I just ....

[Vittoria]

Ooooo, Ambra. OUCHIE! That must have sucked big time.

[GreenEyesToo]

OUCH to you both, Vittoria and Ambra - hope you both recovered quickly.

[dirtygirldiva]

I just re-opened my blister last night at practice...damn thing just won't go away. I thought it was calloused over, but I guess not.

Some pics...hhehehe...I had to lance it.

[tipou]

aaaarrrrgggghhhhhhh ! dont ever do it to me again please ! i will no longer tell bill gates jokes!!!!

but seriously, about people hating bill gates- if you had endured what we went through at work when windows '95 came out, you would understand.

however, bill gates is now setting a very interesting trend among rich people: he actually considers now his full time job to be defending humanitarian causes, and he is giving back A LOT of money back. i do mean A LOT. it is not getting quite embarrassing for billionnaires not to show a bit of heart.

so, slowly, bill gates is actually turning into an idol of mine.

[tipou]

i just got home, back from work, an hour ago.
i decided that this vacation time is worth enjoying, and so i took a few hours off.
since i am basically at work 12 hours a day these days, i feel ok about it.
and now i am going totake a nap. yes i am.

[rueful]

I just freaked out looking at DGD's blister pictures!

I just found out Rufus is also disturbed:



He thinks this is a better method of treating blisters:

[dirtygirldiva]

i tottaly agree...but sadly Ru was not around when I had to treat my poor foot...

[Vittoria]

Thanks GEII. I seem to be ok. The spot's just a tad tender.

OUCHIE DGD!

I just got back from two types of salon treatment, so to speak. Well, it turns out, my lip piercing is too high on the inside for a flat back stud and the only way to get one is to get repierced which is outside of my budget. So, the ring has to stay for now. While I was there, since I didn't have to spend money on my lip, I decided it was time to do something with my right nostril piercing as I haven't been able to find anything for it that isn't irritating. It's been awhile since I wore jewelry in it....

So what did I do? I now have a ring in it also! So much for looking more conservative. LOL Now my poor nose hurts as the piercer put a smaller gauge poker thingy through it and decided to go up one gauge... so in goes this thicker poker thingy and my right eye is all watery... blah blah blah... and of course I'm not used to something being there in my nose, so my right eye (my lazy eye) is drawn to it.

Since I was on a roll, I decided to do something with my hair as it has been driving me bonkers. I went to a salon I have never been to before and tried to explain what I wanted as clearly as I could. When he was almost done, since I had been looking at a photo of a model above the mirror and I had been thinking of doing this to my fringe, I asked him to do it. He had never done this before. So he says, "Ah I love fashion! THIS is life!" So, I have this uber cool angled cut that is short in the back and long to the jawline in the front and my fringe is shaped like a pointed downward triangle! Of course, for the look to work, I have to make sure my fringe is gel shaped straight downward.

Then I grabbed some sushi take-away on the way home and I just got in. Here I sit eating sushi and gabbing about fashion.

OK... I have a question. Does anyone here happen to know if it is just my eye colour or if people are just plain stupid. Because I had to go some distance, I took my wheelchair. I am as blind as a bat in the light. My transitions lenses do not go dark enough. Both my brother and mother have the same green hazel eyes I do and my mother used to have to wear sunglasses just in order to watch tv. Anyway... zooming along down the sidewalk and hoping I don't run into anything or anyone and doing a good job, I noticed that some people were almost walking straight into my path. Now is this because of sunlight bothering everyone's eyes or am I a better driver half blind than these people are at walking?

[tipou]

vittoria, people just dont care. i cannot beleive how many people act as if they were alone in the world, and then look absolutely aghast when they bump inot other people, as if they were not supposed to be there.

one of my friends works in the x-rays dept. in an hospital. sometimes they have to take a big roll away x-ray machine to patients in their rooms because they cannot be moved.
now, this machine is huge! and hard to move through a full corridor. but people just walk into it, as if it was for her to manoeuver the machine out of their way.

darn, she says they wont even budge when they are rolling patients in on beds in corridors.

its a bit the same when i go to wal mart (about once a year, i hate it), i usually get out of there with enough bathorrom tissue, kleenex, etc to make me twice my usual size. and i keep bumping into people. i mean, i keep my right side, i am prudent... and with all those bags, they still pretend they have not seen me.

well, a while ago i decided i would not move away, and if they bump into me, well, i am prepared for it. its a bit like running through a football field against the other team.

[ambra]

Feb 18, 2009 23:01:42 GMT tipou said:

one of my friends works in the x-rays dept. in an hospital. sometimes they have to take a big roll away x-ray machine to patients in their rooms because they cannot be moved.
now, this machine is huge! and hard to move through a full corridor. but people just walk into it, as if it was for her to manoeuver the machine out of their way.

