That Itch You Can't Rant About (The Rant Thread)

[SAT 9,609]

oh he's a wiener all right.

don't get me started.....

[SAT 9,609]

ok time to make bacon.....

[SAT 9,609]

OMG we're getting hit by a vicious 30 minute storm right now. Hail, wind, rain, gale, thunder, lightning.....

[NikLR 13,227]

I finishes this thing today. 

 

[janet3 1,170]

21 hours ago, N-o-l-a said:

 

The poison ivy thing isn't a traditional allergy, but rather a built up of sensitivity to the oils. I think it is just a whether it will happen the 3rd time you touch it or the 9000th time that varies person to person. Not that it isn't similar to allergies in the sensitivity thing.

 

Pro tip: if you wash with soap right away, the oils can't do their magic. It is the sitting on the skin for hours that does it.

 

Baby box elder trees look a ton like poison ivy. I can't tell them apart, so if it looks like it could be the devil's plant, I stay away.

 

You are SPOT ON....I wasn’t allergic to it until I was thirty...happily skipping along through the Ivy....until BOOM....it literally changed over a week....head to toe misery (plus some steroid shots). Now I can get it from the dogs 🙄....they touch it then lie on my feet ☹️ And Technu (I will check the spelling) works the best to remove the oil.....

[TBoneTX 44,971]

7 hours ago, NikLR said:

I finishes this thing today.

We likes its staggering beauty, si Niki-B. ma'am.

[TBoneTX 44,971]

Saturday GS/ES report, see man:

 

This pre-Ecu Saturday featured just the right number of GSs/ESs, si man -- we didn't have to forgo any, and we still got our crucial errands done, si man.

 

The take, see man:

-- Many (2+2) T-shirts for Cousins Mini-B. = $1, steal man

-- 2 warshcloths; 1 tube each of John Frieda shampoo & conditioner = $2 & a half, steal man

-- skein of colored yarn (to tie on suitcase handles for ID) = half a buck, steal man

-- Swingline stapler + full box Swingline staples; mint-condition office scissors; ~full box gallon-sized 

     slider bags; Many (2+1) packs disposable plates = $Many ($2+2), steal man

Total = $Many ($2x2x2)

[TBoneTX 44,971]

Managed to finish our GS-ing + errands by ~2 p.m. as skies darkened ominously, pre-monsoon man.

Zoomed back to casa; immediately mowed full lawn, no break but to change sweatbands man.

Finished about half-of-half an hour before skies opened, blue norther man.

Didn't stop raining till sundown, egad man.

 

After mowing, we took a Many-&-a-half hour siesta, dead-to-world we man.

Awoke only because it was time to shoot cat, inject miu man.

 

Rain forecast Mon.-Wed., sigh man.

We will have a jungle to machete upon return from Ecu, we can tell already man.

 

Morning back pain didn't resolve at all during day, ouch man.

We were/are miserable, sigh man.

Fizzicle therapist to visit on Sun., last chance for miracle man.

 

Meanwhile, must fold laundry load #2, ouch man.

Must de-dish load #2, Ecus did it to us again man.

Then cat prep (incl. Heap Strong Medicine) inadequate zzz man.

Mornin', absent Commie- and other babes with stingily withheld reputation-point inventories!

[theresaL 408]

18 hours ago, NikLR said:

I finishes this thing today. 

 

Lovely. 

Okay I realize it's a type-o (s instead of d) but not sure why the  error made me think of "it puts the lotion on its skin" ??? must have been the pic of the canard a l'orange.

 

[NikLR 13,227]

41 minutes ago, theresaL said:

Lovely. 

Okay I realize it's a type-o (s instead of d) but not sure why the  error made me think of "it puts the lotion on its skin" ??? must have been the pic of the canard a l'orange.

 

Technically a typo on purpose? 

[Ontarkie 14,179]

I've developed a new symptom with bug bites. I'm not sure what bite me but it does look like just s simple mosquito bite. It is not itchy at all but from time to time sharp pain goes shooting down into my arm. It doesn't hurt all the time just random times but often enough. 

[Russ&Caro 1,548]

16 minutes ago, Ontarkie said:

I've developed a new symptom with bug bites. I'm not sure what bite me but it does look like just s simple mosquito bite. It is not itchy at all but from time to time sharp pain goes shooting down into my arm. It doesn't hurt all the time just random times but often enough. 

Psychosomatic? I promise, I'm not trying to be funny. Sometimes I'll get a shooting sharp pain in different parts of my body and think, "what the heck was that?" Then the pain never returns and I figure it must be some bad flashback from my 20's. Then again, you are claiming it's recurring so maybe it's real.

[Ontarkie 14,179]

1 minute ago, Russ&Caro said:

Psychosomatic? I promise, I'm not trying to be funny. Sometimes I'll get a shooting sharp pain in different parts of my body and think, "what the heck was that?" Then the pain never returns and I figure it must be some bad flashback from my 20's. Then again, you are claiming it's recurring so maybe it's real.

Its been going on 2 days now. So weird, a friend just mentioned maybe what ever got me hit a small nerve. It is better today then yesterday but still painful.

[Russ&Caro 1,548]

Those of you living in an American town of almost any size are familiar with the town bowling alley(s). Just about any town over 500 in population will have one. Well, Santa Fe, a city of 80,000 hasn't had one in the 5 years I've lived here. They're finally building one and it should be open for business soon. I'm not a bowling nut or anything. The reason I bring it up is as evidence that Santa Fe has a well deserved reputation as an elitist little corner in SW America. Like bowling is beneath the local residents. I'm sure Steve wouldn't like it here.

 

Oh, and then there's all the art galleries. Just like NYC actually. Steve definitely wouldn't like it here.

Edited June 30, 2019 by Russ&Caro

[N-o-l-a 7,167]

37 minutes ago, Russ&Caro said:

Those of you living in an American town of almost any size are familiar with the town bowling alley(s). Just about any town over 500 in population will have one. Well, Santa Fe, a city of 80,000 hasn't had one in the 5 years I've lived here. They're finally building one and it should be open for business soon. I'm not a bowling nut or anything. The reason I bring it up is as evidence that Santa Fe has a well deserved reputation as an elitist little corner in SW America. Like bowling is beneath the local residents. I'm sure Steve wouldn't like it here.

 

Oh, and then there's all the art galleries. Just like NYC actually. Steve definitely wouldn't like it here.

 

My mom had been toying with making her second house there. Sounds like she'd like it, well, maybe not now that there is a bowling alley.

 

They've been closing up around here, but curling clubs and ice skating rinks are more ubiquitous.