Thanks, Jilli!
(And I may borrow that answer if a similar question comes up when I go to a career fair next week.)
Borrow away. I will take my royalty payments in hugs and cupcakes when I get to Seattle.
Dawn: I think a date should be in a real fancy restaurant, then champagne at a night club with a floor show, then ballroom dancing. Joyce: Unfortunately, we're not dating in a movie from the thirties.
'Get It Done'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[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.
Maria - Aug 16, 2011 6:22:06 pm PDT #27902 of 30000
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Atropa - Aug 16, 2011 6:24:24 pm PDT #27903 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Borrow away. I will take my royalty payments in hugs and cupcakes when I get to Seattle.
Whoo! And I hope that you get to visit soon.
ION, I exercised today, for the first time in a while. 30 minutes of brisk walking around the house and backyard. The Antibiotic Cellular Death Explosion (TM the Infamous BlueJay) did not like that. But I need to keep at it.
Barb - Aug 16, 2011 6:26:02 pm PDT #27904 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
And I hope that you get to visit soon.
DITTO
Zenkitty - Aug 16, 2011 6:27:30 pm PDT #27905 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Maria, that's great! Your BS-fu is strong!
Poor Taz! May he come home soon, all better.
When Kato is famous, you'll have the Flaming Hell-Doggie photo to blackmail him with.
Argh. I believe I'm about to break down and make an appointment with a doctor. Maybe several doctors. It's not normal to be tired and listless all the time and in pain most of the time, even if I am a middle-aged peri-menopausal woman, is it? Oh, hell, I did this before, and got nowhere; I barely have the will to start over again with another succession of doctors, who are all almost certainly going to tell me I just need to lose weight. As if I hadn't noticed.
Ginger - Aug 16, 2011 6:30:05 pm PDT #27906 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Go team Maria BS!
I'm sorry, Zenkitty. I'm not sure most doctors even listen to middle-aged women who need to lose weight.
le nubian - Aug 16, 2011 6:37:17 pm PDT #27907 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Zen,
get in to see the doctor and at the very least, get a good blood work up done. Then you can go from there.
Maria - Aug 16, 2011 6:40:10 pm PDT #27908 of 30000
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Ugh, Zen. I hope you find a doctor that not only listens, but can offer you some relief too.
Zenkitty - Aug 16, 2011 6:42:44 pm PDT #27909 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Ginger, no, I don't think they do.
SuziQ - Aug 16, 2011 6:49:38 pm PDT #27910 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
It's not normal to be tired and listless all the time and in pain most of the time, even if I am a middle-aged peri-menopausal woman, is it?
No. It is not normal. And if you find the right doc, weight will only be one consideration. I spent the last year fighting with this and we discovered a few issues. Now that they are being dealt with, I feel so much better. The fact that I've gained weight in the process has only bothered me. None of my docs have remarked unless I brought it up first.
Suggestions to check - thyroid, B12, Vitamin D, iron levels. I'm sure there is more. These are the ones we checked for me and I had problems with 3 out of the 4.
Connie Neil - Aug 16, 2011 6:53:13 pm PDT #27911 of 30000
brillig
50 years old, fat, diabetic, with high blood pressure--I've got lots of candidates for the tired. Hell, I'm the poster child for Don't Let This Happen To You. I suppose I ought to see where I am on the menopause trail (not far enough, dammit, 35 years of this curse is long enough!)