Thanks to Nancy for the map, which I found amusing. I'm having one of those "I can't talk to anybody or even type to anybody" times. I'll read everything you write though.
the MRI made me feel GREAT!! i think it was the sound waves!! i've been researching binary beat therapy and it seems to work! i gotta get some headphones though but just listening to some w/o the headphones from youtube is very relaxing!! :)
my reg. dr. tried to tell me that valium isn't used to treat menieres---which i've renamed MEANEARS because i can never spell mernieres right....well piss on her, i'm taking a 1/4 tab of valium every day anyway until i see the ENT on oct. 6th! i have read that ativan and valium is commonly prescribed to treat meanears....she did say it was out of her realm though....
i'm printing up discount/free prescription drug program apps for an elderly neighbor...they've reached the medicare drug prescription donut hole and can't afford their meds....
I LOOOOVE that damn map! Made me laugh! Thank you Nancy! Thank you Pat! thats great. I love the S.A. "Super models" sooo true! Been windy here today too Tia. It almost stormed but the winds blew it away! It was really hot out when I left for work at 7:45, blah! Its gonna cool down tonight & this weekend. So, the big wedding day is 2 weeks from this coming Sunday & I hope I will be ready! I have evry minute scheduled out to do wedding stuff and someone always gets me away from it & I end up staying up late doing it. Gaaahhh! I have no choice now. I have kind of put off some of the baking on purpose, so the things wont be in the freezer too long. Will finish up this weekend I am hoping. Lots & lots to do and Lilo is back behind bars. Great day! Have a good weekend everybody xoxo Roxanne
Warm and Windy here too. 90 today, 60 tomorrow, don't you just love Fall? I heading down to the lake with my camera in a few minutes, 40mph wind gusts. Hope to get some great wave pictures.
Wanted to get more of my shrubbry cut back before winter. Was doing good, taking it easy on my wrist. Effed it up yesterday using the lopers. Takes too much strength & pressure even with my brace on. Ouch! Now I have to wait several days & see if it'll recover. The backyard jungle continues to grow...
My favorite map showed Canada and the U.S. right after the 2004 re-election of George W. Bush. Canada and the east and west coasts of the U.S. were labeled "The United States of Canada." Middle America and the southern U.S. was labeled "Jesusland". Damn that made me laugh.
Had a tooth pulled yesterday. About came out of the chair:( Look, I bore kids and can deal with pain, but that was unreal. Took today off. Feel like crap. Calgon, take me away.
Hey, that is a funny map, I wanna live in DRugs and Super Models! Anyway, had to put my 14 year old cocker spaniel down yesterday. So Fuckin SAd!!! Still have my little Terrier mix though. can only get a retro am station in my van that plays sad barry manilow songs. crying all day yesterday. husband wants another dog right away. thanks BIMA
Oh Miss Tia, I love your new name of MEANEARS -- I had just one episode one time - OMG - I was soooo sick and totally incapicatated for 48 hrs.
Also starting yesterday ONE thing that the so called Health Reform did do is eliminateentirely the donut hole. It is GONE. Miss Tia, you're a gem and I hope this treatment works. Rox who has been suffering for a long time with Meanears -- maybe this might also help her?
I'm glad you & Rox & Bima thought the map was funny! So did I, my husband did not see the humor, oh well, so I sent it to Pat. Vicki, so sorry about the tooth pain. Not good. Rest.
Oh Bima, I'm glad cocker spaniel no longer suffering and crying all day makes sense. 14 yrs is long life. I just finished reading a book that had a chapter about pets deaths and says that once we die we see our beloved pets who were family not just family/friends that were most important in our lives. I sure hope that is true. I still miss my Miss Suzi doggie and it will be 4 yrs next week that she is gone. I was once on David Letterman stupid pet tricks with Miss Suzi and we won. She was such an amazing soul/dog. Love to you Bima.
HAHAHAHAHA Nice map!!! As long as they leave my beloved Rush out of the "shitty music" biznaz!
Tonight we have one show, then tomorrow the last two. My SIL is here from Denmark and I have been busy driving her everywhere this week, since it's my last week off. I start school on monday!
Bima, sorry for your baby!!! He sure lived a long happy life.
Vicky, I feel your pain. I had my wisdom teeth pulled several years ago.....but it's no fun.
Oh I'm so sorry BIMA. I'm still mourning my 14 year old Lab I lost 2 years ago. I don't think I'll ever get over it. I feel your pain.
I should be excited over our trip next week since it's been years since we've had a vacation. Instead all I can think about are bed bugs. I am going to give that hotel room a thorough inspection, but I'm still not sure I'll be able to sleep.
It's so windy here today it blew my big patio planters over. It was 90 here yesterday and 69 today. I call this sick weather.
Here's an easy & delicious recipe. I used to make this alot and forgot about it for about a yr or more. Made it this week & it's even great cold for lunch the next day.
1 pack Spinach noodles 2 breasts chicken scallions 1 bunch carrots (I use baby ones but any kind is fine) sesame seeds 1/3 C sesame oil 1/3 C soy sauce 1/3 C white vinegar
Boil spinach noodles Cook the chicken any way you want, grill, boil, roast etc. Steam the carrots & scallions (use all of the scallions top & green stems) Mix the sesame oil, soy sauce & vinegar together & whisk. Cut up chicken into pieces and mix with noodles and steamed vegetables and oil, soy sauce, vinegar and mix all together. Add sesame seeds and mix again and serve.
