Whoa! You're probably still riding on the extra adrenaline from your run-in with the "Landlord". :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by chickwhorips
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Whoa! You're probably still riding on the extra adrenaline from your run-in with the "Landlord". :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by chickwhorips
Let me guess....Maiden, Mother, Crone?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kitsune06
Indeed. Mominlaw and friends all had big parties etc. :D I love their look at life.
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The reason I said I'd "spare it" was b/c I made the faux pas of telling my mom "Congratulations!" ...she didn't get it, so I tried to explain (Mom being a good, "normal", midwestern woman) and the moment the word crone left my little mouth, h*ll broke loose, and it took a long, long time to assure her that it was an 'ok' if not 'good' thing "over here"
Damn, this thing is addictive. 0.2126 is my best time so far. Those sheep are sneaky.Quote:
Originally Posted by chickwhorips
I plan on doing a bit of celebrating. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Kitsune06
Yup Nanci and Lise - this is a good thing! It means I can stop taking bc pills and "let nature take her course"
In truth, I had all the symtoms years ago; but my doctor refused to believe a woman in her late thirties could be perimenopausal, let alone menopausal. The old coot.
Hmmm, things may get interesting.....
So, Snap, how was the diagnosis made? FSH? I'm on continuous NuvaRing (essentially the same as bc pills). I have hot flashes, I'm 46. It's not contraception I'm worried about, but my ovulation and periods coming back. They are both so painful. I think I'll continue using the ring until I'm 60. :p
Congrats to you, though. Lots of rituals and ceremonies out there to celebrate your passage to crone-dom. I even saw that Susun Weed has a new menopause book out. Oh, it's good to have been born at the end of the baby boom!
Survived the staff meeting at work. Kept my mouth glued shut, filled my mind with happy humming thoughts, and let the ego temper-tantrums fly over my head.
Hmmm, mmm, hummmm:) :) :) La, laa, laaaa :) :) :)
Might have the new bike tomorrow.
Feel like a major stud, cuz I switched out the pedals on the Kona. Took off the Frogs, put the flats back on for SKnot. Got to play with a big wrench and some grease.
Have a screw in one of my car tires. SKnot enjoyed making puns on that... Tire hasn't gone flat yet. Hope it hangs in there until I can get it fixed. This messes with my plans of going to the bank and getting the Waterford tomorrow. Sigh.
Does that make us boomlets?
It was a blood test, FSH sounds familiar, I think there was a second one also.
Good news on the Pilates studio - the two women I work with and I will be going to our teacher's other studio, continuing our circuit trio. They have to finish out their sessions with the old place, so I'm on my own for a couple of months.
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Originally Posted by KnottedYet
*whistle* Biker Stud Knot!
What you can do to take care of the tire without screwing (har har) with Les Schwab, et all, (Assuming this is a tubeless tire. I have never dealt with a tubed car tire but weird stuff happens) bike to a GI Joes, Schucks or Auto Zone, and grab a patch kit. Should be a thingum that looks like a T with a needle-nose with a hole in the middle at the end of the T, and there'll probably be a rat-tail rasp with it... and then 4-5 4" long brown 'patches'. Kit is roughly $8, I think, but $8 to fix 4+ flats and the knowledge that you can do so is totally worth it.
The directions are there, but I'll post something like 'em...
Jack car up, use tire iron to remove lugs, pop tire off. Deflate tire. Locate screw. Remove screw. Use rattail rasp to even out the hole, use T shaped thingum with patch threaded through to push patch through hole (all the way) and then pull back out partway. Snip just about 1/2" above tread. Put tire back on, making lugs about finger-tight. Hit tire with heel of hand to make sure it's settled evenly, then tighten down evenly with iron. Inflate the tire, lower car, remove jack, feel like total car stud. :D
For anything less, I generally just use Tire Slime... but I run my car with Slime always in. For some weird reason, the little thin racing tires got slow leaks until I put it in, now no problem.
directions: open trunk, look at tire and jack, call AAA :D
My parking lot has no flat places where I could safely jack up the car. And I'm basically a big chicken. My Subi-gurus said to take it to Les Schwab ("Free Beef Now!") or Discount Tire.
I'll just bask in the glow of changing out the pedals...
Ooh, my iTunes is playing one of my all-time favorite songs right now: "Dreams I'll never See" by Molly Hatchett. (yes, I know, it's really an Allman Bro's song, but I like the Molly Hatchett version best)
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....oop, oop, there's that hair pin. I knew I dropped it somewhere.
I'm drawing the line at installing DGF's O2 sensors (though I'm sure I could, given the manual and proper tools...) and waiting on the $50+ so I can finish rebuilding the **** carbuerator. God I'm a dork.
