Are you feeling better? I saw you got sick on your Archeress thread.

I'm doing so much better now, thank you for asking took a while to get healty again but i'm gradually getting there

What did you have? If you don't mind me asking.

:] that's good!!

I have a heart deficiancy. Got pretty bad for a while, but things are all better now



I've kinda been popping in and out recently, but Eva sent me a really lovely message about how much she loved the story and hoped i was getting better, and it kinda inspired me to continue

I'm just glad you're doing better

To you it is a dream. To Liz it would've been a nighmare.

True

This is a prophetic dream. The penquin appears to be wearing a tuxedo - a black tuxedo with a white bib. This means your friend is going to become very wealthy through illegal sources (heists, bank robberies - if it was a stork it would have been house burglaries) and have a baby that will by DNA be determined NOT to be his.

The baby that wasn't his will grow up to be famous and shun him for getting the DNA test done. Meanwhile, his mother will have a romantic relationship with a man who does voices for cartoons, who will end up penniless from an odd source. This friend's sibling will become a famous bass guitarist and leave the band that made him a success, then suck in his new band.

Any questions?

I would have woken up, crying and searching for a weapon XD

Yes. How about if he appeared as a pelican instead?

Yes.

What did you just say

MALX XD

Well, see - penguins have short legs, so they have to walk quickly. (bank heists/heists) whereas a stork is tall (2nd story man robbing houses).

The guitarist is of course Slash, so hit your friend up for an autograph for me. Have him tell Slash I'm sorry I dissed him at the concert when he called me down on stage.

The cartoons = Tennessee Tuxedo

The white bib - no baby in the world's bib is white, that is why they have to wear them. That means there is no baby, but the appearance of one.

etc. etc. etc.

More?

ROFL !!!

I can't breathe, I'm laughing so hard XD

Oh, I get it!

Oh darn! I did the whole thing on the wrong bird? Urk. Sorry, scratch the whole dream interpretation! Better go look up biting pelicans.

If Axl had called me down, I'd have gone. He was in a kilt. I was in the tier by Slash's end of the stage, Axl was in the middle tier, only people below him. They could look up his kilt, so I wondered if he was wearing panties/what they were seeing when they looked up.

And Slash - Slash's hair and jeans looked ... grimy. He called me down on stage and I gave him a few choice Italian sign language gestures.

Now, Steven Tyler called me down on stage several times, and you would not believe how he does it - AWESOME! My husband had to tie me to the seat to keep me from going at his concerts. He nearly yanked my dress in two one time pulling me back to my seat.

LOVE going to concerts, lol.

Rihanae! WOOOOOOOOT !!!!!! You're back! WOO HOO !!!!!!!!!

You DISSED SLASH??

My hubby would be flabbergasted, lol

At the time, he was in bad need of a bath. I have my standards on who I'll jump down on stage for, lol. And I never go back stage for the parties after the first shocker.

What is all this I don't even

Ahahaha! I don't blame you. Hubby and I were in a band. Baths were a must after-wait, what shocker??

The first time I went to an after concert party was the last time I ever went to an after concert party. I was pretty shocked, decided it wasn't for me.

Oh wow! Never even dreamed about going to an after concert party.

If they call you onstage, they usually want you to go back stage during the break - don't do it. If you go down on stage at the last of the concert they invite you to ride the limo with them to their hotel for a party - don't do it. But getting on stage? Hell yes, have a ball and enjoy it! (if they are clean, disease and drug free, etc). Steven Tyler is clean and drug free; don't believe anyone in GNR was.

Slash was going through some grunge phase or something back then - urk. Really gross. I've seen him cleaned up with Velvet Revolver, and believe he may be off drugs now. He is an AWESOME guitarist!

Hubster and I BOTH agreed with don't do backstage parties without the other, lol.

