I bought a Happy Anniversary card for my husband's birthday today!!
littlek wrote:Yowch!
Yowch #2 !
... & speaking of yowch situations ....
You're not going to believe this latest G & G episode (given the others recently!) but I swear it's true!
There I was, just a short while ago, walking back home from a shopping expedition in my local precinct (including a short stop for a vegetarian samosa & a good, strong coffee at my regular caffeine haunt), when ...
.... I heard this loud buzzing noise, which became more insistent, the more I tried to brush what ever it was away. But it just continued & got louder & louder ... and then it BIT me!
OUCH! Bloody ouch!
It was like something from Hitchcock, I tell you. I was targeted!
I think it was either a bee or a wasp & it seemed to have gotten stuck in my hair, which made it quite hysterical. The end result was a very sore & RED ear! Which is considerably longer & fatter than the other one.
After close scrutiny, I discovered that little bit that these nasty critters leave when they bite you & pulled it out with tweezers. Then did the cooling, soothing thing with a packet of frozen peas from the freezer.
Signs of relief, though one ear looks a little odd, fat & elongated still ...
Now I'm wondering: what next?
Enough already!!!!!
I'd have been terrified. I can die if one of the smeggers targets me.
There's hilarious (to others) footage of me at a staff farewell party in a national park, where a bee sat on me during the most heartfelt and emotive parts of the farewell speeches.....
dlowan wrote:I'd have been terrified. I can die if one of the smeggers targets me.
There's hilarious (to others) footage of me at a staff farewell party in a national park, where a bee sat on me during the most heartfelt and emotive parts of the farewell speeches.....
Thank you! <sob>
Actually, Deb, I was terrified. <gulp>
That was awful & I feel sorry for me for having to go through it.
And I don't find the idea of the footage of you at that staff party at all hilarious! Feel free to smack those laughing folk! (What do they know? Have they ever been targeted? :wink: )
Here's my G & G.
I have just DESTROYED my quite serviceable and pretty bed pulling it apart.
It lies in huge heavy lumps of timber in my room, from whence I will have to lump it, very slowly and with difficulty, outside to be taken away (lots of big, heavy slats).
Some friends kindly gave me a bed base because they no longer needed it, and because at times my bed went into slat dropping frenzies, which were a major pain in the bum.
So....I have just been trying to screw the legs (with wheels) into the bed base.
They don't fit.
They just drop out, there is no screwing them in.
I tried it with just putting them in, but they won't even stay stable for a second. They have to be the wrong legs!!! They wobble in there.
So...I have no useable bed.
Well, I can sleep on the base and a mattress, but that sucks and won't help my asthma at all.
The friends are checking at their place to see if there are other legs, but what's the betting they got rid of my legs by mistake?
So, the only option is to wait until I can afford another bed!!!!
dlowan wrote:Here's my G & G.
I have just DESTROYED my quite serviceable and pretty bed pulling it apart.
It lies in huge heavy lumps of timber in my room, from whence I will have to lump it, very slowly and with difficulty, outside to be taken away (lots of big, heavy slats).
Some friends kindly gave me a bed base because they no longer needed it, and because at times my bed went into slat dropping frenzies, which were a major pain in the bum.
So....I have just been trying to screw the legs (with wheels) into the bed base.
They don't fit.
They just drop out, there is no screwing them in.
I tried it with just putting them in, but they won't even stay stable for a second. They have to be the wrong legs!!! They wobble in there.
So...I have no useable bed.
Well, I can sleep on the base and a mattress, but that sucks and won't help my asthma at all.
The friends are checking at their place to see if there are other legs, but what's the betting they got rid of my legs by mistake?
So, the only option is to wait until I can afford another bed!!!!
Hang on, Deb!
Try an Olga solution!
Before you chuck in the towel, Deb, call in a trustworthy handyman, to see what he can do with your new bed. You might be surprised!
I'd be sunk without my handyman, honestly! He's come to my rescue (often at very short notice) time & time again! For all variety of problems.
You might need to ask around to locate him (or her!) but once you've found them, cultivate your relationship! Worth their weight in gold!
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