Aw, it is alright. So, how was work today, Cap? You're not the only one who dislikes opening lol

Wow, it costs me about $43 to fill my malibu.

I so love my car! I know it cost my son $70+ the last time he filled his truck. I'm old enough to remember when gas was like 65 cents a gallon

Hey, no worries...I wasn't fishing for sympathy. I grew up, its over, done deal. Guess maybe since I haven't been sleeping at all and it seems to be catching up with me I was just having a crappy day and since no one was here but the dogs...I unloaded on you all instead.



Haha...I wish...filled the Ford Explore last week, cost me 62 bucks! Of course, the gas light was on...so it was pretty near drained.




Awwwwww, poor Valley. ::hugs::

You lucky duck. Cost me between $35-$40 to fill my Cavalier. Ouch. Glad I don't have an SUV.



Aw sorry Valley. We tried to make it popular so they wouldn't close it. Guess it didn't work.



Hey I don't mind getting unloaded on. I joined this forum for a reason. To make new friends, to talk about CI and VDO, to learn more about CI and VDO and to get away from RL which is exactly what is happening. I rather enjoy this forum quite a bit. I am learning all kinds of things about different parts of the US and world which I love and finding out all kinds of things about different people and it gets me away from my family for a while, especially after everyone goes to bed.

I paid $3.19 on Saturday -- cost me $50 to fill up the van, so I'm trying very hard to make every trip out of the house worth it.

Valley -- A moment of silence in honor of your thread --------------------- OK. So sorry. I liked it......I agree with whoever suggested "Bobby and Alex Went to the Store", it sounds like that game we used to play in the car.

I brought it back.

They can't keep me down!!!!!!!!

...you dork!
Love it...already responded!

You are AWESOME, Valley - don't let anybody put Valley in a corner!

You just gotta stick it to the man!

Ours was up to $3.39 a gallon over the weekend, but it's "down" to $3.20+ now. It costs me about $35 to fill up my piece of s___.



You GO, Valley!

I saw that one ages ago, when I got a job doing tech support. It's so true... I never got a cupholder call, but I know a guy who got someone that said the @ was a symbol of the devil so she couldn't set up her email. He did an exorcism over the phone with her to get rid of the evil, and then set up her email. It was so hilarious. I learned very quickly to speak slowly and make sure they were going where I told them, not what they thought was "close enough" when they had trouble following me.




Ah I never went in the reasons to ship thread. I'll have to go over there now.


I'm totally mystified by your symptoms. I think I'd have to see it to make any other suggestions. Sorry.


Oh Robot Chicken! Too bad YouTube pulled it cause of copyright issues...


About $55 from empty to full on my Jeep. But I live so close to work, I only have to fill it every 2 weeks. Sometimes a little longer.


I remember when it fell to like 85 cents for a little while. I do recall when no one thought gas would ever get over $2/gal... Now we long for the days when it was less than three.

Just saw the gas was $3.09 I better go fill up, but Diesel was $3.97 I remember when everyone wanted a Desi car cause it was cheaper, omg, the price of food will really go up now, with the 18 wheelers having to pay that price.

Oh update I don't have a UTI, went to doctor, I have to see Urologist tomorrow, I might have cystitis, or maybe something else, Update tomorrow.

I love the flashing clock. Makes me laugh. I am not at all surprised that you were with tech support with all that you have helped me with, although I am glad I could stump you on something. Well not glad, I am unhappy you couldn't help me. I got a PM from a member to try something so I am trying that to see if that helps. Probably won't know for 2-3 days. I will definitely let you know.

I do remember when gas was .99 cents a gallon but I was about 19 at the time. Such a long time ago.

Take care, Jryan! I hope they find somethin' that's easy to fix.

ooh, so that was the pain in your back? yuck, I hope it clears up soon. Drink lots of cranberry juice!

Eek, the doctor. Good luck Jryan.

What's the "cup holder"?

