make sure the clothes are in a separate package from the PB or you will have a worse mess!Quote:
Originally Posted by chickwhorips
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make sure the clothes are in a separate package from the PB or you will have a worse mess!Quote:
Originally Posted by chickwhorips
Wow Brina, that's beautiful!
Well, cr*p. That loud noise I heard just as I went downstairs to check my mail? It was my CD tower falling over. Bad news, friends. And furthermore, my Amici Veloche jersey hasn't arrived yet! :( I've got a case of the post-race blues. Going to shove my CDs into some sort of pile and try to nap before the call shift tonight. L.
I'm making some tonight, too! You're making me hungry. We have no food in the house! The joy of coming home from a trip. We're having take-out gourmet pizza and then I'm going to make those cookies. Thanks for the idea V!Quote:
Originally Posted by Veronica
That stinks Lise! I hope you get some good solid rest!
Brina - very nice corkscrew!
Hey Nanci did you see Emily O'Brien's BMB report just came out on the rando list?? I can't wait to read that - she's a very entertaining rider and the thought of her doing all these crazy rides on a fixed gear is amazing to me.
Hey, now, MP. Don't you be getting all snooty on the us here like Zman. You'd think he could have used the whole name instead of BMB when he started his thread on bikejournal. Makes me feel like an iggerant outsider. What is it?
Sorry - Boston-Montreal-Boston. 1200k.
Ah, now I don't feel like such an ignoramus and might actually want to read the ride stories.
Thanks.
If it was a loud noise and it wasn't an exploding tire, you should be happy. Not only that, but the CD tower didn't fall over WHILE you were napping. There's a bright side to everything. Cheer up, Lise.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lise
That's a great idea. But as soon as I put them in the mail it would probably rain and I'd have to drive to work anyway and would have wasted the postage. It's tough being a cheap hungry gram weenie.Quote:
Originally Posted by chickwhorips
Excellent points.Quote:
Originally Posted by DebW
Berkeley is certainly shaking this week. The earth must be trembling in terror due to the return of the college students (dorms have opened...)
So six weeks ago, I b!tched and moaned to jobob, tprevost, lee bob and nancie about my short short short short short hair. So....what did I do today?
Got a haircut.:o :D
Too many pages to catch up with today. I'm still in my cycling vacation in Victoria. Having a wonderful time, wish you were here... Bought two jerseys - yay! - I had none so I am happy. One is LG and one is Shebeest. Both cute. I tried on some pedal pusher capris too but they are too long for me. 48cm inseam. I have pretty short legs and they go down to mid-calf. Is that normal? They felt much better when I rolled them up one notch just below the knee and they felt much better. Will have to look around and see if there are more styles out there. I know nothing about anything longer than shorts...
Hope everyone is healthy and the family members are doing well...
barb
So I was on Walgreen's website today and noticed they have a "sexual wellness" tab now. Grant it they may have had this tab for a while, but I just noticed it. For some reason it's highlighted with a yellow border. I checked out what they have in there and noticed that the Today Sponge is being sold. Maybe because I've been on BCP's since I was 18 I'm not up to speed on this, but I thought they took that off the market? Hence the whole Seinfeld episode with Elaine interviewing boyfriends to see if they were "sponge worthy" as she hoarded them. When'd they come back? Oh happy day, the sponge is here to stay :D
They came back just recently. They've been for sale in Canada for a few years now. I'm on some e-mailing list which has kept me posted on a regular basis about the availabilty of the sponge. Yep, they're back! :D
My morning ritual: wake up before alarm. Read until alarm goes off. Get up, start coffee and computer. Read TE and drink coffee until last possible moment. Rush like crazy to get ready for work.
today's early morning revelation: geez, I'm glad I don't have to mess with birth control! :D
Yeah, me too! that vasectomy in 1981 sure made my life easier!Quote:
Originally Posted by KnottedYet
Not only the Sponge, but I see that the FDA has approved OTC sales of Plan B (the morning after pill). I am delighted. I have *no* desire for any political discussion of this, just will say that, as a midwife, I've been hoping for this decision.
Delivered an adorable baby boy at 3AM, then got to sleep for nearly 3 hours. Best of both worlds! Plus, it's raining here, so I have to go home and sleep some more! ;)
SK, Salsa, CWR, I'm thinking you you and your families in these tough times for you.
that's really good news about plan B since the state of washington Pharmaceutical board (boy, i think i spelled that wrong) just passed a ruling saying that pharmacists don't need to fill prescriptions that they don't approve of!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Lise
oh, man, Mimi, that sooooooo s*cks.
Has anyone seen "V for Vendetta"? How much of this seems familiar?
"Strength through Unity. Unity through Faith."
Eeeeeek.
OMG. This is horrifying. THEY DO NOT PRESCRIBE! THEY DISPENSE! As a prescribing health care provider, it infuriates me that my patient might be denied medication that I consider appropriate and necessary, because of the (im)moral judgement of the dispenser. You want to prescribe or not prescribe? Great. Go get the education, sit for the exams, get the licenses. Until you do, it's not up to you to decide whether the patient gets the medication prescribed or not. grrrrrr.Quote:
Originally Posted by mimitabby
Plan B will still be sold behind the pharmacy counter, so that the RPH can check her age. Must be over 18. What about guys? Can a guy go buy Plan B for his girlfriend? Does he have to prove how old she is? BS.