Funny, but I take exception to Canada = shitty music. Bears yes. Shitty music, not so much. Hello! BTO? What about The Northern Pikes? Barenaked Ladies? Here's a short list of non-shitty Canadian musicians Theory of a Deadman Blue Rodeo Trooper The Rankin Family Finger Eleven Our Lady Peace Bryan Adams The Guess Who Honeymoon Suite Hedley Jann Arden Matthew Good Tragically Hip Leonard Cohen Colin James David Clayton Thomas Sam Roberts Rufus Wainwright Kim Mitchell Nelly Fertado Loverboy Triumph Tom Cochrane and Red Ryder RUSH The Beatles (ok kidding about that one) Gordon Lightfoot Neil Young
Whoever made that map must have only heard of Nickelback, Justin Beiber and Men Without Hats, goddammit!
I was going to object to the shitty music thing for Canada too until Frimmy reminded everyone that they gave us Rush, Bryan Adams, Loverboy and Nelly Furtado. They suck enough to cancel out Neil Young and Leonard Cohen. The Be Good Tanyas and Kathleen Edwards are also fine Canadian acts.
The New Pornagraphers, also excellent, but not completely Canadian.
In my defense I was going for a cross-section of musicians, leaving my personal taste out of it. I happen to LOVE Justin Beiber and think people need to leave her alone.
I'm so sorry Bima. Loosing a pet is so hard. Thinking of you.
My pants ripped today. On the only day in I don't know how long that I met my parents for lunch and went into wal mart. The best part is, I have no idea how long my ass was shining. Damn it.
It was warm and windy here today, but the temp dropped pretty quick early in the afternoon. My daughter has her first Family weekend at college and I'm going down to spend the day tomorrow. On the schedule of fun filled activities, we start out with a service project, planting trees. How is this appealing in any way? Bring old clothes and prepare to get dirty. WTF? And then we go for a quick lunch and then, to the football game. When, pray tell, will these parents get the opportunity to clean up? I'm calling bullshit on this one, Coe.
I love the map! It cracks me up that for Iceland there is just an arrow pointing that says Bjork.
Bima, I am so sorry for the loss of your little buddy. The only fault with dogs is that their lives are too short. I firmly believe that we will be reunited with our beloved pets on the other side. After all, what kind of heaven would it be without those who loved us so much, whether they were in animal form or human?
Miss Tia, when I was first diagnosed with vertigo, valium is exactly what they treated me with. The ENT didn't want to do that, but my family practice doctor did. She said it was really the only way to knock out the symptoms, at least temporarily. It did work, too, though it also just knocked me out. I literally was lying on the couch drooling a little. Lol.
How exciting that you're in the countdown for the wedding, Rox! I wish you good luck and that everything turns out the way you want it.
Today was my boss's last day, and I decided that I didn't feel up to going to the party at work, or the party later in a local pub, so I just dropped some eggs and a card for her at the desk. They told me they would make sure she got them. Then I went out to a scrapbooking store I haven't been to in a long time. I did have a lot of fun looking around, and bought a little bit of paper. It was an absolutely beautiful Fall day---it got into the low 80's but with a cool breeze blowing. Tomorrow should be good, too, and a little shower or two on Sunday. On Sunday, my aunt will have been gone a week. There is no memorial service for her. She decided on cremation, and wants the entire family to have a get-together or picnic, next summer, and remember her. That is very Aunt Helen. I miss her. I am hoping to get the compost framework up tomorrow, and maybe finish up some work on the coop---maybe even the roof! Petunia is still sitting on her eggs---we candled again tonight, and there is definite movement in both. I'm not sure if the time she has spent off the nest means that they are developing a little bit slower, as there seems to be a little more space in there than I thought there would be at this point. Oh, well. I guess we will see what happens. Have a great weekend, everyone!
Angie---if you have a Costco membership, go there and buy one of those bales of baby wipes. I think you can do almost a complete bath with those---almost anywhere. Still a goofy plan to have you all plant trees first thing (or at all) on a parents' weekend, though.
I've been reading a lot about how the recession has been over since June 09. I wish someone could have told me that a year ago. Here I've been worrying about keeping my head above water and the lack of jobs in our area and all that for nothing. The recession is over!
That's because we are now in a depression---they just haven't TOLD us yet!!!! We'll get the news next year! (After this round of elections---good timing!)
Christina---perhaps it's just a dr. thing on a case by case basis...i'm surprised an ENT didn't want to prescribe you valium!!! that's standard operating procedure for vertigo along with mecklizine--that i've read so far.....i am hoping, fingers crossed that the ENT will not be as ignorant as my regular dr.....it's frustrating i got the MRI tuesday but i don't go see the ENT until oct. 6 and i got that moved up from oct. 13 as he wanted me back in a month! WTF?!?!? ya know???
Angie---WTF?!??!! the school is taking a lot of the parents' money and now they want ya to be a day laborer for them too????? that's ridiculous!