I've been gone since last Wednesday so it will take me a while to catch up on all the threads, but I just wanted to jump in here while I'm at my mother's for a little while to share what's been going on in RL. Last Wednesday afternoon I got a call from my daughter's school saying that she had been hit by a car and was being taken to the ER by ambulance. To make a VERY long story short, she had a fracture to her right occipital, from about the base of the skull to just about the top of her ear. It was 2-3 millimeters wide (not sure if that's what they consider a "hairline" fracture). There was a "light subarachnoid bleed". Not serious, but they wanted to watch her overnight and repeat the CT scan the next morning to make sure it wasn't getting worse. She had to be transferred to a hospital 50 miles away that had a pediatric neurosurgeon. The CT scan the next morning showed no bleeding at all and they thought she would go home that day. But she couldn't keep anything down so they kept her another night. We got home Friday afternoon. She will be fine one minute, then the next she is curled up in a ball crying with pain. She has been nauseous off and on, but hadn't thrown up--until last night. The nausea and vomiting has me a little worried. She is on Spring Break, but was signed up to take Driver's Ed. She tried going yesterday but the florescent lights made her head hurt and she called me to come and get her. Last night was bad, but she has been feeling good today (and hasn't even taken a Vicodin). She has an appointment tomorrow morning at the Trauma Clinic, and on Friday at the Neurology Clinic. In between she is supposed to have another CT scan. I took the entire week off work. My supervisor (who was very understanding about me not coming in the day after the accident) wasn't too happy and said they might need a note from the doctor. Oh well.

Oh, and BTW, she didn't get hit by a car. She and a friend were playing around, keeping this boy from leaving (she didn't even really know him--a friend of a friend of a friend), and they got on the hood of his car and wouldn't get off. He was kidding around and backing up and pulling forward to try to get them off. Then he drove up the street (slowly) and when he turned the corner, she slid off and hit her head on the road. Just foolish, teenage goofing around. How many times have parents said, "Sure, its all fun and games until someone gets hurt".
Well, I'm going to try to catch up on the threads as much as I can before I have to leave my mother's and go home. So I'm not sure when I'll be able to check back in.

I am praying for you and your daughter. I made my daughter listen to me as I read this whole thing being that our daughters are a year apart age wise. Maybe she will learn something. Actually I learned a few medical terms I didn't know. She is taking Anatomy in school and she knew them and explained them to me. I think I am more frustrated at your place of employment for not being more understanding of this situation and not giving you the time you need to take care of your daughter. If you have the time, or even if you don't, they should be more understanding. I don't understand the nausea on and off thing. I think I would be taking her back to the doctor to see if there is anything else wrong that was not caught the first time or something else additionally wrong. Well I will definitely be thinking of you.

Fruits for your daughter, My friends and I pray that she'll get better soon. So sorry to hear that



And flowers for you. Hope everything goes well. I pray that He will lift you up from the load you're carrying today.



Be well soon! My hugs for you & your little angel!

I guess I didn't explain it well enough--I didn't ask for the time off, I just told her I'm not coming in. I have about 240 hours sick time, so they can't really refuse. My supervisor isn't happy about it, but I decided her unhappiness was something I could live with. She said they might need a note from the doctor. Also, if they make it all "unscheduled" time off (which means I didn't ask 48 hours in advance), then it will show up in my yearly performence review.
I'm glad you shared this with your daughter. The doctor told my daughter that she had to have hit her head REALLY hard to cause the fracture that it did, and with that kind of impact its not unusual to see the (can't remember the spelling--bad, bad nurse!) "contracoup" type injury where the brain bounces around inside the skull. That can cause all kinds of permanent damage or death. In fact, didn't I just hear M.E. Rodgers explaing that injury to Logan and Wheeler recently? Don't remember the episode off the top of my head. Anyway, it was the kind of stupid messing around that teens do every day without any injuries--but all it takes is one small slip. There were a lot of kids around when it happened and I think everyone of them has called or come by to see her--including the boy driving the car. He feels horrible and I really feel sorry for him. He absolutely should not have moved that car an inch with anyone on the hood--but my daughter was being a brat!

Glad she wasn't more seriously hurt. I hope and pray she's feeling better soon. I also pray that you, Mom, can make it through all this as well.

