Liberace Museum!!!
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 11:06 AM on July 22, 2008

Just to let you know that when I quit drinking, I was pretty sick for at least three weeks. Not DT sick but aching and I had a very hard time regulating my body temp and I was just miserable. Oh and the dreams, man the crazy crazy dreams. I drank daily but not a lot every day so yeah, all bodies are different and people respond to drugs/withdrawal differently. Um I'm a female who quit drinking at age 29 if that helps. Also I think they call that the "pink cloud" when people get all... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 12:12 PM on July 19, 2008

This is what my pug actually died from, not the congestive heart failure that I was so concerned about. The vet tried her on some medications that supposedly can help but we never saw an improvement and finally had to put her down as the suffering became overwhelming. I took her to several specialists and no one had any good news about trachea collapse BUT she was 13 and already ill so that may play a role. I hope you find something to help, every time our new pug makes a snorting noise I get... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 1:07 PM on July 11, 2008

It took the vet bumping up the dose for my pug to get any relief but once the dose was correct, it was very fast. Right before she died the vet gave us the wrong dose on a refill (the lasix) and I noticed a difference almost immediately, it's quite a powerful diuretic. I was never very sure what part the enalapril was playing in her treatment, I mean I understand what it's supposed to do but it seemed like it was really the lasix that made the big difference in her quality of life. I'd say if... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 9:36 PM on July 9, 2008

I like going to the tattered cover on Colfax, I think a bus goes there. Bus info I'd take you to the Celestial Seasonings tour, that was one of the more fun things I've done in the year I've lived here. Oh there are also two cupcake shops on Colfax, I love me some cupcakes.
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 6:37 PM on June 26, 2008 marked best answer

sorry, tattered cover
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 6:39 PM on June 26, 2008

Thank you for the link wfrgms, but I guess I'm looking for more personal experiences to add to what I've read. Not to mention two different articles often say opposite things and like I mentioned, I'm not savvy with the car buying. I know no one here in Denver, well a boyfriend and some class-mates but no family no close friends, no car helpers. I've seen REALLY old Hondas in my price range, but I was scared of the age. Not so much a worry then? I can totally drive a stick, my first car was... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 6:24 PM on June 14, 2008

I had a failed root canal pulled about 15 years ago, back molar. No problems at all and none of my other teeth have been affected, certainly no dropping down of the top tooth above it. It was such a huge relief to get it pulled after all the issues, I so do not regret it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 9:12 PM on June 3, 2008

Hmm, what would a "hobnob" biscuit be exactly?
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 5:06 PM on June 2, 2008

I too recently lost my elderly dog. For some reason I was dead set against having her ashes and now I sort of regret it. But I did take her personal things, harness, leash, her blankie and put them in a pretty box that I keep on my dresser. I take out her photos frequently and just, I don't know, think about her. I also opted to get a new rescue dog way earlier than I would have thought but she has turned out to be such a huge comfort. She in no way replaces Reba but instead lets me do... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 11:10 AM on June 1, 2008

Why do I get a message every so often that says "trying combining these moves"? As far as I can tell, you CAN'T combine moves...
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 9:59 AM on May 29, 2008

ikea sells them but they seem sort of thin to me as opposed to wide. bendy though
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 12:14 PM on April 26, 2008

Peanut butter and grape jelly on squishy bread dipped into campells chicken and stars soup. perfect get well soon food.
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 6:15 PM on April 2, 2008

As an aside, I remember this as a movie, did it have the same name? Google says "The Hideaways", no?
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 6:53 AM on April 1, 2008

I've done this a few time (female, alone) and I slept in rest areas BUT I would sleep during the day and drive at night since it felt safer to be sleeping during day light hours for some reason. Also, truck stops were always cool with car sleepers as far as I could tell.
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 4:06 PM on March 27, 2008

My friend has this and started a whole organization, here. Good luck!
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 8:49 AM on March 3, 2008

I have a question Rock Steady, I was holding her when they put the injection in her cath and (maybe unfortunately??) I was staring down into her eyes. I saw them dilate almost immediately and it just really freaked me out. I suspect it's just the side effect of dying but it LOOKED like she got really scared. I keep replaying it in my head and I don't know, I guess I just want some assurance that she wasn't actually scared....
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 3:53 PM on February 27, 2008

