Say something random about you (Part 5)

Poor little feather ball. May he chirp long and loudly in Animal Heaven.

Random:

The last days of my summer bliss are dwindling away. I have one more full week before I have to start moving my head back into work space. In that one week, I have several major projects to complete.

Finally, after two years, I will rotary hoe the other, larger garden bed in preparation for planting. Researching the right combination and dosage of compost, chook manure, gypsum etc has been time-consuming and frustrating. So I may go with the theory of tossing it all together and hoping for the best.

A corner near my back steps needs work too. Just simple pavers before putting the bird bath and potted rose bushes in place.

Lastly, I have been delaying this one - removing all of the small filler stones in my front pathway, lifting and cleaning the non-working glue from the bottom of various siltstone and slate pieces and then using a tougher-than-Superman adhesive instead to hold it all together.

What will really shatter me after so long away from work???

The loss of my afternoon nap.

Nay wrote:

rotary hoe

Never knew the Rotary Club has hoes.

DK, condolences on little birdy. Do you have any idea what happened?

Nay, you have more discipline and stamina than me to take all that on.

Donna, I'm so sorry about your bird. Ditto Julie's question: Do you know what happened?

I'm not sure. He was fine and dandy just a couple of days ago, then Tuesday night I came home from work and he didn't do much. I thought maybe he was just tired or came down with a cold. Birds can have heart attacks and strokes, though. I do know he would occasionally fall off his perch in the night and wouldn't be able to get back up. It must have been something genetic. I've had several birds and know they can get pneumonia, but then it isn't so sudden and they close their eyes. He died with his eyes open. He probably had a bad heart or something.

Sounds like he had problems for a while, to fall off and not get back up. I don't know anything about birds except they're a lot higher maintenance than cats. And they're a lot more colorful.

I'm sorry you had to lose him. But at least you gave him such a nice and loving home while he was with you.

i. hate. humidity.

feel for ya, naynay!

I feel for you too, Nay. I don't handle heat well either. So I know it might sound crazy to those who know just how humid New Orleans gets that I moved here. I'm not happy that we've been having such warm weather here in the winter. It's 68 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius) here at 2:45 in the morning. This does not bode well for what the summer's going to be like if the winter's this warm. I've been here in the summer. I believe July and August in New Orleans are two of Dante's levels of Hell. Just sayin'.

atlanta's summer humidity is like that all the time. i don't mind heat so much, but humidity sucks. i need to move.

For all you humidity haters, think about this:
The humidity keeps your skin hydrated. Your skin does not lose as much water as in drier places. Compare your skin, especially your faces and hands, to someone who lives in drier places. You'll find that someone your age looks a lot older because of their drier skins that are full of wrinkles.

I'm used to seeing humidity drenched faces here in southeast Texas. When I judge Northerner's faces, I find I usually err around 10 years too old, e.g. a 40 year-old Yankee looks 50 to me.

I complain about the humidity, too. It's wet here. Every surface grows mold and mildew and eventually ivy. And I'm doing it without looking like an unwrapped mummy. (Being fat also contributes to the un-mummy look.)

i moisture a LOT anyway, so i'd like to give it a shot. it would be nice to be able to actually get my makeup ON before it runs off and to not have frizzy hair, and to be able to breathe................

When the air is dry, my hair gets all staticcy and frizzlike when I'm trying to brush it.

mine is curly, so i don't brush it. non humid air makes it all curly and fun. humid air makes it look like a brillo pad and no amount of product helps at all!

While we're on the subject of hair and frizziness.....I have really thick hair. When I pull it back in a ponytail, especially after washing it, I get all these little frizzy, baby hairs sticking out that make me look messy. Since they're baby hairs, and not the length of the rest of my hair, they don't get pulled back as much as the rest of the ponytail because they're too short.

Any suggestions about what to do to make frizzy baby hairs stay down? I've tried using shampoos and conditioners that are supposed to moisturize dry hair, and I've tried putting a creamy gel thing on it after I wash it, while it's still wet. Nothing works. I guess I need something to slick that stuff back once it's in the ponytail.

I have the same problem, so if you find an answer....share with me please?

Were you flipping the old cow the bird?

Note to self: When "Liking" a Facebook status, make sure no one from Thailand is reading.



Subnote: Thailand's thumb is epically long. It's mesmerizing.

That's actually new to me. I lived there for years. I didn't know the Vietnam or Philliphines ones either. Might have to do with me leaving that part of the world just as I turned teens. Hmm...don't know the French one, but I know the rest.

The thumb can't be obscene. That's the finger used by health workers to demonstrate proper condom use.

LegoJulie wrote:

The thumb can't be obscene. That's the finger used by health workers to demonstrate proper condom use.

Um, are you sure? Think about what that thumb is representing in the condom demonstration.

I don't think polite society would use an obscene gesture in a medical demonstration. Or maybe that's why I (and kids my age) don't think of it as an obscene gesture, just a medical one. Or maybe it's a new one, after the condom thing.

When condoms were first introduced, doctors and nurses would stick up their thumb and roll a condom down the thumb. Not long after there came the joke that some farmer's wife still got pregnant even while her husband used a condom. They asked the husband how he used it, and he said like they showed him, by putting the condom on his thumb.

I was in 4th or 5th grade when family planning programs were instituted by the government. Condoms, pills, IUDs, vasectomies, spermicides, and family planning sessions were all subsidized. If they can pay, it's a token (like 25 cents for a month's worth of pills), if not, it's free. I learned about all those by studying posters and brochures. The posters have the products glued to them in the appropriate places. The condoms came in bright candy colors, and were smaller than the ones I've seen in the US. Probably racist to mention that.