Gah. Those are the worst, Connie. I remember picking up a stack of folders and having the whole stack slide out from my hands en masse. That hurt.
I like the way the walls go out. Gives you an open feeling. Firefly is a good design. People don't appreciate the substance of things. Objects in space. People miss out on what's solid.
Early ,'Objects In Space'
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.
Anne W. - Jan 05, 2014 1:40:47 pm PST #7840 of 30002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
le nubian - Jan 05, 2014 1:41:17 pm PST #7841 of 30002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
quester,
there may be some dental places around you that can offer low cost services and/or payment plans. That's a big roundtrip to IA City.
Connie Neil - Jan 05, 2014 1:41:58 pm PST #7842 of 30002
brillig
I'm seeing a kung fu action movie, where one person threatens "The death of a thousand cuts!" while brandishing their sword. And the other one threatens "The death of a thousand paper cuts!" while brandishing a manila folder. See who cringes.
quester - Jan 05, 2014 1:59:56 pm PST #7843 of 30002
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
there may be some dental places around you that can offer low cost services and/or payment plans. That's a big roundtrip to IA City.
That's why I'm looking at the different possibilities of Insurance vs discount plan.
Thanks to our governor, Iowa is less poor friendly these days. *grumble*
WindSparrow - Jan 05, 2014 2:18:54 pm PST #7844 of 30002
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.
One difference that I know there is in having dental insurance over not having any insurance (and I suspect this applies to discount programs) when I had an abscessed wisdom tooth so bad I could barely speak and could not open my mouth for them to get the bite-wing thingy in to take an x-ray, the dentist himself looked at which insurance plan I had, called an oral surgeon buddy of his and said, "You're still part of the ____ insurance network, right? Good. Got an opening today? No, but you do tomorrow morning? Perfect. She'll be there, and I'll get her started on antibiotics and pain meds." Then turned to me and gave me driving directions and scripts.
The year before, my mother had no insurance - and an abscessed wisdom tooth so bad that her dentist (who had been our family dentist for years, saw me when I was a kid, etc.) said he wasn't willing to try to get it out for her. Mom, in her painful state had to do all her calling around. It took her a couple of weeks to find a clinic that worked on a sliding scale and had an oral surgeon.
askye - Jan 05, 2014 2:22:10 pm PST #7845 of 30002
Thrive to spite them
quester, have you tried calling the Iowa Dental Association? They should have a list of places that offer free or reduced cost dental care. Most state dental associations do. Although it will probably a long wait for an appointment or take a long time.
Sometimes individual dentists have their own financiing/payment options, they usually advertise those in the yellow pages.
So I found out why I wasn't getting hot water in the tub - I kept turning on the cold water tap thinking it was the hot one.
In my defence when I turned on the actual hot water tap there wasn't hot water coming out of it the other day.
Also the hot water heater was set on the lowest setting and has now been moved up a notch so hopefully I'll have hot water all the time and not occasionally luke warm water.
As for the kid thing, I've gotten the "oh but you'll regret it!" line before. My reply to that is, I'd rather be at the end of my life and regret not having children then having children and regretting and resenting them.
le nubian - Jan 05, 2014 2:41:25 pm PST #7846 of 30002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
For those of you who parent 1 child and get any shit about it, I have no siblings, and my father has no siblings. His father had no siblings.
We all turned out okay. We don't/didn't have maladaptive behaviors. It is all well and good to say you might want kids to take care of you when you get older, but my mother has a brother who has been completely unreliable. She didn't have his help when my grandmother fell into ill health and later died.
Sometimes your kids pre-decease you.
Life sucks. All we can do is live it and be okay with our choices and life circumstances and try not to be assholes.
quester - Jan 05, 2014 5:46:24 pm PST #7847 of 30002
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Although it will probably a long wait for an appointment or take a long time.
This wouldn't be much different than the insurance plan with the waiting period.
omnis_audis - Jan 05, 2014 6:26:40 pm PST #7848 of 30002
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
you've never had a paper cut? or first cut of today's paperwork?I've had them before. But rarely. So, first for this multi-day task. Ow.
DCJensen - Jan 05, 2014 8:33:22 pm PST #7849 of 30002
All is well that ends in pizza.
I'm seeing a kung fu action movie, where one person threatens "The death of a thousand cuts!" while brandishing their sword. And the other one threatens "The death of a thousand paper cuts!" while brandishing a manila folder. See who cringes.
"I have a ream of sharp paper, and..." reaches over shoulder, "A Super-Soaker full of lemon juice!"