What Grinds Your Gears? :)

[IndigoErth]

Could also be partly the loss of fluids (and related effects) from being sick. That sucks they wanted to stick you with the inconvenience of having to even leave the house and get checked out just to have a note.

Hope it, uh, passes soon and you feel much better!




Grind... that fish meds seem tough to find anymore. Esp when things that used to be on the shelf now only seem to be able to be found online. (Because you really want to spend bunch of money only to have to wait a number of days to begin treatment and hoping nothing worsens in the meantime... *sigh*) Eesh, it can be hard enough just to figure out what you even need to start with, let alone go on some wild goose chase hoping a store has it. (And mostly these chain stores just have very basic stuff these days that aren't all that well recommended... I mean, if you want tea tree oil, you can prob find something with that but a real antibiotic, forget it.)

Hoping what's up with my oranda will prove to be resolvable. Ordered a couple things via eBay of all places and fortunately one is just coming from Long Island which shouldn't take it terribly long to get down my way.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Well the weight loss has been going on for at least a month or two. Started noticing my work pants felt loose a few weeks ago. The plumbing issue just started this morning so I don't think I lost all that weight since I woke up lol! My guess is it is the long hours and lack of breaks.

[Powder]

Originally Posted by plastroncafe

He's an older white guy, so I assume he thinks what he's doing is charming.

Problematic!

[plastroncafe]

Originally Posted by Powder

Problematic!

All faves are.

[BubblyShell22]

Dad turned up the volume on his TV again this morning. Getting really tired of this as I want to sleep and not wake up to a blasting TV.

[Vegita-San]

A few days since i've been banned from the prop forum for standing up for myself.

It's odd. I find myself not missing it one hour. and another, I go down to the drop down menu, and find myself sad that the link isn't there anymore because i cleaned it out. Except for about ten members, and a few that popped up out of the wood work to declare their hatred of me that I didn't even know about, it was one of the last saner places of conversation that reminded me of the internet of old. And despite the fact that I felt like it was a witch hunt between staff and mods and users at the end, i'll actually wind up missing it.

although i guess eventually i'll get over it. sigh. I DO wish i could say good bye and thank you to the good members there that understood me and i actually had fun with .

[Utrommaniac]

It is weirdly cold for June. Maybe because it's going to rain, but it seriously shouldn't be 73 degrees close to noon.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

It already rained here. I am loving the cooler weather. It makes a HUUUGE difference in my walk home from work in the afternoons. And even in the pre-dawn early morning walk to work.

[IndigoErth]

You guys can keep it, 'kay? Well, until the weekend... supposed to spike up to the 90s for the weekend. (Not quite 80 yet today, was in the 60s a couple days ago.) Might want to borrow some back.

Seriously, what is the weather doing this year? Not just abnormal, but inconsistent.




Grind... The struggles of feeding medicated flake food to a large fish that is not used to flakes. Plus the fact that she loses her mind over food and proceeds to just get the flakes all torn up, scattered all over, and then can't catch up to the pieces. It doesn't suggest how much to even try to get into the fish, just to feed small amounts. (At her size, what is small??) And throw in the fact that the meds added to the food is water soluble, therefor the flakes need to be eaten within so many seconds. Oh like that is going to happen, not even hand fed. (And instructions say to immediately remove all uneaten flakes, but now that she made a mess of it... >.>)

Plan B... try to make a gel food (which she's used to) using the flakes and hope very much that the meds still work well that way and that she accepts it. We shall see.

I am however grateful that it got here, from FL, a day early, same day as the other from NY.

[Vegita-San]

Originally Posted by Utrommaniac

It is weirdly cold for June. Maybe because it's going to rain, but it seriously shouldn't be 73 degrees close to noon.

i don't like it either. June. It was 55 degrees and felt like winter yesterday.

very strange.

I miss having an actual spring. it seems to go to winter to summer if you are lucky.

[Utrommaniac]

We'll probably be driving into the rain, since we're going home this weekend...for the third week in a row.

I need new glasses, and mom has foster kittens that will need attention from Bubba, the "daddy cat." One of said kittens was thrown out of a truck and naturally is having some anxiety. So he's coming with us.

