DTF Chat Thread v. OMG Guys it's a new Chat Thread

[JustJen]

Morning blob, Jen, and Axe. Jen I love going to school, if I could spend my life collecting degrees I would.

Mornin! Why not spend your life collecting degrees? As long as you go to school your student loan payments stay on hold and you don't have to pay on them. Just keep going to school and taking out loans until the day you die.

[jingle.boy]

Rise and shine campers.  Gonna be a great looking weekend.  Draining the hot tub, and washing the vehicles is on tap for me today.

Draining hot tub... washing vehicles... on tap... so much liquid in this post! It's another rainy day here like the past five or so. No plans. The boys don't live at home and the girl is at a friend's house so it's me, three cats, and my husband for now. Hopefully we can empty this place out a little bit more over the next couple of hours. Still too many people around.

Getting rid of the cats, or husband?

[JustJen]

Rise and shine campers.  Gonna be a great looking weekend.  Draining the hot tub, and washing the vehicles is on tap for me today.

Draining hot tub... washing vehicles... on tap... so much liquid in this post! It's another rainy day here like the past five or so. No plans. The boys don't live at home and the girl is at a friend's house so it's me, three cats, and my husband for now. Hopefully we can empty this place out a little bit more over the next couple of hours. Still too many people around.

Getting rid of the cats, or husband?

Nobody better ever try to get rid of my cats. I love my cats.

[ReaperKK]

Speaking of cats our one and only cat really pissed me off last night. We have her claws capped because she tears at the furniture, she got a few caps off and chasing her down our small apartment was a disaster.

However when she came to cuddle with me at the end of the night I was ready for her and grabbed her.

[Crow]

last.fm decided it's done scrobbling windows media player plays forever now, because it's a trash program
how do i fix, i've been using this for like a month and it's already pissed me off multiple times 

[axeman90210]

Drinking beer, brewing beer, and I've got the Winery Dogs cranked. Today is pretty

[Hyperplex]

So far today:

Woke up at 6:30 and mowed the lawn. Left the house at 9 to get to a service appointment for some modifications on my car. Waited for it to be ready, drove home. When I got home I found a baby bird on my front porch with no nest in sight. We put a heat pack under a towel and laid the bird in a box and rushed it to a wildlife rescue. We just arrived at my in-laws for a small get-together.

[King Postwhore]

Sushi before Spock's Beard!

[JayOctavarium]

Sushi before Spock's Beard!

Hooters before Dream Theater! 

[King Postwhore]

 

[axeman90210]

[JayOctavarium]

Fun night. Ate at Hooters. Chilled with Deb. Saw Dream Theater.

[JustJen]

Mornin all. I have a gnarly subconjunctival hemorrhage. Don't google it unless you're ready to look at pics that look like they're out of a horror movie. I am literally hemorrhaging out my eye. It's bizarre. Fuckin' eyes.

But I has so it's all good.

[King Postwhore]

I saw that picture.  Ouch.

[JustJen]

I saw that picture.  Ouch.

It feels like pink eye or maybe even not that annoying so at least there's that. But it's annoying because my right eye is the one that's going bad quickest. I just don't want/need anything else interfering with it. The family doctor says it's "just" what it is, and will go away on it's own but I can't help but worry that my glaucoma specialist will take a look at it on Tuesday and give me a hard time for not calling last Wednesday when it all started.

I wouldn't be able to blame him.. last July I woke up with my right eye unable to see properly but I decided to take my daughter to Van's Warped Tour instead of calling him and by the time I called him the sight was permanently affected in the center of my vision - but to be fair, they couldn't have done anything to stop it anyway and I don't need my eye to listen to the music.

But still, I don't want the blood supply to get messed up and cause even more issues. The whole thing is screwed up considering I had 20/20 vision (better according to my eye doctor) right up until diagnosis of glaucoma a year and a half ago. Then everything started happening at one in my right eye and now it's got permanent optic nerve damage such that the pupil doesn't dilate the same as the other one. Depending on what order you shine light into them sometimes one pupil is wide open and one is small.

