peritoneal lavage*, I got very confused. Turns out I was mixing up theperitoneum and the perineum and couldn’t figure out why they’d need to do THAT. (I did know what “lavage” was, though – washing something out. Just call me Robyn And3rson, GMD**.)
3. That little speech Izzy gave? I’m sorry, no. It was self-serving crap and I think George should have slapped the fuck out of her. The attitude she has toward Callie just annoys the motherfucking fuck out of me and makes her look like a spoiled bitchy bitch and it drives me nuts. NUTS, I SAY.
4. You think after this year lightbulbs are going to pop on over everyone’s head and people are going to start avoiding Meredith in February (see last year re: bomb killing the very hot hot hottie Kyle Chandler (whom I will always think of as the very hot hot hottie Jeff from Homefront, hmmm. Kyle Chandler playing two hot hot hotties. What are the chances? He’s typecast!) bomb guy)? Or will it take one more year?
*Upon reading about what exactly a peritoneal lavage entails, I do not believe it was indicated in this instance, and was just Addison throwing around big words trying to impress us. I love Addison, but NOT IMPRESSED, Dr. Montgomery. Step aside and let Dr. Robyn slap some life back into that milquetoast annoyance they call Meredith Grey in this strange TV land of apparently blind men who cannot stop drooling over her for some (“Rescue me! I’m a sad little practically-orphaned waif, adrift in this cold, cruel world, wahhh! Save me! Pity me!”) reason.
**Google MD, of course.
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Remember when I was going to make a .wav for y’all of me imitating what Myrtle sounded like when she went into Hellbeast mode? Well, I taped myself imitating her, but I can’t get the camera to let me download what I taped (I need to download drivers or something), so in the meantime, here’s pretty much what she sounded like, courtesy of reader Debbie, who sent me the link.
Myrtle maybe didn’t do it for quite so long, but the ferocity and the creepiness (imagine sitting at your desk in a silent house and hearing something like that!) are strikingly similar.
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BobPod continues to hang on, kind of. I tried all the stuff y’all suggested (except for the banging it against something, which I’m saving for the very last thing to try) and nada. When I hook BobPod to the computer, iPod doesn’t “see” him and BobPod just sits there with the Apple logo staring sadly up at me.
I think he might be brain dead.
I keep hoping he might come back to life on his own, but I don’t see that happening. I guess I’m going to see about taking him to the Apple store and see if they can fix his sorry little ass.
Come back to me, BobPod. I NEEEEEEED YOU!
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I left the house a few minutes after 8 yesterday morning and didn’t get back home until almost noon. First I had to drive out almost to the Tennessee border to drop Joe Bob off at the vet. Joe Bob wasn’t thrilled with that, but he did give me the Love Eyes when I stuck my finger in the carrier (more on how I got him INTO the carrier in a minute), so hopefully he’ll forgive me. Then I drove back to Madison to hit the T-Mobile store, because although my cell phone has a camera in it and I can take pictures with it, if I try to email or send the pictures anywhere, I get an error message. I didn’t get the phone from T-Mobile, so I guess there’s something they have to do to make it work? I don’t know.
Anyway, I walked in and had to wait and wait and wait until the two salespeople were done doing whatever they were doing, and I gave the one saleswoman my cell phone number, and then she told me they couldn’t do anything without Fred’s authorization, since the account is in his name.
And we will be rectifying THAT little situation tout-de-fucking-suite, believe you me.
So I left there and went over to Lowe’s to look at their cleaning stuff, because I had hoped there’d be something in the cleaning aisle that would take paint off windows and mirrors with no elbow grease from me. I didn’t find anything that fit the bill, but I did find other things I desperately needed, so I bought ’em.
From there, I went to the post office to drop off some packages and pick up the mail, then over to Wal-Mart to do a little looking around. The clothes I’ve been wearing out at the new house to paint and clean in have gotten absolutely coated with paint, and there are holes in the ass of the pants, so I wanted to buy some cheap clothes to replace them.
A bunch of winter clothes were on sale for $5, so I ended up with a pair of pants, a snarky t-shirt (“I’ll be nicer if you’ll be smarter”) and a flannel shirt to wear over it for less than $20.
Woot!
From there I went home, chilled out, and spent most of the rest of the day surfing the web and looking sadly at BobPod.
