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[evile]

Oct. 24, 2005

 

 

evile: sounds like a nice weekend, except for sonar0m being ill. Poor
thing.
SkyeDS: nodnods
SkyeDS: who was sposed to call Sunday?
evile: I was waiting to hear back on whether or not someone wanted to
go see the Wallace & Gromit movie w/Jinx, or do something else, and
ended up missing the movie altogether.
SkyeDS: sucks
evile: and then they didn't call so I didn't do anything else,
either. stupid of me, really stupid
SkyeDS: there are worse stupid things
SkyeDS: I really did like that planetary test, I got Mercury (duh)
but I loved the pictures
evile: *nod* me too.
SkyeDS: maybe I will pay for an LJ (cringe) just because I have so
many pictures I'd like to use as icons (talk about stupid, that's a
stupid reason to pay for something)
evile: I don't think it's outrageously expensive.
SkyeDS: it's $20 for t he yar
SkyeDS: year
SkyeDS: and no, isn't outrageously expensive, when we've got the
money to do it, and we have
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: this is not kind of me, but I'm going to laugh when the bill
comes in from the ER
evile: I have my freaks.net photo album, I link to that.
SkyeDS: Ms I don't believe in doctors, they cost money is going to
pay more for the trip to her chosen ER than she would had we dropped
him off where I suggested.
evile: What's important is that sonar0m got medical care, not
who 'won'.
SkyeDS: it isn't a matter of winning
SkyeDS: what amuses me in a not funny way is that her issue with
doctors is the money
SkyeDS: so I suggest someplace more appropriate and cheaper than an ER
SkyeDS: but because I suggest it, oh no
evile: She created a situation where her expectation/preconcieved
notions and reality matched, so what?
SkyeDS: and she's pissed off with me because I *made* her spend money
SkyeDS: I didn't make her do squat, I presented a choice. You do it
or I do it, I really don't care, but it will get done, and you're
going to have to nurse him this weekend regardless.
SkyeDS: I bet she thinks I gave him strep on purpose.
evile: I didn't realize you'd had it before he got it.
SkyeDS: I haven't had it in 17 years.
SkyeDS: and I want to keep it that way
evile: She sounds like an unpleasant person. I'm glad sonar0m got what
he needed to get better, regardless.
SkyeDS: I am too
SkyeDS: but I'm sorry, it's funny, and is going to serve her just
desserts, to pay more for an ER than she would have for a perfectly
good walk in clinic
SkyeDS: to "spite" me
SkyeDS: that he was going to get what he needed goes without saying,
because of course I'm not going to let him suffer or go around
infecting other people
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: there's a 24 hour minor emergency walk in clinic in Rockdale
too now, as well as Pro Med in Austin which has always served us well
evile: cool.
SkyeDS: she was so ...I don't know what to call it...with the doctor.
SkyeDS: I wrote down for sonar0m so that he didn't have to remember, a
note to ask for generic medicine, and gave him $40 or so to pay for
it himself in case his parents were acting par for the course
SkyeDS: so when the Dr asks him you want brand or generic, he says
generic, and his mother, seeing the note in my handwriting, rudely
interrupts the doctor to ask him what's cheaper.
SkyeDS: and the doctor, who didn't take well to her at all, told her,
generic, of course (like DUH, what are you, stuck on stupid?)
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: I took one of those mbti emotional type tests lately and one
of the descriptors was "doormat"
SkyeDS: I should have said, look, we're dropping him off at Pro-Med,
here's the address, we'll meet you there.
SkyeDS: but I was so surprised that his dad told her, yes, we're
taking him to the doctor, that when I suggested a clinic and they
countered with the hospital, I just said, ok fine
evile: not your money, why should you care? :P
SkyeDS: he didn't even want to call his parents in t he first place,
and I told him that we were going to honorably give them the chance
to do right, regardless
SkyeDS: I have strong feelings about using the emergency room for non-
emergency purposes
SkyeDS: but other than that, I don't really care
SkyeDS: like I said, it serves her right to spend more money because
she's trying to spite me
SkyeDS: especially when money is the reason she denies him medical
care in the first place
SkyeDS: thank gawd his father is an intelligent man and can be
reasoned with when he's not emotionally and irrationally knee jerk
reacting to me
evile: yup
SkyeDS: next month is 3 years, and they might want to get it in their
heads that I'm not going away
SkyeDS: and not believing a doctor telling you that strep untreated
can kill you, because I happened to have said the same thing, is
just...I don't know what it is.
