CHATin' time

I thought of a clever joke to tell..... but I'll tell ya'll later.   

awww, how sweet..... you were goin' au natural!!  you go girl  ;)

G-nite.... will chat more later (or tomorrow) depending on how much studying i have left  :D

((dagi))

...and thanks for the 'G-luck' I'll need it.... this sh$t's hard  :(

Original Post by dagicat:

mspw, i also have chronic uti's.  ugh, there ain't nothing worse than a good ol' bladder infection.  been getting them regularly for 6 or 7 years now.  i feel your pain :'(

i only get em after sex, doesn't matter if i pee before/after, shower before/after, different positions don't make one difference.  cranberry, blueberry, uva ursi, d-mannose.  all i can do is take the low dose antibiotic every time i get laid.  it's the only thing that wards the mo-fos off. 

last year, i was really trying to experiment to see what else could work, but i kept on getting them anyway.  then i got one that wouldn't go away, the docs gave up on me, and i felt a sometimes low grade/ sometimes high grade uti for 3 months.  3 months!  then i saw an acupuncturist who finally got that one to go away after a month of treatment.  he's wonderful, i still see him all the time.  but i don't f*ck around without my antibiotics anymore.  it sucks.  except a few weeks ago, i started feeling one, got the heavy duty unsweetened cranberry juice, drank it all night along with water and slept with a heating pad on my belly/crotch, and i woke up all better!

anyway, i didn't mean to complain all about myself just then, just wanted to let you know that you're not alone.

I am so sorry you have suffered so much with the utis, but I am happy to know someone else out there knows what its like.  I too get 'em after sex.  Its not immediate though.  Usually about 48 hours afterward, and its not all the time anymore.  I had an einfection that lasted nearly a year.  It was horrible.  I went through 3 docs before I found my gyn whose suggestion of baking soda alleviated 75% of the pain by alkalinizing my urine.  The tissues had a better cahnce to heal and the d mannose could do its job better and the infection cleared.  I must have taken 10 courses of antibiotics that year.  I was in the ER 6 times in 2 years with pain so bad I could barely stand it.  Each time, they said the dipsticks detected no "infection" but wrote me a prescription for antibiotics anyway.  The cultured bacteria counts always came up short, but I think that, if your tissues are irritated enough, even a little bacteria can cause serious pain.  It also doesn't help that my body now has memeory of the pain.  So if I get another infection it hurts like the worst ever!  All in all it is getting better.  I went nearly 2 months w/o taking anything for it until this week.  That's a record in the last 3 years. 

Original Post by moodymomma1977:

I'd rather look like a peanut squeezing into dresses than a sausage squeezing into spandex  :/

man!  i really need to get back to counting calories and exercising!

*looks in full length mirror..... see's a sausage mcmuffin lookin' back at me..... cries*

I know your pain, my dear.  I musta tried on 200 dresses in the last 2 days!  I wound-up at the pub crying over a beer yesterday after it was all done.  I have come to the realization that the style of dresses I used to wear no longer look good on me.  In the end, it came down to 2 dresses.  One that was cute as can be, knee length, girly & a little frilly, but modest, rayon and a little tight, looked great from behind, but the side and front view was not so great.  Bulging belly & thighs.  The other one was full-length, cotton, with elastic across the back.  I went with it.  The reason :COMFORT!  It was so depressing.  I just didn;t wanna be holding my belly in all day, so I 'settled' for the more comfortable one.  I felt like a cliche at that bar, alone, crying.  But no, I still don't like country music. 

Cyn your only a cliche' in this case if you happened to have globs of mascara running down your cheeks like a black river and you drop the F-bomb at all who come whithin 5 paces of you.

I am a collector (of sorts) of vintage clothing. Many in my cache will never be worn by yours truly due to the fact I buy the piece, not the size to fit me in particular.