THAT is a cool job. Truly.Quote:
Originally Posted by fishdr
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Originally Posted by KnottedYet
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Originally Posted by Kitsune06
This multiquote thing is cool. :cool: No fiddling with messy code. Just one easy application. Call now for your FREE one month trial. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by salsabike
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Originally Posted by Lise
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Originally Posted by DirtDiva
Oh, right, now I see how it works :D ANd the little arrow takes you back to the original quote - Fantastic!!!!
My fever is gone this morning. I did go out and vote yesterday and spent 2 hours at work, but too sick to stay there. Feeling better today but I'll take the car to work just in case.
Congrats, Snap. I've been "going through" for 6 or 8 years. Still waiting for the "gone through". For the last 2 years it's been: "Oh good, 6 months and no period. Great! Maybe I'm done for good. Oh darn. Well, maybe this is the last one." Grrr... Keep having to postpone that menopause party.Quote:
Originally Posted by snapdragen
Kit, how do you inflate a car tire at home? Hand pumps are pretty worthless for tubeless car tires, aren't they? I've even failed with a wheelbarrow tire.
Knotted, great job on the pedals. The Waterford comes home today. The Waterford comes home today. I'm sure you have an appropriate homecoming planned. Or maybe it's leaving home as quickly as possible?
The multipost thing isn't working for me. Must take more javascript than I've got. Can't take the sheep test either. :mad:
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Originally Posted by Lise
Multiquote - cool! Every time I hear a word starting with "multi" I immediately think of Mulitpass (from the movie: The Fifth Element). It's just how my brain works.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruno28
Lise - I got down to 0.2128. FishJr did pretty good with 0.5268! Mr. Fish was somewhere around 0.18. FishFry - not quite there yet. He likes the scrolly bar better than the mouse buttons.
What was that? I posted and there was a little message that came up that thanked me and said it was taking me to my post. Never seen that before.
Fudge stripe cookie salad sounds gooooood!
Good point. I've got an air compresser in my "Oh **** Kit". One of the ones that plugs into your cigarette lighter socket. It takes a little longer than @ the gas station, but the convenience was well worth it. Not sure how much one costs; it was a present I got when leaving home. Dad's a postie and always has one in his car.Quote:
Originally Posted by DebW
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gawd, I can't believe I'm up already. gruh. Interview. Gruh. gotta make sure my trunk gets delivered sometime when DGF isn't home so I can squirrel it away
"Gosh, my, that old thing?! I've had it forever!" :eek:
though now she asks "Forever, eh? How many days?" ;)
Gruh. Coffee.
Yeah, FishDr I read in my Natural History a few years ago that the problem was that Italian honeybees did not groom themselves properly, they just let the mites stay on their bodies. We just have to breed more fastidious bees, neat freaks; was what I understood. (no pun intended here!)Quote:
Originally Posted by fishdr
Congrats!! I'm at the other end here, Almost no symptoms left, except the dumb hot flashes, but nothing serious. It's great it's great it's great!!Quote:
Originally Posted by snapdragen
on another note; I took my Veloce Bianchi in to put fenders on and the lady said "you can't put fenders on that, it's a racing bike!" she spent a lot of time messing with different fenders; she tried. There was more toe interference, not to mention cable interference and tire interference.
she also bragged up all her bikes and suggested turning my bike into a 650 special (talk about changing out parts!!!!
Got home and DH put a rear fender on the thing, at least i won't get the rooster stripe.
I agree--what a cool job. Can I designate more of my tax dollars to go to your research and less to ... other things?Quote:
Originally Posted by fishdr
Me too! And I hear it in her accent: Moooltipaass. I also hear that anytime I see a movie at a Multiplex. Seriously. :oQuote:
Originally Posted by fishdr
I'm impressed with Mr. Fish's score. You can tell him I said so. It's sort of a Zen thing (apologies to actual Zen practitioners). You have to let your mind unfocus, and nail those sheep as soon as they bolt. If you concentrate too much, you'll shoot them for just eating grass. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by fishdr
PS: Can't believe I got the mooltiquote thing to work. AND: Mimi! Cool avatar! Now I have to go find your post about her and reread it!
Lise, it's on the web!!
scroll down...
http://www.radiomarconi.com/marconi/...a_inglese.html
I still don't know the significance of Zuave shoes. does anyone here?
I began reading up on this subject some years ago. I'm not an evolutionary biologist, but find the subject fascinating. Appologies to anyone here who is, as this is may be dated and incomplete info (if so please enlighten me), but it will make you believe in the value of older women.
