Good Morning Oh Kee Pa (Part 1)

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#11841

:wave: Matt. Hope the South America trip goes well and is over quickly.

btw, I have a plan for the first day of travel that will link you and Heather to Marie and I. We’ll be leaving for Alexandria Bay on the morning of the 8th from Marie’s sister’s house outside of Middletown NY. That will mean lunchtime will come around the halfway point which should put us in or near Syracuse. Am thinking of taking her to…

:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: for Dinosaurs Bar-B-Que

Raining in central Joisey at the moment and will be on and off for the next couple of days. It’s a good thing as I just finished tatching and re-seeding the front lawn just in time for some natural watering.

Finished my yard work yesterday just before picking Jaime up for 'Wednesdays with Papa". We made a visit to Gamestop before coming here as he saved some money to buy a new game for his X-Box, something about Transformers. He was real excited about getting it.

When we got here, he wanted to play whiffleball, so we quickly set up the ground rules for our games in the backyard and went at it. Typically he bests me everytime, but yesterday, team Papa came out on top 3-1 in four innings. The oddest thing was happening during the game.

Almost everytime the ball hit the ground in an isolated spot, this white cabbage butterfly would chase after it and touch it. It was the bizarrest thing I’d ever seen. Don’t know whether he was a horny little devil who had found his big round white mate or what, but he was persistent in his pursuit of the whiffleball. Definitely made our game all the more interesting to say the least.

Have a stellar Thursday o great and wonderful OKP.

#11842

Welp, when it rains, it pours.
Not only are things on the home front sinking slowly, but I just got the dreaded meeting/letter with my boss’s boss yesterday.
Due to “corporate restructuring” my services with my company will no longer be needed as of the end of October.
So there you have it, good chance of losing my marriage and my job in the same month!
Can’t believe this is part of some grand plan. Having a hard time wrapping my head around all of this, and the person that I would normally turn to, wants nothing to do with me…

Have yourself a grand ol’ day Pa…

#11843

^ {{{{{vibes}}}}}

#11844

:clap: :clap: :clap:

It was nearly a decade and a half ago that doojette captured my heart with that sweet, tender, smokey meat… well, and her beautiful smile, of course… :shifty: She worked the take-out counter so if you go in the room on the Willow Street side where the take-out is, you will see the spot where I would come to visit her every night. You two will have an awesome time! Give 'cuse my love! And what a nutty butterfly! :laughing:

And, with that folks, I’m off to South America. Should be an interesting time-- I, too, hope it is over quickly!

EDIT: Damn, Chris-- I am sorry to hear you’re going through such a rough time right now. We are here for you whenever you need to let it all out…

#11845

+1
Consolation words can marginalize the problems, so I won’t try. Just keep an open mind because there are a million ways to look at things, it’s all about perspective.

don’t forget the four agreements:

1- be immaculate with your word
2- don’t take anything personally
3- don’t make assumptions
4- always do your best

#11846

^^^Don’t lose heart, man. For every valley, there is a peak on the either side. I swear!

Pretending I’m on central time today, so good morning :slight_smile:

Feeling a little under the weather today. Sinus drainage is driving me crazy.

Woke up at 2:30 this morning and managed to fall back to sleep for maybe an hour total since.

I wish I could go ahead and take my maternity leave now, but seeing how Holt lost his job, I’m the sole breadwinner at present. It’s looking like he’s going to have to be a stay at home dad for the foreseeable future because daycare is almost $1000/month and he doesn’t make much more than that. I feel sorry for him, but everybody makes their own choices and he chose to drop out of college to travel the country. Now he’s paying the piper…see what I did there? HA!

Speaking of Piper, the countdown continues. Less than 5 weeks left and still lots to do. Feeling pretty wiped out most of the time. Finding a comfortable position to sit or sleep in is quite challenging. I’m really over being pregnant!

Anywho, hope everyone is doing well.
Peas!

#11847

^^Damn Kevin, I really needed to read that right now. Thank you.

