Good morning!! I could get used to hanging around here early. Not so many posts to wade through by this time.

On the bright side, I have started the initial submission process. I handed my thesis in on Wednesday, I will get the pre-review back today and I should be able to officially submit next Monday! Hence, why I have more time now to browse Caturday. :)

John Buck, I am so happy to hear you, Mrs. Buck and all the furbabies are ok. My in-laws had a fire 7 years ago and it was quite a process.

John Buck 41: Hi all. Interesting week at Buck Manor.

We are ok, pets, too. House is still (mostly) in one piece. A spark between the pellet stove and the outside vent got caught in the wall, probably sometime last weekend and continued to smolder til Tuesday morning. We have a gaping hole about 4' by 7' in the living room. FD showed up about 7:40am and were there for about 90". They did a great job not trashing the living room too badly, just some water damage and a few knick-knacks/dog toys wet and/or nasty from plaster. And more smoke damage than I thought Tuesday afternoon. Insurance is all current and paid up and they will pay for us to stay in a local motel for as long as is needed, as well as repairs/restoration.

That's it in a nutshell. Lots more details but they are unneeded at this point.

That's scary. I'm glad no one was hurt.

WOW. fires are scary things. glad that everyone in the Buck household came out ok and has a place to stay that is warm. i've heard we're getting a few inches of freezing shiat or maybe 4-6 inches of snow depending on how the weather turns. yeah! just in time for me to make a two hour drive to pick up my son for vacation.
also appropriate

yobbery: I'm off to bed. I have an appointment with this dude in the morning. Goodnight guys.
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I almost forgot.

Hope everything goes well. I'll be thinking of you.

yellowcat: yobbery: I'm off to bed. I have an appointment with this dude in the morning. Goodnight guys.
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Good luck with your procedure -- hope you don't have to wear a "cone of shame" like Biscuit!

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I just got the best visual :-)

Sickapie: mousiebelle: I've spent the past 2 days working on quilting projects for the first time since we moved... so it's been 9 months since I've even had my sewing machine out. Lars is all sorts of happy because he LOVES fabric. Cassie is less happy because I'm not focusing 100% of my attention on HER. She figures out ways to climb into my arms to distract me for a while. No pics of the two fuzzies "helping" with these projects as of yet, but here's one current project & then a past project w/ a cat :)

Current project - Spring Log Cabin Table Runner:

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Cassie helping with a past/current project (still trying to decide on borders):

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Lars helping with same project:

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Those are beautiful! Wish I could quilt. I can crosstitch tho! No pics to sho, when I stitch, I usually give away what I work on as gifts.

/note to self: take pics BEFORE you give them away...

i understand that. i made some nice things for people with free hand embroidery and forgot to take a picture. some weren't that great since i was just starting out but others i regret not having the sample to show.

and oh yeah, before i completely forget...THANK YOU ANONYMOUSE FOR THE TF! I liked waking up and seeing that i had it.

Sickapie: Hey everyone. Let's just get this out of the way and be done with it.

...breathe...

Ok. Went to the OS on Tuesday. Brought the xrays that I picked up from the lab. They didn't see anything on them that would indicate anything resembling a break or a fracture. Sent me home with a wrap that was a little stronger than an Ace. SO...$70 later ($50 copay and $20 for the wrap because my ins. didn't cover it) that's it.

Today, I get a call from my primary dr. telling me to make an appt with the OS. Huh? I told them I already did that and went this past Tuesday. Oh, they ask, how did that go? I asked them if they really wanted to know or were they just being kind. Pause. I told them that had Dr. (primary dr) actually looked at the xray itself and not just the report, he would have seen what the OS saw and saved me some money and some time. I understand that he was being cautious, but dammit, that's overdoing it. They just said, OK, we'll make a note in your chart.

Don't get me wrong, I"m glad I'm ok and that there's nothing wrong (except for a little pain, which I'm taking Naproxin for), but FFS...

i would kill for something stronger than tylenol. really. i drool at the thought that i can take aleve once the baby is born. sharp shooting pains in my back are not making nights alone at work a fun thing. but yeah! this should be my last night, fingers crossed, before i go into labor or something like that.

