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'Serenity'


Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.  

[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.


Zenkitty - Sep 18, 2015 6:04:02 am PDT #21651 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

the patient has overweight

Oh, I've never heard that. That would make me side-eye a doctor hard.


Steph L. - Sep 18, 2015 6:13:04 am PDT #21652 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

the patient has overweight

We don't phrase it that way in our articles. We still use "overweight" as an adjective, although we usually talk about it in terms of BMI (despite that being bullshit on the individual level).


Laura - Sep 18, 2015 6:26:53 am PDT #21653 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.

First, Happy Birthday Erika!

The medical charts I see list obesity as a diagnosis pretty often. Fairly certain mine does too.

Laura, that is really sad. I'm so sorry.

Thanks all. It is bugging me on a lot of levels. He was a close friend and here he was living in Key West and I didn't even know it. He clearly had friends that cared. It was a law enforcement Wellness Check requested by a friend that discovered him. I know it didn't really have to do with Obama and that he was sick, but it hurts on another level that an election that brought me joy brought my friend such lethal distress. Of course I wonder in some back corner of my mind if I could have helped, but I know it is unlikely. Blah. A reminder to always take people mentioning suicide seriously.


Sophia Brooks - Sep 18, 2015 6:37:03 am PDT #21654 of 30002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I work on a class by a nutritionist, and she is always saying that- or "People suffering from overweight or obesity".

ETA: My nurse somehow added 2 inches to my height and I accidentally lost 20 pounds, so now according to my doctor I now have "overweight" and not "obesity"


beekaytee - Sep 18, 2015 12:50:15 pm PDT #21655 of 30002
Compassionately intolerant

Halllooooo! (read in Mrs. Doubtfire voice)

Long time, not here!

Laura, I echo the words of others. So sad, and shocking. If anything exists outside this life, I hope your friend is at peace.

Like smonster, I have nothing to add to the language discussion, but find it informative. I'd never actually heard the term 'person-centered' in this context. Will research.

I actually popped in with a hivemind question if y'all would indulge me.

Background: blahblahblah dental crisis blahblahblah resolved now.

I've been told (and shown with cool, but scary photographs) that I am 'grinding my teeth to dust.'

The endodontist who (blahblahblah WAY long story) I kind of love, has a spiffy pro version of a night guard that costs $750. I've already shelled out 2k and would like to stem the flow of financial blood.

I know that some folks use football mouth guards but, if it smells or tastes like anything I simply won't use it.

Has anyone found a good one they can recommend?


Laura - Sep 18, 2015 12:58:01 pm PDT #21656 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.

Bonny! You must have heard me thinking about you. I was going to write you an email because I hadn't seen you in too long.

I grind and know it. I bought do-it-yourself guards from CVS for somewhere around $30 and it has worked great. It was a pack of 2 and I have only used the one for many months. Heat up before the first use and bite on it to shape and good to go. Dentist wanted me to do the expensive thing, but no need for me at least.


askye - Sep 18, 2015 1:23:50 pm PDT #21657 of 30002
Thrive to spite them

Ig ot some sleep last night.

I did some house work , took back the library books that are months overdue and realized I forgot about the exhibit at the Shelburne Musuem that had Georgia O'Keeffe paintings and missed that.

I looked again about the comiccon I found 2 panels that looked okay but one is in the morning and the other in the early evening leaving me with like 4 hours to kill . Which means I'd be tempted to buy stuff and it's not worth the $20 entry.

Also came to the realization that while moving anywhere isn't going to magically solve my problems living in the area where my Mom and brother live will definitely make things easier in terms of finding things to do. I looked at meetup.com and something else and tons of stuff. Which, okay I'm not going to things now because of anxiety but seriously I found 2 event-y things I was really interested in and both were the same situation - lasting an hour or so but the travel time would be 4-6 hours round trip.

I ws going to say more so I htink my goal with my therapist and this case manager is go get me to the point where I can move in the spring instead of trying to wait another summer or fall. Part of me wants to give up and move now but that's not pracitcal.


Hil R. - Sep 18, 2015 1:35:18 pm PDT #21658 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I was planning on going to Comic Expo here tonight, but I haven't gotten much sleep the past few nights, and I'm just exhausted. So I'm skipping tonight, but going tomorrow, since that's when more of the stuff that I want to see will be.


Steph L. - Sep 18, 2015 1:41:03 pm PDT #21659 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

The only thing I really like at the Comic Expo are the panels, and none of the panels are really grabbing me, so I'm skipping it.


beekaytee - Sep 18, 2015 2:14:53 pm PDT #21660 of 30002
Compassionately intolerant

Laura, I toddled down to CVS and got the 'no boil' kind. Thank you so much for reminding me that DVS is basically The Magic Box in my neighborhood.

I _really_ like that this version does not actually cover the teeth. I had bad fantasies of bacteria trapped against the enamel, cancelling out the benefit.

It is going to be super weird getting used to this.

At this point, I should probably just sleep in a coffin. Black out curtain, ear plugs, night guard. I iz a delicate flower.

Upside of all this, not only did the endodontist NOT laugh at me for making my own toothpaste, he actually said I should bottle whatever I'm doing and sell it. Except for the infection brewing for TEN YEARS, according to him, everything else is perfect.

SWEET!