PMS in a Handbasket--Don't be afraid, just bring us food... Part 2a

[disneymom3]

Well, goodmorning and thanks ever so much for the asparagas and pee analysis. Great way to start the day with a little info!!

I have to go teach my hyper children now. My goals for today and to convince DD that I am not a mean ogre by making her learn her prepositions and to convince DS that 5 pennies equal a nickel and that it is never tomorrow yet. Wish me luck!

 

[imsorry]

Well, goodmorning and thanks ever so much for the asparagas and pee analysis. Great way to start the day with a little info!!

I have to go teach my hyper children now. My goals for today and to convince DD that I am not a mean ogre by making her learn her prepositions and to convince DS that 5 pennies equal a nickel and that it is never tomorrow yet. Wish me luck!

Puleez! Just this once, can it be tomorrow NOW? Then it would be Saturday and I would not be sitting at this asparagus of a desk staring at this asparagus of a computer............

 

[redshoes]

Good Morning everyone,

T&B- Has Jake started school yet? The open houses around here are strange, the kids on in school for as much as a week beforethe parents go to an open house, kind of different.
Snow- I'm not at all happy with you, because of you I now crave chinese food. Which is better than asparagus on cereal I guess .
ANGEL- Tell me about this party that you're heading to (its on Sat. right?).
iamsorry- maybe I should use food code words for swear words. Hmm so many options- son of a burrito, holy cabbage..
Julie- How old is your DS? The whole conversation sounds familar to the talks we have with Z right now.
My morning started with the lovely voice of my MIL. My DH will not deal with her right now (she's not an asparagus, but sometimes has asparagus tendenicies) and so I'm stuck with the whole dang if I do, dang if I don't adventures. If I didn't tell her when Z's game was tomorrow then I'm in trouble, if I tell her (which I did) when it is then I get the well we are so busy... can't make time tomorrow speech why didnt you tell us earlier. Have you ever been in a relationship with someone that it spirals downwards no matter what you or they do? That's what it feels like with her, I get walked on and treated like dirt- so I become critical of everything that she does because of how she has treated my family. I try to be the bigger person and forgive, but I just plain old suck at forgetting the past offences and that creates a never ending cycle with us. Uggg, I need a Coke.

 

[Stitch Inside]

Puleez! Just this once, can it be tomorrow NOW? Then it would be Saturday and I would not be sitting at this asparagus of a desk staring at this asparagus of a computer............

Quit your asparagussing and get back to work.

 

[imsorry]

Quit your asparagussing and get back to work.

You can't make me!!!

 

[Shugardrawers]

Good morning ladies. Good news/bad news
The good news is I don't feel like having a crying jag or breaking anything or anyones neck. The bad news is I don't feel like doing much more than lying on the couch and staring at the ceiling. Had a Xanax last night about 8pm and then a Celexa around 9am this morning. I'm a bit fuzzy headed. I hope this wears off after a few days because I don't like this feeling. I know it doesn't kick in that soon but I was hoping to take poor Petey on a nice long walk. He used to get them twice daily and we'd walk for an hour or so. He hasn't been in a couple of months now. Poor baby.

 

[ChrisnSteph]

Give it some time Shug. The Xanax kicks in right away and the Celexa can take a while longer, but it has funky side effects in the meantime. Between that and the Xanax, that's probably why you're feeling like a zombie. The Xanax will definitely mellow you out though, but your body will get used to it eventually. Sometimes you have to play musical medicines to get the ones that work out for you! I think I've tried most of them - zoloft eventually worked for me.

 

[ChrisnSteph]

Tig, you're right! It is a chemical: (from the web)

....in 1891, Nencki tentatively identified a compound known as methanethiol as the culprit. The odor appears within an hour after eating just a few spears of the offending vegetable.

I feel better that there is a scientific explanation for this disgusting phenomenom! But apparently there is an easy "fix":

Benjamin Franklin, in a wide-ranging discussion of bodily discharges, once noted, "a few stems of asparagus eaten shall give our urine a disagreeable odor; and a pill of turpentine no bigger than a pea shall bestow upon it the pleasing smell of violets."

I learn something on the Dis every day. It's a trove of knowledge!

 

[Tigger&Belle]

red, my kids start school on Monday. This was the "meet the teacher" open house. The parent open house for elem school is a few weeks into the school year (earlier for the older kids). When we went into his class, the teacher (I think without seeing me) said, "You're Jake!". I though, "Oh, no, his reputation proceeds him!". Hopefully she saw me first and I just didn't notice. There are a couple of other powerful girls in the class, but not some other handful boys that I know, so that is good (was hoping he wouldn't be with about 3 other boys that I know ). Actually, he hardly knew any boys, but didn't seem bothered since he knew a few.

I like the food swearing. Of course Jake still thinks that "ace" is a swear word since I use it when I'm driving, so will he now think that burrito, asparagus, and cabbage are bad words?

Shug, I've felt like hanging on the couch today, too--almost a vertigo feeling. The only other med besides my Topamax is the penicillin. My DH, in his every knowing way said it was because it didn't eat breakfast. Nevermind that today was the one day that I did eat breakfast--some yogurt.

I hope that you start feeling better soon. Like others have said, give it time. Your body has to adjust.

Steph, the way I learned about the asparagus is that I noticed that sometimes our plumbing smelled at our old house. I just thought that there was something in our plumbing and had no idea it had anything to do with something I was eating. Then we moved. I noticed the same smell one night, which I thought was odd. That's when I thought about what I'd eaten and started investigating...

 

[redshoes]

Well I'm off to pick up snacks for soccer tomorrow and to get the van registered. Be good!