Anyone else think the new Rite Aid "UP" card program is down right deceitful??? No where on the sale price tag does it say "$1 off on NEXT visit" Example: Halloween candy bars, 2/5.00 Up card 2/4.00. But you are issued a Dollar off coupon on the bottom of sales receipt. So you are paying 2/5.00 at the checkout. I think it is misleading. Hope someone for the Consumer calls them on this. Where is Ralph Nader when we need him?
i took a hookie day off from Costco. They are killing me (ok, just a bit dramatic) . They stack me up with working 8 hours every Friday Saturday and Sunday and give me two 5 hour days during the week. Now they've switched me to 2 five hour nights during the week,which give me two days a week to be with my girls. We are all missing our time together. I think I'm gonna try for a school related job to get more kid friendly hours.
i took a hookie day off from Costco. They are killing me (ok, just a bit dramatic) . They stack me up with working 8 hours every Friday Saturday and Sunday and give me two 5 hour days during the week. Now they've switched me to 2 five hour nights during the week,which give me two days a week to be with my girls. We are all missing our time together. I think I'm gonna try for a school related job to get more kid friendly hours.
Miss Tia---that is such a long wait between appointments! I don't think they take into account that most of us are at the end of our ropes when we finally come in to see them, and that this sort of wait is intolerable. I would like to see any of them handle the intense vertigo for any period of time. Meclizine just intensified my vertigo. I was very disappointed in it.
Valle---Wouldn't better hours come as you gain a little seniority? Or does everyone take a turn at evenings and weekends?
exactly....it's not them, they don't care....i might schedule an appointment with another ENT for after oct. 6 in case he's as clueless about treatments as my regular dr. was---though as she said meinere's (which i've renamed meanears) is out of her realm.....
I do not want to get into specifics but I wanted Pat to know that things are looking up in my direction with that stuff I told you about. :)
I have been starting my fall cleaning. This week it will be October. Natalie will be 17 at the end of it. She is applied for a job at the Halloween shop, that turns into a Christmas shop afterward. If she is anything like our family, she will work her ass off.
Today I am going to wash the windows and all the curtains. I do that twice a year because we put plastic on all the windows.
I love this time of year. I have been cooking more hearty stuff, except the past couple days it has been hot!
I had a great time with my daughter yesterday. We blew off the service project and watched tv until lunch. It was cold and rainy, so after lunch, instead of going to the football game, we went shopping. Instead of the dumb reception and silent auction, we went and had dinner at Chili's. All in all, a SUPER family weekend! :)
I think I'm going to sort and pack some things today. Three weeks until the move!
Miss Tia----exactly. I'll never forget that after I had my third vibro-acoustic stim within a one week period, the young little doctor told me that the way to cure the vertigo was to go out walking. Really? Tell me, is the ink dry yet on your diploma, asshole? I was having difficulty navigating at all, and to send me outside where there was little if anything to hang onto? Not to mention that there was a severe wind/rain storm going through at the time (which he laughed about). I just think that they don't care.
Angie, that sounds wonderful. My son should have been going to college somewhere, but he put the brakes on. He wouldn't even hear of applying for financial aid. It has me so bummed out and depressed. He says he wants to start at community college in January, but I don't see him doing anything towards that goal, so I am not convinced. I keep hearing about college football games, and weekend visits, and keep thinking that that is what we should be doing, but no. It is very difficult for me to think about, but your weekend sounds like it was great. I think it was a good decision to blow off the tree planting, especially if it was cold and wet, and just spend some fun time with your daughter. The tree planting probably would have been an unpleasant memory, but now you and she have these cool memories of fun together. Nicely done!
You guys are amazing! Thanks so much for the kind thoughts and words. Little Boy was an amazing dog. I took lots of pictures before he passed. hopefully I can post one here. xxoo bima.
When they use vibo-acoustic stim, they lie you down on a table, on your back, then try to induce vertigo. For me, that meant turning to the side (after inducing it by lying down, initially). They then put some kind of an intensely vibrating "mitt" for lack of a better term---kind of like a catcher's mitt, over that side of your ear, neck and head, and vibrate you in an attempt to get the crystals in the inner ear to move. Then turn you to the other side to attempt to reseat them. After treatment, you can not bend over, or lie down for at least 24 hours to attempt to anchor crystals in place to decrease vertigo symptoms. At least once, they had me unable to bend over or lie down for 48 hours. You do have to sleep sitting upright. It is not pleasant, and for me, the relief was very temporary.
oh there's no way i would do that!!! the ENT did tell me that vestibular therapy wouldn't help with meanears! i refused to do the vestibular diagnostic test too that would induce vertigo "for only a minute"....i don't want it for only a minute! i don't want it AT ALL!! that's why i had a MRI....
a friend had some vestibular therapy and she said it brought upon the worst case of vertigo she ever had!
i think any dr. treating vertigo should be GIVEN vertigo for awhile so they can appropriately empathize with patients!
