I had a similar issue a few years ago. I cut coffee out of my diet and took some glucosamine, and the pain went away.
Not going to lie, I am completely eating my feelings right now.
I’ve posted elsewhere about how I got fat as a teen to cope with things, and I did. I was the world’s worst bullemic. I ruined my teeth and gained weight. Lose-lose there. I made a mistake in telling my late grandmother ( referenced earlier in this thread, along with my asshole uncle with a thin bullemic wife) who told me ‘well that wasn’t smart, was it?’. I was a baby when I started- no one is as smart as they think they are at thirteen.
So, I’m eating my body weight in cheese, thinking about being sick and I have a huge hole in a wisdom tooth and am not registered for a dentist, because I would have to take two kids with me. And my mother keeps calling me to whine that I’ve got it easy here. Because, again, my older girl ‘is a good helper’ with the one year old. She’s 4. Sometimes she helps, sometimes she pushes her over for shits and giggles.
(I’m just whinging, really, my life now is a huge improvement over things in the past)
So, what’s the deal with videos of women cracking open watermelons with their thighs?
One day I’d never heard of this, then suddenly it is everywhere.
Grrrr … so much for my quiet mornings.
I usually get up at 5 am or so, have a giant mug of tea and do an internet cruise, maybe start a little work-from-home stuff. I love my quiet mornings listening to the neighborhood roosters and the birds waking up. Well, school has started, and my nearest neighbor’s dog (who lives outside) is now having conniptions when they walk down to wait for the bus. Up until last week he was mostly quiet, maybe a bark or two to welcome someone home or send them off in the morning, but that’s when they’re in cars. I think now that they walk down and he can see them and isn’t invited along he starts barking, and it’s continued for a good half hour now. I have dogs, I have lots of animals, but endless barking drives me nuts and I’ll never understand how people can just tune it out.
CLEAR THE DAMNED MICROWAVE!!!
The timer, I mean. For some reason that I can’t explain, I get stabby when people stop the microwave to remove their item and they walk away leaving the timer at 8 seconds (or whatever.)
Seriously, you can’t push the cancel button before rushing back to your desk to eat your poptarts?? Of course not - you do it just to piss me off!!! :mad:
Shut up - it’s Monday and I had a lousy night’s sleep.
My stepson does that, FCM. It really gets under my skin too! It’s just so representative of the bone-deep slothfulness that permeates his existence.
Huh. It would never occur to me that that would bother anyone. Doesn’t your microwave reset to zero anyway all by itself? Like if there’s any time on it, it goes away if you don’t start it within 20 seconds or something.
I went to urgent care over the weekend because I like to ignore problems until they become unbearable. The doctor took an x-ray, found nothing broken but a whole lotta inflamation. Since there was no immediate cause for the inflamation, the doctor kinda shrugged, gave me naproxen and told me to follow up with my doctor if the pain persists. So, that’s nice I guess.
Btw ENugent, how’d the appointment go? Did you make a thread just for that somewhere?
Ugh. It’s supposed to be horribly hot for the next three days. Enough already. I suffered through a summer of this.
I wish I had air conditioning, and that the buses and subways of Montreal were air-conditioned. Around here, not even all stores/restaurants are air-conditioned. I feel sorry for people who have to work in those places, especially workers in hot restaurant kitchens.
Update:
I had 1/3 a bottle of wine sitting next to the stove for cooking. Realized yesterday that it was empty. One of the workers must be a serious alcoholic. Nothing else missing in the house that I can find.
Also, we told the general contractor. He was pissed off. I suspect they won’t be sending anymore work to the sub-contractor.
I’ve been buying more and more things via Amazon. The more I buy the more interesting their recommendations have become. Months ago I purchased a six-pack of antiperspirant. I noticed that I opened my last stick on Friday.
So, over the weekend I get my daily email from Amazon asking if I’d like to purchase more antiperspirant. Yes, I would! Does their algorithm really know that I’d be getting low right now?
Some would be angry about privacy issues, I’m kind of thanking them for reminding me.
I’ve never seen a microwave that does that. The microwaves in our break room at work frequently have a few seconds left on them when I go to put something in. And yes, it is annoying.
Never seen one do that, no. And if someone closes them without resetting they do start on empty, which at the very least is a waste of energy.
Think of the “reset” button as the “give entropy the finger” button.
?? Are you sure? Maybe you’re just reusing it before the 20 second or whatever time out point? Because I’m positive all three of the ones we’ve had at home, plus several at work over some years, all did.
I’m frequently annoyed by that at home. I have several recipes where I start a casserole cooking, then open it part way through to add another ingredient and give it a stir…and if I take too long, the counter zeroes out on me. 
Restarting totally by itself??? That sounds really really stupid of the designers. Dangerous, even, in a kitchen with kids running around. The ones I’ve used closing the door does nothing, you HAVE to push the start button again.
Speaking of microwaves, the one at work (my old home unit) was apparently cleaned on Friday after I left for the day. This morning I made instant oatmeal for Rocco (my African Grey). The woman who cleaned the microwave asked me if I was going to do my part to keep it clean and I answered with my Monday Morning, “NO”.
Not only does our microwave not clear the remaining time, it also scrolls a message (“Press start to continue”) forever. Seriously, I have gotten up in the middle of the night to find that message scrolling away. TURN IT OFF!
Not by itself, but when someone closes the door. It is very common to use it for things that have indeterminate times and keep checking if things are done, or for recipes to include pause times. Not having to push start again is considered a convenience.
And if the kids are too stupid/little to either know you don’t touch the appliances or how to use a microwave , they shouldn’t be in a place with knives.
You should get a test for rheumatoid arthritis.It’s a simple blood test I believe.
This has been going on for a long time but I’ve just been dealing with it and pushing the rage down into a dark hole in my mind but I haven’t had any sort of bread in over a week and I’m still in withdrawals and feeling particularly bitchy and I can’t fucking take it anymore: Why WHY does MS Word assume I ALWAYS want an 8pt space after every carriage return? I’ve tried opening a doc, fixing the spacing, and then saving it to use as a template–no dice. MS Word ‘fixes’ it for me.
Not quite 10,000 suns’ worth of rage, but easily a 250 watt light bulb.
I will. I have a friend that was diagnosed with RA at 11 years old. It was terrible. I really don’t want RA. I also don’t think anyone really wants RA.
Minor rant of the day - I have an installation going on at work that is not going well nor is it going very fast. It’s like watching a very slow train wreck. The contractor just called to ask for more money and so I have to deal with that too.