Welcome, whiners!
I hope you all had a lovely Passover / Easter / weekend, and are enjoying a wonderfully boring week.
It's a grey, rainy day here, and the uncertainty continues to swirl on the job / moving / life fronts. Fortunately I am not allergic (intolerant) to chocolate after all, which is one heck of an anti-whine! After all, there is a general pixie consensus that chocolate is very soothing.
What's going on in your worlds this week?
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A: Yes, really. Traditional awards include Style [music, poetry, etc.], Old Skool [piddly little whines], and Elevated Risk of Mullet [funniest line in a whine], but other hand-crafted awards may be granted at the host's discretion, and nominations from commenters are encouraged.
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Q: What was the first prize ever awarded?
A: The Playdough Violin
A: The Whiner's Ball commences no later than Tuesday, and ends when Awards are given (usually Thursday in theory, but definitely before Monday).
Q: Awards? Really?
A: Yes, really. Traditional awards include Style [music, poetry, etc.], Old Skool [piddly little whines], and Elevated Risk of Mullet [funniest line in a whine], but other hand-crafted awards may be granted at the host's discretion, and nominations from commenters are encouraged.
Q: Can I whine about someone who just does not "get it"?
A: The Cluestick Posse is on hand for persons in need.
Q: Is there a mascot?
A: Ralph is the mascot.
Q: Are there other traditions I should know about?
A: The passing of virtual refreshments is appreciated.
Q: How did this all get started anyhow?
A: Phantom Scribbler was our muse and host for two years.
Q: What was the first prize ever awarded?
A: The Playdough Violin
28 comments:
Phew. Just pushed the button to submit that proposal that has been sucking up every brain cell.
My whine today is that I made a tactical error yesterday and invited Snuggly Girl's BFF over without asking the hard questions about how sick she'd been over the weekend and what "she's doing much better today" meant. Because in my book, if a kid hasn't had a solid meal in 4 days, they shouldn't be going to other people's houses. In my defense, I assumed she had the same bad cold SG had that kept her flat on the couch on Friday. I didn't know BFF had stomach symptoms for four days straight.
Anti-whine: not sick yet, no call from school.
Whine: no idea what the incubation period on this puppy might be.
ack, madeleine! crossing fingers and waving garlic against the stomach bug.
redzils -- hoping all the ducks line up swiftly on the job/moving/life front! that's like a gerbillion stress points, which really ought to be redeemable in frequent flyer miles and/or major gift cards. in my opinion.
AW: son and his GF came and hung out all day easter, and a good time had by all!
W/AW: daughter was really blue and homesick on easter, but much better yesterday. she and her BFF and another friend are reportedly making gifts for their moms. and i booked travel for mom's weekend at the U, 5/1!
W: doctor appointment tomorrow. my BP is not playing nice, even with meds and low salt. i think i need a diet of LOLcats and shoulder massages, but she's probably gonna change my meds and make me get real about exercise.
I'll second the diet of LOLcats. I need more of those, myself.... Sorry about the HBP, Kathy.
Sending good luck vibes for NO ILLNESS to Snuggly Girl via Madeleine.
I want school to be over. Spring Break was not good in the fact that it gave me a hint of summer break. I love summer break, and I want it to be June so bad that I can TASTE it. *sigh*
LOVE LOLcats. Love thems.
I have ZERO to whine about this week because tomorrow I leave for Arizona for a week of Continuing Education, complete with a pool and the potential for multiple margaritas.
See what I mean?
Happy week and minimum whineage to all of the usual Wednesday suspects and any new visitors.
I'll check in next week when I can whine about being back in the cold north. See, you knew I would have a future whine in my back pocket didn't you? Of course you did....
since i won't fit in sue's suitcase, i went and got an actual massage, on a whim. this was my 3rd professional massage ever. i should have just booked the rest of the week, instead of 1/2 hour.
Computer Whine: Stoopid city turned off our electricity this morning, and when it came back on, BOTH the modem and the router were toast. Aaaaahh! What do I do without my internets? AW: As you can see, we have replaced the modem. Whew.
Fertility Whine: Thursday is the "procedure." Thereby commencing two weeks of wondering and hyper-examining every possible symptom. AW (?): I have so much else to fret about that I haven't gotten too obsessive about this.
Sweet Baboo Whine: Pediatrician said today that if she hasn't caught up to the *bottom* of the growth chart by the time she's three, we may need to consider growth hormones. (She's 18 months now, so I guess I have 18 more months to stuff food into her).
Moving Whine: Have started packing and am officially overwhelmed.
That is way too many whines. And I'm not going to Arizona with Sue, though wouldn't that be so much fun?
But at least the specter of puking children is not hanging over my head. I hope.
Kathy - hope a new med gets the BP under control. A massage. That sounds nice. Almost as nice as Arizona with Sue. I am whinier than I thought that I equate a massage with going somewhere warm for a week.
Hugs to Esperanza. Moving is too hard. Good luck!
