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Post by notoriousmkg on May 10, 2024 17:54:22 GMT
ugh i feel for you. it's so infuriating and frustrating. i also had really close calls with jewelry before. i left the house and didn't ahve time to put earrings on so just grabbed them - real gold ones - adn put them in my pants pocket and then of course forgot to put them on, and almost dropped them in the toilet when i went to pee. and another time almost did the same with a gold ring. The scariest thing I've noticed with earrings - and I'm a guy, so it's been second hand - is when the backing falls off the earring. It's bad enough not having a replacement for the teeny tiny backing if you can't find it, but then your earring itself is at risk of falling off. That being said, I did get Mrs Mo some earrings for her birthday this year and they incidentally had some kind of latch on the back. Almost impossible to unhook accidentally and fall off. |
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Post by dechayz on May 10, 2024 18:00:37 GMT
^pencil eraser! works in a pinch
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Post by notoriousmkg on May 10, 2024 18:09:44 GMT
^pencil eraser! works in a pinch Thanks! That's a pretty cool idea. |
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Post by sputnik on May 10, 2024 19:50:17 GMT
i save the little clear silicone thingies that are often sold with hook earrings to keep them secure. you can also buy them separately. they work not just to secure hook earrings but you can even use them to replace earring backs that aren't that secure, or even add the in addition to the earring backs as 'insurance'.  |
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Post by notoriousmkg on May 14, 2024 14:48:03 GMT
Rave - somehow this morning, I managed to go work out, come back home, get cleaned up, race over to our daughter's dorm and pick her up so we could go to the polling place and vote. Then, to celebrate, I took her to iHop, where we split a poblano omelet and cinnastack pancakes. Then, I sent a selfie of ourselves from the polling place with "We voted" to Mrs Mo, in Asia, who was somehow still awake at the time. Whew!
Rant - I have to help both of them move out of their dorms this week and get their stuff back into storage. That is no fun, but they have their own cars to drive, so maybe I only have to help with the big stuff this time.....?
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Post by kittylady on May 14, 2024 22:58:29 GMT
Rave: I was telling Ma Kitty about how much better I've been feeling since I started taking a high dose of B12 after finding out I was running at a pretty low level so she got some high strength supplements for herself to try. After just a little over a week of taking them there's been a very unexpected result; Ma Kitty has severe psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis and just in this short period of time since she started the B12 there's been an incredible improvement in both! She can now get about short distances now without a walking stick or her walker and her skin is showing a massive improvement. Before it wasn't unusual for her skin to crack and bleed, now she actually has clear patches of skin breaking through! I am ridiculously chuffed by all of this as she was really worrying me with how lethargic and immobile she was becoming and I was worried as hell about her. Now it's like the clock has rewound five years!
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Post by no1novice on May 15, 2024 0:50:29 GMT
Wow that is amazing news Kitty! Brilliant news!
How is Sir Catalot? Still being the pampered prince?
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Post by kittylady on May 15, 2024 17:25:10 GMT
Wow that is amazing news Kitty! Brilliant news! How is Sir Catalot? Still being the pampered prince? His Most Gracious and Supreme Highness, Milo the Most Beloved, God-King of All He Surveys, is well. If Ma Kitty cooks chops then she does an extra one just for him and she's changed the brand of sausages she gets because he likes those better. The little fucker now also has his own bedroom, which I discovered when I suggested that she turned stepdad's old bedroom into a little library/reading room and was swiftly corrected that it was now Milo's bedroom because he likes to doze on one of the chairs in there. Spoiled doesn't even begin to cover it. |
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Post by notoriousmkg on May 15, 2024 20:33:59 GMT
Rave - Tubi TV. I just discovered this free channel because Verizon had added it as a convenience to the selectable channel lineup.
I love this more than Netflix or any other channel that I'm paying money for. It's basically the streaming channel I've always been looking for.
It has SO MANY obscure, shlocky, freaking awesome movies that it will take forever to work through all of them.
As an example, it has the legendary 1979 cult horror movie "Phantasm". As a teen, I was dying to see this movie, but there is no way my parents would have taken me (they already thought I was overly preoccupied with horror movies and stories).
It also has "Basket Case"!!! This is another cult movie that I never managed to watch. About a dude named Duane who arrives in NYC and checks into a seedy hotel, with a wicker basket in tow. Spoiler alert - it contains his hideously deformed, non-verbal formerly conjoined twin, "Belial". My kids stood utterly horrified and transfixed at the scene where Belial screams and trashes a hotel room because he can telepathically sense (yes, you read that correctly), Duane kissing a girl. God, that was great.
It also has "Revenge of the Cheerleaders". Making a notable appearance in here is a 70 pounds thinner, pre-Knight-Rider David Hasselhoff, who has a shower scene that leaves nothing (and I mean that) to the imagination.
