What's messing with your Groove?

[Hazir]

Voodoo-esque like more. And to answer the question about temporary i expect it to last no more than 4 - 5 months. He's gonna pay for the dish washer in İstanbul.

[oldmunchkin]

If there is anything worse than insomnia, it is insomnia with a screwed up thermostat! I can't sleep, I am too hot, I am too cold, I am just being bitchy! It's snowing, again, it's cold out, it's gonna be icy later on today, I am flat out sick and fucking tired of winter! I'm broke, I'm bored, I'm so far in debt I will never get out! I am stressed, I don't feel good again, I can't stand the way I look at the moment! The doctor is delighted with my weight gain...I'm not! I look like I'm fucking 8 months pregnant! I gained all that weight right around my middle, just like I didn't want to! Everyone keeps telling me how great I look and how I am so lucky to still be alive. I want to scream and kick and throw a temper tantrum! Hello people...this is NOT a life! This is a marking of time so I can get older! I guess my idea of a life, especially a good one, is a lot different than all these outsider people. I do NOT consider it a life to be so broke I can't do anything. I don't consider it a life to never get out of this apartment. I don't consider it a life to have no fun of any kind. I don't consider this shit I am living to be much of a life at all! It's a farce, and not a comedic one!

EDIT: Munchkins should not be depressed and in a shitty mood at the same time. It tends to lead to whining. Sorry.

[Catgrrl]

Tried to be efficient and go out on errands before K's first nap. Left the house at 9. Tried to mail a package; post office doesn't open until 10. Went to Walgreens to pick up my prints; they aren't ready yet. Target doesn't open until 10 either.

So, got nothing done. Now the kid doesn't want to nap.

This is going to be a great fucking day.

[Ominous Gamer]

i hate missed nap times The kids become so evil, like they want to purposely make sure everyone is as grouchy as they are.

[oldmunchkin]

Poor Cat! Missed naps suck! OG is right, children become evil and possessed when they don't get their naps. I know this sounds trite, but try to enjoy every minute of her babyhood. They really do grow up so quickly. I looked at The Kid the other day and wondered what the hell happened. It seems like just yesterday that he was a baby, all sweet and innocent and smelling of soap and baby powder. Now he is an adult, on his own, making his mark on the world! When the hell did I get this old?

[Catgrrl]

Ya, I finally got to the point where I just said screw it and we went back out. Got the post office and Walgreens errands done and she passed out on the way to Target, so I just came home and we both napped.
Then went to my grandparents this afternoon. They filled her with Cheerios and let her crawl all over the place so she's passed out again. So, shitty morning became a not-so-bad afternoon.

I just wish she was a better napper. I'd let her stay up if she wasn't so cranky, I know she needs the sleep still.

[Flixy]

Preparing to go to this season's first multi-day music festival, I was seeing if I could get my old phones to work, so that I don't have to bring my new phone. It appears my old Nokia 3410 has finally died And it seemed so indestructible!

Oh well, I can bring my crappy falling-apart SE Xperia X1

[oldmunchkin]

I found out this evening that a very good friend of mine has cancer...again. He was treated for prostate cancer about 10 years ago and it appears it has come back, with a vengeance! It has spread to his spine and breast bone. They are blasting him with radiation 5 days a week for 2 months, after which they will decide if he needs more treatment, is in remission, or if it is just hopeless. He and his wife adopted their granddaughter about 6 years ago because her mother died of a heroin overdose. I don't know how she will take to losing "Grampa-Daddy"!

[Catgrrl]

Our TV is getting ready to go out on us. The brightness keeps flickering on it. Thought maybe a loose component cable but does it whether we are watching cable or playing the PS3. The positive part will be we get to buy either a 42" or 46" LED (LCD?) TV sometime soon. But it still pisses me off that we bought this TV in 2004, a Samsung CRT(?) 32". My little 13" RCA that I got in 1996 is still going strong.

[Ominous Gamer]

LED-LCD. Walmart sells a Philips 46" 120hz LED-LCD TV for $748. Its an amazing TV and an amazing deal.

EDIT:
Its up to $779 now, still cheaper than Amazon
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Philips-46...ndingMethod=rr

[GGT]

But it still pisses me off that we bought this TV in 2004, a Samsung CRT(?) 32". My little 13" RCA that I got in 1996 is still going strong.