I totally agree, Miss Tia. They should have to experience it, though that would fall far short of having it all the time and not knowing if it will ever go away. For the record, it really wasn't worth having it done, and they really strong-armed me, yelling for me to keep my eyes open, and change my breathing patterns when they were inducing the vertigo. (I think I was in a panic state as the vertigo was so intense---I felt like I could not stop flipping over backwards.) People who have never experienced it don't understand what that is like. It sounds almost carnival ride-like when I talk about it, but having it feel in your head as if you are doing back flips, and feeling like you are going to fall, and you don't know where you will land, and that you can't make it stop is a terrible feeling. It really was awful, and not worth the less than half a day without symptoms I got after each treatment.
they treatment of you during the treatment doesn't sound like they were trying to be 'helpful' or soothing....being given vertigo would definitely bring out panic because it's horrible and to have them yell at you?? inexcusable!! i'm sorry you had such a bad time!!
i just flat out refuse stuff....i wouldn't even let the ENT finish about the vertigo diagnostic test that gave you vertigo NO, WILL NOT DO IT....my regular dr. had kept suggesting vestibular therapy and i refused that too...the ENT said that wouldn't help people with meanears though....
i've been taking a 1/4 tab of valium a day and thus far, i've been even verge of vertigo free! i've been listening to some binary beat therapy videos on youtube too and they really relax me! i'm waiting to get some good headphones in the mail and i bet it'll work awesome! i dunno how oft you get vertigo and if you would respond to sound waves, but if you are interested i could give you a couple good links....i respond well to theta waves....but some people respond better to alpha or delta waves....
Christina, it's hard when you have a child that doesn't feel that college is the route they want to take, after you've spent 18+ years envisioning them there. Maybe you can take some comfort in the idea that it would be a waste of time and money if his heart isn't in it? My oldest had no desire to go whatsoever, but we insisted. The only reason he conceded is because what he hated more than the idea of school, was the idea of work... After 5 1/2 years, he still hadn't graduated, missing some class that he needed, but couldn't get into. The following spring, he got his diploma in the mail, apparently they had made an error on something. Point being, he didn't care that we wanted him there, he just wanted to party and it was one hell of an expensive drunk. He now works in a job that requires a degree, making less than his part time weekend bartending gig. It's hard to justify that expense :(
Tia, I'm glad the beat therapy is working for you!
@ Christina, yes, seniority does play a role. Unfortunately, lots of people have been there over 10 years. Some since the 80's even. It would be so much better if they rotated it. Or even one weekend day every other week or something. I don't think I'm any more special than anyone else. I'm just close to my girls and I don't want to give that up for anything. This Saturday when I called out, it was the best day. And we did nothing really. We were just together, not having to do anything we didn't want to. My girls fill my heart up.
@ miss tia, I found a website where you can print up a prescription discount card for free. I use it at walgreens, but other stores take it too. you can look up prices on their website. I got 28.00 meds for seven dollars and change. all you do is enter your name and email addy and you can print your card immediately. the site is unarxcard.com. hope this helps.
Miss Tia---yes, I am interested in those links, thanks!
Vicki---that is an expensive way to party! I can't fault my son on his work ethic---he has been working for the same grocery/department store for about 2 1/2 years now---it was his idea to get the job, and he handled getting himself ready for the interviews, etc. He started as a cart/parcel boy, and asked for a promotion to cashier when he turned 18 last spring. He has been a cashier for a few months now, and seems to like it better than the previous position. I just wish his work ethic extended to school. I just don't understand the lack of motivation. Maybe all in good time. I don't know. It's just so hard to stand by and watch and wait, (and hope). I just keep flashing (in my mind) to that letter written to (I think) Ann Landers or Dear Abbey some years ago. I think it was called "Welcome to France". The letter was using the analogy of a pregnancy and impending birth being like planning a major trip, with all the expectations and ideas of where you will be and what you will experience once you arrive at your destination. The catch is that you are expecting to go to Italy, but you arrive in France. (This was the author's reference to the birth of a special needs, mentally challenged or developmentally delayed child.) You have all your expectations of what your child will be like, but it is all different. Beautiful, too, but not what you were expecting, and you have to adjust and learn to appreciate what you have the opportunity to experience. My son is not developmentally delayed or impaired in any other way, but when he misses a milestone that other kids can't wait to hit, I start thinking "welcome to France", to soothe my own soul. I just really hope he decides to pursue his education soon.
Thanks to Nancy for the map, which I found amusing. I'm having one of those "I can't talk to anybody or even type to anybody" times. I'll read everything you write though.
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that map is funny!!!
the MRI made me feel GREAT!! i think it was the sound waves!! i've been researching binary beat therapy and it seems to work! i gotta get some headphones though but just listening to some w/o the headphones from youtube is very relaxing!! :)
my reg. dr. tried to tell me that valium isn't used to treat menieres---which i've renamed MEANEARS because i can never spell mernieres right....well piss on her, i'm taking a 1/4 tab of valium every day anyway until i see the ENT on oct. 6th! i have read that ativan and valium is commonly prescribed to treat meanears....she did say it was out of her realm though....
i'm printing up discount/free prescription drug program apps for an elderly neighbor...they've reached the medicare drug prescription donut hole and can't afford their meds....
nice and warm today but very windy!
I LOOOOVE that damn map! Made me laugh! Thank you Nancy! Thank you Pat! thats great. I love the S.A. "Super models" sooo true!
