You're doing pretty good if you can vaccinate a house.
Here in SoCal people as a matter of course drive 45 minutes to work one way every day, many drive longer than that and they don't consider themselves insane, it's just what you have to do.No, I haven't done vaccinations yet. I started with microchips at the time I did because 1.) I do daily sub q fluids on one of my personal pets so I'm used to sticking a big needle under cat skin, and 2.) I happened to say "I want to train on microchips" at the exact moment someone was available to train me and we had chipping that needed to be done.
I'm going to ask to learn vaccinations this week. I've always had the vet vaccinate my personal animals, but Toad is technically still a foster (I'm going to be adopting her) so hers are done at the shelter.
I'm insane enough that my round trip for work is 90 minutes.I didn't want Toad to stay at the shelter all day because we have a URI going around, so I took her in on my day off.
Have a baby shower and tell people what you need, no reason you can't host the shower yourself, I was just at one where the mama-and papa-to-be hosted it and about 25 people showed up and brought things they really needed instead of all the cutesy things that people are wont to bring if left to their own devices. I brought two big boxes of wipes refills, they went well with the one box of wipes in a plastic tub somebody else had brought. They had soft drinks, water and some home-made appetizers, so the party did not cost them much.
I don't know if I'd call it "bipolar" but Felix is like this quite often. However, he his far from his kitten days. If I'm petting him too softly or too rough, he gets TRIGGERED. He'll complain and bite me up but will calm down quickly afterwards to recieve more attention.
I got a rude awakening this morning at 12:30No, not the cats. The
low battery chirp for the smoke detector
I changed the battery twice last week, on Sunday and then on Wednesday, with brand new batteries
I put in for a week off. The store will just have to survive without me. The funny part is when customers come in and tell me that I should work for them; the wage will be lower, but I'll get more hours!
I can see that.
That sucks.
Anemia. I'm anemic (not enough to require regular blood transfusions, but enough to affect internal temperature) and I have a lot of the same problems.What the
The room is 73 degrees. I checked my temperature, 97.7, so no fever. And just like every day for a month or two I'm cold. Very cold. Most nights I'm wearing a thin jacket over my clothes and still off and on shivering. When I take a shower I'm fine at room temperature and then I get colder and colder and colder. I'm finally warm, with athletic leggings under my jeans and a tanktop, a short sleeve shirt, a long sleeve shirt and the jacket. Well, no, the socks aren't keeping my feet warm and I'm thinking of doubling those up.
Before a couple of months ago, 73 degrees would have me in my underwear.
Between the feeling abnormally cold and the depression, I wonder about my thyroid. Problem is that I'm still losing weight. Yeah, between Halloween and post-Halloween clearance I gained 6 pounds back in maybe a couple of weeks, but I've already lost 4 of those while eating ice cream and fried potatoes.
I've got that stupid cold (virus) that just won't go away, but no fever.
Anyone heard of such a weird symptom and what might be the cause?
kashmir64 Check the news. There is always the possibility that a captive non-native animal got loose.
That could be helping the problem.
Please don't forget there are times when it's falsely positive. There was one case (that I remember) where an innocent person was jailed because he'd donated either blood or bone marrow that got put in the perpetrator of the crime and that was what the forensics at the scene found.
Once, back when LS was bout five or six, AWM and LS were on their way back home from--somewhere. I can't remember where and it's not important anyway--what is important is the way they took to get home--through the back roads. (They did this because LS said she wanted to see deer. Please keep that in mind.) So they're cruising down the thin (barely two lane), wooded road when a flock of deer start crossing the road. AWM leaned over to roust LS (it was late at night and she'd fallen asleep in the car), and then the last deer in the flock changed direction and the SUV rolled right over it. (According to AWM, LS's eyes went wide and round as she gripped the car seat as hard as she could.) Shocked and startled, AWM threw the car into reverse. However, she was a little shaken and reversed too far--ended up going right over the deer again, but went back about twenty feet. Oops--she decided to pull forward again--and went too far once more and over the deer. When they got back and told me about it I couldn't stop laughing, because I had just seen the movie (since I'm so much older than my sibs, I had to wait until they were out of the house to watch scary movies). Here's the best part (as far as I'm concerned): AWM finally decided that she was not driving again, grabbed her car knife (if the deer wasn't dead she was going to give it a mercy stroke) and got out. The deer saw her walking towards it, leaped to its feet, and ran away!
