Spike's Bitches 32: I think I'm sobering up.
[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.
Plus a special shout-out to Cindy for running herself over with a car (minivan?) that she was driving.
Minivan. In my own driveway. Seven months (I think) pregnant. And LEAPING up into the minivan, and breaking the minivan door on the front of the other car.
I'm glad to read your stabbing yourself in the stomach was really just poking.
As for the rash, try some corn starch (I suggest food quality corn starch). Dry yourself off ridiculously well after your showers, and then apply it as a dusting powder. Put some on whenever you change, and go to bed, too. Give it a couple of days. If it doesn't work, you can try an OTC anti-yeast/anti-fungal cream.
Either way, try not to use any soap with scent for a while. Try to get clean and dry quickly, after you get sweaty. If you're wearing your bra too often, wear it less. If you're going braless a lot at home, wear a bra. Change your bra when you get home from work, etc. In other words, keep the area as cool and dry as possible, which is hard. OTC cortisone might be of help, too. But the corn starch and/or anti-fungal cream will probably be better.
Wallet ~ma, Nicole. {{{}}} for those that need them.
This morning we have a workshop with a preservation librarian who is assessing our collection. It seems wrong to talk about how to keep books in good condition while one's fingers are covered in butter from the pastries that will be served, but I think I'm up for it.
Also, I just sent an email to ask what's happening with the position I'm waiting to hear about, so if I'm not in the workshop, I'll be obsessively clicking the "check mail" button. ::twitch::
Sounds like today should be over, already! Between the yuck happening and the yuck weather, we all need a hot toddy and foot rub by the fire. On Buffista Island. Dammit.
I finally took some Ibuprofen. I'd been getting headaches so rarely lately, I never remember to take anything for them. I'm not sure where this one came from. I'm just hoping it's not the teeth-grinding induced one, because that means I'm going to have a lot more of them. I quit grinding my teeth when I started taking antidepresssants, but I've gone off the ADs to switch to something that can handle Bipolar II. It doesn't do the sames things the ADs did. Unfortunately. Because I really liked being headache free.
Heh, Cindy, I was just reading your tire changing advice in Natter and thinking, damn, Cindy's like Dial-A-Mom, with all the helpful hints in life, and none of the guilt! Then I come over here and see you've struck again with rash rescue, and it gave me a warm fuzzy.
Are you going to the Deb thing tonight, BTW?
Back update: have gotten xrays, an appointment with a orthopedic doctor, and a nutritionist, because it surely can't hurt my knees and back to take off some weight. That was the NP's assessment, which I agree with (have been thinking that for a bit anyway).
Oh, Sail. I forgot to send head~ma for you!
Also, email~ma for Sparky. Vibing for the response you want, babe.
Are you going to the Deb thing tonight, BTW?
That's the plan. However, Scott and I both woke up under the weather, so unfortunately we're stuck on wait-and-see status. We're not sick as dogs, but right now, we're not up to sitting through a reading, either. And I am pissed, because I already can't go to the party, tomorrow.
Are you and Tom going?
Back update: have gotten xrays, an appointment with a orthopedic doctor, and a nutritionist, because it surely can't hurt my knees and back to take off some weight. That was the NP's assessment, which I agree with (have been thinking that for a bit anyway).
She's probably right, but I still find that frustrating, because it's not something you can do, overnight. FIX ME NOW, dammit!
As for the rash, try some corn starch (I suggest food quality corn starch). Dry yourself off ridiculously well after your showers, and then apply it as a dusting powder. Put some on whenever you change, and go to bed, too. Give it a couple of days. If it doesn't work, you can try an OTC anti-yeast/anti-fungal cream.
I actually used corn starch this morning. And yeah, I'm suspecting that I'll need to use an antifungal cream. Which is icky if I think about it too long (not the cream; the idea that I have fungus trying to set up camp).
Either way, try not to use any soap with scent for a while.
You know, I'm not sure I actually *own* any unscented soap. Seriously.
Try to get clean and dry quickly, after you get sweaty. If you're wearing your bra too often, wear it less. If you're going braless a lot at home, wear a bra. Change your bra when you get home from work, etc.
I'm actually not wearing a bra today, which is unheard of, at least at work. But I'm wearing a loose thick velour shirt, with a thin cotton tank top underneath it (in the hopes of minimizing/hiding the nips).
Grumble. I dislike being seen by the world of fungus as a good place to settle down and make a home.
head~ma for you
She said head. Heheheh.
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Nora, sounds like a plan. May it give you much relief.
Nora, I hope you find relief for your back pain soon.
I think he needs a new definition of "prank" tattooed to his forehead. That's not a prank, that's a killing offense.
We negotiated on the terms for my allowing him to live. I think it was something like he had to fetch me Starbucks one day a week for four weeks and take me to lunch a few times.
Sail, since you mentioned dreary rain, the headache might be from the weather fluctuations. I'm prone to nasty sinus headaches when we get crazy temperature fluctuations. Like now, because yesterday we had a blizzard and today is supposed to be sunny and 60 degress outside.
Good news ~ma, Sparky!
