happy birthday to crazy!
happy birthday to canuck!
happy birthday to CC!!!!!
Happy Birthday to YOU!!!!
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happy birthday to crazy!
happy birthday to canuck!
happy birthday to CC!!!!!
Happy Birthday to YOU!!!!
CC- You're the only Crazy Canuk I know of... ;) Happy birfday! I'd say happy barfday but you're over 21 and probably too smart for that by now. ;)
X- I hope you can do a spring trip... though I think some part of me would die a little if I saw you on a scooter or a vespa or something...
I'm kidding! Arrh!!! *runs!*
CWR- How're classes going? You know, you really just need to plan a vacation to Portland. I could babble on and on and you could pretend to be educated by my endless babble, then we could hit the local spa and have the hotties work on your neck. Win/win and you wouldn't have to go all the way to WVA. :D How's that?
Knot! We miss you!
Trek! Thank God I wasn't the first one to say "So, one time at band camp..."
FTR, the movie "Band Camp" is kind of painful. Best to watch drunk... as with anything related to American Pie...
sounds good to me kit.
classes are going good. i'm actually learning something, nothing really usefull yet though. neck/back is hurting again. only 2 days till adjustment and 3 till massage. argh.... this is bs.
Yo NANC -whats the ETA of Inez???? You must be so excited. She is soooo cute!! I love the red.
See how much of a dork I am?? I haven't planned for my centuries I want to do....:eek: gawd:mad: ...... but as soon as I lay some tile I will check out the ones you posted and edu-ma-cate myself...... I'll keep ya posted.
Chyk, she's here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Of course I can't see her because she has hidden herself away. She actually would normally have much broader red areas and cleaner, smaller black bands, but she is "aberrant" which is what attracted me to her.
http://tinyurl.com/ym4yd7 That's what a normal Nelson's looks like.
I wish she'd come back out! She even has a shed skin in her deli cup, but I am going to be good and not mess with any of her stuff. It's important to keep her cup for her to feed in later. If she is nervous, she will smell the cup and it will be familiar territory to her, so she will be more likely to eat in it.
I don't need another problem feeder.
Happy Birthday CrazyCanuk!
Nanci-I am so sorry about your bad night. I do not like being alone either.
I just read Inez arrived. YIPPEE! :D I am looking forward to seeing pics of your newest family member.
X- I still canot believe you do not want to spend your vacation here. Sigh.
Knot-It is good to see you. :) You are missed.
Lisa & CA_in_NC -welcome to TD.
CWR-I am counting the days until you are home. :)
Alright, I have 3 birthdays to plan, so no time to play right now. :( I need a nap.
She is lovely. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Nanci
Ok, just one more from when I was unpacking her...
Mr. Toad!!
Oh gosh Dar, I thought I was doing really well with keeping up with the vacation posts. I'm so sorry if I ignored you. It certainly wasn't intentional. I just went back and looked for it. It's at the bottom of the page so i think i must have skipped it somehow. I'd actually love to go tour with someone but being such a newbie to cycling, i figured no one would want to ride. I have a feeling I'd hold them back too much. Although, I don't know the meaning of giving up. :o
thanks for even considering riding with me.
I've actually emailed to be put on the Cinderella Century registration form list. If I end up near Cali, I may end up doing it since it's the end of May, my current time slot goal. Gonna depend on how soon I can get cut and drilled. I typically rebound fast so I'm hoping it all works out.
Again, sorry!
Gotta go. The sick people need pics. :)
X.
BTW Nanci - COOL SNAKE!!!
Beautiful beautiful snake, Nanci! How big is she?
I remember the old saying "Red to yellow Kill a fellow//Red to black venom lack" that was in case you ran into a deadly coral snake in the woods and weren't sure.
I don't think Mr. Toad will be wolfing down unlimited crickets forever- he'll get pretty full and want a break after a while I'd think- especially if he needs to shed his skin after eating 5000 crickets! :eek:
When was the last time your "finicky" snake had a mouse/meal?
I'm still in my pajamas...I think I am going to get dressed and go to Home Depot- I have a $50 reward card burning a hole in my pjs. Either mulch for the garage tree, or more weird paving stones to expand the cool tortoise walk, or a tree, or some sort of bricks to make a wall to contain torts, and for sure something to make a hibernaculum pile for Fagalo, because he's going....going....digging practice holes....getting very sleepy...
Lisa, the only time I found a coral snake I couldn't remember the dang saying! All I could think of was "Black and Yellow, Black and Yellow" and couldn't come up with what rhymed with that, because it actually wasn't part of the saying, and the snake _did_ have black and yellow, as do the non-venomous versions...
