Ouch! Sorry to hear you’re hurting, but the good news is that you can have a nearly-bionic spine. Mine’s not exactly bionic but it’s got big chunks of vertebrae that are welded together and have a fancy arrangement of bolts, wires and pins to make them do what they’re supposed to do if I hadn’t broken them in the first place!
Makes airport security quite a giggle though.
Drae, you just have to apply for that job! I wonder what they’d do if you turned up for an interview dressed in your bestest Goth outfit and explained that the best way to conduct the interview is for them to commiserate with your outfit.
Drae you definitely should go after that job. I mean, how many places actually encourage commiseratin’ on the job!
Doggio hope the acheys are better today.
BooFae the give up is goin’ good. Tomorrow is one month! Heh, the way I figure it, LiLi is goin’ through worth withdrawals than me.
Ok, off to get stuff done. I’m helpin’ a friend clean up his yard today then we’re doin’ mine, probably tomorrow but might get started today. Time for the Spring spruce up!
Girlie TMI alert I’m having such a lovely time of it lately. I told you all about my abnormal Pap…well now I seem to be having another bout of mastitis. Not fun, and very painful. My darling husband pampers me so, but last night he left for a short while … and then returned hours later. He had a flat tire! In the rain. Every bit as fun as it sounds. So he was all morose and miserable, I was miserable, Darling Cherry Boy was miserable (as the nursies were not available). End TMI
We’re also a tad dejected since the boat we’ve been working hard to get ready for The Summer Fun is turning out to be just what everyone calls a boat: A Hole in the Water You Throw Money In. Poor boat sat on the ground outside a couple years while its trailer was being repaired, and got a nice case of termites. Hub is having to tear out flooring. The steering wheel needs to be replaced; since it’s an older boat that has become the impossible purchase. Lordy be. But hey! We have plenty of ski vests, floats, a shelter for shoreline activies and a cool raft! Whee! It remains to be seen if we’ll be able to USE IT. Le grr.
On a fun note, we watched Borat this weekend. I think I might have pulled something I laughed so hard!
If someone posts an ad asking for (degrees changed from the Spanish system) a person with “an Associate’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor’s Specialty preferable)” and you write explaining that Bachelor’s isn’t a specialty, they’re likely to get angry at you, right?
I always find those kind of depressing. Why is it that people who don’t think that the Earth is flat because they plain old do not think hold so much power over other people’s lifes?
Back to trying to find stuff to do. I’ve been reading my e-copy of “Wishcraft”, which someone had linked in a Dope thread a while back and I found it totally depressing. One of the first things it does is ask whether your parentals-et-al did a series of things like “treat you like your ideas were worth listening to” and I get a bunch of “noes”. There must be something they did right, musn’t it? I feel like I’m just the biggest whiny-baby in the world for coming up with that list of noes.
I do know that one important piece of my dreams is “a job where if I don’t have work to do, I can do other stuff.” Now how does one find that?
Morning, all. I’m still trying to recover from yesterday’s therapy; it definitely pushed me over into the “you’ll know when you’ve done Too Much” category. I came home and basically went to bed for the rest of the day. At least I slept pretty well last night. That’s the biggest complaint from my fellow therapy sufferers, but thus far I’ve done pretty well in the sleeping category. You might want to note that that’s extremely common post-bionic-knee, Rosie; the therapists said that most people don’t start sleeping well again for several weeks. I kept my mouth shut so as to not annoy my fellow sufferers.
The pet food recall is for very specific types of pet food – not everything “in gravy,” but stuff made in a certain very limited period in one specific plant. So even with the big brands like Iams or Nutro, it only affects, at most, six or eight specific types of their food. Purina is not on the list at all, to which I heaved a large sigh of relief since Emily gets 1/2 can of Fancy Feast every evening, and insists on the “in gravy” varieties. Before the Menu Foods server got slammed, I went in and looked very carefully at all the lists, and truly, it’s a very narrow group of varieties and dates made. But at least Emily’s Fancy Feast is safe!
I’m just trying to get myself functional again today, so I’m going to go back to caffeinating and reading and seeing what’s new and exciting in the world. Nothing, I hope!
I have much experience in commiserating. I should take that job!
Am somewhat pissed at my brother right now because I asked him to clean the bathroom yesterday and he hasn’t done a thing except sleep and play computer games. I really wonder what he’s planning to do with his life - he’s 20 and can’t do a thing for himself. I wish my parents had left him to fend for himself instead of dumping him on me. He can’t keep up this lifestyle forever, and I’m not going to nag at him - he’s old enough to be responsible for himself.
I feel like the mood in the MMP today is a tad gloomy. All you aching people - doggio, gt, BooFae, MamaTigs, Ellen - feel better soon!
Haze - you need to sort your brother out right now, otherwise he’ll grow up to be another version of ‘im indoors, who despite promises to the contrary, can still spend the whole of his weekend drinking wine, sleeping and playing World of Soddin’ Warcraft!
Ellen - the first, second and third breaks were from motorbike accidents. The first one was the worst and necessitated a couple of years in hospital and rehab. After that, well, I was just so used to it! The second wasn’t too serious and was easily repaired, and the third was fairly serious but probably wouldn’t have been as bad if the first two hadn’t weakened various bits of bone.