Been windy here today too Tia. It almost stormed but the winds blew it away! It was really hot out when I left for work at 7:45, blah! Its gonna cool down tonight & this weekend. So, the big wedding day is 2 weeks from this coming Sunday & I hope I will be ready! I have evry minute scheduled out to do wedding stuff and someone always gets me away from it & I end up staying up late doing it. Gaaahhh! I have no choice now. I have kind of put off some of the baking on purpose, so the things wont be in the freezer too long. Will finish up this weekend I am hoping. Lots & lots to do and Lilo is back behind bars. Great day! Have a good weekend everybody
xoxo
Roxanne
Warm and Windy here too. 90 today, 60 tomorrow, don't you just love Fall? I heading down to the lake with my camera in a few minutes, 40mph wind gusts. Hope to get some great wave pictures.
Wanted to get more of my shrubbry cut back before winter. Was doing good, taking it easy on my wrist. Effed it up yesterday using the lopers. Takes too much strength & pressure even with my brace on. Ouch! Now I have to wait several days & see if it'll recover. The backyard jungle continues to grow...
My favorite map showed Canada and the U.S. right after the 2004 re-election of George W. Bush. Canada and the east and west coasts of the U.S. were labeled "The United States of Canada." Middle America and the southern U.S. was labeled "Jesusland". Damn that made me laugh.
Had a tooth pulled yesterday. About came out of the chair:(
Look, I bore kids and can deal
with pain, but that was unreal.
Took today off. Feel like crap.
Calgon, take me away.
Hey, that is a funny map, I wanna live in DRugs and Super Models!
Anyway, had to put my 14 year old cocker spaniel down yesterday. So Fuckin SAd!!! Still have my little Terrier mix though. can only get a retro am station in my van that plays sad barry manilow songs. crying all day yesterday. husband wants another dog right away.
thanks BIMA
Bima, Sorry for your loss. It is one of the hardest things when
we lose our pets. Take care.
Oh Miss Tia, I love your new name of MEANEARS -- I had just one episode one time - OMG - I was soooo sick and totally incapicatated for 48 hrs.
Also starting yesterday ONE thing that the so called Health Reform did do is eliminateentirely the donut hole. It is GONE. Miss Tia, you're a gem and I hope this treatment works. Rox who has been suffering for a long time with Meanears -- maybe this might also help her?
I'm glad you & Rox & Bima thought the map was funny! So did I, my husband did not see the humor, oh well, so I sent it to Pat.
Vicki, so sorry about the tooth pain. Not good. Rest.
Oh Bima, I'm glad cocker spaniel no longer suffering and crying all day makes sense. 14 yrs is long life. I just finished reading a book that had a chapter about pets deaths and says that once we die we see our beloved pets who were family not just family/friends that were most important in our lives. I sure hope that is true. I still miss my Miss Suzi doggie and it will be 4 yrs next week that she is gone. I was once on David Letterman stupid pet tricks with Miss Suzi and we won. She was such an amazing soul/dog. Love to you Bima.
HAHAHAHAHA Nice map!!! As long as they leave my beloved Rush out of the "shitty music" biznaz!
Tonight we have one show, then tomorrow the last two. My SIL is here from Denmark and I have been busy driving her everywhere this week, since it's my last week off. I start school on monday!
Bima, sorry for your baby!!! He sure lived a long happy life.
Vicky, I feel your pain. I had my wisdom teeth pulled several years ago.....but it's no fun.
Hope everyone else is doing ok!
Oh I'm so sorry BIMA. I'm still mourning my 14 year old Lab I lost 2 years ago. I don't think I'll ever get over it. I feel your pain.
I should be excited over our trip next week since it's been years since we've had a vacation. Instead all I can think about are bed bugs. I am going to give that hotel room a thorough inspection, but I'm still not sure I'll be able to sleep.
It's so windy here today it blew my big patio planters over. It was 90 here yesterday and 69 today. I call this sick weather.
Here's an easy & delicious recipe. I used to make this alot and forgot about it for about a yr or more. Made it this week & it's even great cold for lunch the next day.
1 pack Spinach noodles
2 breasts chicken
scallions 1 bunch
carrots (I use baby ones but any kind is fine)
sesame seeds
1/3 C sesame oil
1/3 C soy sauce
1/3 C white vinegar
Boil spinach noodles
Cook the chicken any way you want, grill, boil, roast etc.
Steam the carrots & scallions (use all of the scallions top & green stems)
Mix the sesame oil, soy sauce & vinegar together & whisk.
Cut up chicken into pieces and mix with noodles and steamed vegetables and oil, soy sauce, vinegar and mix all together. Add sesame seeds and mix again and serve.
i'm sorry bima :(
peg---same thing here...today it was almost 90 but it's really windy and a cold front is behind it....
Funny, but I take exception to Canada = shitty music. Bears yes. Shitty music, not so much.
Hello! BTO? What about The Northern Pikes? Barenaked Ladies?
Here's a short list of non-shitty Canadian musicians
Theory of a Deadman
Blue Rodeo
Trooper
The Rankin Family
Finger Eleven
Our Lady Peace
Bryan Adams
The Guess Who
Honeymoon Suite
Hedley
Jann Arden
Matthew Good
Tragically Hip
Leonard Cohen
Colin James
David Clayton Thomas
Sam Roberts
Rufus Wainwright
Kim Mitchell
Nelly Fertado
Loverboy
Triumph
Tom Cochrane and Red Ryder
RUSH
The Beatles (ok kidding about that one)
Gordon Lightfoot
Neil Young
Whoever made that map must have only heard of Nickelback, Justin Beiber and Men Without Hats, goddammit!
