I hope you don't think that I just come over for the spells and everything. I mean, I really like just talking and hanging out with you and stuff.

Willow ,'First Date'


Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Scrappy - Jul 14, 2009 9:06:43 am PDT #16587 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Very cool, GC! After months of dithering, this weekend we are finally going to get the tile for our kitchen backsplash. I think we are going with white subway tile and black grout, but that could all change when we see what's on sale.


meara - Jul 14, 2009 9:09:54 am PDT #16588 of 30000

You're renovating while pregnant, GC?? I mean, I suppose better than renovating while having small baby, but...eep!

How the hell does a gas station in Alabama have a cricket bat?

I suppose the answer of "is from country where cricket is popular" makes more sense, but having just watched "Shaun of the Dead", I too went to a "is prepared for zombies!" place.

I am NOT prepared for anything, myself. I slept for SIXTEEN HOURS yesterday (including a six hour nap from 2-8pm). This is NOT working for me. Oy. WTF body? WTF?


Volans - Jul 14, 2009 9:19:46 am PDT #16589 of 30000
move out and draw fire

{{{SH}}}


Atropa - Jul 14, 2009 9:22:39 am PDT #16590 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Oh dear, SH. I hope things resolve themselves, and PLEASE be kind to yourself.


Glamcookie - Jul 14, 2009 9:24:29 am PDT #16591 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

You're renovating while pregnant, GC?? I mean, I suppose better than renovating while having small baby, but...eep!

I know, we are insane people. However, we really needed it desperately and figured if we didn't do it now, we'd never do it. We are completely remodeling our kitchen, laundry closet, and master bathroom. We did our other bathroom about a year and a half ago and all of the flooring when we first moved in, so this will be it. Our house will be totally done! (Except that we also need new windows. Argh.)


Ginger - Jul 14, 2009 9:48:59 am PDT #16592 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

You're renovating while pregnant, GC??

The nesting instinct run amuck.


Connie Neil - Jul 14, 2009 10:03:30 am PDT #16593 of 30000
brillig

So I'm now on the generic version of Zoloft. I've only been taking it for a few days, and I suspect the meltdown in the doctor's office was primarily PMS related. But I'm not sure if the hormones were acting as a magnifying glass to everything or what. I could probably use the stuff, but I've always been leery of drugs for the brain. Puritan ethic, you know, as misguided as it is, says I should be able to handle stuff on my own. I don't know what to expect to know if it's working--or if it's working badly. Damn, I take a lot of pills.


Steph L. - Jul 14, 2009 10:38:55 am PDT #16594 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

connie, I think you honestly won't notice any effects for at least 2 weeks, and even then, not the full effect. With SSRIs, you have to give them a full month to really kick in.

What I can say from my own experience with it is that it's NOT like flipping a lightswitch in a pitch-black room -- there's no sudden onset of Zippidee-doo-dah -- but more like a fog burning off. And then, a month or 6 weeks after starting it, I realized that, huh, THIS is how other people feel ALL THE TIME?

I hope you don't mind me saying this, but from the way you've described the stress you're under -- particularly the meltdown you had in the doctor's office -- it sounds like taking an antidepressant, even temporarily, could be a good thing and help you get some psychic equanimity.


Scrappy - Jul 14, 2009 10:40:12 am PDT #16595 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

What Teppy said. Taking an AD is like taking insulin--it's not a matter of willpower, it's a matter of chemistry.


Steph L. - Jul 14, 2009 10:41:39 am PDT #16596 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Damn, I take a lot of pills.

If it makes you feel any better, I take 2 antidepressants (Wellbutrin and Zoloft), blood pressure meds (benazepril), Claritin, drugs for my IBS (Bentyl and Gas-X), and most days I take ibuprofen a couple of times for some damn thing. And then there's migraine drugs when I have a migraine, Ambien when I can't sleep, Flexiril when my back is jacked up...

Don't make me list all the vitamins/supplements I take. It's comical.