I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Sunnyflowers ... I don't think it's a infection.  I did a 10-day course of Amoxicillin before, during and after the tooth extraction.  I wonder if it's just the winter blahs.  I know the Chaplain uses a special kind of light to sit under in the winter months.  If it persists for any length of time, I'll mention it to my PCP at our next appointment.  Just feels like trying to do everything under water.  And I haven't changed my eating habits ... hopefully this will pass quickly.

Jackie ... MUD is my new four-letter word.  I am so sick of it.  Where you live it's got to be a big problem cause of the long dirt road to your house.

hugs gals,

Bren

Bren and Sunny------The term you are looking for is SAD----seasonal affective disorder----SAD, a real thing and there is special lighting for it.---kad2kar

      Sending everyone HUGS and Sorts

Bunged a sicky today - couldn't sleep - worrying about the water we saw coming down the wall downstairs last night - dishwasher must be leaking. I just called a repair service. This sort of thing really stresses me out as we have a few big bills arrived recently and I can't bloody afford to get it fixed!! My next 2 pays will just pay the existing bills. I'll put it on credit - probably only a hose leaking at the back - no water on the floor around it, no water under the sink where it's connected.

Cranky Susie

Something was leaking in my basement last week. My son in law looked at the many pipes and things above the ceiling panel (hooray for dropped ceiling with pop in panels). In a million years I wouldn't have had any idea what to look for but he quickly diagnosed a leak in something in the dishwasher. Did you know there is a kick plate at the bottom of the dishwasher where a person (anyone who can get down to the floor and back up again) can see what is happening in there?  He undid a couple of screws to remove the kick plate and tightened something. That worked for a while but then he came back and added Teflon tape to the joint. If it doesn't work, I know now which tap to turn off in the basement that goes just to the dishwasher and to turn it on whenever it's time to run the dishwasher.  Or I can call him again.

Good Morning Buddies,

It's cold this morning.  duh.  What else is new.  I could be a weather girl!

I sent a follow-up email yesterday to the recruiters of the job I applied for.  Haven't heard anything back yet.  Still hope to though.  It's so hard to find a transcription job in the psych field.  I may do another mass mailing .. just have to wait and see how things go.  It's been years since I've done any orthopedics or surgery, not sure I would even be qualified to do it now.

hugs,

Bren 

Bren....I hear you about the cold and therefore yucky weather.  We got another snow dusting overnight/early a.m., followed by a little more around 7:30 a.m. when it was time to go out and feed the dogs.  I'm becoming anxious to get through this and arrive at Spring.  Even though every season presents challenges.  I do think with some of the super coldish weather so far we may ( oh please ) have a few less bugs this coming warm season. 

Jackie

Bren

I really am hoping for less ticks this  coming year.  Though there were loads and loads this past season, I did way better than I expected.  The fewer of them the better though.  I think you were referring to what we call Daddy Long Legs spiders here.  Not sure.  We see them mainly -- actually almost totally exclusively outside.  Most of the time they are somewhere around the foundation of the house.  They are I'm told fond of a lot of other smallish critters you would very much enjoy living without.....so we are tolerant here, but that would likely be a whole different story if they developed a fondness for the interior of the house.

I erased the E mention I made  just on your behalf.  How great to be concerned about things.

Jackie

Sunny, I think you are denying them a great part of the only life they seem to have.  I probably come across as rather mean about it all, but I too see so extremely little purpose.  If I could see how that would help anything, even one little iota --- but maybe when all you have is Rt. Wing Nuts making news so often for all the wrong reasons.  When you start dipping into that VAT of Kool-Aid  --- when you have demeaned and taunted all the elected officials, even the highest office, I think you are neck deep in it and likely couldn't change your viewpoint. 

Reminds me of that old, old poem for which I basically only recall mainly the gist of it.......of how John Brown died maintaining HIS right of way.  Just meaning to me if you HONESTLY look at all sides and have enough gumption to change when something doesn't work, then you will probably do all right.  If you have allowed yourself to become so solid that you are incapable of change, you may well find your self stuck in a rut you can't get loose from in order to save yourself or at least do better.

Guess I would just say......if they are kinder, happier, more worthwhile human beings for having nothing better to do,  if it helps the world be a better place, and creates more love and understanding to taunt and belittle individuals you feel you don't agree with.....enjoy the karma.

Jackie

p.s.  of course, I'm not Larry who I'm sure has better answers. 