#11848

HAppy vibes and such to all of you in this, THE MOST AWESOMEST THREAD ON THE BOARD!!!

Seriously, hope everything pans out for all of you!

Thursday here.

Not really morning, but I was in a major meeting this morning with our largest client.

What’s that?

How’d it go??

Ohhh, lets just

WE FUCKING NAILED IT!!!

GAME SET MATCH IT’S OVER!!

SEAL THE DEAL!!!

Okay, fine.

Later on Pa’rty people

#11849

yeah thats good stuff, +2

pretty much sending vibes to everyone who is having a rough time of things, we all need it… but a little extra to Chris there…

worked night shift yesterday or today or whatever it is. came home slept 3 whole hours and im up… ill crash tonight. last week i had full blown panic attacks all day after the night shift, WASNT FUN. Today is better. I slept 12hrs the night before last and 11 hrs the night before that… i was george w. bush’d.

have a good day

#11850

Cool story, sir. We get these in the backyard and I used to love hanging back and just watching the cabbage butterflies flitter about. I used to catch butterflies as a kid and these guys were, by far, one of the biggest pains to get ahold of…they would NEVER land on anything for more than a split second. So full of energy…

Good Lord. This is one of things where I would just jump in the car and just put on Phish’s entire catalog and wouldn’t stop until it was done. Then I’d get out and live at wherever I stopped. Major vibes, sir. Things can only look up.

#11851

Morning Pa. Currently sitting in the emergency room. Ive had a little head cold the last 2 days and was beat. I had big plans to go to bed very early tonight. Laid down around 9 and had this sudden chest congestion, tried to clear it & couldn’t; kept coughing and coughing and then tasted blood. I got up and went to the bathroom and coughed up blood. Not just bloody phlegm, but actual blood. I freaked out a little but felt like I cleared my chest a little and decided to lie back down. As soon as I did, I started wheezing and coughing again like my lungs were just filling. Got up & brought up a lot more dark blood. Basically had a panic attack but managed to get myself down to the hospital. Going on 5 hours here. I think im doing better. I’m not rattling when I breathe, but I’m still bringing up blood if something comes out. Had a chest xray and a CT. Im freaked out. Nothing like this has ever happened before. I’m scared to find out something bad. I know my parents would be upset that I didn’t call them but I hate to worry them and I’m glad they didn’t have to sit here all this time.

Thanks for being there Pa. Typing a post this long on your phone really helps pass time.

#11852

Hope everything is OK Katie. Read up on some of the causes for coughing up blood and not all of them are ‘serious’. It could have come from all the heavy duty coughing you were doing from the congestion. It could also be from bronchitis or pneumonia, which aren’t good, but certainly treatable. Hoping it was just internal stress from the coughing.

^+11 Chris, don’t really know what can help at the moment. You’ve definitely hit an incredibly tough time in your life. We’ve all lost a job and a love, but never at the same time. Has to be unbelievably scary for you at the moment. Maybe this is a turning point in your life, or just a coincidence of extremely bad circumstances. Doesn’t really matter. Bottoming out, crashing to the ground, and then finding some way to move on is all that’s pertinent. Feel free to PM and maybe we can brainstorm together. Or PM just to objectify your thoughts. Will do what I can for you. We all will.

^+7 Must be getting really uncomfortable for you now Ollie. And a little scary. Holt being out of work at a time like this doesn’t help, I’m sure. But then again, when Piper arrives, I think all of those worries will disappear for a bit. Babies have such unbelievable power to change your outlook on life. And when that happens, we tend to get back on track to make it all work again. Hope the next five weeks go quickly for you.

Morning 'Pa. Nothing really to report except maybe a telemarketer who got my cell phone number and has been harrassing me at all hours. Just updated my number on the donotcall registry and am about to contact Verizon to block this number permanently. Telemarketers! Grrrrrrrrr!

Have a great end to the week.

