I freep sober at work...it IS my fix to get me through the day---but after a week like this last week, I would say that FUI is not only permitted, but is HIGHly recommended!!!
Posted on 04/01/2005 6:44:21 AM PST by xsmommy
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LACHRYMOSE;adj
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1.Weeping or inclined to weep; tearful.
2. Causing or tending to cause tears
I freep sober at work...it IS my fix to get me through the day---but after a week like this last week, I would say that FUI is not only permitted, but is HIGHly recommended!!!
That was terrible.....the translation was abysmal, I was shouting the correct prayers at the TV in concert with FReeper trinity1 (gwmoore's daughter), who happens to be here this afternoon. We were both yelling (Shut UP) at the screen so we could get the translation ourselves (Mrsgwmoore is Italian, and trinity1 is quite fluent, since whe was raised around Mrsgwmoore's family....
That "HELLO" liked to knocked me out of my seat ;-)
Greg
Both that chaotic cutaway to SKY, and then the "we take this for gospel truth" and the sheepish "Well, he isn't dead" were truly memorable..
Greg
And this is the swell news channel I juist bought? Yikes!
so did you hear the litany of the saints a bit later and was it in Italian? someone on another thread told me it was latin, but i would have sworn it sounded italian. i thought that the rosary and the litany of the saints were both recited in Italian. AND i know what you mean, i speak spanish and italian is close enough that it isn't so hard to follow along (which just about anyone knowing the prayers in ENGLISH could do!) THat woman couldn't translate her way out of a paper bag, ST mary full of grace?? SAINT?
their coverage of this has been bad, but you won't be sorry to have it, arghy, i promise!
I am posting a link to the "Talk like a pirate" insult generator, but I am (unfortunately) a few sheets to the wind with grog and therefore unable to utulize the Acme::Scurvy::Whoreson::BilgeRat - multi-lingual insult generator
Alas.
I am off to the family night/grand opening of the new corporate offices of my husband's workplace...or as I like to call it "hell."
ttfn
Fortunately, I had nothing to do with actual content, editorials, or policy.. I was involved with the electronics end of the whole thing, and my politics and conservatism didn't have anything to do with it. I did, however, resign, after a somewhat uncomfortable period when certain "big shots" found out I was a Vietnam Vet. It was either that, or go the "get harassed then sue" route, and it was easier to find another position.....
Still, standards of techincal competence have really suffered... Nobody should put up unedited feeds, and NEVER put up a feed from a source that doesn't know that the camera and audio is live.. that is REAL dangerous.. you don't know what is going to be said..
Greg
I can't believe Fox messed up like this. I was at the station all afternoon and couldn't hear, but I could read the screen. Did all the networks mess it up?
I see they have Linda Vester on -- what gives?
Know what you mean, speak Spanish and Portuguese (Brazilian) myself, also German ( was raised speaking that), so I have a fair grasp of languages.. the translation of the Rosary was abysmal... trinity1 and I were appalled at the whole thing... That woman was driving us crazy!!.
Yes, the Litany of the Saints was in Italian as well. I wish it had been in Latin, because I first learned it as a kid in Latin (my knuckles are still scarred from the experience ;-) ) Because I would have been able to respond automatically.. one's Parochial School education lever leaves.
Greg
I missed the mistakes made by Fox and the others, saying the Pope was dead, then that he wasn't, but there is a TV at my bank where I stopped on the way home and the teller I always go to told me it looked like a bunch of Fox people were really embarrassed-now y'all are telling me, too. That is just awful-and bad translations of the rosary prayers-Saint Mary-sheesh...
Mrsgwmoore says that CNN got sucked in too.. I guess that someone at the Courthouse had that on a TV and called her. I don't know if any other channel was fooled... I usually stay with FOX..
Besides, I was enjoying (heartily) how Shep and the various Priests, Msgrs, Bishops, Cardinals, etc were busting on MS, etal, Big Time (Huge Evil Grin). I found it rather uplifting.. I kept thinking "Run Sinner Man, cause the Dark Can't Hide You".....
Greg
"one's Parochial School education lever leaves."
That is so true, especially those of us who attended catholic schools pre-Vat II-when we lived in the city, we used to go to a church in that celebrated one mass in latin every two weeks, but since we moved it is WAY too far to go there-hubby and I frequently find ourselves whispering the responses in latin when we are at mass, which sometimes gets us some strange looks from people who do not know us.
i hadn't heard the litany of the saints since the Forty Hours processions in grade school and they were preVat2, the cadence was so comforting to hear.
The Friday before Good Friday, I was carrying home a case of beer. When I got home I felt a twinge in my upper right arm and figured I sprained it slightly. However, as the days went by, the whole arm got sorer and sorer. It kept getting harder to find a position to sleep in, as the arm got pretty much all sore.
