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Mar 01, 2010 05:42AM
I'm preparing to travel to the Pacific Northwest today. Three days in Portland-Eugene, OR. Home spring is still bursting forth there.
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A few things I wanted to share.1. I love that this thread is ginormous, and we have eleventy billion posts in "Right now I'm..." :D THIS is the secret treasure trove of TerminalCoffee, folks - rich with talk about God only knows what.
2. Necessity really IS the mother of invention!!! Okay so I had food poisoning - started Sunday night almost within an hour of eating some Popeye's chicken tenders (the spicy ones, no less) - I've never been so sick in my life - I threw up every hour on the half hour (weird) like clockwork for 9 hours straight. Anywhoo... since I couldn't keep any fluids down and I knew I was dehydrated, I was trying to find a way to make pedialyte more palatable and still go easy on my stomach/body - impossible you say? Well, I think I found a solution to the godawful taste that is pedialyte - a pedialyte spritzer... awwww yeah boooiii!!! I've actually had 3 glasses of it since I've gotten home. It's pedialyte (grape, specifically) with a splash of ginger ale... and I'm willing to bet that would be the best hangover cure ever invented and someone could make a gabillion dollars trying to sell it if they had the kick start to get it going.
I'm lacking kick start.
3. WHERE IS THE TIME GOING?!! My days are getting away from me - wtf?!!
4. During my food poisoning induced stupor which was fully involved on Monday night, I obsessed for 2 hours straight over what "that P name was... you know... the P word... the one the doctors give you when you're P-word... puking... over stoopidhead P-word Popeye's... FUCK Popeye's!!! What are they gonna do if I call? Offer me free chicken?!! I'm not eating there for another ten years if I can help it. NO WAY... well maybe a biscuit. P-biscuit. Pbiscuit. OH, and it's not paragoric... or however you spell that p-word med... why is the P in front of p-neumonia? what kind of messed up shit is that?!! P-P-P... I can't believe I don't have to pee... Poop! Powderrr... Puppy! Posthumous. Posthumous? NOOO!!! I don't wanna die! I'm too young to die. Maybe I should call 9-1-1. I'm too tired to make any calls right now... if I could just remember that p-word... I could go to sleep right now. I can remember the name of the generic, which also happens to be a p-word - and not paragoric. It's Promethazine. Maybe Wheel of Fortune, P-Pat Sajak can help me..."
And it went on... and oooon and oooon... So I finally caved in. And looked it up. It was Phenegran. Gah.
4. I feel much much better now and am sooo friggin grateful for my health.
This is by far my favorite post of recent memory.I can't compete. I'm just at my desk, listening to Bach, drinking tea.
You should have seen her message damning FB Scrabble! That was a pretty good one too. I just had a bout of food poisoning (or some virus) myself. Ugh. So miserable. Still feeling shaky and worried about all food choices - but at least I'm hungry again.
Glad to see that you are better Heidi.
I'm off to the Valley of the Sun, and to Sedona for RA.
Everybody play nice while I'm gone :-) !
I'm off to the Valley of the Sun, and to Sedona for RA.
Everybody play nice while I'm gone :-) !
Right now I'm at home during my lunch break, boiling potatoes to eat for lunch. I'll be lucky if I can eat a whole one. Honestly, I wasn't on any meds at the time I was obsessing about the phenegran. It's weird that I can remember what I was thinking at the time (I also have some text messages I exchanged with a friend at that time that precipitated the whole P-word obsession that were pretty funny to read).
I was just seriously sleep deprived, exhausted, and I guess anxiety had kicked in by that point...
Have fun in Cali, Jim! I hope you're gonna squeeze in some birthday week celebration while you're there.
Oh, poor Heidi! That sucks! The last time food made me sick was a corn dog at an Ethnic Celebration, and I threw up just about immediately and was fine. I guess I got it out of my system before it did any damage.But, I will make a note of your Pedialyte spritzer cure.
I am in Portland, at the Public Library Association conference, learning about using sources like Library Thing to do better readers' advisory. Also, if you run out of westerns for your patrons (some patrons read only westerns), try some juvenile historical fiction set in the west with them.
Oh! I had dinner with Sarah Montambo last night! We gossiped about all of you. :)
right now i am picking up the crumbs from my desk lunch. a big bag of kettle korn and a aquafina flavored water
Jackie "the Librarian" wrote: "But, I will make a note of your Pedialyte spritzer cure.":) Jackie! I discovered a looong time ago that pedialyte is THE best hangover cure. For real. It's just so disgusting, though. So I think I might be onto something with this (pedialyte with ginger ale to cure a hangover). Not that I'm willing to test it. And considering I can't remember the last time I had any alcohol, I'd say the hangover bit may not be necessary for me... or likely most of you (Jackie, I just can't imagine you being so drunk you would need to nurse a hangover).
I wanna know what you gals gossiped about? Did you talk about me? Jessica (Chairy) and I totally gossiped about everyone when we met. We said nice stuff, of course!
Heidi, you're right, I don't drink that much. We talked about Goodreads ennui, and how Goodreads affects our reading for the worse!
Okay, it wasn't really gossip, per se... just more like a discussion about favorite posts, things we like, things we like about the people on here, that sort of thing. That's not all we talked about, of course - I mean, hullo... we went to The Clinton Presidential Library.
Heidi wrote: "That's not all we talked about, of course - I mean, hullo... we went to The Clinton Presidential Library. "Sounds like a fun time. Do they make you wear a blue dress there?