Haruko_Haruhara: Hey there, guys--and thank you to pro vampire for re-upping me...meeting you guys has kept me alive/sane a LOT longer than what would have happened w/o you after my nightmarish last few years. Call it pathetic, but it's so hard to make friends these days that I have almost given up--you only meet people in bars up here, and you get what you deserve if you hang out with drunks that glare at you at last call. I don't ever drink regularly, as I hate the taste, and that's made me a prude--it is so bad to want to find someone to hang out with, but bar guys want to get laid and disappear, and if you aren't hot, hot, Hot, you're going to be alone forever--and it kills me everyday. I may not be pretty; I may not go with the mainstream flow, but my loneliness has gotten to the point where I barely function. I'm a nice, polite, accommodating girl that just wants a way to get someone, anyone, to hang out with...and in my state of being, nothing is working. I can't live like this, alone, and take it much longer. If I can't connect to a real friend soon, I'm committing myself, as there must be a reason why ppl can't get past the hand--You guys that have local buddies are so lucky. Friends are getting endangered here, and I haven't connected w/a person in 5 years--it's killing me. You are all great ppl, and I hope one day that I can have a friend like you guys all have. Even a kitty might help, but I can barely sleep, thinking about this. Thanks for being so great, ppl! W/o the internet, I would never use my voice, and the idea of dying alone just sits on the tip of my nose--I hope everyone is so thankful you have ppl around, as the future is looking bleak on my end....

/again, you guys are great, sorry for the Tolstoy
//ignore my diatribe, but I just had to say something today...the isolation is gettin to me
//still snowing out
///hope everyone's having a great day! (seriously, not sarcastic--I don't have a mean bone in my body anymore)
////you guys are still awesome! ;)

i think all the mean bones were in your hand! honestly, most people are pricks anyway but it does suck that you haven't found a friend you could hang out with in person. i'm almost in the same boat. since moving to maine i haven't made any real friends of my own, hubby can make friends in an instant it seems but that is both a blessing (for him) and a curse (for me, as the ladies fall all over him despite his marital and daddy to be status). myself, i'd much rather have a quiet night home with some book or even a marathon anime session. i'm an introvert and he's an extrovert, our cats are perverts.

professional_vampire: konekosama: Sickapie: Hey everyone. Let's just get this out of the way and be done with it.

...breathe...

Ok. Went to the OS on Tuesday. Brought the xrays that I picked up from the lab. They didn't see anything on them that would indicate anything resembling a break or a fracture. Sent me home with a wrap that was a little stronger than an Ace. SO...$70 later ($50 copay and $20 for the wrap because my ins. didn't cover it) that's it.

Today, I get a call from my primary dr. telling me to make an appt with the OS. Huh? I told them I already did that and went this past Tuesday. Oh, they ask, how did that go? I asked them if they really wanted to know or were they just being kind. Pause. I told them that had Dr. (primary dr) actually looked at the xray itself and not just the report, he would have seen what the OS saw and saved me some money and some time. I understand that he was being cautious, but dammit, that's overdoing it. They just said, OK, we'll make a note in your chart.

Don't get me wrong, I"m glad I'm ok and that there's nothing wrong (except for a little pain, which I'm taking Naproxin for), but FFS...

i would kill for something stronger than tylenol. really. i drool at the thought that i can take aleve once the baby is born. sharp shooting pains in my back are not making nights alone at work a fun thing. but yeah! this should be my last night, fingers crossed, before i go into labor or something like that.

"The Great Earth Mother, in her wisdom, made the final days of pregnancy uncomfortable on purpose, so that women would be able to face their fear of delivery just to get it over with." - Jean Auel - The Shelters of Stone

Good luck bringing the little one into the world, and post pictures as soon as you can - we all can't wait to see!

crazy me is intent on doing this whole birth thing without drugs. i did it once almost 12 years ago and i'm positive (or delusional) enough to think i can do it again. hubby says he'll just stay up above my head or behind me. but three or four more weeks til d-day so it's just a matter of waiting her out now. and as long as the hospital has internet there will be pictures up as soon as we can.
btw, what caturday group was the real one on the facebook? i've seen three or four and not really sure which one is the right one. too lazy to go back a half dozen threads and find the link.
oh, and cats!
from the fark article about japanese fart wars. it was funny. in a few there were naked wimmens, i joked that i could blow them all away like a secret weapon.

if i thought this excuse would work for me today i would use it.
but i just heard jake hoarking up his kibble and now i have to go search it out before he eats it again. ewww, maybe like a koala and eucalyptus it tastes better the second time around?

so i'm washing my face in the bathroom and the cats are watching me like they always do from the window or the tub. most times i get the look of "why are you playing in the water like that?" today i look up at jake and he reaches out with his paw to grab my hand, wash cloth and all, and brings it to him since i'm obviously not giving him enough scritches or something while i'm in there with them. he reached out a second time and bopped me on the nose. wtf? at least he kept the claws in this time.

