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Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Sophia Brooks - Nov 02, 2018 1:53:25 am PDT #1476 of 30019
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

That cat is alert!


Jesse - Nov 02, 2018 6:14:09 am PDT #1477 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm off work, and have already gone through my mother's fall house to-do list and ordered a whole new wardrobe from Boden! (We'll see how much of it works...) I basically hate all of my winter clothes.


Jessica - Nov 02, 2018 6:23:18 am PDT #1478 of 30019
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I'm working from home and did a factory reset of my phone so I'm basically spending the next few hours rebuilding my homescreens and folder organization. (I didn't want tor restore from a backup in case the battery issues I was trying to solve came back.)


Jesse - Nov 02, 2018 6:33:12 am PDT #1479 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I thought my mother had plans for tomorrow, and was all excited to go to the mall by myself, but now I'm going with her, and it will be fine, I guess. Ah well!


Amy - Nov 02, 2018 6:37:29 am PDT #1480 of 30019
Because books.

Oh, Boden. I love them.

I was going to have tomorrow off (for values of "off" that equal cleaning the whole filthy house), but now I have to work again, because one of the new part-timers called out.

And I took three rush freelance assignments before that, thinking I would have time after cleaning on Saturday ...


Theodosia - Nov 02, 2018 9:17:49 am PDT #1481 of 30019
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I got 13 rides in -- I only need another 26 tomorrow and Sunday to make a nice bonus. I've done good financially this week with nice long rides that reaped good fares, but the quantity of rides hasn't kept up.


Connie Neil - Nov 02, 2018 9:51:02 am PDT #1482 of 30019
brillig

I have a four-inch long bruise on the inside of my right forearm from where a young IV-tech--god, they were all so damned young! Get off my lawn--didn't believe me when I said my veins were hard to find. "No, no, they're right there, I can see them--where is it?" I'm afraid I yelled at him. He asked me why it was hurting, and I said, "I don't know, you're the one who stuck something in me!"

He tried twice before calling in reinforcements, and my arm looks like I was attacked by a very clumsy vampire.


meara - Nov 02, 2018 10:53:28 am PDT #1483 of 30019

That's the worst, Connie. I'm a terrible stick—my veins are awful and they often end up trying to use my hand. But when I had my accident I ended up with IVs several different days and some of them didn't work, so I ended up with bruises all over my arms and hands.


Beverly - Nov 02, 2018 11:12:26 am PDT #1484 of 30019
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

I offer the back of my left hand going in. Techs see it as a challenge, and start with the left elbow...fanning, multiple sticks, then right elbow, same. Just start with the back of the left hand--80-85% sure you won't have to resort to the back of the right hand before finding a useful vein.


Steph L. - Nov 02, 2018 11:23:34 am PDT #1485 of 30019
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I have a big gorgeous vein in my left elbow. Phlebotomists love me. (I dated a phlebotomist once, and I joked that he only dated me for my veins.) (That may have been true.)

Y'all, I love Trader Joe's. I went to a podiatrist today to get a pesky ingrown toenail excised for good, where they destroy the nail matrix so it can't re-grow. The office was 1/4 mile from Trader Joe's, so I swung by to stock up. When I was checking out, the cashier asked what my weekend plans were, and I told her I was actually on my way to get an ingrown toenail excised, so my weekend plans were to prop my foot up and have my husband bring me tasty things.

She turned around and asked another employee something I didn't hear, and when she was all finished ringing up my stuff, the other employee returned with a bouquet of fall flowers, which the cashier gave me! She said it was to help my toe recover. So nice! So when I got home I emailed Trader Joe's to say how nice that was, because I feel like employees should get recognition when they do nice stuff.