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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2011 18:57:40 GMT
I thought you had lost your passport. ;D
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 27, 2011 18:59:39 GMT
That would make me crazy! Have you tried tea bags? Some people use chamomile, some just regular tea. Hot (not too hot, obviously) tea bag used as a compress. I can't vouch for this as, knock wood, I don't get styes.
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Post by Jazz on Sept 27, 2011 19:44:43 GMT
That would make me crazy! Have you tried tea bags? Some people use chamomile, some just regular tea. Hot (not too hot, obviously) tea bag used as a compress. I can't vouch for this as, knock wood, I don't get styes. It IS making me crazy! Never in my life have I had 'Styes in the Eyes'....6 weeks now! I've been applying hot compresses 1-3 times a day and throwing in eye drops. Ugh. The hugest one is now smaller, but still have little wee ugly ones. Hate them. Maybe I should try the teabags. For a long time I've been reading about the excellent Paris Pharmacists, (?)...(at the green cross sign) and I will go there immediately. hideous.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2011 20:02:14 GMT
I got sties when I was little, but I don't think I have had one since I was about 8 years old. Therefore, I can't even imagine what it is like to get one as an adult.
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Post by Jazz on Sept 27, 2011 20:21:02 GMT
I got sties when I was little, but I don't think I have had one since I was about 8 years old. Therefore, I can't even imagine what it is like to get one as an adult. These are my first sties ever in my life! I hate them. You, K2, as a male, cannot possibly understand. I am a plain to 'attractive' woman, and, when all is well, 'more attractive'. With this, I am consigned to plain, verging on 'ugh'.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 27, 2011 20:21:37 GMT
I had a stye a few weeks ago...get them very occasionally although I don't know why. Golden Eye Ointment cured mine after a day or two. Before I went whining to the pharmacist I used the hot compresses too...mainly to ease the itching and stinging. It felt like I had soap in my eyes all the time so you have my sympathy Jazz....hope they clear up soon.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2011 20:24:10 GMT
Jazz: Sunglasses!
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Post by lagatta on Sept 28, 2011 0:34:04 GMT
bixa: obviously I meant steak leather.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 28, 2011 1:42:51 GMT
I shoulda used a winky, huh? ;D
I knew that, LaGatta, but the urge to run the stick against fence rails is sometimes to strong to resist.
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Post by Jazz on Sept 29, 2011 18:43:21 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 29, 2011 19:01:13 GMT
The one with Audrey Hepburn? It's attractive! This one makes me want to hide my eyes in horror.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Oct 17, 2011 16:15:13 GMT
I had a petty trauma yesterday. In the garden taking out the summer bedding ready to plant my autumn/winter stuff....I went into the GH to fetch my gardening gloves because there were rather a lot of snails in the old stuff...put the gloves on and BANG there were two wasps in the left glove...must have crawled in there to hibernate...so I was stung twice on my thumb! OW....My hand was really swollen yesterday but is starting to go down now....luckily I had the foresight to take my wedding ring off else I'd've been in trouble!
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 17, 2011 16:27:48 GMT
Geeez-eek! That had to have hurt.
I got stung by something years ago. As I was weeding where there were some roses, I thought maybe it was a thorn, & kept going. When the throbbing got too bad, I finally looked. Yep, I'd been stung by something, it was badly swollen, & on the only finger with a ring.
But two wasp stings? Yow.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2011 17:48:54 GMT
I haven't been stung in years (maybe 40 years!) but it is awful.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Oct 17, 2011 18:27:59 GMT
I was last stung in 1979....so it's been a while... ;D
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Post by tod2 on Oct 18, 2011 14:56:46 GMT
I have luckily never been stung by a wasp - a bee yes and that was bad enough! My sympathies Cheery love
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2011 17:55:25 GMT
I have the advantage of having no fear of bees, wasps, hornets... When they fly around me, I just let them get about their business. But so many people start swatting or writhing -- it often gets them in trouble.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Oct 18, 2011 19:26:28 GMT
I get along with most things in my garden...and enjoy crawling about in the flower beds watching and photographing the insects....not had any problems with bees, wasps or the odd hornet before. I think it was the fact that I scared them half to death when I put my hand into the glove they were dozing in.... they survived intact ( altho I don't know how much psychological damage was inflicted on their little waspy-minds) but had to go and find somewhere else to sleep for the winter... ;D
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2012 14:46:17 GMT
I was on the verge of reserving some train tickets for July, but suddenly life seemed too uncertain so far this year, so I preferred to refrain. And yet the tickets are refundable with a 12€ fee if I were to buy them and then change my mind. And now I feel even more disturbed by not even wanting to risk 12€ even though I might pay 50€ more for the tickets when I make up my mind once and for all.
