What's on your mind today?

[Biggus Dickus]

Wishing you a speedy recovery Claire, and glad to hear you are feeling better, hope each day is better and you return home soon. So please take care. 

.... and jealous of your free intravenous coffee.

Yes me too, so if you want cream and/or sugar do they use the same drip, or insert another line???

[Velma]

Lottery fever has hit the US as the record jackpot grows. Of course, people are coming out of the woodwork to point out that you are more likely to get bitten by a shark while being struck by lightening than win the lottery. Whatever. I'm of the opinion that as long as people are not spending money needed for basic living expenses or bills, why is it a big deal if they want to spend a few dollars on a lottery ticket?

[Pasta Chick]

We've been buying a ticket each. What's the harm? It's fun to dream.

If we win, we're both quitting our current jobs. I'm buying a yacht and sailing around the Americas until I get bored, then I'll hit Europe. Obviously with my dogs. BF is buying a plane and a house in every climate zone.

[Tank]

Lottery fever has hit the US as the record jackpot grows. Of course, people are coming out of the woodwork to point out that you are more likely to get bitten by a shark while being struck by lightening than win the lottery. Whatever. I'm of the opinion that as long as people are not spending money needed for basic living expenses or bills, why is it a big deal if they want to spend a few dollars on a lottery ticket?

Well we had a record lottery jackpot yesterday in the UK of £66m ($96m). Each ticket costs £2. So I bought 52 tickets and thus played a years worth of record lotteries. I won £25 and  8 free tickets in the next lottery. As it was 2 people split the lottery.
So I've had my splash this year 

[Guardian85]

Well, I have viral (thankfully) meningitis. I say thankfully because bacterial is a lot worse. Noticed iy because of severe headache that came on pretty suddenly. Nothing like a normal headache or migraine at all, plus photophobia, vomiting and muscle stiffness.  Went to the gp who sent me straight to the medical ward at hospital,  I really didn't want to go but now am glad I wasn't so stubborn.  Had all sorts of tests, ct and lumbar puncture showed very high pressure in brain and spinal cord which bizarrely they have been treating with caffeine straight into veins.  Does seem to have worked though, plus lots of fluids too. Feeling much better today, am actually sat up for the first time in days and have walked about 10m with some help.  Still have to have an mri scan to confirm nothing else is going on.

It may or may not be related to the septicaemia before Christmas but either way I'm well and truly sick of the sight of hospitals!

Glad to hear you are doing better. 

Intravenous caffeine? I have got to get me some of that!

[jumbojak]

Well we had a record lottery jackpot yesterday in the UK of £66m ($96m).

Ours is currently over a billion!

[Sandra Craft]

Wishing you a speedy recovery Claire, and glad to hear you are feeling better, hope each day is better and you return home soon. So please take care. 

.... and jealous of your free intravenous coffee.

Yes me too, so if you want cream and/or sugar do they use the same drip, or insert another line???

What Bruno said, excepting the coffee.

[Firebird]

Wishing you a speedy recovery Claire, and glad to hear you are feeling better, hope each day is better and you return home soon. So please take care. 

.... and jealous of your free intravenous coffee.

Yes me too, so if you want cream and/or sugar do they use the same drip, or insert another line???

What Bruno said, excepting the coffee.

What Bruno said, including the coffee! Best wishes on a speedy recovery Claire.

[Magdalena]

Wishing you a speedy recovery Claire, and glad to hear you are feeling better, hope each day is better and you return home soon. So please take care. 

.... and jealous of your free intravenous coffee.

Yes me too, so if you want cream and/or sugar do they use the same drip, or insert another line???

What Bruno said, excepting the coffee.

What Bruno said, including the coffee! Best wishes on a speedy recovery Claire.

What Bruno said. 
I'll have some coffee too, please. No cream or sugar.

[Pasta Chick]

Oh God. Bowie. My heart.
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[Tank]

Oh God. Bowie. My heart.
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I bet Paul McCartney never expected to go to his funeral!

[Biggus Dickus]

Oh God. Bowie. My heart.
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This.

[Magdalena]

Oh God. Bowie. My heart.
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This.

[Crow]

Business is what is on my mind and the damn catch-22 I am currently in. The second year in a row I have lost out on a massive job only due to not being at a larger scale, yet if I got that job I could then ramp up things and be at that scale. I could bring on an investor, which I have already scoped out but I'm not happy with the amount I would have to give up and not being able to find a suitable business partner (either have no idea of business or they have no idea of the industry) would place a fuck load of pressure on myself in an industry that is very labour intensive. I always said 30 would be my target but I'm becoming impatient, plus I have a bunch of other business plans that I would like to put into action but I would need to sacrifice what I have been doing for them, though they are far more profitable. Need to pull my finger out of my anus and do something, I have been thinking too much.

[Claireliontamer]

Today I'm grumpy and frustrated. I want to go home but I'm not allowed.  Also been advised to cut out caffeine,  chocolate and cheese for a while......my 3 favourite things. As they were feeding me caffeine the other day it makes little sense. I've also lost so much weight through this ordeal my clothes no longer fit. I actually caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror earlier and was shocked by how awful I looked.