Whine: My 7 year old daughter is having a hard spring break. A temper tantrum, complete with stamping feet, flailing arms and screaming nearly every day, plus she's impossible at bedtime. I sense the universe righting her failure to tantrum like this at age 2.
Anti-whine: I think it is a good thing she misses school. Maybe? Summer won't be hellish with out routine or schedule, right? Dear god in heaven...
Whine: My 5 year old broke his new glasses.
anti-whine: not on purpose.
Whine: the baby is teething. I hope. Or she is imitating her big sister with the loudness.
Wishing sunshine to all of the Pixies. At least we need some around here.
Hi Pixies! Nice that the freaking holidays are over, yes? Or almost over for us cardboard eating Jews. Prunes, you can rename yourself dried plums, but we know what you really are. You are not fooling us one bit!
I have some antiwhines this week: My haircut is still looking excellent a month into it, and I have discovered that the very expensive schwartzkopf (yes, blackhead) products that were recommended by sylists are now being sold at CVS for a fraction of the price. Wahoo! I'm loving the cheap.
I have been remembering my dreams a lot, which is highly unusual for me, and had a dream that I figure would make an excellent novel. BUT... I can't decide on an ending. I've got whole story mapped out, even did an outline, but the end eludes me. Those who write fiction... do you always have an end in sight right from the beginning?
Taking my internet break has been awesome. I created a new blog on Typepad, and all I have to do is figure out how to get it domain mapped and populate it with some content and i'm set to go. I'm thinking of a May Day intro.
Fruit flies. Fruit flies. I hate the frigging fruit flies and raid... you make spray killers for everything but fruit flies. I tried the wine bottles. I tried the rotten fruit in the bottom of a bottle... and you know what works best? The Old Concord Grape. I guess fruit flies are Jewish. Who knew?
Money? Does anyone have any? Anyone? Must find freelance work. Soon.
And best of all, daughter's friend brought over her baby today. He's 9 months now, and so freaking adorable. He just started crawling and was going after Pepper the kitten who was scared to death. I need a baby break at least weekly. Fat squishy legs and round baby bellies. I needs them.
LOL cats is on my daily laugh list, too.
Why aren't there LOL babies?
Margalit - there was one, but they went on hiatus. Old images can be seen at http://www.lolbabies.com/files .
Whine: Babies puked from 1am to 7am Sunday night (Monday morning). Final score: Wren 9, Robin 7. We, the loving parents, got almost no sleep.
Antiwhine: They stopped puking at 7am and though they have been cranky and off their food since, no more puke.
Whine: From them. No more puke from them. Husband and I started tonight. Current score: Me 3, Husband 2.
Whine: Nursing two rolling, thrashing babies in bed while your stomach is, uh, unsettled? BLOWS. Almost literally.
Oh dear. Sounds like Uccelina wins the bodily fluids award this week.
Esperanza, is Baboo following her own curve? If so, smack her doctors upside the head.
Whine: Would someone please tell me if the boycott on Amazon is on so that I can figure out whether or not to move my four pages of wishlisted stuff off?
Hi Liz - I've been following the Amazon thing, and still have no idea.
What is clear is that gazillions of books about / by / acknowledging the existence of homosexual people have had their sales rankings stripped and been removed from the search functions.
What isn't clear is why. Either:
- these books were intentionally delisted by Amazon for "adult content"
or
- a hacker took advantage of a loophole in their system for flagging inappropriate material and managed to do it without Amazon's knowledge, and their lackeys failed to recognize the problem and gave rote answers that twisted more knickers
Some links, including one that talks about the hacker claiming responsibility:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theresa-darklady-reed/amazoncom-anti-glbt-glitc_b_186441.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/163024/hacker_claims_credit_for_amazons_gaythemed_book_glitch.html
i read yesterday that an amazon employee in france accidentally did something with coding that threw all these books off of the rankings, and that they were fixing it. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/14/entertainment/e053403D73.DTL&hw=amazon&sn=003&sc=554
Uccellina, I think you get four votes from me: one for each baby and each parent. Trying to produce milk while not being able to keep anything in one's stomach is NOT FUN. I am so sorry.
Liz, yes the Baboo is on her own curve. Her doctor is really not pushing this idea at this point. The Baboo only weighs one pound less than *I* did at the same age, and I was not a preemie. Granted, I'm on the small side now, but not abnormally so.
I forgot an additional pediatrician whine yesterday: a WEEK ago I called and asked that a copy of her record be available for me to take when we came for her appointment yesterday. When we went last Friday, for mystery fever and rash (roseola), the receptionist was aware of the request. I said we can just pick it up when we come on Tuesday. Receptionist (different one) yesterday acted completely offended that I would ask such a thing. I said, "That's why I asked a week in advance, so I wouldn't have to make a special trip to come get it." Not to mention that the record *belongs* to me. Argh. It won't be a special trip, b/c I'm in that building a bazillion times a week for the fertility clinic. But whatever. She didn't need to know that.
And Margalit--you are correct. The holidays are over! Thank you for the reminder.