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: I understand the no money thing. I understand the no
insurance thing. I have had no money and no insurance for as much of
my adult life if not more, than otherwise.
SkyeDS: but I nearly died the one time I did not go to the doctor
immediately with a fever over 101.
evile: yup. there's got to be a happy medium between the people like
my hypochondriac coworker going to the ER every saturday night, and
people who wont' take their kid to the hospital when he's desperately
ill...
SkyeDS: I don't care if I have to eat ramen on sale indefinitely, the
Family goes to the doctor when it needs to.
SkyeDS: last time we had to make a trip to the vet (long story), I
was hurt to the point of almost not getting back up off the ground,
and Mirage was hurt.
SkyeDS: So we take Mirage to the vet the next day, because it's a new
relationship and I didn't know he would have come out the night
before if I'd called him.
SkyeDS: and he looks at my injuries after he takes care of hers and
says, seen a doctor yet?
SkyeDS: and sineater and sonar0m cut me off and say, NO
SkyeDS: and he looks at me, and I said, vet first, doctor/ambulance
second.
SkyeDS: *nods* if he were a minor she'd be guilty of child
abuse...but then I'd be guilty of statutory rape :P
evile: yup
SkyeDS: the whole thing is just...wrong...on many levels.
evile: Most people have some wierdo dysfunctional thing with their
family of origin...
SkyeDS: I wonder if she's so stuck on stupid that she wouldn't notice
him dying if she'd treated this her way.
SkyeDS: or if she did notice, if it would be in time to get him
treated at all.
SkyeDS: when I finally went in after treating that fever by myself
for four days, I was told, if you'd waited another 24 hours you would
have been DOA
evile: yup. You definitely need a happy medium between Doctor visit &
antibiotics all the time for everything and not taking care of things
that need Drs & antibiotics.
evile: I'm pretty sure my life ins. would pay off if I died of
untreated catastrophic illness, so I really don't care, personally.
SkyeDS: well, ya know, if you choose to die from untreated whatever,
that's certainly your choice. However, if you are highly contagious
you shouldn't infect other people while you're dying, thereby
inflicting your personal choice on them. But that's just my opinion.
SkyeDS: and why I hate it when martyrs come to work sick.
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: that is one of the banes of the independent contractor
existence
SkyeDS: you get paid sick time, you have health insurance
SkyeDS: you get me sick, I'm paying for the doctor myself, and if I
miss too much time, I don't get paid, and I lose my contract.
SkyeDS: (not you personally, the "martyr")
evile: Personally, I hate my coworkers, I'd rather come here and
make them sick than get my loved ones ill :P
SkyeDS: if I were in your position I would feel and do the same
SkyeDS: but I haven't been in your position in a good long while now -
in terms of being permanent, having paid time off, paid insurance,
and coworkers I'd love to infect.
evile: I'm too damned healthy. I'm going to live for fucking ever. :(
SkyeDS: I believe if I refuse to grow old, I can stay young till I
die ~ from Pippin
SkyeDS: I think I"m going to go slipsliding into my grave with
something I shouldn't be eating in one hand, something I shouldn't be
drinking in another, and a not very well preserved body, going, Fuck
what a ride!
SkyeDS: at what age, I have no clue.
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: this is assuming, of course, that I don't die doing a triple
somersault over a horse's head and my reins and breaking my neck ROFL
evile: maybe I need to get an extreme dangerous hobby...
SkyeDS: if I were going to take up another one it would probably be
hanggliding or paraskiing
SkyeDS: assuming I could still get up on skis, I haven't tried since
I graduated high school
evile: nothing with heights.
SkyeDS: you could...put a mexican low port spade bit on Jezebel and
ride her with mexican rowel spurs.
evile: nah, I dont' want my successors suing your ass off :P
SkyeDS: too, that would involve heights, at least temporarily
evile: I think I'm off horseback riding for a good while.
SkyeDS: other than the trail ride every year at the point where I"m
positive I'm going to die, I don't usually consider our hobby a
dangerous one, although rationally I know it is.
SkyeDS: Mirage and I are well aware of our respective places in the
scheme of things. I get us into shit we shouldn't be in, and she
gets us out.
evile: *nod*
evile: I think if I tried to keep up with [Cousin B], I'd probably die.
