Sweet fun-loving-highly-spirited Len,

Do not think for one second that Cannuckle-heads (sp?) cannot lose their temper or be something other than nice.
Bah!

I for one am quite the little devil mwahahaha, ahem, at times, AND I enjoy it fully.

You almost make it sound like the Perils of Pauline or Batman. Holy dyspepsia; is this the end of Mumsie? Tune in next week, same Mumsie time, same Mumsie channel.

That thread is just plain wack.

I LOVE THIS PLACE.

I (almost) feel normal!

I couldn't even get through the first page without feeling icky. What is wrong with some people nowadays

Thank you for being (reasonably) well-grounded and normal, Canada Forum. Even that Len stinker.

Glad you qualified it.


Oh dear, looks like we lost another one.

I feel unloved

Man alive! I don't get it! Did anyone else have parents that felt like because you were moving away that you didn't love them?

She seemed happy for us for a long time and now, a month until I possibly move and she spills all of this on me. ~sighs~ All because I need more stress and anxiety in my life!

P.S. LEN, I LOVE YOU!

Tell you folks to grab a cookie.

Hey Sis, I kid because I love. and some red roses for a blue lady.

Oh boy. I think she's going to get it now. The fiance is about to email her. I know he'll be reasonably nice, but I'm sure he'll tell her to back off. ~sighs~ What a mess?!

Oh and Len...I'd give her a million cookies if it would make a difference! ~giggles~ A difference other than making her diabetes go crazy!

Sorbitol to the rescue!

The fiance should be as classy as possible, something along the lines of, "B-otch, you must be trippin'."

Thanks bro, I really need that today.

Oh I'm sure he will be. He's really diplomatic.

$1,000 in repairs for the car today Guess I shouldn't complain much, I have had the car for 5 years now and have only needed to replace the battery once, get new brake pads once since I bought it. But, that is a hefty bit of cash (I live by cash and refuse to put anything on credit cards) and I can already feel my wallet getting lighter as I think about it.

Stoopid timing belts!!!

What kind of car and what was the mileage? Timing belts are easy (a few skinned knuckles and a pry bar will do it) but a timing chain is a b*tch. $1000 for a timing chain replacement is not exorbitant. It is a very labour intensive job, first you need to pull the engine.....


Yes, he is nothing if not diplomatic.

No problem, what else are brothers for?

I love the Canadian Forum
Sometime i feel like we are the people with the most common sense (seriously)...

Well, i still have the right to be crazy i am french from france too (after all in the i want her out thread i said that sometime you wonder by how true are thoses relationships when you see a tiny cute 19 yo philippino 110lb against a big 350lb 50 yo... that's so shamefull to have said it!.. damn it ! it's true !!!)

And no i don't judge that much because anyway, i am the bigger one between the two !

Anyway i will know in about 20 min if the packet 3 reach the place it suppose to reach and i m going nuts!!!!!

much thanks for the enlightenment

Yep, sorry, timing chain. Its a 2001 Jetta (I love my Jetta even when it's broken). I really just took it in because it has a water leak (pretty mild one but often annoying because once a month it causes the temp dummy light to trigger which triggers me to add 15oz of water) and it has an interior light on the door panel that doesn't ever turn off. After all this, the timing chain, a flange thingy for the water leak, an oil change, and a couple of fuses, its going to be about $1100.

no packet 3


perhaps tomorrow !!!!!!!!

Hopefully!!!

My package still hasn't been entered into the system, I called this morning.
Oh well
Hope everyone is having a good day!

I'm not.

Hey, it's not so bad, you can always write off the repair expense. As long as the head gasket wasn't leaking and the leak was limited to the water neck or the water pump gasket (I don't remember the layout of the engine on the Jetta) and the timing chain only stretched (if it lets go, it could destroy the engine or at least bend the valves, etc) you should get many more miles from the vehicle but timing chains are good for only 100,000 miles or so. Personally, I'd go with the s.179 depreciation and buy a luxury p/u truck, since the $25,000 SUV limit doesn't apply to trucks. But if you luv the Jetta...

*hoping another dozen roses are going to help ameliorate the conditions of my poor Sister*

I LOVE YOU LEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please smile lovey..you are awesome!

For my poor Sis.

I would go broke just trying to keep gas in one of those right now. $3.00/gallon and rising. Sheesh!