Now I have driving glasses in my car for distances and another pair of reading glasses at my computer for close-up stuff. That doesn't make me feel old or anything. 

None of this is said to ask for sympathy, I guess it's just a lack of any friends or family in my life to share information with. Might as well purge it all somewhere and then keep on keepin' on without that baggage to carry.

(edited to add: I really just want to be able to keep driving as long as possible. I need that freedom. Not sure if people with vision in only one eye can keep doing that but where there's a will there's a way. And for now I still pass my visual field tests.)

[Prog Snob]

Morning

[jingle.boy]

Morning

Whasup Johhny-boy?

@Jen... sorry to hear all this. I got no words.  Gettin old sucks.

[Prog Snob]

Not too much, yet. I'm heading out to get some coffee and then who knows from there. You?

[JustJen]

Morning

Whasup Johhny-boy?

@Jen... sorry to hear all this. I got no words.  Gettin old sucks.

thanks, that it does. but not as much as having to go to high school.

[JustJen]

Okay that's enough coffee for me, time to get a move on. For mother's day today my daughter and I shall visit my mother's grave and my son in jail before seeing my other son for a couple of hours before returning him to the halfway house where he's living while undergoing outpatient drug treatment as a last step of re-entering society.

I am so very thankful that despite all of their friends and acquaintances who overdosed and died on heroin in the past three years, that they are both still alive and in recovery. I didn't believe that they would both still be alive today, the past couple of years.

Hope you all have a lovely day.

[axeman90210]

G'morning all.

[Podaar]

Morning. Happy Motha's day to the mothas and Happy Mother's Day to you Jen. I hope you enjoy your visits!

[jingle.boy]

Okay that's enough coffee for me, time to get a move on. For mother's day today my daughter and I shall visit my mother's grave and my son in jail before seeing my other son for a couple of hours before returning him to the halfway house where he's living while undergoing outpatient drug treatment as a last step of re-entering society.

I am so very thankful that despite all of their friends and acquaintances who overdosed and died on heroin in the past three years, that they are both still alive and in recovery. I didn't believe that they would both still be alive today, the past couple of years.

Hope you all have a lovely day.

Holy smokes!  Didn't realize things went so terribly bad.    I can't even begin to imagine the pain and hurt of going through that.

[ReaperKK]

Jeez Jen, I'm sorry for all the troubles and I hope you have a good Mothers Day. I hope your eye gets better soon too.

Morning all.

[JustJen]

Morning. Happy Motha's day to the mothas and Happy Mother's Day to you Jen. I hope you enjoy your visits!

Thanks! It was awesome that visiting day is Sunday because that meant I got to see everyone on Mother's Day. Lots of parents have kids their away at college or in the military or who they just don't get along with or whatever else and can't go see them this often, and those are the lucky ones whose kids didn't OD and die.. this area is in crisis right now.. I'm in the unique position of having two boys who got in trouble in two different counties because we live on the border almost, and those counties have two very different ways of dealing with the heroin crisis (though the one boy wasn't doing that like the other one was, or at least not much.. :/ but yeah.. I mean, life happens so you roll with it..). But anyway I'm already rambling. I didn't end up seeing the one boy in the halfway house today because restaurants are so crowded, I'd rather wait until Tuesday evening and have the place to ourselves. So we'll do that.

And I hope you had a nice day as well!

[JustJen]

Okay that's enough coffee for me, time to get a move on. For mother's day today my daughter and I shall visit my mother's grave and my son in jail before seeing my other son for a couple of hours before returning him to the halfway house where he's living while undergoing outpatient drug treatment as a last step of re-entering society.

I am so very thankful that despite all of their friends and acquaintances who overdosed and died on heroin in the past three years, that they are both still alive and in recovery. I didn't believe that they would both still be alive today, the past couple of years.

Hope you all have a lovely day.

