woke up crying from a dream.

silly, but tends to put a downer on my day.

Aaaw! I do that. In fact I did that the other day. I gave myself a few hours and actually was feeling refreshed later. Better than I had before the said, cry. Of course I couldn't stop crying once I started, but after it was over I felt ten times better!! I guess I needed a good cry.

Maybe you should keep crying until you are done, and committ to moving on with your day when it is over!
(That worked for me but I can't guarantee that it works for everyone)

I want to ask what the dream was about but I am not going to. ::Polite::
:)

it's a lot more fun to wake up laughing. Dream was stupid--some kind of social court where I got shunned. And Lex Luthor was my brother!

Not a nightmare, but disconcerting as hell.

So, I undertook some shopping therapy!

And what did you get me?!? Nothing? Again?!?
:p

Vista , just fucking Vista !!!!!!

Watching the Kentucky Derby today and seeing Eight Belles get put down. Sad. :(

Same here - my father knows the family... He was very proud of her finish and then so sad. Bummer. (See signature)

very upsetting indeed.

2.0 is home with Pneumonia. It's been a rough 14 months for the kid. RSV x2, a number of sinus infections, and now this.:(

Awww. Take care of the little guy. :(

l123, that sucks.

GET WELL SOON!

Pass that on for me, willya?

Oh poor babes. Hateful when they're poorly sick.

Everybody seems to be conspiring to annoy me as much as humanly possible.

Not me!!

I always prefer to work independently.

See there... you're even impersonating a non-existent conspiracy to get me that much more annoyed.

I'm raising "annoying" to "seriously aggravated bordering on pissed off."

I somehow injured my left shoulder 2 days ago...no idea how I did it. The doctor thinks it's my rotator cuff, and I go to the orthopedist on June 2nd. If I tore something, I'll have to have surgery. I get to go to physical therapy for that and my back now...fun!

I lasted at a new delivery job for one night last night--the set-up was just weird and the boss was a bitch. I'll just keep delivering at my old place until we leave for the East Coast...which is 4 weeks from today.

Ouch Syc, that really sucks. Hope you don't have to have surgery :(

Goddamn stupid software.
I got my digital camera, what? 2 years ago?
I was always able to watch the videos I made on it immediately on my old NHS pc and the old pc in the shop I worked in.

So now, 2 years later I have a Dell laptop.
Built for me less than a month ago.

So why do I have to arse about with downloads?
And why am I getting two messages at once and completely unable to work out which is valid? All I want to do is upload my damn video to YouTube like I have for years.

Sorry to bring this up when you are pissed, but if you are too lazy to get free software, and then complain about the life-enhancing technology that is free..well.....jeeez!

How much easier can the world get for people? Sorry. I'm kind of annoyed with the universe today... Don't take me srsly.
:)

Maybe I'm getting bitchy. People are pissing me off. My guests last night were assholes and taped it on top of that, then saved it to my fucking desk-top. Thanks buh-bye.They should just go back to London...

I'm not too lazy to get free software.
I just don't know where to get it, what to look for, why I need it.

It was all done for me on my old computers.
Now I am being asked to download things that don't download, being asked to open things in operations I don't understand, being given options that don't match the tried and tested ones I'm used to.

I know, I'm at fault because I'm ignorant.
But when new technology makes something harder for me it makes me unhappy.

Now, if anyone is willing to offer me a step by step guide to getting a video from my digital camera onto my laptop I will sing them hosannas every day. Promise.

Hey, get in chat and I'll try to help from here. It's really easy, but hard the first couple of times. I need to find out what error messages you are getting. The info. on your actual camera etc.....too many questions about it to help yet..

I may take you up on it at some point, but it's the end of a long hot day for me now and if I come into chat it will just be to chat.

I get frustrated when I can't see a logical path.
It makes me swear.

Genuinely, thanks for the offer.

I gotta run...no chatty right now, just for chatty.....Gotta go into town!!!
:)
Momma's going to the city!!!! Well I hope your day goes better....I'm pissy and I guess it will just be that way all day..I'll get over it tomorrow.

Horrible sore throat!

I just found out there's some evidence that, as a DES daughter (my mom took this drug when she was pregnant with me), I'm more than twice as much at risk for breast cancer.

:( Better get that mammogram I've been putting off.

I went to a funeral this morning. Aside from the fact that it was about someone dying, it was a catholic mass, so it was a long funeral with lots of weepy people.

I don't know about anyone else, but when I go to a funeral, it always makes me think of someone close to me that's passed on. For me today it was my Mum, but I had to try and be stoic for the sake of the people I went there to support, so I did much deep breathing and looking out the window trying to dissassociate myself from the actual proceedings.

Now I suppose the catholics probably think I should feel guilty about that. I guess they'll get over it though.

I got distracted and tried to pick up a plate that had just come out of the oven. Stupid stupid stupid. Now, four hours later, my fingertips and thumb still bring me to tears if I let go of the ice pack for more than a few seconds. It will be very hard to sleep tonight if I have to keep getting up to trade out for a fresh ice pack from the freezer.

calendula ointment!

I don't even know where to buy that, but wherever it is, I bet they're not open at midnight...

you should have it on hand ....you have little kids.

buy it now



and get this for bumps and bruises

Did your fingers blister Clod? If not, the burning sensation you feel when you take the cold pack off are the nerves 'thawing' out and sometimes if you can just suck it up for 10 mins, distract yourself with something...the pain will go away.

If they're blistered and still hurting, you should go see a doc.

yeah.....suck it up, already, Mary. rub some dirt on it.

