An open thread for personal stuff, continued from here. As always: No trolls, no MRAs/PUAs/MGTOWs/dinosaurs etc, be nice. Email the mods/me if shit gets weird.
Categories
We Hunted The MammothBucking the Backlash
We Hunted The Mammoth
Blinky, Inky, Pinky, and Clyde.
I love marmie boys. Every one I’ve known have been charmers. Even the shelter ones who had some personality problems.
Because Reasons – Athos, Porthos. Aramis and D’Artagnan.
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Earth, Air, Fire and Water.
North, South, East and West.
Lemon, Lime, Grapefruit and Pommelo.
That’s all I got.
Childrenofthebroccoli – I second the rubber mat suggestion. I’ve got two in my kitchen – one in front of the sink, the other at the main counter. I wouldn’t want to do without them.
I had a family of hamsters named that!
I think my family might just smoosh my traditional birthday dinner with Mother’s Day dinner again like we did last year. Because it’s cheaper (but I don’t get to pick where we go. ; n ; )
And my aunt might just say that she didn’t get me a present because she paid for my new ID card, which I’m okay with. Money’s tight ’round here.
I had to have my 16 year cat put to sleep. She had stopped eating and was slowly wasting away before my eyes.
I miss her so very much. 🙁
Aw Mij. I’m so sorry to hear that! Hugs if you’d like.
@Paradoxical – I know how you feel. My birthday is right around Christmas and so it usually gets eclipsed by the holidays in one way or another.
Oh no Mij. I’m so sorry about the kitty. They tea are family members IMO.
Oh and Happy Birthday Paradoxical!!
Thanks for the birthday wishes, everyone!
And hugs for you Mij, if you want them. I know what it’s like to lose a pet, and it’s a terrible, terrible feeling.
Happy belated birthday!
Also, adding hugs to the barrel for Mij; loosing a good old kitty is hard.
Practicals tomorrow, then a week to a month of waiting to be sure I’m not the first in the department’s history to not pass the state testing.
Also, just hung out with a good friend for a bit to unwind after the three written exams. She has to move out of student housing and fly out of town for the summer while I’m sequestered at practicals, but it was still the best way I could have spent the last 2 hours.
I’m grateful for interwebs.
To bed with me, now.
I wasn’t prepared for the open thread for non-personal stuff and posted in the wrong thread by mistake. Just gonna paste my comment in here too, and hope it gets deleted from the other thread.
—
I finally got to start my remicade/IV treatment last week and have actually been feeling a lot better since then. Not sure if this is very powerful placebo effect or unexpectedly quick results, but I’m just gonna roll with it. Going in for 2nd treatment on Wednesday. It actually wasn’t that bad. It was nice to have a few hours in a hospital bed, just catching up on old TV shows on my laptop. However, not having full use of my left arm was unsettling. I’ve never really put myself in that sort of position before, but I could tell on a bad day it might make me freak out.
Oh, and I also got a weird “finger straightener” contraption.
http://i374.photobucket.com/albums/oo188/dhag85/1c7fbb85-02a5-45ba-9cde-aa8c51a8e8a9_zpsqycrbujh.jpg
I was meaning to ask, how many of us are Minecraft players? I wouldn’t mind more people on my current server. 🙂
Hi everyone! Also, lots of hugs and kitties for those in need of them <3
I'm very happy today, I will be re-starting therapy (and probably with my excellent last therapist, yay!) soon, and I already began my appearances in the radio station belonging to Mothers of Plaza de Mayo!! I'll be on the air bi-weekly on Wednesday nights. My parents accepted to have my daughter at their home on those occasions.
Also, my host is a lovely and very sensitive man, with a very deep knowledge of Latin America and its existing inequalities, so we're having great conversations 🙂
I still have very low moments in my life sometimes, but I feel I'm slowly digging myself out of the hole…
If anyone is curious (and/or speaks Spanish) here's the link to the playlist.
There’s only one audio at the moment, but I’ll be uploading future appearances 🙂
@Luzbelitx
Nice. 🙂 Good luck with therapy and radio! I’ll definitely learn Spanish one day. :p
I am a new poster, long time lurker. This community is amazing, and I’ve loved you from behind the screen.
My father has been missing in Barrie ON since Thursday April 30, around 6pm. If you have places you can share these links, my family and I are extremely grateful.
http://barrie.ctvnews.ca/police-search-for-missing-barrie-man-1.2354587
http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/2015/05/01/city-police-asking-for-publics-help
Friday, May 1, 2015 4:05:43 EDT PM
Barrie city police are requesting the public’s assistance in locating a man missing since Thursday evening.
Gordon McDowall, 62, was last seen on April 30 at 6:30 p.m. on Bayfield Street in Barrie.
City police are unaware what McDowall may have been wearing at the time he went missing. Family also have reported that this is not normal behaviour for McDowall and there are no pre-existing medical issues.
McDowall is white, stands 5’8”, weighs 180 pounds, has grey hair and hazel eyes. His vehicle is a white 2007, four-door Dodge Nitro, with Ontario licence plate BCWS 714.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Barrie Police Service at 705-725-7025 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
First time poster, long time lurker. This community is amazing, and I have loved you from behind the screen.
My dad has been missing since Thursday, April 30 around 6pm in Barrie ON. If you have places you can share these links, my family and I are extremely grateful.
http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/2015/05/01/city-police-asking-for-publics-help
http://barrie.ctvnews.ca/police-search-for-missing-barrie-man-1.2354587
Eeek! Where do you live that requires one of those!?
A call to arms!
Hi Mammotheers, I wounder if you might be so kind as to assist me with something?
First a bit of background. An ex-military colleague and I are setting up a ‘Community Interest Company’ here in England. A CIC is a company that has a social purpose. Our aim is perhaps best illustrated by our CIC statement:
“To promote fitness and wellbeing through the provision of physical and mental challenge events; with particular emphasis on providing such services to women and young people”
We’re currently involved in Obstacle Course Racing (“OCR”) and military fitness bootcamps. What is interesting is that we have a majority women take-up. We want to expand on that. We’ve been liaising with various government organisations and NGOs.
We ‘re aiming to target people who want to do something to get fitter but are put off by the current options available.
So for instance, adult women may be put off joining a gym for two main reasons:
They don’t feel they’ll be able to do the level of work required.
They don’t want to be surrounded by girls in lycra showing off their abs, whilst they’re in a baggy t-shirt.
For younger girls there are similar reasons and also other factors (especially issues around competitiveness, they prefer something more cooperative).
Our plan is to use the OCR events as something to work towards. We’re playing down the race aspect. We’ll run them military style where you have to work as a team to complete them. We’ll also run bootcamps prior to the events train people for the races (we’ll have the bootcamps running in various locations)
In effect the OCRs are a means to an end. Getting into better shape is the end. The OCR is just a fun thing to aim for and see how you’ve got on.
We’ll be working with ex-mil people for the training. We do that already. it may seem odd putting a woman trying to lose some of the baby weight with a soldier getting ready for SF selection; but essentially they’re both under the same pressures. They have a goal that’s important to them and they can best achieve it by helping each other.
Our key element then is “inclusiveness”. We want people to feel welcome. it doesn’t matter how fit or unfit you are initially, we’ll work with you to get to the next level.
So the key thing we’re still chewing over is a name for the CIC.
We want to emphasise the inclusivity aspect. We also need a ‘respectable’ name. We’ll be working a lot with youth organisations and NGOs so we don’t want all that “Suck it up Princess!!!” crap you get with the “Extreme!!!!!!” elements of OCR.
You’re all very bright creative people, so any ideas gratefully received.
@Alan
I’ve got nothing that springs to mind but I will definitely ponder on a name and get back to you. As someone who very much likes exercise (yes I’m weird :P) I’m glad you’ve started this CIC! May it have massive success.
Hi Sunnysombrera
That’s brilliant; thank you. Once it’s all up and running we’ll drag you along for some “Log PT” (it’s actually quite good fun)
For people who enjoy Government reports here’s some light reading….
http://www.wsff.org.uk/system/1/assets/files/000/000/273/273/ccc7dd1b4/original/WSFF_PE_Toolkit_CGFG.pdf
and
https://www.womeninsport.org/resources/what-sways-women-to-play-sport/
Well, not much really changes in my life. Still trans. Still poor and unemployed. Still on the verge of homelessness. Still can’t get even the crappiest part-time work.
Oh, well, something did change. I had to sell even more of my belongings so I could eat. I don’t really own things anymore. Clothes. A five year old laptop. A two year old phone with a battery going flat.
My book seems to be doing well. My writer friends are jealous of how popular it is, but I am finding it difficult to get excited about. I won’t get the royalties soon enough to matter.
Link to my book for anyone interested:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UGFVVRA
Oops, that first link was the toolkit; here’s the actual report….
http://www.wsff.org.uk/system/1/assets/files/000/000/285/285/f4894dccf/original/Changing_The_Game_For_Girls_Final.pdf
@Alan (Moving from a non-personal thread :P)
Also, what do you mean showing our age ?!
I’ll have you know I’m a sprightly…uh…44.
So I did live through the Falklands, and the miner’s strike.
In fact, I knew twins who’s father was one of the police who were posted around mines.
(And since they could be incredible bullies, I shivered even as a High Schooler at what their father might do)
My first political memory is of Thatcher’s 1979 win.
@gilshalos
I’m 26. For me the phrase is “You know you’re getting old when your friends start having babies on purpose.”
I remember when phones had black and white screens and the only game was “Snake.”
I remember having only four analogue TV channels.
I remember VHS and audio tapes.
Am I a cool oldie yet?
I have more work than I can get done. This is both a good and a bad thing. Also, our program head is retiring so things are weird and will probably remain weird for the next couple of months as the power changeover happens. But the work is becoming increasingly exciting as we get closer to a potential life changing treatment for the sick kids I work with.
My co-mom had her gallbladder out but is doing well (this is my daughter’s mother-in-law, we’re great friends, we couldn’t think of a better name to call ourselves).
I am attempting to declutter but one of my couchsurfers told me I should just go for the Victorian style of decorating (basically, cram stuff in every which where) as my house is a “visual delight”. So, maybe…never going to be minimalist, though I like that look!