Week of 3/28 Randoms

[BlondeSpiders]

Please don't let this board die! Share every inane thought you have.  


For some reason I woke up with a burning desire to listen to "Basia on Broadway". This used to be what I'd put on to clean my apartment. It's familiar and comforting today, because I am an old.

[cattledogkisses]

I had a followup with my doctor today for my nerve injury from the botched blood draw I had two months ago. I haven't regained any sensation in my affected fingers, and the doctor thinks I'm also starting to have some weakness, so I'm being referred for EMG. What a pain.

[rubytue]

It’s snowing. All my fruit tree lovers are in a panic, meanwhile I’m just sitting here with my itty bitty baby trees that won’t fruit for a few more years with our without the bud freeze.

Last week, my friend offered me part of his community garden plot. I said yes, give me details (plot number, deadlines, etc). And then… nothing. I really like this friend, but he is so frustrating. I should know better. He makes offers, then nothing for weeks or months, and suddenly pops up with it. Like sometimes, 10 minutes notice, texting on his way. So, I expect if he was serious, I’ll get a text in about 2 weeks when he is at the garden saying I need to meet him there. I really should just learn to accept that he doesn’t really mean things, and is just making conversation. Like the SM post where someone posts a yummy baked good and everyone replies “I’ll be right over.” I think it’s that type of thing, but yet. Why say “I’m too busy to tend the plot, but I’ve been on the list for years so won’t turn it down. Would you like to split it and help out?”

[rubytue]

Mar 28, 2022 13:04:27 GMT -5 BlondeSpiders said:

Please don't let this board die! Share every inane thought you have.  

Ask and ye shall receive 🤣

Last week, I had an ultrasound on my neck because it was sore and I felt something when I moved it certain ways. My PCP thought muscle strain, but you know, cancer twice so let’s be sure nothing funny is going on. Then, the way I was laying for the exams, I could see the screen. I am *sure* I saw her measuring something and labeling it “nodule.” As I’m shit chatting with her, I comment on a evil thyroid, and she gave me a pitying “yes.” Cue me rabbit holeing thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer. I know I’m at elevated risk for that, and it would just figure. So, I had the whole plan of attack mapped out by that evening. 

report came back “unremarkable”. 

and folks, this is why, even if you think you know what medical stuff is, wait for the reports. 🤣🤣

[rubytue]

(((( cattledogkisses,)))) I’m so sorry you are still having issue. That’s crazy from a blood draw. I’ve heard of blown veins, but never nerve damage.

[cattledogkisses]

Oh, and the transmission in H's car died last week. It's only 3 years old. The dealership came back today and said it's going to be $4,000 for a new transmission. Omg. We'll definitely never buy a Mazda again.

[BlondeSpiders]

Mar 28, 2022 13:37:25 GMT -5 rubytue said:

Mar 28, 2022 13:04:27 GMT -5 BlondeSpiders said:

Please don't let this board die! Share every inane thought you have.  

Ask and ye shall receive 🤣

Last week, I had an ultrasound on my neck because it was sore and I felt something when I moved it certain ways. My PCP thought muscle strain, but you know, cancer twice so let’s be sure nothing funny is going on. Then, the way I was laying for the exams, I could see the screen. I am *sure* I saw her measuring something and labeling it “nodule.” As I’m shit chatting with her, I comment on a evil thyroid, and she gave me a pitying “yes.” Cue me rabbit holeing thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer. I know I’m at elevated risk for that, and it would just figure. So, I had the whole plan of attack mapped out by that evening. 

report came back “unremarkable”. 

and folks, this is why, even if you think you know what medical stuff is, wait for the reports. 🤣🤣

"shit chatting," I like that.

I am relieved to know your neck is unremarkable!

[wawa]

Mar 28, 2022 13:49:34 GMT -5 cattledogkisses said:

Oh, and the transmission in H's car died last week. It's only 3 years old. The dealership came back today and said it's going to be $4,000 for a new transmission. Omg. We'll definitely never buy a Mazda again.

that's not under warranty???

We've got a deposit on a new car (camry hybrid) to replace my venza and I'm excited, except not at all, because what's going to happen is that H is going to drive the camry and I have to drive the truck ((since I'm only in the office 2 days a week and only drive 10 miles on those days to the park n' ride)  

I don't WANNA drive the truck.  Also anyone's guess about how long it'll take to actually GET the car we have a deposit on.

