I like potatoes too, but I'm probably responding to something dreadfully double intendre, so I reserve the right to retract my statement.
yeah - so what's with the site? Are they starting to move stuff to the new one? Not only is it uploading Very Slowly, but I'm getting logged out almost any time I hit a link. phooey.
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Just got back from a hearing test, the latest installment in "Ayes gets pink eye". Now that the school district saga looks like it might be a wrap, maybe I can wrap this saga up, too. And I mean saga:
28 May: cute baby nephew exposes me to Pink Eye
about a week later: pink eye > about 2 days later > ear and sinus infection > day later, while giving myself an ear bath, punctured ear canal (lesson learned: those little syringes can pack quite the punch) > pink eye is gone, but summer cold pops into vacancy > yesterday, follow up to punctured canal – structurally everything is Great, but hearing still not right > today: hearing test – loss of high frequencies > Steroids!
Alrighty – does that mean my swimming will improve like an East German Olympian?!
next in the ongoing absurdity: I promised to babysit that cute little nephew this afternoon (cue suspense music)
ANYWAY, how can YOU help ayesinback? (cuz I'm sure that's on the tip of your tongues :P )
Tomorrow voting for the radio contest begins and we need YOUR vote! *it would make me happy if you'd do it*
See the thread tomorrow - and thanks in advance.
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@ Ayes- Yup, I had confirmation from Lawrence a while ago- Things are being moved. :\
- for the rubber ear syringes: they've actually been clinically tested (real scientific tests) to prove that they work! Which is great, but you HAVE to be very gentle and careful with them. VERY gentle…
But then again, losing HF sound can only be a plus. HF sounds are THE worst of the spectrum. People behave as if it's some sort of brilliant talent to be able to hear annoying mosquito buzz sounds at super HF. It's absolutely NOT, and those that brag about it are morons. It's exactly like bragging about the ability to smell dogshit from 1 kilometre away- HF sounds are the aural equivalent of that.
For me, it used to drive me fricken nuts. I could hear strange high pitched ringing buzzes from all sorts of electrical equipment and it was always highly directionally specific. The noises can drive you insane! Thank goodness there's not much of that in my house anymore. -I'm either deaf to it now because I'm older, or it's because I've gotten rid of all the stuff that did it, or it's just that all it's now background that I'm used to.
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Today I had a mother and father of a migraine headache… Though not as bad as the hospitalised ones I've had recently. Still pretttty horrible though.
The really shitty thing about these sorts of headache is that one of the apparent cause for them is LOSS of stress!
That means that over a working week of having to get up, get to work, get stuff done, go to bed on time, rinse and repeat, the body gets used to the stress levels and depends on them. So when the weekend comes and you can shoot that routine to hell, seep for as long as you need etc. all those stress hormones are gone so your head spazzes out and F**ks you up.
This is why most migraines always happen on weekends and holidays.
So the answer is less stress ALL the time, or maintaining stress all the time.
It seems like everyone is having "a week".
Skullbie: I hope your chickies last the summer! So sorry about the loss. Fix that gun, girl!
Hyena: Keep trying girl. Baby steps – you'll reach your goals as long as you don't throw in the towel.
Seventy2: I cried when I read your post. For what it's worth, you have my empathy. (I know it's the internet so I don't know if that means much, but you have it anyway)
I've had a week myself.
Grandma died last month. Last thursday my grandpa had a massive stroke which paralyzed the right side of his body. We admitted him and after a lot of family drama, we've decided to honor his wishes and pull him off of life support.
But it's not like it is in the movies.
Grandpa's form of life support was liquid via IV and a feeding tube. So five days later my grandpa is still alive. It's so hard to watch this man slowly waste away, second guessing our decision every day.
The stress this has put on our family is bad enough, but my cousin just misscarried. She was due in two weeks time. Now she's in the hospital too.
It kind of feels like I'm the only sane person left in my family. I know it sounds crazy, but I haven't even cried yet. I've just been running around taking care of everyone else's emotional meltdowns. I feel like I'm about to reach my boiling point real soon here…
Someone mail me a truckload of chocolate?
Today I had a mother and father of a migraine headache… Though not as bad as the hospitalised ones I've had recently. Still pretttty horrible though.