A day well spent, I say.
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So before Joe Bob and I left the house, I naturally needed to get him into the carrier. Joe Bob has himself a very strong go-limp instinct when you grab him by the scruff of the neck, so I knew all I needed to do was grab him and lower him into the carrier.
I got up from my desk and went to see where he was. He happened to be walking down the hallway where the cat carrier was sitting (the goddamn things are laying everywhere in this house), so I opened the top of the carrier and turned around to grab him.
No fool he, Joe Bob went flying into the living room and hid behind the TV. I used a feather toy to try to coax him out, with no luck, and I tried to lure him out with a laser pointer, and he was not to be lured.
Finally, I decided to pull out the big guns, and reeled around the house screeching “Snack Time! Who’s ready for the Snack Time! Snack Time, Boogie!” The cats, who are accustomed to Fred handing out Snack Time, ran in fear from the screeching and were only brought back into the kitchen by the smell of the pouch of treats opening and being dumped onto a plate.
The other cats settled in to Snackin’ Time, but Joe Bob was no fool, and he stayed behind the TV until I realized that my hovering above the Snackin’ Time plate was far too obvious, and so I wandered off to get a few tasks done.
When I walked back into the kitchen, Joe Bob was bellied up to the Snackin’ Time plate and just starting to eat. I grabbed him up, carried him into the hallway, and put him into the carrier with nary a fight.
“But I don’t wanna be in the carrier!” Joe Bob protested, and I lifted up the carrier, speaking soothingly to him as I did so.
And then he darted out the front door of the carrier. Because why would it occur to me to check to be sure that the front door was closed? THAT WOULD MAKE SENSE, STUPID.
Joe Bob went hauling ass up the stairs, and I stomped and cursed, and then went up after him. Conveniently, he’d run into the master bedroom, so I closed the door and chased him around the room for a few minutes before he went flying into the bathroom to hide in the tub.
I shut the bathroom door and chased him back and forth a few times (not easy in a fairly small bathroom, yet somehow we managed it) before he huddled behind the toilet, believing I couldn’t see him, and I grabbed him up and carried him to the carrier. He made one feeble attempt at getting away – he pushed at the carrier with one of his big rabbit-like back feet – but since I had him by the scruff of the neck, I got him in there carrier pretty easily.
He didn’t utter a peep on the way to the vet’s office. I guess he didn’t get the Hellbeast gene his sister got.
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I tried to convince Fred that we should flip this house, but he thinks it’s too small. Hmph.
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Smackdown!
Spot and the Eyes of Lurve.
He’s IN the basket, but he’s not HAPPY about it.
Hatin’ you.
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Previously2006: So, in summary, if we are to judge all female cats by Miz Poo, then male cats are nicer, but female cats are clingier.
2005: Don’t you wish I was responsible for your books?
2004: I WANT TO FUCKING KNOW WHAT HE SAID.
2003: No entry.
2002: No entry.
2001.: And almost wet my pants in terror.
2000: So, the nausea continues.]]>
32 thoughts on “2/16/07”
Robyn,
I had to take my son’s ipod to the Apple store after he squished it. They were ver nice. They looked at it, replaced it – no questions asked. Maybe you’ll get that lucky.
It was Izzy that gave the speech. Doh! Ok, going back to read the rest of the entry now…
and just now I played the burger and fries video with Aimee sitting on top of my monitor and the speakers turned up. She freaked out! Ok back to reading again. I like this new way of Robyn reading — say what you want when you need to then read more!
Man, I can FEEL the hate from the Boog. It still doesn’t stop me from wanting to wuv wuv wuv on hims fuzzy belly…
Your experience at T-Mobile took me back to my divorce oh-so-many years ago. I had the decree in hand, called my auto insurance company, and informed them I wanted my expensive ticket-getting ex off my policy. THEY HAD TO CALL AND GET HIS PERMISSION. I won’t even go into the argument I had with them over what would happen if His Majesty had declined to be removed. Needless to say, that company lost my business immediately.
I’m pretty sure if there were a painting guru around he’d tell you that a utility knife will take paint off a glass surface.
Jenn: Whoops, you’re right! It was Izzy. I don’t know why I always call Izzy Christina – I think maybe it’s just because she looks like a Christina to me.
Fred: Yes, a utility knife AND ELBOW GREASE. I’m running low on elbow grease.
