Posted on 01/03/2008 6:35:58 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
stop the world, i want to get off...
I’m looking at the Elantra - it’s a bit bigger, more Corolla in size. The Accent is a sub-compact, which just feels a little *too* small given that I’m coming from a van. Just looking at it was making me imagine getting squished by bigger cars...
The rate the dealership was tossing around last night seemed a little high to me...I’m thinking if I went directly through a bank it’d be less, but I don’t completely understand the process. The bank needs the VIN and all...so how do you just check rates without committing, and how does the money get to the dealership if you do go with ‘em? It’s confusing.
I’m thinking what I’m going to do is to drive the car tonight (the thought of which is terrifying me, especially as I’ve never done a real intense test drive with a salesguy along, which is what I assume they do for new vehicles), and then tell them I’m feeling rushed and need a week to do some more research. That’ll put me into the next pay period, which’ll mean I can put more down, and also let me check loans. But again, if I need the VIN to check, I don’t unnerstand how I do that without committing, either at the dealership (so they hold the car with that VIN) or at the bank. Ugh.
Either way, I know they’re likely to tell a sad story about not being able to hold that price or that car. :-\
Heh...
Oh, but yeah, rates are in the single digits. Mid single digits, in some cases - sixes, for five year loans. And I know my credit is good.
Good morning all! I’m checking in.
Suzi, that’s awful about you feeling so under the weather, though!
I worked last night. (Remind me never to work on Mondays.) Matthew is sick...not too sick to stay home alone but coughing and not well enough to go to Latin, so I worked.
This week is vey busy...lots to do. I’ll be scarce, but will try to check in after my nephrology appt tomorrow. (Steve will be home, and you know how that goes.)
Last few bps and pulses...not too bad.
140/90 64
130/86 60
126/84 60
150/90 60
140/90 64
160/110 64
120/76 60
144/94 56
150/98 56
132/94 56
136/90 56
122/84 68
I got the email from Script Frenzy this morning. They’ve moved to April. And they’ve changed it from 20,000 words to 100 completed pages. But you can do any type of script, including a graphic novel.
You know...I’ve never had anything but cheap vodka. Never had any Absolut.
I’ve never had real champagne.
I’ve never had caviar.
I am sitting here trying to figure out if I feel bad about it and if so, how bad!
~brightens~
I have had really good coffee! My mom bought me a bag of coffee that was fifty bucks a pound once. It was truly delicious and I almost told my ex sister-in-law to be sure and get it out of the freezer if the Rapture happened! (She’s an atheist.)
Drank the last bit of it the last time Steve’s dad came to visit us.
Please do, 2J! Hope that goes well...been thinking about you a lot!
If there is big news tomorrow (which I doubt), I’ll call Rose and she can report. Likely it’ll just be “run more tests”, which I’ll post when I can.
My bp is way down, but not perfect yet...I’m hoping they won’t put me on another pill but will up my patch dosage, because it seems like the patch is the thing that did the trick and the patch I’m wearing is the smallest one.
How does the patch work, anyway? Do you wear it all the time, or just for a few hours a day or what?
I put it on Wednesday evening after my hot soak. Wear it all week, then do the same thing the next Wednesday evening. It lasts a week.
I wear it on my upper arm.
It’s a little flesh-colored patch about the size of a postage stamp and it’s got bp med in it that slowly soaks through my skin.
Hey...I get excited when I find the wine I like at Walmart.
I can be a coffee snob, but $50 a pound????
Yah...I like the good coffee (life’s too short to drink bad coffee if you can afford better), but that’s a bit much...ow.
Yeah...she didn’t realize it cost that much. I’d had a cup of it at a coffee shop in Austin once. We had stopped at a coffee shop in Houston and I saw it and pointed it out...said it was delicious and so she got me a half a pound without checking out the price.
She nearly died when she saw the tab.
Huh...inneresting!
Sounds a lot easier than pills to me!
In any case, hope they’re able to find something that works for you!
This was about ten years ago, because we were living on the river and Matthew wasn’t quite two. We had taken him to the pediatrician.
Well, I can’t sit very long and I’ve sat too long! I’m 144/104 right now. Better get up and moving, eh?
My pulse rate is only 54...odd. That’s the lowest it’s ever been. I checked it three times because I didn’t believe it! Heh!
See ya!
Take a hike. ;-)
See you when we see you! Take care of yourself!
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