From skimming: happy for the good news for askye and P-C (hon, it warmed my cynical heart like woah. So thank you for sharing that). Maria, lots of luck!
Toddson and Steph and anyone else who needs it, you get all of the mental~ma in the world.
IOmeN, I really couldn't let go and relax all weekend. Mind kept racing, and my temper that doesn't-need-provocation got a big one just before relaxing-bathtime-weekend (which I need mostly so my muscles will relax and stop hurting from stress). But at least I slept a lot. Not well, but a lot.
On better news, my dad is doing a bit better. Still wish there was a non-painful/intrusive way we could make him go through a CT to determine the damage to his heart after his minor episode, but what we have now is kinnda best case scenario (as long as he won't think he's really doing good and skip his echocardiogram). He really, really refuse to be treated in any intrusive manner, which makes me worry about the future.
My dad went for a bike ride, and I guess he took his phone with him and left it logged into facebook, because he keeps posting gibberish, tagged at various businesses nearby. It also rated a nearby Catholic high school. Latest one was from a store that sells jewelry and hair stuff for teenagers.
Hil, that is hysterical. That is the first time I have laughed today!
He just got home, and said that his bike ride didn't even pass by half the places he was tagged. That's really bizarre.
So i unfriended him and deleted the entire conversation thread. I'm waiting with dread for messages in my email box because he is a genuinely decent person with whom i've been friends for decades, but i'm also deeply relieved that i no longer have to remember to filter him out of certain posts or face the troll-like consequences.
Just tell him that. "You're a good guy, but the way you respond to me on FB causes me nothing but stress, annoyance and aggravation. That's not a good medium for us."
Congrats to askye!
Continued job~ma and permission to bitch to the Bitches to Maria.
Zen to Shir.
erin, sounds like a good move. My friend N has pissed me off so badly that I'm done being polite, and he may be done trying to talk to me on fb. Which is fine, because his fairy land libertarian mansplaining bullshit was about to send me through the roof.
I'm spending my Sunday at the ER with a friend. She fell and hit her head Thursday night, and had been sleeping 16 hrs a day since. Also nausea and barring and not feeling better. So I insisted she let me take her in, and here we are. They think she's okay but are doing a CT scan to check for swelling and make sure her eye socket didn't fracture and an X-ray for her shoulder. Of course she's uninsured, restaurant industry and unemployed, which is one reaone she didn't want to come in.
This is the second time this week I've used my First Aid geekery powers for good. And I directed traffic at a minor accident scene.
Not how I planned to spend my Sunday but we're having some nice hang out time, so that's good.
And now they've said she's fine and I feel terrible for making them incure a bill they cannot afford.
It's always good to find that your brain is not broken. Not even Applecare can fix that.
smonster, you don't want to fuck around with a head injury. You did the right thing.
I'm avoiding Facebook because I don't want to deal with it. I went in with blinders to send along some birthday wishes and checked my 'close friends and family' people. Keeping myself surrounded by the like-minded for sanity's sake.
smonster, you would feel worse if she had a serious issue and you hadn't gone.
