So how is everyone today?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

I'm *yawn* tired

[VelmaD]

1. blah

Just blah.

But I think I'm going to take myself to see the penguin movie this afternoon then go get ice cream. I'm hoping that'll perk me up.

[GOPisEvil]

2. Good. Feeling lazy.

Doing laundry, hanging out here and relaxing.

[SarahB]

3. Better.

Dignosed with a kidney infection Thursday and came pretty close to ending up in the hospital. I'm still a little more tired then usual, but I've been resting a lot. 6 more days of antibiotics, no work until Wednesday, and thankfully, now off the Vicodin for pain (I hate feeling sloshy).

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. Wow...that's miserable

glad you are on the mend. :hug:

[GOPisEvil]

6. Oh, ick! I had one of those a few years ago.

Pain...lots of pain for me. The drugs were nice though. :)

Glad you're on the mend.

[DS1]

10. Vicodin has the opposite effect on me

It's like strapping a turbo-charger to my body, I'm ready to hunt down and beat up Chuck Norris :crazy:

[Lilyhoney]

17. Are you eatting yogurt and drinking cranberry juice?

The yogurt to help balance the probiotics/antibiotics and the cranberry to flush out your kidnies. I hope so.

Rest and stretch and be well.:hi:

[SarahB]

59. Yeah, but I'm lactose intolerant.

I've notice lately that Lactaid is working less, so I'm using Acidophilis tabs, plus cranberry juice and concentrated cranberry extract tabs. I'm kicking this thing. :D

[supernova]

4. Cooking lunch and doing laundry

Doing household chores and posting on DU in between.

I went out Friday night and last night. Kinda tired out today and chillin.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

8. and making pork and green beans!

[supernova]

11. Ha! Yes, you and MizU are welcome to come over too

:D

[Misunderestimator]

13. Yay! Be right over!

:hi:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

21. well we DO need to go to NC at some point, no?

[Misunderestimator]

22. Absolutely!

[supernova]

33. We'd love to have you!

It would so fun!

:pals:

And I really need to get out west.

[bertha katzenengel]

7. back hurts, but when does it not? all in all

i'm okay. Need to stay motivated for house cleaning & laundry.

:hi: NSMA

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

9. you shouldn't have picked up that Great Dane

you'll hurt your back ;)

[bertha katzenengel]

14. *chuckle*

Thanks for making me laugh. :bounce:

[jus_the_facts]

12. I'm here.....

....good to see ya here too! :hi: :hug:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

18. Hi darlin'

:hug:

[Kathy in Cambridge]

15. I heard you worked last night

:-) Did you have fun?

It's a cloudy cool day, so I'm having a hard time motivation. I am making Enchiladas Mole later today though.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

19. it was really hot last night.....

It would be nice to have a cool cloudy day right about now

[Rhiannon12866]

16. Sleepy, as well

But better-rested and in much better spirits than yesterday, at least for the moment. Yourself?:hi:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

20. my butt is dragging

how are all your animals?

[Rhiannon12866]

48. Mine is, as well. My schedule is totally off...

I have been plagued by insomnia, but finally crashed at 11:30pm, last night, way early for me, and woke up at 6:30am! I am not even sure what day it is!:crazy:

As for my guys, they're doing fine, thanks! They had a vet appt. last week and my Sara's chronic ear problem seems to have cleared up and my little guy only needed inoculations, but is still on a diuretic, not fun, especially since he wet all over my bed yesterday, but he's great as long as he gets outside regularly. Crap! I was just told that Sara wet on the couch! It's always something! *sigh*

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

54. My kitty has a thyroid tumor

I have to give her meds to regulate her thyroid to see if there is heart or kidney problems. If so, it looks like her time has come..if not, then it is $900 to treat it and there is only one vet in So Cal that does the procedure (which is the same for humans :radionueclide ablation)

[Rhiannon12866]

57. OMG! I am so sorry! Yikes!

What meds are you giving her? Both of my dogs (and me) are on medication for hypothyroidism. But it isn't serious and seems to be working. Have you explored alternative treatments? My vet offers both traditional and alternative. My rescued kitty had a slightly enlarged heart and, since she was so difficult to medicate, he had me put a few drops of liquid hawthorne extract in her water everyday. And it appeared to do the trick. If you could give me more specifics, I could run this by him, if you'd like. He's a fellow liberal and has previously provided cat advice when I've told him about posts on DU.

Also, my friend lives in L.A. When I found out that his beloved cat wasn't doing well, I called him, to sympathize, and suggested alternative medicine if he'd exhausted the other possibilities. Turns out he'd already tried it, found a great practitioner. I could find out more from him, if you'd like.

I'm so sorry, but I sure can sympathize, with the fear and with the expense. When I first brought my rescued cat into this great vet, he really checked everything, unlike the place that I'd previously taken her. It cost me $647 for my first visit, and this was with a 15% discount and even before her surgery! But, the way I figure it, I took the responsibility, so owe my guys the best. Good luck with this and let me know of I can help.

Rhiannon:hug:

[Corey_Baker08]

23. Tired and Recovering

and trying to remember if I did anything stupid last night.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

26. But for the naked dance on the table with a rose in your teeth

you were OK...

[SOteric]

24. After all these years,

still not dead.

:hi: Thanks for asking.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

27. damn good thing

;)

[bicentennial_baby]

25. tres bien. merci

Paris says bonjour to you Teena! :hi: :loveya:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

28. Tell Paris I send my

deodorant :D

[bicentennial_baby]

29. hey! they don't smell, i swear!