The really shitty thing about these sorts of headache is that one of the apparent cause for them is LOSS of stress!
wanted to ask someone who get this kinda thing: rehearsed with a band on monday - I'm talkin medium size rehersal place but the drummer strts mikin up the bass drum an i'm thinkin "but this aint redrock" an then he proceeds to put on ear defenders and beats the hell outa that kit.
i'm not talkin musician style ear plugs - i mean industrial frikkin ear defenders like you wear on a frikkin runway when a 747 is takin off. So we all hav to be loud enough to compete with this bull an after about an hour we break and he pulls these things off an says "y'know, if it wasn for these i'd be deaf as a post in the mornin!"
yeah like, thanks for bringin us all a set of those dude. anyway,s, after 3 hours i get this little pinprick of colour whirrin around in front of me an it gets bigger n bigger until i cant hardly see nothin but cellophane people with kaleidescope eyes an im thinkin somebody musta spiked my dr pepper, but then i remember migraine is sposed to have syptoms a bit like this? my head wasnt hurtin - no more than normal at least - but this thing didn go away for like, an hour or two an i didnt feel right again fer two days. i only had somethin like this once before, after eatin way to much carbonara
any idea what this might be? should i be gettin my head professionally tested?
any idea what this might be? should i be gettin my head professionally tested?Only get it tested if it's a problem. Coloured effects are a symptom of "classic migraine". That doesn't always involve much pain and sometimes none at all, just strange things with your eyes. Sometimes it can include severe pain but it depends on the person. For some people they actually go completely blind when they have it- I had a freind who had that happen every time, but it's very individual.
For me I just have "common migraine", that means ZERO visual effects or fancy stuff, only pain and sometimes vomiting.
I'M ALIIIIIIIVE 8D
ya know, just in case anyone was wondering~
shoulders are sore as hell, but physical therapy does help…when they're not dislocating my arms for fun >: [
AT LEAST WARN A LADY BEFORE YOU YANK 'ER ARMS OUT~!! yeesh…
now on to more important things…
CONVENTIONS~!!
and moar art
AND MORE CONVENTIONS
and then possibly…moar art.
<3
Someone mail me a truckload of chocolate?
Wish I could, but I don't have that much chocolate.
I know how you feel about your grandpa. I went through the same thing five years and a week ago (tomorrow actually). Seeing one of the toughest men in your life get eaten alive by cancer is just not pretty.
I've never been to the Holocaust Museum. The first time I went to D.C., I didn't go, but I saw the Vietnam, Korean, and WWII memorials, as well as Arlington Cemetery and the changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. I cried. I broke down on the way to the bus and cried. It didn't help that my Papa James, the one who died of cancer, had just died a week before.
Now the Air and Space Museum, the one museum I wanted to see above all others, I didn't get to. Why? Because the guy that was in charge of our group of 20 or so students made us go through the African art museum. Now don't get me wrong, it was interesting, but dang it I wanted to some flipping airplanes and I spent 2 and a half hours seeing African art, which I could not have cared less if I say or not and only 15 minutes seeing the cool stuff!
Geez.
Anyway, this Computer Science student who happens to also be a rather conservative Christian is going to bed so he can get up to go to church.
*sigh* When people who care tell me there's plenty of fish in the sea, I always reply that all of them belong to someone.
A few days ago I saw an interesting woman working behind the food counter of a local family restaurant that I like to go to. So I figured I'd drop her a compliment (which I did as she served me the food I bought). She seemed to be happy to hear it.
Now this afternoon I go to the same restaurant and I'm confronted by a guy who claims to be the woman's boyfriend. He advised me (being as "friendly" as possible) to stay away from her. I advised him that he should compliment her once in a while, only to have him tell me to shut up. And so I promised him I'd stay away. FAR away…
Hopefully I never encounter the owners of that place, and if I did they don't ask me why I stopped going there.
*sigh*
Oh, well… I guess I should just keep going and forget about the whole thing. Could take a while though… :(
Either…
A, You creeped her out a little, even if it unintentional. It can be hard giving a stranger a compliment.
B, she went home told her boyfriend about the nice compliment she got and her douche of a fella freaked out.
Either way it's going to make you feel awkward.
When I was a teenager I worked in a local supermarket and there was this girl that came in and every time I looked up she was staring at me. I thought it was a bit odd, it didn't seem as though she fancied me or anything. After a couple of weeks of this she comes in with another girl, a short and hideously ugly thing that you know even before she starts talking that she has a gob on her. All attitude. She (the new one) comes up and starts having a go at me for freaking out her friend. Really loudly right in front of all my work colleagues, I couldn't get a word in edgeways. Luckily I had mentioned to them about the strange girl staring at me and they had all seen it happening so none thought I was any kind of creep, they just found it hilarious.
I'M ALIIIIIIIVE 8DLies. I know for a fact that you are a zombie.
