COLD DARK ROOM

[Ray--Opo]

Funny enough I am lucky enough that the Tramahexal counter acts the Lyrica for me. In fact the Tramahexal actually helps me to lose weight as instead of making me sleepy (one of the side effects) it actually wakes me up and gives me energy.

Thanks, I will look into that.

 

[Maggie3fan]

Stuff some clothes so that it looks like a body And shove a Halloween mask on it and stuff it inside the bin. It’ll give them a freaking heart attack when they open the bin and you can always put a note on and say “howdy neighbors”. People don’t tend to mess with me because I’m more than happy to have a confrontation with them if that’s what they’re looking for. And if I play, I play to win. Ethically and honestly of course, and always sensitive to the needs of others as I am a physician. Hee hee.

Holy cats!!! You are awesome! I am that way as well, maybe(but not awesome). I don't believe I said anything about my neighbor story on TFO because I am already a public embarrassment to my sister, but here is a summary.
A male neighbor and I were friends, somewhere along the line the friendship went bad and he started doing things, dog crap on my door, somebody else's garbage dumped in my carport, crap like that. So I come home one day to a handwritten sign in my carport reading " your a f***ing b**ch Maggot". So I stopped my car blocking the street, grabbed a hammer and took off for his house 3 blks away. I pounded on his house with the hammer screaming obscenities, pulling up his plants and throwing them at his windows. I was simply WAY outa line. So without buncha details, I was arrested 7 times in 5 years for retaliation for things he did to me. Now please understand, I was 69-70 he's 40 something. He loosened the lug nuts on my wheels, I had been doing 80 mph the day before, now I am doing 30 mph when my tire comes off and passes me up the street. Cops wouldn't even come. He did $4000 worth of damage throwing rocks at my car. One day he ran up to my car and punched me upside my head, I had a maple rolling pin next to me in the car, I just hit him straight on breaking his cheek, arrested for assault, me, not him. This thing carried on for about 5 years, with him crying in court, shaking and saying how afraid of me he was, and me showing stoic anger. I was arrested when he tazed me, I was arrested he was taken to the hospital crying and shaking...as a renter, he got kicked out of his house, I own my house, and he moved to the MidWest. and peace reined.
Please understand, I felt I only retaliated, not instigated. But I did fight back in a way that Little Suzy Normal would not. He regularly called the cops on me, I didn't call them but once. I got some pretty good charges, felony/criminal mischief, felony assault with hammer and more. I feel I defended myself against him. But the bottom line is, I am grateful my car got repainted (!), that I didn't lose my home or anything else. I think I would handle that kind of thing differently now, but I had been in a 25 yr marriage and relationship with a 1% biker, and that's what he taught me.

 

[Pastel Tortie]

Holy cats!!! You are awesome! I am that way as well, maybe(but not awesome). I don't believe I said anything about my neighbor story on TFO because I am already a public embarrassment to my sister, but here is a summary.
A male neighbor and I were friends, somewhere along the line the friendship went bad and he started doing things, dog crap on my door, somebody else's garbage dumped in my carport, crap like that. So I come home one day to a handwritten sign in my carport reading " your a f***ing b**ch Maggot". So I stopped my car blocking the street, grabbed a hammer and took off for his house 3 blks away. I pounded on his house with the hammer screaming obscenities, pulling up his plants and throwing them at his windows. I was simply WAY outa line. So without buncha details, I was arrested 7 times in 5 years for retaliation for things he did to me. Now please understand, I was 69-70 he's 40 something. He loosened the lug nuts on my wheels, I had been doing 80 mph the day before, now I am doing 30 mph when my tire comes off and passes me up the street. Cops wouldn't even come. He did $4000 worth of damage throwing rocks at my car. One day he ran up to my car and punched me upside my head, I had a maple rolling pin next to me in the car, I just hit him straight on breaking his cheek, arrested for assault, me, not him. This thing carried on for about 5 years, with him crying in court, shaking and saying how afraid of me he was, and me showing stoic anger. I was arrested when he tazed me, I was arrested he was taken to the hospital crying and shaking...as a renter, he got kicked out of his house, I own my house, and he moved to the MidWest. and peace reined.
Please understand, I felt I only retaliated, not instigated. But I did fight back in a way that Little Suzy Normal would not. He regularly called the cops on me, I didn't call them but once. I got some pretty good charges, felony/criminal mischief, felony assault with hammer and more. I feel I defended myself against him. But the bottom line is, I am grateful my car got repainted (!), that I didn't lose my home or anything else. I think I would handle that kind of thing differently now, but I had been in a 25 yr marriage and relationship with a 1% biker, and that's what he taught me.