We also both agreed that neither of us are attractive enough to be invited to one XDDDD

A lot of it is where you sit. The wings are where the most people get invited from usually. The band scans the wings to see who they want to invite down. The floor rarely ever gets invited up. I did get invited once when I was down on the floor, (most likely because the band could see down my top from up there). Every other time it was when I was sitting in the wing section by the stage. I always aim for seats in the wings, just in case. Then you can decide if you want to go or not, depending on the band/how clean they are or aren't, etc.

I don't do drugs at all, barely take baby aspirins - so when I go to a concert if the band is so stoned they can't play their own music - I won't go down when invited. That was what happened at the GNR concert, it was awful. White Snake was the lead in band, and they ROCK'd! GNR got out there and kept going in the back to get high and meandering back out - then before 30 minutes was up they went in back for so long everyone started booing and demanding their money back. Axl couldn't remember the words to any of the songs and couldn't read them off the teleprompt either - after all that Slash called me down on stage. I told him no in the rudest and most visible way possible - Italian hand gestures.

Wow, that's a lot of drugs there. I get loopy if I take too much cough syrup XD

I won't take cough syrup. Baby aspirin or tylenol - that is it. Don't like taking pills or anything that makes me not feel like myself.

I don't blame you!

When I had a pinched nerve in my neck (something I DO NOT recommend by the way)- the doc prescribed hydrocodone.

I took HALF of one pill and immediately decided I would rather hurt.

The really funny thing is- I also had to take steroids- and they warned my I might gain weight. I lost 5 pounds with the steroids...

Goofy dachshund metabolism...

Ooh... when I had my c-section, I got prescribed that. I never took it.

I agree with you on the hydrocodone. My doctor used to prescribe them for migraine headaches - I ended throwing them out or not filling the prescription and just using tylenols.

On the steroids - sorry, but I am going to have to use a balding spell on you for that. Anyone that doesn't turn into a moonpie faced pillsbury dough boy while taking steroids needs some dire punishment to make up for it = balding spell.

I don't have to put a balding spell on my husband, he is headed that way all on his own - but he eats like some kind of termite and never gains an ounce. It he changes channels on the remote 5 times rapidly he loses a pound - I swear I could just scream when I am eating tiny salads and measuring portions year after year and he is gorging on cookies/ice cream/fried taters/etc. - and year after year he never gains an ounce !!! URK!

You men and your metabolisms !!! GAAAAAAH !!!!!!

I've been losing weight lately even though I eat like a lion, lol. It's concerning me a bit...

I am twelve years old and what is this???

How about if they "diet" for a day and lose 5 pounds?? My husband is like that. If he started eating healthy, he'd drop all 360 lbs in 3 weeks, lol

I, however, have to nearly starve myself and exercise hardcore to lose anything. I quit being concerned about it, lol

Well, I'm thirteen (to the nth power), I'll tell you in this spoiler:

Oh yeah, he drinks some chocolate powder shakes that are supposed to put on weight between his 6 meals plus trashy unhealthy snacks like chips (etc) daily - and never gains an ounce. He is wearing the same jeans he was when I met him, it's like he is frozen into ... hey wait, that is IT! He's an alien! I knew it!

My husband likes to announce that he's randomly lost ten pounds. I give him evil looks,lol

I must be the only person on the forum who actually takes prescription pain killers when I'm injured. If they give me a prescription for a pain killer I take it. Hydrocodone stops the pain and makes me feel great...which is good and bad.

I get why people become addicted to narcotic pain killers and why it is important to take them in moderation and only when they're needed.

My dad took painkillers the finals years of his life. Towards the end, he was so addicted he couldn't function without them. They got him weaned, but during the process he was mean and hateful. I am scared of that happening to me. The only thing I'm addicted to is cigarettes.

Time to bring out the old shock collar...

I will not share the addiction I had once, but I'm too terrified of ANY type of pill to take it.

Then again, I hate medicine in general. Especially cherry flavored cough medicine.