#11853

Good morning. Ish. Lisa and I are starting counseling this afternoon to see if we can work out a serious issue we’re having. I’m pretty hopeful that things will work out, but I’ve never done anything like this so I’m pretty panicked at the moment. I envision having to talk a lot about my feelings and shit, and I don’t do that well. I have a low threshold for emotional discomfort. It’s probably not nearly as big of a deal as I’m making it out to be, and certainly people are going through more painful struggles (eg some of the folk in this here thread) and I’ve certainly been through worse. But, I realized I’m pretty anxious this morning and I guess I needed to just throw that out there for some reason.

Anywho life is still pretty damn good and I feel fortunate to be sucking air today so I spose it’s time to get some work done. And some coffee done.

#11854

Right on dude. Good luck today, I can see how those 4 agreements might be handy. There’s a fifth one you know, I just found out about it last month in Disney of all places. It’s something to the effect of ‘doubt everything, even what you tell yourself, but always be ready to learn’, some shit like that. I been me thru some counseling. Sheeeeiiit.

Morning. Got up early, smooth morning that included a dentist appointment for the youngest, and two coffees before I even got into the office.

Went to a dinner event function thing that was more schmancy than fancy last night, ate way too much food like a dummy and went home to do nothing but sleep. There are worse things.

#11855

^^Shit, Doug, sorry to hear you’re panicked over this. Know it’s hard to lay yourself out in counselling, but you always have the control to stop it wherever you need to. There’s no need to be stressed since we all have those limits, that’s why we only do what we can do.

That you believe she is worth going through this, is really the point.

#11856

Wow, some shit going on in here! I hope everything works out for you all in the best possible way!!

Had a burst of good news this morning. I applied for pregnancy medicaid over a month ago and finally (after my case worker retired and forgot about me!!) got an approval which is a HUGE load off our financial backs. I can’t tell you how stressed I’ve been over this since my husband lost his job at the beginning of August. Having to pay outright for a c-section would have been a financial nightmare. Someone needs to explain to Mitt Romney that this is exactly the sort of situation these programs exist for. As it stands now, the birth won’t cost us a penny and we’ll actually have a nice little chunk returned to us since we’ve already paid the insurance deductible to the obgyn office. Like I’ve been telling my husband, life is peaks and valleys and there is nothing better than hitting a slight peak when you’re down in a valley. All I can say is WHEW!!

Anywho, it’s Friday! No real plans for the weekend as I’m unable to do most anything, lol. Have a few projects in mind for the nursery, so hopefully I’ll get those tackled. Other than that, I’m going to cook a bunch of food and enjoy the down time. These are the times I feel most content.

Hope you all have a great one!
Peas.

#11857

Wow hope Katie is ok… glad she’s getting immediate care…

^glad you got aid LP… though don’t know where you heard that Romney is trying to take away financial help for perinatal women…

little rainy here today… good luck to everyone…

#11858

^I didn’t mean pregnant women specifically. I was just jabbing at all the programs he wants to cut funding to.

#11859

Hey everybody. I’m glad to report clear catscan results. What a relief, since the doctor who saw me one time for about 30 seconds told me he was ordering the CT to see if I had a tumor or AVM (who would say that to someone?) and proceeded to get me pretty fucking freaked. I got sent home about 2:40 am with a prescription for an antibiotic. It was a pretty terrible ER experience overall, the length of the wait, the staff, the whole poorly organized system; one of those that you can’t believe still happens in 2012. Still not sure what happened as it came on very very suddenly with no prior chest congestion or coughing, and actually started again acutely the second I got back in bed after getting home from the hospital. Still bringing up blood today but its not as much or fresh like last night. I’m unsure about taking the antibiotic actually, because I’m opposed to them being thrown at everything and not even sure of what I have to know antibotics are the right treatment. I’m going to try some other things first and take it if things get worse or all else fails. Thanks for your concern.

I feel like a self-centered jackoff with 2 consecutive long posts about ME, especially when there are others having such a rough go of it. I am thinking of you all and wishing the best for you. Sparky, I wish I had a magic wand that could make everything OK. So sorry for what you’re going through.

#11860

It’s not even a question… :open_mouth: