Open Thread for Personal Stuff: August 2014 Suspended Kitty Edition

If people would like hugs, I have put some in the hug barrel.

I also have videos of cute parrots. Cute parrots for everyone! 🙂

Parrot makes longer tail out of paper:

Four baby parrots playing and preening each other:

Parrot imitating various animals, counting and then playing hide and seek:

(Siete is seven, ocho is eight and I think besito is “little kiss” but I am not a native Spanish speaker so I could be wrong – help???)

As for me, I am also job hunting and I hope I will find something before my contract runs out. Bleh. 🙁

Also, I think it was Titanblue who was nice to me last month. Thanks. I kind of ran away from the internet for a week so didn’t respond. Sorry. 😛

Boy does it ever. It hurts him to swallow so all he ate with any gusto today was yogurt.

The pediatrician has a strep test ready to go at their appointment tomorrow morning. I guess we’ll know sometime tomorrow.

I don’t think I was what you’d call a serious fan of Williams, but for some reason this news has got me all tore up and I don’t understand it. I mean, stars die all the time and I don’t spend the day fighting tears.

I know this feeling. I was never much of a celebrity watcher, but I was reading a book about compassion at about the time that Princess Diana and Michael Hutchence both died. For some reason, those three things gelled together to break my heart. It was a very sad autumn for me.

I think Robin Williams may be serving as a symbol for a lot of us. We’re sad that he, personally, has died, but we’re also more sad because he represents our own struggles, and it’s just kind of triggering our feelings.

@unimaginative: I was indifferent when Princess Diana died, but my mother was affected badly. We had plans to visit friends that day, and I think that helped distract her, but it takes energy to work up the motivation to go in the first place.

@LBT: Actually, honey is OK after the first birthday, from everything we’ve ever read.

S went into the children’s hospital a couple of days before their birthday with swollen glands, and they held her over and released her on their birthday, so at least she got to come home that day. She was on antibiotics for a week to ten days after that, which tasted just foul.

@unimaginative: I was indifferent when Princess Diana died, but my mother was affected badly. We had plans to visit friends that day, and I think that helped distract her, but it takes energy to work up the motivation to go in the first place.

I was shattered when she died, which was bizarre, because I’d been totally fed up with her and Prince Charles for years since it came out just how bad their marriage and behaviour was.

Robin Williams – shock, sadness, but I’ve never followed him (only saw two cameo roles he played, in Hamlet and Dead Again), so it’s more pity for him and his family than a personal feeling.

/another sigh

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/10376572/Women-still-want-spouse-to-earn-more

That’s right, 500 members of the Elite Singles dating agency supplied answers (250 each women and men? doesn’t say) and those members are a random sample of the NZ population – not.

Otago University gender studies association professor Chris Brickell said the most fascinating results were 27 per cent of men not seeing their partner’s income as very important, compared with 70 per cent of women who did should have said that the results only held for Elite Singles members. FTFZ.

And because those are awful, here is a nice comedy link: http://www.savagechickens.com/2014/08/a-thousand-typewriters.html

Proof that cats are smarter than monkeys!

Apart from anything else, Hamlet’s been written once already, why are those stupid monkeys bothering to do it all over again?

Hoorah! Thanks. 🙂

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With regard to humour and depression, has anyone else found that if you can make a joke of issues, people treat them as less serious to start with..? Or straight out disbelieve you have that issue ? (Because of you did it would be tragic and you could never find it funny, ever) I’ve found being able to say with a smile that ‘After the first two or three times you start screaming uncontrollably in public, it becomes less embarassing!’, that the base statement – feeling so terrible that you scream uncontrollably in public – is discounted.

Also, hysterical laughter isn’t taken seriously.
It happened to me once. I was in my room in my Uni Hall of Residence with my bf, and started laughing, and couldn’t stop. For a long time. And he assumed I was fine because : laughing! But I wasn’t. I couldn’t stop. And I couldn’t breathe. And I was clutching his arm desperately for help, unable to speak.

@Falconer Just eating yoghurt is fine for a bit. When I had tonsillitis my mother was panicing cos all I could eat was angel delight. The doc looked at my throat, said he was surprised I could eat /anything/, and pointed out all the nutritional goodness of milk products. 🙂

Part Two:

“By the way, Rachel, I’m married.”

ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS? He’s the third guy in a row who’s done this! At least one was honest and upfront about being married. One let things snowball before telling me. Thank goodness I don’t have any feelings for this one.

What a toad.

What the hell’s wrong with me that the only people I attract have loser characteristics like being dishonest and not concerning themselves with other people’s feelings?

marinerachel: Good grief… no mater what the guy’s arrangement with his wife, that is completely inappropriate of him not to disclose beforehand. So sorry you have to deal with that.

What is with all the sleezeball married guys lately? Sorry to hear about that, marinerachel.