Addy, the Hognose, has never eaten. I thought she ate a mouse two nights ago, but found it rotting, buried, yesterday. I'm very disappointed. But will keep trying. I weigh her regularly to keep an eye on her weight. Maizey, who went through a feeding slow down, and didn't eat at all for six weeks, is back to a regular schedule of one mouse every 10-14 days rather than every seven, but it has to be freshly killed (by the snake shop guy) not frozen/thawed. Choco eats when he is told, always, quickly, with no problems, frozen/thawed. He has recently graduated up one meal size. Inez is an unknown quantity, but she has been eating either fresh killed or live pinky mice. I will be able to offer her first meal in a week.
She seems to be about Choco's size, about 18 inches, but they look so much smaller. She hasn't come out of hiding. I took her shed skin out of her deli cup to look at.
nanci mr toad looks so excited. love the pic!
So I'm just not making it out of the house today. Too lazy. A scary thing happened yesterday. I got home, with a big pile of mail. Started taking off my scrubs, and had the top off, and was migrating into the bedroom, but sorting through the mail to see what catalogs there were. A black widow spider came dangling out of the mail and landed on my bare tummy! I flailed around and finally knocked it off and killed it. Geez.
Nanci - what a beautiful snake! Is it to soon to be worried that Addy isn't eating?
I came home from work early today, woozy tummy. Must've been the talk of food poisoning last night. I think I need a nap.
No wonder you were excited about Inez arriving - She is VERY GORGEOUSQuote:
Originally Posted by Nanci
On the snake forum, there is a guy who bought a python baby in June, which had eaten _one time_ since then, till he posted last week that it ate again. They can go a long time, sometimes for no apparent reason. They really don't do much to burn calories. Addy weighs four grams less than when I got her. I am comfortable with that. She is still nice and round, with no spine to be seen. I will release her if/when she looks thin.
Is it 5:00 yet? My newly-discovered Black Muscat is calling out to me. It's only 5% alcohol.
Smartwool short sleeved womens T on steep and cheap right now, L and XL, $22 (retail $60)
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Originally Posted by Xrayted
Hey X: I got put on the Cindarella registration list as well - I've done the thing lots of times since I used to live in the Bay Area, but thought it would be fun to go back and try it again and visit some friends.
I think finding a taser on the couch this morning is going to help me with the freaky night stuff tonight :-)
Nanci
X - no problem! I figured you just missed it:p Offer stands. I would love to do a bike ride/tour through wine country but I think it would be more fun with someone. And I doubt you would slow me down.
Nanci - I saw that shirt already. One's on the way:rolleyes:
http://www.quadywinery.com/redelectra.html
And God bless screwcaps. Wave of the future.
Screw tops huh! When I was planning my wedding (I lived in SF Bay Area, California at the time), my brother in law and I went to Canned Foods store to get wine to taste for the wedding. They sell wines (some cheap, some not so cheap) where the label was misapplied or something like that. Well, we brought back a whole bunch of wines to taste and some of them had screw tops. My sister, my bro in law, me and my soon to be hubby were all sitting around the table getting ready to taste wines and hubby gets this horribly distasteful look on his face and says something to the effect of "over my dead body are we serving screw top wines at my wedding". (He is a native, born in Oakland, Californian.)
So, being the nice folk that we are, we decided that we would not buy any screw top wine for the wedding reception. HOWEVER, we just couldn't resist when we went to the store the week before the wedding. We bought some generic Beer. NOW, this is back in the day when generic beer came in these really BRIGHT YELLOW LETTERED CANS that say GENERIC BEER! So, we put the yellow generic beer right on top of the iced down beer bucket and had Mark (hubby) step out onto the deck where we were serving the liquor! We have the best disgruntled photograph of Mark staring at the yellow cans in total shock!
We still give him a hard time about screw top wines!
People are quite resistant to screwcaps, but with 5% of ALL cork-closed wine being corked- and 0% of screwcapped wine being corked- it's a no-brainer. I've lost two irreplaceable bottles to being corked. it sucks.
Once again I missed out. Caught it when only L or XL (cannot recall) were left. Earlier I was placing the order for a SmartWool top for DH's birthday and was apparently too slow typing because by the time I hit submit, they had sol out of his size. Ugh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nanci
Nanci-
I think I am in love with Mr. Toad. Look at that face. Please do not feed him to addy.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nanci
I love screwcaps! They're so easy to use!
And I also love mr. Toad. What a face!
