Well, I’m glad it’s fixable, even if the recovery is long.
Well, we may not have parted on the best of terms. I realize certain words were exchanged. Also, certain... bullets. But that's air through the engine. It's past. We're business people.
Mal ,'Serenity'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
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.
Calli - Mar 14, 2023 2:19:50 pm PDT #21140 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
-t - Mar 14, 2023 2:25:15 pm PDT #21141 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yikes, that sounds like a lot. Good luck!
DavidS - Mar 14, 2023 3:45:48 pm PDT #21142 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Oof, that sounds tough for Tim, but there is a bright side to getting past it. He's a hiking, woodsy, tramping about type.
Sheryl - Mar 14, 2023 4:21:26 pm PDT #21143 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Good luck to Tim and to you, Steph.
JenP - Mar 14, 2023 5:56:35 pm PDT #21144 of 30000
Oh, man, that is a lot. All good vibes your and Tim's way.
-t - Mar 14, 2023 6:37:46 pm PDT #21145 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Finally had my pie! Got a slice of blueberry pie with lunch, but the rest of my lunch was too filling so I figured I’d eat it when the inevitable mid afternoon munchies struck, but they did not! So I just had it for dinner. Yum.
Pix - Mar 14, 2023 6:46:00 pm PDT #21146 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
So many good vibes to you and Tim! I am having ACL surgery on the 23rd, which is also a long recovery (nowhere near as intense as scoliosis surgery), but I'm so freaking tired and burned out at work that I'm looking forward to having nothing else to do but recover. That is so sad. I'll miss two days of school and then go right into spring break, so I'll have a full two weeks to get mobile. Crutches the first 1-2 weeks with GIANT LEG BRACE for 6+. Then PT to slowly work my way back to full mobility. Probably 6-ish months? But I thought of all of you the other day — I'm opting for the cadaver graft (thank you, donor I will never know), so my friend B has decided I'm going to have an Evil Knee that will run around on its own doing Evil Things like Lindsey and his Evil Hand. I pointed out that a knee does not have the same mobility as a hand and may have difficulty pulling the rest of me along, but we had a good time imagining all the Evil Things it might do.
Other than that, those who follow me on FB know our latest house drama is that our bedroom started flooding this year. Give SoCal enough water, and it will find creative and fun new ways to flood! We don't have flood insurance, so the repair is out of pocket. The good news is that we quote we got to excavate, reseal the foundation, and put in a French drain and pipe with surface drains to prevent the back of the house from flooding again is $5800. That's a ton of money we don't have, but it's SO much less than the money we've had to pour into our beloved money pit of a house that I'm feeling incredibly relieved. We will also need to get someone out to open the bedroom wall, mitigate mold, and reseal it — that will be an additional cost — but that's not worth thinking about until we get the flooding stopped.
Anyway, sorry I've been gone a lot. My dad had some health setbacks, and I've been back and forth to Florida twice in the last month on top of all the rest. Miss you all.
Steph L. - Mar 14, 2023 7:07:22 pm PDT #21147 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Pix, I look forward to the tales of what misdeeds your evil knee drags you into.
-t - Mar 14, 2023 7:29:54 pm PDT #21148 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Evil knee! That should be good for some shenanigans all right. Good luck with the flood and mold abatement.
DavidS - Mar 14, 2023 7:53:57 pm PDT #21149 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Evil knee! Surely it can savage a few misogynists in the groin in an evil-but-righteous way.
I am sorry about all the house expenses. The first thing I learned about home ownership is that the greater part of it is mitigating water where it doesn't belong. (Our two biggest expenses were the dry rot around the windows and the damage from a spout that didn't drain properly.)