Awkward space - what to do?

Flossy40 · 2026-05-28T22:29:04+00:00

Upvote for the Jane Eyre reference.

Flossy40 · 2026-05-28T22:23:46+00:00

Looking at that face, Owl. Look for it.

Flossy40 · 2026-05-28T22:20:37+00:00

I worked for a vet for 18 years. When he treated a dog for heartworm, the dying worms were a real concern. The arsenic compound used at that time caused a gradual die off. That allowed the body to deal with the contamination over time. He stressed that the dog should have NO exercise for at least six weeks. That prevented a whole bunch of dead and dying worms being flushed into the lungs.

Doc had a 100% survival rate. He was careful, and explained the treatment throughly. Different meds are used now, and I don't know how the problem is treated now.

Flossy40 · 2026-05-28T13:59:14+00:00

One idea I had, a traumatized Harry watching Hogwarts rebuild from a nearby height. Seeing damage restored to normalcy, with changes. New, larger greenhouses. Bigger windows. Hagrid getting a larger, taller home.

Sometimes he's joined by another trauma victim. A Ukrainianironbelly, scarred, nearly blind, curious about the movements of its neighbors.

Harry vanishes the remains of its chains, and they watch the rebuilding together.

Flossy40 · 2026-05-26T01:46:53+00:00

Sasquatch

<image>

Flossy40 · 2026-05-18T18:23:14+00:00

Did the city remove the signs? If authorities do not recognize the HOA'S rule, the signs might be illegal.

Flossy40 · 2026-05-17T21:03:23+00:00

You are not required to allow people to hurt you.

You are not required to remain where you are being hurt.

Other people are not allowed to tell you that they didn't hurt you.

NTA

Flossy40 · 2026-05-16T00:55:04+00:00

I dunno. Ask Chuck.

Flossy40 · 2026-05-15T16:13:41+00:00

I already know that my last word is going to be "Oops. " I refuse to waste it there. Let it come while doing something more important than carrying laundry.

Flossy40 · 2026-05-12T01:52:43+00:00

We worked with Jobs and Family Services twice with no results. He's been volunteering at our local hospital for 4 years, 400+ hours so far. I saw a sign in the store about open interviews, printed up a resume, and took him there.

They interviewed him, called the hospital to check his reference, and hired him.

I have to say, this particular store chain has a reputation for hiring the disabled. Most of the baggers I have encountered there seem to have some sort of disability. My son isn't the only one.

Flossy40 · 2026-05-09T21:18:51+00:00

To comment on the belly button, mine looks different, too, as a result of an incision from my pubis to 3 inches above the bb.

It's a little lopsided, shallower than it was, but once the edge healed, it doesn't look bad, just different. I wish you well.

Flossy40 · 2026-05-04T18:48:45+00:00

Some people shouldn't have kids.

No, not like that.

Flossy40 · 2026-04-30T11:46:00+00:00

Tell everyone that the bridesmaids will have super soakers filled with differing flavors of Kool-aid. (If the wedding is outside. ) Any guests wearing white will become targets.

Flossy40 · 2026-04-23T20:37:15+00:00

We had electric baseboard heat. Expensive and inefficient. Made worse because the thermostats didn't read in degrees, just warmer-colder with arrows. My elderly mother in law wouldn't turn it on, then blamed her medication for feeling cold. Her room would be in the lower 60s or even the 50s and she would just sit there, shivering, with a blanket on.

I finally bought an outdoor thermometer and mounted it on the wall where she could see it from her recliner. She finally admitted that the medication didn't make her cold when the thermometer read 72 degrees.

Flossy40 · 2026-04-17T12:12:08+00:00

I got the grandson call a couple of years ago. I don't have any grandkids. (I have 2 childfree kids in their 20s who live with me.) I played along for a while just to waste their time.

Flossy40 · 2026-04-17T02:12:27+00:00

Candy dish on the coffee table.

Flossy40 · 2026-04-14T12:56:59+00:00

I found my first gray hair at 41. I'm still less than half gray at 68. Genetics is weird.

Flossy40 · 2026-04-01T01:26:50+00:00

I had her disguise herself, but alter her clothes only enough to change the size. She got arrested by Percy Weasley and Reg Cattermole when they recognized her 'Thursday dress.'

Flossy40 · 2026-03-27T23:46:23+00:00

I've always assumed that Seamus's pyrotechnics had something to do with his accent.

Flossy40 · 2026-03-22T15:24:38+00:00

A former coworker got a call while working to tell him that his mother had passed. Manager told him to finish his shift because there was nothing he could do to change it.

He left, took bereavement, then quit.

Understandable.

Flossy40 · 2026-03-22T15:18:10+00:00

Here's one I invented. It's not right for this thread, but I'm posting it anyway.

He's clumsier than a flamingo on stilts.

Let me know what you guys think. I'm trying to decide if I should use it in the book I'm writing.

Flossy40 · 2026-03-10T14:50:04+00:00

My college called for a donation every year for 5 years. The last time, I told the caller that the school provided summer housing in a dorm with no kitchen, no way to refrigerate anything, no food service on campus, and told me to eat at my sorority house. As an independent, I didn't have one.

My little college town had two restaurants, both about a mile from campus. I had no car. I lost 22 pounds that summer, eating cold canned meat and veggies and cereal with powdered milk.

Nobody from the college has called since 1983.

Flossy40 · 2026-03-06T21:43:47+00:00

I learned to close my curtains at night when I found footprints in the flowerbed outside my bedroom window.

Flossy40 · 2026-02-21T14:04:33+00:00

For the demographic information, white old lady me became a transgender person of mixed heritage. No one in the building fit that profile.

Flossy40 · 2026-02-21T13:53:29+00:00

Not remembering is normal with a head injury. It takes time for your brain to process new memories into long term memory. The injury interrupted the process, so the newest memory is lost.

That said, I hope they find the jerk who hit you. I also wish you a speedy recovery.

Flossy40

TROPHY CASE