I think Me Boogers is grossly misunderstood. That is not a look of HATE, more like a sultry look as if to say “why don’t you come up and see me sometime”. Poor Mr Boogers, gets no respect.
oops!! That was meant to be Mr boogers not me Boogers.
A razor blade will take paint off mirrors and windows without much work. You can buy a retractable razor blade holder just about anywhere. That way you won’t slice yourself up.
Robyn, for the paint on the windows? Get Goof-off. It’ll take it off windows, tile, most any surface — and with hardly any work at all. GREAT stuff! http://www.valspar.com/val/resident/goof-off.jsp
Be careful with the razor blade when you use it to remove the paint from the glass. My friend had someone hired by her house builder remove the window stickers (why they don’t use the cool pull off labels, I don’t know). He evidently used an old blade and scratched EVERY window in her house. The builder had to replace every window. Luckily, the guy who came to stain the windows noticed it and pointed it out. Unfortuntely, the builder had to pay the stain guy twice. Hee!
I totally agree with you on Gray’s Anatomy. That speech was So Irritating. Once she got into it Andy looked at me and said, I believe in the power of love and I replied by saying, I believe that children are our future. And then we laughed and laughed.
And I would totally die if I got to hang out with two hot dudes all the time.
I hope this isn’t the beginning of the end of Gray’s Anatomy.
Regarding the Ipod. My son’s Ipod froze as well. He suggested you let the battery run out, then plug it in the puter to power up. Good luck it worked for his.
Ugh, I am so over Grey’s Anatomy. I still read about it, though, and I saw the funniest damn comment at the Chicago Tribune this morning: “I’m looking forward to how they write off Meredith not dying OR having massive brain damage from the lack of oxygen. Unless the writers are awesome enough to have her end up sharing a bedroom with her mother. They could both stare blankly at each other while having their diapers changed for the rest of the show’s run. Now that would be a good twist.”
Yeah, what IS Izzy’s problem with Callie?? Callie is so cool, and she’s nuts about George. You’d think Izzy would be happy for him. Hmmph.
I second Lynn’s vote for Goof-off. I got paint drips off BRICK with that stuff. It’s goooooooood. I’m too much of a klutz to use the razor blade method without carving myself up.
I have T-Mobile and went through the exact same thing (kinda sorta)when I called to add 2 lines. They told me I couldn’t because my husband was the main account holder – which is true – but bullshit nonetheless! I pay the bill, I select the plan – by god I am going to add 2 lines. I agrued with her until I got pissed and hung up. I immediately called back – got a very nice young girl – and VIOLA – I now have added 2 lines and ordered 2 new phones. Try another T-Mobile store if they have one.
I used to lift my adult cats by the scruff too until a girlfriend of mine sent me a link to the ASPCA stating to never lift adult cats by their scruff – it can be very painful to them as they are much heavier than when they were small kittens.
Of course, I felt horrible that I had been doing it!
Robyn, there has not been a video for a very long time that made me laugh that hard. Thanks for posting that!
A woman after my own heart, I leap for joy at your sale experience. Though I feel guilty about shopping at Wal-mart, I made a beeline to the $3 sale rack just the other day. 🙂
Ditto on Izzy’s speech. GOOD GRIEF!
OH MY GOOD HEAVENLY SWEET BABY JESUS, WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT CAT???? Is it the camera? Is it the sight of a person? Is it that the cat is just freaking insane in the membrane? I am so disturbed, Robyn, please please clear up the mystery of the psycho cat.
LMAO ROBYN!!! 2 weeks ago I had a patient at clinical with a peritoneal dialysis catheter.. ok hearing peritoneal and cathetar, I know what dialysis is but still, I was thinking the SAME thing! Thank God I grabbed a med-surg book and looked it up before I peeked under the sheets. Perinium , lol!
I forgot my cat was sitting next to me on the bed, when I clicked on the screaming cat link. He bolted upright, eyes wide, and bolted off the bed in a flat run. Poor Lucky! (Poor Lucky, I didn’t get the video off quicker, laughing too hard!)
That poor cat! Looks like he is in some kind of a shelter and is probably scared to death! poor thing!
A razor blade, in a razor blade holder, and spray the glass and mirror with window cleaner first. The more wet it is, the more it protects the surface and makes the paint easy to take off. Same with stickers, or the glue left over from tape!