India = Call Centers Ahahahaha!!
fuck off anon 8:22...
i think the canada map should have said 'good comedians'!
Frimmy-
I agree and you forgot Joni Mitchell.
I was going to object to the shitty music thing for Canada too until Frimmy reminded everyone that they gave us Rush, Bryan Adams, Loverboy and Nelly Furtado. They suck enough to cancel out Neil Young and Leonard Cohen. The Be Good Tanyas and Kathleen Edwards are also fine Canadian acts.
and HORRIBLE Alanis Morisette...Ugh
Crabbie don't mess with my Power Trio!!!!
I agree Leonard Cohen...that voice!!!
anon 9:32 if your life is over, then you can stop posting.....
The New Pornagraphers, also excellent, but not completely Canadian.
In my defense I was going for a cross-section of musicians, leaving my personal taste out of it. I happen to LOVE Justin Beiber and think people need to leave her alone.
I'm so sorry Bima. Loosing a pet is so hard. Thinking of you.
My pants ripped today. On the only day in I don't know how long that I met my parents for lunch and went into wal mart. The best part is, I have no idea how long my ass was shining. Damn it.
Daphne
And Nancy, that recipe sounds oh so good!!!
Frimmy ~ don't you mean JustinE Beiber ???
What about French Canadians? Dianne Dufresne
Shitty music? But we have Avril Lavinge! And Anne Murray!
...Wait, that didn't help. ;)
So sorry for your loss, Bima.
It was warm and windy here today, but the temp dropped pretty quick early in the afternoon. My daughter has her first Family weekend at college and I'm going down to spend the day tomorrow. On the schedule of fun filled activities, we start out with a service project, planting trees. How is this appealing in any way? Bring old clothes and prepare to get dirty. WTF? And then we go for a quick lunch and then, to the football game. When, pray tell, will these parents get the opportunity to clean up? I'm calling bullshit on this one, Coe.
I love the map! It cracks me up that for Iceland there is just an arrow pointing that says Bjork.
Bima, I am so sorry for the loss of your little buddy. The only fault with dogs is that their lives are too short. I firmly believe that we will be reunited with our beloved pets on the other side. After all, what kind of heaven would it be without those who loved us so much, whether they were in animal form or human?
Miss Tia, when I was first diagnosed with vertigo, valium is exactly what they treated me with. The ENT didn't want to do that, but my family practice doctor did. She said it was really the only way to knock out the symptoms, at least temporarily. It did work, too, though it also just knocked me out. I literally was lying on the couch drooling a little. Lol.
How exciting that you're in the countdown for the wedding, Rox! I wish you good luck and that everything turns out the way you want it.
Today was my boss's last day, and I decided that I didn't feel up to going to the party at work, or the party later in a local pub, so I just dropped some eggs and a card for her at the desk. They told me they would make sure she got them. Then I went out to a scrapbooking store I haven't been to in a long time. I did have a lot of fun looking around, and bought a little bit of paper.
It was an absolutely beautiful Fall day---it got into the low 80's but with a cool breeze blowing. Tomorrow should be good, too, and a little shower or two on Sunday.
On Sunday, my aunt will have been gone a week. There is no memorial service for her. She decided on cremation, and wants the entire family to have a get-together or picnic, next summer, and remember her. That is very Aunt Helen. I miss her.
I am hoping to get the compost framework up tomorrow, and maybe finish up some work on the coop---maybe even the roof!
Petunia is still sitting on her eggs---we candled again tonight, and there is definite movement in both. I'm not sure if the time she has spent off the nest means that they are developing a little bit slower, as there seems to be a little more space in there than I thought there would be at this point. Oh, well. I guess we will see what happens.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Angie---if you have a Costco membership, go there and buy one of those bales of baby wipes. I think you can do almost a complete bath with those---almost anywhere.
Still a goofy plan to have you all plant trees first thing (or at all) on a parents' weekend, though.
I've been reading a lot about how the recession has been over since June 09. I wish someone could have told me that a year ago. Here I've been worrying about keeping my head above water and the lack of jobs in our area and all that for nothing. The recession is over!
That's because we are now in a depression---they just haven't TOLD us yet!!!! We'll get the news next year! (After this round of elections---good timing!)
Christina---perhaps it's just a dr. thing on a case by case basis...i'm surprised an ENT didn't want to prescribe you valium!!! that's standard operating procedure for vertigo along with mecklizine--that i've read so far.....i am hoping, fingers crossed that the ENT will not be as ignorant as my regular dr.....it's frustrating i got the MRI tuesday but i don't go see the ENT until oct. 6 and i got that moved up from oct. 13 as he wanted me back in a month! WTF?!?!? ya know???
Angie---WTF?!??!! the school is taking a lot of the parents' money and now they want ya to be a day laborer for them too????? that's ridiculous!
Anyone else think the new Rite Aid
"UP" card program is down right
deceitful??? No where on the sale
price tag does it say "$1 off on NEXT visit" Example: Halloween
candy bars, 2/5.00 Up card 2/4.00.
