The New Coffee Room

@blondie said in We didn't have a Mothers' Day thread.:

Your IG post of your mom and her sweater made me tear up @jodi . My mom and I didn’t get along too well growing up, but I’d give almost anything to see to hear her again.

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Thanks! We (Steve) drove about 1300 miles round trip and visited Steve’s parents, some old friends, one of our kids, and visited my mom in memory care (she no longer knows who I am).

Love that song.

The hardest part for guests was understanding that it was still just a a toilet, all those buttons and funny pictures made you think you had to flush it some other way than the normal way.

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That man is such an ass.

@Mik said in Post time is 6:57. Get yer picks in.:

Every horse in the race is a descendant of Secretariat.

I have one too (along with a million other OTTB owners, lol)!
His name is Ruler. He raced 7 times, won three, came in third once. He’s 16 this year, I’ve owned him for almost 5 years. I found a photo of him online, with a photographers mark on it, contacted them and bought some racing photos of him winning as a 2 year old (I may have shared these already):

Here he is in Montana

And last June, first time up on him since the year before, about 5 months after my back got bad. All I did on him last year was walk, my back couldn’t handle more. (Still can’t, really )

And thanks for the kind words, all. ️

Lol, 89! My mom had/has (she’s in memory care, her husband still in the house) one of those Japanese toilet seats that does the bidet thing, plus has an air dryer, along with a heated seat. It’s a pretty good substitute for an actual bidet. It freaks you out a little when you first sit down as it’s unexpectedly warm.

Omg, those hotel coffins! No way.

@89th said in Third MRI, this time on my neck:

Very, very stupid question. But can you just close your eyes (maybe even have foam earplugs in) and try to forget what's happening? Fears are real things. My dad can't drive over a decent sized bridge. One time he made me, when I was 15 and only had a freakin' permit, drive across the bridge that connects mainland north carolina to the outer banks.

Anyway, here's to a speedy diagnosis and treatment!

That is the only way I managed. They put earphones on me, they played 70’s easy listening music (which is drowned out by the massive noises of the machine) and i closed my eyes as they rolled me inside. As long as I didn’t open my eyes I was fine. The drugs helped a LOT.

Cause you know, you can’t just have one thing wrong with your back at a time, it all has to go to hell at once. I’ve had sharp pain in and around my shoulder blade since December, and it radiates down the back of my arm into my elbow when it gets really bad. I’m terribly claustrophobic, you can go into the tube feet first for the lumbar spine, which i managed twice - last year - slight panic attack with no meds for the first one , then lorazepam for the second one, and that took the edge off. This one today I had to go in head first, and I’ve been worried about if for weeks. But they gave me a double dose of lorazepam and that did the trick. Made me loopy enough to not care. I have to have another, on my thoracic vertebrae - not sure why - so I have to do this again in a few weeks. At least I know now that i can handle it. Just hope they can figure out whats going on and that it might be fixible… my lower back is not fixible without fusion and I’m just not ready to go that route yet.

Me either.

@89th said in Solfeggio on steroids:

Pfft I could do that.

Hold the camera, that is.

For some people a label can be a crutch, for others knowing/having a label (and help) for why they feel /act different than a lot of their peers can be immensely helpful.

Did you see the video of the helicopter falling? Awful.

@jon-nyc said in More cosplay from Noem:

He noticed the gun pointed at his face and backs up a bit.

No kidding.

But fitness matters, too, lol.

That was supposed to say finesse, not fitness.

Truly curious - Is pool something where having male hormones that would somehow give you an advantage? Or being taller than average? Thinking about the equestrian sports where men and women compete together. Where fitness is way more important than strength or size.