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Post by dejibo on Jun 26, 2010 7:10:10 GMT -5
had a great b/day! wooo! ;D TY for all the wishes. I too am losing more weight. I am down 33 pounds now. The MD isnt happy with that. anyway, I didnt ask him. Im turning into a skinny butt.
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Post by Yvondith on Jun 28, 2010 0:02:27 GMT -5
Norfy is just dripping with cuteness, isn't he Kikaro. Here's how I feel about your situation, if I was Betty. For one thing, try to relax. If she sees you acting nervous, she may think you're weird. If you get into a randomly idle conversation with her about whatever, work, the weather, etc... when the conversation dies down, or there's a spot where it seems you or her are struggling for words, just casually ask her what her interests are. "So, what do you do after work to relax?" or something similar. Ask her if she has any pets. If she does, all girls do the same thing, we will gush about our babies. If she has dogs, great. If she has a cat or likes cats, even better. Try to relate some positive experiences you've had with that animal type. If it's something exotic, just say wow, that's cool, and ask her to elaborate on what it's like to own that sort of pet. If you can get anything out of her about hobbies, hopefully you'll have something in common and the conversation will find it's own footing. That's the way to get me to open up, at least. I'll blabber to anyone if I find out they like role playing games, or cats. If you can, just try to keep the conversation on a positive note. About her hair, ask her where she gets the dye to do it with. You typically can't just buy it in someplace like Walmart. Tell her you think it's cool that she has green hair. If she likes video games, tell her it reminds you of Rydia, or a generalized video game character from a game you like. Tell her your gnome in WoW has green hair. But only if she likes games. Those girls who don't, well, they'll probably think you're a geek or nerd. I say who cares but still. I am proud to be a geek! Anyways, that's my two cents. Good luck!
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Post by Office Ninja on Jun 28, 2010 1:22:09 GMT -5
Yes, yes he is Sori. I already told Bryce when we when the lottery Norfy gets a job as our pool boy. Speaking of the lottery, I need to win. Or maybe find a long lost relative who is rich. I am so tired of being a damned drone. I am currently in find a better job mode. I cant just quit though because in Tulsa its rare to find a job that pays over $15 an hour. You would think I would be happy. I am spoiled at my current job I don't do a whole lot, but I have to deal with some of the most retarded annoying co-workers in the world. I HATE lazy stupid people and it seems that is all I work with. Sigh, but that is an entirely different rant. I think I might actually sit down and write my story. That seems about as likely as winning the lottery though. But hey, it will at least be fun. Ive been working on some things for it and hope to have more written soon. Of course, I also need to get Bryce to sell his novel. You know, the one he FINISHED. He is so terrified to submit his work. I might just do it for him. I did find it and have been reading it. He thinks he hid it from me because he didnt want anyone to read it. Silly guy, I know all his passwords. So thats my rambling of the day. You people need to post more.
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Post by Yvondith on Jun 28, 2010 3:07:07 GMT -5
Okay, well I guess I can give an update about myself. Granny had a stroke a while back. Or so they said. She is doing better though, and seems to have recovered from the stroke. Then, she went into the hospital all last week for stomach pain. She was diagnosed with Gastritis, and not much else. Not sure what to make of that. I saw her Saturday, and she seemed in good spirits. She's back at home. I went on a new medication named Abilify to help treat my depression. Works well enough, but the past month has been hard to deal with, so I still feel really depressed. A good thing with the new medicine is that it is causing me to lose weight. I'm almost back down to 300 lbs again. I had to babysit Granny's kitten while she was in the hospital. Petting that kitten was like petting a cactus, all teeth and nails. She about drove me and Smokey insane. Besides all the bad news surrounding Granny, everything is alright. I'm getting a few driving lessons here and there, I'm working slowly towards getting back on my feet.
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Post by dejibo on Jun 28, 2010 7:24:50 GMT -5
Granny will ALWAYS have some medical drama going on steph, its best to not get yourself in a worry cycle about it. It has been going on for as long as I have known her, and many family members report its been happening since she was a child with polio. Does she have valid medical issues, HELL YEAH! but she takes them in stride,and is accustomed to the round robin medical treatments for them. Try to take a breath, and realize that Granny is an old pro at this, and can handle it better than you and I tied together. She is a tough old bird,and it takes more than a tummy ache to knock her down.
