Damn. Never even had a chance at a crepe...

Actual paraphrased post from one of my dietary messageboards:

"Can someone give me suggestions on what drinks to give my kids? Kool Aid is not GFCF, and they don't like Capri Sun."

End of post. It boggles the mind.

"We've tried nothing, and we're clean out of ideas!"

How bout water.

Or actual orange juice, or apple, or grape, or...

Oh yes, someone suggested that down the line, and her response was "Oh, I've tried to get them to drink water, but you know how kids are." Well, I guess you're right lady, I do know how spoiled your kids are now.

Yeah, i was wondering why not water too. Maybe if they don't like it plain they could have a squeeze of lemon in it or something (not sure if that's against the rules or not), but I find it hard to believe that there are parents out there that don't make their kids drink mostly water anyway.

I don't make my kids drink mostly water. they do drink a reasonable amount of water -especially when playing sports- but other than that they drink mostly milk. Through choice (and pop not being an option)

for the Brits:

This week, I have mostly been drinking milk!

This is a perfect statement of my daily mild irritation with end-users of information technology.

I just remembered that when you guys came to visit, Hebe did ask if we had any milk. Kind of surprised me, since we're not big milk drinkers ourselves, but I was happy to oblige! Next time she'll have to settle for almond milk or bring her own, though... When I was in private school for the first few years of elementary, we were required to drink exactly two glasses of milk at lunch, no more no less.

Exactly two glasses of milk builds a loyal comrade.

Credit must go to The Simpsons; Ned Flanders' parents, episode where Ned loses it, flash-back to Ned's childhood.


One glass breeds traitors. Three causes psychopathological monomania.

I was gonna post a complaint about something, now I'm too amused to care. Thanks ZG!

I said to my bro on the week of the never ending migraine (caused by codeine sensitivity), "This week I have been mostly throwing up."

FTR - we had highly diluted squash as kids. Milk was considered food not drink; fizzy drinks (soda/ pop etc) were too expensive and would rot our teeth; and water was bleurgh bleaurgh dull in the days of limited fridge space/ no ice (we did have it when there were no other options, we just whinged about it.)

And squash was still limited for dental and financial reasons. I wonder what some people think being a parent actually means.

Huh. So thanks to SG, I finally looked up what 'squash' was. I've been drinking Ribena for years, and never knew it was 'squash'. :yum:

Ribena's a special case, though. That's healthy and expensive squash :lol: Squash is also called cordial sometimes.

Soz - I was asked about squash before and forgot it's a immediately a vegetable in the US, and immediately a cordial here.

Actually, we never classed Ribena as squash (yes it is of course.)
Ribena was just Blackcurrant. Would you like a drink or would you like Blackcurrant? It was considered healthy and was only rationed because it was so expensive. It was advertised on its vitamin content. Orange and all its pals (orange & pineapple, apple & blackcurrant etc) were fun time drinks, which were rationed because they were fun time drinks.

The worst situation was to go round someone's house and have their Mum offer you squash... only to find out the only thing in the house was Lemon Barley Water. WHAAA?! You'd gollop it down and hope your face did not reflect your opinion, because sometimes Mums who got it so wrong with drinks got it so right with dessert. You might even get Arctic Roll!

Actually when you think about it the word 'squash' makes sense.

I've been thinking to make a cordial. It seems easy enough. It would be nice to give out at Christmas.

I never heard of squash based beverages... sounds a bit like coffee flavored bavarine but healthier.

Now me... No historic apple picking today for our field trip. Wed thru Sun only. Fart.

Homemade cordial is fruit soaked in vodka then after about a three months smashed or squashed through a sieve.

I have not heard of a non acoholic cordial and maybe that's what a squash is?


What's a coffee flavored bavarine?

Wiki squash
Peppermint?!
[heave]

Maybe I should have said 'encourage' instead of make. Anyway, I just think it's really important to get plenty of water and too many kids drink too many sweet drinks which just isn't good for their long term health. That's all I meant.

We have cordial in the house. In fact I sometimes make cordial. I do it by juicing the fruit (usually lemons) and then boiling it down to concentrate it a bit, then adding sugar. When it become syrupy it goes into bottles and put in the cupboard. Sometimes the kids can add some to their water, just for a little flavour.

Mostly they drink plain water though except at meal times where they usually have a glass of milk.

So they're diong our remote network upgrade tonight, but of course someone has to be here in the office from 5 to 9 just in case they need someone to hit Enter or something equally important...can you guess who that lucky person is? Anyone? Bueller? (And this after two doctors appointments in one day......I brought an adult beverage to console me...shhh.don't tell...)

Ooh, have fun, but don't get all drunk and leave a copy of your xeroxed ass in the tray...

Nothing like a toddy to soften the brunt.

HQ. Nuff said.

I'm going to fucking kill some idiots from Comcast.

They left without doing what they were supposed to because nobody was home in the apartment. Next time I'm going to get THE SECURITY GUARD WILL LET YOU IN made into a ribber stamp, except it won't be rubber, it'll be some kind of metal. Then I'll hammer it into their heads.