:P ok, so it was hot yesterday and i smelled a few people, but otherwise they are quite odor free...and soooo attractive. :9

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

30. LOL..when I was there it was WORST in Paris

maybe things have changed :D

[stellanoir]

31. I'm feeling very happy.

You see, my folks have a blueberry farm and I help them out. This year the little kids that have picked blueberries for the last several years have moved on to more lucrative (though undoubtedly less fruitful-ugh I know) employment so I'm sort of obliged to pick blueberries for a couple hours a day.

Now the field is really beautiful and has great vibes but in order to keep the birds away from the berries my folks have put up all sorts of balloons, tinsel streamers, fake owls, and the most god awful squawker (a recording of a bird in serious distress) which is really unsettling to me. I keep wondering what someone did to that bird to make it sound like that and have visions of an ornithological Gitmo dancing through my wee little head. Or I'm such an empath that I keep wondering. . ."Isn't someone going to help that poor bird?" So I go into the field armed with a radio.

Two of the stations I listen to normally were playing a church service and an investment program so I was being especially annoyed by the squawcker when I heard all this raucous laughter emanating from the South end of the field. I got curious.

So I ambled down the field grabbing blueberries along the way as I approached them. Then I noticed that one of them looked familiar and I remembered that he was the funniest person that I waited on last summer and I said, "Hey you're not allowed to have fun in the blueberry field. This is serious business and don't you know that somewhere in the world a bird is suffering terrible pain right this minute?"

A hilarious conversation ensued and I made three brand new friends and they're going to hire me to read at their house warming party very soon which will unquestionably be a total blast.

These people are just so much fun, really witty, and very well informed.

So even though I was disappointed by the actions or inactions of two others this weekend, my world just got a little wider, and I couldn't even hear the stupid squawker over all the hilarity and wonderfully interesting bantor.

[pandabear]

32. im a little drowsy, to be honest

but, i think it's just my damn allergies!

[Misunderestimator]

34. I'll be better when we hit the road...

:hi:

[GOPisEvil]

35. HINT, HINT!!!!!

:D

[Misunderestimator]

37. Subtle, huh?

:D

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

41. honey...are you ready to go?

:shrug:

(still drinking kona coffee)

[Misunderestimator]

44. We have 45 minutes...

I won't hassle you till then... :)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

47. naaah...I'm gonna get in the shower within 10 minutes

you can prod me along if you wish :)

[swag]

36. I'm all getting motivated and shit to go mow the fucking weeds finally.

Wondering if I can talk myself out of chicken wings and beer for the second day in a row.

One should probably have something else in one's fucking diet, don't you think?

[Misunderestimator]

38. Chicken wings and beer....

mmmmm.....

[swag]

45. If you ever make it up here, I'll buy you lunch at Fire on the Mountain

For several days in a row, even.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

49. where is here?

[swag]

50. My here is Portland, OR

Where is your here?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

51. Anaheim, Ca

[swag]

53. Delightful. I locked the keys in a 1974 Dodge Dart in Anaheim, CA

in 1987 or thereabouts. I got the car open by pulling some chrome molding off the rear window of the car and using that to jimmy the lock.

That was a fun trip, even though the trunk lock kept breaking and we had to pour power steering fluid into the car at every rest area.

Anyway, come north and I'll buy you some wings and beer too.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

39. Yeah..you should fucking eat something fucking else

and go mow the fucking weeds...now get away from the fucking computer :evilgrin:

[swag]

42. You're fucking right and shit, as usual.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

46. You're fucking smart for saying so :)

[swag]

61. Important follow-up.

I did get all motivated and shit to go mow the fucking weeds finally, and now the neighborhood cats are all disoriented and shit because of the eliminated plushness and shit of the backyard in which they fucking hid themselves and shit. So they are all fucking bugged and shit now, those two big grey cats and the black three-legged one.

And I did go get some fucking chicken wings at Fire on the Mountain, because when I had finished the lawn I wiki'd "chicken wings" and announced my excitement at having found the standard hot sauce recipe, and now i can make vats of the fucking shit and just fuckin' drink the fuckin' shit all day long, and H looked up from the fucking paper and shit and said, "did someone mention chicken wings?" and I said, "yeah, you wanna go get some?"

I had a couple of pints of Terminal Gravity IPA with my wings, and fuckin' shit.

Time for a nap, but first I should call my parents.

[khashka]

40. Tired and in pain but cheerful

Still, that damn toe hurts worse today than when I broke it . So, mostly cheerful with the possibility of occassional irritability.

Khash.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

43. owie! I missed that thread

[merh]

52. Doing fine, thanks for asking.

Just catching up on things at the office. :hi:

Hope you & MisU have a great Sunday. B-)

[RandomKoolzip]

55. I just watched "Quicksilver," the Kevin Bacon vehicle from 1985, so...

I'm doing great. Me and my wife just laughed our asses off at this piece of tripe...I swear I love my wife the most when she's making fun of bad movies with me.


Plus, it's ChavezSpeakstheTruth's birthday, so i'm hoping I can use this tiny amount of time I got today before work to let him know that I love him and that I hope he's doing okay.


Hahr Yew?

[leftofthedial]

56. bereft

scared

almost liberated

[progmom]

58. had a great morning with progspawn and some friends

and am now back in the office. x(

(and am about to close out DU and dive back into work)

[Bunny]

60. Tired. I got up from a nap a little while ago. Dreamed I had dinner

at Johnny Carson's house. Never mind that Johnny is dead, I was having dinner with him at his home. :shrug:

[Greyhound]

62. Just wonderful, except when my baby went home.

But she'll be back soon! :hi: :bounce: :loveya:

[sniffa]

63. stinky

i can't shower on the sabbath.

[flamingyouth]

64. Sad and weird.

A friend of mine died a couple of hours ago from liver cancer. She was just diagnosed at the end of May and was only 51. Actually, I guess it's safe to say I just feel awful.