BMo3 - Wow I read your dialogue with the nurse - these people! I had to just shake my head. Please take care of yourself. That's the most important thing. But you're right - why would they not see you before 12/21 if it were something so serious you shouldn't run?? Can you maybe call your doctor and talk to him/her?? I didn't know you were on coumadin, but it makes sense. Are you having regular protime tests? Where do they want your INR?? How much are you taking?
Lise - still happy about J!! SOunds so good!
Hi (waving) to all the rest of you great TD ladies! It's been a little busy and I had a lot of TD to catch up on so I know I have missed some stories. Now if Kit would only get her Clif Notes version finalized... :rolleyes:
Mr. Toad is safe, don't worry! Look at him!! It's hard tp type with a Choco in one hand. We are still working on "Thankyou For Smoking."
My daughter's Senegal Roy is getting more leg removed Friday. The foot just won't heal.
Inez came out at 7PM for a minute.
MP- You try making an effective "Cliff's Notes" version of a 400+ page document that changes and grows daily! It's hard! And I'm doing this at work!
I imagine that Inez must just want to rest and be warm and quiet for a few days after her travel ordeals- must have been a lot of scary vibration and noise for her in that plastic tub, traveling so far!
I cannot get past Dr. KIJ's nurse. But I guess I need to phone her tomorrow to ask her some questions about my coumadin. I am on 2mg right now and was told to come in for a Prothrombin Time test. Apparently this will let them know if my doseage is correct or if they need to up it. I have no clue what my clotting time should be, so I need to ask questions. Sounds silly that I have not as of yet, but I am mainly working in a state of total denial.Quote:
Originally Posted by maillotpois
Oh I am sorry to hear this. Healing thoughts for Roy. Let us know how it goes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nanci
YAY! :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Nanci
Not telling you your test results immediately is exactly why I got in trouble for looking up my own results...They should have to tell you right away- waiting is BS.
whew! what a crazy day at work! pardon while I vent, as I think I spent the last 10 hours typing, and doing nothing else. And I had planned on call my hairstylist and changing an appointment, since I figured it's bit further over to Tucson than I thought. Maybe I'll let it grow.. Or maybe I'll stay here. After my experiences this summer, I'm still a little leery of group riding, much less with 8,000 other folks :rolleyes: at least I didn't have to ride the train back with the rubber band eating lady who was off her psych meds. beats driving
BMO3 - I'm wondering if the MD is doing CYA
Vent alert!
BMo3 - I agree with Nanci on them holding your results from you. You have every right to know what's going on with your own body - right now. They are your results, not theirs.
I'm in an instant gratification type of medical field so we give results right then for stats or by the very next morning for regular cases. I always tell my patients to call their ordering doc the very next day before lunch to get their results.
That bull she gave you over the phone would not fly with me. I'd be in there personally looking her right in the eye ASAP. :mad: I have no problem with confrontation when it comes to a-holes. Don't let her mess with ya, BMo3.
Alright, I gotta go calm down now. I probably shouldn't be posting tonight anyway, I'm kinda in a funk. Sorry. Bummed out from some sad things at work. Can't get them out of my head. :( I haven't formed my hard shell yet, I guess. Kinda hope I never do but it does make it difficult to sleep sometimes. (sigh)
Geez, I really need a massage and some TLC tonight. **looks around at an empty house... Again.** Guess I've gotta settle for a glass of wine and some catching up on old TD posts instead. Cheers!
Now what page of TD was I on? Mousing, mousing, oh heck the bookmark fellout. ;)
Hey X-..You're one cool chick. So glad you could be here with us. I admire you riding after your accident.
BM03-tell the nurse to **** **** *****
Nanci-the froggie was sooo cute! Ribbit
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CC- Cool? Me? That's actually the last thing that comes to my mind about myself. How about messed up in the head, too stupid to quit, too stubborn to quit, always gotta do things the hard way, or try to never make the same mistake twice and end up making it 10 times? :o
Anyway, thanks for not freaking at my pics. All of you ladies have made me feel more normal than I have in along time. Around here, I get a bunch of horrified looks.
I gotta admit, it is fun to scare little kids on the beach with shark attack stories. (just kidding, I only did that once)
You Aussies are the best. Did you know that when our docs are asleep, we send our emergency x-rays, CT's, MRI's, etc to your docs to be read. Y'all save American lives everyday over there. It's called Night Hawk and our hospitals use it all the time. Helps control costs too so we don't have to pay radiologists to hang out all night long. We do the same back for you guys too.
Just wanted to say that I really do enjoy reading your posts. Sorry you've got no one to ramble on with in the middle of our night. I wish our times weren't so different.
G'night CC. See ya tomorrow!!
Love,
X.