I agree with Stephs advice about talking to this girl betty. Ask her about HER, and dont worry about revealing yourself right now. That can come in time.
Its HOT HOT HOT here! we are not used to weather in the 90s. Its rainy/stormy and HUMID as hell today. I am going to be hiding in my bedroom.
I have not been play FFXIV as it is always on some weird hour. I just dont have what it takes to play at 1am. I am hoping they will be expanding the hours at some point. if not, I am going to share the info.
What are the rest of you doing?
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Post by Office Ninja on Jun 28, 2010 13:37:12 GMT -5
Dejibo, I do know they are about to change the hours. They are about to do the Open Beta from what I hear.
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Jul 5, 2010 1:29:43 GMT -5
I downloaded the Safari web browser that Apple has. Its taking a while to get used to some things but I really like it so far. I might stick with this for a while and it may replace IE for me. I could never get into using FireFox. It never did anything for me. But Safari seems pretty neat so far.
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Post by Office Ninja on Jul 5, 2010 2:52:51 GMT -5
Safari rocks!
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Jul 6, 2010 0:24:57 GMT -5
I love it actually. I've tried FireFox and Google Chrome and neither seemed to have anything that made me want to switch to them. I love Safari's Top Sites feature. If I could add anything to it though it'd be tabbed browsing. I loved having it in IE. Unless it does have the feature but I haven't seen it yet. When it comes right down to it though, a browser is a browser. As long as it can surf the web and not suck at it (Netscape) then it doesn't really matter what you use.
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Post by Office Ninja on Jul 6, 2010 1:03:28 GMT -5
Oh Norfy. You silly duck. I loved my Safari Tabbed browsing. Of course I have no idea how to turn it on in Windows. In OS X its just Safari Menu/Preferences/Tabs.
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Jul 6, 2010 2:16:56 GMT -5
Oh yes, I see it now. Thanks. It was a little easier to find in IE but I have it now. Cool ;D
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Post by dejibo on Jul 6, 2010 7:44:21 GMT -5
I am finding IE to be VERY slow lately! it drags on, and I have to wait forever for some pages to load, and even end up refreshing the pages sometimes to force it. perhaps I will look at this safari thing.
Its HOT HOT HOT here! we are not used to hot in NH. We are used to snow. Folks are dropping like flies around here. Me? I have AC and I am hiding in the house. I got all of my chores done so its time for FFXI.
I hear the release date for FFXIV is sept for PC and March for PS3, so I look forward to that.
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Jul 8, 2010 0:12:14 GMT -5
Hey, Dejibo. I know you're pretty smart with medical stuff so I have a question for you.
Lately when I go jogging after about 10 minutes or so I start getting these annoying cramps in the right side of my stomach. I wasn't getting them when I first started jogging but its been happening almost everyday now. Its getting to the point where I've been having to cut my jog time in half and walk the rest of the way. I know they say not to eat or drink anything heavy at least an hour before any kinda of cardio and I have been taking that seriously. But do you have any idea what the problem is and how to fix it?
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Post by dejibo on Jul 8, 2010 10:42:34 GMT -5
you need to stay hydrated so I reccomend that you sip on water, or a gatoraide style product while working out. not guzzle, just sips. if your body thinks you are dehydrating it will shut off your tummy, and that can cause cramps. See if that helps. If not, try some long muscle stretches before you start out, it could be a release of lactic acid that is built up in the muscle bed being released, and a nice long yoga style muscle stretch before you start out should avoid it.
Let me know.
Im off to do yet another MRI. gawd I hate this stupid machine. Still dont know why my own tummy isnt working.
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Jul 8, 2010 23:04:56 GMT -5
I tried your advise but I still got em today. This time it was only after about 5 minutes. I told my mom and she said it might be because I am over exerting myself. I try to jog twice a day except Sundays. Once at 6.pm and again at 9:30. So maybe its too much. So for the rest of the week I am going to speed walk during both times then come next week on Monday I will try a speed walk at 6 and a jog at 9:30. But I will still do stretches as you said.
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