A Miscellany
Feb. 9th, 2012 08:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lunabee341. I really want to participate in the Month of Meta I posted about last time I posted. Whenever that was. :) I was wondering, is there anything you guys would like to see me post about? The comm is going to do an inspiration/prompt post, which I'm looking forward to, but you guys know me and what I tend to write and think about, and I wondered if you had any suggestions.
2. I am digging my MP3 player liek whoa. I walked several miles today while rocking out to Stone Temple Pilots. "Art School Girlfriend" is kinda the best song ever.
3. One of my students wrote a post about her favorite story Twilight in which Bella is in love with a vampire named Edwin. Total spittake! LOL
4. Who else is besotted with New Girl? Who wants to dissect it with me?
5. Is there some kind of magic cure for snoring besides killing your partner that I've been missing? Please to be preventing the homicide, dear flist.
6. I made an awesome soup tonight. In my sexy Dutch oven, I melted 2 tbsp of butter, chopped up a box of baby portabellos and four stalks of celery and put them in with some garlic, liberally splashed in sherry, and let them all soften for a bit. Pureed that up with some chicken stock and added fresh ground nutmeg and some Worcestershire sauce. Happy mouth!
7. Tell me something. :)
2. I am digging my MP3 player liek whoa. I walked several miles today while rocking out to Stone Temple Pilots. "Art School Girlfriend" is kinda the best song ever.
3. One of my students wrote a post about her favorite story Twilight in which Bella is in love with a vampire named Edwin. Total spittake! LOL
4. Who else is besotted with New Girl? Who wants to dissect it with me?
5. Is there some kind of magic cure for snoring besides killing your partner that I've been missing? Please to be preventing the homicide, dear flist.
6. I made an awesome soup tonight. In my sexy Dutch oven, I melted 2 tbsp of butter, chopped up a box of baby portabellos and four stalks of celery and put them in with some garlic, liberally splashed in sherry, and let them all soften for a bit. Pureed that up with some chicken stock and added fresh ground nutmeg and some Worcestershire sauce. Happy mouth!
7. Tell me something. :)
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Date: 2012-02-10 02:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-10 02:54 am (UTC)*so frustrated!*
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Date: 2012-02-10 03:25 am (UTC)So a CPAP is a small machine - you can buy one that is teeny, for travel - and a hose and a mask. The mask goes over the person's face and forms a seal, and the machine basically blows air constantly through the mask, which prevents the wearer's airway from collapsing or narrowing or whatever it is that it is doing, and the snoring goes away.
To get one, you (or, okay, in this case your husband) need to go to a doctor and say, "I snore, and I think I might have sleep apnea. My wife has noticed periods when I seem to stop breathing." (You probably have. Those pauses in snoring? But even if you haven't, have him say it anyway, as this is what the doctor needs to hear.) What happens then depends on your insurance, but eventually someone will prescribe a sleep study. During the sleep study they will monitor for snoring and apnea episodes and other sleep disturbances, and if your husband snores they will try him on a CPAP and figure out what setting he needs.
Then a DME company will come out and fit him with a mask and set up a CPAP for him. (Probably. Again, depends on your insurance.) Then he HAS TO SLEEP WITH IT. (It's weird at first, but BB was used to it within a week. But sleeping sometimes with it and sometimes without is really not a good idea at all.) And the snoring goes away, the end!
(Also, let me just note - it is a good idea for reasons other than your sanity to fix sleep apnea. It is not actually good for the person who has it.)
If you do not want to go through all this, although I seriously, strongly recommend that you do - there is possibly a shortcut. Some internet stores that sell CPAP accessories and CPAPs require a prescription. But some do not. BB bought a smaller CPAP for travel and didn't have to send the store a scrip. So. If you want to just try a CPAP, and you or your husband are realy really really opposed to the sleep study route (or your insurance will not cover it), you can try that. It is NOT RECOMMENDED, I just need to repeat. You will not know what settings to use. You won't know what else is going on. But - you could. It's better than homicide, that's for sure.
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Date: 2012-02-11 07:15 pm (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2012-02-11 08:39 pm (UTC)I love that this show is so good for all kinds of pairings. On the het side, I would be thrilled if Nick and Jess got together or Schmidt and Jess or CeCe and Schmidt or Schmidt and his boss or Jess reunites with Justin Long OMG Yay. On the boyslash side, any permutation of Nick/Schmidt/Winston in twos or threes makes me happified. For femslash, *love* Jess/CeCe, Jess/Julia. Love it love it love it.
I think the show wants me to ship Nick/Jess and I do so it's all good, but I definitely see the most sexual tension that seems deliberate on show's part with that pairing.
What do you think?
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Date: 2012-02-11 06:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-11 08:42 pm (UTC)I commented upthread about my thoughts about pairings if you're interested in that.
I like that the show is about very low-key things that actually happen to real people. I like that Jess is a teacher and Nick tends bar and Schmidt has the high power corporate job (or at least he's trying to claw up that ladder) and Winston is just flailing. I know people doing all these things! LOL This show is like the Friends I actually know. Nobody's living in a rent-controlled fab apartment or working for Ralph Lauren or acting on DOOL. While plenty of people do all those things, I am not hanging out with them. LOL You know what I mean?
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Date: 2012-02-11 08:45 pm (UTC)I love everything you said and I agree entirely. I love that the stories are about their emotional lives, NOT about work (though Schmidt's work scenes are great), and I can't think of another sitcom that has had so much character development in just 12 episodes.
ALSO, it totally hits that 'people being kind to each other' button that you and I share.
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Date: 2012-02-11 08:54 pm (UTC)I like that it's not really focused on their jobs either. I mean half the time, they don't even leave the apt. All the action takes place there mostly.
I like that we haven't had any Very Special Episodes or anything because even a show like Friends which I adore would do that now and again.
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Date: 2012-02-11 08:57 pm (UTC)The show has a much firmer idea of what kind of humor it wants to do than Friends did early on (like, I don't think there will ever be a Marcel the monkey equivalent). And the warmth of friendship is just as believable. <333
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Date: 2012-02-11 09:47 pm (UTC)I had forgotten Marcel the monkey. *full body shudder* That was a deep badness. LOL
I like that all the characters in the show are shown being vulnerable and that that vulnerability is not exploited by the core characters.
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Date: 2012-02-13 01:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-13 03:04 am (UTC)THESE ARE SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am seriously grinning like a fool. You don't do things by haves, do you, my dear?
*loves every single one*