I wanna get two little sedans and just leave the truck in the driveway for when we need to tow the things but cars are too fucking expensive right now.

[rubytue]

Mar 28, 2022 14:22:44 GMT -5 BlondeSpiders said:

Mar 28, 2022 13:37:25 GMT -5 rubytue said:

Ask and ye shall receive 🤣

Last week, I had an ultrasound on my neck because it was sore and I felt something when I moved it certain ways. My PCP thought muscle strain, but you know, cancer twice so let’s be sure nothing funny is going on. Then, the way I was laying for the exams, I could see the screen. I am *sure* I saw her measuring something and labeling it “nodule.” As I’m shit chatting with her, I comment on a evil thyroid, and she gave me a pitying “yes.” Cue me rabbit holeing thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer. I know I’m at elevated risk for that, and it would just figure. So, I had the whole plan of attack mapped out by that evening. 

report came back “unremarkable”. 

and folks, this is why, even if you think you know what medical stuff is, wait for the reports. 🤣🤣

"shit chatting," I like that.

I am relieved to know your neck is unremarkable!

Haha! I saw that after the fact and wondering what the hell I was meaning to say. Maybe that I was sitting there chatting. “As I’m sitting, chatting”? “As I sit chatting”? The second was more likely, but where did the m come in?

[BlondeSpiders]

I assumed it was initially chit chatting.

[rubytue]

BlondeSpiders, oh, that makes sense!


🤦‍♀️ When other people read your typos better than you do

[1confused1]

Has anyone heard from seeyalater52 recently? I haven’t seen her around.

[BlondeSpiders]

Mar 28, 2022 15:12:48 GMT -5 rubytue said:

BlondeSpiders , oh, that makes sense!


🤦‍♀️ When other people read your typos better than you do

That's why it was so clever! When you're sitting around, shootin' the shit. Or maybe talking shit? shit chatting.

[ssmjlm]

I have the most incompetent HR organization known. I had someone request a release date of a Wednesday. No, your last day is the last Friday of the pay period.

So I went to the end of the pay period. Oh whoops, my bad, they want them 2 weeks earlier HR says.

Well, it's not my fault you gave me a Wednesday. Computers have calendars.

I've also been waiting a month for a job to be posted. I can't fill jobs before people leave because it takes forever for HR to do anything.

[cattledogkisses]

Mar 28, 2022 14:37:50 GMT -5 wawa said:

Mar 28, 2022 13:49:34 GMT -5 cattledogkisses said:

Oh, and the transmission in H's car died last week. It's only 3 years old. The dealership came back today and said it's going to be $4,000 for a new transmission. Omg. We'll definitely never buy a Mazda again.

that's not under warranty???

We're over the warranty mileage.

[pierogigirl]

I have to have a swallow study tomorrow. I've had a hoarse voice for two years. This is just to rule out anything scary (it's likely nothing scary). After switching doctors, I finally got some tests and I have enlarged thyroid with nodules, snd vocal cord nodules (edit - my ENT called them "teacher nodules" because they're common in teachers and not dangerous).

The barium/contrast sounds gross. I'm not really looking forward to it.

[rubytue]

Mar 28, 2022 16:55:49 GMT -5 pierogigirl said:

I have to have a swallow study tomorrow. I've had a hoarse voice for two years. This is just to rule out anything scary (it's likely nothing scary). After switching doctors, I finally got some tests and I have enlarged thyroid with nodules, snd vocal cord nodules (edit - my ENT called them "teacher nodules" because they're common in teachers and not dangerous).

The barium/contrast sounds gross. I'm not really looking forward to it.

Based on my experience with barium contrast, plan on avoiding humans without covid for the rest of the day. Granted, my was barium for the intestines, so maybe throat is different. But those were the nastiest farts ever!

[rubytue]

Continuing on the random shit on my mind… Netflix has “Servant of the People”. Which is the show Zelenskyy was on before he was president. It’s in Russian with subtitles, which I find very annoying for my usual TV watching (which is simultaneously while puttering online). This required more focus, but I am binging. It’s so surreal to see the juxtaposition of the scenery with current photos 😭

[idahome]

Last Friday our washer was so out of balance it fell off the concrete slab it’s been on for months. Fast forward to today and now it’s leaking when it’s washing clothes.

Why am I the only one who can call the schedule repair people. No one else in my house can do those.

