Ruud Remarks: Recent Comments

Comment on What the Hell Happened to Amy Anyway – Circle Back and Follow Up

2009-07-30T20:47:12Z

Megan - I have never been pregnant but I imagine I pee more than pregnant lady because of the shunt. Couple that with drinking and lately I spend more time in bar bathrooms than I would like to admit.

Comment on What the Hell Happened to Amy Anyway – Circle Back and Follow Up

2009-07-30T19:51:37Z

I'm amazed by the human body and your experience has blown my mind. My curious mind wants to know...did the shunt make you have to pee more frequently for a period of time?

Comment on What the Hell Happened to Amy Anyway – Circle Back and Follow Up

2009-07-30T18:47:15Z

1. One of my many English pet peeves is people who don't know what quotation marks are for. Quick rule of thumb: Say the sentence out loud and use the hand gesture in place of quotes. Then ask yourself, Do I look or sound like an idiot?

2. "I return to work after being gone for 10 weeks. I have 25000 emails." 10 weeks. 50 days. 500 emails a day. No comment.

Comment on I Thought Hospitals Were All About Privacy?

2009-07-29T02:59:02Z

good article, I liked it, the spelling could b better! xoxoxox dady

Comment on "Real" Pants and Showering are Overrated: Amy Comes Home

2009-07-27T20:24:41Z

Yes, I am thinking purely about profit. In my employed days, I would often make trips by myself to Oberweis for a milkshake or smoothie, so I think I could work that into my schedule. Shit, when I lived across from Dairy Queen in Ypsi, it was worse. And I 20 pounds heavier.

I must admit I am a bit of a spelling/grammar Nazi (I proofread propaganda in second great war), even though I still get confused about comma placement. In my first apartment, my friend left me a note. After reading it, I went over it with a red pen noting the errors. Many years later she made an offhand comment that "She could go the rest of her life without seeing a note of hers marked up in red ink". Since then I have laid off a bit, mostly keeping comments of the nature to myself. Unless, of course, I don't know the offender personally. Then I unleash hell.

Comment on "Real" Pants and Showering are Overrated: Amy Comes Home

2009-07-27T19:47:51Z

I, for one, am super glad you are showering again. Just sayin'.

Comment on "Real" Pants and Showering are Overrated: Amy Comes Home

2009-07-27T18:12:27Z

Sure, I can put together a recap - I'll post it this week. It seems some folks are a little confused, too as far as timing goes, so I will explain and let people know that these were written a few weeks back and I am posting one a day until I get caught up - which should be in the next 2 weeks and then I will be in "real time."

And Ryan, are you asking to be my editor for when someone stumbles upon this blog and decides that this should be made into a funny, yet poignant autobiographical type book? You want to reap the benefits and say you edited my masterpiece? Sure, but only if when I go on a country-wide book tour you come along and bring me smoothies and white cheddar popcorn whenever I ask.

Or is it that my writing is just so so horrific that you have trouble reading it because you are correcting my grammar every 2 seconds?

Comment on "Real" Pants and Showering are Overrated: Amy Comes Home

2009-07-27T17:53:22Z

Can I make a request for a recap? Basically just a timeline from the beginning to now. Could be just for me or another post (I think anyone else following might appreciate it).

If you're interested, once your whole story has been told, I'd be glad to put them all together into one narrative. Basically just proofreading, making corrections (mostly for the posts I'm guessing you wrote when you could barely see), etc. Don't ask me why, but it seems like it might be fun for me.

Comment on When Life Gives You Lemons – Grab a Bottle of Vodka and Take Some Shots

2009-07-22T21:38:54Z

As the only other regular commenter besides Amanda (hey, I have time to read things like this now), I'd like to point out that I am impressed with the regularity you are pumping this out at. Though judging from how each one is typed, I would guess that you might have been documenting it as it happened. In either case, always makes for a good read.

Allow me to suggest yet another idiom, albeit one devoid of lemons: When life gives you poop, make poop juice.

Comment on When Life Gives You Lemons – Grab a Bottle of Vodka and Take Some Shots

2009-07-22T18:23:06Z

Oh - I like it! I will do that moving forward. Now get me a Miller Lite before I throw this lemon at you!