sticky sticky sticky for the Little Ape
good health wishes for 2gig
pregnancy thoughts for ems
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffientin’. YAWN 'Tis 35 Amurrkin out (feels like 30) with a predicted high of 55 for the day. This is unacceptable. Highs below 70 Amurrkin must cease immediately. SHEESH!
gigity hope they find out what’s wrong so you can do what you need to do to make it right. Or sump’n like that. Anywho, you are a wise man to go get it checked out.
coldblood the way I see it, irk would not be so irksome if I didn’t have to deal with TPTB. I like my co-irkers and the folks I deal with on a daily basis. Could be worse, I guess.
Now I need more caffiene and rumbly tummy wants to be fed. Then, alas and alack, irk purtification must commence.
Happy Tuesday Y’all!
Blurf.
{{{Apes & Apelette}}} - just calm down, you two -there’s plenty of time!
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{{{tugig}}}** - dang, dude, quit scaring me!! And be OK, dammit!
Don’t encourage him - he’ll start to think he’s clever or something… 
I guess having me home all day wore out the Higlet - she slept thru the night without barking at all! She’s now been fed, I’ve been fed (whole grain toast with chunky almond butter) and I’m caffeinating as I read the funnies and such. I’m hoping to run some errands today, including getting the fabric for kitchen curtains. I’m also supposed to make a motorcycle cover for my sister’s scooter - I hope I have enough leftover awning fabric.
Other fun for the day will include emptying the dishwasher, since all of our favorite drinking glasses are in there. And I really need to clean the bathrooms, including vacuuming up all the cat hair that’s accumulating in the inaccessible corners. Fluff everywhere!!!
I kinda miss the office, but I’m enjoying semi-retirement again. I won’t enjoy it so much on payday, tho. Oh well.
Happy Tuesday!
Happy Toosday!
It is exactly freezing degrees outside but not snowing.
The ground is still white but the road looks clear.
I’m up too early because the dog woke me, but then I talked to a friend who works nights so that kept me up.
I have lost my ‘cool mom’ status. A lot of my friends kids think I am the cool mom because I don’t have a lot of rules.
My friends daughter (14) talked my friend into letting her get her belly button pierced.
No way would I go for it, maybe at 16, not at 14.
I feel so grown up.
Got the Sah-kids graduation information in the mail.
It’s pretty bad when the school has to include a section on proper behavior for the parents and guests.
So the kid doesn’t want to graduate on stage, I’m ok with that but my mother isn’t. I went ahead and ordered the cap and gown anyway because I think he should do it for her.
Now that she found out how far w have to drive (at least 45 minutes each way) for the ceremony, she is rethinking it.
{{Everyone that wants one}} 'n Blurf.
Much blurf- didn’t get much sleep- someone managed to get himself locked out of next door, and spent about an hour from 3.30-4.30am (probably drunkenly) hammering on there, and trying to get someone called ‘Tom’ to let him in- interspersed with walking down there street yelling ‘HELP! POLICE!’, until ‘Tom’ finally gave in and let him in. Then the flat above is having repair work done, which started about 8.
Oh, and there was a mouse in the live trap downstairs- after no sign of any for about a year, Bah. At least it’s caught, but I’m worried it brought friends…
My car is white. It was green yesterday. Today it is white. :mad:
Thank you winter, you may **go **now. I want a decent apple crop this year when I go for my annual haul at the farmer’s market.
Someone here might be interested in knowing I named my spider plant Spidey. It’s very happy to be finally hanging up like it should be.
Time to start my car so the heat will be on when it’s time to go.
I had a call from my agency this morning, HR have caved in under pressure and admitted (although not publicly) that they are incompetent asshats. However, I have told agency lady that I am singularly unimpressed with the dept’s shabby behaviour and am terminating that assignment myself. She is happy with that, especially since they have made alternative arrangements within the dept and haven’t even bothered telling her anything…so she is hunting up a new job for me.
My freezer is defrosted and the job I don’t much want has been dealt with but not by an icepick! For the rest of the day, I will be in the kitchen making bread.
Today I am on a homework mission. I will accomplish lots. :mad: (my seriously determined face)
Gentle healing hugs to all.
In other news (as others have already pointed out), its Tuesday. Need I say more? Really? Ok if you insist…bleh. Y’all happy now? See what you made me do? Double bleh to you I say!
Hugs, Yays, Boos, Pats-on-Back, Smacks-Upside-Heads, yums, sticky-nesses, healing vibes, wet trouts, tapping-foot-with-hands-on-hips, and a smattering of eeeeewwwww! Please distribute as needed.
That is all.
I’ll take one of those wet trouts, should help me get through teh stoopid training class today
Sticky for Apes, ‘you better get better’ poke in the arm for 2gig.
When I woke up this morning, it was 36 degrees outside. I hope my tomato plants survive. Very strange weather we’re having.
Thanks to Scones, I’m getting a replacement Fitbit. I think I’ll be stapling it to my pants so it doesn’t fall off. Irk was irksome yesterday. One lady called three times about the CD she managed to get caught between drive and case. It was a music CD and had no effect on her work. The virus loose on our partner’s servers is playing a neener-neener dance. The only fix is to take all servers offline and clean all the directories “by hand”, which will probably take an entire night, and they just aren’t going to do. So we’ll continue fighting outbreaks on this side.
I’m on Day Two of no mochas. It’s less the chocolate than it is the caffeine. I had a monstrous headache by the end of the day. Monday is massage day, so I asked my masseuse to work on neck and shoulders, and by golly, when I walked out of there, I was a human being again.
StickyBuns are you doin’ your homework young lady? :dubious: Now, march right in there and get busy! Not a peep until you’re done! The sooner you get started the sooner you’ll be finished. Don’t give me that look! Do you want your face to freeze that way? Now get in there and get that homework done! Now!
Feel motivated yet? 
This may not comfort you much, but a few years back the exact same thing happened to me. Two days and nights in the cardiac ward, stress tested, poked, prodded, eating bland food… Except for a mildly lower than normal red blood cell count they never found a thing and it never came back.
Aargh and Blurfity blurf blurf blurf
I may have gotten an hour of sleep last night, freezer to sauna all night long guess I am still ick. I need a nap and it’s only 9am.
Jim
I’m starting to get pissed off at doctors. DH has been in 8+ level pain for the past couple of days. Percocet and Vicodin don’t touch it. Saw the onco yesterday and he writes for some Dilaudid. The nurse tells me that one every 6-8 hours should have a person zonked. For DH, they may as well be Pez. I call them today, and am told that’s pretty much as strong as they can prescribe. Uh, whatever happened to Actiq and Oxycontin?
Why are doctors so scared to provide effective pain management, even for cancer patients?
Fortunately, he also has a medical oncologist plus the doc who pretty much started the whole process, so I’ve got calls to them as well. Hopefully one of them can do something effective.
This just in… the medical onco green-lighted a much higher dose.
It’s a cold Tuesday here in London town 
The DEA declared pain does not exist, and punishes prescribers accordingly.
Remember when you were back in school and the entire class had to stay after school because of one or two other students misbehaving?
That was to prep you for adult life when law abiding citizens have to pay for the mistakes of the screw ups.
People abuse pain killers, doctors over prescribe them and instead of dealing with abusers it’s easier to make it harder on the people who really do need them.