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Invasive medical tests today. In much pain. Insert groaning and excessive profanity here. : ( . . .
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Ouchie! Heal fast and be happy again, Sue. Sam. Sue? What the hell? When cool members change their &%@# names! That pisses me off. I'm too old for this @$!%.
(I'm kidding SueSam)
Thanks, Dwayne! And sorry!! I posted an announcement on my profile. You guys don't see that? Crap! Sam is the first name of my future author name. So I don't have to lose my contacts, I thought I'd change it now to get everyone use to it by the time I transfer it into an author profile next year. : )
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I think it's awesome Sam!
Sam (Rescue Dog Mom & Writer) formerly known as Sue. wrote: "Invasive medical tests today. In much pain. Insert groaning and excessive profanity here. : ( . . ."I am so sorry Sam. I hope the pain goes away and that it wasn't all for nothing. ((Hugs))
Sam (Rescue Dog Mom & Writer) formerly known as Sue. wrote: "Invasive medical tests today. In much pain. Insert groaning and excessive profanity here. : ( . . ."I am so sorry Sam. I hope the pain goes away and that it wasn't all for nothing. ((Hugs))
Thank you, Riley!! Hugs!!
I hope so, too, G.G. I've been squeezed, poked, choked, prodded, stabbed, jabbed, microwaved, and actually electrocuted. They'd better figure out what's wrong!
Sam (Rescue Dog Mom & Writer) formerly known as Sue. wrote: "I hope so, too, G.G. I've been squeezed, poked, choked, prodded, stabbed, jabbed, microwaved, and actually electrocuted. They'd better figure out what's wrong!"I actually can't find the announcement but I'm glad to know what's up! Hey, with all that medical treatment, are you basted, roasted, laid on a sheet of parchment, with a sprig of holly stuck in you yet? Or maybe spread with frosting 'cause you're actually a batch of cookies and didn't know it? I hope they find out what's up soon.
Sam (Rescue Dog Mom & Writer) formerly known as Sue. wrote: "I hope so, too, G.G. I've been squeezed, poked, choked, prodded, stabbed, jabbed, microwaved, and actually electrocuted. They'd better figure out what's wrong!"Are you sure you saw a doctor and not a vet? :P
Rohvannyn, LOL!! If I'm going to be laid out on parchment, I want to be baklava. I posted my announcement on my profile, but you'd only see it if you view your feed and depending on your settings. I didn't think about that. : /Anyone know a way to private message all your GR friends?
G.G, LOL!! I've endured all this over months by a number of different doctors. I don't recall seeing any dogs or cats in the waiting room, and that's something I'd surely notice. ; D
Dwayne and Aisling: use the subtitle feature. It will add the collection name after a colon.Sue/Sam: I figured it out. Congrats on accepting your writership!
Rant time: Who the eff thought it was a good idea to end the year with the biggest holidays? Seriously! I'm supposed to think about presents, tax info, completion of all my state reqs, insurance, and everything else that comes with the start if a new year and I have to be effing jolly? Eff that!
Thank you, Christina!! Yeah, I'm with you on the end of the year overload!!
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Uh... not sure why I didn't think of that. Um... wait. I did. I did think of that. I just wanted something to gripe about. Yeah, that's the ticket!
Dwayne wrote: "Uh... not sure why I didn't think of that. Um... wait. I did. I did think of that. I just wanted something to gripe about. Yeah, that's the ticket! "Unless I am mistaken...the problem with that, though, is that it doesn't then put the books into a series. So, a reader can't click on the series name and see everything in that series.
Don't tell my laptop, but I'm mad at it. It keeps locking up and losing stuff... NOT what you want your PC to be doing. I've scanned it for viruses and malware, I've had to restart it 20 times this week and it's only Tuesday, and I've yelled and sworn at it. I give up! I warned my husband he may come home from work one night to a barely distinguishable pile of melted plastic, singed metal, and keycaps that were run through our food processor... all smelling vaguely of gasoline!!Either that or it'll be laying intact on the front lawn and there will be no glass in our living room window. Darn blasted machine!!
