How do you feel today? v. 3.0

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 8:06 am

yes punk ass alligator. i got your sunglasses and i will call after laundry and when I am heading your way!

Post by **Damelon** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 11:54 am

Bah. Been plagued by an aching back the last week and a half. It's most painful getting out of bed. I went to see the doctor on Monday. He gave me a muscle relaxer, told me to take advil with it and recommended therapy to learn exercises so that it doesn't return. So I went to the therapist the other night and have some exercises to do.

I'm guessing my three day weekend will be rather tame.

Post by **aliantha** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 4:06 pm

Yay for the new store and the kudos from management, Jenn!

Hope you feel better soon, Damelon.

It's last workday of summer here, so I'm savoring it. Things will kick into gear again next week -- altho yesterday was no picnic, booking multi-destination trips for two attorneys at once.

It might get *really* ugly in October, when the partner who's now on maternity leave comes back to work -- Nominee Guy told me yesterday that he will still be here at least that long (Senate committee has to approve his nomination, then it goes to the full Senate -- and I think we all know how quickly and smoothly that's likely to go

). Having both of them in the office at once, together with Travelin' Guy, made my job crazy enough -- but now I'm working for two associates in addition.

Post by **sgt.null** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 5:18 pm

work paid ot tomorrow. (instead of comp time) Ramadan is over so back on regular schedule.

bought comic books with allowance. hopefully next week i can go see Shark Night and Apollo 18 as a double header.

sneezing a hella lot - coleaning off dusty porch so they can tear top off it and start digging for plumbing.

Post by **Sorus** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 1:58 am

Cameraman Jenn wrote: Therefore the store manager is different almost every six months and they come in thinking they can fix it and change it and the staff has to re-learn a whole new manager and then boom, gone again. It's hard to create stability with so much flux. Of course I will already have Derek trying to undermine me but hey, I can already handle Derek and also the new assistant Kin is one of Jacob's fan club so he's already been told to let me have a lot of leeway and reign. Should be interesting.

Last I heard was Kin was leaving next week and we're getting whatshisname from 946 - Sal? Saul? Yaaay for turnover.

YouTube · Post by **Menolly** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 4:27 pm

On Wednesday I had my first ever MRI.
On Wednesday afternoon I had my second MRI, this time with an IV "contrast," since the second series of scans did not work in the morning due to a faulty "coil" which needed to be replaced. Apparently the machine was fixed within a few hours and they called me back in.
Yesterday I had my third MRI, again with an IV contrast, as apparently the positioning for the second MRI was incorrect and the radiologist wanted clearer scans...

Here's hoping I am now finished with MRIs for awhile.

Post by **wayfriend** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 5:16 pm

MRI. Menolly-Rejecting Instrument.

Post by **aliantha** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 5:19 pm

Menolly -- MRI for what?

Post by **lorin** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 7:07 pm

Hey Ali, how's the hand? I say go for the surgery and get it over with. I did, and it seems to be the only thing working on my body.

And then the job got me a really cool keyboard.

As for me, I have hauled, packed, scrubbed, trashed everything in my life. Threw out pool engines, furnaces, lawn mowers, refrigerator, freezer, .......... Everything seems to rot overnight. BUT I had my priorities straight from the get go. Got the pool working. I may have no heat or hot water BUT I have a pool. All my clothes may be rotted BUT I have my pool. I may not have any furniture BUT I have my pool. I may not have any food in my fridge yet BUT I have my pool. and it is lovely. and I am exhausted.

I am sitting here reviewing this year. Have a magic shoulder pill in my system so bare with me. In the last couple of years; (in no special order)
All three kids left my home
bankruptcy
two bouts of pneumonia
lost the house
moved
flood disaster
foster son arrested for assault and burglary
shoulder surgery
best friend died
two burst pipe episodes
car accident
ended a ten year relationship (well, he ended it by telling me he was married

with three kids)
three other surgeries
my mothers suicide (actually that was more than a few year, like four years, but it seems like yesterday)

so................

I could choose to fold my hand and follow my mother's chosen solution or I could choose to take a different perspective. I chose the latter. I choose to believe that my life has been a trial by fire and I am going to come out of it annealed. I am stronger for all of this, I really am. Life may not have given me everything I had dreamed of but in many ways I am ok. I wish I had had kids, that is what is the hardest thing for me. BUT I still have a job, my health has improved imensely, I have a few good friends, think I am a decent writer, I've aged pretty well, and........I have a POOL

(at least for another month). Life goes on. Just for today I choose to have a decent attitude (until my muscles start aching from all this hauling trash).