My mom is a retired x-ray tech and this reminds me of a funny story from her training days. Although not Catholic, my mom went to training at DePaul College, a Catholic-run training center. At the time, my mom was pretty tiny; she weighed about 90lbs and the portable x-ray machines at the time were even bigger and heavier than they are now. In order to get one moving on her own, my mom would literally have to get a bit of a running start and once she got the machine going, she needed a couple of feet to stop it, almost like stopping a locomotive. One day, she's zipping down the hallway with the portable and the Mother Superior steps into her path! My mom digs in the heels of her soft-soled x-ray shoes and manages to bring the portable to a stop just inches from the nun, who didn't budge! Out of breath, mom looked at her and said, "Good evening, Mother Superior. Sorry about that." Mother Superior gave her a dirty look and walked away and my mom mumbled under her breath, "You should look where you're going, you old bat!"

its a bit the same when i go to wal mart (about once a year, i hate it), i usually get out of there with enough bathorrom tissue, kleenex, etc to make me twice my usual size. and i keep bumping into people. i mean, i keep my right side, i am prudent... and with all those bags, they still pretend they have not seen me.

That's why I go to Wal-Mart really late at night, when the store is practically empty. I can get in, get out and not have to deal with the crowds. Another thing I really hate is when people decide to stop in the middle of the aisles to chat with someone, usually with a cart on one side and one on the other, so no one can get down the aisle. Then they act like I'm the once whose rude when I say, "Excuse me. Can I get by?"

[tipou]

oh ambra!!!! i so understand your reaction to people blocking the aisles. i get pretty irritated by these people. i try to stay clear of those large places now, i think one day i will throw a fit.

my x-ray friend once worked with a similar non-power-steered portable xray machine, and she is only 4' 10" !! now, she has one which is easier to "drive", but most of the time she stops for no one. if she hits someone, she says its not her fault, she cant see past the machine because she is so tiny!!! so now other hospital workers keep out of the way when they see the machine in the hall ways!!! especially since they cant see the "driver" either...

[GreenEyesToo]

DGD - ewwwwwwwwwww!!!! That was disgusting! Please don't do that again - at least not without a warning!

I much prefer Rueful's Rufus blister treatment.....*thinks: wonder if he does broken wrists, too?* Ohh, Ruuuuuufus!!!!! ;D

[rainy]

I HATE it when people block aisles. Since I work in retail I'm subject to this on a daily basis. Here I am rolling a flat with something heavy on it and there stands woman in spandex pants talking to her neighbor, woman with to many cats, while their children run around destroying everything in sight. They pretend to not see me as I roll slowly along giving them plenty of time to move out of the way.

I have learned one thing from this. Never EVER stop, I may slow way down but I do not stop. If I do I will never get going again because they will never budge. I just yell excuse me and keep moving and if that doesn't work I resort to "MOVE!". I hate doing that because it is sooo rude but I have to remind myself that what they are doing is also very rude.


Now for my real complaint for today. Those damn shoes with the wheels in them. We do not allow anyone to skate in the store. Why people think these things are excluded from that rule boggles my mind. Yet there goes jimmyjoeblow zipping along the main aisle with zero regard to everyone else and there is his mother behind him, apparently oblivious to the fact that she and her son (or daughter) are not the only people shopping in the store. Then I have to ask the child to please stop and she has the audacity to get angry with ME for doing what she should have done in the first place.

I wish people would wake up and realize that they are not the center of the universe. I am not really concerned with jimmyjoeblow's safety. After all his mother doesn't seem to care, I am worried about the elderly gentleman standing at the pharmacy or the 1 year old tottering down the aisle with her mother close behind.

Sorry but I HAD to blow off some steam about those things. I wish they would ban them and stop making them completely.

[dirtygirldiva]

other people's children...gotta love em.

Those stupid shoes are annoying. Almost ranks up there with the tweenies at the rink that skate into people with no apparant idea that they just ran over your foot.

On our Wed practices, we get there at like 9pm to get suited up. Open skate ends at 9:30, so as you sit there getting your skates on, you get kids skating along the carpet and not even watching where they are going. One time I was lacing up one of my skates, my other foot didn't have a shoe or skate on it and I was sticking to myself on the bench when this frackin kid about 13 or 14 comes rolling along and comes within inches of my exposed foot. I shout to him to watch where he's going and he retorts back with "shut up freak" and skates on....his parents were about 15 feet away and didn't say a damn thing. I was a little peeved and really wanted to smack the kid off his skates....but I chose the more subtle approach....I "accidently" dropped my wrist guard on the ground as he was skating back past me....he swerved and mised it, but turned back and glared at me....stupid sh*t, he should be lucky I didn't use a can opener on his scawny little butt.

[tipou]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i just hung up the phone.... i was talking to danny, he might very well come home, however briefly, for the week end !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i am soooooooooooo happppppyyyyyyy!!!!!!!