I have fantasized how cool it would be to slip these frocks on, feel their history drift my skin and fill me with that look-out-here-I-come feeling.

You know that certain something that drops a jaw, and makes having to be around those that can't see the beauty of my oddness at least tolerable.

Shoot I dropped a boatload of weight and can trot these pieces of wild out for all to see. Some look absolutely dreadful on me.

What? No it must be that I am still too flawed.

Or maybe it's another's voice whispering its hate in my ear. Maybe it's a now dead king who made sport of the one he could never break, but could bend in ways some can never imagine.

Maybe the dress is just dreadful, maybe power isn't in a effing piece of clothes. Maybe these detractors hate ones hair, their freedom, the way an eye can strip them of their secure thoughts, a wry wit that takes no prisoners.

Maybe these foolish people really don't matter and it is our shadows we are jousting with.

Go to this joining of the like and lack of heart, rejoice in your comfort, in your beauty, and in your unique spirit that makes others face the ugliness of their truest mirrors.

Original Post by moodymomma1977:

WHOA!!  how'd your mom get hurt by a walnut?? did someone throw it at her??  or did it fall from the tree??

Oiyyy

 

She stepped/slipped on one, spun around 180 degrees trying to keep her balance, and fell over.  While we were walking.  It was funny in retrospect, but pretty unnerving to watch!

Original Post by katonick:

I am off.

Gonna drop by on me mum.

Remember, I have dibs on the filbert.

~k

*I bet she stepped on the walnut, on a sidewalk and it rolled under her foot causing her to fall.

Haha, I should have read ahead before responding.  You win 1,000 Internets!

mspw, holy crap-o-la, you have really REALLY suffered.  and you're sure it's not interstitial cystitis?  i'm sure you are sure, seeing that you have practice with all this.  i totally agree, they really outta consider some women to have infections even if the bacteria count is below 100,000.  it's ridiculous, they should know that if we're feeling symptoms and there's some showing, then at least culture the thing... that's what last happened to me, my count was only 10,000... so the lab just wouldn't culture it.  f*ckers.  how much baking soda do you take for your infections, like how much in how much water, how many times a day, for how many days?  i've always been nervous to rely on baking soda since it can really screw up the body's system with heavy doses, but it can't be any worse than antibiotics...  maybe i'll give it a try next time i feel one coming on.  let me know what you do, k?

bagga - awesome stuff!  Now I know how you converse with yourself below the surface!  Not so different, you and I.  I could use a little more positive self-talk.  Whys it so much easier to be nice to others than it is to myself!?  NM.  don;t answer that.  I already know.

dagi - I PM'd you becasue my post was getting long and detailed. 

I commented this somewhere in the lounge...Remember vintage sizing is 4 to 6 sizes smaller than current sizing. Vintage sizing includes late 70's styles, it gets convoluted in the 80's (1 to 2 sizes smaller than current) with a blossoming in 90's to what is today a random sizing free for all.

Cyn, I saw the dress. It has major possibilities...major 60's possibilities, especially with that hair of yours.

What are your accessory leanings?

If we saw a friend being treated as awful as we at times treat ourselves we would kick some serious @$$.

Inner dialog is a darkened space when we let the shadows play unsupervised.

I will prolly go with a side part, hair down, or maybe some hippie-looking little braids on teh sides of what used to be my bangs, but have long since grown out.  Accessories?  what's that?  Really, I have some hemp macrame and beads I made back in Oregon when I was a tree-hugging activist, but that's about it.  I'll figure something out.  I just dunno right now.

I am slated for housecleaning - MAJOR housecleaning today.  I mean, like I will be at it for 6 hours.  I dunno, I may just do the 4 hour job and skip mopping, since I usually do it by hand.  My legs and feet hurt after yesterday.  My feet actually swelled up last night after I took off my shoes!  The tops of my feet had retained so much fluid that each time I took a step the tops of them 'wobbled' as if jello were encased underneath the flesh!  Thankfully its over.  The only time I have ever had edema was with my ankle sprain. 

