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Stubborn

Humor of the Day, Jennspeak, Of Trials Opportunities and Gifts, Paroxysm of Giggles

Okay.  It’s hot and humid.  It could be worse, really, but it’s not great to sleep in, especially since my house gets really warm at night and there’s not great ventilation in my bedroom.

I already tried sleeping outside on the trampoline, which would have been an acceptable solution, except that all the bugs in the Metro Detroit area got the memo that I was outside, unguarded and tasty.  Drat!

 Go back inside.  Now, not only am I tired, but I’m in problem-solving mode, which means that I will beat my head upside the issue until I get a reasonable (to me) resolution — or die trying.

All right.  I have a window-unit air conditioner in the garage.  I’ll just install that…right now…by myself.

Done.  Now to plug it in  — drat, again!  I can’t find the adapter that converts my 2-prong receptacle to fit the 3-prong plug on the AC unit.  Are you kidding me?

Okay, okay.  I’ll drive up to Meijer’s (since Home Depot’s not open 24 hours) and buy another adapter.  Whatever.  I’m going to win and I’m going to have air conditioning tonight so I can finally go to bed.

Go to Meijer’s.  Well, they are not Home Depot — let me tell ya.  I find almost every conceivable electrical plug thing that I could possibly be looking for except the one that I need.  Seriously?  Come on, now.  I even see if there’s ones that I could make work, or extension cords that would do the trick — nope.  Drat x 3.

Now what?

They *DO* have 3-prong receptacles.  I *COULD* just rewire my bedroom at 1 am.  So….  That’s what I’m about to do.  Hopefully, I will be able to find the correct circuit breaker in the panel to tag out the outlet (my house is *not* wired logically when it comes to the circuit breakers, just so you know).  And, since I don’t have a proper voltmeter or outlet tester (probably should have picked one up while I was at Meijer’s — they had one of *those*), I will be using my back-up method for determining if the outlet is “hot” — plugging in my little fan.  If the fan turns off when I trip the circuit breaker, I’m assuming that means that the power is off.  See what happens when a Nuke gets frustrated?

So, if I get electrocuted tonight, you all will know that it’s because I couldn’t wait the 7 hours or whatever it is until Home Depot opens up.

Reminds me of my first adventure with electrical sockets, as told to me by Mom:

I must have been about a year old or so.  I found the electrical socket and thought that it would be a great idea to stick my finger in there.  My mom watched me and wanted to teach me that sticking my fingers in electrical sockets is a bad thing, since I probably would come across another one in the future and she might not be watching me so close (plus, I’m the terror of child-proofing — apparently, I could defeat anything they tried, so they eventually gave up).  So, as I was about to stick my finger in there, Mom smacked my hand.  Apparently, I was irritated that she was thwarting my efforts, gave her a dirty look, and went to jab my finger into the socket again.  She smacked me again.  This cycle repeated, with me getting more and more angry at her, giving her increasingly dirty looks and trying harder to poke my finger in and her smacking my hand harder, trying to teach her stubborn daughter not to try and do this.  My mom started to get upset, because she was having to keep smacking me and I was too focused on doing this that I wasn’t learning what she wanted me to learn (that sticking your fingers in electrical sockets was bad).  Finally, I got so disgusted with her, that I gave up.  And she had to explain to my dad why their baby had huge red welts on her hand.

She was so happy that my brother was a much more agreeable child.  She smacked his hand once, he looked at her in surprise and hurt that she would smack him, burst into tears and never touched the outlet again.  I think this was what she had hoped for with me.  Sorry, Mom.  🙂

I’m going to go play with the socket now….  🙂  Oh, yeah, and just to irritate me more…it just started raining.  I mean pouring.  So, I probably won’t even need the air conditioning in a few minutes.  *sighs*

Update: Well, the screws holding the receptacle to the box were probably older than I am, so I tried again this morning.

New Electrical Socket

Yet Another Test

Paroxysm of Giggles, Photography, World Youth Day

Yet Another Test
Okay, so I got how to upload pictures to my Flickr account; and I got how to post blog entries; but I couldn’t find a way from the Flickr site to post pictures to the blog as I do from my desktop. I would imagine that I would mostly be keeping things separate, but I might occasionally want to post about a photo.

So, here I go again, trying more things to beat my electronics into doing my will. 🙂

Good thing I am a Nuke, trained for this frustration…. 🙂

 Update:  If you get a message where the photo should be saying that the picture is unavailable, don’t worry — I got that too.  The problem being is that I just couldn’t let things be and I had to monkey with them.  Since the photo that I uploaded was a vertical image, I went onto the Flickr site and rotated it, and wanted to see if it would auto-update the photo on the blog….  Maybe there’s just a time lag…  We shall see….   Of course, this all just applies to the photos edited from a computer to rotate them.  I haven’t yet figured out how to rotate things as I post them — to either site.  So, you may have to tilt your head/monitor….  Sorry!  🙂

WHAT IS IT??!?!?!?!

