We're halfway there Wednesday Chat

Yay for the new car, Jen!  It's great to have a/c and sounds like you'll have a lot better set up for hauling dogs. :)

More rain expected today. 

Last week I bought some funny cards but I seem to have thrown them out with the bag.  I've looked everywhere and they're gone. :( 

Nothing else to report. 

ETA:  Found the cards!  lol  I went to put some newspapers in my car to take to the shelter and decided to flip through them and there they were. 

ETA again to correct stupid error.  No more breaking news to report.

I was just thinking how delicious a frozen margarita would be on this scorching hot day.

David's finally done with the computer conversion & **finally** I'm back driving myself to work and getting all the way to my desk without the #$(#(@ wheelchair.  It has been the longest 2 1/2 months, but I am SO glad to begin to be ambulatory again.  I'm not back to my "normal" (which is not "normal" for anyone else LOL) but I'm getting close.  I had to devise my own physical therapy for this but it's working.

VanMorrison

Can anyone tell me how to make my paragraph breaks work? I really don't write like this.... really

The board is not friendly with Chrome or tablets (and frankly, I'm starting to think NO browser works at all well with anything any more -- whatta p.i.t.a.!!!  Chrome makes me crazy with the paragraph thing, Firefox leaps off a page at the slightest touch of the mouse and you lose everything, and IE just plain sucks any more!)

Sarah you have to type this to make the paragraph breaks:

Type all the following *two times* with NO spaces between -- and I can't just type it in here or it will just make a paragraph break *sigh*:

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 Hopefully that makes sense.

VanMorrison

I'm thinking of doing a different theme - mountains/dessert/beaches etc for each monitor. Ideas?

dogs?  

JackieG

VanMorrison

I'm thinking of doing a different theme - mountains/dessert/beaches etc for each monitor. Ideas?

 

dogs?  

Jackie - I'm so glad you found the cards. I know how frustrating that kind of thing can be. I'm experiencing it almost daily since we moved.

Jen - congrats on the new car!!!

Pool is getting replastered today - yay!! It'll probably take 2 days to fill back up. We found 3 baby mice (rats?) in the pool last evening. They were only about an inch long. 2 were still alive but didn't seem to be able to get out, so DH helped them into the bushes. 1 was already dead. I think they were too young to be on their own and we can't figure out how they got in the pool. I think they came in one of the open valves but DH says that wouldn't be possible. Either way, it was kind of sad :(

Feeling majorly stressed with work, so I'd better get back to it.

JackieG

VanMorrison

I'm thinking of doing a different theme - mountains/dessert/beaches etc for each monitor. Ideas?

dogs?  

Congrats on the new wheels, Jen.  Enjoy that A/C -- driving on hot days without it is truly miserable.

Jackie, I'm glad you found the cards.  I hate to lose track of things like that.  It's so frustrating.

I sure don't envy those of you dealing with horrible humidity.

Cathy, I would've felt sad for the baby rats/mice, too.  I hope the pool project wraps up quickly!

So, Sunday I was sitting on the patio, and I felt a sharp sting on my thigh (not as bad as a bee sting, but a sting/bite).  I looked down, and there was a tiny winged bug, maybe a mosquito, not much larger than a fruit fly or gnat.  I swatted it away, and I could see the miniscule hole it left in my thigh.  I went right inside and cleaned it off with rubbing alcohol and it seemed fine.  Yesterday morning it was a huge red lump that was very sore and itchy.  I bet it's the size of a quarter, if not larger.  Now there are a couple other tiny bumps near it, all surrounded by red skin, then almost a whitish ring around the whole area.  I put some hydrocortisone cream on it . . . I'm wondering if a doctor's visit is in order.  We rarely, if ever, have mosquitoes here, so I hope it wasn't some rare disease-carrying insect I'm unaware of.  I don't want my leg to fall off.  Freaky!

I was wondering what "ghat rain" was until it dawned on me that you meant "that rain", Julie.

Why on earth does someone think that sunglasses will flush down a toilet? I get not wanting to have to pick them out in a restaurant bathroom, but it isn't free for us to yank the toilet off to unclog the drain. Idiots.

sharismom

Why on earth does someone think that sunglasses will flush down a toilet? I get not wanting to have to pick them out in a restaurant bathroom, but it isn't free for us to yank the toilet off to unclog the drain. Idiots

Sorry, they fell in and I tried to get them out with my shoe but then that fell in and then I tried to use the paper towel dispenser and when that didn't work, I slunk out, limping slightly. 

Tracy, that bite sounds yucky.  I've got no advice. We've got so many different stinging, biting insects that I tend to ignore the bites.  Hope I don't get bit by something someday that I shouldn't have ignored.  Like a ghat mosquito.

 Hello!

Sarah type < p > without the spaces - you don't need the backstroke

I will not complain about the heat - heat means I have sunshine, this is good. Of course they say violent storms may pop up

I just picked up a Ruffwear cool coat for B. I am hoping it helps on his walks, if it doesn't I have to assume his elbow is still painful  At four months post op, if the elbow still hurts it isn't likely to get better.

Hmm DH asked me this morning what I wanted for dinner - he was home I was at work - I gave him a few ideas. I came home and said what did you decide? He couldn't so he froze all the meat. Hmm that didn't really solve the problem. So I said I guess we'll graze and he sounds disappointed.  He's not going to die from man-flu but something else might get him