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Well, I can semi distance myself. But not entirely. My mom doesn't...dad doesn't for the MOST part.
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=\That looks quite like a rear-end, Kandice. If I didn't know better, I'd think that you just mooned us. *serious face*
You just said that with a straight face Becky?You show so much restraint. With books and other things.
Well.. SOMEONE has to be the adult here!*resists the urge to moon Kandice back*
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I think the fact that you even have that urge is quite interesting. And amusing.I need your secret to restraint.
Oh my God!!! My husband did that! I left it on this page, and he said, with a wicked gleam in his eye, I said hi to your friends. I jus tnow looked, and... He's dead meat!!!
Oh that is funny!!Well, you can tell him I said "Hi" back then. ;)
Hahaha! He is now going to make me a list of all the crazy little figures he and his friends put in their e-mails. I will hopefully become more creative in my posts because of it!I will definitely tell him you said "Hi" back;)
LOL...I just got caught up with this thread....Kandice that was funny! I thought you were calling Emma's dad a butt..I was thinking "damn she's bold!" hahaha.Emmma...you can change your last name to Doyle and come to New York!
ROFL.She would be quite right though!
YES. I AGREE.
Saved, you're in NY?I am very envious.
And YES! :D
I wish we would get snow! I live in Southern California, and it was about 75 today. Very bright and sunny. I know lots of people envy the weather, but because I grew up with seasons, my body is never really sure of what part of the year I'm in. Should it be 4th of July, or Christmas? You sure can't tell by the weather.
Seasons are overrated. Give me 75 degrees anyday!
Rachel, my Dad and step-mom live in Tacoma. She works for the YMCA camp and she couldn't go to work for 2 weeks, either. They got no mail for a week, and my dad griped, (profanely) about the exact same things you are! F**king Fishes! (his words, not mine)
I had to come in early today, (we are going to a concert tonight) and I forgot my lunch! I have a package of crackers in my desk, so I guess that will be it.
Oh, I'm sure there is. There is also a deli in the lobby of our building, but the prices are ridiculous, and since we will be going to dinner as well... They are actually really good crackers. One side is Ritz (buttery, flaky crackers) and one side is pretzel. Did you get ANY sleep? When it was dark, I mean. Haha!
They are the BEST crackers! I think, actually, I will buy a boiled egg and hunk of cheddar at the deli to go with. That's only $3 according to the girl in the office next to me. She also offered me a slice of yesterdays pizza. Sweet thing.I remember as a child, my step-mother firmly believed in 8 p.m. bedtimes for children. My mother allowed us to stay up as late as we wanted. It would drive me crazy to sleep at my dad's, because in the summer it doesn't really get dark there until about 10 p.m.! That was the beginning of my sneaking reading!!!!
Just claim a migraine. Tell him you are getting tunnel vision and your left hand is going numb, and you feel like you are going to vomit (thats what happens to me). He might want to prescribe you something, but you could refuse on the grounds that you'd just vomit it right up. And then he'd have to let you go home so that you could "lay in darkness and silence and recover". :D
But then he could offer her a Phenegran suppository, although, I'm sure he would NEVER know if she used it!!!!
Have you ever used Imitrex? I used it when it first came out, in injection form, but once they changed to the pill, all it ever did was make my head feel bubbly. When I get a migraine now, there seems pretty much, nothing to do but ride it out. My Dr. is pretty big on narcotics, but I always say no. I hate the stomach-ache you get from them. You should have access to great opinions, Rachel, with all those scientists, and Dr.s, right? Have any suggestions?
I actually can't remember the last time that I had a real migraine. I changed my diet, and stopped eating a lot of processed and junk foods, and they went away. (And took my heartburn with it, which was a pleasant surprise!) I still get headaches sometimes, but they are not debilitating like they used to be. I'm always a little bit wary of pharmaceutical remedies... it seems like every other week theres a recall, and commercials for litigation for people who've used such and such drug... Its scary!
Fiona wrote: "We shut down with two inches (not even that) of snow. Beat that."Fiona, you shut down with some rain, a bit of lightning or a bit of snow!!!:-) When I would hear in th emorning in London or Nottingham that it was raining hard, I would jsut get up and leave already ebcause I knew everything would be a mess and nothing would work anymore.
