Tommy and Bonnie (a story of a boy and his dog)

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I Had A Tick On Me!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

I was back in the office this morning after my daily 30-minute stroll. I felt something on my back near my neck. I reached back and came up with a tick! A TICK!!! EEEEEEWWWWWW! And not even a cute tick in blue spandex! I got my revenge - I mooshed him up in a tissue, and float tested him. Then I flush tested him. He failed. Stoopit tick.

I spent the rest of the day feeling all itchy and stuff. Stoopit tick.

I also had the initial sit-down with my new (as of next Monday) supervisor. She’s very nice. She’s 35. OK, fine, I can deal with working for someone younger. Her boss is 46 - OK, I can deal with being older than he is. Our commanding officer is 47. I’m thinking it’s inevitable. I’m surrounded by young 'uns… relatively speaking. Honestly, I don’t much care. I also told Cathy (boss lady) that I intend to be retired sometime between 2010 and 2016, depending upon when we pay off the house. And I have no desire to be a boss myself. So I’m going to be her easiest employee - just tell me what to do and let me do it. I won’t need to get any tickets punched or kiss any butts. Life is good.

Yet another bee-yoo-tee-ful day here in southern Merrylande! It almost makes up for the tick.

stoopit tick

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EEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWW TICK!!!

If it hadda been me I would have been taking my clothes off coming in the door after work. Then I would have scrubbed every inch of my body. Ticks is so creepy!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWW TICK!!!

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Didja do the ick dance? I always end up doing the ick dance when I’ve had a crawly on me. ::shudder::

Seriously, though, did someone look at it to make sure you got the head out?

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I didn’t dance, but I was itchy all day. And the head was on it - it was walking around, not latched on.

EEEEWWWWW - now I’m all itchy again!

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EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW TICK!!! EWWWWWW! EWWWWWW! EWWWWWW!

I’m glad ACBG is comin’ over in a bit. He ain’t POed with me after all. I need him to hold me and tell me the icky ticks won’t hurt me.

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW TICK!!! EWWWWWW! EWWWWWW! EWWWWWW!

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So I get home from work, and find a message from the rental office on my machine, saying that my shower has been fixed, and that I really need to get some sort of strainer, because it’s my hair that’s clogging the drain, and this is the second time they’ve fixed it.

Then I went into my bathroom. I see no evidence that anyone has been in there. The shower curtain is still askew in precisely the same way I left it this morning, and yes, my hair is in the drain. Why? Because it’s hard to keep your bathtub clean when it’s still got water in it forty-five minutes after you got out of the shower. Then I ran the shower for five minutes while I went and did a couple other things, and when I came back, yep, that’s right–about four inches of water in the tub.

I called the rental office and left a message, natch, because gods forbid they be available when normal people are at home. I explained that the super may have come in, but my shower is not fixed. It has been this way since I moved in, and I’ve done the Drano thing seven or eight times to no effect. I let them know that I can’t take a shower without risking flooding the bathroom, yadda, yadda, yadda, and left my work number so somebody can call me back about it tomorrow.

I’m totally furious. And I’d been in such a good mood when I got home. Now I can’t even install my new shower head, because I don’t want the super to come back and see it and get me in some sort of trouble.

And all my candles are suddenly refusing to come out of their molds, which makes being ready for Saturday a little more difficult.

Okay, I bitched, and now I feel slightly better. Not a whole lot, though. This, apparently, is why I bought that mocha tequila a couple weeks ago …

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It’s not just you Draelin. There was an accident near Exit 5 on the way home, plus a water-main break on the road leading to our apartment complex, so I got home really late. Start cooking dinner…and the water’s brown. Yuck ptooey. Luckily I have our water bottles in the fridge for when we go biking that I filled yesterday, there’s plenty of bottled water for when I do go out, so I can use them to boil the noodles and then rinse them. But still, mucho annoying.

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Can’t imagine why you would suggest this. Oh…I mentioned the paint didn’t I? At least I didn’t tell you about the permanent coffee stain that I managed to inflict on the spare bedroom carpet. (Can you say “area rug”?) Actually, I’ll be getting hardwood floors (or maybe Pergo). With a nice waterproof finish, in any case. And we’ll be moving the painting area to the garage and/or the basement.

Showers, yes, I enjoy them. Haven’t had clog issues in this house, but the showerhead. Well, I wanted to replace it. It’s a hand shower thingy with a massage head (all of which I actually like - shut up), but - you thought your predecessors were stupid, Rue? Mine #@&%*(& glued the shower part to the pipe. So, Rue, you’re not that far away…wanna stop in and replace stooooooopit stuff? All I really want is a newer, all-metal model. I’ll even buy it myself. And feed you and Soupo and Katcha and the Little Woman. And give you a tour of Columbus.

Tick!!! May I echo everyone else? Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!

Welcome back, susan! And I was feeling a bit crabby after weathering 2 children for 8 days. I don’t think I would have survived 11 of them. (Although it sounds like you had more adults than we did.)

Whap them one upside the head, Draelin! (Maybe their definition of “fixed” is different than ours? I’ve lived with tubs that did what yours does. They’re gross.

This evening’s dinner is mac & cheese with ham and tomatoes. I’m using up extras before they’re forgotten. Also, strawberries with Greek yogurt.

Ex: *I’m not listening!!! *OK…in real life I’d never really given the costs and wisdom of relying on newish technology any thought. Maybe by the time I actually buy one (quite a few years from now, I hope) things will improve.