But you are issued a Dollar off
coupon on the bottom of sales
receipt. So you are paying 2/5.00 at the checkout. I think it is
misleading. Hope someone for the
Consumer calls them on this. Where is Ralph Nader when we need him?
Where is Ralph Nader, by the way. Is he still alive? Haven't heard a peep out of him in a long time. And now is when he is neweded!!!
Feist.
i love mushaboom
People. We gave you Celine Dion. Need I say more? You're welcome.
Doc Walker rules.
old hags bitching about their (imaginary) ailments, blowing everything out of proportion.
Oh how the mighty have fallen.
Sorry Bima :(
i took a hookie day off from Costco. They are killing me (ok, just a bit dramatic) . They stack me up with working 8 hours every Friday Saturday and Sunday and give me two 5 hour days during the week. Now they've switched me to 2 five hour nights during the week,which give me two days a week to be with my girls. We are all missing our time together. I think I'm gonna try for a school related job to get more kid friendly hours.
Sorry Bima :(
i took a hookie day off from Costco. They are killing me (ok, just a bit dramatic) . They stack me up with working 8 hours every Friday Saturday and Sunday and give me two 5 hour days during the week. Now they've switched me to 2 five hour nights during the week,which give me two days a week to be with my girls. We are all missing our time together. I think I'm gonna try for a school related job to get more kid friendly hours.
Miss Tia---that is such a long wait between appointments! I don't think they take into account that most of us are at the end of our ropes when we finally come in to see them, and that this sort of wait is intolerable. I would like to see any of them handle the intense vertigo for any period of time. Meclizine just intensified my vertigo. I was very disappointed in it.
Valle---Wouldn't better hours come as you gain a little seniority? Or does everyone take a turn at evenings and weekends?
exactly....it's not them, they don't care....i might schedule an appointment with another ENT for after oct. 6 in case he's as clueless about treatments as my regular dr. was---though as she said meinere's (which i've renamed meanears) is out of her realm.....
I do not want to get into specifics but I wanted Pat to know that things are looking up in my direction with that stuff I told you about. :)
I have been starting my fall cleaning. This week it will be October. Natalie will be 17 at the end of it. She is applied for a job at the Halloween shop, that turns into a Christmas shop afterward. If she is anything like our family, she will work her ass off.
Today I am going to wash the windows and all the curtains. I do that twice a year because we put plastic on all the windows.
I love this time of year. I have been cooking more hearty stuff, except the past couple days it has been hot!
Just got home from the Race for the Cure. Walked in Celebration of my MIL's 28+ year Survivorship:)
Hubs ran the 5K. Great way to
Honor and remember.
I had a great time with my daughter yesterday. We blew off the service project and watched tv until lunch. It was cold and rainy, so after lunch, instead of going to the football game, we went shopping. Instead of the dumb reception and silent auction, we went and had dinner at Chili's. All in all, a SUPER family weekend! :)
I think I'm going to sort and pack some things today. Three weeks until the move!
The depiction of the US should be replaced with 'delusional minds'.
Miss Tia----exactly. I'll never forget that after I had my third vibro-acoustic stim within a one week period, the young little doctor told me that the way to cure the vertigo was to go out walking. Really? Tell me, is the ink dry yet on your diploma, asshole?
I was having difficulty navigating at all, and to send me outside where there was little if anything to hang onto? Not to mention that there was a severe wind/rain storm going through at the time (which he laughed about). I just think that they don't care.
Angie, that sounds wonderful. My son should have been going to college somewhere, but he put the brakes on. He wouldn't even hear of applying for financial aid. It has me so bummed out and depressed. He says he wants to start at community college in January, but I don't see him doing anything towards that goal, so I am not convinced. I keep hearing about college football games, and weekend visits, and keep thinking that that is what we should be doing, but no. It is very difficult for me to think about, but your weekend sounds like it was great. I think it was a good decision to blow off the tree planting, especially if it was cold and wet, and just spend some fun time with your daughter. The tree planting probably would have been an unpleasant memory, but now you and she have these cool memories of fun together. Nicely done!
You guys are amazing! Thanks so much for the kind thoughts and words. Little Boy was an amazing dog. I took lots of pictures before he passed. hopefully I can post one here. xxoo bima.
what is vibro-acoustic stim?? i did a search but got a variety of different things....is it a treatment??
i've been researching binary beat therapy and i just ordered some good headphones but when i listen to it via the speakers it does relax me....
When they use vibo-acoustic stim, they lie you down on a table, on your back, then try to induce vertigo. For me, that meant turning to the side (after inducing it by lying down, initially). They then put some kind of an intensely vibrating "mitt" for lack of a better term---kind of like a catcher's mitt, over that side of your ear, neck and head, and vibrate you in an attempt to get the crystals in the inner ear to move. Then turn you to the other side to attempt to reseat them. After treatment, you can not bend over, or lie down for at least 24 hours to attempt to anchor crystals in place to decrease vertigo symptoms. At least once, they had me unable to bend over or lie down for 48 hours. You do have to sleep sitting upright. It is not pleasant, and for me, the relief was very temporary.
oh there's no way i would do that!!! the ENT did tell me that vestibular therapy wouldn't help with meanears! i refused to do the vestibular diagnostic test too that would induce vertigo "for only a minute"....i don't want it for only a minute! i don't want it AT ALL!! that's why i had a MRI....
a friend had some vestibular therapy and she said it brought upon the worst case of vertigo she ever had!
i think any dr. treating vertigo should be GIVEN vertigo for awhile so they can appropriately empathize with patients!