The new stuff simply doesn't last as long. Not just TVs or phones, but toasters, coffee makers, even fridges. When I returned to my old condo for a visit, they were still using the same oven and fridge from the late 70's. They kept waiting for them to give out, but they're like old work horses. That was a great range, btw.

[GGT]

Also, my 1968 Nutone home radio and intercom system still works! How's that for old American quality and ingenuity? Where did that go?

[littlelolligagged]

I feel really fucking old today.

It's depressing.

[GGT]

I feel really fucking old today.

It's depressing.

Aw, sorry sweetie. Just wait. It gets worse.


Here's a little thing that may make you feel better and younger, lolli. When I went to register my youngest for kindergarten and volunteer for his classroom activities, I was frequently asked if I was his grandmother! We had a lot of 20-something mothers and fewer moms in their 30's, which sounded odd at the time. But I've gotten used to it. All things seemed to smooth out over time. Being an "elder mother" carried some weight in middle and high school.

[GGT]

Lolli, why do you feel really fucking old today? And what about that is depressing?

I mean, come on, give it up....you haven't been very active posting lately.....is there a connection?

[Ominous Gamer]

not helping?

[NGS]

Didn't get nearly as much in financial aid from the college I want to go to most, which is odd considering my friends--whose families I know are wealthier--got a lot more. So yeah, pretty upset and confused and pissed right now, because it's looking like I won't end up going. [/depressed highschooler]

[Illusions]

<snip> Picture of Mark Hamill </snip>

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

[GGT]

I should be happy with Spring coming, right? Most people are, but I'm not. My mower is dead, the grass is long, dandelions are popping up. I remember the damn leaves and dead branches that I'd decided to ignore at Fall's end, and they're still there mocking me. I don't know where time went. I must have burrowed all winter long, half asleep, ignoring calls to come out. Still don't feel the temptations of Spring, would rather just go back to sleep. Early birds are kind of pissing me off, so obnoxious in their glee and chitter. The cats are participating in this early morning ritual, jumping off my sleeping body to act like bird hunters, positioned at the window. Go back to sleep Isabel, you wouldn't know what to do with a bird or bunny if you caught them. Guini hunts bugs, damn bugs that Spring brings, stretching out her white gloved paws....playing and poking until I collect them in a tissue and put them in the toilet, then she stares at the toilet bowl water, fascinated.

Sweet house kitties. I'll wake up tomorrow with one sleeping on my hip and the other burrowed in my belly. Or they'll wake me up meowing over a fly, and fighting over who saw it first and gets to eat it. Can't we have a few more weeks of hibernation? ;sour:

[Ominous Gamer]

Life around the house got a little more dangerous this week. Within the last few days Scarlett has shown me that she is able to use knobs to open doors (without a stepping stone), can climb onto my bed (top is 27" off the floor), and climb to the top of Brent's loft bed (metal rungs are spaced a foot apart, mattress top is 6' from the floor). Baby gates are climbing nets to her...

The last and only part of the house she can't get to now is the top of Ocean's bed, and I don't think that will last long since she already sleeps on the bottom bunk.


18 months, and we've already reached the last frontier.... potty training.

[Timbuk2]

Got free phone upgrade, sold the old one to online-we-buy-your-phone-4-cash type company - worth fifty squids - stuck it in the post to them and over a week later it hasn't shown up at the phone company.

Thieving little postie shitbag or postroom sorter must have twocked it.

Grrr.

Didn't guarantee my post. Never had a problem with mail go missing before. Had a slight itching in my nads telling me that this is one posting I shoulda guaranteed.

[Nessus]

Also, my 1968 Nutone home radio and intercom system still works! How's that for old American quality and ingenuity? Where did that go?

Laissez-faire.

[Bitter Jeweler]

It's like xMas in April! I am tired.

[oldmunchkin]

I am feeling like shit again! All of my joints are stiff and sore, and not just in the morning or during rainy weather. I can hardly walk I hurt so bad! Went to the Dr. on Thurs. and the office manager told me I had to see the business office before I could see the doctor! The business office has turned $38,000 over to collections, and has another $2500 that is still in house. They let me see the Dr. Thurs., but told me after this I have to pay upfront to see the Dr. FFS, I don't happen to have $150 every time I need to see him! I politely reminded the woman in the business office that, since they take federal funds, they can't refuse me service simply because I am poor! That made her bluster about for a while! Don't know what's going to happen when I go back next Wed. I am retaining fluids again. Last time I did that, I ended up in ICU for 3 days! So, I made the appointment Thurs. to see what was going on. He put me on Lasix for a week, and wants me back on Wed. I guess I get to fight with the business office every time I have to go to the clinic. I guess the stupid bitch in the business office thinks I go to the Dr. for fun! She actually had the balls to tell me I am only imagining being sick! I filed a complaint with the main office, but I'm sure that will go nowhere since she is the wife of the administrator!

