Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
That same summer in D saw the sky darkened by smoke from Mexican grass fires and a severe cricket infestation downtown. Truly biblical. I can remember people saying - with a straight face - "It's not so bad today. Must be only 102, 103."

please never mention the crickets again. that was truly gross. similar to the summer when I was growing up that the gypsy moth caterpillars took over the northeast.

(shudder)

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by purse junkie
Didn't he freeze some schmo in his own end-the-earth-by-icy-blizzard weather machine?

(was just starting to watch GH then so could be wrong on this)

You are correct (I googled). Luke managed to save the day and to decode the Ice Princess. I watched GH sporadically back then. I do recall that Luke was the object of many a crush. Can anyone explain this phenomenon?




For the record, I have never had a crushon Luke. Blackie on the other hand....

[evenodds]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
King of the Hill is STILL on TV? Good lord, that might be the most unbearable shit I have EVER seen. I thought that hillrat sheepfucker show had ended long ago.

I am afraid it might not be funny north of the Red River (except in Bilmore's house). Around here, however, it's a laugh riot.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
please never mention the crickets again. that was truly gross. similar to the summer when I was growing up that the gypsy moth caterpillars took over the northeast.

(shudder)

Do you remember the cicada's? Otherwise known as the 17 year locust. They invaded when I was in highschool. It was disgusting. Crunching underfoot, clogging up the lawn mower, getting stuck in my hair. Ewwww! (shiver)

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
please never mention the crickets again. that was truly gross. similar to the summer when I was growing up that the gypsy moth caterpillars took over the northeast.

(shudder)

I was just thinking how I couldn't imagine anything more disgusting than going outside when every car, tree, driveway, patio, etc. was covered in gypsy moth caterpillars . . .

and then Anne Elk posted that picture of a shirtless Anthony Geary.

No lunch for me today.

P.S. Anne, I think the locusts are due again next year!

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
King of the Hill is STILL on TV? Good lord, that might be the most unbearable shit I have EVER seen. I thought that hillrat sheepfucker show had ended long ago.

I love that show!
I don't live in Texas and only went to Fort Worth on business once.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
You are correct (I googled). Luke managed to save the day and to decode the Ice Princess. I watched GH sporadically back then. I do recall that Luke was the object of many a crush. Can anyone explain this phenomenon?

For the record, I have never had a crushon Luke. Blackie on the other hand....

No idea why anyone would have had a crush on Luke. The entire Ice Princess storyline is what made me stop watching GH once and for all. After that I was only an All My Kids watcher. I mean really - a plot to freeze the earth -- how ridiculous is that?! Much less likely than Erica having been raped (by a clown?) and borne a child with no recollection of it. Or Tad returning from the dead.

[Replaced_Texan]

I was explaining (read: whining) to a friend of mine last night about my injured toe and her response was "And as usual, you didn't go see a doctor about it."

The concept of going to a doctor over an injured toe never occurred to me. I explained that there was nothing that anyone could do to fix the toe even if it is broken, so there is no point in going to the doctor. She was like "yeah, but they could give you something for the pain."

For reasons that I've probably blathered on about before, going to a doctor when limbs aren't severed or arteries aren't gushing is just a foreign concept to me. I can't imagine any self respecting physician giving me anything more than a glare for wasting his time and / or tell me to take some Aleve.

So my poll question is what's the threshold for making the decision to go to the doctor about something?

Usually, I'll take a few days to see if whatever's bothering persists, and then I'll mention the problem to whichever physician relative happens to be around and I'll go with whatever they say. This is an incomplete science. For example, none of my physician relatives specializes in anything nearing orthopedics or wherever other specialty crushed toes fall under. I haven't mentioned the injury to any of them yet, because I know that they'll a) laugh, b) poke and prod at something that I've already poked and prodded at to determine how much it hurts, and c) tell me to take some Aleve.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by evenodds
I am afraid it might not be funny north of the Red River (except in Bilmore's house). Around here, however, it's a laugh riot.

Around here, it's considered a documentary.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by evenodds
I am afraid it might not be funny north of the Red River (except in Bilmore's house). Around here, however, it's a laugh riot.

On the contrary, it feeds into all our smug Northeastern liberal stereotypes about Texas. Though I do worry about Bobby--fat, stupid, into show tunes, of ambiguous sexuality (NTTAWWT), lives in semirural Texas? I think he's heading for serious beatings by the high-school football team.

But then, that could just be Northeastern smugness. Though that's exactly what would happen to him here too.

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I was explaining (read: whining) to a friend of mine last night about my injured toe and her response was "And as usual, you didn't go see a doctor about it."


So my poll question is what's the threshold for making the decision to go to the doctor about something?

I too am a doctor's child and the concept of going to a doctor never occurs to me. I didn't go to the doctor when I had the chicken pox as a child. I didn't go to the eye doctor until I failed the eye exam to get my driver's license.

BUT I am here to spread the message of going to get an annual physical. This is very outable but I am pretty sure no one I know reads these boards. My father got on a kick about cholesterol and my family has genetically high cholesterol. So he made me go get a blood test and yes of course I have high cholesterol. (though it is not that bad.)