Thanks Flashymom. I thought I could spend a little more time here tonight, but I need to get going. My daughter has been feeling so well today that she asked if she could go to a friend's and I said yes. But I just found out that she left a window in the living room open when she left (and the friend that drove her has already left so she doesn't have a ride home just yet). In our neighborhood you might as well put up a sign that says "Free TV and VCR"! And it would KILL me if my TVs were stolen. Obviously the accident didn't knock any sense into her! I better get home and protect the source of my VDO fixes! Depending on what happens with her appointments I may be able to sneak back over here for a while tomorrow or Thursday. 'Night everyone.

Aww, that mustve been scary as hell.

My friend jumped on the hood of my brothers car once, and we drove around the street and he fell off...and all he cared about was if his glasses were alright...and all we were thinking was...holy crap. cause we were going a good 15-20 miles per hour.

Sorry to hear about your daughter, ciaddict. I'm praying for both of you right now for a speedy recovery. My mom has been on her back (literally) since last week when she tried to do a tango move with my dad. That says it all about his dancing skils... She injured her back fairly badly about ten years ago, then again about a year ago, and it took her a long time for her to fully recover (she was working on and off for six months).

Now she's only working half days. Her supervisors are very understanding, but she does worry about what clients she can and can't see. My mom has made it clear to me that when she is dealing with people who are suicidal, having to deal with Child Welfare, and sometimes strugling to change patterns of anger, lack of communication, abuse & addiction, sometimes cancelling an appointment is the thing that can tip them over the edge. I'm reading a book on homeless women in Canada right now, which is very sobering, but oddly encouraging, because the woman are very resiliant. Granted we don't have the same number of homeless people that the US deals with, but there are certain areas/districts in any city over about 800,000 that you don't venture near. I've noticed it a lot in Calgary over the past year, because we are the fastest growing city in Canada. We've had around 100,000 people move here this last year alone.

Oh, and to keep this OT, what did everyone think of Barack Obama's speech today on race? I watched it online, and it was very interesting and very timely. He's an excellent speaker, and way more interesting then Canada's politicians (though do not get me started on Steven Harper lately). His reputation is totally ruined in my eyes.

Anyway, I'm watching a documentary on New York for my museum studies class, and they were talking about Robert Moses, the architect who was singlehandly responsible for bulding the infastructure of NYC during the Depression (think of the Tri-Bourough Bridge, Central Park, etc). He was also very influencial in planning the highway and freeway system of the entire state. The effect of that was to seperate the Black (and later the Hispanic) community into Harlem. Then there was the Urban Renewal Project in the 1950's, which removed African and Spanish Americans from their homes to make room for white Americans. Other state planners of other cities in the 50's and 60's did that too. My aunt & uncle lived in Lubbock, TX for five years starting around 2000, while my aunt taught at Texas Tech College, and they were saddened by the clear segregation of the black community there.

Please do not misunderstand me here. I'm NOT saying Canada doesn't have racism. We unfortunately do. But in Canada, a lot of the racial and cultural segregation (and eradication in the sake of culture with the residential schools and government policy) happened and to a degree still happens to the Native Canadians. That's why you never hear anyone call them anything other then Native, Aboriginal, or First Nations since as long as I remember. In my mind, (and I'm not the only Canadian), I consider the word Indian a racial slur, and cringe when I am forced to use it for the sake of historical authenticity. It would be like using the N word for Black Americans.

Anyway, I'm rambing on, and I really have to get to bed. Good night, everyone.

good luck at the dco...I HATE doctors!




Hahahaha, it wasn'ta "real" cup holder, but was actually the cd disc drive "drawer" that slides out. She actually told my sister that it fit her travel mug perfectly!



good luck, I hope she feels better soon...

Ciaddict, I'm sorry to hear about your daughter. I hope and pray she continues to get better.

Here's her a get well teddy.

ciaddict: I hope your daughter is feeling better soon and *hug* for you too

That's a scary story, ciaddict. I hope your daughter recovers quickly! Take care - our thoughts and prayers go with you.

ciaddict - ::hugs:: to you and your daughter. That had to be so scary for both of you. I'll keep you both in my thoughts and prayers. If you need to talk, we're here for you.

Wow, Ci-How scary! I'm glad that she is beginning to feel better. Darn teenagers just don't think sometimes.