On top of this hospital/clinic, I owe $200,000 to the hospital in Casper, and about $50,000 in Dr. bills from January. And, I owe the pharmacy here about $3000. So far, Kirk is being nice about it, but sooner or later he will refuse to let me charge my meds. I guess when this happens, I'll just quit taking my meds, quit seeing the Dr. for anything, and let myself go back to being sick with the eventual outcome of me being dead. Then I hope like hell The Kid sues the holy living fuck out of these assholes!

[GGT]

Waitaminutehere, munch. What happened to you qualifying for Medicaid and/or SS Disability? Even if you filled out paperwork two years ago, your recent hospitalization should have triggered the hospital's Case Management, Social Services, and Utilization Review folks getting you onto emergency fast-track assistance. Their billing department should have been part of that, too.

What the hell happened?

[oldmunchkin]

Waitaminutehere, munch. What happened to you qualifying for Medicaid and/or SS Disability? Even if you filled out paperwork two years ago, your recent hospitalization should have triggered the hospital's Case Management, Social Services, and Utilization Review folks getting you onto emergency fast-track assistance. Their billing department should have been part of that, too.

What the hell happened?

I have no idea what happened. I know I called the woman here in town that works for Family Services and she said I did NOT qualify for emergency medical aid! I am definitely going to appeal that decision! As far as SSI goes, I am still waiting to hear if/when I'll get another hearing. They are trying to decide if being hospitalized is a valid reason for not getting the appeal paperwork in on time! Don't ask me what happened! It has something to do with the government, so there is no explanation, just more fucking questions!

[Flixy]

Had a rather heavy weekend, so I figured that easter money would be a good day to sleep in to catch up on all lost hours of sleep. And then right before 6 AM I am woken up by the sound of a car crash, plus a shitload of police sirens blaring. I look out of my window and see a dozen police cars arriving, cops jumping out and running. A while later they cordon off the area and forensic dudes arrive. Turns out there was a long police car chase through the entire city that ended when they rammed parked cars right next to my house...

It's weird though, while I live in a crappy and pretty criminal neighbourhood (by Dutch standards, anyway), I usually don't notice it that much. Just the rent is pretty low and there are a lot of students living here for that reason. But thursday there was also a lot of police in the area, wearing bulletproof vests, police helicopter in the sky, ambulances standing by - wonder what the hell was going on there.

And in other news from my city: more burglars arrested, a guy arrested for putting out a cigarette in his sister's face, shots fired in a house on the other side of the city, and in my area three people arrested for assault, all in the past 24 hours. Does easter make people violent or something? Or maybe it's always like this, and I just noticed now because it was in my street and checked the local news.

[Hazir]

I have no idea what happened. I know I called the woman here in town that works for Family Services and she said I did NOT qualify for emergency medical aid! I am definitely going to appeal that decision! As far as SSI goes, I am still waiting to hear if/when I'll get another hearing. They are trying to decide if being hospitalized is a valid reason for not getting the appeal paperwork in on time! Don't ask me what happened! It has something to do with the government, so there is no explanation, just more fucking questions!

I sure hope you brought up that you could not mandate somebody else in your family to file the appeal for you while you were hospitalized. Otherwise they may use that against you and you'll have to climb higher into the tree to get things sorted out.

[Ominous Gamer]

Cadbury Creme Eggs are delicious.

Walmart had these are sale today, 25 cents each.
So I bought 20, thinking hey, lolli usually has good taste.


They taste really awful, worse than even nestle chocolate, and I have no problem eating most hershey candy.
The chocolate isn't smooth and the creme is more like a thick paste.

[littlelolligagged]

Ooh, you got old ones if the creme was pasty. The last ones I bought were at Target were like that.

I have one left now(not from Target). I almost bought a bunch while we were at the grocery store this afternoon, but resisted temptation.

Do you like Cadbury Dairy milk bars?