I totally agree, Miss Tia. They should have to experience it, though that would fall far short of having it all the time and not knowing if it will ever go away.
For the record, it really wasn't worth having it done, and they really strong-armed me, yelling for me to keep my eyes open, and change my breathing patterns when they were inducing the vertigo. (I think I was in a panic state as the vertigo was so intense---I felt like I could not stop flipping over backwards.) People who have never experienced it don't understand what that is like. It sounds almost carnival ride-like when I talk about it, but having it feel in your head as if you are doing back flips, and feeling like you are going to fall, and you don't know where you will land, and that you can't make it stop is a terrible feeling. It really was awful, and not worth the less than half a day without symptoms I got after each treatment.
they treatment of you during the treatment doesn't sound like they were trying to be 'helpful' or soothing....being given vertigo would definitely bring out panic because it's horrible and to have them yell at you?? inexcusable!! i'm sorry you had such a bad time!!
i just flat out refuse stuff....i wouldn't even let the ENT finish about the vertigo diagnostic test that gave you vertigo NO, WILL NOT DO IT....my regular dr. had kept suggesting vestibular therapy and i refused that too...the ENT said that wouldn't help people with meanears though....
i've been taking a 1/4 tab of valium a day and thus far, i've been even verge of vertigo free! i've been listening to some binary beat therapy videos on youtube too and they really relax me! i'm waiting to get some good headphones in the mail and i bet it'll work awesome! i dunno how oft you get vertigo and if you would respond to sound waves, but if you are interested i could give you a couple good links....i respond well to theta waves....but some people respond better to alpha or delta waves....
Way to go Vicki!!! And Miss Tia, I'm glad the beat therapy is working!
Daphne
Christina, it's hard when you have a child that doesn't feel that college is the route they want to take, after you've spent 18+ years envisioning them there. Maybe you can take some comfort in the idea that it would be a waste of time and money if his heart isn't in it? My oldest had no desire to go whatsoever, but we insisted. The only reason he conceded is because what he hated more than the idea of school, was the idea of work... After 5 1/2 years, he still hadn't graduated, missing some class that he needed, but couldn't get into. The following spring, he got his diploma in the mail, apparently they had made an error on something. Point being, he didn't care that we wanted him there, he just wanted to party and it was one hell of an expensive drunk. He now works in a job that requires a degree, making less than his part time weekend bartending gig. It's hard to justify that expense :(
Tia, I'm glad the beat therapy is working for you!
@ Christina, yes, seniority does play a role. Unfortunately, lots of people have been there over 10 years. Some since the 80's even. It would be so much better if they rotated it. Or even one weekend day every other week or something. I don't think I'm any more special than anyone else. I'm just close to my girls and I don't want to give that up for anything. This Saturday when I called out, it was the best day. And we did nothing really. We were just together, not having to do anything we didn't want to. My girls fill my heart up.
@ miss tia, I found a website where you can print up a prescription discount card for free. I use it at walgreens, but other stores take it too. you can look up prices on their website. I got 28.00 meds for seven dollars and change. all you do is enter your name and email addy and you can print your card immediately. the site is unarxcard.com. hope this helps.
Miss Tia---yes, I am interested in those links, thanks!
Vicki---that is an expensive way to party! I can't fault my son on his work ethic---he has been working for the same grocery/department store for about 2 1/2 years now---it was his idea to get the job, and he handled getting himself ready for the interviews, etc. He started as a cart/parcel boy, and asked for a promotion to cashier when he turned 18 last spring. He has been a cashier for a few months now, and seems to like it better than the previous position. I just wish his work ethic extended to school. I just don't understand the lack of motivation. Maybe all in good time. I don't know. It's just so hard to stand by and watch and wait, (and hope).
I just keep flashing (in my mind) to that letter written to (I think) Ann Landers or Dear Abbey some years ago. I think it was called "Welcome to France". The letter was using the analogy of a pregnancy and impending birth being like planning a major trip, with all the expectations and ideas of where you will be and what you will experience once you arrive at your destination. The catch is that you are expecting to go to Italy, but you arrive in France. (This was the author's reference to the birth of a special needs, mentally challenged or developmentally delayed child.) You have all your expectations of what your child will be like, but it is all different. Beautiful, too, but not what you were expecting, and you have to adjust and learn to appreciate what you have the opportunity to experience. My son is not developmentally delayed or impaired in any other way, but when he misses a milestone that other kids can't wait to hit, I start thinking "welcome to France", to soothe my own soul. I just really hope he decides to pursue his education soon.
thank you valle!!! i'll go check that out!! i printed forms for my neighbor, but if i can find things cheaper, hooray!!!
christina, i sent someone else from here an email with links, could i just send you that email? misstiaemail@yahoo.com
Just sent you an email, Miss Tia!
sent ya an email with the links!
As an Australian I think it's really sad that I can't defend the fact that Australia has been labelled racist. It's true aus is a racist country
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