Thank you, that's comforting. Sleeping was on her top 5 list of favorite activities, behind eating and conning me into giving her more treats.
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 4:16 PM on February 27, 2008

Thank you everyone, I knew somehow that I'd feel less "silly" for being so upset over my dog here. I really wish that I felt that I 100% ok with the decision but of course, I do not. The Banfield vets kept telling me that we could try different drugs that maybe would help and I should put in the hospital on oxygen and take her to a cardiologist and on and on...All the while my adorable sassy dog was unable to walk, eat or poop and couldn't be held or picked up by me since it made her... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 5:25 PM on February 27, 2008

I just moved to Denver from Portland and honestly, I think Portland is a million times better. Denver is dirty and the weather, while sunny, is a lot more extreme temperature wise. Public transportation here is way worse than Portland both in cost and usability. My neighborhood barely has sidewalks. Groceries cost a lot more plus the sales tax to general costs of living. People in Portland always seem somehow nicer and I didn't think that mattered to me since I'm from Flint, MI but turns... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 3:40 PM on February 27, 2008

Red Robin will give you a free burger but you have to sign up before hand. Baskin Robins and ben and jerry's give out free cones, quiznos has a birthday club and the melting pot will give you a free chocolate fondue but again, you need to sign up for the birthday club.
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 1:32 PM on February 11, 2008

Well now I have dogs and while I'd want to know if they were doing anything harmful to you, i.e. biting or jumping up, I would not care too much about drooling or even crotch sniffing. That's just how dogs are and if you come to my house, you are entering THEIR territory. I cannot explain to them that this one person does not like them and they need to act totally different. Sorry, they get to drool on me so that's just the house rules. I would not be offended, if you as my friend, found this... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 6:11 PM on February 9, 2008

I second the dental school thing, they don't have the same motivation to make money on unneeded procedures plus you are helping to train future dentists.
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 3:03 PM on February 8, 2008

I had LASIK last year. My left eye is really bad still, halo, blurry, can't see to drive very well at all. I had the surgery in another state so thus far I've not been able to get back for a correction. My right eye is great so it seems to compensate but still, I cannot see very well to drive at night. I cry a lot, wear make-up sometimes, have allergies, take a lot of OTC meds for said allergies, sleep with dogs who shed, directly into my eyeballs if they can, and have no issues with smoke... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 9:56 AM on February 8, 2008

heart anatomy


general anatomy

I also used flashcards and and took photos of the body parts that were labeled in lab. I was not allowed to photograph the cadavers though and there are a lot of muscles to learn. Memorizing insertion points helped a lot. Oh and I had a decent color atlas of the human body to help reference to the flashcards.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 8:04 PM on February 6, 2008

Are you in Portland, Or by the way? I know there is a very nice, mentally challenged man who hangs out downtown who does his version of Elvis. I would be horrified if someone supersoaked him! I also know from experience that talking to him, while interesting, is not likely to accomplish anything concrete. So if this is your Elvis, or you have a similar Elvis, I'd really go with some sort of noise reduction technique that you can control ie earphones, noise machine and so on. And if you give... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 3:57 PM on January 31, 2008

I just drove from Portland to Denver last week and it ended up taking me 3 days due to I-80 being closed as well as super scary blowing snowstorms, icy roads, and slow slow trucks over mountain passes pretty much the whole way. I was also driving alone and found that after 12 hours of concentrating on not skidding to my doom, I was exhausted. I hate books on tape but a wide selection of music is good plus I like scanning through the local radio stations, just to see what's going on in a given... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 12:22 PM on January 25, 2008

Little America is a truck stop in Wyoming that advertises itself for hundreds of miles. Totally gets you psyched up for $.25 ice cream cone and then turns out to be a pit of despair. It has it's own highway exit though so that makes me laugh. Of course, I'm extraordinarily easily amused.
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 12:30 PM on January 25, 2008

I get drugs from Mexico and have never had any issues, in fact I even physically go there to get my crazy dental work done.
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 9:50 AM on January 10, 2008

