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[Delightful]

4 hours ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

Heehee. I doubt an intruder would be deterred by a single dreamcatcher and some Harry Potter wall art. 

Edit: But a full color pic of a screaming Gary Busey might help....

Put up a giant weeping angel poster opposite the door. Cover it with a blind and remove the blind before leaving the house. And leave Bruce in a different room. 

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

3 minutes ago, Deliiiiiightful said:

Put up a giant weeping angel poster opposite the door. Cover it with a blind and remove the blind before leaving the house. And leave Bruce in a different room. 

Also a good idea.  My sister said she'd set to work on a nice creepy painting too. 

[Orlion Blight he/him]

Hang chains from the ceiling. Be sure to have some meat hooks at the end of some.

You can choose whether to have a Pinhead or Alien vibe.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

1 hour ago, Orlion Determined said:

Hang chains from the ceiling. Be sure to have some meat hooks at the end of some.

You can choose whether to have a Pinhead or Alien vibe.

*scribbles ideas on notepad* 

On the further bad day front, Mondays are usually one of the busiest days at the library, and today was busier than usual. So of course my coworkers upheld the grand tradition of abandoning me at the front desk. Multiple times. I got back from lunch and was greeted by a Circ desk worker who had no idea how to create a guest pass, a patron who needed help with the printer, and a line two people deep….with all of my coworkers in the back chatting. During my last hour, one coworker was puttering around doing tasks that kept her away from the desk, so I had to field a dozen questions from a very chatty woman (the phone call took almost seven minutes) while registering a library card….as the other coworker scheduled on the desk "took a short break." Which he wasn't even supposed to do, because like me, his shift ended in 40 minutes and policy clearly says employees can't take breaks within an hour of their shift ending. 

Blargh. I fully understand now why the other departments say they "did their time" in Reference.  

[Kestrel she/her]

Man, I hate that. One of the managers at my work does nothing at all, without even clocking for a break. He just kinda. Sits in the back on his phone until we really need him.

Today was okay I guess, until about two hours ago. It just kinda went downhill and I hit a really bad funk and can't get out.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

4 minutes ago, Kestrel said:

Man, I hate that. One of the managers at my work does nothing at all, without even clocking for a break. He just kinda. Sits in the back on his phone until we really need him.

Today was okay I guess, until about two hours ago. It just kinda went downhill and I hit a really bad funk and can't get out.

Oof. I'm sorry.  Would talking about it help? 

[Briar King]

Hydrocodone migraine ugh. Every once in a while I get them and they really put me down. Idk what kicks them off. Maybe diet or not having enough water? They are twice as bad as a reg migraine imo.

[Kestrel she/her]

1 hour ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

Oof. I'm sorry.  Would talking about it help? 

Idk. Its just a bad cluster of feelings that I can't place where they came from but they're there.

[Erunion he/him]

So I have a super important thing going on this week. I'm flying to Vegas for a two day work seminar, a super difficult testing with a fitness test attached, and then competing in a tournament. 

 

 

And I'm sick. 

 

Ugh. What lovely timing. 

[A Budgie she/her]

I didn't have the greatest day, either...

[Briar King]

Just saw tornados hit NOLA. Keep your head down Twi 

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

3 minutes ago, Briar King said:

Just saw tornados hit NOLA. Keep your head down Twi 

There was a warning for my area, but it hit across the river instead. The rain seems to have stopped, but I guess we're under a tornado warning until 2pm. 

[Briar King]

Ok. I got worried for you when the news started breaking about it. The wind ramped up over on this side about 10 pm last night and was blowing even harder when I went to bed at 3am but we weren't getting rain with it.

[Sunbird she/her]

21 hours ago, A Budgie said:

I didn't have the greatest day, either...

Sorry to hear that, Budgie. Is it something you want to talk about?

[A Budgie she/her]

3 hours ago, Sunbird said:

Sorry to hear that, Budgie. Is it something you want to talk about?

Thanks for asking, but I should be fine.

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

@Briar King, are u sure their Hydrocodone migraines?

I'm pretty sure they get kicked off from drug overdose...

[Briar King]

6 hours ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

@Briar King, are u sure their Hydrocodone migraines?

I'm pretty sure they get kicked off from drug overdose...

That's what I call them anyway. Happens maybe 1 out of 25 times about an hr and half to two hrs after taken.

[Silverblade5 he/him]

In one of my girlfriend's classes, there are people who are constantly either joking about suicide or being general chulls. This causes her to be in a perpetual panic attack where she can barely move. Tomorrow, we're going to talk to the school psychiatrist and her counselors about getting her transferred into a different period.  

[Jondesu he/him]

So, I think I caught the brain weasels full force (love that term). I mentioned in the good news thread that I had sent out a message to one of the girls that was my student for a long time and had gotten an awesome and encouraging message back. Well, I had sent several other messages just like that one, and one in particular Facebook has shown me was on many times since then, but the message shows as unread and she hasn't replied. It's making me very self-conscious and feeling like I must have said something weird that freaked her out enough she doesn't want to respond. I've talked to her in Facebook a number of times before, and we've been friends since she was 7 (I was 14 and helping with our kids programs at church, and we've remained friends ever since, even to the point of me meeting up with her and taking her to church while she was in college), so that makes me feel even worse about not getting a response.