GT

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I don’t really have much to say I just felt that, as a public service, I should report on a discovery I made in the grocery store.

It seems the good people at Hershey’s have finally realized that coffee and chocolate go well together. I saw a display with 3 new limited edition candy bars and all have coffee flavors. One was a coffee flavored KitKat, the other was a Caramel Cappuchino bar (similar to a Caramello only coffee flavored) and there was a Mocha Almond Hershey bar. I bought the first two and the flavor reminds me of chocolate covered espresso beans. Yummy.

This term “limited edition” worries me a bit. Perhaps I should get a second refrigerator and stock up?

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::serious hat on::

FairyChatMom, IANAD and I certainly know nothing about ticks in your country, but round these parts ticks carry tickbite fever. You might want to be on the alert for any symptoms…fever and the worst headache imaginable.

::serious hat off::

stoopit tick

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Are we still talkin’ about FCM’s tick? EEEEEEEWWWWWW! I need to be held again! The only other critter that really creeps me out is roaches, actually palmetto bugs, but kinda the same thing. EEEEEEWWWWWW! I don’t like snakes but they don’t make me want to scrub myself raw like ticks and roaches (palmetto bugs) do. EEEEEEWWWWWW!

I made a pot roast last night. It’s for dinner tonight. I also have some fresh asparagus to steam. I’m on somebody’s good side big time right now! :smiley:

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If you don’t want to talk about ticks, I have a short story for ya.

I needed to get in my required exercise yesterday, so I went back to walk the beach where that old coot put the moves on me. This time I actually got sucked…

by ** eleventy bazillion** sand flies. Ticks may be oogie, but the sheer volume of sandflies in attack formation is reminiscent of a scene from * The Birds*…

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You should see the size of the sand gnats in Savannah. :smiley:

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So, swampie, are you saying that you suffer from a nervous tick? :stuck_out_tongue:

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Well, durnit!!! No cooktop (cook top?) was installed yestidy! Seems the hole where the old cooktop (no, I’m not doing it again) resides is too BIG for the new one. Therefore, we must wait untill the new countertops are measured and installed. Then we gotta get the cooktop installer back to carry out his bit. :mad: The new cooktop looks very nice in the garage. :frowning: The new faucet for the new sink arrived yesterday. Mr. Anachi and I are wondering if we’ll need to get a plumber to hook up the sink, too. :frowning:

I have a really, really, really EEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWW tick story. My sis, BarbeeDoll[sup]TM[/sup] has a big old Black Lab cross dog. Last Thanksgiving when we all met at her house for dinner, The Princess[sup]TM[/sup] discovered that Charlie was infested with ticks. See, sis lives on a lake with lots of brush and reeds around and in it. Charlie likes to go swimmin in there. There were ticks of all sizes and states of bloatedness…in his ears, between his toes, in his leg pits…just every cotton-pickin’ place you could imagine. How’s that for EEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWW? ::Oh, oh! I think swampy’s fainted.::

I’m confused… bobbio met a baseball player on the beach? And he did what??? :eek:

Tupug

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My tick story, spoilered out of respect for Swampy …

[spoiler]When I was ten or so, my parents always used to take me camping for family vacations. Because I loved that. (Try not to slip in the pool of sarcasm.) Anyway, we’d gone on vacation in late August, and I remember sitting in my fifth grade classroom later that year and feeling a bump, like a pencil eraser, on the back of my scalp. I promptly forgot about it.

For the next several months, I’d notice it every now and then, but always when I was by myself or in class or at another time when there was nobody to mention it to. It didn’t hurt, and it didn’t seem to be growing, so I didn’t pay it much mind.

One day, probably in early spring of the following year, I happened to touch it while scratching my head, and asked my Mom to take a look and tell me what it was. She pushed aside my hair and leaned in to look …

And that was when the screaming started.[/spoiler]

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EEEEEEEWWWWWW Draelin!!! :eek: It could have sucked out your brains! Like a zombie tick! EEEEEEWWWWWW!!! I’m gonna need lots of holding tonight.

Puggy how close is tropical storm soon to be hurricane what’sitsname gonna get to ya? Some of the several days out forecasts say it will reform in the Gulf of Mexico and could hit around PC/Apalachicola which means stormy stuff for me if it does.

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Yup, dangly bits all present and accounted for. (I didn’t say I did it *often * :smiley: )

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I had to look twice, because I could have easily posted those two lines. Well, anyone could have posted thos two lines, but if’n I posted them, it would be true. 'Cause that’s what I do. When’s Civ 4 coming out again? Or have I missed the release already?

Palmetto bugs. Flying roaches. Thanks for reminding me of my nemesises from my one year in Charleston. Back to the therapist.

Ate dinner at a German restaurant last night, but I drank only iced tea. I decided that if’n I started on the beers, I’d be useless today. I had the Jagerland (?) appetizer, which is a few cheeses with a meat that they described as (accurately, it turns out) a cross between beef jerky and salami. It was yummy. For the main course I had the chicken Cordon bleu. I wouldn’t recommend it. The chicken was too dry, and there wasn’t enough cheese in it.

VBob and FCM how’s about this nice weather we’re having, eh? I may actually turn off the A/C today and open some windows - for the first time in six weeks.

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We aren’t supposed to get anything but rain out of Katrina. As a matter of fact we just got our first shower from the outter bands. Shibb may have a problem if she hugs the west coast like some of the models are saying. They don’t expect more than a cat one hurricane to develop. Meh! Why back in my day… :smiley: