WHAT MADE YOU GRIMACE & GRIT YOUR TEETH TODAY?

Obviously, and sadly, your town is not so safe.

thanx, Tico.

we didn't have any h.p., so i settled for salt + H2o.

seems to have helped, as this morning the infection oozed right on outta there

Terrible, Clary..



Good about the salt water, Regis..

Ignorance.

Am sitting on a terrace by a beautiful Budapest square. Two women - one about 25, the other older, are sitting at the next table. They're Dutch. Talking about the Wall in Berlin - the girl had read something about it, the woman had been to Checkpoint Charlie. "Just imagine", the woman says, "just out of nowhere suddenly a wall right through the city, you live here and I there, and a wall." The conclusion about the phenomenon is clear: "Dat slaat toch ook helemaal nergens op". Then the girl realises something, and adds, yeah, and I mean, where did the Wall end then? Woman mutters something back. "But then they could just have gone around it, no? See, doesnt make any sense" All in this lazy, indignant tone.

That's shocking, Clary. Awful.

And how might you be, my dear?

Today was one of those days. The kind we all have but they stink anyway. It started at 4:30 am with a lightning display reminiscent of the 4th of July. By 5:00 am the power was out, the entire household was awake, and we were tripping over each other in the dark trying to find flashlights.

We have a private well. No power means no water for showers or other, er, necessities. We all brushed teeth from water in a cup and I sent both girls to school on the early bus so they could get breakfast there. No morning coffee makes J_B and Mr B quite crabby so we tried to go back to sleep (fahgetaboutit - too much thunder).

Mr B eventually left for work. My work is here at the house using computers and the internet. No work today. I couldn't leave the house because, although I can disconnect the garage doors from their electric openers, I can't reconnect them and the house is left wide open. I sat, read, sat some more, read some more, ate a meal-replacement bar for lunch, sat and read, and waited. After 10 hours, our power came back on - just in time for me to make it to my haircut appt. I had almost 6 inches of hair cut off and I hate my hair short. I was sick of it and it will grow back, but I hate it.

Today sucked!

That does suck, JPB! (Trying to get used to the new name...)

E.G. had a meeting in Chicago today and sat on the runway (here) for three hours because of the weather there. (Flight back was fine though.)

Sorry to hear about E.G.'s travels, Soz. Getting in and out of Chicago this morning would have been a joke.

My day got worse. I went to the basement tonight to feed the cats. I discovered that the backup system on my sump pump had failed and there's water and black sludge everywhere. That, and the laundry I washed last night and was planning on drying this morning was a glob of sour smelling rags sitting in the washing machine.

Tomorrow can't come soon enough!

Oh no!

JPB (so hard to not write PBJ), what a terrible day! At least the clothes in the washer didn't get backed up sewage saturating them. Yep. It's happened. At my OLD place.

My day wasn't so great, either. I hafta wear a heart monitor for 24 hours. For the last couple of weeks, my heart has been racing out of control a couple of times a day for no apparent reason. Doctor calls it "tachycardia," says beta blockers will fix it easily. But the results from the monitor will help them determine the level of medication I need. Yuk. Another pill. And all these wires are making me itchy.

poor you Eva.

That happened to a friend of mine last year but that was after she had an operation to remove something from her thyroid gland.

Hope your better soon.

x

ew... that would have probably put me over the edge.

Sorry to hear that, Eva. I hope the beta blockers work out for you.

Me too.

That's alarming, Eva. Glad that it sounds like it's easily remedied.

Eva, I hope that you're done with the heart monitor now and that the meds can correct the problem with no further symptoms. Please keep us posted.

I'm sorry to hear this Eva. The very best of luck with the treatment.
And take extra-good care of yourself, hear?

Eva, that is annoying (and likely frightening) - my dad had to wear one of those for a while during his angina or recovery from it.

Ah well, just one of those things. I'm just relieved to know it's something that can be controlled easily.