...a barely distinguishable pile of melted plastic, singed metal, and keycaps that were run through our food processor... all smelling vaguely of gasoline!!"Note to self: Don't ever get on Sue's bad side! Ack! Hahaha
Sam (Rescue Dog Mom & Writer) formerly known as Sue wrote: "Don't tell my laptop, but I'm mad at it. It keeps locking up and losing stuff... NOT what you want your PC to be doing. I've scanned it for viruses and malware, I've had to restart it 20 times this..."I had problems too after the new window patch. Are you using the old internet explorer, or the new one? After last patch everything kept freezing with that little circle thingy. I was blaming a back up Pam the hubby had installed but then I noticed it was happening when I had the I.E. opened. I hate the new one BUT it stopped doing it since I switched.
While we're hating on Microsoft. I hate Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge. Awful, awful browsers that frustrate me to no end.
Alex wrote: "Are you using windows 10, because I hate it. HATE IT! HATE IT! HATE IT!I have a laptop that's more powerful than anything I've had before, but because of the way windows 10 operates I'm strugglin..."
Add to that the 40+ hours I've had to wait for the dang thing to update... :-(
They aren't without fault. But I find them more intuitive and less prone to throwing hissy fits....
Thomas wrote: "While we're hating on Microsoft. I hate Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge. Awful, awful browsers that frustrate me to no end."Internet Explorer wasn't too bad. I mean...one could get used to it. I hate that they stopped supporting it and that the latest window update makes it crash all the time. No escaping switching to Edge, which I HATE.
Missy, Love dogs and nice people, hate machines. : DG.G, Using Windows 10 and updated with patch and Google Chrome. Also keep getting Shockwave Crash messages despite following directions on how to fix that. Grrr....
Alex, You might find a cheap copy of Windows 8 on eBay.
Hugs to All, especially those of us in MS misery!! Ah! MS stands for Misery Sucks!!
Thomas wrote: "While we're hating on Microsoft. I hate Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge. Awful, awful browsers that frustrate me to no end."That's why they can pry my copy of Windows 7 from my cold dead hands, and I've turned off all Microsoft auto-updates. I can't stand 8, I really can't stand 10, and auto-updates are for the birds. If support ever stops for Windows 7, I'll be a Linux girl.
Sam (Rescue Dog Mom & Writer) formerly known as Sue wrote: "Alex, You might find a cheap copy of Windows 8 on eBay...."I would never buy a second hand copy of windows. Even if they state it's new. Once a key code is used well...I've seen games like World of Warcraft and the such sold second hand. How can people even think about buying it?
Alex, you are right on not taking chances. Also.,. who wants Windows 8? From what I have heard, it's worse than Windows 10.
That is strange. Windows 10 is supposed to be more efficient and make slow and old computer faster. Sorry to hear about your problems. So here's to another reason to hate so called 'progress'.
Rohvannyn, Yup, I'm so regretting upgrading right now. I'm saving my book onto a memory stick... thumb drive... whatever you call it. Hugs!!
Alex wrote: "G.G. wrote: "That is strange. Windows 10 is supposed to be more efficient and make slow and old computer faster. Sorry to hear about your problems. So here's to another reason to hate so called 'pr..."Windows 10 effed up my laptop so bad. I never thought I'd miss Windows 8 but boy howdy do I. It goes so slow and randomly switches to tablet mode for no reason and sometimes the taskbar flickers for no reason and sometimes the internet driver just DIES.
I... Love machines. And windows 10, but not as much as Android, and um... Macs are pretty much terrible to me. I could not live without the internet and feel that the modern smart phone is the weapon I will need to navigate every apocalypse situation except for that one where the internet goes away and then, well, I'm holing up in a bunker with a super NES and a solar generator and waiting the whole thing out with a lifetime supply of pizza rolls.So...
Feel free to get mad at me. :D
pointless regulations that go beyond small print
Christina, I prefer to take my anger out on the thing/person causing me grief. So I'll hug the stuffing out of you!! Hugs!!
Those Christmas letters that people print out on their computers. The ones that tell you how little Sodastream and Bagpipe are doing at their private school, and which golf club hubby joined, and which committees Sarcastica now sits on....
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Um... gross. I almost stepped in that. And the janitor is off on holiday break. *goes off to get a mop and bucket to clean up the Christina Stuffing*.
