Spike's Bitches 31: We're Motivated Go-getters.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
I just finished phone flirting with a man with the most gorgeous British accent ever.
Yay! I probably spend more time on tech support of one kind or another than most people. It is much more fun when you can joke with and/or flirt with the person on the other end of the call.
Laura, I totally get the glaring at your MiL.
MIL hadn't visited her girly doctor since she birthed her youngest - 30 years ago! She was still having "periods" into her 60s despite her daughters and every other female relative telling her she was insane. When she had to go to the hospital for gall bladder surgery we ganged up on her and forced a gyn consult. Yeah, uterine cancer. She is doing well now, but it would have been a whole lot less of an effort if she had taken care of herself earlier.
Which takes me to the whole other tangent about preventative care. How much would we save if we had a health care system that encouraged preventative care?
ION, it is my last weekend in Otter Lake. Went to the Stumble Inn for fish fry (well, mine was broiled) with the family. Open house at HS today and GF went and picked up my son's schedule. Along with all the honors core stuff he has TV Production and Team Sports. So not so bad. I still don't know what classes Bobby has because I can't get past a busy signal at his school. Guess he'll just show up and ask where to go.
eta: Hee, I had to back up and find where the billytea quote came from. Found it in Cindy's post, but my eyes had glazed over before I got to that part. Oh my, hugs Buffistas again.
MIL hadn't visited her girly doctor since she birthed her youngest - 30 years ago!
I don't honestly think Mom has had a real exam since she dealt with the uterine cancer... Something over 20 years ago. And it's not that she's "sex is bad and evil" either... I don't get it.
Then again, she doesn't get my lax dental care.
Which takes me to the whole other tangent about preventative care. How much would we save if we had a health care system that encouraged preventative care?
t joins chorus
ION, it is my last weekend in Otter Lake
So sad...
Hey Cass! Yeah, a bit sad about leaving Otter Lake. I have worked my usual crazy number of hours a day, and yet I am more relaxed. Same stress, same workload. Yet I am calmer in the mountains than I am at home. Granted I would go stark raving mad if I had to live here all year, but a summer break was a good thing.
Next year I hope to stay a couple months now that I have solved the internet and phone issues. Tonight they say it may get to 38F!!!! When I walked back from Mom's house tonight we could all see our breath. Maybe not so silly for people not from Florida. During the day it should be in the 70s again. Whee! Next week 90s and watching the tropics for storms again. Variety, they say she is the spice.
Next year I hope to stay a couple months now that I have solved the internet and phone issues. Tonight they say it may get to 38F!!!!
Oh how lovely. And the cool weather, she is divine sometimes. We are at 65 right now and I am in bliss. The days are warm, the nights are cool and occasionally require blankets.
Just chattered with the moving!neighbor and I am going to inherent a guppy if she can't find a home for it. The tank looks to thwart cat attacks so it might have a chance. We'll hold a naming contest if I get me a guppy.
Right now, I'm pricing laptops.
You too? How's that working out for you?
Are there people who would risk their daughters getting CANCER because they might have teh sex?
Yes.
Although actually I suspect most of them never think of their own daughters having teh sex.
I frelled my right shoulder. I probably overloaded it doing military presses, and then rather than it getting to recover, I've been carrying 30 pounds of boychild around. Now I can't lift my arm.
And said boychild has decided that 7:30 am is the time to practice his outdoor voice indoors...which is not so good, as the DH didn't get to bed until 2:30 am.
I've been carrying 30 pounds of boychild around. Now I can't lift my arm.
30... pounds?
::stares at 17lb, 6oz (as of Tuesday) daughter who fell off the growth charts and seems to dislike eating::
So, err... how DO you get your toddler to eat enough food, because I'm at my wit's end here.
I...well...I don't do anything. He loves to eat. He loves spinach and broccoli and pasta and most especially Chinese food and beef stew. Even if he's got a distended frog belly from eating so much, if he sees an adult eating, he zips over to mooch (and he has a very high success rate at that).
This means that my day is spent in large part shovelling food into him, but he's still really thin. I think most of the weight is his head.
I don't know...I was concerned when he dropped from the 75% for height and weight to the 75% and 65%, respectively, but the doctor said that toddlers this age do tend to slow up their weight gain. Didn't Em go through the same phase? Maybe girls are less in favor of food than boys at this age? I know the folks Mallory stayed with in Moldova were agog at his eating power - they said their two toddler girls are very picky and slow eaters.
I don't honestly think Mom has had a real exam since she dealt with the uterine cancer... Something over 20 years ago. And it's not that she's "sex is bad and evil" either... I don't get it.
I don't know how long it's been since my mom has seen a gyno. Granted, she had a massive hysterectomy 33 years ago (along with chemo and radiation for uterine cancer)--but I know she's been having some comfort issues related to sex and I told her she needed to go see a freakin' doctor if she wanted to do anything about it. *sigh*
Next year I hope to stay a couple months now that I have solved the internet and phone issues. Tonight they say it may get to 38F!!!!
Laura, it sounds as if you have the best of both worlds with Otter Lake!
You too? How's that working out for you?
Surprisingly well. It's amazing how I'm not letting the big lack of money stop the process. Most places I'm looking at have six months same as cash and if I go for a mid-priced model with my minimum requirements, I may just be able to pull it off.
::stares at 17lb, 6oz (as of Tuesday) daughter who fell off the growth charts and seems to dislike eating::
::boggle:: Liv was 16 lbs at her six month appointment last week. Owen's at the toddler eating stage--meaning he'll only eat some fruit, maybe some cheese and triscuits, if I'm lucky. He tosses everything else off the plate to the dogs and then yells, "MMMMMmmmmmm's!" *shrug* I try not to beat my head up against a wall because it's pretty normal. All you can do is offer them lots of stuff and hope they eventually take to it. I saw a nutritionist on Yummy Mummy who said toddlers don't need a big variety. Even a few good items in rotation should give them what they need.
Enjoy, sj! Maybe now we'll be able to convince you to come visit more of us far flung Buffistas. Hint.
Teacup Guy doesn't get any vacation time for 6 months, so if I do any travelling between now and then it will have to be by myself, which is fine. I think I will likely be going alone to see T sometime this Autumn.
I'm going for afternoon tea with Teacup Guy's stepmother today as a belated birthday gift. Now I just have to wake up.