Maybe us old gals need to go underground and buy some of this and have it available for those that need it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lise
(how long does that drug last before it's expiration date?)
I was thinking the same thing. (and remembering how the underground d*kes and crones took care of the unfortunate unready in the past)
I might just go buy some just on principle
but the posties need to eat too.Quote:
Originally Posted by DebW
i like the new hair cut. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by snapdragen
Back on pharmaceutical dispensing laws - isn't amazing how some folks feel the need for laws so they can impose their own version of morality on others?
Keep this up we may get TD locked....but....
I saw an interview with some guy, discusssing the new procedure for creating stem cells. If I understand it correctly, they take an individual embryo cell, not the whole embryo, and use that to create the stem cells.
This man's problem was, no one asked permission of the embryo to take something from it.
It's a freakin' zygote!
/done with my rant
I'll drift us away ... having done my part to drift us into this discussion!
I just watched Cinderella Man. What a wonderful story. I'm so glad Ron Howard makes movies! I love that exchange:
Reporter: "Jim, what's different now?"
Braddock: "I know why I'm fighting."
Reporter: "Why're you fighting, Jim?"
Braddock: "I'm fighting for milk."
What many don't know is that that world championship fight he won on June 13, 1935, took place three days after a very important day in my life.
Three days before, on June 10, 1935, Dr. Bob S. of Akron, Ohio, got sober for the final time, with the help of Bill W., from NYC. Together, they started Alcoholics Anonymous.
Cool lise. What is Cinderella Man about? I've never seen it.
THat thing is gorgeous!!! How did you ever pick one??? Giraffe bone?? Mammoth ivory?? Thanks a lot for showing me that, now I have to have one. I kind of like the red/white commemorative one, or some of the fancy woods. Horn disturbs me for some reason.
Stem cells: (Just read this in NYT today...) The embryo is two days old, eight cells (known as blastomeres) not implanted. One blastomere can be (and routinely is) removed for diagnostic testing, such as for Down Syndrome. If the embryo has no defect, the remaining seven cells can be implanted in the woman. This has been done for ten years and many apparently healthy babies have resulted. The blastomere which has been removed for preimplantation genetic diagnosis can be later used to derive human stem cells from, without destroying the embryo.
To qualify for federal funds, the stem cells (if not from the lines that were established before 08/09/2001) must come from embryos which are not destroyed in the process or exposed to undue risk. The embryo which has one blastomere removed is, however, subjected to _some_ risk, but the resulting babies seem to be as healthy as other babies born by in vitro fertilization.
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Originally Posted by Nanci
what thing??? inquiring mind wants to know!
mimi, brina bought this: http://www.franmara.com/index.cfm?Fu...=Detail&ID=105
oh, the corkscrew!!! lol
I was imagining all sorts of glorious and exotic THINGS.
work is SO BORING!
it could be that is one of those glorious and exotic THINGS, considering i could be completely wrong. wouldn't be the first time.
James J. Braddock was a rising young fighter who won over 80 professional bouts and was never knocked out. In 1929, he lost a fight that derailed his career. A series of injuries ultimately cost him his fighting license. He had invested most of his winnings in stocks, all of which became worthless in the Depression. The Depression reduced him (and hundreds of thousands of Americans) to living off breadlines, government assistance, and shift work when he could get it. He had a wife and three children, and vowed that he would always provide and they would never be separated. He got a chance to fight one more time, almost a fluke, and surprised everyone by winning the fight. He went on the win the heavy weight championship in 1935. He ultimately lost it to Joe Louis two years later. Joe Louis called Braddock "the most courageous boxer I've ever fought."Quote:
Originally Posted by snapdragen
Braddock said that breaking his right hand and doing dock work with his hand in a disguised cast made his left punch much stronger. He also came back knowing what he was fighting for: So his children would never be cold or hungry again.
When he got "back in the black", he returned to the Public Assistance office and gave back the money he'd received from the government. Can you imagine that happening today?
He was dubbed the "Cinderella Man" by Damon Runyon, and became a hero to the American men and women who felt that if he could fight back, so could they.
Russell Crowe and Renee Zellweger play Braddock and his wife, Mae. Paul Giamatti does a great job as his manager, Joe.
Mr. Fish can make these from wood as well as wine stoppers. Purty!Quote:
Originally Posted by Nanci
is he in the buisness of selling them?Quote:
Originally Posted by fishdr
took all the dogs running again and peanut rolled in something so dead i think it was mush! it was so bad i was gagging while she was running next to me. got home and hosed her off (not a happy camper, the water was ice cold and its 47F here.) still didn't help. great now im off to give her a bath without puking! :(
I'm watching Gray's Anatomy reruns and drinking Pear Infusion from some winery in MI that I got for babysitting my torts' three brothers and sisters...