[DestronMirage22]

My chest has been getting weirdly sore these past few times I've gone to the gym. It only happens when I run too. It's annoying and has started to interfere with my exercise.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Originally Posted by Utrommaniac

We'll probably be driving into the rain, since we're going home this weekend...for the third week in a row.

I need new glasses, and mom has foster kittens that will need attention from Bubba, the "daddy cat." One of said kittens was thrown out of a truck and naturally is having some anxiety. So he's coming with us.

That is horrible! Who would even DO something like that??!! Glad you found him and he's ok. We had a "daddy cat" too once. He tried to play mama every time we had kittens around.

[BubblyShell22]

Hot weather here too. Might get rain tonight.

[Utrommaniac]

Originally Posted by MsMarvelDuckie

That is horrible! Who would even DO something like that??!! Glad you found him and he's ok. We had a "daddy cat" too once. He tried to play mama every time we had kittens around.

Someone else found him and he was passed to my mom by the rescue group.

Bubba met the playmate that was passed along and it went as I expected, with the kitten not being too excited about him.

[IndigoErth]

Who the heck throws a kitten out of a vehicle... Poor thing, glad its okay.



Speaking of cats, I'd love it if one of ours would stop sneezing on my feet and ankles.

He's always been our sneeziest cat anyhow, so I guess he has slight allergies in general, but it seems to be only my feet he targets. Maybe he just interacts with me more, in the whole leg rubbing department, but come on! lol Nice that he likes me, but I do not enjoy pet snot. He had to get both one at a time this evening. *sigh*

Then one of my sister's was whimpering on a kitchen chair next to me this afternoon, mistakenly thinking the packet of medicated fish food I had was treats... so then instead of getting any treats, she hopped down after a minute...and barfed all over the floor. Really, cat?

Fun with felines.

[Utrommaniac]

That sucks, big time!

The kittens are getting used to me, but Tumbles has some separation anxiety from his mother, seeming to not have fully weaned.

In a rare turn of events, the kittens are intolerant of the adult Bubba. It tends to be the other way around. My mom was trying to keep him near Bubba while being groomed and was having nothing of it.

"Lawrence" is the shyer one, but he sat with me for a good half hour I think.

My brother (who is keeping them in his room at night) named him that because of the first being named "Tumbles" and he went straight to "tumble dry", and for some reason thought "low rinse" was a thing. And even though it isn't, he's sticking with calling him Lawrence.

I've tried to call him Larry a few times...which isn't much better

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Okay tonight I have a literal "gear" grind. As in this one particular dwemer ruin in Skyrim with a room that apparently and for no discernable reason, consists of a giant series of gears that one must hop onto and ride around (while fighting off mechanical spiders and other automatons) to get to doors in various parts of the room in order to..... bypass the gears by putting down ramps and turning walkways?! WTF??!! Who cpmes up with this stuff??!! I spent nearly four hours trying to navigate it without falling off the damn gears. Drove me nuts!

[IndigoErth]

lol Not played that game, but have felt that pain elsewhere. (Though to be honest I'd probably design it that way if I were in charge. lol)

Do you at least get to keep the easier route now if you complete it? Or complete whatever it's for.

Originally Posted by Utrommaniac

My brother (who is keeping them in his room at night) named him that because of the first being named "Tumbles" and he went straight to "tumble dry", and for some reason thought "low rinse" was a thing. And even though it isn't, he's sticking with calling him Lawrence.

Heee, cute!

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Lol yeah once you move the ramps and walkways around you can use them instead to get around parts already completed. But I kept falling off the gears over and over and then having to swim back to start over. (Did I mention the bottom of the room if full of water? Yeah extra pain in the rear. And I am overencumbered by about 300 lbs. Mostly due to crap I picked up IN the ruins. My own fault but I tend to pick up anything of value to sell or use.) When I finally quit, I was in another big room with some sort of puzzle that requires shooting a bunch of whirling blue glowing things in the correct order. Wrong order apparently sets off two big blade traps in the floor and lets more of those dang mech creatures loose. Yay....