The Ranting Thread

Subject: Re: The Ranting Thread Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:44 pm

I had one night of that. I stupidly left my window open a crack when I left for work....came home during an arctic blast to find I couldn't shut my window because the ice had sealed it stuck. So I put a towel in the fissure and wrapped myself in a blanket. It was wierd to see frost on the INSIDE.

I was miserable. So, I cannot imagine days of that. You have my sincere sympathies.

Subject: Re: The Ranting Thread Fri Jan 16, 2009 3:45 pm

Thanks! The guy left a little while ago, and the part he installed yesterday was faulty. So everything's good to go now. Smile

Oh, and I've just consumed almost an entire day's worth of calories in one meal. I hate having PMS. Suspect

It sure was good, though....lots of meat and starch.

Subject: Re: The Ranting Thread Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:49 pm

Good to know you'll be warm again!

Subject: Re: The Ranting Thread Mon Jan 26, 2009 8:02 pm

Oh look, ANOTHER winter storm.

Stupid snow.
Stupid sleet.
Stupid ice.
Stupid cold.
Stupid people not plowing my street when they should be.
Stupid rear wheel drive car.
Stupid Midwestern Winter.

I want to move to the Sahara. Well, maybe not. I don't like scorpions and big spiders and big poisonous snakes. And I'm not sure I want a pet camel who spits and farts all the time.

Maybe I'll just move to Mexico. Or maybe the Bahamas. Or Jamaica. Or I could marry a rich old dude so I won't have to work. I could just lie in bed all day when the weather is bad, wearing footie pajamas and eating stinky chips all day.

Subject: Re: The Ranting Thread Tue Jan 27, 2009 6:38 pm

Okay, I don't expect this to be of interest to anyone but me, and it may be TMI, but I just need to rant about today. I am suffering from the effects of both a bad reaction to my diet pill that I take (don't worry, it's doctor prescribed) combined with my monthly visit from Aunt Rose (some know her by her other name, Aunt Flo). I am jittery and wired, and I didn't get much sleep last night, and I'm in a smart a$$ kinda mood. I think I need to go exercise and burn some energy.....

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Subject: Re: The Ranting Thread Tue Jan 27, 2009 9:34 pm

I have dealth with side effects from different meds, including diet pills. Bouncing off the walls, overly emotional, would feel better if you could beat someone up, would kill just to get a good night sleep, gets the urge to run up and down the street nekked...... the list goes on and on, so I feel for you.

Just be careful while taking those diet pills, and let your doctor know of the side effect, especial if your heart starts racing a mile a minute.

Are you on a certain eatting plan or exercise program?

I want to buy either the Tony Hortons "10 Minute Trainer", or the "P90X". The only problem is that I don't have enough faith in myself that I would be able to do the programs. They are very intimiating to me.

Subject: Re: The Ranting Thread Tue Jan 27, 2009 9:47 pm

Birdseed wrote:: ...gets the urge to run up and down the street nekked......

I have that urge right now. Except it's extremely cold outside, and it's still snowing. It probably wouldn't be a good idea, health wise....especially given the fact that if I ran nekkid anywhere, I'd probably give myself two black eyes...much less running nekkid through the frozen Missouri tundra.

Subject: Re: The Ranting Thread Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:17 pm

Birdseed wrote:: I have dealth with side effects from different meds, including diet pills. Bouncing off the walls, overly emotional, would feel better if you could beat someone up, would kill just to get a good night sleep, gets the urge to run up and down the street nekked...... the list goes on and on, so I feel for you.

Just be careful while taking those diet pills, and let your doctor know of the side effect, especial if your heart starts racing a mile a minute.

Are you on a certain eatting plan or exercise program?

I want to buy either the Tony Hortons "10 Minute Trainer", or the "P90X". The only problem is that I don't have enough faith in myself that I would be able to do the programs. They are very intimiating to me.

Yes, I do the Weight Watchers Points System. (I don't go to the meetings. I'm using my point book and point calculator leftover from when I was a member. So, I don't think what I'm doing is their current program.) I also take an appetite suppressant and that over-the-counter drug Alli. Also, I do a treadmill for cardio and then some strength training. All this seems to be the right combination for me. I have lost quite a bit of weight. Today was just an off day. Usually, the appetite suppressant doesn't have this effect on me.

I don't know the two programs you mentioned, but I can understand that a new program might be intimidating. Only you know your unique needs and strengths and limitations. Do they have a money back guarantee or return policy on either of them? Maybe you could just try one or both of them out to see.