At first glance, menopause would seem to be counter to evolutionary theory (the more offspring the better chance of leaving your genes to future generations, right?). Most mammals do not undergo menopause. Humans and (one other mammal** whose identity will be revealed below and which is not at all closely related to humans) were the only mammals known until recently to do so. I discovered three different theories on the origin of menopause:
(1) humans simply live too long. If other mammals lived as long as we do (based on heartbeats per lifetime or some other criterion) they might have menopause too.
(2) by nurturing grandchildren rather then children after a certain point in life, a woman may do more to ensure that her genes survive. It becomes a numbers argument: the survival of 2 grandchildren is the same as the survival of one child. But it has to play out over many generations with many other variables going on at the same time.
(3) groups, tribes, villages are more likely to survive periods of hardship (drought, flood, etc) if the group includes older women who have lived through similar hardship before. Without menopause, women wouldn't live as long. Remember Old Flo in Jane Goodall's first and 2nd chimp books? Pregnancy, childbirth, and lactation take a huge toll on a woman's body, particularly as she gets older. In most aboriginal (pre-literary) cultures, women were the storehouses of knowledge on local flora and nutrition. This theory was published around 1990 by a researcher who spent time with aboriginal cultures (in the Carribbean?) studying local flora and fauna. If he asked about the edibility of a certain plant that wasn't a normal part of the people's diet, he would be taken to see an old blind toothless crone who would remember what the people ate during the last drought 50 or 60 years ago. During the next drought, it was the knowledge possessed by this old woman which would ensure the group's survival. So evolutionary survival is based on social groups, but the result is the spread of genes that produce menopause. And older women were essential (until recent times) to survival. Doesn't that make you all feel good?
** The other mammal which has been known for decades to undergo menopause is the pilot whale. It's known because they were harvested commercially. Probably the orca too, but it wasn't commercially whaled.
Fascinating information, Deb. Thanks.
mmm.... those do look good, put them in a salad a BAM!Quote:
Originally Posted by Nanci
very addicting.... and very sneaky!Quote:
Originally Posted by Lise
i just had to try the multiquote thingy. it is cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by DirtDiva
On the other end of the spectrum - bees can also be too festidious. Who knew?Quote:
Originally Posted by mimitabby
Very true Deb (coming from an Evol Biologist)! Good information!Quote:
Originally Posted by DebW
I finally received the official call! Yippee! Yay! Wahoo! Even though I knew it was happening, it's nice to have it in writing!
I'm outta this place on Oct 12th!
Great new, Fish.Quote:
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Glad I got it mostly right. Do you know of any menopause studies on non-human mammals? Does menopause imply a well developed social organization and some level of communications?Quote:
Originally Posted by fishdr
I'm not sure - my work focused on marine invertebrates.Quote:
Originally Posted by DebW
Here's an add Fishfry thing... we were asking the kids last night what they wanted to be for Halloween. FishJr named one of a dozen disney princesses. No surprise there. FishFry.. you'll love this... said he wants to be an octopus. Yes, an octopus. And he was quite adamante (sp?) about it. We tried suggesting all sorts of other things he likes. Nope - an octopus. Now how am I going to find time to make an octopus costume. It's not like they're going to sell it at Target!
Oooooh - I'm going to get to shop at Target and not Wallyworld! Wow!
An octopus that's kind of cute. and of course, all 8 arms have to work!Quote:
Originally Posted by fishdr
hard to describe but I saw a wonderful octopus costume once, picture this.
6 fake arms were sewn out of long shirt sleeves stuffed with whatever kind of stuffing. Each one had a glove on the end like hands (not entirely accurate but cute). I forget how they did the "suckers" on the arm.
Each arm is attached to the side of an actual shirt.
then each arm has a string that attaches to the real kid arm so ....when said kid raises or moves his hands...all 8 arms (2 real ones, 6 stuffed ones) moved.
Like a whole-body puppet! :D I bet my sis or neice could sew this with ease, I sure couldn't but it was fantastic.
That's cute! Key question - what color?Quote:
Originally Posted by fishdr
And congrats on the official offer!
What's your new name going to be (bee)?
How about several pairs of panty hose or tights, with the legs stuffed, with his head in the middle??
Mimi and Trek - 8 working arms that sounds great! Complicated, but great!
BikerZ - I still haven't decided on a new name yet. You'd think I would've come up with something by now. Hmmmm... will have to keep thinking. On a completely different note - I can still taste that crab and cellophane noodle dish we had at the Slanted Door. Geez that was good! I'm going to have to find a vietnamese place in BR.
Color of octopus - not pink!
That might be do-able! Maybe I could find tights with spots on them. I still have to make the legs work though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nanci
Why don't you get a live octopus and....no, no - I'm starting to see the flaws in this approach already :D
Bruno, you are one very sick cow (or sheep or goat)