Maggie, I think you're made of stronger stuff than most.
If anyone ever tells you that your Camaro needs a bumper sticker, tell them you'll get a placard instead. You know, one of those diamond shaped ones. (There's a little bit of hazmat in my background, too.) Although I don't know what it needs to say yet... ?

 

[Maggie3fan]

Maggie, I think you're made of stronger stuff than most.
If anyone ever tells you that your Camaro needs a bumper sticker, tell them you'll get a placard instead. You know, one of those diamond shaped ones. (There's a little bit of hazmat in my background, too.) Although I don't know what it needs to say yet... ?

What a freakin great idea!!! I don't actually paste a bumper sticker on my car, but I do have a #3 in my back window, a smallish yellow Hazmat sticker would be too kewl. I'll get my Hazmat book and see what fits me...lol

 

[CarolM]

Carol, I was hoping you weren't going to have a bad neighbor story.

We all have bad neighbours at some point.

 

[Yvonne G]

Hello everyone, been hiding in my corner in this round room.
My doctor was weaning me off the med Lyrica. It's for nerve pain and my phantom pains have returned. The pain sidelined me for a moment. The phantom pains have subsided but not gone but bearable.
Will try to catch up. Looks like you all have been busy. ?

Hey, Ray: I was wondering if you tried the mirror trick we told you about to see if it cured the phantom pain???

 

[CarolM]

Thanks, I will look into that.

I am not sure it will work for you. Because one of the side effects is that it makes you sleepy. But it does the opposite for me.

 

[Pastel Tortie]

What a freakin great idea!!! I don't actually paste a bumper sticker on my car, but I do have a #3 in my back window, a smallish yellow Hazmat sticker would be too kewl. I'll get my Hazmat book and see what fits me...lol

Just keep in mind that if it's a real material referenced on the sticker, the kind LEO who next pulls you over for speeding may also ask about your bill of lading paperwork.

 

[Maggie3fan]

Just keep in mind that if it's a real material referenced on the sticker, the kind LEO who next pulls you over for speeding may also ask about your bill of lading paperwork.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL You are so quick! Too funny, but you 'might' be right...

 

[CarolM]

Holy cats!!! You are awesome! I am that way as well, maybe(but not awesome). I don't believe I said anything about my neighbor story on TFO because I am already a public embarrassment to my sister, but here is a summary.
A male neighbor and I were friends, somewhere along the line the friendship went bad and he started doing things, dog crap on my door, somebody else's garbage dumped in my carport, crap like that. So I come home one day to a handwritten sign in my carport reading " your a f***ing b**ch Maggot". So I stopped my car blocking the street, grabbed a hammer and took off for his house 3 blks away. I pounded on his house with the hammer screaming obscenities, pulling up his plants and throwing them at his windows. I was simply WAY outa line. So without buncha details, I was arrested 7 times in 5 years for retaliation for things he did to me. Now please understand, I was 69-70 he's 40 something. He loosened the lug nuts on my wheels, I had been doing 80 mph the day before, now I am doing 30 mph when my tire comes off and passes me up the street. Cops wouldn't even come. He did $4000 worth of damage throwing rocks at my car. One day he ran up to my car and punched me upside my head, I had a maple rolling pin next to me in the car, I just hit him straight on breaking his cheek, arrested for assault, me, not him. This thing carried on for about 5 years, with him crying in court, shaking and saying how afraid of me he was, and me showing stoic anger. I was arrested when he tazed me, I was arrested he was taken to the hospital crying and shaking...as a renter, he got kicked out of his house, I own my house, and he moved to the MidWest. and peace reined.
Please understand, I felt I only retaliated, not instigated. But I did fight back in a way that Little Suzy Normal would not. He regularly called the cops on me, I didn't call them but once. I got some pretty good charges, felony/criminal mischief, felony assault with hammer and more. I feel I defended myself against him. But the bottom line is, I am grateful my car got repainted (!), that I didn't lose my home or anything else. I think I would handle that kind of thing differently now, but I had been in a 25 yr marriage and relationship with a 1% biker, and that's what he taught me.