As a quick note: Where is Luv?

 

[imsorry]

Well I'm off to pick up snacks for soccer tomorrow and to get the van registered. Be good!

As a quick note: Where is Luv?

I hear kids love asparagus!!!

 

[disneymom3]

Oh yeah--wouldn't you be the popular soccer mom bringing asparagus as the snack!! Your poor DS would never live down the humiliation!

DS is 6 btw. I think he gets that it is never tomorrow now but I gave up on the money. Maybe he will grow up to be a monk or someone else who takes a vow of poverty. By this age, DD could make change for just about any amount of money and wanted to keep it all. DS on the other hand hands his out like candy on Halloween. We ended up doing Astronomy during which my happy children informed me that the chapter on the earth was boring because they already knew everything about the earth. Well, that is good to know, my work here is done. Goofballs.

You know, I need a new tag. I am bored with the old ones. How do you suggest I go about getting one. I am not feeling witty!

 

[Shugardrawers]

Benjamin Franklin's pee smelled like violets??? That's got to be the most unusual useless fact I've learned on the Dis to date!!

The only way I like asparagus is the way our old neighbor, Mrs. B used to make it. She made killer picked asparagus. I'd eat the whole jar if they let me!

 

[imsorry]

Oh yeah--wouldn't you be the popular soccer mom bringing asparagus as the snack!! Your poor DS would never live down the humiliation!

DS is 6 btw. I think he gets that it is never tomorrow now but I gave up on the money. Maybe he will grow up to be a monk or someone else who takes a vow of poverty. By this age, DD could make change for just about any amount of money and wanted to keep it all. DS on the other hand hands his out like candy on Halloween. We ended up doing Astronomy during which my happy children informed me that the chapter on the earth was boring because they already knew everything about the earth. Well, that is good to know, my work here is done. Goofballs.

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You know, my niece is 31 and to this day there are two things we can never explain to her. "Heads I win, tails you lose!" and "Six of one, half a dozen of the other". It drives her insane when we try to explain these to her!

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Benjamin Franklin's pee smelled like violets??? That's got to be the most unusual useless fact I've learned on the Dis to date!!

Shug--why don't you start a new thread. Either useless facts or useless facts you learned on the DIS. Could be fun.

I picked up Ben's contacts. They were ordered a week and a half ago and the person told us it would take a few days. She finally called yesterday to tell us they were in. Then went I went to pick them up they told me we owed money. I called my DH and he told me he paid everything when he had Ben at his first appt, which is what I figured. They are so stupid there. This is the place where the contact fitting person wears the spaghetty strap shirts that barely covers her tatas. And that doesn't know the first thing about actually fitting someone for contacts. And...I could go on and on (and probably have complained about it before), but let'sjust say that when Zach gets contacts it won't be from that place.

DM3, when Zach was 5yo he learned about money because I told him he could start getting allowance if he did. My allowance rule was when child is 6yo, but he was anxious, so he did learn all about the different coins, how many it took of each one to total $1, and if I gave him a pile he could add them up. Jake has known that for awhile, but I just haven't started him on allowance (one more thing for me to remember), but I did tell him that when school starts I would.

Speaking of which, I need to get Jake to do some of his math workbook and summer writing journal. The math is in good shape since he likes to do it, but the writing is sorely lacking.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

You know, my niece is 31 and to this day there are two things we can never explain to her. "Heads I win, tails you lose!" and "Six of one, half a dozen of the other". It drives her insane when we try to explain these to her!

You are not joking, are you? Is she very literal in general? My older 3 kids babysit for the 2 kids next door, who are 5 and 8yo. When all three have started babysitting for them they have all commented that the kids have a hard time with joking around, esp taking things non-literally (I know there must be a word for that, but my brain is really fuzzy today). I can see those kids, especially the 5yo boy turning into an adult who has a hard time understanding sayings like that.

 

[L107ANGEL]

Good to know about the pee smelling like Violets

 

[LiteBrite]

LiteBrite, Glad you got to Ireland safely! What did you do about your DD (did you bring her to the airport or did she go herself)?.

In the end, we all went to the airport together in a taxi. We watched her check in and go through security, then we put our luggage in Left Luggage and took public transport into the city center of Budapest for several hours. We had a Gyro for lunch at the Metro Station, went to St. Istavan's Basilica and saw The Holy Right Hand, had coffee at a sidewalk cafe (hosu kave is the Hungarian word for American style coffee - one of the few words I learned really well while I was there), and went to a huge indoor fruit and vegetable market before we went back to the airport. It was a really nice day!

About that Holy Right Hand business - St. Istavan was the first King of the United Hungary. He was canonized after his death in 1038, and somehow his severed right hand got mummified and has been kept as a holy relic ever since. A few times it's been stolen by another country, but they keep getting it back. It has its own little chapel inside the basilica, and you have to put 5000 Forent (about $2US) in a slot to get a light to come on so you can see the thing. So creepy!

My bro-in-law paid for our plane tickets from Budapest to Hungary with frequent flyer miles, so we got to fly first class on Malev, the Hungarian airline. I've never flown first class before, and we sure did enjoy it! Hot towels, free wine, the good rolls from a bread basket, wide leather seats - I just had to try not to get too used to it before I go back to economy class for our trans-Atlantic flight back home on Sept. 11.

 

[bigmerle1966]

Hey T&B, isn't there a Mongolian Barbeque place somewhere near DC? My BF birthday is today and Dsis and I are trying to come up with someplace differant to go.

 

[tevagirl]

Hello Everybody.

What's new and exciting besides violet smelling pee?