So.....back to scrubbing mildew. Thanks for indulging me. Hopefully I won't delete this post.

Post by **Obi-Wan Nihilo** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 7:14 pm

It's been raining here for the past 3 days.

Post by **Sorus** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 7:32 pm

lorin

Stay strong.

I've been deleting posts all week about all the stuff that's going on in my life right now... sometimes it helps just to write it all out and then I look at it and think 'whoa, TMI', and sometimes I leave it anyway because it really does help to talk.

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Sun Sep 04, 2011 3:41 am

LORIN!!!! Huge snuggy wuggy cuddly loving bear hugs to you!

I had a good day at work and yes, partly sad because it was my last day at the Berkeley store. Jenn baked me some amazingly delicious coconut cookies because she knew coconut was one of my favorite scents and flavors. I got hugs from everyone except Edward. We shook hands and he wished me the best of luck. I also left about an hour early. Around five o'clock I took some of the orange circle stickers from the copy center and put them all over myself including on my clothing and face. I then went up to Ed and said, "I think I need to go home early." He turned and looked at me and burst out laughing. I said, "I've broken out in a very unusual and highly disturbing case of orange spots, I think I need medical attention, why are you laughing." He laughed even harder and when he stopped he said, "That was a good one, but you can't go home until you are running a temp of 110 degrees." I immediately went back to the copy center and drew a picture of a thermometer reading 110 degrees and went back to the tech bench and handed it to him and said, "I just took my temperature, Look! I'm burning up!!!" in a very dramatic way. He laughed again and said, "Ok if we are still slow at 6 you can go." I figured it would be best to leave on a positive note with Edward. I didn't want that kind of negative energy hanging onto my aura. I even told him it was fun working with him when we shook hands and told him to take care of himself and the team for me. I was going to be nice to him today regardless since I don't need to put up with him anymore but something Lucimay said to me yesterday when we met for coffee and a little shopping downtown made me decide to go one extra step and not simply let it go but make it better in a final gesture. Honestly, I feel better for having done so. Thanks Lucimay. I also made a point of thinking about something to like about Edward and I must admit that he's been good about taking some of my outrageous one liner snappy zings that I've thrown at him in response to things he says over the past few months in good humor.

Sorus, not sure about Kin leaving. Jacob told me he was there to stay. Plus they just moved Saul from 898 to 946 less than two months ago. I can't imagine they would switch them now. But if they do, I know first hand from my time subbing at 898 in the copy center that Saul is pretty darn cool and easy to work with. He's also not the type to put up with Derek's crap either. That could be a good thing.

So I'm done with the hell commute. I'm so freaking glad and relieved I can hardly think about it without grinning. Granted, now I'm stuck taking the 14 Mission which is an incredibly stinky bus but hey, it's only ten minutes of torture or I can ride my scooter. Yay!

Post by **sgt.null** » Sun Sep 04, 2011 3:54 am

worked ot today.

seems yesterday while tearing apart porch i knocked out the electric in the laundry room. washing stuff by hand, julie says a trip to the laundry tomorrow for linens.

back to normal schedule! so i can start writing the fable and music reviews again. (plus a comprehensive pf song review.)

fair in october so starting to sort what art i want to make for that. thursday night is art night for the next two months so julie and i can work on stuff.

have an Archie thing, little boxes of cereal, mon bain, another collage - all up for consideration.

YouTube · Post by **Menolly** » Sun Sep 04, 2011 4:02 am

aliantha wrote:Menolly -- MRI for what?

Just follow up to questionable routine screenings. Nothing was seen on a mammogram I had last month, and while there was "shadowing" on an ultrasound (which suggests something dense blocking the soundwaves), there was nothing definitive and even the shadowing didn't show on a follow up ultrasound-guided biopsy. Hence the MRI's to try to determine whether or not there is anything actually there.

I feel the doctors are being overly cautious. But, since my mom did contract breast cancer at 42 and passed on her 50th birthday (I am currently 51), I'll go along to be certain all is clear for now...

Post by **Sorus** » Sun Sep 04, 2011 4:14 am

Cameraman Jenn wrote:
Sorus, not sure about Kin leaving. Jacob told me he was there to stay. Plus they just moved Saul from 898 to 946 less than two months ago. I can't imagine they would switch them now. But if they do, I know first hand from my time subbing at 898 in the copy center that Saul is pretty darn cool and easy to work with. He's also not the type to put up with Derek's crap either. That could be a good thing.