Good for you. Stand up for yourself.

 

[Yvonne G]

Good Morning All,

So this weekend it was working in the complex garden and I made a big tortoise for the front where everybody comes in. I forgot to take a photo and will take one when I get home to post on here for you all to see. It was a lot of hard work and my body was finished once I was done with everything. But I am happy because it is all starting to look much better and the efforts are starting to pay off.

However saying that it was NOT a good weekend, as I ended up mowing my keys and totally destroyed my car keys. Only to find out that the spare set does not work. I have to get the battery replaced. ?

Short story long, I was not wearing pants which had a pocket and I did not want to leave my keys on the ground outside the complex while I was mowing. I was worried that someone might steal them. So I hung them on a protrusion on the handle of the lawn mower. They stayed there the whole time I was mowing with no problem and towards the end they fell off and I did not notice until I heard the grinding noise of the mower going over the keys.?‍?‍?‍?‍?‍. Yeah Yeah, so very stupid and I should have known better and just worn pants which had pockets or hung the keys on a Lanyard to hang around my neck. But hindsite is always a B*#$%itch. But anyway that is the short story long.

Then after working on the tortoise late into the night on Saturday, we built it inside the complex first with the intention of anchoring it into the ground outside the complex (so that nobody could steal it) at a later stage, but then someone on Sunday morning went and pushed it over so that all of the succulents and everything fell over onto the ground and basically broken the whole thing. We then decided to just put it outside and dig the bottom part of the tortoise into the ground to stabilize it better with the hope that it would not be able to be pushed over again. But the fact that someone in the complex was nasty enough to do that kind of thing is just so mind boggling. I really do not understand why people have to be so nasty towards each other and why would they want to destroy the hard work of someone else when they are just trying to make the whole complex look better and beautiful. Ok Rant over. Sorry for ranting so long. But I really needed to vent and get it out of my system.

Today is windy, and we are expecting the next couple of days to be cloudy with a day here and there having rain. I love it when it rains as it is free water for my garden. I just don't like it raining when I need to work on my pond.??

Soooooo how was everybody else's weekend and How are you all doing?

Were you able to fix it? I'd love to see pictures.

 

[Maggie3fan]

Just keep in mind that if it's a real material referenced on the sticker, the kind LEO who next pulls you over for speeding may also ask about your bill of lading paperwork.

Nowadaze when the cops pull me over, it's to check out my car, and make an offer on it. Remember, Corvallis is a small town, I have the ONLY red IROC-Z, or any IROC in town for that matter, and my wheels are being upgraded and my car will be looking too fine.

 

[CarolM]

Were you able to fix it? I'd love to see pictures.

I will post a pic later. I need to take it once I get home.

 

[Ray--Opo]

Hey, Ray: I was wondering if you tried the mirror trick we told you about to see if it cured the phantom pain???

To tell you the truth. I haven't done so yet.?
I was thinking about it the other day.
Life has been overwhelming, I feel behind the 8 ball in every aspect of life.
I know it's my fault and the need to get motivated. When the covid hit and I couldn't go to physical therapy. I allowed myself to become less motivated.
I did look at the mirror boxes online with intentions to purchase.
Thanks for the question. ?
I am going to take this post to put myself on notice to purchase the box.
I used to joke that my wife says I am a procrastinator.
I say I am just a very patient person.
Need to get serious at this time.
Thanks Yvonne!

 

[Pastel Tortie]

To tell you the truth. I haven't done so yet.?
I was thinking about it the other day.
Life has been overwhelming, I feel behind the 8 ball in every aspect of life.
I know it's my fault and the need to get motivated. When the covid hit and I couldn't go to physical therapy. I allowed myself to become less motivated.
I did look at the mirror boxes online with intentions to purchase.
Thanks for the question. ?
I am going to take this post to put myself on notice to purchase the box.
I used to joke that my wife says I am a procrastinator.
I say I am just a very patient person.
Need to get serious at this time.
Thanks Yvonne!