Now I am trying to figure out if I just convinced myself to buy them anyway.
No, I don't think so.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 12, 2012 15:36:15 GMT
You need to really turn that into a trauma by continuing to obsess about it to the point it wakes you up at night. I can give you pointers on this kind of auto-crazy-making, if you wish.
I had an annoying trauma yesterday, a direct outgrowth of a continuous peeve. Most house doors here are metal and almost without exception have no doorknobs. If they close, you can only open them from the inside without a key. If you're outside without the key, you're royally uck-fayed. I've tried repeatedly to buy something to retrofit them. The universal song sung about this particular piece of stupidity is that it's for security. Yeah, you can imagine how pleased I am that my possessions are in no danger of my stealing them.
Even though I usually put the key outside the moment I get up in the morning, I failed to do that yesterday. Trying to feed the dogs & keep the two rescue mutts from going in & peeing, I reached over & closed the door. The horror of what I'd just done reached my brain just as the latch caught.
My kind neighbor came over and sawed the cylinder off so he could wiggle a wire in & open the door. At the moment there is no way to lock the door until I go get yet another p-of-s seven dollar lock.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2012 17:46:15 GMT
Maybe all of these doors are being installed backwards....?
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Post by onlymark on Mar 12, 2012 20:22:45 GMT
Are they like a Yale lock then but without the key hole on the outside?
Photos, if you've got nothing else to do?
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 13, 2012 1:03:04 GMT
Don't worry, Mark, I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to go on & on & on about this. I went to five (5) stores today, & finally wound up buying the same garbage I'm replacing. The tiny consolation is that they were on sale. Of course I couldn't resist whining to one of the salesmen, who told me (true quote): " But if there's a doorknob on the outside, anyone could enter!" I countered with, "Right, including me! But if there's no knob & the door slams with the key on the inside, I can't get in." So he, full of logic, triumphantly tells me, "Not if you leave the key on the outside lock!" I just stared at him, hoping his self-contradiction would penetrate, but no.
They have a key hole both inside and out, but no way to open the door without a key from the outside. I'll post a pic.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 14, 2012 1:16:54 GMT
Dear Mark, Having terrible time. Wish you were here. Sincerely, Bixa p.s. took some pics. nothing to attach cylinder to. HATE when I can't do something simple for myself. neighbor will come when he's not working.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 14, 2012 7:19:28 GMT
Ha! My neighbor came over & said that the door was pretty much screwed up when it was prepared for whatever was its first lock & that the one I have can't be installed without a lot of retrofitting. It wasn't me! It wasn't my fault! Hoo hoo ha ha
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Post by Don Cuevas on Apr 18, 2012 9:51:25 GMT
About 45 minutes ago, I was seated at this computer. I looked up, and saw a centipede, at least 9 inches long, crawling along the wall not more than a foot and a half from me. AAAARGHGHH!!!!! I took off my slipper and knocked it into a plastic accessory tray on my desk. Then I had to remove the innocuous contents of the tray while trying to avoid the nasty, hissing centipede. Finally, I dumped the horror onto the tiled floor, and with my other, still slipper-shod food, stepped on it repeatedly. Considerable force had to be applied to finish it off. Then I was left with squishy remnants to wipe up. That's the third centipede I've seen in the house in the last 12 or so days. (The previous one was a baby. I dispatched that one easily, without remorse.)[/spoiler] (Sorry; the Spoiler thing didn't work.)
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Post by onlymark on Apr 18, 2012 10:08:15 GMT
What goes ninety nine..... bump, ninety nine....... bump?
A centipede with a wooden leg. (With thanks to my daughters for that)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2012 10:09:20 GMT
Poor little thing. It never had a chance. I bet that you were the one hissing, not your victim.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Apr 18, 2012 13:10:25 GMT
If only I'd kept my cool, I could have gotten a nice photo of it, contrasted against the white wall.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2012 14:05:29 GMT
Especially since there is a special photo thread for that. Anyport's loss!
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