Spike's Bitches 34: They're All Slime and Antlers
[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.
Hi morning shift! Nice to see your font vw.
Not enough sleep. Idiots were breaking into cars last night. Normally this is a very quiet place. Only had my car messed with now twice in over 20 years. But woke up to car alarm at 2am. My car wasn't locked so they just dumped the glove compartment stuff out. Next door neighbor had her window broken. They hit a bunch of places. When the police got 2 calls from my area in about a minute they sent 9 cars and basically sealed us off. Brought dogs and everything. Caught the guys.
But an hour or so chatting with neighbors and the excitement made it tough to go back to sleep. Ugh.
Funny thing was that the cops thought they had trashed my van but I had to say I couldn't tell because of the kid trashing. My car had been perfect and clean, the van, not so much. They took prints from my car because it had been washed the day before.
Yeah, coffee.
ear ~ma Cindy!
Laura! so good to see you!
Cindy, good luck with the ear. Ear problems are such a pain in every way.
Morning Toddson!
Laura, how freaky! I can imagine it was very difficult to get back to sleep!
Todd, I got mine at Fatty's in DuPont Circle - clean and professional, and no problem with using my own design.
Oh Laura, I'm sorry about the car. Stupid thieves. I hope they're caught.
There's a lot of judgment in my head right now about having to be hospitalized. I mean, I know it was the right/best decision, but I'm still frustrated with myself.
I'm sorry you're having to deal with the judgment. I wish there was a way to shut that section of the brain up. I know your rational bits know you did the right thing, and that you have an illness, and you did what you had to do to care for yourself.
I hope today goes well with school and all your errands. Will Toto come home with you, tonight?
Cindy, good luck with the ear. Ear problems are such a pain in every way.
Thanks, Toddson. I haven't really had pain (well, transient pain, but nothing to speak of). But my ears have been full for about 2 and a half weeks, now, and whatever sinus issues are causing this won't submit to either my prescription nasal spray or antibiotics (I'm on my second course). Last night, the kids asked when I'm going to get better, and I said, "Never."
But shame on you for enabling Ms. Jilli with the self hair trimming. She wears it pretty straight from any photos I've ever seen of her.
Don't do it, Jilli. If you do, Plei may well teach the Ticky Box to say, "I told you so," every time she sees you.
Well, I put in all kinds of warnings - it IS best to go to someone who can actually see what they're doing and is trained (I'm all thumbs with my hair, which is why I keep it short these days), but if she can't stand it another minute it's possible.
Cindy, have you tried heat on your ear? sometimes lying with the ear on a heating pad will help.
I'm sorry you're having to deal with the judgment. I wish there was a way to shut that section of the brain up. I know your rational bits know you did the right thing, and that you have an illness, and you did what you had to do to care for yourself.
Yeah, it's a pain, but it'll get better. My hospital shrink told me yesterday that even though I've had a few good nights of sleep, I'm still trying to catch up, so I need to understand that.
Huh. It's weird. Yesterday in one of the groups we were talking about wellness...what it is...the difference with recovery. I said I don't believe there is such a thing as recovery for mental illness--you get as well as you can and make adjustments in how you live your life. I just turned on the tv and there were interviews on The Today Show about recovery from eating disorders. Weird. Worlds colliding.
Last night, the kids asked when I'm going to get better, and I said, "Never."
{{{Cindy}}} You guys have had such a rough couple of months!
I hope they're caught.
They were! They had driven another neighbor's car a bit and left it a block away. She left her keys in the car! Then they were speeding away in their car and the coppers got em with the loot in the car. Ha!
There's a lot of judgment in my head right now
That's natural of course, and unavoidable. But no feeling bad about taking care of yourself.
Cindy, have you tried heat on your ear? sometimes lying with the ear on a heating pad will help.
Seconds this. It helps me.
Hi Todd!
Since I have to run to the office in a few minutes I made myself some espresso instead of a regular pot of coffee. So yum. I should do that more often.
Oh, boy, did I get lucky! The reading for class today is something I've already read for last semester. How cool!
They were! They had driven another neighbor's car a bit and left it a block away. She left her keys in the car! Then they were speeding away in their car and the coppers got em with the loot in the car. Ha!
Oh, sheeesh. I mean, YAY, but sheesh on me. I read your whole post, too.
Can I blame the fact that we're de-caffeinating on my failure to process it? Well that, and the fact that I was laughing like a drain, because you couldn't figure out whether or not the van had been trashed by the thieves, or if it just looked that way because of the kids. Hee.
Cindy, have you tried heat on your ear? sometimes lying with the ear on a heating pad will help.
I have used my blow dryer on the ear, and I hold my tea cup up to my face (on either side of my nose) and on the ear. I haven't actually tried the heating pad. Maybe I will, today. I should add that it's much better than it was, it's just not all better. I forget that, when I let myself get my whine on. It got all better at the end of the first course of antibiotics, for about two days, and then the third day, when I woke, it was full again. And now, it's really just the left ear. The right ear is mostly better.
{{{Cindy}}} You guys have had such a rough couple of months!
It's really only been a month. Okay a month and a week. We'll muddle through. It happens when you have three kids, and it's my own fault for getting as sick as I did. If I'd admitted to myself earlier on that I was sick, I would have gone to the doctor, earlier.
Oh, boy, did I get lucky! The reading for class today is something I've already read for last semester. How cool!
Excellent. That's a little gift to start your day, huh?
