Random Thread ~Usagi-Chan ☮ Tūsurī~

[Zunu]

Ho Ho Ho Ploppers!

[TotallyUncool]

Ho Ho Ho Ploppers!

There's something about that that sounds just a bit... ploppy.
Always remember to flush after plopping.

[Zunu]

If I recall correctly, jpoop.com was taken at the time.

Always remember to flush after plopping.

--San(i)ta(ry) Claus

[Moh]

Merry Christmas, y'all. I won't be doing my "celebration" for a while, but I hope everyone has a great day.

(I've been dealing with a stomach bug since Saturday...)

[Moh]

I was in the hospital for two nights (12/27 and 12/28). I got discharged on Saturday morning, which just so happened to be my mom's birthday.

Started in the ER. They did lab work and stuff, sent me for a CT scan which showed some "thickening" at one part of my appendix. They admitted me overnight so they could do another CT scan (after drinking some dye) and do more tests.
Surgeon looked at the second CT and said my appendix is fine, there's no infection! Ended up spending another night while they did more labs and tested stool samples for bacteria/parasites.
Aside from being chronically anemic and having slightly low potassium, my labs came back fine. I also tested negative for anything bacterial, and they found no parasites.

Still don't know why my stomach has been giving me problems, but they think it was a perfect storm of having a viral bug, a UC flare, and added inflammation from my cycle.

I am doing better since I got home. Stomach is still a little iffy, but not like it was last week.

At least I got this checked out before the first of the year. Wouldn't have liked that bill.

[TotallyUncool]

I'm glad you're feeling better - and that they didn't find anything serious!

Happy feeling-better New Year!

Amd I hope everybody's having a good time this New Year'S Eve and New Year's Day!

[Amped]

Happy Year 2019. Have a safe one this year.

[Zunu]

ハッピーニューイェアー。′１９

[TotallyUncool]

I went to the more-or-less traditional Japanese-style New Year's Day celebration in Little Tokyo with the Japanese language meetup group - it draws a good crowd, but it is so low-key and relaxing compared to the Rose Parade. It includes the sake barrel opening (I watched while everybody else drank, and that's quite good enough for me), taiko drumming, dancing, speeches, mochi-pounding, and lots and lots of food vendors.

We ate at a ramen shop on 1st Street (kind of a tradition for the meetup group), and as I walked through the crowd afterward, I found myself sliding into the kind of leftover-adolescent philosophical/emo/poetic state of mind that I've always been inclined toward. Which seems about right for New Year's Day, and much, much, much better than the near-apocalypse, out-of-the-body first-day-of-the-year hangovers that I usually had when I actually was in my late teens and early 20s.

So - a good, semi-low-key New Year's event, with no air horns.

[Starra]

I've gotten into writing fanfics lately and it's further confirmed my belief that the English language is complete and utter bullshit.