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I can't be mad when I see another author having a good time with names. Oh, wait. Yes. I hate those letters, too. I have often thought of sending one out myself, but kind of the anti-"look how special we are" letter. "Well, it seems that our dog is no longer in control of his bowels... After three tense discussions with my boss and HR, I have narrowly avoided losing my job... I gained twenty-five pounds since last Christmas... Say, does anyone know the name of a good divorce lawyer?" That kind of thing.
Hey! Sarcastica was my superhero name back in the day and I have never sat on any committee! But yeah, eff those successwhack letters.
Haha! Successwhack? That's a good spin on a classic. I must say, the growing art of successwhacking is why I've distanced myself from places like Facebook—it's all just too much to take these days.
I don't know what it is about truck drivers and mini-van drivers where we live. Most truck drivers drive like they own the road, while a lot of mini-van drivers seem incapable of stepping on the gas and actually going the speed limit instead of under it.
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Riley wrote: "I'm here to say just one thing. FUCK!!! That is all, you may all carry on being mad."THANK YOU, Riley. I feel better just having read that. Hugs!!
GRAAAAR. Boss type people who belittle their employees. Or when they cut breaks from 15 minutes to 10, or three 8 minute breaks for those of us on a 10 hour shift, which isn't enough time to effectively travel through our huge spread out building, and them a month later say "you've had adequate time to adjust to the new policies, so why aren't you complying?" Because time doesn't make the building smaller or the walk shorter, dummy.Also. LONG HAIR. I don't mind it on other people but I hate dealing with it. But every time I cut it short, spouse doesn't like it and everybody whines. When I hit fifty I'm cutting this stuff come hell or high water and it's staying short till the end. Only 12 1/2 years to go.
Here's my story. All I did was take a warm can of Coke to the refrigerator to get it cold. When I opened the fridge, a heavy boxed mug that Hubby placed on the edge of the top of the fridge, hit me in the head, bounced off, and then came down on my arm, knocking the can out of my hand. The can hit the floor just right for it to actually split open.It was like getting caught under the sprinklers on the front lawn... but stickier... much stickier. It was everywhere: floor, walls, window, me, Hubby, one dog, fridge, stove, cabinets, table, toaster, coffee pot, and even inside the fridge! What trajectory!
So after spending 2 full hours cleaning the kitchen, we changed clothes, washed the dog, and collapsed on the sofa. I swear I can still smell it... and I still feel sticky.
Have Mercy! I would have flipped my wig. My husband does the same kinda stuff...
I'm so sorry, Suam! I'm not laughing at you, I swear! ;P
Are you kidding? I'm still laughing hours later. I got sprayed in the face. Hubby had to pick up the can and throw it in the sink. Unfortunately by then, the can was almost empty.I think the dog just burped. : D
Oh what joy. A sticky Suam. Sorry but I will laugh as that's exactly the sort of klutzy thing that occurs in my world...
I hate having to get up and go to work when I would rather be home writing. What's it like, you know, writing while the sun is still up?
Jane, I'm still laughing despite the fact I'm sore as hell from washing the floor on my hands and knees twice last night. It's only 20 here today and our house is drafty, making my bone and body issues flare up. Trying to sit comfortably.Alex, I'm in a similar financial fix over health care costs of insurance and treatment in the US. I hate that we cannot afford treatment. It's so unjust. We need help!!
People are not listening. I'm still getting effing Christmas letters. This time from people truly old enough to know better.This time, not only do they have offspring they have bloody grandchildren to boast about.
In a nutshell. Agony and Thrombosis have now retired. He is on the local council and plays golf every day. She is learning to throw pots and teaches pole dancing classes in the village hall on Sundays. Meanwhile, their son Ghettoblaster is working in the 'media', while Lemonade now has a husband and twin sons named Gorgonzola and Chupachups who are atttend a Montessori preschool while mummy sticks her nose in other people's business as she counsels alcoholics and drug addicts at the local church.
Bleuch
BRAIN. Yes, you, brain. I'm talking to you now. Today and tomorrow are our ONLY DAYS LEFT to finish this draft before Christmas break. You got it? We have NOTHING planned. Nothing. ..."
Sounds like the kind of talks I have with my brain. Ten minutes later, I'm looking for something to watch on Netflix.