So, when are solar powered cars going to make it to the market?

Damn , I goto class and I miss so much!! lol

Len sis darling,

If you stated why the blues, then I missed it and I am sorry to not know or remember.

However, you need to:

assume the position!!!

Now.

The sweet meditative loving pose in your signature.
Go deep and find your personal nirvana.
Find a happy time and a happy place and just see it in your mind's eye.

If this doesn't work, enjoy the chocolate basket from your sweet bro!

I've been helping my bro' pick a suitable vehicle and even though he wants a 'vette, one of his associates is getting a new 620hp 'vette, it looks like he needs to settle for a truck with only a measly 450hp. Life just isn't fair. I only wish solar powered cars would get to market.

WALLPAPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

I have a story to tell.
Please get comfortable, if you are planning to read on.

sigh

This house, my sweetie's little home, has bad energy.
I felt it.
It is like a black hole.
You work and you work and there is not much progress.

I used to say if you looked up the work procrastination, you;d see my picture.
Today it is next to the word TENACITY.
Yessss.

After a few attempts and much research and a few more attempts at removing the wallpaper from the upstairs room had not been working, I refused to acknowledge that there even is an upstairs to this house.
The little I had been able to get off had revealed some letters painted underneath on the wall.
It is a swear word and a part of our anatomy.
It stars with an A and ends with an E.
Seven letters.

I knew that was a bad sign.
That was weeks ago.

Today, I did half the room.
This is an incredible feat!
And there is a secret.

Whilst working I was contemplating revealing this secret.
But first, another part to the writing on the wall.
When I removed the wallpaper from the upper part (it is like an attic), it said "Linda is an"...
My mind is so curious.
This is an old house....maybe 45 years old.
Who was Linda? and why was (is) she an....??
I knew it.
I could feel it.
This house has had too much conflict in it.
And I have been a wreck here.
Fighting the temptation to take off.. run away....until we find our new home downtown.

So tenacity was the name of the game today.
And my frustrated and angry energy (because I hate to give up/admit defeat), and tons of scraping did the job.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

You all must have heard of The Secret phenomena...well I am going to write a new The Secret.... of Wallpaper Removal; one that no one on-line knows.
Maybe I will sell it to the general public, but for you my dear VJers, I will give it for free.

The Secret of WR is this:

hot water
an industrial squirt bottle
a good scraper
tons of elbow grease
oh, and I'll throw in a personal item: my pirate sneakers from New Orleans.
Ha!

Screw the DIF and all that jazz...DIF works somewhat, and hot water actually does the trick.

I was going to VENT more, but I have poured myself a glass of cabernet sauvignon, and want to enjoy it peacefully.

I will cue up Lost from Thursday past and get lost in that.

Oh Laura...you weren't being judgmental at all! I posted early this morning that if the OP had phrased his opening post with a bit more discretion, this might not have happened at all.

Hugs...I know stress. We're tight companions lately and she makes me edgy and grumpy. Not to mention the horrible tornadoes over the weekend too. Between that and my job...ACK!!!!!

Atlanta has upwards to $150 million in damages from those tornadoes. Makes my heart hurt for those that are jobless or homeless right now, not to mention the two that died from the storms.

Hugs to everyone who is venting here Hope the stress lessens.

Laura - I read that thread (didn't have the energy to post) and thought that the OP's wording was really wonky ... so I can understand why you posted what you did. That is why I mostly post now in the Canadian forum and in the Baby Corner ... people can be so inflammatory in other threads!

Okay, here is my vent for the day:

I think I am losing my mind!!! Seriously, I have read a lot about the challenges that being pregnant poses with memory and language ability. I just read an interesting study that proposed that women lose 8% of the functioning of their brain during pregnancy. And I have had a bunch of friends that have described "baby brain" or that the baby is "sucking my memory". So, I thought I was prepared. Well, slowly, my memory has been getting worse and I am also starting to have occasional difficulty finding the words I want. For instance, in Wal-Mart, while looking right at the item I wanted, I asked hubby to get my the windshield wiper thingy (I was trying to describe washer fluid). Okay, we had a little chuckle, and honestly, even at work, we chuckle about the silly things I say.