Of Trials Opportunities and Gifts, Paroxysm of Giggles, Photography


WHAT IS IT??!?!?!?!Originally uploaded by CadyLy

 This may say a lot about me.  I am getting ready to go to bed, since I have to get up freakishly early in the morning (even for me, who normally sets the alarm for 4:30 am).  I step out of my bedroom for a minute and happen to catch site of this…is it a bug?  On the door.

Eyes get huge.  What is the first thing I do?

Grab my camera.

That’s right, folks.  I need a picture of this sucker.  Because if it manages to kill me, at least someone will be able to download my picture and see the culprit.

 I come back with the camera — and he’s gone!  Aaaahhh!  Monster bug on the loose!!  Oh no!  Oh no!  Panic sets in.

Then, I see him running across the floor.  Aaaaahhhhh!  He’s faster than a cockroach — and *those* suckers can move!  Finally, he ends up on the wall in the living room.  I swap the camera for the Lysol/Windex.  He’s too fast to risk having him on the loose where he might decide to eat me.

I squirt him repeatedly.  He seems to not move for a little while.  Oh, good.  This stuff can kill cockroaches, but sometimes it takes a bit of time.  THEN….  HE STARTS MOVING!  Like a bad horror flick, the monster has come back to life — and just when you were beginning to catch your breath.

He runs again and for a moment I have lost him.  Oh, no.  Oh, no.  In my head, I am screaming.  I pull out the couch, trying to see if he escaped under there.


The Bug That WOULD NOT DIE
 Finally, I catch up to him on the wall again.  Thank You, Jesus, for Niki, who kept an eye on the Evil Bug and let me know where he was lurking.  I am so glad that I bought new shoes recently, because I could grab my *old* shoe and crack the sucker with it.  I may have dented the wall…but I wanted to make certain that the little beastie was dead.

So, now the bug guts are in the trash.  I have been sanitized.  And, the couch is back where it should be.  And it’s time again for me to try and go to bed.  I’m almost over my panic.  Not quite, so don’t sneak up on me just yet.

Have a good night!  And please pray for me that he doesn’t have any relatives!

What was that thing???

Why Do I Do These Things??

Meme, Paroxysm of Giggles

You Are a Caramel Crunch Donut


You’re a complex creature, and you’re guilty of complicating things for fun.
You’ve been known to sit around pondering the meaning of life…
Or at times, pondering the meaning of your doughnut.
To frost or not to frost? To fill or not to fill? These are your eternal questions.

What Donut Are You?

I do beg to differ. After all, my favorite donut is a *plain* donut. The cake kind…I think they are called. Not raised, glazed, etc. The kind you can get at the cider mill with a crunchy outside and a soft inside. And, for variety, in the fall, I will pick up some pumpkin-flavored ones, but that’s about as exotic as my donuts get. No filling, no frosting, no powdered sugar.

Gardening Issues

Humor of the Day, Of Trials Opportunities and Gifts, Paroxysm of Giggles, Photography

Does anyone have any idea how to deal with this???

Welcome to the Jungle!

Because I’m a little at a loss. Except for sitting down and weeding them all out, which would take days….

Welcome to the Jungle!

Has more appeared, just in the past minute?!? Aaaah! 🙂

EMG

Health and Medicine, Paroxysm of Giggles


EMG Marked Forearm

Originally uploaded by CadyLy

So, after several months of progressive, intermittent episodes of paralysis of my wrist/forearm, I get sent to Ortho, which does not appreciate any obvious mechanical defect, and who sends me to have an EMG.

EMG = electromyogram AKA they will electrocute you and see how you respond to that. 🙂

Before the procedure, I get some opinions of the test:
Doctor 1: “Oh, they just use really little skin needles, you’ll be fine.”
Nurse 1: “Are you kidding? I took my husband in for one a month and a half ago, and he cried.”
Nurse 2: Made fish flopping out of water motions at my zapping. Quite amusing, thanks. 🙂
Check-in girl at EMG: “Well, have you ever stuck your finger into a light socket? No? Well, if you’ve ever given birth — if you’ve survived that pain, you’ll survive this. *pause* Don’t worry, most people psyche themselves up for it to be really bad, then say it’s not as bad as they thought.”

Just before testing started:
EMG doctor: “So, what have you heard about the test?”
Me: “That you use tazers and cattle prods?”
EMG doc: “Exactly!”

(To be continued…)

At the end of my testing period, he didn’t have a clear explanation for my symptoms. Basically, my nerves and muscles appeared to be healthy and undamaged, which is good. However, the underlying cause could be a problem with my spinal cord or my brain — both of which sound like excellent options. 🙂

Crackberry

Humor of the Day, Of Vice and Virtue, Paroxysm of Giggles

I think it’s highly amusing the length to which I will go to justify my toys. Take this Blackberry for example, I got it for a variety of reasons, but really it’s not essential to life. Hopefully, I will use it in a positive manner and be able to do things like post from WYD, etc.

So now I will have GPS and stuff and actually know what’s on my calendar.

Still a Crackberry though — I’ve gone Evil Empire!

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