Also - anybody out there had experience of a weird, fizzy/crackly noise in their ear?

Water, or once I had a piece of hair up against my ear drum, but that was more of a pop noise, rather than crackly.

My grandmothers were referred to by where they lived -- they were Kingston Grandma and Bristol Grandma. I don't know how this started, and it doesn't seem like Sox called our mutual G'ma Kingston Grandma, so it's apparently an oddity of my own immediate family.

My sister's kids call my mother & father Grandma-with-the-doggie and Grandpa-with-the-doggie to distinguish them from my BiL's parents. Their oldest worked that out at some point when she was about 2 or 3.

Now to go check out the pictures...

I wish I knew what to say. I wish I could actually *do* something, but she's in Dallas and I am not. A card seems so completely useless.

I'm sorry, Ginger. What you just said is what you could write in a card. She would appreciate your contact.

What you just said is what you could write in a card.

This. And if you have a good memory of him, then include that, too. I think people like to hear that they aren't the only people who will remember and remain touched by their loved one's time here.

Cheers, fellow freaky-ear-having peeps! I'm not going to go see a doctor just yet, I think. (Oh, let it not be a small trapped beastie...)

Meanwhile - nom nom nom! I am chowing down on DIY Quick Chef's Salad, which in this instance comprises:

Assorted leaves
Generous portion of feta cheese
sliced smoked ham
leftover tuna/caper/chili/nori flake/mayo salad
pumpkin seeds
king prawns fried in coconut oil
fresh parsley

YUM!

I am contemplating making a super quick low carb peanut butter brownie as dessert, but may have no room.

Honestly, I would so sweep me off my feet and make me my wife! I am a Domestic Goddess! ....apart from ironing and cleaning and boring stuff. Um. But I make nice food out of whatever's in the cupboard, I do I do!

Also - anybody out there had experience of a weird, fizzy/crackly noise in their ear? My left ear, as of yesterday morning and still today, is sporadically giving me a weird crackling noise, like static, or like the sound of bubble bath bubbles bursting.

All the time. Well, let me qualify: all the time, *when I swallow or yawn.* It doesn't just happen randomly. But literally every time I swallow or yawn, I get the crackly noise. I figured it was my eustachian tubes being weird, and I just ignore it.

I mean, I have allergy/sinus issues all year round, so I'm assuming that because things are perpetually fucked up in my larynx/pharynx, my eustachian tubes are always dealing with a little bit of ick back there.

....perhaps my levels of self-care aren't the best example, though.

Last night the cats unplugged the alarm clock.

Last night I reset the alarm clock.

Last night I reset the alarm clock wrong. Day was night and night was day. Somewhere Michelle Pfeiffer and Rutger Hauer were getting it on.

This morning Da Punk woke me up by saying "Daddy, can you wake up and talk to me?"

"No, punk. I'll be getting up soon enough, when the alarm clock goes off. What time is it, anyWHOAFUCKSHITPISSFUCK!"

Fuck Monday. Fuck it up its stupid ass with an ICBM with faulty warhead shielding.

Also - anybody out there had experience of a weird, fizzy/crackly noise in their ear? My left ear, as of yesterday morning and still today, is sporadically giving me a weird crackling noise, like static, or like the sound of bubble bath bubbles bursting.

I had this for a few days. I thought it was water in the ear syndrome. It was actually dried up. crackly. t shudder

I would not recommend my solution, which involved careful but forbidden use of a q-tip.

Perhaps yours is just a cold coming on.

Oh man, man o' miracles.

Cats. can't trust 'em.

Weatherman says we have a mini Snowpocolypse coming. 8 inches in the next 24 hours.

so it's apparently an oddity of my own immediate family.

the only one.

Weatherman says we have a mini Snowpocolypse coming. 8 inches in the next 24 hours.

Quick. Slaughter a virgin goat and form its entrails into a sigil of banishment. The snow demons may be averted.

Or, I may have just gone fucking nuts from STOP THE FUCKING SNOW ALREADY, JESUS, IT'S ALMOST APRIL!-itis.