When I was a teenager I worked in a local supermarket and there was this girl that came in and every time I looked up she was staring at me.Reminds me of this redhead back in art school. She kept watching me… Then, when I came to talk to one of my friends (who was a bit of a weirdo who everyone was afraid of except for me, ie. been in jail many times, scizo on and off hs meds, looked like life had been very hard on him), she was there chatting with him, him of all people… She saw me, turned around and smiled… and my god, I have never seen a more soul-shockingly terrifying smile in my life! O_o
- all that curly red hair, bone white skin, huge pale wide eyes, heart's blood red lips, and a smile with more teeth than a T-Rex!
My primitive reptile brain was telling me that I was the number 1 item in the menu.
I scootled outta there pretty quick.
The thing is though that she was preeeetty damn hot looking, but I just found her so fricken creepy for some reason.
Pathetic, I know, but there it is.
I don't know whether folks misinterpret the interest of others because they're insecure or because they're self-centered or think too much of themselves or what the hell ever. But in a lot of parts of this country, smiling a a stranger is a threatening act! I never quite got that. At least here in the south it's normal and polite to smile and talk to people. Crazy yankees.
I get a lot of weird interactions with people on account of I reckon I look "threatening" or "scary" to some of 'em, and "open minded" to the rest. So people are either very stand-offish or very forward with me. Looking like a weirdo is apparently an open invitation to all sorts of conversations, many of which you wish you never had.
I don't know whether folks misinterpret the interest of others because they're insecure or because they're self-centered or think too much of themselves or what the hell ever.Oh, I agree, the fault was totally all mine and I admit that. :)
But that's just how things happened in that situation. Although, maybe that smile was just way more predatory than usual… It reminded me of barred fangs.
I've found most Americans very open and friendly in my experience. -But then I've only been to South California so far so I'm hardly one to know.
hmmmm… i keep leaving replies, but they're disappearing….or maybe i read the thread, and imagine leaving a reply…that's likely. i'm pretty crazy…
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I'm pretty self-centered, bordering narcissistic. so any time a girl smiles at me, i interpret it wrongly. however, it also helps that i know i'm self centered, because then, instead of making a big deal out of it. i sit back and mull it over. normally i wait for more input, before i determine the possible meanings behind the looks.
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Going to my cousin's wedding here shortly. i'm all dressed up, and there are bound to be a ton of self centered photo's for the photo thread. :P
any idea what this might be? should i be gettin my head professionally tested?Only get it tested if it's a problem. Coloured effects are a symptom of "classic migraine". That doesn't always involve much pain and sometimes none at all, just strange things with your eyes. Sometimes it can include severe pain but it depends on the person. For some people they actually go completely blind when they have it- I had a freind who had that happen every time, but it's very individual.
For me I just have "common migraine", that means ZERO visual effects or fancy stuff, only pain and sometimes vomiting.
thats kindda conforting to know (not that you suffer from pain an vomitiny, that it can still be migain wothut the headaches) so i guess il just get some ear defenders
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how can they charge so much for mirrors?
You have bobcats and mountain lions there? Jebus Skull, where do you live? Awsomeville bestplaceintheworldtown? O_oMore like assfuck arizona. We basically live right next to a canyon and national forest, so there's tons of wildlife in the yard. There's upsides though like seeing baby quail the size of advil bottles, baby javelina from the hoard of 20 or so adults that migrate through our yard, and pretty birds like cardinals and thrashers(funny aggressive birds i can relate to). <3
Anyways the bobcat came back this morning. Chickies give a pretty good panic call and dad ran out to shoot it, but changed his mind at the last minute and shot the ground. Bobcat probably jumped 6 ft in the air and bounded off towards the fence, bashed his head on it and staggered, then rushed over it.
Really the only thing we're missing is a bear encounter and they do live here. We're gonna soak some rags in ammonia and drape them around the yard. (ammonia gives off the 'scent' of larger predators)
We're gonna soak some rags in ammonia and drape them around the yard. (ammonia gives off the 'scent' of larger predators)
It's not really good to be breathing in ammonia, though…
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I think I need someone new to play Risk with. I just beat my dad in three turns.
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I need to think of two separate graduation presents(from each of my parents). But my dad says I can't have a snake, and that's all I really want right now. So I don't know. Any ideas?
Anyways the bobcat came back this morning. Chickies give a pretty good panic call and dad ran out to shoot it, but changed his mind at the last minute and shot the ground. Bobcat probably jumped 6 ft in the air and bounded off towards the fence, bashed his head on it and staggered, then rushed over it.Your dad is pretty cool then! Bobcats are amazing creatures. I wish we had them here. That wildlife sounds fantastic.
But my dad says I can't have a snake, and that's all I really want right now.That sounds all rude and biblical.