So I'm done with the hell commute. I'm so freaking glad and relieved I can hardly think about it without grinning. Granted, now I'm stuck taking the 14 Mission which is an incredibly stinky bus but hey, it's only ten minutes of torture or I can ride my scooter. Yay!

I could have sworn he'd been at 946 longer than that - think he was there when I did their audit, which was about 4-5 months ago. Or maybe I'm thinking of someone else. I don't know. I used to have a really good memory for time-related things, but lately it's all been running together. If he is the person I'm thinking of I haven't heard such good things about him, but I have not worked with him directly and will reserve judgement for when and if I do. I'm still giving serious thought to transferring to 946 anyway - not looking forward to another winter without heat, especially since I have a concrete floor and no heat where I'm living.

Yay for being done with the hell commute - I understand exactly how you were feeling there having done it myself. Will never do that again. Money can't buy sanity.

Post by **lucimay** » Sun Sep 04, 2011 4:27 am

lorin wrote:I could choose to fold my hand and follow my mother's chosen solution or I could choose to take a different perspective. I chose the latter. I choose to believe that my life has been a trial by fire and I am going to come out of it annealed. I am stronger for all of this, I really am. Life may not have given me everything I had dreamed of but in many ways I am ok. I wish I had had kids, that is what is the hardest thing for me. BUT I still have a job, my health has improved imensely, I have a few good friends, think I am a decent writer, I've aged pretty well, and........I have a POOL
(at least for another month). Life goes on. Just for today I choose to have a decent attitude (until my muscles start aching from all this hauling trash).

So.....back to scrubbing mildew. Thanks for indulging me. Hopefully I won't delete this post.

i applaud

your active participation in your own happiness lorin and am damn glad you're choosing the second option. damn glad. we've not got to hang out and visit enough yet and there's a LOT of stuff left to write and i DON'T have a pool so i'd like to come and use yours, if i may!

sending you many many hugs.

Post by **sgt.null** » Sun Sep 04, 2011 4:51 am

lorin - you met me in the past year. put that on the positive side of the board.

menolly - prayers for your health heading your way.

jenn/sorus - congrats on getting to work together. if only i could convince my captain that such temwork is helpful and healthful.

luci - a hug for general purpose.

Post by **aliantha** » Sun Sep 04, 2011 5:21 am

lorin -- You are clearly a survivor. Don't quit now -- the best is just around the corner.

Jenn -- YAAAAAYYYY!!!! for being done with the commute from hell!

Menolly -- Glad to hear everything checked out okay.

Sarge -- Good luck with the artistic endeavors.

The thumb is okay-ish. It's still popping and it's still sore when it pops, but the ibuprofen seems to be keeping the pain manageable. The worst part is when I forget my thumb is messed up and try to grip something. We cleaned the house today, so Magickmaker and the cat have been subjected to several bouts of my yelling, "AIEEE! Sh*t!" when I tried to use my thumb like a normal human would.

I'm finishing up a new sweater. It's on the blocking board now -- with any luck, it will conform to the size it's supposed to be, and then I can finish it up tomorrow by sewing on the buttons and the loop closure.

Post by **Savor Dam** » Sun Sep 04, 2011 5:43 am

Menolly...I will be very glad when the word comes back that everything is OK. I have been a pest for multiple years telling you to get a variety of tests done...and I am very proud of you for now following through and having so many of them done. B"H that the last few still outstanding all come back clean!

lorin...despite the temptation, I will not make much of a quip based on the spelling of your request for our patience. Yes, I will bear (ahem

) with you and always encourage you to "hold on for one more day." Put ruined homes, ungrateful youths, deceitful men, and all the happenstance behind you. Some of it is just material, other parts are experience, but it is all water under the bridge. Tomorrow is waiting. Going forward: choose life, choose happiness!

Post by **Damelon** » Sun Sep 04, 2011 1:09 pm

Menolly - Third time is the charm. I hope the MRI turns out well for you.

lorin - Tomorrow is another day. Think of taking out all that trash as hauling out all the other bad vibes with it. Leave it for the trash hauler. And, enjoy the pool.

Sorus - Same for you. You don't have a pool but you do have your cats watching out for you. Spotting big spiders, even if they only watch.

Jenn - Nice, you finally get a decent commute.

Sarge - You're reminding me that I have to finish laundry today. You can work on the fable while laundry is in the spin cycle.

Ali - Keep up with the ibuprofen. I'm doing the same for my back.

As for me, the back is getting better, if not 100% and it looks like it's going to be a great finish to the weekend. The hot, humid weather of the last week is gone; replaced by 70°, low humidity and sunshine.

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How do you feel today? v. 3.0