Parenthetically speaking

[cleolinda]

So my stepfather's family is having a 75th family reunion or something, I don't even know--they are very big on the reunions--and we're now hosting a dinner (more of a grill-out, really) the first week of August as part of the festivities. Originally about ten or twelve people were going to come, but now we're looking at thirty-one, and my mother

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[soleta_nf]

Good luck with the party preparations. That is ... intense.

[cleolinda]

Yeah, pretty much. Most of the major replacing (carpet, counter, stovetop) will be this week, so my mother's running around in circles at the moment.

[mamapduck]

When we bought this house in October it had a sprinkler system. It still has most of one, but the wires connecting the control box to the system at large are gone. (The dog chewed it up.) Family room carpet, bathroom door, several dozen rolls of toilet paper... I totally understand the cheerful path of destruction they amble down.

[deza]

I'm trying to replace the hallway carpet before my knee surgery thanks to my pup.

[cleolinda]

Yeah... and ours are fifty pounds each now. The problem is that they're too strong to take outside on a leash except one at a time (in case a cat or a neighbor or a car comes by). I mean, if there's only one person to do it. So while one's outside, the other one's inside going WHY DID YOU TAKE HIM AND NOT MEEEEEE? *CLAW CLAW CLAW*

[mamapduck]

Our Lily is a 50 pound American pitt/labrador mix (sweet, destructive and dumb as a post) and I'm 5'2". I could not possibly manage walking two of her. The dog run has saved us because there are times we just can't have her leaping all over the house.

[sunbrae]

Maybe I'll just cut a bit of the end off (it's a diamond-shaped pill) and call it a day.

My Lamictal is shaped like a shield with a scored line down the middle, which makes breaking it in half very easy. Does Lamictal come in 50 mg so you can break them in half? I don't know, because I take 400 mg daily, so I just pop two 200s. I hate the wonkiness that comes when you adjust your meds. I feel so off-kilter and hyper-emotional. However, and I realize this is crazy talk, I sometimes think dropping the meds for a day or two so I can bring about a manic phase (and, therefore, have the energy and motivation to accomplish some projects) is a good idea. I haven't actually done it, but it's convenient when the mania comes, because you have so much energy. Anyway. I hope things even out, because the hypomanic shifts really suck.

[deza]

My mother has a tendency to downplay the pain I'm in from my arthritis. Yesterday I let her see what happens when I don't take the narcotics. That should buy me about two weeks before she starts in with the "all in your head" nonsense again.

Jasmine and hobby lobby

[amaya_kumiko]

I heard on NPR one day that if you want to trim something down a lot, you need to trim it a little bit every week. Otherwise the plant thinks that it has been ravaged by animals and needs to replace what has been eaten. I think he said like 3 inches a week for a a couple months. So tell step-papa to try that. I know you don't want anything done to it, but the small trimming might calm it down.

Hobby lobby is the devil in craft's pajamas... or something like that. I always need to force myself to leave before i come out with 80 needlepoint kits that i won't ever finish, 30 paint by numbers, and the beginnings of a train set.

[evilsimon]

What I do for 175 mg is one 150 mg and one 25 mg. Unfortunately, that way leads to two copays.

Edit: Of Lamictal, I mean.

[cleolinda]

Heh. "Take two jasmine and call me in the morning."