So I am procrastinating terribly.  My stomach is growling and I am even procrastinating eating.  Its 11:11 am here and I am ready for lunch already.  Well, at least I have already brushed my teeth.  Oh, I also have to make phone calls to find a lawyer.  YAY!  I just want this day over-with so I can sit back, sip some white wine and watch a cheesey B-rated horror flick, maybe something with zombies or something apocalyptic.  Yea, a movie about the demise of humanity would cheer me up!  Maybe watching zombies will get me in the mood to cook!  At least my deadpan sense of humor is still intact.  Ha-ha - no pun was actually intended there. 

I have to "Just Say No" to zombie movies.  I have weird enough dreams about involving them anyway.  Like the one where I thought zombies were going to get me while I was stuck standing in a grocery store check out line.  It turned out they only wanted me to move over -- there was a display with "Brains" in big ol' pickle jars behind me.  They were apparently on sale, so no frugal zombie could resist.

Ok, I guess I better get started on this task.  It's due at 10:30 tomorrow.  :P

I already procrastinated on hunting down my power cord until my computer ran out of battery.  So I think I'm good on procrastinating today.

TROLL ALERT:

This guy just posted in the thread "just say a random comment" the following.  Just FYI.  What a jerk.  Probably a 5' tall 50 year old who lives with him mom!

Liberalism is a DISEASE!

B.O Stinks!

I remember this guy.  He seems to really want to lose weight but he's downright verbally-abusive in political threads.  The last post I just copied here was not in a political thread and its totally inappropriate. 

I'm not saying all conservatives do this, but there seem to be an awful lot of 'em who are just nasty as can be.  What's up with the conservative men who come in here and insult a community of strangers?  I mean, what's to prove by doing that, except that you are a jerk? 

I guess this sort of behavior gets under my skin because I feel that one of the biggest problems humanity has to deal with is apathy.  I just don't understand why people are so cruel to one another.  I mean what's the point?  venting is one thing, but the lack of culture in this country and culture's social rules has shown how truly unevoloved people can be.  I guess some people need rules to live by, or else they don't know how to behave. 

I mean, if the guy really wanted to further his cause, insulting anyone who disagrees with him is not going to help.  Stupid, really. 

Original Post by mspw:

I remember this guy.  He seems to really want to lose weight but he's downright verbally-abusive in political threads.   

I mean, if the guy really wanted to further his cause, insulting anyone who disagrees with him is not going to help.  Stupid, really. 

 Ughhh!!  people like that irritate me to no end  :/  I try to stay away from politics because I hate arguing with people who REFUSE to listen to you explain YOUR take on things....   it's not worth the headache, really.  If I'm going to get a headache, I'd rather get one because I drank too much or somethin', NOT because some moron has no manners.  bah!

Original Post by windrinre:

Like the one where I thought zombies were going to get me while I was stuck standing in a grocery store check out line.  It turned out they only wanted me to move over -- there was a display with "Brains" in big ol' pickle jars behind me.  They were apparently on sale, so no frugal zombie could resist.

omg... that actually made me laugh my water through my nose!

(I mean.... I say that sometimes when I find things funny) but  ^^that comment^^ actually DID make water come out of my nose!

Pickled-Brains - no drunken insinuation there at all. 

the best part was that they were clearly on sale!! lol

Oh,... yea, Cheap Pickled Brains!

Pickled Brains... you can't live with them, you can't live without them! 

I hope you didn't get water on your keyboard moody!  That would be bad -- specially when you have to explain why you got a new keyboard! 

I googled pickled brains after your post mspw -- I didn't know there was a drink by that name!  Sounds like a strange one too.

Hey, I know... for Halloween I should go as a frugal, drunken zombie!

Oh, how about this one... a cigarette-girl, but instead of selling cigarettes, sell Pickled Brains!