However, today at work, it was really hard to formulate clear thoughts and voice them. And I am a fricking psychotherapist and rely on my ability to think and speak in sessions. It just seems like it is getting harder and harder to verbalize things clearly in sessions. It really stressed me out today (plus I was dealing with a challenging client so I think I noticed it more). I really want to work up until my due date at the end of May, but lordy, it is hard! My co-workers keep reminding me that it is probably not that apparent to others, and they remind me of the positive changes that are happening with some clients, but I am really feeling overwhelmed right now. (And hubby is sick in bed so unfortunately, my lovely Canadian friends, you guys get to hear me vent). ARGH!!!

Wow hon..that's crazy!
The baby is sucking on your brain!!!!

No, but seriously....that's strange....I bet you are really looking forward to mat leave so you can just relax and not have to stress about work and a baby and everything else. I'm sure your co-workers are right as well, it's probably just you noticing it, it always seems worse from the inside.

*BIG HUGS!!!*

autumnchik,

Sorry to her that you have been having some memory fog - a friend of mine referred to it as her 'sometimers'. Just a thought - babies take a lot of physical energy out of their mother's bodies as they themselves grow. Could it be that your 'fog' is nutritionally based? That there is some level of nutrient or micro-nutrient that you are short of right now because it is supplying the baby's needs? It might be something to investigate and see if taking supplemental amounts of certain minerals or vitamins might help so that you don't go short.

That is a good idea. I am going to see my doctor on Wednesday and will ask him. I do take prenatal vitamins, but it does seem like the memory fog has gotten much worse in the last 2 weeks ... I wonder if it IS something I am not getting. Thanks for suggesting that

autumnchik...I really hope you do ask your Dr. about what you might be lacking. Hopefully it's something nutritional and you can compensate for it. I experienced the same thing when I was pregnant, with similar careers, I'm sure it's maybe more noticable because we spend most of the day talking! Mine did come around the last trimester, and left after childbirth. Of course now I'm 50, and it's coming back again...and I'm not pregnant! So maybe it's some chemical in the brain that's related to hormones!
Don't let the stress exasperate the issue!

Ugh. I definitely recall the baby memory zap. And I had a good laugh whenever my friends or members of my family experienced it too. I think the worst part was the major depletion of calcium with my 2nd pregnancy. My... teeth... ached. It was so bad that I couldn't even breathe through my mouth because the air on my teeth caused too much pain. Not to worry, Autumn. It gets worse.

I hope it's nothing serious but the only thing that comes to mind is gestational diabetes. It can sometimes produce the mental fog that you complain of and can progress as the pregnancy progresses and the hormone levels change. It frequently is worse in the third trimester and a sudden drop in blood glucose can be a signal that the foetus is getting ready to show. I'm sure you'll find out on Wednesday and, if it is gestational diabetes, it can easily be treated and is only a transient condition. Of course, the alternative is that your baby is really a brain sucking alien.

Oh ya,the dreaded BSA disease!!

Hmmm. Now that you mention it.... there was that alien abduction incident that time I was driving down a deserted road. They told me it was an anal probe, though.

I'm not touching that one, not with a ten-foot speculum.

FKUING COMCAST.

Sooooo..... here I come home last night, having had the day from hellll, and try to relax and watch _________ (show name to embarrassing, and NO, it's not a reality show) and bua-ha! I DO NOT HAVE THE EFFING CHANNEL.

Hence, after bickering with the remote for a while (Bren counted 2 hours, but he's ) I phone Comcast. Turns out that after 6 months of service, the chopfkucs realized "you should not be getting that channel" AZZHOLEZ. Since when? ARGHHHHHHH.

So, I overdosed on cherry cordial ice cream. That's that.

End of rant.

Mother in Law is here.

She is great...... in small doses.

God help me.

May the Force be with you. Hang on to that bourbon... your sanity depends on it

I feel your pain.

They're nothing if not Comcrapstic. Just because you like watching Canoga Park doesn't make you a freak, it's all that other stuff. Your brother knows nothing about cable television or how to rip it off, not a thing.

I'm listening.....
and it's not Canoga Park, it's.....

Hahaha! I am actually leaning toward the brain sucking alien actually

I did have the gestational diabetes test last month and it was negative, thankfully.

BTW, thanks everyone for advice and responses ... and thanks Crikey for reminding me this will get worse!!!

The memory fog is still here ... because I forgot to come back and read responses on this thread until now!