I spent yesterday in bed with a migraine. Even my trusty Imitrex couldnt help me. So Rachel, please forward the name of that medicine my way. My migraines are starting to get way worse! :(
I have Lupus, so am going through menopause way early because of it. I am no longer in any way regular in my cycle (or lack of it) but notice I still get migraines around when I WOULD have experienced it. Hormones, I guess. I remember taking Stadol(sp), which goes up your nose (!) at one point when they were really bad, but it was incredibly strong, and I hated being out of it for hours. Yes, I owke up feeling better, but somehow it felt more like doing drugs than taking medication.And Rachel, I really would appreciate know when you have name:)
Migraine ruins my sisters life. She lost her job ebcause of it, doctor has to come so often to give her injections....She used to enver go somehwere because of it..no she does a bit but has to plan everything well and have an emergency sollution.
Fiona wrote: "We shut down with two inches (not even that) of snow. Beat that."Heck, we shut down completely with half an inch!
After the ritual deluge of the grocery stores to buy bread and milk to last us through the coming blizzard.
I like to say that this town used to own a snowplow; but they put it in a museum.
Jeane wrote: "Migraine ruins my sisters life. She lost her job ebcause of it, doctor has to come so often to give her injections....She used to enver go somehwere because of it..no she does a bit but has to plan..."Oh that's terrible. Poor thing!
Rachel wrote: "Jeane, that is too bad. I know a woman who is on disability because of her migraines. She can't work or do anything, and eventually she got divorced because her husband hated having to do everythi..."That sounds just wonderful!!!!!
Outside it is still snowing and it is so nice to see it staying on the street.
That's one of my favorite things about visiting my family up there. I love the way Ranier looks! It really is beautiful. Imposing too, since where I live, everything is flat. Ugly!!!
That's the Space Needle! I have a book called the Wheedle on the Needle form when I was very young! Isn't it a cool building?
Ha ha!!! That's funny Fiona! I always picture England looking very Victorian. There always seem to be things in movies, even modern ones, that add to that illusion. Probably not really the case, though!
I would like to live in Seattle... Not because I love mountains (I don't, especially, although they are beautiful), but because I love rain. LOVE rain. I miss southern afternoon thunderstorms more than anything. More than my family! Does that make me a terrible person?
Kandice, I also envision England as "Victorian" England... I just can't modernize it in my head... Maybe if I go there!
I love the rain too! We lived in North Carolina for a year when I was a girl, and every day, in summer, there would be thunderstorms. Everyone would jump out of the water and just wait a bit. It was so beautiful. Then the sun would be even brighter than before.That was also one of the best parts of visiting my dad in Washington. I think the rain is clean, fresh, smells good, feels so nice on your face....I never get tired of it. We only get a couple of inches of rain a year here, so I miss it.
We get an OK amount of rain here, but its not the same QUALITY of rain! Rain in the south is cleansing, and gives everything that fresh feeling that is so needed on humid days when you stick to EVERYTHING! *sigh* I miss it. I miss the thunder especially!
Where I live now, if there is so much as a sprinkle, everyone forgets how to drive. They all become afraid, and it seems as if Southern Californians believe, like the Wicked Witches of Oz, that water will melt them. Everything just...stops! My children and I like to go out and walk barefoot in the little rain we get. It's not cold here, so it's not a big deal. Rain here is so sparse and infrequent that it does nothing to make things clean, shiny and bright like southern rain. It tends to be just enough to wet the road and dirt enough to make everything smell even dirtier and drier than it did before.
Haha! I used to live in San Diego, so I know what you mean. My boyfriend, who used to live in LA, said that it was worse in LA because the littlest bit of rain would cause all the oil leaked onto the roads to sit on top of the water and become mini oil-spills and cause accidents. I don't remember that from living in San Diego, so I'm glad for that!People here can't drive either. They act the exact same way as you described. A raindrop hits their windshield and I swear they'd like to swerve to avoid it! Yet they do 75 in blizzard conditions!
God forbid it should ever snow here! I can't begin to imagine how people would react. I remember a very brief hailstorm about 8 years ago. People actually pulled over on the freeways. It always seems so silly to me. I really do miss the rain, and feel a bit melancholy now.
Might depend on how big the hail was, Kandice - sometimes it gets pretty big.
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Doyle is a very nice name, you goof:)