Umm....you want to make it into a ribber stamp? Ribbed for whose pleasure? :P

Apartment? :eyebrow:

At work. We operate an apartment building for the students.

As for you, Dana... well, if you need ribbing, we'll see what we can do. :angel:

one thing that annoyed me today: loose change. it kept falling out of my billfold somehow.

But it's a billfold, not a changefold.
:litebulb: Ah, must be a chick.

Welcome to the Cellar, imadiscoduck. :D

More like a duckling...:D.

Women dont normally use billfolds, btw.

Well he is finally on the mend. Our little Aussie Cattle dog that is. My wife said he found a big rattlesnake last Sunday and I was skeptical that it really found one. So I along with said dog headed to the bush, me with a large fireplace poker, the dog with his natural curiosity and desire to protect. Well we found it. And it almost found me first. We could hear it rattle in the exact spot that the wife said it had been days earlier, which makes be believe it was a large female laying eggs. The dog poked his head in barking and jumped out a few times. I put the dog in the screened porch and got the handgun. I poked around a few more times and found it literally at my feet ready to strike. I dispatched it with the handgun to snake-heaven and then shot it a few more times. It was quite huge. About as big around in the middle as a man’s two hands grasping a fire hose. Approximately 3.5 feet long, a little over a meter for the rest of you. I had trouble holding it up with the fireplace tongs with one hand. I have some pics but will have to post them later. We did not realize the dog had been bit at first. It was about 15 min later when we saw him walking around unsteadily with his ears down and drooling. I grabbed him and you could see the strike mark on his left upper lip. Well of course it was a Sunday and the regular vet was not open so we had to rush him to town and the 24 emergency vet clinic. It was expensive but not as expensive as it could have been. He did not need the anti-venom which is $700 a shot. The vet said we were lucky that it was a mature snake because they tend to give warning strikes and not unload their "wad" (as she put it) all at once, smaller snakes tend to "drop their load" all at once because they don't know better. She put him on steroids, antibiotics, and antihistamines, and pain killers. His face swelled up and he couldn't eat for about 2-3 days. He is on the mend but still not himself. They are smart dogs and I bet he will remember that tell tale sound of the rattle but who knows, he is a dog. After a week I just expected him to bounce back to his crazy self. A friend of mine who had a bigger dog said his dog was never the same after being bitten. Keeping my fingers crossed for a different outcome.

Lucky dog, hope he's gooder than new, quickly.
Between the daughter and the dog, lucky you, too. :thumb:

*snicker*

I'm glad your doggie didn't get the full load and seems to be healing. Maybe the snake who bit your friend's dog didn't know any better and unloaded its whole wad into it...
I am glad no one else got hurt. Shame on you for being so incautious. Might want to try animal control, or a pest control company next time. Will cost you then, but won't cost you anymore vet or medical or funeral expenses...

Yea, all that and next time I would not take the dog to find the snake with me. And next time I will put on my snake boots, which were in the house, before I go hunting the beast. Animal Control out here is fairly useless unless it is in your house. You are the only animal control in this part of the country.

Oy!

Vey!!!

Someone has hacked into my hotmail account and emailed all my contact list telling them I've just bought a new laptop and they should buy one too. And I've never culled my email contact list in the way I do my mobile phone contacts, so there are plenty of people on there who I would prefer not to remind I am still around, or have them wonder why I am back in contact.

Grrrrr.

Secondly, but just as irritating - when the internet is running slowly (this morning for example) I play Mahjong Titans. But it frustrated me because it was so hard. So I lowered the level. Now it's like a tile matching game for 5 year olds and I feel like my computer is laughing at me.

Went to court this morning. The judge wasn't even in the courtroom yet. There were two cops going through the summary traffic offenses before he came in. The cop who pulled me over looked at my (renewed) registration and told the clerk to withdraw the citation.

The irritating part:

Well, I got up a bit later than I should have. So that's my fault, but my time was a bit tight to get there. However, going down the road I literally had to stop at every single traffic light. (West Chester Pike through Broomall/Newtown Square for those keeping score at home.) I was often in a situation where I could almost but not quite make the yellow. I had to keep telling myself, "Getting pulled over for speeding or running a red light on the way to traffic court... NOT GOOD!!"

Once I got there, the parking lot was full. (Overflowing, actually, as there were a couple people parked in non-spaces.) I had to leave and park up the street a bit. Not too far in the grand scheme of things, but I was already late. I got in at 8:40 for a scheduled 8:30 hearing, so I was already worried it was going to piss off the judge.

Well a friend of ours, whom lives about 3 neighborhoods away, got bit in the finger by a rattlesnake. Put her in the hospital big time. She had to get the anti-venom. They said she was wafting in and out of a steady state for the first 4 hours. It only got her finger but put a hurt on her big time. I guess I am lucky. More lucky than I thought. Folks in the area are all saying they have seen more snakes this year then in years past. We have had a LOT of rain over the past few months. I think they were all just moving to higher ground. We have 6 poison snakes on coastal georgia:
Southern Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix)
Florida Cottonmouth/Water Moccasin (Agkistrodon pisvivorus conanti)
Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus)
Canebrake Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus atricaudatus)
Eastern Coral Snake (Micrurus fulvius fulvius)
Dusky Pigmy Rattlesnake (Sistrurus miliarius barbouri)

http://timberrattlesnake89.tripod.com/venomouspage.html

Mum. Sorry. It's all about close proximity, she is a good person and I do love her.
This is venting.

