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Spike's Bitches 40: Buckle Up, Kids! Daddy's Puttin' the Hammer Down.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


sj - May 21, 2008 10:35:46 am PDT #9959 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

GC, I have heard that the pottasium in a banana can help to relieve headaches and I second the glass of water suggestion.


erikaj - May 21, 2008 10:39:47 am PDT #9960 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

wrod. this is why I get headaches. I want and need to write a commentary for the Disability Nation blog today, but as it gets closer, I'm losing my nerve. How does KO do that all the time?


Glamcookie - May 21, 2008 10:40:07 am PDT #9961 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

Going to get large glass of water now. Thanks for the help!


WindSparrow - May 21, 2008 10:52:20 am PDT #9962 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

Ok, so I just found out it only takes 20 minutes (don't tell Daniel, or I'll lose my week's pass from doing the dishes) to mow the front lawn, even if it looks completely unkept as though no one had ever mown it in the history of ever despite having been mowed just a week ago. Which is great, really, on the lawn care front. But by way of a time killer while waiting to pick Sammie up from the vet's (teeth cleaning, and got microchipped while they were at it), it is crap.


WindSparrow - May 21, 2008 10:53:44 am PDT #9963 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

GC, my favorite headache remedy is a dab of peppermint essential oil to each temple. You probably don't have any lying about, but it may be worth laying in a stock of it for the future.


Laga - May 21, 2008 11:15:04 am PDT #9964 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I used to rub Tiger Balm on my temples for headaches until I found out that headache cure was a myth. Now they've taken Airborne away from me for colds. Stop messing with my placebos, people!


Sophia Brooks - May 21, 2008 11:24:27 am PDT #9965 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

GC, my favorite headache remedy is a dab of peppermint essential oil to each temple. You probably don't have any lying about, but it may be worth laying in a stock of it for the future

I wonder if this is why I swear by putting Ben Gay on my temples for a headache.


Glamcookie - May 21, 2008 11:33:11 am PDT #9966 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

Ugh, I think I'm getting sick. I feel like I may have a fever and just generally feel like crap. And today is my long ass day (work 8:30-3:30 > school 5-8). Pity me.


WindSparrow - May 21, 2008 11:49:51 am PDT #9967 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

Poor GC. It's crappy to have to work and go to class when you feel like crap.

I'm done getting Sammie, and also dealing with the accident she had in her carrier.


WindSparrow - May 21, 2008 12:16:57 pm PDT #9968 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

Hivemind medical insurance question: New plan being offered for Daniel, through the same insurance company as the current plan. It is one of those high-deductible dealies together with a Health Savings Account, that comes out of pre-tax pay, modest matching by the employer ($1000 from employee, $200 from employer). Monthly premium savings is $40 compared to the current plan. Preventative care (read: annual physical, and immunizations) covered at 100%. Everything else, including labs and prescriptions is at 80/20. Current plan, prescriptions are covered at 50% to yearly maximum of $1000, labs are covered at 100%. This far along in the year, Daniel has gotten most of the way to that prescription cap, but all that progress would be lost if he joins the new plan. They would start counting the deductible all over again. And 20% of the lab work for a diabetic is definitely something to consider, also.

At first glance, that new plan seems like it might have advantages over the current one, but then we started to wonder if losing the money in the prescription deductible and having higher co-pays for lab work might make it a losing proposition.

Any thoughts on this? Please and thank you.