Whenever future children hit the band aid stage, you'll have to buy some to laugh at. I've instated a limit (ish) on how many she can open at once. Her bike was decorated too.
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Whenever future children hit the band aid stage, you'll have to buy some to laugh at. I've instated a limit (ish) on how many she can open at once. Her bike was decorated too.
One co-worker got to take a picture of the strong rain/winds that were there. I was asking why they weren't moving somewhere safer. Yikes!
No, but I've made a mental note to watch it. I did watch the director's cut of Alien yesterday. What a fantastic movie that is. Often imitated, never duplicated.
Could never understand how women could run in high heels. An unmatched talent, to be sure.
When I was a kid, my Dad paid 25 cents for a bottle of soda, and we watched a black bear guzzle it at a deer park. They also had the old nut vending machines everywhere, filled with field corn. You'd put a dime in and get a handful of corn to feed the deer. I asked Dad for a dime, and as I headed toward the machine the deer started walking with me. They were butting me and sticking their noses up in the place where the corn comes out. Hilarious.
Got ticket number 69 at BK for lunch today. Nice.
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I got a piece of bacon stuck in my lower/permanent retainer one Sunday morning. Was trying to free it all through Sunday school and the sermon. The church had a potluck picnic planned after the service, so I asked my mom if I could drive the two miles home to brush/floss the bacon out. Luckily she let me. Sweet relief after I freed it from the clutches of the dang wire.
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I got a piece of bacon stuck in my lower/permanent retainer one Sunday morning. Was trying to free it all through Sunday school and the sermon. The church had a potluck picnic planned after the service, so I asked my mom if I could drive the two miles home to brush/floss the bacon out. Luckily she let me. Sweet relief after I freed it from the clutches of the dang wire.
Hard to pick up guys at church with bacon sticking out of your teeth.
I have an implant in my lower jaw (molar). Implants don't fit up next to the gum like crowns do. I have learned to carry a little vial of toothpicks in my purse for that very reason.
About 10 years ago they ran the Directors Cut in the theaters as part of the 30th anniversary. I had never seen it in the theater so I definitely went to see that.
When we were kids we went to the Catskill Game Farm. You could buy food for the deer there as well. The deer knew it and you would stand there with about 10 deer around you nuzzling you to get you to feed them.
Isn't it funny how it seems all kids go through that band aid phase?
When I was a kid we were pretty poor so you had better be gushing if you were going to go in and ask Mom for a band-aid.
Never had it. We had hot water, a wash cloth and a mother overzealously scrubbing your scrape, cut or puncture AKA it may sting and be bleeding but you ain't seen nothing yet.
My mom was a firm believer in a wound cleaning itself out by bleeding any foreign particles out. It was often better to just stay outside and keep playing rather than getting a minor injury tended.
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For me it was always merthiolate. I hated that stuff. And instead of using something like neosporin my parents used black salve.
I've never heard of Black Salve but the name of it conjures up horrible images within my imagination. The Wiki definition doesn't exactly help ease the horribleness of those images.
Black salve, also known by the brand name Cansema, is a dangerous and controversial alternative cancer treatment. The product is commonly classified as an escharotic—a topical paste which burns and destroys skin tissue and leaves behind a thick, black scar called an eschar.
And googling merthiolate I see that it contains mercury. Reading a little further, I see that it is also known as Chlorhexidine. Great. I had to use that when I had a staph infection. Well, I guess it got rid of the staph infection but now all I need to worry about is the fact that mercury exposure can harm the brain, heart, kidneys, lungs, and immune system of people of all ages. Are any of those things all that important?
We never had any of that disinfectant stuff. Rinse it off and put on a bandaid if the bleeding didn't stop after about a half hour.
Mercurochrome was basically a mixture of mercury and iodine. Didn't really sting though.
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