Subject: Re: The Ranting Thread Wed Jan 28, 2009 4:25 pm

I just spattered bright red candlewax all over my white kitchen counters. Mad

How do I clean it up???????

Subject: Re: The Ranting Thread Wed Jan 28, 2009 4:36 pm

Wax is best cleaned (and quite easily) by using brown paper or paper towel and an iron. Heat the iron and put the paper over the wax. The heat will melt it instantly and the paper will soak it up.

Subject: Re: The Ranting Thread Wed Jan 28, 2009 5:13 pm

Thanks Nay. I got most of it up by scraping it off and then using a hair dryer to heat the wax and then scrubbing it up. It was also all over my stove and appliances. Fortunately for the stove, I simply turned on the oven and got it hot enough to just wipe it down. Cleaning the coffee maker was a different story.

On a brighter note, I needed to scrub that stuff down anyway. I think that's the cleanest my stovetop has been for a while. Rolling Eyes

I'm surprised no one asked what I was doing with candlewax. Nothing kinky, I assure you. I had one of those jar candles and mom gave me a candle warmer for Christmas, so I was trying it out. When I saw that only the bottom portion of the wax was melted, I got the not so bright idea to try to "push" the hot wax to the top of the candle with a fork. When I did, it splattered all over the danged place!

Subject: Re: The Ranting Thread Wed Jan 28, 2009 5:47 pm

I don't believe this. My flipping furnace is out AGAIN! I just called them and they're going to send someone out this afternoon. It's 25F outside, and the temps will be dropping to about 17F, and the sun is going down soon. My house is dropping RAPIDLY in temperature.

I've already taken four of the five personal days I have for the entire year, and it isn't even February...and now this.

I swear, I just want to cry. Sad

Subject: Re: The Ranting Thread Wed Jan 28, 2009 10:26 pm

BIG HUGS.

Subject: Re: The Ranting Thread Thu Jan 29, 2009 2:18 am

Aww hell. Is it fixed yet? Mad

Maybe you need a super-orgasmic electric blanket like Dallas.

Subject: Re: The Ranting Thread Thu Jan 29, 2009 2:27 am

Be careful with the heat being out. We just had an elderly gentleman here in Michigan die, because the electric company had turned off his power. There is an uproar here because it hasn't been above 20 degrees but 1 day in the last 3 weeks and they are worried that more will die. Bullshit.

Subject: Re: The Ranting Thread Thu Jan 29, 2009 2:31 am

I read that story Oggs, and I even blogged about it. It infuriated me!

Yeah, he fixed the furnace. It was a fuse, so it's heating again. He does have to come back out on the weekend though, because there's another part that needs replacing.

End result: I'm getting heat, but I'm going to be out even more money before it's all finished, because this is a totally unrelated problem than the last part that went out. Rolling Eyes

Subject: Re: The Ranting Thread Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:43 am

Today, a 36 year old Melbourne man was charged with murdering his four year old daughter by throwing her over an eight storey bridge. He stopped his car on the bridge (in front of witnesses), took her out, threw her into the water and drove away with his two and seven year old sons inside. She died on the scene of massive internal injuries.

What type of mongrel would do this? This is my little niece's age.

Subject: Re: The Ranting Thread Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:10 pm

Nay, it's scumbags like that who should be strung up by their b*lls from the highest tree.

Subject: Re: The Ranting Thread Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:18 pm

Leo, it's all over the news today. Not only because the mongrel is too emotionally unstable to be assessed psychologically but because it was meant to be her first day at school.

I think this story will stay with me for a while.

Subject: Re: The Ranting Thread Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:39 pm

Let's just pray she was taken quickly.

WARM HUGS

Subject: Re: The Ranting Thread Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:45 pm

OMG, that's horrible. So he killed the girl and not the two boys? That sounds suspicious in itself.

The man does not deserve to live. At least the little girl is in heaven and isn't suffering. Can you imagine what the two little boys must be going through???

Subject: Re: The Ranting Thread Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:03 pm

How come I can't get into the off topic areas on this site, yet I can go onto MFO and see everything over 18? Even pictures????

One more week, one more week....

Subject: Re: The Ranting Thread Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:09 pm

I don't know, Alice....nothing has changed. You should be able to access everything here.

Subject: Re: The Ranting Thread Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:16 pm

Men get on my damn nerves.

Flipping walking hormonal horndogs.

Subject: Re: The Ranting Thread Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:27 pm

Details please, DK..... Very Happy

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