LS didn't believe me that it was just like the movie I'd just watched; she thought I was laughing at her--until years later when she finally saw the movie! 
Could be a lot of things. Could be depression (sometimes it manifests that way), or it could simply be that you're exhausted and your body's trying to stop before it shuts down (been there--recently).I have been so tired the past few days, I can barely keep my eyes open. I didn't sleep well two nights ago and I thought I slept okay last night, but I am SO tired right now. I thought maybe it could be all the animals in my room at night trying to sleep on/next to me- my dog and two cats. Maybe I will try keeping the cats out tonight and see if I sleep better. I know Artemis will be mad because he likes to cuddle. But I can't figure out why I'm so tired.
Sunday I could barely get out of bed, went to work, came home and took a three hour nap, got up, ate dinner, then went to bed again. All I can think of doing is sleeping.
She'll get over it, and we're all with you!Or that. That could cause it too.
Yeah--still not sure what's causing the problem with my wrist. I mean, I've had problems where it gets stiff and painful after doing stuff all day (or night), but when I first wake up? That's strange. (And the cousin's still in therapy about it.)
Wouldn't work for my house. AWM goes through at least twelve cups of coffee a day (about three a sitting), and when I make hot water for tea or cider RB and AWM decide they want some too.
Congratulations on the quiet!I will never understand why people put carpet in a bathroom or other high traffic messy areaMy great aunt and uncle had carpet in their bathroom and kitchen for years. Off-white carpet, too. By the time their daughter sold their condo unit, the carpet was horribly dingy and stained and the floor under the carpet in the bathroom was rotted and moldy especially around the toilet.
My new detectors are inWell, two of them anyways. It turns out that I don't have 2 smoke and 1 CO2. I actually have 2 CO2 and 1 smoke
. The malfunctioning one is a CO2. The maintenance person replaced that one and the smoke one in the hallway. They're from 2007. The bedroom one is a CO2. The maintenance person took a look at it and it has a date of 2012 so it's technically still good but I'd like to replace it anyways to keep it on the same replacement schedule as the other two detectors. So the extra smoke detector is going back to Amazon and will be replaced with another CO2 one. I'll give the maintenance person a call when it comes in so he can replace it.
The cats and I can now sleep at night without fear of a sudden ear piercing chirp
, but we're down to five people. Which means that there are enough people to work split shifts on Thanksgiving--for every shift but mine. (Trying to think about the holiday pay and not how bleeping exhausted I am. Two days rest is just not enough for another nine. At least I'm doing better than the AM; she's expected to work fifty+ hours a week and I'm not.) Then, a couple of mornings ago, I came home and the house was freezing. (It was below freezing outside--enough for a hard frost, but not a deep one. I don't know the exact temp.) So I checked to see if the thermostat was on (AWM's going through the change and sometimes turns it off at night) and it was, so I figured the problem was with me (when I get chilled it takes a long time to warm back up again) and thought no more about it. A little while later AWM got up and demanded to know why it was so cold in the house. So, AWM and I both went to check, AWM went to turn the thermostat up--and there was a spark behind the glass, where no spark should be. So, AWM went about trying to get the heater fixed (it's either a burnt out coil, coolant leak, motherboard problem, or all of the above--meaning, we need a new heater) and I went to make Kool-Aid ice for the night (I cut it in half with water, so it's just easier on me to freeze part of the mixture) when the kitchen sink faucet popped up and out--spraying water (cold water!!) everywhere. Between AWM and I we managed to get the faucet screwed back on--as the cabinet suddenly opened and dropped several dishes and broke them almost right on top of us. Then later, as AWM was driving around town trying to get everything done that needed done, the car began clicking, hissing, and several dashboard lights began flashing. (The car has been seen to and is now, once again, safe to drive.) Just one of those days on top of a long, long week. I might not be on the site again for a while, and I'm sorry I stopped trying to reply to everyone. I'm just exhausted. I hope I can get some rest soon.