My parents live here but aren’t able to move around easily so they can’t help the repair person. I just started a new job so I have no flexibility to work from home for a repair person. And my husband isn’t willing to take anything on.

It’s so frustrating.

[Vespasia]

Mar 28, 2022 15:48:24 GMT -5 ssmjlm said:

I have the most incompetent HR organization known.

I didn't realize we worked together! 😉


Uuuuugh. We've filled 2 of our 5 open positions (the entirety of my team*). The 2 least consequential of course. One position isn't posted yet. The other two have been posted for almost 3 weeks and have one applicant each, neither of which is qualified. HR is ignoring my questions about what we can do besides posting on the website and passively waiting for applicants.

* So you don't think I'm terrible to work with - one moved away to get married, three are going to grad school, and the last one is leaving the country.

[SwimDeep]

I am so tired... was up twice with bad stomach pain with lots of wakefulness in between. Could have been stress. Could have been the pesto I put on my salmon. Hell, it could have been the milk/chocolate I had before bed.

This whole week is going to be nothing but stress. Not a great start 😕

My MIL recently had covid. Now she's got a pneumonia... I'm worried 😟
We live about an hour away now, but I'm still really tempted to take her some soup. I don't need more on my plate right now, but I'd really like to do something nice/caring for her.

[ssmjlm]

Vespasia, I've lost most of mine to retirements, one moving closer to family when her Dad got sick, and one just got promoted. I can't be mad, but it takes a long time to get people in these positions because they're niche.

I have another retirement in June, so I'm hoping I can find 2 people with the current announcement, but I'm not hopeful.

[fernweh]

I’m so disappointed in my niece -
When she was in HS she was in a relationship with another girl for quite awhile and she came out at one point as pan sexual (this is background, not the disappointing part). The last couple weeks she has been on Facebook posting a bunch of anti-trans memes. It seemed to have started with the controversy over Lia Thomas but it’s escalating. I plan to unfriend but I just don’t understand how you can at any point in your life (even if she doesn’t currently) be pan sexual and have such hateful views.

[Deleted]

We’re house-hunting right now and it’s awful. Houses going sight-unseen for $100k over asking before they even hit the market. There are so many things amazingly wrong with the housing market right now that put all but the super-wealthy at a tremendous disadvantage….and we feel like we have to participate in this nonsense or end up homeless, which is just making the whole racket worse for everyone else.

(We have to move for my job. Rentals are super-rare and cost even more than a mortgage. We can only afford to move once…)

On a good note, the sale on our current home is going well and we should close on a few weeks (we are renting back for another two months). We’re making a good amount of money on this home that helps a lot. People who aren’t already on the property ladder are completely screwed in this market.

[Bad Dingo]

Random randoms -

I'm actually feeling hopeful that something will come of the January 6 Committee, particularly because of the John Eastman emails. I couldn't sleep last night so around 4am I put the committee meeting on on my phone and drifted off to sleep to the sound of justice (hopefully).

This will probably sound super weird, but I bought a fake crow in order to lure a murder to my lawn. It worked fairly quickly and now H and I have progressed to hiding food in toilet paper rolls for them to find. I spent some of the aforementioned non-sleeping time thinking about what we can use to make more complicated puzzles for them. We watch their antics on our Ring and it makes me so happy .


(The fake crow is on the lawn, not the very sad Halloween crow that I keep forgetting to take out of the flower basket.)

[SwimDeep]

I have another random.

I don't put much thought into my hair (far more obsessed with treating my perpetually flaky scalp 🤢). A couple of weekends ago I finally got a haircut. During the cut, the stylist told me she had 32 years of experience. And I guess she just didn't care that day? It looked alright when I left, but it always does after a professional blow dry.

Guys... it's so bad. Long layers aren't difficult. I've had much better cuts from entry level stylists. Hell, I've had better cuts from Great Clips. The layers are uneven. The ends are choppy. The face framing I asked for is non-existent.

And I don't feel right complaining about it because it was $$.

I needed the cut and most of the time it's tied back anyway, but I HATE dropping $$ on personal care and then being disappointed.

She told me I would need to come back in 6 to 8 weeks. Um... no.