Hah! That sounds like the only thing that might work at this point. I might have to try that. Either that or lock him in the bathroom with the cleaning implements and not let him out until he’s done cleaning. He won’t be able to survive that long without his precious computer.
Ah, if only my brother were as lucky as 'im indoors and had a BooFae in his life.
doggieb, it’s only the wet food that’s in the recall. The Nutro kibble is okay. AFIK, the suspect is a supplier of wheat glutton that Menu Foods began using for the wet food only. I haven’t seen anything yet on exactly what was wrong with the wheat glutton.
I used to feed mine homemade food (chicken, brown rice, veggies) but it just got too expensive. Now they eat a chicken and rice or lamb and rice kibble that I throw in a dash or two of cheese or meat just to make it interesting.
Anybody want to take bets on whether Spirit Air will take a 4’X4’ boxed framed picture as baggage on a flight to Mexico? That’s what one of my team leaders is going to do.
Haze, just don’t do anything he is supposed to do. I know your resilience is probably lower than his, but I know several guys who got suddenly healed the day that:
the favourite shirt was not ironed,
as a matter of fact, it had not been washed,
and could be located half-under the bed, mixed with some dirty socks and underwear.
Less radical cases involve someone who, when sent to buy stuff only he used (whole milk), would bring back the cheapest, undrinkable brand because, well, it was cheapest, but then refuse to drink it because well, it was undrinkable (but not for hygienic reasons, it just was bad in and on itself). After being informed by his nasty elder sister that he was going to drink what he had brought (it’s not like he didn’t know which brands he liked), as no more whole milk would be bought before he drank the six boxes, six, that he had brought, he suddenly didn’t have any more trouble ever remembering his own tastes or even those of other peoples.
I don’t know if this case would be “less” radical. It certainly seems like something I should do, though. The problem is that a) I have a soft spot in my heart for my little brother despite the fact I also think he is a lazy ass, and b) I have a low threshold of tolerance when it comes to waiting for other people to do their job. You know when you have group projects, and one person ends up doing all the work? I was always that person. I need to break that habit when it comes to my brother, though - he can’t live with me forever.
In other news, I really like this chai tea I got from Trader Joe’s.
If you can manage to train your brother, Hank, some woman that he meets down the road is really going to appreciate it. My ex-bf was lazy and couldn’t be bothered to do stuff around the apt. (His own apt. We didn’t even live together!) That’s a big part of the reason he’s an ex-bf. Now my hubby is very good about helping out and keeping things organized, cleaned, etc. And I really really like that. And I make sure i show my appreciation.
I’m working from home today so that I don’t share Teh Sick. I don’t feel terrible, but I don’t feel great either. I just wish every cold I get didn’t head straight for my sinuses. Couldn’t I have a little variety in terms of colds? I can’t remember the last coughing cold I got. I think I was a little kid. Not that I *want *a cough, but something other than sinus congestion would be a good change.
Lily seems to think that since I’m home I should be paying attention to her. I’m really trying to work and be productive to justify my working from home status, but she’s making it tough. In the end though, I think I’ll end up getting almost as much done as I would if I were at work. At least here I don’t have coworkers distracting me!
Being a bachelor can make a real impact on a guy’s willingness to learn to do for himself, too. Papa Tigs was a 46-year-old bachelor when I met him, and as a result, he cooks well and does 99% of the cooking, does all the food shopping, washes the dishes as soon as he’s finished a meal, does laundry amazingly well, etc. He’s not much in the cleaning department, but hey, I’m willing to scrub a bit here and there if it means I get out of cooking duty!
I’m normally really good about working from home, but it’s just so frustrating to not be able to sit comfortably at my desk! I can just barely manage comfy enough to goof off online, but working requires a bit more concentration, and the discomfort level is just high enough to interfere with any and all ability to concentrate enough. It’s not enough pain to need medication for, just enough to be annoying. I’ll sure be glad to get well again.
Who is Clay and does FCD know you are playin’ with him? I just could not resist that one!
Haze good luck with the bro. He’s young yet. Maybe he’ll grow up.
All you with teh sick, get better soon! That’s an order.
I am tahred! I’ve been home about an hour from helpin’ clean up a friend’s yard. It was in a mess! We mowed, weedate, edged, chopped, chainsawed, and Joan Crawfored hedges. Place looks good though. Ain’t nuttin’ like a chainsaw for gettin’ in touch with the ol’ inner redneck. It’s just so much fun! Anywho, I’ve showered and had a couple beerverages so I’m all relaxated right now. Tomorrow da swampyard gets cleaned up. Fortunately it ain’t in as big of a mess. Supper tonight is curried pork and sweet potatoes. It’s yum! Plus it does not take long to make, so I won’t even start on it til around fiveish.
Minor gripe about work. Why do they have to name different groups of people by the same name?? We group customers in different ways, one of them being based on how good they are at paying on time, along the lines of Good, Better, Best (not the real categories). Except that two different parts of our organization use the same terms but with slightly different criteria for putting them into those categories. And then, I just found out today, that different parts of the organization also rate customers differently based on how long they’ve been a customer like Old and New (also not the real categories) but again the criteria for being Old or New are slightly different. So you can’t assume that a Good New customer in our part of the company is at all like a Good New on the other side of the company. GAH! Who comes up with this stuff?? Don’t you think that either 1) everyone should use the same categories or 2) if the categories are different, they should have different names? Sheesh.
I just could not resist that one!