There are just so many other terrific films on there - some of them actually reputable!!
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Post by czb on May 15, 2024 20:55:49 GMT
i find tubi annoying. it doesn't save your location if you pause and go back to the show later.
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Post by no1novice on May 15, 2024 23:48:02 GMT
Wow that is amazing news Kitty! Brilliant news! How is Sir Catalot? Still being the pampered prince? His Most Gracious and Supreme Highness, Milo the Most Beloved, God-King of All He Surveys, is well. If Ma Kitty cooks chops then she does an extra one just for him and she's changed the brand of sausages she gets because he likes those better. The little fucker now also has his own bedroom, which I discovered when I suggested that she turned stepdad's old bedroom into a little library/reading room and was swiftly corrected that it was now Milo's bedroom because he likes to doze on one of the chairs in there. Spoiled doesn't even begin to cover it. This is all perfectly normal to me... BoBo gets chops too. He doesn't have his own room because hes a people-person .... Thanks for the Milo update. |
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Post by palta on May 16, 2024 19:07:39 GMT
^lol
that sounds normal around here too! my cat has a favourite liverwurst brand and yoghurt flavor (berries) that we have for her in the fridge.
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Post by kittylady on May 16, 2024 22:36:33 GMT
His Most Gracious and Supreme Highness, Milo the Most Beloved, God-King of All He Surveys, is well. If Ma Kitty cooks chops then she does an extra one just for him and she's changed the brand of sausages she gets because he likes those better. The little fucker now also has his own bedroom, which I discovered when I suggested that she turned stepdad's old bedroom into a little library/reading room and was swiftly corrected that it was now Milo's bedroom because he likes to doze on one of the chairs in there. Spoiled doesn't even begin to cover it. This is all perfectly normal to me... BoBo gets chops too. He doesn't have his own room because hes a people-person .... Thanks for the Milo update. Milo has claimed the bedroom because the sun hits that side of the bungalow in the afternoon and it gets seriously toasty in there. He's a people-person when there's no chance of him cooking himself lol. |
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Post by notoriousmkg on May 17, 2024 17:22:16 GMT
Rant - this ranks in my highest pantheon of clueless stuff I have done:
Yesterday, it was unexpectedly sunny and dry in our area. So, I rushed out at lunch time (working from home) to cut the grass. As I was cutting I notice that the cut pattern was WILDLY uneven on my lawn - to the point where the mower blades were gouging a groove in the grass. I got off the tractor, put some lifts on my drive way and then drove it up to elevate it to see if one of my blades was bent. Nope, blades were fine.
I went back to cutting - and it still looked horrible.
So, now I figured that the platform where the twin mower blades were attached had come loose on one side - nope, both attached.
Then, I figured that the screws that adjust the balance on the mower-blade platform had come aligned. So, I cranked the blades up on the right side, and lowered them on the left. It barely made a difference.
I figured at that point, I would just try to finish the lawn - as ugly as it looked and then call a mechanic afterward. Right when I finished, I hopped off and realized that my rear tire on the right side was completely flat. THAT is why it was mowing in such a screwed up way. I connected an electric pump to the tire and it looks like it is holding enough air to cut the lawn before it goes south again. But now I need to readjust the platform that I unnecessarily "adjusted".
And after all of that, after work, I still needed to go down with my son and daughter to campus and help him move most of his stuff out of his dorm room.
Rave - his dining hall has great food. I had some kind of amazing ravioli, meat-lovers pizza slice, basmatic rice with red-lentil curry, and a chili-cheese all-beef hotdog. And that's just the stuff I can remember.
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Post by kittylady on May 20, 2024 23:36:32 GMT
Rant: A friend asked me to go with them to an appointment to find out about a work-from-home/flexible hours job opportunity. I was suspicious from the outset as what little information I had beforehand was giving off MLM vibes but they swore up and down that it couldn't be anything as shifty as an MLM because they were referred to it by their Work Coach at the local job centre.
Spoiler: It was an MLM.
The whole meeting was full on cult enthusiasm. The two women conducting the appointment did their best to divide and conquer us, everything is happy-happy-joy-joy, everybody wins, greatest job ever, superb money making opportunities... Oh and by the way, you aren't working for us because you'll be self-employed as one of our "partners" but never mind about not getting any holidays or sick pay or worker protections because you'll have So. Much. Freedom! And don't forget to get all your friends and family to sign up for package we're offering and if they love it (and they will! They really, really will!!!) and decide to become one of our "partners" too then you get a bonus for everyone they sign up! You could soon be the head of your own team! Isn't that wonderful?
Total bullshit and a waste of an hour. I feel sorry for anyone who gets sucked into this crapfest.
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