However, this sent me to the internest for the very first time who subsequently discovered a large mass growing in my thyroid. So in less than a month I went from being perfectly healthy and fine to having high cholesterol and having major surgery to have a portion of my thryroid removed, to a cancer scare b/c some of the cells seemed atypical.

SO go see your doctor and have an annual physical. I must mention as well for women that this involves more than going to the gynecologist b/c i think my gynecologist may have noticed a few years ago that my thryoid was a little enlarged but didn't do any further tests.

I will now be going to the doctor more frequently.

So anyone have any suggestions for scar care?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I was explaining (read: whining) to a friend of mine last night about my injured toe and her response was "And as usual, you didn't go see a doctor about it."

The concept of going to a doctor over an injured toe never occurred to me. I explained that there was nothing that anyone could do to fix the toe even if it is broken, so there is no point in going to the doctor. She was like "yeah, but they could give you something for the pain."

For reasons that I've probably blathered on about before, going to a doctor when limbs aren't severed or arteries aren't gushing is just a foreign concept to me. I can't imagine any self respecting physician giving me anything more than a glare for wasting his time and / or tell me to take some Aleve.

So my poll question is what's the threshold for making the decision to go to the doctor about something?

Usually, I'll take a few days to see if whatever's bothering persists, and then I'll mention the problem to whichever physician relative happens to be around and I'll go with whatever they say. This is an incomplete science. For example, none of my physician relatives specializes in anything nearing orthopedics or wherever other specialty crushed toes fall under. I haven't mentioned the injury to any of them yet, because I know that they'll a) laugh, b) poke and prod at something that I've already poked and prodded at to determine how much it hurts, and c) tell me to take some Aleve.

As an adult, I have never been to the doctor b/c of an illness.

I've been to the doctor for injuries once in the past 7 years b/c of a dislocated finger, and I wouldn't have gone if the finger wasn't perpendicular to my other fingers (flag football injury).

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I was explaining (read: whining) to a friend of mine last night about my injured toe and her response was "And as usual, you didn't go see a doctor about it."

The concept of going to a doctor over an injured toe never occurred to me. I explained that there was nothing that anyone could do to fix the toe even if it is broken, so there is no point in going to the doctor. She was like "yeah, but they could give you something for the pain."

For reasons that I've probably blathered on about before, going to a doctor when limbs aren't severed or arteries aren't gushing is just a foreign concept to me. I can't imagine any self respecting physician giving me anything more than a glare for wasting his time and / or tell me to take some Aleve.

So my poll question is what's the threshold for making the decision to go to the doctor about something?

Usually, I'll take a few days to see if whatever's bothering persists, and then I'll mention the problem to whichever physician relative happens to be around and I'll go with whatever they say. This is an incomplete science. For example, none of my physician relatives specializes in anything nearing orthopedics or wherever other specialty crushed toes fall under. I haven't mentioned the injury to any of them yet, because I know that they'll a) laugh, b) poke and prod at something that I've already poked and prodded at to determine how much it hurts, and c) tell me to take some Aleve.

I go to the doctor once a year. It is required for a new birth control prescription. I share the aversion for doctor visits and I'm pretty healthy. I had a sinus infection that kept recurring this winter, so I finally got a Z-Pac from a doctor friend after months of recurring gunk, but no doctor visits.

If I had something that was obviously not a cold or the flu and it persisted for more than 4 days, I'd probably go to a doctor, but that just hasn't happened in so long, it isn't worth discussing. (knock on wood)

Basically I am the sucker who is subsidizing the insurance companies by paying my premiums every month without using the services (thankfully).

I would not go to the doctor for a crushed toe either. Unless a bone was sticking out or something.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
So my poll question is what's the threshold for making the decision to go to the doctor about something?

I call the "doctors" in the family, especially the OM's mother who has actual medical training, if something unusual happens. If it's something weird, I'll call my actual doctor after a day of no improvement or increasing pain.

When I broke my arm a couple of years ago, I didn't see the doctor until the second day after the injury when I just couldn't take the pain any longer. Same thing with a car accident-related back injury.

Edited to add: my beloved mother almost died when I was in law school from a five year undiagnosed illness, so I am often on the phone to the doctor when it comes to illnesses beyond a cold or allergies. I second the importance of annual physicals. I get a full physical every year, just to make sure everything is in order. The earlier something is caught, the better.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by purse junkie
On the contrary, it feeds into all our smug Northeastern liberal stereotypes about Texas. Though I do worry about Bobby--fat, stupid, into show tunes, of ambiguous sexuality (NTTAWWT), lives in semirural Texas? I think he's heading for serious beatings by the high-school football team.

But then, that could just be Northeastern smugness. Though that's exactly what would happen to him here too.

In Texas, Mesquite is not semi-rural (though it would be in the Northeast). It is suburban.

I don't watch the show, but I did recently meet the guy who I swear must have been the inspiration for the ball-capped funny-talking neighbor. Spoke exactly the same way. I couldn't keep a straight face while he was talking.

Dallas has a thriving gay community, so if he leans that way you can rest assured that it is only a 20 minute car ride to Oak Lawn for him. Though he really should get into shape before he ventures there -- the gay community is no less superficial than the straight community in Dallas.

n(yes, I know he is a cartoon character)cs