Robyn,
You need to get a Widget. It is a razor that is locked into a heavy duty plastic handle and is made specifically for that job. I have taken decals off my car windows and paint off windows no sweat. They are made by Hyde and can be found in the paint aisle (I think). If you ask for a widget, they will know what you mean. Good luck!
Lori
hee! I read your Grey’s thoughts above, and I had to share with you a post I made at a message board I frequent.
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Izzy, I love you, but saying to George that he made a mistake marrying Callie, especially in that moment where everyone is mourning meredith, makes you the worlds biggest bitch ever. EVER. If anyone even tried to say “boo” to you about your obsession with Denny, you bit their head off, so go stfu and eat more butter, you sanctimonious bitch. Oh, and BTW? Because we’re SUCH GOOD FRIENDS, I can say that to you. *boggle*
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hehe. I thought you would understand. Most people where I go thought I was a little harsh.
Robyn, just thought you might want to know that the free hellcat with every case of water has been extended to the West Coast. Since we’re a bunch of hippies out here, they’ve chosen to offer the special with cases of diet iced green tea: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/123/394570429_4dd786af32_m.jpg
Oh my God, that cat screeching was so scary. It sounded like an actual person, not a cat! I don’t know how your nerves can stand it.
Smackdown!
Spot and the Eyes of Lurve.
He’s IN the basket, but he’s not HAPPY about it.
Hatin’ you.
Robyn,
I had to take my son’s ipod to the Apple store after he squished it. They were ver nice. They looked at it, replaced it – no questions asked. Maybe you’ll get that lucky.
It was Izzy that gave the speech. Doh! Ok, going back to read the rest of the entry now…
and just now I played the burger and fries video with Aimee sitting on top of my monitor and the speakers turned up. She freaked out! Ok back to reading again. I like this new way of Robyn reading — say what you want when you need to then read more!
Man, I can FEEL the hate from the Boog. It still doesn’t stop me from wanting to wuv wuv wuv on hims fuzzy belly…
Your experience at T-Mobile took me back to my divorce oh-so-many years ago. I had the decree in hand, called my auto insurance company, and informed them I wanted my expensive ticket-getting ex off my policy. THEY HAD TO CALL AND GET HIS PERMISSION. I won’t even go into the argument I had with them over what would happen if His Majesty had declined to be removed. Needless to say, that company lost my business immediately.
I’m pretty sure if there were a painting guru around he’d tell you that a utility knife will take paint off a glass surface.
Jenn: Whoops, you’re right! It was Izzy. I don’t know why I always call Izzy Christina – I think maybe it’s just because she looks like a Christina to me.
Fred: Yes, a utility knife AND ELBOW GREASE. I’m running low on elbow grease.
I think Me Boogers is grossly misunderstood. That is not a look of HATE, more like a sultry look as if to say “why don’t you come up and see me sometime”. Poor Mr Boogers, gets no respect.
oops!! That was meant to be Mr boogers not me Boogers.
A razor blade will take paint off mirrors and windows without much work. You can buy a retractable razor blade holder just about anywhere. That way you won’t slice yourself up.
Robyn, for the paint on the windows? Get Goof-off. It’ll take it off windows, tile, most any surface — and with hardly any work at all. GREAT stuff!
http://www.valspar.com/val/resident/goof-off.jsp
Be careful with the razor blade when you use it to remove the paint from the glass. My friend had someone hired by her house builder remove the window stickers (why they don’t use the cool pull off labels, I don’t know). He evidently used an old blade and scratched EVERY window in her house. The builder had to replace every window. Luckily, the guy who came to stain the windows noticed it and pointed it out. Unfortuntely, the builder had to pay the stain guy twice. Hee!
I totally agree with you on Gray’s Anatomy. That speech was So Irritating. Once she got into it Andy looked at me and said, I believe in the power of love and I replied by saying, I believe that children are our future. And then we laughed and laughed.
And I would totally die if I got to hang out with two hot dudes all the time.
I hope this isn’t the beginning of the end of Gray’s Anatomy.
Regarding the Ipod. My son’s Ipod froze as well. He suggested you let the battery run out, then plug it in the puter to power up. Good luck it worked for his.