Either of a heart attack or a drug OD.
SkyeDS: but it would be fun?
evile: For a while, until I started to look bad :P
evile: I guess if I'm still vain enough to worry about what I look
like, or what sort of death would be more or less dignified, I'm
probably not really ready to go...
SkyeDS: doesn't sound like it
SkyeDS: I don't want to die painfully, but that's because I am very
phobic about pain
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: even though I have now had needles and knives between my
legs, and I know rationally from experience that I can be cut on down
there, be awake, and not feel it
SkyeDS: I'm still phobic about epiziotomies and childbirth
evile: yup. that whole lack of dignity thing is what gets to me the
most about all of that.
SkyeDS: the learning channel and the discovery channel every year on
mother's day run hours upon hours of natural childbirth programming
SkyeDS: now, childbirth in a hot tub was interesting and not too
graphic
SkyeDS: but I ask you
evile: so glad I dont have cable
SkyeDS: why would you want to be reminded of all that on Mother's Day?
evile: doubtful.
SkyeDS: and then there's handing the mother a little bloody raisin-
alien cross with the cord still attached
SkyeDS: I told sineater, do NOT, DO not, hand me a bloody raisin alien
with a cord still attached
evile: as [aunt L] says "I like to wait until they're all cleaned up,
with a little hat."
SkyeDS: I'd be happy if you didn't give them to me until they were
three - talking, walking, potty trained, and ready to learn to read,
write, count and ride.
evile: heh.
SkyeDS: Laura's grandchild Addie is very accelerated both mentally
and physically, and the older he gets the more fun he is.
SkyeDS: I watched the equestrian list from a vantage point where I
could keep an ear on Addie napping in their tent, so that both Laura
and Charles could compete, loaned Charles my horse
SkyeDS: and Addie didn't wake up until Laura, Charles and sineater were
all out of the competition
evile: that was nice of you. :)
SkyeDS: so I walked him, holding his little hand, to the porta potty,
him on one side, Arthur on the other
SkyeDS: and I was taken with our shadows on the ground
SkyeDS: we were so cute, you just knew we were, by the looks we were
getting
SkyeDS: I know, I'm easily amused.
SkyeDS: it really wasn't hard to do...the ideal spot was in the
shade, gave me a good enough view of the competition, and a good
vantage point on Addie
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: after handfasting in persona, Gideon finally proposed to
Bridget (which he should have done long ago as far as she and his
children are concerned, I know)
SkyeDS: in front of the entire court (not just baronial but also
kingdom)
evile: that's sweet :)
SkyeDS: when the site, the weather and the company are that awesome
you want the event to go on longer than it does.
evile: I'm sure :)
evile: Small world: turns out one of the polys works with Sweetie. :P
SkyeDS: Austin's subculture circles are very small and concentric
evile: yep.
evile: I have to get a prezzie for [G/stepdad/sineater's dad] in the mail soon...
SkyeDS: nods
evile: I may try and get by Grapevine Market tonight and see if I can
find any interesting scotch
SkyeDS: glenlivet and drambuie and all that are whiskeys? and/or
scotches?
SkyeDS: I would know this if I bothered to look them up I know
evile: glenlivet is a scotch, drambuie is a liqueur.
SkyeDS: found some inexpensive irish creme at World Market, sineater
wanted to try it, I don't remember what it's called
evile: Carolans, probably. It's fine.
SkyeDS: it isn't Carolans or Brendans
SkyeDS: it's some name I haven't seen before
SkyeDS: want to say it starts with an I or an A
evile: hm. dunno.
SkyeDS: it takes him awhile to get used to the concept of, if you
want it, I'm buying it for you
evile: heh.
SkyeDS: www.friesianstore.com - omg t he bridles and I haven't even
looked at anything else yet
evile: nice.
evile: the white stuff is striking, but I can't imagien trying to
keep it clean!
SkyeDS: nods
SkyeDS: that's why I'm t hinking I wouldn't want white, not tack, not
carriage
SkyeDS: surely a Friesian would look nice in black with maybe white
trim, and a black carriage
evile: yup
evile: well, I'm going to run some anti spyware and suhc. It might
crash my ICQ, so be prepared. Since it's close enough to go-time, I
probably won't try to get back on.
SkyeDS: k, wi nd to your wings :)