Sorry Hippie, but that's just how I tick.
Ask for a holiday. A big trip somewhere?
Have you been in a position in where you can tell the truth but when you say the truth, everyone will think you're smoking something?Nope, just you.
Actually, often when I "tell the truth" (i.e. give my honest unfiltered opinion, which isn't quite the same thing as "truth" ), I come off as being either rude, cynical, overly left-wing, or something like that… So in order to be civil and maintain public harmony and good relationships with people I try and filter and nuance things- and sometimes hold my tongue altogether. (which I'm obviously really bad at in this thread :))
Afterall, is it really that great a thing to have everybody just think you're a dick all the time?
One thing I hate about paydays… I go nearly broke the same day. I have to pay several guys named "Bill" on that day. I should be thankful that I don't have to pay their sister… "Rent".
Ugh… it's so hot out here. And rainy. In fact, it's raining hot water right now. I could use it in my coffee except I don't want to risk drinking coffee that's so acidic it'll melt my jaw off… O_O
Wow… just finished watching Dr. Ashen's newest Pop Station video. How many years have they been producing these same games?! Worse… who's buying all that junk? I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be producing the things if someone wasn't buying them. O_O
If you are a customer in a resturant it is your right to compliment your server and not expect the jealous insecure boyfriend to accost you and threaten you.
As a customer it is then your right to tell the owners about this inappropriate behavior. If they are responsible owners who like to stay in business and alienate a regular customer, they will tell the waitress that her asshole boyfriend can't be hanging around and insulting the customers. In customer service your partner/spouse has no place saying anything to a customer unless he/she wants you to lose your job. It is ground for termination in most places.
She would then break up with said asshole and you'd end up going out with her. Win-win.
In my long and illustruous career in customer service I've been complimented so I say thank you and move on. Attractive women flirt with gas station attendants and salesmen in the Men's department all the time. My wife is a mature and secure professional and has no need to go to my place of employment and demand the young ladies in question leave me alone. Nor would I ever think of doing that unless I wanted my wife to lose her job.
Been there, done that. Now stop making excuses.
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Now as for the beautiful redhead smiling at me and my thinking I'm next on the menu… yeah been there too and I ran far away because I was too insecure the first time to think that a girl that beautiful would want to have anything to do with me let alone consume me for dinner. Then came the next beautiful redhead, I took my chances and the oral sex was incredible.
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Self deprecation often works to convince someone that what you're saying is true as does citing references and explaining your vast experience with the subject at hand. I just might know what I'm talking about because I may not be the brightest guy in the room but this one is obvious to even a dumbass like me. Never ceases to amaze me that in real life people are actually gullible enough to respect my opinion. It's only on the internet that people don't. ;)
If you are a customer in a resturant it is your right to compliment your server and not expect the jealous insecure boyfriend to accost you and threaten you.
As a customer it is then your right to tell the owners about this inappropriate behavior. If they are responsible owners who like to stay in business and alienate a regular customer, they will tell the waitress that her asshole boyfriend can't be hanging around and insulting the customers. In customer service your partner/spouse has no place saying anything to a customer unless he/she wants you to lose your job. It is ground for termination in most places.
She would then break up with said asshole and you'd end up going out with her. Win-win.
In my long and illustruous career in customer service I've been complimented so I say thank you and move on. Attractive women flirt with gas station attendants and salesmen in the Men's department all the time. My wife is a mature and secure professional and has no need to go to my place of employment and demand the young ladies in question leave me alone. Nor would I ever think of doing that unless I wanted my wife to lose her job.
Been there, done that. Now stop making excuses.
Heh… so now I've got ammo. Time to use it. Too bad the poor girl could lose her job if I do this, though. The owners of the place don't like losing customers, and I don't think they want to lose customers because of some idiot insecure boyfriend of their employee.
Now as for the beautiful redhead smiling at me and my thinking I'm next on the menu… yeah been there too and I ran far away because I was too insecure the first time to think that a girl that beautiful would want to have anything to do with me let alone consume me for dinnerWere you so shy?
For this particular feral grin, it was only the grin that alarmed me, and quite fundamentally.
The prettiness wasn't enough to counteract the alien feel, the spooky eyes, and the carnivore choppers.
I'll freely admit I was definitely not the most forthright of males, so I know the sort of thing you are describing, but scuttling away in shyness is quite a different thing from actually being spooked- which is what I was trying to explain.
-You know that weird feeling you get as a kid when you're taking out the rubbish at night, and it's all dark, you're alone, and suddenly you get spooked by some weird, unexplained terror and just HAVE to get back to safety and people as soon as you can?
That's what I meant.
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