Mum's friend (Breda) has terminal cancer.
Yesterday she was taken into a hospice. Don't know if this is a worldwide thing, but here they are basically way-stations for people to die in comfort. They receive medical treatment of course, but the majority of people only leave a hospice to die at home. It's the end-game.

Mum's bereaved friend (Maureen) is over for Sunday dinner today. Yes, a good example of my Mum being a great person - she comes over most Sundays. For the last 30 mins, all Mum's done is run down B's two children, their reactions, what they haven't done, the state of B's house (no different from when she was well from what I remember) and even my sister for not taking her children to visit before B sank too far.

And yet she's saying this to a woman who - behind her back - she criticises for not getting on with her life, not picking herself up, being weak. And she also criticises M's son at every opportunity (not to her face of course) for not supporting his mother.

I know this is her way of dealing with things.
I know she buries her own feelings this way.
I know pretty much everyone who knows her thinks she's amazing because she can deal with anything and she always offers help, and she's so practical and she's not afraid, and she's so real and all that and everything.

And I do love her.

I just hate to hear the behind the scenes shredding of people who just don't deal with things the way she does. And of course the ensuing nastiness directed at Dad because it does affect her after all. Both of us have come in for renewed criticism this week for our hearing problems. Of course we can't help it. Of course she's only irritated because sh's upset. But it's not nice. I'd offer it up for souls in Purgatory if I was so inclined. I'm sure Dad does.

Back to this, although not in an irritated state of mind. I just figured it was more honest to put the two posts together.

A little irritation just because Mum changes the story (apparently Breda should have gone striaght to hospital on Thursday, but she was begging not to - she has a horror of our local hospital because she used to work there.) Mum forgets she thought the daughter - N - was over-reacting and should listen to her Mum's wishes. Mum was therefore vindicated when Breda went to the hospice. Except she has to be transferred to a hospital when she deteriorated, which is where she is now. And it turns out because she went from hospice to hospital and it's not an infection, it's all cancer related, there are problems with her going back to the hospice. Mum says, "If she'd have gone into hospital on Thursday none of this would have happened!"

But the above is forgiveable. No-one really remembers what they said when things were going down, and hindsight is pure gold, even at today's prices.

Mum broke down tonight. She was crying and everything. Wish she did that more often. Sad that she did I mean, and I know she's under a lot of emotional pressure, but if she let it out more it would be easier to handle.

She says she has no-one to talk to. I can empathise with that - even though I can't completely believe it's true for her. But even if it's not true, when you feel like that the world is so much more overwhelming. I can't help her, but I'll do what I can. Will put requests for thoughts for Breda in the cancer thread.

Saturday I was installing phone, cable, etc. jacks in the addition. In the process, I slipped and scraped a small piece out of my right palm with a screwdriver.

It wasn't a big deal, until I was making dinner that night and chopping onions. :eek:

OTOH, aren't you glad it wasn't hot sauce?

Mildly (so far) irritating me today is the fact that the office next to ours is being renovated. Tile grinders, bloody circular saw cutting steel in the corridor, fumes from solvent glues, etc etc.

Great environment for marking crappy essays. grrr.

I'm sure you didn't take it out on the students. :angel:

They deserved it. Stupid, lazy, think-they're-entitled students!

Nah, I just went shopping instead. :D

lawnmower

I got mud on the seat of my car today, because we had Brit Lit class in a friggin' GRAVEYARD and apparently I sat my ass in the mud.

Grr.

could be worse. I got red fabric paint on the seat of my car when it was only a couple of weeks old. It may actually be gone now (9 years later) -I'll have to check..... :lol:

I'm kinda pissy about having to get up and go to work tomorrow. Not that it's any especially hateful occurrence, I just would rather not. meh.

Hubby is off tomorrow and will drive kids to school, and I'm gonna skip my 8:30 class, therefore I get to sleep in. Oops, wrong thread. ;) ROFLMAOPMP

Gah!

There's this British kids' show that's been ported over here called Jungle Junction.

One of the main characters' voices is done by Billy West, who also does the voice of Frye on Futurama.

Every freaking time the character speaks, I do a double-take, thinking my kid has somehow managed to start an episode of Futurama on the TV. It's driving me nuts.

One of my cats can be a punk head every morning. I won't go into the details. You know what cats can do.

I am frustrated beyond all belief with a system problem, and our systems person skated on out of here and won't be here tomorrow.

I am pulling out my hair, chewing my fingers until they bleed, shaking my leg as if it has its own little earthquake, and if the woman next to me DOESN'T STOP MAKING THAT LITTLE CRACKLY NOISE WITH HER GUM I'M GOING TO GO OVER THERE AND SHOVE AN ENTIRE CRATE OF GUM DOWN HER FACE.

Whew. OK, I'm better now.

Wait, no I'm not. ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH