Pointless Advice topic

This is how I've lived my whole adult life.

So, yeah, go for it.

Should I go to my friends show tonight even though I'm not sure how I'll get home?

Alright. Went for it.

jazzy, you've got two thumbs and a pretty smile don't you? You'll find someone to hitch a ride with just fine.

Always better to take the meds and feel better even if it means accomplishing nothing rather than trying to accomplish things while feeling miserable and still not really accomplishing anything.

Jaz, if you think you will be able to find a ride, or you can catch a bus or something, go! I'm not the best person to give advice for something like this though, I rely very heavily on my car and get very twitchy if I don't have a way out of an event like that. But since you don't have a car you are probably better at just going with the flow and hoping it works out.

I'm making MEAT SALAD (as my family likes to call it) for dinner tonight. It's basically a giant salad with meat on top for protein. Should I use breaded, oven fried chicken or steak tips?

Say steak tips, they're easier to cook.

Steak. It's yummier.

That's what i would do, steak tips.

How do i make roughly $100 extra a week for the next 3 months or so? Don't say donate plasma or sperm, i already checked, there's no places in Houston to do that. I don't want to get a second job unless it's a last resort but i will.

You're gonna have to become a pole dancer.

Craigslist always has oodddles and oodles of listings for weird focus groups.

Haha, Pepper, I was gonna say "sell your body".

I am not fit enough.

Extra money. I do side jobs on weekends for friends and such, anything from wiring houses to mowing lawns.

Do you think it's wise to have a wisdom tooth pulled while I am still sick (caught a cold), coughing and with a runny nose?

Absolutely not. If I am remembering correctly, you have mentioned that you have a congenital heart condition in the past?

the heart condition alone means you will need to take antibiotics before and after having your tooth pulled even when in your best of health, and may even need to speak to your regular doctor about it first for additional advice. (heart conditions run in my family so I know this)

The mouth is filthy on the best of days, people with heart conditions must take antibiotics to prevent the mouth bacteria from entering their blood stream via the open wound of the empty tooth socket and attacking their heart.

No professional dentist will pull your tooth while you are sick if you do in fact have a heart condition that I think I remember it being you talking about once upon a time.

It's not congenital, or at least I think so. I didn't take antibiotics the last time I had a wisdom tooth pulled, just not enough doses of Ketonal. And there won't be an open wound, the dentist cuts the gum, pulls the tooth out and sews the gum back, and then I go back to have the threads taken out.

I was thinking more along the lines of what if I cough during the surgery, because I'm sure that can be pretty dangerous.

Start going to garage sales and estate sales and look through the junk jewelry for the gold that people miss and sell it for scrap. You'll get more money if you can find an individual gold buyer than you will from a pawn shop or jewelry store. You can also buy a testing kit online and if you can learn to spot unmarked gold you can make make a good bit of money. You really have to learn how to spot it as you can't really just pull out your kit and test it on the spot. You have to buy it and take it home and test it. But usually if people don't think its gold you're only looking at spending a couple of dollars.

Edit: or you can mail the gold to me. I pay 70%, most pawn shops and jewelry store pay 40-50%.

Edit again: you can do the same thing with sterling but you have to buy a lot more sterling to make a good profit.

Dry Sockets, Thats all there is to it. Wait.

Are you speaking of teeth?

Because I would rate dry socket up there in pain at a bout a sixish or sevenish if child birth is a tenish. Except at least the dry socket is very localized in a small area.

Dry socket is HORRENDOUS!!!!!

I used to be in a band called Drysocket.

Was it a painful experience? For either you or the band or the fans?

I was in a band call Reflex to Kill. I wasn't actually. But that was my band name when I was 13 and said I was making a band (which was never made). I should put this in embarrassing admissions. Not here.

On the back of the pic I posted of me and the other babies in the "Back in the Day" topic, the one I said may possibly be my siblings, were two first names. My given name and another sort of obscure hippyish one.

I found a lady that appears to possibly be approximately my age, give or take, and who has that first name, on FB. She lives in Socal now and it says she was originally from Hawaii.

The other women that were impregnated by my dad were mostly done so in California (But Norcal, not Socal) and I know he took off with one of them to Hawaii when I was little (and hence the sister was very little too).

I still haven't have the chance to ask my mom about that picture.

Should I wait to talk to my mom, and hope she remembers the picture and who the babies in it are? (and it is possible she won't remember at all, as keeping track of any sort of information that had anything to do with any roots I may want to know about was not a priority for her.)

Or should I just message this lady? And what do I say. It all seems awkward to explain and inquire about. I'm nervous.

Ask your mom first, because even if she doesn't say much, she may provide some sort of clues in whatever she does say. Then, maybe you'd be a little more sure about the girl you think may be her.

What Alecia said.

Pep, I had a lot of theoretical bands I've been in over the years. In college I was in Women In Sensible Shoes, an imaginary Sunset Strip glamhairmetal band. My stage name was Taffy Lipgloss.

Also, this also belongs in the Embarrassing Confessions thread.

It's so hard to follow what you guys are on about when I'm stoned. Did Alecia just encourage someone to pursue what someone's mom might be her!?

They suggested I not contact a girl who *might* be my sister (*might* based on a few small clues) until I get more information from my mom.

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Take them. They're fun. But they make ME want to do stuff and motivate. I won't even go into the meds I'm on.

Had surgery on my collar bone and tore some muscles and tendons in April and I'm still in pain. I've now taken it to the streets since the pharmies flagged my doctor and I. I go see him today. Do I lie and say it hurts like a c*nt because maybe I rolled over and slept on it all night? All signs point to yes.

I don't understand correctly, I think, you are still in pain but the pharmacy has decided you and your doctor are lying about it? Or you are lying about it at this point to get the meds?

I do sleep on that arm, so it's sore all day. So sick of it. Today I get the stitches out.

Everyone lies to get pain meds.

I miss the morphine, which was, after all, morphine, but not the nurontin. Which was a bitch and a half.

Well that is a bit of bullshit right there. You still have stitches but you've been flagged as not really having any problem to need the meds.

Can't your doctor do something about that?

Isn't there like a counter flagging option or something?

Are you telling me that pharmacists hold all the cards, (or pills as it may be)

I am still in quite a bit of pain with my own arm.

I ran out of codeine, so I have been taking tramadol, of which I have a big ass bottle full.

The Morphine slow release sucked man. It didn't worked. Not even after researching how to abuse it haha.

They WILL give me meds for it if I complain of pain. But right AFTER the plate was in, it was unbearable and since I have a high tolerance, I'd crunch them shits up and swallow with hot water.

As for Tramadol, that does help me with pain, but it has high seizure risk I think. It also gives me a weird "everything is just fine" buzz.

Still prefer opiates but I used to be down a BAD road with them so I have to be careful. We'll see what happens today. She may give me a script for a couple percs or vikes. Shit, but I'm not paid until Thursday and flat broke so I can't fill it anyway. Dang.

Needless to say, I was overusing them and going back for written refills, doctors in NJ can't call anything in.

So if they don't help, why ask for them?

Because drugs make you cool.

Because while they may not help as much as they should, they do help to a small degree. Come back and talk to me once you've had a sharp metal plate screwed into your collarbone for 6 months while your shoulder muscles try to grow around the foreign object. I know, people have had it worse. But this was THE worst for me.

And what Tuffy said, of course. She gave me 40 Somas.

How should I color my hair next week?

As a gay man... I rock at this shit.

You're gay? I saw this very hot dude today on the bus, he was wearing a button-down shirt and shorts. Short shorts, only a few inches below the buttcheeks. So I figured he must be gay or very fashion-forward, I haven't seen any guy wear shorts that short before.

Jaz, maybe a dark red - like L'Oreal Deep Mahogany Red. I think it'd look good on you. Just don't go with something much lighter than your colour.

Actually you wouldn't be able to tell in person. Unless you walked in while I was slammin some dude. I'm not into femme guys. They really turn me off. If I wanted to date a woman, I would. Harsh, but that's just me.

Jaz, I don't know what you look like. (I'm sure theres pics somewhere, but this place is huge). Post a pic!! I may not be femme but I can dress like a motherfucker.

Judging by your avatar, I'm not at all surprised that you are gay.

HAHA

I called it quite early on. Pay attention, people!

And that's me, so how would you discern that JUST from my picture?

Must be the leg hair.

I cant tell if you have something around your waist because there is a lack of man bits in that picture. I blame the angle.

Don't ask.