Ugh, I am so over Grey’s Anatomy. I still read about it, though, and I saw the funniest damn comment at the Chicago Tribune this morning: “I’m looking forward to how they write off Meredith not dying OR having massive brain damage from the lack of oxygen. Unless the writers are awesome enough to have her end up sharing a bedroom with her mother. They could both stare blankly at each other while having their diapers changed for the rest of the show’s run. Now that would be a good twist.”
Yeah, what IS Izzy’s problem with Callie?? Callie is so cool, and she’s nuts about George. You’d think Izzy would be happy for him. Hmmph.
I second Lynn’s vote for Goof-off. I got paint drips off BRICK with that stuff. It’s goooooooood. I’m too much of a klutz to use the razor blade method without carving myself up.
I have T-Mobile and went through the exact same thing (kinda sorta)when I called to add 2 lines. They told me I couldn’t because my husband was the main account holder – which is true – but bullshit nonetheless! I pay the bill, I select the plan – by god I am going to add 2 lines. I agrued with her until I got pissed and hung up. I immediately called back – got a very nice young girl – and VIOLA – I now have added 2 lines and ordered 2 new phones. Try another T-Mobile store if they have one.
I used to lift my adult cats by the scruff too until a girlfriend of mine sent me a link to the ASPCA stating to never lift adult cats by their scruff – it can be very painful to them as they are much heavier than when they were small kittens.
Of course, I felt horrible that I had been doing it!
Robyn, there has not been a video for a very long time that made me laugh that hard. Thanks for posting that!
A woman after my own heart, I leap for joy at your sale experience. Though I feel guilty about shopping at Wal-mart, I made a beeline to the $3 sale rack just the other day. 🙂
Ditto on Izzy’s speech. GOOD GRIEF!
OH MY GOOD HEAVENLY SWEET BABY JESUS, WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT CAT???? Is it the camera? Is it the sight of a person? Is it that the cat is just freaking insane in the membrane? I am so disturbed, Robyn, please please clear up the mystery of the psycho cat.
LMAO ROBYN!!! 2 weeks ago I had a patient at clinical with a peritoneal dialysis catheter.. ok hearing peritoneal and cathetar, I know what dialysis is but still, I was thinking the SAME thing! Thank God I grabbed a med-surg book and looked it up before I peeked under the sheets. Perinium , lol!
Robyn, my husband is an apple guy. He sent me this link to send you. Try this. It talks about how to reset your bobpod. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61705
I forgot my cat was sitting next to me on the bed, when I clicked on the screaming cat link. He bolted upright, eyes wide, and bolted off the bed in a flat run. Poor Lucky! (Poor Lucky, I didn’t get the video off quicker, laughing too hard!)
That poor cat! Looks like he is in some kind of a shelter and is probably scared to death! poor thing!
A razor blade, in a razor blade holder, and spray the glass and mirror with window cleaner first. The more wet it is, the more it protects the surface and makes the paint easy to take off. Same with stickers, or the glue left over from tape!
Robyn,
You need to get a Widget. It is a razor that is locked into a heavy duty plastic handle and is made specifically for that job. I have taken decals off my car windows and paint off windows no sweat. They are made by Hyde and can be found in the paint aisle (I think). If you ask for a widget, they will know what you mean. Good luck!
Lori
hee! I read your Grey’s thoughts above, and I had to share with you a post I made at a message board I frequent.
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Izzy, I love you, but saying to George that he made a mistake marrying Callie, especially in that moment where everyone is mourning meredith, makes you the worlds biggest bitch ever. EVER. If anyone even tried to say “boo” to you about your obsession with Denny, you bit their head off, so go stfu and eat more butter, you sanctimonious bitch. Oh, and BTW? Because we’re SUCH GOOD FRIENDS, I can say that to you. *boggle*
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hehe. I thought you would understand. Most people where I go thought I was a little harsh.
I have that same t-shirt- heh.
We use this for painting mistakes.
http://www1.epinions.com/content_143687192196
Robyn, just thought you might want to know that the free hellcat with every case of water has been extended to the West Coast. Since we’re a bunch of hippies out here, they’ve chosen to offer the special with cases of diet iced green tea:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/123/394570429_4dd786af32_m.jpg
Oh my God, that cat screeching was so scary. It sounded like an actual person, not a cat! I don’t know how your nerves can stand it.