Yeah - the blog owner happened to start drinking at 2 in the afternoon, and by the time gametime rolled around, was too stinkin' drunk to put one up. Oops.
What a coinky dink, TG. I went drinking with the coworkers (non fans) after work, even left at 9:30 so I could watch the game and I did get home. But...I somehow missed the game. And a couple hours of my life.
LOL Texy...I hope your head wasn't screaming at you this morning. Ian's right. the game sucked. I ended up half-listening while doing other things on line...and forgot to go to bed until 5:00 a.m. So I'm not at my best, but it's nice to be here!
Just got on Gameday and saw the lineup. Well, I suppose dear Manuel could use a night off. S'okay. Maybe he'll get his spark back with a little bit of rest.
I've had wicked allergies the past, oh, month or so, and they're finally letting up, so I think I'm feeling a lot better than a lot of other people on here... plus the 12 hours of sleep didn't hurt either.
Tex, I prefer to think of it as a mutually catalytic effect. I'm just so disappointed in myself that after we had just reviewed, I still need to work on remembering "liquor then beer, liquor then beer."
Thank you. I'm much better now. Just been sleeping off the effects of the Extra Strength Vicodins. Forgot how much they make you feel like you've been drinking.
Ian, not being "up there" and not as familiar with the media personalities, I had to Google Amalie. I see what you mean. She's what one of my college guy pals used to call a "very cute person."
Liza, I can relate. I think it's been a bad allergy season for a lot of folks.
Thank you, jenny, for helping me keep the Becketty-Boo nickname alive. I swear that if and when I ever meet Josh, I will call him Becketty-Boo to his face. And then I'll be killed, but it will have been worth it.
Ian, just yesterday I noticed that one of my psych meds makes me feel like I used to feel back in the day a few hours after inhaling. Pleasantly foggy and not bad at all. I'm glad you're feeling better. I have a few Vicodin left over from some surgery I had last year, but I can't stand the way they make me feel...way too woozy for my taste. So I don't take them unless I'm in excruciating pain.
Liza, I suffer from allergies that my allergist describes as 10 out of 10 in severity. I'm on several meds for that as well as asthma, and this spring I've added Mucinex (Robitussin in pill form) over the counter, and my allergist just put me on an antihistamine nasal spray because I was too miserable to wait out the tree pollen season.
hey everyone....i missed last nights game, though i obviously didn't miss much...I too Tex was enjoying a variety of beverages, and I have spect most of the day on my couch....Yay for Beckett night though =)
The game last night did indeed SUCK. It was fun being there, tho. It was breezy and chilly. There were a lot of Sox fans there, but not as many as when we went last month (or maybe there were more As fans than last time).
Wake wasn't too hot and Harden was throwing heat, for the first few innings. We just screamed when Jacoby got out at 2nd.
I'm not much of a beer drinker, but my when my beloved went out for dogs and beer, he came back with a Coors Light. ugh--that was crap.
I also learned that it's really easy to embarrass a 12-year old daughter by screaming and yelling until you can't talk. That was fun!
Texy, I for one would pay money to see that. Becketty-Boo. Hysterical.
I've got to run and make dinner--broiled salmon in maple and honey sauce. yummmmmm
I am disappointed in all of us who got wasted last night, thus ensuring we would not be able to get our drink on the rest of the weekend. Today is one of those days where even the thought of drinking a sip of alcohol makes me nauseous.
jules: I have always enjoyed going to ballgames in Oakland - even if the neighborhood is shitty, the park is fun.
Liza, loratadine 24-hour has been another thing I've been taking lately as part of my battle. I stopped when I began the antihistamine spray, though. I don't want to make myself sleepy by using two antihistamines at once.
I'll have to take y'alls word for it about the hotness factor of Crosby and Hannahan, given how awful roster photos tend to be. Crosby looks decent in his.
All you hung-over people -- I feel badly for you. I can't really indulge anymore because of all my meds (maybe one drink every few months), but I've been there and done that more than a few times back in the day.
Texy, I'd give Crosby the edge, then Hannahan. Duchscherer doesn't do anything for me at all. Then again, I really and truly prefer the swarthy look if I'm in the mood to squee (thus my fascination with Latin-American players).
I'm going to Pawtucket on Monday. I'm totally psyched--Justin's pitching, Jed'll probably return after jamming his wrist last week, and Sunbeam will be there!
Awww, Meghan. If you start typing gobbledygook we'll know what happened. My prescription? Back stretches and a hot pack go a long way towards easing a fucked-up back!
ecl- I've tried all that...I got a cortisone injection for it this week that didn't take and seemed to make it worse for some reason. Back stuff just sucks:-(
I will tell you from experience don't even bother with cortisone injections in the back. muscle relaxers are ok as well but stretching and heat packs are the best.
I do about an 45 to 60 mins of stretches when i wake up every morning. I have no choice in the matter. If I don't, I'm useless all day. And then after that, a hot shower.