Holy smokes!  Didn't realize things went so terribly bad.    I can't even begin to imagine the pain and hurt of going through that.

thanks .. it's really been a horrific 3-4 years or so. someone said I had made a thread here at one point when I couldn't find one of my sons.. I don't recall it but chances are good it was my oldest because he used to just go out and shoot up in a public restroom wherever and pass out or anywhere else that he was he'd do that and every time of course his phone and ID and any cash or backpacks or loose clothing would be stolen because that's what these people do.. he was bad. really bad. stealing from people.. many many charges.. did quite some time in jail and then a lot of time in a few residential rehabs .. like 10 months of each if not more - then outpatient in a halfway house now for awhile.. almost done with that, then onto supportive living which is apartments with other people who are also recovering and working the twelve step program as required... but they house them in the worst drug area of town which is just ridiculous but it's the cheapest.. so they go hand in hand.. so earlier today for example he texted me to tell me he was walking back from the bus stop to the halfway house and he passed a needle and a loaded crack pipe under a bridge but he said he was just keeping on walking as he texted me and he was saying how glad he is that he can do that now.. I"m so proud of him for surviving and now thriving... he wants to be an endocrinologist and just got a volunteer job at the local hospital through a placement program at his halfway house, because he's been doing so well for so long now. a year clean or thereabouts... because yes that means he was using in jail almost the entire time. they do. it's messed up. but I don't want to keep rambling I'm sorry. 

[JustJen]

Jeez Jen, I'm sorry for all the troubles and I hope you have a good Mothers Day. I hope your eye gets better soon too.

Morning all.

Thanks Reap.. the eye will keep getting worse until it starts getting better, but I don't know at what point that will be so for now since it doesn't really hurt it's just something I get to enjoy checking out and showing people. I don't know why I do that. but it's just like CHECK THIS WEIRD THING OUT THAT I NEVER SAW BEFORE.

If I was a guy I would probably be the kind of guy who makes other guys smell the bad smells he comes across.

And Mother's Day has been somewhat quiet and uneventful which I love. My daughter made me a drawing which is obviously every mother's favorite thing to get from a kid - something handmade with thoughtfulness and love.

[Kotowboy]

How would everyone feel if Radiohead's 10th album was back to Guitar bass drums and vocals like The Bends ?



Seeing as asking it in the Radiohead thread pisses people off.

[JayOctavarium]

Jeez Jen, I'm sorry for all the troubles and I hope you have a good Mothers Day. I hope your eye gets better soon too.

Morning all.

Thanks Reap.. the eye will keep getting worse until it starts getting better, but I don't know at what point that will be so for now since it doesn't really hurt it's just something I get to enjoy checking out and showing people. I don't know why I do that. but it's just like CHECK THIS WEIRD THING OUT THAT I NEVER SAW BEFORE.

If I was a guy I would probably be the kind of guy who makes other guys smell the bad smells he comes across.

And Mother's Day has been somewhat quiet and uneventful which I love. My daughter made me a drawing which is obviously every mother's favorite thing to get from a kid - something handmade with thoughtfulness and love.

This. Is. Amazing.

[JustJen]

yeah. she's a great kid. I had no idea she was even working on it!

[Hyperplex]

This weekend was fueled by Jameson's, and was busy as everloving fuck. I learned I can still drink like a tank, but probably shouldn't anymore. And all in all it was a good and successful, albeit exhausting, couple of days. Mothers Day was a success.

[JustJen]

This weekend was fueled by Jameson's, and was busy as everloving fuck. I learned I can still drink like a tank, but probably shouldn't anymore. And all in all it was a good and successful, albeit exhausting, couple of days. Mothers Day was a success.

Glad to hear it. Your little ones are adorable and your wife is clearly a great mom, you guys are a such a beautiful family. You also give cool presents.

[King Postwhore]

Getting my Zebra on before we leave to go home tomorrow.

They sound great live still!

[Prog Snob]

What's up, guys?

[Hyperplex]

I'm guessing you watched the light saber chopstick video. That was fun.