Random thing you loathe right now.

Yonder wrote:
El-Taco-the-Rogue wrote:

Balls: The go-to when it comes to comparatives!

Breakfast was tasty as balls.

My balls are painful as balls.

El-Taco-the-Rogue wrote:
Yonder wrote:
El-Taco-the-Rogue wrote:

Balls: The go-to when it comes to comparatives!

Breakfast was tasty as balls.

My balls are painful as balls.

Balls like a fox!

El-Taco-the-Rogue wrote:
Yonder wrote:
El-Taco-the-Rogue wrote:

Balls: The go-to when it comes to comparatives!

Breakfast was tasty as balls.

My balls are painful as balls.

Like balls they are.

Food assistance benefits are nowhere near what we were hoping.

Tanglebones wrote:
El-Taco-the-Rogue wrote:
Yonder wrote:
El-Taco-the-Rogue wrote:

Balls: The go-to when it comes to comparatives!

Breakfast was tasty as balls.

My balls are painful as balls.

Balls like a fox's balls!

Fixed that for you.

I went tanning today in a booth, something I never ever wanted to do. It was slightly terrifying as well. However, I was recently diagnosed with Pityriasis Rosea. It is an annoying skin condition with no known cause or any treatment. I end up having to wait it out and this thing can last 6 weeks to 6 months. The itchy and red spots just go away on their own. I have tried all sorts of creams, lotions, and a bottle of Benadryl in the last 5 weeks. After much research online, many other suffers have said that tanning helps relieve the symptoms and to encourage the spots to go away sooner. I don't how much it worked today but now I have a slight pinkness to my skin.

I'm not huge on tanning...but i love tanning beds(i only go 2-3 times a year)...its extremely relaxing to me...especially in the winter.. its one of the few times i actually feel WARM.

The key is to have music and keep your eyes closed... then you won't be thinking about how you are in a coffin.

I used to go tanning before scuba vacations before I decided the melanoma wasn't worth it. I always looked forward to it because it was so damn relaxing basking in uv radiation, half asleep, for 20 minutes or so on my lunch break.

Snow... And bad ankles.

It was cool and everything going home from work early, but the twice as long commute, the fact that I don't get paid for the lost hours, and the ungodly pain of dislocating an ankle trying to dig out my car (so I don't have to do it in the morning) is totally suck. Very angry right now, and in a lot of pain. Not a good combination.

Snow.

And people in this area's inability to drive in it.

But mostly snow.

Rob_Anybody wrote:

Snow... And bad ankles.

It was cool and everything going home from work early, but the twice as long commute, the fact that I don't get paid for the lost hours, and the ungodly pain of dislocating an ankle trying to dig out my car (so I don't have to do it in the morning) is totally suck. Very angry right now, and in a lot of pain. Not a good combination.

Man, I am really sorry to hear that man. I hope you feel better soon and that you have some good pain medication.

Incredibly slow and failure prone PS3 firmware updates.

I haven't minded PS3 updates much the past 6 months to a year because it had seemed that they had finally fixed their infrastructure and fixed the update speed. Unfortunately, my luck seems to have ended tonight. 3.56 is coming down REALLY slow and has failed out 6 times already.

Holla wrote:

I'm not huge on tanning...but i love tanning beds(i only go 2-3 times a year)...its extremely relaxing to me...especially in the winter.. its one of the few times i actually feel WARM.

The key is to have music and keep your eyes closed... then you won't be thinking about how you are in a coffin.

I brought along my ipod today and it wasn't as bad. Hearing my favorites songs made it easier to relax and I knew I only had to get through 2 songs before I was done. However, my skin condition is starting to clear up after 2 sessions.

Unknown Soldier wrote:

I used to go tanning before scuba vacations before I decided the melanoma wasn't worth it. I always looked forward to it because it was so damn relaxing basking in uv radiation, half asleep, for 20 minutes or so on my lunch break.

I have the hardest time relaxing in those things. I feel so exposed and purposely letting my skin bake still scares me a bit because of the whole melanoma thing.

My new haircut. I swear, anything remotely 'sensible' (aka. Cut above the eyes) inevitably looks like pants on me.

For once, I would like the two people I am theoretically in charge of here at work to listen to me and follow my instructions.

I thought being on the receiving end of a breakup was bad. I feel like a total asshole.

Grubber788 wrote:

I thought being on the receiving end of a breakup was bad. I feel like a total asshole.

There's no good end on a breakup. It's a big sphere of horrible.

Grubber788 wrote:

I thought being on the receiving end of a breakup was bad. I feel like a total asshole.

Been in the same spot recently. The sad thing is, you feel like you deserve to feel that way and feel like you are worthless. At least, that's the way I feel. Hope it gets better with time.

Driving to montreal on a saturday. Then running out of wiper fluid. It was ok while it was snowing because there was enough moisture to keep the wipers happy. Then it dried out and I was driving like this:

IMAGE(http://i.imgur.com/fVVVH.jpg)

Yeah that happened to me earlier this winter. Really terrible.

My 3.5 year-old daughter is sick. Went to the doctor. They said she had an ear infection. Gave us meds. Two days later she seems worse. I know it takes time for the meds to work, but she's miserable. And I don't handle this well. I'm helpful and do what she needs but every time she coughs my chest constricts and I get more and more stressed out. Don't know if we'll take her to the hospital today or what. But this is killing me. I'd much rather be sick myself.

That sounds awful. I know I'd be terrified if a child got sick.

Hope she gets better, man.

From my experience during my pediatrics rotation, I can tell you two things:

1) Children get sick all the time, especially when school starts, and they're amazingly resilient.

2) Children get their parents sick all the time, especially when school starts, and the parents aren't quite so resilient.

Bonus! 3) Children whine a lot less about being sick than adults do.

lostlobster wrote:

My 3.5 year-old daughter is sick. Went to the doctor. They said she had an ear infection. Gave us meds. Two days later she seems worse. I know it takes time for the meds to work, but she's miserable. And I don't handle this well. I'm helpful and do what she needs but every time she coughs my chest constricts and I get more and more stressed out. Don't know if we'll take her to the hospital today or what. But this is killing me. I'd much rather be sick myself.

Give it time...

Coldstream wrote:

2) Children get their parents sick all the time, especially when school starts, and the parents aren't quite so resilient.

Absolutely this! We've finished one of the worst winters I can remember down here for kids colds. Between the two of them (we have a 17 month old, and an 'almost 3' year old) we only had one week out of the whole season where no-one was ill. The downside of "cuddles" when they aren't feeling their best, but, the only downside I might add (if you don't count being covered in all sorts of sticky, funky coloured stuff).

Freezing rain, snow, scrapping my truck windows, and shoveling snow. I am so ready for spring.

Pretendbeard wrote:

My new haircut. I swear, anything remotely 'sensible' (aka. Cut above the eyes) inevitably looks like pants on me.

I'm in the same boat; my hair doesn't grow out well at all. My suggestion: shave your head.

Coldstream wrote:

From my experience during my pediatrics rotation, I can tell you two things:

1) Children get sick all the time, especially when school starts, and they're amazingly resilient.

2) Children get their parents sick all the time, especially when school starts, and the parents aren't quite so resilient.

Bonus! 3) Children whine a lot less about being sick than adults do.

1 and 2 are absolutely the truth. If you think 3 is true, then you're obviously not a parent, because that's who kids whine to. Parents don't get to whine to their kids, so they whine at other adults(like Doctors).

Having to wait almost a week to find out the results of a test that will determine my future...argh the anxiety knots are going to kill me!

http://www.accuweather.com/us/ne/lin...

I feel ya. Screwed our plans rather neatly.

Coldstream wrote:

From my experience during my pediatrics rotation, I can tell you two things:

1) Children get sick all the time, especially when school starts, and they're amazingly resilient.

2) Children get their parents sick all the time, especially when school starts, and the parents aren't quite so resilient.

Bonus! 3) Children whine a lot less about being sick than adults do.

Yeah, 1 and 2 have been my life since this past September. But up until now it's been just bad cold after bad cold. This has been much different: she's been spiking fever of 104 at times, has terrible coughing jags (so bad that she burst a blood vessel in one eye), and her eyes are crusting shut with the gunk draining through her tear ducts. She's taking it like a trooper for the most part. I only bring it up because it makes me feel horrible and stressed and, well, I loathe it.

We think that the meds might be starting to work, though. Fingers crossed. If so, I'll be posting in that other thread. About things you love.

Furnaces. Specifically, blower motors in furnaces that die at, oh say noon on a Sunday, when the repair guy can't get here until some time Monday morning.

It is currently 13C in my house, and I'm sitting in two pairs of sock, two pairs of pants, a sweater and my bathrobe with two space heaters on. And I can barely feel my fingers.