I remember I tasted a martini once, and it tasted EXACTLY like cherry flavored cough medicine.

Never again

Your body makes its own natural pain killer (why children fall and get up and go back to playing) - when you take pain medicine it does the job for your brain so it stops producing its own natural pain killers. Later when you are in pain, you have to take the pills because your body has stopped producing its own.

Beta blockers are even worse, because they force out the brains natural production to alter and focus it on that one need. Your neurons and receptors get all screwed up and it takes years to get them "retrained" to their normal function.

Another thing is, medical schools are more and more often these days being funded by pharmaceutical companies. It is in their best interest to train the doctors how to medicate rather than treat. I'm just a little leary of a doctor who jumps too readily to the prescription pad, especially if they are doling out highly addictive drugs for anything less than a serious injury.

My husband is the opposite of me. He takes sleeping pills and sinus squirty things every single night, can't sleep without them. He takes nausea pills daily, gets ill feeling without them. If he even thinks he might have a pain he is loading up on aspirin/tylenol/hyrdocodone/etc. (whatever the strongest thing he can get his hands on) - he takes pills for anything you can think of. (maybe that is why he stays so skinny, lol).

As Kiln said, moderation is the key. Not everyone reacts the same way to everything, so to each their own.

I ask tell my doctors "How can I solve this without medicine?"

Today´s doctors are all about how much pills they can make us take. It´s like they don´t even need to know much about how the body works, only what pill can make what illness go away (for the moment).

I don´t even take fever-reducing pills because fever is the body´s natural way to combat germs with low heat tolerance. Of course, should I ever reach critical temperature I´ll take ´em. But not before that.

Hey! I know him!!...

Oddly enough, I hate the way painkillers make me feel, and I get really snappy with people (yes, yes, I know... ...) if I take them for more than a couple of days...

I tend to think I'm a more pleasant person if I just deal with the pain on my own... ...

My name's Rob, and I'm an alchololic... ...There...That felt much better...

Well, I was...Many moons ago... ...That's the only addiction I had...

Oh, that and Gundam Wing and Dragonball Z...

Oh, and Marillion... ...

My problem with the pain meds was not so much that I am afraid of them (although I am. And I was GLAD Mrs. Treydog could take them after her knee replacement.

But for me, the first dose made me.... loopy (no comments needed from the peanut gallery, thanks) MORE loopy and sick to my stomach. If I want that, I will ride a roller coaster. At least then I will get the pleasure of watching all the stuff from my pockets raining down on the carnies.

Different subject... In my spare time (hahahahaha). Sorry... try again
In between sleeping, eating, and working- I sometimes help folks at my work with their home PCs.

So a lady asks if she can bring hers in for a look-see. "Sure. No problem. I just need the tower- no need for all the extras (keyboard, mouse, monitor."

Next day. "I am having real trouble getting the monitor loose. I pulled a piece of metal off of the back of the computer...."

"OK... (long pause as I work on 'diplomatic'). It should have a coupe of screws. If not, you should be able to squeeze the sides of the connector and get it to release. Tell you what. Take a pic of it and I will let you know how to proceed."

Next next day. "Here's the picture."

Standard SVGA connector with the usual thumb screws.

Me (pointing) "Just undo those and it should come right out."

Next next next day the computer arrives, along with the plate that goes over all the connectors on the back panel. (Which I foolishly ASSUME is the "piece that came loose.)

Get the PC home. Ignore it until Saturday afternoon. Dig out my KVM switch (handy device- lets me run 2 computers with one keyboard, video, and mouse). Dig out a spare power cord. Dig out a spare PS2 mouse- because the KVM switch is an older one.

Go to hook it all up. Bring the video part of the switch to the video port on the comp... and realize I am looking at pin-to-pin instead of pin-to-socket. Look further and realize the pins on the comp are bent to a fare-thee-well. The SVGA socket got wrenched off.

(Bang head)

Icing on the cake... her ex was a computer tech.