On Thursday I started housesitting. About 1:30 PM Good Friday, I heard a scrabbling sound, and went to check and found the dog having what appeared to be a running dream but her teeth were bared and eyes open but unseeing. It ended after a bit. She had trouble getting up, and when she did, she lost her balance a couple of times and didn't recognize me: when she could stand, she hid behind the couch to get away from me. She got over that in a few minutes, and was OK but subdued. I called the veterinary hospital, but it was closed for Good Friday.
That night about 1:30 AM I was awakened by a similar noise and went out to find her having what appeared to be a full-fledged epileptic fit. When that ended, I comforted her and took her to the TV room which has the couch she really likes. I watched some miserable dreck until 3:30 AM when she jumped off the couch and went onto her side for another seizure. so at this point, I'm desperate: I called the animal hospital in downtown Vancouver, but they wanted faxes of the owners' credit card (mine's maxed out, natch) and a signed authorization and the dog's medical history (huh? who keeps that at home?). So I called the folks who were way up north at 4:30 AM, but they had no access to a fax. So I had to sit up with her until the local hospital opened at 8:30m AM. The vet checked her pupillary reactions, etc., and found them perfect and therefore thought the seizures were not neurological, but probably due to something she ate. So they took blood and urine tests and gave me Valium in pills for her as well as a liquid form to be injected into her rectum if she had long or quickly repeating seizures (I didn't have to use these, thank goodness). So I gave her the pills which kept her doped up pretty well, but at 3:30 AM Easter Sunday she had another fit which I slept through, but she came and got me up to tell me, and I found the puddle of urine and blood stains in another bedroom (she appears to abrade her mouth on the floor somewhat during the fits, leaving small patches of blood). So I called the vets (open for 2 hours on Easter Sunday) and got her some phenobarbital pills to fight seizures. They told me to bring her in Monday when her regular vet would be in so he could see her.
So I took her in, but because the drugs had her so doped I had to lift her into and out of the car. And when lifting her out at the vets, some ghastly wrenching occurred in my right arm, which buggered that for fair.
So the arm was horribly sore, and I couldn't find ANY comfortable position to lie down to sleep (shooting pains in the upper arm and shoulder blade, and constant strained feeling in the lower arm, like the "growing pains" we used to get as kids, and numb fingertips), and MY doctor wouldn't be around until Tuesday afternoon. The vet told me that her blood and urine tests were inconclusive, so her problem may well be a tumour or something permanent, or maybe she's had her last seizure, he just didn't know. Her folks returned Monday evening. I went home to mostly not sleep. My doc gave me Tylenol with codeine the next day, but that hardly helped, so on Wednesday I went back. From Thursday morning until Wednesday night I got 19 hours of sleep. I now take Tylenol with codeine during the day, Oxycocet at night (WHEEE!!!) and my gout medicine apo-naproxen, but I'm not sure that really helps. I am able to get some deep sleep with the Oxycocet (also known as Percocet?), but the arm's in a LOT of pain a lot of the time, I'm really fed up and faintly nauseated some of the time. I started physio last night.
As for the pooch, the vet will check her again Monday, more blood tests, at which point her system will be accustomed to the Phenobarbitol. Hopefully, he'll be able to tell if she's over it or stuck with it permanently.
I had to inform my bro that FNC had misinformed. He saw the Pope was dead, then went back to 3 Stooges. (my brother is a nitwit...had to direct him back to his work from home projects...sheesh) AGAIN, WHY DO I WANT TO BE AN ONLY CHILD??????????
OMG arghy, you have been through the WRINGER! that's awful, what could the problem be with your poor arm? a pinched nerve or something somewhere?the poor dog too, i feel terrible for her, but you are a person and therefore more important. you are a veritable PHARMACY it sounds like! i had the tylenol with codeine last week for my aching tooth and i found it knocked me for a loop but didn't do a thing for the pain, i had to get up in the middle of the night to take advil for the pain and then passed back out once it calmed down. you're taking the TY with cod during the day??? OMG! I took it in friday PM and felt comatose most of sat AND sunday after that.
be nice to those family members who are less fortunate than you... ; )
I tolerate.....CG is praying that it is still raining in the AM to justify him not going to the lake for a brother day. He's worse than me. Actually right now CG is NAPPING!!! He's had a rough week, and needs the downtime.
The physio guy says the pain down the arm was, surprisingly, precipitated by something in the neck area, so he's working on that first. My doc is a big strong blak belt in karate who works out like crazy: he told me that a month ago he lifted a 30 pound suitcase, and his arm started to go the same way, he was two weeks getting over it. Sometimes, he says, your muscles get awfully sore with strain from something you think should not have caused that much trouble, and there's no good clear explanation. The Tylenol with codeine doesn't do much for me, and any position I lay down in I still got shooting pains with every quiver or jerk, but the Percocet is vgery strong, and, as I say, allows me to get some good sleep, although it doesn't completely cure the pain. Ho hum!
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