I understand that completely. I'm good at dragging my feet. I'm almost 18 months behind in getting my LinkedIn profile updated...
it hasn't really been a priority.

 

[Ray--Opo]

I am not sure it will work for you. Because one of the side effects is that it makes you sleepy. But it does the opposite for me.

I also read it slows down your breathing.
That could be a problem. When my doctor was switching me from my pain medication to a morphine based med.
My oxygen blood levels dropped bad.
I noticed that was a side effect of tramahexal. Tramadol does the same to me as morphine.
With my right lung only 1/2 of its potential and COPD. I am on oxygen just about all day to boost my blood oxygen levels from the low 80's to in the 90's.

 

[Ray--Opo]

I understand that completely. I'm good at dragging my feet. I'm almost 18 months behind in getting my LinkedIn profile updated...
it hasn't really been a priority.

That's what I need to do,start prioritizing.

 

[Ray--Opo]

Hey, Ray: I was wondering if you tried the mirror trick we told you about to see if it cured the phantom pain???

Thank you Yvonne, I just ordered the phantom mirror. ?
It's easy to spend money!?

 

[Blackdog1714]

Holy cats!!! You are awesome! I am that way as well, maybe(but not awesome). I don't believe I said anything about my neighbor story on TFO because I am already a public embarrassment to my sister, but here is a summary.
A male neighbor and I were friends, somewhere along the line the friendship went bad and he started doing things, dog crap on my door, somebody else's garbage dumped in my carport, crap like that. So I come home one day to a handwritten sign in my carport reading " your a f***ing b**ch Maggot". So I stopped my car blocking the street, grabbed a hammer and took off for his house 3 blks away. I pounded on his house with the hammer screaming obscenities, pulling up his plants and throwing them at his windows. I was simply WAY outa line. So without buncha details, I was arrested 7 times in 5 years for retaliation for things he did to me. Now please understand, I was 69-70 he's 40 something. He loosened the lug nuts on my wheels, I had been doing 80 mph the day before, now I am doing 30 mph when my tire comes off and passes me up the street. Cops wouldn't even come. He did $4000 worth of damage throwing rocks at my car. One day he ran up to my car and punched me upside my head, I had a maple rolling pin next to me in the car, I just hit him straight on breaking his cheek, arrested for assault, me, not him. This thing carried on for about 5 years, with him crying in court, shaking and saying how afraid of me he was, and me showing stoic anger. I was arrested when he tazed me, I was arrested he was taken to the hospital crying and shaking...as a renter, he got kicked out of his house, I own my house, and he moved to the MidWest. and peace reined.
Please understand, I felt I only retaliated, not instigated. But I did fight back in a way that Little Suzy Normal would not. He regularly called the cops on me, I didn't call them but once. I got some pretty good charges, felony/criminal mischief, felony assault with hammer and more. I feel I defended myself against him. But the bottom line is, I am grateful my car got repainted (!), that I didn't lose my home or anything else. I think I would handle that kind of thing differently now, but I had been in a 25 yr marriage and relationship with a 1% biker, and that's what he taught me.

Some people like him make a living out people like you. I hear about these, heck they have made movies about it. THat is why I have cameras and will only have MORE cameras. I just had someone steal some bamboo from trailer that is parked on my property. I picked it from a rubbish pile two blocks away after the owner cut down a ton and I was going to use it to dress up my metal fence for my Leopards new outdoor area. Bastages stole the big thicks ones so they could probably make bongs ? . I just always try to stop and think before I act so I can decide is it worth my time and effort and heaven help you if I decide you do- I have insomia and sometimes it comes in handy. PS. dig through their trash for a few weeks and get to know what they like then leave notes in the mailbox based on your finds- IE your hair smells like honey whe you sleep! ?

 

[CarolM]

I also read it slows down your breathing.
That could be a problem. When my doctor was switching me from my pain medication to a morphine based med.
My oxygen blood levels dropped bad.
I noticed that was a side effect of tramahexal. Tramadol does the same to me as morphine.
With my right lung only 1/2 of its potential and COPD. I am on oxygen just about all day to boost my blood oxygen levels from the low 80's to in the 90's.

Then that would definitely not work.