Anyone need any extra hormones? Sheesh. I'm tired of listening to myself.
Sarah, Snuggly Girl had tantrums at almost-7, too. I hope your daughter's go away soon.
Esperanza, I'd send you my magic boxes (that's really what they're called) except I'm not sure they will recover from the latest round of Wet Basement.
Uccellina, I'm so, so sorry. You do NOT deserve another round of this stomach stuff. No, you don't.
Me? almost 48 hours and still no illness. Saw BFF at the bus stop yesterday afternoon and she was energetic and hungry! Hooray. From how she looked Monday afternoon I was doubting she'd be at school on Tuesday.
uccellina has earned a double-trouble fluids award. hoping the bug moves along swiftly.
esperanza -- oy, so much going on! i'm with liz, that baboo's personal growth curve is the important one.
oh, sarah! i nominate you for the "tantrums that bloom in the spring, tra-la" award.
margalit, a good haircut, productivity, creativity, and baby time = sounds good!
back with an antiwhine: i'm getting another BP med, and everything else is looking good! even cholesterol! my beloved can stop worrying that i need all kinds of heart tests, 'cuz i don't. yay!
cluestick and an enforced attitude adjustment to esperanza's pediatrician's receptionist.
ugh on wet basement, madeleine. yay on BFF's miraclulous recovery and failure to pass along the plague!
Didja like how I slipped that basement whine in, kathy? Subtlety like that takes years of whining to perfect. ;-)
What does the new Outliers book say? 10,000 hours of practice? Let's see, 24 hours every Wednesday . . . that's 8 years of WW to achieve mastery. And many of us are about half way there!
Uccellina, you get many votes from me - I remember a stomach bug with one baby as totally miserable, with two, I can't imagine. Hoping your next week is easy.
Boo to esperanza's receptionist and Madeleine's basement. Yay for kathy a's good checkup, margalit's excellent week, Sue's vacation, and esperanza's holidays being over.
Whine: on vacation, discovered that it's a mighty good thing I was no longer living with my mom when my migraines started -- I had a killer migraine, the prodrome of which includes symptoms like mental confusion (and irritability), and was babbling about how I couldn't figure out which of two necessary things I should do first, and she did me the favor of doing one of them but then told me, snarkily, that it would've been better if I'd just asked her instead of whined about it. Big fighting words to someone in the throes of a migraine prodrome, and right there at the outdoor breakfast table I said loudly and angrily, "I. Have. A. MIGRAINE!!" and mom took offense and was about to take off instead of eating with us. Thank goodness for the husband buffer, who explained to her about confusion and trouble making decisions being a symptom, but I was pissed at her for half the day, which is not fun on vacation (on the travel day back, especially). And booo to migraines for including (well-documented) mental symptoms like that, which complicate interacting with people. Still, not a major whine.
Antiwhine: the rest of vacation was nice, pretty relaxing, including a beach with soft sugary sand and nice small waves, cushy lounges by the pool, and a waterfall in the pool that was great for getting massaged - I stood under it and let it pummel me into submission. And I went to the gym one morning and did well, hoping to kick-start my completely dormant exercise program back into gear.
Whine: overdoing the waterfall and/or lugging the carryon has given me a sore (though not terrible) back.
Giant antiwhine: the kiddo now has a theater award!! I cannot believe my baby won a serious theater award, albeit as part of a cast, not for individual performance, so it's not that he personally was singled out - but the cast as a whole was recognized for excellence. Also, he looked adorable in his tux.
Genevieve! WOOT!!! And now you really need a blog to post the pictures of the kiddo in his tux.
genevieve! omg, the migraines and added parental troubles. woo-hoo about the kiddo!!
i'm just going to shut up after this, but madeleine inspired me to go for silly style:
Chorus:
Down, dooby do, down down, comma comma
Down, dooby do, down down
Whining well is hard to-oooo do.
Lyrics:
Don't take your whines away from me
Don't let me whine alone in misery
Slip in the angst, I know it’s true
'Cause whining well is hard to do.
Why let your whine just slip away?
We can all use it on another day
Life’s so funny, so why be blue?
Whining’s not so hard to do!
They say that whining's not hard to do
Well now I know, I know that it's true
Come lay your whines on me my friend
Don't be groaning moaning all alone, you can laugh and whine to me instead.
I beg of you
tell me of treatment shoddy,
basements wet,
and fluids of the body,
and don't forget what it's all about,
engorgement that will make you shout.
(and I forgot to cheer for dr. redzils NOT being allergic to chocolate: hip hip hooray!)
And no, Liz, that's what I have Facebook for! But I emailed you the picture. :)
I chase around town for a few hours and you guys go all Tony-award-winning musical on me! Three-way tie for style this week!
Latebreaking antiwhine (in no style whatsoever): *I* fixed the router problem. So what if I did it with tech support? Apparently someone can't call for help, just like he can't ask for directions. Men.
Esperanza, you are a Technical Goddess!
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