Also when i'm laying down like now, I do ab exercises and other little things to help.
Ecl- yep low back. It's a disc thing, which I can deal with by itself, but the muscles around it just tense up sometimes and that's when it gets really bad. I just started going to a new doc and they said I had to try cortisone again before attempting anything else. No fun!
And I've got some percocet but I'm not going to take it now...beer and a muscle relaxer would not be a good mix with it haha.
(catching the long toss from Concord to AVL). Thanks Bethie!
Ian, what's odd is that I have ALWAYS been off kilter that way. My voice professor used to bitch at me about it in college. But I've never been diagnosed with scoliosis, and I never had back pain until after my MS diagnosis a few years ago.
I'm not surprised your doctor tried cortisone. I could have told it wouldn't work.
I've had 3 epidural steroid injections, 3 cortisone shots on each side of my back, 2 into the joint where the nerve goes through near the hip.
The most relief I got was about a weeks worth. Almost all didn't help.
The back spasms you suffer from will most definitely be helped with heat and stretching. Some PT with some deep heat ultrasound will make you feel better.
Ian, I start w/Tylenol and hot pack, then stretch for about 1/2 hour, then take a shower. I guess my routine is shorter than yours because my problem isn't MVA related.
Meghan, I think mine is also the worst when the muscles tighten up. I've been through MRI and x-ray (nothing was found) and stymied both a gifted chiropractor and a highly recommended physical therapist. It's pretty vexing.
My routine takes a litttle longer because I do everything 3x. I also do the routine again during the day and a little stretching before bed as well. Plus I'm 6'4 so there's more of me to stretch out. LOL.
For anyone who cares, the Celtics are up 50-32 at half-time.
I had done a round of caudal epidural cortisone shots two years ago, and they didn't help at all. PT did help a bit, I just stopped going when i moved since it wasn't bothering me then. Now it is, and my new doc seems to think everything that didn't work before might work now so I'm just going through it again. Definitely not happy about it though...
Go in and get a hot pack for 15 minutes. then 10 minutes of stim ultrasound. then a 15 minute deep tissue massage. then they'd pop me back in alignment before exercising. my problem besides the bad discs, is that my back doesn't stay in alignment no matter how much work i do daily.
Ecl- I've got a herniated disc that pushes against a bunch of nerves....there is a possibility it's from a car accident I was in, but it didn't start hurting for a few years after it. I was a gymnast and played sweeper in soccer (quite aggressively, I should add:-P) for 10+ years each, so they think that might have contributed to. But no one really knows haha. My first doc said I had the back of a 40 year old (I was 20 at the time) so it's just fucked up.
I have no insurance which is why I do everything on my own. A chiro can't do anything for me. they can put me in alignment sure but unless they can untangle the mess that is the muscles in my back, I just deal with it.
The most problems i have now is when it's humid or wicked cold. Since it won't be wicked cold again until fall (knock on wood after 30 degree nights this week), it'll be the humidity.
Awww, Meghan, that sounds like NOT fun. I concur w/Ian that the soccer and gymnastics have a lot to do with it. Ian, the back of an 80-year-old? That's really unfortunate.
Di: Thanks from this ailing person. Right now it's just my stomach. No drinking here; I think it's just "off," probably because I threw my sleep schedule off very badly last night. I had "sick tummy soup" (i.e., canned chicken noodle) for supper, thinking that it would sit well, but it still doesn't feel right. :-(
Trying this again, for the third time:
PERFECT GAME NO HITTER
PERFECT GAME NO HITTER
PERFECT GAME NO HITTER
PERFECT GAME NO HITTER
PERFECT GAME NO HITTER
We cannot let him have this. NO. Especially not since Oakland robbed Schil of his. I hope we break it out with one out left in the 9th, just like they did.
i love rainstorms at night. It puts me to sleep like a sleeping pill. And oddly enough I can drive better in a rainstorm than in snow but I've heard most ppl say it was harder the other way around
Jenny, I'm heading for the chocolate peanut butter ice cream shortly myself.
Meghan, I like that 499 idea. Very much.
Ian, now I'm thinking of the wonderfully vivid double rainbow that we had here last year after one of those humidity producing storms. I drove the long way home from work so I could find a good vantage point from which to enjoy it. :-)
Jenny, I agree re rain driving. Just have to slow down. Snow makes things way too dicey, especially as I've lost my snow-driving chops after 20 years here.
Di, sound machines with rain sounds ftw! I love the real thing more, but my little noisemaker is a decent substitute during a dry spell.
Di, I guess whatever works, right? I haven't used mine much lately either. I haven't needed it to soothe me to sleep since one of my meds was increased and I conk out pretty quickly at bedtime.
it seems we're going to do this very slowely....last inning first base runner, this inning first hit....does this mean in the next inning we'll get a run...
on May 24, 2008 8:38 PM
Josh!