We played a lot of "I never" in high school as well as turning normal games into strip versions (think strip spoons, naked AND injured). I am from Michigan though and there was not much else to do except drink and have sex.
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 11:19 PM on December 25, 2007

Not to be a bummer but this happened on and off to our cat for a few weeks before the vet finally figured out that she had sinus cancer. We used to smoke in the house back when she was a kitten so I assume that's what caused it. She had to be put down shortly after the diagnosis but until then large doses of vitamin K helped keep her from spewing bloody sneezes all over the house.
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 1:24 PM on December 22, 2007

When are you going? I'm driving to Portland January 11th in a rental from Denver, maybe we could have be safe on the road coffee.
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 12:13 PM on December 16, 2007

I'll be gone from 1/11-1/18 and since I have no car of my own, I have car insurance of my own. I'm not sure that the drive is "hazardous" but it is long and I'll be traveling through several mountain ranges in mid January; with a dying pug for half of it. So much stress....
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 5:45 PM on December 14, 2007

Thanks! The rental car company said it was cool to drive anywhere I wanted as long as I stayed in the US. So visa it is and then I can my poor Reba home.
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 12:11 AM on December 15, 2007

I get my drugs from Algodones Mexico. There are many pharmacies there that will ship America and they are way way cheap.
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 6:31 PM on December 14, 2007

Does cooking the armadillo kill the leprosy bacterium? Just curious...
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 12:47 PM on December 13, 2007

I add my vote to Unreal Tournament. My room-mate and I played all the time, it was great!
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 12:12 PM on December 13, 2007

My ENT told me to never blow my nose but that may be more specific to my issues.
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 1:02 PM on November 30, 2007

If you like to hike, monkey head is great. Also, deepfriedtwinkies works in Bend all the time, you should shoot him an e-mail, I bet he knows a ton of cool places.
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 3:39 PM on October 24, 2007

Did everyone hate The Water Method Man? Because I thought it was sort of interesting...
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 1:54 PM on October 18, 2007

The Egyptian Club in Portland, Or on SE Division. Lesbians, strippers, feminists.
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 12:19 PM on October 12, 2007

Well yeah insurance would be good but it's just not going to happen right now. I guess I wouldn't worry so much if it were just in my throat but it's my lungs that get all congested. Oh and since moving here, I drink at least 5 liter of water a day, it SO dry and I'm always thirsty. I guess I'm probably fine...
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 5:02 PM on September 21, 2007

I understand Caddis, I really do but at this point I'm a full time nursing student working as much as i physically can in a new city where i know no one and I sincerely do not have enough money to buy food none the less insurance. Yet. But, in a year everything will, hopefully, change and I'll be an RN with a lot more financial options. So really I WISH the choice were between new electrocis or insurance but there is legitimately no way for me to afford it right now, heirachy of needs and all... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 6:50 PM on September 21, 2007

Maybe see if taking Benadryl helps.
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 5:18 PM on September 21, 2007

I always make some gorp...
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 6:40 PM on August 30, 2007

There's a sewing machine store with classes on the corner of SE 82nd and...Stark. This is where my ex went for classes and he would be your age. Maybe he's still there even, tell him I want my dress. The people are very nice and youngish. (503) 254-7317
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 4:07 PM on August 17, 2007

I have been sober for 5 years and I still have using/drinking/smoking dreams. A good night will include all three. I usually wake up feeling panicky and guilty then when I realize it was just a dream, I try to figure out if there is some sort of unresolved emotional stress that i need to take care of. Sometimes yes, usually no. It never makes me want to use any more than normal, I suffer no ill effects through out the day...it's just a bad dream like any other bad dream. Is that what you are... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 6:07 PM on July 26, 2007 marked best answer

cinabon makes bread, it make very good french toast. mmmmm
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 4:23 PM on July 13, 2007

I have 10 invites to give out as well, so let me know if anyone needs one....
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 3:32 PM on July 13, 2007

I had this issue but I was able to drive to Mexico and had a new crown made and installed for $125.00. I know the chances of you getting to Mexico now are slim but if you ever happen to need dental work and can plan it, it's way cheap and they did a great job.
posted to Ask Metafilter by yodelingisfun at 12:03 PM on July 13, 2007