I'm not sure if I'm bragging or complaining. Possibly both. Due to the lovely cool weather, I opened my bedroom window. While eating breakfast I heard the blinds rustling, the the screen jangling, then silence. I got up to look, and saw that my cat had torn a roughly 5" X 5" hole in the metal wire screen and was outside, menacing one of the neighborhood strays. (I nabbed Leifur and brought him back inside with no trouble.) I'm kind of impressed. The screen was old, but it wasn't all that battered. I have a pretty fierce cat. I also have a trip to Lowes for a new window screen in my weekend plans.
And almost sixty-five percent of that was actual compliment. Is that a personal best?
Xander ,'End of Days'
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.
Calli - Sep 16, 2011 4:16:19 am PDT #29673 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Toddson - Sep 16, 2011 4:24:43 am PDT #29674 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Since Calli mentioned her cat, I thought I'd point you at this - cats as a renewable energy source.
sumi - Sep 16, 2011 4:26:07 am PDT #29675 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Nicely done Leifur.
Zenkitty - Sep 16, 2011 5:51:19 am PDT #29676 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
That's what I can't remember-sincere death threats against strangers. Am I that numb?
If you are, I guess I am too. I recall hyperbolic "curses" at people who especially annoy us, meant for lifting the spirits of the annoyed one. I don't recall any die in a fire type of curses, which also make me uncomfortable. I don't like hearing death wished on anyone even in jest, but, like, plagues of exploding fleas? that's just silliness.
Barb - Sep 16, 2011 6:30:24 am PDT #29677 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Barb is one of the lucky ones. For awhile I had to take quite a bit of iron (I probably still need to, but apparently I'd rather faint in public) and I had to take iron, with vitamin C AND orange juice in order for my stomach to even be moderately okay.
Eeeeek. I can't drink OJ because it really does a number on me and frankly, I was skeptical when my doc suggested the vitamin C because every time I'd ever tried taking iron, I'd wound up violently ill. Even when I was pregnant, they had to give me a low iron pre-natal, because of how sick the regular ones would make me. (Apparently, not everyone can taste the iron in iron pills-- who knew?) But he suggested the right combo of iron supplement and vitamin C and I've been good ever since. And as a bonus, I haven't gotten a cold beyond the mild sniffles in nearly three years.
sj - Sep 16, 2011 6:31:55 am PDT #29678 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
But he suggested the right combo of iron supplement and vitamin C and I've been good ever since.
Can I ask what dose you take of each?
Nora Deirdre - Sep 16, 2011 6:33:14 am PDT #29679 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
"Do you want lip or ear?"
LOVE.
Barb - Sep 16, 2011 7:11:53 am PDT #29680 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
sj, I take the Feosol FE Carbonyl Iron supplement, 45mg [link] with 500mg of Vitamin C.
I actually need to get to a doctor to see if I need to be taking more, but this has worked for the last few years in terms of I no longer feel like shit, nor does taking it make me feel like shit.
Strix - Sep 16, 2011 7:12:56 am PDT #29681 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Echoing Nora; I'm totally stealing that.
Zenkitty - Sep 16, 2011 7:16:24 am PDT #29682 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Barb, thanks for that rec, even though it wasn't for me! I feel much better since I started taking an iron supplement, but I wasn't real happy with the usual ferrous sulfate ferrous oxide supplements. Let me just go gnaw on a skillet, what's the diff... The vitamin C helps non-heme (non-animal-source) iron to be absorbed. And apparently red wine, coffee, and tea block absorption of iron, so you have to not ingest them at the same time.