I am near Detroit too, and a homebody by choice. What is your FB handle so I may add you?

Happy Caturday everyone!

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FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT HAVE BEEN LURKING AND NOT POSTING:

Take the plunge! post some "blanks" of YOUR kitty and see how fun it is to see your kitty in lights and your family's kitty might get a fun or silly caption of his or her very own!

A detailed "how to post pics on Caturday and on fark in general for dummies" page can be found here (new window).

Once you get the hang of it, posting pics is very easy, but it can seem daunting if you haven't ever done it before. Take a look at that web page and hopefully it will make sense. there's even a bonus section that shows how easy it is to caption your own pics.

FOR THOSE WHO HAVE A NEW KITTY THAT NEEDS A NAME:

Introduce your new charge(s)! perhaps we can have a naming "contest". Post a pic of your kitty and let everyone make suggestions. Some of the ones Caturday comes up with are hilarious and often very appropriate. My guy, "LittleOne", got his new long name "Jester Lord Fluffy Bottom" (partly mine and partly another lovely farker's - take credit you-know-who!).

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Please post details and pose questions. Caturday is a wonderful place to get help as well as have fun. Many of us, having had lots of kitties and having taking care of their lovely and many, many lives and, unfortunately, injuries and illnesses, have become "kitty health resources". Post the issues and we'll all see if we can help.

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John Buck 41: Hi all. Interesting week at Buck Manor.

We are ok, pets, too. House is still (mostly) in one piece. A spark between the pellet stove and the outside vent got caught in the wall, probably sometime last weekend and continued to smolder til Tuesday morning. We have a gaping hole about 4' by 7' in the living room. FD showed up about 7:40am and were there for about 90". They did a great job not trashing the living room too badly, just some water damage and a few knick-knacks/dog toys wet and/or nasty from plaster. And more smoke damage than I thought Tuesday afternoon. Insurance is all current and paid up and they will pay for us to stay in a local motel for as long as is needed, as well as repairs/restoration.

That's it in a nutshell. Lots more details but they are unneeded at this point.

0.0 Dude!

The Ice Queen: AllMyKidsHaveFur: quantum_jellyroll: John Buck 41:
Hi all. Interesting week at Buck Manor.

We are ok, pets, too. House is still (mostly) in one piece. A spark between the pellet stove and the outside vent got caught in the wall, probably sometime last weekend and continued to smolder til Tuesday morning. We have a gaping hole about 4' by 7' in the living room. FD showed up about 7:40am and were there for about 90". They did a great job not trashing the living room too badly, just some water damage and a few knick-knacks/dog toys wet and/or nasty from plaster. And more smoke damage than I thought Tuesday afternoon. Insurance is all current and paid up and they will pay for us to stay in a local motel for as long as is needed, as well as repairs/restoration.

That's it in a nutshell. Lots more details but they are unneeded at this point.

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quantum_jellyroll: John Buck 41:
Hi all. Interesting week at Buck Manor.

We are ok, pets, too. House is still (mostly) in one piece. A spark between the pellet stove and the outside vent got caught in the wall, probably sometime last weekend and continued to smolder til Tuesday morning. We have a gaping hole about 4' by 7' in the living room. FD showed up about 7:40am and were there for about 90". They did a great job not trashing the living room too badly, just some water damage and a few knick-knacks/dog toys wet and/or nasty from plaster. And more smoke damage than I thought Tuesday afternoon. Insurance is all current and paid up and they will pay for us to stay in a local motel for as long as is needed, as well as repairs/restoration.

That's it in a nutshell. Lots more details but they are unneeded at this point.

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QJ, that is GROSS!

What are they?

Naked Mole Rats

Thx!

Now I know what to avoid at ALL COSTS! Those are nasty looking little things.

yobbery: I'm baaaack! I'm alive. It became more involved than was planned but (*knocks on head*) surprisingly not too much pain as long as I keep my tongue away from the area. I had general anesthesia, 600mg of ibuprofen and one vicodin ES so far so I don't think I'll know the full exent of what I'm in for until later tonight, but so far so good.

QJ Thank you so much for the hushpuppy care package....but you sent it to the wrong house. I just woke up to fire engines. It appears the crazy guy across the street got the package and must have mis-handled them. (it was really just something in his shed, no big deal...I dislike the guy but I don't wish anything bad for him)

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Glad it wasn't too bad.

Now, go take drugs and you and Biscuit go lay down.