OMG you're a homopathic.

Do your customers know what a tree-hugging hippie you are when you've got them over the barrel, applying rust protection to their undercarriage?

The thumb is a little blistery, but not horrible. I went to sleep with my hand resting on the ice pack, and when I woke up again (or more accurately, was woken up) at 3:00, it was a lot better. You're probably right about the nerves thawing, sucking it up is so much easier when you're passed out. :) I still can't really do anything with it, but it doesn't hurt when it's just sitting there anymore.

What's upsetting me? LJ's frigging MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMpost heading, that's what!

Just be thankful that he didn't do W's.

WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWHY

:lol2:

Just be thankful nobody quoted it and resized it to 99 point font.

Jim hasn't been here yet...give it time

Well I'm glad it's feeling better today. I hope you could understand what I was saying and didn't think I was being harsh. It's just something I've noticed when I've been careless enough to do similar types of things in the kitchen.

Just try and remember it's sore before you pick up a hot coffee cup. ;)

I picked up my curling iron on the way to an interview by the wrong end. I didn't just pick it up though, I picked it up and grasped it. :( I know it hurts. The best thing you can do is keep the ice packs on.

I wonder what DES is and what drug causes that Cloud?

Cicero: DES is a synthetic hormone (diethylstilbestrol) that was given to women from the 40s through the 70s to prevent miscarriages (and was used all over the world for a lot of things). It's a teratogen. It not only didn't work, it causes cancer and a host of reproductive abnormalities in the daughters of women who took it while pregnant with them. Hence, DES daughters.

Fortunately, I never developed cancer (yet!) but I did have cervical dysplasia (abnormal, pre-cancerous cells) and certainly, complications of pregnancy.

My knee! Damn thing started to go wonky last week, and instead of getting better, it's getting worse. Now the muscles surrounding it ache.

:(

tomorrow I will leave may home and go to a strange city far from my family, for work for money. there i have no friend now, so i fell a little upset. but in future i hope i could have new friends and a good work.

I'm hoping with you are lucky in this. Not to feel afraid, but excitement. and carefully with strangers.

dammit Flunt...need the SCF warning, please.

Dylan was last seen (here) at midday Thursday.
So he's missed two nights at home and two evening meals (they get raw chicken & bones).

He always starts the night sleeping on my bed and ends up sleeping on me - stretched out along my bare body - in the morning. Sometimes I dream someone is touching my face or hair and wake up to find it's Dyl. Once I stir he usually shifts to the cat-bed while I sleep for another hour or so.

He's not at work - I've checked the cellar twice now, the tool store in the yard, the container, the fireworks store and the music room. Bascially all the lockable places.

I've been door to door among the neighbours and put up Missing Cat posters. He's microchipped, so I know he hasn't been taken into a cat rescue place or they've have scanned him and called us.

Upset. Yes.

Oh shit, Sundae, that's awful. Keep us posted.

Fingers crossed for you SG. Have you also checked with the local police for a) found animals and b) road incidents involving animals (sorry to be so gloomy)?
Usually, as you know, the cat comes home and never tells you where he's been! Hope this happens for you, too SG.

The police scan cats for chips, so I know he's not been handed in (I activated an alert on his microchip).

I'll call the Council on Monday re road accidents - roadsweepers usually call them in. I've checked all the roads near me for evidence - even our local foxes are traffic aware and corpses are rare.

My assumption is he's snuck in somewhere and got stuck. Or monkey-nosed his way somewhere and been "adopted". Putting up posters and going door-to-door is all I can think of. I miss him.

Doctors! Now!
Dads has just been diagnosed with a Baker's Cyst. It's being treated with drugs because they caught it early, but there are some grim results if it isn't. Get advice!

Good luck. It's hard leaving friends and family but many people here have done it and survived to tell the tale.

Im sure Dyl is just off having a little adventure and will be back telling you about it very loudly soon, Sundae :)

SG: Keeping my fingers crossed and homeward thoughts for your kitty.

I'm planning to have a comprehensive medical exam in the next couple of months. Surely my knee problem will go away by then, but if not, I'll be sure to mention it!

My kids moved in with their father today.

(cautiously) that could be a good thing. Or at least have a few silver linings.

Oh Ali, thats gotta be tough.

How were the boys feeling about it?

We've all come up to the move with some trepidation, but as I've said to most people who've asked me the question, I'm hopeful that it'll be the best thing, but I am prepared for there to be at least a few teething problems so to speak. With any luck, that's all it'll be. It's really only for a little over six months till they finish out the school year, so all things being equal, we should all muddle through ok. The kids are ok. Semi-excited about getting two new homes all in the same couple of weeks, and setting up their new rooms in both houses etc. They have had some rocky periods with their father though, although things have been pretty good for the last year or so, so I'm pinning my hopes on that, as are the kids. Anyway, today is their first full day, so we'll see how that pans out.

Cloud, yes there are some things which will be good about it. The main one is that since Daryl and I met, we've really never had any time to just be a couple. He pretty much jumped in boots and all and became part of our family, so it'll be nice in a way to have that time to ourselves. Also, we've decided to try IVF after two years of trying and no pregnancy, so it'll be a good environment to explore that path in also.

Oh, it just dawned on me, your school year is opposite ours. :smack:

Yeah...if it weren't, it'd be the perfect time to move. Unfortunately, they're only just working their way through the second of 4 terms. It's not that long though. I just keep telling myself, it's really not that long.

Doesn't mean I don't still miss them like crazy already though. :(