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austingirl

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  1. I hope she feels better soon. I will be hitting y'all up for long-term surgical recovery tips here shortly.
  2. Lol I was going to say he bats for the other team.
  3. This may be the craziest thing I've ever posted but hear me out: Maybe her looks aren't the only thing he's interested in.
  4. This sweet boy, Rocket, had x-rays today. The vet said he has "the worst case of hip dysplasia" she's ever seen. On one side, the ball of his femur is only barely in the hip socket, and on the other, the hip socket isn't formed like it should be. Or something along those lines. He just turned one at the end of November and this is about the age they usually diagnose it. We knew it was a possibility but I was not expecting it to be this bad. The better news is that he can live a pretty normal life if he has major hip surgery. We are consulting with a vet orthopedic surgeon next week to figure it out. And besides walking janky and being slow to stand up, he's acting normal. She said they get used to the pain since it's normal to them, which I guess is a good thing but is still sad. He does have pain meds now. Cross your fingers that our pet insurance helps with the cost. The policy doesn't specifically exclude hip dysplasia and doesn't have a waiting period, but I'm worried they'll find some loophole to get out of it. Either way we'll do surgery if that's what the doc recommends. I've spent money on much less worthy causes. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  5. My favorite part is how Buckingham Palace had no idea. I'm pretty sure "the Palace is understood to be disappointed" is the British way of saying "The Queen is going to put out a hit on Meghan and then shit on her grave." I don't follow the royals closely but even at a glance it's obvious that the British press has been brutal to her, and it's gotten even worse since this announcement. Who can blame them for wanting to back out of the limelight? And it's not like they are giving up their titles or anything. They're still going to do stuff for the queen; just not as much. Everyone across the pond needs to take it down a notch.
  6. I know this is beside the point but I really hate that news outlets distribute stuff that's unconfirmed. Especially in situations like this. And I understand why they feel they have to (sometimes) but it just muddies everything up. Anyway. I'm going to go read the dog thread now and try not to think about all this.
  7. KXAN may not always put the unit in their charts but they specify it in their writeups. This is from today.
  8. Well, misery loves company, so we can all suffer together.
  9. Yep, that's the one.
  10. Baby Vicks is good stuff. Also, check out the Nosefrida for clearing his nose. It's far better than the bulb suction thing. For adults, if y'all haven't used the Puffs tissues that have Vicks in them, definitely get some. They are a godsend.
  11. This dog has such huge paws. This is his paw in my hand. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  12. KXAN home page today. FML.
  13. One of my college roommates was from Clarksville. She grew up dirt poor with a really crappy home life (which, from what she said, was par for the course for almost everyone there) but ended up with a scholarship to UT and eventually got a PhD. Works in DC in some non-partisan transportation planning capacity now. Anywho, when she graduated with her bachelor's degree, her mom and two brothers, who still lived in Clarksville, stayed with us for a few days. We lost touch for a while and then a couple of years later she called me out of the blue with a crazy story. One of her brothers disappeared and her mom reported it to the police. Turns out that the two brothers who had stayed with us had gotten into a fight several days earlier and one stabbed the other to death. The killer's girlfriend helped him bury the body under their mom's trailer, where the murder happened. They left town, but I guess guilt finally got the best of him because he turned himself in and plead guilty and will spend the rest of his life in prison in Huntsville. /csb
  14. Disclaimer: I haven't read all 15 pages. I live in Austin proper now but grew up in southeast TX and have no desire to go back or move out of the city. I was born in Port Arthur and moved to Groves in 6th grade. I think PA is ~60k people and Groves is ~15k, so neither is super tiny in population, but SETX is so insular, culturally, that it feels much smaller than it is. Families have been there for generations and many people are happy to just keep the cycle going. It's rare for people to leave permanently, if they leave at all. There are good things about it, for sure, but I couldn't wait to get out of town. I never felt like I REALLY fit in there. 18 years was long enough.
  15. Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
  16. This weekend has been the worst so far because of Satan's pollen. I'm sneezing every 5 minutes. Sparkling water helps "scratch" my itchy throat. Also, beer.
  17. Actually I just checked and I'm 99% we're talking about the same person.
  18. Do they have two female pastors right now? One of my good friends is one and was recently fully ordained (or whatever the term is). We met many years ago when we both worked at a large tech company in Austin. She is indeed amazing. I'm not religious but if I had to go to church I'd go to hers.
  19. Yes, any lines involving that character are great. Also him going off about donut holes. I liked it far more than I thought I would. Daniel Craig with his ridiculous accent should've annoyed the shit out of me, as should the rest of the over-the-topness of the movie itself, but somehow it worked. Everyone just looked like they were having a ton of fun playing against type. Chris Evans plays a douchebag, Toni Collette is a Gwyneth Paltrow/GOOP type, the normally-terrifying Michael Shannon is a shrinking violet limping around with a cane, and so on. My 11-yo and I both really enjoyed it.
  20. She's also Annie Wilkes' mom in Season 2 of Castle Rock but I think there are only a couple of us here that watch it. I'm pretty torn on whether or not I want to see this. I'm sure the acting is great, and I'm usually up for a story about women talking down misogynistic assholes. That said, I'm having a hard time separating the truly heroic work Kelly, Carlson, and the others did to bring all the sexual harassment stuff to light from the bullshit they peddled on air. Much of which promoted opinions and policies that can foster environments where sexual harassment thrives.
  21. That was me and the beach ball is the best one! So glad he likes it! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  22. This is from a few years ago but it still cracks me up. This is my parents' dog Lucy. She was not feeling festive, despite the outfit. Happy holidays, y'all! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  23. If she had PPD after the first kid it likely reared back up pretty quickly after the second one. That's what happened to me.
  24. I will be very surprised if they are just missing. I'm also trying not to entertain the possibility that she harmed herself and the baby as a result of post-partum mental illness. More likely that her husband or someone she knows did it, but either way this is not going to have a happy ending.
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