muzak programmers: WTF?
I like “American Pie” as much as the next person, but I didn’t really place the song playing in the hallway until the end of the chorus: “This’ll be the day that I die”. The very next song? “Live and Let Die”
I understand the need for soothing melodies, but could we consider the lyrics? Kthxbye
Lice lay eggs (nits) which hatch in about two weeks. You probably got MOST of the nits, but not all of them. I’ve only had to deal with lice once (but it was a nightmare), but I was combing out nits for days. There’s a very good reason why the military used to shave all its recruits bald…lice can make people miserable and they’re very mobile. You and your daughter would probably prefer to avoid shaving your heads, but you’re going to have to go through the delousing process at least once more, and possibly twice. There’s a prescription shampoo (Kwell) that is supposed to be more effective than OTC stuff, but it’s more dangerous too. It’s an insecticide, after all.
Start combing out nits again, with a metal nit comb, as well as going through the cleaning. Also, if your daughter has stuffed toys that can’t be put through the hot cycle in the washer, they need to be sealed in a plastic bag for at least two weeks.
I’m sorry, you’re going to have to return that dog as defective. No self-respecting dog could pass up the opportunity to ROLL in a ripe squishy corpse.