No. I wore a green skirt. I think Jessica wore jeans. The men get cigars at the door, though.
Heidi wrote: "I've never been so sick in my life - I threw up every hour on the half hour (weird) like clockwork for 9 hours straight."HOOOLY crap, you guys!!! I just realized that I stopped counting the hours at 7 AM instead of 7PM - Yeah. Add another twelve hours. I vomited every hour on the half hour for TWENTY ONE hours straight... No wonder I was obsessing about "the p-word."
That's gotta be a record.
i think i gave some people the death stare at the supermarket. not eating for almost seven hours is not a good idea when your body demands to be fed at least every two or three hours, but i finally got some work done and didn't want to ruin the momentum until i was done. at least i didn't know them.
They'll probably watching out for you now, though. It's probably from hanging out with Mr. Yummy that makes you that way.
right now I'm in pain.But thats what I get for not listening to my psychic mom.
I've been rather melancholy lately... too much on my mind, and I'm trying to be patient and trust that things will go as they should, but sometimes it's. just. hard.
We're there for you Heidi.
Right now I am seriously rethinking my reading all the new messages to catch up. I'm not sure War and Peace is this long :-).
Right now I am seriously rethinking my reading all the new messages to catch up. I'm not sure War and Peace is this long :-).
I'm sitting at my desk, kicking my own ass for doing some work for a seller in preparation of a virtual tour. Cleaning out the fish pond as a gesture, indeed.
I was trying to replace the HID (headlight) on my car, but got stymied and called the guys at the local garage. I learned something (my days as a mechanic are waaaaaaaay over), and now I get to pay $20 or so for the lesson.In my early 20's I rebuilt my car's carburetor, replaced the head gasket, repaired the distributor, etc., etc., etc. Now I'm 47 and I can't even change the damn HID. What's next, forgetting how to change the oil?
Vanessa wrote: "I'm sitting at my desk, kicking my own ass for doing some work for a seller in preparation of a virtual tour. Cleaning out the fish pond as a gesture, indeed."I have no idea what this means:) Is this literal? Metaphorical?:)
I used to be able to work on cars, too, Phil, but today's cars seem way more complicated than my old Lesabres and Impalas...
Anyway, right now I'm drinking my second beer after flying home from Louisville. The city was fine, nice place, really, but I'm glad to be home. I imagine you get used to traveling for work (Larry? Kevin?) but I'm worn out.
You get used to being tired when you get home.
I can imagine, Jones.I can't find the Saturday night thread. So I'm writing here.
Right now I'm listening to Boards of Canada on full blast while the dogs play in the backyard and I clean the last of the house before my wife and kids arrive home from Florida. They're coming in after 10 tonight. Tomorrow could be interesting with the kids up that late. I have all the windows open, a cool breeze on a lovely overcast day. I should close the windows soon, however, as tonight will be cold, I think.
I'm watching Iron Chef America. Black bass.
Yes, they're running a bunch of episodes in a row, right, Jones?
spent the day. whole day. driving around on my motorcycle killin' time. my wife comes home from FL with my youngest son late tonight so this was my last bachelor day. ate egg sandwiches, cruised around and got a huge blizzard at the DQ. totally killed the day. had lots i should have been doing but:"there is no joy in having nothing to do. real joy comes from having lots to do and not doing it"
Waiting for my stepson to come home from garage band practice so we can start Movie Night, and really craving a fuity cocktail served in a giant parfait glass with chunks of pineapple and a tiny paper umbrella.
What's on tap for movie night, Mary? What kind of blizzard, Kevin?
RandomAnthony wrote: "Yes, they're running a bunch of episodes in a row, right, Jones?"Yeah I'm about full of it though. Time to switch off.
I have Whiteout from Netflix but I see both Sherlock Holmes and The Blind Side are on PPV, also 2012 which I have heard is pretty lame but has awesome CGI (my fatal weakness).
Redbox didn't have Sherlock Holmes when I checked. I think some movie studios don't like the Redbox fee structure. But I thought of getting the movie on PPV, too.
I just woke from a three hour nap. Life is good.
I took a 30 min nap today. But right now I am procrastinating, something I am a professional at. I should be getting everything in order and going to bed, but I am not.
if there is such a person i would like to apply for a job.
I'm independently wealthy and work out of the saintly goodness of my heart *anyone buying that???*
right now i am in a drury inn in meridian, MS. where the heck is meridian. MS you ask? i have no idea. i don't know if i am in the north/south/east or west of Mississippi. i actually don't remember if MS is beside AR or what. i flew into the smallest airport i ever have been at (think cracker barrel size with 3 rental cars)
Did it have a Starbucks? I was reflecting this week on how every airport has a Starbucks now.I'm lifting weights and posting between sets. All the neighborhood kids are playing a massive war game of some sort that spreads across the whole block. I'm on my front porch and every now and then I yell stuff like "Max is hiding in the bushes!" to bust out kids hiding in the bushes.
starbucks? they didn't even have a coffee cup
Heh. My front porch is enclosed, Barb, so they'd have to come pretty close to see me unless I turned on the lights.
Come a little closer, Kevin, I'll rub some choo-moos on your muscles and you can do some push ups in the lights...
put on an old village people album and we'll put on a show for the neighbors doing YMCA
How's the hotel room, Kevin? Where does one eat dinner in rural Mississippi?
I am supposted to be working now, you guys are making me giggle in my office. Make some room Barb.
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