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Hahahaha, it wasn'ta "real" cup holder, but was actually the cd disc drive "drawer" that slides out. She actually told my sister that it fit her travel mug perfectly!
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Thank you I couldn't for the life of me think of something on the comp that resembled a cup holder. It's so obvious now. Duh...

Hey CIaddict, sorry to hear about your daughter.

I hope she gets better soon and takes this as a learning experience.

Positive thoughts and healing intent go out from me.

California Hugs for CiAddict.

Rock and Roll for Ciaddict! Oh Yeah!!

Thank God, Kids and Teenages have Hard heads, CIAddict, I hope she is feeling better soon, Oh no offense VAlley.

Sorry to hear about your daughter...hoping everything works out OK!!

Thanks for all the thoughts, prayers, hugs, teddy bears, flowers, and rock 'n roll kitty! My daughter had her first follow-up appointment today with the Trauma Clinic. Then she had another CT scan. Since the clinic and hospital are over an hour's drive one way, it turned into an all-day event. The drive was really rough on her--every curve and bump made her head hurt and caused more nausea. She finally threw up after we got up there. Now that we are home she is feeling better. The Physician Assistant we saw today was really great. She gave her yet another lecture on safety. I guess "car surfing" is a popular fad these days and everyone assumes that is what she was doing. She keeps protesting that she didn't know he was going to start driving the car--but she gets the lectures anyway. The PA said that the headaches, nausea, and vomiting will continue for up to a month or 6 weeks. Her next appointment is Friday morning with the Neurology Clinic.

BTW, Valley, I figured you were up in the Napa area. About 20 years ago (before you were even born!), I lived in Angwin for a couple of years and worked at a nursing home in Calistoga. I was the charge nurse for the Alzheimer's unit--I think that was my favorite job ever. And I loved living in the Napa Valley--beautiful. Now I live in the San Joaquin Valley (where I grew up). Not as beautiful, but it has it own charms.

ooh, Ciaddict, I hope your daughter is feeling better! Keep us updated!

Ciaddict - thanks for the update. I really sympathize with her having headaches and nausea for a month or 6 weeks. Not something I would want to deal with but we always tell teenagers not to do something and they do the exact opposite. At least I know my daughter does, anyway. Still thinking and praying for your daughter.

Oh CI, I feel for and I totally understand what you are going through. When I was 21 (literally my 21st birthday), I too was being stupid sitting (surfing) on the hood of a car. Well, needless to say, I fell off, but I landed on my face. Broken nose, wrists, teeth, you name it. That was 25 years ago. I still can't believe how ONE moment in time could change everything in a life. I recovered. Now, I am the parent of a carefree, 19-year old that thinks she is invinsible too. Man do I worry. One split second. The saying that "There are no do-overs in life" is so true.

At least your daughter will some hopefully have some time off school for Easter break to rest and recover. Especially for the end of the school year and all that comes with that. It is a tough lesson learned, but hopefully her friends can learn from your daughter's mistake too. You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers.

Thank goodness she is on the mend. How are you doing?

Oh dear god, today was one of the longest days of my life.

My dog was sick today, shes only a puppy and she kept getting progressively worse so we took her to the emergency room for animals, i had spent all day with her, she was throwing up and her stools were bloody. Stayed at the Emergency room for 3 hours, the Vet decided that she needed to stay over night, and as soon as she said that, my mom and i started crying. [Nala[our puppy] is our little baby].

Got home at like 8, then headed out to do laundry and grocery shopping, then waited for the vet to call. Apparently Nala is on an IV now.

I get to see her tomorrow morning though...in between Mid Terms...i was suppose to be studying today. >_<

My poor puppy

I'm really sorry to hear that your puppy is sick! She is in the best place and under the best possible care. Here's to her full recovery

I'm so sorry about your puppy, Valley. I hope she gets better soon!

WOOOHOOO guess who is boss for the day!!!!!!!!!? me ! all the managers are sick soo i am the boss for the day !! wooooooooo

Slack-tastic!

Ciaddict -- it IS frustrating that kids really don't get sense knocked "into" them! errrrrrrrrr (out of frustration )

Valley -- awwwwww so sorry about Nala. I hope she's better soon.

Tasha -- don't let all that power go to your head, sweetie!