[Briar King]

Mmm one of my classmates from school has died I just learned from FB. She is only the 2nd to go. The 1st was back in 96 during 10th grade at school. This girl/woman now lived right down the road and rode my bus and she was a sweet heart. We reconnected on FB a few yrs ago and always comment on each other's feed talking about the NO Saints. That's life but damnation that really F ing sucks to have read today!

[Kaymyth she/her]

1 hour ago, Briar King said:

Mmm one of my classmates from school has died I just learned from FB. She is only the 2nd to go. The 1st was back in 96 during 10th grade at school. This girl/woman now lived right down the road and rode my bus and she was a sweet heart. We reconnected on FB a few yrs ago and always comment on each other's feed talking about the NO Saints. That's life but damnation that really F ing sucks to have read today!

damnation, man, that sucks. I'm sorry.

 

Slightly less bad day:

(Spoiler cut due to discussion of blood donation. If you are at all squeamish about these things, you probably shouldn't click.)
 

Spoiler

 

I tried to give blood today.  Emphasis on tried.

See, I'm a challenging person to stick.  I have tiny blood vessels, and they're a bit buried.  Last time I gave blood, I made a big deal out of how I hadn't done it in years because people always screwed it up, so please give me your best person.  And it worked!  (A bit too well; I filled the bag so quickly I almost passed out.)

But this time I decided, OK.  They did good last time.  This time perhaps I should just tell them I'm a bit of a tough stick and trust them to be professionals about it.

Big. Rusting. Mistake.

The person I got clearly hadn't been doing this for very long.  She checked out my arm and marked up an obvious but miniscule vein that nobody had ever attempted to stick before.  I told her, "No, not that one, it's too small.  Look here - you can still see the slight mark from the last time I gave blood."

"I like this one better.  I can't even find that one."

"Um.  No, that's not going to work..."

"Are you sure?"

So she called over another nurse who was a veteran at this.  She took a quick look at my arm, poked lightly at the marked vessel and said, "No, that one's superficial. You'll blow the vein."  And she marked the correct vein.

I should've asked her to do the stick.  I really should have.  Because despite all this, the inexperienced lady botched it.

I wound up with four Bloodmobile nurses standing around me, taking turns prodding at my arm with the damnation needle still in trying to find the vein.  And then trying to wiggle the needle into it.  I lay there with my eyes squeezed shut and my jaw clenched until tears started rolling down my cheeks before Veteran Nurse finally said in a no-nonsense tone, "Nope. We're done. I'm pulling it."

 

I swear to gods, if I didn't have a blood type that matches one-third of the human race, I'd have called it quits then and there and declared Never Again.  As it is, I am never allowing anyone but the best person they have on their team to try to do a needle insert, and if they argue I will threaten to walk.  Because if I have to go through that rust one more time, I will be done.

[A Budgie she/her]

4 hours ago, Kaymyth said:

damnation, man, that sucks. I'm sorry.

 

Slightly less bad day:

(Spoiler cut due to discussion of blood donation. If you are at all squeamish about these things, you probably shouldn't click.)
 

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I tried to give blood today.  Emphasis on tried.

See, I'm a challenging person to stick.  I have tiny blood vessels, and they're a bit buried.  Last time I gave blood, I made a big deal out of how I hadn't done it in years because people always screwed it up, so please give me your best person.  And it worked!  (A bit too well; I filled the bag so quickly I almost passed out.)

But this time I decided, OK.  They did good last time.  This time perhaps I should just tell them I'm a bit of a tough stick and trust them to be professionals about it.

Big. Rusting. Mistake.

The person I got clearly hadn't been doing this for very long.  She checked out my arm and marked up an obvious but miniscule vein that nobody had ever attempted to stick before.  I told her, "No, not that one, it's too small.  Look here - you can still see the slight mark from the last time I gave blood."

"I like this one better.  I can't even find that one."

"Um.  No, that's not going to work..."

"Are you sure?"

So she called over another nurse who was a veteran at this.  She took a quick look at my arm, poked lightly at the marked vessel and said, "No, that one's superficial. You'll blow the vein."  And she marked the correct vein.

I should've asked her to do the stick.  I really should have.  Because despite all this, the inexperienced lady botched it.

I wound up with four Bloodmobile nurses standing around me, taking turns prodding at my arm with the damnation needle still in trying to find the vein.  And then trying to wiggle the needle into it.  I lay there with my eyes squeezed shut and my jaw clenched until tears started rolling down my cheeks before Veteran Nurse finally said in a no-nonsense tone, "Nope. We're done. I'm pulling it."

 

I swear to gods, if I didn't have a blood type that matches one-third of the human race, I'd have called it quits then and there and declared Never Again.  As it is, I am never allowing anyone but the best person they have on their team to try to do a needle insert, and if they argue I will threaten to walk.  Because if I have to go through that rust one more time, I will be done.

Woah, that's...woah.
I've thought about giving blood, but this is giving me doubts.

Edited February 9, 2017 by A Budgie
It censored it really weirdly?

[Oversleep]

Hm. For the first time in... 10 years?... my blood is (probably) no longer contaminated. I wonder whether I can donate blood already.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

I wanted to give blood in high school, but I was too skinny. 

Considering I'm now underweight enough that I'm trying to gain weight, and that it's been a losing battle so far, I don't think I'd be able to give blood now, either. :/

[Kobold King he/him]

8 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

I wanted to give blood in high school, but I was too skinny. 

Considering I'm now underweight enough that I'm trying to gain weight, and that it's been a losing battle so far, I don't think I'd be able to give blood now, either. :/

 

On the bright side... you don't have to worry about vampires?