Jackie .. it wasn't the daddy long legs or the brown recluse .. I don't know why the name escapes me since the damn things scare me so bad.  I sure hope we don't have as many tics this year.  I had so many on me last summer, I lost count.  They would fall out of my hair while I was in the shower or be stuck to my belly!

Just asked Mr. Tim ... it's the wolf spiders that freak me out so bad.

Enjoyful didn't ask me not to post her status, a dear friend kindly reminded me that it was personal information.  Sometimes I just get so caught up with things, I blabber on too much.

"If you have allowed yourself to become so solid that you are incapable of change, you may well find your self stuck in a rut you can't get loose from in order to save yourself or at least do better."  Wish we had a "like" button for this sentence!

Gumby ... hope you have a safe trip home ... and that you'll be somewhere with a T.V. for Sunday's playoff game!

hugs,

Bren

Oh Blue - don't you know?  He's a Muslim-loving terrorist  Atheist.  Wait, can he be Muslim and Atheist at the same time?  Or is that simply being Black while being President?  Oh, wait, he's a Commie too - or is that a Socialist?  You know how "they" use those two words interchangeably as if they mean the same thing - lol.  Last I looked, the government hasn't seized my property for a cooperative yet and where is the state run newspaper, aka Pravda?    Maybe he's destroying the USA by ruining all of their Christian Zionist plans - waiting for the second coming?  Has anyone told them that's like Waiting for Godot?

Seriously, I'm so sick of this underinformed thinking, I'm saying it out loud.  It's like my surgeon friend who hears complaints from his Medicare patients about Socialistic Obamacare and he'd ask them what do you think Medicare is?  "Well I paid for it."  Like any other "collective" insurance program where you probably get more benefits than you ever paid in to should you be so unlucky to collect from - it's another socialistic program designed to help people plan for the worst case.   It's regurgitated pablum they hear on Faux News and I'm tired of living in a society of ninkumpoops that eat this stuff up.

There is actually a person on this website who has no health insurance, yet has the ability to pay for health insurance, but refuses to get Obamacare (because she hates Obama so much) and will pay for her "lumpectomy" with cash.  She thinks she is getting a lumpectomy for $899 per a quote from her surgeon.  Has she considered the hospital costs?  Now her lx has turned into a UMX.  I wonder if she realizes the surgeon fee is going to be the smallest part of her bill?  What if her DCIS turns into IDC and she needs chemo.  Wonder if she has considered that?    Does she know that most of us pay $$ for hormonals?  I"m just waiting to see the day she finally signs up for ACA, but she'd probably never admit it.

You cant get a new tooth for 899.00.

Could one of you  dear ladies tell me how WI-FI works on the road, or away from a thing at home?  In a kindergartner way PLEASE and THANK YOU. I just recieved a Galaxy Tab and the Techs speak WAAAAAY above my understanding.

GG--I didnt realize you were in AZ, that is where I live and  cant comment on the weather, even when I am freezing.

                   HUGS and SORTS------kad2kar

Imagine not having health insurance and paying for Herceptin - $75,000 here

Went to the hairdresser this morning and my credit card was denied. Just got off the phone from the bank and there was an attempted fraud last night - someone tried to charge $3,400 to it. Lucky they are diligent, but it leaves me in hole for when the dishwasher man comes on Tuesday - we can use Steve's card I guess - I think I might have enough on my mastercard.

Kam -- What's that expression again?  Oh yes, cutting off your nose to spite your face.  Well, as I always say, you can't fix stupid!

Glenna -- January has to be THE worst month for flu, colds, infections of all sorts.  A friend of mine had a nasty case of the Norwalk virus and is finally feeling better.  Hope you are too!

Kad -- love your addition of "sorts" -- we all need some "sorts" some of the time, and some of us need "sorts" all of the time!

I recently joined a new group of women playing sports at our beautiful community centre, and the conversation turned to breast cancer, so I admitted I'd had it.  Lots of questions followed, and besides questions about the hardest part, someone asked me if there was anything "good" about it.  Of course, I said -- a whole new group of friends I've met via the internet, and many of whom I've had the great pleasure of meeting in person.  You're my silver lining!  Smooches to you all!

kad - I sent you a PM about wifi.

C4C - thanks - you said what I feel about this group.

Glenna - Glad to hear your lungs are clearing and CT shows stability and hope you get back to getting chemo to work for you.