[osulori]

Mar 28, 2022 16:55:49 GMT -5 pierogigirl said:

I have to have a swallow study tomorrow. I've had a hoarse voice for two years. This is just to rule out anything scary (it's likely nothing scary). After switching doctors, I finally got some tests and I have enlarged thyroid with nodules, snd vocal cord nodules (edit - my ENT called them "teacher nodules" because they're common in teachers and not dangerous).

The barium/contrast sounds gross. I'm not really looking forward to it.

I haven't had a swallow study myself but have worked with a ton of patients who have so I've tried the barium (I have a rule about not asking any of my patients to eat/drink something that I wouldn't eat/drink myself)...it's kinda gross but edible if that makes sense.  I've seen a decent number of people end up constipated from it so maybe be on the lookout for that? Fingers crossed it comes out normal for you!  

[bears]

Mar 29, 2022 7:39:40 GMT -5 SwimDeep said:

I have another random.

I don't put much thought into my hair (far more obsessed with treating my perpetually flaky scalp 🤢). A couple of weekends ago I finally got a haircut. During the cut, the stylist told me she had 32 years of experience. And I guess she just didn't care that day? It looked alright when I left, but it always does after a professional blow dry.

Guys... it's so bad. Long layers aren't difficult. I've had much better cuts from entry level stylists. Hell, I've had better cuts from Great Clips. The layers are uneven. The ends are choppy. The face framing I asked for is non-existent.

And I don't feel right complaining about it because it was $$.

I needed the cut and most of the time it's tied back anyway, but I HATE dropping $$ on personal care and then being disappointed.

She told me I would need to come back in 6 to 8 weeks. Um... no.

Is she part of a salon? I had a similar experience, called the salon, and they set me up to get it fixed by someone else, free of charge. I of course tipped and it was slightly awkward (even though the stylist was kind), but I was so happy that it got fixed.

[SwimDeep]

Mar 29, 2022 7:51:15 GMT -5 bears said:

Mar 29, 2022 7:39:40 GMT -5 SwimDeep said:

I have another random.

I don't put much thought into my hair (far more obsessed with treating my perpetually flaky scalp 🤢). A couple of weekends ago I finally got a haircut. During the cut, the stylist told me she had 32 years of experience. And I guess she just didn't care that day? It looked alright when I left, but it always does after a professional blow dry.

Guys... it's so bad. Long layers aren't difficult. I've had much better cuts from entry level stylists. Hell, I've had better cuts from Great Clips. The layers are uneven. The ends are choppy. The face framing I asked for is non-existent.

And I don't feel right complaining about it because it was $$.

I needed the cut and most of the time it's tied back anyway, but I HATE dropping $$ on personal care and then being disappointed.

She told me I would need to come back in 6 to 8 weeks. Um... no.

Is she part of a salon? I had a similar experience, called the salon, and they set me up to get it fixed by someone else, free of charge. I of course tipped and it was slightly awkward (even though the stylist was kind), but I was so happy that it got fixed.

oh im sure they would at least give me a discounted price. she's part of the salon H goes to (he's seen a different stylist there for years). He was going so I sucked it up and made an appointment for myself too. I already feel awkward as fuck getting my hair cut (I think it's all the mirrors and the small talk). No way am I going back 😅
I'll let it grow out and then look for a more local place. I have no loyalty when it comes to hair stylists lol

[formerlyak]

My crazy tenants gave notice! Yay! But …

They conveniently tested positive for Covid the day they gave notice and don’t want us to show the unit to prospective tenants. They are asymptomatic, so not laying in bed sick with Covid. So yesterday they let us in to make a video tour to share with interested parties. We said after their isolation period, which ends this weekend, we’d like to schedule two, one hour blocks of time to show in person to prospective tenants. They don’t want us to do that because the wife has surgery scheduled for a week from today and they don’t want her to get Covid again. She literally has it right now. She’s not going to get it again a week later! They want us to wait until two weeks after her surgery, which happens to coincide with the day they start moving into the house they bought. Um … nope. We proposed two times and said if they prefer alternate times on those days we can discuss. Haven’t heard back. If they don’t respond by tonight, we are going to tell them we are exercising the clause in the lease that allows us to show with 24 hours notice.

We had a feeling they’d have reasons to not let us show the place because they wife doesn’t like people in her house. We had no idea it would involve Covid isolation and surgery recovery.

ETA: we know we can show during surgery recovery because that happened to DH when he bought his first house (in our same city with the same local rules). He sat on a chair and everyone came in to view while he sat there.